MILAN – Listed below are some notable quotes from the Milan Cortina Olympics on Feb. 13, 2026:
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“That’s younger staff, robust scrubbing. They make a whole lot of pictures with the broom, like a whole lot of younger groups do these days. We knew they had been going to be excited to play us, Group Canada. We did job kind of silencing their US followers at this time, and simply actually out-curling them from result in skip.”
— Group Canada curling skip Brad Jacobs, after his staff’s 6-3 win over the United States
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“For certain, I don’t just like the quantity beside my identify at this time. However I do know I nonetheless have one thing to rejoice. It’s the entire previous 4 years I’ve to rejoice with my household proper now right here in Italy.”
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— Canadian snowboarder Audrey McManiman, on lacking the quarterfinals within the girls’s snowboard cross occasion
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“It did harm, nonetheless hurts, nevertheless it’s a part of it. That’s why we’ve a staff right here. Unbelievable physio and docs have been serving to me.”
— Canadian girls’s hockey captain Marie-Philp Poulin on the harm that has that stored her in another country’s final two video games on the Milan Cortina Olympics.
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“Clearly, we wished to win that sport. However, you realize, there’s a number of video games left and simply take the teachings from that sport.”
— Canada’s Rachel Homan, on her staff’s 9-8 loss to america in spherical robin play.
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“It’s been a very lengthy profession. I had a whole lot of lovely moments and this was one other lovely second differently. Perhaps not in a efficiency means, however I believe this was a good looking goodbye on the largest stage with my household and children within the crowd. I received to say goodbye in a good looking means.”
— Canadian long-track velocity skater Ted-Jan Bloemen, who ended his Olympic profession within the males’s 10,000 metre race.
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“We undoubtedly take some hits at occasions, and it’s undoubtedly part of the game. And there’s not one snowboarder out right here that hasn’t taken a tough hit. We’re a tricky breed, and everybody has that warrior spirit in snowboarding and undoubtedly has a whole lot of ardour in the direction of it, or else they wouldn’t be out right here.”
— Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris, who’s recovering from a concussion and bone bruising incurred throughout huge air coaching earlier than the Milan Cortina Olympics began.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Feb. 13, 2026.
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