What to watch this weekend in Olympic sports

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A few things for Canadian fans to keep an eye on:

While the Super Bowl is obviously the biggest thing happening in sports this weekend, there's a lot going on in the Olympic sphere too. Here's what Canadian fans should look for:

It's been a tough week for Canada's top contenders. Defending men's super-G champion Jack Crawford finished 27th in that event today in Austria, while Cam Alexander was ruled out for the rest of the worlds after injuring his knee in a downhill training crash on Thursday. Val Grenier DNF'd in yesterday's women's super-G.

Grenier is capable of challenging the top skiers in the women's downhill on Saturday. She won a junior world title in this event in 2016 before a terrible crash in 2019 caused her to drop the downhill. She picked it back up last year and almost immediately took bronze in a World Cup race, only to suffer another season-ending crash two days later. Grenier will be joined Saturday by Canada's Cassidy Gray, who finished 20th in the super-G.

Despite his disappointing super-G today, Crawford can head into the men's downhill on Sunday with confidence after his big World Cup win recently at Kitzbühel. And keep an eye on Jeff Read, who placed a career-high 10th in today's super-G.

Swiss star Marco Odermatt is favoured to repeat as men's downhill champion after winning his first super-G world title today. Italians Federica Brignone and Sofia Goggia rank 1-2 in the women's World Cup downhill standings.

Canada's Blayre Turnbull scored the tying goal with a little over two minutes left in regulation last night in Halifax, but American goalie