Olympic viewing guide Day 5: Canadians eye figure skating medal

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Looking ahead to Day 5, Canada has a good shot at its first Olympic figure skating medal since 2018. Plus, two of the Games' marquee events, men's hockey and men's curling, get underway. So let's get into all that and some other interesting stuff, including another Olympic flop by American alpine star Mikaela Shiffrin, and a biathlon skier who decided to tell the world he cheated on his girlfriend.

In chronological order:

Alpine skiing: Jack Crawford and Cam Alexander in the men's super-G at 5:30 a.m. ET

Canada's top two men's alpine skiers finished ninth and 14th, respectively, in Saturday's downhill, which was probably their best shot at the podium. Nine of their 11 career World Cup medals have come in that discipline, including all five of Alexander's. But Crawford won gold at the 2023 world championships in the super-G — the downhill's slightly slower, more technical cousin — and has a couple of World Cup silvers.

Switzerland's Franjo von Allmen will try for his third gold medal of the Games after winning the downhill and Monday's team combined event with slalom specialist Tanguy Nef. But he'll have to hold off his countryman Marco Odermatt, the four-time World Cup overall title winner and reigning super-G world champ who finished a disappointing fourth in the downhill before grabbing a silver in the team combined.

Freestyle skiing: Maïa Schwinghammer in the women's moguls final at 8:15 a.m. ET

A 24-year-old from flat-as-a-pancake Saskatoon (she learned to ski on a tiny man-made local hill known as "the Pimple on the Prairie"), Schwinghammer broke through last