Wow. Nothing like some late night Olympic drama. Before you hit the hay, spare a thought for Sweden’s goalkeeper Jacob Markström who stopped 38 of 40 shots this evening but ends up on the losing side and with his medal hopes dashed. Beautiful, cruel sport.
Friday’s men’s Ice Hockey semi-finals are confirmed as Canada vs Finland and USA vs Slovakia.
That’s me done, i’m off for something icy and cold but much less strenuous. Thanks for your company, we’ll be back tomorrow with all the action from day 13. Goodnight!
GOAL! Quinn Hughes wins it for the USA with a humdinger! In off the post from a lovely shimmy and strike. Hughes’ team mates mob him while Sweden are left heartbroken.
A cruel blow for Sweden but that goal deserved to win the match. Hughes is such a slippery customer and he makes it count with the extra ice available to him in overtime, it only took three minutes of overtime but it is USA who go through to the semi finals.
Final score: USA 2-1 Sweden.
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Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: USA 1-1 Sweden. There’s so much spare ice out there now it is three on three. USA have two clear shots but they manage to put both straight into the guts of Jacob Markström. The crowd are on edge, it’s all about keeping hold of the puck, the other team can’t score if you have it.
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GOAL! Mika Zibanejad rescues Sweden with 90 seconds left on the clock! He strikes from the left and it is a matter of centimetres but it squeezes inside the post.
We are heading to overtime! USA 1-1 Sweden. It’ll be three on three from here. Game on!
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Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: USA 1-0 Sweden. Sweden hit the post with two minutes to go on the clock! So close to an equaliser and the USA seem happy to sit back and try and ride out the final moments…
Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: USA 1-0 Sweden. Epic defending from the US as Sweden give it everything in the final minutes! “Desperate but clear headed defending”
Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: USA 1-0 Sweden. “It feels a bit desperate from Sweden right now” says the tv commentator. “They still have time.” I’m no ice skating expert but this is frenetic and pretty scrappy doo. The USA have less than ten minutes to hang on.
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Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: USA 1-0 Sweden. Close! So close! The USA nearly wrap it with a close strike but somehow Sweden’s keeper Jacob Markström keeps it out from point blank range. The puck disappears from view and it seems like it is about to hit the back of the net but it is lodged between Markström ankles! Phew. Just over ten minutes left for the Swedes to get an equaliser.
Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: USA 1-0 Sweden with twenty minutes left to play. It has been something of a cagey affair. Can the Swedes find the goal that will take us into our third overtime of the day?
Some more bad news for Sweden as Victor Hedman, their alternate captain and defensive rock is confirmed to have picked up an injury in the warm up and will not be fit to take the ice at all this evening.
Brilliant and moving. Here’s my US colleague Bryan Armen Graham on Mikaela Shiffrin:
“A lot can happen in 12 years. If you’re Mikaela Shiffrin, as a teenager you can become the youngest ever person to win the Olympic slalom, stack a couple more medals at the next Olympics, become the most successful World Cup skier of all time with a record 108 victories, go 10 more Olympic races in a row over three Winter Games without reaching the podium, overcome the two biggest crashes of your career and subsequent battles with self-doubt and post-traumatic stress disorder and eroding trust in your own skiing, and then bring it all full circle with a second Olympic slalom gold.”
Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: After all that nonsense from me – USA score! Dylan Larkin with the crucial touch, name of a poet, reflexes of a poacher! Against the run of play, USA have the lead and it rocks Sweden, for the next couple of minutes it is all USA and the crowd roar them on! USA 1-0 Sweden.
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Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: Sweden are looking the more dominant side so far, the camera cuts to some American fans dressed head to toe in the star spangled banner, they chat U-S-A! U-S-A! but their eyes give them away, they are fearful. Sweden swarm again… still 0-0 in the second.
Ice Hockey – Men’s Quarter Finals: All square between USA and Sweden after the first quarter, the can’t even be split by shots on goad – both sides have had ten on target without getting the puck into the net. Yet.
