It’s public knowledge Scarborough is getting a new aquatics facility for the 2015 Pan Am Games, but residents might not be aware of the overall cost of hosting the games. Continue Reading
Posted 08 April 2010 by Kimberlee Nancekivell
It’s public knowledge Scarborough is getting a new aquatics facility for the 2015 Pan Am Games, but residents might not be aware of the overall cost of hosting the games. Continue Reading
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Posted 06 April 2010 by Samantha Butler
In spite of Canada’s best ever figure skating medal haul at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Mary-Katherine Phelps believes the best is yet to come. She’s the senior member of Canada’s synchronized skating team and believes it’s a sport whose time has come. “Hopefully (synchro skating will) be included in (the Olympics by) 2014, by 2018 [...] Continue Reading
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Posted 25 March 2010 by Alice Hoang
Students clapped and cheered when Mayor David Miller asked if they had watched the Olympic hockey gold medal games, as he spoke at the University of Toronto Scarborough on March 3 to promote the “I Deserve World Class” campaign. Continue Reading
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Posted 04 March 2010 by Josef Jacobson/Toronto Observer
While Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir were making Canadian Olympic history, another young Canadian duo finished the ice dancing competition with little fanfare. Continue Reading
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Posted 28 February 2010 by Tyler Edwards
Canadian snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson overcame a 0.76 second deficit in the the final of men’s parallel giant slalom, to win gold Saturday at Cypress Mountain. Anderson triumphed through fog and rain, edging rival Benjamin Karl of Austria,who took silver. It was a long-time coming for Anderson, who has 59 podium finishes and 26 victories in 207 career [...] Continue Reading
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Posted 28 February 2010 by Dan Toman
Oli Jokinen had two goals, including the game winner, as the Finns erased a two-goal deficit after two periods for their fifth Olympic medal since the 1988 Calgary Games. Continue Reading
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Posted 28 February 2010 by Dan Toman
Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette and Slovenian cross-country skier Petra Majdic, both Olympic bronze medallists, have been named the joint recipients of the Vancouver 2010 Terry Fox Award. Continue Reading
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Posted 28 February 2010 by Nadine Liverpool
Justyna Kowalczyuk of Poland earned her third medal of the Olympics, as she won the gold medal in the ladies’ 30km mass start in a time of 1:30:33.7 at Whistler Olympic Park earlier Saturday. A race that is a test of endurance and strength, came right down to a final sprint for the gold between Kowalczyk [...] Continue Reading
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Posted 28 February 2010 by Ashley Morris
On the final day of the 2010 Olympics, the Canadian men’s hockey team prepares to take the stage against team USA, fighting for a gold medal. Team Canada barely beat the Slovakia team on Friday night, which allowed them to be a contender in the upcoming hockey game airing Sunday on CTV at 12:15 p.m. PST. “We [...] Continue Reading
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Posted 26 February 2010 by Matthew Flowers
Biathlon legend Ole Einar Bjoerndalen has done it again, getting his sixth career Olympic gold medal, this time anchoring his Norwegian team to a convincing win in the 4 X 7.5 km relay. Entering the final shooting stage of the relay, Bjoerndalen was in a dead heat with Russia’s Evgeny Ustyugov. It appeared the two skiers [...] Continue Reading
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