Carline Muir News

Nicolas Macrozonaris is off to Mexico for a track competition later this week, and Canada's fastest male 100-metre sprinter's long-range sights are set on the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Canada's Gary Reed finished fourth in the semifinal heat of the men's 800-metre event Friday and will not advance to Saturdays final.

Canada's Gary Reed didn't win it a medal in Berlin at this year's world track and field championships.

Despite having qualified for the men's 4x100-metre relay final in eighth spot, Canada ran a season's best Saturday to snatch a credible fifth place at the world track and field championships in Berlin.

Carline Muir, Esther Akinsulie, Kimberly Hyacinthe and Amonn Nelson of the Canadian athletics team poses with the baton and their gold medals after winning the 4 x 400m relay final at the Summer Universiade 2009, Belgrade Serbia.

Nova Scotia will be well-represented in the 4x400-metre relay at next month's world championships in Germany.

Nova Scotia will be well-represented in the 4x400-metre relay at next month's world championships in Germany.

Perdita Felicien reacts after crossing the finish line ahead of Priscilla Lopes-Schliep to win the Women 100 Meter Hurdles during the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Toronto June 27, 2009.

A day after winning four medals at the World University Games, Canada did one better on Thursday, taking home five more to increase its medal count at the event to 11.

Carline Muir, Esther Akinsulie, Kimberly Hyacinthe and Amonn Nelson of the Canadian athletics team poses with the baton and their gold medals after winning the 4 x 400m relay final at the Summer Universiade 2009, Belgrade Serbia.

Carline Muir of Toronto, Calgary's Amonn Nelson, Kimberly Hyacinthe of Terrebonne, Que., and Esther Akinsule of Ottawa ran three minutes 33.09 seconds to capture Canada's first Universiade gold on the track in 26 years.

They haven't installed a revolving door yet, nor have they shuttered the place. But the Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre at Foote Field is in an uncomfortable state of flux after the departures of high-performance coaches Kevin Tyler and Derek Evely, who gave notice six months apart and will work together for UK Athletics in the lead-up to the ...

Olympian Keith Beavers of Orangeville, Ont., gave Canada its second medal of the World University Games on Tuesday, claiming silver in the men's 200-metre individual medley.

The last thing Derek Evely told UK Athletics officials at a London airport hotel before boarding a plane back home was that he'd have to mull over their job offer to coach in England.

Canadian sprinter Tyler Christopher has lost a second coach to the British track and field team in less than six months.

Tyler Christopher was coming off a dismal showing at the Beijing Olympics, he'd done his soul-searching on a Mexican vacation, and was back on track looking to regain the form that propelled him to a world championship.

It's no news flash to the sporting world that Edmonton has more than ample capacity to stage a world-class Universiade in 2015.