BBC Two Day 7: Andrew Musgrave for GB in 15km Cross-Country Skiing Winter Olympics

Drama! Jacobellis is down! Oh, my

goodness, talk about saving the best

till last.

Gloria

till last.

Gloria -- Gloria Stanwood

from Marcel Hirscher love.

What a finish that was!

Welcome to another huge day of

winter sport here, and it's another

lovely, sunny day in Pyeongchang,

but don't be fooled, the hat is

staying on because it still chilly

out here. But we have plenty to keep

us warm, because it doesn't slow

down at the Winter Olympics and one

man's as certainly not been slowing

down, Dom Parsons. He has one Team

GB's first medal of these Olympic

Games, with bronze in the skeleton.

Incredible stuff. Huge celebrations

as a lubricious here also the South

Korea's Yun Sung-bin, who won gold

in that event. We will hopefully

have Dom and fellow GB skeleton

athlete Jerry Rice on the balcony

later. Here is what else is coming

up on day seven here in Pyeongchang.

Andrew Musgrave, fresh from a

British best seventh in the

skiathlon, goes in the lung bursting

15km free, his favoured event. You

know the result, but we will show

you how it unfolded as Dom Parsons

took a historic bronze medal in the

men's skeleton. We were had up to

the Phoenix Snow Park for the chaos

that is snowboard cross. Today, it's

the women. And we will be back on

the eyes to see if the Olympic

athletes from Russia could bounce

back when they face Slovenia in

group B.

group B. We will shortly be going to

the cross-country skiing.

Andrew Musgrave learned his trade in

the village of Huntly just outside

Aberdeen. He now comes to his third

Olympic Games, with his sights set

on a medal. He has already made

history here in Pyeongchang, his

seventh place finish in the

skiathlon was the best finish by a

British cross-country skier ever. He

was at one point second in the race,

but he just couldn't quite hang on.

Kruger had an incredible race. He

had fallen at the first and had to

come from all the way back to claim

gold. Now it's to the 15km,

Musgrave's favourite event in

Pyeongchang. The races start with

32nd intervals, with the fastest

winning gold. Let's head to the

Alpensia Cross-Country Centre and

your commentator, Rob Walker, for

what could be another thrilling race

here in Pyeongchang.

Good afternoon from Pyeongchang,

good morning if you are already up

and about back home as we watch

Sergio Rigoni head out onto the

course. This day seven of the

Alpensia Cross-Country Centre. It's

the men's 15 free, a race in which

Andrew Musgrave has a genuine chance

of securing a moment of sporting

history for himself and Great

Britain. He smashed the previous

best British performers, his own

from Sochi when he finished seventh

in that skiathlon. This is his best

opportunity to fulfil a lifelong

dream. He will be the 56th starter.

This is a dream that saw him move

his entire life to Norway to live,

train, eat and study with the best.

He has not only earned the respect

of the Norwegians, but he has shown

it's possible for a British

cross-country skier to be regarded

as world class. This is the son of

the legendary and is Veerpalu, who

got medals from 1992 to 2010. We

will focus on the starters in a

while. Andrew Musgrave knows this

will be tough today. He has to have

the right race in the right

conditions, and he will need to

control his nerves. Joining me in

the commentary box, we have been

sitting here for over an hour,

desperate for this race to start. It

is Ollie Williams. Ollie, we have a

massive contingent of high-class

Norwegians here, but Andrew Musgrave

has a genuine chance. When he starts

at around 3.28, he needs the race of

his life.

He does. Competitors are

going off every 30 seconds. It is a

time trial. It doesn't matter where

you are in relation to anyone else

on the course, it's your time when

you finish. Musgrave is halfway

through the 15 or so seeds that have

been staggered every minute. By

about 320 local time, 6.24 U, we

will be seeing them. You need to

focus on the spit times as we go

through and your finish on time at

the end. We need to see Andrew

Musgrave pretty far out in front of

anyone who came before him by the

time he crosses that finishing line

for him to have any chance, because

he will have six or seven more top

skiers coming after him who are

going to have a chance. So he needs

to be leading when he comes through

to have any chance of finishing with

a medal. There are a lot of people

who could win here. Dario Cologna is

the example from Sochi, going for

the chance to be the first man to

win a single cross-country event

three times in a row in an Olympics.

But everyone looks like they might

have a weakness.

have a weakness. Maybe Cologna has

skied a little too much this season.

It is possible.

It is possible. The seeds start at

numbers 42 to 70. We have a big

seagoing every minute. Andrew

Musgrave will be 56 on the course

and then Cologna is second in the

welcome standing sofa. He will be

the second last of the big seeds. No

disrespect to any of the men who

start after the seeds combo but the

competition is laid out in such a

way that once the last of the big

seeds comes home, and that is the

Frenchman, bidding to become the

first French winter Olympic

cross-country skiing champion, once

he finishes, we will know the

line-up of the top ten. We have six

guys in this field, all six of whom

beat Andrew Musgrave in the

skiathlon competing here, but he has

got a chance. Baldauf moves into the

lead, but we would expect that in

these early stages. None of the big

men are close to starting yet. This

is his best event. Seventh in the

skiathlon was a phenomenal

performance, upgrading the previous

best British, which was 29th, which

was Andrew's performance in Sochi,

with which he was disappointed. He

has been on the podium on the World

Cup circuit this year. But he still

needs everything to go his way. He

mentioned yesterday on Twitter that

he was nervous.

And it is good that

he is mentioning that. Andrew

Musgrave is perennially not

satisfied. He came off the skiathlon

with the greatest cross-country

result by a Briton ever. And he

immediately complained about the

fact that he had not won. He did

that to family as well as media. He

said he was frustrated that he

didn't get it right. His coach 's

Hans Christian start time, who

coached previously Kruger, who won

the skiathlon previously. So he

knows his stuff. He says Andrew

Musgrave has everything he needs to

win this. The fascinating thing for

me is that in Sochi 2014, Andrew

Musgrave said, I bought into the

hype too much when I wasn't that

good. It almost feels the other way

round now. Andrew Musgrave is almost

generating the hype and saying, I

know I can win. And we almost the

ones who have to pull back and on,

you still have nine or ten people in

this race who theoretically should

be ahead. But the tools are in the

tool box for this man to do it.

If

you are hearing the name Andrew

Musgrave for the

Musgrave for the first time, this

Swiss skier was 15th earlier in the

season. Andrew Musgrave then came

within a second of the bronze medal.

The difference is that this time, in

contrast to Sochi, here overtrained

for Sochi and arrived with people

expecting great things, but his legs

were shattered. That is a massive

lesson to learn and in these, his

third games, he has displayed real

maturity. That is one of the French.

Here is yet another of the Finns.

41st in the skiathlon. The big seeds

start coming out on big 42. We have

one man coming out every 30 seconds.

The seeds go out at one-minute

intervals.

