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CBC
23-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Watch Canada's Newman, Morales Williams compete in Rabat Diamond League
2025 World Athletics Wanda Diamond League: Rabat Live in 2 days Click on the video player above to watch live action from the Diamond League track and field meet in Rabat, Morocco. Coverage begins on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET. Canada is sending two competitors to this Diamond League stop – Alysha Newman in the women's pole vault and Christopher Morales-Williams in the men's 400-metres. Rabat is the second event of the outdoor season for Newman. The Delaware, Ont., native finished eighth at last week's meet in new Doha, Qatar. That event was won by Great Britain's Molly Caudery, the only competitor to successfully clear 4.75 metres. Morales-Williams owns a personal best of 44.50 seconds in the 400, and comes into the event ranked 18th in the world. The 20-year-old runner from Maple., Ont., be up against top stars like Quincy Hall of the U.S., and Botswana's Bayapo Ndori, who have world rankings of third and seventh, respectively. Watch all the action from every Diamond League event this season on and CBC Gem. Click here for the full broadcast schedule. There may only be two Canadians in Rabat, but there's no shortage of international stars. That includes the reigning Olympic champion in the men's 200m, Letsile Tobogo. The Botswanan won the stop in Doha with a season-best time of 20.10 seconds. This time around Tobogo be running in the men's 100m against South Africa's Akani Simbini, who has a season's best of 9.90 in the distance. Dutch runner Femke Bol opens her 400m hurdles season in Morocco. The reigning world champion makes her season debut with the No. 1-ranking for the first time in her career. Also in action will be the world No. 1 ranked Kenyans Beatrice Chebet (women's 3,000m) and Emmanuel Wanyonyi (men's 800m).
CBC
16-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Aaron Brown finishes 4th in 200m at Doha Diamond League
Social Sharing A pair of Canadian athletes opened their Diamond League track and field seasons at the series stop in Doha, Qatar, on Friday. Aaron Brown finished fourth in the men's 200-metre event, posting a time of 20.35 seconds. The race was won by current world No. 1-ranked athlete in the distance, Letsile Tobogo. The Botswanan eased up before the finish line and still managed a season-best time of 20.10, ahead of American Courtney Lindsey (20.11) and Joseph Fahnbulleh of Liberia (20.26). WATCH | Brown falls short of top-3 spot: Tebogo of Botswana takes 200-metre Doha Diamond League Doha event, Canada's Brown 4th 21 minutes ago Duration 2:14 Tobogo's previous season-best was 20.23, set at the Botswana Golden Grand Prix in mid April. Friday's race marked the first 200m event of the season for Brown, who won a bronze-medal as part of Canada's 4x100m team at World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China, last weekend. That team also clinched a spot at this September's world championships in Tokyo. WATCH | Brown helps Canada to relay bronze in Guangzhou: Canadian 4x100-metre men finish 3rd at World Athletics Relay final 5 days ago Duration 5:45 Newman 8th in Doha Alysha Newman, the Olympic women's pole vault bronze medallist at Paris 2024, finished eighth in her first outdoor event of the season. The Delaware, Ont., native succeeded on her second attempt at 4.48m but was unable to clear 4.63m in three tries. Newman, who holds the Canadian record of 4.85m, competed in only one indoor event in 2025, finishing second (4.50m) at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, in February. WATCH | Alysha Newman opens up about life lessons: Alysha Newman opens up: Olympic bronze, life lessons, and more 4 months ago Duration 22:23 CBC Sports' Anastasia Bucsis chats with Alysha Newman about life after Olympic bronze and what's next.
