Rowing

[JockCartier 246]

On 9/28/2025 at 1:04 AM, orangeman said:

I thought we were getting there in the 00s with Beckie Scott and Chandra Crawford. Then it disappeared. It's just odd for a country with the natural features to be so weak in x country and alpine. Alberta + BC have double the population of Norway, with the best conditions in the world. No reason they can't compete with Norway for those sports just by themselves. Quebec does it with short track. 

 

But we digress. Totally off topic. 

The men's side of cross country was pretty good in the 2010's, the Harvey/Kershaw generation, several World Cup results just no Olympics medals (through there were a couple close calls)

 

Even biathlon was on the cusp of being a contender, they had a really good core and were knocking on the door by 2014

They were the dividends starting to be paid from the investment leading up to Vancouver 2010, trouble is most of the funding had dried up and they were all running on fumes... if we had stuck with it and kept funding those sports and giving them the coaching and development they needed they could be like long track and good for 1-3 medals per cycle each, but it died on the vine. 

 

If they want to sustainably grow the medal count, they need to be looking at a 20 year horizon, each generation building on the last. Throwing money at it for one cycle only gets you a sugar high. 

[Dragon 2,026]

Canadian rowing had very good coaching in the last 30 years. How is that holding up at the moment?

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Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski retired