#curling

#curling

"Coming out was a tough time for me," he admitted, adding: "The first ever person I told was actually a sports psychologist because I wasn't really performing very well." He continued: "I wasn't really enjoying my curling. But I really think that it helped me to feel comfortable within the team environment and now, 12 years later, I'm going to my second Olympics feeling pretty good about myself."

The GB quartet, who only scraped through the round-robin stage because the Italians lost to the Swiss earlier in the day, had promised that they would be an entirely different proposition if they got to the knockout rounds and they were as good as their word. The Swiss had won all nine games they had played coming into this semi-final, but were soundly beaten by Bruce Mouat and his team of Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan and Bobby Lammie.

Hockey is the top Winter Games sport among gamblers, but curling with its sliding stones, spirited sweeping and cheating allegations has surprised oddsmakers. Bettors are showing significant interest in the quirky sport, which piques viewers' curiosity every four years at the Winter Olympics. There's definitely a stronger curling-hockey split than what was expected, said Chris Pearce, a senior trader at Caesars Sportsbook.

In between times, we've got men's large hill ski jumping and women's aerials, then Germany play France and Switzerland take on Italy for a spot in the men's ice hockey quarter-finals. But the centrepiece of our early activity comes at high noon, with the final of the women's snowboard slopestyle. Mia Brookes didn't qualify, but Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, New Zealand's reigning champion, absolutely did, likewise Melissa Peperkamp of the Netherlands; they'll take some beating.

Courtney Sarault of Moncton, N.B., finishes second in the women's 1,000-metre short track speed skating final for her third medal at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games. Sarault won bronze in the 500-metre and silver in the mixed relay. Courtney Sarault captures silver in the women's 1,000-metre short track. Beset by double-touching accusations, Canadian men's and women's curling teams play three matches today.

Bo Horvat (14) of Team Canada celebrates his goal against Team Czechia with Drew Doughty (89) and Brad Marchand (63) during second period men's Olympic hockey action at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics on Thursday. Team Canada has seven medals heading into Day 7 after picking up three on Thursday. Canada's men's hockey team faces off against Switzerland today after shutting out Czechia 5-0 in their opening game.

Like Nedoroscik, the 24-year-old Oldenburg has hobbies away from his sport. He is an avid juggler, and has introduced machetes and flaming torches into his routine. His dream growing up was to become an environmental scientist rather than an Olympian, and he has achieved both. His day job involves working with solar and wind projects after graduating with a bachelor's degree in ecology.

As the rock glided down the ice sheet, Casper and his teammates slowly started to come to grips with the reality of the situation. All the hard work they had put in together was about to pay off. It became official a few seconds later. Team Casper had upset Team Shuster. The cameras caught Casper hugging John Shuster in the immediate aftermath in what felt like a passing of the torch between the faces of the sport.

The sun rises late in Cortina d'Ampezzo, like everything else in this little alpine town. It's gone eight o'clock in the morning by the time the daylight has made it over the high peaks to the east, and it's another two hours from that before the Olympic day gets under way. It's slow out, as if everyone's still sleeping off the night before, when the town was out cheering for the athletes as they made their parade around the square.

At the curling station in the gymnasium, students pushed forward little benches on wheels that they use in gym class instead of using curling stones. The school also created a scoreboard. "Not everything is perfect," Robin said. Upstairs, there was an ice fishing station, where the school set up cardboard boxes with white construction paper meant to look like snow on the outside. It magnetized fish and seals and put them inside.

Is the new USA Dream Team a group of figure skaters? Not only because they could leave Milan with a medal haul worthy of comparison to the 1984 US boxing team or the 1996 US women's track and field squad. But because of something more: the chance this group could push figure skating beyond its traditional audience and back into the center of the sporting conversation, much like the US men's basketball team did at the 1992 Summer Olympics.