“I’ll just use my experience to my advantage. I know what to expect. I know what I have to do,” said De Grasse who won the 100m at the 2024 Canadian Olympic track and field trials. “Every Olympic Games are different, but from my first one, then a...
In Pursuit of a National Olympic Team: James G. Merrick and the 1920 Canadian Olympic Track and Field TrialsFollowing the First World War, Canadian Olympic Committee President James G. Merrick organized an extensive recruitment scheme to assemble the Canadian track and field team for the 1920 ...
Jonathan Simkin, the founder of Vancouver's 604 label, has of late been getting "weirdly sentimental" about the fertile music scene there back in the 90s and 00s. "It's when I first started working ... Camera:Dimanche (download track) - 2024 Camera is yet another example of Montreal'...
High jumper Michael Mason of Nanoose Bay will make his fourth Olympic appearance when he competes at the 2020 Tokyo Games. (Submitted photo) Two former Oceanside Track and Field athletes – Michael Mason and Alycia Butterworth – were named to Team Canada and will compete at th...
Langley Township was originally awarded the 2021 and 2022 editions of the event, back in July 2017. But with the pandemic forcing postponement of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, along with Athletics Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic Trials, the Langley dates had to be m...
Langley Township was originally awarded the 2021 and 2022 editions of the event, back in July 2017. But with the pandemic forcing postponement of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, along with Athletics Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic Trials, the Langley date were c...
Doug Clement, a former Olympic team doctor and a middle-distance track coach in the 1980s when Bailey was competing, said he recalled seeing and speaking with her at events. “She stood out as a strong personality,” he said from Vancouver. “She stood out as the sort of person who was...
The Olympic trials June 24-27 in Montreal are both a chance to run that standard or accumulate ranking points to climb into the top 48. “Nationals is actually in the best interest for anybody on the line of making standard, because you go could there and win and get eno...
Athletes who have already worn the Maple Leaf in Olympic and Commonwealth Games want to complete the set. “I haven’t done a Pan Am Games yet,” said Olympic butterfly champion Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont. “Just being in a Games atmosphere is so different than being at a world ...