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Good morning from Pyeongchang. They
say 13 is unlucky for some, but | 0:00:40 | 0:00:47 | |
plenty here hopes that it will be
lucky for them. Ten medals up for | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
grabss today, the most than any
other day, and one is the Alpine | 0:00:52 | 0:01:00 | |
combined. We have had the downhill
section of the women's event, it's | 0:01:00 | 0:01:06 | |
followed by the slalom event,
Lindsey Vonn is the downhill | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
specialist, she's out in front, not
known for her slalom so we'll have | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
to see if her her lead is enough to
claim a surprise gold or if someone | 0:01:14 | 0:01:21 | |
can come from behind to claim the
title. Let's join our commentators. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
Good afternoon, welcome back. The
first skier on the course was the | 0:01:29 | 0:01:36 | |
Bosnian who failed to complete but
it's now down to Barbara Kantorova. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:43 | |
She's got to make the last few towns
and she will move into gold medal | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
position in the Alpine combined
which she does, so that's our | 0:01:47 | 0:01:55 | |
leader. They've had a downhill run
this will led by Lindsey Vonn, | 0:01:55 | 0:02:03 | |
Ragnhild Mowinckel, who was in
silver medal position in the | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
downhill proper yesterday, then
Michelle Gisin, then Ramona | 0:02:05 | 0:02:14 | |
Siebenhofer, Marusa Ferk and Mikaela
Shiffrin is sixth. With her slalom | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
is Gilles, she is favourite. -- her
slalom skills. We only have 22 out | 0:02:18 | 0:02:27 | |
of the 30 competing, they are going
in reverse order. Only 22 finished | 0:02:27 | 0:02:34 | |
after the downhill. The next is
Katerina Paulathova from the Czech | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
Republic. She's in front by .63,
that the time from the downhill | 0:02:38 | 0:02:50 | |
added to the slalom score so far.
Giving her an advantage. Better | 0:02:50 | 0:03:01 | |
slalom skiers include petulant over,
while the -- Petra Vlhova, Wendy | 0:03:01 | 0:03:16 | |
Holdener, and Michelle Gisin.
Lindsey Vonn has won a World Cup | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
slalom in her career and pride to
the Olympics, there was a World Cup | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
event where she finished fourth, so
she's not outside of Gold medal | 0:03:24 | 0:03:29 | |
opportunity. But she will need a
solid second run. Next up, Maryna | 0:03:29 | 0:03:36 | |
Gasienica-Daniel from Poland. 19th
position in the downhill and she | 0:03:36 | 0:03:41 | |
brings with her and advantage but
she has doubled. She is one of the | 0:03:41 | 0:03:49 | |
better slalom skiers. Absolutely
charging through this second run. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:58 | |
Not the most demanding style, not as
technically demanding as the | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
individual classic slalom track
where the men raised this morning at | 0:04:02 | 0:04:07 | |
Yongpyong, and where the women race
to the slalom double. Frieda Hanns. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:21 | |
Polish skier in first, by nearly two
seconds. We start to see some of the | 0:04:21 | 0:04:31 | |
slalom specialists on display. The
skis they use for the downhill this | 0:04:31 | 0:04:37 | |
morning, two metres ten. The skis
they now use for the slalom are one | 0:04:37 | 0:04:42 | |
metre 57. A huge difference. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:50 | |
metre 57. A huge difference. So,
Maryna Gasienica-Daniel leads. Next | 0:04:50 | 0:04:51 | |
up, Alex Mario Mola -- Alice
Merryweather, the first of three | 0:04:51 | 0:04:59 | |
Americans in this Alpine combined.
She's a good all-rounder with good | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
slalom skills, honed as a junior.
She is racking up Goodspeed here. I | 0:05:02 | 0:05:17 | |
rather old school slalom technique,
not a regular on the World Cup | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
slalom tour. But she's got the
skills required and the towns of the | 0:05:19 | 0:05:28 | |
Green Knight. Her lead is reducing,
-- she retains the green light. She | 0:05:28 | 0:05:38 | |
has got it. One of three Americans
involved this afternoon here. Alice | 0:05:38 | 0:05:48 | |
Merryweather into gold medal
position. Maryna Gasienica-Daniel | 0:05:48 | 0:05:57 | |
into silver, Katerina Paulathova
bronze. 17 still to ski. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:08 | |
Big smile on the face of Alice
Merryweather. Now one of the regular | 0:06:09 | 0:06:15 | |
combined athletes, the news fire | 0:06:15 | 0:06:24 | |
combined athletes, the news fire --
Denise Feierabend. She knows her way | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
through slalom track. She has added
to the advantage significantly. Not | 0:06:26 | 0:06:34 | |
the most tricky slalom set that the
Slovenian coach has laid out here. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:41 | |
Designed to allow the downhill
skiers, the specialist in the speed | 0:06:41 | 0:06:48 | |
event to have an opportunity.
Feierabend is thriving on this | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
track, two seconds in front. She has
smashed it. Nearly three seconds | 0:06:51 | 0:06:57 | |
quicker. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:05 | |
quicker. So Denise Feierabend moving
up the ranking, 17th after downhill. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:12 | |
2.96 seconds in front now. Looking
down the list, Denise Feierabend | 0:07:12 | 0:07:19 | |
will quite possibly finish in the
top six in today's competition. Good | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
slalom skis on display here, good
skills. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:33 | |
skills. Nevena Ignjatovic from
Serbia next to go. Her lead over | 0:07:33 | 0:07:41 | |
Feierabend after the downhill is
slight, just 16 hundredths of a | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
second. So Feierabend in gold for
Switzerland, Merriweather in silver | 0:07:44 | 0:07:52 | |
for the USA. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:58 | |
for the USA. Ignjatovic has lost
touch with the leaders. Not enough | 0:07:58 | 0:08:03 | |
terrain left on the track to claw
her way back into contention. She | 0:08:03 | 0:08:08 | |
could end up being a second and a
half off the pace. No change in the | 0:08:08 | 0:08:19 | |
leaders editions, she has gone into
second. Denise Feierabend staying in | 0:08:19 | 0:08:25 | |
top spot. Alice Merryweather now
into third. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:34 | |
into third. Ana Bucik will be next
ago and she's got a serious chance | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
of pushing for medal today but she
needs something super quick. The | 0:08:37 | 0:08:43 | |
second run has been set by her
coach, there are two Slovenians | 0:08:43 | 0:08:47 | |
still involved, Bucik who is next
and Marusa Ferk, fifth after the | 0:08:47 | 0:08:54 | |
downhill. Pinch-macro finished fifth
after the world champ Richard Larman | 0:08:54 | 0:09:02 | |
-- Ana Bucik finished fifth after
the World Championship slalom last | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
year. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
What has changed is an improvement
in visibility today. The sun has | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
come out, it was a little overcast,
the floodlights are on, aiding the | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
athletes with their vision on this
track. Now Bucik surprisingly | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
trails. Pretty soft on this part of
the mountain, the course is eroding | 0:09:27 | 0:09:33 | |
quickly. A bit of a rut forming.
Bucik into silver medal position. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:44 | |
The Slovenian fans deliberately
dressed in mountain costumes. They | 0:09:44 | 0:09:51 | |
still have Marusa Ferk to come at
the moment. At the moment they have | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
Ana Bucik in silver spot. Denise
Feierabend still leads the way and | 0:09:55 | 0:10:02 | |
moves steadily up the standing. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:10 | |
Lindsey Vonn is at the top of the
course, doesn't often race slalom, | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
watching the race unfold on the
monitor. Next to ski will be Marta | 0:10:14 | 0:10:22 | |
Bassino. She has good recent form in
Alpine combined events. Finished | 0:10:22 | 0:10:30 | |
fifth in the Olympic giant slalom,
her best discipline. But no slouch | 0:10:30 | 0:10:35 | |
in slalom as you can see. Fiery
start for Marta Bassino, just 21 | 0:10:35 | 0:10:45 | |
years old. Potentially the best of
the Italian GS skiers in the next | 0:10:45 | 0:10:51 | |
season or two or three. Her lead has
been reduced now. She needs to let | 0:10:51 | 0:10:59 | |
them run as she powers towards the
finish line. The time to beat | 0:10:59 | 0:11:06 | |
belongs to Denise Feierabend. She's
missed it. Marta Bassino into silver | 0:11:06 | 0:11:11 | |
medal spot for the moment. Another
one has come and gone. Denise | 0:11:11 | 0:11:19 | |
Feierabend has now watched three try
and three fail to remove her from | 0:11:19 | 0:11:24 | |
gold-medal position. The next skier
will probably have no -- more luck | 0:11:24 | 0:11:33 | |
if she stays on her feet, one of the
best slalom skiers in the world, | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
Petra Vlhova. She's had a
disappointing games in the | 0:11:37 | 0:11:43 | |
individual disciplines where she was
expected to thrive but only managed | 0:11:43 | 0:11:49 | |
to finish 13th in her specialist
discipline of the slalom. 13th in | 0:11:49 | 0:11:54 | |
giant slalom as well. She is a World
Cup winner this season. Twice she | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
has a World Cup slalom wins, and she
also skied into third position in | 0:11:59 | 0:12:08 | |
the Stockholm parallel slalom. She's
the second ranked slalom skier of | 0:12:08 | 0:12:13 | |
the season behind Mikaela Shiffrin
and that's a proud as she racks up | 0:12:13 | 0:12:20 | |
and advantage here over Denise
Feierabend whose leadership of this | 0:12:20 | 0:12:25 | |
Olympic Alpine combined is about to
end. Nearly a full second. She was | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
expecting that, she | 0:12:29 | 0:12:35 | |
expecting that, she nos Vlhova's
form in slalom. There was a big | 0:12:36 | 0:12:41 | |
mistake and he put the brakes on,
apart from that it was pretty clean. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:50 | |
So Vlhova leads, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:57 | |
So Vlhova leads, Feierabend second,
Bassino said, but the fastest 12 | 0:12:59 | 0:13:05 | |
have not skied yet. Next Federica
Brignone, who does ski slalom but | 0:13:05 | 0:13:12 | |
she is by no means the best. Already
Olympic | 0:13:12 | 0:13:20 | |
she is by no means the best. Already
medallist in the Olympics games, won | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
bronze in the giant slalom. Her
advantage has gone deep into the red | 0:13:22 | 0:13:29 | |
now. Her mum was a great slalom
skier, a World Cup winner in slalom. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:37 | |
She won a four slaloms at the end of
the 70s and into the 80s. She's come | 0:13:37 | 0:13:45 | |
into second position. Silver medal
spot. Vlhova stays in the leader's | 0:13:45 | 0:13:51 | |
box. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:57 | |
box. Vlhova in gold, Brignone in
silver, Feierabend pushed down to | 0:13:57 | 0:14:01 | |
bronze. Still to come, Wendy
Holdener, one of the best slalom | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
skiers, Mikaela Shiffrin, the best
slalom skier. Michelle Gisin could | 0:14:06 | 0:14:12 | |
be on the medal podium. Third
quickest after the downhill. She | 0:14:12 | 0:14:18 | |
will be followed out of the start by
Ragnhild Mowinckel, twice a silver | 0:14:18 | 0:14:23 | |
medallist, and Lindsey Vonn who won
bronze in the downhill yesterday and | 0:14:23 | 0:14:27 | |
who has won slalom races in her
career but not for long time. Now, | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
Laura Gauche. 11 after the first
run. That was the downhill this | 0:14:30 | 0:14:39 | |
morning. Need some slalom form now.
Not bad, all of the races train | 0:14:39 | 0:14:49 | |
slalom as juniors, whether they race
regularly as seniors, they have all | 0:14:49 | 0:14:58 | |
got experience home in sports clubs.
That's recruit honed in sports | 0:14:58 | 0:15:04 | |
clubs. Getting a bit clunky as she
moves from flat to sleep. The | 0:15:04 | 0:15:10 | |
terrain was her own doing, she has
lost her chance to lead this | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
competition. Gone into six out of
the medals. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:21 | |
Otten still to come, and prepare for
fireworks because Wendy Holdener is | 0:15:24 | 0:15:31 | |
one of the best, and she will be
next. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
The Swiss have had a great day so
far on the mend's | 0:15:40 | 0:15:48 | |
far on the mend's slalom, getting a
medal. Wendy Holdener is next to go. | 0:15:52 | 0:16:01 | |
She is in good shape after the
downhill leg. In tenth position. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:08 | |
She's more at home on the short
slalom. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:16 | |
slalom. Maybe a little too much
attack at the top. The current | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
leader, Vlhova, and Wendy Holdener
have done battle many times. Started | 0:16:21 | 0:16:29 | |
with a lead of half a second over
Vlhova. Now she's more than 1.5 | 0:16:29 | 0:16:36 | |
seconds in front! | 0:16:36 | 0:16:43 | |
She leads, into gold medal position.
Will that bring her a medal? | 0:16:47 | 0:17:01 | |
Will that bring her a medal? Silver
in the slalom, and she's in gold at | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
the moment for the combined. The
next two, three, unlikely to trouble | 0:17:03 | 0:17:10 | |
her lead. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:20 | |
Paris St Miller Dolly next. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:40 | |
-- Romane Miradoli. Not enough speed
and direction. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:58 | |
Easy to spot the established slalom
racers from the occasional ones. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:08 | |
Romane Miradoli is very occasional. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:17 | |
Vlhova in silver, Wendy Holdener in
gold. Valerie Grenier is next. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:27 | |
She is unlikely to trouble Wendy
Holdener's lead. But let us see. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:50 | |
Mikaela Shiffrin has arrived at the
top. She has her headphones and, as | 0:18:50 | 0:18:56 | |
usual. Valerie Grenier is eighth
after the downhill this morning. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:15 | |
after the downhill this morning. She
will be wishing she gave a similar | 0:19:15 | 0:19:19 | |
performance on downhill race day
yesterday. It has been a busy | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
schedule for the women overhear. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
She will not be troubling the
current, gold, silver and bronze | 0:19:33 | 0:19:40 | |
medals. She is! She has gone into
bronze. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:52 | |
bronze. She has moved Federica
Brgnone from bronze. | 0:19:52 | 0:20:08 | |
-- Federica Brignone down to fourth
position. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:26 | |
position. Still to come, Ricarda
Haaser, Mikaela | 0:20:26 | 0:20:35 | |
Haaser, Mikaela Shiffrin... | 0:20:35 | 0:20:45 | |
The top three now, Valerie Grenier,
the Canadian. A good downhill | 0:20:53 | 0:20:59 | |
performance this morning, eighth
quickest. Petra Vlhova. Not so | 0:20:59 | 0:21:06 | |
strong in downhill, but with a
mighty slalom run, she's holding | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
onto silver at the moment. Wendy
Holdener, tenth quickest this | 0:21:09 | 0:21:16 | |
morning, is in gold medal position
at the moment. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:27 | |
Two minutes 22.34 seconds, that is
the combined times added to the | 0:21:37 | 0:21:42 | |
downhill. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
Ricarda Haaser, then Mikaela
Shiffrin. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:08 | |
Shiffrin. Mikaela Shiffrin was sixth
quickest in the downhill. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:14 | |
Ricarda Haaser is next. She has just
had the 30 seconds call. She's years | 0:22:30 | 0:22:41 | |
old. She finished ninth in the
championship combined last February. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:49 | |
-- she is 24 years old. Seventh
after the downhill this morning. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:56 | |
I don't think our leaders enough to
get past Wendy Holdener. Can she | 0:23:09 | 0:23:16 | |
push for a provisional medal place?
That has gone, she is half a second | 0:23:16 | 0:23:22 | |
down, she does not have the slalom
skills of Wendy Holdener. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:27 | |
1.10 between gold and bronze medal
positions. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:46 | |
She's into ninth position. 2.5
seconds almost off the pace of Wendy | 0:23:53 | 0:24:00 | |
Holdener. Now it will get serious,
and Wendy Holdener knows she has a | 0:24:00 | 0:24:03 | |
serious threat to her lead in this,
Mikaela Shiffrin, who is not only | 0:24:03 | 0:24:10 | |
are more successful slalom skier,
she also has a quicker time after | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
the downhill than Wendy Holdener, so
she starts with an advantage. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:22 | |
She finished outside the medals in
the slalom. She has been on this | 0:24:38 | 0:24:46 | |
course, training. Her lead is more
or less maintained. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:58 | |
She cannot afford any more mistakes
because Wendy Holdener was quick at | 0:25:01 | 0:25:06 | |
the bottom. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:07 | |
She is faster by 0.47 seconds!
Lightning finish from Mikaela | 0:25:16 | 0:25:21 | |
Shiffrin. She leads the way. Five
competitors to come. Will that be | 0:25:21 | 0:25:28 | |
good enough? | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
Wendy Holdener has gone into silver.
And Vlhova into bronze, top slalom | 0:25:38 | 0:25:45 | |
skiers in the world leading the
competition with one hand on the | 0:25:45 | 0:25:50 | |
medals. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:55 | |
medals. Next we have Ramona
Siebenhofer. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:04 | |
Siebenhofer. Heartbreak for a Wendy
Holdener as she is moved from gold | 0:26:05 | 0:26:10 | |
medal position. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:11 | |
Michelle Gisin, whose next. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:31 | |
Was that straddle? We may need to
check. Sometimes these things happen | 0:26:49 | 0:26:58 | |
so quickly. She has decided she will
take chances, and we will get a look | 0:26:58 | 0:27:03 | |
the replay. Either way she will be
out of the medal positions, I think. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:19 | |
Marusa Ferk. The Slovenian team is
yet to get a medal. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:30 | |
yet to get a medal. Yes, it was a
struggle, she has disqualified. -- | 0:27:31 | 0:27:39 | |
straddle. The skis go either side of
the control gate, which is instant | 0:27:39 | 0:27:45 | |
disqualification. She should really
have stopped, but she was maybe | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
hoping that they had gone the right
side. Maria Shifrin in gold position | 0:27:48 | 0:27:59 | |
at the moment, then Wendy Holdener
Ben Petrov bid -- then Petra Vlhova. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:18 | |
Ramona Siebenhofer had a two second
lead over Maria Shifrin, but that | 0:28:18 | 0:28:24 | |
will have already just about gone.
Slalom is not a happy place for her. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:35 | |
-- lead over Mikaela Shiffrin. She
is deeper into the red zone. Can she | 0:28:35 | 0:28:39 | |
finish quickly enough to get a
medal? Not fast enough, she's 50. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:52 | |
Vlhova still and bronze position.
