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Life of Olympian lled with peaks and valleys says Duchene
Duchene comes home talking faith and marathons
night to talk about some of the trials she’s faced and how her faith has sustained her.
a setback, Duchene says what is more important is “how we respond to it... we thank God for the great races but I am also thankful for the bad races.”
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Duchene says often people look at athletes and expect their lives are easy, but she says London’s Marathon was an example of how things can go horribly wrong. Duchene didn’t get her regular water bottle and fuel at the 30 km mark of the race and that’s when things went downhill. Her stomach started roiling and it was nearly impossible to run.
The London Marathon is not the most dif cult race Duchene has ever run. Nearly three years to the day of her speech, Duchene was running the Canadian Half Marathon Championship in Montreal - defending her title - when she limped across the nish line in third place. She’d broken her leg.
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“I just wanted it to end.”
Those aren’t the words you expect to hear from an Olympic marathoner about her latest race, but it was exactly what Krista Duchene was feeling last weekend during the London Marathon.
“I just wanted it to end,” she says. “I was thinking how many more kilometres are left so this misery can end?”
With the Olympics just two years away, Duchene worked hard to recover from the break and the surgery that followed. She made it to Rio.
Krista Duchene meets old friends at Zion Free Methodist Church in St. Clair Township.
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Duchene, who represented Canada at the Rio Olympics for the marathon, nished well back in the pack after suffering from gastrointestinal problems. But she used the dif cult moment as a way to illustrate that even Olympians have ups and downs.
She made it to the end of the race, well back of her normal pace. While it was dif cult, Duchene says it was another learning experience.
And she’s had other challenges on her journey to the Olympics. “I’ve had three babies, three broken bones and collapsed in the heat... this race didn’t go well but I always try to see the glass as half full and I’m grateful for the blessings in life.”
Duchene was particularly honoured to run the London Marathon in support of mental health.
Duchene grew up outside of Alvinston and attended Zion Free Methodist Church north of Dresden. She came home Friday
“It reminds me of Proverbs 16:9 (in the Bible). We can make our plans but God determines our steps,” she says.
“Life is not perfect and everyone can have a great win... or struggle with their emotions and not want to get out of bed.”
While it is frustrating to have
Petrolia’s Trottier, Nationals down three games in nal
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The London Nationals were on the wrong end of a 4-1 score to the Sugar Kings in Elmira on Sunday night
to fall behind in the best-of-seven Sutherland Cup nal, three games to none.
Wednesday night.
The Sugar Kings won the opening
product Kyle Dawson is also on the Nats roster. Dawson, last season’s Great Lakes Junior “C” Hockey League Rookie of the Year, has two goals and two assists in 20 playoff games this season, but hasn’t scored in his last 13 games. The Nationals and Trottier lost in four straight games to Caledonia in the Sutherland Cup nal.
two games in London by scores of 3-2 and 2-0.
Petrolia’s Brenden Trottier has two assists in the championship series and is now fth in playoff scoring with four goals and 27 points in 23 games.
Game four is in Elmira on
Captain Tyczynski honoured at Sarnia Legionnaires banquet
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The 21-year-old former captain played parts of ve seasons with the Legionnaires, retiring earlier this season due to recurring concussion issues. He scored 41 goals and added 53 assists in 195 regular season and playoff games.
awards on the same evening. Justin VanBuskirk was honoured as an overager, Ethan DuPont was named co-winner of the playoff MVP award and Sam McCormack was given the Spirit award.
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As one of three graduating overage players with the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Sarnia Legionnaires this season, Petrolia’s Hunter Tyczynski was lauded for his service at the team’s annual banquet last weekend.
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Petrolia’s Michael Leighton came on in relief in the decisive game of the Charlotte Checkers’ rst round American Hockey League playoff series with the Chicago Wolves, but the Wolves won the game and the series, 3-2.
two early goals for Charlotte in game ve last Wednesday. Leighton played 52-and-a-half minutes, making 14 saves and only allowing a single goal.
Jets went 11-7 with the Checkers during the regular season and also split four decisions with the parent Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League.
After winning eight straight games to start
the 2017 Ontario Hockey League playoffs, the Peterborough Petes, coached by Petrolia minor hockey product Jody Hull, ran into a buzz saw known as the Mississauga Steelheads and lost the Eastern Conference nal in four straight games.
Mississauga will now play Erie for the league title and the right to represent the OHL at the Memorial Cup in Windsor later this month.
The nal game was a 7-0 victory by the Fish.
The Otters eliminated Owen Sound in the Western Conference nal in six games. The best- of-seven championship series opens in Erie on Thursday night.
Three former members of the Mooretown Flags also picked up
McCormack was recently named captain of the Legionnaires for the coming season.
It was Leighton’s rst appearance for the Checkers since suffering an injury nearly three months ago.
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After starter Tom McCollum allowed
Hull and Petes lose to Steelheads in OHL Eastern nal
Mayhead off to a good start with Jr “B” Lacrosse
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Alex Mayhead has scored twice and added an assist in the rst three games of the season for the Windsor Clippers of the OLA Junior “B” lacrosse loop.
His most recent goal was in a 14-14 tie against
the Red Devils in Wallaceburg last Sunday. Windsor is 1-1-1 on the season.
The LCCVI grad had 11 goals and 11 assists
in 20 games in his rookie season in Windsor last year.
He played the rst three seasons of his junior lacrosse career with the Pacers in Point Edward.
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