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2026 Olympic Games: Another busy day for Team Canada in slopestyle, speed skating and men's hockey

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CBC Sports' daily Olympics newsletter previews a loaded Day 12, featuring Canada's first men's hockey playoff game, two short track finals and snowboard star Mark McMorris' shot at a fourth straight medal.

In a performance that makes you think big things might be coming in the free skate on Thursday, it was dazzling 17-year-old Ami Nakai of Japan who earned a season's best 78.71 to take the lead in women's figure skating.

The money for medals doesn't come from taxpayers. It comes out of the Canadian Olympic Committee's Excellence Fund, which funnels corporate sponsorship dollars to our most successful high-performance athletes.

Nathan MacKinnon and Sam Bennett were absent from Canada's practice Tuesday ahead of the men's hockey quarterfinals at the Milano-Cortina Olympics.

Rachel Homan's Ottawa-based side of Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes scored a deuce in the 10th end to hand Sweden its first loss of the Olympic women's curling competition.

The Canadian women's team pursuit trio of Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais, and Ivanie Blondin will get the chance to defend their Olympic title. The speed skaters won their team pursuit semifinal against the U.S. on Tuesday and will skate in the ...

Germany swatted aside France 5-1 to reach the Olympic men's ice hockey quarter-finals on Tuesday, setting up a meeting with surprise Group B winners Slovakia in the final eight.

Heavy snow scrambled the Winter Olympics schedule in the Italian town of Livigno on Tuesday as organizers postponed the women's snowboard slopestyle medal event and reworked the start times for freestyle skiing aerials.