BBC Two Day 12: Great Britain women in Bobsleigh action Winter Olympics

Those alive shots of the Olympic

Sliding Centre in Pyeongchang, where

we're heading sharply for the final

fourth run of the women's bobsleigh,

here is what is happened so far.

This is a good run.

Possibly seventh

place? Sixth!

place? Sixth! Kelly Humphries is

here and means business.

Pretty good

start. But I think she should be

quicker.

Elana Meyers has had a storming run.

She likes the speed at the bottom of

the track.

Can they put Kaillie -- pressure on

Kaillie Humphries. She has work to

do it she needs to win the gold

medal again.

There are real doubts

that she can get herself another

gold medal.

The first to flinch will

lose out on the medal.

She has lost a tenth already. Elana

Meyers Taylor...

Mariama Jamanka, a track record!

Elana Meyers Taylor, she's usually

very quick. She drops second, but

she's still in the mix for gold.

Kaillie Humphries takes third, just

ahead of Stephanie Schneider.

Slightly ragged, I am afraid, for

the British team, and they will

finish over a second behind, which

is not good news for Great Britain.

Leg run three is done, and from a

British point of view it was hard

not to wince in the middle of the

run, wasn't it?

It was, just that

little mistake on the exit is what

cost Mica and Mica. They will finish

eighth, which is still the best we

have finished. If she can get it

right, there are still potential for

her to keep the top eight macro.

As

the gaps open up, there is more than

0.1 ahead, with more than one point

behind two ninths.

It gives the

British a little bit of a buffer to

breathe and think, we just have to

design a decent run in, and we will

come down in minimum of eight

please.

The race at the top looks

like two for gold, and another

couple fighting over bronze.

The

gold medal is literally going to be

decided by a blink of an eye,

whoever touches first between the

Germans and the Americans, we have

seen some really good races towards

that point, so we will see. The same

for bronze, between two.

What do

athletes do between runs three and

four, because you cannot touch the

sled at all?

You have our wonder

we're you can polish it, but no

support staff can work on there.

Then what do you do, sit in the

changing rooms and cry in a corner?

Yes, get in the mindset, then it is

about rebuilding your steps, getting

through the processes and fire it

off the block for the last time.

Here we go, one more run in the

women's bobsleigh, run four. Leitner

CLARE BALDING:.

We're going to be showing...

Jamaica, the first women's bobsleigh

for them. There

for them. There we have, Mica

McNeill and make come in eighth

place. We have with us the

McNeill and make come in eighth

place. We have with us the best

women's bobsleigh in Britain, you

hope it is beating?

I do. I want the

wrecker to be broken, they can

inspire some many people.

Amy, it is

so tight between Germany and the USA

at the top?

Yes, Germany and the USA

could easily switch around, then it

is a fight for bronze medal between

Kaillie Humphries and the other

American girl, Jamie Greubel Poser.

The mentally fighting for a medal.

And Elana Meyers Taylor is an

interesting story, we will build up

to the leading bobs, but we want to

show you what has happened already

with Nigeria setting the way. Here

is John Jackson.

The final run of the day, with

Nigeria. Unfortunately for them,

that is a slow push start. They were

pretty ragged in the previous run,

number three.

Yes, and it was this

line that caused a lot of issues.

That is a lot better. I'm still

seeing mistakes, though. But she is

a novice pilots, not much

experience, and she really nailed

this. This is her best run so far,

we can still see little mistakes,

but she has done what she needed to,

and she should be happy with this.

Nigerians have been history makers

for themselves and Africa here.

Despite a slow start, that was the

third quickest time.

third quickest time. -- their third

quickest time.

She tidied it up, it

was a lot better than the previous

runs, even with the previous runs.

It shows that they can get it right.

A bit of a mistake, her hands

slipped on the start, which is why

it could have dropped off, just

because there was not enough

purchase at the top. A little

mistake. Again we have seen top

pilots doing that. Letter lying

round the corner, she had a bang on

that as she came round the left.

This was almost perfect, but it is

better to take the nudge on one wall

and taking two taps. There are

really happy with it, and they

should be.

should be.

Are pretty torrid week

for the Jamaican

for the Jamaican peer, Carrie

Russell and Jazmine

Fenlator-Victorian, they can finish

with a smile, 30 years after the

movie Cool Runnings. Jazmine

Fenlator-Victorian wants Jamaicans

to look back and say we remember

that they in South Korea, when the

Jamaican flag was flown with honour.

The previous three runs have not

been great.

Again, little mistakes.

She should not be making these type

of mistakes, she is a quality pilot.

She has won medals for the US.

She has won medals for the US. A

little bit low, but maybe that works

for her. These athletes should be

really pleased with the bottom time,

maybe not so much, but with the

lines, they should be saying, yes I

nailed that one.

nailed that one.

The second quickest

time of the games. So, they end with

a flourish. -- the second quickest

time.

Not a bad run, little

mistakes. Different points of the

track, but a lot better run than

what she has done over the last

three, so they should be pleased.

You can see the crowd is paying

them. Everyone likes the Jamaican

bobsleigh story as a whole, and

there has been a lot of drama going

on with the team this week, but she

has four runs in, she has made

history, she should be really proud,

they should be really proud of what

they have achieved.

they have achieved.

Great to see

Nigeria and Jamaica finishing. They

were the first two teams going down

the track, and going in reverse

order. We will pick it up now live,

remember the Great Britain pair of

Misha McNeill and -- Mica McNeill

and become your are going to finish

in the best ever place for women's

bobsleigh. We have Germany for

hundreds of a second against Elana

Meyers Taylor of the US. It was

similar in the men's final run, and

that finished in a dead heat.

Letters headgear now, John Jackson

and John Hunt in the commentary box.

-- let us headgear now.

Romania in 15th place at the moment.

We have Maria Adela Constantin and

Andreea Grecu. They have consistent

times, but not quick enough to

trouble the top ten this time

around. Are really a likeable

couple, they are very capable

pilots.

Yes, and they have shown it

with their runs. There have not been

many mistakes from Maria, in the

front. They have shown their

quality, they just maybe have not

got the equipment on the bottom of

the bobsleigh. Just a little

mistakes. She needed to steer out

earlier to come out the street in

the middle. We have only seen a few

mistakes from her. She has really

good lines. You can hardly hear it

stealing.

stealing. Cash steering. She has not

made many mistakes.

Not quick enough to go past the

Belgians.

I am sure you understand the format,

this leaderboard will change every

run, as we are going slowest to

quickest, and this run will end with

a gold medal for either Germany or

the United States of America. Elana

Meyers

Meyers Taylor and Mariama Jamanka

are the favourites. But it is not

necessarily a two horse race.

Is

definitely not. It is going to be

exciting and become to the last

five, who are all in the mix for the

medals.

Next,

medals.

