Lionel Messi tied Pele’s record of 643 goals for a single club on Saturday but was unable to help Barcelona beat Valencia in La Liga as they had to settle for a 2-2 home draw.
Day: December 28, 2020
2020 reminded us that the show mustn’t always go on. Disrupted by the coronavirus, sports stopped cold three months in and then started up again in emptied-out stadiums, stumbling, skidding and finally staggering across the finish line — all the while shadowed by loss.
Scott Russell is joined by Chandra Crawford, Stephanie Dixon and Ainka Jess to chat about how the pandemic has only worsened the issue of young girls in this country dropping out of sports and what needs to be done about it. This is the second panel in a five-part series of discussions on the state of sport in Canada.
Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis said his desire to better Sergey Bubka’s outdoor mark kept him motivated in the 2020 season and after clearing 6.15m to eclipse the Ukrainian great in September the 21-year-old is aiming to go higher next year.
On December 27, 2020, an inmate from Stony Mountain Institution died at outside hospital from natural causes following a COVID-19 diagnosis.