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What a great day for this team. And | 0:01:23 | 0:01:35 | |
there is Bishoo McNeill. -- Mica
McNeill. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:43 | |
They've been crowdfunded to get
to Pyeongchang and now Mica McNeill | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
and Mica Moore stand just 0.16
seconds away from a bronze | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
medal after two runs
of the women's bobsleigh. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
It's an extraordinary
story because they are | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
the ultimate underdogs... | 0:01:52 | 0:01:53 | |
We will see their third round at
11:40am. That is all coming up live | 0:01:53 | 0:01:58 | |
this morning. But it has been a
really interesting night in the | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
curling. My first question is, did
you sleep at all? Not much last | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
night at all. Two very tense games
to watch. And we will shake you the | 0:02:07 | 0:02:13 | |
highlights of those, in case you
haven't seen them yet, but this is | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
what's coming up on BBC One between
now and 1pm. As Rhona mentioned, the | 0:02:17 | 0:02:23 | |
great British men and women both
involved in crucial games last | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
night. We will show you how they got
on, battling for places in the | 0:02:27 | 0:02:32 | |
semifinals.
And in the team sprint, the | 0:02:32 | 0:02:39 | |
Norwegian is going for one more
medal to become the most decorated | 0:02:39 | 0:02:45 | |
Olympian of all time. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:50 | |
Up, up and away
with the event that's | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
got everyone talking -
it was qualification day | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
for the men in Big Air. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:57 | |
You've got to see it to believe it. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
The Dutch can double up in the men's
and women's team skating. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
Leading the way for them
will be superstars Ireen | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
Wust and Sven Kramer. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
Flying down the mountain at full
force, Lindsay Vonn was trying | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
to regain the downhill title
she last won in Vancouver. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
And in a couple of hours,
we'll be heading off | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
to the Sliding Track to see
if the two M's - Mica and Mica - | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
can bob up the order
in the final two runs. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
Can they make their dream come true?
We will be doing curling next and | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
then we will catch up with the
women's downhill. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
The men's team sprint hopefully
featuring the British Andrews. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:42 | |
Mainly, it is live sport all the
ways. Quite often, there is a gap at | 0:03:42 | 0:03:48 | |
this time of day and there's nothing
happening but today there is. Now, | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
Rhona has lived curling all her
life, she has been to the Olympics, | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
she is an Olympic champion, she is
at how many times world champion? | 0:03:57 | 0:04:05 | |
None. OK, but she has been to a lot.
Check that one! Now, curling, a lot | 0:04:05 | 0:04:13 | |
of different things can happen. Just
explain it. It's simple. They just | 0:04:13 | 0:04:19 | |
need to win. That simple. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
explain it. It's simple. They just
need to win. That simple. Here is | 0:04:23 | 0:04:24 | |
how the standings where for the
women going into their final game. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
As you can see, South Korea have
already qualified. Sweden are in | 0:04:28 | 0:04:32 | |
second with five wins but also with
five wins we have got Great Britain | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
and Japan. So, they were up against
Canada. Now, Canada have had a bit | 0:04:36 | 0:04:43 | |
of a shocker. If they could beat
Canada, Canada would be out. This is | 0:04:43 | 0:04:48 | |
the end of end three and Rhona,
Canadians? We have got the hammer at | 0:04:48 | 0:04:58 | |
this end so Great Britain are one
down and need to try to sport to you | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
at this end with a hammer. But
Canada are really putting the | 0:05:01 | 0:05:06 | |
pressure on Great Britain here. It
just comes up short. So, Canada do | 0:05:06 | 0:05:13 | |
light to but even has got room to
draw into that. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:22 | |
draw into that. Anna Sloan standing
with the brush to mark the spot at | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
which she once Eve Muirhead to aim.
You have coached Eve Muirhead for | 0:05:27 | 0:05:33 | |
four years. She seems to be someone
who loves pressure. She does. She | 0:05:33 | 0:05:39 | |
leaves herself big shots and it's
always in the latter half of the | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
game. She keeps things tight and
then goes for it. Just a wee bit | 0:05:43 | 0:05:49 | |
heavy there, Canada sweeping and
Canada steal one. So, as we move | 0:05:49 | 0:05:54 | |
into the eighth end, the pressure is
on. And Canada, still with back to | 0:05:54 | 0:06:01 | |
stone advantage, so leading 4-2.
Yes, and British have tried every | 0:06:01 | 0:06:07 | |
end with the hammer and haven't
managed to score their two. They | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
have played a clinical end here to
try to score two. Eve going for a | 0:06:11 | 0:06:21 | |
really important hit and roll here
to put the pressure on Canada | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
because she has that second counter
on the head and she plays a | 0:06:25 | 0:06:30 | |
fantastic hit and roll. It means
Canada struggle to remove that and | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
keep their encounter in the house.
So she plays it to perfection. It | 0:06:34 | 0:06:39 | |
rolls right over on top and lies
short. So, it's not easy but Canada | 0:06:39 | 0:06:46 | |
to remove and keep your shooter in
the house. They tried to hold it, | 0:06:46 | 0:06:53 | |
but, no, so they roll out and leave
even with an open draw or two. And | 0:06:53 | 0:06:59 | |
she had been waiting for a while to
get back, G? Yes, it's about | 0:06:59 | 0:07:06 | |
constantly trying to force that
error from your opposition and the | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
great thing here is that as soon as
Canada made a mistake, Great Britain | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
capitalised. This is a lovely draw
for two there. And not even having | 0:07:13 | 0:07:20 | |
to sweep too much. That meant that
Great Britain were back level again | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
as we head into the closing stages
of end nine and this is where we | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
will pick up commentary Jackie
Lockhart. She was an Olympic -- a | 0:07:28 | 0:07:36 | |
world champion but not an Olympic
champion, right? Correct. Well done. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:43 | |
So, Eve Muirhead here, you can see
in terms of this shot, the draw, her | 0:07:48 | 0:07:57 | |
accuracy has been left wanting a
little bit in this match, | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
particularly early on. She was short
on a couple. That is heavy. It is | 0:08:00 | 0:08:07 | |
high at the moment. Heavy and hide.
This could be tricky, tricky, | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
tricky. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:19 | |
tricky. By Eve's standards, that
missed by a long way. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:25 | |
missed by a long way. So, how long
is Rachel going to take to make the | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
decision here? They need to come and
sit right on it, the same as we | 0:08:30 | 0:08:37 | |
wanted to do that. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:44 | |
wanted to do that. If she sits on
top of it, bought two, obviously, | 0:08:44 | 0:08:49 | |
does Eve then try to get rid of
them? It depends how much she can | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
see of them. That's why, if she
comes out on top and she's sitting a | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
little wide of it, if she get this
wrong, my point is that Eve could | 0:08:58 | 0:09:04 | |
take both stoned that? Yes, but
there is not a lot of room for that. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:10 | |
Yes, but if she is white? If she
doesn't get this tucked in? She | 0:09:10 | 0:09:16 | |
needs to be high across the centre
line to make it very difficult for | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
us. By the same token, if she is too
high, we still probably have the | 0:09:19 | 0:09:26 | |
draw in behind, say Canada need to
be right on top of the T-line here. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
Stone placement is key. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:39 | |
Stone placement is key. Yes, I would
play a different shot, but only | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
because of the way Rachel Homan is
playing. No, this is what she has to | 0:09:43 | 0:09:49 | |
play, because if she doesn't get in
there... There still is an | 0:09:49 | 0:09:59 | |
opportunity with reds behind the
T-line for Britain to get there. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:09 | |
Just tucked in in the end. Eve might
be able to get to it. She could have | 0:10:09 | 0:10:16 | |
afforded to take that two or three
inches more but they were just kind | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
of scared. She is looking for a run
back of the two at the front. I | 0:10:19 | 0:10:26 | |
can't see the angles from here. They
are not completely lined up. They | 0:10:26 | 0:10:32 | |
are almost lined up. Eve is just
having a look. Got to be careful | 0:10:32 | 0:10:38 | |
here. I think that is Mr Nichol,
head of British curling. I hope I | 0:10:38 | 0:10:48 | |
have got that right. I hope so all
you have no chance of getting | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
selected for the world CBS. Just
ruined my chances. -- I hope so all | 0:10:53 | 0:11:04 | |
you have got no chance of getting
selected for the world seniors. He | 0:11:04 | 0:11:10 | |
has been here all week and he and
his wife have really enjoyed this. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:16 | |
Eve Muirhead have to try to use
those front two yellows, run them | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
back onto the Canadian red. They
will still have a good chance for at | 0:11:20 | 0:11:30 | |
least one, maybe to you on how these
sit. Can she moved both of them? | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
That is a great shot from Eve
Muirhead. She might even be sitting | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
to hear. Eve Muirhead with a
cracker! What a shot. Well thought | 0:11:38 | 0:11:46 | |
out, well executed. That was a
peach. Got the angles right, got the | 0:11:46 | 0:11:54 | |
weight right and, to be fair, maybe
a bit of luck. That Canadian stone | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
just spinning away beyond the two
British stones. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:08 | |
British stones. That really is
telling Rachel Homan I am here and | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
if you want to win this game, you
are going to have to beat me. A jump | 0:12:10 | 0:12:16 | |
in the air for joy for Eve Muirhead
and why not. The best shot of the | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
match. And what has that done to the
situation for Rachel Homan? How are | 0:12:20 | 0:12:27 | |
your nerves, Rachel Homan? | 0:12:27 | 0:12:33 | |
your nerves, Rachel Homan? First
slip from Emma Miskew. Coming in for | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
the one. They wouldn't be wanting
the one here. This will really knock | 0:12:36 | 0:12:45 | |
the wind out of her sales. Let's
release. It looks pretty good, so I | 0:12:45 | 0:12:56 | |
think she's not looking as
nervously, but it will be the one | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
shot ball Canada here and that's
exactly what Britain wanted to do, | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
force the 1-mac. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
-- force the one. So, a wonderful
shot from Eve Muirhead means that | 0:13:10 | 0:13:20 | |
Canada just take the one. They are
leading after nine ends. One end | 0:13:20 | 0:13:25 | |
left, of course, Great Britain with
the hammer. Two to win, one to type. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:32 | |
Then we would be into an extra end
with Canada with the hammer. It is | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
all to play for here. She has no
other option here other than to move | 0:13:37 | 0:13:43 | |
these stones around and hope that
things fall nicely for her. Eve | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
Muirhead still has two to come.
Rachel Homan with real intent and | 0:13:47 | 0:13:54 | |
she needs to give this a bit of
welly. A technical term. This is the | 0:13:54 | 0:14:01 | |
shot she likes though. And that is
out wide. She has sprung two of | 0:14:01 | 0:14:05 | |
them. The point I was making, even
that top yellow for Britain, the | 0:14:05 | 0:14:11 | |
fact she has left back in there, you
could even tap that in if Eve has | 0:14:11 | 0:14:16 | |
got one, if she only has one in
there, it is still protecting those | 0:14:16 | 0:14:20 | |
two. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:27 | |
Canada are lying three. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
What hands do you like throwing?
This hand? It has gone very quiet in | 0:14:34 | 0:14:41 | |
the arena. They are all trying to
listen to the discussion. What about | 0:14:41 | 0:14:48 | |
if you send it here? You could play
the small bomb. I think Eve is just | 0:14:48 | 0:14:57 | |
conscious that she doesn't want to
allow her a draw to get in there, | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
don't give her the chance of the
draw. If she wants to move some of | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
the stones around, fine, you have
plenty of yellows. Just don't allow | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
her to draw around the outside to
come in. She would be really | 0:15:09 | 0:15:14 | |
struggling to sit shot, but she
could force the one. And the girls | 0:15:14 | 0:15:21 | |
have chosen not to come from the
right-hand side end, they have | 0:15:21 | 0:15:25 | |
chosen to come from the left-hand
side across the centre. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:31 | |
side across the centre. I like this.
OK. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:38 | |
OK. Hair less. The edge. She will
want this to come, I believe, right | 0:15:38 | 0:15:46 | |
into the 8-foot. Which also takes
off the draw for Rachel Homan, and | 0:15:46 | 0:15:55 | |
probably forces her to play a triple
take-out. Eve would still have this | 0:15:55 | 0:16:00 | |
one sitting over the other side. As
long as she gets this right. This | 0:16:00 | 0:16:08 | |
stone needs to come in as far as she
can. They are going to have to sweep | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
this very hard, it has not got much
on it. Really got to get into the | 0:16:12 | 0:16:18 | |
8-foot. It has to be biting. A bit
more, a bit more, bit more. There is | 0:16:18 | 0:16:25 | |
a back red as well. The chances if
she tries to do the triple takeout | 0:16:25 | 0:16:33 | |
of not hitting that red are slim.
She wants to draw in here. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:43 | |
A little extra weight out here, or
Watt? | 0:16:43 | 0:16:53 | |
Watt? When she says she crashed, she
caught that guard on the way | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
through, but she obviously doesn't
want to catch that British yellow | 0:16:59 | 0:17:05 | |
that Eve has just played, she wants
to catch that on the way in, so she | 0:17:05 | 0:17:09 | |
is giving it plenty of ice, she will
have to come in and around. She has | 0:17:09 | 0:17:15 | |
still got to get very close with
this. I think she should maybe have | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
played the triple. Everybody has got
their hands on their hat at the | 0:17:18 | 0:17:24 | |
moment! This is it. No more chances.
Last stone for Canada. Last chance | 0:17:24 | 0:17:32 | |
for Rachel Homan. Eve Muirhead
watching. I bet she has got sweaty | 0:17:32 | 0:17:39 | |
palms. I bet you, heart rate high.
Just trying to stay calm, trying to | 0:17:39 | 0:17:48 | |
survive. This is the shots to either
keep Canada in the game or put Great | 0:17:48 | 0:17:53 | |
Britain into a play-off place,
because we are sitting two right. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:59 | |
Here it comes, Rachel Homan
watching. She has given this plenty | 0:17:59 | 0:18:04 | |
of ice. She wants to at least lie
second stone. She is pretty high on | 0:18:04 | 0:18:09 | |
the line. It is starting to turn,
but has she got the weight? High and | 0:18:09 | 0:18:14 | |
hard, this is it, Great Britain are
going to win this. It is not going | 0:18:14 | 0:18:19 | |
to get there. The handshakes mean
that Great Britain have won this | 0:18:19 | 0:18:24 | |
match, a superb performance from Eve
Muirhead and her team, they | 0:18:24 | 0:18:30 | |
struggled all through that match but
finally in the last three ends they | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
all four of them came together, a
superb team performance, brilliantly | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
led by Eve Muirhead with some
stunning shots. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:46 | |
Congratulations, you are through to
the semifinal. Job done? Delighted, | 0:18:46 | 0:18:51 | |
we knew it was going to be a tough
end against Canada, and we came out | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
and played a great game. And to book
our spot in semifinal was our first | 0:18:55 | 0:19:00 | |
goal, delighted with that. How about
the jump in the air? We saw you | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
leaving the ice when you clear that
brilliant shot. I can't actually | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
remember it. When you are in that
zone, you forget about the small | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
things. But I'm glad I landed safely
on my feet! And, you were struggling | 0:19:12 | 0:19:18 | |
early on but got it together in the
last three or four ends. Definitely | 0:19:18 | 0:19:22 | |
was, and kudos to the girls, they
stuck with me and they were really | 0:19:22 | 0:19:27 | |
patient, and I think that really was
the story of the game. We know that | 0:19:27 | 0:19:32 | |
we finish strong, and thank God I
turned up the last couple of ends. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:37 | |
Patience and just staying in the
moment, that is exactly what we did, | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
and we came through in the end. How
tense was it out there, Vicki | 0:19:40 | 0:19:47 | |
and we came through in the end. How
tense was it out there, Vicki? You | 0:19:47 | 0:19:48 | |
had the chance to put them out and
confirm your place in the | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
semifinals. It was getting a little
nervous at times. It was a tight | 0:19:51 | 0:19:56 | |
game, but we expected that, we
talked about that in our pre-game, | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
and we focused on our shots one at a
time and they all came together | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
nicely. Lauren, we have talked about
one game at a time, you have all | 0:20:03 | 0:20:09 | |
said that, that you are now into the
semifinals, so how do you prepare | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
for that now? It is a new part of
the competition, and we will go away | 0:20:12 | 0:20:17 | |
and regroup for the semifinals and
trying commit as strong as we can, | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
see how we are playing and how we
frame that and try to build on that | 0:20:21 | 0:20:25 | |
last performance. Just a comment,
Eve, on the Canadian colleagues next | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
to us here. It is a massive shock,
the women have never not made a | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
medal at the Winter Olympics, they
are one of your big rivals. How does | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
that make a difference of
accommodation now going forward? We | 0:20:38 | 0:20:43 | |
knew coming in the field was strong,
all ten teams are capable of getting | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
a medal, and each team we went out
there and play our own game and | 0:20:47 | 0:20:53 | |
concentrate on ourselves. I
understand how you think that Canada | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
one of the top nations and haven't
missed a podium, but as a team we | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
concentrated on our own performance,
and we will take whoever we have in | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
the semifinals. There was a pretty
good chance it might be swayed in | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
the way things are looking. How
would you fancy that? As I say, we | 0:21:06 | 0:21:12 | |
are open to any team. We had a close
game against Sweden in the round | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
robin, we beat them in the European
final and we always have close games | 0:21:15 | 0:21:20 | |
when it comes to play-offs against
them. We look forward to the day off | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
tomorrow, and fight strong the next
day. Good luck. No more jumping up | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
and down on the ice, OK? | 0:21:27 | 0:21:33 | |
CLARE BALDING: If she is jumping for
joy, we don't mind. These are the | 0:21:33 | 0:21:37 | |
qualifiers: | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
It will be either the Japan or the
USA to join those three at the | 0:21:41 | 0:21:46 | |
topping qualifying. The hog line
violation was right at the end of | 0:21:46 | 0:21:52 | |
that game, really tight until then,
so anything could happen. Rhona, I | 0:21:52 | 0:21:57 | |
know you didn't sleep last night
because you were watching both | 0:21:57 | 0:22:00 | |
matches. When Eve played that shot
in end nine, was that the turning | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
point? Absolutely. It was Patience
the whole game, the British girls | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
played really well, and here at
nine, Eve really wants to force | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
Canada to take the one, not lose two
or blank, and this | 0:22:12 | 0:22:17 | |
Canada to take the one, not lose two
or blank, and this shot here was | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
phenomenal, the fact that it moved
both reds, and Great Britain that | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
two. So this was a huge game changer
at this point. How difficult is that | 0:22:23 | 0:22:29 | |
shot? Any shot in the ninth end, she
had to hit that absolutely spot on | 0:22:29 | 0:22:39 | |
in the right place to catch both
reds in the house, so yes, she had | 0:22:39 | 0:22:43 | |
to play the right weight, the right
line, it was a difficult shot, but | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
she played it perfectly. And it
really was the turning point, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:51 | |
because that meant, going into the
tenth end... That forced Canada to | 0:22:51 | 0:22:57 | |
draw for one, and Eve was more than
happy to play the tenth. There she | 0:22:57 | 0:23:02 | |
jumps, it wasn't jumping with joy,
it was more jumping at the sweepers, | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
to listen to her. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:06 | |
it was more jumping at the sweepers,
to listen to her. But that means | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
Great Britain go into the tenth end
with a hammer, much easier to score | 0:23:08 | 0:23:13 | |
their two, and they were happy with
that situation. So that shot in the | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
night turned the game around. The
shot of the Olympic Games so far? | 0:23:16 | 0:23:22 | |
Not as in the degree of difficulty
of the shot, but shot under pressure | 0:23:22 | 0:23:27 | |
to absolutely turn a scoreline
around, because if you think they've | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
fought through that whole game, they
were always two down, always | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
fighting for their two got other the
only got that on the eighth end. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:42 | |
Friday will be the semifinal against
Sweden. Korea have been the most | 0:23:42 | 0:23:49 | |
consistent team. What do you predict
will be the gold medal match? Put on | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
the spot, I would say it is a Korea
- Great Britain final. That would be | 0:23:53 | 0:24:00 | |
exciting! Exciting for the host
nation as well. Let's take a look at | 0:24:00 | 0:24:04 | |
Great Britain's results so far and
how they have got an against the | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
teams that are still left. As we
know, the Sweden result was very | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
tight and could have gone the other
way. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:17 | |
But Great Britain have faced...
South Korea have beaten Great | 0:24:17 | 0:24:23 | |
Britain 7-4, and Sweden have beaten
them. But it is a different evening | 0:24:23 | 0:24:30 | |
now. Yes, three quarters of the week
is done, and to get over that | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
finishing line to reach the
semifinals is a huge weight off | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
their shoulders. They have done it,
they have played there are nine | 0:24:36 | 0:24:41 | |
teams, so now it is a different
competition, straight knockout, you | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
have to win. So there is no room for
error, and Eve loves the pressure. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:49 | |
The team can play really well under
pressure, they are so patient. They | 0:24:49 | 0:24:54 | |
don't try and win the game early,
they wait because they know they can | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
play the shots in the last few ends,
so they love the play-off games. And | 0:24:57 | 0:25:02 | |
as for the men, pretty simple, they
had to win. They were up against the | 0:25:02 | 0:25:07 | |
USA, and when they don't win, also
of things happen. It is very | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
complicated. But before the match
today they were in second place | 0:25:10 | 0:25:15 | |
joint with Canada, but you see the
USA, if they were going to win, up | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
to five wins, and then it all gets
tight. And I woke up early to start | 0:25:20 | 0:25:24 | |
watching this this morning, and it
seems to me that the USA play a | 0:25:24 | 0:25:29 | |
different style of curling, they
play a much more aggressive style, | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
maybe just because they sweep
intensely. Kyle Smith at the end of | 0:25:33 | 0:25:38 | |
the fourth end here, what is he
trying to do? They have lost a two, | 0:25:38 | 0:25:43 | |
got back to 2-2, and they are trying
to steal, so they played a great | 0:25:43 | 0:25:48 | |
draw around, then the USA trying to
go further ease, and they just miss | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
it, so it was a great steel from
Britain to go 3-2 up after being 2-0 | 0:25:52 | 0:25:58 | |
down. The Americans look pretty cool
in their kit. They look like golfers | 0:25:58 | 0:26:05 | |
or baseball | 0:26:05 | 0:26:05 | |
in their kit. They look like golfers
or baseball players, they look | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
different to everyone else.
Obviously the Norwegians look really | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
different, but there is a lot of
confidence in this USA team, they | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
know they have to win as well. And
that was a great tapped to get the | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
three. Having just lost one at the
last end, for them at that fifth end | 0:26:17 | 0:26:25 | |
to go in and get the three is a
massive boost for the USA. So now | 0:26:25 | 0:26:31 | |
the USA are two up, playing this
eighth end, so Great Britain trying | 0:26:31 | 0:26:37 | |
to build up their two here. And just
catches the corner guard. So USA can | 0:26:37 | 0:26:47 | |
really put the pressure on now.
Great Britain have got last stone, | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
but they don't want to be forced to
take the one. But after that shot, | 0:26:51 | 0:26:56 | |
USA now just trying to lie.
It seems slightly... They are | 0:26:56 | 0:27:07 | |
shouting louder, that is why you
think they are more aggressive. So, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
Great Britain forced to draw for one
against four. Which isn't a | 0:27:11 | 0:27:17 | |
disastrous situation to go into the
ninth end just one down, but the | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
sweepers are on this the whole way. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:29 | |
And unfortunately, it comes up
short, just too many half shots from | 0:27:29 | 0:27:34 | |
Great Britain today. Yesterday they
were so clinical, played so well, | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
but the loss of four, that is game
over, really, just too many half | 0:27:37 | 0:27:42 | |
shots for them. The American fans
celebrate, and that is a huge result | 0:27:42 | 0:27:47 | |
for the USA. But this is what it
means the Great Britain. It means | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
they move down the order to fourth
equal, and they now have a play-off | 0:27:51 | 0:27:55 | |
against Switzerland, that is at
midnight tonight. If they win that, | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
they will go through to the
semifinals tomorrow at 11am, so | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
whoever wins that match gets two
games within a few hours. They all | 0:28:02 | 0:28:10 | |
finished on the same rankings, but
because USA had beaten both | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
Switzerland and Great Britain, they
go above them, so that is why they | 0:28:13 | 0:28:18 | |
are automatically through, and
Switzerland and Great Britain | 0:28:18 | 0:28:20 | |
play-off. And what do you predict
that? I think it will be a | 0:28:20 | 0:28:25 | |
play-off. And what do you predict
that? I think it will be a close | 0:28:25 | 0:28:25 | |
one. I think our boys, having seen
them that their clinical performance | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
yesterday, if they come out and play
like that, can win. They had a | 0:28:28 | 0:28:33 | |
really close first game with
Switzerland, but that was days ago | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
now. It seems like ages ago. So I
think both teams are going to be | 0:28:36 | 0:28:42 | |
absolutely desperate for that
semifinal place. And Kyle Smith | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
needs to pick himself up, because
that was a disappointing end but | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
they can do it and they have showed
in this Olympics they are absolutely | 0:28:47 | 0:28:52 | |
Olympic class. Absolutely, and at
the Olympic Games, what is the best | 0:28:52 | 0:28:56 | |
way to go? Through tie-breakers.
That's the way I did it! Quite | 0:28:56 | 0:29:01 | |
right. Keeps you fighting and
motivated. Excellent, love that. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:06 | |
Rhona, thank you very much. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:17 | |
We are going to focus on the women's
downhill, which took place very | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
early this morning in perfect
conditions, and the star of the | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
show, all eyes were on Lindsey Vonn,
trying to capture the title that she | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
last won in Vancouver. She had
injuries that kept her out of the | 0:29:28 | 0:29:32 | |
World Championship. Let's catch up
with Matt Chilton. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:34 | |
COMMENTATOR: She has had two World
Cup victories, and a couple of | 0:29:37 | 0:29:46 | |
podiums as well, Goggia. She is high
on the Dragon rage, the winner of | 0:29:46 | 0:29:50 | |
the Olympic test 12 months ago. She
had a massive mistake in the | 0:29:50 | 0:29:55 | |
Super-G, which cost her a chance to
push for a medal, but she has been | 0:29:55 | 0:29:58 | |
going well in the free training
runs, and represents a serious, real | 0:29:58 | 0:30:03 | |
threat to Lindsey Vonn's chance to
win gold today. But Three has left | 0:30:03 | 0:30:09 | |
herself work to do. And that is
dangerous. Lucky that the wind | 0:30:09 | 0:30:14 | |
didn't get under her skis there and
cause to crash, but that is a sign | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
of the commitment that she is
putting into this race. Suffering | 0:30:17 | 0:30:20 | |
with a knee problem, she says when
she gets up in the morning walks | 0:30:20 | 0:30:24 | |
around, the knee is sore, it takes
ten minutes just to be able to walk, | 0:30:24 | 0:30:28 | |
and climbing the stairs is an issue,
but when she gets to the start gate, | 0:30:28 | 0:30:32 | |
she forgets all about it. It full
focus. She has just flown 25 metres, | 0:30:32 | 0:30:38 | |
and that is a good job, and it has
put Goggia right back in the Chase | 0:30:38 | 0:30:43 | |
here. 94 kilometres per hour, Bencic
celebrates beyond the 100 mark, | 0:30:43 | 0:30:49 | |
towards 104 kilometres per hour.
Smooth, accurate terms for Sofia | 0:30:49 | 0:30:54 | |
Goggia, the 25 you rolled Italian,
she hits that control gate, and the | 0:30:54 | 0:30:59 | |
next split it has got slightly
better for her. Goggia could back up | 0:30:59 | 0:31:05 | |
the victory in the Olympic test
event a year ago by skiing into gold | 0:31:05 | 0:31:11 | |
medal position here. It's a
brilliant run from Goggia, she leads | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
the way. It is a big margin in
favour of the Italian, 0.63, that | 0:31:15 | 0:31:21 | |
might bring her a medal today. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:26 | |
Will it be gold? This was one of the
risky moves that Sofia Goggia | 0:31:26 | 0:31:34 | |
polled, straight down onto the tales
of her skis. Incredible strength. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:39 | |
Lindsay Vonn is already a ski racing
legend, whatever happens today, the | 0:31:39 | 0:31:45 | |
most successful female ski racer of
all time. 81 World Cup victories. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:50 | |
She is chasing victory as she looks
to hunt down the all-time record. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:57 | |
She could add another couple of
World Cup wins at the end of this | 0:31:57 | 0:32:01 | |
season, maybe return at the start of
next and beat the record of 86. The | 0:32:01 | 0:32:06 | |
focus this season has been all about
today, the Olympic downhill | 0:32:06 | 0:32:10 | |
competition that she last one in
Whistler, the Vancouver games, eight | 0:32:10 | 0:32:14 | |
years ago. She has trained really
well. She has had an army of | 0:32:14 | 0:32:21 | |
technicians working on her skis, she
is fully fit, she's fast, she's | 0:32:21 | 0:32:26 | |
focused and she's flying there,
standing on the right speed, great | 0:32:26 | 0:32:30 | |
term coming into paradise for
Lindsay Vonn. Vonn is now 33 years | 0:32:30 | 0:32:36 | |
old, one of the oldest competitors
in the competition. Is she in front | 0:32:36 | 0:32:40 | |
here? She is four tenths slower than
Sofia Goggia and she and Goggia have | 0:32:40 | 0:32:48 | |
gone toe to toe in so many World Cup
races so far this season, with Vonn | 0:32:48 | 0:32:53 | |
winning three of them, including the
last two. She is fastest through the | 0:32:53 | 0:32:59 | |
speed gun. Will that translate to a
green light here? Not quite. Vonn | 0:32:59 | 0:33:04 | |
has still got to find time. Half a
second off the pace of Goggia. The | 0:33:04 | 0:33:10 | |
top two separated by .6 three. Vonn
is slightly wide. A straight line | 0:33:10 | 0:33:15 | |
all the way to the finish now. Vonn
is across the line and it is a | 0:33:15 | 0:33:20 | |
silver. Goggia Olesen. No gold medal
in what will almost certainly be | 0:33:20 | 0:33:26 | |
have final Olympic games for Lindsay
Vonn. Let's see what Mowinckel can | 0:33:26 | 0:33:34 | |
produce today. Norway's best, number
19, Mowinckel. Silver medallist in | 0:33:34 | 0:33:42 | |
the Olympic giant slalom last week.
