Day 7 Highlights Winter Olympics: Today at the Games

Previously at the Winter Olympics...

Skiing for the gold medal position

for Norway! Magnificent! The Vikings

are celebrating!

PFO TA makes it two

gold medals, back-to-back!

Mikaela

Shiffrin is the Olympic champion for

the second time!

It is day seven...

CHANTING

CHEERING

On the first day of the Korean New

Year, we are in the skeleton zone!

Dom Parsons needed to embrace

the fear and enjoy the expectation

then he might, just might become

Britain's first medallist at these

Winter Olympic Games.

All he had to do was travel twice

down a sliding track just under

a mile long at 80 miles per hour

with his chin a few

centimetres from the ice

and without bumping any sides.

What's so hard about that?

Welcome to Today at the Games,

here's what's coming up...

It's been 24 years since the last

British male won an individual

Winter Olympic medal.

Sitting fourth after two runs, could

Parsons make the podium?

In snowboarding, we'll find out

which woman can boss the cross...

A feast of alpine skiing

with the women's slalom

and men's super-g...

In most winter sports

Britain is lucky to have

one medal contender,

but in skeleton we get two

as Yarnold and Deas slide

into action...

And joining me today... Skeleton

pioneer Alex Coomber, Olympic

champion and choreographer in

demand, Christopher Dean. Our Alpine

expert has always is Chemmy Alcott.

Welcome.

He was sliding at a blistering pace

in the practice rounds,

then after runs one and two

Dom Parsons found himself just 0.03

seconds behind the medals.

Could he go faster and claim GB's

first medal of the games?

Here's Matt Pinsent.

Day two of the men's skeleton

competition and a fantastic chance

for a piece of British history.

Dominik Parsons and fourth

overnight, a tiny fraction behind

the position for a medal. A

fantastic atmosphere in the

grandstand with friends, family and

team-mates turning out to cheer him

on... Day three started with the

overnight leader and local hero, Yun

Sungbin. Hull a big moment for

Korea.

No Asian skeleton athlete has

other won a medal in this. Can he go

under 50 seconds? As he gets to the

line... Not quite.

line... Not quite. 50.18 reinforcing

his position as the gold medallist

in waiting. Next, setting off in the

silver medal position at the moment,

Nikita Tregubov...

He is one second

behind not even halfway down.

50.5,

every single run a position Nikita

Tregubov. One of the greats for

Latvia. The silver medallist in

Sochi and Vancouver, Yun Sungbin.

Yun Sungbin will find an athlete who

is too good for him.

The best

straight so far!

Dukurs in second

place. Just ahead of Tregubov.

We

need you there, come on!

A great

step forward from run number one.

Even if you cannot get past Dukurs

or Tregubov now, on Parsons, surely

you cannot allow the gap to grow

between himself and the other two

riders?

He had incredible speed down

the track. Hull two tenths of a

second off at the moment. He

finishes...

Right in the mix! He

goes ahead of Tregubov into third

place.

place.

Tomass Dukurs followed, but

he could not beat the Briton.

Great

Britain's Jerry Rice remained hot on

the heels of the top ten.

Rice,

rice, rice!

This is David and Judith Parsons,

nervously waiting for their final

run. What do you make of his first

three runs?

They are the best I've

ever seen him do. Each one, one

after the other, they were so close

to whatever Dukurss

does.

And how is it now?

It is

exciting but nerve

as well. I think that he can do it.

Using right frame of mind. -- he is

in the right frame of mind.

Could

Dom Parsons be about to create some

British history? The final heat is

run in reverse order. The fastest

man, Yun Sungbin, goes last. Jerry

Rice came with the aim of finishing

in the top 12 and for him it was to

be a momentous day...

Jerry Rice,

what a games he has had. And 51

seconds! A marvellous run!

Eventually he finished in tenth.

Pushing hard to break into the top

three, Tomass Dukurs.

He will come

back fighting, he wants a medal.

He

is quicker than Kaymer but his final

time needs to be in the really low

50s to put pressure on. That would

cut the mustard. -- that will not

cut the mustard.

cut the mustard.

The four-time world

champion, Tregubov in fourth

place... This fellow has been so

consistent. He has gone 50.5 every

run so far.

We hope he has

guidelines for his competition but

we need him to make a little mistake

somewhere, to help Dom Parsons out a

little bit.

Lovely and clean through

15. The final curve for Tregubov.

He's got another 50.5, four on the

bounce for him! We know Parsons can

go quicker. That is the excitement.

I know!

Dom Parsons, next. Sit

tight, everybody. He says that he

thrives on the pressure. His

nickname is The Wizard. Let's see if

he can work the Winter Olympic magic

and get himself a medal. The

equation is simple. Directly against

Tregubov. You follow their relative

times together. If his time goes

green and Tregubov's name, he is in

good shape. He starts off behind...

Hold it together and stay calm, do

not concentrate on the end result.

The lines are good at the moment.

This is good sliding. We need you to

keep it together! We are building

into the fastest part of the track.

Exhilarating downhill. Is this the

corner where we build it into the

medal? Does it have enough pace?

This will be key, coming down the

track... Will this run get Great

Britain their first Olympic medal of

the Winter Olympics?

