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Canadian Heritage committee  I have a couple of things. As we speak, there are athletes who will not be going to Sochi. They are being de-selected from the team. We are starting right now to work with the Canadian Sport Institute network on an athlete transition program. Some athletes are not going to win, we know that, and we're working with the centres.

November 19th, 2013Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian

Canadian Heritage committee  Olympic preparations are going extremely well. Again, we have the experience. We equate Sochi very much to Beijing and the Beijing Olympic Games. Athletes weren't very familiar with the Beijing environment, so we're using the best practices from what we did in Beijing and applying them to Sochi, whether concerning language or other things.

November 19th, 2013Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian

Canadian Heritage committee  If you don't mind, I'll defer the question to our executive director.

November 19th, 2013Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. With respect to what you can do, what the public can do, what Canadians across all communities can do, I think it's surprising to hear this, but every single athlete feels the support of Canadians. They feel the support when Canadians are cheering or sending them messages or supporting them.

November 19th, 2013Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian

Canadian Heritage committee  No, you were great.

November 20th, 2012Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian

Canadian Heritage committee  There are a couple of things. One, in the case of boxing there was an appeal that was put in, and the appeal was denied.

November 20th, 2012Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian

Canadian Heritage committee  Each international sport federation has their rules on reviews, on protests and appeals. We went through in partnership with the national sport federations. We went through the process, put in an appeal, and the appeal was denied.

November 20th, 2012Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian

Canadian Heritage committee  Part of being such a great team and great ambassador is to accept the rules that are in place. If the rules that are in place need to be changed, look at changing the rules. The rules are the rules. We all know what the rules are. We stood by the rules. In the case of the 4 x 100 relay, this is a great story.

November 20th, 2012Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian

Canadian Heritage committee  May I add that there are two aspects of the Pan American Games. There are the games themselves, where we're playing host to 41 countries, and there's the Canadian Pan American team that will be competing. We need to ensure that they're a success, both the team with a best-ever performance, as well as the games as we host the Pan Am countries.

November 20th, 2012Committee meeting

Caroline Assalian