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Kamila Valieva is skating in the Olympics while Sha’Carri Richardson couldn’t run in the Summer Games.Illustration: Getty ImagesUnsurprisingly, Emmanuel Acho doesn’t have anything to say. Similar to the people that yelled and moaned that…

This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what's happening at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games by subscribing here. The wait is over. Canada captured its first gold medal in…

Russian teenager Kamila Valieva skated at the Beijing Olympics for the first time on Tuesday since sport's top court cleared her to compete despite failing a drugs test, bursting into tears at the end of her performance. Wearing an…

BEIJING - Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, the heavily favored 15-year-old dynamo at the center of the latest Olympic doping scandal, overcame an early mistake to lead after the women's short program at…

Even by Beijing 2022 standards, Keegan Messing faced a tense obstacle course to get to the games. A positive COVID test result just before "go time" threatened to undo four years of practice and planning. He rocketed into Beijing, having…

Canada's Keegan Messing competed in the men's free skate final at the Beijing Olympics dressed in red and black flannel to the delight of fellow Canucks, some saying the 30-year-old looked good in his "Kenora Dinner Jacket."…

This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what's happening at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games by subscribing here. Surprise, surprise. Canada won a pair of unexpected medals…

U.S. speedskater Casey Dawson finished the men's 1,500-metre with the second worst time at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, but his journey getting to the starting line is one for the record books. Dawson's…

The first Canadian medal of Beijing 2022 belongs to speed skater Isabelle Weidemann. The Ottawa native earned bronze in the women's 3,000 metres with a time of three minutes 58.64 seconds on Saturday in China. Weidemann becomes the first…

Skating to an upbeat Elton John medley and dressed in neon orange sequined jumpsuits, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier surely would have brought the crowd to its feet with their high-energy rhythm dance Friday -- had there…