Watch as Sunohara, Chan, Nestor inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
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Hockey player Vicky Sunohara, figure skater Patrick Chan and tennis player Daniel Nestor are among the athletes who will be inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday in Gatineau, Que.
Distance runner Angela Chalmers, para swimmer Kirby Cote and the late multi-sport athlete Fred Thomas will join them among athlete inductees.
In all, nine new members will receive the Order of Sport at the induction ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., streaming live at 10 a.m. ET on CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem, and the CBC Sports App).
Guylaine Demers, who works for gender and sexual orientation equity in sport domestically and internationally, and Indigenous sports leader Alex Nelson will enter as builders.
High jumper Debbie Brill will be recognized in the trailblazer category established in 2022. She pioneered the "Brill Bend" jump technique.
The class of 2024 was chosen from 237 nominations, Hall president and CEO Cheryl Bernard said in a June statement.
Over 740 people and three horses have been inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame since 1955.
Toronto's Sunohara won two Olympic gold medals and seven world championships during her 19 years on the Canadian women's hockey team.
The forward played in the first IIHF women's world championship in 1990, as well as in the Olympic debut of women's hockey in 1998.
"I'm so grateful for the opportunity to have represented our women's national hockey team alongside some of the most incredible teammates," Sunohara said.
Chan, a three-time men's world figure skating champion from Toronto, helped Canada win gold in the team event in 2018 and earned a silver medal in men's singles in 2014.
Toronto's Nestor won eight Grand Slam titles in men's doubles and another four in mixed doubles. He teamed with Sebastien Lareau to win Olympic men's doubles gold in 2000.
"It's a thrill to be mentioned in the same sentence as this year's inductees as well as all of the influential members of the past," Nestor said. "For me, this recognition is the highest honour an athlete can achieve in our country so I'm very appreciative to have been chosen."
Jesse Marsch, the head coach of Canada’s men’s soccer team, wants to extend his contract before the start of the World Cup in June.
The Winter Olympics and Paralympics have, for decades, been a celebration of snow, cold and mountains — a global showcase for sports built on reliable winter conditions.
Mikaela Shiffrin is dominating in slalom. Lindsey Vonn is doing the same in downhill at age 41.
Canada's skeleton team denied accusations by American Katie Uhlaender that Canada's coach sabotaged her chances of sliding in the Olympic Games, while the world governing body of the sport has ordered an investigation.
No ice is colder and harder than speed skating ice. The precision it takes has meant Olympic speed skaters have never competed for gold on a temporary indoor rink, until the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games.
The experienced ice dance pair of Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier will headline a contingent of 12 athletes named to Canada's figure skating team for Milano Cortina 2026.
Chris Jones reports from Italy ahead of the Milano Cortina Olympics.
Eight straight losses to the Americans.
Canadian freestyle skier Mikaël Kingsbury earned the 100th World Cup victory of his career on Friday night.
Hockey Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee will name the Olympic women’s hockey team on Friday afternoon, less than a month before the Canadians open the tournament against Finland on Feb. 5.
In 2018, at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Pyeongchang, legendary ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir strapped on their skates for the final time at the Olympics.
Shekai Mills-Knight, a freshman running back for Ole Miss, will earn some attention Thursday night when his Rebels take on the Miami Hurricanes in an NCAA semifinal football game in Glendale, Ariz., but he first made news a decade ago as a grade-schooler deemed too big for the local little league.
Not so long ago, the prospect of two Canadians meeting in Italy’s Serie A would have seemed an unlikely turn. But on Tuesday night in Reggio Emilia, in the crisp, anxious minutes before the whistle blew and host Sassuolo dug in against Juventus, Ismael Koné and Jonathan David stood on opposite sides of the pitch, pretending not to know each other.