CBC
15-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
What to watch this long weekend in international sports
The Buzzer is off Friday and Victoria Day, so we're giving you an early look at what to watch through the long weekend in international sports. Plus, a tough night for Toronto hockey fans, a good one for the Oilers, and big game(s) coming up for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. A few things for Canadian fans to keep an eye on over the next few days: Track and field: Canadians in two global meets The road to the world championships continues Friday in Doha, which is hosting the third Diamond League meet of the season. Two Canadians are competing: sprinter Aaron Brown and pole vaulter Alysha Newman. Brown is coming off last week's World Athletics Relays in China, where he helped the Olympic-champion Canadian men's 4x100m team take bronze and qualify for the world championships. A bad exchange between Brown, who runs the leadoff leg, and Jerome Blake hurt the Canadians in the final before Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse rallied them from fifth place to the podium. Brown is in the men's 200m on Friday at 1:22 p.m. ET, featuring Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana. Newman makes her outdoor season debut in the women's pole vault, starting at 11:02 a.m. ET. The Olympic bronze medallist will take on reigning world champion Katie Moon of the United States, who took silver last year in Paris after winning Olympic gold in 2021. WATCH | Alysha Newman joins CBC Sports to open up about Olympics, life lessons: Alysha Newman opens up: Olympic bronze, life lessons, and more 4 months ago Duration 22:23 Other international stars competing in Doha include reigning Olympic champs Hamish Kerr of New Zealand (men's high jump) and Winfred Yavi of Bahrain (women's 3,000m steeplechase) and 38-year-old Jamaican sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (women's 100m), who owns three Olympic golds and 10 world titles. Watch the meet live Friday from noon-2 p.m. ET on and CBC Gem. Here's the full schedule. De Grasse and Blake are competing in the World Athletics Continental Tour's Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo, which will host the world championships in September. Blake faces former world champion Christian Coleman in the men's 100m, while Grasse runs the 200m. Watch the meet live on Saturday night starting at 11:50 p.m. ET on and CBC Gem. For more on Canada's performance at the World Relays, read this analysis from Morgan Campbell and watch the debut episode of CBC Sports Trackside, with Brown and Rodney joining host Perdita Felicien. Hockey: Canada levels up at the men's world championship Let's be honest: there are too many teams in this tournament. Sixteen to be exact, which means an interminable group stage consisting of seven games for each team and tons of mismatches. For example, Canada (featuring Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, Marc-Andre Fleury and several other NHL standouts) blanked France (almost completely devoid of NHLers) 5-0 on Tuesday to improve to 3-0. Before that, Canada beat Slovenia 4-0 and Latvia 7-1. At our publish time, Crosby and company were up 2-1 on Austria in the second period. Things might get a little more interesting for the Canadians this long weekend as they face Slovakia on Saturday and Finland on Monday before wrapping up their group slate Tuesday against host Sweden. Stocked with NHL players such as Filip Forsberg, Lucas Raymond and Mika Zibanejad, the Swedes are 4-0 while outscoring their opponents 17-3. The top four teams in each group advance to the quarterfinals a week from today. Golf: Five Canadians in the PGA Championship The second men's major championship of the year teed off this morning at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C. It includes Corey Conners (ranked 21st in the world), Nick Taylor (36th), Mackenzie Hughes (44th), Taylor Pendrith (49th) and Adam Hadwin (92nd), all hoping to become the first Canadian man to win a major since Mike Weir's Masters victory in 2003. The co-favourites coming in were world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler of the United States and No. 2 Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland. McIlroy completed the rare career Grand Slam with his dramatic victory at the Masters last month and has won four PGA Tour events at Quail Hollow. Scheffler, despite being the premier player on Tour over the past three years and an Olympic gold medallist in Paris last summer, is still looking for his first major title outside the friendly confines of Augusta, where he won the Masters in 2022 and '24. Here's the live leaderboard. If you missed Tuesday's newsletter, here's our primer on the PGA Championship. Other stuff to watch: * Canadian Olympic swimmers Sydney Pickrem and Ingrid Wilm are competing in the Mare Nostrum Tour opener in Monaco. Pickrem finished sixth in the women's 200m individual medley last summer in Paris, while Wilm was sixth in the 100m backstroke before taking bronze in that distance at the short-course world championships in December. * Canada's Derek Gee ranks 29th overall heading into the second week of the Giro D'Italia, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. He finished ninth overall in his Tour de France debut last year and was 22nd in first Giro in 2023. * In basketball, Canada makes its FIBA 3x3 Women's Series season debut in Amsterdam, where 2024 Olympians Katherine Plouffe and Paige Crozon are playing with Cassandra Brown and Saicha Grant-Allen. Back in March, Plouffe, Crozon and Grant-Allen teamed with Kacie Bosch to win the FIBA 3x3 Champions Cup, beating Olympic silver medallist Spain in the final. You can watch the two-day Amsterdam tournament starting Friday on and CBC Gem. Canada plays Ireland at 12:20 p.m. ET and Puerto Rico at 2:20 p.m. ET. Here's the full schedule.
