Athletes in favour of Toronto as a Plan B for the Olympic and Paralympic swim trials drove the decision to relocate there from Montreal, says the head of Swimming Canada.
Toronto's Pan Am Sports Centre was built for the 2015 Pan American/Parapan American Games and was the site of Olympic and Paralympic trials in 2016 and 2021.
Montreal's Olympic pool was the original venue, but a March 21 fire at nearby Olympic Stadium, and subsequent smoke and water damage from firefighting, made air quality in the pool not fit for humans for four to six months, said Paulins and Quebec swimming federation head Francis Menard. "We really needed to ensure that we found a competitive environment that was going to allow them to realize their goals."
When asked if the City of Montreal, Quebec government and Montreal Tourism board would financially support a trials in Ontario, Paulins replied"It has not been ruled out."
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