10/02/2018 Newsround

Hi, Ricky here.

This is your Saturday

lunchtime Newsround.

Here's what we've got for you.

There's no greater pressure

than the pressure an anthlete

puts on themselves.

Gold medalist Amy Williams

tells Newsround

what it's like to be

a Team GB athelete!

Plus the cutest thing

you'll see today.

First up,

news from PyeongChang,

where the Winter

Olympics are underway.

Team GB medal hopeful Elise Christie

took to the ice this morning,

in the 500 metre short track

speed skating heats.

And it was a great start

for Elise in her first race

of the games so far.

She beat opponents from China,

Korea and France to win the heat,

and she set a brand new Olympic

record while doing it.

She's now through

to the quarter finals.

Next up, imagine how nervous Elise

must have been on that start line.

Well, earlier this morning,

I caught up with Amy Williams,

who won gold at the Winter Games

in Vancouvereight years ago.

She knows exactly how

this year's athletes are feeling.

Every athlete knows

that they want to win a medal,

because they want to

stand on the podium.

They've done all the

years of hard work.

And then each sport has

to say which medals,

and how many they will target for.

And then there's that

pressure on the whole team.

But there's still

no greater pressure

than the pressure that

an athlete puts on themselves.

But when you know that

lots of funding has gone

into your sport and you have

to bring home a medal,

it's really hard.

So, psychologically in your head,

you have to kind of think on

that and then park it,

stand on the start line, perform

and hope that your result happens.

Now, in 2010, you got gold

in the women's skeleton,

and you kind of became

this star overnight -

all this attention on you.

What's it like when you win

a medal at an Olympics?

What is that feeling like?

It's funny, because I knew my

training times were really good,

I knew I could win a medal,

but I never allowed

myself to think about it.

And then it happens,

and all of a sudden you're

going through the media zone

which is the area that you have to

walk through with the world's press.

You got Clare Balding

interviewing you,

you've got,

you know, German TV all excited,

whoever it might be.

And then your land home

and you don't realise

what's been going on back home

when you're in a foreign country.

You get on that flight,

and I specifically still remember,

the first time I'd been

in first-class,

seat number 1A - amazing!

But I look back now

and it was eight years ago,

and it's like this blur,

as if it never happened.

When I watch that girl

in all the replays and clips,

was that girl me?

Wow.

It's a really strange...

Like an out of body experience?

An out of body experience.

But I wish I could find

a genie in a lamp.

I wish I could go back and relive

it all again, and write a diary,

because you think you're

going to remember all of it

and you don't.

You remember little snippets.

Well, listen, thank you so much

for coming in to chat to Newsround,

and hopefully over the next few

weeks we'll see those medals

kind of go up and up.

Fingers crossed.

I hope so.

Fingers crossed.

Now, here's a sport that

you won't be seeing played

over in PyeongChang - ice cricket!

The match in Switzerland

was played on a fake grass

carpet laid over the snow

and with a bright orange ball.

Cricketing legends from around

the world joined forces to take part

in the chilly but friendly games.

Looks like a good excuse

for a hot chocolate if you ask me.

Next, some big news

in the world of space travel.

The most powerful rocket

in the world, the Falcon Heavy,

was successfully launched

into space on Tuesday night.

Houston - run VT!

Five, four, three, two, one...

Blastoff!

It's taken seven years

but, boys and girls,

that is what you call a successful

launch of the most powerful

rocket ever built.

The Falcon Heavy is

the brainchild of SpaceX,

the company run

by South African Elon musk.

Never heard of him?

Well, it's rumoured that

Robert Downey Junior based

the character of Tony Stark,

aka Iron Man, on him.

It kind of gives you an idea

about the type of guy he is.

Back to the rocket.

It used 27 separate engines

to launch it into space.

That's around the same power as 18

Boeing 747 aeroplanes taking off,

and twice as powerful as any other

rocket in use at the minute.

It means the Falcon Heavy can carry

twice as much into space,

64 tonnes, to be exact.

That's basically five

double-decker buses.

It opens up the possibility

for astronauts to travel further,

and for bigger robots to be sent

to planets like Mars.

On top of that, the boosters

that the Falcon uses

to power it

into space are reusable.

Once detached from the main body

of the craft,

they should fly

themselves back to Earth.

Now that is cool.

So who was lucky enough to be

on the first flight?

Well, no humans, unfortunately.

You see, a lot of test

flights can go wrong.

But that's not to say

the spaceship was empty.

Bring forth Starman!

Yeah, that's a dummy riding

a cherry red car to Mars,

with the radio on of course!

Finally, you won't see

anything cuter

than these

tiny bear cubs today.

They were found abandoned

in a cardboard box

by these people living in a remote

part of Moscow, in Russia.

They took the baby bears

in and looked after them,

before handing them over

to animal welfare experts.

The orphaned cubs are being fed

with baby food and warm milk.

It's hoped that they will be

released back into the wild

when they're older.

We're back in an hour.