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Marion Thénault was flying high in the aerials qualification, finishing with a high score of 108.61. But the 25-year-old from Sherbrooke, Que., fell short of bringing her highest level in the first final. 

After her second jump, Thénault was outside of the Top 6 spot required to move on to Final 2. Thénault's masterful execution and high reach was there, but a couple rough landings (which count for 30 per cent of the score) gave her scores of 103.89 and 101.90.

Other jumpers in Final 1 brought the scoring even higher, with Australian three-time Olympian Danielle Scott reaching 117.19 and Chinese aerial skier Fanyu Kong with 113.33.

This was Thénault's second Olympic appearance and unfortunately a repeat of her seventh-place spot from Beijing 2022. 

She will compete next in the mixed-team event on Feb. 21 where Canada won bronze at Beijing 2022.

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"King Klaebo" does it again. Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won a 10th gold medal in cross country skiing at the Milan-Cortina Olympics, setting another Winter Games record.

The 29‑year‑old, racing with Einar Hedegart, won the men's team sprint for his fifth gold at these Games, clocking 18:28.98.

Ben Ogden and Gus Schumacher of the United States were 1.4 seconds behind for the silver, while Italy's Elia Barp and Federico Pellegrino took bronze, 3.3 seconds back.

Klaebo has won every race he has entered at these Games, breaking the Winter Olympics record in Sunday's 4 x 7.5-kilometre relay. His final race will be in the 50-kilometre mass start this weekend.

Canada's Antoine Cyr and Xavier McKeever finished sixth with a time of 18:38.69.

In the women's competition, Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist continued Sweden's winning run. Switzerland's Nadja Kaelin and Nadine Faehndrich took silver with Laura Gimmler and Coletta Rydzek of Germany taking the bronze. Norway was edged out to fourth place.

Women's aerials format.

12 athletes. Two jumps. Top-six advance to the super final.

Canada's Marion Thénault is fifth after the first jump. Second jumps underway.

Women's curling at the Milano-Cortina Olympics has reached peak chaos, with a couple of games left in the round robin.

Great Britain just stole two in the final end to beat the United States. Look at that bunch of teams for the final three playoff spots.

The Canadian men's and women's teams each play Italy later today. The men play at 8:05 a.m. ET and the women play at 1:05 p.m. ET.

That will set up a potentially huge round-robin finale for Team Homan on Thursday against South Korea.

After the final, McMorris explained he got "a little bit leant over" on the landing of his first jump, which threw off his setup and left him without enough speed and push for the frontside 1800.

"I was so happy with the top section. Everything was just so tidy," he said.

McMorris said he was proud of how he prepared, of making it to a fourth Olympic final, and of being back on snow after the heavy crash and concussion he endured earlier in the week. 

"It wasn't an easy task to get ready to be out here, but I was ready and feeling good, so it stinks," he said. "This sport has given me everything. I've given it everything I have back. I love snowboarding."

Slovakia is dominating Germany in their quarterfinal so far, leading 3-0 and outshooting them by a wide margin.

Should Slovakia go through, it's impossible to know who they will play, as the seeds reshuffle in the semifinals.

The cross-country ski finish line in Tesero, Italy, has been the site of a lot of delightful scenes of sportsmanship throughout the Winter Games. 

Regina Martinez, the first woman to represent Mexico in cross-country skiing at the Olympics, was greeted with one of the loudest ovations despite finishing last in the women's 10-kilometre interval start free race on Feb. 12.

A similar scene unfolded in the men's 10-kilometre interval start free race on Feb. 13. 

Martinez's teammate Allan Corona of Mexico stood at the finish after crossing the line to welcome other competitors from nations not known to be cross-country skiing powerhouses — or for having snow. 

Corona embraced Matthew Smith of South Africa, who said he was inspired by his close friend to start racing cross-country. Next to cross was Lebanon's Samer Tawk, followed by Israel's Attila Mihaly Kertesz, who's also a veterinarian in Thailand.

The finish of the women's cross-country team sprint free qualification had a mascot this morning — and it wasn't Tina or Milo.

It was a very good boy.

Can you fault him? He just wanted to be an Olympian, feeling the breeze in his face as he ran across the finish line with the skiers finishing their races.

Mark McMorris had a tough fall on his third run of the slopestyle final while attempting a frontside 1800. He got back up and finished the run, but it kept him out of medal contention after a small fall in his second attempt as well.

McMorris had gone three-for-three on the rails to open the third run, but couldn't ride out the 1800. Just days ago, the 32-year-old was still recovering from a serious training crash. The fact that the three-time Olympic medallist not only returned, but qualified third and reached the slopestyle final is nearly a miracle.

He ended the event in eighth place, while 20-year-old teammate Cameron Spalding, in his first Olympics, landed 10th with a highest score of 75.13.

China's Su Yiming took gold with a best score of 82.41 — who was elated at the bottom of the hill. Japan's Taiga Hasegawa claimed silver with 82.12 and American Jake Canter won bronze with 79.36. 

What is the story behind Canada's lucky loonie?

Here is how the loonie has become a secret to Canada's success on the ice at the Olympic Games.

The myth of the Canadian loonie at centre ice at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics looms large to this day.

After the men's and women's hockey teams both won gold at those Games, the tradition of burying a loonie at centre ice has carried on at the Olympics. 

Canadian ice maker Trent Evans is credited with starting the ritual. 

When prepping the Olympic arena ice in Salt Lake, he noticed that the customary circle for the puck drop at centre ice was missing. He buried a loonie in its place, making it look like a dot for a puck target.

It's a tradition that carries on.

Many of Team Canada's athletes now travel with a loonie to bring them luck at the Games — take embedding it in the Olympic rinks crested into the snow of a slopestyle jump in Livigno, for example.

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