The head coach of Canada’s senior women’s basketball team is disappointed her squad won’t be competing on the world’s biggest stage this summer — but Lisa Thomaidis believes that pulling out of the Olympic Games is the right call. “Over the last couple days it became very clear that it was the only decision,” said Saskatoon-based Thomaidis, also the head coach of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s basketball team.
While she said it’s disappointing not to be headed to the Olympics in the summer, “there are far greater things right now that we need to be directing our energy and our resources towards.” The COC and its counterpart, the Canadian Paralympic Committee, issued a joint statement March 22 explaining that due to the