Ed Drake
Olympic alpine skier and ski cross racer on BBC TV

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It’s disappointing, you always want to put your best run down.

But Zoe Atkin is young, she is really building for Milano Cortina in 2026.

She produced really good results in the qualifiers and got through to the final, she just couldn’t manage to put a run down when it really mattered.

There was also a ninth-place finish for Great Britain in the freestyle skiing women's halfpipe.

Zoe Atkin fell on two of her three runs in the final as China's gold medallist Eileen Gu became the first freestyle skier to win Olympic medals in three different events.

Team GB's Atkin, 19, qualified in fourth for the final but finished ninth after scoring 73.25 in her final run.

China's 18-year-old 'snow princess' Gu won with 95.25 to add to her big air gold and slopestyle silver.

While Cornelius Kersten finished ninth, the gold medal was won by pre-event favourite Thomas Krol.

Watch below how he did it...

1964! British sports fans wouldn't have even been able to see Thomas Malkin's exploits on colour television.

If you said 'TikTok' to them, they would have thought you were mimicking their grandfather clock in the living room.

Simon Gleave
Head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote

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Cornelius Kersten's ninth place in the men's 1,000m speed skating is the highest rank achieved by a British man in a major global speed skating championships for 58 years. Thomas Malkin was eighth in the 10,000m at the 1964 Winter Games.

Last year, Gemma Cooper achieved Britain's best result by far by a woman when she finished eighth in the mass start at the World Single Distance Championships.

A little earlier we were engrossed in the speed skating men's 1,000m where Britain's Cornelius Kersten finished ninth.

Our stats man has been flicking through the record books and puts this achievement into historical context...

Robin Cousins
Olympic gold medallist figure skater on BBC TV

Knierim and Brandon have a strong team of coaches tasked with bringing USA pair skating back up to the level that it was a few years ago.

American duo Alexa Knierim and Frazier Brandon, the second of the 19 pairs, are top of the early leaderboard.

This is the short programme, where skaters choose their own music but their routine must include a several prescribed elements, eg. a solo jump, a jump combination and three spins for single skaters and a solo jump, throw jump and lift.

The routine must last two minutes and 40 seconds (give or take 10 seconds).

Sixteen pairs go through to the free skating programme on Saturday, by the way. That's when the medals are dished out.

So who are likely to be the biggest rivals for Sui Wenjing and Han Cong? That'll be Russian world champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Gallimov.

The Chinese pair outscored the Russians in the team short programme and will be aiming to repeat that.

The other threats are also likely to come from the Russian Olympic Committee – Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morosov, who have twice been runners-up at the World Championships, and Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitri Kozlovskii, who won bronze at last year’s World Championships.

Kat Downes
Commentator on BBC TV

We're hoping for a bit of positivity in the Capital indoor arena this evening because we have seen some brilliant skating during this Olympic games.

Last night's action and the drama that unfolded around Kamila Valieva had cast a cloud over this Olympics but hopefully that cloud can lift for the next couple of evenings with the pairs skating.

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Pairs is not usually the last event of the figure skating. Why has it been bumped back to the prestigious slot in Beijing? It is probably not unconnected to host nation China having a great chance of gold.

Chinese pair Sui Wenjing and Han Cong went into PyeongChang as world champions but ultimately had to settle for silver.

Sui and Han were joint-top of the Grand Prix standings this season after winning both events they entered.

They may not have the same ice presence as some of their Russian rivals but they have plenty of power – it’s been rumoured their quad twist may make a return – and boast a strong sense of musical interpretation.

Ollie Williams
Commentator on BBC TV

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The figure skating pairs event is about to get under way at 10:38 GMT. You want the skinny in what it involves. Here is BBC Sport commentator and walking Olympic encyclopedia Ollie Williams with the skinny:

"Figure skating has two Olympic events that feature a man and a woman competing together: ice dance and pairs. Pairs involves more acrobatic moves like jumps and overhead lifts, while ice dance places more emphasis on choreographic elements like twizzles and step sequences. Pairs is also easily recognisable for elements like throw jumps - jumps where the man throws the woman into the air and she must then land without assistance - and death spirals, where the woman spins around the man while virtually parallel with the ice."

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.

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Montell Douglas has been writing about her return to Beijing for a second, altogether chillier, Olympics on the BBC Sport website.

The 36-year-old has a perspective that is helping her deal with the hype, hysteria and hoopla of a Games:

"The odds for me, a black South London girl, born to teenage parents in the 1980s, with no family background of higher education or sporting elitism, to even have had half the experiences I have, were also not favourable. Yet here I am, so I'm soaking it all in."

Read more from Montell in her latest column.

BBC Winter Olympics presenter Jeanette Kwakye is going to be invested in Montell Douglas' bobsleigh debut having run alongside and against her in Beijing 2008.

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The headline act of today's action begins at 12:05 GMT when Great Britain's women attempt to follow the nation's men in making a gold-medal match.

Eve Muirhead and co take on Sweden in their semi-final.

But there is plenty to keep us warm before they take the ice.

Britain's Montell Douglas will become the first British woman to compete in both the summer and winter Games when she and Mica McNeill go in the first two runs of the two-woman bobsleigh, starting at midday.

It is the opening day of the figure skating pairs event as well, with action getting under way at 10:30.

Russian Olympic Committee take on Sweden in the second men's ice hockey semi-final at 13:10, chasing a final meeting with Finland.

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Just joining us? Here is your Friday morning briefing from Beijing...

• 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
• Britain's Cornelius Kersten - the nation's first Olympic men's long track speed skater for 30 years - finishes ninth in the 1,000m
• 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

Our expert Wilf O'Reilly says Britain's Cornelius Kersten has showed his class - and you can watch his skate for yourself.

Wilf O’Reilly
Former British short track speed skater on BBC TV

It's a magnificent result for Kersten. That shows the class and the perseverance of what they've gone through, a really enjoyable result now that he has made the top 10.

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