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A very good afternoon to you once again and welcome back to Sochi on | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
the day when Great Britain's curlers begin their quest for medals right | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
here in the Ice Cube Arena. This is the Iceberg Skating Palace, the | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
scene of Russia's first gold medal last night in the presence of | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Vladimir Putin in the figure skating Championships. Overnight, it was | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
transferred into an arena for short track speed skating. | :01:02. | :01:17. | |
They have all gone! That leaves Steven Bradbury crossing the | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
finishing line! He lost it on the line! | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
Great excitement for Great Britain because Jack Whelbourne has made the | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
final, no British man has done that. This is how he did it. Our | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
commentary team describing the action. | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
Come on, Jack, show us what you are made of here, if he can skate as | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
well as he did in the heats, then he has a very good chance. It is all | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
about jostling for position, Jack Whelbourne wants to stay out of | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
trouble. He did very well in the first heat. Charles Hamelin of | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
Canada in second place. Changing of the guard at the front as the | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
Italian tries to come through. But the Canadian is having none of it. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
He is the current World Cup leader, Charles Hamelin, he is the man of | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
the moment, keeping it high. The Netherlands are up in third. Russia | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
coming down the side. Jack Whelbourne at the moment, back in | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
fifth position. Jack Whelbourne has work to do, he is slipping away. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Eight laps to go and the speed is starting to lift up. Canada moving | :02:54. | :03:08. | |
into first place. Jack Whelbourne is skating well. At the moment, he is | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
right in the pace of Russia. Jack Whelbourne moves down the inside. So | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
confident. I is cool. Jack Whelbourne in third place, he needs | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
to get past the Netherlands. Charles Hamelin is in the lead. Jack | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Whelbourne with the inside pass and he is losing confidence. Down the | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
back straight, and it is Charles Hamelin come to the front. Jack | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
Whelbourne is skating out of his skin here, up to the start of the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
ultimate loop. Critical to hold position. There goes the bell. It is | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
time. Come on, Jack, you can do it! Charles Hamelin is still leading. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
They come off the bend. Canada takes it, Great Britain second, history is | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
made, the first time we have had a finalist in the 1500. Make a note of | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
the name, Jack Whelbourne! A superb race, lots of pushing and shoving. | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
Jack is not 100% convinced he has made it, he is still looking | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
around. I think Charles Hamelin is quite clear that he has made it. He | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
skated superbly. Look at this in slow motion, look at the technique | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
here, the Italian in all sorts of trouble. He went down and just about | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
recovered. Alvaro Vazquez through. This is where he might have been | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
worried about it. He pushed Charles Hamelin right out. Not sure how he | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
stayed upright. The clench of the first by Jack Whelbourne. The | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
referees have made their decisions. They are skating across. Jack | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
Whelbourne has made the Olympic 1500 metres final. Eduardo Alvarez has | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
been penalised, Jack Welbourne is through to the medal contest. The | :05:32. | :05:41. | |
British skater. The Russians had Vladimir Putin, we | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
have got Princess Ann, she has just rushed by to support Jack | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Whelbourne. Let's return out for the B final of this event to the | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
commentary team. This is absolutely compelling | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
stuff, this is the B final, seven in the gold medal rush, these skaters | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
are skating for the A 's position on Word and then they are classified in | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
their Olympic position order. The Frenchman, coming around the | :06:15. | :06:41. | |
outside, taking over the front from the Netherlands. Smart skating from | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
the Koreans, they always wait until the last minute. This race is for | :06:50. | :07:05. | |
eighth place. The Dutchman getting ahead of the contest, right in the | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
pace. Down the inside comes Russia, the Europeans and for this. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Immediately, he is denied the sharp end of the contest as the next | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
