Ashes

Bronze for Natalie Wilkie in women's sprint standing in para cross-country skiing.

Damn I know these are very different situations but man it really took our Paralympic team two days to do what our Olympics team needed a week for

Bronze for Kurt Oatway in men's sitting downhill!

Silver for Natalie Wilkie in women's standing sprint biathlon!

First Paralympic medal for Kalle Ericsson in men's visually impaired downhill, with a silver!

Also Canada's first medal of the Paralympics!

The Opening Ceremonies just wrapped, and I'm pumped for the Games to begin. After the Olympics, however, I'm not getting my hopes up or having any expectations, so as not to be disappointed... again...
 
This is the Day 1 (Saturday, March 7) schedule for Canada (times are EST):
 
Para-Alpine (MEDAL RACES)
3:30 a.m. - Women's Downhill Standing
-Michaela Gosselin
-Mollie Jepsen
 
Para-Biathlon (MEDAL RACES)
4:00 a.m. - Women's Sprint Sitting
-Christina Picton
 
4:35 a.m. - Men's Sprint Sitting
-Colin Cameron
-Derek Zaplotinski
 
Para-Alpine (MEDAL RACES)
4:50 a.m. - Men's Downhill Visually Impaired
-Kalle Ericsson (guide: Sierra Smith)
 
4:50 a.m. - Men's Downhill Standing
-Alexis Guimond
 
4:50 a.m. - Men's Downhill Sitting
-Kurt Oatway
-Brian Rowland
 
Para Snowboard (SEEDING RUNS)
5:00 a.m. - Women's Snowboard Cross SB-LL2 
-Sandrine Hamel
 
5:07 a.m. - Men's Snowboard Cross SB-LL21
-Tyler Turner
-Chase Jacob Nicklin
 
5:07 a.m. - Men's Snowboard Cross SB-LL2 
-Alex Massie
-Philippe Nadreau
 
Para-Biathlon (MEDAL RACES)
6:00 a.m. - Women's Sprint Standing
-Brittany Hudak
-Natalie Wilkie
 
6:40 a.m. - Men's Sprint Standing
-Mark Arendz
 
7:15 a.m. - Women's Sprint Vision Impaired
-Maddie Mullin (guide: Brooke Ailey)
 
Wheelchair Curling
12:35 p.m. - Canada vs. Italy
 
Para Ice Hockey
2:35 p.m. - Canada vs. Slovakia

The Opening Ceremonies just wrapped, and I'm pumped for the Games to begin. After the Olympics, however, I'm not getting my hopes up or having any expectations, so as not to be disappointed... again...
 
This is the Day 1 (Saturday, March 7) schedule for Canada (times are EST):
 
Para-Alpine (MEDAL RACES)
3:30 a.m. - Women's Downhill Standing
-Michaela Gosselin
-Mollie Jepsen
 
Para-Biathlon (MEDAL RACES)
4:00 a.m. - Women's Sprint Sitting
-Christina Picton
 
4:35 a.m. - Men's Sprint Sitting
-Colin Cameron
-Derek Zaplotinski
 
Para-Alpine (MEDAL RACES)
4:50 a.m. - Men's Downhill Visually Impaired
-Kalle Ericsson (guide: Sierra Smith)
 
4:50 a.m. - Men's Downhill Standing
-Alexis Guimond
 
4:50 a.m. - Men's Downhill Sitting
-Kurt Oatway
-Brian Rowland
 
Para Snowboard (SEEDING RUNS)
5:00 a.m. - Women's Snowboard Cross SB-LL2 
-Sandrine Hamel
 
5:07 a.m. - Men's Snowboard Cross SB-LL21
-Tyler Turner
-Chase Jacob Nicklin
 
5:07 a.m. - Men's Snowboard Cross SB-LL2 
-Alex Massie
-Philippe Nadreau
 
Para-Biathlon (MEDAL RACES)
6:00 a.m. - Women's Sprint Standing
-Brittany Hudak
-Natalie Wilkie
 
6:40 a.m. - Men's Sprint Standing
-Mark Arendz
 
7:15 a.m. - Women's Sprint Vision Impaired
-Maddie Mullin (guide: Brooke Ailey)
 
Wheelchair Curling
12:35 p.m. - Canada vs. Italy
 
Para Ice Hockey
2:35 p.m. - Canada vs. Slovakia

Hey guys, just came by to let you know it was tough to see the Hockey final and I guess you are quite disappointed by Canada's overall performances in these Olympics. But huge congrats to @Topicmaster1010 and all users to make this club so active during the Games, it was by far the most active club of the Olympics.
 
