Winter Olympics 2022 day eight: GB women’s curling, ski jump final and more – live!

LIVE – Updated at 14:38

Beijing 2022 liveblog: Join Martin Belam for updates from day eight of the winter Games.

Australia’s Jaclyn Narracott was in the lead halfway through the event. She does the penultimate run. Can she do it? Could it be Australia’s first ever medal in the skeleton? SHE CAN! SHE CAN! Silver at worst! Her total time is 4:08.24. Hannah Neise from Germany will now go for gold!

Germany’s Tina Hermann doesn’t go faster than Kimberley Bos, and so the Dutch athlete is guaranteed a bronze medal at worst, and Hermann misses out!

We are right at the sharp end of the women’s skeleton now. Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands goes into the lead with an error-strewn run. The three fastest women are now set to slide. Tina Hermann of Germany, currently third, goes next.

Just to spite me, I got the number of ends wrong in the women’s curling again. They only played nine because Great Britain have beaten the US 10-5 with an end to spare. The British women’s team really needed that. They are now 2 for 2. The US had been unbeaten up to that point.

I got over-excited earlier when I thought we were close to the last end of the women’s curling match between Team GB and the US. I forgot that it is eight ends in the mixed doubles, but ten ends in the full-scale team event. D’oh! I blame the fact that I am also watching the figure skating and the ice hockey and the skeleton and also it is community day on Pokémon Go and I’m under strict instructions from my eight-year-old that I have to catch three shiny Hoppip for him today. The curling is 7-5 to Team GB in the ninth end. Which really is the last-but-one.

The other matches stand ROC 5-6 Japan, Denmark 4-6 Switzerland and Sweden 6-8 China.

We are halfway through the final heat