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This is our top 10 after two runs:
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It’ll take something for oner of the top two to avoid taking gold; there’s a battle for that, then a battle for bronze.
Anyroad up, it’s 0-0 with 10 to go in the first; elsewhere, we’re four minutes away from the resumption of the women’s luge singles.
I should say, currently Italy lead Germany by a point, so if this match is a draw they’ll finish higher and take on second place in Group A.
Italy’s Nadia Mattivi (right) and Germany’s Carina Strobel vie for the puck. Photograph: Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 11.01 EST
Both teams are already into the last eight, but the winner will avoid the winner of Group A – though you’d not back either to even run USA or Canada, the two teams in contention, close.
We’re under way in our Italy v Germany Group B women’s ice hockey…
Goodness me.
The medal table is currently led by … Norway.
We’ll see how it goes, but given how well the men’s football team are doing – the women’s side were always good – Norwegian sport is enjoying something of a moment.
I think they enjoyed the moment.
Austria’s Katharina Huber and Ariane Raedler, celebrate winning gold. Photograph: Andy Wong/APShare
Updated at 10.35 EST
I’ve just rewatched Austria’s gold in the team combined; leading with Mikaela Shiffrin to come, she and Breezy Johnson looked great, impregnable almost. What an effort from Radler and Huber to beat them.
I mean a gold’s a gold, right? Is the medals breaking anything more than quite funny?
What a feeling this must be.
Sweden’s Linn Svahn celebrates winning gold in the women’s sprint cross-country final. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/ReutersShare
So, in the meantime, get a load of these.
That’s it with the live sport until 3.40pm, when Italy meet Germany in Group B of the women’s ice hockey. Then after than, at 4pm, we’ve run three of the women’s single luge – four, the last, is at 5.34pm – and at 5.05pm Sweden face USA in the mixed doubles curling gold-medal match.
Ultimately, they played really well today, but Constantini was just too good.
The GB lads are as disappointed as you’d expect; having come fourth in Beijing, they hoped to go one better here and started so well, only to no-show yesterday. “So close but yet so far, same as last time really,” offers Dodds, saying she doesn’t “want to ugly cry,” so she’ll stop there.
Mouat, taking over, is also tearful, saying it’s rough but they played so much better than for years ago. They’re both resilient people and spoke last night saying how lucky there are to play at the Olympics with your best mate. They grew up curling together with no idea how far they could take it, enough to send Dodds, and their relationship is really affirming.
Back to Dodds, she thanks the National Lottery for it’s financial support, and off they go; both won silver in the team at Beijing, neither are finished here yet.
Team GB’s Bruce Mouat (and) Jennifer Dodds look dejected after they lost to Italy in the Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Game. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The GuardianShare
Updated at 10.37 EST
The home crowd greet their bronze medalists. It’s not the gold they wanted, having taken it last Games, but they enjoy the moment nonetheless.
Stefania Constantini (left) and Amos Mosaner of Italy celebrate winning their bronze medal match against Britain’s Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds. Photograph: Jennifer Lorenzini/ReutersShare
Updated at 10.39 EST
Italy win bronze in the mixed doubles curling, beating Great Britain 5-3
The stone is barely out of Constantini’s hand ad the crowd are whooping – it’s perfect, and no more than she deserves as the best player on the ice.
Italy’s Amos Mosaner (left) celebrates victory Great Britain’s Bruce Mouat (right) and Jennifer Dodds (centre) after Stefania Constantini (foreground) plays her stone in the Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Game. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The GuardianShare
Updated at 10.15 EST
Mosaner isn’t having a great time out there and another poor stone allows GB to calculate how they might steal this end. Dodds hits the button, but if Constantini knocks it out of the road, the bronze is Italy’s. The way she’s been playing, you can’t back against her.
Powerplay for Italy and, after two stones each, GB have three that didn’t reach the house, with Mosaner taking one away, leaving one of his own on the side.
Constantini sends her final stone and Dodds must now try to send hers one into another of hers, taking both closer than the Italian. Here she goes … and she doesn’t catch enough of it. It’s one for GB and they trail 4-3 going into the final end.
GB with the hammer and look nicely positioned with reds in front of yellows; Italy take a timeout before Mosaner goes again, a poor shot taking one of his and one of GB’s stones away. Mouat wonders if he and Dodds can manage three this end, which’d certainly pigeon the cat. It’s good stone too; Italy have 1, but GB have 2, 3 and 4.
