oLYMPICS: 1)2026 Olympic Games: Canada brings medal count to 7 on Day 6; 2)Canada wins silver in short track; 3)Canada falls to U.S. 5-0 in Olympic women’s hockey; 4)Parry Sound’s Megan Oldham wins slopestyle bronze; 5)Canada marches into unique opening ceremony at Milan Cortina Olympics
1)2026 Olympic Games: Canada brings medal count to 7 on Day 6
Updated February 12, 2026
Team Canada added three medals on Day 6 of the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympic Games, bringing the medal count to seven.
2)Canada wins silver in short track
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By Canadian Press Staff, February 10, 2026
William Dandjinou, Kim Boutin, Félix Roussel and Courtney Sarault finished in two minutes 39.258 seconds, behind host Italy and ahead of Belgium, to give Canada a silver and two bronze at the Games.
The mixed short-track skaters, led by breakout star Dandjinou, entered the Games as the reigning world champions and the favourite for gold. But silver was still a bit of redemption after Canada was disqualified in the mixed relay final at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Boutin and Sarault were on that 2022 team.
It’s the first Olympic medal for Dandjinou, who won three gold medals and a silver at the 2025 short-track world championships, and fifth for Boutin.
Dandjinou, Roussel and fellow Canadians Steven Dubois will also compete in the men’s 1,000-metre heats. Meanwhile, Boutin, Sarault and Florence Brunelle will skate in the women’s 500-metre heats.
3)Canada falls to U.S. 5-0 in Olympic women’s hockey
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By Donna Spencer, February 10, 2026
A disjointed Canadian women’s hockey team fell 5-0 to the United States in Olympic women’s hockey Tuesday.
Canada was minus captain Marie-Philip Poulin, who sustained a lower-body injury in the previous night’s 5-1 win over the Czechs. Brianne Jenner wore the captain’s ‘C’ in Poulin’s absence
Hannah Bilka scored twice for the United States, which topped Group A with a 4-0-0-0 record.
Caroline Harvey had a goal and two assists, and Kristen Simms and Laila Edwards also scored for the U.S.
Goalie Aerin Frankel posted a 20-save shutout.
Canada’s starter Ann-Renée Desbiens was replaced by Emerance Maschmeyer in the third period when the U.S. scored a fifth goal on 27 shots. Maschmeyer made six saves in relief.
All five teams in Group A and the top three in Group B advance to the quarterfinals on Friday and Saturday. Canada’s quarterfinal will be Saturday against Germany.
Canada (2-0-0-1) will finish second in the group regardless of Thursday’s result versus Finland in the final preliminary game. That game scheduled for Feb. 5 was postponed because of multiple cases of norovirus among the Finns.
Tuesday’s game was the first meeting of the archrivals since the U.S. completed a four-game Rivalry Series sweep Dec. 13 in Edmonton.
The Americans outscored Canada 24-7 in those games.
Canada’s lack of offence continued into Tuesday.
The U.S. led 2-0 and 4-0, and outshot Canada 11-4 and 22-10, at period breaks.
The U.S. dominated puck possession. When a Canadian had the puck, one or even two Americans closed quickly on her.
When a Canadian gained the offensive zone with the puck, an American defender steered her to the boards. The U.S. blocked shots from the perimeter and gave up little territory to Canada from close range.
Canada mustered two shots on two power-play chances, and messed up a four-on-two rush during a second-period power play with an offside.
Harvey scored on the Americans’ second shot of the game with a wrist shot that sneaked under a screened Desbiens at 3:45 of the first period.
Abbey Murphy’s no-look backhand pass from behind Canada’s net found Bilka in the slot at 17:18 for a two-goal lead.
Simms was awarded a third goal for the U.S. after review, and also after Canadian head coach Troy Ryan challenged it for goalie interference, at 1:21 of the second period. Canada killed off the resulting minor.
Murphy fed Bilka again from down low for Bilka’s one-timer and a 4-0 lead for the U.S. at 13:00.
Edwards picked off a Canadian clear in the neutral zone, skated it back into Canada’s end and wired a shot over Desbiens’ stick to chase the Canadian from the game at 11:53.
Czechia went 1-0-1-2 in Group A. A game between Switzerland and Finland had yet to finish Tuesday night, with the Finns seeking their first win of the tournament.
Sweden (4-0-0-0), Germany (2-1-0-1) and host Italy (2-0-0-2) advanced out of Group B.
Canada played its first game of the tournament in the 14,000-seat Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena after two games at Milano Rho.
Poulin was checked hard into the boards by Kristyna Kaltounkova in the first period Monday.
Poulin headed for the bench, and after skating a few circles on the ice after the first period, she didn’t return to the game.
4)Parry Sound’s Megan Oldham wins slopestyle bronze
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By Canadian Press Staff, February 9, 2026
Freestyle skier Megan Oldham won Canada’s second medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics with a bronze in women’s slopestyle, while Canada’s women’s hockey team looked to pick up a second straight win later Monday.
Oldham, from Parry Sound, Ont., entered the final run in third spot at Livigno Snow Park and solidified her podium position with her best score of 76.46. Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland defended her Olympic title, while China’s Eileen Gu settled for silver for a second straight Games.
Oldham — an X Games slopestyle champion in 2023 and world championship silver and bronze medallist — got into a podium position with a first-round score of 69.76. She crashed on her final jump of her second run, but recovered to post the best score of the third round and secure her first Olympic medal.
