:00:39. > :00:45.Good morning. Early start for you on a Sunday, isn't it? And we're sure
:00:46. > :00:48.it'll be well worth it today on this second day of competition here in
:00:49. > :00:51.Sochi. Today is when the Winter Games' old order crashes head on
:00:52. > :00:55.with the new, as the dazzling debut sport of snowboard slopestyle shares
:00:56. > :00:57.the gold medal billing with the perhaps the grandest occasion of
:00:58. > :01:47.them all - Alpine skiing's men's downhill.
:01:48. > :01:53.This is one of the busiest days of the Games, with eight gold medals up
:01:54. > :01:58.for grabs, and you're going to see two of them won before the morning
:01:59. > :02:01.is out here on BBC Two. So, get the bacon butties on, plenty of coffee.
:02:02. > :02:06.And if that doesn't wake you up, then this lot will.
:02:07. > :02:09.Norway's man mountain, big Axel Lund Svindal, is going to to throw off
:02:10. > :02:15.the mountain today in search of his nation's first ever gold in men's
:02:16. > :02:20.downhill. But will it be Miller's time? The
:02:21. > :02:23.USA's Bode Miller wants to cap his five Games Olympic career with the
:02:24. > :02:28.blue riband title. It's the one that's always got away from him.
:02:29. > :02:32.But remarkably, it's the gold that's always got away for Canada. Could
:02:33. > :02:41.Eric Guay be the man to finally put that right this morning?
:02:42. > :02:44.And after an uber cool debut for snowboard slopestyle yesterday,
:02:45. > :02:49.Great Britain's Jenny Jones is in the mix in the women's event this
:02:50. > :02:52.morning. As is Australia's Torah Bright. She's a halfpipe specialist,
:02:53. > :02:57.but has a crack at snowboarding history this morning. Can she be the
:02:58. > :03:00.first woman to win multiple Olympic snowboard titles?
:03:01. > :03:04.So, two events at the opposite event of the Winter Olympic spectrum.
:03:05. > :03:13.One's been a thrill-ride for only the bravest of the brave. The
:03:14. > :03:17.other's a young winter upstart that's making heads turn in its
:03:18. > :03:26.first games. Social media is going absolutely nuts. We are going to see
:03:27. > :03:31.the women's vent this morning. -- event. Men's downhill live at seven
:03:32. > :03:37.this morning. Women's snowboard slopestyle semifinal live around
:03:38. > :03:41.6.30. And yes, you'll see both. And they're taking place virtually side
:03:42. > :03:44.by side, up in the Caucauses, in the same valley, and also, virtually
:03:45. > :03:49.side by side up there in the Rhosa Khutor resort. Ed Leigh's at Extreme
:03:50. > :03:56.Park and Graham Bell's at the bottom of the downhill course at the Alpine
:03:57. > :04:05.centre. You can virtually see one another's courses. Graham, we will
:04:06. > :04:08.start with you. Graham first, I don't think we've seen a downhill
:04:09. > :04:12.course with such risk potential since the Nagano games, when Hermann
:04:13. > :04:17.Maier and a bunch of others went careering off it.What makes this one
:04:18. > :04:24.so tough? It is very steep at the top. Very
:04:25. > :04:29.technical. Lots of terrain, which saps the energy of the legs. When
:04:30. > :04:35.you come past the mid-station and go off the trunk -- trampoline, they
:04:36. > :04:39.have used the water injection bar. It is like an ice rink. Very
:04:40. > :04:44.difficult conditions. That is what makes this course is so tough.
:04:45. > :04:50.Yesterday I described downhill as the grandad and slopestyle as the
:04:51. > :04:54.truculent teenager. I can actually see the finish of the slopestyle
:04:55. > :05:05.quite clearly from here. Good morning, Ed. What a fantastic debut
:05:06. > :05:13.for Eurosport yesterday -- for a slopestyle yesterday. What has been
:05:14. > :05:18.the reaction there? Well, I think a lot of people were overwhelmed. The
:05:19. > :05:27.riders in slopestyle have not had the benefit of halfpipe. This is
:05:28. > :05:32.totally new. All of them being bombarded with social media. Lots of
:05:33. > :05:34.media attention from the mainstream. Family and friends
:05:35. > :05:45.congratulating them on a fantastic spectacle. It was a love in.
:05:46. > :05:52.Everybody felt the love yesterday. When you think about the competition
:05:53. > :06:04.yesterday, what will the women learn about the men yesterday? Our
:06:05. > :06:09.perspective from the commentary booth was that they were marking
:06:10. > :06:19.really highly further big jumps. A lot of the riders... The women will
:06:20. > :06:25.be more cautious. They will build up slowly. I think they have seen that
:06:26. > :06:28.while there is pressure for a medal, it is the Olympic experience that
:06:29. > :06:33.counts. I hope that liberates a few of them to lead down the runs they
:06:34. > :06:40.are capable of Rather than playing it safe. What are the physical
:06:41. > :06:47.qualities of some of these writers? They may it look so fantastically
:06:48. > :06:54.easy in the air. What needs to be strongest? Where do they have to
:06:55. > :06:59.work on and off the snow? You have hit the two big ones. You need
:07:00. > :07:05.overall fitness. But it is more explosive power. It is not so much
:07:06. > :07:11.about stamina. The take-off, were all of the hard work is done for the
:07:12. > :07:22.aerial manoeuvres, all comms from course training. It is a mix of
:07:23. > :07:27.strong legs and strong stomachs. We have got Jenny Jones, we have got
:07:28. > :07:37.Aimee Fuller in there. Aimee Fuller is superstitious. She is the younger
:07:38. > :07:41.of the two. I know she sleeps in her competition bid before she competes.
