Olympic viewing guide: Canadian medal chances on Monday

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Day 2 of the Milano-Cortina Olympics also happens to be Super Bowl Sunday. This is where a clever writer would delight you with a neat connection between these Games and tonight's big football extravaganza. But all I could come up with is the fact that Milan is in the Lombardy region of Italy, and the Super Bowl champion will be awarded the Lombardi Trophy.

Anyway, today was far less than super for Canada, which did not have any great medal opportunities and was indeed unable to add to the bronze by speed skater Valérie Maltais on Saturday.

Canada had podium aspirations in figure skating's team event but ended up falling one spot to a fifth-place finish. Japan surged into a tie with the United States heading into the closing men's free skate before American superstar Ilia Malinin delivered the gold by outscoring Shun Sato with a (by his standards) so-so performance.

Earlier in the day, veteran Canadian speed skater Ted-Jan Bloemen placed 13th in the men's 5,000m, and Canada's best result in cross-country skiing was also a 13th, by Xavier McKeever in the men's skiathlon. In snowboarding, none of the four Canadians in the parallel giant slalom went deeper than the quarterfinals, while former world champion Laurie Blouin and Juliette Pelchat both failed to advance to the women's big air final.

But the most devastating result for Canada came in mixed doubles curling, where the married couple of Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant were eliminated from playoff contention with losses to Sweden and South Korea that dropped their record to 3-5 after a 3-0 start.

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