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It's goodbye from him and it's goodbye from us.

The only way to sign off today is with Shaun White - American snowboarding legend AKA the 'Flying Tomato' or the 'GOAT' - waving farewell to the sport which he has helped take to new levels.

Thanks for the memories, Shaun.

Join us again tomorrow to see what other Olympic dreams can be made. Until then...

Medal events: 6

Biathlon (men's sprint), cross-country skiing (women's relay), snowboard (mixed team snowboard cross), ski jumping (men's large hill), skeleton (women's), speed skating (men's 500m)

Highlights

This is probably the first day Team GB's chef de mission looks for when each Winter Olympic schedule is released: the women's skeleton finale.

At every Olympics since its introduction in 2002, women's skeleton has delivered a medal for Britain - bronze in 2002, silver in 2006 and gold at every Games since. No pressure, then, on Laura Deas to match or upgrade her 2018 bronze.

Brit watch

Figure skating's ice dance begins with the rhythm dance (previously known as the short dance) from 11:07 till 14:38. Lilah 'No' Fear and Lewis Gibson are the British entrants.

Just one slice of GB curling action on Saturday: the women play the US at 12:05.

World watch

The relays are usually where the Norway-Sweden rivalry in cross-country skiing reaches a climax. At Pyeongchang 2018, the two nations' women's relay teams were just two seconds apart after 20 kilometres - and more than 40 seconds ahead of anyone else. Expect similar this year. Starts 07:30.

Canada play the US in men's ice hockey at 04:10. The lack of NHL players means each nation had to be creative at short notice in who they selected, and that'll create an interesting match-up.

While we're going to slope off for the day in a mo, our television colleagues are not done just yet.

The BBC Two coverage will continue until 18:00 GMT.

And if it is the highlights which you're after then you're also well covered...

16:00-01:00: BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button, BBC Sport website and mobile app

19:00-20:00: Today at the Games - BBC Two

20:00-20:55: Winter Olympics Extra - BBC Three

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BBC Sport in Beijing

Russia. A case of suspected doping. Announced at an Olympics where the country is already banned for doping. A child involved.

Could it sound any worse?

The revelation that 15-year-old figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drugs test before Beijing 2022 has put the Games under a black cloud, swinging the spotlight away from sport and once again on a dark subject that simply will not go away.

Read the full story of how we have got to this point and what happens next.

If you're just checking in with us and wondering what else you've missed, then here is a handy compilation of today's best bits.

Here are the big lines from Beijing today:

• Teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drugs test in December, it is announced
• Double disappointment for Great Britain's curlers as men and women both lose
• GB freestyle skier Atkin withdraws from slopestyle
• American snowboarder Shaun White's glittering career comes to an end without a medal
• Pre-Games favourite Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the snow for the women's super-G

Click the links for more details on each story and the video highlights.

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We didn't think Canada would ease off, but it turns out they are having some mercy on poor Sweden.

Since we last checked in midway through the second period, the Canadians have added just the two more goals.

The Swedes had tightened things up at the back, although Brianne Jenner decided a moment ago she wanted to complete her hat-trick.

A 10-goal cushion *should* be enough to see Canada through to the semi-finals. Unless Sweden pull off a sporting miracle...

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British skeleton slider Matt Weston, speaking to BBC Sport about the nation's disappointing results: "I think there’s quite a few questions that need to be raised but equipment is definitely going to be one of them.

"We’ll review everything from start to finish, how it went, the processes we went through to try and get here, but equipment is definitely going to be on the list of the stuff we review."

On making a decent start but struggling on the lower half of the track: "Something’s not right. I couldn’t have done much more today. I’m really happy with how I slid.

"I saw Laura put some good runs down, and that was my target, to slide as well as she did. We’ll go away and we’ve got to learn some lessons about what’s happened here.

"I don’t doubt that we will bounce back stronger, but for the moment, it’s not where I want to be."

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As you've just seen, there was disappointment for Great Britain in the skeleton.

