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Cassie Sharpe will not compete in Saturday's Olympic women's halfpipe final after a fall in qualifying that left her briefly unconscious; team officials say she is out of hospital but has not been cleared to race.

Alysa Liu won women's Olympic figure skating gold in Milan-Cortina with a personal-best total of 226.79 after a season-best free skate of 150.20; she was the youngest U.S. champion at 13, retired at 16, and won the world title at 19.

Canada and the United States play the women's hockey gold-medal game at 1:10 p.m. ET on Day 13 of the Milano-Cortina Olympics; Canada also has key curling matches while new events and finals in skating and speed skating are scheduled.

Dalibor Dvorsky had a goal and an assist as Slovakia defeated Germany 6-2 in the Olympic quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals; Pavol Regenda scored twice and Samuel Hlavaj made 25 saves.

Twenty-year-old Santiago López plays for Pumas UNAM and hopes to earn a place with Canada for the FIFA World Cup, which runs June 11–July 19 in North America.

Mikaela Shiffrin pre-wrote an Instagram post and published it after winning the women's slalom at Milano-Cortina, taking gold by 1.50 seconds over Camille Rast.

Macklin Celebrini, 19, has four goals and two assists at the Milano‑Cortina Olympics and is reported as the youngest player on the ice; his former coach Jon Calvano says Celebrini is always smiling and enjoying the moment.

Ami Nakai topped the women's short program with a season-best 78.71 while Kaori Sakamoto was second with 77.23; the free skate is set for Thursday at 1 p.m. ET.

Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais and Ivanie Blondin beat the U.S. in the women's team pursuit semifinal at the Milano Cortina Games and will skate the gold-medal final at 10:40 a.m. ET against the Netherlands, ensuring a medal.

Marie-Philip Poulin scored both goals in Canada's 2-1 semifinal win over Switzerland, moving ahead on the Olympic all-time goals list, and Canada will face the United States in the final on Thursday.

It took nine days for Canada to win its first gold at the 2026 Milano‑Cortina Winter Olympics, and freestyle skier Mikaël Kingsbury ended that run by taking gold; it is the longest wait for a Canadian Winter Olympic gold since Grenoble in 1968.

Mikaël Kingsbury won the men's dual moguls final to give Canada its first gold at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics; it was his second medal at these Games and his fifth Olympic medal overall.

The International Olympic Committee said it will not allow Vladyslav Heraskevych to wear a helmet showing images of Ukrainians killed in the war during the skeleton competition; the IOC offered a plain black armband as an alternative.

Canada enters Day 7 with seven medals (three silver, four bronze), and the schedule is headlined by multiple hockey games, several curling draws and the men's figure skating final featuring Ilia Malinin.

Courtney Sarault took bronze in the women's 500 metres short track at the Milano-Cortina Olympics, marking Canada's seventh medal; Xandra Velzeboer won gold and Arianna Fontana silver.

Federica Brignone of Italy won the women's super-G at the 2026 Winter Olympics in 1:23.41, securing her first Olympic gold after returning from serious left-leg injuries less than a year earlier.

Julia Taubitz won the women's singles luge at the Milan-Cortina Olympics with a combined time of 3:30.625, nearly a full second ahead of Latvia's Elina Bota; Ashley Farquharson took bronze for the United States.

Canada and the United States meet in women's hockey at Milano Cortina 2026 on Tuesday; the U.S. is ranked first and Canada second. Canada’s captain Marie-Philip Poulin left the team’s last game with an injury.

Megan Oldham and Naomi Urness qualified seventh and eighth for the 12-skier women's slopestyle final, which has three runs and a final run scheduled at 7:28 a.m. ET.

Canadian figure skater and McMaster student Madeline Schizas was granted an extension on a sociology assignment after she emailed her professor noting she competed at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics and shared the exchange on Instagram.

Stephen Gogolev finished third in the men's short program, earning eight points and helping Canada qualify fourth overall for the figure skating Team Event final.

The Vancouver Whitecaps have accepted a one-year lease at B.C. Place and provincial support reported as up to C$1.5 million, while CEO Axel Schuster said the club earned about C$40 million less in revenue than some MLS peers last season.

Team Canada arrives at the Milano–Cortina Games with 206 athletes, seeking to improve on a 2022 performance that produced 26 total medals but only four golds.

Italian skiers posted the top times in the second men's downhill training at Milano‑Cortina, and Austria's Daniel Hemetsberger crashed during his run.

The Southern Alberta Mustangs will play a memorial benefit game in Stavely after three players died in a highway collision; local teams and organizations are raising funds and donations for the families.

Canada opens its women's hockey tournament Thursday in Milan, while recent head-to-head results and analytics show the United States have won six straight matchups and are favoured by markets and a CBC-hired model.

More than 4,500 fans gathered in Hamilton in temperatures around −13°C to watch Forge FC and Mexico's Tigres play to a scoreless draw in the CONCACAF Champions Cup; the return leg is Feb. 10 in Monterrey.

Organizers in Cortina d'Ampezzo are still finishing visible construction days before Olympic events begin, with curling set to start Wednesday and the first women's downhill training scheduled for Thursday.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Shohei Ohtani will not pitch for Japan in the World Baseball Classic and will serve only as the designated hitter.

The Canadian Olympic Committee announced a 207-athlete delegation for the Milano-Cortina Winter Games, with 109 competitors making their Olympic debuts. The Games run Feb. 6–22 and the opening ceremony will be broadcast on CBC-TV.