Amy Williams
2010 Olympic skeleton champion on BBC TV

"Lizzy is soaking it all up and is calm and confident. She is cracking on like it is any other race. 0.44 seconds is huge, it is massive. One big skid can lose that time, though. I texted her at the end of the race to check in. I told her to be calm, relax and chill out. She has to wait the whole day to compete. She has to do what she has always done."

Image source, @britishskeleton

BBC Radio 5 live's Eleanor Oldroyd:, external Great picture from @BritishSkeleton. Lizzy Yarnold's dad Clive and sister Katie talking to BBC Radio 5 live. #YarnyArmy.

The third run of the women's skeleton does not start until 15:40 GMT but that doesn't mean it is too early to start a countdown for what might be a British gold medal. After all, the Yarny Army are probably preparing for the final two runs as I type.

Race favourite Lizzy Yarnold, of course, is boisterously supported by the Yarny Army, a troop of family and friends carrying the union flag and wearing t-shirts with pictures of Lizzy on them.

Image source, @anna_drew_

American freestyle skier Anna Drew:, external Got back from training and I find a hole in my bathroom floor that wasn't there this morning!

[Perhaps someone was looking for the half pipe?]

Horatio McSherry:, external The Norwegians must be commended for their attire this Olympics. I'm thinking of taking up curling & becoming Norwegian myself.

Hazel:, external The Norwegian men's curling team should be given gold for their fabulous Olympic trouser range. Fact.

More on the ice hockey goal-that-was-but-wasn't-immediately-given row.

The BBC commentators are amazed that a Czech player, sin-binned during the minute or so between the goal being scored and subsequently awarded, still has to serve his two-minute penalty. They believe rules state that everything which happened during this strange and confusing time should have been erased from history.

Perhaps fortunately for the officials, Latvia did not take advantage of the power play.

Image source, BBC Sport

Heck, being as we're talking about curling we should really mention the Norwegian men's attire again, mainly to use the word pantaloons once more. As a Valentine's gift, from us to you, we've screen grabbed a picture of the team in their floral pantaloons.

Jason Good:, external Would love it if the curling stones were heart shaped for the day.

Britain's women came out on top in an edge-of-the-seat thriller against China on Thursday, securing the 8-7 round-robin win with the final stone.

It was the tonic Eve Muirhead needed after she had to defend the final-stone gamble which backfired and condemned Britain to a 9-6 defeat against Canada on Wednesday.

"I am just really glad we came back with a strong performance and I am really glad I managed to play a great shot to finish this game," said Muirhead after the victory over China.

In about an hour Eve Muirhead and her band of sisters will slide onto the ice for their round robin match with Japan. Britain's women have won two and lost two of their opening games and will favourites to see off a Japanese team which is ranked ninth in the world.

David Grice:, external Refs have lost it here. Not often you see the officials not have a clue in ice hockey compared to football.

Rick Carnall:, external We are all as confused as you about the officials of the Latvia-Czech game, I can see a massive protest coming.

There's been a bit of a brouhaha in the ice hockey. Latvia's Janis Sprukts, when his team were 1-0 down with seven minutes of the first period remaining, seemed to have banged the puck in the net only for the strike to initially be disallowed.

Somehow the officials missed it and play resumed for almost a minute until, eventually, they took another look. Remarkably, even Sprukts did not seem to realised he scored, despite standing only five feet away.

Justice ultimately prevailed, however, and the goal was given. Maybe instant goal-line technology should be used?

Japanese teenager Yuzuru Hanyu was the talk of Twitter on Thursday, with his world record in the men's figure skating attracting the most tweets per minute - a peak of 3,910 - during day six.

Image source, @guskenworthy

However, it was 22-year-old American Gus Kenworthy, external who attracted the most attention on Twitter, with more mentions than any other athlete. It was partly for his silver medal-winning performance in the ski slopestyle, but mainly because of his heart-melting pictures with abandoned Sochi puppies. , external

Enough about fashion, there's an ice hockey ding-dong happening between the Czech Republic and Latvia. If you have done your Winter Olympics homework then you will already know that ice hockey is the only full contact sport being contested in Sochi. The Czech's are 2-1 ahead after the first period.

The Norwegian men have committed far worse crimes against fashion this week, of course, and the floral kit they wore during today's 10-4 defeat by Canada made the team look elegant and dashing compared with what they've previously strutted on the ice. Their P G Wodehouse inspired pantaloons during Wednesday's match with Germany will stick in the memory.

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Charlotte:, external Loving the trousers sported by the Norwegian curlers - where can I get a pair?!

The Norwegian curling team seem to have received sartorial tips from golfers John Daly and Ian Poulter. The men have already worn slacks which resemble their national flag, a toddler's doodle and a paintball accident this week. For good or bad, they have caught the eye. Kazzaaaaah, external asks: "Wonder how the Norwegian male curling team feel about their team kit?!"

Rob Hodgetts
BBC Sport in Sochi

American Ted 'the shred' Ligety reckons he can still pull back a seemingly huge deficit of 1.93 seconds in the slalom section of the men's super combined this afternoon. The World Cup combined leader finished 18th in the downhill but says he is only worried about the slalom specialists in the field.

Croatia's Ivica Kostelic, the silver medallist in both the slalom and combined four years ago, was seventh in the downhill, leaving himself a deficit of 0.93s to make up, while France's Alexis Pinturault, who is second behind Ligety in the World Cup standings, finished 2.44 secs behind in 23rd place.

"I'm not worried about the downhill guys, I'd like to be closer to Kostelic but further ahead of Pinturault," said Ligety. "But I'm in a good position."

There are a number of Brits in action this morning (if it is morning where you are) and here are the times (in GMT) they will appear on the ice, or snow.

1004: Men's cross country 15km classic (Andrew Musgrave)

1006: Women's curling (Britain versus Japan)

1033: Men's cross country 15m classic (Callum Smith)

1035: Men's cross country 15km classic (Andrew Young)

1250-1254: Men's skeleton run 1 (Kristian Bromley and Dom Parsons)

That's the first part of the super combined done and dusted and it's Norway's Kjetil Jansrud who leads at the halfway point thanks to a 1:53.24 run. His nearest rival Ondrej Bank, of the Czech Republic, was 0.14 seconds behind and Austria's Matthias Mayer was 0.37 seconds slower in third.

Aksel Lund Svindal, the 2010 Super-G Olympic champion, is sixth (+0.70), while defending champion Bode Miller (+1.43) is 12th.