Let me take you through a

few of the seeds we are going to

see. You have to watch Dario

Cologna, the winner from Vancouver

and Sochi. The reason I said I am

not sure if he has over skied is

that he has never won a major medal

in the same season that he has won

detoured to ski, which is like a

mini Tour de France for skiing. He

won that season for the fourth time,

which shows how good he is, but

there are concerns in his native

Switzerland that every time he does

that, he doesn't have enough in the

tank for a major event. This

Frenchman is another one I would

pick out, he will be the last of the

seeds to go, just after 6:30am, your

time. He would be France's first

Olympic cross-country champion in

history if he does it and then look

at the Norwegians. We are going to

see a couple coming up who will be

the leading Norwegians. They were

already on the podium in the

skiathlon. Kruger will be back for

another shot at gold. And the man

who won the sprint gets a rest today

because Norwegian skiing is that

strong that he will be back later in

the games. Then we get to Andrew

Musgrave. The exciting thing for us

is that he genuinely is among the

contenders. In 15 minutes' time, we

will see him out on course. And

Andrew Young will be right after him

at the same time.

We have Andrew

Young and Callum Smith. All three

Britons will be out on the course.

Callum Smith is out at around 3.45,

our time. By sheer coincidence, they

have space to seeds out and it is

just a sheer fluke that Andrew Young

is the next athlete out on the

course after his friend Andrew

Musgrave. They have all come through

that Huntley breeding ground and I

hope there will be one or two boys

and girls, I know half term is

and girls, I know half term is go

home, so I hope there will be a few

who are inspired to have a crack at

Huntly. All the guys in

Aberdeenshire have done us fantastic

job with that facility and three of

their graduates are in Winter

Olympics action over the next hour

and a half. It is getting blustery.

I was about to say, the wind has

been a feature in all of the races

we have seen. We saw a biathlon race

postponed earlier because it was so

windy. Everybody starting right now

looks cold. I would not be holding

that phone in their hands for too

long. It is going to be a cold race.

It is a few degrees below zero, but

with the wind at about ten miles an

hour, it is feeling more like minus

ten. So you want to keep warm and

jump up a little on the start line

before you get out there. And that

is going to have an effect. It is

not the same as a mass start, where

you are looking to get a breakaway,

but now you have to manage those

conditions on your own

but now you have to manage those

conditions on your own. It is a

different mental approach.

I think

the time trial format suits and the

Musgrave. That is Toni Livers, one

of the other Swiss athletes,

although not the favoured Swiss,

which is Dario Cologna. The question

is whether he is tired from the Tour

De Ski. But the element of time

trial that works for Andrew

Musgrave, Roy Young, Andrew

Musgrave, Roy Young, Andrew Young's

dad, says, and he has worked with

Andrew Musgrave, he says about the

Briton, his greatest strength is his

ability to push himself harder than

anybody else you know. That tells

you that these kind of racist suit

Andrew Musgrave. You get some --

these kind of racist suit him. You

get some athletes who prefer to be

eyeball with the athletes they are

trying to beat. Musgrave has the

ability to push himself to breaking

point.

We are getting towards the business

end.

end. This is Andrey Melnichenko. But

it is a style that suits Andrew

Musgrave.

It takes away a tactic

this Norwegian team news, Kruger got

to the front and the two Norwegians

behind him, closed ranks and held

back on purpose to make sure Kruger

had a chance to get away. Once he

was far enough, essentially it is

team orders, the other Norwegians

went for it themselves and tidied up

the other medals. You cannot do that

in a time trial. There is nothing

you can do to control your

competitor's race. This opens it up

for Andrew Musgrave. He cannot call

upon a team of ten skier is to help

him.

It is about the individual

race, this one. Plenty of

opportunities to go toe to toe with

your rivals.

your rivals. We have mentioned

Cologna. All three Norwegians who

produce the clean sweep are in the

race today.

race today. Tony livers, we saw him

warming up a few moments ago.

warming up a few moments ago. The

Swiss flags waving. The questions

over Cologna, the big seed to go

out. Is he tired after his efforts?

But Cologna is bidding for an

unprecedented hat-trick.

This is Erik Buell son. One man who

isn't here,

isn't here, even own skin and is the

reigning world champion in this

event but after a disappointing

performance in the skiathlon where

he finished 19th and a below par

sprint commie has decided to skip

this one. So the reigning world

champion from Finland is not in this

race.

Sweden, their men's team is

nowhere near as strong as the women.

Jens Berman has been outside the top

20 in every skate we have seen this

season.

season. The way this will work for

the rest of the coverage of this

race, we will get the checkpoints

along the way and we will be able to

compare times as people come through

them. That will give you an idea but

different athletes will take

different approaches. Because

somebody goes through ten seconds

quicker at a certain checkpoint, it

doesn't necessarily follow they will

be ten seconds quicker at the

finish. In the women's event, we saw

some athletes accelerate in the

second half of the ten kilometre

race.

race. They talk chunks out of Marion

Bjorkman. New have to be patient and

wait.

Charlotte Kalla who followed

up her gold medal with silver

yesterday, went out hard in the

first lap and tried to hold on. This

is a high-quality performer. He is

not seeded but we need to keep half

an eye on him because he is a top

performer and he could have a

special day here.

If you are just waking up we have

119 men going in this race. We have

got a group of pretty decent

athletes going out and then all the

seeds. Then the rest. There will be

one

one Bulgarian and after this, we

will have the first of the 15 seeds.

This is where we will have to start

watching the clock.

Matty hiking and

had trouble with the classic leg of

the skiathlon. He looked much better

on the skate, which helps in button

has had a lot of trouble getting

into the mindset so far. If he is

going to do anything, this is the

race to do in. Mike Andrew Musgrave,

Finland is looking to him to do some

damage.

He is a former world

champion in this event. He is in his

third games and the first of the 15

big names out on the course. There

will be different tactics involved.

Some will be coming through late.

Tyler Cornfield is not one of the

seeds. We have 15 seeds to go on the

minute with a lower ranked skier

going every half a minute to give

the seeds one minutes of free skiing

between each other so there is not

too much of an overlap. It will all

become clearer when we get some

splits out on the course.

splits out on the course.

This skier

gave up mid-race and went and sat in

the car.

the car. He has top-10 finishes in

the string but I am not convinced he

will be much of a Challenger today.

We will get these updates as we go

through. They will become much more

meaningful by the time some unlike

Andrew Musgrave is out on the course

and we will see times of the seeds

coming through. We expect to have a

pretty good idea just after 7am your

time, where the medals are going.

The first of four quality in

Norwegians, as you would expect.

Norwegians, as you would expect. He

won the sprint in dramatic fashion a

few days ago.

few days ago. He was fifth in the

World Championship three years ago.

Parisse, now the seeds have gone

out, we should see one by one, not

in any particular order, which is

why it is an exciting race, the

seeds producing the early mid and

late race times. Just a few minutes

to go before Andrew Musgrave heads

out onto the course, about five

minutes from now. If you are just

getting ready for work, the TV is on

in the background in the lounge or

the kitchen, give us a little bit

more time this morning. Andrew

Musgrave could be heading out onto

the course to do very special. One

man we haven't spoken about is Denis

Betts. He is superbly talented.

Watching the Norwegians warming up.

He was fourth in the skiathlon and

only just missed a medal. He could

be a bit of a dark horse to feature

on the podium, even though he's

going out quite early.

Not least

because, Kruger had the collision at

the start but came back to win. He

was in the collision with him and

came back to finish fourth. So his

story at just 21 years old is almost

as good as Kruger's from the

skiathlon. From the point of Russia,

there will be looking at him and

saying commie he should be on the

podium.

