Day 11: The very best in photos
Highs and lows, from Derek Drouin to Gabrielle Douglas The post Day 11: The very best in photos appeared first on Macleans.ca.
View Article@simonwhitfield: #start to #finish at the London Games
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View ArticleNo. 1 fans: Inside Whitfield and van Kayak’s Olympic bromance
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Taking up the torch: van Koeverden and Oldershaw paddle to the podium
Canada's Mark Oldershaw canoes to bronze in the men's 1000-metre canoe single (C1) final. Sean Kilpatrick/CP Adam van Koeverden stood at the edge of the dock with tears in his eyes. Not the hot ones of...
View ArticleOf separatists and sport
Athletes will tell you sport and politics don’t mix, and it’s hard to blame them for peddling this fantasy—a defensive posture born of their desire to avoid distracting controversy. Believing it,...
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A fan’s guide to Thursday at the Games
(Pavel Kopczynski/Reuters) Pistorius’s last lap: Oscar Pistorius and his prosthetic legs were making headlines worldwide months before the Olympics. And the South African has continued to keep fans and...
View Article‘OMG! CANADA JUST WON!!!!!!!’
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View ArticleThe best photos from Day 13 of the Games
Everything from long jumpers and taxi drivers to men's water polo (great vantage point) The post The best photos from Day 13 of the Games appeared first on Macleans.ca.
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Katie Taylor: Ireland’s Golden Girl
Jack Guez/AFP/Getty It might have been London, but it wasn’t a home crowd. Even when Great Britain’s Nicola Adams made history, winning the 51kg gold and becoming the first Olympic women’s boxing...
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A bronze medal comeback for Canada’s soccer women
Hussein Malla/AP John Herdman, the English-born coach responsible for the rebirth of Canada’s national women’s soccer team, has a motivational picture in his home office. It’s a photo of team captain...
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Tonya Verbeek’s silver lining
Yuri Cortez/AFT/Getty Tonya Verbeek believed, and so did her coaches. That at London 2012, the time was ripe for David to take down Goliath. That Canada’s best women’s wrestler—and arguably the second...
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Usain Bolt’s magical mystery tour
Sean Kilpatrick/CP So there’s your defining performance of the London Olympics—and it wasn’t merely athletic. The British can treasure the Brownlee boys, or Jessica Ennis’s heptathlon win. The rest of...
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Damian Warner puts Canada back on decathlon map
Matt Dunham/AP Medals are nice, but the chance to watch an athlete burst with a flash onto the Olympic scene is one of the great attractions of the Games. Damian Warner’s debut was about as memorable...
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Big Olympic chill hits London
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Week one of the 2012 Games in East London’s Victoria Park, just a javelin’s throw from the Olympic site, and the queue for the zipline ride pretty much says it all: there isn’t...
View ArticleStrike the pose: Paying tribute to Bolt
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View ArticleDay 14 at the Games: The best in photos
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The longest bronze: Richard Weinberger swims to Canada’s 17th medal
Cameron Spencer/Getty There’s a saying in swimming that medals are won at practice, not races. Those years and years of dreary mornings between the bright lights of the Olympics or world championships,...
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Smile when your lungs are aching, smile when your heart is breaking
Ryan Remiorz/CP Synchronized swimming is one of the rare smiling sports at these the London 2012 Summer Games, which are usually more about pant, sweat, grimace and grunt. Smile when you win, smile...
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It’s the Geek Olympics, and British sports engineers are winning gold
Sergey Ponomarev/AP The French, who know a thing or two about cycling, have taken an intense and suspicious interest in Great Britain’s extraordinary success in all things bicycle at the London 2012...
View ArticleUnmissable: Samuel L. Jackson tweets on the Games
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View ArticleDay 15 at the Games: The best in photos
Wrestling, BMXing, plus some pretty great gymnastic moves with those clubs The post Day 15 at the Games: The best in photos appeared first on Macleans.ca.
