Montreal Heats Up & Mark Tewksbury
Category: Hockey | tagged 1st World Outgames, biography, gay sports, Mark Tewksbury
Wow! It got hot outside today, so we retreated for the morning to the Olympic pool complex to watch some swimming heats. That was a good time, and a nice place to stay cool. We also went out and explored the Village a little bit, that’s the gay part of Montreal (similar to Chelsea in [...]
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Wizards vs. Albany and vs. Vancouver
Today was a mixed hockey day. We started out with a good scrimmage against the Albany Gay Hockey association. They are pretty new and came up just to play some exhibitions rather than going into competition. They gave us a good game, but we definitely dominated 10-0 and we used it to further solidify our [...]
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Wizards vs Phantoms
We started out today with some sightseeing. We went back to the Olympic stadium this morning to go up to the observation deck.
The tower on the stadium is the world’s tallest leaning tower, and we rode the scenic elevator up and checked out the Montreal skyline. It was a beautiful morning to do it too [...]
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Opening Ceremonies!
The opening ceremonies were absolutely spectacular! It started with the spectacle of the thousands of athletes marching into Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, with each country announced. It was a very emotional moment for me, marching with my teammates and marching in with all of the other LGBT athletes… with thousands in the stadium watching the show…plus [...]
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We are Everywhere
We spent a few hours out and around to get our credentials and check out some of the areas around the part of town where we picked them up. And it’s awesome to see Outgames athletes and participants everywhere.
Even last night on our way home from dinner, there were a number of athletes coming out [...]
Bonjourhello!
Those were the very first Canadian words spoken to us as we crossed the border last night. “Bonjourhello” is what a lot of French-Canadians say if they are trying to figure out which language you want/need to use.
It was a long trip yesterday, mostly because waiting in line at the border took about 2 hours. [...]
The Journey Begins…
And here we are, in about 12 hours we hit the road for Montreal and the 1st World Outgames. I’ve been bouncing off the walls all week with excitement as the four year goal to make it to the games begins the final gambit. It all starts Saturday night with the opening ceremonies and the [...]
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Outgames Schedule Revealed
The first two games of the Wizards Outgames schedule was released yesterday.
Monday July 31 @ 2pm vs. Vancouver Edges
Tuesday August 1 @ 4:40pm vs. Colorado Climax
These are called “Classification” rounds and we’ll move on after that into elimination rounds. It sounds like we have a shot at playing 4 games since 10 of 12 teams [...]
12 Days and Counting…
Less than two weeks now until the 1st World OutGames open. I watched some of the stories on Logo from Chicago’s Gay Games VII and I just know that the Montreal trip is going to be incredible. I’ve got six more opportunities to be on the ice before we leave for the games.
The two practices [...]
A Strong Storm
Category: Hockey | tagged 1st World Outgames, Ordinals, Ronnie's Ice, Storm
Storm played another great game last night. Recall the June 12 post where I said the Storm had a good game against the Blizzard, where the playing had finally seemed to gel. Well, even though Storm hasn’t played together since that June 10 game, we made a great showing last night with a 3-4 overtime, [...]
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