Winter Olympics LIVE: Team GB’s Katie Ormerod fails to advance to snowboarding slopestyle final

LIVE – Updated at 06:52

The 2022 Winter Olympics gets into full swing on Saturday, the day after the opening ceremony at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium.

The ceremony took place at the Bird’s Nest stadium, built and used for the 2008 summer Olympic games, as Beijing becomes the first city to host both editions of the games. The stadium also served as the venue for Track and Field as well the men’s 2008 gold medal soccer game, but will not host any sporting events in 2022.

The events will get underway with mixed doubles curling matches between Australia and Norway, and Switzerland and Sweden.

Great Britain’s Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat will return to the ice in mixed doubles curling with round-robin match-ups against the Czech Republic and Italy.

In skiing, Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury, the defending Olympic gold medalist, a 3-time world champion, and 9-time overall World Cup champion, will compete in the Men’s Moguls Final.

Dutch speed skating star Irene Schouten will try and secure gold in the women’s 3,000m.

Schouten could become the second female skater in history to win four gold medals at a single Games, matching the mark set by Russia’s Lidia Skoblikova at Innsbruck 1964.

Katie Ormerod finally fulfilled her dream of becoming an Olympian but did not advance to the final of the women’s snowboard slopestyle final at Genting Snow Park.

The 24-year-old hovered in the 12th and final qualifying place after her first run but a worse score on her second run saw her slide seven places to 19th on the first full day of the Beijing Games.

Nevertheless, it was a notable day for Ormerod, who had fallen on the eve of competition in Pyeongchang in 2018, shattering her heel and subsequently requiring seven operations and the insertion of