Great Britain's Tabby Stoecker will follow world champion Kimberley Bos down the track.

The 32-year-old Dutchwoman went +0.66 slower than current leader Janine Flock (57.22).

John Jackson
Two-time Olympic bobsledder on BBC One

That's a sensational run. 77mph down the bottom but we've got track-record ice conditions - the sun is out, decent temperature, good conditions. I don't think this will be the fastest run yet.

Austria's former European champion Janine Flock gets run one of the women's skeleton under way.

She sets the pace with a time of 57.22 - a new track record.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Another takeout attempt doesn't come off for Team GB and that's another steal for South Korea, who now edge four points clear with three ends to play.

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• Run one – 15:00
• Run two – 16:48

In run one, GB’s Tabby Stoecker will be third down the track, with Amelia Coltman ninth and Freya Tarbit 11th.

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Team GB’s Tabby Stoecker will be eyeing a spot on the podium but it’s a stacked field.

Kim Meylemans (Belgium) is the reigning European and World Cup champion, finishing on the podium in six of this season’s seven races. The 29-year-old, who also earned a silver medal at the 2024 World Championships, is aiming to win Belgium's first-ever skeleton medal.

Germany’s Jacqueline Pfeifer is a former Youth Olympic champion and won Olympic silver in 2018. She also won this season’s World Cup race in Cortina ahead of compatriot Hannah Neise and Meylemans.

Neise, 25, is the reigning Olympic champion.

Also in the field are the top three from last year’s World Championships in Kimberley Bos (Netherlands) – who won bronze in Beijing, Mystique Ro (USA), and Anna Fernstaedt (Czechia).

British skeleton racer Tabby Stoecker is aiming to follow in the sled path of Lizzy Yarnold and Amy Williams by winning an Olympic gold medal in one of the fastest sports in Milan-Cortina.

The 25-year old credits her time at circus school, learning juggling and the flying trapeze, for giving her the confidence to take on the challenge of skeleton.

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Tabby Stoecker’s career trajectory is only going in one direction: up.

The 25-year-old finished 10th in her debut World Cup campaign (2023-24) and seventh the following season before finishing an impressive third in 2025-26, making her the first British woman since former Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold (2015) to finish on the overall podium.

Stoecker won a silver medal at January’s European Championships and is also a two-time world silver medallist in the mixed team event.

Former long jumper Freya Tarbit finished in the overall top 10 in the World Cup in 2024-25 and is a former World Junior Championship bronze medallist.

Amelia Coltman was studying at Sheffield Hallam when she put her name down “last-minute” for a test event and hasn’t looked back since.

She came third at the 2024 European Championships, second the following year, and has finished in the overall top 10 in the past two World Cup seasons.

Colin Furze explains the science behind the skeleton race.

Skeleton sliders start off by running and pushing their sledge before launching themselves onto it and racing head-first down the track at 80mph+.

How do they steer, you ask? With slight movements of their shoulders, knees and legs.

The sliders complete four runs down the 1,400m track in Cortina across two days, with the fastest aggregate time determining the winner.

The women will complete two runs this afternoon and two on Saturday.

The men completed their first two runs on Thursday, with the gold medal up for grabs this evening.

There's also a mixed team event making its Olympic debut in Milan-Cortina, with one woman and one man per team sliding down the course once each. That will take place on Sunday, with Matt Weston and Tabby Stoecker representing Great Britain.

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We’re gearing up for a huge afternoon/evening of skeleton racing at Cortina Sliding Centre.

Later on, Great Britain’s Matt Weston will go for gold in the men’s skeleton, with team-mate Marcus Wyatt also in the hunt for a medal.

But first up, it’s the first two runs in the women’s event, with three Brits – Tabby Stoecker, Amelia Coltman, and Freya Tarbit – among the 25-strong field.

• 15:00 GMT – Women’s skeleton run one
• 16:48 – Women’s skeleton run two
• 18:30 – Men’s skeleton run three
• 20:05 – Men’s skeleton run four (gold medal run)

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

It's another end of near misses for Team GB. Rebecca Morrison's double takeout attempt somehow doesn't quite come off and the Koreans manage to eke three points out of that end. Suddenly, things are looking grave.

There are still four gold medals to be won on day seven.

• 15:00-16:30 - Speed skating men's 10000m
• 18:00-21:30 - Figure skating (men's singles free skating)
• 18:30-21:00 - Men's skeleton - featuring GB's Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt
• 18:30-20:30 - Men's snowboard halfpipe final

Plus there's the first two runs in the women's skeleton from 15:00, with Team GB's Tabby Stoecker, Amelia Coltman, and Freya Tarbit in action.

And Jen Dodds' Great Britain are currently in curling action against South Korea - you can follow that match live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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Nobody could doubt how hard Andrew Musgrave tried to win his first Winter Olympics medal in his fifth Games. Having to stop mid-interview to vomit was as vivid an illustration of that as anything.

The 35-year-old Scot finished sixth in the 10km interval start freestyle to post Britain's best finish in a Winter Olympic cross-country skiing event.

Musgrave reckoned he could have finished fourth, but too much heat and too many Norwegians counted against him in Tesero in the north of Italy.

Besides, fourth doesn't afford you a medal anyway, so sixth means just the same.

"I went out, did the first two laps super well and everything went to plan," Musgrave told BBC Sport.

Read more about Musgrave's dramas on our website.

• Bruce Mouat's Great Britain lost 9-7 to Italy in their men's curling round-robin match
• Noways's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won a record-equalling eighth Winter Olympic gold in cross-country skiing, winning the men's 10km. Britain's Andrew Musgrave came sixth
• Britain's former world champion Charlotte Bankes was eliminated in the snowboard cross quarter-finals, with Australia's Josie Baff taking gold
• France's Quentin Fillon Maillet won his second gold of the Games, winning the biathlon men's 10km sprint

Vicky Wright
Olympic gold medallist curler on BBC Two

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It's been a far stronger start to the game for GB. Yesterday they were very defensive, but today they have thrown more technical shots and they look more confident out there today.

Momentum is huge in curling. GB got that last point in the fifth end and they'll want to reset and believe they have the upper hand.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

This is all quite similar to yesterday's game with China for Team GB. We're evenly-poised at the interval after a scrappy first five ends.

The difference today is that the Scottish quartet have been a bit more aggressive with their shots and, so far, they are being rewarded.