Keep up the amazing job and now that the Olympics are over, let's focus on LA28! 

I was at my neihgbour/colleague's place for the game. We started drinking at 7am, and just carried on. It dulled the pain. 
 
Just want to shout out to everyone here on being such great companions to share the Olympics with. The outcome was disappointing, but fun to share it with all of you, nonetheless. 
 
Back to work/real life tomorrow. It's always sad when a Games ends, but maybe not so much this time. I just hope the right people look at this and do something. 

Well… maybe NOW we will get the funding we need from the feds. This is the only positive I can take 

Maybe all of this could happen this year perhaps and we might finally see some progress. I dunno who in the COC really is satisfied with how we did this year.
 
Even if it does end up happening, it’s a shame that we had to have a really bad Olympics overall to finally get things going in terms of funding 

Well… maybe NOW we will get the funding we need from the feds. This is the only positive I can take 

Well… maybe NOW we will get the funding we need from the feds. This is the only positive I can take 

It’s kind of a good thing we lost. If we would have won the gold it would have nullified how terrible these Olympics were for Canada. Now they are more likely to actually do something about the state of our winter sports programs. 

17. Jasmine Drolet
25. Sonjaa Schmidt
27. Katherine Stewart-Jones
28. Amelia Wells
 
What an Olympics for the Cross-Country skiing team. Excited to follow their progress over the next 4 years!

YAY THE WORLD ISNT TOTALLY HORRIBLE!!! 😅🥇🇨🇦🕺🏾

YAY THE WORLD ISNT TOTALLY HORRIBLE!!! 😅🥇🇨🇦🕺🏾

We have finally won curling gold!!!
 
 

I was really counting on the Olympics being a positive distraction from getting dumped, but it’s just making me more depressed tbh 🫠

I’m worried about the Paralympics now… I don’t even want to watch them, for fear of being disappointed. Which is totally unfair to them, I realize. 
 
(but maybe I’ll have stopped crying while eating junk food in the fetal position on my bed by then LOL)
 
 

A big part of the reason why we are doing so well in summer sports is actually pretty simple: accessibility. This should be a no brainer for the feds.
 
Getting into winter sports is generally much more costly than summer. So it’s not surprising that you see droves of young people go to swimming, athletics, etc. 
 
There also is no drive or incentive to bring racialized, Indigenous, immigrant and disabled populations into winter sports. Coming from an Indian family, I can tell you that my parents had no desire to get me into anything more than skating. It didn’t resonate with newer Canadians when I was a kid, and without dedicated effort to attract new participants, it’s going to stay that way.

I’m pretty livid about the Secretary of Sports reactions to our performance. He was making light of it in a video on social media, how we were “stressing 40 million people in the first half but cleaning up” in the second of the Games.
 
When interviewed by the Globe & Mail, he defended the current funding levels, saying that the government needs to prioritize access to sport for all Canadians. Which I understand and agree with. But you can’t get Canadians into sport if they are not INSPIRED to do so. And how can we inspire people if we don’t perform at a high level?

Ya, this is a great point. Sports like hockey are getting increasingly in accessible for kids who aren’t from well off families, and nothing is being done to bring in kids from non-white backgrounds into the sport. We see losing out on a ton of talent as a result.

A big part of the reason why we are doing so well in summer sports is actually pretty simple: accessibility. This should be a no brainer for the feds.
 
Getting into winter sports is generally much more costly than summer. So it’s not surprising that you see droves of young people go to swimming, athletics, etc. 
 
There also is no drive or incentive to bring racialized, Indigenous, immigrant and disabled populations into winter sports. Coming from an Indian family, I can tell you that my parents had no desire to get me into anything more than skating. It didn’t resonate with newer Canadians when I was a kid, and without dedicated effort to attract new participants, it’s going to stay that way.

A big part of the reason why we are doing so well in summer sports is actually pretty simple: accessibility. This should be a no brainer for the feds.
 
Getting into winter sports is generally much more costly than summer. So it’s not surprising that you see droves of young people go to swimming, athletics, etc. 
 
There also is no drive or incentive to bring racialized, Indigenous, immigrant and disabled populations into winter sports. Coming from an Indian family, I can tell you that my parents had no desire to get me into anything more than skating. It didn’t resonate with newer Canadians when I was a kid, and without dedicated effort to attract new participants, it’s going to stay that way.