Winter Olympics 2026: Workforce GB loses crunch males’s curling tie, Norway’s Frostad wins huge air | Winter Olympics 2026
Key occasions
Nordic mixed: Yamamoto, who will not be the strongest cross-country skiier, has already been pipped by Lamparter, who gained silver within the regular hill occasion at these Video games.
Nordic mixed: In contrast to Livigno, the climate in Cortina has been OK for sporting motion to proceed. We’re about to start the second a part of the nordic mixed giant hill/10km. Earlier this morning within the ski leaping portion, Japan’s Yamamoto Ryota took the lead over Austria’s Johannes Lamparter.
Now for the cross-country portion: Ryota holds an eight-second benefit over Lamparter firstly.
Ice hockey: Italy’s Damian Clara is holding his aspect on this sport towards Switzerland. The goalkeeper has made 30 saves thus far. Philipp Kurashev and Daniel Mantenuto are penalized for roughing after the pair get in one another’s face. The second interval buzzer goes.
Listed here are some footage of the heavy snowfall that has led to occasion delays in Livigno:
Ice hockey: Italy are down 2-0 towards Switzerland within the males’s play-off however they’ve an influence play (an additional participant on the ice) after Simon Knack was penalized for cross checking (obstructing the opponent illegally with the hockey stick held horizontally in each fingers).
Thanks Daniel and hey all. In case you are simply becoming a member of us the heavy snow has scrambled the schedule for the occasions in Livigno as organizers postponed the ladies’s snowboard slopestyle medal occasion and reworked the beginning occasions for freestyle snowboarding aerials.
Officers determined it was too harmful to start out the qualifying spherical for girls’s aerials this morning underneath a gentle snowfall, which might restrict visibility and influence pace on the steep soar on the Livigno Aerials and Moguls Park. They rescheduled the occasion for the afternoon as employees used shovels to maintain the buildup of snow on the course to a minimal.
Opponents within the ladies’s aerials qualifying had accomplished apply rounds simply earlier than organizers postponed the occasion’s begin. Shifting the ladies’s aerials compelled a postponement within the males’s qualifying spherical that had been set for the afternoon. A brand new date and time for the lads’s occasion has not but been introduced. Throughout city, organizers canceled the ladies’s slopestyle last scheduled for the afternoon and stated they’d transfer it to a different day.
Righto, it is time for me to take a break, so here is Yara to hold with you for the following bit.
Our groups are again out for the second interval of their quarter-final eliminators.
Finish of interval one in each hockey matches. Switzerland lead Italy 2-0 and Germany lead France 3-0; The winners will face Finland and Slovakia respectively.
It will be an extended afternoon for France, Peterka rounding Junca to place Germany 3-0 up with a minute and alter to go within the first.
That is very nice.
An extended-range punt from Josi, an NHL all-star… and Switzerland lead Italy 2-0. Bradley, although, is again on the ice.
Why are Germany enjoying in yellow? I imply, I do know it is of their flag, however I’ve at all times related them with white residence equipment and inexperienced change.
Germany rating once more, Tiffels intercepting and firing contained in the close to submit. They lead France 2-0 with 9 minutes remaining within the first.
I discussed this final week, however the Netflix doc on the miracle on ice, the story of USA’s gold-medal win at Lake Placid in 1980, is satisfying. Its cold-war evaluation is primary and parochial, to say the least, however the private tales of the lads concerned are actually shifting.
And now Switzerland rating, main Italy 1-0. The winners of this match face Finland, who beat the latter 11-0 within the group, whereas Germany or France will meet Slovakia, who themselves whacked Finland 4-1.
oh manBradley of Italy flies into the barrier, simply 20 seconds in, and that regarded like a low-quality chuckle. He goes off, whereas Germany already leads France 1-0.
We’re about prepared for hockey. However here is one thing I simply learn and loved – not on to do with Winter Olympics however on the identical time related to all sport – that you just would possibly too.
Nonetheless a banger of a coat.
And places one in thoughts of this.
Ladies’s snowboard slopestyle postponed by snow
Ach, the ladies’s slopestyle last has been postponed.
Heavy snow scrambled the Winter Olympics schedule in Livigno on Tuesday as organizers canceled the ladies’s snowboard slopestyle medal occasion and delayed the beginning of the qualifying spherical in freestyle snowboarding aerials.
Aerials had been positioned on maintain as officers monitored the climate to see if the snow would clear sufficient to start the occasion later within the day. Staff used shovels to attempt to clear the steep soar that skiers had been getting ready to journey down on the Livigno Aerials and Moguls Park. Temperatures hovered at a cold -6 Celsius.
Throughout city, organizers canceled the ladies’s slopestyle competitors scheduled for Tuesday afternoon on the Livigno Snow Park and stated they’d transfer it to a different day.
As such, we have a 20-minute hiatus, then it is Germany v France and Switzerland v Italy within the males’s ice hockey quarter-final qualification matches.
Checking again in with the ladies’s aerials, I am afraid we have been deferred for an additional 45 minutes – a minimum of. There will be no motion till noon on the earliest.
Males’s curling standings:
…and it too is there! Czechia beat Germany 9-7, recording their first win of the competitors, which means defending champions Sweden at the moment are backside of the pool.
…and it is there, a magnificence! China beat USA 8-5, shifting GB as much as fourth, whereas Czechia will shortly search to see off Germany. However controversy! I feel one of many gamers would possibly’ve touched a stone when measuring a possible shot… no, it is agreed nothing modified. So right here comes the ultimate effort of the match, Czechia to win it…
Meantime, China have a shot to beat USA, the final of the match, with the rating at the moment 5-5. Right here it comes….
Germany are operating out of time as their skip lets one go… and he overcurls, providing Czechia, who’ve the hammer, an opportunity at two with their last rock. Right here comes their penultimate one and it is a goodun; I am undecided how Germany get out of this, as there are three purple tiles in the home.
I feel it is a lot the identical as with NZ (who garnered the southern hemisphere’s first medal in 1992, then nothing extra till 2014 after which a number of medals every time),” reckons Ben Barnards, “in that new sports activities have come wherein each nations are distinguished gamers – snowboarding, ski cross, each huge air variations and many others. Neither have all of the sudden beginning competing in biathlon, ice hockey or ski leaping, however these ‘wacky’ new sporting disciplines are ones wherein every are recreationally and later competitively energetic.”
Sure, that is sensible – folks doing issues for enjoyable, then getting good at it.