skater comes to take through. Six laps left to go. The Netherlands in | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
second place. A battle for second place. France are still in first | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
place with five laps to go. France on the front, the Netherlands, then | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
Russia in third place. The pace is really starting to ramp up. This is | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
where mistakes can occur. France trying to come down the inside, a | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
big move down the inside from the world champion. Park Je-Yun from | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
Korea, on the line with two to go. Korea and China coming through on | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
the inside, the door has been closed, it is the Netherlands that | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
is swinging around into the back straight. Here comes the world | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
champion, and coming down the inside and he has gone down, and it is the | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
Netherlands that has crossed the line... Will we be hearing more | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
about this? Letters have a look the Slovo. He was taken down in the 1000 | :08:38. | :08:47. | |
metre European file and again now, in this B final. Have a look at what | :08:48. | :08:59. | |
happened? This is that the incident we were referring to, I think it is | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
coming here. With half a lap to go, there it is, goes right the way | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
through, 44... It was 240, look at where the skate is, he took the | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
Dutchman out. There was no room, the problem with this sport is, when | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
something like this happens in the last lap, they will disqualify the | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Korean skater, but unfortunately, the Dutchman who should have been | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
first, he will end up being last. And then the Frenchman cruised over | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
the line, he would be qualifying as a in the race. And Sebastian Hamlin, | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
he came second in the race. His brother is in the a race. The | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
dynamics of this contest, even when they crossed the line, they have to | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
look at the screen and have a chat about it. What about this final, | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Jack Whelbourne is an imperious form, skating out of his skin. He | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
has not been phased out all by the reputations of any of the | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
opposition, and that is why he will be skating off for podium position | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
in this contest, and we cannot wait. Let us take at the line-up, he will | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
be fearing them all at this stage of the competition. This is where the | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
big guns come out to play, but Jack Whelbourne has got prodigious | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
talents to get through to this stage. He had to deal with the | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
Chinese, one of them is 17 years of age, Lee Hamed bin of Korea, he is | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
lucky to be here, he is here on an enhancement. The one to watch as to | :10:50. | :11:07. | |
be Russia, Viktor An. History could be made here, they have never won a | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
medal in short track. He has got to be my favourite read this distance, | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
he has been skating incredibly well through this season. I think Jack | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
will be very good, and we can see this again here... This last bend | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
when the Netherlands was taken out. We're still waiting for the official | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
results. A nice gift for the Frenchman! Take another look at | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
this, look at where the right foot goes. There is absolutely no room to | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
go through. And he summed the eyes with his left knee, he might be | :11:55. | :11:55. | |
paying the price for that in this with his left knee, he might be | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
competition. -- and he thumped his left knee on the ice. And this is | :12:03. | :12:15. | |
the confirmation. So, the announcements have been made that | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
the gladiators that will line up next for the 13 and a half laps | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
around the ice rink here. It is very tight here. But what I love about | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
this, you can pass on the inside, but you have got to get around those | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
blocks on the bend. Absolutely. If you are underneath them, you are | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
out. There is no going inside the blocks. I think Jack Whelbourne is | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
an imperious form, the 23-year-old British competitor, a former world | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
junior competitor. Elise Christie will be cheering him on. I was so | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
impressed with her speed, we will be hearing a lot from her when the 500 | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
metre competition continues to unfurl on Wednesday. Let's get ready | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
