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Hello and welcome back to the Sanki Sliding Center. If you have been

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watching on BBC One, you will know exactly what has just occurred. If

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you were watching Pointers on BBC Two, Great Britain has a new

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champion. Lizzy Yarnold goes for gold for

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Great Britain. Can she get a track record again? If she can, it is all

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over. She is still in the lead by a big, chunky margin. She is in

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control. Unbelievable. She is having the run of her life. I think she can

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hang onto this. That was a horrible slide, but she is still over a

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second ahead. This is not a great slide at all. She is making

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mistakes, but... She is still in the lead by a comfortable margin. Come

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on, Lizzy, keep it together, keep calm. Go on, Lizzy! She hit that

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hard on the left-hand side. It doesn't matter. She is going to win

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the gold medal, surely? She is going to crash -- she could crash now and

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win it. Lizzy Yarnold is the Olympic champion! Oh, my goodness. That was

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William. Look at everyone! Unbelievable. Awesome work by Lizzy

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Yarnold. Lizzy Yarnold has taken everything the rest of the world

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have had, and thrown it back in their faces. That is fantastic. She

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made us worry for a second! I literally nearly had a heart attack

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watching that. That was not the best run. I have tears in my eyes. I have

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passed over my Olympic crown. You are no longer Olympic champion. I am

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so proud of her. It is an emotional time for everyone, for the whole of

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British skeleton and the whole of Great Britain. That is truly

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remarkable. We had never even heard of Lizzy Yarnold four years ago.

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Four years ago, she would have been watching you get a gold . Now you

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are her landlady, you can sit and have a cup of tea and click your

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gold medals together! I had not thought of that! She's lapping it

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up. She has to make the most of every moment. Her life is going to

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change forever now. Her name is in the history books. Maybe she will

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keep sliding and come back in four years. I think she will. She has got

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a lot more to prove. She can be one of the best sliders in the world.

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You could see the reaction of Clive and this, her parents. Her sisters

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had a big hug for her. There are fireworks going off here. We had

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fireworks on the track. Sorry, that is a bad cliche! She dominated from

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the beginning. So Amy, it did not matter that her last run was not her

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best. No, it didn't, luckily for her. She did not have too have a

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perfect run. She had such a huge amount of time, unheard of. This is

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the Sochi track that everyone has loved to slide. Lizzy was lucky that

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she managed to keep it up. She would not have known until she saw her

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time. You have told us how aerodynamic and skilful she is at

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this sport. Yeah, she is a big, heavy girl, like Noelle Pikus-Pace

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in silver. She has a great start. She trained so hard over the summer

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in Bath. She has made that mistake, but overall, her rare dynamics and

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the technology that goes into that's sled, all the hard work, all those

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hours have paid off as Olympic champion. The two coaches at the

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bottom, it means just as much to them, all that hard work for years.

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That is a glorious feeling. I guess every time you go to the gym, that

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is what you are working for . That is what motivates you. Every day,

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you go to that gym as an athlete, you are lifting those weights. You

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do two or three sessions a day, and each of those weights you lift is,

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this is going to make me the better athlete. Every bit of food you put

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in your mouth, the hours you go to bed, all those sacrifices and that

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dedication, missing out on parties, celebrations, New Year's Eves, it is

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all worth it for this one moment. You will never regret missing out on

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the other side of life. As an athlete, you train your whole life

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to be at the Olympics and one day to bring home a medal. Gathering from

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what you said earlier, four years ago in Vancouver, when we sat

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outside having a chat at the table today after you won your gold medal,

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you still did not realise then what was. It will take a while for Lizzy

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to realise what she has achieved. It really will. It has seriously taken

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me four years. It has only just hit me and I have just had messages on

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the guys in the pub who were celebrating those images from four

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years ago in my local pub. They are now watching Lizzy and almost

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reliving it. It has only taken me until now to hit me. Lizzy is going

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to go to bed tonight and wake up and think, did that really happen? She

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will be on a media frenzy, everyone wanted to interview her. And

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tomorrow night, she will stand on that podium and get given her medal.

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I hope she can somehow be calm in that moment. If I could relive it, I

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would. The medal is coming back to Great Britain, where we want it to

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be. The fireworks display has just finished with a big bang. Let's look

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at the reaction of her friends and family.

