It’s Day 10 of competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics, where Canada has won its 10th medal with a silver in short-track speedskating.
Here are the latest developments. All times Eastern.
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4:50 p.m.
There won’t be any Canadians on the podium in the pairs figure skating event.
Canadian champions Trennt Michaud and Lia Pereira were in third place after yesterday’s short program, but struggled in today’s free skate, posting a score of 125.06.
Fellow Canadians Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps rebounded from a disappointing performance in the short program to score 126.57 in the free skate, but finished outside of the top 10.
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4:37 p.m.
Canada leads Switzerland 2-0 after two periods in their women’s hockey semifinal in Milan.
Captain Marie-Philip Poulin has both goals for Canada.
With her first, the 19th of her Olympic career, Poulin moved past former teammate Hayley Wickenheiser as the Games’ all-time leading goal scorer.
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3:47 p.m.
Canada’s Megan Oldham has won gold in the women’s freestyle skiing big air competition.
It’s Canada’s second gold at the Games.
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3:10 p.m.
The puck has dropped in Milan, where Canada’s women’s hockey team is facing Switzerland in the semifinals.
The winner will face the United States in the gold-medal game on Thursday.
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3:05 p.m.
Two Canadians remain in medal contention after the first run at the women’s freestyle skiing big air final.
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Megan Oldham sits in second place with a score of 91.75, while Naomi Urness is fifth with an 86.75.
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2:50 p.m.
The women’s freestyle skiing big air final is underway in Livigno following a 75-minute snow delay.
Canadians Megan Oldham and Naomi Urness are competing, with Oldham posting the top score in qualifying.
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2:39 p.m.
Two Canadians have advanced to the fourth and final run in the women’s monobob at the Cortina Sliding Centre.
Melissa Lotholz of Barrhead, Alta., sits sixth, 1.34 seconds behind the leader, Germany’s Laura Nolte.
Toronto’s Cynthia Appiah is 16th, 3.25 seconds back.
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2:35 p.m.
Canadian figure skaters Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps have earned a score of 126.57 in the free skate.
They sit in first place with a total score of 192.61 with 13 pairs to go.
The duo were late arrivals to the Olympics after Stellato-Dudek was injured in training.
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2:14 p.m.
The figure skating pairs free skate is underway in Milan.
Canadian champions Trennt Michaud and Lia Pereira, who are in third place following yesterday’s short program, will skate 14th.
Fellow Canadians and former world champions, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, skate third after a disappointing showing on Sunday.
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1:19 p.m.
The women’s freestyle skiing big air final has been delayed due to weather, as it has begun to snow in Livigno.
Canadians Megan Oldham and Naomi Urness are competing in the event.
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1 p.m.
The U.S. women’s hockey team has advanced to the gold-medal game with a 5-0 semifinal win over Sweden.
The Americans will play the winner of the Canada-Switzerland semifinal, which gets underway later today.
The women’s final is Thursday.
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11 a.m.
Canada’s Brad Jacobs guided his men’s curling team to an 8-2 victory over Czechia’s Lukas Klima.
Jacobs and his Calgary-based team of Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert opened with four singles in a row and pulled away with a three-point sixth end.
Jacobs made a highlight-reel angle-raise to remove a Czech stone for the big score.
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6:50 a.m.
Speedskater Courtney Sarault finished second in the women’s 1,000-metre final, securing the fourth silver medal for Canada at the Milan Cortina Games.
The 25-year-old from Moncton snagged her second individual medal this Olympics after a tight-fought race with the Netherlands’ Xandra Velzeboer.
Sarault won a bronze on Thursday after a big comeback in the women’s 500 metres, which Velzeboer also won.
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6:30 a.m.
Canada will fight for a podium spot in the men’s 5,000-metre speedskating relay after beating Italy and China in the semifinals.
William Dandjinou, Steven Dubois, Maxime Laoun and Félix Roussel secured their team’s spot following a dramatic race that saw several falls during one exchange.
Italy, South Korea and the Netherlands will join Canada to compete for the top spot in the finals.
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5:45 a.m.
Canada’s Rachel Homan ended a three-game losing skid in curling with a 10-5 victory over China.
Homan and her Ottawa-based team of Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes scored four points in the fourth end and tacked on three more in the sixth.
The Canadians improved to 2-3 in round-robin play at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium. China fell to 2-3.
Homan will look to even her round-robin record in the evening session against Japan at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium.
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5:30 a.m.
Canadian short-track star William Dandjinou is through to the quarterfinal in men’s 500-metre speedskating at the Milan Cortina Games, along with fellow Canadians Steven Dubois and Maxime Laoun.
Dandjinou pulled ahead for an easy win after the three competitors in his heat went down in a crash.
The 24-year-old Montreal native arrived at the Games as the world’s top-ranked skater and a favourite for multiple gold medals.
Two events into his individual program, he is still searching for a podium finish. Dandjinou finished fifth Saturday in a chaotic men’s 1,500-metre final marked by heavy contact and constant position changes.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 16, 2026.
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