Day 6, Part 1 - 9.00am to 12.00am

:00:00. > :00:00.do you want to be big and heavy or small and slim? There is not one

:00:00. > :00:00.rule, but if you are big and heavy, it is an advantage. But if you hit a

:00:00. > :00:13.wall and you are heavier, you will slow down quicker. The German is in

:00:14. > :00:28.the lead, ahead of Shelley Rudman and Janine Flock. Now Michelle

:00:29. > :00:33.Steele from Australia. Being roared on by the crowd, what is the

:00:34. > :00:42.difference at the start? She is in the lead and that is good for her.

:00:43. > :00:48.It is a tremendous start by Steele. The power start has really put her

:00:49. > :00:51.in good stead. The Aussies pick phenomenal athletes and then turn

:00:52. > :00:58.them into sliding athletes, like the Brits. She will be pleased that she

:00:59. > :01:05.went faster, she got high on the wall but she has got it back under

:01:06. > :01:13.control. She is going well. Write down the middle and coming across to

:01:14. > :01:22.the left a bit like so many athletes do. -- right down the middle. She

:01:23. > :01:32.has wasted it, she is making big mistakes. She has lost the lead. She

:01:33. > :01:37.has lost it totally. She will not have a clue that she is up in the

:01:38. > :01:41.middle of that race. It can always give her confidence, she can look at

:01:42. > :01:56.the footage and try to reflect on where she went wrong. Shelley Rudman

:01:57. > :02:00.has stayed ahead of Michelle Steele. She chooses to do the two-handed

:02:01. > :02:05.start, how much quicker can you go with one hand?

:02:06. > :02:10.She is a small athlete, she can get a more solid push with two hands. It

:02:11. > :02:14.does not work for everyone. Her new husband has just flown out to sea

:02:15. > :02:23.and watch her, very nice, Ballantine 's data my! Indeed! -- Valentine's

:02:24. > :02:34.Day tomorrow. It will be interesting to see what

:02:35. > :02:42.Thees does here. One of the senior Germans with Huber and Griebel. That

:02:43. > :02:53.was pretty much the slowest time we have seen so far. She had an

:02:54. > :03:00.advantage of 17 one hundredths on Steele. She is one of those sliders

:03:01. > :03:04.who wears gets it back. She used to do a bit of luge so she has a

:03:05. > :03:09.different theory with how she slides. It is a shame she does not

:03:10. > :03:14.have the start or I would be putting her up there in medals. She is

:03:15. > :03:20.riding beautifully at the moment, making one or two bounces but they

:03:21. > :03:24.are very light. She has gone behind through the middle section, I am

:03:25. > :03:30.surprised. It is going to be exceptionally tight on the line.

:03:31. > :03:41.1:50 8.67 and she is down in seventh place. --

:03:42. > :03:54.Let's look at the start again. You can see when someone is powering

:03:55. > :04:00.away beautifully. She is not a great sprinter, she is not from that

:04:01. > :04:03.background. She doesn't have those fast twitch muscles but she has

:04:04. > :04:10.improved over the years and she trains really hard. Here is her

:04:11. > :04:18.team-mate, Huber, who is so powerful at the start. Huber, the bronze

:04:19. > :04:33.medallist in 2010. Behind Amy Williams.

:04:34. > :04:47.Huber is ready. Here we go. Is the start any better than it was last

:04:48. > :04:56.time? Well... Such was the advantage that she had over the last person,

:04:57. > :05:03.she has maintained it. She had an advantage over Griebel of 26

:05:04. > :05:10.hundredths. She is a great slider, she has the full package. She is a

:05:11. > :05:16.perfect specimen of a skeleton athlete. A great start, look at her

:05:17. > :05:21.on the sled, she is tucked in. You can see her moving her head as she

:05:22. > :05:27.comes out of the corner. Not fighting too much. She is 39

:05:28. > :05:32.hundredths up. A very consistent athlete. We're not getting given the

:05:33. > :05:39.speed gun but she is still over a third of a second up. It is a

:05:40. > :05:50.healthy lead. She comes across in 59.13, .33 of a second ahead. Huber

:05:51. > :05:57.is in the lead. There has never been a skeleton athlete that has won two

:05:58. > :06:02.medals in and Olympics. Huber could make history. No one has defended a

:06:03. > :06:08.title or manage to get two medals. You could always come back! I don't

:06:09. > :06:13.know if my body would let me do that. I wish, I would love to be

:06:14. > :06:23.standing on the podium. Huber slid brilliantly there. This is Sarah

:06:24. > :06:31.Reid, 59.14, not short of the time that Huber set on the last run. Here

:06:32. > :06:40.goes Sarah Reid of Canada. She has set that target. And she has beaten

:06:41. > :06:45.it. Wow, a good start. She is going to continue the speed through the

:06:46. > :06:51.top corners. You have got to stay still and bring the speed through to

:06:52. > :06:56.these technical sections. Three hundredths of a second, now 23

:06:57. > :07:02.hundredths. Oh! That was a bit sloppy! She went slow high up onto

:07:03. > :07:08.the roof. She will have to get it back online. The most experienced

:07:09. > :07:13.sliders can get the perfect line as quickly as possible to get the

:07:14. > :07:19.speed. She is losing speed at the moment. Crashes into the side. It is

:07:20. > :07:28.going to be interesting to see what sort of split she gets. 0.4 of a

:07:29. > :07:36.second, this is really close. It is going down to the line! 100th of a

:07:37. > :07:41.second, my goodness. That will give Huber confidence, that is for sure.

:07:42. > :07:45.I have been in races where I have won and lost between one 100th of a

:07:46. > :07:53.second so I know that feeling. It really proves that every hundredths

:07:54. > :07:59.accounts. You can lose it in tiny places. That mistake pushed her

:08:00. > :08:06.really late, got the wrong angle to the next corner. There was almost a

:08:07. > :08:14.bump, it was a little bit unusual, we did not see it in the loose. --

:08:15. > :08:19.in the luge. There are long fillets, entrances and exits, designed for

:08:20. > :08:27.the luge to be able to go on smoothly. It makes it difficult for

:08:28. > :08:33.the skeleton because they get pushed late. Potylitsina seem to be running

:08:34. > :08:42.wide but she comes back onto the sled, 0.23 of a second ahead. Will

:08:43. > :08:46.she slide as well? She was carrying 14 hundredths advantage. She had a

:08:47. > :08:53.bit of a shocking start in the first one. Potylitsina has obviously

:08:54. > :09:00.buried her nerves and is getting on with the job here. In the first run

:09:01. > :09:05.you have a lot of nerves and you want to get it over with, then you

:09:06. > :09:08.can almost concentrate a bit more. Potylitsina knows this track better

:09:09. > :09:19.than anyone and is having a beautiful run. 0.38 of a second or

:09:20. > :09:22.-- ahead, that is wonderful. Into the final couple of corners, over

:09:23. > :09:30.half a second in the league, this is brilliant. It could spell danger for

:09:31. > :09:41.Britain, her leg was out wide. But that is unbelievable. The Russian is

:09:42. > :09:45.going to be so happy with that. She had perfect lines into the uphill

:09:46. > :09:49.sections, she carried the speed all the way through and that is

:09:50. > :09:57.unbelievable, that could put her straight up into the medal zone. I

:09:58. > :10:02.am not sure this track is running any quicker because it is so warm.

:10:03. > :10:05.She has gone a quarter of a second quicker, if she does a couple more

:10:06. > :10:12.tomorrow and she could be on the podium. They refrigerate the tracks,

:10:13. > :10:16.they can turn it up to make it called on certain corners where

:10:17. > :10:18.there is the sun. There is Lizzy Yarnold warming up in the

:10:19. > :10:26.background, keeping warm, keeping her muscles hot. Here is another

:10:27. > :10:33.athlete who is going very well at the moment, Maria Orlova of Russia.

:10:34. > :10:41.It is all rush at the moment. What sort of a time how she got? It is

:10:42. > :10:46.quick. -- has she got? The Russians are all power starters, magnificent

:10:47. > :10:51.from Orlova. She is often the forgotten of the three, Nikitina is

:10:52. > :10:54.in the civil medal position. But she has the lead ahead of the other

:10:55. > :11:03.Russians. -- the silver medal position. It is gone, she is behind.

:11:04. > :11:08.The little clip will have lost her time. She just had to stick her leg

:11:09. > :11:14.out to change the angle. She is not going badly. She came off that exit

:11:15. > :11:24.very well indeed. She turns and crashes... You have to get through

:11:25. > :11:34.corners 12 and 13. 15 hundredths behind. The speed is not brilliant.

:11:35. > :11:42.Not as good as Potylitsina. Orlova is 0.24 behind. Potylitsina's run

:11:43. > :11:46.was superb. A solid run, her first Olympic Games, she is at home in

:11:47. > :11:57.Russia with this pressure, it is still an amazing run. Still really

:11:58. > :12:00.good. Four athletes to go. She is trying to shift her hips and avoid

:12:01. > :12:06.the tap but she took a slide and a tap. It is fine to take the tap but

:12:07. > :12:15.you don't want to skid at the same time. If you hit it parallel you

:12:16. > :12:18.will keep moving parallel. 58.83 is a very solid time and it gave Katie

:12:19. > :12:25.Uhlaender fourth-place after her first run. Can she bring anything

:12:26. > :12:31.back? Can she go into the lead? That is the most important thing. She is

:12:32. > :12:36.a brilliant start when she is on form. She is a chunky, powerful

:12:37. > :12:43.starter over 20 metres. That is a good start. She is 15 hundredths up

:12:44. > :12:50.on Potylitsina. She has lost just a tiny amount. Her load wasn't quite

:12:51. > :13:01.as quick. The Russian was doing 74.2. A quick start time, not quite

:13:02. > :13:06.as good. Katie uses her feet a lot. She has always slid that way and it

:13:07. > :13:12.is how she is comfortable. She is moving and working with her feet,

:13:13. > :13:20.very solid lines coming through. They certainly are. She is just

:13:21. > :13:27.going through... That is very close. It looks solid. Still a quarter of a

:13:28. > :13:35.second up. She is in fourth place so if she goes into the lead, she will

:13:36. > :13:39.put pressure on the others. Brilliant run by Katie, she took a

:13:40. > :13:43.one tap that everyone else has been taking but perfect line, straight

:13:44. > :13:49.ahead, no skids, she will be thrilled. She has collapsed of the

:13:50. > :13:51.sled, she can go to bed tonight and know she is in a ring strong

:13:52. > :14:01.position. Her coach was an old skeleton

:14:02. > :14:10.slider. He slid with me for many years and has now become a coach.

:14:11. > :14:14.Uhlaender powers away, the stronger woman in skeleton. She has a great

:14:15. > :14:23.five or ten yards on her. She let Gravity do the work at this track.

:14:24. > :14:28.She is quite a character. Pica space came into this -- Pikus-Pace came

:14:29. > :14:39.into this competition not knowing what sort of form she was in. Is

:14:40. > :14:41.this to be a good start? This is the first of the athletes who will be

:14:42. > :14:46.pressuring Yarnold for the gold medal. Just three to go, she is not

:14:47. > :14:51.a brilliant starter but she is so big and powerful. She has such good

:14:52. > :14:56.aerodynamic form. She could not just go ahead of Uhlaender... She has

:14:57. > :15:04.gone behind, I would be surprised if you didn't pull it out of the bag.

:15:05. > :15:11.Lizzie Yarnold and Noelle Pikus-Pace are very similar, big, strong girls.

:15:12. > :15:15.They just have to have the perfect line to pop them through. Being

:15:16. > :15:21.bigger, if you take a knock, you will slow down quicker, but so far,

:15:22. > :15:27.a really good run. She was down at the last checked point. She is still

:15:28. > :15:36.up, she is accelerating down the last part of the track, this is

:15:37. > :15:42.dramatic. She brings it back. Her compatriot in second place now.

:15:43. > :15:46.Noelle Pikus-Pace went well. A quarter of a second through the

:15:47. > :15:50.final two corners, that is what you are talking about, when you have the

:15:51. > :15:56.extra momentum, the slower athletes are slowing down, she flies through

:15:57. > :16:02.the air brilliantly, she gets the fastest top speed we have seen so

:16:03. > :16:06.far. These long tracks suit her, she can keep the speed going, and I am

:16:07. > :16:11.thrilled for her, she has had such a journey, so many crushes, she had

:16:12. > :16:22.her legs mashed up, and she has come back, she took years off.

:16:23. > :16:31.The Russian is the only athlete in the frame at the moment who is

:16:32. > :16:36.developing at the start and with the pace of Lizzie Yarnold. Lizzie

:16:37. > :16:43.Yarnold goes last, this is the Russian. What sort of a start has

:16:44. > :16:50.she got? She is the start record holder. She was more .06 quicker

:16:51. > :16:55.than Lizzie Yarnold, she has pulled it out at these Olympics. She is on

:16:56. > :16:59.fire at the moment. We have seen quicker through the first couple of

:17:00. > :17:05.corners, though. She loaded well, but she took quite a big skid at the

:17:06. > :17:09.top. That will take away time. She has got a bit of time to bleed away

:17:10. > :17:21.if she makes a mistake, but you want everything. Coming into this, she

:17:22. > :17:31.had 0.2 on Noelle Pikus-Pace, but she is losing it.

