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The Calgary Sun: Long-term funding will keep Oval alive - Mar 10, 2010
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The Olympic Oval
in Calgary will remain the home of Canada's long-track speed skating
team for the next 20 years, thanks to an agreement between WinSport
Canada, the University of Calgary and the Federal Government. The Oval
fell into financial trouble last year.
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The Calgary Herald: Olympic Oval financial rescue coming - Mar 6, 2010
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A rescue plan to
keep Calgary's cash-strapped Olympic Oval running for another 20 years
has cleared a key hurdle with the federal government pledging its
support.
The proposal, pitched by WinSport Canada and
the University of Calgary, requires an amendment to a legacy fund
created to pay for Olympic facilities in Calgary after the 1988 Winter
Games.
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Grandparent Magazine: The future of Canadian winter sport - March-April Issue
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The future of
sport is in your hands. This may sound like an outlandish statement,
but it's true. A generation of young Canadians were just inspired by
the heroic efforts of Canada's best athletes in Vancouver and Whistler.
WinSport Canada is calling on all Canadians to help provide this next
generation of Canadian Olympic heroes with the best opportunity to
discover, develop and excel at winter sport.
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Journal of Commerce: Work begins on future home of Hockey Canada in Calgary - Mar 1, 2010
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Work is well
underway on the future home of Hockey Canada in Calgary. The $225
million Athletic and Ice Complex at Canada Olympic Park will include
three NHL sized rinks and one international sized ice surface.
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CTV Calgary: Calgary's Olympic legacy expected to survive games - Mar 1, 2010
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| Despite fond memories and newer facilities in Vancouver, officials say Calgary will remain a key training centre for Olympians.
Officials with Winsport Canada says over half of Canada's Winter
Olympians train in Alberta and they don't expect big changes after the
2010 Games.
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The Calgary Sun: World heard Canada roar - Feb 28, 2010
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| Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympics was a game changer for Canada.
Our young people, our new immigrants, our long-time citizens, were
swept up in a red-and-white storm of flag-waving patriotism the likes
of which we have never seen.
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Frostbitten: Let the review begin - Feb 27, 2010
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Canada will
finish the 2010 Winter Games with 26 medals - 13 of which are
guaranteed to be gold and this number could still increase to 14
depending upon the results of the Men's ice hockey final on Sunday. Let
the results show that Canada has had a very successful Winter Games.
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Calgary Sun: Calgary sport official defends medal goals - Feb 21, 2010
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Guy Huntingford, CEO of the organization that manages Canada Olympic Park,
said while some frustrated athletes and commentators are targeting the national
program aimed at boosting Canada’s medal performance, it’s no time to
retreat.
“Without Own the Podium we can’t stay in step with the rest of the world,” he
said Sunday...
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Frostbitten Blog: Stand up and Cheer Calgary - Feb 20, 2010
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Today marks the half -way point of the 2010
Olympics and like we expected Canadian athletes are excelling. 8 Olympic medals
to date, 4 of which are Olympic Gold. Canadians from coast to coast are
rejoicing as a result.
As the rest of the country applauds the Own the Podium program isn't it
time we recognized who is truly responsible for Canada's success at these Games.
Stand up and Cheer Calgary! It is you and your Olympic Legacy who is truly
responsible for Canada's success at these Olympic Games.
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Calgary Sun: Calgary’s fingerprints all over Vancouver Games - Feb 20, 2010
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Consider the facilities alone. For the past 22 years, the Calgary-based
WinSport Canada has contributed close to $124 million to sport development...
Sports groups are offered support to operate and train out of the facilities
at WinSport Canada, with subsidies of approximately $1.6 million in 2008-09. The
Own the Podium program, which provided resources to athletes, coaches and
support personnel leading up to the 2010 Games, is based in Calgary and has been
an important partner at WinSport Canada.
