Paralympic viewing guide: Natalie Wilkie goes for 4th medal in 4 events

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Nordic skier Natalie Wilkie earned her third medal in three events at the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games, taking bronze in Tuesday's women's standing cross-country sprint. The 25-year-old from Salmon Arm, B.C., who won a gold and a silver in biathlon over the weekend, now owns 10 Paralympic medals.

Norway's Vilde Nilsen won Tuesday's race, avenging her painful loss in the sprint event at the 2022 Games in Beijing, where Wilkie passed her just before the finish line to steal the gold. Nilsen left no doubt this time, crossing four seconds ahead of American Sydney Peterson and almost nine seconds ahead of Wilkie.

Wilkie's bronze brought Canada's total to eight medals (one gold, three silver, four bronze) through Day 4.

Nordic skier Mark Arendz remains at 13 career Paralympic medals after the 36-year-old finished sixth in the men's standing cross-country sprint. Six-time Paralympic medallist Collin Cameron was 11th in the men's sitting event.

Alpine skier Kalle Eriksson and his guide Sierra Smith just missed their third medal of the Games. They finished fourth in the men's vision-impaired combined event, a mere 0.05 seconds behind the bronze-winning tandem from Austria. Eriksson and Smith took silver in the downhill on Saturday and bronze in the super-G on Monday.

Men's sitting downhill bronze medallist Kurt Oatway failed to complete the first leg of the combined after also skiing off course in the super-G on Monday. "These Games need to be held a month earlier," said Oatway, who was frustrated by the soft snow in Cortina d'Ampezzo, where temperatures reached 9 C on