Source: Canadian Press, January 30, 2018
“We head into the games probably with our strongest team ever,” Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger said.
Canada’s ambition “to contend for No. 1” at the Pyeongchang Olympics is a shift from the two previous Winter Games, where the publicly stated goal by the country’s top sport officials was to finish first in the race for the most medals.
“As an athlete, I never really appreciated people who weren’t really part of my team telling me how many medals I was going to win,” said Canadian Olympic Committee president Tricia Smith, a silver medallist in rowing in 1984.
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