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21-07-2025
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Lightning's Jon Cooper Keeps Canada's 4 Nations Face-Off Coaching Staff Intact For 2026 Olympics
Tampa Bay Lightning and Team Canada coach Jon Cooper will keep his 2025 4 Nations Face-Off winning coaching staff as is for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Canada and Cooper went on to win the event, defeating Team USA in the finals in overtime thanks to a goal by Connor McDavid. At the 4 Nations, Canada had a great blend of skill and grit, with each player buying into Cooper's philosophies. Joining Cooper on his staff were Rick Tocchet, Bruce Cassidy, Pete DeBoer and Misha Donskov as assistant coaches, who will all return for the Milan-Cortina Olympics. Goaltending consultant David Alexander, director of performance analysis James Emery and video co-ordinator Elliott Mondou round out the staff. "After a successful 4 Nations Face-Off, I am excited to welcome Bruce, Peter, Rick, Misha, David, James and Elliott back to Canada's coaching staff for 2026 Olympic Winter Games, as this is a highly skilled group of coaches that bring impressive resumés to our staff," Cooper said in a release. "This group of coaches will provide consistency and a winning pedigree to our team, and I know our players will greatly benefit from this world-class coaching staff." The previously announced management staff feature GM Doug Armstrong, assistant GMs Julien BriseBois, Jim Nill and Don Sweeney and director of player personnel Kyle Dubas. The first six players named to Team Canada in June are Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, Sam Reinhart, Cale Makar and Lightning forward Brayden Point. Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel featured on Canada's rosters at the 4 Nations Face-Off and are expected to make the Olympic roster.
New York Times
21-07-2025
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- New York Times
Hockey Canada announces full coaching staff for 2026 Winter Olympics
The entire coaching staff of Canada's gold-medal team from this year's 4 Nations Face-Off is set to return at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, ensuring continuity behind the Canadian bench for the first Winter Games with NHL players since 2014. Assistant coaches Bruce Cassidy, Pete DeBoer, Rick Tocchet, Misha Donskov and Dave Alexander will all be back, Hockey Canada announced on Monday. Along with head coach Jon Cooper, the staff for Canada's national men's hockey team brings more than 50 combined seasons of NHL head coaching experience. Four assistant coaches are joining Jon Cooper's staff for #MilanoCortina2026. 🇨🇦 Quatre entraîneurs adjoints épauleront Jon Cooper à Milan et à Cortina en 2026. 🇨🇦 🍁 Bruce Cassidy🍁 Peter DeBoer🍁 Rick Tocchet🍁 Misha Donskov@TeamCanada | @EquipeCanada — Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) July 21, 2025 Cassidy has led the Vegas Golden Knights for the past three seasons, which includes a Stanley Cup victory in 2022-23. DeBoer most recently served as coach of the Dallas Stars before his firing in June; he has been to the Western Conference final in six of the last eight years, with three different teams. Tocchet is entering his first season as coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, following three seasons with the Vancouver Canucks, highlighted by a Jack Adams Award-winning year in 2023-24. Advertisement Donskov was hired by Hockey Canada as vice president of hockey operations in June after two seasons as an assistant under DeBoer in Dallas and a successful Cup run under Cassidy in Vegas. The national team's goaltending consultant, Alexander, is entering his ninth season as goaltending coach for the St. Louis Blues, having coached Jordan Binnington, who backstopped Canada to the 4 Nations championship, both with the Blues and on the international stage. The general manager of Canada's Olympic team, Doug Armstrong, occupies the same role for St. Louis. The staff also includes director of performance analysis James Emery and video coordinator Elliott Mondou. It was chosen by Cooper, who has won two Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning, alongside Armstrong and other members of the Hockey Canada management team. Canada has already announced its first six players for the Olympic roster in Milan Cortina, where it will look to pick up from a gold-medal performance at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the last with NHL participation. Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Brayden Point and Sam Reinhart will all be in the lineup, but the final preliminary rosters, consisting of 22 skaters and three goalies, don't have to be submitted until December 31. (Photo of Pete DeBoer, Bruce Cassidy, Jon Cooper and Rick Tocchet at the 4 Nations Face-Off: Winslow Townson / Imagn Images)
Yahoo
20-07-2025
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Medals for Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics unveiled ahead of next year's Games
The medals for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics were unveiled in Venice on Tuesday, 206 days before the games begin. The medals, created by the Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute (IPZS), will use recycled metal recovered from production waste, and will be created in induction furnaces powered by renewable energy, organizers explained. The medals are designed with two halves to represent both Olympic and Paralympic values, organizers revealed. Italian athletes Federica Pellegrini, who is a double Olympic medalist and Italy's most successful swimmer, and Francesca Porcellato, the winner of 15 Paralympic medals after appearances in 13 Summer and Winter Games, accompanied the medals by boat to the ceremony at Venice's Palazzo Balbi on the Canal Grande. 'The medals we have created to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games represent the mastery and excellence of Italian design. Each one is a unique piece, the result of craftsmanship and innovation,' Paolo Perrone, President of the IPZS, said in a statement released by organizers. 'The Milano Cortina 2026 medals place the athlete at the center of the story, expressing the universality of sport, the struggle, and the emotion of victory,' he added. The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will take place from February 6-22, followed by the Paralympic Winter Games, scheduled from March 6-15. Next year's Games mark the Winter Olympics' return to Europe, with the event having been hosted by Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018 and the Chinese city of Beijing staging the Games in 2022. Ski mountaineering, where athletes will ascend and descend a mountain in Bormio, in the Valtellina valley, using a mixture of on foot and on ski techniques, will make its debut at the Games. Italy has twice hosted Winter Olympics in the past – Cortina in 1956 and Turin in 2006 – but it will be the first held in Milan.
