0:00:12 > 0:00:16South Korea - an emerging global leader.
0:00:16 > 0:00:20The fifth largest exporting nation.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23The world's digital hub.
0:00:23 > 0:00:28And a place entirely obsessed by speed.
0:00:28 > 0:00:36Which makes it the perfect host for the 23rd Winter Olympic Games.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Here, over the next two weeks, we will watch in awe.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48Amazed by the grace.
0:00:48 > 0:00:49The skill.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52The sheer nerve.
0:00:52 > 0:00:59Competing not only with each other but with Mother Nature.
0:00:59 > 0:01:07Testing what is humanly possible against snow, ice and gravity.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Leading to the extraordinary.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20The spectacular.
0:01:20 > 0:01:28The perfect.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36This is the capital, Seoul - a booming, busy metropolis that sits
0:01:36 > 0:01:39110 miles west of the region of Pyeongchang, which is where
0:01:39 > 0:01:42the Games will take place.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Around 2500 athletes from 90 competing nations will pass
0:01:46 > 0:01:51through here and get their first taste of Korean culture.
0:01:51 > 0:01:58And believe me, they'll get a welcome quite unlike any other.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Despite having very little snow, the expectations for the British
0:02:02 > 0:02:04team have never been higher.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09It's a bigger team than it has been before.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12That is thanks, in part, to funding of £28 million -
0:02:12 > 0:02:17more than double of what was available in Sochi.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21In Russia, that cash was converted to solid gold in the form
0:02:21 > 0:02:27of Lizzy Yarnold's skeleton success, silver and bronze in curling,
0:02:27 > 0:02:30and Jenny Jones' brilliant bronze in the slopestyle.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33And GB could yet be awarded a fifth medal from Sochi
0:02:33 > 0:02:35in the four-man bobsleigh, following the disqualification
0:02:35 > 0:02:38of Russia.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42But now it's time for the Class of 2018, who will carry our hopes
0:02:42 > 0:02:45over the next two weeks as once again we become bizarrely intrigued
0:02:45 > 0:02:52and engrossed in all that slips, slides and shreds.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56I've been taking in some of the local culture and looking
0:02:56 > 0:03:01at the tensions surrounding these Games.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I've been exploring the striking new venues as well as meeting some
0:03:04 > 0:03:12Winter Olympic legends and our best medal hopes.
0:03:15 > 0:03:23There is nothing else I could have done.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26The Alpine competitions remain the blue riband events
0:03:26 > 0:03:29at the Winter Olympics - and something that British athletes
0:03:29 > 0:03:34just aren't meant to be any good at.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36We don't grow up in the mountains.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38But last season, Dave Ryding did the unthinkable -
0:03:38 > 0:03:41he got himself on the podium at a World Cup event in Kitzbuhel,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Austria, and in doing so put himself bang in contention
0:03:44 > 0:03:45for a Winter Olympic medal.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Former downhill skier Chemmy Alcott has been to meet him,
0:03:48 > 0:03:50and his story starts not in the Alps but on the plastic
0:03:50 > 0:03:54in Pendle, Lancashire.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59Dave Ryding tries to rewrite the record books!
0:03:59 > 0:04:00Kitzbuhel is rocking!
0:04:00 > 0:04:02He is second!
0:04:02 > 0:04:04That is sensational!
0:04:04 > 0:04:12The first British racer on a World Cup podium since 1981.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Hi, David!
0:04:19 > 0:04:24Is this a little striptease?!
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Dave, this is it.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29That is the guy, yeah.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30It is heavy.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32How often do you polish this?
0:04:32 > 0:04:36Not often enough!
0:04:36 > 0:04:40Slalom skiing is so competitive.
0:04:40 > 0:04:47There is a bunch of you that are always competitors
0:04:47 > 0:04:50for the podium but there are two racers who are slightly elevated.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Are they beatable and what can you do to narrow the gap?
0:04:54 > 0:04:57They are a step above the rest.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01I am competitive with the rest now.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03I used to see limits for myself but now I don't think
0:05:03 > 0:05:05there are limits any more.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06I believe I can catch them.
0:05:06 > 0:05:11You are out there racing week in and week out.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13It is not where it started for you.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15It started on a dry ski slope.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Do they know?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20They do know, anyway!
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Can we go to Pendle and you can show me the ropes?
0:05:23 > 0:05:28Let's check it out.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30This is where it all started for you?
0:05:30 > 0:05:36Yeah.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38That is where the name Rocket came from.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40As a kid coming up here.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43I guess you could say it is the Alps of the UK.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Back in your day there was not a fence.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47You used to race around sheep.
0:05:47 > 0:05:55That is why you are so agile!
0:05:55 > 0:05:57There is no family background of being a ski racer?
0:05:57 > 0:05:58Not as a racer.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59My dad loved it.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03My mum learned to accept that he loved it and was very supportive.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07Is it true that your grandad sold ski stuff out of the back of his van
0:06:07 > 0:06:10to support your career?
0:06:10 > 0:06:16Yes, he set up a website and started selling skis and that sort of thing.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19All part of the journey.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Dave Ryding from Great Britain.
0:06:23 > 0:06:27So naturally Pendle dry ski slope is really proud of having
0:06:27 > 0:06:29a Kitzbuhel medallist.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32How do you think they will react when you come home
0:06:32 > 0:06:35with an Olympic medal?!
0:06:37 > 0:06:39All they talk about is, are you capable?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42I have proven I am.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Kitzbuhel is the same competition, the same people.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46I am not writing it off.
0:06:46 > 0:06:47But I know it is difficult.
0:06:47 > 0:06:52What kind of conditions would suit you?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54For some reason I used to be rubbish on the ice.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57I've trained so much to get better on the ice.
0:06:57 > 0:07:03Now it is my thing.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06A cold day, icy snow and it should be good.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09You talked about the pressure and expectation.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12How will you be able to handle it on the day when you wake up
0:07:12 > 0:07:14and you have got a chance?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16I have been to two Olympics already.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17I know what it is all about.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19I know what it would be like.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22It is all pretty similar.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26If I ski the best I've ever skied and don't come away with a medal,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28that is all I can do.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29I will give it everything I have.
0:07:29 > 0:07:36If I can do it for British skiing, it would be awesome.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38The good news for Dave is it has been as cold
0:07:38 > 0:07:41as -24 in the mountains, so potentially plenty of ice.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45It is warmer here in Seoul.
0:07:45 > 0:07:52This is one of the traditional markets where people come at night
0:07:52 > 0:07:53to eat all sorts of delicacies.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57I think I had better have some guidance as to what to try.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Wendell is the chef.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59My name is Wendell.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03This market has all of the traditional food in Korea.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07This is braised pork.
0:08:07 > 0:08:13These are Korean sausages.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15The red part is the Korean for soul food.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19It is spicy rice cake.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20Is this like a vegetable soup?
