A newsletter for our Donors | issue 4 | Sept. 2014

the Youth + Red mittens are back In less than one year, Toronto and 15 municipalities in Southern Ontario will host the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. More than 7,500 athletes will compete in 36 sports in 30 venues. Among those athletes will be Team , expected to be the largest Team in Canada’s history.

To host these Games, a number of new facilities are being built, including the track cycling velodrome in Milton. It will be the second velodrome in North America that meets the top international standards for the sport, making it an excellent venue just for Canadian cyclists.

As a comparison, a number of venues were also built for the Winston Chow/COC 1988 Olympic Winter Games in . Those venues are not only still in use, but are, in fact, used by a large number of Sochi Olympians. For example, Canada Olympic Park is the training FROM OUR centre for all 30 team members from the sliding sports (, luge and skeleton). On flat ice, 15 of 17 long track speed skating EXECUTIVE team members train at the Olympic Oval. The Canmore Nordic Centre outside of Calgary was the training centre for 17 of the 21 DIRECTOR biathlon and cross-country skiing team members.

Those facilities are a legacy of Calgary 1988. To be the best in the world, Canadian athletes must have access to training at great facilities. Now, finally, our summer sports will have such facilities.

While the Canadian Olympic Foundation does not directly support the bricks and mortar buildings being built and/or refurbished for the Pan Am Games, it does support the athletes, coaches and officials that will be representing Canada at the Games.

The Foundation also supports the athletes of future generations that will be able to use these world-class facilities. Currently, athletes who are 6-12 years from competing at the highest level face many financial barriers to training. Through the Foundation’s support of the Canadian Sport Institutes, for example, these athletes gain access to nutritional, medical and scientific support.

The Canadian Olympic Foundation is proud to support both high performance athletes as well as the next generation of athletes. We will have an incredible opportunity to see both competing next year right here in Canada. You, our donors, are a vital part of supporting these athletes and for that we thank you.

Please enjoy this edition of Strive. And please share your comments with us by sending an email to [email protected]

Leanne Nicolle, Executive Director

Strive is a newsletter Executive Director: We would love to hear Canadian Olympic The Canadian Olympic published by the Leanne Nicolle from you! Please send your Foundation Foundation is a Canadian Olympic Design: comments to: 21 St. Clair Avenue East, registered charity. Foundation. Keith Jones/voc [email protected] Suite 900 Charitable Toronto, ON M4T 1L9 olympicfoundation.ca Registration Number 416-324-4282 or 817729346RR0001 888-377-7073 02 Left Dylan French leads Team Canada into Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Stadium at the Youth Olympic Games Opening athlete Ceremony. Above profile Dylan in competition, Nanjing.

Xinhua News Agency Dylan French Devin Manky

2014 has been a pretty good year for Dylan French. a day. Sundays are reserved for competing and logging The Richmond, B.C. native earned bronze in the Cadet time in the gym. It’s a torrid pace to maintain, but his World Fencing Championships back in April, and recent success at Worlds and competitions like the recently led Team Canada as flag bearer at the Youth Youth Olympic Games reaffirm his commitment to sport. Olympic Games (YOG) in Nanjing, China. The Canadian “The YOG was an amazing experience. The village was Olympic Foundation chatted with Dylan recently about incredible – a bit overwhelming, but very exciting.” his YOG experience, and his goals for the future. The words overwhelming and distracting are common An active child, Dylan participated in a number of ways for many young athletes to describe their first sports in his hometown, but his introduction into multi-sport Games experience. While being surrounded fencing came as a bit of a surprise. by athletes, coaches, and representatives from around “When I was six years old, a fencer came to our school the globe make for a great environment for spectators and did a demonstration. I thought it’d be a cool thing and sport enthusiasts, it can be disruptive for young to try, so I started taking lessons shortly after that. athletes who are accustomed to a more standard I was hooked.” competition routine.

Fencing quickly became a key part of Dylan’s life. Now The Youth Olympic Games are a great dress rehearsal 17 years old, Dylan attends Magee Secondary School in for the real thing – an opportunity to live the Olympic Vancouver and is enrolled in their SPARTS (Sports and experience while eradicating some of the extra jitters Arts) program. that accompany competing on such a grand scale.

