Winter Olympics 2026: Vonn ‘stable’ after crash; luge, speed skating and more – as it happened
And that is me done for the night.Thanks for joining today and see you tomorrow for another packed day of Winter Olympics action! Leaving you on a bit of a cliff hanger with Team GB’s Mia Brookes yet to complete her final run in the women’s big air qualifiers.Fingers crossed!Lindsey Vonn was airlifted to hospital but is stable after crashing in the early stages of her women’s downhill run.The 41-year-old damaged her ACL when falling in a World Cup contest at Crans-Montana just over a week ago, but was determined to compete today.Starting as the 13th skier, Vonn clipped a gate and somersaulted off the course just seconds into her run.
She was on the ground for about 15 minutes before being airlifted off the course, with spectators cheering her as the helicopter flew over.The crash dampened celebrations for her US teammate Breezy Johnson, who was in tears sitting in the gold medal chair at the bottom of the run watching her teammate being attended to.Germany’s Emma Aicher won silver and Italy’s Sofia Goggia took bronze.Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo cruised to a sixth Olympic gold medal in the men’s skiathlon.The 29-year-old was in the lead pack throughout, hammering competitors in the sprint to end, ahead of Mathis Desloges of France and Norwegian pacemaker Martin Loewstroem Nyenget, who were 2.
0 seconds and 2.1 seconds behind.The veteran Austrian snowboarder Benjamin Karl defended his Olympic men’s parallel giant slalom crown in thrilling style, powering back to beat South Korea’s Kim Sang-kyum.Karl, competing in what are expected to be his final Games, was trailing for much of the final in Livigno but crossed the line 0.19sec in front of his rival.
The Czech snowboarder Zuzana Maderova won gold in the women’s parallel giant slalom after the shock exit of the defending champion, Ester Ledecka.The 22-year-old Maderova enjoyed a comfortable victory over Ledecka’s conqueror Sabine Payer, cruising to victory by 0.83sec.Italy’s Lucia Dalmasso took bronze.France won the mixed 4x6km relay biathlon, with Italy taking silver and Germany in bronze.
Team GB are top seed in the mixed doubles curling and will face Sweden in the semi-finals tomorrow.Germany’s Max Langenhan is the latest Olympic luge champion, winning gold in the men’s singles.He held off Austria’s Jonas Müller and Italy’s Dominik Fischnaller to claim victory.In men’s 5000m speed skating Sander Eitrem lived up to his billing as favourite, as the Norwegian stormed to gold with an Oympic record 6min 3.95sec time well ahead of Czech Republic’s Metodej Jilek and Italy’s Riccardo Lorello.
You can keep across the happenings of each day with our schedule, results and medal table.Snowboarding: And of course getting caught up in curling drama I miss Mia Brookes laying down a perfect run with a whopping 89pt effort for Team GB.Radical! She is set very well now to make the final with a solid effort with her final go.That 9-6 win for Britain over Italy confirms top spot in the round robin stage with eight wins and one loss.They will play the fourth seed in the semi-finals.
Elsewhere Korea beat Canada 9-5, USA beat Sweden 8-7 and Norway lead Switzerland in the final end.The United States also sail through to the knockouts with that win in second while Italy are third and Sweden fourth as it stands.Curling: GB throw their penultimate pebble down and leave one yellow in the middle ring.Italy curl a lovely one behind two stones blocking to hold a one-point advantage with one stone each left.Jennifer Dodds is screaming for a good one and gets it! Completely cleans out the red ball.
A miracle shot needed from Italy to get two points and scrape an extra end,No bueno,GB win 9-6!!!Curling: Ah I missed a huge seventh end for Team GB, while I was locked in on the snowboarding, in the mixed dubs,The responded with three points of their own to take an 8-6 lead into the final end,Snowboarding: Ouch.
Team GB’s Maisie Hill eats snow again and will miss the final of the women’s big air,Just not quite at it as she takes another spill but the 24-year-old will be back,Snowboarding: Sadowski-Synnott and Murase land clean tricks and will be in tomorrow’s final after their massive scores in round one of the women’s big air,Who is going to join them?Curling: Italy take a timeout as they look to capitalise on some Team GB mistakes in end six,They have the hammer with two rocks remaining to Britain’s one.
