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Canadian teenage swimmer Taylor Ruck matched the record for most medals won at a single Commonwealth Games by any athlete when she reached the podium for the eighth time in Australia on Tuesday. The record-tying medal came in the women’s 4×100 medley relay on the final day of swimming events. Ruck, 17, anchored teammates Kylie Masse, Kierra […]
Queen Elizabeth, 91, has recently joined forces with David Attenborough as part of a Commonwealth environmental project, the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy. As Head of the Commonwealth, they discussed forest conversation initiatives to be spread across all 53 Commonwealth countries. The Queen travels to many of the countries as part of her role to promote good […]
Canadian Damian Warner’s bid to defend his decathlon title at the Commonwealth Games took a nose dive Tuesday when he failed to clear a height in the pole vault. Warner missed three attempts at 4.50 metres, failing to score any points in the event. His personal best is 4.90 metres. The 28-year-old from London, Ont., […]
Teenage swimmer Taylor Ruck tied a Canadian record Monday by winning her seventh medal of the Commonwealth Games in Australia. With her bronze in the women’s 100-metre freestyle, Ruck, 17, grabbed a piece of the national single-Games mark, which has stood for 52 years and is shared by two other swimmers. Elaine Tanner set the record […]
Canadian Damian Warner opened the Commonwealth Games decathlon with a strong 100 metres Monday, clocking a season-best 10.29 seconds. The 28-year-old from London, Ont., who now makes his home in Calgary, is defending champion. Warner, whose personal best in the 100 is 10.15, was the fastest of the 12 competitors at Carrara Stadium. Pierce LePage […]
TANTRUMS and upset have marred day four of the Commonwealth Games, with collapses, disqualifications and chair-hurling signifying the strain the athletes are under. It also signifies the strain I’m under. As someone who has been held captive and forced to watch these games, I’m a little on edge too. The final straw came when the […]
Humboldt native Paige Crozon decided to keep competing at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday in the wake of the horrific crash back home in Saskatchewan, scoring 10 points for Canada’s women’s basketball team in a 100-61 loss to Australia. A Canada Basketball spokesman said the 23-year-old Crozon had chosen to keep playing following the accident that […]
Canada’s Kylie Masse won her second gold in as many nights and teenager Taylor Ruck added a silver Sunday to up her total to six in the Commonwealth Games pool. Masse, who won the 100-metre backstroke on Saturday, set a Games record Sunday in taking the 200 backstroke in two minutes 5.98 seconds. Ruck was second […]
GOLD COAST, Australia — They may be known as the ‘Friendly Games’, but that doesn’t mean there’s no room for a friendly rivalry. Canada’s Kylie Masse took gold in the women’s 100-metre backstroke at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday night in the Gold Coast, fending off strong competition from host-country favourite and two-time defending Games […]
Teenage swimmer Taylor Ruck won Canada’s first gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Thursday in Australia, setting a new Games record in the women’s 200-metre freestyle, before adding a silver in a relay event. The 17-year-old’s time of 1:54.81 in the 200 free final easily erased the old Commonwealth mark of 1:55.57 set in […]
