While you were sleeping: How Canada performed at the Beijing Olympics Thursday, Friday
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Team Canada won two silver and two bronze on day 14 of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as the competition enters its final weekend.
Canada won four medals on day 14 of the Beijing Olympics – two silver and two bronze – as the competition begins to wind down.
The day was Canada’s third four-medal day of the Beijing Games, bringing its medal haul to 24 so far.
Here’s what you may have missed during the competition that began Thursday night and continued Friday morning.
Laurent Dubreuil’s fast start in men’s 1,000-metre speed skating final was what he needed to secure silver – the first Olympic medal of his career.
Dubreuil came up 0.40 seconds shy of the gold medal, which was won by Thomas Krol of the Netherlands with a time of one minute and 7.92 seconds. Dubreuil skated 1:08.32 for silver, and Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen of Norway won bronze with a time of 1:08.48.
Teammates Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu and Connor Howe also competed for Canada, but did not contend for a podium spot.
Canadian skiers Cassie Sharpe and Rachael Karker won the silver and bronze medals in the women’s freeski halfpipe final.
Sharpe — the reigning gold medal champion from the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang — leapt into medal contention right away with her first run, and improved with her second and third runs to secure the silver.
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