Students at Diamond Jenness Secondary School gathered in the school’s concourse on March 14 to cheer on athletes who brought back medals from the Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse. Twenty-seven students from the school attended the 2012 Games and accounted for 36 medals in a variety of sports. Twenty-one medals were earned in ski and [...]
Medals rained for Team NWT’s biathletes and speed skaters again in Whitehorse. Speed skater Isaac Wideman earned another gold medal, this time in the 666-metre speed skating race. Rachel Latour won a silver and Kirianne Ashley and James Thomas both won broze, bringing the team’s total to 24. The snowshoe and ski biathletes are nipping [...]
The Northwest Territories’ junior girls curling skip Janis O’Keefe leans over the pool table, eyeing angles and contemplating her next move. After a moment involving much giggling and clever digs from her teammates, her brow unfurrows itself and she gamely strikes the cue ball, grinning broadly. She misses, spectacularly. To the accompaniment of more laughter [...]
The NWT speed skating and biathlon teams pulled in more medals at the Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse on Tuesday, bringing their total tally to 24 ulus. Yellowknife speed skaters Simon Austin, Rachel Latour and Isaac Wideman all snagged gold in their respective 500 metre sprint events. Teammates Hannah Clark (of Yellowknife) won silver, and [...]
Team NWT earned 13 more medals on Tuesday to keep a solid hold on third place – with 11 gold, 9 silver and 13 bronze uluit – and stayed within two of second-place Yukon, and first-place Alaska. Yamal came up in fourth place with 29 medals. Team NWT was once again helped forward by the [...]
It was a banner day for Hay River’s Crook family at the Grey Mountain biathlon venue for the Arctic Winter Games. Brothers Clell and Kjel and sister Michaela each took home silver ulu medals in the morning’s snowshoe biathlon individual event, along with Fort McPherson racer Destiny Robert. The biathletes kicked off what became a [...]
