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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:02:23 | 2:02:25 | |
Hello, I'm Alan Davies, welcome to Apres-Ski! | 2:02:28 | 2:02:31 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:02:31 | 2:02:33 | |
So, desperately bad luck for Elise Christie today in the speed skating, | 2:02:35 | 2:02:40 | |
but in the curling yesterday, the Team GB women won the bronze, | 2:02:40 | 2:02:43 | |
and this afternoon, the men won silver. | 2:02:43 | 2:02:46 | |
There are, of course, four people in each curling team, | 2:02:48 | 2:02:51 | |
so I like to think of it as four silvers and four bronzes. | 2:02:51 | 2:02:55 | |
The Scots have now got so many medals, come September | 2:02:55 | 2:02:58 | |
they may actually become the official Scottish currency. | 2:02:58 | 2:03:00 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:03:00 | 2:03:02 | |
Earlier in the Sochi week, in the women's bobsleigh, | 2:03:02 | 2:03:05 | |
Brazil had a spectacular crash... | 2:03:05 | 2:03:07 | |
Luckily no-one was hurt, but it was a close shave for the Brazilians. | 2:03:13 | 2:03:17 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:03:17 | 2:03:19 | |
Czech snowboarder Eva Samkova won gold in the snowboard cross, | 2:03:20 | 2:03:24 | |
wearing her trademark hand-drawn moustache. I have to admit, | 2:03:24 | 2:03:28 | |
I did miss some of her run cos I nipped out of the room. | 2:03:28 | 2:03:31 | |
Don't know why, but for some reason I really fancied a packet of Pringles. | 2:03:31 | 2:03:34 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:03:34 | 2:03:36 | |
International violinist Vanessa Mae | 2:03:36 | 2:03:38 | |
actually completed her run in the women's slalom this week. | 2:03:38 | 2:03:41 | |
She finished way behind the winner. People said she was slow, | 2:03:41 | 2:03:44 | |
but to be fair, in the men's event | 2:03:44 | 2:03:46 | |
almost exactly the same time difference separated | 2:03:46 | 2:03:48 | |
the winner from the bloke who came last, Nigel Kennedy. | 2:03:48 | 2:03:51 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:03:51 | 2:03:52 | |
There were rumours this week in Russia that Vladimir Putin | 2:03:52 | 2:03:55 | |
and his Olympic gymnast girlfriend might have secretly tied the knot. | 2:03:55 | 2:03:59 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:03:59 | 2:04:01 | |
Didn't do that one in the Scouts! | 2:04:01 | 2:04:03 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:04:03 | 2:04:05 | |
Also this week, Team GB's 18-year-old half-pipe skier, | 2:04:05 | 2:04:10 | |
Rowan Cheshire, suffered a bad fall in training. | 2:04:10 | 2:04:13 | |
Ouch. After her accident, | 2:04:13 | 2:04:16 | |
poor old Rowan was unconscious for nearly two hours, | 2:04:16 | 2:04:19 | |
which means she missed the entire first half of Vanessa Mae's run. | 2:04:19 | 2:04:22 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:04:22 | 2:04:24 | |
So, the Games are nearly over, but have they taken the world by storm? | 2:04:24 | 2:04:28 | |
There's only one way to find out - check the World Wide Web. | 2:04:28 | 2:04:32 | |
For example, how exciting did web people find the action-packed | 2:04:32 | 2:04:36 | |
skiing moguls event? | 2:04:36 | 2:04:38 | |
APPLAUSE | 2:04:56 | 2:04:59 | |
Yeah, and if you think that's impressive, | 2:04:59 | 2:05:02 | |
while that was happening, R2D2 won the luge. | 2:05:02 | 2:05:06 | |
Let the games begin! | 2:05:06 | 2:05:07 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:05:08 | 2:05:10 | |
On Apres-Ski this week, please welcome | 2:05:18 | 2:05:20 | |
Team GB's skiing queen Chemmy Alcott, | 2:05:20 | 2:05:22 | |
top comedians Mark Watson and Sara Pascoe, | 2:05:22 | 2:05:24 | |
and Team Jamaica's cool runner, bobsleigher Winston Watts. | 2:05:24 | 2:05:28 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:05:28 | 2:05:31 | |
Here they all are. | 2:05:31 | 2:05:32 | |
Lovely to have you all here. | 2:05:32 | 2:05:36 | |
Chemmy, you're just back from Sochi and you are all in one piece. | 2:05:36 | 2:05:39 | |
You're not in a plaster cast. | 2:05:39 | 2:05:41 | |
I know, I'm actually less injured than when I started. | 2:05:41 | 2:05:43 | |
It was, erm, a pretty good effort, that. | 2:05:43 | 2:05:45 | |