He is certainly capable, as

is Daniel Ricketson. He is a monster

of a man of the leader-macro for a

Cross-Country Skiing. Maybe a shade

past his best. If you are watching

the Andrew Musgrave heroics, very

sensibly on a windy day, he got

behind this big Swede for much of

the race. It is eyeballs out from

start to finish as quickly as

possible.

possible. There is a long way to go.

Daniel Ricketson, out onto the

course.

course. There he is, Marcus Halma,

Gold in this event four years ago.

He was fourth in the World

Championships a couple of years ago

but he is fantastic and his CV is

superb. But maybe the best days have

come and gone.

Absolutely. Six

earlier this season is about the

best

best Marcus Hellner has been able to

produce. Now we have a couple more

athletes to go out before we see

Andrew Musgrave on the start line

here in Pyeongchang, for the race he

says he can win.

Another one of the Olympic athletes

and. So hard to remember to say

that,

that, Andrew Luck. He was fifth in

this event at the World

Championships last year. He is a

world-class clarinet player and have

a place at music school and had a

debate with himself and then chose

correctly because he is in with a

shout of winter Olympic glory.

If

you have got the lungs for

cross-country skiing it is a

transferable skill. I have not heard

his clarinet playing, but I am sure

it is delightful.

We have just been

talking about Spitsov and Larkov.

Here is Andrew Musgrave of Great

Britain. Is he at the beginning of a

15 kilometre journey that will bring

him the glory he has sought for so

many years? We are not over

exaggerating, this is his best

distance, his best event and he has

a chance of doing something very

special over the next 35 minutes or

so.

His determination has exuded

over this Olympics. Finish seventh

in the skiathlon, but not satisfied

with that, even though it was a

phenomenal result for British

cross-country. Even watching his

face on the start line, I felt he

was dripping with, let me add this.

I want to prove myself of this. We

will find out. It is going to take

each skier 35 minutes, give or take.

We will find out just after 7am UK

time if Andrew Musgrave did have

enough.

He is so experienced. He finished

eighth on the final climb of the

toured the ski. A mention of Andrew

Young, who we will have just missed,

he

he headed out between Andrew

Musgrave and Jean-Marc Gaillard.

We

may have to wait seven minutes after

Andrew Musgrave finishes whether we

know if he is on the podium or not.

Kruger, flat on his face with a

broken pole 100s into that race. It

was an extraordinary performance.

They will go down in history.

The

majority of that incredible

performance happened about six

kilometres into that race. He was

still 40 seconds back into the

classic and then he cut loose. This

event is suited to him. He is a

World Cup winner over 15 kilometre

skater earlier this season, which is

the same race Musgrave finished

third. So we know Andrew Musgrave

can be up there with these

contenders, but we have distress,

Andrew Musgrave has never won a race

like this.

This is huge for soon Sundby. He is

still searching for his first Winter

Olympics idle. If he does it today,

he will be the oldest Norwegian male

cross-country champion for them. He

is 33, which shows you just how

tough it is for someone like Sundby

to yet be a winter Olympic champion.

There is our first split from Andrew

Musgrave. He is a little way off the

pace of Krogh, who lived at this

stage. But there is a long way to go

here and there are different tactics

employed by different skiers. As we

saw yesterday.

saw yesterday. Here is the other

medallist from the clean sweep in

the skiathlon, the really talented

Hans Christer Holund. He has had two

podiums in his first race this year.

So again, not necessarily the rock

star of the Norwegian team, but he

could well feature as he did on

Saturday.

He was worried that he

wouldn't be put into that skiathlon

team from Norway. He was worried

that people were saying he wasn't

good enough. Getting that bronze

means that now he will have a lot of

confidence coming into this. As you

said about Andrew Musgrave's split,

it is still early. Now he will be

getting feedback from the coaching

team and he will be kept in touch

with where he is time-wise and he

can adapt as he needs to. We don't

know his strategy. It is hard to

tell if he is in trouble at this

point or if he is just pursuing it a

different way. Things will become

clearer when Rick pass some of the

later checkpoints like this ten

kilometre checkpoint we are coming

up on now, where you can see some of

the early athletes starting to come

through.

Three big seeds have yet to

start in this massive field of

world-class cross-country skiers. It

is around -5. The wind at our last

checkpoint was 16 kilometres an hour

and it is getting blustery. That is

Krueger, the champion in the

skiathlon, bidding for back-to-back

Olympic gold medals. No one

Norwegian has won this title for 50

years, which I find extraordinary.

But those are the facts, so there is

a piece of history on the table for

the Norwegians if they can do the

business today.

I would be surprised

if it stays that way by the end of

the day, but here is a man who could

stop them winning, Dario Cologna.

Aiming for an unprecedented

hat-trick of victories. Gold in

Vancouver, gold in Sochi. And the

gold in Sochi came after he had

overcome a bad ankle injury earlier

in the season. That meant a

different approach to Sochi. He was

under raced and rested and ready. As

Ollie was saying earlier, this man

from Switzerland is a hugely popular

figure back home. The question is

whether he will be tired. Sundby is

searching for that elusive winter

Olympic gold medal. He is just three

seconds behind his compatriot,

Krogh, with a mile raced at the

moment and there are some big names

behind him.

behind him.

Interesting to see

Krogh's time holding up. Now, the

last of the big names.

Maurice

Manificat, fifth in the skiathlon, a

couple of places ahead of Andrew

Musgrave. Good work from the

Frenchman. He has won two World Cup

races this season, both of them over

15K. No disrespect to the men who

start with its 71 to 119, but all

the men who will feature for gold,

silver and bronze are now out on the

course, including Saturday's bronze

medallist Holllund, who moved to

third. We are still waiting for our

second split from Andrew Musgrave.

Interesting to see there Norwegian

flags already stacking up as we look

at some of the early spits. We will

wait for the six kilometres split to

come through.

There is a long way to go here.

Remember, it is 15K, four circuits

of 3.75 kilometres.

of 3.75 kilometres. Alex Harvey is

after a piece of winter Olympic

history as well. And he is

disappointed, because he didn't come

through the qualification round in

the sprint. Harvey is not far off

Krogh's pace. Apparently, he got hit

by an enormous gust of wind. With

another skier, you might think they

were making excuses. We are looking

at Krogh. Alex Harvey has a chance

to do something special for Canada

today, and he is in shape.

He had a

tough start to these Olympics. You

mentioned that gust of wind. He

stormed out after that and didn't

even speak to anybody. He will need

to refocus himself.

to refocus himself. Now we get to

see Dario Cologna come through the

first checkpoint. This will give an

indication of where he is compared

to the time of Krogh, one of the

younger Norwegians. It will be

interesting to see what his strategy

is for the rest of this 15K.

I can

understand the Swiss public being a

bit nervous about Cologna. But he is

the master of picking at the right

time. The question is whether he has

managed to shake off the fatigue

from that Tour De Ski in January.

Just an update on Andrew Musgrave.

