Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Historically in the women’s basketball tournament at the Olympic Games, the United States have dominated. Since 1976, the Americans have won eight of 11 Olympic gold medals. Canada’s best performance was a fourth place finish at the 1984 Olympic Games Read more
As the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo are approaching this week, I am thrilled to share with you a short interview with Canadian women’s beach volleyball stars Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario. The 2019 Read more
In the history of the Olympic Games, this will be the third time that Canada has qualified in women’s water polo. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Canada qualified and finished in fifth place out of six teams. Then at Read more
Heading into the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Canada’s best chance for an Olympic medal in a team competition with a playoff format, may come in the rugby women’s sevens. There is no doubt that this is a deep Canadian Read more
In the fourth of an eight-part series looking at the Canadian teams that qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, it is time to take a look at the men’s rugby sevens squad. This will be the Read more
Mike Varga of Oshawa, Ontario has won two medals at the 2021 X Games in Riverside, California. On Wednesday, he won the bronze medal in Wendy’s BMX Park competition, and also won the gold medal for having the best trick. Read more
Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario, and Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario, are heading into the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 as a medalist in their final event before the biggest tournament together in their sporting careers. On Sunday, Read more
Heading into the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, it would be difficult to find a hotter Canadian national team than the men’s volleyball program. At the 2021 Nations League in Rimini, Italy, the Canadians won their last five Read more
At the last two Olympic Games, the Canadian results were the same–an Olympic bronze medal. Skeptics could argue that the Canadian National Women’s Soccer team overachieved at these two prestigious international events, especially when you compare them to Canada’s abysmal Read more
Over the next week, Canadian Sports Scene will take a look at the eight team events that Team Canada has qualified for at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. In the first part of the series, we will focus Read more