He is

marginally in front of Tregubov!

Uphill... Spend 16... Is this to be?

No! He misses out by two hundredths

of a second. Tregubov celebrates a

guaranteed medal. Dom Parsons, he

may be agonisingly missing out.

My

word.

He knows that he has missed

it.

it.

Next, Martin Raw Dukurs in

second place. Just in front of Dom

Parsons.

We do need a mistake from Dukurs. He

hasn't produced many of those over a

glittering career which has seen him

win silver medals at two Olympic

Games.

That was a mistake there! A

big mistake he has never made

before. Is he able to keep the time,

is he also going to drop a vital

split-second down the track?

He has

made two mistakes at the top of the

track. He comes in late. The time is

ebbing away... This is where Dukurs

could lose on his speed. The mistake

at the top, it is two hundredths,

that is all we need.

He is in the

red...

CHEERING

He is behind Dom Parsons!

Unbelievably, he has his medal!

Come

on, Great Britain!

Dom Parsons has a

bronze medal because Martins Dukurs

was unable to hold it together. The

great Latvian. Settle back and enjoy

what we think will be the gold medal

performance from Yun of Korea,

starting a mile clear of his

competitors. One save run will see

him reach the gold medal he. No

Asian athlete has ever won a medal.

Yun is seconds away from the gold.

He is a superstar in Korea. He wins

by the biggest margin in history! A

track record to finish off. 1.63

seconds. Incredible for Yun

a track

record, the fourth run and

absolutely smashing it. We do have a

bronze medal for Great Britain with

Dom Parsons.

Bronze medallist at the Olympic

Games, the first medallist for Team

GB here at Pyeongchang. Give us your

reaction?

It hasn't sunk in yet. I

thought I had lost it. After the

fourth run, I thought it had gone

away. I looked at the time, made a

couple too many mistakes in that run

Bert Martins made more. The last

person I thought.

You're great on

TLC, she is 93, she has stayed up

too?

-- your great Aunt Elsie.

STUDIO: This was Dom Parsons being

awarded his bronze medal, the man

from Walthamstow. The first man to

win a skeleton medal since 1948 for

Great Britain. He was still doing

the maths to know whether he made it

back onto the podium. He has, he

did. That is his for life. I caught

up with the Olympic gold medallist

from 2010 Amy Williams.

We saw him go through the range of

despair and delight?

We were doing

the same in the commentary box! I

don't know how he held it together!

He put down such good runs. The

final run... He slipped down! And

final run... He slipped down! And we

saw Dukurs coming down. That was it.

He thought he had lost it and

suddenly he was in the bronze

position and have that medal.

Amy Williams was so

Amy Williams was so thrilled. Alex

Coomber was watching it earlier.

Your thoughts on who was the best on

all four runs?

This race was a

unique race. It is unlike any other

track we have been on. The fastest

starters were not necessarily

getting those medals. Ironically

between the medallists we have the

fastest starter and the 21st

starter. The Koreans had an

advantage, they had been on the

track a lot and from Yun Sungbin we

saw that his steering, he basically

got it down to only really needing

to do small toe taps. You will see

other sliders shifting their body

weight as they go through the bends

but he knew it so well that the

toe-tapping was enough for him and

he literally had the fastest time on

every split.

A lovely, sunny day on the sliding

track and they wanted to see South

Korea's first gold medal is not on

skates. They have won Bundu short

track speed skating, one in speed

skating and one in figure skating.

Watch him going down, his toe just

comes out, it is not a reaction

because he thinks he is doing

something wrong, he's purposely

using it to steer, then bringing his

legs nice and close together again,

getting a good aerodynamic position

and he is only steering when he

really needs to which created a lot

of speed down the track.

He was head

and shoulders above the rest but Dom

Parsons was close to winning a

silver medal, had he not made that

mistake in his fourth run, he would

have got a civil, but so would

Martins Dukurs have got a silver if

he did well in his last run. He

looked disappointed, though after

his run because he thought that was

it, Don.

He was two hundredths off

the silver in the end, we always

knew there would be chopping and

changing places which made it

exciting. They have a start record

on the track and the downtime record

but they don't have the top speed

record and if they did, Dom had

Beattie fastest top speeds ever of a

men's skeleton on that track, he was

the only slider to break 81 mph.

He

becomes the first man to win medal

in skeleton since John Cramond in

1948 and you have got to look at

this picture because just to admire

his helmet! He was an RAF pilot in

World War II who came back into the

sport of sliding when the war ended

and went to the games in 1948 and

won a bronze medal and ended up

writing on winter sports for the

Observer so he was a wonderful guy

within Winter sports but John

Cramond, who died in 1978, the last

man before Dom Parsons.

I think he

would have been very proud.

Thankfully technology has got

better. Underneath your neck.

The

style as well!

The women have been

more successful in the 21st century

and we will be reflecting on Lizzie

and Laura and how they got on later.

That is the very short list of six

British men who have won individual

medals at the Winter Olympics and

obviously, Chris has won a gold

medal but as part of a pair so you

don't get in.

Andrew Musgrave was hoping

to write his name onto that list

in the 15k cross country race.

