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Canada’s Penny Oleksiak couldn’t duplicate her stunning performance at the Rio Olympics, just missing the podium in the women’s 100-metre butterfly at the world championships in Budapest, Hungary. Oleksiak finished fourth with a time of 56.94 seconds. After a slow first half, Oleksiak picked up the pace but couldn’t make up enough ground. No shame at all. Raced my […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Despite a whirlwind year following the Rio Olympics, Oleksiak’s friends and family won’t let the fame go to her head CBC | Sports News
Like most people her age, Penny Oleksiak is into social media. Her Instagram handle is @typicalpen and, in person, she matches her digital billing. When she walks into CBC’s Toronto studios for an interview prior to leaving for the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Hungary, where swimming competition opens Sunday, Penny comes across like any other 17-year-old. […]
The tragic arc of Elaine Tanner saw her go from breakout star to disappointment, from instant athletic glory to decades of personal strife marked by depression, divorce, family estrangement and even, she says, thoughts of suicide. After transforming from anonymous teenager to swimming superstar at the 1966 British Empire Games, Tanner’s downfall began at the […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The teenage swimming sensation was Canada’s breakout star at the last Olympics, but she knows her athletic career is just beginning CBC | Sports News
[unable to retrieve full-text content] This week: Canadian athletes are literally all over the place. Meanwhile, Mikael Kingsbury has a super cool trick. CBC | Sports News
Penny Oleksiak grabbed one of Canada’s three bronze medals on Saturday at the third and final stop on the Mare Nostrum swimming circuit in Canet-en-Rousillon, France. In the women’s 100-metre butterfly, the Rio silver medallist rounded out the podium with a time of 57.32 seconds behind Olympic champion Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden. Sjostrom set a […]
Canadian swimming star Penny Oleksiak has another Canadian record to her name. The 17-year-old from Toronto set a Canadian record en route to winning silver in the women’s 50-metre butterfly on the Mare Nostrum tour on Wednesday in Barcelona. Her time of 25.76 seconds lowered the previous mark of 25.92 set last year by Katerine […]
Penny Oleksiak celebrated her 17th birthday in style as she won bronze in the 100-metre butterfly at the second leg of the Mare Nostrum Tour in Barcelona on Tuesday. The Toronto native finished in 57.65 seconds, behind Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom meet record 56.27 and Russian Svetlana Chimrova in 57.36. Kelowna, B.C.’s Taylor Ruck won a bronze of her own in the 100-metre backstroke, […]
The 46-year-old Loose Women star hit out at social media users who used the attack to boost their following, taking pictures from online of people not involved in the incident, including images of children, and sharing them alongside captions saying that they were missing family members after the bombing. The ITV panel all seemed to […]
