Sports and Recreation

Vancouver bike lanes draw unnecessary lines

I’ve been reading the papers with interest this week, as city hall made public plans to introduce more bike lanes in areas heavily used by cyclists and notorious for accidents and altercations between cyclists and motorists: Cornwall Avenue/Point Grey Road and Commercial Drive.

Sports

PHOTO GALLERY/STORY: Ross Street sports festival launches summer kabaddi season

A professional game of tag for tough guys, kabaddi is an ancient Indian contact sport drawn from wrestling, hand-to-hand combat and evasion tactics punctuated by a fleet-footed dash to the goal line.

Patrick brothers were hockey game-changers

Clubs around the National Hockey League are celebrating Vancouver-not the Canucks, but the innovations of two Vancouverites responsible for hockey as we know it today.

PHOTO GALLERY/STORY: Women's soccer Team Canada balanced, confident, fun

Eat, sleep, practise. Polish toenails. Practise. Play.

Soccer's Woeller an 'unsung hero'

Gran Fondo tip: take time, finish strong

One of the most common mistakes people make when they train for an endurance event is to not give themselves enough time.

Kyle Nguyen captures national wrestling silver

John Oliver Joker Kyle Nguyen will be a Wesman in September. The high-achieving captain of the high school wrestling team committed this week to the University of Winnipeg.

John Oliver's Nguyen commits to University of Manitoba Wesmen

John Oliver Joker Kyle Nguyen will be a Wesman in September. The high-achieving captain of the high school wrestling team committed this week to the University of Winnipeg.

High school hoops get AAAA tier

High school boys basketball in B.C. will introduce a fourth AAAA tier but will not create a distinct regional zone in the Lower Mainland for independent schools such as St. George's and Vancouver College...

SFU finally gets its man: Tupper grad Lum

In an exhibition game last November, the NCAA Div. II Simon Fraser University Clan led the PacWest Capilano Blues 55 to 35 at the start of the second half.

Women's national basketball team shoots for Olympics by winning each day

One phrase says it all for Allison McNeill: Win the day.

Q&A: National women’s basketball coach McNeill talks Twitter, player chemistry and funding a high-performance Olympic team

As the head coach of Canada’s senior women’s basketball team, Allison McNeill has a singular goal of getting to the London Summer Games.

PHOTO GALLERY/STORY: Vancouver bamboo bikes up the green commuting ante

Bamboo is pretty amazing stuff.

In Jock and Jill: Point Grey secondary’s Andrew Mavety to play for Queen’s University

Mavety to Queens ... Point Grey guard Andrew Mavety, who averaged 30 points a game for the Greyhounds this year and turned heads in playoffs by helping his team qualify for provincials on a high-scoring...

Point Grey basketball’s Mavety flies high in Vancouver

In Jock and Jill: NBA's Steve Nash named general manager for Canada's senior men's basketball team

National basketball ... Steve Nash was named the general manager of Canada’s senior men’s basketball team on Wednesday, bringing with him the confidence of a sports business professional and...

Girke chases the wind in sport's final Summer Games

Vancouver athlete Nikola Girke competed in two Summer Games in two different sports, sailing and windsurfing. The West End resident returns to the Olympics for the third time this summer in London, determined...

Kiteboarding takes off in Rio

Although windsurfers stay competitive well into their 40s, athletes like Vancouver's Nikola Girke won't be vying for Olympic gold after London 2012. On May 5, the International Sailing Federation decided...

PHOTO GALLERY/STORY: Ethiopian wins BMO Vancouver Marathon

Ethiopian long-distance runner Gezahgn Eshetu edged the competition and two-time champion Benard Onsare by 25 seconds to win the 42.2-kilometre BMO Vancouver Marathon.

PHOTO GALLERY/STORY: Vancouver students run with marathon winner

Twenty-four Renfrew elementary students from Grades 3 to 7 ran a mile in the shoes of marathon champions Friday morning at the East Side school.

JOCK & JILL: Setting a goal for the BMO Vancouver Marathon

If you’re like me, you’re a casual athlete who plays drop-in soccer on weekends, hits a squash ball on weeknights and owns about a dozen pairs of sport-specific shoes (like ski boots and swimming...

Olympics-bound marathon runner savours Dutch treat

In the days after he failed to qualify for the Summer Olympics at a marathon in Japan the first week of March, long-distance runner Dylan Wykes returned to the road for solace.