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The 1994 Commonwealth Games/ Westshore Velodrome is no longer modern — only a concerted effort by the Island cycling community saved it — but it continues to produce world-class cyclists.

They are being dubbed the Island Games, but they won’t be on this Island. From rock to rock, Pacific FC will fly to Prince Edward Island to contest the 2020 Canadian Premier League pro soccer season.

Lisa Beare had $1.

With so many sports championships not awarded this year — from the Memorial to the Mann cups — it is perhaps an encouraging sign that there will be no gap in the history books for 2020 regarding the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ men’s amateur golf championship.

This is serious splashing, but it never seemed more joyful. Several of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s elite swimmers returned to training this month in Saanich Commonwealth Place pool. According to health authorities, including the U.S.

Golf will forever hold a place in the history of the recovery as the first sport to return. The nature of the game — no bodily contact with distancing inherently natural in play — made it so.

Embrace the moment, as difficult and uncertain as it is. That was Marnie McBean’s message in an open letter she sent to sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s Tokyo Olympic hopefuls Thursday on the one-year-out anniversary of the postponed Games.

Not even a pandemic can slow Sean Young’s progress. The emerging midfielder won the Jackson Cup, emblematic of Vancouver Island Soccer League supremacy, with upstart and first-time champions Westcastle United in 2019.

More than 60 Island-based athletes are expected in Canadian colours a year from today when the Tokyo Olympic Games open. Of course, they expected to be there today. Nobody could have anticipated a pandemic would overtake an unprepared world.

Dave Ravenhill, who played for the Victoria Vistas of the original professional Canadian Soccer League, died of a heart attack after a run Monday at age 57.