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Mama Manon

Motherhood doesn't diminish Rheaume's pipe dreams

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Posted: Sunday July 25, 1999 08:19 PM

Rheaume won a silver medal with Canada at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Risk Stewart/Allsport

WINNIPEG (CNN/SI) -- Despite delivering her first child two months ago, Manon Rheaume says she hopes to be back between the pipes for Canada at the 2002 Olympics.

"I want to go to the next Olympics," Rheaume told the Canadian Press. "I'm going to build a three-year program where this year it's basically to get back in shape and get back at it. The next two years up to the Olympics it's going to be intense workouts and I'm going to be playing.

"But this year my goal is to just get back at it and play as much as I can and see how it goes."

Rheaume and her husband, roller hockey player Gerry St. Cyr, had a son, Dylan, in May. St. Cyr is in Winnipeg playing for Canada at the Pan Am Games.

"It's hard to be up here and watch them playing," said Rheaume, who played in an exhibition game for the Tampa Bay Lightning and played briefly in their minor league system before settling in with Roller Hockey International, where she met St. Cyr.

Rheaume, 27, won a silver medal with Canada at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

She said motherhood takes its toll, especially when Dylan only sleeps for a few hours at night, but that she and her husband share the parenting and each find time to skate and work out.

"I'm starting to train and work out. I want to get back in shape and go back to the national team.

"It's coming slowly, very slowly."

 

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