You were, six months ago, what was broken? | 2:05:45 | 2:05:48 | |
Erm, this leg was shattered, so I now have a metal nail, | 2:05:48 | 2:05:51 | |
15-inch nail through my tibia, and I bear through... | 2:05:51 | 2:05:55 | |
I'm bionic, basically. It's quite cool. | 2:05:55 | 2:05:57 | |
Well, I'm glad you're in one piece. | 2:05:57 | 2:06:00 | |
LAUGHTER Sorry, sorry. | 2:06:00 | 2:06:02 | |
And Winston, you're just back from Sochi as well. | 2:06:02 | 2:06:05 | |
-You're an old hand at the Olympics, really. -It is. | 2:06:05 | 2:06:09 | |
-Your fourth time an Olympian? -Yes, that's my fourth, yes. | 2:06:09 | 2:06:12 | |
How did it compare with the other ones? Enjoy yourself? | 2:06:12 | 2:06:15 | |
Erm, I really do enjoy myself, it's, erm, it's more amazing, | 2:06:15 | 2:06:19 | |
it's more to talk about than the past three that I've been to. | 2:06:19 | 2:06:24 | |
-This is so much more, so much more interesting too. -That's fantastic. | 2:06:24 | 2:06:28 | |
And Sara, you're a big fan of the ice, I know that you were | 2:06:28 | 2:06:31 | |
once a member of the Romford Raiders Ice Hockey Club, am I right? | 2:06:31 | 2:06:34 | |
Oh, gosh. Do you know what? | 2:06:34 | 2:06:36 | |
No-one's allowed to tell my mum this, I wasn't, no. I, er... | 2:06:36 | 2:06:39 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:06:39 | 2:06:41 | |
-Whoa! -But, no, let me tell you, basically there was, | 2:06:41 | 2:06:43 | |
I went to ice hockey because there was a disco afterwards | 2:06:43 | 2:06:46 | |
and I was trying to kiss a boy. | 2:06:46 | 2:06:48 | |
And I spent three years pretending that I was in an ice hockey team. | 2:06:48 | 2:06:52 | |
-Three years? -Yeah! -And Mark Watson, of course, | 2:06:52 | 2:06:54 | |
you're a doyenne of all winter sports, are you not? | 2:06:54 | 2:06:57 | |
People imagine that cos | 2:06:57 | 2:06:58 | |
physically I'm quite similar to someone like Winston. | 2:06:58 | 2:07:00 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:07:00 | 2:07:02 | |
You hear what he said, someone like me? | 2:07:02 | 2:07:05 | |
Actually, no, I didn't even get as close as Sara. | 2:07:05 | 2:07:07 | |
I had to do ice skating at school cos they had a brief thing where | 2:07:07 | 2:07:10 | |
they thought it was a sort of useful activity for people to learn, but I | 2:07:10 | 2:07:14 | |
couldn't stand up so they had to give me a chair to, er, skate around with. | 2:07:14 | 2:07:18 | |
And tuning into the Olympics now, very few of the competitors do that. | 2:07:18 | 2:07:22 | |
Well, it's marvellous to have all our team here. | 2:07:22 | 2:07:25 | |
Now, listen, it is official, curling is the new rock & roll. | 2:07:25 | 2:07:30 | |
We had a brilliant bronze for Eve Muirhead and her team yesterday! | 2:07:30 | 2:07:34 | |
And now a shiny silver for Dave Murdoch and the lads. | 2:07:34 | 2:07:37 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:07:37 | 2:07:39 | |
'Canada lead 9-3. | 2:07:39 | 2:07:41 | |
'There's a discussion going on with the British team. | 2:07:41 | 2:07:46 | |
'And that's it.' | 2:07:46 | 2:07:47 | |
'Don't see them going to go and finish this, this is game over.' | 2:07:47 | 2:07:50 | |
'They are the World Champions, and now they could be the Olympic | 2:07:50 | 2:07:53 | |
'bronze medallists if this stone is right from Eve Muirhead. | 2:07:53 | 2:07:56 | |
'They're sweeping it. They're watching it. | 2:07:56 | 2:08:00 | |
'Eve's coming down, looking a bit anxiously, | 2:08:00 | 2:08:02 | |
'they've got to keep working this. There's no chance to celebrate yet, | 2:08:02 | 2:08:05 | |
'but the stone's going to get there, | 2:08:05 | 2:08:08 | |
'and the brushes go in the air, and Britain have won the bronze medal.' | 2:08:08 | 2:08:13 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:08:13 | 2:08:15 | |
Of course, here at the BBC there's really only one man to go to | 2:08:16 | 2:08:20 | |
when you need a bit of curling commentary, | 2:08:20 | 2:08:22 | |
former Olympic middle-distance athlete Steve Cram! | 2:08:22 | 2:08:26 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:08:26 | 2:08:28 | |
-Steve Cram. -Hi, Alan. Hi, everybody. | 2:08:29 | 2:08:32 | |
Thank you for joining us from Sochi. | 2:08:32 | 2:08:34 | |
