The nation’s capital will be represented by 16 athletes at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games from Feb. 6-22. Our coverage of their journeys is posted here on our Ottawa at the Olympics central webpage.
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Ottawa at the Olympics Daily Coverage
OATO Day 16: Nordic skiers post uplifting Olympic results, hope funding will follow
Antoine Cyr’s voice was still shaking from the men’s 50-kilometre mass start classic he had completed some hours earlier. The periodic opening and closing of zippers ripped through the receiver. “I’m currently packing my bag,” Cyr explained. READ MORE…
OATO Day 15: Final chapter in Ivanie Blondin’s Olympic speed skating career yields 4th medal
Half-part coach, half-part maintenance man, one Mike Rivet was blowing snow off the ice oval at Brewer Park. When the time came, Rivet turned off the noisy contraption to watch the last Olympic race of Ivanie Blondin’s storied career on his phone. READ MORE…
OATO Day 14: Final thread snaps in Team Homan’s improbable pursuit of gold
After willing themselves into the women’s curling playoffs at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, the Rachel Homan Ottawa Curling Club rink’s resurgent gold medal hopes finally faded Friday. Canada fell to Sweden in the semi-finals 6-3. READ MORE…
OATO Day 13: Rachel Homan clears mammoth hurdle to reach curling playoffs
When you think of hurdles in relation to sport, you’re more likely to have thoughts of the Summer Olympics. Did you know hurdles were a big part of Thursday’s competition at the Winter Olympic Games? These were a different kind of hurdles. READ MORE…
OATO Day 12: Team Homan wins nailbiter in extra end, Antoine Cyr solid in 6th
Exhale Team Homan curling fans, but only for a breath or two, because the most nervous wheezing likely lies ahead. The Ottawa Curling Club rink survived a Wednesday match against Italy to prevail 8-7 in an extra end to get one win away from the playoffs. READ MORE…
OATO Day 11: Ottawa Olympic medal record equalled by Isabelle Weidemann with #4
At the 2010 Olympics, speed skater Kristina Groves became Ottawa’s most decorated Olympian of all-time. Isabelle Weidemann was a Grade 10 Colonel By student at the time and was just starting to get a little more seriously into speed skating. READ MORE…
OATO Day 10: Women’s hockey books podium place, ultimate team supports bobsledders
Mike Evelyn O’Higgins and Jay Dearborn didn’t get off to the start they wanted in two-man bobsleigh, but back home in Ottawa, an ultra-loyal contingent was up for the 4 a.m. ET start – the Green Eggs and Hammers, their rec league ultimate Frisbee team. READ MORE…
OATO Day 9: Antoine Cyr helps Canada to its best all-time finish in 4-skier men’s relay
On a windy afternoon in Tesero, Gatineau’s Antoine Cyr, Xavier McKeever, Rémi Drolet, and Tom Stephen achieved Canada’s best-ever result in Olympic cross-country relay with a fifth-place finish. 27-year-old Cyr was the eldest of the youthful quartet. READ MORE…
OATO Day 8: Canadian women’s team pursuit engine revs to first in quarterfinals
The Canadian women’s team pursuit trio brought their newly revamped routine to the Olympics and the reviews from the stopwatch were outstanding as they topped the pack in the quarter-finals with a time of 2:55.03. READ MORE…
OATO Day 7: Craig Savill accomplishes lifelong curling quest to experience Olympics
Athletic dreams don’t always come to fruition. As much as the athlete focuses on a certain objective, sometimes it just doesn’t materialize. And sometimes it goes into hibernation, waiting for an unexpected opportunity to develop from a completely different angle. READ MORE…
OATO Day 6: Team Homan blasts out of the gate with solid first curling win
Rachel Homan and Emma Miskew got off to a dream start in their hunt for an elusive Olympic medal in women’s curling. The Ottawa duo have won just about everything there is to win in women’s curling up to this point, including five national and three world titles. READ MORE…
OATO Day 5: Biathlete Shilo Rousseau struggles at shooting range
Ski fast. Shoot clean. That seems like a realistic assignment, if you were to look at it as a two-part task. But if you’re a biathlete in the challenging individual race, it’s all rolled into one package of mass disorder and arguably is the toughest event on the Olympic schedule. READ MORE…
OATO Day 4: Capital skiers unsatisfied, Canada rocked in women’s hockey
Valérie Grenier’s second appearance at Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games was an improvement on her first, but the alpine skier from St. Isidore, ON remained unsatisfied following her 13th-place showing in the women’s team combined event. READ MORE…
OATO Day 3: Capital connections abound in women’s hockey event, other sports
Ottawa Charge captain Brianne Jenner slipped a pass to Julia Gosling for a goal just 17 seconds into the second period to complete Canada’s scoring in a 5-1 rout of Czechia in women’s hockey action on Monday at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics. READ MORE…
OATO Day 2: ‘No regrets’ Antoine Cyr lays it on the line to stick with leaders in skiathlon
Gliding through the Dolomites that surround the little village of Tesero, Gatineau’s Antoine ‘Tony’ Cyr is far removed from the hustle and bustle of Milano three-and-a-half hours southwest. After his first Olympic experience in Beijing, it sure doesn’t feel that way. READ MORE…
OATO Day 1: Speed skater Isabelle Weidemann keeps engine going for 5th place
Isabelle Weidemann had a loyal contingent cheering her on from Ottawa as she was thrust into a historically competitive speed skating event to open her Olympics in Milano. Mike Rivet, her childhood coach, was joined by some 20 of her peers. READ MORE…
Ottawa at the Olympics: Meet your local team of 16 Milano Cortina 2026 Olympians!
