Canadian freestyle skier Amy Fraser won her first career World Cup gold in the halfpipe competition on Friday. A severe snowstorm cancelled many of the World Cup events at Mammoth Mountain, Calif., including the women’s halfpipe final. CBC | Sports News
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Canada’s India Sherret races to 1st career gold medal at ski cross World Cup
Canada’s India Sherret has her first World Cup gold medal. Sherret, the ski-cross racer from Cranbrook, B.C., led at every stage of Friday’s competition in Alleghe, Italy en route to her first victory. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Thompson wins World Cup ski cross gold; teammate Schmidt takes bronze
Canada’s Marielle Thompson returned to the top of the World Cup ski cross podium for the first time in over two years on Sunday in St. Moritz, Switzerland, while her teammate Hannah Scmidt took bronze for her third straight podium finish. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Maltais claims bronze in 3,000m at speed skating World Cup in Salt Lake City
Canadian long track speed skater Valérie Maltais continued her strong season with a bronze medal in the women’s 3,000 metres at the World Cup stop in Salt Lake City on Friday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Mikaël Kingsbury bags bronze at moguls World Cup in New Hampshire
Mikaël Kingsbury is back on the moguls World Cup podium. After an uncharacteristic 13th-place finish in the singles event in Quebec earlier in January, the three-time Olympic medallist bounced back to claim bronze in Waterville, N.H. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Grenier part of 3-way tie for bronze as Shiffrin crashes at Cortina downhill
Austrian skier Stephanie Venier held her nerve after Mikaela Shiffrin and a host of other skiers crashed to win a World Cup downhill Friday on the course that will be used for the Milan-Cortina Olympics in two years. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Christine Sinclair signs 1-year deal to return to NWSL’s Portland Thorns
Former Canada captain Christine Sinclair has signed a one-year contract with the Portland Thorns of the National Women’s Soccer League. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Kingsbury captures dual moguls gold at World Cup in Val Saint-Côme, Que.
Canada’s Mikaël Kingsbury raced to a dual moguls gold medal on home snow on Saturday, winning in Val Saint-Côme, Que., for his third victory in four World Cup stops in the discipline this season. CBC | Sports News
Read More »The U.S. is heading for a momentous vote. Canada’s ambassador says we have to be ready
Canada’s ambassador to the United States says Ottawa must start putting in the work now to reinvigorate a network of contacts across our southern neighbour, so this country can be ready no matter the outcome of the November presidential election. CBC | World News
Read More »Alex Loutitt, Abigail Strate win Canada’s 1st World Cup medal in super team ski jumping
It was a historic accomplishment Saturday for the Calgary ski jump tandem of Alex Loutitt and Abigail Strate. They were second in a World Cup super team event in Zao, Japan, earning Canada it’s first-ever medal in the competition. CBC | Sports News
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