Day 4 Winter Olympics: Today at the Games

A very good start for Great Britain. Amy Williams is the queen

of speed. He is over. Oh, drama. She has done it. That is it. The Winter

Olympics, they four. Welcome back to the coastline of the

Black Sea. Here is an amazing fact I learnt today. Sochi is the longest

city in Europe, 92 miles long, and it stretches all the way along the

coast. We are here with my trusty trolley which means we can go all

the way around the Olympic Park and today we are in our restaurant and

we have a family gathering with Katie Summerhayes. We will be

talking to them all after we see her in action. Here is what is coming

up. Slopestyle skiing today, and

teenager Katie Summerhayes was flying the British flag. All eyes

were on Shaun White as he was aiming for a third successive halfpipe gold

medal. And it was a family affair with Andrew Musgrave and his sister

Posy among the British skiing in the cross-country sprint. We are very

excited because we have been given our very own British pin. In great

style we have stuck it to the back of a plastic cup. We are going to be

showing you the women's luge, the curling and the men and women in

action. For the women there was a bit of Olympic history, but we are

going to start with slopestyle skiing and the younger of the

British team, Katie Summerhayes, who qualified through the final. There

is no doubt slopestyle has been the big, new hit of these Olympic Games.

We have seen it on snowboard and now it is time to see it on skis and

Great Britain has a medal contender, Katie Summerhayes. Katie Summerhayes

dropping in. A switch 900. She put it down. Katie Summerhayes looking

good in third position. This is the broadcast standard and it is busy up

here. Tim is going to be part of our commentary team. What happened in

qualification? Yet again slopestyle has thrown a curved ball at the

Olympics and the favourite has gone out. Katie put in two solid runs in

qualification. What do you want from her in the final? I would like to

see her up her game. But my level head is saying put down a nice,

solid run and in the final she can go a bit crazy. Are you all right?

How do you feel about that? I am up and down, but it was good to see two

solid runs. We gave her a big hug and she is quite happy. Are you city

in disguise? You are all covered up. What are you thinking about with

Katie? She is amazing and I cannot wait to see Katie Summerhayes smash

it. She is awesome. And Anna Segal from Australia. She won the

slopestyle championships in 2011. The big 720. And then a nice cork to

seven. She is happy with that. And so is he and so is he. Next is Devin

Logan from the United States. Always a good show in the X Games. Another

confident American. Switch 540 with the safety grab. Deep into the

transition and carrying a lot of speed. A big 720 and hold onto it.

That is a good run. In first place. Katie Summerhayes, round one. With

her coach Pat Sharples from Sheffield. Bring it home for Great

Britain and Yorkshire. Come on, Katie Summerhayes, for Team GB. She

does it again, lovely stuff. She needs to be nice and clean.

Beautiful. Capable of that landing. A bit of a speed check because she

is riding switch. Oh, she dropped it. Right, from the east coast, from

Quebec, Kim Lamarre. Oh, no. What did she do? Did she go big? All of

the favourites from the qualifying, including Katie Summerhayes, have

crashed out. Flat down into the Canon box. A switch into that big

jump. There is a helicopter overhead. Switch 720, very nice.

Switch nine, beautiful stuff. In the tuck and into a big 540. You have

got to say that is well deserved. A brilliant run. She is in gold medal

position. She has taken a commanding lead. After the first run a lot of

them are struggling, why is it so difficult? Overnight the snow has

not frozen, which means it is slow, so they are having to keep control

of their skis between the jumps. For those who have crashed, it is now

one run. It is all or nothing. And that is the name of the game. It is

like holding it together. Katie will be fine, she can do this, she has

done it before. Katie Summerhayes takes a deep breath. She needs the

run of her life. Come on, Katie! For a 50 out of the rail. We can see

that switch. It is absolutely textbook. She needs that switch.

Yes! Come on, Katie Summerhayes. It is all on this last kicker. Nice and

simple. We look at execution. Perhaps a little bit messy. There is

a hands down. She needs 77. Oh, my goodness. She has landed a run in

the final. Oh, no, it is not enough. That is tough to deal with. The

elation of landing the run, but not a high enough scorer. With the hand

she just got the points. But it is the Olympic final. Let's not get too

distracted because this girl could upset the apple cart. She could get

on the podium. She is in the same position that Katie was in. 77 is

the scorer. There is room on the podium for Kim Lamarre of Canada.

