Olympic wake-up call: Laurent Dubreuil and Brad Gushue get their medal moments
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Speed skater Laurent Dubreuil captured Canada's 24th medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games on Friday, winning silver in the men's 1,000-metres.
After missing the podium by just three-hundredths of a second in 500m — an event in which he's the reigning world champion — the 29-year-old got his medal moment in the longer distance, finishing in one minute, 8.32 seconds.
"I was in the shape of my life, and I just had a bad day six days ago," Dubreuil told CBC Sports' Anastasia Bucsis.
It's Canada's third-ever silver medal in the men's event, after Denny Morrison's placing at the 2014 Games, and Gaétan Boucher's in 1980 — who also won the gold four years later.
Canmore, Alta., skater Connor Howe finished in 12th place, while Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu of Sherbrooke, Que., finished 22nd.
To watch Dubreuil's silver-medal race, or anything else you missed overnight, you can watch full replays of all Olympic events here.
WATCH | Dubreuil captures silver at Beijing 2022:
Canada is back on the Olympic men's curling podium after an 8-5 win over the United States in the bronze-medal match.
Brad Gushue's rink from St. John's stole two in the ninth end, before running the Americans out of rocks in the 10th.
It's Gushue's second Olympic medal, along with Mark Nichols, having won gold together at the 2006 Games in Tornio.
It's also the second Olympic medal for Marc Kennedy, an alternate with Gushue's team, adding to his Olympic gold he won with Kevin Martin's team at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.
With the curling bronze, Canada surpassed the 22-medal projection issued by Nielsen's Gracenote's ahead of the Games, although Canada opted to forego its own medal objectives for these Olympics.
Sweden skip Niklas Edin is guaranteed a third-career Olympic medal, but will look for his first gold against Olympic rookie Bruce Mouat's rink of Great Britain in the final.
You can watch the final Saturday at 1 a.m. ET, on the CBC Sports app, CBC Gem or at CBCSports.ca.
