SportsLife Canada - issue 2, 2017

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Now that the Olympic Games are held every two years instead of every four years, it’s easy for things to sneak up on us...... Championship events in recent months. Already, athletes have been travelling to PyeongChang for various test events, and in February, our top long track speed skaters competed for the first time on the Olympic ice at the Gangneung Oval. Manitoba’s own Canadian champion, Heather McLean was there and in this edition of SportsLife we’ll introduce you to the next great Canadian female speed skater, a young woman following in the blades of Cindy Klassen and Susan Auch. As well, thanks to the Canadian Centre for Sport Manitoba, we’ll offer up a photo page of the Manitoba athletes to watch at the Korean Winter Games. Granted, not all of them have earned places on our national Olympic team yet, but every one of them has a good chance over the next few months. In the meantime, we’ll also introduce you to basketball star Emmanuel Akot, seven top young football players heading to the U of M next fall, a marvelous boxing program at Winnipeg’s United Boxing Club and a junior speed skater named Tyson Langelaar. ....