That is the switch. She has knocked the Australian of the podium.

Congratulations to Dara Howell. I did well in qualification. I am

gutted, but later tonight I will be happy. It is later tonight and what

are you thinking now? After watching that back I am a bit gutted still,

but I am really happy with how I skied and I am happy to be here

after all the hard work and hard times with my injuries, so I am

happy. You did an ACL? Yes, I did it in 2013 and so I am really happy.

But you got your own hopes up and all of ours by qualifying so well.

Yes, that is a bit disappointing. If I had qualified lower and I had come

lower, I would have had fun. But because I qualified high, I had

expectation on myself and I did not do very well. You are the youngest

member of the team and you are 18. Pat Sharples is your coach. What do

you say to her now? We can just focus on training, learn new

tricks. We haven't got the stress of qualifying for the Olympics, we have

got four years now to make sure she is absolutely top of her game and

let's go for a medal then. You have got quite a big team you

are in charge of, including James Woods who we saw in disguise. How is

he because his competition is the day after tomorrow?

He is competing on Thursday. Training session tomorrow, starting

at 11:30am, really excited for that.

Let's have a word with Katie's parents. They like to hear the input

from family. And her younger sister for stop what has it been like

watching your daughter get involved in a sport neither of you had

anything to do with, having started on a dry ski slope and are now being

at the Olympics? Tremendous. It has been a fantastic journey, from a dry

ski slope to hear, skiing Snow with the best in the world. We keep

saying if your kid watching at home, this is how to get involved, if your

mum is watching, would you say to them?

Kids just love it. My kids to screw up loving it. They just wanted to go

every week skiing bash my kids grew up.

You may yet in South Korea have two daughters that because Molly, tell

everybody what level you are. I think I am on the Jeep league team

dashed Great Britain team. -- Great Britain team, hopefully aiming at 20

18. Standing there at the bottom, you must feel helpless. You know she

wants to do her best, get on that podium, knowing you cannot do

anything, so nerve wracking. I was so nervous for her, but she did so

well. I wonder if watching you learned something as well that will

help you going forward. And you must have learnt things through this

build-up and actually being an Olympic competitor that will help

you. Definitely will help me going

forward. Like everybody says, you can use your first games as an

experience and I have learned to laugh. It is just another

competition. We go out there to do a job, to have fun, that is all that

matters. And what do you do for the rest of the games? I am going to try

and watch everything. I want to support everybody, watch lots of

different sports so I am really excited.

Thank you so much for coming down, Katie Summerhayes, her coach, her

parents, her little sister, and they have also been watching with me a

sport we are going to show you highlights later. This was good.

Shaun White is the most successful halfpipe contestant ever. He was

trying to win the games for a third time, we will see how he got on

later on today. If Katie and Molly are aiming to become sisters

competing at the Olympic games, we already have a brother and sister.

Andrew and Posy Musgrave and they were in the cross-country skiing,

let's find out what happened. This is the cross-country ski

stadium and some of the fittest athlete on the planet will push

themselves over a very testing course in the men's and women's

sprint. And for a community in Scotland and one family in

particular it is a very special day. The Musgrave family along with

childhood friends hail from Huntly in Aberdeenshire for stop they have

been skiing together and they were children but for Andrew and Posey is

one man to thank for them into the sport.

We all rose encouraged them to do lots of sports. -- always. They got

into skiing, it was fun, there was a crowd of them and they liked doing

it. They got the opportunity to go to one of the sports high schools in

Norway. He thought he would get better training their, than he would

have done if he stayed on his own. And then he said he had the

opportunity to train with the best skiers in the world. That is how he

has improved, training with great skiers all the time.

He won that big race in Norway. How proud we you seeing him smash the

Norwegians? Really pleased to see, he has worked

hard, great to see it all come together on the day. The competition

began with a time trial, top 30 going through to the quarterfinals

for the was always going to be a tall order for Posy Musgrave who

finished 42nd in the women's sprint. Andrew Young and Callum Smith were

satisfied with their performances but missed out on qualification.

I think it is going OK, maybe lost a bit of time on the corners, slightly

up on my ranking. I knew I was going to need a really good race to

qualify. A bit disappointed but not too much. I have really enjoyed it.

