While you were sleeping: How Canada performed at the Beijing Olympics Tuesday, Wednesday

After going winless on day four of the Beijing Olympics, Canada added two medals to its tally on day five of competition Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

Canada now has eight medals to its name from the 2022 Games so far.

Here’s what you may have missed from Canada’s performance on day five.

Steven Dubois was the highlight of Canada’s day in short-track speed skating with a silver medal win in the men’s 1,500-metre event.

Dubois, who advanced to the final after official review following an error in the semis, took home the medal in a photo-finish over bronze-medallist Semen Elistratov of the Russian Olympic Committee.

The Republic of Korea’s Daeheon Hwang won gold with a time of 2:09.23 – just 0.035 seconds ahead of Dubois.

The 24-year-old Olympic rookie was the lone Canadian in the final after teammates Charles Hamelin and Pascal Dion failed to qualify.

Hamelin, a five-time Olympian, was penalized during his skate at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing and did not make it to the final.

The event was Hamelin’s last Olympic race of his career in an individual distance event, the Canadian Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.

However, he will compete in the men’s 5,000-metre relay – an event he’s won three Olympic medals in – starting Friday, alongside Dubois and Dion.

On the women’s side, Kim Boutin’s quest to add to her bronze medal in Beijing hit a roadblock in the 1,000-metre qualifying event after she fell just before the finish line in her heat.

Boutin won’t advance to the quarterfinals on Friday, but teammates Courtney Sarault and Alyson Charles will.

In the women’s 3,000-metre relay semifinals, Boutin, Sarault, Charles, Danae Blais and Florence Brunelle raced Canada into Final A alongside the Netherlands, China and the Republic of Korea, which takes place on Sunday.

Canada’s Meryeta O’Dine won the bronze medal in women’s snowboard cross, after powering her way through five gruelling rounds of racing.

The 24-year-old, who is making her Olympic debut in Beijing, won Canada’s first medal in the event since the 2014 Games in Sochi.

Fellow Canadian Tess Critchlow nearly joined Odine in the final but placed third in the semifinal round, sending her to the small final where she finished second for a sixth-place overall rank.

Zoe Bergermann and Audrey McManiman made it to the quarterfinals in the same event but failed to make it into the top two in their heats, ending their runs.

Earlier in the day, Elizabeth Hosking and Brooke Dhondt both advanced to the women’s halfpipe final after finishing ninth and 10th in the qualifier, respectively.

Hosking had a disappointing first run, scoring just 10.0 after falling on her first trick attempt. But she managed to recover on the second run with a score of 70.5, as the best of the two scores determined the final rankings.

Dhondt managed to secure her spot with a solid score of 70.0 on her second of two runs, improving slightly on her first crack at the course.

In the men’s halfpipe qualifier, Liam Gill placed outside the top 12 with a best score of 15.5, finishing 23nd and ending his journey in Beijing.

Tristan Walker and Justin Snith slightly lost control in the final run of men’s double luge, costing them a podium spot in the event.

Walker and Snith clocked in a time of 1:57.918, good enough for the seventh while Germany took gold and silver. Austria went home with bronze.

The Canadian duo both won silver medals in the 2018 Games in PyeongChang in the team relay event.

The men’s curling team led by skip Brad Gushue began its Olympic campaign with a 10-5 win over Denmark.

The men’s next match will be against Norway on Thursday.

Evan McEachran started strong with his first of three runs in the men’s freeski big air final, hitting a score of 93.0 and finishing the round in second position.

But he was unable to keep up the momentum and fell on his two subsequent runs, ending the final in ninth place.

Erin Mielzynski fared the best out of the four Canadians competing in the women’s slalom final, placing 16th with a combined time of 1:47:52 after two runs through the course.

Laurence St-Germain finished in 17th place, followed by Ali Nullmeyer in 21st and Amelia Smart in 27th.