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I am the dreadful menace, the one whose win is done. The haunting | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
chill upon your neck, I am the conundrum. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
A very good start indeed for Great Britain. Amy Williams is the queen | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
of speed! Oh, and they have all gone! He is over. And the United | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
States has beaten the Soviet Union! She has done it! That's it! | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
Hello and welcome back to Sochi and the British team are still | :00:54. | :01:08. | |
celebrating after Jenny Jones's bronze medal, which has given the | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
best ever start for a British team at the Winter live. This is our home | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
for our highlights programme and during the course of this, we will | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
bring you up-to-date on absolutely everything that has been going on | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
down in the coastal cluster, at the sliding Centre and in the mountains. | :01:26. | :01:26. | |
Here is here is what is coming up. We are heading for the bumpy hills | :01:27. | :01:45. | |
for the final run in the men's moguls. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
There was drama at the short track with Jack Welbourne setting a new | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
British record, to put himself in medal contention. | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
And as the curling started, we will catch up with both the British men's | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
and women's teams. So, lots to pack in between now and | :02:07. | :02:19. | |
eight o'clock but first of all, we are heading straight back to a | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
packed... The Russian fans are getting excited but it is that Maple | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Leaf, the Canadians who have a lot to shout about. Graham Bell is there | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
at the finish area. How do you see the medals going? I think that | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
Canada are pretty much guaranteed a medal. They've got three through in | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
the second round, one, two and three. The Russian got a massive | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
cheer and hopefully, we can see him squeeze through. They go in reverse | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
order on the second run to the top six will be reversed. It means the | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
last three to scheme will all be Canadians. It's going to be an | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
interesting battle between the reigning champion and the new kid on | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
the block, Michael Kingsbury. They don't train together. They don't | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
necessarily get on that well together so it could be an | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
interesting battle within Canada. Then we got the Russian missile as | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
well, who could upset them all. Graham, just for people tuning in | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
now, and who have not seen mogul before, explain what they have to do | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
and how much it is a balance between speed and style. | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
Speed counts for 25% of the mark only. The two jumps account for 25% | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
of the mark. The real essence of mogul is in the turns. If you look | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
at how close the feet are together, how close the knees are together, if | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
there is any deviation from that, if a ski comes flicking away, if skis | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
cross, then that will be a deduction in the mark. What you need to see is | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
good, clean skiing. We saw a lot of out-of-control skiing in round one. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Being fast doesn't necessarily guarantee you will go through. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
It looks like another warm night. How is it in terms of the snow | :04:21. | :04:34. | |
conditions and for actual skiing? It got quite warm today. The Russian | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
hat isn't on tonight so it is not that cold but it is perfect for | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
mogul skiing. He needed slightly soft, then you can get the skis | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
bouncing through the ruts and bumps slightly faster than if it is just | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
sheet ice all the way from top to bottom. I think that the conditions | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
denied are absolutely perfect for mogul skiing. Think we are going to | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
see a demonstration from the Canadian team. You saw there, the | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
line-up of the final six. They will be the men fighting it out for the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
medals. Three from Canada, one from Kazakhstan, one from the USA and one | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
from Russia, who almost certainly will get the biggest cheer of the | :05:15. | :05:15. | |
lot. Thank you, Claire. The judges are | :05:16. | :05:34. | |
lined up. Lots of pressure on them now. Four of pressure on them now. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
For the mother kidnapped turns, two of them are not get the air. Turns | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
make up 50% of the mark. -- for Rotherham are looking at the turns. | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
It will be the American who will get things underway. They are jammed in | :05:55. | :06:06. | |
here. It... 250 metres long. They cover the mogul field in around 25 | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
seconds. The final flakes of snow are scraped off the skis. They need | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
to be cleaned. The first man is ready to go. He was the bronze | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
medallist at the world Championships last time. He is visualising his | :06:30. | :06:42. | |
