VANCOUVER — At the tip of the Canadian Olympic pyramid, where our elite athletes perform, they can feel the foundation crumbling beneath them.

The base of the pyramid is narrowing, and the statistical probability is that the peak will sink lower. Enrollment in grassroots sports programs is shrinking. There are fewer and fewer active children and so, logically -- though it's far from the worst consequence of this trend -- fewer candidates to enter the Olympic stream.

What's it to you?

Well, for starters, there's a pretty good chance your kid is fat, or is going to be, and you won't know what to do about it.

For the first time in modern history, North American children -- maybe yours among them -- are not expected to live as long as their parents, and it's no great mystery why that is.

It's because at the age where the vast majority of kids once headed outdoors to play games, yours will be awkward and uncomfortable -- having spent the early formative years being babysat by an electronic screen of one kind or another -- and will either show no interest in physical activity or will be discouraged and give it up easily.

To read the entire article by Cam Cole, from the Vancouver Sun, click here.

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