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It was an all-around impressive showing by the Falcon Gymnastics club at last weekend’s sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships at the Port Coquitlam Recreation Complex.

The 2018 Fred Cyclone Taylor Cup, named after the early sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ hockey legend and hall of famer, begins today in Richmond, although the Campbell River Storm have already won something significant.

The Corridor has delivered its first medal of what should be many to come.

The parade has ended for the Victoria Royals in the second round of the Western Hockey League playoffs for the fourth time in the past five years.

Two former U Sports stars — basketball’s Conor Morgan of Victoria and former University of Victoria Vikes field hockey goalkeeper Kaitlyn Williams — are having stellar runs for sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

The Cowichan Capitals, the lone team in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League to miss the playoffs this season, are looking to improve and have turned the rebuild over to an old BCHL hand.

You can’t buy a reputation. It must be earned. The Victoria Grizzlies of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League have to be glad they have a good one. It has netted them another prize recruit in forward Jack O’Leary.

Pundits can talk about the valiant rally that fell short, or the four goal posts the Victoria Royals hit, but it was still a playoff loss with no more losses left to give.

The passing-of-the-torch metaphor is probably the most over-used in sports. That’s because the new superseding the old is inevitable on any team and in any organization.

The Humboldt Broncos bus crash brought rushing back to University of Victoria athletic director Clint Hamilton memories of another sports-travel tragedy that still feels fresh and cuts deep.