Canada has its first two medals of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Track cyclist Keely Shaw became the first Canadian to reach the podium when she won the bronze race in the women’s C4 3,000m individual pursuit event before swimming star Aurélie Rivard also took bronze on Day 1 in the women’s S10 50-metre freestyle.
Rivard came in as the reigning Paralympic and world champion in her event. But, in her first race in a year and a half, she was beaten by Russian Anastasiia Gontar, who finished just a hundredth of a second off Rivard’s world and Paralympic record to take gold, and Dutch swimmer Chantalle Zijderveld. Still, Rivard grabbed the sixth Paralympic medal of her career, and she has four more chances to add to that total. The 25-year-old from Quebec is the defending Paralympic champion in both the S10 100m freestyle (the final goes Saturday) and 400m freestyle (Sept. 1), and she’ll also compete in the 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley next week. Read more about what happened on Day 1 and watch highlights here.
Canada has more strong medal opportunities in swimming and cycling on Day 2. We’ll cover those and some other interesting events to watch in today’s Paralympic viewing guide.
Canadians can win more medals in swimming and cycling on Day 2
Here are the top Canadian contenders to watch, in chronological order:
Track cycling
Tristen Chernove in the men’s C1 3,000m individual pursuit: Still going strong at age 46, Chernove won three silver medals at the 2020 world championships — in the kilo, scratch race and omnium events. He finished fifth in the individual pursuit, but the British Columbian has a strong track record in this race — including three world titles and a Paralympic silver in 2016. Chernove also won gold in the time trial and bronze in the kilo in Rio, and he owns a total of 10 world titles in various track and road events. The qualifying round for the individual pursuit starts at 9:30 p.m. ET. The medal races start at 2:03 a.m. ET.
Swimming
James Leroux in the men’s SB9 100m breaststroke: After finishing seventh in this event at the 2016 Paralympics, Leroux went on to take silver at the most recent world championships, in 2019. The 23-year-old Quebecer has a shot to win his first Paralympic medal when he races in the final at 5:38 a.m. ET.
Nicolas-Guy Turbide in the men’s S13 100m backstroke: The 24-year-old from Quebec City took bronze in this event at the 2016 Paralympics, and silver at the 2019 world championships. His heat is at 9:38 p.m. ET, and the final is at 6:05 a.m. ET.
Katarina Roxon in the women’s SB8 100m breaststroke: The 28-year-old Newfoundlander is the defending Paralympic champion in this event and took silver at the 2019 world championships. Her qualifying heat is at 10:01 p.m. ET, and the final goes at 6:40 a.m. ET.
WATCH | What you missed from the 1st day of competition in Tokyo:
While You Were Sleeping: Canada wins 2 medals, wheelchair rugby and basketball underway
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Aurelie Rivard and Keely Shaw each took bronze on the first day of competition, plus wheelchair basketball and rugby get underway with Canada facing Great Britain in the first round-robin matches of the tournament. 3:02
Other top Canadians to watch on Wednesday night/Thursday morning
In chronological order:
Men’s wheelchair basketball: Canada vs. Spain at 10:15 p.m. ET
After winning three gold medals and a silver in the four Paralympics held from 2000-12, the Canadian men’s team went 0-5 in the group stage in Rio, then lost in the round of 16 at the most recent world championships, in 2018. High-scoring star Patrick Anderson sat out both those events, but his return should give Canada a boost. Spain, which took silver at the 2016 Paralympics, will test Anderson and the Canadians right away in their tournament opener.
The Canadian men hope to start off as well as the women’s squad, which crushed Great Britain 73-54 today. Kady Dandeneau had a huge game, racking up 32 points, 20 rebounds and 11 assists in her Paralympic debut. The Canadian women’s next game is Thursday at 8 p.m. ET vs. Japan.
Wheelchair rugby: Canada vs. United States at 10:30 p.m. ET
The Canadians will try to bounce back from a 50-47 loss to Great Britain in their tournament opener today. At the 2016 Paralympics, Canada lost a close semifinal to the U.S., which went on to lose the gold-medal game by one point to Australia while the Canadians fell by two in the bronze game vs. Japan.
Women’s goalball: Canada vs. Israel at 7:30 a.m. ET
Canada, which is ranked sixth in the world, lost its opener 5-1 to the seventh-ranked Russian Paralympic Committee team last night. Israel, ranked eighth, pounded No. 10 Australia 11-1 in their opener.
Goalball is one of only two Paralympic sports that don’t have an Olympic equivalent. Learn how it’s played by watching this explainer video. Read more about goalball, boccia and some other Paralympic sports you may not be familiar with here.
See the full schedule of Canadians competing in various sports on Day 2 here.
How to watch live events
A variety of Day 2 events will be streamed live on CBC Gem, the CBC Sports app and CBCSports.ca starting at 8 p.m. ET.
You can also watch Paralympic action on the CBC TV network from 3-5 p.m., 7-8 p.m. and 12:30-2:30 a.m. in your local time. These shows will be streamed on the platforms mentioned above from 2-4 p.m. ET, 6-7 p.m. ET and 11:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. ET.
See a detailed streaming schedule, which includes links to watch events when they go live, here.
Follow our reporter in Tokyo
CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux is covering these Games with his usual flair and passion. See all his Twitter updates here.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe remain undefeated in women’s doubles at the WTA Finals.
The 2023 U.S. Open champions, seeded second at the event, secured a 1-6, 7-6 (1), (11-9) super-tiebreak win over fourth-seeded Italians Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini in round-robin play on Tuesday.
