Winter Olympics LIVE: Staff GB beat hosts China in curling as Julia Marino wins first silver for US

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has spoken after making historical past by profitable New Zealand’s first ever gold medal in any Winter Olympics. She gained the ladies’s snowboarding slopestyle earlier, with the US taking silver.

“Truthfully, I can not actually consider it,” she mentioned. “I have been dreaming of this for a very long time and but for it to occur in actuality, it’ll take some time to course of.”

The 20-year-old from Wanaka – who went in because the defending world champion – made an emphatic begin in her opening trip on the Genting Snow Park and accomplished a surprising last run to win gold because the final rider up.

“I used to be on the high, and I simply knew that I needed to put down the run that I have been planning on doing [for] the Olympics for the final yr, actually. And I simply, yeah, I simply needed to be fully on it.”

Cheers erupted within the stands after Sadowski-Synnott’s run and two different medallists piled on high of her to congratulate her.

“Couldn’t be extra proud proper now,” the official account of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Video games Groups rapidly tweeted after her win, as she scored a powerful 92.88 on her last run.

The lads’s downhill race on the Beijing Olympics has been postponed as a result of heavy winds within the higher and center areas of the course that made it too harmful to race.

Organisers mentioned the opening occasion of the Alpine competitors will now happen on one other date, but to be decided.

Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds led Nice Britain to victory of their blended doubles curling conflict with China, bringing Staff GB to second within the total standings.

A double take-out by Mouat on the final second sealed a priceless victory for Staff GB, profitable the match by 6-5.

The curling duo’s victory at this time has put them in a robust spot heading to the ultimate two video games as the highest 4 groups from qualifying will proceed to the semi-finals and struggle for a medal.

GB will face Norway of their subsequent recreation, who’re fifth within the standings after six video games performed, and are nonetheless properly inside a shout to qualify.

Snowboarder Julia Marino has gained silver for the US within the ladies’s slopestyle snowboarding, their first medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Marino, 24, positioned sixth in qualifying for the ultimate, however surprised everybody along with her second run, which scored her an 87.68, sufficient to cement her standing on the rostrum regardless of a fall in her third run.

Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand gained the gold and Tess Coady of Australia took bronze. It was the primary ever gold medal gained by New Zealand within the Winter Olympics.

Nicely, what a Saturday of sport it has been in Beijing.

Norway took a sensational victory within the biathlon blended relay due to Johannes Thingnes Boe, who pulled his staff again from nowhere within the anchor leg earlier than a fully excellent dash to the road took him forward of France’s Quentin Fillon Maillet and Eduard Latyapov of the Russian Olympic committee to win.

Within the ladies’s particular person regular hill ski leap last, in the meantime, Slovenia’s Urša Bogataj took gold with a sensational last leap. Katharina Althaus of Germany led the standings going into the ultimate jumps however misplaced factors on type and comes second once more after taking silver in Pyeongchang 4 years in the past.

21-year-old Walter Wallberg gained the boys’s moguls gold medal, in the meantime. The Swede delivered a spellbinding run on the very finish of the ultimate at sensational pace in an effort to dethrone the defending champion Mikael Kingsbury, who had set a powerful rating of his personal within the earlier run.

On the ice, the Netherlands’ Irene set a brand new Olympic file whereas profitable gold within the ladies’s 3000m pace skating, whereas China took their first gold of the video games within the blended relay pace skating.

For Staff GB, curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds gained one and misplaced within the blended doubles curling, whereas brothers Farrell and Niall Treacy have been each knocked out within the heats of the boys’s 100m pace skating.

China have taken their first gold medal of the Video games after securing victory within the quick monitor blended relay pace skating occasion.

The hosts had by no means earlier than gained the gold on this occasion, however managed to take action in entrance of the house crowd by beating Italy, Hungary and Canada on the ice.

Italy’s Pietro Sighel pushed the Chinese language exhausting on the ultimate lap, however the host nation gained by a margin of simply 0.016s to take the gold.

Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat have conceded defeat in opposition to Italy within the blended doubles curling on the Nationwide Aquatics Centre.

The Scottish pair wanted three factors within the last finish however shook arms with their Italian opponents earlier than taking part in their last shot as they have been resigned to developing quick.

That is Staff GB’s second defeat in six matches, whereas Italy preserve their one hundred pc file and are flying on the high of the spherical robin standings.

Wins for Norway, Switzerland and Canada imply GB sit third within the desk with three video games left to play.

A lower than excellent finish from Staff GB provides Italy an important probability to attain massive, and so they take benefit.

The Italian pair take an extended time-out and talk about their choices with coach Violetta Caldart previous to their last shot, which Stefania Constantini completely nail, knocking away Jennifer Dodds’ pink stone and scoring three within the course of. The umpire is out to measure a attainable fourth level for Italy however after a contentious debate, three is the ultimate end result.

The Italians now lead 7-4 with only one finish to play, and it will take a sensational comeback from the British pair to keep away from defeat now.

Staff GB use an influence play and day trip dialogue to take an enormous benefit within the sixth finish and it seems as if they might rating massive, however Stefania Constantini delivers an excellent last stone for Italy that reduces Staff GB’s scoring probabilities.

Jennifer Dodds hits a great last shot although and GB nonetheless take two factors to stage issues up at 4-4 with two ends to play.