After opening her Olympic season with smaller meets in and around her training base of Windsor, Melissa Bishop took a two lap tour of Rome's Olympic Stadium on Thursday as she continues her Road to Rio. The reigning world silver medalist finished seventh ...
Bishop and Gale Sizzle on Track
The track was on fire this weekend with some superb performances by Lions athletes, including a new club record by Melissa Bishop in the 1500m and sprint sweep by Lauren Gale at the Colorado 4A State Championships. Bishop opened her outdoor season much th ...
Brown Breaks Canadian Records
While her peers were trying to qualify for the Ottawa high school championships last week, Larissa Brown was looking to take another step towards this summer’s Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Competing at the IPC Desert Challenge in Tempe, Arizona ove ...
Successful weekend south of the border
A small contingent of athletes culminated their US spring tour on Friday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. Leading the way was Devyani Biswal finished second in the 100m hurdles in a time of 13.85 seconds - missing out on gold by 0.01 seconds.Biswal also ...
Jacques Record Highlights Weekend Results
The first big weekend of the summer track season went off with a bang for Ottawa Lions' athletes as a sprinter Farah Jacques re-wrote the record book with a stunning performance at the Florida Relays in Gainesville. Racing over 200m, Jacques produced a ne ...
NEDOW LOOKING TO BE A BIG SHOT IN PORTLAND
Canadian athletes had an outstanding time at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015, taking eight medals across a variety of events, and while Tim Nedow finished a modest 20th in the men’s shot put qualifiers, he was infected by the ebullient spirt tha ...
McCulloch breaks Canadian Record
At the New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York City last night, grade 11 student Shona McCulloch ran her way to a bronze medal with a time of 16:31.22 - 0.08 seconds faster than the previous Canadian Junior best set by Heather Petrick in 2014. WIth her n ...
Lions pick up two more gold on second day of Championship Weekend
It was another successful day on Championship weekend as Lion athletes picked up another two gold on Saturday. Both victories came from Carleton University athletes as the school finished participating in the first RSEQ Conference Championship. Telvin Tav ...
Two Gold to Start Championship Weekendi
It's conference championship weekend across North America, and Lions athletes kicked things off Friday with two golds, a silver and two bronze. Highlighting the list of accomplishments on Friday was Devyani Biswal, a fifth year math and economics student, ...
Melissa Bishop has record-breaking start to her pre-Olympic season
Melissa Bishop has won her last three races and broke the Canadian indoor record twice in the last three days. Talk about a perfect way to kick off an Olympic year for the world championship silver medallist in the women’s 800 metres. “Obviously, it feels ...