:17:32. > :17:40.The American's time is being beaten by the Russian, just. She has lost

:17:41. > :17:45.it, my goodness. Noelle Pikus-Pace is in the lead, with one athlete to

:17:46. > :17:54.go. Lizzie Donald of great written. What happened? The time is up rate

:17:55. > :17:58.it. The skid at the top, just when you want to be keeping calm, that

:17:59. > :18:03.would have lost the speed she needed for the middle section. She knows

:18:04. > :18:09.the track well, but she did not quite have enough to take her

:18:10. > :18:14.through the last corners. She just went over by a yard. You have got to

:18:15. > :18:22.explode and get into the Zen like state and relax. Come on, Lizzie

:18:23. > :18:31.Yarnold! One athlete to go, the aim, another track record. A former

:18:32. > :18:38.athlete, the perfect driving position, and she goes. Will she

:18:39. > :18:47.break the track record? Not quite, but you can see the advantage she

:18:48. > :18:51.has over Noelle Pikus-Pace. She had 0.25 seconds, but she annihilated

:18:52. > :19:02.the American's start. This a big margin. Absolutely perfect lines, no

:19:03. > :19:08.skits, she is keeping so still, strong, aerodynamic, they do a lot

:19:09. > :19:11.of work in wind tunnels, perfecting the position, so far, this is

:19:12. > :19:22.unbelievable. The best run we have seen so far. That is brilliant. As

:19:23. > :19:26.long as she does not take a big hit. A little tap, she might lose a queue

:19:27. > :19:38.fractions, but no more than a 10th of a second. Wow! That is just

:19:39. > :19:45.outside the track record. That is brilliant. Amazing, I could not be

:19:46. > :19:51.happier. I have been nervous all morning, waiting for this. For her

:19:52. > :19:55.to be leading by such a margin at the end of the first day... Her

:19:56. > :20:01.coach has done a great job, working on the power at the start. I

:20:02. > :20:08.remember Amy Williams being in the lead every step of the way! She is

:20:09. > :20:13.brilliant. That is her family there, her mum and sisters,

:20:14. > :20:15.everybody has, over. I feel like I am watching myself, the same thing

:20:16. > :20:28.as me, the same story. You can see the ice getting kicked

:20:29. > :20:34.up, she chose to take the tap, that was sensible. Yes, but she took the

:20:35. > :20:37.tap and kept in that position, no skits, she had the perfect line into

:20:38. > :20:46.the corner. What excitement we have had this

:20:47. > :21:08.morning. What about Lizzie Yarnold? Shelley

:21:09. > :21:09.Rudman is in 12th place, 11th place, rather. She moved up one

:21:10. > :21:24.place. Let's talk about this, Amy, more .4

:21:25. > :21:37.seconds, has significant is that advantage? It is huge. Normally,

:21:38. > :21:42.people are hundreds of a second between each other. To have 0.44

:21:43. > :21:47.seconds, she has more runs, it is going to be very close, you can see

:21:48. > :21:53.how close everybody is, but that will give her so much confidence. I

:21:54. > :21:58.hope she does not get freaked out, she just has to be consistent, and

:21:59. > :22:04.she always is. She has had the most beautiful runs to watch, it is a joy

:22:05. > :22:11.to watch her. I am like a bag of nerves down here! She is your logic,

:22:12. > :22:15.you have been involved in the build-up, obviously, but have you

:22:16. > :22:23.been saying to her, what will you say I had off tomorrow? It is funny,

:22:24. > :22:28.it is like watching me four years ago, through the eyes of her. I was

:22:29. > :22:35.up by over half a second in between the days, I spoke to her yesterday,

:22:36. > :22:40.and I told her, keep calm, keep confident, you have got to be

:22:41. > :22:45.consistent. Do not study all of the facts and figures, the coaches will

:22:46. > :22:49.study all of the areas, but she had the best line, and if she can just

:22:50. > :22:55.keep that, go into the final day, get a good sleep, she will come out

:22:56. > :23:01.here and perform, and there is no reason why she cannot win the gold

:23:02. > :23:05.medal. On that positive note, we will leave it there. The final runs

:23:06. > :23:14.are tomorrow afternoon. It is a nervous rate -- a nervous wait.

:23:15. > :23:20.Lizzie Yarnold on her sledge, named Mervyn, named after a colleague who

:23:21. > :23:23.helped finance her equipment in her early days, because she only took up

:23:24. > :23:29.the sport in 2010. It is looking good so far. There is so much to

:23:30. > :23:36.keep across here, whilst you have been getting yourself ready for work

:23:37. > :23:40.and everything else, we have been following the qualification system

:23:41. > :23:47.of the men's slopestyle, and we are building up to the final. So many

:23:48. > :23:52.questions to be answered, will James Woods be able to ride through the

:23:53. > :24:02.pain barrier? Will he get onto the podium? And how about Henrik

:24:03. > :24:13.Harlaut, we -- will he find a belt? All will be revealed, probably!

:24:14. > :24:22.Snowboarding, slopestyle, it is a blank canvas, the idea is to express

:24:23. > :24:27.the best you can do. Everybody gets along, everybody is good mates, as

:24:28. > :24:33.well as being competitive, because you have got to be capacity to get

:24:34. > :24:36.there. Being creative is massive, everybody has got the same course

:24:37. > :24:43.and features to use, the same drawing board, and there are no

:24:44. > :24:51.rules. Nobody is saying, you cannot do this or that. It is all about

:24:52. > :24:55.individuality. You have a game plan, you are nervous, because everybody

:24:56. > :25:06.is nervous. It is how you deal with it. Everybody will be throwing down

:25:07. > :25:16.the best of the best. It will be a good show.

:25:17. > :25:30.Your way of getting down the slope. Basically, showing off to the best

:25:31. > :25:34.of our ability! He is known as one of the Fridge

:25:35. > :25:42.Kids, because he learn to skate not on snow, but on indoor snow domes

:25:43. > :25:44.and on artificial slopes, but at the foot of that Extreme Park run, how

:25:45. > :25:58.much has James Woods got left? He damaged his hip attempting the

:25:59. > :26:02.triple, he has got a bruised hip socket, and while the pain is not

:26:03. > :26:07.that bad, and he made a slight mistake, the big question is whether

:26:08. > :26:12.he will been the triple necessary to get onto the podium. He put down a

:26:13. > :26:16.very strong technical run, just like Jenny Jones on Sunday. The judges

:26:17. > :26:24.have rewarded that will stop whether he goes for a triple will be the big

:26:25. > :26:28.question. Now, his confidence and self belief are the key factors that

:26:29. > :26:38.are working for him. Who has impressed you most so far? The

:26:39. > :26:43.American, lovely, very relaxed, he had some really nice lines. Nick

:26:44. > :26:46.Goepper, a lot of people speculated he was playing mind games yesterday,

:26:47. > :26:54.hyping up his performance, being very vocal, he has got a chance. But

:26:55. > :26:58.you got the impression that, having put so much of himself out there, he

:26:59. > :27:07.got nervous. Whether he has settled his nerves, I do not know. What

:27:08. > :27:10.about Henrik Harlaut and his pants? He has got the right attitude for

:27:11. > :27:16.this contest, he is an incredibly technical skier, but he is very

:27:17. > :27:24.loose at the moment. Even by our standards, those are an extremely

:27:25. > :27:29.baggy set of pants. Let's go to Tim Warwood in the commentary position,

:27:30. > :27:30.this is a big moment for all of the slopestyle skiers and four James

:27:31. > :27:43.Woods. While we wait for Ed Leigh to get

:27:44. > :27:48.back into the commentary booth, we will talk you through the start

:27:49. > :27:52.list. The first run of two. They run in reverse order from that which

:27:53. > :28:14.they qualified in. Third from last, it is James Woods.

:28:15. > :28:20.Andreas Hatveit I'd, and then the American. It will be the best run

:28:21. > :28:29.that counts. In with me and Ed Leigh, we have the British halfpipe

:28:30. > :28:36.free skier, Murray Buchan. Hello. How impressed I you with James Woods

:28:37. > :28:43.and the maturity he has shown? It is very impressive, he had a tough

:28:44. > :28:48.injury, he has had to get through it to compete, and he has landed a run

:28:49. > :28:54.in qualifying. He put one down, and he is in a really good position. He

:28:55. > :29:00.has probably shown a bit of maturity to pull out of the run, rather than

:29:01. > :29:04.go for broke. He had done enough on the first run, so he did not want to

:29:05. > :29:09.make it any worse, he wanted to make sure he was fine for the finals. One

:29:10. > :29:12.of the things I have been most impressed with is the way he has

:29:13. > :29:19.dealt with the pressure and expectation. From the start, Team

:29:20. > :29:23.GB, the snow athletes, have put him out there as the medal hope.

:29:24. > :29:32.Jenny's performance on Sunday has taken a bit of the pressure off.

:29:33. > :29:35.Hips are difficult, such a powerful part of the body, usually they are

:29:36. > :29:44.protected by muscle, but it is giving him a couple of problems. He

:29:45. > :29:48.played it down between the runs. Bobby Brown cemented his reputation

:29:49. > :29:59.as the choker, almost, in the first run. And a T-shirt. It shows how

:30:00. > :30:06.warm it actually is. -- he is just in a T-shirt. He has got a clean

:30:07. > :30:15.course. He will not be skiing through anybody else's bomb holes.

:30:16. > :30:31.He really left his hand on there. Deep into the landing.

:30:32. > :30:41.Whoever prepared his skis has put greased lightning on. That looked

:30:42. > :30:49.brutal. He is not moving yet. He is up now. Maybe the disappointment

:30:50. > :30:59.held him down rather than the pain. The top of the run was so good.

:31:00. > :31:12.Switch on, 278, switch on to the rail. He went massive of the goal.

:31:13. > :31:23.His run in general was pretty big. Grabbing the tale of his ski. He

:31:24. > :31:31.missed the grab. That is what threw him a bit. He seemed to explode in

:31:32. > :31:45.the landing. Like something had pained him and he just wanted to get

:31:46. > :31:57.off his feet. It really jilted him. That is a big crash site. Henrik

:31:58. > :32:05.Harlaut, undoubtedly making headlines around the world tomorrow

:32:06. > :32:15.for his inimitable pants style. You can see how soft it is.

:32:16. > :32:27.He came off the rail a little early. The judges looking for any mistake.

:32:28. > :32:50.Triple cork 12! That was insane! What have we just

:32:51. > :33:08.witnessed? From zero to hero. That run could be out. He landed as flat

:33:09. > :33:12.as you can go. The nose but is when you use the tips or the tale of the

:33:13. > :33:27.skis. Almost like a knife to spread butter.

:33:28. > :33:36.We need to go back to that first jump. I don't think we are going to

:33:37. > :33:42.get another look on that -- at that. I would love to see the replay. That

:33:43. > :33:49.was very strong. We do not have control of the replays. I think it

:33:50. > :33:53.again we are seeing that it is not quite as clean as the judges wanted.

:33:54. > :34:04.There were a couple of little landings. Yes, he got penalised on

:34:05. > :34:09.the first rail. Josiah Wells. One of the most experienced competitors.

:34:10. > :34:33.Numerous ex-games medals to his credit. -- X Games.

:34:34. > :34:37.He is putting extra spins on and off the rails. That is where the riders

:34:38. > :34:59.will pick up extra points. You saw his ski flex when he grabbed

:35:00. > :35:04.it. That is when you know you have got a good solid hold. Who will be a

:35:05. > :35:29.bit disappointed. I think the landing here sucks him

:35:30. > :35:33.up. He was tracking of to the right. He had to carve back to the left

:35:34. > :35:51.quite hard to actually make it back onto his line. That grab was nice.

:35:52. > :35:55.It is not going to be superhigh. He is going to have to pull it out for

:35:56. > :36:01.a run number two. The best of two runs. Aleksander Aurdal. A difficult

:36:02. > :36:10.first run. Pulled it out of the bag with the second.

:36:11. > :36:26.Untidy but he did survive the first rail. He got the second rail nice

:36:27. > :36:49.and clean. A lot of switch work. Switch means backwards.

:36:50. > :37:07.A Switch double Misty 12. Switch, he comes in backwards. ? he got to

:37:08. > :37:25.corkscrews. 1260, three .5 spins. -- double Misty, he got two corkscrews.

:37:26. > :37:30.Slopestyle is all about flow. You have to land your jump and go

:37:31. > :37:35.straight into your next. You have to look like you are in control and

:37:36. > :37:40.flowing through the course. Any time you learned backwards or forwards,

:37:41. > :37:48.it keeps the spin going. You do a 180 on the ground and it is not good

:37:49. > :38:01.with the judges. Second place for Aleksander Aurdal. Oystein Braaten,

:38:02. > :38:04.whose brother was in the snowboard slopestyle on Saturday. He didn't

:38:05. > :38:23.have a great run. He missed out on the medals. Can the younger brother

:38:24. > :38:45.make amends? 450 on, for 50 off. -- 450.

:38:46. > :39:03.He has put it down. Was that a Switch 14? I think it was. Yes. The

:39:04. > :39:12.celebration gives it away. So technical on the top section. That

:39:13. > :39:17.can hurt him a little bit. He used the knuckle of that little down

:39:18. > :39:29.section to bounce 180. Somewhat creative and different. That was the

:39:30. > :39:40.left 1260 with the tail grab. Spot the landing over the shoulder and

:39:41. > :39:48.then commits. Switch 1440. Big trick. The head really dipping in

:39:49. > :39:56.both corkscrews. It is a question of what the judges think about the top

:39:57. > :40:07.rail. Not the top rail, Surrey, the second rail. -- sorry. He has been

:40:08. > :40:13.punished. The judging criteria is open for discussion. Some people

:40:14. > :40:18.have speculated they are looking for a style. That suddenly becomes very

:40:19. > :40:24.subjective. Everyone likes different things. You cannot argue about

:40:25. > :40:29.execution or landings. But style is incredibly subjective. Difficult to

:40:30. > :40:35.see. Russell Henshaw, one of the most popular free skiers. He has

:40:36. > :40:45.been a pioneer in terms of tricks over the last six years. I think he

:40:46. > :40:55.got a good bit of contact with the poll there. No danger of speed here.

:40:56. > :41:20.He has got plenty of it. Double 12. That's new. We have not

:41:21. > :41:25.seen that before. The Australians already beginning to celebrate.

:41:26. > :41:31.Imagine spreading butter on your post with a knife. You use the tip

:41:32. > :41:35.of your knife to smear it around, and that is exactly what you are

:41:36. > :41:44.doing with your skis. You get your weight onto the slope of the skis

:41:45. > :41:50.and you slide around. You put a 180 and before you get any air. You

:41:51. > :41:55.leave it until the last minute. You have to be stumped up on courage for

:41:56. > :42:12.that one. Not an easy one to get into. The only penalty that you

:42:13. > :42:20.could impose there is on the grab. It is enough to go into second

:42:21. > :42:29.place. Henshaw currently in silver medal position. We have had six

:42:30. > :42:49.skiers down, six remaining. Alex Boley and Marshall -- Alex Bolo

:42:50. > :42:56.Marchant. I was actually going to say he is only going for a 270. From

:42:57. > :43:02.here the camera angle was a bit dodgy. It looked like he was coming

:43:03. > :43:17.across. That was nice. I don't know if he meant that! He is getting very

:43:18. > :43:21.lives here. That is a shame, he had a really good run on the jumps in

:43:22. > :43:25.the second round of colour -- qualification. That gives you an

:43:26. > :43:46.idea just how big landings are. Relatively simple. 270 on. Just

:43:47. > :43:53.slipped out. He hit the goal really hard with both skis. I don't know if

:43:54. > :44:10.he did mean that. It keeps him of centre. I think he did. Oh, well. I

:44:11. > :44:21.would have maybe giving him higher than five. Gus Kenworthy, second at

:44:22. > :44:31.X Games will stop just behind Nicholas Goepper. He had a beautiful

:44:32. > :44:39.running qualifying. Very smooth. You can feel the confidence. Super

:44:40. > :44:51.technical. Kills a bit of speed on his way.

:44:52. > :45:04.That was a blur of skis unfolds. Rationing through the rotation. --

:45:05. > :45:11.rattling. Switch triple. There it is! He couldn't hold it. You have

:45:12. > :45:16.got to say, with a switch 16 and a switch triple, you are looking at

:45:17. > :45:23.first place, surely? Unbelievable. Taking off backwards, four

:45:24. > :45:33.rotations. The first kicker... Forward 16, switch double ten. Four

:45:34. > :45:36.and a half spins. Right to the end of the rail. Perfect landing.

