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Emily Salley, Katie Stafford and Maisie Gallen

1. Muir next up…published at 09:48 GMT

   Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying

   Here we go then. Britain’s Kirsty Muir is next up.

   The score to beat at the moment is 76.68 – set by Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud.

   The best 12 riders after two runs make it through to the final.

2. curling

   ‘Team GB stamp their dominance early on’published at 09:47 GMT

   Curling mixed doubles – GB v Canada

   Jackie Lockhart
   Four-time Olympic curler on BBC Two

   It really is a game of cat and mouse in the first few stones of each end – Team GB have settled in nicely.

   We know that Team GB can stamp their dominance early on and let Canada know that they are here to win this game. Stone placement is really key to stop the Canadians getting the right angle.

   It has been a fantastic start for Team GB and this will be a great game that everyone wants to watch. These two teams are great rivals.

3. curling

   GB leading Canadapublished at 09:44 GMT

   Curling mixed doubles – GB v Canada

   Team GB are underway in the mixed doubles curling against Canada.

   They are leading 5-1 and have just started the fourth end.

4. Global star Gu a favouritepublished at 09:43 GMT

   Katie Falkingham
   BBC Sport in Livigno

   Competing against Kirsty Muir in the women’s freeski slopestyle is Eileen Gu, a triple medallist from the Beijing Olympics four years ago.

   Gu is American-born but represents China, and is one of the highest-paid female athletes in the world.

   In 2025, she ranked fourth in the Forbes list having earned $23.1m (£16.9m), putting her behind tennis stars Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek.

   But unlike those three, very little of Gu’s income is earned directly from her sport. Instead, it comes through big endorsements with the likes of Red Bull and Porsche.

   She’s also modelled for Victoria’s Secret in New York and Louis Vuitton in Paris, all while a student at Stanford University.

   So despite all that, why is she back at the Olympics? Easy.

   “I’m doing this because I’ve seen the world and the best that it has to offer, and I think that this is the best thing in the world,” she told Time magazine, external.

   Image source, Getty Images

5. GB’s Muir in qualifying actionpublished at 09:41 GMT

   Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying

   Kirsty Muir was the youngest member of Team GB at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, aged just 17.

   She’s back four years later to try and better her fifth-place finish in the the big air competition and eighth in the slope-style.

   Muir has had her struggles since – including recovering from a torn ACL – but the 21-year-old Scot arrives in Italy on the back of winning X Games slopestyle gold in January.

   She’ll be the 10th rider to go in the first qualifying run.

   Image source, Getty Images

6. curling

   Cram at the wheelpublished at 09:40 GMT

   Curling mixed doubles – GB v Canada

   Richard Winton
   BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

   Steve Cram is describing the curling action on BBC Two – alongside Jackie Lockhart – but the great man has already fulfilled a key role this morning.

   He was in charge of driving the troops up the mountain to Cortina in our new hire car. And a very pleasant journey it was, too …

7. Postpublished at 09:38 GMT

   Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying

   Katie Falkingham
   BBC Sport in Livigno

   The crowd here at Livigno Snow Park were stunned by that fall from Eileen Gu. The last thing we expected to see and absolute silence from the hundreds of fans here as she completed the rest of the course.

   Early nerves?

8. How is freeski slopestyle scored?published at 09:37 GMT

   Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying

   Qualification for slopestyle consists of two runs, with only the best run counting towards the athlete’s final ranking.

   The athletes are judged on tricks performed on a course featuring three jumps and three rail sections.

   Skiers are given a score out of 100 per run based on amplitude, technical difficulty, creativity and landings.

   Image source, Getty Images

9. ‘That was not on the bingo card’published at 09:36 GMT

   Women’s Freeski Slopestyle

   Tim Warwood
   Freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

   Eileen Gu is human after all! We have some drama on our hands. That was not on the bingo card.

   She went deep into the rail and could not get any purchase off it. Gu needs to get some jumps in, to get herself warmed up.

10. Gu crashes in qualifying runpublished at 09:35 GMT

    Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying

    Oh my word! An early shock in the women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying.

    Eileen Gu – a triple medallist at the last Olympic Games in Beijing – falls backwards on the first very rail of the course.

    She looks devastated as she hugs her mum at the end of the run.

    It’s a mere score of 1.26 for the Chinese athlete, but she will get another go in the second qualifying run.

11. curling

    Team GB up and at itpublished at 09:33 GMT

    Curling mixed doubles – GB v Canada

    Richard Winton
    BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

    Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds seem to be in a chipper mood and no wonder.

