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Commonwealth Games: Eric Sehn readies for diving start
After arriving here in Doha, Qatar on the 29th of September, we're winding down our training camp where we could take a week to train and get more accustomed to the time zone in India.
» by CBC; Posted on October 6, 2010
Commonwealth Games - Alana Miller plays last squash game for Canada
Yesterday, I had the honour of watching Canada's best female squash player wear the red and white for the very last time.
» by CBC; Posted on October 6, 2010
Commonwealth Games: Canada's amateur boxing struggles
With boxing at the Commonwealth Games beginning on Tuesday, it's a good time to do a little crystal ball gazing.
» by CBC; Posted on October 5, 2010
Commonwealth Games: Changing times, changing sports
India is a sensory overload that hits you as soon as you arrive.
» by CBC; Posted on October 5, 2010
Commonwealth Games: I'm definitely in Delhi
DELHI, INDIA - I jumped into the back of a rickshaw.
» by CBC; Posted on October 3, 2010
Commonwealth Games: Monkeying around
On my way to Delhi for the Commonwealth Games, I'm excited to meet up with my Canadian track and field teammates.
» by CBC; Posted on October 1, 2010
Commonwealth Games: (Mis)adventures in Berlin
The power of attraction is something I strongly believe in. If you focus on something enough, it will come to you - whether it's positive or negative.
» by CBC; Posted on October 1, 2010
Commonwealth Games: India's religious controversies
Hindus and Muslims have been fighting in India for hundreds of years.
» by CBC; Posted on October 1, 2010
Commonwealth Games: Confessions of a chiroptophobic
As a girl who likes to get manicures, doesn't like to get dirty, and is extremely chiroptophobic (I'm afraid of bats), I feel like Delhi may be one of my biggest challenges yet.
» by CBC; Posted on October 1, 2010
Bring on the pain
Every girl in the Commonwealth Games pool will probably be dealing with some kind of physical ailment.
» by CBC; Posted on September 30, 2010
Just dive and bear it
Injuries to athletes are like the plague.
» by CBC; Posted on September 29, 2010
Why John Furlong threatened to stab Rene Fasel during the Olympics . . . - Vancouver Sun (blog)
The things you learn from John Furlong once the I listened to Vanoc's president and CEO speak last night at a Terasen/FortisBC-sponsored reception at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler and concluded that none of that legendary passion he displayed and shared with us in the build-up to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games has been muted one little bit.
» by Post Media - BC; Posted on September 28, 2010
The show must go on
Even though there has been so much discouraging news about the state of the impending Commonwealth Games there remains one fact.
» by CBC; Posted on September 24, 2010
Athletes caught in the middle again
Once again in the arena of international sport, the athletes are the men and women caught in the middle.
» by CBC; Posted on September 23, 2010
New Delhi backers must go
If you indeed reap what you sow, then every delegate who voted for New Delhi, India to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games should now stand up and take a bow.
» by Sun Media; Posted on September 22, 2010
Why athletes date athletes
I'm engaged. It happened a few weeks ago while I was in Russia visiting my fiancee.
» by CBC; Posted on September 20, 2010
Waiting for India
I wasn't sure how much more "wait" I had in me at the Indian High Commission in Nairobi.
» by CBC; Posted on September 19, 2010
Are the Delhi Games safe?
Security is always a concern at any major event, but going to India to compete for Canada is an amazing opportunity.
» by CBC; Posted on September 17, 2010
Wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy gears up for Commonwealth Games
As a kid, I imagined competing in big events so many times that now, when I'm actually there, it doesn't feel as strange as it should.
» by CBC; Posted on September 14, 2010
Skeleton racer Hollingsworth raring to go
The season isnrsquot too far away from us now and that was a big reality as we just finished up our annual team retreat in Revelstoke BC. Lots of fun was to be had where we had ample time to compete in other areas besides Skeleton and it wa
» by Mellisa Hollingsworth; Posted on September 12, 2010
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