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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 1726072" data-attributes="member: 7883">Unfortunately, the Canadian government doesn't really believe in supporting our athletes.  Artists looking to make sculptures out of dead pigs, yes.....athletes no..On the interview with Mark Tewksbury, on Day 3 or 4, I remember him mentioning that official stance is that we Canada doesn't want to push participation, as that leads to drug scandals etc.  So they emphasize "personal bests" and "Canadian bests"...I think it's a bit of a cop-out myself.Australia's doing awesome for such a small country because they support their athletes....but Australia also has one of the most physically fit/active populations of any of the 1st world nations....far ahead of the U.S. and Canada.I was glad to see Canada end up fourth with our women's epee team though.  Not bad, given that we're not really considered to be "on the map" with regards to fencing..Banshee</blockquote>