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Troy Media: Calgary’s fingerprints all over Vancouver Games - Feb 19, 2010
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The legacy of Calgary’s 1988 Games (still one of the only Olympics to have
actually turned a profit) continues to be felt far beyond the prairie city
itself. In a very real sense, Vancouver’s Olympics has Calgary’s fingerprints
all over them.
Consider the facilities alone. For the past 22 years, the Calgary-based
WinSport Canada has contributed close to $124 million to sport development.
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The Calgary Herald: Three new COP hockey rinks to open ahead of schedule - Jan 15, 2010
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Three NHL-size hockey rinks at Canada Olympic Park will open by the end of the year, says the head of WinSport Canada.
Guy Huntingford said the first phase of its $225-million Athletic & Ice Complex will be complete by the end of 2010.
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Avenue Magazine: Love Calgary because we're getting more hockey rinks - January Issue
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| Hockey players
and skaters, get ready to lace up: Calgary is about to gain four sheets
of ice, something that is laughably overdue in a city of more than a
million people.
Now, add to that a high-performance training centre for pro
athletes, plus new headquarters for Hockey Canada and Skate Canada, put
it all at WinSport Canada's Canada Olympic Park (COP), and you've
reached something close to frozen Nirvana
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The Calgary Sun: Raising the roof - Jan 15, 2010
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Construction
workers hoist a 100-ft., 20,000 lb., glue-laminated beam into place at
the ice rinks under construction at Canada Olympic Park yesterday. The
beam was one of the first supports to be put in place to support the
roof in what will be one of four rinks at the all-season park on
Calgary's west side. The park was a major sports venue when Calgary
hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1988. One of the rinks being built
will be Olympic-sized when the complex is completed.
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The Calgary Herald: WinSport brings Read on board - Dec 8, 2009
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A legendary Canadian sports figure has joined the board of directors for Win-Sport Canada.
Known as one of the Crazy Canucks during his heyday, Ken Read will bring a vast amount of experience to his new role.
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Canada.com: 'Crazy Canuck' joins WinSport - Dec 8, 2009
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Known as one of the Crazy Canucks during his heyday, Ken Read will bring a vast amount of experience to his new role.
"WinSport Canada has an ambitious vision to develop this nation's first
Canadian Winter Sport Institute. It is a model this country desperately
needs, and I look forward to contributing to the fulfilment of that
vision," said Read.
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The Star Phoenix: Former skier Read joins WinSport board - Dec 7, 2009
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A legendary Canadian sports figure has joined the board of directors for WinSport Canada.
Known as one of the Crazy Canucks during his heyday, Ken Read will bring a vast amount of experience to his new role.
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Leader Post: Sports legend joins WinSport Canada's board - Dec 7, 2009
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Known as one of the Crazy Canucks during his heyday, Ken Read will bring a vast amount of experience to his new role.
"WinSport Canada has an ambitious vision to develop this nation's first
Canadian Winter Sport Institute. It is a model this country desperately
needs, and I look forward to contributing to the fulfilment of that
vision," said Read.
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The Calgary Herald: The Calgary Chamber of Commerce announces its new board of directors - Nov 30, 2009
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The Calgary
Chamber of Commerce has announced its board of directors for 2010,
which is effective during the upcoming Annual Salute to Excellence
event on January 30.
Current Chamber Chair, Lois
Mitchell, said the chamber is happy to welcome several new directors to
"our already diverse group of business leaders."
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The Calgary Journal: Everyone's a winner at Canada Wins event - November 27, 2009
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Excerpt: It's not every day that young and aspiring athletes get to meet one of their Olympic idols. It's even more rare that they get to spend an afternoon training with them, which is exactly what happened to a lucky few on Saturday Nov. 21, at Southland Leisure Centre.
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Toronto's loss is Calgary's gain - November 04, 2009
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Excerpt: There was a strong flavour of Edmonton to the outstanding class of inductees admitted Tuesday to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame at the Royal York Hotel. We had better get used to the western angle; from now on, the hall is pretty much going to be mostly about Calgary.
