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Winning on her home track was sort of reminiscent of being a kid again for skeleton racer Mimi Rahneva.
June Snapshots: A roundup of local sports happenings
Jr. Sens halted in semifinals of Junior A national championships The magical run of the Ottawa Jr. Senators came to an end at the hands of the eventual national champs in the semifinals of the RBC Cup, the junior A national championships. The Jr. Senators advanced to the championships after winning the Fred Page Cup,…
Ottawa Olympians return with renewed regard for how hard it is to hit the podium
By Dan Plouffe With Ottawa native and 2018 Olympic curling champion John Morris landing in Calgary (his long-time residence), there was no denying a tone of disappointment for the Ottawa Olympians returning home from the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games on Feb. 26. Many experienced injuries, equipment trouble and pure heartbreak as a number…
The ‘skeleton tree’ of supporters’ names on Mimi Rahneva’s sled inspires the self-made slider before every run
By Dan Plouffe When rocketing around corners down a frozen course at over 100 km/h, one wrong turn can be disastrous for a skeleton racer. But for Ottawa native Mimi Rahneva, a wrong turn wound up giving her skeleton career an instrumental twist on her path to the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. In the dead…
#OnlyOneLaneInBob: Olympic relay sprinter seeks to ease pain of 2012 disqualification
By Michael Sun Seyi Smith’s bobsleigh career only began a few months ago at the WinSport training facility in Calgary. The Olympic sprinter-turned-bobsledder had been training around other Olympic athletes to stay in shape after retiring from track two years ago. “The consistency from being around other athletes sort of brought me back into it,”…
DQed 2012 Olympic relay sprinter bursts into bobsled in Olympic Games year
Seyi Smith describes going down an icy chute in a bobsled like “somebody puts you into a trash can, throws you off a cliff, and then somebody’s sitting on your back on the way down.”
