Like fans watching at home, Canada’s brain trust at the world junior hockey championship that included Scott Salmond and Peter Anholt was baffled by players’ refusal to shoot the puck from prime positions. In the end, it cost them dearly. CBC | Sports News
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Canada’s Abigail Strate claims World Cup ski jump silver medal in Germany
Canadian ski jumper Abigail Strate started 2024 off with a World Cup silver medal Monday in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was her second World Cup medal in three days, and a career-best for the 22-year-old Calgarian. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Cameron Alexander captures bronze at World Cup downhill in Italy
Canada’s Cameron Alexander won bronze in the men’s downhill race on Thursday in Bormio, Italy, while Valèrie Grenier of St. Isidore, Ont., placed fourth in a women’s giant slalom in Austria. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Kingsbury, Schwinghammer take dual moguls gold, silver
Mikaël Kingsbury won gold in the World Cup men’s dual moguls event and Canadian teammate Maïa Schwinghammer took silver in the women’s final on Saturday in Bakuriani, Georgia. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Schmidt siblings are the best surprise of the ski season
CBC Sports’ daily newsletter looks at the unexpected success of Canadians Jared and Hannah Schmidt on the ski cross World Cup tour. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Schmidt siblings take gold, bronze in ski cross World Cup races
The Schmidt siblings keep racking up hardware on the World Cup ski cross circuit. Ottawa’s Jared Schmidt took gold in the men’s event while his sister Hannah Schmidt claimed bronze in the women’s final on Thursday in Innichen, Italy. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s first sport integrity commissioner Sarah-Eve Pelletier to resign in early 2024
Sarah-Eve Pelletier will resign as Canada’s first sport integrity commissioner early next year. The Quebec lawyer and former artistic swimmer was appointed in April 2022 to head the Office of Canada’s Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC) that opened two months later to handle abuse and maltreatment. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Turkey’s Erdogan links Canada’s drone embargo to Sweden NATO bid
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Tuesday as saying that positive developments on the U.S. sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and on Canada’s arms embargo, would help Turkey’s parliament move toward ratifying Sweden’s NATO membership bid. CBC | World News
Read More »How Canada’s Olympic athletes did this weekend
CBC Sports’ daily newsletter recaps the medal winners from another successful weekend for Canada’s winter Olympic athletes. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s UN ambassador defends UN vote as ‘compassionate’ response to humanitarian disaster in Gaza
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