Coaches & Officials

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games officially open today and continue through Sunday, August 8. With 370 athletes and 131 coaches attending, this is the largest contingent of Canadian athletes at an Olympic Games since Los Angeles 1984.

• Major Games
• Olympic Games

Flashback

Tokyo last hosted the Olympic Games in 1964. At that edition of the Games, Canada’s only gold-medalists were men’s pair rowers Roger Jackson and George Hungerford. As Canada’s largest rowing team in 25 years gears up for Tokyo 2020, Kai...

• High Performance
• Major Games
• Olympic Games

Heat acclimatization

The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games are expected to be among the hottest ever recorded. As athletes prepare for the games, researchers have found that heat acclimatization is the best measure to protect health and performance. This can include 60...

• High Performance
• Olympic Games
• Paralympic Games
• Training Methods
• Weather

Summer 2021 SIRCuit

The Summer 2021 SIRCuit is now available!  The SIRCuit is designed to highlight important research and insights to advance the Canadian sport system. With the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo on the horizon and the winter Games in Beijing just...

• Athlete Development
• High Performance
• Leadership and Governance
• Major Games
• Olympic Games
• Paralympic Games
• Safe Sport
• Technology

Preparing for an Olympic and Paralympic Games like no other

July 19, 2021

Highlights After a one-year postponement, the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan will be held just 6 months before the 2022 Winter Games kick off in Beijing, China.The postponement of Tokyo 2020 created a unique set of...

• High Performance
• Major Games
• Olympic Games
• Paralympic Games

Tokyo, Beijing and a global pandemic: How 4 sports are advancing Safe Sport

July 19, 2021

Highlights In recent years, national sport organizations have been hard at work on Safe Sport policies and initiatives. They're designed to ensure the safety and well-being of sport communities, from the grassroots level all the way up to national teams.Sport...

• Canadian Sport Policies
• COVID-19
• Major Games
• Olympic Games
• Paralympic Games
• Safe Sport

Building a culture of excellence in high performance sport

July 19, 2021

Highlights In sport, culture can determine a team’s focus and how members communicate and deal with conflict. Culture also establishes norms of acceptable behaviour and directly influences functioning and performance.Own the Podium, alongside partners the Canadian Paralympic Committee and Canadian...

• Coaching
• High Performance
• Leadership and Governance
• Mental Health
• Safe Sport

Job insecurity

For coaches, job insecurity can lead to reduced job and life satisfaction, decreased well-being, and burnout. Sport organizations can support the well-being of coaches through employment opportunities that are contractually secure and by limiting the number of temporary coaching contracts.

• Coaching
• Leadership and Governance
• Mental Health
• Workplace Wellness

Holistic approach to athlete development

A holistic approach to athlete development considers the interconnections between different spheres of an athlete's life, and recognizes their impact on performance. Whether athletes are struggling with the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, relocation, injury, or the end of a...

• Athlete Development
• Health and Wellness
• High Performance
• Mental Health

Independent Safe Sport Mechanism

The Government of Canada announced that the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) has been selected to establish and deliver a new Independent Safe Sport Mechanism. Thank you to Canadian sport leaders, all stakeholders and participants that have helped...

• Safe Sport