I have got another race on Thursday, another go at being an

Olympian. Now it is all about you and your brother on. I am more

nervous for his race than my own. I hope he does well.

Here he comes, driving and pushing. His grades into the quarterfinals

but faces a tough heat with two top Norwegians. Although he did beat one

of them in the Norwegian Championships.

Away they go. Brilliant skiing from Musgrave, so agile. He needs to calm

it down. He is starting to lose a little bit of ground. Musgrave is

still losing a bit of ground but not out of it yet. From first, back into

sixth place but he has got a huge amount of support. Can he pull off a

magicians act? He is still off the pace at the moment. He looks as

though he will finish in fourth. The Norwegians getting their revenge

over Musgrave, who won the Norwegian Championships, but not today. A sad,

sad picture. He will not go through to the semifinals.

That wasn't me on a good day, I don't know what happened. I just

skied badly. I thought I would ski better in the quarterfinals. I saw

in the first hit the guy who took the lead, managed to stay there and

hold his ground the whole way. As soon as we got into the long hill I

just felt I wasn't having a good day. Sometimes you get bad days. It

just sucks that it happened when it was the Olympics. I felt I should be

fighting for a place amongst the ten best, I wasn't even close today. In

the finals Norway continued their dominance of the cross-country and

buyer from events. In the women's race gold went to Fala with Frost

Berg getting silver. In the men's event victory went to another

Norwegian, the man Musgrave beat into second place in the Norwegian

Championships. A crash in the closing stages meant he and Teodor

Peterson from Sweden were the only man left standing for stop a meal

you on some took bronze. -- Emile Unison.

The pressure, the expectation and the occasion was too much for him.

He has three more events to concentrate on. Despite the

disappointment it is still a day the town of Huntly and the Musgrave

family should be really proud of. Andrew Musgrave goes again on Friday

in the 15 kilometre classic. We will head off to the final of the women's

allusion. The World Cup winner Natalie Geisenberger had a massive

one second lead over Tatiana Huefner.

Going for final preparations. Well over a second ahead of everybody

else. Brilliant start by Alex Gough. She

is staying in the middle, that is the most important thing. Rising a

little bit high on that left-hander. Coming round now, looking good.

Nearly a quarter of a second up. How is it? It is good, perfect. Over a

quarter of a second up. She is going for the medals here. She wants to

put pressure on Hamlin. She is in the lead. 0.317 is the advantage.

That will be difficult to beat. That could be good enough for a medal. We

are down to the three medal positions, but which one will it be,

will it be Alex Gough or will it be Erin Hamlin?

She has got a third of the second advantage, a big gap to have. No

mistakes at the start, hopefully. She got down cleanly but she will

lose a little time here. Not as powerful as Alex Gough out of the

start. She is certainly going well at the moment. She has lost a bit of

time. Nothing too major. She is not a big woman. She cannot afford to

take any touches, especially in the uphill section. Starting to pull

away from the Canadian. She just manages to stay away from a wall as

well. That was a difficult point in the course will stop --. She is

about to become an Olympic bronze medallist. Fantastic. She can sit

pretty now, she has definitely got a medal. She has superb credentials.

That is wonderful. What a great moment for Erin Hamlin. The number

two German in the silver medal position, the Olympic champion for

stop she is ice cool under pressure for stop

Tatiana Huefner goes for gold, she will not settle for bronze. She will

not settle for silver. Very quick start. She has got good mentor me

through first few corners. -- momentum. She is through one of the

most difficult parts. She just might get lucky, if Geisenberger falters

and give her -- gives her the gold for

she will take the lead. She has got the lead. The Germans have a silver

medal. There is just one to go. Three runs below 52nd, nobody else

has achieved one run below 50 seconds.

Away we go. Natalie Geisenberger. It is not fast, but it is fast enough.

A little conservative. Still over a second is the margin. She would have

to crash now to lose this. As long as she doesn't take any big hits she

will be absolutely fine, she has got the gold medal. She can be messy,

she has such a big margin. She cruises down there. She comes

through their, absolutely superb. She has the gold medal sewn up. That

is absolutely fabulous. that has got to be a record. She has put over 1.1

seconds between her and the rest of the world put together. Germany are

definitely the leaders in luge. They do the singles and doubles and Felix

Locke took the men's. Some interesting news from the Sliding

Center. The skeleton stars on Thursday and concludes on Friday and

Britain Bosman Lizzie Yarnold is getting faster and faster. Shelley

Rudman is slowly improving as well. Tomorrow on the ice things get a

little cosier. # just the two of us, we can make it if we try, just the

two of us. # we can make it if we try, just the

two of us. # you and I.

