Winter Olympics: Great Britain's Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland advance in ice dance
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| XXIII Olympic Winter Games |
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| Venue: Pyeongchang, South Korea Dates: 9-25 February |
| Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, Red Button, Connected TVs, BBC Sport website and mobile app. Full coverage times |
Great Britain's Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland safely progressed to the final day of the ice dance competition at the Winter Olympics.
The pair scored 68.36 in the short dance and finished 10th, with the top 20 competing in Tuesday's free dance.
GB's Rowan Cheshire, 22, also qualified for the ski halfpipe final but Molly Summerhayes, 20, missed out.
Briton Aimee Fuller, 26, fell on both runs in the snowboard big air and failed to make the final.
Coomes and Buckland are making their third appearance at a Winter Games, two years after Coomes smashed her kneecap into eight pieces and was told she would never skate again.
Christopher Dean, who won Olympic gold alongside Jayne Torvill in 1984, helped choreograph the pair's routine.
Coomes and Buckland will now compete in the free dance on Tuesday, starting at 01:00 GMT, with the medals awarded to the pairs with the highest cumulative score over the two dances.
Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir lead the standings after the short dance with a world-record score of 83.67.
"I'm so happy, relieved and overwhelmed to be here," Coomes said. "No matter what, we did it. I'm so proud of us and our team."
Elsewhere, the British women's bobsleigh team of pilot Mica McNeill and Mica Moore impressed in pre-competition training despite having never claimed a World Cup podium.
They finished joint-second and third in the final two runs on Monday. The competition begins on Tuesday at 11:50 GMT.
A mixed day on snow
Cheshire qualified for the halfpipe final in ninth place with a score of 74.00 while Canada's Cassie Sharpe topped the standings on 93.40.
The Briton missed the 2014 Games in Sochi after suffering heavy concussion in a fall and has since contemplated quitting the sport owing to anxiety.
Summerhayes, whose sister reached the ski slopestyle final, is competing at her first Games and could only manage a score of 66.00 to finish 17th.
Fuller came 25th after crashing on both runs of the big air, having also crashed in the snowboard slopestyle final, which was described as "too dangerous" owing to winds.
Austria's Anna Gasser produced the best score in qualifying, an impressive 98.00 on her second run.
GB move closer to qualification
Great Britain men's curling team moved up to joint third in the table with a 7-6 victory over Denmark after a thrilling last end.
The Danes led 6-5 but failed in their attempt at a crucial double takeout that would have taken the match to sudden death. It left GB skip Kyle Smith with the simple task of finding the house with his final stone, which he did for a crucial win.
Only the top four in the table progress to the semi-finals.
"It's all in our own hands and you can't ask for more than that," Smith told BBC Sport.
"A couple of wins and we'll be in a perfect place in the semi-finals."
They play Norway on Tuesday before their final match against the USA on Wednesday.
The British women are also still in contention for a semi-final spot after snatching a crucial 8-7 win over Switzerland.
Eve Muirhead's team scored two points in the 10th and final end for victory, with matches against Japan and Canada coming up. They currently lie in joint fourth place with USA.
The skip said: "It was a tough game. Both teams played really well. It was a game of inches. We stepped up a gear from yesterday and we want to take this into tomorrow [against Japan]."
Bobsleigh duo disappointed with 12th place
BBC Sport's Nick Hope in Pyeongchang
Great Britain's bobsleigh pilot Brad Hall said it was a "tough" night as "inconsistencies" cost him and Joel Fearon from building on the seventh position they held in the two-man event heading into the final two runs.
The pair finished in 12th, 1.43 seconds off the medals, but believe better is to come in the four-man event at the weekend.
"Twelfth is better than anything I've achieved at a World Cup so that has to be a positive," Hall said.
Fearon added: "I'm so proud of what Brad has achieved in a short space of time and tonight was a bit of an anticlimax after Monday, but we'll have the power of two more guys in the four-man and we think it'll be exciting - so tune in."
Other news from Pyeongchang
- A Russian athlete suspected of failing a doping test at the 2018 Winter Olympics has been named as medal-winning curler Alexander Krushelnitsky.
- The boyfriend of Olympic giant slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin has been sent home from the Winter Games following angry comments made about his own team after his own giant slalom race.
Medals won on day 10
- Norway's Havard Lorentzen sets an Olympic record to win the men's 500m speed skating final by 0.01 seconds
- Canada and Germany share the two-man bobsleigh gold medal as a remarkable contest finishes as a dead heat
- Norway win the men's ski jumping team event
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Why?
Because it's the Claire Balding show!!!! Loads of inaine gossip & v little LiVE SPORT.
Today she and curler Rona Martin were experts on Bobsleigh - while the sport was still on.
Eurosport in SD or on the Player it is from now on.
BBC sport#RIP
Have to agree. Eurosport it is for me also. The BBC on site commentary is fine but the studio punditry is truly cringeworthy.
£32m is a drop in the ocean, what about £89m for the shower that is Paul Pogba? Which by the way you also pay for if you ever pay to watch football or go to a pub showing a game.
People conveniently forget that when they are banging on about their invalid point of view.
...ruined for me by the commentator
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Too many commentators in sport. I like listening to the music when the skating takes place. BBC 1 & the Red Button showed the Wigan v. Man City game tonight with different commentaries. I would rather have had one channel with just crowd noise.
The art of ice dance commentary is silence. You don't have jumps or spins to call. Simon Reed & Chris Howarth are excellent on ES.
Also re 26 I enjoy ice dance as an art form but it is a sport and sport dance is a sport too so yes, ballroom could be in the Olympics sooner rather than later.
Also looking forward to the 2 Mica's in the womens bobsleigh, 4th, 5th, 2nd and 3rd in final training.
yes and the return for investment in football is so much better is it?
when will people realise that not every single british person is going to be the best in the world at every event ever!?
support team GB!
In my view it's more of a sport than curling
In the interest of balance, how much did it cost for the England Football Team World Cup Campaign?
I've found some pics and vids and have them safely down loaded for future gawping at.
Strange how the IOC battled all day to remove posts about it on youtube, but the Daily Mail, Express, NBC videos were allowed to stand.
So you can show it, if you pay the IOC money, never mind the embarrassed woman. Hypocrisy?
There seems to be two separate rules regarding testing.
Rest of the world: Suspect everyone rule.
USA: We're above suspicion & butter wouldn't melt. Something is wrong!
I think you have your facts wrong. £32 million is not all public money, the majority comes from the Lottery Fund