:45:37. > :45:46.Perfect take-off. That was very technical. Four and a half. My

:45:47. > :45:52.goodness. Wow. They are really stepping it up. We always knew it

:45:53. > :45:59.was going to go this way. There is the switch ten and the switch

:46:00. > :46:03.triple. He has his left arm under his knee, holding on tight, trying

:46:04. > :46:09.to keep the body compact and keeping me spin going. I would like to see

:46:10. > :46:18.him put that down. The moment you let your body open out, you kill the

:46:19. > :46:23.rotation. It is the old adage that because they are judging on overall

:46:24. > :46:30.impression, you make a mistake and it damages all of the score, not

:46:31. > :46:36.just that single trip. Nick Goepper. He opts to ski without

:46:37. > :46:42.poles. In the free skiing community, it is slightly frowned upon for stop

:46:43. > :46:48.everyone has their opinions. I think he had a problem with his hand or

:46:49. > :46:51.wrist so it has been difficult for him to carry poles so he is sticking

:46:52. > :47:06.with what he knows. Whatever he is doing, it is working. You can still

:47:07. > :47:14.hear the barrel reverberating. Flawless rail run. What has he got

:47:15. > :47:18.on the jumps? He only tweeted yesterday his training day was the

:47:19. > :47:25.best day ever, in his words. He opened up early on that. Really

:47:26. > :47:32.early. Is this the triple? Yes! Oh, my goodness. He never looked out of

:47:33. > :47:38.control with that. He was not forcing that triple. As he came into

:47:39. > :47:44.the last 360, 270, well on top of it. He knew exactly where he was

:47:45. > :47:50.throughout the whole thing. Once all the sake -- one small mistake in the

:47:51. > :47:59.second kicker. The rails Majestic. 450 out. One and a half rotations of

:48:00. > :48:05.the rail. Gus Kenworthy is more tech on that. He did not put it down and

:48:06. > :48:11.that is what is most important, but if he can, it is more technical.

:48:12. > :48:16.Look at that! Double grab. I have not seen him do that before. This is

:48:17. > :48:29.going to be huge. I take it back. It was not out of control. Two double

:48:30. > :48:39.ramps on that. -- grabs. That has to be first place. You called it

:48:40. > :48:44.Murray. No arguments. He did not give the judges one excuse. There

:48:45. > :48:55.was not a single flaw in that run. Like Cindy -- like Cindy Crawford's

:48:56. > :49:00.skin. Look how bombed out that is on the landing. James Woods of Great

:49:01. > :49:07.Britain dropping in for the men's slopestyle final first-run.

:49:08. > :49:12.Qualified in third place. He has the luxury of having seen nine of the

:49:13. > :49:18.finalists go before him. Carrying the slight hip injury but it did not

:49:19. > :49:27.affect his qualifying. Still Road really well. Woodsy one of the more

:49:28. > :49:36.technical riders, the only one we have seen fit the kink rail. Flat

:49:37. > :49:42.down with a 450 out. Perfect. Perfect rail section. Using the

:49:43. > :49:58.butter box and nice through the canon. Sat down slightly but not too

:49:59. > :50:05.bad. The right side 12. Look at the grab. He did not even land it. The

:50:06. > :50:13.earth came up to meet him! My goodness. Beautiful run from James

:50:14. > :50:18.Woods. One sit down on the first kicker. It was the first kicker. But

:50:19. > :50:24.this is gorgeous. The rail section is a masterclass. One thing we have

:50:25. > :50:28.seen from the judges, they are rewarding the rail section as highly

:50:29. > :50:34.as the jumps. It is about being flawless through the section.

:50:35. > :50:45.Amazing shot. Of the canon as well. Talk us through this, Murray. Left

:50:46. > :50:49.double cork 1080. The judges will not come back a little bit but he

:50:50. > :50:56.went huge so that is why he had to open out. Look at the tweak! Using

:50:57. > :51:02.all of the leverage of the skis. He is grabbing the nose of one and tail

:51:03. > :51:08.of the other and yanking his knees as to try and dislocate them. Looks

:51:09. > :51:15.like here's a human bulldog clip. Great score. Silver medal position

:51:16. > :51:23.for James Woods. Only two skiers left to drop on this first run. Team

:51:24. > :51:29.GB enjoying themselves today. Once again, the slopestyle delivering.

:51:30. > :51:38.Andreas Hatveit, 27 from Norway, one of the elder statesman of the free

:51:39. > :51:43.skiing world. 450 on, 270 off. Right into the bomb whole landing. Gets

:51:44. > :51:53.through it OK. Really nice on the rails. 450 of the second rail. Tap

:51:54. > :52:08.on the Russian doll. A little butter on the take-off. Very stylish. Big

:52:09. > :52:13.1260. Three and a half rotations. This is beautiful. Like an

:52:14. > :52:21.ambassador's hospitality, very smooth at the moment. So, I would

:52:22. > :52:29.not know how to call this. Really uncertain. It was immaculate. But

:52:30. > :52:36.not... It was technical, but not in the range that we saw from Nick

:52:37. > :52:42.Goepper. Again, we have talked about the range finding runs and Andreas

:52:43. > :52:45.Hatveit is one of those riders who potentially can lay a run like this

:52:46. > :52:51.down really cleanly and say, let us see where this one has got me. Next

:52:52. > :52:57.time, I will switch up one or two of the tricks. That is experience for

:52:58. > :53:04.you. One of the older riders. Switch double cork 180 with the double

:53:05. > :53:10.grab. Two hands, one hand on each ski. Sometimes on the same ski.

:53:11. > :53:23.Switch, taking off backwards. Then the rotation. 1080 is to re-spins.

:53:24. > :53:31.-- is three spins. Always smiling. Taking a bit of time with this.

:53:32. > :53:34.Well, Murray called it. He was giving it a second place in the

:53:35. > :53:41.booth here under his breath. Second place. Nick Goepper is still in

:53:42. > :53:50.gold. Andreas Hatveit in silver. James Woods in bronze. One rider

:53:51. > :53:59.left to drop. First-place qualifier, Joss Christensen. An

:54:00. > :54:08.unknown quantity coming in. First-place, well-deserved. Yes. A

:54:09. > :54:13.bit of an outside shout. Using the double angle of the skis to lock the

:54:14. > :54:21.rails in. That was nice. Pretzel out of that. Spins in one way and out

:54:22. > :54:27.the other. Smooth through the third element. He linked all of the

:54:28. > :54:31.sections together. Double cork 12. Finished the rotation dutifully with

:54:32. > :54:40.a metre or two to spare. Did not look likely had stalled it. Seems to

:54:41. > :54:48.have so much time in the air. Oh, my goodness. Where is this going? That

:54:49. > :54:52.was very tidy. If you are looking for a weak spot, maybe the rails at

:54:53. > :54:58.the top, not quite as technical as we saw from Nick Goepper, Andreas

:54:59. > :55:04.Hatveit or James Woods. His legs straight, looking for it. He is 270

:55:05. > :55:09.on and then coming off the opposite way. He is using the skis to such

:55:10. > :55:15.good effect on the rails. Angling them in opposite directions. He

:55:16. > :55:23.locks them onto the rail. Spots the landing. 1260. Coming in for the

:55:24. > :55:28.Switch 1080 which we saw on the last jump of collocation runs. With the

:55:29. > :55:35.benefit of hindsight, that landing was not as brutal as it looked. The

:55:36. > :55:41.triple. Wow. Triple 1260 with the safety grab. This really is computer

:55:42. > :55:55.game stuff now. Triangle, square, square, down. Can Joss Christensen

:55:56. > :56:00.up Nick Goepper? Yes, he can. After the first run, Joss Christensen

:56:01. > :56:08.maintains the status quo. He has first place. Nick Goepper, 92.4.

:56:09. > :56:15.Both of them with triples. Then Andreas Hatveit. James Woods with

:56:16. > :56:23.86.6. Then Henrik Harlaut rounding out the top five with 83.8. Russell

:56:24. > :56:28.Henshaw pushed down to sixth after Joss Christensen's run. Fantastic

:56:29. > :56:29.first run there. Hopefully Woodsy has somewhere to go for the second

:56:30. > :56:44.run. HAZEL IRVINE: Fantastic tricks from

:56:45. > :56:47.the men's slopes ski style. We will stay with this. I just want to point

:56:48. > :56:54.out the fact there is so much other action going on around Sochi. Live

:56:55. > :56:57.right now on the red button, short track speed skating. Elise Christie

:56:58. > :57:02.and Charlotte Gilmartin are about to go in the quarterfinals of the

:57:03. > :57:07.women's 500m. We will bring that to you a little later on BBC Two. We

:57:08. > :57:11.will stay with the ski slopestyle final. Second run coming up. What do

:57:12. > :57:19.you make of the quality of what we have seen so far? It has been

:57:20. > :57:23.absolutely phenomenal. I did not think Nick Goepper was going to step

:57:24. > :57:29.it up quite that far on the first run. Henrik Harlaut, James Woods,

:57:30. > :57:32.Andreas Hatveit, Nick Goepper, Joss Christensen, they are all in with a

:57:33. > :57:40.chance of a medal. This is still wide open. It is. Murray, I know you

:57:41. > :57:45.know James Woods very well. From what you know of his bag of tricks,

:57:46. > :57:48.what more might he have in his bag and what might he need to produce in

:57:49. > :57:56.this final run to get on the medal podium? I think he will be thinking

:57:57. > :57:59.about the triple. He will have a serious think about it. I know it

:58:00. > :58:04.was something he struggled with in training. He will be looking to

:58:05. > :58:08.clean up the top couple of jumps. I think he can do it. He has struggled

:58:09. > :58:14.a little bit in practice with injury. But if anyone can, it is

:58:15. > :58:19.Woodsy. Absolutely. So much expectation on this young man. What

:58:20. > :58:23.composure he has shown to perform, despite this injury we know he has

:58:24. > :58:30.been struggling with since last Friday. I know. The composure is

:58:31. > :58:35.incredible. That is something that I am so impressed with with all of

:58:36. > :58:39.these guys. Coming to the Olympics, putting on your country's jersey,

:58:40. > :58:47.certainly when I was a pro snowboarder, my granny thought I was

:58:48. > :58:50.a pro snowball. She had no idea. Woodsy has all of his friends and

:58:51. > :58:59.family watching. He has managed to stay level-headed enough to put this

:59:00. > :59:02.rundown. -- run down. We are moments away from the second run and he will

:59:03. > :59:07.have a good look at what everyone else is doing. He is going to be

:59:08. > :59:13.third last so he will have a clear idea of what he might need to

:59:14. > :59:19.produce. Here we go. Over to you three once more.

:59:20. > :59:25.Bobby Brown is going to go first in the second run again. He had a

:59:26. > :59:28.disastrous qualifier and managed to salvage it with his second run but

:59:29. > :59:39.he started the finals in exactly the same way. Had a less than glorious

:59:40. > :59:43.first run. Hopefully, he can bury his reputation. Certainly, a few

:59:44. > :59:46.people think he cannot handle the pressure of the big contest. You

:59:47. > :59:52.have only got to go online and Google Bobby Brown. You might find a

:59:53. > :59:58.different Bobby Brown! You will find some of the most amazing videos and

:59:59. > :00:02.some of the craziest tricks. But it comes back to his nerves. A lot of

:00:03. > :00:05.people say his nerves are made of tissue paper because he cannot seem

:00:06. > :00:20.to hold it together on the big stage. I cannot see anybody outside

:00:21. > :00:24.the top six threatening the podium. Certainly Henrik Harlaut, if he can

:00:25. > :00:31.tidy up is run, could have a look at the podium. We really only looking

:00:32. > :00:44.at Goepper, Joss Christensen for the gold? I don't think so. Gus

:00:45. > :00:54.Kenworthy, Josh Wells... It could be anybody's contest. Is the gold a

:00:55. > :01:00.realistic prospect for Woodsy? Think so, yes. His top two jumps are so

:01:01. > :01:08.good. If he does them the best he can, he is in with a real child. --

:01:09. > :01:15.a real shed. We saw Jamie Nicholls do the run of his life the snowboard

:01:16. > :01:22.slopestyle. Because none of them any better to get his place in the

:01:23. > :01:31.final. Woodsy needs the run of his life right here, right now. His

:01:32. > :01:38.big-game experience has given him the confidence at this level. He is

:01:39. > :01:44.not the token Brit. He is not an impostor. He is the real deal. We're

:01:45. > :01:50.not talking about somebody chanting their arm. Woodsy has the pedigree.

:01:51. > :02:07.He's the Lewis Hamilton of free skiing. But way better looking.

:02:08. > :02:13.Bobby Brown going to run first. A little bit of course maintenance

:02:14. > :02:18.between the two runs. Temperatures soaring now that the sun is high in

:02:19. > :02:25.the sky. Almost at 12 Celsius. The wind has come up, locally. These are

:02:26. > :02:31.the flags on top of the stadium. They are showing you that it is a

:02:32. > :02:35.tailwind. If anything, a crosswind is quite dangerous for the riders.

:02:36. > :02:39.But a tailwind will actually help them over the jumps. If any of them

:02:40. > :02:46.are going really big, they could go really, really big. We so Woodsy and

:02:47. > :03:00.Henrik Harlaut goal way deep into that landing. -- doorway deep. These

:03:01. > :03:05.glorious mountains that oversee the courses down here at the Rosa Khutor

:03:06. > :03:13.Extreme Park. Saatchi definitely a place worth visiting. If you want to

:03:14. > :03:22.look further afield than the Alps. Right now it is the men's slopestyle

:03:23. > :03:30.final. The second run is lining up. Bobby Brown, Gus Kenworthy and

:03:31. > :03:38.Josiah Wells are all capable of moving on the podium. Russell

:03:39. > :03:44.Henshaw in sixth. Henrik Harlaut. And, of course, Woodsy. Six skiers

:03:45. > :03:56.outside the medal position to could make life very difficult for the

:03:57. > :04:10.leaders. Bobby Brown to drop first. A lot to prove. Fairly standard. All

:04:11. > :04:38.of the spin is going the same way. He played safe. We have seen

:04:39. > :04:42.execution dominating the headlines from the judges. I don't think it is

:04:43. > :04:47.going to be a good review for a Bobby Brown. I find that quite

:04:48. > :04:53.strange because he did a triple on his first round. Unless he just did

:04:54. > :05:14.not feel like it was worth it. Going for the double grab. Getting a

:05:15. > :05:24.right hold on the right-hand ski. Just seems to drop out of the sky.

:05:25. > :05:29.You look at this, and they are eight or nine metres up on those figures.

:05:30. > :05:35.I think the tailwind is playing a part. Bobby Brown were not better at

:05:36. > :05:52.seven. That will not better seven. Worth keeping your eye on the second

:05:53. > :06:02.jump to see if we are seeing that nose butter 1260 treble. The nose

:06:03. > :06:18.butter is like using the skis as a butter knife to butter toast.

:06:19. > :06:34.Oh, my goodness! Henrik Harlaut is laying a huge market down for the

:06:35. > :06:50.gold. The marker may cost him a little bit. What a run. That was

:06:51. > :07:11.absolutely phenomenal. Triple 16, going upside down three times and

:07:12. > :07:21.spinning around 4.5. Imagine how many G-force as the octopus on his

:07:22. > :07:24.helmet was put under then? ! If you have got to pick that apart, you

:07:25. > :07:36.would say the landing on the final jump. He has got a switch right,

:07:37. > :07:41.switch left and a forward cork. The only single part... Nick Goepper's

:07:42. > :07:45.run was immaculate. He had a triple and there was not a mistake. Henrik

:07:46. > :08:01.Harlaut has given them an excuse with the landing on the third job. I

:08:02. > :08:11.am going for 93. 90. I'm going to sit on the fence. I think you are a

:08:12. > :08:28.wise man. So difficult to predict, the judging criteria.

