Canada’s Cedric Fofana will not advance to the men’s three-meter semi-final at the Tokyo Olympics. In his Olympic debut, the 17-year-old Montrealer scored 225.35 to place 29th after the prelims at the Tokyo Aquatic Center on Monday. Chinese Wang Zongyuan and Xie Siyi took a comfortable lead from the start of the competition and never looked back, finishing first and […]
Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu of Indonesia beat China’s Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan, 2-0, for gold in women’s doubles badminton. The unranked Indonesians won the first game 21-19 and the second 21-15 against a hugely favored Chinese team. Emotions ran high during the match, with both teams screaming after winning points and repeatedly contesting their opponent’s requests […]
I will probably never have the chance to meet Yoko, a 45 year old Japanese mother, but she made my Olympic experience in Tokyo one that I will never forget. Let me explain. A small manila package, addressed in Japanese to “Devin Heroux, cbc.ca” arrived at my office inside the International Broadcasting Center on Sunday afternoon. To me? How? ‘Or’ […]
The free agency doesn’t start until 6 p.m. EST on Mondays. The machinations to prepare, however, were full steam ahead on Sunday. And the Miami Heat were at the center of the activity. With Kyle Lowry poised to become one of the best free agents available once the buy window opens, the Heat announced that they have taken the US […]
Toronto FC extended their unbeaten streak under interim coach Javier Perez to five games with a 1-1 draw against Nashville SC in MLS on Sunday. Toronto (3-8-5) is now 2-0-3 under the Spaniard, who took over on July 4 after Chris Armas was fired following a six-game losing streak. TFC have drawn in all three of their BMO Field games […]
Rosie MacLennan has never been short of admirers, but the four-time Olympian and the only Canadian to win back-to-back gold in the same event earned a whole new level of respect in Tokyo this week. It’s not just that her trampoline routine elicited gasps from the judges, or that she climbed to fourth place on a barely healed ankle fracture. […]
This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to date with what’s happening at the Tokyo Olympics by signing up here. André De Grasse is the third fastest man in the world. And Penny Oleksiak is alone. Day 9 started with Oleksiak placing the Canadian Women’s 4×100-Meter Medley Relay in Bronze on the closing […]
Tokyo 2020 is off to a flying start and there is still a week of action left. Penny Oleksiak is now Canada’s most decorated Olympian of all time, with seven medals. Simone Biles, the gymnastics GOAT, surprisingly retired from competition to focus on her sanity. Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron before being ousted in the third […]
The “Incredible Hulk” mask should not fool anyone. Raven Saunders has nothing to hide. The face and voice of the Tokyo Olympics, and all they represent, could very well be found in a 25-year-old American shot putter who on Sunday could be seen wearing the green superhero face cover and red, sporting purple and green hair, donning shades of neon […]
Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya on Sunday called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to get involved in her case after saying she was withdrawn from the national team and taken to Tokyo airport against her will because of his criticism of national coaches. “I am asking the International Olympic Committee for help,” Tsimanouskaya said in a video posted on the […]
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