After Britain's best ever showing

in the skiathlon on Sunday,

where he finished seventh,

Musgrave was aiming for better.

Every four years they change

from classic style to freestyle,

which Musgrave much prefers

but amongst a field

of 119 from 62 different

countries, Musgrave melted.

He said he went off slowly

intentionally but could never pick

up the pace and admitted to having

a shocker as he finished only 28th

more than two minutes behind

the historic winner -

Switzerland's Dario Cologna,

who became the first cross-country

skier to win the same individual

event three times in a row.

COMMENTATOR: This is going to be

awesome. Lindsey Jacobellis

extending her lead in the early

stage of the course! She has got the

clear line. This is a lap of honour

for Lindsey Jacobellis, the

American... Oh, drama! Lindsey

Jacobellis is down! This is

incredible! Lindsey Jacobellis has

thrown her gold medal away in the

last 100 metres. This is ridiculous.

Such drama in the women's snowboard

cross - can't believe

that was 12 years ago.

Aged 32, Lindsey Jacobellis

is still hunting for that elusive

gold medal but snapping at her heels

are some very talented youngsters.

Expect 16-year-old Julia Pereira de

Sousa from France to push her close.

The first of four quarterfinals saw

Zoe Gillings Brier going for GB.

She needed to finish in the top

three to progress to the semis.

Zoe, here in the white bib,

looked like she might make it

through after overtaking

on the inside into third position.

But defending Olympic champion

Eva Samkova snuck past, denying Zoe

a spot in the semifinals.

The 32-year-old mum

was pleased with that finish,

and we pick up the action

with the first semifinal.

Here's Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood...

COMMENTATOR: Keep an eye on Lindsey

Jacobellis in the green bid. Eva

Samkova, the favourite in red,

Charlotte Banks, Nelly Moenne

Loccoz, blue and yellow, Alexandra

Jekova in white and the Blackbeard

of the Canadian, Tess Critchlow.

Here we go, the first semifinal,

this will be good. Eva Samkova goes

out brilliantly in the master

trousers.

Charlotte Bankes again

with a brilliant start and then a

terrible bird bath.

Or going big,

Lindsey Jacobellis in the green.

Nelly Moenne Loccoz leading with

Lindy Jacobo somehow yields.

The

white bib proving lucky for

Alexandra Jekova who is making a

move on the Frenchwoman.

Brilliant

squash from Jacko Palace, taking all

of the jump and went long and low

and now she's got three metres out

in front of Eva Samkova. Nelly

Moenne Loccoz on the inside, all the

way through, Charlotte Bankes, from

nowhere, how did she get from the

back to the front?

She was not able

to make it stick although she tried

to force Lindsey Jacobellis who can

now apply the flush and crush on

her. Riding light to the top of the

corner. On the inside!

Alexandra

Jekova almost down and now back to

back, she over jumped, Charlotte

Bankes is out and Eva Samkova takes

advantage, sliding into second,

Alexandra Jekova in third, behind

Lindsey Jacobellis who looks to be

losing speed on her on the home

straight.

Eva Samkova, the Olympic

champion in a master trousers, can

ride the final straight so well and

Lindsey Jacobellis with a nervous

look over her shoulder. She will

remain in second and advance but

that is a warning shot to Lindsey

Jacobellis. She needs to be further

ahead in the final on the straight

if she wants to take the win because

she has not got the speed that Eva

Samkova has.

Back up to the top again now for the

second of the semifinals.

There is

Julia Pereira De Sousa Mabileau.

16

years old, were racing way beyond

her years and there is no short of

talent on this side of the draw,

either.

And the youngster has gone

out like a wet cat, absolutely

flying, here. So she obviously

didn't read the script.

Both of the

French upfront with Michaela Moy. --

the Italian flying through the

section but Pereira De Sousa, tucked

in behind them and it is actually

Chloe Trespeuch shoe dies out in

front. -- who dives out in front.

Pereira De Sousa slip-sliding behind

Moioli and it is so useful in this

section, she pops out from behind

the traffic.

Keep your eye on the

fourth placed rider, Belle

Brockhoff, the experienced

Australian, the 24-year-old.

Moioli

dives and takes Chloe Trespeuch.

Belle Brockhoff need something to

happen as they go to the home

straight and it starts to become a

pumping battle. Chloe Trespeuch shoe

in second and Belle Brockhoff is

down. It is routine now for the

first three as Moioli goes long,

Chloe Trespeuch shoe and Pereira De

Sousa.

No time to look behind and

see that they are clear but there we

go, the first three finishers

advancing to the final after seeing

their fellow countrymen take gold

yesterday, the whole French crew

will be beside themselves for this

lady 's snowboard cross final now.

Now we move onto the women's

snowboard cross final, the fastest

six women who battled their way

through the quarters and the

semifinals to this point.

This could

go anyway.

Yes, they all very very

quick. Great start for Eva Samkova

and Moioli.

Neck and neck.

Pereira

De Sousa Mabileau on the outside,

the 16-year-old Frenchwoman who may

have the lead. But Moioli and

Lindsey Jacobellis, is it?

