Following the Opening Ceremony at the Arena di Verona, the sporting action begins with events in Para alpine skiing, Para biathlon, Para snowboard and Para ice hockey, alongside new sessions of wheelchair curling.<\/p>\n
Para alpine skiing opens the day<\/p>\n
The day of competition begins at 09:30 CET with Para alpine skiing, featuring the downhill events across all women\u2019s and men\u2019s categories: vision impaired, standing and sitting.<\/p>\n
Wheelchair curling: mixed team tournament begins<\/p>\n
At 09:35 CET, the first matches of the wheelchair curling mixed team round robin get underway, with four games played simultaneously:<\/p>\n
Great Britain \u2013 Slovakia
Republic of Korea \u2013 Latvia
United States \u2013 People\u2019s Republic of China
Norway \u2013 Sweden<\/p>\n
Para biathlon: sprint races on the schedule<\/p>\n
Later in the morning, Para biathlon takes centre stage with a series of sprint races scheduled between late morning and early afternoon:<\/p>\n
10:00 CET \u2014 Women\u2019s sitting sprint
10:35 CET \u2014 Men\u2019s sitting sprint
12:00 CET \u2014 Women\u2019s standing sprint
12:40 CET \u2014 Men\u2019s standing sprint
13:15 CET \u2014 Women\u2019s vision impaired sprint
13:50 CET \u2014 Men\u2019s vision impaired sprint<\/p>\n
Para snowboard: snowboard cross seeding runs<\/p>\n
From 11:00 CET, attention turns to Para snowboard, with snowboard cross seeding runs for several sport classes: women SB-LL2 and men SB-UL, SB-LL1 and SB-LL2.<\/p>\n
Para ice hockey: three preliminary round matches<\/p>\n
The Para ice hockey tournament opens with three preliminary round matches:<\/p>\n
10:05 CET \u2014 Czechia vs Japan (Group B)
13:35 CET \u2014 People\u2019s Republic of China vs Germany (Group A)
17:05 CET \u2014 United States vs Italy (Group A)<\/p>\n
Wheelchair curling mixed doubles continues<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, teams return to the ice for Session 5 of the wheelchair curling mixed doubles round robin at 14:35 CET, featuring the following matches:<\/p>\n
Republic of Korea vs United States
People\u2019s Republic of China vs Estonia
Italy vs Latvia
Japan vs Great Britain<\/p>\n
Evening programme<\/p>\n
In the evening, action returns to the wheelchair curling mixed team tournament, with Session 2 of the round robin at 18:35 CET.<\/p>\n
The day will conclude with Para ice hockey, as Canada face Slovakia in Group B at 20:35 CET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the Opening Ceremony at the Arena di Verona, the sporting action begins with events in Para alpine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-326499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}