Buckle up! Here’s your midday Olympic digest \ud83e\udd0c<\/p>\n
It’s a busy day for Canadian athletes at the Milano-Cortina Olympics, with overlapping competitions. Here are the highlights from this morning:<\/p>\n
Canada’s medal count: Six (three \ud83e\udd48 and three \ud83e\udd49).<\/p>\n
Historic silver in men’s moguls (after a tiebreak)<\/p>\n
Canada’s Mika\u00ebl Kingsbury scored his third career Olympic silver medal<\/a> in the men’s moguls after losing gold in a tiebreaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n It came down to the Deux-Montagnes, Que., native’s turns score<\/a>. He was 0.7 points behind Australia’s Cooper Woods \u2014 meaning his run down the moguls slope wasn’t as clean. (Kingsbury beat him in the air score, because his tricks had a higher degree of difficulty.)<\/p>\n The new dad still made history as the first male freestyle skier to claim four Olympic medals (one gold and three silvers). His 18-month-year-old even wanted a taste<\/a>.<\/p>\n Silver in snowboard cross. Is this 2022 all over again?<\/p>\n \u00c9liot Grondin captured silver<\/a> in the men’s snowboard cross, his third career Olympic medal, after a tight race that came down to a photo finish.<\/p>\n It was a repeat of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, with Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle narrowly beating Grondin to the finish line.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Canadian was three-hundredths of a second behind.<\/p>\n Canadian hockey double header<\/p>\n Sidney Crosby is back \ud83e\udd79. I repeat: Sidney Crosby is back. Plus, Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon are making their Olympic debuts as NHL players return to the Games for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n Canada is opening the preliminary stage against Czechia. We’re up 3-0 at the end of the second period.<\/p>\n On the women’s side, the team was still without its captain Marie-Philip Poulin against Finland to close out the group stage. Canada’s head coach told us she needs an “extra couple days” of rest.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n That didn’t stop Team Canada from ending the preliminary round on a high, with a 5-0 win<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n They move on to the quarterfinals on Saturday where they’ll face Germany. These two teams have never played each other at the Olympics.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Ukrainian skeleton slider out of Olympics over banned helmet<\/p>\n The Olympic governing body’s debate over the Ukrainian skeleton slider’s helmet has come to an end. Vladyslav Heraskevych, a likely medal contender, was disqualified from competing \u2014 roughly 45 minutes before the start of the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n His helmet honouring teammates killed in the war with Russia has been a flashpoint in a days-long standoff between the athlete and the International Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n The IOC president appeared to have tears in her eyes<\/a> after making the decision. Heraskevych plans to appeal<\/a> his disqualification to the Court of Arbitration of Sport.<\/p>\n Quick hits:<\/p>\n