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Melissa Bishop is anxious to erase the bad memory of a podium miss at last summer’s Rio Olympics in the women’s 800-metre final at the track and field world championships on Sunday (CBCSports.ca, 3:10 p.m. ET). The Canadian-record holder crossed the finish line second on Friday in her semifinal heat behind Ajee Wilson of the […]
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 […]
Canada was held off the podium in the women’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay final at the world aquatics championships in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday. Penny Oleksiak, Chantal Van Landeghem, Sandrine Mainville, and Kayla Sanchez finished fourth with a time of three minutes 33.88 seconds. The United States, featuring Olympic standouts Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel, came in at 3:31.72 to take gold. Australia was second at […]
Rosie MacLennan returned to the top of the trampoline podium Saturday at the Canadian gymnastics championships in Oshawa, Ont. The defending Olympic champion from King City, Ont., finished with a total of 158.735 points to fend off Samantha Smith of B.C., who had 156.170 points. Quebec’s Sophiane Methot was third with 155.280. Rosie MacLennan wins Canadian Trampoline Gymnastics Championships3:30 […]
Even in the often hyperbolic realm of tech startups, Utah’s Podium is on an incredible growth arc since launching its reputation and customer interaction software in 2014. Just two and half years ago, Podium was housed in a spare bedroom of co-founder and CEO Eric Rea’s apartment. A year-and-a-half ago, they’d graduated to a space […]
Canadian sprint sensation Andre De Grasse posted a sub-10-second time in the men’s 100-metre final but finished just off the podium Saturday at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore. In the wind-aided race, American Ronnie Baker led six men under the 10-second mark to win the event in a time of 9.86. China’s Bingtian Su was second at 9.92, followed […]
Team Canada took the top two spots on the podium on Saturday at the Grand Prix Cycliste Gatineau, with Leah Kirchmann taking the win ahead of teammate Kirsti Lay. American Kendall Ryan rounded out the podium. The eighth edition of the UCI race took the riders out for two loops in the Gatineau Park before […]
Published time: 12 May, 2017 20:29 Edited time: 12 May, 2017 20:40 The sight of Sean Spicer riding through New York’s Midtown on a motorised podium set the city abuzz with excitement, Friday – even if it was in fact SNL’s Melissa McCarthy at the helm of the White House lectern. Saturday Night Live’s McCarthy […]
Sean Spicer’s (Melissa McCarthy’s) threatening vehicular White House briefing room podium has become one of SNL’s funniest/most important recurring set-pieces. In previous episodes, McCarthy’s Spicer press briefings would (much like the real-life ones) quickly take an uncomfortable turn towards the defensive and disciplinarian, before Spicey would ride furiously into the crowd on his podium. And alas, the […]
Australia’s Alexander Edmondson took third place in the 4.8km prologue of the Tour of Romandie. Picture: AFP SAM EDMUNDHerald Sun Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Email a friend AUSTRALIAN rising star Alex Edmondson has claimed his first World Tour podium result after finishing third in the opening […]
