Sonia Oxley
BBC Sport in Beijing

"May you carry his Olympic dream on your shoulders and compete with his spirit in your heart."

Those were the words the grieving athletes heard at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Games after Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a training crash just hours earlier.

They could also have been directed at his then nine-year-old cousin Saba.

Now 21, Saba has become the first Georgian luger to compete at an Olympics at Beijing 2022.

Saba was in 31st place after Saturday's opening two runs at the Yanqing sliding centre, but his participation was about much more than numbers.

Read more here.

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Shaun White will be chasing a fourth Olympic halfpipe gold at the Genting Snow Park.

Qualification for the halfpipe takes place on Wednesday, with the final on Friday.

He attributed his decision to retire to lingering knee and back problems.

"The thing I'm the most proud of would be staying on top of a sport that's ever-changing for as long as I have," he said.

The big news on Saturday was three-time Winter Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White confirming he will retire from the sport after the Beijing Games.

The American, 35, won his first gold in 2006 in Turin said he is "enjoying every moment" of his final Games.

The five-time Olympian is the world's most decorated snowboarder, having also took gold in Vancouver and Pyeongchang.

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Some news just in regarding the mixed doubles curling.

The Australian Olympic Committee has announced it is making arrangements for Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt to return to Australia, after Tahli returned a series of positive Covid tests late on Saturday.

The pair, who had lost all seven of their games so far, will miss their final two matches.

They played Great Britain a couple of days ago.

"Norway were expected to win two gold medals on day one according to our Virtual Medal Table forecast and won two," says Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote.

"As they are meeting expectations so far, our updated virtual medal table still has them finishing on a record 44 medals, including a record 21 golds.

"Germany and Russia Olympic Committee are both one medal ahead of expectations, as are Austria and Hungary outside the top 10.

"The Dutch had the worst day, missing out on two of the three medals they were forecasted to win. Sweden, France and Japan won one fewer medal today than expected.

"This is our updated virtual medal table."

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The first gold of the Games went to Norway's 33-year-old Therese Johaug, who dominated the women's 15km skiathlon.

The Norwegian, who had won 14 world titles but never an individual Olympic gold, missed the 2018 Pyeongchang Games while serving a doping ban.

It looked exhausting. Here's her winning moment.

Incredible jumps, painful crashes, top-corner finishes.

In case you missed Saturday's fun, here's a neat little video with all the best bits from day one in Beijing.

They serve food, make cocktails and clean up. Where can I get one, I hear you ask?

Behind the scenes at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the future is already here.

Covid-19 measures mean Star Wars R2-D2-esque robots are a familiar sight in media centres and hotels, cleaning and reminding people to wear their masks.

Temperature checks, cooking and delivering food are all offered as an automated service. It even extends to mixology - meaning you can be sipping your favourite cocktail without even having to tip the bartender.

Following GB's 6-5 comeback win over China, and a 10-8 win for the Czech Republic over USA in a high-scoring match, this is how things stand.

Great Britain are tied second, level with Sweden and behind only unbeaten Italy.

Canada could also join GB on five wins and two defeats with victory over Czech Republic among those 06:05 GMT matches.

Italy play China later this morning, while Sweden face Norway in another crucial match in the fight for a qualifying top-four place.

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Juliakate: Women's snowboarding final. Which was better: The incredible talent of these fearless athletes or their sheer joy in each other's performances? Celebrations that crossed international boundaries. Magnificent.

Andrew: I love this sport, watching these athletes fills me with excitement & joy, makes me want to hit the kickers & fly

Sonia Oxley
BBC Sport in Beijing

Kamila Valieva has delivered an absolutely stunning routine to put the Russian Olympic Committee in the lead in the figure skating team event.

Just shy of her best ever score (90.45) she scored 90.18 for her routine to In Memoriam by Kirill Richter to become the first woman to score more than 90 for a short program at the Olympics.

So far she's living up to the hype - for context, the second best score today was 74.73 for Japan's Wakaba Higuchi.

In the women's individual event she will be up against two fellow Russian teenagers - also tipped for the podium - but still, that is a huge gulf in class today.

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Ten more cases of Covid-19 have been reported from yesterday (5 February).

Of those, six are athletes or team officials, with two picked up on arrival at the airport in Beijing.

In total, 72,786 PCR tests were taken by athletes, team officials and other stakeholders, including the media, yesterday.

Jukebox Jack: That final trick from Zoe was just unreal, very much worth staying up until 3am just to see the 36th run of 36 end in a score in the 90's, just fantastic!! Good to see GB win their Curling match too of course!

Lee Fergusson: Just amazing that from Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

Here's what's still to come this morning, just in case you were considering heading off to sleep...

We were due to see the men's downhill final at 03:00 GMT, however that has been pushed back to 05:00 due to poor weather conditions.

Before then, qualification in the men's slopestyle competition gets under way from 04:30.

There's more curling action to come from 06:05, and GB will be keeping a close eye on those matches ahead of their next game against Norway at 12:05.

From 07:00, GB's Andrew Musgrave will be in action in the men's skiathlon.

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Well, what a start it's been to day two in Beijing.

A nail-biting finish in the curling as GB edged to a 6-5 victory over China, moments before Zoi Sadowski-Synnott delivered a stunning final run to clinch the women's slopestyle gold.

It's shaping up to be quite a day...

Jenny Jones
2014 Olympic bronze medallist snowboarder on BBC TV

Zoi had legs of steel to have ridden that out. A legend.

There is such a high level of riders - they're all pushing each other, they're really landing those tricks.

But to see those top three runs, the level was incredible.

Really amazing to showcase [the women's event] this way.

Ricky Austin: I've been bit by the Winter Olympics bug again... Curling is so strangely fascinating and snowboard is just mental.

Great to have you on board, Ricky!

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding commentator on BBC TV

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott eats pressure for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

We've seen her in this position so many times - she knows how to handle it but this is the Olympics and this time she has come in with expectations

Massive! She had no business landing that! An absolutely leviathan run!

American Julia Marino takes the silver with her second run score of 87.68, ahead of Australian Tess Coady in bronze after her final 84.15.