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    Sean McColl in his homemade training cave. (Photograph by Alana Paterson) (Photograph by Alana Paterson)

    Canada’s best athletes have found creative ways to train in quarantine

    And now they’re limbering up for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. They explain to Aaron Hutchins how they’ve stayed in top form over the past year.

    ‘We can’t afford to blow this moment,’ Bailey says of the push brought on by Floyd’s death (Photograph by Kwaku Kufuor)

    Listen to Donovan Bailey

    Twenty-four years ago, the nation was unwilling to hear the Olympic hero’s message. It matters more than ever as Canadians finally confront their country’s own racist history. “We can’t afford to blow this moment,” he says.

    Gold medal secrets

    Team Canada’s gold medal secrets

    The projects that will shape their performance: sleep therapy, concussion research and, yes, beetroot

    Almost famous Canadian Olympians

    Anonymity is the rule, not the exception, on the world’s biggest sporting stage