aerial manoeuvres. He looks pretty cool and calm, Patrick Deneen. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Sometimes it's good to go first in a situation like this. A 26-year-old | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
American. He is ready to ski for the final time. Waiting for the count. | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
Patrick Deneen gets phase three underway. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Nine turns. Jump another one. Pretty good. We got the landing down. Now | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
he goes to work, through the bumps. He's absorbing everything that's | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
coming his way. He's always the fastest man from top to bottom. It | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
looks like he might be again. Massive distance on that final | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
floating jump. A good start to the final. And Deneen sets the pace. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
That is nearly two seconds inside pace time. | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
He sits down on the comfy chair with his coach, to contemplate what was | :07:48. | :07:58. | |
good and what was not so good. He just got that final lateral rotation | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
round. The skis were a little separated as he touched the snow on | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
landing there. He wasn't in full control for the entire run between | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
the two kickers. This was a good finish. Backflip, iron Cross. I | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
don't think it is going to win a gold medal but he might, you never | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
know, hang on for a medal of some description. He is certainly in gold | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
medal position at the moment. This 25-year-old from Kazakhstan has | :08:27. | :08:51. | |
had a cracking competition so far. He has barely foot -- put a foot | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
wrong. He could get in amongst the medals. That was a little scrappy, | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
coming to the first kicker. A full twisting back somersault but it was | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
not perfect. Maybe his luck has run out. These are good turns down the | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
central mogul lying. He is really turning it on after the early | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
mistake. A solid landing. Not as fast as his predecessor but under 25 | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
seconds. Dmitri Reiherd keeping the Kazakhstan supporters in raptures at | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
the moment. His job is done. Down to the judges now. Just a little | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
mistake of the final turn before he set the skis straight to take the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
kicker. He didn't seem to be in full control. Will it be enough to move | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
him ahead of Patrick Deneen? It is going to be tight. 22.8, he | :09:50. | :10:27. | |
leads. He is in gold medal position for the moment. | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
What pressure here on Alex... He goes about his work now. Full | :10:35. | :10:50. | |
twisting back somersault. A solid landing. Down the central mogul is. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Just a loss of control with the right to ski pole. The judges will | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
have spotted that. Now he is back in the groove. Fast speed. Kicker | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
number two coming his way. He goes for the double tip round. He crosses | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
the line in 24.94. Not perfect. It should be good enough for first, I | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
think. I reckon that will be our new leader in the men's moguls final. | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
They are going crazy here. They Russian on the verge of moving into | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
gold medal position. That is where he stabbed his poll | :11:30. | :11:42. | |
and lost full control for a split second but this is worth seeing | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
again. P goes. Hands forward. Beautifully done. That will be the | :11:50. | :11:59. | |
new leader here. By how much? 24 plus would give him a shot. It wants | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
to 24.34. Just the three Canadian flat to come. Just the Olympic | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
champion, the world champion and Gagnon, who has been in incredible | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
form, irresistible form tonight. The one two, three at the moment. The | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
defending champion is ready to go for the final time. Alexandre | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
Bilodeau for Canada. The winner in Vancouver four years ago. As | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Mesquite perfectly tonight, and he produces best when required at the | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
last round? -- has not skied perfectly tonight. This is | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
brilliant. This is why years the Olympic champion with three World | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Cup wins this season. That is massive. Incredible run. That will | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
put him in Gold medal position and in doing so guarantees him another | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
medal with two to come. Even the Russians are applauding that. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Alexandre Bilodeau saving his best until his final, incredible run. He | :13:20. | :13:34. | |
was up there for ever. The turns in the middle part of the course were | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
electric. That is the best of Alexandre Bilodeau right when it | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
matters the most. He soars above the snow and into the night sky. 24.34 | :13:47. | :13:58. | |
is the score to beach to push Alexandr Smyshlyaev down into silver | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
medal position. Yes, 26.31, he will get another medal with just the | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
