Canada will look to make history on day eight at the Beijing Winter Games when mixed snowboard cross makes its Olympic debut, while the next round of figure skating competition kicks off.
For Canadian fans, events will begin Friday evening and continue overnight into Saturday morning.
Here’s when you can see Canada compete (all times Eastern).
Events with multiple matches are marked with the start time of the earliest match. Medal events are marked in bold.
This post will be continuously updated as more events are confirmed.
Curling - 8:05 p.m. ET
Both the women’s and men’s teams will take on Sweden as they continue their way through the round-robin sessions.
The women’s match-up will start at 8:05 p.m. ET Friday, followed by the men’s teams facing off at 1:05 a.m. ET Saturday.
Both teams are looking to bounce back from losses on Friday.
Snowboarding - 9 p.m. ET
The mixed team snowboard cross makes its Olympic debut in Beijing, starting with the quarterfinals at 9 p.m. ET Friday and leading into the finals at 9:50 p.m. ET.
The event will see one man and one woman competing in teams of two, with the men racing the course first. Their time advantage will be added to their female teammates, who will start their races staggered and look to cross the finish line first.
Recent medal winners Eliot Grondin and Meryeta O’Dine will race as a team in the third quarterfinal heat, followed by Liam Moffatt and Tess Critchlow in the fourth heat. The top two teams in each heat will move to the semifinals at 9:30 p.m. ET.
Hockey - 11:10 p.m. ET
The men’s hockey team will take on the United States for the first time in these Winter Games, with the puck dropping at 11:10 p.m. ET Friday.
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Team Canada won its first match in Beijing against Germany 5-1, as it seeks to get back to the top of the medal podium after settling for bronze in 2018.
Cross-Country Skiing - 2:30 a.m. ET
Teams of four will race for gold in the women’s 4×5-kilometre relay final at 2:30 a.m. ET Saturday.
Katherine Stewart-Jones, Dahria Beatty, Cendrine Browne and Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt will race for Canada.
Speed Skating - 3 a.m. ET
Two-time Beijing medallist Isabelle Weidemann will join Ivanie Blondin and Valerie Maltais in the women’s team pursuit quarterfinal at 3 a.m. ET Saturday.
The four fastest teams will advance to the semifinals on Tuesday.
At 3:53 a.m. ET, Canadians Laurent Dubreuil, Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu and Gilmore Junio will race for gold in the men’s 500-metre final.
Biathlon - 4 a.m. ET
Adam Runnalls, Jules Burnotte and brothers Scott and Christian Gow will compete in the men’s 10-kilometre sprint final at 4 a.m. ET Saturday.
Ski Jumping - 5 a.m. ET
Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes and Matthew Soukup will run their trial rounds in the men’s large hill competition at 5 a.m. ET Saturday, followed by the first official round at 6 a.m. ET.
The top 30 jumpers in the first round will move on to the final round at 7 a.m. ET.
Boyd-Clowes finished 18th in the qualification round on Friday, while Soukup placed 47th overall.
Figure Skating - 6 a.m. ET
The ice dance competition kicks off with the rhythm dance program at 6 a.m. ET Saturday.
Three pairs — Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha, Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen, and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier — will compete for Canada.
The top 20 pairs will move on to the free dance on Monday.
Skeleton - 7:20 a.m. ET
Mirela Rahneva and Jane Channell will race their third heat in women’s skeleton at 7:20 a.m. ET Saturday, with their sights set on qualifying for the fourth and final run at 8:55 a.m. ET.
Rahneva is ranked ninth overall after the first two runs, while Channell is in 17th place.
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