Day 7, Part 2 Winter Olympics

It is another cold one at the Winter Olympics. Remember Sesame Street,

the kids' show, slightly weird animals like the Cookie Monster, Big

Bird, Kermit the frog? Well, they started each show by saying, today's

programme is brought to you by the letter... Well, we hope that today's

coverage from Sochi is brought to you by the letter G for gold.

Lizzie Yarnold sitting in first place. In Sydney, five of our gold

medals were won by a combined time differential of just over 0.5

seconds. We will be live from 3:30pm with Lizzy Yarnold that the 40 PM.

-- at 3:40pm. We are heading back up to the mountains. To decide who is

the best all-round skier. Mauro Caviezel looking good out of

the start. He is carving well and creating good angles. This might be

good enough to give Switzerland provisional one, two. He is

struggling, boxing his way back into a balanced position, but the damage

is done. Again, same mistake. Just caught on the inside ski, could not

release the skis from underneath him. The skis too close together.

There is the leader. Sandro Viletta. The next is the Olympic super

combined champion, Bode Miller. He will have to attack, it is the only

chance he has of defending his title. He is in big trouble early

on. It is not working and when it does not work it happens pretty

fast. He can still ski boots slalom but he needs to have the right

conditions and he is not coping with this course at all well today. As he

managed to find any time in the middle part of the course -- has he?

We will have a new super come on and Olympic champion. The gold medallist

from four years ago has found the whole thing a little too tough.

Third for the moment. Sandro Viletta leads. Bode Miller does not like the

slushy conditions. He prefers it when it is icy so he can feel his

way onto the course. His feeling for the skis does not help him at all

when you have frozen/ / slush. Imagine if you were stood on

bathroom Scales and you dropped down your weight, that is under waiting.

He will turn his attention to the super-G on Sunday.

The leader is Sandro Viletta from Switzerland. Adam Zampa is second

with Bode Miller third. Beat Feuz on the hill. It is looking

a little sluggish. His slalom days are behind him. He is good at high

speed downhill racing. He is going to finish. Adam Zampa still in

second and he put down a thunderous slalom challenge and Bode Miller has

skied into third. No luck today for Beat Feuz. Action for him on Sunday.

Dominik Paris is next to fight his way through the early stages of this

slalom course. He has already got them sideways and climbing back

uphill. Not a good start. We were comparing the physiology of the

skiers to rugby players, very powerful athletes, and this is kind

of like watching a front row forward finding the ball and trying to run

down the wing at speed. It is not working for him.

Sandro Viletta in the lead. They will be happy to see Dominik Paris

ski like this because there is no danger to Sandro Viletta. The gold

is whether Sandro Viletta, the silver is with Adam Zampa. He

punched the air when he made it to the finish. Look at his recovery. He

is smiling about it. This is the man who won called four years ago. He is

struggling with the deteriorating course at the top. Having to deal

with a lot of slush. He skis like a giant slalom skier. He lacks the

explores of -- explosiveness needed. If we did not have the restriction

of the fact that it is such a steep hill, then it would have favoured

him. He is not quick enough on his feet. He will defend his Olympic

giant slalom next week. Sandro Viletta leads. Adam Zampa could be

end for a podium finish. -- could be in.

The fastest eight men have still to come. It is the time difference. It

is 1.14 the difference between Sandro Viletta and Adam Zampa. I can

see that Sandro Viletta has a good chance of ending up on the podium

full is the there are only two or three good slalom skiers left to ski

of the seven left to ski. Including Ivica Kostelic. Ivica Kostelic has

never won an Olympic gold. This could be his last chance before he

bows out. Silver medallist in the Olympic downhill. Christof

Innerhofer will ski the slalom in a similar quality to what we just saw

from Dominik Paris, his compatriot. Hopefully he will ski better than

them. Getting himself psyched up. Everything has changed, different

boots, different skis, different poles.

This is not bad. He is quick on his feet. Creating good angles. He is

really going for it. He has done well in super combined in the past.

Some tricky parts of the course approaching. Nice. He is just in

front. Come on! He might have skidded himself out of contention.

He is second. That was a very good slalom ski from Christof

Innerhofer. He can be very happy with that. He is an out and out

downhill specialist but he has maintained some slalom technique. He

probably only trains half a dozen days of slalom every year. He will

not train much in slalom. He is a downhill specialist. A parody of the

ski flip. That is Bode Miller's wife. Christof Innerhofer has just

skied into second. Ivica Kostelic's dad designed the course. It is cruel

attack right from the start. -- full attack. He is losing time. He did

not really attack. He has not had a great season, Ivica Kostelic. It is

all a little cautious and stiff, maybe there is too pressure on him.