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Katie and Charlotte, her sisters, Clive and Judith, her parents. You

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can see her dad has an Australian hat on. He said earlier when

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interviewed by Matthew Pinsent, I am allowed to embarrass my daughter,

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that is what fathers are allowed to do. He was wiping the tears away.

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And this was the flower ceremony. It is a moment that happens very

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quickly after the end of the race. Darren Steele of the USA made that

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flower presentation. These are live shots now. Those are her sisters,

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her mum and friends. Hallo! You can see their T-shirt. The Yarny Army,

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they are known as. We will talk to some of them as soon as we can. What

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have we started?! I am amazed at the confidence. Lizzy admitted that she

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had even learnt to say in Russian, I am the Olympic champion. You hardly

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ever hear athletes say that, and you rarely hear a female athletes aid.

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Some men do, boxers, but not women. That is the unique thing, Lizzy is

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not scared of saying, I am going to win. Maybe that is what she spent

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her time doing today. She was so confident that she had to fill her

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time doing something . May be learning Russian, and the fact that

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she has remembered learning how to say that! Every day, I have tried

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learning one word of Russian and so far, nothing. That was the

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confidence Lizzy had. She has said many things that transferred to life

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in general. Whether it is business, or problems you are going through at

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work, she says things like, I want to be the best version of myself

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that I can be. That is true in everybody's life, and she is doing

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it under the biggest spotlight at a Winter Olympic Games to maintain

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that sort of calm, collected, confident concentration, to round

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off all the letters see. It is amazing. As an athlete, you learn

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all these different skills that you can put into another area of life. I

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do a lot of talks with business people, and you can use the same

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principles to put into your training, all that hard work. It is

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not about concentrating on others, it is about focusing on yourself and

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being the best athlete you can be everyday. For me, it was not about

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studying other people and their times, it was about studying

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yourself. Where can I improve? Where can I have better nutrition? Where

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can I go to bed earlier? It is about those strengths, weaknesses,

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opportunities, threats. What can you do to become a better person? Lizzy

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has done that each day since she started doing skeleton. She has

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contributed to Great Britain's medals haul at the Winter Olympics,

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which is not massive, a tenth gold medal in a period that stretches

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back 90 years. There has been an awful lot going on

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today away from the sliding Centre. First, we bring you up-to-date news

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the curling. -- news from the curling. Great Britain's men were in

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action and there were more celebrations for David Murdoch and

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his team. They led 7-6 going into this final 10th end. And although

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Denmark had the hammer, the final stone, it looks as if... It is not

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going to be good enough. So Great Britain got the win. They won 8-6.

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The Danish skip was looking very disappointed. We will be rounding up

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all of the action later today at 7:10pm on BBC Two.

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There are women's aerials right now on the red button if you want to

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watch that live. And we will be joining live figure skating very

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shortly. We are going to see who will be crowned as the men's singles

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winner. Gosh, it has been an amazing competition, because we saw a world

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record yesterday in the short programme, and there is a

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19-year-old from Japan leading the way. Let's go there now and join Sue

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Barker and Robin Cousins. They... Yes, Denis ten is leading

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the way here and I am sitting alongside an Olympic champion who

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knows what it is like to win a gold medal. That is good news, Robin? It

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is, there has on the back of the neck went up. But this is all about

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the gold medal in the men's competition, and what a group of six

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we have in front of us. Daisuke Takahashi is capable of huge things,

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but the man everyone has been talking about is Yuzuru Hanyu. He

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had a world record score yesterday in the short programme. Patrick Chan

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is second, but there is just one mistake, and he and his coach know

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it. This is the man everyone has had to beat over the last few years. But

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he is not the target any more, he is the man chasing. Denis Ten of

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Kazakhstan is the leader at the moment. A super performance from him

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in the last group. He did not make a mistake, and no one must now. And it

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is the man with immense pressure who is going to start this final group.

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Spain has never won and Olympic figure skating medal, and this man,

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Javier Hernandez, good change that, but he needs to be better than

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yesterday. He was cleared at times but a disappointment in other

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elements, almost sluggish. His coach told him afterwards he must attack

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today if he is going to claim a medal. There is less than 1.7 rating

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third, where he is, and sixth place. He is the first of the leaders to

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skate. Will he put the pressure on others or leave room for them to

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claim a place on the podium? Two quadruple jumps are planned. He

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needs them both, hopefully one with the combination. He has gone for the

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quad toe first. That was wonderful. The step sequence done, will he go

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for quad number three? The jump is going to happen, it comes next.

