2026 Olympic Games: Back-to-back medals for Canada as women take bronze in curling, silver in speed skating

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Canada's Rachel Homan claims women's curling bronze with win over U.S

Rachel Homan and her Ottawa-based rink defeat Tabitha Peterson of the United States 10-7 in the women's curling bronze-medal game at Milana Cortina 2026.

Beautiful scenes of jubilation and happy families as Homan, Fleury, Miskew and Wilkes make their way around the rink to share the bronze medal celebration with their supporters. 

You can’t help but feel extra happy for Homan, who had her doubters after a slow start to the Olympic tournament. But after three early losses in the round robin, Homan and her teammates rallied to play themselves back into contention and onto the podium.

The gold and silver medals in women’s curling will be decided tomorrow in a game between Sweden and Switzerland. 

Teammate Valérie Maltais took fifth place after falling early on and struggling some during the 16-lap race, at one point showing discomfort or pain, but skating ahead in the final laps and sprints.

Maltais won three World Cup medals in mass start last season and two silvers this season.

Blondin has done it. She won silver in what is potentially her last Olympic race ever. 

The 35-year-old is a two-time mass start world champion and was the Olympic silver medallist in 2022. She also won silver at each of the last three world championships and took a World Cup gold in Calgary this season.

Marijke Groenewoud, of the Netherlands, wins gold and American Mia Manganello takes bronze. 

Blondin cheered at the finish, giving her coach a big high five as she skated by. After the race, Blondin was handed the customary Canadian flag given to medallists, as well as a cowboy hat — a nod to the black cowboy hat ​​Catriona Le May Doan wore after winning gold in the women's 500-metre at the 2002 Olympics.

Bergsma may be Dutch, but his mullet is Albertan.

He has competed in four Olympic Games and was a champion in Sochi and is extremely talented — but it's his mullet that's amassed somewhat of a cult following. 

Fun fact: His barber apparently lives in Innisfail, Alta., a town in between Edmonton and Calgary, just south of Red Deer. His name is Evert van Benthem — a Dutchman turned Canadian resident who happens to be one of the most-decorated speed skaters of all time, having moved here with his family in 2000. 

Jorrit Bergsma took gold in the men's speed skating mass start. The 40-year-old Dutch skater has made waves at these Games with his mullet hairstyle, with scores of Dutch fans sporting fake mullets and calling themselves the "Matties naar Milan," or Matties to Milan. (Matties is Dutch for mates — and not too far off the Dutch word for mullet: matje.) 

Bergsma is the oldest speed skater to win Olympic gold, and earlier took bronze in the men's 1,000 metres at Milano Cortina. 

Denmark's Viktor Hald Thorup claims silver, putting his country on the podium in the event for the first time. And Italian Andrea Giovanni wins bronze on home soil. 

Canada's Gélinas-Beaulieu came in sixth after a tight race, and after qualifying first in his semifinal heat. It's an impressive showing for the 33-year-old Quebecer's first Olympics.

Over at the oval, disco music is back with a hype man who's been single-handedly making the venue the funnest of Milano Cortina. (At least according to us.) 

Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu — fresh off coming in first in his semifinal heat — seemed to think so, too, as he showed off his moves to Village People's YMCA. Canadians got the groove. 

That's also the song that was playing when we saw former speed skater Hamish Black's sparkling RCMP costume, complete with the bedazzled Tims cup. 

Canada's Rachel Homan claims women's curling bronze with win over U.S

Rachel Homan and her Ottawa-based rink defeat Tabitha Peterson of the United States 10-7 in the women's curling bronze-medal game at Milana Cortina 2026.

Beautiful scenes of jubilation and happy families as Homan, Fleury, Miskew and Wilkes make their way around the rink to share the bronze medal celebration with their supporters. 

You can’t help but feel extra happy for Homan, who had her doubters after a slow start to the Olympic tournament. But after three early losses in the round robin, Homan and her teammates rallied to play themselves back into contention and onto the podium.

The gold and silver medals in women’s curling will be decided tomorrow in a game between Sweden and Switzerland. 

It’s over! Rachel Homan raises her arms in the air in victory as Canada hangs on to win a dramatic bronze medal in women's curling for Canada, along with teammates Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes. Final score over the U.S.: 10-7. 

It's redemption for Homan, as she wins her first Olympic medal in three tries. It’s also the first Olympic medal for Canada on the women’s side since Jennifer Jones won gold in Sochi 2014.

With Team USA down 8-5 and needing to be almost perfect to keep their medal hopes alive, Tabitha Peterson meets the challenge with a game-saving final rock of the end to score two for the U.S. In the ninth end. 

We are heading to the tenth end with Canada up 8-7. Canada has the last rock advantage. 

The pressure is immense and nerves of steel are needed to bring this one home for both teams!

That became a lot more adventurous than it should have been. 

A pile of stones in the ninth end, and Team USA scores two.

And so it comes to this …

Canada leads the U.S. 8-7 with the hammer in the final end of this women’s bronze-medal game.

Hold on now folks. Here we go.

Canadian speed-skating stars Valérie Maltais and Ivanie Blondin are onto the women's mass start final. 

Maltais advanced out of the first semifinal, finishing fourth in her heat. The three-time Milano-Cortina medallist skated a controlled race, comfortably securing one of the eight top spots needed to move on.

Ivanie Blondin crossed sixth in the second semifinal. Blondin won silver in this event at Beijing 2022 and is currently third in World Cup standings.

The pair will face a stacked field in the final, including Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida, who has won two gold medals at these Games so far.

Maltais and Blondin won gold together in the team pursuit on Tuesday, alongside their teammate Isabelle Weidemann. 

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