Summary

  • Men's curling final - GB win silver after losing 5-4 to Sweden

  • X Country men's 50km race shortened to 30km - GB's Musgrave 12th

  • Men's freeski halfpipe - GB's Gus Kenworthy eighth as NZ's Nico Porteous wins gold

  • Four-man bobsleigh - GB sixth after two runs - final two runs on Sunday

  • Skiing mixed team parallel - event postponed because of poor weather conditions

  • Two-woman bobsleigh - final two runs with Montell Douglas and Mica McNeill competing for GB

  1. Watch: Schouten wins third gold in thrilling finishpublished at 13:17 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Speed skating women's mass start

  2. Germany are 'buying the medals'published at 13:06 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Four-man bobsleigh

    Nicola Minichiello
    Three-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

    The Germans have a state-funded programme. It is funded by the government for massive research, innovation and investment in technology in sliding - luge, skeleton and bobsleigh. We are really seeing [the results of] that.

    The monobob is the only event where the equipment is taken out of it because everybody has to buy the exact same equipment. It comes down to the start and the drive. In all the other events the equipment is playing a much bigger factor, and that is why the Germans are really dominating. It's frustrating.

    What we need to do [to create a more even competition] is play down the technology and go to centralised [equipment] across all sliding sports. That would make it affordable.

    Increasing funding for GB might be great for GB, but what I feel is important is making sure every country has the same opportunity - making the Olympics back open, on to a level playing field.

    Not all countries have millions of euros to invest in technology. They are buying the medals.

  3. 'Could hand the medals out'published at 13:06 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman boblseigh

    John Jackson
    Two-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

    I think we could hand the medals out already. But there is a lot of positions to play for, it's going to be a good fourth run.

  4. Bobsleigh heat three donepublished at 12:56 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    The Swiss pair of Martina Fontanive and Irina Strebel are the only slower team than Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas of Great Britain.

    The teams will go for a fourth and final run at 13:30 GMT.

    Germany's Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi, 0.78 seconds clear, are surely nailed on for gold.

  5. 'Achilles heel'published at 12:53 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    John Jackson
    Two-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

    One of the issues the British women always have is the start, it is their Achilles heel.

    When you have the slowest start in the field you are leaving yourself a lot of work to do.

  6. 'Bumpy'published at 12:51 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    Sonia Oxley
    BBC Sport in Beijing

    That was very bumpy by the Brits, right from the start - it's the fastest run they have done so far but it is not enough to lift them from 19th.

  7. Down to the final eightpublished at 12:49 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Figure skating pairs

    Georgia's Karina Safina and Luka BerulavaImage source, Getty Images

    Halfway through the freeskate and now we're getting down to the nitty gritty.

    Georgia's Karina Safina and Luka Berulava are currently at the front of the grid. But all the overnight leaders are revving up and ready to go.

    The ice has been resurfaced and repaired. Let's see how smoothly the eight best pairs can navigate it.

  8. Best run so far for McNeill and Douglaspublished at 12:48 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    The best run of their three so far from Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas. They clock 1:02.17. The 14th fastest of the 19 runners on this individual run.

    They are still 19th overall though.

  9. Postpublished at 12:47 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    Sonia Oxley
    BBC Sport in Beijing

    Canada's Melissa Lotholz and Sara Villani have jumped six places with their third run - take inspiration, Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas!

    The Britons race next.

  10. 'Can't switch off'published at 12:44 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman boblsleigh

    John Jackson
    Two-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

    You can't switch off at all down the track, this track favours clean runs.

  11. Coming up: GB's McNeill and Douglaspublished at 12:44 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh - heat three

    Romania's Andreea Grecu will tackle the course and then it is the turn of Britain's Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas to head down.

    Their best run was their first yesterday, a one minute 2.19 second effort.

  12. 'Left a real legacy'published at 12:36 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    Nicola Minichiello
    Three-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

    Montell Douglas and McNeil ahead of runImage source, Getty Images

    Montell Douglas is the first British woman to compete at both the summer and Winter Olympic games. The irony is that the 2008 summer Olympics that she competed at were at Beijing. Now she is back here and there are so many different facets to the story, the legacy, the fact that there is cross-over, the length of time we are talking 14 years here, it is phenomenal.

