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Good afternoon and welcome back to Sochi and to the Iceberg Skating

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Palace. Yesterday this was an arena for beauty, elegance and grace.

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Today it has been transformed into a race track and the Winter Olympics

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version of the fast and the furious. There is a fall, they have all gone!

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And he will be the Olympic gold medallist! It is a race track that

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is going to have a Brit in the final. If you were watching earlier,

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you will know that Elise Christie has won through to the final of the

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women's 500 metres final, the first woman to do so. If she were to win a

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medal, she would be the first Briton to do so. Her best event is the 1000

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metres. This is how she got through. Three Chinese skaters against Elise

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Christie and it is the first two that will go through. Not a

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particularly good start from Christie. There is a fall. One

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skater has gone already, one of the big favourites. Elise Christie is

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looking very good indeed. She is tapping the rhythm out and this will

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be very hard. She is fully inspired as we are into the back straight.

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She has put the other two to the sword. Within a lap of getting

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through to the final. Christie, she runs through to the line. She may

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finish second, but that is good enough to see her into the final.

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There is the result confirmed. We are waiting to see if Christie can

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make her way to the final. She is in brilliant shape, let's find out more

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about a 23-year-old Scot who might be about to get a lot more famous.

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Elise Christie, British Short track. To be top of the game, you need to

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sacrifice everything. Just before the race, I was thinking about

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things that could go wrong, things that could happen. Putting a lot of

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pressure on myself for those things not to happen. I was becoming a bit

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panicky. It is easier to get rid of the pressure and think, I haven't

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done it before. I have never won an Olympic medal, I have never been in

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an Olympic final, so anything I can do above quarterfinal level is going

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to be an achievement. Everyone is saying that I am a medal hope. But I

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could fall over in the first round and that could be my Olympics over.

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Unfortunately not always the strongest people win.

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Yes, Elise Christie in the final of the women's 500 metres. The first

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British woman to make a short track final. Were she to win a medal, it

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would be the first British woman to do that. The B final will be up

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shortly, for the athletes who finished third and fourth. A slight

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delay at the moment. How exciting is this, how big a moment for short

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track? How big a moment? It is absolutely massive. We have been

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speculating. Nicky Gooch got himself a bronze medal a long time ago in

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Albertville. In fact, Lillehammer in 1994. He actually got through to the

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final of the 1000 as well but he got disqualified. For the lady speed

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skating, it is sensational. This event made its inception in

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Albertville in 1992. When you look through the results, which have been

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dominated by America, Canada and China, a bog area got this over in

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Salt Lake City and Torino. -- a Bulgarian got the silver. And

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Fontana has got a bronze. But they are the only intruders and Elise

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Christie has a big chance. Not only that, she has done a superb lane

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draw in that final. The start position of three. I am going to

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call her for a medal, absolutely. So am I, I would like to get a medal.

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Four skaters in the podium contest and we will be rooting for the 23

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old from Livingston in Scotland. -- 23-year-old. Last year she was

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ranked number one in the 1000, she hasn't had a great season this year.

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Crashes and one or two problems but I think that has played into her

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hands because she has put her form together and hasn't been the

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pressure on her, if she had come here as number one in the 1000. What

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has also been good and well-balanced is the way the team have been

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handling the processes going into these games. They are introducing

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the skaters to the line, ready for the B final. Called to the line

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first is Liu of China, the overall winner of the World Cup for 2012.

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Alongside home will be St-Gelais who won the silver in this event at the

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last Olympics. She also got a silver in the relay. Alongside her will be

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Ter Mors, 24 years old from the Netherlands. The current European

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champion. Completing the line-up here in the minor final will be,

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just 20 years of age, also from China, second overall in the World

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Cup contest that has just finished. They are called to the start, this

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is the minor final for the classification places from fifth to

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eighth. We are away, no. , right on the front is Liu of China. -- there

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were no false starts. A gap to St-Gelais, the Canadian. As they

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come around here, it is Liu of China who is leading. Second is Ter Mors,

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the European champion. This is where it gets critical with one and a half

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laps to go. There is no change at the front. Liu of China from Ter

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Mors of the Netherlands. It looks like Ter Mors might try to get

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through to the front. But no, that is how it finishes. The wind goes to

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Liu who finishes fifth in the competition -- the win goes to.

