Winter Olympics 2022 day four: Sweden beat GB to curling bronze, ice hockey news – live!

LIVE – Updated at 11:15

Live updates: Old rivals face off on the ice on Tuesday in Beijing, while the world’s best skiers take to the slopes. Adam Collins has the latest.

Ice Hockey: Japan’s women get the Czech Republic in overtime, saluting 3-2. First and second in the group, they will both advance to the quarter finals starting later in the week.

Thanks, Luke. Hello again – back for another exciting night session with the clock just now striking 7pm in the Olympic city. Good morning (afternoon, evening) to you all.

I’ve arrived at the interval of the men’s 1500m speedskating final at The Oval - with 15 pairs to skate in total, seven are to come. In the tenth, the gold medallist from 2018, Kjeld Nuis, after his Dutch countryman Thomas Krol, goes in the tenth - the current world champ. Young gun Canadian Connor Howe will take off last, alongside Norway’s Allan Dahl Johansson. This should be fun.

In about 25 minutes, we’ll reach the cross country skiing sprint semi-finals and medal runs. The men’s defending champion is Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (NOR) with the two other members from that Pyeongchang podium - Federico Pellegrino (ITA) and Alexander Bolshunov (Not Russia) – still in the mix as well.

In the women’s race, we’ll be wartching for Maiken Caspersen (NOR), who was runner up in 2018 but doesn’t have Stina Hilsson (SWE) to deal with this time as she’s switched to the biathlon. But the favourite looks to be Natalya Nepryayeva (ROC), leader in the cross country world cup standings over the last couple of years.

In 50 minutes we’ll be at the luge as well for the pointy end of the women’s singles – runs three then four. This could be the event of the day with all-timer Natalie Geisenberger (GER), who won the event in