What to watch this weekend in Olympic sports

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A pair of world championships and an historic Tournament of Hearts highlight an exciting weekend for Canadian Olympic athletes on the international stage. Here are the key events:

Speed skating world championships

Canada came storming out of the gates yesterday at the World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships in Calgary, winning three medals on Day 1. The men's and women's sprint teams both repeated as world champions while Isabelle Weidemann took silver in the individual women's 3,000 metres. The Canadian men broke the world record in their victory, which came in a photo finish with the Netherlands.

Canada took a bit of a step back today as the reigning Olympic and world champion trio of Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valérie Maltais lost its world title in the women's team pursuit. The Canadians took silver, close to three seconds behind the Netherlands.

Canada then grabbed its fifth medal of the championships when the men's pursuit team took bronze. Italy won gold and Norway got the silver.

At last year's single-distances worlds in the Netherlands, Canada won three gold and seven total medals to place second in the standings.

Still to come was the men's 500m event at 4:20 p.m. ET. Canada's Laurent Dubreuil won silver last year and was the world champion in 2021. He was part of yesterday's gold-medal victory in the men's team sprint.

CBC Sports is streaming Saturday's races starting at 2:30 p.m. ET and Sunday's starting at 2 p.m. ET. Here's the full schedule of events.

World Aquatics Championships

The Canadian women's water polo team thought it had missed