Winter Olympics: A daily guide – BBC Sport

Alpine Skiing: Women’s Downhill Skiing (10:30-12:50)

This race marks the return of the legendary American figure skater Lindsey Vonn, six years after her retirement from the sport.

Downhill is the 41-year-old’s specialty and she has won 45 World Cup races in the event, as well as her only Olympic gold medal in 2010.

We’ll have to see how much impact the collision has on the final World Cup finals before the Winter Olympics hamper Vaughn’s showing.

Keep an eye out for her amazing compatriot Breezy Johnson, who is the 2025 world champion.

The host nation will be hoping for at least one place on the podium, although World Cup champion Federica Brignone only returned to action in January, nine months after breaking multiple bones in her left leg and tearing her anterior cruciate ligament during a giant crash at the Italian Championships.

Bergamo native Sofia Goggia took silver four years ago despite suffering a knee injury just 23 days before the event.

Cross-country skiing: Men’s snowboarding (11:30-12:50)

It is the fifth Winter Olympics for Briton Andrew Musgrave, who achieved a best Olympic result of seventh place in skiing in 2018.

In this event, competitors complete a 10 km distance using the classic technique before changing skis and a 10 km distance using the free technique.

Johannes Hosflot Klaebo is the world champion and this could be the Norwegian’s first gold medal at these Games.

Figure Skating: Women’s Big Air Qualification (18:30-20:45)

Britain’s Mia Brooks has every chance of becoming the youngest Briton to win a Winter Olympic medal in 78 years.

The rider from Cheshire has just turned 19 but has already won back-to-back Big Air World Cup titles and comes to Italy fresh off the back of winning medals at the X Games.

But she will face a crowded field, including Japan’s Kokomo Murase, Riera Iwabuchi and Mari Fukada, who made a clean sweep of the medals at last year’s world championships.

Austrian Anna Jacir aims to win the tournament for the third time in a row at the age of 34.

Maisie Hill, whose career was nearly ended by a horrific training accident three years ago, will be Britain’s other representative.

Figure Skating: Team (20:55)

The group figure skating competition concludes with men’s free skating.

The United States won the gold medal after the Russian team was demoted in Beijing in a drawn-out saga that delayed the medal ceremony by more than two years.

The United States is the World Cup team champion and won three of the four individual events at last year’s world championships, but Japan and Georgia will push them hard.