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Kayla Alexander had 14 points and four rebounds, Agot Makeer scored 13 points, and Canada defeated host Mexico 83-53 in the title game at the FIBA Women’s Olympic pre-qualifying basketball tournament on Sunday.
Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson reached the quarterfinals of the Montreal Elite beach volleyball pro tour event Friday with a 21-13, 21-18 win over Brazil’s Thamela Coradello and Victoria Lopes.
Three-time Olympian Michelle Plouffe has come out of retirement to join Canada’s four-player roster for the FIBA 3x3 Women’s Series stop in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Canadian women’s basketball team closed the group phase of the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament with a 70-64 win over Mexico on Thursday night.
The Canadian senior women’s basketball team crushed the Philippines 85-38 on Wednesday at the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament.
Kayla Alexander scored a team-high 16 points and hauled in seven rebounds as Canada’s senior women’s national basketball team opened the FIBA Olympic pre-qualifying tournament with a 72-57 win over Senegal on Monday.
For those who have competed — or nearly competed — under the Olympic rings, the fear of missing out the next time the Games beckon is real. Regardless of the venue. Regardless of the sport.
Last year’s U.S. 1,500-meter champion Jonah Koech’s title was stripped and he received a three-year ban for blood doping, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced Monday.
The veteran defensive back leads Canada’s national women’s team into the 2026 world championship. Not only will the Canadians chase a gold medal but also a berth into the 2028 Los Angeles Games, where flag football makes its Olympic debut.
Ten track-and-field athletes with the best performances at next week’s European championships will each receive a bonus of 50,000 euros ($58,000), the continent’s governing body for athletics has confirmed.
Get ready to see plenty more of the flag-pulling, fast-paced game of football that was all over television screens last month.
Lorena Wiebes again sprinted to victory in the second stage of the Women’s Tour de France on Sunday.
Kyle Reyes and Coralie Godbout added a pair of judo medals to Canada’s tally Sunday at the Commonwealth Games.
Olympic wrestler Amarveer Dhesi has been suspended for two years for an anti-doping rule violation, Sport Integrity Canada announced Thursday.
Retired Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci is back in Montreal to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Summer Games, where she became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition.
The federal and provincial governments are equally splitting a $52-million contribution to the renewal of the speedskating facility built for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Noah Lyles pulled up halfway through the 200-meter final at U.S. track championships Sunday, suffering a rare loss in his best race and allowing USC’s Garrett Kaalund to take the title.
Remco Evenepoel held off Tadej Pogacar and his teammate Isaac Del Toro to win the 15th stage of the Tour de France, while Pogacar kept his commanding overall lead and saw his main rival Jonas Vingegaard crash out of the race.
Mark Daigneault, J.B. Bickerstaff and Mark Few were formally named assistant coaches to serve on Miami coach Erik Spoelstra’s staff for the 2027 Basketball World Cup in Qatar and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, those nominations getting approved by USA Basketball’s Board of Directors on Thursday.
The America gymnastics star announced she is returning to the sport on Tuesday, about two years out from the Los Angeles Games.
Fifty years later, key players in the Olympic movement say the first Games on Canadian soil had a lasting impact on Quebec’s sporting culture that went far beyond those negative headlines.
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