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What many in sports saw as a gap in logic has been rectified. Nineteen and 20-year-old junior hockey players are again allowed to practice with their younger teammates.

Goaltender Dylan Garand of Langford, former Victoria Grizzlies captain Alex Newhook and Victoria Royals forward Keanu Derungs are the latest in a line of players with Island ties to dress in the world junior hockey championship.

Perhaps fitting for a guy who hails from a nation with a famous multi-use army knife, Keanu Derungs can play both wings for the Victoria Royals. And also now for the Swiss junior national hockey team in the 2021 IIHF world championship.

There is an adage about good things coming to people who wait. Patience, plus performance, have paid off for Marco Bustos of Pacific FC as he has received his first invitation to a Canadian national team soccer camp since 2017.

Natasha Wodak won鈥檛 officially be counted as among the 75 Island or Island-based athletes expected to compete in the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics next summer. But the North Vancouver resident is still a Prairie Inn Harrier at heart.

If any of the opposing coaches are wondering how to strategize against Canadian defenceman Bowen Byram in the 2021 IIHF world junior championship tournament, they might want to drop a line to Victoria Royals GM and head coach Dan Price.

Cam Levins of Black Creek will put one foot in front of the other Sunday in The Marathon Project race on the Gila River Reservation in Chandler, Arizona, and hope it carries him across the Pacific to Tokyo.

It鈥檚 a sa国际传媒-spanning junior hockey storyline like few others, in terms of distance from one Mile 0 to the other Mile 0.

With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying the vaccine 颅rollout will be complete by 颅September 2021, sport is expected to be in the midst of a re-emergence by next fall. But the organizers of the 2021 Victoria 55-plus Games, scheduled for Sept.

Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre could stay dark, at least for the Victoria Royals, well into the new year. The Western Hockey League season has been delayed indefinitely due to the pandemic. It was set to begin Jan.