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Calculated Shard: 60 (from laksa031)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa060.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7101141\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7101141\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/story\/9.7101141","crawl_time":1774230535,"first_indexed_time":0,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"ca,cbc!www,\/lite\/story\/9.7101141 s443","src_root_hash":"16866748907616178860","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on","meta_descriptions":["CBC Lite"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"The Buzzer\n| CBC Sports | Posted: March 4, 2026 9:34 PM | Last Updated: March 4\nA guide to the big events happening this month\nImage  |  2026 Brier 20260301\nCaption: Two-time Olympic curling gold medallist Brad Jacobs is defending his Brier title this week in St. John's. (The Canadian Press)\n This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports' daily email newsletter.  Get up to speed on what's happening in sports by\nsubscribing here\n(external link)\n.\nWe're back!\nFirst off, a quick thank-you to everyone who wrote in during and after the Olympics to say they enjoyed the newsletter. It was great to hear from so many readers, and I really appreciate all the kind words.\nMany of you mentioned that you liked the daily viewing guide portion of the newsletter. So, for today, I thought I would borrow that concept and take you through the key events happening in winter Olympic sports over the next few weeks.\nPlus, the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games are now (unofficially) underway, a couple of (non-hockey) Canada-U.S. rivalries resume tonight, and it's time for the Canadian version of March Madness.\nThe Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on\nThis might sound like the definition of anti-climactic, but the winter Olympic sports season does not end with the Winter Olympics. In fact, many of your favourite athletes from the Milan-Cortina Games will be competing in world championships and other big events this month.\nHere's a guide to what's coming up, in chronological order:\nCurling: The Brier (now through Sunday)\nAfter becoming the first skip to win two Olympic men's gold medals, Brad Jacobs has not missed a beat at the Canadian championship in St. John's. The defending champ improved to 6-0 in group play this morning and\nclinched a spot in the playoffs\n, which begin Friday.\nHometown favourite Brad Gushue, who won Olympic gold back in 2006 and bronze in 2022, is also 6-0 and headed to the playoffs in his farewell Brier. The record six-time champion is retiring at the end of the season.\nThe winner of the Brier will represent Canada at the men's world championship in Utah, starting March 27.\nSpeed skating: Allround and sprint world championships (Thursday through Sunday)\nOlympic speed skating follows the \"single distances\" format, where medals are awarded for each race. At the allround and sprint worlds, both taking place this week at the Thialf ice arena in the Netherlands, skaters earn points across multiple races to determine an overall champion. Athletes in the sprint competition will race the 500m and the 1,000m on Thursday and then do the same thing on Friday. For the allround, happening Saturday and Sunday, the men skate the 500m, 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m distances while the women do 500m, 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m. \nCanada's\nValérie Maltais is aiming for a top-three finish\n(external link)\nin the women's allround after winning a pair of individual bronze medals and a gold in the team pursuit at the Olympics (her teammates Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann are not participating in the worlds). Men's 500m bronze medallist Laurent Dubreuil is the top Canadian in the sprint worlds.\nShort track speed skating: World championships in Montreal (March 13-15)\nShort track skaters won five of Canada's 21 medals in Milan-Cortina, matching the long track skaters and freestyle skiers for the country's biggest haul in any sport. The top performers were Courtney Sarault, who racked up four medals (two silver, two bronze), and Steven Dubois, who won gold in the men's 500m. \nDubois will be defending four world titles in Montreal. Last year in Beijing, he won gold in the individual men's 500m and 1,000m events as well as the men's and mixed relays. Sarault helped the women's relay team to a world title last year and grabbed solo silvers in the 1,000 and 1,500.\nBut the most interesting Canadian to watch might be Will Dandjinou. The reigning men's 1,500m world champ and back-to-back World Tour overall title winner will be looking to bounce back from a terribly disappointing Olympics where he was a threat to win five medals but came away with only a silver in the mixed relay.\nWATCH | Devin Heroux previews Paralympics:\nMedia Video |\nCaption: Devin Heroux joins CBC Paralympics digital studio host Allison Lang from Cortina, Italy to set the scene just days ahead of the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony.\nOpen full embed in new tab\n(external link)\nLoading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages.\nCurling: Women's world championship in Calgary (March 14-22)\nAfter defeating the United States in the women's bronze game to capture her first Olympic medal in three tries, Rachel Homan will, somewhat controversially, not have a chance to win her third consecutive world title. That's because the Scotties Tournament of Hearts took place from Jan. 23 to Feb. 1, making it extremely impractical for Homan's team to play in the Canadian championship with the Olympic women's tournament starting on Feb. 12 in Italy.\nThough a previous comment from Homan made it sound like she and\nher team decided not to go to the Scotties\n(external link)\n, her teammate Emma Miskew said during a recent podcast that they \"weren’t given a choice\" by Curling Canada. A\nstory published yesterday by Sportsnet\n(external link)\nsaid the organization \"strongly recommended\" last summer that whoever won the Canadian trials should skip the Scotties in order to rest and prepare for the Olympics. \nMiskew criticized Curling Canada for not making it clear to the public why her team did not play in the Scotties. She also expressed frustration that Canada's Olympic women's teams have to miss out on their lucrative national championship tournament while the men do not. \"It’s always this scheduling-conflict reason, but no one has ever made any effort to change the schedule so that it doesn’t only affect the women,\" she said.\nThe Homan team's spot in the Scotties went to Kerri Einarson, who seized the opportunity to win her fifth Canadian women's championship, matching Homan's career total. Einarson's path to her first world title looks relatively easy as the absentees include Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden, silver medallist Silvana Tirinoni of Switzerland and bronze-game loser Tabitha Peterson of the United States.\nAlpine skiing: World Cup finals (March 19-25)\nThere are no alpine world championships this year, but the World Cup finals in Lillehammer, Norway are a decent replacement. Similar to the worlds and the Olympics, the men and women gather at a single venue at the same time, and the program features all four of the traditional races -- downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom. At the end of the meet, the leaders of the season-long points chase in each discipline as well as the overall category will be crowned World Cup champions.\nA few regular-season World Cup stops remain before the finals. There are also a handful of meets left in various freestyle skiing and snowboarding disciplines. Like alpine, their world championships are held only in odd-numbered years.\nFigure skating: World championships (March 25-28)\nMost years, this is the biggest event on the figure skating calendar. But the physical, mental and emotional rigours of the Olympics tend to cause some major withdrawals.\nCase in point: Reigning Olympic and world pairs champions Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi of Japan are skipping the worlds in Prague due to the short turnaround. Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are also missing after their disappointing 11th-place finish at the Olympics, where Stellato-Dudek was coming back from a head injury. Surprise Olympic men's gold medallist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is out too.