Wendy Holdener in silver, and | 0:28:52 | 0:29:00 | |
Mikaela Shiffrin leads the way. Just
three competitors to come. Michelle | 0:29:00 | 0:29:07 | |
Gisin, Ragnhild Mowinckel and then
Lindsey Vonn. And Lindsey Vonn | 0:29:07 | 0:29:12 | |
finish with the gold in the Alpine
combined? -- can she finish? | 0:29:12 | 0:29:20 | |
MUSIC | 0:29:28 | 0:29:34 | |
Vlhova and Wendy Holdener and
Mikaela Shiffrin in discussions. | 0:29:34 | 0:29:44 | |
Michelle Gisin is 1.2 seconds ahead
of Wendy | 0:29:44 | 0:29:51 | |
of Wendy -- Mikaela Shiffrin. She
finished behind Wendy Holdener at | 0:29:51 | 0:29:56 | |
the World Championships. | 0:29:56 | 0:30:04 | |
She is a good all-rounder,
occasional slalom skier. She has had | 0:30:04 | 0:30:08 | |
a top ten in slalom in Vermont at
the start of the campaign. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:18 | |
the start of the campaign. Almost a
full second in-hand! She is in gold | 0:30:18 | 0:30:26 | |
position! She leads the Alpine
combined! The Swiss fans are | 0:30:26 | 0:30:32 | |
delirious. She has pushed Mikaela
Shiffrin to silver. Vlhova is out of | 0:30:32 | 0:30:40 | |
the medals. That may be enough to
give Michelle Gisin the Olympic | 0:30:40 | 0:30:45 | |
title, her sister was the Olympic
champion in downhill four years ago. | 0:30:45 | 0:30:50 | |
She had to share the title with the
Slovenian. Right now, it is Michelle | 0:30:50 | 0:30:55 | |
Gisin's turn to shine. A stunning
run. | 0:30:55 | 0:31:02 | |
She leads the way with just two less
accomplished slalom skiers to come. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:09 | |
Ragnhild Mowinckel will be next, and
then it will be the turn of the | 0:31:09 | 0:31:15 | |
great Lindsey Vonn. Last to ski in
what could well be her last Olympic | 0:31:15 | 0:31:19 | |
race. It's Gisin's gold right now,
Shiffrin | 0:31:19 | 0:31:32 | |
Shiffrin in silver, | 0:31:32 | 0:31:35 | |
Shiffrin in Holdener holding on for
bronze. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:41 | |
bronze. Shiffrin in silver. We're
reaching the climax of the combined | 0:31:41 | 0:31:46 | |
events here. Ragnhild Mowinckel has
had an outstanding Winter Olympic | 0:31:46 | 0:31:53 | |
Games, two silver medals, silver
medallist in the giant slalom and | 0:31:53 | 0:31:57 | |
yesterday's downhill. Behind Sofia
Goggia. Doesn't regularly race | 0:31:57 | 0:32:02 | |
slalom. She scored top tens this
season in downhill, super-g and | 0:32:02 | 0:32:09 | |
giant slalom, never to be seen in
slalom. But of course she's had the | 0:32:09 | 0:32:13 | |
quicker downhill run than Michelle
Gisin. I think she's beyond gold | 0:32:13 | 0:32:22 | |
medal, and to deny Shiffrin silver
medal. Her target remains Wendy | 0:32:22 | 0:32:29 | |
Holdener in bronze medal place. Is
it fast enough? | 0:32:29 | 0:32:37 | |
it fast enough? Its fourth, for
Ragnhild Mowinckel. No change in | 0:32:38 | 0:32:43 | |
amongst the medals. And with just
one to come, it now means that | 0:32:43 | 0:32:54 | |
Shiffrin and Gisin are guaranteed
medals. Shiffrin can finish no worse | 0:32:54 | 0:33:01 | |
than bronze, Gisin no worse than
silver. The distribution of medals | 0:33:01 | 0:33:05 | |
is now all down to Lindsey Vonn. She
will be the last skier here. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:14 | |
will be the last skier here. Wendy
Holdener is in bronze medal place | 0:33:15 | 0:33:17 | |
right now. Mowinckel, two silvers
but only fourth today. Last to ski, | 0:33:17 | 0:33:26 | |
Lindsey Vonn. Did race a combined
just before the Winter Olympic Games | 0:33:26 | 0:33:34 | |
where she placed fourth. She has won
a World Cup slalom, just one of her | 0:33:34 | 0:33:41 | |
81 World Cup victories have come in
slalom competition but it was a long | 0:33:41 | 0:33:45 | |
time ago. It's getting cold, the
snow is getting thicker, as Vonn | 0:33:45 | 0:33:50 | |
prepares to ski at the Pyeongchang
Olympics for the last time. Her | 0:33:50 | 0:33:57 | |
advantage after the downhill is .7
seven. Havret outing on the short | 0:33:57 | 0:34:04 | |
slalom skis for Lindsey Vonn, but
she's got so much experience. If she | 0:34:04 | 0:34:09 | |
can find her way through the steep
part of the course, she could be in | 0:34:09 | 0:34:14 | |
contention but she grinds to a halt
which means that Michelle Gisin it | 0:34:14 | 0:34:21 | |
is the Olympic champion, four years
after her older sister Dominique one | 0:34:21 | 0:34:26 | |
downhill gold, Michelle will be
going home with an Olympic gold | 0:34:26 | 0:34:30 | |
medal. Shiffrin at the silver to the
call she won in giant slalom, and | 0:34:30 | 0:34:36 | |
Wendy Holdener will take the bronze
medal in the Alpine combined. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:43 | |
Holdener's second medal of the
games. The combined reaches a | 0:34:43 | 0:34:48 | |
conclusion with a disappointing
early finish for Lindsey Vonn who | 0:34:48 | 0:34:54 | |
shrugs her shoulders and says, I'm
not a regular slalom skier. I don't | 0:34:54 | 0:34:59 | |
think anyone seriously expected her
to deny Michelle Gisin the gold, | 0:34:59 | 0:35:03 | |
maybe an outside chance of getting
another bronze the back up the | 0:35:03 | 0:35:07 | |
bronze she got in the downhill
yesterday. Vonn is there to | 0:35:07 | 0:35:13 | |
congratulate today's medallists. The
champion in the Alpine combined is | 0:35:13 | 0:35:19 | |
Switzerland's Michelle Gisin,
Switzerland's first Alpine gold of | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
the games.
STUDIO: Michelle Gisin with the gold | 0:35:21 | 0:35:31 | |
medal, her sister Dominique won gold
in the downhill in Sochi four years | 0:35:31 | 0:35:34 | |
ago so she brings a second Olympic
gold couple into the family. Mikaela | 0:35:34 | 0:35:41 | |
Shiffrin picked up her second medal
in Pyeongchang, a third winter | 0:35:41 | 0:35:47 | |
Olympic medal of her career. It's
one of ten gold medals that can be | 0:35:47 | 0:35:53 | |
won today. There are more gold
medals on offer today than any other | 0:35:53 | 0:35:56 | |
day at the Winter Olympics and there
is another one up for grabs in the | 0:35:56 | 0:36:01 | |
women's ice hockey. The USA and
Canada are fierce rivals in this | 0:36:01 | 0:36:06 | |
sport. They have contested four of
the previous five finals here in the | 0:36:06 | 0:36:12 | |
Winter Olympics. They are on ice
currently. Canada have bragging | 0:36:12 | 0:36:16 | |
rights in recent history, they have
won the last four gold medals on | 0:36:16 | 0:36:27 | |
history but that match has now gone
into overtime. We are going to join | 0:36:27 | 0:36:32 | |
it life. Let's join our
commentators, it is golden puck. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:39 | |
What a time it is, sudden death
overtime in women's hockey Olympics | 0:36:42 | 0:36:47 | |
vinyl, it doesn't get more exciting.
USA 11-0, Russian crew were leading | 0:36:47 | 0:36:57 | |
-- the USA were leading 1-0, then
Canada got two goals and | 0:36:57 | 0:37:06 | |
Canada got two goals and then they
got another one back. The four-time | 0:37:07 | 0:37:13 | |
defending champions against the
four-time Olympic champions, Canada | 0:37:13 | 0:37:15 | |
looking for a fifth in a row. The US
are in the dark blue jerseys. The | 0:37:15 | 0:37:24 | |
Maple Leafs proudly white shirts.
Could this be a chance? Blocked by | 0:37:24 | 0:37:35 | |
Brandt. A long shift to start this
game. Pushed back towards the blue | 0:37:35 | 0:37:46 | |
line, passed everybody. Until
Shannon Szabados collect. Now the | 0:37:46 | 0:37:52 | |
Canadians will try and come in. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:58 | |
Canadians will try and come in. It's
been an incredible game so far, | 0:37:59 | 0:38:01 | |
played in a great atmosphere. The
USA, deflected wide. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:11 | |
USA, deflected wide. Canada looking
to collect possession. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:20 | |
You can barely hear yourself think.
A wonderful atmosphere. Canada, | 0:38:27 | 0:38:32 | |
chance. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:36 | |
chance. The chanting is on both
sides. It goes wide. And now it goes | 0:38:38 | 0:38:46 | |
back the other way. | 0:38:46 | 0:38:52 | |
back the other way. Two minutes 20
seconds of sudden deaths over time, | 0:38:52 | 0:38:58 | |
it is golden goal, literally, golden
goal territory. The next goal wins. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:04 | |
Look at the chance from | 0:39:04 | 0:39:11 | |
Look at the chance from Brianne
Jenner, she looked like she had | 0:39:14 | 0:39:20 | |
Szabados beaten but she couldn't hit
the net. So much space on the ice, | 0:39:20 | 0:39:25 | |
for them to work in. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:34 | |
for them to work in. Move it is the
message from the officials, and the | 0:39:34 | 0:39:39 | |
Americans do that. Can the Canadians
get there? It was Johnston. Rooney | 0:39:39 | 0:39:45 | |
makes a save. The USA circle. How
much of this is about heart and | 0:39:45 | 0:39:54 | |
desire? How much of this is the
experience of being there before? | 0:39:54 | 0:40:01 | |
Both teams have. And how much is
bearing down on the chance you are | 0:40:01 | 0:40:06 | |
going to get? Nearly home! Just
wide, Cameranesi! Outstanding hand I | 0:40:06 | 0:40:18 | |
coordination. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:20 | |
Cameranesi has offered real bite the
American line-up. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:38 | |
Canada too casual. Meaghan Mikkelson
has been struggling, she is just | 0:40:39 | 0:40:51 | |
moving a little too slowly, the
Canadian veteran. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:55 | |
Feels like the US are just in
control right now. They're the ones | 0:40:59 | 0:41:06 | |
that are having the opportunities.
They have the jump in their step. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:14 | |
Poulin has scored, in her career,
five Olympic medals. Szabados hangs | 0:41:17 | 0:41:24 | |
on! The shot into the soul that from
Lamoureux. -- shoulder from | 0:41:24 | 0:41:37 | |
Lamoureux. We talk about managing
the puck, Canada very low chill on | 0:41:37 | 0:41:42 | |
here as they are caught off ice. --
very nonchalant, from Canada. | 0:41:42 | 0:41:52 | |
Cameranesi deflects it, almost
similar to the first goal from | 0:41:52 | 0:41:55 | |
Canada. The Canadians have to be
careful, they are putting their | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
defence after | 0:41:58 | 0:42:00 | |
careful, they are putting their
defence up a little bit. The US are | 0:42:00 | 0:42:04 | |
heavily outshooting the Canadians
right now. It is the quality shots | 0:42:04 | 0:42:09 | |
that will count. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:16 | |
Four on four is all about puck
possession. He wants to keep your | 0:42:33 | 0:42:38 | |
puck on your stick, -- you want to
keep your puck on your stick, you | 0:42:38 | 0:42:44 | |
want to not go to the other end.
Skating is important but control of | 0:42:44 | 0:42:51 | |
the puck is so important. | 0:42:51 | 0:42:59 | |
Natalie Spooner, her family held
from just outside Manchester. Very | 0:43:00 | 0:43:03 | |
proud of that fact. I'm sure they're
very proud of her right now. | 0:43:03 | 0:43:14 | |
Interesting, Hilary Knight and
Amanda Cassell out that together, -- | 0:43:15 | 0:43:24 | |
and Amanda Kessel other together. If
we get to the end of 14 minutes, we | 0:43:24 | 0:43:31 | |
will go to a penalty shoot out but
that might be too much for the | 0:43:31 | 0:43:38 | |
coaching teams to take. The United
States have had their share of puck | 0:43:38 | 0:43:46 | |
possession, they have had
opportunity for point-blank shots, | 0:43:46 | 0:43:48 | |
but as you see in overtime, it comes
down to that one opportunity. And | 0:43:48 | 0:43:53 | |
here is an enormous face-off. | 0:43:53 | 0:44:00 | |
here is an enormous face-off. Daoust
has not taken too many face-offs. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:04 | |
Going into the game, she was in 84%
in limited duty on her face-offs. | 0:44:04 | 0:44:10 | |
The person to take it then! She's
going to get tossed out of the | 0:44:10 | 0:44:16 | |
circle. One by the Americans, -- it
was won by the Americans, | 0:44:16 | 0:44:26 | |
unsurprisingly. But thankfully for
the Canadians it goes out of the | 0:44:26 | 0:44:31 | |
zone and the US look to bring it
forward. Poulin came out onto the | 0:44:31 | 0:44:36 | |
ice, a coaching change to track and
get the face-off win. That's how | 0:44:36 | 0:44:42 | |
important it was. | 0:44:42 | 0:44:47 | |
God is to be careful here because if
Bellamy turned it up quite -- they | 0:44:53 | 0:44:56 | |
have got to be careful because if
Bellamy turned it up quick, there is | 0:44:56 | 0:45:00 | |
space at the back. | 0:45:00 | 0:45:07 | |
She does just enough to slow down
the Americans. | 0:45:17 | 0:45:23 | |
the Americans. Seven minutes gone of
overtime. I like this team, they are | 0:45:26 | 0:45:34 | |
not giving | 0:45:34 | 0:45:40 | |
not giving possession,... Saved by
Maddie Rooney. | 0:45:41 | 0:45:55 | |
Options were eliminated by cutting
to the middle. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:10 | |
Good defensive play by the
Canadians. Given away on the blue | 0:46:10 | 0:46:17 | |
line, and the Americans came back. | 0:46:17 | 0:46:24 | |
She cannot watch, at least not
easily! It is so hard on the players | 0:46:38 | 0:46:44 | |
and coaches, but much harder on the
family and friends, who have been | 0:46:44 | 0:46:48 | |
watching their children and helped
them go through the process of | 0:46:48 | 0:46:52 | |
becoming these wonderful world-class
athletes. Now they are sitting | 0:46:52 | 0:46:59 | |
thousands of miles away from home
just hoping that their child will | 0:46:59 | 0:47:05 | |
come with a gold medal. Like you
said, some cannot even watch. A | 0:47:05 | 0:47:12 | |
remarkable atmosphere. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:22 | |
It has been a great Olympic Games
for the Canadians. They have done so | 0:47:25 | 0:47:32 | |
well across many different sports,
but Canada wants this alongside the | 0:47:32 | 0:47:38 | |
hockey medal. | 0:47:38 | 0:47:48 | |
hockey medal. You could throw the
ice dancing one interact as well. | 0:47:48 | 0:47:55 | |
The captain, Meghan Duggan, full of
energy. | 0:48:01 | 0:48:09 | |
Really interesting that they are
playing | 0:48:37 | 0:48:46 | |
playing panic, one of the Lamoureux.
Canada decided that was the best | 0:48:46 | 0:48:54 | |
time to go. | 0:48:54 | 0:49:01 | |
time to go. There was no recognition
of the situation by Natalie Spooner. | 0:49:01 | 0:49:10 | |
The Canadians are putting on the
pressure. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:31 | |
pressure. The women are exhausted.
They cannot afford to be out there | 0:49:32 | 0:49:37 | |
tired. The deflected effort goes
into all. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:50 | |
Maddie Rooney was strong at the
short side. | 0:49:55 | 0:50:03 | |
short side. Hard looking play.
Bellamy carries ongoing. | 0:50:07 | 0:50:20 | |
Bellamy carries ongoing. The whistle
was not a bad thing. | 0:50:25 | 0:50:31 | |
was not a bad thing. The stick went
flying, Emily Clark went for it, | 0:50:35 | 0:50:40 | |
missed out, but really nice play
from Bellamy. | 0:50:40 | 0:50:49 | |
You see the power of Hilary Knight
when she lets the shots go. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:16 | |
when she lets the shots go. You do
not want to give her a clear look at | 0:51:18 | 0:51:20 | |
the net. She recognises what is in
front, she knows where the goal is | 0:51:20 | 0:51:27 | |
at all times, and fires it on. The
focus is in the | 0:51:27 | 0:51:41 | |
focus is in the eyes. Canada have to
get back. They look absolutely | 0:51:41 | 0:51:47 | |
exhausted. | 0:51:47 | 0:51:52 | |
Canada has just been rotating three
sets of/ stop the nightcap to put | 0:52:00 | 0:52:03 | |
someone else in. | 0:52:03 | 0:52:13 | |
Fia no penalty, and panic at the
side of the net. | 0:52:27 | 0:52:38 | |
That is where you need to see the
Canadians turn it back, if they | 0:52:40 | 0:52:44 | |
maintain possession they can get a
change in. | 0:52:44 | 0:52:51 | |
Canada do not really have the
dynamic defender who can leap into | 0:53:06 | 0:53:10 | |
the play. And it opened up, she
nearly got it. What a save from | 0:53:10 | 0:53:21 | |
Shannon Szabados. Said at one end
can lead to a fence at the other. | 0:53:21 | 0:53:31 | |
Possession was handed to the
Americans, who rein it in. | 0:53:31 | 0:53:42 | |
Americans, who rein it in. Shannon
Szabados flex it away. Approaching | 0:53:42 | 0:53:44 | |
six minutes to go. There is no
splitting them. Gold medal on the | 0:53:44 | 0:53:54 | |
line. | 0:53:54 | 0:53:58 | |
Laura Fortino has played the most
out of anyone in this game. She's | 0:54:05 | 0:54:10 | |
exhausted. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:14 | |
exhausted. It feels like there has
not been a whistle for an eternity. | 0:54:19 | 0:54:29 | |
The USA have done a wonderful job
defensively. They have not allowed | 0:54:37 | 0:54:41 | |
anything, really. Offside will be
given. | 0:54:41 | 0:54:51 | |
given. The US try to move the tin
with Hilary Knight. This will be the | 0:54:52 | 0:54:58 | |
best chance of overtime. What a
played from Gigi Marvin, she tries | 0:54:58 | 0:55:05 | |
to go high blocker. And what a save
from Shannon Szabados. Mickelson | 0:55:05 | 0:55:15 | |
forced the short when it came. For
me, the US have been the better | 0:55:15 | 0:55:20 | |
team. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:28 | |
Melody ghost wanted a penalty. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:47 | |
-- Daoust. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:56 | |
The rebound popped out, I did save.
Canada are playing with fire. Laura | 0:56:28 | 0:56:36 | |
Fortino is exhausted, she has
nothing left. The USA recognise | 0:56:36 | 0:56:42 | |
that, they just want to attack
quickly. | 0:56:42 | 0:56:48 | |
quickly. They have kept possession
so well in overtime. | 0:56:49 | 0:56:58 | |
This is really good from the
Americans. | 0:57:07 | 0:57:18 | |
The rebound! It only got as far as
the blue line. | 0:57:20 | 0:57:31 | |
the blue line. They are exhausted,
the Canadians cannot even move. | 0:57:32 | 0:57:42 | |
the Canadians cannot even move. The
US are closing in on a goal that | 0:57:42 | 0:57:47 | |
would get them the gold medal.
