Canada&#39;s Grandi ends 12-year wait for first victory
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The night before Thomas Grandi captured a giant slalom for his first victory in his 12 World Cup seasons, he was approached by a youngster who predicted he would win.
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Erik Guay won for the first time on the World Cup circuit yesterday to give Canada its first downhill victory in 13 years. He was joined in the top 10 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, by two other Canadians -- Jan Hudec (fifth) and Manuel Osborne-Paradis (seventh).
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Molik, who beat Sharapova in the final, was Australia&#39;s first champion of a WTA Tier I event and proved that you can be 20-something and breakthrough.
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ATHENS (CP) - Lori-Ann Muenzer claimed Canada&#39;s first-ever cycling gold medal at the Olympics, defeating Russian Tamilla Abassova in the sprint final in convincing fashion Tuesday.
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Canada has that seven-year itch. It&#39;s been that long since Canada won gold at the World Junior hockey Championship, something the team hopes to rectify starting Saturday in the opening game against Slovakia (4 pm et on TSN) in North Dakota.
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Flachau, Austria (Ski Press)-Canadaâs Thomas Grandi tallied his second win in three days, stringing together giant slaloms in Alta Badia on Sunday and Flachau on Tuesday to score the only two wins of his World Cup career.
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The country&#39;s best hockey players made sure of that last night, capping a perfect two-week performance against the best the world could offer with a taut 3-2 victory over Finland to capture the 2004 World Cup.
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TORONTO (CP) - Wayne Gretzky had a message for the younger members of Team Canada on the eve of the biggest game of their careers.
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Not to use too many technical gymnastics terms here, but Bruno Grandi started with a double-wienie. Then he went with an impressive buck pass.
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Lewis Hamilton wins the Canadian Grand Prix, taking his maiden victory in only his sixth race.
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Winter Sports Bode Miller missed a gate and failed to finish his second run, opening the door for Canada's Thomas Grandi to win a giant slalom race at Alta Badia, Italy, yesterday for his first victory in 12 seasons on the World Cup circuit. Austria's Benjamin Raich was second and Switzerland's Didier Cuche and Austria's Hermann Maier shared third. Miller's ...
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Brazil&#39;s Bruno Junqueira leads Canada&#39;s Paul Tracy through a chicane during practice for the Lexmark Indy 300 on Australia&#39;s Gold Coast, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004.
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Michaela Dorfmeister sealed Austria&#39;s first Alpine ski World Cup title of the season on Sunday with victory in the super-G in Alberta, Canada.
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Canadaâs Thomas Grandi waited more than a decade to win his first World Cup race. Just two days later, Grandi got his second straight victory in World Cup giant slalom race in Flachau, Austria.
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Max Rauffer became the first German man in 12 years to win an Alpine ski World Cup race when he beat the favorites in a wind-affected downhill at Val Gardena.
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The team&#39;s final game in Montreal on Wednesday brought sadness and a flood of memories back for Canadians and former players, who had long ago resigned themselves to saying goodbye to the country&#39;s first major-league team.
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ATHENS (CP) - Canada had its biggest one-day medal haul at the Athens Olympics on Saturday, picking up a medal of every colour on the eve of the Games finale.