Yes,

upfront with Moioli now, different

lines being taken but Lindsey

Jacobellis having a look. She's out

in front. She needs to hold other

make this stick but Moioli has been

fast and look at Pereira De Sousa

Mabileau! And Chloe Trespeuch in

second!

Pereira De Sousa Mabileau --

Moioli diving down but Chloe

Trespeuch shuts the door, and they

are back-to-back, Moioli overtaking

always, Lindsey Jacobellis in the

fight of her life, if she wants the

gold medal, she's got to go,

slotting in behind Chloe Trespeuch

in the most technical section of the

course. Moioli out in front. Can

they get some drag on her as they

come into the section, Moioli so

fast all season, five World Cups

under her belt.

And look at the

youngster, Pereira De Sousa Mabileau

coming into second from fourth, the

16-year-old!

Eva Samkova at the last

minute start driving, neck and neck

for silver and bronze. Who is going

to get it? They are all down! All

over the place. No doubting who took

the gold, Moioli but the equipment

says Pereira De Sousa Mabileau in

second. Look at them, they have

given everything they've got to this

course. That was as intense as sport

gets. One of the closest races, not

just in Olympic women's snowboard

cross history but of all time.

cross history but of all time. Oh...

It was Eva Samkova and Lindsey

Jacobellis, Eva Samkova at the top

and Lindsey Jacobellis at the

bottom, goodness, gracious, what a

final! Thank you, boardercross.

And

thank you to the team as well, I

still think the Italian outfit are

the best so they get a gold medal

for that and that is their second

gold of the games. But poor Rod

Lindsey Jacobellis just missing out.

-- Paul Oldham Lindsey Jacobellis.

Now to the men's super-g,

the second fastest alpine

event after the downhill.

There's more control gates, making

it more of a technical discipline,

but it's still a case of get down

that mountain as fast as you can!

It was bright and clear for the

superfast super-g and first of the

big names that was the defending

champion.

With Norwegian posted an early

target time of 1:24.60 two. His

compatriot, Aksel Lund Svindal al,

was going for the speed double,

never done before by a man at the

same games. But he could not nudge

his fellow Norwegian off top spot.

Up next was an Austrian skiing

legend, and Matthias Mayer got off

to a flyer with a run of power,

aggression and precision, setting a

brilliant time of 1:24.40 four. Beat

that!

Yes!

World champion beat Furze

was the last of the super-g stars to

grace the slopes, a slight slip

midway down cost him dearly. He

would have to settle for silver,

behind that Common Mateus Maier.

After his downhill gold in 2014, the

Austrian becomes only the second man

to win gold in both the downhill and

super-g discipline the Olympics.

Beat Furze took the silver and

Kjetil Jansrud the bronze.

It's that time again.

Here's Paddy with the latest

from the Game of Stones.

In the women's competition, a day on

from Britain's team your head, but

meanwhile, out on the ice, something

strange has been happening. This is

the Canadian team, as near as you

can get to stone cold certainties in

this sport. And they keep losing.

Three games, three defeats, and this

is what they are saying in Canada.

Bottom of the round robin, a

sweeping change is needed if they

are to avoid an unthinkable early

exit. Normal rank on the men's rink,

Canada top but Britain's Dean Smith

were still in touch and up against

the second favourites, Sweden, and

their formidable skip. But Kyle

Smith and crew did not fear the

Norsemen. In fact, in the third end,

the Swedes were left with no way out

and the Brits did the pillaging.

Great Britain stealing, to keep the

pressure on.

Despite not having the

final shot, points are rarer get

such skilled opponents and it would

get even better for Smith and

company.

There you go, nice shot,

Kyle Smith continuing a great form

he has shown already this evening.

Halfway through, 5-3 up but then the

Swedes started turning the stones

with some supreme work, taking a

crucial three. 6-6 going into the

ninth end but for all Smith's

excellent early work, this was the

defining shot of the match, he

needed to clear out both red stones

here.

He's missed it! Over and

probably out. Well, what a chance

that was. You won't get too many of

them.

Sweden took tee, leaving

Britain needing to do the same in

the final end, always unlikely. This

was curling's version of a knockout

blow. -- Sweden took two.

He's going

to go and that's it, Sweden know

they've been in a tough match

against Great Britain, two wins and

two losses after four.

Three of the

medal hopefuls in the first four

games but we are one of those medal

hopeful so we know we need to

compete against them and we do

compete against them, we are just as

good as them on any given day and I

think we showed that today. We are

disappointed but it is not the end

of the world.

Still to come.

Can Hanyu do it again?

The man from Japan starts

the defence of his singles title.

One down, three to go.

Mikaela Shiffren tries to slalom her

way to a second gold of the Games.

She's aiming for four.

Great in practice -

now Lizzy Yarnold and Laura Deas

hope to go even better

in the real thing.

Hold on tight for the first two

rounds of the skeleton.

Only gone and done it!

Hello, there.

FUNKY MUSIC

CHEERING

LAUGHTER

She's just trying everything that

she can! Pretty soon she will be out

there and there is trouble coming

for all of those in Pyeongchang. I

think we need some sparkle and some

silk and chiffon!

Onto ice skating and

the men's singles.

