CanadaB次元官网网址檚 Marielle Thompson has won the silver medal in womenB次元官网网址檚 ski cross at the Beijing Olympics after finishing second in a drama-filled final.

Thompson, from Whistler, B.C., made a late push in the big final to finish behind SwedenB次元官网网址檚 Sandra Naeslund, who led the race from wire to wire.

SwitzerlandB次元官网网址檚 Fanny Smith appeared to win the bronze medal, but she was disqualified after a lengthy post-race review.

GermanyB次元官网网址檚 Daniela Maier was awarded the bronze following SmithB次元官网网址檚 disqualification.

ItB次元官网网址檚 the second Olympic medal for Thompson, who won ski cross gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Canada had four skiers in the semifinals, but only Thompson advanced to the big final.

Pyeongchang silver medallist Brittany Phelan of Mont-Tremblant, Que., won the small final to finish fifth. Courtney Hoffos of Windermere, B.C., was sixth and OttawaB次元官网网址檚 Hannah Schmidt was seventh.

Schmidt and Thompson had the fourth and fifth best times respectively in the seeding round.

Phelan and Hoffos were not far behind them, finishing the seeding seventh and eighth.

Both Phelan and Thompson are returning to the Olympics after devastating injuries earlier this season.

Phelan blew out her knee in February 2020 in Meg猫ve, France, when she overshot a jump and landed on one leg.

Thompson tore her anterior cruciate ligament in March, disrupting her 2021-22 training plan.

CURLING

At the National Aquatics Centre, Brad Gushue fell to SwedenB次元官网网址檚 Niklas Edin, 5-3, in the menB次元官网网址檚 curling semifinals and will have to settle for playing for a bronze medal.

The Canadian team will meet the United States in the bronze-medal game. Sweden and Great Britain will battle it out Saturday for gold.

Earlier, CanadaB次元官网网址檚 Jennifer Jones crashed out of the tournament despite winning her final match of the preliminary round.

Jones beat DenmarkB次元官网网址檚 Madeleine Dupont 10-4 in the round-robin finale, which temporarily kept her playoff hopes alive.

But losses by Russia, Japan and South Korea sent Canada packing.

Jones finished fifth in the 10-team standings with a 5-4 record. Britain and Japan, also at 5-4, advanced based on their better draw shot challenge (DSC) numbers.

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FIGURE SKATING

In figure skating, CanadaB次元官网网址檚 Madeline Schizas finished the womenB次元官网网址檚 individual competition in 19th place.

RussiaB次元官网网址檚 Anna Shcherbakova, the overlooked world champion, delivered a clean performance in her free skate at historic Capital Indoor Stadium to win a stunning gold medal, while teammate Kamila Valieva B次元官网网址� at the centre of the latest Russian doping controversy B次元官网网址� tumbled out of the medals altogether with a mistake-filled end to her Olympic dream.

Another Russian skater, Alexandra Trusova, claimed silver and Kaori Sakamoto of Japan grabbed bronze.

HALFPIPE

It was a solid day for Canada at the Genting Snow Park, with all six Canadians B次元官网网址� women and men B次元官网网址� advancing to their respective finals in freeski halfpipe.

On the womenB次元官网网址檚 side, Rachael Karker of Erin, Ont., was second in qualifying behind ChinaB次元官网网址檚 Eileen Gu. Cassie Sharpe from Comox, B.C., placed sixth and CalgaryB次元官网网址檚 Amy Fraser finished 11th.

B次元官网网址淚 think I did well, IB次元官网网址檓 super happy to make the finals and to put a good run down,B次元官网网址� said Karker.

For the men, CalgaryB次元官网网址檚 Brendan Mackay was the top Canadian in fifth, ahead of Noah Bowman, also of Calgary, in sixth. Simon dB次元官网网址橝rtois from Whistler, B.C., placed eighth.

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The top-12 athletes in both the womenB次元官网网址檚 and menB次元官网网址檚 qualification runs advanced to the finals.

SPEEDSKATING

At the National speedskating Oval, Alexa Scott of Clandeboye, Man., came in 12th in the womenB次元官网网址檚 1,000 metres while Maddison Pearman of Ponoka, Alta., finished 26th.

Miho Takagi of Japan took home the gold B次元官网网址� her fourth speedskating medal of the Beijing Games.

In womenB次元官网网址檚 alpine combined, Roni Remme of Collingwood, Ont., failed to complete the downhill portion of the event and did not move on to the final.

B次元官网网址擳he Canadian Press