we're under way. the first day of the games and the first gold up for grabs, in the gruelling sport of cross—country skiing. and as the rest faded, norway's theresejohaug defied the —20 conditions to seal her place in olympic history. and at last! but britain's hopes of an early lift—off didn't quite materialise. four years ago, katie 0rmerod was due to compete in pyeongchang before shattering her heel on the eve of the games. after a string of operations, she bounced back to become a global contender. but some costly errors meant she failed to qualify for tomorrow's slopestyle final. after all she's been through, though, at least she got down safely. all i wanted was to do my best today. you know, this course is really challenging and i definitely put it down when i needed to today. even though i'm not in the finals, i landed, which is better than not landing! not to be, then, for katie 0rmerod. she still has a second snowboarding event to come here, but her hopes of bringing britain an early medal have ended in disappointment. there was better news, though, for britain's curlers, as bruce mouat and jen dodds secured another victory against the czech republic. after nearly throwing away a huge