Our womens curling team had better get their collective heads out of their collective butts because one more loss and they're likely on the outside looking in. Bad decisions and poor shot making led to this debacle.

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Samuel Girard has captured his first career Olympic medal, taking gold in short track speed skating’s 1000m.

This is Canada’s first ever Olympic gold in the event and it is the first time Canada has won an Olympic medal in the men’s 1000m since Salt Lake City 2002, where Mathieu Turcotte claimed bronze. Canada had actually won four straight 1000m medals up to that point before the lengthy drought began.

Girard won a silver medal in the 1000m at the 2016 World Championships. He also reached the podium twice in the 1000m during the fall World Cup season.

It initially looked like Girard might not get a chance to race for the podium, when he crossed the line last in his semifinal. But he was advanced in the final; unfortunately it came at the expense of teammate Charles Hamelin, who was penalized in their semifinal.

Kim Boutin has won her second short track speed skating medal of PyeongChang 2018, taking bronze in the 1500m.

Boutin had already won a bronze medal in the 500m on Day 4 of the Games. She is now the first Canadian female short track speed skater to win two individual medals at the same Winter Games

The gold went to South Korea’s Choi Minjeong while China’s Li Jinyu claimed the silver.

Boutin finished third in this season’s 1500m World Cup standings after reaching the podium twice.

Marianne St-Gelais and Valerie Maltais were eliminated from the 1500m when they were both penalized in their semifinals.

Prior to PyeongChang 2018, Canada had never won an Olympic medal in the women’s 1500m. It was the only short track event in which no Canadian had ever stood on the Olympic podium.

Alex Beaulieu-Marchand has won Canada’s first ever Olympic medal in men’s ski slopestyle, taking bronze at PyeongChang 2018.

When the event made its Olympic debut four years ago, Beaulieu-Marchand had been the lone Canadian man to even qualify for Sochi 2014. He finished 12th.

This time, he had three teammates alongside him, two of whom also advanced to the final.

Evan McEachran was the first of the three Canadians onto the course in the final, earning 89.40 points for the first of his three runs, of which only the top score would count for each skier. That put him in second place for the time-being behind Norway’s Oystein Braaten, who rocked his first run to earn 95.00 points. Beaulieu-Marchand was also among the few skiers to hit their first run in full, moving into fourth place with 81.60 points.

83.67 The highest score ever given in an Olympic short dance portion of the figure skating competition. It was given to Canada's own Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir tonight. Their skate was a masterpiece of precision and beauty.

It was a great performance wasn't it?

Justin Kripps and Alex Kopacz captured gold late on Monday night for Canada’s third ever Olympic medal in men’s two-man bobsleigh.

They actually tied with Germany’s Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis for first place after all four runs were completed, both sleds finishing with a total time of 3:16.86.

It was a scene reminiscent of Nagano 1998 where Pierre Lueders and Dave MacEachern tied with an Italian sled for Canada’s first ever gold medal in the two-man event. That had been the first time that two gold medals were awarded in an Olympic bobsleigh event.

After the first two heats in PyeongChang, Kripps and Kopacz had been in second place with a cumulative time of 1:38.49. That left them just a tenth of a second behind Germans Nico Walther and Christian Poser. Another German sled, Johannes Lochner and Christopher Weber, was hot on their tail, nine-one hundredths of a second back.

In the third heat, the top five sleds all re-organized themselves in the standings as Kripps and Kopacz took over the lead with a total time of 2:27.58. But they sat in first place by just six-one hundredths of a second over Friedrich and Margis, who had jumped up from fifth place. Lochner and Weber dropped to third while Walther and Poser fell all the way to fifth heading into the final run. In fourth place were Latvians Oskars Melbardis and Janis Strenga.