Supporters are dumbfounded by what they have seen. Sandro Viletta knows

that is a very important moment, he holds onto first, Ivica Kostelic is

second. Christof Innerhofer is third. No podium for Adam Zampa.

Christof Innerhofer Steed exactly the same time as Ivica Kostelic in a

slalom. Ivica Kostelic is going to have to look at that and say, I

could have done better. That is his school report. Probably his final

chance of securing an Olympic gold medal. Matthias Mayer the Olympic

downhill champion still to come. Aksel Lund Svindal is less practised

than he was in 2008-2009. He is also heavier, having bulked up in the gym

to be faster in downhill. It is not helping in slalom.

Unable to make the most of this opportunity. He will have a really

good chance in Sunday's men's Super-G. Let us not forget the other

Norwegian, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. We don't know how well he skis

slalom. He has had some good results in the Europa cup in slalom. The two

established sections, Bode Miller and Aksel Lunk Svindal, failing to

make an impact. Sandro Viletta is getting closer to

a medal. The Swiss still leads the way. Ivica Kostelic is in second. We

have the five fastest man after the downhill to come. Max Franz of

Austria. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, an all-rounder. Matthias Mayer, the

all-rounder. Kjetil Jansrud is an unknown quantity in slalom committee

is the to ski. -- in slalom, he is the last to ski.

Max Franz is a good downhill skier, but you see he lacks the skills of

slalom to make an impact. His lead is just under a second. This is a

scrap from Max Franz. It really is, it doesn't have the same flow.

He is hacking the edges, hoping they will grip. So hard it is making him

slow. And unrefined slalom technique from

the Austrian. He now finds himself more than one second behind. Oh! A

pirouette out of the course. 360 from Max Franz. No damage done.

He managed to straddle that gate, I thought he was going to do a front

row. He ended up doing a pirouette, as you say. A pretty good recovery

from Max Franz. The letter macro is getting closer

to a medal for Switzerland. -- Sandro Viletta.

It is worth doing a bit of a warm up.

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is next to go, no relation to the great Kjetil

Andre. But he was given his name, in his honour. Here is the young

Norwegian. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, he is fourth fastest after the

downhill from this morning. And he is down. Oh, dear me. He did start

well for three gates. Looking for a way back in. With Matthias Mayer

next, you would think... As he comes down... He whips the snow but that

ski pole and goes chasing after the errant ski. I would suggest the

letter macro is now guaranteed a medal. It -- Viletta.

All ending rather unfortunately for Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, he never

really got going. Ondrej Bank is a good slalom skier.

You say that could be the first Czech mail medal. It could be gold.

The way we have seen almost half the field crash out, it could equally be

a trip into the nets. Three more to go. Matthias Mayer is the Olympic

downhill champion. His lead coming into the slalom section is 1.27

seconds. He has started OK, he clearly knows his way through a

slalom course. This reminds me of Christof Innerhofer. He is trying to

stay clean, over the ski. But he is not as quick off his edges. I think

Viletta is guaranteed a medal now. The course has been chewed up, this

soft, springlike snow. Viletta will be among the medals. That is

guaranteed. With just Ondrej Bank and Kjetil Jansrud to come. The

Olympic downhill champion has given it a really good attempt but ends up

in 11th. He knows he has an Olympic medal now, Viletta of Switzerland.

His biggest threat is the man next to ski, Ondrej Bank.

Ondrej Bank. No Czech male has won a gold. We saw a cross-country gold

for the women in Turin. Ondrej Bank has an excellent opportunity to

rewrite the Czech sporting record books. Look at his lead. 1.5 seconds

over Viletta. We know he is a good slalom skier. He needs to be

somewhere near his best on this tough, deteriorating course. This is

a nice, smooth, relaxing start. He has lost a couple of tenths on the

first part of the course. He is going to be about 7/10... Oh, no, he

has lost a lot of time. Viletta might be heading for the silver

metal -- medal. He is skiing cautious. He could end up

empty-handed here. It could be that Ivica Kostelic will be guaranteed a

medal with one to go. Innerhofer is third, he could be heading for his

second hurdle. Ondrej Bank has blown it, he is sick. -- his second medal.

Ondrej Bank really did not take any risk at all. You have got to take

risks in the skin otherwise you are not going to be up there. -- in

skiing. A disappointing run. You can't be

throwing your pole up like that, you could hit somebody. He did. He is

apologising. One more to come, Kjetil Jansrud.

He already has a medal from the Olympic downhill. He takes his turn

now. Starting 30th in the slalom stage of the super combined. Viletta

preparing for Switzerland's second gold medal.

