Once we are vaccinated. I have no idea what is going on next week, never mind 6 months from now.
As far as I know there's no hotel in Canada like the Orleans that has a directly-attached regulation-sized rink accessible by a separate elevator shaft to maintain separation from the other hotel guests?
From that tweet he doesn't so much agree with Wilson as he has attached unrelated criticisms of the federation to what Wilson was talking about (the "developing new talent" thing I think is unfounded, in particular; to the extent that federations can control such things, they've caught a lengthy series of unlucky breaks in the last half-decade).
Is it not a disservice to hardworking skaters to endanger their health by holding potentially unsafe competitions? Not to mention everyone around them?
Skate Canada is a non-profit so they also get funding from govt.
You’d be surprised at how many people don’t read the fine print when they’re signing up for a “contest” or giveaway.
They've also lost a lot of skaters from the non-Central Ontario regions when they joined all Ontario sections into one region. I know in Northern Ontario in particular, the amalgamation of the 4 sections has led to a huge decrease in the number of skaters. So they're losing some revenue there as well. (That's not to say there wasn't a decline before that, however combining the 4 regions has had a hugely negative effect in numbers, and therefore revenue, in the north).
Believe me, I know. But if the organization didn't get the member's consent, they can't hand over the member's data. A few years ago one section of SC gave some of its member data (email addresses of members in a specific demographic) to a sponsor for a promotion, and a lot of the recipients complained about the unsolicited messages. It hasn't happened since.
I don't think that's true. People watching the streaming of the various RSSF events were complaining about loose C19 protocols. People not wearing masks properly, spectators not social distancing, etc.
Skate Canada isn't paying that though.
Australia says the same. I still think they are pursuing an elimination strategy based on what I read and hear from our teammate who lives there.
Which is why I said they should have anticipated this and had contingency plans including moving it to an area that is was least likely to have issue much sooner.
So did California. I can assure you that our two approaches are not comparable.
25-30 staffers and at least 100,000 volunteers. Not to mention, the population of the US is almost 10x what Canada is. I would expect USFS to be bigger than SC if you don't do a per capita comparison. But relative to the populations they serve and compared to the big money sports, USFS is not a large organization and not particularly well-funded.
There are also financial support for businesses for covid. I don’t have a business so I never looked into it. I can guarantee you that a lot of businesses are struggling this year.
What is that perception based on, exactly?
By now it is clear that it is possible to hold skating competitions and other sporting events without endangering the health of those involved. Skate Canada couldn’t, or wouldn't, take the necessary steps to do so - but this doesn't make skating events in the time of CV inherently unsafe.
Clearly Canadian public health officers do not share your optimism as it is they who have outlawed these kind of events. We really need to let the medical experts guide us on this one and not sporting federations or FSU members.
Clearly public health officials in many other countries do not share the views of those in Canada, as they have not outlawed these kinds of events. This is not about whether sports events can be held safely (in many places they can), it's about what different people/authorities consider acceptable risk. We accept some risk as inherent to most sports, but given the nature of CV I do understand why some want the risk to be zero. Personally I don't think that's sustainable, but I'm not making decisions for others.
This is like people saying "follow the science", as if science is one thing that never evolves. There isn't a consensus on what the right approach is, beyond "don't let this thing run rampant."
That's because the epidemiology and health care capacity and acceptable risk is different in all of those places.
We have thousands of cases in Canada each day and the medical community is losing their minds because provinces are reopening to fast. That doesn't sound much like an elimination strategy to me.
Yes. Cases adjusted to population size are higher in several of the countries that have held Nationals/domestic competitions than they are in Canada, see here (admittedly I did not check province-level data). As I wrote, this isn't about one right answer health-wise, it's about different approaches to risk and managing the CV situation.
I respect Wilson and Orser. I know nothing about the head of Skate Canada.
Well my friend works for a non-profit in Ottawa and they have had access to it.
I have been watching NHL games taking place in Canada. I have just checked how many games will take place tomorrow, Feb 15th. 3 games for Canadian teams: Ottawa - Toronto, Winnipeg - Edmonton and Calgary - Vancouver. This is just for one day. I think the whole Canadian figure skating championships is equal to these three games in terms of number of involved people. I understand that hockey has different kind of money, but it has also different scale in terms of number of involved people. It's just difficult to buy the argument re protecting lives when hockey season continues, and hockey is a group sport and in that respect is much more risky than figure skating. If you follow hockey, you know that they constantly talk about players sent to quarantine. For some reason, they find this risk acceptable - in Canada.
You keep posting about how hockey has such a priority over figure skating, and I’m wondering why that is? Canada won the team medal in 2018– you’d think that would stir some national pride in figure skating and the country would want to encourage people to join the sport. But it seems that you’re saying that the country prioritizes hockey over skating, and that to me is a huge failure in a country where figure skating should be a big deal.
