Day 2, Part 1 Winter Olympics

Everyone, clear the decks. Sit down

and watch this. Charlotte Kalla

becomes the Winter Olympic champion.

The defending champion is in a

wonderful position now.

This is the

Olympic spirit, this is what it is

all about.

Your Olympic champion is

Germany's Andreas Wellinger.

The

moment that will be historically

remembered by all in attendance.

Jamie, the disappointment. The hosts

have struck gold. All three of them

are out now. It is great skating

from Elise Christie. She is safely

through to the quarterfinals.

Those

were the thrills, the spills and the

medals from day one and welcome to

the official day

medals from day one and welcome to

the official day two for the

Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. We

have the whole day ahead of us, and

if you stick with us, you are in for

an absolute treat.

We have curling coming up

from midnight with action

from the final session of the mixed

doubles competition.

We have

the rough and tumble

of the men's slopestyle.

Sadly no British interest but will

we see another Bloody Dracula?

If you have no idea

what I mean, join us at 1am.

And it's the women's turn

in the slopestyle as qualifying

begins from 4.30am.

No Katie Ormerod but Great Britain's

Aimee Fuller goes in that one.

If you were expecting the men's

Downhill, sadly it has been

cancelled because of the weather.

Now we have the Figure Skating.

If you'd like to get in touch,

please tweet me using

the hashtag #bbcolympics.

Our question to you...

"If you could be great

at any winter sport,

what would it be and why?"

For me, it would beat the Ski

Jumping. I would like to have the

guts to slide down and jump of that

building whilst looking like this

man here. I'd give you, Robert

Johansson. Look at his moustache. He

is preparing to fly of 95 metres

with nothing but gravity being his

friend as he uses the uplift, and

air resistance.

air resistance. He is pumped with

himself and there is not a single

hair out of place. That kind of

facial architecture, should get a

medal. He did get a medal himself in

the Ski Jumping. Now it is time that

the curling and if you are not an

expert, here is your own guide.

Curling originated in 16th century

Scotland and peered in 1924 when

Great Britain won the gold. The aim

of curling is to get more stones

closer to the centre of the scoring

area known as the house, than your

opponent. Sleeping is a key part. It

affects the distance and direction

as stone travels. Tactics are

crucial, retaining last own

advantage, known as the hammer. In

the events, there are four players

in each team and they curl two

stones each end. Only one team can

score per end and matches are over

ten ends. This year sees the

addition of mixed doubles in the

limpid programme played over eight

ends instead of the traditional ten.

And it is the mixed doubles

competition that is in full swing.

Here are the standings

going into the final

session of the round robin.

The top four qualify

for the semifinals with Canada

and the Olympic athletes from Russia

are already in the hat by virtue

of their head-to-head

record against the others.

Norway and Switzerland need to win

to seal their spots, with China

waiting in the wings.

And it is the mixed doubles that

we'll be featuring tonight,

as Norway take on China

and Jackie Lockhart joins us

from the Gangneung Curling Centre.

Jackie, what has the reaction been

for this debut at the Winter

Olympics in the mixed doubles.

You

catch me here live in the curling

centre. The mixed doubles has had a

fantastic result here. The Games are

exciting, the crowds are loving it

and it is Fast and Furious and I

think it is going down really well.

It is amazing to hear and we are

focusing on the way against China,

what can you tell us?

The Chinese

team need to win to keep their game

alive. Norway will go straight

through to the play-off competition

if they win. The Chinese team have

been playing OK.

been playing OK. Ba Dexin has been

shooting his lights out and the only

thing that has prevented them

succeeding earlier in the game, is

the fact that last player hasn't

quite often finished the Stone. It

will be interesting to see how they

get on.

After the 20 17th World

Championships, Switzerland were

undefeated, so I expected them to

possibly win this may be undefeated

again, what has happened to them?

It

could be just the pressure. You are

the reigning world champions and you

take at that, a lot of weight on

your shoulders. They have struggled

this week. They have won a few games

I thought they might not. They have

had to dig very hard. But let me

tell you, just one stone can make a

difference in this whole game and

that's the only difference. They

haven't been playing at their full

potential but they still have an

opportunity to win the game today

Yankey their hopes alive.

Can we

talk about Canada, their story to

this has been incredible. The fact

that silver medallist from the 2017

World Championships lost to them in

the Olympic trials, it is a kid to

2002 when Scotland beat Rhona

Martin's team when they worth the

reigning champions?

The Canadian

team have two very good players.

Both of them won an Olympic gold

medal in the team game themselves.

Canada have taken this very

seriously. They didn't have a good

start but they are playing well. I

think they are the other team to

watch going into this last play-off

stages.

They lost their first five

head-to-head, its momentum important

in curling or can you turn it

around?

Momentum is very important,

but the mixed doubles is very

dynamic and even if you are three or

four shots ahead, you are never safe

because you can win big ends in this

game. The way they play everything

into the four foot. I can see the

Canadians are gaining in confidence

and they are shooting their lights

out here just now. They will

definitely be playing like that

today. They

today. They are in a roll and they

are the ones to watch.

How gutted

were you not to see a GB team?

The

Scottish team go out in Lethbridge

last year and I was there. We

watched the last game and it was

heart-wrenching. One shot, so close.

I am sure they will be back and we

will see Great Britain in the mixed

doubles very shortly.

Thank you so

much for your time, we'll let you

find your commentary position as we

find no against China. Your

commentator is Logan.

COMMENTATOR: this morning brings the

conclusion of what has been an

exciting round robin and we still

have five Nations in contention for

a semifinal spot. Two have already

qualified.

qualified. Canada and Olympic

Athletes From Russia. It is an

exciting new format providing lots

of stones in play, every single end.

Unfortunately, TeamGB playing as

just mentioned. We will see them

back out on the ice in the team game

in a few days. But this mixed

doubles format, whetting the

appetite for lots of engrossing

curling action. My name is Logan

Gray and alongside me, four-time

Olympian and reigning world senior

champion, Jackie Lockhart. The teams

just being for this final round

robin session.

robin session. Our focus is going to

be at the game between Norway and

China.

This is how they stack up after six

rounds. Canada leading the way. They

lost their first game but rattled

off five in a row to be the first

team into the play-offs. What is

very clear at the moment, to be

considered for the semifinals, they

will have to reach a record of four

wins and three losses as a minimum.

If no way can beat China and draw

seven, they will qualify at China's

expense. The liner will be complete

for the semifinals. Jackie, welcome

back to the commentary bench.

Thank

you, yes, just rushed from the

platform. Should be an exciting

game. Both teams will be keen to

win, as you always are, but China,

to keep their hopes alive and the

least get a play-off position. They

need to win.

There is a look at the

results so far. Three extra ends for

China. Losing two of them. Good win

in their last two games, so maybe

momentum, making a run for the

play-offs. These are saying, perhaps

no way are the dark horses this

week. They have given some good

performances, the only team to have

beating Canada this week?

