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The Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute (COPSI) Network is a group of designated multisport training centres established in Canada recognized by Sport Canada and Own the Podium, and supported by national and provincial partners in partnership with 7 different provinces or regions across Canada.
Sports in Canada consist of a wide variety of games. The roots of organized sports in Canada date back to the 1770s. [1] Canada's official national sports are ice hockey and lacrosse. [2] Other major professional games include curling, basketball, baseball, soccer, and football. [3]
Canada has professional sports teams in eight sports across twenty-one leagues. Canadian teams compete in top-level American and Canadian-based leagues, including three of the four major professional sports leagues. Canada also has minor league teams competing in American and Canadian-based basketball, hockey, soccer, and baseball leagues.
A Toronto Blue Jays baseball game at Rogers Centre in Toronto.. Currently, the Toronto Blue Jays are Canada's only Major League Baseball team, founded in 1977. The Montreal Expos (Canada's first Major League Baseball team) played in Montreal from 1969 until 2004 when they moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals.
Historically, team sports often involved informal gambling and more formal, bigger-stakes wagering and prize competitions were particularly characteristic in the sports of horse racing and boxing. In Canada, individual sports such as figure skating, skiing, golf, paddling, swimming, and track and field have long been
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Modern lacrosse in Canada has been a popular sport since the mid 1800s. Only field lacrosse was played until the 1930s, when box lacrosse was invented. In 1994 Parliament passed the National Sports of Canada Act which declared lacrosse to be "Canada's National Summer Sport", with ice hockey as "Canada's National Winter Sport".