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Welcome back to the south coast of Russia for the Winter Olympics and

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we will not be able to say that too many more times because this time

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tomorrow the closing ceremony will be in progress. There are some

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medals still to be wrapped up and already this evening we have stood

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in the medals Plaza and watched something that has never happened

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before, to British teams stood up to win medals in curling. We will be

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reflecting on that and everything else that has happened in the

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highlights programme tonight. It will be the last one of those that I

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is coming your way. It is a crisp and clear night and perfect for

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sliding on ice. The four-man bobsleigh has been underway

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tonight. There are two runs tomorrow when the medals will be decided and

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the two runs today when medals can be lost. The best ranked team in the

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world get the chance to go first. We will catch up on that now.

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Here is Germany. Here we go. You get an idea straightaway as to the push

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speed. That is a good push speed, only six tenths outside the record.

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The fastest push we ever saw was by a Latvian crew. The important thing

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for Maximilian Arndt is that he is close because his driving skills are

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phenomenal. He just clipped the woodwork there and a slight side --

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slide. That was only a light tap in 11 and

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that is OK. One to go. That is a new track

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record. This is Steven Holcomb. He is the pilot. When you start record

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and there is nothing wrong with his calf muscle at all. Holding back in

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training was the right thing to do, the Olympic champion trying to hold

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just over 76 kilometres an hour. They are it is magnificent, they are

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doing well. They started well and they are continuing to do well here.

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They are only six hundredths town. A really high line into 11 and

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slightly sideways out of 11 but they avoid the tap. Up the hill and that

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is better, it is very straight, he is keeping a straight line. Coming

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through now, 54.88 bit and just 0.01 away from the lead. This could be

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incredibly competitive, right down to the wire across the four runs.

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This is the number-1 snow from Russia. Are we going to see

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something special here? It is not bad. It is not bad at all. It is

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faster than there was only 100 of a second.

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We will get a good idea in the next split if he is gaining on the

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Germans. It is even and the speed now is not good at all for the

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Russians. They are still 100 up and in a straight line, absolutely

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pinpointed his position now. He is flying. Arrowhead, beautiful and

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straight from 15 to 16. Not as quick as the Germans but he has got the

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lead, a new track record. That was a run of mixed fortunes. He did well

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and Steven Holcomb knows it. The first three slides have been

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absolutely phenomenal. This is the Germans. Thomas Florschuetz.

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It is not a brilliant start but they are well under five seconds. He will

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be pretty pleased with that. It is quicker than Maximilian Arndt two

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sits in second. That was the biggest worry. He does not have the power of

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the speed of the massive men behind him but the four man Bob will

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pushing close enough that they can mix it. That is a lovely changeover.

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All three pushers are athletes on the track. They are going well. A

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couple of touches but all things being equal it is not a bad run.

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Coming through, 55.06. Germany had three crews all inside the top ten

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in the world so it does not surprise me that the third bobsleigh for them

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is a little bit slower. This is the second Russia one.

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4.85, it is not quick. It is not the quickest we have seen that it keeps

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them in the game. They are behind the other Russia sled.

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He has paid the price for the slower start. One thing we have seen from

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this team is that they are fighters. It was 11th after the first run in

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the two-man and just missed out on the medals. This is the quickest

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speed we have seen through that speed gun but it can be a bit

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confusing that's been done there. It does show some strange times. They

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were quite high going into that corner. It is not bad. 55.11, they

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are in fifth place. Not bad at all. This is Latvia one. These guys

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reckon they could start as quick as 4.75. They are the start record

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holders. They are in very early. 4.77 is OK. It is not as quick as

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they wanted but it is the fastest star we've seen so far and the

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fastest -- the new start record. The crucial thing is, are they still

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going to be up? Yes they are but only by 100th of a second. That was

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not a good place to take a touch, gravity is not on your side there.

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That was a solid line. They are the ringers from last year's test events

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just 12 months ago. People joke about the curse of the test event.

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Only one crew in history has won the test event and done the gold in the

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game year. They are going well since that tap.

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55.10, they are in fifth place. That is not out of place -- touch. Steven

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Holcomb is in bronze medal position. There is only 2100th between those

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crews. The Russian team are still in the lead. This is the second Germany

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team. Francesco Friedrich. Here we go. Good sprinting.

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4.78 is good. Phenomenal start there. Youngest ever world champion

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at 22 for Francesco Friedrich in the two-man. He has got a great start,

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the best of the German pilots in the terms of starting which gives him a

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big chance. Does he really have the experience? We will find out in a

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moment. It looks pretty good so far. Good speed. He has got clean runs so

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far. No .11 of a second down. Sideways into 14 and the eyes got

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kicked up, that has cost him. 55.15, that is seventh fastest so far.

