:00:13. > :01:07.Since the dawn of man, our gaze has been firmly fixed on the stars. The
:01:08. > :01:11.birth of the star requires the right conditions. All the elements are
:01:12. > :01:16.drawn together into a swirling vortex until the star bursts into
:01:17. > :01:24.life. Our obsession with the night sky remains strong to this day and
:01:25. > :01:29.when night falls over Schladming, the stars of slalom come out. They
:01:30. > :01:34.too were formed over many years, under huge pressure, releasing vast
:01:35. > :01:41.amounts of energy. COMMENTATOR: Oh yes he's done it! A
:01:42. > :01:45.constellation of superstars has gathered here, each looking to dwarf
:01:46. > :01:53.the other's achievements. When it comes to the night slalom in
:01:54. > :01:57.Schladming, they can be only one name written in the stars. Who will
:01:58. > :02:16.shine brightest in Schladming? Hello and welcome to Schladming,
:02:17. > :02:23.home of the famous night slalom. This is a race like no other. A
:02:24. > :02:29.floodlit slope with 50,000 fans flanking the Planai. The noise can
:02:30. > :02:36.go from a day into an eerie silence if the home favourite stone go so
:02:37. > :02:42.well. One Brit hoping to silence the crowd will be Dave Riding. But we
:02:43. > :02:43.know it will be contested between two standout skiers from the
:02:44. > :02:54.technical disciplines. Later in the show, Jenny Jones has
:02:55. > :03:05.been spending some time with the GB freestyle team at the Laax Opoen. I
:03:06. > :03:11.don't want to laugh but I think he has just gone straight off the back
:03:12. > :03:19.of the quarter pipe! First, though, it's the night slalom here in
:03:20. > :03:33.Schladming and where else to start but Henry Christofferson.
:03:34. > :03:47.He has won five of the six World Cup slaloms this season, including the
:03:48. > :03:53.last three. All classic races. COMMENTATOR: Henrik Kristoffersen
:03:54. > :04:01.has one of the all-time great races to take the win. It will be an
:04:02. > :04:07.historic event in ski racing not seen since the superstars of the 70s
:04:08. > :04:11.and 80s and 90s. It's like a tennis player or golfer winning all four
:04:12. > :04:19.majors in one season. The press and media are obviously making a fuss,
:04:20. > :04:22.and Kristoffersen himself is keeping a steely focus on the job at hand
:04:23. > :04:27.and won't give interviews just before the race.
:04:28. > :04:34.You need to work on your strangulation technique because I
:04:35. > :04:41.saw that at the finish! It's joking, at it was a really good fight
:04:42. > :04:47.against Henrik. At the moment he is for sure the favourite and a guy to
:04:48. > :04:51.beat. We really thought he was unbeatable and then comes this
:04:52. > :04:55.really young Norwegian who is probably half the weight of all the
:04:56. > :04:59.others and he's just flying through the gates. He doesn't use the power
:05:00. > :05:05.that the others have, because so skinny. What do you think that
:05:06. > :05:12.Kristoffersen is doing this season that has given him the edge to catch
:05:13. > :05:16.you up, basically? So, if there is no Henrik Kristoffersen, nothing
:05:17. > :05:22.changed. He would get better and better. He seems to me to be forging
:05:23. > :05:29.new territory for slalom technique like a pioneer. Definitely. We were
:05:30. > :05:32.working on that turn for five or six years and now it starts to be off
:05:33. > :05:36.and we have a little bit of a different approach in traditional
:05:37. > :05:40.slalom terms and it seems to work. It doesn't matter if he makes
:05:41. > :05:44.mistakes or he is not perfect in each turn, his ground speed is
:05:45. > :05:50.definitely way higher than mine. I'm pushing it as hard as I can. It is
:05:51. > :05:55.really nice to watch him, how smooth and clean he is going through all
:05:56. > :06:01.those terms. It spurs me on. It's important to put in context
:06:02. > :06:06.Kristoffersen's results, because he is not consistently beating weekend
:06:07. > :06:13.fields, he is consistently beating world champions. And particularly
:06:14. > :06:16.Marcel Hirscher, who has owned the technical disciplines over the last
:06:17. > :06:21.three-year is. Kristoffersen has been lucky on a couple of occasions,
:06:22. > :06:27.just a few hundredths of a second separating them into two races. Is
:06:28. > :06:32.there anyone who can challenge those two at the top? I think everyone
:06:33. > :06:38.else is actually racing for third place. Probably last year's winner
:06:39. > :06:42.as got the best chance, Alexander, but those two have got a
:06:43. > :06:49.stranglehold on slalom right now. Looking a bit lower than third but
:06:50. > :06:56.not too far, Dave Ryding, the Brit. Was he unlike in the last race? Very
:06:57. > :07:01.unlucky. He let it rip on the second one. But it was such a tough course.
