Winter Olympics 2026: Group GB loses crunch males’s curling tie, Norway’s Frostad wins massive 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 received 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 at first.
Ice hockey: Italy’s Damian Clara is retaining his aspect on this recreation towards Switzerland. The goalkeeper has made 30 saves to this point. 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 good day all. If you’re 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 instances for freestyle snowboarding aerials.
Officers determined it was too harmful to start out the qualifying spherical for ladies’s aerials this morning beneath a gentle snowfall, which may restrict visibility and influence velocity on the steep soar on the Livigno Aerials and Moguls Park. They rescheduled the occasion for the afternoon as staff used shovels to maintain the buildup of snow on the course to a minimal.
Opponents within the girls’s aerials qualifying had accomplished observe rounds simply earlier than organizers postponed the occasion’s begin. Shifting the ladies’s aerials pressured a postponement within the males’s qualifying spherical that had been set for the afternoon. A brand new date and time for the boys’s occasion has not but been introduced. Throughout city, organizers canceled the ladies’s slopestyle remaining scheduled for the afternoon and mentioned they might 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 may 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 all the time related them with white house 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 fulfilling. Its cold-war evaluation is primary and parochial, to say the least, however the private tales of the lads concerned are actually transferring.
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 seemed like a low-quality snort. 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 simply may too.
Nonetheless a banger of a coat.
And places one in thoughts of this.
Girls’s snowboard slopestyle postponed by snow
Ach, the ladies’s slopestyle remaining 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 have 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. Employees used shovels to attempt to clear the steep soar that skiers have been making ready to trip 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 mentioned they might 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 – not less than. 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, that means defending champions Sweden at the moment are backside of the pool.
…and it is there, a magnificence! China beat USA 8-5, transferring GB as much as fourth, whereas Czechia will shortly search to see off Germany. However controversy! I believe one of many gamers may’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 present 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 remaining 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 believe 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 by which each nations are outstanding gamers – snowboarding, ski cross, each massive air variations and so on. Neither have out of the blue beginning competing in biathlon, ice hockey or ski leaping, however these ‘wacky’ new sporting disciplines are ones by which every are recreationally and later competitively energetic.”
Sure, that is sensible – folks doing issues for enjoyable, then getting good at it.
