SASKATOON, Saskatchewan -- Gordie Howes family is getting ready to celebrate his life in his hometown of Saskatoon.The city has declared Sunday as Thank You, Mr. Hockey Day, and events are planned to honor the hockey great who died in June at age 88.A private ceremony is to be held Sunday morning to inter the ashes of Howe and wife Colleen inside a statue of him that sits in front of the SaskTel Centre arena.The family made the request, and the city successfully applied to the province to have the statue and a small portion of adjacent area declared a cemetery.A bridge also is to be renamed in the former Detroit Reds Wings stars honor.Howe was born in Floral, Saskatchewan, and grew up in Saskatoon.Its going to be quite the day. Im pleased that part of my brother is coming home, Howes sister, Helen Cummine, told CKOM Radio.Howes grandson, Corey Howe, recently moved to Saskatoon from Ohio and said he has been struck by how many people he meets have a tale to tell about his grandfather.They just light up. Theyve got a Gordie Howe story and they just pour out their hearts and their love for my grandpa, he said. I can only stand there and say how important he was to me, as well, and how special it is to be a part of it.Other activities on Sunday will be centered around the Saskatoon Blades Western Hockey League home opener.The team will wear special commemorative jerseys and the concourse at SaskTel Centre will feature artwork featuring Howe and display trophies he won during his career.Howe spent 26 seasons in the National Hockey League and six in the World Hockey Association. He is still No. 2 on the NHLs goals list behind Wayne Gretzky. Cheap Tennessee Titans Jerseys . 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- After a series of spills in the mens Olympic road race left cyclists with broken bones and bloody road rash, it seemed as if the womens race Sunday was going to escape serious injury.That all changed in a fraction of a second.Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten, barreling down the final descent of Vista Chinesa in the lead, hit the deck in a spectacular fall. Her bike catapulted into the air, and van Vleuten lay motionless on the side of the road while the rest of the field cautiously swept past her.She was transported to a Rio de Janeiro hospital and diagnosed with a concussion and three small fractures of her spine, and was to remain in intensive care for at least 24 hours.It was horrendous crash, said road race silver medalist Emma Johansson of Sweden. The peloton is so small and we all know each other very well. I just hope shes OK.So dangerous was the course over the first two days of the cycling program at the Rio Games that the International Cycling Union was forced to defend it, pointing to a test event and numerous training opportunities that gave riders a chance to familiarize themselves with it.It didnt appear to do much good.The carnage began on Saturday when Giro d Italia winner Vincenzo Nibali and Colombia climber Sergio Henao were leading on the same slippery, technical descent. Nibali likely would have won gold had he been able to stay upright, but wound up heading to the hospital instead.His coach, Davide Cassani, said that the Italian broke his collarbone in the fall.Henao fractured the upper part of his pelvis in his wreck, while Australias Richie Porte broke his scapula in another crash, an accident that will keep him out of Wednesdays time trial.Geraint Thomas of Britain and Nelsoon Oliviera of Portugal also hit the pavement.ddddddddddddIt was anarchy out there, American rider Brent Bookwalter said.Nibali actually warned Italy teammate Elisa Longo Borghini about the chaotic final descent ahead of the womens race, so she took it a bit slower on Sunday and wound up earning a bronze medal.Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands took gold.Its a difficult descent because you can go really fast but you also have to corner, she said. After the mens race I think we were all warned that we needed to take care of the descent and we did. Of course, if youre riding in front, maybe you take too much risk. I dont know.The course was widely regarded as the toughest in Olympic history, even before the first riders set off on it. Long stretches of flats gave way to pounding cobblestones that caused numerous mechanical issues, and a hard series of climbs shook up the fields even before Vista Chinesa.Then they came to the climb that defined both races.Olympic courses tend to be flat affairs with a few small climbs thrown in to spice things up -- nothing compared to the 10-kilometer climb in Rio. That means riders also rarely see such a hard, sharp descent, one that becomes all the more treacherous so close to a gold medal.Everybody wants to win. Yeah, everybodys taking risks, mens gold medalist Greg Van Avermaet said. Some guys probably went over the limit and thats why it happened. I think the road was pretty good. I was happy to stay safe. 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