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There you can see how important the lane position is. In lane number one

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she has the shortest run, and the Chinese skater really used that to

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her advantage. St-Gelais in second place, really being squeezed I Ter

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Mors and the Chinese girl on the inside. Coming out of the last

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turn, going to the line, it might be that the Chinese skater on the

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outside... Yes, Fan has come through and pushed Ter Mors out of second

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place. A 124 China in the B final. With the Dutch data, Ter Mors in

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third. -- the Dutch skater. Now, then, stand-by the excitement. There

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is Elise Christie, already waiting for the call to the line. This is

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going to be some contest, there will be no charitable hand-outs. We are

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getting near to the dice on the ice for the three podium positions. From

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what I have seen from Elise Christie, she is in the form of her

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life and she will attack this with unbridled passion. She wants a

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medal. They are waiting for the call to the line. First of all it will be

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the 21-year-old Korean who got two bronze medals in Vancouver. She is

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going to get enhanced now. As a matter of fact her brother is also

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skating here. She is waiting to put her helmet on and. On the inside. It

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is Park Seung-Hi of Korea. Right alongside her, representing Italy,

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will be the bronze medal winner at this event four years ago, and she

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got bronze in the relay into Reno, Arianna Fontana of Italy. A former

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European champion -- in Turin. Andrew presenting Great Britain, 23

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years of age, former world ranked number one for the 1000, Elise

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Christie. And completing the line-up here for China is Jianrou Li.

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They are calming their nerves. Christie is getting ready to embrace

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the challenge. She is teeing herself up for a tilt at a podium position.

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For an half laps of the Iceberg Skating Palace. -- four and a half

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laps. Elise Christie needs to get a good start. We are away first time.

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No, we are not. Full art. I thought they were going to let them go. -- a

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false start. Who was culpable? I think it was the Korean skater, Park

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Seung-Hi. In lane number one, you can just see her moving. Yes, the

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adrenaline rush... The nerves are twitching now. All of the skaters

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are only allowed one. The -- allowed one false start. Christie looks

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relaxed and calm. She has just had a warning. For the second time of

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asking, the ladies 500 metres... And away cleanly this time. And Park

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Seung-Hi of Korea gets the front position. Fontana has been

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overhauled. They have gone down, they have all gone down, there is

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only one skater left standing, Li Jianrou of China. Now they are

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skating for the medals, Christie is in second place. She comes storming

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through, she will try to claim the silver medal. She was being chased

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by Fontana of Italy. The win will go to Li Jianrou of China. Fontana has

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almost bridged out to Christie as they come around for the silver and

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bronze medals. The gold medal goes to Li Jianrou. Elise Christie,

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coming up to the line, she takes the silver medal. History has been made

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here. We wait to see what result will stand but it was a great skate

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by Kirsty, she recovered, she got up off the eyes and finished in second.

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-- great skate by Christie. The question is, what is going to happen

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to Elise Christie, she charged down the inside. It was a battle between

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Fontana and Christie. She was just talking to Nicky Gooch, the coach.

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Do you think that decision will stand? It will be very tight indeed.

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We hope the result is going to stand. It is on the board. I really

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fear the worst. We can see it again. The start was clean, coming out of

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that first bend. Christie charges down the inside. There was not an

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awful lot of room. Crashed straight into Fontana. You think Christie

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could end fourth? I think she may receive a penalty which would be

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such a shame. She is skating so well. Park Seung-Hi from Korea, I

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don't think they touched her. I think Christie's hand might have

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caught the left side. Marginal, surely, it looked as though she went

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down of her own volition. Quickly recovered and went down again. I

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don't think Fontana and Christie touched her. But Li Jianrou, they

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were ceremonial laps of honour for her. All of the coaches on the side

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protest in. The Italians feel like they have been completely penalised.

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The electronic scoreboard in front of us, it is not confirmed on the

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screen yet, it is showing that Christie has been penalised and

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placed fourth. There it is, how sad is that? Ariana Fontana elevates

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herself one place higher than Vancouver. I think the sport needs

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to review its rules and regulations for instances like this. When

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something happens so early on in the race, it makes the end result of the

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race not really badly. You are absolutely right there. Well, such

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disappointment. History has been made, of course, because Elise

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Christie is the first British ladies' skater ever since the

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event's inception in 1992 to make it into a final. Discussions going on

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with Nicky Gooch. He is questioning it, but the referee's decision is

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final. The decision has been made but sometimes it is nice if the

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coach has an understanding of why something has happened. I said at

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the top of the commentary that Christie would attack it with

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unbridled passion and I also said there would be no charitable

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hand-outs. Rather sadly, there is no charity there and that collision has

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been assessed and looked at and the upshot of it is is Christie has been

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penalised and sadly, after finishing second, she has had to settle for

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fourth place. I suppose if we can draw anything from it, her former

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sensational and she looks to me to be in the unequivocal form of her

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life. When she moves on to a greater distance, 1,000m, her speciality,

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she must be in with an incredibly good chance of getting a medal.