Meaghan Mikkelson was trying to tell | 0:57:47 | 0:57:51 | |
her team-mate to put it the other
direction, but instead it went her | 0:57:51 | 0:57:55 | |
way. What a block. You can get a
close-up on her, she has two black | 0:57:55 | 0:58:02 | |
eyes. And a broken nose by the looks
of things. | 0:58:02 | 0:58:11 | |
She could not force a chance. The
crowd are billing. They wanted a | 0:58:20 | 0:58:29 | |
penalty. That has been an
incredible, incredible game of ice | 0:58:29 | 0:58:36 | |
hockey. The entertainment has been
first-class. | 0:58:36 | 0:58:43 | |
Laura Fortino is absolutely
shattered. A penalty. | 0:59:05 | 0:59:18 | |
shattered. A penalty. Keller looks
up to the skies. Canada will have a | 0:59:18 | 0:59:23 | |
four 13 power play. Time-out? I
think so. It is a penalty. But we | 0:59:23 | 0:59:34 | |
are so deep into overtime. | 0:59:34 | 0:59:41 | |
are so deep into overtime. Sochi,
penalty, power | 0:59:41 | 0:59:49 | |
penalty, power play, Marie-Philip
Poulin. I would give her a bit of a | 0:59:49 | 0:59:52 | |
break. | 0:59:52 | 0:59:57 | |
It is almost like she heard you.
That I might just give sure players | 1:00:07 | 1:00:16 | |
are little more time to catch their
breath. They know what will be asked | 1:00:16 | 1:00:19 | |
of them out there. Shannon Szabados
gets a pat on the back. This has | 1:00:19 | 1:00:24 | |
been so intense. Canada went behind
in this game at the end of the first | 1:00:24 | 1:00:30 | |
period. Then they came back to lead
2-1. | 1:00:30 | 1:00:36 | |
A wonderful takeaway, great save,
Maddie Rooney, the goal-tender for | 1:00:36 | 1:00:41 | |
the Americans, she goes down and
scores in overtime, Lamoureux. Now | 1:00:41 | 1:00:50 | |
1.35 remaining in overtime. A power
play for Canada. They will finish | 1:00:50 | 1:00:55 | |
this game on the power play. A bad
fall. | 1:00:55 | 1:01:04 | |
fall. Lacquette has not been on the
ice all period so her legs are | 1:01:04 | 1:01:08 | |
probably a bit concrete. The pass is
just too long for Poulin. They do | 1:01:08 | 1:01:16 | |
not have quality possession as yet,
Canada. This could be a real danger. | 1:01:16 | 1:01:23 | |
It play by Poulin. You've got to get
number four off, this is not the | 1:01:23 | 1:01:30 | |
right call for Laura Schuler, and
you like a shot but she cannot keep | 1:01:30 | 1:01:35 | |
up out there. | 1:01:35 | 1:01:43 | |
Of the post, I think! Canada nearly
when it! They go again, Fortino has | 1:01:43 | 1:01:56 | |
to control her skates. The shot wide
from Rebecca Johnson. | 1:01:56 | 1:02:06 | |
from Rebecca Johnson. Surely the
Canadians are going to get bye out | 1:02:06 | 1:02:11 | |
there. Only 15 seconds left. --
Canada I want to try and get Poulin | 1:02:11 | 1:02:20 | |
out there. Eight seconds, no icing.
The drama will continue. 70 minutes, | 1:02:20 | 1:02:31 | |
80 minutes. You cannot split these
two teams. It's an Olympic gold | 1:02:31 | 1:02:37 | |
medal match and now it is over to a
shoot out and it comes down to the | 1:02:37 | 1:02:44 | |
netminding and it comes down to the
poise and experience of Shannon | 1:02:44 | 1:02:48 | |
Szabados, the use of Maddie Rooney.
-- the usefulness of Maddie Rooney. | 1:02:48 | 1:03:02 | |
Its the first time where going to
penalty shoot out in a gold medal | 1:03:02 | 1:03:08 | |
game. This shot deflects off the
post. A rebound and it actually hit | 1:03:08 | 1:03:19 | |
the stick, I think it was the stick
of Maddie Rooney. Incredible. | 1:03:19 | 1:03:24 | |
Elation and then disappointment on
the face of Poulin. Look at the | 1:03:24 | 1:03:31 | |
crowd! The best part is, it's both
Americans and Canadians who felt the | 1:03:31 | 1:03:38 | |
exact same way. Let's go through the
shoot out rules. Pretty simple, five | 1:03:38 | 1:03:43 | |
different shooters. And then if they
are still tied after five shooters | 1:03:43 | 1:03:50 | |
for each team, they then go to
sudden death and anybody can go. | 1:03:50 | 1:03:57 | |
This was the first goal of the game,
Hilary Knight on a power play. She | 1:03:57 | 1:04:02 | |
put the US in front. But then Haley
Irwin, near post, beating Rooney for | 1:04:02 | 1:04:13 | |
the first time. And then chief
tormentor, Poulin, what a pass and | 1:04:13 | 1:04:18 | |
what a finish. Rand goes flying into
the net as does the park. Canada in | 1:04:18 | 1:04:22 | |
control heading towards the medal,
but who has an answer? It is | 1:04:22 | 1:04:27 | |
Lamoureux. One week Lamoureux. --
Monique Lamoureux. A player full of | 1:04:27 | 1:04:39 | |
desire, as Desire blasts around the
arena, that desire has got the | 1:04:39 | 1:04:46 | |
Americans back in this. 1998 was the
last time the Americans won the | 1:04:46 | 1:04:52 | |
gold. Four-time defending world
champions against the four-time | 1:04:52 | 1:04:58 | |
defending Olympic champions. This is
just unreal. It's been great drama, | 1:04:58 | 1:05:02 | |
I hope, if this is the first time
you have tasted the experience of | 1:05:02 | 1:05:06 | |
ice hockey or the first time you
have watched women's ice hockey, | 1:05:06 | 1:05:11 | |
you've been narrowly entertained. It
doesn't matter which tournament | 1:05:11 | 1:05:13 | |
you're looking at, this is the best
one. -- you have been thoroughly | 1:05:13 | 1:05:17 | |
entertained. 20 years old, Maddie
Rooney, look at the smile on her | 1:05:17 | 1:05:23 | |
face, she doesn't look like she is a
young lady realising the magnitude | 1:05:23 | 1:05:27 | |
of this moment. That being said, I
think you've got to have a bit of | 1:05:27 | 1:05:31 | |
favouritism towards the Canadian
netminder Shannon Szabados, a little | 1:05:31 | 1:05:35 | |
bit bigger and better in a shoot out
situation. But in a one-on-one | 1:05:35 | 1:05:41 | |
situation, you might have to favour
the American team. So it's cut right | 1:05:41 | 1:05:45 | |
down the middle. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:47 | |
The shooters will know who they are,
look at that, the wound up and then | 1:05:52 | 1:05:59 | |
-- the wound of the Olympic
campaign, a broken nose, I don't | 1:05:59 | 1:06:04 | |
know how she did that, really? With
the cage on? Don't know how that | 1:06:04 | 1:06:09 | |
happened. Give me a few names that
were going to see in this shoot out. | 1:06:09 | 1:06:14 | |
I think you're going to see Melodie
Daoust | 1:06:14 | 1:06:25 | |
Daoust and it goes without saying
that Marie-Philip Poulin will be | 1:06:25 | 1:06:32 | |
going. They will be looking to set
the tone early and get a goal. With | 1:06:32 | 1:06:39 | |
the British link from Manchester,
Spooner, it goes off the tape. An | 1:06:39 | 1:06:45 | |
easy one for Rooney set up. -- first
up. She came in with a tonne of | 1:06:45 | 1:06:53 | |
speed but lost control, donor what
she tried to accomplish. She lost | 1:06:53 | 1:06:56 | |
control under her stick. Very easy
for the American netminder. These | 1:06:56 | 1:07:02 | |
two teams have practised this an
awful lot. Because they know how | 1:07:02 | 1:07:07 | |
important it can be. Here is the XP
and Marvin. She scores. -- | 1:07:07 | 1:07:17 | |
experienced, Marvin. And US take the
lead, marvellous from Marvin. She | 1:07:17 | 1:07:23 | |
lost the handle of it briefly but
was able to hammer it through. It | 1:07:23 | 1:07:28 | |
might have Szabados just enough. | 1:07:28 | 1:07:34 | |
So many goals she has scored, and
rifles at home. Canada level. So | 1:07:40 | 1:07:52 | |
much confidence on the shoot from
Agosta here, left and right, it | 1:07:52 | 1:07:58 | |
comes in on the ankle and upstairs
past the blocker. Rooney gets | 1:07:58 | 1:08:04 | |
outside the post, taken to wide eyed
the experienced veteran. Now Hannah | 1:08:04 | 1:08:09 | |
Brandt. Her sister played for the
Korean team. And here she is on the | 1:08:09 | 1:08:19 | |
final. Saved by Szabados extract
hide at two after two. -- saved by | 1:08:19 | 1:08:26 | |
Szabados! Now it is tied at 2-2. She
knows she got a piece of it and it | 1:08:26 | 1:08:36 | |
stays out went between the legs. It
stays out. Marie-Philip Poulin, two | 1:08:36 | 1:08:43 | |
Olympic game winning golds to her
name, a good save, Rooney. Stayed | 1:08:43 | 1:08:50 | |
big and tall. And it raises a smile.
She tried to do the same thing as | 1:08:50 | 1:08:59 | |
Agosta did and Rooney was there the
whole way. Great stop. | 1:08:59 | 1:09:06 | |
whole way. Great stop. The first
offence to go. A kick save from | 1:09:10 | 1:09:16 | |
Pfalzer on the -- from Szabados.
From Pfalzer. Straight down Main | 1:09:16 | 1:09:27 | |
Street but read beautifully for
Szabados. | 1:09:27 | 1:09:36 | |
Szabados. Now Daoust, maybe Canada's
best player in the tournament, so | 1:09:36 | 1:09:39 | |
composed. Oh, my word! That was
incredible! Shades of Forsberg in | 1:09:39 | 1:09:50 | |
94! Daoust with a shoot out goal to
savour! Are you kidding Mirai Nagasu | 1:09:50 | 1:10:00 | |
you got to be, look at this! And
amazing goal from Daoust! -- are you | 1:10:00 | 1:10:06 | |
kidding me right now? You have got
to the! She gets it past the | 1:10:06 | 1:10:11 | |
netminder with one hand! Amanda
Kessel scores for the Americans, top | 1:10:11 | 1:10:19 | |
corner. Levelling things up. Well,
if Daoust was a thing of beauty, | 1:10:19 | 1:10:27 | |
that was a thing of power. The
patients, waits until Szabados makes | 1:10:27 | 1:10:32 | |
the first move and then over the
club. What a shot from Amanda. For | 1:10:32 | 1:10:40 | |
the Canadians, Jenner, and saved.
Rooney smiles. She knows she has | 1:10:40 | 1:10:53 | |
given the Americans the chance to
win gold in the next shot. What a | 1:10:53 | 1:10:59 | |
stop right there. Szabados knows,
the coach knows. Hilary Knight, the | 1:10:59 | 1:11:09 | |
face of women's cocky in the USA. A
gold medal shot for the | 1:11:09 | 1:11:18 | |
-- the face of women's hockey. And
who did the coaches pick now? I | 1:11:18 | 1:11:26 | |
don't even know what to say. Hilary
Knight, robbed by Shannon Szabados. | 1:11:26 | 1:11:33 | |
But that in and you gold medal
champions. | 1:11:33 | 1:11:43 | |
champions. Agosta came out, they
might be taking a bit of a break. | 1:11:43 | 1:11:47 | |
They flip over the next five so it's
Lamoureux first. Slowly, slowly. All | 1:11:47 | 1:11:58 | |
the way in, Lamoureux, great goal.
Shake and bake. USA go up and now | 1:11:58 | 1:12:10 | |
they anxiously wait to see whether
this is good enough for gold. What a | 1:12:10 | 1:12:15 | |
move from Lamoureux. That is just
perfection right there. It's going | 1:12:15 | 1:12:23 | |
to be Agosta. She's already scored
once. She has to score to keep | 1:12:23 | 1:12:29 | |
Canada in with a chance. Saved! The
USA win gold! For the first time | 1:12:29 | 1:12:39 | |
since 1998! Canada's run of 24
straight wins in Olympic hockey | 1:12:39 | 1:12:44 | |
matches is over. They are
devastated. | 1:12:44 | 1:12:51 | |
devastated. As the Americans are
crowned Olympic champions for the | 1:12:51 | 1:12:53 | |
second time. The queens of ice
hockey. USA win it on a shoot out. | 1:12:53 | 1:13:06 | |
In the most Joe Mattock
circumstances. -- most dramatic | 1:13:06 | 1:13:12 | |
circumstances. | 1:13:12 | 1:13:14 | |
What a game. This was history right
here. | 1:13:16 | 1:13:22 | |
It took everything, 60 minutes
wasn't enough, 20 minutes of | 1:13:27 | 1:13:31 | |
overtime wasn't enough. Five penalty
shots per side wasn't enough. And | 1:13:31 | 1:13:36 | |
then finally it was Jocelyn
Lamoureux with incredible patience, | 1:13:36 | 1:13:43 | |
boys, with an incredible move, and
then the 20-year-old netminder turns | 1:13:43 | 1:13:52 | |
aside the Canadian veterinary. There
she is there, Maddie Rooney. And the | 1:13:52 | 1:14:00 | |
Americans turn such a heartache into
Pyeongchang golds. A 20 year wait | 1:14:00 | 1:14:10 | |
for gold, and it ends back in Asia
where it all started. And they also | 1:14:10 | 1:14:17 | |
liberate, tears of joy -- and they
will celebrate, tears of joy. And on | 1:14:17 | 1:14:25 | |
the other side, tears of
disappointment. And so fitting is | 1:14:25 | 1:14:31 | |
one of the Lamoureux twins, they
have had such an outstanding career. | 1:14:31 | 1:14:38 | |
This American team has fought long
and hard for their rights, to be | 1:14:38 | 1:14:47 | |
treated as professional athletes by
the US Association. They have fought | 1:14:47 | 1:14:52 | |
Canada, they have afford the
disappointment that they faced, and | 1:14:52 | 1:14:56 | |
in the end they rely on their
20-year-old netminder Maddie Rooney | 1:14:56 | 1:15:03 | |
who made the stop and then the
realisation. The Golden girls of | 1:15:03 | 1:15:07 | |
American hockey. | 1:15:07 | 1:15:12 | |
American hockey. Well, what dramatic
final. Canadians finally beaten as | 1:15:14 | 1:15:20 | |
the US end that 20 year wait for a
gold medal. They took penalty shots | 1:15:20 | 1:15:28 | |
for the Americans to be the
Canadians, what again. -- beat the | 1:15:28 | 1:15:34 | |
Canadians, what a game.
STUDIO: so often a bridesmaid | 1:15:34 | 1:15:38 | |
against their feasts rival, the USA
win their second Olympic gold, first | 1:15:38 | 1:15:45 | |
since 1998. What a final it was.
Credible stuff. If you're looking | 1:15:45 | 1:15:50 | |
for a bit more tension on the ice,
plenty over at the Curling Centre | 1:15:50 | 1:15:55 | |
this morning because Great Britain's
men were up against Switzerland to | 1:15:55 | 1:16:01 | |
take the last available semifinal
place. GB had beaten the Swiss in | 1:16:01 | 1:16:04 | |
the round robin session in a last
end thrilling match. This time it | 1:16:04 | 1:16:09 | |
was not to be quite the same story.
The final story here. GB were | 1:16:09 | 1:16:15 | |
leading 5-4 but an incredible last
stone for the Swiss. It would give | 1:16:15 | 1:16:23 | |
them five stones. Take them into a
9-5 lead. | 1:16:23 | 1:16:32 | |
It would be the one that would send
Kyle Smith and his team home. They | 1:16:33 | 1:16:39 | |
have had a fantastic debut, but that
was to be for them. The Swiss team | 1:16:39 | 1:16:44 | |
go through to the semifinals and
afterwards Kyle Smith spoke to Steve | 1:16:44 | 1:16:47 | |
Cram. | 1:16:47 | 1:16:52 | |
afterwards Kyle Smith spoke to Steve
Cram. | 1:16:52 | 1:16:52 | |
You're obviously hugely
disappointed. Just talk us through | 1:16:52 | 1:16:55 | |
the ninth end and the shot you
played. It is always a tricky | 1:16:55 | 1:17:00 | |
situation, you do not want to give
them the blank in the ninth end, so | 1:17:00 | 1:17:05 | |
we were trying to force them down to
one. Things were not looking great | 1:17:05 | 1:17:11 | |
early on, and unfortunately we
missed a few, and we had a chance to | 1:17:11 | 1:17:16 | |
hold them, and that was the game.
You guys came out firing really | 1:17:16 | 1:17:24 | |
well. | 1:17:24 | 1:17:30 | |
well. It was going perfectly. Yes,
probably one of the best games we | 1:17:30 | 1:17:33 | |
have played this week, and
unfortunately some shots at the end | 1:17:33 | 1:17:37 | |
which were the turning point in the
game. Apart from that it is the best | 1:17:37 | 1:17:41 | |
performance we have put together,
just hugely disappointed. That is a | 1:17:41 | 1:17:46 | |
word you will be using a lot,
disappointment. Kyle | 1:17:46 | 1:17:52 | |
word you will be using a lot,
disappointment. Kyle, possibly one | 1:17:52 | 1:17:53 | |
of the worst experiences of your
career, I guess? Yes, worst and | 1:17:53 | 1:17:57 | |
best. | 1:17:57 | 1:18:02 | |
best. We have played pretty well, we
had a couple of chances to beat the | 1:18:02 | 1:18:11 | |
USA last night and did not manage,
and we got the lifeline this | 1:18:11 | 1:18:15 | |
morning, we played pretty well, but
a couple of shots at this level is | 1:18:15 | 1:18:18 | |
enough to lose the game. It is hard
to find the positives. Particularly | 1:18:18 | 1:18:23 | |
straight after you have just come
off the ice. What have you learned? | 1:18:23 | 1:18:29 | |
We have had a lot of good games, but
the odd missed shot here and here | 1:18:29 | 1:18:36 | |
which has cost us. It is about doing
our best moving forward. Your | 1:18:36 | 1:18:47 | |
reflections on the week? Your
biscuit. A lot of people were not | 1:18:47 | 1:18:50 | |
expecting you to do particularly
well. What is your reflection on the | 1:18:50 | 1:18:53 | |
week? It is hard to reflect so soon
after the loss, but we came to our | 1:18:53 | 1:19:05 | |
first Olympics and gave it our best
shot and made the play-offs in the | 1:19:05 | 1:19:08 | |
end. We had a good game but it was
not to be, sadly. A couple things | 1:19:08 | 1:19:12 | |
did not go our way and a couple of
half shots, and that is all it | 1:19:12 | 1:19:17 | |
takes. There is plenty to look
forward to, and I just need to take | 1:19:17 | 1:19:23 | |
some time to reflect on this and see
what we can take from it. Well | 1:19:23 | 1:19:30 | |
played this week, bad luck today. | 1:19:30 | 1:19:33 | |
what we can take from it. Well
played this week, bad luck today. | 1:19:33 | 1:19:35 | |
Disappointment, but I am sure they
will be back in four years in | 1:19:35 | 1:19:40 | |
Beijing. This is how the semifinals
will line up. | 1:19:40 | 1:19:51 | |
You may remember we told a story a
few days ago of Great Britain's | 1:19:54 | 1:19:58 | |
bobsleigh girls, Mica McNeill, and
to become the. They were told five | 1:19:58 | 1:20:04 | |
months before coming that their
funding was being stopped. They | 1:20:04 | 1:20:09 | |
appealed to the great British public
in a crowdfunding page and it was a | 1:20:09 | 1:20:18 | |
great celebration for them
yesterday. | 1:20:18 | 1:20:25 | |
yesterday. Mica McNeill and Mica
Moore, starting off in eighth place. | 1:20:25 | 1:20:28 | |
You will get a direct comparison as
we go, between themselves and the | 1:20:28 | 1:20:32 | |
Swiss team, who have just gone. If
they can hold them at bay, a little | 1:20:32 | 1:20:42 | |
bit of history will come their way.
