Day 2 Highlights Winter Olympics: Today at the Games

Previously at the Winter Olympics...

Elise Christie safely through to the

quarterfinals! And the hosts have

gold!

Oh, James!

Today was not my

day.

A shame for Billy Morgan.

Marit

Bjoergen has created history but so

has Sweden's Charlotte Kalla.

As British sports fans,

we are used to seeing our events

affected by the weather.

Wimbledon, Test cricket,

the FA Cup third round.

Well, the Winter Olympics

is no different.

Strong winds gusting at over 45

mph have today played

havoc with the schedule.

The last place you want to be in

high winds is halfway up a mountain.

Join us instead inside the cosy

confines of our studio.

Ben Kilner has competed at two

Olympics on his snowboard.

And Chemmy Alcott, who thundered

downhill at four Olympics.

The wind was a massive problem.

Really disappointing, the highly

anticipated men's downhill, the fast

speeds and big air is postponed

until Thursday.

And the slopestyle.

The women's slopestyle has been

cancelled and the final will be

tomorrow, two runs.

Everyone goes

through to the final which includes

GB's Aimee Fuller, good news for

her. Lots of other great sporting

action, though. This is what is

coming up.

They're braving the elements

in the men's snowboard slopestyle.

Canada's Max Parrot leads

after qualification.

This looks like hard work.

We follow Andrew Musgrave as he goes

cross-country in the 30km skiathlon.

Leading after his first two runs,

super luger Felix Loch's on track

for his third straight gold.

Time to pump the humps,

the moguls' mogul in the womens

event is Britteny Cox.

The girl from Down Under

is looking to go up over.

But first, it's the men's snowboard

slopestyle and the men's competition

started in the early hours of this

morning before the wind

really whipped up.

Let's join our all-star cast

of Jenny Jones, Ed Leigh,

Tim Warwood and Jamie Nicholls,

now in the commentary box rather

than in a competition

that is truly breathtaking.

You're going to see computer games

snowboarding from the world's very

best riders.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Yes, really nice!

Boom!

Settle

yourselves, Jamie Nicholls need this

run.

Making it look so easy, needs

to put this down, here. Massive.

Frontside 12.

Oh, Jamie!

If you

could bottle disappointment, it

would look like that.

Disappointment

for Rowan Coultas. Billy Morgan,

second run.

No, Billy!

So close to hanging it

on, it was literally by the hairs on

my chin, could not make it to the

second jump, pretty devastating.

Unfortunately it was not to beef

Team GB, Jamie Nicholls, Rowan

Coultas and Billy Morgan did not

make it through but we are here

today for the Olympic slopestyle

finals. There's a lively crowd down

there and it is going to be absolute

blinder.

COMMENTATOR:

Now the surprise

package, Carlos Garcia Knight,

coming out of New Zealand.

Where he

writes, he's incredibly consistent.

The New

The New Zealanders have got an

airbag fitted outside of their

training camp and Carlos and his

team-mates Deanne Collins could use

that a great eventful -- effect.

Love that rail trick.

Second jump,

huge backside 12, wind assisted

through the air.

The back-to-back

12s yesterday, the same again today.

My goodness, first place. The gods

were with him.

Wow! Time to capture

the dream. This man is the fairy

tale of 2018, Road in Sochi with a

broken rib and still took a bronze

medal. He's had two horrendous

injuries, a broken femur in 2016,

broke in humorous, jaw and raids in

2017, but he is still at the very

top of the sport. He's battled his

way back and this is the first of

three runs.

Super good flows through

those first two sections. Really

nice from him. Then we see this huge

gap 270. Couldn't get it.

Uncharacteristic mistake.

Jumped

two, the double cork front 1080.

Three rotations, upside down twice

during that and he is going for it.

Oh, my goodness!

You could see the

way the arms opened up on the last

take-off, grabbing for everything he

had. We come in for the Norwegian,

Marcus Kleveland. He has entered

three slopestyle contests this year

and won three slopestyle contests

this year. There is no one in the

world better than Marcus Kleveland.

On paper.

You jinxed him, there,

because he caught the tail as he did

the 270 do that. Did not seem to

affect him but again! Did he mean

that? Just tucking in for the wind

come here. Having to open up on the

1260 to stop the rotation. Speed is

his friend. Has he got the triple?

Oh! The biggest we have seen so far.

The surprise is Carlos Garcia Knight

from New Zealand, total Lone Wolf,

out of nowhere, with a great run.

Staale Sandbech map this is style

personified when it comes to

snowboarding. -- Staale Sandbech.

Through the bowl, into the kickers,

this is where it really starts to

count.

Frontside 1440.

He has held

an! Frontside 12.

Absolutely

massive.

massive.

Wow.

Huge 1260! Frontside

14 and back-to-back 1260s, the man

from Norway.

Second run in the men's

slopestyle final for the American

protege, Red Gerard. Burst onto the

scene aged 11. We have watched the

boy become a man in front of our

eyes. This is the biggest test he

has faced yet.

