Ironman: Testing their mettle It is the landscape of the host city, the athletes and the volunteers and community that make the Subaru Ironman Canada — held in Penticton since it began in 1983 — as successful as it is. 8/19/2008 4:36:42 PM

Adidas on board with new sports facility With the city’’s indoor multi-use facility slated for its official opening in October the facility secured a major sponsorship from Adidas Canada. 8/19/2008 2:26:15 PM

Nike changes its ads after Chinese hurdler pulls out Nike quickly changed its advertising campaign around Chinese athlete Liu Xiang after he pulled out of the 110-metre hurdles in Beijing on Monday and disappointed millions of fans expecting him to defend his Olympic title. 8/19/2008 2:07:02 PM

Canada's Burnett wins silver in men's trampoline Canada's Jason Burnett has won silver in men's trampoline at the Beijing Games. Burnett's silver in his first appearance at the Olympic Games is the second trampoline medal in as many days for Canada. 8/19/2008 6:49:36 AM

Monday's action on the diamonds Tampa Bay won an important victory over the league-leading Los Angeles Angels on Monday, but the talk of the game centred on baseball's infamous jogger B.J. Upton. 8/19/2008 5:59:04 AM

Penticton: Adidas on board with new sports facility With the city’’s indoor multi-use facility slated for its official opening in October the facility secured a major sponsorship from Adidas Canada. Manuel Borba, Penticton Soccer Club director, said the building will be named the Adidas Sportsplex. 8/19/2008 5:56:38 AM

# New Web Site Aims to Be Facebook for Sports Fans David Katz is heading into a Web site battle against Internet sports powerhouses like the ones run by ESPN, Yahoo, Fox Sports, Major League Baseball and AOL. 8/19/2008 5:35:10 AM

Canada's Whitfield takes silver in triathlon Canada's Simon Whitfield captured the silver medal in the men's triathlon Tuesday in Beijing. Whitfield mounted a furious rally to briefly take the lead late in the closing sprint before being overtaken over the final metres by Germany's Jan Frodeno. 8/18/2008 9:07:08 PM

Greek sports face organized doping Organized doping is likely behind a recent spate of positive drug tests in Greek sports, the president of the country's Olympic Committee said Monday. 8/18/2008 7:18:11 PM

Kelowna: Celebs to tee off for Kids Rock National Basketball Association star Charles Barkley will be part of a long list of famous guests at the first Kids Rock Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament Aug. 27 – 31. There will also be an old west riverboat-style casino night on the Fintry Queen. 8/18/2008 10:00:39 AM

Twin Lakes gets face lift from new owners As if being a championship 18-hole, par-72 golf course weren’t enough, the new owners of the Twin Lakes Golf Club are planning to spend more than $3 million on improvements and enhancements beginning this fall. 8/18/2008 9:23:53 AM

Karen Cockburn wins Silver in trampoline Canadian Karen Cockburn has won her third career Olympic medal, claiming silver in women's trampoline. Her medal in Beijing makes her the fourth Canadian in a non-team or non-relay event to win an Olympic medal in three straight Games. 8/18/2008 8:19:36 AM

Canadian equestrian team rides to silver Canada has won a silver medal in Olympic equestrian team show jumping, after losing a jump-off with the United States. The Canadians competed with just three riders Monday as Mac Cone had to withdraw after his horse, Ole, sustained a minor injury. 8/18/2008 8:17:55 AM

Monster Show at Penticton Speedway Penticton Speedway hosted Monster Trucks and Freestyle Motocross on the weekend. A family audience enjoyed the spectacular show put on by this touring exhibition. The post show meet and autograph session was wildly popular. (Just pics). Thanks to High Definition Photography. 8/18/2008 6:51:56 AM

B.C. Lions put it in park for once At the SFU football team's annual golf tournament recently, former Lions offensive lineman Dan Payne told acting club president George Chayka what spurred him towards pro football was the fact that Lions stars of the early 1980s visited his high school. 8/18/2008 6:00:41 AM

Van Koeverden advances to K-1 1000 final Canadian Adam van Koeverden advanced to the final of the men's K-1 1000 metres by winning his heat on Monday. Van Koeverden, who was the Canadian flag-bearer at the opening ceremony in Beijing, is a strong medal contender in the 1000. 8/18/2008 5:55:38 AM

Edwards wins at Michigan for fifth victory of season As usual, Sunday's Sprint Cup race came down to a shootout between Kyle Busch and somebody else. This time, however, somebody else won. The somebody else was Carl Edwards, who held off Busch on a restart with two laps remaining. 8/18/2008 5:53:44 AM

Vancouver triathlete breaks elbow in bike crash Lauren Groves of Vancouver crashed in a tangle of bikes Monday morning in the women's triathlon. Her left elbow, and her chances of a medal, snapped on impact at the Beijing Olympics. The Groves crash pretty much told the story of the day for Canadian triathletes. 8/18/2008 5:43:55 AM

Blue Jays hammer out 22 hits over Red Sox Josh Beckett missed his spots early and the Blue Jays made sure he didn't last long enough to find his control. Alex Rios had five hits, matching a club record with four doubles, and Toronto chased Beckett in the third inning of a 15-4 victory. 8/17/2008 6:26:11 PM

Simon Whitfield likes his chances Canada's men's triathlon team leader Tom Patrick says he still has visions of Simon Whitfield of Victoria standing on top of the podium with a gold medal around his neck Tuesday. 8/17/2008 9:43:11 AM

Canada enjoys second straight multi-medal day Coming on the heels of a gold, silver and bronze effort Saturday, Canada is now up to seven medals overall and is rapidly climbing up the standings after spending the opening week of the Games looking up at sporting minnows like Kyrgyzstan and Togo. 8/17/2008 9:10:08 AM

Greek Olympic champion Halkia fails drugs test Greece’s defending Olympic women’s 400 metres hurdles champion Fani Halkia has failed a drugs test, two Greek Olympic Committee officials said on Sunday just hours before she was due to start competing. 8/17/2008 8:29:24 AM

Kelowna: Triathletes facing another day of extreme temperatures With temperatures expected to be in the record-setting range again today, participation in the Kelowna Apple Triathlon could be dangerous to the athletes‘ health. 8/17/2008 6:26:48 AM

Williams sisters romp to doubles gold American sisters Serena and Venus Williams thrashed Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-2 6-0 to win the Olympic gold medal in tennis women's doubles on Sunday. 8/17/2008 5:46:01 AM

Leos hamstrung by hamstring injuries The bye week predictably had a positive effect on the recent outbreak of hamstring injuries with the Lions but it has not totally eradicated the problem. 8/17/2008 5:40:50 AM

Men's eight strike gold The men's eight boat has won Canada's second gold medal of the Beijing Olympics. The defending world champions and gold-medal favourites led from the get-go and held off Great Britain to erase their fifth-place disappointment from the Athens Olympics four years ago. 8/17/2008 5:29:05 AM

Couch potato's guide to performance-enhancing drugs The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prepares The Prohibited List, the document that outlines which substances Olympic-bound athletes should not have in their systems. The first List (as it's known) was published in 1963, and it is updated every year. 8/16/2008 8:28:31 AM