athletes

A man in a Canadian uniform tearfully shakes hands with a woman. Hanging from his shoulders is a gold medal.
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Highlighting BC’s Paralympians

Peak Web October 3, 2024

By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer 39 Paralympians with ties to BC have just returned home from a successful trip to the Paris 2024 Paralympics. Riding off the high of the most prestigious world stage in sport — and hungry for competition — 11 of these BC-based Paralympians scooped up medals. Altogether, 126 paralympic athletes from the Canadian national team were named to the Paris 2024 games. Team Canada returned home with 29 medals — 10 gold, nine silver, and 10 bronze — tied with Rio 2016 as the most hardware won by Canadian Paralympians at any summer Paralympics to date. …

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The SFU Stadium
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SFU has failed its student athletes

Peak Web May 8, 2023

By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer SFU varsity teams have been making headlines this year for all the wrong reasons. Between scrapping the football program, to negligent management preventing swimmers from attending the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships — it’s…

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