Canada’s Brooklyn McDougall, Beatrice Lamarche and Ivanie Blondin won silver in the women’s team sprint Thursday to open the ISU world speedskating championship. Calgary’s McDougall, Quebec City’s Lamarche and Ottawa’s Blondin finished second in one minute 27.23 seconds in their first race together as a trio. McDougall was a late replacement for Carolina Hiller of…
This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. Canada’s long-track speed skaters took a step back this season. After winning 23 medals, including five golds, across the six World Cup stops in 2023-24, they ended up with just…
As It Happens6:33Canada’s national rugby team raising money for the World Cup The Canadian women’s rugby team is used to pulling above its weight. The amateur team is currently ranked second best in the world, despite having only a fraction of the budget of some of its professional competitors. Now, the women are heading to…
Beckie Scott has lived many different lives. She was an Olympic cross-country skiing champion, an athlete representative at the International Olympic Committee, and a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency during the Russian scandal emanating from 2014. Since 2017, Scott was founder and CEO of Spirit North, a non-profit intended to empower Indigenous youth through…
Hockey Alex Ovechkin scored his 886th career goal into an empty net Sunday to move nine back of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record. Ovechkin’s goal against Seattle Kraken help extend Capitals’ winning streak to 4 Stephen Whyno · The Associated Press · Posted: Mar 09, 2025 6:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago…
Take the season’s biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsleigh, skeleton and luge, meaning either the Olympics or the world championships, and there have been 59 instances of sliders from one place sweeping the podium. Austria did it twice. Poland did it once. The other 56 times, it was German sliders. That includes some…
As It Happens6:21Marie-Philip Poulin fans defend the hockey champ’s nickname Olivia Huffman has made it her mission to call out NHL teams who claim hockey champion Marie-Philip Poulin’s “Captain Clutch” nickname for less deserving players. Poulin, captain of the Montreal Victoire and long-time Team Canada star, earned the moniker for her history of scoring game-winning goals…
Canadian alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding has been added to the FBI’s list of 10 most-wanted fugitives, as the reward offered for information leading to his arrest has been increased to $10 million US. The FBI and U.S. State Department made the announcements at a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, raising the stakes…
When Tammara Thibeault is on a roll, she punctuates her thoughts with English phrases she didn’t learn growing up in Shawinigan, Que. She might say, “d’you know woh I mean?” just to make sure you know what she means. Or she’ll finish an occasional sentence with “innit?”, short of “isn’t It?”, which our friends in…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Canadians should give Wayne Gretzky a break. The hockey legend has come under fire for supporting U.S. President Donald Trump by attending his inauguration in January and visiting him several times in recent months at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Gretzky also attended an election victory party for Trump last November and…
