National Sports

LILLEHAMMER — A last-minute lineup change paid off for Canada's Melissa Lotholz on Sunday. Lotholz and Skylar Sieben claimed bronze in their two-woman bobsled race at the final World Cup event of the season.

ADELAIDE — Canadian racewalker Evan Dunfee set a North American 20-kilometre record on Sunday at the Australian 20km Race Walking Championships. Dunfee won the race in one hour, 17 minutes and 39 seconds to beat Australia's Rhydian Cowley (1:18:35).

ABU DHABI — Canadian teenager Erin Books stands ninth in the World Surf League season standings after losing her quarterfinal to Australian Molly Picklum at the Surf Abu Dhabi Pro.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Kerry Galusha's last Canadian women's curling championship is about the next generation in Northwest Territories.

MONTREAL — Canada and the United States have been involved in plenty of heated moments on hockey's international stage. The 1996 World Cup. The men's gold-medal game at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — Loic Meillard won his second world title and became the first Swiss skier in 75 years to take gold in the men's slalom at the Alpine skiing world championships on Sunday.

Hockey was a regular part of life for Robert Kabvitok growing up in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. In his youth, he'd travel by all-terrain snow vehicle to tournaments and watch televised games at home with his father.

MONTREAL — Once the Bell Centre fans were done booing the American national anthem, they switched the tempo and delivered a memorable and heartfelt rendition of “O Canada” on Saturday night.

LANGLEY, B.C. — Adam Titlbach scored the only goal of a three-round shootout to lift the Vancouver Giants to a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the visiting Victoria Royals in Western Hockey League action on Saturday at Langley Events Centre.

CALGARY — The race to win the women’s freestyle ski halfpipe Crystal Globe went down to the wire on Saturday night at WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park.