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Paddy McGuinness was the host of both Question Of Sport and Top Gear before the two BBC programmes were brought to an end, with the sporting quiz’s fate announced just last night by the BBC. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed
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After Sue Barker’s enforced departure BBC now dumps A Question Of Sport
It has been a champion TV show for half a century – but A Question Of Sport is being relegated from our screens. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed
Read More »A Question of Sport axed by BBC three years after dropping Sue Barker
A Question Of Sport was the world’s longest-running quiz show, which was on screens for half a century. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed
Read More »Sport minister to launch ‘independent mechanism’ to review abuse in Canadian sports
Minister of Sport Carla Qualtrough said Tuesday she’ll be announcing a “formal, independent mechanism” early next week to review systemic abuse and human rights violations in Canadian sports. CBC | Sports News
Read More »‘We’re going to get it done’: Canada’s sport minister says money for Paralympic medals is coming
For years Canada’s Para athletes have been asking why they don’t receive money for medals at the Paralympics, while Canadian athletes who win medals at the Olympics receive financial rewards. It appears that those questions are finally about to be answered. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Verdict expected in Kamila Valieva doping case by end of January, says sport court
A verdict in the Beijing Olympics doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva should be given by the end of January, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Friday after a fifth day of appeal proceedings. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian Paralympian wants to serve as ‘beacon of light’ for unique sport of boccia
Among Paralympic sports, boccia is one of a kind. Some have compared it to curling. Others have likened it to lawn bowling. But there is no true able-bodied equivalent to boccia, says two-time Canadian Paralympian Brock Richardson. CBC | Sports News
Read More »For Canadian athletes with Chilean roots, Pan Am Games will mean a lot more than just sport
It promises to be an emotional return to Santiago this week at the Pan Am Games for Canadian beach volleyball player Melissa Humana-Paredes, the daughter of two Chilean expatriates. For Skylar Park and her brothers, it’s their first trip to their mother’s homeland. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport temporarily halts doping testing program
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) has placed its doping control testing program on hold until further notice. CBC | Sports News
Read More »With sport, medicine worlds colliding, Hayley Wickenheiser spoke her truth to IOC
In what she calls “the final straw” moment, Hayley Wickenheiser had to clear her conscience and say something. Confronted with two vastly differing scenarios playing out at exactly the same time, Wickenheiser found her two worlds — sport and medicine — colliding. CBC | Sports News
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