Simon Brotherton
Commentator on BBC TV

Mixture of speed, stamina, skill and ability to negotiate traffic.

It's going to get very very busy down there on the ice.

Remarkably we haven't had a fall yet.

After a couple of laps the skaters tag in a team-mate for a breather and each time I wince thinking there's going to be a pile-up.

South Korea are on the front in the early stages. If China make a move it could get very, very rowdy inside the arena.

35 laps to go.

And we're off in a final that could be absolute mayhem.

Each team is made up of four skaters meaning there will be 20 on the ice at the same time. Good luck with that.

Only one skater from each team are actually racing at once, with the others whirling around the middle of the track until they are tagged into action by their team-mate.

I'll do my best...

Up next in the short track action is the men's 5,000m relay.

Going for gold are:

• South Korea
• Russian Olympic Committee
• Canada
• Italy
• China

We're coming to the end of the second period in the women's ice hockey bronze medal match.

Finland lead Switzerland 1-0.

You can watch that on the Red Button, iPlayer or by clicking the thumbnail above.

This women's 1,500m is bubbling up brilliantly.

Defending champion Choi Minjeong leaves the rest munching on ice kicked up from her skates in the third semi-final.

She finished in 2:16.831 which is a new Olympic record.

Team GB

Team GB's Dave Ryding speaking to BBC TV after finishing 13th in the slalom: "A little bit disappointing, you always want a little bit more from yourself I just didn't have my A-game today for whatever reason. I put in the finish everything I had but c'est le vie.

"After the first run I knew I had done enough in the first section, I was second at the split. Then I made that mistake which isn't normally like me but these things happen and I just went for it again on the second run. It was all I had and unfortunately sometimes you come up short like today but i'll knuckle down for the rest of the season.

"[Plan for rest of season] Get some sleep! But four more world cups starting next week already so get to the end of the season and see if we can stay in the hunt for the overall world cup. After that I think I might have bought myself another season from my fiancee, so get back into the training mode at some point in the summer."

Netherlands' Suzanne Schulting impressively wins the second semi-final, ending arm-in-arm with Belgium's Hanne Desmet in second.

Those two were well clear in the end.

Schulting punched the air after going over the finish line. She remains on course for a third gold of the games.

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Suzanne Schulting is the big name in the second semi-final...

South Korea's Lee Yu Bin wins the first semi-final.

31-year-old Arianna Fontana of Italy, racing at her fifth Olympics, takes the second automatic qualification place.

She originally retired after Sochi in 2014 but just can't get enough.

Right then. No time to rest. It's time for the women's 1,500m semi-finals.

These three races are stacked.

Only the top two go through, plus the fastest third-placed athlete.

While working as part of the BBC TV team, Elise Christie has just suggested she is coming out retirement

She says she will do "everything she can" to get back to the next Olympics.

Elise Christie
Great Britain's former world champion on BBC TV

It is another lap of maximum effort. Choi was annoyed. You don't see that often. You think it is easy to count 13.5 laps but with all of the tactics it is easy not to know.

We're now hearing Rianne de Vries, the Dutch skater who finished fourth in the first heat when an extra lap was raced, has been advanced into the semi-finals.

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That bizarre first heat of the 1,500m, with suggestions of an extra lap being raced, has finally been settled.

South Korea's defending champion Choi Minjeong won it, Hungary's Petra Jaszapati and Yuting Zhang of China also go through.

All of the big favourites have made the semi-finals. We only have to wait 10 minutes until they begin.

Netherlands' Suzanne Schulting already has gold in the 1,000m, gold in the 3,000m relay and silver in 500m to her name at these Games.

There is plenty of argy-bargy in her heat, one skater tumbling out across the ice.

The world champ hits the front to stay out of trouble and wins comfortably.

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We have the six men who will contest the medals with a one-jump shoot-out.

Defending champion Oleksandr Abramenko is there, as is American Christopher Lillis and Swiss wonderkid Pirmin Werner.

Only one of the two Chinese hopes made the cut. Qi Guangpu is still in contention. Pyeongchang silver medallist Jia Zongyang is done for the day.