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N. S Sailors Named to National Youth Team
Three sailors from Nova Scotia have been named to the national youth sailing team, the Canadian Yachting Association announced on Friday.
Jacob Chaplin-Saunders and Joss Warren of the Chester Yacht Club (420 male) and Karl Mitchell of the Lunenburg Yacht Club (laser) were selected to the national team.
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Tingley wins gold in top international event
Miami, Fla. (January 29, 2010) – After five days of racing on Biscayne Bay, gold, silver and bronze medalists were determined today in three Paralympic classes at US SAILING’s 2010 Rolex Miami OCR, the second of seven stops of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Sailing World Cup 2009-2010. USA racked up the most medals with four, followed by Canada with two and one apiece for Norway, Great Britain and The Netherlands. Also determined after five days of racing were the Olympic class sailors (four teams from women’s match racing and top-ten finishers from fleet racing in nine other classes) who have earned a coveted spot in tomorrow’s final medal races.
The Rolex Miami OCR, which this year hosted 448 teams (633 athletes) from 45...
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Duckworth third at snowboard event
Alex Duckworth, mere days after she was left off the Canadian Olympic snowboard team, placed third at a FIS World Cup snowboard tour event in Calgary on Saturday.
The Kingsburg, Lunenburg County native, who specializes in the women’s half-pipe, earned a podium finish in the first-ever Slopestyle competition held on Canadian soil.
Slopestyle is a snowboard discipline in which riders compete individually on a course containing a variety of large jumps, terrain features and rails. Judges look for similar criteria as they do in the half-pipe.
The runs are evaluated using several criteria including the sequence of tricks the rider performs, the amount of risk in the run and how the rider uses the pipe.
Duckworth, who earned 34.5 points, finished...
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N.S. trio earn golds at boxing championships
Lower Sackville’s Joey Laviolette and Stephanie Walker, both of Lower Sackville, and Custio Clayton of Dartmouth each captured gold Saturday afternoon at the Canadian senior boxing championships in Ste-Hyacinthe, Que.
Laviolette was victorious in the 57-kilogram final against Quebec’s Marc-Andre Gauthier. Walker took the 60-kg title while Clayton finished first in the 69-kg main event.
Westville’s Duke Davis (over 91 kg) and Berwick’s Chantelle Doucette (51 kg) each collected bronze medals. The Canadian junior nationals and senior final team selection will be held in Halifax from Feb. 22-28.
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CANADA TO NOMINATE 18 SNOWBOARDERS TO CANADIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
(Québec, QC – January 25, 2010) Canada~Snowboard announced on Monday the nomination of 18 Canadian snowboarders to the Canadian Olympic Committee.
“The team we have for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games is solid, experienced, dynamic and ready to compete for gold, at home, in our backyard. The riders we have selected deserved to be selected following years of hard work, and stellar results in the year leading up to the Olympic Winter Games,” said Christian Hrab, Director of High Performance for Canada~Snowboard.
The high performance objective of the 2010 Canadian Olympic Snowboard team is to win five medals at the Olympic Games.
2010 CANADIAN OLYMPIC SNOWBOARD TEAM NOMINATION
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Canada announces roster for CONCACAF Championship
Canada's women's U-20 team officially announced its roster today for the upcoming 2010 CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Championship in Guatemala. National head coach Carolina Morace selected 20 players for the 11-day tournament which kicks off this 20 January in Ciudad, Guatemala. Canada is the tournament's current defending champion from two years ago in Mexico.
"We have an excellent group of skilled athletes, but also players that can fill multiple roles in a tournament such as this," said Morace. "The high quality of players in this final camp made it very difficult to select only 20 players."
Canada's women's U-20 team has been training this past week in Tampa, FL at the University of South Florida campus. The team spent seven days in Tampa before...
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Canada's Secret Plan to Dominate the Olympics
An article entitled "Olympic Secrets Revealed" will appear in the January 18th, 2010 edition of MacLean's magazine. To view the article, click here.
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Olympic champion claims his first Capital One title
GUELPH, Ont. - Brad Gushue of St. John's, NL, earned his first career Capital One Grand Slam of Curling event Sunday, downing Edmonton's Randy Ferbey 6-4 to capture the Swiss Chalet National.
"We've been playing good all year,'' said Gushue. "We've had four wins before this and to get the fifth at a Grand Slam is nice.
"This is the best field we're going to face all year. We played good and we went head to head with a lot of the top teams - Ferbey, (Glenn Howard and Mike McEwen) - in the last three games. It's nice to come through with three wins.''
The win was especially sweet for Gushue who gave up a steal of one in the final end to Toronto's Wayne Middaugh to lose last year's event 4-3.
In the final end, Ferbey began building a...
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