\nBut the entry list still looks pretty robust. American superstar Ilian Malinin has dubbed this his \"redemption competition\" after his shocking eighth-place meltdown at the Olympics, and delightful women's gold medallist Alysa Liu of the U.S. will be there to defend her world title. Olympic ice dance champs Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France will try to stop Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates from taking their fourth consecutive world championship.\nCanadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, coming off a bronze at the Olympics, are going for their fifth world-championship medal in what is likely the final competition of their career. And 21-year-old Stephen Gogolev makes his worlds debut after a surprising fifth-place finish in his first Olympics.\nQuickly…\nA few more things to know:\n1. The Paralympic Winter Games are underway.\nThough the Games don't officially begin until the opening ceremony on Friday, action in Milan-Cortina started today with some preliminary games in mixed doubles wheelchair curling. Canada did not qualify for the new event, but it does have a team in four-player mixed wheelchair curling, which opens Saturday.\nThere was some drama off the ice today as two curling stones were apparently stolen from the arena in Cortina.\nHere's more\nfrom CBC Sports' Devin Heroux.\n2. A pair of Canada-U.S. rivalries renew tonight in soccer and swimming.\nStill smarting from those two Olympic hockey gold-medal losses to the Americans? Same. But maybe the Canadian women's soccer team can exact a bit of revenge tonight when it faces the United States at 6:30 p.m. ET in Columbus, Ohio as part of the SheBelieves Cup. Canada opened the four-team round-robin tournament with a 4-1 win over Colombia on Saturday in Nashville while the U.S. blanked Argentina 2-0.\nMeanwhile, Canada's Summer McIntosh will take on American Katie Ledecky in a marquee women's 800m freestyle showdown at a Pro Swim Series meet in the Chicago area. It's a rematch of the most exciting race at last year's world championships in Singapore, where McIntosh moved up in distance to challenge the nine-time Olympic gold medallist in her signature event. The Canadian teenager finished third behind Ledecky and surprise silver medallist Lani Pallister of Australia but won gold in all four of her other individual events. \n3. Canadian March Madness is here.\nThe U Sports women's basketball national championship tips off Thursday in Quebec City, followed by the men's on Friday in Calgary. With only eight teams in each bracket, these tournaments are quite modest in comparison to the 64-team NCAA behemoths that will be all over your screens in a couple of weeks. But the Canadian versions feature the same single-elimination format that delivers so much excitement south of the border.\nThe No. 1 seed in the men's event is Victoria, which last year captured its first title in 28 years. On the women's side it's Toronto Metropolitan, whose last championship came in 2022 when the school was known as Ryerson. Defending champ Saskatchewan is seeded fifth.\nYou can watch every game in both tournaments live on the CBC Sports website and CBC Gem.\nHere's the streaming schedule.\n(external link)","attrs_markdown":"[CBC Lite](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/news)\n\n[Sections](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/sections)\n# [Sports](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/sports) • Olympics • [Winter Sports](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/sports\/olympics\/winter-sports)\n\n## The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on\nThe Buzzer[Jesse Campigotto](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/author\/jesse-campigotto-1.4633018) \\| CBC Sports \\| Posted: March 4, 2026 9:34 PM \\| Last Updated: March 4\n\nA guide to the big events happening this month\n\nImage \\| 2026 Brier 20260301\n\nCaption: Two-time Olympic curling gold medallist Brad Jacobs is defending his Brier title this week in St. John's. (The Canadian Press)\n\nLoad image\n\n[Open image in new tab](https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/6c47e382-8d4e-49c1-a74b-32e4d06caec3,1772659677501\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C3444%2C2230%29%3BResize%3D800)\n\n***This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Get up to speed on what's happening in sports by***\n\n[***subscribing here***](https:\/\/subscriptions.cbc.ca\/listmanagement\/forms\/thebuzzer)\n\n***.***\n\nWe're back\\!\n\nFirst off, a quick thank-you to everyone who wrote in during and after the Olympics to say they enjoyed the newsletter. It was great to hear from so many readers, and I really appreciate all the kind words.\n\nMany of you mentioned that you liked the daily viewing guide portion of the newsletter. So, for today, I thought I would borrow that concept and take you through the key events happening in winter Olympic sports over the next few weeks.\n\nPlus, the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games are now (unofficially) underway, a couple of (non-hockey) Canada-U.S. rivalries resume tonight, and it's time for the Canadian version of March Madness.\n\n## The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on\nThis might sound like the definition of anti-climactic, but the winter Olympic sports season does not end with the Winter Olympics. In fact, many of your favourite athletes from the Milan-Cortina Games will be competing in world championships and other big events this month.\n\nHere's a guide to what's coming up, in chronological order:\n\n**Curling: The Brier (now through Sunday)**\n\nAfter becoming the first skip to win two Olympic men's gold medals, Brad Jacobs has not missed a beat at the Canadian championship in St. John's. The defending champ improved to 6-0 in group play this morning and [clinched a spot in the playoffs](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/story\/9.7113805), which begin Friday.\n\nHometown favourite Brad Gushue, who won Olympic gold back in 2006 and bronze in 2022, is also 6-0 and headed to the playoffs in his farewell Brier. The record six-time champion is retiring at the end of the season.\n\nThe winner of the Brier will represent Canada at the men's world championship in Utah, starting March 27.\n\n**Speed skating: Allround and sprint world championships (Thursday through Sunday)**\n\nOlympic speed skating follows the \"single distances\" format, where medals are awarded for each race. At the allround and sprint worlds, both taking place this week at the Thialf ice arena in the Netherlands, skaters earn points across multiple races to determine an overall champion. Athletes in the sprint competition will race the 500m and the 1,000m on Thursday and then do the same thing on Friday. For the allround, happening Saturday and Sunday, the men skate the 500m, 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m distances while the women do 500m, 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m.\n\nCanada's\n\n[Valérie Maltais is aiming for a top-three finish](https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/montreal\/article\/valerie-maltais-still-hungry-wants-more-medals-at-the-world-championships\/)\n\nin the women's allround after winning a pair of individual bronze medals and a gold in the team pursuit at the Olympics (her teammates Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann are not participating in the worlds). Men's 500m bronze medallist Laurent Dubreuil is the top Canadian in the sprint worlds.\n\n**Short track speed skating: World championships in Montreal (March 13-15)**\n\nShort track skaters won five of Canada's 21 medals in Milan-Cortina, matching the long track skaters and freestyle skiers for the country's biggest haul in any sport. The top performers were Courtney Sarault, who racked up four medals (two silver, two bronze), and Steven Dubois, who won gold in the men's 500m.\n\nDubois will be defending four world titles in Montreal. Last year in Beijing, he won gold in the individual men's 500m and 1,000m events as well as the men's and mixed relays. Sarault helped the women's relay team to a world title last year and grabbed solo silvers in the 1,000 and 1,500.\n\nBut the most interesting Canadian to watch might be Will Dandjinou. The reigning men's 1,500m world champ and back-to-back World Tour overall title winner will be looking to bounce back from a terribly disappointing Olympics where he was a threat to win five medals but came away with only a silver in the mixed relay.\n\n***WATCH \\| Devin Heroux previews Paralympics:***\n\nMedia Video \\|\n\nCaption: Devin Heroux joins CBC Paralympics digital studio host Allison Lang from Cortina, Italy to set the scene just days ahead of the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony.