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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Hello, I'm Alan Davies, welcome to Apres-Ski!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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So, desperately bad luck for Elise Christie today in the speed skating,

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but in the curling yesterday, the Team GB women won the bronze,

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and this afternoon, the men won silver.

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There are, of course, four people in each curling team,

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so I like to think of it as four silvers and four bronzes.

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The Scots have now got so many medals, come September

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they may actually become the official Scottish currency.

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LAUGHTER

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Earlier in the Sochi week, in the women's bobsleigh,

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Brazil had a spectacular crash...

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Luckily no-one was hurt, but it was a close shave for the Brazilians.

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LAUGHTER

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Czech snowboarder Eva Samkova won gold in the snowboard cross,

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wearing her trademark hand-drawn moustache. I have to admit,

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I did miss some of her run cos I nipped out of the room.

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Don't know why, but for some reason I really fancied a packet of Pringles.

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LAUGHTER

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International violinist Vanessa Mae

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actually completed her run in the women's slalom this week.

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She finished way behind the winner. People said she was slow,

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but to be fair, in the men's event

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almost exactly the same time difference separated

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the winner from the bloke who came last, Nigel Kennedy.

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LAUGHTER

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There were rumours this week in Russia that Vladimir Putin

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and his Olympic gymnast girlfriend might have secretly tied the knot.

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LAUGHTER

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Didn't do that one in the Scouts!

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LAUGHTER

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Also this week, Team GB's 18-year-old half-pipe skier,

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Rowan Cheshire, suffered a bad fall in training.

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Ouch. After her accident,

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poor old Rowan was unconscious for nearly two hours,

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which means she missed the entire first half of Vanessa Mae's run.

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LAUGHTER

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So, the Games are nearly over, but have they taken the world by storm?

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There's only one way to find out - check the World Wide Web.

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For example, how exciting did web people find the action-packed

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skiing moguls event?

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APPLAUSE

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Yeah, and if you think that's impressive,

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while that was happening, R2D2 won the luge.

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Let the games begin!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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On Apres-Ski this week, please welcome

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Team GB's skiing queen Chemmy Alcott,

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top comedians Mark Watson and Sara Pascoe,

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and Team Jamaica's cool runner, bobsleigher Winston Watts.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Here they all are.

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Lovely to have you all here.

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Chemmy, you're just back from Sochi and you are all in one piece.

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You're not in a plaster cast.

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I know, I'm actually less injured than when I started.

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It was, erm, a pretty good effort, that.

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You were, six months ago, what was broken?

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Erm, this leg was shattered, so I now have a metal nail,

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15-inch nail through my tibia, and I bear through...

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I'm bionic, basically. It's quite cool.

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Well, I'm glad you're in one piece.

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LAUGHTER Sorry, sorry.

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And Winston, you're just back from Sochi as well.

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-You're an old hand at the Olympics, really.

-It is.

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-Your fourth time an Olympian?

-Yes, that's my fourth, yes.

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How did it compare with the other ones? Enjoy yourself?

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Erm, I really do enjoy myself, it's, erm, it's more amazing,

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it's more to talk about than the past three that I've been to.

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-This is so much more, so much more interesting too.

-That's fantastic.

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And Sara, you're a big fan of the ice, I know that you were

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once a member of the Romford Raiders Ice Hockey Club, am I right?

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Oh, gosh. Do you know what?

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No-one's allowed to tell my mum this, I wasn't, no. I, er...

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LAUGHTER

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-Whoa!

-But, no, let me tell you, basically there was,

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I went to ice hockey because there was a disco afterwards

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and I was trying to kiss a boy.

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And I spent three years pretending that I was in an ice hockey team.

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-Three years?

-Yeah!

-And Mark Watson, of course,

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you're a doyenne of all winter sports, are you not?

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People imagine that cos

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physically I'm quite similar to someone like Winston.

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LAUGHTER

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You hear what he said, someone like me?

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Actually, no, I didn't even get as close as Sara.

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I had to do ice skating at school cos they had a brief thing where

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they thought it was a sort of useful activity for people to learn, but I

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couldn't stand up so they had to give me a chair to, er, skate around with.

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And tuning into the Olympics now, very few of the competitors do that.

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Well, it's marvellous to have all our team here.

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Now, listen, it is official, curling is the new rock & roll.

