Ottawa – Media are invited to the official announcement of Team Canada competing at the next Invictus Games being held in Vancouver and Whistler, BC, in February 2025. The announcement will take place at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Kingston on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Team Canada’s 56-person contingent includes 22 serving members and 34 Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces who acquired …
Toronto – The 18-players and four alternates nominated to represent Canada in the Paris 2024 Olympic Women’s Football Tournament. Canada Soccer and the Canadian Olympic Committee have announced the roster of athletes to represent Canada at the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024 from 25 July to 10 August. GOALKEEPERS: Sabrina D’Angelo (Welland, Ont.) Kailen Sheridan (Whitby, Ont.) DEFENDERS: Kadeisha …
Paris – Paris 2024 will be Dylan Bibic’s Olympic debut, but the 21-year-old has already taken the cycling world by storm. Bibic etched his name into Canadian cycling history in 2022 when he became Canada’s first ever world champion in an endurance track cycling event, winning the men’s scratch race at the UCI Track World Championships. He followed up that performance …
Ottawa – Eric Peters and Virginie Chénier will represent Team Canada in archery at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, both making their Olympic debut for Canada. Peters made Canadian history with his performance at the 2023 World Archery Championships. He won silver in the men’s individual recurve event after facing off with reigning Olympic champion Mete Gazoz in the final. It was Canada’s …
Ottawa – Seven Team Canada judokas will take to the tatami at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The team includes Olympic bronze medallist Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard, world number one Christa Deguchi, her younger sister Kelly Deguchi, and 2024 World Championship silver medallist Shady Elnahas. Beauchemin-Pinard will be making her third Olympic appearance, having won women’s -63kg bronze at Tokyo 2020 after navigating the challenging transition from …
UK – Leylah Annie Fernandez advanced to the final of the Rothesay International Eastbourne, her first final of 2024 and her first career grass court final. Fernandez defeating fourth seed and defending champion Madison Keys in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in her second career meeting with the American. In the tune-up event for Wimbledon, Fernandez took the opening set …
BRAMPTON – The City of Brampton is proud to welcome the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) Steelheads franchise to the city and unveil the new team logo. Hockey is Canada’s sport and welcoming the Steelheads to Brampton is a significant moment for Brampton, the larger community in Peel Region and beyond. The Steelheads will play out of the CAA Centre and …
Ottawa – Eight more Team Canada athletes earned their tickets to Paris 2024 with their performances this past weekend. That group includes four skateboarders who clinched their Olympic spots following the conclusion of the Olympic Qualifier Series in Budapest, Hungary and two beach volleyball duos who were victorious at the last chance continental qualifier in Mexico. Elsewhere, Canada’s Paris 2024-bound …
Ottawa – Familiar faces will be representing Team Canada in the women’s Olympic golf tournament at Paris 2024, as the duo of Brooke Henderson and Alena Sharp return for a third Games together. Henderson, of Smiths Falls, Ont., and Sharp, hailing from Hamilton, Ont., first represented Canada at Rio 2016, which featured the first women’s Olympic golf tournament since 1900. Henderson finished T7, which …
Ottawa – For five years, Margo Erlam’s parents harboured doubts about their decision to let their 16-year-old daughter move away from home to pursue elite diving. Was the dream worth the distance from her family? Would they all regret it down the line? In May at the Canadian Diving Trials in Windsor, Ontario, those doubts were laid to rest as …
