2026 Olympic Games: Canada faces Great Britain in men's gold-medal curling match

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Norway's Johannes Høsflot Klæbo wins record 6th gold medal at a single Winter Olympics

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Canada drew a tough opponent in Mouat's team, which won the world championship in 2023 and 2025 (representing Scotland) and took Olympic silver in 2022. 

They looked in danger of missing the playoffs, sitting 4-4 after Canada handed them their third straight loss on Tuesday. But Mouat's team beat the U.S. In a do-or-die round robin finale before knocking off unbeaten Switzerland in the semis.

The Swiss came back to win the bronze game today, trouncing Norway 9-1.

After 10 tense matches of skill and concentration under pressure, it comes down to this for skip Brad Jacobs and his men's curling team: the Olympic gold-medal decider.

All the veteran Calgary-based team of Jacobs, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert and freshly minted meme Marc Kennedy have to do is beat world No. 1 Great Britain.

They've already done that in the preliminary round, sinking Bruce Mouat's young team 9-5, so … no problem, right? Maybe not.

Experience weighs heavily in Canada's favour, with Jacobs hoping to regain the Olympic title he won at Sochi 2014, the last time Canada's men won curling gold. Kennedy and Hebert won gold in Vancouver in 2010, while Gallant, the baby of the team at 36, won bronze at Beijing 2022.

"It says a lot about the determination they have to get here again," said Canadian coach Paul Webster after the Norway match.

Rachel Homan says she 'couldn't be prouder' of her rink after winning Olympic curling bronze

Rachel Homan and her Ottawa-based rink spoke with Bryan Mudryk after curling to an Olympic bronze medal at Milano Cortina 2026.

Maybe you're just waking up, settling into a cup of coffee, or only have a few minutes to get caught up on the final full day of Olympic competition. Here's what you so far need to know about Day 15.

Canada adds 2 more medals 💥

Canada has added two more medals to its roster: a silver in women's mass start speed skating and a bronze in women's curling. 

Our medal count now stands at: 19 (four🥇, six🥈, nine🥉).

We will get another medal this afternoon in men's curling, since gold and silver are both up for grabs. 

Rachel Homan battles her demons for Olympic redemption 🥌

Speaking of curling, an Olympic medal has eluded Rachel Homan at the last two Olympic Games. But not this time. 

The Canadian skip battled her demons, and the team came away with a bronze in a hard-fought 10-7 game against the U.S. 

Last hurrah for Ivanie Blondin 🤠

Ottawa speed skater Ivanie Blondin, 35, defended her silver medal in the women's mass start. It's potentially her last Olympic race ever. 

She leaves Milano Cortina with two medals, including a gold in the women's long-track team pursuit, where the Canadian trio were defending Olympic champions.

Is this déjà vu from 2022?

What is Klæbo's VO2 max? 🦸

Imagine what your VO2 max must be to win all six of the Olympic cross-country races? 

Norwegian cross-country phenom Johannes Høsflot Klæbo completed his historic gold medal sweep this morning, finishing first in the men's 50-kilometre mass start today.

He has won six golds — the most by one athlete in a single Winter Games.

Quick Canadian updates:

U.S. Hockey captain having 3 best days of her life 🪩

Hilary Knight is having a week at her final Olympic Games. 

Gets engaged on Wednesday. Wins her first Olympic gold medal on Thursday. Is crowned the U.S.'s closing ceremony flag-bearer on Friday. 

Schmidt, 28, wasn't the only one to get a yellow card in ski cross today. Switzerland's Ryan Regez, the defending Olympic gold medallist, was eliminated in his close semifinal heat for making contact with German Tim Hronek.

Schmidt, who is from Ottawa, said his team would be reviewing his yellow card.

"It's been amazing. We have the best team in the world and I'm just sorry I couldn't — I mean, I did all I could. But, I don't know, it's just tough. It's going to take a bit," Schmidt said. 

Steady snow has forced organizers to move the women's freeski halfpipe ‌finals to Sunday afternoon. Calgary's Amy Fraser and Rachael Karker of Erin, Ont., were set to compete for medals today. 

The falling snow has already caused issues today during ​the men's ski cross quarterfinals, limiting visibility and slowing down skiers on the course — something Canada's Reece Howden was pretty unhappy about. 

His teammate Jared Schmidt also said the weather played a factor in his result. He was disqualified in the quarterfinal after a yellow card for contact from behind in his heat.

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 claimed silver. Not only is it his country's first medal of Milano Cortina — it's Denmark's first Olympic Winter Games medal since it won silver in women's curling at Nagano in 1998.

Italian Andrea Giovanni won 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. 

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