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Canada eyes more wins after gold-medal breakthrough in Italy
Business World Philippines
|February 18, 2026
For a nation deeply woven into the fabric of the Winter Olympics, the sight of Canada sitting 15th in the gold-medal standings more than halfway through the Milano Cortina Games sparked concern back home that their campaign had yet to ignite.
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Long a giant of winter sport from Vancouver's historic 14-gold haul to decades of consistent podium finishes Canada found itself still searching for its first top-step moment before freestyle skiing great Mikael Kingsbury won the dual moguls on Sunday.
That gold-medal wait was Canada's longest at a Winter Olympics since the Calgary Games of 1988.
For David Shoemaker, the Canadian Olympic Committee's chief executive officer, the breakthrough moment marked a shift in momentum. "It's fair to say we're not accustomed to waiting this long for a gold medal," he told Reuters. "I got to congratulate (Kingsbury) and he remarked 'That's our first (gold), right?' And he sort of expressed the feeling we all shared hopefully that's the first of several more to come. But there's a lot of medal opportunities left in this competition."
This story is from the February 18, 2026 edition of Business World Philippines.
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