What to watch this weekend in international sports

Jesse Campigotto · CBC Sports

· Posted: May 30, 2025 4:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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Here are immoderate things for Canadian fans to support an oculus on:

Most of Canada's apical way and tract stars, including immoderate Olympic and satellite champions, are successful enactment this play crossed 3 antithetic planetary meets.

The Grand Slam Track lawsuit successful Philadelphia features Olympic 4x100m golden medallists Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown competing against each different successful the men's abbreviated sprints group, portion 800 satellite champion and Olympic metallic medallist Marco Arop tries to amended connected his back-to-back second-place finishes successful the men's abbreviated region division.

For those who request a refresher connected however Grand Slam Track works, athletes contention against their peers successful 2 antithetic distances implicit the people of a play and gain points based connected wherever they finish. Whoever ends up with the astir points successful each eight-person radical wins the apical prize of $100,000 US. The archetypal 2 Grand Slam meets, successful Jamaica and Miami, took spot implicit 3 days, but the Philly conscionable was condensed to 2 to marque it more instrumentality friendly. 

In the men's abbreviated sprints, De Grasse and Brown volition effort to instrumentality down American Kenny Bednarek, who's undefeated successful 4 Grand Slam races this season. Brown is making his Slam debut, portion De Grasse finished eighth successful the 100m and 4th successful the 200m successful Miami. In Philly, they'll contention the 200 connected Saturday astatine 5:07 p.m. ET and the 100 connected Sunday astatine 5:22 p.m. ET.

Arop finished 2nd successful his radical successful Jamaica and Miami, winning the 800m astatine some meets but failing to ace the apical 5 successful the 1,500m — a region he'd raced conscionable doubly successful his vocation earlier this season. Arop's contention this play includes Olympic 1,500m champion Cole Hocker of the U.S. and Britain's Josh Kerr and American Yared Nuguse, who joined Hocker connected the podium successful Paris. They'll bash the 800m connected Saturday astatine 4:57 p.m. ET and the 1,500 connected Sunday astatine 5:01 p.m. ET.

You tin ticker the full Grand Slam conscionable unrecorded connected CBCSports.ca and GEM Gem connected Saturday from 4-7 p.m. ET and Sunday from 3-6 p.m. ET. Here's the afloat docket and startlists and here's much connected the Canadians racing in Philly. 

Also connected Saturday and Sunday, Canada's apical 2 decathletes volition vie successful 1 of their sport's astir prestigious events arsenic 2021 Olympic golden medallist Damian Warner and 2023 satellite champion Pierce LePage look disconnected astatine the Hypo Meeting successful Austria.

Warner, the defending champ, is trying for his record-extending ninth triumph astatine the Hypo. LePage took the rubric from him successful 2023, past defeated Warner astatine the satellite championships a fewer months aboriginal to go the archetypal Canadian ever to triumph a decathlon satellite title.

Hopes for different 1-2 decorativeness by the Canadians astatine past year's Olympics were dashed erstwhile a backmost wounded ended LePage's season. Then Warner shockingly fouled retired successful the rod vault successful Paris to extremity his bid for a 2nd consecutive Olympic gold. Now, they're some trying to put their unsmooth 2024 down them. 

Meanwhile, Canada's his-and-hers Olympic hammer propulsion golden medallists Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg volition some beryllium competing astatine the Kip Keino Classic in Kenya. Rogers' contention includes three-time Olympic champ Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland. Watch the meet, which is portion of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series, unrecorded connected Saturday from 9-11 a.m. ET.

You tin enactment up to velocity with everything going connected successful Canadian way and tract by watching CBC Sports' caller show Trackside with hosts Perdita Felicien and Aaron Brown. This week's guests see Marco Arop. Watch the afloat occurrence here. 

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