:07:02. > :07:06.Hopefully he can produce a good result tonight. Confidence is high.
:07:07. > :07:08.The first thing Dave has got to do is secure himself a second run. We
:07:09. > :07:25.always get a tight finish here in Schaldming, and it always
:07:26. > :07:34.delivered. The field tried and failed to match his time. Closest
:07:35. > :07:39.was the Italian, Stefano Gross. Prerace favourite Henrik
:07:40. > :07:44.Kristoffersen had his mum in the crowd cheering him on. The defending
:07:45. > :07:54.champion skied into fourth place. The soft conditions after warm
:07:55. > :07:59.temperatures and rain on Monday made the Planai particular difficult to
:08:00. > :08:03.navigate, but Marcel Hirscher couldn't use that as an excuse. But
:08:04. > :08:07.he did complain that his goggle lenses were incorrectly fixed. The
:08:08. > :08:13.Austrian finds himself way back in 20 Second Place. Britain's Dave
:08:14. > :08:21.Ryding will race again in round two, skiing from 20th, his earliest ever
:08:22. > :08:27.start number in a World Cup. He finished in 18th place. What
:08:28. > :08:32.happened to the stranglehold of our two favourites? Marcel Hirscher had
:08:33. > :08:36.a goggle problem, his lenses were put in the wrong way round so that
:08:37. > :08:40.the antifog which is normally on the inside was on the outside. All the
:08:41. > :08:45.winter splashing from the gates made it go all blurry and he couldn't see
:08:46. > :08:48.anything. He had a bit of a shocker. Henrik Kristoffersen just didn't
:08:49. > :08:52.adapt to the difference in slope conditions. But we do know that he
:08:53. > :08:57.can make up deficits greater than this, so he's still a threat. It's
:08:58. > :09:02.possible but Felix loves conditions like this and he said this is the
:09:03. > :09:06.first time he's felt well. His girlfriend is here in the crowd and
:09:07. > :09:11.he wanted to prove to her that he could still ski. It's time to fired
:09:12. > :09:13.out if Dave Ryding can finally cracked the top ten. Over to the
:09:14. > :09:24.commentary. COMMENTATOR: It will be misty mayhem
:09:25. > :09:28.for the second run in Schladming. There is not a vantage point
:09:29. > :09:33.available anywhere. Marcel Hirscher's goggles have been looked
:09:34. > :09:36.at and studied, wiped and double-checked by the various
:09:37. > :09:41.coaches and technicians around. He had a problem with the first run,
:09:42. > :09:48.the lens had been fitted the wrong way round, would you believe? He had
:09:49. > :10:00.fog in his vision and was unable to see clearly down the Planai. P is
:10:01. > :10:06.off to a good start in the second leg, though. Good advantage. Look at
:10:07. > :10:12.Marcel Hirscher here! He is attacking the second run and more
:10:13. > :10:16.than a second in front. Hirscher wants to fight back after the
:10:17. > :10:20.disappointment of the first leg. He had fog in his goggles on the first
:10:21. > :10:24.run and there is fog in the air in the second leg, flares on fire at
:10:25. > :10:34.the side of the course and Hirscher is on fire on the Planai. A
:10:35. > :10:39.brilliant run for Marcel Hirscher, who leads by nearly a full circuit.
:10:40. > :10:43.That is the perfect way to fight back.
:10:44. > :10:50.That has made these guys very, very happy. Marcel Hirscher throwing down
:10:51. > :10:59.the gauntlet on the second run. Still an enormous mountain to climb.
:11:00. > :11:02.His second... That is a very present second run. Just shows what you can
:11:03. > :11:08.do when you can actually see where you're going.
:11:09. > :11:22.The German 21st after the first run, Dominik Stehle. His advantage is for
:11:23. > :11:29.hundreds of a second and this has two big a run of his life to compete
:11:30. > :11:40.with Hirscher. -- has to make the run of his life. He is .63 behind.
