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MILAN – From the first matches for Canada’s men’s curling squad to imaginable Canadian medals crystal dance, women’s moguls and men’s 1000-metre speedskating, present are 5 things to look retired for astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics connected Wednesday, Feb. 11:

DANCING TO VICTORY?

Veteran crystal dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier will look to unafraid an Olympic badge successful what whitethorn beryllium their last competitory skate.

Gilles and Poirier participate Wednesday’s free creation information of the title successful 3rd spot aft Monday’s hit creation portion, down erstwhile Canadian skater Laurence Fournier Beaudry, now representing France pinch Guillaume Cizeron, and American three-time world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

Toronto’s Gilles and Poirier, of Unionville, Ont., are some 34 years aged and skating successful their 15th season, pinch Milan Cortina being their 3rd Winter Games together.

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EXPERIENCE AT THE RINK

The men’s curling title astatine the Games is slated to get underway erstwhile Canada takes connected Germany successful round-robin play.

Canada is headed by Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., who was the past Canadian skip for a men’s squad to lead the Canadians to a golden badge successful Sochi successful 2014. He will beryllium teamed pinch Marc Kennedy of St. Albert, Alta., and Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, some from Chestermere, Alta. All 4 person erstwhile Olympic experience.

Gallant is returning to action aft a disappointing tally pinch woman Jocelyn Peterman successful mixed doubles competition, wherever the duo grounded to suffice for the semifinals pinch a 4-5 grounds successful round-robin play.

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EMOTIONAL DEBUT

Freestyle skier Maia Schwinghammer of Saskatoon will beryllium looking to badge erstwhile she makes her Olympic debut successful the women’s moguls final.

Schwinghammer, 24, won bronze successful the 2025 World Ski Championships successful Switzerland and reached the podium 3 times during the past World Cup season.

The skier’s begetter became an online sensation astatine the Games aft a CBC newsman interviewed him connected the streets of Livigno, Italy, wherever he collapsed down successful tears describing his pridefulness successful seeing his girl scope the highest level of world competition.

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SUPER-G FAMILY AFFAIR

Four Canadians are scheduled to compete successful Wednesday’s men’s super-G alpine skiing event, 1 of the highest-profile competitions astatine the Games.

James (Jack) Crawford of Toronto will beryllium joined by the North Vancouver, B.C., trio of Cameron Alexander and brothers Brodie and Riley Seger successful the race.

Crawford is the about knowledgeable skier of the group pinch 7 World Cup seasons nether his belt, arsenic good arsenic a bronze badge from Beijing 2022 successful men’s mixed alpine skiing.

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SPEEDING TO THE PODIUM

Speedskater Laurent Dubreuil will look to scope the podium again successful the men’s 1,000 metres aft winning metallic successful Beijing successful 2022.

Dubreuil, 33, from Lévis, Que., narrowly missed retired connected different badge astatine the Beijing Games erstwhile he came 0.03 of a 2nd short from reaching the podium successful the 500-metres earlier winning his metallic a fewer days later.

He enters the Milan Cortina Games arsenic an eight-time medallist astatine the world single-distance championships, including 3 golds and 2 silvers.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Feb. 10, 2026.

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