Day 4, Part 1 - 10.00am to 12.00pm Winter Olympics

might still be lying shot. The Germans overcooked that. They

weren't needing to sweep it, they needed to leave it. But that is to

Great Britain's advantage at the moment.

Let's see if David Murdoch can find the sort of form he was showing

yesterday. Just been evading him so far.

David is just going to draw this to the opposite side of the house,

needs to finish in the eight foot, anywhere in the white circles. They

don't want to leave a double, you can hear the boys saying that, but

if they keep the stones level... That is a nice shot from Dave. That

is setting him up with the chance of a two and that would mean going in

level. Schulze just having a look, trying to decide with his skip.

Trying to hear each other from that distance, there is so much noise at

the moment. The Russians have taken a couple of shots back from Norway.

That is why they are a little animated at the moment.

I guess there are several options here for Team Germany. They can hit

that out and say, OK, take your two. A big call would be a freeze, to sit

on the front and say, you are not going to get my shot out of here.

You can sit the yellow right on top of it but it is dangerous, because

if he doesn't do it right, Dave would have the potential of taking

it out for a three. This is probably the more sensible call. He could

have also gone for the red on the other side of the house, he can see

all of it from his hack. This is potentially the easiest of the two.

He has played the percentages well so far, as it were. Accepting,

perhaps, the position they are in. So, just a straightforward draw in.

That is a shot Dave Murdoch has been playing well, so we should feel

confident that we can get a two out of this end now.

So, a straightforward shot for David Murdoch, the British skip. Hopefully

get the two and even things up at the halfway point. And that is

probably a fair indication, perhaps Germany have been playing a little

better but Britain have been keeping themselves there or thereabouts, a

very close match so far. This looks like it is coming in nicely.

So David Murdoch, doing what he does very well, drawing almost to the

button, so that levels things up, 3-3, after five ends.

HAZEL IRVINE: And we will be back for the remainder of that match very

shortly, but while we do have a five-minute break, we will bring you

up to date with events up the hill, as it were, because we have been

following the fortunes of all of the women's ski slopestyle is this

morning, it was a fantastic event. It was brilliant but also brutal and

I know many of you will be watching the fortunes of Yuki Tsubota of

Canada, who had a horrible crash. We have received some information from

the Canadian freestyle president and initial assessments show an injury

to her jaw, they had taken her in for further assessment. There is

nothing further to say, she didn't have concussion, she is in a good

frame of mind. She hit her knee on her jaw and it is pretty common,

that sort of thing, it is a very tough school, that particular sport.

We have also managed to catch up with the fortunes of Dara Howell,

the Canadian gold medallist from that event this morning, and indeed,

Katie Summerhayes, of Great Britain, who finished seventh, at the tender

age of 18 in her first Olympic Games. Clare Balding has been at

Extreme Park and has managed to chat to the two of them.

Katie, your reaction? I am honestly gutted. I skied really well in

qualification, I think, which made me feel really good and then didn't

get a result. It happens, everyone falls. I made to massive mistakes.

How difficult were conditions? It was getting noticeably warmer. I

made a plan to stick with the small draw percent and stuck with it, I

was the luckiest out of the girls hitting the small side and not

having to go up things as big. You had quite a delay before your second

run because there was a crash right before you. How did you cope with

that? To be honest, we didn't know, we didn't know what was happening so

we thought it was just normal which was pretty good, because I really

good friends with Yuki, so it was better I didn't know. Overall, good

experience or you regretful of a missed opportunity? A bit of both. I

am so lucky to be at the Olympics at 18, I never thought I would get this

chance and I can use it as experience going into the next one

but I feel like I skied really well in qualification, so I am gutted but

I think later tonight, I will be really happy. I was watching with

your parents and your younger sister, Molly, who now wants to do

this in four years' time, and they are so full of love for you and

proud of the work you have put in. You have had a chance to see them,

haven't you? Yes, it was the first time, so I am so happy they are here

supporting me. I have only been on skis for three months since my

injury and they really helped me get through that, so I am so happy to

see them. It was so good to come down, knowing someone is cheering

for you, it is family. Let's have a word with your coach, Schulze. What

did you make of it all? It has been my favourite day at the Olympics.