Next, Germany, Anna Koehler

and Erline Nolte. Again, it is a

slow time, not enabling them to mix

it with the real powerful teams here

at these Olympic Games.

Yes, you

would not normally expect the

Germans to be this far back on the

start, maybe they have not quite got

the in-depth athletes. May be just

too aggressive and corner seven. To

active on the steering.

active on the steering. Maybe she

has enough to stay in front of the

Belgians. Cleaner lines. But she is

losing time and I don't think she

will have enough to stay in front.

Watch the time, green at the moment,

but goes red right in the last 20

metres.

I'm surprised at that, because they

seemed to find speed at the bottom

of the track, but they have just

fallen behind, they had a really

clean run, just over driving. Here

is a great view. It was here, you

see how quickly it changes

direction. By then she has scrubbed

her speedway. That is their head

coach on their T-shirt!

Next, the disappointing Russian

pairing.

pairing. This is their best as I

gave up and Anna stay

-- Mrs Nadezhda Sergeeva and

Anastasia Kocherzhova. They have

dropped to eighth place last year, a

disaster, they crashed in Sochi and

finished in 16th. This is looking

like a second consecutive

disappointing games for Sergeeva.

It

it's -- it is, and the Russian

programme have not had the result

they wanted in this programme. You

can see how impressive she had to be

determined that, that speed that she

has got to have at the moment could

all disappear. It started to slip

away now. She gets this next corner

right, she makes another mistake,

these could still drop off. She will

do well to lose all of that. We have

seeded up the hill through the speed

trap.

That last 300 metres or so is

all uphill, a 12% climb to the line,

she only just clings on the head of

the Belgium. So Sergeeva moves to

the head of the field but that

leaderboard constantly moving,

constantly changing. Sergeeva will

be nowhere near the lead when we

conclude this magnificent and

compelling event in under half an

hour.

You can see from that threat

coming down alone how much these

mistakes can cost. This mistake

here, it cost her over four tenths

of a second, almost half a second in

that run. You cannot make mistakes

like this. If you see leaders make

this, the others will.

Well, it's

been a great event for the Koreans,

the men's skeleton one. I'm sure

many of you were with us for that

extraordinary achievement. Here, Kim

and Kim, Minseong and Yooran, no

relation. They cannot expect to get

near that kind of achievement but

they will hope against hope they can

go quickly once again. There is

general times have been OK, they

operate very efficiently down this

track. I bet you they go as standard

5.62, 5.6 three. They are slightly

slower, their slowest start at this

games.

We are seeing the red time go

a little up, that will be costly

mistake if they want to stay ahead

of the Russians. This time she now

grow. Because they have both made

the same mistakes. It's whether they

can drive the track better than the

Russians, because they should know

it well enough, they have had

hundreds of runs down here to find

the perfect line. That's one of the

best we have seen through there. Now

they should start to accelerate and

hold back against the Russians, or

is she going to be behind at the

end? The Russian team lost a lot of

time at this point.

Coming up to the

finish. Kim will finish well away

from Sergeeva. She has knocked in a

time of 51.55, which is slow, again,

slowest so far. These early athletes

going in the forefront, they are

well off the pace in terms of medals

but they are all going slower than

the third heat.

Yes, what you'll see

with this team in particular, they

made a mistake in bend two to three

which is costly. That's the first

time they've done that. She's going

to be slower because of that mistake

that we would just about to see but

we cut away from it. She did not

have the speed in the sled or the

bottom of the sled to catch the

Russians. Another couple of hundred

metres as you would have been

walking in.

walking in.

Happy smiles all round.

Less so perhaps from the Russians.

Sergeeva in front at the moment.

Next we have FG -- Willemsen, ranked

number 11, going for a top-10 place.

That top-10 position remains between

herself and the Austrian, Hengster,

who is next. Notoriously moderate

starters. That start is not

particularly good even by their

standards.

She is a great driver so

we shouldn't see too many mistakes.

That's one of the reasons why it

she's had so many good results in

the past, they've had great

equipment, great driving and she's

managed to drive her way back

throughout the rest of the World

Cup. But she's not able to do that

any more because everyone else has

upped their game at their man so her

advantage has gone. She has an

efficient start, you can see her

quality as a pilot. This is good as

any of the top pilots. She had the

same start as then, she would be in

the medal hunt.

She will be surging

to bleed assuming no disasters. --

surging into the lead. That's her

third quickest of the Olympic Games.

She went a lot quicker in runs one

and three so the time is dropping.

Is this track deteriorating?

It is.

They will have done a little bit of

work between runs to patch up any

bits that needed it, but as a whole,

they've had 20 runs now, from all

the sled is, they're into another

ten. Having 30 runs on this track,

they are cutting up the ice and it

makes the track a little bit slower.

It might only been

It might only been tenths or two

tenths but you can see that in the

time sheet.

No macro leading at the

moment, all change for sure as we

move into the same -- top ten.

move into the same -- top ten. Mica

McNeill and Mica Moore to come in

three athletes, behind the Austrians

and persist in the running orders

for the medals. -- the Swifts. The

Austrians next, Christina Hengster

and Valerie Kleiser, fifth in the

World Championship. 15th in the

Olympic Games in Sochi. That

illustrates their up and down status

within the world of women's

bobsleigh, what kind of start, make?

That has put them slightly up

against it, that start.

We saw how

much ice was kicked up at the back

of the sled there, that was a big

mistake. If this Austrian team

wanted to move up against Willemsen,

that was not the corner to have. We

have to see perfection at this point

but I don't think it will be good

enough. Not to pull back up on the

Belgian team who are in the lead at

the moment. She is starting to pull

it back but has she got enough?

This

is for the honour of a top-10

position at the big games. Will it

be the Austrian or the Belgian? They

did pull it back. After that early

mistake. That was a huge skid down

through three. They go into the

lead, Sergeeva with the lead. --

Hengster with the lead. Nine more

teams to go.

She needed to put a big

run into move herself forward to

that top eight position but that

mistake in corner to- three is going

to be costly. The replays don't seem

to want to show all of the action

that we need to speak about. You can

see the difference between the

Belgian and the Austrian, the

Austrian has taken a bit of a wavy

line, she could have found a bit

more speed. She was free out where

the Belgian was a lot flatter. She

might have had to force the line to

get that and scrub off a little bit

of speed doing so.

Their fairly

moderate run was good news for the

British team who are shortly. Next

for Switzerland, currently sitting

in ninth place, Sabina Hafner, about

to go. The world mother nine.

Together with a whole red salmon. --

with Rahal wrapped seven.

They could well slip off their best

time, 50.86, by some way. We will

have to watch with interest as it

will have a bearing on the British

team X.

She is a quality pilot.

She's been out of the front seat for

quite a few years, as she

transferred off the skeleton. She's

got enough to stay in hand in front

of the Belgians, sorry, the

Austrians. All these little

mistakes, will they be costly if she

wants to move in front of the

British pair?

