It was a Canadian summer for sports, highlighted by Toronto and Vancouver with the World Cup, but those were not the only things going on.
Montreal hosted the world road cycling championships and Ottawa hosted the world wheelchair basketball championships. With the CFL playoffs starting this weekend with Winnipeg at Toronto and Saskatchewan at British Columbia ahead of the November 15 title game in Calgary, plus Montreal’s ongoing celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Olympic Summer Games, it’s been a busy few months north of the border.
The World Cup Comes to Toronto, Vancouver
As an expanded Toronto Stadium, basked in almost entirely red, launched into song led by Michael Bublé, it made the years of preparation feel well worth it for Scott Ventresca, Director, Major Events at Destination Toronto.
“The marches into the stadium, every game, is incredible to watch,” Ventresca said. “But it was the whole energy of the stadium and outside the stadium, the streets, the transit, the buses, and the streetcars, it was just amazing.”
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Toronto was home to five group stage matches and a Round of 32 game between Croatia and winners Portugal, who Ventresca said stayed a couple of extra days “because they felt like this was their community,” he said. “Ronaldo loved it and the coach of the Portugal team loved it.”