Introduced in 1985, the SPARTS program was designed While Dylan didn’t win a medal at the YOG, he still has to allow high performance athletes and youth heavily his eye on the prize. He’ll be too old for the Cadet class involved in the arts to attend high school while still after this season, and he hopes to take home a medal at maintaining their rigorous training and competition the Junior World Championships over the next couple schedule. of years and eventually land a spot on the Senior National Team. “During the school year, I attend class from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then I train from 2 to 4 p.m., break for dinner Between Dylan’s talent, focus, and dedication, and and homework, and train again from 6 to 9 p.m.” help from Olympic supporters like you, expect to see Dylan fencing in the Olympic Games at Rio 2016 or In the summer, Dylan trains for approximately six hours Tokyo 2020. 03 What it’s like to be a Canadian team in a Youth Olympic Games semifinal. Olympic.ca senior writer Callum Ng covered the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. This is an excerpt from his blog.

This Canadian hockey team saunters across the Village sheepishly edges up to Yao and steals a spot for a Above lawns on a warm, sleepy morning. photo in which only she poses. Later, I ask the hockey Members of the Youth boys if they saw Yao. “No, we missed him,” they say. Olympic Games men’s They hardly speak. Nine players, (enough for two shifts), No one is late for the meeting. hockey 5s squad. are all quietly focused in transit. The first order of Callum Ng business is to lengthen muscles, some aching, some Both coach Inderpal (Indy) Sehmbi and manager just in need of gravity to set them straight after a Scott Sandison exchange strategic bites, over carefully night in bed. cut game tape of tonight’s opponent, Spain. Sandison tells me they are one of the best teams out of the They play Hockey 5s, a Youth Olympic adaptation 10. But not one synonym to ‘underdog’ is spoken. closest to indoor field hockey, but played outdoors. Instead, defensive systems are re-hashed and Spanish It’s fast and entertaining. weaknesses are translated into short sentences lit up At 9:45 am tonight’s semifinal is still in the distance. on the projector wall. After setting their intentions the team walks for After some rest the team bus leaves at 3:45 pm, to make breakfast. Balraj Panesar and Vikram Sandhu, two 18 the 20-minute drive to Nanjing Youth Olympic Park. year-olds from Surrey, BC hang behind to talk to me. They are teammates on the same club team back home, This afternoon, the lights are already on at the field where field hockey is a little more popular, but not hockey pitch, with lower seeding games already being much. “There’s no professional league,” says Panesar, contested. Crowd and announcer noise bounces all a fact that leads a lot of young players around his age the way to the Canadian dressing room. After changing to drop off for other interests. they begin their deliberate warm-up. Then it’s back to the room, to count the minutes to game time. At 10:30 am sharp it is time for a team meeting. Yao Ming is at the basketball courts next door, an continued on next page > ambassador for these Games. A Brazilian player 04 “I can’t even describe it,” Amrit Sidhu tells a TV reporter after the match, equally spilling his emotions and “ demonstrating his coolness under pressure. Later to me, “You gotta’ stay in the moment, you can’t get thinkin’ too much about it,” he impresses. ”