# just the two of us, just the two of us.

I am sure it will go down a storm over here. Doubles luge is back and

starts tomorrow. It will be available on one of our six HD

streams. Hopefully we will have the final just after four o'clock.

Today, some of the headline makers. She is known as the Empress and Lee

Sang-Hwa reigns supreme in the speed skating defending her Olympic 500

needles -- metres title. Darya Domracheva became Belarus's first

ever Olympic champion with the ten kilometre biathlon pursuit gold. And

Russia put themselves into the ice hockey quarterfinals with a 2-1 win

over Japan. The hosts play unbeaten Sweden on Thursday to determine

their quarterfinal opponents. But there was a moment of controversy in

that match. See what you think. The judges decided not to pick up on it

even after they saw the replay. The Russians were leading and Japan

appeared to have a perfectly good goal ignored it was just over the

line and her team-mate flicked it away. The decision was not sent

upstairs for a review and neither did the Japanese bench questioned

the issue. They went on and the Russians went on to win 2-1. The

cooler the eyes, the better I play. On tour I try to play in ice rinks

because I get to practice every day. My favourite West like song is

unbreakable because the eyes does not break. We all love curling and

both the men's and women's teams were in action. The Ice Cube holds

4000 people and it is very noisy because Russia is in action every

time we go there. The crowd cheers absolutely everything.

Time to focus on Team GB with the boys on ice in their quest for

curling gold. They are sitting pretty with a one on one record in

the round robin session. Their next opponents were the Germans. Felix

Schulze through the last stone. England took the end point. Germany

took full advantage by taking points in end too. This is end three, and

enter four. Recovery in end five as David manages to recover three

points to level the scores. An interval and time to regroup at the

halfway point. At N six Felix Schulze delivers. Ends seven, Team

GB respond with two of their own. It was tip for tat. At end eight Felix

Schulze brings Germany closer to victory. Pressure on GB to claw back

and remove German stones. This is the penultimate stone. He has done

really well. Job done and scores level at six. Germany own the hammer

and it is the last throw. Murder has to play things tactically. This will

open up the way for Germany. That is a fantastic shot. The German

penultimate stone and an error by Felix Schulze leaves the door open

for GB to have a glimmer of hope. The last stone and the last chance

for Team GB. The tension mounts and nerves are frayed. Positioning is

the key here. A small piece of rubber derails the plan leaving it

easy for Germany with the last delivery of the game. Felix Schulze

with the last stone. The chance to take this final end. He needs to

play a good draw in. The British stone is right on the button. He has

had a few problems with his drawers. Oh, my word. Great Britain somehow

have grabbed victory. Defeat looked the only possibility. It is always

nice to steal a victory like that. We struggled in the first five ends,

but we fought hard and we make them play a pressure shot at the end. We

will take that went into tomorrow and hopefully bring and a game to

Switzerland. The women were in action today. Yesterday's opening

game they lost to Sweden. They were pitted against Erika Brown and team

USA, also looking for their first victory. Early on Eve Muirhead wood

chip away at the Americans, but it would be blown wide open in and

number four. The cluster of the grand night rocks grew and grew

which turned it into a jackpot of points, eventually won by the GB

women. Take a picture of that, because you will not see it very

quickly. Almost embarrassment for the US. All smiles for Great

Britain. An astonishing 9-1 lead and we are not even at the halfway

point. Ends six would prove to be the last end of the game as Team GB

increased their lead to a triumphant 12 points, tying an Olympic record.

Team USA conceded the match. They tied a record with their score

and they set a new record with taking seven in one end. It was an

extraordinary victory for Eve Muirhead and her team. Tomorrow they

play Canada and Great Britain's men play Switzerland. Now, one of the

most anticipated finals of the games. The men's halfpipe. Shaun

White is probably one of the biggest stars in winter sports and he had

won the medal twice, four years ago and eight years ago, but he was up

against tough competition on a very slushy course. We sent Amy Williams

to find out all about it. Halfpipe is one of the most

spectacular events in Sochi and today the men are in action. # hey,

brother, there is an endless road to rediscover. All if the sky comes

falling down for you, there is nothing in this world you can do...