They got

Canada in the first game and that is

when you want to catch Canada. They

are quietly confident, the

Norwegians. They don't look overly

confident, but they are throwing

some really good stones.

I think you

are right, they go about their way

quietly, get on with the job, make a

lot of shots and win games.

You

don't have two shout anything.

They

can have pre-positioned stones. One

of the differences in the mixed

doubles, we have two stones on the

centre line. At the moment there is

a red guard of Norway, protecting

the house and a Yellowstone of China

just up the back of their forfeit

circle. This is Kristin Skaslien.

Throwing first in the game. 50% for

the week. In the round robin, we

expect the stats to be slightly

lower than usual than the team

format, if you like. Just due to the

kind of higher technical difficulty

of the shots.

Good shot to start the game from

Kristin Skaslien. He is Wang Rui,

71% so far this week. Jackie, you

were mentioning it has been a mixed

bag and maybe it is those key shots

that need to be made by Wang Rui?

She generally has a very first good

stone, but she has to throw the last

stone and that has made the

difference to this Chinese team. She

has had a 50% record. It has been a

shame. I felt sorry for her, because

quite often it was only just by

millimetres she was missing shots.

It wasn't that she was playing

outrageously bad, they were so

close, but not coming. If you keep

the same practice routine and the

same mental ability that you use,

these shots are going to come after

you.

Disses Magnus

Disses Magnus Nedregotten, the male

play of Norway, super stat, 79%, --

this is Magnus Nedregotten. Normally

the players will play two stones in

the team game, but in this format,

the first player just throws one,

then you have the middle player, if

you like, throwing three

consecutively before the first

player returns to throw the last

stone in the end. Kristin Skaslien

will play the first and fifth stone

of this end and Magnus Nedregotten

will play the second, third and

full, as will Ba Dexin, playing 73%

for the week. Jackie, this is the

first takeout of the game.

first takeout of the game.

After

five stones in play, you can hit a

stone out but we are playing with

Freegard rules, here, which helps

keep the game dynamic -- three card

rules. Not being able to take out

stoned early in the end means there

will be a few stones in play. --

take out stones. A game created for

its dynamics, I think, for audience

participation. I think it has come

across really well on the TV

coverage. Wright I think you're

right. I think for a lot of the

traditionalists in curling, the jury

has been out a bit around this

format but here at the Olympic

Games, I think there is no question

that mixed doubles is here to stay.

Definitely, the buzz has been very

good in the mixed doubles. I think a

lot of people wondered why there was

only eight teams participating this

year in the Olympics but I've heard

a rumour that they will potentially

be looking at 16 for the next

Olympics in 2022. I can see the

highlight of this, well, it has been

raised, the bar has been raised so a

lot of teams will be desperate to

get a position in that Olympic

event.

It seems like a lot of games to get

through, Jackie, on top of the 50 we

have already got, another eight

sessions or something?

I think they

are going to put them into pools so

you would still have a schedule but

it would be a lot of work for the

ice technicians, that is for sure

but let's see how it goes. There's a

lot of permutations and scheduling

and planning has to go into place

before it all happens.

And let's

remember that the mixed doubles

curling started the day before the

opening ceremony, the first of any

of the events to begin here at the

Winter Olympics. That is just due to

the very extensive schedule that we

have over the two weeks.

43 games, I

think, we have the potential for

covering, Logan, which is an awful

lot of curling out there.

You know

what? If they have all been as

exciting as what we have seen so by

this week, I don't think it will be

a problem.

Not at all! We have had

some great crowds in as well so we

have -- it has gone down well with

the crowds here.

Norway throwing off

the guard and China have been

playing it off so far. It looks like

Norway may well be lying one at the

back of the button but a very close

indeed. Ba Dexin going to ignore the

guard this time and tried to play

around on to the red at the top of

the circle. A good look at the

sweeping technique of Wang Rui.

Going past the guard? He has just

caught it. There's an awful lot of

sweeping in this game, especially

when you only have one sweeper. You

have to be pretty fit to be playing

mixed doubles, I would say. It may

look simple to the person outside

watching it on the television but

they are putting a lot of energy

into this sweeping and your heart

rate will go right up and part of

the fitness programme is the fact

that you can recover very quickly

because you then have two come down

and sit on the black hack, there,

and managed to deliver very steadily

a pretty intense stone.

So Kristin Skaslien back in the pack

to deliver the last Norwegian stone

in this first end. Going to put the

guard back on exactly where it was

before.

before. Jackie, these sweeping is

not just to keep your partner busy,

is it, give them something to do?

There's actually some scientific

reasons for doing it.

Yeah, you're

sweeper can help hold stones

straight if necessary and you will

see the sweeper changing from one

side to the other depending on the

direction, they can make it curl

more or go the other side and sweep

to hold it straight but quite often

you might see both of them come down

if they need to take it further. If

you have two really good sweepers,

you could probably in the mixed

doubles make it three or four feet

further than it would if you did not

have a sweeper.

have a sweeper.

That guard was not

exactly played where they wanted it

to buy Norway, drifting into the

house and you can see the Stones are

kind of lined up, there are, so it

could well be a chance for China to

raise the stones right up the line,

read on to yellow on to read, sort

of thing, and maybe get a point on

the board. -- the read on to the

yellow on the red.

She could do a

tap but she's going to do the shots

that you suggested.

The final stone

of the first end. Wang Rui trying to

get a point on the board for China.

Nicely done. Great shot by Wang Rui.

And an end that looked like it might

be a steal for Norway turns into a

steal, a point with the last stone,

for China, and I'm sure that'll be a

nice settler for Wang Rui who played

here in session seven, -- one and

played in the seventh session and it

is People's Republic of China 1-0

Norway. Just a reminder that there

are four games out here in every

round robin session. We are focusing

on the left-hand side. There's

another look at that terrific final

stone. Lots of moving on this one.

Sticking it right on the button to

get a point on the board. We will

try to keep you up-to-date with what

is happening on the other three

sheets that are out there. Finland

and USA on the second sheet,

Switzerland and the Olympic athletes

of Russia on sheet C and Canada

against Korea on sheet D.

against Korea on sheet D. So, with

China starting the second end this

time, having scored in the previous

end, they have to start the next

one, the repositioned stones the

opposite way round this time, a

Chinese guard out front.

Chinese guard out front. And a stone

at the back of the forfeit. This

will be be set up pretty much

throughout the whole game.

