MILAN – From the primary matches for Canada’s males’s curling staff to attainable Canadian medals ice dance, girls’s moguls and males’s 1000-metre speedskating, listed below are 5 issues to look out for on the Milan Cortina Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 11:
DANCING TO VICTORY?
Veteran ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier will look to safe an Olympic medal in what could also be their last aggressive skate.
Gilles and Poirier enter Wednesday’s free dance portion of the competitors in third place after Monday’s rhythm dance portion, behind former Canadian skater Laurence Fournier Beaudry, now representing France with Guillaume Cizeron, and American three-time world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates.
Toronto’s Gilles and Poirier, of Unionville, Ont., are each 34 years outdated and skating of their fifteenth season, with Milan Cortina being their third Winter Video games collectively.
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EXPERIENCE AT THE RINK
The boys’s curling competitors on the Video games is slated to get underway when Canada takes on Germany in round-robin play.
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Canada is headed by Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., who was the final Canadian skip for a males’s staff to guide the Canadians to a gold medal in Sochi in 2014. He will likely be teamed with Marc Kennedy of St. Albert, Alta., and Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, each from Chestermere, Alta. All 4 have earlier Olympic expertise.
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Gallant is returning to motion after a disappointing run with spouse Jocelyn Peterman in combined doubles competitors, the place the duo did not qualify for the semifinals with a 4-5 document in round-robin play.
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EMOTIONAL DEBUT
Freestyle skier Maia Schwinghammer of Saskatoon will likely be trying to medal when she makes her Olympic debut within the girls’s moguls last.
Schwinghammer, 24, gained bronze within the 2025 World Ski Championships in Switzerland and reached the rostrum 3 times over the past World Cup season.
The skier’s father turned a web-based sensation on the Video games after a CBC reporter interviewed him on the streets of Livigno, Italy, the place he broke down in tears describing his satisfaction in seeing his daughter attain the very best degree of world competitors.
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SUPER-G FAMILY AFFAIR
4 Canadians are scheduled to compete in Wednesday’s males’s super-G alpine snowboarding occasion, one of many highest-profile competitions on the Video games.
James (Jack) Crawford of Toronto will likely be joined by the North Vancouver, B.C., trio of Cameron Alexander and brothers Brodie and Riley Seger within the race.
Crawford is probably the most skilled skier of the group with seven World Cup seasons below his belt, in addition to a bronze medal from Beijing 2022 in males’s mixed alpine snowboarding.
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SPEEDING TO THE PODIUM
Speedskater Laurent Dubreuil will look to achieve the rostrum once more within the males’s 1,000 metres after profitable silver in Beijing in 2022.
Dubreuil, 33, from Lévis, Que., narrowly missed out on one other medal on the Beijing Video games when he got here 0.03 of a second brief from reaching the rostrum within the 500-metres earlier than profitable his silver a number of days later.
He enters the Milan Cortina Video games as an eight-time medallist on the world single-distance championships, together with three golds and two silvers.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Feb. 10, 2026.
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