Danielle Da Silva

Nov 7, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Danielle Da Silva

An ocean away from home, in a military cemetery in northern France, Randall McKenzie surveys the rows of stone grave markers cutting lines into the green expanse of Etaples-sur-Mer, a commune off the coast of the English Channel. Among the more than 11,000 war dead at the Etaples Military Cemetery, McKenzie expects to find his great uncle, Pte.

Aug 9, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Danielle Da Silva

PARIS — To Gregory Chan’s right was the French teenage table tennis wunderkind Felix Lebrun. To his left was the No. 4-seed, three-time Olympian Brazilian Hugo Calderano. It was the bronze match of the men’s singles tournament, the hometown crowd at the Paris Arena Sud was going mad, and Chan had one of the best seats in the house: the assistant umpire’s chair.

Aug 8, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Danielle Da Silva

PARIS — Skylar Park has an Olympic medal around her neck and a heart full of gratitude after battling through a turbulent and emotional taekwondo tournament to take bronze at the Paris 2024 Summer Games. The 25-year-old from Winnipeg defeated Laetitia Aoun of Lebanon 2-0 to win her first Olympic medal in the 57-kilogram event, staged in the soaring main hall of the Grand Palais in central Paris Thursday.

Aug 5, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Danielle Da Silva

PARIS, France – Kelsey Wog isn’t one to boast, but the two-time Olympian has good reason to be proud. On Monday, the 25-year-old Winnipeg swimmer marked her official retirement from international competition as Team Canada wrapped its Olympic swim meet with a rally at Canada Olympic House. “I never, ever imagined in sport when I was seven years old, 10 years old, 15 years old, that I would ever be at an Olympic Games,” Wog said Monday.

Jul 31, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Danielle Da Silva

PARIS, France — Tyler Mislawchuk has left it all on the streets of Paris. The 29-year-old, three-time Olympian from Oak Bluff finished ninth in the men’s triathlon Wednesday afternoon in a time of 1:44:25, just 52 seconds behind gold-medal winner Alex Yee of Great Britain. “I didn’t come here to come top 10, but for me it’s everything I had,” Mislawchuk told reporters after the race. “I went for it.