{"id":466144,"date":"2026-02-08T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466144\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:17:10","slug":"winter-olympics-live-updates-tess-coady-to-headline-day-two-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466144\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics live updates: Tess Coady to headline day two for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1h agoSun 8 Feb 2026 at 8:02amAustralians on day one of Winter Olympics<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lcimg-e6a43912-2f0b-4eac-be6b-f52b8694532e.jpeg\" alt=\"Marnie Vinall profile image\" class=\"Avatar_avatarImage__f1Jjg\" style=\"display:none\"\/>Aussies Seve de Campo, Hugo Hinckfuss and Lars Young Vik are competing in the\u00a0cross-country skiing\u00a0from\u00a010:30pm AEDT.<br \/>\u00a0Set your alarm for\u00a03am AEDT\u00a0to watch\u00a0Alex Ferlazzo\u00a0represent Australia in the\u00a0luge.<br \/>\u00a0Snowboard\u00a0Slopestyle bronze medallist from the 2022 Winter Olympics,\u00a0Tess Coady,\u00a0will begin competition in the\u00a0Big Air event\u00a0from\u00a05:30am AEDT tomorrow. Fellow Aussies Meila Stalker and Ally Hickman will also compete.19m agoSun 8 Feb 2026 at 8:57amWho is our day two headliner Tess Coady?<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lcimg-e6a43912-2f0b-4eac-be6b-f52b8694532e.jpeg\" alt=\"Marnie Vinall profile image\" class=\"Avatar_avatarImage__f1Jjg\" style=\"display:none\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Headlining day two &#8211; when it&#8217;ll be the wee hours of tomorrow morning for us here in Australia &#8211; is Tess Coady.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lcimg-39b0f144-b00f-4c4e-8bb7-aae9b344e65a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"image_fluidImage__Sg10H\" data-component=\"LiveBlogPostImg\"\/>Tess Coady won bronze at the 2022 Winter Games. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Coady caught Australia&#8217;s attention when she landed on the podium at the 2022 Beijing Games, taking the bronze in the snowboard slopestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 25-year-old from Melbourne also won a bronze medal in slopestyle at the 2021 Snowboard World Champs and a bronze medal in big air at the 2023 world championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">So, a bit of a talent. She also has endless enthusiasm and energy that makes her so enjoyable to watch &#8211; and root for!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">At 5:30am AEDT she&#8217;ll be in action in the snowboard big air event, alongside fellow Aussies and Olympic debutants Meila Stalker and Ally Hickman.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lcimg-ebdaa84e-2a2f-48e6-8825-b1149be985f0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"image_fluidImage__Sg10H\" data-component=\"LiveBlogPostImg\"\/>Tess Coady will be in action on day two. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>46m agoSun 8 Feb 2026 at 8:30am<\/p>\n<p>Plenty on today<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lcimg-e6a43912-2f0b-4eac-be6b-f52b8694532e.jpeg\" alt=\"Marnie Vinall profile image\" class=\"Avatar_avatarImage__f1Jjg\" style=\"display:none\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">There are seven medal events today: alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country country skiing (three Aussies), figure skating, luge (an Aussie), snowboard (three Aussies) and speed skating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Then there&#8217;s also ski jumping, ice hockey and curling \u2014 not quite at the medal stages yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Right now, it&#8217;s the snowboard women&#8217;s PGS qualification runs underway.<\/p>\n<p>1h agoSun 8 Feb 2026 at 7:53am<\/p>\n<p>G&#8217;evening<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lcimg-e6a43912-2f0b-4eac-be6b-f52b8694532e.jpeg\" alt=\"Marnie Vinall profile image\" class=\"Avatar_avatarImage__f1Jjg\" style=\"display:none\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1h agoSun 8 Feb 2026 at 8:02amAustralians on day one of Winter OlympicsAussies Seve de Campo, Hugo Hinckfuss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,206605,31080,236399,238456,238457,238073],"class_list":["post-466144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-tess-coady","tag-winter-olympics","tag-winter-olympics-2026","tag-winter-olympics-australia","tag-winter-olympics-day-two","tag-winter-olympics-milano-cortina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}