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See the slopes from the point of view of Canadian freestyle skier Phil Marquis

A day after his election to the Hall of Fame, Ivan Rodriguez appeared to deny using steroids during his career.

Quebec has produced 11 of the 15 Olympic medals won by Canadian freestyle athletes since the sport’s inception into the Olympic Games (starting in 1992 with moguls, aerials in 1994 and halfpipe and slopestyle in 2014). It dominance goes back in even further.

The Montreal Alouettes have signed quarterback Darian Durant to a three-year contract, the club announced Thursday.

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. On Sunday's show we will feature World Cup snowboard cross as well as four-man bobsleigh.

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. On Saturday's show we will feature World Cup alpine skiing and snowboard slopestyle as well as bobsled, skeleton and moguls.

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. On Saturday's show we will feature World Cup alpine skiing and snowboard slopestyle as well as bobsled, skeleton and moguls.

Watch as Canada's Mikael Kingsbury and the Dufour-Lapointe sisters compete in the men's and women's moguls events at the FIS World Cup event in Val Saint-Côme, Quebec.

Watch the world's best ski jumpers compete in the World Cup men's team event Zakopane, Poland.

Watch World Cup cross-country action on CBC Sports as the world's best women's skiers compete in the 10-kilometre race in Ulricehamn, Sweden.

Donald Trump appears to have announced that billionaire New York Jets owner Woody Johnson will become the next ambassador to Britain.

The bobsleigh and skeleton World Cup seasons continue this weekend in historic St. Moritz, Switzerland, and you can watch all the action with CBC Sports beginning with men's and women's skeleton on Friday.

Watch live as World Cup snowboarders go for gold in the slopestyle and halfpipe competitions from Laax, Switzerland.

Watch live as World Cup snowboarders go for gold in the halfpipe competitions from Laax, Switzerland.

The Oakland Raiders on Thursday announced their have have filed paperwork to move to Las Vegas. Should they receive 75 per cent support from NFL team owners, it would be the third relocation approval in one year.

While millions have been invested coaching, training camps, competition, medical services and sport science and technology over the last decade, the carding money that athletes get to put food on the table and keep the lights on has not increased since 2004.

The Toronto Maple Leafs host the rival Ottawa Senators Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada. Watch coverage with our free live stream only on the CBC Sports app or tune in to CBC-TV.

Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers travel south to take on Johnny Gaudreau and the Calgary Flames Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada. Watch coverage with our free live stream or tune in to CBC-TV.

​An "extremely" encouraging visit to a Jose Bautista off-season workout has Toronto Blue Jays management believing the right-fielder is "most likely" to produce a 40-home run season like he did in 2015.

​An "extremely" encouraging visit to a Jose Bautista off-season workout has Toronto Blue Jays management believing the right-fielder is "more likely" to produce a 40-home run season like he did in 2015.

​An "extremely" encouraging visit to a Jose Bautista off-season workout has Toronto Blue Jays management believing the right-fielder is "more likely" to produce a 40-home run season like he did in 2015.

Canadian figure skating championships will be held is Jan. 8-14 at the University of British Columbia's Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre. It will also determine the teams for the next year's world championships, ISU Four Continents championships, and world junior championships.

An ESPN commentator has apologized for how he spoke about Venus Williams' play at the Australian Open, saying he was describing her aggressive style as "guerrilla" tactics and not comparing her to a "gorilla."

An ESPN commentator has apologized for how he spoke about Venus Williams' play at the Australian Open, saying he was describing her aggressive style as "guerrilla" tactics and not comparing her to a "gorilla."

On Friday morning, the whistle will blow on the Barack Obama presidency when the title of POTUS is officially transferred to incoming U.S. commander in chief Donald Trump. An avid sports enthusiast, Obama may just go down as one of the sportiest presidents in American history.

NBA veteran Jerry Stackhouse knows what it takes to succeed in the big leagues. As the head coach of the Development League's Raptors 905, he's now guiding the next generation in the season's most crucial moment.

Thank the football gods for a new stadium, because other than that there's not a whole lot to get excited about in Riderville.

Figure skating analyst Pj Kwong previews all four events at the Canadian championships, where one thing hasn't changed in more than a century: it's still about rising to the occasion on competition day.

Novak Djokovic, the champion five of the last six years, is out of the Australian Open after being beaten 7-6 (8), 5-7, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 by wild-card entry Denis Istomin in a second-round match on Thursday.

Connor McDavid scored the overtime winner and added two assists as the Edmonton Oilers won their fourth game in a row with a 4-3 decision over the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.

Toronto Blue Jays' Josh Donaldson made an appearance on the Canadian-Irish drama, Vikings. The first episode aired on Wednesday night on History Canada.

Eric Fehr and Jake Guentzel scored in the second period as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 on Wednesday night.

Former Montreal Expo star Tim Raines took the time to personally reply to "congratulations" tweets sent to him in response to his Baseball Hall of Fame election.

Joel Embiid scored 26 points, Ersan Ilyasova added 18 and the resurgent Philadelphia 76ers beat the Toronto Raptors 94-89 on Wednesday night for their seventh win in nine games.

Toronto Raptors forward Jared Sullinger will make his first regular-season appearance for the team tonight in Philadelphia against the 76ers.

Former left-fielder Tim Raines on Wednesday became the third Montreal Expos player voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, appearing on 86 per cent of the 442 ballots cast.

Former Montreal Expos star Tim Raines has been voted in to the Baseball Hall of Fame's Class of 2017. It was Raines' 10th and last year of eligibility for the shrine in Cooperstown, N.Y.