TORONTO — Canada's Olympic and Paralympic swim trials have been moved from Montreal to Toronto. The trials to determine Canada's swim teams for the Paris Summer Games were originally scheduled to be held at Montreal's Olympic pool May 13-19.
The trials to determine Canada's swim teams for the Paris Summer Games were originally scheduled to be held at Montreal's Olympic pool May 13-19.
“It wasn’t an easy decision and it won’t be perfect but we believe, taking all into consideration, it is the best decision with only five weeks to go before the meet,” Swimming Canada Acting CEO Suzanne Paulins said in a statement.Built for the 2015 Pan American Parapan American Games, Toronto's pool was the venue for the 2016 and 2021 Olympic and Paralympic trials, as well as a leg of the 2022 Swimming World Cup.
The competition venue requires not only a 50-metre racing pool, but a warm-up pool as well, adequate capacity for participants and spectators, and broadcast and digital streaming capabilities. Facility accessibility for Paralympic athletes was also a factor, the organization said in its statement. Swimming Canada also said athletes advocated for Toronto as a replacement given the availability of a second 50-metre warm-up pool and its history of hosting national and international events."Summer McIntosh swam two world records at trials last year. There’s a lot of fast swimming and good history in this pool and I’m sure we’ll see some more.”
"We’ve been fast in that pool before, the environment is good and we hope the atmosphere will be as good as it was going to be in Quebec. We’re there to swim fast.”
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