His time at 1.5 K Rankin 42nd, 13

seconds off the leading time, which

is Krogh. This is the 21-year-old

Olympic Athlete from Russia. Now,

Manificat, last of the big names out

onto the course. You will hear

roaring from various coaches. And he

goes into the lead. He is bidding to

become the first French Olympic

cross-country skiing champion, which

would be an extraordinary story. You

could hear the coaches shouting

encouragement and information at

him. Information is crucial for

telling these skiers where they are

in relation to the others.

It is,

because you can't see them over your

shoulder. You have to get that

information from your coach to know

what your splits are looking like.

Manificat told reporters this week,

with the confidence I have, I have

to go for a medal. He likes this

individual format.

individual format.

Dario Cologna,

and that is Boegl.

and that is Boegl. Andrew Musgrave

is a little off the pace.

is a little off the pace. But it

would be uncharacteristic for him to

be struggling this early. It is his

best event. I wonder whether he has

decided to start a bit

conservatively and then really wind

it up in the second half of the

race. 1500m, you are only a tenth of

the way through, so there is a long

way to go, but we wouldn't want to

see that time drifting more than 20

seconds behind the leaders.

He would

be having to save a lot for the

second half of the race. Andrew

Young went through 32nd, compared to

42nd for Musgrave. Spitsov went

through 23rd. So he is not the only

one going through off the pace, that

it would mean now having to

absolutely accelerate and push

through into that six kilometre

onwards. Spitsov absolutely pulled

it back, but we would need to see

similar and much better from

Musgrave as we go through these

checkpoints.

This is a beautiful course. The

South Koreans have done such a good

job. All of the tracks are stunning

to ski. They are not bad to jog

around either. They have done a

superb job. There is not much wind

on that section of the course.

on that section of the course. It is

quite blustery, but on that far

section, it looks relatively well

sheltered.

I wonder whether Dario Cologna could

close in on an unprecedented

hat-trick. It would take each of

these guys around 35mm to complete

this 15K. Fergie goes into the lead

by a minute, but you would expect

that bearing in mind the level of

performance from the skiers who

headed out before the 15 seats who

are now on the course.

are now on the course.

When you look

at the splits, focus on the distance

in the bottom right-hand corner. We

will see skiers go through different

checkpoints. By the time we see the

top seeds going through that

checkpoint, we will have an idea of

where they rank.

We are probably a few minutes back

from seeing the likes of Dario

Cologna go through the same

checkpoint.

Andrew Musgrave has gone through in

14th place at the six K marker. In

time terms, he is 26 seconds off the

pace set by Halfvarsson. But one of

the other favourites is also a

little way off that pace. So a few

moments of concern here for Andrew

Musgrave, albeit he has yet to reach

the halfway stage. We don't know

whether he is struggling at this

point because we can't see him. And

maybe he had a tactic of going out

conservatively on the first two

circuits and winding it up in the

second half of the race. We will not

have to wait long to find out.

This is Krueger, the gold medallist

in the skiathlon. Good skiing from

the man who traditionally produces

his best in the classic style of

skiing where they stayed pretty much

in those tracks.

All the big names are now out on the

course.

course. Furger is coming in to the

finish. I am sure it will be a

relief. It is a pretty testing

circuit.

circuit. Halfvarsson has been

overtaken by Krueger.

It is anybody in the numbers from

the 50s onwards. You want to be

watching out for how they do as we

see Roman Furger crossing the

finishing line. He will set the

fastest time we have seen so far,

but to all these checkpoints now,

you see what it takes to get across

the finish line in this cold. We

watch Holland coming up to the six

kilometre checkpoint. We still have

five top athletes to come through

the six kilometre checkpoint where

we note Andrew Musgrave was 14th a

little while ago. We will let you

know once we have seen Maurice

Manificat come through. As we watch

Holland come through and he moves

into the provisional lead.

It is

Norway, first, second and third.

Holland, the bronze medallist from

the skiathlon, Krueger, the

champion. It is Norway in first,

second and third. Andrew Musgrave is

33 seconds off the pace. This is

Denis Spitsov coming up. I think he

has got a great chance because those

world under 23 championships were

not that long ago. He has come off

the back of some top quality racing.

Got on the podium with a silver. He

will be feeling pretty confident

after coming so close to a medal in

the skiathlon. He moves ahead of

Calle Halfvarsson.

Just a little

update, as we watch Alex Harvey the

Canada, losing time, sitting third

through six kilometres. Andrew

Musgrave is 30 seconds back, so it

would take some phenomenal splits to

the end of the race for him to have

an impact on the medals.

Especially

bearing in mind seven of the top

names are on an earlier section of

the course. We would expect the

leading time from 7.5 kilometres of

Calle Halfvarsson to be overtaken,

possibly by the three Norwegians who

got on the podium on Saturday. 68,

Dario Cologna. A popular figure in

Switzerland. Three winter Olympic

gold medals. He has taken the lead

by ten seconds. We were talking

about him being overcooked and

tired. That is good work from Dario

Cologna. It is only the French of

Maurice Manificat to come through

the checkpoint behind him.

The Swiss

newspaper this morning called him

the Roger Federer of snow, for what

he has done for so long in this

sport and we will get to see if that

time will outlast his rival, Maurice

Manificat, as he, the last of the

seeds approaches this six kilometre

split.

split.

Already, gasping for air. It

is a brutal sport, the ultimate test

of upper body, as well as the legs.

Dario Cologna, has put a marker

down. No man in the history of

Cross-Country Skiing has won the

same event three times. Dario

Cologna was victorious in Vancouver

and Sochi. And Maurice Manificat is

in a medal position at the moment.

He is in the bronze medal position.

But the man who has set the pace for

the first six kilometres is Dario

Cologna. He didn't have the legs in

the skiathlon. He couldn't go with

the Norwegians, but this is looking

better so far from the man from

Switzerland.

You cannot necessarily

tell.

tell. As we look at the standings,

there is plenty of Norwegian talent

in with a chance of a medal. But you

cannot tell just how much strategy

goes in. We see Andrew Musgrave,

21st at the six kilometre mark with

44.5 second gap and we will wait to

see how it looks around the ten

kilometre mark later on, as we see

some of the other finishers coming

through. There is so much strategy

in terms of when you decide to push

in this 15 kilometres. Which part of

the cause you decide to go big on.

You can see what it takes out of

athletes. Eventually when you have

finished, you get to sit in the hot

seat at the end of this and relax

for a little while. That is Roman

Furger, we were watching. At the

finish, he is your leading man, so

far. But that time will get pushed

further and further down as you see

those seeds come in in maybe the

next ten or 15 minutes.

There is

Andrey Melnichenko coming into the

finish. He was the 31st man out onto

the course. 29th in the skiathlon.

He is not going to push Roman Furger

out of the leader's chair right now.

From a British point of view we are

keeping an eye on Andrew Musgrave,

who was in 21st position and six

kilometre marker. On the button, who

was so good in the skiathlon on

Sunday, he cannot afford for the gap

to get any bigger. Andrey

Melnichenko, flat on his face. These

men and the women in the

cross-country races, giving

everything. It is a familiar sight

to see them lying horizontal on the

floor at the end of the race,

gasping for oxygen.

There is nothing

better at the end of the race than

the feeling of cold snow. You give

so much to it, it is the easiest way

to relax and get your breath back to

lie prone on the floor and get some

of the snow into your face.

of the snow into your face.

