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The Esquimalt High School rugby players didn’t understand Portuguese. But they understood the international language of rugby as the Brazilian women’s sevens national team put on a clinic Wednesday at the school.

Pacific FC and Forge FC, who meet Wednesday at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, used similar templates when constructing their Canadian Premier League rosters. Both clubs aided their young Canadian talent with a veteran Canadian presence.

The standards are pretty steep when it comes to Reynolds Roadrunners soccer, on both the boys’ and girls’ sides.

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The Canadian national rowing team is more than just looking ahead to its future home base near Duncan after 2020. It’s already using it in a practical sense.

CLEVELAND — Erik Swanson didn’t run into any trouble until after his first major league win.

The Victoria Shamrocks have signed defenders Graeme Hossack and Adrian Sorichetti for the 2019 Western Lacrosse Association season. The two are considered by many as among the best back-line players in the game.

It’s more than a year away, but already Island athletes on Canadian national teams are about to discover if they are going to be headed to the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games or not.

Andrew McCain, proving to be a survivor, did not get voted off the Island.

There was a time you couldn’t browse through a Canadian national team rugby roster, right up to the World Cup, without glancing at the names of former Oak Bay High and St. Michaels University School alumni.