Canada has earned its twelfth medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Alexandre Despatie won silver in the men's three-metre springboard diving competition.
December 27, 2024
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Canada has earned its eleventh medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Jason Burnett won silver in the men's trampoline.
Canada has earned its tenth medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Simon Whitfield won silver in the men's triathlon.
Canada has earned its ninth medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Ian Miller, Jill Henselwood and Eric Lamaze won silver in equestrian jumping.
Canada has earned its eighth medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Karen Cockburn won silver in the women's trampoline.
Canada has earned its seventh medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Ben Rutledge of Cranbrook, B.C., Kevin Light of Sidney, B.C., Malcolm Howard of Victoria, Andrew Byrnes of Toronto, Jake Wetzel of Saskatoon, Dominic Seiterle of Victoria, Adam Kreek of London, Ont., and Kyle Hamilton of Richmond, B.
Canada has earned its sixth medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Iain Brambell, Jon Beare, Mike Lewis and Liam Parsons won bronze in men's lightweight four sculls rowing.
Canada has earned its fifth medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Melanie Kok and Tracy Cameron won bronze in women's lightweight double sculls rowing.
Canada has earned its fourth medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Ryan Cochrane won bronze in 1500m freestyle swimming.
Canada has earned its third medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Tonya Verbeek won bronze in the 55 kg women's wrestling event.
Canada has earned its second medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen won silver in the men's rowing pair.
Canada has earned its first medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. Carol Huynh won gold in wrestling in the 48 kg category.
As the Olympic Games draw closer, I find myself getting more and more upset. Back in March I shared my conflicted feelings. I love the Olympics and I enjoy posting about every medal Canada wins, but I hate to give that kind of attention to this event in China at
I was following the news out of Paris closely this morning. Organizers cancelled the final leg of the Olympic run through Paris after chaotic protests. They actually put the torch aboard a bus in a humiliating concession to protesters. That made me smile. The protest, an effort to decry China's
London has the Olympics in 2012, and they've just unveiled their logo and the critics are not impressed. No, it's not as nice as our inukshuk, but is it really so offensive? (Boldly stolen from here.)
In many respects, I prefer the winter Olympics to the summer games. There's a charm to these games you lose with the larger spectacle of the summer Olympics. Turin 2006 has come and gone and all that remains are the memories. In good ol' spaghetti western style, here are the
Canada has earned its twenty-fourth medal at the Turin Olympic games. Eric Bedard, Francois-Louis Tremblay, Charles Hamelin and Mathieu Turcotte won silver in the men's 5,000-metre relay speed skating event.
Canada has earned its twenty-third medal at the Turin Olympic games. Francois-Louis Tremblay won silver in the men's 500-metre short-track speed skating event.
Canada has earned its twenty-second medal at the Turin Olympic games. Clara Hughes won gold in the women''s 5,000 metre speed skating event. She is the first multiple-medallist in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Canada has earned its twenty-first medal at the Turin Olympic games. Cindy Klassen won bronze in the women''s 5,000 metre speed skating event. It was her fifth medal of these games.
Canada has earned its twentieth medal at the Turin Olympic games. Brad Gushue won gold in men's curling.
I feel as if I've let my country down. All day today I've been dealing with snickers and sneers because my team failed to deliver when it mattered most. Everyone wants to discuss where we went wrong and why our play was so mediocre. Reading the Toronto Sun this morning,
Canada has earned its nineteenth medal at the Turin Olympic games. Shannon Kleibrink won bronze in women's curling.
I remember February 20, 1998 vividly. On that date I watched Canada play the Czech Republic in the Nagano Olympics semi-final. I watched the game from Taryn's grandmother's condo in White Rock, British Columbia and I'll never forget that sinking feeling I had when Brenden Shanahan failed to score against
It's 1-0 Russia late in the third period. Lord, please use your omnipotent power to guide us to victory. This sport defines us as a nation, and should we lose in the quarter-finals, I fear we will be crushed. Amen.