    The GB pair have won their opening five matches to roar to the brink of the semi-finals and have started strongly here.

    Their toughest four round robin matches are still to come over the next two days – Canada and United States today, then Switzerland and defending champions Italy tomorrow – but they are in great shape as they look to exorcise the memory of finishing fourth in 2022.

12. Sun is shiningpublished at 09:31 GMT

    Katie Falkingham
    BBC Sport in Livigno

    Hello from beautiful Livigno!

    It’s a crisp, sunny morning here in the Italian Alps and Olympic fever has hit. I could hear music pounding from the snow park from early this morning – thankfully, my alarm had already gone off…

    Image source, BBC Sport

    Women’s freeski slopestyle qualifying is about to get under way with Kirsty Muir flying the flag for Team GB.

    As with every everything at the snow park, the slopestyle course is HUGE. I took this photo on a walk around the other day, trying to show the scale of the final drop. The only way I’d go down that is sliding on my bum, never mind flip and trick my way off the jump.

    Image source, BBC Sport

13. Tune in!published at 09:30 GMT

    BBC Red Button

    From the calmness of curling to the thrill of freestyle skiing.

    You can now switch over to BBC Red Button to our Olympics Extra stream which is showing the qualifying runs for the women’s freeski slopestyle.

    Team GB medal hopeful Kirsty Muir will be in action very shortly.

14. curling

    Mouat and Dodds’ results and upcoming matchespublished at 09:28 GMT

    Curling – mixed doubles round robin

    Results so far…

    • Great Britain 8-6 Norway
    • Great Britain 10-5 Estonia
    • Czech Republic 7-8 Great Britain
    • Sweden 4-7 Great Britain
    • South Korea 2-8 Great Britain

    And their remaining matches…

    • Canada (Saturday, 09:05 GMT)
    • United States (Saturday,13:35 GMT)
    • Switzerland (Sunday, 13:35 GMT)
    • Italy (Sunday, 18:05 GMT)
15. curling

    Five down, four to go for Mouat and Doddspublished at 09:24 GMT

    Curling – mixed doubles round robin

    Great Britain’s Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds have played five matches so far in the round robin and they’ve got four more to go.

    Their next test is against Canada’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman, who are married.

    The pair won silver at the 2019 World Championships and Gallant was part of the bronze-winning team in the men’s event in Beijing.

    Canada have won three of their four matches so far and sit third in the round robin standings behind United States and leaders Great Britain.

    Image source, Getty Images

16. curling

    How does the mixed doubles work?published at 09:19 GMT

    Curling – mixed doubles round robin

    Richard Winton
    BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

    There are 10 teams, each of whom play nine times in the round robin stage.

    The top four in the standings after that go to the semi-finals on Monday, with the country with the best record playing the fourth best and the second and third facing off.

    The winners of those compete for gold and the losers go for bronze – both on Tuesday.

    Got it?

    

17. curling

    GB’s Mouat and Dodds in actionpublished at 09:15 GMT

    Curling – mixed doubles round robin

    The Winter Olympics might have only just officially begun, but Team GB’s Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds are well into the swing of things.

    The British pair started their bid for an Olympic medal in curling’s mixed doubles on Wednesday and they’ve been in action every day since, competing in the round robin.

    They remain undefeated from their first five games and sit top of the standings.

    But can they keep their streak going? Mouat and Dodds are back on the ice this morning, taking on Canada’s Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman.

    Image source, Getty Images

18. What’s coming up?published at 09:12 GMT

    All times GMT

    Here’s a quick rundown of everything that’s coming up in the next few hours so you can plan your Saturday morning schedule accordingly …

    • 09:05 – Mixed doubles curling – GB v Canada
    • 09:30 – Women’s freeski slopestyle (Qualification)
    • 10:30 – Alpine skiing: Men’s downhill*
    • 11:10 – Ice hockey: Women’s prelim round
    • 12:00 – Cross-country skiing: Women’s 10km + 10km skiathlon

    * medal event

19. Tune inpublished at 09:09 GMT

    BBC Two

    TV coverage of the opening day is just getting started over on BBC Two.

    You can also watch by clicking the icon at the top of this page.

20. San Siro sparkledpublished at 09:06 GMT

    It was a special night at the San Siro as the Games were officially opened.

    Italian tenor singer Andrea Bocell and Mariah Carey stole the headlines as they played their part in an impressive production that went off without a hitch.

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