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We had a brilliant bronze for Eve Muirhead and her team yesterday!

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And now a shiny silver for Dave Murdoch and the lads.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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'Canada lead 9-3.

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'There's a discussion going on with the British team.

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'And that's it.'

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'Don't see them going to go and finish this, this is game over.'

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'They are the World Champions, and now they could be the Olympic

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'bronze medallists if this stone is right from Eve Muirhead.

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'They're sweeping it. They're watching it.

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'Eve's coming down, looking a bit anxiously,

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'they've got to keep working this. There's no chance to celebrate yet,

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'but the stone's going to get there,

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'and the brushes go in the air, and Britain have won the bronze medal.'

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Of course, here at the BBC there's really only one man to go to

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when you need a bit of curling commentary,

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former Olympic middle-distance athlete Steve Cram!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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-Steve Cram.

-Hi, Alan. Hi, everybody.

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Thank you for joining us from Sochi.

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Steve, you're such a brilliant curling commentator,

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every time you commentate we win medals. How do you do it?

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I don't know, you know, it just comes naturally.

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Erm, yeah, it's been a long gig here at the curling

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but I'm pleased that we won two medals, 27 matches Jackie Lockhart

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and I did, most of them containing British teams, either men or women.

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Yeah, I'm kind of hoping I finish top of the league of commentators.

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I'm up against Paul Dickinson in the sliding, cos, of course,

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he had Lizzie Yarnold with the gold medal,

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and still has the four-man bob to go, so he might just pip us.

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Must have been a bit cold in there, but you're from the North East,

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so just T-shirt and shorts for you, I suppose?

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LAUGHTER

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You'd be surprised how warm it is, it's, erm,

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not even down on the ice it's that cold.

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You've probably seen the guys playing in their t-shirts,

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the Canadians today, the Buff Boys, in their t-shirts.

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Warm work down there on the ice with all the sweeping,

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and, actually, up in the commentary positions it's quite warm as well.

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We're not exactly sitting half naked but it's not that cold.

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They call it "chess on ice."

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Have you found it that complicated and cerebral?

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-That means clever.

-Yes.

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LAUGHTER

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APPLAUSE

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You love big words, don't you?

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Erm, no, it is, seriously, it's hard to get into the, erm,

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and understand the intricacies of it.

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Of course, there's a bit of technique

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or a lot of technique in terms of delivering the stone.

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But it's the strategy of the sport,

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I think, which has drawn everybody in, and so many options around.

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Erm, it is chess on ice cos they're thinking three or four moves ahead

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and I've had to use Jackie a lot

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to try and help me understand what's going on at times,

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but I've learned a lot over the last, ooh, 11 days or so.

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And I've been fascinated.

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I know back home people have been getting into the curling

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and it's been gathering an audience,

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and I hope people have enjoyed it and we've got our two medals.

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So, after this success, Steve,

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there will be huge queues at the ice rinks from tomorrow.

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Do you think people will be out curling?

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No more football shirts,

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everyone will want a Manchester United brush now, will they?

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They certainly won't want to wear an Arsenal shirt, will they? Erm...

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LAUGHTER AND GROANS

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Oh, Steve!

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I knew he couldn't get through it!

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You're going to be back in time

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for the League Cup final anyway, that's the main thing.

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I am, I'll be there next weekend, don't you worry, mate.

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We probably will get as much of a kicking maybe as our guys did

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against Canada today, but we don't care, we're at Wembley.

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No, I hope so. I know there's been a massive response to the curling

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and I know there's been lots of try-out sessions,

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and I think they're pretty much all sold out. You're right.

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The only thing is, you know, south of the border,

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there aren't too many opportunities to go and curl.

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There's ice rinks around but I guess ice hockey and ice skating.

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But we're hoping that the sport is going to get a lot more

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youngsters involved, and who knows?

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Next time... We've got some good teams here, mind you.

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Eve and the girls will be back, and the guys will probably be back

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in four years' time, but we want to continue the success in the future.

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Steve, thank you so much for joining us

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and good luck to Sunderland next weekend. Steve Cram!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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So, everybody is talking about curling,

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but the question is, can you speak curling?

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THEY SCREAM

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THEY SHOUT AND GRUNT

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THEY SCREAM

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No.

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APPLAUSE

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I would like to talk seriously about the sport of curling now.