360 off the down bar.

This run, really nice, huge

frontside grabbed over the hitching

post.

The nose bone. He does not

have heavy enough bones to make the

speed, here.

Definitely had speed,

there.

Needed, too big. -- E did. He

just needs to clean up this run and

he should see a considerable hike in

his scores. What he's doing is good.

Oh, really nice, so difficult, yeah.

The tail slide 450 and then kind of

a wrong way air to normal on the

hip. He looks uncharacteristically

sketchy at the moment.

It is always

so perfect with Mark McMorris, we

are used to seeing it just flow for

him and it is not at the moment, he

looks like he's forcing it.

Treble.

Front trouble, well held.

He held

on.

Is it the back trouble?

He's

always got... Anything you could do,

Marcus Kleveland, I can do.

We've

just finished the second run and no

surprise, Mark McMorris is in first

place with a great run with 81240

and a 16 treble on the bottom which

was awesome. However, some of the

guys are really struggling with the

speed today and two of the

frontrunners are actually not even

putting down a run yet so it's all

to play for still in the and final

run. -- in the third and final run.

The heat just keeps on coming,

Carlos Garcia Knight, who came

second in qualifying yesterday, and

then led the scores for the first

run of finals today.

Now,...

Oh, no!

That is the end of his Olympics.

Red

Gerard is about to drop in for his

third and final run. The boy needs

to land something. He can do this.

Red Gerard, the young rider on whom

all American hopes are pinned. This

is... Look at that, a big nose bone

over the goalpost.

Shift Apple

three, that is your new desktop

screensaver. Through the bowl.

If he

can't see or hear, he is letting the

nose of the board clip the rail on

the way over, tucking up. He needs

speed through here.

Slow switch

backside. 1260. Much better speed.

Bound the pace and he is taking off

halfway along the panel, landed that

one.

Pumping for speed, you could

seem willing it on.

He's got a

triple.

Yes!

Yes!

Red Gerard is the

cat amongst the pigeons.

He's done

it! Red Gerard has stomped a great

run, let's see what his school is.

Look at the crowd.

Imagine the

Norwegians and the Canadians,

putting all of their weight behind

slopestyle teams and twice out of

nowhere the gold is snatched by the

Americans.

Oh! My goodness! He's

into first, Red Gerard for America.

Three riders left to drop, the burst

of them is Mark McMorris, the most

successful slopestyle rider in

history.

Really nice top rail

section. 450 out there.

So

technical.

A big gap from the hip.

Oh! He needs all the speed he can

get, here. One, two, three, it's

there, it's absolutely huge. Now

hold your nerve, Mark McMorris.

No!

Oh, no! He's down. He's fallen. Mark

McMorris will not win gold. Red

Gerard, the youngster, is still in

gold medal position right now.

Now

strap yourselves in, Marcus

Kleveland, this kid failed to put

down a clean run in the first and

second descents, can he do it now

when it matters? Pressure is

immense.

He's literally taking a

bath in a pressure cooker right now.

This is what he's doing.

Unbelievable. Huge switch. He's

going to absolutely feeling this.

Look how slow he is, he is so

relaxed.

One, two, three.

He's gone,

he's gone!

Marcus Kleveland sat

down. That's it, Red Gerard is in

first position still. Oh, my

goodness, Max Parrot still to go.

Backside 360, 180 off. He's been

flawless through the rails.

Proved a

lot of people wrong with the rail

sections today.

Needs to take it

easy now on the backside rodeo.

Oh...

Here we go, hold your breath,

one, two, three and a half, that is

the 1260 out of the way. Is the

speed with him? Just the double.

He's played safe. He is not unveiled

the treble.

the treble.

Oh!

Backside triple cork

1440 to finish. What do the judges

do now?

I've got a bailing we are

looking at one of the biggest heists

in snowboard history. LAUGHTER

This is Red Gerard's ma'am, how you

feeling?

Ecstatic! We have the whole

family here. I'm just ecstatic.

Max

Parrot is waiting, Red Gerard,

Marcus Kleveland, Staale Sandbech,

Mark McMorris all waiting. 86!

Silver medal position for Max

Parrot, the American 17-year-old,

Red Gerard, barnstorming the men's

slopestyle finals! CHEERING

The men's slopestyle snowboard gold

medal will return to the USA.

You

have just witnessed something

amazing. How are you thinking?

Honestly, my mind is blown. I'm so

happy for him, and Mark and all the

boys. It just really let my fire.

I'm excited to go ride this bargain

hopefully qualify for the finals.

It's absolutely an ecstatic

atmosphere here at the moment.

Amazing result for Red Gerard. I'm

pretty sure he won't be able to

believe it himself. At 17, he's come

away a gold medallist. Oh, exciting!

I was surprised or even make it to

the finals of the Olympics and to

get first is above me. I don't even

know what's going on, to be honest,

right now.