Snowboarding legend Shaun White is bidding for his third Olympic gold

medal in this event, but he is not going to have it easy as the field

is really strong with a young pretender from Japan set to push

them all the way. Do not beget Ben Kilner and Dom Harrington who are

flying the flag for Great Britain. Ben Kilner is currently in 12th. He

landed too far down. A disappointment for Ben Kilner after

such a strong performance in 2010 in Vancouver. Really disappointing for

Ben Kilner who did not land that trick. It will not be enough to put

him into the semifinals. Here comes Dom Harrington. France 720, very

nice. Double cork, solid. He tried to stay up the pipe in order to get

as many tricks as he can. He just went over the nose as he landed. His

technique is better than that. Yes, absolutely. Sadly that looks like it

might be it for the Brits today. For the main man, Shaun White is about

to do his first run. He generates so much speed and his technique is

immaculate. That is absolutely massive. 1080, first hit, double

cork ten, Switch ten. You know the pipe is in bad condition when even

Shaun White is struggling for speed in the middle. That was a stock

standard run by Shaun. So he is ranked number one. He scored 95.75.

Awesome. That is qualification over. Unfortunately, the British

boys will not advance into the final. But Shaun White and all the

other big guns will all be going through. But first we have the

semifinals to deal with. After all the worry about the snow conditions,

we are going to be set for some fireworks once the sun goes down.

Eight double ten. We have the top 12 halfpipe riders in the world in the

final and I cannot wait to see what happens. Imagine the pressure on

Shaun White. Massive, massive, you cannot fault the man. Travelling

backwards into the next hit. It is the first time he has ever dropped a

trick in an Olympic final. He is going to be all right. Shaun White

is human after all. The pressure is now on for him to perform in his

second run. Can he do it? Giving as a big run. This is the front slide

five. The double 12. The double twist. Into the front side 1080.

This is it. He has put it down so clean. What a run from the Swiss

rider. Iouri Podladtchikov creates history. The Americans are not

looking healthy. You have got Danny Davis in aid, Shaun White in 12th.

This is one of the senior riders in the Japanese team at 18! Backside

540, we love that. Frontside 900. He lands hard, but hold it. Backside

900. Frontside 1080. He waits a second. Into the front double ten.

Back-to-back doubles. And Taku Hiraoka has laid down a storming

run. Ben Kilner thought it was a fourth. I did not even think it was

that high. The penultimate rider to drop, are you move Hirano. Big

frontside 1080. Huge double, absolutely perfect double. Frontside

900. Backside nine. I am standing up! That was huge. He lost a tiny

bit of height on the frontside wall, but the rest of them way

huge. I think that is bigger. His throne

is under threat. Sit back and watch this. Karen Shaun White handle the

pressure? Huge backside air. The frontside 1080. He has gone down. It

was good, it was really high. He wanted the double layout. He sat

down on that. He has gone for the double McTwist, he has landed that

one as well. How did he land that? That is against the laws of physics.

No business landing that. Shaun White has missed out on a medal.

Shaun White, fourth place, not enough to get him on the podium this

time round. The Swiss in first place, and the two Japanese second

and third. Unbelievable result, probably not what anybody thought.

CLARE BALDING: I would think the discussion is still going on. First

of all, reflect on the success of the man they call iPod. How much did

he deserve gold medal? He has worked tirelessly in the face of constant

defeat to try and build a trick repertoire that would be to Shaun

White and he has been stymied at every single junction. Today he woke

up and said he felt happy. He said he felt right. And he went the hard

way through this, he did qualifying, semifinals and on his

first run he laid down an absolutely massive run and gave him the freedom

to do this in his second run. He put his foot absolutely flat to the

floor. Wound up into this, frontside 1080 and then this trick, he first

debuted back in March for the European X Games and it was a 1440,

that is for full spins and to corkscrew rotations. He named it the

YOLO Filip. Shaun White named him as the danger

man. He was saying he is the one. What has the reaction been from

Shaun White? He didn't just not win gold, he didn't win a medal. What

has he said to the press? We asked him about the fact he was

going to start losing, he had won his entire career at how that would

feel, in an interview last year so I started with that question. I said,

did you lose on your own terms, did you give it your best? He said it

wasn't my day today. This is so uncharacteristic. Everybody knows

the script when you come to an elite level halfpipe contest. On that

first one when he felt the script got torn up and it was anybody's

game. Having landed his first run that game Podladtchikov confidence

and the belief he could beat him with a good second run. And you

really came through the hard way. You were saying that helped him

right through the difficult pipe conditions.

