Day 16 Highlights Winter Olympics: Today at the Games

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Good evening and welcome

to the final Today at the Games.

Over the last 16 days,

we've been in awe of the effort

and amazed at the skill

of the athletes who have competed

in events as diverse as big air,

biathlon, curling and ice hockey.

From short track speed skating

to 50k cross-country skiing,

it's been a remarkable and record

breaking Winter Olympics.

Here's what we've got coming up

for you over the next hour.

The Garlic Girls have made curling

the dish of the day in Korea.

Can Sunny, Steak, Pancake,

Yoghurt and Chocho give the home

crowd a taste of glory?

We reflect on Britain's greatest

ever Winter Olympics.

And then it's party time.

The athletes can let their hair down

at the closing ceremony.

And to share all that is...

fresh from finishing

fourth in the freestyle

slopestyle, Woodsy.

And skeleton champion,

our Winter Olympic champion

from 2010, Amy Williams.

Chemmy Alcott -

four-time Winter Olympian

and downhill whizz.

Yesterday, Eve's Muirhead's rink

fell agonisingly short in the bronze

medal curling match against Japan.

Today was the gold medal match.

The new stars of the host nation,

nicknamed the Garlic Girls,

because they all come from the same

region in South Korea,

known for producing garlic.

They were watched across the nation,

every channel on curling.

Could they produce a huge upset

by defeating Swedish team who find

themselves in the final

for the fourth consecutive Olympics.

David McDaid was there.

David McDaid was there.

Never mind Lindsey Vonn, Shaun

White, even Lizzy Yarnold. In South

Korea, the only name on everybody's

lips is the Garlic Girls.

Those girls are from a small town

nobody can pronounce, so they call

it the Garlic Girls because

apparently that is where garlic

originated from.

Because they are

all Kims, they have food names. One

is Pancake. They have American

breakfast names are the coach can

tell them apart.

We are proud of our

Garlic Girls.

South Korea's first

curling rink was only built in 2006

so it is a small sport here but

millions in South Korea tuned in to

watch them and today they aim to be

their first Olympic champions.

Garlic Girls, Team Kim, has been

sensational.

Taking on Sweden.

Garlic Girls, Team Kim, has been

sensational.

Taking on Sweden.

She made Janet.

Right now it is the

Swedes in control and for the first

time, the rink is subdued.

COMMENTATOR: A huge opportunity for

the Swedish skip. Yes, she has got

it and Sweden know that was a huge

shock.

It is looking like a long way back

for the home side.

The Swedish team have been by far

the best in this final. She gets the

one. It is Sweden's gold medal. They

are jumping for joy.

Not to be today

for the Garlic Girls, instead Sweden

are Olympic champions but to come

from eighth in the world and win a

silver medal is a

from eighth in the world and win a

silver medal is a massive

achievement for the South Koreans.

STUDIO: Absolutely and it has been

South Korea's most successful Winter

Olympics. Finishing in seventh.

Three more medals awarded on the

final day of competition.

It was an epic men's ice hockey gold

medal match between Germany,

playing in their first ever

final, and the Olympic

Athletes from Russia.

Germany were on course for the win

until Nikita Gusev scored

an equaliser with 56

seconds remaining to force

the match into overtime.

The Russians had set their hearts

on a first gold medal in ice hockey

since 1992, and 20-year-old

Kirill Kaprizov made sure of it.

A golden goal in every sense.

The win gave the OAR

their second gold

of the Pyeongchang Games,

and 17th medal overall.

In the four-man bob,

Germany cruised to victory

with pilot Francesco Friedrich

taking his second gold medal.

That's three gold medals in three

bobsleigh events for Germany,

who failed to even get on the podium

at all in Sochi.

There was a tie for the silver

medal between South Korea

and the second German crew.

Plagued by problems

with their runners and an unsettled

preparation, the two British crews

finished 17th and 18th.

And what can you say about Norway's

record-breaking Marit Bjorgen,

who was so far ahead of the field

in the 30km mass start cross country

race that no one else could see her.

The Iron Lady blazed home in front

to equal the record of eight golds

and take her all-time medal

haul to 15.

The 37-year-old mother won a medal

in all five events she contested

at this year's Games,

the second time she's won five

medals at one Games.

