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Aubut earns second term as COC president
Montreal :: Canada | 2 months ago
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Story And with that confirmation, the COC will begin a new phase. With the fundraising machinery solidly in place, the plan is to use the money to empower the athletes and their sports. In quick order, the COC will announce a $10-million investment
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Attention world: Canada is preparing to continue its wheelchair basketball domination
Ottawa :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
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Photo Save to mystar Team Canada's 2020 wheelchair basketball gold medallists will be nurtured in Toronto. It's the hope of an ambitious new year-round training academy by Wheelchair Basketball Canada , hailed as the only one of its kind in the world.
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Olympic medalist Lopes-Schliep pregnant with second child
London :: Canada | 4 months ago
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Ont The Canadian Press Published Tuesday, Feb. 26 2013, 2:38 PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Feb. 26 2013, 3:24 PM EST Priscilla Lopes-Schliep twirls around the kitchen to a thumping J-Lo song, balancing her daughter Nataliya on one hip. The little
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Canada takes gold, bronze, fourth, fifth, sixth at under-19 world ringette championship
North Bay :: Canada | 6 months ago
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Canada East took gold, and bronze went to Canada West. And on behalf of Russia, France and the U.S., Canadians earned fourth, fifth, and sixth spots, too. Such is the state of the sport of ringette, where Finland and Canada have robust programs from
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Canada faces uphill battle to replicate 2010 medal count
Sochi :: Russia | 6 months ago
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Canada's Christine Sinclair celebrates scoring a third goal past the USA with her coach John Herdman in the women's semi-final soccer match against at the London 2012 Olympic Games at Old Trafford in Manchester, August 6, 2012. Reuters Year in Review
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Whistler cyclist Will Routley says competitors who used PEDs aren't just cheaters, they're criminals
Mexico City :: Mexico | 7 months ago
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This is just a taste of the utter garbage that has filled my ears as of late...Cyclists are coming out of the woodwork at the moment big name athletes admitting to doping. I use the term admitting' loosely, as in reality they have been caught and
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Costs limit number of drug tests for football players
Ottawa :: Canada | 9 months ago
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EDT The battle against performance-enhancing drugs continues in Canadian Interuniversity Sport football, but this season it will be fought with almost 400 fewer tests due to cost and other factors. Given a limited budget and the increased testing
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Encouraging signs for Canada's Olympic future
Toronto :: Canada | 10 months ago
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London 2012 Canada's Emily Zurrer, rear, and Chelsea Stewart, foreground, celebrate winning their women's bronze medal soccer match against France at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, in Coventry, England, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 The Associated Press
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Olympic gender equity still far off for many
London :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Story Nigeria's Edith Ogoke (L) reacts after she defeated Azerbaijan's Elena Vystropova in their Women's Middle (75kg) Round of 16 boxing match during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 5, 2012 Reuters video But not for Vincent-Lapointe, a three-
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Health, world image make medals matter, say Canada's Olympians
Vancouver :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Story Taxpayers are the main financial supporter of Olympic and Paralympic athletes. About $70-million per year is funnelled to athletes via Own The Podium, which oversees the competitive aspects of their lives between Games. Sport Canada also
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