CBC
14-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Watch Canada's Alysha Newman, Aaron Brown compete at Doha Diamond League
2025 World Athletics Wanda Diamond League: Doha Live in 2 days Social Sharing Click on the video player above to watch live action from the Diamond League track and field meet in Doha, Qatar. Coverage begins on Friday at 12 p.m. ET. Four Canadian track and field medallists from the Paris Olympic Games will be in competition on CBC Sports this weekend. That begins with the Diamond League stop in Doha, Qatar, on Friday (12 p.m ET, CBC CBC Gem), which features a star-studded lineup in the women's pole vault. That includes Olympic bronze medallist Alysha Newman, who successfully improved upon her own national record with a mark of 4.85-metres to land on the podium in Paris. Newman sat down with CBC Sports earlier this year to talk about life after her medal win. WATCH | Alysha Newman opens up about life lessons: Alysha Newman opens up: Olympic bronze, life lessons, and more 4 months ago Duration 22:23 CBC Sports' Anastasia Bucsis chats with Alysha Newman about life after Olympic bronze and what's next. 'I became bulletproof': How a change of approach led Alysha Newman to historic Olympic pole vault bronze The Delaware, Ont., native competed in only one indoor event in 2025, finishing second (4.50m) at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, in February. Newman will compete in her first Diamond League meet of the season against some familiar competition – Olympic silver medallist Katie Moon of the U.S. Watch all the action from Diamond League in Doha beginning on Friday at 12 p.m. ET, and the Continental Tour stop in Tokyo Saturday at 11:50 p.m. ET on and CBC Gem. Click here for the full broadcast schedule. The entire podium from Paris 2024 was supposed to be in action in Doha, but gold medallist Nina Kennedy will be forced to miss the start of the season while the Australian recovers from hamstring surgery. The start list for Friday's event also includes American Sandi Morris, New Zealand's Eliza McCartney, Slovenia's Tina Šutej, and Great Britain's Molly Caudery. Brown faces tough test in men's 200m The men's 200-metre event will also be contested in Doha, with Toronto's Aaron Brown lining up against the current world No. 1-ranked athlete in the distance. Botswana's Letsile Tobogo has a season-best time of 20.23 already under his belt from the Botswana Golden Grand Prix in mid April. This will be Brown's first 200 of the season, but the 32-year-old sprinter has a personal best of 19.95. He's also coming off a bronze-medal win as part of Canada's 4x100m team at World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China, last weekend. The team also clinched a spot at this September's world championships in Tokyo. WATCH | Brown helps Canada to relay bronze in Guangzhou: Canadian 4x100-metre men finish 3rd at World Athletics Relay final 3 days ago Duration 5:45 The 200 in Doha will also feature Liberia's Joseph Fahnbulleh, and Americans Courtney Lindsey and Kyree King. De Grasse, Blake running in Tokyo Two of Brown's teammates will also be in action this weekend at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo (Saturday at 11:50 p.m. ET, CBC Gem, Andre De Grasse and Jerome Blake will both compete at the Continental Tour stop, with De Grasse in the 200m, and Blake in the 100m. De Grasse recorded a time of 20.23 in the 200 at the Grand Slam Track event in Miami while Blake ran to a wind-aided 10.00 in the 100m at the Florida Relays in early April. Another name to watch in the men's 100m is American standout Christian Coleman, who ran to a 10.06 at a meet in Gainesville, Fla., in April, but owns a personal best of 9.76.
CBC
04-02-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Canada's Alysha Newman vaults to silver at Czech Indoor Gala
Alysha Newman of Delaware, Ont., cleared 4.50 metres on her first attempt to claim a silver medal in the women's pole vault, at the World Athletics Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava.
