BBC One Day 15: Bobsleigh and Alpine Slalom Team Event Winter Olympics

Hello, this is the Asian

age of the Olympics.

Tokyo's 2020 Summer Games

are coming sharply into focus.

Then, before you know it,

it'll be Beijing 2022

for the next winter's.

We're beginning to look ahead,

because things are coming

to an end in Pyeongchang.

This is the penultimate day

of South Korea's Winter Games.

Only 12 golds remain unclaimed.

Eight of them will be won

on this final Saturday.

And there were records to be

set for Great Britain,

with a record fifth medal in total

on the line.

Forget about the fear factor,

that's what Britain's Billy Morgan

aimed to do in the big

air snowboarding final.

Land two massive jumps,

and he was in with a medal shout.

From snowboard trickery

to straight line speed.

Racing suits and racing

boards required in the

parallel giant slalom.

Men's and women's events today.

And there's head-to-head

racing on skis as well.

The brand-new alpine team event.

Two side-by-side courses,

two skiers at a time.

One finish line.

And one collective gold.

Get ready for the rumble, as

the four-man bobs roar into action.

Four sprinters riding on four

all-important runners

as they ride the ice flume.

No silver lining or a shot at gold

for Eve Muirhead and her team

but they were back, determined

to win a second bronze

today against Japan.

The last of the judged

snowboarding events today.

And many will feel we've

saved the best till last,

the men's big air.

New for 2018 and it's

been a big hit.

Not least with Britain's Billy

Morgan, the 28-year-old

in his second Games.

A former roofer, Billy is one

of the true free spirits

in the British team.

He lives and loves

the free sports lifestyle.

He'll freely admit he loves

to party, and he's been freewheeling

around the athletes' village.

Now, he didn't make the slopestyle

final in Pyeongchang.

But away from the Olympics,

the Southampton rider has been

setting new standards in this big

air format which has

been on the scene at

the X Games for many years.

In fact, he's led the way

in some of the huge tricks

these guys perform.

And he was one of the 12 men

who qualified for today's final,

watched by Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood.

watched by Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood.

The British and now cheering and,

yes, this is good news, Billy Morgan

took a big hit in training so the

fact he is up here is good news.

Hamish McKnight and his team-mate

next to him. Billy just watching the

flags. He made it through with

immaculate and huge tricks and that

is what he wants to land now.

Picking up a lot of speed into the

first jump, backside triple cork, it

is massive. He couldn't hold it.

Huge. Backside triple cork with the

nose grab. He was clinging to that

with his fingernails.

He really was. Absolutely huge and

now the pressure is on. He landed on

the bottom line.

30 points, Billy Morgan has it all

to do on his final two jumps.

Toutant has been in the game for

more than a decade, so strong. The

Canadian, 25, considered a veteran

but he can ride everything. He has

had Street rail parks, but of late

he has been eclipsed in the Canadian

team by Max Parrot and Mark

McMorris.

Switch, front side, 1620! The first

rider to properly send it deep into

the landing.

That is very, very

nice. That is huge. Seb Toutant has

put himself very much in the running

for this, a massive trick to punch

out.

84.75, the judges leaving themselves

somewhere to go.

The Norwegian Torgeir Bergrem, we

watched him yesterday, sniffing

around Max Parrot's trick and he

took a huge hit from the landing,

landing on his face. Winding up the

backside 1620.

A huge trick.

Look at

the Norwegians.

Here's the Ryan

Giggs of snowboarding, rightly --

beautifully skilful. Keeping the

board pretty much straight on

take-off, the judges will like that,

using the grab rails on the board to

full effect, he is happy.

88.5,

first place, deservedly so.

Back to the top and this man is the

king of big air.

The Canadian dropping in forwards.

Backside triple cork 1620.

That was a work of art.

It was huge

and it was clean. Take a look there

where he has done the whole trick on

the take-off. He grabs, he's not

working or fighting it, the whole

trick is done on that take-off. That

180 looks like it is part of the

trick.

Max Parrot, we know he has

the cab in the bag and 85 this. He

now two goes.

Bergrem in first. Two Canadians and

a Norwegian.

Billy is under pressure now, he has

worked so hard to get here, he was

kept off his board a month before

these games tearing a cruciate

ligament.

Massive again.

He holds it up, yes.

It was huge. He put the nose grab,

the hardest grab, yes, Billy.

Really nice.

A huge triple cork. If

the judges reward in size they have

to give him a big present for that

one. My goodness.

Relief.

Billy Morgan has a serious shot now.

Next in, Sebastien Toutant. The

Canadian is sat on a very powerful

84.7 five.

A bit of breathing room here. And I

think it is fair to say this kid is

a video game snowboarder. Backside

again here.

again here.

Backside 1620. How did

he hold on, it was like a rodeo

clown! Huge. A huge second hit for

the man from Quebec.

He looked like

he was hanging onto a palomino in a

rodeo somehow that toe edge kept in

contact with the snow. That is very

precious.

89.5. That puts him in a very strong

position.

I want to see this boy do well, Kyle

mac. A powerhouse. He is so mostly

he even sinks in saltwater!

Come on, Kyle mac. He already has

the backside 1440.

Oh, no exclamation mark

Oh, no exclamation mark that is a

bloody Dracula. That is the name of

the grab.

the grab. Four full rotations, both

hands back on the tail.

Not massive.

But we saw what happened stepping

out of the ordinary and pulling off

a different grab in Sochi and it

dominated slopestyle. I think Kyle

Mack can do the same will stop this

will push close to 90.

86.7 five. Two big scores, second at

the moment.

Max Parrot, an incredible work

ethic, the second man after Billy

Morgan to land a quad cork. Being

accused of lacking style at times.

But suddenly he addressed that. Will

we see the cab 1800, look how much

speed, the switch here, is it -- is

this it? Oh, no, he has gone.

He has

added hundreds of those in training

and suddenly everything is wide

open. If he had landed it in the

final was put to bed. We have got

that lovely finish, suddenly into

the boil because we have that lovely

finish where the pressure is really

on Max Parrot.

That is like 20 grit sandpaper.

These are the standings.

Billy Morgan, I think, will go for

the frontside 1440 triple cork and

if he lands this he is well within

the medals scores but remember Billy

is the second of 12 to drop here in

the third and final jumps of men's

big air.

We know the whole of Southampton is

watching this. They have rented the

Sports Centre, there will be a big

crowd cheering billy on here and he

needs to go absolutely

stratospheric.

Not something he struggles with.

Come on, Billy Morgan, frontside

triple 14.

Double grab. Yes! Billy Morgan with

a double grab frontside triple 14,

that is massive.

Absolutely huge.

My goodness.

He had asked all

scared. His land in practice,

dropped his first jump, and has

delivered second and third jump.

This is very precious.

The double

grab, grabbing the tail grab and the

mute on that.

The judges will love

it. Look how deep it is.

One line,

two lines. Beautiful, standing up.