Competing in the final Olympic event

of her 16-year career,

Bjorgen finishes with eight golds,

four silvers and three

bronzes from five Games.

Simply put, she is the greatest

winter Olympian of all time.

It seems appropriate it is Marit

Bjorgen's gold that pushes them

ahead of Germany and

Bjorgen's gold that pushes them

ahead of Germany and they top the

table for the first time since 2002.

A record 39 medals overall. Germany

and second. Both equalling the

record of gold medals Canada set in

Vancouver. The Netherlands and

Sweden had good games. South Korea

in seven.

And Great Britain in 19. We are

there backs to the fearless five.

-- And we are there thanks

to our fearless five.

Dom Parsons kicked it all off

with a bronze in the skeleton.

The youngest member of the team,

Izzy Atkin won bronze

in ski slopestyle.

Then just a few hours later,

a brilliant bronze for Laura Deas

in the womens skeleton,

before our crowning

glory, as Lizzy Yarnold

defended her Olympic title.

And then Billy Morgan bagged

a bronze in the big air.

Four of those five medals happened

just within 36 hours.

Medals decided in the next couple of

hours on a vital morning for great

British sport. Dom Parsons next. The

equation is simple, if his time goes

green, he is in good shape.

Is this

the run that will get Great Britain

their first Olympic medal of these

Winter live pics?

No!

Winter live pics?

No! Dom Parsons

may be just about to agonisingly

miss out. If Martins Dukurs makes a

mistake, who knows, Dom Parsons

might be back in the medal race.

That was a mistake, a big mistake he

has never made before. It is

starting to drop off.

He is in the

red. Five hundredths between himself

and Parsons. Dom Parsons,

unbelievably, has his medal. For

Great Britain!

We hand over to the commentary duo.

This is the biggest day for British

athletes.

Izzy Atkin, what her she got?

The

biggest run of her life starts now.

Come on, Izzy Atkin. Final jump. Oh!

Must try to remain impartial. It is

a third-place! Ladies and gentlemen,

Great Britain's Izzy Atkin takes the

bronze medal.

You are a history

maker, that is amazing.

It has

definitely not settle them but I am

really proud.

Today it is all about the skeleton.

A warm welcome to the Sliding Centre

ahead of round three of the women's

skeleton. Lizzy Yarnold two

hundredths off the lead. Laura Deas

stays in fourth place. Now we come

to the potential medallists. Hold it

together. Laura Deas next for Great

Britain.

Britain. Lizzy Yarnold next. The

Olympic champion. Can she make

history and win it again? Look at

the gap. This could be at least

silver for Lizzy Yarnold.

She goes

to the front! That is a gold medal

winning run, I am sure of it.

Janine

Flock to come. Time is dropping

away. It looks like Lizzy Yarnold

will win a gold medal again! Does

Laura Deas have a medal in her?

Laura Deas has won bronze as well. A

great day for Britain at the Winter

Olympics.

# You have got to help me.

# I am losing my mind.

# Keep getting the feeling you want

to leave this behind.

Is it still

real?

As each minute passes it becomes

more of a reality, which is relief

that it did go to

more of a reality, which is relief

that it did go to plan. I could

barely look at the screen, I was so

nervous, I just had an eye on where

the number would come in. When I

have the medal in my hand, then it

will be absolutely real.

will be absolutely real.

Really

heavy.

I just saw the number one.

Fantastic.

OK, one minute on

OK, one minute on the VT.

STUDIO: An amazing period. The

medals started coming and you feel

like Germany or Norway but

fourth-place finishes as well,

including you. Do you wish you were

a medallists.

Absolutely. Winning

feels great, it was what I was there

to do. I can only say I gave my all.

It was blooming close.

There was a

feeling of momentum with three of

the five medals coming from

skeleton. Clearly skeleton are doing

something right. How much does it

help the team that you look around

and think, you are on the podium?

When you see someone else get a

medal, Dom Parsons for the men, the

feeling within the team of Team GB,

suddenly it is not impossible, we

can win medals and the culture in

skeleton is nothing is impossible.

We have won medals in every Olympics

and new athletes coming in watch the

current athletes, we have new

talent, in Germany, now, sliding,

watching these Olympics knowing

Laura and Lizzy Yarnold came through

the same programme and they think it

can be them in four, eight years.

