MILAN – From the primary elimination recreation for the Canadian girls’s hockey crew to a speedskating celebrity trying to bounce again from a slender however disappointing consequence off the rostrum earlier this week, listed below are 5 issues to look out for on the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday, Feb. 14:
DO-OR-DIE FOR GOLD BEGINS
The ladies’s hockey crew will look to advance in its first elimination matchup on the Olympic event Saturday when it takes on Germany. The Canadians are the defending gold medallists however had an up-and-down preliminary spherical with a 5-0 loss to the US sandwiched between 5-1 and 5-0 wins over Czechia and Finland. Captain Marie-Philip Poulin practiced Friday for the primary time since being injured towards Czechia on Monday, however her standing stays unsure.
REBOUND TO THE PODIUM?
Speedskating star William Dandjinou of Sherbrooke, Que., will look so as to add to his medal haul on the Video games when he takes to the rink in males’s 1,500-metre short-track speedskating. Dandjinou received silver as a part of Canada’s medal relay crew, however was pushed off the rostrum within the males’s 1,000, main till the ultimate lap when opponents from the Netherlands, China and South Korea slipped previous him throughout the surge to the end line. Dandjinou enters the lads’s 1,500 as a favorite to win a medal within the occasion, as he has been for every of the person distance races in Milan-Cortina.
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Saskatoon’s Maïa Schwinghammer continues her Olympic debut, becoming a member of three different Canadians within the girls’s twin moguls occasion on the Video games. Schwinghammer completed fifth within the moguls earlier within the week and had stated she felt she didn’t push sufficient within the race’s first closing, then made a mistake desirous to push extra within the second. The 24-year-old’s identify caught the general public’s consideration on the Video games after a CBC reporter caught her father in a avenue interview, the place he broke into tears speaking about how proud he was of his daughter.
CATCHING UP
Two Canadians, together with Brighton, Ont.’s Hallie Clarke, face an uphill battle within the girls’s skeleton occasion. Clarke, the youngest lady to win a world championship when she took the title at 19 in 2024, sits twentieth in her Olympics debut after the occasion’s first two runs. She is 2.25 seconds behind the chief, Janin Flock of Austria. Additionally competing within the race is North Vancouver, B.C.’s Jane Channell, who positioned above Clarke after two runs, in fifteenth. Channell was 1.74 seconds behind Flock.
LAST CHANCE FOR GOLD
Alpine snowboarding star Marco Odermatt of Switzerland has one final likelihood to take dwelling a gold medal from the Video games after coming into Milan Cortina with many anticipating a number of prime finishes. Odermatt at present has a silver and a bronze from the Video games, however has been outshone by Swiss teammate Franjo von Allmen, who has received three golds. Odermatt is the defending gold medallist within the males’s large slalom occasion, having received the race in Beijing 4 years in the past. The one man in Olympic historical past to repeat as large slalom champion on the Video games is Italian legend Alberto Tomba, who received in 1984 and 1988.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Feb. 13, 2026.
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