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Linda Blade

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Linda Blade

@coachblade

A sport performance coach [PhD Kinesiology; ChPC in T&F] who develops athletes, mentors coaches, thrives on innovation, and honours positive nation-builders

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Joined October 2008

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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Mar 26, 2025
THANK YOU @ABDanielleSmith for presenting me with the King Charles III Coronation Medal 🏅 earlier today. Awarding my work in sports. What an honour!! While my home is in #Alberta 🇨🇦, I am currently living in #Hyderabad #India 🇮🇳 for a few years on a project. Grateful to my son
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Mar 1, 2025
So this happened moments ago at a Track Meet in New York. A male athlete entered the 400m race against two women and neither of those women bothered to run the race. The man ran alone and it counts as the women’s result. Shame on you @usatf and meet directors. #trackandfield
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Sep 29, 2025
Devastating truth. Emma Watson is given a lesson on the reality of adulthood accountability.
J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowling
Sep 29, 2025
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Mar 23, 2023
SHOCKING ⚠️ I just learned the reason for the baffling 🇨🇦silence at outcome of TOTALLY UNFAIR outcome of the 2016 #Olympics 800m women’s podium that featured three MALE winners, leaving #Canada’s #MelissaBishop in 4th place instead of winning 🥇 GOLD as she deserved: A lawyer
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Nov 4, 2025
Oh we won’t stop @GoldsGym !! ✅ Your “grind” has just begun. Women of #Fitness the world over are about to hold your corporation to account. Yeah, I am looking at you Co-CEOs, Danny Waggoner and Brian Warne! #GoldsGym #USA 🇺🇸
Gold's Gym
@GoldsGym
Oct 22, 2025
the grind doesn’t stop & neither should you ✔️
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Oct 31, 2024
History has just been made. Alberta becomes the first province in #Canada to introduce legislation to ensure fairness and safety for female athletes. Bill29 has PASSED for first reading. It will take a few more rounds in the assembly but the bill is on its way! 🎇
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Apr 7, 2023
PAUSE & CONSIDER Maybe take a break from all the nonsense we’ve seen lately coming from MALE interlopers getting corporate endorsements and/or those assaulting women advocates (and, ahem, at times physically holding @Riley_Gaines_ hostage). Take a moment to admire a purely
Anna Hall Slayton
@annahallslayton
Apr 5, 2023
last weeks 1.89 (6ft 2.25in) high jump 🙆🏽‍♀️ & some of my pre-jump slef talk convo captured by @andreithegiant1 😂
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Apr 20, 2023
PSA to all leaders in #Canada 🇨🇦 🔔 Please realize that there are vast numbers of women that relate to this level of exasperation expressed by @megynkelly today. Our patience is being severely tested. We are beginning to realize that our kindness as women is being weaponized
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Jul 16, 2023
Sour grapes. Not allowed to cheat anymore. 🎻 Thank you @UCI_cycling . 🙏🏼 #UCI #Fairness4Females #PreserveWomensSports #HoldTheLine
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Nov 24, 2024
I need help finding a word. Is there a term for a thing that flips effortlessly one way but takes a Herculean effort to flip the other way? I need it to describe how zero scientific evidence was demanded to change policies allowing boys and men into female sports, yet NOW people
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Nov 6, 2024
Dear #DonaldTrump & team: Please put @Riley_Gaines_ in charge of a task force to re-establish and ENFORCE protection of female athletes, not only under #TitleIX in schools and colleges but also across the board for ALL women’s sports (professional and amateur). FURTHERMORE, while
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Oct 19, 2024
While I regret girls having to #BOYcott their own sports, I celebrate this new trend of school aged athletes taking a stand. PRINCIPLE: 👉🏼When adults cower like children, children take on adult responsibility. Shame on you @POTUS , @NCAA , school boards, athletic directors and
Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖
@babybeginner
Oct 19, 2024
Courage is contagious!!! Way to go Bishop Brady High School Varsity Girls Soccer team!!!! They are BOYcotting!! First we had the volleyball girls now the soccer girls!!!! They will save women’s sports! Can we give them a WOOHOO?!!! I’m so so proud of these girls!!!
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Sep 20, 2025
I am really am speechless. It’s painful to realize @WorldAthletics leadership knew all along that XY-DSD was a HUGE PROBLEM (50-60 of these men in women’s #track!) and yet let this go on for so long. ALSO the flagrant double standard is a punch to the gut. 👉🏼Injustice to men = 1
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Linda Blade
@coachblade
Sep 20, 2025
The disgusting thing about Canada is that when our own athlete, Melissa Bishop, lost out on her Olympic gold medal in 2016 Rio 800m run, the Team Canada lawyer was actually representing her XY-DSD rival & gold medalist (Caster Semenya) on behalf of South Africa at the
Linda Blade
@coachblade
Sep 20, 2025
Replying to @filesgenb and @WorldAthletics
Like Algeria, South Africa did its best to defend the XY-DSD because it was an easy medal. Sports bureaucrats need medals to justify their positions. It was purposeful self-interest.
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