Winter Olympics: Day-by-day guide – BBC Sport
Alpine skiing: Women’s downhill (10:30-12:50)
This race marks the return of legendary American skier Lindsey Vonn, six years after retiring from the sport.
Downhill is the 41-year-old’s specialty and he won a record 45 World Cup races in this event, as well as his only Olympic gold medal in 2010.
We’ll have to see how much the downhill will be affected by the crash at the last World Cup before the Winter Olympics thwart Vonn’s bid.
Keep an eye out for his compatriot Breezy Johnson, the 2025 world champion with a stellar reputation.
The host nation will be hopeful of claiming at least one podium place, but World Cup champion Federica Brignone only returned to action in January, nine months after breaking multiple bones in her left leg and rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament during a giant slalom crash at the Italian Championships.
Bergamo native Sofia Goggia took silver in the downhill four years ago despite suffering a knee injury just 23 days before the event.
Cross-country skiing: Men’s skiathlon (11:30-12:50)
This is the fifth Winter Olympics for Britain’s Andrew Musgrave, whose best Olympic result was seventh in skiathlon in 2018.
In this event, competitors run 10 km with classical technique and 10 km with freestyle technique before changing skis.
Johannes Hosflot Klaebo is the world champion and this could be the Norwegian’s first gold medal at these Games.
Snowboard: Women’s big air qualifiers (18:30-20:45)
Britain’s Mia Brookes has the chance to become Britain’s youngest Winter Olympic medalist in 78 years.
The Cheshire native has just turned 19 but has already won back-to-back big air World Cup titles and has just arrived in Italy on the back of medals at the X Games.
But she will face a mixed field including Japan’s Kokomo Murase, Reira Iwabuchi and Mari Fukada, who made a clean sweep of the medals at last year’s World Championships.
Austrian Anna Gasser aims to win this event for the third time in a row at the age of 34.
Maisie Hill, whose career almost ended after a horrific training accident three years ago, will be England’s other representative.
Figure skating: Team (20:55)
The team figure skating competition ended with the men’s free skate.
The United States won the gold medal after the Russian team was demoted in Beijing over a lengthy saga that delayed the medal ceremony by more than two years.
The USA are the reigning World Team Cup champions and won three of the four individual races at last year’s World Championships, but Japan and Georgia will give them a hard time.