Obviously, Jenny winning a medal was amazing but this was my favourite

day. Katie has done everybody proud. It is the first time slopestyle has

been in the Olympics and what a show. I really hope everybody in the

UK, who have been amazing with the support, have enjoyed this and she

has done us massively proud. And it is a learning curve, Katie is only

18. You have never seen a slopestyle final in the Olympic Games and you

have to go away knowing more than you did before. Exactly, it is

experience. Katie is only 18, she has two, maybe three Olympics in her

and I can't wait to follow that journey and carry that through.

2018, we are gunning for that, definitely. You might have both of

the Summerhays girls. What is next, straight up to another competition?

I think I go back home through a week and then there is an event in

Austria called Nine Queens, which is so much fun, I did it last year and

it was the best week of my life. It is a bunch of girls on jumps pushing

the sport, so I am really looking forward to that. So people can carry

on watching you in competition if they can find that. Yes, there are

competitions at the end of the week but lots of photos before. Katie,

many congratulations and Pat, lovely to meet you. So here is the first

ever Olympic champion in slopestyle skiing for women. You nailed it in

your first run. It was kind of really. I am really happy to land my

first run. It really out today. It started slowing up at the end so I

decided to play safe. I cannot believe my first run was the winning

run. Canada are having a stonking Winter Olympics, you are flying!

Canada is on fire. All the other countries are doing well but, go,

Canada! Is the Scotland nose was not skiing injury? No, just an incident

I had in my room. With a lampshade! With a lampshade. It did not affect

anything you did today so have you had a chance to assess the reaction

from back home? Not yet. I turned my phone off early today but I cannot

wait to call home. I cannot wait to go and see my parents and just kind

of enjoy with them. There are medals # this medal is for everybody, not

just me. A great moment for you and a great moment for the sport. Yes,

it is huge. Thank you. That is the fourth medal of the games for

Canada. If you are trying to watch at work, we are getting a lot of

tweets saying that you are. Do not tell the boss but we are very glad

you are here. We are going straight back to the curling in the sixth

end. We are getting a lot of chat as regard to the situation that both

Germany and the Swedish women have been employing which is that their

skip is not playing the part of the fourth player, in other words taking

the pressure shots. Is this increasingly common in curling these

days? I think Jackie would be best answering that. I think some of the

older members of the team feel that they have old heads and why

shoulders to make a decision on how they play the games but they want

the younger guys to play it. That is potentially where it is coming from.

They have the experience but they probably aren't playing the shots

quite as well as the last player would do so they have chosen to play

at all to play alternate places. -- AlterNet places.

Germany have the hammer. That one is running through a bit long. Great

Britain, if you were with us a few moments ago, tied things up in the

fifth end and picked up two after having a couple of chances to do

that in the previous ends but Germany on two occasions had stolen

one. You can see there that Scott Andrews is playing very well on his

drawers. Another one coming down now. Already two red stones at the

top of the house, one acting as a guard right on the centre 's line.

He will trying come in right behind those two. That is a good shot from

Scott Andrews. That is pretty good. Just to bring you up-to-date with

how this competition pans out. This is the third match for the great

British men. They have won one and lost one. They lost to Sweden, one

of the medal favourites. Out of these first three matches against

Russia, Sweden and Germany, the Russian and German teams are

certainly not highly ranked and the win against Russia was good and they

probably thought this win against Germany might be one they could

target but it is proving difficult. A tight match, a close match, and

the German team, as they did against Canada yesterday, proving pretty

tough. Scott Andrews here has just been

asked to play a guard. Of course, Great Britain do not have the hammer

in this end. They scored a two in the last end to equalise at 3-3 with

Germany but then what they do is they give the hammer, or the hammer

automatically rolls over to your opposition. We are lying two stones

in the house, counting two. The Germans are counting third shot at

the moment. Because we do not have the hammer we want to cover up the

front of the house, four feet that we would talk about, that four foot

space between the centre line with two feet either side to try and make

it difficult for the Germans to score.

