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Weekend Sports Preview–August 4-6–ALL OLYMPICS

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

Karen Cockburn and Rosannagh MacLennan (Wikimedia Commons)

AUGUST 4, 2012

2:00 a.m.—Women’s Triathlon (Paula Findlay—Edmonton & Kathy Tremblay—Ste-Foy, Quebec)–CTV

3:00 a.m.—Men’s 100m Preliminaries (Aaron Brown—Toronto & Justyn Warner—Toronto) (RDS, www.ctvolympics.ca)

3:00 a.m.—Men’s Team Table Tennis First Round—Canada (Pierre-Luc Hinse—Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Andre Ho—Vancouver, Zhen Wang—Victoria) vs. Japan

3:05 a.m.—Women’s Heptathlon (Jessica Zelinka—London & Brianne Theisen—Humboldt, Saskatchewan) (RDS, www.ctvolympics.ca)

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2012 Olympic Predictions

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Dylan Armstrong (Wilson Wong, Wikimedia Commons)

I am projecting 17 medals for Canada. Here they are:

ATHLETICS

DYLAN ARMSTRONG—KAMLOOPS—MEN’S SHOT PUT

CANOEING

ADAM VAN KOEVERDEN—OAKVILLE—MEN’S 1000m KAYAKING

CYCLING

ZACH BELL—WATSON LAKE, YUKON—MEN’S OMNIUM

CATHARINE PENDREL—FREDERICTON—WOMEN’S MOUNTAIN BIKING

TARA WHITTEN—EDMONTON, GILLIAN CARLETON—VICTORIA & JASMIN GLAESSER—COQUITLAM—WOMEN’S TEAM PURSUIT

DIVING

JENNIFER ABEL—LAVAL—WOMEN’S 3M SPRINGBOARD

ABEL & EMILE HEYMANS—MONTREAL—WOMEN’S 3M SYNCHRONIZED DIVING

MEAGHAN BENFEITO–MONTREAL & ROSELINE FILION—LAVAL—WOMEN’S 10M SYNCHRONIZED DIVING
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Canadians off to a great start at World Cycling Championships

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

With the 2012 Olympic Games in London, a new Canadian hope has landed on the radar screen as a legitimate medal contender.

According to the Canadian Press, 19 year-old Jasmin Glaesser won two medals yesterday at the World Track Cycling Championships in Melbourne, Australia.

Glaesser won Silver in the Women’s 25 kilometre points race and also helped Team Canada to a Bronze medal with Edmonton’s Tara Whitten and Victoria’s Gillian Carleton in the women’s team pursuit. It should be noted however that of the two events that Glaesser won a medal in, only the women’s team pursuit is at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The men’s and women’s points race was dropped from the Olympic program following the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

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