Let the Games begin! The Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games officially started this evening with the Opening Ceremonies at San Siro Stadium, and a number of Ottawa Olympians were among those marching in with Team Canada. READ MORE…
Ottawa Olympians’ Schedules
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Athlete Profile Series
In the weeks leading up to the Games, we share stories on our local Olympians’ journeys to the Olympics:
Managing Type 1 diabetes big part of ski cross racing for 2-time Olympian Hannah Schmidt
Hannah Schmidt confidently stands in her individual start hut at the top of the ski cross course with three peers/rivals around her. The gate drops, the skiers pop out like jack-in-the-box figures and all hell breaks loose on the snow for about a minute. READ MORE…
Ski-cross racer Jared Schmidt aims to have everything line up at second Olympics
The sharp sound of the alarm clock pierces the quiet of the room as darkness gives way to daylight. It’s race day. Jared Schmidt eases out of bed to begin his trusted routine, which will take him to the top of a ski cross course with nervousness and excitement. READ MORE…
Families’ sporting tradition fuels first-time Olympic biathletes Rousseau & Connelly
Yves Rousseau was supposed to be an Olympian. That was before his ankle gave out two years before he got his opportunity at Calgary 1988. A military man, as were a great many biathletes in his era, Rousseau was well acquainted with this basest bodily treachery. READ MORE…
‘My lifelong dream is coming true,’ says Team Canada rookie goalie Kayle Osborne
It has been a genuine landmark season for Kayle Osborne in the PWHL and the stage is only getting bigger. The 23-year-old goaltender from Ottawa has seized the reins as the out-and-out starter in the New York Sirens’ goal crease in her second year in the league. READ MORE…
‘We’ve always stuck together’: Emma Miskew on eve of 2nd Olympics with Rachel Homan
As years fly by and titles pile up, Emma Miskew’s career-long partnership with Rachel Homan gives pause for reflection – not only on their now record haul of Grand Slam trophies, but on the times winning didn’t come quite so easily in this relentlessly mental sport. READ MORE…
Relaxation key to Olympic success for Rachel Homan, says first coach Doug Kreviazuk
If you study Rachel Homan’s complete curling resume, you’d think she had done it all with her posse of proficient rock stars. Right from the start, Homan skipped her young teammates to an unprecedented four consecutive Ontario girls’ bantam titles. READ MORE…
Putting downhill racing on hold made Valérie Grenier a world-class giant slalom racer
Mention the storied Cortina d’Ampezzo alpine racing venue to Valérie Grenier and the memories begin to flow as smoothly as her skis glide over the pristine snow. The super-G and downhill courses are located in the heart of the Dolomite Alps. READ MORE…
Cédrick Brunet celebrated the moment he joined his family’s Olympic legacy at their side
Cédrick Brunet wasn’t sure whether he was going to the Olympics. The long-track speed skater finished third in his trademark 500 metre event at the final Canadian Olympic team trials in Quebec City, leaving him just off a guaranteed trip to Milano. READ MORE…
Isabelle Weidemann’s third Winter Olympics may feature historic medals, mentorship
Long-track speed skater Isabelle Weidemann stands at the doorway to Canadian Olympic greatness. That door is currently locked. But the Gloucester Concordes Speed Skating Club member can open it, if she develops the right code during an 11-day period. READ MORE…
Speed skater Ivanie Blondin capable of winning more medals in fourth Olympics
Nineteen months after achieving her ultimate goal of reaching the Olympic medal podium (not once, but twice) in her third Winter Games, Gloucester’s Ivanie Blondin decided to cut herself some serious slack. And why not. Variety is the spice of life. READ MORE…
Nakkertok’s Katherine Stewart-Jones does it her way to prepare for 2026 Olympics
Katherine Stewart-Jones is heading to her second Winter Olympic Games and she’s doing it her way. Despite the absence of the traditional Nordiq Canada off-season training camp in 2025, the Nakkertok Nordic Ski Club racer organized her own. READ MORE…
Winter Olympics cross-country ski courses suit second-time Olympian Antoine Cyr
Sometimes, things just happen. You accept it. You go with the flow and move forward. Your life straightens out. Olympic-bound cross-country skier Antoine Cyr of Gatineau and the Club Skinouk certainly can relate to how life unfolds sometimes. READ MORE…
3 Ottawa-brewed bobsledders in Cortina for sport that’s ‘emblematic of Canada’
There is an impossible quiet as you hurtle down a bobsled track. Not the sled, mind you, that scrapes and screeches over the ice, gradually sucking you to its floor as it picks up speed. Quiet is the scattered crowd that strains to be heard above it all. READ MORE…
Heart of the Canadian bobsled team Pat Norton left to watch Olympics from home
Pat Norton put absolutely everything he had into Canadian bobsledding. The Ottawa slider devoted many years and many dollars into his pursuit of a sport that can be glorious and exhilarating, and also demanding, draining and downright cruel. READ MORE…
Ottawa Charge PWHLers lead list of capital connections at Milano Cortina 2026
On top of the 16 athletes whose roads to representing Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics began in the Ottawa area, the nation’s capital can claim looser connections to several more athletes competing in the Milano Cortina 2026 Games. READ MORE…
Meet the Ottawa team standing behind Team Canada in Milano Cortina
If you look behind each country’s team of superb athletes at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games from Feb. 6-22, you’ll find an impressive support team that plays varying roles to bring them to the five-ringed forefront. READ MORE…
