2026 Olympic Games: Canada's men's hockey team leads 6-1 against France in preliminary round finale

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And the gold goes to Femke Kok, making her and teammate Jutta Leerdam the first Dutch skaters to podium in the 500-metre race — and setting an Olympic record of 36.49 in the process. 

Leerdam gets silver with 37.15. She won gold in the 1,000-metre on Monday. 

Kok beat American star Erin Jackson, who became the first Black woman to capture an individual Winter Olympic gold when she won the race at Beijing 2022. 

Jackson had a slip up in the back stretch, ultimately landing her in fifth spot with 37.32. Jackson won the 2025 Crystal Globe for this discipline. 

Miho Takagi of Japan takes bronze with 37.27. 

Canadian star Béatrice Lamarche, in her first Olympic appearance at these Games, is knocked to seventh. 

Béatrice Lamarche skated beautifully in the women's long-track 500-metre race against Kristina Silaeva of Kazakhstan, winning that pairing with a time of 37.53 — but is now off the podium.

Dutch star Jutta Leerdam, who won gold in the 1,000-metre race Monday, got a time of 37.15, knocking Lamarche out of third spot and out of podium contention. Leerdam's teammate Femke Kok, also a star, will be going soon against American Erin Jackson, who won this event in 2022 to become the first Black woman to capture an individual Winter Olympic gold.

Canadian teammates Brooklyn MacDougall and Carolina Hiller-Donnelly also had some great skates, with MacDougall winning her pairing against Belgium's Fran Vanhoutte at 38.36. Hiller-Donnelly's time came in at 38.38.

A quick takeaway on the penalty kill turned into a breakaway for Canadian forward Mark Stone, who converted on the chance. It’s his second goal of the tournament.

Canada ends the first period against France up 3-1. Shots are 17-6 for the Canadians.

Canada's Béatrice Lamarche is a longshot for a medal here. She finished fifth in the 1,000 metres on Saturday and topped out at sixth in her nine 500-metre races on the World Cup tour this season.

Lamarche will skate in the ninth of 15 pairings. Dutch star Jutta Leerdam, the 1,000-metre winner who is engaged to the boxer/YouTuber Jake Paul, is in the 12th. The last pairing features overwhelming gold favourite Femke Kok of the Netherlands and American Erin Jackson, who won this event in 2022 to become the first Black woman to capture an individual Winter Olympic gold.

Also in the running today from Canada are Brooklyn McDougall in the fifth pairing and Carolina Hiller-Donnelly in seventh.

In women's action yesterday on the oval, Canada's Olympic-champion team pursuit trio of Ivanie Blondin, Valérie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann clocked the fastest time in the quarterfinals to advance to the semis on Tuesday.

It's been a flurry of goals in the first few minutes of this Canada-France men's hockey game.

The scoring opened with Canadian forward Tom Wilson. It was his first goal of this tournament.

But France answered back 13 seconds later, off a turnover in Canada's zone. That's the first goal Canadian goaltender Jordan Binnington allowed in this tournament.

Canada took back the lead less than 40 seconds after that, thanks to a shot from defenceman Devon Toews.

We're sitting at 2-1 Canada in the first 10 minutes of this game. 

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The curling controversy at Milano Cortina widened on Sunday. Increased surveillance of the matches resulted in the removal of a stone thrown by the British men's team for the same alleged violation that burned the Canadian men's and women's teams two days in a row.

In the ninth end of Britain's round-robin match against Germany, officials said Scottish curler Bobby Lammie double-touched a stone after releasing it down the ice. Britain won the match 9-4.

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.

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