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Norway are well ahead now in the men’s 4×7.5km relay, coming into the stadium, and the leas is 10.2s; Finland are second, Italy third and France fourth.
The relay course has hills they kind of skip up, followed by some downhill on the other side; Norway lead from Finland, the gap widening, with Canada and USA third and fourth and we come towards the end of leg two, two more to go.
Updated at 06.34 EST
My goodness, this men’s 4.75km relay looks deeply unpleasant. Norway lead, from Finland, from USA, from Canada, but it’s close, 1.8s separating the first four.
Athletes including Norway’s Emil Iversen compete during the cross-country men’s 4 x 7,5km relay. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 06.31 EST
Don’t forget: coming up at 12.30pm, we’ve got the second and final run of the women’s giant slalom, Brignone of Italy, super g gold medalist, with a decent lead having come back from shattering her leg at the end of last season.
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Txema’s run is competent enough but nothing wowing, then out of nowhere, looking to turn it up on his second run, he catches a toe-edge, and that’s the end of his competition. On the plus side, though, he’s fine, and he’ll be back.
Kira Kamura, Japan’s big air gold medalist, covers himself in mediocrity with a 69.20 mark; that leaves him 12th with, I think, only 12 going into the final. Menzies of Australia, Kleveland of Norway and McMorris of Canada are through, having gone above 81; now here comes Txema…
Updated at 06.14 EST
Txema is a tremendous name. Mazet-Brown was born on Réunion, near Madagascar, to a French father and a British mother, growing up in New Zealand and, at 19, has plenty of time to get as good as he’ll need to.
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The men’s 4×7.5km relay is under way in the cross-country skiing, while Txema Mazxet-Brown is repping for GB in the men’s slopestyle snowboard quallies.
ShareMikael Kingsbury of Canada wins gold in the men’s freestyle skiing dual moguls
He is the event’s first champion having won moguls gold last time out; Horshima takes silver for Japan, with Graham having secured bronze for Australia.
Japan’s Horishima loses control before the last jump allowing Kingsbury of Canada to take Gold. Photograph: Hannah Peters/Getty ImagesKingsbury celebrates winning gold with Japan’s Ikuma Horishima taking silver. Photograph: David Davies/PAShare
Updated at 06.14 EST
Horshima can’t do anything with the second jump! Golds is going to Kingsbury!
Off they go and both nail the first jump but Horshima is losing control!
Now for the final, Horshima of Japan versus Kingsbury of Canada, the favourite…
The judges take a while to reach a verdict in the men’s moguls bronze-medal run-off … but Graham of Australia beats Shimikawa of Japan 20-15.
ShareMartin Ponsiluoma wins gold for Sweden in the men’s biathlon 12.5km pursuit
Lægreid of Norway takes silver and Jacquelin of France hangs on for bronze.
Here we go with the mogul small final, Shimikawa v Graham, for the bronze, and Shimikawa leads but Graham comes from behind to finish first; who will take bronze?
The final of the dual moguls is imminent; in the biathlon, Ponsiluoma leads Laegrid by 20.6.
Beef on ice.
More more more more more more more.
Updated at 05.50 EST
Time for the second semi of the men’s dual moguls, Graham of Australia against Horshima of Japan, and they both give the run a lesson, Horshima coming from behind to finish first … and snatch a 21-14 win. He meets Kingsbury in the final.
Laegrid of Norway is past Jacquelin now, with Perrot, also of France, chasing him; Ponsiluoma leads by 19s.
Ponsiluoma is still killing it in the biathlon, but Jacquelin is being chased and he’s struggling.
Updated at 05.46 EST
It’s time for the semis of the men’s dual moguls. The intensity of this tournament is brilliant and our first ruckus puts Kingsbury against Shimakawa, and the Japanese loses the run of himself! Kingsbury of Canada eases into the final and will take some beating.
Kingsbury competes in the freestyle skiing men’s dual moguls. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 05.47 EST
It’s getting real in the men’s biathlon, Ponsiluoma now leading Jacquelin but by a way, and he’s clear! The French lad looks shot!
In the men’s biathlon, Jacquelin of France leads, from Ponsiluoma of Sweden from Laegrid of Norway from Christiansen of Norway.
Ikuma of Japan sorts out Walczyk of USA in the latest mogul quarter, which naturally puts us all in mind of this:
Good work from Bruce Mouat, who bins a couple of red stones from the house, and if he can land another, Germany will probably call it a match. He does, the handshake comes, and that’s that.
Lammie, Hardie, Mouat and McMillan celebrate winning their match against Germany. Photograph: Issei Kato/ReutersShare
Updated at 05.44 EST
We’re playing the ninth end in the curling, GB leading Germany 7-4; they face Switzerland, the current round robin leaders, later in the day, and look a serious medal contender; their one loss came 9-7 to Italy.
Ach, Yung of South Korea skis right across the course and he’s out, so Kingsbury of Canada, which sounds odd to those of us familiar with London NW9, is into the semis.
Back to the moguls, it works like a knockout cup competition, Wallberg now taking on Shimakawa of Japan, he beats him down … and is shocked to find he loses 19-16. I love this format.
Back with the curling, GB lead Germany 7-4 after eight, but having just lost an end 2-0, aren’t quite home yet. Currently, they sit joint second in the standings with Canada, their record 3-1; Switzerland are top with 4-0.
