Live: American speed skater chasing 32-year first at Milano Cortina Games

Right here the Australians competing on day 13 of the Milano Cortina Video games (all instances AEDT).

UPCOMING

Freestyle snowboarding: Indra Brown within the girls’s freeski halfpipe qualifying spherical from 5:30am

COMPLETED

Ski Mountaineering: Phillip Bellingham sixth in first semifinal of the boys’s dash;Lara Hamilton sixth in warmth two of the ladies’s dash

We’re in 3-on-3 additional time within the girls’s ice hockey bronze-medal sport, with Sweden and Switzerland deadlocked at 1-1 on the finish of the third interval.

Sinja Leemann had levelled for the Swiss within the second interval after Mira Jungåker had given the Swedes a 1-0 lead.

On the pace skating, we’re seven pairs down within the males’s 1,500 metres and Poland’s Vladimir Semirunniy leads the standings.

Semirunniy clocked 1:45.37.

As we talked about earlier, Jordan Stolz of the US is within the fifteenth and closing pairing as he chases a 3rd gold on the Milano Cortina Video games.

We’re not distant from a begin within the males’s 1,500m on the pace skating program.

Jordan Stolz is chasing a 3rd gold medal of the Video games, having already received the 500m and 1,000m occasions.

Ought to he triumph, the American will grow to be the primary male competitor since Norwegian nice Johann Koss (‘Koss the Boss’ to some) achieved the feat on the 1994 Lillehammer Video games.

Koss has an MBBS from the College of Queensland, so we’ll declare him as considered one of personal … (joking)

Getting again to Stolz, he is within the fifteenth and closing pairing, with competitors beginning at 2:30am AEDT.

We now have one interval left to determine the bronze medal within the girls’s ice hockey competitors.

It is 1-1 between Sweden and Switzerland.

Since our final replace, the Swiss equalised by way of Sinja Leemann.

All to play for within the closing interval!

It took some time, however Sweden has taken the lead within the girls’s ice hockey bronze medal sport in Milano.

And so they have defender Mira Yungaker to thank.

Yungaker has been in all places within the first one and a half durations, throwing her physique into blocking Swiss assaults.

At one level she stood in the best way of a slapshot from Switzerland that clattered into her ribs.

She went off the ice and appeared in some misery, however after a couple of minutes break she got here again on and was rapidly concerned.

The Swedes took the puck in assault and swept it round behind the web on the appropriate facet. It was fed out to Jungaker on the purpose, and her rocket of a shot flew into the highest nook of the web to offer her facet the lead. 

It is early days within the second interval in Milano, however Switzerland are fortunate to not be a aim down.

Inside the first minute of play Sweden attacked and the puck deflected proper to ahead Sara Hjalmarsson, however her shot was smothered by Swiss goalkeeper Andrea Braendli.

The rating remained 0-0, and there was one other large probability for Sweden, the place they’d a two-on-one break, however the inside go clipped off the skate of a Swiss defender.

On the different finish, Ivana Vey was hauled down shut in, and the Swiss had been awarded a penalty shot.

Vey skated in with the puck, however her shot was saved by Swedish goalkeeper Ebba Svensson Traff.

It has been a good contest on the Milano Santagiulia Enviornment the place it’s nonetheless 0-0 after the opening interval of the ladies’s ice hockey bronze medal sport.

Switzerland had 5 pictures on aim and Sweden eight, however nothing bought previous both goalkeeper.

Honest to say that clearcut  chances are high going to be at a premium right here (or so it appears), so this might be an occasion the place a lone aim will get the victory.

We will see.

Milano Cortina silver medallist Danielle Scott will compete in Australia’s line-up for the blended staff aerials.

The total line-up is Scott, Abbey Willcox (who made the ladies’s aerials closing on debut) and Reilly Flanagan.

Flanagan remains to be ready to compete within the twice-postponed males’s aerials.

The blended occasion begins at 8:45pm AEDT on Saturday evening.

The Nordic Mixed Crew Dash has concluded at Tesoro Cross-Nation Stadium, and it’s one other win to the Norwegian staff.

Andreas Skoglund and Jens Luraas Oftebro had been the pair for Norway, they usually trailed by 13 seconds going into the ultimate cross-country leg.

Finland’s Ilkka Herola led on the closing change at 13.5km, however Oftebro skied previous Eero Hirvonen to seize the gold by 0.5 seconds.

The Finns took silver and Austria the bronze.

That makes Norway’s sixteenth gold medal of the Video games on day 13.

In Beijing 4 years in the past, Norway topped the medal tally, ending with 16 gold medals.

They must be a giant probability to go previous that in Milano Cortina.

