Hopeful future Olympians compete in Winnipeg’s RBC training grounds – Winnipeg | 24CA News
As Olympic athletes gear up for Paris, Winnipeg’s youth are chasing their very own Olympic goals for 2028 and past.
Over 130 elite athletes aged 14 to 25 made their option to the RBC coaching grounds, the place scouts waited to seek out high expertise.
Winnipeg’s personal Skylar Park is an Olympic Taekwondo athlete, and one of many scouts at this years occasion.
“For myself, I have that same passion within me and to see these athletes come in super excited just to have the opportunity to showcase their skills and hopefully make the Olympic games one day is super exciting and inspiring,” Park mentioned.
Park will probably be competing on this yr’s Olympic video games the place she is going to go for gold in taekwondo.
Scouts are evaluating athletes energy, velocity and endurance to seek out out the place they could match on the workforce.
“It’s great for athletes who have great abilities and Olympic dreams, but don’t really know what sport they fit into,” Park defined.
Carter Heroux is a 15 -year-old monitor and subject athlete showcasing his expertise on the occasion. And whereas the Olympics may be on his thoughts, he says he’s received to get by highschool monitor first.
“It would be great, it would be a lot of fun,” Heroux mentioned as he described doubtlessly coaching with Olympic athletes. “Next year is grade 11 so gotta race against the big boys.”
If Canada’s future athletes impress, they will go on to get extra coaching and funding as they work towards future video games.
For athletes already making a reputation for themselves, the camp is an opportunity to attempt a sport they haven’t thought-about but.
“The sports will then invite their top list over to a training camp where they’ll do their own sport-specific testing,” Jermie Chase, the RBC Training Ground technical lead mentioned. “This format allows us to reach a big number of athletes very efficiently, very quickly.”
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games kick off on July 26.
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