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That didn’t take long. Connor McDavid has opened the scoring for Canada on the power play, assisted by Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar.

It might be the most dangerous power play unit I’ve ever seen in men’s hockey. If you shut down McDavid, there’s Sidney Crosby. Shut him down and you’ve got MacKinnon. And on and on.

We’re only two minutes into this second preliminary-round game and we’ve already seen a Canadian shot off the post and a massive save from goaltender Logan Thompson on a Swiss three-on-one chance. Buckle up!

In men's curling, Canada is trailing Sweden 4-3 in the seventh end.

The lineup is in for the game against Switzerland, which begins at 3:10 p.m. ET.

Just a couple of tweaks from yesterday: Logan Thompson gets the start in net, and Seth Jarvis draws in for Brad Marchand up front.

Shea Theodore is on the second defence pairing after Josh Morrissey was hurt in yesterday's game. That brings extra defenceman Travis Sanheim in as the seventh D. 

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Josip Brusic, the solo Canadian slider in men's skeleton, didn't do too well during the third heat, but he did move up a spot from 24th to 23rd. One more heat to go!

France's Cizeron and ex-Canadian skater Fournier Beaudry win Olympic ice dance gold

France's Guillaume Cizeron and his partner, former Canadian skater Laurence Fournier Beaudry, won the ice dance competition at Milano Cortina 2026. It's Fournier Beaudry's first Olympic medal, and the second Olympic gold medal for Cizeron.

The International Skating Union (ISU) is defending the scores given to ice dance gold-medallists Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France. Their narrow victory has been widely disputed, with some onlookers saying U.S. Pair Madison Chock and Evan Bates should have won.

"The ISU has full confidence in the scores given and remains completely committed to fairness," a spokesperson said, according to several reports.

Scrutiny is particularly focused on a French judge who awarded the duo nearly eight points more than the American pair in the free dance segment. Had the score been excluded, Chock and Bates would have moved into the top spot. 

As of this afternoon, a petition demanding an investigation into the judges had amassed nearly 16,000 signatures.

But there are few avenues to challenge final results in the Olympics and the ISU said there are checks and balances in place to avoid unfair scores. 

“It is normal for there to be a range of scores given by different judges in any panel and a number of mechanisms are used to mitigate these variations," the ISU said today. 

Watching women's skeleton today has been nothing short of amazing. But behind the scenes, there's been an ongoing scandal involving Team Canada. 

American skeleton athlete Katie Uhlaender has accused Team Canada of manipulating the path for athletes to qualify for the Olympic Games, thereby preventing her from gaining a spot. 

It all started in January when Canada pulled four athletes from the North American Cup race in Lake Placid, N.Y., where athletes made a big push to qualify for the Olympics. Fewer competitors at the pivotal race meant fewer points available to those athletes who were on the track — points needed to get to the Olympic Games. Uhlaender claims that Team Canada prevented her from fighting for a coveted Olympic spot because the reduced field made it impossible for her to clinch an adequate amount of points. 

Notably, the IBSF, skeleton's international governing body, has found no wrongdoing. The International Olympic Committee also denied Uhlaender a wild-card spot upon appeal. 

Meanwhile, Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton maintains that the decision in Lake Placid was made to protect the welfare of younger Canadian athletes.

We just saw an upset in our first quarterfinal game in women's hockey. Sweden, which crossed over from Group B, has shut out Czechia, 2-0. We haven't seen the Swedes in the final four at the Olympics since 2014.

Czechia has eight PWHL players on its roster and was a popular pick to upset the podium. But the Swedes have some promising young talent, including 19-year-old Hilda Svensson, who's been a star in her first collegiate season at Ohio State. Svensson scored an empty netter in today’s win.

Defender Maja Nylén Persson, who plays for the PWHL's New York Sirens, had an assist in today’s game.

"We have been on a journey for these four years, and we have a lot of young talent who’ve got more experience now and have some tournaments under their belt," she told reporters a couple of weeks ago. 

"So I feel like coming into this Olympics, we are more prepared than ever, and I feel like we just need to hit that perfect momentum going on when it's a huge tournament. I think that's the last piece that's been missing for us."

American Ilia Malinin is the headliner heading into the men's free skate final, which is underway now. 

Everyone is watching for whether the 21-year-old phenom with the well-earned nickname, "Quad God," will unleash his signature quadruple axel, recognized as the hardest jump being performed in the world right now. What makes the quad axel so hard is that it is actually four-and-a-half rotations in the air. 

Malinin has a five-point lead after the short program, where he did not attempt the quad axel. Rumour has it he has been working on landing the first ever quint jump, even though Quint God just doesn’t have the same ring.

Steven Gogolev goes for Canada after finishing a solid 10th in the short program, where he had to survive one of his skate laces coming loose.

Both teams have 1-0 records heading into the game. Canada blanked the Czechs, 5-0, yesterday. Switzerland, meanwhile, shut out France, 4-0, yesterday.

The Canadian lines should be out about an hour before puck drop. With Jordan Binnington earning the start yesterday and facing a decent workload, one assumes we’ll see Logan Thompson’s first appearance in net.

A few players to watch on the Swiss team: New Jersey Devils forwards Nico Hischier and Timo Meier. The latter had two goals in the win over the French team. It’s also always fun to watch captain Roman Josi, long one of the top defencemen in the game.

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