Latest from Justin Piercy
Company's coming: St. John's ready to welcome the 2025 Canada Games
It’s been 48 years between visits, but St. John’s is once again ready to play host to the Canada Games. Thousands of athletes, their families, and sports fans from across the country will be in the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador for the Games, which run from Aug. 8-25.
Come together: Why the Canada Games may be more important than ever
The Canada Games have brought people together in the past, but this year's edition comes at a time when unity may be as important as competition itself. The country's biggest domestic sporting event begins on Friday in St. John's, where more than 4,200 young athletes will represent their province or territory across 19 different sports.
Different puzzles, same goal: How do track & field athletes plan out a world championship season?
There is one certainty for track and field athletes in 2025: they all want to make it to the world championships in peak shape, but not all roads that lead to that event are the same. How do high-performance athletes balance training, tapering, recovery, and all the other physical demands of their sport with an ever-changing competition schedule?
Canada's Savannah Sutherland is moving fast and breaking records
Savannah Sutherland owns several records in the women's 400-metre hurdles, but the 21-year-old track star from tiny Borden, Sask., hasn't forgotten where she came from, or how she got here.
Canadian Olympic hammer throw champs part of star-studded lineup for 50th Prefontaine Classic
Saturday marks the 50th edition of the Prefontaine Classic, the prestigious track and field event from Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Several Olympic and world champions will be in competition, including Canadian hammer throwers Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg. Watch live coverage of the event, available on CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem.
Olympic, world champion Camryn Rogers has nothing left to prove — but plenty to accomplish
After winning a world title and Olympic gold, hammer thrower Camryn Rogers might not have anything left to prove — but she says she still has a lot left to accomplish. The 26-year-old from Richmond, B.C., doesn’t just want to defend her titles, she wants to help grow the sport itself.
Canadian decathletes Warner, LePage sit 7th, 11th at midway point of Hypo Meeting
If the streak of Canadian title wins at the Hypo Meeting decathlon is going to continue, Damian Warner and Pierce LePage have their work cut out for them on Day 2 of the competition. Warner, of London, Ont., sits in seventh place while and LePage, of Whitby, Ont., is in 11th at the midway point of the event in Götzis, Austria.
Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse go head-to-head at Grand Slam Track Philadelphia
This weekend's Grand Slam Track stop in Philadelphia may be one day shorter, but it will have some extra Canadian content.
Damian Warner, Pierce LePage face off in sneak preview of showdown at world championships
One of the most-anticipated showdowns of this summer's World Athletics Championships will get a dress rehearsal of sorts this weekend as Canadian decathletes Damian Warner and Pierce LePage compete at the Hypo Meeting combined events festival in Götzis, Austria.
'It all starts here': Olympic champion 4x100m relay team begins journey to world championships
The Canadian 4x100-metre relay team of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney, and Jerome Blake is back where their journey to Olympic gold began, the World Athletics Relays, and are eager to once again use the event as a launching pad.