Slight | 1:20:42 | 1:20:48 | |
disappointment, they were in 11th
place, we know the | 1:20:54 | 1:21:03 | |
better there start is not great, not
terrible. | 1:21:11 | 1:21:18 | |
terrible. That might cost, not as
bad as others through the, but the | 1:21:18 | 1:21:22 | |
two tenths of a second mate drop off
a little. | 1:21:22 | 1:21:32 | |
a little. She needs to get this
right, and we could get the top | 1:21:32 | 1:21:37 | |
eight. Has shed got enough speed
left? | 1:21:37 | 1:21:45 | |
left? Starting to pull away. No one
has been eighth at the Olympic Games | 1:21:45 | 1:21:57 | |
before, but they have just claimed
that position! Nicola Minichiello in | 1:21:57 | 1:22:05 | |
2006 was a fabulous ninth. But the
British pairing go one better at | 1:22:05 | 1:22:08 | |
least. What an Olympic Games for the
player who are only here for the | 1:22:08 | 1:22:15 | |
generosity of the British public.
The funding was completely slashed | 1:22:15 | 1:22:19 | |
last year. They put out there
begging bowl and got enough money to | 1:22:19 | 1:22:24 | |
keep them on the road, keep them in
business. Their heads never dropped | 1:22:24 | 1:22:33 | |
and now they have secured a slice
sporting history for Britain. | 1:22:33 | 1:22:40 | |
So, some history at the Sliding
Centre. | 1:22:40 | 1:22:43 | |
So, some history at the Sliding
Centre. | 1:22:43 | 1:22:48 | |
Mica and Mica are joining the. I was
just critiquing myself! It is not | 1:22:52 | 1:22:58 | |
too bad, I am happy with it. That is
an understatement. The best British | 1:22:58 | 1:23:05 | |
result from a woman's bobsleigh
team, and you did it on your own | 1:23:05 | 1:23:08 | |
with the help of the British public.
It is amazing. We did not think we | 1:23:08 | 1:23:13 | |
would be here a few months ago, so
when we knew we were coming, we said | 1:23:13 | 1:23:19 | |
just enjoy it, hopefully a top ten
position, but we have update -- | 1:23:19 | 1:23:26 | |
outdone ourselves. What was the real
driving force behind the performance | 1:23:26 | 1:23:29 | |
and result? The Olympic Games is
every athlete's dream, and we have | 1:23:29 | 1:23:35 | |
worked for a back. When you work for
it for years then you're not sure of | 1:23:35 | 1:23:39 | |
his is going to happen, it seems
like it is getting taken away from | 1:23:39 | 1:23:43 | |
you, and we had to do something
about it, so we started our | 1:23:43 | 1:23:47 | |
fundraising campaign because we did
not want to be sitting watching at | 1:23:47 | 1:23:51 | |
home. It has been really great, we
have come out here and shown what we | 1:23:51 | 1:23:55 | |
can do, and it is nice to repay the
public and Great Britain, but it is | 1:23:55 | 1:24:00 | |
also nice that we knew we could do
it all along. Five months ago, what | 1:24:00 | 1:24:08 | |
was your reaction when you were told
the funding was stopped. We were | 1:24:08 | 1:24:15 | |
devastated at the time, but we are
sportswomen and very focused and | 1:24:15 | 1:24:18 | |
driven, so we acted quite quickly
and asked the public to get as one | 1:24:18 | 1:24:27 | |
season, and a shared our story, and
it was amazing to know we had the | 1:24:27 | 1:24:33 | |
people behind us. We have competed
in competitions, got extra runs, | 1:24:33 | 1:24:38 | |
which is so important when we come
from a country that does not have a | 1:24:38 | 1:24:42 | |
track, so we grateful for everyone
who helped us. We had your interview | 1:24:42 | 1:24:48 | |
last night, you just got off the
track. You said you hadn't spoken to | 1:24:48 | 1:24:54 | |
anyone from British bobsleigh. Have
you spoken to them yet? Yes, | 1:24:54 | 1:24:59 | |
everyone is really happy for us. It
has been really nice to work with | 1:24:59 | 1:25:03 | |
the coaches and come together for
the Olympic Games, they are really | 1:25:03 | 1:25:07 | |
pleased. It was a really great
result. But we are looking forward | 1:25:07 | 1:25:11 | |
to getting back to England and
sitting down with the coaches and | 1:25:11 | 1:25:17 | |
making a plan going forward. Do you
know any more about what can happen | 1:25:17 | 1:25:22 | |
next, and is funding likely to
determine? We do not know anything | 1:25:22 | 1:25:27 | |
at the moment, and probably will not
find out for a while, so it is a bit | 1:25:27 | 1:25:31 | |
of a waiting game, and there is a
lot to get on with in the meantime. | 1:25:31 | 1:25:37 | |
We will probably have a holiday then
back to work. You deserve the | 1:25:37 | 1:25:42 | |
holiday, certainly. What would you
like to see to the people who | 1:25:42 | 1:25:46 | |
supported you? It must have been
incredible, you had reached your | 1:25:46 | 1:25:49 | |
target within six days. We cannot
say thank you enough. We have been | 1:25:49 | 1:25:55 | |
able to come out and represent Great
Britain. It was nice to have a woman | 1:25:55 | 1:26:02 | |
representative, and it is great that
the public are learning more about | 1:26:02 | 1:26:05 | |
winter sport and we want to thank
everyone who donated and shared the | 1:26:05 | 1:26:11 | |
story and all the messages of
support. Everyone from back home who | 1:26:11 | 1:26:15 | |
called us and said we can help with
their son back. It just brought it | 1:26:15 | 1:26:18 | |
all together and made it
competitive, meaning we could get | 1:26:18 | 1:26:27 | |
faster and stronger. Have about your
relationship? You are a little team | 1:26:27 | 1:26:30 | |
on the track, but you have had to
work closely together to make this | 1:26:30 | 1:26:34 | |
happen. We have a good relationship
even behind the scenes, which helps | 1:26:34 | 1:26:39 | |
with everything we do. We have trust
in each other, we know that we will | 1:26:39 | 1:26:48 | |
give 150%. We are the smallest girls
in bobsleigh, so we have to give it | 1:26:48 | 1:26:52 | |
our all every time, and we know that
we will do that. It is really | 1:26:52 | 1:26:57 | |
important for a team to get on.
Inmate should able to get on with | 1:26:57 | 1:27:03 | |
each other, and have a good working
team. The start is probably the | 1:27:03 | 1:27:09 | |
thing that needs a little more work.
How do you develop that as you look | 1:27:09 | 1:27:13 | |
ahead to next season to potentially
being back in the Team GB colours? | 1:27:13 | 1:27:19 | |
Every athlete knows that you cannot
become much stronger and faster | 1:27:19 | 1:27:23 | |
overnight. We're still young
athletes, up against athletes who | 1:27:23 | 1:27:27 | |
have done two Olympic Games, and
they have all this experience. | 1:27:27 | 1:27:32 | |
Another four years will be great for
us to get faster than Sean Dillon to | 1:27:32 | 1:27:35 | |
get more consistent with my driving,
in my third heat I had a problem | 1:27:35 | 1:27:42 | |
that knocked us back, but it is four
years, which is a long-time. They | 1:27:42 | 1:27:46 | |
think we can do it but we need to
put a little bit of weight on as | 1:27:46 | 1:27:52 | |
well as a major mark that means more
chocolate and decay, so that is | 1:27:52 | 1:27:55 | |
good. What will be the biggest
memory here in Pyeongchang? One of | 1:27:55 | 1:28:00 | |
the nicest memories is being able to
have our families a year. When you | 1:28:00 | 1:28:04 | |
are on season, we are away for 56
months of the year, and do not see | 1:28:04 | 1:28:10 | |
our families often. So, when we were
on the start line for the last heat, | 1:28:10 | 1:28:13 | |
we could them chanting, and usually
you are so serious that I was | 1:28:13 | 1:28:20 | |
smiling under my helmet. It was
amazing. It made it a really relaxed | 1:28:20 | 1:28:26 | |
atmosphere, but I have never had
that much fun racing in my life. I | 1:28:26 | 1:28:33 | |
have never walked away from arrays
and said, that was really fun, I | 1:28:33 | 1:28:36 | |
want to do it again. You normally
walk away exhausted and tired. We | 1:28:36 | 1:28:43 | |
were just beaming with smiles and
wanted to get back to the top to go | 1:28:43 | 1:28:47 | |
again. I'm afraid you cannot go
again, but the four-man bob goes, | 1:28:47 | 1:28:51 | |
will you be joining in the chant?
You could start the chanting for | 1:28:51 | 1:28:57 | |
that? Absolutely, we're really close
with them, we travel together all | 1:28:57 | 1:29:00 | |
winter and it will be awesome to see
them do well. If they need is moving | 1:29:00 | 1:29:06 | |
things or cheering them on. Huge
congratulations, we cannot wait to | 1:29:06 | 1:29:11 | |
see what happens in four years, I am
sure you will be back. From | 1:29:11 | 1:29:16 | |
bobsleigh to something a little bit
different. It is one of only six | 1:29:16 | 1:29:20 | |
sports that have been in every
single Winter Olympic so far. Today | 1:29:20 | 1:29:24 | |
it is the team Nordic combined. It
is a ski jump off the large hill, | 1:29:24 | 1:29:32 | |
followed by a 4.5 kilometre
cross-country. It is a crazy sport, | 1:29:32 | 1:29:40 | |
I think, but Ollie Williams can keep
it up-to-date with what he thinks. | 1:29:40 | 1:29:44 | |
We are joining it for the ski jump. | 1:29:44 | 1:29:47 | |
it up-to-date with what he thinks.
We are joining it for the ski jump. | 1:29:47 | 1:29:49 | |
It is a little crazy, the Nordic
combined, and what is crazier is the | 1:29:50 | 1:29:56 | |
team event, played it will go off
over the next hour. You're about to | 1:29:56 | 1:29:59 | |
see ten teams of four entering this.
I feel like this is the ultimate | 1:29:59 | 1:30:06 | |
winter eliminate, ski jumping, then
skiing, which decides the medals. | 1:30:06 | 1:30:10 | |
The way that the ski jump helps is
you get points for the jump. They | 1:30:10 | 1:30:15 | |
will come down the jump on the
right-hand side, a little snow in | 1:30:15 | 1:30:18 | |
the air, below freezing, the snow is
just whirling around. I focus on not | 1:30:18 | 1:30:25 | |
only because the wind conditions are
going to make a bit of a difference. | 1:30:25 | 1:30:33 | |
They are blowing the snow from the
track to make sure they stay nice | 1:30:33 | 1:30:36 | |
and crisp and fresh bread to one.
This is the first competitor. | 1:30:36 | 1:30:43 | |
By checking our stars is first out
to get the team Nordic. He thinks | 1:30:46 | 1:30:55 | |
it's so-so at best. We will be
looking at real contenders for | 1:30:55 | 1:31:01 | |
medals little bit later on to be
trying to get over 130 metres, plus. | 1:31:01 | 1:31:08 | |
But it's not just your distance that
gets you point, it's also your style | 1:31:08 | 1:31:12 | |
in the. If you seen any of the ski
jumping early on, you'll know that | 1:31:12 | 1:31:16 | |
what the coaches and judges are
looking for is for you to hold your | 1:31:16 | 1:31:20 | |
form in the air and make sure that
you land beautifully. | 1:31:20 | 1:31:30 | |
you land beautifully. We move on to
Ben Loomis from the USA. Only a | 1:31:30 | 1:31:37 | |
teenager. Olympics or the medallist.
US team was expecting to be -- are | 1:31:37 | 1:31:46 | |
not expecting to be medallist but
they are improving year-on-year. | 1:31:46 | 1:31:50 | |
It's a bit of a struggle, they do
have a history of winning medals in | 1:31:50 | 1:31:55 | |
Nordic combined. But that's not
going to feature among those names | 1:31:55 | 1:32:00 | |
at the top of the leaderboard. You
can see you put your skis out into a | 1:32:00 | 1:32:07 | |
V shape, lean over and then you have
bent knees and arms out. Roughly | 1:32:07 | 1:32:17 | |
half of your score comes from the
judges. 16 is OK but distance but | 1:32:17 | 1:32:22 | |
that great. Into the lead for now.
Watch out when we get to Austria, | 1:32:22 | 1:32:32 | |
Japan, Germany and Norway in a few
jumps. They are the ones likely to | 1:32:32 | 1:32:37 | |
go well. Ondrej Pazout for the Czech
Republic, landing in a solid red | 1:32:37 | 1:32:46 | |
line across the jump, that is called
the K-point, at 125 metres. If you | 1:32:46 | 1:32:59 | |
hit that point, you score a base of
65 points for your distance, if you | 1:32:59 | 1:33:09 | |
don't make it, you get points taken
off, if you land beyond it, you get | 1:33:09 | 1:33:13 | |
marks added on. 51 from the judges.
A little less than 60 for the | 1:33:13 | 1:33:23 | |
distance. | 1:33:23 | 1:33:25 | |
The youngest athlete here for Italy,
Aaron Kostner. Well short of the | 1:33:28 | 1:33:37 | |
gratuitous described. -- of the
K-point we just described. 37th | 1:33:37 | 1:33:45 | |
overall in the normal hill. Nordic
combined is so interesting because | 1:33:45 | 1:33:53 | |
it combines not only ski jumping and
cross-country skiing but people who | 1:33:53 | 1:33:58 | |
are good at ski jumping and April
who are good at cross-country skiing | 1:33:58 | 1:34:02 | |
but not that great at the other
ones. So you will see ski jumper to | 1:34:02 | 1:34:07 | |
look disappointing but they will
make up the time in the | 1:34:07 | 1:34:10 | |
cross-country skiing later and they
could be in the reckoning, and | 1:34:10 | 1:34:14 | |
similarly you will see people
putting in some amazing jumps here | 1:34:14 | 1:34:18 | |
who are not that quick comparatively
in the cross-country skiing. So that | 1:34:18 | 1:34:22 | |
ski to the finish for the medals
becomes a great pursuit between the | 1:34:22 | 1:34:26 | |
people who got out in front in the
ski jump and those who are actually | 1:34:26 | 1:34:30 | |
better at skiing. Francois Braud for
France, you can hear in the | 1:34:30 | 1:34:37 | |
background the Blowers being fired
up to keep the snow out of the | 1:34:37 | 1:34:42 | |
tracks that led to take off. A solid
length. You stay crouched down until | 1:34:42 | 1:34:52 | |
you get that point at the end and
new up into the V shape, hold the | 1:34:52 | 1:34:59 | |
position, telegraphed landing, both
legs bent, arms outstretched, that's | 1:34:59 | 1:35:03 | |
a solid charm. His team-mates watch
and you only get one jump. She gets | 1:35:03 | 1:35:11 | |
it wrong, that's it. -- if you get
it wrong, that's it. For Finland, | 1:35:11 | 1:35:21 | |
Ilkka Herola. A quite young Finnish
team competing here. That jump has | 1:35:21 | 1:35:31 | |
excellent distance. High fives from
the coaches. | 1:35:31 | 1:35:43 | |
the coaches. A big, big opening
effort for the Finnish team who were | 1:35:43 | 1:35:45 | |
outsiders at best. If they can keep
that going, that will put them into | 1:35:45 | 1:35:51 | |
contention for the medals. The great
landing as well. Ilkka Herola very | 1:35:51 | 1:35:58 | |
happy with himself. | 1:35:58 | 1:36:05 | |
Finland go into the lead, five
points ahead of France and we move | 1:36:05 | 1:36:11 | |
on to Austria. Austria do have
something of a chance to speak on | 1:36:11 | 1:36:15 | |
podium here. | 1:36:15 | 1:36:23 | |
Again, another strong jump. As I
say, you only have one chance. If | 1:36:24 | 1:36:30 | |
you get it wrong and land five or
ten metres back of what they are | 1:36:30 | 1:36:36 | |
looking for, that really hurts your
team's chances in the cross-country. | 1:36:36 | 1:36:41 | |
Every point you only hear is time in
that cross-country. If you win the | 1:36:41 | 1:36:47 | |
ski jump, every other team has to
start behind you by converting | 1:36:47 | 1:36:51 | |
points into seconds. It staggered
start and you get more of a head | 1:36:51 | 1:36:58 | |
start the further you jump. Into
second place for now. Starting for | 1:36:58 | 1:37:08 | |
Japan now. 34-year-old Hideaki
Nagai. The code uses the flag to | 1:37:08 | 1:37:14 | |
tell the jump they are clear to go. | 1:37:14 | 1:37:24 | |
Again, around about the K-point of
125 metres, a little bit further | 1:37:24 | 1:37:30 | |
back than some of the jumps we have
seen. | 1:37:30 | 1:37:39 | |
seen. A phenomenal venue this has
been, this is the last day of any | 1:37:39 | 1:37:44 | |
ski jumping action here. The coat is
happy with that. -- the coach is | 1:37:44 | 1:37:52 | |
happy. The nod from the Japanese
team-mate in the waiting room. Forth | 1:37:52 | 1:37:59 | |
for now but they have stronger
competitors coming out. Watch out | 1:37:59 | 1:38:04 | |
for Akito Watabe jumping last for
Japan, one of the best in the world, | 1:38:04 | 1:38:08 | |
so is this man for Germany, Eric
Frenzel. A gold and a bronze medal | 1:38:08 | 1:38:13 | |
already for Germany in these games,
gold in Sochi as well and a huge | 1:38:13 | 1:38:19 | |
jump to get Germany on their way.
There are still three more to come | 1:38:19 | 1:38:24 | |
for each team. 137 metres is a big
start for Germany courtesy of their | 1:38:24 | 1:38:31 | |
main man. | 1:38:31 | 1:38:36 | |
main man. You need such
coordination, skill and timing to | 1:38:37 | 1:38:41 | |
get this right. And if you have
watched him opening his champagne | 1:38:41 | 1:38:46 | |
after winning the bronze medal a
couple of days ago, you wouldn't | 1:38:46 | 1:38:51 | |
have noticed he had any of those
things because he knocked one of his | 1:38:51 | 1:38:53 | |
own teeth out with a champagne cork.
You might be able to see a gap, they | 1:38:53 | 1:39:01 | |
have tried to put his teeth back in!
A little bit wonky! Doesn't matter | 1:39:01 | 1:39:06 | |
when you're winning and Olympic
medal. | 1:39:06 | 1:39:12 | |
medal. Only Norway possibly could
keep up with Germany. Germany the | 1:39:13 | 1:39:15 | |
favourites. You will see it's a long
jump but not quite up to that green | 1:39:15 | 1:39:24 | |
line which represents the line of
the leaders. 3.5 metres back. | 1:39:24 | 1:39:33 | |
Look at this form. All of these
jumps look uniform, you have to do | 1:39:36 | 1:39:45 | |
that landing, there is no other way
to land. Norway have been struggling | 1:39:45 | 1:39:53 | |
with the ski jumping. So far, in
this Olympics. They are into third, | 1:39:53 | 1:40:01 | |
behind Finland and that's a bit of a
surprise as we enter this | 1:40:01 | 1:40:05 | |
FirstGroup. -- end this first group.
