A pair of Canadian Olympic team champions are in action this weekend

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Canada's Olympic champion women's soccer and hockey teams were arguably the country's biggest stories in Tokyo and Beijing, respectively.

They're both in action this weekend, along with another promising national team. Here's what you should know:

Hockey

The game we've all been waiting for at the world championships is finally going down on Sunday. Hopefully.

After neither Canada nor the U.S. received much of a scare in the quarter-finals, they'll return for semifinal matchups on Saturday that don't appear too frightening either. The Canadians will meet a Swiss side at 12 p.m. ET that played tough in a 4-1 loss to Canada earlier in the tournament, but may be without captain Lara Stalder and top scorer Alina Müller because of COVID-19. The Americans face the Czech Republic, who upset Finland in the quarter-finals.

Barring something extraordinary, Canada and the U.S. will play for gold on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. ET. The Americans won their round-robin game 5-2, scoring the final five goals after Canada opened an early lead. The U.S. has generally looked like the stronger team throughout the tournament in Denmark, having scored 20 more goals than Canada while allowing only four through five games. Its power play is clicking at nearly double the rate of Canada's. Forward Taylor Heise, making her major international tournament debut for the U.S., leads all skaters with 13 points.

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One more stat in the Americans' favour: the winner of the group-stage battle between the teams has also won gold at each of the last