The Beijing games will be remembered as the game where China has won more medals than ever (51 golds out of 100 medals won), where Michael Phelps became the first athlete to win eight medals at the same Olympics, where Usain Bolt is winning both the 100 and the 200 meters in world record time.
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In the individual equestrian show jumping competition, Eric Lamaze has won the gold with a horse named Hickstead.
This is the first Olympic gold medal for Canada in individual equestrian show jumping and just the second since 1975, when Michel Vaillancourt won silver at the Montreal games.
Eric was also member of the Canadian team that won [...]
Four more medals have been added today to the Canadian medal collection, bringing the total number of medals to 13. This is already better than the result of the Athens Olympic Games, when the Canadian athletes return with 12 medals.
Simon Whitfiel from BC, the Olympic champion in triathlon at the last games, has came second [...]
Today Canada has won two silver medals, one in the team jumping equestrian competition and the other in women’s trampoline.
Karen Cockburn has received her third Olympic medal, when she stepped on the podium of the women’s trampoline.
The equestrian team was lead by Ian Miller, from Perth Ontario, who at 61 was at his eight Olympic [...]
The spell is broken! Canadian athletes demonstrate in front of the world that they are capable of winning.
The men’s eight rowing team has arrived first at the finish line in front of the British and the American team. The Canadian men’s eight rowing team was composed of Ben Rutledge of Cranbrook, B.C., Kevin Light of [...]
Saturday, August 16th, the 8th day of the Olympic games, finally Canadian athletes got to stand on the podium. In one day we got 3 medals:
- Carol Huynh win gold in free style wrestling against Japan’s Chiharu Icho with a score of 4-0 and 2-1,
- Carol Huynh’s colleague Tonya Verbeek win bronze in the [...]
We are close to the end of the first week of the XXIX Olympiad, a game that started with a grandiose opening. Apart the fact that there was some CGI and lip sync involved, it was still the most amazing opening ceremony ever made for an Olympic game. We could witness the astonishing performance of [...]
10 used to be the score that every gymnast dreamed to attain, it used to be awarded to those that attained the perfection, the nirvana in this sport.
For a long time it was considered as a theoretic score that can not be attained. Up until the 1976 Olympic Games of Montreal, the scoring panels would [...]