Ottawa – Alannah Yip made her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020–the first Olympic Games to feature sport climbing on the programme. She finished 14th in the women’s combined event, which, spoiler alert, no longer exists. More recently, at the Santiago 2023 Pan Am Games, Yip secured Canada’s first ever sport climbing medal at a major Games, taking bronze in the women’s boulder and …
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 – Team Canada is sending a strong contingent of six wrestlers to compete at Paris 2024. While only one athlete, Amar Dhesi, is a returning Olympian, the Canadian team is filled with champions at both the world and continental levels. The most decorated of these athletes is Justina Di Stasio, who is a past world champion (2018), Pan Am Games champion (2019) and …