Kjetil Jansrud, last to go. Not a bad slalom skier, has he got what it

takes to dethrone Viletta officers learned in gold medal position? Not

good. -- Viletta of Switzerland. The gold has gone. It is a question

of whether he can end up on the podium. Christof Innerhofer will be

waiting nervously, in third position.

I don't think it is going to happen now, I don't think there'll be any

change in the medals now. Ivica Kostelic is poised to take another

Olympic silver. Kjetil Jansrud finishes in fourth, outside of the

medals. The Olympic combined champion is Viletta, of Switzerland.

Christof Innerhofer adds another medal, bronze this time, to his

downhill silver. Ivica Kostelic takes the Olympic silver, as he did

four years ago in Vancouver. I think Innerhofer can be very happy with

his slalom performance, in the slalom. That is why he is so over

the moon, he can't believe it. Kjetil Jansrud was so close, bronze

in the downhill. But the worst possible position, forth today,

having led in the downhill stage. There is the man who will be

collecting a gold medal in Sochi. He came from a long way behind to do

it. Ivica Kostelic didn't think he would get anything after his

cautious slalom run. Innerhofer probably never even dream he would

be among the medals when he woke up this morning. It is Viletta's day in

the men's super combined. Celebrations for the Swiss. Another

gold medal to add to Gisin's gold medal. And another for Innerhofer.

What an Olympic Games. A bronze, a Silver, who knows he will complete

the set possibly with a gold in the Super-G on Sunday.

So, time for Viletta to start his round of interviews. Viletta is the

Olympic super combined champion, he takes the gold. Silver to Ivica

Kostelic, the same as four years ago.

Emma Carrick Anderson, what a shock. Absolutely. Not the outcome

we expected. Good to see Ivica Kostelic with the silver. Slightly

disappointed maybe because he already has two silver medals. An

unlikely podium. Where did Viletta win that? He went in the middle of

the field. He thought, I have an advantage. It's not chopped up too

much, and he went for it. Some of the guys held back. But he blew it

away. Ivica Kostelic, his dad provided the course. What will his

emotions be? A Silver is amazing. Deep down, when he watches the

replay, he might think he could have given it a little more. He looked

like he had a little in reserve. Skiing the course so much better

than everyone else. He put them to shame. He did. He is not the best

slalom skier so it is a surprise. He has had two top tens in the combined

this year so he had it in him. He must have thought, anything is

possible. Another medal for Innerhofer, after silver in the

downhill. Lovely, seeing him ecstatic. He has had a great Games

so far. Big questions in the American camp, Ted Ligety has been

skiing well in the World Cup circuit. And Bode Miller. What has

happened? Really disappointing. Bodie especially, I really wanted

him to do well. He has been so strong. It is a shame. It has not

gone his way. Both will be hugely disappointed. They both held back to

match. Bodie in the downhill made the same mistake as in the actual

men's downhill. Conditions playing a big part?

Massively, especially today. Until now, it has not played that much.

But, today, big time. It is very soft on the bottom section. A nasty

hole but luckily nobody fell in. The slalom, the top direction -- the top

section was really bumpy. Let us get ready for tomorrow, our

next action from the Rosa Khutor Alpine Centre will be the women's

Super-G. It is 30 years since Torvill and

Dean won gold in 1984. Since figure skating became an Olympic sport, and

before you ask if the Winter Olympics started earlier, figure

skating started in the Summer Olympics. Torvill and Dean got a

perfect score. They have speaking it again today in Sarajevo -- skating.

This is what it looks like 30 years later.

Beautiful images. Here is Jane's reflections on a day that changed

their lives. As a child, I was quite shy. I think

when I was on the ice I felt like somebody different, someone else.

You were in your own little world, your own space. I think over the

years it brought out a different personality in me and lots of

confidence. The first time I went to the Irish drink was on a school trip

when I was about eight or nine -- I went to the ice rink. I loved the

feeling of the glide and the speed you could get and the different ways

you could do things on skates. The ice rink where I started skating was

quite an old building and a little bit run down but for me it was a

magical place, even though there were lots of mice and rats. After I

do not know how many weeks I pestered my parents for my own

skates and they bought me a second-hand pair and I was allowed

to have one lesson a week which I absolutely loved. After so many

years skating quickly became my priority and certainly when I

started skating with Chris it was my life, even though at that time Chris

and I both had full-time jobs. For us to find the time to skate, it was

out of 9-5 hours, there was not a lot of time available to us. We were

in our early 20s when we realised we had a chance possibly all the gold

medal, so we made a decision to give up our jobs and concentrate so that

we could skate full-time. Each year we had to come up with something new

and push ourselves and we started to get very creative in the routines we

were doing. Everything was geared around leading up to 1984 because

this was our Olympics, this was our chance. It is hard to describe the

feeling of that performance. It feels like a dream sequence. It

feels like I was looking down on someone else doing that. Luckily for

us, on that evening it went well. We have our own feeling of how it went

and it is when you watch it back that you see it for what it is or

what it was, but the feeling you had performing it was completely

different. I remember the moment when all of the sixes went up, there

was a massive roar. I remember looking up at the scoreboard and

seeing all of the sixes and thinking, wow, I think we have done

it. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have won the gold medal. I did