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There we go, 4.82, they are down in sixth place -- eighth place. Lyndon

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Rush got bronze in Vancouver. He did not get on with this track last

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year. S go on through corner five. How is this led running through

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seven, that is not a bad line but they are 19 hundredths town. That is

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a bit slower than we have seen. A little touch on the left-hand side.

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Through 15 he is letting it run with a higher line and most. He is trying

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to get speed up here but he may well have clipped to 16 on the woodwork.

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He ends up over half a second down. Here we go. One of the fastest

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sprinters in the UK, he is acting as the brakeman today. Here we go. The

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start is key for the British. They took a silver medal in the World Cup

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this season, a silver medal at the European Championships. Absolutely

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spot on equal with the Russians. They had some bad runs also. Let us

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see how this goes. Five hundredths back year. No mistakes so far. Great

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Britain are going well. They are running superbly here. That was

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arrow straight. 11 hundredths back. The USA is seven hundredths behind

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the Russians. A little bit of a touch they are. Because of the icy

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conditions worsening, if they can get into seven or eight position,

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they will do well here. Three tenths back. It is in 10th place they are.

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It is Team GB two. In they go. Not a great start, they

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are in 15th place. Craig Pickering had to pull out, Andrew Matthews

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came in. Andrew Matthews, a world-class sprinter. It is very

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hard to replace Craig Pickering, it was good that Andrew Marr threes was

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able to step in. -- and Andrew Matthews was able to step in. Laming

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Deen has done well. They go behind the first GB team, let's check the

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speed. 55.91, they go into 18th position.

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Knowing the track as well as they do, a real advantage for the home

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side, Russia are out in front, but there is still hope for Team GB,

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because they were 13 at the last Championships, and they came up to

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fourth place. They go in reverse order of the top 20, seven the

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second run, BC the second GB team and we we join Colin and Paul. -- we

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rejoin Colin and Paul. The driver is Lamin Deen, very go,

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Simon is a sobering freight Commonwealth Games later on in the

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summer. -- Lamin Deen is hoping for a Commonwealth Games. It is a shame

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that Craig Pickering could not make it. They are doing well here, Great

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Britain, let us see if they can pull away. They're holding three

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hundredths of a second. Three hundredths of a second doesn't seem

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like much. One would expect them to get faster now. Their first line

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with city 5.9, three tenths of a second quicker. -- 65.9. That is a

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magnificent time. Very, very good indeed.

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A little bit of a bomb before six. The pressure took them right up to

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the woodwork, something they can work on.

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So, not a bad effort, let us join the second run live with Colin and

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Paul. So, Canada two, you have just seen

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Canada one going down. They are in third place at the moment. The

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leaders 151.09. Canada to have an excellent chance of taking the lead

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here. 0.25 other second in the lead that is good. They lost 100th of a

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second out of the start. Each team going down here has a slight time

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advantage, which is the aggregate of all four runs. A bit of a sideways

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slide. Somehow, they are still pulling away from the USA. One of

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the faster speeds we have seen, 0.34 of the second, so they hit the

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left-hand side. They take the lead, Canada two. Coming through, 150.78.

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That is 0.31 in the lead. That is a significant lead. Canada two are

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still active ahead of Canada one. Lyndon Rush ahead of Chris Spring,

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my goodness, that is good. Lyndon Rush, the Olympic bronze medallist,

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Vancouver on the front, avoiding a really heavy hit. He was coming late

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out of corner at 11 and he shot over to the left-hand wall. Some tricky

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steering. There is the situation. Canada two are in the lead. The

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United States, 0.31 of a second behind. This is Team GB one, what a

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chance for John James Jackson, also first two at Benson, Stewart Tasker

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and Joel Fearon. -- also for Stuart Benson. Keeping calm. These guys,

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they need to have a massive start. Joel Fearon on the back, the fastest

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man of bobsleigh at the moment. Still some movement as they come

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into corner one. 50.8 kilometres per hour, that is a world-class start

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for Team GB, and they are well in the lead. Hitting the right hand

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side by one seventh of a second ahead. They are going well. Canada

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two, they had nine hundredths of a second, but they extended early.

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They need a massive run here. They would be pushing for the medals

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tomorrow. 0.21 of a second ahead of Canada. A bit of a knock on the

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left-hand side. They did not send them into a slide, that is the good

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news. 2400th, almost a quarter of a second. One of the fastest speeds we

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have seen. 55.27, their first run was 55.26. That is good. We saw the

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first couple of crews that came through in the first run a lot

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quicker, now, almost identical to the first run, but the good news

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Great Britain is, the condition are worsening, that is why this is

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happening. Conditions will get worse and worse. These big, heavy

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bobsleigh is archiving chunks out of the corners. Look at the front

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steering. They are making sure that the runners are absolutely straight

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going into the corners. This is when you can go into a slide, it's taken

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experienced pilots to do the steers. Switzerland in ninth place, 55.21.

