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Five weeks after earning their first Olympic medal, Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are gearing up for their 13th world championships, next week in Prague. “We want to enjoy ourselves, enjoy our skating [and] celebrate what we’ve accomplished this season,” Gilles says. Source link

Kerri Einarson’s curling team welcomed a quick win after a short night at the women’s world championship. Turkey shook hands after six ends in a 9-3 loss to Canada on Wednesday morning in Calgary. Source link

The Iranian women’s soccer team crossed the Turkish border into Iran on Wednesday to complete a fraught return journey from Australia, after five members withdrew asylum claims they had lodged ‌there. Source link

Daryl Watts scored her eighth goal of the season with 11:01 left in the third period, Raygan Kirk recorded her second straight shutout, and the Toronto Sceptres beat the league-leading Boston Fleet 2-0 on Tuesday night. Source link

Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic for the first time Tuesday night, beating the United States 3-2 in the championship game on Eugenio Suarez’s tiebreaking double in the top of the ninth inning. Source link

The University of British Columbia is the top seed among the eight teams vying for a national Canadian university women’s hockey championship, which begins on Thursday. Source link

Doug Armstrong is stepping down from his position as general manager of Canada’s Olympic hockey team. Hockey Canada says Armstrong informed the organization he will be focusing on his position with the St. Louis Blues going forward. Source link

Canada’s Winter Olympic and Paralympic medal counts are falling. Is this the sign of a crisis, or merely a shift? Source link

Canada’s fifth straight win at the women’s world curling championship was a lesson in adaptation for skip Kerri Einarson. Source link

Standout Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl is expected to miss the rest of the NHL regular season because of what the team called a lower-body injury. Source link