Yes, this

is the setup through the whole game

and the only time we will see a

change is if the team decide to play

a power play and that is when they

move the stones to almost in the

same position as they are, not

quite, but moving them across either

to the left or the right out on the

wings, and the dynamic side of the

change. The idea is the team with

the last stone want to try to keep

the forfeit open and hopefully give

themselves a chance of a three Toure

four, a big score, we have not seen

them successfully played out that

way this week but one mistake and

the whole end changes. Of course, as

much as you are trying to manipulate

the game to make it easy for you,

your opposition is trying to make it

difficult at the same time. You are

also playing against what their

tactics would be. Slightly tight,

there. She has popped the guard,

opened it up.

opened it up. Key point in this game

is having draw weight in your

pocket. All of the teams get a

practice before they come on to

start the competition itself, before

every game.

every game. They will be throwing

draw after draw after draw to know

what the draw weight is, draw

weight, touch back, come around, tap

backs and the big things for mixed

doubles as the angles. -- the big

thing for mixed doubles is the

angles.

Ba Dexin playing his first

stone of the second end. The 2017

Asian Winter Games gold medallist,

second position in the team game,

that is. This Chinese pair winning

medals in 2016 and 2017 in the mixed

doubles curling Championships,

silver in 2016 in Karlstad in Sweden

and bronze in Lethbridge in Canada.

He has taken that yellow far enough

in. We will see how much of it,

makes it difficult to remove both

yellow stones.

yellow stones.

There is the

Norwegian coach, a very good player

himself, played skip in the team

game for lots of years. I don't

think he plays quite so much these

days but an excellent player. This

Norwegian mixed doubles team are

very experienced, they played in the

last five world mixed doubles

championships together. Their best

result being a bronze medal in

Sochi, in 2015.

And I believe they

are engaged out as well. -- engaged

now. So they must be OK playing in

the same team.

I'm not sure I could

manage that with my wife! LAUGHTER

I'm going to get myself in hot

water, here.

I think I would get by

P 45 pretty quickly.

These guys are

still in the honeymoon period. He

has cleared the front, there. I'm

sure we will see Ba Dexin... He has

the opportunity, actually, of maybe

tapping his own yellow and change

the lay of where they are lying, he

could catch the yellow behind and

bring it on to the face of the back

red.

So both the Chinese pair are

full-time athletes.

Just going to rumble things around,

as you said, Jackie, and it improves

the angles. They will be able to

play some raises on those yellow

stones onto the bottom point of the

stone at the back of the button.

What is really good is that the

Chinese team are protecting the

front of the forfeit circle which is

the red circle you see in the

centre, there, and that is ideally

where they want to be. They want to

be controlling that. Norway have the

hammer and they have the last stone

but China have the opportunity of

tapping some of the yellows onto the

back red. It would need a helicopter

for Norway to get in, then.

So taking plenty of ice out here.

He's going to play an out turn, come

around, and anti clockwise rotation

of the stone.

Look at the release,

one o'clock and turning it back to

12 o'clock to make its been in that

clockwise rotation and ultimately

make it curl back towards the centre

of the sheet. Magnus Nedregotten

actually...

This is going to over

curl.

He was close to playing in the

team format this week as well, he

ran very close to getting a

Norwegian place and he has an

extremely high calibre curler. -- so

he is. They went to the World

Championships and beat Austria in

the qualifiers but I think in the

end the Norwegian curling

Association went for experience over

youth.

youth. The leader of the infamous

pair before of Canada, that coach,

multiple world champions in the

early 2000, coaching the peoples

Republic of China this week. He is

the national coach so we will see

him out there for the time-outs in

the mixed doubles and also for the

team games next week.

Ba Dexin, yellow onto the back. He

has played a lovely shot. It is just

sitting to the left of the centre

line. So an opportunity for Norway

to come down and sit right on top of

it.

That there is exactly what they

wanted to set up with this one.

wanted to set up with this one.

Two

stones remaining.

stones remaining. He is wanting to

come right down and sit right on to

where we see the Olympic rings, on

the yellow in the house.

In the bottom corner of the screen,

we see a stopped clock running. That

is going to take a time between the

line from when the stone has to be

released. We are seeing around about

14 seconds to get the stones to the

tee line. Not struggling for weight

so much, but lining the inside.

He

is needing to take either more eyes,

it is difficult to say whether he

can lead the stone Prattley. -- ice.

,

, said Wang Rui, they are still

lying two shots but that is a

danger. She has either got to take

it out without catching any of her

yellow stones or she has got to play

God. -- guard.

Interesting decision. Weighing up

the option of lying for five against

potentially having two stones in a

much stronger position. Looks like

they are going to throw the guard.

If you make them, it is the right

shot, if you don't make them, it is

the wrong shot. We have followed

China couple of times this week and

she just hasn't been able to do it.

This will be the easy option for

her.

Just scrapes over the red line

to get into the playing area. If the

stone was touching the line, it

would be removed from play. That was

a good sleep thereby Ba Dexin. --

sweep.

With it being a really, really high

guard, the Norwegian team have the

opportunity to come down and they

should be able to get past the high

guard and get into the one foot for

the shot. We have seen a couple of

the shots pulling too much towards

the centre. Last stone

the centre. Last stone here.

About

126

126 feet to the end. With the guard

being a bit too long, Norway still

have the chance to get out of this

one. Still a tough shot.

She has

played this very well. Yes they

have. Only just.

Fabulous shot by

Kristin Skaslien. That shot is right

up there with the bus. Just a score

of one for Norway. Both teams not

managing to make full use of that

last advantage so far in this game.

At this stage, it is 1-1.

A look at that fantastic last stone

by Kristin Skaslien. The high guard

was a bit of a nuisance. Trusted the

line and perfect weight. Great shot.

Elsewhere here in sessions as in, --

seven, Canada are still on fire, off

to a great start against the host

nation, Korea. 2-0 after two ends.

He is the first stone of the end

again. Kristin Skaslien seems to

have this shot in her back pocket at

the moment. Makes a good one.

Do you think it easier or more

difficult to have open and honest

communication with your fiancee out

on the ice, as opposed to just a

friend?

You do tend to say a lot of

things you wouldn't say to a

colleague. But you should both be

very clear on your dynamics.

They

seem to be very good at separating

their home lives and what is

happening on the ice.

happening on the ice.

It is a sport

where you have to know how your

colleagues are feeling, if they are

having a good day, if they are

having a bad day. Especially in the

mixed doubles, there is only two of

you, you have to be a good

partnership to make it work.

Likewise in the team event, it is

only for people. You have an

opportunity in the normal team

events, where you have got a buddy

who will pull you out of trouble.

There is less likeliness of that

here. There is nowhere to hide in

mixed doubles if you are not having

a good game.

We were talking at

breakfast about those days you can

have sometimes, where you just

cannot feel the weight. How

difficult it is to overcome that.

Huge part of this game is having

good draw weight and having it for

the whole eight ends of this game.

The team is also have the

opportunity, they can change the

dynamics if somebody is struggling.

They can ? not during the game but

after each end. You may want to say,

I am not finish this last stone off,

can I move and do the three stones

in the middle? Feel the comfort,

settle and then in the next end you

could go back. We haven't seen much

of that happening at all. But there

is the opportunity for the teams to

change.

