MILAN — Megan Oldham delivered Canada’s second gold medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics on Monday, winning the women’s freestyle skiing big air competition with a two-run combined score of 180.75.
The 24-year-old from Parry Sound, Ont., topped China’s Eileen Gu, who scored 179.00 for silver, while Italy’s Flora Tabanelli took bronze at 178.25.
Naomi Urness of Mont-Tremblant, Que., finished sixth.
Oldham, who also won bronze in slopestyle last week, pushed Canada’s overall medal total to 11 on Day 10 of the Games.
Earlier, Courtney Sarault earned her third medal of the Olympics with silver in the women’s 1,000 metres in short-track speedskating.
Sarault, a 25-year-old from Moncton, finished second in the 1,000, adding to her mixed team relay silver and individual bronze in the 500 from earlier in the Games.
Sarault, a 25-year-old from Moncton, finished second in the women’s 1,000 metres, adding to her mixed team relay silver and individual bronze in the 500 from earlier in the Games.
She held the lead for the first six of nine laps before falling to third with two laps to go. However, Sarault fought her way back into second on the final lap.
“Just crazy,” she said of the feeling to have a third medal. “From four years ago, I’ve come such a long way. In this distance, I think I came 11th (at the 2022 Beijing Games).
“I made a mistake in the quarterfinal, I believe, and just didn’t have a good day. And today, I feel like I made a little mistake in my final but I’d rather make a mistake in my final and get silver than not get a medal at all.”
In women’s curling, Rachel Homan earned a pair of wins at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium, defeating China’s Rui Wang 10-5 before edging Japan’s Sayaka Yoshimura 9-6.
The Ottawa-based rink of Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes, who entered the day on a three-game losing skid, moved to 3-3 in round-robin play.
The wins came a day after World Curling walked back expanded hog-line monitoring that drew complaints following a controversial call against Homan.
However, after a request by China in the earlier game, an umpire was again stationed to watch the hog line on Homan’s deliveries.
“I mean there’s always something blowing up at the Olympics, right?” Miskew said. “So this year it’s this. It’s all good, we’ll get through it and I think that it’ll die down eventually.”
On the men’s side, Brad Jacobs guided Canada to an 8-2 victory over Czechia’s Lukas Klima on Monday at the Winter Olympics.
Jacobs and his Calgary-based team of Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert opened with four singles in a row and pulled away with a three-point sixth end.
“They got us in big trouble in the first end, and Brad got us out of it,” said Kennedy. “We’re rolling along. We’re feeling good. We’re getting more comfortable every game, and we’re trending in the right direction.”
The Canadians improved to 5-1 in round-robin play. They will play top-ranked Bruce Mouat of Great Britain on Tuesday night.
The women’s hockey squad is coming off a 5-1 quarterfinal win over Germany on Saturday to advance, with captain Marie-Philip Poulin having made her return from injury.
Canada defeated Switzerland in its opening game 4-0 on Feb. 7.
The winner will advance to Thursday’s gold-medal match against the United States, who routed Sweden 5-0 in Monday’s other semifinal.
And in figure skating, the duo of Trennt Michaud and Lia Pereira heads into the pairs free program in third place after yesterday’s short program.
Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are 14th following a return after having dropped out of the team event earlier in the Games after Stellato-Dudek sustained an injury while training.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 16, 2026.
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