He's the second youngest of seven

and then, that was the UFA's first

goal medal but talk us through this

run and what Read does when the

goal medal but talk us through this

run and what Read does when the

pressure is on?

The differences he

takes a bit of a unique line. The

rail features are slightly

different. He goes on to this

feature here, which no one else did,

transfers across onto another rail

feature, and that's what the judges

are looking for. They are looking

for something different, that stands

out from the rest.

Not only is he

young, he's the first Winter

Olympics medallist born in the 21st

century, 17. There's nothing of him.

He is five weighs eight stone, four,

so he's a young gun, not fully

grown.

He went into this in last

place, this last run. He had to put

everything on the line. He had to

stomp it.

Absolutely, when the

pressure is on you put in that bit

more effort.

He started snowboarding

aged two and by the age of six could

do a standing backflip am so he's

been a really fast am a young

developer.

The difference between

the youngsters that are growing up

now, when I started snowboarding,

half these tricks weren't even

invented at the time. Read is coming

to a world where there's all these

tricks available and he's so young

and is copying.

He's got a lovely

attitude, mocks himself beautifully.

He took this photo on Instagram,

obviously this was taken only a

couple of weeks ago! He looks like

the Milky bar kid! So sweet.

Would

you have said that kid would have a

goal medal round his neck tonight?

There

goal medal round his neck tonight?

There will be loads of people

watching this, thinking I want to

try that, go to the website and get

inspired but how did you start?

I

started, I live up in Scotland and

one winter when it snowed I decided

to head down to my local golf course

and my mum bought me a little

snowboard and that's how it started.

It was purely on snow. From there

on, she booked me lessons up in the

mountains but I think kids across

the UK these days are heading to the

local snow domes and that's where we

get started.

I've seen them

practising on Hemel Hempstead in the

rails and everything. The women's

slopestyle qualification was

cancelled so it's straight through

to the final for all of the women,

happening at 1am, no Katie Ormerod

sadly after her fuel fracture but 26

will go including Great Britain's

Aimee Fuller. A lot can happen in 24

hours.

Let's go.

What a 24 hours we

had.

Oh!

I feel really pumped.

Cheerio.

Thanks for watching.

We're going to

move on to cross-country skiing now

once the weather won't be a problem

for Britain's Andrew Musgrave, who

lived in Alaska for five years

before moving to Aberdeenshire. He

won the overall Norwegian title four

years ago. That's the equivalent of

the Norwegian hitting a double

century at Lord's, so pretty

unlikely. This morning he went in

the 30 K skiathlon. Skiathlon is a

brutal test of lungs,

heart and

skill and skis. It examines two

skiing techniques, classical, one

ski first gliding forwards, then

they'd change skis and poles with

the clock still ticking. Now it's

time for freestyle with the ski,

angle and technique similar to ice

skating but with more snow and fewer

sequins. The men will cover 30

gruelling kilometres. Everything is

left in the snow. Andrew Musgrave

has a chance of a medal in this, but

a Norwegian and two Swiss start as

favourites.

After confessing to overtraining for

Sochi, skiing in his world is like a

tranquillised badger, Scottish

cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave

is out to make amends. Four years on

and

is out to make amends. Four years on

and four

is out to make amends. Four years on

and four years wiser way here at the

30 K skiathlon, a good result here

will set Musgrave up for his

favoured event, the 15 K freestyle

later this week. One person who

certainly knows how Andrew is

feeling right now with his sister,

Posy. You competed in Sochi. This is

the first time watching as a

spectator, feeling nervous?

I am,

it's worse to be on this side and

watching rather than be competing

yourself because at that point you

are in the zone.

Andrew is better at

skating. The fact the skating is

second, will that be an advantage?

It can be. He has improved in

classic in the last few years and

this helps. He has to stay with the

pack on the

pack on the classic but not burn too

much energy, so if he can manage to

do that he has a good shot in the

second half of the race in the

skating.

What's the best we can

expect from Andrew?

He's ranked

tenth. Once you are the top ten

anything can happen. I don't want to

get too excited and go ahead of

myself but if he gets a good day,

who knows where he could end up.

The

skiers have left their skating skis

in this transition area. Musgrave is

in box ten, because that's his big

number. They are in the corral,

getting ready to go. Over to your

commentators for this meant's 30 K

skiathlon, Ollie Williams and Rob

Walker.

COMMENTATOR:

There's Andrew Musgrave proudly

representing Great Britain. Can he

produced the greatest performance

we've ever seen from a British

cross-country skier? We all very

much hope so. The first event, the

men's cross-country programme, the

30 kilometres skiathlon and they are

under way. This is the raise we have

been looking forward to for the last

few months bearing in mind perform

some of the very best in the world.

-- bearing in mind the form of some

of the very best in the world.

Seven, that was Kruger who fell, a

real shame. That's a real shock.

He

trips on the right ski. It looks

like there's a collision. You are on

top of each other.

