While you were sleeping: How Canada performed at the Beijing Olympics Friday, Saturday
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The final full day of the 2022 Winter Games saw Canada win its fifth speed skating medal and advance in the top three of the four-man bobsleigh competition.
The final full day of the Beijing Winter Olympics saw Canada win its fifth speed skating medal of the 2022 Games and advance in the top three of the four-man bobsleigh competition.
Here’s what you may have missed from the overnight competition during Day 15.
Canada’s Ivanie Blondin won the silver medal in the women’s mass start speed skating final, a redemption after she fell in the semifinals at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang.
Blondin, who won her semifinal heat, was strong throughout the gruelling 16-lap race and managed to pull to the front for the final laps.
She looked like she was going to cross the finish line first, only for Irene Schouten of the Netherlands to overtake her in the final seconds to claim the gold. Blondin was less than a second behind.
Fellow Canadian Valerie Maltais came in sixth place in the final, after finishing seventh in her semifinal heat.
In the men’s mass start final, Jordan Belchos finished in 13th place while fellow Canadian Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu came in 15th overall.
The four-man Canadian team led by Justin Kripps secured the bronze medal position after the first two runs of competition, with a combined time of 1:57.38.
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