\n\n[Open full embed in new tab](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/9.7114477)\n\nLoading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages.\n\n**Curling: Women's world championship in Calgary (March 14-22)**\n\nAfter defeating the United States in the women's bronze game to capture her first Olympic medal in three tries, Rachel Homan will, somewhat controversially, not have a chance to win her third consecutive world title. That's because the Scotties Tournament of Hearts took place from Jan. 23 to Feb. 1, making it extremely impractical for Homan's team to play in the Canadian championship with the Olympic women's tournament starting on Feb. 12 in Italy.\n\nThough a previous comment from Homan made it sound like she and\n\n[her team decided not to go to the Scotties](https:\/\/www.thegrandslamofcurling.com\/news\/rachel-homan-adresses-scotties-absence-amid-olympic-prep)\n\n, her teammate Emma Miskew said during a recent podcast that they \"weren’t given a choice\" by Curling Canada. A\n\n[story published yesterday by Sportsnet](https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/curling\/article\/miskew-calls-out-curling-canada-for-telling-team-homan-not-to-compete-at-scotties\/)\n\nsaid the organization \"strongly recommended\" last summer that whoever won the Canadian trials should skip the Scotties in order to rest and prepare for the Olympics.\n\nMiskew criticized Curling Canada for not making it clear to the public why her team did not play in the Scotties. She also expressed frustration that Canada's Olympic women's teams have to miss out on their lucrative national championship tournament while the men do not. \"It’s always this scheduling-conflict reason, but no one has ever made any effort to change the schedule so that it doesn’t only affect the women,\" she said.\n\nThe Homan team's spot in the Scotties went to Kerri Einarson, who seized the opportunity to win her fifth Canadian women's championship, matching Homan's career total. Einarson's path to her first world title looks relatively easy as the absentees include Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden, silver medallist Silvana Tirinoni of Switzerland and bronze-game loser Tabitha Peterson of the United States.\n\n**Alpine skiing: World Cup finals (March 19-25)**\n\nThere are no alpine world championships this year, but the World Cup finals in Lillehammer, Norway are a decent replacement. Similar to the worlds and the Olympics, the men and women gather at a single venue at the same time, and the program features all four of the traditional races -- downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom. At the end of the meet, the leaders of the season-long points chase in each discipline as well as the overall category will be crowned World Cup champions.\n\nA few regular-season World Cup stops remain before the finals. There are also a handful of meets left in various freestyle skiing and snowboarding disciplines. Like alpine, their world championships are held only in odd-numbered years.\n\n**Figure skating: World championships (March 25-28)**\n\nMost years, this is the biggest event on the figure skating calendar. But the physical, mental and emotional rigours of the Olympics tend to cause some major withdrawals.\n\nCase in point: Reigning Olympic and world pairs champions Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi of Japan are skipping the worlds in Prague due to the short turnaround. Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are also missing after their disappointing 11th-place finish at the Olympics, where Stellato-Dudek was coming back from a head injury. Surprise Olympic men's gold medallist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is out too.\n\nBut the entry list still looks pretty robust. American superstar Ilian Malinin has dubbed this his \"redemption competition\" after his shocking eighth-place meltdown at the Olympics, and delightful women's gold medallist Alysa Liu of the U.S. will be there to defend her world title. Olympic ice dance champs Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France will try to stop Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates from taking their fourth consecutive world championship.\n\nCanadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, coming off a bronze at the Olympics, are going for their fifth world-championship medal in what is likely the final competition of their career. And 21-year-old Stephen Gogolev makes his worlds debut after a surprising fifth-place finish in his first Olympics.\n\n## Quickly…\nA few more things to know:\n\n**1\\. The Paralympic Winter Games are underway.**\n\nThough the Games don't officially begin until the opening ceremony on Friday, action in Milan-Cortina started today with some preliminary games in mixed doubles wheelchair curling. Canada did not qualify for the new event, but it does have a team in four-player mixed wheelchair curling, which opens Saturday.\n\nThere was some drama off the ice today as two curling stones were apparently stolen from the arena in Cortina. [Here's more](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/story\/9.7114390) from CBC Sports' Devin Heroux.\n\n**2\\. A pair of Canada-U.S. rivalries renew tonight in soccer and swimming.**\n\nStill smarting from those two Olympic hockey gold-medal losses to the Americans? Same. But maybe the Canadian women's soccer team can exact a bit of revenge tonight when it faces the United States at 6:30 p.m. ET in Columbus, Ohio as part of the SheBelieves Cup. Canada opened the four-team round-robin tournament with a 4-1 win over Colombia on Saturday in Nashville while the U.S. blanked Argentina 2-0.\n\nMeanwhile, Canada's Summer McIntosh will take on American Katie Ledecky in a marquee women's 800m freestyle showdown at a Pro Swim Series meet in the Chicago area. It's a rematch of the most exciting race at last year's world championships in Singapore, where McIntosh moved up in distance to challenge the nine-time Olympic gold medallist in her signature event. The Canadian teenager finished third behind Ledecky and surprise silver medallist Lani Pallister of Australia but won gold in all four of her other individual events.\n\n**3\\. Canadian March Madness is here.**\n\nThe U Sports women's basketball national championship tips off Thursday in Quebec City, followed by the men's on Friday in Calgary. With only eight teams in each bracket, these tournaments are quite modest in comparison to the 64-team NCAA behemoths that will be all over your screens in a couple of weeks. But the Canadian versions feature the same single-elimination format that delivers so much excitement south of the border.\n\nThe No. 1 seed in the men's event is Victoria, which last year captured its first title in 28 years. On the women's side it's Toronto Metropolitan, whose last championship came in 2022 when the school was known as Ryerson. Defending champ Saskatchewan is seeded fifth.\n\nYou can watch every game in both tournaments live on the CBC Sports website and CBC Gem.\n\n[Here's the streaming schedule.](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/streaming-schedule?sport=Basketball)\n\n## More Stories Like This\nThe related links below are generated automatically based on the story you’ve just read.\n\nLoading...\n\nCBC Lite is a low-bandwidth website. 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All rights reserved.","attrs_readable_markdown":"The Buzzer \\| CBC Sports \\| Posted: March 4, 2026 9:34 PM \\| Last Updated: March 4\n\nA guide to the big events happening this month\n\nImage \\| 2026 Brier 20260301\n\nCaption: Two-time Olympic curling gold medallist Brad Jacobs is defending his Brier title this week in St. John's. (The Canadian Press)\n\n***This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Get up to speed on what's happening in sports by***\n\n[***subscribing here***](https:\/\/subscriptions.cbc.ca\/listmanagement\/forms\/thebuzzer)\n\n***.***\n\nWe're back\\!\n\nFirst off, a quick thank-you to everyone who wrote in during and after the Olympics to say they enjoyed the newsletter. It was great to hear from so many readers, and I really appreciate all the kind words.\n\nMany of you mentioned that you liked the daily viewing guide portion of the newsletter. So, for today, I thought I would borrow that concept and take you through the key events happening in winter Olympic sports over the next few weeks.\n\nPlus, the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games are now (unofficially) underway, a couple of (non-hockey) Canada-U.S. rivalries resume tonight, and it's time for the Canadian version of March Madness.