That’s it for today’s live blog.Thanks for following along and we’ll be back tomorrow with Geoff Lemon on the first shift.The picture desk have been beavering away to compile the best images from the opening day of the Games.Here’s a look at a few stunning snaps from the curling, downhill skiing, and ice hockey:Here’s a few of the big storylines from today:Italy got their first gold of the Games as 35-year-old Francesca Lollobrigida won the 3,000m speed skatingKira Kimura won gold in the men’s snowboarding big air, he saved his best run until last, posting a 90.50 on his third jump to pip Japanese teammate Riyoma KimataNorway’s Anna Odine Strøm won gold in the women’s normal hill ski jumpTeam GB’s mixed doubles curling team saw off Canada and USA to remain unbeaten.

Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat are through to the semi-finals before the final two matches of the round robin stageBritish medal hope Kirsty Muir is through to Monday’s slopestyle finalFrida Karlsson took gold as Sweden secured a one-two in the first cross country skiing event, the women’s 10km+10km skiathlonFranjo von Allmen of Switzerland won the first gold medal at Milano Cortina 2026, running away with the men’s downhill titleCas upheld the ban on Team GB’s skeleton helmets, concurring with the IBSF ruling that the equipment boosted aerodynamicsIce hockey: Canada have mustered 16 shots in the first period but scored no goals against Switzerland,The Swiss had to see out a Canadian power play in the final minute and managed to see it out despite the puck landing on the top of the net after a goalmouth scramble,Curling: There were three late matches in the mixed doubles,South Korea got their first win, beating the US 6-5,Italy beat Norway 6-5 and Estonia inflicted a major blow on Canada’s hopes if making the final by securing a 8-6 victory.

The British pair of Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat close out their round robin matches tomorrow against Italy and Switzerland, Team GB are already guaranteed a semi-final spot with seven wins from seven.Figure skating: Was there some mind games going on in the men’s singles round of the team event? USA’s Ilia Malinin was definitely holding back a bit from his best routine ahead of the individual event.Yuma Kagiyama laid it all out for Japan and beat his American rival’s score by ten points.Malinin did enough to ensure the US go into the final round in gold medal position but now knows Kagiyama will carry a threat in the individual competition.The news is a big blow to Team GB’s Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt, who have dominated skeleton all season, winning all seven of the World Cup races between them.

Those victories were won with a different helmet, but Weston and Wyatt were hoping to go even quicker by using a differently shaped design.More on that skeleton news from Sean Ingle in Milan:British skeleton athletes will not be able to use their specially-designed helmets at the Milano Cortina Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected an appeal by the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) on Saturday.The BBSA had taken its case to Cas earlier this week after the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) had banned the helmets, saying they violated competition rules.In the CAS hearing, the BBSA argued the helmet was compliant because it was manufactured without any attached elements and hence had no aerodynamic modifications.However, the IBSF said the helmet had spoilers and protruding edges that actually boosted aerodynamics.

‘After hearing the expert opinions and considering the evidence, the (Cas) panel noted that the helmet departs from the standard shape and reflects a novel design specifically developed to enhance aerodynamic performance where the rear considerably protrudes,’ Cas said in a statement.‘The panel determined that the BBSA did not sufficiently establish that the helmet complies with the current IBSF rules.As a consequence, the application was dismissed.’Reporting courtesy of ReutersKimata gets the melon grab and hits six spins but his hand went down so he can’t improve his score.He stays in silver position meaning that Kimura is the Olympic champion and defending gold medallist Su Yiming takes bronze.

Snowboarding big air: Su Yiming’s landing is not exactly flawless and he needs a decent score to get on the podium.It’s an 80.25 that bumps down Martin of USA and sees the Chinese athlete get bronze.Kimata goes next needing to land something big to take gold…Snowboarding big air: We have a new leader! Kira Kimura posts a 90.50 with a huge jump and a textbook landing, he’s eight points ahead of team-mate Ryoma Kimata.

