EDMONTON, Canada -- Canadian Olympic medal winners Karina LeBlanc, Diana Matheson, Christine Sinclair and Rhian Wilkinson have been taking their medals - and soccer skills - across the country. Since winning a bronze medal at the 2012 Women's Olympic Football Tournament, they have been visiting communities and conducting soccer clinics in order to meet as many young fans as possible.

"We want to get as many kids to touch the medal as possible," said LeBlanc.

The quartet most recently visited Calgary and Edmonton as special guests of the Alberta Soccer Association (one of the provincial regions in Canada). In Edmonton - one of the Host Cities for the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 - the quartet met 400 youth soccer players at the Commonwealth Stadium Fieldhouse.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London (all other cities throughout Great Britain), CONCACAF nations captured two of the three available medals in women's football, with USA winning gold and Canada taking bronze. Also, on the men's side at London 2012, Mexico defeated Brazil for its first Olympic gold.

In the coming years, CONCACAF will help welcome the world when Costa Rica hosts the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2014 and Canada hosts both the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in 2014 and FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015.