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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Yizek wins again in Alberta for the 9th straight time!



Bruno Yizek


 Bruno Yizek steals 3 and it's handshakes! Team Yizek from Calgary win the Alberta Wheelchair Curling Championship and are off to nationals in Ottawa in March! Bruno and his team is the ONLY team EVER to have come out of Alberta!

Has the longest provinical winning streak of any team in Canada!

See you in March!

The Coldest Stone: Armstrong Banned From Wheelchair Curling for Doping




This is art. Photo: Christine Rondeau/Flickr
Those are the first seven lines of a column written by some old sportswriter at some old newspaper in some semi-major city ... in an alternate universe where wheelchair curling gets column inches. Because a wheelchair-curling doping scandal involving an Armstrong is something that did once exist.

Last year, Jim Armstrong, a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame and a gold medalist as skip (you should know this by now, but that means he’s the best and he goes last) of Canada’s 2010 Paralympic team, was suspended for 18 months after failing a drug test in December 2011. The drug: tamoxifen, which is used to treat breast cancer but also used as an estrogen-blocker that can counteract the hormone-surges brought on by steroid use.
But: Armstrong’s wife, to whom he had been married for 29 years, died in September of 2009 from breast cancer. Armstrong’s argument, then, was that he mistook his wife’s leftover pills for aspirin, popped a couple to prevent against a heart attack, and then: positive test. Which would be a simple-enough (if also a commonly-used) defense, but we’re talking about PEDs and things are never simple when everyone’s a possible-cheater, even in wheelchair curling.
So, in the anything-can-mean-anything way of searching for clues to things we’ll never be able to figure out for sure (read: most positive drug tests), Armstrong had gone through multiple knee surgeries on both knees (He needed to be stronger!), he is a former dentist (He should know better!), and he was arrested and fined $30,000 for smuggling fake Chinese Viagra and Cialis across the Canadian border with his son, who then sold them in nightclubs (Character issues!). And Armstrong is now basically a walking doping poster if you want him to be.
Except he is a guy who can’t walk and sits in a wheelchair and slides across ice, pushing rocks for fun and whatever minimal monetary value that comes along with doing that well. Yet, anything can be improved—walking-a-cat proficiency, dart-throwing, speed-reading, whatever—and many things can be improved by putting other things into your body. As Deadspin-dot-com’s Barry Petchesky put it:
There's every reason for a curler, even a wheelchair curler, to use performance enhancing drugs. While curling doesn't rely on brute strength, it does require stamina for the sweepers and muscle control for the thrower. The bigger and stronger the muscles, the easier it is to put the stone just so.

Which gets back to the general questions that should be asked with every doping “scandal” that doesn’t involve a sociopath riding a bike down a legal warpath trying to destroy everything and everyone who’s trying to tell the truth. And those questions are: why is the line drawn here (why is this substance not cool, but these 10 others are OK?) and should we even care? The second of which then gets into all kinds of icky personal worldview-type stuff and the projecting of values onto another, living person—which is fine, if you are named "God."

After the ban was handed down, Armstrong filed an appeal. This past September the Court of Arbitration for Sport repealed Armstrong’s ban, and he’s now eligible to start competing and training for a spot on the 2014 Paralympic team in Sochi. None of this actually says anything about Armstrong—he’s a dude, maybe good, maybe not, and just generally human—other than: he is a world-class wheelchair curler, who (probably) accidentally took a banned substance, which is a sporting-equivalent of “nothing.” His first name isn’t Lance, though, and at this point, that’s pretty cool.


http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/sports/The-Coldest-Stone-Armstrong-Banned-From-Wheelchair-Curling-for-Doping.html?page=2

Yizek leads after Round Robin in Alberta Playdowns



After Round Robin play at the Jasper Place curling club Bruno is set to in is 8th provinical title. We do not have line ups but we do thanks you for the request.

He is what we know:

Standings after the round robin:
1. South #1 (Yizek)
2. North #1 (Graves)
3. South #2 (Stang)
4. North #2 (MacEachern)


 Semi is at 11am and Final is at 3pm tomorrow.




