It’s Day 6 of competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics, where Canada will be looking to add to the four medals it won coming into Thursday.
Here are the latest developments. All times Eastern.
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4:03 p.m.
Canadian William Dandjinou, the gold-medal favourite, has just missed the podium in the men’s 1,000-metre final in short-track speedskating.
The Netherlands’ Jens van ‘t Wout claimed gold, followed by China’s Sun Long and South Korea’s Rim Jongun.
Dandjinou, of Montreal, placed fourth.
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3:47 p.m.
Canadian speedskater Courtney Sarault, of Moncton, has won bronze in the women’s short track 500-metre race.
The Netherlands’ Xandra Velzeboer claimed gold, followed by Italy’s Arianna Fontana.
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3:14 p.m.
Canada’s William Dandjinou advanced to the men’s 1,000-metre final in short-track speedskating.
He was the fastest qualifier at one minute 23.520 seconds.
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3:08 p.m.
Canada’s Courtney Sarault and Kim Boutin qualified for the women’s 500-metre short-track speedskating Olympic final.
Sarault and Boutin finished first and second in the second semifinal.
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3:05 p.m.
Canadian snowboarder Elizabeth Hosking did not podium in the women’s halfpipe event at the Games.
Hosking, from Longueuil, Que., finished 11th in the competition won by South Korea’s Gaon Choi.
High-profile American snowboarder Chloe Kim finished second while Japan’s Mitsuki Ono took bronze.
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3:00 p.m.
The women’s short track 500 metre speedskating semifinal is underway.
Canadians Florence Brunelle, Kim Boutin and Courtney Sarault are set to compete in the same heat.
All three are previous Olympic medallists in the sport.
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12:52 p.m.
The Canadian men’s hockey team leads Czechia 5-0 with six minutes remaining in the third period.
Nick Suzuki scored the latest goal, with Connor McDavid picking up his third assist and Thomas Harley his second helper.
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12:43 p.m.
Canada has grabbed a 4-0 lead on Czechia in men’s hockey.
Nathan MacKinnon scored the fourth goal on a Canadian power play at 7:42 of the third period with assists going to Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby.
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12:20 p.m.
Defenceman Josh Morrissey has left Canada’s game against Czechia with an undisclosed injury and will not return.
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12:12 p.m.
Canada leads Czechia 3-0 in men’s hockey in Milan.
Macklin Celebrini, Mark Stone and Bo Horvat have scored for Canada.
Shots are 23-22 in Canada’s favour.
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12:08 p.m.
Bo Horvat has given Canada a 3-0 lead with a breakaway goal on Czechia goaltender Lukas Dostal.
Brad Marchand set up the goal with a sharp lead pass. Defenceman Thomas Harley had the second assist.
The goal came with less than three minutes remaining in the second period.
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11:44 a.m.
Canada has taken a 2-0 lead on Czechia in men’s hockey.
Mark Stone scored Canada’s second goal at 6:40 of the second period.
Mitch Marner and Sidney Crosby earned assists.
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11:40 a.m.
Canadian speedskater Isabelle Weidemann will finish off the podium in the women’s 5,000 metres.
The Ottawa skater, who won silver in the event at the 2022 Beijing Games, sits fifth in the finals with several competitors still to come.
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11:17 a.m.
Macklin Celebrini tips a Cale Makar shot past goaltender Lukas Dostal with six seconds left in the first period to give Canada a 1-0 lead over Czechia at the men’s Olympic tournament.
Connor McDavid also earns an assist on the goal by the 19-year-old from North Vancouver.
Goaltender Jordan Binnington stopped all 11 shots directed his way as Canada heads into the first intermission with the lead.
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10:57 a.m.
The Canadian men’s hockey team is playing Czechia in its first game of the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Canada appeared to take a 1-0 lead 7:44 into the opening period, but the goal was waved off because of a delayed tripping penalty to Nick Suzuki.
The game remains scoreless midway through the period.
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10:40 a.m.
Canada’s women’s hockey team closed out Group A play with a 5-0 win over Finland.
Emily Clark, with two goals, Jennifer Gardiner, Daryl Watts and Kristin O’Neill scored in the win.
