Winter Olympics 2022 day five: speed skating and luge medals up for grabs – live!

LIVE – Updated at 12:32

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.

Luge: Two Two Tobys, Wendl and Arl - the double-champions - now 34-years-old having been doing this together for over 20 years. And they’re away safely and quickly, ahead by a whisker at the first check point. Can they keep it up? They can! Another track record; they’re into the lead by 0.045 of a second ahead of Eggert and Benecken. A reminder that the doubles is two runs only with the second starting as soon as the first round is complete - a quick game is a good game.

Luge: And it’s brilliant from Eggert and Benecken (GER) at the first time of asking, breaking the track record in the second run of the entire competition. Wendl and Arlt are set to slide fifth. Game on.

Luge: As we wait for the semi-finals of the men’s 1500m, over to the sliding centre for the first of two runs in the doubles to determine the Olympic champions over the next couple of hours with Germans Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt going for three gold medals in a row. But they’ll have to see of fellow Germans Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, who have been the in-form pair over the last two years.

Speed skating: Hanne Desmet (BEL), who made the final of the 500m, is through to the semis of the 1000m with fellow youngster Courtney Sarault of Canada. Some drama in the seventh heat with the TV referee called on again, which resulted in Alyson Charles (CAN) advancing for the second time this week after hitting the deck, joining Natalia Maliszewska (POL) and Ekaterina Efremonkova (ROC). To complete the heats, Kirsten Santos (USA) and Petra Jaszapati (HUN) through without concern. “All the big