The gap is 18

seconds at the moment. For Synman

Hickstead Kruger. V-style is a

discipline where Andrew Musgrave

feels most comfortable so if he's

there or thereabouts then maybe he

could see something very special

indeed -- freestyle.

indeed -- freestyle. Pacemaking

duties at the front. Andrew Musgrave

is back in around seventh or eighth

place, certainly up with that group.

You can see Synman Hickstead Kruger

desperately trying to work to the

front because he knows he can't have

any impact unless he gets onto this

break on the front line right now.

As they come in towards the

completion of the first of their

four classical circuits...

There's

goes Musgrave out of the stadium

from lap one. It's difficult

blustery conditions, a couple of

crashes that Musgrave managed to

avoid getting caught up in and it's

really about conserving energy in

this classic section of the race.

Britain's Callum Smith also coming

through. He's just at the tail end

of the pack there as well.

of the pack there as well.

There's

Krueger, bib seven, this is better

from the Norwegian. If you could get

back in the mix for a medal it would

be extraordinary.

be extraordinary. It's not quite a

Formula One pit stop, but it will be

important. It's a bit like

triathlon. You don't win the race in

transition, but you can certainly

give yourself a problem if it

doesn't go smoothly. Andrew Musgrave

safely through. Krueger has almost

caught that entire gap up. That's

excellent work from the Norwegian.

Coming out of the ski exchange,

different body language from

Musgrave. He's doing his preferred

technique now and he's really going

for it.

Look at Andrew Musgrave

coming through there. Great skiing

by the Britain. There's Andrew

Musgrave in the centre off your

picture, right in the mix with the

very best cross-country skiers in

the world, and the Britain is in

with a chance of a Winter Olympics

medal in cross-country skiing! This

is incredible! Krueger is leading.

He was flat on his face in the first

200 metres of the race and somehow

managed to claw his way back into

contention and into the lead.

Krueger from Musgrave, come on,

Musgrave! Krueger clearly feels as

though going hard with four K to go

with his best chance of getting on

the podium. A few athletes coming

past Andrew Musgrave, just needs to

hold on here, the Britain. And now a

few metres open up between Andrew

Musgrave and the men who are

currently not battling for three

medals, battling for two.

medals, battling for two. It's

Norway one, two and three at the

moment. They are definitely closing

down on Krueger aren't they have a

monstrous climb still to contend

between now and the finish. Here it

is, he is seriously hurting now. His

lead has been halved, from 22

seconds, 211. Norway occupy all

three medal positions at the moment.

Andrew Musgrave around seventh place

at the moment. It's been a

sensational performance from Andrew

Musgrave, absolutely phenomenal so

far.

far. Krueger, having fallen right at

the start of the race, is going to

finish the day in a blaze of glory!

Absolutely incredible recovery

against one of the best skiathlon

fields ever assembled. Krueger is

the Winter Olympic champion. He was

down at the start but he wasn't out,

he didn't give up. It's someone,

two, three for the Norwegians --

it's a warm, two, three for the

Norwegians. A sensational effort

from the Britain. Andrew Musgrave in

seven, Musgrave announces his

arrival at the top of the sport and

says, we Brits can be world class as

well.

What a race, what a result.

Will he be happy?

He will be

disappointed to be that close for so

long and not quite make it but 70s

amazing. He should be really proud.

We've never had a result like this,

top ten, incredible.

Absolutely, the

best ever result was Andrew in

Sochi, 29th, in Sochi, so to jump

those places is incredible.

Here he

is.

Thanks.

Well done, Andrew.

those places is incredible.

Here he

is.

Thanks.

Well done, Andrew. How

are you feeling?

A bit disappointed,

to be honest. I thought going out

when I had a lap and a half to go I

was feeling good, feeling confident

and 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 and went a bit hard

and slipped back through the field.

Yeah.

Has it set you up for the 15

K?

Might form seems to be good. The

15 K should be my best event. I

should be in a fight for a medal and

hopefully go faster than today.

What

do you need to do to beat the

Norwegians?

Go faster down their!

Good answer, correct, go faster than

them. Seventh place the best ever

finish by a mile at a rich -ish

cross-country skier and yet he was

devastated.

He was so down, he was

so close. He was pulling that whole

field. Yes, Krueger was in front but

he was pulling everyone towards him

the whole time and no one helped

him. They are not going to help him,

but he is the Brit out there on his

own where is the Norwegians have

strength in numbers.

They can

collect Krueger go because it still

Norway winning gold and Andrew

Musgrave bases himself in Norway, he

speaks fluent Norwegian. Is adopted

their culture and spirit.

He knows

what he needs to do to achieve Gold

and that's purely on what is on his

mind, he wants gold and he can go

home happy. Until then he seems to

be putting so much into his

training.

You seen him change

physically?

He's turned into a

mature athlete.

It was extraordinary

what happened with the gold

medallist, Krueger, down he goes,

number seven, about fourth, in the

middle row. It's his fault it

happens. He the balances.

