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Let the Games begin!\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s officially Day 1 of the Milano Cortina 2026<\/a> Olympic Winter Games. Want to know which Team Canada athletes are in action and what medal events are happening? Read on so you don\u2019t miss a moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alpine Skiing<\/p>\n The men\u2019s downhill kicks off the alpine skiing events at 5:30 a.m. ET. Racing for Canada in Bormio will be Jack Crawford<\/a>, Cameron Alexander<\/a>, Brodie Seger<\/a>, and Jeffrey Read<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Crawford posted the fastest time in the third and final training run on Friday at the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio. The Canadians have enjoyed past success at this venue. Crawford was second in a FIS World Cup event in December 2022. Alexander finished third in World Cup downhills there in 2023 and 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cross-Country Skiing\u00a0<\/p>\n The first cross-country skiing event is the women\u2019s 20km skiathlon, featuring Jasmine Drolet<\/a>, Alison Mackie<\/a>, Katherine Stewart-Jones<\/a>, and Amelia Wells<\/a> for Canada. They\u2019ll ski 10km in classic technique and then 10km in free technique.That event starts at 7:00 a.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is a new distance at the Olympic Games, having previously been a 15km event (7.5km in each technique) for women. They now race over the same distance as the men.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Curling<\/p>\n It\u2019s a two-game day for Jocelyn Peterman <\/a>and Brett Gallant <\/a>in mixed doubles. They\u2019ll get going at 4:05 a.m. ET against Team GB and then come back at 1:05 p.m. ET for a meeting with Estonia.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Canadians enter the day with a 3-1 record. Great Britain tops the standings at 5-0 while Estonia is 1-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n READ: Peterman & Gallant respond to challenge of facing Olympic champions and their home fans<\/a><\/p>\n Figure Skating<\/p>\n The team event continues with the men\u2019s short program at 1:45 p.m. ET, which will include Canada\u2019s Stephen Gogolev<\/a>. After that, we\u2019ll know the top five countries that will advance to compete in the free skates, which begin with the free dance at 4:05 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n READ: Team Canada in top five after first day of Olympic figure skating team event<\/a><\/p>\n Canada was in fifth place after the first day of competition in the team event.\u00a0<\/p>\n Freestyle Skiing<\/p>\n It\u2019s qualification day for ski slopestyle. The women will be on the course first at 4:30 a.m. ET, including Canadians Megan Oldham<\/a>, Naomi Urness<\/a>, Elena Gaskell,<\/a> and Skye Clarke<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The men will follow at 8:00 a.m. ET, including Canadian Evan McEachran<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Everyone will do two runs with only the best one counting. The top 12 in each event advance to the finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hockey\u00a0<\/p>\n Team Canada will play its first game of the women\u2019s hockey tournament, taking on Switzerland at 3:10 p.m. ET. The Canadians were to have opened against Finland on Thursday, but that match was postponed after multiple players on the Finnish team were quarantined following a norovirus outbreak.\u00a0<\/p>\n READ: Team Canada\u2019s women\u2019s hockey opener will have to wait<\/a><\/p>\n Ski Jumping\u00a0<\/p>\n The women will be up first with the individual normal hill. Three Canadians are entered: Abigail Strate<\/a>, Nicole Maurer<\/a>, and Natalie Eilers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The first round goes at 12:45 p.m. ET, followed by the final round at 1:57 p.m. ET. The top 30 from the first round advance to the final round.\u00a0<\/p>\n Strate has been enjoying a career year on the FIS World Cup circuit, reaching six podiums, including her first career victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n Snowboard\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s the final of the men\u2019s big air at 1:30 p.m ET. Francis Jobin<\/a> is the only Canadian who advanced from the qualification round. His two best runs landed him in sixth place. Eli Bouchard <\/a>missed out on being in the final 12 by two spots, a margin of just 1.75 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n Each snowboarder will do three runs in the final with their best two scores added together for the final rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speed Skating \u2013 Long Track\u00a0<\/p>\n The first event at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium is the women\u2019s 3000m at 10:00 a.m. ET. Racing for Canada will be Isabelle Weidemann<\/a>, Val\u00e9rie Maltais<\/a>, and Laura Hall<\/a>. Weidemann won bronze in this event at Beijing 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Hall is in the first pairing, Maltais in the eighth pairing, and Weidemann in the 10th and final pairing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 6, 2026 Let the Games begin!\u00a0 It\u2019s officially Day 1 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[132548,187790,49,48,187791,109039,187792,187793,114464,187794,5239,14471,132552,52948,82,13543],"class_list":["post-458905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abigail-strate","tag-alpine-skiing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cross-country-skiing","tag-curling","tag-daily-preview","tag-day-1","tag-figure-skating","tag-freestyle-skiing","tag-hockey","tag-milano-cortina-2026","tag-ski-jumping","tag-snowboard","tag-sports","tag-team-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CP175738271.jpg\")
Canada\u2019s James Crawford speeds down the course during an alpine ski, men\u2019s downhill official training, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Bormio, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CAW_20260205_426-e1770325134822.jpg\")
Team Canada\u2019s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman celebrate against Italy in mixed doubles curling at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Italy on Thursday, February 05, 2026. Photo by Candice Ward\/COC *MANDATORY CREDIT*<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MDB-260205-165687.jpg\")
Team Canada\u2019s Elena Gaskell takes part in training for freestyle skiing slopestyle ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Livigno, Italy on Thursday, February 5, 2026. Photo by Mark Blinch\/COC <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DBC_20260205_470.jpg\")
Team Canada\u2019s Francis Jobin celebrates after a run while competing in men\u2019s snowboard big air qualifiers at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Italy on Thursday, February 05, 2026. Photo by Darren Calabrese\/COC <\/p>\n