We are just going to keep replacing the guard at the guard front here.

-- keep replacing the guard at the front here. What will they have said

at half-time? It is only two or three shots into this end but

already I think the boys look more comfortable and it is amazing what

that fifth end break can do. The coach will often say to you, the

game looked pretty dodgy in the first half of that five ends but I

have to give Great Britain their due, they were trying to create ends

for them to score big. Unfortunately the Germans were answering every

question that they were asked and I'm sure they coach said to them

they should hold strong because at some point they would pull off a

couple of scores of two in the game. They are performing well enough.

They will have had a quick drink and some re-fuelling and they will be

ready for the second half of this game. The game, of course, roughly

takes about two and a half hours to play. 73 minutes each team has to

perform. They also get an extra minute for one technical time-out

with their coach. It is a long time for them to concentrate and they

need to refuel which they generally do at the fifth end break. The

German skip is playing third. A nice shot from him, very good.

He played a nice out-turn to draw there, sitting right on the one

foot, that means the white centre circle where the Olympic rings. Greg

Drummond is trying to respond. He will be happy with the way he has

been playing, not just in this match but yesterday both games were really

strong performances from him. They are working hard on this. Yes, they

heard the boys calling top eight and I do not think it is even going to

make top eight. It is a little one. Unlucky.

Greg Drummond has been playing very well through the first three rounds

of this competition. As we know it can turn so quickly in this fickle

game called curling. It really is a game of patience, holding your

nerves. You can play nine ends of curling and it can be down to the

last end and the last owner will win you the game so it is a game of

patience and a lot of good shotmaking as well. Just a little

tap there. He was trying to freeze right up against is owned stone. --

against his own stone. This is about really small margins and you have to

also be able to maintain that sort of concentration effort throughout

the whole match and nine games in the round robin and hopefully on

into the medal matches. Not sure what the boys are thinking

about here but they are looking at hitting this front one here, pushing

it down to try and take the yellows. David Murdoch is going to drive that

front red stone hopefully onto the face of the yellow to lift the two

of them out of the house. Unfortunately his take-out

percentage at the moment is only 25% so he could do with a good one here.

A great effort by he only just got one there. That has kind of been the

story of his match so far. Almost but not quite. You can tell by his

face there. At least he is smiling now. The demeanour is just a little

different since the chat at half-time. That was so close there.

Germany have the hammer here. They have to be careful as well. They

have responded well. The Germans only have one shot here

and they have got last shot advantage and they do not want to

just score one so they want to bring their stones right into the house

alongside that other one but if they do not get it in the right place and

they could leave Dave another hit to get another yellow out. Stone

placement is so key at this point in the game. You can see the difference

there in the take outs. Felix has a 90% statistic on his take-out 's --

take outs and a very high statistic for his drawers. He is performing

very well at the minute, 93%. They are just watching this one, laying

off it. Now they are trying to sweep it in. That polled more than I think

he anticipated there. -- pulled. I think he wanted to catch his own

yellow but we saw him saying that he thought it pulled a lot quicker but

it is her pretty good position for him.

So they are just going to put a garden here to block the way? Dave

is electing to God. -- guard. He is playing an in-turn here. He is just

asking for a little bit less ice. He does not think he needs to have that

much. I guess he wants to leave this high enough that it would not allow

the German skip to draw in there for a second shot. He must prefer this

in turn to his out because he could potentially have taken the other

hand over and played in out-turn to draw and they will have to sweep

this hard to get it across the line. They are working hard on it. That is

a nice shot there. Yes, some good sweeping, some good teamwork. It

looked as though it was going to be a bit shorter one point but it is

not bad at all. Now they are having a look. I think the only shot I see

left here is that yellow that we see at the top of the house here on the

left-hand side they could potentially drive that into the

pack. They are just going to check the angle of that now.

