FOG BLOG BEIJING WINTER OLYMPICS UPDATE: CANADA ADDS ANOTHER SILVER AND BRONZE TO THE TOTAL:

THE MEDAL COUNT STANDING FOR CANADA AT THE BEIJING WINTER OLYMPICS 2022 IS AS FOLLOWS: 1 GOLD, 2 SILVER, 5 BRONZE FOR A TOTAL OF 8 MEDALS AND 12 PLACE OVERALL!........While you were sleeping: How Canada performed at the Beijing Olympics Tuesday, Wednesday.........After going winless on day four of the Beijing Olympics, Canada added two medals to its tally on day five of competition Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

Canada now has eight medals to its name from the 2022 Games so far.

Here’s what you may have missed from Canada’s performance on day five.

Short-Track Speed Skating

Steven Dubois was the highlight of Canada’s day in short-track speed skating with a silver medal win in the men’s 1,500-metre event.

Dubois, who advanced to the final after official review following an error in the semis, took home the medal in a photo-finish over bronze-medallist Semen Elistratov of the Russian Olympic Committee.

The Republic of Korea’s Daeheon Hwang won gold with a time of 2:09.23 – just 0.035 seconds ahead of Dubois........The 24-year-old Olympic rookie was the lone Canadian in the final after teammates Charles Hamelin and Pascal Dion failed to qualify.

Hamelin, a five-time Olympian, was penalized during his skate at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing and did not make it to the final.

The event was Hamelin’s last Olympic race of his career in an individual distance event, the Canadian Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. However, he will compete in the men’s 5,000-metre relay – an event he’s won three Olympic medals in – starting Friday, alongside Dubois and Dion.

On the women’s side, Kim Boutin’s quest to add to her bronze medal in Beijing hit a roadblock in the 1,000-metre qualifying event after she fell just before the finish line in her heat.

Boutin won’t advance to the quarterfinals on Friday, but teammates Courtney Sarault and Alyson Charles will.

In the women’s 3,000-metre relay semifinals, Boutin, Sarault, Charles, Danae Blais and Florence Brunelle raced Canada into Final A alongside the Netherlands, China and the Republic of Korea, which takes place on Sunday.

Snowboarding

Canada’s Meryeta O’Dine won the bronze medal in women’s snowboard cross, after powering her way through five gruelling rounds of racing.

The 24-year-old, who is making her Olympic debut in Beijing, won Canada’s first medal in the event since the 2014 Games in Sochi.