2026 Olympic Games: Canada wins in men's hockey and curling on Day 7, but doesn't add to medal count

Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov surprises everyone to lay claim Olympic enter skating atomic number 79

'Quad God' Ilia Malinin proves mortal as gold medal favourite stumbles to 8th place finish

Canada's Stephen Gogolev serves notice with 5th place finish

Connor McDavid scores his 1st Olympic goal

Canada suffers 1st-ever loss to U.S. In Olympic women's curling

Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin resumes practising following knee injury

Days after head injury were 'living nightmare,' says Canadian skater

Mark McMorris 'feeling much better' and ready to compete in Olympic snowboard slopestyle

Canada defeats U.S. For 2nd straight Olympic men's curling victory

Slovakia avoids an Olympic hockey scare by the host Italians

Canada opens Olympic men's hockey tournament with a shutout win over Czechia

Macklin Celebrini scores Canada's 1st Olympic goal with NHL'ers in nearly 12 years

Today was another exciting one for Canadians! Our medal count remains unchanged, but that doesn't mean we didn't inch towards possible podiums. Team Canada delivered some key wins in hockey and curling — and some exciting drama. Here's what you may have missed:

Men's hockey: Canada beat Switzerland today with a huge 5-1 win. Most of the game was fast-paced, fun and delivered some top-tier Canadian pride — like when the legendary Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the tournament or when Oilers captain Connor McDavid scored his first Olympic goal ever. As my Albertan compatriots would say: absolute beauties. 🏒

Sadly, the game ended on a more sober note when Swiss player Kevin Fiala was injured after he and Canadian Tom Wilson got tangled up. He was visibly in pain and had to be carried off on a stretcher. 

Men's curling: The Canadian men's team beat Sweden 8-6 in an explosive round robin curling match. Tension simmered throughout the game, but a climactic fight erupted at the 9th end. Sweden and Canada got into a sassy shouting match full of swears, including repeated F-bombs. Do the Olympics count as reality TV? 💅

An unexpected men's figure skating final: Going into the final, most of us thought Team USA's Ilia Malinin, known as the "Quad God,"  would easily snag the gold medal. But his performance suffered a devastating blow when he fell — twice — during the free skate portion of the competition and finished 8th.

The great news out of the competition is that Canadian Stephen Gogolev finished fifth. And while he didn't earn a medal, he logged the highest finish for a Canadian at the Olympic games in men's singles since Patrick Chan won silver at the Sochi Olympic Games in 2014. Go, Gogolev! ⛸️⛸️⛸️

That's a wrap on our live page today. To recap: We currently have seven medals (three🥈 and four🥉). No golds yet, but there's still plenty of time — nine days, to be exact — for Canada to clinch the top spot. (Hopefully more than once!)

Looking ahead to tomorrow, the Canadian women’s hockey team will be back on the ice to play eighth-ranked Germany in the quarterfinals. 

The game begins at 10:40 a.m. ET.

We’ll be watching to see if Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin makes her return. A new-look first line of Daryl Watts, Poulin and Sarah Fillier practised today in Milan.

These two teams have never played each other in the Olympics, but the Canadians have some familiarity with Germany through the world championships.

The head coaches of the two teams know each other, too. They’re both from Nova Scotia.

Sweden and the U.S. Advanced to the quarterfinals today. 

All four teams that make the semifinals will be reseeded, and that will determine the semifinal match-ups.

Finland has accused the Norwegian and U.S. Teams of bringing illegal materials into the ski service area ahead of the cross-country skiing men's sprint final. 

The race ended with Norway's Johannes Høsflot Klæbo snagging the top spot, followed by the U.S.'s Ben Ogden in second and another Norwegian, Oskar Opstad Vike, in third. 

Finnish skier Lauri Vuorinen placed fourth. 

Norway brought what’s known as a wax pot, which is an electric waxing machine. The team got permission from the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS), which confirmed it made a mistake by not informing other teams.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Team brought a liquid bottle on site, which is forbidden. The team says it was full of a cleaning agent for washing hands.

FIS told the Finnish team that the window for appeals has expired. But now, the country is considering going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

"Lauri Vuorinen is the moral Olympic champion," Team Finland's waxing chief, Heikki Tonteri, said boldly. 

Play was paused for a few minutes during the third period after a scary injury to Swiss forward Kevin Fiala.

Fiala, who plays for the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, went down after colliding with Canadian Tom Wilson along the boards. It seems Fiala hurt his leg or knee after getting tangled up with Wilson.

The entire Canadian team came onto the ice to salute Fiala as he was taken away.

Canada has defeated Switzerland 5-1 to improve its preliminary-round record to 2-0.

Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon each had a goal and two assists.

Macklin Celebrini, Thomas Harley and captain Sidney Crosby also scored. For Crosby, it was his sixth career Olympic marker.

Logan Thompson made 15 saves for the win.

Canada also had five goals in its first game, shutting out Czechia. 

With those two wins, Canada’s now won its group.

The team will play its final preliminary-round game against France on Sunday at 10:40 a.m. ET. 

France is winless in its first two games.

Elizabeth Hosking's final trick during her seemingly epic final run for the snowboard halfpipe competition ended in the worst possible way: she hit the lip of the wall and fell — hard. 

It looked painful, and now we know why. The third-time Olympian found out on Friday that she broke her scapula. 

And here's the wild part: She said she only took over-the-counter meds like Tylenol last night to manage the pain.

"All I'm thinking of, whether it's in four years, whether it's, you know, next year, next contest — I just want revenge," she said on Friday. 

So impressive. I swear, Olympians are built differently.

Remember that superstar line I mentioned earlier? It has produced its first goal for Canada.

Out of the penalty box, Macklin Celebrini wins a battle along the boards, dishes the puck to Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon puts away the rebound.

Canada’s up 5-1 over Switzerland here in the third period.

Canadian captain Sidney Crosby has scored his first goal of this tournament to put Canada up 4-1 over Switzerland in the third period.

It started with a shot from Mitch Marner, and Crosby got his stick on the puck to tip it in.

It’s Crosby’s sixth Olympic goal over three tournaments. Of course, you probably remember the one he scored to win gold back in 2010.

You know who else remembers that goal? Marner. A few weeks ago, when I asked him about Olympic memories, he told me about how he celebrated that goal all around his neighbourhood.

Ilia Malinin’s chance for a medal slipped away after the American struggled mightily in the free skate final, falling twice on quad attempts and downgrading a number of other jumps. 

Unbelievably, the man known as the Quad God who was the heavy favourite dropped from first to eighth place.

His demise allowed Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan to capture the surprise gold. Yuma Kagiyama of Japan takes silver for the second straight Olympics, with countryman Shun Sato winning bronze. 

Canada’s Stephen Gogolev, on the strength of one of the best performances of the night, climbs from 10th place to fifth. Just an excellent Olympics for the young skater.

As the clock wound down to end the second period, Canadian goaltender Logan Thompson robbed Swiss forward Philipp Kurashev after a turnover at the offensive blue line.

An interesting quirk with Thompson: He is one of only six goaltenders who’ve played in the NHL this season who catches right, which can throw shooters off a bit.

Canada now leads 3-1.

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