Steve, you're such a brilliant curling commentator, | 2:08:34 | 2:08:36 | |
every time you commentate we win medals. How do you do it? | 2:08:36 | 2:08:39 | |
I don't know, you know, it just comes naturally. | 2:08:41 | 2:08:44 | |
Erm, yeah, it's been a long gig here at the curling | 2:08:44 | 2:08:46 | |
but I'm pleased that we won two medals, 27 matches Jackie Lockhart | 2:08:46 | 2:08:49 | |
and I did, most of them containing British teams, either men or women. | 2:08:49 | 2:08:54 | |
Yeah, I'm kind of hoping I finish top of the league of commentators. | 2:08:54 | 2:08:57 | |
I'm up against Paul Dickinson in the sliding, cos, of course, | 2:08:57 | 2:09:00 | |
he had Lizzie Yarnold with the gold medal, | 2:09:00 | 2:09:02 | |
and still has the four-man bob to go, so he might just pip us. | 2:09:02 | 2:09:05 | |
Must have been a bit cold in there, but you're from the North East, | 2:09:05 | 2:09:08 | |
so just T-shirt and shorts for you, I suppose? | 2:09:08 | 2:09:10 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:09:10 | 2:09:12 | |
You'd be surprised how warm it is, it's, erm, | 2:09:13 | 2:09:15 | |
not even down on the ice it's that cold. | 2:09:15 | 2:09:17 | |
You've probably seen the guys playing in their t-shirts, | 2:09:17 | 2:09:20 | |
the Canadians today, the Buff Boys, in their t-shirts. | 2:09:20 | 2:09:22 | |
Warm work down there on the ice with all the sweeping, | 2:09:22 | 2:09:25 | |
and, actually, up in the commentary positions it's quite warm as well. | 2:09:25 | 2:09:28 | |
We're not exactly sitting half naked but it's not that cold. | 2:09:28 | 2:09:30 | |
They call it "chess on ice." | 2:09:30 | 2:09:33 | |
Have you found it that complicated and cerebral? | 2:09:33 | 2:09:36 | |
-That means clever. -Yes. | 2:09:38 | 2:09:39 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:09:39 | 2:09:42 | |
APPLAUSE | 2:09:42 | 2:09:44 | |
You love big words, don't you? | 2:09:47 | 2:09:50 | |
Erm, no, it is, seriously, it's hard to get into the, erm, | 2:09:50 | 2:09:52 | |
and understand the intricacies of it. | 2:09:52 | 2:09:54 | |
Of course, there's a bit of technique | 2:09:54 | 2:09:56 | |
or a lot of technique in terms of delivering the stone. | 2:09:56 | 2:09:58 | |
But it's the strategy of the sport, | 2:09:58 | 2:10:00 | |
I think, which has drawn everybody in, and so many options around. | 2:10:00 | 2:10:03 | |
Erm, it is chess on ice cos they're thinking three or four moves ahead | 2:10:03 | 2:10:06 | |
and I've had to use Jackie a lot | 2:10:06 | 2:10:08 | |
to try and help me understand what's going on at times, | 2:10:08 | 2:10:11 | |
but I've learned a lot over the last, ooh, 11 days or so. | 2:10:11 | 2:10:13 | |
And I've been fascinated. | 2:10:13 | 2:10:15 | |
I know back home people have been getting into the curling | 2:10:15 | 2:10:17 | |
and it's been gathering an audience, | 2:10:17 | 2:10:19 | |
and I hope people have enjoyed it and we've got our two medals. | 2:10:19 | 2:10:21 | |
So, after this success, Steve, | 2:10:21 | 2:10:23 | |
there will be huge queues at the ice rinks from tomorrow. | 2:10:23 | 2:10:25 | |
Do you think people will be out curling? | 2:10:25 | 2:10:27 | |
No more football shirts, | 2:10:27 | 2:10:28 | |
everyone will want a Manchester United brush now, will they? | 2:10:28 | 2:10:31 | |
They certainly won't want to wear an Arsenal shirt, will they? Erm... | 2:10:33 | 2:10:37 | |
LAUGHTER AND GROANS | 2:10:37 | 2:10:38 | |
Oh, Steve! | 2:10:38 | 2:10:41 | |
I knew he couldn't get through it! | 2:10:41 | 2:10:42 | |
You're going to be back in time | 2:10:44 | 2:10:45 | |
for the League Cup final anyway, that's the main thing. | 2:10:45 | 2:10:48 | |
I am, I'll be there next weekend, don't you worry, mate. | 2:10:48 | 2:10:51 | |
We probably will get as much of a kicking maybe as our guys did | 2:10:51 | 2:10:54 | |
against Canada today, but we don't care, we're at Wembley. | 2:10:54 | 2:10:56 | |
No, I hope so. I know there's been a massive response to the curling | 2:10:56 | 2:11:00 | |
and I know there's been lots of try-out sessions, | 2:11:00 | 2:11:02 | |
and I think they're pretty much all sold out. You're right. | 2:11:02 | 2:11:05 | |
The only thing is, you know, south of the border, | 2:11:05 | 2:11:08 | |