Expect jumps like you've

never seen before.

Basically, if you can't land

a quad, you might as well

not be on the squad.

These guys are like pop stars on ice

and for the Japanese media,

this could be their biggest story

of the games as Yuzuru Hanyu tries

to become the first man since 1952

to retain his title...

The quad off begins

The quad off begins with Hanyu of

Japan, recovering after an ankle

injury in November, he needed police

officers and security to guide him

through the airport as he arrived

for his first competition in months.

He did not take part in the team

event but in the singles he had fans

screaming in delight...

screaming in delight... COMMENTATOR:

The entry from the spread Eagle,

before and after the jump... A

quadruple toe loop... And the

triple... The error it is!

There is

the roar!

the roar! And the roof comes off the

rink! Sublime from the defending

Olympic champion.

This is one of the

strangest sights in sport, the

shower of Winnie the Pooh bears.

It's an Olympic record. Over to the

king of the quads, Nathan Chen, the

only athlete to land five in a

single programme. Could the

17-year-old live up to the hype?

COMMENTATOR: The opening

combination... The quadrupole Lutz

and down. He would have wanted that

combination but he fell. And also on

the triple axel... He has gone.

There has been so much attention on

this young man's shoulders. He is 18

years old. Because of what he can

achieve at his best but you get the

impression this may not be his

games.

Even Tigger couldn't bounce

back. Nathan Chen was only 17th and

his medal chances seemingly out of

sight. Up next, Shoma Uno from

Japan, famed as the first man to

successfully land a quadruple flip

in competition. Could he make it a

Japanese one two. COMMENTATOR: The

quadruple flip...

Such a compact

skater. Short but strong.

The triple

toe loop... Fantastic stuff!

toe loop... Fantastic stuff!

Shoma

Uno, the dark horse of this Olympic

competition.

And from Spain, the six

time European champion Javier

Fernandez after his first Olympic

medal. This is his last chance. He

is retiring at the age of 26 after

these last games. He turned to

Charlie Chaplin for his inspiration.

COMMENTATOR: It's a triple toe

loop... And lovely stuff. Right in

front of the judges. A second jump.

A quadruple Salchow. And gorgeous!

Here we go! STUDIO: Into second

place, four points behind Hanyu,

medals in grasp. Then, the Chinese

wonder kid left his two pet

crocodiles at home with his parents.

Would Jin Boyang's routine be snappy

enough to get the lead? COMMENTATOR:

He has got it!

20 years old, he has

been the one to watch for the last

few years.

few years.

The quadruple toe loop.

Very nice indeed!

CHEERING

Do not forget me, says Jin Boyang.

If the short programme is the

building block of Olympic gold,

Hanyu has laid the surest foundation

is down here today.

STUDIO:

Hanyu has laid the surest foundation

is down here today.

STUDIO: We are

all going, pet crocodiles? That is

true! Nathan Chen was not on the

leaderboard. We would have expected

to see him there. He is the king of

the quad, isn't he?

He has not been

beaten this season and going into

the competition, in America, it was

a given that he would come away with

a medal, if not the gold. For him to

crash and burn like this is very

unusual. I've seen him train where I

am. He is so consistent. I think it

came down to the pressure of the

event. The

came down to the pressure of the

event. The nation that is watching

him, the expectation. The young

pretender. This is his first

Olympics. He has won everything

ahead of this. It was a

Olympics. He has won everything

ahead of this. It was a big news

story in America, for sure.

Hugely

disappointing for him, he is down in

17th place. His team-mate made

history today, what did Vincent Zhou

do?

history today, what did Vincent Zhou

do?

He made a quad Lutz for the

first time in the Olympics. That

will go down in history books. That

is taking off on a left back outside

edge but rotating in the opposite

direction. Use the talk from your

shoulders to get the rotation. This

goes against it and you pull the

other way.

It is really hard on your

Blixt?

Yes, one of the most

difficult after the axel.

And the

most beautiful storyteller is Javier

Fernandez?

Yes, he tells a story,

this is the Charlie Chaplin routine

that he was performing. The jumps

are immaculate. He is tidy in the

air, he has a clean landing. He

connects with the audience. At the

end of the routine everyone was

clapping and on his side.

The leader

is Hanyu. They have 4.5 minutes to

express themselves. Can he do it,

does he have the support?

It will be

the story if he doesn't do it, that

is for sure. There are potentially

five quads that these guys will be

pulling out in the competition. They

are back ending their routines.

There are big jumps that are coming

at the end of the routines.

That is

tough, because physically...

By the

time you've done your 4.5 minutes,

you are sucking on a lot of air!

I

wonder, what is he

you are sucking on a lot of air!

I

wonder, what is he doing with the

Winnie the

s?

I hope he is donating

them to charity!

Giving them to the

crocodiles!

Much expected of Hanyu,

while the Americans were hoping

for huge things from Mikaela

Shiffren.

She won gold in the women's giant

slalom yesterday and four years ago,

she became the youngest slalom

winner ever when she was only 18.

She's got big ambitions

in Pyeongchang.

She's targeting four medals

in South Korea and this

was considered the most likely.

