Day 8 Highlights Winter Olympics: Today at the Games

Three gold medals for Great Britain.

What a night.

Olympic long jump

champion, Greg Rutherford.

Mo Farah

for Great Britain.

Jessica Ennis is

the Olympic champion.

MUSIC

In the summer of 2012,

the nation bathed in a golden glow.

Now in the snow and the on the ice,

there was a chance to achieve

something that had never been done

before at a Winter Olympics.

Could it be Super Saturday

all over again?

Team GB had five very real

hopes of medals today,

but that's easy to say.

Worth reminding you that the last

time Britain won multiple medals

on one day at the Winter Olympics

was February 9th, 1924.

Here are the famous five

who were going for gold.

Lizzy Yarnold carried the flag

at the Opening Ceremony and has made

no secret of the scale

of her ambition.

She wants to become the first

British athlete to retain

a Winter Olympic title.

Laura Deas is right there

beside her, as the sport of skeleton

aims for two places on the podium.

At the halfway stage,

she sat just seven hundredths

of a second away from a medal.

Izzy Atkin is the youngest

member of the team.

The 19-year-old was also

eyeing slopestyle success.

And Elise Christie -

her Olympic story so far has been

one of disaster and disappointment.

Could she finally deliver

the dream result?

Four wonder women excelling

at the highest level

on the world stage.

Four women to inspire the next

generation of athletes.

Four women who are

targeting Olympic glory.

Three more women to inspire you.

I'm joined by downhill

ski racer and four-time

Olympian Chemmy Alcott,

skeleton bronze medallist

from 2002 Alex Coomber,

and three-time Olympian and former

short track speed

skater Sarah Lindsay.

First to the skeleton,

and after Runs 1 and 2 yesterday,

defending Olympic champion

Lizzy Yarnold was in third position,

one tenth of a second behind

the leader, Germany's Jacqueline

Lolling.

Laura Deas was a fraction behind

her, but in a sport of tiny margins,

one minuscule error can be

the difference between

victory and defeat.

The message was clear - slide clean.

Here's Amy Williams.

So this is it, the Olympic final,

and believe me, there's no feeling

like it and nothing means more. And

with the British women up there in

the start hut, there's a very real

chance that we could bring home two

medals, with Lizzy in third place

and Laura in force, going into the

final two runs. -- Laura in fourth

place.

COMMENTATOR:

First to go with world champion

Jacqueline Lolling. She produced a

slow beginning, slight mistakes all

the way down, and she was to lose

her lead.

her lead. That lead taken by the

wonderfully consistent Janine Flock,

three really solid runs took her to

the top.

the top. Lizzy Yarnold, the

defending Olympic champion, with a

slightly subdued heat two, was much

better in heat three, putting

herself within a hair's-breadth of

Janine Flock. Laura Deas maintained

her wonderfully consistent Olympic

Games, with the quickest run of her

three. However, she stays in fourth

place. Anna Fernstadt come at first

Olympic Games, through in her best

of three runs so far, closing

slightly on Laura Deas into fifth

place.

That's runs three done. I

That's runs three done. I wanted to

find the two important mums, the

biggest supporters.

biggest supporters. We've got Su two

and Lizzy's month. Our you feeling?

I was in bits, I didn't know whether

to be sick, or cry, or both. It was

ghastly.

And how about you, Judith?

You've been here before. She's put

you through this feeling.

We have

been through before. Yesterday was

really nervous, today, I feel so

much better, really excited, because

I know Lizzy is really good under

pressure, so I feel more relaxed and

I'm really enjoying today.

But we

are all chairing Lizzy Yarnold and

Laura Deas on, it's going mad here,

and we have one run left. He was

going to bring home the medals, and

I jolly hope it's both of them! For

their mums' sake!

COMMENTATOR:

And now we come to the potential

medallists will stop Anna Fernstadt,

improvement seen right the way

through the competition, and she's

just 14 hundredths of Jacqueline

Lolling of the moment. She needs to

do what Tina Hermann has just done.

A little bit, just slightly

controlled the skid. Like most of

the Germans, can she make it back in

these bottom three corners?

They are

good at that, aren't they? Really

good at holding speed. She keeps her

nose in front, Tina Hermann moves up

to fifth place.

Hold it together!

How are we at home? How are we all?

Laura Deas

How are we at home? How are we all?

Laura Deas goes

How are we at home? How are we all?

Laura Deas goes next for Great

Britain in fourth place. Doesn't

really tell the measure of her

consistency at this Olympic Games

and let's not forget as well, for

Laura, it's her first Olympic Games,

aged 29. Stunningly consistent, good

starter. We want

starter. We want that 51.8, or

better. First, we need the usual

good start. Can she get under 5.1?

She's got it, 5.09. Your bobbin

she's matched her start from run

three, can she hold it together now?

She's got to stay calm. She is using

her feet there. She's got quite a

big lead, but look at how there,

perfect lines, perfect sliding. Hold

it together, Laura.

Four turns up on

Tina Hermann. She's got her rise on

the medal, if she can.

And now she

carpets into the corner, perfect.

She's improved on that, we have to

hope that exit on nine was enough to

keep her moving on up the

leaderboard.

Bend 15, lovely, dead

centre, slightly high on the

entrance, to 16. She is confirmed as

fourth at the very worst. Laura Deas

has done all she can. Will it be

enough though? 51.9. I'm not sure,

would have much preferred 51.8.

