Canadian Alex Boisvert-Lacroix has gone where precious few speed skaters venture in his chosen distance, to the top step of the podium in back-to-back World Cups. The 500-metre specialist from Sherbrooke, Que., sprinted to a gold medal in Calgary last week and followed it up Friday with another victory in Salt Lake City. The accomplishment…

NAGOYA, Japan — Alina Zagitova performed a near-flawless free skate on Saturday to win the figure skating Grand Prix Final, supplanting Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond, who was first after the short program. Osmond’s podium finish was still part of a three-medal day for Canada at the finale of the Grand Prix skating season. Ice dancers Tessa…

CALGARY — Sam Edney turned his final two runs down the luge track here into a World Cup silver medal and a memory that will last a lifetime. His young teammate Mitchel Malyk, who owned his home track record for about 15 minutes on what turned into a fabulous Friday for the Canadian men’s team,…

TORONTO — Two weeks after a team from Toronto played for a football championship in the snow, a team from Toronto will play for a football championship in (possibly) the snow. But different football this time. Yes, it is the MLS Cup at BMO Field on Saturday afternoon, which is no doubt causing several readers…

Canada’s skeleton crew picked up two more World Cup medals on Friday in Winterberg, Germany, adding momentum to what has already been an impressive slide toward the Olympics. Elisabeth Vathje won her second silver of the season, and third by a Canadian woman; while 38-year-old Dave Greszczyszyn bagged the first World Cup bauble of his…

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani has decided he’s on the side of the Angels. The Japanese two-way star announced Friday he will sign with the Los Angeles Angels, ending the sweepstakes surrounding his move to the majors in a surprising destination. Ohtani turned down interest from every other big league club to join two-time MVP…