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White wins slalom race

Canada's bench strength in alpine skiing made an impressive start to the second-tier Nor-Am Cup season with two podiums in slalom races in Colorado, including a victory by Calgary's Trevor White at Loveland. White won in a two-run combined time of one ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  2 Dec 2008

Games changed China, IOC says

The International Olympic Committee said in a statement of assessment this week that the Beijing Olympics were an "indisputable success" that brought change to China. Human rights organizations railed against the broad-brush declaration, but Chris ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  29 Nov 2008

Canadian skaters advance at World Cup

Canada's short track skaters opened strongly at the third stop of the World Cup circuit in Beijing, with all but one male skater advancing directly the weekend finals. In Canada's long suit, the men's 500-metre sprints, the Hamelin brothers, Charles ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  28 Nov 2008

Hollingsworth wins bronze

If it weren't a podium place, it would be gratingly monotonous. Mellisa Hollingsworth of Eckville, Alta., began the 2008-09 World Cup skeleton season just as she started and ended last year with a third-place finishing in the opening race at Winterberg, ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  28 Nov 2008

Canadian sliders get set for big push

Good news, bad news, as the World Cup season opens. The growth of skeleton and the quality of Canadian sliding has made a berth on the Canadian team as tough to obtain as an international medal. Canada recently lost former World Cup champ Lindsay ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  27 Nov 2008

Canada's biathletes prep for new season

They targeted fundraising with a nude calendar, now Canada's best biathlon athletes will take aim on the real targets - those on the shooting ranges of Europe. The country's top biathletes leave for Europe Sunday to begin their pre-Olympic season, as ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  21 Nov 2008

Obama boosts Chicago's bid

Officials of the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid are performing a balancing act as they go before the assembly of European Olympic Committees on Friday in Istanbul. On the one hand, they have the backing of a political heavyweight in U.S. president-elect ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2008

$10-million reasons to fight

Hockey Canada has a $10-million interest in fighting to keep its famous logo on the front of the Olympic jersey to be worn by men's, women's and Paralympic teams in 2010. That is the average annual sales figure for sweaters bearing the Hockey Canada ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2008

Malinoski, McClintock honoured

TORONTO World champions Rusty Malinoski of Humboldt, Sask., and Whitney McClintock of Cambridge, Ont., are Water Ski and Wakeboard Canada's athletes of the year. Malinoski had a superb and dominating season on the men's professional wakeboard circuit ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2008

Somebeachsomewhere makes last Canadian race memorable

A sprinkle of snow accompanied the dash to glory as the brilliant three-year-old colt Somebeachsomewhere made his last pace in Canada a triumph. The colt, owned by a Maritime-based syndicate, won easily in the Ontario Sires Stakes Superfinals at ...

From JAMES CHRISTIE, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2008

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