BBC One Day 15: GB Women in Curling Bronze Medal Match Winter Olympics

Hello, good morning. Chemmy Alcott

is bag from Pyeongchang. Ben Kilner

is with us as well and we are

spinning around. We have one weekend

left to revel in the weird and

wonderful sports of the Winter

Olympics. It is like going to a

festival where your classical music

in one corner, hard-rock in another,

and hip-hop.

There is everything.

Yes, and the vibe is amazing. You

have so many different kinds of

athletes, some who want to party and

some who like to drink tea.

She

looked at you when she said that.

Drinking the?

I like fizzy pop. One

expert and snowboarding, one ounce

meaningful /1 and skiing. They can

mix and match is required. New to

the game this year has been the

sport of big air. It has taken

everyone by storm by Team GB's

representative, Billy Morgan, warmed

up for it with a trip around

Pyeongchang on his scooter. His

balance is amazing. As a kid he was

a gymnast. He started snowboarding

on the dry slope in Southampton when

he was 14 and did not go into the

snow until he was 17. He is making

the most of it. At the age of 28 he

was the oldest competitor in the

field as the big air took centre

stage. Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood

would in the commentary box. Cue the

stage. Ed Leigh and Tim Warwood

would in the commentary box. Cue the

music.

The British bands are now cheering.

Yes, this is good news for us. Billy

Morgan took a big hit in training.

The fact he is a pure is great news.

Hamish midnight and his team-mate,

Rowan Coultas, next to him. Billy

watching the flanks. He made it

through with a big backside 1440

triple core. It immaculate and huge.

-- cork.

Bringing lots of speed into

this front John. It is massive. It

was huge. Backside triple core, with

the nose grab. He was clinging to

that with his fingernails. It was

like hanging off the edge of a

cliff. Huge. The prejudice on Billy.

Landed on the bottom line.

Landed on the bottom line. 30

points. Billy Morgan has it all to

do on his final two jumps.

He has

been in the game for more than a

decade. Toutant. So strong. The

Canadian, considered a veteran at

25, but he can ride everything. He

has had street rail parts. He has

been a feature of podiums but of

late, year as been eclipsed on the

Canadian team by the likes of Max

Parrot and Mark McMorris.

Switch,

front side. 1620. The first rider to

send it properly deeper into the

landing.

That is very, very nice.

That is massive. In massive trick.

Sebastien Toutant has put himself

very much in the running for this.

That is a massive trick. There you

go. The judges leaving themselves

somewhere to go.

somewhere to go.

Next it is the

Norwegian, Torgeir Bergrem. We

watched him yesterday. He was

sniffing around Max Parrot's trick.

He took a massive hit from the

landing, flat on its face, but good

to back today.

Backside 1620.

In

massive, massive trick. Look at the

Norwegians. Here's a snowboarder's

snowboarder. He is the Ryan Giggs of

snowboarding, the one widely

considered to be skilful.

Look at

that, keeping the board straight on

the take-off. The judges were like

that, using the grab rails on the

board to full effect.

He is happy.

First place for Bergrem, and

deservedly so.

deservedly so. Back to the top, and

this man is the king of big air.

So, the Canadian dropping in normal,

forwards. Backside triple court

1620.

1620. -- cork.

That was a work of

art. The whole trick is done on the

take-off. He is not fighting it. The

whole trick is done on the take-off.

The 180 looks like it is part of the

trick. Max Parrot, we know he has

got the army below 1820 in his bag.

He now has to make at the Brexiteer

1800. Two Canadians and Norwegian.

Kyle Mack is the only other rider to

score more than 80. Billy is under

pressure. He has worked so hard to

get here. He has had a tale of the

lateral cruciate ligament. It kept

him off his board for a month before

the game.

Come on, Billy.

Massive,

again. And he holds it up. It was

huge. He put the nose grab on it,

the hardest grab.

Yes. Really,

really nice. A massive triple. If

the judges are wording size, they

have got to give him a big present

for that one. My goodness. He

borrowed Chuck Norris's size to put

this one down. And relief for the

British fans watching.

British fans watching.

82.5. That is

a school run the board. Billy Morgan

has a serious shot. Next, Sebastien

Toutant. The Canadian is sat on a

very, very powerful 84.70 five.

A

bit of breathing room.

bit of breathing room. I think it is

fair to say that this kid is a video

game snowboarder. He is going to go

backside again.

Backside 1620. How

did he hold onto that? He was like a

rodeo clown at the bottom.

Massive,

massive second hit.

The man from

call-back. He looked like he was

hanging onto Palomino at a rodeo

under way out but somehow the

jihadist stayed in contact with the

snow. This is very precious. That

puts him in a very, very strong

position.

I want to see this boy do well, Kyle

Mack, a powerhouse. He is so

masterly.

He is a human track. If

you have got a set of wire gates you

need smashing down, drive this boy

at them. Come on. He has already got

the backside 1440. No. That is a

bloody Dracula. I am not swinging.

That is the name of the grab. Both

hands on the tail. I have never seen

it in 14. I have seen him do it in a

14.

I have seen him do it in 1080. I

do not think he can believe he has

put that down. Full rotation, both

hands back on the tail. He is

fizzing after that one.

Not massive

but we saw what happened with riders

stepping out of the ordinary and

pulling off a different grab in

Sochi. It dominated slopestyle

frame. I think Cal Mac can do the

same. This will be close to 90.

same. This will be close to 90.

Two

big scores. Second place at the

moment.

moment.

Max Parrot, an incredible

work ethic. The second man after

Billy Morgan to land a quad cork.

Been accused of lacking style at

times but he has certainly address

that. Are we going to see the

Brexiteer 1800? So much speed. Is

this it?

He has gone. He has landed

hundreds of those in training and

suddenly everything is wide open.

We

knew he landed his take the final

was put to bed. And we have got that

lovely finish. We are coming to the

boil. We have that lovely finish

where the pressure is on Max Parrot.

The game goes down. Right on his

face. Do you want any grated cheek

on your cheese on toast?

That is

like sandpaper. Let's take a look at

the standings after the second run.

So, Billy Morgan, I think, is going

to go for the front side 1440 triple

cork. If he lands this year is well

within the medal scores. Billy is

the second of 12 riders to drop in

the third and final jumps of men's

cork.

cork.

-- men's big air. We know the

whole of Southampton is watching

this. They have rented the sports

centre.

He needs to go

stratospheric. That is not something

he struggles with, to be honest.

Come on, Billy Morgan. Double grab.

Yes. The double grab 14. That is

massive. That is huge. My goodness.

He slammed in practice and dropped

his first jump. He has delivered the

second and third John.

This is very,

very precious. The double grab. He

is grabbing the pale. They will love

it. Luke O'Dea papers. One line, two

lines. Beautiful. He stands up like

Michael Matt from Knight Rider. Yes,

Billy Morgan. -- Michael Knight.