Italy’s Amos Mosaner sends a stone down the ice. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The GuardianShare
Updated at 09.54 EST
GB go again and lands their stone on the button, knocking one of the Italian ones out, but might a hard one up the middle get rid of everything? Mosaner goes for it, but this isn’t good at all, and he leaves two reds in the in the green, his own yellow ones naewhere. So Dodds rolls one to the button, and here comes Constantini with Italy’s final go of the end. This could be pivotal, as she attempts to pass through a tiny gap and nick and end that looked lost … and has she given it enough … oh she has, that is perfection! She takes the middle, Italy lead 4-2 and, with two ends to go that might be the medal.
Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner of Italy. Photograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 09.24 EST
GB are looking good in this end, calling a timeout to debate what to do. They’ve one stone half of which is on the button, and another on the edge of the green; Italy have two inside the green.
Indeed so; thanks Yara and hi again all. Italy have the hammer and the 3-2 lead, but GB are closer in this third end.
Updated at 09.34 EST
That is all from me but Daniel Harris is back to take you through the rest of the curling.
Curling: GB pull one back and Italy lead 3-2. GB could have got another on the board but Constantini’s throw manages to push a red away. Will the Italians use their power play?
Curling: GB have been on the defensive so far … they need to start playing a bit more aggressively and need to get something on the board in this fifth end.
Mouat knocks his red into the button then, with his next throw, pushes Mosaner’s attempt away. Italy now must respond.
Bruce Mouat of Britain in action. Photograph: Issei Kato/ReutersShare
Updated at 09.27 EST
Curling: Italy take a 3-1 lead before the break. Constantini, who is competing for bronze here in her hometown, delivers a decent final stone and Dodds, once again, is faced with a big pressure moment … Her throw hits the cluster of stones but Italy still manage the point.
Dodds’s accuracy is at 69% compared to Mouat’s 81%. Constantini is at 94% and Mosaner is at 96%.
Updated at 09.03 EST
🥇Austria win gold in women’s alpine skiing team combined
Katharina Huber loses time as she comes down the mountain but she hangs on to the lead, giving her and her partner Ariane Rädler the lead with a combined 2:21.66.
Here comes Mikaela Shiffrin of Team USA … she has a six-hundredths of a second lead in the start gate but her turns are too wide. Breezy Johnson and Shiffrin finish fourth, off the podium. Instead it is their compatriots, Jackie Wiles and Paula Moltzan, who win bronze. Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher of Germany win silver.
Gold medallists Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber of Austria. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/ReutersShare
Updated at 09.26 EST
Curling: Fourth end and Italy get us underway. Both teams find the button with their second throw with neither side letting up.
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Figure skating: The US figure skater Amber Glenn said Tuesday that she has resolved copyright concerns with the Canadian recording artist Seb McKinnon after the musician expressed surprise that one of his songs appeared in her Olympic free skate program, closing a brief dispute that underscored the growing complexity of music rights in figure skating.
McKinnon, who releases music under the name CLANN, posted on social media after Glenn performed to his track The Return during the Olympic team event, questioning whether the music had been cleared. He later congratulated Glenn on her team gold medal, and both sides have since described the episode as a misunderstanding rather than a conflict.
Read the full story below.
Biathlon: France’s Fabien Claude beats Ukraine’s Dmytro Pidruchnyi with a time of 55:46.9 (4 misses). But his lead is short lived as Italy’s Patrick Braunhofer betters his mark, crossing the finish line in 55:01.7 (1 miss).
Curling: Italians make a mistake with their third throw, it lacks quite a bit of power. Mouat almost overhits his throw but he moves Team GB into pole position … Only for Italy to pull off a fantastic shot to finish on the button. Italy 2-1 Great Britain.
Curling: Great throw from Amos Mosaner for Italy’s third, landing right on the edge of the button. Another great throw for the Italians lands right in the centre and it looks like it will be an uphill battle for Mouat and Dodds.
But Team GB manage to respond with Mouat hitting it in the centre. The Italians prevent their opponents taking the lead but we are all tied at 1-1.
Alpine skiing: The women’s team combined (slalom) is also underway and the tricky course has caught a lot of our slalom racers out. Five DNFs and one DSQ after 16 runs. Switzerland’s Jasmine Flury and Wendy Holdener are the team to beat.
Updated at 09.12 EST
Curling: Italy have a yellow right between two reds and Dodds’ throw just needed a bit more power on it. Italy steal and lead 1-0 in the first end, much to the joy of the crowd.