He tips

forward, loses the grip and his ski

and takes a few out. The rest of the

fields did well to go round him, but

he got the bit between his teeth, he

was frothing and attacked from the

back.

It fired him up. An amazing

performance. Musgrave, his better

event to come, the 15 K. Its

freestyle this year, they change it

every four years. Freestylers his

favoured.

Yes, he stands a strong

chance and you can see by his

performance going up in seventh

place compared to the last Olympics,

his fitness is very much progressed.

I'm going to make prediction, I

think cross-country skiing is going

to be the big hit of these games.

You can do it in the UK, roller

skiing. There is a roller ski club

in Scotland and London, so we can

train in the UK for this.

If you

want to, get inspired is how you

find out more about it. Andrew's

best chance for a medal in the 15 K,

next Friday at 6am, so tune in for

that. Well worth getting up early

for, it will go on for awhile, 6am

is when it starts and you need to

see the start because they sometimes

over.

Can Felix Loch slide

into the history books?

The super luger's looking

to defend his double Olympic crown.

They've got shock

absorbers for legs.

Canadian Justine Lafour-Dupointe

is also looking to defend her title

from Sochi in the women's moguls.

It's the team event in the figure

skating, where it's a bit

of everything with short

and free programmes.

The big names include

Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva.

Are we about to see the emergence of

a new superstar? This guy could rule

Whistler. Absolutely steaming over

the line, Felix Loch is the Olympic

luge champion. Can he get gold for

the second time? Absolutely fly, two

golds, he's only 24! Maybe go three

or four.

Felix Loch is a luge machine but any

athlete who makes the German luge

team is a medal prospect.

Half of the 28 Olympic singles

events ever held have

produced German one-twos.

Matthew Pinsent was there.

So they are all chasing Felix Loch

who shot through yesterday's rounds

and is on the icy path to a third

straight Olympic gold medal in this

event. History has his back. The

Germans are huge in luge. Germany,

East Germany and West Germany

combined have 31 gold medals in

Olympic luge events. The rest of the

world, just 13. But could that

become 14? Austrian David Gleirscher

outs it -- outside Felix Loch on the

first running to do it again.

British outs and slipped away, Adam

Rosen and David Staudinger ending up

23rd and 35th respectively but look

out for Felix Loch. He's reached a

speed of 96 mph in the luge, faster

than anyone. Can he equal the record

of three consecutive gold medals?

Don't blink. You might miss history.

And in the third run, Felix Loch

bolted, out first on the track with

his bustard said so far. That would

take some catching and David

Gleirscher gave good chase, the

Austrian putting himself in with a

chance of a medal if probably not

gold. That was Roman Repilov's goal,

and he has a win or bust approach to

luge. This was more bust. The door

was now open for American Chris

Mazdzer, who went even quicker than

Felix Loch to climb into second

place. Rosen still had a chance of a

fourth run but with only the top 20

qualifying, he missed the mark by an

agonising two places. That was more

than 2.5 seconds ahead of an

improved Staudinger, who finished

33rd. And amazing run there for

Chris Mazdzer, the American, to set

up the fourth and final run but look

at the weather. They don't call it

the Winter Olympics for nothing.

COMMENTATOR: Johannes Ludwig next

for Germany. The bronze medallist in

2014. Ranked number five in the

world. He's on his way. He's 0.2

seconds off the bronze medal as he

starts Sony definitely needs that,

47.4, ideally, 47.5 possibly.

For

these guys now it is about staying

in front of the person that has just

gone down. Don't worry too much

about the medals at the moment. That

was a little mistake but I don't

know if it will cost too much time.

As he builds a speed, he needs to

get it right. Sliding off the

corners slightly. Not so good but

that is amazing, the speed that he

has got, he should stay in front.

Definitely got the right lines but

he is dropping away slightly. Is

this enough as he comes up the hill

to stay in front of Dominik

Fischnaller?

So tight as they go

towards the line. He has done it

ahead of Dominik Fischnaller, two

thousandth of a second. Now the

medal Chase is on. In bronze medal

position at the moment, David

Gleirscher, the surprise package of

this meant's singles Olympic

championship, a 23-year-old from the

Tyrol. Number 12 in the world. Up

until this week, pretty inconsistent

performer, capable of excellence.

His best finish in the World Cup was

fourth. He may well be getting an

Olympic medal in a few seconds time.

This is all about staying in front

of those guys that have gone down.

He does not care at the moment about

the American, about Felix Loch. He

wants an Olympic medal. Whether he

fights for bronze or silver, he can

find out when he gets to the bottom

of the track but at the moment, he

just needs to see number one when he

gets to the bottom. A guy of his

calibre, there should be no reason

why not. The way he has been sliding

all week, we can see the snow on the

track, will display apart in the

process of these medals in the last

few corners? Especially as you come

down the straight, and that is what

I'm talking about, about how the

sled can be a bit trickier to handle

in snowy conditions. He is going to

keep it. This will be an Olympic

medal for Austria, this will get the

bronze medal for Austria at best.

