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1. curling

   Postpublished at 09:49 GMT

   Curling – GB men 4-5 Italy

   Richard Winton
   BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

   So this is Team GB’s third round-robin match, having won their opening two.

   Seven victories from their nine games will guarantee a place in the semi-finals – fewer may well still be sufficient – so Bruce Mouat’s rink will still be in decent shape regardless of how this turns out.

2. curling

   Postpublished at 09:43 GMT

   Curling – GB men 4-5 Italy

   Richard Winton
   BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

   Image source, EPA

   Italy have blanked that sixth end, so the score remains as it was and the hosts retain the hammer. On to the seventh…

3. Was the IOC right to ban Heraskevych?published at 09:40 GMT

   Watch our handy video explainer that gives you the lowdown on yesterday’s big story – the IOC’s decision to ban Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing in the skeleton for his refusal to change his special helmet featuring artwork depicting Ukrainian athletes killed during the Russian invasion.

4. Get involvedpublished at 09:36 GMT

   Use ‘Get involved’ to have your say

   With the way things have been going so far,we just need to be solid and consistent. The fine margins are letting us down. If Matt and Charlotte can keep out of trouble, we just might find that little bit of luck we need. If there were medals for sheer effort, we’d be right up there.

   Daniel, Isle of Wight

5. curling

   Meet Mouat’s wee pal… Olypublished at 09:33 GMT

   Curling – GB men 4-5 Italy

   Richard Winton
   BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

   This is Bruce Mouat’s wee pal Oly, who was knitted by his mum Marie before the Beijing Games. He was in China and he’s here in Italy, too.

   Image source, Bruce Mouat

6. Johnson caps medal by getting engagedpublished at 09:31 GMT

   Alpine skiing women’s super-G

   Image source, Getty Images

   It’s been quite the Winter Olympics for skier Breezy Johnson of the USA. A downhill gold medal on Sunday was followed by an engagement yesterday.

   Johnson crashed out during the women’s Super-G earlier, but that might just have been forgotten when her partner Connor Watkins proposed at the base of the Super-G run in Cortina d’Ampezzo.

   Watkins presented Johnson with an engagement ring featuring a blue stone and a silver band, in a box with a Taylor Swift lyric engraved on the back: “Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?”

   “His words were so beautiful, and I echoed so much of what he said, and so I was just crying and thinking about how much I love him,” Johnson said.

   “I was feeling kind of stupid, which is the moment that you want the people you love around you, when you’re just feeling dumb and childish. ‘Tell me that I’m OK.’ Just seeing him, I was like, ‘yeah, it’s nice to see you, and let’s go commiserate a little bit together’, and then obviously everything else happened.”

   So, was she expecting the proposal?

   “I had told him that I always dreamed of getting proposed to at the Olympics, so I had an inkling.”

   She said yes, by the way.

7. curling

   Team GB pull another one backpublished at 09:29 GMT

   Curling – GB men 4-5 Italy

   Richard Winton
   BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

   Team GB are uncorking the good stuff here as they try to get back into this contest.

   Bruce Mouat delivers another fine final stone – helped by the ferocious sweeping of Hammy McMillan and Bobby Lammie – and Italy can’t do anything about it with their last throw. So we’re back to a one-point game at the break.

8. Postpublished at 09:27 GMT

   BBC One

   Today’s coverage is already well under way on BBC One, so get the telly on and settle in!

   Or you can click ‘Watch live’ at the top of this page.

9. What’s coming up on day seven?published at 09:25 GMT

   All times GMT

   If you’re looking forward to a day of winter sport action, here’s what Milan-Cortina has in store for you.

   • Now – Curling: Men’s round robin (including Great Britain v Italy)
   • Now – Snowboard: Women’s snowboard cross
   • 11:10 – Ice hockey: Men’s preliminary rounds
   • 13:05 – Curling: Women’s round robin (including Great Britain v Korea)
   • 15:00 – Skeleton – Women’s heats one and two
   • 15:40 – Ice hockey: Women’s quarter-finals
   • 18:00 – Figure skating: Men – free skate
   • 18:30 – Skeleton: Men’s heats three and four
   • 18:30 – Snowboard: Men’s halfpipe final

10. Kim ‘proud for landing a run and walking away with a medal’published at 09:23 GMT

    Image source, Getty Images

    The big story of Thursday was seventeen-year-old Choi Ga-on denying American great Chloe Kim snowboarding history in the halfpipe final.

    Kim had been hoping to become the first snowboarder – male or female – to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals.

