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With the CTFL championship less than one week away, we take a look at the final meet of the season. We’ll be looking into each race and field event, talking favourites and dark horses based on statistics for the long distance and field events at the August 5th CTFL Championship.

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With the CTFL championship less than one week away, we take a look at the final meet of the season. We’ll be looking into each race, talking favourites and dark horses based on statistics in the sprinting events.

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Nkele Martin At the final preliminary meet of the Canadian Track and Field League, in Ottawa, on July 5, first and second-place 200m athletes Bertwin Ben-Smith and Sebastien Regnier ran identical races.  Ben-Smith (Bears) and Regnier (Arctics) were the top two runners in the men’s 200m division with just three points separating them coming into the final meet. Ben-Smith led the division with 43 points, but Regnier only needed to run 21.81, 0.02 seconds faster than his previous preliminary time, to take the lead.  The day before the race, Regnier was confident that he could beat that time, having run...

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On July 5, CTFL athletes will be competing in the Ottawa Twilight meet, the leagues final preliminary meet of the season. The event is stacking up to be decisive for the mens 200m event, with first and second place runners Bertwin Ben-Smith (Bears) Sebastien Regnier (Arctics) sitting just three points apart. With the fate of first place in his hands, Ben-Smith says he is not nervous.

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Nkele Martin As the CTFL season draws closer to an end, its athletes are beginning to heat up. On June 21, the aptly named Royal City Inferno Track and Field Festival yielded some fiery results.  Athletes and supporters arrived at the Guelph University Alumni Stadium on the Wednesday, and races began at 6:30 p.m. 85 CTFL athletes from all four teams competed at the festival, the second last of the leagues’ preliminary meets.  Bears athlete and Olympian Roxroy Cato started the meet strong, winning the first race of the evening with a 49.55 in the men's 400m hurdles.  Despite many...

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