< continued from previous page outscored opponents four to one. The score is tied 4-4 at the end of regulation time. Left At 5:30, half-an-hour in advance of game start the Chinese basketball main field is opened to the players. Every corner of In this tournament, tie games trigger a challenge star Yao Ming speaks with Youth the field is lit up. There is no place to hide, and more shootout. The shooters begin on the 11-metre line, Olympic Games enticing for the peak performer, no camera will miss and the goalkeeper must be a minimum of four metres athletes. a brilliant play. Sandison muses as we observe the away, between the player and goal line. It’s a straight Right players, lined up in their bright white jerseys. “It’s up one-on-one. Team Canada always interesting to watch how the players respond,” celebrate their After three shooters each, nothing is decided. In sudden victory over Spain he says moving his hand in a wave-like motion, at the Youth death, 17 year-old Amrit Sidhu sets the Canadians apart. “there’s so much up and down.” Olympic Games. His teammates erupt from the sidelines. Callum Ng Spain slams Canada early scoring at 1:38. Another “I can’t even describe it,” he tells a TV reporter Spanish goal makes it 2-0 before four minutes. The after the match, equally spilling his emotions and Spanish players are faster. They possess better. Their demonstrating his coolness under pressure. Later stick work in close is deft. The Canadians are soaked to me, “You gotta’ stay in the moment, you can’t get in sweat. Between shifts the players wipe perspiration thinkin’ too much about it,” he impresses. from their eyes, trying to see a way through the Spanish flanks. Nine bodies move along in the steaming night. Still together going on twelve hours. They have a little more Then at 6:25, someone does. Amrit Sidhu speeds a between them now. They might even have something ball past Spanish goalkeeper Marco Giralt Ripol. The intangible that goes beyond marks on a whiteboard. Canadians, bolstered by witnessing the success of Maybe they have a concept, “We just want to play our their activated plan hang in it and with one 12-minute Canadian hockey,” said Sidhu repeatedly to reporters period left, it’s only 3-2 Spain. after the game. To their credit, Canada dominates the final frame. Our Canadian hockey has found life in Nanjing. They solve a Spanish team who up to this point have 05 Hudson’s Bay Red Mittens are back! On September the funding they need as we head toward Rio. With this 4, Olympians and official Red Mitten ambassadors, support, we will be able to compete at our best.” the Dufour-Lapointe sisters, along with Hudson’s Bay, “The Canadian Olympic Foundation is thrilled to launched the 6th edition of its Red Mitten, the nation’s be the beneficiary of the Hudson’s Bay Red Mittens most iconic symbol of the Canadian Olympic pride and initiative. Funds raised from Red Mitten sales will go a the source of millions of dollars in direct athlete funding long way towards supporting high performance sport through the Canadian Olympic Foundation (COF). programs recommended by Own the Podium,” said “The 6th edition of the Red Mitten will help raise money Leanne Nicolle, Executive Director, Canadian Olympic for our athletes and Canadian sport system during the Foundation. “Financially investing in our athletes’ crucial Olympic off-season as Canada prepares for Rio,” performance equals results, and Hudson’s Bay is said Marcel Aubut, President of the Canadian Olympic helping Canada win medals.” Committee and Chairman of the COF. “Maxime, Chloé The latest Red Mitten design builds on the success of and Justine are symbols of Canadian sporting success the mittens created for Sochi by using colour blocking and will be fantastic ambassadors.” again as a design element. This version is mainly black, “Since 2009, Hudson’s Bay has raised more than $26 with red and white accents, allowing the embroidery million from the Red Mitten initiative, funneling much- to stand out. The mittens coordinate with the fall 2014 needed funds to our athletes and the Canadian sport range of Hudson’s Bay’s Canadian Olympic apparel, system,” said Liz Rodbell, President, Hudson’s Bay. “We and are fleece-lined with a knitted outer layer. A fun are proud to welcome the Dufour-Lapointe sisters as approach was taken with the design by embroidering the official 6th edition Red Mitten ambassadors.” the word “Go” on the inner right palm. Athletes and fans have the option to hold up the word “Go” next to a Earlier this year, the Dufour-Lapointe sisters captured red maple leaf, or the words “Go Canada” in moments the heart of our nation when they became the first of patriotism. Canadian set of three siblings to compete in the same individual event at the same Games. 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The Canadian Olympic Foundation contributed over to support next generation athletes through programs $10 million to sport in 2012 and 2013. This funding at the Canadian Sport Institutes and generous granting supports athletes through high performance to the Canada Games Council. training programs, competitions, equipment, sport The Canadian Olympic Partners provide vital ongoing nutrition and psychology, coaching, sport science support to the Canadian Olympic Movement and have and technology. made generous charitable donations to the Canadian Olympic Foundation over the last number of years. Triathlete Paula In 2013, 66% of funds raised went towards supporting Findlay signs her This article serves to highlight some of their amazing autograph at a BMW athletes at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, and contributions and initiatives. dealership as part of nearly 25% was allocated towards summer athletes BMW’s Drive For Team Canada program. training for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games and the Rio BMW Canada 2016 Olympic Games. The remaining funds were used continued on next page >