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Absolutely. The whole build-up to these Olympic Games, she has been so

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relaxed, you even mentioned it on the start line, and I am concerned

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she may have panicked a little bit. There was still four laps of the

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race to go. Yes, a great disappointment. We thought at least

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Elise Christie would be on the podium with that silver medal but,

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rather sadly, she has been penalised. So the official result is

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the gold medal going to Li Jianrou of China, the silver going to

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Arianna Fontana of Italy and the bronze going to Park Seung-Hi. And

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sadly, Elise Christie, having to settle for fourth. I think we will

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still hear a lot more about Elise Christie in the next two events.

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JONATHAN EDWARDS: Massive disappointment for Elise Christie.

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We have just seen the British disappointment for Elise Christie.

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We have just seen short track skating teams filing past with glum

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looks on their faces. We had a great view from here and it did look like

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she had no track to go on and it probably was the right decision, but

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nonetheless, a great disappointment. But not her strongest event, she

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looks in great nick in the 1,000m and we will hear from her when she

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has recovered from disappointment. Now a slight change of atmosphere

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and pace, we after the Ice Cube, the curling, Dave Murdoch are against

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the US, in the last and, Steve Cram and Jackie standing by -- in the

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last end. STEVE CRAM: A really difficult

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situation for the Americans. They had been in this situation all

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afternoon. Party their own fold, partly their own strategy and shot

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execution, but by and large, good play from Great Britain. Dave

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Murdoch and his team have responded really well right from the off,

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controlled this all the way through. So although America have the last

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stone in this end, not many options here. Even if they manage to take

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one here as they move into the last, the hammer would be back with Great

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Britain. JACKIE LOCKHART: yes, John Schuster

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shaking his head, not sure what to play. He is trying to get the two

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out of this, but at the moment, I am not seeing it happen -- wrote John

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Shuster. They finally made their mind up after a lot of discussion.

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They could have done with some of that earlier today, but you can tell

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just by the look on John Shuster's face, he doesn't have a lot of faith

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in the ability to rescue this situation. I think he's just going

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to hit some of the shots and roll into what he the pocket. -- what he

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calls. Just looks like he isn't playing with any conviction, like he

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doesn't think they can rescue this. He was hoping to sit in front of the

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two red stones. Sir David will sit in front on his own two, he has

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another one on the back as well. Just almost sitting left of Greg

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Drummond's brush there would be a fantastic shot. Whatever the

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outcome, as long as he removes this, he will be forcing the USA to

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only try and get one. They will go down the last two up. He has called

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the guys off and then back on. A bit straight. On and off, on and off, it

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must have been close, but they needed to let it come a little bit

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more. Well, he can take one here. Yes, if we think positively about

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this, at the end of the day, the outcome is you have forced the one

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and in any other match committee would be quite happy you had forced

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your opposition into a one and Yuko into the final end -- and you go

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into the final end with the hammer. A slightly forlorn situation. If he

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takes the one, Mohammed transfers to Great Britain in the final end

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coming up -- the hammer transfers. So just the one to the USA. And that

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is about as much they could have hoped for in the end. Not even a

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glimmer of a smile. He knows that although that has reduced the

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deficit by one, it really hasn't changed the situation in the match.

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Great Britain on top since the very beginning and after nine ends, still

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a two shot lead with the last stone advantage in the last. They jumped

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out to a three shot lead when America had the hammer in the first

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three ends, didn't use it at all. The USA didn't score until the

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fourth and even then, they just gave one up. A hello to the Russian

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crowds. They haven't had a lot to cheer. The Russian men on the sheet,

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right over the far side from the one we are playing on, they are

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currently 6-3 down to Switzerland and Switzerland needed that win.

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European champions, lost to Great Britain, of course, last night. The

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winds are getting crucial for all team -- the victories are getting

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crucial for all teams. Canada are currently leading against Denmark

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and a real ding-dong battle between Norway and Sweden on the sheet next

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to this match here. We just need Britain to finish this

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off now. It doesn't even cross. Another error. To be honest, their

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lead is the one who hasn't been that bad, but even he is finding it

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difficult to come into this with any real enthusiasm in the last end. I

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can't believe they have been like this, their demeanour has been

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terrible. OK, so they went three down in the first three ends, but at

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halfway, they went out of the match at all. We said it earlier, like

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they are almost here for a holiday and not actually to win a medal. I

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have not really been impressed by their demeanour or their outlook

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here today. I am sure they haven't been, but they just don't give the

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impression that this means a lot to them.

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This one really has to stop out of the house. That is OK. So, I would

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quite like to give a little shout out to the people back home, I have

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been asked to emphasise that I have all week being encouraging people to

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go onto the trycurling website to find their Locust, and I am hearing

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there are not many in the South -- to find their local ones. That is in

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Sheffield. That might be south to you, it is in the North of England!

