VICTORIA — Uncarded by the Canadian sporting system, Diane Cummins of Victoria has rebounded to make the Canadian track and field team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games at Delhi in October.
VICTORIA — Uncarded by the Canadian sporting system, Diane Cummins of Victoria has rebounded to make the Canadian track and field team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games at Delhi in October.
Thought to be a fading force in Canadian track, the 36-year-old national record holder proved everyone wrong in being named to the 40-athlete team that was announced Wednesday.
Cummins will race the 800 metres and 4×400 relay, earning the qualifying standard in the 800 metres last month at the hometown Victoria International Track Classic at Centennial Stadium, and then assuring her place in Delhi by winning the event at the Canadian championships held last weekend in Toronto.
Cut off from Canadian funding, Cummins has received running support recently from a club in Montana.
There were two notable names missing from the Canadian team roster: world-class hurdlers Perdita Felicien and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep.
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