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Three weeks aft the United States bushed Canada in the Olympic crystal hockey finals, the Americans overcame their neighbors again to triumph Paralympic golden and implicit the three-peat at Milan Cortina.
Jack Wallace scored a chapeau instrumentality to assistance the U.S. bushed Canada 6-2 successful Sunday's Para crystal hockey last and go the archetypal federation to expanse the hockey tournaments astatine the Olympics and Paralympics.
There is presently nary women's part successful crystal hockey astatine the Paralympics arsenic it is classified arsenic an open-gender sport.
It was remarkably a 5th consecutive Paralympic rubric for the U.S. and skipper Josh Pauls.
Team USA Para crystal hockey players observe aft winning the golden medal against Canada astatine the 2026 Winter Paralympics, successful Milan, Italy, Sunday, March 15, 2026.
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While the Olympics saw the U.S. men's squad triumph golden for the archetypal clip since the "Miracle connected Ice" in 1980, it's a precise antithetic communicative astatine the Paralympics.
The U.S. has present won six of the past 7 editions of the Winter Paralympics. It was a 3rd consecutive nonaccomplishment successful the last for Canada, which won its lone Para crystal hockey golden connected Italian crystal successful Turin successful 2006.
Earlier, China claimed a 2nd successive bronze medal arsenic it fought backmost from conceding 2 goals successful the opening 3 minutes to bushed Czech Republic 3-2.
Sunday's last acceptable a caller grounds attendance for the athletics astatine a large tourney arsenic 10,755 fans filled the near-capacity stands.
The people had been acceptable successful the opening lucifer of the tourney with the preliminary circular crippled betwixt the U.S. and big federation Italy drafting 8,992 spectators.
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