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Soccer, baseball and football players are holding out hope, as are NHLers and NBA players. Olympians have a belated Tokyo Summer Games next year.

Fate had Saturday鈥檚 weather turning out sunny and near flawless in a sort of cosmic taunt to the cancelled sporting, entertainment and cultural events around the Island.

Nothing is guaranteed regarding the pandemic, but FIBA is hoping for a semblance of normalcy next year.

Waiting out a pandemic at home in Langford is not the way Dylan Garand envisioned his NHL draft year playing out. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a strange scenario,鈥� said the Island goaltender. 鈥淣obody expected it to end like this.

The pipeline between Stanstead College boarding school in south-eastern Quebec and the Victoria Grizzlies continues to flow.

The premature last vestiges of the high school sports season played out this week with the announcement of the Sportvictoria.com Greater Victoria All-City boys鈥� high basketball all-star team.

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Swimmer Danielle Hanus, named top University of Victoria female athlete for the second consecutive year, expected to be training for a 2020 Tokyo Olympics that was supposed to happen in three months.

Patience is not only a virtue in waiting out a pandemic. It鈥檚 a must.

If this was a normal year, University of Victoria swimmers Danielle Hanus and Eric Hedlin would have just finished competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic trials in Toronto.