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Nothing better illustrates the boom-and-bust cycle of major-junior hockey than the fact the Victoria Royals feel comfortable in giving 16-year-old goaltender Brock Gould his first career WHL start tonight against the defending league champions.

As signs go, this was a good one. Victoria-based Triathlon sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ has targeted a medal in the mixed relay event being introduced in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Canadian head coach John Herdman has a job opening. It’s for the backup position to starting goaltender Milan Borjan on the road to 2022 World Cup Qatar qualifying.

The hosts took the lead in the men’s event, and were within striking distance on the women’s side Monday after the first day of the two-round Vikes Shootout golf tournament at Cordova Bay.

Seventh heaven turned into a bit of hockey hell for the Victoria Royals. The Royals went 7-0 to start for the second consecutive Western Hockey League season. But on the eighth game, they tasted defeat in both 2017-18 and again this season.

It was déjà vu for the Victoria Grizzlies on Saturday night at Weyerhaeuser Arena.

VICTORIA 3 VANCOUVER 2 (OT) The Victoria Royals found seventh heaven Saturday night.

There were hopes Saturday for the first Canadian winner of Ironman Hawaii since Peter Reid of Victoria captured the last of his three titles in 2003.

Olympic champion Kevin Martin returned to the province of his greatest triumph on Saturday as he conducted a clinic at Archie Browning Sports Centre for admiring Island curlers of all ages.

Near-perfect conditions greeted the 450 rowers, from 24 nations, who gathered for the 2018 FISA world coastal rowing championships off Sidney’s Tulista Park. The thing is, many coastal racers revel in the challenge of wind and choppy swells.