Lights, Camera, Action For Shewfelt

Kyle Shewfelt has an admitted interest in a broadcast career.
He'll get a trial run of sorts starting tonight when he appears as a guest analyst for CBC during its coverage of the remainder of the men's artistic gymnastics competition at the Beijing Olympics. Shewfelt will make his first appearance alongside Brenda Irving and analyst Lori Strong-Ballard during Olympic Prime tonight for the men's team final.
Shewfelt, who battled back from two broken legs suffered 11 months ago at the world gymnastics championships in Germany, didn't make it out of the qualifying round here (a result that was decried by his coaches, who accused certain judges of undermarking the Canadian to keep him out of the event finals. Particularly the floor excercise, the event he won four years ago in Athens, making him the first and only Canadian to strike Olympic gold in gymnastics).
It'll be interesting to check Shewfelt's emotions during a competition you know he dearly wishes he was still a part of in every way possible. But this is a guy who has bared plenty of that in a blog he's written chronicling the long road back from his injuries to Beijing. If he channels some of that into his television commentary, it should make for quite the interesting broadcast debut.