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Hi, Ricky here. | 0:00:03 | 0:00:04 | |
This is your Saturday
lunchtime Newsround. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
Here's what we've got for you. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
There's no greater pressure | 0:00:09 | 0:00:10 | |
than the pressure an anthlete
puts on themselves. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
Gold medalist Amy Williams
tells Newsround | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
what it's like to be
a Team GB athelete! | 0:00:15 | 0:00:20 | |
Plus the cutest thing
you'll see today. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:27 | |
First up,
news from PyeongChang, | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
where the Winter
Olympics are underway. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
Team GB medal hopeful Elise Christie
took to the ice this morning, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
in the 500 metre short track
speed skating heats. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
And it was a great start
for Elise in her first race | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
of the games so far. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
She beat opponents from China,
Korea and France to win the heat, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:55 | |
and she set a brand new Olympic
record while doing it. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
She's now through
to the quarter finals. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:02 | |
Next up, imagine how nervous Elise
must have been on that start line. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
Well, earlier this morning,
I caught up with Amy Williams, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
who won gold at the Winter Games
in Vancouvereight years ago. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
She knows exactly how
this year's athletes are feeling. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:17 | |
Every athlete knows
that they want to win a medal, | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
because they want to
stand on the podium. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
They've done all the
years of hard work. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:28 | |
And then each sport has
to say which medals, | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
and how many they will target for. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
And then there's that
pressure on the whole team. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
But there's still
no greater pressure | 0:01:34 | 0:01:35 | |
than the pressure that
an athlete puts on themselves. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
But when you know that
lots of funding has gone | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
into your sport and you have
to bring home a medal, | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
it's really hard. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:43 | |
So, psychologically in your head,
you have to kind of think on | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
that and then park it,
stand on the start line, perform | 0:01:46 | 0:01:51 | |
and hope that your result happens. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
Now, in 2010, you got gold
in the women's skeleton, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
and you kind of became
this star overnight - | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
all this attention on you. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
What's it like when you win
a medal at an Olympics? | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
What is that feeling like? | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
It's funny, because I knew my
training times were really good, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
I knew I could win a medal, | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
but I never allowed
myself to think about it. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
And then it happens,
and all of a sudden you're | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
going through the media zone
which is the area that you have to | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
walk through with the world's press. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:20 | |
You got Clare Balding
interviewing you, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
you've got,
you know, German TV all excited, | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
whoever it might be. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
And then your land home
and you don't realise | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
what's been going on back home
when you're in a foreign country. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
You get on that flight,
and I specifically still remember, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
the first time I'd been
in first-class, | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
seat number 1A - amazing! | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
But I look back now
and it was eight years ago, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
and it's like this blur,
as if it never happened. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
When I watch that girl
in all the replays and clips, | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
was that girl me? | 0:02:49 | 0:02:50 | |
Wow. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:51 | |
It's a really strange... | 0:02:51 | 0:02:52 | |
Like an out of body experience? | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
An out of body experience. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
But I wish I could find
a genie in a lamp. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
I wish I could go back and relive
it all again, and write a diary, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
because you think you're
going to remember all of it | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
and you don't. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:04 | |
You remember little snippets. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
Well, listen, thank you so much
for coming in to chat to Newsround, | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
and hopefully over the next few
weeks we'll see those medals | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
kind of go up and up. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
Fingers crossed. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:14 | |
I hope so. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:15 | |
Fingers crossed. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Now, here's a sport that
you won't be seeing played | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
over in PyeongChang - ice cricket! | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
The match in Switzerland
was played on a fake grass | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
carpet laid over the snow
and with a bright orange ball. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
Cricketing legends from around
the world joined forces to take part | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
in the chilly but friendly games. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
Looks like a good excuse
for a hot chocolate if you ask me. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:40 | |
Next, some big news
in the world of space travel. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:45 | |
The most powerful rocket
in the world, the Falcon Heavy, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
was successfully launched
into space on Tuesday night. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
Houston - run VT! | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
Five, four, three, two, one... | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
Blastoff! | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
It's taken seven years
but, boys and girls, | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
that is what you call a successful
launch of the most powerful | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
rocket ever built. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
The Falcon Heavy is
the brainchild of SpaceX, | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
the company run
by South African Elon musk. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
Never heard of him? | 0:04:12 | 0:04:13 | |
Well, it's rumoured that
Robert Downey Junior based | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
the character of Tony Stark,
aka Iron Man, on him. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
It kind of gives you an idea
about the type of guy he is. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
Back to the rocket. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
It used 27 separate engines
to launch it into space. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
That's around the same power as 18
Boeing 747 aeroplanes taking off, | 0:04:29 | 0:04:34 | |
and twice as powerful as any other
rocket in use at the minute. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
It means the Falcon Heavy can carry
twice as much into space, | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
64 tonnes, to be exact. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
That's basically five
double-decker buses. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
It opens up the possibility
for astronauts to travel further, | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
and for bigger robots to be sent
to planets like Mars. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
On top of that, the boosters
that the Falcon uses | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
to power it
into space are reusable. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
Once detached from the main body
of the craft, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
they should fly
themselves back to Earth. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
Now that is cool. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
So who was lucky enough to be
on the first flight? | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
Well, no humans, unfortunately. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
You see, a lot of test
flights can go wrong. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
But that's not to say
the spaceship was empty. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
Bring forth Starman! | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
Yeah, that's a dummy riding
a cherry red car to Mars, | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
with the radio on of course! | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
Finally, you won't see
anything cuter | 0:05:29 | 0:05:30 | |
than these
tiny bear cubs today. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
They were found abandoned
in a cardboard box | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
by these people living in a remote
part of Moscow, in Russia. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
They took the baby bears
in and looked after them, | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
before handing them over
to animal welfare experts. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
The orphaned cubs are being fed
with baby food and warm milk. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
It's hoped that they will be
released back into the wild | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
when they're older. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
We're back in an hour. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 |