
Pierre Lueders has been Canada's king of the bobsleigh track for years. But in a crazy sport with alpha personalities, along comes Lyndon Rush, forcing Lueders to share the road (and talent) with his countrymen.

J. Sigfrid Edström, who would become the fourth IOC President from 1946-1952, is born. The Swede also served as Vice-President of the Organizing Committee for the 1912 Olympic Games. That year he founded the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) and served as its President until 1946, when he relinquished the post on being elected President of the IOC.

If Canada's Olympic athletes want the swine flu vaccine, they'll stand in line with everybody else, even though the COC's chief medical officer says they are a high-risk group: constantly traveling and training to exhaustion.

Vancouver's Olympic organizers say the 2010 Games are going to be greener than they first expected.

Emily Brydon started off not knowing that racing was even possible, she just knew that she loved to ski

A third-period burst put Canada ahead in Friday night's game between the Canadian national women's hockey team and the Leduc Oil Kings.