In

Alpine skiing, and snowboarding, the

strength is getting greater.

We're not the under docs, and also

in the mountains, Scotland has

mountains but we normally go abroad

to ski on we normally think we don't

have this or this. Skeleton don't

have any tracks that they are to

reckon with. It shows you what self

belief and a programme can do. We

have the talent, we just need to

talent it in the right programme.

Youngsters coming through as well,

Izzy Atkin got a medal. How

important do you think it is for

people watching, Woodsy, that they

see British success in free skiing?

That is fantastic for me, obviously

because free skiing is my thing, my

passion. Snowboarding as well. It's

good. I think it's something I

wanted to touch on, there's been a

really positive spin, not just now,

but coming for a while, potentially

since London. There seems to be a

really positive spin where a while

ago there wasn't a super positive

spin back in the UK, now I feel like

everyone is on board.

It is cool.

It's always been cool.

Trying to be

the best is cool. People have

thought I can't go out with big

dreams and big goals because it's

cool but now you have people like

Woodsy and Billy saying I want to

win an Olympic medal, so it makes it

OK to try and be professional and do

everything you can.

Absolutely. One

of the biggest ambitions and stated

intentions before these games was

when Lizzy Yarnold said I want to be

the first Briton to successfully

defend an Olympic title. She did it

and it meant she got the opportunity

to belt out the national anthem.

BRITISH NATIONAL ANTHEM

BRITISH NATIONAL ANTHEM

Lizzie won that gold medal, the

heaviest ever produced by sliding on

her stomach. From that to flying in

the air, the last Team GB medal of

the games came courtesy of the man

chosen to carry the flag at the

closing ceremony. Here is Billy.

chosen to carry the flag at the

closing ceremony. Here is Billy.

Billy Morgan, I think, is going to

go for the frontside 1440 treble

Cork and if he lands a well within

the medal scores.

And he needs to go

absolutely stratospheric.

That is

not something he struggles with,

let's be honest.

Come on Billy

Morgan, frontside 1440.

Billy

Morgan, yes, yes!

Eight treble 1440,

that is massive, absolutely huge!

Oh

my goodness. , Billy Morgan moves

into brands bronze medal position.

The whole of the UK now needs to

watch this jump.

He's gone.

I'm

crying!

I just never expected it,

you know? If you come into the

contest thinking on shooting for a

medal, you are ready for it. Luck of

the draw and it came down to me on

the day so

the draw and it came down to me on

the day so happy days.

The lovely

thing about belief is I think he

sort of takes the sport to a whole

new audience.

Absolutely. He is such

a fun loving character. We have seen

everything he gets up to and it is

just great to see a dude like that

in the limelight. He is well in the

mix in the snowboarding side of

things and a wicked personality,

couldn't ask for much more!

LAUGHTER

And so athletic. It surpasses what

he does in the snowboard. Take

anywhere and he perform.

Incredibly

talented. I think it is Billy's

personality that takes it to all

these different places. He will

throw himself into any situation and

come out somehow looking real cool.

I think I said yesterday would be

his last Games, talking about his

body being too battered to do it any

more but you will say no, maybe not.

I don't know.

Shaun White? 32.

Billy, 28.

Who knows what's going on

in individual people's minds. You

said that yesterday and I thought, I

don't know, who knows what he's

going to do? I don't know.

Some

training videos, hindering backflips

and a crazy amount of stuff

anything, hang on a minute, you

could probably compete in summer

summer Olympics with those

gymnastics, and his visual awareness

and everything.

We will talk about

crossover from winter to summer

summer to winter. I'm starting to

think why isn't max Whitlock doing

big air!

We all know that sport

isn't always kind.

For all the glory of success

and the joy of winning,

there is the pain of failure

and the heartache of knowing that

another Olympics have

passed by without a medal.

Just ask Elise Christie.

# I hurt myself today

# To see if I still feel.

# I focus on the pain

# The only thing that's real

# And you could have it all

# My Empire of dirt

# If I could start again

# 1 million miles away

# I would keep myself

# I would find a way #.

It is the saddest image of the

games, I think.

The saddest image

but one we need to understand as

people on the outside, that not

everyone comes away with the medals,

the performance they hope for. She

was pushing herself for a win and

that is the consequence, especially

in winter sports, you go out there

and you go big, you crash, because

of up and hopefully you do it again.

