2026 Olympic Games: Canadian figure skaters Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud put up a season's best

canadian river curlers majestic, Peterman come to kingdom of sweden for 4th straight loss in mixed doubles

Lindsey Vonn airlifted to hospital after serious crash during Olympic downhill

Lindsey Vonn's sister Karin Kildow on her comeback and crash: 'She put her whole heart into it'

American Breezy Johnson wins women's downhill at Milano Cortina 2026

NHL stars arrive in Milan

Despite crashing out, Canada's winningest skier Kingsbury says Vonn is still the downhill GOAT

Canada's Cassidy Gray finishes 26th in downhill at Milano-Cortina Winter Games

Maltais wins 3,000m speed skating bronze for Canada's 1st medal at Milano Cortina 2026

Maltais reflects on earning her 1st individual Olympic speed skating medal

Ilia Malinin's 2nd place finish keeps Americans 1st overall in figure skating team event

After a stellar performance, the Canadians' performance earned them 134.42 points, about one point behind the Americans to place them second in the pairs event with three teams to go.

Good opening moments for Pereira and Michaud on side-by-side jumps. They're skating to music from Gladiator. A small stumble for Pereira on landing of the first throw jump, but the second one was flawless. Incredible lifts. They're such a beautiful pair.

It should be noted that Pereira and Michaud stepped in for teammates Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps in the short program after Stellato-Dudek's injury. Not many gave Canada a chance of even making the top five to advance to the finals, but this pair really did their job.

It's the figure skating team event's second day. Stephen Gogolev's short program yesterday wowed audiences.

It was the 21-year-old's Olympic debut and he scored a personal-best 92.99 points, propelling Canada into the five-team final.

Canada is now up fourth after Gogolev was third among the men.

The final day of the figure skating Team Event will begin with pairs skating free program at the Milano Skating Arena.

Americans Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea will skate first.

Canadians Pereira and Michaud — skating in the absence of Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, who dropped out of team event due to injury — will skate second.

Canada is currently ranked fourth behind Italy.

Germany’s double world champion Max Langenhan won gold in the men’s luge singles on Sunday, breaking the track record four times at the sliding centre on his way to a dominant victory.

Germany has won the event in four of the last five Winter Olympics.

There’s been a lot of reaction online to Vonn’s downhill crash. Many former racers who skied with her have expressed how stunned they were.

Earlier on this page, we saw Canadian Kelly VanderBeek hold back tears as she watched the fall happen.

Now, former British skier Chemmy Alcott, who competed against Vonn in the World Cup circuit between 2000 and 2014, said on her Instagram channel that she "never considered the outcome that we had today."

"The sport I love creates incredible highs, but today we saw the biggest lows and it was quite dramatic," she said, adding that brought back memories of her own crashes in her career.

"I felt it," the 43-year-old said from the finish line in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Dan Wilton from Vancouver, who watched the race from the stands, told The Associated Press "it was frightening" to watch.

"Really, your heart goes out for such a champion who is coming to the end of her career. Everyone wanted a successful finish," he said.

Vonn's crash is perhaps the most dramatic fall in ski racing to happen on the Olympic stage since Austrian Hermann Maier's cartwheeling crash in the downhill at the 1998 Nagano Games. But it's different because Maier walked away and managed to win two gold medals (in super-G and giant slalom) a few days later.

These two falls are not the same.

We recently learned that Vonn has undergone surgery for the break in her left leg, which she sustained in the crash.

"But it's ski racing," the head of sport for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team said earlier.

"This sport's brutal and people need to remember when they're watching [that] these athletes are throwing themselves down a mountain and going really, really fast," Anouk Patty said.

WATCH | Hermann Maier's crash at the 1998 Nagano Games:

The American superstar skier underwent surgery for a fracture in her left leg after her horrific crash this morning in Cortina d’Ampezzo, according to Reuters.

Vonn was taken to a hospital in Treviso after she was airlifted off the downhill ski course.

Vonn, whose battle to reach the start line despite her knee injury dominated the opening days of the Milano-Cortina Olympics, saw her unlikely quest thwarted as she screamed in agony on the snow.

Moir is part of the coaching team this year for French-Canadian ice dancers Marie-Jare Lauriault and Romain Le Gac, who have also been married for more than a decade. He said he feels the pressure, but not the same way he did on the ice.

"I'm a bit more nervous as a coach than I was as a competitor, but the rush is different. I don't get to actually act on it  … to be involved in it and immersed in it, with the touch and the feel, I don't think we ever get that again," he told The Canadian Press in an interview with Virtue.

It's been eight years since two-time Olympic ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir performed at their last Winter Games. 

Virtue, from London, Ont., and Moir, from Ilderton, Ont., won ice dance gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and 2018 Pyeongchang Games in South Korea. They of course secured the latter with their free dance to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, which is still a comfort watch for millions of figure skating fans – and just regular people – year after year.

---

---