51 point 21, the

slowest runner of the four, and that

could help keep McNeill and more in

eighth place, who are next. They

have a golden opportunity now to

register the best ever performance

in the British team in the two-man

bob in the deliberate games. --

Olympic Games. A big moment coming

up for Mica and Mica.

You can see

the relief in her face, thank you,

this is over! I can now relax. Big

smile on her face. Pressure is off.

It's been quite a story, hasn't it?

For these two young stars on the

British team. Mica McNeill, Mica

Moore, starting off in eighth place.

You're going to get a direct

comparison as we go on this run

between themselves and the Swiss

team who had just gone, Hafner and

Rebsamen. And if they can hold them

at bay, a little bit of history can

come their way. There was a slight

disappointment after their third

run, at a time, it was

disappointing, it was the 11th

quickest. We know they're better

than that and run number three. Good

luck to them here. Mica McNeill and

Mica Moore, if they can get anywhere

near 5.50 as a start it would give

them a good opportunity and then it

all about avoiding mistakes. Not

great, not terrible.

This is where

Mica needs to be clean. And that

could cost her, not as bad as other

sleds but that two tenths might

start to drop off from that hit.

Mica has been perfect on this track,

other than a little mistake on the

last run. She needs to dial into the

track, get this right and you can

keep top eight. That's good, but has

she got enough speed left in the

track? She has been good at this

point in the track all the way down.

She's starting to pull away, this is

the run that she needs to get the

best results for Britain at the

lipid games.

Nobody has ever been

eighth in the Olympics games but

these do have claimed that position.

Nicola Minichiello in 2006 was a

fabulous nights. But the British

pairing go one better at least. What

a games for the pair who are only

here because of the generosity of

the British public. Their funding

completely slashed last year. They

asked, they put the begging bowl out

will stop and they got enough money

to keep them on the road and in

business. Their heads never dropped.

And now they have secured a little

slice of sporting history for Great

Britain.

Just bear in mind, for

anyone watching at home, they have

not had any on this track at all,

this is their 14th run on the track

and may have finished top eight in

the world.

What a great result. Can

it get a little bit better? You

would have thought it was unlikely.

For Canada next, Christine De Bruin

and Melissa Lotholz start with a

very healthy advantage over the

British pair. You'll see the gap

remained quite big to get a first

comparison with the British team.

Let's see if the Canadian pair can

hold it together. What a mistake.

That was worse than the British lead

so this could be the opportunity.

Watch the clock now, it will start

ticking away. We need to keep an eye

on that. She made another little

mistakes. If she's not clean through

this point here, she gets that

perfect. Is it enough for the

British to start pulling them back?

She's not quite as clean through

here. The British have been quick

and she's pulling away.

Very untidy,

though. Untidy round 16 as well.

They just hold the British team at

bay.

It got interesting, little bit, that

was a little scrappy.

The worst run

of bit four.

of bit four.

That run from Mica

McNeill was absolutely amazing, but

now the different class. And the

funding that they have no makes a

difference. That big mistake, you

can see how much it slides around,

and she's just out-of-control at

three.

Beheld the big advantage from the

start, even though they lost it a

bit.

Canada, Alysia Rissling. And we say

farewell to

farewell to one of the big names,

Heather Moyse. With Kaillie

Humphries, they had two gold medals

together.

She has been one of the

class athletes in the sport for many

years, she have retired and then

came back because Alysia Rissling,

the pilot, Astra two, so she could

push her at the Olympic Games. She

has done a great job, and they have

worked well together. I thought they

would have been higher up the field.

Me coming at you and me, could

improve please hear. Maybe not.

I

think they are going to hold on.

Yes, it looks that way.

It looks as though it will be eighth

place.

place. Alysia Rissling has her

career ahead of her, but Heather

Moyse possibly says goodbye. A

brilliant rugby player, a pretty

good cyclist as well, and what a

career she has had in bobsleigh is

well.

Definitely, and it is always

great to see the top athletes coming

out and helping the youngsters,

giving themselves a bit of

confidence. The transition between

two and three was tight.

Be moved to the top five. Next,

Germany, Stephanie Schneider and

Annika Drazek. They had a pretty

poor third run. Both carrying a

little injury. One and ankle and had

-- one has an ankle injury.

She had some bandaging, so something

may be uneasy.

may be uneasy. Not as perfect as the

top pilots coming next will do at

that bend. But she has good speed at

the bottom.

the bottom. She is putting the

pressure on.

pressure on.

Stephanie Schneider is

confirmed as fifth at the worst. The

coaches seem to be feeling the

pressure. Mariama Jamanka still to

come.

When we look at consistency,

that is what you need to do. Maybe

her second run was the one that let

her down when she made some mistakes

yesterday. Maybe pulled her out of

medal contention. But she has just

added pressure. That is the first

heat under 51 seconds. That is the

bomb that might cost her. The

coaches are almost shouting her down

the track. -- that is the bump that

might cost her.

Two for the United

States.

States. It is Jamie Greubel Poser

and Aja Evans. Jamie Greubel Poser

was gold medallist in such. She

finished run three ahead of

Stephanie Schneider by a tenth of a

second. If she can go ahead of the

German, she will be forth at worst,

with three still to come. One of the

many battles within a battle. The

race for a bronze medal. Jamie

Greubel Poser under way. Capable of

a 5.30 start.

a 5.30 start. This peer won a bronze

medal in such a macro.

The know-how

to -- this pair won a bronze medal

in sort Cheek. They know how to get

it right. Like the

it right. Like the German,...

Remember, this is for guaranteed

fourth place. It is Stephanie

Schneider who holds on! Jamie

Greubel Poser drops back. She is

second at the moment, and likely to

finish fifth. Just like her husband,

Christian Poser, in the men's event,

it looks like it is going to be

disappointment.

disappointment.

Overall, you look at

the run and you think, how has she

just lost the speed? Maybe just over

driving, the same mistake as the

Germans. The lines are almost

identical. You do not see much in it

at all. That is the difference at

the bottom. I was not expecting

that.

that.

Now the great Kaillie

Humphries. In the bronze medal

position at the moment. After the

third run, she had a lead of 15

hundredths over Stephanie Schneider,

who is currently third. Kaillie

Humphries, gold in Vancouver and

gold in Sochi.

gold in Sochi. There is a medal for

her here if she is clean and fast.

They have all started here in the

30s. It is just about no one who has

the bottle to hold it. The Germans

are in the driving seat at the

minute, but Kaillie Humphries has

the experience, she is the most

experienced in the field, double

Olympic champion.

Olympic champion. But she has not

been as fast as the others in the

bottom half of the track. She's

going to have to do more. Will she

hold on?

hold on?

