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Back to the moguls, it works like a knockout cup competition, Wallberg now taking on Shimakawa of Japan, he beats him down … and is shocked to find he loses 19-16. I love this format.
Back with the curling, GB lead Germany 7-4 after eight, but having just lost an end 2-0, aren’t quite home yet. Currently, they sit joint second in the standings with Canada, their record 3-1; Switzerland are top with 4-0.
The drop as they start the mogul run is not pleasant. Kingsbury of Canada, the OG, sees off Kolmakov of Kazakhstan 23-12, then Mickel of USA wallops Woods of Australia 32-2, and Graham of Australia dispatches Stegfeldt of Sweden 27-8.
Ahhhh.
Great headline too. I was in Ibiza last summer and saw the incredible David Morales remix Love is in the Air, not this version but this is all I’ve got.
Ah, the way the moguls work is with two competitors racing down against each other, with points awarded for speed and tricks – they leap down the track hitting bumps and doing everything you’d never, ever, want to do, with the loser going out and, in the third race, Jung of South Korea massacres Gay of France 26-9.
Back with the men’s curling, GB lead Germany 7-2 playing the eighth, while Norway are up 6-5 on Italy and USA 6-3 on Sweden,.
This mogul situation might be the most terrifying thing yet. Viel of Canada has just clattered himself, but Wallberg of Sweden now bousts down to score 27.
Coming up next: starting roundabout now, we’ve got the quarters of the men’s dual moguls; at 10.15, it’s the biathlon men’s 12.5km pursuit, medals awarded; at 10.46, it’s the final of them moguls; and at 11am, Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, who on Friday equalled the Olympic record by taking an eighth gold, is gunning for a ninth in the men’s 4x7.5km cross-country skiing relay.
Back with the men’s curling, GB lead Germany 5-2 playing the seventh, and this is near enough over as a contest.
That’s it with run one of the women’s Super G. She completely disarmed that course,” Chemmy Alcott says of Brignone. The second and final run is coming up at 12.30pm GMT.
Durr of Germany looks good on as she weaves down the giant slalom course, and this is very good; she finishes 0.34 off the lead in second, and behind her Goggia of Italy also puts down something serious, news of the line to take wending its way back up to the top of the course. She slots in third, 0.46 off the lead, and now Brignone is in sight, while Shiffirin is seventh.
In run one of the monobob, Laura Nolte of Germany leads the first run, with Nicoll of GB 14th, 1.10 off the lead.
Brignone smashed her leg at the end of last season, fought her way back, and now look!
Goodness me, she’s almost perfect as she nears the end, and 1:03.23 is her time! That puts her 0.74 up on Colturi, Hector and Stjernesund, plus a whole 1.02 on Shiffrin!
This downhill course is so sporting. Gasienica Daniel of Poland is doing nicely, like the others before her, then makes a huge error lower down and is 10th. But have look! Brignone, champ in super g, is taking this run to school! She is killing it!
Britain now lead Germany 5-2 in the men’s curling, all over them. Elsewhere, Italy are up 5-4 on Norway and USA 4-2 on Sweden.
All this talk of Hector…
In the curling, okaying the fifth end, GB still lead Germany 4-2, playing the fifth, while Valerie Grenier of Canada, whose had a bad Games so far but love a giant slalom, whizzes down the course and this is a decent run; she goes fifth, 0.29 off the lead, but Colturi, who chose Albania not Italy, is killing it! She’s in with a chance of taking the lead … and she finishes in 1:03.97! A third to record that time, and she leads alongside Stjernesund and Hector.
Scheib from Austria is another with a chance of taking the lead as she canes it down the bottom section of the course, but another who can’t go clean, going far too wide on a gate, and slots in fifth, 0.39 off the lead. There are going to be a lot of these in with a chance of a medal in the second run, coming up at 12.30.
Also going on:
In the curling, GB now lead Germany 4-2; in the women’s giant, Thea Louise Stjernesund or Norway and Sara Hector of Sweden lead with 1:03.97, but Moltzan of USA is flying down … but mistakes on the lower half means she must be content with fourth; Mikaela Shiffrin of USA, the consensus goat, is third, 0.28s off the lead.
Preamble
Buongiorno a tutti e benvenuti alle Olimpiadi invernali 2026 – nono giorno!
There’s so much action today it’s almost indecent, and there’s some going on right now, GB men taking on Germany in the curling round robin – it’s 2-2 playing the fourth and they’ll be back this evening to take on Switzerland.
Otherwise, we’ve got both runs of the women’s giant slalom, the first starting as we speak, with Adele Nicoll, the British shot-put champ, going in the monobob, heats starting now; Txema Mazet-Brown is in the snowboard slopestyle, starting at 9.20; with the men’s 12km pursuit biathlon and the dual moguls freestyle skiing are our mid-morning medals.
Around lunchtime, Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale are in the snowboard cross mixed team event; Maisie Brooks goes in the snowboard slopestyle qualification; and there are medals to be seized in the mixed snowboard cross team and women’s biathlon 10km pursuit.
Then around teatime, Tabby Stoecker and Matt Weston, along with Freya Tarbit and Marcus Wyatt, contest the mixed team skeleton, medals to be awarded; Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby attack the figure skating pairs; we’ve the women’s 500m speed skating chaos; and the women’s individual large hill ski jump.
Esattamente! Andiamo!
