The final live action of the day is over in the men’s ice hockey. Germany went goaltender-less for the last couple of minutes in a desperate attempt to claw back a 3-2 deficit against the US. It was to no avail. Canada beat China 5-0 in Group A’s other match.
That finalises the play-off and quarter-finals bracket. The US, ROC, Finland and Sweden are all through to Wednesday’s quarter-finals with an extra rest day. Everybody else will face a play-off game on Tuesday.
Those matches (I think – this hasn’t been confirmed on the Olympics website yet) will be Slovakia v Germany, Czech Republic v Switzerland, Denmark v Latvia, and bizarrely, China and Canada face an immediate re-match. What an odd tournament format. It is also important to note that Canada and the US are on a semi-final collision course, with ROC looking the strongest team on the other side of the draw.
Here is what I put in our daily briefing that we could look forward to tomorrow.
- 9.05am and 2.05pm and 8.05pm Curling – would you be surprised to learn that there is curling all day long? 🥌
- 9.15am Figure skating – have they put the most romantic couples’ dancing on Valentine’s Day on purpose? Your guess is as good as mine. Twenty couples will free dance for the medals 🥇
- 10am-11.01am and 3pm-3.45pm and 7pm-8pm Freestyle skiing – weather permitting, the morning is the rescheduled women’s freeski slopestyle qualification, the evening is the women’s aerials final. They’ve had to newly shoehorn the aerials qualification round in at 3pm as it was cancelled today 🥇
- 9.30am and 11am and 8.05pm and 9.40pm Bobsleigh – the first two sessions are the conclusion of the women’s monobob, the final two are heats one and two of the men’s 2-man contest 🥇
- 9.30am-11am and 1.30pm-3pm Snowboard – big air qualification day, the women go in the morning, the men in the afternoon
- 12.10pm and 9.10pm Ice hockey – it is semi-finals day for the women, Canada v Switzerland and Finland v US 🏒
- 6pm-8.06pm Ski jumping – the men are doing their team competition 🥇
We’ll see you all again tomorrow. I’m off to watch what is left of Newcastle v Aston Villa, you can join Tim de Lisle on his live blog for that here.
