Olympic wake-up call: Dubois skates to bronze, de Bruin in position to make Games history
Monobob pilot is 2nd at midway point of new Olympic event
Steven Dubois is shining in his first Olympics.
The 24-year-old short track speed skater won his second medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games, earning a bronze medal in the 500-metres final on Sunday.
Dubois won a silver medal in the 1,500m last week, and will have one more chance at a medal in the men's relay on Wednesday.
WATCH | Dubois wins 2nd medal in Beijing:
The Canadian team of Kim Boutin, Florence Brunelle, Courtney Sarault and Alyson Charles made a late push in the final laps of the women's 3,000m short track relay final but couldn't hold on to a podium spot.
Canada finished fourth, while the Netherlands took the gold medal in Olympic-record time.
WATCH | Canada misses podium in women's relay:
de Bruin in monobob medal contention
Christine de Bruin is sitting in second place after two heats of the inaugural Olympic monobob event.
The 32-year-old from Stony Plain, Alta., is 1.04 seconds behind American Kaillie Humphries, who posted a track record time of one minute, 5.12 seconds in her first heat run.
Toronto's Cynthia Appiah finished the day tied for 10th place.
Both Canadians will hit the track again Sunday at 8:30 p.m. ET. You can catch the final heat races on the CBC Sports app, CBC Gem or at CBCSports.ca.
WATCH | Christine de Bruin in 2nd midway through monobob event:
Jones' struggles continue
Canada's women's curling team is facing an uphill battle to make it out of the Olympic round robin.
Jennifer Jones' rink fell 8-4 to Switzerland on Sunday. Canada's skip curled 65 per cent in the match, giving up back-to-back steals to the Swiss in the eighth and ninth ends.
The loss dropped Canada's record to 1-3, leaving them outside of a semifinal berth. The top four teams qualify to the semifinals, and there is currently a three-way tie among teams with 3-2 records for third and fourth place.
"We're definitely in a hole," Jones told CBC Sports' Colleen Jones. "We're not going to be out of it until they tell us we can't curl anymore."
Canada will look to right the ship against a winless Russian Olympic Committee team on Monday.
WATCH | Jones' missed shots lead to back-to-back steals:
Weather hammers alpine events
Erik Read was Canada's top finisher in the men's giant slalom, as snowfall and overcast skies made for some of the least-desirable conditions of the Games so far.
The Calgary skier put up a combined time of 2:12.44, missing out on a top-10 finish by less than four-tenths. Read finished in 11th place in the event at PyeongChang 2018.
Three-time Olympian Trevor Philp, also from Calgary, finished in 24th place.
Lunder lone Canadian in 10km biathlon
Emma Lunder finished in 54th place in the women's 10 kilometre pursuit biathlon.
The 30-year-old from Rossland, B.C., struggled in the shooting range, tallying seven misses. She finished the race 7:29.8 behind Marte Olsbu Roeiseland, who won the gold medal for Norway.
This is Lunder's second Olympics. She finished in 53th in the event in 2018.
Cross-country skiers race in men's relay
Canada's cross-country ski team finished in 11th place in the men's 4x10km relay.
Graham Ritchie from Parry Sound, Ont., Antoine Cyr of Gatineau, Que., Olivier Léveillé from Sherbrooke, Que., and Rémi Drolet from Rossland, B.C., finished the race in two hours, 4:01 minutes.
All the athletes are competing in their first Olympics.
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