not think I young girls from Clifton would ever be an Olympic champion

but it goes to show that you should never stop dreaming. My dream

started small and got bigger and bigger.

It was a dream for the whole nation. One of the all-time greatest British

sporting moments. The British men will be up against Denmark later in

the curling. Eve Muirhead and the girls have been playing against

Japan. Let us look at the table. We are going to join this match in

the sixth end. Partial success. It is important to

keep the route through clear. The Japanese skip will try to replace

that I am sure. This came about because of one error from Anna

Sloan. We have last stone here so Eve

should not panic too much and I am sure she will not be.

This is the route down every time that they have had difficulty with

that is starting to come round now. A little long. She has covered

enough of the stone to prevent what is an easy 44 -- double for Eve. She

wants to come round and tap back to score a one. A little bit

unfortunate for Great Britain because we had set up what was

looking to be a very nice end, but it shows you how one stone can

change the whole end. We made a mistake but the Japanese girls did

capitalise on that by putting on these successful guards.

We have to watch this line. We have seen it a few times. It stays in and

gets the two. What a great shot from Eve Muirhead, she is playing a great

match leading from the front. Taking the opportunity with an excellent

shot. She was asked the question and she came up with a definite reply.

Despite the efforts of the Japanese skip, and that was a much better end

for them, they still find themselves down. It is still tied in the match

between Russia and Switzerland. If Russia were to lose that they would

find themselves in a precarious position with four losses and

Switzerland lose that would be three in a row. Denmark have been head

back a little by the USA, leading 4-2. China leading Korea 6-3.

Claire Hamilton being asked to draw this one in.

We have watched enough Games that you would look at the table and it

would have a familiar look about it with Canada and Sweden at the top

and Britain and Switzerland and China below that.

The two teams considered to be the big rivals before we arrived. I

suppose it is as expected up until this point. Qualification in the top

four is what we are looking for. That is the first order of the day

and then after it is a new competition, it is not outstayed

after that. -- knockout stage. You have to make sure you get

qualification. Finishing in the top four will give you a semifinal

place. The top four will play. I guess there's something about

finishing top because then should face what is a weaker team but the

top four who qualify there should be no weak teams. You will not have to

go back to what happened in 2002, their record was five wins, four

losses. It was either five and four or four and five. The point is, they

were not top of the table and they ended up with a gold medal. They

only had one game yesterday and Eve was making the point it would have

been good to be in here in the evening yesterday when you are

playing well and full of confidence. Going back to the idea of the

tie-breaks, if you finish top, there is a break and you could be in the

second semifinal and if you played on Monday morning you have got

yourself through and you're not going to be back until Wednesday

evening. So you have to take a break when you are playing well, and it is

almost like starting again full is so however well you have played,

particularly if you have unwell in the Round Robin -- if you have done

well, there is going to be that break. It is always difficult to

know if that break is a benefit or not. They will get the opportunity

to come in and have a practice but that is not the same as match

practice before you are playing. That was one of the benefits for

Rhona Martin. The dynamic is a little bit

different. Even in these round robin stages, you will hear teams saying,

we are playing well. There is nothing worse when you have a game

off. Downtime can often, I don't know, you get fed up or board. It is

often good in the conditions, you just want to play.

-- in the competitions. That is the role of the team

manager, to help them relax, That is the role of the team

us. But, hugely important to continue your concentration. For

those of you who are not so familiar with the rules of the game, we are

trying to take off these corner guards which could be utilised by

the Japanese team to try to come round behind. To create some cover

for them. Working as hard as they could to get

it around that guard, but just clipping it. Sitting out there. You

can see the shot that Eve is calling.

Yumie Funayama has been playing reasonably well, tried to give the

skip as many opportunities as she can. But she has been picking up the

debris of the front two. Anna Sloan just needs to compose herself and

find her shots. On her takeouts before that, she was

shooting at 42%. It has been quite quiet in here. It

is a real tight match Russia are playing with Switzerland. It has

been very quiet, they haven't had much to cheer, a low scoring game

there. 2-2. I think they have just woken up.