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Women's slalom time. All eyes were

on Mikaela Shiffrin. Could the

Golden girl of the American team

retain her title?

retain her title? It seemed

inevitable. This is her signature

event. She started in an

accomplished style and was fourth

after her first run.

In good shape

as she goes for the double.

Meanwhile, the slalom specialist was

flying. In second place. But Wendy

Holdener went even faster. This

acceleration rocketed her to the

best time of the opening run. Alex

Tilley's run didn't go so well. The

British skier crashed out early

while Charlie Guest, her team-mate,

finished in 33rd spot.

finished in 33rd spot. Katharina

Gallhuber of Austria used power and

precision to take the lead. Could

Mikaela Shiffrin deliver? Matt

Chilton commentates... COMMENTATOR:

Next ago, Mikaela Shiffrin.

Her advantage is significant. It

looked like the wind has eased off

for Mikaela Shiffrin. She finds the

worst of it. A clean start. Four

racers in the past have done the GS

and Olympic double in the same

games. Andrea Mead Lawrence has done

it. The first mistake for Mikaela

Shiffrin. In 2002, in Salt Lake

City. Can Mikaela Shiffrin do it?

Not only is she looking for the GS

slalom double, she is looking to

defend the slalom gold. She won four

years ago in Sochi. Finishing with

incredible speed! She gets into

second. She will not make it two

gold medals. She made that mistake,

that error cost her the chance to

lead the race. Next, poised for the

final time today and on her way,

Frida Hansdotter. She had a solid

fast run. And Goode giant slalom day

yesterday. She likes this hill. A

majority of her advantage is intact.

The worst of the wind is on this

part of the course. As Frida

Hansdotter drops in. She goes to

work. Still not .85 in front.

Hansdotter has never won and Olympic

medal. Can she put that right today?

She was sixth in the giant slalom

yesterday. The former World Cup

slalom champion. Half a second to

lead. Katharina Gallhuber's lead is

1:38.90 five. Can Hansdotter beat

it? She can! She is guaranteed

silver at worst.

silver at worst. The last skier...

Wendy Holdener of Switzerland. She

comes in with an advantage of two

tenths. Hansdotter's split there.

Holdener trailing by a 100th of a

second. She has got the worst of the

wind. It is whipping in from the

skiers left to the skiers right. Up

into the goggles. She hasn't done

much damage. Here on in, she could

begin to relax a little more. She

has got to push through every one of

these terms. Only four hundredths

now. She can turn this around and

take an Olympic title for 2018.

Wendy Holdener of Switzerland,

trying to deny Hansdotter...

Holdener takes the silver.

Hansdotter is Olympic champion!

Holdener takes a silver medal for

Switzerland. Katharina Gallhuber

comes away with the bronze medal,

with Mikaela Shiffrin pushed out of

the medals, down to four. Frida

Hansdotter is the Olympic slalom

champion. STUDIO: Swedish fans

celebrating there, the fourth gold

of the games. Christopher Dean makes

an elegant exit. Tell me

of the games. Christopher Dean makes

an elegant exit. Tell me about Frida

Hansdotter?

She is consistent, she

has delivered all season. She has

got second places, five of them.

Always the bridesmaid. Today she

lifted her game. I don't want people

to think she won today because

Mikaela Shiffrin had an off day, she

deserved it. She charged like I've

never seen her do before.

She was

really calculated. And the major

shock is Mikaela Shiffrin isn't even

on the podium?

shock is Mikaela Shiffrin isn't even

on the podium?

30

shock is Mikaela Shiffrin isn't even

on the podium?

30 World Cup

victories in this discipline

committee hasn't been beaten in a

major tournament since 2011 but she

looked off. We know that she vomited

before the first run. She wasn't all

there today. There was hesitation in

her skiing, we never see that.

There

is a lot of norovirus going around,

well over 300 cases.

well over 300 cases. It's very

disappointing for Mikaela Shiffrin,

more chances for her to come.

Well, one skeleton competition down

and one Olympic medal.

Now it's the turn of the women,

Laura Deas went fast in practice

and Lizzy Yarnold is looking

to become the first ever Brit

to defend a Winter Olympic title.

Laura Dees, one of the fastest

starters in the field...

starters in the field...

It is down

to you, in that moment. Nobody else.

I love this sport. I am in it

because I want to win.

Lizzy Yarnold

is the Olympic champion!

Welcome to be Sliding Centre, as 20

women prepared to go for their first

heat of the skeleton. Lizzy Yarnold,

the defending champion, goes off in

14th in this opening round, Laura

Deas is intent.

Excitement in the

camp is as you would imagine, it is

huge. Everyone on cloud nine and the

girls, they have been concentrating

on their race, they've got to go out

today and do what they've done in

training. Both have been putting

down the fastest runs and

down the fastest runs and they are

in a really good place. We are on

the track where it is really cold.

The ice will be very hard. Then

they've got to stay and keep cool,

they are both good enough to bring

home a medal. Day one and we are

very excited!

Jacqueline Lolling from Germany is

without doubt the most excess will

scan it and Olympian in the last 18

months. The preevent favourite, a

bit of corrective work to do early.