    But as heavy snow fell in Livigno, South Korean Choi usurped Kim at the top of the standings with 90.25 points from her final run, a score the 25-year-old could not better on her last attempt.

    “Tonight was really crazy,” said Kim. “The whole time I’m just like, ‘I’m so happy I’m here’. It wasn’t looking too good for me before I came out. Just proud of myself for landing a run and walking away with a medal.

    “Today might’ve been my eighth day on snow this entire winter. I haven’t been able to practise as much as I would’ve liked. Just proud of myself for putting it down today.”

    On her shoulder injury, she added: “I’ll be going home and getting surgery on it. It’s quite unstable. Just happy that we’re here.”

13. Postpublished at 09:18 GMT

    Right, before we go any further, let’s have a quick look back at what happened on day six and what we have to look forward to for the rest of the day…

14. curling

    Mind your languagepublished at 09:17 GMT

    Curling – GB men 3-5 Italy

    Richard Winton
    BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

    You’ve probably noticed that the curlers all have microphones on, ostensibly so we can hear them discussing their tactics. But, boys being boys and this being a high-pressured environment, sometimes a few wee swearies can slip out.

    “You forget it about it a lot of the time,” says Bobby Lammie. “Then you say something you shouldn’t…”

    As the team’s alternate, Kyle Waddell is unlikely to make it on to the ice, but he had some advice for his pals. “You just drop a Scottish slang swear word. You’ll get away with a few more of them.”

15. Postpublished at 09:15 GMT

    Snowboarding – women’s snowboard cross

    In Livigno, Charlotte Bankes puts down a solid display in her first seeding run.

    The 30-year-old former world champion, who is competing at her fourth Olympics, was eighth of the 32 athletes to go and clocked a time of one minute 14.31 seconds to leave her fifth fastest so far.

    We will see how the rest of the field fares but that should be enough to keep her in the top 20 seeds before the knockout rounds, which start at 12:30.

16. ‘GB can definitely get back in this game’published at 09:12 GMT

    Curling – GB men 3-5 Italy

    Vicky Wright
    Olympic gold medallist curler on BBC Two

    Losing that first end was very unfortunate, but GB haven’t been far away so far.

    They have been an inch out on some shots that has cost them. If they sharpen up, they can definitely get back in this game.

17. curling

    Postpublished at 09:11 GMT

    Curling – GB men 3-5 Italy

    Richard Winton
    BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

    Hold that thought… a fabulous final shot by Bruce Mouat gives Team GB a guaranteed point and potentially two in the fourth end.

    The British lads think they’ve got a second point, and the big compass is out… they have indeed scored two to thrust themselves right back into this contest.

18. Bankes aims to make it fourth time luckypublished at 09:10 GMT

    Snowboarding – women’s snowboard cross

    Image source, Getty Images

    The Winter Olympics have not been a particularly happy huntingground for Britain’s Charlotte Bankes but she will be hoping to put that right here.

    The 30-year-old has competed at three previous Games (twicefor France) but is yet to make the final although she is a former worldchampion and a two-time World Cup Crystal Globe winner.

    Bankes is back to full fitness after a collarbone injury andwon a World Cup race in China in January

    Among her rivals will be French duo Lea Casta, who only turned 20 on Tuesday and won theCrystal Globe last season, and Chloe Trespeuch who will be hoping to win another medal after taking bronze in 2014 and silver in 2022 buta first since becoming a mother in December 2024 while Italy’s reigning world champion and 2018 Olympic championMichela Moioli will also be a danger.

19. What is snowboard cross?published at 09:08 GMT

    Snowboarding – women’s snowboard cross

    Image source, Getty Images

    After the excitement of the men’s snowboard cross onThursday, attention now switches to the women’s event and Britain has a live medal hope in Charlotte Bankes.

    The first of two seeding runs has started – we’ll update you on how Bankes is doing shortly – with the second tocome at 09:55 followed by the knockout rounds from 12:30 and the big final forthe gold medal at 13:41.

    The event sees racers going down a course full of jumps andbumps

    The top 20 women after the first seeding run are givenseedings for the knockout phase while the remaining 12 do a second run todetermine the other positions.

    Knockout rounds comprise heats of four riders with the toptwo per race to qualify for the next round before the four successfulsemi-finalists compete for the medals in the ‘big final’.

20. Postpublished at 09:07 GMT

    Not ideal then so far in the curling. Plenty of time to turn it around, though.

    Meanwhile, Team GB will hope for better in the women’s snowboard cross, which has begun with the first seeding run…