2026 Olympic Games: Males’s determine skating, Canadian males’s curling occurring now

Midday shot of Olympic espresso 🤌

Team Canada did not add any new {hardware} to our whole medal rely this morning. But there are extra alternatives this afternoon with determine skater Stephen Gogolev within the males’s single free skate at 1 p.m. ET.

We presently have seven medals (three🥈 and 4🥉), and we’re nonetheless on the hunt for our first gold at these Winter Games. The Milano-Cortina Olympics opened per week in the past and there are nonetheless 9 days of competitors to go.

The massive Canadian story from this morning is the boys’s curling group, skipped by Brad Jacobs, going 2-0 within the curling spherical robin with a victory over the U.S. They’re again up this afternoon at 1:05 p.m. ET as they tackle Sweden.

Our top-ranked girls’s curling group on the planet, skipped by Rachel Homan, misplaced a hard-fought battle 9-8 in opposition to the U.S. of their second round-robin recreation. Homan missed an important shot within the tenth finish that might have seen the Americans solely rating one level and ship it to additional ends. But the U.S. got here away with two factors and the win. They’re again up in opposition to Great Britain at 3:05 a.m. ET tomorrow.

Now, for those who missed it, the boys’s 10K cross-country interval begin this morning was pleasant — and it wasn’t due to the rostrum. It’s all concerning the magic on the end between athletes who did not develop up in locations with lots of snow.  

Here are some fast hits from that race that’ll make your coronary heart develop two sizes:

The excellent news does not cease there. We received a lot of harm updates!

Snowboarder Mark McMorris acquired the inexperienced mild from medical doctors to compete within the males’s slopestyle on Monday after struggling a concussion in a big-air coaching fall. The Canadian has gained three back-to-back Olympic bronze medals in males’s slopestyle courting again to the 2014 Sochi Games.

Marie-Philip Poulin was the primary participant on the ice throughout Canada’s observe in Milan at present. The captain sat out the group’s remaining two preliminary video games — together with the large upset in opposition to the U.S. — earlier this week as a result of a knee harm from a giant hit within the recreation in opposition to Czechia. 

Poulin has one remaining medical evaluation to clear her for play forward of Canada’s quarterfinal in opposition to Germany at 10:40 a.m. ET Saturday. (We’ll have to attend and see if her linemate and spouse, Laura Stacey, might be collecting Canada’s warm-up pucks alone or not.)