{"id":557024,"date":"2026-03-24T07:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557024\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:47:16","slug":"if-canada-wants-podiums-ottawa-must-rebuild-the-places-where-sport-begins-the-hill-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557024\/","title":{"rendered":"If Canada wants podiums, Ottawa must rebuild the places where sport begins &#8211; The Hill Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the applause from the Milano\u2011Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games fades, Canada is left with a message it cannot ignore. Our Olympians brought home 21 medals and our Paralympians 15\u2014inspiring but also worrisome results. What mattered even more than the medal count was what followed: a rare, public reckoning led by athletes who spoke plainly about the daily pressures and structural weaknesses of the system. Their honesty exposes gaps that performance statistics cannot, and it challenges policymakers to look beyond podiums to the foundations that sustain Canadian excellence.<\/p>\n<p>To keep reading, subscribe and become a political insider.<a id=\"subLinkStoryPage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/get-a-subscription\" style=\"float: left; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif !important;\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a> Only $7.76 a week for an annual subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; font-weight: 600!important;  margin-top: 20px; float: left; width: 100%;  padding:; margin: 0; color: #252525;\"> Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; color: #000; margin: 0; float: left; font-weight: 900 !important; width: 100%;  padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0;\"> Cancel anytime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the applause from the Milano\u2011Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games fades, Canada is left with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-557024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}