That is it from me, Martin Belam, in London today. Our Australian team will pick up the Winter Olympics live blog baton for day two when it gets going in Beijing. There’s some good stuff coming your way tomorrow.
In the curling, at 9.05am in Beijing, the US face the Czech Republic. Team GB, off the back of that defeat to Italy today, will surely feel they can and must beat China. Twenty-five minutes after that the women’s single skating short program that is part of the team event gets going in the Capital Indoor Stadium. At the same time – 9.30am in Beijing – the women’s snowboard slopestyle final starts.
And then – weather conditions permitting – it is one of the signature Winter Olympic events, the men’s downhill in the Alpine skiing starts at 11am in Beijing.
I will be back on the blog later tomorrow, until then, take care and stay safe.
What a day – I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. The first gold medal went to Norway’s Therese Johaug in a tough 7.5km + 7.5km Skiathlon. However, the fact that the first medal of these Games went to somebody previously convicted of doping and banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics has not gone without comment.
Norway added a second gold in a gripping biathlon mixed relay, and the short track mixed relay gave China their first gold of their Games amid chaotic scenes and an incredibly tight finish.
Slovenia took gold and bronze in the women’s normal hill ski jumping, with Urša Bogataj victorious. Irene Schouten continued Dutch dominance on the ice track with gold in the women’s 3,000m speed skating. And Sweden’s Walter Wallberg rounded out the medals with victory in the freestyle skiing men’s moguls.
