Live - Winter Olympics day 14

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Results and schedule

Day 14: Thursday, 25 February 2010

Completed

No events have finished so far today

In progress

• 17:00Curling: Women's semi-finals - China v Sweden

• 17:00Curling: Women's semi-finals - Canada v Switzerland

• 17:30Alpine skiing: Women's Giant Slalom, Run 2 of

Coming up

• 18:00Nordic combined: Individual large hill - ski ju

• 19:00Cross country skiing: Women's 4 x 5km Relay

• 19:00Hockey: Women's Final - Finland v Sweden

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(All times local. GMT -8)

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By Ollie Williams in Whistler

0944: The top 30 skiers in the women's giant slalom are going in reverse order in this second run, so we are slowly getting to the cream of the crop with half of those 30 gone. From 31 onwards it's a long, long tail before we reach the 68th and final competitor, who happens to be Marjan Kalhor - Iran's first female Winter Olympian.

0942: Julia Mancuso had her first run curtailed by an incredibly rare yellow flag after US team-mate Lindsey Vonn's crash on Wednesday but, following a much smoother second run, she holds the temporary lead in a time of 2:27.66.

0939: Two ends gone in the women's semi-finals: China 0-2 Sweden, Canada 1-1 Switzerland.

0936: Britain's Chemmy Alcott is well off the pace, and her overnight aspiration of hitting the top 15 at this competition is looking like a pipe dream. Her total time is 2:29.94, more than a second behind current leader Ana Drev.

0932: Italy's Denise Karbon is first to go, and - for the time being - leads with a combined time of 2:29.37.

0929: It's giant slalom time. Check out the women's start list on our stats pages, watch this very sweet video of Chemmy Alcott and Julia Mancuso sharing a moment, then settle in for the second and final run of the competition.

0923: Sweden, meanwhile, have gone 1-0 up over China. I don't know if they meant to or not. The Chinese are smiling, but then that doesn't mean much, does it? (See 0848 entry.)

0920: Curling must be one of the few sports in which it is possible to accidentally take the lead. Canada's women have gone 1-0 up against Switzerland without meaning to, or really wanting to.

The reason being: if you win an end in curling, your opponent has "the hammer" - the last stone - in the next end. So by accidentally leaving a stone in the scoring area and going 1-0 up, Canada have handed Switzerland the hammer, which means the Swiss will have the final say in the second end.

0911: If you're British and feeling especially miserablist, you might like to indulge in Anna Thompson's blog on the failure of the GB curlers at the Winter Olympics.

0905: Swiss curling skip Mirjam Ott stares into the camera and looks genuinely terrified of it. She, unlike opposite number Cheryl Bernard, doesn't appear to resemble any US sitcom characters (see 0848 entry).

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0901: We'll also have the ski jumping section of the Nordic Combined (which combines ski jumping and cross-country skiing, and is Nordic) in about an hour's time. If that event isn't cross-country enough for you, there is some 100% not-from-concentrate cross-country when the women's 4x5km relay starts two hours from now, at the same time as the women's ice hockey bronze medal game between Sweden and Finland begins.

0857: Curling begins our day but it isn't long until the women's giant slalom resumes - a bonus event, given it was supposed to be completed on Wednesday until fog interviewed. Elisabeth Goergl of Austria leads, while Lindsey Vonn crashed in Wednesday's first run and is out of the competition. Britain's Chemmy Alcott will be sixth to go.

0851: Both those games are starting in just under 10 minutes' time and you can watch the semi-final of your choice live on our website if you're in the UK. Alternatively you can follow either Canada v Switzerland or China v Sweden using our real-time results pages.

0848: It's the women who play first. Canada, led by Cheryl Bernard - who looks a bit like the mum out of Malcolm In The Middle - take on Switzerland, while China play Sweden. The Chinese coach threatened to leave the team a few days ago, saying "they think it's funny when they lose". I can tell you the British team don't share that particular affliction. Team GB's women's skip, Eve Muirhead, was in the live text cooler at the back end of Wednesday looking utterly demoralised. Both the British men and women are out.

0844: Hello, everybody. I've got two words for you: curling semi-finals.

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