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There is an interesting backstory to the South Korean team.

The 'Garlic Girls' - so nicknamed because all the members of the team came from a region of South Korea famous for producing the crop - were a sensation in PyeongChang, winning silver and catapulting themselves to fame in their home country.

But a few months after they called a suprise media conference to allege verbal abuse and controlling behaviour by some of their coaches and the country's curling officials.

The subsequent investigation revealed a coaching culture and a generation gap in athletes' response to it., external

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Zhangjiakou

The men's 15km classic will shortly be getting under way at the cross-country course, with the two Andrews - Musgrave and Young - flying the flag for Team GB.

This event sees athletes go off in staggered starts, 30 seconds apart, for what is essentially a time trial. The athlete who posts the quickest time wins Olympic gold - easy peasy.

Young sets off at 7:15 GMT, with Musgrave going nine minutes later.

Logan Gray
Former Scottish curler on BBC TV

We talked about the resilience of this Korea team.

They have bounced back in the third end after a disappointing second.

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Eve Muirhead with the final Great Britain stone of the third end. And she has a really difficult shot to try and pull off - planting a high guard stone into the house to take out a scoring South Korea effort.

Ohh, misses by a couple of centimetres.

That leaves the way open for South Korean counterpart EunJung Kim to double up and this time there is no mistake.

South Korea goes ahead on the scoreline, which is an accurate reflection of the performances on the ice so far.

Logan Gray
Former Scottish curler on BBC TV

Oh my! What a mistake from Eun Jung Kim. A chance to score three, overcurls and chips out the shot stone.

That’s a huge let-off for Team GB but we’ll take it!

Thomas Duncan
BBC Scotland in Beijing

Eve Muirhead didn't catch her final shot cleanly, she wanted to remove the red stone.

But EunJung Kim, the South Korea skip, makes an error and it's a steal of one. Solid start.

Is the tension already showing in only the second end at the National Aquatics Centre?

Both skips come up along way short of perfect and it is Great Britain that profits with the first points of the match.

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BBC Sport in Beijing

Laura Deas, who claimed bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics alongside Lizzy Yarnold's gold medal, is at a loss to explain her slow times on the first two runs of the women's skeleton.

Deas lies 21st and fellow Briton Brogan Crowley 22nd, with only the top 20 qualifying for the fourth and final run on Saturday.

"I can't tell you now why the speed wasn't there," she said.

"It's certainly not the outcome I wanted. I came to the start block in a great frame of mind, I put together two good runs that I think I can be proud of.

"I've worked incredibly hard for the last four years to get to the start block today."

Seth Bennett
Commentator on BBC TV

USA have been pushed harder than they ever could have been expecting.

This has been a super performance from the Czechs.

A couple of goals from the USA in the third period finally broke Czech Republic's brave resistance and USA move into the semi-finals.

Thomas Duncan knows his stones.

A blank scoreline from the opening end.

Thomas Duncan
BBC Scotland in Beijing

My money's on a blank opening end here. It's just one stone in, one out at the moment.

Some of the Great Britain scrubbing is so frantic, I'm a bit worried they are going to go through the ice and hit board.

Two stones left each in the first end.

GB skip Eve Muirhead shunts a South Korean stone out the way, before South Korea counterpart Kim EunJung returns the favour...

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It is South Korea next for Great Britain in the women's curling.

And it will be a stiff test. South Korea won silver in front of a home crowd in PyeongChang in 2018, bronze at the 2019 World Championships and will be looking for redemption after coming off a back of a 12-7 defeat by Canada in their round-robin opener.

This is Britain's third contest of the round-robin after Eve Muirhead's team lost to Switzerland and then beat defending Olympic champions Sweden.

The first stones have been slid.

Great Britain's men's curlers were beaten 9-7 by Olympic champions the United States in the first of their two matches on Friday.

Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, and Hammy McMillan fought back from an early 5-2 deficit but the Americans were clinical in the ninth end to take a decisive lead.

It means the British rink have one win and one loss so far.

We're into the third period in the women's ice hockey quarter-finals and USA are 2-1 up on the Czech Republic - and you can watch the end of that one on BBC Two.

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This morning has also seen the retirement of a bona-fide winter sport legend.

The American three-time snowboard halfpipe champion, 35, finished fourth behind Japan's Ayumu Hirano as he attempt to defend his title.

"This is it for me," said White. "Snowboarding, thank you. It's been the love of my life.

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Just waking up? Then you had better start catching up. Because it has been a busy old day so far in Beijing.

Firstly, Russian teenage figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned heart drug in December it has emerged. The Russian Anti Doping Agency lifted the 15-year-old's suspension, enabling her to continue at the Beijing Games, but the International Olympic Committee has now appealed against that decision.

Valieva helped win team figure skating gold for the Russian Olympic Committee on Monday but the medals were not awarded because of a "legal issue".

A messy story that has plenty of unraveling to go.

Thomas Duncan
BBC Scotland in Beijing

The GB women are back in the house.

Eve Muirhead, Jen Dodds, Vicky Wright, and Hailey Duff probably skipped in this morning after demolishing defending champs Sweden 8-2 last night.

On paper, this is an easier match against South Korea. Having said that, the Koreans got a silver medal on home turf four years ago.

Anyway, having lost to Switzerland already, GB can't afford many more losses if they want to reach the semi-finals.

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American Mikaela Shiffrin made it to the end of the Super G after skiing out of her first two races of the Games and apparently teetering on the point of bringing her Olympic campaign to an end.

Shiffrin finished nith in a race won by Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland and smiled broadly in the finish area before departing without speaking to the media.