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If we can just take a closer look at the brilliance of David Murdoch

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and his so-called shot of the century

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that got Team GB into the semis.

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COMMENTARY: A must-make shot. Cannot afford to miss this.

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TEAM MEMBER YELLS

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The stone is away. Nothing he can do now.

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The sweepers have got it.

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THEY YELL

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Is it right?

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He's done it! He's done it! A brilliant shot.

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Absolutely fantastic.

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I do have some technology here to help us understand

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what made that shot so special.

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I love playing with this thing.

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There is the line behind which he stood.

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The sweepers came down either side.

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They knocked the stones away.

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LAUGHTER

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Stop me if I'm being too technical.

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One of my favourite movies of all time is Cool Runnings

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and in Sochi we have just seen the sequel, starring Winston Watts.

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AUDIENCE WHOOPS

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COMMENTARY: Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon.

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Away we go.

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Now get it together, Winston.

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Hold it together.

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Around the corner to the left-hand side.

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3.11... that's fine.

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They certainly are in last place. There you go.

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WINSTON CHUCKLES

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You were out there competing.

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You were in the two-man bob this time.

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You did say, I have a quote from you from a recent interview,

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"We came here as an underdog,

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"we are hungry men and hungry men are angry."

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You're not hungry now, are you? You all right?

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I am losing some weight right now, I am burning too many calories.

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I was thinking you looked a bit flimsy!

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Just like two days.

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You had a bit of misfortune when you got to Sochi, you lost your luggage?

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Definitely.

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It's from day one until the last day,

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it's still a tragedy getting to Sochi.

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When the bobsleigh turned up and it went around the carousel,

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was it faster?

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It was. They tampered with the blade, that's why we didn't go that fast.

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-That will be the beginning of Cool Runnings 2.

-It's the sequel.

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Previously you were in the four-man bob.

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In the four-man bob, you've got the driver, the brake man,

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number three is the pusher.

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What does number two do?

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He is also a pusher also, they call those middle guys the two power guys that stand at the side of it.

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Basically they sit in the bob and enjoy the ride down.

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-They sit in...

-Their job is so easy.

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15 metres in, they get in and sit down!

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Do you have to be a certain weight, does that help if you are bigger?

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What we try to do is,

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the sled and the crew has to weigh a certain amount.

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But if you put weight... the crew has so much weight on, well,

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you have to take the weight out of the sled.

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-So no sound system, then.

-Yeah.

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-You can't have the subwoofer, the amplifier...

-Packed lunch!

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-We like the duh-duh-duh...

-Of course!

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I suppose you drop your suitcases off at the hotel before.

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You have said, "We are as serious as athletes as the Germans."

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-Exactly.

-You might not have met many Germans.

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Over the years, Jamaica team has had the fastest team on ice.

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You know, after, I retired after the 2002 Games,

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continuing my normal life.

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No exercise for bobsleigh, just exercise to still keep in shape.

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It was hard for me to do this in two years, not even two years,

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a year and couple of months after they qualify.

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All these guys have been doing this for four years to be qualified.

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Impressive. Winston is 46.

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There was a suggestion recently that possibly Usain Bolt might move

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over to the bobsleigh when he is finished with the sprinting.

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Any possibility of that?

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I ask him while I was in Jamaica, we were doing shooting together.

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I said, how about coming and trying bobsleigh?

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Um... and he looked up in the air, looking at the plane or something,

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and he said, I don't think so.

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I just don't like the cold.

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you to Winston Watts.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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We've had Great British success at Sochi,

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but there were some other countries there too.

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My absolute favourite event of the Games has been

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the Snowboard Cross and I just loved the gold-medal winning

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performance of the Czech Republic's Eva Samkova.

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COMMENTARY: Samkova takes a little look back

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and had a tiny little wobble as she did.

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Keep your eyes on their board. It is like they are writhing salmon.

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Dominique Maltais looking very smooth.

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Tracking off the last berm, into the jump.

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It is going to be Eva Samkova over the last jump into the finish

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line for the gold medal.

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An absolute masterclass from start to finish.

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Eva Samkova.

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Destroying the field in the Snowboard Cross.

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What I love about her is the dignity and composure she brought

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to the medal ceremony!

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An afternoon at the flower ceremony.

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The next day, there she is, still going at the medal ceremony,

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no sobbing while your flag goes up for your snowboarders.