08 Thank to our amazing you ! corporate donors Hudson’s Bay is a Premier National Partner and As a National Partner, Petro-Canada fuels the Official Outfitter of the Canadian Olympic Team. dreams of Canadian athletes through their Launched in 2009, Hudson’s Bay’s Red Mitten generous support of the Canadian Olympic Team initiative has raised over $26 million for the COF and the Canadian Olympic Foundation. Through through the sale of their mittens, sunglasses initiatives like the Petro-Canada FACE program and red mitten pins. Over 6 million Foundation (Fuelling Athletes and Coaching Excellence), the items have been sold! In addition to this amazing sale of Sochi glassware, the distribution of HBC initiative, Hudson’s Bay hosts an annual golf Red Mittens and donations of Petro Points, Petro- tournament in celebration of Canadian athletes Canada is a key contributor to the development and makes a generous corporate donation. of sport in Canada. In addition to the above programs, Petro-Canada makes a generous donation to the COF.

Canadian Tire is a Premier National Partner of BMW Canada is a proud supporter of the the Canadian Olympic Team. As part of this Canadian Olympic Team and the Canadian relationship, Canadian Tire makes a substantial Olympic Foundation. From October 24th to annual donation to the COF. In addition to their November 14th, BMW Canada ran the ‘Drive for financial commitment, Canadian Tire went above Team Canada’ program. Dealerships across the and beyond last fall. With the help of Sportsnet, country hosted 60 Olympian visitors and donated Canadian Tire produced a special, limited-edition $25 for every BMW automobile test drive. This magazine, titled ‘Why we play’, that showcased promotion raised an impressive $50,000 for Canadian Olympic athletes. The magazines were the COF. sold in Canadian Tires across the country and partial proceeds were donated to the COF.

RBC has been involved with the Canadian Mondelez Canada, the parent company of Olympic Movement since 1947 and is proud to beloved snack food brands like Cadbury, Christie be the longest-standing corporate supporter of and Dentyne is another generous supporter Canada’s Olympic Team. To celebrate the Olympic of the Foundation. This past winter, Mondelez Winter Games in Sochi, RBC produced a limited Canada donated partial proceeds from the sale edition Team Canada RBC Gift Card that featured of specialty branded Christie products and Pride an image of the gold-medal winning Canadian and Joy, their Sochi Games viewing app, to the women’s hockey team from the Vancouver 2010 Foundation. These sales generated nearly $40,000 Olympic Winter Games. $2 from the sale of every of additional revenue for Canadian athletes. card was donated to the Foundation.

Canadian telecommunication leader Bell Canada General Mills is an Official Supporter of the has long been a supporter of Canadian Olympic Canadian Olympic Team and an annual corporate Team and amateur sport across the country. In donor to the Canadian Olympic Foundation. addition to the Bell Athletes Connect program that provides Olympians with communications devices that help athletes stay connected with their coaches and families, Bell also makes a sizeable donation to the COF. “I did the best I could in Scotland. The Games are such an amazing experience, being athlete surrounded by profile all the other athletes,” said Max. Max Plaxton

