News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 17 days ago
Quebec City is preparing to table a bid for either the 2022 or 2026 Winter Games, according to a report published Saturday in Le Soleil, a local newspaper. World champion speedskater Christine Nesbitt of Canada won gold Saturday in the 1,000 metres...
News Source: Toronto Star
| 18 days ago
After decades of trying, Toronto lands a big sports event: The 2015 Pan Am Games. Toronto-bid team members Anne-Marie Radford, left, and Dawn Langfield celebrate the win at Labatt House in the Queens Quay Terminal on Nov. 6, 2009. It started with...
News Source: Times of Oman
| 18 days ago
Toronto was on Friday named as the host city of the 2015 Pan-American Games, seeing off rival bids from Lima and Bogota. "The city that will assume the responsibility for the 2015 Pan-American Games is....Toronto," announced Mario Vazquez Rana, the...
News Source: Macleans
| 18 days ago
There was excitement and anticipation among Canadian athletes and sports officials following Friday's announcement that Toronto had been awarded the 2015 Pan Am Games. The excitement was over a sports infrastructure being built in the Toronto area...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 18 days ago
It's mission accomplished for Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Toronto Mayor David Miller and all other members of the delegation supporting Toronto's bid to host the 2015 Pan Am Games. There was excitement and anticipation among Canadian athletes...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 18 days ago
Toronto was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games on Friday by beating Bogota, Colombia and Lima, Peru on the first ballot in a vote in Guadalajara, Mexico. Toronto, which has twice failed in bids to land the Summer Olympic Games, has budgeted $2.4...