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Happy Friday guys, Ayshah here with a sport-filled Newsround. Coming up: | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
More misery for Moyes as his captain says goodbye. And get ready for | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
slopes, skating and snowboards. This is Newsround. | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
First up, the seaside resort of Sochi in Russia is putting together | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
the final preparations ahead of the Opening Ceremony of the 22nd Winter | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Games which takes place this afternoon. There will be 98 gold | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
medals won over 16 days of competition, with nearly 3,000 | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
athletes from 87 National Olympic Committees competing. Speed skater, | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
Jon Eley, will fly the flag for Britain during the opening ceremony | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
which starts at 4:15pm our time. The Games haven't come cheap though, | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
costing a mighty ?30 billion - more than the combined total of all other | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Olympic Winter Games that have ever been held. The BBC's Daniel Sandford | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
sent us this ahead of the opening ceremony. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Athletes are looking very relaxed and focused on their sport. No sport | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
today, all the focus on the opening ceremony which has promised to be a | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
spectacular year of Russian history. Most of the details are a secret but | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
we know it will be an historical journey through Russia and an | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
expensive spectacular. So much money was spent altering the stadium just | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
for the opening ceremony. Team GB's Chemmy Alcott is one of 56 | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
athletes chosen to represent our country at The Games. She's broken | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
her leg three times and got a metal plate holding it together. But | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
that's not enough to stop the Alpine ski racer heading to her fourth | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Winter Olympics, as Leah found out. Chemmy Alcott of Great Britain. How | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
amazing is this, taking part in another Winter Olympics? I was | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
excited at my first and now I am on my fourth. I am still excited | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
because it has been a struggle. How have you been preparing? Five months | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
ago I got surgery on my leg and then I was named in the team. I have got | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
to get self a leaf back in my body. What is the mood like in the team? I | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
have never been part of a team with so much excitement around it. Every | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
Olympics there has been one person who might bring back a medal, this | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
time there are seven athletes in seven sports who are world-class. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
What is it like when you are about to race, what goes through your | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
mind? Are you focused or are you blind? When I am too focused and | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
really focused on what I am going to do and how I am going to do it, I | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
inhibit my performance. I have to relax and enjoy the moment. Chemmy | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Alcott skis into Silver medal position. What advice would you give | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
to children watching who find what you do really cool? It is really | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
cool, you can control how well you do. There are a lot of things out of | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
your control in this life, but when you are skiing you choose how fast | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
you go. Who should we look out for? James Woods in the freestyle, he is | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
a fresh -- breath of fresh air. Elise Christie. It is endless. We | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
have got a good chance? Yes, we do. Are you excited? I am very excited. | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
Best of luck for the competition. We've also gone Winter Olympics | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
crazy over on the website. Head over there after your jam on toast to | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
check out Newsround's ultimate guide to Sochi. Find out who could be | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
getting a medal for Team GB, and we tell you the five Winter Olympic | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
sports you cannot afford to miss. In other sport news, Manchester | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
United captain, Nemanja Vidic, has announced that he's leaving the club | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
at the end of the season. The defender won't be staying in England | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
though and has told the club that United are the only team in the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Premier League he'll play for. That's all for now but I'll leave | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
you with just a little taste of what you can look forward to in Sochi | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
over the next few weeks. I'm so excited. We are back in the | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
afternoon. | :04:33. | :04:38. |