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Shiffrin says she’s learned from Beijing mistakes
Lindsey Vonn’s quest for a miraculous medal with a ruptured ACL maybe the big story in US Alpine skiing in Cortina, but there is another American superstar looking for something of a comeback. Mikaela Shiffrin said she has learned from the mistakes which cost her Olympic medals four years ago ahead of her first race at the Milan-Cortina Games.
Shiffrin comes into the Winter Olympics off the back of an incredible season in which she has already won the World Cup slalom title for a record-breaking ninth time and is on course to claim the overall crystal globe.
But she arrives in Cortina d’Ampezzo with tough memories of her disastrous last Olympics in Beijing where the most successful skier of all time failed to claim a single medal.
“Skiing is hard because when you’ve done something technically, like you’ve made a technical error maybe you know what you need to do to fix it and you know the steps you need to take in order to get there,” Shiffrin told reporters.
“But it’s still so precise and there’s so many variables. It’s definitely hard to do that and like do it right all the time.
“In Beijing, all these kind of pieces that came together and all the different factors that played a role, we’ve assessed them all and I continue to assess them, including my own role to play.”
Reporting courtesy of AFP.
Updated at 13.16 EST
Luge: The quickest man after round one is the still the quickest man after round two, Germany’s Max Langenhan will lead the luge overnight, with Jonas Müller of Austria second and Italian home hopeful Fischnaller third.
Ski jumping: We’re underway in the first round of the jumping. Currently going through the early jumpers. I’ll update you when we have a better picture of the contenders towards the end of the round
Luge: We’re into the second runs of the luge and the Italians are taking advantage of the home track. Dominik Fischnaller and Leon Felderer are currently sitting first and second, respectively. The final two runs will take place tomorrow to decide the medals.
Coming up: We have two more medal events this evening, the women’s ski jumping (normal hill) is due to begin in about 15 minutes and the men’s snowboard big air is slated for 6.30pm (GMT).
Ice Hockey: At the end of the second period in the women’s pool game between Finland and USA the Americans are 4-0 up.
ShareDay one so far
Hello, shall we have a little recap of what’s happened today?
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Francesca Lollobrigida won Italy’s first gold of the Games in the 3,000m speed skating
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Team GB’s mixed doubles curling team are still unbeaten after seeing off Canada and USA. Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat are through to the semi-finals before the final two matches of the round robin stage
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British medal hope Kirsty Muir is through to Monday’s slopestyle final
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Frida Karlsson took gold as Sweden secured a one-two in the first cross country skiing event, the women’s 10km+10km skiathlon
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Franjo von Allmen of Switzerland won the first gold medal at Milano Cortina 2026, running away with the men’s downhill title
Handover: Thank you for your company, Tom Bassam is here to take you through the next few hours. Enjoy the rest your weekend, wherever it may take you.
Women’s downhill: Italy’s most successful women’s skier Federica Brignone will compete in the Alpine skiing downhill race on Sunday at the Milano Cortina Olympics, the Italian winter sports federation said on Saturday. The 35-year-old had been assessing her condition after an accident last April left her with multiple leg fractures and a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Brignone will ski on the Olympia delle Tofane piste with bib number three.
Federica Brignone will take her chance in the women’s downhill tomorrow. Photograph: Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty ImagesShareItaly’s Francesca Lollobrigida celebrates with her gold medal after winning the 3,000m speed skating final on her 35th birthday. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty ImagesShareWomen’s 3,000m speed skating top 10
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Francesca Lollobrigida (Italy) 3min 54.28sec
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Ragne Wiklund (Norway) 3min 56.54sec
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Valerie Maltais (Canada) 3min 56.93sec
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Joe Beune (Netherlands) 3min 58.12sec
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Isabelle Weidemann (Canada) 3min 59.24sec
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Nadezhda Morozova (Kazakhstan) 4min 01.20sec
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Sandrine Tas (Belgium) 4min 01.26sec
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Marijke Grownewoud (Netherlands) 4min 01.35sec
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Merel Conijn (Netherlands) 4min 01.65sec
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Elizaveta Golubeva (Kazakhstan) 4min 03.30sec
ShareTeam GB athletes in action tomorrow
This just in from the Team GB press dept: Team GB will be back in action in a range of sports on Sunday in Milano Cortina. Andrew Musgrave will become a five-time Olympian in cross-country skiing, while Mia Brookes is also in action and the curling mixed doubles continues.
