Canadian Winter Amateur Sports News
Canada’s high performance figure skaters won three gold medals and four medals overall at 2017 Skate Canada International in Regina, Saskatchewan this past Saturday. Kaetlyn Osmond of Marystown, Newfoundland won the gold medal in the ladies competition, Meagan Duhamel of Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of London, Ontario made figure skating history on Friday by breaking the world record in the short program of an international competition. Virtue and Moir posted a score of 82.68 points Read more
There is a strong possibility that Canadian Olympic gold medalist Marielle Thompson of Vancouver, British Columbia will not be competing in women’s ski cross at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. That is because Thompson ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament Read more
The Canadian short track speed skating team is in excellent form at the moment. The unfortunate thing is that we are at the very beginning of the 2017-18 World Cup season and a lot can happen between now and the Read more
Team Canada won the gold medal in a men’s 5000m short track speed skating World Cup event in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday. The Canadian team comprised of three-time Olympic gold medalist Charles Hamelin of Levis, Quebec, Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Read more
The curling teams of Brad Gushue of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Valerie Sweeting of Edmonton, Alberta won the men’s and women’s events at the 2017 Grand Slam of Curling Tour Tier 1 Challenge in Regina, Saskatchewan on Sunday. For the Read more
Darcy Sharpe of Calgary, Alberta won a silver medal on Sunday in a men’s slopestyle snowboarding World Cup event in Cardrona, New Zealand. Darcy Sharpe, is the younger brother of Canadian freestyle ski star Cassie Sharpe. In the men’s slopestyle Read more
Simon D’Artois of Vancouver, British Columbia won a bronze medal in a World Cup men’s halfpipe skiing event in Cardrona, New Zealand on Friday. This was D’Artois’s first ever World Cup medal and will give him confidence as he prepares Read more
Cassie Sharpe of Calgary, Alberta won a women’s halfpipe skiing event in Cardrona, New Zealand on Friday. For Sharpe, it was her third career World Cup victory and will give her immense confidence as she prepares for the 2018 Olympic Read more
In the ninth of 10 previews of high performance Canadian Olympians who are medal contenders at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, I am thrilled to share my interview with six-time world championship medalist Alex Gough of Calgary, Alberta. Read more