Unlike Dave's shot, when he was trying to drive a shot in earlier in

the game, the Germans have the lucky advantage of the fact that it is

their own shot that they are going to be driving in. What about the

danger of... ? Drive it down in here and then hopefully take out these

two red stones, if they have that possibility to score more than one.

The downside, if he doesn't judge this right? I think the yellow in

the house is going to jam anyway. It shouldn't be a big issue. The weight

they are throwing should be to tap the yellow in and just score his

two. They have done really well. A really good shot from Schulze, well

thought through with his skip, and they get their two. Not being

greedy. Playing the end as it panned out. And as you said earlier, get

your two, forced the one, get your two, force the one, you will win.

5-3 after six. Good to see Dave Murdoch tell the team that it was a

good end, because it was a good end. The only thing they can take from

that is that the German skip once again answered the questions that

have been asked. That could easily have been a one to Germany, he

played a fantastic shot. Schulze is working well, the two of them know

each other pretty well but John Jahr and him are making good decisions

and he is the one who is executing the shots, doing really well,

shooting 94%. Hazel asked us earlier about these teams switching

positions and, as we said, Johnny has got the experience and is quite

happy to lead the team as a skip, but young Felix is playing some

fantastic shotmaking. And that is a wise decision, for this team to work

in that format. So if anybody has any questions out

there to ask, do post them to #lovecurling, and hopefully at some

point they will make their way to Steve and I and we will be able to

answer your questions. Again, if anybody out there is watching the

Great Britain boys curling at the moment and fancy having a try.

Www.trycurling.com is a fantastic website to go on to, it tells you

all about the game and the equipment you need and you can pop your

postcode in and find out where your nearest ice rink is. There are ice

allocations booked all over England, Scotland and Wales. Have a look and

go and try the game of curling, a great sport to be played by young

and old, and if you have got the flair for the game, then who knows?

You could be the next person competing for your country for Great

Britain at the Olympics. Everybody can dream. Absolutely. Look at this

guy here, he had completely retired and that was, what, 15 years ago?

