Canada at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games & More News Here

Leading Up to the Games

This was the first time China hosted the Olympic Winter Games. Beijing grew to become the first metropolis ever to host each the summer season and winter video games, having beforehand hosted the
2008 Olympic Summer Games.

On 8 December 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced a diplomatic boycott of the Games. No authorities officers from Canada could be attending the Games, to “show its displeasure with the Communist regime” and its dissatisfaction with China over its human rights document, notably its remedy of the Uyghur folks
and its illegal detention of two Canadian residents throughout the Meng Wanzhou Affair. Though authorities officers wouldn’t be attending the Games, Canadian athletes had been allowed
to take part.

COVID-19 continued to be a difficulty in early 2022. Of the 2,871 athletes from 91 international locations who had been scheduled to take part, 98 athletes examined optimistic between 23 January
and 20 February, along with greater than 300 assist personnel. Despite this, the International Olympic Committee praised the “safety” of China, in addition to “its 0.01% coronavirus infection rate.” Other controversies concerned a optimistic doping check for
Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva previous to the Games and the determination by a number of American-born athletes, most notably snowboarder Eileen Gu, to compete for China. 

Opening Ceremonies

For the first time, a female and male athlete from two completely different sports activities carried the flag for Canada at the opening ceremonies of an Olympic Winter Games. Hockey participant
Marie-Philip Poulin and brief observe velocity skater Charles Hamelin acquired the honour.

Snowboarding

Team Canada claimed six medals in snowboarding, greater than in some other sport at the 2022 Games. On 7 February, Max Parrot of Cowansville, Quebec, gained Canada’s first gold medal,
in males’s slopestyle snowboarding. Parrot shared the podium with Mark McMorris, who gained bronze. Parrot’s gold medal marked a triumphant comeback after he was handled for Hodgkin’s
lymphoma in 2019. He added a second medal, a bronze in males’s large air, making him certainly one of three Canadians to win a number of snowboarding medals at the Games. Eliot Grondin of Saint-Marie, Quebec, gained silver in males’s snowboard cross, and Meryeta O’Dine of
Victoria, BC, gained bronze in ladies’s snowboard cross. Grondin and O’Dine then teamed as much as win bronze in the blended group snowboard cross in the occasion’s Olympic debut.

Speed Skating

Team Canada got here away with two Olympic gold medals in group velocity skating; one in lengthy observe and one briefly observe. In the ladies’s group pursuit, Canada gained the gold medal for
the first time regardless of being gold medal favourites at previous Olympic Winter Games. The Canadian group of Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valerie Maltais obtained a fortunate break when Japanese skater Nana Takagi fell on the ultimate lap, permitting Canada to
end first. Weidemann added a silver in the ladies’s 5000 m and a bronze in the ladies’s 3000 m. As a winner of three Olympic medals, Weidemann was named Canada’s flag bearer in the closing ceremonies. Blondin additionally gained silver in the ladies’s mass begin.

In males’s velocity skating, Laurent Dubreuil was a favorite to win a medal in the males’s 500 m occasion. He completed fourth, however redeemed himself with a powerful silver medal in the males’s 1000 m.

In the males’s 5000 m brief observe velocity skating relay, Charles Hamelin teamed up with Steven Dubois, Jordan Pierre-Gilles and Pascal Dion to win gold. It was a major medal
for Hamelin; he tied sprinter Andre De Grasse for many Olympic medals gained by a Canadian male (six) and velocity skater Cindy Klassen for many medals gained at the Olympic Winter Games (six). Hamelin additionally tied ladies’s hockey gamers Hayley Wickenheiser, Jayna Hefford and Caroline Ouellette for many gold medals gained by a Canadian Olympian (4). Like Weidemann, Dubois gained three Olympic medals; her different two had been silver in the males’s
1500 m and bronze in the males’s 500 m. On the ladies’s facet, Kim Boutin of Sherbrooke gained her fourth profession Olympic medal by successful bronze in the ladies’s 500 m.

Women’s Hockey

Canada entered the Olympic ladies’s hockey match as the reigning world champions, having gained the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Calgary.
At the Beijing Olympics, Team Canada set the document for many objectives scored in an Olympic ladies’s hockey match with 57. They went undefeated with a document of seven–0 and beat their archrival, the United States, 3–2 in the gold medal recreation. Sarah Nurse
of Hamilton set the document for many assists (13) and most factors (18) in the ladies’s hockey match at a single Olympic Games. Marie-Philip Poulin additionally scored two objectives, making her the first hockey participant on both the males’s or ladies’s facet to attain in 4 Olympic gold medal video games.

