Canada’s women’s volleyball team pushed reigning champion Italy to five sets but ultimately fell 3-2 (22-25, 27-29, 25-23, 25-23, 15-5) on Saturday in Volleyball Nations League play.
The Canadian women’s sitting volleyball team opened the world championship with a three-set win over Hungary on Friday. Canada’s men had a tougher start in a straight-sets loss to Germany (25-13, 27-25, 25-21).
Taylor Ruck won her fifth gold in as many events at the Canadian swimming trials with a victory in the women’s 50-metre butterfly final on Thursday.
Alex Dawson moved his family from England to northwestern Alberta some 11 years ago, embarking on an unlikely journey to help build up the swimming program in Grande Prairie.
India lurched deeper into a crisis in cricket’s Twenty20 format after slumping to a second straight series loss, with England taking an insurmountable 3-0 lead on the back of destructive half-centuries by Phil Salt and Harry Brook.
aylor Ruck won her fourth title in as many races in emerging victorious in the women’s 50-metre freestyle event at the Canadian swimming trials on Wednesday.
Canada’s women’s team defeated China in five sets on Wednesday in the opening match of Week 3 of the Volleyball Nations League.
Women’s pro baseball is back. The Women’s Professional Baseball League on Wednesday unveiled the nicknames and logos of its four teams ahead of its inaugural season, with each team name inspired by pioneering women.
Taylor Ruck has joined some elite company. The 26-year-old from Kelowna, B.C., captured gold in the women’s 100-metre butterfly with a time of 58.15 seconds on Tuesday, becoming just the second Canadian after Summer McIntosh to win national trials titles in three different strokes.
Summer McIntosh won the women’s 400-metre individual medley Monday at the Canadian swimming trials, but fell short of her own world record.
The coach who guided Michael Phelps to a record 23 Olympic gold medals absolutely believes Canadian superstar Summer McIntosh belongs in the same sentence.
Summer McIntosh is the new world record-holder in the women’s 200-metre butterfly. The swimming sensation touched the wall in two minutes 1.65 seconds on Sunday night at the Canadian trials, breaking Chinese swimmer Liu Zige’s long-held mark.
Australia won the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup after smashing England in the final by seven wickets at Lord’s on Sunday.
Stephen Francis, the influential Jamaican track and field coach whose athletes won Olympic and world titles and helped turn the small Caribbean island into a sprinting powerhouse, has died, his club said Sunday. He was 64.
Brandon Miller made his move and stole not only the win but the show. Miller finished in 1 minute, 43.68 seconds to hold off Lutkenhaus during the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field on Friday night.
India left out 15-year-old prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi once again for the start of its five-match T20 series against England.
Stokes shocked the world of cricket on Sunday by announcing in the middle of the third test against New Zealand in Nottingham that it was his last international.
Canada’s men lost its fourth straight game of the week in falling to sixth-ranked Brazil 3-2 (25-17, 23-25, 28-26, 22-25, 17-15) in Volleyball Nations League play on Sunday.
Mitchell was battered and bruised by England’s bowlers but unbowed on Sunday in scoring an unbeaten century to help New Zealand close in on a rare test series win in the old country.
England captain Ben Stokes stunned the world of cricket on Sunday by announcing his impending retirement from the international game — in the middle of a test match he was playing against New Zealand.
An Olympic berth is available, but neither head coach Rachel Lessard nor quarterback Sara Parker see it as the biggest prize for Canada at the world women’s flag football championship.
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