John Niyo of The Detroit News highlights five events to watch at the Olympic Games in Italy: Ice hockey – women’s As rivalries go, they don’t get much better than this: The United States and Canada have combined to win every women's hockey gold medal since the sport was added to the Olympic program in 1998. And don’t expect that to change in Italy, where the American team, which includes a pair of Michigan natives in Megan Keller and Kirsten Simms, is a slight favorite to avenge its 3-2 loss to Team Canada in the final in Beijing. The last two gold-medal games at the world championships went to overtime, with Canada winning in a shootout in 2024 and the U.S....