Other Medals

Freestyle skiers Marielle Thompson (ladies’s ski cross), Cassie Sharpe (ladies’s halfpipe) and Mikaël Kingsbury (males’s moguls) had every gained an Olympic gold medal in the previous. This time all of them settled for silver. Sharpe shared the podium with Rachael Karker, who gained bronze in the ladies’s halfpipe.

Canada additionally gained medals in two extra blended group occasions that made their Olympic debut.  Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes, Alexandria Loutitt, Matthew Soukup and Abigail Strate gained bronze in blended group ski leaping, Canada’s first ever Olympic ski leaping medal. Miha Fontaine, Lewis Irving and Marion Thénault gained bronze in blended group aerials. Meanwhile, ladies’s monobob made its Olympic debut, with Christine de Bruin taking bronze. (Kaillie Humphries,
who switched to Team USA after a bitter harassment dispute with Team Canada, gained gold.)

In four-man bobsled, a Canadian group piloted by Justin Kripps gained bronze. In males’s curling,
Brad Gushue of St. John’s, Newfoundland, skipped Canada to a bronze medal. For the first time, a Canadian gained a medal in males’s alpine mixed; Jack Crawford captured bronze.

Medal Table

Athlete(s)	Sport	Medal
Erin Ambrose, Ashton Bell, Kristen Campbell, Emily Clark, Mélodie Daoust, Ann-Renée Desbiens, Renata Fast, Sarah Fillier, Brianne Jenner, Rebecca Johnston, Jocelyne Larocque, Emma Maltais, Emerance Maschmeyer, Sarah Nurse, Marie-Philip Poulin, Jamie Lee Rattray, Jill Saulnier, Ella Shelton, Natalie Spooner, Laura Stacey, Claire Thompson, Blayre Turnbull, Micah Zandee-Hart	Ice Hockey (Women’s)	Gold
Pascal Dion, Steven Dubois, Charles Hamelin, Maxime Laoun, Jordan Pierre-Gilles	Short Track Speed Skating (Men’s 5,000 m Relay)	Gold
Max Parrot	Snowboarding (Men’s Slopestyle)	Gold
Ivanie Blondin, Valérie Maltais, Isabelle Weidemann	Speed Skating (Women’s Team Pursuit)	Gold
Mikaël Kingsbury	Freestyle Skiing (Men’s Moguls)	Silver
Cassie Sharpe	Freestyle Skiing (Women’s Halfpipe)	Silver
Marielle Thompson	Freestyle Skiing (Women’s Ski Cross)	Silver
Steven Dubois	Short Track Speed Skating (Men’s 1,500 m)	Silver
Eliot Grondin	Snowboarding (Men’s Snowboard Cross)	Silver
Laurent Dubreuil	Speed Skating (Men’s 1,000 m)	Silver
Ivanie Blondin	Speed Skating (Women’s Mass Start)	Silver
Isabelle Weidemann	Speed Skating (Women’s 5,000 m)	Silver
Jack Crawford	Alpine Skiing (Men’s Combined)	Bronze
Ben Coakwell, Justin Kripps, Ryan Sommer, Cam Stones	Bobsled (Men’s Four-Man)	Bronze
Christine de Bruin	Bobsled (Women’s Monobob)	Bronze
Brett Gallant, Brad Gushue, Marc Kennedy, Mark Nichols, Geoff Walker	Curling (Men’s)	Bronze
Miha Fontaine, Lewis Irving, Marion Thénault	Freestyle Skiing (Mixed Team Aerials)	Bronze
Rachael Karker	Freestyle Skiing (Women’s Halfpipe)	Bronze
Steven Dubois	Short Track Speed Skating (Men’s 500 m)	Bronze
Kim Boutin	Short Track Speed Skating (Women’s 500 m)	Bronze
Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes, Alexandria Loutitt, Matthew Soukup, Abigail Strate	Ski Jumping (Mixed Team)	Bronze
Max Parrot	Snowboarding (Men’s Big Air)	Bronze
Mark McMorris	Snowboarding (Men’s Slopestyle)	Bronze
Eliot Grondin Meryeta O’Dine	Snowboarding (Mixed Team Snowboard Cross)	Bronze
Meryeta O’Dine	Snowboarding (Women’s Snowboard Cross)	Bronze
Isabelle Weidemann	Speed Skating (Women’s 3,000 m)	Bronze

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