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Olympic viewing guide Day 9: Kingsbury can deliver Canada's first gold

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Will Day 9 bring Canada's long-awaited first gold medal of the Milano-Cortina Games? Moguls skiing icon Mikaël Kingsbury is favoured to do it in his last Olympic appearance, and Canada has some other podium hopes on the slopes.

We'll start our daily viewing guide with those medal chances, then look at other key things coming up on Sunday, including the Canadian men's hockey team's group-stage finale.

Here's what to look for, in chronological order:

Freestyle skiing: Mikaël Kingsbury in the men's dual moguls at 4:30 a.m. ET

Kingsbury came painfully close to winning his second career Olympic gold on Thursday in the traditional moguls event, losing out to surprising Australian Cooper Woods on an arcane tiebreaker after the judges awarded them the exact same total score. That left the GOAT with his third Olympic silver.

In the past, that would have been it for Kingsbury. But this time, he gets another shot at gold in the dual moguls, which is making its Olympic debut. The big difference from the regular moguls is that two athletes ski side-by-side, and whoever gets the highest score advances to the next round.

Kingsbury has won five world titles in the dual (one more than he has in traditional moguls), including the last four in a row. So he has a great chance to give Canada its first gold medal of these Games in what is likely the final Olympic performance of his unparalleled career. 

Looking to spoil Kingsbury's swan song is his Japanese rival Ikuma Horishima. He won the dual world title in 2017 and took silver at last year's world championships, where he upset

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