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. gold-medal

    Gold medal - Sandra Naeslund (Sweden)published at 07:24 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's ski cross final

    Sandra Naeslund of Sweden won the World Championship last year and now has an Olympic gold medal too.

    Just as she had done in both the quarter-finals and semi-finals, she hit the front early on and held off the challenge of the others.

    Naeslund came fifth in 2014, fourth in 2018...and first in 2022.

  2. Postpublished at 07:22 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's ski cross final

    Next up is the women's ski cross final. World champion Sandra Naeslund has stormed through the last two rounds, Marielle Thompson won this eight years ago, Fanny Smith picked up a bronze in 2018 with Daniela Maier trying to pick up her first Olympic medal.

  3. GB struggling in fifth endpublished at 07:21 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 2-3 Great Britain (after four ends)

    The ice is definitely a factor. It is causing some tentative pushing and second guessing among Team Muirhead.

    Great Britain are playing catch-up in this end...

  4. 'ROC very fortunate'published at 07:20 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's curling - ROC 2-3 Great Britain (after four ends)

    Jackie Lockhart
    Four-time Olympic curler on BBC TV

    The Great Britain girls have just got to sweep that clean - the ROC were very fortunate there - I don't think that is the shot she was going for.

    GB women curlingImage source, Getty Images
  5. Get Involvedpublished at 07:20 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    #bbcolympics

    Tara Louise Keyworth: Waking up to get my curling fix

    Maggie Wilson: Team GB in a Must Win Must Watch Crucial Game against ROC! Need a win results to go our way else where too for a semi final spot! Exciting times!!

  6. ROC reel in GBpublished at 07:13 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 2-3 Great Britain (after four ends)

    Alina KovalevaImage source, Getty

    The Russian skip Alina Kovaleva is deep, deep in discussions before her final stone.

    Great Britain are lying two and are poised to steal. Kovaleva needs something to change the picture.

    She takes an unlikely route, swinging down the left edge of the sheet and get a nudge on a couple of stones in a complicated plant. The end result is ROC taking one from the end.

    Was it deliberate? A happy slice of luck?

    Either way, a chance for a steal slides by for GB.

  7. Postpublished at 07:11 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's ski cross semi-finals

    A three-way photo finish in the second semi-final. Brilliant racing, right to the line. Germany's Daniela Maier sneaks it, then comes Switzerland's Fanny Smith.

    The final is between... Sandra Naeslund (Sweden), Marielle Thompson (Canada), Daniela Maier (Germany), Fanny Smith (Switzerland).

  8. World champion and former Olympic champion advancepublished at 07:04 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's ski cross semi-finals

    There were three Canadians in the first semi-final, but none of them can win it as Sweden's world champion Sandra Naeslund wins it comfortably, leading from start to finish.

    Marielle Thompson joins her in the final, as the Canadian aims to win this event for a second time after success eight years ago.

  9. 'I don't think I've ever been more stressed out'published at 06:59 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Men's freeski halfpipe qualifying

    Speaking to BBC Sport after scraping through to the halfpipe final in 12th spot, Gus Kenworthy said: "I don't think I've ever been more stressed out.

    "I could have done so much more. My first run I had a fall and then really didn't want to fall again, and so I decided to be a little bit more conservative with my [second] run.

    "Unfortunately I didn't put it down quite as clean as I could have and the judges were pretty harsh on me for it, rightfully so, but it was not the position I wanted to be in.

    "I feel very grateful that I am through to the final, and the final is a new day."

  10. Eight left in the ski crosspublished at 06:57 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's ski cross semi-finals

    We're down to eight in the women's ski cross and these are those eight...

    Semi-final 1: Sandra Naeslund (Sweden), Courtney Hoffos (Canada), Marielle Thompson (Canada), Hannah Schmidt (Canada).

    Semi-final 2: Sami Kennedy-Sim (Australia), Daniela Maier (Germany), Fanny Smith (Switzerland), Brittany Phelan (Canada)

    Naeslund won the world championship in 2021 but has yet to pick up an Olympic medal after coming fifth in 2014 and fourth in 2018.

    She races against 2014 Olympic gold medallist Thompson in the first of the two semi-finals. Smith grabbed a bronze in Pyeongchang four years ago, with Phelan the silver medallist in South Korea.

  11. Muirhead salvages a pointpublished at 06:55 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 1-3 Great Britain (after third end)

    Eve MuirheadImage source, Getty Images

    That was gutsy. A high-risk shot for GB skip Eve Muirhead to try and take a point out of an end where her team had last-stone advantage.

    She could easily have nudged Russia into the lead there. Instead she biffs out their best-placed stone to score one.

    Great Britain would have wanted more at the start of the end. But they will take that in a shot given how the ice looked before that final shot.

  12. gold-medal

    Gold medal - Michelle Gisin (Switzerland)published at 06:51 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's alpine combined

    Michelle GisinImage source, Getty Images

    It's a one two finish for the Swiss duo in the women's alpine combined event - Michelle Gisin reclaims the gold she won in Pyeongchang four years ago.

    She finished 12th in the downhill, but a speedy slalom saw her post a total time of 2.25.67, while Wendy Holdener was a whole 1.05 seconds behind her to take silver and Italy's Federica Brignone took the bronze.

    The USA's Mikaela Shiffrin crashed out of the slalom and the Czech Republic's snowboarding gold medallist Ester Ledecka finished just outside the medal places in fourth.

  13. Watch: Shiffrin misses out againpublished at 06:47 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    It's been a difficult Games for American superstar Mikaela Shiffrin.

    But she has not been short of supportive self-help memes on social media.

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  14. The scores elsewherepublished at 06:45 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's curling - ROC 1-2 Great Britain (after two ends)

    Thomas Duncan
    BBC Scotland in Beijing

    Elsewhere, South Korea are 2-0 up on Sweden, which is not great for GB. Neither is the fact Japan are beating Switzerland 2-1.

    Early days, though.

  15. Postpublished at 06:44 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Women's curling - ROC 1-2 Great Britain (after two ends)

    Thomas Duncan
    BBC Scotland in Beijing

    A classic curling case of converting for two when you have hammer and then forcing just one on your opponents in the next. Textbook, I'm told.

    Keep that up and GB will win this match.

  16. ROC pull back a pointpublished at 06:41 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 1-2 Great Britain (after two ends)

    The ROC's Alina Kovaleva is also looking in good form. The skip delivers a superb clear-out with her penultimate effort to set up a score of one for her team.

  17. Calm or chaos?published at 06:40 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    We have coverage of the chaos that is the women's ski cross on BBC Two now, or alternatively the calm and composure of women's curling on BBC Red Button.

  18. Muirhead with a great effortpublished at 06:34 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 0-2 Great Britain (after one end)

    Eve MuirheadImage source, Getty

    Eve Muirhead is having a stellar game so far.

    Her penultimate stone could not have been better placed if she had lugged the granite down the ice and dropped it in the small pocket of space left on the bullseye.

    And the old slide and shove is a lot more elegant way of delivering the rock as well.

  19. Golden girlspublished at 06:32 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Ice hockey - women's gold medal match - Canada 3-2 USA

    Great celebrations from the Canadians.

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  20. GB's Wright working out the icepublished at 06:31 Greenwich Mean Time 17 February 2022

    Round-robin: ROC 0-2 Great Britain (after one end)

    Great Britain's Vicky Wright is struggling to read the pace of the ice. Her first stone is undercooked. Her second is a little frisky.

    Is there a curling verision of the yips? It looks like the sort of sport where you could get the yips.