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Short-manned Pacific FC, down to 10 players, got a goal at 87 minutes from Marco Bustos to climb to the top of the Canadian Premier League standings with a death-defying 2-1 victory over Valour FC of Winnipeg.

Island athletes Jay Lamoureux, Gen Lalonde and Celina Toth cycled, ran and dove to fifth, 11th and 23rd place finishes, respectively, in the Tokyo Games on Wednesday. All will be able to tell their grandchildren they are Olympians.

Consider it the first marquee match-up of the 2021 Canadian Premier League season. Valour FC of Winnipeg is atop the table at 6-3 with second-place Pacific FC one point behind at 5-2-2. The clubs meet this evening at 6:30 p.m.

It isn’t so much the credible fifth- or sixth-place finish Jay Lamoureux of Victoria will come away with from the Tokyo Olympic Games. He says it’s more about what it will mean for the next generation of aspiring Island cyclists.

In a testament to how much the ground-breaking Boulders Gym meant to the then-fledgling sport of climbing during its formative years, 12 of the 40 climbers competing in the sport’s debut at the Tokyo Olympics have trained in the Central Saanich facil

The soaring joy on the women’s Olympic soccer pitch for sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ is tempered by the deflating lack of it on the hardwood.

Celina Toth made news during the Olympics without taking a dive. Or at least her boyfriend, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Jay Lamoureux of Victoria was convinced the Canadian track cycling pursuit team would find the form that got them to top four in the 2019 world championships, and a spot in the bronze-medal race against Denmark, before a dip to 12th place in the next

TOKYO — Canadian women’s soccer coach Bev Priestman said the goal for her squad at the Tokyo Games was to upgrade the colour of the medal it had won at the previous two Olympics.

Just 100 days before the Tokyo Olympics, Victoria rower Caileigh Filmer was in a dark place, unsure if she could even summon the will to pick up an oar.