BBC Two Day 5: GB in Women's Curling Winter Olympics

The weather has played its part here

again in Pyeongchang, we have had

the postponement of the women's

slalom which means we are waiting to

see Mikaela Shifrin take to the

slopes. Alex Tilley and Charlie

Guest in the line up for that, which

will now take place on Friday.

There is still lots happening away

from the Alpine Centre and here is

what to look forward to on day five.

Great Britain's men's and women's

curling rinks get their Olympic

campaigns under way, we will see the

action as both teams take to the

ice.

We have what promises to be a

sensational men's pipe final as

Shaun White looks for Olympic

redemption as he takes on

Australia's World Champion Scotty

James.

We are at the Gangneung Ice Arena as

the pairs competition gets under way

with the short programme.

And we will take in the normal hill

Nordic come pined -- combined. An

incredible test of endurance.

Welcome to our balcony here, it is a

pretty murky old day here in

Pyeongchang, the weather causing a

few problem, that Nordic combined

facing a delay at the moment, but we

are hoping that will get under way

shortly. I have been up that ski

jump. It is terrifying, I don't know

how they do it. We will start with

something although perhaps less

frightening it doesn't lack

excitement. Every body loves

curling. It is no fluke that the

men's and women's competitions get

under way on Valentine's Day. It is

a round-robin format. Each team will

play the other nine teams once with

the top four going into a knock out

semifinals, if you were watching on

BBC One you will know that Great

Britain's women are already under

way, they are playing the Olympic

athletes of Russia at the moment. So

let us head back live and join your

commentary team of jockey Lockheart

and Steve Cram.

commentary team of jockey Lockheart

and Steve Cram.

Thank you. -- Jackie. The skip of

the Great Britain team. It has been

a great start to them after the

first three ends leading 5-1. Now

this fourth end, where OAR have the

hammer, again is playing out pretty

well for Great Britain.

As you can see, so Great Britain

sitting two here.

Just one stone left for 've

Muirhead. OAR are struggling to find

their shots. It is partly because

Great Britain have started well. All

four players doing their job. And

this experienced British women's

team want to emulate the men, get

off to a winning start. The men

coming through in a very close match

versus Switzerland earlier on today,

that was awe crucial win in the

sense that Switzerland and Canada,

their two opponents, two of the

better team, that was a cracking

result for the men. So far so good

for the women.

So what are Russia, excuse me, OAR,

what are they looking at here?

I

think they want to hit that yellow

we see on the one foot beside the

Olympic rings there, if they can

possibly catch the back yellow as

well, but, main objective here is to

keep a shooter in the house. They

are just checking the angles here.

We have seen two or three little

delicate shots played before the TV

cam back to join us there, it was

all in the forefoot.

You can see the

sort of game she is having so far,

the skip for OAR, Victoria Moiseeva,

who is only shooting 42%. When the

skip is not firing it makes

everybody's job more difficult. She

can catch this on the nose. That is

jammed on to the back one.

Plan B

there, that is the story of their

game so far, they have never really

got the A game out. They are playing

their B game at the moment. She has

hit the stone and left it in front

of the GB yellow, but this should be

an easy push through for 've. --

eve. Whoa will lie two yellow

counters.

-- who will lie two yellow counters.

Even if she gets this shot, there is

still the opportunity for the OAR to

lift a double and get their two

here, but being 5-1 the object is to

force one, if she loses a two it is

not a disaster. She will still be

two ahead with the hammer going into

the fifth end.

Three time Olympian Eve Muirhead.

Medallist last time. A lot of

expectation, Great Britain aren't

going to win too many medals at the

Olympics, the curling in the women's

team seems one which they have high

hopes for. Another good shot from

Eve Muirhead.

Well done.

What they keep doing here, is they

are playing their shots, not having

to be brilliant all the time. But

they are asking the question of in

particular the OAR skip Moiseeva,

because she struggled, even with one

or two similar shot, she had a

straightforward draw, just into the

house, earlier and came up short.

You couldn't really have had an

easier shot

No, she hasn't been

performing the shots she needs to,

the skip, there is nobody coming

behind you, you have to be able to

pull the shots out of the bag, so we

are going to see her trying to lift

the double. She has to go for the

one out on the wing, the one not

nearest the shot if she wants to get

the double. She can't go for it the

other way, she has overthrown that

and given up one.

Well, anybody in a

top level sport, you almost feel for

them when they are, it is not about

being unlucky or you know, playing a

risky shot, just the basics, and she

is certainly not managing even to

hit that level at the moment. And

that is very good news for Great

Britain, so now after four ends,

they are leading OAR 6-1.

If you are just getting up early in

the morning back home, curling of

course, no British team in the mixed

curling which concluded last night

when Canada won the gold medal.

Versus Switzerland. No surprise

there really. OAR were delighted to

pick up the bronze. They had high

hopes of this women's team. They are

certainly capable on their day of

beating anybody.

But so far for them, this first

match is, well, it is not one they

will want to remember, but I guess

unlike the mixed doubles where you

would keep convincing me we would

like at a 6-1 score and think they

can still turn this round, something

would have to go horribly wrong

between over the next three or four

ends for this to turn round.

Yes,

they have to play the simple shots,

easy, they don't have to get into

any difficulty. And they have been

playing very well. The mistakes have

all been coming from the OAR, and

when they have made a mistake our

goodbye girls have capitalised.

-- GB. We will have to key keep an

eye on everyone else. Japan have got

off to a great start against the

USA. They lead 7-1. Sweden are

playing Denmark. Sweden lead 3-1 and

China are 3-1 up against

Switzerland.

A lot of these teams know each other

so well, played against each other

regularly.

Korea and Canada not playing in this

first session, ten teams of course.

Only eight can be competing at any

one time. Four sheets.

Despite the home nation not being on

show, I reckon we are about 75% full

in here.

Middle of the afternoon.

Few Union Jacks around.

Few Union Jacks around. Is so Lauren

Gray. Got things off to a good

start, and as the lead, she tries to

get herself off to a good start in

each end.

Yes, it is a key position

to play the lead stones here. Where

Lauren places them really will set

off what the strategy will be for

the rest of the game.

And that is OK, she was trying to

get that just a built further in,

across that center line, to protect

her stone there, so she stopped a

little bit short but it is still on

the center line, something to be

used later on.

If you are 6-1 after just four ends,

what is your strategy?

She is going

to have to throw everything at it,

including the kitchen sink. She has

got to start putting shots up in

front, not always racing to the

centre first. High is good, so they

can tap them and it will be about

the delicate tip and tap shots that

I have to play here.

-- they have to play here.

She had the opportunity when she has

put a corner on to use a corner, she

hasn't used it at all.

