Will Summer McIntosh break a world record? And other storylines ahead of Canadian swim trials
Brittany MacLean Campbell and Devin Heroux both agree we'll see at least one world record from Summer McIntosh when Canada's swimmers meet in Victoria, BC for the 2025 Canadian swim trials. They break down the top storylines you should know before streaming begins June 7-12 on CBC Gem.
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A door outside the HI-Ottawa Jail Hostel reads 'Jail Entrance.' (HI-Ottawa Jail Hostel) looks at things to do in Ottawa and eastern Ontario this weekend. CHEO Telethon The 2025 CHEO Telethon is on CTV Ottawa on Saturday. The telethon showcases how your donations support CHEO, the CHEO Research Institute and the Roger Neilson Children's Hospice. To donate, visit Doors Open Ottawa Take a behind the scenes look at many iconic buildings in Ottawa this weekend. Doors Open Ottawa runs Saturday and Sunday across Ottawa. For a list of buildings to explore, click here. On Sunday, the city is hosting the Public Works Big Wheels Expo at 300 Coventry Road. Check out city vehicles, including a garbage truck, sidewalk sweeper, a hydraulic crane and a snow plow. Ottawa Titans The Ottawa Titans host the Sussex County Miners for a three-game series at the Ottawa Baseball Stadium. First pitch Friday night is at 7 p.m., followed by games at 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday. There will be fireworks following Friday night's game. Saturday is Pride Night and Sunday is Cappy's Birthday Party. For tickets, visit Volleyball Nations League Some of the top women's volleyball teams in the world are in Ottawa this weekend for Volleyball Nations League. Canada, Bulgaria, Dominican Republic, Japan, Netherlands and Serbia will play at TD Place. For tickets, visit Rhythmic Gymnastics Canadian Championships The Rhythmic Gymnastics Canadian Championships run this weekend at Algonquin College. Witness the beauty, grace and athleticism of Canada's best rhythmic gymnasts. For tickets, visit Dickinson Days Don't miss Dickinson Days this weekend in Manotick Village. Events run all weekend, including a pancake breakfast and Kiwanis Craft Market on Saturday, a scavenger hunt and entertainment. There will be a fireworks show in Centennial Park at 9:30 p.m. Friday. For more information, click here. 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In crokinole country
At the World Crokinole Championship in Ontario, a Canadian math prof is vying to take back the title from the current American champ. Justin Slater, right, shakes hands with Connor Reinman after being knocked out in the semifinal round of the World Crokinole Championship in Tavistock, Ont., on June 1, 2024. Reinman went on to win the tournament — his second in a row. On Saturday, Slater — who has five world titles — will try to reclaim his crown. Evan Mitsui/CBC By Evan Mitsui Jun. 6, 2025 Justin Slater may be one of the most dominant competitors you've never heard of. His game is crokinole and, on Saturday, the Canadian will attempt to reclaim his crown from American upstart Connor Reinman, who's chasing his own place in history. ADVERTISEMENT The World Crokinole Championship will run — as it has for a quarter century — on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ont., about 50 kilometres from Kitchener, near the spiritual heartland of a game that's been played in this country longer than organized hockey. Crokinole is a game where finger dexterity is key. It lands somewhere at the nexus of air hockey, pool and curling and is played on a wooden board with a shallow hole in the centre. Players typically discover it at the family cottage as kids, then rediscover it as adults in the basement or shed. It pairs well with beer, but not at the highest levels of play. The game is in the midst of a renaissance and competition at the world's toughest tournament has never been stiffer. The defending champ 'It's the precision that drew me to it initially and then the strategy,' said Reinman, a day after clinching his second world championship in a row last June. A graduate student at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, Reinman, 28, has a head for numbers and compares the action of crokinole to billiards. 'You can see the physics playing out' when you line up a shot, he said over FaceTime from his home in Bloomington, Ind., where he and his now fiancée, Michelle Astorsdotter, (who competes in the recreational division) had returned after the tournament. A numbers guy Slater, 32, is an assistant professor of math and statistics at the University of Guelph. Like Reinman, he's a numbers guy and, like Reinman, started playing serious crokinole as a teenager. 