The Canadian women who jumped into the country’s consciousness during the Beijing Olympics last year are still flying high 10 months later.
It’s a rock-solid continuation of the momentum they created at the Olympics, where they joined up with fellow Calgarians Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes and Matt Soukup for a surprise trip to the podium in the team event.Article content
Loutitt missed the podium by a mere .4 points in Austria and .7 in Slovenia, while Strate was off by 2.8 in Norway and 2.9 in Germany. With such thin margins, Loutitt can easily spot the improvements that would give her a path to the podium.In ski jumping, five judges award marks as high as 20 for style and charge deductions for mistakes in the air and on the landing. Loutitt said she was getting 16s and 17s for style when she should have been scoring 18s based on her healthy distance numbers.
Instead, she wound up a distant 24th, her worst finish this season. Even so, her four-jump aggregate score left her eighth overall in the prestigious Silvester Tournament, while Strate was 12th. The only other countries with at least two jumpers in the top 15 were Austria, Germany, Norway, Slovenia and Japan, basically the sport’s powerhouses. Loutitt believed she belongs in that conversation, and now she’s proving it.
Loutitt is also young enough to compete at the World Junior Ski Jumping Championships in Whistler in early February. She was third at the world juniors last spring and will be favoured to win the women’s event this time over a couple of Slovenian and Norwegian challengers.Article contentThat she has shaken off knee surgery and a fractured foot to perform so well this season speaks about her increased mental toughness.
“Currently we have 15 athletes in Calgary with our local club,” continued Bodnarchuk. “They are training on makeshift jumps in northwest Calgary that they built themselves. Completely handmade with lumber and plastic. Bless them all, they love it and they’re learning basic skills. We also have a development club in Squamish. They’re trying to get a 40-metre jump operational there.”Article content
“That has been percolating for a couple years, probably more,” said Bodnarchuk. “To be honest, even if they green-lit it and fired the gun tomorrow, there would be nothing operational I would imagine for a couple of years, so we are going to be in this facility vacuum for some time.”Article contentSki Jumping Canada is getting plenty of bang this season for the bucks it received through a funding recommendation from Own The Podium.
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