Sweden's Frida Hansdotter won the women's slalom earlier today as US favourite Mikaela Shiffrin finished fourth, ending her hopes of four gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Watch the Swede's success below.

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BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

Britain's Zoe Gillings-Brier left the snow disappointed earlier after failing to make the semi-finals of the snowboard cross.

Now 32, Gillings-Brier has discussed what the future holds for her after finish her fourth Olympics.

"I'm going to have a little bit of a chill," she said. "I'm going to come back for the World Cup finals at the end of the season and then have a bit of a chilled out summer.

"It's a brilliant atmosphere in the British team at the moment, we've got record numbers on the snowboard cross team.

"It's running really well and I'm loving seeing the young ones, especially the girls, coming through. I'm going to keep going as long as I can in this sport."

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Andrew Musgrave will start his race in about ten minutes. He's ready and raring to go!

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

Today, over breakfast, BBC commentator and general Olympic oracle Ollie Williams was telling me a lot about wax.

Not in a gross way, you understand. It was to do with its importance in skiing.

Just like Team GB have those superman suits in skeleton to make the sliders that bit more aerodynamic, the Norweigan ski team have spent millions of pounds on the perfecting their wax technology, which can give them that extra edge.

It's worked so far - they've picked up eight medals in the cross country events. And given his close ties to the Norwegian set-up, Britain's Andrew Musgrave has been able to benefit from their insight and invention.

The New York Times, external have done a behind-the-scenes interview with Norway's wax gods, if you want to find out more.

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Great British figure skater Nicholas Buckland has got to the venue early and managed to get an upside down selfie, with the Olympic Rings in the background.

BBC Sport app users may need to click on the link to see the tweet. He and Penny Coomes get going in the ice dance on Monday, so plenty of time for more pictures before then.

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Commentator on BBC TV

Andrew Musgrave has a genuine chance of securing a moment of sporting history for himself and Great Britain.

He smashed the previous best British performance - his own from Sochi - when he finished seventh in that 30km skiathlon.

This is his best opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream - a dream that saw him move his entire life to Norway to live, train, eat, study with the very best in the world.

A little earlier this morning, Italy's Michela Moioli took gold in the women's snowboard cross. She's been talking to BBC Sport:

"I have no words. The course was really good. I felt strong at the start but didn't think I could win.

"This is the best day of my life. I am full of happiness."

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As morning alarms begin to sound up and down the country, everyone is waking up to the news of Dom Parsons' skeleton bronze, including Casualty actor George Rainsford, aka Dr Ethan Hardy!

George Rainsford: Waking up to amazing news that @domparsons, external has our first #WinterOlympics2018, external medal. Yes Dom! Olympic medalist! Incredible achievement

Laura Cooney: Delighted to wake up and see @TeamGB, external have won our first medal at #pyeongchang2018, external. Well done @domparsons, external!

Helen Honeybun: Congratulations #DomAndJerry, external!! Well done, both superb!

Just joining us, just waking up? You have missed a great morning of Winter Olympics action. These are the headlines.

• Great Britain win their first medal of the Games and their first in the men's skeleton for 70 years as Dom Parsons takes bronze. South Korea's Yun Sungbin wins the second gold for the hosts, with OAR athlete Nikita Tregubov finishing two hundredths of a second ahead of Parsons.
• Austria's Matthias Mayer wins the men's super G gold medal.
• Michela Moioli of Italy takes victory in the ladies' snowboard cross final, but American Lindsey Jacobellis misses out on a medal and comes fourth.
• Frida Hansdotter of Sweden takes gold in the ladies' slalom, but American giant slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin only finishes fourth.

Here are the things you will be watching and cheering on over the next few hours.

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

Who wants to tell them that their Swedish skiing idol isn't racing today?

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On to BBC Two we go. Figure skating is on the Red Button as well. The cross-country skiing gets going soon.

It is a vital, hard-fought win for the United States team as they have defeated Slovakia 2-1. Their selection has been severely hampered by the NHL banning players from the league playing in Pyeongchang, but USA have still managed to get this win.

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

The last time Andrew Musgrave raced here, it was so cold it felt like your fingers were going to fall off.

Today is a different story. It's bright, it's warm (compared to most days) and it's actually pleasant to stand outside and watch sport.

A major breakthrough in Pyeongchang.

There was heartbreak for New Zealand's Rhys Thornbury in the men's skeleton after he made a mistake at the start of his final run dashing any hopes he had of a top 10 finish.

He started seventh, but the sled fell out of the grooves at the start of his final run and that ruined any medal hopes.

Thornbury represents New Zealand but is based in England and is a weapons technician for the RAF. Watch what happened to him below.

In a Winter Olympics of incredible stories, you will do well to hear a better tale than Pita Taufatofua's.

Two years ago, he was marching into the Rio summer Games carrying the Tongan flag shirtless and sporting an oily torso - last week, at sub zero temperatures, he did the same in South Korea at the Winter Olympics.

His taekwondo dream ended in a 19-1 opening-round defeat in Brazil and having turned to the snow Taufatofua's ambitions are to "finish before they turn the lights off" and "don't ski into a tree".

Taufatofua only hit the snow for the first time 12 weeks ago, having endured 4am training sessions where he learned to ski on roller-skis he calls "the worst thing possible".

"Every race, I struggle. Every race I want to quit, there hasn't been a race I haven't wanted to stop after the first lap - but I always finish a race," he told BBC Sport.

"Once you allow yourself the excuse of stopping, you will stop. It doesn't matter if you come in an hour behind the winner, because when it comes to how you translate that to life, you don't stop. And that's how I am here, because I didn't stop.

"It's the toughest sport I could find. I'm not a distance athlete, I am not a long-distance cross country skier. I trained for sprints all year and they said 'no, you're doing long distance'."

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

It's almost time for Tonga's Pita Taufatofua to get his second shot at his Olympic dream.

Having competed at Rio in taekwondo, where he went out in the opening round, the oily flag-bearer has turned his attention to skiing.

He's only been on the snow for 12 weeks and he says he has wanted to quit every cross-country ski race he has ever competed in.

Taufatofua is due to set off at 06:55 GMT as racer number 110 out of a whopping 119.

I wonder if he'll wear clothes this time?

Great Britain has never won an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing, but after Andrew Musgrave claimed his maiden World Cup medal with bronze in December, it is hoped Team GB will at least better their current highest finish of 29th.

Musgrave has already created a piece of history in these Games as he came seventh in the men's 15km + 15km skiathlon on Sunday, the best ever result by a British competitor in a cross-country event.

Before the Games started, he spoke to BBC Sport and discussed just how physically demanding the "toughest sport" in the Olympics is, which you can watch below.

Our reporters at the events are doing their best to keep you up to date with all the action, but it is not always easy.

Our reporter Nick Hope is not too impressed with the internet in South Korea.

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No Winnie the Poohs over on the ice hockey arena. We do have a goal though, and it has gone to America, who lead 2-1 against Slovakia.

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