🥇 Canada's Steven Dubois wins Gold in the men's 500m Short Track Speed Skating
Dubois clinches a close race and holds his arms out wide whilst staring to the heavens!
Jens Van ‘t Wout misses out on a third Gold of these games but he does get bronze and shares the podium with his older brother, Melle, who took silver.
Canada’s much vaunted Will Dandjinou finishes the games empty handed after being penalised for tripping
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Women’s Curling: Great Britain polish off Japan 9-3 to cap a brilliant day for them that sees their hopes of a semi-final berth still alive. Jen Dodds has been speaking to the BBC:
That was a much better performance tonight. That is the proper team arsenal out there tonight. We have the talent to win ugly, which we showed this morning. Tonight is how we like to perform.
When you have the last stone at the start of the game, your percentage of winning goes up. Roll on tomorrow.
It is just enjoying the environment. The fans, GB, any other nations supporting their team has been incredible out there. Tomorrow is going to be extra cool.”
🥇 Gold for South Korea in Short Track Speed Skating - women’s 3000m relay
What a race! The Canadian team slip with just a couple of laps to go, Italy swoop in to go first and it looks like Fontana is going to get another golden moment… but then South Korea make a move at the last and they take the gold!
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Short Track Speed Skating - women’s 3000m relay: 27 laps of carnage coming up, can home grown hero Arianna Fontana get her second gold and third medal of these games? If she does make the podium it will be her 14th medal and she’ll be just one behind Marit Bjoergen’s all-time Winter Olympic record of 15 medals.
Women’s Curling: Just popping back as Great Britain go 8-3 up against Japan with three ends to play. In the bag?
Women’s Curling: Rebecca Morrison’s gimlet eye strikes again! Great Britain are 6-1 up and in command at the half way stage of their must win match.
I’m just going to slide into the kitchen and grab some food ahead of the USA v Sweden Ice hockey (which could well go late). You wouldn’t want me to starve now would you? Back soon.
Women’s Curling: Japan’s Sayaka Yoshimura is feeling the heat on the ice… she has the chance to get an easy couple of points with an open target but doesn’t put enough juice onto the stone! Despite some furious brushing it comes up short and the chance for two easy points goes begging, Japan just take the one.
Sean Ingle on Adeliia Petrosian:
First came the reverberating cheers. Then a deluge of soft toys lobbed from the stands. But across the face of the brilliant Russian skater Adeliia Petrosian there was only the faintest of smiles. For now.
So far at these Winter Olympics, a Russian is yet to win a medal. But there is a possibility that could change on Thursday when the 18‑year‑old Petrosian, who sits in fifth after the short programme, takes to the ice again shortly after 9pm.”
Women’s Curling: Great Britain’s confident start continues as they steal a point in the third end.
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Men’s Ice Hockey: Canada’s overtime hero Mitch Marner has been reflecting on that breathless 4-3 win over the Czech Republic:
Teams only get better as the tournament goes on, so we knew it was going to be a challenging game. They made it really hard to create chances in tight, they made it hard to get through the neutral zone, and I thought as soon as we stopped turning over the puck or giving them gimmes, our offence got going and our players started working a little more.
I think any overtime goal just feels good to score. Obviously, it’s a pretty special feeling to do it in the Olympics. It’s a do or die game. There were so many little moments that resulted in that one moment. Massive saves by (Jordan Binnington), massive goal by (Nick) Suzuki there to keep us tied, and then again Binnington with a massive save on Nečas there in the end of the third to take us into overtime. I’m just happy to do my part in that game.”
Women’s Curling: Nerve settler in the second end. Great Britain take a 3-0 lead courtesy of a Jen Dodd’s double wipeout and Morrison slides up to finish the job.
Team GB need to win this game and their game against home nation Italy tomorrow in order to be in with a chance of making the semi-finals. Even if they do that five wins might still not be enough to see them make the final four. All they can do is win and hope other results land their way.