\n\n## The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on\nThis might sound like the definition of anti-climactic, but the winter Olympic sports season does not end with the Winter Olympics. In fact, many of your favourite athletes from the Milan-Cortina Games will be competing in world championships and other big events this month.\n\nHere's a guide to what's coming up, in chronological order:\n\n**Curling: The Brier (now through Sunday)**\n\nAfter becoming the first skip to win two Olympic men's gold medals, Brad Jacobs has not missed a beat at the Canadian championship in St. John's. The defending champ improved to 6-0 in group play this morning and [clinched a spot in the playoffs](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/story\/9.7113805), which begin Friday.\n\nHometown favourite Brad Gushue, who won Olympic gold back in 2006 and bronze in 2022, is also 6-0 and headed to the playoffs in his farewell Brier. The record six-time champion is retiring at the end of the season.\n\nThe winner of the Brier will represent Canada at the men's world championship in Utah, starting March 27.\n\n**Speed skating: Allround and sprint world championships (Thursday through Sunday)**\n\nOlympic speed skating follows the \"single distances\" format, where medals are awarded for each race. At the allround and sprint worlds, both taking place this week at the Thialf ice arena in the Netherlands, skaters earn points across multiple races to determine an overall champion. Athletes in the sprint competition will race the 500m and the 1,000m on Thursday and then do the same thing on Friday. For the allround, happening Saturday and Sunday, the men skate the 500m, 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m distances while the women do 500m, 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m.\n\nCanada's\n\n[Valérie Maltais is aiming for a top-three finish](https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/montreal\/article\/valerie-maltais-still-hungry-wants-more-medals-at-the-world-championships\/)\n\nin the women's allround after winning a pair of individual bronze medals and a gold in the team pursuit at the Olympics (her teammates Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann are not participating in the worlds). Men's 500m bronze medallist Laurent Dubreuil is the top Canadian in the sprint worlds.\n\n**Short track speed skating: World championships in Montreal (March 13-15)**\n\nShort track skaters won five of Canada's 21 medals in Milan-Cortina, matching the long track skaters and freestyle skiers for the country's biggest haul in any sport. The top performers were Courtney Sarault, who racked up four medals (two silver, two bronze), and Steven Dubois, who won gold in the men's 500m.\n\nDubois will be defending four world titles in Montreal. Last year in Beijing, he won gold in the individual men's 500m and 1,000m events as well as the men's and mixed relays. Sarault helped the women's relay team to a world title last year and grabbed solo silvers in the 1,000 and 1,500.\n\nBut the most interesting Canadian to watch might be Will Dandjinou. The reigning men's 1,500m world champ and back-to-back World Tour overall title winner will be looking to bounce back from a terribly disappointing Olympics where he was a threat to win five medals but came away with only a silver in the mixed relay.\n\n***WATCH \\| Devin Heroux previews Paralympics:***Media Video \\| Caption: Devin Heroux joins CBC Paralympics digital studio host Allison Lang from Cortina, Italy to set the scene just days ahead of the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony. [Open full embed in new tab](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/9.7114477) Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages.\n\n**Curling: Women's world championship in Calgary (March 14-22)**\n\nAfter defeating the United States in the women's bronze game to capture her first Olympic medal in three tries, Rachel Homan will, somewhat controversially, not have a chance to win her third consecutive world title. That's because the Scotties Tournament of Hearts took place from Jan. 23 to Feb. 1, making it extremely impractical for Homan's team to play in the Canadian championship with the Olympic women's tournament starting on Feb. 12 in Italy.\n\nThough a previous comment from Homan made it sound like she and\n\n[her team decided not to go to the Scotties](https:\/\/www.thegrandslamofcurling.com\/news\/rachel-homan-adresses-scotties-absence-amid-olympic-prep)\n\n, her teammate Emma Miskew said during a recent podcast that they \"weren’t given a choice\" by Curling Canada. A\n\n[story published yesterday by Sportsnet](https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/curling\/article\/miskew-calls-out-curling-canada-for-telling-team-homan-not-to-compete-at-scotties\/)\n\nsaid the organization \"strongly recommended\" last summer that whoever won the Canadian trials should skip the Scotties in order to rest and prepare for the Olympics.\n\nMiskew criticized Curling Canada for not making it clear to the public why her team did not play in the Scotties. She also expressed frustration that Canada's Olympic women's teams have to miss out on their lucrative national championship tournament while the men do not. \"It’s always this scheduling-conflict reason, but no one has ever made any effort to change the schedule so that it doesn’t only affect the women,\" she said.\n\nThe Homan team's spot in the Scotties went to Kerri Einarson, who seized the opportunity to win her fifth Canadian women's championship, matching Homan's career total. Einarson's path to her first world title looks relatively easy as the absentees include Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden, silver medallist Silvana Tirinoni of Switzerland and bronze-game loser Tabitha Peterson of the United States.\n\n**Alpine skiing: World Cup finals (March 19-25)**\n\nThere are no alpine world championships this year, but the World Cup finals in Lillehammer, Norway are a decent replacement. Similar to the worlds and the Olympics, the men and women gather at a single venue at the same time, and the program features all four of the traditional races -- downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom. At the end of the meet, the leaders of the season-long points chase in each discipline as well as the overall category will be crowned World Cup champions.\n\nA few regular-season World Cup stops remain before the finals. There are also a handful of meets left in various freestyle skiing and snowboarding disciplines. Like alpine, their world championships are held only in odd-numbered years.\n\n**Figure skating: World championships (March 25-28)**\n\nMost years, this is the biggest event on the figure skating calendar. But the physical, mental and emotional rigours of the Olympics tend to cause some major withdrawals.\n\nCase in point: Reigning Olympic and world pairs champions Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi of Japan are skipping the worlds in Prague due to the short turnaround. Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are also missing after their disappointing 11th-place finish at the Olympics, where Stellato-Dudek was coming back from a head injury. Surprise Olympic men's gold medallist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is out too.\n\nBut the entry list still looks pretty robust. American superstar Ilian Malinin has dubbed this his \"redemption competition\" after his shocking eighth-place meltdown at the Olympics, and delightful women's gold medallist Alysa Liu of the U.S. will be there to defend her world title. Olympic ice dance champs Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France will try to stop Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates from taking their fourth consecutive world championship.\n\nCanadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, coming off a bronze at the Olympics, are going for their fifth world-championship medal in what is likely the final competition of their career. And 21-year-old Stephen Gogolev makes his worlds debut after a surprising fifth-place finish in his first Olympics.\n\n## Quickly…\nA few more things to know:\n\n**1\\. The Paralympic Winter Games are underway.**\n\nThough the Games don't officially begin until the opening ceremony on Friday, action in Milan-Cortina started today with some preliminary games in mixed doubles wheelchair curling. Canada did not qualify for the new event, but it does have a team in four-player mixed wheelchair curling, which opens Saturday.\n\nThere was some drama off the ice today as two curling stones were apparently stolen from the arena in Cortina. [Here's more](https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/lite\/story\/9.7114390) from CBC Sports' Devin Heroux.\n\n**2\\. A pair of Canada-U.S. rivalries renew tonight in soccer and swimming.