Yes, Billy Morgan.

85.5, Billy Morgan moves into bronze

medal position. A very long and

nervous wait for the man from

Southampton.

This man is in a very end you'll

position of sitting up top with one

jump to spare. Where is Sebastien

Toutant going to take this third and

final jump?

How about this, Ed, not one jump in

the 90s in the first two. The judges

were leaving plenty in reserve.

Would you trust Chris Corning having

added two would try a chord?

He was

chucking them in practice.

For a

laugh. Here we go. Dropping in

switch.

He tried to tidy up that first. The

cab 16. Just by going even bigger,

he wanted to add to that 84.7 five.

This would be such a huge result for

Toutant. If you look at his results

it was only on the Quebec slopes

last year that he won.

That looked like visualisation of

the quad cork.

We have been saying

this jump is too small to see here.

He is starting right back. It looks

like...

Surely not.

This will be history right here.

First Olympic quad... It will be the

first quad in competition.

I think

he's going. I've never seen him this

site.

He's coming forwards, he's

going to have to rip this so hard...

He nearly made it to! Oh my

goodness. The backside quad cork

makes its appearance at the

Olympics. We've been talking about

it since day one of the slopestyle

and we finally see it. Chris Corning

has been building his entire career

around the idea he's going to come

to the Olympics and land a quad cork

and then the jump is too small when

he gets here. Has that stopped him?

He's ripped it there. Wow. Full

credit to this man. He dips late

their...

He actually gets it down,

he only needed a tiny, tiny bit

more.

Chris Corning has spent

physics. -- spent physics next in is

Kyle Mack, currently in silver medal

position. An improvement of his jump

which scored 82, if he can bump that

up... He's going to need and 87. He

can pull this up to an 87 or higher,

then he can move into gold medal

position.

I don't think you're going

to see a 1440 in the 80s.

He either

needs a 16 or he needs a grab that

is truly out of this world. With the

bloody Dracula on his front side 14

I think we seen as high as that can

go.

Going to try and tidy up this

backside... Backside triple caucus,

nearly ran to 18.

What? A 1620

Japan.

I think he was trying to take

that round to 1800 by the looks of

it.

I'm looking down... Right now,

of all the riders left to drop, Mark

McMorris have dropped their first

jumps. There's only one man left a

drop who can knock everyone out.

Mack is guaranteed silver and Kyle

Mack is guaranteed bronze. Billy

Morgan can only get blasted by Max

Parrot.

The whole of the UK needs to

watch this jump through their

eyes... Of course they watch it

through their eyes! The whole of the

UK needs to watch this through their

fingers. I'm so torn between my

friend in bronze medal position and

one of the best snowboarders in the

world about to try and do business

here on this big edge on.

The

hardest trick we'll see on this jump

to date after Chris Corning's

attempt at the quad 1800.

He's here

for gold. He's not here anything

else.

else.

Al Noor! He's gone! What? --

oh no! Max Parrot scales back his

jump and Mrs! He's gone for gold and

he's gone home with nothing. The

medals are settled. We said it was a

long shot but Billy Morgan,

Southampton's finest snowboarder,

will go home with a bronze medal. In

exactly the same way that Jenny

Jones worked so hard and was able to

crown an impressive career with the

glory of an Olympic medal, Billy

Morgan has done exactly the same

thing. The man who has pioneered so

many tricks but really struggled for

the core acceptance from the sport,

has come and landed two breathtaking

tricks under pressure to take a

silver medal. The story isn't so

different for Kyle Mack in gold

medal position -- Seb Toutant in

gold-medal position. It's a lovely

seeing Canada and America matched

very, very closely by Britain. One

of the minnows in snowboarding but

in Billy Morgan, we have one of the

most courageous and pioneering

snowboarders. He's earned his reward

here at the first-ever big air in

Korea. A bronze medal,

congratulations Billy. Billy Morgan,

you legend!

What a wild ride that

was!

What are you thinking right

this second?

I don't know, it's

wild. I had such a bad training and

I fell on the first. I thought it

was game over. I was thinking I hope

I don't fall over three times and

everyone will be devastated. All my

mates are at home watching and I

thought, I'm going to fall over

three times!

That was your mind

saying that!

I thought if I land one

jump I'll be stoked. I did to!

The

first one was so deep and we saw you

do that crash. The second one

landed, what were you thinking going

into the third?

I didn't land one of

them in practice. I had a sore bum.

Hamish was like go slower and time

it right. I landed and I was like...

I didn't know what to do.

Has it

sunk in that you worry bronze

medallist, Billy?

I'm sure it will

hit me later. I never expected it.

If you come in thinking you're

shooting for a medal, you're ready

for it. But I just didn't.

Two weeks

ago would you have thought that with

your knee injury?

No. I said a lot

of interviews I would be stoked if I

make the finals in either. Happy

days!

STUDIO: To time Olympic

snowboarder Ben Kilner has been

beaming all morning.

A real breakthrough in so many

respects for Billy Morgan.

Billy has helped the whole nation.

The kids that get inspired by this

will come flooding in. I'm sure they

will be pestering their parents to

take them to the local snow dome.

It's massive. Hopefully we'll see a

lot coming from it.

And up into the

Highlands as well.

lot coming from it.

And up into the

Highlands as well.

But, he thought he'd

blown his chance.

You've got to land two

jumps in this final.

He didn't do it on his first run.

Tell us about the quality

of his last two efforts here?

He's gone for the backside triple

core. He fell on this trick on the

first run adding way more pressure

to these next two runs. You can

obviously see how delighted he is

coming into it. He had a really hard

training on the build-up to this

event. He said in his interview that

he had fallen a lot. He wasn't going

into it with full confidence. I

think he's attacked it this time,

has put down backside triple 14 and

a frontside triple 14. He delighted.

No wonder. When you talk about his

confidence in the air and you look

at his back story, he was a gymnast.

Acrobatics was a speciality of his.

How big a role with that have

plagued in his aerial confidence? --

played in his aerial confidence.

He

was even in the circus at one point.

His background has done wonders.

He's taken on the role where he

helped the whole team get better in

the gymnasium on trampolines. He's

been such a valuable asset to the

team.

The character of the flight of

this kicker that the big air guys

actually achieved is completely

different to the style we see in

freestyle skiing aerials which is

very much up come around and down.

It's the forward propulsion, how

does that change the character of

the flight?

When they are on the

jump, they are probably clearing

about 30 metres of distance before

they are touching back down. When

you're landing tricks like this with

speed, you need to be so precise. If

I use this teddy, if we land it at a

diagonal angle, we catch our edges.

We need to land perfectly straight

in order to travel and keep going.

That's exactly what he did and he

got his reward shortly after because

on the medal podium it was Billy

Morgan. He has been a real pioneer,

he was landing tricks no one had in

2015. In June 2015 we realised he

would come into the Olympic Games.

