World Chase tag

World Chase Tag

By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Picture this: you’re in your room at some chain hotel near Pearson International Airport, waiting for your flight home from Toronto. You turn on the sports channel, watching the Vancouver Canucks lose 5–2 to the Boston Bruins. Then, as the third period winds down, the program moves to a new sport you had never seen before. World Chase Tag (WCT) — a televised competitive parkour tag tournament. You’re amused and confused at the same time as the fast-moving athletes cross what is essentially a playground skeleton, turning elementary school games into competitive adult athletics. This…

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