Kent Simpson
Commentator on BBC TV

I've been impressed with both teams, it's been a wonderful game to call, the intensity.

Sometimes over a course of a tournament you expect it to kind of ramp up and it certainly will but I think it's been even higher than I expected.

It's been physical for both sides.

Nikita Nesterov unleashes a shot from distance that Sven Andrighetto blocks with the side of his knee, where there isn't as much padding.

These guys are tough.

Let's not worry too much about the medals just yet.

I'll draw the line if Spain, Mexico or any other hot-holiday destination make it on there before us though.

As we cite Barry Davies' stupendous commentary on a smiling Francis Lee in our last entry, something not so cheery right now is the medal table.

You can find it here.

*Spoiler: Britain are not on it yet.

As Barry Davies once famously said....

"Look at his face, just look at his face".

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So a reminder we have the 10km cross-country ski coming up in the Nordic Combined at 11:00 GMT. It's made more exciting by the fact the athletes start with a time handicap because of their jump performance in the first stage.

So you get the good skiers chasing down the slower ones, etc. Think of those times you gave your gran a head start on Mario Kart...

Russian Olympic Committee still hold onto a slender 1-0 lead at the end of a second period that saw seven players spend some time in the sin bin.

Feisty.

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• 11:00: Short track speed skating - men's 1500m quarter-finals featuring GB's Farrell Treacy (semi-finals at 12:29, final at 13:20)
• 11:00: Nordic combined individual - cross country round
• 11:44: Short track speed skating: Women's 100m heats featuring GB's Kathryn Thompson
• 12:05: Curling - Men's round robin phase begins
• 12:20: Luge - doubles run one (second and final run at 13:35)
• 12:45: Short track speed skating - Women's 3000m relay semi-finals
• 13:10: Ice hockey - Czech Republic v Denmark

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding commentator on BBC TV

This is the very nature of snowboard cross racing. Charlotte has nerves of steel. You watch her this season, and she is so comfortable in close proximity racing. It’s phenomenal how well she does. It’s just centimetres between those boards. She is like a missile when she’s on track, but it’s unpredictable. Form is one thing, but the spontaneity of that racing means that there are no guarantees. Yes, it’ll take her time to process it, but she knows that’s the cut and thrust of snowboard cross. Come tomorrow morning, she’ll realise that.

Graham Bell
Five-time Olympic skier on BBC TV

It was just a split-second decision by Charlotte Bankes in her race. Do I go one way or the other? Charlotte’s trying to go on the inside. If she’s already thought about going on the outside, maybe pre-empted a mistake from Critchlow, then those two would have gone through, and Brockhoff wouldn’t have had the speed to come past.

But that is snowboard cross. At least in ski cross, there’s only one edge or the other. There’s no toe edge or heel edge. The fact that Charlotte is goofy [races left foot forward] has helped her a lot in some races, but the fact that Tess Critchlow is also goofy as well meant the two of them ran wide on that fifth bend.

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding commentator on BBC TV

When Charlotte Bankes talked about it being a dense field, she’s talking about the talent there and how close they were racing. Usually in the quarter-finals, you’ve got differing levels of ability, and it’s actually a dangerous time, because you can get slower races, and slower racers catching you out. But they’re all travelling at a very similar speed here.

Because snowboarders are either regular or goofy, so right foot forward or left foot forward, you’re weaker on your heel side edge, so you see racers catching up when they’re driving off their toes and slowing down on their heels, and that’s actually what undoes Charlotte in the end.

She gets overtaken by Tess Critchlow while she’s on her heels, and then she’s generating speed on her toes, but Critchlow’s in front of her, makes a mistake, and she chooses the wrong line and loses all of her board speed, and then she’s lost touch with Belle Brockhoff.

Some more from Aimee Fuller on Charlotte Bankes' surprise exit: "You really are so exposed in boardercross, in other snowboarding disciplines it’s all about you but when it comes to this there’s so many different factors. You’ve got other people elbowing, it is quite literally neck and neck.

"So, it’s all about the people around you and how you manage that and you can’t control those factors. That’s why there is such a fine line between the win and the loss, it is a case of go big or go home and unfortunately today we saw Charlotte go home.

"Success at these Olympic Games really helps funds and the next generation. It’s people like Charlotte Bankes that really inspire the next generation and seeing her performance out there today even though it wasn’t the result we were all hoping for, it was a brave one and one that she should be proud of."

Anton Slepyshev could be in a bit of trouble here....yes, he is.

He is given a 2+2 minute penalty for a headbutt on Yannick Weber after a official video review.

Can Switzerland take advantage of the powerplay?

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British slopestyle snowboarder Aimee Fuller reacts to Charlotte Bankes' shock exit in the women's snowboard cross: "A real, real blow because there was a lot of excitement also a lot of pressure on Charlotte going into this event, she was the one to watch.

"She is a master when it comes to dealing with pressure but looking at today’s race it just didn’t quite go her way and there are such fine lines in the sport of boardercross. You make one tiny mistake and you are out and unfortunately she was just pipped to the corner and once the leader was out in front there is absolutely no way she could get past.

"She had such a strong race and a performance she should really be proud of but it’s a really long course, very, very challenging but that’s the thing with sport, it’s so brutal."

Kent Simpson
Commentator on BBC TV

A very tight game, not a lot a room on both sides, both teams skating just too well, combine that with the size and we got a one goal game.

10/10 for artistic technique.

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Lindsay Jacobellis finally has her hands on an Olympic gold medal after throwing away what looked like a certain win at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

She has been speaking to BBC Sport and said: "I’m just so excited it finally all came together. All the stars aligned and in this sport, that can be rare!

"I was always still hungry for it, always still loved racing. Every morning before a race it’s still nerve-wracking, still stressful and it’s a blast once you cross the finish line.

"I already felt I was a winner because I made it to finals because it’s so challenging now to make it.

"When we were held up in the gate for a while, my thought was I just have to ride. It’s going to be what it’s going to be. I really didn’t know how it was going to pan out."

Jacobellis's cousin is in Beijing working for an American broadcaster and she added:

"She told me this morning that she was making her way up. I was really excited she was able to be here, chanting and supporting me, definitely bringing that family energy from the US.”

It was building up for while and finally things have boiled over. A goalmouth scramble sparks an almighty scrap right in front of the Swiss goal.

Andres Ambuhl and Mirco Muller of Switzerland, and Pavel Karnaukhov and Dmitri Voronkov of ROC are all sent to the sin bin to calm down and think about what they have just done.

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This was Lindsay Jacobellis in 2006 when she crashed out of the women's snowboard cross final when she literally only had the line left to cross. It was the kind of moment that gets replayed time and again, reminding those watching that it's not over until it's over.

Here she was today. Down again, this time for all of the right reasons as she contemplated finally being Olympic champion, 16 years on from that horror moment.

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