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Curling Canada CEO Nolan Thiessen says Canadian curler Marc Kennedy wasn't acting out of malice when he dropped several F-bombs on the ice yesterday, after Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson suggested the Canadians may have been double touching the stone during delivery.

World Curling followed up today on the 8-6 Canadian victory, saying that after review, no rule had been broken. 

It did, however, issue Kennedy, Canada's vice, a verbal warning, saying in a statement that "further inappropriate behaviour … would result in additional sanctions."

Thiessen says he stands behind Kennedy and the men's team.

"I take a lot of umbrage with the word 'cheating' that was being said out there. Was there a potential rules infraction? That's for World Curling officials to decide,” he says.

"There was no cheating. Our team wouldn't cheat and doesn't cheat and … I'm fully supportive of them."

The team is currently playing against Switzerland and down 4-2 in the fourth end. 

Lucas Braathen Pinheiro has won a historic Olympic gold in the men's giant slalom — the first Brazilian and South American to do so. 

But it’s not his only moment of glory. The 25-year-old has also taken the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup by storm this season. 

He claimed a landmark victory for Brazil at the slalom opener in Levi, Finland, in November.

There, the technical specialist received a reindeer, which he named Bjørn, after his father. (Levi is known for this. As an aside, U.S. Skier Mikaela Shiffrin owns a record nine reindeer from her victories in Levi.)

Braathen Pinheiro was born in Norway and raced for the Nordic country when he made his World Cup debut in 2018. 

But after he retired from the sport in October 2023, he returned last year to represent his mother's native country of Brazil. 

He finished on the podium five times that season, but never won.

Fiala, a winger with the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, lay still on the ice for several minutes after colliding with Canadian Tom Wilson along the boards in the remaining few minutes of the game, won 5-1 by Canada.

He didn't move while on his stomach, even when he was put on a stretcher and removed from the ice — perhaps an early sign of how serious the injury is.  

It's unclear what Fiala's exact injury is, but his left leg appeared to be in an air cast as he was wheeled out.

He's now been ruled out for the rest of the Milano-Cortina Olympics.

Lucas Braathen Pinheiro has just won Brazil's first Winter Games medal — and it's a gold for giant slalom. 

The crowd at the bottom of the hill is going wild. Horns and music are blaring.

Pinheiro led in the first run and managed to match that in the final, knocking Swiss stars Marco Odermatt and Loic Meillard into silver and bronze positions by nearly a minute in total time.

Pinheiro isn't only the first Brazilian to get a Winter Olympics medal. He's also the first South American to do so.

It was a tight race on the men's Stelvio course in Bormio, where conditions are tricky with a mix of snow and rain affecting visibility. The first-place position seemed to change with every run of the first dozen skiers. 

Joan Verdu of Andorra held the lead for a little, then Austrians Marco Schwarz and Stefan Kristoffersen, followed by France's Leo Anguenot and Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen before Team Switzerland came along and knocked everybody off the podium. 

After that: Pinheiro's historic domination.

Jakara Anthony of Australia has taken gold in women's dual moguls after all three Canadians were edged out in the 1/8 finals amid difficult conditions and low visibility. 

American Jaelin Kauf silver won and teammate Elizabeth Lemley earned the bronze, her second medal at Milano-Cortina after winning gold in the singles. 

It's been quite a week for Lemley, who is 20 and in her Olympic debut. 

Canadians Mikaël Kingsbury, Julien Viel and Elliot Vaillancourt will compete in the men's event tomorrow.

The second run of the men's giant slalom in Bormio isn't going as planned for some racers.

Croatia's Filip Zubcic lost his goggles midway down when he tried to clear the falling snow off them.

Meanwhile, American skier Ryder Sarchett didn't even make it to the start gate without forgetting his race bib. He had to sharpie No. 26 onto a blank pinnie before his run. 

The snow is coming down hard at the top of the racetrack, but it's raining at the finish.

There was a heated exchange between Canada and Sweden during their men's round robin curling match

Canadian curler Marc Kennedy and Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson had a yelling match mid-game.

Canada's vice Marc Kennedy received a verbal warning from World Curling a day after he dropped multiple F-bombs in a heated exchange with Sweden's Oskar Eriksson in the ninth end.

"Further inappropriate behaviour … would result in additional sanctions," World Curling says in a news release today.

Canada won yesterday’s match 8-6.

During the competition, things broke down as players cleared rocks after the ninth end. 

Eriksson expressed he felt some Canadian players were touching the rock a second time after releasing the handle during the round-robin game.

Kennedy was quick to retort, repeatedly telling the Swede to "f--k off." When Eriksson said he'll pull up video evidence later, Kennedy responded, "I don't give a shit."

The men's team is back on the sheet against Switzerland, which started at 8 a.m. ET. 

Norway has won the cross-country women's relay. Sweden clawed its way to a silver despite losing 45 seconds in a fall and Finland takes bronze.

It's an upset for the Norwegian team, which has never taken gold in the event. It's also the first gold medal for all members of its team: Heidi Weng, Kristin Austgulen Fosnaes, Astrid Oeyre and Karoline Simpson-Larson. 

Sweden''s silver is the first non-gold for the country in the event, but it was a solid comeback during the race by teammates Frida Karlsson, Ebba Andersson, Jonna Sundling and Linn Svahn. 

Canadians Alison Mackie, Jasmine Drolet and Lliane Gagnon and Sonjaa Schmidt secured a super spot in eighth. 

Sweden isn't the only team having troubles in this snow. 

Polish skier Aleksandra Kolodziej snapped her pole in a fall about 18 kilometres into leg three of four. 

It's actually Kolodziej's 22nd birthday today.

Sweden has made up a lot of time since that fall and is back in a podium position, in third.

The women's 4x7.5-kilometre cross-country ski relay is underway and the Swedish team has just had a race-altering crash. 

The team was favoured to win, but Ebba Andersson suffered a devastating spill, somersaulting in the soft snow and ripping a ski clean off as her binding gave way — a race-altering moment in the warm Tesero, Italy, conditions.

Andersson was coming around a corner downhill and caught loose snow, tumbling head over heels. As she got up, she realized her binding had come loose and had to go down the hill on one ski, with a coach bringing a new ski at the bottom but already 45 seconds had been lost, knocking Sweden way off the podium into eighth place. Norway is in first. 

Andersson's teammate, Frida Karlsson, could be seen at the bottom holding her head. Karlsson has already won two golds at Milano-Cortina. Andersson has picked up two silvers.

Conditions in Tesero, where cross-country skiing events are being held, have been challenging as temperatures sit above 0 C and crystallize the snow. Grooves can be seen in the snow, making balance difficult for skiers. 

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