What to watch this weekend in winter Olympic sports

Here's the latest from the satellite championships successful fig skating, freestyle skiing and snowboarding, positive a speedy preview of the men's curling worlds.

Freestyle skiing and snowboarding: Grondin connected apical of the world

Éliot Grondin captured Canada's 3rd golden and seventh wide medal of the freestyle skis and snowboard satellite championships successful Switzerland today, winning the men's snowboard transverse final with a decisive determination precocious successful the race.

Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle and Jakob Dusek appeared to beryllium moving unneurotic to container retired Grondin successful the four-man final. But it backfired erstwhile the Austrians made interaction with each different going into a bend, forcing them excessively wide. Grondin seized the opportunity, passing them connected the wrong and holding the pb done the decorativeness enactment for his archetypal satellite title.

It's the 2nd world-championship medal for the 23-year-old Grondin, who took bronze successful 2021 earlier winning a brace of Olympic medals successful 2022 — metallic successful the men's event, bronze successful the mixed doubles. He won the World Cup rubric past twelvemonth and is starring the pursuit again with 1 halt near successful the season. That's adjacent week astatine Quebec's Mont-Sainte-Anne.

Canada's Meryeta O'Dine came adjacent to her archetypal worlds podium today, finishing 4th successful the women's final. She was besides a treble Olympic medallist successful 2022, taking bronze successful the women's lawsuit and different bronze successful the mixed with Grondin.

The squad lawsuit astatine the worlds takes spot Saturday astatine 6 a.m. ET. Also connected pat for the closing play are the medal rounds successful aerials, skis large air, and skis and snowboard halfpipe. 

Canada won 4 medals successful these events astatine the erstwhile satellite championships, successful 2023. Brendan Mackay captured golden successful the men's skis halfpipe, portion Rachael Karker took bronze successful the women's. Elizabeth Hosking earned the metallic successful the women's snowboard halfpipe, and Megan Oldham claimed bronze successful the women's skis large air. Oldham grabbed different bronze past week successful the slopestyle for her 4th vocation medal astatine the worlds.

You tin ticker each lawsuit unrecorded connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. Here's the afloat streaming schedule. See the latest results for skiing here and snowboarding here. 

Figure skating: Gilles and Poirier instrumentality up the torch

Defending pairs satellite champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps finished good disconnected the podium last nighttime successful Boston, erstwhile again struggling to recapture the magic that propelled the Canadians to their archetypal satellite rubric past twelvemonth successful Montreal.

Plagued by injuries, unwellness and inconsistency implicit the past fewer months, Stellato-Dudek, 41, and Deschamps, 33, placed seventh successful Wednesday's abbreviated programme with their worst people of the play and couldn't excavation themselves retired successful past night's escaped skate. They finished much than 10 points retired of the medals. "We fought til the precise end," said Stellato-Dudek.

2023 satellite champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan returned to the apical of the podium, edging Germany's Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin by little than a constituent for their 2nd satellite title. Italy's Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii took the bronze. Canadians Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud finished 11th portion Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Éthier were 16th. 

Canada's different apical medal hopefuls deed the crystal contiguous arsenic Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier vie successful the opening signifier of the crystal creation event, which was successful advancement astatine our people time. Gilles and Poirier took metallic past twelvemonth successful Montreal and bronze successful 2021 and '23.

Canadians Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha volition effort to marque different tally astatine the creation podium aft placing 5th past year, portion Alicia Fabbri and Paul Ayer are making their worlds debut. Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who are joined to each other, volition person plentifulness of enactment from the Boston assemblage arsenic they pursuit their 3rd consecutive satellite title. The closing escaped skate is connected Saturday astatine 1:30 p.m. ET.

The women's escaped is contiguous astatine 6 p.m. ET. Canada's Madeline Schizas was a pleasant astonishment successful Wednesday's short, skating a cleanable programme to spot sixth aft finishing 18th past year. A top-10 decorativeness would springiness Canada a 2nd women's introduction for the Olympics adjacent year.

Japan's Kaori Sakamoto is trying to go the archetypal skater successful 65 years to triumph 4 consecutive women's satellite titles. But she'll person to marque up crushed aft placing 5th successful the short. American Alysa Liu, the bronze medallist successful 2022, is the unexpected leader.

Competition concludes with the men's escaped connected Saturday astatine 6 p.m. ET. American prima Ilia (the Quad God) Malinin jumped into the pb past nighttime with a spectacular abbreviated program that fell conscionable shy of the satellite grounds acceptable by Nathan Chen astatine the 2022 Olympics. But the defending champ volition person to clasp disconnected Japan's Yuma Kagiyama, who's lone a fewer points backmost aft a stellar skate of his own. The perennial runner-up took metallic for the 3rd clip past twelvemonth and besides finished 2nd astatine the 2022 Olympics and this season's Grand Prix Final, wherever helium was beaten by Malinin again.

The lone Canadian men's entry, Roman Sadovsky, sits 15th aft finishing 19th past year.

You tin ticker each skate, including Sunday's accumulation gala, unrecorded on CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. Here's the afloat streaming schedule and here are the latest results. 

Curling: Will Canada drawback its men's satellite rubric drought?

Eight years aft Brad Gushue won Canada's past men's curling satellite championship, different Brad volition effort to extremity the adust spell erstwhile the tourney gets underway Saturday successful Moose Jaw, Sask.

Brad Jacobs defeated Gushue successful the Brier semifinal earlier this period successful Kelowna, B.C., halting the St. John's skip's bid for his 4th consecutive Canadian title. Jacobs, representing Alberta, went connected to decision Manitoba's Matt Dunstone successful the last to triumph his archetypal Brier since 2013, erstwhile helium curled for Northern Ontario.

Jacobs took metallic astatine the satellite championships that twelvemonth earlier capturing Olympic golden successful 2014 successful Sochi. He's present playing with the Calgary-based trio of Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, who person each won satellite titles with different skips.

Following his 2017 gold, Gushue took metallic 4 times, including the past 3 years successful a row. He mislaid past year's last to Sweden's Nik Edin, who won his grounds seventh satellite title.