{"id":463048,"date":"2026-02-09T04:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463048\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:11:12","slug":"day-3-what-to-watch-with-team-canada-at-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463048\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: What to watch with Team Canada at Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 8, 2026\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"By Paula Nichols<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Get set for another exciting day of action for Team Canada at the Milano Cortina 2026<\/a> Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you won\u2019t want to miss on Day 3!<\/p>\n

Curling<\/p>\n

The last draw of the mixed doubles round robin sees Jocelyn Peterman<\/a> and Brett Gallant<\/a> taking on Switzerland at 4:05 a.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ: Peterman & Gallant mixed doubles curling Olympic medal hopes end in disappointment<\/a><\/p>\n

Figure Skating<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for the individual events to begin, starting with ice dance. Three Canadian teams will compete in the rhythm dance that gets underway at 1:20 p.m. ET. Marie-Jade Lauriault<\/a> and Romain Le Gac<\/a> will skate third in the second of five flights. Marjorie Lajoie<\/a> and Zachary Lagha<\/a> will skate second in the fourth flight. Piper Gilles<\/a> and Paul Poirier<\/a> will be first to go in the final flight. The top 20 teams will advance to the free dance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"PiperTeam Canada\u2019s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier compete in ice dance team event at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan on Friday, February 06, 2026. Photo by Leah Hennel\/COC *MANDATORY CREDIT*<\/p>\n

Freestyle Skiing<\/p>\n

Megan Oldham<\/a> and Naomi Urness<\/a> will compete in the final of women\u2019s ski slopestyle starting at 6:30 a.m. ET. The 12 finalists will each do three runs, with their best one counting towards the final ranking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hockey<\/p>\n

After opening with a shutout of Switzerland, the Canadian women\u2019s team will take on Czechia at 3:10 p.m ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ: Team Canada defeats Switzerland in women\u2019s hockey opener<\/a><\/p>\n

Luge\u00a0<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s singles event gets going with the first run at 11:00 a.m. ET and the second run at 12:35 p.m. ET. That will set the sliders up for the last two runs on Day 4. Embyr-Lee Susko<\/a> and Trinity Ellis<\/a> will be the first Canadians to compete at the Cortina Sliding Centre during these Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ski Jumping<\/p>\n

Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes<\/a> competes in the men\u2019s individual normal hill. The first round is at 1:00 p.m. ET. The top 30 will move onto the final round at 2:12 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speed Skating \u2013 Long Track\u00a0<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s 1000m starts at 11:30 a.m ET. Carolina Hiller-Donnelly<\/a> will be in the second pairing, Rose Lalibert\u00e9-Roy<\/a> in the third pairing, and B\u00e9atrice Lamarche<\/a> in the second last of 15 pairings. Lamarche won her first individual ISU World Cup medal earlier this season in the 1000m.<\/p>\n

READ: A united team of speed skating sprinters ready to take on Milano Cortina 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 8, 2026 By Paula Nichols Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[189191,109038,49,48,189192,109039,189193,114464,187794,5239,186766,188235,189147,189194,188422,114466,188390,188391,44,119635,119636,188423,189195,132552,188150,189196,114469],"class_list":["post-463048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-beatrice-lamarche","tag-brett-gallant","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hiller-donnelly","tag-curling","tag-embyr-lee-susko","tag-figure-skating","tag-freestyle-skiing","tag-hockey","tag-jocelyn-peterman","tag-long-track-speed-skating","tag-luge","tag-mackenzie-boyd-clowes","tag-marie-jade-lauriault","tag-marjorie-lajoie","tag-megan-oldham","tag-naomi-urness","tag-news","tag-paul-poirier","tag-piper-gilles","tag-romain-le-gac","tag-rose-laliberte-roy","tag-ski-jumping","tag-speed-skating","tag-trinity-ellis","tag-zachary-lagha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463048","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=463048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}