I don't know

why she is bringing stuff into the

one foot here, she would have been

better putting a corner behind the

shot there, Eve is going to clear

the corners now, and they will blast

everything down that centre.

A bit of inexperience I think, she

certainly strategic wise not playing

the shots I think she probably

should. Almost a wonderful shot

there, she really wanted to although

she put the stone there herself, but

because it is protecting the red

stone she would have been happy to

remove it.

You hear Vicki saying she didn't

know that was the shot she was going

for. You have to make split

decisions quickly depending how your

players have released the stone.

There was an opportunity to clear

the front and Eve1 tried.

the front and Eve1 tried.

So this is

Arsekina playing second.

Took part in the world university

games last year, they won a silver

medal. European gold, back in 2016.

Just going to get by? It does.

I am sitting here trying to work

out, apart from one or two sort of

fairly normal shots I am struggling

to think of any good, a good shot,

where OAR achieved what they were

after, you know, and just really

haven't got anything going for

themselves.

They are just making a

little half shots at the moment.

That is a good way of describing it.

I was wondering in curling, in a lot

of other team sports, if you talk

about football, the way the

Brazilians play, the Dutch play, the

Germans play, is there in curling is

there a, OAR or China or Japan, is

there a certain style?

That is a

good question, because I think the

Swedish girls often played lots and

lots of what we could call a half

way, a very controlled way, whereas

a lot of the other European

countries played heavy, and I think

as times progressed all the other

countries realised if you can play

and deliver your stone at least half

way you have a better chance of a

better result, rather than you throw

it up really heavy and you hit and

roll out, they were hitting and

rolling still into the house, so a

lot of the European teams have taken

up that strategy now and they are

playing a much more delicate tapping

weight.

Annette Norburg was renowned for

playing that easy way and they

played it so well.

Easy-osey?

Yes, a

Scottish word. Two words.

You learn something every day.

I am not sure that is anything you

want to be learning from me!

So that is not a bad shot, because

what she has done is she has opened

up and moved all of her red stones.

Not possible to remove all of them,

so Eve has to decide which two she

wants to take.

wants to take.

She is just seeing if

there is a chance, well, she said it

herself there, the flat, the three.

It is much easier to get a double if

one of the stones is sitting

slightly higher than the other and

you can roll off it and across. When

they are flat you have to have

powerful deliveries to get the

momentum to catch the sideways move,

to take the other shot out.

Might

have a chance here, has to hang on

to the edge and just got one.

Unlucky.

Went underneath it. This is an

opportunity here for OAR, it is a

first time in a while we have seen

them in control.

But again, when

they had a chance, trying to think

which end it was, and well apart

from the fact she, on the end where

the skip didn't even draw into the

house, they have had a couple of

half chances before, not able to

Captain lose his.

So, this should just be a simple

draw. The space between all of these

red shots, much wider than they were

before.

before. A little possibility of a

double off

double off that one, the other one

is a little bit five. Second chance

here for Anna to get her double.

Anna has played some pretty good

shots, there has been a couple of

times they have not come off 100%.

That's perfect.

Nicely done, double

takeout for Anna Sloan.

Great team

to Munich Asian in this team.

to Munich Asian in this team. --

great team communication.

STEVE CRAM: We were talking earlier

about OAR getting two, but... Again,

similar story, you don't mind, two

at 5-1 or 6-1.

JACKIE LOCKHART: Yes, but we have to

execute every shot.

execute every shot. Eve Muirhead

likes to play the doubles and the

ankles, so she will be looking to

come off the red out on the wing and

take out the one in the centre as

well.

Well, Eve Muirhead has been playing

very well so far. She has not had to

make any spectacular shots, really.

She has done what she has had to do

very well indeed. So, looking to

remove both of these OAR stones.

Keeping the pressure on.

Keeping the pressure on.

All about

lying here. Oh, dear! Just overthrew

that and missed completely.

that and missed completely.

Well,

that's the first little slip-up from

the British team, and in particular

from Eve.

She looks a little bit

bewildered by that shot there, it

probably didn't move as much as she

thought it was going to. She has to

keep calm, though, that's just one

small error. She has another stone

to try and rectify it with.

Look at

this, though, the accuracy of the

OAR skip, 25% on draws.

Not good at

all. But she just has to make this

shot.

This is heavy, heavy, heavy,

heavy...

Oh, it's another poor, poor

shot. Yeah, she came up short before

and it must have been still in her

mind any this time... I'm beginning

to feel more and more sorry for her.

I shouldn't, but you don't like to

see any player in any sport really

struggling at this level, or to the

extent that she is. So, wasn't a

great shot from Eve Muirhead, and

followed up by one which was if

anything even worse, a lot worse,

from the OAR skip. Yes, she just has

to make sure she had the one closest

to the centre. And forces, then, the

OAR skip to hit and lie for two.

So,

Eve Muirhead, then, again, this

should be fairly straightforward and

simple for the OAR skip to come

down, tap that British stone out and

pick up two shots just but she's

finding everything belay the most

basic shots, difficult. We're into

the fifth end here, Britain leading

6-1 at the moment. OAR trying to

respond, trying to get SOMETHING

going, desperately hoping that

Garnett can get this right.

Garnett can get this right. --

desperately hoping that Moiseeva can

get this right.

It's going to stay

in the house, so two there for

Olympic Athletes from Russia.

And

Vicky Sloan was just having a little

look to see if she could help it on

its way but it was good enough for

her to stay in for the two. So, they

reduce the deficit somewhat. Great

Britain, though, in a wonderful

position at the halfway point in

this match, leading OAR 6-4 a after

five ends. So, a great start by

Britain's women, skippered by Eve

Muirhead, now in her third Olympics,

and they have high hopes for a

medal. European Champions Cup and

world bronze medallists and they

picked up the bronze in Sochi. Lets

meet the girls going for Pyeongchang

gold.

We went into Sochi as current world

champions and I guess having that on

your CV is always going to make it a

little bit tougher for you, you're

always going to add some pressure.

There was expectations but it is a

bubbly more what we put on ourselves

because we know that we have beaten

everyone there, so it is really who

is going to play better for that we

come and

STEVE CRAM: They've fought so hard,

and this, potentially her last stone

of this match...

It has got a

chance... And that's a nice shot

from Eve Muirhead!

The pressure made

us know that we could perform at

that high-level. It made us know we

WERE the best team in the world, and

we were capable of hitting the

podium.

This, to close out the match

against Great Britain... Having to

work it hard...! Really hard...! Is

it going to get there?! I think it

is! And Canada have won it!

When we

lost that semifinal I'm not going to

lie it was probably the most

overstating moment in my career.

Losing that semifinal was definitely

the hardest loss, and at the time we

thought, this is a really quick

turnover, but that's probably what

helped us in the end.

