11/02/2018 Winter Olympics Extra

Hello and a very warm welcome to Day

2 of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games

here in Pyeongchang,

and what a first 24

hours we have had.

Charlotte Kalla becomes the

skiathlon Winter Olympic champion.

And the hosts have gold! They have

struck gold!

struck gold! This is great skating

from Elise Christie! She is safely

through to the quarterfinals.

Hopefully more of the same today,

and we'll head first

to the Gangeung Ice Arena and Day 2

of the Team Figure Skating.

On Friday, we saw the Olympics

Athletes from Russia,

Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir

Morozov, lead the pairs

short programme.

While in the men's, it was

Japan's Shoma Uno who impressed.

But it was the Canadians who were

leading the overall competition.

Today, it was the turn of the ice

dancers and the women

in the short programme,

and after that, the top five

countries will return

for the free skate.

We'll see the pairs today.

Kat Downes and Robin Cousins can

talk us through this one.

COMMENTATOR: As you can hear from

the roar of the crowd and the waving

from the Star Spangled Banner is in

the audience, these are the first of

the big names when it comes to ice

dance, Maia Shibutani and Alex

Shibutani of the US, brother and

sister, three-time World

Championship medallists and social

media addicts.

Terrific six loops of twizzles

there. Always such precision with

these two skaters.

Neat as pins, those two.

They have

been since they burst onto the scene

as juniors. They were junior world

champions and it was the precision

and their technical ability that

really stuck out then and it is what

has carried them through, their

technical prowess that has always

carried them forward. There is such

precision in the technical detail.

Wow! That is a leap up. I mean, that

is at least ten points higher than

everybody else. This is the first

chance, then, four B Blackcomb to

decide, which are you? These are the

Canadians, Tessa Virtue and Scott

Moir, the reigning world champions,

silver medallists from Sochi in the

last Olympics, and they were deeply

disappointed with that. Took a

couple of years when from

competition and came back to win the

World Championship last year. --

away from competition.

I'm going to

let you watch.

If you couldn't tell that that is a

class apart, then you are probably

watching with your eyes closed.

I

absolutely love watching Tessa and

Scott 's gate. -- Scott 's gate.

They've been skating together for

over 20 years. So let's see what the

judges made of this. 80.51, a

massive score. Canada were top of

the team standings before they

skated and they are now very much at

the top of the team standings. We

will have a clearer picture after

the last couple has skated, and they

are out on the ice at the moment.

Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri

Soloviev are the last couple to

skate in the ice dance short

programme, the Olympic Athletes from

Russia. Heading out onto the ice and

in the absence of their team

colours, there is a massive bank of

Russian supporters away up to my

left all in the red, white and blue.

I don't know about you but I

couldn't take my eyes off her

earrings! They had a life of their

own!

I think that is one of the best

skates they have had this season.

74.76, then, for the Olympic

Athletes from Russia and they are in

third place behind the USA and

Canada.

Ladies and gentlemen, this

concludes team event ice dance...

These are the results for the ice

dance short dance, Tessa Virtue and

Scott Moir head and shoulders above

the rest as we would expect of the

world champions from Canada out in

front, and the pair from the USA out

in second with the Olympic Athletes

from Russia in third. This is the

last short programme before we go

through to the long programme which

is where the medals will be decided.

Carolina Kostner from Italy looking

to bring all of her maturity from

experience to help out Italy, who

are in fifth place after the first

three elements of this competition,

the men's, the pairs, the ice dance.

They are clinging on to that last

qualification place for the long

programmes and the opportunity to

compete for a medal. Karolina

Grohova, 31 years old, for Italy. --

Carolina Kostner.

Triple toe loop after the triple

flip, but she fought for it and made

it happen.

Much better with the triple loop.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Just a couple of moments then fork

Carolina Kostner, but solid, solid

skating, just as you'd expect from a

woman of her experience.

