So that's half-time of the first final.

After the first of two runs, Ashley Caldwell of the United States leads ahead of Chinese pair Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu.

Here are the six athletes who are currently placed to go into the second final - where the medals are dished out.

A lot can change...

Just watching this is frankly terrifying. These athletes have nerves of steel.

Halvor Egner Granerud of Norway leads the way after the first 11 jumpers with a hefty leap of 130 metres to earn a score of 128.3.

The Norwegians are the defending champions so it is no surprise to see them topping the early standings.

Three jumpers from each team are still to go, with the bottom three teams eliminated.

Switzerland, the Czech Republic and China are in the dreaded bottom three right now.

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But wait... Xu Mengtao isn't top of the pops for long. The next jumper, Ashley Caldwell of the United States, betters her Chinese rival's score with a better execution of a slightly less difficult jump.

Caldwell still manages to crack a smile, despite the meat-preserving temperatures. "It's freeeeee-zing," she shivers.

Wowwww! The most difficult jump of the evening so far is attempted by Xu Mengtao.

Going as high as a five-storey building, she performs three somersaults and three twists... and lands neatly.

That brings a score of 103.89 and sees her climb above Chinese team-mate Kong Fanyu.

Danil Sadreev of the Russian Olympic Committee wraps himself in a big orange blanket at the starting gate while he waits for the wind to drop. All he needs is a steaming hot cup of cocoa.

He eventually gets the all clear and his score of 115.4 puts the ROC into an early lead.

The final results are calculated by the cumulative scores of all four jumpers on each team.

There are two scored rounds, with only the top eight teams advancing to the final round.

Look at that view.

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More 'ooohs' and 'aaaahs' from the BBC commentators than you hear at the local park on Bonfire Night.

Australia's Danielle Scott is the latest to go, and the latest to not land cleanly.

"It's tricky out here," Scott sighs into the camera as she waits to learn her fate.

That's 71.23 and into sixth. Another jump to go, remember.

It's -21 degrees over at the Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre.

To add to that, variable winds mean the athletes won't know what direction the wind will be blowing when they get to the starting gate at the top of the hill.

If the wind is too strong then the jury will halt the runs for safety reasons - which has what has just happened.

As if things weren't tough enough.

Ben Benson
Commentator for BBC TV

These athletes all train into water first, then you have an artificial ski slope. There's an artificial kicker on the end and you'll learn your craft on the water and it still hurts a lot when you land from 50 feet onto water but it hurts a lot less than falling onto snow!

Ouch! This is a heavy landing.

Kazakhstan's Akmarzhan Kalmurzaya somersaults through the air but doesn't rotate enough before landing, coming down on her lower back rather than her skis.

She is wincing but, thankfully, quickly up on her feet.

Unsurprisingly her score also suffers and she's bottom of the leaderboard with 52.36.

They say football goalkeepers are a different breed, but they've got nothing on freestyle aerial skiers.

Athletes launch themselves 20m into the air off a ramp at up to 45mph and are judged on their take-off, height, distance, tricks and landing.

Flips, spins, general daredevilling. The human Red Arrows.

How do they train? In a swimming pool. Rather than train on hard-packed snow, most aerial skiers spend at least half the year landing in the water.

At aquatic training facilities around the world, athletes in swimwear put on their skis and boots, launch themselves off a ski jump and practise their manoeuvres before landing in the water.

While the fancy freestyle aerial skiers are all about the tricks, the ski jumping gang are all about distance.

They fizz down a huge hill before flinging themselves off a ramp, soaring in the air in excess of 140m, hitting top speeds of approximately 60mph

The first round of the men's team event has just got under way, with the top eight teams qualifying for final round at 12:06 GMT.

Expect to see more images like this:

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China's Kong Fanyu, one of the favourites, is third off the ramp. She does a back double-full-full, apparently.

That brings up a score of 102.71. That's big!

The 2018 bronze medallist goes into the lead and by a considerable margin.

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Qualifying for the women's aerials competition took place earlier today and 12 athletes successfully secured their spot in today's final.

As well as the Chinese pair, the finalists also include Belarusian reigning Olympic champion Hanna Huskova, and Australia's world champion Laura Peel.

The medals wont be dished out just yet, though.

The final is a two-stage process, with the top six athletes (including all those tied for sixth place) qualifying for the second final at 12:00 GMT. The remainder are eliminated.

Scores are not carried over, although they are used to decide the start order.

Nicola Minichiello
Three-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

Kaillie is smooth and consistent and she's really delivered. She's in a different class.

Andrew: "Monobob" sounds like a long-forgotten hairstyle from the nineties.

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Canada-born Kaillie Humphries wins monobob gold for adopted country United States, adding to the two bobsleigh golds and a bronze she won for Canada at previous Winter Olympics.

Read full story here.

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Athletes climbing to the top of the Beijing ski jump will be met with a view of the Great Wall of China once they arrive.

No time to admire it, though. Moments later they will fling themselves down the ramp.

At 11:00 GMT, it's the turn of the competitors in the women's freeski aerials. The event should prove to be medal for the hosts.

Xu Mengtao and Kong Fanyu have both reached the Olympic podium before but have never won gold. They're the two leading athletes in the sport this season.

Three years after being diagnosed with cancer, Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot will have the chance to win a second Olympic gold medal in Beijing.

The 27-year-old slopestyle champion topped the standings in the men's big air qualifying earlier today with a score of 164.75, to end qualifying 4.75 points clear of Japan's Takeru Otsuka.

Defending champion Sebastien Toutant failed to make the final, which begins at 05:00 GMT on Tuesday.

"I don't want to sit on my gold medal when I know I can maybe get another one," said Parrot, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in late 2018.

"What happened to me three years ago definitely changed me as an athlete and as a person. I am a better person now, I'm a better athlete now.

"I'm really more grateful more than ever of just living and be able to do my passion everyday. I wouldn't change a thing."

France's Lucile Lefevre was in grrrrrreat form as she donned a tiger suit for her snowboard big air run.

Lefevre was carrying an injury but still competed in the event, even waving her paws at the judges on the way down.

She certainly earned her stripes, in the Chinese Year of the Tiger no less.

I'll get my coat....

You can always rely on the curling to provide a bit of tension, and it certainly delivered earlier this morning.

GB skip Bruce Mouat produced a nerveless final stone in the 10th and final end to help the men's curlers edge Switzerland 6-5.

It's their fifth victory from six matches so far, putting them second in the standings with three matches to play.

The top four qualify for the semi-finals.

If you are still craving some more curling action then fear not, GB's women's team take on Canada at 12:05 GMT.