23/02/2018 Winter Olympics Extra

Hello and welcome to Day 14

of the Winter Olympics

here in Pyeongchang.

Later in the programme,

we'll have highlights

of the women's ski cross final.

But first, we'll see who the last

figure skating medal of these Games

is awarded to as the ladies take

to the ice for their free skate.

It looks like being a battle

of the two Russians, Alina Zagitova

and Evgenia Medvedeva,

who both broke the world record

in their short programme.

It is a new world record.

That is

Evgenia Medvedeva's world record

already broken!

For the last time,

Kat Downes and Robin Cousins can

talk us through this one.

We are into the final day of skating

and it is the women taking to the

ice behind us and as predicted,

Robin, a chase for a gold medal

between the Russian girls.

Absolutely, Evgenia Medvedeva came

out in the short programme and said

this is mine, look at me. And then

Alina Zagitova said what ever you

can do, I can do better and did,

broke the world record but a

different ball game today. I think

Evgenia Medvedeva will have the

edge.

You think she will come back.

0.31 behind. Her she got what it

takes to edge out the 15-year-olds.

Zagitova won the European

Championship that this is different.

From those two for me it will be

Medvedeva. But in saying that,

Kaetlyn Osmond was so beautiful in

the short programme and many said

she was under Marx. She knows she is

sitting fairly comfortably in bronze

medal position right now -- under

marked. She could upset one, if not

both Russians if everything is

perfect.

It might not be a Russian

1-2. Two records broken the other

day.

When we see more broken today?

The Japanese national champion.

Current lying in fourth place but

just three points behind Kaetlyn

Osmond in the bronze medal position.

She wrote hate these jumps at a rate

of knots. She is below are flying

through the air and she has what it

takes to make up the gap and get

herself on the podium.

There was

question over whether her triple

triple combination and her triple

jump in the short programme should

have been downgraded. She will want

to ensure she gives them no choice

today.

The triple loop was cleanly rotated

but it is the triple lutz, triple

toe combination that will be the

real test.

real test. Clean for me. But review

will see.

Good on the flip.

It is lovely to see spinning in both

directions. You do not see it enough

in figure skating, these days.

Big jumping pass. Triple lutz.

Double toe loop, double loop. She

has done it.

Double axel and the toe loop.

And speed triple salchow. -- of the

triple salchow.

The last jump, the double axel.

Beautiful position for the

laid-back.

laid-back. -- lay back. And on the

spot for the spin.

Satoko Miyahara

chasing down medal positions and she

could not have asked for any war

from that performance. No, from what

I can see, absolutely clean on the

triples. She does rotate so fast.

Not a lot of height or flight. But

she is a little thing. You wonder

where she gets it from. Satoko

Miyahara with a new season's best to

take the lead. She is the one to

chase down in this final group of

six skaters. The oldest skater in

the contest. 31 years old. Sochi

bronze medallist. A little off the

pace.

pace. Qualifying in sixth place. I

think they medal will be out of the

question for Carolina Kostner of

Italy.

It was clean in. First jump. That

triple lutz.

Though, on the triple flip. She

needed that to be the combination.

Tight on the landing of that triple

toe loop. No combinations, as of

yet. Oh. Double axel loop triple

salchow. I question the landing of

the salchow. I think it was clean,

but it had absolutely no edge.

Uncharacteristically error strewn

from Carolina Kostner of Italy and

she needs every trick to work

perfectly if she is to keep up with

the young guns.

Yes, you cannot

compete with her experience and

performance manner and style, but

she needed those triple triple

combinations, of which we did not

see any. She got the triple lutz

back this season which was a bonus

and it was the one thing that did

work. Very tentative with some of

the landings.

the landings.

139.29 for Carolina

Kostner. She sits in second place

behind Satoko Miyahara of Japan. An

exquisite skate from the Japanese

means she is still out in front.

Here she is. She set a short

programme world record two days ago.

This long programme helped the

Olympic athletes of Russia to the

silver medal in the team event. This

is Alina Zagitova, the young

pretender. The gold medal within her

grasp. Does she have what it takes

to bear the pressure on those

15-year-old shoulders?

Do not look for the big jumps to be

coming early in this performance.

The later they come, you do get

bonus points.

bonus points. Alina Zagitova back

ends her programme with all her

technical jumping elements. So it is

the choreographic sequence and the

spins and step sequence that will

come first.

All about maxing out

those points.

