Winter Olympics 2022 day five: Shiffrin out of slalom; snowboard cross final – live!

LIVE – Updated at 06:43

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

Thanks Beau and good day to you. Let’s head over to the women’s slalom, where world champion Petra Vlhova is in the gold medal position and is guaranteed to win Slovakia’s first alpine medal at a Winter Olympics.

Sara Hector of Sweden, the gold medalist in Monday’s giant slalom, was nailing the second run and seemed as if she might take Vlhova’s lead but then skied off course.

Somehow, somehow(!), Vlhova has found another eight tenths of a second in her second run which is enough to secure the gold. Silver goes to Katharina Liensberger of Austria and Wendy Holdener of Switzerland.

The last rider is the USA’s Chase Josey. With a 60.50, he’ll bump former US rider Louis Vito out of the last spot and put three Americans in the final 12.

It looks good. It looks very good.

And it’s just good enough. 69.50. Twelfth.

That’s going to be all for me today. Over to Emma Kemp. Thanks for following along with me on a dramatic day at the Games.

A score over 73 would get the three-time champion into the final. A 60 might be enough. Once upon a time, that was no problem at all. This time?

Yes!

He’s had bigger runs in his life, of course. But a frontside 1260 is impressive enough. Quite impressive, say the judges. That’s an 86.25, good for fourth.

Team GB’s Charlie Guest is swatting her way through slalom gates as if perturbed, but she loses most of her momentum on a turn two-thirds of the way down and has to turn nearly 90 degrees to make the next gate. She’s down to eighth, with no shot at the top 10.

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