Germany have a reasonably half the | 1:40:05 | 1:40:14 | |
lead. | 1:40:14 | 1:40:16 | |
The five teams at the top are the
ones best positioned for the medals | 1:40:24 | 1:40:28 | |
so far. We take one more look at
Eric Frenzel, Germany 1-2- three in | 1:40:28 | 1:40:38 | |
the individual event on the Hill a
few days ago Nixon clear favourites | 1:40:38 | 1:40:46 | |
to take the team golds today and
that's exactly the start they would | 1:40:46 | 1:40:49 | |
have wanted from that man. Here we
go for round two. Look out for Go | 1:40:49 | 1:41:01 | |
Yamamoto for Japan, Vinzenz Geiger,
German's young | 1:41:01 | 1:41:11 | |
German's young Nordic combined
sensation, and Jarl Magnus Riiber | 1:41:11 | 1:41:12 | |
who missed out having run the
Germans close in the previous event. | 1:41:12 | 1:41:17 | |
Pawel Slowiok waits for the lights
to go green, which is controlled by | 1:41:17 | 1:41:26 | |
the wind jury, they have a room
where they have all of the data from | 1:41:26 | 1:41:30 | |
all of the metres, telling them that
the wind conditions are OK said the | 1:41:30 | 1:41:33 | |
coach drops the flag. | 1:41:33 | 1:41:41 | |
A slightly better skier than the
jumper so he needs every meeting he | 1:41:44 | 1:41:52 | |
can get. -- every metre he can get.
That's what makes this particular | 1:41:52 | 1:42:01 | |
sports are interesting, it's not
just how good you are at jumping or | 1:42:01 | 1:42:06 | |
skiing, it's frankly, how bad you
are at the other one. You can see | 1:42:06 | 1:42:11 | |
how tricky the landing is, having to
reach forward to maintain his | 1:42:11 | 1:42:15 | |
balance. | 1:42:15 | 1:42:20 | |
Already, Poland struggling. Strange
because Poland are a dominant nation | 1:42:24 | 1:42:27 | |
in ski jump on its own, but in
Nordic combined they are struggling | 1:42:27 | 1:42:33 | |
this year. | 1:42:33 | 1:42:37 | |
Good jump from Ben Berend. Not up
there with the huge distances we've | 1:42:42 | 1:42:48 | |
already seen but 120 metres from the
US point of view for the young team | 1:42:48 | 1:42:55 | |
is a really positive start. He was
only 40th in the world at last | 1:42:55 | 1:43:03 | |
year's World Championships but this
US team really coming along well | 1:43:03 | 1:43:09 | |
after apparent few years. Little
adjustments in the air to control | 1:43:09 | 1:43:13 | |
direction and speed. A slightly
different technique from Ben Berend, | 1:43:13 | 1:43:16 | |
you will see it was more of a letter
H Dana V in the air. You crying can | 1:43:16 | 1:43:31 | |
go for a letter H if you want. | 1:43:31 | 1:43:35 | |
A little unsteady offer there, back
from the K-point, which you can | 1:43:38 | 1:43:53 | |
consider like the par score Inc. --
in golf. Your timing has to be so | 1:43:53 | 1:44:01 | |
precise to reach the bottom of the
platform, it's 100 metres just to | 1:44:01 | 1:44:04 | |
that platform. When you're in the
air, it's more than that and you | 1:44:04 | 1:44:10 | |
have to get the landing just right.
Enough there to put the Czech | 1:44:10 | 1:44:19 | |
Republic above the US and Poland. To
Italy and Lukas Runggaldier. His | 1:44:19 | 1:44:30 | |
sister was in the women's ski jump
event here. Not great from him. A | 1:44:30 | 1:44:41 | |
little Santa coming down the hill
but more importantly, the distance | 1:44:41 | 1:44:44 | |
was not there. -- he was a little
off centre coming down the hill. You | 1:44:44 | 1:44:54 | |
don't get the take-off right, and
there is literally nothing you can | 1:44:54 | 1:44:57 | |
do in the air other than let the
jump take its course. | 1:44:57 | 1:45:08 | |
A bit of a rueful wave goodbye to
the Olympics. But it will be back in | 1:45:09 | 1:45:15 | |
the cross-country skiing. A gold
medallist in the normal hill, way | 1:45:15 | 1:45:23 | |
back in Vancouver 2010, down to 35th
in Sochi and 31st this year. Waiting | 1:45:23 | 1:45:31 | |
for the green light. That runs up to
45, if it gets to 45 without going | 1:45:31 | 1:45:41 | |
green, it will turn red and he will
get 40 seconds to compose itself | 1:45:41 | 1:45:46 | |
while they wait for the wind
conditions. The coach withdraws the | 1:45:46 | 1:45:50 | |
flag and he will shuffle back. It's
about -2 up there, nowhere near as | 1:45:50 | 1:45:57 | |
cold as we have seen. If you watched
the start of the limits, they had | 1:45:57 | 1:46:03 | |
blankets ready for everybody. Today
it's a bit easier. You have five | 1:46:03 | 1:46:09 | |
minutes up there waiting to jump. | 1:46:09 | 1:46:16 | |
minutes up there waiting to jump. C
if we can get a green light. | 1:46:16 | 1:46:27 | |
And as jump from Jason Lamy
Chappuis. France got off to a great | 1:46:39 | 1:46:52 | |
start with Francois Braud. He does
well to keep hold of the landing. | 1:46:55 | 1:47:06 | |
The team-mates and culture very
happy with that. A strong scorer. A | 1:47:06 | 1:47:12 | |
provisional lead for now, it is not
the kind of score you will see from | 1:47:12 | 1:47:16 | |
the last few teams, but it keeps
them up there. | 1:47:16 | 1:47:23 | |
them up there. Now, Cannes to do the
same for Finland? He got a great | 1:47:28 | 1:47:38 | |
start from Ilkka Herola. It looks
like another pause because of the | 1:47:38 | 1:47:43 | |
wind. | 1:47:43 | 1:47:48 | |
The jury in charge of the wind
conditions has to make sure the | 1:47:55 | 1:47:59 | |
conditions are safe and therefore
all competitors. Not only that there | 1:47:59 | 1:48:06 | |
is not a crosswind, but that it is
similar for everyone. | 1:48:06 | 1:48:19 | |
similar for everyone. You always
want to try to make sure that the | 1:48:19 | 1:48:21 | |
wind is roughly the same for each
competitor. | 1:48:21 | 1:48:33 | |
108 metres, a full 25 metres back
from his team-mate Ilkka Herola. You | 1:48:38 | 1:48:46 | |
get one jump each for your four team
members, and if one doesn't manage | 1:48:46 | 1:48:50 | |
to keep up to the standard of the
others, it will cost two seconds in | 1:48:50 | 1:48:54 | |
the cross-country skiing. | 1:48:54 | 1:49:04 | |
A little wobble on the way down, but
a great | 1:49:22 | 1:49:29 | |
a great jump from Bernhard Gruber,
and maybe Austria can be contenders. | 1:49:32 | 1:49:38 | |
He was the world champion in 2015.
He was the only member of the | 1:49:38 | 1:49:48 | |
Austrian team who won the gold medal
Eaton years ago, and he was rolling | 1:49:48 | 1:49:52 | |
back the years. 35 years old. | 1:49:52 | 1:50:03 | |
If you go online and look up | 1:50:12 | 1:50:19 | |
at him, he is in a band, for this
board. This was | 1:50:27 | 1:50:42 | |
board. This was one of the best
jumps for Go Yamamoto. In the team | 1:50:42 | 1:50:52 | |
event he has three others around him
who can help in his less strong | 1:50:52 | 1:51:04 | |
events, not | 1:51:04 | 1:51:10 | |
events, not least Akito Watabe, the
world number one. | 1:51:10 | 1:51:16 | |
world number one. You will see more
of Vinzenz Geiger, he has been | 1:51:21 | 1:51:24 | |
exceptional at the Olympics. I think
this man will someday replace Eric | 1:51:24 | 1:51:29 | |
Frenzel as the superstar on the
German team. He should be happy with | 1:51:29 | 1:51:36 | |
that. It is not one of the longest
jumps we have seen, but when you | 1:51:36 | 1:51:45 | |
watch the remainder of the German
team, that will be a good | 1:51:45 | 1:51:48 | |
contribution. | 1:51:48 | 1:51:53 | |
The Germans are happy enough! Let us
take a look at the scorer. Germany | 1:52:03 | 1:52:12 | |
are just into second. | 1:52:12 | 1:52:20 | |
are just into second. And the last
in this round is the Norwegian, who | 1:52:20 | 1:52:24 | |
could not hold on a few days ago.
We're coming to two Norwegian | 1:52:24 | 1:52:41 | |
competitors still to go. | 1:52:41 | 1:52:47 | |
competitors still to go. And they
have not had much luck, so they | 1:52:52 | 1:52:55 | |
needed this one to be good, and it
was. Norway is still in contention. | 1:52:55 | 1:53:06 | |
That is enough to put Norway into
the lead | 1:53:14 | 1:53:21 | |
the lead ahead of Austria and
Germany. Germany are not far back in | 1:53:24 | 1:53:27 | |
third position. | 1:53:27 | 1:53:37 | |
You land on your front leg and
transferred the week to your back is | 1:53:56 | 1:53:59 | |
your land. He held the landing
nicely. And he gets to hang out in | 1:53:59 | 1:54:04 | |
the hot seat as we see the sun going
down over the | 1:54:04 | 1:54:15 | |
down over the Alpensia ski jump. It
will be interesting to see how these | 1:54:15 | 1:54:22 | |
competitors go. | 1:54:22 | 1:54:27 | |
We wait for the wind to settle down
before Poland. The slope is not made | 1:54:32 | 1:54:52 | |
from snow, it is made from a
performance ceramic, so every | 1:54:52 | 1:55:01 | |
competitor gets exactly the same
surface which is important for | 1:55:01 | 1:55:04 | |
Furniss. They are blowing it to keep
the snow out. There is a bit of wind | 1:55:04 | 1:55:16 | |
in the air, a bit of snow in the
air. That is why they are treating | 1:55:16 | 1:55:20 | |
at the way they are. | 1:55:20 | 1:55:25 | |
at the way they are. Looks like
we're going to give it a go for Adam | 1:55:26 | 1:55:28 | |
Cieslar, to start three of four. You
will see there is a swirling wind | 1:55:28 | 1:55:36 | |
icon ahead of the jumper, which has
gone from red to black, which means | 1:55:36 | 1:55:40 | |
it is OK. | 1:55:40 | 1:55:46 | |
A better jump from Poland. Adam
Cieslar nearly lost it, just held | 1:55:53 | 1:55:58 | |
up. | 1:55:58 | 1:56:03 | |
up. The jumps from his team-mates
will already put Poland quite far | 1:56:06 | 1:56:10 | |
back. Remember how far you jumps
translates to when you start skiing, | 1:56:10 | 1:56:18 | |
how far behind the leader you will
be. Reasonable jump. | 1:56:18 | 1:56:27 | |
be. Reasonable jump. We still have
nine of ten teams to jump. Here is | 1:56:30 | 1:56:37 | |
Taylor Fletcher from the USA, one of
two Fletcher Brothers. We will see | 1:56:37 | 1:56:42 | |
Bryan Fletcher a little bit later. | 1:56:42 | 1:56:49 | |
Using the right hand to correct it.
Possibly further back from where he | 1:56:49 | 1:56:57 | |
would have wanted. Taylor Fletcher
was not selected for the large hill | 1:56:57 | 1:57:04 | |
a few days ago, but this is going to
be a setback. | 1:57:04 | 1:57:18 | |
be a setback. This looks almost
simple when you see it in slow | 1:57:18 | 1:57:20 | |
motion. | 1:57:20 | 1:57:25 | |
motion. Watch how much time he has
to land that Denmark. | 1:57:26 | 1:57:36 | |
to land that Denmark. Just count the
number of seconds from the jump to | 1:57:40 | 1:57:45 | |
the landing, and see how quickly you
have two player game. | 1:57:45 | 1:57:58 | |
You have to judge the depth to see
how far off the ground you are, | 1:58:00 | 1:58:05 | |
which is why we look at these little
pain sprigs, as we watch jumping in | 1:58:05 | 1:58:09 | |
the air. It is difficult to read how
high up you are and time the | 1:58:09 | 1:58:15 | |
landing, which is why you have the
little bits of | 1:58:15 | 1:58:27 | |
pine, it helps you judge. | 1:58:31 | 1:58:42 | |
Now, Italy, his cross-country is
phenomenal. You would expect this | 1:58:46 | 1:58:54 | |
not to be the greatest. | 1:58:54 | 1:59:02 | |
not to be the greatest. Solid
enough, but the difference is not | 1:59:02 | 1:59:04 | |
there. That has always | 1:59:04 | 1:59:13 | |
there. That has always been the case
for Alessandro Pittin. He always | 1:59:13 | 1:59:14 | |
pulls the same as at the bottom of
the health. This is something he has | 1:59:14 | 1:59:17 | |
always struggled with. He is
possibly the best cross-country | 1:59:17 | 1:59:23 | |
skier in the field, and if we look
at the split times for the relay | 1:59:23 | 1:59:27 | |
race coming up later, I will be
surprised if anyone beats. May be | 1:59:27 | 1:59:30 | |
Taylor Fletcher from the US. But he
always leads himself in this | 1:59:30 | 1:59:35 | |
position playing catch up because
the jump -- that the jump is just | 1:59:35 | 1:59:42 | |
not the. Now for France, Gerard.
Again, a slightly stronger skier | 1:59:42 | 1:59:52 | |
than jumper. Waiting for the green
light. | 1:59:52 | 1:59:58 | |
light. You see, this course is to
beat 107.5, which moves a little | 1:59:58 | 2:00:03 | |
with the wind, so as the wind
changes, the distance he needs to go | 2:00:03 | 2:00:07 | |
into the lead changes. That is based
on how far away France are, the | 2:00:07 | 2:00:13 | |
leading team. -- from the leading
team. It was stronger Gerard, he is | 2:00:13 | 2:00:20 | |
not as experienced as the other two
Frenchman, who both produced jumps | 2:00:20 | 2:00:28 | |
just below 130 metres. Gerard is
about a decade younger, he will be | 2:00:28 | 2:00:33 | |
very happy. -- to be hitting the red
line, just over. | 2:00:33 | 2:00:45 | |
A little celebration for Antoine
Gerard who is keeping France in the | 2:00:47 | 2:00:51 | |
hunt for what would be a bit of an
unlikely medal here. It's the first | 2:00:51 | 2:00:55 | |
place for now. | 2:00:55 | 2:01:01 | |
place for now. Back to Finland.
Leevi Mutru's jump has hurt the bid | 2:01:01 | 2:01:13 | |
for the Finnish team, and he cannot
turn it around. They just do not | 2:01:13 | 2:01:20 | |
have the distance. Better than his
team-mate but it's just not good | 2:01:20 | 2:01:26 | |
enough. Not 40 country that's used
to winning medals in this. Over the | 2:01:26 | 2:01:34 | |
last few years, their Nordic
combined programme has really fallen | 2:01:34 | 2:01:36 | |
off a little bit. That will not
repair things. 39 years old in his | 2:01:36 | 2:01:45 | |
sixth and probably final Olympics.
He missed Sochi, his debut was in | 2:01:45 | 2:01:49 | |
1994 when he was 15 years old. That
score does not propel Finland into | 2:01:49 | 2:01:57 | |
the reckoning. Lukas Klapfer for
Austria, who looked exceptionally | 2:01:57 | 2:02:02 | |
good here so far. He was the bronze
medallist on the tall hill in week | 2:02:02 | 2:02:09 | |
one and needs more of the same here.
It's good, without being great. | 2:02:09 | 2:02:16 | |
It'll keep Austria in the hunt. He
brings himself to a halt. | 2:02:16 | 2:02:27 | |
brings himself to a halt. Crouching
down, | 2:02:27 | 2:02:33 | |
down, using that left fist to open
up and give himself timing signal as | 2:02:33 | 2:02:36 | |
he goes up into the air, dropping
into a nice comfortable landing. He | 2:02:36 | 2:02:41 | |
is happy with that. Around about the
same distance we saw from his | 2:02:41 | 2:02:51 | |
team-mate, Mario Seidl, in fact it
is exactly the same. That puts | 2:02:51 | 2:02:59 | |
Austria come to be into the lead.
Now, Katie -- the sheet were to be, | 2:02:59 | 2:03:09 | |
the younger brother of the world
number one, Akito Watabe. It is | 2:03:09 | 2:03:18 | |
Yoshito Watabe. It's a little short.
128 metres, maybe a few metres would | 2:03:18 | 2:03:26 | |
have been better for Yoshito Watabe.
So much depends on when the time | 2:03:26 | 2:03:37 | |
that surge, that uncoiling of the
spring up the body. The judges are | 2:03:37 | 2:03:43 | |
looking at this, having to crouch
low into the landing. OK, says his | 2:03:43 | 2:03:49 | |
older brother. Japan will only be
second, and there is a bit of a gap | 2:03:49 | 2:04:00 | |
between them and the leaders right
now. But we have two teams to go and | 2:04:00 | 2:04:04 | |
they will have a big say in
proceedings. Fabian Rinaudo, -- | 2:04:04 | 2:04:15 | |
Fabio Rinaudo, the silver medallist
for Germany. That is surprisingly | 2:04:15 | 2:04:18 | |
short. That could have a big impact
on Germany's chances. It's no where | 2:04:18 | 2:04:31 | |
near what's he keys capable of. That
opens doors for Austria and Japan | 2:04:31 | 2:04:41 | |
but also Norway, we were expecting
Germany to dominate. You can see | 2:04:41 | 2:04:49 | |
through gritted teeth, Fabian
Riessle looks at the scores and | 2:04:49 | 2:04:56 | |
Germany are police -- beneath
Austria. Espen Andersen next, sixth | 2:04:56 | 2:05:07 | |
in the world, improved this season.
He needs to keep the improvement | 2:05:07 | 2:05:10 | |
going. | 2:05:10 | 2:05:14 | |
It was reasonably good. It's a metre
further than Fabian Riessle from a | 2:05:18 | 2:05:28 | |
much more experienced athlete. The
teams gets to choose who jumps when, | 2:05:28 | 2:05:37 | |
Fabian Riessle has a lot of
experience, a team gold medallist | 2:05:37 | 2:05:40 | |
and an Olympic bronze medallist even
before Pyeongchang. Espen Andersen | 2:05:40 | 2:05:45 | |
is only young, and fast improving.
