MILAN – Listed below are some notable quotes from the Milan Cortina Olympics on Feb. 13, 2026:
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“That’s young team, strong scrubbing. They make loads of shots with the broom, like loads of young teams do nowadays. We knew they were going to be excited to play us, Team Canada. We did job kind of silencing their US fans today, and just really out-curling them from result in skip.”
— Team Canada curling skip Brad Jacobs, after his team’s 6-3 win over the USA
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“I’m very completely happy with the entire results, considering that is my personal best.
“I’ll take every thing I can from this moment, and considering this might be the most important stage of sports, I feel I’ll have quite a little bit of confidence leading into the world championships.”
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— Canadian figure skater Stephen Gogolev after ending fifth in men’s single skating.
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“Needless to say, I don’t just like the number beside my name today. But I do know I still have something to rejoice. It’s the entire past 4 years I even have to rejoice with my family without delay here in Italy.”
— Canadian snowboarder Audrey McManiman, on missing the quarterfinals in the ladies’s snowboard cross event
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“It did hurt, still hurts, however it’s a part of it. That’s why we’ve got a team here. Unbelievable physio and docs have been helping me.”
— Canadian women’s hockey captain Marie-Philip Poulin on the injury that has kept her out of the team’s last two games on the Milan Cortina Olympics.
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“Obviously, we desired to win that game. But, you recognize, there’s numerous games left and just take the teachings from that game.”
— Canada’s Rachel Homan, on her team’s 9-8 loss to the USA in round robin play.
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“It’s been a extremely long profession. I had loads of beautiful moments and this was one other beautiful moment otherwise. Perhaps not in a performance way, but I feel this was an attractive goodbye at the most important stage with my family and children in the group. I got to say goodbye in an attractive way.”
— Canadian long-track speedskater Ted-Jan Bloemen, who ended his Olympic profession in the lads’s 10,000 metre race.
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“We definitely take some hits at times, and it’s definitely a component of the game. And there’s not one snowboarder out here that hasn’t taken a tough hit. We’re a troublesome breed, and everybody has that warrior spirit in snowboarding and definitely has loads of passion towards it, or else they wouldn’t be out here.”
— Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris, who’s recovering from a concussion and bone bruising that incurred during big air training before the Milan Cortina Olympics began.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 13, 2026.
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