I don't think I have seen it

happen at all. Every time I have

played mixed doubles in the past, it

is something we have tended to do,

if things are going badly and we are

under the cosh at every end, we will

try something different.

I thought

the Chinese team, they should have

done it in game three when poor

little Wang Rui was struggling. On

the counter side are back, you have

got to believe your form is going to

come back. They persevered.

It is a bit of deja vu in the setup

in this third end. The second end

was very similar. The yellow wall

across the front of the house and it

worked out quite nicely.

Once again,

they are commanding the front of the

forethought and that is exactly what

you want to do. A lot of eyes they

are taking, so it must be a big curl

from left to right into the centre

of the house.

of the house.

Always very

interesting to kind of understand

the different strategies of the

different teams. This situation here

looks like they will throw in

another guard. They are shutting up

shop already here. So trying to

block the path down onto these

yellow stones. In that situation you

might see a team like Canada try and

tidy things up and say, I am not

going to lose any point in this end,

I am going to make sure I can score.

But they are taking a much more

risky strategy here.

Ba Dexin, deciding himself he wants

to clear up the front. He needs to

get in and that is a good result

there.

Maybe Norway will take a different

approach. Still lying short at the

back of the button.

Even if they put

a guard up, one would not be enough

to cover both sides of the two

yellows down there. Looks like we

will see him trying to move both

these yellows. He needs to catch the

one on the right quite thin and

catch the one on the left and push

it through the house.

Not throwing

heaps of weight at this one. Just

controlled weight which allows him

to jump up and sweep it.

to jump up and sweep it.

He missed

the top one, but he caught the other

and that is actually sitting very

nicely.

That is a really good shot

by Magnus Nedregotten. We saw him

jump but as he throws the stone and

sweeps it. That is something you are

taught not to do in the team game,

isn't it?

It is, yes.

isn't it?

It is, yes. You have got

to be comfortable on the ice. The

conditions are good out there.

People watching will be thinking,

they have one slippy soul and one

gripper soul, how do they balance.

But it's not as slippy as you would

think it would be. There is a pebble

on top of it. Like every athlete in

their disciplined sport, they make

it look easy.

it look easy.

This is the final

stone at the end for Ba Dexin. Just

the one more to come after this 4-3.

-- Wang Rui.

Just an nice weight

here, catch the red and push it

through. Could have afforded to have

caught a bit more of the red and he

wouldn't have rolled so far to the

left. But he has the yellow stones

still sitting in front of the

Norwegian red, so difficult to

remove and not touch his own stone,

the Norwegian.

Looking a bit

precarious, that Redstone at the

moment, three yellow stones lying

about in scoring position. Just a

reminder, you don't get any points

for having the stones on the

periphery of the house, it is about

who is closest to the middle and how

many. Only one team can score in an

end.

How's your Norwegian, Logan?

They

were doing some housework on behalf

of, getting the stone prepared but I

believe they're going to try to get

another one into the house and

freeze this side of the yellow

stone.

Corner freeze.

They have to

get it in because it's an easy

take-out at the moment for China, to

score as many as four. Already a key

shot in this game for Kristin

Skaslien. We saw a super shot to

finish the second end and they need

another one coming here.

It needs to be in bird shot

position.

She's managed that. --

third shot position. They can't

cover all options and they've left

the option of the yellow that we see

Ba Dexin standing behind, raising it

to the red in the centre.

The key

was to get in the third shot

position and not lined them up.

And

out count the yellow in the back of

the rings, there.

So she just needs to get the quarter

on the right-hand side of that

yellow, drive it back into that red

in the house, hopefully get a score

of two. These are the key shot that

she sometimes hasn't been making.

How is this one going to work out?

Too thin.

Just caught it to them.

Can you believe she has squeezed

that through there? Thinner, she

comes off her own yellow and makes

it an figure, she makes it.

That has

been the story of a week.

In a game

the other day, she had shots for

four and she was giving up one, and

it is a five shot swing in just one

shot. A shame for Wang Rui, there.

Norway really get away with that,

they steal one in the third end to

take a 2-1 lead over China. Here is

another look. Just hit a fraction

more of that stone, it will go on to

the red but a bit too thin and clips

it, through the port between the two

stones.

stones. Only single scored so far,

here. -- singles scored. China with

one in the first end and then

consecutive singles in the second

and third, for Norway. There is the

scoreboard in the background that

you can see and also the clocks so

both teams have 22 minutes of

thinking time, basically, when a

stone is not running, the clock is

running instead. When players are

thinking about and deciding what

shots to play and preparing the

stones, the clocks will be running.

And once they have delivered the

stone, the clock stops so it is all

about thinking time and not about

the running time of the stone.

Introduced several years ago to help

teams who are playing a lot of

drawers against someone who is

playing it weights because the time

difference was making a big impact

on the game.

And of course we want

people to play draw shots and get

lots of stones in place so you don't

want those teams to be penalised. --

in play.

This is re-dynamic, if you

break it down, it is about three

minutes per end that each team have

to think and play these five shots.

There's not a lot of time. Quite

often we will see at the end,

getting to the latter stages of the

end, teams are rushing to finish and

that is when mistakes can get made.

I guess that is the whole dynamics

of why they have made the game so

quick and fast and brought it down

to just 22 minutes.

Peoples Republic of China, actually

playing well at the moment but we

have seen this all week, playing

really well but not getting the

results out of it.

Yes, they seem to

be controlling ends but not

converting it into points.

Just not

finishing it off and that is why I

find it really difficult to

understand why they have not change

the dynamics.

I think Magnus has

overcooked that slightly.

Once

again,

again, behind the T-line and he

would have preferred to stop, angled

against the bed, the yellow in the

house.

We can see five stones in place so

if China did want to play a

take-out, they can now. If they

decided to do that on any of the

previous shots, or removed one from

play by mistake, it would be

replaced.

replaced. So Ba Dexin, I think,

trying to come down and rumble

things around a little bit familiar,

trying to free the red stone off the

bottom.

So just bounces a little bit off,

there and opens up that stone at the

bottom once again.

One on the edge of the button at the

moment. Quite a nice pocket for

Norway to be able to draw one down,

Kristin Skaslien holding the brush,

the aiming point for the throwing

player. Not where the stone will

finish but it starts off on that

line, if you draw a line between the

player in the hack and the brush,

that is the line they will start off

on and then it will curl away from

there and into the middle of the

sheet.

A lovely pocket of stones for

him to sit in front of and use them

for protection. It is a lot harder

for the opposition to hit it out,

then. He's really got to sweep hard,

be fully in the four foot, the red

circles. He's just come up light,

disappointing shot.

Seems to be struggling with that

side of the sheet.

