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Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime has added another title to his name, winning the European Open in Belgium on Sunday. The 25-year-old Canadian topped Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic 7-6(2), 6-6(7), 6-2 to win the hard-court ATP 250 tournament in Brussels. Auger-Aliassime, seeded No. 2 at the tournament, fired 17 aces …

Canadian runner Nate Tucker won his signature event in record-setting fashion at the Para athletics world championships on Sunday in New Delhi. The Victoria native broke his own championship record in the men’s 1,500-metre T38 final with a time of three minutes 57.98 seconds, earning his third world title in the event. The 2021 Paralympic champion …

Camryn Rogers became the first Canadian to successfully defend a World Athletics Championships title on Monday, and now Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland is the only women’s hammer throw athlete with a better mark than the Richmond, B.C., athlete. Rogers topped her national record with a 80.51-metre effort and picked up …

So maybe the first U.S. Open final between young, elite rivals Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner wasn’t as long, riveting and dramatic as their matchup to decide the championship at the French Open. Perhaps it wasn’t as seemingly meaningful and plot-driven as their showdown for the Wimbledon trophy. Still, what …

Tadej Pogačar won his fourth Tour de France title by a comfortable margin after Sunday’s final stage, which he tried to win even though he did not need to. The 26-year-old Slovenian rider won the Tour last year and in 2020 and 2021. “Just speechless to win the Tour de …

For years, Iga Swiatek never quite felt comfortable on Wimbledon’s grass courts, never thought she could add a trophy there to her other Grand Slam triumphs. Oh, did that turn out to be wrong. And how. Not only is Swiatek now the champion of the All England Club, she did …

The days of baronets and baronetesses would seem a thing of the distant past, far removed from Nova Scotia.  But one man in Edinburgh, Scotland, holds the title of the 11th Baronet of Nova Scotia, and he’s not alone. Sir Crispin Agnew, 81, is one of at least 100 people who still …

Bad starts in Grand Slam finals are nothing new for Carlos Alcaraz, and each time it’s happened he has won the tournament anyway. But not in such dramatic style as Sunday’s French Open final, when the Spaniard rallied from two sets down and saved three match points to beat top-ranked …

Drawing on the painful memory of her defeat three years ago in the French Open final gave Coco Gauff just the motivation she needed to win the clay-court major for the first time. The 21-year-old American defeated top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday for her second Grand …

Mikaela Shiffrin says she is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder following a crash in November and will not defend her gold medal in giant slalom at the alpine skiing world championships. The American holder of a record 99 World Cup wins suffered a deep puncture wound when she fell in …