Winter Olympics live: Mouat and Dodds set for curling semi-final before Mia Brookes’ medal bid in big air final

Not a bad first shot from Sweden, finding the house but not in the button.

And a decent retort from GB, Dodds landing a stone right in between the two Swedish shots.

A brilliant second shot from Sweden gets them almost right into the middle of the button, and they’ll have the upper hand for now.

GB go for the disruptove option as they try to knock the Swedish stones out, and they get two of them out of the way though a final stone remains.

Mouat’s next shot is a good effort too, slowly approaching before landing in the button, though Sweden knock it out on their next shot.

But a superb shot from Sweden throws a spanner in the works, knocking out GB and leaving them with work to do to take anything from this first round.

Dodds with the final shot – it’s there! Superbly placed into the button while knocking Sweden out for 1-0!

We’re just about ready to begin here, and Mouat and Dodds will have the hammer to start with in this semi-final.

US skier Lindsey Vonn was moved to intensive care “for privacy reasons” rather than medical necessity, according to the Daily Mail.

The report says that Vonn, 41, “is in intensive care” following her incident on Sunday, “although it is understood that she was transferred there for the sake of extra privacy, rather than any greater medical necessity”.

Vonn reportedly underwent two surgeries on a leg fracture in a hospital in Treviso, though her team have not provided any further updates on her condition.

Here are a couple more explainers regarding the ins and outs of curling ahead of that mixed doubles semi-final!

Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat have emerged for their semi-final! A reminder that they face Sweden for a place in the gold medal match.

Team GB curling mixed doubles team Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat, who won the world title together in 2021, could guarantee a medal if they win their semi-final on Monday.

The pair lost their aura of invincibility on Sunday when they were beaten for the first time in eight matches, with Switzerland edging them 7-5, but had already secured a berth in the last four.

But they returned to winning ways with a 9-6 victory over Italy – and a boisterous home crowd – later in the day. That result ensured they topped the group and will be top seeds in the last four, and crucially meant they will have the hammer in their semi-final where they will play fourth seeds Sweden.

Lindsey Vonn’s decision to compete in Sunday’s women’s downhill was for her to take, according to International Olympic Committee sports director Pierre Ducrey.

He said: “I think it’s clear in the downhill we give athletes opportunities to train to make sure they are able to go down the slope in the way it should be for all the athletes.

“That happened, she was able to train and made the choice, with the excellent team that she has, to take part, so from that point of view I don’t think we should say that she should or shouldn’t have participated.

“This decision was really hers and her team’s to take. She made the decision and unfortunately it led to the injury.”

Here’s the report from that qualifying run from Mia Brookes…

Mia Brookes left it late to qualify for the Winter Olympics Big Air final but produced one of the best runs of the night to progress after a nervy start.

The 19-year-old recorded a total score of 167 on a freezing cold night at Livigno Snow Park, finishing third to ensure she can compete for gold on Monday.

Going ninth of 29 competitors, she left herself with it all to do after miscontrolling the landing on her first jump and hitting the deck, scoring a mere 29.75 and slotting into 24th place.

Several figures from the world of speed skiing have commented on Lindsey’s Vonn’s decision to race and her eventual crash, with most pros and pundits defending the American.

“I firmly believe that this has to be decided by the individual athlete,” FIS president Johan Eliasch said on Monday.

“And in her case, she certainly knows her injuries on her body better than anybody else. And if you look around here today with all the athletes, the athletes yesterday, every single athlete has a small injury of some kind.

“What is also important for people to understand, that the accident that she had yesterday, she was incredibly unlucky. It was a one in a 1,000,” Eliasch added.

Vonn’s teammate Keely Cashman added: “People that don’t know ski racing don’t really understand what happened yesterday. She hooked her arm on the gate, which twisted her around. She was going probably 70 miles an hour, and so that twists your body around. That has nothing to do with her ACL, nothing to with her knee. I think a lot of people are ridiculing that, and a lot people don’t (know) what’s going on.”

Senior officials at the Winter Olympics have defended Lindsey Vonn’s decision to compete in Sunday’s downhill just nine days after rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) – with the skiing great’s horror crash described as “a one in 1000” accident.

Vonn’s decision to compete in the downhill despite the injury to her knee, and whether she should have been allowed to do so, has since been the subject of some debate.

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) does not check on the injury statuses of athletes, while Vonn’s team-mates and competitors have also backed her decision to race.