Winter Olympics 2022 day five: luge glory for Germany, curling and more – live!

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Live updates: Curling, luge, ice hockey and skeleton are all on the menu at the Beijing Games today. Join Adam Collins for the latest action.

Curling: Handy penultimate stone from ROC, putting them into two shots. But still, so much space for John Schuster. But instead, he drives hard and straight to knock both of those aforementioned shots away. Played. Sergei Glukhov buys some time to stop the clock but it’s far from the perfect stone, just clipping the edge of the four foot ring. So, over to Schuster with loads of space and he makes no mistake, right alongside the button it lands. USA, the defending champions, win their tournament opener 6-5 after an extra end.

Curling: Back to the first extra end between USA and ROC; the Americans have the hammer. They call their time out with three stones to play but plenty of space on the dancefloor.

Ice Hockey: At the start of the final period, Denmark lead the Czech Republic 2-1 in the opening match of men’s Pool B. If they can hold on, that’d be a big result for the world No12 knocking off the No6.

Curling: A bit going on with Norway and Switzerland too, with the Swiss presented with a chance to take their match to an extra end as well if they can collect a second shot with the final stone of regulation... but it is way off target: the Norwegians take it 7-4.

Curling: Fabulous work under pressure from both teams in this final end, really going punch for punch. There’s no more than a centimetre in this so the Russians have to land it on the button to get this to an extra end with their last stone of the night. And it isn’t to be! He runs it into the guard. So who has shot? It’s so close. If it’s the USA they win 6-4, if it’s ROC then we’re going again.