This week, a new chapter for global sports opened when Kirsty Coventry was elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). With the 41-year-old Zimbabwean now occupying the ...

Marcus is among a growing number of youngsters in the city picking up flag football, which is set to debut as an Olympic sport in the 2028 Los Angeles Games. “This is just an amazing sport.

Yes, say 2028 Olympic organizers, who plan to hold events at venues that will provide more seats and raise more money. June 21, 2024 Flag football, which will make its Olympic debut, and lacrosse ...

CALGARY - Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is in a stand-off with the Alberta government over her city’s only drug-use site, accusing the province of dragging its heels to come up with a solution for ...

CALGARY - A University of Calgary paleontologist is part of a discovery of a new species of dinosaur with 30-centimetre-long claws found in a Mongolian desert. Darla Zelenitsky, an associate profe ...

CALGARY - A car dealer says he defrauded customers out of thousands of dollars because he, too, was a victim and thought he could earn back his losses. Steven Anthony Humber, owner of Express Auto ...

Six athletes from the Calgary area are settling back home after the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin, Italy earlier this month — where they won a combined ten medals. That includes three ...

Out of a total of 97 possible votes, Coventry amassed 49. IOC Vice-President Juan Antonio Samaranch settled for second place with 28 votes. World Athletics President Sebastian Coe was third with ...

Olympic talent search The RBC training ground event at the University of Calgary was looking for the next generation of Canadian Olympians. Tyler Barrow reports.