Olympic viewing guide: Will Canada's speed-skating resurgence continue?

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Canada wasted no time getting on the board in Beijing, reaching the podium twice on the first day of medal events. Speed skater Isabelle Weidemann broke the ice with a bronze in the women's 3,000 metres before men's moguls favourite Mikaël Kingsbury had to settle for silver. It looked like Canada added a bronze in short track speed skating's mixed relay event, but the team was disqualified for causing a crash after finishing third in the final.

An Olympic silver medal is a marvelous accomplishment, but for Kingsbury it's a tough pill to swallow. The best moguls skier of all time was favoured to win his second consecutive Olympic title, and he put himself in position to do it with a near-flawless last run. But the final skier, 21-year-old Swede Walter Wallberg, shocked the GOAT with an even better one to steal the gold. Before this, Wallberg had never won an event at the highest level of the sport. The figurative silver lining to Kingsbury's second Olympic silver medal (he won one as an up-and-comer in 2014) is that he's the first men's moguls skier to reach the podium at three straight Olympics.

Looking ahead to tonight and tomorrow morning in Canadian time zones, Canada's long track speed skating team has a good chance to win its second medal in as many days. Let's start our daily viewing guide there, then look at Canada's other strong contender for a podium tonight. Plus, the Canadian mixed doubles curling team has some work to do, it's crunch time in figure skating's team event, and alpine skiing competition opens with the sport's most