She

was slowly losing time the further

she got down the track towards the

bottom. She had an incredible start,

but I think you could see she wasn't

quite as relaxed as she was on her

previous run. She knows so badly she

wants to move up. Just there, that's

what probably did it. She didn't

have the perfect line that she had

on the run before. However, she then

did perfect her steer and didn't

click. She has moved on up, she's

there, still in the in standing in

the first place.

Look how close Tina

Hermann got to her, but Laura Deas

confirmed fourth. Can it get any

better for her? Jacqueline Lolling,

two years of complete excellence.

She admitted to nerves that the very

start of the competition and they

have shown. Jacqueline Lolling has

got two 52 seconds runs to her name.

If she does that here, she's in

trouble, we wish her well because

she's had a it isn't two years,

really the world's best. How is it

looking to you?

The deficit is from

the start because Laura started so

much quicker, but she is making

little mistakes here. Is this going

to be the run that these Laura Deas

move up a medal? That big skid could

be the mistake that will give Laura

Deas what she needs to move up.

She's still building speed. I don't

know how as she comes down to the

bottom of the track.

Down to a tenth

second last curve, she's wide on it,

nothing between Jacqueline Lolling

and Laura Deas. Jacqueline Lolling

just touches Laura Deas out, she

does what she does all of the time

and that's fine speed very, very

late. She's got amazing credentials.

Jacqueline Lolling guaranteed a

medal.

The Germans are just so good

at this. They are not the best

starters in the world and yet they

build speed with every single

corner, down every single track in

the world.

Lizzy Yarnold next. The

Olympic champion. Can she make

history and win it again? First

things first, before Janine Flock

goes, Yarnold has got to stay ahead

of Jacqueline Lolling. How was she

done it?

She started well, she needs

to focus on her against the track.

Don't worry about the German all the

Austrian, she needs to put in a

perfect run. She cannot make a

mistake at all on this run.

Everything is looking good so far.

The lines are good, she has good

control. She's starting to build

speed, corn eight, drops away into

nine. This is crucial. She's got the

little took, but look at the gap.

She's got half a second. Is this the

run that's going to give her her

second gold medal and defend her as

Olympic champion?

Just bend 15 to

negotiate. She had a big lead over

Jacqueline Lolling. This could be at

least silver for Lizzy Yarnold. She

goes to the front and how! Look at a

time! 51.46, deploy all the -- to

pile the pressure on Janine Flock.

That's a gold medal winning run, I'm

sure of it. We're looking at the two

time Olympic champion.

Janine Flock

to come, what pressure is now on the

Austrian. Lizzy Yarnold, a

sensational final run. She knows it

as well.

She does know it. That was

a track record. That was

unbelievable. Yes, she made the

mistake there, but she had so much

time in her back to be able to play

with. Janine Flock is going to be up

there in the changing room, it is

silent in the changing room. She's

the only one there and she now knows

this run has to be the run of her

life to be able to take over the

lead, but I'm not sure she can do

it. I really do believe there that

Lizzy Yarnold has just put down

potentially a gold medal run. Come

on Janine, hold it together, you've

got a good push and she can do this.

Mentally she needs to focus now.

For

Austria, who have never won a medal.

Janine Flock, former world number

one, needs the run of her 28 years

to tip out Lizzy Yarnold. It looks a

big ask. She's got a decent enough

start though, 5.2 to.

That's not

going to be enough. She's made a

mistake, it will drop away. This is

how good Lizzy's run was, she's made

one mistake and she's already

behind. Can she build up as she

comes down the run? This is not bad,

staying in front of -- this is not

about her staying in front of Lizzy.

It is she going to drop behind the

silver or the bronze? This run is

good it's looking like she will hold

onto a bronze medal position --

Deas' run is good.

Where Ruiz Flock

going to finish? She goes Forth!

Lizzy Yarnold wins gold again! Laura

Deas has won bronze as well. What a

performance from Lizzy Yarnold, the

first British athlete to

successfully defend her Olympic

title and four Laura Deas, who

dreams of medals at Badminton and

Burley, she's now got one at the

Olympic Games! Janine Flock,

crestfallen. You've got to feel for

her, but Lizzy Yarnold has done it

again and a great day for Great

Britain at the Winter Olympics!

How are you feeling to back up the

medal in Sochi with another one

here?

I'm exhausted. Yesterday,

after the first run, I almost pulled

out of the competition because my

chest infection was so uncomfortable

and I couldn't breathe. So my

physio, Louis, she gave me to a

talking to and said, you can do it

and if it wasn't for every single

one of the team, my coach, Eric, I

wouldn't be here right now so I'm

hugely grateful to them.

Deep

breath. Olympic bronze medallist, an

amazing achievement at your first

Games. Honestly can't believe it's

happening. It's like a dream. I. I

knew I could do it and then... I

thought it was going to be snatched

away at the last minute and then

when Janine came down behind me I

just couldn't believe it was

happening. I'm so pleased for Lizzy,

it's a dream come true, honestly.

What else have you got left to do in

this sport?

I don't know! I just

want to take a nap!

When she wakes up from that naps...

A second gold for Lizzy Yarnold and

watching it back, even though we

knew the result, it is still

exciting, so emotional. And Alex

come you predicted the most exciting

skeleton competition ever and it

was.

