Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Bruce Mouat had a sniff of three there, but Italy held firm to stem their losses. Still, it's two for Team GB and we're back to a one-point game again with two ends to play.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

The crowd in the Cortina Curling Stadium was pretty sparse when this match started, but it's absolutely bouncing in here now.

The Italian fans have got the horns, bells and all sorts going and the noise is just rolling down from the wooden bleachers. It's tremendous.

Vicky Wright
Olympic gold medallist curler on BBC Two

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I think the big difference between positions in the two sides is the thirds.

Grant Hardie is outplaying Amos Mosaner by 10% - if he can make a difference there, force an error out of him, the opportunities might come for GB.

I think Daniel's comment was more just praising the effort of the British athletes, Nico, rather than being disrespectful of medal winners from other nations.

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That's the first seeding run completed in the women's snowboard cross and it is ninth spot for Britain's Charlotte Bankes who made a couple of mistakes during her run but will probably be happy overall.

Eva Adamczykova of the Czech Republic tops the standings while France's Lea Casta and Chloe Trespeuch and Italy's Michela Moioli, who are all leading challengers, also finished in the top 10.

The second seeding run (for those who finished 21st-32nd) is underway with the knockout phase starting at 12:30.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Italy claim a couple and Team GB have a fair bit of work to do in the final three ends if they are to salvage this contest.

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Cortina

Yesterday, Matt Weston underlined his status as the world's best skeleton pilot by setting the track record on his way to taking a significant halfway lead at the Winter Olympics.

The two-time world champion - Team GB's biggest medal hope in Milan-Cortina -put down a statement second run to open an advantage of 0.30 seconds over the field, with two medal-deciding runs to come on Friday.

Weston was the only slider under 56 seconds as he clocked 55.88secs in heat two, to add to his 56.21secs in run one on the new Cortina sliding track.

"I was quite annoyed after the first run. I tried to be a bit too relaxed because I tried to over-compensate for race-day nerves," Weston said.

"It's pretty crazy [to be the overnight leader] but I take every run as run one. I will completely reset myself, switch off for a bit and then re-focus on Friday."

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.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

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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

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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."

So busy in fact that we need two posts to update you because there were nine golds given out!

• Australia's Cooper Woods takes gold on tie-breaker ahead of Canada's Mikael Kingsbury in men's mogul
• Frida Karlsson storms to victory in women's 10km cross-country skiing as part of Swedish one-two
• Alessandro Haemmerle of Austria retains his Olympic snowboard cross title in dramatic style
• Germany won the mixed team luge, with Austria second and Italy third. Ukraine's team took a knee in solidarity with team-mate Heraskevych
• Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands won women's 500m gold after setting a world record in the semi-final. Italy's claimed silver - her 13th Olympic medal - and Canada's Courtney Sarault took bronze.
• It was double Dutch as Jens van 't Wout won 1000m gold, China's Long Sun took silver and 18-year-old Rim Jong-un of Korea won bronze.