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Enlarge (credit: Aurich / Getty) Internet Relay Chat (IRC) turned 30 this August. The venerable text-only chat system was first developed in 1988 by a Finnish computer scientist named Jarkko Oikarinen. Oikarinen couldn’t have known at the time just how his creation would affect the lives of people around the world, but it became one […]
When Canada's Aaron Brown took the baton a step behind Jaquone Hoyte of Barbados on Sunday and set his sights on the finish line, one thought went through his mind. “I was thinking I’m not going to lose twice. I’m going to get this guy if it kills me,” Brown said laughing. The 26-year-old from […]
Sprint stars Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown led Canada's relay team to an easy win on Wednesday night at the Harry Jerome International Track Classic in Burnaby, B.C. De Grasse anchored the men's 4×100 team to a meet record of 38.42 seconds ahead of the Chinese squad. Gavin Smellie gave Canada an early lead before handing off to […]
Canada’s cross-country mixed relay team won silver on Sunday in Pyeongchang, South Korea to push the country’s Winter Games record to 25 medals. In the anchor position, Mark Arendz of Hartsville, P.E.I., made up a lot of ground to move Canada up from fourth to second in the 4×2.5-kilometre race. The 28-year-old now has six […]
Sam Edney led Canada’s luge relay team to a sixth-place finish on Sunday in Sigulda, Latvia, in the final World Cup race of his career. The 33-year-old Edney, who is the only Canadian man with three World Cup medals, had a solid run on the tricky 1,260-metre Latvian track to help the Canadians finish in […]
The Olympic flame was handed to organizers of the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang on Tuesday, and it will now head off on a 100-day journey across South Korea before the opening ceremony on Feb. 9. Pyeongchang organizing committee president Lee Hee-beom said the games would be an Olympics of “peace and harmony,” despite tension between […]
The Canadian men’s short track relay team struck gold on Sunday in the Netherlands, making them a perfect two-for-two this season in World Cup competition. The women’s relay team also stepped onto the podium for the second time in as many weeks, claiming bronze, while Samuel Girard came away with silver in the men’s 1000. The quartet […]
Canada claimed its first short track speed skating gold medal of the season in the men’s 5000-metre relay at the World Cup opener in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday. The quartet of Charles Hamelin (Saint-Felicien, Que.), Charle Cournoyer (Boucherville, Que.), Samuel Girard (Ferland-et-Boilleau, Que.), and Pascal Dion (Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles, Que.) clocked in at six minutes, 46.191 seconds to edge China by 0.005 seconds. Japan […]
Canada’s men’s sprint story at last month’s world track and field championships began with the disastrous news that Andre De Grasse was out with an injury. It ended with the 4×100-metre relay team crossing a distant sixth. Now, heading into an off-year in the sport, with no Olympics or world championships, Canada’s fastest men are […]
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