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Men’s Ice hockey: USA 1-1 Denmark and there’s a FIGHT! The scuffle sees one of the Danes shoved into the goal and the whole thing us uprooted like a decayed tooth. No danger of any actual teeth being harmed mind, there’s plenty of protective clothing to protect from the punches. I always think ice hockey fights are one of the most futile things you can see. Anyway, how’s your Valentine’s Day evening going?
Lizzy Yarnold is full of admiration for Janine Flock.
Speaking to Balders on the Beeb, the two time Olympic skeleton champion said “from her head all the way to her toes, it was magnificent!”
“You can see the joy radiate out of her. Skeleton was her teenage sport, this has been her love for a long time. Thank goodness she didn’t retire. She built that resilience, she kept going and she improved.”
For those at the back, Flock finished ninth in the 2014 Olympics and 10th in 2022. Between the two came the real heartbreak. At the 2018 Pyeongchang Games she led after three runs before an error strewn final run saw her miss out on a medal by two-hundredths of a second. She has her medal now and it is the one she will have dreamed over the last decade and more.
Share🥇 Gold for Slovenia’s Domen Prevc in the men’s ski jump (large hill)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane… nope it is a flying Slovenian! Domen Prevc soars and soars and lands the biggest jump of the night at 141.5 metres! What a time to do it, with just one jumper to go.
It is Gold for Prevc! He becomes a double Gold medallist in Milano Cortina after winning Gold in the team event earlier in the week and is the only jumper to post over 300 points in the final.
The podium will look like this:
Domec Prevc (Slovenia) – 301.8 points GOLD
Ren Nikaido (Japan) – 295.0 Silver
Kacper Tomasiak (Poland) – 291.2 Bronze
Slovenia’s Domen Prevc reacts in the finish area after jumping in the final round of the men’s large hill individual ski jumping. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 15.17 EST
🥇 Gold for Austria’s Janine Flock in the Women’s Skeleton
The wait is over for Flock! At 36 she bags her first Olympic medal at her fourth Olympic Games and it is Gold! She posts the quickest time of the run, punches the air, removes her helmet and it hits her – she’s the Olympic champion!
Fantastic scenes. Shout out to Tabby Stoeker who holds fifth position in her first games. One day…
Freestyle skiing – women’s big air qualification: Kirsty Muir is about to attempt her second jump…
Defending champion Eileen Gu faceplanted the powder a few minutes ago and posted a lowly score of 20.75 for her second jump.
No such trouble for Muir! Another brilliant jump and a smooth landing with three successful rotations. See you on Monday for the final Kirsty!
Skeleton: Women’s Final: Tabby Stoeker puts in a solid final run of 57.72, beams and blows kisses to her supporters who are sporting ‘Super Stoeker’ t shirts in the stands as she completes her last run at her first Olympic Games. Four competitors to go…
Skeleton: Women’s Final: Amelia Coltman puts in an excellent final run of 57.6s, she won’t make the podium but that should see her edge her way into the top ten.
Derbyshire’s own Freya Tarbit’s turn now and she gets down in 57.7s, she has 8th place locked in and could creep higher.
Updated at 14.20 EST
Freestyle skiing – women’s big air qualification: Kirsty Muir is in second place after one jump and well placed to qualify and contend for a medal in Monday’s final.
The top five as it stands:
Megan Oldham (Canada) – 91.25 points
Kirsty Muir (Great Britain) – 87.50
Grace Henderson (USA) – 86.75
Eileen Gu (China) – 86.00
Mathilde Gremaud (Switzerland) – 85.25
Skeleton: Women’s Final: The final runs are underway! Great Britain’s Amelia Coltman is about to push off, she is in tenth position after three runs. Freya Tarbit is eighth and will be the 18th athlete down the track and fifth-placed Tabby Stoecker will be 21st.
Could Tabby somehow sneak a medal? Let’s find out.
