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Canada’s three-time Olympic bronze-medal snowboarder Mark McMorris crashed Wednesday night during big air training for the Milan Cortina Games and had to be taken off the course on a stretcher. CBC | Sports News
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Canadian hockey star Gavin McKenna charged with aggravated assault in Pennsylvania
Yukon-born hockey player Gavin McKenna, 18, has been charged in the U.S. with assault, according to court documents verified by CBC News. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Winter Olympics suspended live on BBC as camera cuts away
Team GB had been in action against Norway in the curling mixed doubles before play was suspended Daily Express :: Sport Feed
Read More »John Virgo’s heartbreaking final hours before death after waking up in pain at 2.30am
John Virgo’s close friend has detailed his tragic final hours before his death aged 79, after the snooker legend woke up in pain in the middle of the night. Daily Express :: Sport Feed
Read More »Washington Post staff laid off while in Milan still hope to find beauty in the Olympics
In the last hours before these Olympics begin, and the flame is lit, and the cheering starts, a smaller, sad drama played out in a little white box of an office in the Main Media Centre in Milan. A sign on the door read: The Washington Post. CBC | Sports News
Read More »John Virgo’s cause of death confirmed as wife pays tear-jerking tribute to snooker legend
Snooker icon John Virgo has died aged 79, with tributes pouring in from Ronnie O’Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and the wider sporting world. Daily Express :: Sport Feed
Read More »Winter Olympians ‘ordered to have manhoods measured’ in penis cheating storm
Concerns have been raised that some ski jumpers may be manipulating body measurements ahead of the Winter Olympics to gain a competitive advantage. Daily Express :: Sport Feed
Read More »Coach of Lindsey Vonn says ‘no doubt’ injured skier will race in Olympics
Lindsey Vonn, the 41-year-old American ski star, is optimistic she can compete in the Olympic women’s downhill on Sunday in Italy despite a ruptured ligament in her left knee. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Free from ‘sports prison,’ winter athletes get chance to enjoy Olympics without a COVID lockdown
In some ways, the goals Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris set for the Milano-Cortina Olympics are the same ones he set in his three previous appearances at the Games. However, he listed one other element that no Olympian on the ground four years ago in China will ever take for granted again: “To enjoy it with my friends.” CBC | Sports ...
Read More »Canada relying on experience to repeat as Olympic women’s hockey champions
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