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That is a really fast start, it equals what the British did.

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Exceptional on the frost handle, Ben Hefty. Probably the best of all of

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them, and he is the pilot. Team GB, they had five hundredths, but Ben

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Hefty is losing a bit of time here. They have gone behind 100 other

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second behind. See if the Swiss can hold this together. Incredible

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pressure on the athletes on that corner. A hundredth of a second in

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it. A little touch, that will reduce the speed, 0.0 to a second ahead.

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What are we going to get? Plus zero point to other second, Great Britain

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and Northern Ireland are in the lead still. They managed to gather in

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five hundredths of a difference. The next couple of crews, they do not

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have that big time advantage on Team GB, Canada has nine hundredths of a

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second, then Germany two has 11 hundredths of a second, then the

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Russians in sixth place, there is about 15 hundredths of a second.

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Team GB could be in the leaders box for a while, and things could just

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go their way. Up at the top, out of corner one, down to two. This is

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where Ben Hefty lasted. He overcooked it a little bit. It is

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hard to explode at the top and then have a pilot get a Zen like

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relaxation, just to get through the corners. You cannot be heavy-handed

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on the piloting. This is Canada three. Justin Kripps as and go. --

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Justin Kripps and company. They were one of the faster starters on the

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first run. 4.76, they got identical times. A terrifying start for the

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Canadians. Extreme powerhouse. Going through the first few corners, 15

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hundredths up on Great Britain. Carrying an advantage of about one

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tenth of the second. A bit hard through the first gate of six. A

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good line through seven. One tenth of a second on Team GB as they enter

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into the corner. Oh, my goodness! That is terrible, they have crashed,

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they have got sucked into the corner and flipped. I take no delight in

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their crash, but it is heavily damaging the track, and for those

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that come afterwards, it means the track will not be in good condition

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at all. Let us hope that these chaps are OK. That is not the most violent

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of crashes when you flip like that, you rarely get hurt. They all

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managed to talk in their heads. The Team GB boys take no delight on

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that. Nobody wants to see a crash like that. News travelling fast. It

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is absolute silence down at the finish. You go to low into a corner

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and the pressure comes on and you try to steer around the bottom of

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the corner and it flips you into the corner. The G-force, the centrifugal

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force will send you to the top. Eventually, you just trip over. It

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is like going around a corner too fast in your cart and you get sent

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off the road. Big round of applause as all of the boys get out. That is

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the good news. For what it is worth, the time was roundabout and 59

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second marker thereabouts. They were still get a finish time, they were

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still get to go in the run tomorrow. All of these guys that have crashed,

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some of them 100 times, as you come up through the junior ranks, it is

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not something you want to do on race day, are obvious reasons, and you're

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just wearing some spandex. Things go wrong when you are kicked out, you

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get ice burns and bruises. Hopefully everyone is OK. They have their arm

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around the pilot saying, hey, it is OK. Massive pressure. They were

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kicked up going in. There are a couple of small places where there

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are bombs in the track and they go into 14. That kicks them up, the

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centrifugal force has whipped them over. They have to get NOK from the

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ice Meister, he has to look at the track to make sure everything is OK.

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Also, they need to make sure that everything is finished out of the

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sled, make sure that galoshes and shoes did not fall out, so they

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actually get a guaranteed finishing time. A bit like a blast, a

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plasterer goes in and he will have an ice bucket of sludge and they

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will slap it on the walls and you have got Amber, 630 kilos by five

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gees around the corner you're talking three tonnes of sled heading

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into the ice. That will also put off the warm up of everybody yet to

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come. GB are still in first place, no delight in other people's

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misfortune but it is in a roundabout way good fortune for Britain. I can

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only count three of them there but where is the fourth. Justin Kripps

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is right in the front. He got out of the side old school. There were four

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men up and walking. The coaches are just watching. It is heartbreaking

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for these guys because, as we were saying before, the GB chances of

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getting up towards the medals are still decent and their chances, they

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were carrying quite an advantage on GB up in eighth position but now

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they are five seconds behind so it is impossible for them in the next

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few runs, it is impossible that they will be near the top 20 or even the

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top 25. There is a Canadian supporter that

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will be glad and there is one of the Canadian crew who is just concerned

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about his team-mates. What these guys have on its band X. Somewhere

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burn suits but a lot of them do not. -- spandex. But a lot of them

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do not wear the Burton suits because they weigh more. That is Justin

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Kripps and he is not wearing it. It means that on race day if your

