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2010 Winter Games preview features the fastest skaters from Canada and around the world in head to head competition
Haskayne tourism marketing expert Simon Hudson will be part of the 2010 Olympic Games’ Intellectual Muscle lecture series.
>> Listen to the podcast of his talk
Lynne Perras says hockey at all levels unites Canadians ... maybe even more than maple syrup.
With sleds flashing down the track at more than 140 kilometres per hour, bobsled is an exciting sport to watch. But few think about the science involved under the sled. U of C physicist Louis Poirier is studying ice-metal interfaces to make bobsleighs go faster.
There’s a new design for crash pads for the sport of speed skating. The pads
have already been used in the World Cup and will make their Olympic debut at the
Vancouver Games in 2010.
Danielle Goyette’s Olympic memories are colored with extreme triumph and extreme tragedy.
Besides becoming Canada’s Olympic ‘medal factory,’ The Olympic Oval has become a special place in Calgary for amateur sports and recreation.
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Experience has taught Dinos Women’s Hockey Head Coach, Danielle Goyette one thing—never make a prediction on who will win gold at the Olympics.
When you’re an athletic kid growing up in a town of only 800 people, you play on pretty much every sports team there is. That was the case for Danielle Goyette as she spent her childhood and youth in St-Nazaire, Quebec, a village three hours north of Quebec City.
For speed skaters Jamie, Jessica and Sara Gregg, there’s nothing like a
bit of sibling rivalry to get the competitive juices flowing.
Dutch trio performing ground-breaking speed skating research.
Newsmakers
Liam McFarlane is an avid reader. Wednesday afternoon, the reader turned writer and was busy scripting his own story.
A biological science major at the University of Calgary, he’s been training in Calgary since he was 18. He’s following the path set by Gregg and Gilday, the Yellowknife product who won his first World Cup medal here last October at the Pacific Coliseum.
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