Cutting a little bit of a frustrated

figure at the moment. There does

seem to be a lot of curl of that

Barry said, the outside sheet, the

barrier on the right-hand side and

sometimes it tends to curl a little

bit more when you are next to the

barrier. As opposed to on some of

the other sheets in the centre.

Another opportunity for Ba Dexin to

come in and control the top of that

four foot. This one looks a little

bit high at the moment and it's

amazing how much they curl when the

weight comes off them. Just once

this to stop on the T-line. It has

ever so slightly crept further back

and he is lying two shots, there,

but there is a great opportunity for

Norway to come in and sit a red

right between the two yellows and

that would be going anywhere. --

that won't be going.

You are right,

Jackie, if the two yellows stones on

the button were the other side of

the T-line you would say they were

in great shape but because they are

behind it, it allows Norway to come

down and rest against them rather

than have to move them to be in a

shot position. It really is a game

of inches. Magnus Nedregotten with a

great chance to retrieve a bit of a

sticky situation.

sticky situation.

Yeah, opportunity

for him to correct the wrong from

the stone before.

Just over corrected and that too

much weight on that and it is

sitting too far out. -- and put too

much. Real momentum swings in this

end. Both teams have had

opportunities to close it out and

neither have done so, so far.

neither have done so, so far. So Ba

Dexin with an opportunity, now, to

come down and sit on the four foot,

he wants to be there but he wants to

be high off the centre, one Foot

Circle where you can see the Olympic

rings, there, just sitting in front.

If he comes right onto the top of

it, it is looking into both of the

yellow shots.

All about creating the opportunity

for you to finish it off. I am

surprised. This is a great example.

I'm not sure why he does not get

Wang Rui up in the head because he

places shots, comes out and ask Sir

to watch the line, edges her out of

the way.

He's got his elbows out and

everything in there.

Great shot,

look at that. But in that situation,

Wang Rui could be in the head,

calling the line all the way.

I

think you are absolutely right. Ba

Dexin has done that a few times this

week, comes up and almost barges are

out of the way and does the

sweeping.

She crouches down and does

what she is told. "I Will call the

line!"

One thing is for sure, it is

going to be a score for China, the

yellow played by Ba Dexin is in jail

and is never coming out. It is going

to be damage limitation here, for

Norway.

Can she sit right on top of

the red, Logan, and out count more

than just one? Need to see the

house.

They still seem to be decided what

to do from the other end of the ice

which can be quite difficult.

Generally the pattern of play would

be to decide what you want to do at

the end with the stones and then go

down and play it but still a lot of

discussion at the hack.

I think they

have played a few times down the

outside side of the sheet and it is

maybe what I to take. Oh, she's

going to play some weight at this.

-- what ice to take. As the

potential to move one of the yellows

out to the side. Actually not a bad

result, there.

Kristin Skaslien has

done very well with the last stone

of the fifth end, fourth end, sorry,

for Norway. Just move them both

enough to lie second shot, I think.

Looks like it might be another

single, here. Difficult to see.

I

think the yellows are lying two,

people's republic of China are lying

two, difficult to see from the

camera angle sometimes, you really

have to be overhead, so an

opportunity now for Wang Rui to come

in with a turning in, clockwise

rotation of the stone.

The final

stone of the fourth end, Wang Rui,

all the play has been done the other

side of the sheet so perhaps some

guesswork required but still a

chance to get one onto the edge of

the button and secure the multiple

score. It looks pretty close. Ba

Dexin trying to squeeze it. Great

draw.

He's done that very well. A

definite two. You have to be careful

when they are removing all of these

stones. One, two, and I think they

might measure for a third. No,

they've given up three.

Wow, great

shot by Wang Rui to put another one

on the board and you were right, it

was a three, the first multiple

score of the game. China now leading

Norway 4-2 at the half-time break.

If you have enjoyed this first half

of the game and you want some more,

we are going to be leaving you want

BBC One at moving over to the red

button for the conclusion of this

pivotal last game of the round

robin.

You can continue to follow the

action on the red button as we turn

our attention specifically to the

men's slopestyle final but before

that, Twitter. We asked you to get

in touch via the hashtag,

#bbcolympics and some of the

pictures are genuinely outstanding.

Case in point, Diane, who has

clearly taken inspiration from the

Norway

clearly taken inspiration from the

Norway against China and to need a

20 kilograms granite stone when you

can use a plastic clad kettle bell.

Note the attention, there is a

broom, she's gone for the corridor

curling option. Diane, I like your

style. This next one, everybody

loves a cute dog picture, and this

is Lindsay's .com Buddy who is Ray

confused by the luge and the speed

at which they seem to go past the

screen but Buddy, I'm glad you're a

fan. Last but by no means least, if

ever Michael Eddie "The Eagle"

Edwards ever needed a tribute act,

it would look like Adrian. I hope

everyone is watching the action in

that position because you must have

quads like Thor to maintain that

position. You are a hero and thank

you for taking part. Get in touch

via the hashtag, #bbcolympics. I

mention the men's slopestyle final

is around the corner. Qualification

happened yesterday and as ever, it

was epic.

Here we go, Marcus Kleveland. Bomb

jump. 1440 to finish.

Jamie

Nicholls, the first Britos free to

drop in.

Very nice.

Very smart.

71.50 six.

That is a lot lower than

I thought we would see.

I thought we would see.

Mark

McMorris, backside 14, treble.

Boom,

absolutely nailed it.

Bloody

Dracula, Rowan Coultas!

Oh, no, he's

gone again.

He had all the

ingredients in the first run.

No!

The disappointment else. Max Parrot,

currently sat in second place.

Something big, here, backside

triple, so playing it safe. Doing it

all wrong! 87.3!

Jenny

Jenny Jones is down by the slope.

I

am so excited. I don't live you

noticed yesterday Max Parrot came

out on top. Normally

out on top. Normally would see

Marcus Cleveland. Shame about the

Brits, but this will be exciting.

All the BBC crew asking the

question, will we see another bloody

Dracula?

The double handed grab at

the end of his tail, so hopefully it

will be there. There will be some

stylish riding from these guys. What

has happened here today, we have

found the wind, as you can see, is

picking up so it is a downhill win.

That could affect them in going

really deep on the landings but I

don't think we will worry about

clearing the jumps today for the

athletes.

Aimee Fuller said on

Instagram, she is ready to drop in

later today. When they are about to

drop in, what will be going to the

minds with the wind behind them?

They will have felt the wind in the

practice and it is going to be about

getting the natural dial in of your

body and censor your speed. As you

come to the Wales the rails, can you

feel the wind against you or are you

going faster, so have felt the wind

in the practice and it is going to

be about getting the natural dial in

of your body and censor your speed.

As you come to the rails, can you

feel the wind against you or are you

going faster, so had to slow down it

is like a battle with these teams.

Try to follow Marcus Cleveland,

sorry Mark McMorrisa and Max Parrot

because they will be on Marcus

Cleveland's tale. And he is the one

to beat, the best slope style rider

we have at the moment. He won the

gold two weeks ago. But Mark

McMorris and Max Parrot, few

outsiders will get in the mix.

outsiders will get in the mix.