That is a record piece of precious

metal not just for Billy but for the

whole British team because it's a

record fifth in the Olympics.

record fifth in the Olympics. And a

massive milestone for British snow

sports.

It's huge. I'm so happy for

Billy and the whole team, all the

guys behind the scenes who worked

very hard. I know how hard Billy has

worked with this.

Was Sebastien

Toutant the right winner for you?

I

think so. I think Max Parrot had the

best betting odds but Sebastien

Toutant has been the best of the

date.

And Kyle Mack pulling off the

bloody Dracula.

20 years ago in Nagano,

the giant slalom which then became

the parallel giant slalom was how it

all started for snowboarding

at the Olympics.

In those days you were either a

snowboarder or a skier. Frankly

neither the twain shall meet.

But the lines are blurring,

big style in Pyeongchang.

And in no small part due to Czech

athlete Ester Ledecka who made

history by competing in both

disciplines in the same Games.

She was attempting to become the

first athlete to compete in both

disciplines in the games.

Because who could forget

the astonished looks in the cream

of the alpine world last Saturday

when Ledecka, the Czech skiing

snowboarder, hurtled down

the mountain to snatch super-G gold

by one hundredth of a second.

She's the daughter of one

of the Czech Republic's best

loved folk-pop musicians,

Janek Ledecka, but in that instant

she became the global star.

She couldn't believe it and neither

could anybody else.

Thereafter, the super-G

champion chose not to race

the women's downhill,

again, unheard in the alpine world,

instead getting ready to strap

on a snowboard instead,

in today's parallel giant slalom.

She was one of the favourites to win

this one as well.

Watched by Graham Bell

and Zoe Gillings-Brier.

COMMENTATOR: Its Hofmeister against

Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic.

Be winner of this race will go into

the gold medal race and the loser

into the bronze medal race.

into the bronze medal race.

Ester

Ledecka can't be thinking about the

final, she's got to keep the focus

and the speed. This could be history

in the making.

in the making. It looks to me like

the Germans got the lead. Hofmeister

carrying more speed.

carrying more speed.

She managed to

recover very well but lost a

little...

By back-to-back and they

can't see each other so well. It

looks to me

looks to me like Ledecker has

Billy... The German is down!

Ledecker is through to the Olympic

final. Is it going to be gold or

silver? That's the question.

Whatever happens, Ester Ledecka is

eight double Olympic medallist. In

both alpine skiing and in

snowboarding.

That is just

outstanding.

Who will Ledecker go up

against? Will it be Ledecker of

Germany?

Germany? Zavarzina has been fast all

day. Selina Joerg on the blue. Alina

Zavarzina on the red. She is down

and out!

All Joerg has to do now is

get across the finish line. And she

is through to the final.

I think

Zavarzina is back on track. I'm not

sure if she missed the gate or not

but she's a good four or five gates

back. We can't see her on the TV

screen. If we look at the window on

the commentary box we can see it is

Joerg who will progress to the

final. And be Olympic Athlete from

Russia will be in the bronze medal

match up against the German

Hofmeister. That was a bit of a

surprise.

She was looking good, she

was riding quick. She lost that

edge. I think she's straight in her

legs slightly too early and when she

hit a bump she had to straighten

legs and couldn't absorb it and lost

the edge.

Confirmation that it is Ester

Ledecka in the final for the gold

medal against Selina Joerg of

Germany.

Here we go, this is it, the final of

the women's parallels giant slalom.

The snowboard event. It is a match

up between Selina Joerg and Ester

Ledecka.

She has already made history, the

first athlete to compete in both

snowboarding and alpine skiing at an

Olympic Games. She has already won a

medal, will she win a gold, will she

double the gold medal tally?

They are off and underweight.

Ledecka is on the Red Cross. --

underway. The Disko is doing it, one

slip and it will go away. --

slip and it will go away. -- leaded

egg -- Ledecka. A wobble on the Andy

Gate. Needing to pump out on the

flat to generate speed.

Needing to be nice and smooth

through these last gates.

Ledecka

will make history. She has done it.

Absolutely incredible, a gold medal

in the Alpine skiing super-G,

addition and now gold medal in the

parallel giant slalom snowboard

connotation. It has never been done

before. Not in modern times, two

sports in one Olympic Games, what an

athlete.

Probably the biggest story of these

Games.

There are some pretty good

designs on her suit.

She has two

separate coaching teams, for Alpine

skiing and snowboarding.

The first of these semifinals,

Sylvain Dufour of France against

Nevin Galmarini, the Swiss racer.

Galmarini has looked lightning fast.

Very fast and very strong,

qualifying in first, he has had a

good day so

They are off, Dufour on blue and

Galmarini on the red. Galmarini just

jumping into that, through the

transition.

A risky Maria Miller but if you land

correctly you get a good calf -- a

risky manoeuvre.

risky manoeuvre.

They are pumping

along the flat section tried to

generate speed.

Galmarini looking

very good.

Extending his lead.

The pressure on

Dufour was immense. You could see

Galmarini was ever so slightly

ahead.

ahead. Blue out in the end. You have

got to say Galmarini, he really is

looking one of the quickest rider is

today, as received Dufour losing the

heel edge. Galmarini didn't realise,

he was reaching Ford, stretching for

the line.

Expect the noise levels to go up

now, Zan Kosir, bronze medallist

from Sochi, up against the local

hero Lee Sangho. Kosi is on red.

Pushing the ball back and it looked

like Lee didn't get the best of

starts.

He got the timing wrong with

the pole and movement of the legs.

He has fallen slightly behind. He

has work to do. Zan Kosir can be

lightning fast. Lee needs to pull

something out. Zan Kosir had the

advantage, riding through the banana

gate on the toe edge.

It looks neck

and neck. Lee got twisted. As he

came over the rise, he is going for

it. It is going to be... Lee!

it. It is going to be... Lee! Oh, my

gosh, that is close. He pulled back

out between the second-class gate

and the finish line.

He was so far

back. But he risked absolutely

everything on the last six gates.

The crowd is loving it here this

afternoon.

And that means that Korea

are guaranteed a medal. Look how far

behind years. As they went past that

gate. A charge over the last six

gates. Look at that finish. I think

Zan Kosir thought he had got it.

That is so close.

That is so close. We have had some

incredible racing so far today. It

is going to finish with a bang.

I can hear Lee Sangho being charted

from the finish.

This is it. The men's parallel giant

slalom.

The big final. Lee Sangho on the

Blue Course. Correia is guaranteed a

silver or gold medal but which

colour will it be?

He is up against

Nevin Galmarini. From Switzerland

who has been riding very strong all

day.

You call it, you are the

expert.

I don't know. My heart is

saying Lee, my head is saying

Galmarini. One tiny mistake can

throw it away. I will tell you in

about one minute!

Here we go. The whole country

expects. A better start from Lee, he

had a shocking start in the

semifinal.

He got a good pool.

Slightly behind now.

