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Originally Posted by troutman
The problem in my mind, is that as other countries concentrate more on the X-Sports, the Canadian medal hauls will decline. Canada is benefiting from a shallow talent pool.
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Maybe. Speed skating is in decline, Alpine has been terrible for years. I'd even argue Bobsleigh is in slight decline right now. We've made great strides in Luge, we -finally- have a ski jumping program, we continue to be good in figure skating, short track, etc. The question is, does having more competitors make it tougher, or do we continue to have more talent in certain events? Like I stated previously, a lot of our medals are not coming from being the first nation to be in an event. Many of them have become events we have done better in later on.
Anyway, speed skating is the only sport where we have a serious decline. Short-track might be looking that way slightly for 2018 too. I really do think it is silly we don't have more venues for speed skating in Canada.
I would like to see more money going into skiing too. There is no reason we can't win medals on anything that involves skis.