Sport

Canadians have a passion to ice hockey, disipline in which they are great at the global level for many years. Internationally, Canada performs particularly to winter sports (skating short and long track, figure skating, freestyle skiing (moguls and jumps), curling). Summer Olympics, including exceptional athletes in diving, the 100m race (especially in the 1990s), synchronized swimming, rowing and canoeing.

Soccer too is being popular, the sport from the United States which are most weak: Canadian football (similar to American football), baseball and basketball. It also found the Canadian franchises in the U.S. national championships (MLB, NBA ...). It is in Canada and the modern rules of curling have been introduced and is the sport most watched on television by Canadians after ice hockey. Basketball has also emerged in Montreal, under the inspiration of James Naismith.