Taking too much

of a conservative line on the top of

the course. 0.45, a long way back,

he will have to go for it. He needs

to carry speed from the steep to the

flat. Galmarini from Switzerland is

looking good.

Coming over now.

Cantlay pull out the spectacular

again. This time, it is Switzerland

that takes the gold, Lee will have

to settle for silver.

The crowd is

very happily with the medal -- very

happy with the medal.

Galmarini

takes the gold medal for

Switzerland.

He has had a fantastic

day. Qualified in first, won all his

heats. A deserving winner.

Lee was able to catch up from the

steep to the flat, he gained back

two tenths of a second.

He seems

faster at the end of the course.

Look at the angle there. In the end,

he didn't need to reach for the

line, he had a sneaky look at his

opponent and knew he was

STUDIO:

You have to say the story of

the day is Ester Ledecka macro.

You were favourite, how did you cope

with the pressure?

with the pressure?

I was watching

many others, so, this is very

specific, a very specific base

because you have just one chance, it

is not like the World Cup where you

have more races and in the end it

comes together.

And so you need some luck. And I

believe I had this luck today.

In her honour we have brought the

world of snowboarding and Alpine

racing together. Two completely

different cultures coming together.

This amazing athlete has managed to

win a gold medal in both.

It is amazing, turning what we

thought about focusing on your sport

and chain so many hours on one

thing, she is managing to train to

win gold medals in both skiing and

snowboarding, completely different

cultures.

Many are saying it is

still on snow but how would you

characterise the differences in what

she has done today bringing both of

them together?

It is like being a professional

rollerblader and skateboarder, or

footballer and rugby player. They

are completely different sports. It

is so impressive the hours of

training, to both events, she must

have had no time to sleep.

Rebecca

Romero for Great Britain at the

summer games she won a rowing gold

medal come silver, and won a gold

medal in cycling. But we are talking

in the same Olympic Games. Her coach

Justin Rieter says the ability to

restrain herself and not go hell for

leather in one discipline one day

and the other the next, how do you

limit yourself to do just enough?

It must be ours in the day. She must

have to change so much and for so

long to be that good. Lindsey Vonn

talked about it in the super-G how

she trains at one spot and still

wasn't the best in the world. This

athlete has dominated two separate

sports.

Is this the shape of things to come

to mark it could be.

It is probably the attraction of

winter sports that has obviously got

her. It will be amazing to see more

of this.

Would you even contemplate Quetta

muck you have done quite a lot of

things in your time, the Alpine,

then ski Cross, could you imagine

switching later in your career?

You

could even do Alpine and ski cross

in the same games. I can't see

anyone else doing it. It is so out

there, so difficult. I can't see

anyone being crazy enough to try it!

I have seen snowboarders trying half

pipe and slopestyle. I see how hard

that is the them to divide their

time between the two.

We're staying with the head-to-head

racing now in the alpine team event.

New for 2018.

Alpine skiing's push to grab

the attention of a different

audience and a new market.

We had expected there

to be some high profile

gold-hunters in this one,

namely Austria's Marcel Hirscher -

but he's called it a day at these

games with his two golds,

and America's Mikaela Shiffrin

who says she's got some celebrating

to do after a gold and a bronze.

But plenty of others are keen

to grab a piece of this.

In the first quarterfinal,

Austria weaved their way

to a straightforward 4-0 win over

Sweden.

Each race win earns a point.

Manny Feller rounding out the rout.

France against Italy

was a slightly closer.

The French led 2-1 going

into the final race,

but Clement Noel put in a strong

performance to see

France into the semis.

And Germany versus Switzerland

was incredibly tight, finishing 2-2.

Ramon Zenhaeusern's decisive win

over Alexander Schmidt proving

the difference as the Swiss progress

with the fastest total time.

GB reached the quarterfinals, they

were facing the Norwegians. Let us

join Matt Chilton.

Great Britain versus Norway. For a

place in the semifinal of the

inaugural Alpine team event. First

up, Alex Tilley takes on Kristin

Lysdahl. Things didn't go according

to plan in the slalom. But a chance

for redemption here. The British

team, Charlie Guest, Dave Ryding,

Laurie Taylor, Alex Tilley. The

Norwegians, Foss-Solevaag,

Haver-Loeseth, Lysdahl and

Nestvold-Haugen.

Lysdahl in blue. Tilley at the jump,

good landing. An excellent turn.

Lysdahl is still in front. Tilley is

closing the gap, half a gate in

front for a moment. She has done

enough. Great Britain when the first

race. What a fightback from Alex

Tilley. Lysdahl hooked up her hand

in the control gate, Tilley took

advantage. Great Britain lead 1-0.

Laurie Taylor is up against Leif

Kristian Nestvold-Haugen.

Laurie Taylor needs to overcome the

man in the red course. Taylor is

matching Nestvold-Haugen so far. At

the jump the Norwegian is in front.

Lands comfortably in front of Taylor

and starts to move away. Mistakes

can still occur and Laurie Taylor

will be watching for a potential

error from Nestvold-Haugen. None is

forthcoming and it is 1-1. Good

skiing from Nestvold-Haugen. He held

his nerve, beating Laurie Taylor by

0.62. Charlie Guest next.

Haver-Loeseth with a good landing.

Twice a World Cup winner up against

the inexperienced Charlie Guest.

Haver-Loeseth looks in total control

and will surely put Norway 2-1 in

front. She does. 2-1 is the

scoreline, with just Dave

Ryding and Foss-Solevaag to come.

Dave Ryding of Great Britain,

Foss-Solevaag of Norway.

Foss-Solevaag of Norway. Ryding

powers out of the gate and is in

front at the jump. He lands

marginally ahead of the Norwegian

skis sideways. Ryding battling back.

Ryding has a gap, it needs to be a

big gap for Great Britain to

advance. Ryding takes the win. It's

a tie-break and Norway have

qualified by time. Great Britain and

Northern Ireland are out. The

tie-break favouring the Norwegians.

They go through but not by much.

Norway will face Austria in the

semifinal but what a fantastic

performance from the British

quartet. They can hold their heads

high after a memorable performance

here. Time for the semifinals and

the line-up sees Austria taking an

Norway and then France up against

Switzerland. Austria versus Norway

in semi-final number one.

in semi-final number one. Good start

from Lysdahl. Liensberger recovered

well after a slightly sluggish exit

from the start hut. Now they are

synchronised. We haven't had a dead

heat yet in today's competition and

I don't think we'll have one here.

Liensberger bites thirst for

Austria.

Austria. 0.19, Austria lead Norway

1-0. A good fight back for

Liensberger. What a great jump and

turned that was. A good

turned that was. A good start for

Mike Matt. A couple of early

mistakes from Nestvold-Haugen. This

has opened up in his favour. Now

Mike Matt has recovered his poise

but he's allowing the Norwegian to

get ahead. Nestvold-Haugen will tie

the scoreline. It's one apiece. This

is where it started to come apart

from Mike Matt. Eventually he missed

the gate. Race three, Gallhuber of

Austria and Haver-Loeseth of Norway.

