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Commonwealth medal haul for ill Canadians The Canadian Press NEW DELHI — A stomach bug hit the troubled Commonwealth Canada cruising Games on Thursday, but it didn’t at Pan-Ams slow Canada down. The Canadian Press Illness forced a few athletes to pull out of competition, while oth- MEXICO CITY — Canada won ers, including Canadians, kept go- gold medals in the senior C-1 ing despite their discomfort. 1,000-metre and junior C-2 1,000- Canada exploded with nine gold metre women’s canoeing events medals on the day, boosting its to- Thursday at the Pan American ca- tal at the Games to 11 golds. noe and kayak championships. A team spokeswoman said some Jenna Marks of Dartmouth, 30 Canadian athletes have experi- N.S., and Taylor Potts of Missis- enced some form of gastrointesti- sauga, Ont., teamed up to win the nal symptoms — some coupled C-1 1,000 event to bring Canada’s with heat exhaustion — particu- medal total to 12 for the day. larly in the outdoor sports. Earlier, Hannah MacIntosh and Canadian officials don’t think Mariah Godin, both of Dart- it’s related to the stomach virus mouth, N.S., took the junior C-2 that attacked some swimmers. 1,000-metre title. rookie Taylor Hall crashes the Calgary Flames net behind Miikka Kiprusoff in Thursday’s More than a dozen swimmers Canadian juniors collected sec- season-opener in Edmonton. The Oilers scored three times in the third period to win 4-0. from Australia and England fell ill ond and third place finishes in CP photo in the latest setback for trouble- three other 1,000-metre races. plagued organizers in New Delhi. In the men’s K-2 kayak race, “It’s not anything we didn’t pre- Alex Tessier of Trois-Rivieres, pare for and not unexpected,” said Que., and Keir Johnston of Missis- Jackie DeSouza, chief press officer sauga, Ont., took the silver and Big night for Eberle for the Canadian team. “No ath- Brian Malfesi of Maple Ridge and letes have been sick enough so Jarret Kenke of Saskatoon, won The Canadian Press It looked like Edmonton had the The momentum turned com- they can’t compete.” the bronze. first six and a half minutes in pletely in the Flame’s favour in the DeSouza said the Canadian ath- EDMONTON — Rookie Jordan as Hemsky sent Dustin Penner in second as they outshot the Oilers letes may have fallen ill from acci- Shareef a coach Eberle scored a pair of goals in his alone and he crashed the net while 18-7, but Khabibulin stood his dentally drinking tap water or eat- NHL debut as the Edmonton Oilers deking Calgary starter Miikka ground to keep it a 1-0 game after ing food that had been washed in The Associated Press got the regular season off to a good Kiprusoff, but the goal was called 40 minutes. unsterilized water. start, defeating the rival Calgary back due to a goaltender interfer- The Oilers took a 2-0 lead a minute SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Swimmer Brent Hayden sur- Flames 4-0 on Thursday night. ence call that had the fans at Rex- into the third as Eberle scored a high- Sacramento Kings have moved for- vived his stomach issues in style, Edmonton goalie Nikolai all Place fuming. light-reel goal in his first NHL game. mer assistant coach Shareef Abdur- winning gold in 100-metre Khabibulin stopped 37 shots for The Oilers did go up 1-0 on the Coming in on a shorthanded two-on- Rahim to the front office as the freestyle Thursday. the shutout in his first regular sea- power play nine minutes in as Brule one and hopping past a diving de- team’s assistant general manager. “My Delhi Belly’s a little better son start since going down with an snapped a from the face-off fender, Eberle put a beautiful back- President of basketball opera- today, I’m almost over it,” Hayden injury last November. dot past Kiprusoff. Defenceman hander past Kiprusoff. tions Geoff Petrie made the an- said. “It’s happening to everybody Gilbert Brule and Ales Hemsky Ryan Whitney earned his 200th ca- Edmonton took a three-goal nouncement Thursday. in all sports, it’s a place we’re not also scored for the Oilers, who lost reer NHL point on the play. lead less than two minutes later as Abdur-Rahim spent the past two used to. If you can be comfortable all six encounters to the Flames Edmonton had a host of great Hemsky came down the right side seasons as an assistant coach with being uncomfortable, that’s great.” last season en route to a 30th chances in the opening period, and wired a slapshot that went off the Kings. He played 12 years in place finish. out-shooting Calgary 19-9. of the Flames goalie and in. In addition to Hayden’s gold the NBA with Vancouver, Atlanta, there were three Canadian cham- Portland and Sacramento. pions in women’s wrestling, two golds in synchronized swimming Moss hits the grass and three more in the throwing EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — To Tim the Freak two-hits Braves events at the track. hear Randy Moss tell it, this In women’s wrestling, Olympic week’s blockbuster that The Associated Press Braves 1-0 in Game 1 of their NL outduelled playoff veteran gold medallist Carol Huynh led a moved him from New England to division series Thursday night. Derek Lowe and caught a break, Canadian parade to the top of the Minnesota didn’t just bring him SAN FRANCISCO — Tim Lince- The Freak really showed up too. podium.The native of Hazelton back to the place where he started cum pitched a two-hitter and for San Francisco in his biggest Cody Ross singled in a run in the defeated Nirmala Devi of India 7- his NFL career. struck out 14 in a dominating start yet, pitching his own gem fourth after Buster Posey was 3 in the 48-kilogram women’s The headline grabbing move post-season debut, and the San a day after Philadelphia’s Roy called safe on a steal of second by freestyle final. Justine Bouchard wasn’t about Moss simply coming Francisco Giants scored their only Halladay threw only the sec- umpire Paul Emmel. Posey ap- of Wetaskiwin, Alta., downed back to a team that traded him run after a questionable umpiring ond no-hitter in post-season peared to be tagged out by Brooks Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu 6-2 five years ago. call to beat the wild-card Atlanta history in his debut. Lincecum Conrad on the play. in the 63-kilogram final. More important than anything for Moss, and thus for the Vikings, is that the star receiver feels like he is home. “I’m very fortunate to be back home where it all started,” said Moss, the West Virginia native who referred to Minnesota as home seven times Thursday. “It’s been a hectic last 48 hours. I did- n’t really know what to expect. I’m back home.” Wearing that familiar purple No. 84 on his back, Moss practised with the Vikings a day after he was acquired from the Patriots in a trade his new team hopes will get them right back in the Super Bowl conversation. A Tiger in Thailand BANGKOK, Thailand — Tiger Woods will play in a one-day skins tournament in Thailand next month, returning to his mother’s home country for the first time in 10 years. Organizers announced Thurs- day that Woods will play in the Nov. 8 event, which is part of cel- ebrations to mark King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 60th year on the TICKETS ON Thai throne. It will be staged at the Amata Spring Country Club in Chonburi, a seaside province SALE NOW southeast of Bangkok, and comes the day after the HSBC Champi- ons tournament in Shanghai. Paul Casey of England, Camilo Villegas of Colombia and Thai- land’s top player, Thongchai Jaidee, will also compete for total prize money of US$300,000. Woods is without a tournament victory this year after being out for nearly four months in the wake of the infidelity scandal that ended his marriage and marred his image. Woods, an American whose mother is Thai, last played in Thailand in 2000, winning the Johnnie Walker Classic. 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