Rob Hodgetts
BBC Sport at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort in Sochi

"In pouring rain at the finish, Slovenia's Tina Maze, the joint downhill champion, started first and set a blistering pace that no-one has matched yet.

"Teenager Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA, the slalom world champion, is fifth, while Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch pulled out with illness. Mae, competing under her father's name, goes 87th of 90. Britain's four-time Olympian Emma Carrick-Anderson said if she finished within 20 seconds of the leader on each run she will have done well. The likes of Julia Mancuso have already skied out, while German Barbara Wirth, who trained with Mae in the summer, finished 3.47secs back."

Slovenia's Tina Maze - who tied for gold in the downhill - is the pacesetter as the first run in the women's giant slalom continues.

Maze, who shared downhill gold with Switzerland's Dominique Gisin, clocked one minute 17.88 seconds. Her nearest challenger is Sweden's Jessica Lindell-Vikarby who is 0.52secs back with Italy's Nadia Fanchini third, just ahead of Austria's Anna Fenninger.

Violinist Vanessa-Mae, ranked 2,253 in the world, is the 87th skier of 90.

It's advantage Norway as they take the first two of the match. It could have been three, but GB skip David Murdoch decided to go for damage limitation and removed a Norway stone with his final boulder rather than trying to draw and risk giving his opponents a big score.

Rob Hodgetts
BBC Sport at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort in Sochi

Morning team, and welcome to the women's GS from a rainy Rosa Khutor. It snowed halfway up the course overnight and a front is expected to bring in more of the white stuff this afternoon. The field of 90 - featuring violinist Vanessa-Mae skiing for Thailand, will compete on two different courses. Fastest aggregate time wins. Ones to watch - American 18-year-old prodigy Mikaela Shiffrin, super-G champion Anna Fenninger, joint downhill winner Tina Maze and Swedish duo Jessica Lindell-Vikarby and Maria Pietilae-Holmner.

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It's 2-2 after four ends, with Norway holding the hammer for end five. Now to more important matters - the Norwegian trousers. There's a Facebook page devoted to them and it's attracted 500,000 likes - a tenth of Norway's population - within days of being unveiled.

They wear a different pair for each match and today, it's the paint-splattered effect. I'm not sure about them, but I bet we'll miss them when they're gone...

Morning everybody and welcome to live text commentary of day 11 of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. We've got a packed schedule today, largely thanks to fog postponing the biathlon men's mass start and the men's snowboard cross yesterday, but first stop is the Ice Cube Curling Centre to see how the British men's curling team are doing…

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After nine matches, 90 ends and 900 stones each, Great Britain and Norway find themselves tied for fourth and in a battle for the final berth in the men's curling semi-finals. Will David Murdoch have a chance at his first medal in his third Games, having won World Championship bronze in 2013?