Olympic wake-up call: Team Canada, goalie Desbiens thwart U.S. rivals
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Ann-Renée Desbiens made 51 saves, Brianne Jenner scored twice and Jamie Lee Rattray netted the game winner as Canada's women's hockey team took down the United States 4-2 on Tuesday.
Canada clinched the top spot in Group A with the win, in its biggest test of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games thus far.
The Americans outshot Canada 53-27, applying a relentless forecheck at times.
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Keegan Messing earned a berth into the men's free skate, placing ninth in the short program.
The 30-year-old figure skater, who was stuck in Vancouver for more than a week after dealing with COVID testing issues, scored a 93.24 less than 48 hours after landing in Beijing on Monday.
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American figure skater Nathan Chen posted a world record score of 113.97 in the men's short program.
Scott Gow earned Canada's best ever Olympic finish in the men's 20-kilometre individual biathlon.
The 31-year-old from Calgary finished in fifth place, one minute and 5.6 seconds behind the winner, Quentin Fillon Maillet of France.
Gow went 19-for-20 shooting – each miss earns a one-minute penalty – finishing only 34 seconds off the podium, while improving on his 14th place finish at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
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Connor Howe has arrived.
More than three months after announcing an independent review into the Paris Olympics drone-spying scandal, Canada Soccer now has the document in hand.
Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand are through to the doubles final at the WTA Finals after a 7-6 (7), 6-1 victory over Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the United States and Australia's Ellen Perez in semifinal action Friday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Since leaving her "most challenging" Olympics without a swimming medal three months ago, Penny Oleksiak has climbed 19,000 feet to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, done other charity work and attended her first Bills football game in Buffalo.
The Professional Women's Hockey League unveiled the home and away uniform designs for its six teams on Thursday, a little over three weeks before opening its second season.
In 2015, when Gabriel Cousineau was in his senior year as quarterback for the Montreal Carabins, he also worked full-time at a secondary school in the city called Collège Laval.
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After nearly six complete seasons, the Canadian Premier League finds itself at an inflection point.
A focus on teamwork — in both individual distances and in the relay — helped Canada's short track squad capture four medals, including three gold, on home ice on Saturday during the second stop of the ISU Short Track World Tour in Montreal.
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Endurance runner Tara Dower smashed one of the toughest records in sport.