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I am in Aberdeen. We have been hearing this from other countries,

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the opportunities that the Olympics offers with the sports, particularly

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in Asia, where the sport is grown quickly. Great Britain's women, they

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beat China today and they play against Japan and Korea next, the

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sports are really growing there and it would be nice to see more people

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playing back home. So Dave Murdoch asking Scott Andrews to remove this

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stone from the front of the house. So just no mistakes here, you have

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the last stone advantage to take the guards away. Doesn't matter if they

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don't score at all in this end, they are leading and nothing silly, just

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concentrate each shot and, seriously, almost half-hearted

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efforts, and I'm not trying to be overly critical, but they seemed to

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give this match up almost if not after the fifth end, then certainly

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the last two or three. They have just played too many push-ups. I

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think you would agree, Jackie -- to many who poor shots. Not playing to

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their strengths. Yes, I would reiterate that. Not taking anything

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away from the team of Great Britain, these boys have been performing very

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well and look like they will be just building up to full strength in time

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for, hopefully, matches at a later stage. Just saw a broom described it

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there by Jeff Isaacson, I don't know if it was a fit of pique, but he has

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gone then the other end -- a broom discarded. He has picked up another,

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so maybe he wasn't happy with the brush. I think he has been sliding

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with that brush all the game I think once you start sliding with the

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brush, you must use that brush all the time. He will sweep with the

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pad. Quite a lot of the teams do that.

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So once more, Dave Murdoch will ask Greg Drummond to take this guard

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away. You get the feeling he is loving this. If you look at the

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stats, Goodfellow today, 90%, Scott Andrews 94%, Greg Drummond, 90%.

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They can rip the skip, he is only 81%! That is great shooting. We are

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going to give Dave the benefit of the doubt here. Often, they will be

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left with the more technical shots. Sometimes you get a four and other

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times a complete zero. It might not be the most exciting game to in --

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the most exciting end to the game, but the hard work was done early.

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Like yesterday, they got a stranglehold in the match. It was

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tougher against Switzerland, they had to concentrate until the very

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end and Sven Michel, the Swiss skip, did his best to disrupt them until

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the very end. It has not been in evidence from John Shuster, the

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American skip. He has tried a couple of things, but not enough. It will

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be significant, all of the results this afternoon. Canada, the gold

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medal favourites, hot favourites in the men's competition, are in a real

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tussle with Denmark six. Canada do have the hammer, though. -- 6-6. I

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think a lot of eyes in the arena are accepting that this is over. We will

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be very happy with this performance from the British men. Almost going

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through the motions here. Yes, USA are kind of running out of stones

:31:12.:31:15.

here. Dave is probably going to clear the front one which will leave

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Shuster with no other option to bring it in the house. I expect Dave

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to ping one of them out and finish of this game. We have seen a couple

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of odd things happen. I keep mentioning the Russian skip, all she

:31:42.:31:46.

had to do was put a stone into an empty house to tie the match, she

:31:47.:31:50.

sent it all the way through. Funnier things have happened. I think David

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needs to apply himself here. That is good... I thought it was going to be

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a disaster... That is it because there is only one stone left for the

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OSA. It will be a great victory and a dominant victory for Great

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Britain. -- one stone left for the USA. It has put them into a strong

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standing, four wins from five matches. America, never in this.

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They had a hammer to begin with, they did not use it at all. Britain

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jumped to a lead and from then it was a case of controlling the match,

:32:36.:32:40.

which they did superbly well. All of them playing top-class curling. And

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never gave the Americans a chance of getting back into it.

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So, David Murdoch, all smiles and why not? Great Britain winning 5-3

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against the USA. David Murdoch and his boys

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progressing nicely to what we hope will be the final stages and a tilt

:33:11.:33:14.

at the medals. We just saw a tilt at the medals in the women's 500 metres

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short track, in the Iceberg Skating Palace. Elise Christie skater

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Brindley to get to the final. However -- brilliantly. However, it

:33:23.:33:29.

did not quite work out the way that she hoped and planned. She came down

:33:30.:33:32.

the straight, she looked for a gap which really was not there. As a

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result she was disqualified. She picked herself up but there was no

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medal for Elise Christie and no medal for Team GB. Afterwards she

:33:42.:33:43.

spoke to Jason Mohammad. medal for Team GB. Afterwards she

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spoke to Jason Hard lines, everybody has their own opinion of what

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happened. What happened from your viewpoint? It was chaos. I knew that

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the Chinese girl would try to come at the end so I didn't want to be

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doing the attacking. I had the speed, I moved up. Unfortunately the

:34:06.:34:10.

girl hit me off my feet and that meant I hate everyone else as I went

:34:11.:34:17.

down. It is how it goes, it is a 50-50 call and the referee made his

:34:18.:34:21.

decision. My opinion is different but everyone will have different

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opinions. That is the way short track is. You saw the gap and you

:34:25.:34:31.

went for it? There was a little gap, I knew I had more speed at that

:34:32.:34:35.

point and I had to use it when I had it because I didn't want to be in

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third. I used my instinct and unfortunately I am regretting that,

:34:41.:34:44.

wishing I sat in front and took a medal. I went for the win and that

:34:45.:34:50.

is the way it went. You got back up, you are in silver medal position, I

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think you had that in your hands for about three minutes I made it. When

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you went to your coach, did you think you would be penalised? No...