:11:41. > :11:53.1.13.7 eight. No danger to the Austrian leader in the Austrian
:11:54. > :12:06.night slalom. Next to go will be Axel Beck of Sweden.
:12:07. > :12:14.Dominik Stehle home and dry in second for the moment. Into second
:12:15. > :12:22.position and happy with that. Next to race, 29-year-old Dave Ryding
:12:23. > :12:25.from Great Britain. His lead over Marcel Hirscher is 1800s of a
:12:26. > :12:31.second. What a season Ryding has had. The highlight being that
:12:32. > :12:37.personal best 12th position at the Valdez air slalom before Christmas.
:12:38. > :12:40.Can he backed it up with another top 15 result that would be his third
:12:41. > :12:49.top 15 result of the season if he can? Marcel Hirscher's league is
:12:50. > :12:55.1.12.80 nine. Ryding is more than a second down, that is how good Marcel
:12:56. > :13:01.Hirscher was on the second run on the Planai. Ryding looking to
:13:02. > :13:09.consolidate his position. Once again he is skiing beautiful slalom here,
:13:10. > :13:13.Dave Ryding. 1.23 off the pace. It could be good enough potentially for
:13:14. > :13:16.a top five finish provisionally but he won't do anything about Marcel
:13:17. > :13:22.Hirscher's lead, and it is sixth place in the end for Ryding. No
:13:23. > :13:24.disgrace. He will have to wait and see where he finishes. Another solid
:13:25. > :13:33.result at the pinnacle of his sport. That was a strong performance from
:13:34. > :13:38.Dave Ryding, couldn't quite match Marcel Hirscher but I'm not sure
:13:39. > :13:45.there will be many that could. Interesting that Marcel Hirscher --
:13:46. > :13:49.Ryding picked up a bit of time in the middle section of the course,
:13:50. > :13:52.that where is Marcel Hirscher made a slight mistake and it will be
:13:53. > :13:54.interesting at some point because someone will take some time off
:13:55. > :14:06.Marcel Hirscher. Nor .87, his advantage over Marcel
:14:07. > :14:14.Hirscher. Can he convert that into an advantage? That is a nice start.
:14:15. > :14:18.Moving nicely from turn to turn. Foss-Solevaag. His advantage might
:14:19. > :14:30.have been even further reduced following those mistakes.
:14:31. > :14:34.Foss-Solevaag clocks 1.13.60 one. 1.72 now the best he can potentially
:14:35. > :14:41.hope for. I would think now a top five. After such a good start. Nor
:14:42. > :14:48..82 down, now. Just about holding on. And then he's in trouble! Opened
:14:49. > :14:55.the tale of his skis for a split second.
:14:56. > :15:06.Foss-Solevaag goes into third. The top two positions still the same. As
:15:07. > :15:14.every racer comes down and failed to beat Marcel Hirscher, these guys are
:15:15. > :15:19.getting more excited. It is only a matter of time before her should get
:15:20. > :15:33.beaten. Marcel Hersh can't believe it!
:15:34. > :15:42.Should he take his first ever World Cup victory here tonight, you can
:15:43. > :15:44.bet the Austrian crowd will be claiming Fritz Dopfer as one of
:15:45. > :15:59.their own. Fritz Dopfer is still looking for
:16:00. > :16:06.that elusive first World Cup win. His advantage over Marcel Hersh,
:16:07. > :16:13.here's ill three quarters of the second and so far, then he is late.
:16:14. > :16:28.He has paid the price for the mistakes.
:16:29. > :16:36.He meet the next intermediate time, half a second down. Herschel's lead
:16:37. > :16:47.is safe. Fritz Dopfer can do nothing about it. Fritz Dopfer comes home to
:16:48. > :16:53.go third provisionally. Her show can now finish no worse than seven.
:16:54. > :16:57.These guys knows that Fritz Dopfer is an inform skier and they are
:16:58. > :17:17.getting very excited now at the finish!
:17:18. > :17:29.As he hits the intermediate, he is holding on a fairly decent time.
:17:30. > :17:33.This is the tricky part of the course which is cutting up
:17:34. > :17:37.dramatically underfoot. The roar goes up from the Austrian fans and
:17:38. > :17:46.it is over for Mattias Hargin. He is out. The skis have to go the same
:17:47. > :17:55.side of the control gate. That is instant disqualification.