Oh, that would have been the triple

lutz triple loop accommodation. Just

taking the lutz there, so how well

does she think on her feet?

does she think on her feet? Double

axel, triple toe loop.

Triple flip, double toe loop, double

loop.

The second triple lutz will come now

and it has to be in the combination

and she will want it to be with the

triple toe loop.

triple toe loop. No, she'll do it

with the triple loop.

And the triple flip.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And it looks for a second like Alina

Zagitova had been the first to blink

in this race for gold, that missed

combination on the start, but she

sought on her feet.

She did not have

the perfect landing on that triple

lutz, although she has been given

positive praise for execution on it.

But yes, she came back, has exactly

the same content as was planned,

just not necessarily the order she

would liked to have delivered it.

I

don't suppose it matters which order

it comes out as well as it is

executed as beautifully as she did

it. So it's not a new season's best,

it's not a new world record. 239.57

is the combined total. Beat that and

you will be in for a gold medal.

And

the door is open.

Kaetlyn Osmond,

World Championship silver medallist

last time round, Gabriel Dale man

took the bronze, the first time two

Canadian women have been on the

World Championship podium at the

same time.

same time. She was just two points

behind Medvedeva in the Silver medal

position.

Kaetlyn had a glorious performance

in the short programme. Many thought

and are marked in terms of component

scores. Certainly technically she

delivered. Can she do it today?

There's the triple flip and there's

the triple toe loop. Exquisite.

Double axel, triple toe loop. Fast,

light, easy. Keep this momentum

going, please.

Overcooked the take off on the

triple lutz, stepped out.

Good on the triple loop. Needed

that. And she also needs the second

triple flip. Only one triple lutz in

this programme planned, so every

triple will need to be perfect from

now on.

There you go.

Triple salchow, double toe loop,

double loop.

Last offered jumps, double axel. --

the last of her jumps.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Canada's Black Swan, flying in for a

place on the podium.

Just that one

tiny mistake. Falling out of the

landing of the triple lutz, but

goodness me.

She had a lead though,

going into this free skate, after

the short programme will stop about

three points ahead of Satoko

Miyahara, the Japanese skater in

fourth position, so she has a very,

very slight advantage to play with.

Up to second, 152.15, it's a

season's best, a massive season's

best, ten points better than her

previous mark and Kaetlyn Osmond

holds onto that bronze medal

position, friends off the challenge

from Satoko Miyahara of Japan and

she is guaranteed herself the medal

with that performance. And here is

our last skater at this Olympic

Games, and what a way to close the

show. Evgenia Medvedeva, the two

time world champion, the favourite

for so long to win this Olympic

title. Broke the world record in the

short programme, just to watch

Zagitova snatch it back. Medvedeva

skates to save the gold that fought

two years was destined to be hers.

-- that for two years was destined

to be hers.

Anna Canarinha is the soundtrack --

Anna Karen Nina.

Triple flip, triple toe loop to

open.

There is the lutz.

Strong second triple flip.

And a beautiful triple loop.

That's it, triple salchow, triple

toe loop, just one more double axel.

The jumps are done.

This is your gold medal winning

performance. She is absolutely on

the money.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It's marvellous, from Medvedeva

reggae.

reggae. Ready to relinquish her

crown, the double world champion

still the very, very best in the

world.

I thought that was the best

I've seen her skate in a long time.

It's a programme that Swann Herrera

World Championship before. Now,

surely enough for the Olympic title

as well. -- it's won her the World

Championship before.

Made the

decision to change programmes

mid-season, came back to one that

she said made her feel something

really different on the ice.

Oh, it is not enough. 156.65 for

Evgenia Medvedeva and that is the

gold medal missing. Wow. Heartbreak

for Evgenia Medvedeva, who thought

she had done enough. Alina Zagitova,

like the rest of us, cannot believe

what she is hearing. Fantastic

performance from Alina Zagitova, we

can take nothing away from the

15-year-old but she has pulled off

an enormous upset at the Olympic

Games. Confirmation that the

15-year-old upstart from Russia has

caused another enormous shock,

beating her countrywoman Evgenia

Medvedeva, two time world champion

and favourite for the title. What a

shock here.

and favourite for the title. What a

shock here.

We have been very

excited about the rivalry. I think

it is something we might see for

many years to come.

TRANSLATION:

The competition, we are

in real life very good friends, but

in sport, I think the competition is

very important and it makes us grow

together.

together.

