Pool closure forces shift of Olympic swim trials to Toronto
Canada's Olympic and Paralympic swim trials have been moved from Montreal to Toronto.
The trials to determine Canada's swim teams for the Paris Summer Games were scheduled to be held at Montreal's Olympic pool May 13-19.
But it was announced the pool will be closed four-to-six months because of smoke and water damage from a March 21 fire outside Olympic Stadium. Swimming Canada has announced Toronto's Pan Am Sports Centre will be the site of the trials on the same dates.
The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series is coming to Montreal this summer. On Aug. 25 the Port of Montreal's Grand Quay will stage one of the eight stops on the calendar, with Canada hosting for the first time.
Molly Carson, a 25-yearold native of Thunder Bay, Ont., who now calls Montreal home, was second in the overall standings last season.
The series sees the women dive off a platform 21 metres — or some seven storeys — above the water. The men dive from an average platform height of 27 metres.
Kirsten Simms scored the biggest goal of her career in what she said was the fastest and most physical game she's ever played in.
Simms' overtime goal for the United States broke a scoreless deadlock in a 1-0 win over archrival Canada at the women's world hockey championship Monday.
The U.S. stayed unbeaten after four straight wins, clinched the top seed in its group and handed Canada its first loss of the tournament.
Canada (3-0-1-0) will face Sweden (3-0-0-1) on Thursday in the quarterfinals.
A group that includes twotime Olympic gold medal curler John Morris and former NFL player Jared Allen has purchased the Grand Slam of Curling tour from Sportsnet.
The Curling Group, a sports business venture led by chief executive officer Nic Sulsky, announced in a release Tuesday that it acquired the Grand Slam of Curling. Veteran Jennifer Jones is part of a group of curlers acting as strategic advisers.
Sportsnet will remain the tour's exclusive broadcaster in Canada.
The Curling Group says it will continue with the previously announced five-event schedule for the 2024-25 Grand Slam season.
South Carolina's victory over Caitlin Clark and Iowa in Sunday's women's NCAA championship game had a preliminary audience average of 18.7 million on ABC and ESPN.
The only sporting events in the United States to draw a bigger TV audience since 2019 have been football, the World Cup and the Olympics. It's the most-watched basketball game since 2019, when the men's NCAA title game between Virginia and Texas Tech averaged 19.6 million on CBS.
Next up for Clark is the WNBA draft, where Indiana is expected to make her the No. 1 pick.