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shoulder hits the ice it will burn just like on concrete. You do not

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want to be touching your shoulder on fast moving ice at that speed. They

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all tucked in. They have little handles where they can pull

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themselves right in. Their big biceps help to make them as small as

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possible. That is one of the GB one crew there, Bruce Tasker, they are

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just ahead of the Swiss. They know all about crashing. They crashed out

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of the two-man in Vancouver when they were in the bronze medal

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position. This man is just having a look at

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the track. GB one are currently in the lead. Switzerland one are in

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second place with Canada to in third. Great Britain have already

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moved up a place. That is John Jackson, the pilot, the main man who

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drives the sledge down. Nobody would want a situation where they start

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leapfrogging athletes because of a crash. They are looking at the track

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now and there is pressure to get it moving as quickly as possible but he

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has to deal with a few big chunks. Is there any more news for us? I am

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standing here with Amy and we are just going over the extraordinary

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situation. That crash was a huge intake of air and shock from around

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the zone here. It was not pleasant to watch it at all. I really hate

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washing -- that watching bobsleigh crashes. It looks as though he came

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onto the corner super early and he looked as though he entered find

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that as the camera twisted into the entrance of corner 14th he just

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caught the failure it and so basically the runners of the

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bobsleigh did not manage to get onto the corner and basically slid off

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and you can see they slid around on their side and you are just praying

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that they all come out OK because the pressure they would have been

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going with that speed at that part of the track, I was really quite

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surprised how it happened. The whole track fell silent. We have been

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clapping and walking up the finish line and you are thankful that they

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are all OK. I suppose in a bobsleigh there is a degree of protection

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because they have safety helmets and the side of the Bob goes up around

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you but they are still going at 80 miles an hour. They are still going

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very fast and those bobsleigh is a degree of protection because they

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have safety helmets and the side of the Bob goes up around you but they

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are still going at 80 miles an hour. They are still going very fast and

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those bobsleighs get really bad friction ice burns. A lot of them

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where a special material best that says their skin a little bit but you

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can see that as they are slowing down it is actually the skin and the

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shoulders of the guys, especially the brakeman at the end whose head

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hit. They look all right. We counted them all up. I was a little worried

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that the brakeman had not made it out. They sat down and the shock

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gets you first bore everyone is holding their breath making sure

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they are OK and the main thing is that they are OK. We have not had

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many crashes on this track during training so it has been quite a

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surprise for that to happen. It has a reputation of being a relatively

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straightforward track. Yes, everybody has said it is reasonably

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easy to get down it is just tricky to find the extra speed. Something

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like that shows you that if you are literally a few inches too early

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into a corner then that is what can happen. OK, it looks as though the

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competition is back on and we go back to the commentators for Germany

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to. -- Germany two. It certainly is. After that terrible crash Germany

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two have to follow that. It is Great Britain won in the lead. They are in

:33:19.:33:21.

second place at the moment. It is a really solid start for the

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Germans. It is very easy to get put off when your start is delayed. They

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are slower than their first run. A slight tap there. That is not great.

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We will see if they lose time here down the bottom. The ice is a little

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bit damaged here. It was out of 14. This is corner ten. Now 11. This is

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a very steep part of the track and where the crash happened. How bad is

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the track here? They are still in the lead. That was sloppy. I think

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they will go behind. They are going to lose it. And they have. Great

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Britain are in first place. That is good. Very good.

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55.43. That is three tenths of a second slower than the first one. GB

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pretty much matched their first run and those who went before GB a lot

:34:34.:34:38.

of them went as much as half a second quicker. The ice has

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definitely got worse now. Not necessarily because of the crash but

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it will not help. You can see where it couched out a big chunk there.

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That was sloppy piloting there. Took a tap on the right-hand side. GB

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still lead. Each and every crew has time advantage from first run. John

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Jackson, Bruce Tasker, Joel Fearon and Stuart Benson will be absolutely

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delirious. The Russian Federation second team. They are a danger. They

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are not .15 of the second ahead of GB one which is a big chunk of time,

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believe me. It is a good time. It is slower than

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Britain's team. Just six hundredths in it. Russia

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are losing time to Great Britain. A bit of a tap out of five. A poor

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place to take a touch. Any time you take it up the hill there is no

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gravity to help. It is all even into nine. Let us keep an eye on this,

:36:08.:36:15.

they are waving a lot. They are equal with Great Britain and the

:36:16.:36:19.

moment. I would normally expect them to pull ahead here. It has gone

:36:20.:36:25.

green again. Will the damage to track so the mark? There is 100th of

:36:26.:36:34.

a second in it. Look at that. 0.01 of a second ahead but there are two

:36:35.:36:40.

runs to come tomorrow. That could not be closer.