other two Canadians left to go. Gagnon next and then Kingsbury. The | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Canadians are celebrating, the clean sweep is still on four of them, they | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
have got two out of three for the women, they have got one out of | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
three so far. Patrick Deneen moves away as they take their positions. | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
Gagnon has skied superbly organised. One more time. One more run. Onto | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
the hill. Nine turns before the first kicker. He goes. Not the | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
perfect landing, but then he goes to work. This is her Alexandre Bilodeau | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
with that is best. Hasn't been totally without fault so far for | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
Gagnon, and he approaches the second kicker and throws himself higher. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
Beautiful landing, nothing wrong with the two aerial manoeuvres. Were | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
the turns sharp enough? He is slightly beyond pace time. Not sure | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
it is good enough to dislodge Alexandre Bilodeau from second | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
place. I got feeling suggests that was good enough, potentially, for a | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
third blaze, bronze medal provisionally with just one man to | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
come. -- for third place. This is how it started, floating around with | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
the full twisting, back somersault. The landing was OK. One or two | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
shovels from side to side, but I think that is good enough for bronze | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
with just Kingsbury to come. If it is bronze medal position, then there | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
will be a massive roar because that means that Alexandr Smyshlyaev, | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
well, let us not second guess the judges! It felt like a third-place | :16:09. | :16:20. | |
performance from Gagnon. If it is, then Alexandr Smyshlyaev was | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
guaranteed a medal. It is third-place for Gagnon. Bronze medal | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
position with one to come, and that is reason to celebrate for Russia, | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
because they are guaranteed a medal, and Alexandr Smyshlyaev can | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
finish no worse than third. Alexandre Bilodeau will get at least | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
the silver, but he won the gold, he wants to be the first man to win | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
back-to-back Olympic bumps titles. The last man on the Hill, world | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
champion in 2013, hoping to become Olympic champion in 2014. On his | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
way, a good start, two lateral rotation, and a great landing, and | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
he is opening up the speed to full throttle. A couple of sideways | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
twitches. A wobble here and there, not perfect. Solid landing and a | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
straight line to finish. He is inside the pace time. Where will | :17:38. | :17:47. | |
that put him? Well it be Alexandre Bilodeau's gold again? They're not | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
the best of friends, but they have a huge amount of respect for each | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
other. Alexandre Bilodeau at the moment is in gold. Alexandr | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
Smyshlyaev hold silver, Gagnon in bronze position. How well Mikael | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Kingsbury go? The last ban on the mountain. Not perfect, Mr couple of | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
poll plants. Good enough for a medal? It felt possibly like a | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
bronze winning run, maybe he will finish in fourth place. Who knows. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
The second area was magnificent and the landing was as cool as you like. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
When Alexandre Bilodeau win the gold? I think that is certain. I do | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
not thinking break and beat him. Kingsbury has got the silver medal! | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
He will settle for that, and Alexandre Bilodeau makes a bit of | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
history, becoming the first skier ever to win back-to-back Olympic | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
moguls titles. No one has done that before. Alexandre Bilodeau has just | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
done that for Canada, and it is one, two, as Kingsbury takes the silver. | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
The gold and a silver for Canada with Alexandre Bilodeau and | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Kingsbury in the men's and much to celebrate for the host nation, as | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Alexandr Smyshlyaev takes the bronze medal. Gagnon finishing in the worst | :19:19. | :19:32. | |
possible place, down in four. The Canadians taking four of the six | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
available Olympic moguls paddles. And a little bit of history along | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
the way. The double world Alan Biggs champion is Alexandre Bilodeau from | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Canada. What a night of skiing here. -- the double world Olympic | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
champion. And Canada celebrates. Alex | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
Bilodeau, what a fantastic performance. How to defend your | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
title! What an awesome run from Alex Bilodeau, he started off quite | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
slowly this evening, his first run wasn't great, but he picked it up. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
He was so clean all the way down. His feet were absolutely glued | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
together and a perfect balance all the way down. Compared to Mikael | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