It's a

beautiful, beautiful programme and

choreographic li we talked about

content and if you go away, the

song, it's all about the things that

would happen, the desperation if you

were to leave me and she feels it.

It's glorious.

It's glorious.

75.10, so well down

on her season's best. This is the

skater for team Canada, our leaders

at the moment. This lady in charge

of the ladies' short programme, they

are likely to stay up there. Kaetlyn

Osmond, silver medallist at the last

World Championships and she'll be in

the mix as well when it comes to the

individual medals, I should think.

Had triple triple of choices triple

flip. Triple toe loop. Not the way

she would want to do it though.

Oh! Great body lean there Rhondda

triple lutz but managed to correct

it for the landing. -- one that

triple lutz, but managed to correct

it for the landing.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

A bit rough around the edges perhaps

from Kaetlyn Osmond, but she was

skating with real abandonment,

perhaps because she already knew

that team Canada have qualified, so

they are so far in front they could

not be knocked out of the top five.

The pressure was off for Kaetlyn

Osmond and she skated as though she

was just out there to enjoy it,

didn't she?

didn't she? 71.38 as well, quite a

long way down on her personal best,

so again, some rather perplexed

looking faces in the Canadian box,

but they are already through to the

long programme so team celebrations

for team Canada because they will be

through to compete for the medals,

but all eyes on the ice because this

is Russia's ice princess. Evgenia

Medvedeva but representing the

Olympic Athletes from Russia, back

to back World Championships for her

and out to lay down a marker to her

young countrywoman, who pipped her

to the European Championship. It was

a bit of a shock, Evgenia Medvedeva

coming back from injury though. But

she's here to save the gold medal is

mine, Hans off. -- Hans off.

Very solid triple flip, triple toe

loop combination.

Lovely triple loop.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Deep inhalation of breath at the

end. Absolutely exquisite from

Evgenia Medvedeva.

A lovely,

beautiful performance. Seven clean

tick boxes there as well, all greens

as they happened, so no question of

the technical ability, but she just

has this, I said al fin earlier, so

light on the ice. There's great

power of speed but it's so light,

effortless.

Yes, she has, it's a new season's

best for Evgenia Medvedeva, 81.06.

Here are the individual standings.

Evgenia Medvedeva representing the

Ellie Slee -- Olympic Athletes from

Russia, way, way out in front, takes

ten points. Carolena Carstens in

second and Kaetlyn Osmond, the world

silver medallist in third. We've

reached the business end of this

team competition, the short

programmes are over and done with

and with ten teams we started with

here have been whittled down to the

five best in the world.

five best in the world. The

Italians, the five times singles

champion she was, she came 11th at

the Sochi games in the singles, he

came 11th in the pairs. Here they

are, teamed up together at

Pyeongchang.

And making their

Olympic debut here. Their team-mates

performed the short programme. What

can they do with this free

programme?

Oh, much stronger than they have

done the triple twist in practice.

They can make the triple toe loops

that they want. Lovely.

Triple salchow, double toe, double

toe, excellent. I'm not sure about

the camera angle but the jumps were

good.

Gorgeous throw and triple loop.

One big element left, throw and

triple lutz. Beautiful.

What a show! Oh, that is how it

feels to get green boxes across the

board. Look at that!

I knew that

scream was coming. That was

absolutely superb! Probably the best

I have seen them skate and they have

not been together that long. Oh, I

love this. When it works like this.

That was absolutely superb. We shall

see. They're skating has moved on

leaps and bounds but goodness me,

those green boxes came up quickly.

Oh, my goodness, it's big!

Oh, my goodness, it's big! 138.44, a

new season's best. What a

performance from the Italians.

performance from the Italians. These

are some big Canadian chances for a

gold medal, perhaps, even in the

individual. If Megan Duhamel and

Eric Radford can't recapture top

spot for team Canada, then who can?

Silver at last year's team event.

They are going for gold this time.

Opening with a triple twist.

Side by side, triple lutzes.

