Olympic viewing guide: A Canadian great skates for his final medal

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The wait is over. Canada captured its first gold medal in more than a week today when speed skaters Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valérie Maltais won the women's team pursuit in Olympic-record time. It's the third medal of the Games for Weidemann, who took silver and bronze in the women's 5,000m and 3,000m individual events. Maltais now owns an Olympic medal in both types of speed skating — she earned a short track relay silver in 2014.

Canada also picked up another bronze on Day 11, by Max Parrot in the men's snowboard big air. It's the third Olympic medal for the 27-year-old cancer survivor, who won gold in the men's slopestyle earlier in the Games and was a slopestyle silver medallist in 2018. Now he owns the full set.

With five days still to go in Beijing, Canada has 17 medals — two gold, four silver, 11 bronze. That's tied with the United States for the fourth-highest total, behind Norway (26), the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team (20) and Germany (18).

Day 12 features one of Canada's greatest Olympians going for a record-tying medal in his final Olympic race. We'll start our daily viewing guide there, and cover the big games coming up for the Canadian men's hockey and men's and women's curling teams. Plus, controversial Russian Kamila Valieva shakes it off in the opening round of the women's figure skating event.

Here's what to watch on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning:

No matter what happens tomorrow, the 37-year-old short track speed skater will walk away from the sport at the end of this season with a staggering list of