13th in the super-g. She has been | 0:33:42 | 0:33:51 | |
consistent in World Cup downhill
races this season. Five times in the | 0:33:51 | 0:33:55 | |
top ten but never better than sixth.
Two green light to start with. | 0:33:55 | 0:34:00 | |
Mowinckel has had an outstanding
season. She was always one of the | 0:34:00 | 0:34:07 | |
sort of middle order athletes until
the start of the new World Cup | 0:34:07 | 0:34:11 | |
season at the end of 2017 and she
started to show some fine form. That | 0:34:11 | 0:34:15 | |
was a huge tan therefore Mowinckel
of Norway. -- a huge ten there for. | 0:34:15 | 0:34:25 | |
Norway have had a fine programme
with gold, silver and bronze is so | 0:34:25 | 0:34:32 | |
far. Mowinckel contributed to that
with a silver in the giant slalom. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:37 | |
The speed is good therefore
Mowinckel. Three green lights and | 0:34:37 | 0:34:42 | |
then read, but not bar. One tenth a
second off the pace. Mowinckel is | 0:34:42 | 0:34:49 | |
bringing her a game to the biggest
race of this season. The top three | 0:34:49 | 0:34:55 | |
separated by so little. Mowinckel
picked an unusual line into that | 0:34:55 | 0:34:59 | |
time. Can she swim quicker than
Goggia? Mowinckel may well move in | 0:34:59 | 0:35:11 | |
amongst the medals. Can she ski
quickly enough to go into gold? Off | 0:35:11 | 0:35:16 | |
the final jump, Mowinckel has gone
into silver. 900th of a second. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:27 | |
into silver. 900th of a second. It
is a second Olympic medal, her | 0:35:30 | 0:35:32 | |
second silver. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:37 | |
second silver. What a day for Sofia
Goggia. She was the Olympic downhill | 0:35:37 | 0:35:44 | |
champion, the first Olympic -- the
best Italian woman ever to do so. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:49 | |
And it is the second silver for
Mowinckel in the downhill. And | 0:35:49 | 0:35:56 | |
Lindsay Vonn goes home with the
downhill bronze in 2018 after | 0:35:56 | 0:35:59 | |
winning eight years ago.
We saw had jumping for joy and look | 0:35:59 | 0:36:06 | |
at this, Sofia Goggia, giving the
snow in delight. Lindsay Vonn took | 0:36:06 | 0:36:18 | |
bronze and afterwards, her good
friend Jimmy Alcott caught up with | 0:36:18 | 0:36:21 | |
her. Suffice to say, emotions were
running high. You overcame all of | 0:36:21 | 0:36:28 | |
the pressure, all the expectation
and you got a bronze today. Yes, it | 0:36:28 | 0:36:33 | |
was intense and I think mostly it
was intense because I just wanted to | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
win for my grandpa. And it's hard to
process this is my last Olympic | 0:36:36 | 0:36:42 | |
downhill race. You know, I really
want to keep racing for ever but I | 0:36:42 | 0:36:48 | |
can't. So, I'm... Lindsay, knowing
your family, your grandfather would | 0:36:48 | 0:36:54 | |
be so happy you went did your best,
you know? I hope so. | 0:36:54 | 0:37:07 | |
So, I chatted with your dad earlier
and he was here to support cheap. He | 0:37:11 | 0:37:15 | |
didn't care about your time as long
as you knew you went out there and | 0:37:15 | 0:37:21 | |
did your best. He did that, the
super-g, this is how you came back | 0:37:21 | 0:37:25 | |
and that shows you are a super
champion. Thanks. You know, I'm sure | 0:37:25 | 0:37:32 | |
my dad will find something that I
did wrong. He loves to be critical | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
but it meant a lot to me that he was
here. You know, we had some rough | 0:37:35 | 0:37:42 | |
times there and he wasn't in
Vancouver when I won, so it meant a | 0:37:42 | 0:37:46 | |
lot to me that he was here. I mean,
we've all been really emotional | 0:37:46 | 0:37:53 | |
because of my grandfather, so it
meant a lot to all of us to be here | 0:37:53 | 0:37:58 | |
altogether. It's just a really
emotional day. I'm really proud to | 0:37:58 | 0:38:02 | |
walk away with a medal. It may not
be gold and I'm sure a lot of people | 0:38:02 | 0:38:07 | |
will say that I should have gotten a
gold, but you know what, it's so | 0:38:07 | 0:38:11 | |
hard to win or to get a medal at the
Olympics and I'm proud of my | 0:38:11 | 0:38:15 | |
performance, so I'm walking away
very happy. Shimmy Alcott joins us | 0:38:15 | 0:38:22 | |
live now from Pyeongchang, listening
to that live I'm sure it's making | 0:38:22 | 0:38:27 | |
you well up and not many people
would have got that access or that | 0:38:27 | 0:38:31 | |
reaction. It's amazing to see the
really human side of Lindsay Vonn. | 0:38:31 | 0:38:37 | |
Yes, I've noticed that really change
with her over the last year. I think | 0:38:37 | 0:38:41 | |
she's become a lot more accessible
to her emotions. She also -- she | 0:38:41 | 0:38:45 | |
always used to put up this guard of
what you call people wanted her to | 0:38:45 | 0:38:50 | |
be and now she's realised that she
the champion and when you're | 0:38:50 | 0:38:52 | |
champion, you can beat who you are,
to do those feelings. It's | 0:38:52 | 0:38:57 | |
incredible that you spoke about the
men in her life because she has gone | 0:38:57 | 0:39:01 | |
through the divorce with her
husband, she got really close to her | 0:39:01 | 0:39:04 | |
grandfather because her father
wasn't in the picture them, so | 0:39:04 | 0:39:07 | |
that's where all these raw emotions
are coming from. I'm not sure if | 0:39:07 | 0:39:11 | |
they are coming from the fact this
is her last Olympic downhill all the | 0:39:11 | 0:39:18 | |
whole scenario of grieving with him.
That bronze was like a gold for her | 0:39:18 | 0:39:22 | |
today. She just needed to get a
medal. Amazing to see her on the | 0:39:22 | 0:39:27 | |
podium. She has made it clear that
although she won't be at another | 0:39:27 | 0:39:31 | |
Olympics committee is still going
for the World Cup world record, | 0:39:31 | 0:39:34 | |
isn't she? Definitely. She is only
by the way, chasing history. She has | 0:39:34 | 0:39:41 | |
done everything out she can in the
sport in terms of achievements for | 0:39:41 | 0:39:46 | |
female alpine skiers. It definitely
an accessible goal for her. The next | 0:39:46 | 0:39:51 | |
Olympics is four years away, how her
body will hold up. She has gone | 0:39:51 | 0:39:56 | |
through so much adversity and
injuries over the years that I think | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
she's anticipating that for years is
too much, but who knows of Lindsay | 0:39:59 | 0:40:02 | |
Vonn. When she is riding high bill
of confidence, you can't write her | 0:40:02 | 0:40:07 | |
off. Let's talk about Sofia Goggia,
the gold medallist. There are some | 0:40:07 | 0:40:14 | |
interesting testament to her
character. She is a firecracker. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:22 | |
She's never called me by my name,
she has nicknames for everyone. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:26 | |
Whatever she wants to do, she does
it, whatever she wants to save. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:31 | |
She's the most exciting skier to
watch. Actually, her run was | 0:40:31 | 0:40:35 | |
probably the most controlled I've
seen have. It was a really solid | 0:40:35 | 0:40:40 | |
performance. She knew what she had
to do to win gold and she had a | 0:40:40 | 0:40:45 | |
nervous wait up the surprise in the
super-g with the snowboarder coming | 0:40:45 | 0:40:49 | |
down and | 0:40:49 | 0:40:58 | |
down and taking gold, with the
Norwegian coming down. She said he | 0:40:58 | 0:41:00 | |
didn't mind who was -- how far
behind someone was as long as they | 0:41:00 | 0:41:05 | |
were behind. And the first time in
many years Italy have one, so a huge | 0:41:05 | 0:41:10 | |
moment for them? It is huge and the
way Italians celebrate, they are the | 0:41:10 | 0:41:15 | |
most amazing team out there. Every
single athlete stays to watch their | 0:41:15 | 0:41:20 | |
team-mates race. They have such a
good connection, when Sofia Goggia, | 0:41:20 | 0:41:27 | |
when the race was eventually over,
her coaches, you could see how much | 0:41:27 | 0:41:30 | |
it meant to them as the United team.
She is an amazing firecracker. She | 0:41:30 | 0:41:35 | |
is great but the sport, Lindsay Vonn
actually men told her over the last | 0:41:35 | 0:41:41 | |
few years and she beat her very
slightly here last year in a test | 0:41:41 | 0:41:49 | |
event, but I'm sure she is more
frustrated to buy beaten -- to be | 0:41:49 | 0:41:53 | |
beaten by her today. There is still
the team event to come for the | 0:41:53 | 0:41:59 | |
women. Could Lindsay Vonn be
involved in that? There is still the | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
combined tomorrow. As of yet, I am
not sure whether she will be | 0:42:02 | 0:42:09 | |
starting it. With her emotions, I am
not sure she will start. Who knows. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:15 | |
With the slalom, it's quite
difficult tomorrow, it will suit the | 0:42:15 | 0:42:21 | |
technical skiers like shivering but
there is a spot on the American team | 0:42:21 | 0:42:25 | |
for Lindsay if she wants to take it.
In terms of the team parallel, I | 0:42:25 | 0:42:29 | |
don't think Lindsay will started. So
focus switches to Michaela Shifrin | 0:42:29 | 0:42:36 | |
for the Americans. One of the many
reasons we sent you out there is | 0:42:36 | 0:42:42 | |
because we have got the slalom
coming up and Dom Parsons. How is he | 0:42:42 | 0:42:47 | |
looking? | 0:42:47 | 0:42:52 | |
looking? I mean, cool, collected, he
is just keeping to his own. He's | 0:42:52 | 0:42:56 | |
trying to take it as another race.
He doesn't have a big team here. His | 0:42:56 | 0:43:04 | |
family are watching back home, they
became up because they are watching | 0:43:04 | 0:43:07 | |
you. His girlfriend is here working
for Dutch TV so I will be standing | 0:43:07 | 0:43:12 | |
with her tomorrow and feeling the
vibe because he genuinely has the | 0:43:12 | 0:43:16 | |
possibility. There is a place on the
podium, there are about three or | 0:43:16 | 0:43:22 | |
four years he could get it and Dave
is definitely one of those guys. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:26 | |
Good luck with all of that. Thanks
so much was going up to talk to us. | 0:43:26 | 0:43:31 | |
This view, friends. We miss you too.
Now we are going to head live to | 0:43:31 | 0:43:44 | |
cross-country skiing. Rob Walker is
there to explain how this skiing | 0:43:44 | 0:43:57 | |
works and also who she will be
skiing with. Does a moment of | 0:43:57 | 0:44:03 | |
history back for the iron Lady
wearing number one on the left of | 0:44:03 | 0:44:08 | |
your picture?
This, arguably, one of the hardest | 0:44:08 | 0:44:10 | |
earned gold medals of any sport
hearing Pyeongchang. There is beer | 0:44:10 | 0:44:15 | |
can. 16 and a half minutes away from
something very, very special. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:30 | |
They are under way in this women's
teams per in to vinyl. Only two | 0:44:33 | 0:44:38 | |
athletes per nation, six circuits
skied in all, so it's three each and | 0:44:38 | 0:44:43 | |
the only rest each skier gets is the
length of time it takes their | 0:44:43 | 0:44:47 | |
team-mate to ski each of their
circuits. Marit Bjoergen in second | 0:44:47 | 0:44:53 | |
place here for Norway. At the
moment, she is tied in medals, 13 in | 0:44:53 | 0:45:01 | |
total. She has seven goals, three
silvers and the bronzes. A medal of | 0:45:01 | 0:45:09 | |
any colour would bring her 14 Winter
Olympic medals in total and no one | 0:45:09 | 0:45:14 | |
has done better. She would be the
greatest of all time. If you really | 0:45:14 | 0:45:19 | |
want to be a stickler for
statistics, if it was to be gold for | 0:45:19 | 0:45:23 | |
Marit Bjoergen, and she is in the
lead at the moment ahead of the | 0:45:23 | 0:45:27 | |
American, if it was to be gold,
there is no question whatsoever | 0:45:27 | 0:45:31 | |
because she would be ahead by virtue
of one single bronze. Marit Bjoergen | 0:45:31 | 0:45:35 | |
has been sensational at these games,
she really has. And how about this | 0:45:35 | 0:45:42 | |
for a potential omen? 16 years ago
on this very day, a skinny | 0:45:42 | 0:45:47 | |
inexperienced Norwegian led the
relay first leg and it was her first | 0:45:47 | 0:45:55 | |
medal, a silver. Well, Ollie
Williams alongside me, the omens are | 0:45:55 | 0:45:58 | |
good, it all sounds great, but she
has got to get over the line and | 0:45:58 | 0:46:03 | |
there is a world-class pair from
Russia just behind her and the | 0:46:03 | 0:46:07 | |
Swedes have a fantastic duo as well.
Yes, it is not just about Marit | 0:46:07 | 0:46:11 | |
Bjoergen, it is about the other
Norwegian in this team of two who | 0:46:11 | 0:46:18 | |
you see just waiting to handover
from Marit Bjoergen. You also have | 0:46:18 | 0:46:23 | |
the US, this week, everyone in this
mix, they will be looking less at | 0:46:23 | 0:46:30 | |
Marit Bjoergen, more her team-mate
and it's ridiculous to use the brave | 0:46:30 | 0:46:35 | |
the weak link, but it could be that
Neil said he would take over for | 0:46:35 | 0:46:40 | |
Sweden, you can see her entering
your picture there, it could be that | 0:46:40 | 0:46:44 | |
she will target her and try to bring
this bold home for Sweden instead of | 0:46:44 | 0:46:50 | |
Norway and just | 0:46:50 | 0:46:56 | |
The Norwegians are the defending
champions and reigning world | 0:46:59 | 0:47:04 | |
champions. This is a really, really
competitive race. They have already | 0:47:04 | 0:47:11 | |
skied a semifinal just to get to
this big showdown. Julia Bellerin | 0:47:11 | 0:47:20 | |
this big showdown. Julia Bellerin,
the camera focusing in now. This | 0:47:21 | 0:47:25 | |
Russian duo, for all the reasons
that have been well publicised, the | 0:47:25 | 0:47:28 | |
Olympic athletes of Russia have
brought a very young but talented | 0:47:28 | 0:47:37 | |
team, and Yulia Belorukova will be
determined to spoil the Marit | 0:47:37 | 0:47:43 | |
Bjoergen Norwegian party. They all
get a couple of minutes to recover | 0:47:43 | 0:47:48 | |
as best they can. You saw a little
error at the back, that will cause | 0:47:48 | 0:47:54 | |
some time for Slovenia. They look
very good, at the front you can see | 0:47:54 | 0:48:03 | |
it is Stena Nielsen, and we take one
more look here, you can see that | 0:48:03 | 0:48:12 | |
little error, the trip for Slovenia
that just drops her a little bit | 0:48:12 | 0:48:19 | |
further back. This race looks to be
on paper a four way battle, Norway, | 0:48:19 | 0:48:27 | |
with Maiken Caspersen Fall out on
course at the moment. And those | 0:48:27 | 0:48:33 | |
young Olympic Athletes from Russia.
Here now you can see you have Maiken | 0:48:33 | 0:48:41 | |
Caspersen Falla on the right-hand
side, Stena Nielsen keeping pace | 0:48:41 | 0:48:44 | |
with Sweden, and so far this final
is bunched. We are poised for | 0:48:44 | 0:48:52 | |
history here, but how will this go?
We have a whole host of world-class | 0:48:52 | 0:48:58 | |
women determined that the Norwegians
will not have this great celebration | 0:48:58 | 0:49:02 | |
all their own way. Vital work going
on by the wax technician is, it is a | 0:49:02 | 0:49:09 | |
big part of the science of
cross-country skiing, it is not just | 0:49:09 | 0:49:14 | |
a question of putting the skis on
and going for it, there is a lot of | 0:49:14 | 0:49:18 | |
work that goes on behind the scenes
to make these races so spectacular. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:24 | |
Sweden and Norway, little bit of
ground lost therefore the Olympic | 0:49:24 | 0:49:26 | |
athletes of Russia. Yulia Belorukova
not quite as impressive on this leg. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:35 | |
Marit Bjoergen contemplating the
second circuit. Remember it is three | 0:49:35 | 0:49:39 | |
each in total, so now both
team-mates have done a circuit each. | 0:49:39 | 0:49:45 | |
Marit Bjoergen will be going up
against Charlotte Callan, she is | 0:49:45 | 0:49:51 | |
wearing bib 12 of Sweden, just on
the right of the picture. The | 0:49:51 | 0:49:58 | |
Americans won the team sprint, the
men won it back in 1976, and no | 0:49:58 | 0:50:07 | |
American woman has ever won a winter
Olympic cross-country medal. Third | 0:50:07 | 0:50:16 | |
place at the moment with Randall, it
would be a huge day for American | 0:50:16 | 0:50:21 | |
cross-country skiing. It cannot be
underestimated. This is the USA's | 0:50:21 | 0:50:30 | |
last chance, Randall's in
particular, 35 years old. She thinks | 0:50:30 | 0:50:35 | |
this is it in terms of her ability
to finally for the first time put | 0:50:35 | 0:50:40 | |
the US on an Olympic podium in this
sport, but also think about | 0:50:40 | 0:50:45 | |
Charlotte Kalla, she has never won
this in the Olympics, and I don't | 0:50:45 | 0:50:53 | |
think she will get better
opportunity than being paired up | 0:50:53 | 0:50:58 | |
with an out and out sprint queen
like Stina Nilsson. Marit Bjoergen, | 0:50:58 | 0:51:05 | |
as you see her surging up this hill
that form such a dominant part of | 0:51:05 | 0:51:09 | |
this short but punishing course.
Marit Bjoergen isn't always Norway's | 0:51:09 | 0:51:14 | |
go to girl for a team spread. She
wasn't in the last couple of team | 0:51:14 | 0:51:22 | |
sprints, but in this course, you do
a semifinal, so many little circuits | 0:51:22 | 0:51:29 | |
of this course, it demands sheer
endurance, and that is what it shows | 0:51:29 | 0:51:35 | |
she brings in this field. It is
almost like the ultimate rap | 0:51:35 | 0:51:40 | |
session, rewarded with the gold,
silver and bronze medal. Here are | 0:51:40 | 0:51:45 | |
some of the all-time greats, let's
not underestimate Charlotte Kalla | 0:51:45 | 0:51:49 | |
and her team-mate, Stina Nilsson, up
against Maiken Caspersen Falla, and | 0:51:49 | 0:51:56 | |
it was Stina Nilsson and Maiken
Caspersen Falla who took the medals | 0:51:56 | 0:52:01 | |
in the individual sprint races.
Couple of gaps opening up. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:08 | |
Couple of gaps opening up. This has
allowed a little bit of a deficit to | 0:52:09 | 0:52:11 | |
open up. It is Norway from Sweden.
The United States have never been on | 0:52:11 | 0:52:18 | |
a women's Winter Olympics
cross-country podium. They are in | 0:52:18 | 0:52:22 | |
third. Switzerland coming into the
mix as well. But it is the two great | 0:52:22 | 0:52:29 | |
nations of Norway and Sweden, side
by side, locked together in this | 0:52:29 | 0:52:34 | |
battle for global supremacy, a sport
that is absolutely worshipped in | 0:52:34 | 0:52:40 | |
both countries, and the Germans have
a little bit of ground to make up, | 0:52:40 | 0:52:44 | |
disappointing so far for them in
this final. | 0:52:44 | 0:52:47 | |
You mentioned the Swiss, you can see
her off the back there, you can see | 0:52:47 | 0:52:55 | |
her skiing for Switzerland, Laurien
van der Graaff, impressive to come | 0:52:55 | 0:52:59 | |
through the way they did, and they
are keeping themselves in touch. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:05 | |
Look at Jessica Diggins, her face
painted with glitter, the way it | 0:53:05 | 0:53:08 | |
always is and always has been, in
her unique style that she has | 0:53:08 | 0:53:12 | |
brought to this US team, and she has
tried to haul this sport into US | 0:53:12 | 0:53:17 | |
prime-time, and nothing would do
that better than getting on the | 0:53:17 | 0:53:21 | |
podium tonight, and Marit Bjoergen
and Norway, Maiken Caspersen Falla, | 0:53:21 | 0:53:25 | |
just tucked in behind Stina Nilsson
behind them as they head back up | 0:53:25 | 0:53:29 | |
this hill one more time, and the US
still lead. A great effort here from | 0:53:29 | 0:53:34 | |
Jessica Diggins. Fifth in the ski
Avalon, the American, fifth in the | 0:53:34 | 0:53:40 | |
ten K, fifth in the relay, and she
made the sprint final. She is trying | 0:53:40 | 0:53:47 | |
to give herself and her team-mate
Kikkan Randall every opportunity. | 0:53:47 | 0:53:53 | |
There will be two complete circuits
left at the end of this one, this is | 0:53:53 | 0:53:56 | |
the second time we have seen Maiken
Falla of Norway coming up this | 0:53:56 | 0:54:04 | |
brutal hill. Stina Nilsson is
inferred. -- in third. They will | 0:54:04 | 0:54:12 | |
hope that history does beckon with a
gold, and Maiken Falla would already | 0:54:12 | 0:54:16 | |
be feeling this, they will be tired.
They have skied just to make this | 0:54:16 | 0:54:21 | |
final tonight. It is getting colder,
-5 out on the course, but they won't | 0:54:21 | 0:54:26 | |
be feeling that at the moment, they
will be getting a surge of | 0:54:26 | 0:54:29 | |
adrenaline. The noise from the
crowd. Most of them over on the far | 0:54:29 | 0:54:33 | |
side gathered by the finish. This is
a fascinating race at the moment, | 0:54:33 | 0:54:40 | |
the Olympic athletes of Russia are
out of it. This is sensational for | 0:54:40 | 0:54:43 | |
the Americans. It will be Jessica
Diggins to Randall, and as far as | 0:54:43 | 0:54:49 | |
the Norwegians and Swedes are
concerned, Maiken Falla will hand | 0:54:49 | 0:54:53 | |
over to Marit Bjoergen, and it will
be Stina Nilsson to Charlotte Kalla. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:59 | |
They are out on the tracks for the
last time, they can afford to give | 0:54:59 | 0:55:03 | |
it everything here. This is going to
be a fascinating circuit, and how | 0:55:03 | 0:55:07 | |
Kikkan Randall is going to come
under pressure here from Marit | 0:55:07 | 0:55:11 | |
Bjoergen and Charlotte Kalla, the
Olympic athletes of Russia | 0:55:11 | 0:55:19 | |
completely out of this now. We were
worried that the US, having gone so | 0:55:19 | 0:55:23 | |
hard in the semifinal, might be the
ones to blow up in this final, but | 0:55:23 | 0:55:27 | |
instead it is those young athletes
from Russia who have just not been | 0:55:27 | 0:55:30 | |
able to keep any kind of pace, as
frankly neither has anyone else, | 0:55:30 | 0:55:36 | |
because these three are now well out
in front, and it would take quite | 0:55:36 | 0:55:40 | |
some effort. You can see the Swiss
still just about in touch, but it | 0:55:40 | 0:55:45 | |
looks like it might just be into a
sprint finish between these three, | 0:55:45 | 0:55:50 | |
but the Norwegians will still think
they have an ace up their sleeves to | 0:55:50 | 0:55:54 | |
move ahead. Equally, the Swedish
will be looking at Lizzy waiting for | 0:55:54 | 0:55:59 | |
Stina Nilsson -- Charlotte Kalla
waiting for Stina Nilsson, it is no | 0:55:59 | 0:56:05 | |
strategic of when you push ahead,
and it looks like Norway are try to | 0:56:05 | 0:56:08 | |
take this out now. Marit Bjoergen
has won a medal in every event she | 0:56:08 | 0:56:13 | |
has contested here in Pyeongchang.
She is 37 years of age, she is a | 0:56:13 | 0:56:19 | |
mother now, she balances a life
outside cross-country skiing, she is | 0:56:19 | 0:56:21 | |
writing this final chapter in
glittering glory, but is it to be a | 0:56:21 | 0:56:27 | |
gold? Unless there is a problem with
the skis or a fall, you would almost | 0:56:27 | 0:56:33 | |
certain things that Norway and
Sweden will be on the podium, but | 0:56:33 | 0:56:36 | |
Marit Bjoergen has shied away from
the questions about becoming the | 0:56:36 | 0:56:42 | |
greatest of all time. She has
focused on each race at a time, but | 0:56:42 | 0:56:46 | |
her job here is almost done, and
what a responsibility for her | 0:56:46 | 0:56:51 | |
team-mate and good friend Maiken
Falla. She will have the | 0:56:51 | 0:56:57 | |
responsibility of trying to ensure
history is made with gold with a | 0:56:57 | 0:57:01 | |
title defence, and a real problem
here. That is disappointing for the | 0:57:01 | 0:57:05 | |
Olympic athlete of Russia. A snap
poll, and that may well be | 0:57:05 | 0:57:08 | |
contributing to why they are so far
behind. If Marit Bjoergen is to | 0:57:08 | 0:57:14 | |
become the greatest of all time, she
has given her compatriot Maiken | 0:57:14 | 0:57:18 | |
Falla every opportunity. But this
isn't just about Marit Bjoergen, | 0:57:18 | 0:57:21 | |
this is a great race between Norway,
Sweden and the United States, and | 0:57:21 | 0:57:25 | |
how about that from the Americans?
They are closing in on a medal that | 0:57:25 | 0:57:29 | |
for so many years seemed it would
never come. Norway, Sweden and the | 0:57:29 | 0:57:35 | |
United States with one circuit left
too long burst their way towards the | 0:57:35 | 0:57:42 | |
finish. The Swedish newspapers
interviewed Charlotte Kalla before | 0:57:42 | 0:57:45 | |
this race, and she said, if Stina
Nilsson and Maiken Falla eyelevel | 0:57:45 | 0:57:51 | |
going into the final leg, we will
not be that worried. She essentially | 0:57:51 | 0:57:55 | |
said, she thinks Stina Nilsson can
take it for Sweden. It was a brave | 0:57:55 | 0:58:00 | |
thing to come out and say, it has
been all over the Scandinavian | 0:58:00 | 0:58:04 | |
media, and now Stina Nilsson has to
deliver, because there is nothing to | 0:58:04 | 0:58:09 | |
choose between Norway, Sweden and
the USA, currently out in front | 0:58:09 | 0:58:13 | |
thanks to Jessica Diggins going for
that podium at last. This is a great | 0:58:13 | 0:58:20 | |
race for the Americans, it really
is. Jessica Diggins has missed out | 0:58:20 | 0:58:24 | |
on so many occasions. We knew she
was on form, she won the last World | 0:58:24 | 0:58:29 | |
Cup race coming into these games.
