What to watch this weekend in winter Olympic sports

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Canada's winter Olympic athletes won four medals at World Cup events in Europe today and just missed out on a couple more.

Three of the medals came at a ski cross tour stop in Austria. India Sherret and Hannah Schmidt won gold and bronze, respectively, in the women's event while Kevin Drury took bronze in the men's. Freestyle skier Megan Oldham earned silver in a women's slopestyle competition in Switzerland.

For Sherret and Schmidt, it was their second medal in as many days as they swapped podium positions from Thursday at the same venue. Schmidt was awarded the bronze today after a crash in the four-skier final left her and fellow Canadian Brittany Phelan unable to complete the course. Sherret crossed the line ahead of Switzerland's Fanny Smith to leapfrog Germany's Daniela Maier for top spot in the women's World Cup standings.

Meanwhile, alpine skier Jack Crawford experienced another agonizingly close fourth-place finish. The reigning super-G world champion and Olympic combined bronze medallist who memorably missed an Olympic downhill bronze by 0.07 of a second was just four hundredths off the podium in today's super-G in Wengen, Switzerland.

Crawford will have another shot at a medal in Saturday's downhill. Here's more on that, plus other Canadians to watch this weekend in the winter Olympic sports realm.

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Crawford's near-podium performance in today's super-G bodes well for his chances in