Winter Olympics curling LIVE: Bruce Mouat’s Crew GB tackle Sweden in males’s Beijing 2022 last

Britain haven’t fairly been in a position to nail their pictures on this second finish, Grant Hardie the newest to simply miss his mark by a fraction. Two stones every to go and Sweden have management of the home.

So this primary finish is nearing its conclusion. Every crew have one stone remaining and Britain have management of the home. The Swedes use theirs to knock out GB’s central stone and it means Britain may have the chance to attract into the button for one level… crew skip Bruce Mouat nails the shot and GB take a 1-0 lead. Not a dominant begin however essential to get some extent on the board with the hammer within the first finish.

Brad Corridor has steered his four-man Nice Britain bobsleigh crew inside 0.31 seconds of an Olympic medal after the primary two runs of the competitors at Yanqing Sliding Centre.

Corridor, Greg Cackett, Nick Gleeson and Taylor Lawrence sit in sixth place on the midway stage, with two German crews and Canada’s Justin Kripps making up the medal positions forward of the occasion’s conclusion on Sunday.

It marks a formidable response from Corridor, a three-time four-man World Cup medallist this season, after overturning his sled within the two-man competitors final Tuesday.

“We’re feeling fairly good,” mentioned Corridor, who was compelled to primarily self-fund his path to the Video games after UK Sport funding for the bobsleigh programme was ended after the Pyeongchang Video games 4 years in the past.

However whereas the £6.5million British skeleton programme has floundered, Corridor has labored laborious to place his crew in competition for what can be a primary four-man medal since John Jackson was awarded retrospective bronze from Sochi in 2014.

“There have been a few errors on the primary run however it wasn’t a foul efficiency. I’m fairly content material with sixth place,” added Corridor.

“The Germans have gotten three sleds, 3 times the quantity of runs to check every part and discover one of the simplest ways down the observe, and ensure the gear works.

“We’re in opposition to it, we’ve bought much less assets to tug upon, so we’ve simply gone with what we all know and we’ll see the way it seems.”

Nice Britain have the hammer as a result of they completed prime of the spherical robin rankings. When you have know concept what the hammer is, I’ve your again:

Right here we go, then. Nice Britain’s males are taking over Sweden within the curling last as they bid to lastly safe a medal for Crew GB at these Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Bruce Mouat’s crew have been spectacular all through the competitors however face the expertise and knowhow of Swedish skip Niklas Edin, whose crew beat Britain to gold in 2014.

David Murdoch was the British captain then however he believes Mouat and co don’t have anything to worry. “Niklas may be very skilled, I’ve performed him hundreds and so has Bruce. We don’t have something to worry and our latest document in opposition to them is actually good, we beat them within the spherical robins right here and twice on the European Championships, together with the ultimate.”

The ultimate Alpine snowboarding race of the Beijing Olympics has been moved to Sunday due to too-strong wind on Saturday.

The windy circumstances made Mikaela Shiffrin wait to get one final probability to convey residence a medal from China.

Following greater than one-hour delay for the combined crew parallel occasion and gusts upto 40 mph (65 kph) the Worldwide Ski Federation postponed the competitors.

Crew GB’s curling ladies crew defeated Sweden 12-11 to cruise to the ultimate gold medal match on Sunday.

“I’m fairly speechless proper now however what a second,” mentioned British skip Eve Muirhead mentioned after the shut match. She is competing at her fourth Olympics.

“It sounds wonderful to say we’re in an Olympic last. It’s third time fortunate. I’ve misplaced two semi-finals earlier than and I used to be determined for it. These moments and alternatives don’t come round fairly often,” she mentioned including she is happy with her crew.

Crew GB is up in opposition to Japan on Sunday at 01:05 GMT.

With Nico Porteous’s victory, Gus Kenworthy’s profession involves an finish after he completed eighth within the halfpipe last.

He sustained an enormous hit on his second run however got here again for one last show.

“Not my finest,” he admitted after scoring 71.25 factors. “Thanks for every part, snowboarding. Love you, mum,” he indicators off.

The Chelmsford-born two-time US Olympian received slopestyle silver in 2014 and began to characterize Nice Britain since 2019.

New Zealand’s Nico Porteous, 20, has received the gold medal in Males’s freeski halfpipe, beating Crew USA’s David Clever, who was vying for third gold medal.

Porteous was the nation’s youngest-ever Olympic medallist in Pyeongchang in 2018 when he was simply 16 years and 91 days outdated.

Clever claimed silver, ending second and fellow American Alex Ferreira took bronze.

Johannes Thingnes Boe used a little bit lane self-discipline to ship Norway a document fifteenth gold medal at a single Winter Olympics when he triumphed within the males’s biathlon 15km mass begin on Friday, grabbing his fourth title in Beijing.

Boe’s mastery within the sport was clear for all to see as he turned the primary biathlete to win 4 gold medals at a single Video games since countryman Ole Einar Bjoerndalen in Salt Lake Metropolis, with the 28-year-old saying it got here all the way down to getting the correct lane on the vary in Friday’s race.

“Yeah, it was tough (circumstances) however on the second inclined (capturing) I managed to get lane one, there’s much less wind there,” Boe instructed Reuters.

Boe managed to get his most well-liked lane for the remaining two visits to the vary.

“For my standing capturing I had much less wind, so immediately I used to be fairly fortunate with the circumstances in comparison with the pursuit (race) once I was unfortunate,” he mentioned.

Regardless of 4 misses from his 20 pictures, Boe was ready to make use of his highly effective snowboarding to remain forward of the sector and declare the gold.