Lucas

Boegl, coming into the finish. Dario

Cologna is in the lead. Holland is

in second place with Alex Harvey the

Canadian in third. Still waiting for

the update on Andrew Musgrave. Our

last checkpoint, he was 21st. He has

moved up one place to 20th, but move

further behind in time from 45 to 50

seconds adrift. Halfway through the

rays, cannot afford that to get any

bigger. This is Krueger, the

magnificent champion from the

skiathlon. Denis Spitsov was in

seventh at the preceding checkpoint.

It gives you an indication as to how

many big names have yet to come

through. Denis Spitsov was leading

up until Krueger leading that

checkpoint at around six miles. What

a story it was from Krueger. He

almost contemplated not carrying on.

The poll was broken in the

skiathlon, flat on his face. It was

only the second race on the

cross-country programme here in

Pyeongchang. It was an indication as

to how much drama was to come and

how much drama we still have before

the end of the programme next

Sunday.

Sunday.

One thing that may not be

too apparent from the pictures is

how steep some of the hills you are

looking at. There are four loops of

two separate courses. Both of them

have significant elevation. This is

by no means flat. You see Calle

Halfvarsson at that stage, going

into a relatively healthy lead. When

we look back at Dario

we look back at Dario Cologna, you

look at the times he is putting in

there are only six or seven athletes

within 40 seconds of him. When we

see Dario Cologna coming to this

checkpoint, it will be interesting

to see who is in any sort of touch

with him.

We are getting to the

interesting part of this race now.

Hans Christer Holund, that camera

angle does illustrate how tough some

of these climes are. But Hans

Christer Holund, coming through. He

is in third place. Just drifting a

few seconds behind Krueger. The man

behind whom he finished in the

skiathlon. Great shots of the three

Norwegians on the podium. But we are

waiting to see Dario Cologna reach

that checkpoint.

that checkpoint. 66 is Alex Harvey.

Remember, Alex Harvey is after a

piece of history, to be the first

Canadian man to win a Winter Olympic

Cross-Country Skiing medal. I am

sure his dad would be very proud.

His dad was a winter and summer

Olympian and in 1988 when Alex

Harvey was born, his dad had the

honour of leading the athletes' out

at the opening ceremony in Calgary.

Now can he close in on a very

special performance? Andrew

Musgrave, by the way, has gone

through

through this 9.8 kilometre

checkpoint 48 seconds off the pace

in 18th place. It is not looking

good at the moment for Andrew

Musgrave. It is not looking like it

will be as good a performance as we

saw from him in the skiathlon on

Sunday. As far as the leaders are

concerned, Dario Cologna, the

charismatic man from Switzerland,

these checkpoints tell you how much

he has been putting away from

Krueger. -- pulling away. He is

almost two thirds of the way

through. Only Maurice Manificat, one

of the big names behind him. What a

performance from Dario Cologna.

Maurice Manificat is going to have

to find a minimum of 15 seconds to

catch up where Dario Cologna is now.

He has taken times out of the

Norwegians. Another sensational

performance from super Dario. We

still have big names on this race

and you cannot afford to thing you

have won. And the feedback from his

coach will be, you have got to keep

pushing.

Now, at the finish, the

seeds are beginning to come to the

end of their race. Matti Heikkinen

was the first seed to go out on the

course. He took the lead and Calle

Halfvarsson, by 0.9 of a second will

have the honour of sitting in the

leader's chair. Maurice Manificat,

last of the big names coming up to

this checkpoint. Now you get an

indication of the wind, you can see

the snow blowing across the course

into the faces of these Herculean

men, made of iron will and solid

legs. Maurice Manificat in second

place, 23 seconds off the pace being

set by Dario Cologna. Dario Cologna,

three times a winter Olympic

champion, twice in this event. He is

bidding for an unprecedented

hat-trick.

hat-trick. Dario Cologna has a

stranglehold on this, can he keep it

going?

When you look at this you are

two thirds through the race. Andrew

Musgrave, that kind of, this far

into the race is surely going to be

almost too much for anyone else to

pull off. That being said, as we

were talking about a few moments

ago, Dario Cologna cannot afford to

take it easy but some of his

pedigree should be able to defend a

wide margin like that.

Denis Spitsov

has come across the line, a fine

performance from the 21-year-old. He

is a star for the future. Only just

missed a medal in the skiathlon,

finishing in fourth. World under 23

silver in this event. He sets the

fastest time by 37 seconds. All the

best of the rest top seed still to

make their way towards the finish

line. If you are just waking up,

hoping to hear good news for Great

Britain's Andrew Musgrave, he is

just inside the top 20 with about

five kilometres to go of this 15

mutter course. It is not necessarily

looking like it will be the heretics

who saw from him in the skiathlon on

Sunday. -- heretics. This is

confirmation of how it stands at the

finish. This should be a few changes

at the top of that leader board

wants the big names, most notably

the four world-class Norwegians,

coming across the line. The

Canadian, Alex Harvey, who is in

with a shout for Winter Olympic

glory. Daniel Rickardsson, the huge

Swede, did so well to get a medal in

this event four years ago. But he

hasn't been in that kind of shape

this year. In fact, we should

mention that his journey in this

sport has been laced with tragedy.

He was changing attire by the side

of the road with a good friend of

his and both were run over

of the road with a good friend of

his and both were run over. His

friend was killed. He says he uses

his skiing as a therapy. He has been

on a tough journey away from the

sport. It is a good effort from

Daniel Rickardsson, but it won't be

a medal for him today.

This finish

line, likely to be the time we next

he Andrew Musgrave. We are still

keeping an eye out for his time. We

now watch Marcus Hellner, a real

Swedish skiing great, 32 years old,

gold in Sochi, gold in Vancouver. He

is provisionally in second place as

he collapses over the finish line.

But we are expecting him to be

pushed down by the

pushed down by the likes of Krueger.

This is our last chance to get an

update on these athletes before they

had to the finish.

Krueger, hoping to close in on

something that hasn't been done for

half a century by a Norwegian, which

is hard to believe considering how

much they have dominated male and

female cross-country skiing in

recent years. No Norwegian man has

won this title since 1968. And how

he would be excited if he could win

two successive winter Olympic gold

medals.

An update on Andrew Musgrave

- he came through this 13.5

kilometre checkpoint one minute and

38 seconds slower than Krueger.

Currently in 20 Third Place. That

will become 24th when we see some

become through -- when we see Sundby

come through. They will not be

Andrew Musgrave's day.

I am sure we

will get information afterwards as

to why today hasn't been as

encouraging as the performance on

Sunday. We should mention that he

has the opportunity to go in the 50

K, an event in which he was only a

second half away from a bronze medal

last year in Finland. Sundby is in

second place behind his compatriot

Krueger. And that was how they

finished in the skiathlon on Sunday.

Krueger, being roared on by the

Norwegian coaches.

Norwegian coaches. But we have yet

to see Dario Cologna reached the

13.5 K marker. Hollund will be the

next of the big one Norwegian is to

come through. He was delighted when

he was on the podium, a great

picture that was on the front of the

Norwegian papers on Monday morning.

He said he felt a bit surprised to

be alongside Krueger and Sundby. It

was a special moment for him. You

would imagine the predominant colour

for the Norwegians is read, but when

he went on the podium, for some

reason he was wearing all blue. I

had to double check whether it was a

Norwegian 1-2-3 and it was, but

there must be a reason why he was

wearing a different tracksuit.

