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On snow and ice, within the water, on the monitor and atop the mat, Canada’s Olympic athletes reached the rostrum in a wide selection of sports activities on Saturday and Sunday. Let’s get you caught up:

Artistic swimmer Jacqueline Simoneau received Canada’s first (and nonetheless solely) medal of the World Aquatics Championships.

Simoneau took silver within the girls’s solo technical occasion on Saturday in Doha. There aren’t any solo occasions for creative swimmers within the Olympics, however Simoneau and Audrey Lamothe are trying to qualify for Paris within the duet. Canada can also be making an attempt for an Olympic spot within the group occasion. Competition within the sport previously often known as synchronized swimming continues by means of Saturday.

The Canadian girls’s water polo group acquired off to a powerful begin, trouncing South Africa 24-2 of their opener on Sunday. Canada continues group play on Tuesday at 4 a.m. ET vs. Great Britain. The Canadians are attempting to earn one of many two remaining spots on this summer season’s Olympics, and that is their final probability to do it.

Canada stays with no medal in diving after Caeli McKay placed eighth in right this moment’s girls’s 10m platform remaining. McKay took bronze on this occasion eventually yr’s worlds, the place she additionally clinched an Olympic spot for Canada. She’ll group with Kate Miller within the girls’s 10m synchronized remaining on Tuesday at 10:32 a.m. ET.

Watch diving, creative swimming and the Canada-Great Britain girls’s water polo match reside on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and CBC Gem on Tuesday. Here’s the full streaming schedule.

Speed skater Valérie Maltais captured her first solo World Cup championship.

After taking bronze in Friday’s 3,000m race on the World Cup season finale in Quebec City to complete third within the girls’s long-distances standings, Maltais secured the women’s mass start title with a ninth-place end on Sunday. Ivanie Blondin, who joined with Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann to win Olympic gold within the group pursuit in 2022, completed second within the mass begin chase. The trio positioned second within the group pursuit this season, ending their run of 4 straight World Cup titles.

On the lads’s facet, Canadian Ted-Jan Bloemen’s victory in the 5,000m on Friday lifted him to a runner-up end within the males’s long-distances standings whereas Laurent Dubreuil’s silver in the 500m on Saturday pushed him to second place.

The world championships happen subsequent week in Calgary.

Two Canadian determine skating duos took gold.

The ice dance tandem of Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier and the pairs group of Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps every captured their first-ever title on the Four Continents Championships, an annual meet for international locations exterior Europe.

Canada’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen took silver within the dance occasion in China, the place they had been competing for the primary time since withdrawing from final month’s Canadian championships after it was revealed that Soerensen was accused of sexual assault.

Canadians received three of the 4 ski cross occasions in Italy.

After India Sherret raced to her first-ever World Cup gold on Friday, Reece Howden and Marielle Thompson won Saturday’s males’s and ladies’s competitions, respectively, whereas Brittany Phelan took silver within the girls’s.

Howden leads the chase for his third males’s World Cup title in 4 years. Thompson is neck-and-neck with Canadian chief Hannah Schmidt within the girls’s standings, with Phelan sits in fourth place.

Snowboarder Eliot Grondin continued to dominate.

The 2022 double Olympic medallist received each of this weekend’s males’s snowboard cross occasions in Georgia, giving him 4 victories in 5 begins this season. Grondin, who has but to overlook the rostrum this season, enjoys an enormous lead within the standings as he seeks his first World Cup title.

Other standout Canadian performances:

* 800m world champion and Olympic gold-medal favorite Marco Arop broke the Canadian indoor 1,000m record together with his successful time at a monitor meet in Boston.  

* Nineteen-year-old aerials skier Alexandre Duchaine earned his first World Cup gold in Friday’s weather-altered occasion in Utah.

* Two-time Paralympic biathlon champion Mark Arendz won three consecutive races at a Para World Cup cease in Italy, taking gold in a dash on Friday, a pursuit on Saturday and a 10K on Sunday. Canada’s Brittany Hudak and Natalie Wilkie took gold and bronze, respectively, in Sunday’s girls’s occasion.

* Three Canadians reached the rostrum at a judo Grand Slam occasion in Paris. Two-time world champion Christa Deguchi and Olympic bronze medallist Jessica Klimkait took silver and bronze, respectively, within the girls’s 57kg division whereas François Gauthier-Drapeau acquired a bronze within the males’s 81kg.

* 2023 monitor biking world championships silver medallist Dylan Bibic received the lads’s elimination occasion on the Nations Cup season opener in Australia, whereas Olympic medallist Lauriane Genest took bronze within the girls’s kierin.