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Hello, Jenny here with Friday's Newsround, and as these LIVE | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
pictures show, the Opening Ceremony of the 22nd Winter Games has just | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
started. Much more on Sochi coming up, plus... | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
We'll bring you the very latest on the flood hit South West of England. | :00:16. | :00:28. | |
This is Newsround. We're starting in Sochi, where the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Winter Olympics are well and truly underway! These are live pictures | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
from the opening ceremony, which kicked off just a few minutes ago. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Over the next 16 days, almost 3,000 athletes from 87 countries will be | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
competing for 98 gold medals. But the Games have come at a price. At | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
?30 billion, they've cost more than the combined total of all the other | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Winter Olympics that have ever been held! BBC Sport's Andy Swiss sent us | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
this from Sochi. We have been promised the most ambitious opening | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
ceremony in Olympic history. There will be singing, dancing, music, | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
3000 performers, 22 tonnes of fireworks. It should be a | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
spectacular affair. Team GB will be led into the stadium by their flag | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
bearer, John Healey, a speed skater. After the problems, the Troubles in | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
the build-up to the Olympics, the organisers, you sense, will be | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
relieved to see them finally underway. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
But it's not just the slopes of Sochi that are brimming with | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
excitement. Right here in the UK, some of you lot are getting geared | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
up for a thrilling Games. Ayshah's hit the slopes to check out what | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
you're looking forward to. These kids at this snow centre in | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Manchester sure know how to have a good time and they can't wait for | :01:38. | :01:50. | |
the Winter Olympics. So, who is excited about the Winter games? | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Great stuff. What are you looking forward to? Ice-skating. I the dance | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
moves they do. Snowboarding. The tricks are epic. From all around the | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
world, millions will be watching the chills, thrills and spills of the | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
Winter Olympics. Go Team GB! It looks like the party's well | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
underway in Sochi, and it'll continue into the weekend so to make | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
sure you don't miss out on anything. Here's Martin with his Weekend | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Winter Olympics Ones to Watch! At 8am on Saturday the woman's ice | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
hockey gets started. The first match sees tournament favourites USA | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
against Finland. At 8.45 you'd be crazy to miss Billy Morgan leading | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
GB's medal charge in the men's slope style final. He might fancy his | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
chances now that favourite Canadian Mark McMorris is competing with a | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
broken rib. Ouch! Biathlon's next at 2.30, a mix between cross-country | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
skiing and shooting and the men's 10K sprint. | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
On Sunday, set your alarm clocks for 7am to catch the men's downhill | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
skiing, with some athletes reaching a staggering 80 miles per hour. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Women's slopestyle is at 9.15 - watch out for GB medal hopeful Jenny | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
Jones. And at 3pm, group figure skating will see the pro's show off | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
their sequins. Brrrrrrilliant! And the Winter Olympics coverage | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
doesn't stop there. Get your skates on and head over to the website, | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
where there's news about an injury to one of Team GB's stars, | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Newsround's ultimate guide to Sochi, and the five Winter Olympic sports | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
you cannot afford to miss. Next to the south-west of England, | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
where some of the people living in flood-hit Somerset have described | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
the scene as absolute devastation. They've had a visit today from the | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
man in charge of dealing with flooding in the UK. Many people | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
there are angry that Lord Smith has taken weeks to turn up and see the | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
problems for himself. These pictures show the true scale of the flooding. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
It's getting difficult to travel around the south west of England. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
This train had to make its way along the tracks surrounded by floodwater. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
And in the village of Moorland, Royal Marines were called in during | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
the early hours, to help hand out sandbags, to try and stop the | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
flood-waters. Have a guess how old these | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
footprints are? They're older than you think. Amazingly, the prints are | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
800,000 years old! They were found on a beach in Norfolk. They're the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
oldest footprints ever discovered outside of Africa and were revealed | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
during low tide. Scientists are excited because it's evidence of the | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
earliest ever humans to have lived in Europe. | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
The party continues in Sochi, but that's all I've got time for. Here's | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
a snowy sample of what the world can expect to see coming out of Sochi | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
over the next few weeks. See ya! | :04:42. | :04:44. |