there aren't too many opportunities to go and curl. | 2:11:08 | 2:11:10 | |
There's ice rinks around but I guess ice hockey and ice skating. | 2:11:10 | 2:11:14 | |
But we're hoping that the sport is going to get a lot more | 2:11:14 | 2:11:16 | |
youngsters involved, and who knows? | 2:11:16 | 2:11:18 | |
Next time... We've got some good teams here, mind you. | 2:11:18 | 2:11:20 | |
Eve and the girls will be back, and the guys will probably be back | 2:11:20 | 2:11:23 | |
in four years' time, but we want to continue the success in the future. | 2:11:23 | 2:11:26 | |
Steve, thank you so much for joining us | 2:11:26 | 2:11:28 | |
and good luck to Sunderland next weekend. Steve Cram! | 2:11:28 | 2:11:32 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:11:32 | 2:11:34 | |
So, everybody is talking about curling, | 2:11:39 | 2:11:41 | |
but the question is, can you speak curling? | 2:11:41 | 2:11:45 | |
THEY SCREAM | 2:11:45 | 2:11:47 | |
THEY SHOUT AND GRUNT | 2:11:49 | 2:11:51 | |
THEY SCREAM | 2:11:58 | 2:12:01 | |
No. | 2:12:05 | 2:12:07 | |
APPLAUSE | 2:12:07 | 2:12:08 | |
I would like to talk seriously about the sport of curling now. | 2:12:10 | 2:12:13 | |
If we can just take a closer look at the brilliance of David Murdoch | 2:12:13 | 2:12:17 | |
and his so-called shot of the century | 2:12:17 | 2:12:19 | |
that got Team GB into the semis. | 2:12:19 | 2:12:22 | |
COMMENTARY: A must-make shot. Cannot afford to miss this. | 2:12:22 | 2:12:25 | |
TEAM MEMBER YELLS | 2:12:27 | 2:12:28 | |
The stone is away. Nothing he can do now. | 2:12:28 | 2:12:30 | |
The sweepers have got it. | 2:12:30 | 2:12:32 | |
THEY YELL | 2:12:32 | 2:12:33 | |
Is it right? | 2:12:33 | 2:12:34 | |
He's done it! He's done it! A brilliant shot. | 2:12:37 | 2:12:41 | |
Absolutely fantastic. | 2:12:43 | 2:12:46 | |
I do have some technology here to help us understand | 2:12:46 | 2:12:50 | |
what made that shot so special. | 2:12:50 | 2:12:52 | |
I love playing with this thing. | 2:12:52 | 2:12:54 | |
There is the line behind which he stood. | 2:12:54 | 2:12:56 | |
The sweepers came down either side. | 2:12:56 | 2:12:59 | |
They knocked the stones away. | 2:12:59 | 2:13:03 | |
LAUGHTER | 2:13:03 | 2:13:05 | |
Stop me if I'm being too technical. | 2:13:05 | 2:13:07 | |
One of my favourite movies of all time is Cool Runnings | 2:13:11 | 2:13:14 | |
and in Sochi we have just seen the sequel, starring Winston Watts. | 2:13:14 | 2:13:17 | |
AUDIENCE WHOOPS | 2:13:17 | 2:13:19 | |
COMMENTARY: Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon. | 2:13:22 | 2:13:25 | |
Away we go. | 2:13:27 | 2:13:28 | |
Now get it together, Winston. | 2:13:32 | 2:13:34 | |
Hold it together. | 2:13:34 | 2:13:36 | |
Around the corner to the left-hand side. | 2:13:37 | 2:13:39 | |
3.11... that's fine. | 2:13:39 | 2:13:41 | |
They certainly are in last place. There you go. | 2:13:41 | 2:13:46 | |
WINSTON CHUCKLES | 2:13:47 | 2:13:49 | |
You were out there competing. | 2:13:53 | 2:13:56 | |
You were in the two-man bob this time. | 2:13:56 | 2:14:00 | |
You did say, I have a quote from you from a recent interview, | 2:14:00 | 2:14:03 | |
"We came here as an underdog, | 2:14:03 | 2:14:04 | |
"we are hungry men and hungry men are angry." | 2:14:04 | 2:14:07 | |
You're not hungry now, are you? You all right? | 2:14:07 | 2:14:10 | |
I am losing some weight right now, I am burning too many calories. | 2:14:10 | 2:14:14 | |
I was thinking you looked a bit flimsy! | 2:14:14 | 2:14:17 | |
Just like two days. | 2:14:17 | 2:14:19 | |
You had a bit of misfortune when you got to Sochi, you lost your luggage? | 2:14:19 | 2:14:23 | |
Definitely. | 2:14:23 | 2:14:25 | |
It's from day one until the last day, | 2:14:25 | 2:14:29 | |
it's still a tragedy getting to Sochi. | 2:14:29 | 2:14:33 | |
When the bobsleigh turned up and it went around the carousel, | 2:14:33 | 2:14:36 | |
was it faster? | 2:14:36 | 2:14:38 | |
It was. They tampered with the blade, that's why we didn't go that fast. | 2:14:39 | 2:14:46 | |
-That will be the beginning of Cool Runnings 2. -It's the sequel. | 2:14:46 | 2:14:52 | |
Previously you were in the four-man bob. | 2:14:52 | 2:14:54 | |
In the four-man bob, you've got the driver, the brake man, | 2:14:54 | 2:14:58 | |