They are the

world champions, and now they could

be the Olympic bronze medallists if

this stone is right from Eve

Muirhead. It is going to get there!

And the brushes go in the air! And

Britain have won the bronze medal!

To come home with a medal was

outstanding, line was still really

pleased with that, but now I've got

a taste of that Olympic podium and

all I want to do is build my way up

there.

Obviously, we've got a bit of

unfinished business, getting the

bronze medal was amazing, but you

always want to do better. So, we

have to break it down into each

game, and then once we get to

hopefully the play-off stages,

that's a brand-new competition.

We're feeling like we're in a good

place at the moment. We've been

working very, very hard-headed

that's something I have to

constantly say to people about

curling - it is much harder than it

looks. And we wouldn't have to train

so much to be at the top of the game

if it wasn't. We had a great win at

the European Championships.

COMMENTATOR: Scotland, gold

medallists here in Switzerland...

The gold medal at the Olympics is

the only gold medal I am missing in

my collection, so for me it would

mean a lot of very, very hard work

has paid off. And I have put in a

tonne of work to get to the position

I'm in just now. To stand on the top

of the podium would be something

extra, extra special.

The girls have medical us. So far

and they're currently leading the

Olympic athletes of Russia sixthree,

so let's get back to Steve Cram and

Jackie Lockhart.

STEVE CRAM: Thanks, and we are just

discussing made breaks next. We're

just noting the quality of the

snacks from the two teams! Grapes on

a stick - who has grapes on a?! The

OAR team were being handed their

bits of fruit!

JACKIE LOCKHART: They're all busy

getting refuelled. But at the same

time their coaches are checking

strategy for the next five ends.

There was actually a lot of smiles

with the OAR team, they weren't too

stressed, they've been playing

poorly, particularly the skip. You

can see some of the statistics from

the first five ends.

the first five ends. But they can't

lie about the scoreboard, it doesn't

necessarily matter about the

statistics. That young

statistics. That young lady there,

Victoria Moiseeva, has been really

struggling. If you're just getting

up to this, it has been a good

start, OAR have responded and have

had chances to score more but at

least they picked up two there. So,

it has been a good start for the

British team. The British men are

meanwhile managed to win over

Switzerland in the first section of

the men's competition, a excellent

start for the British men. Duff

first day for them - mustn't three

sessions every day. This is the

middle session in the women's

competition and the men will be back

again this evening as well in the

arena here. So, Victoria Moiseeva,

the lead for OAR. Lauren Gray for

Great Britain. Lauren was the

alternate four years ago in Sochi.

Even as the alternate, Jackie, you

still get a lot of experience, being

around the Olympic experience, don't

you?

Yeah, it is a huge opportunity

for players if they get the

opportunity to be a fifth man,

because you find out what it is like

at eight championships and as Lauren

did, she went to an Olympics and it

can be nothing more than inspiring

to know that you have been at that

event and you want to be on the team

actually down there playing - and

that's exactly what she did. Lauren

in her own right was a skip for a

long, long time and then played

fifth man for Eve and then decided

to join the team after Eve asked her

to play lead, a key role in any

game, the lead. The position of the

stone is critical.

As soon as we

start talking about Lauren, she's

just had a shocker! So, her first

stone going straight through. Great

Britain with the hammer in this

sixth end.

After the fifth end

break, you kind of relaxed, you

stood with your coaches, you've been

eating and chatting

eating and chatting away, and the

ice has been sitting for three or

four minutes doing nothing, and you

have to come onto the game with your

focused head back on again.

STEVE CRAM: So, Lauren just needs to

concentrate here after that... Well,

they're always concentrating, of

course they are but she just needs

to put that last shot out of her

mind.

That's been a lot of errors

from the Olympic Athletes from

Russia. But at the same time our

girls have very much capitalised on

every shot. And she has made up for

it with her second stone, that's

lovely, well-placed.

You give the opportunity for the OAR

to rest on it and make it difficult

for you to remove the red stone.

Galina Arsekina, 26-year-old. From

Moscow.

Moscow. If anything, she is probably

been just about the most consistency

of the team, of the OAR team, but

this one not quite sitting on top of

that British stone.

It was a nice

weight there, just the wrong line,

she would like to have been a bit

more to the right, on the center

line, checking the yellow stone, but

this is an opportunity for us to

play a nice delicate tap, wait here,

tap that through. Keep her stone top

half of the four foot.

Vicki Adams.

She has plenty on it

She has

overthrown this, it seems to be

going out more than anything.

Enough weight there to move it so, a

bit fortunate there.

Good result in the end. Not

necessarily the best flowing stone.

A little firm and she affirms

herself.

It didn't move at all. We have

noticed that, a bit of weight and it

stays pretty straight down that

side.

These girls are play on

international curling ice and it has

been very well made but often you

will find it is really delicate, the

actual weight you put, you deliver

on the ice, if you put too much

weight it will hang straight, you

have really got to play nice weight,

to get it to move. And then use your

sweepers to hold it straight if

necessary.

Eve would like to get

this one further back. Again, if

curling, you are trying to Red Bull

everything from four years ago, if

that was the last time you watched,

welcome back. -- remember. But the

team who have delivered the stone

can sweep it as far as they want,

but the team who are didn't deliver,

once it is past that T-line they

can't deliver if they want to take

it further back.

Vicki Adams hoping

to, that is a lovely shot. Remove

both these red guards at the front,

clear up the house.

With a hammer,

last stone. Want the chance to

score.

The key shots are the clearing

guards, able to throw precise and

heavyweight to remove two or three

stones at a time.

They are going to try and put a

guard back in here.

Olympic Athletes from Russia don't

have, they are hoping for a mistake

from Great Britain, who might hit it

on the nose and leave a guard out

the front and then they would pull

one in behind it, so object of game

here for Great Britain is to remove

these guards, and your own stone as

well.

Anna Sloan playing third.

Looks OK.

Well done.

Yes, as you say Steve, hopefully we

have got some of our curling fans

from four years ago back up early

this morning, watching this game. An

early start for people back home,

but for us it's an afternoon here,

in Gangneung in Korea.

There will be young kids getting

early to go to school and hopefully

they are watching while they are

having their breakfast. Is

What a

lovely thought.

Sure everybody gets very much

inspired by watching these top class

athletes playing at their best.

Unfortunately, the, the OAR team not

quite at their best this morning,

they haven't brought their A-game

but as in the old football scenario

it's a game of two halves and they

have after the fifth end spoken to

their coach and...

I wasn't sure

much was being said. They were

definitely chatting about what they

were eating, I'm not sure much else

was being said. What could he say,

you're not playing very well?

I am

sure he would be saying force the

one and you have to take the two.

