2026 Olympic Games: Canada gains another bronze on Day 8, but still no gold

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Team Canada gained another bronze medal on Day 8, bringing its medal count to eight for Milano Cortina 2026 so far. But it heads into the second week of the Games without any of those coveted gold medals. 

Short track speed skating: Laurent Dubreuil nabbed Canada's only medal of Day 8, earning a bronze in the 500 metres. Short-track star William Dandjinou was favoured for gold in the men's 1,500 metres, but finished in a disappointing fifth place. 

Women's hockey: Canada earned a spot in the semifinals with a 5-1 win over Germany. Captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored the final goal of the game, which tied her with Hayley Wickenheiser for the most Olympic goals (18) in women’s hockey. The team will play Switzerland in Monday's semifinal. 

Olympic lovin': When they've not been chasing medals, athletes have apparently been, uh, getting busy. The Olympic villages have reportedly run out of free condoms — 10,000 to be exact — that were ordered to give out to the nearly 2,800 athletes competing at the Milano-Cortina Games. That supply ran out after just three days, some reports suggest. 

Switzerland will be Canada’s opponent in the women’s hockey semifinals on Monday, after the Swiss edged Finland 1-0. The semifinal game is set for 3:10 p.m. ET on Monday.

Boston Fleet assistant captain Alina Müller scored the game winner for Switzerland. It’s been 12 years since the Swiss team was on the podium in this tournament.

The other semifinal, between Sweden and the U.S., is scheduled for Monday morning.

The story behind Team Canada's lucky loon

Emma Maltais of the Canadian women's hockey team was given a toy loon by a fan at Milano Cortina 2026. It's since become a bit of a mascot within Team Canada, with the team dubbing it 'Wolf Bird' in reference to a memeable moment from the TV show Heated Rivalry.

A toy loon from a fan has become a mascot — or possibly a good luck charm — for Canada's women's hockey team at Milano Cortina 2026.

The loon was gifted to forward Emma Maltais ahead of Canada's first preliminary game against Switzerland on Feb. 7 from a fan at the Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena. Canada delivered a 4-0 shutout win in that game.

The loon has since been nicknamed "Wolf Bird" by the team (and now has its own name tag), a nod to the hockey drama Heated Rivalry — it's what Ilya Rozanov, one of the main characters in the hit show, calls the iconic Canadian bird when he gets spooked by the loon's haunting call.

The toy also makes its own loon call, which has inspired the players to show off their imitations (reportedly, Erin Ambrose and Ella Shelton have the best calls of the bunch).

Whether the loon is a lucky charm remains to be seen. Although the team booked its spot in the semifinals with a 5-1 win over Germany on Saturday, it suffered a crushing 5-0 loss against the U.S. Earlier this week.

Canada's William Dandjinou was favoured for gold in the men's 1,500-metre short-track, but finished in fifth place. 

Dandjinou was bumped with three laps left and couldn't recover. His teammate Steven Dubois placed one spot behind him. He finished seventh but moved up a place after Great Britain's Niall Treacy was penalized. 

Dutch skater Jens van 't Wout took the gold medal, South Korea's Daeheon Hwang earned silver while the bronze medal went to Latvia's Roberts Kruzbergs.

It's the second disappointment of the Games for Dandjinou, who placed fourth in Thursday's 1,000-metre final — another race in which he was heavily favoured.

Elsewhere on the oval, Canada squeaked into the final of the women's 3,000-metre relay thanks to a heroic final shift from Courtney Sarault, already a double medallist at these Games.

Trailing the Korean and Chinese teams after Danae Blais, Florence Brunelle and Kim Boutin led off for Canada, Sarault turned on the afterburners on the back straight to give the Canadians a second-place finish.

The final is scheduled for Wednesday at 11:51 a.m. ET 

Denmark just scored a sensational goal against the U.S. In their preliminary-round men's hockey game.

Nicholas B. Jensen launched a seemingly harmless shot from around the centre-line that sailed into the net past American goalie Jeremy Swayman. 

The arena erupted as the goal gave the Danes a 2-1 lead. The U.S. Has since taken a 3-2 lead.Watch the jaw-dropping moment here.

The third Canadian to go in the 1,500-metre short-track semifinals, Felix Roussel, won't be advancing to the final after receiving a yellow card — apparently because he bumped Latvia's Roberts Kruzbergs while trying to pass him. 

Canadians Megan Oldham and Naomi Urness are heading to the final of the women's freestyle skiing big air event on Monday. 

Oldham finished top in qualifying today with a score of 171.75 after landing beautiful double corks. China's Eileen Gu, who was born in the U.S., came second after taking a tumble in her second of three runs and Swiss Mathilde Gremaud was in third. 

Urness finished seventh with a score of 161.25.

Switzerland accuses Canada of 'double touching' the rock in Olympic men's curling

Another curling incident took place during Canada's round-robin curling match against Switzerland.

As the Canadian men's curling team was handed its first loss today, in came a second rule-breaking accusation. 

Swiss player Pablo Lachat-Couchepin was heard on the broadcast speaking to a coach, saying he told a referee he saw a Canadian player double-touch a rock — the same charge levelled against Team Canada yesterday by Swedish player Oskar Erikson, which prompted a heated exchange with Canadian vice Marc Kennedy. 

"I don't want to focus too much on it but he double touched and the referee saw it. I told him, he saw that, he didn't answer anything," Lachat-Couchepin can be heard saying. 

"I saw it, I saw it," he adds, saying it appeared on the broadcast. 

Short-track star William Dandjinou just cruised into the men's 1,500-metre finals, winning his semifinal with a time of 2:15.61. 

Fellow Canadian Steven Dubois advanced from the second semifinal, but he had to wait for referees to review the race after he was impeded and finished well off the pace.

The final is scheduled for at 4:42 p.m. ET.

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