Tag Archives: Olympics

It has been a remarkable journey back to the Olympics for Regina snowboarder Mark McMorris. Ten months ago getting the games in South Korea seemed far-fetched. The then 23-year-old was lying in a hosp...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea says the rival Koreas have agreed to form their first joint Olympic team and have their athletes march together during the opening ceremony of next month's Wint...

So the NHL, which didn't want to shut down during the Winter Olympics, has given half its teams this week off. The other half of the teams get next week off. And later in January the NHL takes a four-...

Watching mixed doubles curling has made one thing painfully obvious. Curling has listened to the International Olympic Committee. The IOC wants to give out more medals, so new sports have been recentl...

In the aftermath of Russia being banned from the 2018 Olympics, Hayley Wickenheiser was thinking of some of her fellow Olympians. "I look at our Canadian luge athlete Sam Edney who finished fourth in ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics as neutrals despite orchestrated doping at the 2014 Sochi Games, the International Olympic Comm...

Ben Johnson finally found a way to cash in on his brief time as an Olympic gold medallist. The 55-year-old former sprinter has appeared in an advertisement for an Australian betting company, making li...

What's next? Gainer versus the San Diego Chicken in an Olympic, gold-medal showdown between mascots? Word has come from the International Olympic Committee that two new sports - Thai kickboxing and ch...

The NHL is playing hardball when it comes to their players going to the Olympics. And the International Olympic Committee has clearly stopped negotiating as it's the International Ice Hockey Federatio...

TORONTO - For the second day in a row, Canadian Olympians returned home from the Rio Olympics to excited crowds of loved ones and fans. Runner Andre De Grasse of Markham, Ont., who won a silver and tw...