It's been a big day three at the Winter Olympics.

The big air final didn't quite go to plan for Tess Coady and Mela Stalker, but they gave it a red-hot go - and congratulations to our friends across the water for Zoi Sadowski-Synnott winning New Zealand's first (silver) medal of the Games.

Congratulations to Holly Harris and Jason Chan for getting through their Olympic debut and qualifying for the free dance in Ice Dance.

The women's slopestyle showed again why every OIympic gold medal has to be earned - and the showdown between Eileen Gu and Mathilde Gremaud was very exciting. The pair showed why they are head and shoulders ahead of the rest, and Gremaud beat Gu to win the title.

And Germany's Philipp Raimund did it when it counted on the normal hill to take ski jumping gold at Predazzo.

We will be back for day four of competition from early this evening, with Australian highlights including the first appearances of moguls stars Matt Graham and Jakara Anthony.

In the meantime, this is Andrew McGarry, on behalf of Marnie Vinall, Henry Hanson and Simon Smale in Livigno thanking you for joining us and wishing you a very good morning.

The Rhythm Dance section of the Ice Dance is complete in Milano.

Australia's Holly Harris and Jason Chan finished in 18th position out of 25, and they qualified for the free dance.

France's Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier-Baudry topped the scoring for the Rhythm Dance with a score of 90.18.

However American pairing Madison Chock and Evan Bates also produced a brilliant routine to a medley of numbers from Lenny Kravitz - as befitting a compulsory 90s theme - to score 89.72.

That gap can easily be made up depending on the outcome of the free dance on Thursday morning at 5:30am AEDT. Can't wait.

We are coming towards the end of the opening Ice Dance section, the rhythm dance.

Australia's Holly Harris and Jason Chan are sitting in 13th place with five couples to come. Their score of 67.75 - performed to Jennifer Lopez - guaranteed they would qualify for the final free dance.

Leading the competition at this stage is French pairing Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry, who scored a stunning 90.18 with their routine.

The whole theme of the rhythm dance competition is compulsory 90s. Their routine, to Vogue by Madonna got the crowd going and also the judges.

Their brilliance and synchronicity showed why they are going to be hard to stop for the gold medal. 

Germany has won its second gold medal of the Milano Cortina Games, with ski jumper Philipp Raimund taking the title in the normal hill event.

Ski jumping is not just a distance event, it also has a judging element. Raimund's two jumps were 102 and 106.5 metres, scoring 135.5 and 138.6 points respectively.

His total of 274.1 was good enough for the gold medal.

Poland's Kacper Tomasiak was second with 270.7, despite his jumps being 103 and 107 metres.

The bronze went to Japan's Ren Nikaido with a score of 266.0.

In fact we have had another double medal here - Swiss jumper Gregor Deschwanden also totalled exactly 266.0 points, so he won bronze as well.

As you can see from the picture, Raimund and his German teammates were VERY excited with the result.

Congrats to all the medallists.

Phillip,

No as far as I know, teams and skaters cannot appeal against the judges' subjective decisions. If for some reason someone had butter fingers and entered the numbers wrong, THEN they could probably appeal.

And the answer to the second half of your question is ... unless you receive a world record score, skaters ALWAYS think their twizzles were worth a better score.

The semifinals are completed in curling mixed doubles, and there was a surprise in at least one of the knockout matches.

Great Britain had finished the group stage on top with an 8-1 record and went in as favourites against Sweden for their semifinal.

Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat took the lead with a single shot in the first end. But from there, things went downhill quickly.

Brother-sister combination Isabella Wranaa and Rasmus Wranaa took control of the match, with a five-shot sixth end.

They won the match 9-3.

The Swedish team will face the United States in the gold medal game, after the Americans beat hosts Italy 9-8 in a dramatic finale.

The Italians Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner led by two shots 8-6 after the penultimate end, only for Cory Thiesse and Corey Dropkin to snatch victory with three shots on the final end.

Phillip, 

I hope you're referring to the scoring in ice dance / figure skating.

And yes, the scoring is very technical.

Here is what the scorecard for Holly Harris and Jason Chen looks like - every element of the routine is broken down, plus the music and how the routine fitted to that music, the actual skating level, etc. The short version is it's VERY difficult to do everything perfectly right. So it's all levels.

But the Aussies did a good job, to make it to the final round.

Now they can go out there and do the free dance.

That will be on Thursday morning at 5:30am AEDT.

Technical Elements

No., NUMBER Executed Elements Score

• 1 Sequential Twizzles Woman 4+ Sequential Twizzles Man 4 7.91

• 2 Midline Step Sequence Woman 2+ Midline Step Sequence Man 2 9.25

• 3 Pattern Dance Type Step Seq 2 9.07

• 4 Choreographic Rhythm Sequence 1 5.00

• 5 Rotational Lift 4 6.55

Technical Elements Score: 37.78

Program Components

Score Component Score

• Composition 7.57

• Presentation 7.50

• Skating Skills 7.46

• Factored Components Score: 29.97

Total: 67.75

We told you Germany were leading France by a single goal in their women's ice hockey group game.

Well there was more drama in Milano. France equalised in the third period through Estelle Duvin.

Germany threw everything at it seeking a winner. But France's heroic goalkeeper Alice Philbert faced 46 shots in normal time, letting in only one as the game went to overtime.

Unfortunately for Philbert and France, shot 47 proved the charm, as Katrina Jobst-Smith scored the winner one minute and seven seconds into the extra period.

Germany are now in sole third place in Group B with one game left. They face Italy, while Japan face group leaders Sweden.

Germany are on five points with a +1 goal difference, while Japan are on 3 with a -3 goal difference. So it's win and their in for Germany, while Japan has to win by a bit and hope Germany loses.

The final competitor is 18-year-old South Korean Yu Seungeun.

Can she snatch the gold from Kokomo Murase?

She needs a massive 91.25 to win.

Here she goes, it has to be big.

It's a frontside 1440 ... but she can't land it!

She falls to the snow and that's it.

Japan's Murase is the champion.

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott takes silver for New Zealand's first medal of the Games.

Yu Seungeun takes the bronze for South Korea.

Tess Coady finishes seventh and Meila Stalker finishes 10th. 

NZ's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is still leading. Can she hold on?

Japan's Kokomo Murase is the first of two people left.

Here she comes... it's a frontside 1440, and she sticks the landing!

She gets 89.25 - she takes the lead!

Sadowski-Synnott is in silver.

One snowboarder to come. It's Yu Seungeun.