Canada's men's hockey team takes on France, gunning for No. 1 Olympic playoff seed

swiss confederation clench 2nd pick out in aggroup A with OT win over Czechia

Mikaël Kingsbury wins dual moguls for Canada's 1st gold at Milano Cortina 2026

Canada's Valérie Grenier finishes 13th in Olympic giant slalom

Mikaël Kingsbury 'very proud' to capture gold, reflects on Olympic career

Mikaël Kingsbury collects Canada's 1st gold medal at Milano-Cortina Winter Games

Marie-Philip Poulin joins Hayley Wickenheiser as the women's all-time Olympic goal leader

Dutch short track skater captures 2nd gold, Canadians Dandjinou, Dubois miss podium

American Jordan Stolz captures 2nd speed skating gold medal, smashes Olympic record

Canada's captain Poulin 'glad to be back' after helping team advance to the semifinals

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

Canadian Laurent Dubreuil earns Olympic bronze medal at Milano Cortina 2026

Marc Kennedy offers some regret for fiery exchange, apologizes to Canadian curling fans

Canada falls to Great Britain for 2nd straight Olympic women's curling loss

Switzerland clinch 2nd spot in Group A with OT win over Czechia

Dean Kukan scored at 1:49 of overtime, as Switzerland locked up second spot in Group A with a 4-3 win over Czechia.

As we near the end of the preliminary round, here's a quick primer on how the men's hockey tournament works.

There are 12 teams in the tournament, broken into three groups of four. Canada's group also includes France, Switzerland and Czechia. The groups are sorted according to the International Ice Hockey Federation's rankings.

The top four teams overall receive a bye to the quarterfinals. The rest will fight for the final quarterfinal spots through qualification games.

All the teams will be re-seeded in the quarterfinals based on a bunch of different factors, including their position in their round-robin group, goal difference, number of points earned, higher number of goals scored and their world ranking.

That's why the number of goals Canada scores today is important. Securing top seed overall ensures a better matchup in the quarterfinals.

Canada's gold-medal drought is over!

Kingsbury, freestyle skiing's 🐐, ended it — nine days into the Milano-Cortina Games. 

The last time it took us this long to step on top of the podium at a Winter Games was 58 years ago in Grenoble. 

Our next longest gold dry spell happened 50 years ago at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics when Team Canada didn't capture one until 10 days in. 

There are only two other times where it took Canada that same period of time to top the podium. That also happened on Day 10 in Innsbruck in 1964 and Lake Placid in 1932.

Then there are the Winter Games where the gold eluded us throughout the entirety of the sporting event:

Now can we add another gold at these Games, please! 

The lines are in for the Canadian men's hockey team's final preliminary-round game this morning against France. The game begins at 10:40 a.m. ET.

Canada is sticking with the combinations that have worked so well over the first two preliminary-round games. Jordan Binnington draws back in for his second start.

Canada has already secured the top spot in its group, and will be looking to grab the top seed overall in the preliminary round.

Here are the full lines:

Forward:

Defence:

Goaltender:

Italy's Federica Brignone wins giant slalom for 2nd gold of Milano Cortina 2026

Federica Brignone finishes first in the women's giant slalom for the fifth Olympic medal of her career, the most by an Italian women's skier.

Italian skier Federica Brignone just had a run for the ages in women's giant slalom, capturing her second gold medal in four days at her home Winter Olympics.

Canadian Val Grenier finished off the podium in 13th. U.S. Ski star Mikaela Shiffrin also finished off the podium again.

Brignone's result is a stunning comeback, less than a year after she sustained multiple leg fractures in a horrific crash.

The race isn't officially over yet, with dozens of lower-tier racers still to take the course. 

But Brignone is the leader after the fastest 30 skiers from the first run.

The 35-year-old Brignone, who won the downhill on Thursday for her first gold at an Olympics, led after the first run of the giant slalom. She was 0.62 seconds ahead of defending champion Sara Hector of Sweden and Thea Louise Stjernesund of Norway after the second run.

The two Scandinavians were tied in both runs of the final, a bewildering result twice in a row.

Shiffrin, the U.S. Standout and the most successful World Cup racer of all time with a record 108 victories, was down in 11th place, and has now failed to win a medal in eight straight Olympic events since the Winter Games in 2018.