'When I didn't want to do my calculus homework or whatever, I would sit at the kitchen table and just shoot 20s,' Slater said, seated across from a crokinole board set on his kitchen table in Guelph, Ont. Scoring in crokinole is not dissimilar from darts or curling with points ascribed to concentric zones radiating out from the centre. A 20 is when a player sinks their piece in the centre hole. Right on the button. At the top echelon of competition, where Slater and Reinman play, competitors tend to sink 20s as if guided by magnets, seldom missing the mark. Slater is the winningest player in competitive crokinole with five world titles to his name — more if you include the doubles trophies he has won with his father. The Slater name dominates the leaderboard between 2015 and 2019. Only COVID could stop his run when competitions were cancelled from 2020 to 2022. Another win is a chance to prove he's still got it. 'I was clearly the best for a while, not anymore though,' he said. 'It's cool to be the best at something, even if it's just crokinole.' When tournaments resumed in 2023 Reinman emerged seemingly out of nowhere, first winning regional competitions then the world title back-to-back in 2023 and 2024. Now, faced with the possibility of a three-peat, Reinman is breathing rarefied air. Slater does not want that to happen. Their Canada-U.S. rivalry makes a win for either of them sweeter still. A game older than hockey Hockey may be Canada's game but crokinole's been around longer. There are similar games played around the world, including carrom, developed in India in the mid-1800s and played on a square board. Crokinole historian Wayne Kelly, of Stratford, Ont., died in 2016 but not before addressing the game's origins in The Crokinole Book, which describes a game of the same name being played in Ontario farmhouses as far back as 1867. (The first game of organized hockey was played in 1875 in Montreal.) And then there's Eckhardt Wettlaufer's 1876 board, on display at a museum in Kitchener, Ont., which every player knows and references as the oldest known crokinole artifact and proof of the game's Canadian provenance. 'It's Canada's game' Origins aside, the game's popularity is rising and much of that interest is coming from south of the border at clubs like the Extra Pint, in Voorheesville, N.Y. Club founder Jason Molloy's friendly games soon outgrew the garage and now, thanks largely to word-of-mouth and YouTube, Extra Pint has chapters across the East Coast and Texas. The U.S. Open, now in its fifth year, is hosted in Voorheesville, a small town like Tavistock. 'We take pride in Connor [Reinman],' Molloy said over the phone from his office in Albany County, N.Y. 'There is definitely a friendly rivalry between the American and Canadian players,' but, he added, 'Connor is a dual citizen so we joke that he's got to pick a side.' Reinman, who even Slater will admit is the best player right now, is the son of a Canadian mother and learned the game visiting the family farm in Blyth, Ont. 'There's no question it's Canada's game,' Molloy said. 'The top 20 players are all Canadian but that means we've got nothing to lose. What's the goal? To beat the Canadians.' The boardmaking market When it comes to boardmaking, Canada, too, has the market cornered for quality, and the tournament boards are made at nearby Tracey Boards. After a YouTube video went viral, 'We got more orders in three days than we usually got in a month," Jeremy Tracey said in his new boardmaking shop in Elmira, Ont. An apprentice of Willard Martin, who had been building boards in the region for three decades, Tracey hoped to hit 500 boards per year after hanging his own shingle at a smaller location in 2018. Demand has been such that he's moving several times that volume and employs a staff that includes a full-time craftsman plus three sons, Reid, Nolan and Garret. Their mother keeps the books. The growth in his business, Tracey said, is mainly through word-of-mouth and boots on the ground, specifically his (though he prefers flip-flops). He spends weeks on the road, travelling to tradeshows like PAX in the U.S. and Australia, where he hosts tournaments for beginners. Many place orders for boards on the spot. 'It's so fun, they get hooked. It snowballs from there.' A sold-out championship Back in Tavistock, this year's championship tournament sold out months ago and will include 400 players. 