2009 GREATER VICTORIA SPORTS HALL of FAME: The 16th Annual Induction Ceremony & Dinner resulted in seven inductees and two Honorary Life Members at the Greater Victory sports event covering a variety of sports...
Roz Savage resumed her historic bid to row, solo, across the Pacific Ocean. She arrived in Hawaii from California last September after 99 days at sea. This second phase of her three-stage journey will be devoted to...
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Britain had their gold day today.British athletes scored medals in swimming, rowing, and cycling, resulting in one silver and four bronzes, and of course, a triumphant gold in the men's four rowing."The...
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The Boat Race is an annual event in which crews from Oxford and Cambridge Universities compete in rowing in Thames River. The race exists since 1829 and since 1856 it is held annually in the begining of...
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At the International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla., last week, more than 1,900 exhibitors showed new and innovative products.
Here are some of the new products that attendees found interesting.
TurboChef, a do-it-all single oven, cooks up to...
"Two adventurers who spent two months paddling across the Tasman Sea in a kayak arrived in New Zealand today, becoming the first people to kayak there from Australia.
Several thousand people crowded the shore at Ngamotu Beach, near New Plymouth on New Zealand's west coast, to...
Along the way they burned through 4,000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing. And they showed the world that if he can travel 43,000 kilometres without...
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""We will register 518 athletes for the forthcoming SEA Games," Achmad Sucipto, head of the SEA Games National Training Center Task Force, told reporters here Monday.
The Indonesian athletes would take part in 37 sports brancches and in 324 competitions while the SEA Games...
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Reports say that this years Head of the Charles was nothing but clear skies, as the 42nd annual regatta took place along the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, changing leaves and large crowds abound....
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""Pinch your ears like your mom used to!" joked Sam Wong as he led a ritual warm up exercise for the Montreal Thunder at the Olympic Basin in Jean Drapeau Park yesterday.
Wong is one of the 22-member crew that...
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