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Women’s Curling: It’s still 0-0 between Great Britain and Japan. In case you missed it, Team GB kept their slim hopes alive with a positively sinful last gasp stone from Rebecca Morrison in their game earlier today, they snatched and 8-7 victory against the USA as a result. I reckon I’ve watched Morrison’s shot ten times now. Granite is the word alright.
Phew. Time to get the breath back with a peak at some of these beautiful snaps from Day 12:
Ice Hockey: Canada steal it! Mitch Marner spares his team’s blushes with an early strike in overtime and the Canadians swarm! They’ve won it! Canada were out of it at 3-2 down with just a few minutes left in the match but now squeak through to the semi-finals. To say the Czech Republic players are devastated would be an understatement.
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Women’s Curling: Great Britain have just started their crucial match against Japan. They are all crucial matches from here, only a win will keep their semi final hopes alive. Team GB have the hammer first up.
Ice Hockey: Drama! Canada draw level at 3-3! Nick Suzuki flicks in from close range and the roof nearly comes off the arena! Two minutes left in regular time. Chants of CA-NA-DA ring around the stadium, we could be going to overtime in this one!
In the other quarter final Switzerland are 2-0 up against the mighty Finland, bish and bash – the Swiss notch two goals in the under two minutes.
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Ice Hockey: As I hit send on that update Ondrej Palat slots home for the Czech Republic! Martin Nečas and Tomáš Hertl and break free on the right hand flank and pull back for the unmarked Palat who finishes off in style to put his side 3-2 up with minutes left to play! About seven minutes for the Canadians to find an equaliser…
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Ice Hockey: The Czech Republic are putting some serious heat on the Canadian goal in the third quarter but have failed to convert three chances in the last couple of minutes. They are still locked in at 2-2, Canada looking to hit their opponents on the counter attack but at the moment there’s nothing to split them.
We’ll also be bringing you live updates from the big ice hockey bout between the USA and Sweden after 8pm GMT this evening, The US are hoping to break their gold medal drout, they haven’t bagged the big one since Lake Placid in 1980.
Thanks Tanya. Hello everyone. Who is BANG up for some curling, short track and ice hockey? Well good ruddy job, here is what is coming up this evening: All times GMT.
18:05-20:00 - Women’s curling - including Great Britain v Japan
19:15-21:00: Short track speed skating - women’s 3,000m relay
20:32-21:00: Short track speed skating - men’s 500m
We’ve got the men’s ice hockey quarter finals too – Canada and Czech Republic are currently tied 2-2 at the end of the second quarter. It’s bad news for the the Canadian captain Sidney Crosby who has crashed out injured.
Time for me to hand over to Jim, who will slip and slide you through the evening. Thanks for your company – bye!
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Men’s ice hockey quarter finals: Canada draw level! Nathan MacKinnon with the shot, pin-point and high over the goalie’s shoulder, bouncing off the post, into the top right corner.
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Men’s curling: After my self-inflicted confusion over the semi-final places, a big thank you to Beau Dure who writes: “It’s nicely charted here by the official people. We in the US curling community are quite worried.”
In case you missed it, Mr Winter, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, picked up Olympics medal number 10 earlier today, as Norway won an exciting cross-country team sprint.
Men’s ice hockey quarter finals: Canada are piling on the pressure, and one goal attempt bounces off the post. Captain Sidney Crosby is knocked to the ground once and then double shoulder barged which looks painful – and illegal to this ice hockey debutant, but doesn’t seem to be. He goes off for some magic spray.
Completely irrelevant to the action, but I do enjoy the referees casually skating backwards around the rink in their black and white striped shirts.
Men’s ice hockey quarter finals: all eyes are on the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, where, in the one live bit of sport, favourites Canada are in a spot of bother, still 2-1 behind to Czechia.
We’ve hit a small but peaceful lull until things speed up again this evening. Set your sails for:
17.10 GMT Men’s ice hockey, quarter final 3: Finland v Switzerland
18.05 GMT Women’s curling - including Team GB v Japan
19.51 GMT Short track speed skating - women’s 3,000m relay finals
20.10 GMT Men’s ice hockey, quarter final 4: USA v Sweden
20.27 GMT Short track speed skating - men’s 500m finals
An email! Hello Lydia Wright.
