Winter Olympics live: Great Britain target medals in ice dance and men’s team curling begins

Zoe Atkin - freestyle skiing

Zoe Atkin finished ninth in her debut Olympics in Beijing but has taken the sport by storm since then, and is well placed to follow in the footsteps of older sister Izzy, who won Britain’s first-ever Olympic skiing medal with slopestyle bronze in Pyeongchang 2018.

The 23-year-old freestyle skier is the reigning world champion in halfpipe and won the overall World Cup crystal globe in the discipline last season, sharing the title with China’s Li Fanghui. She has carried that stunning form into the 2025-26 season, winning a second X Games gold last week, and has two silvers and a gold medal on the World Cup circuit so far this year, making her a heavy favourite for gold in Milano-Cortina.

The Netherlands’ Jutta Leerdam won gold in the 1,000m speed skating on Sunday, setting a new Olympic record as the Dutch sealed the top two spots on the podium.

Leerdam, twice a world champion, was in the final pair to skate and had already seen teammate Femke Kok set a new Olympic benchmark of 1:12.59 to go into the provisional gold medal position.

On Wednesday evening glitter, sequins and gold dust will descend on the Milano Ice Hockey Arena. The world’s best ice dancers will perform their hearts out in Milan for a chance at glory.

Team GB’s Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson are among five teams in contention for a medal, which would make them Britain’s first figure skating medallists since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in Lillehammer 1994.

19-year-old snowboarder Mia Brookes is a British favourite for a gold medal at the Games. She is making her Olympic debut in Milano-Cortina but is already a world champion and World Cup winner, having won the overall World Cup crystal globe last season alongside a second big air title.

She became the youngest world champion in snowboarding history with slopestyle gold in Georgia in 2023, simultaneously becoming GB’s first-ever world champion in the event, and is on top form heading to Italy having won X Games gold in slopestyle and bronze in Big Air this weekend.

Following a fourth placed finish in the big air competition, she will compete next in slopestyle with the potential for a medal at her maiden Games.

Mia Brookes went down fighting as she narrowly missed out on Great Britain's first medal of the Milan and Cortina Winter Olympics in the women's snowboard Big Air at Livigno Snow Park.

Starting her last of three runs in third place, Brookes went for broke and came agonisingly close to becoming the first female athlete to land a backside 1620 in competition.

But Brookes slightly over-rotated and was penalised for her landing, meaning she slipped a position behind winner Kokomo Murase of Japan, New Zealander Zio Sadowski Synnott and Seungeun Yu of South Korea.

It marked another near-miss on a day that had promised so much for Team GB, with Kirsty Muir earlier also taking fourth place in the women's ski slopestyle final.

Four years ago, athletes arrived in Beijing for a Winter Olympics unlike any other. Not only was it held in subdued circumstances, under the grim shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, it also proved a damp squib on the sporting front.

Team GB came away with just two medals – secured in the final two days of the Games – a far cry from the record five won at the previous two editions.

Curling was one of the few British success stories. Bruce Mouat’s men’s rink narrowly missed out in the gold medal match to Sweden, while Eve Muirhead’s women’s rink beat Japan to become Olympic champions.

“So close, but so far. Hurts the same as four years ago, really. I don't want to ugly cry, so I'm just going to stop there,” says a teary Jennifer Dodds after a second fourth placed finish in the mixed curling doubles yesterday.

”I feel like there's been a few 4th places for Team GB over the last couple of days, and, hey, that shows how close we are in so many events.

“I just want to say a huge thank you to the National Lottery as well. We wouldn't be able to play a sport we love together without them.”

Alpine skiing

• 10.30am–12.50pm: Men's super-G 🏅

Biathlon

• 1.15pm–3.10pm: Women's 15km individual 🏅

Curling

• 6.05pm–9.05pm: Men's round robin 1

Figure skating

• 6.30pm–10.15pm: Ice dance free dance 🏅

Freestyle skiing

• 10am–10.45am: Women's moguls qualification second round
• 1.15pm–2.35pm: Women's moguls final (depending on light situation) 🏅

Ice hockey

• 3.40pm–6.10pm: Men's preliminary round
• 8.10pm–10.40pm: Men's preliminary round

Luge

• 4.30pm–7.40pm: Men's doubles runs 1 and 2 🏅 Women's doubles runs 1 and 2 🏅

Nordic combined

• 9am–9.45am: Men's individual Gundersen normal hill ski jumping
• 12.45pm–1.35pm: Men's individual Gundersen normal hill 10km 🏅

Snowboarding

• 9.30am–11.30am: Women's snowboard halfpipe qualification
• 6.30pm–8.30pm: Men's snowboard halfpipe qualification

Speed skating

• 5.30pm–7pm: Men's 1000m 🏅

History repeated itself in brutal fashion for mixed doubles curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds, who lost the bronze medal match for a second Olympics in succession.

The pair swept through the round-robin stage, winning eight of their nine matches, and were the top seeds heading into the all-important knockouts.

At the start of Monday, Britain had the chance to open their medal account for the Games by winning two Olympic medals at Livigno Snow Park – and guarantee another if mixed doubles curlers Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds won their semi-final against Sweden.

But Kirsty Muir fell short of a freeski slopestyle medal by just 0.41 points, and the best the curlers can achieve now is bronze after they were hammered 9-3 by Sweden, with a tense battle for the podium to come on Tuesday.

So as night fell in the Italian Alps, British hopes for a ‘Magic Monday’ rested entirely on the young shoulders of snowboarder Mia Brookes.