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Quebec Major Junior Hockey League commissioner Gilles Courteau says he has talked with Hockey Canada about using junior players at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics.

Russian Washington Capitals players Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov will support any of their countrymen who compete at the Winter Olympics despite an IOC decision banning Russia from the Games, they said on Wednesday.

Olympic and World Cup ski cross champion Marielle Thompson suffered a ruptured ACL and MCL during a training run in October, but the Whistler, B.C., native is already back in the gym and has her sights set on the Winter Games next February.

Athletes cheated out of medals by Russian competitors at the 2014 Sochi Olympics will be offered a "dignified" medal ceremony at the PyeongChang Games in February. "We are doing from our side everything what we can to speed up this procedure," IOC president Thomas Bach says.

Flames forward Jaromir Jagr will miss Calgary's game against the hometown Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night with a lower-body injury.

Former professional wrestler Bret (The Hitman) Hart has launched a $1-million lawsuit against a Calgary doctor claiming a botched surgery left him in severe pain and unable to dress himself, sign autographs or write books.

Hockey Canada on Wednesday invited 32 players to next week’s world junior hockey selection camp roster, including Canadian Hockey League top goal-scorer Tyler Steenbergen and fellow forward Jordan Kyrou, who leads the Ontario Hockey League in assists and points.

With three big games left in what's been an uneven round robin, Brad Gushue's rink will need to summon its best curling as the pressure mounts at the Canadian trials. The reigning world champs believe they can do it.

Val Sweeting defeated Casey Scheidegger 8-6 at the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings on Wednesday morning at Canadian Tire Centre. Sweeting, from Edmonton, evened her record at 3-3 after an 0-3 start.

Brad Jacobs' playoff chances decreased after he dropped a 9-3 decision to Edmonton's Brendan Bottcher. Two sheets over, Chelsea Carey posted a 7-5 win over Jennifer Jones to hand the Winnipeg skip her first loss of round-robin play.

Watch live action from the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Nagoya, Japan, where Canadians Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford, Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, and Kaetlyn Osmond will be competing.

The ice dance competition at this week's Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final is apples vs. oranges, and CBC Sports analyst Pj Kwong will take Virtue and Moir's boundary-pushing artistry over Papadakis and Cizeron's steady excellence every time.

Former NHL enforcer Stephen Peat was celebrated for his thunderous body checks and explosive bare-knuckle fights, but now Walter Peat says his son is homeless in B.C., using drugs and could be close to death.

Russian president Vladimir Putin says he will not stop the country's athletes from competing at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

Toronto FC midfielder Victor Vazquez and Seattle forward Clint Dempsey were non-factors in last year's MLS Cup but they will almost surely influence the result this time around when the Reds host Sounders in Saturday's championship game (4 p.m. ET) at BMO Field.

Canada’s Mark McMorris and Max Parrot are two of the world’s best snowboarders and both will be medal favourites at the 2018 Winter Olympics. But that’s about where the similarities between them end.

Chelsea Carey had a massive decision to make with time ticking away. Who was going to play third for her team at the Olympic trials after Amy Nixon retired after the Scotties in February?

Like Steve Nash before him, Canada's Jay Triano is making a difference for the Phoenix Suns.

Rogers Communications Inc. is reportedly considering the sale of such assets as baseball's Toronto Blue Jays and a stake in media company Cogeco Inc. to free up capital for other investments.

Rogers Communications Inc. is reportedly considering the sale of such assets as baseball's Toronto Blue Jays and a stake in media company Cogeco Inc. to free up capital for other investments.

Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves for his first career NHL shutout as the Vancouver Canucks blanked the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 on Tuesday night.

Brayden Schenn scored three goals as the St. Louis Blues ended a three-game winless streak with a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.

Justin Abdelkader and Gustav Nyquist scored in a dominant first period for Detroit, and the Red Wings snapped a seven-game slide with a 5-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night.

Jillian Saulnier scored with 3:10 left in the third period and Laura Fortino added an empty-net goal to give Canada's women's hockey team a 2-0 victory over the United States in pre-Olympic exhibition play on Tuesday.

After returning to active competition a year ago, Canada's premiere ice dance duo is ready to take on the world in South Korea.

Canadian curlers competing for the right to go the Olympics are just fine with the IOC's suspension imposed on Russia for state-sponsored doping.

Hockey Canada officials believe national team members playing in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League will be allowed to perform at the 2018 Olympics, even if Russian parliament or the KHL attempts to prohibit all KHL players from participating for their respective countries at the Pyeongchang Games.

These snowboarders fly high, but do realize how high? CBC Sports Anson Henry gives you the heads up.