Winter Olympics live: Curling finals updates as Team GB look to finally secure first medal
Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds face off against Italy for a bronze medal this afternoon
Team GB have the opportunity to secure their first medal of the Winter Olympics 2026 after narrowly missing out on Monday.
Kirsty Muir and Mia Brookes both cam agonisingly close to finishing in the medal positions of the freeski slopestyle and big air competitions while curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds lost their mixed doubles semi-final and the chance to secure at least a silver medal.
However, Mouat and Dodds are back in action this afternoon when they take on the World and Olympic champions Italy in the bronze medal match. It seems like an intimidating contest but the British duo topped the table in the round robin stage and if they can hit their best levels they may just secure the first medal of the Games for Team GB.
In the gold medal match Sweden will face the United States after the latter edged out Italy 9-8 in their own semi-final clash on Monday.
Elsewhere, US skier Lindesy Vonn issued an update on her condition from hospital after suffering a broken leg in Sunday’s downhill crash just nine days after she ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Late on Monday, the 41-year-old wrote on Instagram that she has “no regrets” about competing even though her “Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would”.
Follow all the latest updates from Milano-Cortina 2026 in our live blog below:
Ice dancers Fear and Lewis Gibson in the hunt for medal after rhythm dance
Ice dancers Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson are in the hunt for a first British figure skating medal in three decades, after finishing fourth in Monday’s rhythm dance.
The pair scored 85.47 for their Spice Girls medley, a crowd favourite at the Milano Ice Skating Arena, but will have to improve in Wednesday’s free dance - the second of two programmes each team must skate.
Ice dancers Fear and Lewis Gibson in the hunt for medal after rhythm dance
UK Sport reveals medal targets for Winter Olympics
UK Sport announced its medal ambitions for the Winter Olympics.
The Games have the potential to be the best ever from a British perspective, with UK Sport setting a target range of 4-8 medals for the Olympics and 2-5 for the Paralympics.
Britain’s highest total at a Winter Olympics is five medals, a landmark achieved at Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2028.
Kirsty Muir and Mia Brookes just missed out on medals yesterday (both finished fourth in their events) while curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds could clinch bronze in the mixed doubles curling later today.
How to watch the Winter Olympics on BBC
The BBC will also provide some coverage, with two streams of live daytime action: between 9am and 10pm each day on BBC One and BBC Two, and an Olympics Extra live stream on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport from 8am to 11pm.
In total the BBC will broadcast 450 hours of live sport, with two-time skeleton Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold, figure skating gold medallist Robin Cousins, curling gold medallist Vicky Wright, and former bobsledder Montell Douglas among those providing analysis.
How to watch every Winter Olympics event online and on TV
Viewers in the UK and Ireland will be able to watch more than 850 hours of action across every sport, venue and medal event on TNT Sports and streaming service discovery+.
Coverage starts from £3.99/month in the U.K and €4.99/month in Ireland on discovery+, with access to TNT Sports 2 and other live event feeds.
Live competition coverage will run from 9am to 10pm, with an hour-long studio show previewing the day’s events from 8am and an end-of-day round-up once live sporting action is complete.
Skeleton gold medallist Amy Williams, two-time Olympian and snowboarder Aimee Fuller, alpine skiers Ed Drake and Charlie Guest, bobsleigh pilot Lamin Deen and curling bronze medallist Vicki Chalmers will be among the commentary and punditry team.
Italian sports broadcaster hit by strikes after Mariah Carey gaffe at Olympic opening ceremony
A series of embarrassing gaffes by a senior Italian sports commentator during the Milan Cortina Winter Games opening ceremony has led to an unprecedented strike by his colleagues.
The blunders, which included misidentifying celebrities and Olympic officials, have deeply embarrassed staff at the state-owned broadcaster RaiSport.
Italian sports broadcaster hit by strikes after gaffes at Olympic opening ceremony
Mia Brookes 'in a good headspace' to come again for slopestyle
"It was insane. Obviously I'm bummed I couldn't land that last trick," Brookes told BBC Sport.
"I had too much spin on it, which I didn't think I would. Maybe I should have done an 1800 instead!"
"I'm hyped for it, everything good can come from it. I'm in a good headspace and ready to to do slopestyle."
Mia Brookes misses out on big air glory - but she will be back for medals
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.
Dodds 'disappointed' with semi-final performance
Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat were the favourites to win the gold medal in the mixed doubles curling but a poor performance in the semi-final against Sweden means they risk going medalless in the event.
“Obviously, it’s not the result we were after,” Dodds said on Monday after the loss
“I think we’re both just disappointed we didn’t play like we have all week.
“In an Olympic semi-final you can’t do that and the Swedes capitalised on our mistakes. We were punished for it tonight.”
The duo are back in action this afternoon and face Italy in the bronze medal match.
Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds fall short in bid to guarantee Team GB’s first medal
Few sports put you through the wringer quite like curling and, after this semi-final defeat, it will take some time for Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds to straighten out.
The Scottish pair won eight of nine in the round robin, secured the top seed for the semi-finals and were favourites for the gold medal.
But the velvety touch that carried them this far deserted them at the worst possible moment and they collapsed to a 9–3 defeat to Sweden. Sport, eh.
Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds fall short in bid to guarantee Team GB medal
Should Vonn have been allowed to compete?
Lindsey Vonn’s crash called into question the decision to let her compete knowing she was injured before her run.
International Ski Federation President Johan Eliasch said the competitor had to make up their own mind when carrying pre-existing injuries.
"I firmly believe that this has to be decided by the individual ... And in her case, she certainly knows her injuries a lot better than anybody else," he told reporters on Monday.
"And what is also important for people to understand that the accident that she had yesterday, she was incredibly unlucky. It was a one in a thousand.
“She got too close to the gate, and she got stuck when she was in the air in the gate and started rotating."
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