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And I'm happy to say we can speak to Eva Samkova live from Sochi.

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CHEERING

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Hello!

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Thank you so much for joining us.

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The moustache is looking particularly good today.

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Thank you so much!

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Don't often get to say that...

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Don't often get to say that to a woman.

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Do you have your medal with you, your gold medal there?

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-Yeah, it's here.

-Ohhh!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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That is nearly as big as your face!

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Yeah, and also I got a big face, so it's pretty big!

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I don't suppose you have Wagon Wheels in the Czech Republic?

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The press said that Vladimir Putin was going around hugging

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the female medal winners.

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Is that why you put the moustache on, to put him off?

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No, no!

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It just gives me a laugh and it is for show.

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Every race is a show, so...

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When did you first wear the moustache?

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It was 2011, the first World Championships in La Molina.

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And it was just like...

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I just wanted to draw it. And that was all.

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And it was one of the best results at the time.

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So I thought it gave me good luck.

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Well, now, Eva, I have been trying some moustache work myself.

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SHE LAUGHS

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Here we go. If you think that's good, wait till you see this.

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Ready for this?

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Oh, yes!

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GOD SAVE THE QUEEN PLAYS

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Your event, the Snowboard Cross,

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I do not know if you are aware, is the most dangerous

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event in all of the Olympics, not just the Winter Olympics,

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the summer Olympics as well.

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You have a 35% chance of injury whenever you race.

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Do you think about that all?

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Not at all.

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I just ride and it is pretty easy for me.

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Like training,

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two days before a race, it was really tough.

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-But the race was just good fun.

-It all went to plan.

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Back home in the Czech Republic,

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what has the reaction been to your gold medal?

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I don't know yet. We are flying 23rd,

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but I just heard that I am like a hero of the Czech Republic now.

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-It's weird for me!

-I'm sure you are.

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You are a hero here, never mind the Czech Republic!

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You have said modestly that your sport is just physics,

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do you believe that?

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Yes, sure, because my coach believes that, so I do as well,

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because it is physics.

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It is physics up to a point, but there's also courage and skill

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and we are so pleased that you could join us.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Eva Samkova! Thank you!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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The Winter Olympics are not just about gold medals,

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things don't always go well.

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The American speed skating team have been shit!

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And have blamed their new suits for their dire results.

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One of the problems, apparently, was with a back vent in the suit.

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Team GB have in the past tried suits with a back vent.

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AUDIENCE: Ohhh!

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Oh, my God!

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Not even from the Olympics!

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I saw her last year and she still gets reminded about that.

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-MARK:

-It's the sort of thing people will remind you about.

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Very, very recent. So, Winston, has that ever happened to you?

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Anything ever come out of your suit inappropriately?

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No, we try not to protect it.

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We try not to let that happen.

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You would not be able to show that!

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Another team from the Caribbean had a bad time at the Olympics.

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The team from the island of Dominica.

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They are actually New Yorkers and he is a hedge-fund manager.

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Gary and Angelica Di Silvestri.

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It has been suggested they might have bought their way

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into the Winter Olympics.

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Sadly, well, I say sadly, when they got to Sochi,

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neither of them actually managed to compete in the cross country.

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Gary got gastroenteritis.

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His illness occurred when he was showering in his hotel and

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"brown water came out of the faucet".

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And then, later on, out of Gary.

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He did not make it past the start line,

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but he did have a few practice runs!

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Practice runs! Eh?

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Practice runs!

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Yes!

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I am so proud!

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Later that same day,

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his wife Angelica managed to break her nose in training.

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She said that she crashed after going round Terrible Corner.

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It's a bit like something out of Winnie the Pooh.

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This is Eeyore's house, this is Terrible Corner,

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and this is Pooh Corner, where your husband lives!

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In more news from Sochi, New Zealand snowboarder Rebecca Torr complained

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there weren't enough athletes on Tinder, the infamous dating app.

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She tweeted...

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Mmm. I wonder if we could find out if her wish came true, Winston.

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I met her the night before she got on the plane

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and she could not even look at us, she just kept smiling.

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There is Rebecca, making her choice.

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-She has got three to choose from!

-Three to choose from.

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Shy blokes, so you couldn't really exploit the opportunity.

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You know, I can stand on my own...

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So, it's the end of the Olympics. Have you got any highlights?