She leads from Maiken Falla in the | 0:58:29 | 0:58:34 | |
silver medal position for Norway at
the moment, which would surely make | 0:58:34 | 0:58:38 | |
Marit Bjoergen the greatest of all
time, but this just for a moment | 0:58:38 | 0:58:43 | |
isn't about Marit Bjoergen. It is
about Maiken Falla of Norway. It is | 0:58:43 | 0:58:47 | |
about Jessica Diggins of the United
States. Sweden looked like a couple | 0:58:47 | 0:58:52 | |
of meters are opening up between
themselves and the leading duo. | 0:58:52 | 0:58:57 | |
Having said that, Stina Nilsson
trying to close the gap on the | 0:58:57 | 0:59:00 | |
inside. Maybe we are still going to
have a 3-way battle for gold. Maiken | 0:59:00 | 0:59:05 | |
Falla for Norway. Jessica Diggins,
the weight of history and all those | 0:59:05 | 0:59:12 | |
disappointments on the American
shoulders, and what about Stina | 0:59:12 | 0:59:14 | |
Nilsson? She beat Maiken Falla in
the sprint final, they call her | 0:59:14 | 0:59:22 | |
silver Stina | 0:59:22 | 0:59:24 | |
the sprint final, they call her
silver Stina, always the bridesmaid, | 0:59:24 | 0:59:26 | |
never the bride. Nothing to choose
between the three of them as they | 0:59:26 | 0:59:29 | |
head down to the stadium. The medals
are short, but in which order? And | 0:59:29 | 0:59:34 | |
there is a tussle between Maiken
Falla and Stina Nilsson. Jessica | 0:59:34 | 0:59:38 | |
Diggins did not get involved. | 0:59:38 | 0:59:45 | |
the history books will be written
and they will show that tonight, | 0:59:46 | 0:59:50 | |
Marit Bjoergen became the greatest
of all time but with which colour | 0:59:50 | 0:59:54 | |
medal? Stena Nelson trying to pull
away hair and suddenly there's a gap | 0:59:54 | 1:00:00 | |
and the Norwegians are there. The
Americans will get their first ever | 1:00:00 | 1:00:06 | |
cross-country skiing medal in the
Olympics and it looks as though | 1:00:06 | 1:00:10 | |
Maiken Falla is beaten. It will be
history for Bjoergen but it looks | 1:00:10 | 1:00:14 | |
like it will be bronze. What a race,
Stena Nelson, Jess begins for a | 1:00:14 | 1:00:20 | |
piece of history. And the Americans
have done it. For the first time, | 1:00:20 | 1:00:25 | |
they are on the podium and they are
on the podium with gold. Sweden take | 1:00:25 | 1:00:32 | |
silver and Marit Bjoergen becomes
the greatest of all time but it is | 1:00:32 | 1:00:37 | |
bronze tonight. Let's focus on the
Americans. So many times they have | 1:00:37 | 1:00:42 | |
come up short, so many times they
have had questions to answer but not | 1:00:42 | 1:00:49 | |
tonight. Sloan well -- Bjoergen | 1:00:49 | 1:00:58 | |
tonight. Sloan well -- Bjoergen will
make the headlines, but the US are | 1:00:58 | 1:01:03 | |
there. That is the raise that the US
have been waiting for decades to | 1:01:03 | 1:01:07 | |
deliver. They thought they were
almost out of time, they were given | 1:01:07 | 1:01:15 | |
50 places, fourth places, they have
done it at the World Championships, | 1:01:15 | 1:01:20 | |
they won the World Championship in
2013 together but they had never | 1:01:20 | 1:01:24 | |
done it at the Olympics until now
and it means more than the world for | 1:01:24 | 1:01:28 | |
them to beat Norway and Sweden at
their own game. If you have never | 1:01:28 | 1:01:35 | |
watched a cross-country skiing race,
I really, really hope you enjoyed | 1:01:35 | 1:01:39 | |
that. This is a sport of Herculean
effort and hard. That is why they | 1:01:39 | 1:01:45 | |
collapse over the finish line. If
you prefer your racing on the roads | 1:01:45 | 1:01:49 | |
rather than on snow, I hope you have
been won over tonight. Marit | 1:01:49 | 1:01:54 | |
Bjoergen does become the greatest
Winter Olympian in history with 14 | 1:01:54 | 1:01:59 | |
medals, but quite rightly, the
cameras are focusing in on the | 1:01:59 | 1:02:03 | |
Americans. That is an absolutely
phenomenal achievement. Yes, they | 1:02:03 | 1:02:09 | |
became team sprint champions, but
that was five years ago and people | 1:02:09 | 1:02:13 | |
were starting to doubt how many more
opportunities this great American | 1:02:13 | 1:02:16 | |
duo would have. And how about this?
Surely one of the principles of the | 1:02:16 | 1:02:24 | |
Winter Olympic Games and the summer
Olympic Games is to inspire the next | 1:02:24 | 1:02:28 | |
generation and how many young boys
and girls will be watching this in | 1:02:28 | 1:02:32 | |
the United States and will say to
their mums and dads, yes, I know | 1:02:32 | 1:02:37 | |
about Lindsay Vonn, but now I also
know about kicking Randall and just | 1:02:37 | 1:02:41 | |
begins and I'm going to have a go at
cross-country skiing. This is huge | 1:02:41 | 1:02:47 | |
for the sport in North America. It
takes an Olympic gold medal, | 1:02:47 | 1:02:52 | |
especially with the dominance that
America has across so many sports, | 1:02:52 | 1:02:59 | |
it takes Olympic gold and I said
that Sweden were expected to beat | 1:02:59 | 1:03:04 | |
the Norwegians, they were not
expecting the US to come at them and | 1:03:04 | 1:03:10 | |
win in that style. An absolutely
incredible moment in history but not | 1:03:10 | 1:03:14 | |
just for Marit Bjoergen, an amazing
finish from two American women who | 1:03:14 | 1:03:20 | |
have produced the race of their
lives against some of the all-time | 1:03:20 | 1:03:24 | |
greats. What a race and what a
privilege to witness this unfolding | 1:03:24 | 1:03:32 | |
in the commentary box. It has been
an absolutely wonderful 20 minutes | 1:03:32 | 1:03:37 | |
at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre
centre and that was the moment be | 1:03:37 | 1:03:41 | |
America knew she had delivered gold. | 1:03:41 | 1:03:47 | |
What another sensational finish to a
cross-country race. America now have | 1:03:56 | 1:04:04 | |
a gold medal in the cross-country
team spin -- team sprint but Marit | 1:04:04 | 1:04:10 | |
Bjoergen now goes to the top of this
list of winter Olympic greats. These | 1:04:10 | 1:04:15 | |
are in terms of most medals won.
Marit Bjoergen top of that list with | 1:04:15 | 1:04:19 | |
14 of them. | 1:04:19 | 1:04:27 | |
Ireen Wust is the only one that list
who is a speed skater and she will | 1:04:39 | 1:04:44 | |
be in action later, so she could add
that. | 1:04:44 | 1:04:48 | |
Marit Bjoergen goes to the top
without bronze medal she took in the | 1:04:53 | 1:04:58 | |
team sprint. | 1:04:58 | 1:05:07 | |
Now, the last time a British women's
bob finished in the Olympics was | 1:05:12 | 1:05:18 | |
in... Ninth place. And I was there.
It is about the whole team | 1:05:18 | 1:05:28 | |
contributing to the performance.
There's no way I could have done | 1:05:28 | 1:05:31 | |
what I did in my career without
amazing team-mates. Amy Williams | 1:05:31 | 1:05:35 | |
with us as well, our skeleton
champion from 2010. This is a huge | 1:05:35 | 1:05:41 | |
moment for the women's bob sleigh
and for another sliding sport to | 1:05:41 | 1:05:44 | |
appeal to a new generation of girls.
I think that has been the joy of the | 1:05:44 | 1:05:49 | |
Winter Games this year, it has
inspired so many people. For these | 1:05:49 | 1:05:53 | |
two | 1:05:53 | 1:06:00 | |
two girls, for Mica to be driving
into third place, it is achievable | 1:06:00 | 1:06:04 | |
for her to achieve that which is so
exciting. Before that, we will tell | 1:06:04 | 1:06:14 | |
you a bit more about the story of
Mica Moore and Mica McNeill. It has | 1:06:14 | 1:06:19 | |
been a real story for them to get
here, not just athletically but to | 1:06:19 | 1:06:28 | |
fund themselves, because this is a
team funded by the people. All of | 1:06:28 | 1:06:32 | |
that hard years that we have worked
thinking, this is Olympic year, we | 1:06:32 | 1:06:36 | |
want to go into this year in the
best shape possible and then it just | 1:06:36 | 1:06:42 | |
gets stopped. It was absolutely
heartbreaking. BBC sport understands | 1:06:42 | 1:06:48 | |
that bobsleigh is set to withdraw
funding from its women's team just | 1:06:48 | 1:06:55 | |
five months before the Olympics.
Mica McNeill said she was shocked | 1:06:55 | 1:06:59 | |
and gutted to discover there was no
money left to fund her team because | 1:06:59 | 1:07:03 | |
of an overspend. It was my career
very, very low. As low as you can | 1:07:03 | 1:07:10 | |
get. You have worked hard and it is
crushed. You don't know if you can | 1:07:10 | 1:07:14 | |
turn from that. | 1:07:14 | 1:07:19 | |
turn from that. We instantly came
together with a plan that we could | 1:07:19 | 1:07:22 | |
move forward swiftly with because
the season was coming round very | 1:07:22 | 1:07:26 | |
quickly and I think we did that very
well. | 1:07:26 | 1:07:34 | |
well. I honestly didn't know if it
was going to work. I thought we | 1:07:34 | 1:07:38 | |
might get a terrible response, like
we might get a lot of criticism for | 1:07:38 | 1:07:42 | |
setting this up. But we set it up
and then it just sort of started | 1:07:42 | 1:07:46 | |
rolling. Seeing people logging in to
support us that our boss and our | 1:07:46 | 1:07:53 | |
journey was just amazing. We want to
say thank you to all your | 1:07:53 | 1:07:57 | |
contributions for our campaign. We
are so grateful. We have had a good | 1:07:57 | 1:08:01 | |
few days out on the Ivor Bell so
excited for our season. Maybe those | 1:08:01 | 1:08:08 | |
of you watching at home centre view
quit their way. Nearly £50,000 was | 1:08:08 | 1:08:13 | |
raised for them. A good start. Let's
see the British girls on their way. | 1:08:13 | 1:08:18 | |
Terrific. Clean out of 15. Eyes on
seventh place. Six she goes. What a | 1:08:18 | 1:08:24 | |
good run that was from Mica and
Mica. Mica is starting to become a | 1:08:24 | 1:08:32 | |
really good pilot. They just need a
little bit more horsepower at the | 1:08:32 | 1:08:36 | |
top and by that start. That is all
they are missing. This is the reason | 1:08:36 | 1:08:40 | |
they are flying because she has
nailed this trade every time she has | 1:08:40 | 1:08:44 | |
come through it. History was made on
the ice today with the first African | 1:08:44 | 1:08:49 | |
and indeed the Nigerian bobsleigh
team. Their debut appearance showed | 1:08:49 | 1:08:55 | |
the inexperience of the pilot, but
the bands -- fans were enthusiastic | 1:08:55 | 1:09:02 | |
nonetheless and they were thrilled
that the hair, despite finishing | 1:09:02 | 1:09:07 | |
last. 30 years after call running --
cool running, the Jamaicans were | 1:09:07 | 1:09:19 | |
slightly off the pace with no coach
to fine tune their run. A I have | 1:09:19 | 1:09:28 | |
finished seems unlikely. So do the
key contenders, Canada set the early | 1:09:28 | 1:09:32 | |
finished seems unlikely. So do the
key contenders, Canada set the early | 1:09:32 | 1:09:32 | |
lead with a time of 50.70 two. Not
one of her finer runs, especially | 1:09:32 | 1:09:39 | |
with the Americans and Germans hot
on her tail. The pilot on the United | 1:09:39 | 1:09:46 | |
States have won everything except
Olympic girl and cheese set the | 1:09:46 | 1:09:49 | |
fastest time to knock the reigning
champion of her perch with a time of | 1:09:49 | 1:09:55 | |
50.50 two. That time proved
impassable despite a terrific time | 1:09:55 | 1:10:00 | |
from the German pair, who finished a
tantalising to hamper of a second | 1:10:00 | 1:10:04 | |
behind the leaders. US team-mates
Jamie Gribble Poser and partner Amy | 1:10:04 | 1:10:09 | |
Evans finished a close third. With
reigning champion Humphreys of | 1:10:09 | 1:10:16 | |
Canada lying in fifth with our crowd
funded duo Mica and Mica in six | 1:10:16 | 1:10:21 | |
going into heat two.
For Great Britain in sixth place, | 1:10:21 | 1:10:28 | |
Mica McNeill -- Mica McNeill and
Mica Moore. Mica is driving this | 1:10:28 | 1:10:33 | |
track really well. You can see the
gap is starting to close that this | 1:10:33 | 1:10:39 | |
is the part of the track she's been
doing so well, getting this straight | 1:10:39 | 1:10:44 | |
right. If she comes through here
clean, she gets a little bit of tap | 1:10:44 | 1:10:48 | |
but she's carrying enough speed at
this point... That's another | 1:10:48 | 1:10:52 | |
mistake. She needs to settle into
this run. She is clothing but is | 1:10:52 | 1:10:56 | |
there enough track the incoming of
the Canadians at the bottom? It has | 1:10:56 | 1:11:01 | |
gone green. They are quicker. Can
they put pressure on Humphreys? They | 1:11:01 | 1:11:07 | |
are going to end run to no worse
than 60 with 50 point -- 52.9 five. | 1:11:07 | 1:11:18 | |
Now, work to do here for Humphreys
if she is to hold onto the gold | 1:11:18 | 1:11:22 | |
medal for a third time. Great start.
I don't know if Mica will come in | 1:11:22 | 1:11:26 | |
front of her here but she is losing
speed to the British sled. There are | 1:11:26 | 1:11:32 | |
real doubt say now that Humphreys
will be able to get another gold | 1:11:32 | 1:11:34 | |
medal. Now, is this where Schneider
was stop pulling ahead of Kaillie | 1:11:34 | 1:11:42 | |
Humphries because she has started
losing speed? It certainly looks | 1:11:42 | 1:11:46 | |
like she is losing speed at the
bottom camp at the Kaillie | 1:11:46 | 1:11:49 | |
Humphries. The German pair don't
normally lose speed, do they? And | 1:11:49 | 1:11:53 | |
the Germans go ahead? Yes, is the
answer. This is >> Jamanka -- this | 1:11:53 | 1:12:03 | |
yum anchor. The best person to
pledge will miss the meadow. -- the | 1:12:03 | 1:12:14 | |
first person to flinch will miss the
medal today. She has got to keep a | 1:12:14 | 1:12:20 | |
good margin here as she comes down
to beat speed trap. It is a growing | 1:12:20 | 1:12:27 | |
margin as well. The German has put
herself in a great position and is | 1:12:27 | 1:12:34 | |
currently in first place. Now, the
Americans. They have a 200th | 1:12:34 | 1:12:44 | |
advantage as Elana Meyers Taylor
goes in pursuit of the one prize | 1:12:44 | 1:12:49 | |
that has eluded her through her
career, an Olympic gold medal. This | 1:12:49 | 1:12:53 | |
is why they are in the lead and that
is a big mistake. That will cost | 1:12:53 | 1:12:57 | |
out. That 23 hundredths, I don't
think she will have that at the | 1:12:57 | 1:13:02 | |
bottom. She has lost that into
corners. She will struggle. Germany | 1:13:02 | 1:13:08 | |
and the United States, the two will
be the leaders and Elana Meyers | 1:13:08 | 1:13:13 | |
Taylor has just lost the lead. The
big message though is that those two | 1:13:13 | 1:13:21 | |
are now a comfortable margin ahead
of Schneider, Gribble Poser and | 1:13:21 | 1:13:29 | |
McNeill. And down in sixth place is
the great British pair. Not far off | 1:13:29 | 1:13:34 | |
the medal. Is it possible? It is.
This track has shown anything is | 1:13:34 | 1:13:39 | |
possible. The form book has been
torn up. What do they need to do, | 1:13:39 | 1:13:44 | |
Amy? They need to hold it together
and not do anything different. Don't | 1:13:44 | 1:13:48 | |
get freaked out by the fact they are
in a position they never thought | 1:13:48 | 1:13:51 | |
they would be. We will head over
there in an hour's time but we are | 1:13:51 | 1:13:57 | |
going back to cross-country skiing
because we saw a vocational finish | 1:13:57 | 1:14:00 | |
to women's cross-country skiing,
with a photo finish and Bjoergen | 1:14:00 | 1:14:07 | |
going up to the top of the all-time
greats list. This is the men's team | 1:14:07 | 1:14:11 | |
final. We were hoping to maybe the
Andrew Musgrave and Andrew Young in | 1:14:11 | 1:14:15 | |
there for Great Britain but as Rob
Walker explained, that was | 1:14:15 | 1:14:19 | |
impossible.
Yes, thank you, Claire. This great | 1:14:19 | 1:14:26 | |
race is about to start. If it's half
as good as the women's final we have | 1:14:26 | 1:14:30 | |
just enjoyed, we are written for
another treat. Just a quick headline | 1:14:30 | 1:14:35 | |
on Andrew Young and Andrew Musgrave,
just missing out on a fastest loser | 1:14:35 | 1:14:39 | |
's spot in this final. But they
didn't finish the men's team sprint | 1:14:39 | 1:14:45 | |
in Sochi or Vancouver. Andrew Young
suffers from a condition called | 1:14:45 | 1:14:49 | |
tacky cardia which means that the
type of pressure being put on the | 1:14:49 | 1:14:53 | |
heart head when you are burning at
full space for three minutes and | 1:14:53 | 1:14:57 | |
then stopping while your team-mate
goes means he has had quite a lot of | 1:14:57 | 1:15:01 | |
races which he hasn't managed to
finish. The two Britons doing the | 1:15:01 | 1:15:08 | |
nation proud, a great effort, with
Andrew Musgrave 's thoughts turning | 1:15:08 | 1:15:17 | |
to his final on Saturday. So, no
British duo in here but we have a | 1:15:17 | 1:15:24 | |
world-class pair of very, very young
talented skiers from the Olympic | 1:15:24 | 1:15:32 | |
athletes of Russia. And it's Dennis
bits of on the lead leg for them. He | 1:15:32 | 1:15:37 | |
got a bronze in the 15 K, a silver
in the relay. He leads and the | 1:15:37 | 1:15:42 | |
question here surely is whether
these Olympic athletes of Russia can | 1:15:42 | 1:15:48 | |
put the Norwegians or the Swedes
under pressure? 16 is Marcus Helmer, | 1:15:48 | 1:15:54 | |
a legendary figure in Swedish
skiing, possibly a shade past his | 1:15:54 | 1:16:00 | |
best and coming up now, Ollie, the
familiar red script -- strip of | 1:16:00 | 1:16:06 | |
Norway. They will not like the fact
they got bronze in the women's | 1:16:06 | 1:16:09 | |
event, despite history being written
for Bjoergen. Yes, watch out for | 1:16:09 | 1:16:17 | |
Norway when they handover in a
moment. Norway won't even on the | 1:16:17 | 1:16:21 | |
podium four years ago. They finished
fourth in this. Norway treat this | 1:16:21 | 1:16:25 | |
like football. This is their Super
Bowl, if you like. Same in Sweden, | 1:16:25 | 1:16:30 | |
so it is Norway versus Sweden,
Sweden looking a little more | 1:16:30 | 1:16:34 | |
impressive than we thought. Your
contenders here, the Olympic | 1:16:34 | 1:16:39 | |
Athletes from Russia wearing 15,
Norway in one, Sweden in 16. What is | 1:16:39 | 1:16:45 | |
two in particular as they can mount
the first leg of six. | 1:16:45 | 1:16:52 | |
Nicely bunched here, each of these
men will ski three times, so Martin | 1:17:00 | 1:17:03 | |
Johnsrud Sundby coming in behind,
the Olympic athlete of Russia | 1:17:03 | 1:17:11 | |
handing over to an incredible young
talent, Alexander Bolshunov. And | 1:17:11 | 1:17:20 | |
that young man with the pink poles
and the pink helmet, he is Johannes | 1:17:20 | 1:17:30 | |
Hoesflot Klaebo. He has made his own
piece of history here, the youngest | 1:17:30 | 1:17:39 | |
ever male cross-country skiing
winter Olympic champion, two goals, | 1:17:39 | 1:17:42 | |
one in the sprint and the other in
the relay, and the manner of his | 1:17:42 | 1:17:49 | |
victory as the cameras focusing on
Helguson of Sweden, he is so good, | 1:17:49 | 1:17:55 | |
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, wearing
bib and one, I think he is the | 1:17:55 | 1:17:59 | |
equivalent of Usain Bolt. He has
made it look ridiculously easy so | 1:17:59 | 1:18:06 | |
far. And usually you mean that they
have won by a distance, but he went | 1:18:06 | 1:18:12 | |
out of his way to make those
victories look easy. In the relay | 1:18:12 | 1:18:15 | |
the other night, Johannes Hoesflot
Klaebo parked himself behind Dennis | 1:18:15 | 1:18:19 | |
Betts of and effectively at a mile
jog ended up passing him to win. It | 1:18:19 | 1:18:26 | |
was ridiculous how simple he made
that look. Will he do it again | 1:18:26 | 1:18:31 | |
tonight? He is up against a
different athlete, he is up against | 1:18:31 | 1:18:37 | |
Alexander | 1:18:37 | 1:18:43 | |
Alexander Bolshunov, not Denis
Spitsov this time, and you can see | 1:18:43 | 1:18:45 | |
him, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, on
the right-hand side, and Alexander | 1:18:45 | 1:18:48 | |
Bolshunov looked incredible and
relays, and what will be interested | 1:18:48 | 1:18:50 | |
tonight is whether he pushes
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo more than | 1:18:50 | 1:18:56 | |
Spitsov did in this final. And watch
out as well for the Canadians can | 1:18:56 | 1:19:00 | |
Alex Harvey on the second leg for
them, will they have taken | 1:19:00 | 1:19:06 | |
inspiration from the North American
rivals? No Canadian men have ever | 1:19:06 | 1:19:10 | |
won skiing medal. Alex Harvey didn't
take part in the four by ten | 1:19:10 | 1:19:20 | |
kilometres relay. Remember if you
are just joining us, only two men | 1:19:20 | 1:19:24 | |
per nation, they ski three times
each, that is Johannes Hoesflot | 1:19:24 | 1:19:28 | |
Klaebo going for a hat-trick of
goals. There is his team-mate, | 1:19:28 | 1:19:32 | |
Martin Johnsrud Sundby. We have seen
the first piece of skiing from | 1:19:32 | 1:19:41 | |
Alexander Bolshunov, not the
fireworks we were expecting from the | 1:19:41 | 1:19:43 | |
Russian, who is level with the
German in a roundabout fourth place. | 1:19:43 | 1:19:47 | |
It is Sweden from the French, and
they have got a fine pair, that is | 1:19:47 | 1:19:59 | |
Richard Jouve coming across and
Maurice Manisa cat. A big group | 1:19:59 | 1:20:11 | |
coming together here, Martin
Johnsrud Sundby in third place, so | 1:20:11 | 1:20:13 | |
when will the big move,, and who
will it be from? This is a race that | 1:20:13 | 1:20:19 | |
unfolds very quickly. That fall is
Eric Bjornson of the United States, | 1:20:19 | 1:20:25 | |
a real shame for him. He will hand
off to Simeon Hamilton, they are | 1:20:25 | 1:20:30 | |
really going for this up an incline
that is steeper than it may one | 1:20:30 | 1:20:35 | |
appear. He is third from the left
hand side, and he just caught up on | 1:20:35 | 1:20:44 | |
the experienced Italian. That is a
savage blow to the Americans to get | 1:20:44 | 1:20:50 | |
into the mix. That is pretty much
the end of that. Maurice Manificat | 1:20:50 | 1:20:57 | |
France wearing the number four, just
tucked in behind Sweden. He | 1:20:57 | 1:21:04 | |
scratched from the 50 kilometres
finale for the men on Saturday, and | 1:21:04 | 1:21:07 | |
this has been such a frustrating
Olympics for him, he has won bronze | 1:21:07 | 1:21:11 | |
medal but he finished fifth twice in
the individual races, and he will be | 1:21:11 | 1:21:16 | |
doing everything he can to get on
that podium as we watch them | 1:21:16 | 1:21:19 | |
frantically preparing the skis at
the bottom of the course. For the | 1:21:19 | 1:21:23 | |
relay, Dennis Betts off complained
bitterly that his wax did not look | 1:21:23 | 1:21:29 | |
as good as Norway's. Norway looked
supreme that time around, and here | 1:21:29 | 1:21:34 | |
comes Martin Johnsrud Sundby, moving
forward to join Sweden now. Marcus | 1:21:34 | 1:21:40 | |
Hellner leads the Sweden, and surely
in his last Winter Olympics, he was | 1:21:40 | 1:21:46 | |
33 years old, and he seemed to be
chasing a gold that seem to escape | 1:21:46 | 1:21:51 | |
him, not so after the relay. He has
had silver medals in the relay in | 1:21:51 | 1:21:58 | |
bronze and silver medals, and he is
in second place behind Marcus | 1:21:58 | 1:22:03 | |
Holness. Maurice Manificat, the
Frenchman in third, at the young duo | 1:22:03 | 1:22:10 | |
from the Olympic athletes of Russia.
Germany five, Italy six, and then | 1:22:10 | 1:22:15 | |
the Americans, Eric Bjornson trying
to make amends with that fall up the | 1:22:15 | 1:22:18 | |
first hill. We are at the halfway
stage here. Marcus Helmer, and son | 1:22:18 | 1:22:27 | |
be. They have skied two of their
three circuits, and now it is the | 1:22:27 | 1:22:34 | |
return of Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo.
He is arguably has more on paper | 1:22:34 | 1:22:41 | |
than Richard Jouve. The Finn is in
the seven. Alex Harvey heading out | 1:22:41 | 1:22:50 | |
onto the course, but it is Alexander
Bolshunov and Johannes Hoesflot | 1:22:50 | 1:22:56 | |
Klaebo, and we have Sweden still in
the mix. It is single file, they are | 1:22:56 | 1:23:01 | |
all in a line, and most of the big
names are in contention as they | 1:23:01 | 1:23:10 | |
embark on the fourth circuit. To
give you a bit of context, they will | 1:23:10 | 1:23:17 | |
be sitting at home in their tens of
millions watching this. This is a | 1:23:17 | 1:23:21 | |
huge sport for Norway. Their new
superstar, they have already had a | 1:23:21 | 1:23:25 | |
big day. They hit their target of 30
medals for Norway at these games, | 1:23:25 | 1:23:30 | |
and they have surpassed their
target. The men's ice | 1:23:30 | 1:23:38 | |
target. The men's ice hockey team
reach the quarterfinals at an | 1:23:38 | 1:23:39 | |
Olympic tournament for the first
time ever today, and they will be | 1:23:39 | 1:23:42 | |
expecting Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo
to cap it all off in supreme style | 1:23:42 | 1:23:48 | |
by brushing past Alexander
Bolshunov, but we have already seen | 1:23:48 | 1:23:51 | |
that Alexander Bolshunov has so much
to give, and age. Both of them 21, | 1:23:51 | 1:24:00 | |
and it is that young Olympic Athlete
from Russia, wearing bib 15, bronze | 1:24:00 | 1:24:07 | |
in the spread, silver in the relay,
five times he has been on the World | 1:24:07 | 1:24:11 | |
Cup podium this year, but there is
the man streaking up the right-hand | 1:24:11 | 1:24:15 | |
side, he has his own distinct style
up the hills, and that was massive | 1:24:15 | 1:24:21 | |
from Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo. That
is why they refer to him as the | 1:24:21 | 1:24:25 | |
Usain Bolt of snow. In the last 40
metres of backline, he has just | 1:24:25 | 1:24:32 | |
shown why he is the new global star.
He has won nine of 12 World Cup | 1:24:32 | 1:24:37 | |
events so far this season, but it is
one thing winning here and there | 1:24:37 | 1:24:40 | |
around Europe, it is quite another
when you arrive here is one of the | 1:24:40 | 1:24:44 | |
favourites and you deliver not won
or two, but maybe three. We have | 1:24:44 | 1:24:51 | |
still got one complete circuit each
of the two team | 1:24:51 | 1:24:59 | |
of the two team members, but
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has shown | 1:24:59 | 1:25:00 | |
why so many people in this sport are
excited about what he is doing and | 1:25:00 | 1:25:05 | |
what he is capable of doing in the
future. Norway are in the lead with | 1:25:05 | 1:25:12 | |
two circuits remaining. A complete
change could lead to a couple of | 1:25:12 | 1:25:15 | |
days ago, we Johannes Hoesflot
Klaebo sat behind Denis Spitsov of | 1:25:15 | 1:25:20 | |
Russia and only at the end gently
went past him to take that gold | 1:25:20 | 1:25:23 | |
medal. This time around, clearly
baulk is thinking to himself, let's | 1:25:23 | 1:25:27 | |
not leave this to chance, let's go
and put as much distance as we can, | 1:25:27 | 1:25:33 | |
as early as we can, and make these
four Chase, make them break | 1:25:33 | 1:25:38 | |
themselves of those hills pursuing
Martin Johnsrud Sundby. That is a | 1:25:38 | 1:25:42 | |
completely different strategy for
Norway, and you can see now Martin | 1:25:42 | 1:25:46 | |
Johnsrud Sundby trying to preserve
as much of that gap as he can. Three | 1:25:46 | 1:25:50 | |
seconds in almost any other race
wouldn't seem like that much, but in | 1:25:50 | 1:25:53 | |
team spread like this, three seconds
is a healthy gap for Norway to have | 1:25:53 | 1:25:56 | |
at this stage. He will be feeling
it, they all will. They have skied a | 1:25:56 | 1:26:04 | |
semifinal, and here they are on the
third of their lung bursting | 1:26:04 | 1:26:08 | |
circuits. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo's
acceleration of that very steep hill | 1:26:08 | 1:26:13 | |
has given Martin Johnsrud Sundby an
opportunity to extend the advantage, | 1:26:13 | 1:26:18 | |
and Marcus Hellner of Sweden is not
closing at the moment from second. | 1:26:18 | 1:26:21 | |
Neither is Denis Spitsov in third.
