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Another exciting day ahead for Team Canada at Milano Cortina 2026<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Olympic champions in long track speed skating\u2019s women\u2019s team pursuit go for another medal, there are finals in women\u2019s snowboard slopestyle and men\u2019s ski big air, and a couple of big curling games on the schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what you won\u2019t want to miss.\u00a0<\/p>\n Biathlon<\/p>\n The last event for Canada\u2019s male biathletes is the men\u2019s 4\u00d77.5km relay, starting at 8:30 a.m. ET. Adam Runnalls<\/a>, Logan Pletz<\/a>, Jasper Fleming<\/a>, and Zachary Connelly<\/a> will compete for Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bobsleigh<\/p>\n The 2-man event concludes with the last two heats at 1:00 p.m. ET. Taylor Austin<\/a> and Shaq Murray-Lawrence<\/a> head in ranked 15th after the first two heats. Jay Dearborn<\/a> and Mike Evelyn O\u2019Higgins<\/a> are in 22nd place.\u00a0<\/p>\n Curling<\/p>\n After a two-win day on Monday to get their record back to .500 (3-3) and keep their playoff hopes alive, Team Homan will take on undefeated Sweden at 8:05 a.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then at 1:05 p.m. ET, Team Jacobs will take their 5-1 record into a matchup with 4-3 Great Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n Figure Skating<\/p>\n The last figure skating event of the Games gets underway with the women\u2019s short program. It starts at 12:45 p.m. ET. Madeline Schizas<\/a> will compete in the penultimate flight, taking to the ice at 3:41 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n Freestyle Skiing<\/p>\n The day kicks off with the qualification rounds for women\u2019s and men\u2019s aerials.\u00a0<\/p>\n Marion Th\u00e9nault<\/a> will compete in the first women\u2019s qualification round at 4:45 a.m. ET, hoping to be among the top six who advance directly to the final. If not, she\u2019ll be back at 5:30 a..m ET for the second qualification round, from which six more women will advance to the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c9mile Nadeau<\/a>, Lewis Irving<\/a>, Miha Fontaine<\/a>, and Victor Primeau<\/a> will compete in the first men\u2019s qualification round at 7:30 a.m. ET. If they aren\u2019t among the top six getting direct advancement to the final, they\u2019ll be in the second qualification round at 8:15 a.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then at 1:30 p.m. ET is the final of men\u2019s big air. Dylan Deschamps<\/a> finished ninth of the 12 qualifiers in the qualification round. Each athlete will do three runs, with their two best scores counting towards the final rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n Snowboard<\/p>\n The women\u2019s slopestyle final begins at 7:00 a.m. ET, featuring Laurie Blouin<\/a> and Juliette Pelchat<\/a>. The 12 riders will each do three runs, with their best score counting towards the final results.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speed Skating \u2013 Long Track\u00a0<\/p>\n The semifinals of the women\u2019s team pursuit start at 8:52 a.m. ET. Canada will face the United States in a head-to-head battle, with the winner moving onto the race for gold and silver at 10:47 a.m. ET. Whoever loses that semi will be in the bronze medal race at 10:41 a.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ivanie Blondin<\/a>, Val\u00e9rie Maltais<\/a>, and Isabelle Weidemann<\/a> are the defending Olympic champions in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 16, 2026 Another exciting day ahead for Team Canada at Milano Cortina 2026.\u00a0 The Olympic champions in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[188426,178572,189873,179093,49,48,109039,194193,194194,114464,189835,136181,136184,188433,179094,188434,188436,194195,189882,119634,194196,193663,44,193664,52948,188237,193666,134306,194197,190523],"class_list":{"0":"post-479693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-adam-runnalls","9":"tag-aerials","10":"tag-biathalon","11":"tag-bobsleigh","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-curling","15":"tag-dylan-deschamps","16":"tag-emile-nadeau","17":"tag-figure-skating","18":"tag-freestyle-skiiing","19":"tag-isabelle-weidemann","20":"tag-ivanie-blondin","21":"tag-jasper-fleming","22":"tag-jay-dearborn","23":"tag-juliette-pelchat","24":"tag-laurie-blouin","25":"tag-lewis-irving","26":"tag-logan-pletz","27":"tag-madeline-schizas","28":"tag-marion-thenault","29":"tag-mike-evelyn-ohiggins","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-shaq-murray-lawrence","32":"tag-snowboard","33":"tag-speed-skating-long-track","34":"tag-taylor-austin","35":"tag-valerie-maltais","36":"tag-victor-primeau","37":"tag-zachary-connelly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479693","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=479693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Adam](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MilanoCortina2026_Biathlon-93103360.jpg\")
Adam Runnels competes in the biathlon 10km sprint at the Anterselva Biathlon Arena during the MilanoCortina2026 Olympic Games in Milan, Italy on February 13, 2026. Photo by Dave Holland\/COC *MANDATORY CREDIT*<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CP175809747-4-e1771277945487.jpg\")
Canada\u2019s Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Homan and Emma Miskew in action during the women\u2019s curling round robin session against South Korea at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo\/Fatima Shbair)<\/p>\n![\"Men's](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EDIT_DSC2121.jpg\")
Team Canada\u2019s men\u2019s aerials training at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Livigno on Saturday, February 14, 2026. Photo by Darren Calabrese\/COC *MANDATORY CREDIT*<\/p>\n