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After an Olympic gold medal, going where no team as gone before drives Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valerie Maltais. The trio captured gold in women’s team pursuit in Beijing in February after four years of making the event a priority in their training. Canadian women have a strong history …
Read More »France honours 100-year-old B.C. veteran with Legion of Honour medal
Fernand Labrie may be 100 years old, but his memories from the time around the 1942 Dieppe Raid are as vivid as ever. He was 20, a soldier in the Canadian Forces’ Régiment de Maisonneuve, aboard a ship carrying TNT, on standby to fight Nazis on the French beach during the …
Read More »Canada’s Summer McIntosh, 15, wins 2nd gold medal at world aquatics
Summer McIntosh of Kelowna, B.C., capped a sensational week of swimming on Saturday, becoming the first Canadian with two victories and four medals at a single world championship. The 15-year-old lowered her junior record time to four minutes 32.04 seconds in the women’s 400-metre individual medley on Saturday in Budapest, Hungary. Earlier …
Read More »Canadian swimmers shatter national record with 9th medal at worlds
Canadian swimmers broke a national record for podium appearances at a single world championships with two more medals on Friday. And 19-year-old Josh Liendo was at the heart of both. After capturing individual bronze in the men’s 100-metre butterfly, Liendo led off the 4×100 mixed freestyle relay team that won silver, …
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