And now the biggest element of the

pairs championship, if they go for

it, it is a throw quadruple salchow.

Take that breasts.

They

they have got it clean, hands down

but they made the rotation.

Now a triple lutz coming, there,

down, got it.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Big tricks from Canada's big guns

and that is surely enough to see

them back into the gold medal

position.

Absolutely. Probably one

of the best performances they have

given of the season so far which is

what they want. "Yes, Yes, yes", she

says.

says.

148.51 and that is a massive

lead for them in the pairs free

skate event, ten points clear of the

Italians in second and that puts

Canada back up to the top of the

standings as we return to the ice

for the final couple for this pairs

free skating competition and they

are the recently crowned European

bronze medallists, Natalia Zabiiako

and Alexander Enbert.

They represent the Olympic Athletes

from Russia, currently in silver.

Triple toe loop, double toe loop,

double loop, just to be slightly

different in the combination.

They would have wanted those to be

side by side triple salchows.

Very nice, triple flip.

Huge throw triple loop.

That will be costly. That is a

shame.

Just an untimely trip, wasn't it,

from Natalia

Just an untimely trip, wasn't it,

from Natalia, came out of nowhere.

Did very well to save it. She didn't

fully go to the floor. We will see

whether or not they get a deduction.

133.28, the deduction for the knee

down, the trip, could prove costly,

way down on their personal best and

the Olympic Athletes from Russia

were in the Silver medal position

after the ladies Short skate but we

will see where that leaves them in

the overall standings.

the overall standings. Let's have a

look at the free skating results.

Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford way

out in front, taking ten points.

Brilliant performance from the

Italians in second and the Olympic

Athletes from Russia after that

costly trip, only take eight points

and third position. Of course, this

is a team event. Let's see how the

team standings are going into the

final day.

Look at Italy, just one point behind

the USA as well, in fourth position.

Japan is not yet out of it, they

have some brilliant individual

skaters skaters to come perhaps

tomorrow. It all comes down to what

happens in the men's, ladies' and

ice dancers when they fight it out

for the medals tomorrow. Canada are

the ones to chase down,

for the medals tomorrow. Canada are

the ones to chase down, they have a

6-point lead over the rest of the

field in the gold medal position.

After the short programme it was ten

teams, that's whittled down to just

the five best in the world. Canada

wants to catch. It comes down to

team tactics today, doesn't it,

because we knew who we were going to

see skating in the short programmes,

but it comes down to which skaters

do you put out on ice to try to

chase down those medals in the final

day of competition?

For those teams

that are big enough, Canada, Japan,

the USA, the Olympic Athletes from

Russia, they have a choice the

Italians, the only male they have

will be competing so he has to be on

board, but the others will be

deciding who they want to rest, who

might be a medal contender in a few

days' time, or do they go, I'd want

to compete now as well. We saw

Meagan Duhamel has to be in the mix

for gold in the pairs, short and

long programme for this team event,

so everybody has a different tactic,

not only from a team's point of view

but from the skaters' point of view.

How do you go out, what do you want

to do, what do you want to say to

the world? You have a team

competition, do you want to get out

there and try at first.

The team

competition matters. The skaters we

are seeing in action are here for

individual glory in the main, but

they still want to take home team

medal, don't they?

Absolutely. They

are skaters who are part of a team

that would never be close to being

on a podium in their individual

events, so collectively as a team it

is nice. We saw the first team gold

medal go out in Sochi, here we are,

Games number two and let's see what

happens today. It will be a

bunfight, I think, to be honest.

Canada are way out in front. Who are

your favourites to chase them down?

Japan have some superstars,

particularly when it comes to the

men.

Do with the men, they do with

the ladies. They don't really the

dance. You have to say it's USA

dance. You have to say it's USA who

have a chance in all three, then you

have the Olympic Athletes from

Russia, it doesn't really matter who

they pick, they are all in the mix.