Cross-country skiing
Three British skiers will take on the men’s 10km + 10km skiathlon. Musgrave, who has a best Olympic finish of seventh in the 30km skiathlon at PyeongChang 2018, is joined by James Clugnet, appearing at his second Games, and debutant Joe Davies, who grew up in British Columbia watched the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as a fan.
Snowboarding
Women’s big air qualification takes centre stage on Sunday evening, with action getting underway at 7.30pm.
Mia Brookes is a two-time overall World Cup winner in this discipline, while she became a junior big air world champion in 2022. This is her first event of the Games, with slopestyle – in which she won her second X Games gold in January – following later.
Brookes is joined by Maisie Hill, who recovered from a life-threatening training crash into a wall of ice in 2023 and will now make her Olympic debut.
The 24-year-old was left with a lacerated liver, a broken spine, ribs and pelvis, a fractured lung and a bleed on the brain after the incident, but will complete a remarkable comeback in Livigno.
Curling
Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds play two more matches in the ranking round as they bid to remain undefeated. The British pair have already secured a place in the semi-finals but will hope to continue their momentum as they face Switzerland at 1.35pm before taking on Italy at 6.05pm.
ShareFrancesca Lollobrigida celebrated her 35th birthday by winning the gold medal in the women’s 3,000m speed skating final, setting a new Olympic record in front of her home crowd for good measure. Photograph: Yves Herman/ReutersShare🥇 Francesca Lollobrigida wins gold for Italy
Women’s 3,000m speed skating: Joy Beune is almost four seconds down, much to the delight of the largely Italian crowd and birthday girl Francesco Lollobrigida, her husband and young son, who celebrate wildly.
Lollobrigida can’t contain her tears and covers her eyes with fingers adorned by long green nails. Lollobrigida takes gold, Norway’s Ragne Wiklund wins silver and Valerie Maltais from Canada gets the bronze.
Women’s 3,000m speed skating: The final pairing are out and comprises Joy Beune (Netherlands) and Isabelle Wiedemann (Canada). Can either of them poop Francesca Lollobrigida’s birthday party? Beune was the pre-race favourite, so don’t rule it out.
Women’s 3,000m speed skating: The fancied duo that are Norway’s Ragne Wiklund and the Netherlands’ Marijke Groenewoud are curretly out on the track, with Lollobrigida’s time of 3min 54.28sec the time to beat. Groenewoud is not skating well and looks uncomfortable out there, while Wiklund disappears into the distance. She’s not quite fast enough and the Norwegian finishes 2.26sec off the pace to go into the silver medal position.
ShareBirthday girl Lollobrigida sets an Olympic record
Women’s 3,000m speed skating: Happy birthday to Italy’s Francesca Lollobrigida, a silver medallist in Beijing, who turns 35 today and is currently celebrating by speeding anti-clockwise and at top speed around an ice rink … as you do. Hopefully she’ll treat herself to a slice of cake and quite possibly a gold medal later. The partisan crowd rise as one to their feet to cheer her on as she breaks the Olympic record an go top of the leaderboard!