Billy Morgan moves into bronze medal

position. It is a very long and

nervous wait for the man from

Southampton. This man is in very,

very nice position. He is at the top

with one jump to spare. Weight is

Toutant going to take this third and

final jump?

How about this? I think

the judges have been leaving plenty

in reserve.

in reserve.

Having not landed to

Michael Johns, would you trust that

Chris Corning would not land

acquired?

No. He was doing it in

Minchin Gladbach. For fun. He has

gone massive.

He tried to tidy up

the first jump use from him. The

Brexiteer 16. He tried to go even

bigger. He wanted to add to that

84.7. This would be such a massive

result. Yule look back over his

results yesterday and he -- you look

over his results in the last year

and it was only in call-back like he

was the winner. That looked like

visualisation of the quadruple cork.

Yes.

This jump is too small to see

that trick. It looks like it. Surely

not. I think he's going for it.

This

will be history. The first Olympic

quad. It will be the first quad in

competition.

I think is going. I

have never seen him this site got.

Let's see. He is going to have to

rip this so hard.

He nearly made it.

My goodness. The backside quad cork.

It makes its appearance at the

Olympics. We have been talking about

it since day one at the slopestyle

and we finally see it. Chris Corning

has been building his entire career

on the idea that he is going to come

to the Olympics and land a quad

cork. Then the jump is too small

when he gets here.

Has that

Stockton? No. He has ripped it.

Phil

credit to this man. Two, three. He

dips late. He actually gets it down.

He only needed a tiny bit more.

Chris Corning has bent physics. Next

in, Karl Mac, currently in silver

medal position. An improvement of

his first jump, the backside 1440

Japan which scored 82. If he can

bump that up, he will need an 87. He

can pull this up to an 87 or higher

and he can move into gold medal

position.

I don't think we can see a 1440 that

high.

He either needs a 16 or grab that is

truly out this world. I think we

have seen as high as that can go.

He very nearly ran to 18.

I think he was trying to take that

brand.

I am looking at this and of all the

riders left, Mark McMorris, Boesiger

and Garcia Knight have all dropped

their first jumps, there is only one

man left who can knock everyone out.

Seb Toutant is guaranteed a silver.

Kyle Mack is guaranteed a bronze.

Billy Morgan can only get blasted by

Max Parrot.

You are looking at that

man now.

The whole of the UK now needs to

watch this jump through their eyes,

of course through their eyes!

Through their fingers. That is how

besides myself I am, I am so torn

between my friend in bronze medal

position and one of the best

snowboarders in the world about to

try to do business here on this big

air jump.

The hardest trick we will see today

after Chris Corning's attempt at the

quad 1800.

Make no mistake, he is here for a

gold medal.

He is coming in

backwards.

backwards. Oh, no! He has gone.

What! Max Parrot scaling back, he

scales back his jump and Mrs! He has

gone for gold and has gone home with

nothing -- and misses. We said it

was a long shot, Billy Morgan,

Southampton's finest snowboarder

will go home a bronze medal.

In exactly the same way that Jenny

Jones worked so hard and was able to

crown and impressive career with the

glory of an Olympic medal, Billy

Morgan has done the same. The man

who has pioneered so many tricks but

really struggled for that acceptance

from the sport, has come here and

landed two breathtaking tricks under

pressure to take it over medal. The

story is not so different for

Sebastien Toutant in gold medal

position. It is so lovely seeing

these two big powerhouse nations,

Canada and America, matched very

closely by Britain, one of the

minnows in snowboarding. Billy

Morgan, one of the most courageous

and pioneering of snowboarders will

stop he has earned his abroad here

with the first ever big air in

Korea, a bronze medal,

congratulations, Billy.

You legend! What a wild ride that

was.

What are you thinking this

second? I don't know. I had such bad

training, I felt on the first, I

thought it was game over. I went

into the rest hoping I won't fall

over three times. All my mates are

in a bar at home watching. I don't

want to fall over three times. That

was your mind set.

If I land at least one I will be

stoked.

But it was two. You had that

crash, second one you landed, what

were you thinking in the third?

I thought I needed another go.

Hamish was going, going a little bit

slower and time it right. I landed

on and I didn't know what to do.

Has

it sunk in you will a bronze

medallist.

It will hit me later. I

never expected it. If you come in

thinking I am shooting for a medal,

you are ready for it.

I didn't. Two

weeks ago and the situation with

your injury?

No, as I said, I would

have been stowed just to make the

finals. Happy Days.

He had his knee reconstructed two

years ago. There he is.

So, that bronze for Billy Morgan

means that the 2018 Winter Olympics

is the best performance by a British

team in the history of these Games

since they began in 1924.

Five already and potentially six to

come. Eve Muirhead will be doing all

she can. Let us talk about Billy

Morgan. How respected is he in the

world of snowboarding?

Massively, he is such a nice guy.

The riders absolutely love him. He

has worked so hard. He had to

overcome injuries. He is so critical

about his own snowboarding. I don't

think he realises how big it is yet

winning a bronze medal. I am sure it

will sink into night.

He creates new tricks. We saw on the

first one he was trying something

that didn't quite

he went for a backside triple cork.

That jump is holding him back in

little bit.

Sorry, that is the one he did land,

landing two out of three.

It must build the pressure when you

know you have two.

He has not helped himself, he failed

all his runs in training so he has

really left it to the very end to

put it down. You can tell how

overwhelmed he is when he is riding

away. I don't think he can quite

believe it. He has managed to fight

to stay on his feet.

That trick is so new to him. He has

managed to learn this just recently.

For him to put it down in an Olympic

run is amazing.

He has only ever landed that trick

that got him the bronze just once

before.

He did that on Saturday. Just once.

He never tried it again.

We have a

high-tech demonstration!

He is right foot forward. He comes

up the jump, triple cork means you

are on an ex-access, not quite

upside down but on a diagonal.

upside down but on a diagonal. -- X

axis.

What is impressive is it is a Blind

side landing, coming in backwards.

Coming through and he gets to turn

his head that way and land.

How much cost and that it take to

land that when you had to judge the

landing.

It is huge, they are not getting

much visual in the air. They are

going purely by feeling. To do that

takes practice which Billy didn't

really get.

It is very impressive.

Extraordinary, congratulations.

Sebastien Toutant took the gold for

Canada, therefore the snowboarding

gold medal of the Games. Canadian

fans have been going up to Americans

saying you keep beating us and

ruining our Games! But it is OK in

the world of snowboarding.

For the British, five medals won so

far. Could it be six? Eve Muirhead

is determined to make the best of a

campaign that has been full of ups

and downs.

The gold medal at the Olympics is

the one I am missing in my

collection. To stand on top of the

podium would be extra special.

