Last week we took the time to preview eight team competitions. Now it is time to focus on eight different sports and their individual/team events from a Canadian perspective. Let us start with athletics. In the track competitions, Canada will Read more
Django Lovett of Surrey, British Columbia, and Marco Arop of Edmonton, Alberta each medaled in the Wanda Diamond League Series at the Herculis EBS athletics competition in Monaco on Friday. Lovett won a silver medal in the men’s high jump, Read more
Marco Arop of Edmonton, Alberta won his third career Diamond League medal on Sunday. At the BAUHAUS-galan at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Arop had a second place time of one minute and 44 seconds. Arop reached the podium by eighteen-one Read more
Canadian Olympic silver medalist Andre De Grasse of Scarborough, Ontario, and Aaron Brown of Toronto, Ontario led Canada to a 1-2 finish in the men’s 200 metres at the Oslo Diamond League event on Thursday. De Grasse posted a winning Read more
According to the Canadian Press on Tuesday, Regan Yee of Hazelton, British Columbia set the Canadian record in the women’s 3000 metre steeplechase with a time of nine minutes, 27.54 seconds. The record was set at the Classique d’Athletisme de Read more
The 2021 Canadian Olympic Trials took place for next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The event took place in Montreal, Quebec. Here are five storylines from the event. 5) Damian Warner getting into shape. Canada’s top decathlete from London, Ontario did Read more
Georgia Ellenwood of Langley, British Columbia came through with one of the biggest victories of her career on Sunday. Ellenwood won the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting women’s heptathlon competition in Ratingen, Germany, and in the process made the Canadian Olympic team. Read more
Evan Dunfee of Richmond, British Columbia set the Canadian record in the men’s 10 000 metre walk on Sunday at the Harry Jerome Track Classic in Burnaby, British Columbia according to the Canadian Press. Dunfee posted a time of 38 Read more
Mohammed Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ontario won the bronze medal in Diamond League action on Thursday. Ahmed placed third in the men’s 5000 metres in Florence, Italy at the Golden Gala – Pietro Mennea. Ahmed had a time of 12 Read more
It was a record-breaking decathlon victory for Damian Warner of London, Ontario this past weekend in Gotzis, Austria. In the two-day competition known as the Hypo Meeting, Warner posted a total score of 8995 points, a Canadian record, and the Read more