"Roger Charles Jackson", is a Canada/Canadian academic and Olympic gold medalist Sport rowing/rower. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.

He won the only 1964 Summer Olympics medal count/gold medal for Canada at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Rowing (pairs) with George Hungerford. They were also awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy in 1964. He also competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and finished eleventh in the Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's single sculls/single sculls event. At the 1972 Summer Olympics he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which finished twelfth in the Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed fours/coxed fours competition.

Jackson receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1963.

He was the Director of Sport Canada and was President for three terms of the Canadian Olympic Committee. From 1978 to 1988, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. He was the founder and Director of the University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre.

In 2005, Roger Jackson was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Own the Podium/Own the Podium 2010.

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You can't play defense like we played and win. Everybody made mistakes and you can't do that, especially against a good team.

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We played good defense and got four key hits tonight.

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Of course there is a leap of faith on everybody's part. It's no different than any other corporation or group that decides they're going to go after a particular goal. In this case it's to win a bunch of medals.

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We've never applied this stuff to sport in the degree to which we're doing it now.

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He is singularly focused on changing and improving the life choices of young people. And he guides the way I operate as a principal.

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She did well with her location. It's been a bad spring for being outdoors, but that's no excuse because everyone's had the same problem. I told them to forget this game and not to even think about it, offensively and defensively.

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Schwartz pitched a good game again tonight. It was nice to get on the other side of the ledger and get a win.

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What they did was what we've got happening now.

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