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That keeps the Russian crowd on their feet and very warm. 0.01 of a

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second. My goodness! What is that over what has been three kilometres

:37:01.:37:05.

of ice so far, we are talking probably about a centimetre, nothing

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at all. Game on with the Russians tomorrow. We only have five more

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crews to come now so GB are guaranteed to be in seventh

:37:17.:37:21.

position. There are two more runs to go. Look at the way the track has

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been absolutely hammered by the Canadian sled that crashed. That

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will be playing on the minds of these athletes, especially the

:37:31.:37:34.

pilots. That is Steven Holcomb, considered by many to be the best

:37:35.:37:37.

pilot in the world. He will be coming down in reverse order. He is

:37:38.:37:45.

in third position. The Latvians go now.

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They are one tenth ahead already. That is a colossal start which

:37:54.:38:07.

equals the American's start record. A lot of people would love to see

:38:08.:38:15.

this crew get a medal. Oskars Melbardis here never got to slide.

:38:16.:38:19.

They got to Vancouver but they did not get to the track. Here they are

:38:20.:38:31.

for years later. They are going very well at the moment. They are not .26

:38:32.:38:39.

the second ahead with one corner to go. This is a magnificent effort by

:38:40.:38:46.

Latvia. 0.29 in the lead. That is terrific. That was a really

:38:47.:38:58.

impressive run. They were a little bit slower than their first run.

:38:59.:39:03.

Oskars Melbardis has nailed one there. Oskars Melbardis won the test

:39:04.:39:16.

event here last year and a lot of people were hoping that he would do

:39:17.:39:20.

well but he has said he cannot do for good runs but his first one was

:39:21.:39:23.

not that great but that one was splendid, bottle. -- spot on. This

:39:24.:39:34.

is the German crew who are currently lying in second place. Next we have

:39:35.:39:48.

the Germany three team. Kevin Kuske is on the right-hand side. He is a

:39:49.:39:53.

man right in front of us. He has 14-macro Olympic gold medals in the

:39:54.:40:00.

two man and the four-man. Not a bad start. Right at the back this is a

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seriously powerful start group. The pilot is not that quick. He is a

:40:15.:40:18.

former luge ace who has turned to bobsleigh by does not have the size

:40:19.:40:23.

and the bulk of some of the others. That was a bit of a low line and now

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they are behind by 11 hundredths on the Latvians. That will be hard to

:40:29.:40:35.

reel back in. The speed is not as good as the Latvians. They are

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getting further behind. They avoided touching 40. -- 14 they could well

:40:40.:40:48.

go behind the Brits and the Russians here. They are in second place,

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just. 0.25 of a second behind Latvia. That is for Latvia. Germany

:40:56.:41:02.

will be absolutely disgusted with that. Look at that! 55.42 is much

:41:03.:41:13.

lower. Look at his face, former Olympic champion, I bet he will be

:41:14.:41:19.

disgusted with that. Let's have a look. The Germans, some of these

:41:20.:41:25.

great men, just getting a little bit older, look at the handle sticking

:41:26.:41:30.

out for a while, that is worth a few hundredths of a second. All of that

:41:31.:41:40.

drag, it might not be high speeds, but it all adds up. We're down to

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the last three, the last three that count. That is not to put any thing

:41:44.:41:49.

on the Koreans or the Australians are the Romanians, but for the time

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being, the US a went down the first time, they were beneath 55. Steven

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Holcomb and company. Here the Olympic champion, 17

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hundredths up, the man in charge. Not quite as good as the Latvians.

:42:23.:42:27.

For hundredths of a second. A little bit of a touch out of five

:42:28.:42:40.

out into six and the gap will be narrowing because of that. It has

:42:41.:42:47.

evened. It has gone level. Latvia are level with the USA at the

:42:48.:42:57.

moment. United States up the hill to 15. It is the high line to 15, but

:42:58.:43:04.

not working. Good speed, but not good enough to put them back in.

:43:05.:43:10.

0.13 behind. Latvia one still in the lead.

:43:11.:43:24.

Steven Holcomb, he looks to the sky, he will not be pleased with that.

:43:25.:43:33.

The Latvians, they are now guaranteed to go into the bronze

:43:34.:43:36.

medal position overnight. Steven Holcomb I have his work cut out for

:43:37.:43:44.

him tomorrow. -- will have. Not quite the top end speed he would

:43:45.:43:47.

have wanted, is that because of the ice? It was because of a slightly

:43:48.:43:57.

sloppy exit out of five up the hill. The last of the top 20, then we go

:43:58.:44:00.

from 21 to 29. A real chance for Germany to come

:44:01.:44:17.

back on the map as far as bobsleigh is concerned.

:44:18.:44:22.