:17:56. > :18:01.Now it is looking like her show could even make the podium for an
:18:02. > :18:08.incredibly bad first run. If he were to win, it would be one of the
:18:09. > :18:16.biggest comebacks in slalom ever. The American had the run of his life
:18:17. > :18:23.in the first leg. His lead over Marcel Hersh is significant. He has
:18:24. > :18:29.got to throw caution to the win if he wants to get involved in the
:18:30. > :18:35.podium places tonight. Six tenths have fallen by the wayside somewhere
:18:36. > :18:41.along the way. As he hits the next intermediate, he too is behind
:18:42. > :18:46.Herschel. That calls for instant celebration from the Austrians. They
:18:47. > :18:51.will blow their pawns and wave their flags in an effort to further
:18:52. > :19:15.distract Dave Chodounsky here tonight.
:19:16. > :19:23.Last year's winner is having a frustrating season but he is never
:19:24. > :19:28.short of support and he has inspired his daughter to take up skiing on
:19:29. > :19:33.his own skis. Can Alexander make this race seem like child's play and
:19:34. > :19:40.prove he is the daddy? The Russian who won this race 12
:19:41. > :19:49.months ago. For after the first run. Nearly a second and a half after
:19:50. > :19:57.Marcel Hirscher. A little back-seat driving for the Russians. Most of
:19:58. > :20:03.his advantage has been scraped away. It is 0.75 in front. He has got a
:20:04. > :20:08.big chunk of time in his favour. He cannot do anything about it. Listen
:20:09. > :20:15.into the raw! Another one has tried and failed. Hirscher stands and
:20:16. > :20:23.watches at the foot of the Planai as racer after racer after racer comes
:20:24. > :20:29.down and misses the target. He is 0.35 down. He might go into the top
:20:30. > :20:37.three provisionally but can he beat Hirscher? I don't think so. It is
:20:38. > :20:44.close, he is second. 0.16 down. He came close with a fast finish.
:20:45. > :20:48.Last year's winner has got the closest so far. Every skier that
:20:49. > :20:52.goes down, the track is getting rougher and bumpier and that is what
:20:53. > :20:58.is slowing the guys down. The ticker lily on the top of the course. That
:20:59. > :21:02.is when they are missing most of their speed.
:21:03. > :21:05.-- particularly on the top of the course. Henrik Kristofferson seems
:21:06. > :21:12.the winning everything at the moment, and that includes this rally
:21:13. > :21:16.race against Hirscher. Kristofferson drove to victory and he is hoping
:21:17. > :21:22.his speed and skill will give him victory tonight.
:21:23. > :21:28.Henrik Kristofferson from Norway. He has won all but one of the slalom
:21:29. > :21:32.races this season. That was a slightly stumbling start, but no
:21:33. > :21:40.matter, he is off and running. His advantage over Marcel Hirscher is
:21:41. > :21:46.1.24 seconds. At last, someone offers a serious challenge. Another
:21:47. > :21:54.slip from the Norwegian. His lead has been reduced to just 0.38 of a
:21:55. > :21:57.second. It has been a run peppered with mistakes from Henrik
:21:58. > :22:01.Kristofferson. But still the green light on. It is a bit laboured
:22:02. > :22:08.through the soft snow at the bottom of the course. Still in front, half
:22:09. > :22:13.a second. Is Marcel Hirscher's long time in the leader 's enclosure
:22:14. > :22:21.finally coming to an end, as Kristofferson accelerates to the
:22:22. > :22:25.line. He has got it! He is first for Norway, 0.61 in front.
:22:26. > :22:31.Kristofferson started that run brilliantly but then a big mistake
:22:32. > :22:34.as the piste doglegs round to the left, it cost Kristofferson almost
:22:35. > :22:42.all of his time. The crowd thought it would happen but nor -- normal
:22:43. > :22:49.service resumed. Two more left to go. The penultimate
:22:50. > :22:56.race in the night race, Stefano Gross of Italy. He is skidding and
:22:57. > :23:02.slipping, he is having to work hard to keep it carving. His advantage
:23:03. > :23:06.over Kristofferson was half a second, it is now just two tenths.
