Winning isn't everything.

Contrary to the opening observation in John Allemang’s Saturday article in this past weekend’s Globe and Mail, entitled “The Case for Killing the Competition,” I don’t think Canada’s push to own the podium in Vancouver was actually about winning being everything and by extension, the only thing that mattered. The article goes on to make many compelling points about the importance of long term athlete development, including the dangers of coaches of young kids coaching to win at the expense of skill development. The main point though that I would like to...