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The University of Toronto's Dr. Ian Cohen has spent hours on Lake Ontario as a first responder prepared to tend to sailing athletes (all photos courtesy the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education)

These 老司机直播 physicians and therapists are keeping athletes in the Games

Watch closely as Roseline Filion and Meaghan Benfeito  and you will notice athletic tape wrapped snuggly around Filion鈥檚 left ankle.

That tape helped win the Canadian duo a gold medal in the 10-metre platform event.

鈥淲e were working feverishly to decrease inflammation,鈥 says athletic therapist Andrea Prieur, one of more than a dozen University of Toronto health professionals working with athletes in the . 鈥淲e were able to support the ankle and she didn鈥檛 have any issues. But that kind of detail can make or break a performance.鈥

Most of the 老司机直播 physiotherapists, athletic therapists, physicians and nurses working at the Games are from the of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education. Others hail from the Faculty of Medicine, including Pan Am lead physician and lead dietitian .

Some are stationed at the Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletes鈥 Village, while others work from the sidelines during sporting events. Not all the attention goes to Canadians. Some of the professionals focus on athletes from countries that have no team physicians and therapists. 

Prieur is serving on the core medical team and working with Canada鈥檚 diving and taekwondo teams. Dr. Ian Cohen, another core team member at the Athletes鈥 Village, has spent hours on Lake Ontario as a first responder prepared to tend to sailing athletes in 10 fleets on three race courses. 

Dr. Doug Richards (pictured below) is the medical director of the MacIntosh Clinic and has 31 years of experience in sport medicine. A veteran of the 2003 Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo, he was team physician for the Toronto Raptors from 1995 to 2004, chief medical officer of the Special Olympics in Toronto in 1998, and national team doctor for women鈥檚 basketball (1987-2012) and men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 beach volleyball (1997-2014). 

photo of Dr. Doug Richards with patient

His Toronto Pan Am duties have included archery, open-water swimming, volleyball practice and field hockey. He has treated a hypothermic swimmer and tended to cuts, bruises and concussions suffered by field hockey players. Field hockey kept him close to home on the downtown campus.

鈥淚t was partly a choice to cover the home territory,鈥 Richards said. 鈥淚鈥檝e worked here since 1981, so I鈥檓 a Varsity Blue. I know my way around.鈥

As focused as they are on personal achievement, athletes are grateful for the hours the volunteers and medical team have put into the Games.

Canadian diver Vincent Riendeau, who competed with a wrist injury, is one. He was not able to practise all his arm stands in the week leading up to the competition.

Riendeau still won a silver in the men鈥檚 synchronised 10m platform event, with Philippe Gagn茅.

鈥淭he first thing he did after his dive,鈥 Prieur said, 鈥渨as come over to me and say, 鈥業 couldn鈥檛 have done it without you.鈥欌
 

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