0:08:20 > 0:08:28Yeah, it is a vegetable soup.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Oh my God, that's hot!
0:08:33 > 0:08:39That is spicy!
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Is that aubergine?
0:08:42 > 0:08:46No, that is beef with egg.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50This looks more like my thing.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Normally we share this.
0:08:52 > 0:09:00We cut it in half.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02What is it like living here?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05I keep seeing everybody running everywhere.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07We are in a hurry all the time.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09In the office it is hurry, hurry.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13On the internet, it has to be really fast.
0:09:13 > 0:09:19If you go to a restaurant, it has to come really fast.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20This is really good.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24This is more my thing.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26You should dig into this.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27That hot thing?
0:09:27 > 0:09:35Wendell, don't!
0:09:36 > 0:09:40They call this place the Land of the Morning Calm.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42But everybody seems to be in a hurry.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45There is a real energy and drive.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Driven in part by music.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Specifically, K-pop.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55This area is called Gangnam.
0:09:55 > 0:10:02You remember Gangham Style, yeah?
0:10:05 > 0:10:08I have come to the offices of YG Entertainment,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10who look after some of the biggest pop acts in Korea.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12With the bands there is a particular look.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17The hair is magnificent.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Psy.
0:10:19 > 0:10:27Big Bang, they have been huge in Korea for the past ten years.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Can you tell me first of all about the phenomenon of K-pop?
0:10:31 > 0:10:34What is it?
0:10:46 > 0:10:51The song has to be from Korea.
0:10:51 > 0:10:59It is very current in modern-day Korean music that it's Korean
0:11:01 > 0:11:02people listening.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05We are breaking out all those K-pop acts to the rest of the world.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Psy is really important.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11He opened the market.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Nobody expected that Korean bands could tour but it
0:11:13 > 0:11:17has really happened.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20How much is this also about Korean culture and Korea as a country
0:11:20 > 0:11:23being sold to the world?
0:11:23 > 0:11:29Korean pop works very positively for other industries,
0:11:29 > 0:11:33especially IT industries. It is very important.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36If I came to a concert of one of your bands,
0:11:36 > 0:11:38do I need to scream a lot?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Sure.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43You have to scream a lot and you have to dance.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Am I a little bit old?
0:11:45 > 0:11:48Not at all.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Mothers and daughters come to our concerts.
0:11:52 > 0:11:58Not that I am saying...!
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Staying with the hot hits, and one of the biggest names
0:12:01 > 0:12:04at these Games is undoubtedly Lindsey Vonn.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07A superstar on and off the slopes, the American won downhill gold
0:12:07 > 0:12:10in Vancouver in 2010.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Vonn skis for the gold medal!
0:12:12 > 0:12:13She's got it!
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Nobody can touch her when she is racing.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18She was very much expected to do the same four years later.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21But a series of injuries ruled her out of Sochi.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Since coming back, Vonn has been edging closer to the record
0:12:24 > 0:12:27for the most World Cup wins.
0:12:27 > 0:12:34But as Chemmy Alcott found out, it's nearly always boom or bust for Vonn.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36When we grew up racing we would watch Bode Miller
0:12:36 > 0:12:39because you knew he would win or he would crash.
0:12:39 > 0:12:45I hate to say it, because every time I watch you, you going so hard.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48The limit is sometimes crossed.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52Yeah, I don't really have an 80% or a 90%.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56I'm always trying to win.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58I realise that it is an Olympic year.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00I am trying to be safe.
0:13:00 > 0:13:07But when I get in the starting gate I can't really control myself.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10With the evolution, you are massively honest
0:13:10 > 0:13:14in what you go through in terms of your physical training,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17even after crashes you get on there and say, this is how
0:13:17 > 0:13:18I am feeling.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20That leaves you vulnerable to people being very opinionated.
0:13:20 > 0:13:25How do you find that?
0:13:25 > 0:13:29There are some good ones.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Some guy told me that I should eat make-up because that would make me
0:13:32 > 0:13:35pretty on the inside.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37That is really solid.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40That was a pretty good one.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43But I generally just glance at it to see a general response from fans.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48But the trolls, they will always be there.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51I wish them the best and usually I delete the negative ones
0:13:51 > 0:13:55because the children don't need to see that.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59How important is the team around you to keep you focused and happy?
0:13:59 > 0:14:02It is really important.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05When you are on the road for so many months, you need a good
0:14:05 > 0:14:06team supporting you.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Especially when things don't go well.
0:14:08 > 0:14:15My dad is my new hype man.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Will he be at the start going...?
0:14:17 > 0:14:18Maybe.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19He will be yelling me on.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22It is nice to have family here.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24And my team has always been so good to me.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Is that why the dogs are here?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28They love you no matter what.
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Look at her.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30She is always here.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Exactly.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34It is nice to have somebody to come home too.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Even if you're coming home to a hotel room.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Lucy is always there.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43She loves me and she doesn't talk back.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46They do say it is a track that benefits the Americans.
0:14:46 > 0:14:47It kind of varies.
0:14:47 > 0:14:54It can be really dry.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Or icy.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58It depends on how the snowmaking is, how they prepare it.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59I really like the course.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00It really suits me.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03I think the weather will be a little bit interesting.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05We will have to see when we get there.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07In general it suits the Americans really well and hopefully
0:15:07 > 0:15:13we have some success there.
0:15:13 > 0:15:21Interesting to hear Lindsey Vonn talking about criticism on social
0:15:26 > 0:15:28media, much of which came after saying in an interview
0:15:28 > 0:15:31she will be "representing the people of the United States,
0:15:31 > 0:15:33not the President".
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Some Americans taking that as an insult to President Trump.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Himself no stranger to trading insults, he has been back and forth
0:15:38 > 0:15:41with the leader of North Korea like a game of table tennis.
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Most recently joking about the relative size
0:15:42 > 0:15:43of their nuclear buttons.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47While we very much hope that sport will take centre stage this year
0:15:47 > 0:15:50there has been a nervous backdrop to these games with heightened
0:15:50 > 0:15:54tensions between neighbouring North Korea and the United States.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56North Korea says it is now a nuclear power.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00"Little rocket man is a sick puppy."
0:16:00 > 0:16:03I have been doing Korea for years and I cannot recall a situation
0:16:03 > 0:16:10as dangerous as in the last year.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13The major problem is North Korean nuclear programme.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18The uncertain political state has led to questions over whether some
0:16:18 > 0:16:22nations may opt to stay at home.