Looking to try and sneak in behind these three. Which is just going to

catch the first one again. They are doing their best. I told you they

had broken up. -- woken up. This is proving to be another

difficult end for Japan here. Yumie Funayama, playing third. Two shots

have curled into much. Not getting past that corner guards. -- guard.

Russia had picked up two on that end which is why the John King is going

on. A clear view of this Japanese stone.

That is looking pretty good at the moment.

Becoming draining for the Japanese skip, the pressure has never been

taken off. Obviously, they only have four ends

left and they fall down. Taking a one will not help their case. What

would you do here, Jackie? At what point do you start to get desperate?

Maybe a helicopter shot to bring a yellow stone into the one foot.

A potential problem for the draw in here. Eve's stones, or bundled

together. Just above the four foot. Making it very difficult to get in

behind. That is really tight. There still is a line. But she had

to Mitchell she gets past that guard at the top and, hopefully, it will,

for their sake, pull in. A really good effort.

Once again, she has played a very good stone. Under a lot of pressure

here. She is doing well. She has done

everything she can, to be honest. She has been left with so few

options. Keeps trying to make these big shots. Eve has a chance to tap

her own against that one. Trying to promote this. So,

controlled, that is a firm hit. Eve just wanting to catch that stone

sitting on the centre line. To promote it back onto the yellow.

If she gets this right, at best, it would be one to Japan.

A great shot. Yet another great shot from Eve Muirhead.

And, right from the onset of this match, she has been playing very

well indeed. And, even when her team-mates have had the odd errant

shot, Anna Sloan suddenly had one in this end, we keep having this

situation where, unfortunately for the Japanese skip, the best she can

do here is repeat another great shot and take another one. But, if she

gets this wrong, we could all be going for an early bath, as they

say. Five British stones in there.

A well executed end by Great Britain. Eve Muirhead and Anna

looking a lot more relaxed today. She played this shot a couple of

minutes ago but it doesn't mean she will play it as well this time. It

was almost perfect last time. Again, they are working that really hard. A

small gap to come through, it is turning. And that is going to be

five. We have had a seven for Great Britain in a previous match. That is

the end of the game. Handshakes. Eve Muirhead has done it again. And her

team have played really, really well in this second session. And that is

another win, which will give them three wins and two losses. It was

never in question, Japan struggled from the beginning, particularly

their two youngsters playing lead and second. Claire Hamilton, Vicki

Adams, Anna Sloan and Eve Muirhead, a job well done. Running out of 12-3

victors against Japan. STUDIO: Good news for Eve Muirhead

and the team. Another victory. That means the table makes much better

reading for Great Britain. After a sticky start, things are

looking up. In terms of the overall medal table, let's have a little

look. Germany still proud at the top, they

have had a really good Games, particularly in the Luge where they

have taken all the gold medals on offer.

Great Britain is in 20 Third Place. Just the one bronze medal for Jenny

Jones. In the snowboard slopestyle. But that could be about to change.

That third run for Lizzy Yarnold, 3:30pm on BBC Two. The actual run is

at 3:40pm. Lizzy Yarnold is in a fantastic position to repeat success

of Amy Williams in Vancouver four years ago.

Stand on the start line, final day, legs shaking so much. I took a deep

breath. I knew this was it. Power. Think of the things you have to do.

Keep it together, Amy Williams could be Olympic champion. It is hanging

in there. Amy Williams really is going for gold. The last turn,

surely it is gold for Great Britain? Oh, yes! Amy Williams is

the queen of speed in Canada. Being told I had one, someone telling you

you are Olympic champion. There was a sense of relief. Finally

I have done it, I knew I could always win. Lizzy Yarnold has

already won a World Championship. Now she is going for Olympic gold.

Half a second up. Coming up to the line.

Lizzy Yarnold has a similar story to me, I see myself reflected in her.

She watched me win gold and she knew she had for years to do the same.

She has to go away, keep calm, be consistent, the consistency will win

medals. To know your neighbours in the history book is a strange

feeling. It is always going to be there. I am here for years later

knowing someone will take my title and I really hope Lizzy Yarnold can

do that and keep it in Great Britain. Any medals you bring home

and you know you have the notion behind you. 14th of February 20 14th

in Sochi, if she can win gold, it will be amazing. I can't wait to see

what she can do. Amy Williams, very much in the

Olympic books as Olympic champion. Lizzy Yarnold could be joining her

later today. We will be back on BBC Two almost immediately. These other

things to watch out for. -- are the things.

That's it from me here on BBC One. Switch over channels and we will see

you on BBC Two very shortly. Goodbye.