Shaun

White isn't even doing slope style,

he is focusing on the half pipe, so

is the field more open than what it

could have been?

Over the four years

we have seen amazing talent come

through from these riders. It is a

very stacked field. Mark McMorris

came in third in Sochi, got the

bronze. He had broken ribs at the

time. So that is really impressive

to have got that results. If you

look at Mark McMorrisa over the last

two years coming he has had some

horrific injuries. He has broken his

femur, broken ribs, massive crash

when he knocked himself out and was

in hospital. He is still here

competing today for this goal, which

I think is incredible. Marcus

Cleveland, everybody knows is an

amazing slope style rider. Max

Parrot is more known for the big air

events, but yesterday he put down a

great run. It will be challenging. I

don't think the fact that Sage is in

here, he has been retired for a

while, has any effect on how

exciting this is going to be.

Jenny,

it is time for me to hand over to

Tim, Edwards and athlete that didn't

make it through to the final, but

the most positive man in TeamGB,

Nicholls.

How are you feeling, Jamie, the dust

has settled?

I am feeling great

today, much better than yesterday.

Everything has sunk in.

Positive

response from the UK.

It is amazing

how much love and support there is

from back home, it is brilliant.

This is one of the most creative and

challenging courses we have ever

seen, not just that an Olympics. It

is made up of six modules. This one,

section five, two angled take-offs

that will play a role. In section

six, known as the money boot, the

big, last jump, where the big money

is one. You get a fantastic shot of

it there, you can see the blue

lines. This course is in pristine

condition. This is the start list...

Mons Roy 's Lynn and has a shoulder

injury, he might be out. What you

see looking at the start list, what

stands out is you have four

Canadians, four Canadians, Tim?

It

is incredible they have managed to

come through and bring all four of

those riders. Here are the judges

who are charged with picking apart

those runs.

Six judges, panel one

will be looking at features one and

two and so on. Then three judges

looking at the overall impression.

How does the run all fit together,

this is a subjective judged sport.

60% of the score comes from

individual features. 40% comes from

overall impression. That gives us a

score of 100.

score of 100. The format is three

runs and it will be the best run

that counts.

Flow is a very

important part. I held my hands up,

what we thought were judging

inconsistencies, but when we went

and analysed it and had a good look

at it, the judges are rewarding

slope. They want to see good

execution and the tricks done

perfectly. Good height and amplitude

on the tricks and they want to see

it flowing. They want to cede the

snowboarder is having fun riding

down, not changing speed too much,

taking the course in their stride.

First rider ready to go, Nicholas

Matson. The temperature is very

cold, -7 bursting. Winding up into

the gap about into the double King

Grail.

Riding switch, backwards,

like writing with your

like writing with your left hand,

nobody doing the switch into the

need backflip into the tractor seat.

Integer number two. Just a little

bit short, the wind is still

gusting. Mostly crosswind. That is

one of the gifts when these riders

dropout is getting to see what they

do offer the knuckle of the job.

This'll be a score he will put in

the digital trash bin.

the digital trash bin. 270 out of

the lips slide on the top rail. The

tractor seat is part of the jittery,

but we found yesterday it was one of

the things that confuse us a little

bit. The scoring isn't a big

differential on the tractor seat,

it's not counting. Less than three

points difference between a bigger

scores and the lower scores on that

obstacle.

obstacle. So, 31 from the individual

sections, 7.3 of the overall gives

Niklas Mattsson a score of 38.40

three. The next

three. The next rider in is Seppi

Smits. The riders have these

brilliant internal speedometers. And

Seppe Smits in practice felt it

wasn't going quite fast enough.

So,

first, front side boards slide was

textbook. He switched, backside 270

catching the rail between his legs.

My son composed between the rails

and he is looking really solid. This

is a nice tidy start from the

Belgian.

He is making it look very

slow. Almost double dip in that.

That was the second kick he

struggled on in practice. We have

seen two mistakes on that now. You

can see Seppe Smits is raising his

hands, the wind is howling out with

a second job. Lovely style on the

270 out.

Such a shame, the wind got

him bad. He will take that one.

There will be a haematoma creeping

up on his head by the end of the

night. So Seppe Smits, the Belgian

will be relying on his second and

third run to find the best score,

but he is the current world champion

and he can ride on difficult world

causes.

Next in, one of the biggest

names in terms of anaesthetics in

snowboarding. There is the

competition side and then the

filming and competition side. We'll

see what he can bring here. You can

see nice, good flow through this

section from Torgeir Bergrem. Just

slowing down, not switching the

board around.

board around. 181, 360. Liberal hand

drag. Front side spin here.

Frontside 900.

Little square on the

landing. Just made it over the

knuckle. Get his money 's worth into

the bottom. Now, final jump. A

little reverb as he landed, he went

round 180.

The judges will have

marked that. For the judges now and

we always say this, on a course like

this it comes up even more. The

judges are looking for an excuse.

The moment you offer them one, they

will take it.

Absolutely, such is

the level of snowboarding now, if

all these guys put their runs down

you would be splitting has. It would

be, I don't like the colour of his

coat.

Of course it wouldn't, but you

are right, the judges need an excuse

and that is it there. He shrugs, he

knows. I just want to go quickly

back to Seppe Smits's run. He was

lining it up perfectly, he is one of

the most experienced competitors?

He

is a consistent snowboarder and the

current world champion. It is such a

shame, when the wind is so strong on

the second jump, it is difficult to

play. He has another two runs, I am

sure he will get it.

Next in, the

first of the Canadians, the two

superpowers of snowboarder slope

style, Canada. Tyler Nicholson put

down a very nice run to qualify

yesterday.

The thing with the

Canadians, for spaces but probably

eight riders that could fill those

spaces. Eyebrows were raised when

Tyler Nicholson's name appeared on

the team sheet.

He is using the

easier, right-hand side of the

obstacle. Brings it back to the

middle with the double-click rail.

Getting a lot of bang for his buck.

You could hear him. The first of the

jobs, pretty straight, double cork,

really nice double Cork ten, left

the last 360 so late. Switch,

backside 1260.

The same thing as

happened yesterday, bouncing out of

the front door of the nose.

To the

happy penguin, he's gone down the

front of that and he will be fine,

maybe a bit of snow down his pants.

That is one of the most technical

tricks we see in the rail section,

if you isolated them as individual

tricks.

It is the switch on the top

rail, the switchback.

Unbelievable.

Just a bit sketchy, he did not ride

the whole rail on the second feature

but the riders, strategy wise,

Jamie, it looks like Seppe Smits was

looking for a really basic run, a

foundation run. Do you think that is

what most riders will be doing or

will you see some just sending it

first up?