number three is the pusher. | 2:14:58 | 2:15:00 | |
What does number two do? | 2:15:00 | 2:15:02 | |
He is also a pusher also, they call those middle guys the two power guys that stand at the side of it. | 2:15:02 | 2:15:08 | |
Basically they sit in the bob and enjoy the ride down. | 2:15:08 | 2:15:12 | |
-They sit in... -Their job is so easy. | 2:15:12 | 2:15:16 | |
15 metres in, they get in and sit down! | 2:15:17 | 2:15:19 | |
Do you have to be a certain weight, does that help if you are bigger? | 2:15:20 | 2:15:25 | |
What we try to do is, | 2:15:25 | 2:15:27 | |
the sled and the crew has to weigh a certain amount. | 2:15:27 | 2:15:30 | |
But if you put weight... the crew has so much weight on, well, | 2:15:30 | 2:15:35 | |
you have to take the weight out of the sled. | 2:15:35 | 2:15:37 | |
-So no sound system, then. -Yeah. | 2:15:37 | 2:15:39 | |
-You can't have the subwoofer, the amplifier... -Packed lunch! | 2:15:39 | 2:15:43 | |
-We like the duh-duh-duh... -Of course! | 2:15:43 | 2:15:47 | |
I suppose you drop your suitcases off at the hotel before. | 2:15:47 | 2:15:51 | |
You have said, "We are as serious as athletes as the Germans." | 2:15:51 | 2:15:56 | |
-Exactly. -You might not have met many Germans. | 2:15:56 | 2:16:00 | |
Over the years, Jamaica team has had the fastest team on ice. | 2:16:00 | 2:16:04 | |
You know, after, I retired after the 2002 Games, | 2:16:04 | 2:16:10 | |
continuing my normal life. | 2:16:10 | 2:16:12 | |
No exercise for bobsleigh, just exercise to still keep in shape. | 2:16:12 | 2:16:17 | |
It was hard for me to do this in two years, not even two years, | 2:16:17 | 2:16:22 | |
a year and couple of months after they qualify. | 2:16:22 | 2:16:25 | |
All these guys have been doing this for four years to be qualified. | 2:16:25 | 2:16:31 | |
Impressive. Winston is 46. | 2:16:31 | 2:16:35 | |
There was a suggestion recently that possibly Usain Bolt might move | 2:16:37 | 2:16:41 | |
over to the bobsleigh when he is finished with the sprinting. | 2:16:41 | 2:16:44 | |
Any possibility of that? | 2:16:44 | 2:16:46 | |
I ask him while I was in Jamaica, we were doing shooting together. | 2:16:46 | 2:16:50 | |
I said, how about coming and trying bobsleigh? | 2:16:50 | 2:16:54 | |
Um... and he looked up in the air, looking at the plane or something, | 2:16:54 | 2:16:59 | |
and he said, I don't think so. | 2:16:59 | 2:17:02 | |
I just don't like the cold. | 2:17:02 | 2:17:04 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you to Winston Watts. | 2:17:04 | 2:17:08 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:17:08 | 2:17:11 | |
We've had Great British success at Sochi, | 2:17:14 | 2:17:16 | |
but there were some other countries there too. | 2:17:16 | 2:17:19 | |
My absolute favourite event of the Games has been | 2:17:19 | 2:17:21 | |
the Snowboard Cross and I just loved the gold-medal winning | 2:17:21 | 2:17:24 | |
performance of the Czech Republic's Eva Samkova. | 2:17:24 | 2:17:27 | |
COMMENTARY: Samkova takes a little look back | 2:17:27 | 2:17:29 | |
and had a tiny little wobble as she did. | 2:17:29 | 2:17:32 | |
Keep your eyes on their board. It is like they are writhing salmon. | 2:17:32 | 2:17:36 | |
Dominique Maltais looking very smooth. | 2:17:36 | 2:17:39 | |
Tracking off the last berm, into the jump. | 2:17:39 | 2:17:42 | |
It is going to be Eva Samkova over the last jump into the finish | 2:17:42 | 2:17:45 | |
line for the gold medal. | 2:17:45 | 2:17:47 | |
An absolute masterclass from start to finish. | 2:17:47 | 2:17:50 | |
Eva Samkova. | 2:17:53 | 2:17:55 | |
Destroying the field in the Snowboard Cross. | 2:17:55 | 2:17:59 | |
What I love about her is the dignity and composure she brought | 2:17:59 | 2:18:01 | |
to the medal ceremony! | 2:18:01 | 2:18:03 | |
An afternoon at the flower ceremony. | 2:18:05 | 2:18:08 | |
The next day, there she is, still going at the medal ceremony, | 2:18:08 | 2:18:12 | |
no sobbing while your flag goes up for your snowboarders. | 2:18:12 | 2:18:15 | |
And I'm happy to say we can speak to Eva Samkova live from Sochi. | 2:18:15 | 2:18:19 | |
CHEERING | 2:18:19 | 2:18:20 | |
Hello! | 2:18:20 | 2:18:22 | |
Thank you so much for joining us. | 2:18:24 | 2:18:27 | |
The moustache is looking particularly good today. | 2:18:27 | 2:18:30 | |
