Plan your coffee/fag breaks accordingly. Elise Christie's heat gets under way at 10:12 GMT, with fellow Brits Kathryn Thomson (10:09) and Charlotte Gilmartin (10:21) also skating this morning.

Three Brits go in the heats for the women's 1000m then. Are they all going through?

The top two in each heat reach the quarter finals.

Great Britain took another step towards a semi-final place in the women's curling event a little earlier on, recovering from a shaky start to claim an 'excellent' 8-6 victory over Japan.

Wilf O’Reilly MBE
Former British short track speed skater on BBC TV

"Even though she is 80-90% fit on paper, Elise Christie should get through comfortably. Getting through first or second will qualify. It should be sufficient.

"She looked quite comfortable [in training this morning.] It is an elongated sprint so the start will be quite important and I think that's where the problems will be."

On whether she will race: "Ultimately she can just not show up on the start line. Obviously it is a call that Elise has to make herself. Does she feel comfortable and confident enough?"

Other challengers? "On paper, both skaters [Charlotte Gilmartin and Elise Christie] are capable of getting through to the next round.

"At the moment, the Chinese are having a real disaster Games. It is the first time there hasn't yet been one in the final so they will look to make amends."

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Japanese ski jump legend Noriaki Kasai missed out on a medal on his record eighth appearance at a Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, but insists he will make the podium at the age of 49 in four years' time.

Kasai made his Olympic debut at Albertville in 1992 and collected a team silver at Lillehammer in 1994, before adding a large hill silver and team bronze 20 years later at Sochi.

The 45-year-old never threatened for a medal in South Korea, finishing sixth in the team competition, but has already set his sights on Beijing 2022.

"I'm not saying I want to be there, I'm saying I definitely will compete in Beijing," he said.

"I would like to aim for 10 Olympic Games eventually. I'm not done yet."

Kasai is something of a cult hero in the ski jump world, with Finnish punk band Van Dammes recording a tribute a single called 'Mr Noriaki Kasai'...

Sarah Lindsay
Three-time Olympic short track speed skater on BBC TV

Elise Christie is obviously not going to be 100% but if she gets through today, she buys herself a couple of days to prepare for the semi-final. I'm sure she has work to do.

It is important to get into a good position early on but she has good speed and even if she doesn't get off to a good start, she should be fine.

In this next race, she needs to skate clean and get through. She likes the 1000m and considers it her best distance. We just need to look at it one race at a time and just be happy she is racing.

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

Pre-race entertainment at the track today appears to be a woman in ugg boots, and a man in a blue and red wig, dancing to bad Korean trance music.

This gets stranger by the day...

Sarah Lindsay
Three-time Olympic short track speed skater on BBC TV

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Firstly, how amazing is it that Elise Christie is back on the ice after being stretchered off on Saturday? She skated this morning and she feels good. She has an amazing team around her.

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

As well as the much talked about Elise Christie, who goes in heat five, Britain's Charlotte Gilmartin and Kat Thomson are hoping their Olympic journey in Pyeongchang comes to a happy end in the 1000m heats.

Gilmartin was penalised in the heats of the 500m and made it to the 1500m semi-finals on Saturday, before crashing out.

Thomson hasn't been able to make it past the heat stages yet. The 21-year-old goes in heat four at 10:09 GMT while Gilmartin is in the final heat at 10:21 GMT.

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IF Elise Christie was NOT able to race, it was going to be announced an hour before the race. So I think we can take it as read that she WILL be racing at 10:12 GMT.

Rob Hatch
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 live

I’ll be joining Elly Oldroyd in the Gangneung Ice Arena to commentate on Elise Christie’s 1,000m heat. Hear it on BBC Radio 5 live from 10:00 GMT.

Anna Thompson
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

While most UK eyes were on Great Britain's women beating Japan 8-6, there were huge cheers in the arena as hosts South Korea became the first team to qualifiy for the semi-final.

And they made Olympic history, as neither the women - nor the men - have ever reached this stage of an Olympic competition before.

They did do so after beating the United States 9-6.

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It took well over a day of playing time on the ice for Great Britain’s women curlers to earn a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics – at the same Games, it took American Jim Shea Jr 102 seconds to win his skeleton gold.

There’s no denying that curling really is an endurance sport. Some might joke it’s the spectators who do the enduring but don’t be fooled by the sport’s slow pace. A curler can cover 5km in a game; add in sliding the stone (weighing almost 20kg) and some vigorous sweeping (which can move the stone an extra three metres), and an athlete can burn 1800 calories in a match.

JJ: In terms of playing time, does any other Olympic sport come close to Curling for the amount of time competing required in order to win gold? A men's 100m sprinter will run for less than 30 seconds to win his gold, a curler - more than 30 hours!

Interesting...

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

The North Korean cheer squad have just arrived in their droves, all in matching red suits and hats.

It's a big night for the South Koreans on the ice. They have three athletes in the women's 1000m heats, three in the men's 500m and their relay team are going for gold in the 3000m, too.

Expect noise.

More from British curler Anna Sloan, following their victory over Japan this morning: "We knew we had to win that one.

"We're in a good position, maybe not the best, but we're going in the right direction. We enjoyed it and I thought we played really well.

"We controlled the game and that's important at this stage. I think we're all pretty relaxed out there and we play well like that.

"We were at the wrong end of the inch in a couple of games that could've easily gone our way and it left us in a 'we have to win' situation.

"It's been really tough, but our experience has been shining through."

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Nick Hope
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

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GB pilot Lamin Deen was certainly in great form for our BBC Sport preview shoot today.

The Sochi Olympian was loving his time in front of the camera and says he’s “desperate” to get out on the ice after having to watch so many of his fellow Team GB squad mates compete in other sports so far.

“We’ve been watching the skeleton team who we spend a lot of time with on the circuit and they’ve been brilliant, but we now want our chance to show what we can do,”

Deen tells me.

“We’ve won World Cup medals this year and we believed that both teams can challenge for a medal.”

The first official training for the four-man competition begins tomorrow, with the first two competition runs taking place in the early hours of Saturday morning.

• 11:33: Short-track speed skating - women's 3,000m relay final
• 11:15-12:45: Biathlon - 2x6km women's and 2x7.5km men's mixed relay
• Nordic combined - men's individual large hill (10:00-10:55) and men's individual 10km (12:45-13:45)

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

I love this time of night at the arenas. The sun's going down over Gangneung but there are still loads of people buzzing about, moving between the ice hockey, speed skating and curling venues.

Don't let the sunlight deceive you, though. It's still bloomin' cold, I promise.

'Curling' was never an excuse I used at school...