2026 Olympic Games: Canada wins another pair of bronze medals in speed skating and freestyle skiing on Day 14

Canada's Brendan Mackay receives his 1st calling Olympic medal

Canada's Brendan Mackay captures Olympic freeski halfpipe bronzy on last run

Nathan MacKinnon's last-minute goal sends Canada to the Olympic gold-medal game

MacKinnon plays the hero as Canada defeats Finland

'We stuck with it and outplayed' Finland, MacKinnon says

Canada's Valérie Maltais collects another Olympic bronze for her 3rd medal at Milano Cortina 2026

Maltais after capturing her 3rd medal: 'This is insane'

Rachel Homan falls to Sweden in semifinals, Canada will play for Olympic bronze

Elliotte Friedman: Hockey Canada and Sidney Crosby tried 'everything humanly possible' to play today

Canada's Brendan Mackay captures Olympic freeski halfpipe bronze on final run

Calgary's Brendan Mackay finishes third in the men's freeski halfpipe final at Milano Cortina 2026 to capture the first Olympic medal of his career.

Mackay dropped the hammer in that final run. He stuck the landing on his double cork 16s to earn a score of 91.00 and the bronze medal. 🥉

American Alex Ferreira won gold with a score of 93.75 while the silver goes to Estonia's Henry Sildaru with 93.00. 

Mackay, 28, entered the final in first place after scoring a best run of 92.75 to top the men's qualification. This is his second Olympic Games, having finished ninth in the halfpipe event at Beijing 2022.

American skier Lindsey Vonn says she's had more surgery after breaking her leg in a horrific crash in the women's downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo on Feb. 8. 

Vonn, 41, said the latest procedure took more than six hours to complete. She also shared photos of her X-rays, which show all the screws and plates it's taken to put her leg back together. 

"With the extent of the trauma, I’ve been struggling a bit post op and have not yet been able to be discharged from the hospital just yet … almost there. Baby steps," Vonn wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. 

Vonn, one of the most decorated alpine skiers of all time, underwent at least four rounds of surgery on the complex tibia fracture in her left leg at a hospital in Treviso, Italy. She returned to the U.S. Last Sunday, where she had her most recent surgery. 

In the women's 1,500-metre short track, Korea took gold and silver. Kim Gilli, the World Cup leader this season in the women's 1,500 metres, placing first in Final A with a time of 2:32.076. The silver went to Choi Minjeong while American Corinne Stoddard won bronze. 

As for the Canadians, Sarault finished the event ranked ninth, Blais ranked 14th and Boutin 15th. 

Crosby isn’t the only Canadian player who can earn his third Olympic gold medal with a win on Sunday.

Defenceman Drew Doughty won gold alongside Crosby at Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014.

Cole Harbour erupts in cheers as Nathan MacKinnon scores winning goal

Cole Harbour erupts in cheers as MacKinnon scores winning goal

When the goal was called onside, the crowd erupted inside a bar in Cole Harbour, N.S., the proud home of both MacKinnon and Crosby.

"I'm trying to play the best I can," MacKinnon said, after he was asked about playing without Canada's captain on the bench. "It's difficult out there. Obviously, like [Cooper] said, there's a better chance [Crosby] plays in the gold than tonight."

Canada's Nathan MacKinnon says 'we stuck with it and outplayed them' following victory over Finland

Nathan MacKinnon's goal with 36 seconds left in the game gave Canada a 3-2 victory over Finland, allowing them to reach the Olympic men's hockey gold-medal game.

MacKinnon admitted being nervous about his game-winning goal because of that excruciating wait for officials to rule on whether it would count. 

He waited on the bench with head coach Jon Cooper, occasionally glancing up at the big screen inside the arena. Then the video coaches working behind the scenes for Team Canada radioed to the bench: the goal was good and yes, they were sure.

But that didn't quell either man's nerves.

Canadian fans outside the arena in Milan started shouting, "We want the gold," after Canada came back to beat Finland. There were cheers, tears, and a man dressed as a disappointed Finnish yeti, according to his description. 

In the crowd, Tom Tillman from London, Ont., was wearing a jersey that read "Elbows up" on the back. He was teary-eyed as he talked about how happy he was, thinking about his parents who attended games of the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union. 

"It was so wonderful. God bless Canada," Tillman said.

He said he wants to see the U.S. Beat Slovakia so they advance to face Canada.

"They need us to teach them a lesson," he said.

The United States leads Slovakia by two in the second period of its semifinal game against Slovakia, thanks to first-period goals from Dylan Larkin and Tage Thompson. The winner plays Canada in Sunday's gold-medal game.

Canada was a medal favourite coming into this race but came away empty-handed. It's only the third time the Canadians have missed the podium in the event since it was added to the Winter Olympics in 1992. (The other two instances were Lillehammer 1994 and Sochi 2014.)

The Dutch came out on top in a tight race to capture their first gold in this event with a time of 6:51:85. Korea took silver and the bronze medal goes to Italy.

The Canadians placed fourth after briefly pushing ahead into third, but weren't able to maintain that momentum. 

A little gasp from the crowd as Dubois nearly falls on the 23rd lap. The 5,000-metre relay is 45 laps total.

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