There is a great shot. They aren't

going to let this lead they have got

slip away from them, that is for

sure.

Very quickly, there are three

other games taking place here, Japan

had a great start against USA.

Jumped out to a 7-0 lead. It is 8-1.

They have a firm hold on that match

and Sweden against Denmark are 7-1

up. And China, over Switzerland,

4-1. So none of the matches so far

in this first session of the women's

competition are particularly close.

One team dominating in all four.

Thankfully in this one it is Great

Britain.

She didn't catch up in of that

there, she was hoping to catch more

to roll across and tap the yellow

out of the house. She only got one

of them.

Great Britain with the hammer here,

so they will be happy to split the

house. So they have one on the, as

Eve is looking at it, the left-hand

side they will want to put another

one on the right-hand side of the

house as far apart as possible so

there is no chance of a double.

Great opportunity here to lie two.

So Eve Muirhead then, trying to

capitalise on what has already been

a good performance so far. She just

wants to go on the op site --

opposite side of the house and it is

on that T-line. She looks a little

strong.

Heard Vicki Adams say ten

there, the girls will call numbers.

Dear, dear, dear.

That is just

another little error we have seen,

that is two missed shots there for

Eve. She had it in the last end and

that one there.

We can see there,

the statistics aren't miles apart,

but more take outs being played by

Great Britain. A lot more take outs,

with a reasonable amount of

successings but Eve Muirhead there

with her draw -- success.

Miles off.

That was a real missed

tonne. She had the whole of the

paint as we would call it, the

house, to land in.

No point in

blanking.

I think they will blank,

if he doesn't have the opportunity

of a two they will want to blank.

They want to score two and increase

that lead.

If you take your one and you perhaps

give up the chance of them taking a

two or a three off you, that is not

a good call, so...

We have talked

about keeping the hammer in the even

end, with this sort of lead though?

7-3?

If you are really close you

will try and convert the hammer,

but, they are far enough up.

So, we

have been watching mixed double, I

hope you caught some of it. A great

new formatters first time at the

Winter Olympic, in that blank end

meant you would lose the hammer, we

didn't see it happen at all, where

as in this more traditional format

means you keep control, when you are

6-3 up, as Jackie explained, that is

a good option.

So Eve deciding not to sit in and

score. So blanking that end and we

move on to the seventh. Great

Britain retaining the hammer. And

indeed retaining this 6-3 lead. We

are happily inside here, the weather

conditions as you have probably

heard many, many events are being

cancelled. High winds, I am told

here in the press centre next to our

venue here that everyone has been

moved out of there. Bit worried are

about the whole thing blowing away.

They are tent-like structures so

even at lunchtime we were a bit

scared in the canteen.

Everybody is safe inside here

though.

So with each end that progresses we

are getting closer to finishing this

ten end game here.

This is the warmest day as well.

Warm and windy.

I use the term warm

loosely.

It has been very very cold.

It is a few degrees above rather

than a few degrees below. Obviously

nowhere near as cold here as it has

been up in the resorts. But it is

the wind, it is the wind, it has

been a feature of this last week,

ten days.

Not here. Well OAR then, still very

much up against it here, Great

Britain retaining the hammer. And

they have probably played a tad

better in that end, OAR.

More down to particularly Eve

that...

Missed opportunity there by

Eve rather than OAR. So they are

just looking to throw one short here

in the center line, that is slightly

overcurled. She would have wanted to

finish on the red line we see down

the vertical down the house there.

Great Britain will put the stones

out to the wing.

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Thank you for doing that Jackie. If

nothing else gave me time to have a

sneaky biscuit. Very important all

that talk of breakfast and half-time

fruit and nuts and the rest of it.

Just a bit peckish!

I think we have been lulled into a

false sense of security. We have had

lots of mixed doubles games that are

over in an hour and 45. These team

games can last anything from

two-and-a-half to three hours.

Yes, that men's match went to an

extra end, over three hours. Against

Switzerland, but the result was a

good one. A good match actually.

There was a bit of a cagey affair.

But, nonetheless, Great Britain

playing well.

One or two ends where things weren't

going quite their way but they hung

together well and came through with

a good win against a good Swiss

team, and Great Britain's women

here, continuing the good start.

Let's not, we shouldn't

underestimate this OAR team, they

are capable of doing well this week.

They will have to play better than

they have so far.

There is still an opportunity for

this OAR team to come back in to

this game. Great Britain have to be

careful here and that stone of

Lauren Gray's just slips to the back

of the rings, she really wanted it

to finish in the top half of the

rings. This gives the opportunity

for the red stones here to come

down, sit top of her GB yellow

stone.

Galina Arsekina. Playing

second. Seeing earlier on a former

figure skater, a leg injury forced

her to take up curling, couldn't

skate any more, she has made this

second position her own.

It will be a little short there,

but...

Eve, she isn't going to look

at that shot. She came up a bit

short there, but Eve's stones are a

danger to her, the two reds outside

of the house here, so we have seen

Vicki, second player in this team,

key shots for them are take outs,

clearing the guards.

Trying to get

both of these here.

Just a bit, oh... Well, the only

good thing was she stayed in with

hers, which knocked her own stone

out, but really thin there. Almost

missing it completely.

Did that get pushed out? It wouldn't

be still there if it did. Any way,

so Vicki may well get another chance

that the front guard. Let's see what

Arsekina does here.

Going to try and put another one up.

She has a couple of options here,

she can come up short on if she

comes intoo far she has to be

sitting frozen on her own so happily

just playing that short, to protect

her shot.

Another opportunity here for these

two reds at the front to be removed.

If you catch the right-hand side of

it it should go on to the other red

and clear both of them.

Actually she

wants a similar shot to the one she

has just played, does not want to

catch this too remain... Well done.

That is better. -- too full. So,

Vicki Adams helping to clear things

out for Eve Muirhead. Seventh end,

just three more after this. It could

well be that the OAR have the hammer

in the eighth and the tenth unless

another end gets ranked. But Britain

could pick up the two here, maybe

even one would be enough but they

will want to try and get two if they

can. OAR are going to put it another

guard in place.

Yeah, they're

playing very offensive here, if they

don't make this guard, they could be

in all sorts of trouble. But she has

actually played it very well.

STEVE CRAM: Again, Eve Muirhead

wants rid of that. So, Anna Sloan,

fairly straightforward shot for her.

JACKIE LOCKHART: Anna Sloan, the

only left-handed player in this

team.

team.

Nothing wrong with

left-handedness!

No, not at all,

actually an advantage sometimes in

the game. You will notice that when

the girls sit down on the hack, it

is called, it will depend on whether

they are right-handed or

left-handed, and quite often if you

are a left-hander, you can be on the

right side of a stone to see the

better side.

better side. So an advantage, Steve

- I take it you are a left-hander!

