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Callum Montgomery of Lantzville had an adventure Sunday as his first national team experience came to a sudden halt, one step short of the Tokyo Olympics.

The three twilight track meets at Centennial Stadium over the late winter and spring, the last of which was conducted Saturday, produced some dramatic results among athletes who will be in Tokyo this summer for the Olympics and Paralympics.

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You might think, hailing from Penticton, that Adam Evanoff would have had the shortest trek to Kelowna for the Victoria Royals鈥� Western Hockey League season.

A term heard often in sports is about 鈥済etting to the next level.鈥� The Pacific FC players got to experience the next level on Friday in an integrated training session with the Vancouver Whitecaps of Major League Soccer at UBC Thunderbird Stadium.

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It was only 10 games, but Pa-Modou Kah made them count. Pacific FC management saw enough over the abbreviated 2020 Canadian Premier League soccer season 鈥� played in a bubble in Charlottetown, P.E.I. 鈥� to offer head coach Kah a contract extension.

The rival Kelowna Falcons have tossed in their bats, gloves and balls, but the Victoria HarbourCats and Nanaimo NightOwls still plan on swinging for the fences.

It鈥檚 more than a mere footnote to Victoria Royals general manager and head coach Dan Price. 鈥淭here will be no asterisks on this season as far as we鈥檙e concerned,鈥� he said. The message is loud and clear: Everybody is taking the pandemic-abbreviated B.

Injuries are the wildcard in sports that can alter the trajectory of tournaments and even seasons. Teams plan for them by making sure to build in roster depth, but they can鈥檛 be planned for in terms of specific players.