:07:42. > :07:49.Jenny Jones has been dreaming of a debut in the Olympics for a long
:07:50. > :07:53.time. Our best days behind her? -- are her best days behind her? It is
:07:54. > :08:01.a difficult one. Jenny will forgive me. She is in snowboard slopestyle
:08:02. > :08:08.terms nearing Jurassic. 33 is very old. But she has worked so hard over
:08:09. > :08:15.the last two years. She has made this her goal to write here. I did a
:08:16. > :08:21.core strength warm up with her back in September. It was just a warm up
:08:22. > :08:27.for 15 minutes. It was ridiculous. I was nowhere near close to keeping up
:08:28. > :08:33.with her. She is fit. Her big obstacle to raise confidence. If she
:08:34. > :08:39.can overcome that, this could be her day. She will possibly be in the top
:08:40. > :08:43.five. Right now it is slightly overcast. Her experience really
:08:44. > :08:49.comes to the fore when experience -- conditions are not perfect. Some who
:08:50. > :08:55.prefer sunny conditions may struggle. Jenny's muscle memory is
:08:56. > :09:01.going to help under slightly diminished conditions. That is one
:09:02. > :09:09.slight advantage. We are going to let you prepare. Enjoy it. We will
:09:10. > :09:17.keep our fingers crossed for Jenny and four Aimee Fuller. Jenny has
:09:18. > :09:26.been on the scene for such a long time. She is three times a former --
:09:27. > :09:31.and X Games gold medallist. The woman stood behind me in the
:09:32. > :09:36.yellow jacket is Jenny Jones. For the last ten years she has dominated
:09:37. > :09:41.slopestyle snowboarding. Her discipline is not part of the Winter
:09:42. > :09:50.Olympics. But that changes in Sochi. This is one of the qualifying events
:09:51. > :09:55.and she is currently in first place. Jenny eventually finished second at
:09:56. > :10:00.the event in New Zealand, behind American Jamie Anderson, one of the
:10:01. > :10:03.favourites for gold. That result all but secured her place in the British
:10:04. > :10:08.Olympic team. Afterwards, I took for lunch. Being in the New Zealand back
:10:09. > :10:16.country, it took some time to get there. No one really knows who you
:10:17. > :10:24.are on a mainstream level the way that people know who Eddie Edwards
:10:25. > :10:28.is. I am not comparing you! I don't know if I mind that. These days when
:10:29. > :10:34.you look at people more well known in sport, I feel like they get a
:10:35. > :10:41.hard time sometimes. I don't know how much I mind that. Do you find
:10:42. > :10:47.that now you are an Olympian, people's ideas of what you do have
:10:48. > :10:51.changed. --? Matt Frei think my parents had that blip along time ago
:10:52. > :10:58.when they thought, are you doing well? There were quite upset. They
:10:59. > :11:04.were like, why is nobody talking about you? You have just won the X
:11:05. > :11:08.Games. Then it gradually sunk in. Now it is coming to this bit, they
:11:09. > :11:15.are so involved in it, they can understand. They notice I'm getting
:11:16. > :11:21.more attention. You made them hide in a bush at the X Games. Are you
:11:22. > :11:25.going to do the same to them in Sochi? I said to them, do what you
:11:26. > :11:33.want to do but don't tell me what you are doing and don't let me see
:11:34. > :11:39.you! I love them to bits. It is nothing to do with them. It is how I
:11:40. > :11:43.have always operated. Jenny's preparations stumbled when she
:11:44. > :11:49.suffered concussion in December. She has recovered and is back on track
:11:50. > :11:55.in time for the games. In your mind, are you letting yourself visualise
:11:56. > :12:02.the Olympics? No. One event at a time. Just trying really hard to
:12:03. > :12:06.remember why I like snowboarding. It is enjoying the tricks. If I am
:12:07. > :12:12.still doing that, then I am still wanting to show off those new tricks
:12:13. > :12:16.in a way and I still want to compete. It feels like you have got
:12:17. > :12:19.so many barriers up now to protect yourself and keep yourself in the
:12:20. > :12:26.right space. Whether it happens or not, at the end of the journey you
:12:27. > :12:35.can say you have done your best? There is always stuff you don't see
:12:36. > :12:40.on the day. I kept enjoying myself as much as I could, I did the physio
:12:41. > :12:46.etc. If it doesn't come off on the day, I am still going to look back
:12:47. > :12:52.at my career as well and be like, there are so many things I did
:12:53. > :13:01.achieve that I am proud of. You have your feet firmly planted on the
:13:02. > :13:10.ground. You don't leave the mountain thinking, I am Jenny Jones, Olympian
:13:11. > :13:16.snowboarder. You can't do that! We wish Jenny all the best. And of
:13:17. > :13:20.course Aimee Fuller. They will be going in the semifinals in 15
:13:21. > :13:23.minutes. We are turning our attention to the event at seven
:13:24. > :13:29.o'clock in the company of one of Britain's longest serving Olympians.
:13:30. > :13:35.Emma Carrick-Anderson. Cracked the top ten, remember very well, in
:13:36. > :13:41.1992. Great to see you. This is the day that gets the juices flowing?
:13:42. > :13:46.This is good to be so exciting. It is a fantastic downhill. It is going
:13:47. > :13:50.to be a great day. In terms of what you have seen, you have been sliding
:13:51. > :13:59.on that course with Graham Bell, it is a brute? An absolute brute. You
:14:00. > :14:06.have got to be to buy them -- toboggan at the start. It is going
:14:07. > :14:10.to be amazing. I remember the mornings of Graham's course run from
:14:11. > :14:21.Ski Sunday. It was always a bit heart in mouth. We all heaved a big
:14:22. > :14:25.sigh of relief when he got down the bottom. You try doing this with a
:14:26. > :14:30.handy cam and no ski poles. This is one of his best works. Check this
:14:31. > :14:34.out. Just looking out at the start gate
:14:35. > :14:39.is intimidating. Let's have a look at it. Pushing out hard, it is
:14:40. > :14:55.already quite rough and bumpy. This is called the toboggan. You
:14:56. > :14:59.have to come out high at this turn for the steepest and fastest part of
:15:00. > :15:03.the course. We are diving down the valley now. Good speed down here.
:15:04. > :15:31.46%. A little bit wide. Headed towards the big plan, these
:15:32. > :15:40.big sweeping turns. Lots of terrain. Wow. That is an insane start to the
:15:41. > :15:43.men's downhill. Now you have got the toughest part of the course coming
:15:44. > :15:52.up. Over the Russian trampoline, massive flight. It is really icy.
:15:53. > :16:03.Really bumpy. It is going to be hard on the ski. Onto the section called
:16:04. > :16:08.big pan. Eight sweeping terms with lots of rollers, lots of Touraine.
:16:09. > :16:19.They have used the water injection bar. It makes it really rough and
:16:20. > :16:38.bumpy and I see. Just run wide on that turn. So easy. -- it is so icy.
:16:39. > :16:47.My legs are burning. I still have the two biggest jumps on the course
:16:48. > :16:58.come. First is right over their. See how rough and bumpy the snow is. It
:16:59. > :17:14.does not give you a chance to relax. Site of the finish. Plucking towards
:17:15. > :17:27.the line. -- tucking. That is one of the most testing downhill courses I
:17:28. > :17:35.have ever skied. That is tough. I have seen him do a lot of these. I
:17:36. > :17:44.would detect from that, very rarely has he been nervous. You were
:17:45. > :17:56.nervous, weren't you? Definitely nervous at the start. This course is
:17:57. > :18:03.particularly nerve wracking. One person 's reaction was, I am never
:18:04. > :18:11.going to let my sons do downhill skiing. I made a mistake as I went
:18:12. > :18:25.down the valley, it is 46 degrees not 46%. It is 103 degrees. It is
:18:26. > :18:41.steeper snow. I was doing about 70mph. If we are campaigning degrees
:18:42. > :18:48.of difficulty, how does it compare to some of the toughest courses? It
:18:49. > :19:02.is up there with one of the toughest downhill courses that these racers
:19:03. > :19:08.have skied this season, Borneo, Kitzbuhel. I think this course is
:19:09. > :19:15.probably tougher than Kitzbuhel. It is certainly up there. It is as
:19:16. > :19:24.difficult as I have skied that I can think of. I go back a long way! We
:19:25. > :19:32.will not go into that. We talked about Emma having three boys. You
:19:33. > :19:40.would not let them do it? I made a mental note they would never have a
:19:41. > :19:48.pair of downhill skis. Use liked. -- you slipped. They want to make it
:19:49. > :19:56.fair for everybody so they always water it. There might have watered
:19:57. > :20:04.the middle bit, almost too much. It is flatter but it is so icy, it is
:20:05. > :20:10.like an ice rink on its side. You are trying to get an edge and it is
:20:11. > :20:16.extremely bumpy. You have also come of the biggest jump. Street into a
:20:17. > :20:25.big right-hander and it is sheet ice. It is not as long as two
:20:26. > :20:29.minutes 30, but in terms of the effort required, will it feel like
:20:30. > :20:35.that? It will be physically and mentally exhausting. They have to
:20:36. > :20:41.focus 110%. Their legs will be screaming by halfway down. I wonder
:20:42. > :20:51.if it is the course for risk-takers. There is no one better than body
:20:52. > :20:59.Miller, the man who has been fastest in two of the three training runs.
