The Vancouver Eclipse visually impaired hockey team has a new home at Hillcrest Community Centre. The building that hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic curling competitions now houses Vancouver’s only visually impaired hockey team. “We like the size of it now,” said Graham Foxcroft, a visually impaired player. “It’s an actual hockey-size rink and [...]
Gerald Roper played guard for 11 Canadian Football League seasons. He worked much of that time with a teammate at a nearby travel agency in the morning then drove to Surrey and practiced in the afternoons. The pair co-own that business today. Pat Brady snuck out of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ team hotel early on a [...]
Simon Fraser University’s first three months in the National College Athletic Association haven’t been easy. Stricter eligibility rules have prompted students to leave teams or have made them ineligible. And SFU teams – the only non-U.S. member of the NCAA – have struggled in early season competition. School officials justify the move out of Canadian [...]
Related: SFU struggles early in U.S. collegiate play Simon Fraser University’s recent move to the NCAA reflects the school’s history of offering student-athletes a Canadian education with an American varsity athletics experience. SFU teams competed in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics when they began play in 1965. The NAIA is a U.S.-based governing body [...]
Any given Saturday at Burnaby Lake Park, music professor Nikolai Maloff and computer programmer Geoff Dryer can be found engaging in a showdown of aeronautic spectacle. In the skies above, lightweight, mini-engined planes dodge gliders with 13 foot wingspans. Below the air traffic, fellow flyers unpack hand-painted model airplanes of various sizes from the backseat [...]
One of the new 2010 Winter Olympic venues, the Vancouver Olympic Centre/Vancouver Paralympic Centre, hosted its first competition in February 2009. The World Wheelchair Curling Championships were held there to determine who goes to the 2010 Paralympic Games. Produced by Heather Amos, Ameila Bellamy-Royds, Miné Salkin and Alexis Stoymenoff.
Vancouver’s gay community is disappointed that it may not get city funds for its international sporting event at a time when the city is spending millions on the Olympic games. At a debate held on November 5, neither mayoral candidate would commit funding to the North America Outgames which that will bring lesbian, gay, bisexual, [...]
By Krysia Collyer. A new judging system to be introduced at the World Cup season opener on December 13 in Tignes, France, could cost crucial points for Canada’s top male mogul skier. Alexandre Bilodeau is worried that the new categories added to off-axis judging will lead to him losing marks because the judges may not [...]
By Krysia Collyer buy shrek forever after the movie Moguls skiing is an exciting spectator sport. There are many different elements to the competition, and having the fastest time does not ensure that an athlete will win. The competition consists of skiers racing down a 29-degree incline and launching themselves off two jumps on the [...]
Vancouver’s Olympic Committee (VANOC) is upping its anti-doping measures by increasing the number of pre-competition drug tests for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver to catch cheaters before they reach the podium. “We know that the cheaters are using more and more substances before the competition than during and after the competition,” said Patrick Schamasch, the [...]
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