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Canada’s Sarah Pavan and Molly McBain won the bronze medal at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge with a 2-1 victory over China’s Jie Dong and Fan Wang on Sunday in the third-place game. CBC | Sports News
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Stephanie Chan wins Canada’s 1st medal at Parapan Am Games in Chile
Stephanie Chan, a 66-year-old para table tennis player from Vancouver, captured Canada’s first medal at the Parapan Am Games in Santiago, Chile, on Saturday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »American Diana Taurasi in new basketball role as she chases history, 6th Olympic gold medal
Diana Taurasi is trying to earn a spot on the U.S. roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which would be her sixth. But this one feels like her first. The last couple she played basketball with her peers and now “I’m doing it with players that I’m not that familiar with.” CBC | Sports News
Read More »Olympic-bound Canadian surfer Sanoa Dempfle-Olin collects Pan Am Games silver medal
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Read More »Mountain biker wins Canada’s 1st gold medal at Pan Am Games
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Read More »Bronze medal win thrills Vancouver fans at Canada 7s series
Team Canada provided thrills, heartbreak, and eventually a bronze medal at the HSBC Canada Sevens Rugby tournament. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Weidemann leads Canada’s speed skating medal charge at Heerenveen World Cup
Canada’s Isabelle Weidemann topped a medal-laden day for Canada at the speed skating World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands on Saturday, defeating hometown favourite Antointette de Jong to capture gold. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Channell, Greszczyszyn 1-100th of a second shy of gold medal at skeleton worlds
Jane Channell of North Vancouver, B.C., reached the podium Sunday, sliding to a silver-medal finish with Canadian teammate David Greszczyszyn in the skeleton mixed team competition at the world championships in Altenberg, Germany. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Russia to lose Sochi Olympic gold medal in new doping case
The International Biathlon Union on Saturday announced a two-year ban for Evgeny Ustyugov, who was part of the gold medal-winning men’s relay team six years ago, citing evidence he used the banned steroid oxandrolone around the time of the Olympics. CBC | World News
Read More »Canada’s women’s basketball team commanding attention as serious Olympic medal threats
Through three generations, Canada’s women’s basketball team has fought battles on and off the court. Funding and exposure were long considered insufficient. But with those issues slowly being won, the fourth-ranked squad can finally focus on one long-standing goal: the Olympic podium. CBC | Sports News
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