:21:00. > :21:08.He has been out because of a training injury.
:21:09. > :21:16.He is not conventional. Five Olympic medals. His results have been far
:21:17. > :21:24.from standard. He is an gold medal position in the campaign. He grew up
:21:25. > :21:30.in New Hampshire, from home-school to a scholarship at the main ski
:21:31. > :21:43.racing Academy. His style has never been orthodox. He is never going to
:21:44. > :21:51.finish on one ski! For years the US ski team was not for him. He has
:21:52. > :21:58.never told the line and he has not always loved up to expectations.
:21:59. > :22:05.That is three out of the Mack disappointments. He is not a poster
:22:06. > :22:12.boy. After ten years of racing he was expected to fade away, injury
:22:13. > :22:18.and life took its toll. His brother died as a result of the motorcycle
:22:19. > :22:25.accident. For the party animal, marriage was not foreseen. She is
:22:26. > :22:40.area lead a fickle women in a lot of ways but she is amazing -- he really
:22:41. > :22:47.difficult woman. A fifth Olympics was not expected, but Miller follows
:22:48. > :22:56.his own mindful is. He has had a lot to deal with in his
:22:57. > :23:02.skiing life and his personal life. When we talk about Miller, is he the
:23:03. > :23:10.man to beat? Showing fantastic form on the course. He has shown great
:23:11. > :23:15.form in the training runs. He loves it when it is rough and bumpy, the
:23:16. > :23:24.more dangerous the better he skis. Kitzbuhel was a great example. The
:23:25. > :23:30.first course inspection, how do you like this? This is proper downhill.
:23:31. > :23:35.Then he said some choice words I cannot repeat. In Kitzbuhel he made
:23:36. > :23:40.a mistake and he did not win the race. He was on the podium in third
:23:41. > :23:46.place. The most disappointed I have seen him on a podium. As long as he
:23:47. > :23:53.can put a clean run down error free I think he is the favourite to win.
:23:54. > :24:01.He said some interesting things, talking about if you are not totally
:24:02. > :24:04.focused this course can kill you. He looked a little shaken when his
:24:05. > :24:12.team-mate is get a serious crash. Do things like that breed self-doubt?
:24:13. > :24:17.Can you top yourself into being scared? The way he looks at it is
:24:18. > :24:25.that when it gets tough everybody else gets hurt and therefore you do
:24:26. > :24:32.better. If everyone else is scared you are going to do better --
:24:33. > :24:38.everybody else gets scared. The harder you can make it, the better I
:24:39. > :24:42.am going to ski. As long as he stays clean and does not make any big
:24:43. > :24:50.mistakes, he could be in first place. The trouble is he takes so
:24:51. > :24:59.many risks and he skis on the edge all the time. He does not let off.
:25:00. > :25:03.He will go to 100% from top to bottom which makes him so exciting
:25:04. > :25:11.to watch. That is why we have loved watching him over the last ten years
:25:12. > :25:15.or so. Aksel Lund Svindal is not really in the same league when it
:25:16. > :25:20.comes to taking risks but he has had a lot of rewards in his time. He has
:25:21. > :25:25.been most consistent in the downhill all season and he is trying to win
:25:26. > :25:36.this for the first time for the Norwegians who have never won this
:25:37. > :25:46.title. Do you feel you are turning into a
:25:47. > :25:53.true downhill skier? There are no true all-rounders that do every
:25:54. > :25:56.eventful for the last couple of years I have been doing race after
:25:57. > :26:11.race on the podium. I would rather have that going than be fifth. The
:26:12. > :26:14.top when we were there a couple of years ago was released deep and it
:26:15. > :26:20.was narrow but they have changed that because it did not time notes
:26:21. > :26:26.to be great -- really steep. Possibly the biggest jump we have
:26:27. > :26:31.had. It is flat and then it drops away. You are going straight out and
:26:32. > :26:38.then you go straight and you start falling, it is almost scary. The
:26:39. > :26:48.challenges it can get warm and it can get soft and that is when it
:26:49. > :26:54.slows down. You have to be prepared. Looking back at Vancouver you came
:26:55. > :26:58.away with a full house, but that did not make you the most successful
:26:59. > :27:03.Norwegian athlete. Do you feel like a second-class citizen when you go
:27:04. > :27:10.to Norway? There are some sports while Norway is by far the
:27:11. > :27:17.dominant, I do not care about that. I am happy for them and I am happy
:27:18. > :27:21.for the nation. As an alpine skier if you get three gold medals at an
:27:22. > :27:36.Olympic Games that is world history. It is hard to compare from sport to
:27:37. > :27:53.spot so better not. If you go into Sochi as favourite, who will win? It
:27:54. > :27:56.has been a while. 1988. It does not matter. What has happened has
:27:57. > :28:00.happened. It is all about what is going to happen. You have to be
:28:01. > :28:15.prepared for anything. What comes comes. Could it be axed ill lunch
:28:16. > :28:22.then dial's day? They have never won this. They have incredible skiers
:28:23. > :28:36.but it is the one that has eluded them. He is not a risk taker, he is
:28:37. > :28:44.a very good technical skier, he is a good glider and I think Miller might
:28:45. > :28:53.have theirs. Who else might it be? My money is on Matthias Mayer. He
:28:54. > :29:00.won the second training run. He is one to watch. His father won an
:29:01. > :29:05.Olympic medal in 1988. They would love that because the Austrian men
:29:06. > :29:13.did not win a single gold last time round. Not a single medal. Almost
:29:14. > :29:18.unheard of in the Austrian team. Plenty more to see, we are sharing
:29:19. > :29:24.the billing with the women's snowboard slopestyle. It is the
:29:25. > :29:30.semi-finals with Aimee Fuller and Jenny Jones getting geared up. There
:29:31. > :29:43.are the live pictures from the X-treme Park.
:29:44. > :29:57.The course is bathing in gentle sunlight. It is a big morning for
:29:58. > :30:05.the women. Good morning. A big day. Finals, medals. We saw in the men's
:30:06. > :30:08.that literally anything can happen. All of these riders will have
:30:09. > :30:18.watched their male counterparts if the dead -- yesterday. How much
:30:19. > :30:27.camaraderie that was well have said those ladies -- there was will have
:30:28. > :30:35.set those ladies three a little bit. Some of the riders dropped
:30:36. > :30:40.their runs. It just goes to show the pressure of the Olympics.
:30:41. > :30:45.Qualifying, semi-finals, the standard was ridiculous, landing
:30:46. > :30:52.everything, it was like a computer game. Suddenly in the finals people
:30:53. > :31:04.were dropping tracks. Max Parrott, one of the most consistent, went
:31:05. > :31:10.down, not on an easy trick, but something he has done very
:31:11. > :31:15.consistently. Also Mark McMorris. I do not think the pressure will
:31:16. > :31:27.bypass the girls. Hopefully they can rise to it. Ty Walker got a one for
:31:28. > :31:36.riding through the course. At the team captains meeting, she injured
:31:37. > :31:40.herself in practice. They said, will she starred if you just rides
:31:41. > :31:46.through the course to secure her place in the semifinals. She has got
:31:47. > :31:53.a bruised heel and she has injected with cortisone. She will do her best
:31:54. > :31:57.to write. First into these jumps this morning. It is a little bit
:31:58. > :32:02.flat. The girls will take a lot of confidence out of these blue lines.