Kingsbury who just lost his right ski and that rights legs flew away, | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
Alex Bilodeau was perfect, all the way from top to bottom. He was great | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
in the air. And he's now going to retire as Olympic champion. This is | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
it for Alex Bilodeau, he came here, said this would be his last, big | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
major moguls event, he has other things that he wants achieve, but | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
that was impressive, and he got better and better, how big a star is | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
he in Canada? Is he the first man ever to win a gold medal on Canadian | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
soil? The Canadians had such a fantastic Olympics in Vancouver, but | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
you will always remember your first medal. The fact that Alex Bilodeau, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
they waited a few days, it wasn't running necessarily that smoothly | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
for the Canadian team in Vancouver, and when he did win it, there was a | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
huge, huge cheer across Canada, so a huge amount of fans because of that, | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
and I think the whole of Canada will again, they will be cheering for | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Alex Bilodeau. Thank you, Graham, thank you for all | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
of the action. Now, we will stay in the mountains for the first event of | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
the women's alpine programme, it was the super combined, Chemmy Alcott | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
was in part of it, at any rate, for Great Britain as she builds up to | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
the downhill challenge, and Matthew Pinsent was there. | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
After the men's downhill today sees the first of the women's Alpine | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
events. It is the super combined. They will | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
do one run down their scores over here, and that is put together with | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
their time in the afternoon from the slalom course. It is two runs, | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
combined! Got it? ! Super! So, Graham, what does it take to be good | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
at super combined? It takes a good slalom background, because you start | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
skiing with the first discipline that you ski, slalom, so you will | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
have a good general skier, but they will be a good slalom skier as a | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
child. Emma, you have been out on this course, is it as brutal as we | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
have seen so far in Sochi? It is quite difficult, you have to commit, | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
it can be won are lost out there. Chemmy Alcott will use this as part | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
of a training run, she will not race the slalom. She's using this to get | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
ready for the main downhill event, the women's downhill on Wednesday. | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Chemmy Alcott had an early draw and made the most of what was | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
essentially an extra training run. Go, Team GB! Well done, Jenny! Tina | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
Marder opened her Sochi campaign with a solid run. She went up to | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
third. Defending Olympic champion, she is | :23:53. | :24:11. | |
well in contention. 1.04 is not far at all. She is well in the mix. The | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
show stopper was the Vancouver as oval medallist, and Julia Mancuso. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
-- was the Vancouver silver medallist. She has proved that she | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
has the speed, but will she have the technique? | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
So, Julia Mancuso takes the lead at the end of the downhill section, all | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
nicely set up for the slalom. Just in the interim, have a look at the | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
gauntlet that they have to run. Arnold, and on it goes with the TV, | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
and just when you think the cameras have come to an end, the written | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
journalists are down at the very end, it is quite an imposing | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
goblet. Now, timed for the gauntlet, over to Emma and maths. -- time for | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
the commentary, over to Emma and to matter. | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
Plenty of experience. She settles into the rhythm early on. She has | :25:23. | :25:36. | |
added to the time. This is when the strong slalom skiing comes through. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
So smooth. A couple of little errors. Her Hamzah Khan, she is | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
quick and early. -- her arms are calm. Onto the steep section and | :25:49. | :26:00. | |
letting it flow. Accelerating and skiing for the gold-medal position. | :26:01. | :26:15. | |
More than one seconds. Ready to race with the second time, a decent | :26:16. | :26:25. | |
performance. Very, very tall race. You can really see the legs moving | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
from side to side. She has lost two hundredths of a second. She is doing | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
a good job here and really taking the speed along this latter section. | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
Started with a lead of a quarter of a second over Nicole Hosp. Still | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
some tough gates to come. A little skewed sideways. She has done enough | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
to lead. Is this course is going to suit her? | :27:04. | :27:17. | |
She looks cautious. She looks stiff. She will finish in bronze medal | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
position with two to come. The first of them is ready to come. It's Lara | :27:27. | :27:36. | |
