Kanadas Medaillengewinn bei den Olympischen Spielen in Cortina in Mailand war eine stille Abrechnung: „Unser System ist im Niedergang“
https://www.thestar.com/sports/olympics-and-paralympics/canadas-medal-total-at-milan-cortina-olympics-was-a-quiet-reckoning-our-system-is-in/article_47365f5e-f894-4eac-8c8c-39c8c37e469f.html
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Everything is in decline.
That’s what happens when there is no money for communities or Canadians.
Who really cares about the olympics?
No money? Canada sent nearly as many athletes as the US, and the US is 10 times our size. Canada subsidizes too many athletes,and their entourage.
China spends a shit ton more and got less medals.
Stop dooming folks. Shit happens
Fix the cost of food and housing and folks may have extra for children’s sports
Can I just say the obvious thing? We did fine and it really doesn’t matter anyway…
it’s funding on a national and provincial level, there’s a reason too that most of the athletes who won any medal were from ontario and quebec, there’s just more access and more funding put into all levels of sport through these provinces. i say this as someone who is from nova scotia but lives in quebec now, the disparity is Crazy for the amount of opportunity there is
Absolutely not to an Olympic bid
Our funding system is in need of a major overhaul. It’s been years. You can’t be expected to perform as an elite athlete if you need to GoFundMe or work a job in between training.
The problem is any time that conversation comes up it’s „well we’ve got xyz to focus on instead“. Funding sport isn’t just about winning medals, but it means better access for kids (and adults). Healthier, fitter populace = less strain on healthcare system in the long term and better quality of life.
Guys… are we really complaining about these results? We barely had any snow this year… /s
I feel like this is a boilerplate article that I see after almost every Olympics.
Spending too much money on refugees medical and dental. No money for Canadians in our post national country.
System? What system? Canada doesn’t support sports and athletes and doesn’t really reward Olympic medalists.
Some sports like hockey are well-endowed by the rich association bureaucracy and income, but almost all other sports in Canada are very expensive and usually unsustainable affair for athletes and their families.
It takes many years of dedication and training to become a world-class athlete and there usually is zero support from the government.
Also there is a huge shortage of facilities and the ones that do exist, are very expensive even when publicly owned.
That’s why smaller but more generous to their athletes countries perform much better. Their priorities are different.
The funding is just fine. If they win medals… What does that do for the athletes really?
Honestly who gives a shit?
From „own the podium“ to „please don’t reposses the podium“.
Our *country* is in decline.
Economist Mike Moffatt does a good job showing the data, eg [recent Twitter thread](https://x.com/mikepmoffatt/status/2025196955731730649?s=46&t=Cwor0l7yDX14gupFJtGagg).
I remember being in high school in the early 2000s when there was no Own the Podium, and Canadians would be lucky to pick up a dozen medals at an Olympics. Milano 2026 may not have been as wonderful a result as the COC would have cared for, but I’m not complaining because I have seen it far, far worse.
Maybe we should spend less money on special interest groups and consultant fees for friends and families of the government.
I wonder if they could make an express entry/TFW whatever path for athletes from less fortunate countries that got medals or are in contention! Get a medal? Get PR!
Yeah I keep seeing this come up on my feed today and I’d say this is pretty much on the bottom of my list of priorities of what I’d like to see this government focusing on
It’s called we are broke
Goverment wages war on the middle class and now we are gone.
This entire country is in decline, and yet we keep voting for the exact same thing and expecting change.
Soccer is up though
Olympics are supposedly about amateur sport, but it’s more about money now. Ski racing is for the super rich. Hockey is for the rich. Every coach wants $100s/hr because they want a piece of the pie. It’s not about sport. It’s about money. It’s in decline because too many people want to make a killing off it.
Canadian coaches working for the highest bidder. It’s not about national sport development anymore when no one is beholden to their own country.
Sport costs a lot of money at any age. Kids can’t afford to play
A reminder we got 21 medals and the US got 33. Yes it sucks we didn’t get hockey gold but by comparison to size we did perfectly fine
All winter sports cost an absurd amount of money, and usually require driving to a facility for training on a regular basis.
Let’s also not forget there was a certain event that closed said facilities not too long ago while we encouraged kids to isolate in front of their computers for months.
Journalist surprised that country whose economy has essentially been at a standstill for 10 years is not producing top-tier athletes.
It’s almost like someone is going to win if they have to live like shit or work a job while training.
When will they add personal wealth hoarding as an Olympic Sport? Surely the billionaires are feeling left out?
Who gives a hoot?!
In 2006 Stephen Harper’s government introduced a $500/year fitness tax credit. That credit was doubled to $1,000 in the 2014 tax year. The Trudeau government killed the credit in the 2016 budget and it was eliminated in 2017. While they increased the Canada Child Benefit, I believe removing that specific focus on fitness likely resulted in fewer families putting their kids into sports. COVID didn’t help the situation either, as most Olympic Athletes tend to be in their early 20’s and that means that for 2 years, the restrictions on gatherings caused some athletes to miss out on formative year training in their sports.
The Owning the Podium program before the Vancouver 2010 Olympics definitely helped the country deliver on the medals at those games. If we want to have people excel, the Government needs to invest again in that type of program.
For the people saying „who cares“….sport is important. It’s a huge portion of overall fitness and health of a country. Physical health, financial health, mental heath…it’s all intertwined.
And Canada is slipping on all fronts. Badly.
Omg it was one bad year at the Olympics. Lets not turn it into the apocalypse! We cant be number one all the time. This doesnt mean we are failing as a country it just means we had one bad Olympic run. Why do people catastrophize everything lol. We won 21 medals. Why not celebrate the ones who won and instead of focusing on one we lost?
Every time I mention how poorly Canada is doing so many Canadians come to defend the country saying, „If you don’t like it, just leave“. I love the country too but we shouldn’t be defending poor decision making and mismanagement of tax dollars. We’re just gonna end up like Venezuela if people don’t start waking up.
No one can afford it. Time for some greedy Canadian billionaires to start giving back to the people who make them so fucking rich.
For all the people who don’t care. It’s ok to not want your country to do well but don’t be so public about it!
Access to sport in Canada is not good. Taking part in organised sport as a kid is a sign of being middle class in a way it’s not in other developed countries outside North America.
Elbows Up!!! Just need some more elbow grease