Saying Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are medal contenders for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games would be a bit of an understatement. Virtue and Moir are six-time Canadian National Champions; have two World Figure Skating golds; in 2009 received the first 10.0 awarded in dance in international competition; and were the youngest and first North American pair to win gold in ice dance at the...Read more

Patrick Chan will be headed to his second Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014 as a front runner to bring home gold for Canada. Fresh off his seventh first place finish at the Canadian Skating Championships, and as three-time reigning world champion Chan will be in pursuit of not one, but two Olympic medals with the introduction of the new team figure skating event that will debut in Sochi. Back in...Read more

Photo courtesy Polakoff Communications Once an athlete gets to a certain level, there become many more obligations and expectations of them beyond their performance on the field of play. Walking through the Media Mixed Zone at a major sporting competition is just one of those responsibilities. The Mixed Zone is designed to permit the broadcast and print media to “mix” with athletes for the...Read more

The 2011 SPIN (SPort INnovation) Summit is in its second day at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in downtown Toronto, Ontario. Canada’s greatest minds in sport science have come together for a conference focusing on premier applied sport science, sport medicine and research that services the high performance sport community. Themes this year include bullet proofing the 2012 Olympic Games plan (...Read more