COMMENTATOR: A tricky start for the

British quartet. She has done it

superbly well.

We outplayed the Russians and to get

a win on the board is nice.

COMMENTATOR: It has gone through,

USA win the match.

Goodness me, we can all breathe a

huge sigh of relief.

Wow.

That is a big disappointment. I

guess any loss is tough but bosses

like that are even harder.

It has got the red light on it.

The

first stone I think I have ever

hoped in my life. -- hogged.

COMMENTATOR: What a shot, that was a

peach. A superb team performance,

Great Britain have cemented their

place in the final four.

To get a spot in the semifinal was

our goal, I am delighted.

COMMENTATOR: We are ready to rumble

against Sweden. A very good shot

indeed.

And Great Britain's hopes at such a

low point in that end.

We still have a medal to play for.

Here they go, they will be taking on

Japan. Lauren Gray is the lead.

Always smiling Vicki Adams and

bubbly Anna Sloan who takes the

penultimate two stones before Eve

Muirhead takes over for the final

two deliveries. Just after 11am we

will be live with that bronze medal

So, Football Focus will now

be on BBC Two from 12.

Now, though, on BBC One,

it's time for the fast show!

Bobsleigh world champion

Nicola Minichiello is with me

to discuss a developing

story from Pyeongchang.

Earlier in the week,

we saw the best ever result

for a women's bob when Mica McNeill

and Mica Moore finished eighth,

despite being dropped

from the funding programme

by the British Bobsleigh

Association.

we had two crews in the four-man

bob, a final chance for glory in the

sliding events.

Let's first see the best

and the worst of the first two runs

from the Alpensia Sliding Centre

with the man who piloted

We have had the luge and skeleton,

but this is where the big guys moved

into town, the four-man. Next, a

powerful team from Germany.

Francesco Friedrich famously dead

heated for the two and gold.

A new stop record.

That is what one

of these teams bring to the party,

these are the top starters with so

much velocity. He nailed the corner.

As long as he gets things right,

being in contention. He has been

flying in training. He has been good

in this part. One of the best lines

we will see. Just losing a bit of

speed. Maybe now there have been a

handful of sleds, that line through

the chicane has helped him.

A little tap off 15. Maintaining the

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 towards the

left of the screen as you look at

it. But that was a really good run,

he got through their clean. They are

all packed in through that corner. A

little touch. Almost touching.

That really was the only mistake.

Lamin Deen, the first of the great

British pairings we see. With Toby

Olubi from London, Ben Simons from

Shrewsbury and Andrew Matthews from

Slough, all in their 30s. Laming

Dean is 36, probably his last Games,

fifth in the World Championships

three years ago. Their second

Olympic Games.

Olympic Games. After their training,

it looked like there was room for

movement.

The British team have not found a

speed down the track. Hopefully the

runners will work well on the ice

temperatures they have got.

Let's

see it start time. Inside five

seconds. But one of the slowest way

of those we have seen so far.

That

did not look clean. This is the

issue he has been having all the way

through training. Conor two has been

causing problems. That is going to

throw speed away. I think Lamin Deen

will be struggling to stay within

the top 12 at the moment. We know

how much that cost time at the top.

Hopefully he can get is run right.

It is not looking clean. I think we

will see the British Rohingya drop

well back in the order which is not

what they want.

Things ebbing away

again. Not the happy start we were

hoping for. Lamin Deen and his three

colleagues. He flashes through, less

than a second away from the leader.

You can see that Ben Simons messes

up as they are getting in which

delays the team getting in. Toby

tries to get his big arms in and

that is why they had the big switch

at the top. That is 630 kilos Andy

Hall Rohingya is not on the ice. Any

chance of Britain winning a medal on

that run is gone. They need to set

their sights on the top ten at

least.

The second team for Great

Britain, ranked 12th in the world,

Brad Hall, 12th in the two-man event

with Greg Cackett. Joel Fearon and

Nick Gleeson.

The opening World Cup event of the

season. One of only two top ten

finishes. Can they put in a better

run than Deen? Let's keep our

fingers crossed.

That is a lot

better start from them. This is

where they need to get through. Brad

Hall has been having trouble all

week. That is the first rung he has

got it right so good ever to get it

right in the race. We saw from two

man that he can drive this track

well. He finished in eighth place

last year in a World Cup race or he

drive this track. He needs to relax

into it and CV can get through

cleanly. That is as good as any of

the top pilots we have seen. Just

coming a little bit late. This is a

good run from Brad Hall to give the

Brits a little bit of a chance of

having a top ten finish.

Maybe

coming out of 15. The top ten might

elude him. He finishes in 15th.

This

is good from the guys. I think Joel

Fearon had taken some steps to fire

but this is the best run that Brad

Hall has had down here in a four man

this week. This will give him

confidence he has nailed Conor two.

Hopefully we can start to pull back.

The Brits are in 15th and 16th at

the moment. Certainly Lamin Deen was

expecting to be around the top five

when we spoke to him yesterday.

There is the leaderboard. Friedrich

leads from the Koreans.

Obviously the Germans are always

going to be strong, but from a

British point of view, very

disappointing performance. It was

below par. They should be fighting

for medals, not the top 20.

That is

how it has worked out for the

British pair, Brad Hall and Lamin

Deen.

Run number two stands for Great

Britain. Lamin Deen, very

disappointing with his 19th place

after the first run, together with

Ben Simons, Toby Olubi, and Andrew

Matthews. What do they need to put

right this time around?

Run on was

such a disappointment. On the band,

Ben Simons had trouble getting in,

he was overbalanced. On the whole,

Lamin Deen needs to sort out corner

two.

They will push away. 4.98 was

their start time in the first run.

They've seen the Americans go

quicker.

They have done exactly the

same. Not great velocity. He has

been having issues again. He may

struggle for claim against the

Americans. That was the same

mistake. Lamin Deen has not been

driving well. It is difficult to get

these Rohingyas into the slide. They

are so planted but once you do, you

know the pilot is making big

mistakes. Again, it he comes in

late. You have seen him flick into

the corner. He has the conditions to

pull away from the Americans.

pull away from the Americans.

He has

extended his lead over the Americans

slightly.

That was a lot better.

Toby Spence too long for me. Just a

little tab as you see the noise

coming to corner 12. The big mistake

for Lamin Deen was exit two, exit

four. The bag looks like it is going

to roll in. A little bit further and

that would have been a crash.

Next

goal for Great Britain, Brad Hall,

with Nick Gleeson, Joel Fearon and

Greg Cackett. They start 16th after

run number one. Overall, the mood

was similar to Lamin Deen. One of

slight frustration that it was not

quicker down the hill.

It certainly

is frustration for them. Brad Hall

is a young pilot, he has only been

driving for four years. He does not

have the experience in the four man.