You couldn't write it, if he

wanted to write a drama, it had

everything, you had agony and

ecstasy. The Olympics is all about

the unexpected and this is exactly

what we had here, the people we

thought had chances, where were

they? They weren't there. No one

really thought Lizzy Yarnold could

do it, the season she has had has

been pretty bad but it came out

there and showed that on the day,

she is so tough and it's just

incredible.

I think that is why

because she is not normally this

country does not normally go for it

like this.

She's a bright as.

She

not like Chemmy

like this.

She's a bright as.

She

not like Chemmy, here, but she was

so amazed she managed to do it and

to have Laura Deas with her on the

podium, they are great friends.

Laura, we saw her yesterday, she was

fourth, just out of the medals but

we knew she was so consistent on the

track and had the second fastest

time all day which is really good

going into other raises and she held

it together, she did not let the

situation overwhelm her. Two

medallists, it is just phenomenal.

Let's concentrate on Lizzy because

the final run was a drag record. --

track record.

She did not hang around the start,

she was great.

She knows she is in

second but only by two hundredths of

a second and this track is make or

break as we have seen, you've got to

lay down your run, be calm, stick to

your lines.

Visits our line compared

to Janine Flock.

Janine Flock on her

last run, her lines were not great

and Lizzy's lines, she took all of

the training and all the race runs

to finally work it out and when it

counted, she produced her best run.

Much as she deserves to have

defended her title and all the hard

work she has put in, I know you are

particularly pleased and proud of

Laura Deas because all the way

through, you have said she drove the

course better than anyone.

It is

always nice to see someone who has

done really well in training and has

been really consistent actually win

something because sometimes it does

not happen. She came down exactly

the same as Dom Parsons, in fourth,

she thought she had lost it but two

minutes later, she realises she is

on the podium and we can see her,

here, she does not know what to do

with herself, she never thought this

would happen. She obviously really

hoped it would but this is the

limericks, who knows what will

happen?

What you learned from all of

that is how to soak up pressure but

you learn a lot about the success

skeleton and you at the list of

medallists in recent years and that

is hugely impressive and I have to

credit you, Alex, because you

started this in the 21st-century,

you began again this desire for

success and we could do it even

though we have not got a drag.

When

I was competing, people looked at

Britain and they dismissed us, the

Americans, the Canadians, the

Germans with par tracks, the

Austrians and French got a drag and

they would look at us and say they

don't need to worry about them

because they don't have a track but

it shows that Britain, even though

we are not a winter sport country,

if we can put the right training,

equipment and support staff and find

the right people a look at what we

can achieve.

And look at how many

people were watching and enjoying

it.

Until today, there had only

been ten gold medals

at the Winter Olympics

for Great Britain.

Make that 11 and for the first time,

repeat the same name twice.

The British ice hockey dream in

stripes has been covering itself in

glory at the Olympic contest.

This

is a really good first run by the

Britons, they could be on their way

to a gold medal.

John Curry did not

put a foot wrong.

Cousins, the gold

medallist of 1980.

The people are

standing and applauding.

It is

Olympic gold for Great Britain!

Amy

Williams is the queen of speed!

Lizzy Yarnold is the Olympic

champion! My goodness.

Lizzy

Yarnold, what a performance! The

first British athlete to

successfully defend her Olympic

title!

It means that at the last

three Olympics, Great Britain is

unbeaten in the skeleton.

She's the best female short track

speed skater in the world,

but Elise Christie's Olympic journey

has been a tale of tears.

Disqualified in all three

of her events four years ago

in Sochi, and then crashing out

of the 500m here on Tuesday.

Today was the 1500 metres,

the distance at which she became

world champion a year ago.

Short track can be

the cruellest of sports.

Could Elise finally

bury those demons?

Oh, they've gone down!

And again,

turmoil for Christie!

Oh, I can't

believe it, Christie has been

penalised again.

Elise Christie does

get the chance to race the gold. A

nation holds its breath. Christie

tries to make it on the inside,

Christie crashes out! Christie is

out of it once again!

A big night short track racing

ahead, not least in this women's

1500 metres, the heat is about to

start. -- heats. Elise Christie back

on the ice for the first time since

the 500 metres final the other day,

quick run through of the runners and

riders, we have got Tifany Huot

Marchand from France, Mame Barney

from the United States, the

18-year-old, and Zhou Yang from

China, currently in second position,

number 137 but Zhou Yang is the two

time and defending Olympic champion

at this distance, Bianca Walter from

Germany, and Valerie Maltais from

Canada who finished sixth in Sochi

in this particular distance. A

reminder it is a 13.5 lap race so

Elise Christie, there, just tucked

in in third place.

Again, the

skaters jostling for position,

Valerie Maltais in the lead, Elise

Christie in third, with still ten

laps remaining, so nothing really to

worry about now as Biney of America

moves around the outside.

A reminder

that three of the six will go

through, Biney gliding around into

first place, being followed now by

the much more experienced figure of

Valerie Maltais, and Olympic silver

medallist in the relay four years

ago. Zhou Yang is third and in fifth

place at the moment, Elise Christie,

biding her time, Zhou Yang moves the

outside. Bianca Walter from Germany

tries to follow her up into second

place at the moment, behind the

defending Olympic champion. Christie

is still back in fifth.