Thank you so much! | 2:18:30 | 2:18:32 | |
Don't often get to say that... | 2:18:33 | 2:18:36 | |
Don't often get to say that to a woman. | 2:18:36 | 2:18:39 | |
Do you have your medal with you, your gold medal there? | 2:18:39 | 2:18:43 | |
-Yeah, it's here. -Ohhh! | 2:18:43 | 2:18:45 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:18:45 | 2:18:47 | |
That is nearly as big as your face! | 2:18:49 | 2:18:53 | |
Yeah, and also I got a big face, so it's pretty big! | 2:18:53 | 2:18:57 | |
I don't suppose you have Wagon Wheels in the Czech Republic? | 2:18:59 | 2:19:02 | |
The press said that Vladimir Putin was going around hugging | 2:19:02 | 2:19:06 | |
the female medal winners. | 2:19:06 | 2:19:09 | |
Is that why you put the moustache on, to put him off? | 2:19:09 | 2:19:12 | |
No, no! | 2:19:14 | 2:19:16 | |
It just gives me a laugh and it is for show. | 2:19:18 | 2:19:24 | |
Every race is a show, so... | 2:19:24 | 2:19:26 | |
When did you first wear the moustache? | 2:19:26 | 2:19:30 | |
It was 2011, the first World Championships in La Molina. | 2:19:30 | 2:19:37 | |
And it was just like... | 2:19:37 | 2:19:41 | |
I just wanted to draw it. And that was all. | 2:19:41 | 2:19:44 | |
And it was one of the best results at the time. | 2:19:44 | 2:19:48 | |
So I thought it gave me good luck. | 2:19:48 | 2:19:51 | |
Well, now, Eva, I have been trying some moustache work myself. | 2:19:51 | 2:19:57 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 2:19:59 | 2:20:00 | |
Here we go. If you think that's good, wait till you see this. | 2:20:00 | 2:20:03 | |
Ready for this? | 2:20:03 | 2:20:05 | |
Oh, yes! | 2:20:05 | 2:20:06 | |
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN PLAYS | 2:20:06 | 2:20:09 | |
Your event, the Snowboard Cross, | 2:20:14 | 2:20:16 | |
I do not know if you are aware, is the most dangerous | 2:20:16 | 2:20:19 | |
event in all of the Olympics, not just the Winter Olympics, | 2:20:19 | 2:20:23 | |
the summer Olympics as well. | 2:20:23 | 2:20:25 | |
You have a 35% chance of injury whenever you race. | 2:20:25 | 2:20:28 | |
Do you think about that all? | 2:20:28 | 2:20:31 | |
Not at all. | 2:20:31 | 2:20:33 | |
I just ride and it is pretty easy for me. | 2:20:33 | 2:20:37 | |
Like training, | 2:20:37 | 2:20:40 | |
two days before a race, it was really tough. | 2:20:40 | 2:20:44 | |
-But the race was just good fun. -It all went to plan. | 2:20:44 | 2:20:49 | |
Back home in the Czech Republic, | 2:20:49 | 2:20:52 | |
what has the reaction been to your gold medal? | 2:20:52 | 2:20:56 | |
I don't know yet. We are flying 23rd, | 2:20:56 | 2:21:00 | |
but I just heard that I am like a hero of the Czech Republic now. | 2:21:00 | 2:21:05 | |
-It's weird for me! -I'm sure you are. | 2:21:05 | 2:21:08 | |
You are a hero here, never mind the Czech Republic! | 2:21:08 | 2:21:11 | |
You have said modestly that your sport is just physics, | 2:21:11 | 2:21:15 | |
do you believe that? | 2:21:15 | 2:21:17 | |
Yes, sure, because my coach believes that, so I do as well, | 2:21:17 | 2:21:23 | |
because it is physics. | 2:21:23 | 2:21:26 | |
It is physics up to a point, but there's also courage and skill | 2:21:26 | 2:21:31 | |
and we are so pleased that you could join us. | 2:21:31 | 2:21:34 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, Eva Samkova! Thank you! | 2:21:34 | 2:21:36 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:21:36 | 2:21:39 | |
The Winter Olympics are not just about gold medals, | 2:21:42 | 2:21:44 | |
things don't always go well. | 2:21:44 | 2:21:46 | |
The American speed skating team have been shit! | 2:21:46 | 2:21:48 | |
And have blamed their new suits for their dire results. | 2:21:50 | 2:21:54 | |
One of the problems, apparently, was with a back vent in the suit. | 2:21:54 | 2:21:58 | |
Team GB have in the past tried suits with a back vent. | 2:21:58 | 2:22:02 | |
AUDIENCE: Ohhh! | 2:22:06 | 2:22:08 | |
Oh, my God! | 2:22:14 | 2:22:16 | |
Not even from the Olympics! | 2:22:16 | 2:22:19 | |
I saw her last year and she still gets reminded about that. | 2:22:19 | 2:22:23 | |
-MARK: -It's the sort of thing people will remind you about. | 2:22:23 | 2:22:26 | |
Very, very recent. So, Winston, has that ever happened to you? | 2:22:26 | 2:22:30 | |
