Matt Weston positioned himself as the man to beat in the skeleton as he topped the standings with two track records in the opening heats.
Elsewhere on Day Six at Milano Cortina 2026, the men’s curling team remained unbeaten in the round robin, while Anna Pryce made Team GB history.
Skeleton
Matt Weston delivered a statement second run in the skeleton to open-up a 0.30s advantage over Germany’s Axel Jungk and will return on Friday night as the man to beat in the race for gold.
Weston was the only slider to go under 56 seconds, his time of 55.88s giving him a combined 1:52.09s, with both runs setting new track records.
Christopher Grotheer sits third for Germany, a further 0.16s back, while Weston’s teammate Marcus Wyatt is seventh and 0.66s from the podium.
"It's pretty crazy [to be the overnight leader] but I take every run as run one. I will completely reset myself, switch off for a bit and then re-focus tomorrow,” Weston said.
"I have taught myself to love the pressure and love the expectation I have on my shoulders.
“I didn't like it when I first had success, but now I have turned it into fire that I can go out and give my best."
Wyatt hopes to join him on the podium but has work to do as he sits 1.12 seconds back from Weston.
“I would like to have done a bit better. There were a few mistakes on both runs,” he reflected.
“It just cost me some time. As you can see it's super close and mistakes in some of those key areas do cost time.”
Matt Weston roars into overnight skeleton lead
Freestyle skiing
Mateo Jeannesson pushed through the pain to complete his Olympic debut after injury almost caused him to pull out of competition.
The 21-year-old saw a recurring injury flare up in his heel the morning of his second chance at qualification for the men's moguls finals in Livigno.
He eventually finished 30th after two runs, with a best score of 56.46 not enough to see him through to the afternoon's finals.
"It was rough this whole morning," he said.
"I've got this injury on my heel and this morning it was sore and I just was struggling to get over the pain and I thought at one point I might just not compete.”
Mateo Jeannesson pushes through pain in moguls
Cross-country skiing
Anna Pryce stormed to an impressive 24th-place finish in the women's 10km interval start free to secure the best-ever British women’s Olympic cross-country result.
She has improved throughout the this competition, upgrading 42nd in the 10km+10km skiathlon to a 24th on Thursday.
It speaks to continued rise in the World Cup rankings and on the international circuit, but Pryce herself also puts it down to letting the pressure ebb away and being able to just enjoy racing at the Olympics.
"Yeah it was good, it was lots of fun," she said.
"I feel like I pushed my body maybe a little bit too hard on the first lap I think I got a bit too excited and so felt tired on the last two.
"It was a great race to get experience and had a great time out there. My coaches seemed happy so that's always a good sign.”
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Snowboard cross
Huw Nightingale did not quite hit his mark in Livigno, missing out on progressing to the quarter-finals after finishing fourth in the 1/8 stage of the competition.
It was looking bright for Nightingale early on, clocking the 10th fastest time in the seeding runs that morning.
But in a heat that saw the reigning Olympic champion Alessandro Haemmerle of Austria take the tape, before going on to successfully defend his title, Nightingale paid the price for a slow start.
"It was a tough one,” he said. “Pulling out of the gate I didn't have the best start but then I knew that I was fast further down the bottom.
"I felt like I did the turns really well and I was carrying loads of speed but then just in turn five I just couldn't see. I hit a bump and then that was it."
Huw Nightingale determined to bounce back after shedding a tear
Curling
Team Mouat delivered a statement victory against the Sweden squad that beat them in the Winter Olympic Games final four years ago, to underline their status as one of the favourites for gold.
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Hammy McMillan Jr and Bobby Lammie have beaten Niklas Edin’s team in eight of their 10 meetings since that heart-breaking loss in Beijing.
And they carried that form on winning 6-3, with Mouat delivering two points in the first end to set out their stall. From there, they were uncatchable.
“We are very pleased,” he said. “The guys and I are playing really well. It's just nice to be pretty consistent already after only two games.”
Team Morrison played their opening match in the women’s curling as Sophie Jackson Sophie Sinclair and Rebecca Morrison all made their Olympic debuts.
With Jen Dodds rounding out the team, they lost 7-4 to China but were not disheartened by their performance.
“We started off fantastic, actually, it was a great first half, so we're really proud of that and proud of what we brought out there. Obviously, a few things to work on, but we're looking forward to tomorrow,” reflected skip Morrison.
Team Mouat exact revenge on Sweden in men's curling
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