Obviously

she feels very comfortable at the

speed at the moment. Six laps to go.

One, two and three will qualify so

she really needs to start thinking

about making a move. You can see the

Canadian also having a thought as

well, moving through on the outside.

Now they are starting to wind it up

with five to go, Zhou Yang on the

front and Bianca Walter skating

here. Valerie Maltais in third

place, Maame Biney Borth, Chris

Davis, trying to go on the inside of

Maame Biney now, a bit of a gap back

to them from the front three, Zhou

Yang staying out of trouble, the

Olympic champion on the front.

Valerie Maltais in second place,

then Walter and now Christie starts

to show some of her speed that we

know she has got in her legs.

Christie around the outside, draws

up level with the Olympic champion

from China, and Elise Christie

swooping around at the bell, into

first place. Much more like it from

the world champion. Elise Christie

now can ease off a little bit. She

knows she is going through. That was

a tremendous return to the ice after

what happened the other day, safely

through to the semifinal, Elise

Christie of Great Britain.

Here we go, Elise Christie needs to

finish in the first two to get into

the Olympic final.

The question is,

what will she do? Wilshere that the

same tactics as he did in the first

round? Not doing very much, leaving

it for a final burst of speed at the

end? I'm fairly convinced, looking

up the field, there's no real

specialist 1500 metres skaters in

the race -- looking at. That is

probably the tactics, the race plan,

what she will adapt to. Choi

Minjeong sat comfortably behind

Christie in fifth place, Christie in

fourth, with China one and two.

In

the first race of the day, Christie

was confident enough in her speed to

bide her time early on in the laps

which is what she has done initially

year, just moving up a little bit

now, moving in front of Valerie

Maltais into second place, we have

Li Jinyu and Chu-Young of China at

the front at the moment with

Christie in third. She has got to

finish in the first two, here. Just

moving into second place behind Li

Jinyu, the world bronze medallist in

the junior championship last year.

Type up the front, not much room,

the two Chinese athletes dominating.

-- tight at the front. Seven to go.

Christie skating Neisse lines going

into the turn, not going into tight

and not getting squeezed on the

first block, that happened in the

500 and she is still looking very

comfortable indeed, as Valerie

Maltais tries to attack around the

outside.

Valerie Maltais moving

round the outside and suddenly

Christie looking a bit boxed in as

Valerie Maltais making her move, so

she leaves from Zhou Yang and Li

Jinyu and Christie now with four

laps to go. At the front, Valerie

Maltais, sixth in Sochi in 2014, got

a bit of a gap, she's going for a

longer one. Zhou Yang is there and

Christie has work to do now. Choi

Minjeong comes around the outside,

towards the front. Christie comes

through the inside. Good move from

her, two laps to go, Christie and

join it and neck in second, Christie

a bit patient, then, she does not

want to crash. Now the race is on as

they take the Bell, Christie in

third place, Choi Minjeong leads the

way and it is between Zhou Yang and

Christie now as they come round the

final bend and they both crash!

Christie has crashed again now in

the semifinal, right on the final

bend, yet again, she ends up in a

distraught heap on the floor, she

was almost there, she was almost

about to qualify, she could see the

line in front of her and once more,

Elise Christie, this time, tangling

with one of the Chinese athletes,

ends up on the deck against the

padding at the side of the track.

Choi Minjeong qualifies first, Petra

Jaszapati of hungry in second place.

Zhou Yang, the defending Olympic

champion was third. Valerie Maltais

was fourth, Li Jinyu this and

unfortunately and sadly from a

British perspective, Elise Christie

is on the ground and has crossed the

line.

We know she has been taken to

hospital and has gone for a scan, on

what, we don't know. From where you

were sitting, how did it look?

what, we don't know. From where you

were sitting, how did it look?

The

penalty was right but she gave it

our best shot. I was quite concerned

with whether or not she would have

had a cut on her right ankle, on the

inside of the right ankle. Whether

it is broken or whether she is cut,

we will have to wait and see.

She

went to hospital and had an x-ray

and she is fine, there is no

and she is fine, there is no bone

hurting so she said. Does she think

she will race on Tuesday. Hopefully,

we will see.

And incredibly distressing day and

you watched it all unfold. The good

news is Elise Christie is all right,

no bones broken, clean x-rays but

the damage to her confidence, the

damage to her dreams at everything,

really, is extreme.

Yes, it is going

to be tough for her to turn around,

the way it has unfolded for her so

far. Obviously, she does not have

any broken bones and hopefully her

ankle is OK because there can be

other problems there but fingers

crossed. You don't get stretchered

off for nothing but she has got a

medical team and they will all be

running around to make sure they get

her fit for Tuesday.

Hugely

upsetting for you to see this and

for Elise

upsetting for you to see this and

for Elise, who had pinned so much on

getting the Olympics right this time

around.

I think what you are seeing

is a mixture of her being in pain

and hurting herself but also, just

the utter devastation. You can see

it flashed before your eyes very

quickly and you just see yourself

losing it.

She was within sight of

the finish line, this is the very

last bend.

The very last corner and

it is super quick and she's just

coming out of the corner, very close

to the barrier. She fell and hit the

pads with her feet which is quite a

dangerous way to full and she did

not have enough time to turn around

and take a body impact so she went

in the first, which to hold your

ankle strong is quite difficult.

From a tactical point of view, what

did you do want to get herself in

that position?