0:16:22 > 0:16:30We feel it is better to come rather than boycott, not turn up.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33You have to remember it's the athletes' occasion,
0:16:33 > 0:16:35they do not choose where the Games are.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38It's the pinnacle of their career and they want to be here,
0:16:38 > 0:16:42it's the utmost for us to be here as long as they can be.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Since the Korean War ended in the middle of the last century,
0:16:44 > 0:16:48the north and south have remained divided, but in a major step forward
0:16:48 > 0:16:50athletes from both countries will march under the same united
0:16:50 > 0:16:52flag at these Olympics and there will be a unified
0:16:52 > 0:16:57team in the ice hockey.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01This woman lives and works in Seoul.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05It was surprising for us, because North Korea and South Korea
0:17:05 > 0:17:12was in a really bad relationship in the last ten years.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16So we were very excited about it that we can actually meet them
0:17:16 > 0:17:21and see the people from North Korea.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26I hope the Korean team show all over the world a good example
0:17:26 > 0:17:29for the possibility, with North and South Korea can make
0:17:29 > 0:17:30peace and unified nation.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34We know there is this united team particularly in the ice hockey,
0:17:34 > 0:17:41how much significance should be read into this?
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Well, a short period of warm weather in the middle of a very cold winter
0:17:44 > 0:17:49which is going to get seriously colder in a few months' time.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Alongside this political unrest there are other tensions
0:17:51 > 0:17:53of a sporting nature.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56South Korea was the scene of one of the biggest drug scandals
0:17:56 > 0:18:00in sport when Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson failed a drugs test
0:18:00 > 0:18:06at the Olympics 30 years ago.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10They go first time and Ben Johnson, Johnson away and clear.
0:18:10 > 0:18:16Johnson wins it.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Olympic champion Ben Johnson has been caught taking drugs and will be
0:18:18 > 0:18:25stripped of his gold medal.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28All these years later, the issue of drugs is not gone away.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Russia has been banned from competing at the Winter
0:18:30 > 0:18:31Olympics in South Korea.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Russia finished top of the table in Sochi.
0:18:33 > 0:18:39After an investigation into state sponsored doping,
0:18:39 > 0:18:41the IOC have banned them from the Games despite
0:18:41 > 0:18:43repeated Russian denials.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47We issued the toughest sanction which we can issue
0:18:47 > 0:18:49on a National Olympic Committee, this is the exclusion
0:18:49 > 0:18:53from the Olympic Games.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56There was a crime committed in Sochi, everyone knows
0:18:56 > 0:18:59the evidence was put out there regarding the state doping
0:18:59 > 0:19:01and the manipulation of samples.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05The IOC need to sort it out and protect the integrity
0:19:05 > 0:19:13of the Games and the clean athletes around the world.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17169 Russian athletes with no drug violations and a consistent history
0:19:17 > 0:19:20of drug testing will be allowed to compete here under
0:19:20 > 0:19:21the Olympic flag.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26We gave the new and young generation of Russian athletes the opportunity
0:19:26 > 0:19:31to be invited to show the Russians that it pays off to be clean.
0:19:31 > 0:19:36However on the eve of these games more turmoil.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39The Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned bans
0:19:39 > 0:19:41on some Russian athletes, ruling there was
0:19:41 > 0:19:46insufficient evidence.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48With sport in the hands of lawyers, it seems the overall outcome
0:19:48 > 0:19:53is unlikely to satisfy anyone.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Of course, Olympic Games are no stranger to controversy and tense
0:19:56 > 0:19:57political situations.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59But despite these difficult backdrops, they still
0:19:59 > 0:20:07have the power to mesmerise.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10And it was Valentine's Day in 1984, when 24 million of us sat glued
0:20:10 > 0:20:13to our television screens waiting for Jayne Torvill and Christopher
0:20:13 > 0:20:18Dean to take to the ice in Sarajevo.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Now the main attraction tonight, a complete sell-out for the ice
0:20:20 > 0:20:21dancing championship.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24From the very start it has been Jayne Torvill
0:20:24 > 0:20:31and Christopher Dean in the lead, the target is Olympic gold.
0:20:31 > 0:20:37What do you think it was about the routine which was so magical?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40I think people had bought into us as two people and each year
0:20:40 > 0:20:42we were reinventing ourselves.
0:20:42 > 0:20:50When we performed Bolero it was a really emotional experience.
0:20:54 > 0:21:00They are four minutes away from Olympic gold.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02The beginning of Bolero the music was running over,
0:21:02 > 0:21:08it was four minutes 28 so the fact we started on our knees
0:21:08 > 0:21:11and my blades didn't touch the ice until after 18 seconds made
0:21:11 > 0:21:12it technically legal.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14That is how we started that iconic move at the beginning,
0:21:14 > 0:21:22that is how it came about.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24We heard the music and we knew the music and the minute
0:21:24 > 0:21:27one of us said Bolero there was no turning back.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Had you tried different costumes?
0:21:28 > 0:21:32No, we were always going for the silk.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34For us it was expensive.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Do you remember how much it cost?
0:21:37 > 0:21:44A couple of hundred pounds at least!
0:21:44 > 0:21:47We think back to performing it, from my point of view I see it,
0:21:47 > 0:21:50an outer body experience.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54It feels like a dream sequence.
0:21:54 > 0:22:00It feels like I was looking down on somebody else doing that.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Are there moments you remember from the end of the performance
0:22:03 > 0:22:04to seeing the scores.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06It felt deadly quiet as we were doing it
0:22:06 > 0:22:07which I think it was.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10And that added to the atmosphere.
0:22:10 > 0:22:17It's like a movie where everything is slow motion and silent
0:22:17 > 0:22:18or there's gentle music.
0:22:18 > 0:22:24The music stopped and then the roar of the audience.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28I think if you look at the close-up I kind of go like that.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30That last breath.
0:22:30 > 0:22:35Chris kind of did a similar thing.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38We were collecting flowers, so many flowers people had
0:22:38 > 0:22:41thrown on the ice and then there was another cheer
0:22:41 > 0:22:45which is when the first set of scores came up.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49By the second we had not got off the ice at this point.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Then all the sixes.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Six across the board!
0:22:54 > 0:23:00What a marvellous, marvellous result.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Because of the numbers that watched that did it feel
0:23:02 > 0:23:05to you as if life had changed?
0:23:05 > 0:23:10It did feel different.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13You almost feel that you are part of a different club of athletes.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17Because you have a gold medal.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20It opened so many doors for the future.
0:23:20 > 0:23:28It was such an amazing thing.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Life always seems like it flashes on, next thing,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33moving forward but every now and again to be able
0:23:33 > 0:23:35to sit down and reflect, which we don't do that often,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38but you go, that was pretty good.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Following Torvill and Dean is an almost impossible task.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45But Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland have thrown everything at it,
0:23:45 > 0:23:49even moving away from their families to be out in Detroit, Michigan,
0:23:49 > 0:23:52surrounded by the best figure skaters in the world.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Pyeongchang will be their third Olympic Games.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58But as David McDaid has been finding out, getting here has been
0:23:58 > 0:24:04the toughest challenge of their lives.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07It's so hard to train for an Olympics when healthy.
0:24:07 > 0:24:15You push your body to the absolute limit every day.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20There's only so much your body can deal with.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24In a second my life changed.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Penny Coomes has suffered a serious knee injury in training,
0:24:27 > 0:24:29shattering her kneecap in eight places.
