Winter Olympics 2022 day 15: Sweden pip GB to curling gold after extra end – live!

LIVE – Updated at 12:09

Rolling report: There are plenty more medals to be won as the Games in Beijing reach their penultimate day. Join Martin Belam for updates.

Also just starting as we get into the evening in Beijing is the bronze medal match in the women’s curling. This feels like a distinct lesson in keeping your form up right to the last moment. Switzerland only lost one of their nine round-robin matches. Sweden only lost two. And then both of them contrived to lose their semi-finals and find themselves out of contention for the gold, despite clearly being the two strongest teams in the competition.

They played each other on Valentine’s Day during the round robin stage – Sweden emerged victorious 6-5 in that match. There will be no love lost between them today etc etc

Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi went first, and they’ve just set a new track record again – touching 133kph at one point. They are the first women on this track to go sub 1:01.00, with a time of 1:00.70.

Fellow Germans Mariama Jamanka and Alexandra Burghardt are second down. They record a time of 1:00.98, which would have been a track record if they’d gone first. It means they’ve slightly slipped back in second place.

The gap between Nolte and Jamanka at the top of the standings will be 0.78 going into the final heat. That’s a lot of time to try and make up, although fractions of seconds are very easy to lose in the bobsleigh.

Hello, Martin Belam here. The third heat of the women’s 2-women bobsleigh is about to take place. They do four runs in total, and we are now down to the last twenty sleds. Slightly unsatisfactorily from a sporting spectacle point of view, on this run they go in the order of the standings, fastest first, so it is a bit like