The race was pretty

good, she was in good position the

whole race, maybe a bit too relaxed.

I don't want to speak out of turn

but she did not quite seem up for it

enough. She was very confident and

may be trying to hold a bit back,

just expecting kick to get through

to the final because on paper, she

definitely should but she left

herself a lot to do in the last lap.

As it happened, Choi Minjeong went

ahead and won the final pretty

impressively and actually, Li Jinyu

who had been involved in the crash

took the medal so it was a hot

semifinal. Desperately disappointing

and we hope she will recover but to

be honest, it would not be the

biggest shock if she is not able to

skate on Tuesday but we will find

out nearer the time.

Some sports are firmly

in the science department and others

are way more about art.

Ski slopestyle is in the arty bag.

It's about perforamance and pizazz

and this is only the second time

it's been included in the Olympics,

but in Katie Summerhayes

and Izzy Atkin, Britain had two

chances at a medal on skis -

a rare thing indeed.

Take a pinch of attitude, a slice of

style, a large portion of air, with

a handful of ski. Give it all a

whirl in the mix around there you

have it, the Atkins diet. Izzy has

been regularly dining out on the

podium, taking a silver at the X

Games last month. Katie Summerhayes

is about to drop in. We've got a

great crew of British supporters

here today for both the goals.

Before we get too excited, they have

to qualify through to that final.

Izzy 's first run didn't go

according to plan but she dished up

a superb second helping which saw

her qualify in fourth place. Katie

has been struggling with an ankle

injury but her runs have all the

ingredients to make the finals. She

was incredibly smooth on the rail

section and made it through in tenth

position. Qualifying also served up

a surprise, as the reigning Olympic

champion, Dara Howell, was unable to

secure a spot on the menu for the

final. Yes, happy? Because that was

a bit stressful.

Yeah, I was.

And

you, both of you through.

The format

was very simple, three runs, the

best run will count. Fifth place

qualifier Matilda Rowe. Really nice.

Still very technical. Beautiful.

A

silky 900.

It was, very smooth.

First of the double corks. There it

is. I don't think it will be any

surprise to see her move into the --

Dizzy Mathilde Gremaud oh move into

the top spot.

Sarah Hoefflin put

down a strong run and was sitting in

silver medal position after one run.

Katie and Izzy both landed their

runs but had room for improvement

going into run two.

Katie

Summerhayes, Sheffield steel, she's

been told by the GB physio it may

not be in her best interests to

ride. Her ankle is giving her a lot

of pain. And there is the hundred

and 50 out, that's nice.

Beautiful.

Really solid rails from Summerhayes.

She's got that slide really nicely,

she's locked those two together. And

a big 900. She punches that air.

Come on, Katie Summerhayes!

Come on, Katie Summerhayes! 71.4.

Yeah, a little nod overhead there.

It pushes her rent to fourth

position. Next to drop, Isabel

Atkin.

Atkin. Lovely 450 off.

Really nice.

The seven, landed much cleaner than

last time.

Yeah, the judges looking

for spins in different directions.

The nine is clean.

Left side, right

side spins, now switch. 900 on the

bottom job.

It's very, very tidy.

79.4. Izzy Atkin moves into the

third and final runs in bronze medal

position.

At the end of the second

runs none of the latest skiers had

bettered Izzy's score and she

remained in third. Sarah Hoefflin

was in second position and Mathilde

Gremaud oh in first.

He's looked

this good on the rails every single

time but it's the last jump that has

eluded her. The focus and the

pressure boils down to the kickers.

Lovely nine on the first hit.

Really

nice.

nice.

She's got that one.

Yeah.

Can

she hold it together when it

matters? She's gone big. She can,

and very, very clean run. 82. --

81.2. She bumps Izzy Atkin down to

fourth. Sarah Hoefflin has the style

and technicality to take the top

spot. Very tidy. Maybe not the

cleanest rail jumps but there were

no mistakes there.

Lovely style. Lovely style.

Big

grab, really snatching up the 1080.

Was it 900? I got a little bit lost.

And gets it round!

Sarah Hoefflin,

very, very strong run there.

very, very strong run there. 91.2,

into gold medal position.

Katie

Summerhayes was clearly struggling

with an injured ankle and wasn't

able to improve on her second run.

Isabel Atkin, what has she got in

her run? Pat Sharples, just said

you're an absolute boss, your skiing

amazing.

Clean as, that's the

advice, just clean this run up. The

biggest run of her life starts now.

Mechanical with the 450. Laid it

down beautifully. Locks that in so

beautifully, because she comes up

from the side and tilt the skis on

to it.

Yeah.

Oh, and the gap over.

This money is flowing for her now.

Dare I say it, the best rails we've

seen from her. The 720 years there.

Now, come on, Izzy Atkin. 900 is

their! Final jump.

I'll! And its super-clean.

Bigger

and cleaner run from Izzy, that

might bump her back into the medals.

That third-place! 84.6, so with

three skiers left to drop Izzy Atkin

is in bronze medal position.

Norway's Joanna Killy put down a

solid run which pushed Katie into

seventh position but it didn't score

highly enough to trouble Izzy. Just

two skiers stood between her and a

bronze medal.

So two skiers left to

drop. Tyrol fast at Christiansen,

currently on a 24 sheet, but very

clean runs down but hasn't managed

to put a last trick down. Can she

make amends now? The second of the

Norwegians.