Double gold medallist,

guaranteed bronze medal at least

here! Kaillie Humphries, one of the

greats, will be on the podium again,

as wilfully see George, who was a

fantastic sprinter in her time, and

has said she has not given up on her

athletics career. They both have a

medal together. She would have loved

another gold medal, which may not

happen, but a bronze at least for

one of the greats of women's

bobsleigh.

That was almost perfect.

No really big mistakes, but you

would expect that from a pilot of

her calibre. Everything that she did

there was because she needed to get

down and could find the speed in the

track.

track.

After two days of

competition, after four Keats, the

Germans wait in the wings, and it is

the focus on the United States of

America, and Elana Meyers Taylor and

Lauren Gibbs. Elana Meyers Taylor

has won everything, world titles,

World Championships, Olympic bronze,

Olympic silver. There is one honour

missing from her resume, and that is

Olympic gold. She is usually

electric.

She has achieved a fast time again.

She just needs to drive this likely

now she can. She needs to make sure.

Absolutely perfect. Enough speed to

get the silver.

get the silver.

And huge advantage

over Kaillie Humphries, a silver

medal guaranteed for Elana Meyers

Taylor. Will it be enough? We will

know the answer to that in three

minutes. Huge success and an

outpouring of emotion for her, who

has done so much for the United

States, so much for women's sport.

Loring Gibbs also now has a medal.

Emotional outpouring, having just

won a silver medal again. She was

great in Vancouver for a bronze, and

picked up silver behind Kaillie

Humphries.

Humphries. -- four years ago, and

here it is silver again.

Four years

ago she had the gold medal winning

run and blew it by making cement

mistakes. But that run was perfect.

-- by making so many mistakes.

The

German pilot is 27-year-old Mariama

Jamanka.

Jamanka. Will she realise the dream

of them all with an Olympic gold

medal?

It will be America or Germany, and

we will now in less than 50 seconds.

There was a deficit at the start.

It

should drop away at the next clock.

The German pilot has been the most

consistent, and is fast at the

bottom.

Germany are the winners!

She picked up gold for Germany in

the 2006 games, and they win again,

and I do not think Mariama Jamanka

can believe it. And the skip appears

to be in tears. Amazing scenes for

Germany. I think the shock of it has

hit them.

It certainly has, this is

what the German programme needed.

Four years ago, they got no medals

at all, which is unheard of. But

they came out fighting, they got

gold in the men's bobsleigh and now

in this as well. This is how you

come back. That run was perfect,

flawless, better than any others.

That is why she is Olympic champion.

She would have known she was behind

Elana Meyers Taylor at the start.

That is a very cool head. That is

the pressure they have to put up

with because once the breaker has

done their job and pushed it, it is

then down to the pilot. That was

just pure pressure all the way.

It was her against the track. She

was not worried about anyone else,

it was just getting the exit right,

two, four, nine, and she nailed

every single one of them on every

run.

Mariama Jamanka, an ex-Hammer

thrower, has just thrown the world

of women's bobsleigh on its head.

It's confirmed that they have won

the gold medal by seven hundredths

of a second. Great scenes

afterwards. A great rapport there

seems to be between all of these

teams.

There is. The sliding

community is one big family. They

seem surprised because they probably

won't one of the medal favourites

coming into this. Maybe an outside

chance of top six but it shows what

potential this German programme has.

To illustrate what a great driver

and pilot Jamanka is, it's worth

noting that looking at start times

alone, as we see Kaillie Humphries

again with her bronze medal, starts

times alone, she had a massive gap

to pull back every time with Meyers

Taylor but every time she did it.

She certainly did. That's down to

her quality in the front seat as a

driver doing the job. If she had had

the same starts as Meyers Taylor, it

would be half a second between gold

and silver. It's thrown up something

else which we didn't expect at the

start, and that's one of the

outsiders winning the medal.

Jamanka

wins gold. Meyers Taylor, Silver

medal, her second, and Kaillie

Humphries, the great from Canada,

has got the bronze. Germany and the

USA next. And confirmation of the

wonderful record position for the

great British team in eighth place,

well done Misha Taylor and Mika

McNeill, wonderful stuff for Great

Britain.

STUDIO: and Germany so strong in the

sliding events, they have won three

gold medals in luge and two in

bobsleigh, and for the great quiche

pair of Mica and Mica, -- the great

British pair of Mica and Mica, how

would they have done if they had the

best kit?

I'm standing in front of the best

women's bobsleigh team that Great

Britain has ever produced.

It feels

amazing, where so happy. Just wanted

to enjoy the experience because it

is our first games and we've come

away with eighth. It's more than we

have hoped for and were so happy.

Will you happy with the performances

today?

Yes, there's things I'm

always picky with but we said we'd

like a single figure is old and

we've done that.

-- single figure

result. I wasn't comfortable

yesterday in my driving and I had a

couple of mistakes but we have to be

happy with that. It feels amazing.

I

think she's done amazing.

Nicola

Minichiello sends her best, in the

studio, you have gone toe to toe

with some of the best programmes and

you have funded yourself.

It feels

amazing, five months ago we didn't

even know if we would be here. To

get here is an achievement in itself

and we have loved every minute of it

and we want to say thank you to

everyone who has supported us, and

our family and friends. It's been a

credible.

It's been a crazy few

months and this has been the cherry

on top, we enjoyed it so much.

Has

anyone in British Bob Lay said,

we're sorry, we've got this wrong,

we are glad you're here.

They can't

fully say anything like that, they

made that decision and then new

people come in and they have to

stick by it. We will be back in four

years' time, and you will see us in

amongst it.

Will it be an

interesting conversation with the

performance director around funding

between now and Beijing 2022?

I like

to think so, I really hope we don't

have to ask people, we don't have to

be powered by the people any more,

as great as it's being, we want them

to be able to just watch out and

enjoy it and not have to help us

again.

I think you deserve that and

I'm sure everyone at home is wishing

you all the best between now and

Beijing. Well done again.

Thank you,

hello Nicola!

She's waving back.

hello Nicola!

She's waving back. What is your

reaction to their performance over

the four runs?

Absolutely amazing.

We're going to see this changing

around, Jamanka is new in two

driving, but the American and

Canadian will retire and this is the

new generation. Mica has got a good

sled but it's not impaired to the

Germans. Not amazing. The start is

solid but another four years of

training, she will be right up

there.

It's really exciting for the

future of women's bobsleigh, that

performance is going to make

everybody think, hang on, this is

worth investing in, we can jump an

awfully long way. We can get a medal

in this.

If she can perform that

well on a track that she doesn't

know and she doesn't have any runs

on, it's six runs, we are good at

learning tracks very fast because we

don't have a home one. Add on for

years of training in the gym all

summer long, get more knowledge on

ice and better equipment, and who

knows where we could be in four

years, they are going to be medal

contenders.

And not having to worry

about funding would make a big

difference. It takes up a lot of

headspace as well as energy to raise

funds.