Yes, I am!

Yes, I am!

They're playing these

guards very well.

I was just going

to say, they're finally beginning to

find the right line and weight,

putting the guards at least where

they want them to be. Anna Sloan

trying to perform exactly the same

shot as she did a minute or two ago.

And she does it well. So, continuing

here to give Eve Muirhead the

chance, well, more than a chance,

the ability to keep control of, make

her own decision about the shot

she's going to play.

OAR are playing

very dangerously here, because if

they don't put this guard on at all

there is a huge opportunity for a

three here for Great Britain.

And

this is where I would get a little

concerned, because the draw ability

of the skip so far in this match has

not been good to.

No, it hasn't.

She's at 20%!

It's not playing on

her mind at all, is it? Staying off

this as well...

this as well...

The sweepers will

know they needed to be a cross that

centreline. So, she's brought this

one into the house, and this will

give... Oh, that's not a good shot

at all.

This is what I'm saying. Has

ended up gives Eve Muirhead a big

opportunity here.

So, Eve, hoping to remove both of

these stones and keep her shooter in

the house. Should be a

straightforward shot here.

Tiny bit

your way...

Just in the centreline?

Yeah.

So, Eve suggesting quite a heavy

throw.

throw. Executed well. So, we lie

three shots here now, and that was

the danger of OAR playing these

guards, she played the guard but she

brought it into the house. A second

opportunity for them might have been

to put one to the wing and say, I'm

going to make you play for just one

of them.

Well, it's been a difficult

first session for OAR, particularly

for their skip. She has had the

opportunity is maybe to have had the

chance to make the situation not as

bad as it is. May not really have

ever been in a position to dominate

over rate Britain, but -- over Great

Britain, but each time we've come to

the last two stones, could have been

so much worse. So, this is the final

stone in this seventh end for OAR,

Great Britain lying three here.

This

is a real gutsy call. She's ignoring

all of the Yellowstone is in the

house, and going to try and draw in

behind. -- all of the yellow stones.

And given how she has been drawing,

that's a big call.

that's a big call.

This is a simple

takeout for four here. That was a

big, big, gutsy call, especially

when she's not throwing draw weight

very well.

very well. It's a shot which could

have stolen the end, but she's just

not playing well enough.

Well, this

could be it here, if Great Britain

take four then I would be very

surprised if OAR decided to carry

on, particularly the way they're

playing.

It's not as if, lets spend

some more time out on the ice -

they're having a shocker. And Eve

Muirhead would like to try and

finish this here. We may well get

the handshakes. Eve Muirhead looking

to just hit this on the nose and

stay for four... And she's done it

superbly well. It's another good

shot. Four for Great Britain.

There's a little discussion going on

with the OAR team. I wonder if

they're going to carry on. It is now

10-3 in favour of Great Britain.

Yes, and that's it. There's the

handshake. It's been a penniless the

OARas per, but what a start for

Great Britain. -- it has been a poor

start from the OAR perspective but

what a start for Great Britain, they

have come through this match

brilliantly well, played well right

from the start. They put the

pressure on OAR and they could not

respond. In fact as I said, they've

played some horrendous shots.

EILIDH BARBOUR: So, a great result

for Great Britain's women curlers

and next up for them is the USA and

you can see that on BBC One just

after midnight. Well, it's a family

affair for Britain's curlers, Eve

Muirhead being joined by her two

brothers at the Olympics for the

first time. The men's skip is Kyle

Smith, and his brother Cameron is

also on the team. Are you keeping

up?! If not, don't worry, here's

Steve Cram with a quick look at who

the boys are and what they've been

saying ahead of Pyeongchang.

saying ahead of Pyeongchang.

A lot

of the game is about field, really,

you have to feel the weight and feel

the moment and put it exactly where

you want it.

Talk Bojan about you

and your brother - are there any

tensions ever between brothers out

there?

Sometimes, yes. It can be

something very silly and just

because it is your brother in annoy

you more. But even when you do fall

out, because it's your brother,

almost instantly, it's forgotten

about.

He's quite an analytical

skip, he likes to think about things

before he does it and if he needs

your help he will always ask and we

will talk about each game after and

go through every shot NCF there is

anything we could have done

differently, or if we called the

right shot.

Do you think as a

brother that's an advantage to have

your brothers in the team?

To be

honest we've always got on really

well. And when we are curling I

don't really see him as my brother,

is just another competitor that

we're playing with, so it works

really well.

Cameron is a great guy

to have around and we know how to

work around each other.

work around each other.

I have

basically curled with Kyle my whole

career, our mums would drag is

around when we will be kids and I

have played with him since I was a

young boy and basically we have done

that over the years and got to where

we are today. We play a lot of the

teams that we're going to play out

there on a weekly basis on the tour,

but I think just representing Team

GB in South Korea, which is a unique

case to go, I've never been, I've

never been to that part of the

world, and just to experience it,

doing what we do, that is what I am

kind of looking forward to, to be

honest, and getting on the ice and

playing in front of a crowd and fan

base that we never get to play in

front of unless it's at the

Olympics.

You always try and take

these events one game at a time, and

I think it is well within our grasp,

it's all just about how well we

performed that week, but we've given

ourselves the best chance in the

work that we've done to build up to

this event. So, just itching to go,

really, and I hope everything comes

together for us at the right time.

Janet Kisa tough first match for

Team Smith, they were facing

Switzerland, World Championship

bronze medallists, and rejoin the

action in the tenth end with Great

Britain leading 5-4. Your

commentators are Logan Gray and

Steve Cram.

So, bear, and attract and tap at

Middlestone back a little. I think

he wants the option to be able to be

able to run one of those other

yellows, to have two sitting at the

top. -- so, they're just going to

try and that middle stone.

Absolutely. They have played the

whole end to force in Switzerland to

just score one, but now they're in

such a strong position that they

smell blood and they're going to go

and try and steal the game right

here in the tenth end.

here in the tenth end.

Not the

easiest side that any of them have

managed to cope with.

managed to cope with. So, draw

weight for Kyle Smith.

weight for Kyle Smith. Tap that

middle yellow back... It's looking

pretty good, actually.

pretty good, actually. Another few

inches maybe would have been good,

but that is a good effort.

but that is a good effort. A little

more would have been ideal. But

you're right, it's just making life

very difficult for Switzerland here.

LOGAN GRAY: I've been told, Steve,

that Princess Anne is in the house

right now. I don't know if you can

see that on the TV but...

see that on the TV but... Yeah, I

can see the British contingent,

Princess Anne and about 15 other

people.

So, what are the options here for

Switzerland and try and their own

in?