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Francesco Lollobrigida (Italy) 3min 54.28sec
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Nadezhda Morozova (Kazakhstan) 4min 01.20sec
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Sandrine Tas (Belgium) 4min 01.26sec
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Merel Conijn (Netherlands) – 4min 01.65sec
Italy’s Francesca Lollobrigida in action during women’s 3000m. Photograph: Piroschka Van De Wouw/ReutersLollobrigida reacts to her setting a new Olympic record. Photograph: Yves Herman/ReutersShare
Updated at 11.18 EST
Gallery: Feast your eyes on the pick of the images thus far from Day One of the Winter Olympics …
Updated at 11.00 EST
Team GB through to curling mixed doubles semis
Curling mixed doubles: Britain’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat beat Canada before ending the United States’ unbeaten run to clinch their place in the mixed doubles curling semi-finals at the Milano Cortina Olympics today.
Mouat and Dodds, who were world champions in 2021 and finished in fourth place at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, sit atop the round-robin standings after winning their first seven games in the competition. They can no longer be caught by fifth-placed Sweden, who can only win a maximum of six games.
The British pair sealed a hard-fought win over Canada’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman in the morning session, before returning to the ice and beating Americans Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse 6-4.
Sweden’s Isabella and Rasmus Wranaa clinched a massive 9-4 win over reigning Olympic and world champions Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner of Italy to boost their hopes of a top-four finish. Italy, who went unbeaten in the only two previous competitions that Constantini and Mosaner played together, have now suffered two defeats in their campaign.
They will be hoping to bounce back but face a difficult test in the evening session, taking on two-times Olympic medallists Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien of Norway in a rematch of the final in Beijing four years ago. Italy are joint fourth in the standings, with Norway joint sixth after winning two out of their first five games, including a 6-5 victory over Estonia on Saturday.
At the bottom of the table, the Czech pairing of Julie Zelingrova and Vit Chabicovsky beat South Koreans Jeong Yeong-seok and Kim Seon-yeong 9-4 to pick up their first win of the tournament. Teams will play nine times in the round-robin stage at the Cortina Olympic Curling Centre, with the semi-finals taking place on Monday and the medal matches scheduled for Tuesday. Reuters
Team GB’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat leave the ring after defeating the USA’s Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin to book their place in Monday’s semi-finals. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PAShare
Updated at 10.57 EST
Jen Dodds: “You know you are never safe”
Curling mixed doubles: “That was a very tough game,” said Jen Dodds in an interview with the BBC, after she and Bruce Mouat had beaten the USA to book Team GB’s place in the semi-final with two matches to spare. “We, again, very similar to this morning, got off to a good start. Then they steal the following end. You enjoy being up in mixed doubles, but you know you’re never safe. They really fought, but we had a clinical last end and came out with a win.
“For me, just focus on tomorrow. Switzerland tomorrow, they are fighting to try and qualify, and they will come out all guns blazing. Today was a big day for us, and we came out with a top performance in both games.”
Dodds’ partner Bruce Mouat had this to say: “It means a lot – that is what we are here for. We are coming here to try to get a medal, and we have been after it for four years at least. I feel a hot mess at the minute, but energy levels are very good. I am playing in a sport I love at the Olympics, so I don’t need any more adrenaline. Energy levels are very high at the minute.”
Women’s 3,000m speed skating: At the halfway point, Belgium’s Sandrine Tas has beaten Merel Conijn’s time to go top of the leaderboard ahead of a short break.
The current top five
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Sandrine Tas (Belgium) 4min 01.26sec
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Merel Conijn (Netherlands) 4min 01.65sec
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Elizaveta Golubeva (Kazakhstan) 4min 03.30sec
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Kaitlyn McGregor (Switzerland) 4min 04.13sec
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Kseniia Korzhova (Neutral) 4min 05.83sec
Women’s 3,000m speed skating: With three pairs down out of 10, the Netherlands’ Merel Conijn is the clubhouse leader and is almost three seconds clear of Switzerland’s Kaitlyn McGregor in second place but the main medal contenders have yet to race. Joy Beune (Netherlands), Ragne Wiklund (Norway) and Marijke Groenewoud (Netherlands) are the favourites to take step on to the podium this afternoon.