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A combination of triple flip and... Legible Salchow, -- eight triple

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Salchow. He is one of the sport's great

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entertainers and everybody enjoyed that performance will stop he

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enjoyed the first minute because he is late macro was so good. Normally

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so reliable but in the end, they let him down. Two out of three ain't

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bad. It would have been nice to see the third quarter, the triple lutz

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as well needed to happen. Level fours, level threes and in the step

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sequence. But there was enough in there, Robin, others to come out and

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take the middle from him. I am also seeing that the final triple Salchow

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sequence has not been given any marks at all. So 12, five, nine and

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14 for the first two quads. Changing foot after the three turn.

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Easily rotating with the quad toe, terrific jump.

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A very tight take off on a trip for Axel, doesn't have much flow at all.

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-- take-off on the triple Axel. A loss of concentration on the take

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off for that triple lutz. Components will be good. Components always are

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good, he is tremendous with choreography and presentation.

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Always offer something a bit different. We thought we were going

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to see some in special and then just a few of the errors. You can only

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pick up points on the elements you do. Exactly. And he has certainly

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opened the door for others to follow . He remembered his rose for

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Valentines though, so well done. I think it is dawning on him, he

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properly does not know he got a zero for the final combination jump but

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166.94 actually puts him third in the free skate and second overall so

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no medal for him unless the leaders have a nightmare performance but it

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looks like he is out of the medals and it is still the Kazakhstan

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athlete who leads the way. But it could change here. The skater

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lying in fourth place, after the short programme, a huge ovation from

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his adoring fans, Takahashi. So much support over the years, a superstar

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for so long. The killing the first to put BLEEP Japanese -- Japanese

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athletes to win the world champ Richard. Can he take home a medal?

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-- world champion. MUSIC: "Yesterday" by The Beatles -

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instrumental. Takahashi opening with the quad toe

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loop. And then the triple lutz. MUSIC SWITCHES TO "COME TOGETHER" BY

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THE BEATLES. There is the lutz and there is the

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toe loop. MUSIC SWITCHES TO "IN MY LIFE" BY

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THE BEATLES. He certainly delivered. Really lucky

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to be here finishing fifth in the Japanese Championships but they put

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him through to give him a last chance here in front of his adoring

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fans and this stadium is full of his adoring fans and one once again,

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they will throw flowers on the ice and it will take a while to clear

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them. He has been so popular over the years but I do not think it will

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give him a medal but certainly a fond farewell to Takahashi. Much

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better than his practices have been giving away, that is for sure. He

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was surprised to find himself in fourth after the short programme. He

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has made it difficult for himself. Look at all these flowers! There are

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not in a flower girls to go and collect them and about 20 on the

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rink and they are still falling down. And in the middle of it, is

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the next athlete trying to skate around the flowers trying to do his

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warm up. But Takahashi came in and maybe jumps happen, they did not

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show up in the warm up for him. The quad was there, on two feet.

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That has been downgraded to a triple.

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There is the triple Axel. We have seen lesser errors be much more

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costly for earlier skaters so I have a feeling... But word I used

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earlier, "plummet" may see him dropping down the rankings. It is

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the psychology and you think, if you can produce a season's best and that

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would take the lead and that might give me a bronze medal. It just does

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not happen. Presentation, choreography in the nines but

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transition down in the eights. But it is the technical score that will

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hold him back again on this. That will not be well received by those

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who have thrown in the flowers that have finally been cleared from the

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ice. But what a career he has had. World champion back in 2010. So many

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glorious routines and performances over the years. The music was lovely

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as well, nice arrangements of Beatles classics. Such a charismatic

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skater. Plenty for the judges to review in that programme. That is

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why the scores are taking some time. It will be sad to see him go.

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He has been a great character on the ice. He has certainly brought many

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fans to skating, particularly back in Japan. When you look at their

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national championships, it is almost like a major international. Any one

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of their top five could have come here and performed in these final

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two groups, such is the depth there. It will be an exciting World

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Championships, as they are hosting them in Tokyo in a month's time. And

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still, the wait goes on, not only for Takahashi, but also for Yuzuru

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Hanyu, the leader, who is waiting to skate.

