Caela Fenton

For some Team Canada fans, short track speed skating might be one of those sports that they see at the Olympic Games and think–hey, that’s really cool–but don’t know that much about it.

Katie Vincent is having deja vu. At her first Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020, Vincent stood on the podium proudly, having won a bronze medal in the women’s C-2 500m alongside teammate Laurence Vincent Lapointe.

There will be plenty of opportunities to watch Canada’s top hockey players in action this season, as well as get a feel for potential rosters for the upcoming Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games.

Freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe’s resumé has a lot of high points. She’s a two-time Olympic medallist in women’s ski halfpipe, winning gold at PyeongChang 2018 and silver at Beijing 2022, not to mention her five X-Games medals and two world championship medals.

McMorris in particular, who also owns a whopping 22 X Games medals, is the guy that young Canadian snowboarders grew up watching. And some of those young snowboarders, now in their late teens and early twenties, include the likes of Liam Brearley and Cameron Spalding, who are now McMorris’s teammates and are making names for themselves on the international scene.

At the 2024 IBSF World Championships Team Canada skeleton racer Hallie Clarke became the youngest ever women’s skeleton world champion—at only 19 years old.

Watch out for Ivanie Blondin this season. The two-time Olympic medallist and 14-time medallist at the ISU World Single Distances Championships started her season off with a bang at the Canadian Long Track Championships, capturing three national titles in as many days in mid-October.

You wouldn’t think that there are many Canadian athletes who would get recognized walking on the streets of Bled, Slovenia, but Team Canada Olympian Alexandria Loutitt says it has happened to her, thanks to the small European nation’s enthusiasm for ski jumping.

Team Canada Nordic sport athletes will be flying and gliding towards their 2026 Olympic dreams this season in the sports of ski jumping, cross-country skiing, and biathlon.

What was Team Canada's most epic moment of Paris 2024? Canadian athletes won 27 medals, surpassing the 24 medals won at Tokyo 2020.