Here’s the latest on Day 11 of the Milan Cortina Olympics

It’s Day 11 of competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics, where Canadians are back in action, looking to add to the country’s medal total.

Here are the latest developments. All times Eastern.

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5:05 p.m.

Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas has placed 25th in the women’s short program, leaving her out of the free skate portion of the event.

The 23-year-old from Oakville, Ont., scored 55.38 after making several mistakes in her routine.

It means that Schizas, a four-time Canadian champion, did not qualify for Thursday’s free skate portion of the event, where the top 24 advance.

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4 p.m.

Canada’s two-man bobsled team has placed 18th in Cortina.

The team of Taylor Austin and Shaquille Murray-Lawrence finished 4.9 seconds behind the leader.

The event saw Germany sweep the podium, with the frontrunner team of Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer posting a time of three minutes and 39.7 seconds.

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3:48 p.m.

Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas has scored 55.38 in her short program.

It puts her at 15th place with ten skaters left to perform.

The top 24 advance to the free skate portion of the event on Thursday. 

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3:45 p.m.

Canada’s men’s curling team has defeated Great Britain 9-5, securing a playoff spot.

The team is in second place at 6-1, behind undefeated Switzerland. The top four teams in the 10-team draw will advance to the semifinals.

Canada will play Joel Retornaz of host Italy on Wednesday afternoon and Norway’s Magnus Ramsfjell on Thursday morning.

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2:58 p.m.

Canadian freestyle skier Dylan Deschamps has placed seventh in the men’s big air finals. 

Deschamps finished with a total score of 137.50.

Norway’s Tormad Frostad claimed gold with 195.50, followed by the United States’ Mac Forehand and Austria’s Matej Svancer.

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1:18 p.m.

Czechia edged Denmark 3-2 in a men’s hockey playoff qualifier to advance to tomorrow’s quarterfinal against top-seeded Canada.

Canada opened the Olympic tournament with a 5-0 win over the Czechs.

Tomorrow’s other quarterfinals have Finland facing Switzerland, Slovakia meeting Germany and the United States taking on the winner of today’s Sweden-Latvia matchup.

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12:10 p.m.

Canada head coach Jon Cooper is downplaying concern after forwards Nathan MacKinnon and Sam Bennett missed practice ahead of Wednesday’s men’s hockey quarterfinal at the Milan Cortina Olympics, calling the absences “maintenance” and insisting there is “no panic.”

MacKinnon absorbed a forearm to the jaw and shook off a knee-on-knee hit in Sunday’s win over France, but Cooper said his group remains focused on its do-or-die matchup with either Czechia or Denmark.

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11:03 a.m.

Canada has defeated Sweden 8-6 in women’s curling round-robin play.

Rachel Homan’s Ottawa-based side of Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes scored a deuce in the 10th end to hand Sweden its first loss of the competition.

Canada improved to 4-3 with two games remaining.

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10:55 a.m.

Canadian speedskaters Valérie Maltais, Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann have won a gold medal in women’s team pursuit.

Canada defeated the Netherlands in the final in a time of two minutes 55.81 seconds.

The Canadian trio repeated as Olympic champions after also capturing gold in 2022 in Beijing.

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9:53 a.m.

The men’s and women’s snowboard slopestyle finals also have new times.

The women’s event, scheduled for earlier today, has been rescheduled to tomorrow beginning at 8:30 a.m. due to a weather-related postponement.

The men’s event will also take place Wednesday as planned, but has been moved forward by a little over an hour.

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9:40 a.m.

The men’s freestyle skiing aerials qualification and final have been rescheduled due to bad weather. 

The qualifier was originally scheduled for earlier today but was pushed back due to snow and poor visibility.

Organizers say both the qualification and the final will now take place on Thursday.

The women’s ski aerials qualifier and the snowboard slopestyle final also had to be postponed.

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9:15 a.m.

Hockey stars Nathan MacKinnon and Sam Bennett are both absent from Team Canada practice this morning.

Forward Brad Marchand and defenceman Josh Morrissey, both missing from Canada’s final two preliminary games, are taking part.

Canada plays in the men’s hockey quarterfinals on Wednesday against either Czechia or Denmark.

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9:01 a.m.

Defending champion Canada will face the Netherlands in the gold medal race in women’s team pursuit speedskating at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Valérie Maltais, Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann advanced with a semifinal win over the United States. The Netherlands beat Japan.

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8:55 a.m.

Canada has advanced to the gold medal race in women’s team pursuit speedskating.

Valérie Maltais, Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann beat the United States by more than four seconds in their semifinal to move on.

The defending Olympic champions will face the winner of the Netherlands-Japan semifinal in the final later today.

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8:05 a.m.

Canada’s curlers are back in action in Cortina, where Rachel Homan’s team is taking on an undefeated Swedish squad.

The Ottawa-based rink snapped their three-game losing streak with decisive wins over China and Japan yesterday to even their round-robin record at 3-3. 

They need to climb into the top four to make the playoff round.

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8 a.m.

Snow and poor visibility forced organizers to postpone the women’s snowboard slopestyle final and both the women’s and men’s freestyle aerials qualification until tomorrow.

The slopestyle final at Livigno Snow Park was called off first. Aerials qualification at the nearby Livigno Aerials and Moguls Park followed, with officials saying the air ambulance required for emergencies could not fly in the conditions.

The only event remaining on Livigno’s schedule is the men’s freeski big air final, set for 1:30 p.m.

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7 a.m.

The men’s freestyle ski aerial qualification has been rescheduled for Wednesday due to poor weather.

It remains up in the air whether the women’s final — assuming the qualifications take place Tuesday — will be held before or after the two men’s qualifying sessions.

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6:30 a.m.

Snow and poor visibility in Livigno have forced Milan Cortina Olympic organizers to postpone the women’s snowboard slopestyle final.

The event was scheduled to start at 7 a.m.

Organizers say they’ll make a decision on a new date and time later today.

Quebec City’s Laurie Blouin and Whistler, B.C.’s Juliette Pelchat are on the start list for Canada.

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6 a.m.

Mother Nature has disrupted Olympic ski plans for the second day in a row.

After the women’s big air final was postponed Monday evening due to an evening blizzard, falling snow prompted officials to delay the freestyle ski aerial qualification that was set to kick off Tuesday morning.

Marion Thénault is the sole Canadian in the women’s competition. Émile Nadeau, Irving Lewis, Miha Fontaine and Victor Primeau will be competing in the men’s qualifiers.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 17, 2026