This is why UK sport invest

in support networks because it's not

ideal for an athlete to be able to

think, how may go to get down the

track, and start well, and pay for

my, nation? How do I pay for the

flight? Where is the money coming

from? It's a constant daily battle

and that's not something they need

in their head at this point.

Given

them what they've been through,

given the lack of experience on the

track, how highly do you rate that

performance in finishing eighth?

If

she had had a slightly more

competitive sled and 500th on the

start, they would have won.

Literally, one hundredths Foster on

the top, three hundredths on the

bottom. Their differential works out

on 1300, but in the BMW sleds which

are worth a few, they would have

been right up there, no question.

If

you were now in charge between now

and Beijing, if you want them to be

a gold medal potential team, what

you do with them?

You keep them

focused and training, you give them

the confidence. You've always got to

be looking at technology to see

where it can improve and I'm sure

the British programme are going to

be tracking down the BMW, how do

they improve the equipment? Get the

more athletic and in the gym, really

working for that power. Anything is

possible.

We will talk about Jamanka

winning the gold but let's analyse

this final run for Mica McNeill and

Mica Moore, and where you saw the

strength and where you said, this

could be better.

The start, it was solid, the time

was not amazing but the velocity,

and you seek Mica, she loads in. All

of that energy and weight is going

forward and pushing the sled.

Already at this first two or three

corners, she's pulling away. She

comes through, there was a small

mistake there but it was not a skid.

It's nice, smooth, it just looks

smooth. This is a really technical

track and the lines are really good,

solid lines, she let it has been

billed compared to the third one.

You can it's nice.

I think it's her

confidence building, the more she

slides, she will come away from the

games and go home, they will review

everything and review what's

happened and this confidence of the

eighth place is going to be able to

build upon in the summer to be able

to get to the plush track and train

hard in the gym. And come out

fighting. She has now got her sights

aimed and she knows what she can

achieve. Loads of people are

retiring after the games, every

single cycle so there will be more

of an empty hole should we say, for

the results. And confidence is a

huge thing. Once you're confident,

your performance increases so much

more. That big push and confidence

and that pat on the back, knowing

that this is what you could achieve

off so little runs

that this is what you could achieve

off so little runs and of not as

much ice time.

They are going to

regret the third run, you could hear

that in the interview. Lying in

sixth place overnight, down to

eighth and then holding the position

was great. Perhaps not surprising

because you spent all night thinking

what might be and getting a little

bit too excited.

It's human nature.

You hope that you're going to focus

on the process. You hope you're

going to not let any of those

messages or any of those dreams

coming to a head. But it's human

nature

nature you to get carried away, we

all got a little carried away.

Let's

talk about Germany, they have done

the double sharing the gold medal in

the men's Bob. When you look at this

kit, powered by a very great

pressure and pilot, when you look at

the sled, can you already see to the

naked eye, do you say, that is a bit

of kit?

It's impressive looking, it has the

point like the BMW but most of the

technology is inside. It's about the

frame and the suspension, how they

can make sure that as the sled comes

on and off the corner, there is no

loss of speed. Last year they had a

shocker, they had huge issues, they

had a huge failure of the programme,

they had no medals. These are new

pilots, new athlete and new sleds

and they have put it together and

won both.

So if Mica McNeill was

piloting this bob, what would she be

capable of?

These are the first

times we have seen these sleds, the

BMW, we talk to or three tenths. How

this compares, it will take times to

get the stats.

Amazing for Jamanka

to hold on, to hold on and feel the

pressure knowing that the Americans

set a great time and she still went

faster.

This is her first Olympics,

she has been driving less than four

years. She was a huge question going

in in terms of experience. And going

into it going into the gold medal

position, huge nerves so it's a

testament to her and the team around

her.

We have seen plenty of people

not holding on.

Yes, because this is

a sport where your brain is in

overdrive, especially if you know

you're in the gold medal position

but you have two empty your thoughts

completely out and then get into the

bob, do the biggest push and

concentrate on each corner, what

you're driving and which skills you

have on each corner to get through

whilst not telling that the tall man

in your head saying, but you could

win gold and do this. You have got

to tell them to be quiet and

concentrate, gets down and do this

process goals.

For Elana Meyers

Taylor, another silver medal but I

don't think she will regret this

like she would in Sochi, she skidded

all over the place and she said, I

would never forget that, and if I

ever won gold, I will appreciate it

so much more. This one was fair

enough, four good runs.

In Sochi, she lost the gold medal.

She had the potential and she had a

shocker. These four, considering

she's not renowned as the best

driver in the world, probably her

best for ever. -- four ever. She

will have the start and the

equipment but the driver was solid

today and I think the silver medal

is deserved.

In the studio here, as

Mica McNeill and Mica Moore

confirmed eighth, you would expect

people to be quiet if your record

was taken but you were thrilled for

them?

I am because Mica has had a

hard battle. Throughout her career,

she's had so many challenges and

doubters to overcome. Last September

she was in bits when she was told

that she wasn't good enough. It was

not just told, we're not going to

find you, but as an individual, as a

female, you're told you're not good

enough to go out there and she had

proved everyone wrong but I couldn't

be more proud.

It was a delight to

share it with you. Four-man bob

coming up next, what's the Newsweek

training? We have two British there.

We are 19th, 17th and 18th, they are

all learning. They are the four guys

trying to push together and sink in.

I got some info from out there and

he said one is playing around, it

stay one, then mixing things up and

testing things up.

At ago from the

training rain. Saturday and Sunday,

those are the last sliding events

for Britain. This is the best ever

finish for the British women.

If you were watching earlier, we saw

the semifinals of the team

competitions in speed skating, so

not short track, but speed skating,

clean lines and beautiful and the

team in particular really thrilling

to watch as they streamline in

behind each other. The final was

between the dominant Dutch and

Japan, this is for the women. And

among that Netherlands team was

Irene, looking for a sixth gold

medal. Let's see if she can succeed

in that quest. After we have seen

who took the bronze medal will stop

this was between Canada and the USA.

And North American line-up in the

bronze medal race your. The women's

team pursuit.

team pursuit. USA represented by

Heather Bergsma,

we can see the Canadian trio looking

good. A small slip by Josie Morrison

in second place. That will cost the

Canadians valuable time.

Heather Bergsma at the front for the

Americans.

That slip for the

Canadians has cost them. Over two

seconds now. Canada very much on the

back foot here in the early stages.

Canada have world champions in the

line-up. Heather Bergsma, the 500

metres champion. Brittany Bowe, the

2015 champion.

Brittany Bowe is

looking very comfortable, and the

gap is getting bigger and bigger.

It

is enormous, only three seconds

within the final three laps, and it

is hard to see how Canada will pull

this back and secure a bronze medal.

Isabelle Weidemann on the front. You

can see the United States hurtling

around the track.

around the track. Mia Manganello in

the front, and a hand being placed

on the hep of her, just a steadying

hand. But they are working well as a

team, the United States. In second

place, Brittany Bowe giving the

assist.