Will this be a good start? 11 hundredths up on the Latvians. They

:44:23.:44:35.

had to into two hundredths, and they lost a bit already.

:44:36.:45:01.

Cyril .06 behind. -- 0.6 behind, they have got to pull something out

:45:02.:45:13.

of the bag. That was a big tap before 16. Guaranteed to be in a

:45:14.:45:36.

medal position overnight with Zubkov still to come. The Russian crew are

:45:37.:45:42.

still to go, and they just look magnificent.

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Moved into 17 a little bit early, twisting the sled.

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The crowd, inevitably cheering for Zubkov. It has been 50 years since

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the Germans didn't win any medals and bobsleigh. It has been 50 years

:46:11.:46:16.

since Britain won the gold medal, so a bit of destiny. You get the

:46:17.:46:20.

feeling that something special is going to happen. Zubkov and his

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team, these men are desperate to win a gold medal for Russia. A slightly

:46:31.:46:37.

sloppy load from Zubkov, but he managed to get in. A good stride

:46:38.:46:49.

from Alexander Zubkov so far. That so far means for one and a quarter

:46:50.:46:58.

length of the track. That could cost, we can look at the next, only

:46:59.:47:05.

19 hundredths up. Even the Russians are falteringly. Did have to go

:47:06.:47:08.

through this bottom, damaged section of the track. Hitting the left-hand

:47:09.:47:19.

side. What about the time? Going a bit sideways, 0.1 of a second. One

:47:20.:47:25.

tenth of a second and at 136.2, they lose more time and are still in the

:47:26.:47:29.

lead overnight will stop for hundredths up, and it is game on,

:47:30.:47:35.

the Latvians, and they pull up into silver medal position behind the

:47:36.:47:39.

Russians by only four hundredths of a second. We are shouting and

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screaming about Russia, but it is the Latvians that are deserving of

:47:50.:47:53.

the applause at the moment, and the Team GB crew, tends to seven, 34

:47:54.:47:58.

hundredths behind the leaders, but let us think about it bronze medal

:47:59.:48:04.

at the moment. They are 18 hundredths, no, 16 hundredths, that

:48:05.:48:09.

is not a lot at all! I cannot do maths! That is great news for Great

:48:10.:48:15.

Britain. Very good indeed. Russia still have the lead, but that lead

:48:16.:48:23.

has been reduced to 0.04. For hundredths of a second. -- four

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hundredths. This is where we will find out how Zubkov is tomorrow, he

:48:33.:48:36.

would be in gold medal position tonight. Back to Macs aren't, he is

:48:37.:48:47.

under massive pressure to try and get some kind of medal for Germany.

:48:48.:49:08.

-- Max Arndt. There is Zubkov, just taking off his gloves. Over 40 years

:49:09.:49:12.

old now. He has actually got dragged back in by Alexander Putin to

:49:13.:49:18.

drive. That was in 2011, when he said, I have had enough, and

:49:19.:49:22.

Vladimir Putin went to him and said, please, we need you. We have got an

:49:23.:49:27.

Olympic Games, and he did it. Even I read the had yet with his team-mate.

:49:28.:49:33.

-- he even buried the hatchet with his team-mates. Tomorrow, the

:49:34.:49:39.

results will be the aggregate of all four runs added up together, and the

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lowest time will be the winner, as we watch the Koreans about to go.

:49:45.:50:00.

They have got a mountain to climb in terms of getting towards the medals.

:50:01.:50:18.

A good, solid start, but they are only 1.6 seconds down.

:50:19.:50:27.

Steering comfortably, a little bit high on that. You can just see as

:50:28.:50:36.

they come around the bend. That was the corner of the Canadians

:50:37.:50:43.

scratched. This is a really good slide by the Koreans. That was good,

:50:44.:50:53.

my goodness. They have pulled themselves up into 20th position.

:50:54.:51:02.

The icy conditions are getting worse as these racers tear it up. Let's

:51:03.:51:07.

have a look at the start again. A little bit of a fumble, he could

:51:08.:51:12.

have been slicker with that. He put his feet on the seat for a second,

:51:13.:51:16.

then he pauses before he goes between the steering system. The

:51:17.:51:19.

worst thing that you can do, is if you try to do it in one movement and

:51:20.:51:23.

get it wrong, your feet get caught in the bungee cords that hold the

:51:24.:51:27.

steering into position and you can get spun around and be stuck on your

:51:28.:51:32.

race spikes and get into all kinds of trouble and flip out at turn

:51:33.:51:39.

number one. Alexander Zubkov, the leader in the overnight positions.

:51:40.:51:43.

The Australians get ready to go here. This is Heath Spence for

:51:44.:51:50.

