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Para nordic star Mark Arendz was named Canada’s flag-bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Arendz has won five medals so far at the Games — including a long-coveted biathlon gold and his first cross-country medals — and has a chance to win one more in the 4×2.5-kilometre mixed relay event […]
Sometimes curling teams are on the wrong side of the inch. That was the case four years ago for China at the Paralympics. Today, it was Canada’s turn. The semifinal was a rematch from four years ago when Canada played China in the semis in Sochi. On that day, China’s skip Wang Haitao was heavy […]
Canada’s wheelchair curling team are guaranteed a Paralympic playoff spot after a 6-2 round-robin victory over Germany on Thursday in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The Canadian squad, led by skip Mark Ideson, surrendered an opening-end steal to the Germans but gained back control of the match with three in the third end to take a 3-1 lead. […]
It was talked about over and over leading into the Olympics — both of Canada’s men’s and women’s teams being the favourites to compete for curling gold. Never before had Canada not reached the podium at the Games. The Canadian men’s teams were three-time defending champions Then it happened. Both teams were left off the […]
Canada captured its first gold medal on the opening day of competition at the 2018 Paralympic Games on Saturday in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Mac Marcoux of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., won his first Paralympic visually impaired downhill race in a blistering one minute, 23.93 seconds. The Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. native took gold in the men’s […]
December 18, 1987 was the night of Todd Nicholson’s prom. It was supposed to be a night of promise for what was to come next and a rite of passage for the the students of Arnprior District High School just outside of Ottawa. But on that night, all of the stories Nicholson had imagined for his life changed. He was […]
Thirteen-time Paralympic medallist Brian McKeever will lead Canada into the opening ceremony as flag-bearer at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “It’s always an honour to represent Canada, and to do it at the Paralympics is why I have kept going with my career,” McKeever said. McKeever owns 10 cross-country golds — along […]
Canada’s Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes secured first place in Pool B at the Fort Lauderdale Major with a pair of straight set victories over their compatriots. On Wednesday, the world No.1 duo defeated Taylor Pischke and Jamie Broder (21-13, 21-14) and Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson (21-12, 21-17). “This game in particular, Mel’s sideout was pretty automatic,” […]
Veteran diver Meaghan Benfeito will carry the Canadian flag into the opening ceremony of April’s Commonwealth Games in Australia. A three-time Olympic bronze medallist from Laval, Que., Benfeito collected a pair of golds at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In August 2016, Benfeito became the third Canadian to win an Olympic medal in the individual 10-metre […]
The Kontinental Hockey League’s four-week Olympic break could not have arrived sooner for Canadian defenceman Karl Stollery. Although the 30-year-old blue-liner has enjoyed his first year in the KHL with Dinamo Riga, his team hits the break having won only twice in 10 outings in January. The Latvia-based squad is at the bottom of the […]
