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Field Hockey World League Semifinal: Canada is among the teams competing for a spot in the World League Finals and the World Cup. Watch extended coverage of the London semi-final tournament on CBCSports.ca through June 25. Check the broadcast schedule for details. Let’s block ads! (Why?) CBC | Sports News
Canada’s Andre De Grasse posted a wind-aided time of 9.69 seconds to win the 100-metre race at the Diamond League event in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday. This follows the 22-year-old sprinter’s performance earlier this week in Oslo where he won the 100 event at the Bislett Games for the second-straight year. #StockholmDL 100m: Andre @De6rasse blazes […]
Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse made it back-to-back victories in the men’s 100 metres at the Bislett Games, clocking a season-best 10.01 seconds to top the eight-man field on Thursday in Oslo. The Canadian, who won Olympic bronze in the 100 in Rio de Janeiro last summer, crossed the line in 10.07 a year ago […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] De Grasse won his second 200-metre race of the 2017 season on Thursday, setting a season-best time of 20.01 CBC | Sports News
The roar of the crowd is deafening as nine sprinters blaze to the finish line in the men’s 100 metres at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. Canada’s Donovan Bailey, who led after 85 metres of the June 6, 1994 race before losing time turning his head to the competition, crossed third in 10.24 seconds, behind […]
Andre De Grasse isn’t interested in taking over from Usain Bolt as the world’s best sprinter when the eight-time Olympic champion retires later this year. He’s ready now. “I’m trying to win this year. I feel like I have a great chance and that’s what I want to do,” Toronto’s De Grasse told The Associated […]
Canadian sprint sensation Andre De Grasse posted a sub-10-second time in the men’s 100-metre final but finished just off the podium Saturday at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore. In the wind-aided race, American Ronnie Baker led six men under the 10-second mark to win the event in a time of 9.86. China’s Bingtian Su was second at 9.92, followed […]
There’s no doubt Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse is world-class moving forward, but it turns out he’s pretty good in reverse, too. The three-time Olympic medallist at the Rio Olympics recently took a break from track training to take on CBC Sports’ Anson Henry in a friendly game of H.O.R.S.E., the basketball game where players have to match […]
Andre De Grasse’s coach shot down the Canadian sprinter’s reported admission he was battling “injury concerns” after Saturday’s 200-metre win at the Jamaica International Invitational. “There have been no injury concerns,” Stuart McMillan wrote in an email to CBC Sports on Tuesday. “Anything he has been feeling is the normal wear and tear of being an […]
Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse won the men’s 200-metre event at the Jamaica International Invitational in Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday. The 22-year-old from Markham, Ont., clocked 20.14 seconds to record his first individual victory of the season. [embedded content] De Grasse, who won Olympic silver in the same distance in Rio, outlasted American LaShawn Merritt (20.28) and Great Britain’s Zarnel Hughes (20.29), […]