For the other | 1:26:21 | 1:26:29 | |
For the other fourth are the French,
and after this, it is down to their | 1:26:29 | 1:26:34 | |
team-mates to anchor them home. This
is superb from Martin Johnsrud | 1:26:34 | 1:26:37 | |
Sundby. He was given the lead from
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, he is | 1:26:37 | 1:26:47 | |
arguably past his best, but he has
been fantastic today in the semis | 1:26:47 | 1:26:51 | |
and here in the final, and so is
Maurice Manificat, the French man in | 1:26:51 | 1:26:54 | |
his last games, Izzy? And if he is,
is he finishing in style with a | 1:26:54 | 1:27:00 | |
medal. The French are right up
there, and the youngsters from | 1:27:00 | 1:27:03 | |
Russia are coming under some
pressure here ahead of the sixth and | 1:27:03 | 1:27:06 | |
final circuit. There is Martin
Johnsrud Sundby. He has been a | 1:27:06 | 1:27:15 | |
superb ambassador for Norwegian
cross-country skiing. He has been | 1:27:15 | 1:27:17 | |
beaten a few times by the man he is
about a tap on the back, and he says | 1:27:17 | 1:27:22 | |
he is so talented, Johannes Hoesflot
Klaebo, it is almost embarrassing to | 1:27:22 | 1:27:25 | |
be in the same race as him
sometimes. And that from a man who | 1:27:25 | 1:27:28 | |
has stood on the top of the Winter
Olympics podium. Martin Johnsrud | 1:27:28 | 1:27:32 | |
Sundby has built on the lead that
Klaebo delivered. Sweden in second, | 1:27:32 | 1:27:36 | |
the Olympic athletes of Russia in
fourth, and it is the French in the | 1:27:36 | 1:27:41 | |
battle for the podium as well,
Maurice Manificat has been | 1:27:41 | 1:27:46 | |
magnificent, as Klaebo embarks on
this bid for a hat-trick of golds, | 1:27:46 | 1:27:50 | |
all before his 22nd birthday. They
are in the driving seat here. What | 1:27:50 | 1:27:54 | |
can the best of the rest do to close
it down on this last circuit? Surely | 1:27:54 | 1:28:00 | |
this is Norway's and Klaebo's
Toulouse? It seems almost impossible | 1:28:00 | 1:28:05 | |
to envisage circumstances that would
stop Batman from winning. They will | 1:28:05 | 1:28:09 | |
try anything. This has been so
impressive from Sweden. We maybe | 1:28:09 | 1:28:14 | |
didn't have them as medal prospect
at the start of this but they are | 1:28:14 | 1:28:17 | |
keeping in touch, but you can now
see that it is the French and the | 1:28:17 | 1:28:22 | |
Olympic Athletes from Russia that
are just trying to take this away | 1:28:22 | 1:28:26 | |
from Halvorsen, the 28 euros from
Sweden, who has never really been a | 1:28:26 | 1:28:32 | |
force in the team spread. He checks
behind him to see what the gap is to | 1:28:32 | 1:28:36 | |
the remainder of the pack, and it
looks like the three medals will | 1:28:36 | 1:28:40 | |
come from those four, but it is
almost impossible to figure out how | 1:28:40 | 1:28:46 | |
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo can be
stopped. Once again, it almost looks | 1:28:46 | 1:28:49 | |
like he will have a bit of a
procession to that gold medal, the | 1:28:49 | 1:28:53 | |
way he is going. It is a brilliant
performance from Klaebo, because it | 1:28:53 | 1:29:02 | |
was looking tight. He is now driving
up that hill, trying to get into the | 1:29:02 | 1:29:10 | |
silver medal position. Johannes
Hoesflot Klaebo had enough time to | 1:29:10 | 1:29:12 | |
pick up the Norwegian flag as he
ambled his way across the finish | 1:29:12 | 1:29:16 | |
line, a desperate battle to silver
and bronze at the moment being won | 1:29:16 | 1:29:21 | |
by Alexander Bolshunov, the Olympic
litre Russia, and what a performance | 1:29:21 | 1:29:24 | |
from the French. Richard Jouve
building on the great work of | 1:29:24 | 1:29:28 | |
Maurice Manificat, and Sweden now
beginning to become detached. So it | 1:29:28 | 1:29:34 | |
is Norway from the Olympic athletes
of Russia, with France in third. As | 1:29:34 | 1:29:39 | |
now they begin to think about their
big drive towards the line. Calle | 1:29:39 | 1:29:46 | |
Halfvarsson has got to close the
gap. This is phenomenal from | 1:29:46 | 1:29:51 | |
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, he is 21
years of age and he is away and | 1:29:51 | 1:29:54 | |
clear. And how he will enjoy these
celebrations as he comes into the | 1:29:54 | 1:30:00 | |
finish. He will be unaware of the
drama unfolding behind him, but he | 1:30:00 | 1:30:03 | |
does have time to look over his
shoulder. We are watching someone | 1:30:03 | 1:30:07 | |
who is as exciting in his sport as
Usain Bolt was ten years ago when he | 1:30:07 | 1:30:14 | |
pumped his chest as he crossed the
line in Beijing. A global star is | 1:30:14 | 1:30:17 | |
born. He wears pink shades, but it
is all gold for the Klaebo, silver | 1:30:17 | 1:30:23 | |
for the Olympic athletes of Russia
and a brilliant bronze for the | 1:30:23 | 1:30:26 | |
French. Klaebo made that look easy.
He is already a household name in | 1:30:26 | 1:30:33 | |
Norway, and tonight he produces an
incredible hat-trick, three golds, | 1:30:33 | 1:30:38 | |
and he is still yet to turn 22. He
could be around for a very, very | 1:30:38 | 1:30:43 | |
long time to come. | 1:30:43 | 1:30:48 | |
And once again, he makes it look
like the simplest art in the world. | 1:30:48 | 1:30:53 | |
It is easy when we took about Klaebo
to overlook the achievement of his | 1:30:53 | 1:30:57 | |
team-mates each time because without
help in the relay, he would have | 1:30:57 | 1:31:02 | |
been nowhere, without help from
Martin Johnsrud Sundby tonight, he | 1:31:02 | 1:31:05 | |
would have been nowhere, but it is
the style with which he finishes | 1:31:05 | 1:31:10 | |
these races that sets him apart and
draws that comparison with Usain | 1:31:10 | 1:31:13 | |
Bolt because he brings charisma,
personality, and he just uses | 1:31:13 | 1:31:19 | |
presence, even when he is finishing
an Olympic final and Norway love | 1:31:19 | 1:31:23 | |
that man. They are already talking
about multi-million pound | 1:31:23 | 1:31:27 | |
sponsorships for Johannes Hoesflot
Klaebo. It is their national sport, | 1:31:27 | 1:31:33 | |
he is their national hero. Well,
what celebrations there will be for | 1:31:33 | 1:31:40 | |
the Norwegians tonight. The again
made history with a bronze, moving | 1:31:40 | 1:31:48 | |
to 14 medals in all but gold is the
colour that obsessed the nation he | 1:31:48 | 1:31:54 | |
grow up on skis, on cross-country
tracks almost as soon as they can | 1:31:54 | 1:31:57 | |
walk, they are out on the tracks. A
fantastic performance. Norway on top | 1:31:57 | 1:32:04 | |
on the men's team sprint tonight.
And Rob, looking at those pictures, | 1:32:04 | 1:32:10 | |
there really does seem to be, there
is so much interest in this event | 1:32:10 | 1:32:14 | |
and so much respect for these
athletes because, gosh, they have to | 1:32:14 | 1:32:18 | |
work for it. Do you know what,
Claire, it has been a privilege | 1:32:18 | 1:32:22 | |
sitting in the commentary box for
both Ollie Williams and myself. In | 1:32:22 | 1:32:29 | |
every single race apart from when it
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, the man | 1:32:29 | 1:32:33 | |
with the pink shades, everybody else
collapses over the line. It's the | 1:32:33 | 1:32:39 | |
ultimate all-round test of your
upper body as well as your legs | 1:32:39 | 1:32:42 | |
aren't the only person I've ever
seen, crossed the finish line and | 1:32:42 | 1:32:45 | |
not collapse in a heap is Johannes
Hoesflot Klaebo, who is now a | 1:32:45 | 1:32:50 | |
three-time Winter Olympic champion
at the age of 21. It is so much | 1:32:50 | 1:32:53 | |
harder than it may appear, this
board, Claire, it really, really is. | 1:32:53 | 1:32:58 | |
They earn every ounce of the medals
they are presented with on the | 1:32:58 | 1:33:02 | |
podium and there is a great esprit
de corps with these men and women, | 1:33:02 | 1:33:07 | |
Claire, because I think they are all
aware of how hard everyone else's | 1:33:07 | 1:33:11 | |
working. So, yes, there's a little
bit of needle between the Norwegians | 1:33:11 | 1:33:17 | |
and the Swedes sometimes, but there
is enormous mutual respect between | 1:33:17 | 1:33:20 | |
these men and women. They know how
hard their sport is. Believe me, it | 1:33:20 | 1:33:24 | |
looks like it as well and that is
why we should respect what Andrew | 1:33:24 | 1:33:29 | |
Musgrave has achieved in these
games, finishing seventh in the | 1:33:29 | 1:33:34 | |
skiathlon, best finish ever the
British cross-country skier. But he | 1:33:34 | 1:33:37 | |
and Andrew Young teamed up for the
team sprint and went out in the | 1:33:37 | 1:33:44 | |
semifinals. Give us more detail on
that. I don't think it was about | 1:33:44 | 1:33:50 | |
performance, Claire, because they
went in the first semifinal, | 1:33:50 | 1:33:54 | |
finished in sixth place and the way
these events work, you have two from | 1:33:54 | 1:33:57 | |
each semifinal plus six fastest
losers in all, so they were in a | 1:33:57 | 1:34:04 | |
spot after the first semifinal, they
just missed out on a spot in the | 1:34:04 | 1:34:08 | |
final, but to put this in context,
Andrew Young has a condition called | 1:34:08 | 1:34:13 | |
tacky cardia which means it's very
difficult by him to get his post | 1:34:13 | 1:34:18 | |
back under control if he is doing
interval efforts and this is an | 1:34:18 | 1:34:21 | |
event where you share intervals with
your compatriots, going hard for | 1:34:21 | 1:34:26 | |
three minutes and waiting for three
minutes. They weren't able to finish | 1:34:26 | 1:34:30 | |
their semifinal in the team sprint
in Vancouver or Suchy, so the fact | 1:34:30 | 1:34:35 | |
they were in with a shout at a
fastest loser spot shows progress. | 1:34:35 | 1:34:40 | |
And the fact they are both
three-time Winter Olympians, Andrew | 1:34:40 | 1:34:43 | |
Musgrave what have another chance in
the 50 K, and he has done a huge | 1:34:43 | 1:34:48 | |
amount, they both have, to further
the cause of cross-country skiing. | 1:34:48 | 1:34:55 | |
You would have thought British skier
would finish in the top ten ten | 1:34:55 | 1:35:00 | |
years ago. He was seventh in the
skiathlon and maybe there is more to | 1:35:00 | 1:35:04 | |
come in the 50 K. Let us hope so.
Thank you so much for all your work, | 1:35:04 | 1:35:10 | |
Rob, and there with confirmation of
the results. | 1:35:10 | 1:35:12 | |
So, the medal table, well, Norway
are having a very good day. | 1:35:18 | 1:35:25 | |
Great Britain still in 16th thanks
to that gold medal from Lizzy | 1:35:36 | 1:35:41 | |
Yarnold in the skeleton. Earlier
this morning, we saw the women's | 1:35:41 | 1:35:46 | |
downhill and Lindsay Vonn taking a
bronze medal and she has been | 1:35:46 | 1:35:50 | |
extremely emotional, knowing that
this will be her last Winter Olympic | 1:35:50 | 1:35:54 | |
appearance and she is there on the
podium once again. She has come back | 1:35:54 | 1:35:59 | |
from so many injuries. She lays it
all out there on the mountain. And | 1:35:59 | 1:36:04 | |
while a bit of power will be
disappointed that she didn't quite | 1:36:04 | 1:36:07 | |
go quick enough to secure the gold
medal, another Olympic medal for her | 1:36:07 | 1:36:13 | |
is a real achievement. Thomas park
they're making the presentation and | 1:36:13 | 1:36:17 | |
hugging Lindsay Vonn. And you saw
her interview with Jamie Alcott | 1:36:17 | 1:36:23 | |
earlier where they both broke down.
She is very raw at the moment, | 1:36:23 | 1:36:27 | |
Lindsay Vonn, but that is a
tremendous performance. And Sofia | 1:36:27 | 1:36:33 | |
Goggia from Italy took the gold
medal, Italy's first-ever win in the | 1:36:33 | 1:36:37 | |
women's downhill. And they haven't
actually one that many Alpine | 1:36:37 | 1:36:43 | |
medals, very huge, huge moment for
the Italians. Right, building up to | 1:36:43 | 1:36:49 | |
the third run of the women's
bobsleigh and it is just about 40 | 1:36:49 | 1:36:55 | |
minutes away. It is a sport that,
Nicola, a lot of people cross into | 1:36:55 | 1:37:00 | |
it from other sports, there have
been some athletes, for example. It | 1:37:00 | 1:37:04 | |
is. I transferred from Olympics
myself. | 1:37:04 | 1:37:12 | |
myself. Mica did a lot of different
sports. Most people transfer over | 1:37:12 | 1:37:16 | |
from anything that is short power
and actually the UK have one of the | 1:37:16 | 1:37:20 | |
best chance for programmes which
spans across all sports. I know huge | 1:37:20 | 1:37:25 | |
numbers for skeletons as well, which
means we take athletes who perhaps | 1:37:25 | 1:37:29 | |
either have achieved or they have
specific skills for a sport and slot | 1:37:29 | 1:37:35 | |
them into it. Put them where their
skills seat and we see people | 1:37:35 | 1:37:41 | |
winning medals. And if you were to
sell Winter sports and sliding | 1:37:41 | 1:37:45 | |
sports in particular, Amy, what is
the best thing about that? | 1:37:45 | 1:37:49 | |
Everything! You can transfer your
skills across. It's the excitement, | 1:37:49 | 1:37:55 | |
the unknown. The weather conditions
are so interchangeable between the | 1:37:55 | 1:37:59 | |
eyes, the snow, whether it's -2, -5,
will it snow, will it be foggy? The | 1:37:59 | 1:38:06 | |
extreme nest takes it to another
level and yet there's still a real | 1:38:06 | 1:38:09 | |
physical side to it as well. You
still have to train like a sprinter, | 1:38:09 | 1:38:14 | |
be powerful of the blocks in our
sports. It's great that you can | 1:38:14 | 1:38:19 | |
transfer your skills across from
summer. My | 1:38:19 | 1:38:24 | |
summer. My dream was to be a 400
metre runner but it never quite | 1:38:25 | 1:38:28 | |
happened, yet you can switch to a
sliding sport. And become an Olympic | 1:38:28 | 1:38:30 | |
champion, as you have been. Lizzy
Yarnold was a heptathlete, moved | 1:38:30 | 1:38:34 | |
into skeleton and now she is a
history maker. Britain's first-ever | 1:38:34 | 1:38:41 | |
double Winter Olympics champion.
This is her story. I know I am a | 1:38:41 | 1:38:45 | |
ruthless competitor when it comes to
it, it is me and the track. You are | 1:38:45 | 1:38:50 | |
lying on the sled listening to the
rattle or the vibrations of the ice. | 1:38:50 | 1:38:54 | |
It's just a complete orchestra of
information. You have to be sure if | 1:38:54 | 1:39:01 | |
you go headfirst. Nothing to block
you, nothing to stop you, nothing | 1:39:01 | 1:39:06 | |
between you and triumph or disaster.
You just really have to look at the | 1:39:06 | 1:39:11 | |
eyes, understand what the basics are
of the ice and then on the first day | 1:39:11 | 1:39:15 | |
of training, jump on the shed, go
down and see what it's doing with | 1:39:15 | 1:39:19 | |
you. I haven't always run three
Lizzy Yarnold's games though. She | 1:39:19 | 1:39:26 | |
wanted to be a heptathlete long
before a UK sport scheme pointed | 1:39:26 | 1:39:30 | |
head towards a sled. She relied on
the generosity of others initially. | 1:39:30 | 1:39:35 | |
A work colleague called Mervyn
sponsored her when money was short. | 1:39:35 | 1:39:38 | |
Has led still bears his name. Back
then, Lizzie worked in insurance, a | 1:39:38 | 1:39:48 | |
trade based on knowing what can go
wrong. A sport she is beginning to | 1:39:48 | 1:39:52 | |
dominate is one of terrifying risks.
Lizzy Yarnold has a few terrifying | 1:39:52 | 1:39:57 | |
moments to wait. Everything was
building to Sochi. Lizzy Yarnold | 1:39:57 | 1:40:04 | |
goes for gold for Great Britain. She
hit outside, it doesn't matter, she | 1:40:04 | 1:40:10 | |
will win gold, surely? She's going
to do it. Lizzy Yarnold is the | 1:40:10 | 1:40:15 | |
Olympic champion! Oh my goodness.
Well, maybe she will keep sliding | 1:40:15 | 1:40:19 | |
and comeback in four years, who
knows? I think she will. Within 407 | 1:40:19 | 1:40:27 | |
days of her gold, she had won every
skeleton title there was to win and | 1:40:27 | 1:40:32 | |
then she walked away. I quite
quickly knuckled back down, focused | 1:40:32 | 1:40:36 | |
in on these new challenges and then
realised that I was just at the | 1:40:36 | 1:40:40 | |
point of exhaustion and I needed to
get away. She had a year out, got | 1:40:40 | 1:40:46 | |
married, and then she came back to
it. She always intended to go back | 1:40:46 | 1:40:49 | |
to the Olympics to defend her title.
But you can't simply slide back into | 1:40:49 | 1:40:55 | |
the skeleton. Sweat comes before the
eyes and last year she was diagnosed | 1:40:55 | 1:41:00 | |
with an innately disorder that
affects balance. At the same time, | 1:41:00 | 1:41:05 | |
she couldn't find her former speed.
In our World Cup races this season, | 1:41:05 | 1:41:10 | |
Lizzy Yarnold was outside the top
ten. The lesson that I think I | 1:41:10 | 1:41:18 | |
needed was to respect sport and
respect the day of competition, but | 1:41:18 | 1:41:22 | |
mainly to understand that I do know
what I'm doing and I need to trust | 1:41:22 | 1:41:26 | |
myself lot more. To those on the
outside, the signs weren't good, but | 1:41:26 | 1:41:33 | |
as Pyeongchang approach, Yarnold was
positive. To have the confidence and | 1:41:33 | 1:41:37 | |
faith in this plan that will be
taking me to Pyeongchang, it's not | 1:41:37 | 1:41:42 | |
about the World Cups, it's about
trying to become the first British | 1:41:42 | 1:41:46 | |
Winter Olympian to retain my title.
She goes first. Clearly Lizzy | 1:41:46 | 1:41:52 | |
Yarnold is here for business. It was
a lightning start, run one, position | 1:41:52 | 1:41:59 | |
one, but something was wrong. The
dizziness seemed to have returned. | 1:41:59 | 1:42:04 | |
Lizzie was also struggling to
breathe because of a chest | 1:42:04 | 1:42:07 | |
infection. She was close to pulling
out. | 1:42:07 | 1:42:14 | |
out. The Olympic champion. Can she
make history and win it again? Look | 1:42:14 | 1:42:19 | |
at the gap. She has got half a
second. This could be at least | 1:42:19 | 1:42:24 | |
silver for Lizzy Yarnold. She goes
to the front and how! With that, the | 1:42:24 | 1:42:30 | |
grammar school girl from Kent had
become one of Britain's greatest | 1:42:30 | 1:42:34 | |
sportswomen, a back-to-back Olympic
champion. | 1:42:34 | 1:42:38 | |
And she may refuse to answer the
question of what next, but Amy | 1:42:38 | 1:42:43 | |
Williams, in your opinion, what next
for Lizzy Yarnold? Having not spoken | 1:42:43 | 1:42:48 | |
to her next, but if I was her, I
would go and take a bit of time out, | 1:42:48 | 1:42:52 | |
see what it is like when you get
home and all the press and what you | 1:42:52 | 1:42:56 | |
can do to inspire, go and have a
holiday, and knowing her, she will | 1:42:56 | 1:43:01 | |
feel like she's in the prime of her
life, fully funded on an incredible | 1:43:01 | 1:43:09 | |
programme, she probably will just
continue. So you think you could do | 1:43:09 | 1:43:12 | |
a third Olympics? Part of me says
no, she will stop, maybe she will | 1:43:12 | 1:43:17 | |
want to have children, the other
half of me thinks maybe she would | 1:43:17 | 1:43:20 | |
take a year out, still maybe have
children, and then come back. | 1:43:20 | 1:43:24 | |
Because she is having fun. Laura and
her have fun, they have a great | 1:43:24 | 1:43:30 | |
team, why wouldn't you continue? She
is fit, healthy and strong. That | 1:43:30 | 1:43:35 | |
helps, if you are not dealing with
injuries all of the time at the | 1:43:35 | 1:43:39 | |
tiring nature of that, it helps a
positive about things. Yesterday, we | 1:43:39 | 1:43:44 | |
were shell-shocked in the studio
where we saw Elise Christie crash | 1:43:44 | 1:43:46 | |
out once again than Olympics.
Paralympics is over. No short track | 1:43:46 | 1:43:52 | |
today but we do have long track.
Less opportunity for but we do have | 1:43:52 | 1:43:58 | |
the possibility of some. We will see
the Dutch greats in action today. | 1:43:58 | 1:44:06 | |
The Netherlands against the USA
head. Let's rejoin Wilf O'Reilly and | 1:44:06 | 1:44:10 | |
Simon by ten.
Thank you, Claire. Presumably not so | 1:44:10 | 1:44:17 | |
many video reviews either today in
this long track. The Netherlands | 1:44:17 | 1:44:24 | |
first on the track, the best of the
semifinals in the women's team as | 1:44:24 | 1:44:28 | |
you do. They are up against the
United States. | 1:44:28 | 1:44:37 | |
And this is a straight knockout
here. Away they go first time, and | 1:44:41 | 1:44:48 | |
look at these two teams lining up
here. One would expect the Dutch to | 1:44:48 | 1:44:53 | |
prove to be too strong of this
event, aren't they? They have really | 1:44:53 | 1:45:01 | |
put the domination of this event. | 1:45:01 | 1:45:07 | |
And the Americans are already a
quarter of a lap behind. It is a six | 1:45:12 | 1:45:16 | |
laps race, and the winner from this
final will go into the final, and | 1:45:16 | 1:45:20 | |
then the winner of the Seki
semifinal -- second semifinal will | 1:45:20 | 1:45:26 | |
go in as well. And they have it all
to do here. Nice smooth flowing | 1:45:26 | 1:45:35 | |
style here from the United States,
but they are already falling well | 1:45:35 | 1:45:41 | |
behind to this magnificent Dutch
team, the Dutch have won five gold | 1:45:41 | 1:45:45 | |
medals and for silver in this
particular distance. They have won | 1:45:45 | 1:45:51 | |
the World Championship on four of
the five occasions it has been held. | 1:45:51 | 1:45:58 | |
And the tactics here will be that
the Dutch as long as they win this | 1:45:58 | 1:46:01 | |
race, they don't have to skate their
socks off. They will be saving | 1:46:01 | 1:46:05 | |
themselves later on this evening for
the final. These team pursuit squads | 1:46:05 | 1:46:09 | |
have four skaters, only three skate
in any one race, and Marrit Leenstra | 1:46:09 | 1:46:19 | |
is resting in this one. She could
come in for the final fresh leg, | 1:46:19 | 1:46:26 | |
raring to go. For the Americans,
this is really all about if they | 1:46:26 | 1:46:34 | |
finish second in the semifinal, they
will meet the semifinal second place | 1:46:34 | 1:46:37 | |
winner from the next round, and
skate off later for the bronze | 1:46:37 | 1:46:40 | |
medal. Antoinette de Jonge, on the
front, and the Dutch look as if they | 1:46:40 | 1:46:50 | |
are skating within themselves here.
Very comfortable indeed, all four | 1:46:50 | 1:46:56 | |
need to skate to get a medal, so
what they have done now is they have | 1:46:56 | 1:47:02 | |
put the reserve skater now inshore
that that that person will get a | 1:47:02 | 1:47:06 | |
medal. Antoinette De Jong, and there
is Irene | 1:47:06 | 1:47:20 | |
is Irene vast -- Ireen Wust, with
more skating medals than any other | 1:47:20 | 1:47:23 | |
athlete in history, male or female,
and I think she will add another | 1:47:23 | 1:47:30 | |
tonight, gold or silver, because
they are winning this semifinal by a | 1:47:30 | 1:47:33 | |
country mile, and the Netherlands
coming around now, still nicely | 1:47:33 | 1:47:38 | |
packed together. Working well as a
team. They have been working on this | 1:47:38 | 1:47:43 | |
for months now. Sometimes the teams
are thrown together at the end just | 1:47:43 | 1:47:46 | |
before the championship, but they
have spent some time working | 1:47:46 | 1:47:48 | |
together. And here come the United
States. I think they always knew | 1:47:48 | 1:47:55 | |
that they were going to be up
against it against the Dutch. That | 1:47:55 | 1:47:59 | |
was just like a very good warm up
for the Dutch. There is the other | 1:47:59 | 1:48:04 | |
skater who will skate in the final,
perhaps the coach couldn't decide | 1:48:04 | 1:48:09 | |
which of the four he could select
three from. Just give you some the | 1:48:09 | 1:48:13 | |
Netherlands in their heat skated a
time of 2:55.61, so that is about | 1:48:13 | 1:48:21 | |
four seconds slower than the heats,
because this is a definite knockout | 1:48:21 | 1:48:24 | |
race. They did look as if they had
been Fraustro in the park when they | 1:48:24 | 1:48:27 | |
cross the line. So the Dutch are
through to the final. And as you can | 1:48:27 | 1:48:32 | |
see, they were coming into the same
straight as the United States. We do | 1:48:32 | 1:48:37 | |
see that in team pursuit in track
cycling rather more often, but of | 1:48:37 | 1:48:40 | |
course as it is much smaller track,
250 metres in cycling as opposed to | 1:48:40 | 1:48:46 | |
this 400 metres monster Oval. But
the Dutch were really eating up the | 1:48:46 | 1:48:51 | |
metres very quickly indeed. So the
Netherlands through as the winners | 1:48:51 | 1:48:55 | |
of the first semifinal, and the
second semifinal will come up very | 1:48:55 | 1:49:02 | |
quickly now, and it is between
Canada and Japan. And that Canadians | 1:49:02 | 1:49:09 | |
are represented by Keri Morrison and
Isabelle Weidemann. Canada champions | 1:49:09 | 1:49:22 | |
in this event but not since 2011,
and Japan are the trio up against | 1:49:22 | 1:49:27 | |
them, with me had Takagi, so she has
had a really good Olympics, Miho | 1:49:27 | 1:49:36 | |
Takagi, and they were the last team
other than the Dutch to win the | 1:49:36 | 1:49:44 | |
world title, but have had to settle
for silver in each of the previous | 1:49:44 | 1:49:48 | |
two years, so when it comes to the
seedings and what we expect to see, | 1:49:48 | 1:49:54 | |
we expect to see Japan against the
Netherlands and the final, and it | 1:49:54 | 1:49:56 | |
could be pretty competitive based on
what we saw the quarterfinals. | 1:49:56 | 1:50:00 | |
Absolutely. | 1:50:00 | 1:50:06 | |
Well, for the uninitiated, why do
they line up in the way that they do | 1:50:16 | 1:50:19 | |
at the start? Some of the skaters,
for example the Canadians will have | 1:50:19 | 1:50:22 | |
a slower start, so some of the
skaters prefer to be able to see | 1:50:22 | 1:50:27 | |
where they are starting. You can see
the skater on the back of Canada | 1:50:27 | 1:50:31 | |
just pushing forward. They are
allowed in fact to assist, so | 1:50:31 | 1:50:35 | |
Isabelle Weidemann pushing the
backside of skater number two | 1:50:35 | 1:50:40 | |
imposition. And it is Miho Takagi on
the front for Japan. They have | 1:50:40 | 1:50:47 | |
settled into a very nice rhythm.
Working well as a unit, and the | 1:50:47 | 1:50:52 | |
Canada, it is if any blonde | 1:50:52 | 1:51:05 | |
Canada, it is if any blonde --
Ivanie Blondin, and she is still on | 1:51:05 | 1:51:07 | |
the front for the Canadians, just
under a second slower than Japan. | 1:51:07 | 1:51:10 | |
This is a six lap race. And it is
all about conserving your energy, | 1:51:10 | 1:51:14 | |
and I think what will happen, the
Japanese are convinced they will win | 1:51:14 | 1:51:18 | |
this race comfortable. They won't be
using too much energy, saving it for | 1:51:18 | 1:51:24 | |
the ultimate final, going for the
gold medal. Japan have done well in | 1:51:24 | 1:51:30 | |
World Cup race pursuits in recent
times. They have employed a Dutch | 1:51:30 | 1:51:38 | |
coach, you can see him in the
background there in his Japan | 1:51:38 | 1:51:42 | |
tracksuit. He will be giving them
the lap times they need to skate to | 1:51:42 | 1:51:45 | |
remain ahead of the Canadians but
not give it too much energy that | 1:51:45 | 1:51:49 | |
they can save the later on in the
race. So what we are seeing is a | 1:51:49 | 1:51:53 | |
measured effort from Japan. They
have given themselves of elbow room | 1:51:53 | 1:51:58 | |
over Canada, and on the front for
the Canadians is Isabelle Weidemann, | 1:51:58 | 1:52:04 | |
but you can clearly see Japan have
the significant advantage, 1.76 | 1:52:04 | 1:52:09 | |
seconds, but the speed they are
going, you can cover a lot of ground | 1:52:09 | 1:52:12 | |
in that time. I would say it is
probably in the region of 30-40 | 1:52:12 | 1:52:18 | |
metres. It has gone up a little more
with two laps to go. You can see the | 1:52:18 | 1:52:25 | |
steadying hand from the second
skater onto the | 1:52:25 | 1:52:31 | |
skater onto the backside of Nanna
Takoradi. All those World | 1:52:31 | 1:52:38 | |
Championships that were held here
last year, somewhere in the region | 1:52:38 | 1:52:41 | |
of two or three seconds slower than
the times they have skated | 1:52:41 | 1:52:45 | |
previously. And based on what we
have seen from the Netherlands here, | 1:52:45 | 1:52:49 | |
I think Japan are going to need to
conserve every ounce of energy that | 1:52:49 | 1:52:53 | |
they can. It could be a spectacular
final between the Perofeta. Here | 1:52:53 | 1:52:57 | |
come the Canadians, they are set to
face the United States in an all | 1:52:57 | 1:53:01 | |
North American race for the bronze
medal, coming up a little bit later | 1:53:01 | 1:53:05 | |
on. Just over two and a half seconds
down here, but this has been nice | 1:53:05 | 1:53:08 | |
and comfortable, a smooth effort
from Japan. Remember that when it | 1:53:08 | 1:53:14 | |
comes to team pursuit, it is the
third skated across the line, so it | 1:53:14 | 1:53:17 | |
is no point in doing what the
Koreans did the other night and | 1:53:17 | 1:53:20 | |
leave the third member of your team
lagging behind, because it is their | 1:53:20 | 1:53:26 | |
time that will count, and you need
to have teamwork and not just the | 1:53:26 | 1:53:30 | |
pure speed of your strongest athlete
here, you are only the strongest as | 1:53:30 | 1:53:35 | |
the weakest in your team. They are
still two seconds quicker than the | 1:53:35 | 1:53:44 | |
Dutch, but that won't really make
any difference for the gold medal | 1:53:44 | 1:53:46 | |
race. Oath of these semifinals went
to form, and in both semifinals, the | 1:53:46 | 1:53:55 | |
United States and Canada were unable
to really prove to be competitive | 1:53:55 | 1:53:59 | |
against the opposition, but I think
it is fair to say that we are set up | 1:53:59 | 1:54:03 | |
for a final that is not that easy to
call. On paper you would certainly | 1:54:03 | 1:54:09 | |
say that the Dutch have a good
chance of retaining their title, but | 1:54:09 | 1:54:15 | |
the progression that the Japanese
had made, they are really compact | 1:54:15 | 1:54:20 | |
team, they work well together, they
make a very good train, they are all | 1:54:20 | 1:54:24 | |
about the same height, so they are
very streamlined from the front to | 1:54:24 | 1:54:30 | |
the last athlete, so that works
well. The athletes will go and warm | 1:54:30 | 1:54:35 | |
down and prepare, because they will
be in action a little bit later on. | 1:54:35 | 1:54:38 | |
The Netherlands will race against
Japan in the first final, and the B | 1:54:38 | 1:54:44 | |
final will feature the United States
of America against Canada. They will | 1:54:44 | 1:54:49 | |
be resurfacing the ice here now, and
then after that we will have the | 1:54:49 | 1:54:53 | |
semifinals of the men's team
pursuit. | 1:54:53 | 1:55:01 | |
Everybody has to start somewhere.
