Perhaps no Canadian athlete of the past 12 years has created a bigger splash at the Summer Games than the perpetually sunny Whitfield. His gold medal in 2000 at Sydney, which came seemingly out of nowhere, galvanized a nation. His stirring come-from-behind silver medal, seconds behind eventual champion Jan Frodeno of Germany at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, had Canadians on the edges of their couches. Is there anymore magic left to be conjured by the 37-year-old?