And you have to be able to come back

from it?

You do. And it's great to

see how positive she has been in her

interviews. Her mind has already

carried forward, you are always

moving goalposts. One day you might

be like, I can't cope. You wake up

the next morning and you think, you

know what, I have a strategy, I want

to do it, I have a new plan. We're

talking fine margins, millimetres

Kimmich a difference between if she

clipped someone else's skates or

not. Those tiny, tiny margins across

all sport could be 100th of a second

or it could be clipping a corner on

the bobsleigh run, it could be

millimetres between touching someone

else's skates. The heartache is real

and you feel it but what a woman to

be able to stand up and be like, you

know what, I'm not done yet, I want

to go and smash it, I still want to

chase this gold medal.

Is that on

its way is inspirational, Woodsy.

Not just people watching who may not

do sport but a fellow athlete?

Yes,

absolutely. I always think every

single person is on their own path

and they have their own things they

are dealing with, whether it is

injuries or stuff like this. You

compete at so many different events

and you kill it every single time

and it comes round to the one you

want to do well at and it just

doesn't go your way. Everyone is at

a different place in their life on

in their career. So I think Dean

must adapt and open to everyone

else's going to help you deal with

your own stuff as well.

You have to

be tough in the mind, you really

have.

The opening ceremony was a stunning

display of technological mastery -

the closing ceremony

is traditionally more relaxed.

A chance for all the athletes

to party and celebrate

what they have achieved.

Billy Morgan was chosen to carry

the flag for Team GB.

Let's see the best of the last

hurrah of Pyeongchang 2018,

with commentary from Matt Pinsent

and John Hunt.

So, the final shots have been fired,

Stones curls, landings stomped and

toes well and truly looped, seven

days of intense competition waited

the traditional celebrations as

Pyeongchang says goodbye and Beijing

is about to say hello in 2022. The

count down much more live. You

remember the somewhat austere

ceremony countdown with the giant

bell. You can see all the venues

represented, as we and the crowd

here, 35,000, countdown to one.

Matthew Pinsent, we are expecting

some fun tonight. I think it will be

great, I'm looking forward to a bit

of Gangnam Style, the crowd getting

involved and the athletes as well,

when they come in and say their

farewell.

The accent very much on

winter turning to spring and hope

for the future. Traditional themes,

you will see plenty of them. A key

component of tonight is used,

without a shadow of a doubt we will

see acts are plenty from youngsters

tonight, very talented, some as

young as 11. And here, with more

than a nod to the painters and

decorators everywhere around the

world, we get our first visual. It

is colourful and it sets the tone.

Highly appropriate in Korea, skating

very much at the first centrepiece

of the closing ceremony.

You can probably work out what's

coming.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen

please welcome

the athletes of the 23rd Olympic

Games!

A huge roar from the 35,000 people

here tonight. The first of the

athletes come into the arena.

Huge Canadian representatives. What

a Games they have had, Matthew.

Tessa Virtue and Scott

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir the

success story.

I think that skating

duo were a huge story back in

Canada. An amazing gold medal, and I

have to feel for them a little bit,

because all they have been asked

about since winning is, are you a

couple? And they have had to say, no

a thousand times. But it was an

amazing performance.

Absolutely

fantastic. Canada won 11 gold medals

and 29 all told. Third place for

them over all on the medals table.

Osman's bronze medal in the figure

skating to surpass their previous

record of 27 records. The five from

Ireland go through.

Marcel Hirscher, two golds. Again, a

good games for him. He must have

felt it wasn't going to happen.

I

know. He had a very average run in

on the circuit coming here, but then

history is littered with people who

either won a gold with no track

record, or had all the ingredients

and come to an Olympics and don't

quite do

Norway have just entered the stage.

The gaining number one 's spot. The

Germans had a fantastic games. But,

Norway top of the shop with 14 gold

medals and 39 medals all told.

And

the amazing statistic, doorway in

1988. They won zero gold medals. The

trajectory of them from zero to the

current day and the performance in

Pyeongchang is fantastic.

The flags

going through.

going through. For Frimpong, one of

the stars of the games. And the

United States. Their chef de mission

under fire about their lack of

success but everything is relative.