I think you will see,

especially like Cleveland, I can't

imagine him doing a mellow run, I

can imagine him sending it from the

start. He will be thinking, "I have

three runs and an opportunity to get

on the podium". He

on the podium". He will want it.

If

you know you got the firepower, why

not scare everybody?

Exactly, you

might as well go all in on the first

run.

Healy comes in his third

Olympics, one of the most stylish

snowboarders in the world, battling

some really difficult injuries back

at the end of 2016 but he has come

back very powerfully in 2018. He

looks so comfortable on this course.

He really does and pulled it out of

the bag and when we spoke about

flow, this guy is liquid

snowboarding. He goes down this

caused the same way a bowling ball

would, if you just let it go, it

would find a natural route and that

is exactly how Staale Sandbech

snowboards.

He's mixing it up every

time, we are seeing something

different every time.

Topside for

Dean. Cranking the four full

rotations, not the cleanest of

landings.

LAUGHTER

And there is the style, a backside

180, tucking it up.

The slowest half

gap we have seen, switch 180 to

finish, the defending silver

champion putting in a run but not

without mistakes.

Exactly what we

just talked about, are you going to

come out and lay down a marker, or

are you going to go berserk? Staale

Sandbech wanted to go berserk.

He

did.

Definitely.

He got some pop out

of this.

He is so good at

snowboarding on everything, even

pipe.

That is what he competed in,

in 2010.

Silver medallist.

With a

half a foot long Mohican if I

remember rightly.

Just not getting

the full rotation, there. There we

see the world's slowest switch 180,

that would have felt like time

standing still while he was up

there!

It is so windy, you can hear

him saying it. Really challenging.

It becomes critical because the

experience of riders like Sebastien

Toutant, Seppe Smits and Staale

Sandbech comes to the fore. I tell

you what, low centre of gravity and

really, really strong, inertia could

played to Sebastien Toutant's

strengths.

Backside 180 on and then

the wrong way backside 180 off,

chucking in the heave Ho and then

through the king. He's come off

earlier that will cost him, normally

such a strong rail rider.

He is

normally really strong but he will

get it.

One of the few big

competition riders who as a

legitimate street part.

He is still

going for it, though.

12, well, no

more, it 11.30 six.

As soon as you

get the headwind, you can see it on

the flags blowing upwards, it is

difficult.

What is phenomenal is the

riders are still rolling the dice

knowing that.

Yeah!

We saw yesterday

in qualifying, it was gusty, one

rider would have a run when it was

not so windy and that the next rider

would overshoot the jumps. Like you

say, they've got to roll the dice.

I

mean it is hard to control something

you can't control, like if the wind

is blowing and you just have to go

for it either way.

That is the most

important factor, isn't it? Everyone

is dealing with it.

Yeah, it's the

same for everyone.

I tell you what,

yesterday, Mark McMorris and Max

Parrot made it look like it was not

windy.

No, they just went for it,

didn't they? Put it down.

Sebastien

Toutant saying the same, all of the

riders are struggling with it. At

the moment, Torgeir Bergrem's run is

in first place but we have three

runs, if you are just joining us, it

is the first three runs and the

men's snowboard slopestyle final.

Next in, Red Gerard. He is one of

the only Americans do following sage

Koppenberg's footsteps. The

Americans are so powerful and half

pipe but they have fallen behind the

Norwegians and Canadians in

slopestyle. Red Gerard, the first

really competitive American rider we

have seen in a few years.

Really

nice line from them. Huge front side

air up and overly hitching post,

more like a goalpost as you called

it, Eddie, really high, and then

through the king, 360 off, really

nice, really stylish. Oh, lovely.

Showing the control. Almost the

snowboard equivalent of the last air

Bender.

Interestingly, he's started

sucking up, one of the smallest

riders so he will suffer with speed

the most.

Trying to keep as a

dynamic as he can.

Smart move, very

smart move, rather than trying to go

the whole distance over the top. He

did not even have enough speed to

get over that.

Such a shame! Most of

the guys already that have dropped

in, they have all felt it.

The funny

thing is, we sat in the commentary

box during practice this morning and

everyone was riding, there's speed

was there. I think the wind has come

in.

The contest director has got a

decision to make very soon as to

whether or not they can carry on

this contest.

What is the protocol

once the riders dropped down and

have started?

I've got no idea!

First jump off the skewed take off.

Switchback 12, he got it but he was

high on the landing, did not quite

get the speed.

The way the course is

designed, you've got to land the

first jump in the sweet spot, in the

right position because that is the

speed you need to take you over the

next two jumps.

Yeah.

Now the

surprise package, Carlos Garcia

Knight coming out of New Zealand.

Well, he is only a surprise package

if you have not been watching the

results.

That is true!

Where he

rides, he's incredibly consistent.

New Zealand has got an airbag fitted

outside of the back of good runner

and Carlos and his team-mate Deanne

Collins were able to use that to

great effect. Love that rail trick,

so hard, going into the flat section

of the King. -- kink. A Miller flip

onto the centre of the track. He is

making this look really effortless.

Looking at the flags, he's almost

got a tailwind, he's gone really

deep into the transition. Second

jump. Huge backside 12. Wind

assisted through here.

Back-to-back

12s yesterday, will it be that they

today?

Oh, my goodness, first place,

the gods were with him.

Wow.

A shift

in the wind direction and you can

see what has happened.

I tell you

what is fascinating, when you look

at the New Zealand slopestyle team,

they have almost completely rebuilt

it since Sochi and the talent they

have produced in Collins, Carlos

Garcia Knight and later, Zoe

Sadowski Sinnott in the women's is

phenomenal. But Carlos Garcia

Knight, say hello to the big-time.

This kid has announced himself on

the biggest stage.

Rocking the air,

the roast beef and chicken salad.

The little homage to the roast

dinner, that is the name of the grab

if you place your back and between

your feet on the heel edge, it is

called the roast beef grab.

Perfect

landing, straight down, hardly

even... Look how much it means to

him!

That will be a good score.

Will

be really good, tidy run, really

good flow. Look at that, I 70s.

78.6, 20 points daylight, just shy,

19.8 between Carlos Garcia Knight

and Torgeir Bergrem. So the heat is

on. Time to capture the dream. This

man is the fairy tale. Road in Sochi

with a broken rib and still took the

bronze medal. He's had two

horrendous injuries, breaking his

femur in 2016 and his humorous, his

jaw and his ribs in 2017. But he is

still at the very top of the sport.

He has battled his way back. This is

the first three runs.

Super good

flow through the first two sections.

Really nice from him, then a huge

gap 270. Couldn't get it.

Uncharacteristic mistake.

Absolutely. He will make this look

so easy now. So, switchback said

1260 on jump one, jump two, double

Cork front 1080. Three rotations,

upside down twice during that and

he's going for it. Oh, my goodness,

yes!

