Just like the saving grace of the Games is always the athletes, a reporter’s saving grace is usually the volunteers.
Read Full ArticleVignettes, triumphs, anguish and oddities of the 2022 Beijing Olympics from one reporter’s perspective.
Read Full ArticleJustin Kripps is just the third Canadian pilot to win an Olympic medal in the four-man event, joining Vic Emery and L...
Read Full ArticleGame Plan offers Canadian athletes access to mental health care providers and more, but it only goes so far.
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Read Full ArticleIn the seventh end, Gushue suddenly found himself in search of a mop. But Canada ended up being the better team, desp...
Read Full ArticleThe 68-year-old German was a driving force in making sure Russia never missed a Games after running the largest moder...
Read Full ArticleThere is nothing quite like an Olympic final in women’s hockey between Canada and the U.S., writes Bruce Arthur.
Read Full ArticleHoman’s tweet was heart-wrenching stuff that pointed out a difficult truth. If it’s hard to win at the Olympics, some...
Read Full ArticleThe Jamaicans needed duct tape to compete in their old bobsled until they asked for help from their Canadian friends.
Read Full ArticleOpinion | Marielle Thompson ruptured her ACL just 11 months ago. Canadian is now looking for second Olympic gold in s...
Read Full ArticleHer coach Eteri Tutberidze is viewed dimly within the international skating orbit for her hard-nut approach to young ...
Read Full ArticleThis Team Canada constantly hoots and whoops and woo-hoos, not just to celebrate goals or to punctuate wins that incl...
Read Full ArticleGabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron stayed for another four years after being edged out by Canada’s Tessa Virtu...
Read Full ArticleBobsled pilot is an Olympic lifer at age 37, first competing in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics for his native Australia ...
Read Full ArticleThe post-career success of Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon in Montreal has been nothing short of dazzling an...
Read Full ArticleCanadian speedskater was the reigning world champion in the 500 metres but finished fourth at the Beijing Olympics.
Read Full ArticleCanadian goalie Eddie Pasquale takes the blame for not stopping those two shots that took the wind out of the sails o...
Read Full ArticleCanada had its third snowboard cross medal of the Games in the first dual-gender snowboarding event in Olympic history.
Read Full ArticleAfter a tense review, the men’s short-track relay team advanced to the final. It’s the 37-year-old Hamelin’s last sho...
Read Full ArticleLast month, the reigning men’s world 500-metre long-track speedskating champion broke the Canadian record that had st...
Read Full ArticleThe Canadian bailed out at the finish line, skidding onto his side like a runner sliding into second, trying to pass ...
Read Full ArticleThe American combined creative craftsmanship with superb jumping proficiency — five quads attempted, five landed clea...
Read Full ArticleCrawford finished fourth in the downhill earlier this week. His aunt Judy Crawford-Rawley also finished fourth skiing...
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Read Full ArticleFrom multiple injuries to her brother’s death, O’Dine’s journey to the Beijing Olympics podium has been harrowing and...
Read Full ArticleOakville skier can’t land a second jump as Norwegian wins Olympic gold
Read Full ArticleThe Canadian legend, one of his sport’s great champions and true pioneers, fell short in his comeback despite spendin...
Read Full ArticleIt would be rather unrealistic to expect 16-year-old Brooke D’Hondt to earn Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal in the ...
Read Full ArticleQuestions remain after Canada beat Russia 6-1 in women’s hockey with both teams wearing masks.
Read Full ArticleCanada falls to unbeaten Italy in an extra end, missing the semifinals on a measurement.
Read Full ArticleAs New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott cemented her status as the event’s top performer, Blouin had to settle for that...
Read Full ArticleSpeedskater was seventh halfway through the 3,000-metre race and surged while others cracked.
Read Full ArticleSarault, who was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., while her dad was playing hockey there, is only non-Quebec skater on Ca...
Read Full ArticleThere was never any doubt the Beijing Games would proceed as scheduled, Rosie DiManno writes, despite the moaning and...
Read Full ArticleKingsbury qualified for Saturday’s final with the best score while his chief rival Ikuma Horishima, a two-time world ...
Read Full ArticleThis was the 21-year-old’s Olympic debut in women’s hockey, and she looks like she might be able to tear the world ap...
Read Full ArticleCanada’s men’s and women’s rinks were shut out in Pyeongchang, and have come up short at the worlds for several years...
Read Full ArticleChina’s largest Winter Olympics team has had the benefit of training at venues built or repurposed for these Games an...
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