Merel Conijn is the early leader of the women’s 3,000m speed skating final. Photograph: Henk Jan Dijks/MTB-Photo/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 10.39 EST
Women’s 3,000m speed skating: Twenty competitors from 14 nations, a 400m oval track in Milan, only two skaters on the ice at any given time (one on the outer lane, the other on the inner), with all competitors racing against the clock over seven-and-a-half laps and the fastest time wins. What could possibly go wrong?
ShareTeam GB beat the USA
Curling mixed doubles: Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat have beaten the USA 6-4 to record their seventh successive win and guarantee themselves a place in the semi-finals with two matches to spare. They sit top of the round robin table ahead of the USA in second, with Sweden and Canada currently in third and fourth place.
Great Britain’s Jennifer Dodds (right) and Bruce Mouat celebrate after winning against United States’ Korey Dropkin. Photograph: Issei Kato/ReutersShare
Updated at 10.33 EST
Curling mixed doubles: We’re in the eighth end and Team GB lead 6-4. A big mistake from the USA’s Corrie Thiesse followed by another excellent effort from Jen Dodds puts the Brits in the box seat to win this end too.
Curling mixed doubles: “Hard! Hard! Hard! Hard! Haaaaaaaaaard!” yells Jen Dodds as she implores her partner Bruce Mouat to sweeep more vigorously as she sends another stone down the track with a precision that borders on the spooky. Team GB lead the USA 5-4 in the seventh end in their bid to make it seven round robin wins out of seven and book a place in the semi-final.
Curling mixed doubles: We’re in the sixth end and USA have recovered to peg Team GB back to 4-4 in their contest. Both nations are unbeaten in the round robin.
Men’s freeski slopestyle: The first of two qualifying runs has been completed and Norway’s Ruud Birk leads the field with a score of 81.75. Team GB’s Chris McCormick is in 21st place with a score of 33.90 but will have another chance to force his way into the top 12 riders who make the final.
Norway’s Birk Ruud leads the fielkd after after the first qualifying round of the men’s freeski slopestyle. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Men’s Downhill: On a beautiful day in Bornio, the Swiss Skier Franjo von Allmen dominated a challenging course to win in 1:min 51.61sec and take the first medal of these Olympic Games, write’s Sean Ingle from Milan.
Women’s snowboard cross: Canada’s Olympic champion Meryeta O’Dine has been ruled out of the Games after suffering a fractured ankle in a training session, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Snowboard have confirmed. Medical staff evaluated the 26-year-old after she fell and imaging confirmed the ankle bone injury, ending the two-time Olympic medallist’s campaign before the competitions begin.
O’Dine, at her third Olympics, is a key figure in the national snowboard cross programme and one of the team’s most experienced riders. “Her absence from competition is a significant loss for the team,” the statement added.
O’Dine said she was heartbroken. “But I am proud of the work I put in this year to get here … I have seen a new athlete in myself emerge from the challenges I have faced this year and will continue to rise above. I am upset now, but I will grow from this.”
Curling mixed doubles: At the halfway point in their second match of the day, things could not be going more swimmingly for the Team GB duo of Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat. They lead the USA 4-1 and have barely put a foot, stone or brush stroke wrong in this competition thus far.
Women’s skiathlon: Sweden Frida Karlsson has been talking after winning gold in the women’s skiathlon ahead of her compatriot Ebba Andersson and Norway’s Heidi Weng. Karlsson finished 51 seconds ahead of the other racers, with time to grab the Swedish flag and wave at the crowd before crossing the finish line.
“That was the moment when it hit me,” she said. “I was like, ‘OK, this is for real’. I had so much fun out there today and I am really proud of my whole team who have made this happen. The skis were super and the body felt amazing.”
World Cup leader Jessie Diggins of the US, seen as a contender for a podium spot, fell on a sharp downhill turn early in the race in a crash that also took out Norway’s Karoline Simpson-Larsen, and failed to catch up to the leading packs. Diggins trailed at 14th in the classic part of the race, but made up time on the freestyle, her strongest discipline, to finish eighth.
