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Cross-country skiing star Alex Harvey headlines Canada’s 11-member Olympic team heading to Pyeongchang, South Korea, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Cross Country Canada announced on Monday. The Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que., native will compete in the four individual distances (sprint, 15-kilometre, 30-km and 50-km) and two team events (sprint and relay) and is riding several strong seasons of international […]
Sam Edney led Canada’s luge relay team to a sixth-place finish on Sunday in Sigulda, Latvia, in the final World Cup race of his career. The 33-year-old Edney, who is the only Canadian man with three World Cup medals, had a solid run on the tricky 1,260-metre Latvian track to help the Canadians finish in […]
Canada is a much more proud, bold and confident country, in the eyes of Own the Podium CEO Anne Merklinger, since its winter athletes won 26 medals and a record 14 gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Canadians reached the podium another 25 times four years later — albeit at a Winter Games in Sochi, Russia that […]
The wait is over for Canadian rugby fans, with a full slate of men’s and women’s Sevens World Series events coming up after being teased with a few tournaments in December. It’s set to be an entertaining few months of sevens — with July’s World Cup Sevens in San Francisco in addition to a busy World […]
Marielle Thompson, who suffered a serious knee injury in October, is one of eight athletes named Monday to Canada’s ski cross team for the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Thompson was a surprise inclusion after the reigning Olympic champion suffered a ruptured ACL and MCL during a training run in October. Alpine Canada named the 25-year-old from North Vancouver, […]
Moguls star Mikael Kingsbury will have his chance to capture elusive Olympic gold, while Justine Dufour-Lapointe and Dara Howell will look to defend their freestlyle skiing titles at the upcoming Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Team Canada on Monday named 22 athletes in Montreal who will compete in the moguls, aerials, halfpipe and slopestyle […]
Teal Harle earned his second career World Cup victory by winning the slopestyle final on Sunday at Mammoth Mountain that sealed his spot on Canada’s Olympic freestyle ski team. The Campbell River, B.C., native scored 90.80 on his first run before improving to 94.20 points on the second run. Switzerland’s Andri Ragettli took second (92.60) […]
Canada’s Georgia Simmerling underwent surgery in Calgary, Alta., after breaking both legs in a ski cross World Cup event on Saturday at Nakiska. In the women’s semifinal, the West Vancouver, B.C., native took flight over the second-last feature and landed roughly, which resulted in a tibia and fibula fracture to her left leg and a tibia plateau fracture to […]
Erik Guay plans to ski for Canada at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, despite a back injury, according to a release from Alpine Canada. Guay, a two-time world champion and three-time Olympian, will miss the upcoming alpine World Cup events in Kitzbuhel, Austria and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany as he continues his recovery. The 36-year-old Montreal native revealed that […]
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will make history on Feb. 9, becoming the first woman and man — and first duo, period — to carry the Canadian flag into an Olympic opening ceremony. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and members of the Canadian Olympic Committee, from the House of Commons in Ottawa, announced Tuesday that the […]
