What to watch this long weekend in international sports

Jesse Campigotto · CBC Sports

· Posted: May 15, 2025 4:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

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The Buzzer is disconnected Friday and Victoria Day, truthful we're giving you an aboriginal look astatine what to ticker done the agelong play successful planetary sports. Plus, a pugnacious nighttime for Toronto hockey fans, a bully 1 for the Oilers, and large game(s) coming up for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

A fewer things for Canadian fans to support an oculus connected implicit the adjacent fewer days:

Track and field: Canadians successful 2 planetary meets

The roadworthy to the satellite championships continues Friday successful Doha, which is hosting the 3rd Diamond League conscionable of the season. Two Canadians are competing: sprinter Aaron Brown and rod vaulter Alysha Newman.

Brown is coming disconnected past week's World Athletics Relays successful China, wherever helium helped the Olympic-champion Canadian men's 4x100m squad instrumentality bronze and suffice for the satellite championships. A atrocious speech betwixt Brown, who runs the leadoff leg, and Jerome Blake wounded the Canadians successful the last earlier Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse rallied them from 5th spot to the podium.

Brown is successful the men's 200m connected Friday astatine 1:22 p.m. ET, featuring Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana.

Newman makes her outdoor play debut successful the women's rod vault, starting astatine 11:02 a.m. ET. The Olympic bronze medallist volition instrumentality connected reigning satellite champion Katie Moon of the United States, who took metallic past twelvemonth successful Paris aft winning Olympic golden successful 2021.

WATCH | Alysha Newman joins CBC Sports to unfastened up astir Olympics, beingness lessons:

Other planetary stars competing successful Doha see reigning Olympic champs Hamish Kerr of New Zealand (men's precocious jump) and Winfred Yavi of Bahrain (women's 3,000m steeplechase) and 38-year-old Jamaican sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (women's 100m), who owns 3 Olympic golds and 10 satellite titles. Watch the conscionable unrecorded Friday from noon-2 p.m. ET connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. Here's the afloat schedule.

De Grasse and Blake are competing successful the World Athletics Continental Tour's Golden Grand Prix successful Tokyo, which volition big the satellite championships successful September. Blake faces erstwhile satellite champion Christian Coleman successful the men's 100m, portion Grasse runs the 200m. Watch the conscionable unrecorded connected Saturday nighttime starting astatine 11:50 p.m. ET connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem.

For much connected Canada's show astatine the World Relays, read this analysis from Morgan Campbell and watch the debut episode of CBC Sports Trackside, with Brown and Rodney joining big Perdita Felicien.

Hockey: Canada levels up astatine the men's satellite championship

Let's beryllium honest: determination are excessively galore teams successful this tournament. Sixteen to beryllium exact, which means an interminable radical signifier consisting of 7 games for each squad and tons of mismatches. 

For example, Canada (featuring Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, Marc-Andre Fleury and respective different NHL standouts) blanked France (almost wholly devoid of NHLers) 5-0 connected Tuesday to amended to 3-0. Before that, Canada bushed Slovenia 4-0 and Latvia 7-1. At our people time, Crosby and institution were up 2-1 connected Austria successful the 2nd period.

Things mightiness get a small much absorbing for the Canadians this agelong play arsenic they look Slovakia connected Saturday and Finland connected Monday earlier wrapping up their radical slate Tuesday against big Sweden. Stocked with NHL players specified arsenic Filip Forsberg, Lucas Raymond and  Mika Zibanejad, the Swedes are 4-0 portion outscoring their opponents 17-3. 

The apical 4 teams successful each radical beforehand to the quarterfinals a week from today.

Golf: Five Canadians successful the PGA Championship

The 2nd men's large title of the twelvemonth teed disconnected this greeting astatine Quail Hollow successful Charlotte, N.C. It includes Corey Conners (ranked 21st successful the world), Nick Taylor (36th), Mackenzie Hughes (44th), Taylor Pendrith (49th) and Adam Hadwin (92nd), each hoping to go the archetypal Canadian antheral to triumph a large since Mike Weir's Masters triumph successful 2003.

The co-favourites coming successful were satellite No. 1 Scottie Scheffler of the United States and No. 2 Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland. McIlroy completed the uncommon vocation Grand Slam with his melodramatic triumph astatine the Masters past period and has won 4 PGA Tour events astatine Quail Hollow. Scheffler, contempt being the premier subordinate connected Tour implicit the past 3 years and an Olympic golden medallist successful Paris past summer, is inactive looking for his archetypal large rubric extracurricular the affable confines of Augusta, wherever helium won the Masters successful 2022 and '24. Here's the unrecorded leaderboard.

If you missed Tuesday's newsletter, here's our primer on the PGA Championship.

Other worldly to watch:

* Canadian Olympic swimmers Sydney Pickrem and Ingrid Wilm are competing successful the Mare Nostrum Tour opener successful Monaco. Pickrem finished sixth successful the women's 200m idiosyncratic medley past summertime successful Paris, portion Wilm was sixth successful the 100m backstroke earlier taking bronze successful that region astatine the short-course satellite championships successful December.

* Canada's Derek Gee ranks 29th wide heading into the 2nd week of the Giro D'Italia, 1 of cycling's 3 Grand Tours. He finished ninth wide successful his Tour de France debut past twelvemonth and was 22nd successful archetypal Giro successful 2023.

* In basketball, Canada makes its FIBA 3x3 Women's Series play debut successful Amsterdam, wherever 2024 Olympians Katherine Plouffe and Paige Crozon are playing with Cassandra Brown and Saicha Grant-Allen. Back successful March, Plouffe, Crozon and Grant-Allen teamed with Kacie Bosch to triumph the FIBA 3x3 Champions Cup, beating Olympic metallic medallist Spain successful the final. You tin ticker the two-day Amsterdam tourney starting Friday connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. Canada plays Ireland astatine 12:20 p.m. ET and Puerto Rico astatine 2:20 p.m. ET. Here's the afloat schedule.