Here's how the podium-places are looking after the first run...

• GOLD - Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) - 47.13 seconds
• SILVER - Lena Duerr (Ger) - 47.95 seconds
• BRONZE - Cornelia Oehlund (Swe) - 48.13 seconds

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Cortina

Is it finally Mikaela Shiffrin’s time to do it on the big stage?

Having dominated the World Cup season with seven wins in eight races she just hasn’t managed to translate that so far here in Cortina.

It was a disappointing result in the team combined, fourth place alongside downhill champion Breezy Johnson, while she finished 11th in the giant slalom.

It didn’t happen for her in Beijing four years ago either, where she had a couple of DNFs.

Is it time for her to reclaim the slalom title she won in 2014? Her first run certainly suggested so.

It's time. Can Mikaela Shiffrin end her Olympic gold-medal drought?

She's in the best possible position - 0.82 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. The American just needs to get through this next run.

Shiffrin will be the last to go.

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Australia's Danielle Scott was one of the medal favourites coming into this event and she leads the way after the first jumps of the final.

A brilliant 117.19 gives her a bit of a cushion at the top with the Chinese trio of Kong Fanyu (113.33), Xu Mengtao (107.75) and Shao Qi (105.93) just behind her.

Canada's Marion Thenault (103.89) is fifth and Winter Vinecki (99.89) is in the final qualification spot for Final 2 as things stand.

One more jump each to go, though.

I don't fancy giving aerials a go - I'm too afraid of heights - but I'd quite like to whizz along on this conveyor belt contraption that takes the athletes to the top of the slope...

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Graham Bell
Five-time Olympic skier on BBC Two

Aerials is more like diving. [The tricks] are more like gymnastics or diving; standard, body straight, on axis.

With big air, the rotations are more like what you'd see in half pipe skateboarding, they are off axis, more corked rotations.

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If you missed it earlier, Team GB's women's curling team claimed victory from the jaws of defeat against the USA to keep alive their hopes of reaching the semi-finals.

Rebecca Morrison's rink head into another must-win meeting with bottom-of-the-table Japan later on Wednesday (18:05 GMT) before facing second-bottom Italy on Thursday (13:05).

The final of the women's aerials is up now...

Athletes launch themselves 20m into the air off a ramp at up to 45mph and are judged on their take-off, height, distance, tricks and landing.

In the final, there are two phases and only the top six skiers advance to the second phase.

Scores aren't carried over from one phase to the next, so it's the best score from the second jumps that will determine who gets a medal.

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Jenny Jones
Olympic bronze medallist snowboarder on BBC Two

After the 2022 games, Su Yiming took a whole year off. When he came back, he just did it for fun and rode with his coach, they just rode around and enjoyed snowboarding.

I think that really put the fire back in him when he came back to competing, having that energy and enthusiasm to want to learn more tricks.

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It's quarter-finals day in the men's ice hockey, and the first one is already under way in Milan.

It's Slovakia 1-0 Germany as they enter the second period. And here's how the rest of the day looks...

• Canada v Czech Republic (15:40 GMT)
• Finland v Switzerland (17:10)
• USA v Sweden (20:10)

Jenny Jones
Olympic bronze medallist snowboarder on BBC Two

It was absolutely well deserved. For Su Yiming to put it down straight out of the gate was incredible, normally it just gets pipped by someone else in the second or the third run. It looked so smooth, it was really technical and clean. It fully deserved the gold.

Hats off to him for keeping his calm, and attempting more in the others, but everyone else just couldn't catch him. Overall, it was incredible.

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

After difficult practice sessions for Su Yiming, Taiga Hasegawa and Jake Canter, we have our podium.

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

It would have been a tragedy if we hadn't seen Marcus Kleveland at his best in this final. That's all you want when you have someone as talented as him. It was like trying to hypnotise an 800 kilogram prized bull running at you, you have to keep your cool in that moment...

But Jake Canter has survived the biggest challenge yet.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

You could hear a pin drop at the snow park while Marcus Kleveland was waiting for his score then.

My word, the tension! His heart must have been beating out of his chest.

Marcus Kleveland of Norway with a brilliant run and it looks for all the world that he is going to make the medal places.

It is a long, long, long wait but, finally, the score comes in... and he's fourth! So close but his 78.98 sees him fall 0.4 short of third.

Jake Canter of the USA is in the bronze medal position and he could barely watch as everyone waited for the judges' score. Relief for the American in the end.

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It's not to be for Mark McMorris. The Canadian goes down trying to land a big trick on the penultimate jump.

Big hit and he bounces up off the slope.

The 32-year-old is still able to smile as he walks off and receives huge applause from the current top three as he goes past.

Make that three to go.

Superb technical run from Japan's Ryoma Kimata - it looked like it was going to be big... but he goes down at the last.

Here comes Mark McMorris. What has the Canadian, at his fourth Games, got?

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Five riders to go. Still plenty of big-hitters to try and snatch that gold medal off China's Su Yiming.

First up is Canada's Cam Spalding but a very early error takes him out of the running.

Four to go...