0:24:29 > 0:24:37It could end her hopes of competing at the Winter Olympics.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Like that, I am on the floor with half of my kneecap up
0:24:42 > 0:24:44here and the other half down there.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48I remember crying, not from the pain but from what could be.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52And yeah, I have had the hardest year and a half of my life.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55But at the same time it's the strongest I've ever
0:24:55 > 0:24:58had to be and it's been a really rewarding time.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02That is a career-ending injury for 99.9% of people.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Yeah.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08Definitely.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10We just didn't know what the way forward
0:25:10 > 0:25:16was I think, once it happened.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18It put everything into perspective a little.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21It's only ice skating but it's something we've grown up
0:25:21 > 0:25:23with and we absolutely adore so there was only one
0:25:23 > 0:25:27thing we were going to do and that was going to come back
0:25:27 > 0:25:35and pick up where we left off.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39So many people were like that's it, they are done, you cannot
0:25:39 > 0:25:40come back from this.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41I have heard this.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44I remember reading those things and being so mad.
0:25:44 > 0:25:44I channelled that energy.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47I remember using that energy at our comeback and being out
0:25:47 > 0:25:50there and being like this is for all the people who thought
0:25:50 > 0:25:51I could not do this.
0:25:51 > 0:25:59Because I can.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15Now I've got on and I just feel like, I can't believe it.
0:26:15 > 0:26:22I've got my leg back.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25It takes a lot of really getting some kind of crazy grit
0:26:25 > 0:26:28from within to be able to do it.
0:26:28 > 0:26:33Not every day was a good day and I didn't do it on my own.
0:26:33 > 0:26:40When I was down I had my physio, my psychologist, and then
0:26:40 > 0:26:42of course Nick.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46I said I don't know if I can do this, I don't know if my knee
0:26:46 > 0:26:49will ever be strong again and he just said that is OK.
0:26:49 > 0:26:55I think I needed to hear that in order to get better.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58It is like the step wide and then the cross together because then
0:26:58 > 0:27:00I can see you stepping wide.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01That'll be great.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Cool.
0:27:02 > 0:27:03Hello.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05How was that today?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Good.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11Tough training day ahead of us so it was nice to start the day
0:27:11 > 0:27:14with some positive sections and get feeling in the legs again.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17We are in Michigan where you have been based the last
0:27:17 > 0:27:20few years, why here?
0:27:20 > 0:27:25Finally enough Michigan is an ice dancing hub.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28There are three big ice dancing camps and our coach is one
0:27:28 > 0:27:32of the best in the world so we have come here for the last three years
0:27:32 > 0:27:34and trained with a lot of our kind of rivals,
0:27:34 > 0:27:36I guess which motivates us everyday and training
0:27:36 > 0:27:38which is an interesting dynamic.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41But we all get on really well, it's really cool.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Sometimes I listen to the melody rather than the beat
0:27:44 > 0:27:47and sometimes I get confused because that is what I used to do.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51When we step wide we can take longer.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54It has taken us through the most emotional roller-coaster
0:27:54 > 0:27:57but at the same time it has brought us together, closer
0:27:57 > 0:28:00than I ever thought possible.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03I'm just looking forward to the next couple of months to really enjoy it
0:28:03 > 0:28:04and soak in the experience.
0:28:04 > 0:28:12What does Pyeongchang represent to you?
0:28:15 > 0:28:17I'm sorry.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19It's just so emotional.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23Because this has always been my goal.
0:28:23 > 0:28:28When we first set out it was always like, let's do a pre-Olympic
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Games and Pyeongchang, let's be the best here.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35And kind of have that...
0:28:35 > 0:28:39Taken away, I feel like I have earned it.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42Tenfold.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Before I had even got there.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Going out there after what we have been through, it's going to be
0:28:47 > 0:28:51a real fitting end to this period of our lives.
0:28:51 > 0:28:59But the best bit is yet to come.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03As at any Winters, the figure skating and alpine events
0:29:03 > 0:29:04will be hugely popular.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07But the hottest ticket in town is for short track speed skating.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10It's an obsession here, and it's fair to say they get them
0:29:10 > 0:29:14on the ice from a very young age.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16Now four years ago in Sochi, our own Elise Christie had
0:29:16 > 0:29:22high hopes of glory, but her Winter Olympic dream
0:29:22 > 0:29:30turned into a nightmare.
0:29:30 > 0:29:35She may receive a penalty for that.
0:29:35 > 0:29:39When I got off the 500 I was upset.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41She has been penalised again.
0:29:41 > 0:29:46I can't believe this has happened.
0:29:46 > 0:29:53After the 15 I was actually confused.
0:29:53 > 0:29:54No!
0:29:54 > 0:29:55I cannot believe it.
0:29:55 > 0:29:59What on earth is going on?
0:29:59 > 0:30:02When I got off the thousand it was more annoying
0:30:02 > 0:30:09than anything else.
0:30:10 > 0:30:16After that there were a lot of death threats, a lot of online abuse.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19That mostly came from Korea.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22I spent about six months afterwards being scared of being in the house
0:30:22 > 0:30:25on my own or going out on my own, because so many at once
0:30:25 > 0:30:28made it feel so real.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30It was a very difficult time.
0:30:30 > 0:30:36Do you think you are more resilient now to the outside world?
0:30:36 > 0:30:39Yes and no.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42Definitely more resilient in terms of like, I get that they are just
0:30:42 > 0:30:46people hiding behind a computer screen now.
0:30:46 > 0:30:49How different do think you are now mentally from four years ago?
0:30:49 > 0:30:52Very different.
0:30:52 > 0:30:57I was very naive four years ago and less confident than I am now.
0:30:57 > 0:31:01My mental state back then completely relied on the outcome.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05If I didn't do well, that would affect my whole season
0:31:05 > 0:31:07because I just lost a lot of confidence and couldn't fight
0:31:07 > 0:31:10back from it as well.
0:31:10 > 0:31:15One of the biggest things for me was accepting failure.
0:31:15 > 0:31:19I thought, I'm prepared to go out and put everything into winning.
0:31:19 > 0:31:23I would have settled for a medal basically.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26They are very keen on short track speed skating in Korea.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29Yeah, it's very cool.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33They want to take pictures even when I'm out on the street.
0:31:33 > 0:31:35They want to see you.
0:31:35 > 0:31:40It makes you feel a lot better about online abuse because you know
0:31:40 > 0:31:42that in the street everybody is happy to see you.
0:31:42 > 0:31:43You seem incredibly relaxed?
0:31:43 > 0:31:44Yeah, definitely.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47There is nothing else I could have done to put
0:31:47 > 0:31:48myself in a better place.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51It is what it will be.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53I have no control over someone wanting to take me out
0:31:53 > 0:31:56in the first round to get me out of the competition.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59There will be so many people rooting for you and this could be one
0:31:59 > 0:32:03of the great stories.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05It would be great, wouldn't it?
