Uh oh, Italy's Valentina Margaglio's start is under review. Is that going to be the first penalty of the night? It is! She gets 0.93 added to her time (0.5 seconds plus the time of the early start) and that's this pair's hopes up in smoke.

They finish with a combined time of 2:01.96 - good enough for fifth place after six pairs.

China's Yuxin Liang and Qinwei Lin remain in the lead with a time of 2:00.66.

Up next, it's the world champions - Mystique Ro and Austin Florian (USA).

As expected, with the pairs ranked from lowest to highest, the lead changes hands again.

China's Yuxin Liang and Qinwei Lin go into the gold medal position with a time of 2:00.66 - 0.77 faster than USA and a new track record. We'll see that broken half a dozen or more times tonight.

All of the runs have been pretty clean so far - no big collisions - but all of the sliders have been cautious out of the blocks with those false start penalties looming large.

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Get ready for some Olympic history - women's large hill is making its debut in Olympic ski jumping.

While the slope is the same as the normal hill event, on the large hill the start gate and take-off point are higher up meaning athletes jump further.

Nika Prevc, the 20-year-old reigning world champion in both disciplines, was clearly disappointed to take only silver in normal hill but had a smile back on her face when helping Slovenia win gold in the mixed team event - she jumps last in the first round.

Norway’s Anna Odine Strom (fourth last to jump) pipped Prevc by just 1.1 points in the normal hill and will try to once again get the better of this season’s World Cup leader.

30 of the 50 competitors will make it through to the final round (18:57 GMT).

The first of two American teams are the fourth pair down the track.

Kelly Curtis and Daniel Barefoot both slow down towards the back end of the course but have enough time in the bank to take the lead.

They finish in 2:01.43, putting them 0.15 seconds ahead of Denmark.

Amelia Coltman
Team GB skeleton racer

I totally believe in all four of our athletes, I think they are going to smash it and they are all in the form of their lives.

I just nipped in to the changing rooms at the top and they were all laying down, very zen with their eyes closed. They were all really chilled out and I think they are in a really good headspace to perform.

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Rasmus Vestergaard Johansen is the red for most of his run but a fast finish puts Denmark into the lead!

Brother and sister pairing Nanna Johansen and Vestergaard Johansen are 0.08 seconds faster than Latvia.

The new time to beat is 2:01.58.

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Cortina

Wow, this reaction thing is actually proving a lot more tricky than it first seemed.

The athletes so far have been a little bit hesitant about setting off, clearly concerned about going too soon and incurring that penalty.

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"Go, go, go" yells Canada's coach as Josip Brusic sets off but it's not a good run.

Jane Channell was a shade quicker than her Latvian counterpart but Brusic can only post a time of 1:01.07, leaving Canada +0.98 in second.

Latvia keep the lead. The time to beat is still 2:01.66.

The question is, Ian, which Winter Olympic event do you think Paddington would be best at?

Latvia's teenagers safely avoid any false start drama and post a combined time of 2:01.66.

Marta Andzane slid down the track in 1:01.67. Emils Indriksons dips under a minute - 59.99.

Next up, it's Canada's Jane Channell and Josip Brusic.

Amelia Coltman
Team GB skeleton racer

This event is brand new, never seen in the Olympics before and is another medal opportunity.

It is totally different to the individual event. The mixed team race is done on a reaction start. If you make a false start, it's really difficult to make it back up with the sliding.

Latvia's Marta Andzane and Emils Indriksons will set the pace in this skeleton mixed team final.

Off we go!

Lizzy Yarnold
Two-time Olympic skeleton champion on BBC Two

The two British teams will run fourth from last (Wyatt and Tarbit) and last (Weston and Stoecker). That means they are some of the best because they run from the lowest to the highest rank.

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Cortina

One thing to remember this evening is that if there is a false start - where the male athlete sets off before the light turns to green at the top of the track - they will get a HALF SECOND penalty.

In skeleton terms, that is significant.

If they get a penalty then that will likely dash any medal hopes.

BBC Two

Team GB have won a skeleton gold (Matt Weston).

They’ve won a mixed team gold (Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale in the snowboard cross mixed team).

Put the two together - a medal in the skeleton mixed team looks pretty good, right?

You'll be able to follow this event on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, and via the 'watch live' button at the top of this page.

Lizzy Yarnold
Two-time Olympic skeleton champion on BBC Two

Great Britain are very good at this.

You’re racing for the two of you and your nation as well, so the dynamic and energy should be different and it should be thrilling to watch.

The top three teams are likely to be within a tenth of a second - so honestly anything can happen.

USA’s Mystique Ro/Austin Florian (seventh pair) are the reigning world champions.

Women's Olympic champion Janine Flock has partnered with Samuel Maier for Austria (11th).

Germany's Susanne Kreher and Axel Jungk (13th) are the current European champions and have both already been on the podium in Milan-Cortina, winning silver medals in the women's and men's skeleton. Kreher is a former mixed team world champion (2023).

Germany's second pair are Jacqueline Pfeifer and Christopher Grotheer (14th), who were bronze medallists in the women's and men's events, respectively.

Grotheer, the men's Olympic champion in 2022, is a three-time mixed team gold medallist at the World Championships while Pfeifer was the inaugural world champion in 2020.

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Matt Weston has already made history in Milan-Cortina, becoming the first British man to win Olympic skeleton gold.

And he could break more new ground today with any colour of medal in the mixed team event making him the first British athlete to win two medals at the same Winter Olympics.

“Doing the individual is one thing, it feels absolutely amazing,” said Weston, who celebrated his individual gold with three slices of margherita pizza.

“But the chance to be a double Olympic champion, I think we have a pretty good chance. We’re going to be one of the strong set of teams out there.”

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Men’s gold medallist Matt Weston is teaming up with Tabby Stoecker, who finished fifth in the women’s skeleton, for the mixed event.

Stoecker/Weston are a well-established duo, winning silver at the past two World Championships. However, Stoecker has actually been racing with Marcus Wyatt is this season’s World Cup, with the pair finishing top of the overall standings after winning two of their four races.

Weston previously won mixed team silver at the World Championships alongside Laura Deas in 2023 and is the leading men’s skeleton racer. The 28-year-old is the reigning Olympic, European, World and World Cup champion in the individual event.

The other pairing sees Marcus Wyatt join forces with Freya Tarbit. They came ninth and seventh, respectively.

Wyatt, 34, finished fourth alongside Amelia Coltman at the 2024 World Championships. Tarbit won bronze at the 2026 European Championships, racing alongside Jacob Salisbury.

Tarbit/Wyatt will be 12th to compete while Stoecker/Weston are the 15th and final pair.

Skeleton sliders start off by running and pushing their sled 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.

We’ve already had both of the individual events, with Great Britain’s Matt Weston winning gold in the men’s skeleton and Austria’s Janine Flock taking the women’s title.

This is the third and final skeleton event.