I mean, they have won 23 medals in

total, nine double medals. -- nine

gold medals. I think they are saying

it is there worst return in two

decades but they say they will go

home and recoup. And that they liked

the way Norway have performed.

This

is Great Britain.

is Great Britain. I thought that was

Laura Deas. Yes, there is Laura.

Fantastic. One the Bobsleigh

athletes behind Laura.

athletes behind Laura. It is getting

busy. Dom Parsons. Proudly wearing

his medal, as he should.

his medal, as he should.

Most

unaffected winner, I think, all

fortnight, Dom Parsons. He seemed to

take it in his stride.

Nothing

surprised him, certainly.

Billy

Morgan carrying the flag.

Morgan carrying the flag. That is

the Jamaicans. Much talk about...

The women's bobsleigh. That is the

Germans and the Dutch behind them, I

think, with the orange jackets. The

Dutch brought 34 athletes. More than

half are going home with medals.

Extraordinary.

Ireen Wust, brilliant

again. This is North and South

Korea. Once again coming in

together.

together. And the white flag with

the whole of the Korean peninsular

on it, that has become a much waved

emblem of the Olympics, especially

around women's ice hockey, the one

sport they competed as a team.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

the President of the International

Olympic Committee, accompanied by

the Mayor of Pyeongchang. And the

Mayor of Beijing. For the Olympic

flag hand over.

The countdown begins in earnest for

Beijing 2022.

Beijing 2022. The first city that

will host both these summer and the

Winter Games. If you remember

Beijing 2008, the Bird's Nest

stadium will be used in the Winter

Games, we are told. The Water Cube,

the swimming venue will be used for

curling. And discussions ongoing

about the Alpine events. The

Mountain Cluster is 150 miles away.

There is a high-speed rail link

going in. As here, all the Alpine

events will be on man-made snow.

That is not a problem. One of the

issues might be the height of the

mountain 's Beijing has at its

disposal.

disposal.

Ladies and gentlemen, the

Beijing 2022 presentation.

I am

looking forward to Beijing's

presentation.

They do ceremonies

very well. They have kept this very

much under wraps. A fascinating few

minutes ahead here.

minutes ahead here. It took four

seconds to see a panda.

UPBEAT MUSIC

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

CHEERING

CHEERING

The Olympic Games are

a homage to the past

and an act of faith

in the

future.

A true homage to the past was

the respect of the Olympic Truce,

just as it was 3,000 years

ago in ancient Olympia.

Dear athletes from the NOCs

of the Republic of Korea

and the Democratic People's

Republic of Korea,

with your joint march,

you have shared your faith

in a peaceful future with all of us.

You have shown how sport

brings people together

in our very fragile world.

You have shown how

sport builds bridges.

The IOC will continue

this Olympic dialogue,

even after we extinguish

the Olympic flame.

In this, we are driven

by our faith in the future.

These Olympic Winter Games

have introduced new events

that appeal to new generations.

Digital technology has enabled

more people in more countries

to see winter sports in more ways.

We have brought together

a record number

of National Olympic Committees to

participate in Olympic Winter Games.

Therefore I can truly say

the Olympic Winter Games

Pyeongchang 2018

are the Games of new horizons.

CHEERING

We are embracing these new horizons.

We offer our hand to everybody

to join forces

in this faith in the future.

Dear athletes, you are the best

ambassadors of our optimism.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

Thank you for your

competitive spirit.

Thank you for your fair play.

To our gracious hosts, the people

of Korea, I say thank you.

Athletes from the five continents

of the world and future host

countries of the Olympic Games

would like to join in this thanks.

Martin Fourcade, Nao Kodaira,

Seun Adigun, Yun Sungbin,

Ryom Tae-ok, Lindsey Vonn,

Liu Jiayu, Pita Taufatofua,

welcome!

CHEERS

Together, we would like to

express our gratitude,

with the typical Korean gesture

of a heart, which we have

appreciated so much

during these Games.

CHEERS

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING

And now it is my obligation

to declare the Olympic Winter Games

Pyeongchang 2018 closed.

In accordance with tradition,

I call upon the youth of the world

to assemble four years from now

in Beijing, People's Republic

of China, to celebrate

with all of us the 24th

Olympic Winter Games.

Thank you and goodbye, Korea.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And with that, the 23rd Winter

Olympics are over.

