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Five weeks after earning their first Olympic medal, Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are gearing up for their 13th world championships, next week in Prague. “We want to enjoy ourselves, enjoy our skating [and] celebrate what we’ve accomplished this season,” Gilles says. CBC | Sports News
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International Olympic Committee urged to drop reported gender test plans for female athletes
More than 80 human rights and sport advocacy groups have called on the International Olympic Committee to abandon reported plans to introduce universal genetic sex testing for female athletes and impose a blanket ban on transgender and intersex competitors. CBC | World News
Read More »Dunstone to curl for 1st Brier title after avenging Olympic trials loss to Jacobs
Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone ousted the Brad Jacobs foursome from Calgary 7-3 in the Brier semifinal to advance to the championship game against Alberta’s Kevin Koe at 6 p.m. ET in St. John’s. CBC | Sports News
Read More »The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on
Missing the Winter Olympics? CBC Sports’ daily newsletter lays out the key events happening this month featuring some of your favourite Canadian athletes. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Hilary Knight played with torn knee ligament in U.S. women’s run to Olympic hockey gold
U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning captain Hilary Knight revealed Monday in a television appearance she played in Milan with a torn medial collateral ligament in one of her knees. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. hockey star Hilary Knight delivers joke on SNL featuring women’s, men’s Olympic champions
This time it was Hilary Knight’s turn to provide a big laugh, with an assist from the Saturday Night Live writers, in the wake of a weeklong dust-up involving the United States women’s and men’s Olympic gold medal-winning hockey teams. CBC | World News
Read More »PWHL looking to capitalize on Olympic boost as league resumes play
Sixty-one PWHL players competed at Milano Cortina 2026, the first Winter Olympics since the league launched in 2024. For the first time, there’s one place for all of those people to keep following women’s hockey after the Olympics, a problem that’s plagued the sport for years. CBC | Sports News
Read More »As Canadian stars end Olympic careers, some wonder if resources exist to produce the next gen of medallists
Through Feb. 18, 16 different Canadians had stood on the podium in Milano Cortina. Their average age is just under 28 years old. Eight medallists were at least 30. CBC | Sports News
Read More »8.7 million Canadians watched end of men’s Olympic gold-medal hockey game
Nearly nine million Canadians watched the end of the men’s gold-medal hockey game at the Milano-Cortina Olympics, which CBC says was Canada’s most-watched moment at the Games. CBC | Sports News
Read More »‘Heading for disaster’: Canadian Olympic medallist Dubreuil denounces lack of amateur athlete funding
Canadian long track speed skater Laurent Dubreuil is sounding the alarm about the lack of funding for Canadian amateur sports and the consequences it could have on the country’s success at the Winter Olympics going forward. CBC | Sports News
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