“Loving the live updates, it has been great all day! I am just confused about why the Team GB men need Italy or Norway to win one of their matches tomorrow? If Canada and Switzerland win, won’t the table stay the same?”
Arghg, apologies Lydia, I’m confusing myself and everyone else. I’ll go back and tweak the entries. You’re quite right, GB need either Italy or Norway to lose, otherwise they can both leapfrog Team GB who are currently third.
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Men’s ice hockey quarter finals: the Boston Bruins’ David Pastrnák puts Czechia 2-1 ahead with a pitch perfect lofted drive into the goal. Much note taking by the men in suits standing behind the Canadian team. It’s the first time Canada have been behind in this tournament.
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Men’s ice hockey quarter finals: one of the Canadians has lost a stick, Czechia charge on goal but can’t capitalise. Some confusion as a Canadian player impedes a Czech – he does charge him into the wall to be fair – and is put in the sin bin. A power play for Canada.
Men’s ice hockey quarter finals: Czechia draw level! A first goal of the tournament for Lukáš Sedlák.
Men’s ice hockey quarter finals: gold medal favourites Canada lead Czechia 1-0 in the first period, 19 year old Macklin Celebrini slotting the puck through the legs of the goalie.
Slovakia are already through after beating Germany 6-2.
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Ukraine will boycott the opening ceremony of next month’s Winter Olympics after the International Paralympic Committee’s decision to allow Russian and Belarussian athletes to compete under their country’s flags.
No medals for the very good wolfhound, Nazgul. My dog glances up from the sofa, closes her eyes and shuffles into a tighter ball.
Men’s Curling: Czechia, who are bottom of the standings, currently lead China 9-5, as elsewhere in northern Italy, everyone pauses for a cup of tea.
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🥇Gold for France in the women's biathlon 4x6km relay
Women’s biathlon relay: while were otherwise distracted by the snowboarding, France snared another relay gold. They fought back from a slow first leg and the colourful Julia Simon, winner of the 15km biathlon, brought it home.
Sweden won silver and Norway the bronze.
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Men’s Curling: Team GB live to breathe another day with the news that Switzerland have beaten Norway. Now they need either Italy to lose to Switzerland or Norway to lose to Canada tomorrow morning.
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🥇Gold for 19 year old Marie Fukada in the women's slopestyle
Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: it looks good to me, and the “execution is perfect” but the commentators are hesitant. And it’s 87.48 - enough for defending champion Zoi Sadowski Synnot to leapfrog into silver, but not enough to catch Marie Fukada (87.48)
Japan’s Kokomo Murase (85.80) picks up bronze and Annika Morgan slips out of the medals. Hugs all round.
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Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: And here comes Murase, her hair flying behind her. It’s good! She gets hugs from Fukada and Morgan who are waiting at the bottom. She waits for the judges, goggles down – but it is only enough for (provisional) silver. One rider to come – Zoi Sadowski Synnot.
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Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: three riders left, one of them the woman currently in second place, Kokomo Murase.
Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: what a shame for Ally Hickman, who fizzes down the course with style but doesn’t land her final jump. She puts her head in her hand as she rolls down the hill and pulls off her mittens in disgust. Gets a big round of applause.
Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: back to the Livigno Snow Park, where the riders are still struggling to pick up speed on the snow. We’re in the final run and Mari Fukada has increased her lead with an 87.83 display.
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A win for Britain's men in the curling
Men’s curling: Moat polishes off the end, to give GB a 9-2 lead. And the US decide to shake hands. Team GB finish the round-robin with five wins, four losses, and must wait on results.
That means Italy or Norway losing today and tomorrow’s games.
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Men’s curling: the US have pulled two back and we’re into the sixth end. Bruce Mouat stares into the distance before sending a perfect stone into the house to send two US stones spinning away. He permits himself a shy little smile.
Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: Kokomo Murase can’t improve on her first run either, losing balance in the air and slipping sideways into the snow.
A great run by New Zealander Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, including a “double cork”. It pleases Ed and Tim, but the judges remain unmoved. It’s an improvement on her first run, but she remains fourth.
So, with one run to come, it’s a Japanese one and two, for Fukada and Murase, with Germanys’ Morgan in third.
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Bad snow conditions for the women's slopestyle
Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: Lots of talk about the conditions, here is an expert view on why they are tricky “the huge amount of fresh snow yesterday has caused problems. They can compact it down but from very cold temperatures of -6 overnight, it suddenly started warming up and melting, and wet fresh snow creates a lot of friction.”
Got that? Good.
Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: poor Ally Hickman faceplants the snow on her way down. The ski doctor team are alongside quickly, checking her ribs. She is, I think, ok.
Women’s snowboarding slopestyle final: Anika Morgan waits for her scores, helmet and goggles down, Boba Fett style. The commentators like her big backside 270” – so do the judges, and it’s better than her first run but not enough to leapfrog Japan’s Murase in first.
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Men’s curling: Oh! A nice 6-0 lead for GB over the USA after four ends. This is a must win game for the Brits to have a chance of going through. They also need Canada to beat Italy (unhelpfully 3-2 down) and possibly Norway to beat Switzerland (all square at 3-3).
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That is all from me. Tanya is here to take you through for the rest of the afternoon.
Summary of the day
If you’re just joining us, here is what you have missed so far:
Mikaela Shiffrin won slalom gold to end her eight-year Winter Games medal drought. Shiffrin claimed the third Olympic title of her career, and her first since giant slalom gold at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, with a rapid combined time of 1min 39.10sec. Camille Rast of Switzerland took silver and Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson rounded out the podium to claim the first Olympic medal of her career.
China’s Su Yiming celebrated his 22nd birthday by winning the men’s snowboard slopestyle final with an unbeatable first run that handed his country their first gold medal of Milano Cortina. Taiga Hasegawa of Japan took silver, while Jake Canter claimed bronze for the United States.
It was a good day for China as Xu Mengtao retained her title in the women’s freestyle skiing aerials. Danielle Scott of Australia took the silver, while the bronze went to Xu’s compatriot Shao Qi.
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo led Norway to victory in the men’s cross-country team sprint to win his fifth gold of the Milano Cortina Games and 10th career Olympic title while Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist led Sweden to the country’s fourth gold medal in cross-country skiing of these Olympics.
Ice hockey: Slovakia advance to the men’s semi-finals for the second consecutive Olympics. The 2022 bronze medallists will play for a medal after beating the Germans 6-2.
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Curling: Bruce Mouat clears a read before Daniel Casper fails to deliver allowing GB to steal and lead 2-0. Great Britain are doing a good job of keeping the rowdy American fans at bay in the first two ends.
🥇Shiffrin wins alpine skiing gold in women's slalom
Mikaela Shiffrin is the Olympic champion! She has banished the demons of Beijing 2022 and is back at the top again. She crouches down after crossing the finish line. Shock? Disbelief? Pride? And then a hug from her mother.
It has been 12 years since her first Olympic gold in slalom which makes it the longest gap between individual golds in the same event at the Winter Games. She has failed to medal in nine of her 11 Olympic races (all events) since that Sochi slalom win.
Switzerland’s Camille Rast takes silver and Anna Swenn-Larsson of Sweden takes bronze.
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Alpine skiing: What is happening?! Lena Duerr of Germany straddles the first gate of the second run and that is the end of her run. Mikaela Shiffrin up next …
Alpine skiing: Cornelia Oehlund of Sweden goes for an all or nothing approach but her left pole snaps about halfway through at that really slows her down. She is crying in the arms of her coach now. That is disappointing.
Alpine skiing: Switzerland’s Camille Rast, the only woman not named Mikaela Shiffrin who has won a slalom race on the World Cup this season, is in the lead with a time of 1:40.60. Three racers to go.
