

Coles-Lyster has also competed in the new international cycling spectacle known as the UCI Track Champions League, and medalled in Europe with Team Canada at those events in November and December.
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She is a member of a professional racing team based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and competes in road racing events across North America. But that’s what you do out there when you want it bad enough.” “My desire for this medal was strong enough to keep pushing through it and I almost felt like I was going to pass out. “This is incredible – it’s the first individual medal I’ve won and my first Commonwealth Games,” said Coles-Lyster. She took third place in the women’s scratch endurance race.

The summer brought the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, and a bronze medal for cyclist Maggie Coles-Lyster. READ ALSO: Maple Ridge hockey icon hits 1,000 games Ladd has not been able to return to the ice this season. He won cups with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010 and the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006, was the captain of the Winnipeg Jets, and scored 256 goals and had 294 assists in 1,001 games. To finally be here and see all that hard work and time that I put into getting back into this spot so I could have this opportunity is fulfilling to say the least.” “I was sitting in Bridgeport a couple years ago with this goal in mind to get back to playing NHL games again and ultimately hitting this milestone. “I’m really proud to be able to play 1,000 games,” he was quoted as saying on the Arizona Coyotes website. The 36-year-old out of Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey was playing on a knee that was all but rebuilt through three surgeries. Two-time Stanley Cup champion Andrew Ladd hit a landmark 1,000 games played in the NHL in April.

READ ALSO: Maple Ridge’s Yip will captain Team China in Olympic hockey Yip is having a good year in the KHL this season, with 18 goals and 34 points in 38 games played. They didn’t win a game, but they put China on the hockey map. He has grandparents of Chinese descent, and was eligible to be on their national team roster for the Games. Yip, 36, was the leader of the Kunlun Red Star, which is a proxy for the Chinese national team, that competes in Russian’s professional Kontinental Hockey League.Ī former NHLer who played 174 games with the Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators, and Phoenix Coyotes, he was part of the Olympic games in February in Beijing, China. And 2022 saw local sports stars achieving at the highest levels of their sports.īrandon Yip was the team captain of the first Chinese hockey team to take part in the Olympics. Maple Ridge has been noteworthy for an inordinate number of elite-level athletes, including all-time greats like Cam Neely, Larry Walker and Greg Moore. Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows Tourism Guide.
