Health issues sideline CBC’s Steve Armitage from Rio 2016

TORONTO – Veteran CBC sportscaster Steve Armitage has pulled out from CBC’s broadcast team for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games due to a recent diagnosis of chronic heart failure.Armitage (pictured), who has covered 15 Olympic Games for the public broadcaster, was scheduled to provide live play-by-play commentary for CBC’s coverage of swimming and diving events from Rio. Elliotte Friedman will assume this role in Armitage’s absence.“I am not going to Rio for the Games because I have no other choice. If I thought I could ’wing it’ or fake it, I would be there”, Armitage said Wednesday in a statement. ...