Surlympics

Suspended from Canadian safe sport ?

It’s really getting around everywhere

I love Heil. One of the greatest of all time. And great to see all this talk about our system really needing to change. She’s right it’s not just about funding but about how our sports system is structured and led. We need a plan, we need leaders to drive that change and follow the Australian and New Zealand sport system of putting deep funding into certain sports, not across all 60 national sports organizations that we currently have.

It’s great we are going to be actual medal threats in the Nordic sports now. Exciting times. And as unfortunate as it was for Loutit being injured she said she shifted her focus to helping these jumpers while she was recovering. So really big boost for them having her help develop them.

I’d definitely add figure skating to the mix. Beyond Gogolev, we have incredible depth coming up. Lia Cho (13) is arguably the best young female skater in the world right now, and Quinn Startek (14) is another huge talent that many people are already talking about. Minsol Kwan (17) Camilla Volkova (15) Viktoria Barahatkina (15) and Sandrine Blais (17) are also very promising. Grayson Long (17) is also being talked about a lot and is currently working with Brian Orser. In pairs, Lia Pereira is only 21, which means she still has a long career ahead with Trent if they stay together. But i think Ava Kemp (18) and Yohnatan Elizarov (23) will eventually take over as the next dominant pair. In ice dance, LaLa (25/26) seem poised to step into Piper and Paul’s shoes and potentially even exceed them. They could realistically challenge the young American duo and position themselves strongly heading into the French Alps, even with the French team expected to dominate on home ice. On top of that, we also have a very promising young dance team in Layla Veillon (19) and Alexander Brandys (20). So there is a lot to be excited about for the future of figure skating for Canada as well.

Love this ! It’s nice seeing the private sector really providing the funding our athletes need that the government is lacking in

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.

At Canada house for the gold medal game! They opened it today for select fans finally

Would be wild

Get your butt back to Milan team Canada is counting on you haha

Just look what Val Maltais did haha. Very transferable. The Dutch have done it quite often as well

I feel like speed skating Canada needs to start transferring more of our short track skaters into long track since we have an abundance of talent there.

Make sure you attend the rest of the events Canada is in then please haha

I wish I felt that way too lol. I’ve been here the entire games and it still stings like a bitch that Canada is having its worst winter games of the 21st century.

That’s wild not even anyone in the semis

Yeah she wasn’t even close

Canada with 4 in the sixth!

Someone did their research !

She made the most incredible shot in the ninth for two points though haha

Yesssssssssss

Incredible

Exactly this .

I was just looking back at our best winter total ever in Korea and we had so much depth and variety across so many disciplines. And we are non existent in sliding, figure skating, cross country skiing and biathlon. that’s what really hurts. And the rise of Japan in freestyle skiing and snowboard has taken so many potential medals away from us. Their youth program is so good. And then we will be retiring all of our speed skaters after these games lol. And where we really excel is short track the most volatile of the sports.

And do you think they will consider this a crisis for winter sports after these games and step it up or will they continue doing what they are doing?

What does Canada need to do to get back to where we were?