For clarity, it appears China's Ziwei Ren was penalised for an arm block, while Canada's Charles Hamelin was also handed a penalty, allowing Farrell Treacy to be advanced from fifth to third.

Farrell Treacy will be in the Olympic 1500m final.

He came fifth in his semi-final but two penalties handed out to athletes means he is bumped up to third.

Put on your skates, throw on a helmet people. It's on...

Thomas Duncan
BBC Scotland in Beijing

The VAR as influential in speedskating as it is in football...Another review lengthy review there. Farrell Treacy crossed the line in fifth place, but he's been put into the final after penalties given to Charles Hamelin and Ren Ziwei!

There's a long wait for the official result of that semi-final. Maybe Farrell Treacy will get a help from officials here and get bumped up the rankings...

Simon Brotherton
Commentator on BBC TV

Farrell Treacy was in that race, in the mix right until the closing stages but that final surge of pace he couldn't quite stay with it.

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Treacy says he has had "four years of injury chaos" leading up to this.

The 26-year-old is fourth in the penultimate lap, to the bell, he's having to work very, very hard, it's slipping away. The burst of pace takes four athletes away from him and he ends fifth.

Shaoang Liu wins it for Hungary. Treacy's only hope is if judges feel there were too many shenanigans in running.

Farrell Treacy is underway in the third and final semi-final. He's Great Britain's only hope and he moves into the lead with 11 laps to go.

The Solihull-born skater is making his second appearance.

Denmark have recovered from a poor start to lead Canada 2-1 at the end of the second end in the men's curling at the National Aquatic Centre.

Defending champions the United States lead Russian Olympic Committee 1-0, while Norway and Switzerland are tied at 1-1 and it's currently scoreless between China and Sweden.

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Two-time defending champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt announce themselves with a track record time of 58.255 seconds to move into first place after the first five teams.

The triple is on for team Tobias.

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Daeheon Hwan of South Korea grabs the lead in semi-final two and he skates powerfully to get the job done. He is through with Semen Elistratov of the Russian Olympic Committee.

Next up, Great Britain's Farrell Treacy.

A few moments ago we explained how Canada's Kim Boutin was leading her 1000m heat at the final bend. And then this happened...

Thomas Duncan
BBC Scotland reporter at Dens Park

A couple of women have been filmed on the big screen pulling some dance moves to the tannoy music.

Lots of arm wriggling and shimmying going on. Back to the action soon, thankfully...

Shaolin Sándor Liu of Hungary impressed in the quarter-finals, as did Pascal Dion of Canada. The opening semi-final is loaded and with six laps to go it's wide open. A few nudges in the field, a chess match playing out, three laps left, four years of work in the locker... Lee June-seo of South Korea takes it, Sandor Liu in second. The two of them grabbed their position and held on expertly there.

Thomas Duncan
BBC Scotland in Beijing

It's men's semi-final time in the 1500m. GB's Farrell Treacy goes in the last of the three.

Top two from each qualify, plus three fastest losers.

Drama in store for sure.

The luge doubles is just getting under way, with 17 pairs taking on their first of two runs at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre.

The second runs will take place from 13:35 GMT.

German duo Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt are aiming to become the first doubles team to win three consecutive Winter Olympic golds in Beijing.

Can anyone stop them?

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Anna Thompson
BBC Sport in Beijing

The skeleton sliders have had six official training runs on the 1,975ft long track in Yanqing - which is known as the snow dragon with 16 curves, including a 360 degree turn.

The British athletes have been progressing steadily in the training runs, improving each time.

Marcus Whyatt, who won a silver medal at the test event, was sixth in his final training run, with Matt Weston in eighth.

In the women's, 2018 bronze medallist Laura Deas was 11th and Brogan Crowley 10th.

It is always hard to work out anything from training runs as there is a lot of smoke and mirrors between the teams with some athletes electing not to race each run.

Great Britain have won a medal every time skeleton has been part of the Winter Olympic programme - including golds in the last three Games.

There are four runs with the men's first two runs on Thursday, second two runs on Friday. The women race on Friday and Saturday.

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It's hard to tell if Lukas Greiderer is thrilled with bronze in the men's Nordic Combined or if he's been told it's a sausage in batter chips and fruity curry this evening.

This picture of two-time Olympic gold medallist Johannes Rydzek says it all.

A lung-busting, muscle-burning, vision-blurring effort to lead the Olympic race until the final moments.

Tough to take. He came fifth.

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Simon Brotherton
Commentator on BBC TV

There is proof if we ever needed it, you can not take your eyes off a short track race for one second.

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

Maybe a slight loss of concertation from Kim Boutin.

She knew she was in front, couple of metres ahead of the others fairly comfortably.