For Canada, the Winter Olympics is work. We’re here to collect a steady rate of return on our investment

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What happens when all the money you spent didn’t buy you as many medals as you hoped?

Push your IOC buddies to make skydiving and laundry-folding new Olympic events. Build a sports centre of excellence for each one. Ensure that no other country’s best and brightest sharpen the corner of a bed like Canada.One small drawback is self-flagellation when things don’t work out.Canada’s greatest-ever Winter Olympic ROI, Ted-Jan Bloemen,

hit the skids. Why does Bloemen look so good on a balance sheet? Because he didn’t cost us anything. His country of birth, the Netherlands, put in the developmental work. Canada swung by to pick up his medals. But that was 2018 and what you have you done for us lately, Ted-Jan? Nothing. So there’s a half dozen journos waiting afterward to give him the gears after he bombs out. One side effect of Canadians never winning was that no one cared if they lost. Now we do. After years of steady pulling, that’s the point at which the athletes start getting pushed. Few of them appear to have given that much thought until it happens to them.Only one reporter showed up to talk to Ghiotto.

 

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