:32:03. > :32:17.They will have their goggles with low light lenses. This is a great
:32:18. > :32:20.run. What a run. A really, really nice start from the young American
:32:21. > :32:24.after such a disappointing qualifiers where she was not
:32:25. > :32:28.prepared to get airborne with the bruised heel. She has now manage the
:32:29. > :32:38.lovely backside 720. She missed the grab. Look at that! Really strong
:32:39. > :32:44.hamstrings. Look how stoked she is. That is awesome. She cannot believe
:32:45. > :32:54.it. She is a bit of an unknown quantity. She comes out of Colorado.
:32:55. > :33:07.Famous for the snow park. The peak eight. She is a classic product of
:33:08. > :33:13.that terrain park. This is the angle I really like. You get good
:33:14. > :33:23.prospective of how fast they are travelling. Very few of the women
:33:24. > :33:25.opting for that smaller side. Shelly Gotlieb from New Zealand. One of the
:33:26. > :33:49.older riders. A lovely run through the skinny
:33:50. > :33:54.double kink rail. A lovely locked in front board on the down box. Yes, a
:33:55. > :33:57.regular rider coming out of New Zealand. Backwards into the first
:33:58. > :34:21.jump. Lovely Switch 540. Didn't quite get the grab. A big
:34:22. > :34:25.backflip! And she has held onto it. That is the run Shelly Gotlieb
:34:26. > :34:33.wanted to put down. I think that is a finals standard score. At 33 years
:34:34. > :34:40.of age you have got to say she is one of the veterans in this event.
:34:41. > :34:45.Especially in slopestyle. We are going to ignore social convention
:34:46. > :34:50.here. Jenny Jones is 33 as well. These women are so experienced. And
:34:51. > :34:55.I think I'm a day like today it is not as perfect as conditions were
:34:56. > :35:03.yesterday. We have got the blue lines on the landing. Good
:35:04. > :35:12.definition. But it plays in your mind. Yes, and the muscle memory the
:35:13. > :35:19.older girls have... The mist grab cost there. It is all about clean
:35:20. > :35:30.and precise and precision. That doesn't even make sense! Next in,
:35:31. > :35:44.Cheryl Maas. We have lost Marika Annie as well. -- Merika Enne. She
:35:45. > :36:07.shook hands in frustration there. Super nice! Beautiful frontside 360.
:36:08. > :36:13.She just over Cook said. She leaves it in the than just a fraction too
:36:14. > :36:21.long. She is annoyed with herself. Rightly so. That is a trick she can
:36:22. > :36:27.do in her sleep. She slipped off the down rail a little bit too early.
:36:28. > :36:36.She is a bit of a rail technician. She is a product of the indoor
:36:37. > :36:47.slopes in the Netherlands. It is a big slope. A style masterclass from
:36:48. > :36:53.Cheryl Maas. Get the front foot higher than the back foot. She
:36:54. > :37:00.overcook sits lightly. She is suffering from the same condition
:37:01. > :37:08.that affected Maxence Parrot and Sebastien Toutant yesterday. Hair
:37:09. > :37:18.Olympic slopestyle fate hanging in the balance of her second run. The
:37:19. > :37:30.British coaches. She is saying sorry for waking everybody up at home!
:37:31. > :37:44.Nice gap to the down rail. Onto the box. Clean through those first two
:37:45. > :37:57.elements. Switching to the first kick. The cab under Flip was really
:37:58. > :38:10.nice. Really solid landing. So close! She said to me yesterday that
:38:11. > :38:15.she was just going to go for the double backflip. Well, if you want
:38:16. > :38:22.to mix it in the finals, you have got to do the big tricks. And the
:38:23. > :38:29.double backflip is a big trick. Is it going to be a frontside 360? I
:38:30. > :38:34.would say 720. That is what she said. It is her first Olympics. We
:38:35. > :38:39.will see her in the next Olympics without a doubt. She is just
:38:40. > :38:53.enjoying it, and rightly so. And Nan and grandad are here. How radical is
:38:54. > :38:57.that? Smack --! Put yourself in that position. You were dropping ten
:38:58. > :39:05.metres onto an icy landing and you're just starting to commit your
:39:06. > :39:16.second backflip. She got massive applause from all of the crowd. The
:39:17. > :39:25.Russians appreciating that. Aimee Fuller currently in third. Silje
:39:26. > :39:44.Norendal is the form rider coming into this. She won the last major
:39:45. > :39:55.event for women in Colorado. Oh, no. Silje Norendal, you have got to
:39:56. > :40:00.say... She has maintained her speed. She has just not settle. She was not
:40:01. > :40:09.settled in qualifying. And she has not managed to shake out the nerves,
:40:10. > :40:19.seemingly, in the semifinals. Yes, she crashed on the backside 540.
:40:20. > :40:24.That really damaged. The Norwegian Scots star less sandbagged into the
:40:25. > :40:33.medals position. -- Staale Sandbech. She got a gold medal in X
:40:34. > :40:38.Games a couple of weeks ago. She beat all of these girls here. She
:40:39. > :40:47.knows she can do it. The only difference is that the jobs here are
:40:48. > :40:55.bitter. They are all on a par with the last jump at X Games, I think.
:40:56. > :41:01.So, the Norwegians, again, we looked at these -- this field and we knew
:41:02. > :41:07.the semifinals were stacked. We have seen two of the big names you would
:41:08. > :41:10.expect to see in the top four, Cheryl Maas and Silje Norendal,
:41:11. > :41:19.struggling to put a decent score down. Only Ty Walker and Shelly
:41:20. > :41:27.Gotlieb with clean runs so far. Life back to the top. Sina Candrian,
:41:28. > :41:47.Switzerland. Taking the same line as Aimee Fuller
:41:48. > :41:53.stop a very simple line through the second element. But solid. That
:41:54. > :42:02.enables them to keep their speed into the big jumps. Beautiful
:42:03. > :42:08.frontside 360. She styled the rotation all the way through.
:42:09. > :42:14.Backside 360. I wonder if CNET Candian has just thought, I am
:42:15. > :42:24.really taking this one. -- Sina Candrian. The frontside 720 there
:42:25. > :42:28.was absolutely perfect. We talk about perfection. What the judges
:42:29. > :42:32.are looking for on these spins, you have got to get your protractor out.
:42:33. > :42:36.The girls have got to do a full rotation. The board has got to land
:42:37. > :42:42.going absolutely straight down the slope. That will get the juices of
:42:43. > :42:48.the execution judges flowing. This is good. She has only done 90
:42:49. > :43:00.degrees of the rotation but she leaves the board behind. She put it
:43:01. > :43:08.down nice and straight. That was the frontside seven. She will be able to
:43:09. > :43:19.upgrade to business class on the way home with those air miles. That is
:43:20. > :43:25.great from the Swiss girl. A clear sign that if you take it easy, just
:43:26. > :43:31.put a rundown, the basic tricks to down through the first two, let it
:43:32. > :43:43.go on the third. Jessika Jenson from the United States. How good would it
:43:44. > :43:47.be to get a woman's one and two. This skill from Idaho has got a lot
:43:48. > :43:54.to do. She has got semifinals to get through first. The Americans have
:43:55. > :44:00.got the luxury. Having Jamie Anderson, easily the world's best
:44:01. > :44:07.slopestyle River, they can use the other couple of spots they have got
:44:08. > :44:12.to really kind of blood new young talent and give them Olympic
:44:13. > :44:32.experience. A great run over the jumps. Well held. She held onto
:44:33. > :44:38.that. The heel edge on the top of that would have been disasters. A
:44:39. > :44:44.good score. A good score will not Aimee Fuller out of the top three. I
:44:45. > :44:48.don't think she will be expecting to stay there. We are running in
:44:49. > :44:55.reverse order from the qualification scores. Jessika Jenson smack bang in
:44:56. > :45:02.the middle of the pack. We have got 15 riders of winning. She nearly put
:45:03. > :45:12.that into the front seat. There were a few mistakes out -- in there if we
:45:13. > :45:26.are picking hairs. Splitting hairs. That as well! That will do. Second
:45:27. > :45:35.place for Jessika Jenson. Six riders still to go. They all scored higher
:45:36. > :45:39.in the qualifiers. Stefi Luxton. It remains to be seen whether her
:45:40. > :45:48.countrywoman, Christy Prior, has recovered from her slamming
:45:49. > :45:55.training. -- slam in training. Going through the down rail kink. Quite a
:45:56. > :46:01.strong showing from the New Zealand girls. Really strong. They have
:46:02. > :46:19.developed a really strong freestyle programme. It was almost like she
:46:20. > :46:31.did not have forward lean. It shows how I say this course is. -- icy.