BBC Get Inspired will help you get | 1:55:02 | 1:55:07 | |
involved and get active. | 1:55:07 | 1:55:13 | |
involved and get active. Go to the
website to find our activity guides. | 1:55:13 | 1:55:16 | |
Enter your postcode, the sport you
would like to try, or just click | 1:55:16 | 1:55:19 | |
search to find out how to get
involved near you. So where will you | 1:55:19 | 1:55:23 | |
start? Get active, get involved, get
inspired. | 1:55:23 | 1:55:33 | |
That website is really good,
actually. And one of the things | 1:55:33 | 1:55:37 | |
about winter sport is there are some
sports you could take up a little | 1:55:37 | 1:55:40 | |
later, couldn't you? You don't have
to be six. Absolutely. I transferred | 1:55:40 | 1:55:46 | |
over to bobsleigh at 23. Before I
was 23, I had no idea what it was, | 1:55:46 | 1:55:51 | |
but I could transfer my skills from
heptathlon and get into the sport | 1:55:51 | 1:55:55 | |
and thankfully within two months I
was already in Olympic team. I was | 1:55:55 | 1:56:00 | |
talking to Alex Coomber about
whether she could transfer to | 1:56:00 | 1:56:02 | |
another sport, because she wants to
get back into it, what would she | 1:56:02 | 1:56:05 | |
choose? Because there is nothing of
her, we were talking about ski | 1:56:05 | 1:56:11 | |
jumping. Yes, she is tiny. She could
fly from miles. Would you try an | 1:56:11 | 1:56:17 | |
alternative winter sport? What can I
do? When I look at short track all | 1:56:17 | 1:56:22 | |
on track skating, I am like, they
have quads to die for, and when you | 1:56:22 | 1:56:28 | |
hear it, the sound of the skates on
the ice is such a beautiful noise, | 1:56:28 | 1:56:31 | |
it makes you want to put some skates
on and go. And as you know, in | 1:56:31 | 1:56:39 | |
Korea, they are mad for speed
skating, but there has been a rumpus | 1:56:39 | 1:56:43 | |
about their long track team, because
500,000 people have signed a | 1:56:43 | 1:56:46 | |
petition demanding that two of the
South Korean speed skaters are | 1:56:46 | 1:56:48 | |
banned from the national team, and
the two athletes appeared to blame a | 1:56:48 | 1:56:53 | |
team-mate after they failed to reach
the semifinals which we have just | 1:56:53 | 1:56:56 | |
seen of the women's team pursuit,
and essentially the petition is | 1:56:56 | 1:57:00 | |
saying, that is unsporting of two of
you to blame the other one, because | 1:57:00 | 1:57:04 | |
they take the time of the third
going is harder she can but she | 1:57:04 | 1:57:12 | |
couldn't keep up, they were saying
she isn't good enough. Politics | 1:57:12 | 1:57:14 | |
within the team, that is incredibly
hard. When you go to games, do they | 1:57:14 | 1:57:17 | |
say to you, do not under any
circumstances say anything negative | 1:57:17 | 1:57:21 | |
about team-mates or the team setup?
No, not for us. It is very different | 1:57:21 | 1:57:27 | |
in hours, we are clearly an
individual sport because you are | 1:57:27 | 1:57:29 | |
there with your sled and you are
doing it, but you can't do it | 1:57:29 | 1:57:33 | |
without the team, the coaching
staff, the physio, the doctors, but | 1:57:33 | 1:57:37 | |
unlike within a bobsleigh when there
are physically two or four of you | 1:57:37 | 1:57:42 | |
working together, but it wouldn't
even cross my mind. Tricky politics. | 1:57:42 | 1:57:47 | |
If everyone is giving it their best,
that is ultimately all you can ask | 1:57:47 | 1:57:52 | |
for, so it is interesting. Obviously
the emotions of it, it is their home | 1:57:52 | 1:57:57 | |
games, and maybe the emotions have
all gone over the top. I find it | 1:57:57 | 1:58:02 | |
hard having never been competitive
in a team sport apart from being | 1:58:02 | 1:58:05 | |
back in school to then know that you
are still, your performance matters | 1:58:05 | 1:58:11 | |
from what everyone else in the team,
you want to know everyone else is | 1:58:11 | 1:58:16 | |
giving 100%, because if you are NN
individual sport, it is you and you | 1:58:16 | 1:58:21 | |
alone giving 100% everyday, and how
can you be assured and trust within | 1:58:21 | 1:58:25 | |
your team that everyone is doing
their very best. Obviously with the | 1:58:25 | 1:58:29 | |
Bob, it is a team, you both have to
push and work, and for Misha McNeill | 1:58:29 | 1:58:34 | |
and Mika Moore, what are they both
bring to each other? You know them | 1:58:34 | 1:58:38 | |
well. You discovered her. What are
her talents, and what she need to | 1:58:38 | 1:58:46 | |
provide? They are both such positive
people, they are bubbly and focused, | 1:58:46 | 1:58:52 | |
very determined, and right from the
off when | 1:58:52 | 1:58:59 | |
off when I met Mica at 14 or 15,
what stood out was how it focused | 1:58:59 | 1:59:05 | |
she was, she was already a
world-class competitor, and it was | 1:59:05 | 1:59:08 | |
about developing that physical and
the ability to drive. We talked | 1:59:08 | 1:59:12 | |
about how they had to fight to get
to these Winter Olympics, and when | 1:59:12 | 1:59:15 | |
to crowdfunding to raise the money
to get there. Now they have produced | 1:59:15 | 1:59:20 | |
two sensational runs. They are in
the top six. When you look at this, | 1:59:20 | 1:59:25 | |
Nicola, what are they doing well
already, and where can they improve? | 1:59:25 | 1:59:34 | |
The start time is not great, we know
that, they started 14th and 12th, | 1:59:40 | 1:59:42 | |
but the velocity is fantastic,
because coming straight to the first | 1:59:42 | 1:59:45 | |
corners, they dropped two places on
the second run, three on the first, | 1:59:45 | 1:59:47 | |
and the start was consistent. The
second run was a little bit more | 1:59:47 | 1:59:50 | |
scrappy, but she was clearly letting
the sled run, and you could see all | 1:59:50 | 1:59:53 | |
three o'clock she was one of the few
athletes that just dropped and | 1:59:53 | 1:59:55 | |
dropped and brought her time right
down. | 1:59:55 | 2:00:02 | |
They are only 0.16 of a second away
from a medal but that doesn't take | 2:00:02 | 2:00:06 | |
into account that the others can
improve and on the third run they | 2:00:06 | 2:00:11 | |
will go fastest first. Is it better
to be on the ice first before there | 2:00:11 | 2:00:16 | |
are marks in it? There are, every
sled that goes down cuts up the ice, | 2:00:16 | 2:00:22 | |
so it slows down. Yesterday,
starting 17th was a disadvantage and | 2:00:22 | 2:00:27 | |
today they will start six, and she
is right there, where all the world | 2:00:27 | 2:00:33 | |
competitive sleds are. How are you
driving? You can see the runners on | 2:00:33 | 2:00:37 | |
the bottom. Are you controlling it
with your hands? There are two | 2:00:37 | 2:00:43 | |
pieces of cable attached to the
front axel, so you have about a 90 | 2:00:43 | 2:00:49 | |
degrees range of movement. So you
are basically doing this? Yes, it's | 2:00:49 | 2:00:53 | |
a technical go-kart. Go right, and
obviously you are on the corner, | 2:00:53 | 2:00:59 | |
pulling down and up. You pulled too
much and create too much pressure, | 2:00:59 | 2:01:03 | |
it slips you up at the end of the
corner, which causes you to crash. | 2:01:03 | 2:01:07 | |
If you don't stay enough, you lose
pressure and you fall off the wall. | 2:01:07 | 2:01:12 | |
It's constant adjustment and, to be
perfect, you need centimetre perfect | 2:01:12 | 2:01:16 | |
lines. To get that straight, she had
to be within three or four | 2:01:16 | 2:01:23 | |
centimetres, fantastic. I believe,
if she can hold it together, she can | 2:01:23 | 2:01:26 | |
at least maintain sixth place, if
not move up. You only need the | 2:01:26 | 2:01:33 | |
third, fourth, fifth placed athletes
make a tiny mistake, they could drop | 2:01:33 | 2:01:37 | |
down. Even if Mica made a small
mistake, the worst she could come is | 2:01:37 | 2:01:42 | |
great. I believe she can stay up
there, with Kaillie Humphries just | 2:01:42 | 2:01:46 | |
in front of her, double Olympic
champion. Can she moved up or will | 2:01:46 | 2:01:51 | |
she stay there? We are about 20
minutes from the third run. We will | 2:01:51 | 2:01:54 | |
find out soon whether they can move
up. Let's held over to the Alpensia | 2:01:54 | 2:01:59 | |
Sliding Centre.
Night two of the women's bobsleigh | 2:01:59 | 2:02:08 | |
runs, three and four happening this
evening, and the medals. Let's talk | 2:02:08 | 2:02:12 | |
about that British Bob, sixth place
overnight. Are you worried about | 2:02:12 | 2:02:16 | |
them? Are you excited about them? I
think it's going to be a really good | 2:02:16 | 2:02:22 | |
night for them. It will be very
relaxed, no pressure on their | 2:02:22 | 2:02:26 | |
shoulders, they are just going out
to have fun. As long as they can do | 2:02:26 | 2:02:30 | |
that and let the people around them
make mistakes, it should be a good | 2:02:30 | 2:02:34 | |
evening. Their start is probably in
the top 15, but not the top six, so | 2:02:34 | 2:02:39 | |
how do they try to make up for that?
Don't change anything. They will not | 2:02:39 | 2:02:46 | |
be to change their start, physically
they are where they act. Is it just | 2:02:46 | 2:02:53 | |
speed? Yes, their physicality and
power and speed. Against the top | 2:02:53 | 2:02:56 | |
nations, that is where they are
struggling, but don't change it. And | 2:02:56 | 2:03:03 | |
Mica's lines from yesterday, go
better, do the same? Hazard again, | 2:03:03 | 2:03:06 | |
don't change anything for the you
don't want to try and find speed in | 2:03:06 | 2:03:11 | |
the track. She needs to exit corner
two right, go down the dragons tail | 2:03:11 | 2:03:19 | |
straight, and I think it will be
good for them. We've been studying | 2:03:19 | 2:03:22 | |
time sheet overnight, 0.16 back on
third. Is that realistic or | 2:03:22 | 2:03:30 | |
something they can't worry about? I
think it would take a lots of | 2:03:30 | 2:03:34 | |
mistakes from other people for them
to get the bronze, but they will be | 2:03:34 | 2:03:38 | |
charging hard for their own medals
and, if people make mistakes, they | 2:03:38 | 2:03:41 | |
are ready to pounce, so why not?
What about the race for gold? I | 2:03:41 | 2:03:48 | |
think that's so not 20 Americans and
the Germans. Where they will finish | 2:03:48 | 2:03:55 | |
off, I'm not sure, but maybe the
bronze medal is three, four and | 2:03:55 | 2:03:59 | |
five, because it's so close. Here we
go, run three and four coming up. A | 2:03:59 | 2:04:05 | |
big evening for British sliding.
Well, morning our time, 11:40am. | 2:04:05 | 2:04:14 | |
Lots of Korean fans to support the
sliders, but even more of them are | 2:04:14 | 2:04:18 | |
in the Gangneung Oval for the speed
skating. Because we are going to see | 2:04:18 | 2:04:23 | |
South Korea in our next semifinal
for the men's team pursuit, up | 2:04:23 | 2:04:27 | |
against New Zealand, fighting for a
place in the final. Can they make | 2:04:27 | 2:04:31 | |
it? The other semifinal will be the
Netherlands, featuring Sven Kramer, | 2:04:31 | 2:04:35 | |
against Norway. Who will win the
first of these semifinals? We know | 2:04:35 | 2:04:41 | |
where the host nation will be
screaming and shouting at hoping | 2:04:41 | 2:04:46 | |
for. Is it possible? It will not be
quiet in | 2:04:46 | 2:04:53 | |
for. Is it possible? It will not be
quiet in here for long because we | 2:04:53 | 2:04:54 | |
are just a minute and a half away
from the start of the first | 2:04:54 | 2:04:58 | |
semifinal, Korea against New
Zealand, and the Kiwis are up | 2:04:58 | 2:05:02 | |
against it. Because of the way it
works from the quarters, the fact | 2:05:02 | 2:05:07 | |
that Korea were the fastest, New
Zealand only just made it through | 2:05:07 | 2:05:12 | |
into the semifinals. They were
before fastest time, so in the next | 2:05:12 | 2:05:17 | |
semifinal, the second fastest time
meet the third fastest, and a | 2:05:17 | 2:05:20 | |
straight knockout system. They have
their work cut out. A quick mention | 2:05:20 | 2:05:26 | |
of New Zealand, the fact that, as a
nation, they have only ever won one | 2:05:26 | 2:05:31 | |
medal at the Winter Olympics, which
was in 1992 in the slalom. Can they | 2:05:31 | 2:05:38 | |
get a second ever medal tonight? New
Zealand represented by Shane Dobbin, | 2:05:38 | 2:05:45 | |
Reyon Kay and Peter Michael. Most of
these squads have four skaters, and | 2:05:45 | 2:05:49 | |
they tend to mix and match between
rounds quite often. New Zealand have | 2:05:49 | 2:05:53 | |
free and that's it. It's these three
or nothing. They are happy with that | 2:05:53 | 2:05:58 | |
though. They were second at last
year's World Championships here, so | 2:05:58 | 2:06:03 | |
they are a force to be recognised.
Is this trio from Korea, Min Seok | 2:06:03 | 2:06:12 | |
Kim, Seung-Hoon Lee and Hyong-Jun
Joo. They won the silver medal four | 2:06:12 | 2:06:20 | |
years ago. That was in Sochi. Eight
laps of the track for the men. | 2:06:20 | 2:06:34 | |
Hyong-Jun Joo is forced to watch
this time. | 2:06:34 | 2:06:42 | |
this time. -- is the forced to
watch. Eight laps of the track, and | 2:06:42 | 2:06:46 | |
a roar goes up. 8000 people packed
in here, and for New Zealand its | 2:06:46 | 2:06:51 | |
Reyon Kay on the front at the
moment. He is one of those who won | 2:06:51 | 2:06:56 | |
the silver medal in the World
Championships last year for New | 2:06:56 | 2:06:58 | |
Zealand. Peter Michael in second
place, pushing him slightly. And the | 2:06:58 | 2:07:05 | |
Kiwis already one tenth of a second
round this strong Korean team. | 2:07:05 | 2:07:14 | |
Winsock even -- Min Seok Kim for
Korea. Korea fell on last year's | 2:07:14 | 2:07:22 | |
World Championships, so they have no
real ranking, so they have been put | 2:07:22 | 2:07:27 | |
into this semifinal with the New
Zealand and will really have to wait | 2:07:27 | 2:07:31 | |
and see what happens in the last two
laps. | 2:07:31 | 2:07:38 | |
laps. Michael is on the front, so
Reyon Kay is at the front for New | 2:07:38 | 2:07:41 | |
Zealand at the moment, and New
Zealand are ahead against Korea. | 2:07:41 | 2:07:45 | |
Shane Dobbin doesn't go to the front
at any point, because they have | 2:07:45 | 2:07:49 | |
worked out that, the fewer changes
they make, the less time they lose, | 2:07:49 | 2:07:54 | |
and I think Shane Dobbin feels he
isn't quite strong enough to remain | 2:07:54 | 2:07:57 | |
strong on that last lap if he's been
doing turns on the front. | 2:07:57 | 2:08:05 | |
doing turns on the front. Seung-Hoon
Lee leads the way for Korea, but New | 2:08:05 | 2:08:08 | |
Zealand have the advantage. This is
going to go to the wire. Peter | 2:08:08 | 2:08:12 | |
Michael on the front for New
Zealand. They will be pushing it. | 2:08:12 | 2:08:16 | |
They have worked specially for this
event. The Koreans or eggs short | 2:08:16 | 2:08:22 | |
track speed skaters, used to skating
behind one another. -- the Koreans | 2:08:22 | 2:08:27 | |
all former short track speed
skaters. The Olympic champion in the | 2:08:27 | 2:08:35 | |
10,000 metres on the front. Again,
New Zealand are just edging it. By | 2:08:35 | 2:08:41 | |
just over a tenth of a second at the
moment. Min Seok Kim taking it up | 2:08:41 | 2:08:46 | |
for Korea. The coach pointing with
his finger, showing they are one | 2:08:46 | 2:08:51 | |
tenth behind. They will not be able
to see them directly on the other | 2:08:51 | 2:08:55 | |
side of this 400 metres track. What
a struggle this is going to be. | 2:08:55 | 2:09:01 | |
Again, just over a tenth of a
second. Peter Michael is a class | 2:09:01 | 2:09:09 | |
act, a World Championship bronze
medallist as an individual in the | 2:09:09 | 2:09:12 | |
5000 metres last year, but he's
going to have to do a very big turn | 2:09:12 | 2:09:15 | |
on the front, two tenth of a second,
advantage New Zealand. This could be | 2:09:15 | 2:09:23 | |
a turn-up for the books if the New
team make it through to the eighth | 2:09:23 | 2:09:29 | |
final. A very big two laps to go,
and Korea with a lot of work to do. | 2:09:29 | 2:09:34 | |
It's almost half a second. Lee on
the front for Korea. All former | 2:09:34 | 2:09:41 | |
short trackers, used to accelerating
at the last bend. A fuel grows going | 2:09:41 | 2:09:45 | |
up from the crowd. They are not
eating into the New Zealand | 2:09:45 | 2:09:49 | |
advantage. The teams coming round to
take the bell. 400 metres to go. New | 2:09:49 | 2:09:57 | |
Zealand have the advantage, but only
by a quarter of a second. The | 2:09:57 | 2:10:00 | |
Koreans bringing back that four
tenths of a second head start that | 2:10:00 | 2:10:05 | |
they had an New Zealand. Everybody
digging deeper. Sprinting all the | 2:10:05 | 2:10:09 | |
way to the line. It will be so
close. 0.07 of a second. It's a wild | 2:10:09 | 2:10:18 | |
sprint to the line for the chance to
race in the gold-medal race later. | 2:10:18 | 2:10:21 | |
Over the line, and taken by Korea,
3:38.82. They sprinted for all they | 2:10:21 | 2:10:29 | |
are worth in that last 400 metres,
and they pulled it out of the bag at | 2:10:29 | 2:10:35 | |
the last moment. New Zealand had led
all the way through, but they didn't | 2:10:35 | 2:10:39 | |
quite happy in the final metres.
It's all about the third skater, | 2:10:39 | 2:10:46 | |
when the third skater crosses the
line, that's when the time stops, | 2:10:46 | 2:10:50 | |
and you saw quite clearly the New
Zealanders were really struggling on | 2:10:50 | 2:10:55 | |
the back, and they're disappointed
faces tell the whole story. | 2:10:55 | 2:10:59 | |
Effectively with New Zealand you've
got two skaters pulling the cart all | 2:10:59 | 2:11:02 | |
the way round throughout the entire
distance, and what a great job they | 2:11:02 | 2:11:08 | |
did, but just not quite enough to
guarantee themselves gold or silver. | 2:11:08 | 2:11:16 | |
But the track record has gone, I
think. It has, smashed. That was the | 2:11:16 | 2:11:23 | |
world record winning time from last
year, when the Dutch won this event. | 2:11:23 | 2:11:27 | |
Maybe we could have another turn up
for the books when the Dutch, going | 2:11:27 | 2:11:31 | |
into the red-hot favourites, their
track record has just been smashed | 2:11:31 | 2:11:35 | |
by two seconds. Nobody will be going
home from here today, because the | 2:11:35 | 2:11:41 | |
home crowd will be waiting to see
their team in the men's team pursuit | 2:11:41 | 2:11:45 | |
final, making up somewhat for the
disappointment for the Korean fans | 2:11:45 | 2:11:49 | |
in the women's team, a terrible
result in the quarterfinals, racing | 2:11:49 | 2:11:54 | |
for seventh place now. Let's move on
to the second semifinal, Norway | 2:11:54 | 2:11:59 | |
against the Netherlands. Norway
represented by Haavard Boekko, Simen | 2:11:59 | 2:12:05 | |
Nilsen and their role and Pedersen.
Pedersen won bronze last week in the | 2:12:05 | 2:12:10 | |
5000 beaters. World bronze medallist
last year. And now the Netherlands, | 2:12:10 | 2:12:16 | |
with Patrick Roest brought in for
this semifinal, Sven Kramer and Jan | 2:12:16 | 2:12:21 | |
Blokhuijsen completing the team.
Sven Kramer nine times world | 2:12:21 | 2:12:27 | |
all-round champion, 19 times single
distance world champion. Eight | 2:12:27 | 2:12:34 | |
Olympic medals to his name. Is he
going to add to that total tonight? | 2:12:34 | 2:12:40 | |
The odds would say yes. Sven Kramer
has a yellow band round his forearm. | 2:12:40 | 2:12:46 | |
The Norwegians in their qualifying
heat only 100th of a second slower | 2:12:46 | 2:12:55 | |
than the Dutch, so this will be a
nail-biting semifinal. Tremendous. | 2:12:55 | 2:13:01 | |
Just 0.34 of a second between them.
Sven Kramer, who we saw winning one | 2:13:01 | 2:13:06 | |
of the single distance events at the
Olympics in majestic style, nearly | 2:13:06 | 2:13:11 | |
half a second, the advantage, was
well beaten in another race on a day | 2:13:11 | 2:13:16 | |
where he said he just didn't have
it. We thought he'd turn up and win, | 2:13:16 | 2:13:20 | |
and many thought that's all he would
have to do, and he ended up in | 2:13:20 | 2:13:24 | |
fixed. On the front, Pedersen, who
has been their strongest athlete so | 2:13:24 | 2:13:29 | |
far. Haavard Boekko, world champion
in the 1800 metres, taking up the | 2:13:29 | 2:13:35 | |
running for Norway. The Norwegians
almost six tenths of a second faster | 2:13:35 | 2:13:42 | |
than the Dutch at the moment, with
Jan Blokhuijsen at the front of the | 2:13:42 | 2:13:45 | |
Dutch trio. Patrick Roest, the Dutch
silver medallist in the 1500 metres. | 2:13:45 | 2:13:55 | |
He struggled a bit in the
quarterfinals, not quite on top | 2:13:55 | 2:13:59 | |
form. The Dutch, as you can see,
have ground to make up. It's almost | 2:13:59 | 2:14:03 | |
three quarters of a second. They are
still losing ground of course. And | 2:14:03 | 2:14:08 | |
Nelson of Norway on the front for
this Norwegian team. -- Simen | 2:14:08 | 2:14:13 | |
Nilsen. Norway are an incredible
form at the moment, having won the | 2:14:13 | 2:14:19 | |
500 metres gold, and the Dutch are
struggling, as Sven Kramer moves | 2:14:19 | 2:14:23 | |
back onto the front. The Dutch have
won nine of the ten world titles | 2:14:23 | 2:14:27 | |
that have been awarded in this
discipline, the Olympic champions | 2:14:27 | 2:14:32 | |
from 2014 but, with four laps to go,
their place in the final is far from | 2:14:32 | 2:14:37 | |
assured. Half a second to make up,
and presumably best time to do that. | 2:14:37 | 2:14:42 | |
I think so. Sven Kramer will be
turning on the speed. He is bringing | 2:14:42 | 2:14:48 | |
it back again, 15 hundredths of a
second, with just over three laps to | 2:14:48 | 2:14:51 | |
go. Presumably the Dutch will be
raised to a schedule more than | 2:14:51 | 2:14:56 | |
against Norway per se until the
closing stages. Almost six | 2:14:56 | 2:15:01 | |
hundredths the second slower than
the Norwegians now, but it will be | 2:15:01 | 2:15:06 | |
interesting to see whether Sven
Kramer will do the last three laps | 2:15:06 | 2:15:10 | |
on his own. Pedersen on the front
for Norway. I think he's the one | 2:15:10 | 2:15:15 | |
they will be looking to in the
closing stages of this one. He is | 2:15:15 | 2:15:20 | |
the one who really has the form at
these championships. Still nearly | 2:15:20 | 2:15:25 | |
half a second between them, with two
laps to go. 800 metres remaining. | 2:15:25 | 2:15:31 | |
Jan Blokhuijsen, one of those who
won a gold in Sochi four years ago, | 2:15:31 | 2:15:36 | |
going to the front. You can see the
effort. It's starting to hurt was | 2:15:36 | 2:15:41 | |
there was almost a full for Patrick
Roest. The judge really struggling. | 2:15:41 | 2:15:47 | |
-- the Dutch. I'm not sure this is
the right setup, Sven Kramer should | 2:15:47 | 2:15:51 | |
be on the front of these three, and
it could be that the Dutch go out. | 2:15:51 | 2:15:56 | |
They will have to come up with an
astonishing sprint over the final | 2:15:56 | 2:16:00 | |
half a lap, because we could be
about to see an upset, with Norway | 2:16:00 | 2:16:04 | |
leading the way, and Pedersen on the
front, and the gap over a second. | 2:16:04 | 2:16:08 | |
More than halfway around the final
lap, Norway are going to upset the | 2:16:08 | 2:16:13 | |
apple cart in this semifinal, unless
the Dutch find something from but | 2:16:13 | 2:16:16 | |
they haven't! Norway have
unofficially set a new Olympic | 2:16:16 | 2:16:22 | |
record of 3:37.0 eight. A superb
escape from them. The Dutch, renewal | 2:16:22 | 2:16:30 | |
world champions, defending Olympic
champions, toppled in the semifinal, | 2:16:30 | 2:16:35 | |
and further disappointment at these
Olympic Games for the great Sven | 2:16:35 | 2:16:39 | |
Kramer, on the right-hand side of
your picture. He and his team-mates | 2:16:39 | 2:16:44 | |
will not be racing for gold today. | 2:16:44 | 2:16:50 | |
Clearly the Norwegians have skated
out of their skates. Absolutely, | 2:16:56 | 2:17:01 | |
Norway, world bronze medallist last
year, they won the Silver Medal two | 2:17:01 | 2:17:05 | |
years ago, so they are a very strong
outfit. But there you can see that | 2:17:05 | 2:17:10 | |
typifieded the way everything wept
for the Dutch there. They never | 2:17:10 | 2:17:13 | |
really looked comfortable and they
never were able to assert any | 2:17:13 | 2:17:17 | |
authority on the race, but Pedersen,
in particular there, was a great | 2:17:17 | 2:17:21 | |
Captain on the ice in many ways for
Norway. He certainly through | 2:17:21 | 2:17:26 | |
gauntlet down the Dutch. They looked
so, in that train, the line, making | 2:17:26 | 2:17:32 | |
sure they are close enough to one
another, that they get the maximum | 2:17:32 | 2:17:37 | |
slipstream they are looking for. The
raise of the arms says it all. ? How | 2:17:37 | 2:17:42 | |
surprised are you by what we have
seen? It was very very close, they | 2:17:42 | 2:17:46 | |
have skated three tenths of a second
faster than the time of the Korean, | 2:17:46 | 2:17:50 | |
and I would say they have still a
bit left in the tank. Well, we will | 2:17:50 | 2:17:56 | |
see fascinating finals then in the
men's team pursuit but Norway | 2:17:56 | 2:18:02 | |
winning the second semifinal, and
Norway will race against Korea for | 2:18:02 | 2:18:06 | |
the gold medal later on, and the
Netherlands will race against New | 2:18:06 | 2:18:10 | |
Zealand, but there you can see the
disappointment on the face of Kramer | 2:18:10 | 2:18:16 | |
who could still add to his total of
eight Olympic medals but it won't be | 2:18:16 | 2:18:22 | |
another gold or a silver. They will
be rub surfacing the ice again and | 2:18:22 | 2:18:27 | |
we will be back later on.
