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Snowboard: Hanna Karrer skews the landing on her trick, stays up but with a big curve out of the landing, and Anna Gasser stacks hers, falling onto her butt, so despite big moves in the air the two Austrians score low. Suzuki Momo for Japan doesn’t nail the landing either.
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Ice dancing: I think there’s a 1990s theme to this round. We talked about school discos before, now we’re right in it. The Spanish pair do a delightfully cheesy Ricky Martin montage number, before the Chinese pair come out dressed like West Side Story. What a sport.
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Snowboard: The women’s big air is underway. We love this one. And it’s Australia’s Tess Coady who starts us off, perfectly landing a backside 1080 with melon grab. (I think.) She banks a solid 70.00 to begin.
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What’s coming up? Plenty! The men’s ski jumping 1st round is about halfway through, with home team Giovanni Bresadola currently leading. The ice dance is about to start, this is the rhythm dance section where the top teams qualify for the free dance round, where the medals are decided, with points carrying over. And the women’s big air snowboard final is about to begin, with the first of three runs!
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Ice hockey: Germany beat France 2-1 in overtime in the women’s group match.
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Sweden beat GB in mixed curling semis
Curling: Massive turnaround in the match, and not in Great Britain’s favour. Sweden call their power play (once per match, a team can pre-place a stone before beginning play in an end). That plus some errors from GB open up Sweden for a five-shot advantage, perfectly placing their stones on each shot. They’re leading 8-3 with two ends to play, very unlikely to cough up that kind of lead. And the match is over very shortly after.
USA are leading Italy 7-5 in the sixth end.
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Updated at 18.40 GMT
Curling: Both semi-finals have levelled up, GB stealing one stone to go 3-3 against Sweden, Italy and USA are 5-5. Sweden though with a great chance to score big in the sixth end after a couple of British errors.
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Speed skating: Jutta Leerdam looks very serious waiting to step onto the podium, holding back more tears, then erupts into a beaming smile as she is called up and jumps up and down. A harder to read expression on Femke Kok’s face, seemingly still conflicted which is of course understandable, perhaps just exhausted as well. The emotional expenditure of spending four years leading up to this must be immense. Tagaki Miho is much more composed, allowing herself a small smile as she snaps a selfie with the other two at the end, in remarkably her third successive Olympic podium in this event: bronze in 2018, gold in 2022, and bronze again here, a far more slight and diminutive figure than the powerful Dutch skaters.
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Ice hockey: Germany and France at 1-1 in the third in their women’s prelim round match.
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Curling: I’m pleased to announce that I’ve found a channel with the home Italian feed, and watching curling in Italian is my new favourite thing. Especially while they’re playing the USA. Spicy. The Americans are leading 5-4 in the mixed doubles semi final.
Over in the other game, Great Britain are 2-3 down to Sweden. Lots of chat between the British pair as Bruce Mouat sweeps like a demon, then says “Sorry” about his shot because it tapped the other stone slightly harder than his aim. We’re seeing the 5th end.
Jennifer Dodds shouts her orders. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 17.59 GMT
Jutta Leerdam gold, Netherlands one-two in women’s 1000m speed skating
What a finale. The last pair of the day, facing a new Olympic record having just been set, only to see it last just a few minutes. Leerdam is powerful on her start, clocks one lap in just over 26 seconds, and finishes with her height and her long strides 1:12:31. Her teammate, Femke Kok, looks on, not knowing what to think by the looks of it, some poignancy to her expression seeing her own possible gold medal become silver but seeing her national team take the top two spots in this race. Leerdam can’t believe she’s done it. Last race, last chance, the perfect performance. She pulls off her racing hood, shakes her long hair loose, and glides around the track for a little longer, then eventually pulls up at one of the soft barriers and collapses across it, eyeliner leaving tracks across her cheeks as she weeps and weeps.
Her opponent in that race, the gold medallist last time, Tigaki Miho finishes with brozne this time for Japan, a much more reserved expression on her face as she slows down.
Tears for Jutta Leerdam after taking gold!.. Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters… and tears from fiance Jake Paul! Photograph: Antonio Calanni/APShare
Updated at 17.50 GMT
Speed skating: A blazing run from Erin Jackson of the USA finishes in 1 minute 15 on the nose! She’s gone top of the pops. Looks a little overwhelmed as she sits down to wait for the rest of the races. Ellia Smeding for Great Britain puts up a strong race against Lee Na-Hyun of Korea, who clocks the third-fastest time for a monent. But all of that is overturned by an incredible pair in Femke Kok and Brittany Bowe, Dutch vs American in that bout, the 2025 World Champ v the 2022 bronze medallist, but they push each other to greater heights.
Kok has almost the perfect race, very aggressive on the last couple of turns, and gets home in a new Olympic record! Bowe finishes with the second fastest time, but looks metres adrift by the close. They’re one and two now.
The new Olympic record is 1:12:59.