Australia. In they get. Not bad. The slower

:51:51.:52:09.

start we have seen so far in this second run, they have just not done

:52:10.:52:13.

as many starts as some of the other really big cruise. The Germans have

:52:14.:52:16.

done it ten 's of thousands of times. Not an easy thing to do. It

:52:17.:52:23.

is an art form. Imagine 417 stone men's printing down your first for

:52:24.:52:26.

balcony and leading into your bathtub, it is not an easy thing to

:52:27.:52:28.

do! -- men's printing. They are slipping further behind the

:52:29.:52:34.

Russians. On the right-hand side, can they

:52:35.:52:47.

hold it together? Some Australian fans enjoying that.

:52:48.:53:08.

One of the best ever results for Australia. If -- a view more to

:53:09.:53:17.

come. -- a few more to come. Colin Bryce explaining that none of

:53:18.:53:33.

the remaining four man bobsleigh teams will make an impact on the

:53:34.:53:37.

leaderboard. Russia narrowly in front, but the track was damaged by

:53:38.:53:44.

the crash from Canada. GB one came down before that, they have moved up

:53:45.:53:50.

into seventh place. GB two are in 18th. Afterwards, Matthew Pitts and

:53:51.:53:54.

spoke to both crews starting with GB or one. How do you assess the runs

:53:55.:54:00.

this evening? I didn't think the first run was too

:54:01.:54:04.

bad, nothing major, the second run was a little bit better, but almost

:54:05.:54:10.

identical in time. The problem is the track, it degrades quite clear,

:54:11.:54:14.

so we were off 12th in the first run, so you could see the track

:54:15.:54:18.

slowing down by them, but tomorrow, we will be of seven, so we will see.

:54:19.:54:24.

Stewart, we saw you hanging out on the podium after a few runs,

:54:25.:54:28.

obviously passed that crashed, that must have been a nice feeling? Never

:54:29.:54:34.

a nice experience to see somebody crashed, but the longer you are on

:54:35.:54:38.

the podium, we were kind of expecting it, so we're hoping that

:54:39.:54:42.

we can increase the position we have got and take it in tomorrow and get

:54:43.:54:47.

a better race. Joel, you are unbelievably quick across the

:54:48.:54:51.

ground, how was the start for you guys? It was OK, it's dropped off a

:54:52.:54:57.

bit, we have to work on more for tomorrow, but we were in the mix,

:54:58.:55:01.

that is the plan, to give Jack all the best we can at the start, and

:55:02.:55:07.

then he can do the best for us, and we're not too worried. Has this been

:55:08.:55:11.

a long wait for you at the Olympics, sitting around waiting to get going?

:55:12.:55:17.

Yes, unusual to have such a late night race, but we managed to keep

:55:18.:55:23.

calm in a tense day, and get ready for today. John, just a word about

:55:24.:55:27.

the crash, I will try and not ask a clumsy question about it, this is a

:55:28.:55:39.

dangerous sport. Yes, there was the crashing thank you, I said, I know

:55:40.:55:43.

how you are feeling, come back strong, that is what we did, we came

:55:44.:55:47.

out, we pushed and we raced down on the second day and got into the top

:55:48.:55:52.

20, and that is what those guys need to do, regroup tonight and just come

:55:53.:55:56.

back. I really, really feel for them, but we are all good friends,

:55:57.:56:01.

and nobody likes to see a crash, especially when it is your mates the

:56:02.:56:07.

sled. Good luck for tomorrow, we will see you there. You said after

:56:08.:56:19.

your first one in the two man Bob you would really try and give it

:56:20.:56:23.

something in this one. There were a few slides and technicalities that

:56:24.:56:33.

didn't help the top speed. The pushing side of life was a very good

:56:34.:56:38.

point. This is a brand-new team and we are mixing it up with the top ten

:56:39.:56:45.

in the world on the starts. That is in our -- accolade from your driver

:56:46.:56:49.

to say the pushing was good. Andy has come into the crew and really

:56:50.:56:52.

stepped it up at the mark and performed with the best in the

:56:53.:56:58.

world. How was the experience? It was fantastic. It was essentially

:56:59.:57:01.

like any other race but when you get down to the bottom here the

:57:02.:57:08.

experience really comes over you. Just enjoying competing with a few

:57:09.:57:11.

points to work on tomorrow but it is all very positive. We started well

:57:12.:57:16.

and we are a new crew with only six pushes together so to be mixing with

:57:17.:57:20.

the top in the world is fantastic. Andrew, you have obviously come into

:57:21.:57:25.

this team, how does it feel? It is never nice to replace an injured

:57:26.:57:29.

athlete. A shout out to Craig to get well soon but the fact I am here is

:57:30.:57:34.

an amazing thing and I am here to push my best, you know's what is the

:57:35.:57:40.

aim for tomorrow on the next run, presumably to get a place in the top

:57:41.:57:44.

