Olympics Overnight: Snowboarder Max Parrot wins Canada’s first gold, speedskater Kim Boutin gets bronze

Rise and shine, Olympics fans. Here's what you missed overnight and need to know about the 2022 Beijing Olympics this morning.

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Canada reigned supreme on the snowboard in Day 3 - and it resulted in our first gold of the Winter Games.

Max Parrot, a cancer survivor, improved from a silver in 2018 to reach the top of the podium in men's snowboard slopestyle on Monday, while teammate Mark McMorris joined him there with a bronze. It's the second time the two have shared the podium at the Olympics, and the third bronze medal for McMorris.

Elsewhere, Canadian Kim Boutin won bronze in speedskating, Jack Crawford just narrowly missed the podium in men's downhill skiing, our mixed curling duo of John Morris and Rachel Homan won't be defending Canada's curling title from 2018 and the figure skating team came fourth despite a standout performance from 18-year-old Madeline Schizas.

Plus, there was drama on the ice between Canada and the Russian athletes in women's hockey over delayed COVID-19 test results, which led to both teams wearing masks under their cages.

Here's what you missed overnight:

Gold on the slopes

Three years ago, Max Parrot of Quebec was in bed treating Hodgkin's lymphoma with multiple rounds of chemotherapy. He thought his snowboarding career was done.

I had no more muscles, no more energy, no more cardio. I remember I was drawn by my treatments," Parrot told the Canadian Press.

Now he's an Olympic gold medallist.

I'm incredibly proud of myself on the run I did today, it was the hardest one I've ever done in my entire career," he said.

The 2018 silver medallist scored a 90.96 in his second run Monday to win the Olympic title for Canada's first gold of the Games. His teammate Mark McMorris of Saskatchewan - who had a similarly impressive story in 2018 after suffering a devastating injury months before those Games - took bronze for his third Olympic medal, while China's Su Yiming took silver.

Boutin for bronze

Kim Boutin has her fourth Olympic medal.

She skated to a bronze in women's short-track 500-metre speedskating event at the Beijing Olympics. Arianna Fontana of Italy came first and the Netherlands' Suzanne Schulting was second.

Big surprise for bronze

It's a first for Canada in ski jumping. And a first in an inaugral event.

Canada won its first ever medal in the sport, a bronze in the mixed team event. Alexandria Loutitt, Matthew Soukup, Abigail Strate and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes placed third with a combined score of 844.6 points, while Russia came second and Slovenia took gold.

Hockey drama leads to delay

Canada's women's hockey team may have easily won against the Russian athletes, but that wasn't the most difficult aspect of Monday's game.

Play with masks or we won't take the ice. That was the message from the Canadian women ahead of the game, resulting in an almost hour delay.

While it wasn't immediately clear, the reasoning behind the request and subsequent delay was that some Russian players had yet to receive their COVID-19 tests back. The team had previously been in quarantine due to an outbreak among its players.

The game eventually went ahead with KN95 masks. And while the Russians and on-ice officials removed them following the second once results were negative, the Canadians kept them on - and coasted to a 6-1 victory. They're now 3-0 at the tournament.

Narrow misses

Canada also had a pair of fourth-place finishes on Monday.

In downhill skiing, Toronto's Jack Crawford narrowly missed the podium by 0.7 seconds. Swiss skier Beat Feuz took the gold, 41-year-old Johan Clarey of France took the silver and Austria's Matthias Mayer took the bronze.

Crawford has a chance for redemption in the super-G event on Tuesday.

Canada also missed its chance at the podium in the team figure skating event, but it was an impressive Olympic debut for Oakville's Madeline Schizas.

The 18-year-old skated to an impressive score of 132.04 points, but unfortunately it wasn't enough to give the team - who previously won gold in 2018 - a medal. Russia won the team gold, the U.S. took the silver and Japan won bronze.

Other Canadian results:

• Medal hopes for mixed curling team of John Morris and Rachel Homan were dashed Monday after a heartbreaking loss against undefeated Italy. Canada finished tied in fourth place at 5-4, but Sweden took the tiebreaker to move on to the evening semifinals. Italy (9-0), Norway (6-3) and Great Britain (6-3) earned the top three seeds.

• Ivanie Blondin finished 12th in women's 1,500-metre long-track speedskating.

• Speedskater Pascal Dion fell in the 1,000-metre speedskating quarterfinal and did not finish the race.

What's in store today:

• Archrivals Canada-U.S. take the ice in women's hockey, preliminary round, at 11 p.m. ET.

• Women's big-air final (snowboarding), Canada's Meghan Oldham is top qualifier. 9-10 p.m. ET.

Medal report

Canada has six medals (one gold, one silver and four bronze).

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The Winter Olympics . . . but the adorable version

The official Olympics Twitter account tweeted out this adorable video of babies at the Games. Just look at these faces:

History on ice

Kamila Valieva, 15, of Russia made history by becoming the first female figure skater to land a quad jump in Olympic competition. Then she did it again. She would later win the women's single event.

Dancing to Daft Punk

The U.S. ice dancing pair went a tad more modern with their routine by choosing a collection of songs from Daft Punk's last album Random Access Memories." Unsure if it'll help reunite the recently broken up electronic duo, but one could hope.

Inside look

In the age of social media, it's a lot easier to give an inside look into the rooms and amenities at the Olympics village. Many athletes have been taking to Tik Tok to show quick clips of their rooms and what they're being fed. Here American snowboarder Maddie Maestro provides a look at the breakfast buffet:

PHOTO OF THE DAY

With files from the Canadian Press