It is all about the third

time. Weak link in the trio is the

leading skater. You can see the hand

pushing on the left leg.

The United

States are going to win this by some

considerable distance.

considerable distance. Ivanie

Blondin, the strongest for the

Canadians. Yes, the United States

flying around here.

They can hardly put 1's gate in

front of the other, really close at

the end, less than half a second and

it. It looked as if Mia Manganello

was cramping up at the end. She

could hardly move.

The lactic acid

is so high at the end of such a

race. You cannot sit down and

maintain the skating position. The

Americans are delighted.

What

happened towards the end, did they

tire badly? Look at Mia Manganello

at the front, she can hardly use her

legs.

She almost falls down and sits

on her backside. It is about the

third skater. Sodhi try to go across

equally to get the clock.

equally to get the clock. That is

the reserves athlete that skated in

the previous round, so hopefully she

will get a medal as well.

Mia

Manganello was in excruciating pain

in the final metres! But the United

States take the bronze medal ahead

of Canada.

of Canada. The Olympic women's team

pursuit final is under way. The

Netherlands against Japan. And it

promises to be a competitive final.

On the front for Japan, Miho Takagi.

In the front for the Netherlands,

Ireen Wust.

Will the fresh legs of Marrit

Leenstra make the difference?

Leenstra make the difference? Japan

are looking at putting a bit of

psychological pressure on early

here.

here.

Nevitt is Ayano Sato at the

front.

Marrit Leenstra is more of a

sprinter, she is better that the

1000 and 1500 metres. This is where

the Dutch will make the difference.

The Netherlands are now starting to

turn the screw and turn the tables

and forge ahead. It is the blink of

an eye, nothing between them.

an eye, nothing between them.

We

will see the difference here, the

Dutch are pushing ahead.

What an athlete to put in front in

the closing stages, Ireen Wust.

Ireen Wust, already ten Olympic

medals, she is the most decorated

speed skater of all time. They are

going to have to dig deep here.

Japan have put on a sprint! They

have opened up a lead of half a

second! This is remarkable.

Ireen

Wust is struggling. The Japanese

look like they are on to gold.

The

wheels are coming off for the

Netherlands. Japan are about to

glide their way to the gold medal.

Your wiggle. Towards the line! Japan

take it, and it is an Olympic record

time. Bale and an advantage of over

one second and a half over the great

Ireen Wust and the Netherlands

line-up. The Dutch have been beaten

into second place. The celebrations

start for Japan. What a race. They

started quickly and finished even

faster.

faster. The Dutch coach moved to

Japan, and he has shown it is not

just about the skaters who have come

from Holland, it is about the

coaching. The look on their faces

tell you what you need to know. They

did not come here for a silver

medal. It is not what they were

after at all. Japan emerge

victorious.

victorious.

We have been seeing the

Dutch really dominating this

distance in the last few years.

Lotte Van Beek was the fourth member

of the team, but there was nothing

she could do.

she could do. Ter Mors was great for

the Netherlands, might it have been

better if she had been part of the

team?

If she had completed in the

1500 metres, a lot of people say

that Ireen Wust would not have won

gold.

The Dutch tend to dominate

this sport, but Japan are obviously

very good at this discipline. How

much of an upset is it, coming here,

or were they carrying equal

favourite status?

Last year they

were second at the World

Championships, they would only four

tenths of a second slower than the

Dutch team, and the coach has been

working with the team for the last

four years to get this fabulous

Olympic gold.

CLARE BALDING:.

CLARE BALDING:. 11 medals overall,

which is their best ever. Ireen Wust

can be consoled by the fact it is

her 11th Olympic gold medal --

Winter Olympics medal. The Dutch men

were in the bronze medal race,

against New Zealand. We will see

that shortly, then we will see the

hosts South Korea in the final

against Norway. Hazel Irvine will be

taking over after this. I will see

you later tonight, but here is why

-- Wilf O'Reilly and Simon

Brotherton.

The race for bronze is under way.

Sven Kramer powering his way.

Sven Kramer powering his way. The

Dutch and against New Zealand, who

are silver medallists from the World

Championship last year. Have they

got a big last effort inside their

legs in this Olympic Games that can

carry them to a medal?

It will be

interesting to see if the Dutch

change their tactics. Kramer is in

the front. In the first round I

believe he stayed on the front a lot

longer.

Jan Blokhuijsen is leading

from the Dutch. They have a second

upper New Zealand. This is an eighth

lap race.

There are quite a way

ahead.

ahead.

The number one skater for New

Zealand, Shane Dobbin, does not race

at the front. The other two always

take the wind.

At the end you will

see the skaters putting their hand

on the backside of the skater in

front of them, giving them

assistance. The one at the front is

catching all the wind resistance,

and the Dutch are no one and a half

seconds in front of New Zealand.

The Dutch are still smarting after

not getting into the final, no

doubt. There were other options that

could have taken for the squad.

Jorrit Bergsma was the main one,

which they decided not to take.

Nearly two seconds. It is a big ask,

but we saw Canada comeback in the

women's race and make it really

interesting up to the line.

They have had about 1.5 hours rest,

so it is also about the recovery.

This is Sven Kramer in the front, he

has eight Olympic medals to his

name. He's looking to add to that.

He is the most decorated male speed

skater of all time.

Jan Blokhuijsen

goes to the front.

This is looking tough for New

Zealand. Peter Michael is working

hard but they look tired.

hard but they look tired.

It would

appear that the Dutch will be taking

the bronze medal.

the bronze medal.

The Netherlands

are 400 metres away from continuing

the record of claiming the medal

every time -- every time in this

event in the Olympic Games.

event in the Olympic Games. It has

proved to be a race too far for New

Zealand.

Zealand. Sven Kramer is the main man

in the team, ensuring all skaters

crossed the line together.

It's quite awake for New Zealand to

come over the line. Disappointing

fourth place. The Dutch take the

bronze. Had New Zealand managed to

claim it, it would only have been

their second ever medal at the

Winter Games. They

their second ever medal at the

Winter Games. They came close but in

the end, just ran out of gas after

that earlier efforts this evening.

So the Netherlands claiming the

first of the medals in the men's

team pursuit.

There's been much talk

about after Sochi, the Dutch were

way too strong in this. But clearly

coming into these games, they wear

the red-hot favourites, but they

have not performed to the level they

have performed at previous games.

Cramer looking very comfortable in

second place. Disappointment for

him. Jan Blokhuijsen, just being

congratulated by the coach, who was

actually ill the first couple of

days and was not able to be on the

eyes.

They will still be

disappointed, though? Definitely.

Norway, bronze medallists in the

World Championships last year up

against the hosts, Korea.

This is the same line-up as in the

semifinal earlier today. Korea won

the silver medal in Sochi, can they

go one better here at home in 2018?