for the introduction is no. It is like two boxers coming in to fight | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
in the ring, they bring them in in the order that they line up. | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
Position one, this will just be introduced now, this is the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
29-year-old Canadian, here he is, his third Olympics, Charles Hamelin, | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
he races with a lot of facial hair. Eight times the world champion. | :13:47. | :13:56. | |
Position to, that would be Jack Whelbourne. -- position two. He is | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
the former junior world champion for the 1000 metres. Position number | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
three representing the Republic of China, 17 years of age, this fellow. | :14:08. | :14:21. | |
Alongside of him, stand-by for the here, it will resonate around the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
arena, here he comes, the man that won this title into Reno. -- in | :14:28. | :14:42. | |
Torino. Coming up next, the 23-year-old American, JR Celski, he | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
won the Bronze event in Vancouver. At completing the line-up, position | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
number six from China, an 18-year-old. He is fifth in the | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
World Junior Championships in 2013. These are the six men that have made | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
it through for the first medal contest in the short track | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
disciplines here in Sochi. Now, is it going to be the fourth gold-medal | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
for the Russian? We are away. What is important to | :15:16. | :15:50. | |
remember, seven skaters in this final. You don't want to get stuck | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
at the back. We saw the Koreans had difficulty coming through too late | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
and I think it is important for Jack Welbourne in fourth place at the | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
moment to not get too far behind in this group of seven skaters. Amylin | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
already comes to the head of the contest. The business end of this | :16:09. | :16:21. | |
medal race. -- Hamelin. The Frenchman is down there and the | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
British skater... Not the Frenchman, I should say the British skater, | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
Whelbourne, is in fourth. Victor An And is sitting right behind | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
Whelbourne. And at the moment, Victor An is in sixth place. Jack | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
needs to be careful that he doesn't get stuck at the back. Yeah, Jack | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Welbourne sees the danger comes down the inside. The holes for the | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
position. It is JR Celski in second spot. Up to the line, with six more | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
lines to go. But the head of the race, we have JR Celski from the | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
USA. Coming through is Charles Hamelin, 29-year-old Canadian. Five | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
to go. Charles Hamelin is looking very comfortable. He is being pushed | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
back third place. And Victor An hasn't made a move whatsoever. He is | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
making a move now. Jack Welbourne has gone down! He has gone down. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
That was because of the move by Victor An. He has moved up into | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
third. In second position is Han Tianyu from China. Charles Hamelin | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
is turning the screw at the front. Charles Hamelin is at the front, | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
igniting the burners now. The Canadian take said. Victor An Is | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
second and third, Han Tianyu. Or was he second? But Charles Hamelin gets | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
the gold. Brilliant staking dasher skating by Charles Hamelin to win | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
the 1500 metres they are. It's his third gold medal in the Olympics. | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
What a scared that was. He is celebrating already. I would like to | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
see that lunge for the line. I thought maybe Han Tianyu just about | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
got it from Victor An, from Russia. A magnificent race from Charles | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Hamelin of Canada. He came here to get gold and that is what he got. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
There he is, the man with three gold medals and with a number of | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
distances still to go. Interesting to see that Jack Welbourne may very | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
well be injured. It was at about three laps to go. You may have been | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
kicked in the shin. A great shame for Jack Welbourne. He was skating | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
so magnificently. The... It was caused by the move of Han Tianyu. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
It'll be interesting to see that when they play it back. The | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
celebrations are spilling over here for the winner, the great Canadian, | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Charles Hamelin. What a sensational short track he is. Now then, three | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
gold medals for Charles Hamelin of Canada. There it is. The court JR | :19:22. | :19:43. | |
Celski, I think. -- he caught. Yes, he was third, so the Chinese skater | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
