Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

A lovely maneuver from Choi Minjeong on lap five got her in the perfect position for a safe finish.

It was a crowd-pleaser.

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

Choi Minjeong makes it look so easy.

Image source, Getty Images

Heat two is clean as well, on first viewing anyway. The officials will check it over on the video if need be.

The results are

1. Choi Minjeong (Korea)
2. Qu Chunyu (China)

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

BBC commentator Wilf O'Reilly told me earlier that in three days of short track there's been 34 penalties to 11 different countries.

Short track is brutal.

Ah, Han Yutong of China has been penalised from that first heat.

Veronique Pierron and Bianca Walther go through.

Choi Minjeong of Korea is up next in heat two. BRING THE NOISE.

Jon Eley
Former GB Olympic short-track speed skater

It's about getting up to the front of the race early on. I want to see the girls get out and try to dominate the race.

They can get out safe and keep all of our nerves calm.

Plenty of noise for the Korean skater as she moves to the head of the field.

The two who qualify are:

1. Shim Sukhee (Korea)
2. Han Yutong (China)

NO CRASHES

Image source, AFP

AWAY WE GO!

Nine-and-a-half laps of the track. Sounds like a lot of opportunity to fall over one another if you ask me...

The arena may not be full but it will be loud in heat one - Shim Sukhee of Korea is one of the four women aiming to qualify.

An infringement of the rules, commonly cutting corners or impeding an opponent, is punishable by a penalty, and the guilty skater being relegated to last place in that heat.

If an infringement is deemed to be an unsafe, harmful or hazardous offence, a yellow card is shown and the skater/team is disqualified and not ranked in the final classification.

If an infringement is deemed to be intentionally dangerous or grossly negligent, a red card is shown, the skater/team is disqualified, not ranked in the final classification and banned from the rest of the Winter Olympics.

If a skater is shown two yellow cards during the Games, they will be given a red card.

The referee has the power to advance a skater who did not finish in the qualifying places in a heat to the next round “in exceptional situations”, eg. if that skater is prevented from qualifying because of an infringement by another skater.

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.

Let's stay positive and go for all three in the quarter-finals.

AND ABSOLUTELY NO CRASHES

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

There's a surprising number of empty seats in the Gangneung Ice Arena. The short track events have been super popular here so you'd expect it to be a near sell-out.

Maybe everyone is having their selfie taken at the premium spot outside?

The ice has been cleaned and polished to within an inch of its life, the arena looks like a giant Christmas cake.

Are we ready? I feel the need, the need for speed...

Image source, EPA

This is the only Olympic event that Italy’s Arianna Fontana is yet to win a medal in but the 27-year-old is at her fourth Games, having just clinched the overall European title for the seventh time. That included victory in the 1000m, where she pipped Suzanne Schulting in a photo finish. Fontana was just 15 when she won relay bronze at her home Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006.

In Korea she has already picked up gold in the 500m.

Ice Hockey: 07.40-12.10 GMT (Men's play-offs qualifications)

07.40 GMT (Women's classifications)

Nordic combined: 10.00 GMT (Individual jumping round)

12.45 GMT (Individual 10km cross-country)

Short track speed skating: 10.00-10.28 GMT (Women's 1000m heats)

10.45-11.07 GMT (Men's 500m)

11.23-11.33 (Women's 3000m relay final)

Curling: 11.05 GMT (Men's Round Robin matches)

Biathlon: 11.15 GMT (Mixed relay)

Bobsleigh: 11.50-12.55 GMT (Women's heats 1/2)

Wardy: Regardless of the outcome today @Elise_Christie, external is an Olympic legend in my eyes. It would make a great ending to a dramatic story if she can win a medal though

It's almost time to get the skaters on the ice.

To recap, there are eight heats, each containing four athletes. The top two in each go through to Thursday's quarter-finals.

Can Elise Christie bounce back from yet another disappointment?

Go big, or go home.

Home it is.

Rhona Howie
Olympic gold medalist curler on BBC TV

They [British men] are gaining in confidence. Their shot play is a lot more accurate. The boys are loving it and playing the game well. They are looking good.