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0956: Switzerland’sFabienne Suterknocks Mancuso off top spot.Stay on top of the live timings- more so than the organisers, on recent evidence - using our real-time results pages.
0954: Poutiainen has gone fourth in a total time of 2:28.17, which we’re told has come from a back-up system, but which may as well have been plucked out of thin air. Who would ever know The bigger problem is forAnja Paersonof Sweden, who has been held at the start line for quite some time. She goes motoring off down the hill but loses time in the middle section, which Julia Mancuso absolutely nailed. Mancuso retains the lead, Paerson sits down in 10th.
0950: Somewhat embarrassingly, the computers appear to have eaten the time ofTanja Poutiainenof Finland. The clocks stopped working, Poutiainen is waiting patiently at the finish, and there is now a pause in proceedings. We wait while somebody gives her a Finnish time.
0944: The top 30 skiers in the women’s giant slalom are going in reverse order in this second run, so we are slowly getting to the cream of the crop with half of those 30 gone. From 31 onwards it’s a long, long tail before we reach the 68th and final competitor, who happens to beMarjan Kalhor- Iran’s first female Winter Olympian.
0942:Julia Mancusohad her first run curtailed by an incredibly rare yellow flag after US team-mate Lindsey Vonn’s crash on Wednesday but, following a much smoother second run, she holds the temporary lead in a time of 2:27.66.
0939: Two ends gone in the women’s semi-finals: China 0-2 Sweden, Canada 1-1 Switzerland.
0936: Britain’sChemmy Alcottis well off the pace, and her overnight aspiration of hitting the top 15 at this competition is looking like a pipe dream. Her total time is 2:29.94, more than a second behind current leader Ana Drev.
0932: Italy’sDenise Karbonis first to go, and - for the time being - leads with a combined time of 2:29.37.
0929: It’s giant slalom time. Check out thewomen’s start liston our stats pages,watch this very sweet videoof Chemmy Alcott and Julia Mancuso sharing a moment, then settle in for the second and final run of the competition.
0923: Sweden, meanwhile, have gone 1-0 up over China. I don’t know if they meant to or not. The Chinese are smiling, but then that doesn’t mean much, does it (See 0848 entry.)
0920: Curling must be one of the few sports in which it is possible to accidentally take the lead. Canada’s women have gone 1-0 up against Switzerland without meaning to, or really wanting to.
The reason being: if you win an end in curling, your opponent has “the hammer” - the last stone - in the next end. So by accidentally leaving a stone in the scoring area and going 1-0 up, Canada have handed Switzerland the hammer, which means the Swiss will have the final say in the second end.
0911: If you’re British and feeling especially miserablist, you might like to indulge in Anna Thompson’sblog on the failure of the GB curlersat the Winter Olympics.
0905: Swiss curling skipMirjam Ottstares into the camera and looks genuinely terrified of it. She, unlike opposite number Cheryl Bernard, doesn’t appear to resemble any US sitcom characters (see 0848 entry).
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0901: We’ll also have theski jumping sectionof the Nordic Combined (which combines ski jumping and cross-country skiing, and is Nordic) in about an hour’s time. If that event isn’t cross-country enough for you, there is some 100% not-from-concentrate cross-country when thewomen’s 4x5km relaystarts two hours from now, at the same time as the women’s ice hockey bronze medal game betweenSweden and Finlandbegins.
0857: Curling begins our day but it isn’t long until thewomen’s giant slalomresumes - a bonus event, given it was supposed to be completed on Wednesday until fog interviewed.Elisabeth Goerglof Austria leads, while Lindsey Vonn crashed in Wednesday’s first run and is out of the competition. Britain’sChemmy Alcottwill be sixth to go.
0851: Both those games are starting in just under 10 minutes’ time and you can watch the semi-final of your choice live on our website if you’re in the UK. Alternatively you can follow eitherCanada v SwitzerlandorChina v Swedenusing our real-time results pages.
0848: It’s the women who play first. Canada, led by Cheryl Bernard - who looks a bit like the mum out ofMalcolm In The Middle- take on Switzerland, while China play Sweden. The Chinese coachthreatened to leave the teama few days ago, saying “they think it’s funny when they lose”. I can tell you the British team don’t share that particular affliction. Team GB’s women’s skip, Eve Muirhead, was in the live text cooler at the back end of Wednesday looking utterly demoralised. Both the British men and women are out.
0844: Hello, everybody. I’ve got two words for you: curling semi-finalsThis article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.