MILAN – Canada’s underdog girls’s hockey workforce goes for gold in opposition to the U.S., and the lads’s curling crew performs its final round-robin sport forward of the semifinals — listed below are 5 issues to observe Thursday on the Milan Cortina Olympics.
UNDERDOGS ON ICE
Canada will vie for girls’s hockey gold for the eighth Video games in a row on Thursday. The workforce will face off in opposition to its longtime U.S. rival, which has performed in opposition to Canada in each Olympic remaining save one going again to 1998. The Individuals have dominated the Video games this yr, however on Monday Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin confirmed her chops but once more by netting each targets in a 2-1 semifinal victory over Switzerland, topping Hayley Wickenheiser for essentially the most Olympic targets by a Canadian with 20.
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After a round-robin marketing campaign peppered with expletives and controversy, the lads’s curling squad is heading to the semifinals. Already assured a spot with its 7-1 document, the workforce will face off in opposition to Norway’s Magnus Ramsfjell in its remaining round-robin sport Thursday morning earlier than getting into the playoff spherical later within the day. Skip Brad Jacobs, whose workforce was the topic of dishonest allegations from a now-eliminated Sweden, hopes to reclaim the gold medal 12 years after profitable the Olympic title on the Sochi Video games.
SETTING UP THE SEMIS
Rachel Homan’s Canadian rink finishes off its girls’s curling round-robin with a sport in opposition to South Korea. The final day of preliminary-round competitors will decide Friday’s semifinalists. Canada’s final medal in girls’s curling was a gold on the 2014 Video games in Sochi, Russia.
BIG AERIAL
Canadians Émile Nadeau, Lewis Irving, Miha Fontaine and Victor Primeau can be competing within the males’s freestyle ski aerial qualifiers Thursday morning. The ultimate is ready for later within the day. The qualifying spherical was initially scheduled for Tuesday, however Olympics organizers postponed it after an alpine snow dump hampered visibility, notably for air ambulances.
LONG TRACK, LONG SHOT?
Canada will characteristic two Olympic newcomers for the lads’s 1,500-metre long-track speedskating showdown. Daniel Corridor of Salmon Arm, B.C., and David La Rue of Saint-Lambert, Que., are poised to push off in a area with extra distinguished skaters together with American Jordan Stolz and reigning Dutch champion Kjeld Nuis. Corridor is a second-generation Olympian, along with his father Michael competing for Canada within the sport throughout the Lillehammer 1994 Video games.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Feb. 18, 2026.
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