It's sports specific, so certainly our observations in London, even in the swimming pool where we did very well, were that we won our medals in the less severely disabled classes. It's really about where the other medals are on the table. We didn't even have athletes who entered in the more severely disabled classes. Our job, as the technical agency, is to identify where the medal opportunities are, and the severely disabled classes are a big medal opportunity for us.
Why do we not have more severely disabled athletes involved? Their logistical challenges are much more severe and difficult to overcome. We have a harder time reaching out and identifying the athletes who are more severely disabled, and then being able to create a training environment and provide the necessary coaching expertise for them to be able to succeed. For example, in a swimming pool, a very severely disabled athlete would need his own lane and a very customized daily training environment, which most of our community pools and most of our swim clubs have not been able to provide.
The approach that the Canadian Paralympic Committee has been taking is to develop the pathway that each sport needs to have for the whole range of classes. That is some recent work that the Canadian Paralympic Committee has been doing, really a development focus within their organization, so we then have more athletes who we can work with throughout the whole range of classes.