Tag Archives: Olympics

As competition wrapped up Saturday evening at the Saskatoon Field House, a pair of athletes were shining brighter than the competition. Mariam Abdul-Rashid, a racer out of Oshawa, Ont., was donning th...

Saskatoon's Katie Dutchak is hoping she'll soon be booking a plane ticket to Paris. Dutchak is travelling to Edmonton this weekend to compete in the Olympic qualifiers for wrestling. The weekend will ...

A Saskatchewan basketball player is hoping her dream of making the Olympics will become a reality next spring. Humboldt's Paige Crozon is currently a member of Canada's 3×3 women's basketball tea...

With his coach, caddie and brother watching from behind, Taylor Carter hits ball after ball at the Joanne Goulet Golf Course driving range, preparing for his games in Berlin at the Special Olympics Wo...

While her journey is just beginning, Erica Rieder is being put on the right track to possibly achieving an Olympic dream. The Regina product has been awarded funding and an accelerated path to the Oly...

Shelby Newkirk had to forgo her long-awaited convocation from the University of Saskatchewan, but she had a good reason: she was busy clinching the world title in backstroke para-swimming. After six y...

It was a landmark legislation proposal by the federal government. If Bill C-21 is passed, it would freeze the purchasing, selling and transferring of handguns across Canada. Since the announcement by ...

Ben Coakwell and his teammates kept their heads down in Beijing -- and that helped them win a bronze medal. Coakwell, a 34-year-old product of Moose Jaw, was the brakeman in the Canadian sled that fin...

Dozens turned out to the Saskatoon airport Tuesday night to scream as Emily Clark stepped back onto Saskatoon soil for the first time since winning a gold medal. The airport was pristine and silent un...

Canadian athletes were busy in Beijing on Friday, winning four medals -- the country's highest medal total in a single day so far in the Winter Olympics. Canada's medal count now sits at 24 -- four go...