BEIJING — Canada hauled in four medals Friday, equalling the country's highest daily total at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Two of those medals came from freestyle skiers. Cassie Sharpe won silver and Rachael Karker claimed bronze in the women's halfpipe China's Eileen Gu captured gold in the event. It was the American-born Gu's third medal of the Games.
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Sixteen years after he won the Olympic curling gold medal, Brad Gushue (GOO'-shoo) is going back to Canada with bronze. The Canadian rink beat American John Shuster, the reigning Olympic champion, 8-5 in the bronze-medal game. Gushue won gold in Turin in 2006. Back then, he shared a podium with Shuster, who won bronze.
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Speedskater Laurent Dubreuil (do-BRAY') won silver in the men's 1,000-metre race at the Ice Ribbon oval, finishing four-tenths of a second behind Thomas Krol of the Netherlands for gold. Earlier in the Games, Dubreuil just a missed podium finish when he narrowly finished fourth in the 500 metres.
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International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has criticized Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s (val-YAY’-vah) entourage for their “tremendous coldness” toward the 15-year-old skater after her mistake-filled free skate at the Beijing Olympics. Bach says it was “chilling” to see on television. Valieva, who has been at the centre of a controversy over a positive doping test, finished fourth overall despite placing first in the women’s short program earlier in the week.
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The Canadian Press