He

turns the final corner and he is

ahead of Lodewyck. Austria have

their medal for the first time in

2002, applause all round. -- since

2002. Great work from David

Gleirscher. Not many people would

have said that was possible and just

look at the euphoria! The Austrian

is in heaven. Chris Mazdzer has also

had a brilliant week, currently in

silver medal position. Maybe he

won't worry about Felix Loch

editing, Felix Loch is 0.2 seconds

clear of Chris Mazdzer. Now the

American just needs to do better

than David Gleirscher. Chris Mazdzer

goes to the United States.

He will

be happy when he gets to the bottom

whether he sees one or two because

that means he's got an Olympic

medal, whether it is bronze or

silver. He will definitely want to

be silver but he will be happy

either way. You can see how much

snow there is on the track now

compared to what there was even two

minutes ago when the last competitor

went down. This could affect the way

he comes down the straight. Riding a

high line first and then dropping

out and that is perfect, what a

straight and he has got good speed.

This is definitely going to be a

silver medal for the American. This

is the first American... It is going

to be down to the thousands all the

way.

Uphill all the way, loss of

speed all the way. Cannot quite do

it. It is a bronze medal for him,

not silver. Chris Mazdzer becomes

the first American to win a medal at

the Olympic Games in the men's

single luge. It is a fantastic

achievement.

achievement. The last German to win

three singles titles was a great and

now Felix Loch, at 28, as the snow

intensifies and wisps across his

face, is on his way. Surely a

mistake free run from Felix Loch

will see him win gold? He starts

with a 0.2 seconds advantage ahead

of Robert Blair shot. He's looking

clean early on. He has been so

consistent. -- David Gleirscher.

Surely he is seconds away from gold?

You can see the line moving,

interesting to note when he comes in

to some of the bigger corners, he

turned his head into the corner to

put pressure on the top runner to

help him steer. That is a mistake!

Could that be the medal has gone!

Could that be the three medals he

has wanted, the three gold medals,

as he got in speed?

First mistake in

the race, first mistake of the week

for Felix Loch, coming on the 15th

and 16th and uphill, there's going

to be sometime between him and David

Gleirscher and Felix Loch has blown

it!

He's not going to do it!

He does

not even have a medal and the

Austrian team swamp David

Gleirscher! He becomes the first

Austrian in 50 years to win gold in

the luge! No one had him down really

for a medal hope, let alone goals,

but Felix Loch, -- a gold, but Felix

Loch with that mistake a bitter,

bitter defeat. He

can't believe it. Amy Williams is

alongside me to react to that major

in the luge, no medal for Felix

Loch. What went wrong?

I know, he

was devastated, he made the

devastating mistake of what I call

the wonky straight, a tenth and 11th

on his exit out of nine was the

wrong angle and he was fighting not

to clip the corner, so he is

fighting not to clip the right-hand

side which causes him to skid,

cutting into the ice which is like a

braking system, and then he clips

right here, you can see the snow and

ice

ice coming up and then used to high

into 12, so he is oscillating, high

and low and high and he is fighting,

his head is really high.

It was

quite high before that Cummings had

seen to be quite high the whole way

down.

He did not look as settled and

comfortable as he did so whether the

fact it had started snowing was

playing on his mind, snow on the

track, how much it would affect him,

he was the last one in the changing

room waiting to go down, you're sure

of the psychological nature of what

is going on in his head but the

Austrian shock, he'd never even won

a World Cup race before and now he's

Olympic champion.

Really contrasting

emotions because Felix Loch was

being consoled by his coach on the

ice while the Austrians celebrated,

David Gleirscher taking the gold

medal and he had led after the first

run and then dropped down the

leaderboard and finally came back to

take the gold on the final one, and

also Chris Mazdzer. Of the US, the

first time they have won a medal in

men's luge.

Amazing to see three

people you did not expect to be

there, Felix Loch at 0.2 seconds in

his bag and lost it and this is an

unforgiving track, you can't make up

time when you make a mistake because

there are uphill sections.

Plenty to

learn head of the other events. Amy

is going to Seoul and then

Pyeongchang for the skeleton events,

the men's on Thursday and Friday and

the women's, featuring Lizzy Yarnold

and Laura Deas, Friday and Saturday.

Thank you for that and good -- thank

you for that and all of your

insight.

Now it is time for the women's

moguls which is all about the bumps

and how you negotiate them. The

women's final featured Justin

Dufour-Lapointe as the defending

champion from Canada.

The moguls is a world of bumps and

jumps, the key is to ski fast, jump

high and look good. 60% of the marks

are awarded for the technical

quality of the turns over the moguls

or mounds, and another 20% is based

on Beattie jumps on the course and

the final 20% comes from the speed

you manage to do it all in. The

skier's legs must be like pistons,

constantly moving, always just the

tiniest misjudgement away from an

unfortunate but spectacular finish.

