BBC One Day 8: Yarnold and Deas in Women's Skeleton Final Action

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0:00:37 > 0:00:41Good morning and welcome to coverage of the middle Saturday of the Winter

0:00:41 > 0:00:46Olympics here on BBC One. We are with you until 1.45 and this is the

0:00:46 > 0:00:49biggest day so far of these games for the British team. There has been

0:00:49 > 0:00:53good news already. Before we get into skeleton and short track speed

0:00:53 > 0:00:58skating, a second medal of the games, this time won by the youngest

0:00:58 > 0:01:00member of the team, 19-year-old Izzy Atkin landing a clean running

0:01:00 > 0:01:07freestyle skiing to secure her place on the podium.Next to drop will be

0:01:07 > 0:01:14Great Britain's Izzy Atkin.

0:01:14 > 0:01:19The biggest one of her life starts now.Mechanical with the 450, laid

0:01:19 > 0:01:26it down beautifully.

0:01:26 > 0:01:29it down beautifully. She comes up from the side and tilt the skis onto

0:01:29 > 0:01:34it.

0:01:34 > 0:01:40it. This run is flowing for her now. Dare I say it, the best rails we

0:01:40 > 0:01:51have seen from her. Come on, Izzy Atkin.

0:01:51 > 0:02:01Atkin. Final junta... -- final jump. And it's super-clean! Its

0:02:01 > 0:02:12third-place! 84.6.

0:02:12 > 0:02:20third-place! 84.6. She's down. Great Britain's Izzy Atkin takes a bronze.

0:02:20 > 0:02:23Talk spirit.There were tonnes of big names in the field. It could

0:02:23 > 0:02:29have been anyone's. I was standing at the bottom after my final run. I

0:02:29 > 0:02:32knew I had skied the best I could on my heart was racing. I can't believe

0:02:32 > 0:02:33it.

0:02:37 > 0:02:42She held her nerve. She didn't push it too far. Izzy Atkin, at the age

0:02:42 > 0:02:47of 19, lives in Park City, Utah. She was born in the USA became to the

0:02:47 > 0:02:50Britain for the first time in five months old. Her grandma Betty still

0:02:50 > 0:02:55lives in Birmingham and her dad Mike, who is out there with her mum

0:02:55 > 0:02:58Zoe, they said that grandma Betty would have recorded it and watched

0:02:58 > 0:03:04it all this morning. And that is what she has been rewarded with, a

0:03:04 > 0:03:07bronze medal, seeing her granddaughter on the podium. Katie

0:03:07 > 0:03:12Summerhayes, by the way, finished seventh. That is the start of what

0:03:12 > 0:03:15could be an exceptional day here for the British team. There is so much

0:03:15 > 0:03:22to look forward to on a very special Saturday.

0:03:26 > 0:03:31Saturday.Three medals for Great Britain! What a night.Olympic long

0:03:31 > 0:03:39jump champion Greg Rutherford.Mo Farah for Great Britain!Jessica

0:03:39 > 0:03:50Ennis is the Olympic champion.

0:04:21 > 0:04:26It's funny how these things tend to happen on Saturday. Six years on

0:04:26 > 0:04:29from Jess Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah, it's time

0:04:29 > 0:04:34for Elise Christie, Lizzy Yarnold and Laura Deas to skate and slide

0:04:34 > 0:04:38into the limelight. It's the midway point of these Winter Olympics, the

0:04:38 > 0:04:42biggest and best British team ever sent to a winter games, and it has a

0:04:42 > 0:04:46chance today to make history. Never has a British athlete retained a

0:04:46 > 0:04:51winter Olympic title. Never have British athletes filled two places

0:04:51 > 0:04:55in the top three of a Winter Olympics boards. Never has a skater

0:04:55 > 0:05:03from these shores won a gold medal in short track speed skating. In

0:05:03 > 0:05:082014 and 15, Lizzy Yarnold was the skeleton supremo. She was Olympic

0:05:08 > 0:05:11champion, world champion, European champion and World Cup champion.

0:05:11 > 0:05:16Then she stepped away, exhausted. She had achieved everything. She got

0:05:16 > 0:05:21married, she do a course in book-keeping, she made lampshades.

0:05:21 > 0:05:24Then two seasons ago, she got back on a sled with one goal in mind -

0:05:24 > 0:05:30retaining her Olympic title. She is third at the halfway stage, one

0:05:30 > 0:05:34tenth of a second behind the leader. And right on her tellies her

0:05:34 > 0:05:39team-mate and friend, 29-year-old Laura Deas. She is lapping up the

0:05:39 > 0:05:43experience of her first Olympics and setting hugely impressive times. She

0:05:43 > 0:05:47was the second fastest on 12 to move up to fourth place, tantalisingly

0:05:47 > 0:05:54close to the podium. When Elise Christie was at school, she was

0:05:54 > 0:05:57teased and bullied for being pale and thin. They called her skeleton.

0:05:57 > 0:06:01She took up bigger skating and then switch to a sport where she thought

0:06:01 > 0:06:05she could control the outcome - short track speed skating. She has

0:06:05 > 0:06:11been through the best and worst of experiences in the last ten years. A

0:06:11 > 0:06:15ten time European champion, 12 medals at world level, three World

0:06:15 > 0:06:19Championship titles, including the coveted overall gold medal. And yet

0:06:19 > 0:06:25at the Olympics, she has a score to settle. Buoyed by support from Jess

0:06:25 > 0:06:28Ennis-Hill and Kelly Holmes, Christie has a first Olympic medal

0:06:28 > 0:06:35in mind. You have to go back to February three, 1924 to find the

0:06:35 > 0:06:39last time that a British team won more than one medal on the same day

0:06:39 > 0:06:45at a Winter Olympics, and if one of them was to become champion... Well,

0:06:45 > 0:06:52they would join this very exclusive list of ten. In 1924, the men's

0:06:52 > 0:06:57curlers took Britain's first ever Winter Olympics gold. In 1936, it

0:06:57 > 0:07:03was the men's ice hockey team. Then figure skater Jeannette Altwegg won

0:07:03 > 0:07:10told in 1952. In 1964, bobsledder 's Tony Nash and Robin Dixon topped the

0:07:10 > 0:07:19podium. At Innsbruck in 1976, the late, great John Kerry was the star.

0:07:19 > 0:07:25And four years later, Robin Cousins too was all gold on the ice. In

0:07:25 > 0:07:301984, Jayne Torvill in Christopher Dean's Bolero was legendary. Salt

0:07:30 > 0:07:36Lake City saw Rhona Martin and co-win curling gold. Then skeleton

0:07:36 > 0:07:41sliders Amy Williams in 2010 and Lizzy Yarnold in Sochi topped the

0:07:41 > 0:07:46podium.

0:07:47 > 0:07:51podium. And there are the three faces of the women who today could

0:07:51 > 0:07:57step into those history books, Elise Christie, Laura Deas, Lizzy Yarnold.

0:07:57 > 0:08:02We have got a couple of hours of live sport here that will thrill

0:08:02 > 0:08:05you, excite you. Anything could happen. These are sports in which

0:08:05 > 0:08:12nothing is guaranteed, but the first round of the 1500m is at 10.15,

0:08:12 > 0:08:19followed by Elise Christie at 11.10 and in the final is at midday. The

0:08:19 > 0:08:20skeleton runs, ran three.

0:08:33 > 0:08:44If you want to get in touch, use the hashtag # BBC Olympics.

0:08:45 > 0:08:49hashtag # BBC Olympics. We have experts in short track with us,

0:08:49 > 0:08:52Sarah Lindsay and Jon Eley have competed at three Olympics each in

0:08:52 > 0:08:55short track speed skating. They know Elise Christie well. They know what

0:08:55 > 0:09:00happens. And Alex Coomber was the woman who in the 21st century

0:09:00 > 0:09:03restarted this revolution in skeleton. She won a bronze medal and

0:09:03 > 0:09:08since then, it has been silver and gold all the way for the skeleton

0:09:08 > 0:09:14sliders. It's a big day, Sarah. Some of what you hope for form today.I

0:09:14 > 0:09:22just want a -- Elise to do her best so she can be happy with what she

0:09:22 > 0:09:28has done.Yeah, some great performances and everyone coming

0:09:28 > 0:09:32away with a smile.Alex, how would you describe the skeleton

0:09:32 > 0:09:38competition?I can't wait. The girls are so different. It will be so

0:09:38 > 0:09:43exciting. We will see changes amongst the top sliders and the last

0:09:43 > 0:09:46run will be incredible.You said yesterday it could be the most

0:09:46 > 0:09:49exciting skeleton competition we have ever seen. Here is what has

0:09:49 > 0:09:54happened so far.

0:09:59 > 0:10:04She is a quality athlete, but she has the pressure on in these games

0:10:04 > 0:10:13of wanting to retain her title. Is she going to lose speed? This could

0:10:13 > 0:10:19be the run that puts her at the top of the pile.It's going to be close.

0:10:19 > 0:10:28Needs to be cleaned. She goes first! Quicker than Loelling. Clearly,

0:10:28 > 0:10:34Lizzy Yarnold is here for business. Obviously, it's not going to help,

0:10:34 > 0:10:38but I think she's used to this. At least it has happened before, so

0:10:38 > 0:10:43it's not like it's the first time. Her team will know what to do to get

0:10:43 > 0:10:51her ready.Come on, Laura, keep this together. She has just got to stay

0:10:51 > 0:10:56relaxed. I think she is going to hold onto the lead.She has got to

0:10:56 > 0:11:06go under 52 seconds at the finish. Again, a wobble.I'm only seven

0:11:06 > 0:11:09hundredths away from a medal position. This is a sport where

0:11:09 > 0:11:13anything can happen and things can change in a split-second. I want

0:11:13 > 0:11:19stay positive.Is this enough for her to stay in front? She might drop

0:11:19 > 0:11:28behind the Austrian.Very close between Loelling and Lizzy Yarnold,

0:11:28 > 0:11:36who has dropped back to third place, a tenth of a second off the leader.

0:11:36 > 0:11:44I have a sore sinus thing going on. I'm struggling to breathe enough. It

0:11:44 > 0:11:50is very cold here. I am doing lots of steaming. I think I am still well

0:11:50 > 0:11:56in the mix.She is well in the mix. She is in third place, a tenth of a

0:11:56 > 0:11:59second behind the leader. This morning, she said, I have my eyes on

0:11:59 > 0:12:04the prize.

0:12:07 > 0:12:10the prize. She is the big race performer, Alex, and although in the

0:12:10 > 0:12:14last two years her form has been in doubt, she has struggled to get back

0:12:14 > 0:12:19to the heights of 2014-15. What do you think we saw yesterday and what

0:12:19 > 0:12:25can we expect from her?It's true. The season has not been great for

0:12:25 > 0:12:28her, but she has come back. She set a track record on the first run when

0:12:28 > 0:12:34she wasn't feeling great. What can she do when she is fine? Hopefully,

0:12:34 > 0:12:39she had last night to sort herself out, maybe had a good rest. She is

0:12:39 > 0:12:45ready for this.She has had this balance problem and a slight

0:12:45 > 0:12:53blacking out during a run. We are not worried about that, we?Well, I

0:12:53 > 0:12:56am assuming she has a great team who will keep an eye on that. They will

0:12:56 > 0:13:01not let her do anything that will endanger her or injure her. She has

0:13:01 > 0:13:06had this for a long time and they are used to dealing with it.And she

0:13:06 > 0:13:12is always so calm and methodical. Laura Deas, we know less about. Many

0:13:12 > 0:13:17have never heard of her until yesterday.

0:13:17 > 0:13:22And now she is forth. Her improvement was exceptional.I have

0:13:22 > 0:13:26been really impressed with her. I did think the nerves would get to

0:13:26 > 0:13:31her, but seeing her interviewed yesterday, she was calm and

0:13:31 > 0:13:36motivated. You can see she knows what she wants to do. She is in the

0:13:36 > 0:13:40perfect place in fourth. She is not in a medal position at the moment.

0:13:40 > 0:13:46The same thing happened with Dom. People talk about being under the

0:13:46 > 0:13:50radar and having no pressure. The pressure is only what you put on

0:13:50 > 0:13:53yourself. She wants a medal, so fourth place for her is a

0:13:53 > 0:13:59disappointment.Definitely. The fact that her first run was not great and

0:13:59 > 0:14:04she came back fighting, and she had the second best time on the second

0:14:04 > 0:14:09run. Most of the girls had a worse second run and it is a four run

0:14:09 > 0:14:16race, so if she can keep improving, I would be amazed if she is not up

0:14:16 > 0:14:19there in the medals at the end.We have had lots of questions about

0:14:19 > 0:14:24skeleton. Alex, you are so knowledgeable. Let me repeat what

0:14:24 > 0:14:29you said about why it is called skeleton?It was originally called

0:14:29 > 0:14:32the skeleton bobsleigh, meaning you stripped everything off a

0:14:32 > 0:14:36bobsleighed and what have you got left? Just the bottom and the

0:14:36 > 0:14:39runners. Then as skeleton tried to find its own identity, we became

0:14:39 > 0:14:45skeleton bob, then we dropped the word Bob and we are skeleton.So it

0:14:45 > 0:14:48is just the bare bones. Rosie and Johnny have been watching carefully

0:14:48 > 0:14:52and they want to know, how do they slow down and is it saw when you

0:14:52 > 0:14:58fall off?At the end of the track, once they have come of the finish

0:14:58 > 0:15:04line, you will see that all of the women are pushing up. The track also

0:15:04 > 0:15:08goes uphill and eventually, they will hit a bit of foam or a mat and

0:15:08 > 0:15:13you go from sliding really fast to coming almost to a complete stop.

0:15:13 > 0:15:19Falling off is common. You can come right off your sled, but you can get

0:15:19 > 0:15:29back on it. The hits look worse on TV than when it happens in reality,

0:15:29 > 0:15:35because you ping off and you have protection on the sleds. Right at

0:15:35 > 0:15:40the front, there are metal bumpers. So although it looks like the

0:15:40 > 0:15:46athlete is slamming into the wall, it is normally the sled.And what do

0:15:46 > 0:15:53you need as qualities to be a good skeleton slider?Skeleton is one of

0:15:53 > 0:15:56the most difficult sports to teach. I have taught on novice courses and

0:15:56 > 0:16:00you can tell within the first one or two runs whether someone will be

0:16:00 > 0:16:04good, because you have to be so quick thinking. It has to be so

0:16:04 > 0:16:09instinctive. You can't teach someone to think fast. Everything is coming

0:16:09 > 0:16:13at you so quickly. You need to be steering for the band that is coming

0:16:13 > 0:16:20in 20 or 30 metres, early. If you do it later, it is too late. So it is

0:16:20 > 0:16:26about quick thinking, staying calm in a pressured situation, having a

0:16:26 > 0:16:29fast start, maintaining your aerodynamic position, not getting

0:16:29 > 0:16:35worried and fiddling about. So it is a combination, but ultimately, a lot

0:16:35 > 0:16:42of it is just instinctive. That is where the Britons have tended to be

0:16:42 > 0:16:44good in identifying people who seem to be able to do it naturally.Both

0:16:44 > 0:16:50Laura Deas and using Arnold came through the talent ID programme. --

0:16:50 > 0:16:53Lizzy Yarnold. Lizzy talks about listening to an orchestra of

0:16:53 > 0:16:56information. So she really does highlight the speed at which your

0:16:56 > 0:17:00brain is working. But also physically, you have got to be

0:17:00 > 0:17:07brave.Yeah. Ultimately, it's a contradictory sport. You have to be

0:17:07 > 0:17:11fast and explosive as you are starting, but in a split-second you

0:17:11 > 0:17:15then have to be relaxed and you have to try and let yourself work as one

0:17:15 > 0:17:20with the track. You can't fight it as you go down, because it will

0:17:20 > 0:17:28always win and slow you down. So it is a contradictory sport. It is

0:17:28 > 0:17:33hugely mental. The mental side of it is probably more important than the

0:17:33 > 0:17:38physical side. It is just that combination of attributes. If you

0:17:38 > 0:17:44get a good package together, you have a good slider.

0:17:44 > 0:17:48Laura Deas and Lizzy Yarnold came from other sports. They are

0:17:48 > 0:17:52competitive. The World Cup is not exactly glamorous, you don't go into

0:17:52 > 0:17:56it if you want to be mollycoddled. You are talking about driving

0:17:56 > 0:18:01halfway around Europe and the world, hours on the road, staying in places

0:18:01 > 0:18:07that you would not go on holiday. It is cold and early start, late

0:18:07 > 0:18:12starts, it is a brutal sport. You are going out, and you are often

0:18:12 > 0:18:18getting battered as you go down this cold, icy, unforgiving track. But

0:18:18 > 0:18:23weirdly, that is what the draw is. And you want to do it again.If you

0:18:23 > 0:18:30say so! You saw Lizzy at the end of the run, Jen Ryan helping her off

0:18:30 > 0:18:34the track, undoing the top of her suit, because she was struggling to

0:18:34 > 0:18:38breed. But she recovered quickly and looked happier as she walked off the

0:18:38 > 0:18:44track. -- Tabriz.

