Perdita Felicien News

Canada's Olympic athletes are basically employees of the people. Though they don't have to work nine-to-five or suffer through staff meetings, the pay is generally lousy and, once every four years, they suddenly find themselves with about 33 million bosses.

TORONTO - Published on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct.

There's an apartment in this city that's been stripped of a Canadian flag. But the red and white nylon went to a very good home Sunday night, draped around the shoulders of a delighted runner named Gary Reed.

She is the Canadian record holder and a former world champion, but Perdita Felicien felt like an underdog Saturday at the Canadian Senior Track and Field Championships.

Adam Loewen homered and Matt Kniginyzky tossed six shutout innings as Canada routed Venezuela 9-2 yesterday in third-round action at the Baseball World Cup.

Perdita Felicien of Pickering, Ont., raced to victory in the women's 100-metre hurdles Wednesday at the Super Track and Field meet.

SHANGHAI, ChinaTyson Gay equalled the second-fastest 100 metres ever yesterday when he clocked 9.69 seconds to win the final at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix meeting.

Canadian Perdita Felicien was third in the women's 100-metre hurdles, while Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang returned from a foot injury to place second Sunday at the Golden Grand Prix.

Brigitte Foster-Hylton of Jamaica beat Beijing Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper of the United States at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix here on Sunday.

Lopes-Schliep robbed in Greece Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada wins ??? the women's 100 metres hurdle race at the IAAF Golden League Memorial Van Damme athletics meeting in Brussels September 4, 2009.

It was a successful weekend for Canadian Track and Field as Gary Reed captured silver at the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Kamloops' Gary Reed won silver in the 800 metres race at an international track meet in Greece on Saturday.

THESSALONIKI, Greece - Last updated on Friday, Sep. 11, 2009 01:56PM EDT U sain Bolt lined up for a race against a five-year-old local boy - and lost.

Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep posted a career-best time en route to a silver medal in the 100-metre hurdles, while teammate Gary Reed raced to bronze in the 800 metres at the Van Damme Memorial on Friday.

Canadian hurdler Perdita Felicien is back on the podium after struggling to a last-place finish at the recent world track and field championships.

After a less-than-perfect race in her semifinals heat, Tampa's Damu Cherry has been eliminated from the women's 100-meter hurdles at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships on Wednesday afternoon in Berlin.

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

BERLINa 'Canadian hopes for a first medal at the world track and field championships took a turn for the better yesterday.

Canadian hurdler Perdita Felicien is, in her own words, "a proud 2009 world championship finalist - in case you didn't know." Disaster struck once more for the Pickering, Ont., native at the world track and field championships Wednesday, when her calves cramped up moments before the 100-metre hurdles final.

A former Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association gold medalist for Pope John Paul Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough continues to add to her medal collection on the world stage.