:08:29. > :08:34.Must've been the last landing that cost him. That is such a wrath

:08:35. > :08:44.punishment on that level when you see such a technical trick landed so

:08:45. > :08:52.perfectly. Josiah Wells wondering what you have to do to impress those

:08:53. > :09:07.judges. He should just come down and give them all presents!

:09:08. > :09:16.He only just got through the double kink without giving up.

:09:17. > :09:24.He is having to improvise. His run has gone completely out the window.

:09:25. > :09:44.Such a disappointment. Such a talented skier.

:09:45. > :09:57.Josiah Wells still has the pipe left. His Olympics is not over. But

:09:58. > :10:01.I think he really would have hoped to have challenged more for a place

:10:02. > :10:10.on the podium with his second run. Who will be frustrated with that. As

:10:11. > :10:17.anybody would. This is the view looking down. If anybody out there

:10:18. > :10:22.can ski, you will appreciate the difficulty on show there. You take

:10:23. > :10:35.off going backwards and you land going backwards. 30 seconds or you

:10:36. > :10:48.cannot see anything apart from where you have just come from!

:10:49. > :11:45.Switch misty 12. Throwing himself forwards into the spin and the

:11:46. > :11:59.flips. Almost a front flip. A slight delay where you take off the jump.

:12:00. > :12:03.When you look at these rails, the skis are actually blunted below the

:12:04. > :12:08.ski boots, so their sharp edges cannot catch on the rails. They keep

:12:09. > :12:13.them nice and sharp on the tips. You have got some grip on landing.

:12:14. > :12:28.Underneath the boots, you have to blunt them. He got the grab really

:12:29. > :12:35.clean. He almost took off headfirst into the rotation. A really clean

:12:36. > :12:56.landing. Yes, barely moved. Two perfect ski tracks in the soft snow.

:12:57. > :13:03.James Woods currently in fourth. Joss Christensen in first. Oystein

:13:04. > :13:07.Braaten. Easily the most technical skier we have seen on the rail

:13:08. > :13:09.element. The question now is whether he can complement that with three

:13:10. > :13:27.big technical jumps. He missed the rail. He had gone to

:13:28. > :13:51.Spain onto it and he got his angled wrong. -- to Spain onto it.

:13:52. > :13:57.It is like his skis have got vacuum cleaners on them the way they are

:13:58. > :14:01.stocks -- sucking down onto the snow. The mistake in the rail is

:14:02. > :14:11.almost certainly going to cost Oystein Braaten. Was just thinking

:14:12. > :14:16.how amazing it has been. The men's and women's snowboard and ski

:14:17. > :14:23.slopestyle has just been an amazing addition to the Olympics. You cannot

:14:24. > :14:29.deny, Murray, in free skiing, this is -- the level of progression has

:14:30. > :14:35.been phenomenal? Yes, it has gone massive. It has been so fast. Every

:14:36. > :14:42.contest you will see new tricks. They will progress to the next week

:14:43. > :14:45.of competition. It is crazy. Still a relatively young sport. That is why

:14:46. > :14:57.began got so many contenders for the medals. You only need to go away and

:14:58. > :15:02.work in one trick. Ninth position. You only need to work on one new

:15:03. > :15:09.trick and then you can push yourself up the rankings. We saw Woodsy have

:15:10. > :15:13.the incredible run of form through 2012-2013 and then he dropped off a

:15:14. > :15:19.little bit. Could be at the moment that he is pushing at the right

:15:20. > :15:25.time. Russell Henshaw, 23, been around for so long in the world of

:15:26. > :15:30.free skiing. There are not many big event titles he does not have. You

:15:31. > :15:34.might see a nose butter triple from him as well. He has been thinking

:15:35. > :15:40.about it. It is just whether he wants to do it or not. Do you think,

:15:41. > :15:49.I am at the Olympics, I am not super solid but I will give it a go? I

:15:50. > :15:58.think he is fairly solid. Not as big as the other guys but he put it down

:15:59. > :16:08.cleanly. Switch 99 there. There you go. Left triple. When you are in a

:16:09. > :16:12.triple like that, you do not see the landing until too late. He did not

:16:13. > :16:19.realise how close he was to the snow until he hit it. He has set himself

:16:20. > :16:22.some high standards and you could almost see the disappointment in his

:16:23. > :16:27.body language as he walked back to his skis. That is not as clean as

:16:28. > :16:36.what we have seen from him on the hitching post. He missed the Russian

:16:37. > :16:39.doll as well. Talking about progression, he has unleashed a

:16:40. > :16:45.brand-new trip right there in this event. We want to see the replay.

:16:46. > :17:02.Did he put the nose butter on this? A little bit. It is just not quite

:17:03. > :17:15.as efficient as others. Modern-day gladiators. Russell Henshaw, 28.8.

:17:16. > :17:20.The first run will count and that is only good enough for seven. I say

:17:21. > :17:27.only because he would have said such high standards for himself. Alex

:17:28. > :17:33.Beaulieu-Marchand, the Canadian. Just 19 years old. He has come in as

:17:34. > :17:44.an underdog but he has made a good account of himself. Tidy out of the

:17:45. > :17:53.first rail. Nice. Pretzel out of that rail. Going against the

:17:54. > :18:04.inertia. 540 off the Russian doll. Spotted that landing beautifully. I

:18:05. > :18:10.was holding my breath. I thought he had come down with loads of time to

:18:11. > :18:15.spare. He drifted into the last 180 degrees so lazily. He was looking

:18:16. > :18:20.so, so good. The snow just a little bit too soft. He could not get a

:18:21. > :18:32.grip he wanted. The skis sank away from him. Well, we saw the men's

:18:33. > :18:42.slopestyle snowboard final peppered with Canadians. But just be one

:18:43. > :18:50.Canadian mail here. I do not want to get anyone to excited too early, but

:18:51. > :18:54.it is only Gus Kenworthy to drop below James Woods at this stage. We

:18:55. > :19:01.know he is one of the most talented skiers out here, Gus Kenworthy. It

:19:02. > :19:04.means the worst position James Woods would get is fifth. That would be an

:19:05. > :19:11.incredible achievement. It would. But he still has one run left to go.

:19:12. > :19:24.We will wait for the score for Alex Beaulieu-Marchand. 12th place for

:19:25. > :19:29.him. Gus Kenworthy, this run was so beautiful up to the last kick. How

:19:30. > :19:35.much pressure would he be under now? A huge amount. Absolutely massive.

:19:36. > :19:42.What will his coach be saying? Enjoy it. Yeah, enjoy it. None of the guys

:19:43. > :19:46.have ridden at this level before. You might have a TV audience of a

:19:47. > :19:51.million would be streaming. Suddenly they are in front of 2 billion

:19:52. > :19:57.people at the Olympics. -- with the streaming. So smooth. Surgical.

:19:58. > :20:02.Absolutely surgical. Hands felt crowed to his side. That is one of

:20:03. > :20:06.the hardest and most technical trick we have seen over the curved box.

:20:07. > :20:14.Immaculate. Absolutely ridiculous from him. He just needs to hold it

:20:15. > :20:20.together. Double cork ten. Coming in backwards for the triple 14. He is

:20:21. > :20:27.good. My goodness. My goodness, that was ridiculous. That was absolutely

:20:28. > :20:35.insane. Gus Kenworthy knows it. Look at him! He had no business landing

:20:36. > :20:41.that. 1620 and then switch 1440. That was incredible. Absolutely

:20:42. > :20:45.incredible. If he cannot get an endorsement deal with some kind of

:20:46. > :20:50.tumbled dryer after this run, I do not know what he can get. That is

:20:51. > :21:01.ridiculous! Murray, talk us through these jumps. 450 into that. Just

:21:02. > :21:08.enjoy that. Wow. Glorious slow motion. Double 12. Sorry, double 16.

:21:09. > :21:15.So composed. Look at the way he has tweaked it. Puts it down as though

:21:16. > :21:22.he has just done 180. To be so composed in such big spins, you need

:21:23. > :21:28.to be so strong to hold onto it. The head comes down as you see the

:21:29. > :21:32.landing appear. Just goes to show how difficult it is. He has both

:21:33. > :21:37.arms and his legs to keep his body topped up to keep the spin and flip

:21:38. > :21:43.going round. Gus Kenworthy, currently sat in 11th. He is going

:21:44. > :21:48.up the table. The question is just how far. I think it is all the way

:21:49. > :21:56.to the top. Could potentially be America one, two, three. It could

:21:57. > :22:03.be. Joss Christensen and Nicholas Goepper currently occupying old and

:22:04. > :22:09.silver. Could we see the podium block out? -- gold and silver. This

:22:10. > :22:15.has got to be goals. He goes into second behind Joss Christensen. The

:22:16. > :22:21.size and technicality of those jumps along with the execution... They

:22:22. > :22:26.have good reason to cheer. Joss Christensen from America, Gran

:22:27. > :22:32.Kenworthy from America and Nicholas Goepper from America all occupying

:22:33. > :22:38.medal positions -- Gus Kenworthy. You have got to say as well, Woodsy

:22:39. > :22:47.guaranteed first place. The pressure is almost off a little bit. Here we

:22:48. > :22:54.go. Next skier to drop, Nick Goepper. No poles. Woodsy made an

:22:55. > :22:58.interesting comment about this. If you ski with poles and you drop one,

:22:59. > :23:03.you do is qualified. Is that true? If you ski without poles, you're not

:23:04. > :23:08.as qualified, obviously. Is that true, Murray? I am not sure. I was

:23:09. > :23:14.under the impression you had to finish with three bits of equipment.

:23:15. > :23:20.You could drop one, but if you drop two, game over. Gave that a bash.

:23:21. > :23:27.Reverberating. Getting so busy on the rails. That was quite nasty.

:23:28. > :23:35.There was not any sliding going on. Did not actually hook up. But

:23:36. > :23:44.working so hard. He made the rails work for him. What has he got on the

:23:45. > :23:50.kickers? Big nine. Double backflip. Cheeky. He knows he is not improving

:23:51. > :23:55.and third place. After his second jump, he messed up a bit and gave a

:23:56. > :24:04.bit of a crowd-pleaser on the last one. To be that... I suppose you

:24:05. > :24:09.know how sensitively the judges are marking these runs. Look how much he

:24:10. > :24:19.gets on that hitching post, the barrel. Is it a right old smash. --

:24:20. > :24:24.gives it. He is on to the rail and pretzels back. Changing his rotation

:24:25. > :24:31.background to the other way which is quite a task in itself. He has got

:24:32. > :24:32.to use the skis to stop the momentum and generate the rotation back the

:24:33. > :24:46.other way. He missed the grab. That is exactly

:24:47. > :24:50.what you said, Murray. He knew the score was gone so we got treated to

:24:51. > :24:55.the double backflip. There is not one person who saw the trick that

:24:56. > :25:00.does not want to be able to do it. I would pay good money to be his

:25:01. > :25:05.rucksack. Imagine if you could climb on his back and join in for that.

:25:06. > :25:13.How much fun would that be? Until the landing, that would be great. He

:25:14. > :25:17.has got a smile on his face. Nick Goepper will be watching the next

:25:18. > :25:24.run very, very closely. We have both James Woods and Andreas Hatveit

:25:25. > :25:30.below him still to run. The only two men who can push out the Americans

:25:31. > :25:38.from what is at the moment the USA lock-out on the podium. Woodsy needs

:25:39. > :25:45.92.4 or better for a place on the podium. Come on, Woodsy. The whole

:25:46. > :25:51.of the UK right now is holding their breath. He gives him the nod. He has

:25:52. > :26:00.worked so hard with Woodsy of the last four years, has Pat. Just

:26:01. > :26:06.brings him in. A quick hug. He is probably so proud. Just to have got

:26:07. > :26:21.to this point. He would be enormously happy. But Woodsy... 450

:26:22. > :26:28.down the bar. Again, really solid through this rail section. 270 on,

:26:29. > :26:32.pretzel off. He is going to be feeling good through this run.

:26:33. > :26:39.Lovely. Confidence will be brimming at this point. Rail section done and

:26:40. > :26:44.tidy. Just sat down again there. It is going to be difficult to improve

:26:45. > :26:56.on this score. Unless we see a triple hear. No. Well, you have got

:26:57. > :27:03.to give him a round of applause. I think Nick Goepper just applauding

:27:04. > :27:09.probably knows that his medal is safe at least for this run. So close

:27:10. > :27:28.for Woodsy. The rail section was immaculate. Nothing you can fault

:27:29. > :27:31.here. So, so solid. But... The grab through there, the first kicker, the

:27:32. > :27:46.landing, just sits back a little bit. He goes really big. Pulls up

:27:47. > :27:51.pretty quickly. Double grab there. You can just hear the man over the

:27:52. > :27:56.PA saying, if you have not got the trouble, you will not bust into the

:27:57. > :28:02.90s. He skis are almost parallel on the last jump. Going the wrong way.

:28:03. > :28:17.That is ridiculous. Woodsy blowing a kiss to the crowd. Look at him. He

:28:18. > :28:25.is saying congratulations. 78.4. I did not think it was quite that low.

:28:26. > :28:30.86.6, his first round score, that is good enough for fifth. Considering

:28:31. > :28:35.how hard he has had to work after a painful hip injury, he will be very

:28:36. > :28:43.pleased with that result. Yes, he has done exceptionally well. Andreas

:28:44. > :28:45.Hatveit back-up at the top. Currently in fourth. The only man

:28:46. > :28:57.capable of ruining the American party on the podium.

:28:58. > :29:07.50 on, 270. He dropped in. You said he is a happy dude. We have seen

:29:08. > :29:13.smiles at the top and the bottom of this course. In the summer, when he

:29:14. > :29:17.has not got snow in his back garden, he has a dry slope and he invites

:29:18. > :29:23.everyone round. He likes the dry slopes as well. That is a man who

:29:24. > :29:34.loves his sport. Let us see if he can... Safe double 12 there. Switch

:29:35. > :29:43.14 to finish. He used the full flux of the dips to hold himself on.

:29:44. > :29:47.Switch tend to finish, excuse me. -- switch ten. It will not be enough. I

:29:48. > :29:55.don't think so. It is really difficult. It is the Americans who

:29:56. > :30:03.have led the way in the triple cork revolution today. Everyone who has

:30:04. > :30:07.landed a triple cleanly, I think apart from Henrik Harlaut, is on the

:30:08. > :30:19.podium. He was judged very harshly, in my opinion, , with 84.4. He is in

:30:20. > :30:31.sixth place. It might be worth having another look at that in a

:30:32. > :30:42.little bit. It looks like a USA one, two, three and a victory lap. That

:30:43. > :30:46.is a very impressive feat by the American to have used only one run

:30:47. > :30:54.in the final. Is he going to use it to showcases best run? You have got

:30:55. > :31:04.to, haven't you? Is either that or backflips. Out of everybody that

:31:05. > :31:08.Team GB has entered in the slopestyle so far, only one has not

:31:09. > :31:25.made the top ten. That is a phenomenal achievement. Aimee Fuller

:31:26. > :31:29.just outside the top ten. No pressure going into the halfpipe

:31:30. > :31:41.finals in a couple of days. Sorry, I apologise. Dom Harington and Belgian

:31:42. > :31:51.Kilner. -- Ben Kilner. Fourth. It locks into the existing fourth

:31:52. > :31:56.position. Just 0.6 behind Nick grabber. The Americans have done it.

