U.S. figure skater Isabeau Levito joked that “you can’t evict me” after living it up in the Olympic Village at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games.

During an interview with NBC New York, Levito gushed over her experience in the Italian Alps ahead of her Winter Olympics debut in the women’s figure skating short program on Tuesday.

“I’ve spent every night in the village,” Levito,18, said. “It’s been everything and more. And you can’t evict me. … I don’t think there’s anything not to enjoy.

“I haven’t even gotten to compete yet and I feel like my experience is already complete — Not complete, but just, I’m having a blast, the best time.

“… I feel like I’m exactly where I want to be and I’m so glad that things have aligned and worked out for me to be here. And I’m excited for the opportunity to compete.”

Levito, who was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Mount Holly, New Jersey, is the 2024 world silver medalist and 2023 U.S. national champion.

“You can take isabeau out of the village, but you cannot take the village out of isabeau,” her TikTok bio states.

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Levito is known for her smooth transitions and her technical ability with musical interpretation.

Her skating style has drawn comparisons to legends, Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen.

Levito and her U.S. teammates, figure skaters Alysa Liu and Amber Glenn — nicknamed the “Blade Angels” — will skate in the fifth and final group of six of the short program, beginning at 12:45 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

Famed Canadian sportscaster Don Cherry has been appointed to the Order of Ontario.

The provincial government unveiled Tuesday that Cherry, 92, and 29 others would be the 2025 recipients of the province’s highest civilian honour.

“A prominent Canadian hockey figure, Don Cherry is known for his influential coaching career, bold broadcasting style and decades of dedication to the sport,” a provincial statement reads.

“After coaching the Boston Bruins, he became a defining voice on Hockey Night in Canada through Coach’s Corner. Cherry is also recognized for extensive philanthropy, supporting the military and police, youth sports and animal welfare through Don Cherry’s Pet Rescue Foundation. He founded Rose Cherry’s Home for Kids and is a strong advocate for organ donation. In 2004, he was ranked the seventh-greatest Canadian in CBC’s The Greatest Canadian.”

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For nearly 40 years, Cherry, who was born in Kingston, Ont., made his name on Coach’s Corner during Hockey Night in Canada, often wearing bold suits.

His run on the program came to an end in November 2019 after he delivered a televised rant about people not wearing poppies, seemingly aimed at immigrants.

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Cherry denied targeting new Canadians; Rogers Sportsnet president Bart Yabsley said Cherry “made divisive remarks that do not represent our values or what we stand for” when he announced his firing that month.

Shortly after, he went on to host the Don Cherry’s Grapevine Podcast with his son, producing 313 episodes in total. Its last episode was released on June 22, 2025, and Cherry’s son told The Canadian Press it was unlikely any new episodes would be produced.

Other Order of Ontario appointees announced Tuesday include Cameron Bailey, CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival, Nathan Leipciger, a Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate and Edward Rogers, executive chair of Rogers Communications, chair of the Toronto Blue Jays and chair of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.

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Cohen Bidgood scored twice and added two assists for a career-high four points in a 6-1 London Knights victory over the Owen Sound Attack on Family Day at Canada Life Place.

The win clinched a playoff spot for London for the 24th consecutive season, dating back to the first year that Mark and Dale Hunter took over ownership of the Knights franchise in the 2000-01 Ontario Hockey League season.

Will Nicholl and Jesse Nurmi each had a goal and an assist and Nurmi and Ryan Brown added to their point streaks.

London scored three times in the opening period. Jaxon Cover and Braidy Wassilyn each got their 17th on the season. Nicholl assisted on Cover’s goal and then scored one of his own with just 1:01 remaining on the clock as a Henry Brzustewicz shot ricocheted off the end glass and dropped down in front of the Attack net.

Nicholl fired the puck home for his eighth goal in 20 games. Nurmi picked up an assist on the play to extend his point streak to 11 games.

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Cover set up Bidgood at 2:45 of the second period to push the Knights’ lead to 4-0.

Tristan Delisle got Owen Sound on the board with a power-play goal at 18:53 of the middle period, set up by Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Harry Nansi.

Nansi had briefly left the game after taking a huge open-ice hit from Maksim Sokolovskii of London. Nansi bobbled the puck coming through centre and didn’t see Sokolovskii coming.

London tacked on a power-play goal from Nurmi at 3:49 and during the celebration, Attack defenceman Noah Roberts slashed Bidgood and was assessed a minor penalty.

Bidgood scored one second after the man advantage ended to make it 6-1 for the Knights.

Cole Zurawski scored off a faceoff on a late Attack man advantage.

The Knights outshot Owen Sound 37-30.

London was 1-for-4 on the power play. The Attack were 2-for-4.

The streaks of Brown and Nurmi

The Flint Firebirds’ Alex Kostov and Owen Sound’s Tristan Delisle have posted the longest scoring streaks during the 2025-26 season.

Each player went 18 games. Kostov recorded 12 goals and 30 points. Delisle put up 12 goals and 27 assists.

The longest current streaks belong to a pair of Knights.