Norway will be happy that he's | 2:05:45 | 2:05:54 | |
posting a competitive score and kept
them in touch. So Austria the | 2:05:54 | 2:06:00 | |
surprise leaders. One jump left for
each team. | 2:06:00 | 2:06:14 | |
Germany will be a little bit
surprised to be in third place, and | 2:06:23 | 2:06:26 | |
trailing Austria after this
fantastic jump from Lukas Klapfer. | 2:06:26 | 2:06:36 | |
Mario Seidl, Bernhard Gruber and
Lukas Klapfer had each exceeded 130 | 2:06:36 | 2:06:42 | |
metres in distance, the only thing
to do that. But distance is only | 2:06:42 | 2:06:46 | |
part of your score, the judges play
a big part but what they do is | 2:06:46 | 2:06:51 | |
irrelevant if you don't have the
distance first. The judging is the | 2:06:51 | 2:06:58 | |
finessing of things once you have
the large distance but without the | 2:06:58 | 2:07:00 | |
distance, it doesn't matter. Our
final ten. | 2:07:00 | 2:07:08 | |
final ten. Pressure on Johannes
Rydzek for Germany, who won the gold | 2:07:08 | 2:07:11 | |
two | 2:07:11 | 2:07:16 | |
two days ago. He will now be getting
them to try and come from behind. We | 2:07:17 | 2:07:21 | |
started Szczepan Kupczak. 25 years
old, another example of someone who | 2:07:21 | 2:07:29 | |
excels in one of these disciplines
and not the other. In the normal | 2:07:29 | 2:07:33 | |
hill event, he was 20th after the
jump. That is a good job. But he had | 2:07:33 | 2:07:39 | |
the third worst ski in a field of 50
competitors which dropped him right | 2:07:39 | 2:07:45 | |
now. That is a big jump, Poland
really needed it. But they probably | 2:07:45 | 2:07:57 | |
don't have the firepower in the ski
to make up the lost time they have | 2:07:57 | 2:08:00 | |
from some of the weaker jumps here. | 2:08:00 | 2:08:11 | |
Great jump from Kupczak but it might
be for nothing when it comes to the | 2:08:15 | 2:08:19 | |
cross-country ski. | 2:08:19 | 2:08:21 | |
The other of our two Fletchers,
31-year-old older brother, Bryan | 2:08:27 | 2:08:33 | |
Fletcher. His second Olympic Games.
26 and 22nd in the individual events | 2:08:33 | 2:08:44 | |
in Sochi, that is from Bryan
Fletcher. The USA have already had | 2:08:44 | 2:08:50 | |
struggles in the jumps here, which
mean that they won't be a factor in | 2:08:50 | 2:08:53 | |
the cross-country when it comes to
the medals but Bryan Fletcher can | 2:08:53 | 2:08:57 | |
now go home knowing that he has
delivered a strong jump in | 2:08:57 | 2:09:03 | |
Pyeongchang 2018. What a man this
is, he was diagnosed with leukaemia | 2:09:03 | 2:09:07 | |
when he was only three years old. He
took up ski jumping a year into | 2:09:07 | 2:09:13 | |
seven years of chemo because his mum
thought it would help keep his mind | 2:09:13 | 2:09:16 | |
off what was happening to him. He
was a four-year-old, when he started | 2:09:16 | 2:09:20 | |
on ski jumps. A great jump from
Bryan Fletcher to round out his | 2:09:20 | 2:09:26 | |
jumping campaign. | 2:09:26 | 2:09:32 | |
jumping campaign. Tomas Portyk from
the Czech Republic, the wind is | 2:09:32 | 2:09:37 | |
behaving so we are rapidly getting
through the final group. The third | 2:09:37 | 2:09:43 | |
generation of his family to be a ski
jumper. And you can see that in the | 2:09:43 | 2:09:47 | |
distance. | 2:09:47 | 2:09:52 | |
distance. Right up there among the
best jumps we've seen. | 2:09:53 | 2:10:00 | |
best jumps we've seen. Easily the
best jumps we've seen from our four | 2:10:03 | 2:10:06 | |
Czech Republic competitors. | 2:10:06 | 2:10:11 | |
Czech Republic competitors. Just to
let that left leg niqab a little bit | 2:10:14 | 2:10:17 | |
on the | 2:10:17 | 2:10:20 | |
-- sneak out a little bit on the
landing, it will not cost too much. | 2:10:20 | 2:10:31 | |
Finishing off, for | 2:10:31 | 2:10:36 | |
Finishing off, for Italy, Raffaele
Buzzi. Just came back from surgery | 2:10:37 | 2:10:40 | |
on a slipped disc on his back which
has been troubling him for four | 2:10:40 | 2:10:43 | |
years. Strong take-off speed but not
matched by form or distance. | 2:10:43 | 2:10:53 | |
matched by form or distance. The
whole basic underlying premise of | 2:10:54 | 2:10:58 | |
this sport is strong take-off speed
and jump at exactly the right | 2:10:58 | 2:11:02 | |
moment. If you have the speed but
you don't have the timing, you don't | 2:11:02 | 2:11:06 | |
get the distance. | 2:11:06 | 2:11:12 | |
get the distance. Distance wise, the
coach clearly happy with it. Maybe | 2:11:12 | 2:11:18 | |
Raphael will be happy with the
distance but it's not near any of | 2:11:18 | 2:11:23 | |
the distances for Italy to be in the
mix at the end of this. France have | 2:11:23 | 2:11:34 | |
been looking really strong, they
have not had a jump above a metres | 2:11:34 | 2:11:38 | |
but they have all been there or
thereabouts. -- above 130 metres. | 2:11:38 | 2:11:48 | |
It's good, again. Such a solid ski
jumper for the French team. That is | 2:11:51 | 2:11:58 | |
their best jump distance wise, 133
metres. We will look at the form and | 2:11:58 | 2:12:07 | |
also the wind score as well. A
little blustery up there. You will | 2:12:07 | 2:12:14 | |
see there will be the wind
compensation score. You get given | 2:12:14 | 2:12:18 | |
extra points if the wind was against
you, not helping you. Points taking | 2:12:18 | 2:12:24 | |
away if your drum was assisted by
the wind. | 2:12:24 | 2:12:31 | |
the wind. For now, France hold the
lead. | 2:12:35 | 2:12:44 | |
lead. Only 22 years old, Eero
Hirvonen from Finland. The best | 2:12:44 | 2:12:49 | |
athlete on the World Cup circuit
this winter from Finland. Dropping | 2:12:49 | 2:12:54 | |
down nicely in a strong jump.
Finland will finish well over 130 | 2:12:54 | 2:13:00 | |
metres. | 2:13:00 | 2:13:06 | |
metres. Those two jumps, neither of
which could even get to 120 metres. | 2:13:07 | 2:13:17 | |
If you're just joining us, what are
you watching? One pod ski jump, one | 2:13:17 | 2:13:22 | |
part cross-country skiing. | 2:13:22 | 2:13:27 | |
part cross-country skiing. Everyone
has one jump on the points will be | 2:13:27 | 2:13:30 | |
translated into times for a
cross-country ski coming up the | 2:13:30 | 2:13:32 | |
little later today to decide the
medals. It is a four by five | 2:13:32 | 2:13:36 | |
kilometre relay. Right now Austria
are in the mix to get some medals | 2:13:36 | 2:13:41 | |
today. It will come down to
37-year-old Wilhelm Denifl, one of | 2:13:41 | 2:13:48 | |
the oldest competitors. Can they
keep this momentum going? He can! | 2:13:48 | 2:13:57 | |
Huge from Wilhelm Denifl. | 2:13:57 | 2:14:03 | |
Huge from Wilhelm Denifl. The
veteran of the Austrian team pulls | 2:14:03 | 2:14:06 | |
it out. And Austria are going to be
contenders. | 2:14:06 | 2:14:21 | |
contenders. Into that landing,
beautifully done. Nice and high, | 2:14:21 | 2:14:24 | |
settled into it. The poor countries
who have to watch those athletes go | 2:14:24 | 2:14:34 | |
down, always a relief when you see
them get it right. This is going to | 2:14:34 | 2:14:37 | |
be good news. | 2:14:37 | 2:14:43 | |
The judges are taking an extra
couple of seconds. Austria into the | 2:14:45 | 2:14:53 | |
lead, a great distance from Denifl.
Watabe is the best in the world this | 2:14:53 | 2:15:04 | |
season, five World Cup victories.
And another big jump. That keeps | 2:15:04 | 2:15:09 | |
Japan in touch. | 2:15:09 | 2:15:15 | |
Japan in touch. Still a smile etched
all over his face. A good jump from | 2:15:15 | 2:15:18 | |
Watabe. | 2:15:18 | 2:15:23 | |
Watabe. He was a silver medallist
last week in the individual event, | 2:15:24 | 2:15:29 | |
but two days ago with the large
hole, he was out of the medals. He | 2:15:29 | 2:15:32 | |
could not keep pace with Germany on
the cross-country skis. He needs a | 2:15:32 | 2:15:39 | |
big jump to give him a bit of a gap.
Japan will slide into second place, | 2:15:39 | 2:15:49 | |
14 points behind Austria. | 2:15:49 | 2:15:54 | |
14 points behind Austria. Each point
is worth about one second and two to | 2:15:54 | 2:16:00 | |
jump. He won gold two days ago,
Rydzek for Germany. | 2:16:00 | 2:16:13 | |
Rydzek for Germany. Germany needed
that. He won everything in the world | 2:16:13 | 2:16:28 | |
last year, and he won Olympic gold
two days ago. This would be the | 2:16:29 | 2:16:40 | |
first medal for Germany since
reunification. They are the clear | 2:16:40 | 2:16:46 | |
favourites. And Rydzek delivered
when he needed to. 138 metres, 129.3 | 2:16:46 | 2:16:59 | |
points, they are into second because
Austria have been so strong and | 2:16:59 | 2:17:02 | |
consistent. Our final | 2:17:02 | 2:17:09 | |
jump is normally's Schmid. He almost
blew out the landing. Abettors | 2:17:16 | 2:17:21 | |
distance than before, but not quite
as far. -- a better distance. 102 | 2:17:21 | 2:17:27 | |
metres. | 2:17:27 | 2:17:32 | |
metres. For all the Olympics, his
chances have disappeared roundabout | 2:17:32 | 2:17:38 | |
here because his distance has not
been good enough. Norway has a great | 2:17:38 | 2:17:50 | |
record, Gold medallists in Sochi
2014. Across three was not a part of | 2:17:50 | 2:17:54 | |
that team. A lot of pressure on him.
This will tell us where we | 2:17:54 | 2:18:06 | |
This will tell us where we stand.
Japan have sneaked into third place | 2:18:07 | 2:18:11 | |
and Norway will have some work to
do. | 2:18:11 | 2:18:17 | |
do. Austria are in the lead after
the jumping round. The cross-country | 2:18:18 | 2:18:21 | |
will come up in a little while, in
just a moment we will be able to | 2:18:21 | 2:18:26 | |
tell you the all-important times
that will show you when they will go | 2:18:26 | 2:18:32 | |
on the cross-country. Austria will
go first. After six seconds Germany | 2:18:32 | 2:18:35 | |
will start, and it looks | 2:18:35 | 2:18:43 | |
will start, and it looks like the
top four will be the ones in | 2:18:43 | 2:18:47 | |
contention.
Austria have the advantage after the | 2:18:47 | 2:18:56 | |
ski jump, so they will start first
in the cross-country. Borer by five | 2:18:56 | 2:19:03 | |
kilometres cross-country to see who
takes the gold medal. That will be | 2:19:03 | 2:19:08 | |
just after ten o'clock, 1020M you
can watch it on the red button. -- | 2:19:08 | 2:19:19 | |
at 10:20am. | 2:19:24 | 2:19:26 | |
A very good | 2:19:29 | 2:19:30 | |
A very good morning from here in
Pyeongchang, a 13 of the Winter | 2:19:30 | 2:19:37 | |
Olympics. It has got a little bit
chilly out here, the wind has picked | 2:19:37 | 2:19:41 | |
up and snow is falling. But we have
had loads of action to keep us warm. | 2:19:41 | 2:19:46 | |
Here is what you have missed if you
have just joined us. Great Britain | 2:19:46 | 2:19:52 | |
are out of the men's curling
competition. Kyle Smith's rink had a | 2:19:52 | 2:19:57 | |
play-off today against Switzerland
for a place in the semifinals, but | 2:19:57 | 2:20:00 | |
they went down to a 9-5 defeat. | 2:20:00 | 2:20:08 | |
they went down to a 9-5 defeat. The
Austrian was top of the pile, | 2:20:11 | 2:20:15 | |
claiming | 2:20:15 | 2:20:18 | |
Austrian was top of the pile,
claiming a gold. Sweden won a | 2:20:18 | 2:20:23 | |
surprise men's slalom gold. Marcel
Hirscher field to finish the first | 2:20:23 | 2:20:28 | |
run, leaving the Swede top of the
podium. Dave Ryding was ninth. Four | 2:20:28 | 2:20:36 | |
years after her sister won the title
in Sochi, Michelle Gisin has the | 2:20:36 | 2:20:42 | |
gold medal for the downhill
combined. USA claimed their first | 2:20:42 | 2:20:50 | |
gold medal in women's as hockey,
after beating Canada. | 2:20:50 | 2:21:04 | |
after beating Canada. The Court of
Arbitration for Sport's anti-doping | 2:21:04 | 2:21:06 | |
division has announced that the
mixed curling bronze medal has been | 2:21:06 | 2:21:14 | |
stripped from the Russian after
testing positive. It was a ninth | 2:21:14 | 2:21:21 | |
place finish Dave Ryding, a
career-best result for him. | 2:21:21 | 2:21:25 | |
place finish Dave Ryding, a
career-best result for him. | 2:21:25 | 2:21:26 | |
place finish Dave Ryding, a
career-best result for him. | 2:21:26 | 2:21:28 | |
Britain's best result since Martin
Bell in 1988 in the downhill. | 2:21:28 | 2:21:33 | |
Britain's Laurie Taylor | 2:21:33 | 2:21:36 | |
Bell in 1988 in the downhill.
Britain's Laurie Taylor was 26, and | 2:21:36 | 2:21:37 | |
they both spoke to Chemmy Alcott.
Top ten in the Olympics! I'm not | 2:21:37 | 2:21:45 | |
complaining with that! A solid day.
I wish I could have had a little bit | 2:21:45 | 2:21:50 | |
extra skiing that within me, but in
the end ninth is what I could do. | 2:21:50 | 2:21:56 | |
Watcher plan to have a solid
performance, did you feel like you | 2:21:56 | 2:21:59 | |
could let it go enough? I thought
the second run really suited me. I | 2:21:59 | 2:22:03 | |
made a couple of mistakes that cost
me the flow of the course, and I | 2:22:03 | 2:22:09 | |
know I could have had a bit mode at
the same time, but it is the | 2:22:09 | 2:22:13 | |
Olympics and everyone is feeling the
same thing. Ninth is respectable. | 2:22:13 | 2:22:20 | |
Were you surprised that
Kristofferson could not handle it? | 2:22:20 | 2:22:24 | |
Yes, that is the first time he has
been leading after the second round | 2:22:24 | 2:22:29 | |
and not won. It shows what the
Olympics is like and what these | 2:22:29 | 2:22:33 | |
conditions are like. A quick word
about the winner? I will be similar | 2:22:33 | 2:22:42 | |
age at the next Olympics, but he's a
great guy, thoroughly deserved. You | 2:22:42 | 2:22:47 | |
did really | 2:22:47 | 2:22:52 | |
did really well, and with Laurie
Taylor coming up, it is a great | 2:22:55 | 2:22:58 | |
team. Yes, it is a great future, I
am 31 but I have a lot of life in me | 2:22:58 | 2:23:06 | |
yet. You're going to be the team
leader going into the parallel at | 2:23:06 | 2:23:09 | |
the end of the Olympics. You have
America in the first round. How do | 2:23:09 | 2:23:14 | |
you feel? It is going to be cool, I
can give them a run for the money, | 2:23:14 | 2:23:18 | |
and I will not be surprised if we
can knock them out. We have some | 2:23:18 | 2:23:22 | |
good skiers, so we will look forward
to it. Anything can happen. Laurie | 2:23:22 | 2:23:34 | |
good skiers, so we will look forward
to it. Anything can happen. Laurie, | 2:23:34 | 2:23:34 | |
the best you have achieved, you're
now 26 in the Olympic Games. How do | 2:23:34 | 2:23:40 | |
you feel? The top 30 was what I was
hoping for, and I am happy to get | 2:23:40 | 2:23:44 | |
through the finish line. A great
experience. You showed you can mix | 2:23:44 | 2:23:49 | |
it with the big dogs. There were
sections where you looked so | 2:23:49 | 2:23:53 | |
comfortable. Yes, I was a bit safe
on the second run, but it was cool. | 2:23:53 | 2:24:00 | |
Happy to get it down. Just needed to
be consistent, which is what I'm | 2:24:00 | 2:24:05 | |
working on. How the butterflies
today? Yes, the earlier, that is for | 2:24:05 | 2:24:11 | |
sure. How was it to be on a team
knowing you're with someone at Lake | 2:24:11 | 2:24:18 | |
Dave Ryding, pushing the boundaries?
It is great to watch, so many little | 2:24:18 | 2:24:23 | |
things he does to just made himself
better so I just try to copy what he | 2:24:23 | 2:24:28 | |
does! And you're going into the team
parallel, how do you feel about | 2:24:28 | 2:24:36 | |
that? We have done some practice on
the starts, so I'm sure it will be | 2:24:36 | 2:24:41 | |
fun anyway, whatever happens. It is
the kind of event where anything can | 2:24:41 | 2:24:46 | |
happen and anything goes. Watching
you on the first run, at the bottom, | 2:24:46 | 2:24:51 | |
you exhilarated and work the speed.
The parallel is a similar gradient | 2:24:51 | 2:24:55 | |
to that. Yes, it is a nice course,
so we will see how it goes. | 2:24:55 | 2:25:06 | |
so we will see how it goes. Go, Team
GB! Great stuff. We look forward to | 2:25:11 | 2:25:17 | |
the Alpine team event on Saturday.
We are heading to the Snow Park | 2:25:17 | 2:25:20 | |
because today was the final of the
men's half pipe. An American one, | 2:25:20 | 2:25:26 | |
two, three in qualifying. | 2:25:26 | 2:25:32 | |
two, three in qualifying. Just over
two years ago one of the competitors | 2:25:33 | 2:25:36 | |
was told he might not survive after
being left in a coma following a | 2:25:36 | 2:25:42 | |
infection, but he is embracing life.
Fellow American David Wise, he | 2:25:42 | 2:25:48 | |
disappointed yesterday, finishing
eighth in the qualifying. Could he | 2:25:48 | 2:25:51 | |
find his more in the final? Let us
find out with are common to the | 2:25:51 | 2:26:00 | |
team, Tim Warwood on James Woods. | 2:26:00 | 2:26:07 | |
The Canadian camp will be fizzing,
for Cassie Sharp's gold medal a few | 2:26:11 | 2:26:22 | |
days ago, and now, Noah Bowman, who
has the greatest style in the half | 2:26:22 | 2:26:26 | |
pipe. Liquid skiing, absolutely. And
everyone's favourite. Watch him. | 2:26:26 | 2:26:35 | |
Look at this. A huge 362 start
things off. | 2:26:35 | 2:26:51 | |
This is everything you want to do. | 2:26:54 | 2:27:01 | |
You can see how confident Noah
Bowman is, and the one thing that | 2:27:04 | 2:27:09 | |
has run lacks is forward spent in.
