#Swim Ontario

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Why didn't the parents of the girls drown him?

50-year-old biological male competes with 13-year-old girls in Markham swim meet Courtesy of Oli London/Twitter

Jen Hodgson

Published on : 25 Oct 2023, 2:54 pm

A 50-year-old biological male professor from York University who identifies as a teenage girl, swam against 13-year-old girls at a Markham swim meet Friday. 

The races in the Fall Classic swimming competition at the Markham Pan Am Centre are segregated by age and gender, where participants who are registered as a male or female with Swimming Canada appear in the relevant group on the registration forms at the event. 

Markham swim meetCourtesy of Rebel News

The media outlet received tips from concerned parents and David Menzies went to the Markham swim center Sunday to verify the claims on camera. 

At first the swim competition organizer denied Wiseheart swam on Friday, until Menzies produced a copy of the Friday swim schedule listing the name. 

“I don’t think that it happened. I’m the competition coordinator for this league. I do not recall a 50-year-old man swimming in here on the Friday, competing with little kids,” said the organizer. 

He explained the participants are registered through Swim Ontario and Swimming Canada and as he looked at the paper he said, “Yes, my mistake — indeed there was actually someone swimming on that day, okay, however —”

“That would be Melody, right?” Menzies asked. 

“Well, I don’t know exactly, because I wasn’t —”

“There’s no name on that list,” Menzies pressed. 

“Yes, there is a name in here. That’s why I’m validating what [you] said you have is correct.” 

He explained the sections were actually open to any age.

“Don’t get into it with me on age, because that’s all Swimming Canada,” he said.

Markham swim organizer speaks with David Menzies Courtesy of Rebel News

Western Standard reached out to the swim competition's governing bodies for comment.

Swimming Canada confirmed that "all competitive swimmers are ultimately registered through us," but denied organizing the categories.

"However we do not organize/set age categories for individual local meets etc.," Swimming Canada told the Western Standard.

Swim Ontario did not respond by the time of publication.

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1973 Ontario Provincial Park pass

Canada

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Lake Ontario, 1940s

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Another picture of me that I think goes hard

[muirneach]

i threatened to begin a lifestyle of moderate distance cycling and i think for my first trick it will be a pilgrimage to omemee for neily’s birthday. watch out

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Senior Dog Dive August 2024 Meaford, Ontario, Canada... 11 years old! Please visit Beautiful Joe Park to honor rescued dogs and animal/human love and respect... https://beautifuljoe.org/beautiful-joe-park/

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the water is still freezing but i pushed through

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ok pinterest & google, when I ask for deep water lake swimming exercises, I mean 50-300 feet deep water. Muskoka deep. Algonquin Highlands deep. can-only-get-in-by-jumping-off-the-end-of-a-dock-into-the-abyss-because-the-shore-is-a-vertical-chunk-of-granite deep. not the barely-six-feet "deep end" of a community pool.

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Finished "Ducks" by Kate Beaton and was filled with such a longing for home (rural Ontario) that I nearly cried.

Took it back to the library at 10pm so I could have a long contemplative walk in the dark.

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Swimming in Lake Ontario, 1940s

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[muirneach]

dad wants to take me for a couple day road trip somewhere do i go to sudbury or the adriondacks (new yawk)…. or elsewhere 🤔

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It hasn’t been easy for many who have come before them. Twenty-six years ago in Nagano when women’s hockey debuted as an official Olympic sport, some media coverage focused more on the sexual orientation of the players than the competition.

But relationships among athletes are slowly gaining a normality in women’s pro sports. In 2021, married couple Allie Quigley and Courtney Vandersloot won a WNBA championship with the Chicago Sky, and they are just one of many couples in the league. 

Women’s sports is undergoing a transformative expansion — new leagues, more money and investment, increased media coverage — and the story of teammates as couples is only going to become more common.

“I've always been the hockey player. But I have a wife and I can be myself. People are coming to the rink and saying thank you for allowing me to be myself,” Poulin says. 

If Poulin has helped make Stacey a better hockey player, Stacey has assisted Poulin in living her most authentic life. 

And in a lot of ways, they have become bigger than the game.

Their late-September wedding at Le Peaches and Cream in Low, Que., is described by many of the 192 family members and friends who were in attendance as the perfect day. Poulin and Stacey both call it “the best day of their lives” — an epic celebration of life and love, the culmination of a relationship that began in 2017 when they locked eyes while swimming at a Team Canada event at Blue Mountain in southern Ontario.

Stacey had just competed in her first world championship, Poulin a decorated champion many times over. They were teammates, but they didn’t really know a lot about one another. 

“A few of us decided to go skinny dipping in the pool at 2 a.m.” Stacey says. “The two of us looked up into the sky at the same time and we saw a shooting star. Our eyes met and we asked each other if we just saw that. Nobody else in the pool saw it or knew what was going on but we saw it. For the rest of that night it was a weird feeling. I had a feeling.

“We always go back to that moment. Even in my wedding vows, that was the thing —that she was the wish I had always dreamed of and I didn’t realize it until now.”

and they were linemates... everybody stop drop and read this article on laura stacey and marie philip-poulin

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