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While  Courtney Sarault with a silver,  is making a strong case to be a Canadian flag-bearer at the Milano Cortina 2026 closing ceremony,  as the women’s hockey team has set up a summit clash with neighbours and arch rivals United States. Courtney Sarault’s feat was followed by Megan Oldham, who won Canada’s second gold of the games.

Records continued to tumble as new marks were set with the 2026 Games getting into double digits with competitions entering day 10 of the global showpiece! Six gold medals were decided on day 10 as the final week of the Winter Olympics awarded its first bobsleigh medals, with the ski jumping coming to a climactic conclusion with the introduction of the new super ski event. 

There was no change in medals tally positions as Norway remained glued to number one spot with 12 gold medals in a tally of 28 followed by the home squad, Italy, with 23 medals, including eight gold. USA was placed third with six gold and a total of 19 medals while the Netherlands was placed fourth with six golds, five silver and a bronze. With its second gold through Megan Oldham, Canada moved to number 13 position in the medals tally with two golds,  four silvers and five bronze medals.

Highlighting the Dutch dominance in short-track speed skating, Xandra Velzeboer raced to her second and her nation’s fourth gold in the blink-and-you'll-miss-it event. 

Legendary U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor finally got her hands on an Olympic medal on her fifth time of trying, claiming women’s monobob in dramatic fashion. 

In short-track speed skating, Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands secured a double gold. Winner of both 500 m and 1000m, she has been a revelation in Milano Cortina 2026, winning her second gold medal in the women’s 1000m on Feb. 16.

Velzeboer and Jens van 't Wout have accounted for all four of the Netherlands’ gold medals in short track speed skating so far at these Games. 

Canada’s Courtney Sarault held the lead for a large part of the race before a fast-finishing Velzeboer edged ahead with a lunge at the line with a time of 1:28.437. Sarault (1:28.523) secured the silver ahead of the third-placed Kim Gilli (1:28.614) of the Republic of Korea.

Sarault, short-track speedskater, captured her third medal of the Winter Olympics when she won silver in the women’s 1,000 metres on Feb. 16. Sarault also claimed a silver in the mixed team relay and bronze in the 500 metres earlier in the Olympics.

“I don’t know how I really did it today,” Sarault told media after her event. “I came in just focused and ready to fight for it and ready to give my all every race.”  Her day 10 medal is Canada’s 10th of the Games — one gold, four silver, five bronze.

Sarault, 25, made a nice pass on Gilli late in the race to get to second, matching her result in this event from the 2025 world championships. After the race, Sarault embraced Canadian coach Marc Gagnon and teammates underneath a Canadian flag.

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“I’m really proud of myself and how hard I’ve worked,” she said. “There’s more races to come so I’m going to keep pushing it.”

Sarault is the second Canadian woman to win three medals at a single Olympics. Kim Boutin, a current teammate, earned two bronze medals and a silver in 2018. Sarault, the daughter of former NHL player Yves Sarault, has had inspired performances throughout the Games. In the 500 metres, she made a great comeback on the final lap to earn bronze.

Sarault has fought back from an injury-riddled 2024 when overtraining and a concussion sidelined the skater. “My god, I went to hell and back,” she told Olympics.com. “But after the year I’ve had, I owed it to myself to just skate, be in the moment, and give myself the best chance by letting go of everything that has happened in the past,” she said at the media interaction.

The Dutch speedster, Velzeboer, will have another shot at an individual gold medal when she lines up in the 1500m race on Feb. 20. Thirteen-time Olympic medallist Arianna Fontana finished fourth, with the People's Republic of China's Gong Li rounding out the final five.

In Alpine skiing men’s slalom, Switzerland’s  cool head Loïc Meillard secured gold. It was the final event of the men’s Alpine skiing programme brought all the twists and turns, with Swiss racer Loïc Meillard keeping his cool to claim the slalom crown. India’s flag bearer at the Games Arif Mohd Khan finished 39th by clocking 2:41.60. It was second Olympics for Baramulla born as he had finished 44th in the Beijing Olympics.

Two of the pre-race favourites in the technical event dropped out of contention, with Lucas Pinheiro Braathen skiing out on the first run before Atle Lie McGrath lost his grasp on the title on his final descent. Meillard posted a combined winning time of 1:53.61 with Austria’s Fabio Gstrein claiming silver (1:53.96) and Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen winning bronze (1:54.74).

McGrath had one hand on gold after leading the first run before the Norwegian ski racer straddled the gate, ending his medal hopes. 

Reigning slalom world champion Meillard made exit from these Olympics with three medals, including his silver in the team combined and bronze in the giant slalom. 

In ski jumping, Austria was crowned inaugural super team Olympic champions as Jan Hoerl and Stephan Embacher ruled the large hill dominating the two rounds of the competition to win the first-ever men's ski jumping super team gold at the Winter Olympic Games.

Heavy snow ultimately resulted in organisers cancelling the third and final round, with the round-two points determining the podium finishers. 

Hoerl and Embacher secured the gold with a score of 568.7 points, with Poland’s Kacper Tomasiak and Pawel Wasek finishing second with 547.3. The Norwegian duo of Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Johann Andre Forfang rounded out the podium on 538.0.

In Bobsleigh, the United States won its first gold through Elana Meyers Taylor  competing in her fifth Olympics. Veteran bobsleigh finally got her hands on an elusive gold medal at her fifth Olympic Winter Games with a come-from-behind victory in the women’s monobob.

Lying in third place before the fourth and final run, the 41-year-old Meyers Taylor carved up the track to leapfrog compatriot Kaillie Humphries and Germany’s Laura Nolte to move into first place. Neither Nolte (+0.04s) nor Humphries (+0.12s) could match Meyers Taylor’s speedy time to finish second and third on the podium, respectively.

Freestyle skiing brought cheers to the Canadian camp as Megan Oldham landed women's big air gold. She posted the highest score in her opening two runs to win the women's freeski big air gold in emphatic style. The 24-year-old threw down the gauntlet with an opening-run score of 91.75 and followed that up with an 89.00 for a winning total of 180.75. 

Oldham held off defending champion Eileen Gu (179.00) of the People's Republic of China, with Italy’s Flora Tabanelli taking bronze on home snow with 178.25. Tabanelli finished with a flourish, posting the top single-run score of 94.25 on her third attempt. Gu added silver to her medal collection to become the most decorated female Olympic freeski athlete with five total medals. 

In figure skating, it was Japan’s day as Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi win country’s first-ever Olympic pairs title. They reserved their best for last as they delivered a personal-best score for Japan’s first-ever Olympic title in pairs figure skating. The duo fought its way back from fifth place in the short program before the reigning world champions skated to both a career-best free skate and overall score. 

Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava scored a 221.75 for the silver, giving Georgia their first ever Winter Olympic medal.

Short program leaders Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany bagged the bronze with a 219.09.

In ice hockey,  USA and Canada are set for epic women’s final. Team USA claimed a runaway 5-0 victory over Sweden in the first semi-final, guaranteeing them an eighth consecutive Olympic medal. 

Posting five straight shutout performances, Team USA has been near impenetrable at these Games, with the last goal going against them coming in their opening game against Czechia. Team USA had beaten Canada in an earlier group game.

In the second semi-final, Canada survived an onslaught from Switzerland to come away with a hard-fought 2-1 victory. Inspirational Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored a brace of goals, setting a new Olympic all-time women's goals record with 20 behind her name. 

The women’s ice hockey Olympic final is on Feb. 19.

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