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The 2026 Olympics are one year away — here are 10 Canadians to watch; Canada's William Dandjinou will try to build on his excellent start to the short track season this weekend in Montreal\.

The 2026 Olympics are one year away — here are 10 Canadians to watch

February 5 , 2025 at 06:56:27 p.m. EST • :

CBC Sports' daily newsletter highlights some of Canada's top medal contenders for next year's Winter Olympics in Italy.

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45 years later, a Crazy Canucks tradition lives on at The Londoner bar in Kitzbuhel; The Londoner bar in Austria's Hahnenkamm Mountain has, for over four decades, been home to skiers who conquer Kitzbuhel's daunting Streif slope - and the English pub's mystique has uniquely Canadian ties\.

45 years later, a Crazy Canucks tradition lives on at The Londoner bar in Kitzbuhel

February 5 , 2025 at 02:37:52 p.m. EST • :

Not far from the Kitzbuhel finish line, in the shadows of the daunting Streif slope on Hahnenkamm Mountain, sits an English Pub that has for more than four decades been the home of champions – the men who tame skiing's most treacherous slope come to The Londoner to soak up the adoration of fans.

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Scarcity behind the medals: Canada's Olympic sports facing funding crisis; The last increase in core federal funding for Canada's 62 summer and winter national sport organizations was in 2005\.

Scarcity behind the medals: Canada's Olympic sports facing funding crisis

February 5 , 2025 at 08:04:45 p.m. EST • :

Survey data indicates 80 per cent of NSOs are skipping competitions athletes would normally attend, 70 per cent have paused, scaled back or eliminated programming, 90 per cent have reduced or eliminated training camps and 80 per cent have increased athlete fees, said COC CEO David Shoemaker.

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Trump bans transgender female athletes from women's sports in new executive order; President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb\. 4, 2025, in Washington\.

Trump bans transgender female athletes from women's sports in new executive order

February 5 , 2025 at 11:06:57 a.m. EST • :

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls' sporting events.

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Canada-U.S. Rivalry Series's final stop resumes set against backdrop of off-ice political tension; United States forward Lacey Eden \(7\) skates against Canada defenseman Ella Shelton \(17\) during the third period of a women's Rivalry Series hockey game in San Jose, Calif\., Wednesday, Nov\. 6, 2024\. \(AP Photo/Tony Avelar\)

Canada-U.S. Rivalry Series's final stop resumes set against backdrop of off-ice political tension

February 4 , 2025 at 07:20:41 p.m. EST • :

The final leg of the women's hockey Rivalry Series begins on Thursday in Halifax. It's the latest chapter in one of the most bitter rivalries in all of sport.

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How a bar in Kitzbuhel became the epicentre for Canadian alpine skiing celebrations; Picture of a wall in a bar with photos hanging  

February 5 , 2025 at 02:34:49 p.m. EST • :

How a bar in Kitzbuhel became the epicentre for Canadian alpine skiing celebrations

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Canadian skier Justine Dufour-Lapointe thriving in freeride after Olympic moguls success; Montreal native Justine Dufour-Lapointe is now tied with Astrid Cheylus of France at the top of the women's ski rankings at the 2025 FIS Freeride World Tour after first- and second-place finishes in the first two stops\.  

February 5 , 2025 at 01:15:01 p.m. EST • :

Canadian skier Justine Dufour-Lapointe thriving in freeride after Olympic moguls success

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Gauging how the threat of a trade war has affected the Canadian pro sports landscape; Thousands of people celebrate Canada day in P\.E\.I\. every year\.  

February 5 , 2025 at 10:01:59 a.m. EST • :

Gauging how the threat of a trade war has affected the Canadian pro sports landscape

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World champion Crawford hungry for more success at alpine worlds after Kitzbuhel win; Canada's Jack Crawford reacts in the finish area during the men's downhill event of the World Cup stop in Kitzbuhel, Austria, on Saturday\.  

February 4 , 2025 at 05:53:46 p.m. EST • :

World champion Crawford hungry for more success at alpine worlds after Kitzbuhel win

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Rebuilding Canadian luge team preaching patience ahead of world championships in Whistler, B.C.; Caitlin Nash currently sits 21st in the season-long women's World Cup standings\.  

February 4 , 2025 at 04:59:31 p.m. EST • :

Rebuilding Canadian luge team preaching patience ahead of world championships in Whistler, B.C.

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