Really high, that rail.

You don't get a sense of how high it

is from that camera angle. A big

leap on through the kink.

Winds up

last jump. It's short. Really short.

Oh! Very difficult to call and Izzy

Atkin can't watch.

No, she's gone.

Two scores away from a bronze medal.

60.4, now only one score away from a

bronze medal with the first place

qualifier Emma Dahlstrom yet to

drop. She looked so relaxed in

qualifying but the pressure is

telling now on the third and final

run. She's yet to land a run. Can

she do it now, when it counts? The

fourth hundred and 50 off exactly

the same as Izzy Atkin. -- the 450

off exactly the same as Izzy Atkin.

Oh no! She's down. And that, ladies

and gentlemen, confirms the medals.

Great Britain's Izzy Atkin takes a

bronze. Mathilde Gremaud Hollande

Sarah Hoefflin make it a 1-2-macro

in silver and for Switzerland.

Sarah Hoefflin make it a 1-2-macro

in silver and for Switzerland.

So

you realise you are the first on

skis to have done this.

Yeah, that's

amazing. It definitely hasn't

settled in yet, but I'm really proud

and really happy to be part of Rat

Team GB.

She's a bit of a

perfectionist, she tried to put all

her tricks as clean as possible. She

came to the last run, it was

perfect.

We have Izzy's parents and

sister withers. Firstly how are you

feeling right now?

Very happy, very

happy, and a little bit in shock,

but very happy.

We weren't quite

expecting her to medal, frankly.

Hoping that it might be possible, so

obviously were extraordinarily

delighted. Slowly,

slowly sinking in.

How is this, to

have two girls in the top ten and a

medal in ski slopestyle, for the

first time ever?

You know, in lots

of ways it was something I would

have dreamt that wouldn't have --

that would have been a best case

scenario. I was like, no, just keep

your eye on the ball.

How might you

celebrate?

Karaoke.

What's your Song

of choice?

Usually Katy Perry, one

of her songs.

Massive

congratulations. High fives that.

They are so cool, those slopestyle

skiers, aren't they?

Yeah,

definitely.

How much will that do

for the uptake of kids wanting to do

tricks in this country?

It's huge.

80% of these freestyle athletes who

are dominating came from an

artificial snow background so they

practice on these slopes they have.

There are six snow domes in them

with rails in them and they do

nights every week so you can try.

Extended highlights from about six

that -- from about 8:30pm. This is

the kind of thing you can expect,

because it doesn't always go to

plan. But when the jobs come off

there are extraordinary and

particularly when they going

backwards to a job, how difficult is

that?

It's amazing, they are going

in switch so they have the speed but

have to look over their shoulder to

see where they are going and switch

in the yeah but it increases the

degree of difficulty which is what

we want to see.

You do have to have

extreme bounce ability. The bronze

meant three medals were one on one

day in the Winter Olympics for the

British team first time ever.

Mr T has been on the line,

demanding we show some curling.

So here's Paddy with

the curling cognizance.

The slow motion tension of the

curling arena is growing day by day.

The semifinals are rolling into

view. After a day off the ice at

tricky day Ford team your head

against Denmark. Eve and the gang

seemed rusty until end six.

A nice

throw, what we are looking for.

The

key was restricting the Danes to one

the end. The chance to score.

Eve

Muirhead looks as though she's done

the job there. Taps that one out of

the house.

It finished 7-6 but Korea

will be tougher. It was 4-4 going

into end nine. Eve Muirhead was

aiming to take one here, but the

early frantic sweeping was a bad

sign.

Wow, wow, wow.

That's a big

disappointment.

Two down, want to

go, big trouble and the final

mistake was a popular one in the

gang number arena.

A poor day at the

office for the GB team.

They played

well, we have to regroup and come

back tomorrow.

That left GB joint

fourth and with work to do, only the

top four make the semis. Kyle Smith

also facing Korea but the hosts were

bottom in the men's competition. The

time to be scoring, whatever you do,

don't give your opponents two.

Oh,

no. It was a tough situation and

it's becoming incredibly

challenging.

That mistake was still

fresh when a team ranked ten places

below GB made things really

embarrassing.

Looking very good.

Well, that's 34 Korea. I'm not sure

we'll gone much further here.

Britain shook hands and heads off to

end nine. Kyle Smith and go down

insects, so what happened?

We

started out well just a few key

misses let the game away from us to

be honest. Where disappointed.

It's OK, it's not live.

Two, heh.

Yes.

Cheers.

That famous line, it is OK, it is

not live but it still might get into

24 and if you pose beings with your

baby...

I'm a are pushy mum!

Think of the biggest sporting star

in this country and then times

the adoration and the attention

by a hundred, and you get close

to how much figure skater

Yazuru Hanyu is revered in Japan.

The defending champion set

a new Olympic record

in the short programme.

Now for the free programme

to decide the men's singles.

Now for the free programme

to decide the men's singles.

The men's final was destined to be

one for the history books and the

arc of this would not be

disappointed.

After a disastrous

short programme, America's true king

of the quads, Nathan Chen, finally

came out to play, firing on all

cylinders, he delivered an

unprecedented six quad jumps in a

single performance, moving him up

from 17th placed a bet.

History has

been made, six quadruple jumps.

