Winter Olympics day 12: freestyle skiing, slalom, ice hockey and more – live!

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Live updates: There are plenty more medals up for grabs in Beijing on Wednesday. Join Emma Kemp for the latest news and action.

Cross-country skiing: Austria, Germany and the US are jostling for the top three positions in the first semi-final of the women’s team sprint classic. At the fourth exchange, the US have edged ahead but it’s all these three countries in terms of contenders. Switzerland are pretty clean in fourth ahead of the rest of the field.

I am no expert on cross-country skiing (to say the least) but am intrigued by the tactical approaches to this. The US’s Rosie Brennan is taking a slightly wider track as the others cruise in her slipstream. Germany’s Katharina Hennig is shaking up the pace with bursts of energy but still sits third. Austria is ahead now.

The rules are: The top four teams from each semi-final qualify to the final, as do the next two fastest teams from both semis.

Curling: Do we need an update? We need an update. It is midway through the latest men’s round-robin session and GB lead ROC 5-2 after five ends. Sergei Glukhov scores late in the first half of this contest but it’ll take a lot to overturn this deficit.

In other matches, China and Switzerland are neck and neck at 3-3 and Italy are 5-3 ahead against Denmark.

Here are those comments on Valieva from the IOC I mentioned earlier (full story below):

The International Olympic Committee has dismissed claims that a double standard was applied to US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson compared to Russian skater Kamila Valieva after both tested positive for a banned drug.

Related: IOC deny Richardson’s accusations of double standards over Valieva

Ice hockey: Big news in the men’s competition at the National Indoor