Gallery: Feast your eyes on the pick of the images thus far from Day One of the Winter Olympics …Curling mixed doubles: Britain’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat beat Canada before ending the United States’ unbeaten run to clinch their place in the mixed doubles curling semi-finals at the Milano Cortina Olympics today.Mouat and Dodds, who were world champions in 2021 and finished in fourth place at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, sit atop the round-robin standings after winning their first seven games in the competition.They can no longer be caught by fifth-placed Sweden, who can only win a maximum of six games.The British pair sealed a hard-fought win over Canada’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman in the morning session, before returning to the ice and beating Americans Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse 6-4.Sweden’s Isabella and Rasmus Wranaa clinched a massive 9-4 win over reigning Olympic and world champions Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner of Italy to boost their hopes of a top-four finish.

Italy, who went unbeaten in the only two previous competitions that Constantini and Mosaner played together, have now suffered two defeats in their campaign.They will be hoping to bounce back but face a difficult test in the evening session, taking on two-times Olympic medallists Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien of Norway in a rematch of the final in Beijing four years ago.Italy are joint fourth in the standings, with Norway joint sixth after winning two out of their first five games, including a 6-5 victory over Estonia on Saturday.At the bottom of the table, the Czech pairing of Julie Zelingrova and Vit Chabicovsky beat South Koreans Jeong Yeong-seok and Kim Seon-yeong 9-4 to pick up their first win of the tournament.Teams will play nine times in the round-robin stage at the Cortina Olympic Curling Centre, with the semi-finals taking place on Monday and the medal matches scheduled for Tuesday.

ReutersCurling mixed doubles: “That was a very tough game,” said Jen Dodds in an interview with the BBC, after she and Bruce Mouat had beaten the USA to book Team GB’s place in the semi-final with two matches to spare.“We, again, very similar to this morning, got off to a good start.Then they steal the following end.You enjoy being up in mixed doubles, but you know you’re never safe.They really fought, but we had a clinical last end and came out with a win.

“For me, just focus on tomorrow.Switzerland tomorrow, they are fighting to try and qualify, and they will come out all guns blazing.Today was a big day for us, and we came out with a top performance in both games.”Dodds’ partner Bruce Mouat had this to say: “It means a lot - that is what we are here for.We are coming here to try to get a medal, and we have been after it for four years at least.

I feel a hot mess at the minute, but energy levels are very good.I am playing in a sport I love at the Olympics, so I don’t need any more adrenaline.Energy levels are very high at the minute.”Women’s 3,000m speed skating: At the halfway point, Belgium’s Sandrine Tas has beaten Merel Conijn’s time to go top of the leaderboard ahead of a short break.Sandrine Tas (Belgium) 4min 01.

26secMerel Conijn (Netherlands) 4min 01.65secElizaveta Golubeva (Kazakhstan) 4min 03.30secKaitlyn McGregor (Switzerland) 4min 04.13secKseniia Korzhova (Neutral) 4min 05.83secWomen’s 3,000m speed skating: With three pairs down out of 10, the Netherlands’ Merel Conijn is the clubhouse leader and is almost three seconds clear of Switzerland’s Kaitlyn McGregor in second place but the main medal contenders have yet to race.

Joy Beune (Netherlands), Ragne Wiklund (Norway) and Marijke Groenewoud (Netherlands) are the favourites to take step on to the podium this afternoon.Women’s 3,000m speed skating: Twenty competitors from 14 nations, a 400m oval track in Milan, only two skaters on the ice at any given time (one on the outer lane, the other on the inner), with all competitors racing against the clock over seven-and-a-half laps and the fastest time wins.What could possibly go wrong?Curling mixed doubles: Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat have beaten the USA 6-4 to record their seventh successive win and guarantee themselves a place in the semi-finals with two matches to spare.They sit top of the round robin table ahead of the USA in second, with Sweden and Canada currently in third and fourth place.Curling mixed doubles: We’re in the eighth end and Team GB lead 6-4.

