After 85 seasons of soccer on Vancouver Island, the London Boxing Club brought the first national men's soccer title to Victoria.

With the fight club branching out to other sports in the 1960s, Boxers soccer teams enjoyed some success early on. Led by such young stars as George Pakos, Brian Robinson and Bob Bolitho, the top-level LBC side was a powerhouse by the mid-1970s and captured an Island Premier Division crown in 1974-75.They also won the Jackson Cup that season to make the B.C. playoffs and beat North Shore Paul's 4-1 to capture Victoria's first-ever Province Cup.

The Boxers weren't done, however. After downing Winnipeg in a qualifier, they travelled to Calgary for the Dominion Challenge Cup tournament, where they dispatched Edmonton Italia in the semifinals and St. John's Laurentians in the championship match.

The Canadian win was the first for an Island team in 48 years and helped put Victoria on the national club soccer map.

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Roland Green would ride whatever he could get his hands on as a teen. After showing promise in various bike races, he took to competitive road racing in 1991. His career took off in 1993, when he won the world junior gold medal in Abitibi, Quebec.

After five years riding speed bikes, he switched to mountain biking. He won several Canada Cup races and the national title in 1996, and placed fourth in an under-23 world championship race. In 1998, his first full year on the World Cup cross-country circuit, he finished 66th overall. He improved to 33rd and wound up 10th in 2000, the year he placed second at the World championships.

That was his coming out. He dominated cross-country through 2003, winning UCI World Cup titles in 2001 and 2002 and Commonwealth Games gold in 2002. His last Canadian mountain bike title came in 2003, and after 15 seasons he retired from competition in 2005.

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