Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics daily briefing: Gisin gold, Smith’s F-bomb

Today in a nutshell: Gold for Gisin as Shiffrin crashes out again, and Canada triumph over the US to take ice hockey title

Next up: Team GB’s fading hopes of any Beijing medals are in the hands of the curling teams. The men face the US in their semi-final tonight

Ester Ledecka briefly threatened to pull off another unlikely double-double, but in the end it was a one-two for Switzerland in the women’s combined Alpine skiing. Michelle Gisin retained her Olympic title ahead of compatriot Wendy Holdener. Afterwards, Gisin revealed the motto that has spurred Swiss skiers on at these Games – “Drink wine, ski fast”. Gisin enjoyed a glass of wine with teammates before her bronze in super-G, and “we drank wine again yesterday of course … it seems to work for me very well.”

Having got herself into a decent position after the first run, heavy pre-Olympics favourite Mikaela Shiffrin again missed a gate and skied out. The six-times world champion has not so much been skiing against everyone else at these Games, as skiing against herself. She tried to put on a brave face in a BBC interview, saying “if I can be the biggest joke of the Games, at least someone’s smiling!”

Canada are the women’s ice hockey gold medallists after a 3-2 victory over the US. The Canadians built a 3-0 lead and hung on for the win to capture their fifth Olympic title in seven tournaments, with four coming at the expense of the Americans. The Canadians outclassed the field in Beijing, going seven games unbeaten, for an aggregate score of 57-10, and beating the US twice. Finland overpowered Switzerland 4-0 late on Wednesday to claim their fourth women’s ice hockey bronze medal.

Team GB’s women curlers advanced to the semi-finals by a narrow squeak. Three teams