Winter Olympics: Day 8 Live

(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) Norway have triumphed in the cross-country relay, Sarah Hoefflin struck Slopestyle gold, Czech snowboarder Ester Ledecka caused a shock in the Super-G and Japan€™s Yuszuru Hanyu took figure skating gold. Follow it live.+++ Refresh page for updates, all times CET +++

Remaining Gold Medal Events Day 8:

Women€™s Biathlon 12.5km Mass Start (12:15)
Women€™s 1000m Short-Track Speed Skating (13:09)
Men€™s 1000m Short-Track Speed Skating (13:24)
Women€™s Skeleton (13:45)
Men€™s Ski Jumping (14:30)

11:35 € Marit Bjoergen makes history! What an effort it was in that final leg of the cross-country relay. And she has now become the first female Winter Olympian ever to win seven gold medals and has a record-equalling 13 medals in total to her name.

11:30 € So to recap the gold medals so far today:

€ Norway: Women€™s Cross-Country 4×5 km relay
€ Czech Republic: Women€™s super-G
€ Japan: Men€™s singles figure skating
€ Switzerland: Women€™s Slopestyle

11:23 € GOLD FOR NORWAY! Marit Bjoergen holds off the challenge from Stina Nilsson in the final straight of the Women€™s Cross-Country 4×5 km relay! They looked dead and buried in the second leg, but Ragnhild Haga made up so much ground and Bjoergen kept her focus in the final leg. Sweden take silver and the Russians bronze. Germany finished in sixth.

11:20 € One kilometer to go€¦ Norway and Sweden are neck-and-neck. It€™s going to be a sprint finish, which may play into Stina Nilsson€™s hands for Sweden.

11:09 € The final change! The last leg! And it is really hotting up in the cold. After passing the baton just 3 seconds behind the leaders, Norway are now in front! And this is going to be a Nordic one-two. Norway and Sweden are opening a gap to the Russians. After that, it€™s daylight to the rest €¦ well, floodlight as it is getting late in Korea.

11:06 € Haga has made up a lot of ground and brought norway back up to third ahead of Finland. Sweden and the Russians are fighting it out for gold. The pace is most definitely picking up.

10:56 € Scrap that. Norway€™s Astrid Jacobsen is struggling and has dropped way off the pace. Sweden are 1.7 seconds behind the Russians at the third change, with Finland a further 10 behind. I€™d probably say that those three will take the medals, but this is not over yet.

10:52 € The top three is now a top two. Neck-and-neck between the Russians and Norway out in front. Finland and Sweden are jostling for third at the moment.

10:49 € Although the gap between the top three in the cross-country relay and the rest is still formidable, it is shrinking somewhat. The pace is no longer so blistering and the chasing pack are closing in€¦

10:43 € Natalia Nepryaeva is pulling away at the front and the Olympic Athletes from Russia have a commanding lead at the first change. Slovenia and Norway have also got a healthy cushion over Finland in fourth.

10:36 € Steffi Boehler is lagging behind. Russian athlete Nepryaeva, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Finland and the US have opened up a gap as we approach the first change

10:34 € The French team are in trouble already, slipping in the first 100 meters. Norway are setting the early pace, and Germany€™s Steffi Boehler neesd to make sure she doesn€™t lose touch with the leading pack too early.

10:30 € We are underway in the Women€™s Cross-Country 4x5km relay. Germany are hopeful of a medal and have placed Sandra Ringwald in fourth, envisaging a sprint finish.

09:50 € Staving off a career-threatening injury? Escaping one of the world€™s worst earthquakes? Winning gold with his first skate in three months? Yep, Yuzuru Hanyu had to work hard to become the first man to win back-to-back figure skating golds€¦

09:21 € Swiss slopestyle gold medallist Sarah Hoefflin has dashed any hopes Great Britain may have had of adding to their first ever medal on skis. Isabel Atkin had scooped bronze for Team GB behind Hoefflin, who grew up in Great Britain. But when asked if she would switch citizenship, Hoefflin was pretty blunt: €œNo, I€™m not British, I€™m staying Swiss.€

09:02 € Norovirus latest! The two Swiss skiers that went down with the highly contagious € and if we€™re honest, very unpleasant € vomiting virus on Friday have been given the all clear to return to training. Fabian Boesch and Elias Ambuehl were the first athletes to catch the bug that has been doing the rounds in South Korea, but appear to be over the worst of it.

08:45 € The curling quarter-finals are now complete. Switzerland held on to secure a 7-5 win over Norway and Japan edged it in the end, beating Italy 6-5.

08:32 € The home fans are in raptures as South Korea inflict an 11-5 defeat on fancied Great Britain in the men€™s curling quarter-finals. Elsewhere, Sweden saw off Canada 5-2 but it is going down to the wire between Japan and Italy (5-5 at the moment) and Switzerland have their noses slightly in front of Norway, leading 6-5.

08:00 € Plenty of consternation on the curling ice as the quarters enter the decisive phase. But we€™re still catching our breath after an astonishing day so far. In case you missed it, where on earth were you? First, snowboarder Ester Ledecka produced one of the greatest Olympic shocks of all-time, winning the super-G skiing by 0.01 seconds. Then Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu defended his Olympic title despite only returning from a five-month layoff the day before.

07:00 € There€™s a slight lull in proceedings now, after that flurry of events. But never fear, the curlers are back on the ice. The second set of matches of the day sees hosts South Korea take on Great Britain, Switzerland play Norway, Canada take on Sweden and Japan vs. Italy

06:53 € Canada€™s last penalty-shot clips the post and the Czech Republic take the win in the men€™s ice hockey. They won the shootout 3-2 after the match finished 2-2. It was Canada€™s first defeat at the Olympics since 2010. Both teams should still qualify for the quarterfinals though.

06:40 € Over to ice hockey and away from medals now. Canada and Czech Republic are in a penalty shootout in Group A of the men€™s draw. Earlier in the women€™s tournament, the Olympic Athletes of Russia (OAR) hammered Switzerland 6-2 to book a semifinal clash with Canada.

06:31: Well, you wait all day for gold medals and then three come along at once. Just to re-cap; Ester Ledecka started it off, snatching an unlikely gold in the Super-G by one hundreth of a second. Then Yuszuru Hanyu led a Japanese 1-2 in figure skating, retaining his title despite having been injured for the last five months. Finally, there was another 1-2 in the Women€™s Ski Slopestyle, led by Sarah Hoefflin. And breathe€¦

06:27: GOLD FOR SWITZERLAND! Sarah Hoefflin€™s incredible final run score of 91.20 edges her ahead of compatriot Mathilde Gremaud, who registered an 88.00 on run 1 and British skier Isabel Atkin€™s third run 84.60 to win the Ski Slopestyle. It€™s 27-year-old Hoefflin€™s first Olympic medal. Atkin wins Britain€™s second bronze of Pyeongchang and their first ever medal on skis.

06:22: € Norwegians Johanne Killi and Tiril Sjaastad Christiansen have their crack at glory but don€™t trouble the leaders. Sweden€™s Emma Dahlstrom will be the last to hit the snow.

06:20: Great Britain€™s Isabel Atkin does enough to put herself in bronze medal position, three skiers to come.

06:15 € No time to dwell on that, it€™s straight to the Women€™s Slopestyle final. Sarah Hoefflin leads a Swiss 1-2 with Mathilde Gremaud right now but there€™s a couple of athletes left.