:46:32. > :46:39.You have little or no control when it is icy. She is going to need her
:46:40. > :46:45.second run. Probably as good a time as any to dive old what we know
:46:46. > :46:49.about Jenny Jones and her family. She is incredibly nervous about
:46:50. > :46:53.having anyone watching her. I have filmed her a number of times and if
:46:54. > :46:59.you put a camera in her face she does not like it. She likes to stay
:47:00. > :47:06.as anonymous as possible. She does realise this is the Olympics,
:47:07. > :47:14.doesn't she? I think she does. After she won her first gold medal, she
:47:15. > :47:18.went to the second Games and her mum and dad wanted to go and watch her
:47:19. > :47:33.but she asked them to watch from the hotel. They hid and revealed
:47:34. > :47:41.themselves at the right moment. As long as everyone promises not to
:47:42. > :47:55.tell her, I can reveal that they are hiding in the stands today. Please
:47:56. > :48:05.do not tell her! They do not have to shabby a park in Canada. That was
:48:06. > :48:38.not really how she wanted to is art, sliding off the first. Nice style.
:48:39. > :48:51.Coming in for words. -- forwards. She is OK. She was so lucky. Look at
:48:52. > :49:00.the look on her face. She has literally treated death. She fell on
:49:01. > :49:08.a training run at the World Cup and suffered a dislocated and fractured
:49:09. > :49:28.wrist. She has no gloves on. I wonder if her parents now. I love no
:49:29. > :49:42.gloves. That is the equivalent of putting your head inside a lion's
:49:43. > :49:57.mouth. You just cheated death. There goes one of your lives. After
:49:58. > :50:06.dislocating and braking a wrist, her natural instinct will be not to put
:50:07. > :50:38.her hand down. That was insane! I almost swallowed my heart. Rebecca
:50:39. > :50:48.Torr, another Kiwi. The front board just slipping off a little early.
:50:49. > :51:04.Backside 180 off the canon. A wobble on the way in. Crazy warble. Her
:51:05. > :51:16.stands looks a little bit wide. She did not look in control at any
:51:17. > :51:42.stage. Disappointing for heart. -- for her. There are four of the
:51:43. > :51:49.brothers. Jackson did not make it, but the other three brothers are
:51:50. > :51:53.here. I was speculating last night that after the sisters got gold and
:51:54. > :52:01.silver, the brothers might be speaking to them about how to get
:52:02. > :52:05.three siblings on the podium. Those lines we were talking about
:52:06. > :52:19.yesterday, they will help them to spot the landings. It almost looks
:52:20. > :52:55.like a powder turn. That is no powder anywhere near those I -- I
:52:56. > :53:10.icy landings. Sarka Pancochova was close. If she can tidy up her run,
:53:11. > :53:24.she will get a top ten finish. 50-50 180. Frontside 180. A lot of speed
:53:25. > :53:31.into the first jump. She used the canon jump in her qualifiers. She is
:53:32. > :53:41.going really steady. Putting out a marker score. Lovely. She sat on top
:53:42. > :53:56.of that. She got that he'll wrap using the back and to grab the
:53:57. > :54:01.board. That was a good run and going big which we saw the judges
:54:02. > :54:11.rewarding the men for. They rewarded the more technical grabs. If you're
:54:12. > :54:29.going to grab between your feet, you have to put a bit of style into
:54:30. > :54:50.that. Straightening the front leg. Get the tail grab. It is a bit of a
:54:51. > :55:05.stretch for heart. She is in the final. A difficult grab and plenty
:55:06. > :55:17.on those jumps. Next is Jenny Jones. She learnt on the dry slopes, she
:55:18. > :55:22.found it very natural as a gymnast. She is competing for a place in the
:55:23. > :55:36.finals at the Olympics slopestyle. 23 years of age, she is Britain's
:55:37. > :55:44.most successful snowboarder ever. A little bit sketchy, but she tidied
:55:45. > :55:59.that up. It is looking very icy for the girls. These 60. This is good.
:56:00. > :56:16.She holds onto that, that was massive! That was as big as we saw
:56:17. > :56:24.any of the men go yesterday. That is coming on switch. One of the harder
:56:25. > :56:31.tricks you will see from the girls. We know that Jenny is very
:56:32. > :56:53.calculated. She has that beautiful 540. Then the two 360s. Here is the
:56:54. > :57:11.frontside 360. That was huge. How she stole that at these 60 --
:57:12. > :57:18.stalled at 360, that was experience. She opened her shoulders out,
:57:19. > :57:45.enjoying the score. She goes into third place. That is the end of the
:57:46. > :57:54.first run of the semi-finals. The second run will be coming up
:57:55. > :57:59.live on the red button. We have other business in the same part of
:58:00. > :58:01.the mountain because if you have set your alarm for the men's downhill
:58:02. > :59:22.you are just in time. here it comes. This could be
:59:23. > :59:27.crucial. The conditions are not really going to change that much but
:59:28. > :59:38.some of the guys have chosen later numbers, perhaps hoping that it will
:59:39. > :59:43.chop up a fraction. The best 15 have been allowed to pick a number
:59:44. > :59:51.anywhere between eight and 22. Matthias Mayer is that number 11.
:59:52. > :00:03.Bode Miller has chosen 15. The defending champion has opted for a
:00:04. > :00:14.much later start. He is 27. That is an interesting choice. Perhaps he
:00:15. > :00:19.just wants to keep things interesting right to the end. He is
:00:20. > :00:27.one for the big events. He has not been super-strong but a win a few
:00:28. > :00:31.weeks ago was outstanding. We are hoping it could be an outstanding
:00:32. > :00:39.race. The memories of the course are imprinted on their minds. Who will
:00:40. > :01:07.be next to claim the gold? It is downhill day. It is long,
:01:08. > :01:15.tough, hard, icy, demanding. The toughest course these athletes have
:01:16. > :01:21.faced this season. We hear that the competition is delayed. I do not
:01:22. > :01:34.know why that is. The weather should not be a factor. The man in charge
:01:35. > :01:42.of it all is actually retiring at the end of this season. I cannot see
:01:43. > :01:47.any fog or clouds. I cannot see any reason for us to have a delay. We
:01:48. > :01:57.are just looking for information as to why we have got a delayed start.
