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TRI-CITY 4 VICTORIA 1 Tri-City leads series 2-0 It was a sombre day for hockey. But the sport goes on.

Matt Sharpe of Victoria gave it his all, only to watch the New Zealand runner cross the finish line in front of him for the bronze medal, in the triathlon mixed team relay event Friday of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

The Tri-City Americans, as big as they are skilled, have yet to lose a game in the 2018 Western Hockey League playoffs. And it doesn’t appear they intend to any time soon.

VANCOUVER — It was a sea of blue shirts and watery eyes.

Dillon Dubé, Kole Lind and Cal Foote of the Kelowna Rockets are considered future NHLers. But they were shut down tighter than a bank on the long weekend by the Tri-City Americans in a first-round playoff sweep.

Velodromes have historically been the white elephants of any set of summer Games. For instance, the 1976 Olympic velodrome is now the Montreal Biodome, a natural sciences museum.

The National Triathlon Training Centre in Victoria, established last year, recorded its first international multi-sport Games success of the post-Simon Whitfield era. Joanna Brown of Carp, Ont.

It is assumed that a rower good enough to sit in the pivotal stroke seat for fifth-place sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in the women’s eight at the 2016 Rio Olympics, would be good enough to rip it up in varsity competition.

The Victoria Royals are driving into the Elite Eight of the Western Hockey League playoffs for the fourth time in the past five seasons.

GOLD COAST, Australia — In an accidental case of the old empire striking back, Commonwealth Games organizers have listed England as part of Africa in the official program.