Six were still sounding calm the

final three, including reigning

Olympic champion, Justine

Dufour-Lapointe and now, thanks to

the weather, it got really tough,

first on the slope, Yulia Galysheva

of Kazakhstan. COMMENTATOR: The

super final of the women's Olympic

moguls competition is underway,

Yulia Galysheva coming down the

centre, getting a decent somersault

in, taking a brave aerial position

at the top of the course. Now we

follow her with the camera at the

side of the track, her knees are

locked in well, solid skiing from

the athlete from Kazakhstan. Tiring

slightly now as she goes front flip

off the final jump, landing softly

and just over 30 seconds. 77.4 is

her score. Next up, the defending

champion, Justine Dufour-Lapointe.

Can she become the first skier ever

to win this twice? Now she opened

the throttle as she hits the bumps

in the middle of the course and

really piling on the pressure, an

Yulia Galysheva, who is waiting and

watching at the foot of the

mountain. Read skiing from the

defending champion, saving her best

until last. She is absolutely

tearing through the turns, flying

high, landing softly, slightly

backward, inside 30 seconds, the

fastest of the day so far in the

super final. 29.54 seconds. That

might just be enough to bring her

another Olympic medal. Justine

Dufour-Lapointe leads the way, 78.50

six. Perrine Laffont will be next,

the youngster, just 19. The first

ten turns before the kicker. She

keeps it relatively straightforward

and lacks a little bit of control,

straight after the landing. She is

back on top of her skis now and is

absolutely tearing down the course.

But that mistake on the birds

landing might just cost her in the

eyes of the judges. -- on the first

landing. She's got to go big and get

it right, over she goes, the landing

is OK at the time is all right,

29.30 six. She is the quickest of

the super final so far. She has got

to beat just been Dufour-Lapointe's

78.50 six. It's going to be tight.

Where are they going to put her? She

is first! 78.60 five. Perrine

Laffont will win France's first

medal of the Winter Olympics. Last

to ski in the women's moguls super

final 2018, and Dean Audi, the

22-year-old Canadian. She is away.

Just slightly slow start as she

picked our line for the first few

turns. She's really thrown it down,

though. Full, twisting back

somersault, struggling to regain

control and she is straight lining,

she is out and that means she will

not win a medal and Perrine Laffont

is the Olympic champion of 2018.

France kick-start their Winter

Olympics with gold in the women's

moguls.

Perrine Laffont's spectator teenage

Blix did the trick ahead of

Dufour-Lapointe, a first medal of

the games will Kazakhstan as well as

Yulia Galysheva took bronze and a

surprise result in a sport which

loves to flip things around.

Al second teenage Olympic champion

of the day. Felix Loch going last

and Andi Naude going last, the

pressure builds on you.

It builds,

you know the market you have to

smash through and you have so much

time to overthink and both of them

struggled with that.

Andi Naude

looked like she got going too quick.

Amy Williams was watching this

earlier when we showed a life. She

said, my knees hurt, just looking at

it.

I was saying the same thing.

It's incredible, the amount of

pressure that must go through their

knees. I know Pat Sharples, the

freestyle ski coach used to do the

moguls and I always asked them, how

are your knees? You said, not that

great.

Saw.

It's great to watch,

it's the combination of speed, but

the judges' marks is important as

well. You have to give it a bit with

the jumps.

It's not just technique,

I love the tri- element and the

judges have a difficult decision to

make.

It's stunning to watch.

Let's turn our focus to figure

skating and the Team Event.

Ten countries vying to make it

in to the top five and the chance

to skate for the medals tomorrow.

Today was the penultimate day

of competition and it was

in the women's singles

that we were rewarded

by a sparkling performance

by Russia's Ice Princess,

Evgenia Medvedeva.

Very solid triple flip, triple to

loop combination. -- toe loop

combination.

Lovely triple loop.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well, Robin, a brilliant

penultimate's date's competition.

When it comes to elegance on the

ice, there's no beating her. She's

really struggling to

ice, there's no beating her. She's

really struggling to come to terms

with the fact she's not skating in

her colours, not skating under her

flag. She's finding it very

emotional.

She's using it within a

performance and it elevated her

today. -- she says she can skate

better. It's exquisite, glorious to

watch her. I find her quite elfin on

the ice but it belies the power and

mental energy to deliver those. She

has been beaten for the first time

in two years, can she set of the

Olympic Trail by being first? Yes,

she can, and in some style as well.

I tell you what, my money is on

Evgenia Medvedeva for the individual

goal. It was the pairs that really

brought it, the Italian power, they

are in with a chance of a medal

after that performance?

They'd like

to

after that performance?

They'd like

to think so and I'm hoping they will

think with that attitude, because

it's only been three seasons that

they've been together performing

like this. Yes, they both come with

the experience but I adore her and I

love her, but she's feisty and she's

a diva, but it will take a diva

along with him to deliver another

performance like they did today for

the first time they will be a medal

mix which they probably didn't think

they before. They were probably

hoping for top five, but who knows,

if they can skate like that in the

short programme and the long

programme, gain-macro, it's up for

grabs.

