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There really is something special about the power of an Olympic medal.

Rhian Wilkinson has two of them as a member of the Canadian women’s soccer team at both the London and Rio Olympics. The power of those bronze medals was on display Monday morning after Wilkinson finished doing an interview at her mother’s home in Baie-d’Urfé and brought them with her to a nearby park, which was named after her in June, for a photo shoot with the Montreal Gazette’s Dave Sidaway.

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A Grade 6 gym class from Dorset Elementary School, located beside the park, was using one of the two soccer fields and teacher Natalie Bourque noticed the woman wearing a red Team Canada jacket and kicking a soccer ball.

“Are you Rhian Wilkinson?” Bourque asked as she approached with a sparkle in her eyes.

Bourque then asked Wilkinson if she would mind speaking to gym teacher Scott Taylor’s class. The look on the kids’ faces was priceless when they got to see, and touch, the Olympic medals. They also had plenty of questions for Wilkinson, like “how did you get so good at soccer?” and “what does it feel like to win an Olympic medal?”