Olympic wake-up call: Team Canada caps 2022 Beijing Games with bobsleigh bronze

Canada won bronze on the final day on competition at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games.

Bobsleigh pilot Justin Kripps and brakemen Ryan Sommer, Cam Stones, and Benjamin Coakwell finished 79-hundredths of a second behind Germany's Francesco Friedrich, who repeated as Olympic champion after winning the event in 2018.

Friedrich also defended his gold medal in the two-man competition earlier this week, marking the first time someone has won back-to-back gold medals in both disciplines.

Canada's bobsleigh bronze marked the country's 26th medal of the Beijing Games, which is the second-most medals Canada was ever won at a single a Winter Olympics. Canadian athletes tallied four gold medals, eight silver and 14 bronze.

The medal is also the second of Kripps' career, following his co-gold-medal win in the two-man bobsleigh at PyeongChang 2018 — where he and Friedrich were tied for the win.

The Canadian sled piloted by Christopher Spring, with Cody Sorensen, Samuel Giguère and Mike Evelyn finished in ninth place. A third Canadian sled, piloted by Taylor Austin, with Daniel Sunderland, Chris Patrician and Jay Dearborn, placed 23rd, having not qualified for the fourth run of the competition.

To relive Canada's bronze medal run, or anything you missed overnight, you can watch full replays of all Olympic events here.

WATCH | Kripps pilots Canada to Olympic bronze:

Barrie, Ont., cross-country skier Cendrine Browne finished in 16th place in the women's mass start race, marking Canada's best-ever Olympic finish in the event.

Browne finished in one hour, 31 minutes and 21.6 seconds, in a bitterly cold and windy 30km race at the Zhangjiakou National Cross-Country Skiing Centre.

Norway's Therese Johaug won the final individual event of