Gut. It is a very different view from what she is used to. She is | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
doing a good job here. Great angles. Macau lotion years. And it has gone. | :27:44. | :27:55. | |
It will be at the least a silver for Hoefl. Look at the lead. A big chunk | :27:56. | :28:08. | |
of time in her favour at that downhill. It's a good, positive, | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
attacking start for Julia Mancuso. She recovers. This is going to slip | :28:14. | :28:23. | |
away quickly if she's not careful. She is a half a second... She will | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
have to rip it up on the flat and into that bottom section. This is | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
better now. It's clean and smooth. Half a second up. Let's have a look. | :28:34. | :28:41. | |
And manic ouzo is behind by eight hundredths of a second. I'm not sure | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
she can overhaul the lead of Maria Hoefl. I'm not sure this is going to | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
be gold unless she produces a fabulous finish. It's bronze for | :28:54. | :29:07. | |
Mancuso. And Maria retains her title. What a podium. Fantastic. | :29:08. | :29:18. | |
So, we have seen two titles successfully defended back-to-back. | :29:19. | :29:29. | |
Let's go out to Graham Bell to get a reflection on that performance | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
because the slalom skiing is what did it. Julia Mancuso led it after | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
the downhill but Hoefl made it count on the technical side. Julia Mancuso | :29:39. | :29:45. | |
new, going into this race, that she probably wasn't on goods slalom form | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
to win the com petition but she was absolutely delighted with a bronze. | :29:53. | :30:03. | |
-- slalom competition. It was Hoefl's slalom skiing that did it. | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
There wasn't that much difference between her and Nicky hospital and | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
into slalom. Graham, what was your reaction to Chemmy Alcott's downhill | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
ski? What should we expect of her in the real downhill? In the main | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
downhill, the training run that she had today because that is | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
effectively what it was, she wasn't great on the top section. She could | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
clean that up with it. The mid part of this course she did well. She got | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
a good split time. If she can lay it down like that, a top 15 result, | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
which is a respectable result in the Olympic games, is a possibility. | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
That will be on Wednesday. Tomorrow, we've got freestyle skiing, slope | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
style. Katie Summerhayes is going enough. Look at this, Graham, a | :30:58. | :31:12. | |
point of view film. She is very good at the rails. She is one of the best | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
rail riders in the world. When she was raped -- Riding rails in | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
practice, some of the guys at the top with giving her a round of | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
applause. Then you've got the three big kickers, the three big boot | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
jumps. These jumps are absolutely huge. We are riding the smaller | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
section and that is probably where Katie Summerhayes is going to go. We | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
will probably see the girls spinning more than the snowboarders did on | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
those kickers. What news of James Woods? E is our other slope style | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
skier. We understand he has been injured in training. What is the | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
latest? He has had a crash in training. We've not heard any | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
information as to how bad it is but he's got a couple of days to get | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
himself fit and recovered for the competition on Thursday. Fingers | :32:13. | :32:21. | |
crossed he will be OK and fit to compete on Thursday. Thank you so | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
much for now and we look forward to all of that action to come. Let's | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
take you to the timings for tomorrow. Katie Summerhayes starts | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
her campaign in qualifying at 7am and the final, which we hope she | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
will be in, will be at nine o'clock, here on BBC Two. | :32:42. | :32:51. | |
A deep lunch. Such quick footwear. Back and forth. Back and forth. | :32:52. | :33:01. | |
She's done it. Its Olympic gold for Great Britain. That is a wonderful | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
performance. You can join in that conversation. | :33:06. | :33:16. | |
Some funny photos being taken off people trying curling around the | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
house. Do that, if you so wish. I went along to watch the real thing | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
this morning. Great Britain's men and women were both in action. | :33:25. | :33:41. | |
Curling was invented in Scotland and is big in Canada and Scotland -- | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
Sweden. It's relatively new to Russia. One thing I was not | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
expecting to see coming into the Ice cube, were Russian bagpipers. Hello. | :33:52. | :33:58. | |
That was fantastic. Thank you. Are you out of breath now? It's OK. I | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
you going to come in and watch the curling? We are going to play at the | :34:05. | :34:05. | |
curling. Curling is a game of concentration, | :34:06. | :34:17. | |
of consistency and confidence. Although this is the round robin | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
stage, it's important to get wins in Italy. Great Britain's men did that | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
this warning against Russia. This afternoon, it's the turn of the | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
women to open their campaign. Today, they face Sweden, who could end up | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
