Olympic viewing guide: Weidemann skates for another medal

This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what's happening at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games by subscribing here.

Surprise, surprise. Canada won a pair of unexpected medals today.

Meryeta O'Dine took bronze in the women's snowboard cross in her first Olympic competition. She made the 2018 team but was knocked out by a concussion just days before the Games, then endured her brother's death from a brain tumour in 2020. This morning, short track speed skater Steven Dubois came back from apparent elimination to grab silver in the men's 1,500 metres. Dubois finished last in his semifinal but was awarded a spot in the unusually large 10-man final due to a foul by another skater. 

Through five days of full competition in Beijing, the Canadian team has won eight medals — a gold, two silver and five bronze.

Canada has two very good chances to add to its total on Day 6. Three, if you count the possibility of an upgrade in the team figure skating event, where a mysterious "legal" issue has cast doubt on the medals. More on that below.

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

In chronological order:

Men's snowboard cross

Twenty-year-old Éliot Grondin is among the world's best in this event. He took bronze at the world championships last season, won gold at the world junior championships, and was the runner-up in the World Cup chase. He's currently ranked fourth in the World Cup standings. Strange as it sounds for someone so young, this is already Grodin's second Olympics. He finished 36th as a 16-year-old in 2018.

As we saw with Meryeta O'Dine's surprising bronze in the women's event today, snowboard cross is very tough to predict. The men's event