Perhaps it was a sign.
As Canadian bobsledder Melissa Lotholz returned home from the Beijing Olympics, her social media was hacked. She doesn’t know how it happened, and the Canadian Olympic Committee tried to help her recover her Instagram and Facebook pages, but they were gone.
Lotholz soon followed. She took a full year away from sliding to complete her undergraduate degree, dip her toes in other sports and, after eight years of elite-level training, to just have a break.
She didn’t even reboot her socials.
“I was like, ‘Well, whatever, it’s kind of nice for the year off.’ I literally dropped off the