You could see the way the arms

open up on the last take-off, he

grabbed for everything he had,

tucked in and the first 1440 of the

finals has gone down.

Triple grab.

Was this a mistake?

It's hard to

tell. I'm not sure, really not sure

because he has switched it up now.

That is a mistake, for sure.

Definitely.

It's worth pointing out

the gap is huge.

Yeah, massive.

Love

the switch backside 1260, holding

the grab for as long as possible,

which shows the judges just how in

control he is. A little touch of the

snow? The judges don't like that.

The frontside double. Locking the

landing in.

I love how he switches

the grab.

The front a double at the

moment is the setup trick, isn't it?

That is where he was going to push

it for the second run now he's got

it in the bag.

He could go for a

triple 14.

Frontside 1080 double

Cork becomes a frontside...

Into the

triple 14, and he did it before lots

of times.

Even with two mistakes,

look at the score.

75.3, he slots in

just behind Carlos Garcia Knight in

second. Now we come in for the

Norwegian, Marcus Kleveland. He has

ended three slopestyle contests this

year and won three slopestyle

contests this year. There is no one

in the world better than Marcus

Kleveland on paper.

You jinxed him

because he caught his tail as he did

the 270 do that. Did not seem to

affect him. Oh, and again! Do you

think he meant that?

The 270 out of

the box was new. That gap to the

backside.

Watch this, that is my

favourite bit.

Nice butter, setting

him up, drop in switch now.

Front

ten.

Switch backside 1080, just

tucking in for the wind. Having to

open up on the 1260 to stop the

rotation. Now speed is his friend.

Has he got the triple?

Has he got the triple?

Orange Graco

1620! The biggest spin we have seen

so far at the Phoenix park. Marcus

Kleveland does exactly what Jamie

Nicholls called and he comes out

plans blazing first run. -- guns

blazing.

Great shot from the

helicopter, there. Little mistake

which might affect his close call.

I

have a feeling the way he opened up

the carb 12, I think he was testing

for the 16. Like he did at the X

games.

games.

Here we go, switchback said.

Wow.

Switch backside 1620, four and

a half rotations.

Wow!

Qualification

is getting put in perspective now.

We have gone up through the gears. I

thought we were in fourth gear

yesterday and we might get into

fifth. Now it feels more like we

were in second yesterday and now we

are in third or fourth. 77.6, the

mistake up top has cost him. Again,

we are getting a good indication

from the judges they are

prioritising cleanliness is next to

godliness. So Max Parrot, so many

people had written him off as a big

air riding was coming in, not to

make up the numbers in slopestyle

but possibly not to challenge for

gold but he proved everybody Robyn

qualifying yesterday. He was the

first place to qualify up and now he

has a point to prove. -- everybody

wrong in qualifying. Has been known

as a big jump rider but he has added

the rails and the course seemed to

suit him.

Qualifying first yesterday

as unable to the luxury of dropping

in last and you can see hard way to

70. On the first rail. -- 270. Then

a backside 360, locking in the grind

and then 180 out, really technical.

Did not kiss the rail, got it

perfectly.

Playing with fire on the

rails and normally he would be all

over that but I don't think he will

have the speed. He's going for it.

Just coming up a bit short. He needs

to channel his inner speed demon

cor.

There you go.

Oh!

It is a big

hit.

That was huge.

He went for the

triple, regardless but the speed was

not there on the start but he still

went for the triple.

He knew Marcus

Kleveland and Mark McMorris had made

mistakes and it was his chance to

really send it and get a score in

front. That is beautiful.

Comes up

short.

Definitely going for it which

is good to see in the first run.

Obviously the crashes where it gets

picked apart.

We have got a

competition on our hands, boys!

A

heavy hit.

He's lucky to ride away

from that.

Glad he's OK.

You say

that but one of the snowboard

journalist describes him as the

terminator! I think he's fine

landing like that to be honest. He's

made of stern stuff.

They have three runs. Those are the

leaders at the moment.

leaders at the moment. But the Kiwi.

I don't think he played it safe,

that was the run we saw from him in

qualify yesterday. He has the best

platform he can really start to

build and push this. Redmond Gerard.

Just 11 riders in the final today.

And the wind is certainly playing

its part. Snow temperature, minus

18. Wind speed says seven col

mutters, that is maybe the average,

the problem is it is gusting.

Also,

it said the snow conditions were

hard packed. I think that is South

Korean translation for bullet-proof.

There is not much give, is there

Jamie?

To be honest, I don't mind

it.

You like it, don't you?

It is

nice to ride on.

I don't know why.

How difficult is this course, we

have spoken about how good it looks,

but how difficult is it to ride this

course?

It is difficult, but

enjoyable, it is one of the best

courses I have ever ridden. So much

fun and creativity and I love the

rails.

rails.

OK, finals run is about to

step up. We have talked about it a

lot, the judging is going to be

critical here isn't it? They have so

many options and you said you love

the rail sections but so many

options at the top. If it's not

working for you, how many of these

riders have the ability to mix it up

and try something else? Will we see

completely different rail runs if

someone lands what they want?

It is

a big move to do something you have

not tried in practice already,

especially on the rails. They fit

like many other guys, obviously they

know the jumps, they write them all

the time and if they can do a trick

on the job likely saw Marcus

Cleveland, he was almost looking

like he was go and catch a ball. But

on the rails, because they are

different all the time, you have got

to practice those tricks.

We did see

little changes in the rails from

Mark McMorris and Marcus Cleveland?

I would love

to see him lock it in. He has the

ability to spin in all directions

and that is not something we have

touched on. The judges like this

either riders. You get penalised for

spinning in the same direction so

the judges like to see variety.

You

have backside and side. Inside you

open your body up to the front side

of the landing and them backside,

you turn your body on it. When you

approach the jump backwards, you can

open up. Switch frontside is when we

often revert it as. Named after

Steve Caballero.

Niklas Mattsson, the first to drop

for the second runs. He has the

firepower on the jumps and is very

creative on the rails.

270 out,

riding switch. Misses out a lot of

those features to get the huge

switch three Cisse 60 -- switch 360.

He is absolutely flying down this

course, speed is his friend here.

Here we go.

Frontside nine, whether

or not the wind played its part

there.

Oh my goodness, that was

beautiful. He slowed back down and

realised how big he had gone. The

spatial awareness it takes to do

that. He is one of the quietest

riders body has the respect of

everyone because he has that

incredible still.

He slowed it down

by still grabbing. Some guys slowed

by opening up but he slowed down by

grabbing. Amazing.

One of the things

that is very interesting, if we get

the skewed take of some of the

judges were talking yesterday and

they said even if those take-offs...

Here it is. Perfect. Little

handwrite, if you want to pick it

apart. I went freeriding, I say with

him...

You chased him.

I chased him

back in January, his natural skill

is phenomenal, he is brilliantly

talented. As are all these riders,

but when you see it in the flesh, it

was effortless.