:01:58. > :02:03.Rescheduled to 11:15am. It has been put back 15 minutes. I cannot see a
:02:04. > :02:05.reason why. Unless there has been an incident with one of the four
:02:06. > :02:23.runners. -- four runners. It might just be that their late
:02:24. > :02:26.getting going. They have not been particularly punctual in the
:02:27. > :02:30.training runs either. Just making sure that everything is clear that
:02:31. > :02:37.the blue line is down by the side of the course. You do not really want
:02:38. > :02:40.to be starting 15 minutes late. No, especially with everything else
:02:41. > :02:45.competing for attention. The slopestyle over the valley. That has
:02:46. > :02:56.achieved a lot of attention. We need to get cracking. I can confirm they
:02:57. > :03:07.are now saying that the men's downhill start is rescheduled to
:03:08. > :03:12.11:15am. Another 15 minutes to wait. No reason given. Maybe they are
:03:13. > :03:16.unhappy with the snow conditions on a certain part of the course and
:03:17. > :03:22.they want to do some work. And maybe there has been a delay. We did have
:03:23. > :03:26.a static shot before we came on air of a stationary gondola. It could be
:03:27. > :03:31.that one of the lifts bringing the racers to the top of the course has
:03:32. > :03:37.broken down. I am looking up the mountain to see if I can see any of
:03:38. > :03:42.the ski lifts. They are working now. Ten minutes ago there was a nice
:03:43. > :03:46.shot of a stationary gondola. We assume some of the racers have been
:03:47. > :04:08.held up on their way to the top of the course. They will not be
:04:09. > :04:11.particularly happy. OK, while we wait for the unexplained delay to
:04:12. > :04:19.expire and for the race to get under way, will head back to the studio.
:04:20. > :04:27.That is the first surprise. Not underway for another 15 minutes.
:04:28. > :04:39.There have been very many surprises in this event over the years. Let's
:04:40. > :04:46.remind you of one or two of them. Who might come out of the blue this
:04:47. > :04:51.time liked idiot far goal last time? There is a lump sum of the men to
:04:52. > :04:57.watch. -- like some of the men to watch.
:04:58. > :05:05.Downhill is the blue riband event. There is no Usain Bolt. The last
:05:06. > :05:14.time a favourite won the downhill was 1988. One man hoping to change
:05:15. > :05:18.all that is Aksel Lund Svindal al. -- Aksel Lund Svindal. Standing in
:05:19. > :05:23.his way will be a strong North American challenge, led by the
:05:24. > :05:34.maverick American Bode Miller. The results of the Canadian, Erik Guay.
:05:35. > :05:39.The Canadians didn't win a medal four years ago on home snow and Erik
:05:40. > :05:45.Guay will be looking to rectify that. You cannot rule out the Alpine
:05:46. > :05:50.nations. The Austrians normally so strong are in trouble. They have
:05:51. > :05:57.lost their leading skier, Hannes Reichelt. They are having to look to
:05:58. > :06:06.youngsters like Max Franz and Matias Meyer. The Swiss are in the
:06:07. > :06:22.ascendancy. Their Olympic champion is back on form. And they have a new
:06:23. > :06:27.start. Patrick Young. -- Patrick Wang.
:06:28. > :06:39.Never write off the French. They have produced surprise winners in
:06:40. > :06:43.the past. One thing is for sure, this may be the blue riband event
:06:44. > :06:47.but picking a winner is almost as tough as the course itself.
:06:48. > :06:51.It is extremely difficult to predict the winner. That is why we love it.
:06:52. > :07:07.Your favourite memory of men's downhill? I think it was four years
:07:08. > :07:10.ago. Didier Defago. Four years before that. They are all
:07:11. > :07:18.brilliant, aren't they? It is such an exciting event. Every win is so
:07:19. > :07:22.special. We here it is a gondola problem. The transportation to the
:07:23. > :07:29.top of the mountain has slowed them up. That is the last thing these
:07:30. > :07:33.guys need? Yes it is. You have your race morning planned out in your
:07:34. > :07:38.head. A delay like that can really play havoc. These guys are so
:07:39. > :07:43.experienced. They will manage the time well but it is an extra 15
:07:44. > :07:49.minutes you don't want. We're talking about some of the on --
:07:50. > :07:53.nonobvious candidates. For you, if there is an ace in the pack that we
:07:54. > :08:03.may not have perhaps considered, who would it be? Matias Meyer. Very
:08:04. > :08:12.strong. Peter Fill, very strong. Carlo Janka. As Bode Miller said,
:08:13. > :08:17.this course has got teeth from top to bottom. It is Nally and it is
:08:18. > :08:22.ready to grab you at any point. It is about who is prepared to put it
:08:23. > :08:26.on the line. Is not just a question of these men getting to the top of
:08:27. > :08:32.the mountain and throwing themselves offered. They have been up since the
:08:33. > :08:37.crack of dawn? Yes, the morning is important. You will get up early. A
:08:38. > :08:46.slalom skier will go out and do some short sprints. Then you go up, you
:08:47. > :08:52.have your inspection. They have had now four inspections. They will go
:08:53. > :08:57.through the course. They are physically slipping the course, the
:08:58. > :09:04.sheet ice course. They will go through any parts they may have had
:09:05. > :09:07.training -- problems in. I watched yesterday's training and nobody
:09:08. > :09:13.skied it perfect line. That is what they will do. They will then go to
:09:14. > :09:18.the restaurant or take some time-out, maybe chat with friends.
:09:19. > :09:22.Everybody has a different way of psyching themselves up. Then they
:09:23. > :09:28.will go to the top. On a day like today they will be stuck in the
:09:29. > :09:31.gondola. There is only one man in the history of British Alpine skiing
:09:32. > :09:35.that has gone through this test more often than a certain Graham Bell.
:09:36. > :09:47.Five times he put himself through this. This is Graham's story.
:09:48. > :09:52.Ski racing was pretty much my life from ten years old until I retired
:09:53. > :09:57.when I was 32. It really did run through my entire life and it still
:09:58. > :10:03.does. The reason why we skied for the first time was we went up to the
:10:04. > :10:07.Cairngorms, my mum saw the ski lifts. It coincided with moving to
:10:08. > :10:12.Scotland. I was five and Martin was six. I have come across a man who
:10:13. > :10:20.used to instil fear into me when I was a child. My first coach will
:10:21. > :10:23.stop very good to see you again. I remember you when you were a little
:10:24. > :10:30.boy like that with a snotty nose and so on. Martin was probably the
:10:31. > :10:34.biggest influence on my ski racing. Having an older brother that was
:10:35. > :10:44.incredibly talented at skiing made a massive difference to me. I don't
:10:45. > :10:52.want to be unfair to you, but Martin was technically better than you. I
:10:53. > :10:58.agree. I don't think he had quite the will to win. You are more, you
:10:59. > :11:08.wanted to win. It didn't matter how you skied. Being British you run the
:11:09. > :11:15.risk of being a bit of a laughing stock. The Austrians, the Swiss, you
:11:16. > :11:20.have got the mountains, how can you be a ski race -- racer? -- you have
:11:21. > :11:27.got no mountains. The Austrians would have a support team of two
:11:28. > :11:33.cultures for one athlete. We weren't two or three athletes to one coach.
:11:34. > :11:41.The years I spent racing from 1982 until 1988, I reckon I probably had
:11:42. > :11:46.a service man for less than half the time. It was important for us to
:11:47. > :11:51.learn how to prepare our own skis. I am still doing it now. Any free time
:11:52. > :11:56.we had was massively busy. When you know that your competitors are
:11:57. > :12:06.arresting up, you are down in the ski room, filing your ages, waxing
:12:07. > :12:12.your skis. -- edges. I was pretty punchy as a kid. Whenever there was
:12:13. > :12:18.a reaction like, you cannot ski race, you are rubbish, it would
:12:19. > :12:25.always be met with a fairly aggressive response from me. We were
:12:26. > :12:30.at a massive disadvantage when we started. We were adrift -- just
:12:31. > :12:33.trying to see if we could make an impression on the World Cup circuit.