Mountain bike racer Max Plaxton is Championships titles in both 2002 income salary for so long,” said a veteran of the Canadian Olympic and 2003, and had a successful Max. “I have a lot of friends who cycling team. Max made his first U23 career winning a World Junior tried to make it to the next level, Olympic appearance at London Championship bronze medal in but it’s a big jump between having 2012 and won a silver medal at 2006. your bike and travel paid for, to the 2011 Pan American Games in actually making a living out of it. It’s Max was fortunate to have such Guadalajara, Mexico. He is ready to very frustrating for young people.” an illustrious Junior career, as it chase down a medal at the Toronto paved the way for relationships with Max finished just outside of the Above/Right 2015 Pan Am Games and Rio 2016. Max Plaxton sponsors. In addition to cycling for podium, in fourth place, at the competing at the Growing up in Tofino, B.C., Max Team Canada, Max competes for recent Commonwealth Games in Glasglow 2014 participated in a number of sports, the Sho-Air/Cannondale Factory Glasgow. He’s using that strong, Commonwealth Games. but never considered a career as racing team. yet frustrating, result as motivation Canadian Cyclist an athlete. That slowly started to for his upcoming competitions. “My personal trade team is my change at the beginning of high greatest source of income. Aside “I did the best I could in Scotland. school. Max’s family was relocated from that, I’ve been a nationally The Games are such an amazing to Spain when he was 13 and biking carded athlete for a number of experience, being surrounded by quickly became a way to make years, which is really helpful.” all the other athletes,” said Max. “I friends. Similar to how kids in can’t wait for the Pan Am Games in Canada may play road hockey with Max also counts Scott Tedro, Toronto. We’ve had nationals the their friends and neighbours, Max a major player in the cycling last two years at the Hardwood quickly observed that kids in Spain circuit, as a personal sponsor Mountain Bike Park, it’s a great rode their bikes. – a relationship that he calls course and I’m familiar with it. I’m ‘like family’. “I brought an old, beat-down CCM definitely looking forward to that mountain bike with me when I However not all mountain bikers for next year.” moved to Spain. I started out with are as successful or lucky as Max. With his extensive resume and trail rides and mountain biking, and experience having now competed then got into road cycling and did “There’s a lot of mountain bikers, at the Commonwealth Games, Pan both for quite a while.” and not a lot of paid opportunities in North America. There’s a lot Am Games, and Olympic Games, Cycling quickly became a major young kids that train really hard Max Plaxton is on course for part of Max’s life. He earned the and try to make it, but you can continued success. Canadian Junior Mountain Bike only support your racing on a low 10 Two weeks in Olympia

Left Steve Boudreau is a community editor Scholars from all over the globe were flown in to share Delegates from the their knowledge of Olympism. Also taking the stage International Olympic for the Canadian Olympic Team. In were some of our Olympian classmates, including Academy. June 2014, Steve had the privilege of Martine and Philippe, who generously opened up Above about their Olympic experience. Surprisingly, some Martine Dugrenier and Philippe Beaudry. representing Canada at the International of the most inspirational tales dealt with overcoming Olympic Academy in Greece. This is an disappointment. A feeling all of us could relate to. Steve Boudreau account of his experience. Evenings were reserved for social events with the 2014 FIFA World Cup serving as the perfect excuse for Last June, participants from all corners of the world students to gather in the common area and celebrate were invited to attend the 2014 International Olympic their respective countries. Academy (IOA) youth session in ancient Olympia. I was one of about 200 fortunate students chosen to Certain nights were set aside for participants to make the trip to Greece. Joining me on this two week showcase their nation’s heritage through song, dance journey were Canadian Olympians Martine Dugrenier and performance art. (wrestling) and Philippe Beaudry (fencing). Little did In forging life-long connections with people that were we know we were about to embark on a once in a essentially complete strangers not so long ago, we not lifetime trip that would end up transforming our only respected diversity, we embraced it. view of culture and sport. …we not only respected diversity, we embraced it.

Each year the IOA focuses its curriculum around a particular theme, “respect for diversity” in our case. In the end, participation in organized sports such as We would soon realize that we weren’t so much tennis, soccer, volleyball or basketball, proved to be studying it as living it, every single day. A five-hour the ultimate unifier where flags, language barriers and drive north from Athens, the Academy is surrounded cultural differences seemed to suddenly disappear by a majestic mountain landscape which we would every time we would step on to one of the Academy’s have little time to admire as the days were packed numerous fields. A testament to the power of sport with a plethora of activities. and the Olympic movement. 11 Your donation at work IGNITE Athlete Development Program

