Where does this team rank with the best skaters in the world today?
Wilson: I believe we had the best showing, so what it did was it cemented the fact that Canadians are a player on the world stage again. The Canadian skating team is now one of the strongest in the world. CBCSports.ca: Last season we were discussing what Canada needed to do to get back to prominence. Twelve months later, the Canadian team competes as one of the top nations in the world? How did this happen? Wilson: I believe that one of the reasons for the success of the Canadian team truly is the new group at Skate Canada [led by CEO William Thompson]. What has happened is they’ve built a sense of team. They’ve also been able to find ways to effectively support not only the top skaters, but the junior skaters. They’ve been working at getting the skaters competition ready. Some of the other things they’ve done are monitoring the skaters earlier in the season, setting up workshops and simulations where they bring the skaters together to train while getting input from technical specialis