0:18:44 > 0:18:48If you can do that when you are not feeling great, what is she capable

0:18:48 > 0:18:54of when she feels better today?We will focus fully on skeleton from

0:18:54 > 0:18:5811:30 on BBC One. Let's turn our attention to short track speed

0:18:58 > 0:19:03skating. You can't guarantee anything in this sport. It's

0:19:03 > 0:19:07roughest, toughest, most unpredictable event of the lot.

0:19:07 > 0:19:13Tight corners, slipping and sliding, shoulders charging, it is ruthless.

0:19:13 > 0:19:15Last Tuesday, Elise Christie was on the deck in the final of the 500

0:19:15 > 0:19:25metres, she finished fourth in the end and is trying to stay positive.

0:19:25 > 0:19:32Is this to be her moment? It's tough, I worked so hard for the

0:19:32 > 0:19:37500, and it has been taken away from me. I know it's short track and I am

0:19:37 > 0:19:41supposed to be prepared for this, but it still hurts, you know?

0:19:41 > 0:19:53I don't know Will it is I can't see living with this feeling, you know?

0:19:53 > 0:19:58I think that night was obviously pretty rubbish, but after that, the

0:19:58 > 0:20:03next day, I woke up and I thought about everything. I have said to you

0:20:03 > 0:20:07guys before, it's short track, it out of my control. My hand was

0:20:07 > 0:20:12kicked and it was an accident, short track, nothing I can do about it.

0:20:12 > 0:20:17For me, my focus is mainly on the 1001st, I have the 1501st, I will

0:20:17 > 0:20:22see what I can do without and pick up a medal. The 1000 is the one I

0:20:22 > 0:20:26will try to get the gold in.It seems like you are philosophical and

0:20:26 > 0:20:31I know this is experience helping you get over this.Definitely. It

0:20:31 > 0:20:34was nowhere near as dramatic as Sochi. What happened, I couldn't

0:20:34 > 0:20:39have done anything about. I know that, as frustrating as it is, I

0:20:39 > 0:20:45have to move forward now. Thanks to everyone who has sent me

0:20:45 > 0:20:53lovely messages of support, I never expected that, so it's amazing. My

0:20:53 > 0:20:57two eras, Jessica Ennis-Hill Kelly Holmes both sent me a tweet, that's

0:20:57 > 0:20:59amazing -- Heurelho Gomez.

0:21:03 > 0:21:06Sportsmen and women understand sport is crazy and harsh at times, but

0:21:06 > 0:21:10they've gone through things like this before, and I can get through

0:21:10 > 0:21:11this and come out the other end.

0:21:11 > 0:21:13this before, and I can get through this and come out the other end.

0:21:13 > 0:21:18So good to hear Elise speaking with so much more confidence, to be

0:21:18 > 0:21:20honest, she get over these things quickly and shares her emotions with

0:21:20 > 0:21:28all of us. She, let's not forget, is supreme in this sport. She won three

0:21:28 > 0:21:33gold medals at World Championships in 2017, including the overall

0:21:33 > 0:21:38title, first European skater to do that. But at the Olympics so far, it

0:21:38 > 0:21:42has not gone well. Disqualified in all three events at the Winter

0:21:42 > 0:21:45Olympics in Sochi, and crashing in the 500 metre final at the Olympics.

0:21:45 > 0:21:49But this happens all the time, doesn't it, in short track speed

0:21:49 > 0:21:55skating. This is her today. It is part and parcel of sport,

0:21:55 > 0:21:59things go wrong. It happens in a lot of sport. For us, this is not an

0:21:59 > 0:22:03unusual circumstance, like we said, but today she will come again and

0:22:03 > 0:22:07focus. I know there was a lot of talk after Tuesday about what the

0:22:07 > 0:22:11team have got to do to help Elise switchback in, she would know what

0:22:11 > 0:22:12to do.

0:22:12 > 0:22:14switchback in, she would know what to do. There has been no divine

0:22:14 > 0:22:18intervention. It is the plan as usual, we will crack on and get on

0:22:18 > 0:22:20with it, coming back to be ready today.

0:22:20 > 0:22:26Does her approach need to be calm, or is it good to have anger there?

0:22:26 > 0:22:30Who knows with Elise. One day she will bounce off the walls and

0:22:30 > 0:22:33perform brilliant, other times she is focused and doesn't talk a lot.

0:22:33 > 0:22:39You are never sure with her, but she has refocused. Word from camp is she

0:22:39 > 0:22:43is in a good place and feeling positive, and is ready to go today.

0:22:43 > 0:22:50Given what happened on Tuesday, John, she fell, yes, didn't win a

0:22:50 > 0:22:55medal, but finished and got a result.Completely different to

0:22:55 > 0:22:59Sochi, she finished fourth, our best result in the sport since 1994, that

0:22:59 > 0:23:03is a massive positive for the team. It was a disappointment she didn't

0:23:03 > 0:23:08get the medals you wanted, but she had another chance to go again, and

0:23:08 > 0:23:12refocus.Today is three times the distance. On Tuesday, it is over so

0:23:12 > 0:23:13refocus.Today is three times the distance. On Tuesday, it is over so

0:23:13 > 0:23:17quickly. Looking at it again, she was fighting to try to get up there

0:23:17 > 0:23:22to win a medal.Watching the race back over and over, she didn't do

0:23:22 > 0:23:26one thing wrong. She couldn't have made a better decision. Sometimes

0:23:26 > 0:23:31the decisions go against you. She did a good start, but got boxed in

0:23:31 > 0:23:34because of Lane four. She took advantage and responded well to

0:23:34 > 0:23:38that. It created something else to happen. All the things that went

0:23:38 > 0:23:42wrong, nothing was to do with her performance. She is performing

0:23:42 > 0:23:45really well, I hope she takes confidence from it, even though it

0:23:45 > 0:23:51was not the result she wanted.Her boyfriend there, Nicky Gooch coming

0:23:51 > 0:23:57in, they said to her, don't go through the interviews. She said she

0:23:57 > 0:23:57wanted to, because

0:23:57 > 0:23:58through the interviews. She said she wanted to, because the quicker she

0:23:58 > 0:24:01does them, the quicker she gets through it.She is an emotional

0:24:01 > 0:24:06athlete, she likes to go out and be upset, but that is how she turns

0:24:06 > 0:24:10things around so quickly. One of the few people I know that can switch

0:24:10 > 0:24:14energy quickly. If I was like that after a race, I would be knackered.

0:24:14 > 0:24:20She feeds of that.Sometimes you can't change your personality, you

0:24:20 > 0:24:24can't become a completely different individual because you are a

0:24:24 > 0:24:28sportswoman. Making the most of who you are is sometimes the key.I

0:24:28 > 0:24:33think some of that can be the reason why she does so well, and the reason

0:24:33 > 0:24:38why she can also make mistakes. That big personality, and all that

0:24:38 > 0:24:42emotion, she just has to channel it in the right way.We will see her

0:24:42 > 0:24:46heat in a couple of minutes. They are running a bit behind. We have

0:24:46 > 0:24:52the opportunity to see Team GB's second medal of the Olympic Games.

0:24:52 > 0:24:58Izzy Atkin, you will see her on the right-hand side, she is about to

0:24:58 > 0:25:04receive her bronze medal from the freestyle skiing slopestyle. That

0:25:04 > 0:25:08will give everybody confidence, two medals already does help. Gold went

0:25:08 > 0:25:18to Sarah Hoefflin of Switzerland. I'm liking their outfits. I love the

0:25:18 > 0:25:22officials, the volunteers, helping to put the officials in place.

0:25:22 > 0:25:31Just a reminder, down there, coming up next, Elise Christie going in

0:25:31 > 0:25:37lane three. She will still be racing fearless. Also, Charlotte Gilmartin

0:25:37 > 0:25:43and Cap Thomson, catching up what happened in their heat as they try

0:25:43 > 0:25:47to make their way to the semifinals. It is a busy day for Elise, not a

0:25:47 > 0:25:51bad thing that three races come quickly after each other, there is

0:25:51 > 0:25:58no time to think. For Izzy Atkin, 19 years old, youngest member of Team

0:25:58 > 0:26:04GB. She knew exactly what she had to do, because everybody was falling,

0:26:04 > 0:26:09basically, all over the place. They were going for big tricks and jumps,

0:26:09 > 0:26:14and she thought, as Jenny Jones did four years ago, land a run that is

0:26:14 > 0:26:20clean and she could land a medal. That is exactly what happened. On

0:26:20 > 0:26:28the right there.

0:26:31 > 0:26:37ANNOUNCER:Bronze medallist, Great Britain.

0:26:41 > 0:26:48Britain. Izzy Atkin.

0:27:06 > 0:27:11All of Izzy Atkin's family out there watching her, and her grandma Betty,

0:27:11 > 0:27:16watching from Birmingham, this is a wonderful moment. A second medal of

0:27:16 > 0:27:21these games for Team GB, for Izzy Atkin, her first experience of an

0:27:21 > 0:27:27Olympics, she is coming back with a medal. Based in Utah most of the

0:27:27 > 0:27:31time, but she showed bravery there and a bit of Knauss. We have talked

0:27:31 > 0:27:34about intelligence in skeleton, and how much you have to think, how

0:27:34 > 0:27:38instinctive do you have to be in short track speed Skating making

0:27:38 > 0:27:42decisions quickly and changing your mind?You can have your race tactics

0:27:42 > 0:27:46planned to a tee, but there are so many people on the ice with you that

0:27:46 > 0:27:50can change those things for you. You had to be able to adapt to other

0:27:50 > 0:28:03people's decisions.Four years ago in

0:28:07 > 0:28:08Sochi, in 1500 metres, Elise Christie won her semifinal

0:28:08 > 0:28:11relatively easily, but put her left skate, as she pushed it forward, she

0:28:11 > 0:28:14put it to the left of the finishing line, and the cameras picked that

0:28:14 > 0:28:16up. Officially, she hadn't crossed the line. It was the weirdest

0:28:16 > 0:28:19disqualification of the lot.It is a rule in our sport. The camera picks

0:28:19 > 0:28:21it up because it is used for the photo finish.

0:28:21 > 0:28:22it up because it is used for the photo finish. It is classed as a

0:28:22 > 0:28:25non-finish. As we said earlier the week, you can go anywhere you want

0:28:25 > 0:28:28on straight ways when you race, but at the finish line, you have to

0:28:28 > 0:28:33crossed the finish line.With two laps ago, moved into second place.

0:28:33 > 0:28:40Arianna Fontana, who won on Tuesday, she is in this race, not in the same

0:28:40 > 0:28:45heat, but in the 1500 metres again. Elise Christie, easy as you like,

0:28:45 > 0:28:48thinks she has qualified for the final, no panic at all. She looked

0:28:48 > 0:28:59up at the board, didn't she, and saw a penalty.Just devastating. It is a

0:28:59 > 0:29:04rule, but it is not something that you think is going to happen.I

0:29:04 > 0:29:08talked to her about it when I went to see her, and she said she had

0:29:08 > 0:29:12never done it before. Usually, the cameras wouldn't pick that up. But

0:29:12 > 0:29:17you can see it there. Let's handover to heat five, Elise Christie, let's

0:29:17 > 0:29:21join Simon Brotherton. COMMENTATOR: Elise Christie on the

0:29:21 > 0:29:25ice for the first time since the 500 metre final the other day. A quick

0:29:25 > 0:29:35run through of the runners and riders, Zhou Yang from China,

0:29:35 > 0:29:42currently in second position there, number 137. Zhou Yang is the

0:29:42 > 0:29:50two-time and defending Olympic champion at this distance. Bianca

0:29:50 > 0:29:58Walter. It is a 13.5 lap race. Elise Christie there, just tucked in in

0:29:58 > 0:30:02third place.The game, the skaters here jostling for position. Volta is

0:30:02 > 0:30:15in the lead. Ten laps remaining. Nothing to worry about now.Three of

0:30:15 > 0:30:19the six will go through.

0:30:26 > 0:30:31The Olympic silver medallist in the relay four years ago in second. Zhou

0:30:31 > 0:30:35Yang is third. In fifth place at the moment, Elise Christie biding her

0:30:35 > 0:30:40time. Zhou Yang moves around the outside. Bianca Walter from Germany

0:30:40 > 0:30:48tries to follow her up into second place at the moment, behind the

0:30:48 > 0:30:51defending Olympic champion.Elise is comfortable at the speed at the

0:30:51 > 0:30:58moment. Six laps to go, one, two and three will qualify. She really needs

0:30:58 > 0:31:02to start thinking about making a move. The Canadian also having that

0:31:02 > 0:31:07thought as well. Moving through on the outside.Now they start to wind

0:31:07 > 0:31:10it up with five to go. Zhou Yang on the front. Bianca Walter skating

0:31:10 > 0:31:19well. Christie in five. She tries to go on the inside. A little bit of a

0:31:19 > 0:31:24gap back to them from the front three. Zhou Yang staying out of

0:31:24 > 0:31:30trouble, the Olympic champion on the front. Christine now starts to show

0:31:30 > 0:31:34some of her speed that we know she has got in her legs. Christie around

0:31:34 > 0:31:39the outside, draws up level with the Olympic champion from China. Elise

0:31:39 > 0:31:45Christie sweeping round at the Bell into first place. That's more like

0:31:45 > 0:31:48it from the World Champion. Elise Christie now can ease up a little

0:31:48 > 0:31:53bit. She knows she's going through. That was a tremendous return to the

0:31:53 > 0:31:56ice after what happened the other day. Safely through to the

0:31:56 > 0:32:03semifinal. Elise Christie of Great Britain.It showed how confident she

0:32:03 > 0:32:08was in this race, just took her time, waited and waited, and waited.

0:32:08 > 0:32:12Didn't do an awful lot of work. When she put the foot down, it was around

0:32:12 > 0:32:16the outside and left everybody standing.Very assured performance

0:32:16 > 0:32:24from the World Champion.We can see the move from Christie around the

0:32:24 > 0:32:29outside of the Olympic champion. She made that look so easy, sitting down

0:32:29 > 0:32:36deep on the straight, getting the maximum leg extension. And just

0:32:36 > 0:32:44totally concentrated on the process rather than the medal.Pace, control

0:32:44 > 0:32:48and dominance in that heat from Elise Christie. A reminder that this

0:32:48 > 0:32:55event goes all the way from the heat to the final in this session, here,

0:32:55 > 0:32:59so we will have the semifinals. They go straight from this, no

0:32:59 > 0:33:07quarterfinals, they go straight into the semifinals and the final.

0:33:14 > 0:33:17The three you would have expected to go through with the three who went

0:33:17 > 0:33:23through. We have the sixth and final heat here in the women's 1500m to

0:33:23 > 0:33:29go. The skaters are on the ice already. The three-time World

0:33:29 > 0:33:35Championship medallist is in the field. Also the Hungarian, the

0:33:35 > 0:33:4019-year-old.

0:33:40 > 0:33:5019-year-old. Choi Minjeong of Korea. Sofia Prosvirnova, the Olympic

0:33:50 > 0:33:54Athlete from Russia, and the Chinese athlete on the outside on the

0:33:54 > 0:34:02left-hand side. Away they go.

0:34:02 > 0:34:08left-hand side. Away they go. It is fair to say that Choi Minjeong is

0:34:08 > 0:34:11the favourite for gold here.Well, we have seen so many turn ups for

0:34:11 > 0:34:15the books in the last few short track days, so I wouldn't put my

0:34:15 > 0:34:18money on anyone at the moment. That was a superb piece of skating by

0:34:18 > 0:34:25Elise Christie.The good thing about this event rather than the 500 is

0:34:25 > 0:34:29that once they have started, they have time to get settled in. No need

0:34:29 > 0:34:35to panic in this one.

0:34:35 > 0:34:42to panic in this one. At the front is Kaminaga from Japan. Choi

0:34:42 > 0:34:47Minjeong moves around the outside. And before you know it, all the way

0:34:47 > 0:34:54to the front of the race.It's all about jostling for the right

0:34:54 > 0:35:00position, as the Chinese skater moves through.

0:35:04 > 0:35:15moves through. Li Jinyu is leaving for China -- she is leading.

0:35:15 > 0:35:17for China -- she is leading. Choi Minjeong seems very comfortable in

0:35:17 > 0:35:23third place. And Prosvirnova, the Olympic Athlete from Russia, tries

0:35:23 > 0:35:29to move on the inside. Everyone is still pretty much in contention.

0:35:29 > 0:35:39Lana Gehring from the USA is up into fourth, a bit of jostling.