0:32:05 > 0:32:06Yeah.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08For me, I got my redemption in the Worlds.
0:32:08 > 0:32:11She has done it!
0:32:11 > 0:32:15Elise Christie is the world champion.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18But I see the Olympics as a way to give back to everybody who did
0:32:18 > 0:32:21support me through that hard time.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23I would love to come home with the gold medal
0:32:23 > 0:32:27so everybody who supported me...
0:32:27 > 0:32:28That is the reason I keep going.
0:32:28 > 0:32:32I didn't want to do it any more.
0:32:32 > 0:32:37I felt I had to do this because everybody has put so much
0:32:37 > 0:32:41into this and believed in me, so I have to at least try.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43That is what is important now, that everybody knows
0:32:43 > 0:32:47I am trying my best.
0:32:47 > 0:32:52So yeah, that is the goal.
0:32:52 > 0:32:56Elise isn't the only one to have had victory snatched from her hands.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59The Winter Olympics is full of stories of drama
0:32:59 > 0:33:01and danger and devastation.
0:33:01 > 0:33:04It's why we love watching!
0:33:10 > 0:33:16That one is going to be on sport bloopers for years to come.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19A slight malfunction there.
0:33:21 > 0:33:25Robin Cousins of Great Britain.
0:33:25 > 0:33:26He is over!
0:33:26 > 0:33:29Oh no!
0:33:31 > 0:33:33That was incredible.
0:33:33 > 0:33:37Snow business.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39They have all gone.
0:33:39 > 0:33:44That has left Steven Bradbury to cross the finishing line.
0:33:44 > 0:33:48There was one other event on the track.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Are we supposed to do that?!
0:34:01 > 0:34:05It all went wrong and now he is in real trouble.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08He cannot believe that.
0:34:08 > 0:34:14This is a lap of honour.
0:34:14 > 0:34:20Freedom!
0:34:24 > 0:34:26The athletes will make their way along these open roads
0:34:26 > 0:34:32to Pyeongchang, busy chatting, listening to music,
0:34:32 > 0:34:38perhaps sitting quietly, Olympic dreaming of how it must feel
0:34:38 > 0:34:41to stand at the top of the podium and secure your lifelong dream.
0:34:41 > 0:34:46For one British athlete, that dream has already been a reality.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49Sliding head-first at over 80 miles per hour, she brought home Team GB's
0:34:49 > 0:34:50only gold of Sochi 2014.
0:34:50 > 0:34:56Lizzy Yarnold is desperate to create that feeling again.
0:34:56 > 0:35:00I am looking at whether the ice feels wet or if there
0:35:00 > 0:35:04is frost forming on the top.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06Everything is completely heightened.
0:35:06 > 0:35:14Sound, sight, smell, everything.
0:35:15 > 0:35:17All this information is coming together to try
0:35:17 > 0:35:19and have the fastest run.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23It is a complete orchestra of information.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26And then you are lying on the sled.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28And the whole thing is rattling.
0:35:28 > 0:35:34It is violent.
0:35:39 > 0:35:44She is going to win the gold medal, surely!
0:35:44 > 0:35:45Nice to see you again.
0:35:45 > 0:35:52I've got loads to ask you.
0:35:52 > 0:35:56It was the most amazing two weeks of my life.
0:35:56 > 0:36:01As soon as I saw my parents, my family, my friends,
0:36:01 > 0:36:09and everybody who has supported me and got me there.
0:36:14 > 0:36:21Perhaps not surprisingly, you did, after Sochi, need to step away.
0:36:21 > 0:36:26Was that always the plan or did it slightly come upon you?
0:36:26 > 0:36:28I hadn't yet become world champion, World Cup champion,
0:36:28 > 0:36:30European champion.
0:36:30 > 0:36:35There were still so many goals.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37So I quite quickly knuckled back down, focused in
0:36:37 > 0:36:39on these new challenges.
0:36:39 > 0:36:44That is how to win your first World Championship.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47I was really pushing myself, expecting a lot of myself and it
0:36:47 > 0:36:53drove me to a point of physical and mental exhaustion.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55Trying to drive yourself to get everything out
0:36:55 > 0:36:57of every training run, with the process and determination
0:36:57 > 0:37:03to win, I didn't realise how much of a toll it was taking.
0:37:03 > 0:37:05What did you do with your time away?
0:37:05 > 0:37:08We moved house.
0:37:08 > 0:37:12I did some crafty courses that were so different to Skeleton.
0:37:12 > 0:37:20Lampshade-making, university courses, stuff like that.
0:37:20 > 0:37:26I'm intrigued by this idea of the defending Olympic
0:37:26 > 0:37:29champion who then switches into Mrs Lizzy Roach,
0:37:29 > 0:37:32who makes lampshades, does a book-keeping course,
0:37:32 > 0:37:35and then switches back again to Lizzy Yarnold,
0:37:35 > 0:37:39the athlete who listens to an orchestra of information
0:37:39 > 0:37:43while she is flying down this track.
0:37:43 > 0:37:47When you pull on the superwoman suit and become Lizzy Yarnold,
0:37:47 > 0:37:52the athlete, do you feel different?
0:37:52 > 0:37:55No.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58Everything is just done to the best of my ability.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01So I don't feel like a huge step change from Lizzy at home
0:38:01 > 0:38:04to Lizzy the athlete.
0:38:04 > 0:38:12In all of life I think I have huge expectations of hope for myself.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14The reason I came back to Skeleton after being Olympic champion
0:38:14 > 0:38:17is because I love being an athlete.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20I feel hugely honoured to work with a completely different team
0:38:20 > 0:38:22that took me to Sochi.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26There is still so much to learn and explore.
0:38:26 > 0:38:30It is a lot of hard work but it is a lot of fun.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32When it comes to the track in Pyeongchang, how many
0:38:32 > 0:38:35times have you raced it?
0:38:35 > 0:38:39Every track has a personality.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42You get to know what you think about the character of the track,
0:38:42 > 0:38:44how it wants to treat you, whether it is a fiery
0:38:44 > 0:38:48adolescent that wants to throw you from one side to the other.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52I'm not sure if I know the personality of the track yet.
0:38:52 > 0:38:58I have only been down about 20 times, competed there once.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01But it is something that is exciting and you never know what's going
0:39:01 > 0:39:02to happen until the finish line.
0:39:02 > 0:39:07It will be a brilliant race.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10And this is the Alpensia Sliding Centre, the track Lizzy will have
0:39:10 > 0:39:13to master if she's to become the first British athlete
0:39:13 > 0:39:17to successfully defend a Winter Olympics title.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20The Alpensia Sports Park here in the mountains
0:39:20 > 0:39:22is the main hub for venues, with the opening and closing
0:39:22 > 0:39:25ceremonies happening at the Olympic Stadium
0:39:25 > 0:39:28and the Olympic village based here, as well as the venues for biathlon,
0:39:28 > 0:39:31cross-country, bobsleigh, slalom and numerous other events,
0:39:31 > 0:39:34including the ski jump.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37Hang on - did someone say ski jump?
