Winter Olympics 2026 day 10 dwell: Girls’s curling begins the day in Milano-Cortina

Properly the Zambonis have been going into overdrive at Milano MSK-Competitors Rink, attempting to enhance the floor of the ice for these subsequent races, however who is aware of?

The DJ has been pumping a 90s megamix, however to be sincere, I do not suppose this crowd wants any extra pumping up.

The ultimate of the ladies’s 1,000m occasion is arising with a stacked area together with Dutch ladies’s 500m Olympic champion Xandra Velzeboer, Italian nice Arianna Fontana, Canada’s Courtney Sarault, China’s Gong Li and South Korea’s Kim Gilli.

And it is a quick, tactical race. Sarault will get to the primary nook to take the lead, adopted by Fontana and Velzeboer.

They’re holding place, however now with six laps to go Velzeboer passes the native heroine Fontana.

Now the strikes are coming in, and Velzeboer hits the entrance.

Oh! China’s Gong Li bumps Fontana, passes her and leaves the Italian again on the again in fifth.

Right here we go, it is the Dutch speedster once more! Velzeboer takes the gold, Canada’s Sarault wins the silver, and Korea’s Kim Gilli comes via for bronze!

Disappointment for the group as Fontana misses out on a 14th Olympic medal.

Velzeboer is simply too sturdy. Congratulations to the Dutchwoman!

I would not say that semifinal 2 was quiet, precisely, however I am pretty sure no-one hit the deck till the ultimate 10m of that one, and the faller was a Belgian skater making a fruitless effort to try to crack the highest two.

It is Korea and the Netherlands who will undergo to fulfill Canada and Italy as they race for the medals within the males’s 5,000m relay.

If chaos and sharp blades on ice is your factor, then tune in on Saturday morning at 7:18am AEDT for the ultimate.

How do I describe the primary semifinal of the boys’s 5,000m relay in short-track pace skating?

Much more utter chaos. Sixteen individuals on the ice, 4 at a time, with hordes extra idling across the inside circle ready for his or her second. Then they bounce out onto the monitor itself and get shoved ahead by their teammates.

That first semifinal was tense, with Italy concerned and the group getting proper into it.

There have been shut calls and inside runs and dropping positions. Then with a couple of laps left, the three main groups all gave their push to their teammates and ALL fell over. At the very least the skaters tagged in have been nonetheless on monitor.

It had been China, Canada, Italy, then it ended up being Canada, Italy, China, with Hungary fourth.

It was all underneath assessment however the judges gave it the all clear, so Canada and Italy are via to the ultimate.

The elephant within the room is, with all of the skating motion on this session up to now, the situation of the ice is getting worse and the probabilities of falls are getting larger and better. Strap yourselves in!

The house crowd in Milano is up and about after the second semifinal of the ladies’s 1,000m.

Italy’s Arianna Fontana has gone via to the A closing in second place, together with SF winner Canada’s Courtney Sarault.

Because of this Fontana can be skating within the closing to try to win her FOURTEENTH Winter Olympic medal of her stellar profession.

Good grief. If she wins one, the group will go loopy. If she manages to win gold, the roof may properly raise off the stadium.

It is like deja vu over again on the short-track pace skating!

We’re within the semifinals of the ladies’s 1,000m, and there is been a stack already.

Dutch skater Xandra Velzeboer — the ladies’s 500m champion from earlier within the Video games — was main and Belgium’s Hanne Desmet and Korea’s Kim Gilli have been again within the pack once they bought tangled and slid out.

Velzeboer breezed via forward of China’s Gong Li, with Desmet penalised and Kim superior.

That is a tough day for the Desmet household — Hanne Desmet is the older sister of Stijn Desmet, who was penalised within the males’s 500m.

Properly I might say everyone seems to be respiration a sigh of aid on the Stelvio that the primary run of the boys’s slalom is over.

That was utter chaos, triggered in no massive half by the circumstances.

Forty-four males made it all the way down to the underside of the course legally.

About as many skied out, crashed or have been in any other case disqualified because the snow bucketed down in Bormio.

In spite of everything that, the primary two males to compete are the primary two males within the standings — Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath has the quickest time in 56.14 seconds, and Swiss skier Loic Meillard has 56.73.

The bronze medal place at this stage is Austria’s Fabio Gstrein on 57.08.

Brendan Corey’s warmth, whereas bodily, was deemed clear. Nonetheless we now have had 4 penalties within the different heats, and three skaters have been superior.

Which implies the following spherical later within the week may have bigger fields – and therefore extra probability of chaos.

Listed here are a couple of of the crashes under.

Okay, it is time for Brendan Corey of Australia to take his stance on the beginning line.

He is up towards Italy’s Thomas Nadalini, Dutch skater Melie van t’Wout and Poland’s Michal Niewinski.

Right here we go …

And it is a bodily begin, with Australia’s Corey attempting to push ahead however getting bumped to the skin as Italy’s Nadalini took the lead.

Corey results in fourth spot behind Niewinski, with Nadalini and van t’Wout clear in first and second.

This isn’t a fantastic place for the Aussie, he is in hassle properly again.

Nadalini and van t’Wout are skating clear to advance. Niewinski cannot shut in and Corey finishes fourth.

That is a troublesome one.

We have had one other collision in warmth 2, extra of that later.

We’re as much as warmth 4, with defending champion Liu Shaoang, Poland’s Felix Pigeon and Austria’s Nicolas Andermann.

Right here we go …  a protected race there, with Shaoang making it via on high forward of Poland’s Pigeon.

Australia’s Brendan Corey can be in Warmth 6.

Properly we did not have to attend too lengthy for some motion within the males’s 500m on the short-track pace skating!

The opening warmth blew up on the second bend, as Canadian skater William Dandjinou main clearly, with three rivals behind him.