It's definitely Canada's gold to

lose but let's see who decides to

come up from behind and maybe try to

pick them to the post.

Canada's gold

to lose, they came away with the

silver in Sochi, looking to go one

better here and there in a brilliant

position going into the final day's

competition, six points clear of the

rest of the field with the Olympic

Athletes from Russia in silver and

United States in bronze, Italy one

point behind them and Japan in

fifth. It's really tight as we see

where the medals will go.

Well, the team event concludes

tomorrow and we'll have extended

highlights of that here on BBC4.

Can the Canadians

take that gold medal?

Yesterday, we saw Sweden's Charlotte

Kalla take the first

gold medal of the games

in the women's skiathlon.

She finished just ahead

of Marit Boergen, whose silver

made her the most decorated woman

in Winter Olympics history.

Today it's the turn of the men

and Great Britain does

have an outside chance of a medal

in Andrew Musgrave.

He's been talking to Graham Bell.

Pyeongchang, your third Winter

Olympics. What have you learned from

Vancouver and Sochi?

When I first

went to Vancouver I was pretty

young, still a junior, not that

experienced. I was definitely just

going to find out what the Olympics

was like. Sochi, I went there and I

did slightly underperformed compared

to what I thought I should be able

to do. Like, I've learned a lot,

especially after Sochi, about how to

peak form, how to deal with pressure

on things like that. So I think a

lot more experience going into this

Games than I was last time.

You won

the Norwegian Championships ahead of

Sochi and that kind of got you of

press. Is it put extra pressure on

you ahead of Sochi?

I think I did

get a bit affected by it. I trained

a little bit too hard, did a little

bit too much in the lead up and I

didn't do what I normally do, and I

let things go to my head. That's one

of the things I've learned.

In Sochi

you said you skied like a

tranquillised badger. Why a badger?

It's a very good question! I don't

know, the first thing that came into

my head when I was so annoyed with

the race. I don't think I was ever

going to be one of the favourites

for a medal but I should have done

better than I did.

The guy who you

beat just a few weeks before won the

gold.

Just too good on the day, what

a spectacle.

Yeah, he did. I

outperformed myself on that day, I

think and if I'd have done the same

again in the Olympics I could have

obviously been there fighting for

the medal, whereas I feel now that I

should be able to be at that level

without having to have a super

exceptional day.

What do the British

team have that gives them an

advantage over say the Norwegians,

all the Swedes, or the Russians?

What gives you an edge?

The fact we

are a small team, sometimes it's a

disadvantage, but sometimes it can

be an advantage. Like we look at

things differently. We've come from

a different background, where is the

big teams do the same things,

they've always done. They've got

this big structure and it's kind of

hard to change. So we can come in

and like think of things we've done

differently that may work that

they've never even thought of

trying.

Looking good for

Pyeongchang. Which disciplines,

which events, are you targeting?

The

15 kilometre is the skate race so it

will be pretty much my main event

and the 30 kilometre, which is a

combination of both classic and

skate. You do the first 15

kilometres classic and the second 15

kilometres skate, that's also good

for me because we finish in my best

style so it's those two races I'm

really targeting.

So what are your

hopes and expectations from

Pyeongchang?

I was fourth at the

World Championships last year and I

feel like I've done -- I've become a

better skier this year than last

year, so this year it's realistic

for me to be fighting for a medal in

the 30 K and 15 K. Bring home a

medal, that is the goal.

COMMENTATOR:

The first

COMMENTATOR:

The first event in the men's cross

programming they cross-country

programme, the 30 kilometre men's

skiathlon. They are under way. This

is a race we've been looking forward

to for the last few months, bearing

in mind the form of some of the very

best in the world. There's so much

history on the line for so many

competing here today.

competing here today. The first man

to successfully defend a third

title, the dominant force on the

World Cup circuit hoping to become

the youngest ever Winter Olympic

champion, seven, that was Krueger

who fell, a real shame, and 27,

that's Toni Livers back in his

fourth Games. That's a real shock.