Place to fifth. Vincent Zhou poll of

five quads which put him into the

top six.

Five quads, if we had not

seen six from Nathan Chen, we would

be up out of our seats, the

brilliance is making us complacent.

Next up, China's Jin Boyang, who

gave a solid if safe performance.

Triple toe loop and down, completely

off kilter on the take-off. Does not

inspire as an overall performance.

Going Galactic, Jin Boyang is

rocketing into the medals for now.

But the best skaters were still to

come. So do the man with the Golden

Belt, 20 Yuzuru Hanyu, bidding to

become the first skater to retain

the Olympic title since 1952. The

darling of the Japanese super fans,

he had history in his gloved hands.

Second jump is the quadruple

Salchow.

Lee has got it.

Salchow.

Lee has got it.

Exquisite

quadruple toe loop.

There were

worries about his ankle injury and a

couple of stumbles to free the

nerves but his lead after the short

programme and a total of four quads

kept him out of reach.

He is

unearthly, enchant it out on the

ice!

Gold may have been impossible

for Fernandez of Spain but he was

hoping for a first Olympic medal at

his final Games.

The performance is

glorious and he is still at home out

there and he delivers.

Last but by

no may -- no means least was Yuzuru

Hanyu's young team-mate Shoma Uno,

who had a chance to take a place on

the podium and a possible Japanese

one-two.

Down on the first of his

quads, the loop.

Could that be the

medal gone?

Quadruple toe loop,

double toe loop, not the best

landing on the double.

It is a

Japanese one-two, and have the

Fernandez will have to settle for

the bronze. -- Javier Fernandez.

History made.

Back-to-back Olympic

titles.

Figure skating is so

beautiful and you can see it on BBC

Four.

If you could take up another winter

sport now, what would it be?

I would need to find some friends

but ice hockey.

Getting lots of cool

points.

Alex the albatross, ski

jumping.

You would go a long way. We

have had two ski jumping

competitions. One to go at visit it

is the turn of the men on the large

hill think about Alex.

# Got to fly

# You've got to fly. #

Ski jumping is a sport of great

distances and yet tiny margins,

inches and twitches matter. You

score points for how far you jump,

of course, but also for how you do

it, with marks awarded for style. In

the large hill competition, legend

Debbie Lieber, Switzerland's Simon

the large hill competition, legend

Debbie Lieber, Switzerland's Simon

Ammann never really took off this

time. Poland's reigning champion

Kamil Stoch lead after the first but

look out for Robert Johansson. You

can hardly miss him, after all, he

has the whiskers of a flying ace. We

join him before his second and final

jump. Over to Ollie Williams.

COMMENTATOR: Here it is, the

moustache belt around the world,

Robert Johansson. He says the

aerodynamics of fine, it might have

been planning cheek but it is what

is outside the cheek that counts. It

is long but he's a bit disappointed,

he wanted a few more metres. If ever

anyone looked like they should be

flying through the air for a living,

it is Robert Johansson. He's in

first, for now. 275.3. It is enough

when added to his first-round score

by two marks. Here is last week's

Olympic champion, Andreas Wellinger.

Oh, it's good! It's good from

Andreas Wellinger! 142 metres. Wow!

He has the normal Hill gold. Surely

he is going into the large hill

lead? He is! 282.3. First place

again for Andreas Wellinger. One

left to jump. The 2014 Olympic

champion, Poland's Kamil Stoch.

Hearts in mouths.

Oh, it's long again! Will that be

enough to deprive Andreas Wellinger

of the double? 136.5 so it is backed

by about five metres from Andreas

Wellinger's second jump. If he was

not wearing gloves one inch thick,

he would be cheering through his

nails. It is gold, gold for Kamil

Stoch!

Stoch! 285.7, a three point, four

point gap, the judges just love the

way this man jumps, and Kamil Stoch

wins gold again.

Kamil Stoch lead to the defence of

his title, his third Olympic gold,

Germany's Andreas Wellinger was

second and bronze number two at

these games for that man Robert

Johansson.

The great news for Alex is that ski

jumpers go on and on.

Noriaki Kasai finished 33rd

at his eighth Olympics and he's

still got the team event to come,

plus he says he'll keep

going beyond his 50th birthday.

I'll nip out and get my skis on.

Exactly, you are nowhere near.

Now to women's super-G.

After the downhill, this

is the fastest Alpine discipline,

so cue Lindsey Vonn and cue Chemmy.

Thanks, Clare.

Well, Lindsey Vonn was first

out of the start hut.

She

out of the start hut.

She was

out of the start hut.

She was flying.

out of the start hut.

Until a huge mistake on the lower

part of the course meant her time

was within reach for the rest

of the field.

That could ruin her chance of a

medal.

Italian Johanna Schnarf came

to South Korea in good form

after a second place in the last

super-g before the Games.

She put down a solid

run to take the lead.

Another favourite for a podium

place was Lara Gut.

The Swiss skier has focused

on super-g this season and it showed

as she took the lead

after a smooth run.

Tina Weirather from Liechtenstein

was looking for her

first Olympic medal.

She put in a technically sound run

to beat her good friend Gut by one

hundredth of a second

and take the lead.

Reigning Olympic super-g

Champion Anna Veith got off

to a fast start and didn't let up

as she looked to defend her title.

And it looked as though she'd done

just that as she edged out Weirather

by a tenth of a second.

