MILAN – From a medal probability in freestyle snowboarding to the beginning of determine skating’s ice dance competitors, listed here are 5 issues to look out for on the Milan Cortina Olympics on Monday, Feb. 9:
SLOPESTYLE STARS
Freestyle skiers Megan Oldham of Parry Sound, Ont., and Naomi Urness of Mont-Tremblant, Que., take to the course at Livigno Snow Park within the girls’s slopestyle closing. Oldham — an X Video games slopestyle champion in 2023 and world championship silver and bronze medallist — completed seventh and Urness eighth in qualifying on Saturday. They’ll be in a aggressive subject, together with defending Olympic champion and two-time world champion Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland and Chinese language star Eileen Gu.
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FILLIER THE NET
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Rising celebrity Sarah Fillier and defending-champion Canada tackle Czechia in girls’s hockey motion. Fillier scored a purpose on Saturday to assist Canada open its title defence with a 4-0 win over Switzerland. She is again in Olympic motion after a stellar debut, when she had eight targets to assist Canada win gold on the 2022 Beijing Video games.
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LET’S DANCE
Canada could have three figure-skating tandems in competitors when the ice dance occasion begins with the rhythm occasion. Toronto’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., had been silver medallists on the final two world championships and skated within the rhythm dance of the group occasion. Marjorie Lajoie Boucherville, Que., and Zachary Lagha, of St-Hubert, Que., who had been third within the group free dance on Saturday, and Marie-Jade Lauriault of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., and Romain Le Gac of Laval, Que., are additionally within the subject.
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ROCKING THE SEMIS
The blended doubles curling semifinals will comply with the tip of the preliminary spherical on the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium. The winners will face off for the primary curling gold medal of the Video games on Tuesday, whereas the losers will battle for bronze. Earlier, Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant play their closing in opposition to Switzerland.
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AIR JAPAN
After Japanese athletes dominated Saturday’s males’s large air competitors, their teammates will look to do the identical within the girls’s occasion. And so they have cause to be assured. Murase Kokomo (gold), Iwabuchi Reira (silver) and Fukada Mari (bronze) accomplished a Japanese sweep of the rostrum on the 2025 snowboard world championships, and all three are competing on the Milan Cortina Video games. Different large names within the subject embrace defending Olympic champion Anna Gasser of Austria and 2022 silver medallist Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Feb. 9, 2026.
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