Sport: Fencing
Age: 50
Hometown: Edmonton Alberta
Medal Potential: Unlikely- Women’s Foil

Luan Jujie is a renown fencer though not so in Canada. In 1984 at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, she won Gold for China, its first fencing medal ever. For that feat, she is considered to be one of the top 50 athlete of the past [...]

Sport: Tennis
Age: 36
Hometown: Toronto Ontario
Medal Potential: Good- Men’s Doubles

Daniel Nestor is a rarity among the Canadian contingent at the Beijing Olympics. He has actually won an Olympic medal, Gold at the 2000 Sydney Games where he was doubled with Sebastien Lebrun. For several years, he has been among the top doubles player in the [...]

Sport: Swimming
Age: 24
Hometown: Mission BC
Medal Potential: Very Good - 200m Freestyle, 4×100 Freestyle Relay

The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was an ignominious one for the Canadian swimming team. No medals and an overall poor performance. This was a change for Olympics past as one of the surest bets for Canadian medals at the games was [...]

Well, I watched the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Games. I think that the artistic half of the ceremony is the finest I have ever seen and I have seen several over the decades. Beautiful, graceful, dignified , this celebration of a country’s history and aspirations goes well to introduce the new China to the [...]

As with every Olympics now, Sports Illustrated has come out with its selections for the medal winners for all of the Olympic Sports. As usual, many people take exception on why someone was not selected to win their event or even place or show. It is not that SI is considered to be the best [...]

Sport: Equestrian
Age: 40
Hometown: Schomberg Ontario
Medal Potential: Excellent -Individual Jumping
It is difficult to say whether Eric Lamaze qualifies as the feel good comeback story for the Canadian Olympic team this year. Long considered to be one of Canada’s finest equestrians, this Olympics is his first but he should have been here much sooner. Drug problems [...]

Just a few more days to the Olympics games from Beijing. With so much going on elsewhere along with a very intense political season that already appears to be in overdrive with months of electioneering to come, it is a bit difficult to start up the excitement.
But after the opening ceremonies on Friday, I will [...]

After a superlative season last year that saw them with a 9-4 record and a Meinke Car Bowl win, a more mature team is ready to step onto the field with several pre -season polls putting them around 23rd - 24th position and the third highest ranked team in the ACC. Rivals have them [...]