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Marco Arop, the reigning world 800-metre champion, will run for his first Olympic gold medal on Saturday. The Edmonton athlete won his semifinal heat in one minute 45.05 seconds on Friday to qualify for Saturday’s final (1:05 p.m. ET, CBC Gem, CBC Olympics app) at Stade de France, where he’ll aim for Canada’s first podium finishContinue Reading

Think about Andre De Grasse’s Olympic career, and you might envision him standing on the podium. Across the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games, every time De Grasse raced on the sport’s biggest stage, the Canadian sprinter would come through with a medal. Whatever the circumstances, De Grasse was undeterred.Continue Reading

Racing at less than full health, four Canadian men’s sprinters delivered a strong performance Thursday to secure a spot in the Olympic 4×100-metre relay final. Audrey Leduc closed in 10.04 seconds to help set a new national record and berth for the Canadian women’s team in the final. Leduc leadsContinue Reading

Updated On Friday, Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S., will be the first Canadian woman to compete in a shot put final at the Olympics after securing a berth on her opening throw of Thursday’s qualification round in Saint-Denis, France. Brooklyn, N.S., native qualifies for Friday showdown with 19.77m effort on 1stContinue Reading

Updated An appeal submitted by Canadian distance runner Moh Ahmed was rejected Wednesday shortly after the reigning Olympic silver medallist in the men’s 5,000 metres was tripped late in his first-round heat in Paris. He captured silver at 2021 Games; Paris final slated for Saturday at 1:50 p.m. ET Doug Harrison · CBCContinue Reading

World champion Marco Arop is a step closer to his goal of running for his first Olympic medal in the men’s 800 metres. The Edmonton athlete was second in his heat Wednesday, stopping the clock in one minute 45.74 seconds. Places 2nd in heat in 1:45.74; Dunfee, Lundman set CanadianContinue Reading

The men’s 800-metre race promises to be a doozy. There’s Canada’s Marco Arop, the reigning world champion. There’s Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati, the fastest man in the world this season. And there’s Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi, second-fastest to both Arop at worlds and Sedjati this season. Algeria’s Sedjati aiming for world record,Continue Reading

Canadian record holder Alysha Newman, in her third Summer Games appearance, will compete in an Olympic pole vault final for the first time. Newman cleared 4.55 metres on Monday at Stade de France in Paris to qualify for Wednesday’s final at 1 p.m. ET, which will consist of 20 women after only 11 ofContinue Reading

Fourth place finishes at the Olympics are supposed to be painful. And for Moh Ahmed in the men’s 10,000 metres, that may have genuinely been true. But after a race in which 13 men ran faster than the previous Olympic record, which had held since 2008, the Canadian appeared more satisfied than anguished. “HonestlyContinue Reading