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From cheating admissions to convicted fraudsters and repealed doping suspensions, the drama surrounding biathlon at Milano Cortina 2026 has made the events anything but boring. But is all the attention a good thing? Source link

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CBC Sports’ daily Olympics newsletter previews a loaded Day 12, featuring Canada’s first men’s hockey playoff game, two short track finals and snowboard star Mark McMorris’ shot at a fourth straight medal. Source link

In a performance that makes you think big things might be coming in the free skate on Thursday, it was dazzling 17-year-old Ami Nakai of Japan who earned a season’s best 78.71 to take the lead in women’s figure skating. Source link

The money for medals doesn’t come from taxpayers. It comes out of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Excellence Fund, which funnels corporate sponsorship dollars to our most successful high-performance athletes. Source link

Nathan MacKinnon and Sam Bennett were absent from Canada’s practice Tuesday ahead of the men’s hockey quarterfinals at the Milano-Cortina Olympics. Source link

Rachel Homan’s Ottawa-based side of Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes scored a deuce in the 10th end to hand Sweden its first loss of the Olympic women’s curling competition. Source link

The Canadian women’s team pursuit trio of Isabelle Weidemann, Valerie Maltais, and Ivanie Blondin will get the chance to defend their Olympic title. The speed skaters won their team pursuit semifinal against the U.S. on Tuesday and will skate in the gold-medal final at 10:40 a.m. ET. Source link

Germany swatted aside France 5-1 to reach the Olympic men’s ice hockey quarter-finals on Tuesday, setting up a meeting with surprise Group ‌B winners Slovakia in the final eight. Source link

Heavy snow scrambled the Winter Olympics schedule in the Italian town of Livigno on Tuesday ‌as organizers postponed the women’s snowboard slopestyle medal event and reworked the start times for freestyle skiing aerials. Source link