Live: Aussie Graham advances to Olympic moguls final

Listed below are the Australians competing on the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics tonight and into Wednesday morning (AEDT):

COMING UP

Skeleton: Nick Timmings has coaching runs from 11:30pmMoguls: Jakara Anthony, Charlotte Wilson and Emma Bosco in girls’s qualifying from 12:15am

COMPLETED

Moguls: Matt Graham (tenth), Cooper Woods (fifteenth), Jackson Harvey (twenty third) and George Murphy (twenty sixth) in males’s moguls qualifyingCross-country snowboarding: Ellen Søhol Lie (fiftieth) and Maddie Hooker (67th) in girls’s dash basic qualification; Hugo Hinckfuss (forty second) and Lars Younger Vik (51st) in males’s dash basic qualificationShort monitor velocity skating: Brendan Corey fourth in males’s 1,000m warmth

Downhill champion Breezy ‌Johnson could also be heading for a golden ‘double double’ on the Winter Olympics.

Johnon dominated the opening leg of the ladies’s alpine snowboarding workforce mixed for the US first workforce, establishing associate Mikaela Shiffrin for the decisive ⁠slalom run.

Johnson and Shiffrin — probably the most profitable World Cup skier of all time with a document 108 wins — are the world champions within the occasion.

Johnson holds the world and Olympic downhill titles concurrently after profitable Sunday’s opening velocity race.

Shiffrin — winner of seven of eight World Cup slaloms this season with the crystal globe within the self-discipline already secured — now has ‌one run on the glowing Olimpia ‌delle Tofane piste between her ‌and a primary Olympic medal since Pyeongchang 2018.

Johnson — who has by no means received a World Cup race — began 14th and set a time of 1 minute and 36.59 seconds in gloriously sunny ⁠circumstances, 0.06 sooner than Ariane Rädler for Austria’s second workforce.

Laura Pirovano put Italy2 in third place with a run 0.27 off the tempo and have become the host nation’s primary hope of a medal after Sofia Goggia, downhill bronze medallist, crashed ‌out.

Goggia’s inside ski slid throughout and she or he misplaced her stability, ending the hopes of teammate Lara Della Mea.

She was in a position to ski right down to the end and waved to the group.

The slalom run us as a result of begin at midnight AEDT.

The ladies’s workforce mixed occasion is being held for the primary time at an Olympics.

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Matt Graham spoke to media within the combine zone a short while in the past.

“Not my greatest,” he mentioned of his run.

“I had a extremely good coaching this morning, simply acquired a little bit bit out of time and out of rhythm within the center part after which a little bit bit hung up on the final flip into the underside air.

“So, look, not my most interesting, however lots of room to enhance.”

Graham mentioned it was his personal errors that value him.

“The course was good. I imply, it was good all morning,” he mentioned.

“The moguls had been a little bit catchy, so you actually simply needed to be in time and in sync with the bumps, however sadly I simply made a number of errors.”

Graham was, at that stage, undecided whether or not he would have certified mechanically for the primary closing or not.

However he famous that it did not actually matter to him both approach,

“I imply, it’s what it’s,” he mentioned.

“It would not matter actually, both approach you may make it work.”

He sat on the bubble in direction of the tip however Australian co flag-bearer Matt Graham has earned automated qualification for the boys’s moguls closing.

Graham snared the tenth and closing spot after scoring 75.77.

It wasn’t make or break for the 2018 Olympic silver medallist, as he would have nonetheless gone via to Qualification 2 had he missed a top-10 berth.

His Aussie teammates Cooper Woods (fifteenth), Jackson Harvey (twenty third) and George Murphy (twenty sixth) will contest Qualification 2.

Japan’s reigning world champion Ikuma Horishima topped Qualification 1 with an excellent rating of 85.42.

Qualification 2 might be held at 8pm on Thursday, earlier than Ultimate 1 (10:15pm) and Ultimate 2 (10:55pm) happen.

Australia’s Cooper Woods has missed automated qualification for the boys’s moguls closing.

Woods scored 73.67 to be thirteenth from 24 athletes, with six nonetheless to come back within the opening run.

He can nonetheless make the ultimate however might want to advance from Qualification 2.

Matt Graham (75.77)— the 2018 Olympic silver medallist — is the main Australian in provisional ninth place.

The highest 10 within the first qualification section transfer via to Ultimate 1.

Australia’s Jackson Harvey scored 69.26 in his first run of the boys’s moguls competitors.

On the provisional standings after 19 athletes, Harvey was in fifteenth place, with Aussie teammate Matt Graham seventh and George Murphy in seventeenth place.

Australian four-time Olympian Matt Graham has scored 75.77 within the opening qualifying run within the males’s moguls.

Graham was in provisional sixth place after his run, having been the fifteenth of 30 to go down the course.