With a 101m jump in the final round Norway’s Anna Odine Strøm wins the gold as she posts 130.4 for a total of 267.3.Slovenia’s Nika Prevc is second with a score of 266.2 and Japan’s Nozomi Maruyama get bronze with 261.

8,Ski jumping: Norway’s Heidi Dyhre Traaserud is currently leading ski jumping with five athletes left to jump,We’ll have the medal winner from that event very soon,Snowboarding big air: Oliver Martin of USA propels himself right up into medal contention with a 83,50 to move up to silver as it stands.

Next up is Matteoli and he goes clean too.How will the judges score the Italian? After a long wait the cheers go up as he put himself into bronze with an 82.25.Now a long wait to see if the Italians can get their fourth medal of the Games.Snowboarding big air: The final run will be done in reverse points order, so Ogiwara is up first having just dumped out his second run.

Snowboarding big air: So going into the third run Ryoma Kimata of Japan leads with scores of 86,25 and 85,25 for a solid total of 171,50, China’s Su Yiming sit second with a total of 162,00 and Dane Menzies of New Zealand is third with 160.

75,Snowboarding big air: Italy’s Ian Matteoli gets the biggest cheer so far as he lands his second run to score 80,25,Japan’s Hiroto Ogiwara is out of contention as he falls again and misses the chance to post a compettiive score going into the third run,Snowboarding big air: Su Yiming’s nearly lands a switch backside 1800 and scores 73.

75.Kira Kimura, the leader after the first run, doesn’t stick his second jump and slides down to fourth ahead of the third and final run.Ski jumping: After round one in the women’s normal hill final, Anna Odine Strøm of Norway posted the top score of 136.9 as the only athlete to hit 100m.Slovenia’s Nika Prevc progressed in second with a score of 135.

9 and Nozomi Maruyama of Japan posted the third highest score with 135,7,The final round will conclude in about half an hour,Snowboarding big air: Defending Olympic champion Su Yiming goes to the top of the standings with a backside 1980, slight wobble on the landing but he’s still awarded 88,25.

That lead doesn’t last long, mind, as Kira Kimura get an 89.0 for a virtually flawless jump.Neither Ian Matteoli or Hiroto Ogiwara can better that, or even land clean jumps so Kimura is the leader after the first run.Snowboarding big air: We’re about halfway through the first runs and Ryoma Kimata of Japan is leading with a score of 86.25 but he is closely trailed by New Zealand’s Lyon Farrel, who landed the 1800, to score 83.

50.Snowboarding big air: Valentino Guseli of Australia is the first to go in tonight’s final, he’s not expected to trouble the medal places and makes his challenge slightly harder as he fails to stick the landing.The final result is based on your best two tricks, so he’ll be hoping for more from runs two and three.Ice hockey: Hilary Knight equalled the US Olympic women’s hockey career goal record as the Americans beat Finland 5-0 in Milan.Also on the scoresheet for Team USA were Megan Keller, who got two assists, as well as Alex Carpenter, Taylor Heise and Abbey Murphy.

US Vice President JD Vance sat with Jake Paul to watch the match at Fiera Milano, what a time to be alive.Lindsey Vonn’s quest for a miraculous medal with a ruptured ACL maybe the big story in US Alpine skiing in Cortina, but there is another American superstar looking for something of a comeback.Mikaela Shiffrin said she has learned from the mistakes which cost her Olympic medals four years ago ahead of her first race at the Milan-Cortina Games.Shiffrin comes into the Winter Olympics off the back of an incredible season in which she has already won the World Cup slalom title for a record-breaking ninth time and is on course to claim the overall crystal globe.But she arrives in Cortina d’Ampezzo with tough memories of her disastrous last Olympics in Beijing where the most successful skier of all time failed to claim a single medal.

