The question is whether the Canadian team’s success — at the Olympics, on the World Cup circuit and at the world championships — will help change the trajectory of the sport at home.
ski jumps best when she can get in her bubble where she says it feels like “someone has hit pause on the rest of the world.”
“It’s pretty exciting,” Loutitt said in an interview from her training base in Slovenia. “But, you know, I’m saying it’s just the beginning, so you can’t get too excited over the beginning of a story.” Ski jumping is one of the few Olympic sports where women still don’t have the same events as men, though the gap has lessened over the last few years. Loutitt and teammate Abigail Strate have capitalized on the new opportunities, including combining with Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes and Matthew Soukup to win a
Loutitt hoped that winning an Olympic medal would jump-start funding and support for their sport at home. So far, that hasn’t happened. Janko Zwitter, the women’s head coach for Canada, doesn’t worry about the challenges of running a team of largely self-funded Canadians who live in Slovenia: “We’re at least as good as are.”
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