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We interrupt the Canada-Switzerland men's hockey game to bring you a Lindsey Vonn update. 

One of the most decorated U.S. Skiers of all time says she’s scheduled for a fourth surgery, tomorrow, to repair a complex tibia fracture in her left leg after a gruesome crash.

 "It's been quite a hard few days in the hospital here," Vonn said in a video posted on her Instagram on Friday from the hospital in Treviso, Italy, where she has been receiving care.

"I'm finally feeling more like myself, but I have a long, long way to go."

It has been nearly one week since Vonn went down hard within 13 seconds of the women's downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo on Sunday and had to be airlifted out.

The 41-year-old was racing with a torn ACL, meniscus and bone bruise after another crash in the final World Cup downhill before the Olympic race. She maintains the fall had nothing to do with that injury.

"I'm just in the hospital and very much immobile," Vonn said today, her head resting on a shark pillow. 

If everything goes well with the surgery, Vonn is hopeful she can return to the U.S., where she'll undergo a fifth surgery.

Canada's men's curling team, led by Brad Jacobs, won a difficult game against Team Sweden 8-6. 

Apparently there was no love lost between the two teams as moments of conflict surfaced. 

Early on, for example, Sweden thought Canada should have been called for a penalty for an illegal touch. 

The biggest boost for us was the eighth end, when Canada scored four. 

Canada goes up against Switzerland tomorrow. 

Besides the controversy over the ice dance result, Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron have been linked to separate scandals that have reportedly created a tense mood at the Olympics.

Fournier Beaudry's boyfriend and former ice dance partner, Nikolaj Sørensen, was banned by the body governing Canadian skating for at least six years in 2024 for "sexual maltreatment." The decision, which was later overturned due to a technicality, was related to allegations that the 36-year-old Danish-Canadian sexually assaulted an American coach and former skater in 2012. Sørensen denies the allegations and Fournier Beaudry has vehemently defended him.

Meanwhile, Cizeron's former ice dance partner, Gabriella Papadakis, recently released a memoir in which she described Cizeron as "controlling, demanding and critical." She wrote that she didn't skate with him unless a coach was present and said she was "terrified" of being left alone with him. Cizeron has strongly denied the claims, calling them a "smear campaign."

Papadakis has since lost her role as an Olympics commentator with NBC. 

Fournier Beaudry, a former Canadian skater who received French citizenship a few months ago, and Cizeron have danced together for less than a year.

Hats off to Stephen Gogolev for a practically flawless performance, banging off a quad salchow then a quad toe loop followed by a quad salchow/triple toe loop combo in the first minute of his program. We’ve seen a lot of the men struggling and falling tonight, but Gogolev was nails. 

He moves into first place with a total score of 273.78 with nine competitors still to come. Headliner Ilia Malinin of the U.S. Will skate last.

Pius Suter has scored the first goal against the Canadian men’s hockey team at this tournament, off a bit of a scramble in front of the net on the power play. (Bo Horvat was off for high sticking.)

Canada has still got a 2-1 lead late in the first period.

Halfway through the men’s free skate, the leader is Nika Egadze of Georgia with a total score of 260.27. Another 12 competitors are still to come, including Canadian Steven Gogolev, who is up soon. 

Gogolev, 21, said his first love was downhill skiing but he chose to focus on skating as a youngster because he likes to jump. He has entered three quad jumps on his technical elements sheet, but so far in the competition a good number of skaters have been changing elements on the fly.

American Maxime Naumov has given us the most emotional moment of the night so far. Naumov lost his parents when the airliner they were on collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., just over a year ago. They were among 29 members of the wider American skating community who died that day. 

Naumov fell twice in his skate but finished strong and with a smile on his face. In the kiss-and-cry box he held up a photo of himself as a little boy skating between his parents. 

Harley has made it 2-0 for Canada off a beautiful pass from Connor McDavid. 

For those counting at home, it’s McDavid’s fifth point of the Olympics, and we’re only in the first period of Game 2. Not a bad start to his Olympic career.

Connor McDavid scores his 1st Olympic goal

After putting up three assists in his Olympic debut, in Canada's 5-0 win over Czechia, Connor McDavid opened the scoring in Canada's second game against Switzerland.

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.

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