“I was really, really encouraged by the skate half but the classic half, the things out of my control, did not go very well,” she told reporters. “Unfortunately, it was a tough spot where you lose all your momentum.” Reuters
Frida Karlsson (right) receives the congratulations of her compatriot Ebba Andersson after the duo finished first and second in the women’s skiathlon. Photograph: Jure Makovec/EPAShare
Updated at 09.27 EST
The Team GB mixed doubles duo of Jen Dodds (left) and Bruce Mouat (right) are currently in action against the USA and are firmly on course to win their seventh consecutive match in the round robin. Photograph: David J Phillip/APShare
Curling: The GB pairing of Dodds and Mouat take a 3-0 lead over the USA after the second end after the measuring dial makes an appearance.
Handover: Barry Glendenning has returned and will take you through the afternoon’s action.
Women’s Downhill: World champion Breezy Johnson led a weather-interrupted final training for the women’s Olympic downhill on Saturday but injured US teammate and comeback queen Lindsey Vonn was again the talk of the slopes with the third fastest time.
Johnson set the pace with a time of 1min 37.91sec with Germany’s Kira Weidle-Winkelmann 0.21 slower and Vonn 0.37 off the pace.
Vonn was the 15th starter, her left knee in a brace under the race suit, and the session was then halted by low cloud and falling snow after 23 of the 43 skiers on the list had gone down the Olimpia delle Tofane piste.
The skiers from bib 24 onwards were recorded as non-starters. Vonn, the 41-year-old 2010 Olympic champion who has vowed to race on Sunday despite rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in Switzerland last week, did not speak to reporters other than replying “good” when asked how the run had felt.
Her coach Aksel Lund Svindal, a double Olympic gold medallist, was again left to pick up the slack. “I hope you will talk to someone else tomorrow and I think you will,” he said smiling, after patiently working his way along the lines of television cameras and then facing the print media for another barrage of questions at the finish area. Reuters
Curling: Great Britain take a 2-0 lead over the USA after the first end of their mixed doubles round-robin match. With two red stones already in the centre of the house before GB’s hammer, Jen Dodds is able to glide the stone down and secure the points.
Women’s ice hockey: Germany have beaten Japan 5-2 in Group B of the preliminary round, with Nicola Hadraschek finding the net twice and goalscorer Laura Kluge setting up another three. Germany bounce back from their 4-1 opening defeat to Sweden.
Emily Nix and Daria Gleissner were also on the scoresheet in a game that Germany led 5-0 by the halfway point of the second period. Yumeka Wajima and Mei Miura scored 22 seconds apart late in the second period for Japan, who beat France in their opener.
Germany players celebrate their victory over Japan. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo/ReutersShare
Updated at 08.48 EST
Curling: The afternoon session of the mixed doubles is about to get under way. Here are the match-ups in Cortina’s curling stadium, with their current round-robin standings:
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Great Britain (1st) v USA (2)
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Sweden (5) v Italy (3)
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Estonia (7, joint) v Norway (7)
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South Korea (9, joint) v Czech Republic (9)
The top four go through to the semi-finals. A win for Team GB and they will qualify.
Updated at 08.34 EST
Men’s downhill: “It feels like a movie,” said Franjo von Allmen after claiming the first gold medal of the Milano Cortina Games in front of hundreds of Swiss fans who had crossed the nearby border, finishing well ahead of pre-race favourite and compatriot Marco Odermatt:
I felt relaxed in the morning and tried to keep the good feeling from the training runs and fit all the pieces together. I knew it was a good run but to be seven-tenths ahead of Marco, I was surprised.
While Italy’s Giovanni Franzoni produced a near-perfect run to take silver 0.20 seconds back, the 36-year-old Dominik Paris bagged his first Olympic medal with bronze on home snow:
It’s great to have this home crowd here. It’s my fifth Olympics, and getting the first medal in front of the home crowd, that’s really special.
