2026 Olympic Games Day 10: Freeski big air delayed by snow, as Canada's Oldham goes for gold

Canada's Courtney Sarault captures 1,000m atomic number 47, earns her 3rd unawares caterpillar track medal of Milano Cortina 2026

Canadian pair Pereira and Michaud score personal best to put them in podium position

Canada's Brad Jacobs crushes Czechia

Rachel Homan defeats China, gets Canada back in win column at Milano Cortina 2026 

Canada blows out France to finish atop Group A

Norwegian Klæbo claims 4th Olympic title of the games, sets new Winter Olympic record with 9th gold

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

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

The U.S. Has earned a spot in the women's hockey gold-medal game by defeating Sweden 5-0 in the first semifinal.

The Americans got goals from five different players, and a shutout from Aerin Frankel, who made 23 saves.

It's the latest win in a dominant tournament for the team. They've outscored their opponents by an astounding 21-1 over six games.

It's a semifinal loss for Sweden, but still an overall victory for the team this Winter Games. Sweden hasn't been on the podium in women's hockey since 2006 and will now play for a bronze medal.

Young stars like 19-year-old forward Hilda Svensson, who plays at Ohio State University, and 21-year-old goaltender Ebba Svensson Träff will be part of this program for years to come.

This just in: the women's freeski big air final in Livigno, Italy, has been delayed due to heavy falling snow and wind. 

Officials will provide another update about the competition in around 10 minutes.

Megan Oldham will be trying to get a second Olympic medal in the big air final shortly.  

Coming off her bronze in the slopestyle event on Monday, the 24-year-old from Parry Sound, Ont., was the surprise winner of Saturday's qualifying round, outscoring defending Olympic champion Eileen Gu of China and slopestyle gold medallist Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland. 

Most of Oldham's success has come in the slopestyle, but she did earn a bronze in the big air at the 2023 world championships.

Canadian Naomi Urness was seventh in qualifying. The 21-year-old leads the World Cup big air standings after rattling off three consecutive medals earlier this season, including her first career gold in December in Colorado.

The winner moves on to the gold-medal game on Thursday against the powerhouse American team, which has defeated Sweden 5-0. Canada has been in every single gold-medal game since women's hockey was added to the Olympic program in 1998.

Canada outshot and outscored the Swiss team to open this tournament, winning 4-0.

Captain Marie-Philip Poulin is one goal away from setting a new Olympic record for most all-time goals. She's currently tied with retired Canadian forward (and Hockey Hall of Famer) Hayley Wickenheiser with 18 goals.

Counting down to the pairs free skate tonight. This venue has provided immense drama.

Canada's Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud are on the ice practicing one last time. 

They are currently third place after the short program of their lives at the Olympics. They skate at 4:28 p.m. ET.

"It feels amazing knowing that we are so far from home and getting real support and love from the fans and also our competitors," said 21-year-old athlete Junior Harris, adding that Jamaica’s presence on the winter sports stage shouldn’t come as a surprise. 

"We’re an island of talented people. Anything pertaining to sport, you will see Jamaica."

Harris is also a competitive sprinter and recently became a part of his country's bobsleigh team.

In fact, according to pilot Shane Pitter, Harris saw snow for the first time just days ago. 

"The atmosphere is like, it's crazy. The people are shouting our names, 'Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica!' and that kind of boosts us to do better in the upcoming heats," Pitter said.

It's been nearly 40 years since the Jamaican bobsleigh team's first Winter Olympics inspired the film Cool Runnings. 

In December, Jamaican bobsleigh athletes made history again by capturing the country's first ever gold medal at an international bobsleigh competition. 

Pitter, Harris and teammates Andrae Dacres and Tyquendo Tracey won gold at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation’s North American Cup in Whistler, B.C.

And now they're in Italy, chasing another gold.

Canada's Brad Jacobs crushes Czechia

Brad Jacobs and his Canadian rink hammered Czechia 8-2, to improve their record to 5-1 at the Milano Cortina 2026 men's curling tournament.

Team Jacobs easily dispatched last-place Czechia 8-2, with Canada improving to 5-1 and second overall in the men's standings.

The teams shook hands after eight ends.

The game was never close as Canada stole points in the second, third and fourth ends. Then scored three with the hammer in the sixth to blow it wide open.

Canada subbed in alternate Tyler Tardi in the seventh end for lead Ben Hebert, allowing Tardi to make his Olympic debut.

Next up for Canada is a Day 11 matchup with Great Britain at 1:05 p.m. ET tomorrow.

Atle Lie McGrath was charging toward what looked like a winning run in the men's slalom final in Bormio, Italy.

But in an instant, it was over.

The Norwegian skier straddled a gate midway down the slalom course. Moments later, he threw his poles into the air and disappeared into the trees.

Swiss coach Thierry Manet celebrated as skier Loic Meillard took first place — and did so right next to Lie McGrath, who then slipped under a fence and walked into the forest, settling into a snow bank and covering his face in his hands. 

Lie McGrath learned of his grandfather's death on the night of the Games' opening ceremony, and was wearing a black armband in his memory.

Meillard finished first after overtaking Lie McGrath, securing the gold. Austrian Fabio Gstrein claimed silver by three-tenths of a second and Norwegian Henrik Kistoffersen got bronze by just over a second.

Kris Reyes, here in Milan. We've been visiting neighbourhoods around the city where the lines at the official Olympics merchandise stores are growing by the day, and items are flying off the shelves.

The Quebec-based company V12 Trackside is contracted to run all the official stores for Milano Cortina. They're predicting these Olympics could be one of the most successful for merchandise sales. 

According to V12's chief commercial officer Jeremy Roy, plushies of the Games' mascots Milo and Tina are mostly sold out at all stores, making them the best-selling items other than daily limited drops.

"They're an incredible hit," said Roy. "We're running out. Now we have to set the limit per day per store. That's been amazing."

Roy said the best chances of getting them is by winning an Olympic medal, because they are gifted to the winning athletes during the medal ceremonies.

Roy said a so-called knitted ugly sweater that's gone viral on social media, and anything with the Olympic rings have also been popular.

The IOC says it will release final sales numbers at the end of the Games.

That's one way to open a conversation with the prime minister. 

Team Canada has posted a video call between gold medallist Mikaël Kingsbury and Prime Minister Mark Carney. 

"Look at that," Kingsbury calmly says, raising the gold around his neck into the camera's view. 

Carney laughs and says, "Oh! Oh!"

"Mikaël, I'm so happy for you," the prime minister says, before switching to French: "I heard you say that you'd heard talk on social media that Canada wouldn't get gold, and that you did it for Canada."

Kingsbury said he'd gone to bed Saturday night watching his phone and seeing people saying there was a curse on Canada in Italy. 

"I woke up very motivated and I wanted to get that gold," he said. He also said part of his motivation was to be the first in history to win dual moguls at the Olympics; the event made its debut at Milano-Cortina.

"So good … and you do it at a time, can I say, where Canada needs — we're coming together because of the tragedy, because of other things and you just make us so proud," Carney said, referencing last week's deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

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