🥇 China's Xu defends freestyle skiing title in women's aerials
She has done it again! Silver at Sochi 2014, gold in front of home crowd at Beijing 2022 and gold again! Xu Mengtao’s back-full-full-full jump had a difficulty of 4.293 and she managed a score of 112.90.
It was almost a China podium sweep but on the last jump, Australia’s Danielle Scott managed enough to nab silver. Shao Qi takes bronze and Kong Fanyu drops to fourth.
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Curling: Great Britain’s men’s team have just begun a crunch match against the United States. GB have four wins and four losses and they need a win, plus Canada to beat Italy (and possibly Norway to beat Switzerland) to make the semi-finals. Can the silver medallists from Beijing 2022 get the job done?
Paying homage to 1956, when Cortina previously hosted the Winter Olympics, a trio of Getty Images photographers have been using vintage Graflex cameras at the 2026 Games. In a modern twist, they have been adapted to record images on smartphones, enabling live transmission of the content captured.
Freestyle skiing: The top six in the women’s aerials is set and the medal event will be underway in about five minutes.
Danielle Scott (AUS) - 117.19
Kong Fanyu (CHN) - 113.33
Kaila Kuhn (USA) - 109.90
Xu Mengtao (CHN) - 107.75
Winter Vinecki (USA) - 107.75
Shao Qi (CHN) - 105.93
Scott and Kong passed on their second jumps, along with Xu and Shao, who all sit in the top six before the second jump in the first final.
Kaila Kuhn of the US, the reigning world champion, makes the most of her second chance, however, joining the stomped back full-full-full club with a score of 109.90 points.
Her teammate Winter Vinecki upgrades to a back full-full-full, improving on her score from the first jump with a score of 107.75 points.
Marion Thenault of Canada fails to crack the top six, finishing seventh after a less tidy back full-full-full attempt that nets 103.89 points. She is disappointed but will be back for the team event.
Alpine skiing: Slovakia’s reigning women’s slalom Olympic champion, Petra Vlhová, is the first of our 30 favourites to ski in the second run and has a smile at the bottom of her run as her time on skiis comes to an end with a time of 1:42.70.
Alpine skiing: The second run in the women’s slalom is underway. The top 30 skiers will have a go down after this morning’s first run skiing first in reverse order.
The favourite Mikaela Shiffrin, winner of eight of the last nine World Cup slaloms including seven of eight this season, has a 0.82sec lead on Lena Dürr of Germany.
Cross-country skiing: If you’re just joining us, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has won another gold medal after leading Norway to victory in the men’s cross-country team sprint. He is up to double digits now which is frankly ridiculous.
Read the full report below.
Ice hockey: Slovakia are 3-0 up against Germany in the first quarter-final of the men’s tournament. The Germans had the perfect chance to grab one back after the Slovakia goalkeeper Samuel Hlavaj is penalised for tripping after throwing his stick … that’s one way to stop an attack, not legal though.
Pavol Regenda serves the penalty but Germany fail to muster much in the power play.
Freestyle skiing: Xu does not stay in that top spot for long. Her compatriot Kong Fanyu is next right after her and takes the lead with 113.33 (out of a maximum of 128). Her height was a bit better than Xu and she managed the harder tricks in the air.
Freestyle skiing: The reigning Olympic champion, Xu Mengtao of China, is up. She launches and does the highest spec of jumps and twists in this competition and she just about sticks the landing. Her fists go straight up into the air in triumph. She slots into the top spot with a score of 107.75.
Freestyle skiing: In this first final, 12 skiers will compete and the top six advance to the second final. In this event, skiers launch themselves off a ramp and into the air, performing aerial tricks before landing on a 34° to 39° slope about 30m long. Winter Vinecki of the US is in the lead with a score of 99.89.
Thanks Tanya and hello all. We have just started the first final of the women’s aerials final in freestyle skiing.
Time for me to take a break, Yara will guide you through the lunchtime medals.
