Three years ago in Tokyo, Canadian paddlers Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Katie Vincent stormed back from fifth place in the final 250 metres of the C-2 500m canoe sprint, pushing their way to an Olympic bronze medal. It was the first time the Olympics featured women’s canoe sprint events after years of fighting for women…
Four-time Olympian Damian Warner says withdrawing from the Olympic men’s decathlon competition in Paris was like a “worst nightmare come true.” The 34-year-old from London, Ont., fell out of contention in the decathlon’s third-to-last event on Saturday when he failed to clear the bar on any of his three attempts in the pole vault. Warner…
Remco Evenepoel became the first rider to sweep the Olympic men’s road race and time trial on Saturday, relentlessly attacking over three climbs of Montmartre and building such a lead on the run-in to the finish at the Pont d’Iena that the Belgian rider was able to overcome a mechanical problem in the final kilometres….
Canadian gymnast Sophiane Méthot will be starting her 26th birthday celebration a little early in Paris while sporting an Olympic bronze medal around her neck. Confidence gained from a bronze performance last month at a World Cup in Portugal propelled Méthot to the podium at Bercy Arena on Friday after she scored 55.650 points in the final of her…
The boat parade down the Seine had just ended, it was pouring rain and suddenly the Canadians were sprinting. Fay De Fazio Ebert, the 14-year-old skateboarder who is Canada’s youngest Olympian in Paris, was caught in the middle of the rush. “I’m like, why is everybody running right now? And I look up and the…
Emails released by FIFA indicate drone usage for the purposes of spying may have been a common practice across Canada Soccer’s senior national teams. The international soccer federation released a document dated July 28 regarding punishment levied against the national federation after an analyst was caught operating a drone to spy on a New Zealand practice ahead…
Live Ellie Black leads Team Canada into the women’s artistic gymnastics team final at the Paris Olympic Games. Watch live as they face Simone Biles and a United States team looking to win its third team title in the last four Olympics. Live coverage begins at 12:15 p.m. ET CBC Sports · Posted: Jul 30,…
The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Soccer are appealing FIFA’s six-point penalty to the national women’s soccer team in the wake of a spying scandal at the Paris Games. FIFA docked the points on Saturday as part of a punishment that included a fine for Canada Soccer and the suspension of three coaching staff members…
Dr. Tina Atkinson grew up dreaming of going to the Olympics. Now, she can check both the Winter and Summer Olympics off her bucket list. The Nova Scotian is the doctor for the Canadian canoe/kayak team at the Olympic Games in Paris. The team began competition in slalom events on Saturday. Sprint events begin on Aug….
Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz got the Paris Olympics tennis competition started with first-round victories Saturday under closed roofs at Roland Garros, the site of their French Open titles less than two months ago. Novak Djokovic also won in straight sets as he, like Swiatek and Alcaraz, opened a bid for a first Olympic gold…
