Today the CBC Sports headline read, “Eric Lamaze takes home gold in Olympic individual show jumping.”  I watched the event on NBCOlympics.com, as the story of an athlete’s comeback from drug problems raced to its heart-stopping conclusion.  Lamaze and his horse Hickstead were locked in a timed jump-off with Sweden’s Rolf-Goran Bengtsson and Ninja. The course was shortened, with tight turns and trappy combinations. The Swede and his horse ended the speed run with 4 faults. But Lamaze and Hickstead were having one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments — clearing the fences with air to spare, taking the last one at a risky angle to shave off a micro-second of time.  Afterwards Lamaze and his panting horse were the center of a backstage frenzy of applause and congratulations.