Congratulations on your

silver medal. It looked very

emotional afterwards.

emotional afterwards.

It was

unexpected for everyone. I am an

emotional person. I thought, I am in

the Olympics. I did a clean, free

programme. I did my best to date. I

put all my soul into this

competition.

competition. I think it was happy

crying.

An individual bronze medal.

You have had Olympic medals before

but this is your first individual

one.

It is so exciting. Team medals

are special, they are with almost a

family and having team support is

rewarding but to be able to do this

by myself proved I am strong and

able to do this without the aid of a

team, that means so much to me also.

Celebrations on the ice perhaps

muted because after that performance

by Evgenia Medvedeva, we had her

nailed on for the gold medal but

Alina Zagitova came through with the

world record short programme.

They

had identical scores in the free

programme which I am surprised out.

Alina Zagitova is a brilliant

technician and was on it today but

she worked with the brain and did

not give me any heart and not

skating people would say Evgenia

Medvedeva today gave us everything.

Yes, the jumps are quite tiny but

they are clean and pristine. The

performance was glorious and it was

the right move to go back to an old

performance and programme. You could

see it in her face, she was slightly

shocked and I think a lot of us are.

She was heartbroken when the result

came up. She is normally cool and

calm. She could not hide it. She was

in tears at the end of the

performance because she thought she

had done it, and then at the end of

the result also.

You have this

building up, a couple of years

towards this ultimate performance.

At some point your body goes, I am

done and it is the outpouring of

emotion that is honest and natural

and what I thought, bringing Kaetlyn

Osmond into the conversation, she

has not been one to hold it together

when things start to go wrong and it

was a tiny mistake. Sometimes that

is all it needs but the rest of her

performance was supreme and the

three women on these podium are

correct but for us, figure skating

fans and not it's calleds, we would

have loved to see Evgenia Medvedeva

on the top.

It was the world record

short programme that won it for

Alina Zagitova in the end. Is this

the best figure skating Olympics you

have seen?

Collectively across the

board, all four disciplines, some

upsets, some phenomenal performances

and collectively yes, probably the

best games I have been to.

Back to the mountains

now and the final of

the women's ski cross.

One Brit in action here.

Emily Sarsfield finally making it

to an Olympics after missing out

on Vancouver eight years ago

and Sochi in 2014.

Graham Bell and Ed Leigh

are your commentators.

Up at the top we have the first of

our quarters in the gate. Starting

procedure. It says, skiers ready.

Then, attention. One to four seconds

later, the gate will open. The

Austrian, 28 years old. Kennedy with

a brilliant start. Wearing the green

Bay Packers.

Lisa Andersson in

yellow. -- wearing the green bib.

This is a race for second place

right now. A problem.

Limbacher is

down.

Wow, that is a big surprise.

Anderson and Kennedy out in front.

The Australian leading the Swede.

This is a toilet bowl of a berm and

Kennedy has a great technique,

absorbing the jumps. Never write off

third place.

We know how much drama

can unfold on the finishing straight

as Anderson Thaksin behind Kennedy.

-- Anderson

tucks in behind Kennedy-Sim.

Limbacher snagged on the gate and

sheep in wheeled off the step down.

-- she pinned wheeled off the step

down. Shoulder to shoulder through

this section. This is where we see

the mistakes begin. Limbacher going

down hard. Hooks the tale of the

skis into that gate. That will hurt.

She landed on the flat. It is a

testament to just how determined ski

cross racers are to stay on their

feet at all costs. She battled bat

well after anyone else would have

given up on it as a lost cause.

Clinging to the edges, praying she

could get back up. In the

background, you see the Swiss, just

getting in the back-seat of the

final kicker. Sami Kennedy-Sim.

Andersson in second.

Andersson in second. I think Sandra

Naeslund and Fanny Smith have the

speed in the second of the

quarterfinals. Watch out for

Naeslund wearing red and Smith in

green. And also the French skier in

blue, she was asked in the previous

round.

We saw it with the men. They

have brilliant technique and she

raced tenaciously in the eighth

round.

round. Naeslund undoubtedly the

favourite. 21 years old but a

veteran of these sport. Pressure on

the skis on the gate.

We have the

2013 world champion in Fanny Smith

and the 2017 reigning world champion

in Sandra Naeslund.

Fanny Smith was

lightning out of the starting gate

but she could not hold off Naeslund.

Fanny Smith has gone past.

The

others have a great view of this.