:31:57. > :32:08.It is the USA lock-out on the podium. Joss Christensen, Gus

:32:09. > :32:18.Kenworthy and Nicholas grabber. -- Nicholas Goepper. That podium will

:32:19. > :32:25.not change. Joss Christensen with a lap of honour. The USA the

:32:26. > :32:29.powerhouse, really. All four of their skiers making it through to

:32:30. > :32:39.the final. Shows how strong the US team is. For someone to squeeze into

:32:40. > :33:08.the last spot to go to the Olympics and then end up taking gold.

:33:09. > :33:17.What an incredible finish to a quite spectacular day of Freestyle Skiing!

:33:18. > :33:21.The first-ever men's Olympic slopestyle contest. Huge run from

:33:22. > :33:26.Joss Christensen. Considering that he did not actually have to do that.

:33:27. > :33:31.I think that has got to be an improvement. I think it probably

:33:32. > :33:40.will be. Good on him as well for doing the run. I think he has

:33:41. > :33:52.bettered his run. Just cemented his gold medal really. He will be on a

:33:53. > :33:56.nondescript cereal packet. He has every right to spend some of his

:33:57. > :34:02.winnings on an enormous sound system that he can install somewhere in

:34:03. > :34:06.America in a snow park, use the microphone to tell everybody how

:34:07. > :34:14.much better he is. He is not going to do it. He is one of the most

:34:15. > :34:23.respected skiers in the game. That is your podium. The first ever free

:34:24. > :34:29.ski slopestyle Olympic contest. It has been an American one, two,

:34:30. > :34:37.three. Andreas Haatveit old of Norway just missing out, in fourth.

:34:38. > :34:41.James Woods in fifth. How much of a part of the hip injury he sustained

:34:42. > :34:46.last Friday played a part in that, we will not know until we speak to

:34:47. > :35:09.him. Still, a fantastic achievement for him. Confirmation of the result.

:35:10. > :35:17.That was the first Freestyle Skiing title not won by Canada here in

:35:18. > :35:21.Sochi. It is the USA's bail. We talked about the possibility of a

:35:22. > :35:27.one, two, three. And that is how it has transpired. The poster boy of

:35:28. > :35:34.the Great Britain Olympic team has come good today. Fifth place for

:35:35. > :35:41.James Woods. He has not disappointed us today. I think we can hear from

:35:42. > :35:46.him now. Woodsy, you must be happy with fifth

:35:47. > :35:53.place, particularly with the injury? Yes, for sure. Incredibly proud to

:35:54. > :35:56.be here. It is a little disappointing when you can't perform

:35:57. > :36:01.your best. I have to be honest, I'm incredibly proud to be here in

:36:02. > :36:07.Sochi. It is immense. It is the Olympics. And Joss Christensen is

:36:08. > :36:11.the nicest guy on the face of the earth, so I couldn't be more happy

:36:12. > :36:16.for anybody else. The three Americans through big jumps. You did

:36:17. > :36:20.not have it in your Arsenal. Was that what you were working on when

:36:21. > :37:08.you hurt yourself? Yes, I can do triples. I have got to be, you know,

:37:09. > :37:11.the world stage. I have shown everyone what I can do. It would've

:37:12. > :37:16.been lovely to bring some hardware back to the UK. That is the idea.

:37:17. > :37:24.But thanks for the from everyone. Fifth in the Olympics with four my

:37:25. > :37:30.best mate in for the bin. For a kid from Sheffield dry slopes, that is

:37:31. > :37:37.not too bad, is it? I suppose it is not. Where can the event go from

:37:38. > :37:43.here? Free skiing, snowboarding? Fantastic. I hope people see it and

:37:44. > :37:49.enjoy it. That is all we do. We never thought to make the Olympics.

:37:50. > :37:53.I think we got good reviews. They wanted to see us in. We all love

:37:54. > :37:59.what we are doing. I just want to see more people who truly love being

:38:00. > :38:07.on the skis and being honest awards. The more of that, the better. We all

:38:08. > :38:11.love what you do as well and we are incredibly proud. Thank you very

:38:12. > :38:15.much, Woodsy. Thank you. It has been great performing in front of

:38:16. > :38:22.everyone. Yet, cheers. Enjoy. Go look at some more free skiing and

:38:23. > :38:27.snowboarding. It is good! He has been a credit to himself and

:38:28. > :38:34.a credit to Great Britain. Fantastic effort from James Woods today. As he

:38:35. > :38:37.says, fantastic effort for a kid from Sheffield dry slope. We have

:38:38. > :38:42.been talking about some of the artificial facilities available in

:38:43. > :38:46.Great Britain. That is where a lot of the Great Britain team learned to

:38:47. > :38:49.love winter sport. A lot of them headed to the Scottish Highlands as

:38:50. > :39:01.well. Some fantastic facilities. I was checking out the website

:39:02. > :39:04.yesterday. Several places have amazing amounts of snow right now

:39:05. > :39:09.just in case you fancy strapping on the skis and getting up there. Get

:39:10. > :39:28.involved in this sport any where you can.

:39:29. > :39:34.If you think the British skiers and snowboarders in Sochi grew up on

:39:35. > :39:38.fresh Alpine Para, you would be wrong. Almost all of them started

:39:39. > :39:44.somewhere like this. No mountains here, no snow, even. This is Halifax

:39:45. > :39:48.ski and snowboard Centre. Jamie Nicholls gruel riding here. It is

:39:49. > :39:53.typical of many of the dry ski slopes around the UK. -- Jamie

:39:54. > :40:00.Nicholls grew up riding here. I learned to ski in Edinburgh, one of

:40:01. > :40:04.the largest dry ski slopes in the country. It is probably as cold and

:40:05. > :40:06.windy as this one. It has been about six years since I have been on a dry

:40:07. > :40:27.slope. I will give it a go. It doesn't run quite as fast as snow

:40:28. > :40:33.and if there was a bit quicker when it is pouring with rain. There are

:40:34. > :40:37.two types of dry slopes. There is Bendix, which is faster. And

:40:38. > :40:46.snowflakes, which is better for freestyle. -- snowflakes. If dry

:40:47. > :40:52.slopes seemed tired and dated, then this feels entirely different. 20

:40:53. > :41:00.miles down the road, this is Castleford, one of six indoor snow

:41:01. > :41:12.centres in the UK. Real snow, no-win, no-fee on.

:41:13. > :41:21.The indoor snow domes are fantastic. What a creation. We are standing

:41:22. > :41:25.here with the ultimate setup in learning to ski and snowboard. Even

:41:26. > :41:29.for us, we can come here and progress. I didn't believe you could

:41:30. > :41:34.get to such a high level where you could compete with some of the best.

:41:35. > :41:43.You can learn the basics of jumping. Up to very high standard. This place

:41:44. > :41:48.is very busy for a Friday night. There is a real mixture between

:41:49. > :41:52.skiers and snowboarders. Different standards and different ages. One

:41:53. > :42:03.kid will try something, another kid will copy that. They are all pushing

:42:04. > :42:08.each other and improving together. I was ripping double corks on a dry

:42:09. > :42:13.slope, which is unbelievable. The new generation are going to blow

:42:14. > :42:16.people's mines, for sure. There are loads of camps cropping up for

:42:17. > :42:20.people who have never been on a slope before. It takes you right

:42:21. > :42:25.through from the very first time and progress you to potentially getting

:42:26. > :42:31.on the junior team are joining the development squad. The fact that

:42:32. > :42:38.snowboarding has gone into the Olympics, it is a case of, all

:42:39. > :42:43.right, we can do this in the UK now? Absolutely. These guys have shown it

:42:44. > :42:47.is possible. They have come from dry slopes. It is paving the way for

:42:48. > :42:48.what can be achieved. It would be great to see more kids coming

:42:49. > :43:05.through. What a debut it has been for a the

:43:06. > :43:10.snowboard events here in Sochi. Get inspired and take up this amazing

:43:11. > :43:15.sport. One of the more traditional sports, which first made its debut

:43:16. > :43:19.in 1928, is bob skeleton. It has featured five times since. Every

:43:20. > :43:24.single time Great Britain has won a medal. We can be considered a world

:43:25. > :43:30.power. Certainly looking like that today after the first couple of runs

:43:31. > :43:36.of the women's. Lizzy Yarnold has an advantage over the field. And

:43:37. > :43:40.Shelley Rudman is 11. The deciding to runs take place tomorrow

:43:41. > :43:45.afternoon. The two girls have been speaking to Matthew Pinsent.

:43:46. > :43:50.How was your morning's worked? Not too bad. A little bit off my lines

:43:51. > :43:54.on the first run. I think it was prerace nerves. On the second I was

:43:55. > :44:02.really happy. I corrected a huge mirror -- error that I made a first

:44:03. > :44:09.run. To correct it, really happy. Have you got things that you will

:44:10. > :44:13.think about overnight? Definitely. I am pleased that my start improved so

:44:14. > :44:17.much for the second run. That was another element I wanted to work

:44:18. > :44:22.on. I corrected that. I think I just really want to flow and enjoy the

:44:23. > :44:34.second day. And hope to move by little bit. I should be happy

:44:35. > :44:39.anyway. A little bit or...? I would like to have a neat and tidy run.

:44:40. > :44:44.When I walk of that track, just be happy. It has been tricky to get

:44:45. > :44:49.here. The fact we have got here, I'm just proud. Tellers about the

:44:50. > :44:52.helmet? What is happening? Yellow macro that was the G-force,

:44:53. > :45:02.unfortunately. I have damaged it. Hopefully it can get repaired

:45:03. > :45:04.overnight. Can I just say hello to everybody back at home and everybody

:45:05. > :45:10.who has been watching and supporting? Thank you. See you

:45:11. > :45:16.tomorrow. How was your morning's work? Very good. It started pretty

:45:17. > :45:23.early. I was twisting and turning in my bed. So excited. I kept on having

:45:24. > :45:26.to go back to sleep. Now I have started the competition, I am in the

:45:27. > :45:32.swing of it and pleased with how it is going. The first stop was

:45:33. > :45:36.amazing. It was the quickest you have ever been on this track, I

:45:37. > :45:47.think. Yes, I think the first and second pushes worthy fastest I have

:45:48. > :45:55.ever been -- work the. It is only whiskers. Amy has called your runs

:45:56. > :46:02.beautiful to watch. Thank you. I did think of her halfway down thinking,

:46:03. > :46:07.I hope she is enjoying commentating. It is so good to have her support.

:46:08. > :46:10.And all of the support of Team GB. They are properly screaming at the

:46:11. > :46:17.telly. We see your mum and dad here and your sister enjoying it too. I

:46:18. > :46:21.could not do without them. My best friends have supported me from the

:46:22. > :46:24.start. They have put up with my moaning. They have been through it

:46:25. > :46:30.all. It means everything they can be here and it costs so much. How do

:46:31. > :46:34.you spend the time before coming back tomorrow? Coming from the

:46:35. > :46:39.heptathlon background, I like the evening part. This is where races

:46:40. > :46:48.can be won and lost. I love it. I can sleep like a baby eat red food

:46:49. > :46:56.and recover and stretch. -- sleep like a baby and eat good food. You

:46:57. > :47:02.are a head. Do you take a much notice of how ahead you? Ideally

:47:03. > :47:08.going into the second day, I would be in second or third position. It

:47:09. > :47:16.can be tricky being first off. I will have to content with that

:47:17. > :47:20.tomorrow. Really the race is only halfway through soap actor the

:47:21. > :47:25.drawing board with the coach will stop we will talk about lines and

:47:26. > :47:28.try and improve for tomorrow. -- with the coach will stop we will

:47:29. > :47:38.talk about lines. How were the nerves? As long as I keep my hands

:47:39. > :47:43.palm and relax, it calms my whole body. See you tomorrow.

:47:44. > :47:49.She has certainly got a cool head. She even had time to think of Amy

:47:50. > :47:55.Williams halfway down the run! A third run will be taking class

:47:56. > :48:01.tomorrow afternoon at 3:30pm your time. Let us hope that they sleep

:48:02. > :48:05.well overnight. It is time now for more action on the eyes now. It is

:48:06. > :48:11.short track speed skating. We will be concentrating on the women's

:48:12. > :48:14.quarterfinals in the 500m vent will stop a reminder of the event in

:48:15. > :48:22.which you have to keep your wits about you.

:48:23. > :48:27.Short track speed skating is a race against each other and not the

:48:28. > :48:34.clock. It is a knockout format with skaters tearing around the 111 metre

:48:35. > :48:39.oval track at speeds of up to 40 miles an hour in the hope of

:48:40. > :48:45.progressing into the next round. Tactics play a big part with

:48:46. > :48:48.competitors often happy to track the leader and then produced a late

:48:49. > :48:55.charge to the line. He lost it on the line. A bunch of skaters vying

:48:56. > :49:01.for position at high speed means crashes and discoloured vocations

:49:02. > :49:06.are frequent. -- disqualifications. This short track specialist is the

:49:07. > :49:12.most decorated American Winter Olympian of all time and has won

:49:13. > :49:19.eight medals in this event including two golds it is all taking place in

:49:20. > :49:26.the iceberg Palace, the venue that is shared with the figure skating

:49:27. > :49:30.and short track. But it is the long blades we have

:49:31. > :49:35.got on there this morning for the quarterfinals of the women's 500m.

:49:36. > :49:41.Elise Christie and Charlotte Gilmartin have both made it for the

:49:42. > :49:46.-- to the quarterfinals. They are both stronger in the longer events.

:49:47. > :49:51.This first round features Charlotte Gilmartin. It is Wilf O'Reilly and

:49:52. > :49:56.Hugh Porter keeping tabs on it for us.

:49:57. > :50:23.Ready for the first quarterfinal in the Lady's 500 metres. The line-up

:50:24. > :50:26.for this... We had quite a few false starts in the first round. This is a

:50:27. > :50:34.pure sprint. You have got to get away sharpish. We are away cleanly

:50:35. > :50:40.first time. The Canadian is away at the front. They are in the order

:50:41. > :50:44.they left the starting line. Charlotte Gilmartin is being

:50:45. > :50:50.distanced slightly. She has a lot of work to do. Still they are in the

:50:51. > :50:55.same order. Charlotte Gilmartin finding the pressure too hot to get

:50:56. > :51:11.into the contest. The penultimate lap. Lovely move by Seung-Hi Park.

