Team Canada Women face off against Switzerland today at 3 pm.

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A positive norovirus case was detected in the Swiss women's national ice hockey team last night.

The athlete's positive test result was only received after today's opening victory against the Czech Republic and shortly before the opening ceremony. The affected athlete had been housed in a single room since arriving at the Olympic Village on Monday, February 2, 2026, and isolated from the team since the onset of symptoms. She has been symptom-free since this morning. As a precautionary measure, the team was isolated after the match, in close consultation with the on-site medical team and after consulting with experts.

Therefore, it was decided that the women's national team will not participate in today's opening ceremony of the Milan 2026 Winter Olympics. So far, no other Swiss player has shown symptoms.

We'll see if that develops into anything.

I watched a lot of the opening ceremonies, and it was interesting enough, uniquely formatted with athletes at each venue, which made it more relaxed and you got to see personalities. The CBC coverage was, to put it mildly, not informative, not entertaining and actually sort of weird. Like were their production notes lost in a hard drive crash or what? Peter Mansbridge they were not.

Former Leaf sighting with Mikko Lehtonen as one of Team Finland's flag bearers.

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You have to read well down into the above article to find that actual hockey fandom mentioned, but it was the most interesting part of the story.

Charlie McAvoy would like to show you the principle point of contact:

Fifth Olympics and still a major force.

So, one thing that was mentioned in the opening ceremony was the youngest player and the oldest player in the games. I hope you don't think I've remembered them, but the youngest is one year younger than Macklin Celebrini, and the oldest is four years older than Sidney Crosby.

And that is it for today. Have a great day, and I hear there's some sort of sports event not in Italy this weekend. If you know what that is, have fun watching it.

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