Safe Dragonfly

Elliot Vaillancourt has announced his retirement 
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWrZ9Ycjsb6/?igsh=aHE0dW85MWh0MDVt

Bosnia and Herzegovina will be the fourth team in our World Cup group.
 
I honestly don't think I've seen a worse effort from the Italians before like that lmao

Kingsbury is retiring after the National Championships this weekend 

Medal for Lia and Trennt guaranteed!

Medal for Lia and Trennt guaranteed!

Medal for Lia and Trennt guaranteed!

Medal for Lia and Trennt guaranteed!

Medal for Lia and Trennt guaranteed!

Christa Deguchi has announced her retirement 

Some clown edited Wikipedia to say that Christopher Morales Williams was now representing  and that gave me a mini heart attack before I fact checked it xD

Dandjinou got first in 1000M but got penalized and disqualified 
 
Poor dude just can't catch a break this year 

Canada defeated by Japan (62-66). Now things have been complicated

Lol. 
 
What year to be a Canadian sports fan. 
 
Congratulations to Venezuela! 

Federal government planning to revamp funding for Canadian athletes, says Carney | CBC News

Wheelchair curling team with a 6-3 win over Korea, improves to 8-0 and locks up first in the group!

Gold for Howden at the Montafon WC! 6th for Jared Schmidt, and 4th for Hannah Schmidt in the women's event

We bounced back in the 2nd day vs 
 
 

No matter what happens against the US, I'll be very happy with how this tournament went and I'm incredibly proud of all the players. This team proved that it's the deepest Canadian roster assembled and how far Canadian baseball has come even within the last 10 years. It would've been crazy to think that Canada would be capable of beating teams like Puerto Rico and Cuba back then.
 
I'm not sure if anyone here watched the 2017 WBC but that Canadian team may have legitimately been the worst team I've ever seen. It was a complete trainwreck.
 
You had a 39 year old Ryan Dempster (who was somewhat good in in his prime) as the #1 starting pitcher WHO HADN'T PITCHED AT ANY PROFESSIONAL LEVEL for the last 4 years. He starts Game 1 and gets absolutely shelled by the Dominican Republic. And because the pitching on the team is so bad, he is FORCED TO START 3 DAYS LATER against the US and gets shelled again You had a 41 year old Eric Gagne (who was pretty good in his prime although he had some help with steroids) come out of retirement. He hadn't pitched in the MLB for the last 8 years. Russell Martin, who is a catcher, was scheduled to be the teams starting shortstop before he withdrew Pete Orr, who retired in 2015 and was at that time, a coach for the Milwaukee Brewers, came out of retirement and was the teams starting 2nd baseman The rest of the lineup and pitching (beside Freddie Freeman), as you would expect was also a complete mess. I believe Freeman was the only active MLB player who was in the lineup. Justin Morneau is a Canadian legend but he's hitting 2nd at 35 years old, then that's not great. And Tyler O'Neill (who's on this current team) was hitting 3rd when he was just 21 years old.  
Anyway's, all that to say is that this comparing this 2016 team to that 2017 team is night and day. We finally are able to field an all MLB starting lineup and the pitching was a pleasant surprise. They actually had the 2nd lowest earned run average of all 20 teams during pool play. The offenses in this pool are arguably weaker overall this is also without some of the best Canadian pitchers like Cade Smith, Matt Brash, Nick Pivetta, Erik Sabrowski, and Jonah Tong.
 
Hopefully, this WBC run along with the Blue Jays World Series run can help inspire a new generation of Canadian baseball players

Canada beat Puerto Rico 3-2! Big game against Cuba tomorrow

Damn I know these are very different situations but man it really took our Paralympic team two days to do what our Olympics team needed a week for

Wilkie!! 

Gold in the women's individual standing in para biathlon for her 9th Paralympic medal!

Bronze for Turner in men's LL1 snowboard cross
 
Still disappointing, but I'll take the podium 

Silver for Arendz in the men's individual standing in para biathlon! 13th Paralympic medal!

DOUBLE podium for  at the 2026 World Junior Figure Skating Championships! !!!!
🥇 Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov
🥈 Jazmine Desrochers / Kieran Thrasher
 
Ava Kemp & Yohnatan Elizarov make history for Canada!!  first Junior World Pairs title since 1978!!!
 

 

 

 

Tyler McGregor and Natalie Wilkie have been named opening ceremony flagbearers!