Dear Members,
As you may be aware, today we lost Charlie Francis after a lengthy battle with cancer.
We would like to thank each and every one of you for your continued support over the years, it is much appreciated.
The journey over 10 years has been a interesting one, and we intend on making the next 10 years enjoyable. Remember today.
Kind regards, respectfully.
RIP Charlie. You will be missed.
Godspeed Charlie and God bless your family.
My prayers are with him and his family. He gave so much to the everyone on this forum.
Charlie, you will be missed, but you will live on as a legend. May you rest in peace and my heartfelt condolences and prayers to your loved ones.
I just spoke with Number 2 and found out about Charlie! Thank you Charlie for all of your contributions and knowledge! We were so privileged to have you at our facility a couple of years ago to speak with all of us! You certainly will be missed!
My prayers are with you and your family!
Rupert we got to keep this site rolling…charlie will be deeply missed here and in the track and field world. very very sad news…very sad
Sorry to hear that
RIP
I always thought he got a raw deal with the Dubin inquiry and from the media. In a sport rife with drug use he was IMO unfairly singled out.
All in the name of political correctness of course
Couldn’t have said it better.
For those in Toronto funeral arrangements will be held at the Humphrey Funeral Home — A.W. Miles Chapel:
http://www.humphreymiles.com/home
RIP Charlie
God bless you
i agree we should all ensure this site keeps going spreading the coaching of charlie, im sure any contributions required will be happily made. RIP great man
RIP, Charlie.
I did not know Charlie personally and I can say the news pretty much brought me to tears. Not just for his family, but also the diehard athletic community who know what an amazing person Charlie was and the wealth of knowledge that he shared without hesitation.
Losing my own father to cancer my condolences go out to Charlie’s family and hope they can get some solace that he was loved by so many people. Even people like me who never met him but respected him for the very great things he achieved in his lifetime.
Thanks Charlie I will miss you
For those of you more involved daily with the site, I am sad. I hope you continue to make Charlie’s work available. Let me know if I can help.
I wish I could jump on a plane and get to Canada. Unfortunately I can not, as I have a father who has just had surgery for prostate cancer. So to our the CF forum family members who are attending funeral, you are representing the members of this family.
I will be traveling to Toronto on Sunday to spend time with family and friends of Charlie and to honour the man himself. Let me know if there are any messages that any of you would like passed onto them. I’m sure that you would all like to be there in person.
I will be working hard over the next few years to make sure Charlie’s ideas, ingenuity and coaching leadership are able to reach all who will listen. I have hours upon hours of video footage and conversations recorded that will help to shed even more light on Charlie’s unsurpassed knowledge and intuition. I will make sure to work along with his family to appropriately pay tribute to Charlie for years to come.
Number 2, you are a great guy. I am glad that Charlie will be able to live on through this forum, through the info you pass on, and for being there for Ange and James. I have nothing but respect for you and what you are doing. I am going to try to get up there for the funeral. I know ESTI plans on going. I am not sure my school schedule will permit it. I will call Ange when things settle down if you could tell her that. I will pray for Ange, James, and Charlie.
#2
ive cut and pasted this from the other thread. if you could please pass on the jist of it and just let his family and friends know that there so many of us out there that no one knows about that Charlie inspired and supported as we fumble towards greatness. thanks and all the best nightmare4d
"topcat said it best on the first page, Charlie will live on through us.
i cant even put into words how much this man influenced me as a strength and conditioning coach and more importantly as a man. he believed in me way before i did. i think of all the people i have helped over the last 5 years and none of them would have had my guidance and inspiration if CF hadnt told me to “pull my head out of my ass and get on with it already”. something about his passing is hitting me harder than i would have expected, its the pain that lets us know it real i guess.
my love, support and prayers go out to his family, fellow coaches, friends, forum members and especially the old school forum guys like clemson, herb, number2 etc that were here way before it was the place to be.
God Speed
bobby kwasny aka nightmare4d "
A short tribute to Charlie and a small photo collage can be seen at the following blog:
www.conditioningforoptimumresults.blogspot.com
We hosted this seminar a couple of years ago and I believe it may have been one of the last events Charlie spoke at. Our heart felt prayers go out to Charlie and family!