Simon Brotherton
Commentator on BBC TV

Finally she gets to the top step after some brilliant skates. The tears begin to flow for Miho Takagi.

Finally, it's her day.

Jutta Leerdam takes silver for Netherlands.

Bowe is up on Takagi's time at halfway...

Just two skaters remain. Miho Takagi is guaranteed bronze.

USA's Brittany Bowe, the four-time world champ, goes in the final pair...

Simon Brotherton
Commentator on BBC TV

Takagi takes the lead for Japan in a new Olympic record time.

Jutta Leerdam was right to look a little worried, that her time was not enough.

Japan's Miho Takagi punches the air after ending the Dutch stranglehold on this speed skating 1,000m.

She goes into the gold medal position.

Takagi already has three silvers in Beijing. Can she finally win gold?

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Mel Scriven: So we say thank you for the curling

Thank you for winning

Thanks for making us start grinning!

Wouldn't be through without you

We ask in all honesty...where would Eve be?

Without your last winning stone what are we?

So we say thank you for the curling For saving TeamGB

(With thanks to ABBA)

We have a new leader in the speed skating as Jutta Leerdam puts herself top of the standings.

It's actually currently a Dutch one-two-three at the moment with speed skating royalty Ireen Wust in bronze.

Wust is retiring after these Games after a stellar career which has seen her pick up 13 Olympic medals, including the gold in these Games in the 1,500m.

A proper speed skating legend.

We told you earlier about the controversial women's ski cross final.

Sweden's Sandra Naeslund won gold. That was in little doubt.

There was drama behind her, however. Switzerland's Fanny Smith was in third but ended up being controversially relegated by the judges for some foul play.

That promoted German Daniela Maier into bronze but she could be seen visibly disagreeing with the decision when it was confirmed.

Watch it all below.

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Has your heart rate returned to normal after the tension of the curling?

Attention turns to the speed skating now.

We're getting into the business end of the competition with six pairs to go. The medals will probably come from one of these remaining skaters.

Netherlands Antoinette de Jong leads the way currently, however, with a speedy one minute 14.92 seconds.

Simon Gleave
Head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote

With Great Britain's women's curling team joining the men's team in the semi-finals, the Gracenote Virtual Medal Table now forecasts two medals for Britain at Beijing 2022. The British men are forecast to win gold and the women are projected to win bronze.If Great Britain are to match our pre-Olympic forecast of three medals, the team will need to win both of these medals and produce a surprise medal winner in a remaining event in one of the other sports.

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More from Eve Muirhead: "I was in this position in 2018 as well in the semi-final and I do want to do one better.

"I'm very proud of this time and as a team we've played very well all week. As much as we've lost a few games all of us know those losses have not been through a lot of bad play, it's been inches here and there - but that's curling.

"I can't wait to get out here tomorrow night and of course supporting the boys tonight in the semi-final and let's hope we can all do Great Britain proud."

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Great Britain's Eve Muirhead after securing a place in the semi-finals: "We had to win that game today and that's what we went out there to do. We fought out hearts out, nothing was in our control apart from our own game and that's what we did.

"Of course we may have had one eye on the other games but to see we've managed to get a qualification spot by a centimetre in the draw shot, it shows all our great practice over the months, because it's drilled into us how important that draw shot is and it's just proven to us here that it really is."

Brilliant wasn't it?

Ex-GB curler Jackie Lockhart is positively giddy right now on BBC Two reacting to the action.

Wico: Absolute scenes in the curling today.

• Now: Women's 1,500m speed skating final
• From 10:00: Women's figure skating singles free skate, featuring Russian Kamila Valieva.
• 11:00: The climax of the team Nordic combined event.
• 12:05: Great Britain's big semi-final against USA in the men's curling.

What a dramatic morning this has been at the Winter Olympics.

• Great Britain snatched a place in the semi-final of the women's curling by beating ROC and seeing a series of results go their way in a remarkably tense session. They join their British male counterparts in reaching the last four.
• GB finished top of the men's standings after beating Canada in the early hours. GB play USA in the semi-final at 12:05 GMT.
• Earlier, Great Britain's Zoe Atkin qualified for Friday's freestyle ski halfpipe final with the fourth best score.
• GB's Gus Kenworthy is also into men's final, but he did so by stealing the final qualification place.
• Canada won women's ice hockey gold by beating defending champions USA.

• USA star Mikaela Shiffrin's difficult Games continued as she crashed out of the alpine combined. Michelle Gisin won gold for Switzerland.
• There was also a controversial women's ski cross final as Sweden's Sandra Naeslund won gold but German Daniela Maier was promoted into bronze by the judges.

Thomas Duncan
BBC Scotland in Beijing

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Eve Muirhead owes Swedish skip Anna Hasselborg a drink or two after that.

Matt C: What a finish that was! Curling will save us.

David Christian Rose: Yes, Sweden. I knew inserting a player called McManus onto the Swedish team would bear fruit for the Scots.