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Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse made his professional debut at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday and won the 60-metre dash in a time of 6.61 seconds.

Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse made his professional debut at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday and won the 60-metre dash in a time of 6.61 seconds.

Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will compete in the 2016-17 season, the first time they'll do so since winning silver at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Officials may resort to alternate plans in case the main swimming venue for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics is not ready for a test event in April.

Both teams Canada and USA have qualified for Rio, but that won't stop either team from forgetting a long standing rivalry in tonight's CONCACAF final.

Canadian 800-metre runner Melissa Bishop won in the finals on Saturday, breaking the Canadian indoor record she already held.

Canadian 800-metre runner Melissa Bishop won in the finals on Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland, breaking the Canadian indoor record she already held.

On the penultimate day of the Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, Canadians formed part of a figure skating mixed team that claimed a bronze medal.

On the penultimate day of the Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, Canada just missed adding to its total of five medals with a fourth place finish in alpine skiing's parallel mixed team event.

Satoko Miyahara of Japan dominated the women's free skate to win the Four Continents championship in Chinese Taipei on Saturday.

Italian skier Dominik Paris mastered tricky conditions at the French Alpine resort of Chamonix to win a men's World Cup downhill race ahead of American veteran Steven Nyman on Saturday.

Apologizing for a gaffe on social media, Lindsey Vonn had little to celebrate after clinching a record 20th World Cup crystal globe title Saturday in Italy.

Tina Hermann held on to her opening-day lead to win the women's skeleton world title on Saturday in Igls, Austria, for Germany's first gold medal in five years.

Canadian scores 93.60 points in ski slopestyle.

Calgary defenceman TJ Brodie continued his red-hot play of late with three assists on Friday night to lead the Flames to a 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.

Meagan Duhamel's stomach flu has forced the Canadian figure skater and her partner Eric Radford to withdraw from the pairs free skate at the Four Continents championships in Taipei, Taiwan. They won the event in 2013 and 2015.

Montreal Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban, at the centre of the struggling team's latest controversy after he was blamed for loss in Colorado by coach Michel Therrien this week, had two assists in Friday's 3-2 shootout win over Philadelphia.

Doug McDermott had a career-high 30 points off the bench to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 116-106 win over the Toronto Raptors Friday night to put an end to their five-game losing slide.

The Canadian women's soccer team qualified for the 2016 Olympics today after being Costa Rica 3-1 in the semifinal game of the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifiers 2016.

Watch live coverage now of the final FIL World Cup luge event of the season in Winterberg, Germany.

Canada's women's national soccer team secured a spot in the Rio Olympics by defeating Costa Rica in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament on Friday in Houston.