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As part of Panam Sports’ strategy to support young athletes across the Americas, riders from eighteen nations have spent the past two weeks in Bromont, Quebec, attending a continental training camp delivered alongside the UCI World Cycling Centre and COPACI. The camp took place in the lead-up to the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal, and brought together athletes from Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Uruguay and Venezuela.

A new velodrome in her backyard drew Olympic track cycling champion Kelsey Mitchell back to the sport. After competing for Canada in bobsled in February's Milan Cortina Games, the 32-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., is back on two wheels at the new Alberta Velodrome in Edmonton. Mitchell captured women's Olympic sprint gold in Tokyo in 2021Donna Spencer · The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 20, 2026 11:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 20Listen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Canada's Kelsey Mitchell is shown in action at the Paris Olympic Games in August 2024. (Getty Images)A new velodrome in her backyard drew Olympic track cycling champion Kelsey Mitchell back to the sport. After competing for Canada in bobsled in February's Milan Cortina Games, the 32-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., is back on two wheels at the new Alberta Velodrome in Edmonton. The cycling track in the new $153-million Coronation Park Sports and Recreation Centre opened in January.

It gained a lot of attention when it was recorded back in June – now video of Canadian high diver and social media personality Molly Carlson diving off an iceberg grounded near Twillingate has been released. Carlson is an overall runner-up in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series – and she became the first woman in history to dive from a freestanding iceberg.  She trained ahead of time by learning how to ice-climb. Molly Carlson surveying the iceberg she is about to dive from (Red Bull)The highly-organized event gained a lot of attention and concern in this province, where people are only too aware of the dangers of approaching – or climbing on top of – an iceberg. Huge chunks of ice that calved from Greenland glaciers pass by the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador each spring and early summer. While they attract a lot of interest and are a huge tourist draw, they are highly unstable and unpredictable as they melt and break apart. Carlson admitted the danger involved in a video released by Red Bull.

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Olympic and World Championships marathon gold medallist Peres Jepchirchir has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit after an out-of-competition sample tested positive for EPO. Kenyan Jepchirchir provided the sample prior to winning the Sydney Marathon on 30 August 2026. The 33-year-old clocked a time of two hours, 18 minutes and 31 seconds to win in Sydney. EPO, or erythropoietin, is a natural substance produced within the kidneys that stimulates the creation of new red blood cells. If injected, it is only detectable in the urine or blood for a short window of time, and increases the amount of red blood cells, which carry oxygen to the muscles, in the blood stream. Jepchirchir became the Olympic women's marathon champion at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and returned to the Japanese capital to win the World Championships in September 2025. She broke the women's half-marathon world record in 2017 and on three occasions in 2020. In addition to Sydney, her other major wins came at the New York Marathon in 2021, the Boston Marathon in 2022 and the London Marathon in 2024.