Images of Canadian women adorned with Olympic hardware in Tokyo could help counterbalance some disturbing trends for female sport at home.
The distaff side of Canada's Olympic team generated the country's first nine Olympic medals in Japan to continue a trend from 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
Women hold down two of the most powerful positions in the high-performance sport system -- Canadian Olympic Committee president Tricia Smith and Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger. The COVID-19 pandemic magnified barriers and inertia, according to the results of another study published earlier this month by the same organization.
Women collecting medals in swimming, judo, softball, diving and weightlifting so far in Tokyo could kick-start dreams and inspire girls to get in the pool and on the field, said softball pitcher Sara Groenewegen.
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