This should be good. Haver-Loeseth

in red, Gallhuber in blue. It's 1-1

after the first two rounds. Away

they go, pushing hard. Nothing to

choose between them. Haver-Loeseth

was more accurate with the turns

straight after the jump and moves in

front as she attempts to give Norway

a 2-1 lead.

a 2-1 lead. Gallhuber steals it from

Haver-Loeseth. The Norwegian holds

her helmet in her hands and is

apologising to her team-mates. We

are down to a final race between

Schwarz and Foss-Solevaag. Schwarz

who's that the last round out is in

the red course. Foss-Solevaag has

looked shaky at times. Schwarz

metronomic with his red and moves in

front. The Austrians are on their

way, barring a mistake from Schwarz.

Austria are in the final. They've

defeated Norway 3-1. Norway will

have to go and fight it out for the

bronze a little later.

It's France versus Switzer -- France

versus Switzerland. Now it's all

about medals. Baud Mugnier of

France.

France. The Switzerland, Feierabend

in blue.

in blue. Baud Mugnier has looked

sharp in previous outings so far

this afternoon that is reflected in

the way the French skier has taken

this apart in the first 20 turns.

The final six to come and Baud

Mugnier gives France a lead of 1-0.

Feierabend left standing somewhat

there. France lead by 1-0. Now we'll

see a serious battle between Clement

Noel who was fourth in the Olympic

slalom, and Zenhaeusern who took the

silver in the red course. The giant

Swiss against the young Frenchman.

Zenhaeusern was over early, pushing

too hard and Noel has got a half

baked advantage at the jump.

Zenhaeusern is back in front. What a

comeback from the big Swiss ski

racer who draws Switzerland level.

It's 1-1. That was something from

Zenhaeusern. He got left standing

after he pushed too hard at the

start. The gate didn't open and he

had to go again. Next up, Worley the

double world champion in giant

slalom up against Holdener who has

two medals from the Games already.

Holdener in the red course. They are

synchronised through the first turns

at the jump. They land

simultaneously. No real lead in

evidence for either skier. Holdener

establishes herself marginally out

in front.

in front. Switzerland leading France

2-1. Holdener has skied superbly all

day at Yongpyong. She gives

Switzerland the edge. 2-1 as they

bid for a place in the final now

it's

it's down to Pinturault versus Yule.

Yule made a great start but

Pinturault has closed the gap. Yule

has had some shaky moments so far

but he's ahead at the jump.

Pinturault playing catch up. Surely

Switzerland are guaranteed a medal?

Switzerland are in the final! It's

the dream final in many ways. The

mighty Swiss take on their great

rivals Austria in the battle for the

gold and silver. France will return

to fight it out for the bronze

against Norway.

against Norway. Confirmation of

Switzerland's win over France. The

small final, the battle for bronze,

France versus Norway. It's a great

start again for Lysdahl. She's up

against the double world champion in

giant slalom Worley who's never won

an Olympic medal. She is now in

front with the bottom third of the

race to come. Lysdahl battling back.

Worley with the early lead and she

takes it by 0.19 second. 1-0 to

France. The final third is where

Worley got the best exhilaration

with the tightest turns. France in

the red course, with Foss-Solevaag

in bluefin Norway. A brilliant start

from Pinturault. Fractionally ahead.

He's in front at the jump.

Foss-Solevaag trying to play catch

up no of the Norway and he succeeds.

He is level with Pinturault.

Goodness me it's tight, and

Foss-Solevaag has got it by seven

hundredths.

hundredths. Foss-Solevaag held his

nerve, kept his cool and eventually

pulled alongside his opponent with

some head-to-head slalom technique.

Now takes on Baud Mugnier for

France. -- Haver-Loeseth takes on

Baud Mugnier.

Baud Mugnier. Baud Mugnier has a

fine opportunity to put France 2-1

in front with

in front with just... She takes

France to a 2-1 lead by 0.31.

Haver-Loeseth's upper body got

twisted. She took the jump lopsided

and had to continue on her way.

and had to continue on her way. Noel

is up against Nestvold-Haugen. The

last race of the Olympics for these

two men. A medal at stake. It's a

good start. Now they get stuck into

the first seven turns and Noel has a

fractional lead. He lands and then

Nestvold-Haugen comes steaming past.

For a moment the Frenchman lost

control of his ski pole. Its gimmick

go down to the tie-break. Norway

with the bronze medal. Norway take

the bronze and they celebrate that.

France R4 began.

France R4 began. Liensberger Norway

take it on the tie-break by 12

hundredths of a second. Now the main

event, Austria taking on

Switzerland. The two big players in

Alpine ski racing.

Switzerland are in the blue course

to kick things off, with Feierabend

taking an Liensberger. On recent

form in today's competition, you

would put your money on Liensberger.

Feierabend generally the weak link

for Switzerland. Liensberger out in

front. She has a half baked

advantage. If she stays on her feet

she will give Austria a 1-0 lead by

0.31. Now we'll see the race we will

be looking forward to, as two of the

medallists from the men's slalom go

head-to-head. Matt versus

Zenhaeusern. Another brilliant start

from Zenhaeusern but a slightly

shaky few turns from the Swiss. Mike

Matt has looked more convincing. Now

Zenhaeusern Mousset up through the

gears and goes into overdrive as

Matt will be disqualified. It's 1-1

in the final. Zenhaeusern brings

Switzerland back into contention

with a dynamic explosive run. A

great start from Mike Matt but

Zenhaeusern has shown his

capabilities in this head-to-head

format. He was the winner of the

stock, vent. -- stock on --

Stockholm event.

Stockholm event. It's Holdener

versus Gallhuber. Switzerland versus

Austria.

Austria. Both medallists in the

Olympic slalom. Simultaneous start,

no mistakes made. Gallhuber makes a

mistake. Holdener has a half gate

lead as they come off the lip.

Gallhuber has fought back into

contention in previous rounds. She

can't overhaul Holdener's lead.

Holdener gives Switzerland 1

advantage.

A second between them. . The last

race of the alpine ski racing

programme here at Pyeongchang.

Schwarz against Yule in the

inaugural alpine team event.

They will get a medal but they all

want the gold. They are ready to go.

The fourth and final race in the

alpine combined, edition, Daniel

Yule on the Blue Course.

A better start from Marco Schwarz.

Daniel Yule, back in contention. I

think he is in front and Schwarz is

struggling. Schwarz has gone out and

Daniel Yule can cruise through.

Switzerland are the Olympic

champions. They have defeated their

all-time rivals Austria and they

take the first ever gold medal in

the alpine team event. It will be

silver for Austria, Marco Schwarz's

mistake rules them out. Switzerland

when 3-1.

Gold to Switzerland. Silver to

Austria in the battle of the giants.

With Norway defeated France to win

the bronze.