:51:12. > :51:17.The win is going to go to the Korean. Marianne St-Gelais is

:51:18. > :51:21.second. They will go into the semifinal. Sadly, Charlotte

:51:22. > :51:28.Gilmartin could not really get involved in the race. A battle for

:51:29. > :51:33.first and second. There we see Yara Van Kerkhof and the Korean coach

:51:34. > :51:37.very pleased with the way Seung-Hi Park skated. Did not get away very

:51:38. > :51:41.well. I was surprised Marianne St-Gelais did not take the race from

:51:42. > :51:53.the start to the finish. Seung-Hi Park cruising up the inside between

:51:54. > :51:59.them. A bit of a battle. Very tight. Marianne St-Gelais's and crossing

:52:00. > :52:06.Yara Van Kerkhof's body, protecting her position as Seung-Hi Park comes

:52:07. > :52:11.across first. Will we hear more about that? It looked as though

:52:12. > :52:18.their shoulders came together and there was a hand. The board is

:52:19. > :52:28.showing it is going to be Seung-Hi Park and Marianne St-Gelais through.

:52:29. > :52:32.We'll -- will Yara Van Kerkhof get advance? I don't think so.

:52:33. > :52:55.Quarterfinal number two. The first and second over the line

:52:56. > :53:02.will go into the semifinals. Tucked in on the place is Elise Christie.

:53:03. > :53:06.She has made a cute move already. There is a slight gap as well. The

:53:07. > :53:12.young Chinese skater, second overall in the World Cup, having placed

:53:13. > :53:19.second in three of the rounds, she is tapping the rhythm at the front.

:53:20. > :53:27.Elise Christie is profiting from it. Elise Christie will need to be

:53:28. > :53:33.vigilant and be aware of Jessica Hewitt's presence. Jessica Hewitt

:53:34. > :53:38.has gone down. That has done Elise Christie a great favour. Elise

:53:39. > :53:42.Christie with a very controlled race finishes second and moves into the

:53:43. > :53:48.second. Very controlled indeed. She got away marvellously well from

:53:49. > :53:58.third position immediately into second. The Chinese skater led the

:53:59. > :54:06.race out. Elise Christie cruised along behind her. Here we see Elise

:54:07. > :54:10.coming off the third start position into second place. Very good sharp

:54:11. > :54:16.skating from her. That underpinned her qualification. Absolutely. The

:54:17. > :54:22.fact that Jessica Hewitt did go down in the last lap... We can see her

:54:23. > :54:28.flying out of the track there. It would not really have affected Elise

:54:29. > :54:32.Christie. She got there on merit. She had a game plan. She knew she

:54:33. > :54:37.had to lift herself from the third position. That is what she did. She

:54:38. > :54:42.allowed the young Chinese skater to keep the place and at the front.

:54:43. > :54:50.That has done her the power of good. True to the semifinal. There it is,

:54:51. > :54:57.confirmed for you. Looking forward now to the third of these

:54:58. > :54:57.quarterfinal clashes. We have got Korea represented here, Russia,

:54:58. > :55:21.China and the Netherlands. Qiuhong Liu and Alang Kim, it will

:55:22. > :55:26.be hard for the others to get level with them. A big buzz in the arena

:55:27. > :55:40.because we have got a ration competing in this. -- we have got a

:55:41. > :55:46.Russian. The Russian is only 16 years of age. She won the European

:55:47. > :55:51.youth Festival and they really are waxing lyrical about the future of

:55:52. > :55:55.her. She is right at the back at the moment. The youngster has a lot of

:55:56. > :56:03.work to do. It is China at the front of the contest here. Qiuhong Liu is

:56:04. > :56:13.turning the screw. Going with her, the Dutch skater. This would be a

:56:14. > :56:17.story if Alang Kim fails to get in. The Koreans are noted for their

:56:18. > :56:25.acceleration. There goes the Korean. No, she did not make it. Still the

:56:26. > :56:30.Netherlands are in second. Leading is Qiuhong Liu of China. That is how

:56:31. > :56:36.they crossed the line. Good skating by the Dutch skater. The winner of

:56:37. > :56:43.the third quarterfinal was Qiuhong Liu of China. Fabulous skating. The

:56:44. > :56:47.start position is vital. From the heats, both Chinese skaters, the

:56:48. > :56:53.winner of the last race and this race, they have drawn number one and

:56:54. > :57:00.that makes it a very, very tough next round for the semifinals. That

:57:01. > :57:07.is another Korean that has not made it through. They are not having it

:57:08. > :57:12.their own way. Not at all. The Koreans better known for their

:57:13. > :57:18.longer distances, the 1000m and the 1500m. Suffering here in the 500m.

:57:19. > :57:26.It is the one discipline that career has never won the gold medal in --

:57:27. > :57:31.Korea has never won the gold. China specialise at the short sprint.

:57:32. > :57:41.There we are. Crossing the line, the winner, Qiuhong Liu of China. We

:57:42. > :57:47.have one more quarterfinal to go. Also here Canada have failed at the

:57:48. > :57:52.moment to place in the semifinal. Marianne St-Gelais going down there.

:57:53. > :57:58.Winner of the Silver in Vancouver. Now she is out of the contest. One

:57:59. > :58:05.more throw of the dice and that will come in quarterfinal number four

:58:06. > :58:15.with Valerie Maltais who has drawn position number three. It will be

:58:16. > :58:24.interesting. Arianna Fontana has drawn position one and she will take

:58:25. > :58:29.some passing. Right alongside her is Jianrou Li of China. China have a

:58:30. > :58:40.chance of putting another skater into the semifinal.

:58:41. > :59:03.First. -- first false start. Only 17 years of age, the Chinese skater,

:59:04. > :59:12.Jianrou Li. She was the one that moved first in position number two.

:59:13. > :59:26.The skaters are only allowed one. -- one false start. Skater number two

:59:27. > :59:33.has a false start. We are away this time. Look at the power of Fontana.

:59:34. > :59:39.This is her speciality. She goes to the front immediately. Being pursued

:59:40. > :59:46.by Jianrou Li of China. These two turning the screw. Valerie Mull

:59:47. > :59:57.Taser in third spot cannot get into the action. -- Valerie Maltais. It

:59:58. > :00:07.is all about staying upright. Fontana still at the front.

:00:08. > :00:22.Concluding lap. Fontana leading. General Lee of China in second. That

:00:23. > :00:29.is how they finish. They go through. Valerie Maltais has not made it.

:00:30. > :00:36.That tells you the depth of the competition at this level. Fontana

:00:37. > :00:45.from Europe. Elise Christie from Europe. It is good to see the

:00:46. > :00:52.Europeans getting through. If you look down through the years, it was

:00:53. > :01:00.only a Bulgarian that got the silver medal in the last two medals. All of

:01:01. > :01:13.the rest have come from America, China, Korea. Absolutely. And one of

:01:14. > :01:16.them is from Great Britain! Now then, Elise Christie, is this going

:01:17. > :01:18.to be the start of her medal account? No pressure. The result

:01:19. > :01:37.confirmed. Yes, Elise Christie through to the

:01:38. > :01:42.semifinals. We will be seeing those in the next 15 minutes. Until then,

:01:43. > :01:49.time for the heats of the men's 1000 metres. Korea have won every single

:01:50. > :01:54.title except for one, 2002, Steven Bradbury of Australia was the

:01:55. > :02:13.winner. We have got three skaters in this. Back to the Palace.

:02:14. > :02:27.Nine laps of the rink. Great Britain have got Jean -- Jon Eley. This is

:02:28. > :02:39.his third Olympics. Niels Kerstholt of the Netherlands. Chris Creveling.

:02:40. > :02:48.And Schaal cornea of Canada. -- Charle Cournoyer. John Ely is in

:02:49. > :03:04.fourth at the moment. -- John Ely. The 29-year-old clinging to the

:03:05. > :03:13.back. He was a finalist in Turin. He will have to find something here. He

:03:14. > :03:20.certainly is. Only four laps left. Chris Creveling storming the pace.

:03:21. > :03:26.He is tapping the read out at the front. John Ely is going to have to

:03:27. > :03:36.find more power to get into second place. Two laps remaining. The line

:03:37. > :03:42.has fractured. I don't see him making it through. Chris Creveling

:03:43. > :03:48.is second. The head of the contest, coming up to tidy up heat one with a

:03:49. > :03:58.very good display of skating, is Charle Cournoyer of Canada. So John

:03:59. > :04:07.Ely did not make it through. He is better known for the 500. It was

:04:08. > :04:21.quite a fast race. 1:24.79. The Olympic and world record 1.23.007.

:04:22. > :04:24.You can see how soft the ice is. Really, really soft. I think they

:04:25. > :04:41.are trying to keep the temperature of the ice down.

:04:42. > :04:47.He did make a move to get involved but then of course the line

:04:48. > :04:51.fractured. We had a brace of skaters going clear. The result confirmed. A

:04:52. > :05:13.win for the Canadian. Here is the line-up for the third

:05:14. > :05:16.heat. Richard Shoebridge in his first Olympics lining up in this.

:05:17. > :05:25.Born in Johannesburg. Lives in Nottingham. 12th in the European

:05:26. > :05:29.Championship recently. He was preferred to Paul Stanley, who had

:05:30. > :05:32.skated into Olympics. He has got his opportunity to show us what he can

:05:33. > :05:51.do. He has got the inside position as well. A good starting position.

:05:52. > :06:04.A webby go. -- away we go. Richard Shoebridge controlling this race.

:06:05. > :06:09.Vladislav Bykanov comes around the outside. Richard has to be carefully

:06:10. > :06:21.does not get caught at the back. The Russian takes the lead. Yes, a huge

:06:22. > :06:28.roar in the arena. The crowd tried to lift Vladimir Grigorev. He looks

:06:29. > :06:36.comfortable. On his coat-tails, or clinging to them, is Tianyu Han from

:06:37. > :06:41.China. At the moment, Richard Shoebridge is at the back. He will

:06:42. > :06:46.have to make a move if he wants to reach the quarters. The pace has

:06:47. > :06:50.been ramped up significantly. Vladislav Bykanov on the inside.

:06:51. > :06:57.Good skating from him. He was actually born in the Ukraine. Moved

:06:58. > :07:02.to Israel in 1984. Still at the back is Richard Shoebridge. He is not

:07:03. > :07:06.going to make it through. He gets into third but they are inside the

:07:07. > :07:15.final lap and he has been distanced. It is a win for a Vladimir Grigorev

:07:16. > :07:21.Russia, and Tien -- Tianyu Han of China is second. Richard Shoebridge

:07:22. > :07:26.had to do a lot of work from the back. A lot of fighting going on

:07:27. > :07:32.between Richard Shoebridge and Vladislav Bykanov of Israel. The

:07:33. > :07:43.Russian coach, originally from France, very pleased. Very

:07:44. > :07:49.impressive performance. Vladimir Grigorev, a cool character. Prefers

:07:50. > :08:03.the 500 metres. Making it look very easy. Richard Shoebridge trying to

:08:04. > :08:09.get into third. The Russian looks so powerful over this distance. He was

:08:10. > :08:13.in very good form in the Europeans recently. He finished fifth overall.

:08:14. > :08:29.That is the distance. Jack Whelbourne goes lane five.

:08:30. > :08:44.Wenhao Liang. Eduardo Alvarez and Charles Hamelin.

:08:45. > :08:48.A false start. Great courage being shown by Jack Whelbourne in his

:08:49. > :09:15.second Olympics. To turn, I believe. -- 210, I

:09:16. > :09:37.believe. Come on, Jack. You need a good start.

:09:38. > :09:43.Jack Whelbourne squeezed into third. It is the top two that make it

:09:44. > :09:49.through. Here comes Charles Hamelin. Just beginning to ignite. Jack

:09:50. > :09:55.Whelbourne will have to do something here if he wants to qualify. He is

:09:56. > :10:09.still in touch. Charles Hamelin in first. Jack Whelbourne still at the

:10:10. > :10:17.back. The Chinese has the lead. Charles Hamelin, whose eyes are as

:10:18. > :10:21.wide as sources, in second. Jack Whelbourne is showing great

:10:22. > :10:24.courage. He is right on the coat-tails of Charles Hamelin. But

:10:25. > :10:27.Charles Hamelin goes down the inside. And Jack Whelbourne with a

:10:28. > :10:34.brilliant move the inside as well. He has been passed by Alvares. Final

:10:35. > :10:42.lap, Alvares against Jack Whelbourne for the final spot. Charles Hamelin

:10:43. > :10:45.has got its own up. Jack Whelbourne finishes third. Alvares is second.

:10:46. > :10:51.What a courageous escape by Jack Whelbourne. Incredibly courageous.

:10:52. > :10:59.It will be interesting to see what happens with Charles Hamelin. He

:11:00. > :11:04.went through the Chinese skater. There was not a lot of room. It

:11:05. > :11:08.would be interesting to see if the referees make that call and

:11:09. > :11:12.disqualified Charles Hamelin for impeding the Chinese skater. That

:11:13. > :11:18.would be an incredible story. It will not make any difference to Jack

:11:19. > :11:26.Whelbourne. It could do. That would mean that Alvares would be first and

:11:27. > :11:34.Jack Whelbourne would be second. All, right. Let's wait to see the

:11:35. > :11:38.outcome of the discussions. You can skate through skaters. There has to

:11:39. > :11:47.be some space. The Chinese skater was clearly impeded. We wait for the

:11:48. > :11:50.outcome. Tremendous skating by Jack Whelbourne. A virtuoso performance

:11:51. > :12:01.by him despite only being declared 60% fit. They are clenching their

:12:02. > :12:06.fists, the Chinese. Still no change. It is still showing Charles Hamelin

:12:07. > :12:12.as the winner. The judges did look into it but the

:12:13. > :12:18.result stored. This is live. Three laps remaining. The women's 500

:12:19. > :12:31.metres semifinals. Elise Christie will be going in the second. You --

:12:32. > :12:53.you join us in the closing lap of semifinal number-1.

:12:54. > :13:13.A superb race by song he Park of Korea. -- Seung-Hi Park. And Fontana

:13:14. > :13:25.is in the final. Marianne St-Gelais has missed out. She has indeed.

:13:26. > :13:35.There was no space to go for these skaters. Marianne St-Gelais has

:13:36. > :13:47.missed out and Jorien Ter Mors as well. It was very close. It was a

:13:48. > :13:59.late run by Fontana that challenged Seung-Hi Park. The result confirmed.

:14:00. > :14:03.Now then, we're waiting to see if Elise Christie can become the first

:14:04. > :14:13.ever British skater to make it into the medal contest in this race. This

:14:14. > :14:29.event first phase two of the final won for the fourth time. Then it was

:14:30. > :14:46.a Canadian Chinese have that I have won the last two.

