Why Canadian fencing sucks big time
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by on 12-08-2008
While keeping score with the Olympic games in Beijing, I hardly batted an eye as the news flashed on the official Beijing scores site: one by one, each Canadian fencer fell, pretty much after their first or second bouts. It’s a bit of a deja vu, actually, to the last Olympics - in Atlanta and Athens - when Canada managed to actually qualify more fencers to go than even this year.
And then what happened? Well, you know. What always happens.
They go home after 1 or 2 bouts.
Sorry to break it to you folks, but the sad and unfortunate reality is that Canada isn’t known for producing quality fencers, which is why the best Canadian fencers go abroad to train (look at Sherraine Schalm), and why someone like Jujie Luan, even at 50 yrs of age, can qualify for a spot so easily, within 15 months. Coaching is rife with favoritism, [...]