The Canadians will face Germany in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
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10:05 a.m.
Canada leads Finland 3-0 after two periods in a women’s hockey preliminary game in Milan.
Jennifer Gardiner, Daryl Watts and Kristin O’Neill have scored for Canada.
The winner of the game will finish second in Group A.
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9:23 a.m.
Canadian hockey star Sarah Fillier went hard into the boards behind the Finnish net early in the second period of Canada’s women’s hockey preliminary-round game and headed to the dressing room, favouring her left hand.
Fillier returned to the bench a short time later with her hand appearing to be taped.
Canada leads Finland 1-0 five minutes into the second period.
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9:06 a.m.
Snowboarder Eliot Grondin has claimed his third Olympic medal after winning silver in men’s snowboard cross in Milan Cortina.
Grondin, who also took silver in Beijing in 2022, was once again bested by Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle, the reigning Olympic champion.
The medal moves Canada’s medal count at the Games to six, with three silvers and three bronzes.
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8:50 a.m.
Canada’s Eliot Grondin is into the final of the men’s snowboard cross event.
Grondin has looked strong in qualifying, winning his 1/8, quarterfinal and semifinal matchups.
Grondin won a silver medal in the event in Beijing 2022, as well as a bronze in the mixed team event with Meryeta O’Dine.
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8:32 a.m.
The Canadian women’s hockey team have started playing their long-delayed game against Finland.
The game was originally scheduled for the day before the opening ceremonies but was postponed because of norovirus cases among the Finns.
Canada is looking to rebound after a 5-0 loss to the United States on Tuesday as they continue to play without injured captain Marie-Philip Poulin.
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8:09 a.m.
Edmonton’s Alison Mackie has finished eighth in cross-country skiing’s women’s 10-kilometre interval start free at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Mackie posted a time of 24 minutes 07.1 seconds, 1:17.9 behind gold-medal winner Frida Karlsson.
Sweden’s Ebba Andersson won silver, and American Jessie Diggins earned bronze.
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7:55 a.m.
The Canadian women’s hockey team will be playing without captain Marie-Philip Poulin in their game against Finland.
Poulin has been officially scratched from the lineup after sustaining a lower-body injury early in Monday’s 5-1 win over Czechia.
The leading active scorer in Olympic women’s hockey also sat out Tuesday’s 5-0 loss to the United States.
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7:23 a.m.
Mikael Kingsbury finished the men’s moguls competition at the Games with 83.71 points, exactly matching Australian Cooper Woods but falls to second for a silver medal due to a tiebreaker.
Kingsbury wins his fourth career medal with the silver, which is also Canada’s fifth medal in Milan Cortina with two silvers and three bronzes.
Fellow Canadian Julien Viel finished sixth in the competition with 79.78 points.
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6:55 a.m.
Canadian freestyle skiers Mikael Kingsbury and Julien Viel are into the medal round of the men’s moguls final.
Kingsbury, of Deux-Montagnes, Que., finished second in the first round of the final, behind Australia’s Cooper Woods, while Quebec City’s Viel qualified in seventh.
Kingsbury is seeking a fourth career Olympic medal in the event.
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6:45 a.m.
Neither Canadian woman completed the course in the alpine ski super-G event — and they’re not alone.
Canadians Valérie Grenier and Cassidy Gray joined a long list of women to register a DNF result, including U.S. star Breezy Johnson.
Italy’s Federica Brignone leads the field with about half a dozen competitors left to ski.
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5:15 a.m.
Canada’s Rachel Homan has opened women’s curling round-robin play with a 10-4 victory over Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont.
Homan controlled the game after stealing four points in the fifth end. She added three more in the seventh end and Denmark conceded.
The Ottawa-based team of Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes is one of the medal favourites in the 10-team field.
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5:05 a.m.
Mikael Kingsbury will have company when he goes for a medal in men’s moguls today. The 33-year-old freestyle skier from Deux-Montagnes, Que., will be one of three Canadians in the final. Quebec City’s Julien Viel earned a spot by finishing second in the first round of qualification on Tuesday and Elliot Vaillancourt of Drummondville, Que., booked his place with a solid run in the qualification run this morning.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2026.
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