Triple gold for Norway, Russia's Kamila Valieva in gold medal position

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Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, warms up before the women's short program on Tuesday. /AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko

• Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is in gold medal position after completing the short program of the indivdual event. Valieva, who complained of being "emotionally tired," has been allowed to compete despite testing positive for a banned substance before the games began.

Valieva's legal team has claimed that the positive test might be due to a contaminated glass of water containing traces of her grandfather's heart medication.

• Norway claimed three more gold medals today: Joergen Graabak crossed the finish line of the Nordic combined Men's Gundersen Large Hill/10km first, ahead of another Norwegian skier, Jens Luras Ofterbro. Norway's team won the men's speed skating team pursuit earlier in the day and the country's men's team also won the Biathlon Men's 4x7.5km relay.

• The women's team pursuit speed skating was won by Canada, after one of the Japanese skaters, Nana Tagaki, fell to the back and crashed against the protective barriers near the finish line.

• Switzerland's Corinne Suter won the women's downhill on Tuesday, confirming her country's dominance in alpine skiing, after Lara Gut-Behrami won the women's super-G last week, Beat Feuz won the men's downhill at the start of the Games and Marco Odermatt took the men's giant slalom last weekend.

Defending champion Sofia Goggia of Italy took silver, a remarkable return to form after she injured her knee in a crash only last month.

• Another Swiss athlete snatched the gold medal in women's freestyle slopestyle, when Mathilde Gremaud triumphed ahead of Eileen Gu, who won a gold medal for China last week.

• China's Su Yiming, who is going to turn 18 later this week, won gold in the men's snowboard Big Air. When he was standing on the podium, Su pointed at his parents, whom he had not seen in the last seven months while he was training for the Games in Europe.

Xu Mengtao of China reacts while holding up her national flag as she celebrates winning gold in the Freestyle Skiing Women's Aerials. /Reuters/Dylan Martinez