Summary

  • Great Britain's men's curlers beat USA 8-4 to guarantee at least a silver medal; GB's first of the Games

  • Bruce Mouat's men will play Sweden in Saturday's final (06:05 GMT)

  • Women’s figure skating: Tearful 15-year-old Kamila Valieva finishes fourth after falling during routine

  • GB women's curlers win final round-robin game v ROC 9-4 to reach semi-finals; play Sweden on Friday in final four

  • GB's Zoe Atkin qualifies for women's freeski half-pipe final in fourth place; Gus Kenworthy reaches men's final

  • Canada claim women’s ice hockey gold after 3-2 win over USA

  • Michelle Gisin of Switzerland wins women’s combined skiing gold as USA's Mikaela Shiffrin suffers third DNF at these Games

  1. Later today...published at 08:55 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Bruce MouatImage source, Getty

    Great Britain's women will return to the Ice Cube tomorrow to take on Sweden for a place in the gold-mdeal match.

    Great Britain's men are going to be taking the stage to take on the United States in their own semi-final at 12:05 GMT today.

  2. GREAT BRITAIN INTO SEMISpublished at 08:53 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: South Korea 4-8 Sweden

    Great Britain are into the last four! Eve Muirhead's team took a roundabout scenic route with four losses in the pool stage, but they are in the play-offs. The slate is clean and the medals are up for grabs...

  3. South Korea final stone to come...published at 08:51 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: South Korea 4-6 Sweden (after nine ends)

    Sweden's final stone is a good un.

    South Korea need something miraculous to snatch victory and shunt Great Britain out of the final four...

    KoreaImage source, Getty Images
  4. Sweden lying twopublished at 08:48 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: South Korea 4-6 Sweden (after nine ends)

    South Korea with it all to do. The 'Garlic Girls' have two stones to throw.

    The first is a decent effort, but Sweden are still lying two.

    One each to go.

  5. 'The tension'published at 08:46 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: South Korea 4-6 Sweden (after nine ends)

    Thomas Duncan
    BBC Scotland in Beijing

    All you can here in the Ice Cube are the sounds of the Swedish and South Korean players debating their shot selection.

    The tension.

  6. GB's Smeding fifth as it standspublished at 08:46 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Speed skating women's 1,500m

    Ellia SmedingImage source, Getty Images

    A quick update before we get back to the tension of the curling...

    GB's Ellia Smeding has posted her time in the speed skating 1,500m.

    As ever in the long track speed skating, the fastest time wins - rather than the first-across-the-line races of the short track.

    There are two skaters on the ice at one who start in their own lane.

    With the skaters going in reverse order from their rankings, Smeding went in the second pairing.

    She went around in one minute 17.17 seconds which currently has her fifth but is unlikely to threaten the top end of the standings.

  7. Sweden well set in final endpublished at 08:42 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: South Korea 4-6 Sweden (after nine ends)

    Sweden are well set in the early part of this final end with a good cordon of yellow stones in the circle.

    South Korea have the hammer though so will slide the final stone.

    If Sweden win, they will actually play Great Britain in the semi-finals.

  8. Get Involvedpublished at 08:40 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    #bbcolympics

    Greenwood JBJ: Watching the curling is like watching the last day of the season hoping results go your way.

    Mel Scriven: YES EVE MUIRHEAD!!! (And Anna Hasselborg!!!)

    Neil Armstrøng: Jeez! This curling malarkey is intense. Come on Sweden!

  9. Britain's fate rests on Sweden holding leadpublished at 08:37 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Thomas Duncan
    BBC Scotland in Beijing

    SwedenImage source, Getty

    As Great Britain took four to win the match, Sweden just edged into a 6-4 lead against South Korea with one end left.

    Switzerland have beaten Japan.

    So if the Swedes hold on, GB will go through on Draw Shot Challenge rankings ahead of Japan and Canada.

  10. Muirhead secures victory for GBpublished at 08:36 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 4-9 Great Britain

    Eve MuirheadImage source, Getty Images

    Eve Muirhead with another ripe peach!

    A superb stone to clonk the Russian effort to the boards!

    ROC concede as Britain take four points.

    And all attention flips over to the one remaining match on the sheet...

  11. Postpublished at 08:34 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Curling - ROC 4-5 Great Britain

    Steve Cram
    Curling commentator on BBC TV

    Alina Kovaleva threads it through into the four-foot. She does lie shot now, but Eve Muirhead has a chance to remove that.

    So much pressure on both skips.

  12. ROC lying one in the ninthpublished at 08:33 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 4-5 Great Britain (after eight ends)

    Superb from Alina Kovaleva!

    The ROC skip replies with a sublime effort of her own!

    ROC lie one with Eve Muirhead to slide for the final time...

  13. GB well set in ninthpublished at 08:31 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 4-5 Great Britain (after eight ends)

    Superb from Eve Muirhead!

    The GB skip breaks out into a huge grin as she slides a stone through a gap and shunts the red Russian stone out the house.

    Britain are lying four! And ROC have only one stone left up their sleeve...

  14. GB's Smeding in action...published at 08:26 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Speed skating women's 1,000m

    Ellia SmedingImage source, Getty Images

    Great Britain's Ellia Smeding returns to the ice from 08:30 in the long track 1,000m speed skating.

    Smeding became Team GB's first female speed skater at the Olympics in 42 years earlier in the Games in the 1,500m.

    She finished 27th in that one.

    Her boyfriend Cornelius Kersten is also competing in Beijing. Together they own a coffee shop.

  15. GB heading through as it standspublished at 08:22 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's curling - ROC 4-5 Great Britain (after eight ends)

    Thomas Duncan
    BBC Scotland in Beijing

    Denmark have thrown in the towel, so Canada win 10-4.

    GB need Switzerland to beat Japan, they're currently 8-4 up.

    They also need Sweden to defeat South Korea, and they're 5-4 up.

    Still time, but GB are heading through as things stand.

    Sweden curlingImage source, Getty Images
  16. 'A steal'published at 08:22 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Curling - ROC 4-5 Great Britain

    Steve Cram
    Curling commentator on BBC TV

    That was a very good try, but Eve Muirhead caught her own yellow stone. It's a steal for ROC.

  17. ROC pull back to within a pointpublished at 08:22 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 4-5 Great Britain (after eight ends)

    Argh! An agony of inches and what-might-have-beens for Eve Muirhead.

    Her stone buts up against the Russian stone, but cannot quite get it out of primary position.

    Two ends to go...

  18. Postpublished at 08:19 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Curling - ROC 3-5 Great Britain

    Jackie Lockhart
    Four-time Olympic curler on BBC TV

    This isn't easy for Eve Muirhead to get to that red stone - there is a red guard and an even higher yellow guard.

    Is there a hole there? I think it will ricochet off the two yellows.

  19. Muirhead with a pressure shotpublished at 08:18 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 3-5 Great Britain (after seven ends)

    A superb final stone from the ROC skip. A red stone now lying bang over the bullseye.

    Eve Muirhead has to try and evict it with her final effort...

  20. "60% of my DNF rate for my entire career has happened here"published at 08:18 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's combined

    Anna Thompson
    BBC Sport in Beijing

    Mikaela Shiffrin has recorded a third DNF - did not finish - at these Games, this time in the combined race which is a downhill and one run of a slalom.

    She was in contention after the downhill but did not complete her slalom run.

    Shiffrin is still at a loss to explain why she has struggled to finish in the technical events at the Yanqing National Alpine Centre.

    "I didn't make it to the finish again and ... 60% of my DNF rate for my entire career has happened at this Olympic Games," she said.

    "So it is just a little bit of a mind-boggling event I guess."