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The Victoria Royals and ­Vancouver Giants both played the Canadian Hockey League top-ranked Winnipeg Ice — with its three first-round NHL draft picks — tough this week in one-goal losses. But it is the measure of both sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The second-seed Rebels were 7-3 in the regular season, while the Okanagan Sun are undefeated.

The Victoria Grizzlies came from behind to down the Nanaimo Clippers 4-2 in BCHL play on Friday.

sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ captain Sophie De Goede of Victoria has pretty much been doing it all in the women’s rugby World Cup by dominating in the middle of the field and in the mauls from her centrally strategic No. 8 position.

Mel Pemble of Victoria, well on her way to becoming a rare athlete in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics, won the gold medal Friday and the rainbow jersey that goes with it in the women’s C3 scratch race at the 2022 UCI Para-cycling track w

There was the expected thunderous applause for Fred VanVleet, Pascal Siakam, Scottie Barnes and Nick Nurse during the recent Toronto Raptors training-camp intra-squad game at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

Victoria visits Nanaimo on Friday night