:23:07. > :23:12.Gross has got a long way to go into this particularly difficult part of
:23:13. > :23:16.the course. A couple of really challenging gates and it is read for
:23:17. > :23:25.the Italian. He is all over the shop! Goodness me! Gross is just
:23:26. > :23:30.about hanging on to some phlegm blimps of slalom skiing here but he
:23:31. > :23:39.is going to be behind -- some semblance of slalom skiing. I think
:23:40. > :23:45.now Marcel Hirscher is probably guaranteed a place on the podium,
:23:46. > :23:51.having finished only 27 in the first run. The Austrians celebrate. Marcel
:23:52. > :23:56.Hirscher will be on the World Cup podium tonight.
:23:57. > :24:00.That is a shame. A big mistake from Stefano Gross in the steep section
:24:01. > :24:12.of the course. The tip rolled into the start and that is what cost him
:24:13. > :24:18.the race. The man left at the start, he loves these conditions. He could
:24:19. > :24:19.win this race still. This is not necessarily all about Kristofferson
:24:20. > :24:40.and Hirscher. His advantage over the current
:24:41. > :24:47.leader is more than a second. Neureuther can afford a mistake or
:24:48. > :24:51.two. Lots of German fans here cheering Felix Neureuther through
:24:52. > :24:59.every turn. Now into the trickiest part of the course. He is a little
:25:00. > :25:02.bit over the tale of the skis. It is a green light still for Felix
:25:03. > :25:07.Neureuther. He is looking for his first win of the season. He has got
:25:08. > :25:15.to keep it clean on the bottom part of the course. And he straddled it
:25:16. > :25:19.out! Neureuther does not finish the second run. Two stories here
:25:20. > :25:30.tonight. Kristofferson's sixth win of the season. But also the tale of
:25:31. > :25:34.Marcel Hirscher's incredible comeback, from lowly 22nd to
:25:35. > :25:40.finished second overall. Spare a thought for Felix Neureuther.
:25:41. > :25:44.That is a shame that Felix Neureuther crashed out because he is
:25:45. > :25:49.widely admired and respected on the World Cup tour. It was a topsy-turvy
:25:50. > :25:55.way of getting to it, but the three predicted favourites finished in
:25:56. > :26:00.one, two and three and that confirms Kristofferson as winner of all the
:26:01. > :26:04.classic slaloms this season. I did not expect this. I knew I
:26:05. > :26:09.could be fighting for the wins on the podiums, but to win six out of
:26:10. > :26:13.seven races, and now four in a row, and all the big classics you have in
:26:14. > :26:20.the World Cup tour, words can't describe it. Tell me about the
:26:21. > :26:22.problems on the first run, vision problems?
:26:23. > :26:28.Yes, form the fifth gate to the finish, I couldn't see nearly
:26:29. > :26:34.nothing. I thought, are they joking on me? What happens? The second run
:26:35. > :26:40.was quite phenomenal, to make up from 22nd to finish on the podium? I
:26:41. > :26:48.pushed it as hard as possible. On the podium, you had your daughter, a
:26:49. > :26:53.special moment? Yes, she is always asking about me and misses me. We
:26:54. > :27:00.don't spend much time together. She sees me and always wants to go to
:27:01. > :27:07.me. Dave, 16th place, are you happy with
:27:08. > :27:10.that result? Yes, a good day at the office. I could have been slightly
:27:11. > :27:14.faster at the top but I was really pleased. I have done a lot of work
:27:15. > :27:19.this summer on my technique and I seemed to be pretty good down there,
:27:20. > :27:23.so a good night. Win number 64 Henrik Kristofferson
:27:24. > :27:31.of Norway. An incredible second position for Marcel Hirscher and
:27:32. > :27:34.third place for last year's winner Alexander Khoroshilov of Russia.
:27:35. > :27:39.Britain was that Dave Ryding was in 16th.
:27:40. > :27:43.On Saturday, we have live coverage of the women's downhill race which
:27:44. > :27:46.you can see on the red button or online.
:27:47. > :27:51.We have had alpine on our minds here in Austria but last week, over the
:27:52. > :27:57.border in Switzerland, Laax had a prestige event where the best
:27:58. > :28:01.snowboarders in the world were competing in freestyle and half
:28:02. > :28:05.pipe. Jenny Jones has been speaking to people to find out how they
:28:06. > :28:11.prepare for one of the biggest events on the calendar.
