And that is me done for the night. Thanks for joining today and see you tomorrow for another packed day of Winter Olympics action! Leaving you on a bit of a cliff hanger with Team GB’s Mia Brookes yet to complete her final run in the women’s big air qualifiers. Fingers crossed!
Winter Olys roundup
Lindsey Vonn was airlifted to hospital but is stable after crashing in the early stages of her women’s downhill run. The 41-year-old damaged her ACL when falling in a World Cup contest at Crans-Montana just over a week ago, but was determined to compete today. Starting as the 13th skier, Vonn clipped a gate and somersaulted off the course just seconds into her run. She was on the ground for about 15 minutes before being airlifted off the course, with spectators cheering her as the helicopter flew over.
The crash dampened celebrations for her US teammate Breezy Johnson, who was in tears sitting in the gold medal chair at the bottom of the run watching her teammate being attended to. Germany’s Emma Aicher won silver and Italy’s Sofia Goggia took bronze.
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo cruised to a sixth Olympic gold medal in the men’s skiathlon. The 29-year-old was in the lead pack throughout, hammering competitors in the sprint to end, ahead of Mathis Desloges of France and Norwegian pacemaker Martin Loewstroem Nyenget, who were 2.0 seconds and 2.1 seconds behind.
The veteran Austrian snowboarder Benjamin Karl defended his Olympic men’s parallel giant slalom crown in thrilling style, powering back to beat South Korea’s Kim Sang-kyum. Karl, competing in what are expected to be his final Games, was trailing for much of the final in Livigno but crossed the line 0.19sec in front of his rival.
The Czech snowboarder Zuzana Maderova won gold in the women’s parallel giant slalom after the shock exit of the defending champion, Ester Ledecka.
The 22-year-old Maderova enjoyed a comfortable victory over Ledecka’s conqueror Sabine Payer, cruising to victory by 0.83sec. Italy’s Lucia Dalmasso took bronze.
France won the mixed 4x6km relay biathlon, with Italy taking silver and Germany in bronze.
Team GB are top seed in the mixed doubles curling and will face Sweden in the semi-finals tomorrow.
Germany’s Max Langenhan is the latest Olympic luge champion, winning gold in the men’s singles. He held off Austria’s Jonas Müller and Italy’s Dominik Fischnaller to claim victory.
In men’s 5000m speed skating Sander Eitrem lived up to his billing as favourite, as the Norwegian stormed to gold with an Oympic record 6min 3.95sec time well ahead of Czech Republic’s Metodej Jilek and Italy’s Riccardo Lorello.
You can keep across the happenings of each day with our schedule, results and medal table.