0:39:37 > 0:39:39We can't look ahead to a Winter Olympics without looking
0:39:39 > 0:39:41back at a moment in history.
0:39:41 > 0:39:43Because sometimes it's not the winning that counts,
0:39:43 > 0:39:46it's the taking part.
0:39:52 > 0:39:56As a young child I was always in trouble, always hurting myself,
0:39:56 > 0:40:01always in and out of hospital.
0:40:01 > 0:40:06If somebody dared me to do anything, climb the highest tree,
0:40:06 > 0:40:08I would go ahead and do it.
0:40:08 > 0:40:16So ski jumping was the ideal sport for me.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25I wanted to be a downhill racer in Sarajevo in 1984
0:40:25 > 0:40:28but it was very difficult.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31I didn't have the money, couldn't get the top coaches
0:40:31 > 0:40:34and train with the top teams, so I was doing the best
0:40:34 > 0:40:37I could with what I had, which wasn't much, really.
0:40:37 > 0:40:40I decided to go to America.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43That is when I first started jumping.
0:40:43 > 0:40:45Lake Placid was the host of the 1980 Winter Olympics.
0:40:45 > 0:40:46They had the ski jumps.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49I asked if I could have a go.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52I started on a ten metre jump.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55That afternoon I wanted to go on the 90 and they
0:40:55 > 0:40:57said no, it's too big.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00I carried on jumping.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03I thought, gosh, I wonder if there would be a chance of me
0:41:03 > 0:41:08getting to Calgary in 1988 as a jumper rather than a racer?
0:41:08 > 0:41:10To be picked to be Britain's first-ever jumper
0:41:10 > 0:41:13was a dream come true.
0:41:13 > 0:41:19I was going to love every single minute of getting to Calgary.
0:41:21 > 0:41:25I can remember everything like it was yesterday.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27The first time I arrived in Calgary at the airport
0:41:27 > 0:41:30there was a banner on the wall saying, welcome to Calgary,
0:41:30 > 0:41:31Eddie the Eagle.
0:41:31 > 0:41:32I said, who is that?
0:41:32 > 0:41:33They said, it is you.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35I was christened Eddie the Eagle.
0:41:35 > 0:41:40It took on a life of its own.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42I went into the small hill competition having only done one
0:41:42 > 0:41:45training jump on that small hill.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48I did OK.
0:41:48 > 0:41:50I landed on my feet, which was always a bonus.
0:41:50 > 0:41:54Then the whole Eddie the Eagle thing got bigger and bigger.
0:41:54 > 0:42:01We had 90,000 people around the stadium watching the big hill.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05The whole crowd started shouting, Eddie, Eddie!
0:42:05 > 0:42:07I would give them a wave.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10They were going potty.
0:42:13 > 0:42:19Here he is, Cheltenham's favoured son.
0:42:19 > 0:42:25And a lot of these people are here today to see Eddie.
0:42:25 > 0:42:26And there you are.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28He is safely down.
0:42:28 > 0:42:29Listen to the crowd.
0:42:29 > 0:42:3371, that is a British record.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36I knew I would come last but as long as I could achieve something,
0:42:36 > 0:42:41and getting a new British record was a great achievement.
0:42:41 > 0:42:47Unfortunately, because I became so popular, they said it's not right
0:42:47 > 0:42:50that a guy who comes 58th should get more attention than the guy
0:42:50 > 0:42:52who won the event.
0:42:52 > 0:42:56I get the impression you are enjoying this fame, Eddie?
0:42:56 > 0:42:59Yes, if they are cheering me on, I want to give them
0:42:59 > 0:43:02something to cheer about.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04Straight after Calgary they kicked me off the British
0:43:04 > 0:43:10and Olympic team and I was prevented from ski jumping ever again.
0:43:10 > 0:43:13For me, getting to the Olympic Games was my gold medal, it was my dream
0:43:13 > 0:43:20and I made my dream come true.
0:43:22 > 0:43:26Eddie the Eagle, a tale so unlikely it was made into a Hollywood film.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27And it's not the only one.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30The Winter Olympics have provided the inspiration for Cool Runnings,
0:43:30 > 0:43:37the story of the first Jamaican bobsleigh team back in 1988.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40Jamaica are back in the bob once again, though this year it
0:43:40 > 0:43:42will be time for the women to make their debut.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45Then there's the recently released I, Tonya, which follows the story
0:43:45 > 0:43:47of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, the American figure skaters whose
0:43:47 > 0:43:51dramatic rivalry led to Kerrigan being attacked prior to the 1994
0:43:51 > 0:43:53Games in Lillehammer, only for her to come back
0:43:53 > 0:44:01and win a silver medal.
0:44:08 > 0:44:11Moving away from the mountains of Alpensia to the coastal
0:44:11 > 0:44:13cluster of Gangneung, there's the ice hockey,
0:44:13 > 0:44:18speed skating, figure skating and curling venues.
0:44:18 > 0:44:21And it's in curling where GB will once again be expecting a medal.
0:44:21 > 0:44:25The men won gold in 1924.
0:44:25 > 0:44:31And in 2002, Rhona Martin struck gold with her final stone.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33She's done it!
0:44:34 > 0:44:37Olympic gold for Great Britain!
0:44:37 > 0:44:40And maybe not surprisingly, it's developed a celebrity following,
0:44:40 > 0:44:45with fans like George Clooney and Bruce Springsteen, no less.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48It's a sport of precision and tension, where emotions must
0:44:48 > 0:44:52be kept under control.
0:44:52 > 0:44:54The British women's team claimed a bittersweet bronze in Sochi.
0:44:54 > 0:44:58And with Eve Muirhead leading them once more,
0:44:58 > 0:45:06you sense only a gold medal will offer true redemption.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12We went into Sochi as the current world champions.
0:45:12 > 0:45:16We were the best in the world.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19There was expectations.
0:45:19 > 0:45:27We knew we had beaten everyone there.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30It is pulling up, is it going to get there?
0:45:30 > 0:45:31I think it is.
0:45:31 > 0:45:33And Canada have won it.
0:45:33 > 0:45:36The British team, of course, crestfallen.
0:45:36 > 0:45:40The dream of Olympic gold has gone.
0:45:40 > 0:45:43Probably the most devastating defeat of my career.
0:45:43 > 0:45:46We did not have much time to dwell on it but that probably
0:45:46 > 0:45:53is what helped us in the end.
0:45:57 > 0:45:59And now they could be the Olympic bronze medallists if this stone
0:45:59 > 0:46:01is right from Eve Muirhead.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04The storm is going to get there and the brushes go in the air
0:46:04 > 0:46:10and Britain win the bronze medal.