Naeslund and Smith have the speed

and ability.

and ability. Just hoping she can

stay

stay in touch Kucerova.

This is the

technical section. Kucerova on the

inside of Naeslund.

Which means she

will be on the outside in the next

turn so Naeslund should be able to

shut the door.

The French skier has

fought her way back and she is going

nicely. What a view from Kucerova as

they come to the first of the four

jumps.

Brilliant pictures. It is a

shame for Kucerova, because she is

in last place but we can watch the

race unfolds. Fanny Smith comes

through with sound

through with sound Renee is learned

in second. We thought they would

progress through and we are not

wrong. -- with Naeslund in second.

That was her chance but on the

outside of the bend.

Fantastic.

Seeing it from that angle and

understanding how close they are.

How much nerve you have to have to

race between 40 and 80 kilometres

per hour.

And flying 20, 30 metres.

In close proximity. It is

breathtaking. Brilliant, brilliant

racing here.

racing here.

Naeslund giving them

cause for concern but making it

through with the Swiss. Fanny Smith.

Now, Brittany Phelan of

Now, Brittany Phelan of Canada stop

Alizee Baron the Frenchwoman wearing

green. Emily Sarsfield. Great

Britain.

Brittany Phelan

Britain.

Brittany Phelan wearing the

red bib.

Emily Sarsfield needs to

stand up in this compression. They

are out. Go on, Emily, that is much

better. The other athletes able to

pull away.

Baron leading Phelan stop

the green bib the Frenchwoman unable

to hold off this charge from Phelan.

Emily Sarsfield making up ground.

Phelan soaking up the jump.

Phelan soaking up the jump. Pixner.

She

She is in third place. And then

Emily Sarsfield.

Coming through the

jump. Great skiing from the

Canadian. Very close.

Again, as they

come into the technical section.

Pixner the Italian is leaning on

baron.

Baron has the inside line.

You have to make a different move.

You cannot come on that side along

that straightaway.

Pixner skating

through the right hand, trying to

get in contact with baron. Pixner

very quick, but the draft is not

working. Again, she sits back.

Brittany Phelan in first. Baron, the

Frenchwoman, joining her in the

semifinals. In that race there were

two skiers with really good form.

Brittany Phelan, from what we have

seen so far, is looking like a

favourite, if not to take a gold

medal, certainly a place on the

podium. Brittany Phelan's motto is

danger is real, fear is a choice.

That should be a T-shirt. Phelan

coasting over in first followed by

baron. Pixner in the back-seat in

third.

Back up to the top. Kelsey

Serwa is the highest seed in the

third of these quarterfinals.

The

Austrian does not have the skis

speed but has good technique on the

turn. Kelsey Serwa very fast in the

qualifying round. And the Russian, I

am not sure she will be in this

race.

race.

A brave man would try to

predict ski cross.

predict ski cross.

Luedi poised in

third. We have seen her overtake

like this. It is a breathtaking

chase down. Kelsey Serwa leading

comfortably.

comfortably. Luedi is down, but she

held on somehow.

Luedi has great

speed. Her skis are flying. She is

not controlling the jumps and she

has to be careful. I said it would

take a brave man to predict it but

it is exactly how I predicted.

I

think Luedi will ask

think Luedi will ask her ski tech to

adjust her skis! Ofner has perfect

technique over the jumps so if there

is any way to catch Luedi, it is

here.

Luedi sitting back a little

bit.

Ofner. Nothing she could do

with those skis. The Swiss just out

of sight. Kelsey Serwa, I think the

fastest we have seen so far.

Look at

this, look how well Kelsey Serwa

riding over the Wu-Tang. Generating

speed. She was in the lead all the

way through. That was the crash from

the Russian.

If you lose contact on

the negative Traverse, you are gone.

Katrin Ofner and Anastasia

Chirtcova, it's the end of the road

for them. Sanna Luedi and Kelsey

Serwa have made it into the top

eight.

Sandra Naeslund was the

fourth fastest in the feeding

rounds, so she gets the red bib, so

she chooses first which position she

will start. And then Fanny Smith's

choice in green, and then Sami

Kennedy-Sim in blue chooses third,

then Lisa Andersson, only 17th

fastest in the feeding round. There

is the Swede, the young Swede.

Next

to her fellow countrywoman and the

favourite here, Sandra Naeslund.

Six

World Cup victories out of eight

this season, but watch out for Fanny

Smith.

And American dad, an

Englishman.

Very good overtaken as

well.