did get second. Charles Hamelin timed his efforts to perfection. | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Let's bring him over the line and then we will tidy up the Whelbourne | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
incident. There is a victory salute. We need to wait for that official | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
result. I would say Charles Hamelin has spent so much time... There he | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
is, with his girlfriend. She was a bronze medallist in Vancouver. We | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
are just waiting for the official result. | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
Well, the official scoreboard is up. Here is the official result. The | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
Olympic champion is Charles Hamelin. It's his third Olympic gold medal. | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
In second, Han Tianyu. And Victor An from Russia gets bronze. Jack | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Welbourne didn't finish, unfortunately, due to that incident. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
What a shame that was. But it was a sensational final. Charles Hamelin, | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
what a skater. The eclipsed -- he could eclipse the record... In fact, | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
he has equalled the other Canadian's record. Three men now | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
have three gold medals and looking at the former Charles Hamelin has | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
got, when you get the 500 metres, which he is probably best outcome he | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
could win that as well. Absolutely. Is interesting is that there was not | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
a Korean skater in the top three at the 1500 metres. Astonishing that, | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
isn't it? There is news coming up to us that Jack Welbourne, as you | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
rightly said, is injured and he has had to go away for medical | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
treatment. Let's hope that his injury is not going to derail his | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
chances in the other events. Remember, there is the 1000 metres | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
and 500 metres still to come. What a sensational final it was. We waited | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
for it and it certainly did give us some fireworks. Sadness for just | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Whelbourne -- Jack Welbourne. Jubilation for Charles Hamelin, who | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
wins his third Olympic gold medal. Unbelievable action from the | :22:08. | :22:08. | |
Iceberg. Disappointment for Jack Welbourne. | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
We hope he is OK. We hope to speak to him later on. What a great race | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
it was. Princess Anne has been watching that and also his governed. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
She was in action earlier in the 500 metres. We will catch up with those | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
races later but let's hear more about police. -- Elise. | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
Elise Christie, British short track. To be at the top of your game, you | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
need to sacrifice everything. Just before the race, I sit in the heat | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
box and I think about things that could go wrong and things that could | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
happen. I put a lot of pressure on myself for those things not to | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
happen. I start to become a bit panicky. It is easier to get rid of | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
the pressure and think, you know, I haven't done it before. I've never | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
won an Olympic medal. I've never made an Olympic final. Anything I | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
can do above quarterfinal level is going to be an achievement because | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
it is the first time I will have done it. That is how I am handling | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
it. Everyone is saying that I may medal hope but I could fall over in | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
that first round and that could be my Olympics over. Unfortunately, | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
there is that and not not always the strongest people wing. -- win. | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
Elise Christie playing down her chances but she really is a hope for | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
the medal in the 1000 metres, where she is the European champion. Wang | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
Meng China has broken her child -- ankle, is that increases had | :23:56. | :23:56. | |
chances. -- her chances. Elise Christie is on the outside. He | :23:57. | :24:19. | |
has made that she has made a smart move. A good move in by Christie. | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
She is up to third. Remember, it is the top two that will go through. We | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
are into the last two and a half maps -- laps. The Russian has come | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
straight into the fund. Two laps to go. Christie cannot get through at | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
the moment. At the moment, it is the 16-year-old Russian at the front. | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Here comes Christie. She has ignited the burners. She will take it on the | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
line. What a cool delivery thereby Elise Christie. She showed the way | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
to the rest. The 16-year-old Russian was second. What an impressive skate | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
by Christie. A superb race by Christie. She didn't panic at all. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
