Canadian figure skating hasn’t been the same since the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. That’s where a golden generation of performers featuring ice-dance darlings Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and three-time men’s world champion…
The 2024 Canadian figure skating championships will feel like a return to normal for ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier. The two-time world championship bronze medalists didn’t compete in last year’s nationals because Gilles…
Canada’s Cameron Alexander won bronze in the men’s downhill race on Thursday in Bormio, Italy. Alexander, who also took third at last year’s world championships, concluded 1.23 seconds behind France’s Cyprien Sarrazin (one minute 50.73 seconds),…
Alex Pereira has been in the UFC for just two years. And now he has collected championships in two weight classes. Pereira stopped Jiri Prochazka via TKO at 4:08 of the second round Saturday night in the main…
Canada’s Kerri Einarson closed out women’s round-robin play at the 2023 Pan Continental Curling Championships with a 17-1 victory over Mexico on Thursday in Kelowna, B.C. The four-time defending national champions from Gimli, Man., scored…
Canada’s Marco Arop cruised into the men’s 800-metre semifinals on Tuesday at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Arop, the reigning bronze medalist, made his move to the front of the pack with about 200…
Megan Oldham of Parry Sound, Ont., shone again at the freestyle skiing world championships, capturing a silver medal in women’s slopestyle on Tuesday after finishing 2-10ths of a point behind Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland. Third…
In a star-studded race at the world rowing indoor championships, Ukraine’s Olena Buryak came out on top over Canadian national team members Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski and Sydney Payne to claim her seventh successive gold medal at…
Snowboarder Arnaud Gaudet of Montcalm, Que., picked up his first individual international medal at the senior level, claiming bronze in men’s parallel slalom small final on Tuesday at the world championships in Bakuriani, Georgia. The…
Marta Bassino defeated Mikaela Shiffrin to win the women’s super-G on Wednesday and give Italy its second gold medal at the alpine skiing world championships, with her American rival settling for silver. Shiffrin led Bassino…
Saskatchewan’s Kelly Knapp and Jamie Koe of the Northwest Territories attained their respective men’s provincial and territorial curling finals Sunday to advance to the Tim Hortons Brier. Knapp edged Steve Laycock 5-4 in Estevan to…
Canadian swimmers continued to climb the podium on Wednesday at the world short course championships in Melbourne, Australia, including a gold medal won by Maggie Mac Neil in the women’s 50-metre butterfly. The Canadian swam…
Twenty-six years after Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey captured gold for Canada in the men’s 4×100-metre relay on a Saturday night in Georgia at the 1996 Olympics, another Canadian quartet of…
Lionel Messi scored as Paris Saint-Germain won the Ligue 1 title following a 1-1 draw with Lens on Saturday, equaling Marseille and Saint-Etienne’s record of 10 French top-flight championships. Saturday’s draw at Parc des Princes ensured the title for Les Parisiens, with…
Canadian freestyle wrestler Jeremy Poirier was eliminated from competition at the senior world championships on Sunday in Oslo, Norway. The Saint-Louis, N.B, native, suffered a 10-0 defeat in his quarter-final match in the 92-kilogram division, falling to U.S. wrestler J’den Michael Tbory Cox. After…
When asked about his highlight of a crazy NBA campaign, Kyle Lowry rattled off a laundry list of virtually every player on the Toronto Raptors and their high notes. From all-star Pascal Siakam to newcomer…
Montreal resident Shady El Nahas scored an ippon versus Rafael Buzacarini to repeat as under-100 kilogram men’s champion at the Pan Am judo championships in Guadalajara, Mexico on Saturday. El Nahas, who entered the day…
Brad Gushue has strung together 15 curling consecutive victories, his latest on Sunday afternoon clinched another title for his team from Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue overpowered Nova Scotia’s Matthew Manuel 6-2 to claim the Stu Sells…
Athletics Canada has withdrawn 5 athletes deliberate to symbolize the nation this weekend on the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland. The sports activities group informed it made the decision after an…
