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A great runner remembered

The official fired his starting pistol and Tom Longboat, the world's best marathon runner, let his young Saskatchewan opponent take the early lead.
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Riding with pride

The Olympics have come and gone.
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Role models going miles for youth

Motivate, inspire, lead, empower and succeed.
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Arctic Winter Games: "Our Olympics"

At the opening ceremony of the Arctic Winter Games more than 2,000 circumpolar athletes marched into the Canada Games Arena in Grande Prairie, Alta., waving the flags of their homeland.
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Olympic stage inspires youths

Vanessa Sanguez will never forget performing in front of close to 20,000 people during the Olympics.
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Youth pride at the Vancouver Winter Olympics

Last week, I gave a presentation to the Nipawin Rotary Club.
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Sports, crafts inspire aboriginal youth

Games of snow snake, Métis aerobics and native crafts made for a diverse and busy day for about 140 students yesterday.
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Two Sto:lo women to carry Paralympic flame

Two local First Nations women have been honoured with the opportunity to carry the Paralympic flame[...]
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Former NHLer Joe Juneau, a senior COC official, runs Inuit hockey school

Joe Juneau has seen it from both sides of the fence.
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Hockey thrives in all of Canada, including aboriginal reserves

Droplets of blood are beginning to ooze from the welt under A.J. Speck's left eye, the result of an accidental — or not — high-stick delivered by his 9-year-old brother, Matthew.

Young Iqaluit woman to guide North Pole ski trek

A 23-year-old Iqaluit woman is poised to become one of the youngest people ever to lead an expedition to the North Pole.
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Toquaht youth Morgan has Olympic moment at opening ceremonies

Toquaht First Nation member Tess Morgan, 20, was one of 320 aboriginal youth to dance at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics opening ceremonies on Feb. 12 at B.C. Place.
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Olympics model of partnering with First Nations

Two aboriginal women are competing at the Olympics in Vancouver.
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Calling curling in Cree, Chinese

Curling fans love to watch their sport on television.
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Shamattawa hockey gets boost

Jeff Napoakesik is looking forward to "Hockey Night In Shamattawa," which he hopes will be happening real soon.
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2010 Olympics' Aboriginal Pavilion showcases unprecedented partnership

The Four Host First Nations welcomed the world to the 2010 Olympics with the opening Monday of the Aboriginal Pavilion in downtown Vancouver.
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Pain, endurance rewarded with handshakes over medals at Arctic Winter Games

Long ago in ancient Greece, men paid tribute to the gods with Olympic sports like sprinting, long jump, javelin and discus throw.
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'World's biggest potlatch' underway: Four Host First Nations CEO

The 2010 Aboriginal Pavilion is ready to receive a projected 100,000 visitors and organizer Tewanee Joseph says the venue is about to make history.
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Aboriginal Hockey Showcase well worth the rush

There was a mad rush to make it happen, but organizers are thrilled with the Aboriginal Hockey Showcase they were able to stage in Saskatoon.
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Inuktitut broadcast broadens the hockey lexicon

At the top of Canada, in an Arctic hamlet so far north that the sun has not yet risen in 2010, Annie Audlaluk sat in front of her television, hit the mute button, and turned on the radio.
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Runners keep it Riel during Year of the Metis

Nineteen staff members of Metis Nation British Columbia will be “Keeping it Riel” when they don their torchbearer outfits and run with the Olympic flame today in Quesnel.
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First Nations cyclist carries Olympic torch to set an example

Sport has always been a major part of Elijah Buffalo's life, so when he got the chance to run with the Olympic torch, he leaped at it.
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Aboriginal sport expert guiding Olympic centre

The International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS) went to a former varsity athlete, three-time Western graduate and Aboriginal sport expert when selecting a new director.
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Raven's Song returns for Olympic journey; Canoe was carved from a 600-year-old cedar tree for the Commonwealth Games

His dream was to carve a cedar canoe to join the tribal journey to Victoria's Commonwealth Games, but Bill Helin never expected his treasured Raven's Song would again be honoured at the 2010 Olympic Games.
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New studio puts an Aboriginal spin on fitness

Drawing on experience from her upbringing on Alberta’s Goldfish Lake reserve, Beverley Sunday is challenging indigenous stereotypes and addressing a health epidemic with the opening of Ottawa’s first aboriginal fitness studio.
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Right to Play takes hockey north

A sports organization known for its mission to build self-esteem in children from impoverished and war-torn nations is coming to a northern Ontario aboriginal community struggling with a teen suicide crisis.
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Day 81 a unique setting for torch relay

The arrival of the Olympic torch at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Monday burned away the centuries between the ancient athletes of southern Alberta --the Buffalo Runners-- and today's Olympians.
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TIM HORTONS HOCKEY DAY IN CANADA will broadcast an NHL game in the language of Inuktitut

For the first time ever, TIM HORTONS HOCKEY DAY IN CANADA (January 30, 2010) will broadcast an NHL game in the language of Inuktitut.
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Sasakamoose worth celebrating in NHL lore; League's first native player deserves attention

While so many of these "special nights" Western Hockey League teams use tend to be self-serving and geared toward lifting attendance, the Kamloops Blazers used one to do something pretty special Wednesday night.
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Opportunity of a lifetime for torchbearers

Employees spilled out of nearby office buildings here to watch Trona Wheaton carry the torch Tuesday morning in Prince Albert.
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Yukon First Nations Youth Contingent for Vancouver 2010 Olympics

8 First Nations Youth (19-29) from around the Yukon got chosen to be a part of the Yukon Contingent for Vancouver 2010.
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Torch bearer hopes to be an Olympian

A competitive snowboarder with the First Nations Snowboard Team (FNST), Treanna Delorme, will carry the Olympic torch for one kilometre in Lillooet on Feb. 6.
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