Freestyle skiing – women’s big air qualification: Kirsty Muir is beaming! As well she might having just smoothly landed an incredible first jump. She scores 87.5 and is straight into second place behind Canada’s Megan Oldham on 91.25. Muir is also ahead of defending Olympic champion (and ramekin pudding billionaire) Eileen Gu.
Men’s Ski Jumping Final (Large Hill, First Round) Germany’s Philipp Raimund does not look best pleased with his first attempt, he’s back in 11th place with plenty of improvement necessary if he is to contend for medals.
The big shock however is that the reigning Olympic champion Marius Lindvik is GONE! The Norwegian’s score of 119.3 sees him languishing in 33rd place and only the top 30 of the 50 competitors go through.
Top five heading into the final jump (in about twenty minutes time) are:
Nikaido Ren (Japan) – 154 points
Domen Prevc (Slovenia) – 147
Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal (Norway) – 145
Kacper Tomasiak (Poland) – 141.8
Jan Hoerl (Austria) – 141.7
Freestyle skiing – women’s big air qualification: Great Britain’s Kirsty Muir is looking to qualify and get closer to a medal after cruelly missing out in the slopestyle by the barest of margins earlier in the week. Fourth place in an Olympic Games is no place to be.
What’s this one all about I hear you ask? Here’s a primer:
The competitors ski down a 225m ramp and then fly off a 40 metre high jump, whilst pulling off an assortment of tricks. They’re judged on style, control, damage and agression difficulty, execution, height and landing control.
There will be three runs this evening at 18:30, 19:15, 20:00 GMT. The two highest-scoring runs of each athlete are added together to determine their ranking and the top 12 qualify for the final on Monday.
Skeleton: Women’s Final (3rd run): As mentioned, a disappointing run for Great Britain’s three athletes, Tabby Stoeker is in fifth place and has an outside chance of making it onto the podium but will have to improve drastically with her final slide.
Janine Flock (Aut) – 2:51.74
Susanne Kreher (Ger) – 2:51.95
Jacqueline Pfeifer (Ger) – 2:52.17
Hannah Neise (Ger) – 2:52.44
Tabby Stoecker (GB) – 2:52.76
Tabitha Stoecker of Great Britain competes in the women’s skeleton competition. Photograph: Daniel Dal Zennaro/EPAShare
Updated at 13.59 EST
Men’s Ski Jumping Final (Large Hill, First Round) It’s a sleety and cold old night it Livigno for the first round of jumps, the final round will be just before 7pm GMT.
Germany’s Philipp Raimund will attempt to make it a double Gold games after he won the normal hill event earlier this week. Raimund’s story is pretty crackers, he pulled out of a World Cup event in March last year citing… a fear of heights!
“As some of you may know, I am scared of heights,” Raimund wrote at the time. “I usually have it under control, and it usually isn’t a problem while ski jumping, but from time to time, I have the issue (mainly while ski flying) that my body is reacting without me controlling it.”
That would appear to be quite the occupational hazard. Oh, by the way, did I mention my fear of laptops and television screens (and divorce) ?
Updated at 13.07 EST
Men’s Ice Hockey: The Italian goal is being bombarded by the puck courtesy of Finnish sticks in the men’s preliminaries. Finland lead by a stonking 9 goals to zilch with about ten minutes left to go.
The host country clearly need some Mighty Ducks style inspiration, did somebody say Knuckle Puck?
Skeleton: Women’s Final (3rd run): Unfortunately the third run for Great Britain’s three first time Olympian Skeleton athletes are going the same way as my Valentine’s Day wooing. Non bene.
Tabby Stoecker, Freya Tarbit and Amelia Coltman all put in their slowest slides of the competition so far and thus slip way down the standings, all three are likely out of medal contention now with the final run to come at 19:30GMT.