How did you view the overall look of

the team event?

I enjoyed the team event, as a

spectacle it is great. I would love

it if the athletes gave it as much

attention as the other events.

15

-- 15 of the 23 skiers who'd won

individual medals skipped it.

individual medals skipped it.

if it teething problems?

As a whole, the event works well but

because they don't turn up it

doesn't feel as it would be if all

the big guns were there.

The next time they do.

Technically a

fifth place for Great Britain.

Officially the best result on snow.

Does it feel like that?

It feels

like a technicality, because of the

field. You can't take that away from

them, they beat the Americans, and

gave Norway a good scare.

They did awesome, they really did us

proud. Hopefully they can keep

pushing.

In future years will it be like the

mixed doubles curling where it is a

new event but with the resources

going into the main teams, but this

is a gold medal up for grabs.

I think teams will realise it is

another for the medals table and

funding and the fans.

The last of the alpine events,

thanked you for your contributions.

It's the final weekend of the Games

and that means we're getting

ready for the rumble.

The thrilling rumble you can hear

when four big men sprint, full pelt,

and pile into a high-tech sled

and fly through an ice

tunnel at up to 90mph.

Keep your head down, we're green

for go in Pyeonghchang's F1 on ice.

We have had the luge, the skeleton,

and the two and events in bobsleds

but this is where the big guys with

in the four-man.

Next a powerful team from Germany,

Francesco Friedrich, he dead heated

famously with the two-man gold.

A new start record. Great velocity,

that is what these teams bring,

these are the top starters. They

carry so much velocity. We could see

this, as long as he gets things

right, being in contention. He has

been flying in training.

That is one of the best you will see

all day. Just losing a bit of speed.

Maybe now the sled is starting to

move. That line through the chicane

has helped him.

A little tap of 15 and high of 16.

Maintaining that advantage.

Hats off to the Koreans, they have

clearly done well. You can see what

it means to Friedrich chasing

another gold medal.

A little bit of a shift to the left

of the screen as you are looking at

it but that was a really good run.

He got through clean, you can see

the height, having a packed -- how

they are packed in.

That was the only mistake. Lamin

Deen and his team, the first of the

great British pairings, with Toby

Olubi, Ben Simons from Shrewsbury

and Andrew Matthews from Slough, all

in their 30s, Lamin Deen is 36,

probably his last Games, fifth in

the World Championships three years

ago, his second Olympic Games.

In training his start looked like

there was room for improvement,

would you agree?

Yes but people complain they haven't

shown their full power. It has been

their runs down the track where the

British team have found their speed.

Hopefully the runners will work well

on the ice temperatures.

Let us see the start time. Inside

five seconds. One of the slowest way

of those we have seen.

It didn't

look clean. This is the issue he has

been having in training. The second

corner has been causing problems,

throwing buckets of speed away.

Lamin Deen will be struggling to

stay within the top 12. We know how

much that costs time at the top.

Hopefully he can get this one right.

It is not looking like a clean run.

This British sled will drop back in

the order which is not what they

wanted.

Things ebbing away again I am

afraid, not a happy start we were

hoping for, Lamin Deen and his three

colleagues, he flashes through, less

than a second off the leader.

You can see Ben Simons has a big

mess up getting in which delays the

team. Toby Olubi getting his big

arms in which is why they had backed

a witch. 630 kilos and the whole

sled is off the ice. -- which is why

they had that big twitch.

The second team for Great Britain,

ranked 12th in the world, Brad Hall

who is 12th in the two-man event,

with Greg Cackett, Joel Fearon and

young Nick Gleeson.

So, they now go with 27-year-old

Brad Hall their pilot, third at Park

city, the opening World Cup event of

the season, one of only two top-10

finishes. Can they put in a better

run?

That is a lot better start. This is

where Brad Hall need to get through.

He has been having trouble there all

week. The first run he has got it

right. We saw from the two-man he

can drive this well. He finished

eighth here last year in a World Cup

race. He can drive this track. He

needs to relax into it and get

through clean. That is as good as

any of the top pilots. A little bit

late but this is a good run from

Brad Hall, to give the Brits a

chance of having a top-10 finish.

Coming out of 15. Top-10 might elude

him here. As he finishes.

This is a good load from the guys.

That is the best run Brad Hall has

had down here this week. That will

give him confidence. Hopefully we

can start to pull back. We have the

Brits at 15 and 16, not where they

were expecting, suddenly Lamin Deen

was expecting around the top five.

There is the leaderboard, Friedrich

leads.

The Germans are always going to be

strong but from a British point of

view a disappointing performance.

They should be fighting the medals.

That I am afraid is how it has

worked out for the British pair,

Brad Hall and Lamin Deen. Brad Hall

in 16th place. Lamin Deen at 19.

The second run for Great Britain,

Lamin Deen, very disappointing with

his 19th place. Together with Ben

Simons, Toby Olubi and Andrew

Matthews. What do they need to put

right this time around?

A little bit on the load, having

trouble getting in. But Lamin Deen

needs to sort out the second

quarter.

They push away. 4.98 was the start

time in the first run. They have

done exactly the same.

Not great

velocity, this is where he has been

having issues. He may scrap of a

little time from the Americans, a

little tap, the same mistake. He

hasn't been driving well. Another

little of the state. It is difficult

to get these sleds into a slide

because they are so planted. You

know the palate is making big

errors, as he comes

errors, as he comes into their --

pilot.

He started off 16th, head of the

American team.

Extending that slightly.

A lot

better. Getting in cleaner. Toby

spends a little too long for me. A

little tap, the nose coming into

Connor 12. The big mistake for Lamin

Deen was exit two and four, that

have the back looks like it is going

to roll in. A little bit further and

that would have been a crash.

Next to go for Great Britain, Brad

Hall with Nick Gleeson, Joel Fearon

and Greg Cackett. They start 16th

after run number one.

Overall the mood was little bit

similar to Lamin Deen, one of the

slight frustration it wasn't quicker

down the hill.

It is frustration. Brad is a young

pilot, he has only been driving four

years, he hasn't quite got the

experience. The him to be top 15 in

the world, is still a relatively

good result. Although on paper it

doesn't seem like that. They had a

good start, they always carry good

velocity, they are one of the best

drill teams. The main thing is they

have good velocity. He has just made

a mistake which cost him in four and

five. This is the difference between

the top pilots, tiny little errors.

These cost time. This track is so

easy to lose speed and hard to find

it. He will drop back on Independent

Parliamentary Standards Authority

spots.

You properly saw Mica McNeill and

make or giving them a good sendoff

but the run is a happy one.

-- and Mica Moore.

Everybody driving behind, stepping

in, load, a little twitch. He has

already made a mistake at the top.

It is a knock on effect which has

cost him.

Now the pressure is on the Korean

team.

team. Brilliant run one but they

went first. How much of an advantage

was that on fresh ice? We will see

right now.