Brown has gone 13 consecutive games and has 11 goals and 23 points.

Nurmi’s streak is now at 11 games and he has 10 goals and 23 points during that stretch.

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London will host the Barrie Colts on Friday at 7 p.m. at Canada Life Place.

The game will feature the induction ceremony for the Don Brankley London Knights Hall of Fame as Rocky Farr, Jim Sandlak and Brandon Prust are enshrined as the class of 2026.

Coverage of the game will begin at 6:30 p.m. on 980 CFPL, at www.980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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MILAN – From golden jumps to record-breaking goals, here are five things to know from Feb. 16 at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics:

GOLDEN OLDHAM

Parry Sound, Ont.’s Megan Oldham won gold in women’s freestyle skiing big air at the Milan-Cortina Olympics, topping the 10-woman final with a combined score of 180.75 from her first two jumps. China’s Eileen Gu, the defending Olympic champion, was next at 179.00, while Italy’s Flora Tabanelli took bronze four months after tearing an ACL. Oldham fell on her third and final jump — by then it was a victory lap — and embraced Gu before stepping onto the podium. The 24-year-old also won bronze in slopestyle earlier in the Games. It is Canada’s second gold medal and 11th overall of the Games.

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SARAULT WINS THIRD MEDAL

Moncton’s Courtney Sarault added to her medal haul with silver in the women’s 1,000 metres in short track, her third podium finish of the Milan-Cortina Games. The 25-year-old had already won silver in the mixed team relay and bronze in the 500 earlier in the week. She becomes the third Canadian to medal in the event, joining Nathalie Lambert (silver in 1994) and Kim Boutin (silver in 2018).

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POULIN SENDS CANADA TO GOLD-MEDAL REMATCH

Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice to lift Canada to a tight 2-1 semifinal win over Switzerland and into another Olympic women’s hockey gold-medal game. The captain became the first player to reach 20 career Olympic goals, breaking Hayley Wickenheiser’s record of 18. Canada will face the United States in Thursday’s final, marking the eighth straight Olympic final appearance for the Canadians, who are 5-2 in previous gold-medal games.

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PAIRS PODIUM PUSH FALLS SHORT

Canada’s medal hopes in pairs skating faded as Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud slipped from third to eighth after errors in the free skate. The duo, who posted a personal-best short program Sunday, scored 199.66 overall after mistakes on multiple jumping elements. Former world champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps finished 11th at 192.61. Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara rallied for gold with a clean, personal-best free skate.

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REBOUND AND ROLL IN CURLING

Rachel Homan’s Ottawa rink halted a three-game slide with wins over China (10-5) and Japan (9-6) to climb back to 3-3 in round-robin play. Canada now sits tied with Denmark for fifth place, with only the top four teams at the end of the round robin Thursday advancing to Friday’s semifinals. On the men’s side, Brad Jacobs continued to roll, improving to 5-1 with an 8-2 victory over Czechia.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 16, 2026.

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Size always matters. 

Tell that to Austrian ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig — who saw his gold medal dreams dashed all because his ski boots were too big. 

Tschofenig, a World Cup winner, fell foul of the rules by just four millimeters. 

The athlete, 23, tried out some new boots while practising but seemingly didn’t check if they met the requirements.

“I used new shoes in training, which, by the way, I wasn’t very happy with, but I kept them,” he told AFP.

“Unfortunately I was naive and I didn’t check the sizes. That was incredibly stupid of me.”

Tschofenig comfortably qualified for Saturday’s final but that was before his error became apparent. 

He came into the Winter Olympics, having won the 2024-25 Ski Jumping World Cup and the Four Hills Tournament. 

Jernej Damjan, a former Slovenian ski jumper, wasted no time in making a joke at the Austrian’s expense.

“Tschofenig finally finding something extra and when he does, he gets kicked out,” he quipped.

Slovenian ace Domen Prevc, 26, won the gold medal at Milano Cortina, defying the wet conditions to defeat rivals Ren Nikaido, of Japan, and Poland’s Kacper Tomasiak. 

He finished ahead of the Japanese jumper by 6.8 points.

Ahead of the Winter Olympics, reports, which appeared in the German newspaper Bild, claimed some ski jumpers enhanced their groin to improve performance and gain an edge of their rivals.

It was alleged some athletes would turn to injecting hyaluronic acid which would help them fly further. An enlarged genital area would allow ski jumpers to wear bigger suits. 

Last year, two Norwegian ski jumpers were found with extra fabric near the crotches of their suits.

And, a probe found that the team had made illegal adjustments to the attire.

To crack down on cheating, bosses at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation rolled out a set of new sanctions.

Some of the measures included advanced 3D body and suit measurements, redesigned suits to prevent tampering and microchips in the fabric that check for any manipulation

Athletes disqualified for an equipment violation will be issued with a yellow card.

They would then receive a red card for any subsequent violation. They would also be disqualified from a future event.

Annika Belshaw, from Team USA, was also booted out of the Olympic final after her skis were one centimeter too long. 

