Badminton: Sports constantly make tweaks to things like rules, the field of play and the format for the games.  Badminton have smashed tradition in the past with things like the “move-to-rally point” to make games faster and more exciting. They have hit another ace with their latest shot, a match play team format…read the full story

Curling: Chantal Lagassé doesn’t visit northern Manitoba often. A resident of St. Adolphe, she lives about as far away from Thompson as you can in Manitoba. But if there was ever a good reason to come north, it’s the Manitoba Winter Games powered by Manitoba Hydro. When she was 15, Lagassé competed in the 1994 Manitoba Winter Games as a junior curler in Thompson, and now her son Luc, also 15, is right back in her shoes in 2018…read the story

Hockey (F):Yesterday was International Women’s Day. It was adopted by the United Nations in 1975 as a day to commemorate the movement for women’s rights, and celebrate women. It was fitting then that it also marked the start of the female hockey tournament at these 2018 Manitoba Games powered by Manitoba Hydro…read the story

Today is wrestling’s one and only competition day and every other sport is in second day of competition.
Three-time Olympian Susan Auch is in Thompson this week as speed skating’s announcer. She is available for interview today after 12:30 p.m. to speak to her experience. To arrange an interview, contact: Sarah Tone: 204-290-7630.