2026 Olympic Games: Megan Oldham wins Canada's 2nd gold, Canada to play U.S. for women's hockey gold

Megan Oldham of Canada receives her Olympic freeski swelled transmit au medal

Megan Oldham captures Canada's 2nd gold medal at Milano Cortina 2026

Canada's Courtney Sarault captures 1,000m silver, earns her 3rd short track medal of Milano Cortina 2026

Canadian pair Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps cap their Olympic career at Milano Cortina 2026

Canadian pair Pereira and Michaud place 8th in their Olympic debut

Canada's Brad Jacobs crushes Czechia

Americans advance to Olympic women's hockey final with shutout win over Sweden

Canada's Rachel Homan evens her Olympic record with victory over Japan

Women captured two medals for Team Canada today, with Megan Oldham’s gold in freeski big air and Courtney Sarault’s silver in short-track speed skate bringing Canada’s total to 11 at this year’s Games. Here are your top three moments of the day.

Skiing gold: There was a moment when it looked like the women’s freeski big air competition might not happen today, after heavy snow and wind delayed the event for more than an hour. 

But Oldham was unshaken, coming in on top of the ranking and nailing her first two jumps to clinch first place. 

It was Team Canada’s second gold of the Olympics and Oldham’s second medal — the 24-year-old won bronze in slopestyle last week. 

Oldham’s victory also marked Canada’s first medal in the sport since it was added to the Olympics in 2022. 

Scoring record: Marie-Philip Poulin, captain of Canada’s women’s hockey team, surpassed former Canadian forward Hayley Wickenheiser to set a new Olympic goal-scoring record. 

Opening the scoring in a game against Switzerland, Poulin recorded her 19th all-time Olympic goal — and then added another one, bringing her total to 20. Her two goals lifted Canada to a 2-1 victory over Switzerland, securing a spot in the gold medal game against the U.S. 

Speed skating silver: Sarault won her third medal of this year’s Games and it was nearly a gold. She captured silver in the women’s 1,000-metre short track, coming in one-tenth of a second behind Dutch skater Xandra Velzeboer. 

Sarault has also won bronze in the women’s 500-metre final and silver with Canada’s mixed relay team this year.

"I wanted to win and bring a gold for Canada," she said, but added she is still "so proud" of herself and how hard she's worked.

Canada will play for women’s hockey gold for the seventh consecutive time on Thursday.

It was a tense third period against Switzerland, but Canada emerged with a 2-1 win. They outshot the Swiss 46-8, with both of Canada’s goals coming from the captain, Marie-Philip Poulin.

Up next: The dominant Americans, who’ve allowed only one (!) goal all tournament long. They’ve beat Canada seven times in a row dating back to last year’s world championship.

But in a winner-takes-all game, anything can happen. It’s the best rivalry in all of sport, and we get to see it again on Thursday at 1:10 p.m. ET.

Despite missing the podium in his Olympic debut today, Michaud saw a family promise fulfilled. He told our colleague Devin Heroux that his uncle promised him when he was 13 years old that he would throw a hockey puck on the ice if he ever performed at the Olympics.

His uncle was in Milan today and delivered. Michaud said he hopes the puck brings good luck to the rest of Team Canada.

Switzerland is back in the women's hockey game with Canada. Behind the net, Alina Müller dishes the puck to Rahel Enzler, who gets her team on the board. That’s five points in six games for Müller.

Some tense moments here in the third period with Canada up only 2-1.

Swiss goaltender Andrea Brändli has made 38 saves so far.

Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara executed the skate of the night to climb from fifth place to the top of the podium. The pair, who train in Oakville, Ont., now add Olympic gold to their two world championship titles. 

Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava of Georgia finished 10 points back for the silver, with the favorites coming into the night, Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany, dropping from first to third.

Pereira and Michaud placed eighth. Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps moved up from 14th after the short program to finish 11th overall. 

Stellato-Dudek said her head injury has meant they have had limited training time over the past few weeks. At age 42, Stellato-Dudek's journey to the Olympics has been unusual, and remarkable. She returned to the sport after a 16-year break with the goal of going to the Olympics. 

When asked what is next in her figure skating career, she said she needed time to fully recover. 

"I am not sure I am done yet," she said.

Canadian pair Pereira and Michaud place 8th in their Olympic debut

After landing in third place in the pairs short program, Canadian duo Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud finished in eighth place overall in the Olympic pairs competition at Milano Cortina 2026.

Pereira and Michaud entered the night sitting in third place after the short program but could not replicate the magic from last night. Pereira stepped out on the landing of the throw triple toe loop and Michaud fell on the side-by-side triple Salchows. Those bobbles were followed by a weird moment when Pereira fell out of the death spiral. A final score of 199.66 put them in sixth place with two teams remaining. 

Still, this young team has so much potential! They were excellent in the team event and the experience gained in Milano will be invaluable for their development.

Canada's Rachel Homan evens her Olympic record with victory over Japan

Rachel Homan's Canadian curling rink beat Japan 9-6 to improve their record to 3-3 in the Milano Cortina 2026 women's curling tournament.

Canada has also beaten Japan in women’s curling round robin. Rachel Homan and her team kept their playoff hopes alive with a 9-6 win, improving to a record of 3-3. 

The team is back in action tomorrow to take on first-place Sweden at 8:05 a.m. ET. 

As the busy afternoon continues for Team Canada, it's coming down to the nitty gritty at the pairs free figure skating final where we’ve just witnessed a beautiful performance by defending Olympic gold medalists Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China. 

They now take over first place for the time being with a total score of 208.64. Five teams still to come including Canada’s Pereira and Michaud.

Poulin widens Canada's lead with a hard-working goal in front of the net, sliding the puck over the line as she was falling over.

It’s the kind of desperation Canada lacked against the U.S. Earlier in the tournament, and the type of heart Poulin can provide, even if she’s not 100 per cent.

That’s 20 goals at the Olympics now for Poulin.

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