Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
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
It was a phenomenal day in the swimming pool on Saturday for Team Canada at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. In the first medal event of the day, Canadians came away with two Olympic medals in the same event. Read more
Team Canada came away with a silver medal in women’s eights rowing at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Saturday. The Canadian team was comprised of Abigail Dent of Kenora, Ontario, Caileigh Filmer of Victoria, British Columbia, Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski Read more
We have now approached the middle Saturday of the Olympic Games and it will be jammed packed. Canada has medal opportunities in swimming (Summer McIntosh and Josh Liendo), gymnastics (Ellie Black and Shallon Olsen), tennis (Felix Auger-Aliassime), rowing (women’s eights), Read more
For the fifth time in her career, Kylie Masse of Windsor, Ontario is an Olympic medalist. On Friday at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Masse won the bronze medal in the women’s 200 metre backstroke with a time of Read more