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What are you taking away from the week?

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Winston, what was your highlight from Sochi?

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It's nothing much because we did not have much time on the ice.

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It was nothing much there for me to do.

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I am much more mature now and most people are young people,

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so I just tried to keep with them as much as I can.

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The media were all over us, especially me, so I tried not

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to be going all around and the media catch me doing something that...

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Some "activities".

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Chemmy, for you, did you have a nice time?

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For me, just to be part of this historic Team GB was amazing.

2:25:322:25:37

To end my last Olympics as part of the most successful team for a long

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time is amazing.

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Also, six months beforehand, I was having surgery and could not walk

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so to show people that whatever knocks you down you can keep getting

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back up and to finish within two seconds of the leader

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on an Olympic downhill, I am very proud of that.

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CHEERING

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You're right to be proud. You should be proud.

2:25:582:26:01

We're proud of you. Mark, a highlight from the Games?

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It has been inspirational for normal people

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because there is an awe about the summer Olympics but someone

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won a gold that had never done it three years ago,

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she entered with a metal leg, somebody that's an

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international class athlete draws a moustache on.

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It gives you hope you can mess about and still achieve this!

2:26:202:26:24

-Sarah?

-I agree with Mark.

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The characters have been amazing and it is about adversity.

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The summer Olympics is all things that human beings already do,

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running, jumping and throwing stuff.

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The Winter Olympics is, you are falling down a mountain

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and you have a metal tray.

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The lake is frozen. Go and dance on it with knives on your feet!

2:26:432:26:47

Seeing how people can actually cope.

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Everything is profoundly dangerous and ridiculous

2:26:502:26:53

but that is why we love it.

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Thank you all so much. We've run out of time.

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Thank you, Chemmy Alcott, Mark Watson,

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Sara Pascoe and Winston Watts.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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But you know what?

2:27:092:27:11

Chatting to Eva about the snowboarding has got me motivated.

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After all, how hard can it be?

2:27:172:27:18

APPLAUSE

2:27:202:27:24

Oh, God! Please don't let me die!

2:27:242:27:27

Can you get to the bottom?

2:27:272:27:28

Ohh! Oooh!

2:27:282:27:31

ALAN SHRIEKS

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So that's it, it's almost all over in Sochi!

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Team GB has done brilliantly.

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We are so proud of everybody,

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whether they finished on the podium or in hospital.

2:27:432:27:46

Although we hear that the Post Office has refused to commemorate

2:27:462:27:49

Lizzy Yarnold's gold medal with a gold postbox in Sevenoaks.

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But to honour her victory, they have arranged for all parcels marked

2:27:522:27:55

"fragile" to be thrown down a bob-sleigh track.

2:27:552:27:58

To ensure that it really has been a drug-free Olympics,

2:27:582:28:02

the Olympic Committee has promised to keep 2,000 urine samples

2:28:022:28:06

for eight years.

2:28:062:28:07

That is one fridge you really don't want to break down!

2:28:072:28:10

To obtain urine samples from 2,000 people,

2:28:102:28:13

they just took a handful of peanuts from the bowl in the hotel bar.

2:28:132:28:17

AUDIENCE: Ohhh!

2:28:172:28:18

Looking forward to the final of the ice hockey on Sunday.

2:28:182:28:21

According to the rules, if there's a tie, the teams play an extra 20

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minutes, known as the Sudden Victory period.

2:28:242:28:27

As opposed to Sudden Death, which is

2:28:272:28:29

what Putin laid on for the Russian team when they got knocked out.

2:28:292:28:33

During the Games, there had been reports of problems

2:28:332:28:36

with the water supply in the Olympic village,

2:28:362:28:39

but the Russian Deputy Prime Minister denied this, saying,

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"We have surveillance footage from the hotels showing people turning

2:28:412:28:45

"on their showers without problems."

2:28:452:28:47

And if you'd like to catch up with all the latest action from the

2:28:472:28:50

showers, it's on the Red Button now.

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The next Olympics will be held in South Korea.

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Kim Jong-un will be pleased as he's North Korea's best skier,

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and figure-skater, and snowboarder and ice hockey team!

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So, that's it from these Winter Olympics. I'm Alan Davies,

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thanks for watching Apres-Ski. Good night!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Whoaa!

2:29:112:29:13

Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

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