Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Sloppy end that by GB, but they get away with it. Lukas Klima thinks he's got a sniff of three, but Bruce Mouat produces a stunning throw of his own and the Czechs opt to blank the end instead.

Hang on, though, Grant Hardie is at the capers here... he's requested the measuring stick to determine whether a stone that the Czechs thought was outside the house is actually in. It's not. And the big compass proves it.

Quarter-final 1: Netherlands and Kazakhstan

Quarter-final 2: China and Japan

Quarter-final 3: Germany and USA

Quarter-final 4: Canada and Belgium

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Canada are the reigning Olympic champions, benefitting from a slip from Japan’s Nana Takagi in the final lap in Beijing to pinch the gold medal. Their team of Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais, and Isabelle Weidemann have finished on the podium at the past three World Championships, winning gold (2023), silver (2024), and bronze (2025).

Japan were Olympic champions in 2018, won silver four years later, have finished on the podium in all three of this season’s World Cup races, and hold the team pursuit world record.

Netherlands have only won one Olympic gold (2014) since team pursuit was introduced into the Olympics in 2006 but did make the podium in 2018 (silver) and 2022 (bronze). Joy Beune, Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong and Marijke Groenewoud are the reigning world champions.

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Coming up from 15:00 GMT, it’s speed skating and the women’s team pursuit quarter-finals.

Eight teams are competing for four spots in Tuesday’s semi-finals across four heats.

However, it’s not necessarily the winner of each heat who will advance. The quarter-finals work like a team time trial, with the four fastest teams going through to the semi-finals.

Two teams of three skaters begin from opposite sides of the track and the first team with all three skaters across the finish line – or to overtake the other team – wins. In the women’s pursuit, the teams race for six laps of the 400m track.

Emma Smith
BBC Sport at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena

The second match at Santagiulia this afternoon is between two teams with very different Olympic histories.

Reigning Olympic champions Finland began their campaign by losing 4-1 to Slovakia before beating Sweden by the same score line.

A win here could see them snatch a place in the quarter-finals - avoiding the play-off round - as the best second place side in the group stages.

Meanwhile hosts Italy have lost both their games but are performing creditably, losing only 3-2 to the Slovaks on Friday.

This is their first Olympic men's ice hockey tournament since they last hosted the Games in 2006. Their best ever finish is seventh - at Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956, the first time Italy hosted.

A new leader! Maren Kirkeeide has nothing left to give as she crosses the line and the Norwegian needs help from her team-mate to get her skis off.

But soon the smile comes. She knows she's about to win gold. No one is going to beat her time of 20 minutes 40.80 seconds.

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Here comes Italy's Lisa Vittozzi across the finish line. She bossed the shooting range, but she tired on the skis towards the end and it won't be enough for a medal.

Oceane Michelon of France has the time to beat with 20 minutes 44 seconds, while her compatriot Lou Jeanmonnot is in the silver-medal position.

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Cortina

Tabitha Stoecker sits in fifth place before this evening's medal-deciding lot of women's skeleton heats.

After some brilliant training runs earlier this week, where she clocked some of the fastest times, she'll be hoping to get herself among the medal positions tonight.

And she's got Fred the sled to help her do that...

"The very first time I slid we were all making jokes about what to name the sled and obviously the first name that came to mind obviously was Fred because it rhymes with sled and it just stuck," she told BBC Sport.

"So all the different sleds I've had over my career they've all been Fred and it's just Fred one, two, three, four and so on."

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A loud cheer from the home crowd as Italy's Lisa Vittozzi goes 10 for 10 on the range. No penalty laps for her.

What a story that would be. An Italian athlete has never won Olympic gold in biathlon.

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Two missed shots at the range from Frenchwoman Julia Simon! She's already bagged two gold medals at these Games, but surely that's her chances of a third over.

She'll have to do two laps of the 150m penalty track now.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Bruce Mouat is struggling with that seventh stone. It's a live one. In layman's terms, it curls too much so is hard to control.

Team GB do have the option to shuffle it to a different position in the order and Grant Hardie is ruefully telling Mouat that's what they should have done before now.

Still, Mouat has a stone to take one from the end and delivers it perfectly to open up a three-point lead at the interval.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Italy

No ice track, and yet the most successful nation in Olympic skeleton history.

Make it make sense.

But as Matt Weston won his historic gold on Friday, he joined a long line of British skeleton athletes to have taken his place on a Winter Olympics podium.

After Amy Williams and Lizzy Yarnold - twice - he is the first man to stand on the top step, and brings the sport's total medal haul to 10 with chances for that number to grow still at these Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Weston - also a two-time world champion - thinks the fact Britain has achieved such success with no track is probably "quite infuriating" for other nations. For Yarnold, it's Team GB's "superpower".

"What the Brits are really good at is that when we turn up a track, you have six practice runs before the race, so six minutes of practice," she told BBC Sport.

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Brazil had never won a medal at a Winter Games.

But that all changed earlier this afternoon when Lucas Pinheiro Braathen speeded down the slopes in the men's giant slalom

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So there are 45 biathletes out on the course now and another 46 waiting at the start line - including Team GB's Shawna Pendry.

While they wait, Ukraine's Oleksandra Merkushyna is the first to cross the finish line, but she will have a lengthy wait to see where she ends up in the standings.

The top seeds are yet to start.

Steve Cram
Curling commentator on BBC One

Great Britain's first two in Hammy McMillan and Bobby Lammie have been outplaying the Czech first two.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Lukas Klima is producing all kind of trick shots to keep his Czech rink in this contest. A double-takeout, then a draw, salvages a point from and end in which it looked like Team GB could steal two or three.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

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It’s a small world, British curling. Grant Hardie and Hammy McMillan in the Team GB men’s rink are cousins. Hammy’s dad went to the 1992 and 2002 Games.

Team-mate Bobby Lammie is from the Stranraer area in south west Scotland, too. He went to school with Vicky Wright, who won women’s gold in 2022 and is part of the BBC’s commentary team in Cortina.

She’s married to Greg Drummond, the national team coach, and was introduced to the elite end of the sport by 2022 team-mate Jen Dodds. Dodds is part of the women’s team here and came so close to a medal with Bruce Mouat in the mixed. Those two have known each other since they were primary school age, too….

Emma Smith
BBC Sport at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena

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It has finished Sweden 5-3 Slovakia here - but the Slovakian players and fans are the ones celebrating.

It's a little complicated, but if Finland beat Italy in regulation time later, then the Finns, Swedes and Slovaks will all have six points.

In that case, it will come down to goal differential between those three nations. Thanks to Dalibor Dvorsky's late third goal for the Slovaks, they now have a superior record in that little triangle.

Slovakia beat Finland 4-1, then Finland beat Sweden 4-1. By only losing by two goals, the Slovaks have the best record if you only consider those three nations.

So Slovakia are currently below Sweden in the table - but if Finland win later, the Slovaks move top of Group B and progress to the quarter-finals.

Got all that?

Vicky Wright
Olympic gold medallist curler on BBC One

Great Britain look really relaxed out there.

Bobby Lammie is having the perfect game so far.