I have a look at

this photo. Billy Morgan being the

creative force

this photo. Billy Morgan being the

creative force he is decided there

was a different way of carrying the

flag in the closing ceremony, so he

put it on his chin, which we love.

Woodsy has left

put it on his chin, which we love.

Woodsy has left us

put it on his chin, which we love.

Woodsy has left us to be replaced by

the new chair of UK Olympic sport,

Katherine Grainger. Lovely to have

you with us. Still getting over the

shot of our favourite bare-chested

Tongan.

Tongan. Carrying on from the Summer

Olympics to the Winter Olympics and

he was so cool.

He was so excited,

he lifts the Olympics, the

excitement, that happiness.

I tell

you what, he has some resistance to

cold as well.

He must be freezing,

how he has got goose bumps!

What

does that mean, the sign they are

trying to make?

I thought it was

peace but don't quote me on that!

Let's say it is peace.

Unity or

something.

Like the infinity sign.

It is a bit, I will try and practice

at. Your reflection on Team GB's

performance at the Winter Olympics

and the wider message?

Team GB did a

brilliant job, best ever Winter

Olympics for the team, the most

successful we have ever seen. Five

medals. We said this before, with

every outstanding and exciting

performance there is always

heartbreak for other people. There

is always that mix, great and

inspirational stuff. And all those

performances that are hard to watch

an hard to live. That, overall,

brilliant performance.

And then bigger picture. It has been

a fantastic games as far as Korea

was concerned, they put on a

brilliant show. You never know what

every host nation will do. They

said, will it be the connection

between North and South, will open

up new communication points? None of

us know at this point but we have to

say was a very successful Games in

Korea.

It demonstrated we can change

our thinking. One athlete that might

change the philosophy of the way we

approach sport is Ester Ledecka,

winning medals on skis on a

snowboard.

And beat the first

athlete to do that in a single games

is amazing. They have different DNA.

No 1's skis and snowboards. You can

do them both recreationally and I

do, but to do it at that level...

Such a surprise. The cameraman had

to tell her she had won gold. Her

talent does surpass it. She stuck

her ground and didn't want to

specialise and said she could do

them both. Not only can she do both

those sports she said she could

potentially go to Tokyo and do

windsurfing. That is too much talent

for one person to have, share it

around it is.

And the skateboarding

element as well.

Transferable

skills.

So by the end of the Olympic

optician, Great Britain managed to

win a record five medals.

One more than Sochi four years ago.

Prior to Sochi, you have to go

back to 1924 when we

also won four medals.

also won four medals.

It has been a turnaround in fortunes

of winter sport but it does come at

a cost. Millions of pounds of

funding, a significant proportion

coming from the national Lottery.

Was it worth that question here is

Patrick Gearey.

This was the flip

that did the trick.

Billy Morgan, yes, that was massive!

Billy Morgan's bronze was Britain's

fifth medal of the Games.

It meant they'd hit their target

and broken a record.

The most medals this country has

ever managed at a Winter Olympics.

It's come with hard work,

but also lots of hard cash.

The body which allocates elite

sport funding, UK Sport,

put more than £28 million

into winter sports in the four years

running up to these Games.

That works out £5.6 million a medal.

That is how medals matter.

That's how they work out

how they get the money.

Lizzy Yarnold, guided

from heptathlon to skeleton

thanks to a UK Sport scheme.

When she showed potential,

they funded her.

Gold followed in Sochi.

Lizzy Yarnold is the

Olympic champion, oh

my goodness!

They stepped up the skeleton

funding to £6.5 million.

That is a gold-medal winning run!

We are looking at a two-time

Olympic champion!

It is a formula that has

helped British sport rise

from 36th in Atlanta

to

second in Rio, and has led

to unprecedented success

in this Winter Olympics but sport

doesn't always do

predictable outcomes.

Short-track speed skating

is the standout example.

Elise Christie was a triple world

champion, so her sport got more

than £4.7 million

to deliver a medal.

But you can't bank on bad

luck and slip-ups.

Winter Games are uncertain terrain.

Meanwhile, sports like ice hockey

and Luge don't get any sports money

because medals are thought

to be out of reach.

Should medals be our

only guiding light?

Some want more money allocated

to recreational sports

like basketball.