Then Sami Kennedy-Sim, started

racing on the World Cup in 2008.

Her

husband actually competed in

cross-country. At the Olympic Games.

Ben Sim. Here we go. First of the

semis. Undoubtedly Kennedy-Sim's

best Olympics and she sits down

terribly.

Oh, no, that was a shame

for the Australian because she's of

the running. Naeslund is out in

front, like we thought she would be.

Fanny Smith is in second. What can

the young Swede do, what can

Andersson do? She's got to do

something to stay in touch.

At the

moment Fanny Smith looking

blisteringly quick on those skis

again as they come over this really

long and low, beautifully measured

jump than into the off camber.

Andersson has gone and it's the two

favourites that we thought would be

quick in this competition who are

out in front. Fanny Smith isn't

going to do anything stupid here.

She's a very, very intelligent

competitor. I hope I haven't just

given her the commentator's curse!

Just soaking up this technical step

down. Then you can just see

Kennedy-Sim, who had that terrible

start and took herself out of the

running in third place. It seems at

the moment a very simple 1-2-macro

for Naeslund and Smith. -- a very

simple 1-2, for Naeslund and Smith.

Naeslund has remembered the form

book.

You can see how they jump up there,

just, just making it up into the

birdbath can put Fanny Smith was

brilliant through there. That was

incredible technique. This is where

we seen loads of mistakes from Smith

but it's Andersson who explodes out

of the berm and into the nets at the

bottom of the picture there.

You

come off the negative, there's a

slight roller that gets you light

and that there is a compression as

you go into the berm so you don't

have just the centrifugal force of

the turn, you've also got this

gravity effect of squashing you down

and Lisa Andersson just having the

weight ever so slightly back and not

able to control the skis.

So Sandra

Naeslund of Sweden wearing the red

bib, takes first, and looks very,

very strong. Then Fanny Smith of

Switzerland will join her. So the

fans enjoying the racing here. We go

back up for the second of the

semifinals. Two spots in the final

full stop the prize, but what is the

cost, that's the question in ski

Cross racing.

Kelsey Serwa in the

red bib, she is world champion from

2011. She's been there or

thereabouts. She's the silver

medallist. There's Sanna Luedi the

Swiss racer, very, very quick skis,

flashed up asked fast along the

flat. Kelsey Serwa, Silver medal

last time round, coming in with

great form. Brittany Phelan competed

in Sochi in slalom, placed 50 in the

last Olympics in slalom, but has

switched to cross, and Alizee Baron,

the French skier.

25-year-old from

France. She has looked very, very

fast so far.

Expect the Canadians to

go out of the start like absolute

rockets.

Luedi, closest to the

camera in the yellow bib, has the

lightning fast skis, and she's been

going very well on the gliding

sections. The ultimate test comes

now. Can she catch the Canadians?

Will Canadians be out in front?

Kelsey Serwa is looking good.

Kelsey Serwa is looking good.

Serwa

is looking breathtaking. What can

Phelan do? She's making a move on

the French skier.

Hold the front

page, the Swiss has got back in with

those lightning fast skis and she's

reeling in the Canadian. Serwa

getting dragged back into the pack.

The Canadians back in front as they

go into the negative.

Incredible

racing from the Swiss! How did Sanna

Luedi do this? It's absolutely

ridiculous! Sorry, Luedi is in

third.

Got the skis too high on the

job but she has the inside line on

the corner, will she make a move on

Phelan? She's out and another

mistake from Sanna Luedi.

So the

Canadians running things from the

front at the moment.

You've got to

say Kelsey Serwa looks really,

really strong. She's looked strong.

Wow.

We saw her have that easy first

A final and we weren't sure if it

was her speed all the mistakes of

the Russian and the Italians she was

up against, but Brittany Phelan from

Kelsey Serwa. Then SANA loonie and

-- -- then Sanna Luedi trying to

keep up, it's a 1-2 for the

Canadians. Have a look at this start

here. It was the red bib of Kelsey

Serwa who got the better start.

Alizee Baron got into second place,

but great skiing from Brittany

Phelan over the roller-coaster

section. Sanna Luedi was out of it

but fought her way back in, there

was a mistake by the French racer.

As they come through this section

keep your eye on the Bluebeard at

the back.

Brittany Phelan made a

move to overtake Kelsey Serwa.

move to overtake Kelsey Serwa.

