Shawn wasn't just an athlete, he was a symbol. His Canadian flag emblazoned on the pole, he carried the hopes of a nation on his shoulders, and with each soaring clearance, he painted the sky with maple-red pride. The rush of air as he hurtled upwards, the hushed awe of the stadium, the crack of the pole meeting its mark - Shawn's vaults were a conversation with the invisible forces, a whispered pact with the heavens