Righto, time for us to call it a night.Thanks for your company, we’ll be back tomorrow for day nine where nine Gold medals will be up for grabs.Buonanotte!Men’s Ice hockey: There’s a real ding dong going on over at the ice hockey arena in Milan as Denmark and the USA trade punches and goals.It’s 4-3 to USA with about 15 minutes to go… and as I type Jake Guentzel makes it 5-3 to the Americans.Speed Skating 1500m Final: Oh no! It’s a penalisation for Team GB’s Niall Treacy and he has his sixth place finish whipped away.

A lengthy delay whilst the review takes place, Treacy is deemed at fault for a collision with one of the Chinese athletes as he came out of his skating line.What a race! Niall Treacy did so well, he was out in front for four laps but then dropped back to third, he got tapped from behind and crashed out!Jens van ‘T Wout skates imperiously and takes the Gold medal! There’s a rush of orange shirts at the barrier as he removes his helmet and unfurls the Dutch flag and the widest smile.Speed Skating 1500m Final: They are preparing the ice for the Gold medal race.Can Great Britain’s Niall Treacy pull off something spectacular last thing on a Saturday night? We’ll soon find out!Women’s Curling: Nerves of… granite.Switzerland get the final point and take their match against Canada 8-7 after the extra end.

They came back from 5-2 down!Sweden, Switzerland, USA, and China hold the top four spots after five sessions of the Round Robin.World Champs Canada have it all to do.Speed Skating: Now then! Just when you thought the medal chances for Great Britain were done for the night, Niall Treacy has other ideas!Treacy wins the third and final semi-final in the men’s 1500m and will compete for Gold shortly! It’s chaos on the ice - violations, blocking, crashes.Treacy led the pack in his heat and kept his nose out of trouble, out in front of the flying limbs behind him.His time of 2:16.

816s is the fifth-fastest of the six automatic qualifiers and he will skate in the final of the men’s 1500m at 9.42pm GMT!Women’s Curling: Deadlock over in the curling centre as Canada and Switzerland go to an extra end after being tied at 7-7, the Swiss have the hammer.It’s a tight match but calmly contested… as opposed to the Canadian men earlier.ICYMI:The Canadian curler at the centre of a cheating row at the Winter Olympics has denied any wrongdoing, accusing the Swedish team of deliberately trying to “catch us in the act”.On Saturday, World Curling confirmed that Canada had escaped punishment despite being accused of breaking the rules in the 8-6 victory over Sweden on Friday night.

However, the sport’s governing body did warn Canada about their abusive langugage and introduced emergency spot checks on Saturday afternoon to make sure teams were not cheating when releasing the stone.A bad-tempered game erupted when Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson told Canada’s Marc Kennedy he was double-touching the stone on the penultimate end, which led to Kennedy responding with an expletive.”We’ve got the speed skating coming up and a gold medal race in the men’s 1500m.Kirsty Muir has spoken to the BBC:“I just wanted to get my runs down, and I’m really stoked that I did.”How do you feel about inspiring people to ski? “That makes me so happy.

Performing on the big stage, I want to show how fun and exciting it is.I am having the best time, and I hope people can see that and want to start snowsports because of it.”Freestyle skiing - women’s big air qualification: It’s official – Kirsty Muir has qualified for Monday’s.She lands all three jumps but it her final one doesn’t see any improvement meaning she is in fourth place with a score of 166.50 (87.

50 + 79.00)Men’s Ice hockey: USA 1-1 Denmark and there’s a FIGHT! The scuffle sees one of the Danes shoved into the goal and the whole thing us uprooted like a decayed tooth.No danger of any actual teeth being harmed mind, there’s plenty of protective clothing to protect from the punches.I always think ice hockey fights are one of the most futile things you can see.Anyway, how’s your Valentine’s Day evening going?Lizzy Yarnold is full of admiration for Janine Flock.

Speaking to Balders on the Beeb, the two time Olympic skeleton champion said “from her head all the way to her toes, it was magnificent!”“You can see the joy radiate out of her,Skeleton was her teenage sport, this has been her love for a long time,Thank goodness she didn’t retire,She built that resilience, she kept going and she improved,”For those at the back, Flock finished ninth in the 2014 Olympics and 10th in 2022.