She drew a live band lane position and to go around the outside, kept | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
her cool, kept her head and managed to come through clearly. Here is the | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
result for you. Her performance director will be absolutely rapt | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
with that. We move onto heat is number three. Right on the inside is | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
a skater from Japan. On the outside, Charlotte Gilmartin. | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
A good start right on the front from the Italian. Look at her speed. She | :25:52. | :26:06. | |
has distanced herself from the rest. The Dutch skater, the European | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
champion is coming through. Good skating. It is still the Italian. | :26:15. | :26:30. | |
Here comes the Dutch skater. Gilmartin, I think of Great Britain | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
with the final lunge to the line, gets second. Let's wait for that to | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
be confirmed. Great Britain with two skaters through to the next round. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
Superb skating. A flying finish by Gilmartin, coming throughout of the | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
last turn. Of course, we have two rate for the official result. -- to | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
wait. I don't think there was anything untoward, where the | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
referees would decide that they wouldn't make it. A superb piece of | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
skating by Charlotte Gilmartin. It was an incredible injection of pace | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
from the Italian. Right on the far side, Gilmartin, keeping a cool | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
head, and at the right time, although she did collide, she came | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
through. Do you think that will still stand? I do think that will | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
still stand. Escapes there from Charlotte and | :27:27. | :27:38. | |
Elise. I can never get my head around them coming around the | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
corner. You always think they are going to come off the track and they | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
don't. Sometimes they do, and when that happens, you can get lucky! | :27:46. | :27:55. | |
In 1994, in Lillehammer, Steve Bradbury was part of a team which | :27:56. | :28:04. | |
won bronze. It was Australia's first-ever Winter games medal. Here | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
he was in 20-2002, in Salt Lake City, in the short track 1000 | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
metres. By his own admission, he was not the fastest skater in the | :28:15. | :28:15. | |
semifinal. It could be any two from these | :28:16. | :28:27. | |
three. He has gone! And what a race! There are only two standing at the | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
end. He was through to the final. His tactics there? Not to lead from | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
the front. Away first time. This, the battle for the medals. Canada | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
lead. Nobody putting in a great injection of pace at the start. He | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
makes a great move. Into second place. China are third, Australia | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
are fifth. China is in second, career third. -- Korea. China are | :29:01. | :29:12. | |
ominously placed. He goes around the outside. Oh, there is a fall! They | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
have all gone! That has left Steven Bradbury to cross the finishing | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
line. The most aiding gold medal of any Olympic Games! And Australia's | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
first-ever gold medal at the Winter Olympics. A reward for being this | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
far back. And willing the entire field to tumble at the last turn. | :29:36. | :29:44. | |
The power of Aus, as in positive thinking. He is still shaking his | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
head. Australia's first medal of these games. He gets generous | :29:52. | :29:58. | |
applause. I wonder if he has bought a lottery ticket! | :29:59. | :30:07. | |
you have to smile when you watch that. If you are a curling fan, | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
today is the big day at the Winter Olympics. Just behind us, the Ice | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
Cube, this is where the curling will be starting today, the British women | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
were up against Sweden, but first, at five o'clock this morning, it was | :30:24. | :30:31. | |
the man up against Russia. This is what happened. We join it in the | :30:32. | :30:32. | |
end, number six. He can afford to get this on the | :30:33. | :30:54. | |
nose or to roll it a little bit. He wants to be sitting first and second | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
shot after this. They are sweeping very hard, it must be getting close | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
to the guard. They tried to hold the line, they did their best. Just | :31:10. | :31:21. | |
about lying shot. Just get past the first, but not the second. Tapped | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
back against their own stone, so this lying shot, and it is shaping | :31:29. | :31:38. | |
up well for Britain. You might miss this, if you lock it, it is good. | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
They can make fat, then we have a /43. You can see half of the red | :31:45. | :31:54. | |
stone when you get to the other end, and they will try to pick the stone | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
out. They do not want to live. It seems like a special shot that they | :32:01. | :32:12. | |
have got. He could potentially play straight down here and hit the | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
