Hollingsworth: Unassuming Olympian

She's a tiger on the track, but for skeleton racer Mellisa Hollingsworth it's simple pleasures that matter

Randy Starkman, Toronto Star Olympic Sports Reporter

(Melissa Hollingsworth is a fourth generation Canadian Estonian. Her rural roots are now into ranching, but they stretch back over 100 years to Rõuge, near Võru in the southeast corner of Estonia.)

Eckville, Alberta honoured Mellissa Hollingsworth on March 17th 2006 for achieving an Olympic medal and World Cup season over-all win. From left Ryan Davenport, Mellisa Hollingsworth with her Olympic bronze medal and Billy Richards. Photo: Helgi Leesment - pics/2009/11/26051_1_t.jpg — Eckville, Alberta honoured Mellissa Hollingsworth on March 17th 2006 for achieving an Olympic medal and World Cup season over-all win. From left Ryan Davenport, Mellisa Hollingsworth with her Olympic bronze medal and Billy Richards. Photo: Helgi Leesment

AIRDRIE, Alta.–Mellisa Hollingsworth's humility can get in her way.

The 2006 Olympic bronze medallist in skeleton, Hollingsworth sometimes struggles to convince herself she belongs with the best in the world as she prepares to launch herself from the top of an icy chute.

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