OTTAWA — As Canada's Paris Olympians and Paralympians were celebrated in Ottawa Wednesday, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) also used the occasion to renew calls for increased federal funding.
OTTAWA — As Canada's Paris Olympians and Paralympians were celebrated in Ottawa Wednesday, the Canadian Olympic Committee also used the occasion to renew calls for increased federal funding.
"If I can be so bold, what is now needed is updated support for the national sports system. That's the system that provides Canadians the coaches, the training camps, the competition opportunities," she said in a speech. Shoemaker said the event in Ottawa was an opportunity to tell the stories of Canadian athletes' successes at the Olympics and Paralympics, but also chance to tell the stories of the financial shortfall facing Canada's sport organizations.
The commitment was about half of what the COC had requested, and it was money which, in part, supported athletes directly rather than organizations as a whole — although the money for Olympic and Paralympic athletes' monthly payments was more than what the athletes had asked for.
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