**\n\nStill smarting from those two Olympic hockey gold-medal losses to the Americans? Same. But maybe the Canadian women's soccer team can exact a bit of revenge tonight when it faces the United States at 6:30 p.m. ET in Columbus, Ohio as part of the SheBelieves Cup. 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Boilerpipe Text	The Buzzer \| CBC Sports \| Posted: March 4, 2026 9:34 PM \| Last Updated: March 4 A guide to the big events happening this month Image \| 2026 Brier 20260301 Caption: Two-time Olympic curling gold medallist Brad Jacobs is defending his Brier title this week in St. John's. (The Canadian Press) This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Get up to speed on what's happening in sports by subscribing here (external link) . We're back! First off, a quick thank-you to everyone who wrote in during and after the Olympics to say they enjoyed the newsletter. It was great to hear from so many readers, and I really appreciate all the kind words. Many of you mentioned that you liked the daily viewing guide portion of the newsletter. So, for today, I thought I would borrow that concept and take you through the key events happening in winter Olympic sports over the next few weeks. Plus, the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games are now (unofficially) underway, a couple of (non-hockey) Canada-U.S. rivalries resume tonight, and it's time for the Canadian version of March Madness. The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on This might sound like the definition of anti-climactic, but the winter Olympic sports season does not end with the Winter Olympics. In fact, many of your favourite athletes from the Milan-Cortina Games will be competing in world championships and other big events this month. Here's a guide to what's coming up, in chronological order: Curling: The Brier (now through Sunday) After becoming the first skip to win two Olympic men's gold medals, Brad Jacobs has not missed a beat at the Canadian championship in St. John's. The defending champ improved to 6-0 in group play this morning and clinched a spot in the playoffs , which begin Friday. Hometown favourite Brad Gushue, who won Olympic gold back in 2006 and bronze in 2022, is also 6-0 and headed to the playoffs in his farewell Brier. The record six-time champion is retiring at the end of the season. The winner of the Brier will represent Canada at the men's world championship in Utah, starting March 27. Speed skating: Allround and sprint world championships (Thursday through Sunday) Olympic speed skating follows the "single distances" format, where medals are awarded for each race. At the allround and sprint worlds, both taking place this week at the Thialf ice arena in the Netherlands, skaters earn points across multiple races to determine an overall champion. Athletes in the sprint competition will race the 500m and the 1,000m on Thursday and then do the same thing on Friday. For the allround, happening Saturday and Sunday, the men skate the 500m, 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m distances while the women do 500m, 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m. Canada's Valérie Maltais is aiming for a top-three finish (external link) in the women's allround after winning a pair of individual bronze medals and a gold in the team pursuit at the Olympics (her teammates Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann are not participating in the worlds). Men's 500m bronze medallist Laurent Dubreuil is the top Canadian in the sprint worlds. Short track speed skating: World championships in Montreal (March 13-15) Short track skaters won five of Canada's 21 medals in Milan-Cortina, matching the long track skaters and freestyle skiers for the country's biggest haul in any sport. The top performers were Courtney Sarault, who racked up four medals (two silver, two bronze), and Steven Dubois, who won gold in the men's 500m. Dubois will be defending four world titles in Montreal. Last year in Beijing, he won gold in the individual men's 500m and 1,000m events as well as the men's and mixed relays. Sarault helped the women's relay team to a world title last year and grabbed solo silvers in the 1,000 and 1,500. But the most interesting Canadian to watch might be Will Dandjinou. The reigning men's 1,500m world champ and back-to-back World Tour overall title winner will be looking to bounce back from a terribly disappointing Olympics where he was a threat to win five medals but came away with only a silver in the mixed relay. WATCH \| Devin Heroux previews Paralympics: Media Video \| Caption: Devin Heroux joins CBC Paralympics digital studio host Allison Lang from Cortina, Italy to set the scene just days ahead of the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony. Open full embed in new tab (external link) Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Curling: Women's world championship in Calgary (March 14-22) After defeating the United States in the women's bronze game to capture her first Olympic medal in three tries, Rachel Homan will, somewhat controversially, not have a chance to win her third consecutive world title. That's because the Scotties Tournament of Hearts took place from Jan. 23 to Feb. 1, making it extremely impractical for Homan's team to play in the Canadian championship with the Olympic women's tournament starting on Feb. 12 in Italy. Though a previous comment from Homan made it sound like she and her team decided not to go to the Scotties (external link) , her teammate Emma Miskew said during a recent podcast that they "weren’t given a choice" by Curling Canada. A story published yesterday by Sportsnet (external link) said the organization "strongly recommended" last summer that whoever won the Canadian trials should skip the Scotties in order to rest and prepare for the Olympics. Miskew criticized Curling Canada for not making it clear to the public why her team did not play in the Scotties. She also expressed frustration that Canada's Olympic women's teams have to miss out on their lucrative national championship tournament while the men do not. "It’s always this scheduling-conflict reason, but no one has ever made any effort to change the schedule so that it doesn’t only affect the women," she said. The Homan team's spot in the Scotties went to Kerri Einarson, who seized the opportunity to win her fifth Canadian women's championship, matching Homan's career total. Einarson's path to her first world title looks relatively easy as the absentees include Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden, silver medallist Silvana Tirinoni of Switzerland and bronze-game loser Tabitha Peterson of the United States. Alpine skiing: World Cup finals (March 19-25) There are no alpine world championships this year, but the World Cup finals in Lillehammer, Norway are a decent replacement. Similar to the worlds and the Olympics, the men and women gather at a single venue at the same time, and the program features all four of the traditional races -- downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom. At the end of the meet, the leaders of the season-long points chase in each discipline as well as the overall category will be crowned World Cup champions. A few regular-season World Cup stops remain before the finals. There are also a handful of meets left in various freestyle skiing and snowboarding disciplines. Like alpine, their world championships are held only in odd-numbered years. Figure skating: World championships (March 25-28) Most years, this is the biggest event on the figure skating calendar. But the physical, mental and emotional rigours of the Olympics tend to cause some major withdrawals. Case in point: Reigning Olympic and world pairs champions Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi of Japan are skipping the worlds in Prague due to the short turnaround. Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are also missing after their disappointing 11th-place finish at the Olympics, where Stellato-Dudek was coming back from a head injury. Surprise Olympic men's gold medallist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is out too. But the entry list still looks pretty robust. American superstar Ilian Malinin has dubbed this his "redemption competition" after his shocking eighth-place meltdown at the Olympics, and delightful women's gold medallist Alysa Liu of the U.S. will be there to defend her world title. Olympic ice dance champs Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France will try to stop Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates from taking their fourth consecutive world championship. Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, coming off a bronze at the Olympics, are going for their fifth world-championship medal in what is likely the final competition of their career. And 21-year-old Stephen Gogolev makes his worlds debut after a surprising fifth-place finish in his first Olympics. Quickly… A few more things to know: 1. The Paralympic Winter Games are underway. Though the Games don't officially begin until the opening ceremony on Friday, action in Milan-Cortina started today with some preliminary games in mixed doubles wheelchair curling. Canada did not qualify for the new event, but it does have a team in four-player mixed wheelchair curling, which opens Saturday. There was some drama off the ice today as two curling stones were apparently stolen from the arena in Cortina. Here's more from CBC Sports' Devin Heroux. 2. A pair of Canada-U.S. rivalries renew tonight in soccer and swimming. Still smarting from those two Olympic hockey gold-medal losses to the Americans? Same. But maybe the Canadian women's soccer team can exact a bit of revenge tonight when it faces the United States at 6:30 p.m. ET in Columbus, Ohio as part of the SheBelieves Cup. Canada opened the four-team round-robin tournament with a 4-1 win over Colombia on Saturday in Nashville while the U.S. blanked Argentina 2-0. Meanwhile, Canada's Summer McIntosh will take on American Katie Ledecky in a marquee women's 800m freestyle showdown at a Pro Swim Series meet in the Chicago area. It's a rematch of the most exciting race at last year's world championships in Singapore, where McIntosh moved up in distance to challenge the nine-time Olympic gold medallist in her signature event. The Canadian teenager finished third behind Ledecky and surprise silver medallist Lani Pallister of Australia but won gold in all four of her other individual events. 3. Canadian March Madness is here. The U Sports women's basketball national championship tips off Thursday in Quebec City, followed by the men's on Friday in Calgary. With only eight teams in each bracket, these tournaments are quite modest in comparison to the 64-team NCAA behemoths that will be all over your screens in a couple of weeks. But the Canadian versions feature the same single-elimination format that delivers so much excitement south of the border. The No. 1 seed in the men's event is Victoria, which last year captured its first title in 28 years. On the women's side it's Toronto Metropolitan, whose last championship came in 2022 when the school was known as Ryerson. Defending champ Saskatchewan is seeded fifth. You can watch every game in both tournaments live on the CBC Sports website and CBC Gem. Here's the streaming schedule. (external link)
Markdown	[CBC Lite](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news) [Sections](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/sections) # [Sports](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/sports) • Olympics • [Winter Sports](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/sports/olympics/winter-sports) ## The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on The Buzzer[Jesse Campigotto](https://www.cbc.ca/sports/author/jesse-campigotto-1.4633018) \\| CBC Sports \\| Posted: March 4, 2026 9:34 PM \\| Last Updated: March 4 A guide to the big events happening this month Image \\| 2026 Brier 20260301 Caption: Two-time Olympic curling gold medallist Brad Jacobs is defending his Brier title this week in St. John's. (The Canadian Press) Load image [Open image in new tab](https://i.cbc.ca/ais/6c47e382-8d4e-49c1-a74b-32e4d06caec3,1772659677501/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C3444%2C2230%29%3BResize%3D800) *This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Get up to speed on what's happening in sports by* [*subscribing here](https://subscriptions.cbc.ca/listmanagement/forms/thebuzzer) .* We're back\! First off, a quick thank-you to everyone who wrote in during and after the Olympics to say they enjoyed the newsletter. It was great to hear from so many readers, and I really appreciate all the kind words. Many of you mentioned that you liked the daily viewing guide portion of the newsletter. So, for today, I thought I would borrow that concept and take you through the key events happening in winter Olympic sports over the next few weeks. Plus, the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games are now (unofficially) underway, a couple of (non-hockey) Canada-U.S. rivalries resume tonight, and it's time for the Canadian version of March Madness. ## The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on This might sound like the definition of anti-climactic, but the winter Olympic sports season does not end with the Winter Olympics. In fact, many of your favourite athletes from the Milan-Cortina Games will be competing in world championships and other big events this month. Here's a guide to what's coming up, in chronological order: Curling: The Brier (now through Sunday) After becoming the first skip to win two Olympic men's gold medals, Brad Jacobs has not missed a beat at the Canadian championship in St. John's. The defending champ improved to 6-0 in group play this morning and [clinched a spot in the playoffs](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7113805), which begin Friday. Hometown favourite Brad Gushue, who won Olympic gold back in 2006 and bronze in 2022, is also 6-0 and headed to the playoffs in his farewell Brier. The record six-time champion is retiring at the end of the season. The winner of the Brier will represent Canada at the men's world championship in Utah, starting March 27. Speed skating: Allround and sprint world championships (Thursday through Sunday) Olympic speed skating follows the "single distances" format, where medals are awarded for each race. At the allround and sprint worlds, both taking place this week at the Thialf ice arena in the Netherlands, skaters earn points across multiple races to determine an overall champion. Athletes in the sprint competition will race the 500m and the 1,000m on Thursday and then do the same thing on Friday. For the allround, happening Saturday and Sunday, the men skate the 500m, 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m distances while the women do 500m, 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m. Canada's [Valérie Maltais is aiming for a top-three finish](https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/valerie-maltais-still-hungry-wants-more-medals-at-the-world-championships/) in the women's allround after winning a pair of individual bronze medals and a gold in the team pursuit at the Olympics (her teammates Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann are not participating in the worlds). Men's 500m bronze medallist Laurent Dubreuil is the top Canadian in the sprint worlds. Short track speed skating: World championships in Montreal (March 13-15) Short track skaters won five of Canada's 21 medals in Milan-Cortina, matching the long track skaters and freestyle skiers for the country's biggest haul in any sport. The top performers were Courtney Sarault, who racked up four medals (two silver, two bronze), and Steven Dubois, who won gold in the men's 500m. Dubois will be defending four world titles in Montreal. Last year in Beijing, he won gold in the individual men's 500m and 1,000m events as well as the men's and mixed relays. Sarault helped the women's relay team to a world title last year and grabbed solo silvers in the 1,000 and 1,500. But the most interesting Canadian to watch might be Will Dandjinou. The reigning men's 1,500m world champ and back-to-back World Tour overall title winner will be looking to bounce back from a terribly disappointing Olympics where he was a threat to win five medals but came away with only a silver in the mixed relay. *WATCH \\| Devin Heroux previews Paralympics:* Media Video \\| Caption: Devin Heroux joins CBC Paralympics digital studio host Allison Lang from Cortina, Italy to set the scene just days ahead of the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony. [Open full embed in new tab](https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7114477) Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Curling: Women's world championship in Calgary (March 14-22) After defeating the United States in the women's bronze game to capture her first Olympic medal in three tries, Rachel Homan will, somewhat controversially, not have a chance to win her third consecutive world title. That's because the Scotties Tournament of Hearts took place from Jan. 23 to Feb. 1, making it extremely impractical for Homan's team to play in the Canadian championship with the Olympic women's tournament starting on Feb. 12 in Italy. Though a previous comment from Homan made it sound like she and [her team decided not to go to the