Just a quick word on the women's downhill tomorrow. There is no

Lindsey Vonn, she is injured. Who do you think will win it? Maria is full

of confidence after her victory in the super combined but she didn't

deed the downhill section. Lara Gut, the young Swiss racer, one of

those three. Quite wide open now we don't have Lindsey Vonn.

Thank you so much. They have been working hard today. And thank you to

Tim as well, part of the commentary team. Just over an hour ago we saw

Olympic history as the first ever Olympic champion in women's ski jump

was crowned. Quite a competition. Great to see some of the women who

have campaigned so hard for this event be included have come out of

retirement and hung on through injury.

She has beaten Takanashi this year, can she produce it now? Oh, yes! She

has gone into the lead. Sara Takanashi, can she produce what

everybody in Japan knows she is capable of? So young, so much

pressure. Will that be good enough? She has

been better than this. Many times before this season. She is in second

place. Coline Mattel. Can the Frenchwoman produce a moment to

remember for ever? She is not sure. Coline Mattel is in

second place. Carina Vogt. To be a champion is fantastic, to be the

first champion is Olympic immortality. Does it beckon for the

German? Anxious moments, she doesn't know.

It is a gold that women's sport has waited a long time to see. But

around his neck will it happen? -- Hughes. Everybody has finished now,

it is simply a question of the judges marks. Carina Vogt,

unbelievable! She has done it. What a moment. Germany celebrates. A

piece of history that will never, ever be forgotten.

Congratulations to Carina Vogt and Germany. There is still one Winter

Olympics port women are not allowed to compete in and that is Nordic

combined which is crosscutting treat -- cross-country skiing. There are

ways in which they celebrate success and victory and also they registered

is fair. -- despair. Andrew Musgrave really thought he

had a chance, didn't really know what to say at the time. He found

the words later on because he posted this on Twitter. It is, if nothing

else, an honest and blood assessment. May not have been overly

consoled by somebody who replied who said he would be the fastest badger

in Team GB. Snowboarding, we saw the halfpipe earlier on. This really a

shock for Shaun White. Maybe a shock for the athletes when they turned up

to see it was reasonably slushy. And the US snowboarder put this photo on

Insta gram. The practised days have been garbled.

Annie Buchanan who has been doing my make up has been addicted to this

clip, she has been watching it over and over again online.

Is that real? Your guess is as good as mine. The Russian Ministry of

internal affairs choir did turn up in the preshow to the opening

ceremony performing various covers. I can honestly tell you.

I am going to get my curling bagpipers onto YouTube. Let's have a

look at tomorrow's line-up and see what is in store. We have already

mentioned the women's downhill. There is a huge curling match from

ten IM. Britain's women against Canada. This is what you can see on

the red button, right through until the figure skating at 10pm. A quick

look at the medals table, another good day for Norway, and Canada.

They are out in front. It seems relatively slow start for the USA

and indeed for Russia. Norway and Canada top the table, Germany have

had a good day as well, that first ever gold medal in ski jumper stop

Great Britain in 20 First Place. -- 20 First Place. Jenny Jones still

the only one on our Great Britain medal podium.

Hopefully somebody else will be joining her very soon. Let's have a

look at two-day's Winter wonders. -- today. Early fireworks in the

Slopestyle final. Devin Logan styled it out with a belly slide. Nice

work. Germany versus Sweden had it all.

And finally when she sent him tells you to sweep, you jolly well do it.

We enjoy that bit. Just a bit of fun. If you cannot have fun at the

Winter Olympics, when can you? We are walking around with a shopping

trolley. Tomorrow there are six gold medals on offer. They include the

start of the double louche, the women's downhill, brilliant curling

matches. Watch out for Great Britain against Canada. This ice hockey

stadium will be buzzing once again. The park will be for of the weird

and wonderful. Get up early for the women's downhill. Goodbye.