“Skiing is hard because when you’ve done something technically, like you’ve made a technical error maybe you know what you need to do to fix it and you know the steps you need to take in order to get there,” Shiffrin told reporters.“But it’s still so precise and there’s so many variables.It’s definitely hard to do that and like do it right all the time.“In Beijing, all these kind of pieces that came together and all the different factors that played a role, we’ve assessed them all and I continue to assess them, including my own role to play.”Reporting courtesy of AFP.

Luge: The quickest man after round one is the still the quickest man after round two, Germany’s Max Langenhan will lead the luge overnight, with Jonas Müller of Austria second and Italian home hopeful Fischnaller third.Ski jumping: We’re underway in the first round of the jumping.Currently going through the early jumpers.I’ll update you when we have a better picture of the contenders towards the end of the roundLuge: We’re into the second runs of the luge and the Italians are taking advantage of the home track.Dominik Fischnaller and Leon Felderer are currently sitting first and second, respectively.

The final two runs will take place tomorrow to decide the medals,Coming up: We have two more medal events this evening, the women’s ski jumping (normal hill) is due to begin in about 15 minutes and the men’s snowboard big air is slated for 6,30pm (GMT),Ice Hockey: At the end of the second period in the women’s pool game between Finland and USA the Americans are 4-0 up,Hello, shall we have a little recap of what’s happened today?Francesca Lollobrigida won Italy’s first gold of the Games in the 3,000m speed skatingTeam GB’s mixed doubles curling team are still unbeaten after seeing off Canada and USA.

Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat are through to the semi-finals before the final two matches of the round robin stageBritish medal hope Kirsty Muir is through to Monday’s slopestyle finalFrida Karlsson took gold as Sweden secured a one-two in the first cross country skiing event, the women’s 10km+10km skiathlonFranjo von Allmen of Switzerland won the first gold medal at Milano Cortina 2026, running away with the men’s downhill titleHandover: Thank you for your company, Tom Bassam is here to take you through the next few hours.Enjoy the rest your weekend, wherever it may take you.Women’s downhill: Italy’s most successful women’s skier Federica Brignone will compete in the Alpine skiing downhill race on Sunday at the Milano Cortina Olympics, the Italian winter sports federation said on Saturday.The 35-year-old had been assessing her condition after an accident last April left her with multiple leg fractures and a torn anterior cruciate ligament.Brignone will ski on the Olympia delle Tofane piste with bib number three.

Francesca Lollobrigida (Italy) 3min 54,28secRagne Wiklund (Norway) 3min 56,54secValerie Maltais (Canada) 3min 56,93secJoe Beune (Netherlands) 3min 58,12secIsabelle Weidemann (Canada) 3min 59.

24secNadezhda Morozova (Kazakhstan) 4min 01,20secSandrine Tas (Belgium) 4min 01,26secMarijke Grownewoud (Netherlands) 4min 01,35secMerel Conijn (Netherlands) 4min 01,65secElizaveta Golubeva (Kazakhstan) 4min 03.

30secThis just in from the Team GB press dept: Team GB will be back in action in a range of sports on Sunday in Milano Cortina.Andrew Musgrave will become a five-time Olympian in cross-country skiing, while Mia Brookes is also in action and the curling mixed doubles continues.Cross-country skiing Three British skiers will take on the men’s 10km + 10km skiathlon.Musgrave, who has a best Olympic finish of seventh in the 30km skiathlon at PyeongChang 2018, is joined by James Clugnet, appearing at his second Games, and debutant Joe Davies, who grew up in British Columbia watched the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as a fan.Snowboarding Women’s big air qualification takes centre stage on Sunday evening, with action getting underway at 7.

30pm,Mia Brookes is a two-time overall World Cup winner in this discipline, while she became a junior big air world champion in 2022,This is her first event of the Games, with slopestyle – in which she won her second X Games gold in January – following later,Brookes is joined by Maisie Hill, who recovered from a life-threatening training crash into a wall of ice in 2023 and will now make her Olympic debut,The 24-year-old was left with a lacerated liver, a broken spine, ribs and pelvis, a fractured lung and a bleed on the brain after the incident, but will complete a remarkable comeback in Livigno