What to watch in Olympic sports this weekend

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One of Canada's world-title droughts ended last night. Another could go down on Sunday. And Canadians can sweep the World Cup trophies in one of winter's most dangerous sports. Here's what to know for an exciting weekend of Olympic sports:

After a great night in Montreal, another Canadian duo goes for gold at the figure skating world championships.

Last night at the Bell Centre, the pairs team of Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps capped off the performance of their lives with an historic victory in front of an enraptured crowd in the city where they live and train.

The Canadian duo built a healthy lead on Wednesday with a personal-best short program, then nailed down their first world title with another PB in the free skate to dethrone Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara. The defending champs took the silver while Germany's Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin claimed bronze in their first worlds together.

Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are Canada's first figure-skating world champions since 2018, and the first Canadians to win the pairs world title since Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford went back-to-back a couple of years before that. Stellato-Dudek, 40, is the oldest woman to win a world title in the history of the sport. "40 is the new 20," she said. "It's something I carry with pride."

Her journey to the top was a long one. As a 16-year-old in 2000, the Chicago native won a singles silver for the United States at the world junior championships. But a chronic hip injury forced her to retire before her 18th birthday. After a decade and a half away