The season-ending tournament features the WTA Tour’s top eight women’s doubles teams.
Dabrowski and Routliffe lost the first set in 22 minutes but levelled the match by breaking Errani’s serve three times in the second, including at 6-5. They clinched victory with Routliffe saving a match point on her serve and Dabrowski ending Errani’s final serve-and-volley attempt.
Dabrowski and Routliffe will next face fifth-seeded Americans Caroline Dolehide and Desirae Krawczyk on Thursday, where a win would secure a spot in the semifinals.
The final is scheduled for Saturday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Nov. 5, 2024.
EDMONTON – Jake Allen made 31 saves for his second shutout of the season and 26th of his career as the New Jersey Devils closed out their Western Canadian road trip with a 3-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.
Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist and Stefan Noesen and Timo Meier also scored for the Devils (8-5-2) who have won three of their last four on the heels on a four-game losing skid.
The Oilers (6-6-1) had their modest two-game winning streak snapped.
Calvin Pickard made 13 stops between the pipes for Edmonton.
TAKEAWAYS
Devils: In addition to his goal, Bratt picked up his 12th assist of the young season to give him nine points in his last eight games and now 15 points overall. Nico Hischier remains in the team lead, picking up an assist of his own to give him 16 points for the campaign. He has a point in all but four games this season.
Oilers: Forward Leon Draisaitl was held pointless after recording six points in his previous two games and nine points in his previous four. Draisaitl usually has strong showings against the Devils, coming into the contest with an eight-game point streak against New Jersey and 11 goals in 17 games.
KEY MOMENT
New Jersey took a 2-0 lead on the power play with 3:26 remaining in the second period as Hischier made a nice feed into the slot to Bratt, who wired his third of the season past Pickard.
KEY RETURN?
Oilers star forward and captain Connor McDavid took part in the optional morning skate for the Oilers, leading to hopes that he may be back sooner rather than later. McDavid has been expected to be out for two to three weeks with an ankle injury suffered during the first shift of last Monday’s loss in Columbus.
OILERS DEAL FOR D-MAN
The Oilers have acquired defenceman Ronnie Attard from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for defenceman Ben Gleason.
The 6-foot-3 Attard has spent the past three season in the Flyers organization seeing action in 29 career games. The 25-year-old right-shot defender and Western Michigan University grad was originally selected by Philadelphia in the third round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. Attard will report to the Oilers’ AHL affiliate in Bakersfield.
UP NEXT
Devils: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.
Oilers: Host the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 4, 2024.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw for 291 yards and three touchdowns, and Kareem Hunt pounded into the end zone from two yards out in overtime to give the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs a 30-24 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night.
DeAndre Hopkins had two touchdown receptions for the Chiefs (8-0), who drove through the rain for two fourth-quarter scores to take a 24-17 lead with 4:17 left. But then Kansas City watched as Baker Mayfield led the Bucs the other way in the final minute, hitting Ryan Miller in the end zone with 27 seconds to go in regulation time.
Tampa Bay (4-5) elected to kick the extra point and force overtime, rather than go for a two-point conversion and the win. And it cost the Buccaneers when Mayfield called tails and the coin flip was heads. Mahomes and the Chiefs took the ball, he was 5-for-5 passing on their drive in overtime, and Hunt finished his 106-yard rushing day with the deciding TD plunge.
Travis Kelce had 14 catches for 100 yards with girlfriend Taylor Swift watching from a suite, and Hopkins finished with eight catches for 86 yards as the Chiefs ran their winning streak to 14 dating to last season. They became the sixth Super Bowl champion to start 8-0 the following season.
Mayfield finished with 200 yards and two TDs passing for the Bucs, who have lost four of their last five.
It was a memorable first half for two players who had been waiting to play in Arrowhead Stadium.
The Bucs’ Rachaad White grew up about 10 minutes away in a tough part of Kansas City, but his family could never afford a ticket for him to see a game. He wound up on a circuitous path through Division II Nebraska-Kearney and a California junior college to Arizona State, where he eventually became of a third-round pick of Tampa Bay in the 2022 draft.
Two year later, White finally got into Arrowhead — and the end zone. He punctuated his seven-yard scoring run in the second quarter, which gave the Bucs a 7-3 lead, by nearly tossing the football into the second deck.
Then it was Hopkins’ turn in his first home game since arriving in Kansas City from a trade with the Titans.
The three-time All-Pro, who already had caught four passes, reeled in a third-down heave from Mahomes amid triple coverage for a 35-yard gain inside the Tampa Bay five-yard line. Three plays later, Mahomes found him in the back of the end zone, and Hopkins celebrated his first TD with the Chiefs with a dance from “Remember the Titans.”
Tampa Bay tried to seize control with consecutive scoring drives to start the second half. The first ended with a TD pass to Cade Otton, the latest tight end to shred the Chiefs, and Chase McLaughlin’s 47-yard field goal gave the Bucs a 17-10 lead.
The Chiefs answered in the fourth quarter. Mahomes marched them through the rain 70 yards for a tying touchdown pass, which he delivered to Samaje Perine while landing awkwardly and tweaking his left ankle, and then threw a laser to Hopkins on third-and-goal from the Buccaneers’ five-yard line to give Kansas City the lead.
Tampa Bay promptly went three-and-out, but its defence got the ball right back, and this time Mayfield calmly led his team down field. His capped the drive with a touchdown throw to Miller — his first career TD catch — with 27 seconds to go, and Tampa Bay elected to play for overtime.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: Host the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
