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Lori Ewing Adam Hadwin, of Canada, chips to the second green during the first round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Matt Slocum January 20, 2021 - 9:57 AM The self-doubt and frustration snowballed for Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin last season. "I felt like there was a number of tournaments where all it was was a missed putt in a certain moment to either get some momentum or keep momentum, and I wasnt a...

Lori Ewing January 17, 2021 - 6:56 PM Six weeks after he skated his only competitive free program of a figure skating season wiped out by COVID-19, Roman Sadovsky watched the event play out alone in his basement apartment of his parents house. The suspense was agonizing, like throwing up a buzzer-beater with the game on the line, and having to wait six weeks to see if it drops through the hoop. "I sort of just cooped up down in my basement, my parents watched it upst...

Lori Ewing Oklahoma State forward Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe (12) shoots in front of Oral Roberts center Nate Clover III during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Stillwater, Okla. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Sue Ogrocki January 14, 2021 - 9:37 AM TORONTO - Early in Episode 1 of "Anyones Game," Tony McIntyre talks about the growth hed seen in Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe, an explosive six-foot-seven wing who arrived at Orangevill...

There were no judges to smile at, and no fans to cheer them on. It was very much like an every-day practice on their home rink — but completely different.Pi

The 20-year-old is one of hundreds of Canadian Olympic and Paralympic athletes whose laser focus on the Games was upended by the global pandemic.  “COVID has been the toughest competitor we’ve ever faced as a high-performance sport community,” said Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger. Led by double Olympic trampoline champion Rosie MacLennan, Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic teams took the bold stance of withdrawing from the Tokyo Summer Games two days before the Inte...

Lori Ewing Hakim Mohamed and his nine-year-old daughters, Amira, left, and Anisa, run up the hill at Riverdale Park in Toronto, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. With sports programs and gym classes shelved by COVID-19s second wave in Ontario, running allows his daughters to burn pent-up energy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin December 27, 2020 - 8:52 AM TORONTO - Every weekend, Hakim Mohamed and his nine-year-old twin daughters Amira and Anisa run. They head from their Rege...

Lori Ewing Corey Bellemore, shown here in this 2018 handout photo, realized he had an eating disorder after suffering his second stress fracture over the course of a couple of months last year. While Bellemore is on the mend, he can understand how eating disorders might be on the rise with the uncertainty around COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Athletics Canada-Claus Andersen *MANDATORY CREDIT * December 22, 2020 - 9:58 AM TORONTO - Corey Bellemores unhealthy thoughts...

Lori Ewing The Toronto Raptors and the Miami Heat tip off to start during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Tampa, Fla.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Chris OMeara December 22, 2020 - 1:25 PM Before team president Masai Ujiri placed the lucky toonie in the Raptors new practice floor, the team president held it aloft and said: "This is for the Tampa Bay Raptaneers." The joke was a reference to Torontos temporary NFL neighbours,...

Lori Ewing Natasha Wodak ofCanada celebrates winning the gold medal in the womens 10000m final during the athletics at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. Wodak finished fifth in The Marathon Project on Sunday and achieved the Olympic qualifying standard. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Martin Mejia December 20, 2020 - 2:43 PM In the middle of a global pandemic that cancelled almost every major marathon over the last nine months, Natasha Wodak felt ble...

Lori Ewing Canadian Cam Levins reacts as he crosses the finish line of the Toronto Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon in Toronto on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston December 18, 2020 - 12:14 PM Midway through the rainy, windy London Marathon in October, Cam Levins hands got so cold, he had to grip his water bottle with both hands to drink. A few kilometres on, his hands were so numb he couldnt hold the bottles at all, knocking them off the water sta...