Canadian multi-sport Olympian Georgia Simmerling retires from competitive skiing

Georgia Simmerling has been described as one of the grittiest and most talented Canadian Olympians. The West Vancouver, B.C., native donned the Maple Leaf at both the Summer and Winter Games, and at the age of 29, became the only Canadian athlete to compete in three different Olympics in as many different sports. But after 11 […]

More is more: Athletes may benefit from multi-sport training

A common line of thinking in sports is “the more the better” — more training, more practice, more repetition. The idea of “more” shapes the way in which athletes train, to the point where that mentality carried by high-performance athletes seems to trickle down into a system where early sport specialization is often sold to the […]