Sports bettors wanting to dabble in some 2026 Winter Olympics betting, look no further: We’re here to point out some of the best bets and value on our 207 Canadian athletes that will be competing across 14 sports in Milan, Italy, over the next several weeks.
Sure, it’s easy to throw a few bucks down on a few Canadian favourites to win a gold medal, such as the men’s and women’s national hockey teams, but the real value lies in the underdogs. So, we’ll shine some light on some athletes and events you might not have heard of leading up to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in hopes of a big payday.
Here are our 2026 Winter Olympics Canada long-shot gold medal bets.
Related: Canada 2026 Winter Olympics Gold Medal Betting Projections & Predictions
Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier (Ice Dance)
Best odds to win gold medal: +1400 @ NorthStar Bets
Best odds to reach podium: +300 @ NorthStar Bets
Shoreview Sports Analytics Projection: Bronze medal
Canada’s ice dancing duo is the country’s best chance of snatching a figure-skating medal at these Olympic Games. They’ve won silver in the past two World Championships and hold real value at 14-1 odds to capture a gold medal and +300 to earn a medal. However, the Olympics haven’t been kind to these ice dancers, who have finished eighth and seventh, respectively, in 2018 and 2022 at the Games. Still, they’ve never skated better than now, as evidenced by their pair of gold medals in the last two Continents Championships.
Gilles & Poirier to win gold
Cynthia Appiah (Women’s Bobsleigh)
Best odds to win gold medal in monobob: +5000 @ NorthStar Bets
Appiah will be competing in both the two-woman bobsleigh and the women’s monobob (individual version of bobsleigh), and she has long odds in both events. However, she’s a great dark horse bet in the monobob at +5000 odds, as she has some positive momentum right now heading into the Olympics after earning a silver medal at a World Cup event in Germany last month. Appiah finished eighth in monobob at the 2022 Olympics and is poised to better her standing this time around. You won’t find a better long shot at 50-1 odds in these Olympics.
Valerie Maltais (Women’s Speedskating)
Best odds to win gold medal in mass start: +1400 @ NorthStar Bets
Maltais is set to compete across three speedskating disciplines in Italy, but we’re going to hone in on her at +1400 odds in the mass start event, as she earned a silver medal in the discipline at the final World Cup event before the Winter Olympic Games. The 35-year-old Quebec native has been competing at the Olympics since the Vancouver 2010 Games, featuring in both long and short track events. She won an Olympic gold medal at the 2022 Games in the women’s team pursuit and also earned a silver medal at the 2014 Games in the 3,000m relay.
Cameron Spalding (Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle)
Best odds to win gold medal in men’s snowboard slopestyle: +1400 @ NorthStar Bets
Best odds to reach podium: +350 @ NorthStar Bets
Spalding won last year’s World Cup season title in slopestyle and will be making his Olympic debut at 20 years old. The Ontario native will be competing against Canadian snowboarding legend Mark McMorris (+400 odds to win slopestyle) in this event, but he’s one of the rising stars in this discipline and is poised to make a serious statement in Italy. It appears oddsmakers may be underestimating him a bit at 14-1 because he’s an unproven talent at the Olympic level. It’s a no-brainer to lock him in at +350 to reach the podium.
Spalding to reach podium
Marielle Thompson (Women’s Ski Cross)
Best odds to win gold medal in women’s ski cross: +1000 @ NorthStar Bets
Best odds to reach podium: +225 @ NorthStar Bets
Thompson, one of Canada’s two flag-bearers at the Opening Ceremony in Italy, is proven at the Olympic level, winning a gold medal at the Sochi Games in 2014 and a silver at Beijing 2022 in this event. She’s also won four Crystal Globes as the overall FIS World Cup champion in women’s ski cross, with the most recent coming in 2024. Her outright odds would likely be much shorter if she wasn’t coming off a serious knee injury sustained last February.
Abigail Strate (Women’s Ski Jump)
Best odds to win gold medal in women’s ski jump: +1200 @ NorthStar Bets
Strate will be competing in her second Winter Olympic Games after claiming Canada’s first ever medal in any ski jumping discipline at the 2022 Beijing Games. A key member of Canada’s mixed team event that took bronze in 2022, Strate is now poised for some individual success in Italy. The 24-year-old has already claimed six World Cup medals this season, and has identical +1200 odds to win both the large and normal hill ski jumping events.
Hallie Clarke (Women’s Skeleton)
Best odds to win women’s skeleton: +5000 @ NorthStar Bets
We like Clarke as our super deep sleeper pick in the women’s skeleton event at long 50-1 odds. At age 19, she became the youngest world champion in this event’s history in 2024 and is undoubtedly one of the sport’s rising stars. She also boasts several accolades at the junior level and is now set to compete in her first Olympics at just 21 years old. She’s far from the favourite in this event, with eight other competitors listed with shorter odds to win outright, but the talent level is there for an upset if she can handle the Olympic pressure.