Because of the group they are using

on the left-hand side is all sort of

just giving them a bit of a waddle

because it is not quite cut

properly. This is one of the best

sliders, she takes a high, diving

line-out. Maybe that is her style

and she needs to use this to get the

speed in and use the exit of 70 per

Sivera crossing to wait as she now

builds speed into the crucial

corner.

Looking beautiful so far,

perfect line, her body position, she

looks cool and calm on the thread,

so far, I reckon we're going to see

another track record.

Definitely,

coming up the hill, but she going to

Berlin from even further?

Absolutely

superb, the world champion, just

setting the mark a little bit

higher. Laura Dees is next. Laura,

the 29-year-old, her first Olympics.

Has start time, exactly what I was

hoping for. She has got an

incredible start. She is a strong

and powerful girl.

Number seven in

the world, two higher than Lizzy

Yarnold, she has started the run

well.

She certainly has an cheesy

using the corners well to push her

across and in and around the track,

to try to use the track to her

benefit and get where she needs to

be by not doing too much. Is she

losing a bit of time? That will be a

costly mistake but is it enough to

just keep her in the mix? Because of

her start, we know these speeds, she

will lose a couple of tenths by the

time she gets across the line.

As

long as she does not lose too much,

that rub on ten down the chicane

might be costly for Laura Deas, and

suddenly, she is two tenths behind.

Lazy time.

She cannot win a medal on

this run but she can certainly lose

it with mistake so she needs one in

the bag. She has been sliding well

all week. She is a quality athlete.

The Olympic champion, Lizzy Yarnold,

underway.

A couple of mistakes

between four and five. She is

settling into the sled. She's an

Olympic champion and a quality

athlete but she has got the pressure

on these games of wanting to keep

hold of her title. One of the better

runs in. Is it enough? Is she going

to lose speed by having to do too

much work? This could be the run

that puts her at the top of the pile

going into the second one.

It's

going to be close, needs to be clean

out of 15, close to the right-hand

wall, the final turn to home and she

goes first! Quicker than Jacqueline

Lolling.

Having a little chat,

whether there is an issue with her,

I'm not quite sure. She did not look

happy, there.

Lizzy Yarnold leading

after the first run. Run two is not

far away.

Let's open Laura has gone

away, all she needed to do was get

her steering better in corner nine

and have a clean straight.

Laura

Deas is underway.

She needs a big

run, she needs to settle into her

run and do what you did before it

but make the small adjustment in the

corner down towards the Dragon's

tale, the top part of the track was

really good but she started to lose

a bit of speed as she came into

corner eight, maybe doing a bit too

much on the sled to achieve the

line. Now she's relaxed, can she

find the speed here?

This is the big

part.

Good girl, she's done it,

nailed it, come on, keep it

together, she's got to stay relaxed

and

and keep position in the uphill

section and I think she will hold

onto the lead.

She's got to go,

really, I think under 52 seconds at

the finish. 16, again a wobble. She

has not quite got under 52 seconds

but how that will affect her final

standings after run two, we will

have to wait and see.

Lizzy Yarnold, then, off and on her

way.

She is so good at performing

under pressure. She loves the

pressure, Sheila was the thrill, and

she always competes really well in

four run races, like World

Championships and Olympic Games,

there's always four runs over two

days... She just made the same

mistake some other sliders have made

in the top part of the track so she

needs to keep it together and keep

calm, still a lot of time in the

lead.

If you make mistakes, recover

well. She needs to do that.

Definitely and she's just about got

away with it, coming through a bit

sideways, I think that might cost

her some speed so is it enough for

her to stay in front of Jenin

because this will be close? I think

she might drop behind the Austrian

as we go into the second day.

This

will be very close between

Jacqueline Lolling, Janine Flock and

Lizzy Yarnold who finishes now,

dropped back to third place, a tenth

of a second off the leader. Lizzy

Yarnold and Laura Deas for Great

Britain, third and fourth and still

very much in this Olympic event.

It

was a much faster track than it had

been in training.

I have got a bit of a sore throat

and sign has been going on.

Was that

the issue at the end of the first

run?

I'm struggling to breathe

enough. It is a brilliant track and

has been a great first night of

racing. This is the bit I love,

going home and everybody getting

nervous and I get a great night's

sleep and then fighting again

tomorrow.

They are both in a good

position at the moment, very close

to the top and really tight so it's

going to be a great couple of runs

tomorrow. Yeah, I will be shutting

myself hoarse.

It's really nice to

be sitting in fourth, only seven

hundredths out of the medals.

How

much of an inspiration was done

today?

It was a emotional watching

it go from heartbreak to elation in

the space of a few minutes! What an

inspiration. He has worked so hard

for so many years and I'm so pleased

for him that it came out in the end.

You could tell how much Laura Deas

is enjoying the experience, moving

up from six to fourth after two

runs, Lizzy Yarnold fastest on the

first run, not quite so smooth on

the second and she is in third but

only a tenth of a second behind the

leader. Alex, everything to play

for, there.

This race is turning out

as we thought, the same as the men,

chopping and changing, they are

faster, not as fast, coming first or

ninth, getting the top speed and

then a slower start. Amongst the

girls, Lizzy Yarnold set a track

record but she did not have a top

speed, Jacqueline Lolling had the

top speed but she did not have the

fastest art, Chanel had the fastest

art and then Laura in the second run

was two hundredths of the fastest

downtime so they are all in the mix.