George Murphy (67.19) was in fifteenth place halfway via the primary run.

Fellow Aussies Jackson Harvey and Cooper Woods are nonetheless to come back.

The highest 10 athletes (together with all tied for the tenth place) qualify for Ultimate 1.

The remaining athletes progress to the Qualification 2 stage.

ABC Sport’s Simon Smale is watching on on the males’s moguls and has talked about Australian George Murphy spoke in regards to the gentle following his run.

Murphy mentioned the sunshine acquired a bit flat and that is what brought on his mistake on the high of the course.

I feel I’ve accomplished an ACL simply watching!

The clouds are coming in a bit right here in Livigno, which is able to impression the sunshine and talent for the skiers to identify their strains.

We had a light-weight dusting of snow this morning however that has not affected the run. It is not too exhausting, not too comfortable. It is a goldilocks course.

There’s lots of Aussies right here making a hell of lots of noise. An excellent environment for qualifying.

Olympic debutant George Murphy has registered a rating of 67.19, because the opening males’s moguls qualification spherical will get off to a begin.

Murphy’s Australian teammates Matt Graham, Jackson Harvey and Cooper Woods are nonetheless to come back.

The highest 10 athletes (together with all tied for the tenth place) qualify for Ultimate 1.

The remaining athletes advance to the Qualification 2 stage.

Australia’s Brendan Corey has missed a top-three end in his warmth of the boys’s 1,000 metres on the quick monitor velocity skating program.

Corey was third on the bell within the nine-lap occasion, however completed fourth in a time of 1:26.052.

Italian Pietro Sighel received the warmth in 1:25.740.

The 2 greatest athletes in every warmth and the 4 quickest third- positioned athletes qualify for the quarterfinals.

The ladies’s alpine workforce mixed occasion is underway and there has already be a a shock within the downhill part.

Italian Sofia Goggia — who received bronze within the girls’s particular person downhill on Sunday — recorded a DNF after sliding off the course.

Goggia and her fellow skiers are contending with poor gentle, nonetheless, so circumstances are difficult for these contesting the downhill within the mixed occasion.

Particular person downhill gold medallist Breezy Johnson gave the USA 1 workforce the provisional lead after posting 1:36.59.

Johnson types a star duo for the US alongside Mikaela Shiffrin.

Shiffrin has received two Olympic gold medals, within the slalom (2014) and large slalom (2018).

She is going to contest the slalom part within the workforce mixed occasion.

Seize a snack and your favorite beverage, and make your self comfy as we’re not far-off from making a begin within the males’s moguls qualification.

The opening spherical kicks off at 9:15pm AEDT, with 4 Aussies in motion.

Main the cost is 2018 silver medallist Matt Graham, who might be joined by compatriots George Murphy, Jackson Harvey and Cooper Woods.

Early tomorrow morning AEDT, reigning Olympic champion Jakara Anthony and Australian teammates Charlotte Wilson and Emma Bosco participate within the girls’s qualification section.

Hugo Hinckfuss and Lars Younger Vik have discovered their official placings within the qualifying stage of the boys’s cross-country dash basic.

Hinckfuss (3:23.41) was forty second and Younger Vik (3:26.13) was 51st, with the highest 30 progressing to the quarterfinals.

Norwegian Johannes Høsflot Klæbo was high of the pops,  recording the quickest time of three:07.37.

Australians Hugo Hinckfuss and Lars Younger Vik have missed advancing to the quarterfinals of the boys’s cross-country dash basic.

Hinckfuss was the quickest of the duo, managing a time of three:23.41, whereas Lars Younger clocked 3:26.13.

It is now time for the boys’s cross-country dash basic qualification stage.

Two Aussies are competing — Lars Younger Vik and Hugo Hinckfuss — amongst 95 entrants.

We’ll let you know the way they do as they chase quarterfinal berths.

The qualification stage of the ladies’s cross-country dash basic has wrapped up, with the highest 30 shifting via to the quarterfinals.

Australians Ellen Søhol Lie (4:01.65) and Maddie Hooker (4:13.09) completed in fiftieth and 67th place respectively.

Sweden crammed the highest three spots on the qualifying standings, with Linn Svahn the quickest with a time of three:36.21.

Ellen Søhol Lie and Maddie Hooker have stopped the clock within the qualification section of the ladies’s cross-country dash basic.

Lie posted a time of 4:01.65, with Hooker recording 4:13.09.

There are nonetheless athletes but to start out, so we’ll replace their closing positions on the standings when the qualification stage concludes.

The ladies’s cross-country dash basic qualification is underway.

There are 89 rivals, with Ellen Søhol Lie and Maddie Hooker repping the inexperienced and gold.

Every athlete races the clock through a time trial and begins in a staggered format.

Lie and Hooker have simply made a begin, so we’ll maintain you throughout how they fare.