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American alpine skier Breezy Johnson gets engaged to boyfriend Connor Watkins at the finish line of the Super-G event on Thursday. Source link

History repeated itself in the men’s Olympic snowboard cross final at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games. Four years after Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle narrowly beat Canadian Éliot Grondin to the finish line for the gold medal at Beijing 2022, it happened again on Thursday in Italy. Source link

Italian skier Federica Brignone’s long, painful climb back to the top is complete. The 35-year-old earned the first Olympic gold medal of her decorated career by winning the women’s super-G on Thursday. Source link

Canadian women’s hockey captain Marie-Philip Poulin was scratched from the lineup in an Olympic women’s hockey game against Finland. Source link

Team Canada’s athletes insist they have the talent to compete. It’s the equipment and money they lack. Source link

Canadian freestyle skier Mikaël Kingsbury took Olympic silver after the men’s moguls final came down to a tiebreaker on Thursday at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games. Source link

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Canada’s Rachel Homan opened women’s curling round-robin play Thursday with a 10-4 victory over Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium. Source link

Heraskevych came to the Olympics with a customized helmet showing the faces of more than 20 Ukrainian athletes and coaches who were killed during the war, a conflict that started shortly after the 2022 Beijing Games ended. Source link

CBC Sports’ daily Olympics newsletter previews a stacked Day 6 for Canada, including some strong gold-medal chances and the men’s hockey opener. Source link