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It’s time for a brand new discipline and it’s another opportunity for Great Britain to win a medal – introducing the skeleton’s mixed team event!

It’s been on the World Championship calendar since 2020 but is only making it’s Olympic debut today.

Now, before your imagination runs away with you… no, it’s not two people on the same sled (although that would be chaotic fun!).

Instead, each team comprises one woman and one man, who complete separate runs in that order, and the pair with the fastest combined time wins the gold medal.

Oh, and to add a little bit of jeopardy, there are time penalties for false starts!

This gets under way at 17:20 GMT, with two British teams in Tabby Stoecker/Matt Weston and Freya Tarbit/Marcus Wyatt among the 15 pairs.

Seven golds down, two to go on day nine:

• 17:20 - Skeleton mixed team - featuring Matt Weston/Tabby Stoecker & Marcus Wyatt/Freya Tarbit
• 17:45 - Ski jumping women's large hill individual

Plus - men's curling including GB v Switzerland (from 18:05), men's freestyle skiing big air qualification featuring GB's Chris McCormick (from 18:30), and figure skating pairs short programme featuring GB's Luke Digby and Anastasia Vaipan-Law (from 18:45).

And here's what Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale had to say...

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won Team GB's second gold of the Games earlier today, winning the mixed team snowboard cross.

Here's a reminder of how they became Olympic champions.

Team GB's men's curlers took a step closer to securing a Winter Olympics semi-final place with an accomplished 9-4 victory over Germany.

Bruce Mouat's world champions have now won four of their opening five matches in northern Italy, with six victories almost certain to guarantee a place in the last four and a shot at the medals.

It was the first part of a triple-header of British curling today: Rebecca Morrison's women's team face Sweden at 13:05, with the men back in action at 18:05 against Switzerland. We'll keep you up to speed right here.

• Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale claimed an historic second gold of the Games for Team GB, winning the mixed team snowboard cross
• Great Britain beat Germany 9-4 in the men's curling round robin but GB Women suffered a third defeat in four matches, losing 10-7 to Sweden

• GB's Mia Brookes missed out on qualifying for the snowboard slopestyle final after failing to finish in the top 12
• Sweden's Martin Ponsiluoma won gold in the biathlon men's 12.5km pursuit while Lisa Vittozzi won Italy's first ever Olympic biathlon gold with victory in the women's 10km pursuit
• Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won a record ninth Winter Olympic gold - and his fourth of this Games - as part of Norway's cross-country skiing men's 4x7.5km relay team
• Italy's Federica Brignone won gold in women's giant slalom, 10 months after breaking her leg in multiple places
• Canada's Mikael Kingsbury won gold in the men's dual moguls
• Netherlands claimed another speed skating medal, with Femke Kok winning gold in the women's 500m

Anna Boersma of the Netherlands starts well, but seems to founder approaching the finish and her time of 38.013 puts her in 13th.

Her pair, Yukino Yoshida of Japan, also doesn't trouble the podium, with her time of 37.98 putting her 11th.

Leader Jutta Leerdam is now guaranteed a medal - but we've got a blockbuster finish with world champion Femke Kok against Erin Jackson, gold medal winner four years ago.

Kaja Ziomek-Nogal from Poland and Lee Na-Hyun from South Korea can't make it to the podium places.

Their times of 37.39 and 37.86 seconds put them fourth and eighth respectively.

Jutta Leerdam takes the lead!

The 1,000m gold medallist from the Netherlands, heading out in the 12th run, finishes with a time of 37.15 seconds to top the standings.

We've got three pairs remaining.

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Great Britain's Adele Nicoll spoke to BBC Sport after her first runs in the bobsleigh monobob this morning - she is 13th after two of the four runs: "I am so relieved. I was so nervous and I think that shows in my push starts. My first was a tenth slower than my second one, I just felt a bit jelly. It's all a very new experience for me.

"I've only been doing one cycle of driving so far and it's my first Olympics but I'm really proud of how I sorted that out for my second run.

How did that start feel in the moment? "The last thing I said to my coach in the blocks was 'I need more noise' and my coach said to me 'OK, remember until you get into that sled you're a breakman' because I used to be a breakwoman for two years.

"And I thought OK, I've got to channel that and be a bit stronger and more confident and as soon as I sat in, that's when I took a deep breath and I relaxed."

On continuing to improve: "For sure, I really love analysing things and making corrections. Years and years of being a thrower has helped with that because you're looking at such finer detail. There's bits I improved on and bits not as good as the first run but that's the sport. It's so volatile in the sense of consistency so consistent runs will do well here."

