It’s Day 5 of competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics, where Canada will be looking to add to the three medals it won coming into Wednesday.
Here are the latest developments. All times Eastern.
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4:10 p.m.
Canada’s men’s curling team has defeated Germany with a score of 7-6.
Skip Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and his Calgary-based team of Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert broke a tie with a pair in the ninth end but Germany evened the match with a deuce in the 10th.
Canada had the hammer in the extra end and Jacobs used it to make a nose hit for the win.
Canada’s men’s team is looking to top the Olympic podium for the first time since Jacobs won gold in 2014 with a different squad.
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3:50 p.m.
Canada’s men’s curling team is heading into extra ends after Germany tied the match 6-6.
Skip Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and his Calgary-based team carried a 6-4 lead in the tenth before the Germans evened the score.
Canada is looking to bounce back in the sport after its mixed doubles team finished with a 4-5 record on Monday.
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3:40 p.m.
Canadian ice dancers Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha have scored 120.14 points in their free dance.
Lajoie, of Boucherville, Que., and Lagha, of St-Hubert, Que., now have a total score of 199.80, leaving them in second place more than halfway through the competition.
It comes after the duo came third in the ice dance team event on Saturday.
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2:50 p.m.
Canadian ice dancers Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain le Gac have a total score of 187.18 after their free dance.
The duo from Laval, Que., are currently ranked second about halfway through today’s competition.
Toronto’s Piper Gillies and Paul Poirier, of Unionville, Ont., will take the ice shortly and are looking to claim a spot on the podium after coming in third place in Monday’s rhythm dance.
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2:42 p.m.
Canadian lugers on the men’s side had no better luck than their female teammates at the Games on Day 5, where Devin Wardrope and Cole Zajanski settled for 10th place in doubles competition.
The Canadian duo ended with a time just short of one minute and 46 seconds, 0.82 seconds behind eventual winners Italy.
Austria and Germany took silver and bronze, respectively, in a podium finish that almost exactly matched the results at the women’s doubles earlier in the day, where Canada also finished 10th.
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2:30 p.m.
Canada’s men’s curling team has a 4-2 lead over Germany halfway through its opening game at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Skip Brad Jacobs and his Calgary-based crew were down 2-0 after three ends.
But the Canadians tied it in the fourth and went ahead with a steal of two in the fifth.
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2:00 p.m.
There was some high drama at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium, as the medallists in the men’s 1,000 metres had to wait for a re-skate until their spots on the podium were secure.
Dutch skater Joep Wennemars was on a podium pace when he was clipped by Chinese skater Lian Ziwen and ended up fifth.
He was awarded another shot and had the crowd behind him as he competed alone after all the pairings had finished, but he didn’t have enough left in the tank to bump another skater off the podium.
American star Jordan Stolz won gold, followed by Jenning de Boo of the Netherlands and Ning Zhongyan of China. Canada’s Laurent Dubreuil was eighth.
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1:45 p.m.
Canadians Beattie Podulsky and Kailey Allan did not reach the podium in women’s doubles luge, finishing 10th in the competition.
The event was won by Italians Andrea Voetter and Marion Oberhofer, followed by duos from Germany and Austria.
The Canadian pair recorded a total time of about 1 minute and 49 seconds, 3.198 seconds behind the winners.
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1:18 p.m.
The first rocks have been thrown in Canada’s tournament-opening men’s curling game against Germany.
Skip Brad Jacobs and his Calgary-based team are representing Canada.
Jacobs led a team from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., to gold at the 2014 Sochi Games.
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1:15 p.m.
Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky had two goals, including the tournament opener, as Slovakia kicked off men’s hockey action with a 4-1 win over Finland.
Slafkovsky is on pace for another excellent Olympics after leading the 2022 Beijing Games with seven goals in seven games as a 17-year-old.
Finland came in as the defending champion from a Beijing tournament without NHL players, while Slovakia was the bronze medallist in 2022.