The crowd just about managing to

contain their excitement. Quiet for

the start.

Eight lamps to glory, the race is

on. Korea against Norway.

Interesting to see what the Koreans

can do here because they are all

ex-short track speed skaters and

it's all about recovery. Those teams

have had fairly comfortable

qualifying rounds, a tough semifinal

and it's all about recovery. I think

the Norwegians could be the

favourites but I think the Koreans

might have the edge because of the

recovery that they've had.

Min Seok

Kim on the front for Korea, the gap

is just over half a second. Sverre

Lunde Pedersen is effectively the

captain for Norway, in fact, it's

Pedersen on the front for them. They

are putting career under some early

pressure here.

And Havard Bokko

takes the lead wearing the number

one armband. What was seen in the

Korean semifinal, because they are

used to short track acceleration

towards the end of the race, it's

interesting to see what schedule

they were going out on.

I think if

they're in range, it will be an

incredible sprint over the final 400

minutes. On the front at the moment,

Seung-Hoon Lee for career. It's

really close now.

It is, came in

second place, who will slightly take

the place of the Koreans. Still at

the moment Lee in front and

Norwegians feeling the pressure.

They will know it's getting close by

the shrieks and the Alps cascading

down from the stands inspired a

shrug of the yelps cascading down

the stands here. It is Korea who

have an advantage here. The crowd

are starting to wonder whether it's

going to be another gold medal for

the hosts.

Kim of Korea looks very

comfortable, such a good compact

working unit.

It was less than a

tenth of a second, this will go all

the way to the wire, it is attempted

the second the other way, the

pendulum is ebbing and flowing, the

pendulum swinging one way and

another. It is no way's way at the

moment but we are far from done.

Pedersen is the captain of this

team, and he is really throwing

everything into these final laps.

What a final this is proving to be.

Norway now just edging ahead by

almost a second with two laps to go,

what have Korea got left, have they

saved a bit for a massive sprint?

I

think they're used to this kind of

sprint. You can see the pace being

pushed up at the Norwegians are

opening up the gaps.

It's Havard

Bokko on the front for Norway as

they come round to take the bell.

How close is it going to be? Norway

have the advantage and Korea have

got plenty to do. Just over a second

between the pair.

Pedersen in

Norway, the reserve is there, he is

still at the front.

Here goes Sverre

Lunde Pedersen for Norway. They have

got just over a second advantage.

Can they carry it to the line? This

is where it really hurts, they got

the big boot. Norway -- not really

have got to dig deep. They claim the

gold medal. It is Norway's Olympic

title and Korea could not quite find

the sprint to pull it back over the

last lap. They had just over a

second to try and make up and they

could not quite manage it. Norway,

what a classy outfit they have been

throughout this competition, led by

Sverre Lunde Pedersen, and they were

bronze medallists last year and they

are now Olympic champions. Despite

Korea's best efforts, it's Norway's

night.

You can see the Korean unit really

working well, but this looks like

almost a mirror. The right arms

swinging to perfection. Pedersen

just looking down to the ground, you

can see the skates behind him.

But

it doesn't look like he's panicking

at any point. He's calm, leads from

the front in every sense of the word

here.

Totally in control.

Despite the roaring and the best

efforts of the vast majority of the

crowd in here, they were a little

bit quieter at the end of the race

than they were at the start. But

very worthy winners. The result of

the men's team pursuit, the gold

medal going to Norway.

Korea taking silver.

STUDIO: things did go a bit quiet

there, the home crowd rather stand

there. It was the Norwegians who

spoiled the South Korean's party,

that was Norway's 13th gold of the

games, it equals their best in a

single games. Just one short of the

14 set by Canada at their own games

in Vancouver. So potentially a

record breaking games for Norway in

the offing. Good afternoon!

As you may remember, four years ago

it was Russians who topped the medal

table but the subsequent doping

scandal meant that 170 athletes are

competing in Pyeongchang under a

neutral flag. Until this point they

had one for silver and nine

had one for silver and nine bronze,

the Russian macro, but no gold so

all the attention falls squarely at

the shoulders of two teenagers at

the start of the skating event

today. This is one of the most

keenly contested rivalries of the

whole games. Yesterday, the elegant

18-year-old Evgenia Medvedeva. And

Alina Zagitova, three years her

junior, take to the ice in the

figure skating. No slip-ups for the

curling team, would it be both in

the play-offs?

Lindsey Vonn has waited eight years

for another crack at an Olympic gold

in what she said likely to be her

last game. And expect the unexpected

when we enter the wonderful world of

men's ski cross.

Stand by as big air makes and

entrance is some jaw-dropping moves

and fabulous views.

Jayne Torvill is also flying solo

today, appropriate as it is the

lady's individual event, it is still

lady, eight of 14 events, officially

a ladies competition. But today it

is the turn of the teenagers, what

do you make of this budding rivalry

between the two kids come in effect?

They're not even ladies, their

girls!

It's amazing, they have the

same code so there will definitely

be a rivalry. They will push each

other and raise the standard -- they

have the same coach.

How much would

you have fancied life as an

individual performance rather than

in tandem in ice dance? Did you ever

have any expectations of doing

anything like that?

When you start

skating, you tend to skate on your

own until you are partnered with

someone. I did a few competition

locally on my own. I don't know, I

realised that jumping wasn't the

most natural thing for me. I did

attempt a triple at some point, but

never did one.

Very wise! You have

already been on the ice today, so

6am ice time?

Yes, we had an anyone

today to get private time to get

ready for the tour that we're doing

in the future.

-- we had an early

one. You've already done your

exercise and/or going to enjoy a

look through the back catalogue.

We're talking about a very young

women but we're going to take you

back to when you are 20 or 21, first

world title in a run of four,

Hartford Connecticut, enjoy our time

out today from the World

Championships of 1981.

Four minutes to decide the gold

medal.

Very neat change in the tempo of the

music. They are skating with

remarkable assurance. They seemed to

have grown in confidence since that

European victory.

The last change of music.

APPLAUSE

That is it, four minutes of very

fine free dancing.

That was the pre-programme that will

set the standard for the medals in

this 1981 World Championship.

set the standard for the medals in

this 1981 World Championship.

Illegal, the first taste of global

success for Torvill and Dean. Can

you imagine having been so

accomplished that 1518 years of age?

We did not start skating together

until he was 15 and I was 16, so

that is when our journey started,

but I do remember with this World

Championship but we had won the

European Championship prior to that,

a month earlier, and we didn't

expect, we thought we would get

bronze, so it was a shock to

ourselves in first place, so there

is no way to go other than down. As

Alan weeks said, we had set the

standard for the top group because

we were first to skate in the top

group, and we could not be to hang

around the area to listen to

anything that was happening, so we

walked out into a shopping mall that

it was joined on two, came back into

the dressing room, and our coach

Betty was the, but did not say

anything to us. We were like, we

kept looking at each other and

thinking, what has happened? Someone

has probably beaten us. In the end,

she came out and said, well done,

and that was it. Did we win? She

said, of course you did.

