Tim Warwood
Snowboard and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

The judges want to see these runs being put as high as possible.

Australian Scotty James is into second, a score of 93.5.

The top three:

Yuto Totsuka (Japan) - 95.00

Scotty James (Australia) - 93.50

Ryusei Yamada (Japan) - 92.00

Tim Warwood
Snowboard and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

This is frying my brain trying to compute what we've seen here.

Oh my! Scotty James sends back-to-back 14s and looks absolutely delighted as he finishes his sparkling clean run.

Will this be enough for the favourite?

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

The Japanese ate just trading positions for medals here. They've completely locked those top positions off.

Tim Warwood
Snowboard and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

Get me a Yuto Totsuka beach towel immediately.

The judges are going to run out of wiggle room soon. Yuto Totsuka, who was in second, posts 95.00 to move up into provisional gold.

Next up, Scotty James.

1. Matt Weston (Great Britain) - 2:47.72
2. Axel Jungk (Germany) - 2:48.11 (+0.39)
3. Christopher Grotheer (Germany) - 2:48.47 (+0.75)
4. Wenhao Chen (China) - 2:48.64 (+0.92)
5. Amedeo Bagnis (Italy) - 2:48.67 (+0.95)

Ed Leigh
Snowboarding and freestyle skiing commentator on BBC Two

Watching the tricks that Yamada just did is the equivalent of putting the shining on when home alone. The judges are absolutely terrified.

Leader Ryusei Yamada is next up in the halfpipe, can he post another clutch score?

Woah, what's this? He tries a switch alley-oop off the toes - a trick we've probably never seen in competition before.

He doesn't quite land it, but oh my, if he did....

Switch over to BBC Two to follow along.

The top three remains:

Ryusei Yamada (Japan) - 92.00

Yuto Totsuka (Japan) - 91.00

Ruka Hirano (Japan) - 90.00

That's a wrap on run three in the men's skeleton. It's Matt Weston's world and we're living in it!

He's leading the way with a time of 2:47.72 and has gone sub-56 seconds in two of his three runs.

Germany's Axel Jungk (+0.39) and Christopher Groother (+0.75) occupy the other podium spots.

GB's Marcus Wyatt is 10th.

Run four will get under way at 20:05 GMT. The sliders go in reverse order of the standings, so Weston will be last to go down.

Four sliders to go!

Nicholas Timmings (Australia), Jared Firestone (Israel), Hiroatsu Takahashi (Japan), and Josip Brusic (Canada) are all more than 3.5 seconds off the pace.

Here's a reminder of how the top five is looking:

1. Matt Weston (Great Britain) - 2:47.72
2. Axel Jungk (Germany) - 2:48.11 (+0.39)
3. Christopher Grotheer (Germany) - 2:48.47 (+0.75)
4. Wenhao Chen (China) - 2:48.64 (+0.92)
5. Amedeo Bagnis (Italy) - 2:48.67 (+0.95)

Weston's fellow Brit Marcus Wyatt is 10th.

In case you missed Matt Weston's third run - and if so, what were you playing at?!? - here it is again in all its glory.

He's top of the standings with a time of 2:47.72 and a lead of +0.39 seconds over second-placed Axel Jungk.

We've had six skaters perform their free skate in tonight's men's final. Eighteen athletes, including many of the favourites, are still to go.

Japan's Kao Miura is the current leader with 246.88.

Emma Smith
BBC Sport at Milano Ice Skating Arena

One great of American Olympic sport is in the arena tonight to potentially see the coronation of another.

Simone Biles, winner of seven gold medals in gymnastics, is here to watch Ilia Malinin got for the men's title.

Image source, Getty Images

Another five sliders have come down the track.

Nothing has changed at the top of the standings but Marcus Wyatt has stabilised in 10th place.

He's +0.33 clear of Rasmus Vestergaard Johansen in 11th place and only +0.23 off seventh place with one run to go. A top-10 finish is looking good but he'll have wanted so much more.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

Scotty James’ family are stood in front of me and they’re all wearing his red mittens.

They felt every twist and flip of that run. The quality of this final already is astonishing.

Image source, BBC Sport

Scotty James is the last rider to complete his first of three runs in the halfpipe final and he looks on for a mightily impressive score after a series of fabulously unique tricks.

But on his very final landing he catches an edge and sits down in the snow. Just the 48.75 points for him.

Japan's boarders make up the top three at the moment. They are:

Ryusei Yamada - 92.00

Yuto Totsuka - 91.00

Ruka Hirano - 90.00

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Livigno

Watch Scotty James compete in the green and gold of Australia and one thing stands out: his red mittens.

His boxing gloves.

He was sent his first pair by a company many years ago, and after a spell of frustrating performances, he found them again, tucked away in his wardrobe, ahead of the 2017 X Games.

"I'd come from the Laax Open, I'd got second and I was all fired up," he told BBC Ski Sunday. "I went into the closet and remember pulling the gloves out.

"It was like a boxing kangaroo, but the narrative built over time.

"I wore the gloves at the X Games, I won my first gold and ever since then these red gloves are my thing.

"I've never let them go, I have my own pairs of red gloves now and when I look down at them, it's very symbolic that I'm here to fight and give it my best shot to ride well."