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 Ryan Cochrane shows no mercy on Mercer in tuneupAs a tuneup for his bid for the Olympic podium, it's hard to say just yet what impact his duel in the pool with Rick Mercer will have on Canada's Ryan Cochrane. Cochrane, an Olympic bronze medalist in Beijing in...
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 From the Olympic Games to the Hunger GamesThere's the Olympic Games. And then there's The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a smash bestselling book series which opens on movie screens around the world Thursday, but the books have been making the rounds among the Canadian women's...
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 Canadian men's water polo team hopes youth is servedSomewhere in his parents' basement in tiny Drinkwater, Sask., lies a souvenir t-shirt Robin Randall picked up at the last Olympic water polo qualifying tournament held in Canada some 22 years ago. Randall was 12 at the time, already hooked...
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 Clara Hughes primed for a soup-er Olympic cycling seasonIf you've read any of Clara Hughes' recent blog entries, you can tell the Canadian Olympic legend is in a good place as she embarks on the road to the London Olympics. She's even started posting soup recipes. She's the...
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 Van Koeverden backing "Be Fair 2 Rare" campaignOn a day where scarves are definitely an asset in Toronto, Olympic world champion Adam van Koeverden would like you to consider buying one with a special message: Be Fair 2 Rare. Today is International Rare Disease Day, marking the...
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 Canadian ski ace Jan Hudec definitely not napping on the jobJan Hudec is interrupted by a phone call just before nap time. What? How the heck can the guy sleep at a time like this? He's on an incredible roll with another podium Friday, his first ever in Super-G, a...
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 Be Ware: Young diver on the rise as London 2012 beckonsCanadian diver Pamela Ware fared pretty well for someone who didn't even expect to make the semifinals in her major international debut at the Olympic pool in London. She almost made it to the podium. The 18-year-old from Ottenburn Park,...
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 Olympic skeleton champ Montgomery tries Crosby's wild rideIt's a wilder ride than you'll get in most amusement parks, but rather than scrambling your brain it's supposed to help rewire it for the better. Sidney Crosby has done it many times. So, too, now have Olympic skeleton champion...
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 Priscilla Lopes-Schliep ready to rumble on road to LondonPriscilla Lopes-Schliep gets to have butterflies in her belly again. The Whitby hurdler, who gave birth to daughter Nataliya in September, will have her first post-pregnancy race on the road to the 2012 London Olympics on Saturday at a meet...
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 That guy you see running on DVP might be Simon WhitfieldSimon Whitfield's final tuneup for the 2012 London Olympics will be along the DVP and Gardiner Expressway. Whitfield was in town Wednesday to help unveil plans for the Toronto Triathlon Festival on July 22 on a course that snakes through...
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 Bobsleigh champ Humphries plays avid Leafs' fan for a nightYankees slugging legend Reggie Jackson earned the nickname "Mr. October" for his big hits in the playoffs. Kaillie Humphries could well become "Ms. February." Okay guys, get your minds out of the gutter. The moniker in this instance applies to...
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 Van Koeverden confident firing won't create choppy watersJust five months removed from the 2012 London Olympics, CanoeKayak Canada has fired their high performance director, Barney Wainwright. It's hard to say what impact - if any -- that is going to have on the team overall. These athletes...
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 Canadians would a more manly men's Olympic downhillThe 2014 Sochi Olympic downhill is being held in a place called Rosa Khutor. And to hear the Canadian downhill racers describe it, the place is incredible. Erik Guay: "The area itself is actually really spectacular, very beautiful mountains, nice...
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 Jan Hudec's longtime physio talks about the medical marvelJan Hudec's battle through six knee surgeries and back woes to win his second World Cup downhill victory in Chamonix, France, on the weekend is an incredible feat. Among those who really understand what he's been through is former alpine...
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 Riveting CTV doc on depression strikes chord for this reporterThe honesty of the athletes featured in Michael Landsberg's documentary Darkness and Hope: Depression, Sports and Me is remarkably compelling. Former NHLer Stephane Richer, baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry and Olympic great Clara Hughes lay themselves bare in sharing their struggles...
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 High school track stars being offered whole new challengeFor a high school track field star in the GTA, the pinnacle has always been OFSAA. "It's like the Olympics in high school," said national team hurdler Phylicia George (middle). Well, there's a new kid in town. Plans were unveiled...
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 Inside the Roller Coaster World of an Elite Speed Skater(As anyone regular reader of this blog knows, Canada's Olympians are a pretty rare breed. Many of them are also very descriptive writers. One of those is speed skater Anastasia Bucsis, who allows us here to share the email she...
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 It's a shame Nesbitt had to go outside Canada for key sponsorWhen speed skater Christine Nesbitt competed at the world sprint championships last weekend, one of her more prominent sponsors was a Dutch telecom company, Galaxy Group. You can see them displayed here over her heart and on her left shoulder....
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 Things looking very good for Canada on road to Sochi 2014It's just over two years until the Sochi Olympics, but the signs are good right now for another Canadian tour de force showing like we saw in Vancouver. Canada just finished quite a week on snow and ice, one that...
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 Tabbing Merklinger to replace Baumann at OTP is right callOwn The Podium isn't going far to replace departed ceo Alex Baumann - they've decided on one of his key sporting lieutenants, Anne Merklinger. Merklinger, director of summer sports for OTP, was part of an interim committee holding down the...
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 Patrick Chan -- aka "filet mignon" -- on menu at fundraiserChiropractor Mark Lindsay, a soft tissue specialist whose clientele has included Tiger Woods, has been known to describe Patrick Chan's muscles as "filet mignon" after working on them. Well, you have a chance to watch those "filet mignon" legs in...
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 Sledders soldier on after horrific crash they'll never forgetCanada is fortunate it's not dealing with two winter sport tragedies at the moment. As freeskiing legend Sarah Burke remains in a coma in a Salt Lake City hospital, we heard Friday for the first time from Canada's bobsledders involved...
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 Last Woman Standing a compelling look at women's boxingMary Spencer and Ariane Fortin shut their hotel room door and whooped it up like boisterous school girls. They hollered, jumped up and down, slapped some hard high fives. Their gold medal triumphs at the 2008 world boxing championships in...
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 "The Dream Has To Be Bigger Than The Pain" -- Chris Lori"The dream has to be bigger than the pain." Few know this better than former Canadian bobsleigh ace Chris Lori, who still bears a scar on his face from the horrific crash he suffered in 1987 in Cervinia, Italy. Lori...
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 NHL blowing smoke harkens to Big Tobacco eraReading Gary Bettman's recent comments about there not being enough data to link concussions and the degenerative disease CTE, it reminded this corner of the Big Tobacco denials about cigarettes and lung cancer back in the day. It sure seems...
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