Price Edward Island may be small, but the support for its Olympics-bound athletes looms large.
There are two athletes from the Island heading to the Paris Olympics: wrestler Hannah Taylor and rugby player Alysha Corrigan. While the games are still a week out, both athletes say the support has been overwhelming.
“P.E.I. supports both of us an incredible amount,” says Corrigan, who hails from Charlottetown. “We’re so lucky to be able to go and represent them.”
“We are a small province but clearly we’re producing some high-level athletes,” says Taylor, from Summerside. “I feel like I have a lot of support from everyone back home on P.E.I. They have been supporting me in congratulating me already.”
For both athletes it will be their first time representing their county on the world’s biggest stage, but neither are a stranger to international competition.
Taylor, who got into wrestling at an early age, was …