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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will join a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year, citing extensive human rights abuses by the Communist regime in the host country.
Every Olympic Games is expensive for the host city. But the pandemic kept Tokyo from getting many of the benefits.
Posted: Jul 30, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: July 30 Norway's beach handball federation was fined after its women's team wore shorts instead of bikini bottoms in the bronze medal match of the European Handball Championships in Varna, Bulgaria.(Norwegian Handball Federation) In a number of recent incidents that have made news around the world, women athletes are pushing back against restrictive standards for competition clothing. During the European Beach Handball Championships on July 18, the Norwegian women's beach handball team was fined for eschewing the sport's typical bikini bottoms,...
LONDON, ONT. -- Maggie Mac Neil has become a household name, quite literally overnight, after winning Canada’s first gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the Women’s 100 metre butterfly race. Her family recalls watching the event while on vacation in Kincardine, Ont. “The room just erupted,” Mac Neil’s mother, Susan McNair, said in an interview with CTV News London. At first, they were unsure if Mac Neil was going to place because of her start to the race, but they were pleasantly surprised when she did. Speaking during a press conference at the Olympic Games, Mac Neil ...
KITCHENER -- Many Olympic traditions have been scrapped or changed for 2021, due to high COVID-19 case numbers in Japan. Carling Zeeman, a rower from Cambridge, is making her second appearance at the Games. “I’m in Japan right now, and when we finally got here it was like: ‘Whoa, this is happening.’” The Olympics were postponed a year, and are now taking place as Tokyo in under a state of emergency. Zeeman says this year is very different from the last one she competed in. “Everything about it is different. From the moment we stepped off of the plane to our daily routine...