A Calgary Olympian is trading in the bobsled track for a shot at trivia glory on one of television’s most iconic game shows.

Cynthia Appiah, a member of Canada’s Olympic bobsleigh team and a longtime trivia enthusiast, is set to appear on Jeopardy! after eight years of trying to land a spot on the show.

“When I got the email I was literally frozen in my tracks,” Appiah told Global News in an interview. “I was just like, is this for real?”

Appiah, a Toronto native who grew up watching the show nightly with her family, filmed her episode earlier this year in Los Angeles — right in the middle of a bobsleigh training week.

She said her experience in high-performance sport helped prepare her mentally for the intense taping environment.

“There’s a bit of a fighter spirit in me that it’s

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