And that

was the start of the journey for you

up to 1984. You mentioned the

European champions. In these two

youngsters, the 18-year-old has been

a World Champion, but her training

partner, and and it is the first

time she had been beaten in two

years. How can you imagine the

dynamic evolving on the same ayes at

the same time?

the same time?

It must be difficult

because you have this young girl

coming into the space, she is tiny

and can rotate quickly, but it is

still pushing the 18-year-old to do

better.

The last time we were so

focused on a two horse race was

1984, Tonya Harding and Nancy

Kerrigan of the United States, and

then the Ukrainian came on and stole

it from both of them.

Yes, Nancy

Kerrigan did not look too happy when

she was accepting her silver medal.

There might be others in this

contest, it could be a Russian one,

to. This is the start of the two

elements of the Lady's individual.

We are in the company of Robin

Cousins and Catherine Downes.

We are in the company of Robin

Cousins and Catherine Downes.

You wriggle with the Japanese

national silver medallist, making

her debut on the senior circuit this

year.

year. This is their number to

skater.

A triple flip, triple toe loop,

absolutely glorious.

absolutely glorious. Triple

Well, it was gold and silver for the

Japanese men. The women have their

work cut out to emulate that

success, but that was a good start

from Kaori Sakamoto.

17 years old

coming into her first year as a

senior, and the quality of the

elements is fantastic. No question

for the rotations on any of the

jumps. Level falls for every

element.

And you best, that is a

lead of almost nine points over

Brady

Brady from the United States.

Nagasu, what have you got for us

today, she became the first woman to

land a triple axel at the Olympic

Games. She has warming up -- been

warming up the triple axel for this,

will she go for it?

That is a shame, I have a feeling

that will be a deduction as well.

Ready for the triple toe

combination. Triple flip. Triple toe

loop. Lovely.

The landing was a little scratchy on

the triple loop.

No risk, no reward. And she went for

the triple axel. Didn't quite work

out for her.

Even with the mistake,

she still gets more points for it

than she would have if she had just

done the double. The double axel

base score is 3.63.

base score is 3.63. And with the

plus points, that gave her 4.6. The

base score for the triple axel is

8.50, and with one deduction she

still got 5.5. It was really very

strong, she went for it, Nagasu.

That is her season's best, and she

goes to second place behind Kaori

Sakamoto of Japan. Off to the

practice rink for Nagasu, to see if

she can polish up the triple axel

for the long programme.

The green flags are flying for Choi

Da-bin in, the Korean number two.

She finished ninth in her last

competition, but she put in a lovely

performance on the opening day of

competition.

Triple lutes, triple toe loop. That

is the start she would have wanted.

Triple flip. Light and easy. One

more jump, double axel.

Yes! That is the way to do it.

And

other cool job. She is thriving in

the atmosphere at her home Olympics,

Choi Da-bin.

Choi Da-bin. They all had skating

skills, but components in the mid to

high sevens. Again, I would have

expected something into the eighth

somewhere.

She slots in just behind

Gabrielle Bell man of Canada --

Gabrielle Daleman of Canada and the

crowd like that result.

crowd like that result. Back-to-back

world titles, back-to-back European

titles. And ever since she made her

mark on the senior circuit, she has

been favourite for this Olympic

title. But she was pipped to the

European crown by her 15-year-old

countrywoman. She is as to claim her

first stop. -- she is come back to

claim her first slot.

First of the jumping passes. Triple

flip, triple toe loop.

There's the triple loop.

Beautiful lay back to finish.

It's perfection again, I have never

seen this girl put a foot wrong.

She

doubled the potential score with the

judges in the step sequence.

That

signature jump style, her arm of the

cover her head. Which originally --

up above her head.

It used to be a

feature but now everyone is doing it

so it's no longer special. 81.61.

It's a new world record. And Evgenia

Medvedeva gets her first foot on top

of the podium. A new world record

score, first position in qualifying.

And it's going to have to be utter

brilliance that beat that.

Satoko Miyahara, the Japanese

national champion. She's been

struggling with injury this season.

Only started jumping again in

October. We saw her skate absolutely

beautifully in the team event. Japan

finishing in fifth position.

Triple lots, triple toe loop, she

wanted and that is what she got. --

triple

triple z.

A beautiful triple loop.

Nice and light and easy in the

triple axel. How's that for a

laid-back position? Exquisite.

Absolutely beautiful from Satoko

Miyahara, they already have a

skating in the top three, Sakamoto.

They are looking to be in the match,

the Japanese.

the Japanese.

Triple Lutz, she will

sometimes get elements downgraded

but she was fully rotated today.

A

new season's best for Satoko

Miyahara. She slots into second

place behind Evgenia Medvedeva. The

Japanese in the mixing it comes to

Friday's free dance. Kaetlyn Osmond,

part of the Canadian team that won

the gold in the team event. She won

team silver in Sochi as well. World

silver medallist last time round,

just behind Evgenia Medvedeva.

just behind Evgenia Medvedeva.

And

there were mistakes in the short

programme for her in the team event.

She will want and need to go

absolutely cleanly here with every

element will stop if she wants to

have a potential podium spot. Start

with accommodation. Triple flip,

triple toe loop, that is a cracker.

And that is the triple Lutz.

And the double axel.

Well, but is more like the

performers that won her world silver

medal last year.

Absolutely.

-- that

is more like the performance. A

beautiful and light on the triple

flip, easy rotation. Leg back, nice

running edge out. Sometimes you can

get an edge call on the take-off of

the Lutz but not today.

A new

season's best for Kaetlyn Osmond,

78.87. She is into second position

behind Evgenia Medvedeva. A world

record score, that is going to take

some beating. Brilliant from Kaetlyn

Osmond, a brilliant position going

into the free skate on Friday.

So,

15 years old, and the one to watch

at these games. Cause that massive

upset in the Europeans and beat

Medvedeva to take the title, the

British new start in women's figure

skating, looking to outshine her and

steal the gold.

She is unbeaten

since becoming a junior world

champion.

She has the hardest combination of

all of the ladies, triple Lutz,

triple loop jump and that was

absolutely fantastic.

There's the triple flip.

And the double axel.

Absolutely glorious. How anyone can

out prodigy Evgenia Medvedeva I

don't know. This girl can.

She has

been doing it since she was a

junior. She doesn't have quite the

skate skating component scores that

Medvedeva will have. She will

probably slot nicely into second

place. It will be in that tech

programme and that tech score. There

is the triple Lutz and the triple

loop. That is what she will need to

do in the Free Programme with a few

more jump elements to get the score

and beat Medvedeva technically and

get those points that she won't get

from the components. Probably isn't

expected to be ahead of her in the

Short Programme for that very

reason. But goodness me, what one