What to watch this weekend in Olympic sports

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Here's some of the best stuff to keep an eye on involving top Canadian athletes:

Speed skating: Canadians have home-ice advantage

Calgary's aging Olympic Oval might be on its last legs, but it's still in good enough shape to host the third long track World Cup event of the season, beginning tonight.

Canadian skaters had a lot of success when the Oval hosted the world single distances championships last year, winning a national-record 10 medals — second only to the powerhouse Netherlands' 13. Ivanie Blondin led the way with a gold and two silvers, and she's been the top Canadian on the World Cup tour this season, accounting for three of the country's six medals.

The international skater to watch is 20-year-old American phenom Jordan Stolz. At the worlds in Calgary last February, he won gold in all three of his individual races for the second straight year, then went on to capture his first allround world title in Germany. Stolz is dominating the World Cup circuit too, winning four gold medals at four straight tour stops dating back to last season. If you missed our preview of the Calgary World Cup, read it here. 

WATCH l CBC Sports previews what to watch over the weekend:

What to Watch: Andre De Grasse's season begins and the speed skating World Cup in Calgary

Alpine skiing: The scariest race on snow

This weekend's men's World Cup races are in Kitzbuehel, Austria, home of the most terrifying downhill on the planet. The legendary Streif course isn't the fastest on tour — that would be last week's Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland. But its combination of rough