Canadians opt for extreme form of ice skating
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Not content to simply play hockey on frozen ponds or waltz along canals that have turned to ice, some Canadians prefer to amuse themselves with a more extreme form of outdoor skating.
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While hockey has screeched to a halt many of the world's best players are skating off to Europe where clubs in Russia and Sweden are wooing them with lucrative contracts and expensive perks.
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Last February in the Olympic Games in Turin, a new discipline of snowboard cross -- "NASCAR on snow" -- proved to be as exciting and TV ratings-worthy as its early billing.
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You might think Bruin Glen Murray would like the extra quarter-inch curve on his stick.
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It's been a winter wonderland so far for US athletes, who've already won 10 world medals with upcoming global championships in skiing, figure skating, and speedskating likely to provide more. Experience has been the biggest factor; the winners of nearly half of last year's 25 medals in Turin have returned for another season, if not another quadrennium.
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Europe's ice hockey leagues are feeling the benefit of the NHL lockout.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Less than a year before British Columbia plays host to the 2010 Winter Olympics, provincial voters may be choosing their government using a different, more fair and more popular system.
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A recent blitz of coaching moves among America's finest figure skaters has left fans and coaches feeling as if they need scorecards to keep up.
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RIGA (Reuters Life!) - Global warming wrecked the field, the umpire couldn't keep his feet and pirouetting skaters added a surreal touch but nothing could stop this year's World Cup...for Ice Cricket.
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Whenever the University of New Hampshire menâs hockey team practices, heâs the best player on the ice. In fact, he stands out like a 70-degree day in December.
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Geopolitically, the choice made sense. How could they not give the Winter Games to a place whose czar once declared that his two best generals were January and February? The Russians, who have more snow and ice than any country on the planet, have never staged this quadrennial sleighride. Clearly, they were overdue. But when the International Olympic Committee tapped ...
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As some approach Olympic levels, the question is whether their high-tech limbs give them an unfair advantage
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Just when it looked like this World Cup of Hockey might be bereft of any entertainment value whatsoever, a terrific game broke out last night at the Air Canada Centre.
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The brown eyes of Canadian forward Martin St. Louis have been as big as pucks in his first tour of duty playing for his country. When Canada moved its show to Montreal for the first two games of the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, St.
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Visit Reg Hardware to try your luck Competition This year is positively packed with sensational sporting spectacles: from Aussie Rules to the Americas Cup, from Wimbledon to World Championship Athletics. So prepare yourself for a veritable wealth of viewing pleasure...â¦
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Stainless steel holds Bob Goodenow&#39;s left cheek together, a 24-gauge badge of honour earned the old-fashioned way: on the ice, in a game, from an opponent&#39;s high stick.
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The Canadian team of Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe of Vancouver sit third after the compulsory round of the ice dance competition at the opening Grand Prix figure skating event of the season, Skate America.