Above In the last edition of STRIVE e-magazine, we shared The IGNITE Athlete Development Program is a multi- Samuel Edney and Helen Upperton with you, our donors, about how the Canadian Sport sport foundational athletic skills program designed to demonstrate an Institutes (CSI) facilities and services contribute to develop athletes between the ages of 12 and 17 from exercise to young athletes at the podium performances. any sport. The program introduces young athletes CSI-Calgary. to a high performance lifestyle by improving their At the Canadian Sport Institutes (CSI), the team of athleticism, physical literacy and fitness through Right sport scientists, medical experts, and trainers provide Helen Upperton at a multi-sport training program, above and beyond the Sport Chek Sports programs and services to athletes and their coaches their current sport-specific practice and competition Clinic at Winsport in to ensure they have every advantage to win medals Calgary, Canada on schedules. This kind of fitness training allows athletes for Canada. Some of these services include training June 5, 2014. from a variety of sports to train together and learn to program design, advanced performance testing and Winston Chow be more physically effective - from skiers to gymnasts a battery of health professionals that assist with the to basketball players and everything in between, athlete’s physical, mental and emotional well-being. the IGNITE Athlete Development Program gives next These world-class facilities service over 1,800 carded generation athletes the sport building blocks they athletes and 2,400 coaches, most of whom are primed need to become Olympians. to compete at the Olympic Games. It makes sense Funds raised from the Future Olympians Fund will go that the best athletes have the best training team towards providing more access to the IGNITE Athlete behind them. Development Program, and other programs that are The Canadian Sport Institute network and the central to creating a high performance development Canadian Olympic Foundation are investing in the system for our next generation athletes. IGNITE Athlete Development Program to ensure that To find out more about the Future Olympians Fund the next generation of athletes also have the tools they visit olympicfoundation.ca need to achieve their Olympic dreams. Without access to the best available training environment, Canada’s next generation athletes are at risk of missing critical milestones in their athletic development. 12 While he has countless medal memories, he counts Sidney Crosby’s gold winning goal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver as his favourite Olympic moment.

donor Profile Douglas Lavallie

Mr. Douglas Lavallie of Saskatoon has been a loyal Mr. Lavallie respects how hard our young athletes supporter of the Canadian Olympic Foundation since have to work to compete at the Olympic level of sport. its inception in 2007. An annual donor, he has always He believes that all Canadians should support our Top Sidney Crosby been passionate about our Canadian athletes and athletes in whatever way they can. When our athletes celebrates his game- the Olympic Games. While he has countless medal stand atop the podium it creates a sense of national winning goal at the memories, he counts Sidney Crosby’s gold winning pride, and it inspires future generations to strive Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games goal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver toward their own Olympic dreams. Mr. Lavallie is very men’s hockey gold- as his favourite Olympic moment. He enjoys watching proud of our athletes and the success that they have medal final. all Olympic sporting events but particularly loves had on the world stage. He is happy to support the Inset watching the men and women’s hockey tournaments Canadian Olympic Foundation and knows that when Mr. Douglas Lavallie at the Winter Games. he watches our up-and-coming Canadian athletes compete at future Games his investment helped get them there. Thank you Mr. Lavallie! 13 Upcoming competitions The calendar below highlights upcoming sporting events across Canada.

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Dates Sport Title Category Location

October 2-5, 2014 Swimming Synchronized Swimming – FINA World Cup World Cup Quebec City, QC

October 3-5, 2014 Cycling Canadian BMX Championship Sr. National Championship/ Trials Toronto, ON

October 13-19, 2014 Badminton Badminton Pan Am Championships Continental Cup/ Championship Toronto, ON

October 16-19, 2014 Cycling 2014 International Track Challenge International / Other Competition Milton, ON

Canadian Track Championship October 22-25, 2014 Cycling Sr. National Championship/ Trials Milton, ON (Elite/Master/Jr/Para)

October 31-Nov 2, 2014 Figure Skating 2014 Skate Canada International International / Other Competition Kelowna, BC

December 1, 2014 Skiing Cross Country Skiing World Cup – Canmore, AB World Cup / Grand Prix Canmore, AB

December 1, 2014 Skiing Cross Country Skiing World Cup – Whistler, BC World Cup / Grand Prix Whistler, BC

Niagara-On-The- December 1-6, 2014 Squash Squash – Women's World Team Championships World Championship Lake, ON

Badminton – 2014 Canadian International December 16-20, 2014 Badminton International / Other Competition Moncton, NB Challenge

Dec 26, 2014 – Hockey IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships World Championship Toronto/Montreal January 5, 2015

14 THANK YOU to our generous donors across canada. Team Canada, Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games

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