0:35:40 > 0:35:44fourth, a bit of jostling. As Choi goes around the outside, Prosvirnova

0:35:44 > 0:35:51is stuck in third place. Superb piece of skating from her. Can she

0:35:51 > 0:35:56retain that third spot to qualify for the semifinal?Choi Minjeong is

0:35:56 > 0:36:04looking good. Her form has looked superb this week. Prosvirnova is

0:36:04 > 0:36:11third at the moment. There will be one lap to go. Choi Minjeong staying

0:36:11 > 0:36:17out of trouble at the front. There will be a battle for the other two

0:36:17 > 0:36:21places. Choi Minjeong is trying to ease off the gas. She slides over

0:36:21 > 0:36:28the line. It is a photo finish between the Hungarian and the

0:36:28 > 0:36:37Chinese athletes.She made that look very comfortable. That means that

0:36:37 > 0:36:43two of the Korean skaters are now through to the semifinals. That will

0:36:43 > 0:36:47help Elise Christie. Normally, there are always three Korean skaters in

0:36:47 > 0:36:51the final. And I wouldn't say they are teams getting, but they will not

0:36:51 > 0:36:55hinder one another.So a strong skate from Elise Christie and from

0:36:55 > 0:37:06Choi Minjeong.

0:37:17 > 0:37:26It could be Super Saturday! But the first thing that has happened

0:37:26 > 0:37:29smoothly is Elise Christie winning her heat. It is such a different

0:37:29 > 0:37:33pace in the 1500m. They go very steady

0:37:33 > 0:37:35pace in the 1500m. They go very steady. But when she swept through

0:37:35 > 0:37:40to overtake, she can turn on the afterburners, can't she?Did she

0:37:40 > 0:37:44make that look easy? Just trying to save a bit of energy. She didn't do

0:37:44 > 0:37:49a lot of work until later in the race, when she did a nice overtake.

0:37:49 > 0:37:54Loads of speed, and that she settled down for the finish.She has talked

0:37:54 > 0:37:59a lot about the 1000m. She is putting a lot of expectation on

0:37:59 > 0:38:02herself for that, her favourite distance. But she is world champion

0:38:02 > 0:38:06in this. Is that just a way of telling people not to concentrate on

0:38:06 > 0:38:12the 1500?It is a bit of a protection mechanism, but she is

0:38:12 > 0:38:16world champion in the 1500m and it does play to her strengths because

0:38:16 > 0:38:20the field opens up at the end. And although she is strong, she is fast

0:38:20 > 0:38:26as well.

0:38:26 > 0:38:32as well.Does she not enjoy the 1500? It does start to hurt a bit?

0:38:32 > 0:38:36The legs start to hurt at the last five laps. So I think that is why

0:38:36 > 0:38:40she prefers the shorter distance. The lovely thing is that her success

0:38:40 > 0:38:47has prompted more athletes to get involved in short track speed is --

0:38:47 > 0:38:53's skating.

0:38:54 > 0:38:58There were others in action in the heats of the 1500m. Let's find out

0:38:58 > 0:38:59how they got on.

0:39:04 > 0:39:10Next, heat two featuring Kathryn Thomson from Great Britain, the

0:39:10 > 0:39:1622-year-old Scot in the middle of your picture.

0:39:21 > 0:39:25Han Yutong was fifth in the World Championship a couple of years ago.

0:39:25 > 0:39:33Anna Seidel is from Germany.

0:39:35 > 0:39:45Anna Seidel is from Germany. And Capcom Thompson goes to the front.

0:39:45 > 0:39:48-- Kat Thomson.The helmet numbers signify their ranking at the World

0:39:48 > 0:39:56Championships. We can see that Marian Saint July -- Marian Saint

0:39:56 > 0:40:01Delay is wearing the number two, signifying that she was second at

0:40:01 > 0:40:04the World Championships last year. She is competing on her 28th

0:40:04 > 0:40:10birthday today. She is considered one of those capable of winning a

0:40:10 > 0:40:15medal in this event. At the front for the United States, Jessica

0:40:15 > 0:40:23Kooreman. And there is Kathryn Thomson from Great Britain. She is

0:40:23 > 0:40:29at the front with nine to go.

0:40:37 > 0:40:43You can feel the pressure coming from the back as St Gelais moves

0:40:43 > 0:40:49through to take the lead.

0:40:53 > 0:40:58through to take the lead.Kat Thomson is now in fifth place.

0:40:58 > 0:41:02Valcepina has yet to make a move, letting everybody else do the

0:41:02 > 0:41:14bumping and jostling and barging for position. St Gelais in second place.

0:41:14 > 0:41:23And the German goes down, tangling with Kooreman of the United States.

0:41:23 > 0:41:34Thomson in with a chance, but now Valcepina makes a move.Valcepina

0:41:34 > 0:41:40moving through comfortably. The first, second and third will qualify

0:41:40 > 0:41:48for the semifinals with one lap to go.Han Yutong from China is

0:41:48 > 0:41:53leading. Valcepina of Italy is in third. There is a bit of a gap to

0:41:53 > 0:42:00the United States and Kooreman. Thomson comes through in fifth

0:42:00 > 0:42:05place, meaning she will not go through.

0:42:10 > 0:42:14through. But you could be reinstated.Here is the first

0:42:14 > 0:42:20problem that was caused. You can see the American, Jessica Kooreman,

0:42:20 > 0:42:25changing the line, coming from the outside into the inside. Anna Seidel

0:42:25 > 0:42:34then tried to move up the inside and collides skates.

0:42:47 > 0:42:56Cleanly away this time. Charlotte Gilmartin from Great Britain moving

0:42:56 > 0:43:01around on the outside.

0:43:12 > 0:43:19On the inside is the Singaporean, trying to nudge her way through.

0:43:24 > 0:43:28trying to nudge her way through.And on the outside, the Australian, who

0:43:28 > 0:43:34has trained in Korea with a Korean coach.It will be interesting to see

0:43:34 > 0:43:39how she fares, the Queensland from Brisbane. Perhaps not surprisingly,

0:43:39 > 0:43:41she decided that elsewhere there would be a better standard of

0:43:41 > 0:43:49training and facilities for her.

0:43:50 > 0:43:54training and facilities for her. The Dutchwoman is in second. Efremenkova

0:43:54 > 0:44:03having a look on the inside.

0:44:03 > 0:44:09having a look on the inside.Seven laps to go. A lot time of 10.82, so

0:44:09 > 0:44:14at some point, the pace has to be picked up as Schulting of the

0:44:14 > 0:44:20Netherlands goes into the lead. There was a sudden change in tempo.

0:44:20 > 0:44:24Charlotte Gilmartin is in second place at the moment for Great

0:44:24 > 0:44:32Britain. Efremenkova goes down. A slight collision with Deanna Lockett

0:44:32 > 0:44:38of Australia.

0:44:38 > 0:44:42of Australia. Schulting leads the way. They will have three laps to go

0:44:42 > 0:44:49this time.And unfortunate for by the skater from Russia. At the

0:44:49 > 0:44:53front, Schulting is making this look easy. Charlotte Gilmartin was to

0:44:53 > 0:44:57finish in second place to get a better seeding for the next

0:44:57 > 0:45:02semifinal.There is going to be a battle for second place. Schulting

0:45:02 > 0:45:07leads the way for the Netherlands. Charlotte Gilmartin holding second

0:45:07 > 0:45:10place. Deanna Lockett from Australia in third. They are the first three

0:45:10 > 0:45:16over the line.

0:45:17 > 0:45:21over the line. Charlotte Gilmartin is safely through to the semifinal.

0:45:21 > 0:45:27Let's have a look at the race again here, Wilf.We can see Lockett

0:45:27 > 0:45:31battling to retain third place. Under Russian skater again in the

0:45:31 > 0:45:36same

0:45:38 > 0:45:41same turn that saw the Korean fall. I am still questioning the quality

0:45:41 > 0:45:46of this ice.

0:45:46 > 0:45:52We can see Charlotte Gilmartin coming across the line. Interesting

0:45:52 > 0:45:57to see what, in fact, her final position would be. If she has given

0:45:57 > 0:46:02away second place.Which she may have done.There is no need for that

0:46:02 > 0:46:08whatsoever. She should have skated to the line.Ekaterina Efremenkova,

0:46:08 > 0:46:13the Olympic Athlete from Russia, is penalised. Gilmartin going through

0:46:13 > 0:46:18in third place.

0:46:18 > 0:46:21Gilmartin qualifies, but she got a ticking off for not finishing

0:46:21 > 0:46:25properly.Always skate to the line. Long-standing rule, skate to the

0:46:25 > 0:46:30line.She had a crash in the heats, hurting her ribs when she whacked

0:46:30 > 0:46:35into the wall. She was determined to do better. She will be thrilled.She

0:46:35 > 0:46:39will be pleased. She has really good skills in the 1500 metres, she comes

0:46:39 > 0:46:44late at the end and attacks. She will be up for it and she has had a

0:46:44 > 0:46:49week off to prepare, so she will be ready to go. In the next round,

0:46:49 > 0:46:53let's skate to the line.Exactly. You want to get that message to

0:46:53 > 0:46:53let's skate to the line.Exactly. You want to get that message to her.

0:46:53 > 0:47:02Let's look at the qualifiers. Kim Boutin benefited so much from the

0:47:02 > 0:47:04disqualification of the Corrie and in the 500 metres to get a bronze

0:47:04 > 0:47:15medal for Canada. Elise Christie has been drawn in semifinal three. Choi

0:47:15 > 0:47:21Minjeong is in her semifinal. She will have a lot of home support. Who

0:47:21 > 0:47:21are the

0:47:21 > 0:47:24will have a lot of home support. Who are the dangers? The top two go

0:47:24 > 0:47:30through to the final.The top two go through. Obviously, Elise and

0:47:30 > 0:47:33Charlotte in the same race. That will separate the field a little

0:47:33 > 0:47:37bit.We are loving short track, and we will get straight back out there,

0:47:37 > 0:47:44because it is the men's 1000 metres. Elise Christie will watch closely

0:47:44 > 0:47:49because her other half is competing in the fourth quarter final, let's

0:47:49 > 0:47:56rejoin Simon Brotherton.

0:47:56 > 0:47:59COMMENTATOR: Will come back. We are almost ready to go with the

0:47:59 > 0:48:04quarterfinals in the men's 1000 metres, four races to win it. They

0:48:04 > 0:48:09had the heats the other day, we have the quarterfinals now and two heats

0:48:09 > 0:48:17of four in the semifinals to go through to the final.

0:48:17 > 0:48:20through to the final. Shaolin Sandor Liu was the World Cup winner this

0:48:20 > 0:48:23winter, but he's not in this first quarterfinal. It is a strong

0:48:23 > 0:48:34line-up. We have the gold medallist in the 1500 metres. We have Thibaut

0:48:34 > 0:48:45Fauconnet. The world ranked number two from Korea, Hwang Daeheon. And

0:48:45 > 0:48:52we have the World Champion. All three of them in the quarterfinal.

0:48:55 > 0:49:01Including, the Olympic gold medallist from the 1500, and the

0:49:01 > 0:49:06current World Champion.

0:49:24 > 0:49:32Fall is start for this first quarterfinal.It's very unusual to

0:49:32 > 0:49:41have three Koreans. We can see it again. I'm not sure if

0:49:41 > 0:49:43again. I'm not sure if it was Daeheon, the second skated from the

0:49:43 > 0:49:56outside. Position three, one false start.Hwang Daeheon didn't finish

0:49:56 > 0:49:59the other day. Cleanly away this time. Scuffling into the first

0:49:59 > 0:50:10corner. Fauconnet, the Frenchman, outnumbered here.Nine laps, and

0:50:10 > 0:50:13extended sprint as Fauconnet needs to do something if he wants to go

0:50:13 > 0:50:18through to the next round. Skaters one and to qualify.At the front it

0:50:18 > 0:50:26is Hwang Daeheon. Fauconnet in third place. Six laps to go. Over the line

0:50:26 > 0:50:32this time, in second

0:50:32 > 0:50:40this time, in second place... As Fauconnet was forced wide.

0:50:40 > 0:50:48The Koreans really not playing teams skating, but they are so dominant,

0:50:48 > 0:50:55they make it impossible. They are changing the lead.Like a team

0:50:55 > 0:51:09pursuit, doing a bit on the front. At the

0:51:10 > 0:51:15At the front is Lim Hyojun. Leading is Lim Hyojun from Korea, followed

0:51:15 > 0:51:18closely. All three going for it. Sweeping through on the inside to

0:51:18 > 0:51:24take first place, the World Champion, who we didn't see until

0:51:24 > 0:51:32the end of the race, he timed his race to perfection, and ending up on

0:51:32 > 0:51:36the.

0:51:38 > 0:51:43the. Fauconnet fourth, provisionally.Running exceptionally

0:51:43 > 0:51:48well. Skating very wide, very relaxed early on. Saving his energy.

0:51:48 > 0:51:52He is the World Champion. He has skated better than I have seen him

0:51:52 > 0:51:57all week so far.A tough draw for the Frenchman here.You've got the

0:51:57 > 0:52:00world number one, the Olympic champion, the world ranked number

0:52:00 > 0:52:08one. It was almost an impossibility for him.You are not supposed to

0:52:08 > 0:52:12race as a team, but questions would have been asked if they had messed

0:52:12 > 0:52:23it up and the Frenchman went through.

0:52:25 > 0:52:29Hwang ended up on the floor.The skate has to be flat on the ice.

0:52:29 > 0:52:35They could award a penalty to the third skater. The hand coming across

0:52:35 > 0:52:38the inside.

0:52:40 > 0:52:46All about the skate that crosses the line.A perfectly timed effort from

0:52:46 > 0:52:49Seo Yira, the World Champion. He looked unruffled, unlike the other

0:52:49 > 0:52:53two as they stretched.

0:52:53 > 0:53:03And a penalty for Hwang of Korea.

0:53:08 > 0:53:10Hwang out, and the second of these quarterfinals coming up very

0:53:10 > 0:53:17shortly. The running repairs to the ice here.That's right. As Hwang was

0:53:17 > 0:53:22going over the finish line, he is trying to push his skate out in

0:53:22 > 0:53:27front of him, because that is the marker when the stopwatch is

0:53:27 > 0:53:31stopping, and whether he is going to qualify or not, and the back of his

0:53:31 > 0:53:41skate bug deep into the ice. What they will do is prepare the ice --

0:53:41 > 0:53:46repair the ice.They have a spray, it looks like a fire extinguisher.

0:53:46 > 0:53:53That's right.I can see one of the officials is about to spray the

0:53:53 > 0:53:58eyes.

0:53:59 > 0:54:04eyes. Once the fresh eyes has been plastered down onto the surface...

0:54:04 > 0:54:09There we are.

0:54:10 > 0:54:15There we are.Quite a deep rut in the ice before the finish line. I

0:54:15 > 0:54:20hope the remaining skaters don't have any problems with thata feud

0:54:20 > 0:54:29Dutch fans in tonight Derek Campbell, former Olympian and

0:54:29 > 0:54:36Olympic gold medallist, coaching the Canadian team for 12 years now.

0:54:36 > 0:54:42Amazing success is back in Vancouver.

0:54:42 > 0:54:45Vancouver.Hopefully, the repair is almost complete now. We will be able

0:54:45 > 0:54:50to continue the quarterfinals. Farrell Treacy will go in the third

0:54:50 > 0:54:57quarter final in a few minutes time. Really is quite a nasty gouge out of

0:54:57 > 0:55:02the ice made by Hwang in his desperate attempt to finish in the

0:55:02 > 0:55:09first two in that first quarterfinal.Incredibly

0:55:09 > 0:55:13disappointed to have drawn his own team-mates in this. The races are

0:55:13 > 0:55:19made up conceding points. It's only recently that the seeding points

0:55:19 > 0:55:24don't matter any more. When I skated, they kept skaters apart from

0:55:24 > 0:55:29one another. That was a little bit unfair. Now it is all about your

0:55:29 > 0:55:32world ranking, and based on a world ranking, that is where you are

0:55:32 > 0:55:37placed into the race.You can see they are refreezing the rut in the

0:55:37 > 0:55:45ice. Repairs complete and we are almost ready to go. A packed house

0:55:45 > 0:55:50inside the Ice Arena again tonight. They love short track racing in

0:55:50 > 0:55:54Korea. Locally, it is one of the hot tickets, short track.Almost one of

0:55:54 > 0:55:57the impossible tickets.

0:56:13 > 0:56:19Samuel Girard is the world silver medallist from 2016.

0:56:25 > 0:56:33A World Championship gold medals last year. Six laps to go, this time

0:56:33 > 0:56:46over the line. Kazuki Yoshinaga moving up. A lot of work to do.

0:56:46 > 0:56:49Samuel Girard comes around the outside, moving up the inside.

0:56:49 > 0:56:54Samuel Girard finishing in fourth place the other day. One that the

0:56:54 > 0:56:59Canadians have high hopes for in the years ahead, just 21 years of age

0:56:59 > 0:57:01from Quebec. Samuel Girard looking comfortable on the front at the

0:57:01 > 0:57:08moment. Having a look on the inside was Kazuki Yoshinaga, Yuri

0:57:08 > 0:57:14Confortola, the XP rinsed Italian, 31 years of age.

