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USA, Japan, Italy, Georgia and Canada in medal contentionSchedule | Results | Medal table | Briefing Email beau.dure@theguardian.com with your thoughtsThe lowest free skate score this season for Italy’s Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii is 130.92, but that was early on. In Grand Prix competition, their low was 134.89.So they’ll need to be on point to knock the USA off the top spot. Will skating at home be a boost, or will it bring extra pressure? Continue reading...

Latest news and updates | Vonn airlifted away after crashSchedule | Results | Medal table | Briefing | Email GrahamAlpine skiiing: Breezy Johnson goes top, for USA. Had a twist in the air off one of the early jumps, had to battle to land it, but then comes through with a sizzling run on the rest of the course, improving on her training run time by a second and a half.Alpine skiing: It’s a gorgeous day out there, blue sky. We’ve had five skiers so far, Ariane Raedler of Austria is leading on 1:37:20, the Italian Brignone and three Swiss skiers following her. Janine Schmitt and Jasmine Flury both almost stacked, but recovered it, terrifying at that speed. Malorie Blanc went first and had a clean run, 1:38:77. Continue reading...

Pep Guardiola threw himself back into his seat in the dugout. The Manchester City manager had just witnessed a moment of sheer brilliance and, like everyone connected to his club, he had to fear the worst. Because this is how it has tended to go for him at Anfield.The blow had been administered by Dominic Szoboszlai, the stand-in Liverpool right-back, and it is worth dwelling on it for a moment – if only a moment because it would be rapidly overtaken by a bonkers finale. When Szoboszlai addressed a free-kick 30 yards out, City did not look overly concerned. They only put two men in their wall. Continue reading...

Walsh and Thompson seal 2-0 success at TottenhamLiverpool and West Ham win to boost survival hopesChelsea defeated Tottenham 2-0 to boost their faint hopes of retaining the Women’s Super League title, as Madonna watched from the stands at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.Goals from Keira Walsh and Alyssa Thompson either side of half-time ended Chelsea’s run of back-to-back defeats and left Sonia Bompastor’s team nine points off the leaders Manchester City, who lost 1-0 against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium earlier on Sunday. Continue reading...

Fabian Hürzeler must be wondering when he will have another chance to get one over Oliver Glasner. The Brighton head coach’s record against his Crystal Palace counterpart, and someone he counts as a mentor, now reads three defeats and a draw after Ismaila Sarr ended Palace’s 12-match winless run in the league, in satisfying style against their archrivals.While Glasner can breathe slightly more easily after his new big-money signings Evann Guessand and Jørgen Strand Larsen made an impact on their debuts, Hürzeler left the field to widespread boos from his own fans and chants of: “You’re getting sacked in the morning”. Continue reading...

Exeter winger injured hamstring in trainingFurbank and Genge also doubts for Scotland matchImmanuel Feyi-Waboso has been ruled out of England’s forth­coming pursuit of the triple crown and is a major doubt for the rest of the Six Nations tournament, while Steve Borthwick has fitness concerns over George ­Furbank and Ellis Genge as his team seek to end their ­Murrayfield hoodoo on Saturday.Feyi-Waboso pulled out of the 48‑7 victory against Wales 24 hours before kick-off after sustaining a hamstring injury and was replaced by Tom Roebuck. The Exeter winger will be out for “a number of weeks”, ensuring he misses the trip to Murrayfield and the visit of Ireland to Twickenham a week later. He has not yet been ruled out of England’s entire campaign but the chances of him appearing seem remote and he has been left out of the 36‑man squad called into camp on Sunday night. Continue reading...

‘You can’t underestimate these guys any more’Curran’s final-over heroics sealed four-run winEngland flirted with one of the great T20 World Cup upsets in Mumbai before getting their campaign under way with victory against Nepal by four runs and, although they did not lose the game, Sam Curran insisted they had lost any sense of complacency.“We take those two points and take great confidence, because it wouldn’t have been a nice dressing room this evening,” said Curran, who conceded just five runs in the final over to decide the game. Continue reading...

Atlanta rookie allegedly fled police, crashed carPolice say incident involved LA Sparks’ Rickea JacksonAtlanta Falcons rookie star James Pearce Jr was arrested near Miami on Saturday night after fleeing officers and then crashing his car after what police said was a domestic dispute with WNBA player Rickea Jackson.Pearce, the first-round pick who led the Falcons in sacks and was third in NFL defensive rookie of the year voting, was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center after Doral police were summoned to investigate a reported domestic dispute between a man and a woman. Continue reading...

This 1-0 defeat of Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium was never going to be a statement of Arsenal’s title intentions – City’s lead at the top is just too big – but a result against the likely champions still had huge value, mentally and in terms of the race for Champions League football.It would take the most almighty of collapses for City to lose their grip on a second league title, 10 years after their first. They are still eight points clear of Manchester United and 10 ahead of Arsenal, who have a game in hand over those around them. Continue reading...

We take a look at the best images from day two of the Games, including women’s downhill, biathlon and cross-country skiing Continue reading...