Canada's Brianne Jenner (19) celebrates with Marie-Philip Poulin (29) after Jenner scored a goal against the United States during a preliminary round women's hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday.Petr David Josek/The Associated Press
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Olympic events for Feb. 7, 2022
- Canadian women’s hockey team takes on Team USA Monday night: Canada faced off against the United States Monday night in a round robin game. The undefeated Canadian women’s team won 4-2 in a clash of unbeaten teams. The matchup will still be a valuable chance for the Americans and Canadians to refine their skills and scout rivals before the most intense phases of the Games.
- Women’s freestyle ski big air: Canada’s Megan Oldham finished fourth in the women’s freestyle skiing big air event. She was joined by 17-year-old Olivia Asselin, who finished eighth in the final. World champion skier Eileen Gu took home the gold medal. Gu is the gift America (unwillingly) gave China – a California born, raised and trained freestyle skier who arrives in China primed for multimedia stardom, writes Cathal Kelly.
- Figure skating: Keegan Messing finally hit the ice after a positive COVID-19 test left him stuck in Vancouver.
- Men’s slopestyle: Canada’s Max Parrot won Canada’s first gold medal in Beijing with a dominant performance in the men’s snowboard slopestyle on Monday, while teammate Mark McMorris took the bronze. Just three years ago, Parrot was in a hospital bed undergoing chemotherapy. Today he calls the gold-medal win ‘completely crazy’.
- Speedskating: Kim Boutin has added another medal to Canada’s haul at the Beijing Olympics, winning bronze in women’s short-track speed skating. Boutin finished in a time of 42.724 seconds. Arianna Fontana of Italy won gold in a time of 42.488, while Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands claimed silver in 42.559.
- Ski jump: Canada won its first ever Olympic medal in ski jumping on Monday with a bronze in mixed-team ski jump at the Beijing Olympics. The Canadian team of Alexandria Loutitt, Matthew Soukup, Abigail Strate and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes placed third with a combined score of 844.6 points. The families of the athletes, “couldn’t be happier.”
Off the field
- No English: A Canadian-born member of China’s women’s Olympic ice hockey team said she was not allowed to speak English at a post-game media appearance on Sunday in Beijing, in a scene reflecting the relations between the host nation and the foreign-born athletes bolstering its sporting ranks. The awkward moment occurred in the “mixed zone” at Wukesong Sports Centre, where members of the media assembled to ask questions of the host team players following their 2-1 shootout win over Japan.
The day in pictures
Canada's Alexandria Loutitt, left, celebrates with teammates Matthew Soukup, Abigail Strate and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes after winning a bronze in the ski jumping mixed team event at the Beijing Winter Olympics.Matthias Schrader/The Associated Press
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Coming up at the Beijing Olympics
All dates and times (ET)
What to watch tomorrow, Feb. 8
- Curling mixed doubles, bronze medal game 1:05 a.m. ET
- Snowboard, women’s parallel giant slalom 1:30 a.m. ET
- Snowboard, men’s parallel giant slalom 1:48 a.m. ET
- Snowboard, women’s parallel giant slalom 2:06 a.m. ET
- Snowboard men’s parallel giant slalom, quarterfinal 2:15 a.m. ET
- Snowboard, women’s giant slalom, quarterfinal 2:24 a.m. ET
- Snowboard, men’s giant slalom, finals 🥇 2:30 a.m. ET
- Snowboard, women’s giant slalom, quarterfinal 2:36 a.m. ET
- Men’s parallel giant slalom, finals 🥇 2:43 a.m. ET
- Cross-country skiing, women’s sprint freestyle qualification 3:00 a.m. ET
- Biathlon, men’s 20km individual, final 🥇 3:30 a.m. ET
- Cross-country skiing, men’s sprint freestyle qualification 3:50 a.m. ET
- Cross-country skiing, women’s sprint freestyle quarterfinal 5:30 a.m. ET
- 1500m speed skating, men’s 🥇 5:30 a.m. ET
- Cross-country skiing, men’s sprint freestyle, quarterfinal 5:55 a.m. ET
- Cross-country skiing, women’s sprint freestyle, semifinal 6:25 a.m. ET
- Cross-country skiing, men’s sprint freestyle, semifinal 6:35 a.m. ET
- Cross-country skiing, women’s sprint freestyle, final 🥇6:47 a.m. ET
- Luge, women’s single, run 3 6:50 a.m. ET
- Cross-country skiing, men’s sprint freestyle, final 7:00 a.m. ET
- Curling, mixed doubles gold medal game 7:05 a.m. ET
- Luge, women’s single, run 4 🥇 8:55 a.m. ET
- Snowboard, women’s halfpipe qualification 8:30 p.m. ET
- Alpine skiing, women’s slalom, run 19:15 p.m. ET
- Freestyle skiing, men’s big air, final 🥇 10:00 p.m. ET
- Snowboard, women’s snowboard cross seeding 10:00 p.m. ET
- Snowboard, men’s halfpipe, qualification 11:30 p.m. ET
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Olympic highlights and medal count for Feb. 7
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Max Parrot won Canada’s first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Monday in the snowboard slopestyle event. But, it’s not lost on him that exactly three years ago he was in a hospital bed undergoing chemotherapy.
“I had no more muscles, no more energy, no more cardio,” recalled Parrot. “I almost wanted to quit because it was so hard to get to the next morning. And to be standing here three years later and winning gold, that is completely crazy.”
Canada's Max Parrot, of Bromont, Que., celebrates his gold medal performance following the men's slopestyle final at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, in Zhangjiakou, China, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
How to be a journalist at the Olympics? Complain: If you jam thousands of socially stunted people together – especially the athletes, many of whom have spent months paranoically hiding from infection – it’s probably not going to be nice, writes Cathal Kelly.
A worker in protective gear disinfects a bus at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China.Alessandra Tarantino/The Associated Press
Dutch speed skater Ireen Wust wins 1,500m for sixth career Olympic gold: Ireen Wust added to her haul as the most decorated speed skater in Olympic history with another gold Monday at the Beijing Games. The 35-year-old Dutch skater defended her title in the 1,500 meters, setting an Olympic record with a time of 1 minute, 53.28 seconds at the Ice Ribbon oval.
Ireen Wust of the Netherlands reacts after winning her heat and breaking an Olympic record in the women's speedskating 1,500-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. Her time stood for the gold medal. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)The Associated Press
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