0:57:15 > 0:57:1831 years of age.Two that is to go, Samuel Girard still on the front

0:57:18 > 0:57:25with Yuri Confortola in second place. DeLaet in third place.Samuel

0:57:25 > 0:57:31Girard looking comfortable still. Yuri Confortola ahead of the Lark,

0:57:31 > 0:57:36who looks annoyed at himself at that.A comfortable skate from

0:57:36 > 0:57:41Samuel Girard from the front, controlling the race. Talat making

0:57:41 > 0:57:45the slip early on in the race and has to pay the penalty now by not

0:57:45 > 0:57:50qualifying.It has been a long time since Confortola was at the top of

0:57:50 > 0:57:56his game.

0:57:56 > 0:58:03his game. Bags of experience, and he used it in this quarterfinal.We can

0:58:03 > 0:58:07see Girard moving through very, very comfortably indeed. Here is the

0:58:07 > 0:58:20challenge for the line. A lot trying to squeeze up the inside.

0:58:20 > 0:58:21to squeeze up the inside. Confortola has qualified for the semifinal.

0:58:21 > 0:58:25Girard looked good, but DeLaet will be frustrated because his form is

0:58:25 > 0:58:30better than that.Absolutely. Confirmation that Confortola from

0:58:30 > 0:58:35Italy goes through behind Samuel Girard of Canada. Next up on the

0:58:35 > 0:58:41track will be the third quarterfinal, featuring Great

0:58:41 > 0:58:45Britain's Farrell Treacy, second in his heat behind John Henry Kruger of

0:58:45 > 0:58:54the United States.

0:59:00 > 0:59:13Farrell Treacy Ryosuke Sakazume. A tough one for Tracey.Big guns in

0:59:13 > 0:59:19this 1000 metres. Farrell Treacy moving through comfortably to the

0:59:19 > 0:59:24front with eight laps to go. It's all about jostling for positions.

0:59:24 > 0:59:34Farrell Treacy comes through. John-Henry Krueger of America

0:59:34 > 0:59:42cruising around the outside. Farrell Treacy trying to get

0:59:42 > 0:59:51involved and lost a little bit of speed as John-Henry Krueger is in

0:59:51 > 0:59:57second.

1:00:02 > 1:00:07John-Henry Krueger moving through up the inside with three laps to go,

1:00:07 > 1:00:11looking comfortable indeed. These two skaters fighting for that

1:00:11 > 1:00:20qualifying position.Two laps to go, in third is Ryosuke Sakazume from

1:00:20 > 1:00:23Japan. A gap back to John-Henry Krueger and Farrell Treacy hanging

1:00:23 > 1:00:29off the back at the moment.

1:00:36 > 1:00:44I was looking at the referees, and it could go anyway, to be honest,

1:00:44 > 1:00:52Simon.Knegt was involved in an incident the other day as well, for

1:00:52 > 1:00:56which he was penalised. The Dutch look a little unsure in the crowd.

1:00:56 > 1:01:00But Elistratov has shown that his form is really good so far with the

1:01:00 > 1:01:05bronze medal in the 1500. This distance is shorter than that, but

1:01:05 > 1:01:11again, he had the experience to stand his ground at the front. There

1:01:11 > 1:01:16you see Farrell Treacy getting involved early on.And here is the

1:01:16 > 1:01:24move on Knegt. He seems to be coming out to make sure he is going into

1:01:24 > 1:01:30the term.Knegt looks as though he forced John-Henry Krueger out wide.

1:01:30 > 1:01:36That could be a possible penalty for Knegt. He won the bronze medal four

1:01:36 > 1:01:40years ago at this distance.Which I think was the first Dutch medal in

1:01:40 > 1:01:46short track at the Olympic Games. That is true.Which is a very

1:01:46 > 1:01:49different scenario to the Dutch dominance in long track speed

1:01:49 > 1:01:54skating, which has continued across the way in the Oval, right next to

1:01:54 > 1:01:59this ice Arena. So do you think Knegt will be concerned?I saw him

1:01:59 > 1:02:04giving John Henry a pat on the back as if to say sorry.John-Henry

1:02:04 > 1:02:10Krueger is standing out just beyond the padding, waiting for a decision

1:02:10 > 1:02:15which he hopes might give him a reprieve. But provisionally,

1:02:15 > 1:02:19Elistratov and Knegt where the first two. And yes, Knegt has been

1:02:19 > 1:02:26penalised. He is out, so one of the medal favourites has gone. Semen

1:02:26 > 1:02:34Elistratov goes through. Ryosuke Sakazume the advances as well and

1:02:34 > 1:02:38the victim of the move by Knegt is John-Henry Krueger of the United

1:02:38 > 1:02:42States. And in fourth place, Farrell Treacy of Great Britain.

1:02:42 > 1:02:47Disappointment for the Dutch.The national coach of Hollund will not

1:02:47 > 1:02:52be happy with that decision at all. That is twice that Knegt has been

1:02:52 > 1:02:55involved in incidents at these and begins. Here comes the fourth

1:02:55 > 1:03:05quarterfinal.

1:03:25 > 1:03:32And we have a false start.I am not sure if that was the number one,

1:03:32 > 1:03:43Hamelin, on the inner lane. Of course, not forgetting the racers

1:03:43 > 1:03:47are only allowed one false start. If they do it again, they have to leave

1:03:47 > 1:03:52the ice. It was very close.

1:03:53 > 1:04:01the ice. It was very close.I think it is Dajing for China.

1:04:01 > 1:04:14it is Dajing for China. Away they go. Scrapping for that first place.

1:04:33 > 1:04:41Hamelin trying to move through the inside.Wu Dajing is looking very

1:04:41 > 1:04:46comfortable, controlling the race from the front, a tactic I used to

1:04:46 > 1:04:50enjoy. If you are going to tire towards the latter part of the race,

1:04:50 > 1:05:00it's better to be at the front than at the back.

1:05:01 > 1:05:05at the back.Hamelin in second place. Still looking good for

1:05:05 > 1:05:13Canada. The two Latvians are hanging the coat-tails of this group. A bit

1:05:13 > 1:05:27of barging. Hamelin was forced out wide, managed to stay on his feet.

1:05:27 > 1:05:35Charles Hamlin was there and the Latvian was also involved in a photo

1:05:35 > 1:05:42finish.'S stunning skating from all the skaters. The way Peter Worth is

1:05:42 > 1:05:45calling these races, it wouldn't surprise me if there are possibly

1:05:45 > 1:05:52two penalties here, maybe one from Charles Hamelin and one for Wu

1:05:52 > 1:06:01Dajing.Hamelin almost ended up on the deck.You can see the Hungarian

1:06:01 > 1:06:08crossing over, forcing easy and onto the inner of the rink. And this was

1:06:08 > 1:06:14later, when Hamelin tries to squeeze around the outside. And then exactly

1:06:14 > 1:06:21the same thing happens here with Wu Dajing trying to go around outside.

1:06:21 > 1:06:27He is not allowed to cut inside.

1:06:27 > 1:06:29He is not allowed to cut inside. You can see Wu Dajing making a mistake

1:06:29 > 1:06:36on the right pivoting leg.

1:06:36 > 1:06:39on the right pivoting leg.Pretty close on the line here, with Hamelin

1:06:39 > 1:06:46from Canada.

1:06:46 > 1:06:55from Canada. That was close.We will have to wait and see for the

1:06:55 > 1:07:02official result, because if Charles Hamelin does receive a penalty, that

1:07:02 > 1:07:10will mean Pukitis of Latvia will move through to the semifinal.This

1:07:10 > 1:07:18is the final judges' liberation from these quarterfinals.

1:07:21 > 1:07:23these quarterfinals. Wu Dajing, trying to dive in at the front of

1:07:23 > 1:07:29the race. It was all or nothing for him.The Chinese are having a

1:07:29 > 1:07:36disastrous game so far.

1:07:36 > 1:07:39disastrous game so far.This is an event that Korea has dominated over

1:07:39 > 1:07:44the years. Only twice as anyone other than a Korean won this event.

1:07:44 > 1:07:55Here comes the referee's decision. There is a penalty and Wu Dajing is

1:07:55 > 1:07:59penalised for his attempt to chop his way into the front. Shaolin

1:07:59 > 1:08:04Sandor Liu from Hungary goes through, as does Charles Hamelin

1:08:04 > 1:08:16from Canada. And Wu Dajing finishes last.

1:08:17 > 1:08:30So here were with the line-ups, those who have gone through.

1:08:54 > 1:09:00It is a day that promises so much. Six minutes away from the semifinals

1:09:00 > 1:09:04of the 1500m in short track speed skating, but this is the scene at

1:09:04 > 1:09:10the Alpensia Sliding Centre ma Laura Deas in fourth place at the halfway

1:09:10 > 1:09:13stage of the skeleton competition. And Lizzy Yarnold just in front of

1:09:13 > 1:09:18her in third. The British and Welsh fans are out in force. That is Laura

1:09:18 > 1:09:22Deas' camp cheering her on, and Lizzy has made it clear that she is

1:09:22 > 1:09:28here to defend her Olympic title. So we just want to give everybody who

1:09:28 > 1:09:32is watching around the country a little smile, a little cuddle,

1:09:32 > 1:09:36because the white tiger which is the mascot of Pyeongchang of these

1:09:36 > 1:09:40Winter Olympics, we have our two at the front of the table and I know a

1:09:40 > 1:09:43lot of people are watching at Nottingham eye centre. Hello to you

1:09:43 > 1:09:49and good luck to both Charlotte Gilmartin and police Christie --

1:09:49 > 1:09:52Elise Christie. There is also curling at the moment. The British

1:09:52 > 1:09:56women are in action against the host nation, South Korea. That has just

1:09:56 > 1:10:00started and it is on the red button and will be uninterrupted coverage.

1:10:00 > 1:10:04But we will tell you what has happened a little later. Oh, my

1:10:04 > 1:10:09word. Let's head out to the sliding centre shortly. You know about Lizzy

1:10:09 > 1:10:13Yarnold. She is the defending champion. She carried the flag at

1:10:13 > 1:10:22the opening ceremony, but what about her team-mate, Laura Deas? Who is

1:10:22 > 1:10:25she and how did she get into discussing? Nick Cudd has been

1:10:25 > 1:10:27finding out about her mindset, and she is ready for liftoff.Ignition

1:10:27 > 1:10:32sequence start.

1:10:34 > 1:10:37sequence start.You never quite know what's going to happen. It's down to

1:10:37 > 1:10:45you in that moment. There's nobody else.Talk about not feeling like a

1:10:45 > 1:10:52skeleton athlete. You weren't always a skeleton athlete.Yes, it was

1:10:52 > 1:10:56unusual in the fact that I came from an equestrian background.How big a

1:10:56 > 1:11:01switch was that? Your whole life, your mindset must have changed.I

1:11:01 > 1:11:05had never been in that sort of gym environment before. I had literally

1:11:05 > 1:11:08never stepped inside a gym until I was put through my paces for the

1:11:08 > 1:11:12skeleton trial. So it was a massive shock for my body. The focus also

1:11:12 > 1:11:17became different because as a rider, it was much more about how the horse

1:11:17 > 1:11:21feels, how they are moving and what is happening underneath me. All of a

1:11:21 > 1:11:24sudden, it was about, how am I feeling? In a way, there are

1:11:24 > 1:11:29parallels as well, with that sensitivity to what is happening

1:11:29 > 1:11:33underneath you and having to plan a route and think quickly. Those

1:11:33 > 1:11:37things transfer well, so was a good crossover in some ways.How much

1:11:37 > 1:11:41does your relationship with Lizzy helped? She says you are her best

1:11:41 > 1:11:45friend, but to work together must also help you both perform.It's

1:11:45 > 1:11:50nice to have someone with you who understand everything you're going

1:11:50 > 1:11:54through. If you have a tough gym session together, there is always

1:11:54 > 1:12:00someone to have a cup of tea with and talk about it with, which is

1:12:00 > 1:12:04nice. We push each other in a positive way as well. As soon as we

1:12:04 > 1:12:06step on the track, we are supercompetitive. We both want to

1:12:06 > 1:12:13win. And the fact that we both see ourselves as podium contenders means

1:12:13 > 1:12:18we are constantly pushing each other forward. But we are part of a wider

1:12:18 > 1:12:22team and everybody could bring their A-game on race day.There has been

1:12:22 > 1:12:28so much British success in skeleton at recent Olympics. Have you watched

1:12:28 > 1:12:34while Amy Williams has won her gold medal and a Lizzy Yarnold in 2014?I

1:12:34 > 1:12:37vividly remember sitting and watching Amy do her first two runs

1:12:37 > 1:12:43at Vancouver. And I remember this powerful feeling of thinking, wow,

1:12:43 > 1:12:47I'm in the same programme as this athlete who is leading at the

1:12:47 > 1:12:52Olympics. If she can do it, I can. I have always carried that with me.

1:12:52 > 1:12:55The fact that Lizzy then went on to do the same thing has just

1:12:55 > 1:13:01reinforced that. It is an exciting time for our programme.And what do

1:13:01 > 1:13:06you feel is possible for you?I definitely feel I can win a medal. I

1:13:06 > 1:13:12have beaten every person in that field, so I know if things go right

1:13:12 > 1:13:18and I bring my A game, I can be on the podium.Laura Deas, full of

1:13:18 > 1:13:23confidence and really enjoying herself. Every shot we have seen of

1:13:23 > 1:13:28her, she looks relaxed and excited. She looks to be smiling, but this is

1:13:28 > 1:13:33the serious end of the competition. She is in fourth place. She is 17

1:13:33 > 1:13:39hundredths behind the leader, Loelling. And in third place is the

1:13:39 > 1:13:43defending champion, Lizzy Yarnold. Let's head out to Alpensia because

1:13:43 > 1:13:48Amy Williams is there. It's going to be chilly, but it's a hot night of

1:13:48 > 1:13:55action on the track. What can we expect?Like you say, we can't wait.

1:13:55 > 1:13:58We are going to have two of our British girls fighting for those

1:13:58 > 1:14:07medals, both wanting to win, both wanting gold, silver, bronze. The

1:14:07 > 1:14:09atmosphere including credible. We have loads of supporters behind me.

1:14:09 > 1:14:15I can't wait for the races to start. They haven't had a chance to slide

1:14:15 > 1:14:19on it today, but they have walked the track. What does that tell them

1:14:19 > 1:14:22and what do you expect to see Laura and Lizzy trying to do on their

1:14:22 > 1:14:29third run?To be able to walk the track on the morning of your race is

1:14:29 > 1:14:36a good feeling. You want to be able to look at the ice. It actually just

1:14:36 > 1:14:40calms your nerves. I didn't track walk before my race in Vancouver,

1:14:40 > 1:14:43and it settles you. It is something to do as well, because you have a

1:14:43 > 1:14:48lot of hours to kill before the evening race. So you are going

1:14:48 > 1:14:52through the mental imagery of the track in your head. They have only

1:14:52 > 1:14:55had six runs to learn the track here, so the more times you can go

1:14:55 > 1:15:01through it in your head, shut your eyes and go through every corner. It

1:15:01 > 1:15:06is like replaying your perfect lines in your head.We have seen lots of

1:15:06 > 1:15:11shots of Laura in the warm-up area. She looks fine. Lizzy set a track

1:15:11 > 1:15:14record in her first run yesterday and then looked dizzy and said she

1:15:14 > 1:15:19was short of breath. How is she?

1:15:19 > 1:15:20Back here,

1:15:20 > 1:15:26Back here, she said she was short of rest.And she has a cold. She said

1:15:26 > 1:15:31she found it hard to breathe. She looked fine throughout the run. I

1:15:31 > 1:15:35was watching her eyes, everything was spot on, it was just coming up

1:15:35 > 1:15:39to the finish line that she needed to get her breath back, which is

1:15:39 > 1:15:45fine. The team are happy and confident. Laura is in a good place.

1:15:45 > 1:15:51Yeah, we are looking forward to it so much.Great copper Tichit naked.

1:15:51 > 1:15:56-- competition ahead. We will bring you everything and we will go

1:15:56 > 1:16:01through from

1:16:01 > 1:16:04through from the leader, third will be Lizzy Yarnold, and fourth Laura

1:16:04 > 1:16:09Deas. Alex, you know what it is like. The whole which the

1:16:09 > 1:16:13competition, they want to get on with it.It. Definitely. This is it,

1:16:13 > 1:16:18this is D-Day. This is what they have been working for, the

1:16:18 > 1:16:21combination of four years is now. As luck would have it, we have

1:16:21 > 1:16:25action all the way, they are ready for the short track semifinals,

1:16:25 > 1:16:30three semifinals in the 1500 metres, Charlotte Gilmartin will be in the

1:16:30 > 1:16:34second, and believes Christie will be in the third. Sarah, I love

1:16:34 > 1:16:39asking you, what would you whisper in Elise's if you could?Get the job

1:16:39 > 1:16:44done. She needs to

1:16:44 > 1:16:45in Elise's if you could?Get the job done. She needs to get through

1:16:45 > 1:16:49without incident or problem. She needs to float through and get into

1:16:49 > 1:16:53the final.What would you say to Charlotte Gilmartin?Get in there.

