Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee, battles to become accepted as a legitimate Olympic athlete.

Using Sports To Share Faith

A friend of Jordan’s has always been closed to spiritual things due to some negative experiences.  During the Vancouver Olympics Jordan had a chance to talk to her about sports and about one of Power to Change’s ministries that works with athletes.  He was able to share how God has worked in his own life. [...]

It’s hard to believe that the Olympics start today. I live in Vancouver.  These are our games. We’ve been hearing about the Olympics, pretty much non-stop, for seven years. In and around Vancouver the games are everywhere you look.  They are in the signs that tell me the new highway is complete, and in commercials [...]

You be the Olympic judge of your sex life: Gold, Silver, Bronze or nowhere near the podium! With sex being such a hot topic and the Olympics coming to Vancouver it made me wonder if couples really put effort into improving their sex life and how do you go about pursuing the “gold” in your [...]

The Winter Olympics have ended. All the years of preparation and training have come down to this.  Over the past two weeks, the Olympics have been filled with people who compete with an intensity and energy that is admired by millions, but the prize only goes to the one who finishes well – ahead of [...]

The starter's pistol blasts, and before the first echo reverberates around the rink, Catriona LeMay Doan bolts down the ice.

Of course I went to the Olympics! It was so close, and when will it be in our ‘back yard’ again? Just before Christmas a friend asked if we were planning to attend the Vancouver Olympic Games. I heard my husband respond: “I am staying as far away as possible from those crowds”. His comment [...]

After 32 years of dodging the bullet, I might be going to see a Star Trek movie. Have you seen the trailer for Star Trek? It has real special effects rather than cast members throwing themselves across the bridge. There are action sequences. And as far as I can tell there’s not a single guy in a red shirt. For the first time it seems that plot has trumped alien make-up effects in a Trek movie. Talking about boldly going…

A couple of weeks ago I was right in the middle of downtown Vancouver when Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal in the men’s hockey final at the 2010 Olympics.  The roar that came up from the crowd was incredible.  Walking down the street people were laughing and cheering and waving flags.  Perfect strangers were [...]

Twenty two years ago, Kathy Kreiner stood on the Olympic podium listening to Canada’s national anthem being played in her honour. The gold medal had just been placed around her neck, and as the Canadian flag rose against the backdrop of the mountains near Innsbruck, Austria, a swell of emotion and pride passed through the [...]