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He needed 172 to take the lead, so that has not gone down well. He lost

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it on the technical mark. No medal to end his glorious career. We wish

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him well. Now, what about this young man? He has twice won a silver medal

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at the Olympics games. And with all the drama yesterday, Plushenko

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withdrawing, we needed a skate to remember, and Yuzuru Hanyu did just

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that, producing a world record score, over 100 points. It was

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energetic, powerful and perfect. But this skate is for the Olympic gold

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medal, and he is just 19. He steadied himself, readying for the

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biggest moment of his short career. He made history here yesterday. Will

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he do the same again today? It will come down to the opening two

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jumps. That was the first, quadruple salchow, he wanted. Now, compose

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yourself, and let's do the quadruple toe loop. Yes.

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He did so well to recover, but that is the pressure of the Olympic

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games. Missing jumps early on that look so solid yesterday. That

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performance certainly does not secure the gold medal for Hanyu. It

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has left room for Patrick Chan, if he can deliver the programme . But

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boy, he overcame the nerves and relaxed into the programme, and then

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it took off. And he delivered the elements he needed. The half-loop

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was off in the middle, but got the triple salchow in the end. At how

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costly are those two mistakes earlier on? The fall on the first

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quad, he will get the score for the quad, but the grade of execution

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goes down. Plus the deduction. Two deductions for falls. 12.44 for the

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second quarter. 7.50 for the first quad. 16.15 for the triple axel,

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triple toe combination. He looks very disappointed, particularly

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after what he delivered yesterday in that short programme. He so wanted

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to come out and deliver another clean routine and it was not to be,

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but that is the pressure he is and in here. Just 19, and he is not

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experienced. Made the rotation on the quad. It was nice in the air.

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Caught the heel a bit on the landing. Composed himself to come

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back for the second. Made that one, no question.

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I think they may have taken a full deduction for that. Got the triple

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axel Andy triple toe loop. Only 19 years of age. Before, there was a

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question mark about his stamina in the long programme, until this year,

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when he did overcome Patrick Chan. But that was pressure. And that is

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new for him, because normally when something goes early, it does not

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get recovered. Delivering something in two minutes and 49 seconds is one

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thing, having to do it when you are exposed and pull the focus act is

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another. He knew the pressure was on. He got the second quad out. He

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does not have great experience at major international level, does he?

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This is a whole new experience for him. Not compared to Patrick Chan.

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Oh, no! His season's best is so huge, 193 plus, so that is way

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under. He has been penalised. All of a sudden, it looks very good for

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Patrick Chan and Canada. Well, Hanyu was trying to become the first

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Japanese skater to win the men's championship here. Patrick Chan is

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having to do the same now for Canada. For the past three years, he

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has been the most dominant skater on the planet, setting the standard,

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always the man to beat. It changed in December at the Grand Prix

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final. Here, he is playing catch up. But now he, more than anyone, is

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aware of what he has to do to win the gold. The dream would come true.

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He went in with high expectations in Vancouver and finished a

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disappointing fifth. But here he is, four years later, and the door has

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been opened by Hanyu. But can Chan take it?

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There was the quad, with the triple toe loop.

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Quad number two, just the hands down.

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Tight on the landing of the triple loop.

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The easiest jump in his programme, the double axel.

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He was given a chance and he didn't take it, that is not Patrick Chan at

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his best. So dominant for the past three years but in the past couple

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of months, his jumps have started to look vulnerable and they were again

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tonight. You think that Canada is desperate for this gold medal, they

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have had so many great world champions come into the Olympics,

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among others, whenever they have a better chance than Patrick Chan and

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he did not deliver the programme. I thought he was looking vulnerable,

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not just the jumps. There was a hesitation in him. He is normally

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cool and focused but then he had the first quads triple combination and I

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thought he was on his way. When you look at the scores, he could be 14,

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14 points below to take the lead in this free skate so there was bluntly

:47:51.:47:55.

of for him. But just too many mistakes.

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There is an extra 10% that comes from the elements at the back.

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Patrick lost big points. The choreography sequence, level one,

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2.6 for the double axel. This is the opening combination.

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Easy, down and light, set up for the second triple toe loop that followed

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the quad. No sign of pressure or tension in that body at all. And on

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the second one, he likes to get a little bounce on the three term,

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just a bit of tension forward with the body, he pushed himself onto the

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toe pick some scratched down a bit. At the hands down. He didn't get the

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lift through from that right leg coming into the take off of that to

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give him the elevation that he needed.