Last-minute signing by the Swedish

team between the finish line and the

podium.

We are watching Krueger come down

towards the finished now.

Krueger

will surely replace Spitsov in the

leader's chair, because at the 13.5

K marker, Spitsov was ten seconds

slower than Krueger. He is having a

fantastic Winter Olympic Games,

Simen Hegstad Krueger. Gold in the

skiathlon after falling.

skiathlon after falling. He is about

to put himself back on top. The

question is, for how long? It's a

fine effort from the 21-year-old

Spitsov, because Krueger is quicker,

but not by much. And that is how

much it has taken out of the man who

got the gold medal on Sunday.

Phenomenal from Krueger, who has

left out of this Norwegian team and

is making a name for himself. We are

seeing Cologna come up to the 13.5 K

marker. We did just see Alex

Harbour, who was a medal prospect.

He was in fifth place -- Alex

Harvey. And Cologna has just taken a

bite out of that time and has an 18

second margin over Krueger heading

into the last 1.5 kilometres. What a

race.

An amazing performance from

Dario Cologna. Sundby was still

watching Krueger from that

magnificent aerial shot. Krueger,

flat on the ground, watching his

compatriot Sundby come home, but

Sundby will finish behind him. He

has been a magnificent ambassador

for Norwegian cross-country skiing.

He is third, just behind Denis

Spitsov. It underlines the great

last 1.5 kilometres it was from

Spitsov, the Olympic Athlete from

Russia at the age of 21. Sundby is

third at the moment. Krueger leads.

All eyes on Dario Cologna. Super

Dario, aiming for an unprecedented

hat-trick of victories in this most

brutal of events. Ollie, the Swiss

may have been worried about him

being overcooked from a fourth

unprecedented Tour De Ski victory.

He is proving he is still the man to

beat.

We are looking at Manificat.

Maybe Spitsov, who has performed so

well today, might get onto the

podium. He is now fourth or fifth.

It is looking like it could be a

procession into the stadium for

Dario Cologna.

Manificat was 28

seconds behind Cologna at that

point. It is not to be a repeat of

Hollund's brilliant bronze in the

skiathlon, another man crashing to

the ground. One by one, the would-be

pretenders to Cologna's throne are

falling by the wayside. It's an

incredible record if he can secure

the hat-trick. An update on Andrew

Musgrave. He has finished in what is

so far 25th position, one minute 48

off the pace. A real shame and I am

sure he is a man who sets very high

standards for himself, which was why

he was disappointed with seventh in

the skiathlon because he thought he

was good enough to get a medal

the skiathlon because he thought he

was good enough to get a medal.

There must be a reason for Musgrave

finishing outside the top 20. We

hope to bring that to you after this

race. But let's focus on the man on

our screens. Alex Harvey is bidding

to become Canada passed my first

male cross-country medallist. It was

not to be, but he should be proud of

that performance. This is Dario

Cologna.

Cologna. Gold in Vancouver, gold in

Sochi and against all the odds and

up against an unbelievable quartet

of Norwegians, it looks like it's

going to be gold again here in

Pyeongchang. We have just witnessed

history. No man has ever won the

same event three times in the

history of cross-country skiing, but

Dario Cologna has. He is already the

toast of Switzerland. His status now

as one of the all-time greats is

surely guaranteed.

They thought he

had done too much this season,

winning the Tour De Ski an

unprecedented fourth time. If you

look at the other Olympic champions

here, Krueger, they all dropped out

of the Tour De Ski. They said, we

need to prepare. This man won it,

came to the Olympics and won again.

The third time in a row that he has

taken the Olympic gold medal, unless

Maurice Manificat can pull out

something truly Manificat in the

last kilometre or so. But time is

running out. He will not take that

incredible gold medal away from

Dario Cologna.

He worked. A good

effort from the Frenchman, who was

also chasing his own moment of

history. Cologna is still flat on

his back, probably barely able to

believe what he has just achieved.

Manificat is being roared on by the

crowd. But it is not to be a medal

for the Frenchman. It looked like he

might close in on Denis Spitsov, but

not to be. What a performance from

Dario Cologna. It is hard to

overplay what a popular figure he is

in Switzerland. He set up a parkour

club for kids in Switzerland. 7000

and in the first year alone. Now he

salutes the crowd. Now the

realisation dawns that he is a

three-time winner of this event, and

not even the great beyond an managed

to achieve that in the same event.

It is such a brutal sport with so

many things that can go wrong, and

he has done it. Dario Cologna reigns

supreme today here in Pyeongchang.

STUDIO: Disappointment Andrew

Musgrave, but history at the

cross-country course. Dario Cologna

from Switzerland winning a third

consecutive gold medal in this

event, the first time any

cross-country skier has that feat.

Andrew Musgrave will I am sure be

disappointed with his day at the

cross-country centre.

If you have just joined us, welcome.

We have gone off piste. The balcony

was not merely cold enough for us,

so we have come down here into the

snow. If you have just joined us,

here is what you have missed on day

seven so far. Here are the

headlines. Reigning champion and you

took the figure skating title with a

flawless programme -- Hanyu. His

archrival Nathan Chen suffered a

nightmare routine to end down in

17th. Lindsey Jacobellis's bid for

Olympic snowboard cross redemption

ended in disappointment again as the

American, 12 years after her

infamous showboating left her with

silver in Turin, finished fourth as

Italy's Michela Moioli one goal.

Norway have won the last four Libby

got medals in the men's Super-G, but

it was Austria's 2014 downhill

champion Matthias Mayer who took a

surprise victory today. There was a

massive shock in the women's slalom

is America's Mikaela Shiffrin, one

of the biggest gold medal favourites

in Pyeongchang, could only finish

fourth as Sweden's Frida Hansdotter

took gold. And in that race, Great

Britain's Charlie Guest finished

33rd, a very credible result given

that she is making her Olympic debut

in Pyeongchang just three years

after fracturing four vertebrae

whilst training in Sweden. Great

Britain have won a skeleton medal in

every single Winter Olympics the

sport has been included in.

Yesterday, Team GB's Dom Parsons and

Jerry Rice got their Olympics

underwear and both were very quick.

Dom Parsons in particular sat in

fourth place -- they got their

Olympics under way. Today, they were

going in their final two runs. Let's

see how the action unfolded with our

commentary team up at the Olympic

Sliding Centre, Amy Williams, John

Jackson and John Hunt.

This career and could be a

superstar. He certainly looks like

it. -- the Korean. For sliding, what

a big moment this is for Korea. No

Asian skeleton athlete has ever won

a medal in skeleton. Now watch Yun

go. What all the times as well. He

is usually electric off the blocks.

He is slightly slower but he is

under way.

Slightly slow start, but

still a fast start. Look at these

lines. It is so important to get

these first four corners, get the

speed from the start. There is a big

flat section before drops away

again. Look at him go. This is how

to slide the Pyeongchang track.

That

is the first mistake we have seen

him make. Is it the difference in

the icy temperatures? The sliders

may have adjusted their equipment.