A big mistake from the USA’s Corrie Thiesse followed by another excellent effort from Jen Dodds puts the Brits in the box seat to win this end too,Curling mixed doubles: “Hard! Hard! Hard! Hard! Haaaaaaaaaard!” yells Jen Dodds as she implores her partner Bruce Mouat to sweeep more vigorously as she sends another stone down the track with a precision that borders on the spooky,Team GB lead the USA 5-4 in the seventh end in their bid to make it seven round robin wins out of seven and book a place in the semi-final,Curling mixed doubles: We’re in the sixth end and USA have recovered to peg Team GB back to 4-4 in their contest,Both nations are unbeaten in the round robin.

Men’s freeski slopestyle: The first of two qualifying runs has been completed and Norway’s Ruud Birk leads the field with a score of 81.75.Team GB’s Chris McCormick is in 21st place with a score of 33.90 but will have another chance to force his way into the top 12 riders who make the final.Men’s Downhill: On a beautiful day in Bornio, the Swiss Skier Franjo von Allmen dominated a challenging course to win in 1:min 51.

61sec and take the first medal of these Olympic Games, write’s Sean Ingle from Milan.Women’s snowboard cross: Canada’s Olympic champion Meryeta O’Dine has been ruled out of the Games after suffering a fractured ankle in a training session, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Snowboard have confirmed.Medical staff evaluated the 26-year-old after she fell and imaging confirmed the ankle bone injury, ending the two-time Olympic medallist’s campaign before the competitions begin.O’Dine, at her third Olympics, is a key figure in the national snowboard cross programme and one of the team’s most experienced riders.“Her absence from competition is a significant loss for the team,” the statement added.

O’Dine said she was heartbroken.“But I am proud of the work I put in this year to get here...I have seen a new athlete in myself emerge from the challenges I have faced this year and will continue to rise above.

I am upset now, but I will grow from this.”Curling mixed doubles: At the halfway point in their second match of the day, things could not be going more swimmingly for the Team GB duo of Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat.They lead the USA 4-1 and have barely put a foot, stone or brush stroke wrong in this competition thus far.Women’s skiathlon: Sweden Frida Karlsson has been talking after winning gold in the women’s skiathlon ahead of her compatriot Ebba Andersson and Norway’s Heidi Weng.Karlsson finished 51 seconds ahead of the other racers, with time to grab the Swedish flag and wave at the crowd before crossing the finish line.

“That was the moment when it hit me,” she said.“I was like, ‘OK, this is for real’.I had so much fun out there today and I am really proud of my whole team who have made this happen.The skis were super and the body felt amazing.” World Cup leader Jessie Diggins of the US, seen as a contender for a podium spot, fell on a sharp downhill turn early in the race in a crash that also took out Norway’s Karoline Simpson-Larsen, and failed to catch up to the leading packs.

Diggins trailed at 14th in the classic part of the race, but made up time on the freestyle, her strongest discipline, to finish eighth.“I was really, really encouraged by the skate half but the classic half, the things out of my control, did not go very well,” she told reporters.“Unfortunately, it was a tough spot where you lose all your momentum.” ReutersCurling: The GB pairing of Dodds and Mouat take a 3-0 lead over the USA after the second end after the measuring dial makes an appearance.Handover: Barry Glendenning has returned and will take you through the afternoon’s action.

Women’s Downhill: World champion Breezy Johnson led a weather-interrupted final training for the women’s Olympic downhill on Saturday but injured US teammate and comeback queen Lindsey Vonn was again the talk of the slopes with the third fastest time.Johnson set the pace with a time of 1min 37.91sec with Germany’s Kira Weidle-Winkelmann 0.21 slower and Vonn 0.37 off the pace.

Vonn was the 15th starter, her left knee in a brace under the race suit, and the session was then halted by low cloud and falling snow after 23 of the 43 skiers on the list had gone down the Olimpia delle Tofane piste.The skiers from bib 24 onwards were recorded as non-starters.Vonn, the 41-year-old 2010 Olympic champion who has vowed to race on Sunday despite rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in Switzerland last week, did not speak to reporters other than replying “good” when asked how the run had felt.Her coach Aksel Lund Svindal, a double Olympic gold medallist, was again left to pick up the slack.“I hope you will talk to someone else tomorrow and I think you will,” he said smiling, after patiently working his way along the lines of television cameras and then facing the print media for another barrage of questions at the finish area.

