It’s Day 4 of competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics, where Canada picked up its third medal of the Games and first silver in the short-track mixed team relay.
Here are the latest developments. All times Eastern.
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9:30 a.m.
Captain Marie-Philip Poulin has been ruled out of Canada’s women’s hockey preliminary-round game against the United States at the Milan Cortina Olympics with a lower-body injury.
Poulin was injured in Monday’s 5-1 win over Czechia.
The defending Olympic champion Canadians enter the game with a 2-0 record.
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8:55 a.m.
The powerhouse Americans have been held off the podium in the women’s alpine skiing team combined event.
Breezy Johnson skied the downhill portion and handed a slim lead to star skier Mikaela Shiffrin, who struggled to fourth in the slalom.
Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup racer of all time with a record 108 victories, has now gone seven straight Olympic races without a medal.
Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber of Austria won gold in the new Olympic event.
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7:15 a.m.
Canada has won silver in the short-track speedskating mixed-team relay.
William Dandjinou, Kim Boutin, Félix Roussel and Courtney Sarault finished in two minutes 39.258 seconds behind host Italy and ahead of Belgium.
Dandjinou is competing in his first Olympics after winning three gold medals and a silver at the 2025 short-track world championships. Boutin picked up her fifth Olympic medal.
Canada is the reigning world champion in mixed relay, but finished off the podium at the 2022 Beijing Games after being disqualified.
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6:45 a.m.
Canada is through to the final of the mixed team relay event in short-track speedskating.
In the semifinal, the Canadians finished first in their group to advance with a time of two minutes, 39.607 seconds.
The team will skate for gold against Italy, China and Belgium.
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6:15 a.m.
Canada’s short-track speedskating team has advanced to the mixed team relay semifinal.
The Canadians finished first in their quarterfinal skate with a time of two minutes, 39.034 seconds — ahead of China, Belgium and Kazakhstan.
The two best teams in each of the three quarterfinals moved on, along with the two fastest third placed teams. Both the semifinal and final are set to take place over the next hour.
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6 a.m.
Canadians Julien Viel and Mikaël Kingsbury have qualified for the final in freestyle skiing men’s moguls.
The pair posted scores of 79.56 and 79.11, respectively, in the first qualification round behind Ikuma Horishima of Japan, who had a top score of 85.42.
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5:15 a.m.
It’s Day 4 of the Milan Cortina Olympics, with Canadians in action across several sports.
Four-time Canadian Olympian Mikaël Kingsbury, the most decorated freestyle skier of all time with 100 World Cup wins, is about to make his first appearance at these Games.
Canada’s freestyle ski team will hit the moguls for the preliminary round in Livigno. The 33-year-old Kingsbury, one of Canada’s opening ceremony flag-bearers, won silver, gold, and silver at the 2014, 2018, and 2022 Games, respectively.
Canada also has its sights set on its first gold medal of the Olympics, with the short-track speedskating team competing in the mixed relay event this morning. The mixed team short-track group, led by breakout star William Dandjinou, will skate against China, Belgium and Kazakhstan in one of three quarterfinal races. The two best teams in each race and the two fastest third-placed teams will qualify for the semifinal.
The defending champion Canadian women’s hockey team will face its first major test of the Games against the U.S. this afternoon.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 10, 2026.
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