Anything ever come out of your suit inappropriately? | 2:22:30 | 2:22:33 | |
No, we try not to protect it. | 2:22:33 | 2:22:35 | |
We try not to let that happen. | 2:22:35 | 2:22:37 | |
You would not be able to show that! | 2:22:37 | 2:22:39 | |
Another team from the Caribbean had a bad time at the Olympics. | 2:22:42 | 2:22:46 | |
The team from the island of Dominica. | 2:22:46 | 2:22:50 | |
They are actually New Yorkers and he is a hedge-fund manager. | 2:22:50 | 2:22:53 | |
Gary and Angelica Di Silvestri. | 2:22:53 | 2:22:56 | |
It has been suggested they might have bought their way | 2:22:56 | 2:22:59 | |
into the Winter Olympics. | 2:22:59 | 2:23:01 | |
Sadly, well, I say sadly, when they got to Sochi, | 2:23:01 | 2:23:04 | |
neither of them actually managed to compete in the cross country. | 2:23:04 | 2:23:08 | |
Gary got gastroenteritis. | 2:23:08 | 2:23:10 | |
His illness occurred when he was showering in his hotel and | 2:23:10 | 2:23:13 | |
"brown water came out of the faucet". | 2:23:13 | 2:23:16 | |
And then, later on, out of Gary. | 2:23:16 | 2:23:18 | |
He did not make it past the start line, | 2:23:21 | 2:23:24 | |
but he did have a few practice runs! | 2:23:24 | 2:23:26 | |
Practice runs! Eh? | 2:23:26 | 2:23:29 | |
Practice runs! | 2:23:29 | 2:23:31 | |
Yes! | 2:23:31 | 2:23:33 | |
I am so proud! | 2:23:37 | 2:23:39 | |
Later that same day, | 2:23:39 | 2:23:41 | |
his wife Angelica managed to break her nose in training. | 2:23:41 | 2:23:45 | |
She said that she crashed after going round Terrible Corner. | 2:23:45 | 2:23:49 | |
It's a bit like something out of Winnie the Pooh. | 2:23:49 | 2:23:52 | |
This is Eeyore's house, this is Terrible Corner, | 2:23:52 | 2:23:54 | |
and this is Pooh Corner, where your husband lives! | 2:23:54 | 2:23:57 | |
In more news from Sochi, New Zealand snowboarder Rebecca Torr complained | 2:23:58 | 2:24:05 | |
there weren't enough athletes on Tinder, the infamous dating app. | 2:24:05 | 2:24:08 | |
She tweeted... | 2:24:08 | 2:24:10 | |
Mmm. I wonder if we could find out if her wish came true, Winston. | 2:24:19 | 2:24:23 | |
I met her the night before she got on the plane | 2:24:23 | 2:24:28 | |
and she could not even look at us, she just kept smiling. | 2:24:28 | 2:24:33 | |
There is Rebecca, making her choice. | 2:24:33 | 2:24:38 | |
-She has got three to choose from! -Three to choose from. | 2:24:40 | 2:24:43 | |
Shy blokes, so you couldn't really exploit the opportunity. | 2:24:43 | 2:24:47 | |
You know, I can stand on my own... | 2:24:47 | 2:24:50 | |
So, it's the end of the Olympics. Have you got any highlights? | 2:24:50 | 2:24:54 | |
What are you taking away from the week? | 2:24:54 | 2:24:56 | |
Winston, what was your highlight from Sochi? | 2:24:56 | 2:24:58 | |
It's nothing much because we did not have much time on the ice. | 2:24:58 | 2:25:03 | |
It was nothing much there for me to do. | 2:25:03 | 2:25:08 | |
I am much more mature now and most people are young people, | 2:25:08 | 2:25:13 | |
so I just tried to keep with them as much as I can. | 2:25:13 | 2:25:16 | |
The media were all over us, especially me, so I tried not | 2:25:16 | 2:25:21 | |
to be going all around and the media catch me doing something that... | 2:25:21 | 2:25:28 | |
Some "activities". | 2:25:28 | 2:25:30 | |
Chemmy, for you, did you have a nice time? | 2:25:30 | 2:25:32 | |
For me, just to be part of this historic Team GB was amazing. | 2:25:32 | 2:25:37 | |
To end my last Olympics as part of the most successful team for a long | 2:25:37 | 2:25:41 | |
time is amazing. | 2:25:41 | 2:25:42 | |
Also, six months beforehand, I was having surgery and could not walk | 2:25:42 | 2:25:47 | |
so to show people that whatever knocks you down you can keep getting | 2:25:47 | 2:25:51 | |
back up and to finish within two seconds of the leader | 2:25:51 | 2:25:54 | |
on an Olympic downhill, I am very proud of that. | 2:25:54 | 2:25:56 | |
CHEERING | 2:25:56 | 2:25:58 | |
You're right to be proud. You should be proud. | 2:25:58 | 2:26:01 | |
We're proud of you. Mark, a highlight from the Games? | 2:26:01 | 2:26:05 | |
It has been inspirational for normal people | 2:26:05 | 2:26:07 | |
because there is an awe about the summer Olympics but someone | 2:26:07 | 2:26:12 | |