🥇 Su Yiming wins gold in the slopestyle snowboarding
Men’s slopestyle snowboarding: after an agonising wait at the top of the run while the judges did their maths on Kleveland, Menzies gets the green light. He starts cleanly, but crashes out of one of the leaps and lies starshape on the snow in disappointment.
So gold, and a fourth Olympic medal, for Su Yiming, silver for Taiga Hasegawa and bronze for a very relieved Jake Canter.
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Men’s slopestyle snowboarding: a glorious run by Norway’s Marcus Kleveland, “protractor perfect” jumps … he pulls up his goggles to stare at the scoreboard. Waits, waits – and waits. And falls just out of the medals in fourth.
One last rider left, New Zealand’s Dane Menzies.
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Men’s slopestyle snowboarding: Mark Mc Morris, three bronze medals in the bag, negotiates the rails, lands his first leap but crash lands his second and hobbles off the course. He grins and waves as he walks off at the bottom.
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Men’s Slopestyle snowboarding: no change yet in the gold and silver positions half way through the final run, but Jake Canter has jumped into bronze. Seventeen year old Oliver Martin has his best ride of the finals, but it’s only enough to leave him eighth.
🥇Gold No 5 for Klæbo as Norway take men's cross-country team sprint
Men’s cross country skiing: Klæbo holds on to take gold for Norway, the USA clinch silver, Italy a surprise bronze – and GB a best fifth place!
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Men’s cross country skiing: a stream of lithe racers in snowsuits rush down the course. Coming into the final exchange, Norway lie first, followed by USA and Italy – but there is not much in it at all. GB lie eighth. But the Norwegian skier is that man in the white hat – Johannes Høsflot Klæbo .
Men’s Slopestyle snowboarding: the final rider in round two is 20 year old Dane Menzies of New Zealand. He’s lying fifth and starts well, but falls off one of the rails and stumbles in a jump. With run two complete: China’s Su Yiming lies first, Japan’s Taiga Hasegawa in silver position, Romain Allemand third.
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🥇Gold for Sweden in the women’s cross-country team sprint
More glistening gold for Sweden’s cross country skiers, with Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist combining successfully. Switzerland’s duo finish second, and Germany hang on for bronze. The scene stealer, though, a runaway dog who crossed the line during qualifying.
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Men’s Slopestyle snowboarding: they’re onto round two (of three) in the finals. Jake Canter of the USA has an error-strewn trip down the course, Taiga Hasegawa’s is better, but doesn’t improve on his first run score.
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Women’s curling: “I knew we were close,” says a grinning Morrison, “it’s a line call.”
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GB's women take the curling 8-7 against US
Women’s curling: from the bottom of the rabbit hole, the prize! Rebecca Morrison takes out two American stones with a snooker shot at the final end to win 7-6. They’re still a long-shot for the semi-finals but live to play the next match.
“The degree of difficulty is off the charts.”
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Men’s Slopestyle snowboarding: While GB’s women hope for a mistake from the USA, 12 men are flying through the air for gold at the Livigno Snow Park. Oliver Martin of France over-rotates as he flies, and is disappointed with his marks that leave him sixth in round one. Glorious twirls from Canada’s Cam Spalding, but he slips on his backside at the last and is only seventh.
Japan’s Ryoma Kimata claps his gloves as he crosses the line. The commentators are impressed by his “ clean teardrop” and the judges quite like it, he goes fifth.
Women’s curling: more chances slip through team GB’s chilly fingers, but they take two points going into the final end. The USA have the hammer.
Cross-country skiing: GB have qualified for the team sprint finals, finishing just ahead of the cut off in 13th place. The finals start at 11.15am GMT, with Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo searching for a tenth career gold as part of the Norwegian duo.
Women’s Curling: A point for the USA at the end of the eighth end, none for GB, which leaves the US 7-4 up with two ends to go. Cram isn’t optimistic. “It’s like trying to climb up one of the slopes out here without any crampons.”