Curling: Dodds and Mouat were imperious in the round-robin stage with eight wins from nine matches. Only Switzerland managed to defeat Team GB in the earlier stages which meant Dodds and Mouat defeated the other three teams going into the semi-finals. But it wasn’t meant to be, losing to Sweden on Monday.
Dodds and Mouat are hoping they can go one better than at Beijing 2022 and win bronze.
Sean Ingle
Medal drama: After days of embarrassing stories about Winter Olympic medals cracking, snapping, and even breaking in two after falling in the snow, organisers say they have finally fixed the problem.
Officials have also promised to repair any of the medals that were awarded in the opening three days of competition in Milano Cortina, after identifying on Monday that the issue stemmed from the medal’s cord, which is fitted with a breakaway mechanism required by law.
The system is designed to release automatically if pulled with force, preventing the wearer from being choked. However it led to problems that began on Saturday when the American downhill skiing champion Breezy Johnson revealed that her gold medal had fallen off her ribbon as she jumped in celebration.
Read the full story below.
Curling: Here we go! Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat are about to fight for Great Britain’s first medal of the Games against Italy in the mixed doubles bronze medal match.
Great Britain’s Jennifer Dodds. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PAShare
Updated at 08.43 EST
🥇Ruud takes gold in freeski slopestyle
Birk Ruud’s final run is just a formality, with the gold already secured. He has fun with it but has a bit of a slip and falls. He is OK, gets up and finishes with a gorgeous backflip. Fantastic performance overall for the Norwegian, winning his first gold.
Alex Hall of the United States wins silver and Luca Harrington of New Zealand takes bronze. The Kiwi was quite emotional when his third place was confirmed on his Olympic debut. Great scenes.
(L-R) Silver medalist United States’ Alex Hall, gold medalist Norway’s Birk Ruud and bronze medalist New Zealand’s Luca Harrington Photograph: Abbie Parr/APShare
Updated at 08.41 EST
Freestyle skiing: The highest Alex Hall can finish in the men’s freeski slopestyle is silver. Norway’s Birk Ruud is currently in a gold medal position but has a final run. Luca Harrington of New Zealand is hanging on for the bronze.
Share🥇Klæbo speeds to gold in sprint skiing in fantastic race
We just witnessed one of the best of all time win another gold. Johannes Høsflot Klæbo was away and clear so early on, after a brilliant attack on the hill. He blew the world class field apart. At the final strait, he took a look behind him and saw just how far ahead he was.
Ben Ogden takes silver, a huge moment for the American team, and Oskar Opstad Vike of Norway takes bronze.
Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway. Photograph: Lars Baron/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 08.06 EST
Cross-country skiing: Men’s sprint final is up next. Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo will aim for his second gold of these Games after winning the 20 km skiathlon.
Ben Ogden, was fantastic in the semis, he is aiming for the first US medal in this event in 50 years.
Updated at 07.38 EST
🥇Svahn takes gold in sprint skiing ahead of Swedish compatriots
Sweden win gold and silver and bronze! What a performance from Linn Svahn, who pipps her teammate Jonna Sundling, who has dominated this sport for the last five years. Maja Daglqvist wins the bronze.
Linn Svahn of Sweden. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/ReutersShare
Updated at 07.49 EST
Cross-country skiing: The women’s sprint finals is down to the wire … Sweden may be aiming for a 1-2-3 here but will Jonna Sundling defend her gold? She is currently in second.
Updated at 07.33 EST
Freestyle skiing: Alex Hall of the United States puts down a clean run to move into second in men’s slopestyle finals, with a score of 85.75.
The defending champion gets a likened to Eric Cantona of Manchester United by the commentary team. Cool, aggressive and a legend of the sport. He has a lot of American fans here, and maybe even some local support. His mother is from Bologna.
Norway’s Birk Ruud still leads with a score of 86.28.
Share🥇Italy win gold in short track speed skating (mixed relay)
What a moment! The Italians were patient, they waited for the right moment and as soon as they saw the opportunity, they pounced, finishing with a time of 2:39.019. Canada, the top-ranked team, take silver and what a moment for Belgium, who take bronze. China, the defending champions, finish fourth. That mistake cost them a place on the podium.
That is the second gold for Italy at these Games and Arianna Fontana’s 12th Olympic medal. She was skating at Turin 2006 at just 15 years old.
Italy celebrate after winning gold in the short track speed skating mixed team relay final. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 07.39 EST
Speed skating: China speed to the front but all of a sudden a mistake from them and suddenly Italy are in the lead! They speed by as the home crowd erupts, Belgium in second, Canada third …