Early stages in the first run of the women's combined and world champion Wendy Holdener has completed her downhill run and she is third, 1.97 seconds behind leader and fellow Swiss Michelle Gisin.

Holdener will hope to make that time up and more in the slalom later.

Incidentally, American Lindsey Vonn is the 19th skier out.

Steve Cram
Curling commentator on BBC TV

It's a real shame. To have had the chance against the USA and then a second bite against Switzerland, fighting well all the way to the ninth end before it's taken away - admittedly by a wonderful bit of curling by Benoit Schwarz.

When it mattered most, Switzerland found a way to win it.

Henry Thomas-Aldridge: Whatever the sport, Britain always know how to lose in style. Gutted!

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Game over. Handshakes all round as the Swiss wrap up victory and progress to the play-offs.

Oh, what might have been for Kyle Smith and his rink...

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The women's combined event is about to get under way and it's a big day for United States skiing in the women's combined with Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn competing against each other in the Olympics for the first - and almost certainly the last - time.

Shiffrin, 22, and Vonn, 33, will both be targeting a medal in the event, which consists of a downhill run before the slalom.

Shiffrin - who has already won 30 World Cup slalom races despite her youth - took gold in the giant slalom earlier in these Games. She pulled out of yesterday's downhill after today's combined was brought forward 24 hours.

The great Vonn - winner of 81 World Cup races and the 2010 Olympic downhill champion - took bronze in the event yesterday and this is set to be her final Olympic race.

She was very emotional when she spoke to BBC Sport's Chemmy Alcott after the downhill...

Britain's rink know the game is up. Glum faces all round.

Steve Cram
Curling commentator on BBC TV

It's certainly not the end they wanted. A superb shot, taking five in one end and you do not see that very often at this level of curling.

It means Britain have very little chance here, it looks as though their opportunity to make the semi-finals has disappeared there.

WOW! Swiss skip Benoit Schwarz sneaks his final stone through the gap between those two British guards and takes out his opponents in the house.

One, two, three, four, FIVE! It's a Swiss-only party now as Schwarz's brilliance ends Britain's chances of reaching the play-offs.

It's not often you see a five-fer at this level.

There's a house party going on in the Gangneung Curling Centre. And Britain have a few uninvited Swiss guests they want to get rid of. Kyle Smith decides to bring in more security with his final stone, putting a second guard on the front in a bid to stop the Swiss nicking three.

Crammy and Jackie Lockhart don't seem overly impressed by that choice of shot...

Switzerland roll a fourth stone into the mixer, leaving Britain with a bigger target but without the angle to blitz them.

Kyle Smith swings his first stone round from right to left, but it isn't enough to make an impact. Hand nervously covering mouth from the British skip tells you everything.

"Big trouble brewing", says our commentator Crammy. That's for Britain, of course.

Everything is going perfectly to plan for the Swiss in this crucial ninth end, three of their red stones lined up in the house.

The ideal scenario for Britain? To go into the final end level and with the hammer.

Of course, as our expert summariser Jackie Lockhart rightly says, it's easier to play these scenarios out on paper. Let's find out how it plays out in practice. Two ends to go... (unless it goes to an extra, sudden-death end)

Steve Cram
Curling commentator on BBC TV

That was a huge sigh of relief, well done Kyle Smith.

It's still an incredibly tight match here. Great Britain need to believe they can see this through now.

Anna Thompson
BBC Sport in Pyeongchang

Dave Ryding has promised to charge in the second run after finishing 1.37 seconds off the leader. He admitted he didn’t go full out in the first run because he wanted to put down a decent run. He told me: “I could’ve gone harder but I needed to guarantee the second run.

“I’m there or thereabouts and I can really attack on the second run. I prefer to attack than be the one being attacked.”

He said he didn’t know Marcel Hirscher had failed to finish but added: “He was one of the favourites but there are a lot of good guys left in it.”

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'Rocket' Dave Ryding (above) lies 12th after the first run of the men's slalom and still has a chance of a medal for Britain.

Ryding is 1.37 seconds behind leader Henrik Kristoffersen. Sweden's Andre Myhrer is 0.21 behind Kristoffersen in second and France's Victor Muffat-Jeandet 0.62 away in the bronze-medal position.

The top 30 will go out in reverse order from 04:45 GMT for the decisive second run.

A reminder that big favourite Marcel Hirscher failed to complete his first run, losing control as you can watch below...

Four Swiss stones in the house, Britain's final delivery...

Good weight, good line... perfect. Kyle Smith continues his good form by nailing his final stone, which eases off the gas and grinds to a halt in the centre of the house.

That'll do. Great Britain edge back ahead with two ends left to play.

Switzerland squeeze their penultimate stone of this eighth end past their guard and into the centre of the house.

Pressure on the British now - they need to score as they aim to have the hammer for the final end.