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I thought she had hit me. I was not sure whether it was going to go my

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Way or hers. Short track is always a 50-50 chance. I didn't think it was

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going to be me but it was and you have to respect the referee's

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decision. In your heart, do you think it was the wrong decision? I

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haven't watched it, I can't really comment. During the race I thought I

:35:31.:35:36.

was in front. It always looks different to how it feels. I don't

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really want to comment but I respect the decision and I can't change

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that. You have done so well to get here and in the build-up you looked

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so relaxed and focused. Skating so beautifully. I was really relaxed

:35:48.:35:53.

today, just with it not being my main event. When I made the final I

:35:54.:35:57.

was just happy and relaxed and chilled out. If it was the 1000

:35:58.:36:02.

metres you would probably have seen a different skater. Unfortunately,

:36:03.:36:06.

short track, can't do anything about it. What did Nicky say to you? When

:36:07.:36:12.

he watched the video he didn't think I should have been penalised. But

:36:13.:36:18.

everyone has a different opinion. You have the 1000 and 1500 to go.

:36:19.:36:23.

Yes, I will use the next day to get my head back together and then go

:36:24.:36:28.

for it. The whole of the country is behind you, I am sure you have every

:36:29.:36:35.

sympathy. Hard lines today. What Jason said is right, the whole

:36:36.:36:42.

country is behind her. The 1500 is our best chance, she is the reigning

:36:43.:36:49.

European champion. She showed a she is in medal form, she is in

:36:50.:36:57.

fantastic condition. Lizzy Yarnold is our best chance of the gold medal

:36:58.:37:03.

and it will come up at the Sanki Sliding Center.

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Who better to give us the inside track than the defending champion,

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BBC's Amy Williams? Here we are at the Sanki Sliding

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Center. It is a track that is 1500 metres long, 17 corners. It has been

:37:45.:37:49.

made beautifully, it is the best track I have ever seen. This start

:37:50.:37:54.

is beautiful. It is long and flat. The athletes will have to decide the

:37:55.:37:58.

crucial point when to load onto their sled. It is designed for the

:37:59.:38:03.

Russians because they are very good starters, especially in the men's

:38:04.:38:07.

field. The push is really important, and to continue that

:38:08.:38:11.

through the first few corners. You don't want to lose any time you just

:38:12.:38:15.

want to keep the power from the start. As of corner five, this is

:38:16.:38:20.

where the technical bit of the track starts. We have three uphill

:38:21.:38:27.

sections in this track which are really unique, no other track has

:38:28.:38:31.

had that before. One of them comes out of this corner. You don't notice

:38:32.:38:36.

it when the athletes go down how steep this is, but you notice it and

:38:37.:38:42.

if they are lying on the ice, they will see the uphill. It is important

:38:43.:38:46.

they don't move around on their sled because they will be skidding. If

:38:47.:38:52.

you hit a wall here, you are wasting a lot of time. Pretty steep on the

:38:53.:39:01.

way down here, a 19% drop out of the seventh corner. A big corner, Number

:39:02.:39:09.

ten, four .5 it is really hard to see what the

:39:10.:39:22.

corner looks like. This is corner 12 and 13. Into 14. Vital, the athletes

:39:23.:39:28.

will probably take a clip on the left to align themselves but four

:39:29.:39:38.

corners left. Keep that speed. Precision is vital, aerodynamics is

:39:39.:39:47.

really important. Exit 17, finish line just there. Hopefully, if

:39:48.:39:50.

everything has gone to plan, you will get over in a Rudiger time for

:39:51.:39:54.

the bit as a technical track, it is beautiful, the ice is wonderful and

:39:55.:39:59.

I have high hopes for the Team GB medal winners.

:40:00.:40:08.

As easy as that, not! I saw that Mark Cavendish tweeted saying how

:40:09.:40:16.

impressed he was at the speed. If he is impressed, you know it is very

:40:17.:40:20.

fast. If you were not up early this month, this is what happened in the

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first and second runs. COMMENTATORS: We don't know what

:40:23.:40:34.

sort of shape Pikus-Pace is in. Her training has been spasmodic to say

:40:35.:40:39.

the least but she is a former world champion, fourth in the last Olympic

:40:40.:40:46.

