14/02/2018 Newsround

Morning, guys, it's Newsround,

it's Wednesday and I'm Ricky!

Let's get straight to South Korea

and the Winter Olympics, where today

is all about curling,

which is a bit like

bowls but on ice!

Team GB's women have just

won their first match

at the Olympics after they thrashed

the team of Russian athletes 10-3.

They won bronze last time out.

Team GB's men -

who took silver in 2014 -

played earlier and beat Switzerland

in a very exciting match.

They'll play defending champions

Canada at 11 o'clock.

And meet the "Flying Tomato",

otherwise known as Shaun White.

The American has become a three-time

Olympic champion after producing

some outstanding twists and turns

and huge air, to take gold

in the halfpipe final.

In the capital and tomato isn't the

only snowboarder making headlines.

The sport is producing some of the

youngest names to rule the Winter

Olympics. Take a look.

Maybe 17-year-old American sports

stars everyone is talking about.

First up is California girl Chloe

Kim. Her mum and dad were born and

raised in South Korea before they

moved to the States, so where better

for Chloe to win her first Olympic

gold than in her parents' home

country? She was amazing in the

women's halfpipe snowboarding final.

On her first run, she was already in

gold place position, but by her

third, she was ahead of her

competitors by 8.5 points. Pretty

fantastic for a 17-year-old who has

been tweeting more about wanting to

eat ice cream than when Olympic

golds!

golds! Next up, Red Gerard.

He's 17, from America, and happens

to be amazing at slopestyle. But it

nearly went wrong. He overslept on

the morning of his final, missing

his 6am wake-up call! But the extra

20 minutes obviously did him good.

He went on to win. Not only did he

claim America's first goal that the

Winter Olympics, but he has made

history as the first talent youngest

American man to win gold since 1928.

In these two winning teenagers could

be the tip of the iceberg.

Keep your eyes peeled for more teen

superstars ruling in the snow in

South Korea.

Nice one, guys!

And finally, it's the most loved up

day of the year for some...

Happy Valentine's Day!

But where did it come

from and why did it start?

It's time for the Big Question.

You caught me writing my Valentine's

Day card! That's terribly convenient

when we take a look at this week's

Big Question.

Who invented Valentine's Day and

why?

What a lovely big question. See what

I did there? Sorry!

Well, Valentine's Day actually gets

its name from a famous Saint Bald

Valentine. But there are a lots of

different stories about who he was.

The popular belief is that he was a

priest from Rome in the third

century A:D.. Emperor Claudius the

second had banned marriage because

he thought married men were bad

soldiers. Valentine thought that

this was wrong, so he broke the

rules and arranged marriages in

secret. When the Emperor found out,

he was furious! He threw Valentine

in jail! He sentenced him to death.

But Valentine fell in love with a

jailer's daughter, when he was taken

to be killed, he sent her a love

letter signed, from your Valentine.

But why in February, you ask? Well,

there used to be a Roman festival in

the middle of February to mark the

start of spring. As part of the

celebrations, boys drew names of

girls from a box. They would be

boyfriend and girlfriend during the

festival, and sometimes, they would

get married. This developed into a

festival in the middle of February

to remember Saint Valentine too, and

Valentine's Day was born! A day to

express feelings to those you love.

That's it from me.

We're back at 0820 with

a pig who can paint -

yep, you heard me right.

Goodbye.