And you know what? That’s probably enough from us for the day.Medals tomorrow in Super-G, Nordic combined, biathlon, moguls, 1000m speed skating, doubles luge, and the free dance figure skating.Come and hang out with us then.Stay cool.Figure skating: Italian skater Daniel Grassl has gone top of the short program with an astonishing 93.

46.There are still nine skaters to go.Hockey: Safe to say that this game is over now.USA will remain unbeaten at the top of Group A.Canada have second spot locked up, even though they have a game left against bottom-placed Finland.

Hockey: Goal for the USA! Dominance continues, they’re 4-0 now.Abbey Murphy drives down the ice towards the goal line, veers off to the left, spins and flicks the puck back in front of goal for Hannah Bilka to flick across the face of goal inside the right post.Slick movement, too good.Hockey: Twice in the last few minutes Canada have been called offside while breaking away down the ice, and this time it’s a 4 on 2 situation with the powerplay on their side.Hockey: Now a sin bin called against the USA, is that the first time tonight? Kirsten Simms, the goalscorer in that rugby scrum earlier, takes down Laura Stacey with heavy body contact.

Hockey: Another sin bin for Canada, Kristin O’Neill goes flying into the back of Abbey Murphy, who is something of an antagonist it seems.Murphy gets up grinning, because the other player is off the ice for two minutes.Canada’s Claire Thompson was also involved in the collision but gets away with itHockey: A glimmer for Canada, Laura Stacey with a breakaway down the ice, flicks a shot from the right but it’s saved.Hockey: Finland and Switzerland have just got going, as well.Hockey: Off the post by USA! Then another defensive block near the line by Canada.

They’re under siege here, and Steven Seagal doesn’t play for them.Hockey: Canada get through the powerplay without further damage on the scoreboard.They’re back to player parity now in the second period.Hockey: A long replay thanks to a coach’s review for Canada in the women’s game, in an effort to avoid going 3-0 down against USA.He’s claiming goaltender interference, but the review is unsuccessful.

It was a real scrum at the goal line with five players all piling into each other in a big mass of meat and padding,The puck was scrambled across, and the failed review mean the USA get another powerplay (meaning there’s a Canadian player on a two-minute suspension from the ice),What happened today?Johannes Klaebo did it again, his seventh Olympic gold and his second from two attempts in these games, with his cross-country sprint win,He has four events to go, and winning two would set a new record for winter gold medals,Sweden swept the women’s version of the event, with Linn Svahn the winner.

Vladyslav Heraskevych says he will appeal an IOC decision to ban him from wearing a helmet showing images of fellow Ukrainian athletes who were killed during Russia’s invasion.Italy win home gold in the mixed speed skating team event, and their Italian blue speed suits look so good.What a colour.Birk Ruud won the men’s freeski slopestyle, which is the park-course event with jumps and rails to prove that snowboarders can’t have 100% of the fun, they only get about 95% of the fun.Breezy Johnson couldn’t get another medal in the teams event after her unexpected solo win in the women’s alpine downhill the other day.

She finished fourth with Mikaela Shiffrin.Jaqueline Wiles, the other USA skier who had a great day in the solo race, won bronze with Paula Moltzan for USA in the teams.Emma Aicher trailed Breezy by four one-hundredths of a second in the solo race, and won silver again here with Kira Weidle-Winkelmann for Germany.Gold though went to Austria, for Katharina Huber and Ariane Rädler.Germany got gold in the women’s luge, via Julia Taubitz in an emotional finale after a very calm final run.

Great Britain missed out on bronze to Italy in the curling mixed doubles.Brother-sister gold medals became a theme (twice is a theme, right?) with the Wranå siblings for Sweden in the mixed curling and the Prevc siblings (and friends) for Slovenia in the ski jumping.Hockey: Canada v USA in a women’s group stage game at the moment, which is something of a grudge match in purely hockey terms even in normal times, and might be even more so when one of their governments keeps talking about invading the other.Not that you’d find many of the players endorsing that position, I’d wager.The US are leading 2-0 so far.

Figure skating: That’s 16 skaters out of 29 in the men’s singles.Cha Junwhan and Andrew Torgashev are the two who’ve gone past Gogolev so far, so the top three are Korea, USA, Canada so far, remembering that this is a qualifying round for the free skate program on a subsequent day.We had a brother-sister gold medal in the curling, and now another, with Nika and Domen Prevc part of that combined team.Four jumpers, accumulated scores, and the Slovenians have romped it in, over 30 points clear.Ski jumping: Nikaido Ren anchors the Japanese team’s tilt, after sharing bronze in the individual event last night.

Marius Lindvik for Norway lands his jump perfectly to wrap up silver, assuming that the Slovenian champ Domen Prevc does his job… and he does.Ski jumping: Barring a fall, China have slipped back into last place in the group, then USA, and Finland have jumped two spots.Then Austria, then Germany.Now for the medal spots.Ski jumping: We have the same standings as earlier after three jumps per team, expect that Germany has jumped Austria into fourth spot.

