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Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Canada's golden trio is gearing up for its last Olympic Games. Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valerie Maltais, who won speed skating [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- The fastest ice in the world is on borrowed time. Calgary's Olympic Oval is a legacy of the 1988 Winter Games in [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS It's a women's pro hockey homecoming for Jennifer Gardiner and Rylind MacKinnon. The pair of B.C. players will participate in the first Professional Women's [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS A Winnipeg pilot project offers arena ice and rocks in a curling club to top teams in the area. Two sheets at the eight-sheet [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS No explanation required was the consensus among voters for The Canadian Press award for 2024 female athlete of the year. During the month before [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The Professional Women's Hockey League played a first season and started a second, the Northern Super League fired its engines for an allCanadian women's [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Summer McIntosh relishes swimming a race that she couldn't squeeze into her ambitious schedule at the Olympic Games in Paris. The reigning Olympic champion [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- The Canadian men's downhill ski team opens an important racing season intent on making a multipronged push for the podium. Their World [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- A Ukrainian girls' hockey team is in Canada for a few days of peace and hockey in an arena that doesn't have [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian freestyle skier star Mikaël Kingsbury is juggling both moguls and fatherhood. The 32-year-old Olympic and world champion from DeuxMontagnes, Que., opens his World [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS You can play the game hard and also be respectful of differences is the message Normand Hector wants to send at Hockey Canada's second [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Sam Edney and Jesse Lumsden sat on a bench on Parliament Hill during an athlete celebration after the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Daryl Watts continues her hockey reboot with the Canadian women's team. The former college star, who once thought she'd retired from hockey [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- The Edmonton Oilers continue to dig themselves out of their early-season hole with Leon Draisaitl wielding a wide shovel in the absence [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson couldn't have imagined when his high-school Halloween costume was a Jamaican bobsledder that he'd eventually intersect with that world of [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Dave Dickenson will return as head coach and general manager of the Calgary Stampeders in 2025 despite the CFL club's worst season [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The Future of Sport in Canada Commission starts tackling the country's safe-sport crisis later this month with the first of nine hearings. Federal Sports [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Natalie Spooner has Nov. 30 circled on her calendar, and not because the Toronto Sceptres forward feels particular animosity toward the Boston Fleet. The [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS The six Professional Women's Hockey League teams will get an earlier start and a half-dozen more games in the league's second season. The PWHL [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Former Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nazem Kadri's book Dreamer: My Life On The Edge delves into coach Mike Babcock's handling of players. [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Women afforded the same amount of job opportunity as men at world hockey championships creates a new dynamic on Canada's team, although [...]

CALGARY -- Reid Carruthers is seeking a three-peat in curling's quirky PointsBet Invitational that's become an unofficial season kickoff because of money, field and visibility. The five-day televised tournament starting [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Hockey Canada president and chief executive officer Katherine Henderson says the organization and the sport are headed in healthier directions since she [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS -- What looked like a bounce back for Canada at the Paralympic Games was more of a return to form. Canada's 10 gold [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS -- Canadian wheelchair racer Cody Fournie doesn't love the limelight, but he raced into it at the Paralympic Games in Paris. Fournie won [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS -- Canada has surpassed its total medal count and gold medal count from the Tokyo Paralympics with two days remaining in Paris. Wheelchair [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS -- Canada earned three medals, with two golds courtesy of two of its biggest names at the Paralympic Games on Day 8. Wheelchair [...]

PARIS -- Keely Shaw and Alexandre Hayward had big hockey dreams early in their lives. After their ambitions on skates were dealt devastating blows when they were 15 years old, [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS -- Paralympic Games medals have become harder for Canadians to win, which makes them precious in Paris. Canada's 126-member team is among 4,400 [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS -- Amy Burk doesn't know if her fifth Paralympic Games will be her last, but she does know Paris will feel monumental to [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS -- Aurélie Rivard is chasing herself. Canada's most decorated para swimmer the past decade heads into her fourth Paralympic Games owning world records [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS After tearful and shocking testimonies on Parliament Hill, and the admission there is a safe-sport crisis in Canada, how safe are athletes from abuse [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS A complex issue evokes complex feelings among Canada's Olympic and Paralympic athletes bound for Paris. The International Olympic and Paralympic committees allowing some Russian [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Former Humboldt Broncos goaltender Jacob Wassermann has been named to Canada's Paralympic team and will compete in rowing this summer in Paris. Wassermann was [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- The rumblings became reality with Wednesday's announcement that the Calgary Flames traded veteran goaltender Jacob Markstrom to the New Jersey Devils. The [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Hockey player Vicky Sunohara, figure skater Patrick Chan and tennis player Daniel Nestor were among the athletes unveiled Wednesday for induction into [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Several Edmonton Oilers are trying to win the first Stanley Cup rings of their careers. Esa Tikkanen is getting rid of his. The 59-year-old [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Move over, Edmonton Oilers power play. The penalty killers are in the spotlight. The Oilers reached their first Stanley Cup final in 18 years [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Nigara Shaheen finally feels the freedom to fully prepare for an Olympic Games. The 30-year-old Afghan judoka, who has been living and training in [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS UTICA, N.Y. -- Rested bodies, but prepared minds, was the goal for the Canadian women's hockey team Friday. The Canadians stayed off the ice, [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS UTICA, N.Y. -- Renata Fast scored twice to lead Canada in a 5-1 win over Sweden in a women's world hockey championship quarter-final Thursday. [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Athletes in favour of Toronto as a Plan B for the Olympic and Paralympic swim trials drove the decision to relocate there from Montreal, [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS UTICA, N.Y. -- A women's world junior hockey championship will happen, but is at least five years away, the International Ice Hockey Federation says. [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA -- Brendan Bottcher shortened his road to the final of the Canadian men's curling championship, but not without drama in a 9-7 playoff [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA -- Tyler Smith was not yet born when a Prince Edward Island team last reached the playoffs at the Canadian men's curling championship. [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Jennifer Jones bid a reluctant goodbye to a curling stage where she's performed brilliantly in her career. Her Manitoba team's exit in [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- The road to another Canadian women's curling championship for both Ontario's Rachel Homan and Manitoba's Jennifer Jones shortened with their playoff victories [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- A host-province rookie versus a decorated curler in her national women's curling championship swan song gives Friday's playoff game between them a [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS A changeup and a settling into new roles has Rachel Homan's curling team extending a stellar season into the Canadian women's curling championship. Homan [...]

Byline: DONNA SPENCER; THE CANADIAN PRESS Jennifer Jones will leave women's curling still loving it, but she's ready for change in her life. The 49-year-old who won an Olympic gold [...]