The old-fashioned way

was to fund yourself, which is

what Mica Moore and Mica McNeill did

after their funding was withdrawn.

Nobody has been eighth

at Olympic Games, but these two have

claimed that position!

What a Games for the pair

who are only here

because of the generosity

of the British public.

They used crowdfunding

to help them get to

Pyeongchang and finished eighth,

better than their male counterparts

who are funded.

What could have they achieved

with proper backing?

Their performance made

some statement and

begged a question about how

we fund our sports.

Katherine Grainger is one of the

people that can answer those

questions. Amy, from an athlete was

my point of view, how much pressure

do you feel to perform on the behalf

of the whole of your sport?

You are

very aware of it and yet we all know

there is still no greater pressure

than an athlete puts on themselves,

because you know you have put in all

those hours of trading. In Frank de

Boer we knew our medal target was

one medal from the games so we all

knew as an athlete it was on our

heads to bring home a medal in order

to maintain and keep the funding, to

be able to bring through the next

generation. The gold medal in

Vancouver enabled Liz at and Laura

Deas to get their medal. It went

into the programme. It is one of

those things, it is Catch-22, if you

don't have the money, you can't get

the medals. If you don't have those

medals, you don't get the money.

And

you don't keep the money. Those who

have traditionally been successful

are in danger of losing it if they

don't win at the games.

I have to

clarify, I thought that as an

athlete. In rowing I didn't know

what the medal target was most of

the time and I said I didn't care.

You want to go out for yourself,

your performance, that was always

the focus. But until I started

working in it. It is... The funding

that goes into investment is in as a

reward or punishment of the result.

For example, Elise Christie, a

question of what will happen now

with short track. There was no medal

in four years ago in Sochi but a lot

of money went in it in the last four

years. Investments get mate looking

forward from this point, the

potential of the athletes and the

athletes in it. Not specifically the

result, if we do or don't win and

what it means for funding.

What we

don't do is reward financially

biathlete themselves. Other

countries do.

Only three countries

don't, us, Sweden and Norway. Every

other country gives you a bonus that

gold medal. It is interesting, but

nations with the lowest GDP tend to

award the most. Up there is

Kazakhstan, they give 200 200,000.

Then Italy. They give money for gold

and silver but nothing for bronze,

they don't rate a bronze medal at

all-star point it is interesting,

different ways.

So as we say farewell

to the Winter Olympics,

the sport on the BBC in 2018 just

keeps on coming.

# The world is my stage, I have it

made...

This is a superb performance!

What a champion here at Wimbledon!

Wow, wow!

This is it, the pinnacle!

That is all to come but for the snow

and ice, it is over.

Thanks for your company

over the last 16 days.

Thanks to all the experts

who have made it make sense,

the commentators who have told

the stories, the engineers

and technicians and the production

team in South Korea

and here in the UK

who have brought the stunning action

into our homes and most

of all to the athletes who have

competed in Pyeongchang.

Thank you for

brightening our winter.

Some of them have dreams

still to be fulfilled,

others have realised them.

All of them have tried

their hearts out.

# There must be lights burning

brighter somewhere

# Got to be birds flying

higher in a sky more blue

# If I can dream of a better land

# Where all my brothers walked

hand-in-hand

# Tell me why, oh why,

oh why can't my dream come true

# Oh why

Goodness, it was perfect!

# Oh why

# There must be peace

and understanding sometime

# Strong winds of promise that

will blow away the doubt and fear

# If I can dream of a warmer sun

# Where hope keeps

shining on everyone

# Tell me why, oh why,

oh why won't that sun appear

Billy Morgan has got a bronze medal!

I'm crying!

# We are lost in a cloud

# With too much rain

# We are trapped in a world

# That has got all the pain...

Christie tumbles again!

In the semifinal.

# He can redeem his soul and fly

Shaun White is the gold medallist!

# Still I am sure that the answer

has got to come somehow

# Out there in the dark

there's a beckoning candle

# And while I can think,

while I can talk

# While I can stand,

while I can walk

Dom Parsons has his medal!

# While I can dream,

please let me dream

# Come true, right now

Laura Deas who dreams of medals has

now got one at the Olympic Games!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Izzy Atkin takes bronze!

Lizzy Yarnold wins gold again!