MONTREAL — Short track speedskating coach Sébastien Cros is hoping Canada can improve on its individual medal haul as the world’s top skaters return to Maurice Richard Arena for a second ISU World Cup event from Friday to Sunday.
Cros called the individual results at the season-opening World Cup event in Montreal last weekend"a little disappointing.""If we talk about numbers, if we want to be the top country, then we should have more medals than everybody else, and that would be a perfect weekend," said Cros with a smile.
Danaé Blais — who skated Canada to gold in the final laps of the women’s relay — said she separates that triumph from her individual races. Cros said they would try to correct the “little mistakes” and “little details” that made the difference, using video to point out some tweaks certain skaters could make."It's not the time to peak, but we're still in a state of mind where we want to do well in every competition,” said Cros. “Of course, the world championships are more important, but I still see that some of our athletes are not yet at 100 per cent .
"We want results, but we're thinking about the whole team because we don't know what team we'll have at the world championships in March or in a year or two,” he said. “The idea is to get them familiar with working with each other in different ways so that when we arrive at major competitions, we've developed that — there's nothing new, there's no surprises and we know what we have to do.
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