The Canadians came out on

top, Meagan Duhamel and Eric

Radford, a brilliant skate from

them. They give the Canadians are

6-point lead going into the final

date's competition tomorrow. USA and

bronze, the Italians one point

behind, it will be really tense as

we get the medals fought out

tomorrow.

It's the most beautiful

competition.

If you want to see extended

highlights of the team event,

please tune into BBC Four

for Olympics Extra

in about 10 minutes.

The conclusion of the figure

skating team event starts

at 1am tomorrow morning.

Skating of a different kind now.

This time, it's against the clock.

As dominant as the Germans

have been in the luge,

it's their neighbours

the Netherlands who own

the speed skating oval.

"Eat, sleep, skate,

repeat" is the mantra

of their star Sven Kramer.

The men's 5000 speed skating has

long been Kramer versus Kramer. The

only question has been whether he

can better his own time. Two golds

in this event and us two Games, he

had to donate -- be the Canadian's

time to win a third. We join the

flying Dutchman with two laps to go,

sit back and enjoyed a dash of

orange on ice.

COMMENTATOR:

All eyes on the Dutch man, nearly

two seconds quicker than the

previous fastest time and he's

skating towards the Olympic title

here. The all-time great, Sven

Kramer of the Netherlands, will take

the Bell this time here, just over

400 to go in this 5000 metre final

and that blue line I don't think is

going to catch him any time soon.

It's 1.88 seconds and Ted Bloomer

had a fantastic last lap, soap

Kramer has took really dig deep.

Kramer has to really go for it on

this last lap to make sure he can

take the Olympic title for the third

time in a row. It was a tremendous

last lap sprint. Here now comes Sven

Kramer, up towards the line, the

Olympic record has gone. For the

fourth time in his career, Sven

Kramer is an Olympic champion.

They are

Kramer is an Olympic champion.

They are so good at that. Let's

round up some stories from day two

with Paddy again.

A wild night on the biathlon course

is blue in a surprise, German, 34th

in Sochi, power and position and it

was an amazing goal. Plenty of rocks

over the puck to open the Olympics

for the US women's ice hockey team,

silver medallists Law years ago they

recovered

silver medallists Law years ago they

recovered from the bruises and being

a goal down to beat Finland 3-1. Icy

tension on every stone of Norway V

China in the mixed doubles curling.

Both trying to screw up a path to

the semis. Level in the round robin,

Norway won this tie-break.

Heartbreak for China. Curling can be

cruel.

Let's have a look at the medal table

with all the events of day two

finished. Out in front we find

Germany, I believe. Let's have a

look. I think they have three gold

medals so far. The Netherlands are

doing well. They've had the one,

two, three, Norway with their first

and the USA, courtesy of Red. Let's

go off piste.

This was posted on social media

earlier. I used to love the 18, Mr

T, into curling, I'm really pumped

watching they Winter Olympics, I'm

watching events I never thought I'd

watch before. Look at this, a catch

watching the short track speed

skating.

Riveted. This one.

Mainly

its get children we get sent doing

daft things but I think it's an

eagle.

Eddie is making a comeback. A

carpenter. Why Bob and he is, guess.

He's made his own skis. Look at this

from Julie, on Twitter.

This is

cute.

It will inspire the next

generation!

That's watching Felix

Loch.

She gets back up, keeps going,

she's got perseverance, and Felix

Loch is on track.

That's the worry.

Let's look at this.

Let's look at this. These are our

selections for red hot ice cold.

Luge is a tough sport,

but its even tougher when you're

flying along at 80mph

without a visor on.

Poland's Mateu Sochowicz is street

tough, no tears here.

It doesn't get much

better than this.

This is pure Blades Of Glory.

Canada leading in the team

competition.

It doesn't matter what sport you're

watching, everyone always says

the ref has lost his marbles.

Well, here's the proof.

Brilliant.

And finally, here's some classic

understated celebrating

from our Amercian cousins

after they won their first

ever medal in the luge.

USA, USA!

Tomorrow, so much to look forward

to. Mikaela Shiffrin starts her

Olympic campaign in the women's GS.

We'll be live for her second run at

about 4:45pm, Radzi on-air at

12:10pm. Mikaela Shiffrin is

something else, women's ski jumping

only came into the Games four years

ago. We ought to mention in the

women's giant slalom Alex Tilley for

Great Britain.

On top form, she's

had a PB this season, she does have

to challenge Mikaela Shiffrin and

others. Worley is in good form,

she's world champ, but Mikaela

Shiffrin needs a bit of luck, but

she's not a big fan of luck. Her

quoted look looks like a lot like

hard work, but in disguise.

Sometimes it can just be look. We'll

see you tomorrow at 7pm, when we'll

have the women's slopestyle. Mike

night. -- good night.

Absolutely amazing. It's beautiful.

Well, you've got to say she looks

absolutely amazing on a snowboard.

That's why she's constantly topping

podiums around the