South Korea have duly gone on to beat Sweden 8-3, in one of the upsets of this competition.
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Women’s Curling: “Hard, hard!” shouts Rebecca Morrison to her teammates brushing away. Steve Cram sighs.
Curling: Things have gone downhill quite fast for GB’s women. From a 4-3 lead, they’re now 6-4 down. They cross their arms and stare at the stones, willing them into position in the eighth end. GB need to win this game to have a chance of making the knock-outs, though they also need other results to go their way.
Women’s aerials: hmmm, turns out what iplayer says is live, isn’t quite, and the top six athletes are already through: with Marion Thenault of Canada topping the tree by almost ten points, and three Chinese skiers in the top six.
Women’s aerials: the qualifying rounds of accelerating down a ramp and flying through the air. Hanna Huskova, gold medallist in 2018, does a triple somersault, or the “the kiss arse blaster” in the commentator’s words, but it is only enough to leave her seventh.
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Women’s curling: Back to the brushes, where Rebecca Morrison posts the final stone of the sixth end into perfect position, Team GB take two and go into a 4-3 lead against the USA with four ends left.
Women’s slalom: Sweden’s Hanna Aronsson Elfman covers her head in her hands as she skies off the course like a woman tripping up on the front steps.
I’m a big fan of the Hazel Irvine-Chemmy Alcott double act in the BBC studio. “I was quite fruity as she [Shiffrin] was going down,”says Alcott, “as I just wanted her to silence everyone, and today, finally, she’s had the freedom to fly.”
Some gorgeous pictures from yesterday’s action – including Jürgen Klopp ringing the bell for the final lap of the men’s biathlon and flying ice skaters.
Women’s curling: GB’s women are 3-2 down to the USA at the Milano curling centre. Denmark lead China 6-3 and, in a complete surprise, South Korea are thrashing unbeaten Sweden 8-0.
Women’s slalom: over the radio, the French skier Marion Chevrier, is told to take ‘some really risky lines.’ Down she goes, zig and zag, and then out – as her skis straddle one of the control gates.
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Women’s slalom: Austria have set the course for this run, Sweden will for the second run. It’s a process chosen by draw. With 13 athletes gone, Shiffrin is still in the lead, with Germany’s Durr second, and Öhlund of Sweden delighted to have just skied into third.
A new leader in the slalom and it’s the woman with a point to prove, Mikaela Shiffrin – who slides over the line with an advantage of 0.82 seconds. The stars and stripes in the crowd wave cheerfully.
Forget-me-not skies and icing sugar snow in the mountains, where run one of the women’s slalom has already started. Switzerland’s Camille Rast, the slalom world champion, is currently the quickest. She puts handfuls of snow down the back of her neck before she starts – an unpalatable pick-me-up.
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Preamble
Good morning! We’re racing towards the finishing line now in Milan, stylish snow suit in one hand, espresso in the other. Nine golds hang glistening on the line to be claimed .
The final snowboarding events swoosh onto our screens soon, with the men’s and women’s slopestyle; while out on the mountains, cowbells and exhaution in the cross-country team sprint skiing.
Ice-hockey punctuates the day, with the men’s quarter-finals – expect the usual brutality: Slovakia v Germany, Canada v Czechia, Finland v Switzerland, and USA v Sweden.
And skill of a different sort, weather permitting, in the women’s aerials final. All eyes are on almost-veteran Xu Mengtao of China who is hoping, and loop the looping, to retain her title.
Just after lunch, the USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin goes for gold in the women’s slalom final. After the disappointment of Beijing “its not so much about unfinished business, she has said, it’s more about making peace. Then another relay: after the excitement of France’s comeback in the men’s biathlon, the women’s event..
Two short-track speed skating finals draw the curtains on the day, the men’s 500m and the women’s 3000m relay.
There’s also more of the endless curling round robins. GB’s men have had a disappointing few days and need to beat USA to be in with a chance of making the semi finals.
Thrills, spills, bellyaches, we’ll be covering it all. Do join us.
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