Chadwick named to Olympic team

Glen Chadwick will go to the Olympic Games

Glen Chadwick will go to the Olympic Games (Image credit: Glen Chadwick)

Earlier this season, the idea that Team Type 1's Glen Chadwick would be chosen to represent New Zealand at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China would have seemed far-fetched. After all, in February, he was hospitalized with such a severe case of Epstein-Barr virus that his internal organs had begun shutting down and he questioned whether or not he would survive the illness.