The nation's proud record of winning a medal at every Winter Olympics to feature the event has ended in Beijing.

After winning gold medals at the past three Winter Olympics and finishing on the podium at five consecutive Games from when the sport was reintroduced in 2002, Britain's men were 15th and 16th.

One of them was Matt Weston, who has been very honest in assessment after the event...

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Head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote

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Women's 1,000m short track bronze medallist Hanne Desmet of Belgium is the surprise medallist of the day. Gracenote's Podium Ranking for this event ranked her 17th of the 32 original entrants in the 1000m after finishing 21st, 25th and 25th in her three 1,000m World Cup races this season. Desmet has achieved one other podium place in her seven year senior career, winning silver at last year's World Championships. However, many of the world's best short trackers, including all of the Asian skaters, missed that tournament and she had not shown anything like that form since.

Sonia Oxley
BBC Sport in Beijing

Great Britain’s men’s curling team left the ice a long time ago after their victory over Norway.

But head coach David Murdoch has stuck around to check out the opposition….Canada are still playing Switzerland in a very tight affair.

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Colour of China's medal? Bronze. Surely.

Axel Jungk holds on to silver for Germany. Here comes two-time world champion Christopher Grotheer...

We are down to final five. Over to you Martins Dukurs... How much time and speed can the Latvian great find?

Not enough. He has dropped behind China's Zheng Yin and Evgeniy Rukosuev.

Wengang Yan is up next and puts on the afterburners. That was rapido, Alexander Tretiakov cannot live with that and China are guaranteed a medal. Now what medal will it be?

Germany's Axel Jungk is next up, aiming to muscle his way back onto the podium...

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Yun Sung-bin, the gold medallist from four years ago puts in a superb final run.

The South Korean has apparently fallen out of love with the sport but that was impressive and about half a second quicker than his previous three runs.

We'll be hitting the business end of this competition very shortly.

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Let's hear from the winning GB team after their dominant victory over Norway:

Bruce Mouat: "That's what we wanted to do, we wanted to have a nice bounce-back, a really clinical performance."

Grant Hardie: "I didn't have my best game this morning but to come out and play well today was a nicer feeling."

Bobby Lammy: "They were always going to be a tough match but we knew that if we brought our best and got that hammer at the start, we were going to be on the front foot.

"We got that jump and controlled it from there - onwards from here."

Hammy McMillan: "I was a lot better today - we got a lot better with the weight, and the draws there, which brought the good performance.

What will they do tomorrow on their rest day?

Mouat: "Well, I'm going to have a long lie - I need one! And then maybe do some shopping (mall in the village), or play table tennis."

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Stop the count.

Canada are 8-0 (EIGHT) up against Sweden in their quarter-finals. And it is only just past the halfway point.

Complete mismatch. Worryingly for Sweden, the Canadians don't look like taking their foot off the gas either.

Brianne Jenner has just slapped her second into the roof of the net, with Erin Ambrose, Blayre Turnbull and Natalie Spooner also scoring in this second period.

Question marks have been raised about the quality of equipment being used by Great Britain's sliders after Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt continued to struggle in the skeleton.

Weston was 14th after the third run, 3.12 seconds down on the leader, Germany's Christopher Grotheer, while Wyatt ended the run 16th, more than four seconds back.

Team GB's Marcus Wyatt up now. That's a decent start, which not for the first time doesn't really reap the rewards it perhaps should as he slows on the second part of the course.

Mattia Gaspari up next is out of the blocks much quicker and extends that advantage to take a provisional lead.

Matt Weston next for Britain. He makes a solid start but is slower than the Italian. It looks like the British sliders are going to finish in 15th and 16th.

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Here comes the medal run in the men's skeleton.

It's reverse order so basically the big medal favourites are a while off yet.

Canada's Enzie Blake is up first followed by Nathan Crumpton, who competed for American Samoa in the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in the 100m race, where he ran a time of 11.27 seconds.