-- resurfacing. | 2:18:27 | 2:18:32 | |
Raise thraiz is a major shock, the
Dutch will not be in the gold medal | 2:18:32 | 2:18:36 | |
race, they will not be in the final,
the A final as it were of that speed | 2:18:36 | 2:18:42 | |
skating, so Korea will face Norway
in the men, the Dutch are in the | 2:18:42 | 2:18:46 | |
women's final. Thaw will be up
against Japan. That is the medal | 2:18:46 | 2:18:48 | |
table. Already the morning or early
hours this morning for Italy the | 2:18:48 | 2:18:54 | |
first Tam I don't know woman to win
the Olympic down hill. Lindsey Vonn | 2:18:54 | 2:19:01 | |
took bronze. And Marit Bjoergen won
her 14th medal helping Norway to | 2:19:01 | 2:19:08 | |
take bronze in the Koss country
team, the Norwegians reached that 12 | 2:19:08 | 2:19:15 | |
gold medals, by winning the, the
men's race in the cross-country. We | 2:19:15 | 2:19:21 | |
are now focussing on bobsleigh, look
at the shots of the Alpensia sliding | 2:19:21 | 2:19:27 | |
centre, lit up against the hillside.
Prepareling for their third run are | 2:19:27 | 2:19:34 | |
the British bob duo of Mica and
Mica. This is how they have been | 2:19:34 | 2:19:38 | |
getting on so far.
This is is a good run. Eyes maybe on | 2:19:38 | 2:19:51 | |
seventh place. Sixth she goes. Katie
Humphries is here and means | 2:19:51 | 2:19:58 | |
business. New track record. Pretty
good start but I think she should be | 2:19:58 | 2:20:06 | |
quicker than that down the track.
She is starting to move away, | 2:20:06 | 2:20:12 | |
hundredth by hundredth. She has had
a storming run. Number three in the | 2:20:12 | 2:20:18 | |
world.
Jamaica. Jamaica is in this race for | 2:20:18 | 2:20:26 | |
gold without a shadow of a doubt.
-- Jamanka. It has gone green. Can | 2:20:26 | 2:20:36 | |
they put pressure on Kaillie
Humphries? Kaillie Humphries with | 2:20:36 | 2:20:43 | |
work to do, if she is to hold on to
the gold medal for the third time. | 2:20:43 | 2:20:49 | |
She is losing speed to the British
sled. There is real doubts now that | 2:20:49 | 2:20:53 | |
Kaillie Humphries can get herself
another gold medal. | 2:20:53 | 2:20:58 | |
The first person to flinch is going
to lose out on a medal. Jamanka | 2:20:58 | 2:21:04 | |
finishing well for Germany. Puts
herself in that great position. They | 2:21:04 | 2:21:12 | |
had a 200th advantage. Taylor goes
off in pursuit of the one prize that | 2:21:12 | 2:21:17 | |
has eluded her. An Olympic gold
medal. She has lost a bit. She has | 2:21:17 | 2:21:22 | |
lost the lead. She is seven
hundredths behind. Jamanka will lead | 2:21:22 | 2:21:29 | |
at the end of day one but kneel is
less than two tenths off the bronze | 2:21:29 | 2:21:35 | |
medal. They look so happy. They are
up for this | 2:21:35 | 2:21:38 | |
medal. They look so happy. They are
up for this enjoying their | 2:21:38 | 2:21:39 | |
experience. You can see there, how
tight it is at the top, Germany | 2:21:39 | 2:21:44 | |
taking over from the USA, so Germany
go into the third run in the lead. | 2:21:44 | 2:21:51 | |
Jamanka will go down first. In sixth
place Mica McNeill. It there is not | 2:21:51 | 2:21:55 | |
much in it. What can you read into
their body language. Mica, what are | 2:21:55 | 2:22:02 | |
they thinking now, and House of
Representatives beat will they be? | 2:22:02 | 2:22:07 | |
You can see from the smiles they are
loving it. Now they will focus, just | 2:22:07 | 2:22:12 | |
prepare, they look relaxed which is
perfect. Wasn't her to focus on the | 2:22:12 | 2:22:18 | |
process. The result, they cannot
control the result. As they can | 2:22:18 | 2:22:22 | |
control is what they do. Kaillie
Humphries, history maker already. | 2:22:22 | 2:22:35 | |
Cam ka haven't had the greatest
time. They were disappointed. I | 2:22:38 | 2:22:43 | |
spoke to them and Jaz says she wants
to show they can be competitive and | 2:22:43 | 2:22:49 | |
the result, take care of itself, it
more about what it means. The sleds | 2:22:49 | 2:22:57 | |
have in park ferme, all they can
focus on is warm up, like they do | 2:22:57 | 2:23:01 | |
every other competition and go back
to the changing room, keep warm, | 2:23:01 | 2:23:06 | |
stay ready and wait your turn, you
know what time you are out on the | 2:23:06 | 2:23:09 | |
track to give that push after your
life, push in the bobsleighs and | 2:23:09 | 2:23:14 | |
sprinting as fast as you can. Does
it change your attitude or | 2:23:14 | 2:23:22 | |
preparation, we see Humphries giving
a wave to us, to start thinking hang | 2:23:22 | 2:23:25 | |
on we could win a medal. Must they
not think that? They have to focus | 2:23:25 | 2:23:30 | |
on process, the point they get
carried away with the result, then | 2:23:30 | 2:23:34 | |
the focus go, the reason they were
great yesterday, there was no | 2:23:34 | 2:23:37 | |
pressure on them and they just did
the job they need to do. Same track, | 2:23:37 | 2:23:42 | |
same sled, same ice, just drive it,
push and drive it. Love that. | 2:23:42 | 2:23:51 | |
push and drive it. Love that. Let us
head over and join John Jackson and | 2:23:53 | 2:23:58 | |
John Hunt. | 2:23:58 | 2:23:58 | |
head over and join John Jackson and
John Hunt. Track side here and this | 2:23:58 | 2:24:01 | |
is a big 15 minutes coming up.
Fascinate, relative to the men's | 2:24:01 | 2:24:05 | |
event, where in run one they were
quick, run two they were slower, run | 2:24:05 | 2:24:10 | |
three was the quickest run of the
competition, so I think as Jamanka | 2:24:10 | 2:24:16 | |
tries to psyche herself up in the
lead at the moment, we need to see | 2:24:16 | 2:24:21 | |
some sparkling hot times.
Fascinating stage of the | 2:24:21 | 2:24:24 | |
competition. John Jackson, the ice
temperature still chilly? Yes, it is | 2:24:24 | 2:24:31 | |
minus 11, which is five degrees
colder than yesterday, so this could | 2:24:31 | 2:24:36 | |
have an effect on people's equipment
and how it run, signs the small | 2:24:36 | 2:24:40 | |
window they work in. Jamanka.
Wondering whether or not the quirk | 2:24:40 | 2:24:51 | |
push in behind the brake. We will
see the 5.38. That is their slowest | 2:24:51 | 2:24:56 | |
start so far. They start this vital
third round a 7 hundredth gap | 2:24:56 | 2:25:03 | |
between themselves and Meyers
Taylor. For the top five or six | 2:25:03 | 2:25:07 | |
sleds, they need to put the run down
that is going to keep them in the | 2:25:07 | 2:25:10 | |
medal hunt. If they don't do that
they can't win the medals on this | 2:25:10 | 2:25:14 | |
run but they can throw them away.
This is looking like a clean run so | 2:25:14 | 2:25:19 | |
far which you would expect from the
German pilot. Nice down the strait. | 2:25:19 | 2:25:23 | |
Comes in there, she will hold the
speed. This will put pressure on | 2:25:23 | 2:25:29 | |
Elena to put a big run in, which I
think she will. Do we get a sub 5.50 | 2:25:29 | 2:25:35 | |
from Jamanka? It would be a
statement if she can achieve it. | 2:25:35 | 2:25:40 | |
Round she come, she is under 5.50. A
track record. Jamanka, possibly one | 2:25:40 | 2:25:47 | |
more runway from achieving her
dream, that is really good start. | 2:25:47 | 2:25:51 | |
Can anybody go quicker than that?
That? That sets the standard for | 2:25:51 | 2:25:57 | |
Meyers Taylor. There was a good run.
No faults other than coming into | 2:25:57 | 2:26:02 | |
corner 12, just a bit down the left
side which meant he would have do a | 2:26:02 | 2:26:09 | |
bit of work. Just here, she could
have done a bit more middle into the | 2:26:09 | 2:26:13 | |
corner you can see how animated the
coaches are. They know how big a run | 2:26:13 | 2:26:17 | |
that was. We are about the see how
big it is, now that she has set the | 2:26:17 | 2:26:22 | |
pace. Run. No faults other than
coming into corner 12, just a bit | 2:26:22 | 2:26:28 | |
down the left side which meant he
would have do a bit of work. Just | 2:26:28 | 2:26:30 | |
here, she could have done a bit more
middle into the corner you can see | 2:26:30 | 2:26:33 | |
how animated the coaches are. They
know how big a run that was. We are | 2:26:33 | 2:26:36 | |
about the see how big it is, now
that she has set the pace. A quote | 2:26:36 | 2:26:39 | |
from Meyers Taylor "I have come too
far, we have come too far, too much | 2:26:39 | 2:26:42 | |
stuff has happened to rest on our
laurels and try and hold our | 2:26:42 | 2:26:45 | |
position. No, we are going to go and
attack." Thomas Bach watches on from | 2:26:45 | 2:26:48 | |
the IOC. Meyers Taylor has just seen
Jamanka go quick. Meyers Taylor had | 2:26:48 | 2:26:50 | |
held the track record just before.
Jamanka has taken it. So she set out | 2:26:50 | 2:26:58 | |
her intentions, she has never won
Olympic Gold, this to keep her in | 2:26:58 | 2:27:03 | |
the hunt, together with Jamanka and
maybe you never know one or two oh | 2:27:03 | 2:27:09 | |
here she go, she is usually very
quick. With Gibbs in the brake. Her | 2:27:09 | 2:27:15 | |
start so far, she has done it again.
I spoke to her after the race and | 2:27:15 | 2:27:19 | |
she knew what he did wrong at this
point. Has she got it right? She | 2:27:19 | 2:27:22 | |
just got away with that, so this is
going to be the run now, it is green | 2:27:22 | 2:27:26 | |
at moment but that is relative to
the start. She has made another | 2:27:26 | 2:27:30 | |
mistake, similar to yesterday. Are
those two mistakes going to be what | 2:27:30 | 2:27:35 | |
loses her time at this point you can
see it is starting to close down a | 2:27:35 | 2:27:40 | |
little bit, just hundredth by
hundredth. Can she get through | 2:27:40 | 2:27:45 | |
straight? I think gem car has done
enough to stay in front of the | 2:27:45 | 2:27:49 | |
American sled at this time. It will
be down to the hundredth again. This | 2:27:49 | 2:27:54 | |
could easily be as close as the
men's race. Meyers Taylor, two early | 2:27:54 | 2:28:01 | |
mistake, she drops second but she is
still in the mix for gold. She is | 2:28:01 | 2:28:07 | |
only 4 hundredth off for Jamanka.
She has closed the gap from one two | 2:28:07 | 2:28:11 | |
to run three. This is lining up for
another corking finish, like we have | 2:28:11 | 2:28:16 | |
seen in every race so far, the
medals have changed round so much as | 2:28:16 | 2:28:20 | |
the last four or FIA have come down,
again, a couple of mistakes at the | 2:28:20 | 2:28:23 | |
top. Minor mistakes but those are
the differences between coming down | 2:28:23 | 2:28:31 | |
4s in fronts and four hundredths
behind. It has probably cost her a | 2:28:31 | 2:28:36 | |
tenth at least, this mistake. It
leads us into a good final run. | 2:28:36 | 2:28:41 | |
And there will be others hoping they
can get close to Jamanka and Meyers | 2:28:41 | 2:28:45 | |
Taylor as well.
Elana pleased with her early evening | 2:28:45 | 2:28:52 | |
work here. | 2:28:52 | 2:28:57 | |
work here. German wars next for
Schneider. Worth reminding you of | 2:28:58 | 2:29:03 | |
the races that took place Schneider
won three of them. | 2:29:03 | 2:29:07 | |
Beating Meyers | 2:29:07 | 2:29:12 | |
Beating Meyers Taylor and Kaillie
Humphries. | 2:29:12 | 2:29:17 | |
She was tenth in Sochi, she will
improve on that but by how much? | 2:29:17 | 2:29:22 | |
Schneider on her way now, with
Drazek. 5.38 is their time. The | 2:29:22 | 2:29:29 | |
slowest start for them so far I
thought they would be quicker off | 2:29:29 | 2:29:32 | |
the mark. I think they are carrying
a couple of injuries they are having | 2:29:32 | 2:29:36 | |
to manage with. She really does now
need to put a good run in because | 2:29:36 | 2:29:43 | |
the three, four sleds behind her are
all tightly packed in. Maybe that | 2:29:43 | 2:29:46 | |
mistake won't help her out. She is
ine %ed compared to anybody else. | 2:29:46 | 2:29:51 | |
This is the run that maybe cost her
that bronze medal spot at moment. | 2:29:51 | 2:29:55 | |
Can she say in the mix with Kaillie
Humphries and the sledge coming up | 2:29:55 | 2:29:59 | |
behind her? | 2:29:59 | 2:30:04 | |
Losing time, good news for Jamie
Greubel Poser and Humphreys to come. | 2:30:04 | 2:30:12 | |
Stephanie Schneider not having a
good run, and she is now half a | 2:30:12 | 2:30:17 | |
second behind the first placed
Jamanka. A costly third run for | 2:30:17 | 2:30:20 | |
Schneider, the 27-year-old from
Germany. Her inexperience showed a | 2:30:20 | 2:30:28 | |
bit, and her starts on what they
should be, but those little mistakes | 2:30:28 | 2:30:33 | |
will cost her a medal. You can't
show that inconsistency. But that's | 2:30:33 | 2:30:40 | |
good for the likes of Jamie Greubel
Poser, Kaillie Humphries and even | 2:30:40 | 2:30:45 | |
Mica McNeill, coming up. Any one of
these sleds makes a mistake, the | 2:30:45 | 2:30:50 | |
British could move up into fifth or
even fourth. That's a good point, | 2:30:50 | 2:30:56 | |
Schneider has put the door open for
three athletes to go past her. | 2:30:56 | 2:30:59 | |
They've still got to do it though.
An absorbing run and under free. It | 2:30:59 | 2:31:06 | |
might be the case that the ice is so
cold it doesn't suit her equipment. | 2:31:06 | 2:31:11 | |
Next for America, Jamie Greubel
Poser. She saw her husband, | 2:31:11 | 2:31:17 | |
Christian, missing out in the men's
event, having led. Bronze medallist | 2:31:17 | 2:31:23 | |
in Sochi, she'd love to do this for
her sister, Elizabeth, who was | 2:31:23 | 2:31:28 | |
Korean and was adopted, aged just
five months. Her sister is here, all | 2:31:28 | 2:31:33 | |
the family here to see if Jamie can
improve on what she did in Sochi. | 2:31:33 | 2:31:38 | |
She is now 34. Jamie Greubel Poser,
not usually as quick as Elana Meyers | 2:31:38 | 2:31:47 | |
Taylor and Lauren Gibbs, but
certainly a bit quicker than the | 2:31:47 | 2:31:50 | |
Germans we've seen so far. Jamie
Greubel Poser on her way. She has | 2:31:50 | 2:31:54 | |
got 5.30 one. A little mistake. I'm
not sure if they were just out | 2:31:54 | 2:32:01 | |
slightly. But a decent start, a
faster start. This could be the run | 2:32:01 | 2:32:08 | |
that Jamie puts in which really
pulled her back towards the front. | 2:32:08 | 2:32:12 | |
She is probably a slightly better
toilet technically than Elana Meyers | 2:32:12 | 2:32:16 | |
Taylor. But it's whether she's got
the speed in the sled. Can she pull | 2:32:16 | 2:32:24 | |
up to the leaders at this minute?
She needs to keep in front of | 2:32:24 | 2:32:29 | |
Kaillie Humphries. Elana Meyers
Taylor just for hundreds back rows | 2:32:29 | 2:32:36 | |
behind. Jamie Greubel Poser goes
third, but four tenths off the lead | 2:32:36 | 2:32:42 | |
at the moment, Jamanka. That is on
the teams that have gone so far, a | 2:32:42 | 2:32:52 | |
big gap developing. A bigger gap
between silver and bronze. Bronze is | 2:32:52 | 2:32:56 | |
where Jamie Greubel Poser sits at
the moment. Looking at the results | 2:32:56 | 2:33:03 | |
yesterday, dropping off another
tense is about right between the two | 2:33:03 | 2:33:05 | |
sleds. It's between the two sleds at
the front for gold and silver and | 2:33:05 | 2:33:11 | |
it's now down to these ones to fight
it out for bronze. Not many | 2:33:11 | 2:33:17 | |
mistakes, almost perfect, just not
quite working for her. Age Evans, | 2:33:17 | 2:33:26 | |
acknowledging the crowd. | 2:33:26 | 2:33:33 | |
acknowledging the crowd. Next up,
huge Canadian support for a legend | 2:33:33 | 2:33:35 | |
of the game, Kaillie Humphries,
together with her break, Phylicia | 2:33:35 | 2:33:41 | |
George, a top-class athlete herself.
Twice a gold medallist, the door | 2:33:41 | 2:33:47 | |
very definitely open for her now to
slip into bronze if not better. | 2:33:47 | 2:33:51 | |
There will be nobody more determined
than her as she starts her run for | 2:33:51 | 2:33:57 | |
Canada. Very quick as usually, Saab
5.30. They definitely need to go | 2:33:57 | 2:34:07 | |
below 5.30. This is the one that's
going to keep Kaillie in the medals. | 2:34:07 | 2:34:16 | |
If she makes any mistakes, I think
her medal chances have gone, but you | 2:34:16 | 2:34:19 | |
can never tell what will happen on
the fourth run. She is the most | 2:34:19 | 2:34:24 | |
experienced pilot in the field. It's
whether she can use that experience | 2:34:24 | 2:34:29 | |
and use everything she knows to make
it down as quickly as possible, and | 2:34:29 | 2:34:32 | |
she's doing well so far. This is
what you expect from a double | 2:34:32 | 2:34:36 | |
Olympic champion. Time ebbing away
hundredth by hundredth. Got to keep | 2:34:36 | 2:34:45 | |
it as close to two tenths as
possible. She is now nearly four | 2:34:45 | 2:34:49 | |
tenths behind Jamanka. Kaillie
Humphries takes third, just ahead of | 2:34:49 | 2:34:57 | |
Jamie Greubel Poser and Schneider,
with the British girls to come. | 2:34:57 | 2:34:59 | |
Definitely an opportunity here for
Mica McNeill and Mica Moore to make | 2:34:59 | 2:35:07 | |
some progress. It's getting very
exciting. This was a textbook run | 2:35:07 | 2:35:13 | |
from Kaillie | 2:35:13 | 2:35:13 | |
exciting. This was a textbook run
from Kaillie, nothing wrong with it. | 2:35:13 | 2:35:16 | |
A line here and there that might
have been a fraction long, but that | 2:35:16 | 2:35:20 | |
could be down to the way her
equipment works. It was almost | 2:35:20 | 2:35:25 | |
perfect. Comes out of here and
absolutely nails this straight, | 2:35:25 | 2:35:29 | |
which is what you need to carry
speed into the bottom of the track. | 2:35:29 | 2:35:34 | |
Her equipment doesn't quite seem to
have the out and out speed of the | 2:35:34 | 2:35:38 | |
leaders. Kaillie Humphries are still
looking positive. But the gold medal | 2:35:38 | 2:35:43 | |
might be slipping away. The
Canadians waiting in the slipstream. | 2:35:43 | 2:35:51 | |
This, the British pair. Mica
McNeill, Mica Moore, the brake. | 2:35:51 | 2:35:58 | |
Thank you, the watching public, for
getting them here, funding slashed | 2:35:58 | 2:36:05 | |
completely, they went crowdfunding
and raised thousands, which brought | 2:36:05 | 2:36:07 | |
them here. Now we are expecting a
moderate start, but they have been | 2:36:07 | 2:36:14 | |
one of the best teams on the bottom
end of the track in the entire | 2:36:14 | 2:36:18 | |
competition. Don't expect fireworks
early, but let's hope for a clean | 2:36:18 | 2:36:21 | |
run to keep them in it. 5.54 is
about what you'd expect. This is | 2:36:21 | 2:36:30 | |
where Mica will start doing her
work. As long as she gets here | 2:36:30 | 2:36:34 | |
clean, as she has. If she had the
same start as Elana Meyers Taylor or | 2:36:34 | 2:36:39 | |
even the Germans, another tense
closer, she would be leading at the | 2:36:39 | 2:36:42 | |
moment. This is what the British
team lack, the out and out start, | 2:36:42 | 2:36:46 | |
but she has been one of the best
drivers. She just needs to get this | 2:36:46 | 2:36:51 | |
right. A little mistake. She didn't
make that over the last couple of | 2:36:51 | 2:36:56 | |
days. She needs to control this and
get back on. She's going to lose a | 2:36:56 | 2:37:01 | |
bit of pace, which could drop her
down a bit. The sled behind her are | 2:37:01 | 2:37:05 | |
only hundredths. Slightly ragged for
the great British team, and they're | 2:37:05 | 2:37:11 | |
going to finish over a second
behind. They were less than half a | 2:37:11 | 2:37:16 | |
second behind. And that isn't good
news for Great Britain. Mica | 2:37:16 | 2:37:20 | |
STUDIO: -- Mica and Mica may lose
their sixth place by two or three | 2:37:20 | 2:37:31 | |
places. Just a bit of inexperience
on the track. She didn't do the | 2:37:31 | 2:37:35 | |
training last year or at the
beginning of the year because the | 2:37:35 | 2:37:38 | |
British didn't come here, and this
is potentially costing them now. | 2:37:38 | 2:37:42 | |
This is her 11th run on the track.
Everybody else has had at least 40, | 2:37:42 | 2:37:49 | |
40 five. She just made a little
mistake, but that is so costly. She | 2:37:49 | 2:37:53 | |
is turning hard, she goes above the
line, has | 2:37:53 | 2:38:02 | |
line, has to work hard again, she
has three lots of pressure in that | 2:38:02 | 2:38:04 | |
corner, and you can see how high she
is, she is lucky she didn't crash. | 2:38:04 | 2:38:07 | |
Subdued scenes, perhaps. Elana
Meyers Taylor watching on from the | 2:38:07 | 2:38:13 | |
sidelines. Here now | 2:38:13 | 2:38:20 | |
sidelines. Here now for Canada,
Alysia whistling, together with the | 2:38:20 | 2:38:22 | |
ghastly experienced Heather Moyse,
who is brake. -- Alysia whistling, | 2:38:22 | 2:38:30 | |
together with the fastly experienced
Heather Moyse. A golden chance for | 2:38:30 | 2:38:36 | |
them to move up the order. They
should definitely take sixth place | 2:38:36 | 2:38:41 | |
from the British. 5.42, their usual,
fairly average start. Alysia was | 2:38:41 | 2:38:53 | |
third in the test event this year,
so she has a good feeling for this | 2:38:53 | 2:38:57 | |
track, she just haven't found it
yet. If she could put a rundown | 2:38:57 | 2:39:01 | |
here, there is no reason she
couldn't pull herself up into faith | 2:39:01 | 2:39:05 | |
or even start putting some pressure
on to fourth place. She just needs | 2:39:05 | 2:39:09 | |
to be good through this point. Not
quite, and maybe that will cost her. | 2:39:09 | 2:39:14 | |
Still a bit back as she gets to the
bottom of the track. A little nudge | 2:39:14 | 2:39:19 | |
will not help us beat. Relatively
tidy. Should take McNeil's place in | 2:39:19 | 2:39:28 | |
fix. Smooth round the last bend. Now
eight tenths behind Jamanka, but | 2:39:28 | 2:39:34 | |
comfortably ahead of McNeil. We knew
that run from the British team would | 2:39:34 | 2:39:39 | |
be costly, and there are, maybe even
now, three or four more who could | 2:39:39 | 2:39:46 | |
jump ahead of Mica McNeill. It was
really tight. Four hundredths... | 2:39:46 | 2:39:51 | |
Three macro tenths behind her, she
could drop into around tenths. This | 2:39:51 | 2:40:00 | |
was a great drive from here, maybe
just released a bit too soon on two, | 2:40:00 | 2:40:07 | |
just that little nudge, not an ideal
line, but it seems to be the line | 2:40:07 | 2:40:12 | |
most people accept if they can't get
straight through. Canadian cheering | 2:40:12 | 2:40:18 | |
now for Christine De Bruin and
Melissa Lotholz, number ten in the | 2:40:18 | 2:40:25 | |
world, Christine. And here she start
dates, after run number two. -- she | 2:40:25 | 2:40:35 | |
starts eight. She into the games,
qualification seemed to have slipped | 2:40:35 | 2:40:40 | |
through her fingers, but the
Americans performed badly and the | 2:40:40 | 2:40:45 | |
Olympics back to Christine De Bruin.
There don't seem to be as many | 2:40:45 | 2:40:51 | |
mistakes at the top of the track
from these top pilots, which is | 2:40:51 | 2:40:56 | |
good, keeping everybody in the
fight. She has said some consistent | 2:40:56 | 2:40:59 | |
runs but just not quite had the
speed, and that could be down to her | 2:40:59 | 2:41:04 | |
experience, because she is one of
the younger pilots in terms of time, | 2:41:04 | 2:41:09 | |
but that's a great line, probably
one of the best we've seen. Will it | 2:41:09 | 2:41:13 | |
be enough to carry the speed down?
Just overdriven there, so it may | 2:41:13 | 2:41:17 | |
cost a bit come in through the speed
track. -- trap. Quite a lot of the | 2:41:17 | 2:41:25 | |
times are dropping off noticeably,
and she is eight tenths of a second | 2:41:25 | 2:41:28 | |
behind. That puts head of the
British, who dropped back to eighth | 2:41:28 | 2:41:33 | |
place. Christine De Bruin just a
fraction behind the other Canadian, | 2:41:33 | 2:41:40 | |
who remains six. Just starting to
compress a bit in certain places, so | 2:41:40 | 2:41:48 | |
it's all down to the hundredths. It
will be a good finish as we come | 2:41:48 | 2:41:53 | |
into the last run. A great camera
angle, the athletes loading into the | 2:41:53 | 2:41:57 | |
sled. Not much wrong with it, just
this little tap down the bottom into | 2:41:57 | 2:42:03 | |
13. It shouldn't have cost her a lot
of time, may have overdriven 12 a | 2:42:03 | 2:42:07 | |
bit. See how far Jamanka and Elana
Meyers Taylor are clear off the | 2:42:07 | 2:42:15 | |
field, a gap of over three tenths of
a second back to the bronze. That | 2:42:15 | 2:42:19 | |
doesn't sound like much, but it's a
yawning gap in bobsleigh terms. | 2:42:19 | 2:42:25 | |
Elana Meyers Taylor, is she just an
hour or two away from winning a gold | 2:42:25 | 2:42:32 | |
medal? Here now for Switzerland is
Sabina Hafner. Number nine in the | 2:42:32 | 2:42:42 | |
world, World Cup finish this year,
six at St Moritz. She has been at | 2:42:42 | 2:42:48 | |
this sport for a long, long time, 13
years ago she was fourth in the | 2:42:48 | 2:42:53 | |
World Championships. She got a 5.54
time, and that looks fairly | 2:42:53 | 2:43:00 | |
pedestrian, but it's what she
usually delivers. Yes, and that is | 2:43:00 | 2:43:05 | |
just where their programme is at the
moment. Similar to be British, they | 2:43:05 | 2:43:08 | |
just lack a bit of speed at the top.
She's been driving really well, is a | 2:43:08 | 2:43:13 | |
good, consistent pilot, just runs a
bit high on the end of seven, but it | 2:43:13 | 2:43:19 | |
pushes her into eight. Is this
crucial? Centimetres away from a | 2:43:19 | 2:43:26 | |
perfect line, but that's the
difference between getting it right | 2:43:26 | 2:43:28 | |
and wrong. Good speed, but not
enough, just dropping off a bit with | 2:43:28 | 2:43:33 | |
every corner. She isn't going to
take eighth place with this run. | 2:43:33 | 2:43:38 | |
Crossing the line, going ninth. So
Mica McNeill and Mica Moore stay in | 2:43:38 | 2:43:48 | |
eighth place, despite the
disappointment of that third run | 2:43:48 | 2:43:50 | |
from them. Even eighth, if they
could hang onto that, that would be | 2:43:50 | 2:43:56 | |
a tremendous result for them. It
certainly would, still the best ever | 2:43:56 | 2:44:01 | |
British finish for a woman in
Olympic Games. So still a lots of | 2:44:01 | 2:44:04 | |
positives to be taken, when you
think about in September, they | 2:44:04 | 2:44:08 | |
weren't given coming. But the Swiss,
again, little mistakes down the | 2:44:08 | 2:44:14 | |
straight, but no different to
anybody else. You can see the | 2:44:14 | 2:44:19 | |
difference between the leading
German sled and the Swiss sled. | 2:44:19 | 2:44:22 | |
Almost the same lines, not much
between them, but you can see how | 2:44:22 | 2:44:26 | |
the German sled was pulling away. A
big way in the Olympic corner. | 2:44:26 | 2:44:35 | |
Tenth to go from Austria will be
Hengster, she was is ath in Sochi. | 2:44:38 | 2:44:49 | |
Kleiser her brake. Lots of
experience, been to the worlds eight | 2:44:49 | 2:44:54 | |
time, best finish was last year,
when fifth. I think she has a very | 2:44:54 | 2:45:01 | |
big job on here to jump ahead of the
British pair, John, she starts off a | 2:45:01 | 2:45:07 | |
long way behind them. She would have
to go a good deal quicker thank my | 2:45:07 | 2:45:13 | |
ka and Mica did. If she was on top
of her game, she would have been | 2:45:13 | 2:45:19 | |
possibly able to, but at moment she
is just sort of, her skill set is on | 2:45:19 | 2:45:30 | |
the downward bra jec tri, but she
has not been the pilot she was for | 2:45:30 | 2:45:35 | |
the last couple of years, so this
could be one of those hit and miss | 2:45:35 | 2:45:39 | |
run, it could be good. She has come
in a bit late there, I don't think | 2:45:39 | 2:45:43 | |
this is the slide they need to move
forwards towards Misha McNeill, | 2:45:43 | 2:45:50 | |
which is good for us. They are not
going to take any step forward. | 2:45:50 | 2:45:57 | |
Hengster starts in tenth and that is
where she stays. No impression at | 2:45:57 | 2:46:02 | |
all on Mica McNeill and Mica Moore
who stay in eighth place. As these | 2:46:02 | 2:46:08 | |
athletes go one by one, it gets more
and more unlikely that McNeill and | 2:46:08 | 2:46:15 | |
Moore will lose that eighth place.