He chooses to only do one setup | 2:27:09 | 2:27:22 | |
check at the top of seven, and 1080
to finish. | 2:27:22 | 2:27:32 | |
to finish. 89.4, into the lead for
Noah Bowman. | 2:27:34 | 2:27:42 | |
Noah Bowman. David Wiese, the
defending Olympic champion. | 2:27:42 | 2:27:53 | |
defending Olympic champion. You
would say he made a meal of | 2:27:53 | 2:27:55 | |
qualifying, but he sets here in the
quarterfinals, with huge tracks on | 2:27:55 | 2:27:59 | |
his Arsenal. An enormous which into
the left side double 12. Oh, no! | 2:27:59 | 2:28:11 | |
Almost a setup trip this man.
Finding himself in unfamiliar | 2:28:11 | 2:28:22 | |
territory. You would say he is
finding his form. He has come out of | 2:28:22 | 2:28:27 | |
the gate swinging. Absolutely
amazing, and you can see his | 2:28:27 | 2:28:33 | |
quality. It is insane. It is all
good. Coming out of Sherwood Park in | 2:28:33 | 2:28:44 | |
Canada, the Sochi silver medallist,
Mike Criddle. | 2:28:44 | 2:28:55 | |
Mike Criddle. -- Mike Riddle. One of
the older men on the circuit, you | 2:28:55 | 2:28:58 | |
would say. 31. A huge bag of tricks.
Some creative grabs in his trip back | 2:28:58 | 2:29:08 | |
when he wants to delve deep. | 2:29:08 | 2:29:16 | |
The classic way he stars, a big left
side double 12. Holding it to | 2:29:16 | 2:29:23 | |
switch, very impressive. Two hands
on his skis. Right side double 12. | 2:29:23 | 2:29:35 | |
And double 900, spin. Beautiful.
Look how chill he is. That is the | 2:29:35 | 2:29:47 | |
epitome of doing less. That is how
he landed on the transition. He was | 2:29:47 | 2:29:56 | |
pointing down the pipe. | 2:29:56 | 2:30:06 | |
Next to drop, Beau-James Wells, very
very good friends with our | 2:30:14 | 2:30:19 | |
commentator here! There's his dad,
he's just seen his brother crash out | 2:30:19 | 2:30:24 | |
in practice before this, how is he
going to be feeling? He's got New | 2:30:24 | 2:30:30 | |
Zealand in | 2:30:30 | 2:30:33 | |
going to be feeling? He's got New
Zealand on his shoulders and his | 2:30:33 | 2:30:34 | |
brother on the shoulders. He
couldn't compete due to injury, | 2:30:34 | 2:30:41 | |
Byron qualified for the finals, he
was looking great in qualification | 2:30:41 | 2:30:46 | |
but he went down. It's all up to him
now. And I think I will be the | 2:30:46 | 2:30:51 | |
pressure he's feeling rather than
having New Zealand on his back. | 2:30:51 | 2:30:55 | |
Breakfast time at the house in a few
weeks could be easier if he could | 2:30:55 | 2:31:01 | |
podium here. Flag bearer for New
Zealand, dropping switch into hit | 2:31:01 | 2:31:05 | |
one. That is his signature opener,
switch back to pipe 720 and a tail | 2:31:05 | 2:31:13 | |
grab. He's splitting up the double
flares, both ways. We saw that from | 2:31:13 | 2:31:21 | |
Murray Buchan as well. My goodness!
Comes across the line like Superman. | 2:31:21 | 2:31:31 | |
Up to 520 metres. The double flare,
reaches all the way back to tail, | 2:31:31 | 2:31:38 | |
but also at the end of the curve, we
call that a blood. He is keen to be | 2:31:38 | 2:31:43 | |
happy with that. -- he is going to
be happy. Alex Ferreira, the X games | 2:31:43 | 2:31:52 | |
silver medallist. He has been coming
out so strong since day one and he | 2:31:52 | 2:31:59 | |
has got all the tricks and a
technicality to win this. Not even | 2:31:59 | 2:32:04 | |
kidding, watch him do it. He has one
heavy hitting halfback contests. A | 2:32:04 | 2:32:13 | |
huge 1260 to start. And a double
flare 1080, taking to switch. The | 2:32:13 | 2:32:20 | |
first time we've seen that. There's
the other left side double court 12, | 2:32:20 | 2:32:28 | |
switch, double. He is helicopter in
the pole. That feels good to him. We | 2:32:28 | 2:32:40 | |
talk about the riders are happy,
which he clearly is. You can see his | 2:32:40 | 2:32:47 | |
elation, putting the first run down.
As we said before, this halfpipe's | 2:32:47 | 2:32:52 | |
final is America's Toulouse. If
everyone runs it clean, it which | 2:32:52 | 2:32:59 | |
American will be on top. | 2:32:59 | 2:33:04 | |
American will be on top. Yes, Alex
Ferreira! | 2:33:05 | 2:33:13 | |
Now, Aaron Blunck. Our first-place
qualifier. | 2:33:13 | 2:33:21 | |
If he's got a receipt for this, now
is the time to get it out and redeem | 2:33:21 | 2:33:30 | |
it. Big 722 studies off, look for
his switch right double ten, that | 2:33:30 | 2:33:43 | |
huge aspect. Double flat spin down
the pipe at 900 and right side to | 2:33:43 | 2:33:50 | |
double 12, my goodness. Just when
you thought it didn't get any | 2:33:50 | 2:33:53 | |
better, Aaron Blunck drops in. For
his run, putting those two switch | 2:33:53 | 2:33:59 | |
doubles back-to-back, that is huge.
The judges will lose their mind | 2:33:59 | 2:34:03 | |
about that. Look how blind it is as
well, not even looking where he's | 2:34:03 | 2:34:07 | |
going, relying really on his Spidey
senses. If we can't see his eyes, he | 2:34:07 | 2:34:15 | |
we -- can't see the landing. That
arguably the hardest thing you can | 2:34:15 | 2:34:24 | |
do, switch down the pipe and he did
it back-to-back. Oh, goodness me! | 2:34:24 | 2:34:34 | |
Well, that score doesn't reflect his
reaction. | 2:34:34 | 2:34:41 | |
reaction. So, the first run looking
very good indeed. Alex Ferreira tops | 2:34:43 | 2:34:46 | |
the spot for USA from Noah Bowman of
Canada. The Canadian and the Kiwi | 2:34:46 | 2:34:56 | |
keeping the American podium clean
sweep at bay for now. Next in, Nico | 2:34:56 | 2:35:01 | |
Porteous, the 16-year-old who had a
stellar run and in your eyes, | 2:35:01 | 2:35:08 | |
probably the best run he's ever had
in the pipe. Blinding run on the | 2:35:08 | 2:35:14 | |
first run and all he could do is
improve. He can sit back and be | 2:35:14 | 2:35:18 | |
confident. He's got a brilliant
result on his back, he is so young | 2:35:18 | 2:35:23 | |
and he has so much more to give.
Starting off with something | 2:35:23 | 2:35:33 | |
different, double cork 1440. First
1440 we've seen in the pipe in the | 2:35:33 | 2:35:39 | |
final. Backing it up the forward
right side double 12, oh, days, | 2:35:39 | 2:35:45 | |
what's he got? Double alley-oop flat
spin nine, perfect! Is huge! The | 2:35:45 | 2:35:54 | |
16-year-old has delivered like Wayne
Rooney his debut. | 2:35:54 | 2:36:01 | |
Rooney his debut. My goodness, the
youngster! He had enough height on | 2:36:01 | 2:36:07 | |
the VAT. Three and a half rotations.
Oh, my goodness! He cannot believe | 2:36:07 | 2:36:12 | |
it! Nico Porteous is well on his way
to upsetting that potential US 1-2- | 2:36:12 | 2:36:23 | |
three with a huge score, man! If you
want to know just how exciting this | 2:36:23 | 2:36:30 | |
is, James Woods is standing on his
seat in the commentary booth! All | 2:36:30 | 2:36:34 | |
eyes go back to the top, the
defending Olympic champion gets the | 2:36:34 | 2:36:39 | |
sum of enough respect from the start
Marshall. His time to turn it on. | 2:36:39 | 2:36:45 | |
The man who does not take no for an
answer when it comes to being taken | 2:36:45 | 2:36:50 | |
down in the halfpipe. He's a
fighter, that's for sure, dropping | 2:36:50 | 2:36:55 | |
in switch. Dropping in a massive
switch, and he's gone! This is | 2:36:55 | 2:37:03 | |
incredible. I can't believe this is
happening to David Wise. The man | 2:37:03 | 2:37:07 | |
whose Pringles pressure on his
breakfast cereal is all of a sudden, | 2:37:07 | 2:37:12 | |
and his fans are stunned. -- he
sprinkles pressure on his breakfast | 2:37:12 | 2:37:18 | |
cereal. He has clipped the deck.
That is how these skis are designed | 2:37:18 | 2:37:25 | |
to do that, to save your legs in a
less savoury crash. | 2:37:25 | 2:37:32 | |
Torin Yater-Wallace. Put a little
bit of fuel on his fire and you will | 2:37:37 | 2:37:45 | |
see him go mad. Not the first run,
he's not sitting where he wants to | 2:37:45 | 2:37:50 | |
be. He's nowhere near it. Back in
2017, this boy had an infection and | 2:37:50 | 2:37:57 | |
very nearly died, he was in a coma
and he's come out guns blazing since | 2:37:57 | 2:38:01 | |
then. Look how big that is! Are
right double 12 to start things, his | 2:38:01 | 2:38:08 | |
signature move and everyone seems to
be taking it from him. Left side | 2:38:08 | 2:38:11 | |
1080, all the way round, switch,
left, right, right, and there it is! | 2:38:11 | 2:38:20 | |
Double alley-oop, he's got no pipe
left! He couldn't land it! He ran | 2:38:20 | 2:38:24 | |
out of spite. We spoke about it on
the run before. He could have got | 2:38:24 | 2:38:30 | |
another hit in but you will not see
a bigger fifth hit today than that. | 2:38:30 | 2:38:37 | |
He has no business doing that there.
And he knows at that point, he can | 2:38:37 | 2:38:40 | |
see the lip. Oh! Disaster! And that
saw, man, that's really, really | 2:38:40 | 2:38:48 | |
sore. You know smile is? That's, I
have got this final in the bag if I | 2:38:48 | 2:38:57 | |
can figure out how to do it! Alex
Ferreira the sixth, in second. A | 2:38:57 | 2:39:09 | |
surprise position for had to be in,
he dropped a massive score, the rest | 2:39:09 | 2:39:14 | |
of the rest of directors did not
land perfect runs, then Nico | 2:39:14 | 2:39:18 | |
Porteous came down and dropped some
incredible fire. Back on the hot | 2:39:18 | 2:39:26 | |
seat, massive. Keeps his speed into
the double 1080 switch. Down the | 2:39:26 | 2:39:31 | |
pipe, 1080, back-to-back tent, need
to wrap it up which she does. Final | 2:39:31 | 2:39:37 | |
hits. I can't do it! Even better
than his first run! For out. Alex | 2:39:37 | 2:39:45 | |
Ferreira is stepping up to the
plate, man. Holy cow! The Harry | 2:39:45 | 2:39:53 | |
Potter of the halfpipe world, just a
wizard through this. Ludicrous. His | 2:39:53 | 2:40:02 | |
classic helicopter pole. It is an
unknown entity, Nico Porteous on the | 2:40:02 | 2:40:10 | |
top, dropping a run like that. 14 to
the two cork chips, gorgeous. | 2:40:10 | 2:40:15 | |
Something we have never -- two
switch hits. Oh, my goodness! Alex | 2:40:15 | 2:40:28 | |
Ferreira, I think he'll explode if
he wins a gold medal. I think | 2:40:28 | 2:40:30 | |
actually explode. I do know what?
The magnitude of this competition, I | 2:40:30 | 2:40:38 | |
think it just hit Nico Porteous.
So the second run, looking like | 2:40:38 | 2:40:46 | |
this. | 2:40:46 | 2:40:54 | |
Nico Porteous with a crazy run in
second and Alex Ferreira once again | 2:40:54 | 2:40:58 | |
answers straight back with 96 flat.
Nico Porteous, beginning of this | 2:40:58 | 2:41:09 | |
final, so grateful to be here and he
knows he's got the big tricks but he | 2:41:09 | 2:41:11 | |
doesn't have the experience and the
name that a lot of these guys have. | 2:41:11 | 2:41:15 | |
He comes down these runs and puts
down 94 point something which blew | 2:41:15 | 2:41:19 | |
the field away. And all of a sudden
when Alex Ferreira takes the lead of | 2:41:19 | 2:41:24 | |
him, the world will come crashing
down and this competition hits him. | 2:41:24 | 2:41:30 | |
He's chilling! He's accessing the
second run as | 2:41:30 | 2:41:39 | |
He's chilling! He's accessing the
second run is an absolute blinder. | 2:41:39 | 2:41:40 | |
He doesn't feel he's going to
improve so he's just surfing and | 2:41:40 | 2:41:44 | |
enjoying himself. He says, I will
not better that. Interesting move | 2:41:44 | 2:41:52 | |
from him not taking his third run.
But that second run, man! Now, David | 2:41:52 | 2:42:01 | |
Wise, the defending Olympic
champion, the most winningest mail- | 2:42:01 | 2:42:07 | |
type skiers. No something if you are
the best in world? Ask David Wise | 2:42:07 | 2:42:15 | |
right now. -- are the nerves of
thing if you are the best in the | 2:42:15 | 2:42:19 | |
world? He has won it more than you
can think to nudge, switch right | 2:42:19 | 2:42:25 | |
down the pipe, ten, not as clean,
competing in nicely. Left side | 2:42:25 | 2:42:30 | |
double cork 1260. He's put it down.
Switch, left, down the pipe, ten, | 2:42:30 | 2:42:39 | |
Whiteside 12 to finish the 12 of
four, four doubles, boom! Perfect! | 2:42:39 | 2:42:48 | |
The only thing they can pick out of
this run is that very first hit, the | 2:42:48 | 2:42:53 | |
switch right double 1080. Did he
wiggle out of it and not hold the | 2:42:53 | 2:42:57 | |
grab as long as he could, was it a
stress to land it? This was not. | 2:42:57 | 2:43:04 | |
Under the most amount of pressure!
97.2! The defending Olympic champion | 2:43:04 | 2:43:14 | |
pulls a proverbial rabbit out of the
hat there. | 2:43:14 | 2:43:17 | |
What can this boy to? Beau-James
Wells. He's done everything that he | 2:43:22 | 2:43:30 | |
has planned to do, in this year
leading up to this, he has been | 2:43:30 | 2:43:34 | |
eyeing up the Olympics for a long
time. | 2:43:34 | 2:43:40 | |
time. He's got a switch double in
his arsenal, he has started every | 2:43:40 | 2:43:44 | |
run with a big switch left down the
pipe 720 with a big tail grab and | 2:43:44 | 2:43:49 | |
lots of style. He does have a switch
double in his arsenal, whether he | 2:43:49 | 2:43:54 | |
will use it right now or try and
boost the run that he knows better | 2:43:54 | 2:43:58 | |
than anyone, to try up upper school,
or about to find out. Switch, relief | 2:43:58 | 2:44:06 | |
fast, -- really fast, switch double
down the past, he releases it. This | 2:44:06 | 2:44:10 | |
is the runner. All he has to do is
get straight back into his routine | 2:44:10 | 2:44:18 | |
that he has been in for a long time.
Right side double flare licking | 2:44:18 | 2:44:22 | |
them. -- linking them. Left double
12. Well done, that man. Talk about | 2:44:22 | 2:44:32 | |
stepping up and it counts, man. You
said it, you knew he had the switch | 2:44:32 | 2:44:41 | |
double in his arsenal, Nico Porteous
gives him a big hug. What a nice | 2:44:41 | 2:44:46 | |
rotation, that's what we have seen
punished Kevin Rolland similar | 2:44:46 | 2:44:51 | |
terms. No! He hasn't! Fourth-place
for him. | 2:44:51 | 2:45:01 | |
for him. So, Alex Ferreira. I can't
even begin to describe how he's | 2:45:02 | 2:45:05 | |
feeling at the moment. He knows he's
second, maybe third Aaron Blunck can | 2:45:05 | 2:45:11 | |
pick him but he's on the podium.
He's definitely going to want to | 2:45:11 | 2:45:15 | |
punch for the top spot. He's got it
done. First after his first run, | 2:45:15 | 2:45:21 | |
first after his second run, can he
be first after his third? | 2:45:21 | 2:45:27 | |
Improvements in both of his runs. If
ever there was a time to rip the lid | 2:45:27 | 2:45:31 | |
off it, this is it. | 2:45:31 | 2:45:37 | |
He is running on pure adrenaline.
Massive! The TV does not do that | 2:45:49 | 2:45:55 | |
justice. My goodness! He has knocked
it out the park. He strapped into a | 2:45:55 | 2:46:04 | |
space rocket and sent it into outer
space! I have never seen anything | 2:46:04 | 2:46:11 | |
like that in my life. | 2:46:11 | 2:46:17 | |
like that in my life. I think he is
about to explode because I am not | 2:46:18 | 2:46:21 | |
sure what will happen is that goes
into first. 96.4. Look at that! | 2:46:21 | 2:46:30 | |
into first. 96.4. Look at that! That
is a final to remember. I hope you | 2:46:33 | 2:46:36 | |
had that recorded because it will
take some re-watching to try to | 2:46:36 | 2:46:40 | |
decipher the code of that. Alex
Ferreira takes second. A huge shout | 2:46:40 | 2:46:49 | |
out to Porteous, but David Wise, the
Olympic champion, has pulled the cat | 2:46:49 | 2:46:54 | |
out of the bag in his third and
final run. | 2:46:54 | 2:47:06 | |
Talk about pulling it out of the bag
when it counts. What a final run | 2:47:18 | 2:47:22 | |
that was. 97.2. Last chance saloon,
and he absolutely nailed it. Called | 2:47:22 | 2:47:32 | |
for the American. | 2:47:32 | 2:47:37 | |
for the American. We have just seen
the ski jump section of the Nordic | 2:47:37 | 2:47:41 | |
combined, and we now have a little
bit of backstage footage. Here is | 2:47:41 | 2:47:48 | |
how they prepare for the ski jump.
If you thought Patrick Swayze had | 2:47:48 | 2:47:52 | |
the lift | 2:47:52 | 2:48:01 | |
the lift nailed IN DIRTY DANCING,
look at this. Brilliant pictures. | 2:48:01 | 2:48:09 | |
Something else involving heightened
adrenaline, a couple of days ago you | 2:48:09 | 2:48:15 | |
will have seen the women's half big
a snowboarding qualifying. It was | 2:48:15 | 2:48:19 | |
one of the biggest standards in
freestyle snowboarding we have had | 2:48:19 | 2:48:27 | |
here in Pyeongchang. A sensational
standard. Anna Gasser was the | 2:48:27 | 2:48:31 | |
favourite going in, and she topped
the pile heading into the final. | 2:48:31 | 2:48:36 | |
Three jumps, and the best one p. Let
us head to Phoenix Park to see how | 2:48:36 | 2:48:41 | |
it unfolded with Ed Leigh.