Femke Kok sets the bar with a games record! Photograph: Daniel Munoz/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 17.41 GMT
Speed skating: Han Mei of China races herself into the bronze spot for now, the third skater today to go sun-1:16, just ahead of Nadezhda Morozova of Kazakhstan. But Yin Qi of China takes that spot from her compatriot in the next race, blowing away Natalia Czerwonka of Poland who is now sixth on time.
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Good day! Thanks for your company. A bit of quiet at the speed skating, where we are having some “ice treatment”, I’m told. That means there’s a bit of a Blue Lighr Disco feeling to the arena, with dimmed lights and yacht rock classics on the PA, all designed to keep those skating fans from tearing the place apart while they wait for the machines to smooth over the rink. What are those machines called in ice hockey rinks? My mind says jabroni machine, but that’s from the Sopranos. Zamboni machines? The name is Italian adjacent. Anyway, I guess this is a version of that. I am not the maintenance expert.
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Righto, that’s it from me for now. Here’s Geoff Lemon to croon you through the next bit of the day – and under way in four minutes is the mixed doubles curling semi, in which Great Britain meet Sweden.
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At 5.05, so in just 11 minutes from now, we’ll all be frantically polishing our carpets, as GB go against Sweden in the semis of the mixed doubles curling. But back to the speed skating, Zdrahalova of Czechia is flying and Schulting’s leading time is under threat. She tears around the last corner … and finishes second, 0.37s slower.
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Czerwonka of Poland is out in race six and she looks decent in slotting herself into second place. Meanwhile in the women’s luge, the first run is over and the first three is as was, Fraebel of Germany leading by 0.048s from Taubitz, also of Germany, with Hofer of Italy a further 0.271 behind.
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Herzog of Austria is a lovely mover but she runs out of steam to finish up fourth overall. The big favourite for gold is Leerdam of the Netherlands; she goes in the final race against one of the only competitors with a chance of beating her, Takagi of Japan, while the third likely contender, Kok also of the Netherlands, goes in heat 13.
Vanessa Herzog on the move. Photograph: Henk Jan Dijks/MTB-Photo/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 17.00 GMT
The more racers we see, the more Schulting’s time looks nails. McGregor of Switzerland is flying, but she’s still not especially close, finishing 0.70s off the lead and going second; Silaeva of Kazakhstan goes seventh.
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Rosner of Austria and Lalibete-Roy of Canada are way off the leader in heat three of the speed skating, going fifth and sixth respectively.
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Back with the luge, Fraebel still leads from Taubitz while, in the women’s ice hockey, Germany are still 1-0 up on France.
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Updated at 16.37 GMT
It’s Vanhoute of Belgium and Hiller-Donnelly of Canada out next, Hiller-Donnelly in front but a second down on Schulting. But Vanhoute comes on strong at the end to take second – for now – with Italy’s Maybritt, who was in the first heat, third.
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We’re under way in the speed skating, two-and-a-half laps of the track. Schulting of the Netherlands is away quickly on the fresh ice, setting a benchmark time of 1:15.46, well outside the Olympic record.
Suzanne Schulting gets her skates on. Photograph: Teresa Suárez/EPAShare
Updated at 16.43 GMT
“For a classic of the Italian anthem genre,” begins William Mata, “there is a whole Giorgio Chiellini section of YouTube of him loudly, badly, belting it out.”
I shall investigate.
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Our speed skaters are warming up so, given there’re medals at stake, let’s focus on that for the next bit.
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Back to the women’s luge, the two Germans are 0.048s apart; in third, Hofer of Italy is a further 0.288 back, which is to say that, by the looks of things, there’s a race for gold and silver, then another for bronze.
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Updated at 16.23 GMT
Coming up in 11 minutes, we have the final of the women’s 1000m speed skating. There are 15 heats, each with two racers involved, and the fastest time wins.
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A terrific goal from Germany sees them lead against France in the women’s ice hockey. It looks like it’s Japan v Italy for the final knockout spot.
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But what’s this? Merle Malou Fraebel, just 22 and also German, is absolutely rinsing it, and Taubitz’s time is under threat … Taubitz’s time is dealt with! Sahe goes first in 52.590, and might this be our battle for gold under way?
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Germany have dominated this event at recent Games, but Natalie Geisenberger, the three-time reigning champion, has called it a career, meaning a chance for others; Julie Taubitz, also of Germany, is favourite and world champion; she’s out first and sets a solid time of 52.638. The format is two runs today, then two more medal runs tomorrow.
Germany’s Julia Taubitz misses out on the nice view. Photograph: Annegret Hilse/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.12 GMT
Righto, it’s time for some luge. “The Cortina Sliding Centre” sounds a lot more fun than luge looks.
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It’s all Germany on the ice, five shots to one, but with 12 minutes left in the first, the score remains goalless
Katarina Jobst-Smith of Germany and Lore Baudrit of France compare their sticks. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.02 GMT
