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Winter Olympics live: Charlotte Bankes in snowboard cross before Matt Weston bids to end medal drought
Today’s Winter Olympics schedule
Day 7 (Friday 13 February 2026) – 7 gold medal events
- 1pm–2.40pm: Men’s 10km sprint 🏅
- 11am–12.55pm: Men’s 10km interval start free 🏅
- 8.05am–11.05am: Men’s round robin 3
- 1.05pm–4.05pm: Women’s round robin 3
- 6.05pm–9.05pm: Men’s round robin 4
- 6pm–10.15pm: Men’s singles free skating 🏅
- 11.10am–1.40pm: Men’s preliminary round (2 games)
- 3.40pm–6.10pm: Men’s preliminary round, Women’s quarter-final
- 8.10pm–10.40pm: Men’s preliminary round, Women’s quarter-final
- 3pm–5.40pm: Women’s heats 1 and 2
- 6.30pm–9.20pm: Men’s heats 3 and 4 🏅
- 9am–10.30am: Women’s snowboard cross qualification
- 12.30am–2.10pm: Women’s snowboard cross finals 🏅
- 6.30pm–8.20pm: Men’s snowboard halfpipe final 🏅
- 3pm–5.15pm: Men’s 10000m 🏅
Jamie Braidwood13 February 2026 10:01
Good morning
Team GB can finally end their medal drought on Friday after a slightly bittersweet start to the Games, with several stars finishing just off the podium.
That looks set to change with Matt Weston in the driving seat in the men’s skeleton, leading the field by 0.3 seconds and having broken the track record twice in Thursday’s first two heats.
Teammate Marcus Wyatt is over a second off the pace and has work to do down in seventh, while there’s more skeleton action earlier on as Britain’s Freya Tarbit, Amelia Coleman and Tabby Stoecker get their Olympic campaigns underway.
Elsewhere, Charlotte Bankes bids to erase the memories of a disappointing Beijing Games as she competes in the snowboard cross, and men’s and women’s curling continues.
Jamie Braidwood13 February 2026 10:00
Team GB’s skeleton star Matt Weston in gold medal position at halfway point
Team GB’s Matt Weston broke the track record in Cortina d’Ampezzo twice as he made a winning start to his Olympic skeleton campaign.
Weston, competing last in the second heat, built up a phenomenal advantage, making no errors at the top this time and stretching it out across the entire track.
His final time of 55.88 was the first to go sub-56 seconds and broke Jungk’s short-lived track record by another three-tenths. He punched the air and roared with delight as his pitch for a gold medal got off to a superb start, with a total time of 1:52.09 going into the final two heats.
Flo Clifford 13 February 2026 09:59