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Again, tight on the half-loop between the triple lutz and what he

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would have liked to have been a triple Salchow. He always has a big

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component score and he will be relying on that. It does not matter

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what sport you are in, once you doubt yourself, it just does not

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work. And it is not enough, 178.10. It is

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below Yuzuru Hanyu in the free skate and overall and that is not what

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Patrick Chan came here for. And not what we affected. Six months ago.

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The gold medal was his then but not to be, not his night. And I think it

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is just beginning to sink in. So, Yuzuru Hanyu has his hands on

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the gold medal but now Peter Liebers of Germany is on the eyes this. --

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is on the ice. He surprised everybody finishing sixth at the

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European Championships last month but then finished in the team event

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with a season's best and improve with 6.5 points yesterday and finds

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himself in fifth place and in touching distance of an Olympic

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medal. Peter Liebers of Germany. He opens with the quad toe loop.

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That has served him very well in the short programme, let's hope it shows

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up again tonight. Triple axel, triple toe loop, that

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is better. He will be given credit for the jump

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because he made the rotation. Fighting, holding on, got the

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Salchow and now the loop. The last of his triples.

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The tension of this final group is flowing from one skater to another.

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He has looked rock solid so far and in practice but when it came down to

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it with the chance of an Olympic medal, it just failed him. He is not

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the first I am sure he will not be the last to find that pressure.

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Finding himself in that final group, he has been a grafter for the last

:55:50.:55:54.

few years. He has worked so hard. He competed against his father back in

:55:55.:56:05.

the 80s # I competed, Mario when he was alongside the great Jan Hoffman

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but found himself in this extraordinary position yesterday of

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delivering the performance of his career in the short programme. He

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did not do himself any harm to night. The quad was not there but he

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pushed through the two double axel is, and the triple lutz, made it

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happen. And he will go away a happy man from this championship. Probably

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not in the top five though. He is a very open stance skater, uses his

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arms very high on the landings, lots of tension in the shoulders, did not

:56:47.:56:50.

get the free leg back to help them get back from that quad toe loop but

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he made the rotation so he will be given the credit. That was the

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triple axel interdigital toe loop combination. So he will begin then

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the point for the triple axel -- into the triple toe loop. Sorry, for

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the quad. Points as well for the triple axel but it was the grade of

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execution that the judges are looking at where they make the

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deduction. There were errors in the programme but boy, he can be

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immensely proud of what he has achieved here and he has shown the

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world that he is right up there with the very best and this has been a

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long time coming full top the season's best is 148, they are

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asking him to have 194 to get to the lead but let's see what he does. It

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is a season's best, 153.83. The crowd don't like it that that is

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what the judges have given him. A good component score. That is all he

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can ask. Come away with what he can. That puts him eighth overall so he

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is dropping some way down the standings but, as we said, he has

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come here and delivered some great programmes. As has this young man.

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We are set for a fairy tale ending here or are we? Jason Brown of the

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United States of America. Boy, he was nowhere a few months ago and

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suddenly second in the national championships on the American Arabic

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team here. He won a medal in the team event, a bronze medal for the

:58:44.:58:47.

United States and here he is skating last in the Olympic final -- on the

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American team here. If you can deliver a perfect routine, you never

:58:58.:58:58.

know. It is a wonderful routine as well

:58:59.:59:08.

which could bring the house down. A great step sequence towards the end,

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this is Jason Brown's Riverdance. This is where it gets important for

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Jason, triple axel, triple toe loop. It is his hardest element.

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The triple toe was on two feat which made the rotation on the triple

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axel. Him Ooh, just eking out that triple

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salchow at the end of the combination.

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Better on that triple flip, double toe loop. That should have been a

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double axel. There it is. Slightly underrotated on the landing

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of the triple loop. The judges may ask to review that.

:03:33.:03:50.