yellow on the nose and lie six, two, three, four, lie five. They have | :32:20. | :32:31. | |
decided for the easier shot here. Just has too get it anywhere. Always | :32:32. | :32:39. | |
good to hear the boys calling. Well played. He has been on top form, | :32:40. | :32:48. | |
David Murdoch, on this first match. This is shaping up well here. | :32:49. | :32:58. | |
Now, he might hit that, maybe try and get on the first stone. This | :32:59. | :33:11. | |
potentially looks like the guys are asking for him to draw, sit right on | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
the face of that yellow sitting on the blue four foot. They do not | :33:17. | :33:26. | |
necessarily need to... They want to just come in and sit right here, try | :33:27. | :33:36. | |
to make it much harder for David to get a big end here. | :33:37. | :33:50. | |
Once again, he's being asked to come up with the shot for his team. They | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
are in a bit of bother here. He is asking them to sweep this | :33:56. | :34:14. | |
early. And they are working very hard on this. Has this got a knock | :34:15. | :34:22. | |
on it? They will have to work hard to get it past the first stone and | :34:23. | :34:34. | |
they are doing well. That is actually a well drawn shot. | :34:35. | :34:48. | |
But I think it should be a pretty simple and straightforward shot for | :34:49. | :34:55. | |
David Murdoch to hit his yellow right onto the back, onto the top of | :34:56. | :35:04. | |
the red. He can see all of his yellow shots there. This is | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
potentially a match-winning end here for Great Britain. | :35:12. | :35:25. | |
Yes, the Russian shot, it was overdrawn on the mark. You can hear | :35:26. | :35:34. | |
the instructions. That was nearly five, but it is going to be four. | :35:35. | :35:48. | |
Well executed and from Team GB. That has made things very difficult for | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
the Russians, that is a 6-1 lead for Great Britain, four in that end. | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
Excellent from the British team, especially David Murdoch playing | :35:58. | :36:04. | |
well. Could not be going any better. That proved to be the crucial end of | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
that match with Britain going on to win 7-4, and they play Sweden live | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
at 3pm. The women are in action shortly, but first, we can hear from | :36:15. | :36:20. | |
Jack Whelbourne who has made the final of the 1500 metres, he has | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
been to the medical team after falling, but then he's speaking to | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
Ollie Williams. He written in thing badly, tell us | :36:26. | :36:36. | |
what happens. -- you are limping badly. I fell over, twisted my ankle | :36:37. | :36:44. | |
and a bit, I hit the blade, it is very sore, but hopefully I will come | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
back and do the other distances. Do you think you will be OK for it? I | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
will definitely be OK, I have two Olympic distances, I will give it my | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
best go. That is the best I have raced, some of those guys that we | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
had to go through to get to the final, they are some of the guys | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
that could have been on the podium right now, but maybe I could have | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
been on the podium if I had not fallen away a little bit, but I came | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
out here trying to get to an A final, and I have done that, so I am | :37:19. | :37:25. | |
pleased. The black blockers underfoot, you twist your ankle, and | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
they say anything happen, and it did, didn't it. -- anything can | :37:30. | :37:37. | |
happen. Yes, with the final, anything can happen, we keep saying | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
it, but you can run it again, and I think there would be a different | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
result, I am pretty sure, so I am not unhappy, and if anything, I got | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
a win under my belt, and going into that final, I was ranked 26 in the | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
world, so, there you go. Your girlfriend, Elise Christie, looked | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
in great form today, happy for her? Yes, absolutely, everybody that | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
skated to date, they did their very best, but we are very happy, and | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
that is definitely a move forward for GB short track, Tivoli they can | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
do just as well. We hope that your ankle heals up quickly, well done. | :38:19. | :38:26. | |
Thank you. Keep supporting! 158! We will return now for the curling, Eve | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
Muirhead is in action, great hopes for a medal for them, they are up | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
against Sweden, the double Olympic champion, we join it in the final | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
stages, Jackie Lockhart and Steve Cram your commentators. | :38:43. | :38:49. | |
This is where Eve Muirhead needs to be decisive, she | :38:50. | :38:51. | |
This is where Eve Muirhead needs to be decisive, needs to be sure of | :38:52. | :38:53. | |
this shot that she chooses. I think we have decided on a high | :38:54. | :39:06. | |
guard. They have been given an | :39:07. | :39:24. | |
opportunity, at Eve Muirhead needs to grasp it, and she has not studied | :39:25. | :39:32. | |
in the match so far. -- not done it in the match. She seems happy with | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
where this is going. You and I are sitting almost right | :39:39. | :39:55. | |
behind these stones looking down on the sheet, and we're talking about | :39:56. | :40:06. | |
how they seem to be drawing a bit better with the take-out. What shot | :40:07. | :40:15. | |
would you want with her? 88% on drawers, 73% on the take-out one of | :40:16. | :40:24. | |