Belgium’s Stijn Desmet had the within line, with Dutch skater Teun Boer within the center and Japan’s Kazuki Yoshinaga on the skin.

There was a coming collectively and all three males slid into the protecting limitations, leaving Dandjinou a simple path to victory.

In the long run, Belgium’s Desmet was DQ’d for impeding his opposition, leaving second-place Boer to undergo, whereas Yoshinaga was superior as he was dominated to be affected. 

We’re getting near some motion on the short-track apeed skating, with the heats of the boys’s 500m occasion set to begin shortly.

The medallists in Beijing have been Liu Shaoang (HUN) in gold, Konstantin Ivliev (ROC) in silver and Canada’s Steven Dubois in bronze.

Australia’s competitor on this occasion is Brendan Corey, who reached the semifinals of the boys’s 1,500m earlier within the Video games.

Corey can be up in warmth 4, together with Liu Shaoang, the Beijing champion who’s now skating for China.

Others to look at embrace Italy’s Pietro Sighel in Warmth 2; Canada’s Dubois in Warmth 3; and Jens van t’Wout of the Netherlands, who can be going for a 3rd gold after wins within the males’s 1,000m and 1,500m — he’s in Warmth 7.

The heats will start at 9:17pm AEDT. 

Typically, nations appear to have the historic edge in sure occasions.

Properly, in two-man bobsleigh, it is honest to say that the German opponents are those to beat.

In Beijing 4 years in the past, it was an all-German podium.

And this yr, it is type of wanting a bit of comparable early on.

Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer are the quickest up to now, setting a brand new monitor document of 54.68 seconds in run one.

Teammates Adam Ammour and Alexander Schaller are second in 55.12, whereas Francesco Friedrich and Alexander Schuller are within the bronze medal place early on, with 55.16 seconds.

The closest opponents outdoors Germany are the American pair of Frankie del Duca (one of many US flagbearers on the opening ceremony) and Joshua Williamson, who’re fourth with 55.40.

• NORWAY 10 gold, 3 silver, 7 bronze

• ITALY 6 gold, 3 silver, 9 bronze

• USA 5 gold, 6 silver, 4 bronze

• NETHERLANDS 5 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze

• SWEDEN 5 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze

• FRANCE 4 gold, 7 silver, 4 bronze

• GERMANY 4 gold, 6 silver, 5 bronze

• AUSTRIA 4 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze

• SWITZERLAND 4 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze

• JAPAN 3 gold, 5 silver, 9 bronze

• AUSTRALIA 3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze

• SLOVENIA 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze

• CANADA. KOREA, BRAZIL, KAZAKHSTAN, 1 gold every

Situations are usually not getting any higher on the males’s slalom.

We’ve already had 11 disqualifications out of 30 opponents, with a mixture of robust visibility and floor, and folks down the order attempting to generate extra tempo and making errors.

The 2 high instances up to now are from the primary two skiers down the mountain, which tells you that issues are going south the longer this competitors goes.

Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath has the quickest time in 56.14 seconds, and Swiss skier Loic Meillard has 56.73.

We’re about midway via the ladies’s curling spherical robin part at Cortina and we now have loads of motion on day 10.

There are three video games on early doorways, with Canada main China by the minimal margin, 4-3 within the sixth finish.

Sweden and Switzerland are tied at 3-3 within the fifth finish, whereas Denmark is trailing Nice Britain 5-2 within the seventh finish.

We may have one other 4 video games within the spherical robin from 5:00am AEDT tomorrow morning.

There was some critical snowfall in a single day and into as we speak throughout most of the Olympic venues.

Proper now, the boys’s slalom is underway on the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio, and issues are NOT straightforward for the early opponents.

We’ve had 12 skiers up to now, and already 4 males have failed to complete and yet one more huge identify has misplaced a piece of time in spherical one.

In contrast to the downhill, slalom occasions are usually not as a lot about pace as agility to get between the gates and get down with a clear run.

First to bow out was France’s Paco Rassat, however the subsequent man to overlook was males’s large slalom champion, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, who misplaced management early in his run and missed a gate.

However the huge information is the defending males’s slalom champion, France’s Clement Noel, practically missed his connection and barely averted a disqualification.

Noel completed his run, however misplaced practically 2 seconds on the chief, Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath.

Visibility appears to be getting worse on the market, and we have heard they aren’t having the standard break after the primary group of opponents. If this snowstorm will get worse, we could possibly be in for a VERY tough day.

Round now we’d have been preparing for the Girls’s Slopestyle {qualifications} at Livigno.

Nonetheless, due to predicted heavy snow circumstances as we speak, organisers introduced issues ahead a day.

In case you missed it, Australia’s Tess Coady, Melia Stalker and Ally Hickman have been in motion for Australia.

It was a troublesome day for Coady, the bronze medallist in Beijing — she struggled to get peak on her jumps and her greatest run was a 38.95, which put her twenty seventh.

Stalker, who like Coady made the ultimate of the large air final week, additionally had points together with her runs. She completed with 47:36 in twenty second spot.

Nonetheless, the excessive level of qualification was their teammate Hickman, whose first run of 71.41 put her via in sixth place.

The 16-year-old is scheduled to compete within the closing at 11pm AEDT tomorrow evening.

Buonasera Australia, whats up, good night and welcome to our dwell protection of day 10 of the Winter Olympics.

It should be an fascinating day, with some adjustments to the schedule because of the climate.

There are some Australians to maintain an eye fixed out for, however there’s a variety of different sport on supply as properly, from short-track pace skating to curling to slalom to ice hockey, and a few huge air motion within the early hours.

I am Andrew McGarry, and I am delighted to take you thru the motion for the primary a part of day 10.

Let’s get cracking!