But late starter and World

Champion snowboarder

Esther Ledecka had other ideas.

Skiing from bib number 26,

and on borrowed skis,

the Czech put down the run

of her life to take the gold by just

one hundredth of a second

to complete one of the biggest

shocks in Winter Olympic history.

She's done it!

It's a result that

shocked the skiing world,

and Ester Ledecka herself!

You are the winner.

No!

You are!

She did not

She did not believe or think she

could win and she did not see the

scoreboard and she was so unprepared

for success that when she turned up

to the press conference, she was

still wearing goggles.

She was upset

the other girls had make-up in the

bag because they expected to win and

he did not have any make up so she

wore the goggles. It was not a

publicity stunt, she just felt

self-conscious.

Agger was really

cross she was missing snowboard

training.

She was like, all the

media is great but I'm missing three

snowboard training runs the next

week. Two very different skills but

she is managing to excel at both

which we all love and even Lindsey

Vonn said it is really tough for her

because she is only bigoted one

thing and she was beaten.

I want to

see her reaction to get because I'm

not ever seen a world champion who

is so nonplussed.

No!

You won.

She

was like that for about two minutes,

going no, it can't have happened.

She thought something was wrong with

a time in the Olympic Games.

Nothing

is going to be broken!

Here's Paddy Gearey with the best

of the rest from Pyeongchang.

Here's Paddy Gearey with the best

of the rest from Pyeongchang.

Last lap of the final of the 1000

metres short track speed skating,

one of those wiped out by cruel

chance, Elise Christie's boyfriend,

Shaolin Sandor Liu, Canadian Samuel

Girard stayed clear to win. Always a

bit of spice when the Russians and

Americans play ice hockey, Olympic

Athletes from Russia are not

officially representing their

nation, of course, but they are

officially in the quarterfinals

after beating the USA 4-0. Few

Winter Olympians have been as much

in six months as Britain's Lloyd

Wallace. In August, he was in a coma

after a skiing accident. Today, he

competed in the men's aerials, and

taking part for him was a remarkable

victory. Over to the women's 12.5 K

mass. Biathlon and from the mass

start to the finish, Slovakia's

Anastasiya Kuzmina was winning, her

third middle of the games, but when

it comes to medals, nobody beats

Magic Marit Bjoergen who powered no

way to go in the five kilometre

relay, her third winter in a big

medal, equalling the record, one

more race for her to go, can the

iron Lady make history?

After the greatest day in British

Winter Olympic history, we are in 16

spot, just below Belarus with one

gold and three bronze medals, all

the gold medals won by different

countries today, none of them by

Germany but they stay top. Let's go

off beast. -- off

piste. And start with Lizzy Yarnold

on Instagram, the double Olympic

champion, won the Olympics, again.

She's all about inspiring little

girls and it is working, check out

this home-made podium with the dog

and the dolly getting a medal as

well. Ice hockey is the choice of

sport to be Sidebottom house.

Something is going to get broken.

This is Jack and his superheroes in

Bobsleigh action. This little girl

has found new love of housework

through curling. From prop

improvisation, here is Hannah

practising the skeleton indoors on

her car seat. That is really good,

clever. Ross taking the skeleton at

the top of the Kenna Mountain is.

This was said to you. We reckon

Alfie the dog has the speed to get

gold. Here he comes!

Amazing!

These

boys are enjoying watching. I think

it is a great shame... And happy Mac

team Reynolds prove that speed

skating around the kitchen table is

not any easier than it is on the

eyes. Ouch! And what about this four

double luge training, Beijing 2022?

Here they come. Red hot, ice-cold.

First up men's ski jump.

As we know, it's a long way down

from the top and it's a hard fall.

Just got to make sure

you get up and try again

like Italian Davide Bresadola.

No, it's not The Stig.

It's Latvian Lelde Preiedulena.

We know it's cold in Korea,

but this has got to hurt.

Next, it's women's slopestyle.

It's always good to go big,

but maybe

sometimes not too big.

Everything in moderation.

And finally, it's always the little

things in life that tickle,

especially our very own Ed Leigh.

I'm sorry, juniors!

We have lost Ed,

everyone!

-- a genius.

She was

prepared with a forehand with was

brilliant.

prepared with a forehand with was

brilliant.

Look who else was prepared for an

Olympic gold medal.

I promised that

if Lizzy Yarnold one gold, I would

start the toga party and on

delivering even though I be a very

silly.

What chances of another gold

medal in the early hours? Radradra

James Woods has been amazing in

training, we know he's completely

comfortable, and Pat is excited we

are behind him. Would you wear the

toga again if he wins a gold medal?

I can't do it every medal, I'm

confident but I'm behind the team.

You are going out to South Korea.

Are not wearing this in -20, though.

I think that would be best. Thank

you to all of you, we will be back

at 70 with another round-up of all

of the action. The winter wonders,

but I suspect that nothing can beat

today because today was the day that

history was made, the first British

double Olympic champion, the first

time we have won more than one medal

and the first time Chemmy Alcott has

appeared in a toga on TV. Good

night.

Great Britain's Izzy Atkin takes a

bronze.

Laura Deas goes next for

Great Britain. Laura Deas has done

all she can. Will it be enough?

Lizzy Yarnold next. The Olympic

champion, can she make history?

Lizzy Yarnold wins gold again!