these centre guards of if she is to open up. I would personally, | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
probably, be driving the shot we see here on the left. She has too | :40:29. | :40:39. | |
remembered that she has got the last stone, so she needs to make sure | :40:40. | :40:47. | |
that she can see the four foot. That one that she is looking at in the | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
front, just left of the center line as we look at it, to drive that back | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
into the centre two, or at least one of them, hopefully two. Well, from | :40:56. | :41:09. | |
their point of view. A fair bit of distance between those two stones. | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
Yes, but she has two make sure that she clears it, anyway, to give a | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
view of the four foot and try to replace it. | :41:23. | :41:41. | |
Partial success. Yes, she has opened up four foot there. | :41:42. | :41:55. | |
They had to hold onto that one well. Eve Muirhead just wanting to... She | :41:56. | :42:12. | |
will block her way in here. Yes, guard that shot, possibly setting on | :42:13. | :42:23. | |
the 12 foot. Just and is indicating. -- just where Anna is indicating. | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
Another crucial shot, I knew I would be saying this quite a lot! And how | :42:31. | :42:39. | |
that end has changed, Sweden had two really bad shots and it completely | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
flipped earlier on in the end. Eve Muirhead's shoulders were down, now | :42:45. | :42:51. | |
this is her opportunity here. She was thinking about the previous | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
end, then all of a sudden the door opened and she was on it. Where is | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
this one going? They want to start turning it in. They need to move as | :43:00. | :43:15. | |
far as they can. Again, she's not with that. She has left a bit of a | :43:16. | :43:23. | |
shot for Maria to see. But even if she has guarded that, she still left | :43:24. | :43:33. | |
a shot for Maria to draw to the four foot. This probably isn't a bad | :43:34. | :43:43. | |
shot. She still has a chance to draw into the next end. If she doesn't | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
get this right, she can still get the steel. -- steal. | :43:47. | :44:08. | |
You see, I am learning. A pat on the belly from the weight. Half weight | :44:09. | :44:16. | |
there. Successful. Mission accomplished, I | :44:17. | :44:43. | |
guess, in just one shot. 6-4 to Sweden a lens. The Hammer transfers | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
to Great Britain. They are still in this, they have to finish this game | :44:50. | :44:52. | |
off really well. It has been topsy-turvy, up and down and they | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
need to come up with the big shot in this final end and maybe hope that | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
this little mistake from Sweden as well, who knows... | :45:02. | :45:18. | |
We always thought these games would be close between Britain and Sweden, | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
even when the one or other of the teams are not playing well. They | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
still have the opportunity to make the big shots. They have the players | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
to do that. This one has not quite gone Britain's way but they are | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
still in it. You could argue we didn't play well and we were right | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
all the end. I was going to say that neither team has been dominant but | :45:44. | :45:46. | |
they are still in the game and that is what you have to remember. They | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
are going to go back after this game and analyse how they played, and how | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
the strategy went. They will learn from it and move on, win or lose. I | :45:55. | :46:05. | |
don't think she particularly likes that first stone. She was shaking | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
her head. I'm not sure why. They don't want this to be short. They | :46:12. | :46:22. | |
wanted to be in the house. Even your house needs to put up some | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
protection on the signs if she wants to pick up a two here. Once again, | :46:27. | :46:38. | |
Claire Hamilton played a storming first game here. She's sitting on | :46:39. | :46:47. | |
89%. I think are parents will be sitting at home watching this, | :46:48. | :46:50. | |
butterflies in their stomach. They don't come out until Wednesday. | :46:51. | :46:59. | |
Hello, mum and dad Hamilton! There may be a few mums and dads | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
supporting the Russian team as well. A lot of noise. It is very tight in | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
the game between Russia and Denmark. Very tight indeed, sitting 4-4 at | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
the moment. The shot of Margarita didn't quite | :47:14. | :47:44. | |
find the line this time. Eve will ignore these two reds at the top of | :47:45. | :47:45. | |
the house and draw in behind her. Get one in behind that guard and | :47:46. | :48:03. | |
that should start the end of, for you to go down the end to get a two. | :48:04. | :48:22. | |
Claire Hamilton has done really well. Yes, she has. Great management | :48:23. | :48:29. | |
of her shots and histones. She controls at where it's going to go. | :48:30. | :48:36. | |
She's had a good, strong start to this competition. Are they going to | :48:37. | :48:49. | |
remove that front guard? Yes. That is the one shot that could cost them | :48:50. | :48:52. | |
the two, corner guard. Unusually, playing across the face | :48:53. | :49:19. | |
of that, to take the guard out there. I think that is what she | :49:20. | :49:29. | |
asked for but it came across, moved their own stone towards the back of | :49:30. | :49:31. | |
the house as well. Vicki Adams, has just been asked to | :49:32. | :49:51. | |
play a frieze here, sitting on the edge of the red at the back of the | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