And now back representing his country at the Olympic Games. I am

delighted to say we are joined in the commentary box by Greg Reidy --

Craig Reidy. Your thoughts at Sochi, you have had a good look around the

venues could you not you are in here a couple of days ago. I was, the

venues are just terrific. Practically everything is brand-new,

conditions are outstanding. I think the whole thing is great. And as it

gets warmer over the next few days, I think conditions might change a

bit up the mountain, but here in the curling hall, packed with

spectators, good sport. I was asked yesterday when I was doing an

interview on the radio, one IOC member had mentioned that the crowds

were not so enthusiastic, but certainly here at the curling, it is

a small venue and has been for most of the time and the Russian crowd

have been playing their part, it has been a great atmosphere, so I cannot

comment on other venues but here, it has been good. The figure skating

team event, when Russia won their gold medal, that really set the

place alight. It was a terrific atmosphere. And many thousands were

around the medal Plaza when they got Russia's first goal. I think they

were worried at first that they wouldn't pull in the crowds but we

have had terrific support watching the curling. It is very exciting,

and particularly when Russia play, it is noisy. Very much so. And it

adds to the atmosphere of this ice cube venue -- Ice Cube. And has the

ice being good? It has been very good. I spoke to the boys earlier

and they are happy with the weight, it is consistent from start to

finish and they are getting some nice draws out there. Maybe a couple

of tactical errors a couple of pence ago. I think David had an

unnecessary miss when he chose the wrong is shot but I am not an

expert. I would agree, he tried the big corner which didn't work and I

think he could have played an attack and it might have turned the game

earlier. We might have to ask him that at the end, when the interview

him, to see what his thoughts were. Quite often, tactics are fantastic

but if you are not confident of the shot you are playing, you don't play

it. It was strange, Steve and I said that, he is playing the draw shot

and the tag back shots very well, so it will be interesting to see what

he thought. Lets hope they are all infused by Jenny Jones' medal, which

was wonderful for the spirit in the team. I was so pleased for her. I

think the point, Jenny Jones included, to reiterate, when you get

to any Olympic Games, the fact that you are here and in this

competition, they're rather stronger and weaker teams, but on any day,

anyone can beat anyone else and they have to take that attitude. We would

have been guilty of the same, looking at this match against

Germany and thinking it is a match we should win. As we can see, far

from it. You definitely have to give a lot of respect to every team that

is out there. They are the best in the country that are competing.

Maybe on paper, you should be thinking we are the stronger team,

but everyone is out there giving it absolutely everything they have got.

All sports are different. I watched the downhill and without a doubt,

Bodi Miller -- Bode Miller was favoured by distance and he missed

by about two feet on one of the corners and came in at number six. I

mean, the margins are so small. If you make one mistake, you lose

speed, and he was the best in the world.

I was just going to say one more question to Craig, but he is leaving

hers. That about leaving us. Just watching Greg Drummond. Nice shot

from him. It was good to have Craig into Sears, he is an avid curling

fan and has been for many years -- in to see us. A fellow Scot.

Yes, when I asked him if he wanted to comment have a chat off Mike, he

said, don't ask me about the curling and as soon as we get him in, he

wants to talk about the curling! Another nice shot from the German

skip. At 48 years of age, he is loving this, loving being here,

responding to the situation he finds himself in. They gave Canada a real

match yesterday and they are giving Great Britain and David Murdoch

something to think about here. I think there has been a lot of talk

about our sport of curling and how it is really changing dynamics now

and it is much more geared towards the younger player, but it is quite

enlightening to see Johnny out there at 48 years old competing with the

Young Boys in front of him, and himself still performing very well.

Very sensible of him to take their head, where there is less sweeping

involved and leaving the energetic step to the youngsters but it is

good to see, I have said time and again, this is a sport for young and

old and he is competing at the highest level possible, here at the

Olympic Games. Well, he wouldn't thank you for saying he has given

himself a lighter duties. He says he has been training like he has never

done before. Swimming a kilometre a day and also been doing two hours of

curling and at the weekend, trying to work with the team. So he has

taken his Olympic quest very seriously indeed and, so far, so

good. No stones in play at the moment. Great Britain, of course,

with the hammer, which is the last stone advantage here. I think we

will see Dave trying to utilise... There is a high red stone out of the

house and he will want to come in around behind this and hopefully get

a mistake from Germany. HAZEL IRVINE: As this stone by Dave

Murdoch rolls down the ice, we are not going to get a chance on this

programme to see the end of this particular end, the seventh. It

looks as though Great Britain are placed to take at least one, though,

in this very tense match against the Germans. We are going to be changing

channels very soon. It does continue right now on the red button but we

have to leave you and we will do so with the headlines from this

morning. It has been a very eventful morning. Britain's 18-year-old Katie

Summerhayes, well, she missed out on a ski slope style medal despite a

spectacular second run, the judges ranking her seventh today.

But Dara Howell made light of pretty difficult conditions to win the

gold, continuing the Canadian domination of the freestyle skiing

in these Games. Meanwhile, British cross-country

skier Andrew Musgrave is through to the quarterfinals of the sprint

after earning a top 30 finish in the opening heat. He races again at

12:25pm your time. And let me point you in the direction of some of the

other tasty morsels on offer from this day at the Olympic Games,

another seven gold medals to be one before the day is out. Jonathan has

plenty more action, including the curling. He has speed skating,

snowboarding and the winning's Lodz. Then Clare Balding will have the

men's halfpipe final and Sarah Takanashi, Japan's big hope for a

first-ever women's ski jumping gold. Ski slopestyle, it has been

quite a morning. Brilliant and brutal, roll on the men's event.