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Helping the athletes

The cash-strapped include most of Canada's top medal wow gold contenders for the Summer Olympics - including rowing's world champion eights and fours crews, double world gymnastics medallist Kyle Shewfelt of Calgary, diver Blythe Hartley of Vancouver and world kayak bronze medallist Adam van Koeverden of Oakville.

Roos has raised about $1.7 million for Canadian athletes since 1997, but she is nearing the finish on her most ambitious project to date. It's called The Big Ask, a campaign to raise $5 million that wraps up Thursday.

Roos is a former track and field athlete turned tireless fundraiser whose biggest coup to date was a recent $500,000 donation from MasterCard.

"If you saw some of these applications, it's sad, Roos said. "The net income for many of the

athletes is minus $5,000. Some of them, like the men's rowing team, are living six or seven in a house. The parents of one of the Olympians are talking about mortgaging their home.

"Sport is one of the few things that bring an entire country together and when they do do well, we embrace them and we think, 'Wow, they're ours,' and wow gear we put the Canada wow po flag right on them and parade them up on Parliament Hill. We need to invest in people who have dreams and want to better themselves,

Roos said the campaign guild wars 2 gold has received donations from Canadians living in London and New York, as well as across the country.

Contributions have ranged from a $75,000 cheque from Beachcomber Hot Tubs in Vancouver to the efforts of individuals like Vlad Knope of Toronto, who raised about $2,000 guild wars 2 gold in a door-to-door campaign.

"People assume it's got to be big dollars, Roos said. "But $25 goes a long way. The whole idea of The Big Ask is to bring 31 million Canadians together. And you'll know who your $25 went to help. How cool would that be? Watching the Olympics and being able to say, 'That's the athlete I gave money to.'"

Among Roos' mementos in her modest east end office is a postcard sent to her by wrestler Daniel Igali one day after he won his gold medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Igali, who turned down the chance to apply this time because he feels there are other athletes in greater need, received $5,000 from the See You in Sydney fund.

"I am walking on clouds, nothing seems real to me, he wrote. "It is at such times that people like you come to mind. Your 'See You in Sydney' fund was instrumental to my performance,