    She has a left a real legacy in both summer and winter Olympic sport. Once again opening doors, setting opportunities for females in sport.

    Montell Douglas and pilot Mica McNeill go 19th in this set of bobsleigh runs. Only a few minutes away now.

  13. All to play forpublished at 12:34 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Figure skating pairs

    Simon Gleave
    Head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote

    Sui Wenjing and Han CongImage source, Getty Images

    If Sui Wenjing and Han Cong win the Pairs competition, China will move into third place on the medal table, overtaking the United States in the process. China has no more genuine medal chances but the United States are running out of gold medal shots.

    Barring a genuine shock, the only remaining possibility of a ninth US gold is Jessie Diggins in the women's 30km freestyle cross country race tomorrow, the last event of Beijing 2022.

    Most predictors, including Gracenote's Virtual Medal Table gave her a minor medal in this event before the Olympics with Norway's Therese Johaug the overwhelming choice for gold ahead of either Diggins or one of the Swedish entrants.

  14. 'Nasty'published at 12:33 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    Sonia Oxley
    BBC Sport in Beijing

    That was a nasty crash for the Canadians!

    Cynthia Richardson and Dawn Richardson Wilson have walked away from it safely, though, but their sled flipped on its side and their helmets seemed to hit the ice several times.

    crashImage source, Getty Images
  15. Double gold hopes dim for Kailliepublished at 12:32 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    Sonia Oxley
    BBC Sport in Beijing

    Kaillie HumphriesImage source, Getty Images

    American Kaillie Humphries, who won the monobob gold, had come here hoping to do a double. But she's now 2.38 seconds behind the German leaders so it's looking very unlikely.

  16. 'Seem to be okay'published at 12:30 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    John Jackson
    Two-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC TV

    They [Cynthia Appiah and Dawn Richardson Wilson] both seem to be okay which is always the most important thing and it's great to see them walk away from that. A little bit of disappointment but she hasn't really lost any time, maybe a tenth of a second or so extra around that corner.

    Team canada walking after crashImage source, Getty Images
  17. How it standspublished at 12:30 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    The top six have all been down for a third time and there is little movement in the metal market.

    Only fifth and sixth positions have been traded between American Kaillie Humphries and Germany's Kim Kalicki.

    1 Laura Nolte (Ger) 3:02.75

    2 Mariama Jamanka (Ger) 3:03.53

    3 Elana Meyers Taylor (US) 3:03.92

    4 Christine de Bruin (Can) 3:04.64

    5 Kim Kalicki 3:04.69

    6 Kaillie Humphries (US) 3:05.13

  18. Canada duo OK after crashpublished at 12:30 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh - heat three

    Crash

    Not good.

    But luckily the athletes inside are all good.

    Canada's Cynthia Appiah and Dawn Richardson Wilson clamber out of their upturned sled with nothing more than dented pride. And, with their spill coming late in the run, their time was only marginally slower than their first two efforts.

  19. 'The odds were not favourable'published at 12:27 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Montell DouglasImage source, Getty Images

    Yesterday, Montell Douglas claimed a little bit of history. She became the first British woman, one of very few women from anywhere, to appear at both the Summer and Winter Games. Douglas, 36, represented Britain at the Beijing 2008 Games on the track.

    "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," she wrote in her latest BBC Sport column.

    "Yet here I am, so I'm soaking it all in."

  20. Postpublished at 12:23 Greenwich Mean Time 19 February 2022

    Two-woman bobsleigh

    Sonia Oxley
    BBC Sport in Beijing

    Germany's Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi have already established a pretty healthy lead of 0.78 seconds with their third run. It doesn't sounds much but that really is a big margin in the bobsleigh world!

    Nolte missed out a medal in the monobob, finishing fourth, so she is looking to make up for that.

    nolteImage source, Getty Images