Auger-Aliassime bumps slump to beat qualifier at Barcelona Open
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The last time Canada appeared in an Olympic men’s basketball event was in the year 2000. For perspective, the man who dragged Canada into the quarter-finals in Sydney, Steve Nash, was a 26-year-old point guard…
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One week after their early elimination, Canadian beach volleyball duo Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes took a strong first step toward making sure it doesn’t happen again. The reigning world champions opened the Latvia Elite 16…
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With the exception of the upcoming Paralympics, Russian athletes were restricted from competing in more sporting events around the world on Wednesday as the junior Canadian Hockey League has cancelled its annual Canada-Russia series but…
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Melissa Humana-Paredes’ 29th birthday didn’t feature a beach volleyball World Tour Finals gold medal celebration in Italy. The Toronto native and her partner Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., were swept 2-0 (21-13, 23-21) in 37…
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Andy Murray moved into the field for the US Open on Monday when another past champion at Flushing Meadows, Stan Wawrinka, pulled out because he still is recovering from foot surgery. Murray is a former No. 1…
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Game on the line, final seconds ticking away, and Slovenia’s Klemen Prepelic had nobody between him and a layup that would have sent his country into the gold-medal match at the Tokyo Olympics. Nicolas Batum had…
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Perhaps the world’s next sprint star wasn’t so hard to find after all. He’s Andre De Grasse, the Canadian who ran his first sprint as a teen in baggy basketball shorts and borrowed spikes, and…
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Andre De Grasse just keeps getting faster at the Olympics. And now he’s eyeing his second medal in Tokyo and the fifth of his Olympic career. The 26-year-old from Markham, Ont., burned up the Olympic…
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Five years ago at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Penny Oleksiak won gold in the women’s 100-metre freestyle with a time of 52.70 seconds. In Tokyo on Friday morning, she set a Canadian record…
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Trayvon Bromell continues to demonstrate he’ll be the man to defeat in the 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics. The American sprinter won for the sixth time in seven races in the event this season,…
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Wimbledon men’s singles champion Novak Djokovic has stated he is “divided” on whether he will go to the Tokyo Olympics, having previously committed to attending. Djokovic defeated Italy’s Matteo Berrettini 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in the final on…
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Canada’s Andre De Grasse ran to another fast time less than a month out from the Tokyo Olympics. The three-time Olympic medalist from Markham, Ont., won the 200 metres in 19.97 seconds on Tuesday at…
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Four of the top 10 men in the Official World Golf Ranking are not going to Japan for the Olympics, only one of them by choice. The 60-man field was set Tuesday based on the…
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Jessica Klimkait of Whitby, Ont., qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in judo and collected a world title in a span of two hours on Tuesday. The 24-year-old defeated Momo Tamaoki of Japan by waza-ari in the women’s…
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Call it the last opportunity to impress. Call it crunch time. For members of the Canadian women’s national soccer team, there are few opportunities left to crack the 18-player roster for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics…
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A last-chance rowing qualifying event in Switzerland on Sunday has produced three more entries for Canada at the Tokyo Olympics. Canadians Patrick Keane and Maxwell Lattimer qualified a boat for Tokyo in lightweight men’s double sculls by…
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Canadian show jumper Nicole Walker’s appeal of a doping violation has been denied by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Canadian show jumping team’s disqualification from the 2019 Pan American Games stands, which means…
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Much has happened in the world since Christine Sinclair made soccer history in January en route to helping the Canadian women book their ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. The longtime Canada captain added to her…
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All athletes who had qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will keep their places for the Games next year following their postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Olympic Committee stated on Friday. The…
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Andre De Grasse now has the opportunity to be a major part of the sprint show at the Tokyo Games. For that, he’s breathing a little easier. A day ago, Canada’s fastest man wasn’t sure…
