Day 3 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics is underway and Canada has already won its second medal of the Games.
Megan Oldham won a bronze medal for Canada in women’s freestyle skiing slopestyle to start the day, after Valérie Maltais secured a podium finish on Day 1.
Meanwhile, the figure skating ice dance event is underway with the rhythm dance, headlined by strong Canadian competitors Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier. The Canadian women’s hockey team is closing out the day’s action against Czechia, having hit the ice at 3:10 p.m. EST/12:10 p.m. PST.
What to watch today for Team Canada
1:20 p.m. EST: Figure skating — Ice dance (rhythm dance)
3:10 p.m. EST: Women’s hockey — Canada vs. Czechia (group play)
Megan Oldham wins bronze medal for Team Canada
Megan Oldham of Canada in action during her third run REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
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Megan Oldham won a bronze medal for Canada in women’s freestyle skiing slopestyle Monday at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The 24-year-old captured the medal with a third-run score of 76.46.
The medal is Canada’s second of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Valérie Maltais also won a bronze for Canada on Day 1 o the Games in women’s 3000-metre speed skating.
Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud won gold with a score of 86.96, just edging out silver medallist Eileen Gu of China’s 86.58.
Canada’s women’s hockey team continue gold-medal defence vs. Czechia
Claire Thompson of Canada and Daryl Watts of Canada celebrate after the match against Switzerland REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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The Canadian women’s hockey team is continuing its Olympic gold-medal defence with a match against Czechia Monday at 3:10 p.m. EST/12:10 p.m. PST.
Canada is coming off a 4-0 victory over Switzerland to open their Olympic campaign after their first match against Finland was postponed because the norovirus running roughshod through the Finnish team.
There were no issues creating chances as Canada out-shot Switzerland 55-6. They were, however, relatively unsuccessful finishing them off.
Czechia enters Monday’s contest coming off a pair of defeats to the United States and Switzerland. They fell 5-1 to the U.S. and lost in a shootout to the Swiss.
Canadian speed skater Béatrice Lamarche sees podium dream dashed by back-to-back Olympic records
Beatrice Lamarche of Canada reacts after competing in the Women’s 1000m Speed Skating event. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
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Skating in the second-to-last pair of the women’s 1000-metre speed-skating event at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Canadian Béatrice Lamarche put in a solid effort with a time of 1:14.73. It was good for third place in the moment.
All she needed was for the final pair to be just a tad slower than her and that Olympic bronze medal would be hers.
Unfortunately, that final pair featured the Netherlands’ Jutta Leerdam, the No. 2 ranked skater in the world — and fiancée of YouTube and boxing star Jake Paul — and the No. 4-ranked Miho Takagi of Japan.
Both women ended up skating faster than Lamarche with Leerdam taking the gold medal in an Olympic-record time of 1:12.31 and Takagi taking that bronze in a time of 1:13.95.
Lamarche’s podium dreams were there for all but a fleeting moment.
Leerdam’s Dutch teammate Femke Kok, the world No. 1, won the silver medal in a time of 1:12.59. That mark had become the new Olympic record until Leerdam topped it with the skate of her life.
Crotch-gate comes to the forefront with men’s ski jumping getting underway
Canada’s Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes in action during the men’s individual HS137 qualification jump REUTERS/Issei Kato
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Believe it or not, one of the biggest stories entering the 2026 Winter Olympics involved male ski jumpers allegedly injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid before being measured for their suits.
No, you didn’t read that wrong.
According to a report from German newspaper Bild published on Jan. 6, jumpers were said to be injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises in order to increase the size — since it can be used to increase the circumference by one or two centimetres.
By undergoing this procedure, jumpers would be able to increase the surface area during competition and, as the FIS — the international ski and snowboard federation — told the BBC, could increase their flight in the air.
“Every extra centimetre on a suit counts. If your suit has a five per cent bigger surface area, you fly further,” Sandro Pertile, FIS ski jumping men’s race director said.
A WADA official was asked about the allegations that Bild put forward, but, denied knowing anything about it.
“I am not aware of the details of ski jumping, and how that could improve performance,” WADA director general Olivier Niggli said. “If anything was to come to the surface, we would look at it and see if it is doping related. We don’t address other (non-doping) means of enhancing performance.”
The men’s ski jumping normal hill event gets underway Monday at the Olympics. Canada’s Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes competes in ski jumping and there’s been no allegations levied against the 34-year-old Toronto native.
In the event Monday, Boyd-Clowes finished 45th in the first round with a score of 110.8, meaning he failed to make the 30-man cut for the second and final round before medals are rewarded.
Peterman and Gallant finish disappointing Olympic run with a win
Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant of Canada look on during their match against Yannick Schwaller and Briar Schwaller-Huerlimann of Switzerland REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini
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Canada’s mixed doubles curling team of Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant defeated Switzerland 8-4 in their ninth and final round-robin match of the 2026 Olympics.
The win snaps a five-game losing streak that ultimately doomed the Canadians from reaching the playoff.
With the win, Peterman and Gallant improved to 4-5 in the tournament and finished in fifth.
The mixed doubles duo had an opportunity to make the playoff Sunday, but consecutive losses to Sweden and South Korea ensured that they wouldn’t be among the top four teams that advance and compete for a medal.
But while the tournament certainly didn’t go the way they wanted it to, the pair was still able to finish on a high note and keep their heads held high.
“You never want to dog it or not bring your best when you’re wearing the Maple Leaf,” Peterman told Curling Canada. “So, we wanted to do that today and finish on a win and we’re proud of that.”
More Team Canada news on Day 3
Women’s singles luge: Following Run 2 in the women’s singles luge event, Canada’s Trinity Ellis and Embyr-Lee Susko sit in 15th and 17th place, respectively. Germans Julia Taubitz and Merle Fräbel hold down the top two spots and Elina Ieva Bota of Latvia is in third. Runs 3 and 4 of the four-run event goes on Tuesday.