Can he go under 50 seconds? Not

quite.

quite. With 50.18, reinforces his

position as the gold medallist in

waiting. Another wonderful run from

the Korean. Currently in second

place from the Olympic athletes of

Russia team, Nikita Tregubov sets

off in the silver medal position at

the moment. He is obviously one of

those that Dom Parsons is going to

have to tussle with over the course

of the next two runs. In Sochi, he

came sixth. And he held it together

in Sochi from start to finish.

in Sochi from start to finish.

The

Koreans are in the same position as

the Olympic athletes of Russia from

four years ago. Can he hold it

together?

together? Just makes a little

mistake.

This is a good run. They

have all improved on their runs from

yesterday. Look at his body

position, feet together. Just doing

a little adjustment.

50.5 coming he has done this all

three runs, Tregubov.

One of the

greats for Latvia, Dom Parsons will

follow Martins Dukurs. Silver medal

in Sochi and Vancouver. Rubbing his

hands together. Exponents of the art

of Skeleton. In Yun, he will

probably find an athlete to good to

him. But Martins Dukurs is the last

person you want to scrap out with

four medals.

Matching his start time

from yesterday morning. Put down

incredible start times, just got to

hold it together now.

Or not,

hopefully. We were speaking to the

Latvian media yesterday and he told

them he had made mistakes with his

set. He will have made changes. That

is really good.

He didn't have to

fight it there. Maybe when we talk

about the setup, it depends how much

contact the runner has on the ice.

The more contact, the more grip you

have, but potentially you are

slower.

Martins Dukurs, into second

place. A whole second of Yun, but

just ahead of Tregubov. Martins

Dukurs has done what he needed to

do. Tregubov has dropped back to

bronze medal position at the moment.

50.4 last time which was a great

step forward.

A few of the Skeleton

guys in the crowd, watching and

hoping this is going to be them in a

few years.

Even if he cannot get

past Martins Dukurs or Tregubov, Dom

Parsons cannot allow the gap to grow

between himself and the other two

rivals. He is 1.4 seconds of Yun at

the moment.

Hasn't got quite as fast

start, but he had incredible speed

down the track. Just needs to hold

it together and find the speed in

the corners.

Just looks like he is

unsettled a little bit. Whether that

is his style, but he looks a little

bit sideways. Maybe it is working

for him, but is great, he nailed

that. He needs to find speed at the

bottom, which is what he was doing

yesterday.

Needs to maintain his

body position.

He is two tempts off

at the moment, needs a fast and

accurate finish. Look at that! He is

right in the mix and goes ahead of

Tregubov into third place. He is

breathing down Martins Dukurs' neck.

A wonderful run from Dom Parsons

again and he goes thirds with Thomas

Ducker is to come. Now, Thomas

Dukurs, brother of Martins Dukurs.

Superb Skeleton athlete. Fourth in

Sochi and 40 Vancouver tells you

about his quality as well.

They have

been the one to watch for years.

They sink and mould into their sled.

They are good people to watch if you

are a budding athlete or if you are

on the Skeleton programme. He has

got good lines so far. Is there too

much for him to make up?

I don't

think he has the momentum he needs

to pull himself up towards the

Olympic athlete of Russia and Dom

Parsons. He is dropping. Unless

there are any mistakes, the top four

are set in their positions.

He could

be half a second of Dom Parsons.

Reset out with potentially four

sliders going out for the medals.

Now it looks like it is down between

Martins Dukurs, Tregubov and Dom

Parsons for the medals. The run for

medals is on, Dom Parsons is in the

bronze medal position. Yun Sungbin

is almost assured of the goal. Tomas

Dukurs, world-class, fourth in Sochi

and forth in Vancouver. He now sets

off on his way. He needs a time of

nearly 50 seconds. 50.8 won't do for

him, he needs to be electric.

The

Latvians haven't got to grips as we

thought they would with this track.

It is incredible to watch how they

slide and how they are so smooth and

you cannot even see them steering.

They are putting pressure through

the shoulders. Pair the line. He

will come back fighting because he

wants a medal.

I don't think he will

get it. He is quicker than Kim, but

his time needs to be in the low 50s

to put any pressure on at all. 50.6

will not cut the musters.

Lets see

what happens to the next few

sliders. That was a good run from

him. He will be happy enough,

consistent times.

That is Thomas

Dukurs, who momentarily goes into

the lead. But the medals will be

sorted out by the next four people.

The four times Junior champion,

Tregubov in fourth place. This man

has been so consistent. Has gone

50.5 every run. One mistake, one

mistake could be so costly.

He just

down a good start time. That is what

you need on this track, get a good

start through the first few corners

and then hold it together. So far

looking good, he is looking clean.

Just starting to lose a bit of

time on Dukurs. We need him to make

a little mistake somewhere to help

Dom Parker and -- Dom Parsons.

Tregubov, did all he can. Another

50.5. We know Dom Parsons can go

quicker. Dom Parsons, next. Sit

tight everybody, he says he thrives

on the pressure. His nickname is The

Wizard. Let's see if he can work

some winter Olympic magic and get a

medal.

medal. If his time goes green under

Tregubov's name coming he is in good

shape. He has started off a little

bit slower.

Hold it together, like

he has on the last three runs.

His

lines are good at the moment. We

need him to keep it together. Now we

are starting to build into the fast

part of the track. This corner is

the key. The little tap, has it got

enough pace? This will be key as we

come down the track. Is this the run

that will get great Britain their

first Olympic medal of these Winter

Olympics?

He is in front in a

Tregubov. No!

What? He misses out by

of a second. Tregubov is celebrating

a guaranteed medal. Dom Parsons made

just missile. Oh my word.

He knows

he has missed it.

These two sliders

have just put a lot of pressure on

this man.

Martins Dukurs, started in

second place. He was only just in

front of Dom Parsons. If Martins

Dukurs makes a mistake, Dom Parsons

might be back in the medals. We need

a mistake from Dukurs but he has

produced many of those.

That was a

big mistake! Is he now able to keep

at the time or is he also going to

drop vital split seconds down this

track?

He has made two mistakes at

the top of the track. The time is

starting to ebb away. This is where

Dukurs might lose the speed.

He is

in the red. How far is he going to

drop? Yes!

He is behind Dom Parsons

and Dom Parsons has unbelievably got

his medal.

Come on, Great Britain!

Dom Parsons has a bronze medal

because of Martins Dukurs, the great

Latvian unable to hold it together.

From abject misery for Dom Parsons,

delight for him. Dukurs now feels

the pain, he misses out. Martins

Dukurs was a five-time world

champion and he has just blown it to

give Dom Parsons the bronze medal.

Settle back now and enjoy what we

think will be the gold

think will be the gold performance

from Yun Sungbin of Korea. One safe

run will see him reach the gold

medal here and put Korea and Asia on

the map for the first time in

Skeleton. No Asian athlete has ever

won a medal. Yun, seconds away from

the goal.

This is a victory lap for

him, he is so far ahead. He has been

the quality act at the Sliding

Centre so far. The home crowd will

go wild at the bottom.

He has got to

hold it together. 1.5 seconds. He

has got to stay on his sled, the

last two corners.

An incredible

athlete, Yun is a superstar in Korea

and is coasting to gold. He has won

by the biggest margin in history.