Scotties](https://www.thegrandslamofcurling.com/news/rachel-homan-adresses-scotties-absence-amid-olympic-prep) , her teammate Emma Miskew said during a recent podcast that they "weren’t given a choice" by Curling Canada. A [story published yesterday by Sportsnet](https://www.sportsnet.ca/curling/article/miskew-calls-out-curling-canada-for-telling-team-homan-not-to-compete-at-scotties/) said the organization "strongly recommended" last summer that whoever won the Canadian trials should skip the Scotties in order to rest and prepare for the Olympics. Miskew criticized Curling Canada for not making it clear to the public why her team did not play in the Scotties. She also expressed frustration that Canada's Olympic women's teams have to miss out on their lucrative national championship tournament while the men do not. "It’s always this scheduling-conflict reason, but no one has ever made any effort to change the schedule so that it doesn’t only affect the women," she said. The Homan team's spot in the Scotties went to Kerri Einarson, who seized the opportunity to win her fifth Canadian women's championship, matching Homan's career total. Einarson's path to her first world title looks relatively easy as the absentees include Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden, silver medallist Silvana Tirinoni of Switzerland and bronze-game loser Tabitha Peterson of the United States. Alpine skiing: World Cup finals (March 19-25) There are no alpine world championships this year, but the World Cup finals in Lillehammer, Norway are a decent replacement. Similar to the worlds and the Olympics, the men and women gather at a single venue at the same time, and the program features all four of the traditional races -- downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom. At the end of the meet, the leaders of the season-long points chase in each discipline as well as the overall category will be crowned World Cup champions. A few regular-season World Cup stops remain before the finals. There are also a handful of meets left in various freestyle skiing and snowboarding disciplines. Like alpine, their world championships are held only in odd-numbered years. Figure skating: World championships (March 25-28) Most years, this is the biggest event on the figure skating calendar. But the physical, mental and emotional rigours of the Olympics tend to cause some major withdrawals. Case in point: Reigning Olympic and world pairs champions Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi of Japan are skipping the worlds in Prague due to the short turnaround. Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are also missing after their disappointing 11th-place finish at the Olympics, where Stellato-Dudek was coming back from a head injury. Surprise Olympic men's gold medallist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is out too. But the entry list still looks pretty robust. American superstar Ilian Malinin has dubbed this his "redemption competition" after his shocking eighth-place meltdown at the Olympics, and delightful women's gold medallist Alysa Liu of the U.S. will be there to defend her world title. Olympic ice dance champs Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France will try to stop Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates from taking their fourth consecutive world championship. Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, coming off a bronze at the Olympics, are going for their fifth world-championship medal in what is likely the final competition of their career. And 21-year-old Stephen Gogolev makes his worlds debut after a surprising fifth-place finish in his first Olympics. ## Quickly… A few more things to know: 1\. The Paralympic Winter Games are underway. Though the Games don't officially begin until the opening ceremony on Friday, action in Milan-Cortina started today with some preliminary games in mixed doubles wheelchair curling. Canada did not qualify for the new event, but it does have a team in four-player mixed wheelchair curling, which opens Saturday. There was some drama off the ice today as two curling stones were apparently stolen from the arena in Cortina. [Here's more](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7114390) from CBC Sports' Devin Heroux. 2\. A pair of Canada-U.S. rivalries renew tonight in soccer and swimming. Still smarting from those two Olympic hockey gold-medal losses to the Americans? Same. But maybe the Canadian women's soccer team can exact a bit of revenge tonight when it faces the United States at 6:30 p.m. ET in Columbus, Ohio as part of the SheBelieves Cup. Canada opened the four-team round-robin tournament with a 4-1 win over Colombia on Saturday in Nashville while the U.S. blanked Argentina 2-0. Meanwhile, Canada's Summer McIntosh will take on American Katie Ledecky in a marquee women's 800m freestyle showdown at a Pro Swim Series meet in the Chicago area. It's a rematch of the most exciting race at last year's world championships in Singapore, where McIntosh moved up in distance to challenge the nine-time Olympic gold medallist in her signature event. The Canadian teenager finished third behind Ledecky and surprise silver medallist Lani Pallister of Australia but won gold in all four of her other individual events. 3\. Canadian March Madness is here. The U Sports women's basketball national championship tips off Thursday in Quebec City, followed by the men's on Friday in Calgary. With only eight teams in each bracket, these tournaments are quite modest in comparison to the 64-team NCAA behemoths that will be all over your screens in a couple of weeks. But the Canadian versions feature the same single-elimination format that delivers so much excitement south of the border. 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Readable Markdown	The Buzzer \\| CBC Sports \\| Posted: March 4, 2026 9:34 PM \\| Last Updated: March 4 A guide to the big events happening this month Image \\| 2026 Brier 20260301 Caption: Two-time Olympic curling gold medallist Brad Jacobs is defending his Brier title this week in St. John's. (The Canadian Press) *This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Get up to speed on what's happening in sports by* [*subscribing here](https://subscriptions.cbc.ca/listmanagement/forms/thebuzzer) .* We're back\! First off, a quick thank-you to everyone who wrote in during and after the Olympics to say they enjoyed the newsletter. It was great to hear from so many readers, and I really appreciate all the kind words. Many of you mentioned that you liked the daily viewing guide portion of the newsletter. So, for today, I thought I would borrow that concept and take you through the key events happening in winter Olympic sports over the next few weeks. Plus, the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games are now (unofficially) underway, a couple of (non-hockey) Canada-U.S. rivalries resume tonight, and it's time for the Canadian version of March Madness. ## The Winter Olympics are over, but the winter Olympic sports season rolls on This might sound like the definition of anti-climactic, but the winter Olympic sports season does not end with the Winter Olympics. In fact, many of your favourite athletes from the Milan-Cortina Games will be competing in world championships and other big events this month. Here's a guide to what's coming up, in chronological order: Curling: The Brier (now through Sunday) After becoming the first skip to win two Olympic men's gold medals, Brad Jacobs has not missed a beat at the Canadian championship in St. John's. The defending champ improved to 6-0 in group play this morning and [clinched a spot in the playoffs](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7113805), which begin Friday. Hometown favourite Brad Gushue, who won Olympic gold back in 2006 and bronze in 2022, is also 6-0 and headed to the playoffs in his farewell Brier. The record six-time champion is retiring at the end of the season. The winner of the Brier will represent Canada at the men's world championship in Utah, starting March 27. Speed skating: Allround and sprint world championships (Thursday through Sunday) Olympic speed skating follows the "single distances" format, where medals are awarded for each race. At the allround and sprint worlds, both taking place this week at the Thialf ice arena in the Netherlands, skaters earn points across multiple races to determine an overall champion. Athletes in the sprint competition will race the 500m and the 1,000m on Thursday and then do the same thing on Friday. For the allround, happening Saturday and Sunday, the men skate the 500m, 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m distances while the women do 500m, 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m. Canada's [Valérie Maltais is aiming for a top-three finish](https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/valerie-maltais-still-hungry-wants-more-medals-at-the-world-championships/) in the women's allround after winning a pair of individual bronze medals and a gold in the team pursuit at the Olympics (her teammates Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann are not participating in the worlds). Men's 500m bronze medallist Laurent Dubreuil is the top Canadian in the sprint worlds. Short track speed skating: World championships in Montreal (March 13-15) Short track skaters won five of Canada's 21 medals in Milan-Cortina, matching the long track skaters and freestyle skiers for the country's biggest haul in any sport. The top performers were Courtney Sarault, who racked up four medals (two silver, two bronze), and Steven Dubois, who won gold in the men's 500m. Dubois will be defending four world titles in Montreal. Last year in Beijing, he won gold in the individual men's 500m and 1,000m events as well as the men's and mixed relays. Sarault helped the women's relay team to a world title last year and grabbed solo silvers in the 1,000 and 1,500. But the most interesting Canadian to watch might be Will Dandjinou. The reigning men's 1,500m world champ and back-to-back World Tour overall title winner will be looking to bounce back from a terribly disappointing Olympics where he was a threat to win five medals but came away with only a silver in the mixed relay. *WATCH \\| Devin Heroux previews Paralympics:Media Video \\| Caption: Devin Heroux joins CBC Paralympics digital studio host Allison Lang from Cortina, Italy to set the scene just days ahead of the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony. [Open full embed in new tab](https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7114477) Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Curling: Women's world championship in Calgary (March 14-22)* After defeating the United States in the women's bronze game to capture her first Olympic medal in three tries, Rachel Homan will, somewhat controversially, not have a chance to win her third consecutive world title. That's because the Scotties Tournament of Hearts took place from Jan. 23 to Feb. 1, making it extremely impractical for Homan's team to play in the Canadian championship with the Olympic women's tournament starting on Feb. 12 in Italy. Though a previous comment from Homan made it sound like she and [her team decided not to go to the Scotties](https://www.thegrandslamofcurling.com/news/rachel-homan-adresses-scotties-absence-amid-olympic-prep) , her teammate Emma Miskew said during a recent podcast that they "weren’t given a choice" by Curling Canada. A [story published yesterday by Sportsnet](https://www.sportsnet.ca/curling/article/miskew-calls-out-curling-canada-for-telling-team-homan-not-to-compete-at-scotties/) said the organization "strongly recommended" last summer that whoever won the Canadian trials should skip the Scotties in order to rest and prepare for the Olympics. Miskew criticized Curling Canada for not making it clear to the public why her team did not play in the Scotties. She also expressed frustration that Canada's Olympic women's teams have to miss out on their lucrative national championship tournament while the men do not. "It’s always this scheduling-conflict reason, but no one has ever made any effort to change the schedule so that it doesn’t only affect the women," she said. The Homan team's spot in the Scotties went to Kerri Einarson, who seized the opportunity to win her fifth Canadian women's championship, matching Homan's career total. Einarson's path to her first world title looks relatively easy as the absentees include Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden, silver medallist Silvana Tirinoni of Switzerland and bronze-game loser Tabitha Peterson of the United States. Alpine skiing: World Cup finals (March 19-25) There are no alpine world championships this year, but the World Cup finals in Lillehammer, Norway are a decent replacement. Similar to the worlds and the Olympics, the men and women gather at a single venue at the same time, and the program features all four of the traditional races -- downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom. At the end of the meet, the leaders of the season-long points chase in each discipline as well as the overall category will be crowned World Cup champions. A few regular-season World Cup stops remain before the finals. There are also a handful of meets left in various freestyle skiing and snowboarding disciplines. Like alpine, their world championships are held only in odd-numbered years. Figure skating: World championships (March 25-28) Most years, this is the biggest event on the figure skating calendar. But the physical, mental and emotional rigours of the Olympics tend to cause some major withdrawals. Case in point: Reigning Olympic and world pairs champions Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi of Japan are skipping the worlds in Prague due to the short turnaround. Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are also missing after their disappointing 11th-place finish at the Olympics, where Stellato-Dudek was coming back from a head injury. Surprise Olympic men's gold medallist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan is out too. But the entry list still looks pretty robust. American superstar Ilian Malinin has dubbed this his "redemption competition" after his shocking eighth-place meltdown at the Olympics, and delightful women's gold medallist Alysa Liu of the U.S. will be there to defend her world title. Olympic ice dance champs Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France will try to stop Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates from taking their fourth consecutive world championship. Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, coming off a bronze at the Olympics, are going for their fifth world-championship medal in what is likely the final competition of their career. And 21-year-old Stephen Gogolev makes his worlds debut after a surprising fifth-place finish in his first Olympics. ## Quickly… A few more things to know: 1\. The Paralympic Winter Games are underway. Though the Games don't officially begin until the opening ceremony on Friday, action in Milan-Cortina started today with some preliminary games in mixed doubles wheelchair curling. Canada did not qualify for the new event, but it does have a team in four-player mixed wheelchair curling, which opens Saturday. There was some drama off the ice today as two curling stones were apparently stolen from the arena in Cortina. [Here's more](https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7114390) from CBC Sports' Devin Heroux. 2\. A pair of Canada-U.S. rivalries renew tonight in soccer and swimming. Still smarting from those two Olympic hockey gold-medal losses to the Americans? Same. But maybe the Canadian women's soccer team can exact a bit of revenge tonight when it faces the United States at 6:30 p.m. ET in Columbus, Ohio as part of the SheBelieves Cup. Canada opened the four-team round-robin tournament with a 4-1 win over Colombia on Saturday in Nashville while the U.S. blanked Argentina 2-0. Meanwhile, Canada's Summer McIntosh will take on American Katie Ledecky in a marquee women's 800m freestyle showdown at a Pro Swim Series meet in the Chicago area. It's a rematch of the most exciting race at last year's world championships in Singapore, where McIntosh moved up in distance to challenge the nine-time Olympic gold medallist in her signature event. The Canadian teenager finished third behind Ledecky and surprise silver medallist Lani Pallister of Australia but won gold in all four of her other individual events. 3\. Canadian March Madness is here. The U Sports women's basketball national championship tips off Thursday in Quebec City, followed by the men's on Friday in Calgary. With only eight teams in each bracket, these tournaments are quite modest in comparison to the 64-team NCAA behemoths that will be all over your screens in a couple of weeks. But the Canadian versions feature the same single-elimination format that delivers so much excitement south of the border. The No. 1 seed in the men's event is Victoria, which last year captured its first title in 28 years. On the women's side it's Toronto Metropolitan, whose last championship came in 2022 when the school was known as Ryerson. Defending champ Saskatchewan is seeded fifth. You can watch every game in both tournaments live on the CBC Sports website and CBC Gem. [Here's the streaming schedule.](https://www.cbc.ca/sports/streaming-schedule?sport=Basketball)
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