Canada, Sweden and Olympic Games
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Cameras caught a testy NSFW exchange between the men’s Canadian curling team and Sweden during Friday’s matchup.
The normally genteel sport of curling got a jolt Friday night as a Canada-Sweden matchup at the Winter Olympics included some spicy language and legitimate tension.
Canada’s mixed doubles curling team failed to reach the Olympic semifinals, a result that would have stunned fans of the sport just a decade ago, South Korea’s 9-5 victory Sunday night was the Canadians’ fifth consecutive defeat and knocked them out of contention.
To lead off Day 2 of the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Canada and Sweden stayed perfect. In Brno, Canada beat Switzerland 9-1 in a game that was 1-0 after two periods and Sweden overcame a 3-1 deficit against the USA and won 5-3 in Trenčín. In the evening ...
For the Big Three in hockey, anything less than outright victory is an utter failure — and what a shame that is.
The United States stunned arch-rivals Canada 5-0 at the Milano Cortina Games on Tuesday, and Finland beat Switzerland 3-1 in the other Group A game of the women's Olympic ice hockey tournament.Germany
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Finland earns feisty win over Sweden at Olympics as McDavid and Crosby score in Canada's victory
Finland showed plenty of fight in reviving its Olympic campaign. Joel Armia scored a short-handed goal and the Finns outmuscled archrival Sweden in a 4-1 group-stage victory Friday — 20 years after the sides squared off in the gold medal game at the Turin Games.