Awards

• Winner of 2022 Outstanding Acedemic Title awarded by Choice 2022 (United States)

Overview

In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada's most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly became a symbol of Canadian youth and the subject of endless media coverage. Although most athletes of his generation were cautioned to keep their opinions to themselves, Kidd took it upon himself to speak out on the problems and possibilities of Canadian sport. Encouraged by his parents and teammates, Kidd criticized the racism and sexism of amateur sport in Canada, the treatment of players in the National Hockey League, American control of the Canadian Football League, and the uneven coverage of sports by the media and he continues to fight for equity to this day. After retiring from his career as an athlete, Kidd became a well-known advocate for gender and racial justice and an academic leader at the University of Toronto. Depicting a Canadian sport legend's journey of joy, discovery, and activism, this memoir bears witness to the remarkable changes Bruce Kidd has lived through in more than seventy years of participation in Canadian and international sports.

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Anyone interested in the history of Canadian sports, international track and field and the Olympic movement will find great value in this entertaining and informative memoir. * <em>Canadian Running Magazine</em> * In A Runner's Journey, Kidd takes the reader inside the life of one of Canada's greatest and most complex athletes. Whether it is his discussion of his unconventional athletic background (his late start in track and field, and his affinity for social activism from a young age), or analyzing his sudden skyrocketing to fame, he offers a compelling memoir from the opening page. -- Rachael Bishop * <em>Medium</em> *

Anyone interested in the history of Canadian sports, international track and field and the Olympic movement will find great value in this entertaining and informative memoir. * <em>Canadian Running Magazine</em> *

What a life Bruce Kidd has lived - and so much of it in the public eye! Written with grace and generosity, remarkable self-awareness, and characteristic understatement, Kidd's memoir is a front-row, first-person account of the contemporary history of Canada, Olympic sport, progressive activism, and academic engagement from a Renaissance man who himself played key roles in shaping much of it. This book, like Bruce himself, is a Canadian original and an international inspiration. - Doug Hartmann, professor and chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota With this piece of work Bruce Kidd has found a way to bring out the Olympian and ally that lies within all of us. - Donnovan Bennett, feature host, producer, and radio host at Sportsnet Bruce Kidd's journey goes well beyond an athlete's striving to reach the finish line first. His memoir is really about the lifelong education of an advocate and the crucially important discovery that sport is essential to the human narrative. - Scott Russell, host of the Olympic Games, CBC Television, and co-host of CBC Sports' Road to the Olympic Games

Author Information

Bruce Kidd is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education and university ombudsperson at the University of Toronto.

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