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New data on the explosive growth of women’s sport in Canada underscores its rising popularity, but also reveals that its structural supports still lag behind. CBC | Sports News
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‘At the brink of falling apart’: Sport organizations hope new government heeds urgent call for funding
Olympic gold medallist Adam van Koeverden has taken over the sports portfolio in government as secretary of state for sport. He’ll be tasked with addressing urgent calls for federal funding for sport organizations and navigating a safe-sport crisis. CBC | Sports News
Read More »4-time Olympic medallist Adam van Koeverden to oversee sport in PM Carney’s new cabinet
Canadian kayak legend Adam van Koeverden, who recently was elected to a third term as a Member of Parliament, was named Secretary of State for Sport on Tuesday in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Hockey and hijabs: New to Canada and the sport, these girls have found their game
Newcomer girls in Ottawa are celebrating their new-found hockey skills at an end-of-season tournament, just as the Ottawa Charge prepares to take to the ice for the women’s team’s first-ever playoff game Thursday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Sprinting’s latest doping scandal is bad timing in a sport that can’t afford more controversy
World Athletics’ Athletics Integrity Unit maintains that polarizing track figure Gerald Phiri has possessed a pair of prohibited substances, Cardarine and meldonium, at various points in recent years, while three of his teenage athletes tested positive for Cardarine in 2023 and 2024. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Why a tennis players’ association has sued the groups that run the sport – and what they want
A class-action antitrust lawsuit filed by the Professional Tennis Players’ Association in federal court in New York on Tuesday, calling the groups in charge of the sport — the women’s (WTA) and men’s (ATP) tours, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the agency that oversees anti-doping and anti-corruption efforts (ITIA) — a “cartel.” CBC | Sports News
Read More »Olympic champion ski jumpers suspended as cheating scandal rocks sport
Two Norwegian ski jumpers are now suspended and under formal suspicion in a cheating scandal, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) said Wednesday in widening its investigation of altered ski suits. CBC | Sports News
Read More »FIA and F1 approve new team to the grid as American giants muscle into the sport
The face of Formula 1 is set to change next season. Daily Express :: Sport Feed
Read More »Nordic combined, lone Winter Games sport without gender equity, faces shaky Olympic future
Since the first Winter Games in 1924, nordic combined has tested the bravery and endurance of athletes in ski jumping and cross-country skiing. A year from now, it might be a former Olympic sport. CBC | World News
Read More »Common sport could be ‘effective treatment’ for mental health issue, study finds
Researchers are calling for mental health prescriptions to get a gym update Daily Express :: Health Feed
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