Sheila Hurtig Robertson is the author of Shattered Hopes: Canada’s Boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games and the founding editor of the Canadian Journal for Women in Coaching. She attended three Olympic Games as a communications specialist. A past winner of the Canadian Sport Award in Communications, she is a director of the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship and a member of the Grandmothers Advocacy Network. She and her husband, Bruce Robertson, live in Manotick, Ontario.