Around 16 is a relatively good

result, although on paper it does

not seem like that for his

development. They had a good start,

the Kerry did velocity and they are

one of the best grilled teams. 94

again, that is where they need to

be. They have got did velocity. He

has just made a mistake in two. That

cost in the mistaken four, which

cost in the mistaken five. This is

the difference between the top

pilots. We have seen another tiny

little mistake. All these little

differences cost time. This track is

so easy to lose speed are hard to

find it. He will drop back at least

a couple of spots.

You

a couple of spots.

You probably saw

Mica Moore and Mica McNeill giving

them a good sendoff, but the run was

not a particularly happy one.

Regular mistakes for Brad Hall.

Everybody driving ban the bars.

Stepping in, loading. The little

twitch by the pilot keeps it

straight. He has already made

mistakes at the top. This is another

one. It is a knock-on effect from

corner two. That is cause them to

move back down the order.

Now the

pressure is on the Korean team. Won

Yunjong, with Jun Junglin, and Seo

Youngwoo and Kim Donghyun. A

brilliant first run, but they went

first. How much of an advantage was

that an fresh ice? We will see now.

It was a tremendous time. Surely

they cannot get around that this

time around on a deteriorating

track?

It will be interesting.

Sometimes you have to take those

opportunities and by going first

they gave themselves an opportunity

to get any makes. Listening to

everybody else driving these lines,

Hemant Nico Walther are some of the

best. He is coming through the

corners quickly because he knows the

track so well. He is staying ahead

of the Germans but the Germans were

so quick at the bottom of the track.

He is keeping himself in contention.

He absolutely threads that. I did

not expect them to stay in front of

the Germans, because of the

difference in the track but he is

doing a great job.

He was nine

hundredths ahead of Walther. The gap

closes a little bit. The Koreans

have done brilliantly. Tomorrow any

medal chase they are right in the

thick of things.

Look at what it

means to the hometown team. This is

a great view into the first corner.

The team have already loaded. He

takes a different line, but lately

are all headstone, shoulders, heads,

knees interlocked.

That is a big

one. Francesco Friedrich goes for

Germany. A 4.8 start time would send

them on their way. They currently do

is after the first run.

He has been

fast. We know he is fast because he

has already won a gold medal. He has

got the poles perfect. You can

hardly hear him. You can see the gap

opening out. It is because of the

stark difference. It may be that he

will keep that and start moving

away. If he does the gold medal is

sewn up. In the middle, AV has not

found the speed, maybe everyone else

has a chance of catching him. If he

comes down with more than two pairs,

he will be hard to catch.

He is

clean and 15. Does this give

Friedrich a great chance of the gold

medal? He is nearly three pairs in

front of the Koreans. Look what it

meant to the coaching teams.

Friedrich already has a gold medal

from the two-man event.

It is a

professional team, all the way down.

No real mistakes. A real high line

into two and you see adjust the

stealing. Just a little tab before

he goes in. It did not cause him any

speed. I think the gold medal is

theirs to lose. It is about fighting

for silver and bronze.

Friedrich

with a really big lead over Won

Yunjong of South Korea in second

place.

I surprised to be back where you

are. Most definitely. We had quite a

surprise a few days ago in regards

to equipment so we had to change and

equipment. We had a setup that

worked very well.

But we had to

change that. Why did you have to

change your runners?

I runners, yes.

We had to change because there was a

technicality with one of the rear

runners. Again, the rules are the

rules. We had to change. We could

not train or test the sets we wanted

to test but that is how it is, that

is racing.

to test but that is how it is, that

is racing.

Actually, to explain

more, what he is pointing out,

Matthew Ellis John Jackson about

what

Matthew Ellis John Jackson about

what went wrong. The two British

Rohingyas further back in the field.

Both of them have talked about their

equipment not been great, not

getting on with it. Lamin Deen

particularly has talked about

runners. We have got the best prop

in the world, we have got a runner.

What are we looking at? This is a

two-man runner. It was from one of

the Rohingyas that Brad raced in in

the two-man event. You can see the

difference, the profile. It is

interchangeable. They can do what

they want with that. The length of

the -- the length of the runner,

they can put a slight bowing to

change what it is.

It is not sharp,

it surprised me. It is smooth to the

touch.

You spend hours sanding them.

Yes, we spend hours polishing them

to a mirror finish, not like the

luge. It is more of a jihadist. --

it is more of an edge.

The issue that the British team have

had, it is this depth. His has been

under the legal limit. That is why

it is deemed as illegal. Do we know

how much by? It is from years and

years of polishing but I do not know

how much by. It takes fractions of a

millimetre of every time you polish

it.

Eventually you run out of

material. Might they have known that

we be close coming into the game,

perhaps at the back of your mind?

They have been close in the past.

But a different part of the

technical examination team has

looked at it and said, we are not

accepting that for the Olympics.

To

the outsider, what is the big deal?

You find more, put them on the

bottom of your sled and crack on.

What is the problem? This is worth

£6,000. A set of four-man runners

can set you back £8,000. People do

not give you good sets lying around

at the Olympic Games because they

want to beat you. And they would not

have spares? They might have spares

but not as the same standard as what

has been deemed illegal if they were

the top race runners.

Not a great

position for the Great Britain

sleds. Both with equipment issues.

How can they improve overnight? Is

this competition beyond them?

Realistically, we are looking at the

top 15 at best. Hopefully one of the

sleds can move within that.

I

suppose, difficult conversations

around the sport. Not within the

crews at the moment, but horrendous

port and funding and performance.

This is nowhere near where they

wanted to be?

They were all

confident coming into this Games.

They both had podiums this year.

They were ranked 11th and 12th

coming into this. At least you would

think, fight for a top ten position.

To be sat two words, just managing

to scrape into the top 20, the high

teens, it is not acceptable.

Top 20

is an important cut off. Only the

top 20 sleds get to go to the last

run.

With -- the Management would need to

have a look at how things are

running in their programme.

Thank you. Let's get the reaction of

Nicola, how can this happen so late

your runners are deemed illegal and

you don't have a spare set to mark

they would have known they were

close.

It does happen, over the years of

use they can wear down but it is not

something, now they are

disqualified, it doesn't work like

that. I have worked with athletes

who have got to that point, you are

getting down to the last millimetre.

To get to the last day of training

and searching around and ask other

crews, can I use your runners, it

seems crazy, at an Olympic Games.

I

take the point they are expensive

but there is the funding for the

cycle so you would have thought

honours might be prioritised.

You would think so. Each team

normally would have at least three

sets, competitive sets. I am not

saying it is easy to get a

world-class set but with the

investment and research and

technology and producing their own

runners, it seems crazy at this

point on the last day of training a

team, Great Britain, would be asking

other nations for runners.

Lamin

Deen has that excuse, Brad Hall, as

far as we know his runners are fine,

what you think of the reasons both

are so low down the leaderboard when

we thought they would be easy top

ten?

