9:05 a.m. Curling, men’s preliminary round: World No. 8 Japan plays top-ranked Canada and ninth-place Denmark. The men’s national team has made its first Olympic appearance in curling since the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
2:05 p.m. Curling, women’s preliminary round: Japan, No. 6 in the world, takes on fourth-ranked Britain, which has been struggling against lower-ranked nations such as the United States (No. 7) and South Korea (No. 8).
7 p.m. Nordic combined: Akito Watabe, who took the silver medal in normal hill for the second straight Olympics, competes in large hill ski jumping and 10-km cross country race along with his younger brother Yoshito Watabe, Go Yamamoto, Hideaki Nagai and Takehiro Watabe.
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