Two reds sit centrally with one yellow behind and another just off to the right in the next ring.Amos Mosamer lets loose and drops an absolute stonker to knock GB’s off centre stone out and sit Italy’s down next to their most central one.They have three points as it stands.Dodds smokes one for a big clear out but it was never on after their errors and Italy take three points for a 6-5 lead.Snowboarding: Round one of women’s big air qualifying is in the books.
The top three as follows:1.Z Sadowski-Synnott (NZ) 90pts2.K Murase (Jpn) 86.253.A Hickman (Aus) 85.
25Curling: End five time.Team GB have two stones in the centre and have laid down a brilliant blocker.Italy have two shots left to GB’s one.Off we go.Scrub, scrub, scrub.
Italy’s stone is not good enough it bounces off the two yellows and runs away.Amos Mosaner is unhappy and kicks out at the hoarding.Dodds throws her final effort and it is a good one.GB hold three in the centre now.Italy’s hammer is down … and it is a big one, speeding down but Stefania Constantini’s effort can’t clean them all away and Team GB steal the stones (is that a thing?) and grab a point.
Team GB 5-3 Italy with three ends remaining.OK mea culpa time.Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is a New Zealander not from Australia.My bad.She leads the women’s big air still.
Snowboarding: The format for the women’s big air qualifying is simple.The top 12 qualify for the finals.We are just about over halfway through the first runs.Still all to play for with the athletes’ two best scores combining to see where they stand when the snow settles.Curling: Two stones left for Italy and Team GB in end four with GB’s yellow stone sat guaranteeing at least a point from Dodds and Mouat.
“I like that,” says Dodds as they scheme up their penultimate throw.Mouat says “a little heavy” and might have squeaked a second point.Italy’s final throw is a good one and GB’s can’t add any magic.They take a 4-3 lead into the second half of the match.Snowboarding: Team GB’s Maisie Hill fluffs her lines as well in the women’s big air and sits last with 20pts.
Big improvements needed with some big scores already in round one.Snowboarding: OK! Mia Brookes.Let’s go! Oh no.She spins and spins and keeps spinning and spins again but over rotates a touch and falls down.Only 29.
75pts, she has her work cut out now in runs two and three to make the final.No mercy.Snowboarding: The women’s big air qualifying is under way.Mia Brookes up shortly for Team GB.Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand has the best tally so far with 90pts from jump one.
Curling: Italy looking good to retake the lead after an absolute beauty knocks GB out of the centre and plops them right on top,Two stones left each in end three,Bruce is sweeping like his life depends on it and just nudges the Italians but they still are closest,They have the hammer too,With their penultimate stone Italy gas it to little effect.
One British yellow stone is stopping a big Italian swing,Oooh Jennifer Dodds drops a beauty and Italy throw their last stone away and accept they could only tie it up 3-3,Curling: Team GB prove you can’t keep a good curler down,They take three points with the hammer in end two and are up 3-2,Mixed doubles magic!If figure skating is your thing we have a separate, brilliant blog for all you triple salchow lovers …Curling: In the mixed doubles Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat are 2-0 behind after the first end.
Plenty of time for Team GB to roar back to get back on track, somewhat, after a first defeat earlier in the day to Switzerland.The German sets a new track record for the fourth time in four runs.Sorry, what?! His final run time is 52.660sec with a total time of 3min 31.191sec.
Amazing.1 M Langenhan (Ger)2 J Müller (Aut) +0.596sec3 D Fischnaller (It) +0.934Luge: Max Langhenhan, whaddya got?! He is three tenths up to start, keeps it smooth through the middle and builds his advantage.He is flying through and crushes the Austrian to take the gold!Luge: And then there were two.
Jonas Müller sets off.He’s three tenths up through the middle and keeps it up.Oooooh a bit of drift but he manages to stay off the wall, and does so again and then again he is all over the shop but still is over three tenths ahead and has the silver at worst!Luge: Dominik Fischnaller pumps up the home crowd with almost a half a second lead before he even starts and he keeps it up with a +0.487sec lead over the Latvian to finish.The Italian guarantees a bronze with a perfect run.
It could get better still.Luge: Kristers Aparjods of Latvia tops the charts now with his fastest run of the week and the fastest yet in this final round.Can he sneak a medal? Let’s find out.Luge: Leon Felderer of Italy can’t match Loch either and the legendary German luger jumps up again into sixth now.Nico Gleirscher is up now and is hanging on, hanging on, hanging … ON! Just! He is ahead by 0
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