Own The Podium Boosts Canada’s Next Generation of Sport Scientists
Lessons Learned
2017 Year in Review – Day 2: And in second place…
Best performances of 2017 2nd place Kim McRae, LugeBronze, Women’s Singles After a fifth-place finish at the 2014 Olympic Games, McRae broke through to the podium in 2017 with a bronze at the World Championships. The 25-year old Calgary native only discovered luge after she attended a ski show where Luge Canada had set up […]
Abbott Leads the Way in the West
200kg is 200kg – The Importance of Accurate Measurements
There’s Gold in them Bones
Master of Her Domain
You could say that Carol Huynh is a Jack of all trades, master of all: Olympic Champion, Master’s Student, Assistant Chef de Mission, Mentor, Advocate, and now Coach, in the sport of wrestling. Over a span of more than two decades, Huynh has steadfastly honed her many skills and filled so many different roles, approaching […]
The Stopwatch bites the dust
The once mighty stopwatch, in its heyday a technological marvel capable of measuring and recording time for any number of purposes, especially sport, has finally met its match. The development of a new timing system at the Olympic Oval has made the use of stopwatches by speed skating coaches during training a thing of the […]
The Long Road
The greatest and most important goals in life take a proportionally significant amount of time and effort to achieve – endeavouring to earn a PhD, for example. Such an undertaking is not for the faint of heart, but rather for the few among us who strive to change the way of the world. They take […]
The Best of the Best: 2016 Year in Review
2016 was a memorable year in the world of sport. The 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games were the major highlight and there were exciting performances in winter sport too – keeping us hungry for more leading into the next Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2018. Although there were many great stories to choose from, […]