ShareIOC insist ‘no norovirus outbreak’ at Games after five athletes test positive
Five players from the Swiss and Finnish women’s ice hockey teams have tested positive for norovirus but there is no wider outbreak at the 2026 Milano Cortina Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday. The single Swiss case was confirmed two days after Canada and Finland were forced to postpone their opener when four members of the Finnish team fell ill with norovirus.
“We had a few cases from Finland with symptoms, dealt with. One Swiss case coming with symptoms, dealt with in the most appropriate way by the medical team,” the Olympic Games executive director, Christophe Dubi, told a press conference. “Let’s be very clear: no outbreak.”
Sometimes called the winter vomiting bug, norovirus is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis globally and has symptoms including diarrhoea and vomiting, according to the World Health Organisation.
Both teams have confirmed the cases. Switzerland’s positive case was discovered after they beat Czech Republic 4-3 in a thrilling shootout on Friday. Other Swiss team members were initially isolated as a precaution but were back practicing at Milano Rho arena on Saturday ahead of their game against Canada which was to go ahead as planned.
“Let’s not start to make a point of what is currently five athletes being dealt with. Please. Proper protocols, really well done,” added Dubi. The IOC’s medical chief Jane Thornton has said the cases are not related. Reuters
Curling: Great Britain are 6/6 in the mixed doubles after beating Canada 7-5 this morning. Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat top the round-robin standings and are on the verge of reaching the semi-finals. Next they face the USA (4 wins out of 4) at 1.35pm (GMT).
“We’re going to try and get a good rest between the next game because they’re obviously undefeated as well,” Mouat said earlier. “I think we’re just in a very good spot and we’re communicating really well and we now know what the ice is going to do for the rest of the event I think. We’re happy with where we are.”
Share🥇 Frida Karlsson wins the Women’s Skiathlon
Sweden have their first medals of these Games and it’s gold and silver! Frida Karlsson and Ebba Andersson made a breakaway from the main field midway through the race before the former launched an attack of her own late on, leaving the 2025 world champion to finish way back in second. Norway’s Heidi Weng, at the age of 34, wins her second Olympic medal and repeats the bronze she won at Sochi 2014.
Gold: Frida Karlsson (Sweden) 53min 45.2sec
Silver: Ebba Andersson (Sweden) +51s
Bronze: Heidi Weng (Norway) +1m 26.7s
A beaming Frida Karlsson holds the Swedish flag whilst celebrating as she crosses the finish line to win gold in the Women’s 10km + 10km Skiathlon. Photograph: Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 08.01 EST
Sean Ingle
News on Mariah Carey and lipsync-gate in the opening ceremony from our correspondent in Milan:
Someone asks about Mariah’s Carey opening ceremony performance at this morning’s press conference: “Mariah Carey was exceptional, she was not paid for the Opening Ceremony,” Maria Laura Mascone of the Italian organisers replies. “We are very honoured … we were extremely satisfied with her performance.”
Was she lip syncing, Matt Lawton from the Times asks: “During all the ceremony, we always record but this is something that is used internationally,” comes the reply. “But yesterday’s performance was really extraordinary and the images can prove it to you all, because there was magic. “ Doesn’t sound like a no?
The organisers are asked if Mariah Carey used a teleprompter. “Yes, we had a teleprompter, especially for those artists who sang in a different language as they needed some support,” they reply. “It is a way to support the talents on the stage.”
The IOC’s Mark Adams then suggests that Carey did sing live. “I have to take my hat off to anyone who sings in a language that isn’t their native language.”
Mariah Carey performed two songs at the ceremony and began her performance with ‘Nel blu dipinto di blu’, more commonly known as ‘Volare’, one of the most famous Italian pop songs of all time, followed by her own song ‘Nothing Is Impossible’. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The GuardianShare
Updated at 08.00 EST
Women’s Skiathlon: Karlsson is way clear of Andersson now and will surely take gold for Sweden. Weng has gone past Slind into third and is gaining on Andersson but the gap (about 40s) is probably to big to bridge from here. Just over 5km to go.
