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CBC Sports asked kids what they knew about the Olympics, and let's just say their answers varied.

Kyle Turris believes Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk is the reason he's no longer in the nation's capital.

Moguls skiers make the most of every second. But do you actually realize how much these athletes are doing with their bodies within only one second? CBC Sports Anson Henry fills you in.

Moguls skiers make the most of every second. But do you actually realize how much these athletes are doing with their bodies within only one second? CBC Sports Anson Henry fills you in.

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment has struck a deal to buy the CFL's Toronto Argonauts. The deal still needs to be approved by the CFL's board of governors.

A person familiar with the negotiations says Miami has agreed to trade left-fielder Marcell Ozuna to the St. Louis Cardinals, the third all-star jettisoned by the Marlins this month in an unrelenting payroll purge under new CEO Derek Jeter.

Wojtek Wolski scored the winning goal as Canada beat South Korea 4-2 Wednesday at the Channel One Cup pre-Olympic hockey tournament in Moscow. The tournament is being used to assess players as they form Canada's roster for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

No more shootouts. Canada's world junior hockey head coach Dominique Ducharme and his defensive corps have made it their mantra at this year's selection camp after losing 5-4 in a shootout to the United States in the 2017 gold-medal game.

Thirty years after helping Canada topple the mighty Soviet Union on its own ice, Sean Burke and Dave Kings still have fond memories of their monumental — though largely overlooked — upset at the 1987 Izvestia tournament.

Atiba Hutchinson has been named Canadian male soccer player of the year for a record sixth time after helping Besiktas to its second straight Turkish league title in 2016-17. Hutchinson and Besiktas have also reached the round of 16 of the Champions League.

Watch as World Cup snowboarders go for gold in the parallel slalom event in Cortina, Italy.

Watch as World Cup snowboarders go for gold in the parallel giant slalom event in Carezza, Italy.

The University of Regina is appealing a jury's decision that awarded $9.1 million to a woman who was left a quadriplegic after a swimming accident at the school.

When it was suggested to her that she is already a lock to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame — having scored the gold medal-winning goal in each of the past two Winter Olympic Games — Marie-Philip Poulin simply smiles. That's because Olympic gold remains her focus.

If you aren't following Kelsey Serwa on social media, you should start. The ski cross silver medallist from the Sochi 2014 Olympics has been documenting her preparation for the upcoming Winter Games with weekly videos highlighting how far she's come since sitting out the 2014-15 season.

Stacia Robitaille, the wife of Hall of Fame hockey player Luc Robitaille, has tweeted about an encounter with Donald Trump more than two decades ago in an elevator at Madison Square Garden, saying Trump "was aggressive & told me I was coming home with him."

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome failed a doping test during the Spanish Vuelta in September and is facing a suspension from cycling after he was found with a concentration of an asthma drug two times higher than WADA's permitted levels.

Documents formalized on Dec. 1 show the group behind the push to bring a team to Halifax would have the sole right to use the team name on a long list of souvenirs and others items.

The president of the Kontinental Hockey League says he is waiting to find out how many Russians will be banned from the Winter Olympics before deciding if he will allow his players to compete in South Korea.

Russian figure skater Anna Pogorilaya, a bronze medallist at the 2016 world championships, says she will miss the Olympics with a back injury.

A Swimming Canada disciplinary tribunal suspended coach Matt Bell of Ajax, Ont., for life in relation to sexual abuse convictions on Tuesday.

Canada's Emily Young won a silver medal at the season-opening Para-nordic World Cup on Tuesday. The 24-year-old skied to a second-place finish in the 15-kilometre classic-ski race on the Canmore Nordic Centre layout.

Aaron Rodgers has been "medically cleared to return" to action after missing seven games with a broken right collarbone, the Green Bay Packers quarterback announced on Instagram Tuesday night.

Mikael Granlund scored the winning goal in a shootout and the Minnesota Wild defeated the Calgary Flames 2-1 on Tuesday night.

Sean Couturier scored the tiebreaking goal with 2:55 left and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 on Tuesday night for their fourth straight victory.

Connor McDavid had a goal and three assists, and Laurent Brossoit stopped 28 shots as the Edmonton Oilers routed the Columbus Blue Jackets 7-2 on Tuesday night.

Evander Kane, Kyle Okposo and Benoit Pouliot scored in the second period, leading the Buffalo Sabres to a 3-2 victory over the sliding Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night.

Inclement weather helped Canadians Kevin Drury and Brittany Phelan lock down the first World Cup podium appearances of their careers on Tuesday.

Cindy Klassen went from NHL dreams to Olympic champion reality​

Former NHL defenceman Zarley Zalapski has died at age 49, according to the Calgary Flames.

There are so many players at Hockey Canada's world junior championship selection camp that the ice was completely torn up after just one practice, with pucks bouncing over sticks and snow piling up against the goals.

There are so many players at Hockey Canada's world junior championship selection camp that the ice was completely torn up after just one practice, with pucks bouncing over sticks and snow piling up against the goals.

The Montreal Impact shook up their backline Tuesday, trading star centre back Laurent Ciman to expansion Los Angeles FC for Canadian wingback Raheem Edwards and Finnish defender Jukka Raitala.

When Olympic short-track speedskating champion Charles Hamelin isn't training or racing, chances are he's in front of a video game console.