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Most of the athletes for the Tokyo Olympics weren鈥檛 even born in 1984, the last time a Canadian team this large went to the Summer Games. The final roster of 371 Canadian athletes for the Tokyo Games, from July 23 to Aug.

Pacific FC is returning at long last to its namesake Pacific on July 30. PFC takes on Cavalry FC of Calgary at 6:30 p.m. that evening in what will be the first Canadian Premier League home soccer game at Starlight Stadium since the fall of 2019.

It鈥檚 been two years since anybody has heard the unmistakable squeak of sneakers on concrete lacrosse floors. That, and the other sounds and smells of boxla, will be plentiful as the Victoria Junior Shamrocks open their 2021 sa国际传媒

Patrick Keane of Victoria is with the current generation of 29 Canadian Olympic team rowers at its training camp in Sagamihara, Japan, preparing for this month鈥檚 Tokyo Games. But, with apologies to The Who, the kids are alright coming up behind him.

LONDON 鈥� Italian soccer鈥檚 redemption story is complete. England鈥檚 painful half-century wait for a major title goes on. And it just had to be because of a penalty shootout.

To paraphrase the title of the old movie, if this is Tuesday, it must be Burnaby. The sa国际传媒 Premier Baseball League is making up for time lost during the pandemic with each team playing 24 games in 30 days in a whirlwind 2021 season.

PACIFIC FC 3 YORK UNITED 0 In a sign of the reopening, Marco Bustos鈥� parents were on hand at IG Stadium as the Winnipeg native scored twice for Pacific FC in a 3-0 Canadian Premier League victory over York United on Saturday.

ENGLAND 70 CANADA 14 The fans at Twickenham on Saturday chanted 鈥淔ootball鈥檚 coming home,鈥� referring to that other game in another sport England will be playing today across town at Wembley. England proved not bad in rugby, either.

Depth is that measurable something, so important on team sports rosters, that Pacific FC (2-1-1) seems to have and it could be evident again today against York United (1-1-2) in the Canadian Premier League bubble at IG Stadium in Winnipeg at 2 p.m.

As we were saying before being so rudely interrupted. The last sporting event held in the province before the pandemic was the men鈥檚 sa国际传媒 Sevens at sa国际传媒 Place in March 2020.