Olympic viewing guide: Defiant Canadian women's soccer team controls its own destiny
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The Canadian women's rugby sevens team won a surprising silver medal today, upsetting second-ranked Australia in the semifinals before giving No. 1 New Zealand all it could handle in the gold-medal match.
The fifth-ranked Canadians grabbed the lead right before halftime when Alysha Corrigan picked off a sloppy New Zealand offload and scampered in for a try. But the Kiwis answered quickly in the second half and scored again with two minutes left to win 19-12 and repeat as Olympic champions.
Canada's men's basketball team scored a big win too, beating 2021 bronze medallist Australia to help clinch a spot in the quarterfinals.
Not everything went Canada's way. Swimmer Kylie Masse just missed her third consecutive Olympic medal in the women's 100m backstroke, placing fourth, while second-ranked judoka Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard was eliminated before the medal bouts.
WATCH | CBC's Meg Roberts lets you know what to watch on Day 5:
Canada finished fifth in the women's gymnastics team final, matching its best-ever Olympic result. Simone Biles powered the United States to victory for her fifth Olympic gold — and possibly the sweetest after her stunning withdrawal from the 2021 final led to the Americans' losing the title.
Through four full days of competition in Paris, Canada has a well-balanced six medals: two gold, two silver and two bronze.
There will be a couple more medal chances on Day 5. But all eyes are on a must-win match for Canada's defiant women's soccer team. Let's start our daily viewing guide there.
Embattled, exhausted and left for dead in the wake of a devastating penalty for the drone-spying scheme involving members of their coaching staff, Canada's players found a lifeboat by deciding to just play for each other.
That was the core message in centre-back Vanessa Gilles' impassioned speech after she scored deep in injury time to give Canada a miraculous upset of host France on Sunday that kept the Olympic champions' playoff hopes alive.
Knowing that any result except a win would eliminate them from the tournament due to the six-point penalty issued by FIFA, Canada rallied from a 1-0 second-half deficit to beat the world's No. 2-ranked team on its home turf. Captain Jessie Fleming scored the equalizer before Gilles banked one in off the post in the 12th (!) minute of stoppage time for the improbable 2-1 victory.
"We haven't slept in the last three days. We haven't eaten. We've been crying," an emotional Gilles told a sideline interviewer. "What's given us energy is each other… our determination, our pride to prove people wrong, our pride to represent this country when all this s--- is coming out about our values.
"We're not cheaters. We're damn good players. We're a damn good team."
A two-year suspension from competitive swimming has forced Penny Oleksiak to answer questions about drug use, train by herself in public pools and defend her legacy as Canada’s most decorated female Olympian.
Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in more than a decade, will take place on ice shorter than NHL-regulation size.
Summer McIntosh capped swimming’s U.S. Open with the event record in the women’s 200-metre butterfly on Saturday in Austin, Texas.
Some bronze medals are worth their weight in gold. Valerie Grenier's third-place finish in women's giant slalom at the Mont-Tremblant World Cup certainly fits that category.
The men’s World Cup draw in Washington D.C. was going well for Canada until Pot 4.
The draw for the 2026 World Cup takes place Friday at 12 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Center in Washington, for the purpose of dividing the 48-team field into 12 groups of four. Once the tournament starts, 32 teams will advance from those preliminary groups to the single-elimination knockout rounds.
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., buzzed with activity and speculation on Thursday in advance of Friday’s all-important draw for the 2026 men’s World Cup.
By the time the management group for the Canadian men’s national hockey team emerges from marathon meetings on Tuesday, as much as 80 per cent of the roster going to Italy next February should be written in pen.
Canada’s ski mountaineering athletes have their Olympic dreams on the line this weekend at a World Cup event in Solitude, Utah.
Goalie Carter Hart, one of five 2018 Canada world junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault in July, will make his first NHL appearance in nearly two years when he starts in goal Tuesday night for the Vegas Golden Knights, who host Chicago.
The Canadian women’s hockey team will bring back plenty of familiar faces for its final pre-Olympic games in Edmonton next week.
Ottawa Charge head coach Carla MacLeod has been diagnosed with breast cancer, the team announced Sunday.