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Thursday, February 10, 2022

Beijing Winter Olympics: Canada marks shining day with four more trips to the podium - The Globe and Mail

Left Canada's Eliot Grondin and right Isabelle Weidemann celebrate their silver medals in the men's snowboard cross and women’s 5000m speed skate finals.The Canadian Press/Reuters

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Olympic events for Feb. 10, 2022
  • A light night for Canada: Today Canada had a busy day bringing home silvers in speed skating and snowboarding, and bronze in alpine and mixed aerials. Tonight we are watching for women’s individual skeleton et 8:30 p.m. ET and women’s super-G in alpine skiing at 10 p.m. ET before we prepare for more events in the early hours of the morning. Details below.
  • Speed skating: Canadian speed skater Isabelle Weidemann has won silver in the women’s 5,000 metres, her second medal of the Beijing Olympics. She also won bronze in the women’s 3,000 metres for Canada’s first medal of the Games.
  • Freestyle skiing: Canada’s mixed aerials team of Marion Thenault, Miha Fontaine and Lewis Irving has won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics with a total of 290.98 points to edge out fourth-place Switzerland, which totalled 276.01 points. It marks Canada’s first aerials medal since the 2002 Salt Lake Games, when Veronica Brenner won silver and Deidra Dionne claimed bronze in the women’s event.
  • Snowboard: Canada’s Eliot Grondin has brought home a silver medal. Grondin finished second in men’s snowboard cross at the Beijing Olympics, coming 0.02 seconds behind Austria’s Alessandro Hmmerle in a photo finish. Italy’s Omar Visintin came in third. Grondin of Sainte-Marie, Que., had the fastest time in seeding. The final run was the first race he didn’t lead the entire time.
  • Skiing: Toronto’s Jack Crawford won bronze in men’s alpine combined at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday. He was fourth in the men’s downhill on Monday — missing the podium by seven hundredths of a second — and then placing sixth in the men’s super-G on Tuesday. Crawford’s bronze market Canada’s first-ever medal in alpine combined. The Globe’s Cathal Kelly writes that the skier’s bronze medal comes as a shock. other Canadians cracked the top 10. Broderick Thompson of Whistler, B.C., was eighth while Brodie Seger of North Vancouver, B.C., came in ninth.
  • Curling: Canada’s Brad Gushue defeated Norway’s Steffen Walstad 6-5 in men’s round robin play. Gushue (2-0) made an open draw for a single in the 10th end for the victory. Canada shot 92 per cent as a team and Gushue finished at 99 per cent, making all seven of his draws. Skip Jennifer Jones opened her round-robin schedule with a 12-7 victory over South Korea’s EunJung Kim on Thursday.
  • Ice hockey: Ben Street had a goal and an assist as Canada’s Olympic men’s hockey team stormed out of the gate early before cruising to a 5-1 victory over Germany on Thursday at the Beijing Games. Alex Grant, Daniel Winnik, Maxim Noreau and Jordan Weal also scored in both countries’ tournament opener, while Eric O’Dell and Kent Johnson added two assists each. Edward Pasquale made 23 saves. Earlier in the day, Hockey Canada announced that Claude Julien, who had been tabbed to coach the team before breaking his ribs during training camp in Switzerland, had joined the group and would resume his duties following the game.
  • Figure skating: Canadian figure skater Keegan Messing finished 11th in men’s singles at the Beijing Olympics, just three days after he arrived in China. Nathan Chen of the United States claimed his maiden Olympic title when he won the gold medal in the men’s singles. The Globe’s Rachel Brady reports that the performance left no doubt that Chen is the world’s best male figure skater
  • Snowboard: Elizabeth Hosking from Longueuil, Que., placed sixth in women’s snowboard halfpipe, improving 13 spots from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. American Chloe Kim successfully defended her Olympic title, throwing down a 94.00 in her first run to win gold. Writing on Thursday, The Globe’s Cathal Kelly describes Kim as “the people’s champion”. Spain’s Queralt Castellet (90.25) took home the silver and Japan’s Tomita Sena (88.25) finished with bronze. Calgary’s Brooke D’Hondt, making her Olympic debut, finished 10th with a score of 66.75. The 16-year-old D’Hondt is the youngest member of Canada’s Olympic delegation at the Beijing Olympics.
Off the field
  • Figure skating controversy: Russia’s 15-year-old figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva hit the ice for practiceon Thursday despite reports of testing positive for a banned substance. The teenager was part of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team that won the figure skating team event on Monday, ahead of the United States and Japan. But their medal ceremony was delayed for unexplained “legal reasons.” Canada placed fourth and would be in line to be upgraded. Cathal Kelly writes that the festering story returns Russia to its black-hat glory.
The day in pictures

