Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Canada's Depressing Olympic Performance

Its now day 6 of the Olympics and Canada hasn't won any medals. I know that Canada performs well at the Winter Olympics, and that most of the events that Team Canada is expected to do well in have not started yet, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have at least a few bronze medals by now - come on, countries like Kyrgyzstan have won medals (no offence to any Kyrgyzstanis).

Calling Canada a "winter nation" is not a legitimate excuse; there are many people, including myself, in this country who take part in summer sports (and by the way, "winter nations" like Sweden and Switzerland have won medals!). I think its safe to say that Canada's performance so far is not something to celebrate, and because of this, I believe that its time for a major overhaul of Team Canada's funding and coaching strategy, something clearly has to be done about our dismal performance at the Summer Olympics.