By Donna Spencer THE CANADIAN PRESS Recruitment of Indigenous athletes with Olympic dreams has been added to a Canadian talent identification program for 2023.   In its eighth year, Training Ground is a joint project of the Canadian Olympic Committee and sponsor RBC.   Athletes across Canada between the ages of 14 and 25 are put through a series of speed, power, strength and endurance tests in regional qualifiers, and advance to a final, in hopes of pairing them with an Olympic sport.   Additional custom testing for Indigenous athletes will be introduced this year ahead of July’s North American Indigenous Games in Halifax, Dartmouth and Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia.   Testing will be offered at pre-Games orientation sessions held by every province for their NAIG teams.  

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