Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
The 2018 Scotties Tournament Hearts in Penticton dropped down from to eight teams on Thursday when Ontario defeated Newfoundland 11-8 in a high scoring tie-breaker. That left the first ever championship pool to consist of Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, Team Canada, Read more
Alex Harvey of Saint-Ferreol-les-Neiges, Quebec is heading into the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang with momentum. On Sunday, Harvey won a silver medal in a men’s 15km cross-country skiing mass start freestyle event in Seefeld, Austria. Harvey posted a Read more
Darcy Sharpe of Calgary, Alberta and Mark McMorris of Regina, Saskatchewan each won medals in men’s slopestyle snowboarding on Saturday at the 2018 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. For Sharpe, it was his first career medal at the Winter Read more
Teal Harle of Campbell River, British Columbia and Evan McEachran of Oakville, Ontario won World Cup men’s slopestyle skiing medals in Mammoth Mountain, California on Sunday. Harle won the gold medal and McEachran won the bronze medal. Harle posted Read more
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario won a World Cup gold medal in the women’s 3000m in Erfurt, Germany on Sunday. It was the first World Cup win for Blondin of the 2017-18 season and first career win in the women’s Read more
Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Montreal, Quebec won a World Cup women’s moguls competition in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec on Saturday. For Dufour-Lapointe, it was her first World Cup gold medal of the 2017-18 season and her first victory on the World Cup circuit Read more
Kaillie Humphries of Calgary, Alberta and Phylicia George of Scarborough, Ontario won the silver medal in women’s bobsled at a World Cup in Konigssee, Germany on Saturday. It was one of two medals Canada earned in World Cup bobsled Read more
Olivier Rochon of Gatineau, Quebec won a World Cup bronze medal in men’s aerials on Friday from Lake Placid, New York. For Rochon it is his eighth World Cup medal and first since February 4, 2016 when he won Read more
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of London, Ontario will carry the flag for Canada in the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. In an announcement made on Tuesday from Parliament Hill in Ottawa by Prime Minister Justin Read more
Team Canada salvaged a medal in World Cup bobsled action on Sunday from St. Moritz, Switzerland. After being blanked from the medals in women’s bobsled and two-man bobsled action on Saturday, Chris Spring of Calgary, Alberta piloted Canada to a Read more