:12:34. > :12:47.It was Martin that got the breakthrough. Martin was my biggest
:12:48. > :12:50.ally and my biggest rival. My biggest rival in training,
:12:51. > :12:58.certainly. But my biggest ally in competition. I always figured that
:12:59. > :13:13.if Martin skied well, then that positive effect would rub off on me.
:13:14. > :13:19.My way of psyching myself up was to get really, really aggressive before
:13:20. > :13:24.the start. Scared out of my wits have the time. But you could turn
:13:25. > :13:28.that fear into anger and aggression and think of all the times that
:13:29. > :13:34.anybody has ever put you down and said that British people cannot ski
:13:35. > :13:37.race. That just drives the flames of aggression. You put your sticks up
:13:38. > :13:49.and you are ready to go. Nobody is going to stop you.
:13:50. > :13:55.And the snotty nosed kid grew up to be a five-time Olympian. Now in the
:13:56. > :14:02.commentary box with Matt Chilton. Obviously Graham, when faced with a
:14:03. > :14:08.15 minute delay like that, how would you have coped with that? You just
:14:09. > :14:16.put your mental preparation is on hold because you are trying to be in
:14:17. > :14:21.the ride is only going to the start gate. Downhill racers are used to
:14:22. > :14:25.this. If it is not the weather holding them up, it is a racer
:14:26. > :14:30.crashing in front of them. The worst situation is when you pull into the
:14:31. > :14:37.start gate and you are about to go and the start referee will shout,
:14:38. > :14:45.start, stop. That effectively means somebody has crashed in front of
:14:46. > :14:49.you. The way they run these races, there is a small window of stopping
:14:50. > :14:56.you before you go out of the start gate. That is why they have a yellow
:14:57. > :15:02.flag system. You are very keen to not go out if you are stopped. You
:15:03. > :15:07.have basically got to must come back down and build yourself back up
:15:08. > :15:14.mentally. If they know the length of time they have to deal with, which
:15:15. > :15:20.they do, they will just reset their preparations. They will get ready to
:15:21. > :15:24.go. I well remember from my Ski Sunday day is going up to the top
:15:25. > :15:29.and watching these men putting themselves through the mental
:15:30. > :15:33.preparations, going into a zone, remembering the course, going
:15:34. > :15:38.through the course in their memories. That will be put to very
:15:39. > :15:41.good use now as we see the first racer in the gate. Second time
:15:42. > :15:52.lucky, guys. It is all yours. It is time for the downhill racers
:15:53. > :15:55.to do battle with this mighty Russian bear of a mountain. It is
:15:56. > :16:06.ready to show its claws and its teeth at every turn. The 2014 men's
:16:07. > :16:20.Olympic downhill. Steven Nyman opens the show. Straight down to work. It
:16:21. > :16:31.is tough from the very start. Steven Nyman is a massive man. Technically
:16:32. > :16:37.perhaps not the best, but he has this size and the strength to carry
:16:38. > :16:47.this course. Overcast conditions today, which means that visibility
:16:48. > :16:57.is poor. Much poorer than it was for the training runs. As he came round,
:16:58. > :17:08.and went into the compression turn, he let his hip run out, he did not
:17:09. > :17:23.keep Moline going and that sent him almost onto one ski. A little bit
:17:24. > :17:37.tentative on the Traverse. He can judge and anticipate the changes in
:17:38. > :17:50.terrain. The next major obstacle is the Bear's Brow. A little mistake
:17:51. > :18:01.landing off Bear's Brow. A little bumpy. That is where his team-mates
:18:02. > :18:07.had the problem in training. He has had a bit of a shocker here.
:18:08. > :18:23.Visibility is getting a little bit better. That is more than three
:18:24. > :18:28.seconds slower than Bode Miller's quickest time in training. No medals
:18:29. > :18:39.today for Steven Nyman. He was lucky to stay on his feet. Two or three
:18:40. > :18:47.big mistakes on that run and that is where the time slipped away. I think
:18:48. > :19:07.he knows that will not be good enough. Jan Hudec's family escaped
:19:08. > :19:12.from Czechoslovakia and went to Italy and West Germany and settled
:19:13. > :19:24.in Canada and here he is 30 years on racing in the Olympic downhill on
:19:25. > :19:35.Russian snow. He has had problems with his back all season. I would
:19:36. > :19:47.expect him to be ahead of Steven Nyman unless he makes any mistakes.
:19:48. > :19:53.No problems for Jan Hudec. His arms are high, his body is open, the
:19:54. > :20:10.advantage is just over half a second. OK so far. It was that
:20:11. > :20:22.roller that got out Steven Nyman before him. Skiing for first
:20:23. > :20:25.position but with visibility improving all the time I do not
:20:26. > :20:40.think it will be good enough for a medal. Barely able to muster the
:20:41. > :21:09.strength to bring himself to a stop. The best Canadian chance possibly
:21:10. > :21:15.comes from Erik Guay. Carlo Janka made a mistake. He won a gold medal
:21:16. > :21:20.four years ago for Switzerland in giant slalom and since then he has
:21:21. > :21:32.been foully anonymous but shown a few stains of return -- been fairly
:21:33. > :21:40.anonymous but shown it a few signs of return. He has shown signs that
:21:41. > :21:46.he is coming back into form and he is lucky that he has drawn a number
:21:47. > :21:55.in the top seven because these guys are in the second 15 of the world
:21:56. > :22:04.ranking list. He is lucky to start early. He could pull out a
:22:05. > :22:16.QuickTime. He is faster than Jan Hudec so far. He just holds onto the
:22:17. > :22:23.landing. That was close to being a nightmare. He just stayed on his
:22:24. > :22:30.feet. It is a fine line between letting this these run -- letting
:22:31. > :22:48.the skis run and taking a longer line. He did not cut the speed. He
:22:49. > :22:54.will ski into gold medal position. Carlo Janka leads the way for
:22:55. > :23:01.Switzerland. That would have put him second fastest to Bode Miller in the
:23:02. > :23:09.training run. He got stuck between his skis. We saw that invite groover
:23:10. > :23:29.with the woman four years ago that might in -- in Vancouver four years
:23:30. > :23:43.ago with the women. Carlo Janka leads the way for Switzerland. Let
:23:44. > :23:53.us see how the Spaniard gets on, Ferran Terra. He has done will be at
:23:54. > :23:58.the top. The Spanish are good technical skiers so I expect him to
:23:59. > :24:12.do well on the first part of the course. It is this section here, he
:24:13. > :24:25.did not set the rotation, rotational separation he needed in that turn.
