Weekend recap: Canadian women’s hockey team reunifies the titles

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One other ladies’s hockey thriller, two extra victories for Canada’s greatest swimmer and a season-ending trophy for the nationwide males’s curling champion highlighted a profitable weekend for Canadian Olympic athletes. Here is a recap:

Canada took again the ladies’s hockey world title.

Danielle Serdachny’s power-play aim 5 minutes into extra time gave Canada a dramatic 6-5 victory over the USA in yesterday’s world championship remaining in Utica, N.Y. Serdachny, a 22-year-old ahead from Edmonton who starred at Colgate College this season, backhanded dwelling a rebound for her second aim of the event within the dying seconds of Canada’s 4-on-3 benefit ensuing from a U.S. penalty for having too many gamers on the ice.

Serdachny’s aim gave Canada its third world championship in 4 years — all through one-goal wins over the U.S. within the gold-medal recreation. Final 12 months, the People defeated Canada 6-3 within the remaining in Brampton, Ont., to seize their first title since 2019.

The Canadians returned the favour on their archrivals’ dwelling ice with assist from — after all — Marie-Philip Poulin. The 33-year-old captain, whose uncanny knack for clutch targets has propelled Canada to quite a few titles over the past decade and a half, got here into the event banged up and had not scored heading into the ultimate. However Poulin got here by means of once more with two targets — a bar-down beauty that tied it 3-3 within the second interval earlier than she put Canada up 5-4 within the third. “There’s only a few athletes on this planet that may carry out in a stress scenario like she will be able to,” stated coach Troy Ryan.

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With the victory, Canada reunified the world and Olympic titles. Canada captured the latter in 2022 in Beijing with a 3-2 win over the U.S. within the gold-medal recreation.

This was the primary world championship for the reason that beginning of the Skilled Girls’s Hockey League, and gamers noticed that the Canada-U.S. video games felt quicker and extra intense. The PWHL returns from its world-championship break on Thursday. The common season wraps up on Could 5, adopted by the inaugural Walter Cup playoffs for the highest 4 groups.

Summer time McIntosh starred on the Speedo Canadian Swimming Open.

The 17-year-old phenom completed with 4 victories in as many nights on the prep meet for subsequent month’s Olympic trials in her hometown of Toronto. After profitable the ladies’s 100m and 200m freestyle occasions, McIntosh defeated reigning Olympic champion Maggie Mac Neil for the 100m butterfly gold on Friday night time, then dominated Saturday’s 200m individual medley. 

McIntosh owns a pair of world titles in each the 200m butterfly and 400m medley. However she skipped these occasions as she used the Canadian Open to proceed her coaching for the Olympics. “I am extra of a mid-distance swimmer general, however type of growing my velocity and ending off races in addition to doable is one thing that I realized quite a bit at this meet,” stated McIntosh, who’s poised to win her first Olympics medal(s) in Paris this summer season after putting fourth as a 14-year-old in 2021.

Brad Gushue received the Grand Slam of Curling’s season finale.

Per week after shedding to Sweden’s Nik Edin within the remaining of the lads’s world championship in Switzerland, the six-time Brier winner defeated top-ranked Joel Retornaz of Italy 7-6 yesterday to capture the Players’ Championship in Toronto. 

Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni received the ladies’s remaining over Sweden’s Isabella Wrana. Tirinzoni’s streak of 4 straight world titles ended final month when Canada’s Rachel Homan beat her within the remaining in Sydney, N.S. The Swiss skip acquired a slice of revenge on Saturday by defeating Homan within the semis.

Canada’s Jennifer Jones did not qualify for the playoffs within the remaining four-player event of her unparalleled profession. Jones, who will proceed to play blended doubles subsequent season, skipped her groups to a record-tying six Canadian championships together with two world titles and an Olympic gold medal. The 49-year-old is likely one of the high-profile gamers concerned with a brand new Grand Slam possession group that’s promising big changes when it takes over the sequence subsequent season.

Canadian monitor cyclists captured three medals at a house occasion.

Dylan Bibic won gold within the males’s elimination race; Lauriane Genest took bronze within the ladies’s keirin; whereas Ryan Dodyk, James Hedgecock and Tyler Rork teamed up for bronze within the males’s crew dash at a Nations Cup cease within the Toronto space.

Bibic, 20, took silver within the elimination eventually 12 months’s world championships and received the scratch race world title in 2022. Genest earned bronze within the keirin on the 2021 Olympics.

Reigning Olympic ladies’s dash champion Kelsey Mitchell didn’t attain the rostrum in the course of the three-day meet in Milton, Ont., which was the ultimate qualifier for this summer season’s Olympics. The dash crew of Dodyk, Hedgecock and Rork was amongst those that grabbed a spot.

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