:28:12. > :28:17.We are just driving into Laax now in Switzerland. We are driving to one
:28:18. > :28:21.of the many contests that snowboarders do in winter. We are
:28:22. > :28:26.hoping to meet up with the team GB crew to find out what goes on behind
:28:27. > :28:30.the scenes when you are competing. Although you are in this beautiful
:28:31. > :28:35.places, you only see them for one or two days and the focus is to land
:28:36. > :28:39.your tricks on some snowy jumps, hopefully get into the top three and
:28:40. > :28:46.then leave again! That is once I have found the hotel!
:28:47. > :28:51.Is it important for you guys to tick all the boxes and go to all these
:28:52. > :28:58.competitions, or do you like it? When I am there, I think I do not
:28:59. > :29:03.enjoy this whole contest thing, but I keep taking myself to contests.
:29:04. > :29:08.You must love them a bit, you must like the challenge? When it is good,
:29:09. > :29:15.it is good. It is all right when you land on your feet. Is that how you
:29:16. > :29:24.feel? I like them now. Did you not like them before? I did, but I was
:29:25. > :29:41.way more nervous. Should you be in bed yet? No, you have got ages!
:29:42. > :29:45.Are a MUSIC
:29:46. > :29:56.Generally, this weather seems to help the contest, which I definitely
:29:57. > :30:05.don't miss, waiting around. Let's chat to a few people. You all right?
:30:06. > :30:11.Can't see anything! What have they said about you starting the comp?
:30:12. > :30:18.Apparently they're going to do about 45 minutes when you can see. What's
:30:19. > :30:21.fascinating about that is that actually every single course is
:30:22. > :30:26.completely different. No one knows what they're going to get. Sometimes
:30:27. > :30:29.it will suit different types of riders and you just generally don't
:30:30. > :30:44.know. But they all have to get down the same course. I managed to sneak
:30:45. > :30:54.out your way so we can have a fewer little runs together on the powder.
:30:55. > :31:01.For me Katie is one of the most exciting new riders. How has your
:31:02. > :31:09.season gone so far? Yeah, really good. I thought maybe that meant you
:31:10. > :31:13.got the invite. Does it mean quite a lot to you? Yes because it's one of
:31:14. > :31:17.the biggest events and is one of those things that you just want to
:31:18. > :31:23.get when you're starting snowboarding. I'm just so excited.
:31:24. > :31:27.You must be aware that people are seeing you as the next big thing,
:31:28. > :31:34.aren't they? Do you feel that pressure? I need to ride at my best.
:31:35. > :31:40.It's getting easier and my riding is getting better in a competition and
:31:41. > :31:46.it just makes you less nervous. Katie's competition in Laax never
:31:47. > :31:55.really got going. A minor injury to her shoulder ruled of qualifying.
:31:56. > :32:00.This is where the judges are, in this tiny little box. We can see the
:32:01. > :32:05.whole course from top to bottom. We've got three sets of tricked
:32:06. > :32:12.judges that will each put a score in the two features. -- four of two
:32:13. > :32:18.features. Now they can micro-focus on just two features. It allows them
:32:19. > :32:24.to evaluate the trick that is done in a more meaningful way. And
:32:25. > :32:29.comparison to all the other riders. Exactly. I've always wanted to ask,
:32:30. > :32:33.do you ever watched an athlete so many times that you know every
:32:34. > :32:36.single trick they're going to do? Does that sometimes devalue the
:32:37. > :32:42.tricks in your mind without them realising -- without you realising?
:32:43. > :32:47.The evaluate it for the rider on that day. The answer is no we don't.
:32:48. > :32:51.Sometimes we will say I've seen that better, but it's still compared to
:32:52. > :33:02.what happens on that day. We actually heading into the rider
:33:03. > :33:07.coral 's zone, how would you feel right now? With the good, I woke up
:33:08. > :33:13.this morning and the weather doesn't get much more perfect than this.
:33:14. > :33:17.This is your start guy right here. This is serious stuff for him. He
:33:18. > :33:22.doesn't like to get in the way but he needs the note... A bit of
:33:23. > :33:30.camaraderie with the athlete sometimes? Yeah. Oh, he's ready,
:33:31. > :33:39.with better get out of the way. With Katie out, GB hopes in the British
:33:40. > :33:45.comp rested with Amy Fuller. You went to big on the back three? I
:33:46. > :33:56.went to the bottom, absolutely gutted. Second run done and over.