Games, she can slide. Amy, you were a great starter in your time. There

:40:47.:40:51.

is a chance to make it up down the track, especially with the uphill

:40:52.:40:58.

sections. Yes, she will be ready happy. Rumours that she has been ill

:40:59.:41:02.

so she has only been on the track a few times. So far a solid looking

:41:03.:41:06.

run. A tiny skid in the tricky section. The exit of nine through to

:41:07.:41:15.

ten. You don't have quite as much control as the lugers. You have got

:41:16.:41:24.

to get that position right and get your sled set up perfectly. She has

:41:25.:41:28.

had a few skids, it is a bit out of control. I think she will be more

:41:29.:41:32.

nervous than the others from the lack of training runs. She set the

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target and she will be pleased with that, it is a track record to start

:41:40.:41:43.

off with so the ice must be in tremendous condition. The ice is

:41:44.:41:47.

amazing, this track is the best I have ever seen. British spectators

:41:48.:41:53.

might be wondering who Elisabeth Yarnold is. She has been around for

:41:54.:41:58.

a few years, she has already won a world championship. She has already

:41:59.:42:03.

won four World Cups and now she is going for Olympic gold. She won the

:42:04.:42:08.

World Cup season after this powers dark, that is Truman does. It is

:42:09.:42:16.

even quicker than the old record. Yarnold has powered it. Nothing

:42:17.:42:22.

conservative. She has given it all. Her form is perfect. Heads down,

:42:23.:42:28.

shoulders down, feet together, so much more aerodynamic and so far,

:42:29.:42:34.

clean lines. Out of seven through eight. Over a quarter of a second up

:42:35.:42:38.

on her number one rival, this is unbelievable. Unbelievable from

:42:39.:42:44.

Lizzy, she has nailed her training, she has so much confidence and you

:42:45.:42:49.

can see that through here, perfect. She lost a bit of time through 11 to

:42:50.:42:55.

14, she is still over two tenths up. Two tenths in the lead and 58.86 to

:42:56.:43:02.

beat. She has done it by a quarter of a second. 58.43, another track

:43:03.:43:09.

record. This competition has got off to a blistering start. She was going

:43:10.:43:15.

to be happy with that, she took a clip above corner 11, it is an

:43:16.:43:18.

uphill sections that is an area that could have lost her time. The tap is

:43:19.:43:23.

probably better in skeleton than trying to make a steer. Shelley

:43:24.:43:27.

Rudman, the best-known of British lied is at the moment, she has been

:43:28.:43:32.

around for quite some time -- best-known of British sliders. She

:43:33.:43:40.

gets a silver medal in 2006. Here we go. She starts her Olympic campaign

:43:41.:43:51.

here. She gets away well. Anything close to 5.10 will be good. She is

:43:52.:43:57.

only given away the best part of two tenths. We know that this is a long

:43:58.:44:03.

track and it gives someone of Shelley's experience the time to

:44:04.:44:10.

reel back in Yarnold. She doesn't have the momentum from that start,

:44:11.:44:13.

she will have the ready work it down the bottom. Between corners five and

:44:14.:44:19.

15 is the re-technical part, you have got to nail those lines, that

:44:20.:44:24.

is where you will get the speed to carry on -- the really technical

:44:25.:44:28.

part. She has struggled in these uphill sections in training but she

:44:29.:44:34.

is looking good so far. Through 14, backed up the hill, she took a clip.

:44:35.:44:39.

She will have lost some speed and she will not trouble Yarnold now.

:44:40.:44:44.

Shelley Rudman is coming through, and just finishing in third place.

:44:45.:44:55.

She is behind Pikus-Pace. It was a disappointing run for Shelley

:44:56.:45:03.

Rudman. She took the same clip out of corner 11 but it affected her

:45:04.:45:06.

more, she was pinged across onto the other side of the wall and that

:45:07.:45:12.

would have slowed her down. Lizzy Yarnold leading, Nikitina in second

:45:13.:45:19.

and Pikus-Pace in third. It is a Briton who lives. Shelley Rudman of

:45:20.:45:25.

Great Britain, supported ably by her husband. Usually a good starter. And

:45:26.:45:38.

this time, she has started well. You can see she is already doing little

:45:39.:45:43.

head movements, bringing her down into the first corner correctly.

:45:44.:45:47.

