The smile smeared across Dione Wearmouth’s face gave it all away.
With two podium finishes at Skate Canada’s Alberta-NWT/Nunavut STARSkate Championships — Wearmouth’s biggest competition of the year — the 10-year-old Cochranite could barely contain her excitement.

Of the roughly 200 Canadian athletes competing in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics perhaps none were under more pressure than Jennifer Heil.
The defending Olympic champion in women’s moguls, Heil was widely pegged by the media as most likely to win Canada’s first-ever gold medal on home soil.

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Local lugers Tristan Walker and Justin Snith serve as perfect examples of how age is just a number. At 18 years old, the two will compete together in the Vancouver Olympics before thousands of Canadian fans. Regardless of what happens on the world’s biggest athletic stage, Feb. 17 will be a day [...]

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The signs of a gifted young hockey player are all there.
A team-first mentality, the ability to compete against more experienced players and a knack for putting the puck in the net. And the best part of all is that she’s just 14 years of age.

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Cochrane archer James Webster doesn’t need a mirror to correct the finer points of his pre-shot routine, his twin brother Mark does it for him.
The two 15-year-olds, who have been perfecting their skills with a bow every day for roughly seven years, are classified as mirror-image twins, meaning they are identical, but [...]