22/01/2018 Newsround

Morning, guys!

It's Monday, I'm Martin

and this is Newsround.

Loads coming up today...

We catch up with two of Team GB'S

Winter Olympics hopefuls.

The tiger cubs showing their faces

for the first time.

And, Minnie Mouse gets

a long-overdue award.

First, 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 this morning we've

caught up with two of Team

GB's skeleton racers.

But what is skeleton?

Well, reigning Olympic

champion Lizzy Yarnold

and first-timer Laura Deas,

who are both heading

to the Games, explained.

The skeleton sled is what we lie

on to go down the track.

It weighs about 30 kilos

so it's really heavy,

and it's about this tall

from the ground, so it's quite big.

And it's called the skeleton

because inside there

is a basic steel structure,

a bar at the top and two

bars down the side.

The top one's like your shoulders,

the sides ones are like your spine,

then there's a bar at the bottom,

like a human skeleton.

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?

We both came through a UK Sport

scheme called Girls For Gold

in 2009, which was designed to find

athletes who might be suitable

for several different Olympic sports

and skeleton was one of them,

so we both 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.

Laura, this is your first Olympics,

how are you feeling?

It's really exciting,

because I've been doing this sport

for 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, how are you feeling?

It's 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 do my absolute

best, and enjoy the Winter Olympics.

Thank you for coming in, good luck!

And if you want to know more

about what's happening

at the Winter Olympics,

head to Newsround online,

where you can find out everything

you need to know about the Games,

the mascots, and plenty of info

about the differernt

sports involved.

Say hello to five

Manchurian tiger cubs.

These cuties were born

in a tiger shelter in China.

It's very rare for five cubs

to be born all together,

and they need to be keept close

to mum so she can feed them

all the milk they need

to grow strong and healthy.

Next 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'm not sure

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.

A bit of tennis now,

and Kyle Edmund is getting ready

for his first ever Grand Slam

quarter-final after he beat

Italy's Andreas Seppi

at the Australian Open this weekend.

The British number two got

off to a slow start.

Edmund trailed by a set

but recovered well, finding his form

and smashing 25 aces

to win the match.

He will face Grigor Dimitrov

of Bulgaria tonight.

And did you know that Kyle was just

ten years old when he first

started playing tennis?

For more facts about the British

tennis star, head on over

to Newsround online.

And there's big news for one

of Disney's most famous stars.

Minnie Mouse is finally

due to receive a star

on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today.

She's been in entertainment for 90

years, and many fans have

said her star should have been

there ages ago.

Mickey got his star 40 years

ago and Donald Duck,

Tinker Bell, Winnie the Pooh,

Snow White and Kermit

the Frog have one.

Miss Piggy still doesn't

have one, though.

That's all your news

from me for this morning.

Ricky's back at 4.20pm.

Have a great day at school,

and don't forget to head

to Newsround online to check out

all the rest of the

day's big stories!