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A fan’s guide to the end of the Games
Canada’s last paddle to the podium: Mark de Jonge in the 200-m heat at London 2012. (Jim Young/Reuters) A good chunk of Canada’s medals have come at Eton Dorney, the lake hosting all the majority of...
View ArticleA dozen babies do the Bolt
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Kayak sprint was tailor-made for power paddler Mark de Jonge
Three years before the start of the London Olympics, the International Canoe Federation gave Team Canada a figurative punch in the gut—or so it seemed at the time. The organization was dumping 500-m...
View ArticleDQ: The most unforgiving letters
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Christine Sinclair to carry Canada’s flag at the closing ceremony
LONDON – Christine Sinclair will carry Canada’s flag at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics. Sinclair was chosen after leading the women’s soccer team to a bronze medal. It was the first medal...
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Phelps: The greatest Olympian ever?
Al Bello/Getty Images When it was all over, they made him come back out for one last bow. Minutes after Michael Phelps had ascended to the top of the Olympic podium for what he promised was the final...
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The gold that dare not speak its name
Listen, the Olympics have been great and everything, and our athletes have a lot to be proud of and all that. And yes, as CTV keeps pointing out, our country has scored its highest-ever number of...
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Usain Bolt: ‘I’m the greatest, no matter what’
Julian Simmonds / Rex Features The day started with Chicken McNuggets and ended with three leggy members of the Swedish women’s handball team in his bedroom, although somewhere in between the...
View ArticleLondon Games: 16 tweets of Day 16
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View ArticleThe best photos from Day 15 of the Games
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The vindication of Mike Spracklen
Darren Whiteside/Reuters There’s no easy path to glory in coach Mike Spracklen’s world, as Rowing Canada knows to its great discomfort. There is only toil and pain, and finding the limits of your...
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Faster, higher … dirtier: What happened to Olympic sportsmanship?
Murad Sezer/Reuters Michelle Li and Alex Bruce are as modest as badminton players come. And by Olympic standards, badminton is a humble sport. Yet for three glorious days during the Olympics, Wembley...
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Good luck cashing in on those Olympic medals
Canada's Rosannagh MacLennan holds up her gold medal for the women's trampoline at the 2012 Olympic Games. (Ryan Remiorz/CP) Linda Nguyen, The Canadian Press TORONTO – Over the next few days, Canada’s...
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All aboard Team GB
Jeff J Mitchell/Getty It’s no exaggeration to say many Britons dreaded the start of these $14-billion Olympics, tallying the cost of a potentially disastrous exercise in bread and circuses as if...
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Simon Whitfield on carrying the flag, crashing, and carrying on
Photograph by Randy Qua Battered and bruised, Canadian flag- bearer Simon Whitfield sat down with a pint at a London pub to reflect on the close of this, his fourth Olympic Games. It wasn’t how the...
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Taking up the torch: why Canadians should celebrate London’s successes
Tim Wimborne/ReutersReuters In the quiet moment before his race began, Adam van Koeverden reached down to the hull of his kayak and used his finger to trace out the name: Simon Whitfield. His friend...
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Giving notice: revenge will be theirs
Paul Hackett/Reuters “The greatest knockout match in major-tournament football since 1982.” That was the unexpected headline of the Aug. 7 edition of the Guardian’s daily tea-time soccer column, The...
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Newsmakers 2012: Usain Bolt, pure gold
Ryan Remiorz/CP Just a touch over a minute and 18 seconds. That’s all the time Usain Bolt actually spent running at the London Olympics. Three 100-m sprints, three 200-m runs, and the anchor leg of the...
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London (Olympics) Calling
Julian Finney/ Getty Images Olympic gold? Speechless When trampolinist Rosie MacLennan of King City, Ont., won Canada’s first (and only) Olympic gold, the 23-year-old was shell-shocked: “I’m not sure...
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