'An all-time record,' according to organizer Nathan Walsh. Of those competitors, a strong international contingent includes Ryotaro Fukuda, travelling from Japan. It's Fukuda's second time at worlds and this time, he's bringing an apprentice who will play as his doubles partner. The No. 2 U.K. player, Mike Ray, is also entered as are Dutch champions Sander Brugman and Joert Edink, known in their native Holland as The Roaring Twenties — a nod to the period garb they compete in. Hungary, too, is an emerging powerhouse with players flying in to compete. But the main draw is Reinman and Slater. For Reinman, a three-peat would cement his place in history, a feat only achieved once before, by Toronto's Brian Cook. For Slater, a sixth world title would solidify his G.O.A.T. status and put the record for most wins that much further from Reinman's reach — and put the top prize in Canada's oldest board game back in Canadian hands. Editing and layout by photo editor Showwei Chu and senior editor Lisa Johnson About the Author Related Stories Footer Links My Account Profile CBC Gem Newsletters Connect with CBC Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Mobile RSS Podcasts Contact CBC Submit Feedback Help Centre Audience Relations, CBC P.O. 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Blossoming superstars ready to take centre stage at Canadian swimming trials in Victoria
Social Sharing Just three short years ago when hundreds of Canadian swimmers arrived at the Saanich Commonwealth Place pool in Victoria for national trials there were signs that Summer McIntosh, Josh Liendo and a handful of others were on the cusp of something special. Now, as Canadian swimming stars prepare for another trials in Victoria, it's clear that those sparks of brilliance in the pool in April 2022 have fully developed into global superstars who continue to take down records and chart a new course for swimming in this country. Throughout those trials McIntosh started signalling to the world she was going to be a force for the foreseeable future, winning all four races she entered. She hasn't stopped since then and has become a generational talent – she is now a three-time Olympic champion, has countless short course and long course world titles and is the world record holder in the 400m individual medley. Ilya Kharun wasn't even at those trials in Victoria three years ago – he won two bronze medals in Paris last summer — and Liendo is a podium threat at every national meet, having won silver in the 100m butterfly at the Games. The two have also been highly successful in the NCAA ranks, racking up wins and medals. And they're all just getting started. McIntosh is only 18 years old, Kharun is 19 and Liendo is 21 years old. Will Summer McIntosh break a world record? And other storylines ahead of Canadian swim trials 1 day ago Duration 15:42 Brittany MacLean Campbell and Devin Heroux both agree we'll see at least one world record from Summer McIntosh when Canada's swimmers meet in Victoria, BC for the 2025 Canadian swim trials. They break down the top storylines you should know before streaming begins June 7-12 on CBC Gem. The Canadian women, who have been the backbone of the Swimming Canada program for three Olympic cycles, continue to thrive. And the men's program is gaining traction as well, with the likes of Finlay Knox and Blake Tierney also posting internationally competitive times. Many continue to call this the golden generation for Canadian swimming. This current group of Canada swimmers enter these trials beginning Saturday in Victoria, having won eight medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, followed by 15 medals at the short course world championships in Budapest this past December. Bell Canadian Swimming Trials will stream live on and on CBC Gem beginning on Saturday, June 7 at 12:30 p.m. ET, continuing through Thursday, June 12. For a full broadcast schedule of swimming events this season, click here. It's incredible to consider some of the results for McIntosh since she last dove into the water in Victoria – her three gold medals in Paris made her the first Canadian to win three gold medals at a single Games. At her short course worlds debut in December, McIntosh broke three world records, won three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. She was named World Aquatics female swimmer of the year and also won the Northern Star Award for top Canadian athlete of the year. She is, by many accounts, the most talented female swimmer on the planet and just recently announced that after the world championships this summer she'll be joining Bob Bowman, who famously coached Michael Phelps to 23 Olympic gold medals. Top 5 Summer McIntosh moments at the Canadian Swim Trials 15 hours ago Duration 1:15 McIntosh will be busy in Victoria, having entered in seven events including the 800-metre freestyle, 400m freestyle, 400m individual medley, 