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Hi, I'm Ricky, with your final
Newsround update for today. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
And first up, news
from Pyeongchang, where | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
the Winter Olympics are under way. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
Team GB medal hopeful Elise Christie
took to the ice this morning | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
in the 500m short-track
speed skating heats. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:28 | |
And it was a great start for her
first race of the Games so far. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
She beat her opponents to win
the heat and she set a brand-new | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
Olympic record while doing it. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
Elise is now through
to the quarterfinals. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
Here's what she had
to say after the race... | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
I went hard for the first lap
and a half because I am | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
practising my start a lot,
as I said before. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
And it went very well
and I was just trying to maintain | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
a good speed after that. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:54 | |
So I cannot complain really, if I've
got more in the bag than that, | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
then that is a good thing. | 0:00:58 | 0:00:59 | |
I do not think I have been nervous
like that for about six years. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
It was not even being scared
of my skating, I was just... | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
I cannot explain it. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
I think because everyone back
home has waited so long | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
for me to skate again,
I was so nervous, and I was like, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
maybe I'm not going to do this
because I was so nervous. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
But actually it was fine and I got
up to the line and I was excited. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
I'm just glad I've got to race
in front of everyone again. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
Well, Elise was feeling
the pressure, and she's | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
not the only one. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:27 | |
Earlier this morning I caught
up with Amy Williams, | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
who won gold at the Winter Games
in Vancouver, eight years ago. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
She knows exactly what this year's
athletes are going through. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:39 | |
Every athlete knows
that they want to win a medal, | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
because they want to stand
on the podium. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
They've done all the
years of hard work. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
And then each sport has
to say which medals, | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
and how many they will target for. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
And then there's that
pressure on the whole team. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
But there's still no greater
pressure than the pressure that | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
an athlete puts on themselves. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
But when you know that
lots of funding has gone | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
into your sport and you have
to bring home a medal, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
it's really hard. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:06 | |
So, psychologically in your head,
you have to kind of think | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
on that and then park it,
stand on the start line, perform | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
and hope that your result happens. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:18 | |
Now, in 2010, you got gold
in the women's skeleton, | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
and you kind of became this star
overnight - all this | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
attention on you. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
What's it like when you win
a medal at an Olympics? | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
What is that feeling like? | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
It's funny, because I knew my
training times were really good, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
I knew I could win a medal,
but I never allowed | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
myself to think about it. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:37 | |
And then it happens,
and all of a sudden you're | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
going through the media zone
which is the area that you have to | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
walk through with the world's press. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:48 | |
You've got Clare Balding
interviewing you, | 0:02:48 | 0:02:49 | |
you've got, you know, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:50 | |
German TV all excited,
whoever it might be. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
And then your land home
and you don't realise what's been | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
going on back home when you're
in a foreign country. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
You get on that flight,
and I specifically still remember, | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
the first time I'd been
in first-class, seat | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
number 1A - amazing! | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
But I look back now and it was eight
years ago, and it's like this blur, | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
as if it never happened. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:10 | |
When I watch that girl
in all the replays and clips, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
was that girl me? | 0:03:13 | 0:03:14 | |
Wow. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:15 | |
It's a really strange... | 0:03:15 | 0:03:16 | |
Like an out of body experience? | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
An out of body experience. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:19 | |
But I wish I could find
a genie in a lamp. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
I wish I could go back and relive it
all again, and write a diary, | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
because you think you're
going to remember all | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
of it and you don't. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:28 | |
You remember little snippets. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Well, listen, thank you so much
for coming in to chat to Newsround, | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
and hopefully over the next few
weeks we'll see those medals | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
kind of go up and up. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:37 | |
Fingers crossed. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:38 | |
I hope so. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:39 | |
Fingers crossed. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
In case you missed it,
you can take a look at some | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
of the best bits from yesterday's
fantastic Olympics opening ceremony | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
over at Newsround online. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:49 | |
While you're there, check out this
week's Big Question, | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
which is all about Valentine's Day. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:59 | |
Now to a bit of sport
slightly closer to home. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
The women's Six Nations game
between England and Wales kicked | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
off around an hour ago. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
England currently lead
26-0 at half-time. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
We'll update you with the final
score tomorrow morning. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:17 | |
Now what do you get
if you have a sleepy kangaroo, | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
some partying "astronauts"
and a really long zip wire? | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
Strange, stranger,
strangest, of course! | 0:04:21 | 0:04:29 | |
This has to be one of
the cutest kangaroos ever! | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
When he gets tired, instead
of hopping into his mum's pouch, | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
he lands in a pillowcase! | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
He's being looked after at
the Kangaroo Sanctuary | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
in Alice Springs, in Australia,
and what is even stranger, | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
he's called Bradley. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
Oh, doesn't he look comfy? | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
Now, we are raving about this party. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:53 | |
They are on a special plane
that is normally used | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
by astronauts to see how it feels
being weightless in space. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:01 | |
But instead, these guys
had a 90-minute party, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
complete with flashing
lights and DJs. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
Who needs dancing
when you can float? | 0:05:07 | 0:05:12 | |
And if you are afraid
of heights, look away now. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
This is the longest zip wire
in the world at a record-breaking | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
2.8 kilometres, that is longer
than 28 football pitches! | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
It's in the United Arab Emirates,
in the Middle East, and starts | 0:05:21 | 0:05:26 | |
in the mountains before plunging
down through the hills. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:30 | |
You go at over 90 mph. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
That's even faster than you are
allowed to go on the motorway! | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
I think you'd have to be pretty
strange to want to go on it. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
I'd be way too scared! | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
That's it from us for today. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
We'll be back tomorrow morning. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
Enjoy the rest of your Saturday. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:51 | |
See ya! | 0:05:51 | 0:05:59 |