Alpine skiing: The cause of the crash is becoming clear: she lost control of her line coming into a turn, and got far too close to the marker flag. She caught her right arm in the flag, that arm going between the uprights rather than clipping the outside of it. The flags do pull apart when hit like that, but it was enough to twist her off balance. So she turned sideways in the air, and already going at prodigious speed, landed with both skis lateral to the slope while her body was falling backwards. So there was no good way to slide from there, her skis jammed and she went end over end rather than continuing down the slope.

Alpine skiing: This is horrible. It’s not like the cameras are out there sticking microphones into the situation, but you can clearly hear Vonn’s voice across the slopes crying out in pain. They have a stretcher out for her and a team of medics attending, half a dozen of them out there. Neither of her skis came off when she crashed, that’s the likely cause of the damage.

Alpine skiing: A number of these racers have been ahead of Breezy’s time through the early stages, but she must have had a phenomenal second half of the course, they keep losing touch as they go. Lindsey Vonn about to race.

Curling: Korea have beaten Estonia 9-3 in the mixed doubles round robin, and Czechia beat Norway 6-3. They’re the bottom four teams in the standings though.

Alpine skiiing: Emma Aicher of Germany misses out on the lead by four one hundredths of a second! Breezy Johnson gasps in relief, Aicher roars in frustration as she sees the clock. A couple of tiny wobbles coming out of two of the jumps might have been the difference.

Alpine skiing: Laura Pirovano, with home crowd cheers in her ears, comes in second for the time being, a couple of early twitches in her balance costing some time at the top of the course. Not sure if she looks annoyed or happy at the end, she lies down on the snow spent. There’s been a warning over the official radio about the difficulty of the course where patches of shade are being cast by trees across the snow.

Alpine skiiing: Breezy Johnson goes top, for USA. Had a twist in the air off one of the early jumps, had to battle to land it, but then comes through with a sizzling run on the rest of the course, improving on her training run time by a second and a half.

Alpine skiing: It’s a gorgeous day out there, blue sky. We’ve had five skiers so far, Ariane Raedler of Austria is leading on 1:37:20, the Italian Brignone and three Swiss skiers following her. Janine Schmitt and Jasmine Flury both almost stacked, but recovered it, terrifying at that speed. Malorie Blanc went first and had a clean run, 1:38:77.

Alpine skiing: Women’s downhill final. We are away! This event is spectacular. A long, winding track that the skiers take one at a time, racing on the clock rather than on the course. It twists and turns at great steepness, meaning these women are getting up above 120 kilometres an hour. They have to stay within a flagged course, as well. The shots from the cameras following them are giving me goosebumps, with the speed the athletes are travelling. There are multiple sections where they get serious air, not off jumps but just off the slope, and they have to land those jumps at that pace as well.

Snowboard: The men’s PGS qualifiers have just finished too, here’s who made it.

Roland Fischnaller – Italy
Aaron March – Italy
Benjamin Karl – Austria
Arnaud Guadet – Canada
Tervel Zamfirov – Bulgaria
Sangho Lee – Korea
Dario Caviezel – Switzerland
Sangkyum Kim – Korea
Zan Kosir – Slovenia
Mirko Felicetti – Italy
Andreas Prommegger – Austria
Elias Huber – Germany
Radoslav Yankov – Bulgaria
Maurizio Bormolini – Italy
Tim Mastnak – Slovenia
Rok Marguc – Slovenia

Snowboard: Pretty remarkable sub-story in the women’s giant slalom, where qualifying has set the final 16 boarders who will go into quarter finals, head to head. Ester Ledecka, the reigning gold medallist in this event from the last two Olympics (as well as a cheeky skiing gold thrown in there as well) has unsurprisingly finished fastest. That means she’ll be drawn against the 16th qualifier, Claudia Riegler, who has qualified at 52 years of age.

This is her fifth Olympics, but her first was 2002. Later she competed in 2010, 2014, and 2018, and now eight years later is back for another crack. Go on.

The final 16
Ester Ledecka – Czechia
Zuzana Maderova – Czechia
Tsubaki Miki – Japan
Lucia Dalmasso – Italy
Aleksandra Krol-Walas – Poland
Elisa Caffont – Italy
Ramona Theresia Hofmeister – Germany
Michelle Dekker – Netherlands
Sabine Payer – Austria
Malena Zamfirova – Bulgaria
Julie Zogg – Switzerland
Aurelie Moisan – Canada
Jasmin Corati – Italy
Kaylie Buck – Canada
Cheyenee Loch – Germany
Claudia Riegler – Austria

Here’s Bryan on the opening ceremony and the crowd disapproval of one of America’s widely loathed regime. “Information asymmetry” is quite the phrase.

If you didn’t catch Day 1 in pictures, do yourself a favour. There are some tremendous snappers out on the slopes. (Not the fish.)

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