being their strongest competitors for the gold metal. These are the | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
commentary positions for the curling. This will be the home for | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
the next ten days of Jackie Lockhart and Steve Cram. Nice knitwear. I | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
like the cardigan. How important is a win today? It's not that | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
important. It is Game one and if you are going to lose a game, it's good | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
to learn it -- lose it early doors. For the gills, this will be | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
important for them, mentally. They've come here for -- with a lot | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
of weight on their shoulders. They want to perform well. It's the not | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
the fact they may lose the game but how they will cope with it if they | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
do. Overall, we expect curling to be quite a quiet sport but actually, | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
it's been very noisy, hasn't it? It's a small venue, perfectly | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
formed, but there was a good atmosphere this way. The Russian | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
crowd were enthusiastic, if not knowledgeable. | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
It was a slow start for Eve Muirhead and hitting. The stakes started to | :35:37. | :36:01. | |
creep in. Almost. That's unfortunate. Things got worse for | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
the Brits at the third end. If she gets this badly wrong, they could | :36:07. | :36:14. | |
find themselves in a really tricky situation. She doesn't want to give | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
away too much here. She has to get this right. I think that is going to | :36:19. | :36:29. | |
be two against her. Not the start Eve Muirhead's team wanted. They've | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
lost three shots now in the first three ends. The early skirmishes are | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
going Sweden's way. This is a game of ten ends and for Eve Muirhead and | :36:41. | :36:45. | |
her team, they've got to regain their confidence and hang on in | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
there. The world champions were down but not out. They showed real | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
strength of Canada. The fightback was on. | :36:56. | :37:04. | |
How will these stones end up? It looks pretty tight, this. Not quite | :37:05. | :37:17. | |
enough. That was a good effort. That was one to Great Britain. Oh, my | :37:18. | :37:26. | |
word. That was so close. All square again but a moment of brilliance by | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
the Swedish skipper made all the difference. That's a better shot. | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
That finished well for them. Nobody touched that stone at all. Well | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
played. Even forcing just one he would not be a bad position to be | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
in. Trying to hold the line for this one. That is unfortunate there. It | :37:48. | :37:58. | |
hit its traded on the nose -- it hit it straight on the nose. She looks | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
reasonably comfortable with it. Looking to draw, to take to hear. -- | :38:06. | :38:16. | |
two here. That was good from Sweden. Britain are up against it. There was | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
a period in the middle, where things went Britain's way. They started to | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
play their shots a little. The last two or three ends, and there is the | :38:30. | :38:38. | |
handshake. So, Sweden -- Sweden and a victorious. It's never ever looked | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
like going Britain's way. It was not a great start. They clawed their way | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
back into the game for a period. Not one of their best games but not one | :38:49. | :38:51. | |
of their worst games either. I knew it was going to be tough and we | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
didn't manage to come out on top. By the end, we got to grips with the | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
ice. We've played a lot of good shots. We had a slow start but she | :39:00. | :39:07. | |
played a great shot in the seventh end. These things happen. It is a | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
marathon, not a sprint. There are lots of games to go. It's not the be | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
all and end all. We've a long way to go. | :39:16. | :39:22. | |
Later, David Murdoch led Team GB to battle against Sweden. In the first | :39:23. | :39:33. | |
end, Murdoch would be the one to draw first blood. He got GB the | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
first point of the match. That meant conceding the hammer to Sweden, who | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
would take advantage and move on to a healthy 4-2 lead by the interval. | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
Team GB had to regroup and rethink their tactics. Yet, the turning | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
point of the game came in and eight. When Murdoch's attempt to level it | :39:52. | :39:58. | |
came to no avail, the onslaught of the delivery transformed what would | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
have been a score of 4-4 into a trouncing. Sweden lead 8-3 and an | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
almost impossible deficit to overcome. By and nine, Murdoch had | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
to concede defeat and the game. Team GB have a record of one win and one | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
loss, after one day of curling. Only one day gone. Nine more to come. | :40:22. | :40:25. | |
There are ten days of curling in total so I did think we should get | :40:26. | :40:26. | |
to downhearted. Russia are very enthusiastically | :40:27. | :40:37. | |
supporting the curling, which by the way, it takes place in the Tube. -- | :40:38. | :40:50. | |
Cube. Let's have a look at the other headlines, on day three. | :40:51. | :41:01. | |
Lizzy Yarnold lived up to her gold medal favourites tag by registering | :41:02. | :41:11. | |
the fastest time on the first day of official skeleton training. The | :41:12. | :41:12. | |
competition proper starts on Thursday. This world champion is a | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