20? We want to get the start time down and clean the runs up. The

:57:45.:57:51.

people around us are people... We started 18th as our rank in the

:57:52.:57:55.

world so that is where we are fighting in and around. Hopefully we

:57:56.:57:58.

can try and move up the board and that is the plan. Well done, we will

:57:59.:58:03.

be here tomorrow to see it. We wish them well and we will bring coverage

:58:04.:58:10.

of those runs from 9:30am tomorrow. The very last award tomorrow will be

:58:11.:58:14.

for ice hockey and the final will be between Canada and Sweden. Today saw

:58:15.:58:19.

the bronze medal match between Finland and the USA. This is what

:58:20.:58:21.

happened. He scores! What a moment. A magical

:58:22.:58:43.

moment for the most famous finish, the leading scorer in an Olympic ice

:58:44.:58:52.

hockey history. He he gets it over to the flying Finn and the flying

:58:53.:58:56.

Finn does it again and in doing so he becomes the oldest player in

:58:57.:59:00.

Olympic history to score a goal and that will go a long way to him being

:59:01.:59:05.

the oldest player in Olympic history to maybe win a medal. He has been

:59:06.:59:10.

one of those guys who always delivers. Can they follow it up?

:59:11.:59:20.

Yes, in the space of a few seconds this game has gone from 0-0 to 2-0.

:59:21.:59:42.

This is something else. Juuso Hietanen scores and that should do

:59:43.:59:47.

it. Years ago it was the Miracle On Ice but right now for the Americans

:59:48.:59:53.

it is misery on ice. They come across the line and they support

:59:54.:59:56.

each other and they pick up the loose change and then they bank it.

:59:57.:00:06.

The American's work was so sharp for so long in this tournament and it is

:00:07.:00:13.

amazing now to see them 3-0 down... 4-0 down. Teemu Selanne, his second,

:00:14.:00:18.

that guarantees bronze. An Olympic legend has come to the table again

:00:19.:00:26.

at 43. Watch the dynamic duo do it again! Shot will come, what a goal!

:00:27.:00:38.

It is five. The Americans are being hammered here. They are being

:00:39.:00:42.

embarrassed at the Bolshoi. A great finish. It is sensational. Finland

:00:43.:00:52.

have won the bronze medal. Teemu Selanne leads them all of the way.

:00:53.:00:57.

Jonathan quick was beaten five times. It is Teemu Selanne, the

:00:58.:01:05.

43-year-old, the oldest player in the men's Olympic ice hockey

:01:06.:01:15.

history. He scored twice. He led his team to another medal.

:01:16.:01:22.

So the USA who were in the gold-medal match four years ago go

:01:23.:01:28.

home with nothing in the worst place to finish, forth. Well done to

:01:29.:01:32.

Finland to take the bronze. This is the line-up for tomorrow. GB are one

:01:33.:01:38.

in seventh place and the first of four runs for the bobsleigh start at

:01:39.:01:46.

9:30am. The ice hockey final starts at midday with Canada against Sweden

:01:47.:01:48.

and the closing ceremony is from 4pm. Also tomorrow afternoon on BBC

:01:49.:01:55.

Two play will be showing you the best of the skating gala. It is when

:01:56.:02:02.

the medal winners from the skating or get out onto the ice and do their

:02:03.:02:08.

bit with no inhibitions and it is just fun and here is a bit of a

:02:09.:02:12.

taster. He is one of the top skaters.

:02:13.:02:43.

MUSIC: "Holding Out For A Hero" by Bonnie Tyler.

:02:44.:04:22.

Nick Buckland and Penny Coomes were in the commentary box alongside Sue

:04:23.:04:27.

Barker and I think all they did was laugh all the way through that. It

:04:28.:04:32.

is brilliant stuff. After 2:30pm tomorrow you will see the best of

:04:33.:04:37.

that gala. In just a few moments we will have the very last edition of

:04:38.:04:41.

today at the games so it is the last time you will see this trolley in

:04:42.:04:45.

action. It has done a sterling job and created a lot of attention and I

:04:46.:04:49.

think the programme may start a little differently today but also we

:04:50.:04:52.

will be joining the British team members that you can see inside the

:04:53.:04:56.

restaurant including medal winners and we will be talking to the man

:04:57.:04:59.

who picked up their silver in curling today as well as the women

:05:00.:05:12.

who picked up the bronze and we will reflect on the penultimate day of

:05:13.:05:14.

these Winter Olympics here in Sochi. In just a couple of moments please

:05:15.:05:17.

do rejoin us. By for just one second.

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