  • Canada's silver medallist, Eliot Grondin, during the men's snowboard cross medal ceremony on Day 6 of the Beijing Winter Olympics.Cameron Spencer/Getty Images AsiaPac

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Coming up at the Beijing Olympics

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What to watch later today, Feb. 10
  • Snowboard, men’s halfpipe, final 🥇 8:30 p.m. ET
  • Alpine skiing, women’s Super G 🥇 10 p.m. ET
What to watch tomorrow, Feb. 11
  • Curling, women, round robin Canada vs. Japan 1:05 a.m. ET
  • Cross-country skiing, Men’s 15 km classic style 🥇 2 a.m. ET
  • Speed skating, men’s 10,000 m 🥇 3 a.m. ET
  • Biathlon, women’s 7.5km sprint 🥇 4 a.m. ET
  • Short track, women’s 1,000 m quarter-final 6 a.m. ET
  • Curling, men, round robin, Canada vs. Switzerland 7:05 a.m. ET
  • Short track, women’s 1,000 m, finals 🥇 7:37 a.m. ET
  • Ice hockey, women’s quarter-final, Canada vs. Sweden 8:10 a.m. ET
  • Skeleton, men’s individual Run 4 🥇 8:55 a.m. ET
  • Curling, women, round robin, Canada vs. Sweden 8:05 p.m. ET
  • Snowboard, mixed snowboard cross team, quarter-final 9 p.m. ET
  • Snowboard, mixed snowboard cross team, final 🥇 9:50 p.m. ET
  • Ice hockey, men, Group A, Canada vs. United States 11:10 p.m. ET
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Olympic highlights and medal count for Feb. 10

Latest Olympic medal count

I‘ve never watched hockey. The Globe sent me to cover an Olympics game: Forgive me readers, but I had never seen a hockey game before Thursday night, at the Beijing Olympics. But how can you not enjoy a game that can be sublimely graceful one minute and then sloppy and brilliantly messy the other? Read James Griffith’s first hockey experience as he watched the U.S.-China men’s game.

2022 Beijing Olympics - Ice Hockey - Men's Prelim. Round - Group A - United States v China - National Indoor Stadium, Beijing, China - February 10, 2022. Jieruimi Shimisi of China reacts to a goal. Pool via REUTERS/Bruce Bennett TPX IMAGES OF THE DAYBRUCE BENNETT/Reuters

U.S.’s Nathan Chen jumps to figure-skating gold at Beijing Olympics, while rival Yuzuru Hanyu falters: Nathan Chen left no doubt that he’s the world’s best male figure skater. With a long program set to Elton John’s Rocket Man and popping with five quadruple jumps, the American blew away the competition for gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Thursday.

Gold medalist Nathan Chen of the United States stands for his national anthem during the medal ceremony for the men's free skate figure skating on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing.Jae C. Hong/The Associated Press

ROC women’s hockey player Maria Pechnikova reportedly tests positive for COVID-19: Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) women’s ice hockey player Maria Pechnikova tested positive for COVID-19 at the Beijing Olympics, Russian news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

Canada forward Natalie Spooner and Russian Olympic Committee defender Maria Pechnikova during a game at the Beijing Olympics, on Feb. 7.Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press

American Mikaela Shiffrin to start super-G race despite setbacks: American Mikaela Shiffrin will start in Friday’s super-G race, a U.S. Ski team spokeswoman said, after considering pulling out of the event following early exits from her specialist events. Shiffrin failed to finish in either the slalom or giant slalom, her two favoured races.

Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States walks through the finish area after a training run at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022.Luca Bruno/The Associated Press

Meet the U.S. DJs spinning the soundtrack to the Beijing Games: Michael Nakagawa also known as DJ Naka G, is from Aspen, Colo., and had spent much of this year snowboarding. He’s an Olympic veteran: Beijing is his fifth Games. DJs are among the thousands of people working behind the scenes at an Olympics, doing jobs that are often invisible but whose absence would be instantly noticeable. James Griffiths got a chance to catch up with him after a set.

Michael Nakagawa, DJ Naka G, works in his studio overlooking the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre, near Beijing, China, on February 8, 2022.James Griffiths/The Globe and Mail

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