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MILAN – From Mikaël Kingsbury delivering Canada’s first gold medal to a hockey beatdown, here are five things to know from Feb. 15 at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games:

FINALLY!

It took until the start of the second half of the Games, but Canada finally reached the top of the podium thanks to freestyle skiing star Mikaël Kingsbury.  The decorated moguls master from Deux-Montagnes, Que., beat Japanese rival Ikuma Horishima in the men’s dual moguls final to win gold in the sport’s Olympic debut. The gold came after Canada had won three silver and five bronze over the first half of the Games, but trailed 19 countries — including Brazil — in the official medal standings, which are weighted by medal type. Canada’s first gold medal in Italy is also Kingsbury’s last of his career. The 33-year-old says this will be his fifth and final Games.

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DROPPING DIX

Canada’s men’s hockey team cruised into the quarterfinals with a 10-2 win over France, with Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Macklin Celebrini and Mark Stone all enjoying three-point games. Did the Canadians run up the score? Absolutely. But although the Canadians were assured of a quarterfinal spot as Group A winners entering the game, they wanted to enter the playoffs as the top overall seed. That meant not only defeating France, but having as lopsided of a goal differential as possible in case a tiebreaker is needed. Canada ended the tournament at plus-17 and will face the winner of the Czechia-Denmark match. In other hockey action, the United States beat Germany 5-1 and will now go up against the winner of the Sweden-Latvia game.

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CARE ABOUT THE PAIRS

Canadian pairs skaters Lia Pereira, of Milton, Ont., and Trennt Michaud, of Trenton, Ont., are looking for a podium finish as they enter Monday’s free skate in third place following their short program. It comes as former world champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are ranked 14th after Stellato-Dudek fell during their performance. The skate marked their return to the ice after the duo withdrew from the team event earlier at the Games after Stellato-Dudek sustained a training injury in January.

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HOSTS WITH THE (SECOND) MOST

Just over halfway through the Olympics, host Italy finds itself second on the medal table and has already won more medals then it has at any previous Winter Games. The Italians added to their impressive total with four medals early Sunday, led by Federica Brignone’s gold in the women’s giant slalom. Italy ended the day with eight gold and 22 overall medals, behind only the powerful Norwegians in both categories.

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CAN’T STOP KLAEBO

Norway continues to dominate the medal table at the Games with 26 medals, including 12 gold. Cross-country skiing star Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has played a huge part of the winter sports power’s success. Klaebo anchored Norway’s 4×7.5-kilometre relay team to a gold medal on Sunday, giving him his fourth gold at these Games and the ninth in his career. The career mark is a Winter Games record for the 29-year-old, who passed retired Norwegian Olympic stars Marit Bjoergen and Bjorn Daehlie in cross-country skiing and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen in biathlon.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 15, 2026.

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MILAN — Neither of the favorites has been tested at these Olympics yet, not truly. But Team Canada spent the preliminary round marking out its territory as the dominant force of the men’s hockey tournament here in Milan.

Through three games, the last of which was an easy 10-2 win over France on Sunday afternoon, the Canadians outscored opponents 20-3. Twelve different players scored goals in the preliminaries; nine different players did so on Sunday. Canada never trailed.

None of its pairs or line combinations — with Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon and Sidney Crosby as the top three centermen — struggled, but for good measure, coach Jon Cooper combined McDavid and Macklin Celebrini with MacKinnon in Canada’s second game, a 5-1 win over Switzerland. What he got was a Death Star-like weapon, though he opted against using it against the French, who were predictably and totally overmatched on Sunday.

The closest thing to suspense on Sunday afternoon came when Floran Douay tied the game at one just 13 seconds after Tom Wilson opened the scoring for Canada. The suspense lasted 39 seconds before Devon Toews scored, and that was pretty much it.

From there, the most exciting thing was Wilson dropping gloves with Frenchman Pierre Crinon in the third period, with both players promptly getting ejected, as fighting is illegal under IIHF rules. Crinon had caught MacKinnon with an elbow up high a few minutes prior.

The Canadians all but officially sealed the No. 1 seed in the knockout round due to the lopsided margin. The United States could, technically, catch them later on Sunday, but entered their game against Germany needing to make up 10 goals. The No. 2 seed will be in line to face Sweden, widely believed to be the third-best team in the tournament, in the quarterfinals, a result of the Swedes dropping a game to the Finns and failing to run up the goal differential in their other games.

Of course, that is only the expectation for this wildly talented Team Canada. Everything, though, is humming along as smoothly as can be.

McDavid is the tournament’s points leader, averaging one per period of play, and appears on a mission for gold. Crosby’s three points on Sunday made him Canada’s all-time leading point-getter in the NHL’s Olympic Era. Celebrini, who became the first NHL player to convert a penalty shot at the Olympics on Sunday, is dominating the Games at 19 years old. Go down the roster and not a single player is underperforming.

To the extent there is concern, it is that Josh Morrissey was hurt in Canada’s first game (Cooper said he will return before the Olympics are over), and that Jordan Binnington let in two goals against France.

If there’s a crack in this team, it hasn’t shown yet.