Kevin Fiala underwent surgery on his left leg after being removed from the ice on a stretcher late in the third period of Switzerland’s 5-1 loss to Canada on Friday in a Group A preliminary round game in the Milan Cortina Olympics.

The Swiss Ice Hockey Federation announced the surgery on Saturday for Fiala, a forward for the Los Angeles Kings, and said he will miss the remainder of the Olympics.

Fiala was injured after getting his legs tangled with Canada’s Tom Wilson with just less than three minutes left in the game. Fiala was unable to get to his feet and medical personnel attended to him after a stoppage in play.

“Obviously it doesn’t look very good,” Switzerland coach Patrick Fischer said after the game. “Tough moment for Kevin and the whole team, obviously.”

Fiala, 29, has recorded 40 points (18 goals, 22 assists) in 56 games this season with the Kings, who reside three points in back of the Anaheim Ducks for the final wild-card spot in the NHL’s Western Conference.

“We need that guy on my team back home, big time,” said Canada defenseman Drew Doughty, who plays for the Kings.

For Fiala’s career, the 2022-23 All-Star has 229 goals and 299 assists across 707 games. He is in his 12th NHL season.

–Field Level Media

LIVIGNO, Italy — Australia’s Jakara Anthony won the gold medal in the women’s freestyle skiing dual moguls at the Winter Olympics on Saturday, redeeming herself after a disappointing loss three days earlier in the single-format moguls.

Anthony, 27, became the first Australian to earn two Winter Olympics gold medals when she overtook American Jaelin Kauf under heavy snow in the northern Italian town of Livigno. Kauf earned silver, and bronze went to fellow American Elizabeth Lemley.

“This one is really different to the last one because I picked this up after the heartbreak of the other day,” Anthony said of her new medal, which joins the one she earned in the single moguls in Beijing in 2022.

Dual moguls is a new sport at the Olympics, pitting skiers together in a head-to-head elimination format in which two competitors race side-by-side through parallel bump fields. Speed counts, but so do turns and aerial maneuvers.

Anthony crossed the finish line a fraction of a second before Kauf but had to wait for the judges’ final assessment. She smiled and pumped her arms in the air when she saw she had earned a score of 20, compared to Kauf’s 15. A throng of Australian supporters cheered and waved yellow inflated kangaroos on the side of the mountain.

At the medal ceremony, Anthony broke into a wide smile as she celebrated her historic second Olympic gold.

Anthony had been the favorite to win the singles but wobbled out of line in her second run to finish eighth. In the single moguls, riders tackle the course solo and the highest score wins.

Heavy snow fell throughout the women’s dual moguls finals, hindering visibility for the skiers.

Kauf’s second-place run gave the 29-year-old her third Olympic silver medal. She finished second in the singles at the Milan Cortina Games and at Beijing in 2022.

“I was really going for gold, but I guess ‘Silver Jae’ has a ring to it, so I’m living up to the name,” Kauf said.

The 20-year-old Lemley, the surprise gold medalist in the singles, made it to the podium in the dual moguls despite a crash in the semifinals. She hurt her elbow but was determined to keep going, she said.

“I was able to just push the pain out of my head and ski as if it was any other run,” she said.

Singles bronze medalist Perrine Laffont of France finished fourth in the dual event.

–Reuters, Special to Field Level Media

MILAN — American speed skating phenomenon Jordan Stolz once again stole the spotlight on Saturday, rocketing to the men’s 500 meters title at the Winter Olympics and securing his second gold medal of the Milan Cortina Games.

Stolz already had met the towering expectations by winning the men’s 1,000m on Wednesday, the United States’ first speed skating gold of the Games.

On Saturday, he topped a podium completed by Dutchman Jenning de Boo with silver and Canada’s Laurent Dubreuil with bronze.

The 21-year-old Stolz, from Wisconsin, blasted to an Olympic-record time of 33.77, finishing 0.11 seconds clear of de Boo.

Drawn in the 13th of 15 pairs and starting from the inner lane, Stolz powered off the line before unleashing the explosive top-end speed that has become his trademark.

De Boo pushed hard to keep the American within reach, clipping the barrier after crossing the line as Stolz saluted a raucous crowd heavily dominated by Dutch supporters.

Earlier, Dubreuil — racing in the 10th pair — – broke the Olympic record with a time of 34.26, before Stolz shattered it minutes later.

–Reuters, special to Field Level Media