Naomi Urness of Mont-Tremblant, Que., finished seventh in her Olympic debut with a score of 64.73.
Elsewhere on Day 3 of competition at the Winter Olympics, Canada will take on Czechia in its second preliminary round game after defeating Switzerland 4-0 on Saturday. The Canadians outshot the Swiss 55-6 and scored on three of their five power-play opportunities in the game.
Canada will then get ready to face the archrival and world champion United States tomorrow.
Figure skating continues today, with Canada having three tandems in competition when the ice dance event opens with the rhythm event.
Toronto’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont., were silver medallists at the last two world championships. Marjorie Lajoie of Boucherville, Que., and Zachary Lagha, of St-Hubert, Que., who were third in the team free dance on Saturday, and Marie-Jade Lauriault of Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., and Romain Le Gac of Laval, Que., are also in the field.
Canada’s mixed doubles curling team closed out a disappointing performance at the Winter Olympics with an 8-4 victory over Switzerland on Monday morning. Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant finished out of the playoff picture with a 4-5 record.
5)Canada marches into unique opening ceremony at Milan Cortina Olympics
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By Joshua Clipperton, February 6, 2026
Canada marched into the Milan Cortina Winter Games — at four different locations — on a colourful and unique Friday night.
The country’s delegation took part in a never-before-seen Parade of Athletes that stretched across northern Italy in the first Olympic curtain-raiser held at multiple venues for what is the most widespread event of its kind in history.
Moguls skier Mikaël Kingsbury and ski cross racer Marielle Thompson, both Olympic gold-medallists, carried the Maple Leaf in Livigno, more than 200 kilometres from Milan in the Italian Alps.
Roughly 50 members of the Canadian delegation in Milan marched into the famed San Siro, renamed Milano San Siro Olympic Stadium for the event that runs through Feb. 22, to raucous applause.
Meanwhile, in Livigno, fans stood in -3 C temperatures to watch the ceremony on two big screens with the halfpipe and big air runs gleaming white under the floodlights as a backdrop.
Kingsbury and Thompson — both four-time Olympians — have five medals between them.
“It’s quite a responsibility,” Thompson said of carrying her nation’s colours before leading the pack with Kingsbury. “To share it with Mikael is huge. He is such an icon in Canada and in our sport.”
Other than the walkout of athletes competing locally, the festivities at Livigno Snow Park were largely an exercise in watching big screens. The crowd cheered loudly when the town was announced as one of the host venues, but it was business as usual elsewhere as the occasional snowplow worked the slopes above the crowd.
Livigno is staging snowboard and freestyle skiing events. Bormio, about a one-hour drive away, is hosting men’s alpine skiing, with the downhill first on the schedule Saturday, as well as ski mountaineering, which is making its Olympic debut.
Cortina D’Ampezzo, which held the 1956 Games and had about two dozen Canadian athletes march, is roughly 400 kilometres from Milan in the heart of the Dolomite mountains.
Spectators in the town, brimming with shops, cafés and high-end boutiques is home to curling, sliding sports and women’s alpine skiing events gathered near the town square for an unusual ceremony.
Competition started in northeastern Italy a couple of days ago, and the Olympic buzz has been building since. A few dozen members of the Canadian team participated in the ceremony on a chilly but comfortable evening.
There was, however, no stadium setting in Cortina. Spectators instead lined the nearby streets and sidewalks or watched the unique proceedings from hotel or chalet balconies.
Predazzo, the fourth location taking part in the Friday’s ceremony, is about 300 kilometres away in the autonomous province of Trento. Italy also welcomed the world at the 1960 Olympics in Rome and again in 2006 in Turin.
Back in Milan, U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, who received boos when shown on the big screen as the American delegation walked onto the stadium floor, was among the dignitaries in attendance inside a tight security perimeter.
Sirens could be heard across Milan, where hockey, figure skating and both speedskating disciplines are taking place, throughout the day, and helicopters buzzed overhead in the hours leading up to the Games’ official opening.
The spectacle that stretched nearly 3 1/2 hours — about 30 minutes longer than scheduled — in Italy’s second-largest city featured 1,200 volunteer performers, homages to the country’s arts and culture, including three massive tubes of paint suspended high above the arena floor
There were also performances by American pop star Mariah Carey and famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli inside Milan’s iconic 75,000-seat stadium that’s home to soccer giants AC Milan and Inter Milan. The building, originally constructed in 1926, has also hosted World Cup games and Champions League finals.
Most countries were greeted warmly by the crowd — Ukraine and the Olympic hosts received the loudest ovations — but Israel received a mixed welcome that combined jeers and cheers.
Switzerland’s women’s hockey team didn’t take part in the festivities and is instead isolating following a positive test of norovirus, the same stomach illness that ripped through Finland’s roster and forced the postponement of its opening game Thursday against Canada. The Canadian team is scheduled to face the Swiss on Saturday.
Two cauldrons inspired by the geometric studies of Leonardo da Vinci were lit simultaneously in a Games first — one in Milan at the Arco della Pace, a short distance from the San Siro, and at Piazza Dibona in Cortina.
The organizers of a Games set to be staged across 22,000 square kilometres of territory in order to use as much existing infrastructure as possible said in the official notes that Friday’s showcase was “a return that unites memory and vision, reaffirming Italy’s role as a crossroads of culture, innovation, and the ability to imagine new ways of creating an Olympic ceremony.”
-With files from Neil Davidson in Livigno, Gregory Strong in Cortina, and The Associated Press.