Karen Cockburn News

You can meet Olympic medallist Karen Cockburn at a new festival in Stouffville next weekend.

A few days ago, CBC News reported on a fraud taking place in western Canada. Friends of Tim McLean, the young man killed in a horrific attack on a Greyhound bus, said that an imposter had been asking for money, ...

There was nothing downsized about the choreography for the closing ceremony in Beijing.

These will go down as Michael Phelps's Games. He has by acclamation taken ownership.

Did you watch the Games? Were you inspired, by our athletes? Were you moved by their passion, focus and determination? Were you proud to see the Canadian flag? Did you wake up early to watch an athlete compete? ...

August 21, 2008 - Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, congratulates Olympic Karen Cockburn, a Canadian artistic gymnast, on her triumph in Woman's Trampoline competition, after sponsoring the contender.

There were moments where you kind of thought this might have been what it was like going to the airport and greeting the Beatles.

"The closing ceremony for China's spectacular Summer Olympic Games didn't begin until 8 p.m. local time yesterday.

For a second there, I thought Carrot Top had a sister, could be wrong though. I am of the mindset the Olympics today should reflect the sports of the Greco-Roman era, perhaps it is just me, but trampoline ...

Signs, flowers and screaming supporters greeted Canada's Olympians as they returned from Beijing.

Fireworks explode over the National Stadium during the closing ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Sunday.

You come to a festival involving 204 countries, and you hear every kind of national stereotype bandied about - the robotic Chinese, the hale-fellow-well-met Aussies, the stoic Russians, the chest-thumping ...

An IOC president was never supposed to say something like this again. After Juan Antonio Samaranch, unable to think of anything positive to say in the place where the IOC head previously had declared the Games ...

Description: The Olympics have given Karen Cockburn many magical moments, so being the Canadian flag-bearer in Sunday's closing ceremonies at what are probably her last Games added one final enchanting memory.

Update: Canada's flagbearer for the closing ceremony is Karen Cockburn . "I was just so excited...I was just so overwhelmed and shocked.

Trampoline gymnast Karen Cockburn has been named Canada's flag-bearer for the closing ceremonies at the Beijing Games, giving the three-time medallist a well-deserved honour in what is likely her last Olympic ...

As the first final week of the 2008 Beijing Olympics draws to a close, Canadians from the Atlantic to the Pacific are excused if they hang their heads pump their fists in despair jubilation.

This is what I know about the sport of trampoline: 1. It is a bad thing for someone to bounce as high as he can, do a back flip, miss the trampoline and land on the springs on his crotch.

Canada's Emilie Heymans perfoms a dive in the women's 10-metre platform final. Canadian diver Emilie Heymans turned in her best-ever individual Olympic performance, capturing a silver medal Thursday in the ...

And now a little story about scaling the Great Wall, or trying to, for Olympians from the Great White North.