200m individual medley, 200m freestyle, 200m backstroke and 200m butterfly. It's likely she won't compete in the 200m free and 200m back, hinting at some longer distance training of late and that she'll be swimming in the 800m. McIntosh has said she'll compete in five events at the world championships this summer in Singapore, all with the goal of winning five gold medals in LA 2028. By contrast, McIntosh competed in four events at the last Victoria trials – the most impressive time comparison from then to now comes in the form of the 400m IM, where McIntosh has trimmed off a full ten seconds from her 4:34.86 time posted in April 2022. She now holds the world record in the event in a time of 4:24.38 posted at the Olympic trials one year ago. Expect fast swimming from Kharun and Liendo. They both had major breakthroughs at the Olympics in Paris with Kharun winning two bronze medals – 100m and 200m butterfly – and Liendo won silver in the 100m fly. 'It would send shockwaves around the world': Will Summer McIntosh break 200m butterfly world record? 16 hours ago Duration 0:57 'The Ready Room' host Brittany MacLean Campbell lists the reasons why she feels Summer McIntosh will break the 200m butterfly world record on Day 4 of the Canadian swim trials which begin June 7th, live on CBC Gem. Both also have realistic shots of making some noise in the 50m events, including the 50m free and 50m butterfly – the 50m stroke events are all part of the Olympic programme for LA 2028. Mary-Sophie Harvey continues to improve, posting some of her fastest times ever in the early part of this season. She was named World Aquatics female breakthrough athlete of the year last season and will be busy throughout trials. Harvey is entered in eight events, however, it's unlikely she'll be swimming in all of them. Kylie Masse is also turning back time, having just broken her own 50m backstroke Canadian record at the beginning of May. She is one of the most decorated swimmers in the country's history, known for her consistency and ability to reach the podium time and time again. Masse is entered in the 50m and 100m backstroke as well as the 50m and 100m butterfly. Under the guidance of Swimming Canada high performance director John Atkinson the program has taken on a business-like energy – swimmers are prepared, have plans and are executing in the pool like never before. WATCH | McIntosh on training with Michael Phelps' former coach: Summer McIntosh on decision to train under Michael Phelps' former coach 9 days ago Duration 14:00 Atkinson has stressed an athlete-first approach to their programming, empowering the swimmers to take control of their training plan and in-competition needs. It's led to record-breaking performances over the last number of years. Canadian swimmers are meeting the moment and delivering under pressure. The national trials offer the unique opportunity to swim in a somewhat high stakes environment and earn a spot on a national senior team. For many, like Masse, McIntosh, Liendo, Harvey and other veterans of the team, there should be few surprises – they are all here to earn their spot on the Canadian worlds team and then build toward the world championships in late-July. For others, these trials provide the chance to breakthrough – the next Oleksiak, Liendo or McIntosh might just be diving into the Victoria pool this upcoming week. Powerhouse Para squad on display Spots on Canada's Para world championship team will also be on the line throughout trials, with a powerhouse squad of swimmers taking to the Victoria pool. In fact, Canadian Para swimmers racked up 13 medals at the Paris Paralympics, including Nicolas Bennett capturing two gold medals and a silver. His efforts earned him a closing ceremony flag-bearer appointment alongside Para canoeist Brianna Hennessy. Bennett became the first Canadian male swimmer to win a swimming Paralympic gold medal since 2012, the first to capture multiple gold medals at a single Games since 2004, and the first to reach the podium three times since 2012. Bennett will join the likes of swimming superstars Aurélie Rivard, Danielle Dorris, Sebastian Massabie and Reid Maxwell in the pool throughout the six days of competition. Rivard is the veteran of the squad having competed at four Paralympics. Throughout those Games she has collected an astounding 13 medals, including six gold, four silver and three bronze medals. Bennett and Rivard were named Swimming Canada's Para athletes of the year this past December. The world Para swimming championships will also be held in Singapore, taking place at the end of September. This marks the first time the Para world championships are being held in Asia.
