Just as Sam Edney and Jesse Lumsden were sounding boards for each other as athletes, they are again as high-performance directors of their respective sliding sports
Sam Edney and Jesse Lumsden sat on a bench on Parliament Hill during an athlete celebration after the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Edney, an Olympic relay silver medalist in 2018 and the first Canadian man to win a World Cup gold medal, became Luge Canada’s HPD upon his retirement the following year. Canada has won at least one sliding-sport Olympic medal in each of the last five Winter Games, but Edney and Lumsden face a challenge as team leaders that they didn’t as athletes.
Canada’s only other sliding track in the resort town of Whistler, B.C., has a fraction of Calgary’s population from which to recruit and develop athletes. “We’re realizing how good we had it when Calgary’s was here. It’s not going to be the end of us, but it’s definitely made it more difficult.”
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