This morning I had the great pleasure of walking out my door in The Village on False Creek and walking a block to the Creekside Community Centre where, previously unbeknownst to me (and you, I imagine) the Canadian Sport Centre Pacific houses their Vancouver Campus. The CSCP is a partner of the Own The Podium initiative and essentially what they do is provide sport performance programs to help athletes and coaches win medals for Canada. Today they brought in 3 of Canada's athletes who will be participating in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games as well as one of the coaches to talk to the media about their training, their hopes and to briefly give their personal stories about how they got to where they are.
Pictured above from left to right are Ryan Cochrane (Bronze medalist winner in the 2008 Games for 1500m Freestyle Swimming), his multi-award-winning coach Randy Bennett, Martha McCabe (Bronze medalist in the 2011 Shanghai World Championships for 200m Breaststroke) and Bo Hedges (Silver medalist in the 2008 Paralympic Games for Wheelchair Basketball). After they spoke it was announced that the CSCP launched a new campaign called WE CAN which you can follow the #WeCan hashtag on Twitter or HERE on their web site.
But what you're dying to know is what were these athletes wearing on their feet, right? What kind of footwear are Canada's Olympians wearing to press conferences 73 days before the London 2012 Summer Olympics kick off? Well, coach Randy (feet left) is wearing some sort of Asics crosstrainers. Ryan Cochrane (feet right) is wearing a casual pair of Tom's.
Martha (feet left) is wearing checkered Vans slipons and my favourite pair of shoes I saw up there were Bo's (feet right) Adidas.
We work tirelessly to bring you the hard-hitting news you demand, dear readers! We leave you with this view from the press conference at Creekside. Not bad.
Oh! And stay tuned as we'll be bringing you a lot more coverage of the Vancouver and BC-based athletes (and their feet) who will be competing in London this summer.