0:46:10 > 0:46:14I am still really pleased with that but now I think I have got a taste
0:46:14 > 0:46:16of the Olympic podium and all I want to do
0:46:16 > 0:46:18is build my way up.
0:46:18 > 0:46:20We have a bit of unfinished business.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23You always want to do better.
0:46:23 > 0:46:26We are feeling like we are in a good place at the moment.
0:46:26 > 0:46:29We have been working really hard and had a great win
0:46:29 > 0:46:32at the European Championships.
0:46:32 > 0:46:36Scotland the gold medallists here in Switzerland.
0:46:36 > 0:46:40The gold medal at the Olympics is the only gold medal I am
0:46:40 > 0:46:45missing in my collection, so for me it would mean a lot
0:46:45 > 0:46:48of very, very hard work has paid off.
0:46:48 > 0:46:52I have put in a tonne of work to get to the position I am in just now.
0:46:52 > 0:47:00To stand on top of the podium would be something extra, extra special.
0:47:02 > 0:47:04Eve's younger brother Thomas witnessed her last special moment
0:47:04 > 0:47:06from afar, but it's impact was no less profound.
0:47:06 > 0:47:11I was at home at university in Edinburgh and I can remember this
0:47:11 > 0:47:15moment watching her throw the last stone for the bronze medal
0:47:15 > 0:47:19and it gave me a real buzz inside and I thought,
0:47:19 > 0:47:26I want to be on that stage and competing at the Olympics.
0:47:26 > 0:47:31Four years on he is fulfilling the Olympic dream.
0:47:31 > 0:47:34Alongside Kyle Waddell, Cammy Smith and brother
0:47:34 > 0:47:37Kyle Smith, Thomas is part of an all-new men's line-up.
0:47:37 > 0:47:41After David Murdoch's rink won silver in Sochi,
0:47:41 > 0:47:47expectations will be high.
0:47:47 > 0:47:55It's all about how well we perform that week.
0:47:58 > 0:48:04He's quite an analytical skip.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07If he thinks he will need your help he will always ask.
0:48:07 > 0:48:10We will talk about each game after and go through every shot
0:48:10 > 0:48:13and see if there is anything we could have done differently
0:48:13 > 0:48:14or if we called the right shots.
0:48:14 > 0:48:17I have been curling with Kyle my whole career.
0:48:17 > 0:48:19Our fathers used to do it together back in the day,
0:48:19 > 0:48:22our mums would drag us around the ice rinks and I remember playing
0:48:22 > 0:48:24with him when I was a wee boy.
0:48:24 > 0:48:27We started a team together and we have basically worked on that
0:48:27 > 0:48:34over the years and got to where we are today.
0:48:34 > 0:48:38We always saw ourselves as a team that was sticking together to try
0:48:38 > 0:48:39and make the Olympics.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42Because that was always the goal, to win the Olympics.
0:48:42 > 0:48:48I think we have got a chance.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52We have given ourselves the best chance and the work we have done
0:48:52 > 0:48:55to build up to this event, I'm just itching to go.
0:48:55 > 0:49:03I hope everything comes together for us at the right time.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06So impressive, isn't it, the dedication of Eve and Kyle
0:49:06 > 0:49:09and all the curlers - and so aware of the narrow margins
0:49:09 > 0:49:11between success and failure.
0:49:11 > 0:49:15And they may not yet be household names, but it only takes a moment
0:49:15 > 0:49:18Just ask Jenny Jones.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20Next up, Jenny Jones.
0:49:20 > 0:49:21Currently lying in fifth.
0:49:21 > 0:49:24I cannot look.
0:49:24 > 0:49:25She is a battler.
0:49:25 > 0:49:28A champion.
0:49:30 > 0:49:31Yes!
0:49:31 > 0:49:34Beautiful Jones!
0:49:34 > 0:49:41Great grab, looking very, very solid for Jenny Jones.
0:49:45 > 0:49:52Jenny Jones has just taken Britain's first ever Olympic medal on snow.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54Absolutely amazing, I cannot believe it.
0:49:54 > 0:50:01What would you say to your mum and dad?
0:50:06 > 0:50:09Competing for a place in the GB squad four years ago
0:50:09 > 0:50:13was a young Katie Ormerod.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15And she used the disappointment of not getting in
0:50:15 > 0:50:16to fuel her ambition.
0:50:16 > 0:50:24Jenny has been to meet her.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40All I've been thinking about is this Olympics.
0:50:40 > 0:50:41It's so exciting.
0:50:41 > 0:50:43It's really stressful now as well because I'm trying to get
0:50:43 > 0:50:46the balance right between training too much and trying
0:50:46 > 0:50:48new tricks but safely.
0:50:48 > 0:50:54It keeps me up at night sometimes.
0:50:57 > 0:51:01The team are just warming up this morning, getting their speed
0:51:01 > 0:51:02right on the kickers.
0:51:02 > 0:51:10Then hopefully they can progress to the more technical tricks.
0:51:25 > 0:51:28I remember seeing you in a dome and I was like, look at them,
0:51:28 > 0:51:30little shredders going around, eating sweeties and stuff.
0:51:30 > 0:51:33Yes, it was really cool, it was that long ago, I can't
0:51:33 > 0:51:39remember life without snowboarding.
0:51:39 > 0:51:43Can you remember the first time you went?
0:51:43 > 0:51:46My dad was teaching me on a dry slope, I kept going every
0:51:46 > 0:51:48week and I loved it.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50We were all trying to qualify for the first ever
0:51:50 > 0:51:51Olympics, how old were you?
0:51:51 > 0:51:54I was 15.
0:51:54 > 0:51:56So young.
0:51:56 > 0:52:00I was so gutted.
0:52:00 > 0:52:03I think I missed out by one or two spots.
0:52:03 > 0:52:06It was so close.
0:52:06 > 0:52:09I was really sad for a couple of weeks but I put it
0:52:09 > 0:52:12behind me and was like right, I just want to watch it
0:52:12 > 0:52:15and watch my team-mates do well and I really enjoyed watching it,
0:52:15 > 0:52:18it was cool.
0:52:18 > 0:52:20You had a few injuries.
0:52:20 > 0:52:24But that is part and parcel of snowboarding.
0:52:24 > 0:52:30When we came out to watch you in Sierra Nevada what happened?
0:52:30 > 0:52:33It was the world champs and I just dropped in for the first rung
0:52:33 > 0:52:36of the second training day and got the speed completely wrong
0:52:36 > 0:52:39and caught my heel edge on the landing and went smack.
0:52:39 > 0:52:42I ended up breaking my back which is not that cool.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45I love that you are laughing in the same sentence as you say
0:52:45 > 0:52:48you broke your back.
