2026 Olympic Games: Mikaël Kingsbury snags Canada’s 1st gold on Day 9 whereas males’s hockey group crushes France

3 large moments from Day 9 of Olympic motion

Canadian freestyle skier Mikaël Kingsbury secured Team Canada’s first gold medal of the Milano-Cortina Olympics within the males’s twin moguls occasion on Sunday. Kingsbury says the victory — which earned him his fifth Olympic medal and second at what he says will likely be his closing Olympic Games — was particularly candy coming together with his household, together with his son, there in individual.

Team Canada lastly noticed gold 9 days into the Games, due to freestyle snowboarding champion Mikaël Kingsbury. That brings the medal rely to 9 — one for day-after-day of Olympic competitors. 

A gold for the mogul king: After incomes a disappointing silver in moguls final week, Mikaël Kingsbury stormed again in twin moguls at this time to seize his second Olympic gold. 

That silver medal had already made Kingsbury essentially the most embellished males’s freestyle skier in Olympic historical past, however that did not cease him from giving his all within the twin moguls course at this time. 

Kingsbury mentioned listening to on-line chatter that Canada was “a little cursed” on the Games pushed him even more durable to win. 

“I really wanted to break that curse and go get that first [gold] medal for the country,” he instructed CBC Sports after his victory. 

Canada dominates in males’s hockey: The males’s hockey group overwhelmed France to take a 10-2 lead within the preliminary spherical closing of the event. Sidney Crosby’s three factors gave him 16 for his Olympic profession, setting a brand new Canadian report for male gamers. 

Canada will now advance on to the quarterfinals. Two extra preliminary-round males’s hockey video games later at this time will decide who they face subsequent. 

Figure skating: Canada’s Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud clocked a private finest rating of 74.60 with their pair skating brief program. Their teammates Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps chanced on the ice after Stellato-Dudek fell close to the top of the efficiency, however nonetheless certified for the free skate. 

The latter pair nearly did not make it to the Games in any respect. Stellato-Dudek was cleared to compete simply 5 days in the past after placing her head throughout coaching, giving the pair restricted time to rehearse on Olympic ice.