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Originally Posted by Acajack
I was also thinking over the weekend that Quebec is also very egalitarian, so perhaps this plays into it.
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I think a bigger motivation is likely US sports scholarships, in that there's definitely much more interest in English Canada (especially Southern Ontario) to score a full NCAA or athletic scholarship to study in the best US colleges. In Québec, there is interest but it's definitely not as coveted especially amongst francophones, especially if their preference is a French-language university. The reality is that most of Canada's summer Olympians train in the US to achieve their pinnacle of success, no different than Léon Marchand training at UT Austin.
Whereas, the majority of the training for Winter Sports takes place in Canada.
Having family and friends who has been through the Swim Canada apparatus, I commonly hear that the GTA and Southern Ontario is a swimming powerhouse because the city doesn't have a winter mentality, and there's a lack of winter sport alternatives for kids to go into. It makes recruiting for local swim teams that much easier, especially since the price of admission is very low. The irony is that Toronto swimmers used to have to shuttle down to Parc Olympique to train before they built the 2015 Pan-Am Swimming Centre, as the University of Toronto Varsity pool was not sufficient.
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