0:52:48 > 0:52:50It's crazy but luckily it was really minor,
0:52:50 > 0:52:58I got away with it and I am back to full strength now.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05Looks like she is ramping up her tricks.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07It's amazing to see the progression of women's riding.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10Tricks you were winning with four years ago probably wouldn't even put
0:53:10 > 0:53:14you on the podium now.
0:53:14 > 0:53:18How was that?
0:53:18 > 0:53:21She's happy!
0:53:23 > 0:53:25Last season Katie really made her mark winning the first
0:53:25 > 0:53:33World Cup event and securing a brilliant X Games bronze medal.
0:53:38 > 0:53:41Going to the Olympics this time, we've got slopestyle and big air,
0:53:41 > 0:53:49do you feel you are stronger in one than the other?
0:53:50 > 0:53:53I got more big air World Cup podiums last season
0:53:53 > 0:53:55than slopestyle but I got bronze at X Games in slopestyle
0:53:55 > 0:53:57so I think it evens out.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59Slopestyle is, you could say more chances of it going wrong
0:53:59 > 0:54:02which is harder than big air, because that is just one
0:54:02 > 0:54:04drop instead of three jumps and four rails.
0:54:04 > 0:54:07Let's say you are at the Olympics, you get the result you want
0:54:07 > 0:54:09and come away with a medal.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11How do you feel you will be affected by that after?
0:54:11 > 0:54:14I think it will change my life a little bit.
0:54:14 > 0:54:15Are you ready for it?
0:54:15 > 0:54:16Yeah, hopefully I get a medal.
0:54:16 > 0:54:18And see what the future brings.
0:54:18 > 0:54:19I am rooting for you.
0:54:19 > 0:54:25Thanks!
0:54:25 > 0:54:29But desperate news, earlier today it was confirmed Katie has
0:54:29 > 0:54:31fractured her right heel bone in a training fall and
0:54:31 > 0:54:36is out of these Games.
0:54:36 > 0:54:39There's no doubt that the Winter Olympics as a whole has benefited
0:54:39 > 0:54:42hugely by boosting the traditional sports with the X Games events.
0:54:42 > 0:54:46And one of the stars in the men's snowboard is going to be
0:54:46 > 0:54:48the legendary American Shaun White, who has the best nickname
0:54:48 > 0:54:50of all - The Flying Tomato.
0:54:50 > 0:54:52He qualified for these, his fourth Olympic Games,
0:54:52 > 0:54:55very much at the last minute.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58He had a bad injury in October, but he came through in January
0:54:58 > 0:55:01at the qualifying event in Snowmass, Colorado with the
0:55:01 > 0:55:07perfect score of 100.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10Meanwhile, on skis there are high hopes for a lad from Sheffield,
0:55:10 > 0:55:16as Tim Warwood found out when he went to meet James Woods.
0:55:16 > 0:55:18You do it because you love it.
0:55:18 > 0:55:24That is why we got into it.
0:55:24 > 0:55:27The mountain is like a blank canvas for you to show yourself.
0:55:30 > 0:55:35For those that don't know, where did it start for you?
0:55:35 > 0:55:38I am a kid from Sheffield and none of my family
0:55:38 > 0:55:42were into skiing or snowboarding, we did not know anything about it.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45There was a dry slope in Sheffield and my mum found a free skiing
0:55:45 > 0:55:48and snowboarding lesson in the newspaper.
0:55:48 > 0:55:54I went and tried it and just went, every day.
0:55:54 > 0:55:57I am James Woods, I got silver in ski cross and boarding half pipe.
0:56:04 > 0:56:07I am James Woods, I got silver in ski cross and gold in half pipe.
0:56:07 > 0:56:09I remember my first skiing and snowboarding idols,
0:56:09 > 0:56:11they were the local guys in Sheffield and that
0:56:11 > 0:56:13is how it works.
0:56:13 > 0:56:14It's the skate park mentality.
0:56:14 > 0:56:15Those guys brought me up.
0:56:15 > 0:56:18X Games is kind of freestyle skiing and snowboarding,
0:56:18 > 0:56:21that was the Olympics at the time that you aspired to?
0:56:21 > 0:56:29We are brand-new to the Olympics.
0:56:36 > 0:56:39I did not grow up staring the Olympics down as the ultimate goal,
0:56:39 > 0:56:42the end goal because I genuinely didn't even think I would
0:56:42 > 0:56:43be in the running.
0:56:43 > 0:56:46It was as big a surprise for me as it was for you,
0:56:46 > 0:56:48anybody that got into the Olympics.
0:56:48 > 0:56:49Beautiful run from James Woods.
0:56:49 > 0:56:53Now it is Great Britain.
0:56:53 > 0:56:56I am wearing this kit and it's very different everything I have done.
0:56:56 > 0:56:59Freestyle skiing is an image, if you look good you feel good
0:56:59 > 0:57:02and if you feel good you ski good.
0:57:02 > 0:57:03That's a good philosophy.
0:57:03 > 0:57:04How is it wearing a uniform?
0:57:04 > 0:57:05It's weird.
0:57:05 > 0:57:11It's strange.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14Conforming and being part of the team, it is strange.
0:57:14 > 0:57:15It's the Olympics.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18It hits home, I am not doing this for me or my personal gain.
0:57:18 > 0:57:21Of course I am and in a way I am a competitive person
0:57:21 > 0:57:24and want to do the best I can do.
0:57:24 > 0:57:27You see a challenge and you get the eye of the Tiger, don't you?
0:57:27 > 0:57:29But the whole representing your country side of it,
0:57:29 > 0:57:31what the Olympics represents, that is the biggest thing
0:57:31 > 0:57:33I could take out of Sochi.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35Considering how hard he's had to work off the back
0:57:35 > 0:57:38and a painful hip injury, he will be pleased with that result,
0:57:38 > 0:57:39good enough for fifth.
0:57:39 > 0:57:43If you win a gold medal at the Olympics it is a life changer.
0:57:43 > 0:57:47It is cool, it is sick.
0:57:47 > 0:57:53I'm a kid from Sheffield who just loves something.
0:57:53 > 0:58:01That is where I come from and that is who I am.
0:58:03 > 0:58:05It would be sick to influence and inspire some people.
0:58:05 > 0:58:10I love skiing more than anything.
0:58:10 > 0:58:12I love charging, I will ski forever.
0:58:12 > 0:58:16So 59 British athletes in action - and we've got a bit of everything.
0:58:16 > 0:58:18From the calm consistency of curling, to the bone-shuddering
0:58:18 > 0:58:21speed of skeleton.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24The sharp edges and sharp elbows of short-track,
0:58:24 > 0:58:26and the finesse of figure-skating.
0:58:26 > 0:58:30There is so much variety, so much excitement.
0:58:30 > 0:58:33The Opening Ceremony takes place over there, and I can't wait.
0:58:33 > 0:58:41It's time for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
0:58:46 > 0:58:49ROCK MUSIC
0:59:25 > 0:59:31ROCK MUSIC