Between the two came the real heartbreak.At the 2018 Pyeongchang Games she led after three runs before an error strewn final run saw her miss out on a medal by two-hundredths of a second.She has her medal now and it is the one she will have dreamed over the last decade and more.Is it a bird? Is it a plane… nope it is a flying Slovenian! Domen Prevc soars and soars and lands the biggest jump of the night at 141.5 metres! What a time to do it, with just one jumper to go.

It is Gold for Prevc! He becomes a double Gold medallist in Milano Cortina after winning Gold in the team event earlier in the week and is the only jumper to post over 300 points in the final.The podium will look like this:Domec Prevc (Slovenia) - 301.8 points GOLDRen Nikaido (Japan) - 295.0 SilverKacper Tomasiak (Poland) - 291.2 BronzeThe wait is over for Flock! At 36 she bags her first Olympic medal at her fourth Olympic Games and it is Gold! She posts the quickest time of the run, punches the air, removes her helmet and it hits her – she’s the Olympic champion!Fantastic scenes.

Shout out to Tabby Stoeker who holds fifth position in her first games.One day…Freestyle skiing - women’s big air qualification: Kirsty Muir is about to attempt her second jump…Defending champion Eileen Gu faceplanted the powder a few minutes ago and posted a lowly score of 20.75 for her second jump.No such trouble for Muir! Another brilliant jump and a smooth landing with three successful rotations.See you on Monday for the final Kirsty!Skeleton: Women’s Final: Tabby Stoeker puts in a solid final run of 57.

72, beams and blows kisses to her supporters who are sporting ‘Super Stoeker’ t shirts in the stands as she completes her last run at her first Olympic Games.Four competitors to go…Skeleton: Women’s Final: Amelia Coltman puts in an excellent final run of 57.6s, she won’t make the podium but that should see her edge her way into the top ten.Derbyshire’s own Freya Tarbit’s turn now and she gets down in 57.7s, she has 8th place locked in and could creep higher.

Freestyle skiing - women’s big air qualification: Kirsty Muir is in second place after one jump and well placed to qualify and contend for a medal in Monday’s final.The top five as it stands:Megan Oldham (Canada) - 91.25 pointsKirsty Muir (Great Britain) - 87.50Grace Henderson (USA) - 86.75Eileen Gu (China) - 86.

00Mathilde Gremaud (Switzerland) - 85.25Skeleton: Women’s Final: The final runs are underway! Great Britain’s Amelia Coltman is about to push off, she is in tenth position after three runs.Freya Tarbit is eighth and will be the 18th athlete down the track and fifth-placed Tabby Stoecker will be 21st.Could Tabby somehow sneak a medal? Let’s find out.Freestyle skiing - women’s big air qualification: Kirsty Muir is beaming! As well she might having just smoothly landed an incredible first jump.

She scores 87.5 and is straight into second place behind Canada’s Megan Oldham on 91.25.Muir is also ahead of defending Olympic champion (and ramekin pudding billionaire) Eileen Gu.Men’s Ski Jumping Final (Large Hill, First Round) Germany’s Philipp Raimund does not look best pleased with his first attempt, he’s back in 11th place with plenty of improvement necessary if he is to contend for medals.

The big shock however is that the reigning Olympic champion Marius Lindvik is GONE! The Norwegian’s score of 119.3 sees him languishing in 33rd place and only the top 30 of the 50 competitors go through.Top five heading into the final jump (in about twenty minutes time) are:Nikaido Ren (Japan) - 154 pointsDomen Prevc (Slovenia) - 147Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal (Norway) - 145Kacper Tomasiak (Poland) - 141.8Jan Hoerl (Austria) - 141.7Freestyle skiing - women’s big air qualification: Great Britain’s Kirsty Muir is looking to qualify and get closer to a medal after cruelly missing out in the slopestyle by the barest of margins earlier in the week.

Fourth place in an Olympic Games is no place to be.What’s this one all about I hear you ask? Here’s a primer:The competitors ski down a 225m ramp and then fly off a 40 metre high jump, whilst pulling off an assortment of tricks.They’re judged on style, control, damage and agression difficulty, execution, height and landing control.There will be three runs this evening at 18:30, 19:15, 20:00 GMT.The two highest-scoring runs of each athlete are added together to determine their ranking and the top 12 qualify for the final on Monday.

