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Team Canada clinches place in Sochi Olympics
With a strong showing before Thursday’s loss to the Slovaks, Canada has clinched a spot in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. However, by going out in the first round of the playoffs, Canada will be...
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Lennox Lewis credits Olympic title for making him a man
By DAVE STUBBS, Postmedia News LONDON — When you’re delivering a command performance, you’re allowed to arrive fashionably late. So it was that former undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion...
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MMA Crossfire – The Crossfire’s 2012 Olympic boxing preview
It’s time to take the kid gloves off. The London 2012 Olympics coming and Team Canada is not playing around. Smarting off their 2008 disaster, The Canadians are looking to serve notice they’re back....
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Michael Phelps wins 17th gold medal
Michael Phelps won the last individual event of his Olympic career — the 100-metre butterfly. It’s his 17th gold and 21st overall medal. Related articles Michael Phelps strikes gold at London Olympics...
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An American dream for swimmer Missy Franklin
LONDON — Missy Franklin laughs a lot. She crinkles up her nose and giggles without breaking verbal stride, and it happens all the time, whether she’s winning gold medals or not. As these Olympics...
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Rowing Canada struggles to see silver lining in London
ETON-DORNEY — Darcy Marquardt invested a decade of her life in pursuit of an Olympic medal and Thursday, as she sported one around her neck, she wasn’t particularly interested in analyzing the bigger...
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John Morris feels time was right to leave Kevin Martin’s curling rink
CALGARY — John Morris had to make one of the toughest decisions of his curling career this past week. After seven years of service as a third on Kevin Martin’s rink, Morris set up a conference call...
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Olympic champion Boudia wins silver in platform diving
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Olympic champion David Boudia came up just short of a gold medal Saturday at his first meet since last summer’s London Games. Boudia won silver with 518.60 points in the men’s...
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Russia unveils Olympics medals for Sochi 2014 games
Organizers of the 2014 Winter Olympics unveiled the medals for the games in St. Petersburg Thursday. The gold, silver and bronze paralympic medals. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) The new medals feature a...
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Britain avoids ‘Olympic Hangover’ through sporting triumphs and birth of...
LONDON — The euphoria that greeted the birth of Prince George on Monday caps a summer of rejoicing in the United Kingdom. Scotsman Andy Murray recently became the first British man in 77 years to have...
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Canadian women’s hockey team opens season they hope brings gold in Sochi
CALGARY — The majority of the players and staff on Canada’s Olympic women’s hockey team uprooted their lives for the next six months to pursue another gold medal. Forward Megan Agosta-Marciano’s...
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Star Trek’s ’Sulu’ and 45,000 petitioners urge 2014 Games move to Vancouver
VANCOUVER — Activist and actor George Takei, best known as helmsman Lt. Sulu in the original Star Trek series, is boldly going where tens of thousands have gone before, denouncing Russia’s anti-gay...
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Is former Canadian boxer Lennox Lewis coming out of retirement?
He won an Olympic gold medal for Canada in 1998, boxed Mike Tyson once and Evander Holyfield twice before retiring in 2004. But now it appears Lennox Lewis is mulling a return to the squared circle for...
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Carol Huynh was part of wrestling’s swift climb back off mat
Under the heading “General prohibitions” in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, competitors are forbidden to (among other things): Pull the hair, ears, genitals, pinch, bite, kick, head-butt,...
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Olympic speedskating champion Nesbitt says she’s on the right path to Sochi
CALGARY — The important changes already made, speedskater Christine Nesbitt feels ready to race her best this season. The reigning Olympic champion in the 1,000 metres is in a different place now than...
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Canadians Duhamel, Radford lead after pairs short program at Skate Canada
SAINT JOHN, N.B. — It was an unspoken moment before the music began, a shared realization they were competing in what will likely be their Skate Canada finale. Olympic ice dance champions Tessa Virtue...
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Bad boy Bode loses custody
U.S. Olympic ski gold medalist Bode Miller has lost custody of his infant son after a bitter battle against the boy’s mom, RadarOnline.com is reporting. The ruling by a New York court ends a bizarre...
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Five shots that rocked the curling world
So, you might rightly wonder, what happens now at TSN? You know, without all those NHL games that, starting next fall, will migrate to Sportsnet, City, CBC … and whatever other outlet Rogers chooses to...
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Cheryl Bernard on the run for World Vision
When Cheryl Bernard won curling silver for Canada at the Vancouver Olympics, she and her teammates vowed they would do more with their medals than just “hang them in a case on the wall.” She stayed...
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Dan Church resigns as Canadian Olympic women’s hockey coach
Dan Church has suddenly stepped down as head coach of the Canadian women’s hockey team with the Winter Olympics less than two months away.
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Dwyane Wade changes his mind and says don’t pay me for the Olympics
So now Dwyane Wade doesn’t mind dragging his millionaire butt out of Miami for an all-expenses paid trip to London to play a kid’s game, with a bunch of his good buddies? On Wednesday, Wade and fellow...
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Canadian Olympic Committee releases new series of ads
The Canadian Olympic Committee apparently wants to own more than the podium, with a striking new series of ads promoting some of its athletes. Kayaker Adam van Koeverden Swimmer Ryan Cochrane Diver...
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Peaking at the right time a challenge for Olympic athletes
The challenge for every athlete is to deliver his or her peak performance at the right time. This year for the track and field athlete, the right time is the first week of August at London Olympics....
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Aaron Brown delivers ‘Olympic magic’ in Eugene
Aaron Brown of Toronto produced magic today at the PAC 12 Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The 21 year old, Birchmount Park Collegiate graduate now a sophomore at the University of Southern California...
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Melissa hopes for Olympic A standard at Harry Jerome Classic on June 10
Melissa Bishop is on a hot streak in the 800m in her hunt to land a spot on Canada’ Olympic Team in London this summer. The University of Windsor graduate from Ottawa has run the minimal requirements...
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Stephen Harper promises historic London building will greet Canadian athletes...
LONDON — Canadian athletes and their families involved in the Olympic Games this summer will be able turn to a historic building in this city’s Trafalgar Square as a gathering place. Prime Minister...
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Desperately seeking Olympic standard, will travel!
This spring, Canadian track and field athletes are traveling the world, desperately seeking the Olympic standards created by the Canadian Olympic Committee. These standards are higher than the Olympic...
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Jennerich battled rough waters en route to Olympics
VICTORIA — Lindsay Jennerich allows that, from the outside looking in, her journey to London might seem a tad circuitous. Actually, the word she uses is, “crazy” and when you study her CV, it would...
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