Yeah, I think so, it looks like

they're going to play a takeout on

it and if they stick it then they

might have a chance to score two,

but what they really want is to get

one. A little bit surprised to see

them playing a takeout weight at

this.

He's been struggling with

this.

He's been struggling with his

weight.

You would think if they went

to the last end they only have

realistically a 20% chance of

winning.

Switzerland lie shot. The they block

the route in? Run that back?

the route in? Run that back?

Throw

the guard here.

If we could place it

there I'm

there I'm not sure...

The other

option Switzerland would v he has

just played a shot. He could almost,

you don't allow Switzerland to be

able to tap that back again, you

could play almost the same shot and

knock that stone in for two, so

surely they have to do something on

that side.

It looks like they are

potentially guarding play at the

same shot again to score two, and

hopefully just accepting they are

going to go to an extra end.

In their time-out they talked about

not kind of blocking those kind of

promotional take outs and that is

what they did. They kind of

snookered themselves a bit on that

left-hand side and they can't

promote eitherer of the yellows on

to the red.

The last thing what they want to do

here, is throw some sort of a hail

Mary to get that red stone out and

make things easier for Switzerland,

to get another one to score two.

Still six-and-a-half minutes on the

clock so they are giving this one

its full attention.

What they want to do here, is

This is the final stone for Kyle

Smith and for Great Britain in the

tenth end, are we going to see an

extra end? Britain leading by one.

Kyle Smith has found his form in the

latter stages but he will try to

protect hiss position, they don't

want to give Switzerland an

opportunity to pick up two. They are

going to have to sweep this really

hard though, really hard. He has

maybe not given this enough. First

of all get over the hog line, have

to sweep it.

Great sweep to get in

and play but it is not going to do

anything. It is far too long.

Having said that, I was really

surprised by how little ice the

Swiss took for that previous stone,

so it was, it must be quite straight

down that side of the sheet. So

maybe it does do the job.

There is no real room to come round

that one, it didn't look as though

there is. There is a British stone

at the back, sitting behind the one

that is counting.

And anything too wide, probably not

going to get second shot, the option

the preferred one would have been

probably to tap that red, the shot

he just played before, into position

there, that counting stone, where

that is. Still looking at it.

So sorry, a time-out has been call.

The Swiss cope is there.

Helping with the discussion, I looks

as though they have mind their mind

up pretty quickly, he's off.

I think I heard the Swiss players

say they didn't think the draw round

the outside was possible, because

it's quite straight there, so, they

are looking to try and play pretty

much the same shot again,

three-quarters contact on that red

and push it into the middle for two.

Is weight important? Whenever you

are tapping the stone up on to other

one, catch, I don't think there is

enough room to push it by. I was

going to say that yellow is too

close behind. Any way, here we go,

the final stone for Switzerland.

Need the one here, two would give

them victory over Great Britain, a

crucial shot here, swards, they have

played a good shot last time. He is

past the guard. Just a nudge to push

it out. That nudge is enough to make

sure that that stone is not going to

come into where he wanted it to, so

one for Switzerland, we have a tied

match after ten ends and Great

Britain did their job well there,

almost at one point looked as though

they could get the steal but they

limited Switzerland to the one, they

are tied five all and Great Britain

will take the hammer into the extra

end.

Here is the chance then. Extra end,

Great Britain with the hammer.

T one point looked as though they

could get the steal but they limited

Switzerland to the one, they are

tied five all and Great Britain will

take the hammer into the extra end.

Here is the chance then. Extra end,

Great Britain with the hammer.

Italy

have a time-out.

have a time-out. Nd Great Britain

did their job well there, almost at

one point looked as though they

could get the steal but they limited

Switzerland to the one, they are

tied five all and Great Britain will

take the hammer into the extra end.

Here is the chance then. Extra end,

Great Britain with the hammer.

Italy

have a time-out. Bard being put in

place. Just comes across the center

line.

So I think if you are Great Britain,

you kind of think, yes, we managed

the last three four ends well, at

one point you could have said the

momentum was slight I with

Switzerland, then it shifted back

and during that last end, it is

beginning to look as though that one

shot wasn't, it didn't tap their own

stone back far enough.

A nice shot from Cammy Smith.

Yes, it is all about inches and if

annal only and the rest of it, but

at least they limited Switzerland to

the one there, and then now in a

good position. Well, in a position

you would want to be in in the extra

end with the hammer. Only need one

of course now.

Definitely. That shot might have

looked a bit strange. It is the

first time we have seen a shot of

its type in this game. We call that

a tick shot. So basically what you

are trying to do is move your

opposition stone to the side but a

you can't remove it from play

because of the free guard zone rule,

which prevents you from removing the

opposition stones from that area out

front of the house.

Basically what GB are going to try

and do is keep that centre

wide-open, so that Kyle can lay one

down there on to the bottom to win

the game.

So another one of them, please,

Cammy.

They are sweeping this hard. Don't

want to hit it too skinny.

Scary.

Yes, well done.

Maybe thought for a moment it was

closer than that. There is a lot of

smiles now, and a bit of, bit of a

swaggerer he is is not getting too

confident but the last three or four

ends have really pulled it back

together.

Those shots that Cammy

made, they give them a good buzz and

feeling, and just by making, because

they play a lot of more unmundane

shots, the guards, in this

situation, this is the one where

they can make a massive difference

to the outcome of the game, and how

straight forward the final stone is

for the skip.

You can see a bit of that stone.

Peel I think the call.

Peel I think the call.

What you

saying? Peel?

Ideally they would go

after the one in the house here, but

they don't want to rest just

feathering it like Benoit did.

Peeling the guard.

Not going to hit

I. He did. I am sitting on the wrong

side looking at it. Should keep

watching the TV screen, a better

view.

As you said keeping things nice and

clear.

I was half watching the end

of Canada Italy. That is what they

were doing, Canada kept giving

themselves plenty of room. They had

the last stone and run out victors

by 5-3. Picked up one in the final

end. It was a tight affair all the

way through that one, Italy giving

Canada plenty to think about there.

Great Britain will face Canada in

this evening's session.

I would love

to go there with a victory under

their belt.

-- they would love to go there with

a victory under their belt. Same

again, another peel for Kyle

Waddell.

So far, so good.

Absolutely, another three of them

would be quite fine, then you would

expect Kyle wouldn't have too hard a

shot to win the game. Game.

Well Switzerland do have one end

close to the four foot, that is

their friend at the moment.

Any skip, if brow said draw to the

four foot to win the match, with

clear ice ahead of you.

You would take that, wouldn't you?

Absolutely.

No change in tactic, Switzerland are

hoping they will get this wrong.

There is not much else they can do.

Thomas Muirhead doing a good job

You

don't want to stick it, hit it on

the nose and leave your own stone

sitting there.

