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Who: Ryan Steele, a 23-year-old Stratford native playing NCAA Division 1 hockey for the Sacred Heart University Pioneers. He is a six-foot-one, 195-pound centre. The Pioneers play in the Atlantic Hockey Association and have a 4-5-1 record.

The latest: Steele is one of more than 50 nominees for the prestigious Hobey Baker Memorial Award.

Who else is up for the award: The list of nominees includes NHL draft picks like Cole Caufield (Montreal), Shane Pinto (Ottawa), Dylan Holloway (Edmonton), Cam York (Philadelphia), Spencer Knight (Florida) and Matt Boldy (Minnesota).

Atlantic Canadian connection: Steele isn’t the only player from Atlantic Canada in the running. Adam Dawe is a junior at the University of Maine, where he is a teammate of Seacow Pond’s Brad Morrissey. Dawe is from Gander, N.L., and played at the 2015 Canada Games in Prince George, B.C. Sacred Heart head coach C.J. Marottolo said: “He has a quiet steadiness to how he approaches his game. I think he is respected, by not only his coaching staff here, but other coaches about how he plays the game. He plays the game the right way.”

2020-21 statistics: GP

9 G

4 A

5 Pts

9

BERLIN — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Tuesday that comments about women made by Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games chief Yoshiro Mori were “absolutely inappropriate.”

Mori has come under fire for saying last week that meetings with female participants take a long time, adding that they “get competitive” with each other.

He later apologized and retracted his comments while also attempting to justify them, inviting further criticism.

“The recent comments of Tokyo 2020 President Mori were absolutely inappropriate and in contradiction to the IOC’s commitments and the reforms of its Olympic Agenda 2020,” the Olympic body said in a statement.

The Tokyo Games organizing committee (TOCOG) will convene a special board meeting as early as Friday as a result of the outcry.