:14:47. > :14:52.Three Chinese skaters against Elise Christie. The first two will go

:14:53. > :14:59.through. Not a particularly great start for Elise Christie but she has

:15:00. > :15:05.recovered. There is a for love. One of the great favourites has gone

:15:06. > :15:11.down. Elise Christie is on the front. It will be very hard for the

:15:12. > :15:18.Chinese skaters to get round her. She is fully inspired. Elise

:15:19. > :15:23.Christie has put the other two to the sword. Elise Christie within a

:15:24. > :15:29.lap of getting through to the final. This is history in the making. Yes,

:15:30. > :15:33.Elise Christie coming off the bend. She may well have finished second,

:15:34. > :15:41.actually. But that is good enough to see her into the final. She skated

:15:42. > :15:44.that really well. But the fact that Fan Kexin went down and took the

:15:45. > :15:50.pressure off. It certainly did. That was a superb skate by Elise

:15:51. > :15:57.Christie. I do not doubt for one moment that she will not be in the

:15:58. > :16:11.final. Everybody looking cautiously now at the video screen. A little

:16:12. > :16:16.bit of teams skating by the Chinese. Elise Christie capitalised on the

:16:17. > :16:22.fall going straight to the front, the place she likes to be. She led

:16:23. > :16:30.almost the last four laps of the 500m. What a support superb

:16:31. > :16:36.performance. The 23-year-old from Scotland who is now based in

:16:37. > :16:40.Nottingham becomes the first British skater in the history of the race to

:16:41. > :16:47.get into the medal contest. She is looking very good indeed and the

:16:48. > :16:55.500m is not her speciality. The 1000m is her favourite. But in this

:16:56. > :17:04.kind of form... She has got that by a whisker. Elise Christie wins

:17:05. > :17:07.semifinal number two. That is also very good because she is guaranteed

:17:08. > :17:14.at least a position number three because she won that race. There is

:17:15. > :17:18.the result confirmed. Four in the final, three medals at stake. We are

:17:19. > :17:27.all waiting to see if Elise Christie can make it to the podium. Superb

:17:28. > :17:35.skating. She is in imperious form, is Elise Christie. The final will

:17:36. > :17:42.comprise of Arianna Fontana, Park Seung-Hi, Jianrou Li and Elise

:17:43. > :17:49.Christie. I cannot wait. That final will be at 12:10pm this

:17:50. > :17:54.afternoon. That really is history in the making. Elise Christie is the

:17:55. > :17:58.first British woman ever to make it through to a short track final at

:17:59. > :18:04.the Olympic Games. Fantastic for her. It is not even her best event.

:18:05. > :18:10.The 1000m was the one that everyone was hoping for. Every chance at

:18:11. > :18:15.12:10pm. Very exciting on the sixth day of the Olympic Games. More good

:18:16. > :18:18.news. It comes from the Ice Cube Curling Center. This morning Eve

:18:19. > :18:24.Muirhead and her team work against China and this was 7-7 going into

:18:25. > :18:35.the final end. It came down to the last stone in the 10th end. Eve

:18:36. > :18:41.needed a draw. It came down to a last stone against Canada yesterday

:18:42. > :18:47.and it did not go even macro's way -- Eve's way. Sweeping kept to a

:18:48. > :18:54.minimum. In it goes. That is a beautiful shot. Dead weight. That is

:18:55. > :18:57.a win, a much-needed win for Eve Muirhead and the Great Britain team.

:18:58. > :19:04.Her next match against Japan is tomorrow. Well played, Eve, and the

:19:05. > :19:08.rest of the team. Let us hear from Eve.

:19:09. > :19:13.She spoke after the victory. Congratulations.

:19:14. > :19:22.It was a tight match. It was always going to be a tight match. They have

:19:23. > :19:26.been world champions. Betty got bronze at the last Olympics. It was

:19:27. > :19:34.all was going to be a tough game. As you say, give it to them, give it to

:19:35. > :19:39.us, a bit of to and fro. What about your own game? You look to be spot

:19:40. > :19:46.on today. Getting the weight really well. Something which you must be

:19:47. > :19:58.plead about -- pleased about. I felt good today. The rest of the girls

:19:59. > :20:03.set me up well. The last end, Vicki Adams called it great. Thankfully, I

:20:04. > :20:07.managed to pull it off. I had high confidence. When you have that, you

:20:08. > :20:13.get a run going. How difficult was it to put the defeat against Canada

:20:14. > :20:17.behind you? Everyone was talking about your particular shot, it is

:20:18. > :20:22.all about the game, we know that, but that shot took everyone's

:20:23. > :20:27.tension. How hard was it to put that behind you? You have to know how to

:20:28. > :20:32.bounce back from defeat, especially in a sport like curling. You are not

:20:33. > :20:38.going to go unbeaten the whole week. If you lose a game, you have to know

:20:39. > :20:41.how to move on. It sounds easy but it is not. It is always in the back

:20:42. > :20:45.of your mind, especially when you are at the Olympic Games, it is

:20:46. > :20:49.tough to be in the games when you know you had the chance to win

:20:50. > :20:53.them. For us to get a good solid performance, it will lift us and

:20:54. > :20:58.hopefully tomorrow we can continue that. We have Korea and Japan. If we

:20:59. > :21:03.can have another two really good games, it will be good. Very well

:21:04. > :21:09.played, Eve Muirhead. As she says, the work goes on. But it is much

:21:10. > :21:12.better. Two wins and two defeats in their round Robin campaign. We have

:21:13. > :21:18.a little bit of time before we had lied to the GB men playing the US in

:21:19. > :21:21.the curling. They are on their technical break at the moment. It

:21:22. > :21:28.gives us a chance to look back 30 years tomorrow to the day so when

:21:29. > :21:35.Torvill and Dean stated to goal in the Sarajevo Olympics with sixes

:21:36. > :21:46.across the board that macro skated to gold -- they skated to gold.

:21:47. > :21:49.As a child, I was really quite shy but I think when I was on the ice, I

:21:50. > :21:55.felt like somebody different, somebody else. You were in your own

:21:56. > :22:00.little world, your own space. I think over the years, it brought out

:22:01. > :22:07.a different personality in me and lots of confidence. The first time I

:22:08. > :22:13.went to the ice rink was on a score trip when I was about eight or nine.

:22:14. > :22:19.I really enjoyed the feeling of the glide of the ice, the speed you

:22:20. > :22:24.could get and just different ways that you could do things on skates.

:22:25. > :22:30.The ice rink where I started skating was quite an old building and a

:22:31. > :22:35.little bit run down, I have to say. But for me, it was a special place,

:22:36. > :22:40.magical. Even though there were lots of mice and rats. After I don't know

:22:41. > :22:45.how many weeks, I pestered my parents, could I have my own

:22:46. > :22:50.skates. They bought me a second-hand pair of skates. Also, I was allowed

:22:51. > :22:58.to have one lesson a week which I absolutely loved. After so many

:22:59. > :23:04.years of skating, it quickly became my priority. When I started skating

:23:05. > :23:06.with Chris, it was my life, even though at that time, we both have

:23:07. > :23:25.full-time jobs. For us to find the time to skate, it

:23:26. > :23:32.was outside the 9-5 hours. There was not a lot of ice time available to

:23:33. > :23:39.us. Chris and I were in our early 20s when we realised that we had a

:23:40. > :23:43.chance possibly of a gold medal. We made a very big decision and decided

:23:44. > :23:54.to give up our jobs and concentrate so that we could skate full-time.

:23:55. > :23:59.Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. Each year, we had to come up with

:24:00. > :24:06.something new and push ourselves. We started to get very creative in the

:24:07. > :24:12.routines we were doing. Perfect. Everything was geared around leading

:24:13. > :24:19.up to it 1984 because this was our Olympics, this was our chance.

:24:20. > :24:29.The dramatic bolero. It is really hard to describe the feeling of that

:24:30. > :24:32.performance. It feels like a dream sequence. It feels like I was

:24:33. > :24:43.looking down on someone else doing that. Luckily for us, on that

:24:44. > :24:47.evening, it all went well. We have our own feeling of how it went. It

:24:48. > :24:52.is when you watch it back that you actually see it for what it is or

:24:53. > :24:53.what it was. But the feeling you had performing it was completely

:24:54. > :25:05.different. I do remember the moment when all

:25:06. > :25:16.the sixes came up. They put the first lot of scores up and there was

:25:17. > :25:24.a roar. Then there was a massive raw. I remember looking at the score

:25:25. > :25:29.board and thinking, wow, I think we have done it. Jayne Torvill and

:25:30. > :25:32.Christopher Dean have one the gold metal of these Olympics ice dance

:25:33. > :25:39.competition -- Vic Korea the gold medal. I did not think a young girl

:25:40. > :25:45.from Clifton could ever be Olympic champion. But it just goes to show,

:25:46. > :25:48.never stop dreaming. My dream started small and got bigger and

:25:49. > :25:53.bigger. HAZEL IRVINE: It is an amazing

:25:54. > :25:57.story. You were only allowed four minutes and ten seconds for those

:25:58. > :26:01.performances and the music they managed to compress down was four

:26:02. > :26:04.minutes and 28 seconds so Chris devised this way of using the music

:26:05. > :26:13.without skating and only when you started skating did the time start.

:26:14. > :26:18.Hence them starting on their knees. A piece of useless information but I

:26:19. > :26:21.really enjoy it. We are going to more action on the ice and it is in

:26:22. > :26:25.the Ice Cube Curling Center now because we have seen Eve Muirhead

:26:26. > :26:31.achieve the good win this morning over the Chinese. Dave Murdoch and

:26:32. > :26:34.his men are already on the ice against the United States of

:26:35. > :26:39.America. Dave has had a pretty decent campaign so far with three

:26:40. > :26:44.wins and one defeat. This is the scoreline as we join them. Great

:26:45. > :26:49.Britain have four shots to the US's one. Let us get in there.

:26:50. > :27:00.Thank you. A very good position. GB have been pretty dominant from the

:27:01. > :27:05.beginning. The US actually started with the hammer and they could not

:27:06. > :27:10.use it at all. Britain took the 3-0 lead against the hammer and it just

:27:11. > :27:14.shows you their dominance. Then the Americans got one back in the

:27:15. > :27:19.fourth. Britain took another one in the and it reached halfway point

:27:20. > :27:29.with this three shot advantage. Playing very well indeed. The

:27:30. > :27:31.Americans skip, John Shuster. He has been making hard work of this for

:27:32. > :27:38.him and his team. That is the American lead, John Landsteiner. He

:27:39. > :27:42.has made one or two of choices that Great Britain have capitalised on.

:27:43. > :27:48.He has also made one or two Paul shots as well stop by contrast, it

:27:49. > :27:54.has been a good afternoon for the British team -- one or two Paul

:27:55. > :27:58.shots. By contrast, it has been a good afternoon for the British team.

:27:59. > :28:02.Playing their shots and taking advantage of the mistakes of the

:28:03. > :28:06.opposition. If Britain were to win this, it would be four wins out of

:28:07. > :28:08.five and it would put them in a very strong position will stop they have

:28:09. > :28:18.got a match against Denmark tomorrow. One of the supposedly

:28:19. > :28:24.weaker teams. Then a couple of tough matches, Canada and Norway. A couple

:28:25. > :28:30.of wins against the USA and Denmark, absolutely what they would

:28:31. > :28:34.want to have. Just to get five wins under your belt, would be

:28:35. > :28:41.marvellous. Let us not get ahead of ourselves. Still five friends to go.

:28:42. > :28:46.Despite their dominance, they will continue to dominate. -- still five

:28:47. > :28:52.end macros to go. They have been playing very confidently. Nothing

:28:53. > :29:00.phasing them at the minute. All of them shooting very well. Before we

:29:01. > :29:10.started any of this competition, Dave was asked, they thought they

:29:11. > :29:15.played quite defensively. They've disagreed and said they had many

:29:16. > :29:22.game plans under their belt. I would like to reiterate that the boys have

:29:23. > :29:30.played very well. They have played together well as a team. Scott has

:29:31. > :29:35.had a couple of sessions where he was not at his best. But he has been

:29:36. > :29:41.really good today. Greg Drummond has almost been the star of the show.

:29:42. > :29:44.Great shot there from Scott Andrews. Dovetailing really well, stepping up

:29:45. > :29:56.to the plate at different times. Good shot selection and execution.

:29:57. > :30:07.They have made life difficult from the start for this American quartet.

:30:08. > :30:18.They had terrible games in Vancouver, the USA. Shuster got a

:30:19. > :30:22.lot of stick back over that. He has done well to fight his way back to

:30:23. > :30:25.represent the United States again. They had to come through qualifying.

:30:26. > :30:30.They did not have enough world ranking points. They went to Germany

:30:31. > :30:47.in December. They won that competition.

:30:48. > :30:54.The other team in very close to qualifying was the Czech Republic.

:30:55. > :31:00.It was a tough battle. Unfortunately, they did not make it,

:31:01. > :31:08.and the USA did. I am mature the USA team gets enough match practice. --

:31:09. > :31:17.I am not so sure. The country is well populated with curlers. A bit

:31:18. > :31:32.like the rest of the European countries, they probably have to

:31:33. > :31:33.travel to get the match practice. Jeff Isaacson is struggling a little

:31:34. > :31:54.bit today. He is the one to me looks happy to

:31:55. > :32:10.be in the Olympic Games. I may be being a little harsh.

:32:11. > :32:17.USA, when they have had the hammer, they have not used it at all well.

:32:18. > :32:19.They are doing really well. They are controlling the ends when the

:32:20. > :32:34.Americans should be controlling them.

:32:35. > :32:55.They are just not building an end very well. No. Not at all. That is

:32:56. > :33:01.much better. Not a bad attempt. They would be wanting to sit right on top

:33:02. > :33:07.of that stone. If it had been a little further around, is more

:33:08. > :33:17.difficult to shift. But there, there is enough of an angle. You can see

:33:18. > :33:22.where the brushes. A freeze has to be right on top of the other stone.

:33:23. > :33:25.No space between it. It will make it hard for the opposition to hit it

:33:26. > :33:32.out. There is no doubt these boys can throw some heavyweight down the

:33:33. > :33:37.rink. Sometimes, even if they are jammed together, they can spin them

:33:38. > :33:49.out sideways. That should be an easy enough to take-out for David

:33:50. > :33:59.Murdoch. Well done. A very assured performance so far. Dave has missed

:34:00. > :34:04.one or two. But generally if he has not had a perfect shot, he has

:34:05. > :34:11.followed it up with a good one. He has not led Shuster have anything

:34:12. > :34:28.easy. Shuster is shooting 56%. That is an improvement. He was below 50%.

:34:29. > :34:36.I think it has been as much about his shot selection as anything else.

:34:37. > :34:42.I am mature his strategy has been what is required at this level of

:34:43. > :34:49.play. I think we mention it earlier. Sometimes it is also shot

:34:50. > :34:57.execution. If you don't get the shot execution and the strategy itself

:34:58. > :35:02.goes out the window. Our boys have been calling a good game and playing

:35:03. > :35:06.a good game. That makes all the difference. Think it is that the

:35:07. > :35:10.situation of setting the end up. If you use those statistics, Michael

:35:11. > :35:16.Goodfellow and Scott Andrews are both shooting in the 90%. To be

:35:17. > :35:25.fair, the American first two were shooting better than their back to.

:35:26. > :35:31.-- two. It is critical that the front end of your team plays the

:35:32. > :35:37.stones were the skip is looking for them. That will direct how the rest

:35:38. > :35:44.of the play goes. So a very important position to be his lead.