ReutersCurling: Great Britain take a 2-0 lead over the USA after the first end of their mixed doubles round-robin match.With two red stones already in the centre of the house before GB’s hammer, Jen Dodds is able to glide the stone down and secure the points.Women’s ice hockey: Germany have beaten Japan 5-2 in Group B of the preliminary round, with Nicola Hadraschek finding the net twice and goalscorer Laura Kluge setting up another three.Germany bounce back from their 4-1 opening defeat to Sweden.Emily Nix and Daria Gleissner were also on the scoresheet in a game that Germany led 5-0 by the halfway point of the second period.

Yumeka Wajima and Mei Miura scored 22 seconds apart late in the second period for Japan, who beat France in their opener.Curling: The afternoon session of the mixed doubles is about to get under way.Here are the match-ups in Cortina’s curling stadium, with their current round-robin standings:Great Britain (1st) v USA (2)Sweden (5) v Italy (3)Estonia (7, joint) v Norway (7)South Korea (9, joint) v Czech Republic (9)The top four go through to the semi-finals.A win for Team GB and they will qualify.Men’s downhill: “It feels like a movie,” said Franjo von Allmen after claiming the first gold medal of the Milano Cortina Games in front of hundreds of Swiss fans who had crossed the nearby border, finishing well ahead of pre-race favourite and compatriot Marco Odermatt:I felt relaxed in the morning and tried to keep the good feeling from the training runs and fit all the pieces together.

I knew it was a good run but to be seven-tenths ahead of Marco, I was surprised,While Italy’s Giovanni Franzoni produced a near-perfect run to take silver 0,20 seconds back, the 36-year-old Dominik Paris bagged his first Olympic medal with bronze on home snow:It’s great to have this home crowd here,It’s my fifth Olympics, and getting the first medal in front of the home crowd, that’s really special,Five players from the Swiss and Finnish women’s ice hockey teams have tested positive for norovirus but there is no wider outbreak at the 2026 Milano Cortina Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday.

The single Swiss case was confirmed two days after Canada and Finland were forced to postpone their opener when four members of the Finnish team fell ill with norovirus.“We had a few cases from Finland with symptoms, dealt with.One Swiss case coming with symptoms, dealt with in the most appropriate way by the medical team,” the Olympic Games executive director, Christophe Dubi, told a press conference.“Let’s be very clear: no outbreak.”Sometimes called the winter vomiting bug, norovirus is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis globally and has symptoms including diarrhoea and vomiting, according to the World Health Organisation.

Both teams have confirmed the cases.Switzerland’s positive case was discovered after they beat Czech Republic 4-3 in a thrilling shootout on Friday.Other Swiss team members were initially isolated as a precaution but were back practicing at Milano Rho arena on Saturday ahead of their game against Canada which was to go ahead as planned.“Let’s not start to make a point of what is currently five athletes being dealt with.Please.

Proper protocols, really well done,” added Dubi.The IOC’s medical chief Jane Thornton has said the cases are not related.ReutersCurling: Great Britain are 6/6 in the mixed doubles after beating Canada 7-5 this morning.Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat top the round-robin standings and are on the verge of reaching the semi-finals.Next they face the USA (4 wins out of 4) at 1.

35pm (GMT).“We’re going to try and get a good rest between the next game because they’re obviously undefeated as well,” Mouat said earlier.“I think we’re just in a very good spot and we’re communicating really well and we now know what the ice is going to do for the rest of the event I think.We’re happy with where we are.”Sweden have their first medals of these Games and it’s gold and silver! Frida Karlsson and Ebba Andersson made a breakaway from the main field midway through the race before the former launched an attack of her own late on, leaving the 2025 world champion to finish way back in second.

Norway’s Heidi Weng, at the age of 34, wins her second Olympic medal and repeats the bronze she won at Sochi 2014.Gold: Frida Karlsson (Sweden) 53min 45.2secSilver: Ebba Andersson (Sweden) +51sBronze: Heidi Weng (Norway) +1m 26.7sNews on Mariah Carey and lipsync-gate in the opening ceremony from our correspondent in Milan:Someone asks about Mariah’s Carey opening ceremony performance at this morning’s press conference: “Mariah Carey was exceptional, she was not paid for the Opening Ceremony,” Maria Laura Mascone of the Italian organisers replies.“We are very honoured … we were extremely satisfied with her performance