Canada’s Top Ninja Takes on Best in World at 2024 Championships

Published on June 21, 2024

A Calgary athlete is putting his ninja skills to the test this weekend as he takes on the top amateur ninja athletes in the world. Lucas Artinian is competing at the World Ninja League, which is a series of ninja-style challenges like obstacle courses, running in North Carolina from June 21–24. “There’s athletes from all over the world,” he told The Epoch Times in a phone interview. “We have a team of 13 of us that came from Calgary and Edmonton, and we kind of were under the same company.” He described the experience as surreal. “It’s so exciting seeing a lot of the people that I would see on American Ninja Warrior, like some of my favourite ninjas that I kind of looked at as celebrities, walking around and I meet them. I’m running the same courses that they are, and it’s pretty surreal. It’s such an amazing experience.”...

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