Welcome to Alpensia Ski Jumping | 2:48:41 | 2:48:49 | |
Centre. Today it is the women's
snowboard. | 2:48:49 | 2:49:05 | |
Dropping and switching, going huge! | 2:49:07 | 2:49:14 | |
Absolutely phenomenal from her. A
bit of a wash. Nearly 100 degrees of | 2:49:14 | 2:49:22 | |
rotation before she takes off. That
is the only fault. She is in | 2:49:22 | 2:49:28 | |
control, 70.5. There are some big
tricks coming. | 2:49:28 | 2:49:43 | |
There is the clipboard of power back
in the mix! | 2:49:47 | 2:49:54 | |
Do you know what the big difference
there is? It is the grab. She only | 2:50:03 | 2:50:15 | |
just got it. | 2:50:15 | 2:50:23 | |
just got it. She took a gold medal
in slopestyle. Jimmy Anderson is the | 2:50:23 | 2:50:29 | |
most experienced and successful
women in freestyle snowboarding | 2:50:29 | 2:50:32 | |
right now. She is missing none of
the big trophies. Just relaxing. | 2:50:32 | 2:50:44 | |
Should put doubles in her locker of
tricks. She has gone straight in for | 2:50:44 | 2:50:48 | |
the front-end. | 2:50:48 | 2:50:53 | |
the front-end. -- 510. Look at this!
The grab is held. She stomps it just | 2:50:53 | 2:51:00 | |
after the second line. Lowe that was
so nice. So compact. That has to be | 2:51:00 | 2:51:09 | |
in the 90s. | 2:51:09 | 2:51:14 | |
in the 90s. The 16-year-old Japanese
rider. Jamie Jones was talking to | 2:51:17 | 2:51:25 | |
her coach, | 2:51:25 | 2:51:32 | |
her coach, and that they asked what
they did to help her. They said they | 2:51:32 | 2:51:40 | |
do not need to do anything. | 2:51:40 | 2:51:44 | |
That was amazing. We both just said
wow! Look at the grab. It was short. | 2:51:49 | 2:52:04 | |
Apart from letting go of the grab
early, that was clean. So clean. | 2:52:04 | 2:52:14 | |
early, that was clean. So clean. So
Iwabuchi slide behind Jamie | 2:52:15 | 2:52:16 | |
Anderson. A very good score. From
the 16-year-old today 31-year-old | 2:52:16 | 2:52:27 | |
veteran. She came to snowboarding in
2015, out of snowboard cross. | 2:52:27 | 2:52:46 | |
She has it on rails. A lot of
control. | 2:52:55 | 2:53:02 | |
control. This is awesome to watch.
Fujimori, very pleased with that | 2:53:03 | 2:53:09 | |
first jump. | 2:53:09 | 2:53:19 | |
The two Americans will be looking to
improve on their second runs. | 2:53:42 | 2:53:49 | |
Candrian needs this, she fell in the
first run. | 2:53:55 | 2:54:02 | |
A tiny scuff of the hand. She just
misses it. She's so close to getting | 2:54:17 | 2:54:23 | |
it. Look at that, a 1080, and she
has one score on the board. | 2:54:23 | 2:54:36 | |
has one score on the board. Back to
the top, Jamie Anderson. She puts so | 2:54:36 | 2:54:40 | |
much pressure on everyone. What are
we going to see from her? This is | 2:54:40 | 2:54:51 | |
critical. | 2:54:51 | 2:55:01 | |
How did you hold onto that? I like
how she does that, it is very | 2:55:05 | 2:55:16 | |
different from the other girls, it
is like a different rotation. | 2:55:16 | 2:55:24 | |
Pulling it with the mute grab.
Everything compact so far. She's in | 2:55:25 | 2:55:31 | |
the enviable position of two huge
scores under her belt. | 2:55:31 | 2:55:44 | |
That was amazing! I love this trick,
I find this more impressive than the | 2:55:56 | 2:56:03 | |
frontside, it is massive, beautiful
and it is the hardest rotation. And | 2:56:03 | 2:56:11 | |
she went so highly. You are going
backwards turning into the abyss. | 2:56:11 | 2:56:17 | |
The part at the end of my favourite
part. She controls the end | 2:56:17 | 2:56:22 | |
perfectly. She has the double
backflip in there. | 2:56:22 | 2:56:33 | |
backflip in there. There were go,
92. It is so deserved. The New | 2:56:33 | 2:56:41 | |
Zealander has a fantastic -- had a
fantastic second jump. | 2:56:41 | 2:56:48 | |
fantastic second jump. Anna Gasser,
the Austrian, stands atop the run | 2:56:50 | 2:56:53 | |
in. 85.5 on the board at the moment. | 2:56:53 | 2:57:08 | |
It is going to be the back side
double Cork. She stomps it! The | 2:57:13 | 2:57:25 | |
take-off! That was amazing! She so
deserves this. She has been able to | 2:57:25 | 2:57:33 | |
come out and showcase the very best
of women's snowboarding, stomping | 2:57:33 | 2:57:38 | |
two from two. The best combined
score from two jumps and she has | 2:57:38 | 2:57:46 | |
given herself the luxury to go for
her very best trick on her third and | 2:57:46 | 2:57:50 | |
final run. 89? I thought she would
have got a lot higher than that. Not | 2:57:50 | 2:58:00 | |
the biggest jump we have seen, but
very close. The consistency and size | 2:58:00 | 2:58:09 | |
of the jumps from Anderson has been
breathtaking. Anna Gasser, only | 2:58:09 | 2:58:14 | |
three points behind. | 2:58:14 | 2:58:21 | |
three points behind. That you jump
from the New Zealander is in third | 2:58:21 | 2:58:22 | |
place. | 2:58:22 | 2:58:31 | |
place. Marry no wonder Candrian can
move up with a big third jump. The | 2:58:31 | 2:58:38 | |
third jump is approaching, and at
the moment is -- it is a big battle. | 2:58:38 | 2:58:52 | |
Silje Norendal is definitely in the
running for the bronze medal if she | 2:58:52 | 2:58:56 | |
can want something big. Definitely,
she has a solid 70 point, and can | 2:58:56 | 2:59:01 | |
put down something in the mid-80s.
And she is in third place. | 2:59:01 | 2:59:12 | |
And she is in third place. She holds
her nerve really well. Just watching | 2:59:12 | 2:59:18 | |
the wind here. | 2:59:18 | 2:59:23 | |
What was she doing? She has already
done a perfect CAB nine, so... That | 2:59:35 | 2:59:42 | |
was never going to get scored, a
really odd decision from Silje | 2:59:42 | 2:59:46 | |
Norendal. She saw this to be a big
scoring jump, and thought she could | 2:59:46 | 2:59:52 | |
add more to that than the other. A
combined score of 131.5. That is | 2:59:52 | 3:00:04 | |
good enough for fifth at the moment.
The frontside 1080 is in the bag for | 3:00:04 | 3:00:14 | |
Candrian. | 3:00:14 | 3:00:21 | |
Wonder What's Next? Backside? She's
dropping in switch, switch backside. | 3:00:22 | 3:00:36 | |
Oh, now we have a game on our hands.
Switch backside nine. And frontside | 3:00:36 | 3:00:43 | |
1080. Missed the grab again. It
looks like she did exactly the same. | 3:00:43 | 3:00:48 | |
Almost got it. Just cannot get the
grabs today but two really big spins | 3:00:48 | 3:00:56 | |
in there. It's actually lovely. If
you look at these rotations in a | 3:00:56 | 3:01:03 | |
modular cents... A BigHand drag
though. They have definitely | 3:01:03 | 3:01:12 | |
penalised her for that. Jamie
Anderson. So, Anderson so used to | 3:01:12 | 3:01:23 | |
qualifying in first, only made it
through in sixth place, so she drops | 3:01:23 | 3:01:27 | |
in the middle of the pack here. That
hasn't stopped her adding the | 3:01:27 | 3:01:32 | |
pressure to all of the other riders.
Her first jump, 90 points, she | 3:01:32 | 3:01:38 | |
backed it up with 87.25, so she has
the luxury of really going for it | 3:01:38 | 3:01:43 | |
here. The body language isn't quite
as relaxed | 3:01:43 | 3:01:50 | |
here. The body language isn't quite
as relaxed. No, maybe she's going | 3:01:50 | 3:01:55 | |
for something big. We didn't see the
little shimmy. | 3:01:55 | 3:02:02 | |
little shimmy. Cab 1082 the last
line! How did she not explode into a | 3:02:04 | 3:02:09 | |
million that was sick? -- a million
pieces! That was sick. She knew she | 3:02:09 | 3:02:18 | |
had to do that because she knew Anna
Gasser would be dropping in after | 3:02:18 | 3:02:23 | |
her and doing the same trick. That
was impressive. So Jamie Anderson | 3:02:23 | 3:02:30 | |
with that drop has potentially left
the door open for Anna Gasser. | 3:02:30 | 3:02:41 | |
But this is going to be one of the
most interesting jumps. | 3:02:41 | 3:02:50 | |
most interesting jumps. Zoi Sadowski
Synnott, having absolutely stumped | 3:02:50 | 3:02:51 | |
the double backflip and the switch
backside 900, can now drop in. | 3:02:51 | 3:02:58 | |
Frontside? No, wait? Frontside 1080?
No one has seen that yet. This is so | 3:02:58 | 3:03:07 | |
good to watch. There could have been
it. At team frontside ten for her | 3:03:07 | 3:03:14 | |
could have been gold. She only
needed and 87 to go into the lead. I | 3:03:14 | 3:03:24 | |
did not expect that from her, I
don't even think I've seen her do | 3:03:24 | 3:03:28 | |
that or try that before. | 3:03:28 | 3:03:35 | |
that or try that before. The double
backflip was the weak link. I can't | 3:03:35 | 3:03:39 | |
believe I'm saying that. That puts
her in third place. Behind Anna | 3:03:39 | 3:03:44 | |
Gasser who is yet to drop and Jamie
Anderson, who currently occupies the | 3:03:44 | 3:03:48 | |
gold medal position. Also still to
drop is Reira Iwabuchi. She is the | 3:03:48 | 3:04:05 | |
smallest and lightest in the final.
There is a lot of wind up there. We | 3:04:05 | 3:04:11 | |
will see the backside 1080 again,
I'm sure of it. She want it this | 3:04:11 | 3:04:14 | |
time. So driven and self-motivated.
She was pushing to land this | 3:04:14 | 3:04:22 | |
backside double cork 1080. Too slow.
The rotation just wasn't there. | 3:04:22 | 3:04:34 | |
She's been throwing them so
consistently. She'd seen Jamie | 3:04:34 | 3:04:38 | |
Anderson go and she thought, I'm
going massive. She slowed the | 3:04:38 | 3:04:41 | |
rotation down because of that. | 3:04:41 | 3:04:44 | |
If she's just gone that little bit
bigger. There's only one woman left | 3:04:47 | 3:04:53 | |
to drop now who can knock Zoi
Sadowski Synnott out a bronze medal | 3:04:53 | 3:05:00 | |
position. Reira Iwabuchi on 147.5. | 3:05:00 | 3:05:10 | |
Yuka Fujimori, 41 years old. I
wonder if we will see the cab 99, or | 3:05:19 | 3:05:27 | |
French 99? She just got allowable --
front double nine? She just got a | 3:05:27 | 3:05:36 | |
little bit lost before. Anything in
the 90s will boost her right up. | 3:05:36 | 3:05:47 | |
And she stayed in the rotation way
better. She committed to the second | 3:05:51 | 3:05:59 | |
cork. Over rotated a little bit.
Disappointment for Yuka Fujimori. | 3:05:59 | 3:06:05 | |
She can't land those last two jumps
after a beautiful backside 900 on | 3:06:05 | 3:06:10 | |
her first hit. | 3:06:10 | 3:06:15 | |
her first hit. A phenomenal
performance from Yuka Fujimori. She | 3:06:17 | 3:06:22 | |
can't land that third run, so it's
122.75 and the 16-year-old New | 3:06:22 | 3:06:30 | |
Zealander knows that she has a
bronze medal. And Jamie Anderson | 3:06:30 | 3:06:37 | |
knows that she's got at the very
least a silver, only this woman can | 3:06:37 | 3:06:41 | |
move her out of gold medal position.
What are we going to see, Jamie? I | 3:06:41 | 3:06:45 | |
want to see a cab double ten, needs
to be big. Switch frontside 1080, | 3:06:45 | 3:06:53 | |
three full rotations. Rotating with
your front opening up the landing. | 3:06:53 | 3:06:59 | |
Anna Gasser, so consistent, we've
seen her land two beautiful jumps | 3:06:59 | 3:07:06 | |
already today. There hasn't been a
moment of doubt or hesitation. Can | 3:07:06 | 3:07:11 | |
she seal it now? Anderson just
looked so relaxed. I'm a bit | 3:07:11 | 3:07:20 | |
nervous, really nervous. | 3:07:20 | 3:07:22 | |
Oh, my gosh! This one is coming down
to the wire! I didn't think she had | 3:07:30 | 3:07:35 | |
that. I thought first corkscrew was
too vertical. Look at how made up | 3:07:35 | 3:07:42 | |
she is. We talked about this being
the best example, the best | 3:07:42 | 3:07:48 | |
exposition of women's riding, and
look at this. This is what it means | 3:07:48 | 3:07:51 | |
to them to be able to lay down in
perfect conditions on a brilliant | 3:07:51 | 3:07:55 | |
job. It's the opposite scenario to
what we saw in women's slopestyle | 3:07:55 | 3:07:59 | |
week ago. The pop on that. The
style! She went deep as well. That, | 3:07:59 | 3:08:07 | |
for me... Watch the back leg through
the second corkscrew. Hold the grab | 3:08:07 | 3:08:13 | |
down through. No hands down. 96, I
reckon. Highest scoring of the day | 3:08:13 | 3:08:23 | |
without a doubt. I think that's the
most fickle and stylish trick we've | 3:08:23 | 3:08:27 | |
ever seen in women's snowboarding.
-- most technical and stylish trick. | 3:08:27 | 3:08:33 | |
96, yes! And it is the gold medal.
Well-deserved. Very, very | 3:08:33 | 3:08:40 | |
well-deserved. | 3:08:40 | 3:08:45 | |
well-deserved. Anna Gasser, just
making it into gold medal position | 3:08:45 | 3:08:48 | |
ahead of Jamie Anderson. Look at
those scores! Incredibly bright | 3:08:48 | 3:08:54 | |
future for the New Zealander Julie
Zoi Sadowski Synnott. Reira | 3:08:54 | 3:09:00 | |
Iwabuchi, the other rocky, down in
fourth. | 3:09:00 | 3:09:03 | |
-- the other rocky. Everybody has to
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to me. The sole member of team
Ghana, the skeleton rider here in | 3:09:40 | 3:09:47 | |
Pyeongchang, whatever the few weeks
been like for you? A dream come | 3:09:47 | 3:09:51 | |
true. It's been an amazing
experience, the people into a macro | 3:09:51 | 3:09:55 | |
have been great, my family were
here, I was able to doubt a dream | 3:09:55 | 3:10:00 | |
and -- there to dream and achieve my
dream. It has been a great | 3:10:00 | 3:10:07 | |
experience so far. What has the
Olympic dream been for you, how long | 3:10:07 | 3:10:10 | |
have you had this dream? Sits over
17 years old, so about 15 years, I | 3:10:10 | 3:10:16 | |
missed it twice, this is my third
strike so I was grateful to get the | 3:10:16 | 3:10:20 | |
opportunity to be here. All in
skeleton? Know, one man three | 3:10:20 | 3:10:25 | |
sports. I did track and field as a
youth, I converted to bobsleigh | 3:10:25 | 3:10:32 | |
brakeman and now skeleton. It's been
a long journey, how hard journey has | 3:10:32 | 3:10:37 | |
been to get here filing the
Olympics? It's been a tough journey, | 3:10:37 | 3:10:40 | |
I was born in Ghana and grew up in
the Netherlands, I was recruited by | 3:10:40 | 3:10:47 | |
a coach and at the age of 17 I won
my first goals, and I believed in | 3:10:47 | 3:10:59 | |
myself and my coach believed in me.
In 2012, I was injured so I could | 3:10:59 | 3:11:06 | |
not compete. Then Nicola Minichiello
recruited me. She thought I could do | 3:11:06 | 3:11:12 | |
well as the brakeman, so I missed
Sochi. I missed that as well. I | 3:11:12 | 3:11:22 | |
didn't know whether I was going to
continue, but I was inspired by | 3:11:22 | 3:11:25 | |
Nicola and my wife to continue and I
was acquitted by Ghana. Nicola is | 3:11:25 | 3:11:31 | |
with us later on I am sure she is
watching. Tellers at about the | 3:11:31 | 3:11:36 | |
journey about away from H is about
the journey away from this board, | 3:11:36 | 3:11:41 | |
your funding? Yes, and the sole
member, the president, accountant, | 3:11:41 | 3:11:47 | |
all of the above? We have local
board members in Ghana as well. I | 3:11:47 | 3:11:52 | |
had to fulfil my dream by starting
on my own, after missing the | 3:11:52 | 3:11:56 | |
Olympics twice, no company believes
someone who missed the Olympics | 3:11:56 | 3:12:01 | |
twice from Africa going headfirst on
ice, so I had to prove it twice so I | 3:12:01 | 3:12:10 | |
went selling vacuum cleaners
door-to-door from a PM to midnight. | 3:12:10 | 3:12:13 | |
You are wearing the team -- from a
PM to midnight. You are wearing the | 3:12:13 | 3:12:19 | |
team colours of Ghana, how pride are
you? I am only the second Winter | 3:12:19 | 3:12:26 | |
Olympian, the first in skeleton. The
opportunity to wave my country is | 3:12:26 | 3:12:31 | |
emotional. No athletes have really
had that opportunity. Any time you | 3:12:31 | 3:12:36 | |
get to wave the flag, the flag of a
country who fought for independence, | 3:12:36 | 3:12:40 | |
and I was able to wave the flag and
inspire people in my country. It was | 3:12:40 | 3:12:44 | |
a very special moment. I'm sure you
inspire people outside of Ghana as | 3:12:44 | 3:12:49 | |
well. What would you say to anyone
watching this too has a dream? First | 3:12:49 | 3:12:52 | |
of all, it get up, don't get surfing
on that couch, get something that | 3:12:52 | 3:12:59 | |
you're good at, get good people
around you, I don't believe in a | 3:12:59 | 3:13:02 | |
self made man, you surround yourself
with people and they will bring you | 3:13:02 | 3:13:09 | |
up. If failure was the last step,
there would not be success, you have | 3:13:09 | 3:13:13 | |
to fail before you succeed. Your
dance has gone viral at the finish | 3:13:13 | 3:13:17 | |
line, can you get us a rendition? I
will give you a little bit of the | 3:13:17 | 3:13:23 | |
fever, and the dance. There's not
much room has a well make it simple. | 3:13:23 | 3:13:31 | |
Don't forget to salute the audience.
Brilliant, thank you! You have been | 3:13:31 | 3:13:36 | |
brilliant here. Well done for
achieving an epic dream and thank | 3:13:36 | 3:13:41 | |
you for joining us. We're heading
over to BBC now to join Clare | 3:13:41 | 3:13:48 | |
Balding who will take you to the
rest of the sport, short track speed | 3:13:48 | 3:13:51 | |
skating and the men's curling
semifinals. Have a very good day, or | 3:13:51 | 3:13:56 | |
see you tomorrow morning. | 3:13:56 | 3:14:00 |