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Sport physical therapists Mireille Landry and Michael Lenart.
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The Physios Travelling With Team Canada

Mireille Landry has worked with Skate Canada for more than a decade and covers ice dance, pairs and singles events at the Olympics. Michael Lenart, seven years into Hockey Canada's national para hockey team, is at the Paralympics, where wrist, forearm and shoulder injuries are most common.

Landry, a Rehabilitation Sciences Institute graduate and lecturer in U of T's department of physical therapy, also works in cardiac rehabilitation at Women's College Hospital and consults through the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario. Because figure skating is decentralized, her work with Olympic skaters often begins when they are still training locally, years before the Games.

Lenart holds a diploma in sport physiotherapy and is a certified high-performance practitioner with Sport Scientist Canada. His interest in the field began with a student placement at Toronto Rehab's Lyndhurst Centre, working with patients with spinal cord injuries; he now splits his time between a Newmarket clinic and travel with the national para hockey team.

Of the athletes he treats, Lenart says they “are the epitome of human resilience” — a description both physiotherapists carry with them to Milano Cortina.

Reported from U of T alumni to support Team Canada at Winter Olympics and Paralympics, by Rachel LeBeau (U of T Alumni News, February 6, 2026).

More from the original reporting: alumni.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-alumni-support-team-canada-winter-olympics-and-paralympics

Until the next issue

The class keeps arriving.

Sixty-nine stories end this issue, but the university doesn't pause between them. A new orientation week is already being planned; a lab somewhere on campus is already running the next experiment. Alumni Digest will be there in October for the next one.