In her debut book, Canadian Olympian Claire Smith of Burritt’s Rapids, ON shares her experiences and insights on life after devastating injury.

Falling Into Now: Memories of Sport, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Education is the poignant memoir of Smith grappling with her identity as a former high performance rider on the long road to recovery.

Representing the Canadian Eventing Team, Smith placed 14th at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with her late gelding, Gordon Gibbons, a 1985 Thoroughbred gelding sired by Red Man. A year later, at the 1997 Open European Three-Day Event Championships in Burghley, GBR, she suffered a disastrous fall when her horse flipped over a jump.

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