big Sochi favourite and she has a commanding lead at the halfway point | :41:19. | :41:24. | |
of the women's luge. The USA breast of Switzerland 9-0 to secure a top | :41:25. | :41:33. | |
two spot in group a and R into the finals -- semifinals of the ice | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
hockey. Canada's bid for a fourth successive medal is still on track. | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
A clean sweep for the Dutch, who else, in the speed skating. Mulder | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
leads the way in the men's 500 metres to stop his twin brother, | :41:50. | :41:51. | |
Ronald, took the bronze. So, wonderful day for the Dutch and | :41:52. | :42:06. | |
all of their fans the decked in Orange, but when it comes to short | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
track speed skating, Britain are setting the pace and trying to keep | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
up today was Jason Mohammad. This is the Iceberg Skating Palace, | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
and yesterday it was about the greys, the poise and the elegance of | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
the figure skating. Today it is about speed and aggression, this is | :42:25. | :42:32. | |
the short gate. Elise Christie gets a campaign | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
underway shortly in the women's 500 metres heats, but the day features | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
another Brit, Jack Whelbourne, he goes in the men's 1500 metres. Take | :42:42. | :42:43. | |
it away, Hugh Porter. You may be able to see a Elise | :42:44. | :42:59. | |
Christie, she is Jack Whelbourne's girlfriend. Jack Whelbourne, skating | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
out of his skin at the moment. He crosses the line first. Time for the | :43:08. | :43:15. | |
women's 500 metres, huge pressure on Team GB's Elise Christie. The first | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
two qualifiers go through to the final. | :43:21. | :43:26. | |
Elise Christie needs to get involved in the charge for the line to | :43:27. | :43:33. | |
qualify for the next round. She is up to third. It is the top two that | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
go through. Into the last two and a half laps and it is good skating by | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
the Russian. She has gone straight through to the front. Two to go. | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
Elise Christie cannot get through at the moment. On the front, it is | :43:50. | :43:58. | |
still the 16-year-old Russian. Here comes a Elise Christie, she has | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
ignited the burners. She takes it on the line. | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
She was joined in the quarterfinals by Charlotte Gilmartin, the | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
23-year-old making her Olympic debut taking second place in heat three. | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
Superb gating by Charlotte Gilmartin. A great evening for a | :44:17. | :44:24. | |
Team GB, both through to the quarterfinals, fresh off the eyes, | :44:25. | :44:33. | |
here is a lease I thought you would be worried. I was just working on my | :44:34. | :44:42. | |
moves and the other distances. I was using it as a warm up in the | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
competition. Luckily, it paid off and I got round. It is the hardest | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
way to do it, but is exciting. Now, you are cheering on shark, are you | :44:54. | :45:03. | |
going to watch it with us? Yes. So confident, I is cool. Come on, Jack, | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
you can do it! Jack Whelbourne is second! History is made! The first | :45:11. | :45:16. | |
time we have had a finalist for the 1500. An unlikely British medal was | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
on the cards, but he was up against stiff opposition, including Charles | :45:24. | :45:26. | |
Hamelin and Victor An, the Olympic champion in 2006 four South Korea | :45:27. | :45:33. | |
but now competing for irrational. Jack needs to make sure he doesn't | :45:34. | :45:38. | |
get stuck at the back. Coming down the inside. A big move by China. JR | :45:39. | :45:51. | |
Celski in second spot. Up to the line with six more laps to go. JR | :45:52. | :45:58. | |
Celski is the head of the raise. It changes again. Charles Hamelin is | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
coming through, the Canadian. Charles Hamelin looking very | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
comfortable. Pushed back into third place. Victor An has made no moves | :46:07. | :46:14. | |
whatsoever. He will make a move now. Jack Whelbourne has gone down. Jack | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
Whelbourne of Great Britain has gone down. That was because of the move | :46:20. | :46:27. | |
by Victor An on the front. In second position, China. Charles Hamelin | :46:28. | :46:40. | |
turning the screw at the front. Charles Hamelin in front, really | :46:41. | :46:43. | |
igniting the burners. Charles Hamelin takes it. | :46:44. | :46:49. | |
I think that is the best I have raced. Some of those guys that we | :46:50. | :46:56. | |
had to go through to get to the final by some of the guys that could | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
be on the podium now, and maybe I could have been on the podium if I | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
had gone my way a little bit, but I came out your trying to get two and | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
a final and I am pleased to have done that. We can probably find | :47:12. | :47:20. | |
out, Ollie Williams, he has been across the social media content, | :47:21. | :47:23. | |
firstly, short track speed skating, what news? Well, Elise Christie and | :47:24. | :47:33. | |
his girlfriend and team-mate, helping him out, most people would | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
not want to dwell on that, but he got home and he tweeted a photograph | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
of you can see his ankle and the black marker desk that you try to | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
avoid, you can see that he had to try and avoid it and falls over on | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
it. He is happily looking back at that incident and he wants to be | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
back and he will try to skate through the pain. It is the way of | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
modern sport! If something happens, you have got to treat it! Yes, the | :48:02. | :48:08. | |