But track record. 1.3 is six

seconds.

seconds. -- 1.36 seconds. What an

athlete.

What a race, what an

athlete, smashed it. Most

importantly we have a bronze medal

for Great Britain by Dom Parsons.

The camp is going to be ecstatic.

What a way to have these games and

have Dom Parsons doing his best. His

aim was to get a medal, no one

thought it was possible, but he has

loved this track from the moment he

arrived, from the moment Olympics

started.

The place for Great

Britain. What a thrilling climax.

Dom Parsons, The Wizard delivered

his magic. Albeit with a bit of help

by Martins Dukurs' mistakes. Dom

Parsons can cherish, aged 30, a

bronze medal at his second Olympic

Games.

Congratulations. Thank you.

Bronze

medallist at the Olympic Games,

first mother lit but at Pyeongchang,

first men's medal in history, what

is your reaction?

It hasn't sunk in,

I thought I had lost it. I thought

it had gone away. I looked up at the

time and I made a couple of mistakes

in that run.

in that run. But Martins Dukurs made

more mistakes.

You have been mixing

it with the best in the sport and

going toe to toe with them, you must

feel fantastic?

Yes, all the work we

have put in, has paid off. The

federation, friends and family, even

people playing the National Lottery,

where the funding comes from, thank

you to them.

Incredible scenes at

the Sliding Centre, huge

celebrations, first of all for South

Korea, winning the gold medal. But

Team GB, our first medal in these

games at Pyeongchang from Dom Parker

ins -- Dom Parsons. Amy

games at Pyeongchang from Dom Parker

ins -- Dom Parsons. Amy Williams was

commentating, it is not quite so

warm down here off the balcony, but

thank you for joining us. Amy, how

proud are you of those two boys

today?

I feel like their big sister

and to watch both of them come up

through the ranks, through Great

Britain to be here at the Olympics.

Jerry Rice, in his first Olympics,

getting into the top ten. And Dom,

bringing home a bronze medal. He was

enjoying himself, he was loving it.

The result follow. How impressed by

you of the mental side of it that

Dom show to be in the mix for a

medal overnight to go away and there

you have to come back the next day

and go that little bit faster and

you could go home with the first

Olympic medal?

He showed he was calm

and collected. He has looked so in

control and almost relaxed and just

enjoying it. I think that is one of

his strengths, he thinks things

through so well, he doesn't get

flustered by anything.

through so well, he doesn't get

flustered by anything. I think he

thought at first he had lost the

medal, but then obviously when the

Latvian came down just behind him,

you could see the relief and the

complete joy in his face when he

realised he was a bronze medallists.

Check Amy, when you won your medal,

you were leaving. How difficult is

it to stay calm?

It's a

psychological battle. I had to just

not think about it. I was like, OK,

I'm in first place, but it's done. I

have to prepare in the same way, eat

the same breakfast and do the same

things. You are always taught to

only think of the process goals,

don't think of the outcome goals. If

you think, I could win a medal,

don't. You have just got to pop down

the same solid runs, and that was

what Dom did.

How big a part does

the team play for both Dom and Jerry

today? Trying to keep everything

normal, how big a part does the team

play?

It's a massive part of it.

With the results today, that will

give the wider GB team a boost as

well. Overnight, it's all about the

training runs. They were coming into

it with confidence, and so are the

women tonight. It will be a great

boost to the team, especially if we

see more medals tomorrow from both

skeleton women.

The skeleton women,

yeah. Lizzy Yarnold is the one with

a target on her back. She has a

title to defend and there is huge

expectation for her. And Laura Deas

is going quick as well.

is going quick as well. Lizzie wants

that next gold medal, and Laura is

the underdog that no one is talking

about. But we are just starting to.

Don't ever rule out a Laura! She has

an incredible start time, which is

what you need on this track. Both of

them have put down the fastest runs

in training. Like Dom, they love the

track. We saw Laura last night in

the restaurant and I had to say,

good luck. Have fun out there. You

race well when you are having fun.

The team around them are confident

and they are all in a good place.

Exciting stuff. And today we will

have the girls racing later tonight

with their first two runs. Lizzy

Yarnold is the Olympic champion, but

Laura Deas is also going quick. Have

they peaked at the right time? You

can catch them at 11.20 with their

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This is going to be awesome. Lindsey

Jacobellis, extending her lead at

the early stage of this course. This

is a lap of honour for Lindsey

Jacobellis. Micro O, drama!

Jacobellis is down! Look at her!

This is incredible, Frieden! Lindsey

Jacobellis has thrown the gold medal

away in the last 100m. This is

ridiculous!

The drama of the

snowboard cross. That was Lindsey

Jacobellis. She is the world

champion. She has won gold in 15 of

the last 16 seasons in either World

Cup, World Championships or X Games

championships, but as we have just

seen, the Olympic Games have not

been her friend. That was 2006, the

gold medal in her grasp, but a bit

of showboating of the final dump and

she had to settle for silver.

20:2014, both times she went out at

the semifinals and a 32 years old,

you would have to say it is now or

never for the American. Let's see

what drama unfolded up at the

Phoenix Snow Park as we ran through

the semifinals and final that took

place earlier today with Tim Warwood

and Ed Leigh.

They await starters' orders.

This

could go any way.

Any way. They are

all very quick. They are all neck

and neck area. On the outside as the

16-year-old Frenchwoman, who may

have the lead! But it is Moiola and

Jacobellis?

Yes, Jacobellis.

Jacobellis is out in front. She

needs to hang on in front, but

Moioli has been very fast.

Moioli has been very fast.

Moioli

cuts out in front. And our

back-to-back. Moioli moves ahead of

her, Jacobellis now in the fight of

her life. She once this gold. She

slotted behind Chloe Trespeuch.

Moioli is so fast. She has five

World Cups under her belt.

Look at

the youngster!

It is neck and neck

for silver and bronze! They are all

down, it's all over the place! No

doubting who took the gold. It's

Michela Moioli.

Michela Moioli. Look at them, they

have given everything they have got

to this course. Trespeuch,

Jacobellis. None of them know,

Moioli limping, but celebrating.

That was as intense as sport gets.

Wow. Unbelievable final section.

Chloe Trespeuch over jump to the

bottom jump, took herself out. She

couldn't hang onto the landing. We

are still waiting for the official

results.

I think it is Samkova in

third.

third. Jacobellis, again missing out

on the medals.

on the medals. All they will give us

is the winner at this stage.

Trespeuch congratulating Michela

Moioli. Certainly a popular choice.

Second place is De Sousa Mabileau. A

silver medal for the 16-year-old.

She is in tears. What a race!

She is in tears. What a race! And

Samkova is confirmed as the bronze

medal. One of the closest races not

just in Olympic women's snowboard

cross a story, but of all time.

Lescott the beginning. Six brilliant

starts. There was nothing to choose.

The noses of every board crossed the

line. There was nothing between

them. Jacobellis here tucks up

early. Her inertia gets her in

early. Her inertia gets her in front

of De Sousa Mabileau.

of De Sousa Mabileau. You get a

brilliant idea of how tight this

racing is.

Trespeuch a second here and Mabileau

De Sousa in fourth. Jacobellis in

third, and she lost. She just didn't

have the gliding speed to keep up

with Michela Moioli.