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Black women set to star in PWHL Vancouver's inaugural season
13 Aug 2025 00:17 GMT
Sarah Nurse has accomplished all sorts of significant firsts in her hockey career.
Nurse was the first black woman to win Olympic gold in hockey in 2022. She became the first woman to appear on the cover of an NHL video game when she shared the cover of …
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20 Crazy Music Stunts That Broke World Records
28 May 2025 09:17 GMT
… and set a Guinness World Record for playing Hey Joe … . The band enlisted Sydney Olympics aerial ballet participant Nikki Webster … speed on drums, holding several world records, including 1,334 single … 6,452 set by the Vancouver Symphony in 2000.
Morrison …
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Photo Finish: The BC Lions' first Leo the Lion mascot was a future Olympic swimmer
06 Jul 2025 21:07 GMT
… choreographer Grace Macdonald at her Vancouver studio when Macdonald was … American Games and later two Olympics in 1960 and 1964. … briefly holding the 100m butterfly world record a year earlier, in … the crowd about my new world records,” she said in Stadium …
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Get to know Team USA Olympians ahead of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics
16 Jun 2025 16:31 GMT
… for the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.
Mikaela Shiffrin, alpine … 1,500m while holding the world record in the 1,000m. … Canada at three straight Olympics, Kallie Humphries joined Team … overtime heartbreaker against Canada in Vancouver.
The Toronto Maple Leafs …
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Black Ferns on edge eyeing ‘underdog’ Canada
18 Sep 2025 20:22 GMT
… WXV 1 2024 final in Vancouver.
In May 2024, Canada achieved … at last year’s Paris Olympics, narrowly losing 19-12 in … final. England had won a world record 30 consecutive Test matches and …
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PHOTOS: McIntosh makes waves at Canadian swimming trials on Vancouver Island
10 Jun 2025 20:03 GMT
Canadian stars light up Saanich Commonwealth Place pool during six-day selection meet
Summer McIntosh didn’t just break records in Saanich – she left the sport breathless.
The 18-year-old swimming phenom has torched the Saanich Commonwealth Place pool …
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PWHL expansion signings tracker: All moves as Seattle, Vancouver build teams ahead of draft
05 Jun 2025 01:35 GMT
… dynamic offensive defender, an Olympic record holder, Walter Cup champion … and the 2026 Milan Olympics, so there’s a … hockey in Vancouver,” said Gardner Morey, PWHL Vancouver General Manager. … were realistically available to Vancouver and Seattle. Signing …
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Olympic silver medallist and former high jump world record holder Thelma Hopkins dies aged 88
14 Jan 2025 17:56 GMT
… world record, and earned her silver medal success at the 1956 Olympics … at the Empire Games in Vancouver.
Hopkins then sealed the … broke the high jump world record with a 1.74m … plaque was unveiled commemorating her world record feat.
Hopkins’ Northern Ireland …
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Two New England athletes included in the 2025 class of inductees to the US Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame
06 May 2025 22:43 GMT
… gold medal in the 2010 Vancouver games in the men’s … in both the Paralympics and Olympics.
The six-time medalist … women’s T13 400-meter world record for almost three decades until … also represents a combined 42 Olympics and Paralympics appearances, 51 medals …
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46 miles on the Columbia River in a giant pumpkin lands Oregon paddler a world record
12 Nov 2024 02:21 GMT
Henry Brannan / Columbian Murrow News Fellow
It was just after midnight when the support boat’s rack of lights cut out, leaving Gary Kristensen in near-darkness as he paddled down the Columbia River in a roughly thousand-pound hollowed-out pumpkin.
“We …