Lyndon Rush and Canada 1 captured a bronze medal in four-man bobsleigh at the Vancouver Winter Games on Saturday. Rush, of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, and his crew of Chris Le Bihan, Lascelles Brown, and David Bissett missed the silver medal by 0.01 seconds. “I’m conflicted right now, you know what I mean because those guys did a good [...] Continue Reading

Lyndon Rush and the Canada-1 sled are sitting in second place after the first day of the four-man bobsleigh event in the Vancouver Olympics. Rush, of Humboldt, Sask., alongside Chris Le Bihan and Lascelles Brown of Calgary, and David Bissett of Edmonton, finished with a time of 1:42.15 after the first two heats. Steven Holcomb and his [...] Continue Reading

Canadians Kaillie Humphries and Helen Upperton won gold and silver respectively in the women’s two-man bobsleigh final on Wednesday at the Vancouver Olympic Games. Calgarian Humphries and pusher Heather Moyse, of Summerside, P.E.I., led the four heats from start to finish and would never move from the first place. The Canada-1 sled broke the track record [...] Continue Reading

Kaillie Humphries and her breakman Heather Moyse are sitting in first place after the opening two heats of women’s doubles bobsleigh at Whistler Sliding Centre, Tuesday. The duo set a track record on their first run of 53.19 seconds, and then beat that record with a second heat clocked at 53.05, reaching speeds of 146.9 km/h unmatched by [...] Continue Reading

The Canadian men’s Olympic hockey team will play Germany on Tuesday for a chance to match up against the Russians in the quarter-finals. Continue Reading

Canadian Lyndon Rush will not make it to the podium in men’s two-man bobsleigh after crashing in the second heat on Saturday night at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Vancouver. Rush and pusher Lascelles Brown were in the third place after the first round with a time of 51.67 seconds. However, the 29-year-old pilot lost control [...] Continue Reading

The Federation International of Bobsleigh and Tobogganing (FIBT) has denied a second protest against Amy Williams’ helmet. Williams won the gold medal in women’s skeleton on Friday by more than a half second overall. Canada filed a complaint after the final run accusing the Brit of having illegal aerodynamic features on her helmet. The complaint concerned the [...] Continue Reading

The Gold Rush Trail now runs through Russell, Manitoba. Canada’s Jon Montgomery won gold in the men’s skeleton on Friday, edging Martins Dukurs of Latvia by 0.07 seconds at the Vancouver Winter Games. Montgomery trailed the Latvian through the first two runs at the Whistler Sliding Centre,but a track-record on run three, and an outstanding start time in his final run catapulted the Canadian pilot to the top with [...] Continue Reading

Mellisa Hollingsworth just made one mistake. The Canadian favourite, who was second overall after her third run, dropped to fifth in her final run and missed the podium in the Women’s skeleton event on Friday. After one of the best start times of these Olympics on her fourth and final run, she came out of turn three hard [...] Continue Reading

Canadian Jon Montgomery put together clean and consistent runs to place second after two heats in the men’s skeleton at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Vancouver on Thursday night. Montgomery placed the fastest time in the second heat posting a run of 52.57 seconds, narrowly edging the leader after two rounds, Latvian Martins Dukurs, by 0.02 [...] Continue Reading