Alpine snowboarding: Girls’s downhill (10:30-12:50)

This race marks the return of legendary American skier Lindsey Vonn, six years after her retirement from the game.

Downhill is the 41-year-old’s speciality and he or she’s received a report 45 World Cup races on this occasion, plus her solely Olympic gold medal in 2010.

We must see how a lot of an have an effect on crashing within the ultimate World Cup downhill earlier than the Winter Olympics hinders Vonn’s bid.

Hold an eye fixed out for her superbly-named compatriot Breezy Johnson, who’s the 2025 world champion.

The host nation will likely be hopeful of not less than one podium place, though World Cup champion Federica Brignone solely returned to motion in January, 9 months after breaking a number of bones in her left leg and tearing her ACL throughout a large slalom crash on the Italian Championships.

Bergamo native Sofia Goggia took downhill silver 4 years in the past regardless of struggling a knee damage simply 23 days earlier than the occasion.

Cross nation snowboarding: Males’s skiathlon (11:30-12:50)

It is a fifth Winter Olympics for Britain’s Andrew Musgrave, whose greatest Olympic result’s seventh within the skiathlon in 2018.

On this occasion, opponents full 10km utilizing the classical method earlier than altering skis and doing 10km utilizing the freestyle method.

Johannes Hosflot Klaebo is the world champion and this could possibly be the primary of a bobble-hatful of golds for the Norwegian at these Video games.

Snowboard: Girls’s massive air qualification (18:30-20:45)

Britain’s Mia Brookes has each likelihood of turning into Britain’s youngest Winter Olympic medallist for 78 years.

The rider from Cheshire has simply turned 19 however has already received back-to-back massive air World Cup titles and involves Italy recent from profitable medals within the X Video games.

However she is going to face a stacked area, together with Japan’s Kokomo Murase, Reira Iwabuchi and Mari Fukada, who shaped a clear sweep of the medals finally 12 months’s World Championships.

Austria’s Anna Gasser is aiming to win the occasion for the third Video games in a row on the age of 34.

Maisie Hill, whose profession was virtually ended by a horrific coaching accident three years in the past, will likely be Britain’s different consultant.

Determine skating: Crew (20:55)

The crew determine skating competitors concludes with the boys’s free skate.

The USA received gold after the Russian crew was demoted in Beijing in a protracted saga that delayed the medal ceremony by over two years.

The USA are the reigning World Crew Trophy champions and received three of the 4 particular person occasions finally 12 months’s World Championships however Japan and Georgia will likely be pushing them arduous.