night before, he was tweeting to Elise Christie, saying, I want to | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
dream of winning. He tweeted about overly winning, until fully it will | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
come to pass. We should point out, they do not share a room in the | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
Olympic village, so they have to communicate somehow. Curling has big | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
Love in the UK, it started today. Yes, you had to get up pretty early | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
in the UK to love curling, but happily, people got up and had been | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
tweeting about it. There, I know that you like a good curling blog, | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
the view from this curling blog, make sure that you chew into them. | :48:47. | :48:52. | |
But it wasn't just the fans on Twitter, David Murdoch, the Scottish | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
and British skip on the team, he came off this morning having just | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
beaten the Russians and immediately announced to the world that he loves | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
curling at the same time, which is marvellous news. I would be | :49:06. | :49:15. | |
disappointed if he didn't do that! That could possibly change! This is | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
a person we have not really seen on screen yet, but if you are in the | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
USA, you will be pretty sick of Johnny Quinn, the bobsled, because | :49:25. | :49:26. | |
he has been on every television outlet after having the worst | :49:27. | :49:33. | |
weekend in the history of social media. Firstly, he got stuck in his | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
bathroom and broke out of eight, because he could not make it out! He | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
smashed through it with his bush training! 50,000 re-tweets and | :49:43. | :49:50. | |
counting. It caught the attention of the US networks, so he has been | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
demonstrating it to everyone. Finally, I foolishly said on air at | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
a few hours ago, when I showed of our mobile studio, the trolley, it | :50:00. | :50:10. | |
is now trending. Yes, it might even have its own unofficial Twitter | :50:11. | :50:18. | |
account! There it is. This cost is ten rubles to hire! It is a | :50:19. | :50:24. | |
beautiful mover. Thank you very much, you will keep us up to date | :50:25. | :50:29. | |
with everything on Twitter. Let's turn our attention to the biathlon | :50:30. | :50:44. | |
and the Harrow Bjoerndalen got on? -- and see how Bjoerndalen got on? | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
Can he beat yesterday? Away he goes, a one second advantage | :50:50. | :50:57. | |
over Landertinger. Can you believe it, the race leader | :50:58. | :51:17. | |
goes down. Look at much time he will lose. France Darren Lehmann. There | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
is the first myth. Landertinger will have registered that. A miss from | :51:26. | :51:40. | |
Bjoerndalen, it may not be his night tonight. This is the hardest shot of | :51:41. | :51:54. | |
all four Fourcard, and the traditional celebration. A bit | :51:55. | :52:00. | |
cheeky. Fourcard, on his way to his first gold. This then is a | :52:01. | :52:06. | |
superhero, and tonight for the first time, he becomes the Olympic | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
champion. He missed one target, but he did nothing else wrong. | :52:13. | :52:20. | |
Bjoerndalen has plenty more events to come, and he could set an | :52:21. | :52:26. | |
all-time record for Winter Olympics models won. The news from the | :52:27. | :52:30. | |
British Olympic camp is that James Woods, the skier, he injured his hip | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
in training, but he should be okayed to resume training soon, not looking | :52:36. | :52:41. | |
too serious for him, so fingers crossed. Let's look at the medals | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
table at the end of day three, and out in front, it is Canada. | :52:45. | :53:00. | |
We are delighted to welcome the new feature, our team GB medal table. | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
And there she is, on her own for the moment, Jenny Jones. We hope the | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
podium will fill up, possibly Katie Summerhayes could be honoured. | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
Following a seer, there is a long form highlights, so if you want to | :53:18. | :53:24. | |
see that, press the red button only come off the air. -- when we come | :53:25. | :53:31. | |
off the air. Tomorrow, we are back at 7am with the women Slopestyle | :53:32. | :53:37. | |
qualification, join Hazel for that. Now it is time for Sochi's Winter | :53:38. | :53:39. | |
wonders. The laws of gravity state what goes | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
up must come down. Switzerland showed no sign of nerves | :53:45. | :54:02. | |
before taking on the mighty USA. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is | :54:03. | :54:13. | |
Per Spett. The most expensive Olympics ever just got a little bit | :54:14. | :54:25. | |
more expensive. Ashes? ! What Ashes? ! Here is an Australian | :54:26. | :54:26. | |
falling over. And stay four here in Russia is just | :54:27. | :54:40. | |
seconds away because it is coming up to midnight. -- day four. It is the | :54:41. | :54:52. | |
debut of women's ski jumping. Andrew Musgrave goes in the cross country | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
skiing, there is more curling and we hope, maybe, a medal from Katie | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
Summerhayes, we will see you tomorrow. | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
This is all about style. One big family. With a creative mentality. | :55:08. | :55:17. | |
On a blank canvas, a big playground. Experimenting on jobs and on rails, | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
bouncing off to find your own style. It is about expressing yourself. But | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
don't get me wrong, it is competitive also. You have to dare | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
to go big. You put it all on the line. Put your best foot forward, | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
put your best rundown. Stretch yourself to your limits. Make your | :55:42. | :55:53. | |
mark and they get your own. -- make it your own. This is only for the | :55:54. | :56:00. | |
most creative athletes on the snow. This is Slopestyle. | :56:01. | :56:04. |