Olympic News Circle: Summer & Winter Olympics

Canadian Francois-Louis Tremblay won the silver medal in the men’s 500-metre short-track race Saturday.Tremblay finished in a time of 42.002 seconds, just back of gold-medal winner Apolo Anton Ohno (41.935) of the United States. South Korean Ahn Hyun-Soo (42.089) was third, narrowly edging Canadian Eric Bedard (42.093), who finished fourth.
The race was expected to be […]

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TURIN, Italy — Winnipeg speedskater Clara Hughes won gold in the women’s 5,000 metres on Saturday and Cindy Klassen claimed bronze to become Canada’s most decorated Olympian.For Winnipeg’s Klassen, it’s her fifth medal of these Games and sixth of her career. For Hughes, it’s career medal No. 5.
Runner Philip Edwards and short-track speedskater Marc Gagnon […]

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The Canadian Cindy Klassen is the undisputed Queen of the women’s 1500 metres. The 26-year-old from Winnipeg wiped out the competition with an excellent performance that enabled her to outdistance her compatriot Kristina Groves by a good 1”47 hundredths: a huge gap for a sport measured in thousandths. The gold won by Klassen is the […]

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