While you were sleeping: How Canada performed at the Beijing Olympics Monday, Tuesday

Canada claimed its second gold medal of the 2022 Winter Games in a stunning upset on day 11, while adding another snowboarding bronze to its tally.

Canada claimed its second gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics in a stunning upset on day 11, while adding another snowboarding bronze to its tally.

Here’s what you may have missed from the day’s competition, which ran Monday night into Tuesday morning.

Canada won its first ever Olympic gold medal in women’s team pursuit speed skating after a shocking crash by Japan.

Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valerie Maltais were trailing the Japanese throughout the gold-medal race, although Canada had begun to close the gap after Weidemann moved into the lead position for the final two laps.

But the final lap saw Nana Takagi stumble and fall as Japan rounded their final bend before the finish line, sending her sliding into the wall as Canada clinched the gold with a time of two minutes 53.44 seconds – an Olympic record.

Tuesday’s gold marks Weidemann’s third medal in Beijing, after nabbing silver in the women’s 5,000-metres and bronze in the 3,000-metres. It’s the first for both Blondin and Maltais.

The men’s team pursuit team of Ted-Jan Bloemen, Jordan Belchos, Connor Howe and Tyson Langelaar placed fifth in the overall rankings after winning the C final against South Korea.

Max Parrot won the bronze in the men’s big air snowboard final, his second medal of the 2022 Games after winning the gold in the slopestyle event last week.