Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the U.S. Open after dropping a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 decision to 18-year-old Jakub Menšík of the Czech Republic in first-round action Tuesday in New York. Menšík scored his sixth break in the final game of the match, with Auger-Aliassime committing his 36th unforced error on match point. Auger-Aliassime, seeded 19th in New…
Sven-Goran Eriksson, the Swedish soccer manager who spent five years as England’s first ever foreign-born coach after making his name winning trophies at club level in Italy, Portugal and Sweden, died Monday. He was 76. Eriksson died at home surrounded by his family, his agent Bo Gustavsson told The Associated Press. His death followed eight…
Norwegian runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis set new world records and Canada’s Marco Arop ran to a meeting record on Sunday at a Diamond League event in Chorzow, Poland. Ingebrigtsen won the men’s 3,000 metres event in a world-record time of seven minutes 17.55 seconds. The time eclipses the previous mark of…
Two weeks after French star swimmer Leon Marchand extinguished the Olympic flame to close the Paris Olympics, the spotlight is now on its Paralympic counterpart. British Paralympians Helene Raynsford and Gregor Ewan on Saturday lit the flame in Stoke Mandeville, a village northwest of London widely considered the birthplace of the Paralympic Games. The flame…
Valentina Petrillo fell in love with athletics as a seven-year-old while watching Italian sprinter Pietro Mennea win gold in the 200 metres at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. “I said I wanted to be like him,” said Petrillo, a transgender woman who was raised as a boy. “I wanted to put on the blue [Italy] shirt, I wanted…
A wheelchair racer whips around the track, arms burning in the push for the finish line. A cyclist flies through the velodrome, teetering on the edge of collapse. In both Paralympic events, lives can change in a matter of seconds. “It is human NASCAR at some level,” says Canadian wheelchair sprinter Austin Smeenk. “We’re going…
The track on which world records, breakthrough medals and Paralympic dreams were forged sits hidden in a slight valley next to a parking lot. It’s a 400-metre loop that’s provided the groundwork for so much success over the past half-decade, yet it’s extremely easy to miss amid the campus buildings perched up above. But when…
Athletes on the Refugee Paralympic Team are looking to send a message of hope as they strive for the podium at the 2024 Paralympic Games that begin in Paris next week. Eight Paralympians and one runner guide who fled conflict and persecution in their homelands are hoping to earn medals in six sports: para-athletics, para-powerlifting,…
Heidi Peters joined the Canadian women’s sitting volleyball squad in 2013, one year after the team missed out on qualification for London and essentially disbanded. “I think literally two athletes didn’t retire. The whole team just, poof, gone,” Peters recalls. It was, essentially, rock bottom. Over the past decade, the team has steadily rebuilt itself….
Polish rider Kasia Niewiadoma did just enough in a thrilling battle with rival Demi Vollering on the iconic Alpe d’Huez to win the women’s Tour de France by four seconds overall. Ottawa cyclist just 3rd Canadian to finish in the top 10 The Associated Press · Posted: Aug 18, 2024 1:30 PM EDT | Last…
