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The race, held along a 125-mile network of canals connecting 11 towns and cities in northern Friesland province, would cause a national frenzy, drawing thousands of participants and more than a million spectators.

Vic Ferguson, who saved Hurmija Mujic from Srebrenica when she was 12, needs to raise A 15,000 to help fulfil her dream Vic Ferguson, who served with Nato peacekeepers in Bosnia and spent his leave trying to help children caught up in the war.

"I would concur with his opinion," said Fraser Bullock, SLOC's Chief Operating Officer.

American Julia Mancuso won her first Super-G in five years in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as an error by compatriot Lindsey Vonn meant the overall World Cup leader failed to finish.

MOSCOW The Canadian short-track speed skating team capped an impressive weekend with a four-medal performance at a World Cup on Sunday.

A day after winning the gold medal in the two-man event, Rush and his crew took bronze in the four-man event Saturday at a World Cup event at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

Therese Johaug took her first individual World Cup victory for nearly 11 months - and only second ever - after dominating the women's 2 x 7.5 kilometre double pursuit in Rybinsk.

Canada is "disappointed in the extreme" that China and Russia have vetoed a United Nations Security Council condemning the Syrian government's crackdown on civilian protests, Foreign... One of the more absurd ironies of the Northern Gateway pipeline hearings is that the Harper government, which ardently backs the project, is giving taxpayer money ... (more)

Mikael Kingsbury won a silver medal in dual moguls at the FIS Freestyle World Cup on Saturday, but the result was bittersweet for the Canadian freestyle skiing star.

There is much consternation and disbelief in the international defence industry after India last week picked the French Rafale fighter-bomber in a 126-plane, $15 billion deal, writes foreign affairs specialist Jonathan Manthorpe in Monday's Vancouver Sun.

The Dow Chemical Co. may be a Worldwide Olympic Partner, but the Midland-based company's presence at the London games starts on the ground level.

Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, celebrates after winning an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Saturday, Feb.

Valerie Maltais, of Canada, shown here competing at the short-track World Cup event in Utah last October, took home a bronze medal on Saturday.

In a great day for Canadian skiing, Jan Hudec won a World Cup downhill for a surprising victory while teammate Erik Guay finished third in piercing cold over an icy slope.

Jan Hudec made the most of an icy slope and freezing conditions to seal a surprising victory in Saturday's World Cup downhill ? more than four years after his last win in an injury-plagued career.

"I only watch the news" translates as "I'm a complete basket case this time of year when Bachelor Pad and Big Brother are on hiatus." "I'm a devotee of CBS Sunday Morning " means "I can recite the names of all the Real Housewives from everywhere." "I stopped watching when Oprah ended her show" is false-speak for "If my DVR wasn't recording Dance ... (more)

A man who killed 100 sled dogs has received not a prison sentence but workers' compensation from a British Columbia agency.

Jeremy Abbott finishes his program in the Senior Men's Short Program during the 2012 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose on Jan.

During a season in which very little as gone right for Ryan Miller and the Buffalo Sabres , the goalie prefers hedging his bets on when -- or even whether -- he'll catch Dominik Hasek in the franchise record book.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland &#8212 The IOC awarded Japanese broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics to a national consortium Friday in a $472 million deal.