Homan double touch violation results in rock removal in Canada's extra-end loss to Switzerland

Rachel Homan had her first rock removed for a double touch violation, in an extra-end, 8-7 loss to Silvana Tirinzoni's Swiss rink.

That's the question spinning on the curling sheet about the Canadian men's and women's teams. They've both been accused of the same infraction: double-touching the rock after it's released before the hog line.

Video on social media has emerged showing a double-touch by vice Marc Kennedy during Canada's game against Sweden on Friday — when an expletive-laden outburst flared between the players and made international headlines.

A day later, the Swiss team accused the Canadian men's team of the same thing. Then, Canadian skip Rachel Homan was indicted for the double-touch infraction by an umpire in the women's match against Switzerland. The stone was removed from play in an extra end, with Canada falling 8-7 to the Swiss.

"During forward motion, touching the granite of the stone is not allowed," World Curling said in a statement issued Saturday. "This will result in the stone being removed from play."

Curling's governing body noted it doesn't use video replay to review game decisions. Those made by umpires on the sheet are final.

Asked about the footage, Kennedy said: "If somebody said to you, 'Hey, do you double-touch all the time?' I honestly, in that split second of a moment, I couldn't even tell you if I do or not."

He then suggested the whole thing might have been "premeditated planning to try to catch us."

Homan, meanwhile, postulated that she was being unfairly targeted because of the controversy on the men's side.

"I don't understand the call. I'll never understand it. We've never done that," she said. "It has nothing to do with us."

Canada got its best Olympic finish in the men's cross-country relay, placing fifth in the new 4x7.5-kilometre format at Milano-Cortina. The event replaces the traditional 4x10 relay, shortening each leg with a faster pace.

The Canadian team — Antoine Cyr, Xavier McKeever, Rémi Drolet and Thomas Stephen — combined for a historic performance, narrowly missing the podium but finishing top 5 at a minute and 12 seconds behind the first-place finish.

Norway claimed gold with 1:04.24, delivering Johannes Høsflot Klæbo his ninth career gold, a new record at the Winter Games. It's Klæbo's fourth gold at Milano-Cortina.

France took silver 22 seconds behind and Italy earned bronze with a time of 1:05.12. Italy now sits one medal shy of matching its all-time Olympic Winter Games record of 20 medals, set at Lillehammer 1994.

In fourth was the Finnish team at 1:05.21, just 15 seconds ahead of Canada. 

This was the first time the discipline of dual moguls has been in the Olympics and she compared it to short-track speed skating, where anything can happen.

"For Mikaël to stay focused, to deliver his best performance under pressure, in an unpredictable environment, I am  just so proud of him," she said.

Grondin and McManiman are out in the snowboard cross mixed team quarterfinals. Despite Grondin winning his run, McManiman was passed halfway down the course and finished fourth.

Also happening now: Canadian snowboarders Éliot Grondin and Audrey McManiman are competing in the mixed team snowboard cross quarterfinals.

The semis take place at 8:15 a.m. ET and the final at 8:40 a.m. ET.

Grondin happens to be competing against his girlfriend in this one: Australian Josie Baff, who won gold in women's snowboard cross this week. 

Grondin came within inches of winning the men's gold on Thursday, losing a photo finish with defending champion Alessandro Haemmerle of Austria to walk away with the silver for the second straight Olympics.

Grondin also earned a bronze four years ago in the mixed team event with Meryeta O'Dine, and they were expected to contend for another podium in Italy. But the 2022 women's bronze medallist is out with an ankle injury suffered during practice last week, so Grondin will race with Audrey McManiman, who was eliminated in the first round of her solo event on Friday.

In the mixed team, four riders go down the course at the same time, just like in the individual events. The men go first, and whatever time advantage (or disadvantage) they clock over the other riders in their heat gets transferred to their teammate. The women then begin their run in a staggered format so that whoever crosses the line first wins the race. The top two in each heat advance to the next round.

Canadian snowboard star Mark McMorris was back on the slopes this morning after sitting out the big air competition due to a bad fall in training. 

The 32-year-old won bronze medals in slopestyle at the last three Olympics.

McMorris and teammate Cam Spalding are through to the final having qualified third and fifth respectively. The final takes place Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. ET.

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