It was the best day of the games yet for Team Canada as they picked up a gold medal in the team figure skating event and Laurie Blouin became the first Team Canada athlete to pick up an Olympic medal in snowboard slopestyle.
While you were sleeping:
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman 鈥� you may know them as Team Canada鈥檚 best figure skaters 鈥� took home a gold medal in the team figure skating event Sunday night.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
鈥� Scott Moir (@ScottMoir)
The win makes ice dancing duo Virtue and Scott tied with Evgeni Plushenko (RUS) and Gillis Grafstr枚m (SWE) as the most decorated Olympic figure skaters of all time.
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Daleman, whose win secured the gold for Team Canada even before Virtue and Moir stepped onto the ice, was full of gratitude for her teammates.
鈥淗onestly it was the team. Not just the team that was in the box today, but the teams up in the stands, back at Canada House, where we are staying in the athletes鈥� village. We are not only representing a great team but a great country,鈥� she said.
Laurie Blouin鈥檚 silver medal in the snowboard slopestyle event was first ever Canadian athlete to medal in the women鈥檚 snowboard slopestyle event.
Sporting a black eye after a nasty crash in training a few days ago, Blouin overcame high winds to nail a clean second run for 76.33 points.
Alberta-born Brooke Voigt, who lives in Whistler, finished 21st and B.C.鈥檚 Spencer O鈥橞rien of Courtenay was 22nd.
Manitoba鈥檚 Kaitlyn Lawes and Morris handily beat the Republic of Korea in the seventh round robin match.
Final mixed doubles curling it is for Canada!馃弲 Best of luck to and in this historical Olympic curling event! 馃嚚馃嚘馃
鈥� Sport Canada (@SportCanada_EN)
They鈥檒l play Switzerland for mixed doubles curling gold on Tuesday.
Mika毛l Kingsbury earned the title of Olympic moguls champion at PyeongChang 2018, scooping up a gold medal early Monday morning.
Mikael Kingsbury is going for 馃 in coming up 馃敎 |
鈥� Team Canada (@TeamCanada)
Who, what, when to watch (PST):
6:30 p.m.: Alpine Skiing 鈥� Downhill
B.C.鈥檚 has a strong showing here with Invermere鈥檚 Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Invermere鈥檚 Ben Thomsen and Whistler鈥檚 Benjamin Broderick Thompson are all in the downhill event.
10 p.m..: Alpine Skiing 鈥� Slalom
Invermere鈥檚 Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Invermere鈥檚 Ben Thomsen and Whistler鈥檚 Benjamin Broderick Thompson are back on the ski hill to compete for a gold medal in the slalom portion of the event.
11:40 p.m..: Ice Hockey 鈥� Women鈥檚
The women鈥檚 ice hockey team, who beat the Olympic Athletes from Russia 5-0 this weekend, will take on Finland.
Olympics highlight of the day:
Nothing was quite as heartwarming as Olympic figure skater 鈥� and gold medallist 鈥� Meghan Duhamel鈥檚 reaction to her team鈥檚 win.
We just won the Olympics !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
鈥� Meagan Duhamel (@mhjd_85)