A tremendous time. Surely they can't

get anywhere near that this time

around on a deteriorating track?

It

will be interesting. Sometimes you

have to take those opportunities.

Like going first they give

themselves an opportunity to put

themselves in the mix. Listening to

everyone driving these lines,

everyone driving these lines, they

are some of the best, you can hardly

hear them through the corners

because they know the track so well.

Staying ahead of the Germans.

Kripps

I wasn't expecting them to

stay in front of the Germans, just

because of the difference in the

time of the track but he's doing a

great job.

He was nine hundredths

ahead of Walther. The gap might

close a bit to six hundredths.

Tomorrow on the medal chase, they

are right in the thick of things.

Look at what it means to the

hometown team. Takes a different

line than other teams but their

heads down, shoulders, knees, legs,

interlocked. That is a big run from

the Koreans right there.

Friedrich

goes the Germany. A 4.8 start time

with ten on their way. The current

leaders run number one.

We know he's

fast because he's already won a gold

medal. You know he's got the lines

perfect because you can hardly hear

him. That gap at the moment you can

see opening out is because of the

stark difference. If he starts to

get drawn back into the pack at the

bottom because he hasn't found the

speed, then maybe everyone else is

in a chance of catching him. I think

he's going to be hard to catch.

Curve 14 already. Now out of 15,

does this give Friedrich a great

chance of gold? He's nearly three

tents in front of the Koreans. Look

what it meant to the coaching team.

Friedrich already has a gold medal

from the two-man event.

When you

look at this, the professional team

all the way down, no real mistakes.

You see him tweak the steering and

there was just a little tap. That

didn't cost him any speed at all. I

honestly think the gold medal is

there to lose. It's about fighting

for silver and bronze.

Friedrich

with a really big lead over Won in

second place.

Are you surprised to be back where

you are?

Definitely. We had quite a

big surprise a couple of days ago

regarding equipment. We had to

change our equipment. We had a setup

that worked very well, but we had to

change that.

Why did you have to

change your runners?

We had to

change it because there was a

technicality with one rear runner.

Again, the rules are the rules. We

couldn't train or test the sets that

we wanted to test but that's how it

is. That's racing.

The two British

bobs a lot further back in the field

and both of them have talked about

their equipment not being great.

Lamin particularly has talked about

his runners. This is a runner, what

are we looking at here?

This is a

two-man runner. This was of one of

the celebs that Brad race didn't.

The difference you've got is the

profile here that can be

interchangeable. They can do what

they want with that. The length of

the runner, they can put a slight

bow in it.

It's not sharp at all.

This is very smooth to the touch and

you spend hours and hours handing

them.

We do. We polish them to a

mirror finish. Not like the luge

which is more of an edge, this is

more of a round. This is where it's

bolted the bobsleigh itself. The

issue the British team have had,

certainly with Lamin, is this depth.

It has been under the legal limit

which is why it's been deemed

illegal.

Do we know how much bite?

I

don't know but from years and years

of polishing, it takes fractions of

a millimetre off every time you do

that so eventually runs out of

material.

Is that something they

might have known would be close or

perhaps at the back of your mind?

It

would have been close. They've been

close in the past. But a different

part of the technical examination

team has looked at it and said we

aren't accepting that for the

Olympics.

To the outsider, what's

the big deal? You find some more,

crack on, what's the problem?

This

set I'm holding is £6,000. A set of

four-man runners could not keep back

£8,000. People don't give you good

sets lying around at the Olympics

because they obviously want to beat

you.

They don't have spares?

They

might but not of the same standard.

Not a great position for the GB

bobs, with equipment woes and issues

how can they improve overnight? Or

is this now beyond them?

I think

this competition is now beyond them

and any top ten results.

Realistically we are looking at top

15 at best. Hopefully one of them

can move within that.

And difficult

conversations probably around the

sport, around finding and

performance, this is nowhere near

where they wanted to be.

No, they

were confident coming into this game

Games. They were ranked 11th and 12

coming into this. You'll be thinking

fight for a top ten position. To be

sucked towards just managing to beat

-- to be just managing to scrape

into the top 20 isn't acceptable.

And only the top 20 get to run in

the last run.

If we see one of the

GB team not get a fourth run, I

think management will have to have a

look at how they are doing things

within their programme.

HAZEL: Former world champion

Nicola Minichiello piloted two-woman

bobs in three Olympics.

And with your experienced

eye, does this seems

like a pretty embarrassing error

for the British team?

It's

for the British team?

It's pretty

for the British team?

It's pretty bad.

for the British team?

It's pretty bad. It

for the British team?

It's pretty bad. It goes

for the British team?

It's pretty bad. It goes from

for the British team?

It's pretty bad. It goes from bad

for the British team?

It's pretty bad. It goes from bad to

for the British team?

It's pretty bad. It goes from bad to

worse to be honest. I don't

understand how we've got to the

Olympics and yes, runners don't grow

on trees especially good runners.

However, if you knew the runners

were close to the limit, I don't

understand why we wouldn't have a

back-up.

In skiing, I remember skis

and their bindings being measured

after many of the technical events,

to make sure that together

they didn't exceed a certain height

and provide a cantilevering turning

advantage.

Surely the depth of these runners

would routinely be measured by each

team going into an Olympics.

How badly affected were both

Bobs by today's events?

Why does it have to be that specific

height?

That would be the bare

minimum the jury would allow. The

more flexible, the more shocked it's

going to absorb and the faster the

sled is going to go. And secondly

because of safety. If it goes to

thin it could snap. With 600 kilos

with the four guys and the sled, its

safety. You can't afford to have a

runner snap.

When did this come to

light?

I believe the team found out

about it on Thursday. Again, it will

have been close to the limit said

the team would have been warned

about it in advance over the

previous four months of racing, or

even earlier.

So fair warning. What

would you have done in this

situation?

If it was me, the very

first point when I realised they

were close to the limit I would have

worked my hardest to source another

really good set. Eventually, if you

have enough money you can buy them.

At this stage, yes, really

difficult.

They get on the ice

today, we aren't sure where they

have sourced them as yet. However,

how do you think this affected

Lamin's sled?

You could see in the

body language at the interview that

Lamin's sled?

You could see in the

body language at the interview that

mentally they had already set that

as a huge barrier. The equipment

isn't going to be as good as their

setup but you could clearly see in

the body language they were super

deflated. He's not been driving the

top half of the track fantastic all

week so that combined with the

equipment issue, already their backs

are against the wall.

Lamin Deen's

sled in 17, Brad Hall is 18. They

were targeting a top five finish.

How dispiriting is it and what is

possible here? If you're not top 20

you aren't going to get a fourth

run.

Yes, and right now they are

three tenths of a second from 15th

place. However three

three tenths of a second from 15th

place. However three tenths from 20

First Place which would drop them

out. -- three tenths from 21st

place. They need to pick their heads

up because this is so much of a

mental game as well. If you are

deflated before you start, the

results speak for themselves.