The drop as they start the mogul run is not pleasant. Kingsbury of Canada, the OG, sees off Kolmakov of Kazakhstan 23-12, then Mickel of USA wallops Woods of Australia 32-2, and Graham of Australia dispatches Stegfeldt of Sweden 27-8.
Ahhhh.
Great headline too. I was in Ibiza last summer and saw the incredible David Morales remix Love is in the Air, not this version but this is all I’ve got.
Updated at 05.14 EST
Ah, the way the moguls work is with two competitors racing down against each other, with points awarded for speed and tricks – they leap down the track hitting bumps and doing everything you’d never, ever, want to do, with the loser going out and, in the third race, Jung of South Korea massacres Gay of France 26-9.
Back with the men’s curling, GB lead Germany 7-2 playing the eighth, while Norway are up 6-5 on Italy and USA 6-3 on Sweden,.
This mogul situation might be the most terrifying thing yet. Viel of Canada has just clattered himself, but Wallberg of Sweden now bousts down to score 27.
Julien Viel of Team Canada crashes as he competes against Takuya Shimakawa of Team Japan. Photograph: Hannah Peters/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 05.10 EST
Coming up next: starting roundabout now, we’ve got the quarters of the men’s dual moguls; at 10.15, it’s the biathlon men’s 12.5km pursuit, medals awarded; at 10.46, it’s the final of them moguls; and at 11am, Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, who on Friday equalled the Olympic record by taking an eighth gold, is gunning for a ninth in the men’s 4×7.5km cross-country skiing relay.
Back with the men’s curling, GB lead Germany 5-2 playing the seventh, and this is near enough over as a contest.
That’s it with run one of the women’s Super G. She completely disarmed that course,” Chemmy Alcott says of Brignone. The second and final run is coming up at 12.30pm GMT.
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Durr of Germany looks good on as she weaves down the giant slalom course, and this is very good; she finishes 0.34 off the lead in second, and behind her Goggia of Italy also puts down something serious, news of the line to take wending its way back up to the top of the course. She slots in third, 0.46 off the lead, and now Brignone is in sight, while Shiffirin is seventh.
In run one of the monobob, Laura Nolte of Germany leads the first run, with Nicoll of GB 14th, 1.10 off the lead.
Laura Nolte of Germany in action during the women’s monobob. Photograph: Jure Makovec/EPAShare
Updated at 04.50 EST
Brignone smashed her leg at the end of last season, fought her way back, and now look!
Goodness me, she’s almost perfect as she nears the end, and 1:03.23 is her time! That puts her 0.74 up on Colturi, Hector and Stjernesund, plus a whole 1.02 on Shiffrin!
This downhill course is so sporting. Gasienica Daniel of Poland is doing nicely, like the others before her, then makes a huge error lower down and is 10th. But have look! Brignone, champ in super g, is taking this run to school! She is killing it!
Britain now lead Germany 5-2 in the men’s curling, all over them. Elsewhere, Italy are up 5-4 on Norway and USA 4-2 on Sweden.
All this talk of Hector…
In the curling, okaying the fifth end, GB still lead Germany 4-2, playing the fifth, while Valerie Grenier of Canada, whose had a bad Games so far but love a giant slalom, whizzes down the course and this is a decent run; she goes fifth, 0.29 off the lead, but Colturi, who chose Albania not Italy, is killing it! She’s in with a chance of taking the lead … and she finishes in 1:03.97! A third to record that time, and she leads alongside Stjernesund and Hector.
Scheib from Austria is another with a chance of taking the lead as she canes it down the bottom section of the course, but another who can’t go clean, going far too wide on a gate, and slots in fifth, 0.39 off the lead. There are going to be a lot of these in with a chance of a medal in the second run, coming up at 12.30.
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Updated at 04.21 EST
In the curling, GB now lead Germany 4-2; in the women’s giant, Thea Louise Stjernesund or Norway and Sara Hector of Sweden lead with 1:03.97, but Moltzan of USA is flying down … but mistakes on the lower half means she must be content with fourth; Mikaela Shiffrin of USA, the consensus goat, is third, 0.28s off the lead.
Britain and Germany in action during their men’s curling match. Photograph: Issei Kato/ReutersShare
Updated at 04.25 EST
Preamble
Buongiorno a tutti e benvenuti alle Olimpiadi invernali 2026 – nono giorno!
There’s so much action today it’s almost indecent, and there’s some going on right now, GB men taking on Germany in the curling round robin – it’s 2-2 playing the fourth and they’ll be back this evening to take on Switzerland.
Otherwise, we’ve got both runs of the women’s giant slalom, the first starting as we speak, with Adele Nicoll, the British shot-put champ, going in the monobob, heats starting now; Txema Mazet-Brown is in the snowboard slopestyle, starting at 9.20; with the men’s 12km pursuit biathlon and the dual moguls freestyle skiing are our mid-morning medals.
Around lunchtime, Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale are in the snowboard cross mixed team event; Maisie Brooks goes in the snowboard slopestyle qualification; and there are medals to be seized in the mixed snowboard cross team and women’s biathlon 10km pursuit.
Then around teatime, Tabby Stoecker and Matt Weston, along with Freya Tarbit and Marcus Wyatt, contest the mixed team skeleton, medals to be awarded; Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby attack the figure skating pairs; we’ve the women’s 500m speed skating chaos; and the women’s individual large hill ski jump.
Esattamente! Andiamo!
Updated at 04.39 EST