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OLYMPIC BRONZE

Canada’s Christina de Bruin slides to bronze in debut of women’s monobob

Feb 14, 2022 | 8:52 AM

Bronze remains the popular colour of medal for Canada at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Christine de Bruin slid her way to a podium finish in the first-ever women’s monobob event, capturing Canada’s 10th bronze medal of the Games and 15th medal overall.

After four runs at the Yanqing Sliding Centre, de Bruin had a total time of four minutes 21.03 seconds, putting her only behind the American sleds piloted by Kaillie Humphries (4:19.27) and Elana Meyers Taylor (4:20.81).

Humphries won two gold medals for Canada between 2010 and 2018 competing in the two-woman bobsled. In 2019, however, she began competing for the U.S. after a legal battle with Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton.

This is Canada’s fifth Olympic medal all-time in a women’s bobsleigh event.

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Hockey: Canada will be going for gold in women’s hockey.

Captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice as Canada cruised to a 10-3 victory over Switzerland in Monday’s semifinal.

The Canadians will face the winner of the other semifinal, which features the United States and Finland.

Canada and the United States have met in five of the six gold-medal matches since women’s hockey was added to the Olympic program at Nagano in 1998.

Figure skating: Piper Gillies and Paul Poirer came up short of their dream of being Olympic medallists.

The two Canadians finished seventh in ice dance at the Beijing Games in what is likely the pair’s final Olympic appearance.

They came to Beijing 2022 as the reigning world bronze medallists, but some problems on technical elements in both their rhythm dance and free dance left them in seventh place overall, with a total of 204.78 points, about 10 points under their personal best.

Curling: Patience and precise shooting by Team Canada proved too much for Team Italy on Monday afternoon in Beijing.

Brad Gushue jumped on opportunities for a 7-3 victory in men’s curling.

The two teams were deadlocked 2-2 after five ends but Gushue scored two in the sixth and three in the ninth to improve their record to 4-2 in the 10-team round-robin.

Jennifer Jones and Team Canada stole four points in the first two ends to beat winless Russia 11-5 to stop a three-game losing streak and improve their chances of getting to the playoffs in women’s curling.

The win improved Team Canada’s record to 2-3 with four games remaining, including Great Britain on Monday.

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