22/01/2018 Newsround

See you.

Morning guys, it's Monday,

I'm Martin and first up,

we have a big question for you -

who invented the selfie?

Whitney's been finding out.

Watch this.

The selfie.

We all take them, some

of us more than others,

but the big question is,

who invented the selfie and why?

Now, that's a really

good question, John.

A really good big question,

so I've done some research and come

up with a few answers.

Lots of people claim to have

invented the first selfie.

Last year, celebrity Paris Hilton

claimed that this picture

was the first selfie ever taken.

Social media were not

happy about this -

they concluded that maybe

that was a bit crazy,

and of course that she didn't.

I can now reveal the first selfie

was taken by a man named...

Robert Cornelius.

The 30-year-old took it outside his

lamp shop in America in 1839,

so that is who invented the selfie.

But the word 'selfie' has

a different history.

So let's fast-forward to 2002,

when the word 'selfie' was born.

A guy in Australia took a photo

of his lip that he had cut

and wrote, "Sorry about the focus,

it was a selfie."

In Australia, I don't know

if you know, but they tend to add

'ies' at the end of their sentences,

ie barbies, sunnies,

so it's not that surprising, is it?

By 2012, the word 'selfie' became

widespread, and by 2013 it entered

the dictionary and became the word

of the year.

It even has its own day in June,

National Selfie Day.

So remember that the next time

you're taking a selfie.

If you're a big fan of sports

like skiing, snowboarding,

and ice hockey then you'll probably

be very excited that

there's now just 17 days

until the Winter Olympics begins

in South Korea.

And I'm very excited to have two

of Team GB's skeleton racers

in the studio with me!

Laura Deas and reigning Olympic

champion Lizzy Yarnold are both

heading to PyeongChang in less

than two weeks.

Let's see them both in action...

Come on Lizzie, last corner!

Lizzy Yarnold is

the Olympic champion!

One woman stood between the Germans

and a wash of the podium,

Great Britain's Laura Deas,

a great first start.

And a delighted Laura Deas...

We are hoping to see that excitement

in the Olympic Games! Let's talk

about the skeleton, what is it? It

is an unusual name for a sport, can

you describe what it is?

The

skeleton

you describe what it is?

The

skeleton sled is what we lie on to

go down the track. It weighs about

30 kilos so it is really heavy and

it's about this tour from the

ground, so quite big, and it is

called the skeleton because inside

there is a basic steel structure, a

bar at the top and two down the

side. The top one is like your

shoulders, the bottom one is like

your spine, it is like a human

skeleton.

That makes sense! You both

did different sports before

skeleton, Lizzie I think you did

heptathlon and Laura you were

equestrian? How do you go from that

to being on the ice?

It seems like a

strange transition but we both came

through a UK Sport scheme called

Goals For Gold which was designed to

find athletes who might be suitable

for Olympic sports and skeleton was

one of them so we went through

selection trials not necessarily

knowing what we might be best suited

for, then we were asked to try

skeleton and went from there,

really.

This is your first Olympics,

how are you feeling?

Exciting,

because I have been giving the sport

than nine years now and this has

always been my goal, so to finally

be on the plane to Pyeongchang next

week is really exciting.

Lizzie, you

must be pretty excited, current

Olympic champion, how feeling?

It is

crazy because if you told

ten-year-old me that I would be

selected for my second Winter

Olympic Games, I would not have

believed you! So I can't wait to go

out there, defend my title and did

my absolute best and enjoyed the

Winter Olympics.

Thank you very much

for coming in, and good luck.

That's it from us - we'll be back

in just over half-an-hour.