Ottawa – About 12 athletes are ready to tackle one of the biggest stages in the world as Team Canada has named the women’s rugby sevens athletes nominated to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Canada’s Olympic roster includes three players returning from Tokyo 2020: Olivia Apps, Keyara Wardley, and Charity Williams. This will be the second Olympic appearance for Apps and …
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 – Team Canada will be represented by five such brave and accomplished athletes at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games in diving. Caeli McKay will make her second Olympic appearance. The 24-year-old competed at Tokyo 2020 in the women’s 10m synchro. She will compete in both the women’s 10m individual and 10m synchro events at Paris 2024. McKay knows a thing or two …
GATINEAU – Santiago 2023 Pan American Games were recently concluded. Over the last 17 days, Canadians cheered on 468 of our country’s top athletes as they competed alongside athletes from 40 other countries. During these games, we saw Canadian and Pan American records set and personal bests reached. Together, Team Canada earned 164 medals, making these games one of the …
SANTIAGO – Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport said: “Athletes from across the Americas will come together to officially open the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Team Canada, led by the unwavering spirit of flag-bearers Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson (beach volleyball), will march proudly into Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, joining close to 7,000 athletes from 41 countries, …
