3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (165+ words) OTTAWA – Kim Cousins has been named coach of Canada’s NextGen Paralympic swimming team, Swimming Canada announced on Monday. Cousins has previously worked as a high-performance coach in a variety of sports, including Para athletics, Para swimming, athletics, bobsled and skeleton....

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (734+ words) EDMONTON – A new velodrome in her backyard drew Olympic track cycling champion Kelsey Mitchell back to the sport. After competing for Canada in bobsled in February’s Milan Cortina Games, the 32-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., is back on two wheels…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (490+ words) Winnipeg 21° C, Windy After 12 hours of wind, waves and a painful shoulder, Jonathon Fenton has finished what he started, making it across Lake Winnipeg. The 62-year-old two-time cancer survivor completed the roughly 26-kilometre swim Sunday, a year after shoulder problems…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (505+ words) He won three golds and two silvers in five events, capped by swimming the breaststroke leg on the winning 4 x 100-meter medley relay Saturday night in the outdoor pool some 40 miles from the site of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Quite…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (411+ words) Winnipeg 18° C, Clear In the morning preliminaries, the 24-year-old American swam 23.49 to take the mark away from teammate Gretchen Walsh, who finished second in the evening final in 23.74. Douglass returned 25 minutes later to finish second in the 200 breaststroke. She rallied…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (301+ words) And one is interested in swimming. Beckett, who’s 8, and brother Maverick, who’s 6, sat with their dad and mom Nicole watching two days of the international meet featuring the U.S., Australia, Canada and Japan. Oldest brother Boomer, age 10, was keeping…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (178+ words) Winnipeg 19° C, Cloudy The 24-year-old from the New York City suburb of Pelham touched in 23.49 seconds in her heat at the outdoor pool in Irvine, California. Douglass lowered the mark of 23.55 set by teammate Gretchen Walsh at an international meet…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (422+ words) Winnipeg 17° C, Light rain with wind Pallister was under world-record pace through 150 metres before touching in 3 minutes, 58.42 seconds. Ledecky had over a second to make up on the final lap and took silver in 4:00.15. “I could see Katie catching me…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (122+ words) IRVINE – Summer McIntosh has missed the A final in the 400-metre freestyle at the Pan Pacific Championships. The 19-year-old Canadian finished ninth overall in the heats with a time of four minutes 8.56 seconds. McIntosh holds the world record in the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (620+ words) Winnipeg 14° C, Cloudy Australia led all but 150 meters of the women’s 4 x 200 freestyle relay, with the team of Inez Miller, Lani Pallister, Hannah Casey and Milla Jansen winning in 7 minutes, 42.40 seconds to lower the country’s championship mark of 7:44.12 set at…...