Olympics

Eleanor Harvey made history when she stepped onto the podium in Paris. Winning bronze in individual women's foil — Canada's first Olympic fencing medal - was only the beginning.

Philip Kim hasn't really stopped moving since winning a gold medal in breaking at the Paris Olympics last summer.

Female athletes will be in the majority at an Olympics for the first time at the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games thanks to a big win for women’s soccer.

The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa's most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often accused of oppressing political opposition.

Jennifer Heil set the bar for Canada at the 2006 Turin Olympics. The decorated skier captured the country's first medal — and its attention — with a gold in moguls on the opening day of competition. Now two decades later, she's poised to lead the Canadian team back under the same spotlight in Northern Italy.

Rebecca Smith, who helped Canada to a silver medal in the women's 4x100 freestyle relay at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, announced her retirement from competitive swimming Wednesday.

Algeria boxer Imane Khelif, who found herself in the middle of a bitter divide about gender in sports during the Paris Olympics, has denounced “false and offensive” accusations from the International Boxing Association.

Equestrian rider Eric Lamaze, an Olympic champion in 2008, has been banned from the sport until 2031 after a second four-year doping suspension was imposed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

William Dandjinou and Steven Dubois earned gold medals Saturday in the penultimate event of the ISU Short Track World Tour as Canada continued its dominance on the speedskating circuit.

Marco Arop catapulted himself to new heights, and just in time heading into an Olympic year. The towering six-foot-four 800-metre runner from Edmonton became the first Canadian to win world championship gold in the event in August.

Sebastien Toutant loves expressing himself on his snowboard, finding new ways to perform tricks on slopestyle and big air courses around the world. But after the Beijing Olympics in February, he resolved to take at least a year off from competition to focus on filmmaking.

Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, World Aquatics said on Thursday.

The cost of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics is 20% higher than organizers said when they announced officials figures more than a year ago, according to a report by the Board of Audit of Japan.

Canadian Olympic speedskaters Gilmore Junio, Kaylin Irvine and Marsha Hudey announced their retirements on Wednesday.