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As the final anxious seconds ticked away in Italy’s 3-2 win over Japan on Monday, Daniele Sauvageau, the team’s Canadian general manager, looked at 35-year-old Laura Fortino, a gold-medal winner with Canada in 2014 who now wears Italian blue, both with tears in their eyes. CBC | Sports News
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Canada’s Megan Oldham wins Olympic bronze in freeski slopestyle
Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham captured a bronze medal in the women’s freeski slopestyle final at the Milano-Cortina Olympic Games on Monday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Legendary goalie Brodeur among ex-Olympians who don’t see Canada’s netminders as a weakness
Jordan Binnington likely to get first crack at the Canadian net after his winning performance at last year’s 4 Nations Face-Off. CBC | Sports News
Read More »‘Everything is made to turn left’: Science of the skates behind Canada’s powerhouse short track team
Canadian short track skater Maxime Laoun owns 12 sets of blades. He brought five to Milan. They are allegedly identical in every respect, hand-hewn but machine measured. Laoun can still feel the invisible differences between them. Two are his co-favourites. “Numbers 8 and 9.” CBC | Sports News
Read More »Valérie Maltais’s speed skating bronze Canada’s 1st medal of Milano-Cortina Olympics
Valérie Maltais of La Baie, Que., collected her first individual medal at her fifth Winter Olympics, earning bronze in the women’s 3,000 metres on Saturday in Milan. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Americans hand Canada’s Peterman, Gallant 1st loss in Olympic mixed doubles curling
The Canadian mixed doubles curling team of Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman dropped a 7-5 decision to the American duo of Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse on Friday morning at the Milano-Cortina Olympic Games. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s curlers stay unbeaten in mixed doubles before facing reigning Olympic champions
Canada’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman beat Norway 6-3 in round-robin mixed doubles curling and will carry a 2-0 record into their match against 2022 Olympic champions Italy later on Thursday in Cortina, Italy. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Mark McMorris stretchered off hill after fall in pre-Olympic snowboard training
Canada’s three-time Olympic bronze-medal snowboarder Mark McMorris crashed Wednesday night during big air training for the Milan Cortina Games and had to be taken off the course on a stretcher. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Brutal Bormio could be kinder to Canada’s Olympic downhill skiers
Bormio in February is not Bormio in December. The men’s alpine ski course for the 2026 Olympic Games is a regular stop on the World Cup circuit. Canadians have been successful there in December downhills. They say the Stelvio slope, with its 1,010-metre vertical drop and speeds hitting 100 kilometres per hour, is a hairy ride. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Injury forces Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek, figure skating partner Deschamps out of Olympic team event
World figure skating champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada will not compete in the Olympic team event in Italy later this month due to a training injury in Quebec sustained by Stellato-Dudek, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced Monday. CBC | Sports News
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