That is the difference between the

take out and a peel. A peel is when

you peel your own stone away from

the playing area as well as the

stone that is in play already.

Here we go again.

The centre plays lovely and open,

exactly as you would want if you are

GB, that is largely down to the

terrific two shots by Cammy Smith,

making those tick shots and opening

things right up.

Another nice shot from Thomas

Muirhead. His last three ends has

been very good.

Trying to work out where they want

to put their last stone of the end,

rather than this one I would say,

they are going to throw a guard here

in this one, and they will probably

put one kind of somewhere in round

the center line, about a similar

distance from the button at the

back.

Just about protecting that back at

the minute.

You can see where he would like to

finish up.

The blowers have come

back on again.

I think Great Britain's cause has

been helped slightly by a bit of a

sticky patch that Mark Schwarzer --

Benoit Schwarz went through.

The last stone in that tenth end

capturing the guard on the way

through as well.

Suburb just want to move that out of

the way and keep trying to keep this

nice and clear, the skip for Great

Britain will have a shot at the end,

we're a assuming here, to win the

match.

match. It has gone quiet in here!

The British contingent,

The British contingent, including

the British dignitaries and the

British team watching this.

LOGAN GRAY: That was not what they

were looking for. But I guess they

get kind of second prize there. But

all of a sudden, the difficulty for

Kyle Smith's final shot has one up

by a few fold.

Now, he has got the

chance to draw in behind that and

get close in. Something to make Kyle

Smith have to work around. Just

trying to work out exactly where

they would like to be.

It is never over. You just think

this was going

this was going nicely Great

Britain's way... They still might

have a chance to win it but it is

just going to have to be a very good

shot. Let's see what Benoit Schwarz

can do here. He has struggled with

his weight, but good players come

good when it matters.

So, somewhere

just touching the button on the edge

of the left-hand side is what Benoit

Schwarz is looking for here. To try

and really close down that scoring

area for Kyle Smith's last one.

SWISS PLAYERS TALK FRENCH

SWISS PLAYERS TALK FRENCH That is a

real mistake from Benoit Schwarz,

he's made a few.

he's made a few.

It was short as

well. They were trying to sweep it

in and get it passed that the guard,

at least into the house, would have

given Kyle Smith something to think

about. A more straightforward shot

for him now, just to draw this into

anywhere in the house, and Great

Britain will win their first match.

Thomas Muirhead certainly played his

part after a couple of indifferent

shots in the middle of the match, he

has come good towards the end, and

Kyle Smith himself has struggled

with one or two of his shots, but

this is pretty straightforward. The

British skip with the

British skip with the chance to draw

in, on this extra end, the last

stone.

stone.

We're a way out there...

Weight's good!

LOGAN GRAY: Holding my breath as

well, I don't know why!

Such a

straightforward shot! Looks fine!

Yarn at the hands shake comes in the

end. It was an incredibly tight

match, all the way through, nobody

got more than one shot ahead of the

other. Great Britain holding

Switzerland to one on the final end,

meaning we went into an extra end

and with mistakes from both teams it

was a bit of a nailbiter. But what a

way for Great Britain to start,

they've won their first match,

against Switzerland. In the end the

score, 6-5 against Great Britain.

Congratulations, guys, what a way to

get under way?

Delighted, could not

really be a better start so I'm

really chuffed.

A tight affair, how

were the nerves?

You're always going

to get a little nervy in your first

Olympics. It is just keeping it

under control and knowing the

processes to do it right.

That

sounds like a pretty stock answer! I

bet the nerves were jangling Bojan!

There was a few missed shots but we

played them in the Europeans and it

makes for a good game! We said to

Kyle, we just needed the draw for

the win and thankfully they let us

have that a bit easier than we

probably expected that you still

have to make it, so we're happy.

I

noticed you had a bit of a wobble in

the middle - how important was it

that the guys got around you?

Yeah,

I struggled for a couple of ends at

the boys pulled together and they

have some good information to pass

on and we managed to pull it

together for the second half, so a

team effort and every little helps

in those situations.

You're all

giving your nice stock answers to

these questions but it was a tough

first day for you, you've got Canada

tonight and that was a really

important win?

Have an ugly, they're

one of the teams you would expect to

be near the podium at the end of the

week, so we're very pleased to get

off with such a good performance in

our first Olympics of. We struggled

a wee bit but we pulled it together

and we're really pleased to get the

win.

Congratulations and good luck

tonight.

Thank you!

win.

Congratulations and good luck

tonight.

Thank you!

EILIDH BARBOUR: A good win for Great

Britain's men but they are back on

the ice later on and you can see

them taking on one of the gold medal

favourites, Canada, at 11 o'clock on

BBC One. Well, the women were also

in action and they have just come

off the ice after a good win against

OAR and we caught up with them after

their first match of this

Pyeongchang Olympics. Well,

congratulations, I will begin with

you, Eve, that is a great way to

start?

Yeah, delighted, it is always

crucial that you get off to a strong

start and we did that. We had a

clinical game, we outplayed the

Russians, and to get one win on the

board after the first day is nice.

How good is it to finally get

started, it has been a long wait?

It

has been but it is just really nice

to be able to get out there

eventually and get going. It was a

really good atmosphere out there and

we all really enjoyed ourselves.

You're very experienced, Vicki but

were there some nerves?

Yeah, it

would be unusual if we didn't have

nerves but we have been doing a lot

of work on how we cope with

pressure, so we all felt well in

control of ourselves.

And I know in

Sochi you were alternate, Lauren, so

what was it like for your first

match?

It was really exciting, like

Vicki said, we were in control of

ourselves but looking forward to

getting out there, especially after

a few days off and we had a great

game, which always helps, so we're

all feeling pleased.

Talk us through

how you managed the week, waiting

and waiting and finally getting

started, back again tomorrow, each

game, do you kind of just, it is a

cliche, take each game as it comes

and not get ahead of yourself?

Yeah,

the last few days have been quite

long but we have managed to fill it

pretty well. We have had the

official training and several gym

sessions as well and plenty of time

in the dining hall! It's just really

keeping ourselves occupied and busy!

As you say, it is a long

competition, the Olympic Games, on

some days you have one game, some

days off and some days with two

games. It is important to manage our

time and what we do really well as a

team is manage when we know we can

switch off and go and enjoy

ourselves and get our nails done

with GB flags! And knowing when we

can put our competition heads on and

get into business mode! I hope you

all sent your Valentine's cards

before you left?!

Brownie points for

me! I sent one but I didn't get one

back!

Well, we LOVED what you did

today! Congratulations! Great start

from both our British curling teams.

