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The ‘Doctor’ is in! Mandy gets an honourary degree from Laurier

By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold WATERLOO — Doctor Mandy Bujold. Has a nice, uh, ring to it. “I don’t know if hearing that will ever get old,” laughed Mandy, after receiving an honorary degree — and title of doctor of ...

Time to Celebrate!

By Jeff Hicks Team BujoldKITCHENER —This is not a regret-ridden retirement. This is a jubilant celebration. For the bilingual Mandy Bujold, Waterloo Region’s spirited community champion in the boxing ring and beyond, it’s long overdue. Que la fête commence. “I ...

My new “Fight for Local” initiative

Monthly subscription box launches in Waterloo Region and Wellington County with 2X Olympian Mandy Bujold as Director to “Fight For Local” Waterloo-Wellington, ON -- Mandy Bujold, 2X Olympic boxer and Waterloo Region resident, is taking on a new fight - ...

Mandy shows the ‘Heart’ of a Champion

By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold TOKYO The final Olympic moments dwindled in Mandy Bujold’s stellar boxing career. Draped in Canadian red, a true national champion pulled her still-wrapped hands together and traced the shape of a heart. Index fingers at ...

Mandy’s message for all women: ‘You can do it’

Tokyo is ‘next step’ after Mandy and legal team win landmark ruling from Court of Arbitration for Sport By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold TORONTO — Mandy Bujold is much more than Waterloo Region’s community champion. She’s a world champion for ...

Mandy’s Olympic fight for motherhood & fairness begins

By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold KITCHENER —Great fighters refuse to give up. And Mandy Bujold is a mother of a fighter. “I can’t just give up,” Mandy said as a toxic two-punch of pandemic sports politics and a jury-rigged points ...

Situation: Isolation

Mandy back in Kitchener — national team training cut short after another athlete tests positive for Covid-19 By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold KITCHENER — Mandy Bujold is back early. She’s in Kitchener. She’s in isolation. “It’s not fun but I ...

Mandy ‘excited’ to lead Canadian boxers into May Olympic qualifiers

By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold MONTREAL — Suddenly, this is much more than a modest training camp to get reacquainted with your Canadian teammates inside a pandemic-proof boxing bubble. This two-week gathering near the Big O now packs Olympic punch ...

Mandy steps into spotlight with Everlast’s ‘Team Canada’

Olympic boxer ‘excited’ to be the face of the boxing giant’s new Canadian branding By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold KITCHENER — Mandy Bujold aims to lead Team Canada boxers into the Tokyo Olympics. You already knew that. But Waterloo Region’s ...

‘Better now than ever before’

Mandy poised to make noise in run-up to Olympics By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold KITCHENER — The amateur boxing calendar is a blank, barren page. The Tokyo Olympics, already delayed a year by the global pandemic, wobbling on a standing ...

Mandy set to ‘active8’ for Recess Guardians kids charity

Canadian boxing champ in corner of national play and anti-bullying programs for schools By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold KITCHENER —Mike McDonald needed a place to stay as his intense focus on his successful national charity carried him eastward. So the ...

The Reward at the Top

Mandy focused and training hard as pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games now just a year away By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold KITCHENER — The slow, lonely climb is gruelling. That’s why Mandy Bujold adores it so. In the early morning hours, as ...

Mandy set on making boxing history in 2021

By Jeff HicksTeam BujoldKITCHENER— The pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games — officially set to begin on July 23, 2021 —are suddenly more than a year in the distance. Mandy Bujold will wait. And work. And sweat. And pore over video between Skype ...

Serious times, serious thinking

Mandy ready to re-evaluate in the face of Olympic uncertainty By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold KITCHENER —A fresh snow had fallen on her pandemic-stricken world Monday morning. Mandy Bujold, Waterloo Region’s community champ, had much to think about. A bitter ...

Mandy’s ‘surreal’ shamrock triumph inspires in uncertain times

By Jeff Hicks Team Bujold KITCHENER — Mandy Bujold, felt like she had just shrugged the Blarney Stone off her back. Four years ago, on St. Patrick’s Day, a clutch semifinal victory over Brazil’s Grazieli Jesus de Souza at the ...