Canada is in a comfortable spot in the overall 2018 Winter Olympics medal standings sitting in 3rd place with 17 medals: 6 gold, 5 silver, and 6 bronze.
Ted-Jan Bloemen won his second medal in the Olympics at PyeongChang, South Korea with an Olympic record 12:39.77 time in the Men's 10000 Speed Skating. Bloemen won silver earlier in the Men's 5000 Metres in Speed Skating.
Kim Boutin won her second bronze of the Olympics with a 1:24.650 time in Women's Short Track 1000 metres skating. Boutin also won bronze in the Women's Short Track 500-metre event with a time of 43.881 seconds.
Canada won the silver medal team relay luge with a time of 2:24.872. The team lost gold to Germany. Alex Gough, Sam Edney, Tristan Walker, and Justin Snith were the team. This is the second medal for Gough, winning bronze in Women's Luge with a score of 46.574.
Samuel Girard won the gold medal in Men's 1000 Metres Short Track skating with a time of 1:24.650.
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won bronze in the Pairs Free Skate with a 230.15 score.
Alex Beaulieu-Marchand took the bronze medal in Men's Ski Slopestyle with a 92.40 score.
The newest gold medal winners this morning were pilot Justin Kripps and brakeman Alexander Kopacz in the Bobsleigh. Germany's Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis tied the mark of 3:16.86 for the gold.
Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir haven't won a new medal but broke their own world record in the short dance with a score of 83.67 points. The presentation was to the music of Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones, an acoustic version of Hotel California by The Eagles, and Oye Como Va by Santana.
This was the same category where France's Gabriella Papadakis had a wardrobe malfunction where her left breast was exposed on international television. CBC did air the footage live in Canada.
The free dance version runs Monday night in North America.
Canada will play in its 6th straight gold medal game in women's hockey. Canada and the United States handed 5-0 defeats to Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) and Finland, respectively.
Jennifer Wakefield scored 2 goals in the semifinal game. Marie-Philip Poulin, Emily Clark, and Rebecca Johnston. 3 of Canada's 5 goals came in the 3rd period. Shannon Szabados was in goal in the semifinal game for Canada, going 14/14 against OAR.
Both play-in games were upsets. Switzerland dominated Group B yet lost 6-2 to OAR, a team outscored 15-1 in the preliminary round. Sweden's only loss in the opening round was to Switzerland but lost to Finland 7-2. Both Canada and the United States defeated Finland and OAR in the opening round in Group A.
If Switzerland had won, Canada would have played the higher seed despite winning Group A.
The gold medal game will be a rematch featured in 1998, 2002, 2010, and 2014. In the Canada-U.S. preliminary game, Meghan Agosta took a blind pass from Natalie Spooner on a power play and scored the first goal for Canada against the United States. Sarah Nurse drove down on the left side and placed a perfectly played shot above U.S. goalie Maddie Rooney's right shoulder to give Canada a 2-0 lead.
Here is hoping that Canada doesn't get a call against the team such as losing a potential 3rd goal by Haley Irwin where the referees ruled that she kicked the puck into the net. Irwin did turn her skate but there was no kicking motion.
Canada played all 3 goalies in the 3 preliminary games.
- Ann-Renée Desbiens 18/18 against OAR
- Shannon Szabados 22/23 against Finland
- Geneviève Lacasse 44/45 against U.S.
Sarah Nurse of Canada and Amanda Kessel have NHL family connections. Nurse's cousin is Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse. Kessel's brother is Pittsburgh's Phil Kessel, formerly of Toronto.
You may have noticed Brigette Lacquette on defence for Team Canada. Lacquette is the first indigenous woman ever on Canada's Olympic women's hockey team.
The CBC Olympics app has a nice segment on getting to know the women's hockey team in case you haven't tuned in until now.
The gold medal game will be Wednesday night in North America 11:10 pm Eastern/8:10 pm Pacific on CBC in Canada and NBCSN in the United States.
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Canada already won gold at mixed doubles curling but the women's curling team got off to a horrible start. Being down 0-3 was bad enough, but the team also suffered the karma of a burned rock.
Denmark has a rock in the 5th end when one of their sweeper's broom hit the top of the rock. This made the rock a burned rock. In curling, the other team can choose to remove the rock. Curling etiquette would lean toward leaving the rock. Canadian skip Rachel Homan had the rock taken out of play.
Canada ended up losing 9-8 as the Danes won the final point when in Homan's last throw, her stone clipped a guard in front of the house.
The loss brought them to 0-3. A win over the United States produced the team's first win in the 2018 Olympics. Toronto Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock called the women's curling team to offer encouragement after the win over the Americans. Babcock knows a few things about the Olympics having won gold medals in men's hockey in 2010 and 2014.
Homan scored a triple in the ninth end, and then stole a single in the tenth end to beat Switzerland 10-8. With the win, Homan's rink improves to 2-3.
The Canada women's curling team is now 3-3. The men's Olympic team got off to a great start but now rests at 4-3 with a 3-match losing streak. The latest loss was to the United States, the first Canada has ever lost to the Americans in Olympics curling.
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Canada earned a bye into the men's hockey quarterfinals with a little help from Sweden. Canada finished the preliminary round with a shutout win over the host team South Korea and the Sweden-Finland game ended in regulation.
Canada is the #4 seed and gets to rest before the quarterfinals. The team will play either Finland (#5) or South Korea (#12) in the quarterfinals. If the top quarterfinal seeds advance, Canada would draw Sweden in the semifinals.
Canada started the tournament by defeating Switzerland 5-1, then suffered a 3-2 shootout loss to the Czech Republic, and finally beat the host team South Korea 4-0. The team finished with seven points in Group A.
If Sweden-Finland had gone to OT, the loser of that game would also have 7 points. Since the first tiebreaker (head-to-head) was not relevant, the second tiebreaker was goal differential. Canada finished with a plus-7 mark, compared to Finland's plus-5 and Sweden's plus-9.
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