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James Wallace
Thanks Tanya. Love is in the BIG air tonight, especially in the Wallace household where I’ll be whispering sweet nothings into the ear of this Winter Olympics Live Blog until 10pm. I did suggest to my beloved that she head out for a solo Chinese meal (a succulent one no less) but she quite rightly called that out as a mad idea.
Coming up:
17:00-19:30 – Women’s skeleton (runs three and four) – featuring Team GB’s Tabby Stoecker (5th), Freya Tarbit (6th), and Amelia Coltman (9th)
17:45-20:00 – Ski jumping men’s large hill individual
19:15-22:00 – Short track speed skating men’s 1500m – featuring Team GB’s Niall Treacy
So Great Britain might scoop some more medals and I might get served with divorce papers, worth sticking around for either way!
Updated at 12.25 EST
That’s it from me for today, Jim will guide you down the skeleton run and over the ski jumps. Happy Valentine’s day – bye!
Skeleton: unlace your skates, time to return to the sliding centre in snow-kissed Cortina. The women’s medals will be decided tonight in two runs on the polished ice. Tabby Stoecker is the best placed of GB’s women, lying fifth, Freya Tarbit is sixth, and Amelia Coltman ninth.
Austria’s Janine Flock is top of the tree and first down the track. It’s quick – 57.26, identical to her second run. She looks very pleased.
Janine Flock of Austria competes in the women’s skeleton. Photograph: Jure Makovec/EPAShare
Updated at 12.30 EST
More suspected sabotage attacks on Italian railway
Trains operating through the heart of Italy suffered delays of more than an hour on Saturday following the latest suspected act of sabotage during the Olympic Games.
Services between Naples in the south and the capital Rome were affected, and there were also delays on the line heading north towards Florence. Transport Minister Matteo Salvini condemned those behind the incidents following similar problems last Saturday on the network and another less serious case in midweek.
“These are hateful criminal acts aimed at workers and at Italy,” Salvini said in a statement.
“I hope that no one plays down or tries to justify these crimes which put lives at risk,” he added.
The authorities were investigating burnt cables on a section of the high-speed line between Rome and Naples on Saturday, and two other possible acts of vandalism between the capital and Florence. National police said that initial investigations indicated that these were “definitely criminal acts”.
Reuters
Share🥇 A second gold for Jordan Stolz in the 500m speed skating
A second gold of the Games for Jordan Stolz, who takes the Stars and Stripes on a victory lap in his superhero spanx; silver for a disconsolate Jenning de Boo and a surprise bronze for a very happy Laurent Dubreuil.
Captain America: a second gold for Jordan Stolz Photograph: Yves Herman/ReutersShare
Updated at 11.55 EST
Men’s 500m speed skating: A tight race between Sebas Diniz and Damian Zurek , but neither can break into the top three. One pairing to go.
Men’s 500m speed skating: there will be no consecutive Olympic crown for Gao Tingyu, who crosses in provisional third.
Now for the big one: World Champion Jenning de Boo v the USA’s Jordan Stolz. They lean and scrabble and power and slide.. and Stolz clinches it, first place and the Olympic record to boot.de Boo is devastated with his provisional silver.
Men’s 500m speed skating: four pairs to go. Yevgeniy Koshkin and Marten Liiv line up. A false start, from a twitch of an invisible muscle. They get away second time and Koshkin powers towards the finish, but it is only enough for fourth place, Liiv sits down in 12th.
Men’s 500m speed skating: the lead has changed, and changed and changed again. The provisional gold medal winner as I type is Canada’s Laurent Dubreuil, who breaks the Olympic record with a time of 34.26 seconds.
Ice hockey women’s quarter-final: A handy two-nil lead for Canada against Germany at the end of the first period.
A reminder that Sweden and USA are already through to the semi-finals, and the final QF between Finland and Switzerland takes place this evening.
Men’s 500m speed skating: a new track record for China’s Lian Ziwen who lopes at high speed into first place.