Curling: The gold medal ceremony is taking place now, with the Wranås singing their anthem on the top of the podium.They’re a delightfully nerdy pair, doing their little jump up and down thing as the crowd cheers them.The Italians have the bronze, one of them wearing the team beanie and the other a team fluffy headband.That’s wardrobe alignment.One of the attendants takes a picture of everyone on the podium, then shows her phone to the TV camera.

Figure skating: I’m on board with Vladimir Samoilov, partly because I love Polish people and partly because he skated to Freestyler by Bomfunk MCs.Now we’re talking.One of the great music videos, a time-travel twist that with really ushered in the MP3-player era.Samoilov has qualified.Ski jumping: Here’s another event.

The finals of the mixed team jump are underway.We have teams of four, two men and two women, jumping for a combined score.The scores are marked partly on distance and partly on a judged mark of form and execution of the jump.After one jump apiece, it’s Slovenia leading from Norway and Japan, then Austria, Germany, China, USA, and Finland.Figure skating: We have 29 skaters in the men’s short program, and 24 will advance to the free program.

The tenth is on the rink now, so five have qualified.Stephen Gogolev is top so far, doing his routine in a very sharp fitted suit, but more impressively (or not, depending how you look at it) with one bootlace coming untied for most of the duration.Thankfully it didn’t cause him to fall.Perhaps he didn’t notice.The whole thing looked perfect, it scores him an 87.

41.It needed nerves of ice on the ice.Rasmus Wranå has competed in two previous Olympics in the Swedish men’s team, winning gold last time and silver before that.His sister, Isabella had never been to a Games.She’d won a women’s junior championship, then a mixed world championship a couple of years ago, but never been to the peak.

Now, she is there, walking around the rink pumping fists at the crowd,And not just there, but delivering the winning stone with impeccable composure, having nailed several absolutely crucial throws to score points for Sweden in previous ends,The final score was 6-5, as the deflated Americans leave the arena,Curling: Sweden have the second and third best stones, USA have the best, but if Isabella Wranå can remove it… and she does! Curls around the right-hand side of the rink, arounds the guards, and knocks the USA stone clear!Impressive from Dropkin in the background, applauding them sincerely along with the crowd as the spectators erupt,Curling: It doesn’t take much.

A slight error from Dropkin, just too much weight on his throw as he tries to set up a stone at the back of the house, but the Swedes are able to sweep it a long way towards the back.Their second-last stone in reply, though, is another error, this one from Rasmus Wranå, trying to get it around a yellow at the front of the house and nestle in with two reds closer in.But the stone curls too much and clips that yellow, stopping too far away to be much use to the Swedes.One stone each remaining.Curling: Some sharpshooting from Korey Dropkin manages to get around the Swedish guard stone and take out their one stone in the house.

The USA now have three stones clinging on to the outside rings of the house, meaning that if Sweden go in with their last stone, then have it knocked out, USA could score three or four points.The defensive option is to cannon two of the yellow stones out of play, meaning the Americans can score a max of two.Isabella Wranå does exactly that.Smashes those two yellows with her red, a powerful drive, and concedes the two points as Cory Thiesse lands the final stone.It’s USA 5-4, but Sweden with last stone in the final end.

Curling: Right, back to the gold medal mixed doubles match.It’s been a grind so far, scores in units of one, and into the seventh end out of eight, it’s Sweden leading 4-3.Isabella Wranå nailed another cold-blooded throw at the end of the sixth to sneak that lead.She starts the seventh by setting up a guard in advance of the house, then her brother lands one in the centre circle.The Americans drop one just in front of that last stone.

Rasmus knocks out a wider American stone.Hockey: Germany beat Italy 2-1 earlier in the women’s group game.The winners are second in Group B.She was devastated four years ago in Beijing, after recording a track record and then crashing out of contention.This time, there are no mistakes.

She’s an island of calm out there on her sled at 116 kilometres an hour, not trying to push her speed to the absolute max given she already has a big lead.Bota got up to 121.9 kph on her last run, and Farquharson up to 123, gunning for their eventual silver and bronze spots.Taubitz just has to get through clean, and she does, tight in the chicane but otherwise untroubled.Gold is going to Germany.

Luge: Elina Bota of Latvia the second-last slider.A much slighter frame than some of the others, not sure what that means for momentum, but she’s fast at the top of the course and also holds on during the chicane.She’s now top, with the German Julia Taubitz the only one left, needing to hold her nerve for gold.Luge: That error won’t come from Ashley Farquharson, who almost clips the chicane, the one section of track that has brought so many undone today, but doesn’t lose any speed through there, and finishes strongly.She can’t do worse than bronze with that.

Luge: Verena Hofer is pumped! The Italian goes top of the list, with three racers to come.So if one mistake comes in the next three runs, she’s in the medals.Another aggressive run, and she scores 3.926.Luge: Ouch, Emily Fischnaller almost crashes on the way down