by Laurianne Audet | May 4, 2025 | News
The 42nd Défi Sportif AlterGo, which came to a close on Sunday, May 4, was once again a big success. Canada’s largest multi-sport event brought together close to 6,000 athletes with disabilites of all types for 10 action-packed days of competition in 10 different...
by Laurianne Audet | May 4, 2025 | News
The 42nd Défi Sportif AlterGo came to a close on Sunday May 4, 2025. Over the 10 days of competition, close to 6,000 athletes took part in a variety of sports, including blind ice hockey, powerchair soccer, boccia, baseball, para rowing, and the mini-marathon, among...
by Laurianne Audet | May 3, 2025 | News
It was a ‘super silver Saturday’ this weekend for Carl Marquis’ Team Québec at the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championships in Boucherville. Also on the ice, but this time at the Howie-Morenz Arena, both of Montreal’s two parahockey teams qualified for...
by Laurianne Audet | May 3, 2025 | News
“It was certainly our favourite tournament to come to play wheelchair basketball back when I was just a little runt.” So says Canadian para-hockey legend Billy Bridges—a six-time Paralympian—of his first experiences at the Défi Sportif AlterGo, almost 30 years ago....
by Laurianne Audet | May 2, 2025 | News
It all started 20 years ago, when Maxime-Valérie Olivier, who would go on to become an international-level S3 para-swimmer, was in secondary 4 (10th grade) at Joseph-Charbonneau School. The school’s para-swimming program had just been implemented by two teachers,...