:35:45. > :35:49.Often very underestimated in this game of curling, since the skip gets

:35:50. > :35:57.all of the credit. But they wouldn't be anywhere without the rest of the

:35:58. > :36:03.team in front of them. Well, he is good to have did try again. He

:36:04. > :36:12.didn't get anything going at that end. Not making any inroads into the

:36:13. > :36:21.British lead. Running out of time, running out of stones. It remains

:36:22. > :36:29.4-1 to Great Britain after six. And these discussions, just before we

:36:30. > :36:35.joined us the chats between the teams, the Americans were very flat,

:36:36. > :36:51.very down. The coach came down. He was talking to David Murdoch. He

:36:52. > :36:59.said to him, smile and it was a must visit he was saying, take on the

:37:00. > :37:03.demeanour of a man in charge. Yet -- The Americans look William

:37:04. > :37:08.despondent. Not at all a unit. You notice our boys gathering together,

:37:09. > :37:15.planning at this end is going to go. I feel these American boys are

:37:16. > :37:18.pretty flat. I think if I was the coach I would be giving them a bit

:37:19. > :37:26.of a shake. You generally have to look at the scoreboard. They should

:37:27. > :37:29.be taking at -- looking at taking a two, forcing a one. I really feel

:37:30. > :37:38.their heart is not in this game at the minute. Our boys definitely are.

:37:39. > :37:43.Wiwa saying they were looking around at family members in the crowd. The

:37:44. > :37:47.fact that this big Russian credits during the match on the far side

:37:48. > :37:52.between Switzerland and Russia, they were kind of breaking away when

:37:53. > :37:55.there was a cheer. They almost give the demeanour that they are happy to

:37:56. > :38:02.be here rather than concentrating on winning this match. That may be

:38:03. > :38:07.because they started badly. There are plenty of stones left. If they

:38:08. > :38:14.all their game and put some pressure on Britain, force a two or get a

:38:15. > :38:17.steal, you're back in the game. That is how you have to think. Speaking

:38:18. > :38:35.of Russian Cheers... Having said all that, Steve, this

:38:36. > :38:42.game is going Great Britain's away. -- way. Four wins and one loss would

:38:43. > :38:46.put them at the forefront of this competition. China at four wins.

:38:47. > :38:50.China are not playing this afternoon. They have had four

:38:51. > :38:54.victories. It is a surprise to see them at the top. Nowhere are

:38:55. > :39:01.undefeated but they are currently trailing their Scandinavian

:39:02. > :39:07.compatriots. They are currently trailing Sweden 4-1. If Sweden were

:39:08. > :39:10.to close that, they would be like Britain. Canada started to assert

:39:11. > :39:20.themselves after an indifferent start to the competition. They are

:39:21. > :39:27.currently leading as well. I think five matches in, if you are at the

:39:28. > :39:31.top, you have won four and lost one, I would be delighted with that

:39:32. > :39:37.situation. They play Denmark tomorrow. Great Britain still have

:39:38. > :39:42.to face Canada. I had to say, I would probably like to have seen

:39:43. > :39:45.this match earlier in the week. They may be getting stronger as the week

:39:46. > :39:50.goes on. I think of our boys go out and perform as we know they can,

:39:51. > :40:00.they are more than capable of beating any of the teams year. --

:40:01. > :40:10.any of the teams here. A big cheer going up. This is Jared Zezel.

:40:11. > :40:15.Playing second. He is from Hibbing in Minnesota. Small town renowned

:40:16. > :40:26.for? The birthplace of Bob Dylan. Best song? Rolling Stone, maybe?

:40:27. > :40:33.Never mind! Just trying to make tenuous links, useless information.

:40:34. > :40:38.If only I could follow! I know. I am two steps ahead of you. It is like

:40:39. > :40:43.this game. I am normally about three shots behind you! Hibbing,

:40:44. > :40:48.Minnesota. Easy, you have learned something. The birthplace of Bob

:40:49. > :40:53.Dylan. I will have learned something if I can keep that in my little

:40:54. > :40:56.brain! Scott Andrews has been asked to peel off that front guard and

:40:57. > :41:05.hopefully roll himself leaving nothing up front. Once again, USA,

:41:06. > :41:08.because they are not putting the stones where they need to, and the

:41:09. > :41:15.scenario we have seen pretty much through this, where Britain have

:41:16. > :41:22.made the smart moves earlier on, the Americans have tended to leave

:41:23. > :41:28.guards of which Britain had built on. Then they got their scores. It

:41:29. > :41:37.seems as though changing their strategy now maybe a little bit

:41:38. > :41:41.late. I think they will change their strategy after the fifth end break.

:41:42. > :41:45.I'm sure the coach would have told them how they are playing. Again, it

:41:46. > :41:50.may well come down to shot execution at the end of the day. They have

:41:51. > :41:56.given themselves a little bit of a chance here. He is putting the right

:41:57. > :42:00.shots on now. It does beg the question, why didn't they start like

:42:01. > :42:08.this? The first Evans gave them a huge disadvantage. -- those first

:42:09. > :42:18.Evans. I'm not sure what he was thinking then.

:42:19. > :42:23.Greg Drummond being totally reliable again, as he has been throughout

:42:24. > :42:41.this competition. So Jeff Isaacson is going to come

:42:42. > :42:53.down with these two British stones. Yes. He would like to sit right on

:42:54. > :42:59.the face of this one. Just the red is likely to the inside. It should

:43:00. > :43:11.allow Britain to catch the corner of that yellow. I think these are the

:43:12. > :43:14.sort of shots that Greg Drummond loves. He has been playing them with

:43:15. > :43:24.almost complete accuracy. Let's hope he can do it here. He came off his

:43:25. > :43:29.own. Job completed. It was not quite totally perfect execution but the

:43:30. > :43:35.result was not bad. He is likely over through that. He got the result

:43:36. > :43:43.we were looking for. That spins right back up out of the house. We

:43:44. > :43:53.can sweep as much as we can. So, open house. We will try to put a

:43:54. > :44:04.guard appear. Is he going to try to use that stone? Yes, he may try to,

:44:05. > :44:09.right. -- he may try to come right. This has to be perfectly placed.

:44:10. > :44:20.Running out of ice. That is a hard shot. A really hard shot. Of course,

:44:21. > :44:23.you don't play that shot. They are playing so many shots all afternoon

:44:24. > :44:30.and all of a sudden you get asked to put one out there. They are trying

:44:31. > :44:38.tactically the right shots. But as I said earlier, shot execution is not

:44:39. > :44:40.coming off for them. So, our macro guys just going to sit one right on

:44:41. > :45:02.one foot. -- our guys. We really do not want it to go back

:45:03. > :45:05.four. Just worried him for a second that it would go right through.

:45:06. > :45:12.Might have been better going right through. It has left an opportunity

:45:13. > :45:20.for John Shuster to draw up to this stone and then Dave will have to try

:45:21. > :45:29.and hit it out. But if we get the perfect freeze locked on top, it

:45:30. > :45:42.does make it harder. We had to be one foot or tee high there. Quite

:45:43. > :46:02.unusual for that to slip through. These guys are going to have to work

:46:03. > :46:10.this hard. That is not even lying shot. It has been typical of his

:46:11. > :46:16.match. He has not had many opportunities, but when he has had

:46:17. > :46:20.the chance to play his shots and it has either been poor strategy or

:46:21. > :46:22.poor execution. He has been displaying both unfortunately for

:46:23. > :46:41.his team-mates. Dave Murdoch saying, he is keen to

:46:42. > :46:49.force the USA to take a one and then convert the hammer over to Great

:46:50. > :46:53.Britain in the eighth end. He has to fit this yellow stone out of the

:46:54. > :46:58.house and light sitting in second position and hope that John Shuster

:46:59. > :47:04.cannot remove two of them and has to draw to take a one. It is always an

:47:05. > :47:12.advantage to have the hammer in the eighth and the 10th if possible. He

:47:13. > :47:23.is in a good position anyway. Trying to hold the line on this. That is a

:47:24. > :47:31.nice shot there. Once again, Dave Murdoch answering the questions put

:47:32. > :47:38.to him, sitting for two now, forcing the one. That is the object of this

:47:39. > :47:49.game. Try to take the two and force the one.

:47:50. > :47:56.This should be a fairly straightforward shot for John

:47:57. > :48:01.Shuster, just to draw in inside the British stone and take his one. As I

:48:02. > :48:09.said, the way he has been playing, that is not a foregone conclusion.

:48:10. > :48:23.These guys should be able to guide this in. Leaving it alone. That is a

:48:24. > :48:27.nice drop. One to the US. But it is another moral victory for Great

:48:28. > :48:33.Britain. Just a one for John Shuster and his team. Narrows the gap to

:48:34. > :48:38.4-2. But after seven and is, Great Britain will have the hammer in the

:48:39. > :48:43.eighth and potentially in the 10th -- seven ends. Still very much in

:48:44. > :49:09.charge here. They are obviously... Things are

:49:10. > :49:20.going well. In the GB house, as it were. Really good to see the

:49:21. > :49:28.communication, the team making the decision on how they are going to

:49:29. > :49:33.play that end. They have got a strategy to play. I think I heard

:49:34. > :49:40.the remark that they were better recognising perhaps there has been a

:49:41. > :49:43.change in strategy from the US team, but we did respond there, made good

:49:44. > :49:57.shots at the right time. There is another shot that is not as

:49:58. > :50:04.good as it might have been. It is really hard, you can start to think

:50:05. > :50:10.it is not going your way. Instead of trying to put behind you what has

:50:11. > :50:16.gone before. You have to play each shot as a new situation. I know it

:50:17. > :50:22.is so easy. That is what every psychologist will tell you. Much

:50:23. > :50:25.easier said than done. Start to carry the weight of what has gone

:50:26. > :50:38.before. For America, it has not been good. OK. Michael Goodfellow being

:50:39. > :50:42.asked for a tip shot. He was just being asked for that but it was a

:50:43. > :50:47.bit high. You can catch the edge of it and take it across to the side of

:50:48. > :50:59.the sheet as long as it is still in the field of play. That would free

:51:00. > :51:12.up the four foot since Great Britain have the hammer here.

:51:13. > :51:22.Just to reiterate the point, the free grant stone -- Godstone. If

:51:23. > :51:26.they are not in the house, as long as they are beyond the pod line,

:51:27. > :51:30.they cannot be taken out by the opposition. There can be moved but

:51:31. > :51:40.they cannot be taken out of the match. Michael Goodfellow.

:51:41. > :51:51.Having another go here. The boys are having to work this hard. We really

:51:52. > :51:56.need this into the four foot. All of the hours of work in the gym paying

:51:57. > :51:59.off. Excellent sweeping can take it a lot further than it would do

:52:00. > :52:05.without any sweeping. It did not quite have enough. We would have

:52:06. > :52:13.liked to have seen that biting the top of the blue, as we see in the

:52:14. > :52:20.picture there. This has now given the USA the opportunity to better

:52:21. > :52:28.that draw of Michael Goodfellow's there. But this one as well, looks

:52:29. > :52:36.like they are going to have to work at it. Hard! It certainly is taking

:52:37. > :52:45.a big girl. We are going to catch the top -- curl. A little nudge for

:52:46. > :52:50.the British stone as well. Dave Murdoch should just leave that

:52:51. > :52:56.alone. These two yellow stone 's at the front of house will cause in the

:52:57. > :53:01.bother. I do not think he can manage the double Peel, just the single

:53:02. > :53:06.peel. Again, that is just looking at the edge of it, removing your

:53:07. > :53:13.shooter and removing the yellow stone that you have hit.

:53:14. > :53:23.Well played. Fairly straightforward shot for Scott Andrews. I know when

:53:24. > :53:27.we were coming in this morning, chatting to one or two of the

:53:28. > :53:32.support staff, almost apologising for the nature of the British win

:53:33. > :53:36.against Switzerland. Saying that it was not the most enthralling match.

:53:37. > :53:39.You and I were saying, it does not matter, it is a win. Even though

:53:40. > :53:45.they have control of this one very early, I would quite like to see a

:53:46. > :53:56.nice pouring into this. I assure the guys would, no dramas -- a nice

:53:57. > :54:01.boring end to this. No mistakes. The USA boys feel this has not been

:54:02. > :54:06.delivered well. They are not going to beat themselves up to try and

:54:07. > :54:11.sweep it further than they can. They actually wanted that stone in the

:54:12. > :54:22.house. Once again, we are going to try and

:54:23. > :54:45.peel off this front American shot. Starting to feel a sense of

:54:46. > :54:51.resignation on the American team. I suppose, the one little mistake from

:54:52. > :54:57.Britain is what they need. They need something to lift them, to give them

:54:58. > :55:02.a little bit of hope. It is important that as straightforward as

:55:03. > :55:12.some of these shots are, they give it the Jura tension. -- there are

:55:13. > :55:13.due attention. Look at the statistics there between Greg

:55:14. > :55:30.Drummond and Jeff Isaacson. We hear the boys calling 9-10 and

:55:31. > :55:37.that is a zone. As it hits the red. The button is zone seven. That has

:55:38. > :55:43.firmly dug in considering the boys were shouting zone nine. It has got

:55:44. > :55:48.to be hard for the skip. If they are not calling it right either... Very

:55:49. > :55:57.much so. The skip is taking direction from what the sweepers are

:55:58. > :56:05.calling. This does give us the opportunity to move some granite at

:56:06. > :56:12.the front here. We would like to... Good result. That is an excellent

:56:13. > :56:16.result. Well done, Greg Drummond. Things are looking good. Written

:56:17. > :56:22.leading 4-2. With the hammer in this one, a few more stones to go. HAZEL

:56:23. > :56:26.IRVINE: The curling continues on the red button. Lizzy Yarnold has taken

:56:27. > :56:30.a giant step towards the goal. It has been a great morning up at the

:56:31. > :56:35.Sankey sliding track. She went number two and she has ended number

:56:36. > :56:41.one after two runs at the halfway stage. She leads by almost half a

:56:42. > :56:45.second. Shelley Rudman is in 11th place right now.

:56:46. > :56:49.Elise Christie has become the first British woman to reach an Olympic

:56:50. > :56:57.short track speed skating final. Watch her go for it in the 500m in a

:56:58. > :57:02.few minutes time on BBC One. James Woods defied a hip injury to

:57:03. > :57:07.shine in the slopestyle skiing. He missed out on a medal. He was there.

:57:08. > :57:14.The gold went Joss Christensen. A great effort from Woodsy.

:57:15. > :57:19.And a reminder of the look and feel of the rest of this day, day six.

:57:20. > :57:26.You have got Elise Christie in the short track women's 500m final at

:57:27. > :57:30.12:10pm. Russia's ice hockey men, their first match, dude anticipation

:57:31. > :57:44.about that. They will play Slovakia. At 4pm, you must see this, the loose

:57:45. > :57:51.urine luge relay. -- the luge relay. Figure skating, another great

:57:52. > :58:00.Russian hope for gold. It is all happening today. The highlights at

:58:01. > :58:03.7:30pm. Woodsy, it was certainly great style from him, Lizzy Yarnold

:58:04. > :58:08.in pole position, Elise Christie still to go for it on BBC One in ten

:58:09. > :58:11.minutes time. Happy days at the games. Catch you tomorrow. Goodbye

:58:12. > :58:16.for now.