Finland wants to win a sweepstakes of another kind at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. Finland, which is in Group B, opens its Olympic schedule against Slovakia on Wednesday (10:40 a.m. ET; USA, TSN, CBC).
Finland women’s hockey team’s preliminary round-opening game against Canada on Thursday has been postponed due to a stomach virus depleting Finland’s roster.
Finland’s national women’s hockey team canceled practice due to a stomach illness affecting at least four players, a team spokesman confirmed to The Associated Press.
The Canada vs Finland women’s Olympic hockey game scheduled for Thursday was postponed due to a virus outbreak within the Finnish team.
Remi Lindholm, who went viral for his manhood freezing in 2022, suffered a broken backside while training in May and the ailment kept him off Finland’s Olympic team.
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Finland had almost shed the pesky underdog label. After the nation spent decades as the perennial overachiever in best-on-best tournaments, the Finns’ talent pool had ripened to the point it deserved elite status among the world’s top hockey nations.
Tune in to NBC and Peacock at 2 p.m. ET to catch all the opening ceremony action and follow Yahoo’s live blog for the play-by-play and analysis.
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