The good news from their

perspective, I guess, is that

hopefully the pace won't be too

fast, they'll have an opportunity to

get back but that's Krueger, who was

fresh and rested for these games.

Let's see if we can get another

indication as to what happened.

You

can see at the front there, it looks

like it's Krueger that goes down

first, and then gets caught up with

the two athletes from Russia, 11 and

16. Watch seven, he trips on the

right skied, it looks like there's a

collision centrally, you're on top

of each other. You have 11.

This is

the ultimate test of the

cross-country skier. Half the race

in freestyle, half the race in

classical. Look at this from Andrew

Musgrave, oh, my goodness me. What

an effort, what a performance so

far. He's just got to keep it going.

Even if he doesn't end up on the

podium, what confidence this will

give him for his best event, the 15

K. No Briton ever inside the top 25

of any cross-country ski race in the

history of the Winter Olympic Games,

and can you believe it, he's

absolutely flying at the moment.

Musgrave is doing all the hard work

here. He's the silver medal

position. I'm just enjoying saying

that! I really am. Less than four

kilometres to go. Krueger clearly

feels that going hard with four K to

go is his best chance of getting on

the podium and may be winning this

race. If you're new to cross-country

skiing, you're more used to watching

distance running, the same

principles of bravery apply. To go

this far out shows you his intent.

Now a few athletes coming past

Andrew Musgrave. Needs to hold on

here, the Briton. Maurice Manificat

is in second place with defending

champion in third. A few metres open

up between Andrew Musgrave and the

men who are currently not battling

for three medals, battling for two.

It's Norway one, two and three at

the moment. They are definitely

losing down on Krueger and they have

a monstrous crime still to contend

between now and the Finnish --

monstrous climb. Here it is. He is

seriously hurting now. His lead has

been halved, from 22 seconds, two

11. Heerkens Martin Johnsrud Sundby

in second place, Hans Christer

Holund just behind him. Norway

occupying all three medal positions

at the moment. Their lungs will be

absolutely bursting. Simen Hegstad

Krueger, having fallen right at the

start of the race, is going to

finish the day in a blaze of glory.

An absolutely incredible recovery

against one of the best skiathlon

fields ever assembled. Simen Hegstad

Krueger is the Winter Olympic

champion. He was down at the start,

but he wasn't out. You didn't give

up. The very epitome of what the

Winter Olympics is all about. Martin

Johnsrud Sundby upgrades bronze from

four years ago da Silva. Hans

Christer Holund coming home for the

bronze and we're still waiting for

Andrew Musgrave, a sensational

effort from the Briton. It really

is. Dario Cologna just ahead of him,

Andrew Musgrave in sevens. The best

previous performance by a British

cross-country skier is 29th will

stop Musgrave announces his arrival

at the top of the sport and says, we

Brits can be world class as well.

What race, what a finish from

Musgrave and among his scalps the

World Cup leader who could only

finish intense.

I thought

World Cup leader who could only

finish intense.

I thought going out,

we had a lap and a half to go, I was

pretty confident, I thought I would

be able to get a medal and I was

feeling really good and then just

tried to keep up on the last lap

underwent a bit hard and slipped

back through the field.

What do you

need to do to beat the Norwegians?

Go faster than them! No, I don't

know, I think it's a completely

different race when it is an

individual start and I think I just

needed a race to get back into it. A

couple of days easy training now and

I should be up there ready to fight.

That's all from us now, we'll be

back here tomorrow at the same time

is right here on BBC Four, with the

conclusion of the figure skating

team event and all the actions of

the women's snowboard slope style

final. If you want to watch it live,

head over to BBC One at midnight.

Thanks for watching.

Absolutely amazing. Look at that

style. It's beautiful.

Well, you've got to say that she

looks absolutely amazing on a

snowboard.

That is why she constantly topping

podiums around the world, ladies

gentlemen!