MILAN – From the primary matches for Canada’s men’s curling team to possible Canadian medals ice dance, women’s moguls and men’s 1000-metre speedskating, listed here are five things to look out for on the Milan Cortina Olympics on Wednesday, Feb. 11:
DANCING TO VICTORY?
Veteran ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier will look to secure an Olympic medal in what could also be their final competitive skate.
Gilles and Poirier enter Wednesday’s free dance portion of the competition in third place after Monday’s rhythm dance portion, behind former Canadian skater Laurence Fournier Beaudry, now representing France with Guillaume Cizeron, and American three-time world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates.
Toronto’s Gilles and Poirier, of Unionville, Ont., are each 34 years old and skating of their fifteenth season, with Milan Cortina being their third Winter Games together.
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EXPERIENCE AT THE RINK
The lads’s curling competition on the Games is slated to get underway when Canada takes on Germany in round-robin play.
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Canada is headed by Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., who was the last Canadian skip for a men’s team to steer the Canadians to a gold medal in Sochi in 2014. He can be teamed with Marc Kennedy of St. Albert, Alta., and Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, each from Chestermere, Alta. All 4 have previous Olympic experience.
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Gallant is returning to motion after a disappointing run with wife Jocelyn Peterman in mixed doubles competition, where the duo didn’t qualify for the semifinals with a 4-5 record in round-robin play.
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EMOTIONAL DEBUT
Freestyle skier Maia Schwinghammer of Saskatoon can be trying to medal when she makes her Olympic debut in the ladies’s moguls final.
Schwinghammer, 24, won bronze within the 2025 World Ski Championships in Switzerland and reached the rostrum 3 times throughout the last World Cup season.
The skier’s father became a web-based sensation on the Games after a CBC reporter interviewed him on the streets of Livigno, Italy, where he broke down in tears describing his pride in seeing his daughter reach the best level of world competition.
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SUPER-G FAMILY AFFAIR
4 Canadians are scheduled to compete in Wednesday’s men’s super-G alpine skiing event, one in all the highest-profile competitions on the Games.
James (Jack) Crawford of Toronto can be joined by the North Vancouver, B.C., trio of Cameron Alexander and brothers Brodie and Riley Seger within the race.
Crawford is probably the most experienced skier of the group with seven World Cup seasons under his belt, in addition to a bronze medal from Beijing 2022 in men’s combined alpine skiing.
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SPEEDING TO THE PODIUM
Speedskater Laurent Dubreuil will look to succeed in the rostrum again in the boys’s 1,000 metres after winning silver in Beijing in 2022.
Dubreuil, 33, from Lévis, Que., narrowly missed out on one other medal on the Beijing Games when he got here 0.03 of a second short from reaching the rostrum within the 500-metres before winning his silver a couple of days later.
He enters the Milan Cortina Games as an eight-time medallist on the world single-distance championships, including three golds and two silvers.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 10, 2026.
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