So who could realistically challenge American Chloe Kim?

Sara Shimizu of Japan is just 16 but has plenty of experience. She won silver at the 2025 World Championships and win last month's X Games.

She also won a World cup event last year from a field which included Kim.

South Korea's Choi Ga-on, 17, is another teenage snowboarding sensation.

Aged 14 she broke Kim's record as youngest X Games gold medallist. She's won all three World Cup events she's taken part in this season.

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Emma Smith
BBC Sport in Milan

An update now on the news story that has dominated this day at Milan-Cortina 2026.

Vladyslav Heraskevych has made an urgent appeal against the decision to ban him from competing at the Games to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Heraskevych wished to compete in the men's skeleton today while wearing a special helmet featuring artwork depicting Ukrainian athletes killed during the Russian invasion.

But the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said this contravened the Olympic charter – the rules and bylaws for the organisation of the Games – and after he refused to not wear the helmet, told Heraskevych he could not race.

CAS can hold ad-hoc committees during the Games, meaning his appeal will be heard immediately - although BBC Sport understands there is currently no timeframe for a decision.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Another end and another blank by Team GB. So we stay 0-0 and the British team keep the hammer.

BBC Two

Want to watch the halfpipe action live? Well we're on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer with our first competitor about to set off.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

Chloe Kim is a legend of her sport - despite being just 25.

She has three halfpipe World Championship titles, eight X Games golds, and if she wins tonight, she'll become the first rider - male or female - to win three consecutive gold medals at the Winter Olympics.

But her build-up to these Games has hardly been ideal.

She has hardly competed this season and in January dislocated her shoulder and tore her shoulder labrum in what she herself described as the "silliest fall" on the pipe while training in Switzerland.

She's competing in a brace to keep her shoulder in position - and yet still topped qualification yesterday with a score of 90.25.

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Athletes have three runs and compete in reverse order of their qualification score. The best score from a single run in the final determines medals and placings.

In the picture is American Chloe Kim, she's hoping for three gold medals in a row at this event tonight.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Team GB blank the first end against last year's world bronze medallists. They were only going to score one anyway, so perhaps no harm in giving that up and keeping the hammer. Means they get to throw last in the second end, too.

Right we're going to slide from one event to another. GB women's curling match with China has just got going.

And the women's snowboarding halfpipe is set to begin in about 10 minute's time.

John Hunt
Sliding commentator on BBC Two

Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt now have a total of eight Olympic medals, what an amazing end to their careers.

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Cortina

The finish house gets pretty packed with these sliding events, particularly this team one!

Once they have finished their run the teams gather around screens to watch their fellow competitors and it’s a lively atmosphere with everyone cheering each other on.

Germany, the dominant force in these sliding sports, take the gold medal and all pile on each other on the track.

I always think it must be so fun to compete in these events when usually you’re flying solo - quite literally.

Off we go! Germany push off to start the final run of the mixed relay final.

Can they beat Austria's time? You can watch their run on BBC Red Button and at the top of this page.

John Hunt
Sliding commentator on BBC Two

Italy have won themselves a fourth medal in luge this week. They are just happy to get a medal here, not all of them got a medal in the other events earlier in the week.

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Austria are the new leaders in the mixed luge with Italy second and Latvia third.

Only Germany are left to go.

Meanwhile USA's Sophia Kirkby just showed off her gloves with messages from her parents written on them after competing in the mixed relay.

Team USA are fourth.

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Cortina

Team Ukraine have just taken a picture in the competition area, holding up the Ukrainian flag and their helmets aloft in solidarity with their compatriot Vladyslav Heraskevych.

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Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

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Team GB's women curlers finally get their campaign underway in Cortina tonight and have "several versions of what success looks like" but are dreaming of a medal, says lead Rebecca Morrison.

Britain are the defending champions in the event after winning gold in Beijing four years ago, but only Jen Dodds remains from that rink.

Consequently, they're not considered among the favourites, but European silver in November, following on from a sixth-place finish in the Worlds earlier in the year, suggests they're not far away.

"We've talked about this as a team and we would love to come away with a medal," Morrison told BBC Sport. "We know that's a huge ask, so we've also been very real and said we're not measuring success by a medal.

"If we play amazingly and are happy with our performance, we don't want to come away and feel devastated just because we don't have some hardware."

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Cortina

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Well we thought the Ukrainian luge team might make some sort of statement this evening and they have.

The team of six athletes took a knee and raised their helmets above their head at the end of their run after their friend and team-mate Vladyslav Heraskevych and was banned from competition this morning.

Team Ukraine are currently going well and sit in second place.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

Often, that question delivers dreary answers. But not with this bunch.

Let's start with Rebecca Morrison. She used to travel everywhere with a toy Shrek that had her own face pasted on to it. It's not with her in Italy, but she's has brought "some yarn and a crochet hook... it was fine at customs because it's not too stabby".

Sophie Sinclair has her piglet hot water bottle, which she's had since childhood and sleeps with every night. Jen Dodds brought her dressing gown and slippers. And Sophie Jackson has a Christmas teddy bear that her mum bought her last year.

Bruce Mouat spoke to BBC Sport after victory against Sweden: "All four of us were shooting well and it's really nice to see. We haven't trained together for a month, so to come back like this with the flow is exactly what we wanted."

On the noisy atmosphere in the arena: "We are having a great time, our family and friends are all here so they're probably contributing to that! But the German spectators are probably the loudest I have ever heard. It is quite cool to be a part of it."

Grant Hardie added: "Everbody keeps reminding us that they beat us in the last Olympic final! We had that motivation to beat them first time. We're quite fortunate that Niklas [Edin] had an off day and we took advantage of that. We were quite relentless today, all four of us were close to the top of our game and it made it very difficult for him to make the shots he had to make."

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John Hunt
Sliding commentator on BBC Two

That was one of the worst mistakes down the ramp we've seen. You can see how much speed was knocked out of the sled when it banged into the wall.

In this event it just takes one mistake and the whole team is out of it. It's like in a running relay when someone drops the baton, you can just pack your bags and go home after that.