Thirty skaters are going for gold. Britain's Cornelius Kersten goes in his favoured event after finishing 25th in the 500m.

He goes in the 10th pair. The seventh pair have just skated.

Poland's Piotr Michalski currently leads with a time of one minute 08.56 seconds.

For those of you not so familiar with this event (have you not been watching over the past couple of weeks?!) here's a quick recap of what the speed skating entails.

The event takes place on a 400m track which has two competition lanes and sees skaters compete in pairs

Rather than competing directly against each other in a knockout format, skaters are ranked purely by the time they set.

Each skater only races once per event. The fastest time wins. Simple.

The medals are being dished out this morning quicker than at the end of your local 10k.

Next up, someone is going to win the bling in the men's 1,000m speed skating...

Jackie Lockhart
Four-time Olympic curler on BBC TV

A game of two halves. The first half I wasn't sure which way it was going to go, but you heard Brad Gushue say he needed to lift his team in the second half and that's just exactly what they did, especially in the last two ends.

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"It should never have happened," said former Olympic champion Robin Cousins.

Cousins was speaking about Kamila Valieva's difficult-to-watch performance in Thursday's figure skating final.

After a week of controversy following a failed drugs test, the 15-year-old Russian left the ice in tears as her controversial Olympics came to a distressing conclusion.

Here, BBC Sport analyses a concerning episode which has provoked anger and sympathy.

Jane Williams: Curling is so bewitching

Brooms aloft!

Brad Gushue and his team acknowledge the cheers from the crowd. They have managed to contain the flamboyant United States team, wearing them down with canny, accurate play.

Great Britain will take on Sweden for gold tomorrow, while, in the women's tournament, the same fixture plays out as a semi-final from 12:05 GMT.

There is a note of desparation in the voice of US skip John Shuster as he issues his orders to his team.

The situation is dire for the Pyeongchang champions.

Two stones remaining for each team.

The biggest story of the Games has been the controversy around 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva.

Valieva, weighed down by a doping scandal and questions over the wisdom of allowing her to compete, came fourth on Thursday after several mistakes.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says it was "chilling" to see the "cold" way distraught Valieva was treated by her Russian coach after her falls.

Watch exactly what he said in a strong news conference.

Steve Cram
Curling commentator on BBC TV

That could be it right there, a steal of two for Canada, one was at worst but three, that is a mountain to climb now.

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Is that the knockout blow?

Canada's good build-up work pays off, leaving US skip John Shuster too much to do. His final stone needs to be a miracle multi-plant of perfect weight. Shuster, as ever, takes on the high-risk, high-reward play.

This time, it doesn't stick.

And, even with the hammer, the Americans have a mountain to climb...

After reading about the halfpipe final, you can also watch the highlights of what happened...

As our commentators said, you don't need to know anything about skiing to know this is a gold-medal run by Eileen Gu...

British teenager Zoe Atkin fell on her first two runs but the teenager showed her talent and character with an assured run in the third.

Despite the disappointment, the future still looks bright for the 19-year-old.

The United States are being muscled out of this end so far. Canada have put up a cordon of red stones around the house to protect two scoring residents.

However John Shuster, who produced some wizardry in yesterday's semi-final against Great Britain, still has two rocks in his pocket...

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Friday might be fish and chip day, but here are the stories which are fresher than tonight's cod.

If you're just waking up with a hunger for Beijing news, here's what you've missed from overnight:

• British freestyle skier Zoe Atkin falls on two of her three runs to finish ninth in the halfpipe final
• In the same event, China's gold medallist Eileen Gu becomes the first freestyle skier to win Olympic medals in three different events
• Finland reach their first men's Olympic ice hockey final in 16 years after a 2-0 victory over Slovakia
• Switzerland take gold and silver in the men's ski cross final, with Ryan Regez beating reigning world champion Alex Fiva into second
• Ollie Davies - the first British man to contest ski cross at an Olympics - is knocked out in the last 32

Steve Cram
Curling commentator on BBC TV

I think I did hear John Shuster say we're going to get three here.

The USA mind games are a constant.

Simon Gleave
Head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote

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Norwegian biathlete Marte Olsbu Roiseland has won her fifth medal at these Olympics - three gold, and now a second bronze. Prior to these Olympics, no biathlete had ever won five medals at a single Olympics.

Frenchman Quentin Fillon Maillet became the first to do so, earlier at these Games. Roiseland is the second, and the first woman, to achieve this feat.

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The momentum swings back towards Canada, but not as conclusively as it might have done.

Skip Brad Gushue leaves his final stone a little long as he attempts to make it three from the eighth end.

The United States with the hammer in the next and penultimate end.

Too close to call at the moment.

After a dud on his previous stone, Canada skip Brad Gushue produced a gem of a take-out, bumping a pair of American stones out of contention before sliding back out the house via the cat flap.

That means the end is blanked.

USA are denied a steal. Canada retain the hammer.

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This is very strange.

Canada skip Brad Gushue slides a stone down the rink, missing everything and slipping harmlessly out the back of the house.

He has the hammer on his next throw. But Canada are vulnerable to the steal here...