Bits and pieces all over that run, | 2:46:15 | 2:46:21 | |
just, made it a bit untidy and maybe
their equipment isn't running as | 2:46:21 | 2:46:27 | |
good as some of the other, but no
real massive mistake, eperfect, but | 2:46:27 | 2:46:33 | |
it could have been done with more no
the left-hand side of the screen, as | 2:46:33 | 2:46:36 | |
you look at it but you have to drive
more as you go into 12 to control | 2:46:36 | 2:46:41 | |
that. Scrubs speed off.
Hengster strides away. Jamanka | 2:46:41 | 2:46:55 | |
tenderly, lovingly looks after that
stretch of metal that might carry | 2:46:55 | 2:46:59 | |
her to gold in an hour or two's
time. | 2:46:59 | 2:47:07 | |
time. For Belgian next, Willemsen,
what a contrast in Sochi to | 2:47:09 | 2:47:14 | |
Vancouver, really clean in the World
Cup here. Last March, her start time | 2:47:14 | 2:47:23 | |
has been her anchor for much of her
competitions over the last two | 2:47:23 | 2:47:28 | |
years, if she gets under 5.6 she
will be doing pretty well. She is | 2:47:28 | 2:47:33 | |
just under it. That is a good start
from them, but, again, not enough. | 2:47:33 | 2:47:40 | |
They have had the best equipment,
that is whee they have had good | 2:47:40 | 2:47:44 | |
speed. The problem is everybody else
has that same equipment. They have | 2:47:44 | 2:47:49 | |
to advantage, so the lack of start
and her driving is not enough to | 2:47:49 | 2:47:53 | |
pull her up to the fronts like it
used to be. Another clean run. She | 2:47:53 | 2:47:58 | |
is one of the most experience pilots
in the field. You can see that, but | 2:47:58 | 2:48:03 | |
the sled doesn't have the speed it
used to another little tap. Won't | 2:48:03 | 2:48:08 | |
cost too much. | 2:48:08 | 2:48:14 | |
cost too much. So much experience,
she is 3. She is world ranked number | 2:48:14 | 2:48:18 | |
11 and she is in 11th place. Exactly
where she was after number two. | 2:48:18 | 2:48:28 | |
Somebody letting out an almighty
roar! She is well-known for her loud | 2:48:28 | 2:48:34 | |
voice at the top of the track to gee
on the German, that was a tidy run, | 2:48:34 | 2:48:40 | |
a mistakes going into 13, but
nothing more than most other people. | 2:48:40 | 2:48:44 | |
It is this part that is, hinders
them so much they haven't got the | 2:48:44 | 2:48:49 | |
horsepower at top of the track to
get the sled out to a fast time. | 2:48:49 | 2:49:01 | |
This was that mistake, that caused
her to come off this corner and have | 2:49:01 | 2:49:04 | |
another slide here. You see the sled
pointing slightly the wrong way. | 2:49:04 | 2:49:15 | |
What is going through their minds?
There is a gold medal to be won | 2:49:16 | 2:49:19 | |
shortly. Will it be Germany or
America? | 2:49:19 | 2:49:28 | |
America? Next for Germany Anna
Koehler, 12th place, world ranged | 2:49:28 | 2:49:32 | |
number seven, four top ten finish,
she should have been hiring up. She | 2:49:32 | 2:49:36 | |
is under way. 5.47. About her usual
type of start time. Now with much | 2:49:36 | 2:49:41 | |
work to do.
That mistakes was coming there, I | 2:49:41 | 2:49:47 | |
could hear, she drove too much round
one, too much in the engine to two | 2:49:47 | 2:49:51 | |
and you could hear the sled is
noisier on the ice because she is | 2:49:51 | 2:49:55 | |
doing too much work steering the
sled, compared to the top pilot. | 2:49:55 | 2:49:59 | |
That is why she is back where she
is, because she is doing too much. A | 2:49:59 | 2:50:07 | |
little mistake there. We have seen
how much time that cost her, so is | 2:50:07 | 2:50:11 | |
this going to be the run that moves
her up. Looks like she going to | 2:50:11 | 2:50:19 | |
loose ground. It has not been
Koehler's games and she is over two | 2:50:19 | 2:50:24 | |
seconds is off the pace. And stays
in 12th place. | 2:50:24 | 2:50:31 | |
51.46 her time there. We were
disappointed initially with Mica's | 2:50:32 | 2:50:38 | |
run, 51.16, in comparison what
Koehler has just done. Three tenths | 2:50:38 | 2:50:42 | |
quicker. And she just overdrove the
track all way down the line, looked | 2:50:42 | 2:50:49 | |
good but she was forcing the line
rather than letting the sled do the | 2:50:49 | 2:50:52 | |
work. A lot of it came to that
mistake that was in from one to two | 2:50:52 | 2:50:58 | |
to three, that section was
overdriven. We might get to see that | 2:50:58 | 2:51:03 | |
now. Another big mistake, that costs
you so much time as you go into the | 2:51:03 | 2:51:09 | |
big corner 12. You can see the
difference in lines there between | 2:51:09 | 2:51:14 | |
the blue line, the leader, they also
come on to the same line. She cuts | 2:51:14 | 2:51:18 | |
it more. It is almost like putting a
braking force into the ice. Jamanka, | 2:51:18 | 2:51:28 | |
Meyers Taylor, separated by 4
hundredths of a second. Looks like | 2:51:28 | 2:51:32 | |
there will be a close run thing for
bronze medal. Kaillie Humphries | 2:51:32 | 2:51:35 | |
riding the mix. Medals decided later
today. Korean cheers now for their | 2:51:35 | 2:51:42 | |
entry here. Kim Minseong the pilot.
Pilot. Kim Yooran on the brake, they | 2:51:42 | 2:51:50 | |
have been consistent. 51.2 both so
far. I think given the conditions | 2:51:50 | 2:51:56 | |
and how this third run has been
shaping up, if they can match that | 2:51:56 | 2:52:00 | |
again they will be doing very very
well. 5.65 is their slowest start so | 2:52:00 | 2:52:08 | |
far. As the Korean programme moves
forward, that is what they have to | 2:52:08 | 2:52:13 | |
find, better athlete, the coaches
were happy when I spoke to them | 2:52:13 | 2:52:18 | |
today about how well she has done.
So that is a good start for them, | 2:52:18 | 2:52:25 | |
she is doing what she knows she can
do. Being where she is is a good | 2:52:25 | 2:52:32 | |
result for them, so o hopefully she
will stay in a sort of, around that | 2:52:32 | 2:52:37 | |
sort of 13, 14, 15, won't drop back
too far or try and pull forward up | 2:52:37 | 2:52:41 | |
to the top ten. She might nip ahead
of Koehler. It will be close between | 2:52:41 | 2:52:49 | |
Koehler and Kim and Kim goes ahead
of Koehler to take 12th place. | 2:52:49 | 2:52:55 | |
That was another really good run,
but it should be, because she knows | 2:52:55 | 2:53:01 | |
this track so well, compared to all
the other slider, she will have | 2:53:01 | 2:53:06 | |
hundreds of hundred runs down where
everybody else has had 40, 45ish. On | 2:53:06 | 2:53:13 | |
the start there. It did look like
she got a first foot out. Maybe that | 2:53:13 | 2:53:20 | |
isn't enough to get it out at start.
A rally good run. This is is a -- | 2:53:20 | 2:53:28 | |
this is is a great view. You have to
get past this wall, that is where | 2:53:28 | 2:53:32 | |
you carry your velocity into the
track and build speed as you get | 2:53:32 | 2:53:36 | |
into the bigger corners in the
middle and down the bottom. | 2:53:36 | 2:53:47 | |
So now we move on to the final
seven. | 2:53:47 | 2:53:56 | |
seven. For Russia next serg have a
together with Kocherzhova. | 2:53:57 | 2:54:03 | |
Disappointing games for then they
were record ranked five last year. | 2:54:03 | 2:54:11 | |
Crashed out in the World Champion
last year, that saw them start to | 2:54:13 | 2:54:17 | |
spiral down the rankings, they have
had a poor Olympic Games. You can | 2:54:17 | 2:54:21 | |
see that mistake coming from the way
she entered corner two. She got | 2:54:21 | 2:54:25 | |
pushed away and got a height later
on, that is why you saw that, she is | 2:54:25 | 2:54:30 | |
looking like she is just behind the
sled a bit. What I mean by that, is | 2:54:30 | 2:54:35 | |
sled's almost half a metre in front
of her, she is not quite in the | 2:54:35 | 2:54:40 | |
rhythm of the track yet. We are
nearly at the bottom and she is not | 2:54:40 | 2:54:47 | |
tapping round. That is one of the
only things she has got correctly. | 2:54:47 | 2:54:51 | |
But it is too late. She might nip
ahead of Kim and Koehler here there | 2:54:51 | 2:54:57 | |
is a chance she will take 12th
place. Not quite. It is still such a | 2:54:57 | 2:55:05 | |
talented pilot a couple of years
ago, still a real disappointment. | 2:55:05 | 2:55:10 | |
The Olympic athletes from Russia,
not having a good games generally. | 2:55:10 | 2:55:16 | |
That is reflected on the track here,
at the Alpensia sliding centre. She | 2:55:16 | 2:55:23 | |
doesn't look happy on the sled or
the track. This is one of those | 2:55:23 | 2:55:27 | |
thank -- tracks it zroent a rhythm,
it is like they have taken some of | 2:55:27 | 2:55:36 | |
the best. It doesn't work because
the corners don't push you into | 2:55:36 | 2:55:39 | |
others you have to find the rhythm
of the track and there really isn't | 2:55:39 | 2:55:44 | |
any. Sometimes it is difficult. You
see the athletes working on the | 2:55:44 | 2:55:49 | |
runners there, polishing them up,
checking there is no scratch, | 2:55:49 | 2:55:53 | |
because every hundredth counts.
Nervy moments for the leaders. | 2:55:53 | 2:56:02 | |
Less so for those at the bottom of
the rankings, this is the Belgians, | 2:56:02 | 2:56:10 | |
they had fun throughout the sliding
events with our commentators curse, | 2:56:10 | 2:56:20 | |
this,al let's, Vannieuwenhuyse has
seemingly got a beautiful eye for | 2:56:20 | 2:56:25 | |
that dragon's tail run. Last year
she was perfect through it, so far | 2:56:25 | 2:56:30 | |
in two runs she has been perfect.
Let us see if she can avoid the | 2:56:30 | 2:56:37 | |
commentary for's curse this time!
Yes, she has two good runs yesterday | 2:56:37 | 2:56:42 | |
but she did have a spill at the
first unofficial training, so if she | 2:56:42 | 2:56:49 | |
makes a mistake between two and
three, yes, she seems to be in the | 2:56:49 | 2:56:53 | |
rhythm of the track. She has driven
this really well. There is no speed | 2:56:53 | 2:56:58 | |
in the track. Running high there. So
that had an effect on how she came | 2:56:58 | 2:57:05 | |
in, she is getting that bit behind
the sled. Almost, a centimetre the | 2:57:05 | 2:57:11 | |
other way. This is the knock on
effect from that mistake. Five, six, | 2:57:11 | 2:57:18 | |
seven corners ago. She is gous
starting to catch up. I don't know | 2:57:18 | 2:57:27 | |
if she do it. Couldn't go past
Koehler and Sergeeva. She will be | 2:57:27 | 2:57:39 | |
disappointed. The somehowest of the
three runs so far for her. | 2:57:39 | 2:57:44 | |
Just a lot of mistakeses. Yesterday
she had really good run, today, she | 2:57:44 | 2:57:49 | |
didn't. We will see what happens
with the next couple of sleds, how | 2:57:49 | 2:57:53 | |
that works out. This was the
mistake, she comes too far round, | 2:57:53 | 2:57:57 | |
doesn't do enough. You don't get to
see the knock-on effect. This gets | 2:57:57 | 2:58:02 | |
too high, down too much. You see her
runners are on the wood. That is not | 2:58:02 | 2:58:09 | |
the fastest line. You want to use it
to push you round, see her head pop | 2:58:09 | 2:58:13 | |
up. She is trying to get every
aerodynamic help as you can, doing | 2:58:13 | 2:58:19 | |
that is great, when you are smooth.
Doing that you have bounced off | 2:58:19 | 2:58:23 | |
every wall. That was a bit late in
the day to do that. Now for Romania | 2:58:23 | 2:58:32 | |
Constantin, together with Grecu. If
you follow your bobsleigh winter by | 2:58:32 | 2:58:40 | |
winter, Grecu, when she returns to
the pilot's seat is one to cope an | 2:58:40 | 2:58:43 | |
eye on, she is a good pilot herself.
Constantin has the on more of being | 2:58:43 | 2:58:49 | |
pilot this time round. 17th in Sochi
and improve ocean than would be a | 2:58:49 | 2:58:54 | |
great result for them, and that
reflects their standing at in world | 2:58:54 | 2:58:59 | |
at the moment. Glar is a good pilot.
She is consistency. Some times the | 2:58:59 | 2:59:06 | |
level of equipment that the
Romanians have is not the top | 2:59:06 | 2:59:11 | |
equipment, because they are a small
funded nation. The fact they have | 2:59:11 | 2:59:14 | |
the sleds they have for the men and
the women in the two sled event if | 2:59:14 | 2:59:19 | |
you leek, shows they have found
something, she is having another | 2:59:19 | 2:59:23 | |
good drive. Almost just got through
there again. Having to do a bit of | 2:59:23 | 2:59:28 | |
work into 17. She is showing her
quality. She has a there. It will | 2:59:28 | 2:59:34 | |
cost her time. Down is a. Chance she
could jump too here maybe. Could she | 2:59:34 | 2:59:41 | |
go 14th? Not quite. Section killing
a lot of speed remaining. Say it one | 2:59:41 | 2:59:50 | |
in 8 climb from after bend 14.
So, the Romanians there just having | 2:59:50 | 3:00:01 | |
to be content with sitting at the
moment, in 15th place. | 3:00:01 | 3:00:09 | |
Confirmation, as we watch the
Romanians go again, that, going into | 3:00:11 | 3:00:15 | |
the metal runs shortly, Mica McNeill
will be eighth and has a chance of | 3:00:15 | 3:00:20 | |
becoming the best ever placed
athlete in the women's event here at | 3:00:20 | 3:00:28 | |
an Olympic Games. If you can hold
eighth, that will be to her great | 3:00:28 | 3:00:31 | |
credit. We'll see if she can do it
quickly shortly -- pretty shortly. | 3:00:31 | 3:00:39 | |
Next to come, another Russian pair,
Aleksandra Rodionova, and you'll | 3:00:39 | 3:00:49 | |
years LMS neck. -- Yulia
Belomestnykh. They have a top ten | 3:00:49 | 3:00:58 | |
finish this season. They were quite
good here at the World Cup event in | 3:00:58 | 3:01:04 | |
Pyeongchang last March, but it seems
to have evaporated a bit. I don't | 3:01:04 | 3:01:11 | |
really know what's been going on
with the equipment that this team | 3:01:11 | 3:01:15 | |
has brought, across the men's and
women's sliders. Usually, they are | 3:01:15 | 3:01:22 | |
quick, you can hear them cutting a
bit of ice there, but usually they | 3:01:22 | 3:01:27 | |
have fine speed at the bottom, but
it hasn't worked for them. But | 3:01:27 | 3:01:31 | |
because of the things surrounding
the Russians out here, maybe it's | 3:01:31 | 3:01:34 | |
because they have got more
inexperienced coaching staff out | 3:01:34 | 3:01:39 | |
here. Speed dropping off all the
time for the Russians. Are they | 3:01:39 | 3:01:44 | |
going to stay in 17th place? They
are. No material improvement. We | 3:01:44 | 3:01:53 | |
move to the last three in our third
run. Next to nothing | 3:01:53 | 3:02:06 | |
run. Next to nothing between Jamanka
and Meyers Taylor for the lead. It | 3:02:06 | 3:02:09 | |
looks as though they are going to
fight out the gold medal run just | 3:02:09 | 3:02:13 | |
over an hour. Not a bad run at all.
Just a couple of mistakes here and | 3:02:13 | 3:02:19 | |
there. Their equipment just isn't
working, forward have a reason they | 3:02:19 | 3:02:25 | |
are a powerhouse nation in sliding
and they haven't brought their | 3:02:25 | 3:02:30 | |
A-game. That's all I can say. You
can see the yellow sled, the leader, | 3:02:30 | 3:02:36 | |
just pulling away quite dramatically
in one corner. That's real time | 3:02:36 | 3:02:39 | |
footage of the overlay. Next will go
the Jamaicans, Jazmine | 3:02:39 | 3:02:49 | |
Fenlator-Victorian and Carrie
Russell on the brake. It's been a | 3:02:49 | 3:02:53 | |
disappointing games for them. The
pregames hype was really good. | 3:02:53 | 3:03:00 | |
Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian,
absolutely fantastic at press | 3:03:00 | 3:03:02 | |
conferences beforehand, talking with
great emotion about how she hopes | 3:03:02 | 3:03:08 | |
she can inspire young black boys and
girls, in particular, to say, if I | 3:03:08 | 3:03:16 | |
can make it here for Jamaica, you
hold onto that dream as well. They | 3:03:16 | 3:03:19 | |
were seventh in winter burg, but
they are a long way off that form. | 3:03:19 | 3:03:26 | |
They've got to put yesterday's
disappointments firmly behind them | 3:03:26 | 3:03:30 | |
and get back in shape. They seemed
to slide a little bit away from the | 3:03:30 | 3:03:35 | |
push. Not quite steady, a little
mistake. The issue the Jamaican team | 3:03:35 | 3:03:42 | |
have had is they've sort of got rid
of their coach. A bit of an internal | 3:03:42 | 3:03:45 | |
squabble. | 3:03:45 | 3:03:50 | |
squabble. For a driver to not have a
coach at this level, and at this | 3:03:51 | 3:03:55 | |
event, or any event, and she really
does well through that point, but | 3:03:55 | 3:04:02 | |
it's the most important part of the
team, because they are your eyes and | 3:04:02 | 3:04:05 | |
ears on the track to give you the
good lines. She comes far too low | 3:04:05 | 3:04:08 | |
down that point, driving too hard.
That coach, they have had to do | 3:04:08 | 3:04:18 | |
without them, and I'm afraid the
results have rather reflected the | 3:04:18 | 3:04:23 | |
turmoil that has caused. They stay
18th. Their expectations were to be | 3:04:23 | 3:04:27 | |
much higher than that. And you'd
expect that from a pilot of her | 3:04:27 | 3:04:36 | |
quality. She has won medals for the
US team when she used to slide for | 3:04:36 | 3:04:41 | |
the USA, so it shows she has that
ability, but she isn't showing it | 3:04:41 | 3:04:46 | |
here. Maybe it's because of all the
stuff that's gone on in the | 3:04:46 | 3:04:50 | |
background. It's knocked her
confidence and ability to really | 3:04:50 | 3:04:54 | |
fine tune into the track. A pat on
the head nevertheless for Carrie | 3:04:54 | 3:05:00 | |
Russell through the finish. We'll
see the Jamaicans one more time. | 3:05:00 | 3:05:04 | |
Their fourth and final run not far
away. | 3:05:04 | 3:05:11 | |
Two more to go. World ranked number
19th and in 19th place, Austria, a | 3:05:11 | 3:05:18 | |
tree on | 3:05:18 | 3:05:24 | |
tree on bail -- Katrin Beierl and
Victoria Hahn. She tends to make | 3:05:24 | 3:05:30 | |
plenty of mistakes on this track.
She has much potential but it's cost | 3:05:30 | 3:05:35 | |
her here. That was better than
yesterday. She is trying to get it | 3:05:35 | 3:05:39 | |
right. Hopefully on the next run
she'll get one through at least to | 3:05:39 | 3:05:45 | |
finish her Olympics off with
something to smile about. She is | 3:05:45 | 3:05:49 | |
still very experienced as a pilot,
and this is what we are seeing. On | 3:05:49 | 3:05:54 | |
the European tracks she knows, she's
done relatively well, but that may | 3:05:54 | 3:05:58 | |
be shows her ability to quickly, she
hasn't got it because she's not got | 3:05:58 | 3:06:03 | |
the skills in front of the sled to
be able to adapt. 2.39, a chance | 3:06:03 | 3:06:10 | |
they could nip ahead of the
Jamaicans into 18th they have done | 3:06:10 | 3:06:13 | |
exactly that. Jazmine
Fenlator-Victorian drops back into | 3:06:13 | 3:06:19 | |
19th, with just the Nigerian team to
go. 51.51. Pretty consistent. That | 3:06:19 | 3:06:30 | |
was a good heat, especially when you
think the Jamaican that came down | 3:06:30 | 3:06:38 | |
before her, they were almost three
tenths quicker, so it shows that was | 3:06:38 | 3:06:41 | |
a good run and she put in the lines
where she needed to, other than two | 3:06:41 | 3:06:47 | |
to three. Hopefully they can now
make a run on the next one to try | 3:06:47 | 3:06:50 | |
and move up out of the top 18 and
maybe towards 15 they have to get it | 3:06:50 | 3:06:55 | |
right first ball. And they have one
more opportunity to do so. Run | 3:06:55 | 3:07:00 | |
number three comes to its
conclusion. The Nigerian flags are | 3:07:00 | 3:07:06 | |
raised once again here. They've
created a really nice feeling here. | 3:07:06 | 3:07:15 | |
We have a new brake, replacing a
Cormac Tommy O'Donnell. -- replacing | 3:07:15 | 3:07:27 | |
Omeoga. If you brought a team of
three, I suppose it's appropriate | 3:07:27 | 3:07:33 | |
for you all to be history makers on
the track. Not shows the first team | 3:07:33 | 3:07:38 | |
from Nigeria to contest Olympic
bobsleigh at these games, but the | 3:07:38 | 3:07:45 | |
first from Africa. Whether it's
clean or | 3:07:45 | 3:07:54 | |
clean or messy, Seun Adigun will
relish the spinal two runs. She's | 3:07:54 | 3:07:57 | |
been full of positivity. Can they
get inside 5.54? Sadly not. | 3:07:57 | 3:08:07 | |
get inside 5.54? Sadly not. A
different brake woman, so it might | 3:08:07 | 3:08:08 | |
be slightly different. A good line,
slightly better than yesterday. You | 3:08:08 | 3:08:13 | |
can already hear, trying to listen
to the track as she's coming down, I | 3:08:13 | 3:08:18 | |
don't know who's taught her that
line, but that's not great, it's not | 3:08:18 | 3:08:22 | |
the way she should be coming round
that corner. You can hear her | 3:08:22 | 3:08:26 | |
digging into the eyes of the time
that she's steering, and that's the | 3:08:26 | 3:08:30 | |
level of pilot she is. It shows she
has potential to get it right. This | 3:08:30 | 3:08:38 | |
is the best run she's put down so
far. Good for her that she is trying | 3:08:38 | 3:08:42 | |
to clear things up and make an
improvement. That early mistake was | 3:08:42 | 3:08:45 | |
unusual, the first mistake we've
seen at any event, and staying in | 3:08:45 | 3:08:51 | |
20th place. You can see the reaction
from those who know. This is more | 3:08:51 | 3:08:58 | |
about the history of it all. 52.31,
much better than heat number two, | 3:08:58 | 3:09:04 | |
not quite as good as heat one.
Enjoyed their reaction to that. They | 3:09:04 | 3:09:10 | |
will be really thrilled. And so they
should be. Not as many big mistakes, | 3:09:10 | 3:09:14 | |
although we still saw a couple. | 3:09:14 | 3:09:22 | |
although we still saw a couple. This
line, she starts low, she releases | 3:09:22 | 3:09:24 | |
the steering, which is why you see
the sled shook up, then it falls out | 3:09:24 | 3:09:28 | |
of the corner because it has nowhere
to go. It's the whole knock-on | 3:09:28 | 3:09:33 | |
effect. But this run, we've seen
some of the top pilots struggled to | 3:09:33 | 3:09:42 | |
get through there like that. That
completes run number three. Gold | 3:09:42 | 3:09:48 | |
medal run to come pretty shortly.
What a race for gold where going to | 3:09:48 | 3:09:52 | |
have. | 3:09:52 | 3:09:58 | |
have. Jamanka and Meyers Taylor
leading the field, four hundredths | 3:09:58 | 3:10:01 | |
of second between them. That gold
medal looks a long way away for | 3:10:01 | 3:10:05 | |
Kaillie Humphries, almost impossible
for her to get a third, but she is | 3:10:05 | 3:10:11 | |
in pole position for bronze, ahead
of Jamie Greubel Poser and | 3:10:11 | 3:10:14 | |
Schneider, as we look down the
standings. Great Britain in eighth | 3:10:14 | 3:10:19 | |
place. Mica McNeill and Mica Moore.
Slightly disappointing run at the | 3:10:19 | 3:10:24 | |
time, but a comfortable margin back
to the tenth team from Austria. Kim | 3:10:24 | 3:10:30 | |
for Korea in 12th. | 3:10:30 | 3:10:36 | |
for Korea in 12th. Disappointing
games for Russia and Germany | 3:10:36 | 3:10:37 | |
respectively. And those at the
bottom include the Jamaicans, with | 3:10:37 | 3:10:45 | |
Nigeria in last place. But to go
first, as we go in reverse order for | 3:10:45 | 3:10:53 | |
heat four. | 3:10:53 | 3:10:54 | |
That happens at 1pm, but let's get
the reaction to that third run. | 3:10:58 | 3:11:05 | |
Slipping two places, what happened?
Whether it was the focus... Who | 3:11:05 | 3:11:10 | |
knows at this point. The run was
just wasn't as clean. A few little | 3:11:10 | 3:11:16 | |
mistakes, a bit skidding. With the
start, relative to the fastest, it | 3:11:16 | 3:11:21 | |
was closer, but the drive wasn't as
good. Hard to tell whether the ice | 3:11:21 | 3:11:28 | |
was colder today, -11, so that means
your equipment, your bobs, whether | 3:11:28 | 3:11:33 | |
or not she had the same setup as
yesterday, is that causing her to | 3:11:33 | 3:11:38 | |
drive differently? Slightly skiing,
-- skidding, a bit more scruffy, | 3:11:38 | 3:11:46 | |
falling off the corners a bit more.
It's the consistency, putting down | 3:11:46 | 3:11:50 | |
most four runs. That really took
away the speed there. And she'd been | 3:11:50 | 3:11:56 | |
really nailing it. And then she was
a bit unsettled for three or four | 3:11:56 | 3:12:00 | |
corners. They are only 24 and 25,
junior champions last year, and this | 3:12:00 | 3:12:07 | |
is a big step up. Perhaps it's not
surprising if you get a bit rattled. | 3:12:07 | 3:12:12 | |
Yes, and if she can hold that eighth
place, it will still be the best | 3:12:12 | 3:12:17 | |
ever result by a British women's
team, and it would be amazing. They | 3:12:17 | 3:12:22 | |
are the future of this sport. And
it's so important for women's | 3:12:22 | 3:12:27 | |
bobsleigh in this country that they
are there and getting airtime and | 3:12:27 | 3:12:30 | |
doing well. Yes, so not a lot of
development athletes in the women's | 3:12:30 | 3:12:35 | |
programme at the moment, so the more
they can show this is a sport for | 3:12:35 | 3:12:38 | |
women, that is something we can be
good at, they will attract... They | 3:12:38 | 3:12:45 | |
will have gained so much from these
Olympics. Fast forward four years, | 3:12:45 | 3:12:49 | |
how much more they can achieve. The
top lines between the top bobsleigh, | 3:12:49 | 3:12:55 | |
those oscillations, the highs, lows,
the loops, you are trying to get the | 3:12:55 | 3:13:00 | |
cleanest, flattest line. They were
so high, almost on the wood and not | 3:13:00 | 3:13:04 | |
to flip. She had concussion last
year, they didn't go in October down | 3:13:04 | 3:13:10 | |
to the funding, so this is the first
time she's been on the track, so | 3:13:10 | 3:13:15 | |
much less experienced than anybody
else out there competing, and yet | 3:13:15 | 3:13:18 | |
she is still competing. And she's
only had 11 runs, the others had | 3:13:18 | 3:13:23 | |
about 45. A track record broken by
Jamanka, then Meyers Taylor went | 3:13:23 | 3:13:30 | |
even faster. These shots we saw
afterwards, Jamanka it looks like | 3:13:30 | 3:13:34 | |
she is running up that blade with
her hand, what is she up to? You are | 3:13:34 | 3:13:43 | |
sliding on four blades, and every
scratch costs you a couple of | 3:13:43 | 3:13:46 | |
hundredths of a second, so they get
four pieces of sandpaper, not even a | 3:13:46 | 3:13:51 | |
good grip, and they go over them,
trying to make sure they are as | 3:13:51 | 3:13:55 | |
smooth as possible, so it doesn't
brake up any ice at all. We saw the | 3:13:55 | 3:14:00 | |
USA doing the same thing. The gap
between gold and silver is now four | 3:14:00 | 3:14:06 | |
hundredths of a second, and it was
600ths in the men's, which ended in | 3:14:06 | 3:14:10 | |
a dead heat. Let's take the
opportunity now to catch up on the | 3:14:10 | 3:14:17 | |
head life far on day 12. | 3:14:17 | 3:14:27 | |
And Goggia the first Italian woman
to win the down hill. Lindsey Vonn, | 3:14:28 | 3:14:36 | |
probably her finest Olympic medal. | 3:14:36 | 3:14:39 | |
to win the down hill. Lindsey Vonn,
probably her finest Olympic medal. | 3:14:39 | 3:14:44 | |
And the women's skating got under
way. | 3:14:44 | 3:14:50 | |
way. Zagitova had a record score. In
the curling the goodbye women beat | 3:14:50 | 3:14:54 | |
Dan to confirm their place in
Friday's semifinals, the Canadians | 3:14:54 | 3:14:59 | |
were gold list in Sochi but that
sends them out of the competition. | 3:14:59 | 3:15:03 | |
It was a different story for the
British men who lost 10-4 against | 3:15:03 | 3:15:08 | |
the USA. If they are to reach the
semifinals they will have to win a | 3:15:08 | 3:15:14 | |
tie-breaker against the Swiss.
