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Samuel Girard and Kim Boutin will compete at the 2018 Olympics Games in Pyeongchang after qualifying for the provisional Canadian short-track team on Saturday.

Charles Hamelin and Valerie Maltais claimed their first win of the short track selection trials on Sunday.

Following a fall at training Friday afternoon, Canadian short track star Marianne St-Gelais withdrew from the national team selection trials this weekend in Montreal due to moderate concussion symptoms.

World champions and Olympic medallists Marianne St-Gelais and Charles Hamelin will be among the short track speed skaters looking to secure their spots at the Canadian national team selection trials in Montreal. You can watch all the action live on CBCSports.ca beginning on Saturday at 1:50 p.m. ET

Canadian speed skater Marie-Ève Drolet , a two-time Olympic medallist in short track, has decided to retire for a second time to focus on parenting. The 35-year-old won 36 international medals at the senior level.

Long-track speed skater Anastasia Bucsis, a two-time Olympian, retired Monday. The 27-year-old Calgary native competed at both the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games as well as the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Marianne St-Gelais skated onto the podium in the 1000-metre race at the short track world championships in the Netherlands on Sunday, but the Canadian came second to Great Britain's Elise Christie in both that race and for the overall world title.

Canada secured the World Cup title in the men's team sprint at the speed skating World Cup event in Stavanger, Norway, on Sunday.

Canadians Marianne St-Gelais earned two silver medals and is in position for the overall world title after the first day of competition at the world short track championship in the Netherlands on Saturday.

Canada earned a pair of silver medals at the World Cup long track speed skating event in Stavanger, Norway on Saturday.