A huge ovation. It was fun, and energetic as always, but there will

:03:51.:03:57.

be in no medal for Jason Brown this time. Not as difficult a programme

:03:58.:04:02.

as the others performed, and there were mistakes as well, but boy, what

:04:03.:04:06.

a difficult few months it has been for him. There was talk about

:04:07.:04:11.

staying in the juniors last year, and he thought he would give it a

:04:12.:04:16.

chance. He has skated at last at the Olympics. He has a bright future. He

:04:17.:04:23.

still has some junior qualities about him as a performer. With the

:04:24.:04:29.

short programme, it was strong. But he is vulnerable in a long

:04:30.:04:33.

programme. He needed to be 11 points over his personal best this season

:04:34.:04:41.

to get onto that podium. But he is only 19, and he has the performer in

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him, which some skaters don't have, and it is very natural. It is. You

:04:47.:04:50.

can't teach that, but you can teach the quantity he needs to get those

:04:51.:04:55.

combinations consistent and find that elusive quad. They say he is

:04:56.:05:03.

not far off the rotation is with the quad. He was slightly over rotated

:05:04.:05:10.

and on two feet with the triple axel.

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So there is a downgrade there. And there is a downgrade on the second

:05:20.:05:31.

triple axel and zero for the triple loop. Just level one for his

:05:32.:05:45.

choreography sequence. But he is one of those skaters who, even when it

:05:46.:05:50.

doesn't quite work, you still enjoy watching the overall performance.

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And he doesn't let disappointments overtake him. You do not see it in

:05:55.:06:04.

his face. He has just loved being here, enjoying the moment. He came

:06:05.:06:12.

here as just the boy with the famous ponytail. It has got its own social

:06:13.:06:18.

media site. But he has certainly delivered here. Not tonight, but at

:06:19.:06:25.

the Olympics. Wonderful performance in the team competition to help

:06:26.:06:29.

America take the bronze medal. And it is all a learning experience for

:06:30.:06:34.

him at just 19. He will be lovely to work with for the coach and

:06:35.:06:37.

choreographer, because it will be interesting and exciting to see what

:06:38.:06:41.

he comes up with in the years to come.

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This could be a while, because I think there are a few reviews for

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the judges to make sure the marking is spot on and put him in the

:06:54.:07:03.

position he deserves to be. He is in the eights for the component scores.

:07:04.:07:08.

No surprise. He was always going to have a good component score. But it

:07:09.:07:15.

is the technical score he has got to work on. He came in sixth after the

:07:16.:07:22.

short programme, and I think he is going to drop. But the second mark

:07:23.:07:41.

shows what a future he could have. He is top ten in the Olympics. He

:07:42.:07:45.

may have dropped from six to nine, that there were many great skaters

:07:46.:07:49.

that today. But it is this man who is the Olympic champion, on this

:07:50.:07:54.

evening full of tension, when the leaders were just overawed by the

:07:55.:08:00.

occasion and the prize at stake. But it does go to an immensely talented

:08:01.:08:04.

young man from Japan who did not perform at his best today, but he

:08:05.:08:11.

will be a major star of the future. We look forward to 219-year-olds,

:08:12.:08:18.

Jason Brown and Yuzuru Hanyu going for. It was not quite the skate off

:08:19.:08:22.

we were hoping for or expecting, looking at that final group. But

:08:23.:08:28.

Yuzuru Hanyu, to the delight of the Japanese fans here, is the Olympic

:08:29.:08:34.

champion, the first Japanese man to win the Olympic gold medal in the

:08:35.:08:37.

men's championship and the youngest winner for 66 years. He will recover

:08:38.:08:45.

quickly from this performance. It will take Patrick Chan a long time

:08:46.:08:48.

to come to terms with what happened tonight and how he gave away that

:08:49.:08:52.

Olympic gold medal. Congratulations to Denis Ten, with all the injuries

:08:53.:08:57.

and illnesses he had throughout the year. Skin infection, back pain,

:08:58.:09:02.

ankle injury. He skated his heart out tonight in a clean programme to

:09:03.:09:08.

take the bronze medal. So not the greatest night of skating, but still

:09:09.:09:14.

drama all the way. The gold goes to Japan and Yuzuru Hanyu. Yuzuru Hanyu

:09:15.:09:22.

fell twice in that free programme, but having set a world record in the

:09:23.:09:25.

short programme, he had enough in hand to take the gold medal for

:09:26.:09:29.

Japan. Congratulations to him. Thanks to Sue Barker and Robin

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Cousins. Coming up next on ABC two is Today At The Games, highlights on

:09:34.:09:37.

what was a golden day here at the sliding Centre for team GB. See you

:09:38.:09:39.

in a minute.

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