Posted by thesportsjunky on December 31, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Canada is heading into its 150th year and just before the sports landscape in the country as Canadian sports took on a bigger role on the international scene.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on August 20, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Wrestling is a building block of the Olympic games but that hasn’t stopped it from leaving the core sports and now fighting for a spot in the Olympics.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on August 18, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The pressure is building as the days move on but for the Brazilian soccer team the pressure has always been there as they hope to break an Olympic drought in front of their home crowd.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on August 17, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The Olympics seemed to be turning things around as the games were looking to be less dramatic than most thought but just as that was happening trouble started including financial issues that are putting the Paralympic games at risk.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on August 15, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The Olympics began another week with the premier event in the games as Usain Bolt went for his third straight Olympic gold in the 100m sprint.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on August 14, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Despite the talk before the Olympics the Rio games have been relatively problem free until a very visible issue became the talk of the games.
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