Skeleton

[Surlympics 1,141]

Looks like she’s a big stage performer

[intoronto 6,387]

Team for the upcoming season:

 

https://sirc.ca/news/national-skeleton-program-charges-headfirst-into-olympic-season/

 

Its possible we don't even qualify a male for the Olympics. 

[orangeman 2,253]

11 hours ago, intoronto said:

Team for the upcoming season:

 

https://sirc.ca/news/national-skeleton-program-charges-headfirst-into-olympic-season/

 

Its possible we don't even qualify a male for the Olympics. 

How did we go from back-to-back golds (and 3 of the top 4 in 2006) to this? 

[intoronto 6,387]

9 minutes ago, orangeman said:

How did we go from back-to-back golds (and 3 of the top 4 in 2006) to this? 

The loss of the track in Calgary would be my guess.

 

 

[Topicmaster1010 5,329]

I feel like there's got to be something else. We had athletes from Malaysia and Taiwan who were ranked higher than the highest ranked Canadian in the world rankings last year. There were also athletes from Ukraine and Denmark ranked in the top 10.

 

Maybe not qualifying a male these Olympics will serve as a wakeup call.

[intoronto 6,387]

Clarke 6th and Channel 15 at the first World Cup in Italy.

[Surlympics 1,141]

On 11/20/2025 at 11:15 AM, Topicmaster1010 said:

I feel like there's got to be something else. We had athletes from Malaysia and Taiwan who were ranked higher than the highest ranked Canadian in the world rankings last year. There were also athletes from Ukraine and Denmark ranked in the top 10.

 

Maybe not qualifying a male these Olympics will serve as a wakeup call.

A toxic management system of abuse just like rugby in 2021. But look how quickly rugby turned it around for Paris. So let’s hope Skelton and bobsleigh can do the same thing. Looks like they have really changed though and announced ten men and 6 women for the North American stops from the RBC training program with their goal of becoming a world leader again. So things are definitely looking up  

[JockCartier 241]

On 11/20/2025 at 6:39 AM, intoronto said:

The loss of the track in Calgary would be my guess.

 

 

That's a big part of it. Most of the development program was run thru there, it was well established and easily accessed by a large population. 

 

Just in general, our sliding program results softened across the board those from the Vancouver 2010 pipeline started retiring. Money and other resources dried up, in-fighting, and organizational issues took root, and we lost half our tracks.