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“It was real impersonal,” Jean-Nicolas Carrière says of the moment the Toronto Argonauts told him he was being released. “It was like, ‘Well, we gotta let you go, and that’s it.’read more
View ArticleOttawa bobsledder part of crew poised to be Canada’s best ever
Cody Sorensen is living an experience that is foreign to literally every other Ottawa athlete. The nation’s capital might have a couple decent toboggan hills, but it doesn’t compare to the kind of...
View Article‘The biggest rush I’ve ever felt’: former Gee-Gee
Imagine standing at the top of a mountain. You’re about to fly down an icy track to the bottom of that hill at well over 100 km/h. The possibility exists that you may not make it down in one piece.read...
View ArticleSorensen & Carrière begin slide season
Cody Sorensen’s sixth-place result in the Lake Placid four-man event was the top result for a pair of local Canadian World Cup bobsled team members in November’s North American World Cup stops. read more
View ArticleSorensen hungers for bobsled podium
The start of the bobsleigh season will begin quite differently for two Ottawa national team members looking to earn themselves an Olympic berth.read more
View ArticleNumerous Olympians own links to the Capital
A handful of athletes with past ties to the nation’s capital will be competing at the 2014 Olympics, while several local coaches and support staff are also headed to Sochi as part of the Canadian...
View ArticleNear-misses for many local Ottawa 2014 Olympic hopefuls
Along with the Sochi-bound athletes from Ottawa were almost an equal number who fell just short of representing Canada – one of the world's toughest Olympic lineups to crack – at the 2014 Winter...
View ArticleDelay getting real-world job worth the ride for Sorensen
He’d just finished university. He was an excellent hurdler for the Guelph Gryphons – a two-time All-Canadian – but he wasn’t quite world-class. He’d completed a business degree in industry and...
View ArticleBobsledder Sorensen itches to return from Olympic crash
Ottawa bobsledder Cody Sorensen’s Olympics weren’t much of a dream, it was more like a nightmare. On pace for the second-best time about two-thirds of the way through the course in the second run of...
View ArticleOlympic bobsledder Sorensen won’t compete this season
February 2014: Ottawa native Cody Sorensen was tearing down the Sochi bobsled track, on pace to move into contention for an Olympic medal. A moment later, a miscue in turn 14 sent the Canada-3 sled...
View ArticleSorensen stays on sidelines this slide season
The World Cup bobsleigh season kicked off in Germany at the end of November and for the second season in a row, Sochi 2014 Olympian Cody Sorensen was back home in Ottawa instead.read more
View ArticleRookie bobsledder slides into top international scene
Racing down a slick, ice-covered track at speeds of up to 150 km/h, twisting through multiple turns that throw sliders at nearly 90-degree angles, it’s no wonder why bobsleigh racers are deemed some of...
View ArticleNepean athlete ready to return to centre-stage at figure skating nationals
In 2014, Alaine Chartrand competed in the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in Ottawa, where the Nepean Skating Club product is set to return for the 2017 edition of the event from Jan....
View ArticleOh me, oh my, Mimi!
Ottawa native Mimi Rahneva continued the explosive start to her World Cup skeleton career by earning her first-ever gold medal on the elite international circuit at the sport’s birthplace in St....
View ArticleSportspage cover story: Rookie rocks slide scene
Netting 4 medals in her debut World Cup season, family the driving force behind rookie sensation’s skeleton careerread more
View ArticleSkeleton athlete 5th on Olympic track, 3rd overall for season
With a 5th-place performance on Mar. 17 at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic track, Ottawa-raised skeleton slider Mimi Rahneva finished her breakthrough rookie World Cup season ranked 3rd overall.read more
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