So

much effort has gone into this, what

needs to change over the next few

months?

We have to have a full

review. How did we get to this

stage, secondly challenges with

equipment at this point, how has it

got to this point when we've had £5

million worth of investment over the

four-year cycle, 17th and 18th where

the four-man results are. It doesn't

make sense. The numbers don't add

up.

They don't. Meanwhile

up.

They don't. Meanwhile Francesco

Friedrich in pole position.

It could bring Germany it's 100th

gold medal in Games history.

That's probably the really

interesting thing. The Germans went

to Sochi, had a shocker, went back

and are doing fantastic. Great

Britain have to take lessons from

that.

That's on ice for now, but there's

been celebrations elsewhere already.

But celebrations elsewhere in the

Olympic Village today.

But celebrations elsewhere in the

Olympic Village today. Britain's

Acrobat turned Apley Billy Morgan

lector bronze in the big event.

Fifth medal at these games for Great

Britain, a record. And the Czech

star Ester Ledecka became the first

woman to win gold in two different

sports at the same Winter Games. She

took the parallel giant slalom in

snowboarding today. Today saw the

first ever

first ever para- -- first-ever mass

start in speed skating.

start in speed skating. The

gruelling 50 K cross-country. Callum

Smith 54 in the race which was won

by Finland. Canada's men's ice

hockey team left reeling after

yesterday's shock defeat to Germany

but they returned to beat Czech

Republic 6-4 for the bronze today.

And the USA are the new Olympic

men's curling champions. Today they

upset the Swedes 10-7. What a game

this was.

this was. Bobsled pilot Nadezhda

Sergeeva has been banned after

admitting a doping violation. The

IOC are deciding if the Russians can

parade under their own flag up

tomorrow's closing ceremony.

In the curling, we've

been here before.

And so has Eve Muirhead's rink.

A semifinal defeat yesterday

to the Swedes meant there was be no

silver lining or golden finale

to their South Korean

curling campaign.

But just as there was in Sochi,

a medal was still within their

grasp, another bronze,

if they could sweep

aside the Japanese.

Eve and her team had already beaten

Sastuki Fujkisawa's rink

in the round robin stage

and they were out to do it again

at 11 o'clock this morning,

watched by Jackie Lockhart and Steve

Cram.

The Japanese led into the last end

4-3. We are going to pick this up

with three stones for each team

remaining. Very, very tense.

with three stones for each team

remaining. Very, very tense.

COMMENTATOR: They look like they are

going to put on a guard initially

and they aren't going to play the

tap

tap until Fujisawa's first stone.

A

bit of a break their as Yoshida

listened and is she able to play the

shot here? The coach didn't want

them to come right in on top of the

yellow. This has got a long way to

go. Is that where they wanted it?

Yeah, they wanted to put the guard

on initially. They didn't want to

play the tap until the skip's first

stones. That's what Eve is going

to... She's going to play quite

aggressively and she wants to come

round aggressively.

Eve just tripped

over her stone!

They are playing

really offensive now and are going

to come right in behind these two.

Come on Anna Sloan. Now is the time.

Find your draw weight.

Find your draw weight. Has this got

a chance? They've got to hold it out

there, come round that second

yellow. And then slow up, just curl

in, try and get it right in there.

It's out there, though. Just changes

the plan for Japan.

A great attempt

there.

Eve heard what the coach said and

changed things up so they can't

follow his initial thoughts. So, we

have to say that Fujisawa draw has

been excellent.

She has been going really well.

The pressure is on. Don't forget,

one, we are into an extra end, two

and Britain when, anything else and

the bronze battle goes to Japan.

the bronze battle goes to Japan. It

will come down to Eve's last stone.

She was at least the chance to level

this up but would love the chance of

a two.

This hasn't been the most energetic

of games. What there has been lately

is a lot of good shots being played

very well.

The skip for Japan kept them alive

against Korea and almost got them

into the gold medal match, she is

trying to win the bronze medal.

Caught her own yellow, just enough.

It sits on that red. Great Britain

still lying shot but that yellow

will not be easy to move. They have

another one on top of the approach.

Can Eve come in on top of that? Is

that the best ploy? If she ends up

tapping her red back?

It looks like she will try to follow

that. Very close to playing a

perfect shot.

If she had got around that yellow

and got in, as bad as it is... Here

we go.

Just bomb that a little bit.

-- bump.

Herrera line is really close.

You have to remember the Japanese do

not want to take the same.

They will play that little bit more

weight because they want to make a

separation so they have an

opportunity with the last stone.

Biting his nails.

The younger

brother.

I think we are all nervous for them.

We are sitting with our hands...

Sitting on our hands just now.

It has been in some ways and

attritional campaign, this match at

times they have looked really good,

other times not playing at the level

at which they are capable. We just

thought it might go their way, it

didn't in the semifinal, it has been

a scrap in the bronze medal match.

Eve Muirhead with the penultimate

stone trying to put the pressure on

and give her the opportunity of a

butt. It has got to come around the

second yellow and sit on top of the

other one. A good effort from Eve

Muirhead but she has tapped her own

back.

It is a good shot, lying in shot

position. She wants the chance to

draw for two at the end.

That was the most important thing.

Now, Fujisawa is looking, if I come

in and sit on that red, will I be

shot? She properly will be if she

rested on it. If she taps it,

probably not. It will come down to

Ott I suppose even if she did, Eve

would tap that a little more. I am

getting ahead of myself.

If she comes into far it is an easy

shot for Great Britain to follow it.

She needs to sit in the front and

force the one. But she leaves the

other side.

If she comes in where she is

suggesting...

suggesting...

Just about where her

brush is, just high of the centre,

she needs to sit there.

I am not sure Eve can touch that

yellow, it would go to the back red.

If you weren't nervous before, you

must be now. I know we are. Surely

for both sets of players and both

skips, a nerve-racking situation,

two stones to play, Great Britain

trailed by one, they will play the

last. Fujisawa has the chance to

perhaps make it so difficult that

Japan could even win it here.

The key can hardly look. Anna is

just chatting to Eve.

Japan have to be very careful

because she doesn't want to take it

in the back half. It has to be

T-high.

Fujisawa with her final stone unless

we have an extra end, trying to draw

in, she has been superb all the way

through this match.

What has she delivered for them? The

chance for this bronze medal? They

have never won a medal. Eve Muirhead

with a stone to go. This is turning

a lot, it might catch the yellow. It

goes by but not quite enough. It may

have blocked the way in.

As it sits, Great Britain have a

shot. That would tie it up. If

nothing happened, if Eve didn't even

try, then we have one. And we are

tied and we go to an extra end. Is

there anyway Eve Muirhead can get in

for another two? Is the back red,

second shot, third shot? No, it is

not.

What Eve is thinking, coming down

with a fair bit of weight, that

yellow onto the red which jams

against the other yellow, the first

yellow moves out and we have got

two.