I met 🇨🇦
#Canadian track & field royalty,
@killingbec while shooting the 2022
@OFSAATrack (Ontario high school
#Track & Field meet).
What impressed me most about this global athletics phenom, who I had *only read about, while she was competing four decades earlier, was the pure love and passion that she still has for the sport and the student athletes.
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#PetPeeves No. 1 & 2 with how Canada’s
#Media covers track:
1. It only gets
#TV coverage during
@Olympics
@thecgf
When Olympics, Commonwealth Games or
@PanamSports are being held in Canada
2. With rare exceptions, only heats with Canadian athletes are shown!
Seriously? How more minutes would you add by showing eight or 10 100m heats versus only the two or three with Canadians?
3. Applies to most global media organisations.
@ParaAthletics and
#Para sport in general gets DISSED!!!
I’m 69 years young, have been watching and following track since I was a teenager, yet never knew that
@Paralympics (launched 1960) have ALWAYS ...
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