1:16:53 > 1:16:57This is her strength, she loves to race, and she is one step away from

1:16:57 > 1:17:03aching the final. The first of the semifinals.

1:17:03 > 1:17:08COMMENTATOR: They are almost ready to go, just lining up down below us

1:17:08 > 1:17:17on the ice here. Kim Alang has number one position, Kim Boutin

1:17:17 > 1:17:29second. Pierron from France. Marianne St Gelais from Canada

1:17:29 > 1:17:33currently on the outside in second place. St Gelais, the 2016 World

1:17:33 > 1:17:39Champion.

1:17:39 > 1:17:43Champion. Anna Seidel from Germany won the European Championship 1000

1:17:43 > 1:17:51metre bronze medal earlier this year already. 13.5 laps of the track.The

1:17:51 > 1:17:53skaters jostling for position as you

1:18:07 > 1:18:11Kim Boutin, bronze medallist from the 500 metres.Two Canadians at the

1:18:11 > 1:18:17front going around the outside. Marianne St Gelais leading from her

1:18:17 > 1:18:24compatriot Kim Boutin at the moment with Han Yutong of China third. Kim

1:18:24 > 1:18:28Alang of Korea, an Olympic gold medallist in the relay four years

1:18:28 > 1:18:37ago in the white Jersey of Korea in fourth. Seidel of Germany in five.

1:18:37 > 1:18:44Pierron and Valcepina at the back. The crowd warming as the Korean Kim

1:18:44 > 1:18:49goes through and takes the lead.She makes that look very easy. Very

1:18:49 > 1:19:02comfortable. A lap time of 9.2 seconds. Not incredibly fast. She

1:19:02 > 1:19:08comes around the outside.The first two go through to the final. Kim

1:19:08 > 1:19:14Boutin leading the way. Kim Alang in second place with Marianne St Gelais

1:19:14 > 1:19:19third the Canada. Work to do the Han Yutong of Korea. The other two are

1:19:19 > 1:19:24out of it. Sliding out of contention was St Gelais. Amazing that

1:19:24 > 1:19:30Valcepina and also Pierron didn't come into collision with her.

1:19:30 > 1:19:41Leading the way, now trying to catch up Han Yutong. Almost level now. A

1:19:41 > 1:19:48scrap to the line. Kim Boutin in second for Canada. She maintains

1:19:48 > 1:19:55second spot, but the Korean over the line in first place, Kim Alang.

1:19:55 > 1:20:02Boutin in a photo finish. What a disappointment for Marianne St

1:20:02 > 1:20:05Gelais, the 2016 World Champion ended up smacking against the

1:20:05 > 1:20:09padding at the side of the eyes. Interesting to see what the referees

1:20:09 > 1:20:13make of that from Marianne St Gelais. She collided going up the

1:20:13 > 1:20:20straight with Kim Alang. Kim Alang moving around the outside. Kim

1:20:20 > 1:20:24Boutin having a look and letting her come through comfortably as the pace

1:20:24 > 1:20:28increases.

1:20:29 > 1:20:34increases. Seidel going down there. This appointment for her. This is

1:20:34 > 1:20:39where the question really is, is Kim Alang moving inside, protecting the

1:20:39 > 1:20:45inside lane? What will the referee make that? I have seen a lot of

1:20:45 > 1:20:50decisions in the men's racing when the skater, what we used to do when

1:20:50 > 1:20:58I skated, cross track, now it is called blocking, preventing the

1:20:58 > 1:21:03skater. If you change your line, you run the risk of getting a penalty.

1:21:03 > 1:21:08Might there be an issue for Kim Alang?There could very well be. I

1:21:08 > 1:21:13can see the referees talking to one another, looking at that pass of

1:21:13 > 1:21:18Marianne St Gelais moving up the inside. I can see the video referee

1:21:18 > 1:21:24from Holland shaking his head. We will have to see what the official

1:21:24 > 1:21:29result will be.Let's look at it once again. Hopefully, this is the

1:21:29 > 1:21:38key incident. Yes, it is.You can see, Kim Alang, she was very

1:21:38 > 1:21:42fortunate.One of the officials was almost wiped out, and two

1:21:42 > 1:21:48backmarkers could have collided with her.The Canadians having a battle

1:21:48 > 1:21:56here with the Koreans. If this Korean gets a penalty then there

1:21:56 > 1:22:00really will be war on the ice.

1:22:04 > 1:22:12Kim Boutin and Marianne St Gelais, Boutin and Han Yutong in a photo

1:22:12 > 1:22:16finish for second place as it stands. St Gelais also waiting,

1:22:16 > 1:22:22hoping that maybe she might be advanced.That would mean, of

1:22:22 > 1:22:26course, so far, one advantage, they would be seven people in the final.

1:22:26 > 1:22:32Despite talk of around the table and viewing of video evidence, is this

1:22:32 > 1:22:35one position in the end? Yes, the referee makes the final

1:22:35 > 1:22:43call, he can be advised by the video referee, but ultimately, it's down

1:22:43 > 1:22:50to the final referee to make that decision. The chief referee, as it's

1:22:50 > 1:22:55officially known. They are writing something down. So

1:22:55 > 1:23:00it would appear there has been a call, that maybe on St Gelais or

1:23:00 > 1:23:05Kim.What is your feeling?I would have thought the Korean crossed into

1:23:05 > 1:23:09Marianne St Gelais, so I would call that it would go with a penalty to

1:23:09 > 1:23:13Kim.

1:23:18 > 1:23:22And the result is that Marianne St Gelais has been penalised. Kim

1:23:22 > 1:23:31Alang, Kim Boutin both going through.As I already said, the

1:23:31 > 1:23:34angles the referee looks at are completely different to the angles

1:23:34 > 1:23:38we see here and you see at home, the view was on TV. That always makes it

1:23:38 > 1:23:43more difficult.They should look at that, so we can see what they are

1:23:43 > 1:23:48making the decision on. Charlotte Gilmartin for Great Britain, Suzanne

1:23:48 > 1:23:52Schulting on the right-hand side of the screen, Fontana from Italy, the

1:23:52 > 1:24:00Olympic 500 metre champion. Ter Mors has already won a medal here. Deanna

1:24:00 > 1:24:06Lockett for Australia, Charlotte Gilmartin from Worcestershire and

1:24:06 > 1:24:12Kikuchi from Japan.If Lockett of Australia wants to make anything of

1:24:12 > 1:24:17this race, in fifth place at the moment, she needs to make the race

1:24:17 > 1:24:21as quickly as possible, because she is not good leaving it to the last

1:24:21 > 1:24:263-4 laps when high-speed kicks in. Schulting of the Netherlands and Ter

1:24:26 > 1:24:30Mors in one and two.The difference between the pair of them is in the

1:24:30 > 1:24:38helmet, the orange one for Suzanne Schulting. Ter Mors, who was so

1:24:38 > 1:24:41impressive on the oval across the Plaza the other night still looking

1:24:41 > 1:24:47for an Olympic medal in short track. She has twice finished fourth.

1:24:47 > 1:24:51Charlotte Gilmartin in second place in behind the very much informed

1:24:51 > 1:24:58figure of Ariana Fontana. Fontana a six time Olympic medallist finally

1:24:58 > 1:25:02getting a gold the other day. Going to the front is Ter Mors with 8.5

1:25:02 > 1:25:08laps to go.Ter Mors, of course, doesn't like the argy-bargy. She

1:25:08 > 1:25:12prefers long track speed skating. She proved her fitness is good, so

1:25:12 > 1:25:16she will try to do negative splits, every lap getting quicker. The last

1:25:16 > 1:25:23lap was 10.3.Gilmartin with work to do with seven laps to go, but still

1:25:23 > 1:25:27in the group is Ter Mors... O! Down she goes again! Charlotte Gilmartin

1:25:27 > 1:25:34has crashed out as she did in the heats of the 500 metres. But she's

1:25:34 > 1:25:39back on her skates and back up and running on the ice, but a lap behind

1:25:39 > 1:25:44everybody else. Meanwhile at the front, Ter Mors. Ter Mors on the

1:25:44 > 1:25:53front ahead of Fontana, Schulting in third place. Bringing up the rear is

1:25:53 > 1:26:00Kikuchi of Japan.We are going to see Ter Mors move through again into

1:26:00 > 1:26:03first place with relapsed to go. We have to wait and see what happens

1:26:03 > 1:26:08here. Schulting tried to go into the back of Fontana.Fontana wasn't

1:26:08 > 1:26:12about to give way. Ter Mors leads the way on the front. Fontana in

1:26:12 > 1:26:18second place, Lockett trying to make a challenge, but she goes wide. Ter

1:26:18 > 1:26:22Mors of the Netherlands leads. Fontana in second place. Kikuchi

1:26:22 > 1:26:30challenging in third. The first two over the line, Ter Mors and Arianna

1:26:30 > 1:26:35Fontana. Deanna Lockett of Australia crashed just going into the final

1:26:35 > 1:26:37bend, and unfortunately, the Queensland unable to challenge for a

1:26:37 > 1:26:44place in the final.That was superb skating by Arianna Fontana. She has

1:26:44 > 1:26:50got one gold in the pocket. Ter Mors has another gold in the pocket, two

1:26:50 > 1:26:59gold medallists going through to the final.We have A and B finals. It

1:26:59 > 1:27:04determines the final placing. This is the second semifinal, and

1:27:04 > 1:27:08Charlotte Gilmartin.I couldn't see what happened there. Schulting

1:27:08 > 1:27:14trying to come up the inside.

1:27:14 > 1:27:17trying to come up the inside. The Italian completely blocking her out.

1:27:17 > 1:27:22We have to weight, still, for the official result there.Arianna

1:27:22 > 1:27:29Fontana finished with the bronze medal in this event in Sochi. This

1:27:29 > 1:27:36was the end of the race for Lockett from Australia. Disappointment for

1:27:36 > 1:27:41Charlotte Gilmartin, though. Crashed out of her other event as well.

1:27:41 > 1:27:45Yeah, incredibly disappointing. As I said, had she finished second in the

1:27:45 > 1:27:49race, might have meant that she would have gone into another

1:27:49 > 1:27:55semifinal, which could have been a little bit easier.Once more, the

1:27:55 > 1:28:03judges deliberating. Hopefully, not for too long. Next onto the track

1:28:03 > 1:28:06will be the final of the semifinals, the last one featuring Elise

1:28:06 > 1:28:16Christie.The move from Fontana, she just moves across, we have to weight

1:28:16 > 1:28:25for the official result, of course. So, Ter Mors and Fontana are

1:28:25 > 1:28:31qualifying for the semi... From the semifinal. Confirmation of the

1:28:31 > 1:28:43result. Kikuchi and Schulting into the B finals. Here we go.

1:28:43 > 1:28:47Elise Christie needs to finish in the first two to get into the

1:28:47 > 1:28:52Olympic final. Choi Minjeong, the world record-holder, seven time

1:28:52 > 1:29:04World Championship gold medallist on the inside. Petra Jaszapati. Valerie

1:29:04 > 1:29:11Maltais from Canada.What will Christie do here? Will she adapt the

1:29:11 > 1:29:15same tactics as she did in the first round, not doing very much, and

1:29:15 > 1:29:20leave it for a final burst of speed at the end? I'm fairly convinced,

1:29:20 > 1:29:23looking at the field, there's no real specialist 1500 metres gators

1:29:23 > 1:29:28in this race. That is horribly the tactics, the race plan, what she

1:29:28 > 1:29:39will adapt to. Choi sat behind Christian fifth, China one and two.

1:29:39 > 1:29:45In the first race of the day, Christie was confident enough in her

1:29:45 > 1:29:49speed to bite her time early on in the laps, which is what she has done

1:29:49 > 1:29:53initially here. Moving up a little bit now. Moving in front of Valerie

1:29:53 > 1:29:59Maltais into second place. We have Li Jinyu and Zhou Yang of China at

1:29:59 > 1:30:02the front at the moment with Christie in third. She has got to

1:30:02 > 1:30:08finish in the first two here. Just moves into second place behind Li

1:30:08 > 1:30:13Jinyu, world bronze medallist in the junior championship last year. Tight

1:30:13 > 1:30:17up the front, not too much room there. Two Chinese athletes continue

1:30:17 > 1:30:22to dominate up until now.Christie skating and ice lines into the turn.

1:30:22 > 1:30:29Not going in too tight, squeezed onto the first block, that happened

1:30:29 > 1:30:35in the first final. Looking comfortable. Multi tries to attack

1:30:35 > 1:30:40around the outside.Making a move around the outside. Christie looking

1:30:40 > 1:30:47boxed in as multi makes a move. Multi, Zou, Leigh and Christie with

1:30:47 > 1:30:53four laps to go. At the front, Valerie Maltais, sixth in Sochi in

1:30:53 > 1:30:592014. She has a gap here, multi. Christie has a little bit of work to

1:30:59 > 1:31:03do now, as Choi Minjeong goes around the outside. Choi goes towards the

1:31:03 > 1:31:07front. Christie comes through on the inside, good move from her, two that

1:31:07 > 1:31:16is to go, Christie and Choi neck. Christie doesn't want to crash

1:31:16 > 1:31:16is to go, Christie and Choi neck. Christie doesn't want to crash. Choi

1:31:16 > 1:31:22Minjeong leads the way. Zhou Yang and Christie as they go round the

1:31:22 > 1:31:30front. Christie has crashed again now! Right on the final bend yet

1:31:30 > 1:31:35again. She ends up in a distraught heap on the floor. She was almost

1:31:35 > 1:31:40there. She was almost about to qualify. She could see the line in

1:31:40 > 1:31:46front of her and, once more, Elise Christie, this time tangling with

1:31:46 > 1:31:50one of the Chinese athletes ends up on the deck against the padding at

1:31:50 > 1:32:00the side of the track. Choi Minjeong qualifies first. Petra Jaszapati,

1:32:00 > 1:32:07the defending limply and champion.

1:32:07 > 1:32:10And unfortunately and sadly from a British point of view, Elise

1:32:10 > 1:32:17Christie is on the ground and hasn't crossed the line.My heart goes out

1:32:17 > 1:32:28to this young lady. She skated a fantastic race. You Seou

1:32:30 > 1:32:34fantastic race. You Seou -- you see Choi steaming around the outside. A

1:32:34 > 1:32:43collision. It appeared as if Li might have cut her blade into

1:32:43 > 1:32:49Christie's cut resistant racing suit on the inner side of the right

1:32:49 > 1:32:58skate. An awful disaster. You can see it again. Which it looks like

1:32:58 > 1:33:03she might be taken off by stretcher from the pictures on the ice. A

1:33:03 > 1:33:09disaster here for Elise Christie. What terrible pictures for the

1:33:09 > 1:33:16second time in a few days. She finishes on the floor, the world

1:33:16 > 1:33:20champion down. But hopefully in terms of these Olympic Games, not

1:33:20 > 1:33:25out. Hopefully, she will be able to pick herself up and go and try again

1:33:25 > 1:33:33in her favourite event, the 1000m. You see her coming around the

1:33:33 > 1:33:39outside. We only see the angle here and whether she passed Li of China.

1:33:39 > 1:33:46She has clearly not passed her. Maybe the knock on the left shoulder

1:33:46 > 1:33:55on Li causes her to go down. We need to go back a bit. She clearly takes

1:33:55 > 1:34:01Christie out. But the big question is, is Elise in front of Li at this

1:34:01 > 1:34:08point?The other question is, hopefully she is not badly injured,

1:34:08 > 1:34:13either from the impact of the crash or from the blade of the Chinese

1:34:13 > 1:34:16skater. It goes without saying that you can do a lot of damage with

1:34:16 > 1:34:23those blades. They are extremely sharp.We are waiting for the final

1:34:23 > 1:34:29decision.Quite a hush. It is the quietest this arena has been the

1:34:29 > 1:34:36whole time. You can't see Elise Christie, but we will give you an

1:34:36 > 1:34:40update. She is still on the ice. The stretcher is there. They are still

1:34:40 > 1:34:45pending to her, but she is out of our line of vision at the moment. We

1:34:45 > 1:34:50can't quite see. Elise Christie is now being placed on a stretcher. And

1:34:50 > 1:34:57while the judges reach their conclusions on that semifinal, Elise

1:34:57 > 1:35:05Christie Yan Valery Maltais have received a penalty.