It is almost time for the primary medals to be determined in girls’s ice hockey at Milano Cortina, with Sweden taking up Switzerland for bronze.

The Swedish staff took out the third-seeded Czechia within the quarterfinals, however they’d no reply to the American juggernaut, shedding 5-0 within the final 4.

Switzerland scored a winner within the third interval to beat Finland 1-0 to advance to the semifinals, the place they went down in an in depth one to Canada, 2-1.

In a while, at 5:10am AEDT, we can have the gold medal sport. The seedings have labored, with first-ranked United States taking up second-ranked Canada.

The ladies’s curling spherical robin can also be coming to an finish on day 13.

Sweden (7-2) and Switzerland (6-2) are already by way of to the semifinals, however there are nonetheless 4 groups in rivalry for the final two spots.

Behind them Canada,  South Korea and the USA are all (5-3), with Nice Britain on (4-4).

One place might be determined with the Canadians face South Korea.

The opposite one relies on whether or not the USA can beat Switzerland. If not, Nice Britain might make it fascinating in the event that they get previous Italy.

The medallists are standing with large grins, and yelling out “Skimo!!!”. Not authentic, maybe, however efficient.

GOLD: Oriol Cardona Coll (SPA)

SILVER: Nikita Filippov (AIN)

BRONZE: Thibault Anselmet (FRA)

That is just a little little bit of a shock that neither of the Swiss skiers made the rostrum, however I do know that Arno Lietha not less than had a nasty fall on the steps that halted his momentum.

And congratulations to Australia’s Phillip Bellingham for making the semifinals in his second Winter Olympic sport. 

Arno Lietha (SWI)

Nikita Filippov (AIN)

Jon Kistler (SWI)

Oriol Cardona Coll (SPA)

Thibault Anselmet (FRA)

Ot Ferrer Martinez (SPA)

They’re off!

An enormous roar from the stands, and the boys dash up the slopes.

The 2 Swiss racers are main with Oriol Cardona Coll within the center.

They undergo the diamond with each Lietha and Kistler in entrance.

Right here we come to the primary transition – Cardona Coll makes his transfer and will get there first.

And he steps up the steps, with two falls behind him by Lietha and Filippov.

Oriol Cardona Coll has an enormous lead! He is by way of the ultimate transition, with Filippov second, and Anselmet third.

The Spaniard takes the gold! Nikita Filippov will get the silver, and France’s Thibault Anselmet comes from effectively again to seize the bronze.

The group goes off because the medallists have a good time in entrance of the packed stands on the Stelvio.

Gold: Marianne Fatton (SWI)

Silver: Emily Harrop (FRA)

Bronze: Ana Alonso Rodriguez (SPA)

All of them look so blissful, as you would possibly anticipate.

Rodriguez gave Fatton an enormous hug and stated “I’m SO blissful for you!”.

Good sportsmanship there.

The group lets unfastened once more as Italy’s Giulia Murada is introduced for the ultimate. If she will be able to win a medal of any color, be careful.

The environment is loopy. They’re prepared, we’re prepared.

And so they’re off!

Emily Harrop and Margot Ravinel lead early for France, now Marianne Fatton pushes as much as second.

These athletes are sprinting up the slope!

Harrop leads by way of the diamond forward of Fatton, with Ravinel in third.

Right here we go to the transition, and Murada is fourth for Italy.

Harrop and Fatton to the highest of the steps.

Fatton leads into the skinning part, forward of Harrop.

They’re on the closing transition!

And Fatton is obvious!

Harrop ins second and Ana Alonso Rodriguez in third.

Marianne Fatton is flying! She is available in to win the gold!

Harrop will get the silver, and Alonso Rodriguez takes bronze for Spain.

Emily Harrop (FRA)

Marianne Fatton (SWI)

Ana Alsonso Rodriguez (SPA)

Margot Ravinel (FRA)

Tatjana Paller (GER)

Giulia Murada (ITA)

The primary-ever Winter Olympic gold medal in Ski Mountaineering will come from considered one of these six girls.

The Ladies’s dash closing might be at 11:55pm AEDT, whereas the Males’s Dash closing will observe at 00:15am AEDT. Do not go wherever!

Arno Lietha (SWI)

Nikita Filippov (AIN)

Jon Kistler (SWI)

Oriol Cardona Coll (SPA)

Thibault Anselmet (FRA)

Ot Ferrer Martinez (SPA)

So, we’ve got two Swiss, two Spanish, a French skier and Filippov (Russian-born, however since Russia doesn’t have a staff on the Winter Olympics, he’s listed as an Impartial Impartial Athlete (AIN).