The United States women's hockey team has thrashed Finland 5-0 in Milan, improving to 2-0 at these Olympic Games. Hilary Knight, Abbey Murphy, Megan Keller, Taylor Heise and Alex Carpenter scored for the U.

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; Peacock, USA, CBC Gem, TSN, CBC).

Finland is barely out of the treaty banning them but the country's armed forces are already training soldiers to lay anti-personnel mines, citing a threat from neighbouring Russia. A powerful drill is used to penetrate the frozen ground to bury training anti-tank mines,