Shelley has an advantage over Flock of just 100th of a second. Let me

:45:48.:45:55.

bring in Amy Williams, former team-mate and Olympic gold

:45:56.:46:00.

medallist. Shelley has just lost a little bit there to Flock out of the

:46:01.:46:05.

start. A little bit. Shelley is getting better and better every run,

:46:06.:46:08.

she is leading the track more and you only get a limited amount of

:46:09.:46:14.

time on it. We never know, the ice conditions could be slowing as

:46:15.:46:19.

well. Yes, she has gone ahead by a hundredth of a second. Can't afford

:46:20.:46:25.

a mistake there. She is keeping clean lines in these parts and she

:46:26.:46:29.

has corrected the mistake. She is learning with every single run. And

:46:30.:46:36.

she has improved. Seven hundredths of a second, absolutely superb by

:46:37.:46:44.

Shelley Rudman. That means she stays in exactly the same place for the

:46:45.:46:49.

time being. That is great for Shelley, you never want to be

:46:50.:46:52.

shifting down positions, you always want to be creeping up, so she will

:46:53.:47:06.

be really happy with that. Pica -- Pikus-Pace third at the moment. This

:47:07.:47:10.

is one of the athletes that will be pressuring Yarnold for the gold

:47:11.:47:15.

medal. She is not a brilliant starter but she is so big and

:47:16.:47:18.

powerful and has such good aerodynamic form. She has gone

:47:19.:47:24.

behind Uhlaender by three hundredths. It is by how much she

:47:25.:47:34.

extends away that is the question. She and Lizzy Yarnold very similar

:47:35.:47:37.

sliders, lying with the weight behind them. Obviously, being the

:47:38.:47:45.

bigger, heavier girl if you take and Cora Tapp, you will slow down more

:47:46.:47:48.

quickly, but so far, a really good run -- a knock or a tap. Still up.

:47:49.:47:57.

Accelerating down the last part of the track. This is genetic. --

:47:58.:48:08.

dramatic. Pikus-Pace ran well. She brought back a quarter of a second

:48:09.:48:11.

through the final two bands. She flies through the air brilliantly,

:48:12.:48:14.

the fastest top speed we have seen so far. One athlete to go, the aim,

:48:15.:48:25.

another track record. Gets down in the perfect driving position and she

:48:26.:48:28.

goes. And is she going to break the track record? Not quite, but you can

:48:29.:48:36.

see the advantage she has over Pikus-Pace already, over four

:48:37.:48:42.

tenths. She annihilated the start up Pikus-Pace. -- the start of. Over

:48:43.:48:56.

half a second after bend too. Perfect lines here, strong and

:48:57.:48:59.

aerodynamic. They do a lot of work in wind tunnels are affecting that

:49:00.:49:03.

position. So far, this is an unbelievable run. The best run we

:49:04.:49:07.

have had so far, but can she keep it up? Ahead of everybody at the

:49:08.:49:13.

moment, that is brilliant. As long as she doesn't take a big hit. A

:49:14.:49:19.

little tap there, she may lose a few fractions, but no more than a tenth

:49:20.:49:23.

of a second. Half a second upcoming to the line. No point for four ahead

:49:24.:49:30.

-- zero point 0.44 ahead of anyone else in the

:49:31.:49:54.

world. Shelley Rudman is in 11th place, she moved up one place. My

:49:55.:50:00.

goodness, what excitement we have had this morning. Ideally, going

:50:01.:50:04.

into the second day, I would be second or third so poorly run

:50:05.:50:08.

tomorrow, I wouldn't be the first to go. That can always be tricky if you

:50:09.:50:11.

have any track delays, being the first one up, so it is something I

:50:12.:50:15.

had to contend with tomorrow, but really, therefore -- the race is

:50:16.:50:22.

only halfway through, so just back to the drawing board with the

:50:23.:50:24.

coach, talking about lines and how we can improve it tomorrow.

:50:25.:50:32.

JONATHAN EDWARDS: And you can see those final two runs tomorrow live

:50:33.:50:39.

with us from Sochi from 3:30pm. Put that in your diary. It could be Team

:50:40.:50:44.

GB's first gold medal. If Lizzy Yarnold's start has been perfect, it

:50:45.:50:50.

has been anything but for Eve Muirhead and the curlers. They have

:50:51.:50:54.

played three and lost too, albeit close matches. They are in action

:50:55.:50:58.

against China, we join it at the 10th end, it is 7-7, incredibly

:50:59.:51:03.

tense once again. Jackie Lockhart and Steve Cram describing the

:51:04.:51:06.

action. JACKIE LOCKHART: asking her team to

:51:07.:51:14.

put out another centre guard. It is all she can do. Obviously, it is

:51:15.:51:18.

very difficult to steal in this last end and the way things are going,

:51:19.:51:21.

she will be hoping for some sort of mistake from Britain. They will keep

:51:22.:51:29.

taking them away. Wise words, just take your time.

:51:30.:51:44.

Plenty of time on the clock for Britain. Anna Sloan, just need three

:51:45.:51:50.

or four really accurate stones here and they can close this one out.

:51:51.:51:59.

