Canada wins bronze in mixed ski jumping, women’s 500m short-track speed skating

For the first time in Canadian Winter Olympic history, a Canadian was on the podium for ski jumping.

Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes (Calgary) secured the bronze medal for Canada in the mixed team event Monday.

The Canadian team also included Abigail Strate (Calgary), Alexandria Loutitt (Calgary) and Matthew Soukup (Calgary).

This was the first mixed team ski jumping event held at the Olympic Games.

Abi Strate.
Alexandria Loutitt.
Matthew Soukup.
4-time Olympian Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes.

Absolute history makers.

Never before TODAY had Canada won an Olympic medal in Ski Jumping.

What a performance. #Beijing2022 #Beijing2022WinterOlympics

— Lukas Weese (@Weesesports) February 7, 2022

Short-track speed skating: Kim Boutin (Sherbrooke, Que.) won bronze in the women’s 500 metres.

This is Boutin’s fourth Olympic medal of her career after she won three medals at the 2018 Games, including one silver and two bronze.

Jordan Pierre-Gilles (Sherbrooke, Que.) was penalized in a men’s 1,000m quarterfinal and was eliminated, while Pascal Dion (Montreal) didn’t finish his quarterfinal race.

The medals by Boutin and the ski jumping team gave Canada six medals at the Games — one gold, one silver and four bronze.

Hockey: It wasn’t just the goaltenders wearing masks Sunday night.

The Canadian and Russian women’s teams donned face masks for the first two periods of their contest after the Russians’ COVID-19 testing results didn’t arrive in a timely fashion.

Because of that, the Canadians didn’t take the ice for an hour after the warmup. After the delay, both teams agreed to wear masks — although the Russian players ditched their masks for the third period.

Canada went on to win 6-1 to improve to 3-1.

Sarah Fillier (Georgetown, Ont.), Sarah Nurse (Hamilton), Erin Ambrose (Keswick, Ont.), Jamie Lee Rattray (Kanata, Ont.), Rebecca Johnston (Sudbury) and Marie-Philip Poulin (Beauceville, Que.) had goals for Canada. Saskatoon’s Emily Clark didn’t play in the contest.

The Canadians and their main rivals, the Americans, are to meet late Monday night in a showdown of undefeated teams.

Alpine skiing: James Crawford (Toronto) finished fourth in the men’s downhill, just 0.07 seconds out of a medal.

Brodie Seger (North Vancouver, B.C.) was 22nd, while Broderick Thompson (Whistler, B.C.) didn’t finish.

Those three men are to be joined by Trevor Philp (Calgary) in the field for the men’s Super-G, which is set for Monday evening.

In the women’s giant slalom, Valerie Grenier (St-Isidore, Que.) and Cassidy Gray (Invermere, B.C.) failed to finish.

Biathlon: In the women’s 15-kilometre individual race, Megan Bankes (Calgary) placed 33rd, with Emma Lunder (Vernon, B.C.) 67th, Emily Dickson (Burns Lake, B.C.) 70th and Sarah Beaudry (Prince George, B.C.) 80th.

Curling: John Morris (Canmore, Alta.) and Rachel Homan (Ottawa) lost 8-7 in an extra end to Italy on Sunday night and missed the mixed doubles playoffs with a 5-4 record.

The Italians scored a deuce in the eighth end that tied the game and then stole one in the extra end when Homan’s draw slid an inch too far.

Figure skating: Canada finished fourth in the team competition after the final events Sunday night.

Madeline Schizas (Oakville, Ont.) was third in the women’s free skate, Vanessa James (Montreal) and Eric Radford (Balmertown, Ont.) were fourth in the pairs free skate, and Piper Gilles (Toronto) and Paul Poirier (Unionville, Ont.) were third in the free dance.

Luge: Reid Watts (Whistler, B.C.) slid to a 17th-place finish.

Speed skating: Ivanie Blondin (Ottawa) finished 13th in the women’s long-track 1,500m, while Maddison Pearman (Ponoka, Alta.) was 24th.