Marit Bjoergen has become the most | 3:15:14 | 3:15:25 | |
decorated winter Olympians of all
time. She took bronze in the | 3:15:25 | 3:15:32 | |
cross-country sprint. | 3:15:32 | 3:15:37 | |
The Norwegians won the corresponding
men's race, earning their 12th gold | 3:15:37 | 3:15:41 | |
medal of the game, they ended ahead
of the OAR and France and the | 3:15:41 | 3:15:48 | |
goodbye team failed to qualify for
the finals. -- GB team. But as you | 3:15:48 | 3:15:53 | |
have seen, our British pair in the
women's bob lying in 8th place, we | 3:15:53 | 3:15:58 | |
will show their fourth run live on
BBC Two. One of the big hits of the | 3:15:58 | 3:16:04 | |
competition has been big air, we
will see the men shortly and it will | 3:16:04 | 3:16:09 | |
feature Billy Morgan who is an
acrobatic guy. He did the | 3:16:09 | 3:16:14 | |
slopestyle, finished ten. Big air is
his thing, Ed Leigh went to meet him | 3:16:14 | 3:16:21 | |
before the games.
Is this going to be your last | 3:16:21 | 3:16:28 | |
Olympics? Before they came up I was
thinking this is probably going to | 3:16:28 | 3:16:32 | |
be my last one. I am hoping they
separate slopestyle and big air and | 3:16:32 | 3:16:37 | |
I could do big air, this year the
qualifications are for both. But if | 3:16:37 | 3:16:42 | |
they separated them, I could do big
air. | 3:16:42 | 3:16:49 | |
He did a triple backslide rodeo,
first man to do that. You were the | 3:16:49 | 3:16:55 | |
first man to do the Quad cork.
Stands to reason that big air is | 3:16:55 | 3:16:59 | |
your discipline. When that was
included did you your hands like | 3:16:59 | 3:17:03 | |
this, ooh yes? Not really I thought
I had done the Quad, which was | 3:17:03 | 3:17:08 | |
amazing but it was the scariest
thing I had ever done. Because it | 3:17:08 | 3:17:12 | |
was on such a specific jump for the
job, I was like I hope I don't have | 3:17:12 | 3:17:17 | |
do that under pressure, I was stoked
to get it done, and then, big air is | 3:17:17 | 3:17:23 | |
in the Olympics and I am like, I am
probably going to have to give it | 3:17:23 | 3:17:27 | |
another go. Is it still scary? I
only did it the one, I haven't done | 3:17:27 | 3:17:32 | |
it since, so, we keep coming out to,
with the objective to try it again. | 3:17:32 | 3:17:38 | |
But we haven't had a jump big enough
yet or I've been too scared. Are you | 3:17:38 | 3:17:48 | |
conscious you have changed
snowboarding. Shouldn't have done | 3:17:48 | 3:17:51 | |
it. I am glad I did it and got the
first title but I wish I had kept | 3:17:51 | 3:17:58 | |
the gates closed longerer there are
a few guys that have done it now. | 3:17:58 | 3:18:04 | |
How is the build up to this Olympics
been compared to the last one? I | 3:18:04 | 3:18:10 | |
think it's been similar, because we
are always chasing the new tricks | 3:18:10 | 3:18:14 | |
and trying to up the snowboarding as
much as possible. It is the same | 3:18:14 | 3:18:18 | |
goal. The tricks have moved on a lot
since then. A lot of guys head to | 3:18:18 | 3:18:23 | |
the gym, a lot of guys head to the
air bags and things like that to | 3:18:23 | 3:18:27 | |
train. You do power acro, balance
yoga sport, you do something ditch | 3:18:27 | 3:18:34 | |
rent. I try and mix it up as much as
possible. I was an acrobat when I | 3:18:34 | 3:18:42 | |
was younger and I try to bring that
into my training and I have someone | 3:18:42 | 3:18:48 | |
to do acro, it is like doing squats
but instead I am leg pressing a | 3:18:48 | 3:18:54 | |
human, so it is more balance and
perception stuff. I do lots of gym | 3:18:54 | 3:19:00 | |
stuff, skate a bit, and do some acro
to keep everything going. | 3:19:00 | 3:19:10 | |
What can we expect from you? You can
expect me to try my hardest. That is | 3:19:13 | 3:19:19 | |
the answer I was looking for. I will
try my hardest. I don't like to | 3:19:19 | 3:19:24 | |
think about whether I can get a
medal, because it is such a roll of | 3:19:24 | 3:19:28 | |
the dice on the day. If everybody
falls over, I will definitely win, | 3:19:28 | 3:19:34 | |
but, if everybody lands it makes it
a harder game. How excited are you | 3:19:34 | 3:19:39 | |
about the encollusion of big air?
Epic. We have two chances to show | 3:19:39 | 3:19:44 | |
off what we do. We have always done
big air as well. It is no like it is | 3:19:44 | 3:19:49 | |
sprung upon us and we have to learn
new stuff. I am glad they are | 3:19:49 | 3:19:53 | |
including it and they give us a
chance to show what we can do. | 3:19:53 | 3:19:59 | |
Apologies to Tim, that was him
talking to Billy Morgan, training | 3:19:59 | 3:20:02 | |
for that looks dangerous enough,
this is the biggest ramp in the | 3:20:02 | 3:20:07 | |
world for big air, 49 metres high
and that should mean the biggest | 3:20:07 | 3:20:12 | |
trick, first challenge for Billy
Morgan is to get through the | 3:20:12 | 3:20:15 | |
qualifying. Top six from each heat
will go into the final. This is how | 3:20:15 | 3:20:19 | |
they got on.
Welcome to men's | 3:20:19 | 3:20:25 | |
they got on.
Welcome to men's snowboard big air | 3:20:25 | 3:20:26 | |
qualification. Michael Shearer.
Junior World Champion, 2014. | 3:20:26 | 3:20:41 | |
So switch, backside. Triple cork,
1440, that was really nice. That leg | 3:20:41 | 3:20:49 | |
grab in there. It is a big, big
signpost to the judge, they hate | 3:20:49 | 3:20:54 | |
seeing that.
87 points is third place. | 3:20:54 | 3:21:02 | |
Tony Nicholls just getting into the
groove. It is all on the line here. | 3:21:02 | 3:21:07 | |
Unlucky not to make finals in
slopestyle. He was, he will want to | 3:21:07 | 3:21:13 | |
make amends here. He needs to send
it from the top here. The boy from | 3:21:13 | 3:21:18 | |
Bradford. 24 years of age. That is
what he does, he barely took a slide | 3:21:18 | 3:21:23 | |
slip. Tower -- powering in. 1440.
Yes! That is how you do it. It is a | 3:21:23 | 3:21:31 | |
flat spin, a 1440, it was big. And
it was switch. Yes. Where is grab? | 3:21:31 | 3:21:37 | |
There isn't one. No body grab. Held
all the way. Boom! 81.25. It is not | 3:21:37 | 3:21:46 | |
there. 8th place. He knocks down his
fellow countryman. He knows for 2018 | 3:21:46 | 3:21:54 | |
his Olympics is done. Now, this is
going to be a lot of fun, what is | 3:21:54 | 3:22:00 | |
Max Parrot going to do? He has the
lead at moment, very very | 3:22:00 | 3:22:04 | |
comfortably, is he going to send
this one, is he going to use this to | 3:22:04 | 3:22:08 | |
test things out or will he coast
along? He is scrubbing a lot of | 3:22:08 | 3:22:11 | |
speed. He is going frontside again,
I think. Same trick, frontside, | 3:22:11 | 3:22:17 | |
triple cork, 14, even better. That
is an improvement in the score for | 3:22:17 | 3:22:22 | |
him. There is no-one, no-one who
works like Parrot and he imagines | 3:22:22 | 3:22:28 | |
that dedication with the desire to
win. Told you. Into the 90s. Take a | 3:22:28 | 3:22:38 | |
bow. We are watching the man who
everyone else has to beat. | 3:22:38 | 3:22:45 | |
Next Chris Corning. Sniff round a
quad? No slouch on a snowboard. | 3:22:45 | 3:23:00 | |
Another 1440. He has a bit of style
on that. Really nice. He has time to | 3:23:05 | 3:23:13 | |
stretch out the front leg. 88. So,
he jumps into second place ahead of | 3:23:13 | 3:23:25 | |
fellow countryman Kyle Mack. He
still wouldn't have beaten Max | 3:23:25 | 3:23:30 | |
Parrot's score. | 3:23:30 | 3:23:35 | |
Parrot's score. This man brings hiss
own flavour and style. Oh my | 3:23:36 | 3:23:43 | |
goodness. Great tweak, but it's from
a boot grab. How much are judges | 3:23:43 | 3:23:51 | |
going to punish him for a boot grab?
88.75. So the judges seemingly not | 3:23:51 | 3:24:00 | |
too worried about the boot grab,
interesting. So Gerard, gold | 3:24:00 | 3:24:08 | |
medallist, slopestyle Olympic
champion. | 3:24:08 | 3:24:13 | |
Needs something very very good here.
Again, opens up very early. | 3:24:22 | 3:24:29 | |
It feels to me like he sold himself
a little short there. | 3:24:29 | 3:24:35 | |
What do I know? The judges have
given it an 85. | 3:24:35 | 3:24:43 | |
So Mattsson in 15th. He definitely
has the power. Like Jamie Nicholls | 3:24:46 | 3:24:53 | |
he doesn't dip his spins so no short
cuts for him. His rotations are kept | 3:24:53 | 3:24:58 | |
flat. I think he is changing that
now. | 3:24:58 | 3:25:03 | |
Oh my goodness. Unlimited power.
That was beautiful. Look at the way | 3:25:03 | 3:25:09 | |
he comes through here, such
beautiful close board control. 4.5 | 3:25:09 | 3:25:16 | |
spins we have seen put down nice an
cleanly, the trailing hand is just | 3:25:16 | 3:25:22 | |
poised. Look at that. | 3:25:22 | 3:25:30 | |
poised. Look at that. He is well
within reach of the top spot. It is | 3:25:30 | 3:25:35 | |
rowan Coultas.
So out of Bedford via Austria... He | 3:25:35 | 3:25:46 | |
goes big an it is clean but the
trailing article was on the knee | 3:25:46 | 3:25:50 | |
again. | 3:25:50 | 3:25:55 | |
again. Stays off the knee. Think it
does. It is an improvement. But not | 3:25:56 | 3:26:02 | |
enough. Oh no. He missed out by 0.
5. | 3:26:02 | 3:26:10 | |
Max Parrot looking all powerful at
the top of the standings there, | 3:26:10 | 3:26:14 | |
no-one even close to that 92.5. Not
when you look at how close the | 3:26:14 | 3:26:20 | |
scores | 3:26:20 | 3:26:27 | |
scores were, fifth place Schaerer.
It is not done and dusted yet. Heat | 3:26:27 | 3:26:31 | |
two just round the corner.
Bergrem, we have talked about the | 3:26:31 | 3:26:42 | |
fact this Norwegian has sat in the
shadow of perhaps the more high | 3:26:42 | 3:26:47 | |
profile names on the team but it is
undeserve, he is stylish in his own | 3:26:47 | 3:26:52 | |
right and brilliant at big air. Yes,
big air winner, 1620. Oh my | 3:26:52 | 3:26:59 | |
goodness. That is as big as we have
seen anyone go. Heat one or two. | 3:26:59 | 3:27:06 | |
Two. 94.25. So it is a different
contest, you can't compare it but it | 3:27:06 | 3:27:14 | |
is same set of judges and way bigger
than Max Parrot's score from heat | 3:27:14 | 3:27:19 | |
one. So Seb Toutant. The French
Canadian dropping in switch. Switch. | 3:27:19 | 3:27:29 | |
Switch frontside spin coming up.
Switch, frontside double cork, 1620, | 3:27:29 | 3:27:42 | |
ladies and gentlemen, sit down,
strap yourselves in, it is calling | 3:27:42 | 3:27:45 | |
it. Lost it. Yes, second place. He
makes it lose easy. | 3:27:45 | 3:27:56 | |
So next rider in Boesiger. | 3:27:56 | 3:28:03 | |
Ooh! The cameraman got a bit
confused there. | 3:28:12 | 3:28:17 | |
Look how much it means to him. He is
absolutely over the moon with that | 3:28:17 | 3:28:21 | |
one. Backside 1620, triple cork.
Keeping his hands up there. | 3:28:21 | 3:28:27 | |
Let us see, it does go down.
96! Wow! Oh my goodness. | 3:28:27 | 3:28:40 | |
Next in Garcia Knight. He is in
fifth place. Landed backside was it | 3:28:40 | 3:28:50 | |
switch backside or... Switch
backside 16. To start, dropping in | 3:28:50 | 3:28:56 | |
forwards this time. Oh no.
Signposting that he is going switch | 3:28:56 | 3:29:00 | |
with a 180 at the top. He will clean
this up. And he has. | 3:29:00 | 3:29:08 | |
I don't think it was possible to
clean it up. Look at the style as | 3:29:08 | 3:29:13 | |
well. Really nice. Brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant. 97.5, say | 3:29:13 | 3:29:23 | |
hello to first place Garcia Knight.
That is ludicrous. | 3:29:23 | 3:29:26 | |
Wow. | 3:29:26 | 3:29:31 | |
Next in, Mark McMorris. Currently in
fifth place, just ahead of Billy | 3:29:31 | 3:29:40 | |
Morgan. We say this a lot, but it's
not somewhere he is used to being | 3:29:40 | 3:29:45 | |
sacked. Mark McMorris is bone fide
podium material. | 3:29:45 | 3:29:58 | |
A sharp intake of breath from the
commentary booth. He's gone switch | 3:29:58 | 3:30:04 | |
backside, arguably the hardest
direction to spin it, and he's | 3:30:04 | 3:30:07 | |
fighting fire with fire. | 3:30:07 | 3:30:12 | |
fighting fire with fire. 95.75. That
switch backside working with the | 3:30:14 | 3:30:16 | |
judges. They like it. Now the
British fans in effect getting ready | 3:30:16 | 3:30:23 | |
for this man, Billy Morgan. Back in
2015, he landed the | 3:30:23 | 3:30:35 | |
2015, he landed the quad cork. This
jump not big enough for it at the | 3:30:37 | 3:30:40 | |
moment, supposedly. Massive. Oh,
it's better! It's better! Oh, Billy! | 3:30:40 | 3:30:54 | |
Bending the board. Lee Morgan, 90.5.
The look on the lead's face. Carlos | 3:30:54 | 3:31:05 | |
Garcia Knight, blazing his way to
the top second qualification heat. | 3:31:05 | 3:31:09 | |
Jonas Boesiger in second, Sebastien
Toutant in fifth. Billy Morgan in | 3:31:09 | 3:31:15 | |
six. | 3:31:15 | 3:31:16 | |
So Billy Morgan will be in the final
Big Air, late Friday night, 1am, and | 3:31:20 | 3:31:25 | |
I think will all be following that.
I love the enthusiasm of our | 3:31:25 | 3:31:32 | |
commentators. I don't know what any
of those tricks are, but it's so | 3:31:32 | 3:31:35 | |
exciting! I know, just nailing it.
All about the backside. Very cool. | 3:31:35 | 3:31:44 | |
The judges loved a backside! We've
seen so fantastic sports but none so | 3:31:44 | 3:31:48 | |
chaotic as you find in ski cross. If
the downhill is Formula 1, this is | 3:31:48 | 3:31:54 | |
bumper cars, knockout all the way.
Edgeley again in the commentary box, | 3:31:54 | 3:31:58 | |
this time with Graham Bell. | 3:31:58 | 3:32:05 | |
Even though he's in the blue bib in
the outside lane, I think the Brady | 3:32:15 | 3:32:21 | |
Leman is going to go well. | 3:32:21 | 3:32:30 | |
Leman is going to go well. Niederer
not panicking his quarterfinal, | 3:32:30 | 3:32:31 | |
pulled himself into the lead. Two
Swiss, one Slovenian and a Canadian. | 3:32:31 | 3:32:37 | |
And the Swiss drop, and it's looking
like Brady Leman on the outside has | 3:32:37 | 3:32:42 | |
just got ahead of Flissar. | 3:32:42 | 3:32:49 | |
just got ahead of Flissar. Brady
Leman in second, but somehow Marc | 3:32:49 | 3:32:55 | |
Bischofberger in yellow blasted out
in front. I think maybe Flissar and | 3:32:55 | 3:32:59 | |
Brady Leman cancelled each other
out. They let the Swiss through. | 3:32:59 | 3:33:05 | |
He's made a mistake, and he's going
to open the door. And the Canadian | 3:33:05 | 3:33:11 | |
taking advantage, Flissar in third,
Niederer in fourth, desperately | 3:33:11 | 3:33:17 | |
trying to find a way in front of
Flissar. The Canadian and the Swiss | 3:33:17 | 3:33:22 | |
battling it out. Marc Bischofberger
coming back, the great line. | 3:33:22 | 3:33:32 | |
Niederer all the way through from
fourth. Will we see him coming right | 3:33:32 | 3:33:36 | |
back through to the front? It's
Brady Leman's to lose. He's in lead | 3:33:36 | 3:33:40 | |
towards the last kicker. It's
closed. He punches it forward. Brady | 3:33:40 | 3:33:47 | |
Leman goes through, into the Olympic
final again. Fourth place last time | 3:33:47 | 3:33:50 | |
in Sochi. What can he do now? This
is where we see that mistake from | 3:33:50 | 3:34:00 | |
Marc Bischofberger. Inside ski lead
into the turn too much. As long as | 3:34:00 | 3:34:07 | |
Brady Leman can ski that cleanly,
he'll be fine. If it wasn't for the | 3:34:07 | 3:34:13 | |
mistake from Marc Bischofberger, he
would have taken that when, but it | 3:34:13 | 3:34:17 | |
doesn't matter, he is qualified,
through to the finals, but he'll | 3:34:17 | 3:34:24 | |
know that if you make a mistake like
that into the final, you could be | 3:34:24 | 3:34:27 | |
out of the medals. Back up to the
top for the second of the sect Derry | 3:34:27 | 3:34:35 | |
semifinals. I think the last
Frenchman in the mix, Bovolenta. | 3:34:35 | 3:34:45 | |
Dave Duncan broke his collarbone
ahead of the Olympics in Vancouver. | 3:34:45 | 3:34:51 | |
Bovolenta in the nearest lane. He
hasn't been starting that quickly | 3:34:51 | 3:34:55 | |
but he makes his presence felt. He's
done the same. He has made a right | 3:34:55 | 3:34:59 | |
hash brown of it. Sergey Ridzik keen
to cut out the Canadians. Dave | 3:34:59 | 3:35:08 | |
Duncan in the yellow bib, and then
Kevin Drury in the green, trying to | 3:35:08 | 3:35:11 | |
go around the outside, but
Bovolenta, his maths has worked for | 3:35:11 | 3:35:17 | |
him, and he's back in the mix.
Flailing in last place though. -- is | 3:35:17 | 3:35:22 | |
maths. | 3:35:22 | 3:35:27 | |
maths. At the moment, Dave Duncan in
the yellow bib in second. Racing | 3:35:28 | 3:35:34 | |
round the outside. Dave Duncan has
gone wide, letting his team-mate | 3:35:34 | 3:35:38 | |
through. Sergey Ridzik into second.
Somehow, Bovolenta is in the mix, | 3:35:38 | 3:35:43 | |
after all those mistakes. They have
done -- Dave Duncan was hopping over | 3:35:43 | 3:35:50 | |
the tails of Bovolenta's skis in
fourth. I think that Sergey Ridzik | 3:35:50 | 3:35:58 | |
is just clear of Bovolenta. Kevin
Drury out in front, Sergey Ridzik in | 3:35:58 | 3:36:05 | |
second, Bovolenta in third. And Dave
Duncan slipping all the way down to | 3:36:05 | 3:36:09 | |
fourth. What a race! That is Sergey
Ridzik's big move on the outside, | 3:36:09 | 3:36:17 | |
and so close, Dave Duncan actually,
I think, shaving a bit of speed to | 3:36:17 | 3:36:20 | |
make sure he doesn't take down Brady
Leman. Looking like it's going to be | 3:36:20 | 3:36:26 | |
a real humdinger. We've got two
Canadians through, Kevin Drury and | 3:36:26 | 3:36:32 | |
Brady Leman, from the first heat,
and the Russian and the Swiss will | 3:36:32 | 3:36:37 | |
stop Marc Bischofberger looking very
strong. If he can get out in front, | 3:36:37 | 3:36:42 | |
he could take gold, but he's got two
Canadians to worry about. Watch out | 3:36:42 | 3:36:45 | |
for Sergey Ridzik. Back up to the
top. It's time to hand out the | 3:36:45 | 3:36:53 | |
medals. This is going to be very,
very close. They are lining up in | 3:36:53 | 3:36:59 | |
the gates. Marc Bischofberger in the
lane closest to the camera. The | 3:36:59 | 3:37:07 | |
mechanic from Switzerland, up
against the Olympic Athlete from | 3:37:07 | 3:37:11 | |
Russia, Sergey Ridzik, who has raced
very well, quickest of these racers | 3:37:11 | 3:37:16 | |
in the seeding round. And there is
Brady Leman, is the chance, he was | 3:37:16 | 3:37:21 | |
fourth in Sochi four years ago. In
the green bib macro on the outside, | 3:37:21 | 3:37:29 | |
unusually opting for the outside
lane, Kevin Drury, the Canadians so | 3:37:29 | 3:37:33 | |
fast, the Russians so clever, and
Marc Bischofberger so widely. They | 3:37:33 | 3:37:38 | |
are under starter 's orders. This
drop-off start... Pressure on the | 3:37:38 | 3:37:49 | |
gate and the skis. They are
underway. Radial and looking good, | 3:37:49 | 3:37:55 | |
but it's the Russian that's ahead.
-- the Canadian looking good. A lot | 3:37:55 | 3:38:05 | |
of work to be done by the Canadians.
Look at that move from Brady Leman! | 3:38:05 | 3:38:11 | |
It's gone for the Russian! Who can
get up fastest? A battle for gold | 3:38:11 | 3:38:19 | |
between Marc Bischofberger and Brady
Leman. Brady Leman is guaranteed a | 3:38:19 | 3:38:23 | |
medal as long as he can stay on his
feet. Marc Bischofberger in silver | 3:38:23 | 3:38:28 | |
medal position, chasing down Brady
Leman. Can Sergey Ridzik get up and | 3:38:28 | 3:38:33 | |
claim the bronze, or will it be the
Canadian? We are focusing on the | 3:38:33 | 3:38:38 | |
front, and it would be incredible
from Brady Leman. Eight years ago, | 3:38:38 | 3:38:42 | |
he broke his leg just ahead of the
Winter Olympics. Four years ago, | 3:38:42 | 3:38:48 | |
agonisingly fourth. He is losing a
bit of time. Marc Bischofberger | 3:38:48 | 3:38:53 | |
slipstreaming, and Sergey Ridzik in
bronze medal position. As they come | 3:38:53 | 3:38:56 | |
over the last Jungle... Flailing for
the Canadian. -- over the last jump. | 3:38:56 | 3:39:05 | |
What an incredible performance from
Brady Leman! Silver for Marc | 3:39:05 | 3:39:10 | |
Bischofberger, the Swiss leader of
the World Cup. He turns it into a | 3:39:10 | 3:39:13 | |
medal. And then it is Sergey the
Russian, working his way through. | 3:39:13 | 3:39:23 | |
Unfortunately for Kevin Drury, a
Canadian, who convincingly let every | 3:39:23 | 3:39:26 | |
one of his races up to this point,
he's taken out. I think it was Drury | 3:39:26 | 3:39:33 | |
that went down. We'll have to see
that crashed again. These are the | 3:39:33 | 3:39:38 | |
medallists, and look what it means
to Brady Leman. It's taken him so | 3:39:38 | 3:39:42 | |
long to get there, onto an Olympic
podium, and he's got top spot. Marc | 3:39:42 | 3:39:47 | |
Bischofberger right over the front
end of his skis, beautifully | 3:39:47 | 3:39:50 | |
positioned. The speed that Brady
Leman gets coming in to hear... It | 3:39:50 | 3:39:57 | |
was a definite fall for Kevin Drury.
Went down first, and took Sergey | 3:39:57 | 3:40:01 | |
Ridzik out at the knees. Brady
Leman, soaking up these jumps, down | 3:40:01 | 3:40:09 | |
into the finish area, and Marc
Bischofberger, so close, you could | 3:40:09 | 3:40:12 | |
nearly touch Brady Leman, but he
takes silver, and then Sergey Ridzik | 3:40:12 | 3:40:19 | |
for bronze. | 3:40:19 | 3:40:23 | |
Decent crowd and good conditions,
fabulous action in the ski cross, | 3:40:23 | 3:40:26 | |
giving Canada their ninth gold medal
of the games, in third place, | 3:40:26 | 3:40:31 | |
stretching clear of the Netherlands.
Great Britain still in 16th place, | 3:40:31 | 3:40:38 | |
with just one gold and three
bronzes. We started today hoping | 3:40:38 | 3:40:41 | |
that maybe the women's bob would
give us another medal. It was asking | 3:40:41 | 3:40:47 | |
a lot. Full credit to Amy Williams,
who has made this two-man bob. I | 3:40:47 | 3:40:53 | |
needed a bit more time. It's a good
two bob effort, and you didn't even | 3:40:53 | 3:40:59 | |
have two box to make it! Mica
McNeill at Mica Moore have slipped | 3:40:59 | 3:41:02 | |
down the table after their third
run, so now in eighth, but it could | 3:41:02 | 3:41:08 | |
still be the best ever finish in
women's bob. Yes, they are 24, 25, | 3:41:08 | 3:41:16 | |
without the experience or
background, without the number of | 3:41:16 | 3:41:19 | |
runs the other athletes had, so
still fantastic and hopefully | 3:41:19 | 3:41:22 | |
they'll solidify that or even move
up. You both know what it's like to | 3:41:22 | 3:41:27 | |
be up there at the top of the
sliding track, waiting for your | 3:41:27 | 3:41:31 | |
fourth run, you know you'll go in
reverse order, what do you do in the | 3:41:31 | 3:41:35 | |
final moments? Your mind is racing
and you are constantly telling | 3:41:35 | 3:41:42 | |
yourself, don't do anything
differently, they will be warming | 3:41:42 | 3:41:45 | |
up, they will have got the
bobsleighers already, and they will | 3:41:45 | 3:41:48 | |
just go through the run, so Mica
will be going through those lines, | 3:41:48 | 3:41:54 | |
running through the mental imagery
in her head. They don't get many | 3:41:54 | 3:41:57 | |
runs to learn this track. She will
be going through exactly what she's | 3:41:57 | 3:42:03 | |
doing here, shutting her eyes,
picturing each corner in her head | 3:42:03 | 3:42:06 | |
and going through the steering
points. It's all about thinking | 3:42:06 | 3:42:12 | |
ahead and anticipating the bends.
Yes, no time to reflect on what's | 3:42:12 | 3:42:17 | |
happened, it's constantly ahead,
what's my next movement, how am I | 3:42:17 | 3:42:20 | |
coming into this corner and what
adjustments do I need to make? We | 3:42:20 | 3:42:24 | |
all get carried away, and you'd hope
she wouldn't be concentrating too | 3:42:24 | 3:42:29 | |
much on the medal, but perhaps those
mistakes in the third run, she got | 3:42:29 | 3:42:33 | |
ahead of herself a bit. Now the
pressure is off, she needs to go out | 3:42:33 | 3:42:37 | |
there and put down the greatest run
of the week, and she'll come back. | 3:42:37 | 3:42:44 | |
51.16 her third run, slowest so far,
but still in eighth place. A top ten | 3:42:44 | 3:42:50 | |
finish would be magnificent for a
team that have relied on | 3:42:50 | 3:42:53 | |
crowdfunding to get to Pyeongchang.
They are the ultimate underdogs. | 3:42:53 | 3:42:58 | |
We'll show you that fourth run on
BBC Two. They will be going in | 3:42:58 | 3:43:02 | |
reverse order. This could yet be the
best ever finish in women's bob for | 3:43:02 | 3:43:07 | |
a Team GB pair. Join us over there
is the action continues. We are | 3:43:07 | 3:43:11 | |
heading to the one | 3:43:11 | 3:43:13 |