They just left a stone in there. Just needs to calm herself down, she

:52:00.:52:10.

knows what is coming. It always is the case for the skip, a big shot,

:52:11.:52:15.

didn't go for it the other night. Evil try and take that back as far

:52:16.:52:39.

as she can. Trying to get her own stone while

:52:40.:52:59.

worrying -- Rather than worrying about the one at the back.

:53:00.:53:06.

That red stone China's shouldn't be an issue to her, because it is far

:53:07.:53:13.

back in the rings. Almost, it would have been nice to

:53:14.:53:28.

take both of the mad. There was a fair bit of distance between them

:53:29.:53:33.

but it was very close nonetheless -- both of them out.

:53:34.:53:41.

Anna Sloan saying the previous shot, she didn't realise it was going to

:53:42.:53:49.

stay and sit there. Not too much damage done. Going to try and better

:53:50.:54:00.

the draw of the previous player, coming behind this. Utilising that

:54:01.:54:07.

yellow at the front of the house as a guard.

:54:08.:54:24.

Not quite finishing for her, is it? Just sitting out there. And you can

:54:25.:54:39.

see Eve Muirhead deciding to just come and hit this and roll across.

:54:40.:54:48.

Just needs to stay calm now. This sort of situation is one she will

:54:49.:54:51.

have played many times and got the right result out of it. A couple of

:54:52.:54:58.

good shots now... She wants to play a controlled weight here and hold

:54:59.:55:06.

her shooter in play. Yes, important to leave the shooter in an account

:55:07.:55:16.

-- and count. So Eve Muirhead, the British skip, she has played really

:55:17.:55:18.

well today. Watching this all the way down. And

:55:19.:55:37.

that is a pretty good shot again from Eve Muirhead. That was a well

:55:38.:55:41.

delivered and well-controlled stone. It has been the story of the

:55:42.:55:46.

day, perhaps with the exception of the first end. Eve Muirhead has been

:55:47.:55:51.

coming up with the shots all through this match, well supported by her

:55:52.:55:56.

team. She has given herself every opportunity of closing this out.

:55:57.:56:00.

Yes, that is an excellent shot from Eve Muirhead. Betty couldn't afford

:56:01.:56:07.

to ignore that shot and draw another one in because she wouldn't have got

:56:08.:56:13.

a shot out of it behind that yellow crossing the four foot, so she is

:56:14.:56:17.

going to have do hope to hit this and get a roll across. But if she

:56:18.:56:21.

leaves any of it showing for Eve, she will have to do a similar shot

:56:22.:56:26.

again to take the end. These are the nervous moments, where the

:56:27.:56:32.

experience of having been through this only time scans. Both skips

:56:33.:56:40.

with workshops to play. -- having been through this another time

:56:41.:56:43.

counts. Looking pretty straight. She wanted it to come across. Did

:56:44.:56:55.

her best. She played a very good shot but she has left the whole of

:56:56.:56:59.

the four foot open for Eve. Feeling pretty confident that she has been

:57:00.:57:05.

playing well enough that we just have to draw the one to be fully in

:57:06.:57:15.

the four foot. Just has to finish in here, and she has the whole of that

:57:16.:57:25.

area to finishing. Just has to stay calm. This is the shot of skips. Eve

:57:26.:57:30.

Muirhead, with the pressure on again. This for the match, the last

:57:31.:57:38.

stone. Just needs to draw this in. Need the right weight. She is not

:57:39.:57:46.

saying anything. The girls seem to be in control of this. It looks good

:57:47.:57:51.

from here. Eve Muirhead has played a great match today and if she was

:57:52.:57:55.

responsible solely for that bigshot that didn't come up against Canada,

:57:56.:58:02.

she has redeemed herself. Well done, Eve Muirhead. Great shot from the

:58:03.:58:06.

British skip. It has been tied but they have been in control all the

:58:07.:58:10.

way through and they have closed it out, 8-7 -- it has been tight. They

:58:11.:58:16.

now have two wins and two losses, a really good win from the British

:58:17.:58:21.

team. That will lift them up, with two Games to come against Japan and

:58:22.:58:28.

Korea, the chance to put themselves in a good position in the round

:58:29.:58:31.

robin. JONATHAN EDWARDS: A really good win

:58:32.:58:34.

there for Eve Muirhead and that will build her confidence towards the

:58:35.:58:38.

latter stages of this competition. Mixed fortunes inside the iceberg

:58:39.:58:43.

Skating Palace. Elise Christie made history by becoming the first

:58:44.:58:46.

British short track skating woman to make a final, but she was

:58:47.:58:50.

disqualified in the final. But she looks fantastic for her strongest

:58:51.:58:55.

event at 1,000m. For now on BBC One, goodbye.

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