The 28 players invited to try out for the 2018 Olympic team are currently toiling in an 18-day boot camp in Fredericton. Boot camp has been part of the women’s Olympic preparation since the first one in Valcartier, Que., prior to the 2002 Winter Games, where Canada won the first of four consecutive gold medals in women’s hockey. Hockey Canada designs boot camp to push the women out of their comfort zone. “Boot camp is the same time length as the Olympics,” Campbell-Pascall said. “If you can get through three weeks of hell at boot camp, then you can get through three weeks of anything at the Olympics.

Source: thestar June 09, 2017 20:15 UTC