Winter Olympics 2022 day nine: ice hockey, curling and more – live!

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Live updates: All the action from day nine of the Winter Games. Join Martin Belam for the latest.

While we wait for the women’s 500m speed skating to start in just under fifteen minutes, here is an update on the scores in the men’s curling. After seven ends Team GB still look to be comfortable against Denmark, leading 5-2. But you know how quickly those scores can swing. The US are 7-3 up against China after six ends. Italy have just scored three in the sixth end to take the lead against Switzerland 5-4. Tight, that one now.

There has already been a flurry of goals in the ice hockey. Canada have put three past China in the first ten minutes to make it 3-0 early doors, and the US and Germany have exchanged a goal each to make it 1-1.

Through a skeleton career almost derailed by a lack of funding and a severe concussion, Jackie Narracott found a way to win Australia’s most unlikely Olympic medal.

Steven Bradbury became part of folklore with his speed-skating gold medal heroics while Chloe Esposito snatched a surprise modern pentathlon gold, but Narracott winning a silver medal in a sport where Australia has no facilities or training program tops the lot.

The 31-year-old, who has not been home to Queensland since 2019, scorched to second behind German Hannah Neise.

She made history, winning Australia’s first Olympic sliding medal, and it is the first time Australia has won four medals at a Winter Games.

Team chef de mission Geoff Lipshut admitted he thought he would never see an Australian sliding medal, with Narracott finishing 16th in PyeongChang.

“We actually tried to run a skeleton program from 2006 to 2014 and we actually didn’t get the results and that’s why Jackie is so remarkable,” Lipshut