Beijing 2022 preview for 17 February: Key events not to miss at the Olympic Winter Games

One of the biggest events on the Winter Olympics schedule is decided today as the medals are awarded in the women's singles event in figure skating (18:08*).

That's one of six medal events on the programme as the Games enters its final few days. If you don't have time to watch all of them, here are three you might want to focus on:

This is it. The biggest rivalry in international women's ice hockey, except this time, it's for a gold medal.

The USA beat Canada in a shootout at PyeongChang 2018 and once again the ultimate bragging rights will belong to one of these two teams - as they have in five of the six Olympic finals since the women's tournament made its debut in 1998.

Both the men's (09:05) and women's (14:05) round robins end today, including a clash between Canada (Brad Jacobs) and Bruce Mouat's Great Britain rink in the last men's round-robin draw in the morning.

Those matches will set the final round-robin table with the top four teams in each making the semi-finals.

With the men's semis taking place in the evening (20:05–23:00), look for the likes of Canada, Great Britain, USA (John Shuster), and Sweden (Niklas Edin) to be among the teams pushing for those final four spots.

Today is the day we find out whether the ROC women secure a sweep of the medal places in the women's free skate.

With world champion Anna Shcherbakova and world record score holder Kamila Valieva among the three ROC skaters, the question is if one of the outsiders can nip into the bronze-medal position.

The results of Valieva, who, according to a CAS decision, will continue to participate in the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, are provisional since there are pending proceedings with regard to the results of an anti-doping test of the