Tag: Olympics
Beijing 2022: Area players set sights on Paralympics hockey gold
Four Southwestern Ontario men are lacing up to represent Canada on the para hockey team at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games next month. Ranked No. 2 in the world behind the U.S., Canada won silver at the 2019 and 2021 world championships and 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. This year, they’re back to clinch gold. […]
Women’s hockey team reclaims Olympic gold
Captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice. Sarah Nurse got the team’s third goal, and goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens made 38 saves.
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Photos: Looking back on Southwestern Ontario’s past Winter Olympians
The 2022 Winter Olympics have begun in Beijing, continuing until Feb. 20. Southwestern Ontario has a few athletes competing at these Games, as we’ve noted, but the list is long of locals who competed, and often won medals, in previous Winter Olympics. Here are some of the best ever from our region:
Canada wins two more bronze, nets six Olympic medals so far
Overnight, Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot won Canada’s first gold of the games in the men’s slopestyle.
Family, farming, hometown pride power Olympian’s golden dreams
Warren Shelton put his kids in skates at a young age, but none took to the ice like Ella, his only daughter and the third of four children who grew up in the hockey-loving family on a pig and cash crop farm near Ingersoll.
Pyette: Evelyn Walsh, Trennt Michaud deserve answers from Skate Canada
The Olympic snub of figure skating pair Evelyn Walsh and Trennt Michaud should have been handled much better.
London figure skater, partner not named to Olympic squad, angering fans
Londoner Evelyn Walsh and skating partner Trennt Michaud won’t be heading to Beijing next month for the Winter Olympics despite a second-place finish in the national championships, Skate Canada officials announced Sunday. The figure skating pair rocketed to a second-place finish Saturday in the senior competition at the Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships in […]
Olympic spot on the line for local figure skating pair
Evelyn Walsh and Trennt Michaud need a season’s best performance – and maybe more – this week to book a spot at the Beijing Olympics next month.