At this point, there has to be some

in-depth questions. I am stumped.

The starts were good for both teams.

They were OK but not great. In past

years we have had the athletes and

starts have been better. The drive

was OK. When you consider for Brad

Hall the two man was preparation and

everything has been focused on this

four-man event. So it seems crazy

the top half that -- the top half of

the corner was scrappy.

Have the

crews been long enough together?

There has been swapping. Both have

raced together. Lamin Deen has got

his best result with that team. Brad

Hall has raised three times with

that team. But it was still all

changing, and quite last-minute they

got the final team set.

We will

finish with the women's bob being

the highest performing some one

British bobsleigh decided not to

fund, how does that reflect on the

way the sport is run in this

country?

There has to be investigations. They

were told they would not invest in

women's teams. They kept fighting

all the way. Some heads have got to

roll. There have to be some hard

questions and answers about what has

happened, why are the men finishing

17th and 18th, with one of the best

funded programmes in the world,

phenomenal athletes and equipment,

it doesn't add up.

Thank you for your expertise. We

will tell you a story now about

Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic.

Esther Ledecka of the Czech Republic

was the surprise winner

of the super-G last Saturday.

She was so surprised to post

the fastest time that she didn't

believe the clock at the bottom

of the slope.

At the press conference afterwards,

she complained that it was taking up

time, she should have been spending

on snowboard training!

She is already the first athlete

to compete on skis and snowboard.

And this morning she was trying

to do something no woman has ever

done, win gold medals in two

different sports at

the same Winter Olympics.

Ledecka is the double world champion

at parallel giant slalom,

so she was much better fancied

for this one.

She walked her way through to the

final and it was a head to head for

the gold medal.

COMMENTATOR: This is it, the final

of the women's parallel giant

slalom, the snowboard event, and it

is a matchup 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 they are underway.

Ledecka is on the red course, Joerg

on the blue, and Snedeker has the

early lead.

Ledecka is doing it, one

slip and it will go away. A little

bit of a skid.

A wobble on the under

gate.

She still has the lead.

It is about

two tenths of a second.

Nice and

smooth through these last through

gates. Snedeker will make history.

Three gates to do as she has done

it.

Absolutely incredible, gold medal in

the Alpine skiing super-G, edition

and now gold medal in the parallel

giant slalom snowboard competition.

It has never been done before, two

sports in one Olympic Games. What an

athlete.

Probably the biggest story of these

Games.

Some pretty good designs on

the suits.

She has two separate

coaching teams.

Coming into this, you were favourite

for this condition but we have seen

from the Alpine side favourite joke

of an wing, Mikaela Shiffrin,

Lindsey Vonn, how did you cope?

Exactly. I was watching Shiffrin,

and many others. So, this is very

specific, a very specific race

because you have just one chance, it

is not like the World Cup where you

have more races and in the end it

counts together.

So, you need some luck. And I

believed I had this luck today.

You go back to the 1928, 1924, with

cross-country skiers winning the

Nordic combined but that is a

similar sport. This is something

completely different. How do you

prepare for Alpine skiing and

snowboarding in the same year?

Well, my biggest goal was just to

get their and race in both sports,

my favourite sports. And I have to

say that I have got such a great

team and such support from the

people around me. They just let me

win. You know, I was just standing

there and all I had to do was write

down and it was all their job.

Pain credit to her team.

This is an extraordinary

achievement. The fact she is the

first e-mail athlete to do this in

the Olympic Games, two completely

different sports, everyone is

looking and thinking the body

positions are saying, in skis we

have four edges, in snowboarding, is

different. She forgot her make up

bag again! It is impressive because

her coaches have put pressure on her

to choose discipline and she stood

her ground believing she could do it

in both and that takes a lot of

confidence when your whole team is

saying, no, you are diminishing your

chance of a gold in one.

She said

she can do this. She might spark a

new philosophy. I was reading an

American article saying should we be

looking at this, are we narrowing

people down too soon. In Norway they

encourage kids to do loads of sports

until they are at least 13.

We are

building back into the British

system, because these are the skills

you need to adapt under pressure.

She can look at a terrain in a

different way than someone who has

just hit slalom gates all their

life.

She is amazing. The athlete of

the Games. Jorien Ter Mors did that

also, with different kit but the

first to win gold in two different

sports is amazing. Eve Muirhead is

multitalented. Her handicap in golf

is about three but she is

concentrating on curling and we will

see her try to win a sixth medal for

Team GB, thanks to Billy.

COMMENTATOR: We have the final of

men's big air. Billy Morgan I think

we'll go for the frontside chewable

cork and if he lands that he is well

within the medal scores.

And he needs to go absolutely

stratospheric -- frontside triple 14

cork.

Billy Morgan, yes! With a double

grab frontside triple 14, that is

massive, that is absolutely huge.

Oh, my goodness. 85.5, Billy Morgan

moves into bronze medal position and

it is a very nervous wait.

The whole

of the UK need to watch this jump

through their fingers.

He has gone! Billy Morgan has got a

bronze medal. Congratulations,

Billy.

And that bronze medal

from Billy Morgan means that

Pyeongchang 2018 is the most

successful Winter Olympics

of all time for a British team,

thanks to the fearless five.

Lizzie Yarnold defended her skeleton

title in sensational style to become

Britain's first ever double gold

medallist at the Winter Olympics.

Behind Lizzie in bronze medal

position was Olympic

debutante Laura Dees,

meaning that Britain filled

two spots on the podium

for the first time.

Team GB's first medal of Pyeongchang

was won by Dom Parsons,

the first male skeleton medallist

for 70 years.

The youngest member of the team

delivered one of the best results,

a bronze for Izzy Atkin

in ski slopestyle.

And passing the record British

medal mark earlier today,

Billy Morgan soared into the sky

to take bronze in the big air.

Just a few minutes ago this was the

scene at the Medal Plaza,

28-year-old Billy Morgan, the oldest

man in that big air competition, he

has won a bronze battle in what will

be his last Olympic Games, his knee

has been constructed, he said at the

top of that slope for his third run,

he said, banish the fear, if I land

in a heap, it doesn't matter, just

go for it, and he did.

Five medals for the first time in

the Winter Olympics.

Now it is over to the curlers to see

if we can increase that to six.

Keep calm and Karl on. On the final

weekend four years ago in Sochi,

Dave Murdoch won the last middle of

those Games, when you took silver in

the curling. How difficult is it for

Eve Muirhead and the team to pick

themselves up?

That is the hardest part, you have

trained for four years, they came

for a gold medal, that didn't

happen. Try to pick yourself up is

very difficult. A hard thing to

discuss within the team as to what

you would do in that scenario. I'm

sure they have had discussions

today, they will be ready to go, I

know they want a medal and want to

get something for all that training.

