Winter Olympics 2026: France beat USA to figure skating gold as GB’s wait for medal goes on – live

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The riders are having to squint into the sun to see their scores come up. There's lots of USA support on the slopes, first for 19-year old Bea Kim, who looks happy to settle into fifth, then for the queen of half pipe, Chloe Kim, who is aiming for her third consecutive gold medal in this discipline. Oh and she's also just finished a degree at Stamford. It's a cracking start - a big backside 720, frontside 900, and something floaty and turny which the commentators describe as the penny black" of halfpipe. She immediately settles into first.

Women's halfpipe qualifying: Thinking about my attempts to stand on a skateboard as young women in baggy snow trousers zig-zag and float across the halfpipe.