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The future is cloudy for Orléans speedskaters
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Fred Sherwin
May 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit competitive athletes especially hard and none harder than Canada’s amateur athletes. Sports, all sports, have been suspended indefinitely, including speed skating. Three athletes with local roots are trying to make the best of a bad situation with upcoming season still very much in doubt; Ivanie Blondin, Isabelle Weidemann ans Nicholas de Haître. Read
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Ottawa golf courses caught in coronavirus limbo
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April 30, 2020
At this time of year, most golfers would normally be pulling their clubs out of storage, cleaning them off and heading to the local driving range in excited anticipation of the opening of the golf season. Read
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Orléans blind, deaf athlete trying to keep busy during COVID shutdown
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April 30, 2020
Trying to stay active while self-isolating is difficult for your average person. For athletes who normally split their time between dry-land training and working out in the gym, it is especially difficult, even more so when your gym has been closed indefinitely. Read
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Orleans Bengals football club undergoes rebranding
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April 1, 2020
The Orleans Bengals Football Club is now the Orléans Minor Football Association after the organization recently underwent a rebranding process lead by its new president Qasim Khan. Read
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Former St. Matt Tiger named CIS second team All-Canadian
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April 1, 2020
Former St. Matthew Tiger Brooklynn McAlear-Fanus became only the third Ottawa Gee-Gee female basketball player to receive All-Canadian honours last month when she was named to the Second Team of All Canadians for 2019-2020. Read
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