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11:25 a.m.
Olympic men’s hockey is underway in Milan, with Slovakia taking on Finland.
It’s the first Olympic hockey tournament featuring NHL players since the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia.
Canada, which won a second straight gold that year, will kick off its tournament tomorrow against Czechia.
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10:50 a.m.
Olympic men’s hockey coach Jon Cooper says the tragic shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. hits close to home.
Cooper grew up in Prince George, B.C., the closest major city to Tumbler Ridge, and remembers the growth of the community.
He says he has stayed in the town’s hotel and had friends who worked there.
While he hasn’t been back in a long time, he says his heart goes out to the affected families.
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10:37 a.m.
French athletes have finished first and second in the women’s 15-kilometre individual biathlon event.
Julia Simon crossed the line ahead of her teammate Lou Jeanmonnot, who won silver, and Bulgaria’s Lora Hristova in the bronze position.
Calgary’s Pascale Paradis was the top Canadian in 24th, while Whitehorse’s Nadia Moser came in 67th and Shilo Rousseau of Thessalon, Ont. finished 78th. Canada has not won a biathlon medal since Myriam Bédard’s double-gold performance in Lillehammer 1994.
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9:20 a.m.
Maia Schwinghammer finished fifth in the freestyle skiing women’s mogul finals at her first Olympics.
The 24-year-old from Saskatoon scored a 77.61 in her finals run, less than a point behind the bronze medallist.
U.S. skiers Elizabeth Lemley and Jaelin Kauf took the gold and silver medals with scores of 82.30 and 80.77, respectively, while France’s Perrine Laffont scored 78 to earn her a bronze.
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8:55 a.m.
Saskatoon’s Maia Schwinghammer is through to the final round of the freestyle skiing women’s mogul finals.
Schwinghammer scored a 77.18, which put her into sixth place heading into the medal round.
Laurianne Desmarais-Gilbert of Sainte-Adèle, Que. finished 12th, while Lac-Beauport, Que.’s Ashley Koehler was 16th and Vancouver’s Jessica Linton ended up 19th.
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7:09 a.m.
Franjo von Allmen has won his third gold medal at the Milan Cortina Games.
The breakout skiing star from Switzerland takes top spot in the men’s super-G with a time of one minute 25.32 seconds.
American Ryan Cochran-Siegle is second and Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt is third. James (Jack) Crawford is the top Canadian in 16th.
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6:50 a.m.
Canadian snowboarder Elizabeth Hosking has made the women’s halfpipe final. The 24-year-old from Longueuil, Que., a three-time Olympian who was sixth in Beijing, was eighth in qualifying today.
Calgary’s Felicity Geremia, in 17th, and Brooke D’Hondt, also from Calgary, in 23rd, did not advance.
The 12-woman final is scheduled for Thursday.
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6:45 a.m.
All four Canadian skiers will finish outside the top 10 in the men’s super-G.
After 30 competitors, Toronto’s James (Jack) Crawford is the top Canadian in 16th, after completing the course in a time of one minute 26.85.
North Vancouver’s Cameron Alexander sits tied for 17th, while Brodie Seger sits 22nd and Riley Seger did not complete the course.
Franjo von Allmen of Switzerland sits atop the leaderboard, putting him in line for his third Olympic gold medal of the Milan Cortina Games if the standings don’t change.
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5:40 a.m.
Two more Canadians have qualified for the final of the freestyle skiing women’s moguls.
Vancouver’s Jessica Linton and Lac-Beauport, Que.’s Ashley Koehler have both made it through by competing in today’s second qualifier.
They’ll join their teammates Maia Schwinghammer and Laurianne Desmarais-Gilbert in today’s final.
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5:10 a.m.
The Canadian Olympic Committee says it is “heartbroken” by the news of the fatal school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
“Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones, those who are injured, and the entire Tumbler Ridge community. Team Canada stands with everyone affected as they navigate difficult days ahead,” it wrote.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 11, 2026.
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