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Alexandre Despatie poses with his three gold medals won during diving events at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in this October 12, 2010, file photo. REUTERS/Andy Clark/Files

Despatie retires at 27

Alexandre Despatie, Canada's most decorated male diver, barely kept his composure Tuesday as he announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 27.

Stuart Baker Elementary School Grade 3 athlete Emma Tidey runs the 400 metre dash during the Haliburton County Track and Field Meet at Gary G. Brohman Athletic Field in Haliburton on Saturday, May 25. More than a hundred elementary school students from five schools competed at the annual event sponsored by the Minden and Haliburton Royal Canadian Legions. DARREN LUM/HALIBURTON ECHO/QMI AGENCY

Right on track

Under a sunny sky, more than a 100 Trillium Lakelands District School Board elementary school athletes from ran, jumped and threw at the Haliburton County Track and Field Meet at the Gary G. Brohman Athletic Field in Haliburton on Saturday, May 25.

Oxbow with jockey Gary Stevens (C) leads the pack to take first place at the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland May 18, 2013. (REUTERS)

Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

Oxbow, a 15-1 longshot ridden masterfully by 50-year-old Hall of Famer Gary Stevens, cruised to an easy, wire-to-wire victory in the $1 million Preakness Stakes on Saturday.