19 athletes done, 10 to go.

Miho Tagaki of Japan, who went in the fourth run, still leads with a time of 37.27 seconds, followed by France's Serena Pergher (37.30) and Canada's Beatrice Lamarche (37.53).

The order the competitors head out onto the ice is based on their world ranking - world champion Femke Kok is in the last pairing.

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Charlotte Bankes spoke to BBC Sport after their gold medal: "I am lost for words. It has been a struggle, a tough few months but we have massive support. I've had an incredible team around me and through my rehab. We managed to regroup after the individual, it wasn't easy but we used our families and our team and that was what was important. We were together, and that really helped for us to bounce back, come out here and have fun. That was the main aim.

"Huw put me in an amazing position, he has been riding extremely well and today he rode to his full potential. What's amazing is that he didn't do anything special, he just rode to his full potential. I was in the start gate, I was going for gold knowing that Australia was out. We weren't going for anything else. I just focussed on that finish line.

"A big shoutout to everybody that is supporting us and the team around us. The whole team is Olympic champion."

Huw Nightingale added: "Unbelievable. [Being gold medallists] It doesn't sound real.

"After not doing the run I wanted in the singles, seeing my family straight after that is heartwarming. In the moment you feel sad, but when you're back with your family it feels great again. I've had great support here and I just love them all.

"After the singles we were both just coming here for a good time. After I saw Charlotte riding, I knew we had it in us today. We kept the vibes high and came out on top."

Ellia Smeding wasn't expected to challenge here, and she has now slipped out of the medal positions with seven of 29 competitors having set times.

Miho Tagaki of Japan leads the way with 37.27, followed by China's Wang Jingziqian (38.57) and Italy's Maybritt Vigl (38.66).

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Team GB's Jennifer Dodds spoke to BBC Sport after defeat against Sweden: "We had a strong start with the hammer, but unfortunately we gave that three back which stuttered our momentum a bit. If we had only lost two, the game could have been different. Who knows.

"I am really proud of the fight of the girls, we never gave up and worked away to get some points on the board.

"One thing I'm really proud of this week is we are creating our twos, which is so important at this level. We will probably focus on keeping our opposition to one, that is probably what we will speak about tonight. Two big games tomorrow, they are probably two must win games for us now and we really need to focus on that going into tomorrow."

Rebecca Morrison added: "It's really hard at this level. It's near misses, we are just a couple centimetres away from great shots. It's frustrating and a tough one to take. This is what happens at the Olympics, it's the top level and you have to be at your best and we just weren't quite there."

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Ellia Smeding sets the first mark in the women's 500m, getting plenty of support for her solo run and getting round in 38.93 seconds.

She stumbles after crossing the line and hits the ice, sliding into the padded barriers - two thumbs up indicate she's fine.

There's a lot of talent to come - for the record, Femke Kok's world record in this distance is 36.09.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

More on Huw Nightingale from that press conference.

He mentioned a 'debrief' and the local nightclub here in Livigno in the same sentence.

That's all you need to know about his plans for the next few days!

There are still three gold medal events to come on day nine:

• 16:00 - Speed skating women's 500m final - featuring Ellia Smeding
• 17:20 - Skeleton mixed team - featuring Matt Weston/Tabby Stoecker & Marcus Wyatt/Freya Tarbit
• 17:45 - Ski jumping women's large hill individual

Plus - men's curling including GB v Switzerland (from 18:05), men's freestyle skiing big air qualification featuring GB's Chris McCormick (from 18:30), and figure skating pairs short programme featuring GB's Luke Digby and Anastasia Vaipan-Law (from 18:45).

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland in Cortina

We'll be back with more curling after I've ventured out into the Cortina cold to find some food and a hot drink.

GB's men are double-shifting today, and take on unbeaten Switzerland in a bit. It promises to be an absolute banger...

It's almost time for speed skating's only medal event today - the women's 500m.

29 athletes will head out onto the ice in pairs to set times - fastest finish wins.

Curiously, because the field is an uneven number the first competitor simply has to race against themself.

It's Team GB's Ellia Smeding who gets that honour - the 27-year-old was 11th in the 1,000m, easily the best result by a British woman in speed skating, but this distance isn’t really her speciality.

Femke Kok of the Netherlands is the favourite - she's won each of the last three World Championship titles over 500m, is the world record holder and is unbeaten over the sport’s shortest distance for two years.