Men’s 500m speed skating: Orange everywhere in the crowd and huge cheers for the 1000m world champ Joep Wennemars. But he can’t do better than fifth in the provisional standings.
Men’s 500m speed skating: No helmet in this event, just X-man lycra and a scramble of skates. Poor Zach Stoppelmoor of the USA first has a false start, then a slipping skate.
Men’s 500m speed skating: 29 skaters going for gold. Ignaz Gschwentner does a sole turn, and will be followed by 14 pairs. Fastest wins.
ShareSwitzerland accuse Canada of “double touch”
Curling: the fallout continues from yesterday’s hot-headed game between Sweden and Canada, when Sweden accused Canada of cheating by “double touching” the stone.
As a result World Curling said it would have officials on ice keeping an eye out for rule violations, while the IOC confirmed that Canada’s 8-6 win over Sweden would stand.
Now the Swiss have something to say after their win over Canada. “I think I saw a double touching of the Canadians…I really think it does nothing, but if you have a referee on the ice and he sees it, he really should [act]. This is nothing personal against Marc Kennedy.”
Team GB’s Bruce Moat is also asked for his feelings: “We all know the rules and what is supposed to happen. Marc Kennedy has been around for a long time. He knows what is happening, so we all trust that fair play is a thing in our sport and hope that everyone sticks to it.
“I’m sure Marc didn’t mean anything by it, it is just that he was caught doing it on TV I guess. Now it’s out there, it should be regulated pretty well, and hopefully by the athletes.”
Updated at 11.08 EST
Curling: And that’s the win for Bruce Moat’s team! Three from four puts them in a very steady position.
“We were in control,” says Moat, “ It was one of those games when you get a good lead at the start and have to maintain it.”
In the other games, Switzerland beat Canada 9-5; the USA beat Germany 8-6 and Sweden beat China 6-4.
Curling: back to the more sedate curling rink, where Czechia have inched a little closer to GB, trailing 4-7, but with the hammer.
Ever wondered where curling stones came from? Libby Brooks tracked them down to in this lovely story.
Updated at 10.42 EST
🥇 Norway’s Maren Kirkeeide takes the biathlon 7.5 km sprint
It turns out that no-one can catch Kirkeeide, and she takes the second Norwegian skiing gold within a couple of hours. France must make do with silver for Océane Michelon and bronze for Lou Jeanmonnot.
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold of Team Norway hands a rose to Maren Kirkeeide after the women’s 7.5km biathlon sprint. Photograph: Harry How/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.48 EST
Women’s speed skating team pursuit: Awesome Canada show just why they are the top-ranked nation, posting the fastest time and earning a semi-final against the USA. And very pleased they are too.
Japan will have to hunt down the world champs, the Netherlands. But don’t hold your breath, the next stage is on Tuesday.
Women’s speed skating team pursuit: the US reel around the rink and look a better oiled machine then the Germans, who lose touch with their lead skater at the start. With one QF to go, the four semi-finalists are: Japan, Netherlands, USA and Germany.
Updated at 10.24 EST
Women’s speed skating team pursuit: in the first QF one of the Kazakhstan skaters goes spinning out against the side padding after clipping blades with one of her teammates – so the Dutch finish alone in 2:55.65.
Japan leave China for dust in the second QF and go top: 2.44.52.
Women’s speed skating team pursuit: Four quarter finals in this sci-fi spectacular, humans as machines skating in rapid unison .
Quarter-final 1: Netherlands v Kazakhstan
Quarter-final 2: China v Japan
Quarter-final 3: Germany v USA
Quarter-final 4: Canada v Belgium
The four fastest teams go through to the semis.
Updated at 10.10 EST
Biathlon: Maren Kirkeeide drives to the line, collapses in a heap. She’s as wrung out a dishcloth, but currently lying in first. After a minute or two she finds the energy to smile as her teammate presents her with a single red rose.
Updated at 10.34 EST