house. She has spun it just a little bit fast. Oh, unfortunate. | :49:58. | :50:03. | |
She has had two of them now. Early on, one went through as well. That's | :50:04. | :50:15. | |
unfortunate. We really needed... Even short would have been good | :50:16. | :50:16. | |
there. Her sister will be at home watching | :50:17. | :50:35. | |
this, probably with butterflies in her stomach. I hope you are OK, | :50:36. | :50:45. | |
Kaye. Your sister has gone a long way. This game was always going to | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
go one way or the other. The same shot again. Yes. It's definitely | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
possible. I think that's probably the best shot. You could get a | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
mistake out of Sweden if you can place one right on top of that red. | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
They then try and hit it out, and jam, and then you can go for a shot | :51:08. | :51:15. | |
on the other side of the house. She has just played the shot before and | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
knows the mistake she has made. She should be able to correct that. She | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
was still looking a little anxiously at it. They are having to work this | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
hard to get it there this time. It's looking OK. | :51:28. | :51:38. | |
She probably overcompensated a little bit. Just a little bit. I | :51:39. | :51:50. | |
guess if that had been her first shot, you would have been reasonably | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
happy with it. But she needed to sit right on top of that red shop there. | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
-- shot. Again, it is still sitting there. | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
All we need is one frieze. She is just talking herself through | :52:05. | :52:33. | |
what she wants to do. Just make the line good. | :52:34. | :52:48. | |
We really need this to be round, behind the guard. Eve is trying to | :52:49. | :52:57. | |
encourage them to sweep this in. It's going to get past it, | :52:58. | :53:35. | |
they've got. Christina Bertrup, she will be hoping to play some better | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
hots -- shots in her last end here. I think the problem is it has ended | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
up being a very straightforward and for Sweden. We've not been able to | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
put the stones where we want. Stone placement is key at this level of | :53:53. | :53:55. | |
the game. However, we still have our chances. We still need to get one | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
around, buried. They make one mistake, give us the opportunity to | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
try to capitalise and get two here. They've got to get in here and make | :54:08. | :54:09. | |
sure this counts. They are trying to pull it in. This | :54:10. | :54:33. | |
has not got the line. It is not hidden. That is unfortunate, that | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
one. It has not given Eve a lot to work | :54:39. | :54:48. | |
with, has it? This should have been straightforward. | :54:49. | :54:58. | |
It's probably half covered from the other end, when Maria Prytz looks | :54:59. | :55:01. | |
down the ice. She is just happy with a chip. That | :55:02. | :55:19. | |
will be find more cash for Maria. -- that will be fine for Maria. | :55:20. | :55:34. | |
A steadying hand going up from the skipper, saying this looks OK. And | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
it is. That's a shot that a skipper often | :55:39. | :55:56. | |
has to pull out of the back pocket. A nice draw, right behind, onto the | :55:57. | :55:58. | |
one foot. Not looking so good for Great | :55:59. | :56:22. | |
Britain here. They are still two behind. The last two stones. I am | :56:23. | :56:33. | |
not sure she took a knife ice there. Maybe it is just how she is laying | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
these shots. Eve turned her back on it right away. It just started going | :56:38. | :56:49. | |
right from when it's left her hand. That is unfortunate. And because we | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
are sitting right behind it, we could see that. | :56:57. | :57:08. | |
Do you ever feel like the game is just not for you? The both of us | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
have said, if you are going to have a bad game, put all your bad shots | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
in one game. Get it all done with, dealt with. The important thing is | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
not to dwell on it, not to look back on it too much. I know you said they | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
will analysed. But we almost want to say, let's put this to bed and | :57:28. | :57:29. | |
forget about it. There was a period in the middle, | :57:30. | :57:50. | |
where things went Britain's way. And there is a handshake. So, Sweden and | :57:51. | :57:58. | |
are victorious. -- end up victorious. | :57:59. | :58:05. | |
These fountains are pretty good. Disappointment therefore Eve | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
Muirhead. She is back in action tomorrow against the USA. There were | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
celebrations earlier on, when Britain had their first finalist in | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
this short scat -- short track speed skating. Jack Welbourne came through | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
and it was an outstanding performance by the young man. It | :58:25. | :58:28. | |
ended up in disappointment with a fall and a slight injury but he | :58:29. | :58:31. | |
spoke to us afterwards. We hope he will be fine to compete in the rest | :58:32. | :58:35. | |
of the competition come during the course of the next 1450 days or so. | :58:36. | :58:43. | |
We are back on air on BBC Two very shortly, when we will be watching | :58:44. | :58:47. | |
the men up against Sweden. That is in the curling. Hopefully they can | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
do well against one of their main challengers for a medal. For now, | :58:52. | :58:53. | |
goodbye. | :58:54. | :58:57. |