Associated Press
15-07-2025
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Medals for Milan-Cortina Olympics represent 'two halves coming together'
VENICE (AP) — The Milan-Cortina Olympics are the first games with two host cities in the name. So the medals for the upcoming Winter Games represent 'two halves coming together.' Organizers for the next Olympics and Paralympics unveiled the medals for the games at a ceremony alongside the Grand Canal in Venice on Tuesday. They are described as 'a graphic abstraction capturing the union of two halves in perpetual motion' and 'two unique halves coming together to create a bold, unified statement.' They feature the Olympic rings on one side and the games' logos on the other with specific events engraved on each medal. The Olympics are scheduled for Feb. 6-22, followed by the Paralympics March 6-15. A total of 1,146 medals will be awarded across 195 events between the two. The games will be spread across a wide swath of northern Italy, with ice sports in Milan and snow sports in several different mountain clusters. Venice is the capital of the Veneto region that includes Cortina d'Ampezzo, which will host women's Alpine skiing, sliding and curling. The medals are being produced by Italy's state mint, the Zecca dello Stato. 'I can assure you they won't deteriorate,' Milan-Cortina organizing committee president Giovanni Malagò said. 'They could even be recycled, although I hope nobody will do that.' Some of the medals from last year's Paris Olympics quickly lost their shine. ___ AP sports:
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15-07-2025
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Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic, Paralympic medal designs revealed
The medals for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on Tuesday. One side of the medal design has the two halves coming together to create the Olympic rings or the Paralympic Agitos. The other side has the Milan Cortina Games logo on one half and the name of the event on the other half, including Braille for the Paralympic medals. Advertisement The medal designs are two halves to celebrate "the power of differences ... to create a bold, unified statement." Milan Cortina organizers described the medals as "a gesture of perpetual motion and union": "A dynamic graphic abstraction showing the union of two parts in constant motion, highlighted by the contrast between a granular texture and a mirrored surface. The design stays pure and simple — using only the essential lines to express the ideas of union and movement. The medal's energy comes from this division, representing ongoing change. These elements are brought together by the Olympic and Paralympic values, turning contrast into unity and motion into meaning." The Milan Cortina Olympics, which open Feb. 6, will feature the most medal events in Winter Games history —116 of them spread across clusters in Northern Italy. Advertisement The first medals are scheduled to be awarded in Alpine skiing (men's downhill) and cross-country skiing (women's 20km skiathlon) on Feb. 7. The Milan Cortina Paralympics, which open March 6, will have 79 medal events. The first medals are scheduled to be awarded in Para Alpine skiing and Para biathlon. Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics daily competition schedule The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics take place Feb. 4-22, 2026. Here are the medals for the previous Winter Games in Italy (Cortina 1956 and Torino 2006) and then the most recent Summer and Winter Games medal designs: Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Winter Olympic Medals Torino 2006 Olympic medals 2024 Paris Olympic Medals Beijing 2022 Paralympic Medals olympic_medals_2020_tokyo.jpg South Korea Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics Chloe Kim Who is qualified for Team USA for 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics? Chloe Kim was the first American to clinch an Olympic spot across all sports.
