Winter Olympics day two: New Zealand win first-ever gold; men’s downhill – live!

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Curling catchup

A devastating blow for the medal hopes of the USA’s Vicky Persinger and Chris Plys, as the Czech Republic took a 10-8 win. The US curlers took their power play in the seventh end, but the Czechs played brilliantly to hold them to one point and head into the last end down one but with hammer.

Plys threw a double takeout to clean up a congested house, leaving the USA looking likely to avoid giving up a big number. Persinger’s last shot stopped in the four-foot circle and was outcounting the Czech stones, but it wasn’t buried behind other rocks, and Zuzana Paulova coolly picked out Persinger’s stone to score three for the win.

The two teams are now tied at 3-4 and would need some help to overhaul Norway (3-3) and at least one of the teams with only two losses.

One of those team is Team GB, which eked out a 6-5 win over China. Down 4-1 at the halfway point, Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds roared back to score three on their power play in the fifth. China called its power play in the sixth and botched the final shot, giving Mouat and Dodds a steal of one. China got one back in the seventh, but that left Team GB with the hammer in the decisive eighth end. Mouat swatted away several Chinese guards, and the game ended on a missed takeout attempt from Fan SuYuan.

Three games are coming up at 2:05 p.m. Beijing time, which would’ve been the next game for the now-departing Australian team.

(Corrected after originally saying “1:05 a.m. Beijing time,” which seems rather inconvenient. It’s 1:05 a.m. Eastern time and a reasonable 2:05 p.m. in Beijing.)

Downhill