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Key occasions
Girls’s aerials: the qualifying rounds of accelerating down a ramp and flying via the air. Hanna Huskova, gold medallist in 2018, does a triple somersault, or the “the kiss arse blaster” within the commentator’s phrases, however it’s only sufficient to depart her seventh.
Girls’s curling: Again to the brushes, the place Rebecca Morrison posts the ultimate stone of the sixth finish into good place, Staff GB take two and go right into a 4-3 lead in opposition to the USA with 4 ends left.
Girls’s slalom: Sweden’s Hanna Aronsson Elfman covers her head in her palms as she skies off the course like a lady tripping up on the entrance steps.
I’m an enormous fan of the Hazel Irvine-Chemmy Alcott double act within the BBC studio. “I used to be fairly fruity as she [Shiffrin] was taking place,”says Alcott, “as I simply needed her to silence everybody, and at this time, lastly, she’s had the liberty to fly.”
Some beautiful footage from yesterday’s motion – together with Jürgen Klopp ringing the bell for the ultimate lap of the boys’s biathlon and flying ice skaters.
Girls’s curling: GB’s girls are 3-2 right down to the USA on the Milano curling centre. Denmark lead China 6-3 and, in a whole shock, South Korea are thrashing unbeaten Sweden 8-0.
Girls’s slalom: over the radio, the French skier Marion Chevrier, is instructed to take ‘some actually dangerous strains.’ Down she goes, zig and zag, after which out – as her skis straddle one of many management gates.
Girls’s slalom: Austria have set the course for this run, Sweden will for the second run. It’s a course of chosen by draw. With 13 athletes gone, Shiffrin remains to be within the lead, with Germany’s Durr second, and Öhlund of Sweden delighted to have simply skied into third.
A brand new chief within the slalom and it’s the girl with a degree to show, Mikaela Shiffrin – who slides over the road with a bonus of 0.82 seconds. The celebs and stripes within the crowd wave cheerfully.
Overlook-me-not skies and icing sugar snow within the mountains, the place run one of many girls’s slalom has already began. Switzerland’s Camille Rast, the slalom world champion, is at present the quickest. She places handfuls of snow down the again of her neck earlier than she begins – an unpalatable pick-me-up.
Preamble
Good morning! We’re racing in the direction of the ending line now in Milan, fashionable snow swimsuit in a single hand, espresso within the different. 9 golds hold glistening on the road to be claimed .
The ultimate snowboarding occasions swoosh onto our screens quickly, with the males’s and girls’s slopestyle; whereas out on the mountains, cowbells and exhaution within the cross-country workforce dash snowboarding.
Ice-hockey punctuates the day, with the boys’s quarter-finals – anticipate the standard brutality: Slovakia v Germany, Canada v Czechia, Finland v Switzerland, and USA v Sweden.
And ability of a distinct type, climate allowing, within the girls’s aerials remaining. All eyes are on almost-veteran Xu Mengtao of China who’s hoping, and loop the looping, to retain her title.
Simply after lunch, the USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin goes for gold within the girls’s slalom remaining. After the frustration of Beijing “its not a lot about unfinished enterprise, she has mentioned, it’s extra about making peace. Then one other relay: after the joy of France’s comeback within the males’s biathlon, the girls’s occasion..
Two short-track velocity skating finals draw the curtains on the day, the boys’s 500m and the ladies’s 3000m relay.
There’s additionally extra of the limitless curling spherical robins. GB’s males have had a disappointing few days and have to beat USA to be in with an opportunity of creating the semi finals.
Thrills, spills, bellyaches, we’ll be overlaying all of it. Do be a part of us.