1:35:07 > 1:35:10Unfortunately, the sad sight here in the Gangneung Ice Arena which we are

1:35:10 > 1:35:13watching from the commentary box is of a stretcher being wheeled from

1:35:13 > 1:35:18the arena with Elise Christie laying on top of it. They are the

1:35:18 > 1:35:25qualifiers for the A final and unfortunately, the world champion is

1:35:25 > 1:35:29not among those who will race for gold later today.

1:35:29 > 1:35:37CLARE BALDING: That is desperately sad for Elise Christie. She has been

1:35:37 > 1:35:41penalised in that semifinal. There is always half eight chance in short

1:35:41 > 1:35:45track speed skating that you might get advanced to the final, but far

1:35:45 > 1:35:47more seriously than whether she is in the final is how badly she is

1:35:47 > 1:35:54injured. Sarah Lindsay and Jon Eley are looking at these shots with me.

1:35:54 > 1:36:00We know this is a tough and unpredictable sport, but she has had

1:36:00 > 1:36:04a rougher end of the draw in two Olympic Games so far than with have

1:36:04 > 1:36:11ever seen.It is difficult for her. We talk about it being part of the

1:36:11 > 1:36:15sport, but for someone to have that much bad luck is just heartbreaking.

1:36:15 > 1:36:19But again, we always talk about her coming back and her ability to get

1:36:19 > 1:36:23back on the track and race. Today around a corner, she just left

1:36:23 > 1:36:27herself a bit too much to do and the referee saw her as impeding the

1:36:27 > 1:36:31Chinese girl on the last corner. So it is a tough call, but I can see

1:36:31 > 1:36:34why the referee made that decision. But as we all feel so passionately

1:36:34 > 1:36:41about Elise, it is tough for her to take.Sarah, your immediate reaction

1:36:41 > 1:36:47was that it was not her fault, but she is not clear, is she?The

1:36:47 > 1:36:55Chinese falls and takes Elise down so doesn't look like the Chinesego's

1:36:55 > 1:37:02fault at first glance. Elise has just left too much to the end. It is

1:37:02 > 1:37:06all down to the finish. On the one hand, she was relaxed and confident

1:37:06 > 1:37:09and she knew she had the speed at the end and she let the skaters

1:37:09 > 1:37:15battle it out.But from that angle, it looks as if Li Jinyu brings her

1:37:15 > 1:37:23skate across and trips her up.She does have to skate, though.And Li

1:37:23 > 1:37:31is off-balance. Elise is trying to turn around the corner, so that

1:37:31 > 1:37:34point, Elise has clearly not done it on purpose. She is trying to get in

1:37:34 > 1:37:40front of Li, but she unfortunately left it too late and Li goes down.

1:37:40 > 1:37:46The most important thing now is that hopefully, she is in good health.

1:37:46 > 1:37:50Absolutely. In your mind, what a fair decision from the referees?

1:37:50 > 1:37:58Very much so. It is just that we are so passionately behind Elise that

1:37:58 > 1:38:01every call that is against her, we think negatively, but actually, the

1:38:01 > 1:38:07referee made the right decision.On the last shot weasel, it looked as

1:38:07 > 1:38:13if Li Jinyu's blade striker on the bridge -- on the last shot weasel.

1:38:13 > 1:38:17She is going to feel desperate, but hopefully in terms of injury, it

1:38:17 > 1:38:21depends whether blade made contact. How much support and protection is

1:38:21 > 1:38:26there on the shin?I don't think it was from the blade. When she held

1:38:26 > 1:38:36her ankle when she first tried to sit up, you are wearing cut proof

1:38:36 > 1:38:41suits.Well luckily, in the sport of skeleton, you are not having to deal

1:38:41 > 1:38:45with anyone else on the track at the same time. Alex Coomber is now going

1:38:45 > 1:38:48to be discussing the third run of the skeleton, the situation at the

1:38:48 > 1:38:52halfway stage is that Laura Deas is in fourth place. Lizzy Yarnold in

1:38:52 > 1:38:57third. We will see their third run in just a second.

1:39:01 > 1:39:08Laura Deas, one of the fastest in the field.

1:39:08 > 1:39:18the field.It's down to you in that moment. There's nobody else. I love

1:39:18 > 1:39:25this sport. I'm in it because I want to win.

1:39:32 > 1:39:35Never in the history of the Winter Olympics have two British athletes

1:39:35 > 1:39:41been on the podium in two positions in the top three, but we have a

1:39:41 > 1:39:45situation here where it may just happen. Jacqueline Loelling with the

1:39:45 > 1:39:50way for Germany ahead of Janine Flock. And just one tenth behind the

1:39:50 > 1:39:52leader is the defending champion Lizzy Yarnold. And seven hundredths

1:39:52 > 1:40:00behind her is Laura Deas. This Alpensia Sliding Centre takes an

1:40:00 > 1:40:07awful lot of driving and Alex, it needs quick thinking as well as good

1:40:07 > 1:40:12technique?-Ness. Everything is coming at you so fast, you don't

1:40:12 > 1:40:16have time to think. If you are thinking, I don't know what I'm

1:40:16 > 1:40:21going to do, that will cause disaster. That is why you track walk

1:40:21 > 1:40:24and that is why you see them thinking about their runs in their

1:40:24 > 1:40:29heads.They will have walked the track this morning. Lizzy Yarnold is

1:40:29 > 1:40:33in third place, but she was the fastest on the first run and Laura

1:40:33 > 1:40:39Deas was second fastest on the second run. They could move up.

1:40:39 > 1:40:42Let's find out what happened in round three. Commentary comes from

1:40:42 > 1:40:49Amy Williams, John Jackson and first, John Hunt.

1:40:49 > 1:40:52Welcome to the sliding centre ahead of round three of women's skeleton,

1:40:52 > 1:40:57everybody trying to get the best view in the house. Round three goes

1:40:57 > 1:41:03from the leaders down, one to 20. Ready to go, Jacqueline Loelling.

1:41:03 > 1:41:08Second place at the moment, Janine Flock of Australia. Lizzy Yarnold,

1:41:08 > 1:41:13the defending champion, goes third, and Laura Deas is in fourth place.

1:41:13 > 1:41:19John Jackson, double Olympian, and Amy Williams are with us in the

1:41:19 > 1:41:24commentary box. John Jackson, what is the news on temperatures?The ice

1:41:24 > 1:41:27temperature is -8, which is good for the British equipment. Anything

1:41:27 > 1:41:33below -6 and the British men and women have been flying, so that is a

1:41:33 > 1:41:39good start.Look at that study of concentration on Jacqueline Loelling

1:41:39 > 1:41:45my face. She admitted after her two runs yesterday that she was very

1:41:45 > 1:41:49nervous. This is the young German who has dominated this event is at

1:41:49 > 1:41:55the last two years. She leads by just a fraction, two hundredths of a

1:41:55 > 1:42:01second, ahead of

1:42:01 > 1:42:07second, ahead of Flock. She is one of the slowest starters. Her best

1:42:07 > 1:42:12start has been 5.34 in the early rounds. Loelling is under way. And

1:42:12 > 1:42:16she is slow again. But John Jackson, she has a happy habit of making up

1:42:16 > 1:42:23good speed through the run.She is one of the most consistent sliders

1:42:23 > 1:42:28we have. She has won four World Cup races this year. But is that start

1:42:28 > 1:42:34going to be her Achilles' heel when it comes to the medals? I think the

1:42:34 > 1:42:39girls that out start her could go faster. But she did not make one

1:42:39 > 1:42:42mistake yesterday, but is that the mistake that will allow the other

1:42:42 > 1:42:50girls to move up, especially the British girls behind her? But she

1:42:50 > 1:43:00has been the best slider so far. Time is going to be important.

1:43:02 > 1:43:04Time is going to be important. 52.04 is OK, but only average when you

1:43:04 > 1:43:08bear in mind what so many of the girls did in run the ball one. The

1:43:08 > 1:43:13track seemed to slow down in one number two yesterday, Aimee, that is

1:43:13 > 1:43:19not a time the other girls should be worried about.It's to say. After

1:43:19 > 1:43:23the first run, you can see if it is a good or bad track. I think she

1:43:23 > 1:43:28will be a bit disappointed with that because she did do fast yesterday.

1:43:28 > 1:43:34But she did take a big hit in the crucial part of the track, exit

1:43:34 > 1:43:42nine. That would have bled speed from her.And yesterday, she was

1:43:42 > 1:43:49seventh off, which allows you time to settle.Second place, Austria's

1:43:49 > 1:43:53Janine Flock. Austria have never won a medal in this. Flock seems to be

1:43:53 > 1:43:58near her best. She was former world number one in 2015. Now she has a

1:43:58 > 1:44:05much quicker start.

1:44:10 > 1:44:13She probably has nerves in her legs, increasing the tension. When she

1:44:13 > 1:44:19gets it right, she flies. On her first run yesterday, she hit the

1:44:19 > 1:44:25wall coming out of nine. Then she had a great second run. It is about

1:44:25 > 1:44:32getting the steers in the right place, minimising the oscillations.

1:44:32 > 1:44:37Way better, that was good from Janine. She really wants an Olympic

1:44:37 > 1:44:42medal.

1:44:43 > 1:44:51medal.Two bends to go for Flock. And she has finished ahead of

1:44:51 > 1:44:56Loelling. She is a tenth of a second ahead. Janine Flock for Austria

1:44:56 > 1:45:02giving it everything.That is her coach, who was my coat in Vancouver.

1:45:02 > 1:45:10He will be thrilled. He wants another medal. That was a good run

1:45:10 > 1:45:14for Janine. I am happy for her. She is a good buddy of mine, trains

1:45:14 > 1:45:22really hard in Austria.

1:45:22 > 1:45:25really hard in Austria. That was her going through corner two, a crucial

1:45:25 > 1:45:30corner as there is a flat section afterwards. You could see her using

1:45:30 > 1:45:38her body and legs to steer.She is in great shape. Lots of British fans

1:45:38 > 1:45:45here. And a key five minutes coming up for the Britons. Lizzy Yarnold,

1:45:45 > 1:45:51the Olympic champion from Sochi, goes third, starting this third run

1:45:51 > 1:45:57a tenth of a second off the lead as was, Loelling. We are looking for a

1:45:57 > 1:46:02start time

1:46:03 > 1:46:08start time of sub 520. Decent start, John Jackson.She made mistakes on

1:46:08 > 1:46:12her second run yesterday, which is why she is now behind. She had the

1:46:12 > 1:46:16lead after the first run. If she puts in a big one here, she will be

1:46:16 > 1:46:23in the lead at the bottom. Her run yesterday was phenomenal. She made

1:46:23 > 1:46:30mistakes on the second run, but now she has got through that part OK.

1:46:30 > 1:46:35That is not bad.

1:46:37 > 1:46:40That is not bad. She is keeping herself in the mix with the Austrian

1:46:40 > 1:46:48slider.There is not going to be much between them. Did that tap on

1:46:48 > 1:46:54ten cost her some speed? Only a bit. Yarnold is two hundredths off the

1:46:54 > 1:47:03lead. She has moved ahead of Loelling.She was lucky. When she

1:47:03 > 1:47:08took that hit, it was parallel, so her sled wasn't skidding into it.

1:47:08 > 1:47:15She continued straight into corner 12, so it didn't cost her much time.

1:47:15 > 1:47:21That line into corner Twell, if you get it right, if you get it right,

1:47:21 > 1:47:26you can use the pressure. The line into 12 pushes you round the g-force

1:47:26 > 1:47:30to create speed. You can see the differences between the two leaders,

1:47:30 > 1:47:35separated by a couple of hundred. Slightly different lines, and that's

1:47:35 > 1:47:41why Lizzy lost out.

1:47:41 > 1:47:49From Lizzy Yarnold to Laura Deas, starting this third run in fourth

1:47:49 > 1:47:58place. She has probably been the most consistent in terms of time

1:47:58 > 1:48:02wise of all of these athletes over the first two runs. And again, a

1:48:02 > 1:48:12fast starter. We are looking for 5.10 as a start. She is away nicely.

1:48:12 > 1:48:18She is so strong, so powerful, her background is in question is, but do

1:48:18 > 1:48:24you know what, she trained so hard in the gym. -- background is

1:48:24 > 1:48:29equestrian. A fast start on this unique track. Let's see what Laura

1:48:29 > 1:48:35can do, can she work with the track? Can she find speed in every one of

1:48:35 > 1:48:39these corners? Brilliant from her there. She nailed it. That has been

1:48:39 > 1:48:44the best we have seen. She didn't get it quite right yesterday, but

1:48:44 > 1:48:49she got it back on run two.Speed dropping off slightly relative to

1:48:49 > 1:48:54Flock. Flock, Yarnold, Laura Deas not separated by Matt on the line.

1:48:54 > 1:49:02Speed did drop off rapidly, Laura Deas. Laura stays in fourth place.

1:49:02 > 1:49:10She is 19 hundredths of the leader, Janine Flock. A significant five

1:49:10 > 1:49:16minutes, highly significant. Laura Deas has done fine, the quickest run

1:49:16 > 1:49:23of her three, and Flock leads from Yarnold, Loelling, Laura Deas in

1:49:23 > 1:49:26fourth place. Heading into the fourth and deciding run.I was

1:49:26 > 1:49:31surprised she dropped that file below. There, that is probably it.

1:49:31 > 1:49:36She definitely had the best exit of nine. The clip into the corner there

1:49:36 > 1:49:41has to have been the reason for taking away the speed and giving her

1:49:41 > 1:49:47a slightly lower time. With a start like that, if she can clear it up on

1:49:47 > 1:49:52her second run, the fourth and final of the race.Anna Fernstadt goes

1:49:52 > 1:49:58fifth for Germany, and Olympic debutant. She is so young, just 21.

1:49:58 > 1:50:05Fernstadt, like Loelling, is not a good starter. She is slower

1:50:05 > 1:50:08Fernstadt, like Loelling, is not a good starter. She is slower.

1:50:08 > 1:50:13Fernstadt has put herself under pressure to close on the front four.

1:50:13 > 1:50:16The difference between a fast and slow start, with a fast start, you

1:50:16 > 1:50:23can make little errors. Not big ones, when you have a slow start

1:50:23 > 1:50:27like the Germans, you have to be perfect everywhere. What the Germans

1:50:27 > 1:50:31are good at doing, because they build speed, you can see how quick

1:50:31 > 1:50:38they are at the bottom of the track. You can't hear her as much, and that

1:50:38 > 1:50:42is why Laura lost speed, because you can see the g-force. She is not

1:50:42 > 1:50:54really gaining. So it is not working.Offer the 14th bend, she is

1:50:54 > 1:50:58breathing down Laura Deas's neck for fourth place. She found some impetus

1:50:58 > 1:51:04late there.She did. The lines at the bottom of the track, she is

1:51:04 > 1:51:09finding speed all the time, building and building. If she had the same

1:51:09 > 1:51:14start as Laura Deas, she would win the competition by 3AW4-mac tenths,

1:51:14 > 1:51:15easily.

1:51:18 > 1:51:23Her line is perfect. The best line we have seen out of nine. She did

1:51:23 > 1:51:30clink and have a skid. I think that was actually the finish. The slides

1:51:30 > 1:51:36are being weighed, there is a maximum and minimum they can all be.

1:51:36 > 1:51:39Fernstadt has improved her position. Next, going six, another German,

1:51:39 > 1:51:48Tina Hermann. Her debut Olympics as well. She is 25, world ranked number

1:51:48 > 1:51:53two. She has been ranked in the top three in skeleton for the last four

1:51:53 > 1:51:57years. That tells you all you need to know about her ability and

1:51:57 > 1:52:03consistency. Herrmann has had an identical start so far, 5.2 four.

1:52:03 > 1:52:08She is wondering left a little bit, which is a tiny bit slower.

1:52:08 > 1:52:13Struggling to get the perfect line she wanted. She is an incredible

1:52:13 > 1:52:18driver. I did expect her to be further up the field, but she did

1:52:18 > 1:52:22not have the best day yesterday. Let's see what she can do today, day

1:52:22 > 1:52:27two, runs three and four. She will have thought about it overnight.

1:52:27 > 1:52:32Throughout training runs, you have videos on entrances and exits, and

1:52:32 > 1:52:37you go home and study them, see the perfect line, and watch other

1:52:37 > 1:52:43sliders. On race day, you just have to go out and do it.Herrmann, then,

1:52:43 > 1:52:48can she close like Fernstadt did? A remarkable finish by Fernstadt.

1:52:48 > 1:52:53Herrmann now crosses the line. She has closed a little bit of the

1:52:53 > 1:53:00deficit as well to go a tenth behind Fernstadt. Those two Germans,

1:53:00 > 1:53:06Fernstadt and Herrmann, they have kept pressure on Laura

1:53:06 > 1:53:11Fernstadt and Herrmann, they have kept pressure on Laura.