:33:57. > :34:01.I'm out. In the men's competition, packed with slopestyle Superstars,
:34:02. > :34:04.Billy Morgan had done brilliantly to make the final. I knew he had the
:34:05. > :34:12.tricks in his locker to podium but he didn't start well. No! Not cool.
:34:13. > :34:20.I don't want to laugh but he has just tumbled off the back of the
:34:21. > :34:26.quarter pipe! Maybe he's OK. Off the back of the quarter pipe! Nice!
:34:27. > :34:44.No! Oh no! He just fluffed the quarter pipe. How do you feel about
:34:45. > :34:50.that whole scenario? I've got to just take it on the chin. I had a
:34:51. > :34:55.lot of fun. What happens now? I'm probably going to get drunk! There
:34:56. > :34:59.you have it. Ebert in all that effort and that is four days of
:35:00. > :35:03.training for 30 seconds and it's over, it's just the nature of the
:35:04. > :35:07.beast. -- he put in all effort. Onto next contest.
:35:08. > :35:22.If you want to see more action from Laax, the half pipe and slopestyle
:35:23. > :35:29.are on iPlayer. Canadian Spencer O'Brien took victory. In the women's
:35:30. > :35:37.ski slopestyle, there was a youngest ever gold medal winner, just 13
:35:38. > :35:40.years old. Mark McMorris took the men's title. James Woods rides in
:35:41. > :35:57.the ski slopestyle final. Victoria from Germany took the win.
:35:58. > :36:02.In the men's downhill, this Norwegian recorded his first victory
:36:03. > :36:06.in a World Cup race. With the winter season in the Alps in full swing,
:36:07. > :36:11.it's easy to forget that our options for skiing and snowboarding on our
:36:12. > :36:13.home snow. Tim has been to Glencoe in Scotland, a forward-thinking
:36:14. > :36:14.resort that has also been looking back to a very special anniversary
:36:15. > :36:21.year. Leave the great shipyards of Glasgow
:36:22. > :36:26.and head north and the scenery begins to morph around you. Just one
:36:27. > :36:30.and a half hours drive from Scotland's largest city you will
:36:31. > :36:35.find Rannoch Moor, one of the last remaining wilderness-- wildernesses
:36:36. > :36:49.in Europe. By trial and error and a lot of
:36:50. > :36:54.energy we decided that Glencoe was the place that gave us the chance of
:36:55. > :36:59.a permanent long straight drift of snow that you can actually rely on.
:37:00. > :37:06.Glencoe is the nearest thing to an Alpine slopes there is. It's got the
:37:07. > :37:16.angle and you really do look down. Philip Rankin was one of many
:37:17. > :37:20.enthusiastic post-war skiers that's simply grew tired of slogging up
:37:21. > :37:23.this mountain the hard way. He left his job and through his bowler hat
:37:24. > :37:33.into the River Clyde and quite simply never looked back. In 1952I
:37:34. > :37:37.got charged with the Scottish journal and I started to bang my
:37:38. > :37:42.drum about this mountain in Glen Coe. Having shut my mouth off, I was
:37:43. > :37:46.put in charge of it. The ski club can claim the credit for the first
:37:47. > :37:51.ski lift in Scotland. In the summer of 1955 it was erected.
:37:52. > :37:59.These guys were real hard-core. They had a vision and it was going to
:38:00. > :38:03.happen, whether they had helped or not. It's all thanks to him that
:38:04. > :38:09.skiing is happening in Scotland really, because without his
:38:10. > :38:13.inspiration there wouldn't be any of the resorts, I don't think. On the
:38:14. > :38:17.60th anniversary of the first permit lived here on Glencoe I'm going back
:38:18. > :38:21.to my roots, because believe it or not the very first time that I'd
:38:22. > :38:30.snowboarding on snow was here over 20 years ago. -- that I snowboard
:38:31. > :38:34.it. Just look at this. You wouldn't think you were in the British Isles,
:38:35. > :38:40.would you? I'm following the same route that Philip and his colleagues
:38:41. > :38:44.used to transport tonnes of machinery up by hand 60 years ago.