:24:26. > :24:40.He has not had a good midsection. He is fighting for grip. He is off
:24:41. > :24:47.balance. Dangerously. Two more jumps to negotiate. That was massive. He
:24:48. > :24:55.was winding down the window with his left arm all the way. The lead is
:24:56. > :25:12.the reservoir for the snowmaking facilities. He has to negotiate the
:25:13. > :25:22.final date downright gate -- the final gate. A few shaky moments. The
:25:23. > :25:39.noise level is rising because the only Russian in the race, Alexander
:25:40. > :25:49.Glebov, is about to run. He wants to take this on this morning. A good
:25:50. > :25:53.addresses start. The reason why you hit the gate is you want to ski the
:25:54. > :26:00.shortest line possible down the mountain. It is not just about being
:26:01. > :26:18.fast, if you ski a short line your time will be quicker. This is the
:26:19. > :26:30.section work Carlo Janka was very good. If you rotate into the turn,
:26:31. > :26:50.your hip all run out over your ski and cause your ski to skid and not
:26:51. > :26:55.carve. He is courageous in his approach but he lacks the experience
:26:56. > :27:20.and calibre of the finest and oldest of the downhill skiers. Miller and
:27:21. > :27:25.Svindal in the 30s -- their 30s. He is the only Russian in the race and
:27:26. > :27:28.he has done well. With this training facility they have got the Russians
:27:29. > :27:36.could start to produce some alpine skiers. They did have some downhill
:27:37. > :27:47.skiers in the 80s they were getting results. It shows how warm you get
:27:48. > :27:52.on the downhill course. You can stand there for about five minutes
:27:53. > :28:07.just wearing your thermal layer underneath. Benjamin Thomsen away
:28:08. > :28:19.for Canada. He skied really will two years ago but last season he had a
:28:20. > :28:32.Willie poor year -- really poor. He really had a great run in Kitzbuhel
:28:33. > :28:42.to get to the Olympics. Not a bad drop section, a little late, he is
:28:43. > :28:51.struggling to hold his line. This section where it is water injected
:28:52. > :28:54.and icy, if you make any mistakes, because the gradient is not as
:28:55. > :29:03.steep, the time will slip away from you. A sudden change of direction,
:29:04. > :29:09.mid-flight, as he adjusted his skis for the landing. Getting bounced
:29:10. > :29:34.around by the Olympic downhill course. His speed is 134kph. He is
:29:35. > :29:41.certainly going for it. That puts Benjamin Thomsen into silver medal
:29:42. > :29:53.position for the moment. He picked up on Carlo Janka. He got wide on
:29:54. > :29:57.the line. Two years ago when they ran the test event that was where
:29:58. > :30:09.the race was won and lost and it is going to be the same today. Travis
:30:10. > :30:16.Ganong said yesterday he hoped that number seven would be a lucky number
:30:17. > :30:27.for him. I am not sure about the white suits. It is not what Bode
:30:28. > :30:37.Miller would have chosen, I do not imagine. He got a huge amount of
:30:38. > :30:45.height, springing up as if he was taking off from a trampoline. That
:30:46. > :30:56.is a better turn around the big left-hander. So much pressure. He
:30:57. > :31:10.has to stay on line. Carlo Janka leading the way for Switzerland.
:31:11. > :31:18.Benjamin Thomsen in second. Travis Ganong is having a solid run. He is
:31:19. > :31:33.fully engaged with the course. Good run so far. This! Travis Ganong has
:31:34. > :31:39.picked up. Showing excellent speed in the middle part of the course. He
:31:40. > :31:48.will put pressure on Carlo Janka. He is first! Travis Ganong goes into
:31:49. > :31:54.gold medal position by seven hundredths of a second. Carlo Janka
:31:55. > :32:03.goes into second and Benjamin Thomsen into third. Excellent run by
:32:04. > :32:12.Travis Ganong of the USA. It was not aiding -- it was not an error-free
:32:13. > :32:31.run. It is a question of who can limit the losses and generate the
:32:32. > :32:34.most speed. Kjetil Jansrud. He took a silver behind Carlo Janka in the
:32:35. > :32:56.giant slalom. I expect him to be faster through
:32:57. > :33:02.big pan. To pick up speed. Standing on his right ski, not pressurising
:33:03. > :33:09.the outside ski. Another mistake over that role. Remember that Travis
:33:10. > :33:21.Ganong was faster on the bottom third of the course.
:33:22. > :33:34.Fast across the snow. Stamps on the left ski. Visibility getting better
:33:35. > :33:44.all the time. You can see a definite shadow across the hill as the sun
:33:45. > :33:49.starts to shine. Still in touch, still in the hunt for a provisional
:33:50. > :33:59.first position. Kjetil Jansrud of Norway. He skis into top spot. He
:34:00. > :34:06.moves into gold medal position for Norway. Kjetil Jansrud made some
:34:07. > :34:14.mistakes in the big pan section, which will describe -- beside this
:34:15. > :34:25.race. Not as many mistakes as this man-made, and is the difference. You
:34:26. > :34:33.have got to look at the line of the bare's bow jump.
:34:34. > :34:41.Max Franz on his way. The first of the quartet of Austrians. This means
:34:42. > :34:48.more to the Austrian nation than any other country on earth, the men's
:34:49. > :35:03.downhill title. The last winner for Austria was Fritz Strobel in 2002.
:35:04. > :35:13.Hannes Reichelt has been a big loss for the Austrians. Out of the
:35:14. > :35:19.Olympics. Max Franz is a little bit reckless. He could be a very, very
:35:20. > :35:23.great skier. But he just has not managed to develop that maturity
:35:24. > :35:31.yet. He is outside the blue line. That will cost him speed. Kjetil
:35:32. > :35:41.Jansrud leads for Norway. Travis Ganong second for the USA. Carlo
:35:42. > :35:49.Janka third. Just turned back slightly there. I cannot see Max
:35:50. > :36:08.Franz picking up on Kjetil Jansrud. He is nearly a full second off the
:36:09. > :36:13.pace. Quite tight at the top. Max Franz toxin for the line. He will
:36:14. > :36:20.not challenge Kjetil Jansrud. He is in fourth position. Three more
:36:21. > :36:38.chances for the Austrians to come. Werner Heel, the next to go. The
:36:39. > :36:47.first of the Italians. Mattias Meyer will be the first of the Austrians.
:36:48. > :36:52.Werner Heel, number ten for Italy. You never know what you are going to
:36:53. > :36:57.get with him. Let's see how he deals with the first part of the course.
:36:58. > :37:07.He made a clean start. Lots of movement with the upper body. Will
:37:08. > :37:14.he be fast on this hill? The Italian downhill team is made up of races --
:37:15. > :37:18.races from the part of Italy that still speaks Germany. It was part of
:37:19. > :37:30.Austria prior to the First World War. The Italians are a team apart
:37:31. > :37:37.from the technical team, made up of Italian speakers. Very good
:37:38. > :37:48.technical skiers. They have a very strong team. Christof Innerhofer has
:37:49. > :37:53.the ability to ski very fast. Werner Heel is just under half a second
:37:54. > :37:58.slower. He has been drifting away from Chatterley answered's time. --
:37:59. > :38:18.Kjetil Jansrud. Werner Heel spent too much time in
:38:19. > :38:21.the air there possibly. When you have got a big job like that you
:38:22. > :38:25.have to weigh up how much you stand up before the jump to absorb it and
:38:26. > :38:33.how far do you fly, and which one will cost you the most time. Werner
:38:34. > :38:40.Heel is fifth stop Kjetil Jansrud leads, Travis Ganong is second.
:38:41. > :38:46.Carlo Janka in bronze medal position at the moment for Switzerland.
:38:47. > :38:51.Matias Meyer, the exciting young Austrian, is next to go. He set the
:38:52. > :39:02.fastest time in Friday's training run. -- Mattias Maher. Number 11. He
:39:03. > :39:19.pushes and skates out of the start. A little bit wide in the line and
:39:20. > :39:21.had to set the edges hard. He is a great technical skier. I would say
:39:22. > :39:23.he has probably got the best chance