Winter Olympics 2026: women’s slalom, men’s slopestyle final, curling and more – live | Winter Olympics 2026
Key events
Women’s aerials: hmmm, turns out what iplayer says is live, isn’t quite, and the top six athletes are already through: with Marion Thenault of Canada topping the tree by almost ten points, and three Chinese skiers in the top six.
Women’s aerials: the qualifying rounds of accelerating down a ramp and flying through the air. Hanna Huskova, gold medallist in 2018, does a triple somersault, or the “the kiss arse blaster” in the commentator’s words, but it is only enough to leave her seventh.
Women’s curling: Back to the brushes, where Rebecca Morrison posts the final stone of the sixth end into perfect position, Team GB take two and go into a 4-3 lead against the USA with four ends left.
Women’s slalom: Sweden’s Hanna Aronsson Elfman covers her head in her hands as she skies off the course like a woman tripping up on the front steps.
I’m a big fan of the Hazel Irvine-Chemmy Alcott double act in the BBC studio. “I was quite fruity as she [Shiffrin] was going down,”says Alcott, “as I just wanted her to silence everyone, and today, finally, she’s had the freedom to fly.”
Some gorgeous pictures from yesterday’s action – including Jürgen Klopp ringing the bell for the final lap of the men’s biathlon and flying ice skaters.
Women’s curling: GB’s women are 3-2 down to the USA at the Milano curling centre. Denmark lead China 6-3 and, in a complete surprise, South Korea are thrashing unbeaten Sweden 8-0.
Women’s slalom: over the radio, the French skier Marion Chevrier, is told to take ‘some really risky lines.’ Down she goes, zig and zag, and then out – as her skis straddle one of the control gates.
Women’s slalom: Austria have set the course for this run, Sweden will for the second run. It’s a process chosen by draw. With 13 athletes gone, Shiffrin is still in the lead, with Germany’s Durr second, and Öhlund of Sweden delighted to have just skied into third.
A new leader in the slalom and it’s the woman with a point to prove, Mikaela Shiffrin – who slides over the line with an advantage of 0.82 seconds. The stars and stripes in the crowd wave cheerfully.
Forget-me-not skies and icing sugar snow in the mountains, where run one of the women’s slalom has already started. Switzerland’s Camille Rast, the slalom world champion, is currently the quickest. She puts handfuls of snow down the back of her neck before she starts – an unpalatable pick-me-up.
Preamble
Good morning! We’re racing towards the finishing line now in Milan, stylish snow suit in one hand, espresso in the other. Nine golds hang glistening on the line to be claimed .
The final snowboarding events swoosh onto our screens soon, with the men’s and women’s slopestyle; while out on the mountains, cowbells and exhaution in the cross-country team sprint skiing.
Ice-hockey punctuates the day, with the men’s quarter-finals – expect the usual brutality: Slovakia v Germany, Canada v Czechia, Finland v Switzerland, and USA v Sweden.
And skill of a different sort, weather permitting, in the women’s aerials final. All eyes are on almost-veteran Xu Mengtao of China who is hoping, and loop the looping, to retain her title.
Just after lunch, the USA’s Mikaela Shiffrin goes for gold in the women’s slalom final. After the disappointment of Beijing “its not so much about unfinished business, she has said, it’s more about making peace. Then another relay: after the excitement of France’s comeback in the men’s biathlon, the women’s event..
Two short-track speed skating finals draw the curtains on the day, the men’s 500m and the women’s 3000m relay.
There’s also more of the endless curling round robins. GB’s men have had a disappointing few days and need to beat USA to be in with a chance of making the semi finals.
Thrills, spills, bellyaches, we’ll be covering it all. Do join us.
