Luge World Cup from Lake Placid
3rd Women's: Alex Gough
Speed Skating - Short Track
2nd Charles Cournoyer 1000m
2nd Marianne St. Gelais 500m
3rd Marie-Eve Drolet 1500m
3rd Guillaume Bastille1500m
2nd Women relay 3000m Valérie Maltais, Marianne St-Gelais, Marie-Ève Drolet and Jessica Hewitt
Snowboard
Caroline Calvé was fourth in Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom in Rogla, Slovenia, in so doing becoming the points leader in the World Cup standings.
Sochi Test Events
Snowboard and Ski Slopestyle Sochi test events were cancelled this week due to lack of snow, rain and warm weather.
Bobsleigh and skeleton training have been cancelled due to poor track conditions.
Sochi is quite far south and has warm climate, similar to Vancouver. Organizers have built vast underground vaults in order to store snow for the Olympics so hopefully lack of snow will not be a problem next year.
Judo Grand Slam - Paris
Kelita Zupancic - 2nd 70kg
Catherine Roberge - 3rd 78kg
Pairs
1st Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford
2nd Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch
Ice Dancing
2nd Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir
Men's
1st Ryan Reynolds
Objectif Sotchi
Animé par Marc Durand, Objectif Sotchi est diffusé chaque samedi à 14 h 00 à Radio-Canada.
Regardez l'émission du 9 février ici.
Judo Grand Slam - Paris
Kelita Zupancic - 2nd 70kg
Catherine Roberge - 3rd 78kg
Read Judo Canada's report here.
Click here for video. Final 70kg starts at 1:13:30 mark.
Click here for video of Can vs Can bronze medal match 78kg. It starts at 32:00 mark.
Olympic bronze medallist Antoine Valois-Fortier shared the video of his fight being confused and frustrated at his disqualification according to the new rules that were implemented this weekend. Click here for video.
Figure Skating - Four Continents
This event will be televised starting on February 23 on CBC.
Olympic bronze medallist Antoine Valois-Fortier shared the video of his fight being confused and frustrated at his disqualification according to the new rules that were implemented this weekend. Click here for video.
Figure Skating - Four Continents
This event will be televised starting on February 23 on CBC.
Pairs
1st Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford
2nd Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch
Ice Dancing
2nd Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir
Men's
1st Ryan Reynolds
Objectif Sotchi
En Route Vers Les Olympiques Avec 1 an avant les Olympiques 2014, Marie-José Turcotte anime En Route Vers Les Olympiques, qui nous introduit à Sotchi, qui parle de nos espoirs pour les Jeux et inclue les invités Charles Hamelin, Caroline Ouellette, Dominique Maltais, Alex Bilodeau, et les trois soeurs qui espèrent tous être sur l'équipe de bosses, Maxime, Chloé et Justine Dufour-Lapointe.
Regardez l'émission spéciale ici.
News
Women's C1 will be at Pan-Am Games in Toronto.
It was announced last week that C1 Sprint and C1 Slalom will be part of the Pan-Am Games in 2015 in Toronto. More info.
Women's C1 is not an Olympic sport. Last fall the International Canoe Federation decided to not include women's canoe in the 2016 Olympics. There was quite a discussion about this issue with the media, athletes and fans voicing opinions on whether it should be included or not. It's a complicated issue that includes a Catch-22. Without funding, it's difficult to grow the sport to a level that gets it included. Without it being included in the Olympics, it's difficult to get funding and sponsors. What comes first? Funding/growth or inclusion?
Perhaps Pan-Am inclusion is a step towards being included in the Olympics.
This is great news for Canada. Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, a 20-year old from Trois-Rivières, has won the past two World Championships in the C1 200m event. I was lucky to see her in action a couple of years ago.
2014 Olympics tickets
Even if you don't qualify to compete in Sochi, you can buy your ticket to attend the Games.
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