Olympic viewing guide: Women's hockey heats up

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Third day's a charm, eh? Canada hauled in four medals on Day 3 of full competition in Beijing, including its first gold of the Games and a historic bronze.

Snowboarder Max Parrot launched things off by winning gold in the men's slopestyle. The 2018 silver medallist once again topped his more heralded Canadian teammate Mark McMorris, who took his third consecutive bronze in this event. Parrot also beat cancer, coming back from a bout with Hodgkin's lymphoma that caused him to miss the entire season following his first Olympic medal. "Three years ago, I was laying down in a hospital bed with no energy, no muscles, no cardio," Parrot said. "Today, I'm an Olympic gold medallist and I did the biggest run of my life."

This morning, short track speed skater Kim Boutin reached her fourth Olympic podium by repeating as the bronze medallist in the women's 500 metres. And then a shocker: Canada won its first-ever Olympic medal in ski jumping by taking bronze in the new mixed team event. Alexandria Loutitt, Matthew Soukup, Abigail Strate and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes are the first Canadian ski jumpers to finish better than seventh in the Olympics.

All this good news helped chase the bitterness of last night's heartbreaking loss by Canada's mixed doubles curling team. Needing a win over undefeated Italy in the round-robin finale to get into the playoffs, John Morris and Rachel Homan missed by literally a millimetre — the difference between Italy's closest rock and Canada's in relation to the pinhole after Homan came in just a touch heavy with the final throw.

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