National Sports

OTTAWA — Chantal Van Landeghem has retired from competitive swimming after helping Canada win a relay bronze in the Rio Olympics and Pan American gold in Toronto.

TORONTO — Jessie Fleming and Kris Twardek have been named Canadian under-20 soccer players of the year. It's the third straight year winning the award for Fleming, a 19-year-old from London, Ont.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact shook up their backline Tuesday, trading star defender Laurent Ciman to expansion Los Angeles FC for Canadian wingback Raheem Edwards and Finnish defender Jukka Raitala.

CALGARY — Former NHL defenceman Zarley Zalapski has died at age 49, according to the Calgary Flames.

When Olympic short-track speedskating champion Charles Hamelin isn't training or racing, chances are he's in front of a video game console. The 33-year-old from Sainte-Julie, Que., says it relaxes him.

Toronto FC says the hunt for trophies will continue next season. And it is willing to spend more money to do so.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — There are so many players at Hockey Canada's world junior championship selection camp that the ice was completely torn up after just one practice, with pucks bouncing over sticks and snow piling up against the goals.

LOS ANGELES — Bruce Brown, whose 1966 surfing documentary "The Endless Summer" moulded the image of the surfer as a seeker and transformed the sport, has died. He was 80.

MOSCOW — Despite Russia's ban from the upcoming Olympics, officials in the country still expect more than 200 of their athletes to compete at the Pyeongchang Games.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A report commissioned by the Dutch Olympic Committee says urgent action must be taken to tackle widespread sexual abuse and harassment in sports in the Netherlands.