:38:45. > :38:49.The overnight slow is perfect to ride and luckily for me, pretty
:38:50. > :38:53.soft. Amazingly, I still have two more lifts to take to reach the
:38:54. > :38:57.summit, where I'm meeting the owner,. Here we are at the top,
:38:58. > :39:00.breathtaking views from up here. It's hard to imagine Philip and the
:39:01. > :39:05.boys back in the day lugging all that equipment right up here to the
:39:06. > :39:10.top. It was incredible. We are almost 3700 feet up here and they
:39:11. > :39:16.have got all the kid from about 1000 feet below. They got all the kit and
:39:17. > :39:20.brought it up back in those days. Proper dedication there. We've made
:39:21. > :39:30.it to the top, we should head down, I reckon. Yes, bit of local
:39:31. > :39:34.knowledge! I think the first few years there were probably more
:39:35. > :39:41.mountaineers than skiers! They are all quite used to walking a
:39:42. > :39:45.long-distance. Because the weather can be surprisingly new do get a
:39:46. > :39:50.good day it makes it all the more worthwhile. Beautiful blue skies,
:39:51. > :39:55.powdery snow, it doesn't get any better than this. Andy is taking me
:39:56. > :40:02.to meet ex-British slopestyle Champions Cup McMorris and a local
:40:03. > :40:05.hero. With the weather closing in we take one last right at the top but
:40:06. > :40:07.this time we aren't taking the T-bar.
:40:08. > :40:17.It's got the best natural terrain. This is where the best riders will
:40:18. > :40:23.come. It's hard-core compared to the other ones.
:40:24. > :40:40.We have that hard-core of skiers who actually don't like us to groom the
:40:41. > :40:46.piste. They like the bits that they can play about on. Whatever they've
:40:47. > :40:52.done all over Scotland now, they have still got nowhere near the
:40:53. > :40:59.standard of Blanco for the standard of skiing -- near the standard of
:41:00. > :41:05.Glen Coe and you can see it in the standard of skiing. This question
:41:06. > :41:12.wants to know how to progress from straight Bears to spinning on a slow
:41:13. > :41:19.board? We need some snow. And a little bit of daylight. -- from
:41:20. > :41:23.straight airs. A ridge like this works perfectly because you can
:41:24. > :41:28.cheat the angle of your rotation. You can start nice and small. There
:41:29. > :41:31.is backside, when you turn your back to the landing and then there is
:41:32. > :41:38.front side, when you open up your front to the landing. A backside 180
:41:39. > :41:45.and a switched side 180 together, you get a backside 360. The only
:41:46. > :41:51.thing keeping you from a 1260 after that is speed and commitment! That
:41:52. > :41:56.was much harder than it looks because the snow was incredibly wet
:41:57. > :41:59.and soft, that's my excuse anyway! A couple of questions in about your
:42:00. > :42:05.run down the course last week. Holly wants to know what time you actually
:42:06. > :42:08.did the course in? Time for my excuses, I am skiing in an over suit
:42:09. > :42:14.carrying a camera and trying to talk! Really rough there! I got down
:42:15. > :42:24.in two minutes 20, 28 seconds behind the winner, Phil. It means you came
:42:25. > :42:29.20 Sixth Place! For others crashed! To answer your question, I haven't
:42:30. > :42:36.rest doing a camera run yet. There's nothing wrong with a little tumble,
:42:37. > :42:46.is there, Steve? You can send them in. Ben Burley wasn't put off by his
:42:47. > :42:53.crash either. We were shocked by the crashes last week but despite
:42:54. > :42:56.tearing his ACL, the Finnish skier was in remarkably good spirits,
:42:57. > :43:05.playing Rock paper scissors for who would go into surgery first! You've
:43:06. > :43:06.done a bit of this? I have, but not on the open roads because that's
:43:07. > :43:17.technically illegal. You guys are awesome! Keep sending
:43:18. > :43:22.in your pictures, videos and questions. Use the hashtag Ski
:43:23. > :43:27.Sunday. We will feature the best next week's show. That's all we've
:43:28. > :43:39.got time for but we will be back next week from Pyongchang in South
:43:40. > :43:43.Korea ahead of the test event for the Olympics. They will have Olympic
:43:44. > :43:51.glory and history very much on their minds.
:43:52. > :44:01.COMMENTATOR: Going for the kamikaze technique!
:44:02. > :44:10.There's the time, it's coming up now, 1.45.7! The crowd go wild!