We need to see them come up with

some real fire and intensity and try

to push everything they can to make

this happen.

Usually it is quite polite at the

curling, but not this morning. Lots

of USA fans, including Evandro

Trump, were there to watch the USA,

who won the gold medal. They play

the game in such a different style.

It feels like it is American

football. It has been crazy. No one

really saw the USA winning this

event. It has come as a shock to

Carlingford John Shuster and the

American guys to achieve that. It is

a fantastic story for him. He has

been

at his fourth Olympics, he had a

bronze medal in 2006, and together

gold-medal against the field that

was there, which was very strong, it

is great stuff.

And in beating

Sweden, who are powerhouse of

curling. How many gold medals have

the one? The women have won two at

the last three Games.

The men have

on four.

Yes. That was a big shock

and it will cause headlines around

the USA. A little bit like South

Korea getting through to the women's

final, it is good for the game.

Yes,

that is the market that curling was

hoping to hit, to get into the

States. We are seeing growth out in

the east as well, and Korea doing

well in

the east as well, and Korea doing

well in the women's, it is brilliant

for curling and C.

This was the

moment. Sweden sent down the rock

and give the opportunity for the USA

to turn this match around.

5-5. It

is still really tight. There was

lots of discussions as to what

Niklas Edin would play with the

stone. There are lots of USA stones

and play. He was trying to rolling

back der Garde. Unfortunately, he

rolled to the worst spot possible,

left it wide open. Under great

pressure, John Shuster makes a

double.

Five, count them up. This is

what I mean about the noise.

CHEERING

. There was lots of USA, USA. I was

waiting for someone to say, in the

hole. Go to the USA, the silver

medal to Sweden. You were talking

about how you want to see Eve come

and play against Japan. And it is

about the Japanese themselves. Here

the girls, Lauren Gray, Vicki Adams

and Anna Sloan, and Eve Muirhead,

they are tight-knit group. It is

good that they know each other so

well. Anna and Eve in particular are

best friends. They can keep each

other going.

Eve is so strong. These

girls have been here before in the

bronze medal game. They know what it

is like, they know the pressure of

what it means today. They looked

happy, ready to go. They will have

had a great team talk. They will be

fired up for the game against Japan.

Japan seem to have taken to curling

is a sport. They are really enjoying

their experiences.

I had the

pleasure of working with these

ladies a few months ago in Canada,

the Japanese team. They are a fun

bunch to work with, they put a lot

of work in.

It is incredible. Inside

info, what is their weakness? How

can we win this?

In some ways, they

are just such a happy bunch. They do

not have a weakness mentally. Maybe

shotmaking, but if Great Britain can

put them under pressure, shot after

shot, the consistency throughout the

team, that will be the key to

winning today.

In our team, the

disappointment of not going for the

gold medal match, who is in the team

to bring them up? Is it Eve's roll?

Will she be the positive influence.

She is the skipper of the team. She

is such a collected person. She

leads a team extremely well, but the

real line for me is Anna Sloan. She

goes between Eve and the others.

It

always looks like formation sliding,

building up to the first stones

being delivered in this bronze medal

match, Great Britain against Japan.

Let's join our commentary team, led

by Steve Cram.

Thank you. Jackie Lockhart is with

me for this bronze medal match. Eve

and her team ready to go. They need

to be at their very best. This

Japanese team played superbly well

against Korea. Before you joined as

we were told that 43% of the Korean

population watched the girls, the

garlic girls as they are known, beat

Japan to get to the gold-medal

match. They will meet Sweden in that

match midnight local time in the UK.

The match between Korea in Japan

went to an extra end. It was a

really exciting affair. The place

was jumping with the excitement. The

Korean fans managed to get their

team into the final. After that

cracking gold-medal match, USA

against Sweden, it was a little

quieter bit end -- a little quieter

in the arena at the moment. Just

filling up for this match. Plenty of

British support for Eve and team.

So, so hard for them to pick

themselves up after the match

yesterday. Once they did in

interviews, they say the right

things, then they go away to the

quiet of the rooms, back to the

village and then it sinks in that

the gold medal is gone.

They go back

to the village and reflect on what

could have been, what might have

been. For me, I am a little bit

worried that four years ago in

Sochi, when we had to come into this

position, there is a hunger, no

question, but when they lost the

semifinal game yesterday, it was a

double blow to them. It will be hard

for them to pick themselves up.

Their professionalism will show

through. They have got psychologist,

they have got support behind them. I

really want to see the whole team

knitting together. We have just seen

little snippets of that through the

week. If they wanted to happen it

has to happen in this game today.

I

agree with you. This is going to be

a cover bronze medal to win for the

very fact that the target year was

always trying to get into the

gold-medal match. This is no

secondary target, which they have to

focus on, because this Japanese team

would have been delighted to make

it. They are the only Japanese

women's team, or any team from

Japan, to make it into the medal

match. They have finished fifth on

two occasions before. They have

always made it through in the

women's side but the men working as

well. It is the first time they have

had two teams, both sides

represented, since Nagano, when

Japan was the host, in 1998. It is

quiet. There is not so much

atmosphere. It does not feel like

the medal match they would have

envisaged if they were going for the

gold medal. Lots of things, if they

are not careful, will add up to

making this a difficult match.

Hopefully, one thing they said to

us, as they were leaving the mix

zone last night, we definitely want

to go with something. We do not want

to go home with nothing. That is

what befell Canada, the men's side.

They got into the bronze medal match

and did not play as well.

Switzerland, to be fair, played very

well. By Canadian standards, they

did not come up to scratch. No

Canadian women's team are either in

the semifinals. For the first time

ever. We have seen Lauren Gray. The

lead. They have traded a couple of

stones. Vicki Adams.

Just getting in each other's way,

the skipper wanting to sweep that

one. Fujisawa.

Listening to David back in the

studio, saying how much he has

enjoyed working with this Japanese

team, how much fun they were, the

skip, Fujisawa, has been getting

praise in the Korean press. That is

quite a rivalry in sport between

Japan and Korea. It is often taken

quite seriously and she has been

getting lots of praise for the way

she has been smiling lots, really

enjoying it, even in that tense

match against Korea, there were lots

of smiles. She has become pretty

popular overnight.

Yes, they do not

really show a lot of frustration out

there. They take very good shots

exactly the same as the bad ones.

She has not always skip to this

team, Fujisawa.

team, Fujisawa. The alternate use to

skip this group, then she became

pregnant. She went to AlterNet. In

the meantime, Fujisawa has stepped

up to be the skip, and she is kept

that position ever since. The two

Yoshida sisters. The younger one

plays the lead.

