Watch the 2022 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony in Beijing
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The world was a different place when the 2022 Beijing Olympics came to an end on February 20.
On Friday, the Paralympics will take centre stage amid a war in Ukraine that began days after the Olympics ended.
Live coverage of the opening ceremony at the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing begins on Friday at 7:30 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. ET) on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and CBC Gem. Check your local listings for broadcast times in your area.
The broadcast will also be presented in described video and American Sign Language.
Team Canada, which captured eight gold medals, four silver and 16 bronze at PyeongChang 2018, will be led by flag-bearers Ina Forrest and Greg Westlake.
Heading to his fifth Paralympics, the 35-year-old Westlake, of Oakville, Ont., has helped the Canadian Para men's hockey team earn all three medal colours with gold at Torino 2006, silver in Pyeongchang and bronze in Sochi.
Team Canada is comprised of 49 athletes, including four guides, for the Beijing Paralympics. The list features 25 medallists and 19 rookies.
The Games will run from March 4-13.
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.
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