Book by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas who's work will be displayed at Vancouver's 2010 Olympic winter sports arena. (Douglas and McIntyre) VANCOUVERThe rich cultures and traditions of Canadas Aboriginal peoples, depicted through works of art, will be showcased when the world visits Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Games. As part of the 2010 Aboriginal Arts program, each of the 15 Olympic and Paralympic venues will incorporate works by Canada's diverse Aboriginal artists.

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Marie-Eve Drolet is hoping for an Olympic podium finish next winter despite a six-year absence from short-track speedskating that followed her relay bronze at the Salt Lake Winter Games in 2002. It took her less than a year to reclaim a spot on the national team and now she has her eye on the final roster going to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. My times are even faster than they were before, said Drolet.I feel pretty confident.

Publication: Calgary Herald
Date: Wednesday July 29th, 2009
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Canadian men's Olympic hockey team head coach Mike Babcock (C) flanked by team executive director Steve Yzerman (L) and Kevin Lowe, general manager of the Edmonton Oilers, listen during a news conference in Montreal, June 25, 2009. Babcock was handed the toughest assignment at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Steve Yzerman wants to strike a competitive balance. He wants versatile players who are as good without the puck as with it.

Publication: Canada.com
Date: Tuesday July 28th, 2009
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It wasn't the greatest score but in the end it didn't cost me too much.'In women's trampoline, Toronto's MacLennan, seventh at the Olympic Games, lead after the prelims with a score of 66.90.'My routine went pretty good,' she said. 'I travelled a bit in my optional but I managed to pull it back to the middle. I would really like to improve my standing from the Olympics at worlds and I'm working on new orders and routines and see what works best.'Other Canadians leading after prelims are Anita...

'We are extremely excited to be hosting the highest calibre of Canadian field hockey players in this age group,' said Field Hockey Ontario president Ann Doggett. 'These championships are an important event in the development of young field hockey players.' The winning teams will represent Canada at the Pan American Qualifier for the right to participate in the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore. The tournament opens with a women's match between BC White and Alberta at 8 a.m. The first men's game...

Athletics Canada named its team Tuesday for the meet Aug. 15-23 in Berlin, a day after the deadline to achieve the Canadian qualifying standards. The team also includes Gary Reed of Kamloops, B.C., who was fourth in the 800 metres at the Beijing Olympics, and Dylan Armstrong, also of Kamloops, who was fourth in the shot put in Beijing. Canada has teams in the 4x100 men's relay - sixth last summer in Beijing - and 4x400 women's relay, plus the men's marathon World Cup, which is being held in...

Most days, the 1984 Summer Olympics are a lifetime ago for Alex Baumann. But sometimes, the Los Angeles Games seem like they happened yesterday.

Baumann swam for two gold medals and set two world records at the L.A. Games, which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the opening ceremonies yesterday.

"It seems just like yesterday," Baumann said in a telephone interview from Ottawa, where he is an executive director of the Canadian Olympic Committee's Own the Podium program. "You always think back...

I was expecting to lower the Canadian record. The finals will be all about racing and I won't be concerned with the time as much. I just want to go in there and hopefully be on the podium, added Cochrane, who won bronze in the 1,500-metre freestyle event at last summer's Olympic Games in Beijing. Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli had the best time in Tuesday's 800-metre showdown, touching the wall in 7:41.82 seconds.

Publication: Times Colonist
Date: Wednesday July 29th, 2009
Source: http://www.timesc...

'She had the fastest girl in the world right beside her and she never lost control. She always kept focused on the main goal, which was to make the final. '(Tuesday) is a new ball game.' Pierse, who was sixth in the 200m breast-stroke final at last summer's Beijing Olympics, is having a giant year in her development. Earlier this year, she broke the world record in the 200 breast-stroke short course event. And she bettered her Canadian long course records as well in both the 100 and 200...

Canadian Alex Baumann, who won two swimming gold medals and set a pair of world records at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, said FINA needed to act to keep any sort of integrity for the world records. 'In the end you want to make sure it is based on the talent of the individual and the hard work of the individual, not on the suit they purchase,' Baumann, who is now executive director of Own the Podium Summer.

Publication: CBC
Date: Wednesday July 29th, 2009
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/amateu...