10/02/2018 Newsround


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Hi, I'm Ricky, with your final

Newsround update for today.

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And first up, news

from Pyeongchang, where

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the Winter Olympics are under way.

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Team GB medal hopeful Elise Christie

took to the ice this morning

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in the 500m short-track

speed skating heats.

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And it was a great start for her

first race of the Games so far.

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She beat her opponents to win

the heat and she set a brand-new

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Olympic record while doing it.

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Elise is now through

to the quarterfinals.

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Here's what she had

to say after the race...

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I went hard for the first lap

and a half because I am

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practising my start a lot,

as I said before.

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And it went very well

and I was just trying to maintain

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a good speed after that.

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So I cannot complain really, if I've

got more in the bag than that,

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then that is a good thing.

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I do not think I have been nervous

like that for about six years.

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It was not even being scared

of my skating, I was just...

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I cannot explain it.

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I think because everyone back

home has waited so long

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for me to skate again,

I was so nervous, and I was like,

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maybe I'm not going to do this

because I was so nervous.

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But actually it was fine and I got

up to the line and I was excited.

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I'm just glad I've got to race

in front of everyone again.

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Well, Elise was feeling

the pressure, and she's

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not the only one.

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Earlier this morning I caught

up with Amy Williams,

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who won gold at the Winter Games

in Vancouver, eight years ago.

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She knows exactly what this year's

athletes are going through.

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Every athlete knows

that they want to win a medal,

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because they want to stand

on the podium.

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They've done all the

years of hard work.

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And then each sport has

to say which medals,

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and how many they will target for.

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And then there's that

pressure on the whole team.

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But there's still no greater

pressure than the pressure that

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an athlete puts on themselves.

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But when you know that

lots of funding has gone

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into your sport and you have

to bring home a medal,

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it's really hard.

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So, psychologically in your head,

you have to kind of think

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on that and then park it,

stand on the start line, perform

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and hope that your result happens.

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Now, in 2010, you got gold

in the women's skeleton,

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and you kind of became this star

overnight - all this

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attention on you.

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What's it like when you win

a medal at an Olympics?

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What is that feeling like?

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It's funny, because I knew my

training times were really good,

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I knew I could win a medal,

but I never allowed

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myself to think about it.

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And then it happens,

and all of a sudden you're

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going through the media zone

which is the area that you have to

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walk through with the world's press.

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You've got Clare Balding

interviewing you,

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you've got, you know,

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German TV all excited,

whoever it might be.

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And then your land home

and you don't realise what's been

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going on back home when you're

in a foreign country.

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You get on that flight,

and I specifically still remember,

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the first time I'd been

in first-class, seat

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number 1A - amazing!

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But I look back now and it was eight

years ago, and it's like this blur,

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as if it never happened.

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When I watch that girl

in all the replays and clips,

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was that girl me?

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Wow.

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It's a really strange...

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Like an out of body experience?

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An out of body experience.

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But I wish I could find

a genie in a lamp.

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I wish I could go back and relive it

all again, and write a diary,

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because you think you're

going to remember all

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of it and you don't.

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You remember little snippets.

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Well, listen, thank you so much

for coming in to chat to Newsround,

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and hopefully over the next few

weeks we'll see those medals

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kind of go up and up.

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Fingers crossed.

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I hope so.

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Fingers crossed.

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In case you missed it,

you can take a look at some

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of the best bits from yesterday's

fantastic Olympics opening ceremony

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over at Newsround online.

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While you're there, check out this

week's Big Question,

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which is all about Valentine's Day.

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Now to a bit of sport

slightly closer to home.

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The women's Six Nations game

between England and Wales kicked

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off around an hour ago.

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England currently lead

26-0 at half-time.

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We'll update you with the final

score tomorrow morning.

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Now what do you get

if you have a sleepy kangaroo,

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some partying "astronauts"

and a really long zip wire?

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Strange, stranger,

strangest, of course!

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This has to be one of

the cutest kangaroos ever!

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When he gets tired, instead

of hopping into his mum's pouch,

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he lands in a pillowcase!

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He's being looked after at

the Kangaroo Sanctuary

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in Alice Springs, in Australia,

and what is even stranger,

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he's called Bradley.

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Oh, doesn't he look comfy?

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Now, we are raving about this party.

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They are on a special plane

that is normally used

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by astronauts to see how it feels

being weightless in space.

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But instead, these guys

had a 90-minute party,

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complete with flashing

lights and DJs.

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Who needs dancing

when you can float?

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And if you are afraid

of heights, look away now.

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This is the longest zip wire

in the world at a record-breaking

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2.8 kilometres, that is longer

than 28 football pitches!

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It's in the United Arab Emirates,

in the Middle East, and starts

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in the mountains before plunging

down through the hills.

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You go at over 90 mph.

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That's even faster than you are

allowed to go on the motorway!

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I think you'd have to be pretty

strange to want to go on it.

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I'd be way too scared!

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That's it from us for today.

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We'll be back tomorrow morning.

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Enjoy the rest of your Saturday.

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See ya!

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