Kerry Gillespie
TorontoStar
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Top Canadian boxer Tammara Thibeault detours around Russia to chase Olympic dream
Last year’s world middleweight champion couldn’t defend her title because of a boycott of the worlds. The route to Paris 2024 is especially tough for boxers. → Read More
From Penny Oleksiak to Summer McIntosh: How Canada built its golden age of swimming
Canada’s groundbreaking success in the pool isn’t a random confluence of excellence. It’s the product of a system put in place a decade ago. → Read More
Toronto teen Summer McIntosh swims to her second world record this week
The 16-year-old adds the 400-metre individual medley mark to the 400 freestyle record she set Tuesday. → Read More
How breakdancing’s big Olympic break changed the game for one Canadian world champion
Phil Wizard travels the world to compete, and while the Olympics have changed the sport in many ways, the Canadian won’t let it change him. → Read More
Alexandria Loutitt has taken one giant leap for Canadian ski jumping — a few of them, actually
The question is whether the Canadian team’s success — at the Olympics, on the World Cup circuit and at the world championships — will help change the trajectory of the sport at home. → Read More
How the Canadian women’s short-track speedskating team is carving a unique path to podiums
To have three non-Quebec skaters on a World Cup short-track team is rare enough, to have three skating together in a relay is unprecedented. → Read More
Canadian athletes face a new hurdle in qualifying for world athletics championships
World Athletics, the governing body for track and field, has made the automatic qualifying standards in almost every individual event harder to try and keep cheaters out. → Read More
Welcome to ice racing: The accessible and unpredictable motorsport putting women in the driver’s seat
In Ontario’s ice racing series, the sport relies on winter weather, no one knows how fast they’re going and a 1983 Honda CRX could race for 20 years. → Read More
Toronto’s James Crawford wins world super-G gold medal
Skier edges Norwegian by one-hundredth of a second to become first Canadian to stand atop podium at world alpine championships since 2017. → Read More
Can money bring women’s professional hockey together?
Salaries in the PHF are rising to the point where many players won’t have to work second jobs. Is it enough to bridge the gap with the Dream Gap Tour? → Read More
How the landscape of local marathons is changing as organizers run out of options
Lower participation numbers, construction, rising costs and the pandemic have forced many organizers to drop the full marathon or take it off-road. → Read More
Cricket. Kickboxing. Flag football. The Olympic menu might look very different in Los Angeles
Nine candidates hoping to be added for 2028 made confidential presentations in the fall. Here’s a look at some factors that might tip the scales. → Read More
Canadian soccer stars get things rolling on a league of their own
Their vision for a professional women’s league includes eight teams across the country, with kickoff set for 2025. → Read More
Who are the top contenders to win The Northern Star Award as Canada’s athlete of the year?
On Wednesday, the voting panel of sports journalists and broadcasters from across the country will select this year’s winner. → Read More
The world’s best high divers can see the Summer Olympics from way up there
The first ever junior high-diving championships in Montreal showed coaches and diving officials from around the world what’s possible. → Read More
‘Always smiling.’ Inspring story of family’s love for Canadian skier touched many
The Star followed the life of Scott Finlay and his family over the years. Finlay, who suffered a brain injury in a 1978 crash, died last month. → Read More
Canadian women double down in luge as the Olympic gender gap shrinks
But they’ll compete on a slower standard sled as the sport tries to make itself more accessible. → Read More
Canadians can enter a draw for tickets to see Paris Olympics. Here’s how
Canadians — and everyone else around the world — are being given access to tickets for most events at the same time on a digital platform, but it’ll still take some luck to secure tickets. → Read More
All people want to talk about with James Crawford is his Olympic medal. But he did so much more last alpine ski season
Toronto skier won bronze in alpine combined at the Beijing Games, was fourth in downhill — missing the podium by just seven one-hundredths of a second — and sixth in super-G. → Read More
Canadian Sport Film Festival shines spotlight on social change
Provoking conversations about sports and its power to inspire social change is what the festival, which runs Friday and Saturday at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox, is all about. → Read More