Updated at 07.42 EST
Women’s Skiathlon: Sweden’s Frida Karlsson is making a break for gold with two laps of the circuit to go having broken free of the main pack alongside her compatriot Ebba Andersson, who is in silver-medal position.
Astrid Øyre Slind has got a fight on her hands for the bronze, with her fellow Norwegian Heidi Weng on her tail.
Frida Karlsson of Sweden competes in the women’s 20 km cross-country skiing skiathlon. Photograph: Maxim Thore/Bildbyrån/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 07.48 EST
British curling duo Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat have extended an open invitation to McLaren’s Lando Norris to swap the track for the rink, after watching the Formula One world champion struggle with a miniature version of their sport.
In a video shared by McLaren on social media on Friday, Norris tried his hand at ’baby curling’ with little success, prompting Formula One fan Dodds to offer some professional guidance.
“Lando Norris, you can come and try curling up in Scotland at the NCA (National Curling Academy) anytime,” Dodds said after their win over Canada’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman. “There’s loads of great coaches up there. We can get you on ice and you don’t need to do baby curling, you can do actual curling.”
Briton Norris joked in the video about having advice for Britain’s curlers, an offer which Mouat was still happy to take, adding: “Lando, if you have any tips, please give them to us! He said he had a couple of tips but I think he was joking obviously. But Jen’s a massive fan. She has like McLaren tops and all, like she’s a proper fan!”
Mouat and Dodds have had an incredible start to their mixed doubles curling campaign at the Milano Cortina Olympics, winning their first six matches to put themselves on the verge of qualifying for the semi-finals. Reuters
Updated at 07.44 EST
Medal ceremony: The first gold medal of the Games is put round the neck of men’s downhill winner Franjo van Allmen and the Swiss national anthem plays in Bormio. It’s his first Olympic medal, aged 24. Giovanni Franzoni gets silver and Dominik Paris bronze – both of Italy.
Updated at 07.29 EST
Summary
Here’s what’s happened on day one of the Games so far:
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Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen wins the first gold of Milano Cortina 2026 in the men’s downhill skiing. Italy’s Giovanni Franzoni and Dominik Paris complete the medal table.
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Great Britain keep up their 100% record in the mixed doubles curling with a 7-5 victory over Canada. Sweden beat Switzerland 13-7.
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China’s double Olympic champion Eileen Gu recovers from a fall to qualify for the women’s freeski slopestyle final along with 2022 gold medalist Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland. Britain’s Kirsty Muir qualifies in third.
Updated at 08.24 EST
Ice hockey: Germany’s women are giving Japan a bit of a hiding in Group B – they’re 4-0 up in the second period thanks to goals from Daria Gleissner, Emily Nix and two from Nicola Hadraschek. Germany themselves were well beaten, 4-1 by Sweden, in their opener while Japan edged France 3-2.
The Women’s 10km+10km Skiathlon has got under way in Tesero, with World Cup leader Jessie Diggins of the USA involved in a bit of a crash a few minutes into the race – she’s moving back up through the field as we speak. There are plenty of Swedes and Norwegians in the leading pack. It’ll be another half an hour before this one starts to come to a climax.
Updated at 07.11 EST
Thanks Barry. Let’s keep this rolling.
Men’s downhill: The glory is Franjo von Allmen’s but it’s a poignant moment for the Italian team with Giovanni Franzoni and Dominik Paris in the medals. No doubt they will be thinking of Matteo Franzoso, their teammate who died aged 25 last year after a training crash in Chile. Franzoni was close to Franzoso and dedicated his first World Cup win last month to him.
Italy had won just three medals in the men’s downhill since 1948 – now they’ve added two more. Switzerland will have to lick their wounds, with Marco Odermatt, considered the favourite for gold by many, finishing outside the podium,
Updated at 07.05 EST