Tech Wins Gold: How Canada Can Rebuild Its Olympic Pipeline
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Tech Wins Gold: How Canada Can Rebuild Its Olympic Pipeline

Canada’s Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics delivered unforgettable moments — and also a hard signal: podium success is increasingly won upstream, through systems, sport science, and technology.

In a world where competitors treat sport science as infrastructure, Canada is trying to win with a thinner pipeline and a funding model that can push costs onto athletes. That’s not just unfair — it’s strategically risky.

In our latest Disruptors episode, host John Stackhouse sits down with David Shoemaker, CEO and Secretary General of the Canadian Olympic Committee, and Jennifer Heil, Olympic champion (Turin 2006 gold; Vancouver 2010 silver) and Chef de Mission for Team Canada at Milano Cortina 2026.

This episode unpacks what “modernization” means. It’s the same logic that drives performance in business: small gains compound when the system is designed to learn.

You’ll also hear why talent identification matters and how RBC Training Ground points to what a scalable pipeline can look like when measurement meets opportunity.

RBC Training Ground
RBC Thought Leadership


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