John Jackson
Two-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

There were some great lines in parts of the track. Brad Hall is still driving relatively well.

Brad Hall said yesterday that this is just practice for the four-man sled. And his run is a bit ragged, he tags the wall twice, three times.

He clocks a time of 49.67, his worst run yet.

Can Brad Hall improve on his seventh place overnight?

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Two huge stones from skip Eve Muirhead - whose mistake was deemed to have resulted in defeat against Sweden - gives her GB team a 2-0 lead against Switzerland.

Muirhead's penultimate stone somehow weaved its way into the house and then her final stone, and the last of the end, came from wide left and nudged another in the house to hand GB an invaluable early advantage.

John Jackson
Two-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

You can see what that means to Francesco Friedrich. That was perfect. If he had had that run yesterday there would have been nobody in contention for the gold medal.

That was the run he needed to put down to put pressure on everybody else.

A track record! 48.96 seconds from the third German bobsled lifts Francesco Friedrich into second place overall.

He is just 0.06 seconds off the pace set by Canadian Justin Kripps.

The Latvian sled driven by Oskars Melbardis clocks the fastest time yet in this heat, but it's only enough for third overall. Tight?!

Just a bit.

Netherlands, Japan, Canada and the US are through into the semi-finals of the team pursuit.

Another German sled, driven by Johannes Lochner this time, is third away. They can't match the pace of the Canadian duo but move ahead of compatriot Nico Walther.

John Jackson
Two-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

That little mistake that we saw from Nico Walther was the difference between those two lines. It is only a hundredth of a second in it.

The Canadians are real challengers for the gold medal.

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

The 500m men's speed skating title is up for grabs later.

The Sochi champion, Michel Mulder, failed to qualify back at the end of last year.

Will it stay in the family and go to twin brother Ronald, who won bronze in Russia? Or will fellow Dutchman Jan Smeekens go one step further after being runner-up in 2014?

Away from Dutch domination, Havard Holmefjord Lorentzen of Norway and Alex Boisvert-Lacroix of Canada have won every World Cup event between them.

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We have new leaders - world number one Justin Kripps of Canada takes the lead after a stunning start.

86mph through the speed trap but that's the slowest run yet from Nico Walther. The conditions may not be ideal because of the weather today.

The leaders go first in this third heat which means that stunning looking German sled driven by Nico Walther is away...NOW!

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There's a big crowd around the track as we tick down toward the start of heat three of the men's two-man bobsleigh.

It's a spectacular sight under the floodlights.

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The sole British two-man sled will be piloted by Bradley Hall. A former decathlete and discus specialist, he has not had a regular brakeman in this season’s World Cup – using five different team-mates in seven races. The 27-year-old has failed to record a top-10 finish – his best result was 13th at Whistler (with Joel Fearon), while he ended 14th in his final pre-Olympic contest in Konigssee last month (with Sam Blanchett).

Fearon is in the chair today.

He should benefit from having competed at last season’s World Cup event in Pyeongchang, when he ended 19th, but probably has a better chance of success in the four-man event. This will be Hall’s first Olympic Games; he competed at last year’s World Championships but failed to make it through to the final heat of the two-man event and crashed out in the four-man discipline.

You can watch the GB women in curling action now at the top of the page or on the Red Button.

Nick Hope
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

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British pilot Brad Hall - a former rugby player and track athlete - only began driving a bobsleigh in 2015.

Many of his rivals have been sliding since they were young teenagers meaning some will have over a decade more experience than him.

The fact that he has guided the two-man team into seventh at the halfway stage and claimed a World Cup medal this season suggests he is the real deal.

He’s only 27, meaning he could have another two Olympics in him and has medal potential not only here - in the 4-man event at the weekend, but also future Games.