2026 Olympic Games: Canada wins silver in speed skating's short-track mixed relay

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Team Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin injured during Canada's win over Czechia

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Courtney Sarault just managed to avoid a tumble the U.S. Team took, taking the South Korean team down with them. Canada is first and makes it to finals.

Canada's up in mixed relay semifinals. Kim Boutin is leading.

"It's also very important that people abroad see the sacrifices of Ukraine, and also keep thinking about Ukraine," Heraskevych said.

An official warned Heraskevych that wearing the helmet violates Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter that prevents any demonstration of "political, religious, or racial propaganda" at any Olympic sites, including sport venues.

The Ukrainian Olympic Committee then sent a letter to the IOC in protest. Following a late night meeting, it appears there's been a compromise.

IOC spokesperson Mark Adams announced this morning that Heraskevych would be permitted to wear the helmet in practice — but during competition, limit "his expression of mourning" to a black arm band with no text.  

Adams called the IOC's decision a "fine balance" and that tried to address the athlete's desires "with compassion."

Heraskevych continues training today. The men's skeleton competition gets underway on Thursday morning at the Cortina Sliding Centre.

Canada moves onto the mixed relay semifinals, starting soon, after winning in the quarterfinal. There have been lots of falls on the ice today. 

Both the Stelvio course in Bormio (men's) and the Olympia delle Tofane course in Cortina (women's) have been the site of numerous high-profile crashes in recent years. 

American Mikaela Shiffrin hit the Cortina nets at high speed in January 2024, while Ottawa's Val Grenier suffered a brutal crash in Cortina later that same weekend, sustaining a fractured humerus, a torn anterior cruciate ligament and partial medial collateral ligament tear. 

The Stelvio, in particular, is noted as being one of the fastest courses in the world. In December 2024, French skier Cyprien Sarrazin crashed on the Stelvio and required surgery for a brain bleed. 

The men's World Cup circuit typically visits the piste in December. It is expected to be lighter and less icy in February, which adds an element of the unknown for the athletes.

Team Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin injured during Canada's win over Czechia

Marie-Philip Poulin left during the first period of Canada's 5-1 victory over Czechia with a suspected lower-body injury.

Canada is licking its wounds after a very physical preliminary game against Czechia last night, where the team lost its captain early on.

Marie-Philip Poulin was the first player to exit the game after taking a hard hit into the boards in the first period. The 34-year-old, who is making her fifth Olympic appearance, was slow to get up and didn’t put weight on her right leg as she left the ice. 

She briefly returned to the bench later in the first, but didn’t come back out from the locker room at the start of the second. We later learned that she would not return to the game. 

Poulin's status will be top of mind as the tournament's two superpowers square off in the last group-stage game for the Americans (3-0) and the second-last for Canada (2-0). 

The top seed for the elimination rounds is at stake. But since Canada and the U.S. Are extremely likely to meet in the gold-medal game anyway, the Canadians will likely be cautious with their captain.

In an Instagram post yesterday evening, Vonn made her first public statement since her gruesome crash at Sunday's women's downhill.

Vonn said she has a complex tibia fracture that will "require multiple surgeries to fix properly."

"While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets," Vonn wrote. "Standing in the starting gate was an incredible feeling that I will never forget. Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself."

Vonn, 41, said the fall had nothing to do with the torn ACL she was skiing on, after another crash just over a week before Sunday's. 

"Similar to ski racing, we take risks in life. We dream. We love. We jump. And sometimes we fall. Sometimes our hearts are broken. Sometimes we don't achieve the dreams we know we could have. But that is also the beauty of life; we can try," wrote Vonn, whose decorated racing career has been punctuated by injuries.

Her father, Alan Kildow, said earlier in the day that he did not want her to return to racing. “This is the end of her career,” Kildow said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “There will be no more ski races for Lindsey Vonn, as long as I have anything to say about it.”

Mixed relay in speed skating is underway just after the men's short track heats wrapped up. 

Two Canadians qualified for the quarterfinals. William Dandjinou finished first in Heat 5 with 1:24.672. Felix Roussel got 1:23.828, finishing first in Heat 6.

Steven Dubois (1:50.137) collided with Great Britain's Niall Treacy in Heat 4 and did not advance. After review, there was no penalty for shared responsibility.

The quarterfinals are Thursday at 2:28 p.m. ET.

The alpine team combined ski event is making its debut at the Olympics. 

Team combined starts with a downhill run, followed by a single slalom run later in the day. Part of the rules are that both races have to be held on the same day. A team is made up of two racers, both of the same gender. One athlete races the speed discipline, and the other the slalom.

The team with the lowest combined time in downhill and slalom will be awarded the gold medal.

The men raced yesterday in Bormio, Italy. Switzerland’s young speed star, Franjo von Allmen, claimed his second gold medal of these Winter Games alongside his teammate and slalom specialist Tanguy Nef. Von Allmen was also victorious in the men’s downhill on the Stelvio course on Saturday. 

Right now, American Breezy Johnson’s team is sitting in first after the downhill portion of the combined event in Cortina d’Ampezzo this morning. Johnson was also crowned the women’s Olympic downhill champion on the Tofane on Sunday. Her teammate, Mikaela Shiffrin, the winningest World Cup alpine skier with 108 career victories, races the slalom portion at 8 a.m. ET. 

The Canadian teams are sitting in 19th and 22nd heading into the slalom race.

The most successful World Cup alpine skier of all time, Mikaela Shiffrin, and downhill world and Olympic champion Breezy Johnson are forming a U.S. power pairing in the women's team combined this morning. 

The race — bringing together downhill and slalom pairings with one run in each discipline — will be held on Cortina d'Ampezzo's Olimpia delle Tofane piste. This year is the event's Olympic debut.

Johnson, who added Olympic gold on Sunday to the world title she won last year, will partner with Shiffrin, the dominant slalom skier, with seven wins from eight World Cup races this season.

Teammate Lindsey Vonn, who leads the World Cup downhill standings with five podiums in five races, including two wins, would have been the front-runner if it weren't for the devastating crash that broke her leg Sunday in women's downhill.

While Shiffrin has won a record 108 World Cup races, Johnson has yet to win one, though she holds the two biggest titles of any skier's career.

Any medal would be Shiffrin's first since the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, and a career fourth, after she drew a blank in Beijing four years ago, which came after the sudden death of her father. 

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