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Canada’s Veteran Core Faces U.S. Next as Early Results Recast Milan‑Cortina Picture

Opening medals across multiple venues are shifting momentum into Day 4.

Overview

  • Sweden captured mixed doubles curling gold 6–5 over the United States on the final throw, leaving the Americans with silver.
  • Italy upset Canada for gold in the short‑track mixed team relay, and Arianna Fontana became the first woman to medal at six consecutive Winter Olympics.
  • Breezy Johnson won the women’s downhill for the United States, and Ben Ogden took silver in the men’s cross‑country sprint to end a 50‑year U.S. drought in that discipline.
  • Alex Hall earned silver in freeski slopestyle, the U.S. pairing of Jacqueline Wiles and Paula Moltzan took bronze in the women’s team combined, and Ashley Farquharson added a bronze in women’s singles luge.
  • The U.S. and Canada meet in women’s hockey group play today with both teams unbeaten; Canada holds a 7–3 Olympic series edge and brings a roster featuring 16 former Olympians led by Sarah Nurse and Marie‑Philip Poulin.