2013 PROVINCIAL WHEELCHAIR
LINESCORES
January 18, 3:00 p.m.
Team
Ends
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
GRAVES
3
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
7
STANG
0
1
0
0
2
1
0
2
0
6
YIZEK
3
3
0
1
0
0
3
x
10
MACEACHERN
0
0
2
0
1
1
0
x
4
January 18, 11:00 a.m.
Team
Ends
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
MACEACHERN
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
x
1
STANG
4
2
1
1
0
1
1
x
10
GRAVES
1
1
0
1
0
1
0
x
4
YIZEK
0
0
2
0
5
0
3
x
10
January 17, 6:00 p.m.
Team
Ends
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
GRAVES
1
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
6
MACEACHERN
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
2
YIZEK
0
0
0
1
2
3
1
2
9
STANG
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
4

Friday, January 18, 2013

Graves & Yizek get wins at Alberta Playdowns



First game in the books! Graves beat MacEachern 5-3 (both from Edmonton) and Yizek beat Stang 9-4 (both from Calgary). Games are at 11am and 3pm tomorrow and Saturday!



2013 PROVINCIAL WHEELCHAIR
LINESCORES
January 17, 6:00 p.m.
Team
Ends
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
GRAVES
1
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
6
MACEACHERN
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
2
YIZEK
0
0
0
1
2
3
1
2
9
STANG
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
4

Thursday, January 17, 2013

The Alberta Wheelchair Curling Championship will take place at JPCC from Jan. 17 to Jan. 19


Join us January 17-19 for the Alberta Wheelchair Curling Championship! Come watch the action, follow our social media or volunteer to be an on-ice helper! Contact the club for more details.


ROUND ROBIN TEAM GAMES


#1
Thursday
6:00pm



#2
Friday
11:00am



#3
Friday 3:00pm



NORTH #1


Ice 5

Ice 4

Ice 3

NORTH #2


Ice 5

Ice 3

Ice 4

SOUTH #1


Ice 6

Ice 4

Ice 4

SOUTH #2


Ice 6

Ice 3

Ice 3










2013 PROVINCIAL WHEELCHAIR
LINESCORES
January 17, 6:00 p.m.
Team
Ends
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Total
GRAVES
MACEACHERN
YIZEK
STANG

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Gerry Peckham to receive Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal






The Coaching Association of Canada announced today that Gerry Peckham will be awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his outstanding work in the development and delivery of the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) over the last four decades

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

The Coaching Association of Canada announces 49 recipients of the
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
 
OTTAWA (January 15, 2013) – The Coaching Association of Canada (CAC), as the leader of coach education and training in Canada, is pleased to announce that 49 outstanding individuals who have been instrumental in the development and delivery of the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) over the last four decades will be awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

“The NCCP is recognized across all levels of government as the standard in coach training and certification, and we are very excited to honour these individuals who have made that level of achievement possible,” said John Bales, CEO of the CAC. “The quality of the program can be seen in over a million NCCP trained and certified coaches across the country, and in the outstanding athletes they coach every day.”

The recipients of this medal were nominated for their significant contributions to coaching development and coach education through the NCCP in a particular sport, province, territory, region, or community within Canada.

ONTARIO

23. Barry Bartlett, Multi-sport, Oakville, ON
24. David Bourne, Softball, Port Dover, ON
25. David Hart, Water Polo, Ottawa, ON
26. Andy Higgins, Multi-sport, Toronto, ON
27. André Lachance, ChPC, Baseball, Ottawa, ON
28. Monica Lockie, Figure Skating, Keswick, ON
29. Alain Marion, Multi-sport, Orleans, ON
30. Louise Martin, Shooting, Shanty Bay, ON
31. Alan Morrow, Rowing, London, ON
32. Captain Sean McDonaugh, Rugby, Kingston, ON
33. Volker Nolte, PhD, Rowing, London, ON
34. Michel Paiement, Volleyball, Gloucester, ON
35. Gerry Peckham, Curling, Orleans, ON
36. Rick Phillips, Lacrosse, Brooklin, ON
37. David Post, 5 Pin Bowling, Peterborough, ON
38. Bruce Savage, Archery, Caledon Village, ON
39. Marilyn Savage, Gymnastics, Hillsburgh, ON