If you remember how the teams

qualified for the Olympic Games,

they had to pick up qualification

points in the World Championships in

2016-2017. Japan won the silver

medal in 2016. That was an offer

them to secure their Olympic

qualification, pretty much. Chinami

Yoshida. Followed by Anna Sloan. I

do not think Anna has had her best

tournament. She did play well in the

second half of the match against

Canada. When Anna is on fire, her

demeanour is such that you know

about it as well.

Yes, and the third

player, it is a key position. You

heard David in the commentary, just

saying that they are the linchpin,

the pain between the front end and

the back-end, and the communication.

There is lots to take in. You have

got to be playing well,

communicating well, sharing the rink

well with the rest of the players.

She has had a couple of games where

she has not been at full capacity.

She knew that more than anybody. She

has said it in a couple of injuries.

I just need to step it up.

So, we

were just watching this first end.

Gently breaking UN to this bronze

medal match. Great Britain have the

hammer. They finished higher in the

table but they both lost semifinals.

There was no last stone droid to

determine who had the hammer in the

semifinals and the medal matches.

That is determined by who finished

tied in the round-robin. That was

Britain's we have the hammer.

More often than not, in these tense

medal matches, the semifinal

matches, we have seen the first end

blanked.

On red guard out there.

If you listen, one thing we have

found in dealing from the Japanese

team, when they play a good shot,

now use goes around.

now use goes around. Satsuki --

Fujisawa played a great couple of

shots at the end of that match. It

looked all over. They were 7-4 down,

they picked up two, one, a steal.

They took it to the extra end. They

just run that one out. Eve might

fancy asking a little question if

she can get this jammed on the

yellow, and sit just counting. That

might not be a bad position to be

in. They might even get the two.

Yoshida finished that match so well.

The Korean skip had a shot at the

end of the tense. It looked like it

might have been another and it

rolled off the bottom. They got the

steel. It was still closed in the

extra end.

Extremely close.

Fujisawa, even under the most

extreme pressure and an audience

full of Koreans, she played a really

good draw to the button to make it

very difficult for Korea to win. But

the Korean skip countered that with

an even better shot to get

themselves into the final.

Eve

Muirhead trying to come around the

guide, getting to the edge of the

house, taking it behind the guard.

That is not getting round as much as

she would like. That can be seen

fairly easily, I think. Eve Muirhead

not quite able to manufacture an

opportunity. She will still have the

chance to blank the end if she wants

after this stone from Japan.

She has left it high enough should

Japan overthrow this and catch the

left-hand side, she may well jam.

She will be very unfortunate. She

can see all of the stone. But it is

early days.

She might want to make it difficult

for Eve Muirhead to shift this out.

Wouldn't mind if Britain

accidentally picks up one, as it

were.

Nice and straightforward for her.

Eve has to be careful here.

Eve want to blank this end, she

doesn't want to jam it herself.

She

can see plenty of that stone, we're

not directly behind them, we are

sitting behind a sheet seed which is

the best view for us.

the best view for us. -- sheet C.

Eve Muirhead doesn't want to leave a

shooter in get rid of the and

current red.

current red. -- the yellow and her

own red macro.

Well, that is one for Great Britain

but not quite the start Eve Muirhead

wanted.

So, actually, Fujisawa with that

shot, it had started with Eve's

first in which didn't go where she

wanted, Fujisawa took hers in a

little bit more, made it more

difficult for Eve Muirhead. She

still should have made it. If Yves

-- if Eve had been playing well, she

would have. Great Britain held to

one.

If you don't get the start you want,

you just haven't got to start

saying, here we go again.

Her normal game, she is quite an

offensive player, there was a high

red guard, she took her opportunity.

The game we saw this morning with

the men, Nicholas never took the

game on. It was as if he played the

game not to lose it. We saw Eve

trying to get into that corner which

is what I like to see, positivity.

We have said it before, this team

definitely get stronger as the enzo

go on. -- ends.

They had their press conference and

I was hearing the American

journalists chatting, saying, I

can't believe Edin let the USA play

that messy game, they called it.

Lots of things going on, stones in

play, doubles, and that suited John

Schuster, not getting into his own

rhythm.

The one thing you have to do is give

your opposition due respect and

although Nicklas Edin did that I'm

thinking he was thinking the USA

might make more mistakes but they

didn't, they make very few.

A good point, it was as if Edin was

saying, I am Mr consistent, I will

play a steady game and you will give

me this gold medal.

me this gold medal. He never went in

there to show them how good he was

and he allowed John Schuster and his

team to make the good shots and

every shot they made, they grew in

confidence, were prepared to take on

even more, some really difficult

shots as well.

Anyway, let us hope that is the case

for Eve Muirhead here.

Kelly Schafer and Glenn Howard.

So many people have been enjoying

the curling coverage, thanked you

for watching it all, and all of your

comments, let us hope we can finish

off with a medal here. It has been a

long journey to get to this point.

If you think about the players,

there are some medals here one in

second spot in the curling, 11

matches, 33 hours of play before you

have the chance to say you are a

medallist at the Olympic Games. I'm

not sure how many more hours we have

been commentating, it has been an

awful lot but an enjoyable

experience here. For some people it

is only every four years. But it

seems to grab people in the wake

that maybe

that maybe most people are surprised

why. I think it is the

straightforward nature of it, versus

the intricacies of shot making an

strategy and chat, the dynamics

between the teams. In essence, is

simple sport to understand.

The dynamics come in about how you

played to get that score, that is

what makes it intriguing. It is not

always a race to the centre, there

is a lot of strategy, building up an

end, waiting to be able to play that

final shot to create two or more.

Fujisawa with those fluorescent,

shocking pink gloves.

She waves that right hand in the

air, always waving. She has lots of

idiosyncrasies.

Vicki Adams.

Playing second.

Anna Sloan tried to catch as much as

she can so she doesn't roll out.

They have the yellow out, the

primary target. Didn't manage to...

There wasn't too much of that stone

showing.

We just need the girls to settle

down. You can feel that tension in

the air, it is one of these games,

one of the hardest to play. Off the

back of a defeat and you have to get

yourself picked up to play this

bronze medal match.

Japan will try and replace that

stone pretty much although this will

come up against the guard.

come up against the guard. It just

gets in. But not the shot they

wanted. Yumi Suzuki who placed

second, in between the two sisters,

Yurika Yoshida plays first.

When Anna is on her game, this team

really sings. Let us hope that is

what happens today.

Japan trying to decide whether she

still wants to use her corner but

she doesn't have an awful lot of

room to come through. Or whether she

wants to hit the red and get a role

the cross.

Electing the latter.

Or is she?

Just looking to catch this right.

Not a particularly easy shot but a

good effort at it. They may have

been trying to get the other red as

well.

I think she was trying to get less

of the top red so she could have

come underneath her own yellow on

the left side.

Not an easy shot.

You can't get them both and I am a

bit wary of that. Do you like that?