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The Leaky Legacy - October 25, 2009
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Excerpt: Calgary's iconic speedskating Oval is considered some of the fastest ice in the world, but water has been running down the walls almost since the moment it was built. These days, during rainy seasons, staff put out buckets to catch the drips.
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Winter
discontent - Funding cuts in the lead-up to the Winter Games in
Vancouver and Whistler have athletes worried about the future - October
24, 2009
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Excerpt: In wild pursuit of snow, the Canadian ski cross team flew across the globe this summer in preparation for the Vancouver Olympics. "We just came back from a training camp--in New Zealand," Dave Ellis, high performance director for Ski Cross Canada, said upon his return.
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Fading Glory? Funding shortfall hits Calgary's Olympic training venues - October 23, 2009
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Excerpt: Some of Canada's top Olympians are worried. Their fear isn't based on their upcoming performance at the Vancouver Winter Games, but over the state of Calgary's training facilities. Places that gave fame to names like Alberto Tomba, Eddie (The Eagle) Edwards and the Jamaican bobsled team need money to operate and for repairs for the future.
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Calgary's Olympic legacy in peril - October 23, 2009
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Excerpt: One evening at the end of January, Calgarian Mark Greenwald brought together a group of trusted colleagues --including world-class speedskaters and elite coaches--to discuss a serious cash crunch facing Calgary's Olympic Oval.
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Construction Digital: CANA Construction: Proven and reliable - August 27, 2009
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Throughout its history of nearly 70 years, family-owned and operated CANA Construction has built an unassailable reputation for complete commitment to its clients for each project it takes on.
CANA is also working on a CAD$250 million athletic facility and ice house with four hockey rinks, a training center and offices for WinSport Canada, the Olympic Development organization; and the Telus World of Science Center, the first new science center built in Canada in a quarter century.
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Canada East: Canada moves closer to world's sporting powerhouses with national sport centre
– January 23, 2009
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Excerpt: Calgary skeleton racer Duff Gibson, now a coach in the sport in which he won an Olympic gold medal in 2006, has seen the Australian Institute of Sport, and even though Canada's centre won't be ready for use before the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., he believes Canada won't be far behind the world's sporting powerhouses when it is.
"This puts it right on par in terms of a facility," Gibson said. "The whole reason I took up skeleton and bobsled before that was because I was in Calgary and there's a facility here. Yes, the facility does make a difference." The project's overseer formerly known as the Calgary Olympic Development Association rebranded itself Canadian Winter Sports Institute, or WinSport Canada, at a news conference Friday.
The facility's centrepiece, the Athletic and Ice Complex, may still be a construction site and the economy in a downspin, but it's still going ahead.
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CTV: CODA Changes its Name – January 23, 2009
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Excerpt: Winsport Canada is the new name of the Calgary Olympic Development Association. CODA was created in 1988 when Calgary hosted to the Winter Olympic Games. The association was tasked with being the steward of the legacy from the games.
The name change was announced at a press conference on Friday at Canada Olympic Park.
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CBC News: Name Change for Olympic Development Group – January 23, 2009
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Excerpt: The Calgary Olympic Development Association, which carried on the legacy of the 1988 Games, is rebranding itself as the Canadian Winter Sport Institute — or Winsport Canada.
Officials said the name change "better suits the organization's role as a catalyst for the development and support of Canadian athletes."
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Calgary Herald: "Olympic Park strives for construction gold" – November 13, 2008
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Excerpt from David Parker article: This fine fall weather is causing a bit of a dilemma for Guy Huntingford, president and CEO of the WinSport Canada. Staff at Canada Olympic Park (COP) are looking forward to a snowfall, or at least cold weather, so that snow-making machines can get to work in building a firm base for the ski hill. But this mild weather means CANA Construction crews are able to forge ahead at a good pace with the building of the new Athletic and Ice Complex.
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Toronto Star: "Canada's Sports Hall of Fame Reborn" – October 29, 2008
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Excerpt: The best possible news for those who care about sport in this country has arrived with the selection of Canada Olympic Park, in Calgary, as the permanent home to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
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