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Canada’s Abi Strate won a silver medal at a women’s ski jumping World Cup event in Sapporo, Japan on Saturday. Source link

Mikaela Shiffrin earned a place on the podium of a World Cup giant slalom for the first time in two years Saturday in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czechia, finishing third in the last GS before the Milan Cortina Olympics. Source link

A day after having a gold medal slip through his fingers, Canada’s Reece Howden held on to win a World Cup ski cross big final on Saturday in Veysonnaz, Switzerland. Source link

Italian skier Giovanni Franzoni put another exclamation point to his breakout World Cup season Saturday by winning on the classic Streif course, two weeks before the downhill race at his home Olympics. Source link

An even 400 in Grand Slams and 102 in Australia. Novak Djokovic just keeps setting tennis records. The 24-time major winner became the first player to reach 400 wins in Grand Slam singles when he beat Botic van de Zandschulp 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) on Saturday night in the third round of the Australian Open. […]

Watch live coverage of the PWHL match between the Ottawa Charge and Montreal Victoire beginning on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET from Place Bell in Laval, Que. Source link

It’s been a long road for Natalie Spooner as she returned from a major knee injury that came after an MVP performance in the first season of the PWHL. Now healthy, Spooner can look ahead to her fourth Olympics and focus on winning another gold medal. Source link

With less than three weeks to go before the start of the men’s hockey tournament at the Olympics in Milan several of the top contenders have significant injury questions. Source link

CBC, Canada’s Olympic Network, will offer 22 hours of live coverage every day from the Milano-Cortina Winter Games, with over 1,200 hours of live content available on its digital platforms. Here’s how you can watch all of CBC’s live Olympic coverage. Source link

Perhaps one of the most fascinating and impactful origin stories at the Olympics is of bobsledder Cynthia Appiah. Appiah was recently named to the Canadian bobsleigh team. The 35-year-old brakewoman grew up in Toronto public housing and bobsleigh came to her by “falling into her lap.” Source link