1:53:11 > 1:53:13kept pressure on Laura. Fernstadt and Herman have kept themselves

1:53:13 > 1:53:17alive.The fastest run of the heat so far. She has picked up her game

1:53:17 > 1:53:25from yesterday. Will she be able to close in on the likes of Lizzy

1:53:25 > 1:53:30Yarnold, Flock and Loelling as they come into the fourth and final run?

1:53:30 > 1:53:37It is exciting heading into run free, even more so now. -- run

1:53:37 > 1:53:44three. Good crowd again tonight. We now move on to the Latvian, that is

1:53:44 > 1:53:51Lelde Priedulena. Can she find a stunning run? By that, I mean a

1:53:51 > 1:53:58comfortable sub 52 second run. She might just apply pressure. If she

1:53:58 > 1:54:03can't find it, I would have thought that is probably her chances of a

1:54:03 > 1:54:09medal gone. Fast starter usually, but not as quick this time.Everyone

1:54:09 > 1:54:12starts a little bit slower. Sometimes the eyes can be sticky at

1:54:12 > 1:54:18the top of the run, and maybe sleds aren't moving as freely in that cut

1:54:18 > 1:54:25out that they slot into at the start.11th in the world,

1:54:25 > 1:54:30Priedulena. Carrying a knee injury, and carrying it effectively.Also,

1:54:30 > 1:54:37this is day two, and we don't usually have these corporate -- on

1:54:37 > 1:54:42petitions over two days. Her run is looking really, really good. It is

1:54:42 > 1:54:47maybe the equipment is not working for her in these conditions.Final

1:54:47 > 1:54:50couple of bends for Priedulena. Let's see how close she can get to

1:54:50 > 1:54:56the 52 second Mark.

1:54:57 > 1:54:59the 52 second Mark. Priedulena doesn't improve her position. She

1:54:59 > 1:55:06has now dropped fully half a second off the medals. You would think, in

1:55:06 > 1:55:11terms of the medal chase, that is it for her. Sliding pretty well still.

1:55:11 > 1:55:15That was her quickest run of the three.That is all you can ask for,

1:55:15 > 1:55:21improve run on run, get a PB each time you go down. Watching her at

1:55:21 > 1:55:27the start loading onto the sled. Each sled is individual to each

1:55:27 > 1:55:31athlete. The saddle is moulded to their body and fits perfectly. A

1:55:31 > 1:55:37really good line there.

1:55:38 > 1:55:40really good line there.Priedulena for Latvia in seventh place.

1:55:40 > 1:55:48Canadian flag is now out for Elisabeth Vathje. By her own

1:55:48 > 1:55:52admission, she blamed herself fairly and squarely for a messy first run,

1:55:52 > 1:55:57such a good second run. She was the quickest of all in heat two. World

1:55:57 > 1:56:04number three, she comes in to the Olympic Games as one of the

1:56:04 > 1:56:11favourites to do really, really well. Vathje with a point to prove.

1:56:11 > 1:56:17That is the slowest start of her three.Yesterday, she made a mistake

1:56:17 > 1:56:24on the first run.

1:56:24 > 1:56:27on the first run. Her balance point was out all the way down. On the

1:56:27 > 1:56:30second, she got on the sled very high on the fighting the sled

1:56:30 > 1:56:35through seven. On the second run yesterday, she had the fastest run

1:56:35 > 1:56:39of everybody yesterday. This is the run where she needs to move forward.

1:56:39 > 1:56:46The mistake at seven will cost her possibly, but I don't think she will

1:56:46 > 1:56:51be able to move up towards the Germans.52.01 yesterday, uphill to

1:56:51 > 1:57:02the finish now. Will she get near that? No. 52.3 seven.

1:57:02 > 1:57:05that? No. 52.3 seven. Disappointment to merely sinful run two. Back to

1:57:05 > 1:57:12disappointment for Vathje. It clearly will not happen. She is a

1:57:12 > 1:57:16second of the medals.It hasn't quite clicked with her. She is

1:57:16 > 1:57:21getting it sometimes. Other times, she isn't. You have to go for

1:57:21 > 1:57:27consistent runs to be in with a medal hope. Really good lines there.

1:57:27 > 1:57:31Just, just get away with it. Sometimes on this track, we are

1:57:31 > 1:57:34talking centimetres to the left or to the right to completely ruin your

1:57:34 > 1:57:42race.Vathje is going to struggle. And obviously, we're now heading

1:57:42 > 1:57:47towards the bottom half of the leaderboard, so there will be no

1:57:47 > 1:57:52change to the top end with Flock leading by a whisker from Yarnold,

1:57:52 > 1:58:00the defending champion. Loelling and Laura Deas. Kimberley Bosch showed

1:58:00 > 1:58:03last March that she knows the track. She was an excellent third in the

1:58:03 > 1:58:10World Cup, usually quick away, looking for 513, she gets 517.

1:58:10 > 1:58:16Consistent of the blocks. Very good start from her. Anything that is

1:58:16 > 1:58:22above 520 is a good start. She is not quite as experienced as other

1:58:22 > 1:58:26riders. It takes a lot of years to learn how to slide and feel it

1:58:26 > 1:58:31through the sled, how to become one being, you and yours sled, to work

1:58:31 > 1:58:37together and not fight each other as you go down the track.She is not

1:58:37 > 1:58:42finding the speed. The lines are really good, but it seems to be

1:58:42 > 1:58:52taking away. She is over driving the sled.Looking at her, she might be a

1:58:52 > 1:58:58chipping ahead of Vathje. She does. Kimberley Bos improves on her

1:58:58 > 1:59:07position.For a slide of her sort of training age, if you like, and her

1:59:07 > 1:59:10development, if she finished top eight in the world, that would be a

1:59:10 > 1:59:14great result.Not every single one of these athletes is aiming for the

1:59:14 > 1:59:18medals if they know it is completely out of their reach. For them, they

1:59:18 > 1:59:23might be after a top ten. They might be after a top eight, personally,

1:59:23 > 1:59:28for their funding back home, they might need a top ten, 12 top eight.

1:59:28 > 1:59:33This could be what she is aiming for, and could be the result she is

1:59:33 > 1:59:44aiming for in her mind. We move on now to the Swiss, Marina

1:59:44 > 1:59:50Gilardoni, wonderfully consistent. I think there will be a lot of people

1:59:50 > 1:59:54in the skeleton world who would be really pleased for her if she could

1:59:54 > 1:59:59maintain a top ten position through until the end here. She is 30 now.

1:59:59 > 2:00:05She was ranked as high as number five a couple of years ago. That was

2:00:05 > 2:00:08the year she was fourth in the World Championships. She has slipped to

2:00:08 > 2:00:12world number 16, but she is really, really consistent. Slightly slower

2:00:12 > 2:00:18start than we are used to with her, 528, it puts her on the back foot.

2:00:18 > 2:00:23It drops her from yesterday. I am wondering if she has been recovering

2:00:23 > 2:00:27from a hamstring injury most of the season, I wonder if that is

2:00:27 > 2:00:30affecting her from yesterday, so she is pushing hard when she didn't run

2:00:30 > 2:00:35as fast which is why she dropped off at the start. Her runs were good

2:00:35 > 2:00:40yesterday. When she was doing well, she was one of the top sliders. Now

2:00:40 > 2:00:44she is not starting at the front, you can see where her driving isn't

2:00:44 > 2:00:48quite where it needs to be to have the same effect as what the Germans

2:00:48 > 2:00:54are doing and pulling up the field. It is just little mistakes here and

2:00:54 > 2:00:58there.I don't think this will improve Gilardoni's position.

2:01:08 > 2:01:21We are halfway through run number one. Flock leads narrowly.

2:01:25 > 2:01:30You can see her going through the track in her head, through her body,

2:01:30 > 2:01:33that visualisation where you can shut your eyes and go through any

2:01:33 > 2:01:42track in the world because it is so much in that mental imagery.

2:01:43 > 2:01:47Confirmation of Flock's narrow lead over Lizzy Yarnold. So close. That

2:01:47 > 2:01:52leaderboard will not change now as we move into the second half of the

2:01:52 > 2:02:03standings. Unbelievable view across to the ski jump. Jane Channell is

2:02:03 > 2:02:08about the fastest starter here. She has been electric off the blocks,

2:02:08 > 2:02:16but she has been losing it down the bottom end of the track.Terrific

2:02:16 > 2:02:24speed to carry her through the top portion of the track.

2:02:24 > 2:02:27portion of the track. Normally, she would be starting to go green, but

2:02:27 > 2:02:31because of her style, maybe this track is in connecting with the

2:02:31 > 2:02:35Canadians because they are not doing as well as they should. She is

2:02:35 > 2:02:39currently ranked fifth in the world. You don't expect to see sliders of

2:02:39 > 2:02:43that calibre this far back in the pack. So something is not

2:02:43 > 2:02:46connecting. You can hear a lot of noise and that is her helmet

2:02:46 > 2:02:54scraping against the ice.

2:02:54 > 2:02:56scraping against the ice.She has a small chance of nipping into the top

2:02:56 > 2:03:06ten. But her speed has fallen away again. She stays in 11.She will be

2:03:06 > 2:03:09disappointed with that. When you are ranked fifth in the world going into

2:03:09 > 2:03:17the Olympics, that means she has had podiums.

2:03:17 > 2:03:23podiums. She was second place in Whistler. And she has always been

2:03:23 > 2:03:28around that kind of placing. So to not get into the top ten, she would

2:03:28 > 2:03:31definitely want to have her fourth and final run to make sure she is in

2:03:31 > 2:03:39the top ten. A bit of a clip there. She needs to have steered harder as

2:03:39 > 2:03:45she enters corner 12. Those lines on your screen need to be as flat as

2:03:45 > 2:03:49possible. You don't want the highs and the lows as that is a longer

2:03:49 > 2:03:57journey around each corner.It's not going to happen at the fourth

2:03:57 > 2:04:02Olympics for America's Katie Uhlaender. She was fourth in Sochi,

2:04:02 > 2:04:09only 400s of that bronze medal -- only four hundredths off that bronze

2:04:09 > 2:04:15medal. She was in tears earlier as to how her Olympics has gone, in the

2:04:15 > 2:04:19full knowledge that this will probably be her last one.Her

2:04:19 > 2:04:24training runs at the beginning of the week, she was really quick. She

2:04:24 > 2:04:30was up there with the likes of Lizzy and Laura. You thought maybe this

2:04:30 > 2:04:35would be her year, and it hasn't happened, for whatever reason.

2:04:35 > 2:04:43Whether she got the setup wrong yesterday... She said the ice has

2:04:43 > 2:04:50been good for her, but something has not quite settled. Again, there were

2:04:50 > 2:05:00no big mistakes, she's just losing speed all the way the track.

2:05:00 > 2:05:07speed all the way the track.Exactly the same.It's a shame. She wants it

2:05:07 > 2:05:12so bad, and sometimes that could be no problem. She has that extra

2:05:12 > 2:05:17tension in her body. She is thinking about it so much in her head that

2:05:17 > 2:05:23she is stopping it flowing through her body and relaxing.Can't hide

2:05:23 > 2:05:27the disappointment in her face. She said she has had a rough week.She

2:05:27 > 2:05:33has. I don't know whether a lot of the stuff in her head has come from

2:05:33 > 2:05:36this Russian doping thing, because it was not long ago that she thought

2:05:36 > 2:05:40she was getting upgraded to a bronze medal and end up all got changed.

2:05:40 > 2:05:45She has been holding on to the fact that she was going to get that medal

2:05:45 > 2:05:50for so long and then it got swept away, but it is still ongoing. So

2:05:50 > 2:05:55that might be playing on the back of her mind and slowing her down.

2:05:55 > 2:06:04Another of the Canadians. This is Mimi Rahneva. There is a theme

2:06:04 > 2:06:11developing here. She is really quick away here. But slowly but surely, it

2:06:11 > 2:06:16ebbs away.

2:06:17 > 2:06:19ebbs away.Yeah, the Canadian men didn't do as well as expected, just

2:06:19 > 2:06:26like their women. Not quite sure whether it is their sleds or whether

2:06:26 > 2:06:38they just haven't clicked. So far, this is looking like a solid run. We

2:06:38 > 2:06:45predominantly steer through our shoulders. That was well controlled.

2:06:45 > 2:06:53Sometimes you can just do too much. You can oversteer the sled. Every

2:06:53 > 2:06:57time you steer the sled, you are cutting into the ice, which slows

2:06:57 > 2:07:02you down.

2:07:02 > 2:07:09you down.She nips up to tenth place.That was a good run from her.

2:07:09 > 2:07:14I'm not surprised that that is what has happened.She is only two

2:07:14 > 2:07:19hundredths lower than Loelling on that run Thomas the potential is

2:07:19 > 2:07:25there. This is where we speak about consistency and how the top sliders

2:07:25 > 2:07:29are putting consistent runs in to be in medal positions, whereas she has

2:07:29 > 2:07:35only had one good run out of three. That is why she is back where she

2:07:35 > 2:07:38is.CLARE BALDING: And all of that means that with just one run to

2:07:38 > 2:07:42come, Lizzy Yarnold is two hundredths of a second behind Janine

2:07:42 > 2:07:52Flock, the leader from Austria.

2:07:55 > 2:08:00Alex Coomber was watching that third one closely. Lizzy has moved up a

2:08:00 > 2:08:03position, but Laura is perhaps unlucky to be where she is.

2:08:07 > 2:08:11I don't think unlucky. She made one mistake, but that is what this track

2:08:11 > 2:08:15does. Make one mistake, and it will set you back. She had the fastest

2:08:15 > 2:08:20split until the very last split. If she can hold it together on that

2:08:20 > 2:08:24second run... Lizzy is not as settled as she normally is, but she

2:08:24 > 2:08:28is quite a heavy athlete and this track has a lot of other hills. She

2:08:28 > 2:08:34is ten kilos heavier than Laura and has the momentum to keep going.

2:08:34 > 2:08:37Lizzy has also got that very calm outlook. She is here to do one

2:08:37 > 2:08:42thing. She is here to be the first British winter Olympian to ever

2:08:42 > 2:08:45successfully defend a title. She doesn't mind putting pressure on

2:08:45 > 2:08:50herself and this is how she performed in the third one, moving

2:08:50 > 2:08:54from third to second position. She will go second last and if she can

2:08:54 > 2:08:58set a good time on her final one, all the pressure goes on to Janine

2:08:58 > 2:09:07Flock. But this was not smooth.Now, she took a big hit on the wall.

2:09:07 > 2:09:13Janine Flock has a much smoother line. The smoother you are, you are

2:09:13 > 2:09:16going a shorter distance. That is where you want to be. But Lizzy is

2:09:16 > 2:09:22going up and down. She's still maintaining her speed.Laura Deas

2:09:22 > 2:09:29has to be proud of what she is doing.She is phenomenal. Hopefully,

2:09:29 > 2:09:34she will do what she did yesterday. Yesterday, she didn't have a great

2:09:34 > 2:09:38first one, but she pulled together and improved on her second run. She

2:09:38 > 2:09:42will probably be cross with herself. She was thinking that she could move

2:09:42 > 2:09:50the rankings.And she was up on the clock early on.She was flying, but

2:09:50 > 2:09:57she made one mistake and slid sideways. That wiped her speed.But

2:09:57 > 2:10:00you believe that any of those top six athletes could end up with a

2:10:00 > 2:10:05medal.We have said this all along. There are just over three tenths

2:10:05 > 2:10:09between first and sixth place. You are talking about 20 centimetres

2:10:09 > 2:10:13after they have done their four miles. It is nothing and it will

2:10:13 > 2:10:18come down to the last few minutes. 12.45 is their final run to decide

2:10:18 > 2:10:22the medals. But the big news from the short track speed skating this

2:10:22 > 2:10:26morning is that there is to be no final four Elise Christie. She had a

2:10:26 > 2:10:31horrible looking fall in the semifinal of the 1500m and she

2:10:31 > 2:10:35looked in real pain afterwards. She has been taken away from the ice

2:10:35 > 2:10:40rink on a stretcher. She has been taken to hospital. She was penalised

2:10:40 > 2:10:44for this incident, so even if she had been fit and healthy, she would

2:10:44 > 2:10:47not have been allowed to escape in the final. Sarah Lindsay and Jon

2:10:47 > 2:10:51Eley are with me. You have skated with her and you are friends of

2:10:51 > 2:10:58hers. This is so hard after her fall in the final of the 1500m and after

2:10:58 > 2:11:05what happened in Sochi. This was her being taken away. Her physio is with

2:11:05 > 2:11:09her, tried to console her, but it is so upsetting.We wanted today to be

2:11:09 > 2:11:13her comeback because her first distance didn't go to plan. We all

2:11:13 > 2:11:16knew she was skating well, so to see her being stretchered off to

2:11:16 > 2:11:22hospital is heartbreaking.Jon Eley, there is a good team around her, but

2:11:22 > 2:11:27it needs to be a good medical team as well to check that she is OK

2:11:27 > 2:11:31physically as well as mentally.That is the most important thing. Forget

2:11:31 > 2:11:35about the race, let's make sure she is OK. Fingers crossed, she can

2:11:35 > 2:11:39write again, but if not, the guys around her will make sure she is

2:11:39 > 2:11:42safe.Let's head out to the Gangneung Ice Arena and get the

2:11:42 > 2:11:49latest.Really unfortunate and disturbing scenes at the Gangneung

2:11:49 > 2:11:53Ice Arena where a short while ago, Elise Christie was taken off the ice

2:11:53 > 2:11:56in a stretcher after crashing out in the 1500m semifinal. We have an

2:11:56 > 2:12:03update. She has been taken to hospital and she has gone for a

2:12:03 > 2:12:09scan. On what, we don't know. We will hopefully find out more in due

2:12:09 > 2:12:15course. From where you were sitting, how did it look?The penalty was

2:12:15 > 2:12:19right. She gave it her best shot. She came around outside of the

2:12:19 > 2:12:23Chinese skater and had a bit more speed, but was not quite past her.

