National Sports

MONTREAL — World champion decathlete Pierce LePage has received a medical exemption and won't compete this week at the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic track and field trials.

EDMONTON — The head coach of the Edmonton Oilers says some of the team's top stars were playing through major injuries during their Stanley Cup playoff run.

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Belgium got the best out of a 0-0 draw at the European Championship on Wednesday, advancing to the last 16 while Ukraine became the first team with four points in a group to be eliminated.

CALGARY — Two-time world championship silver medallist and three-time Olympian Jesse Lumsden has been named Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton's high-performance director.

Another week another road game for Cody Fajardo and the Montreal Alouettes. Montreal (3-0) visits the Toronto Argonauts (2-0) on Friday night in a battle of unbeaten East Division rivals.

MONTREAL — Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse says he’s feeling like his old self after meeting the 100-metre entry standard for the Paris Olympics last week. De Grasse ran a season-best 10.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Romania and Slovakia got the 1-1 draw that sent both teams into the round of 16 at the European Championship on Wednesday, with the Romanians topping Group E ahead of Belgium.

TORONTO — Months after becoming the first-ever Pan Am Games gold medallist in women's park, 14-year-old Fay De Fazio Ebert has been named to Canada’s skateboard team for the Paris Olympics.

LONDON — Canada's Marina Stakusic is a win away from qualifying for her first Grand Slam main draw. The 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hockey Hall of Famer Glen Sather, who built and coached the NHL's last great dynasty with the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s and helped resurrect the New York Rangers in the early 2000s, is retiring after six decades in the sport as a p