Michael Wolff that all draw to the

edge.

edge. -- either that or draw to the

edge.

Wanting to block the opportunity for

Japan to come in, that would be

good. Keeping it I would also be

very good, at the top of the house.

From the other side of the pack,

left-handed Anna Sloan. Giving

herself room to come around these

two, she wants to try to tuck in.

Pulling already hard. Trying to work

it past. By half an inch! Well, that

is not a bad effort from Anna Sloan,

it was very close. Those were the

shots the other day that weren't

quite going for us.

It was really

well swept by the girls.

Did it catch it slightly? A feather.

Anyway, they have done well, it is

tucked in there.

I just wonder whether we are seeing

more turned on the ice down the

middle. They didn't seem to be much

in the men's match.

I think this will move now.

So, Japan, you can see by that

yellow arrow by their name on the

top left, have the hammer. Great

Britain only taking one, forcing the

one, a little mistake from Eve

Muirhead. She wants two good stones

this time, to try to do the same if

not steal.

The very least is to not give Japan

two if possible.

That is just biting.

Looking at the double here. But

would like to get rid of both of

these, a fair bit of distance

between them.

If she can catch that read and roll

across to the left just to be high

of the back red, that is a really

good shot for Japan.

Let us see if

she gets this right. They need a bit

more weight than the previous couple

of stones. We have seen them turn a

little. Fujisawa, the Japanese skip.

Trying to take both British stones.

It is very straight. That ended up

almost flush in the face there. So,

Eve can either flop in behind that

yellow, get rid of that one. And

given we have three counting there,

force the one.

She is saying, a wee half roll. That

is not a lunch!

I could be doing with some lunch!

Have you not had any noodles? I took

so many noodles I am sick of the

site of doodles!

Eve Muirhead.

She would like to hit this and Rolan

behind the yellow at the front of

the house. She has got two in there.

It does not affect things much, it

is just confidence.

Yes, you're

right. If she had stayed in the

house, Japan are facing three, and

she could have easily gone to the

forfeit against the three are two,

but it is your confidence and you

have got to play the shot and

executed well.

Yes, when you draw

into the forfeit and you're facing

three, she would have been on the

edge of the eight foot. You're

asking her to make a half decent

shot. It has just become easier. It

is a straightforward draw either

way.

Satsuki Fujisawa, the 26-year-old

skip for Japan. She's trying to even

things up after two ends.

things up after two ends. She has

not given this too much. They can

sweep if they need to. They are

happy with this, letting it go. It

will come in for the one. Bergrem is

looking interested. Very interested.

Is it going to sit? It is funny

because they were sweeping that

early and stopped, realising it

certainly had plenty. It builds up

just in time. Again, Eve managed to

get the hit in role, if she had, it

could've been a steel. Ifs and buts

do not matter. It is tied after two.

Honours even.

Have you noticed any celebrities? I

have not. I am looking today. No.

You missed my joke. I am not

bringing you any more.

Here we go. End three. Great Britain

with the hammer. Reset after two

ends when they both were forced to

take on. -- one.

Remember that match we were

watching, the gold medal match. It

started at such a high level of

proficiency in terms of the shots

that were being made. It dropped off

a little bit, but the excitement was

always there. The shots that were

not made were just little mistakes.

People were trying very difficult

shots, and it was a high-quality

match, which was good for a gold

medal match. They start is a little

quieter.

quieter.

I was surprised that

Muirhead did not put a corner run.

They look like they are going to run

this end. She has put on in the

house and Japan is following by

heating it out.

heating it out. -- hitting it out.

She is just taking it away from the

centre line and trying to get it

across the house a little because we

have got the hammer in the third

end.

Fujisawa, you saw what she was

asking from Suzuki.

Just hit this one nicely and roll

back towards the centre line. Nice.

You heard it. It was indeed.

So

easy.

easy. -- throw easy.

They might

traded a few of these.

traded a few of these. Eve Muirhead

and Cal Smith will not get much rest

after these Olympic Games. Whatever

the result. That was a good shot

from Vicki. Yes, the Scottish world

championship play-offs will take

place, is it next week? Early March?

At the ice rink in Paris, yes,

play-offs on the third and 4th of

March.

They take on the teams who

won the Scottish Championships.

Hannah Fleming is the skip that Eve

Muirhead will face, and the winners

of that will head off to the World

Championships in Canada. For the

women. Las Vegas for the men.

It could well be heading towards a

blanked end at this rate.

Eve will not minded it delivers a

quiet start to this bronze medal

match, to get the nerves out of the

way, is there are any. It is almost

the opposite. They need to get

things fired up, a couple of good

shots, it is like making a good

tackle, you might not have scored a

goal, but it gets the crowd going. A

couple of good shots. They might not

get the chance in this end, but

let's hope that happens.

We would like to hit this one and

roll across to the wing. We do not

want to stay on the nose.

Some decent support for the British

women. I can see the guys rate at

the very back at the fireside.

Heading down to the far end, some

other team members from some of the

other events you as well.

We have got the men's final that

happened earlier today. The women's

finals tomorrow. The medals will be

presented after that. Whoever wins

the bronze medal today has to wait

till tomorrow for the ceremony.

Maybe they are not saying nice,

maybe it is something else. Maybe

someone can help me out. I do not

understand Japanese. Maybe it is

something else.

I like nice. We are

just looking to hit this and clear

the house. They are not bothering to

stay here at all.

A big GB contingent end. All

watching.

Both teams are being a little bit

cagey at the moment. They have been

trying to set up the end, but it

just takes one small mistake Andy

Hall end changes. This is going to

be run through.

be run through. Japan will put a

stone in and Great Britain will hit

it straight back out.

It is funny, when you're watching

these blanked end is, you just want

everyone to go, let's get on with

the next one, but occasionally, you

get a silly mistake, somebody not

concentrating.

Conducting the orchestra, in behind.

The ideas you leave that one there.

That horrendous mistake I was

talking about, you think, what if

she misses? Then there would be a

chance of two. I do not think that

is likely, but you never know.

It is

also good, we have got the hammer.

We won something on the wings just

in case there is a mistake. That was

a good stone by Eve. She played a

nice stone and it rolled across the

house, which is what she asked for,

which is always good for confidence

as well.

Lots of work.

Eve does not want to make the same

mistake that she made, it was a much

more difficult shots in the first

end, but this time very easy to get

rid of this stone and make sure she

does not sit in the house herself,

so she can blanked the end and carry

the hammer to the next one.

Exactly. They have worked it out.

That was just what we did not want.

We wanted to blank the ends a week

ago Fourie two. It is early, but all

of these little things well adult

for Eve Muirhead. She has got to get

these shots out of her head. She has

had two ends were she has picked up

on Richey did not want to. She is

leading 2-1 but it is the manner in

which that has happened is

disappointing.

The curling is

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