2:12:23 > 2:12:27That means that when the left hand comes across to stabilise you as you

2:12:27 > 2:12:33go around the corner, she caught the Chinese girl, knocked her off

2:12:33 > 2:12:39balance. The Chinese girl falls and takes Christie with her. I was

2:12:39 > 2:12:45concerned about whether she had been cut on the right ankle. So whether

2:12:45 > 2:12:50it is broken or whether there is a cut, we don't know. I have been

2:12:50 > 2:12:56trying to contact the performance director. She has gone to hospital,

2:12:56 > 2:12:59but I have not been able to contact anybody yet. We will have to wait

2:12:59 > 2:13:05and see.We certainly hope it was nothing serious. All we know is that

2:13:05 > 2:13:11Elise Christie has gone to hospital for a scan.Fingers crossed, because

2:13:11 > 2:13:17Tuesday would be the heats for the 1000m, her favourite distance. She

2:13:17 > 2:13:24is a tough cookie, though.She is really tough and hopefully, she will

2:13:24 > 2:13:28be OK and keep us on the edge of our seats and save it all for the last

2:13:28 > 2:13:34day.Jon, in terms of the wider impact on short track speed skating

2:13:34 > 2:13:37in this country, the development programme is stretching. You need

2:13:37 > 2:13:42athletes to come into this. How important is it that we don't just

2:13:42 > 2:13:51focus on Elise Christie as the one person, because she is not the only

2:13:51 > 2:14:01one?No, we have had some great successes.

2:14:01 > 2:14:04successes. Everybody has been really interested in short track in the

2:14:04 > 2:14:07last few months. If we can continue to do that through programmes like

2:14:07 > 2:14:12Discover your goal that UK sport are running and also through our website

2:14:12 > 2:14:17with people registering their interest, people can join a club.

2:14:17 > 2:14:20South Korea is the place where short track speed skating is at its most

2:14:20 > 2:14:25popular. They have two skaters in this final of the 1500m. Let's head

2:14:25 > 2:14:27back out to join will fan Simon.

2:14:32 > 2:14:35Here is the line-up for the final and the home crowd are beside

2:14:35 > 2:14:38themselves with excitement at the possibility of Choi Minjeong or even

2:14:38 > 2:14:41Kim Alang claiming the gold medal. The South Korean president is in the

2:14:41 > 2:14:48stands in front of us, watching proceedings. Choi Minjeong, the

2:14:48 > 2:14:51overall World Cup winner, a seven time World Championship gold

2:14:51 > 2:15:01medallist, two-time overall world champion, is only 19 years old. In

2:15:01 > 2:15:06length two, Kim Alang, Olympic gold relay medallist from Sochi in 2014,

2:15:06 > 2:15:12two-time world champion in the relay as well. Imposition three, Kim

2:15:12 > 2:15:17Bhutan from Canada. 500m bronze medallist at the Olympic Games in

2:15:17 > 2:15:23Pyeongchang. Her world ranking of this event for this year is three.

2:15:23 > 2:15:30And imposition four, Petra Jaszapati, world and European silver

2:15:30 > 2:15:38medallist in the relay. Next up, the youngest in the field at 17 years of

2:15:38 > 2:15:43age. From China, Li Jinyu, a world junior bronze medallist only last

2:15:43 > 2:15:49year.

2:15:49 > 2:16:00year. And the Netherlands are represented here. Ter Mors was the

2:16:00 > 2:16:02Olympic champion in the long track speed skating and came fourth in

2:16:02 > 2:16:09Sochi.

2:16:09 > 2:16:14Arianna Fontana, the 500 metre Olympic champion, six Olympic medals

2:16:14 > 2:16:24in her career. What a line-up, and a congested looking field as well.

2:16:24 > 2:16:32This is going to be some race, I can tell you.Do you make Choi the

2:16:32 > 2:16:36favourite?Choi has to be one of the favourites. Santana has the gold

2:16:36 > 2:16:41medal, she might sit back and wait, and weight, using her explosive

2:16:41 > 2:16:46speed at the end.Using her experience here, keeping everybody

2:16:46 > 2:16:55waiting, taking her time. Getting to the line when she is ready.

2:16:55 > 2:17:03And away they go. First time of asking, 13.5 laps of the track. A

2:17:03 > 2:17:08final that we were rather hoping Elise Christie would have been

2:17:08 > 2:17:12participating in. But unfortunately, if you have just tuned in, her

2:17:12 > 2:17:16semifinal ending up in the padding on the outside of the track when she

2:17:16 > 2:17:21crashed on the final end. These seven are bracing for Olympic glory.

2:17:21 > 2:17:30Choi moves around the outside. Ter Mors in second. Kim Boutin of Canada

2:17:30 > 2:17:34in third.Choi Minjeong on the front for career. Ter Mors in second

2:17:34 > 2:17:38place. Kim Boutin of Canada in red and black moving to the front of the

2:17:38 > 2:17:44field. Choi Minjeong asserting authority. Fontana moving around on

2:17:44 > 2:17:48the outside. She wants to make sure she is at the business end of this

2:17:48 > 2:17:52all the way through. Fontana has the bit between her teeth having finally

2:17:52 > 2:17:58got that first Olympic gold medal to adds to her collection.Nine laps to

2:17:58 > 2:18:02go, it is about getting in the right place with seven skaters in the

2:18:02 > 2:18:06final, it is always difficult to come from the back when the

2:18:06 > 2:18:11challenge comes on. Choi will be looking to do that. Ter Mors moves

2:18:11 > 2:18:17into second place.Ter Mors making sure she is at the pointy end of the

2:18:17 > 2:18:21race it. Kim Boutin leads the way. Ter Mors of the Netherlands in

2:18:21 > 2:18:28three. Choi Minjeong in fourth. Her compatriot Kim Alang in five. The

2:18:28 > 2:18:41two outsiders, Li Jinyu.At the back, Fontana takes the lead now

2:18:41 > 2:18:47with just four laps to go. Boutin charging around the outside.Boutin

2:18:47 > 2:18:51wasn't going to give way. Ter Mors goes to the front for the

2:18:51 > 2:18:55Netherlands. Looking for a first Dutch gold in short track in the

2:18:55 > 2:19:00Olympics. Choi Minjeong tries to go around the outside. Choi Minjeong

2:19:00 > 2:19:05makes her move with two laps to go. Boutin on the front. Choi Minjeong

2:19:05 > 2:19:10has the speed. There is daylight now. The crowd getting really

2:19:10 > 2:19:14excited here. Choi Minjeong is one lap from the gold medal at the

2:19:14 > 2:19:19Olympic Games. Choi Minjeong sprinting away. The battle is now

2:19:19 > 2:19:23for second place. Gold for Choi Minjeong, second place in the end

2:19:23 > 2:19:29for Li Jinyu of China. Kim Boutin of Canada takes third. Its bronze for

2:19:29 > 2:19:34her. The home crowd have got what they wanted to see, gold the Choi

2:19:34 > 2:19:39Minjeong, who was the big favourite going into this race.She was

2:19:39 > 2:19:43favourite, favourite going into the 500 metres, she got the penalty, and

2:19:43 > 2:19:49now she's got the gold.Choi Minjeong didn't finish the last

2:19:49 > 2:19:53race, she didn't finish the final, but she finished this one off in

2:19:53 > 2:20:01style.The coaches there really enjoying this. 12,000 spectators in

2:20:01 > 2:20:06the arena loving every minute of this. You can see the emotion on her

2:20:06 > 2:20:10face. She can't believe it.When she made her move, what a blistering

2:20:10 > 2:20:15turn of pace she had. Nobody could live with it.This is superb

2:20:15 > 2:20:21skating, going around the outside and clearly firing on all cylinders,

2:20:21 > 2:20:29making it look so easy. Her power to weight ratio is the nominal.An

2:20:29 > 2:20:34extraordinary burst of pace, and then everybody else racing for the

2:20:34 > 2:20:39other medals, four silver, Choi Minjeong put in a race, the

2:20:39 > 2:20:4317-year-old Li Jinyu of China near the back for most of the race, she

2:20:43 > 2:20:48timed her effort well. A great victory, a dominant victory for Choi

2:20:48 > 2:20:54Minjeong. Don't forget, she was the overall World Champion at the age of

2:20:54 > 2:20:5816. She has seven world titles of various descriptions and is still

2:20:58 > 2:21:03only 19 years of age. Including, twice, overall world champion. This

2:21:03 > 2:21:09tops the lot, gold in front of a home crowd.It certainly does. Kim

2:21:09 > 2:21:16Boutin also getting a medal.A second time in these games, but Choi

2:21:16 > 2:21:21Minjeong takes the gold. Li Jinyu joiner, China and Korea utterly

2:21:21 > 2:21:27dominated this event, and this is only the fifth time it has been

2:21:27 > 2:21:32held. Korea have won three of those, five Olympic finals with China

2:21:32 > 2:21:38taking the other two. And again, Korea and China first and second.

2:21:38 > 2:21:42This time in that particular order. Boutin will be delighted with her

2:21:42 > 2:21:47second medal of the games. A second bronze medal for her. Kim Alang of

2:21:47 > 2:21:55Korea in fourth. Ter Mors of the Netherlands in fifth, and does a

2:21:55 > 2:22:10patty of hungry insects. The party starts now for the home crowd.

2:22:12 > 2:22:18-- Petra Jaszapati in sixth.

2:22:18 > 2:22:22STUDIO: A third gold of these Winter Olympics for the host nation, Choi

2:22:22 > 2:22:24Minjeong taking advantage and

2:22:24 > 2:22:24Olympics for the host nation, Choi Minjeong taking advantage and

2:22:24 > 2:22:30powering on in the last lap.She was impressive. Hugely confident. She

2:22:30 > 2:22:34sat in, she has not done any work, and used her speed at the end and

2:22:34 > 2:22:38made a massive gap. She looked really strong.The disappointment

2:22:38 > 2:22:42for everyone tuning in for the final was that Elise Christie was not

2:22:42 > 2:22:45there after a heavy fall in the semifinal. She has been taken to

2:22:45 > 2:22:52hospital and is having an x-ray. The chef de mission was at the Ice Arena

2:22:52 > 2:22:56and has been talking to David McDaid.

2:22:56 > 2:23:01I hoped to be chatting in better circumstances, but unfortunately, we

2:23:01 > 2:23:07hear that Elise has been taken to hospital. Information is obviously

2:23:07 > 2:23:11thin on the ground, do you have anything you can tell us about that?

2:23:11 > 2:23:17I was in the stand there, she has taken a heavy fall into the barrier.

2:23:17 > 2:23:20I have spoken to the performance director Stuart line, an ambulance

2:23:20 > 2:23:26has taken her to hospital. At this moment in time, we don't know what

2:23:26 > 2:23:30has happened, but she will get scans just now. That is all we know at

2:23:30 > 2:23:35this moment in time.It has been a good couple of days for Great

2:23:35 > 2:23:40Britain, getting a couple of bronze medals, but at the short track, it

2:23:40 > 2:23:44has not gone for us.At the moment, I am not bothered about medals, I am

2:23:44 > 2:23:49thinking about Elise, and hopefully, the injury is not a significant one,

2:23:49 > 2:23:53but it is a proportion that she has gone to hospital to get a scan, but

2:23:53 > 2:23:57it looked a heavy fall.I spoke to Charlotte Gilmartin, and she said

2:23:57 > 2:24:02Elise would not be on a stretcher if she was OK. All we can say is thank

2:24:02 > 2:24:05you for speaking to us, and I hope we get some good news soon.Thank

2:24:05 > 2:24:11you. STUDIO: A good reaction from Mike

2:24:11 > 2:24:15Haley, it is not about medals, it is about whether Elise Christie is OK.

2:24:15 > 2:24:19We are not getting any information yet, but we hope the scans does not

2:24:19 > 2:24:23show a break. Both mentally and physically, we hope she can recover

2:24:23 > 2:24:29from this.Fingers crossed that she will be OK. She has a few days

2:24:29 > 2:24:35before the 1000 metres. But it was a tough fall. She went in hard to the

2:24:35 > 2:24:41barrier, feet first.As you can see, she doesn't fall until the fifth

2:24:41 > 2:24:46block which means she is close to the barriers when she goes down.

2:24:46 > 2:24:49Just there, she has very diddled time to react and get herself away

2:24:49 > 2:24:54from going in feet first. In short track, that is normally the worst.

2:24:54 > 2:25:00You try to spin around to go in with your back?Yeah.Possibly that

2:25:00 > 2:25:06happened because she was trying so hard to stay on her feet. She is

2:25:06 > 2:25:09desperate to finish, trying and overtaking move to put in the top

2:25:09 > 2:25:14two, only the top two qualify for the final. She talked all about the

2:25:14 > 2:25:191500 metres being an irrelevance, and it being all about the 1000, it

2:25:19 > 2:25:24was a way of deflecting pressure. This mattered hugely to her, and

2:25:24 > 2:25:29unfortunately for Elise, you can see there, in real pain. As she was put

2:25:29 > 2:25:33onto the stretcher, both the shock of it, and huge disappointment of

2:25:33 > 2:25:38not being in the final and the pain. It can be a surreal moment in the

2:25:38 > 2:25:44Olympics and you fall. I have been there. It all flashes before your

2:25:44 > 2:25:48eyes very, very quickly. You don't quite know what has happened. You

2:25:48 > 2:25:52have got all these thoughts about where you will go in the next race.

2:25:52 > 2:25:59It very quickly hits you so hard that your day is over. It is such a

2:25:59 > 2:26:03difficult sport, this. It seems to be that when we go to

2:26:03 > 2:26:06it, something happens. Unfortunately for Elise, it nearly always involves

2:26:06 > 2:26:12her. Is it ever easier than this? The final was pretty clear there. It

2:26:12 > 2:26:15was good that it was mentioned everyone stayed on their feet. In

2:26:15 > 2:26:20the semifinal, Leigh and Troy came first and second in the final. She

2:26:20 > 2:26:24was pushing them all the way to the semifinal, sushi was in great form,

2:26:24 > 2:26:30so fingers crossed she can get back to help and get ready for Tuesday.

2:26:30 > 2:26:37But let's see how she was.Elise Christie has said the 1000 is her

2:26:37 > 2:26:41favourite event and the event she is strongest at. It is the 1000 metres

2:26:41 > 2:26:47now for the men. And this final features Elise Christie's boyfriend,

2:26:47 > 2:26:51skating for Hungary. He will be concerned about how she is. She will

2:26:51 > 2:26:55be hugely boosted if he can win a medal, he is at the back in the

2:26:55 > 2:27:01Hungarian

2:27:01 > 2:27:04Hungarian shirt and his name is Shaolin Sandor Liu.

2:27:08 > 2:27:13COMMENTATOR: Welcome back, everyone. What a final in prospect, nine laps

2:27:13 > 2:27:20ahead of these five skaters as they take to the ice. John Henry Kruger

2:27:20 > 2:27:29took his semifinal by the scruff of the neck. He hung in at the front.

2:27:29 > 2:27:36Girard was advanced to the final. Normally there are four skaters in

2:27:36 > 2:27:43the thousand metre final, six in the 1500, because of Samuel Girard being

2:27:43 > 2:27:47advanced, we have five skaters. Sometimes having five skaters in

2:27:47 > 2:27:521000 metres can make the race far more complicated, because you always

2:27:52 > 2:27:55will be attacked from behind because the fifth skater doesn't sit

2:27:55 > 2:28:04comfortably. Only nine laps, all the coaches waiting anxiously for the

2:28:04 > 2:28:10start of this race.

2:28:13 > 2:28:24The skaters about to come forward and be introduced one by one.

2:28:24 > 2:28:31John-Henry Krueger making it through to the final. He's in bonus

2:28:31 > 2:28:40territory now, having got this far. He certainly is.

2:28:40 > 2:28:46He certainly is.Next up, one of the two Koreans in the final. Seo Yira,

2:28:46 > 2:28:56the current world champion. Imposition three for this final.