Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
The 2024 Olympic Games continues on Wednesday. Among the sports worth to monitor from a Canadian perspective are women’s golf, track cycling, women’s beach volleyball, women’s pole vault, artistic swimming and the men’s 3000 metre steeplechase. The spotlight will be Read more
Team Canada has won its sixth gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. On Tuesday, the Canadian gold medalist was women’s hammer thrower Camryn Rogers of Richmond, British Columbia. Rogers had a throw of 76.97 metres. Anette Echikunwoke Read more
It is definitely an intriguing day from a Canadian standpoint at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. All the focus will be in the women’s hammer throw as Camryn Rogers of Richmond, British Columbia is a medal contender. Rogers is Read more
Team Canada is in the quarterfinals of women’s beach volleyball at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. On Monday, the Canadian team of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson knocked off the United States in the round of 16, by a Read more
We have one week left of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. There will be significant focus today on the women’s 3×3 basketball team as Canada will be seeking their first ever medal in the sport. Canada will play Germany Read more
For the first time ever, there is a Canadian Olympic gold medalist in the men’s hammer throw. On Sunday at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, British Columbia placed first, and in the process recorded Canada’s Read more
This past Thursday we knew that Wyatt Sanford of Kennetcook, Nova Scotia was going to win a medal in Olympic boxing. We just did not know what colour. On Sunday, we found out that the medal would be bronze from Read more
We now enter the middle Sunday of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, with a lot on store. Canada has genuine medal opportunities in the men’s hammer throw (world champion Ethan Katzberg) and swimming (women’s 4×100 medley relay). We also Read more
Team Canada avoided elimination on Saturday in women’s 3×3 basketball and women’s beach volleyball at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The news was not so good for the Canadian men’s beach volleyball team (Dan Dearing of Toronto, Ontario withdrew Read more
Heading into the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, there was an opinion made by many, including yours truly, that Summer McIntosh of Toronto, Ontario could win up to six Olympic medals. After Saturday, she is now at five medals, with Read more