Skeleton: Women’s Final (3rd run): As mentioned, a disappointing run for Great Britain’s three athletes, Tabby Stoeker is in fifth place and has an outside chance of making it onto the podium but will have to improve drastically with her final slide.Janine Flock (Aut) - 2:51.74Susanne Kreher (Ger) - 2:51.95Jacqueline Pfeifer (Ger) - 2:52.17Hannah Neise (Ger) - 2:52.

44Tabby Stoecker (GB) - 2:52,76Men’s Ski Jumping Final (Large Hill, First Round) It’s a sleety and cold old night it Livigno for the first round of jumps, the final round will be just before 7pm GMT,Germany’s Philipp Raimund will attempt to make it a double Gold games after he won the normal hill event earlier this week,Raimund’s story is pretty crackers, he pulled out of a World Cup event in March last year citing… a fear of heights!“As some of you may know, I am scared of heights,” Raimund wrote at the time,“I usually have it under control, and it usually isn’t a problem while ski jumping, but from time to time, I have the issue (mainly while ski flying) that my body is reacting without me controlling it.

”That would appear to be quite the occupational hazard.Oh, by the way, did I mention my fear of laptops and television screens (and divorce) ?Men’s Ice Hockey: The Italian goal is being bombarded by the puck courtesy of Finnish sticks in the men’s preliminaries.Finland lead by a stonking 9 goals to zilch with about ten minutes left to go.The host country clearly need some Mighty Ducks style inspiration, did somebody say Knuckle Puck?Skeleton: Women’s Final (3rd run): Unfortunately the third run for Great Britain’s three first time Olympian Skeleton athletes are going the same way as my Valentine’s Day wooing.Non bene.

Tabby Stoecker, Freya Tarbit and Amelia Coltman all put in their slowest slides of the competition so far and thus slip way down the standings, all three are likely out of medal contention now with the final run to come at 19:30GMT.Thanks Tanya.Love is in the BIG air tonight, especially in the Wallace household where I’ll be whispering sweet nothings into the ear of this Winter Olympics Live Blog until 10pm.I did suggest to my beloved that she head out for a solo Chinese meal (a succulent one no less) but she quite rightly called that out as a mad idea.Coming up:17:00-19:30 - Women’s skeleton (runs three and four) - featuring Team GB’s Tabby Stoecker (5th), Freya Tarbit (6th), and Amelia Coltman (9th)17:45-20:00 - Ski jumping men’s large hill individual19:15-22:00 - Short track speed skating men’s 1500m - featuring Team GB’s Niall TreacySo Great Britain might scoop some more medals and I might get served with divorce papers, worth sticking around for either way!That’s it from me for today, Jim will guide you down the skeleton run and over the ski jumps.

Happy Valentine’s day – bye!Skeleton: unlace your skates, time to return to the sliding centre in snow-kissed Cortina.The women’s medals will be decided tonight in two runs on the polished ice.Tabby Stoecker is the best placed of GB’s women, lying fifth, Freya Tarbit is sixth, and Amelia Coltman ninth.Austria’s Janine Flock is top of the tree and first down the track.It’s quick - 57.

26, identical to her second run.She looks very pleased.Trains operating through the heart of Italy suffered delays of more than an hour on Saturday following the latest suspected act of sabotage during the Olympic Games.Services between Naples in the south and the capital Rome were affected, and there were also delays on the line heading north towards Florence.Transport Minister Matteo Salvini condemned those behind the incidents following similar problems last Saturday on the network and another less serious case in midweek.

“These are hateful criminal acts aimed at workers and at Italy,” Salvini said in a statement.“I hope that no one plays down or tries to justify these crimes which put lives at risk,” he added.The authorities were investigating burnt cables on a section of the high-speed line between Rome and Naples on Saturday, and two other possible acts of vandalism between the capital and Florence.National police said that initial investigations indicated that these were “definitely criminal acts”.ReutersA second gold of the Games for Jordan Stolz, who takes the Stars and Stripes on a victory lap in his superhero spanx; silver for a disconsolate Jenning de Boo and a surprise bronze for a very happy Laurent Dubreuil