Day 13: Two Medals and the Quest for More

The Canadian Women's Hockey Team celebrating their gold medal victory against Team USA at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. (Credit: Mark Blinch/COC)

Canada wins two medals on the day, one of which spelled redemption after they were disappointed with a silver medal in 2018.

In Women’s Hockey, they had to wait four years, but they did it, Canada defeats Team USA 3-2 to capture the gold medal. Marie-Philip Poulin had two goals including the game-winner. Canada was undefeated throughout the tournament, going 7-0 and outsourcing their opponents 57-10. That is Canada’s fifth gold medal in the seven Olympics where Women’s Hockey was part of the program.

Not long after, Canada gets their second medal on the day, this time in Women’s Ski Cross Marielle Thompson, gold medalist in 2014, was in fourth for the most part of the final race before vaulting herself into second. Teammates Brittany Phelan, the defending silver medalist, Courtney Hoffos and Hannah Schmidt were eliminated in the semifinal.

Canada now has 20 medals: four gold, five silver and 11 bronze.

Ski Halfpipe qualifiers took place for both the men and the women. Good news for Canada, everyone they sent in qualified for the final. On the men’s side, Brendan Mackay, Noah Bowman and Simon d’Artois qualify fifth, sixth and eighth. For the women, Rachael Karker, Cassie Sharpe, the defending gold medalist and Amy Fraser qualify second, sixth and 11th.

In the Women’s Alpine Combined, Roni Remme did not finish.

In Long Track Speed Skating Alexa Scott finishes 12th and Maddison Pearman finishes 26th in the Women’s 1000m.

Madeline Schizas finishes in 19th in Women’s Figure Skating with a score of 175.56.

Jennifer Jones and her team win their curling match against Denmark 10-4 and finish the round-robin with a record of 5-4. However, it wasn’t enough as Canada did not have the tiebreaker between Great Britain and Japan as their draw to the button prior to every game totaled the furthest of the three teams.

As for Brad Gushue, he loses his last round-robin curling match 5-2 to Great Britain, however a record of 5-4 was enough to qualify for the semifinal in the third seed.

In a tight semifinal game against Sweden, Canada down one with hammer in the 10th went for the win and fell short. A solid game from both teams has Gushue on the losing end of a 5-3 score. Canada will play Team USA for bronze.

Day 14:

Three Canadians make up a field of 12 finalists in the Women’s Ski Halfpipe as Cassie Sharpe looks to defend her gold medal

Reece Howden, Kevin Drury, Brady Leman and Jared Schmidt compete in Men’s Ski Cross.

Long Track Speed Skaters Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu, Connor Howe and Laurent Dubreuil, skate in the Men’s 1000m.

The final figure skating event takes place. It starts with the Pairs Short Program, in which Canada has two teams in the competition.

Canada is sending in three sleds in the 2-woman Bobsleigh, one of which is piloted by monobob bronze medalist Christine de Bruin.

Finally, in curling, Brad Gushue and Team Canada will play for bronze against Team USA.

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