China’s Yang Qian won the first Tokyo Olympics gold medal in the women’s 10-meter rifle competition on Saturday and, due to COVID-19 protocols, showed up with her Olympic gear. The usual Olympic ceremony which features medalists having their prizes placed over their heads by various dignitaries has been replaced by athletes doing the honors themselves. We told you that these […]
The very first match of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament was canceled because a Czech player tested positive for COVID-19. Marketa Slukova tested positive earlier this week, driving her and her partner Barbora Hermannova out of the Tokyo Games. The Czechs were supposed to face a team from the host country that would have made their Olympic debut. Instead, the […]
Canada have called up Orlando City forward Tesho Akindele as a Gold Cup injury replacement. The Canadians, who face Costa Rica in the quarter-finals on Sunday at AT&T Stadium, were left short of attack when Ayo Akinola and Cyle Larin both injured themselves in a 1-0 loss to the United States on Sunday. last. Akinola, who plays for Toronto FC, […]
Click the video player above to watch live action from the CEBL game between the Fraser Valley Bandits and the Hamilton Honey Badgers. Coverage begins Friday at 7 p.m. ET. For more CEBL action, come back Saturday at 7 p.m. ET for a game between the Niagara River Lions and the Ottawa BlackJacks.
The Vancouver Canucks handed out their first-round pick in Friday’s draft to the Arizona Coyotes in return for right-winger Conor Garland and defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson. The trade also includes Vancouver forwards Jay Beagle, Loui Eriksson and Antoine Roussel, the Canucks’ second-round pick in 2022 and their seventh-round pick in 2023. Garland, 25, had 29 points (12 goals, 27 assists) in […]
Major League Soccer said all three Canadian teams will host games in August at their stadiums. Toronto FC have already played two games at BMO Field this month and CF Montreal hosted one at Stade Saputo. The Vancouver Whitecaps continued to play in Sandy, Utah, due to scheduling conflicts at BC Place Stadium. The Whitecaps open August with three straight […]
Eugene Wang and Mo Zhang are ready to move on. The two Olympians have dominated Canadian table tennis for more than a decade, sitting at or near the top of the Canadian rankings since emigrating from China in the early 2000s. They have already reached their peak. career, and as they head into what could very well be their last […]
Every Canadian Olympian has a story to tell on their journey to Tokyo. Few of them resemble those of the Canadian women’s rugby sevens team. Bronze medalists in Rio under John Tait, the Canadians essentially divorced their longtime coach earlier this year after filing a formal complaint under Rugby Canada’s harassment and bullying policy. Although Tait was not found guilty […]
Tokyo 2020 officially started with the Opening Ceremony held in the 68,000-seat Olympic Stadium with no fans and fewer athletes due to the global pandemic.
On a scorching night in Tokyo, the Olympic flame was lit atop a Mt. Replica Fuji, inside a sparkling new stadium, full of thousands of empty seats. It’s a stark reminder of the global COVID-19 pandemic that continues to loom as these Games officially begin. Japanese tennis player and world superstar Naomi Osaka accepted the torch in the middle of […]
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