🥇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?
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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Updated at 13.34 GMT
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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🥇 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.
The moment it is confirmed China’s Xu Mengtao wins the freestyle skiing women’s aerials. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 13.35 GMT
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?
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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.
A vintage large format camera in combination with a mobile phone was used to create this image showing Johanna Matintalo, Kerttu Niskanen, Vilma Ryytty and Jasmi Joensuu of Finland celebrating winning bronze during the women’s 4 x 7.5km cross-country relay. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty ImagesShare
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks Tanya and hello all. We have just started the first final of the women’s aerials final in freestyle skiing.
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Time for me to take a break, Yara will guide you through the lunchtime medals.
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🥇 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.
Su Yiming celebrates gold after Menzies’ slip. Photograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 12.18 GMT
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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Updated at 11.53 GMT
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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Updated at 11.48 GMT
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.
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🥇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!
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo crossing the finish line to secure gold for Norway in the men’s cross-country team sprint. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 12.27 GMT
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 .
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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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Updated at 12.02 GMT
🥇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.
Dog days. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/EPAShare
Updated at 11.23 GMT
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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Updated at 12.02 GMT
Women’s curling: “I knew we were close,” says a grinning Morrison, “it’s a line call.”
GB spring a surprise defeat on the USA. Photograph: Issei Kato/ReutersShare
Updated at 11.05 GMT
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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Updated at 11.05 GMT
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Sweden’s Sara McManus in action during the women’s curling match against South Korea. Photograph: Fatima Shbair/APShare
Updated at 10.39 GMT
Women’s Curling: “Hard, hard!” shouts Rebecca Morrison to her teammates brushing away. Steve Cram sighs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Spectators watch Hanna Huskova in action during qualification for the women’s aerials. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/ReutersShare
Updated at 10.06 GMT
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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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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Updated at 09.35 GMT
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.
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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.
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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.
Camille Rast competes in the first run of the women’s slalom. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.05 GMT
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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Updated at 09.03 GMT