You don't know what will happen.

I

was worried about Lizzy Yarnold at

the end of the first run and you

could see her saying she felt dizzy

and the performance analyst had to

help her up and off the track and

she said afterwards she was

struggling to breathe. She is not

100% right, whatever she says.

Know

and hopefully it is nothing to worry

about but she did not look 100%. She

said that there's a lot of dust and

it is very cold and we know that she

has suffered in the past from this

problem with her balance and her

ears. She did a second run, not as

good as the first but she still

ended up right in the mix. Tomorrow

is another day.

The second run was

not just a case of one mistake, it

was all a bit...

From top to bottom,

if we are perfectly honest, it was

not great. She did not look

comfortable. She was skittish,

trying to work against the sled a

bit and maybe she needs to get down

the run, get it out of the way and

focus on tomorrow.

How impressed

were you with Laura Deas,

particularly the second run?

She was

amazing, almost the perfect run,

literally, very little you can

criticise about it and having had

not such a great first run, I think

the mental ability to come back and

really fight hard for the second one

shows that she is not going to let

anyone walk over her and I think

she's definitely one to watch

tomorrow.

Third and fourth runs to

come tomorrow morning. We will be

live with both of them... We are on

BBC Two now but we will be on BBC

One tomorrow.

Here's Paddy with the best

of the rest from Pyeongchang.

Another day, another that speed

skating gold medal, this time Esmee

Visser in the women's 5000 metres.

She was not even expected to make

the squad which tells you something

about the Netherlands' depth in this

sport, they have no won six out of

seven speed skating gold medals at

this games and a Dutchman turned

Canadian won the other one. Now to

the top seed world of the women's

freestyle aerials, only two the six

finalists landed clean jumps and one

of those was the winner, Hanna

Huskova, who picked up Belarussian's

first gold of the limpets. The

catchily titled Olympic Athletes

from Russia were fancied to win

men's ice hockey gold but lost their

first match to Slovakia. They took

their frustration out on poor old

Slovenia, finishing 8-2, and the

Americans next. It's been an

eventful few days for the Jamaican

bobsleigh team. First their coach

walked out and threatened to charge

them to use the sled, which she said

she was responsible for. Now be a

producer is providing an alternative

sled. Maybe they

sled. Maybe they will make a movie

about it one day! Ski jumping was in

the original Winter Olympics and

Robert Johansson has the moustache

of a man who might have been there

in 1924. Nothing old-fashioned in

his technique today, though, this

magnificent man turned flying

machine leads the way for Norway in

the qualifying for the large hill.

The first day Germany have not won a

gold medal but they are still at the

top of the table. We are in 21st

spot, Great Britain with our bronze.

Let's go off piste...

A bit of a theme to the various

messages we have had today, kids

being creative, curling Lego

although I'm nodule De Smidt for the

stones. A jelly bowl on the head and

a colander, good use of kitchen

utensils.

Nice body position!

And

there is the two man Bob. Look at

this, curling in the kitchen and

look at our detailed this is. They

have built a house.

Commitment.

Let's go for red-hot, ice-cold.

First up in slalom, you have been

telling us about out of all the

other.

She's not fighting it. She's

still going.

Still going, picking up

speed, still going. All of the fuss

over the VA are in football, all you

need is to be a dextrous referee.

Look at this in ice hockey, getting

in there, no goal-line technology

needed, I can see it is not a goal.

Next it is women's freestyle skiing

aerials. As Tom Petty once said, I'm

free, free falling, it has got to

hurt but what a recovery. She tried

to style it out but her is will be

burning because look at her coach!

Say what you really think!

Finally,

proof that hot countries can compete

at the Winter Olympics, this is

Nigeria in the women's skeleton.

Next it is the housewives favourite,

double's topless flag beret who put

clothes on today, finishing last but

proudly carrying the Mexican flag,

live long, the Olympic spirit!

Tomorrow's

live long, the Olympic spirit!

Tomorrow's schedule is super

exciting. What would your words B-2

Elise Christie going in the 1500

metres?

Don't overthink it, do your

thing, trust your instincts.

She is

hopefully going to have

quarterfinals, semifinals and final

tomorrow morning and the final two

runs for Laura Deas and Lizzy

Yarnold.

Possibly the most exciting

skeleton race we have ever seen,

definitely.

If that isn't

inspiration to tune in, I don't know

what is, and if you get up early,

Izzy Atkin, you will see Katie

Summerhayes as well, both of them

with World Championship medals,

going in the sling slopestyle and I

would like to mention another

programme if you want to change

weight from live sport, there is a

Winter Olympics special Pointers at

6:25pm on BBC One tomorrow. I was

competing with Jenny Jones and Amy

Williams was there as well, Robin

Cousins, Wilf O'Reilly, Jayne

Torvill, it was a heck of a line-up

so watch it! Team GB's first medal

of the games is in the bag. After

the provider. See you tomorrow. Bush

Parsons the provider.

Christie is out of it once again!