Look

at Alizee Baron, it's a little push

from Sanna Luedi there. She lays the

push. Onto Alizee Baron.

push. Onto Alizee Baron. Sanna Luedi

continues on the inside but wasn't

able to capitalise. Was it a push?

It was, I think the judges and jury

will be looking at this to see if

there was any illegal contact there.

The bullfrog technique of Phelan and

Serwa, then Sanna Luedi, no one to

blame but herself. She fought

valiantly but it was that terrible

start that took her out.

start that took her out.

So the

Canadians again guaranteed a medal

before the final even starts, just

like in the men's competition.

Confirmation that Brittany Phelan

crossed the line first their ahead

of Kelsey Serwa and disappointment

for Alizee Baron.

Now back up to the

top and its finals time. The four

fastest racers on the day who's

managed to get cleanly down the

course in the last three races. The

two Canadians who joined up in the

semifinals are now flanked by Swiss

and one Swede.

and one Swede.

Sandra Naeslund, six

World Cup wins this season but this

is in the World Cup, if this is the

Olympic Games and this is how they

line up. Elsie Searle in the red,

one of the fastest in qualifying.

Brittany Phelan has looked really

impressive wearing the green bib and

Sandra Naeslund wearing blue and

Fanny Smith in the yellow bib there.

Silver medallist Kelsey Serwa last

time round, can she go one better

here? Brittany Phelan, X Alpine

skier, raised in slalom in Sochi,

placed 15. She's going to do a whole

lot better than that today. And

Sandra Naeslund dominated the World

Cup tour this season, just 21 years

old. My money Phelan. Phelan,

Naeslund, Serwa, Smith, there's my

prediction. Let's see how it runs.

Serwa for me over Naeslund, Phelan

out.

Right, here we go. Who will

have the quickest start? The hold

shot, pressure on the skis, pressure

on the date. A little bit of a delay

there's the drop. It's Serwa ahead,

Phelan with work to do.

Exploding

out, Phelan drags back and Fanny

Smith looking very fast through the

inside but Serwa holds her nerve and

holds her line, neck and neck,

shoulder to shoulder.

Here comes

Phelan Throop, coming up against

Naeslund.

Naeslund and Phelan and

Smith all packed in there together,

literally touching each other in the

air.

Wow! Kelsey Serwa out in front,

just a little bit of daylight

between the two of them and its

Smith in second.

Naeslund in the

blue bib moving deep into the

left-hander as they fly through this

step up berm step-down set up. Serwa

leading from the front, Smith

explodes and opens the door to

Phelan and Naeslund.

Phelan is

coming through, she needs to come in

and she's got into silver medal

position.

Look at the battle for

bronze at the back. Naeslund and

Smith.

It's going to Smith's -- is

going to dismiss, it's Serwa at the

moment.

The Canadians looking so in

control in the final.

One last

chance, tips up and the bronze medal

for Switzerland just ahead of

Naeslund. Naeslund, such a dominant

force on the World Cup, unable to

assert our presence in the final.

Up

against two very powerful Canadians

there in Serwa and she got herself a

head there and once she was out in

front there was no stopping her.

Finally, finally, a medal for Fanny

Smith that the Olympic Games.

Brittany Phelan had terrible start

here and I thought that was her

chance gone, but fought her way

through. It was incredible. Kelsey

Serwa went out in front.

This was

brilliant, where Fanny Smith starts

to lean right on Kelsey Serwa in the

red bib and I think at this point

Serwa, that's where she makes her

move. This puts her out in front and

no one is close to her after that

point.

Look at Phelan, in last place

there and able to move right the way

through into Silver.

Leaning on

Naeslund on the outside there and

that's it, exactly it, the battle

between yellow and blue there, Smith

and Naeslund opens the door for

Phelan and the silver medal.

Serwa

is gone by that stage.

Yeah,

absolutely rocketing out into gold

medal position.

Kelsey Serwa fists

in Vancouver, second Sochi and she's

finally taken the first place spot

here. Very, very impressive.

I've

got to say that was real excitement.

It started slowly but it builds and

built and built and what a final,

what a way to end the women's ski

cross competition.

There is your

podium, Kelsey Serwa with the gold,

Brittany Phelan with silver and

Switzerland's Fanny Smith with

bronze.

That's all from us for now, but I'll

be back at 25 past midnight over

That's all from us for now, but I'll

be back at 25 past midnight over

on BBC One with live coverage

of the men's big air,

which, if whe Women's is anything

to go by, is well worth

staying up for.

See you then.