won a gold that had never done it three years ago, | 2:26:12 | 2:26:14 | |
she entered with a metal leg, somebody that's an | 2:26:14 | 2:26:17 | |
international class athlete draws a moustache on. | 2:26:17 | 2:26:20 | |
It gives you hope you can mess about and still achieve this! | 2:26:20 | 2:26:24 | |
-Sarah? -I agree with Mark. | 2:26:24 | 2:26:27 | |
The characters have been amazing and it is about adversity. | 2:26:27 | 2:26:31 | |
The summer Olympics is all things that human beings already do, | 2:26:31 | 2:26:35 | |
running, jumping and throwing stuff. | 2:26:35 | 2:26:37 | |
The Winter Olympics is, you are falling down a mountain | 2:26:37 | 2:26:40 | |
and you have a metal tray. | 2:26:40 | 2:26:43 | |
The lake is frozen. Go and dance on it with knives on your feet! | 2:26:43 | 2:26:47 | |
Seeing how people can actually cope. | 2:26:47 | 2:26:50 | |
Everything is profoundly dangerous and ridiculous | 2:26:50 | 2:26:53 | |
but that is why we love it. | 2:26:53 | 2:26:55 | |
Thank you all so much. We've run out of time. | 2:26:55 | 2:26:59 | |
Thank you, Chemmy Alcott, Mark Watson, | 2:26:59 | 2:27:00 | |
Sara Pascoe and Winston Watts. | 2:27:00 | 2:27:03 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:27:03 | 2:27:05 | |
But you know what? | 2:27:09 | 2:27:11 | |
Chatting to Eva about the snowboarding has got me motivated. | 2:27:11 | 2:27:17 | |
After all, how hard can it be? | 2:27:17 | 2:27:18 | |
APPLAUSE | 2:27:20 | 2:27:24 | |
Oh, God! Please don't let me die! | 2:27:24 | 2:27:27 | |
Can you get to the bottom? | 2:27:27 | 2:27:28 | |
Ohh! Oooh! | 2:27:28 | 2:27:31 | |
ALAN SHRIEKS | 2:27:31 | 2:27:35 | |
So that's it, it's almost all over in Sochi! | 2:27:35 | 2:27:38 | |
Team GB has done brilliantly. | 2:27:38 | 2:27:41 | |
We are so proud of everybody, | 2:27:41 | 2:27:43 | |
whether they finished on the podium or in hospital. | 2:27:43 | 2:27:46 | |
Although we hear that the Post Office has refused to commemorate | 2:27:46 | 2:27:49 | |
Lizzy Yarnold's gold medal with a gold postbox in Sevenoaks. | 2:27:49 | 2:27:52 | |
But to honour her victory, they have arranged for all parcels marked | 2:27:52 | 2:27:55 | |
"fragile" to be thrown down a bob-sleigh track. | 2:27:55 | 2:27:58 | |
To ensure that it really has been a drug-free Olympics, | 2:27:58 | 2:28:02 | |
the Olympic Committee has promised to keep 2,000 urine samples | 2:28:02 | 2:28:06 | |
for eight years. | 2:28:06 | 2:28:07 | |
That is one fridge you really don't want to break down! | 2:28:07 | 2:28:10 | |
To obtain urine samples from 2,000 people, | 2:28:10 | 2:28:13 | |
they just took a handful of peanuts from the bowl in the hotel bar. | 2:28:13 | 2:28:17 | |
AUDIENCE: Ohhh! | 2:28:17 | 2:28:18 | |
Looking forward to the final of the ice hockey on Sunday. | 2:28:18 | 2:28:21 | |
According to the rules, if there's a tie, the teams play an extra 20 | 2:28:21 | 2:28:24 | |
minutes, known as the Sudden Victory period. | 2:28:24 | 2:28:27 | |
As opposed to Sudden Death, which is | 2:28:27 | 2:28:29 | |
what Putin laid on for the Russian team when they got knocked out. | 2:28:29 | 2:28:33 | |
During the Games, there had been reports of problems | 2:28:33 | 2:28:36 | |
with the water supply in the Olympic village, | 2:28:36 | 2:28:39 | |
but the Russian Deputy Prime Minister denied this, saying, | 2:28:39 | 2:28:41 | |
"We have surveillance footage from the hotels showing people turning | 2:28:41 | 2:28:45 | |
"on their showers without problems." | 2:28:45 | 2:28:47 | |
And if you'd like to catch up with all the latest action from the | 2:28:47 | 2:28:50 | |
showers, it's on the Red Button now. | 2:28:50 | 2:28:52 | |
The next Olympics will be held in South Korea. | 2:28:52 | 2:28:55 | |
Kim Jong-un will be pleased as he's North Korea's best skier, | 2:28:55 | 2:28:58 | |
and figure-skater, and snowboarder and ice hockey team! | 2:28:58 | 2:29:03 | |
So, that's it from these Winter Olympics. I'm Alan Davies, | 2:29:03 | 2:29:07 | |
thanks for watching Apres-Ski. Good night! | 2:29:07 | 2:29:09 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 2:29:09 | 2:29:11 | |
Whoaa! | 2:29:11 | 2:29:13 | |
Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo! | 2:29:14 | 2:29:17 |