What to watch in Olympic sports this weekend

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Over the next few days, some of Canada's top summer athletes will be competing at the Pan American Games in Chile, while winter stars take part in global events in figure skating, speed skating and alpine skiing. Here's what to follow in Olympics sports this weekend:

Pan Am Games: Canadians go for gold

On Friday, boxer Tammara Thibeault captured Canada's 30th gold medal of the Games by winning the women's 75-kg title bout against Panama's Atheyna Bylon. Thibeault also beat Bylon for the middleweight gold at the 2022 world championships before winning the Commonwealth Games title last year. The Canadian will try to add her first Olympic medal next year in Paris after qualifying with her semifinal victory yesterday.

Fellow Canadian Wyatt Sanford fought to gold in the men's 63.5kg division. He also earned an Olympic spot with yesterday's semifinal win.

At 5 p.m. ET, the Canadian beach volleyball duo of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson will play for gold against Brazil's Ana Patricia Silva Ramos and Eduarda "Duda" Santos Lisboa, the top-ranked team in the world. Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson, who were Canada's flag bearers for the opening ceremony last week, are ranked fifth.

This weekend's events are a little light on Canadian stars as we await the arrival of track and field on Monday. But standout race walker Evan Dunfee should contend for a medal in the men's 20-kilometre race on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. ET. A bronze medallist at the 2021 Olympics and 2019 world championships in the now-defunct 50km event, Dunfee placed fourth in both the 20 and 35K at this year's