I am now joined from the Gangneung

Curling Centre by Jackie Lockhart,

who was commentating. It is a great

start for both teams - how much have

you enjoyed the first morning of the

team competition?

What a wonderful

way for Great Britain to start this

Olympic championship here. The men

showed huge resilience in that game

against Switzerland this morning and

to win that is fantastic. And the

ladies? They had a wonderful game,

on paper if you ask me, they were

guaranteed to get a win there but

they had to go out and perform the

shots well - great start.

I am

enjoying your jacket, I think we

have been dressed by the same

wardrobe designer today! But in

terms of team your head, they came

here with a lot of expectation - how

do you feel their mental strength

was and how comfortable they have

been already?

-- score. Yeah, these

girls have laid everything on the

table in preparation for this

Olympic Games. -- score. There is a

lot of weight on their shoulders,

they're the current European

champions, they got a bronze in

Sochi and there is huge expectations

for them to get a better medal than

they did last time and they have put

a lot of work in with psychologists

and how they mentally handle that

pressure. And I thought they showed

real composure out there today. They

looked happy, they looked relaxed,

and they played the simple shots

well.

And it was a good way for them

to start, they played nine matches

in total in this round robin section

- in terms of the draw, how do you

feel it works for them in being one

of those top four teams to get

through to the semifinals?

The draw

for the girls actually is very, very

good. I'm not going to say it is the

weaker teams that they're playing

but I think it is teams they should

beat, and they've got them in the

early stages. What is going to be

critical is that they get wins from

these. Because in the latter half,

they will be playing Sweden and

Switzerland and Canada last, and

let's hope it doesn't matter when

they play Canada, they've already

qualified at that stage. So, they've

really got to put the effort in in

this first half of the competition.

Let's talk a bit about the boys of,

the Olympic debut and a real first

taste of the pressure that can come

at the end of one of these Olympic

matches, great to see them come

through?

It really was. Opposite

from the girls, do guys have got the

toughest start. They've got Canada

tonight. But that one this morning

will really have given them

confidence. It is their first

Olympics, and who knows how you are

going to perform when you get out

there? Lots of nerves get on top of

you. But again they showed real

resilience today, and I'm very

impressed. They had a couple of

slack shots in the middle but to

pull off that

pull off that extra end -- end win,

it was wonderful.

Jackie, thank you

very much for joining us.

It is around half past four in the

afternoon here in South Korea,

plenty has happened on day five and

here is what you might have missed

if you were not up nice and early.

Great Britain's women's team won

bronze in Sochi four years ago and

Eve Muirhead's team got their

campaign off to eight winning start

with a comprehensive win over the

OAR. The men's team, including Eve

Muirhead's brother Thomas, also had

a day to remember, beginning in

perfect style, edging out reigning

World Championship bronze medallists

Switzerland. Shaun White, AKA The

Flying Tomato, won his third

halfpipe title in Pyeongchang, 12

years after his first in Turin. The

31-year-old scored a brilliant 97.75

to get America's 100th all-time

Winter Olympic gold medal.

Unfortunately the Pyeongchang

postponements have continued today

in the Alpine skiing with the

women's slalom becoming the third

event to have to be rescheduled.

Featuring the multitalented American

Mikaela Shiffrin, the slalom will

now be run on Friday. All eyes were

on the ice yesterday, as Elise

Christie went for 500 metre

short-track speed skating gold.

Triple live nation in Sochi, she was

hoping to turn tears of

disappointment into tears of joy.

But sport, and it seems in

particular short-track, can be very

cruel. Away they go, the final is

on!

SIMON BROTHERTON: Elise Christie

trying to move through on the

inside...

trying to move through on the

inside... Fontana of Italy leads the

way! The Canadian is in second

place! Elise Christie has work to do

to get back into contention! You

know she has got the speed in her

legs! Elise Christie now trying to

get the inside line! Elise Christie

tries to make it on the inside! And

Elise Christie crashes out! It is a

photo finish on the line! In her

quest for gold, Elise Christie ends

up on the floor again! She crashed

out of the final four years ago and

history repeats itself in Korea!

Let's look at the race once again

here.

And as you can see, just

wishing the Korean on the outside,

so she might get the penalty, but

that won't help Elise Christie at

all.

It will be interesting to see who

crossed the line first, Fontana or

Choi.

It is a photo finish for first

place and the Netherlands could be

third.

This is the shot we need, and it is

Fontana.

This is the shot we need, and it is

Fontana. I am joined by windfall

O'Reilly. We almost don't want to

see those pictures again. It was so

crushing to see her back in tears

again. Absolutely, I think again, I

have said from the beginning she

needs to stay relaxed and calm. She

was in a comfortable position. He

goal was to go for gold, and maybe

that wasn't strategically the right

way to approach the race. It would

have been nice had she come away

with a medal, as I said in the be

inning and built from there, working

on the the next distances, she was

almost inconsolable last night. What

does this do for her mentally, given

there are still two chances up for

grabs. Last year she won the 1500

metre, the first time she has won a

1500 metres so she is capable of

winning a medal. I keep saying that

step by step, she is focussing very

much on gold, and I would prefer her

to just maybe downsize a bit, just

to maybe focus on a medal and take

it step by step. It is not the end

result. The end result is the medal.

Focus on the strategy of the race.

Getting into the right position, do

all of these things right and the

medal is the end result.

We know she

is a tough cookie on the ice, we saw

her at the World Champions what she

can do, there is this mental thing

with the Olympic,ty trifrom Sochi,

the that make it harder?

It makes it

harder for any athlete. I remember

back in 1988 with Dan Janson, his

sister died the day before he was

taking part in the Olympic final, he

crashed out, didn't do anything,

four years later he crashed out

again, two years later in the

Olympics were in Lily ham, 500

metres he slipped again, his last

race of his career, thousand metres,

it wasn't his best event, he broke

the world record and achieved a gold

medal. It is possible.

It is. And we

hope that we will be commentating on

a medal for Elise. One thing from

the race last night we are seeing

the social media threats that we

know Elise Christie had to go

through after somy. Kim Boutin

received the threats after she edged

out the South Korean, with the South

Korean being eliminated. Is a side

of the sport we don't want to see is

it?

Bullying, social media bullying

is not something we want the see, it

doesn't really belong to short

track, I think it is something that

society nowadays, it happens, I

heard this morning at breakfast they

have closed down her Instagram

account and Facebook account because

for her to read it, it doesn't do

her any good as well. I think it is

very irresponsible for the people

that do this sort of thing, it is

not fair on the athletes that still

have to take part. It is not fair on

the Korean that got disqualified or

received the penalty, because it is

not her that is doing it either, so

I mean it is a no-win situation.

Elise is back on the ice on

Saturday, you will be there of

course, 1500 metres. Will she be