If Canada has designs on matching its record medal total from four years ago, it can't afford too many more days like Sunday at the Beijing Olympics.
Three 2018 PyeongChang silver medallists -- snowboarder Laurie Blouin, long-track speedskater Ted-Jan Bloemen and moguls skier Justine Dufour-Lapointe -- fell short of returning to the podium in their respective events.
Blouin was closest to the medals among the trio, finishing fourth in the slopestyle event.
The Quebec City native posted her top score on her final run (81.41 points), but was more than three full points back of bronze medallist Tess Coady of Australia.
It was the second fourth-place performance for Canada at the Olympics following the same result by Canada's short-track speedskating mixed relay team on Saturday. The skaters had a bronze taken away from them when they were penalized on a video review for a collision with Hungary.
Bloemen faded in the latter stages of the 5,000 metres and settled for 10th.
"I fully executed my race plan. I started out really well and I don't know what happened," Bloemen told CBC. "I'm really confused, I don't understand it. I don't know what to say."
There was heartbreak for Dufour-Lapointe, who fell just after completing her opening jump in the first round of the finals.
Dufour-Lapointe screamed in apparent frustration and then asked for a course worker to help her retrieve a pole so she could complete her run.
The Olympic champ from 2014 fought back tears in the finish area and embraced her sister, Chloe, who also was competing.
Chloe, a silver medallist in 2014, was eliminated in the second round of the three-round finals. Sofiane Gagnon, another Canadian, fell in the second round of the finals and was knocked out of medal contention.
While the Olympics are over for the moguls skiers, Bloemen (10,000 metres, where he won gold in 2018) and Blouin (big air, where she won last year's world championship) will have another chance to earn hardware in Beijing.
Canada is sitting on two medals through two days -- a bronze by speedskater Isabelle Weidemann and a silver by Mikael Kingsbury in the men's moguls. Weidemann's medal was Canada's 200th in Winter Olympic history.
The Canadians captured 29 medals in PyeongChang.
Canada has several strong medal contenders competing on Day 3.
Short-track speedskaters Kim Boutin and Pascal Dion could be in the medal mix, while Mark McMorris, Sebastien Toutant and Max Parrot are three of 12 snowboarders in the men's slopestyle final.
Meanwhile, the men's downhill -- one of the marquee events at the Olympics -- has been rescheduled for Monday after heavy winds postponed the event on Sunday. Canada, not a world power recently in the sport, has had some promising results this season in the alpine speed events from Jack Crawford and Broderick Thompson.
