touchy where our correspondent richard downpour feet has all the latest on a very foggy day ten at the well hello there richard well first things first it's over to the weather how has that affected today's program that. has really cause how work up in rosa khutor and cross entirely on a snowboard cross of engine also specifically for her by affluent mass starts what was to take place yesterday and it's been a free times because of the you were there is hope that the winning smile starts might take place little later this evening but really there's nothing the organizers can do at the moment and obviously with has been a spate of injuries especially in the snowboarding event so you can completely understand why they want to own some events like the snowboard cross of course if you remember mario come inside was or shows suffered a horrible injury after falling off one of the obstacles and had to go to hospital with her career for an injury so obviously the organizers taking no risks want so

whether with the safety of the athletes a little later on there's going to be hopefully bob say that shouldn't be affected by the by the four commune plan and weather and chance for has for russia with another goal down xander zuckoff and his break man and save way of order they're currently in first position after the first two runs race had a track record in their first run and were just a little bit slower in their second but they're still going off for first place and hopefully to give russia what would be a fifth gold medal of these olympic games so far and in terms of russian expectations of course that we turn to the ice hockey where they actually tensions are high not just on the ice but also off it. massive expectations for the russian national hockey team just as i was on the canadian hockey team four years ago in vancouver where the whole country went wild for the canadian team but the same here in russia russia they absolutely love their ice

hockey here but unfortunately players haven't really delivered so far on the ice of course battles supposedly in informing accounts are against the usa on saturday but the lackluster listen twenty four hours on the back here where they need to shootouts to be the team who are propping up the group but they also run into a red hot goaltending. bitter bitter journey when really playing is hockey when the kids shell with don buster nets but he saved thirty five shots really frustrate russia's attacking process. alexander of each game and you get a malkin to send the game into a shootout which means russia war and she finished fifth and won't get a bye in city quarter finals which is a setback but on the other hand it will give them extra game time on the ice deal of a head coach he has installed a very defensive system to the russians and it's really needing time following some of each kind of malkin and their top players to buy into his system he was caught

up with the goal of the all of two time olympic gold medalist in sunny of r. and four years later in calgary and he just says russians need to show more fights on the ice. doesn't matter where you start are you going to be so. i hope this case . where you go to the game the next level. is here for friends to be locals. or because he has the charisma of the russian character. but of course it was an action on the short track as well where russia really have been exceeded all expectations but only won one medal or previously before the games it was way back in one thousand nine hundred two c.i.a.'s but with the import of big town who change allegiance to skate russia two years ago he really has in seoul a new confidence in this russian side of course picked up a gold medal in the one thousand meters and going to go out have picked up

a silver as well and they have their head coach sebastian kroll really has been talking about how much confidence for don has given because of russia they were talented but were lacking at times money and also there quite a few more events to go in especially the five hundred meters which is big surround specialist events and also the five thousand meters relay which will take place later in the games which actually russia qualified first for also there was a cross-country skiing where russia picked up a silver medal in what's been a disappointing games really for the russian called cross-country skis it's really been a go to medal event for them in the past but it's a picture about silver medal finishing behind sweden who managed to retain their time until the first team to do that since the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred seventy two but it was also i was on the left pole of the first leg who really gave impetus to the russians who were trading way back in eighty from the first leg but like call of round they give us a life so to speak and hole russia back into contention for

a medal and then make he just held off the french to give russia their first medal in cross country skiing so far in these olympics. also great news for amazon to trade to call of into skeleton he had really been also the nearly man i suppose in the skeleton he picked up a bronze medal in vancouver four years ago got a silver at summer it's the last world championships but he went one better this time winning a gold medal in salt she really led for and really from the first run right downs of forefront and finish for almost a victory distance of time of one minutes to give him a victory. so i'm not positive note and even though despite the perspectives of today what else does russia have to look forward to and day ten in such a. posy i stance. later this evening where russia do have a medal hope. then where russia of tradition is very very strong at last few

decades but i think gold might be a bit beyond them this evening just because of the competition they face from tessa virtue and scott more of the united states and cheryl davis and charlie winds of canada those two players really are expected to live for the goal of a had to have quite a big lead after the short program but there's no reason that you need can consent in cuts a pile of. of cancer but really between them to try and get a bronze medal and try to continue what has been a fantastic figure skating gaze for russia so far at these olympics. it was a disappointing winter olympics for the russian team but few felt it more than the figure skaters russia and the soviet union's proud record of winning a gold medal in every game since one hundred sixty four came to an end his face fell just short of clinching atop the podium finish in the men's event four years

on and things look like they're getting back to normal as russia had a ready claim to golds and beyond its veteran you give. and teenager you need sky were inspired in the team of ends as were. a mexican trunk or of who also took gold in the pairs it's not just our triumph lots of people are behind our success we really want to thank everyone who supported us we want to share this joy with the whole country and we are delighted to be all the question's response ability because it was really hard. for the pollution curtain from hero to zero in the space of four days. the thirty one year old looked back to his best in the team competition after qualifying for the games of a late behind closed doors trial following two years of injuries yet just before the men's events he pulled out citing a back problem so russia had no insurance as pollution had taken the only sports

meaning the country missed the chance to continue their thirty year record of claiming a medal in men's figure skating but despite being a smaller social run trying call of the right behind their teammates. i don't think you just point out of the tournament as something that's really that extraordinary it's professional sport in any think it happens it's all because it's pollution co and pollution cause and big star the whole team supports him not just the figure skaters guinea's a real hero it's his forces and he has already won gold and the team is on to hear . what one russian star is fading another is definitely on the rise you lift needs guy who's just fifteen came first in the women's side of a team event to help russia win gold and she says only gold will do in the individual competition that may be a big ask going up against some of korean legend an undisputed favorite kim nevertheless league needs says she's just delighted to be in sanchia no i don't

feel like i'm already an olympic champion individual event is coming up my feelings after the awards ceremony were great and it's like i'm still in the fog and don't fully realize what's happened russia isn't just having a big impact on the ice but also off it the country has produced some of the best coaches who helped revolutionize for sports over the last few decades the favorites in the ice dance americans meryl davis and charlie white's and the reigning olympic champions of tessa virtue and scott moore of canada both courage by marina. and the american jewish were quick to rate the effects russian coaches have had in their career. we're so lucky to be able to work with marina and we you know we every day are able to recognize her genius and. you know her choreography first and foremost is so impressive for us to be able to perform but then training day in and day out getting us in the right mind. getting us physically ready you know and of course we

have to think russia for you know bring her to us after a brief russian figure skating is getting back to its best and with the lives of teenagers lipnitskaya and russian national champion my team was the original choice in the men's of and the future is looking as bright as its glorious past. that was our correspondent rich of import reporting from sochi where in other olympic news russian ski cross racer maria cover sound about has been flown to a munich hospital after breaking her spine in a practice session the twenty three year old had undergone six and a half hours of surgery in a such a hospital after sustaining a fractured vertebra the dislocation she was visited there by president vladimir putin who called the athletes father with an update on his daughter's progress. for me while the women's snowboard cross was won by eva son caldwell of the czech republic the twenty year old and dominated from qualifying through to the final

silver went to dominique non-play of canada we've clearly thought i was birch of france taking bronze canadian defending champion my all rika crashed out in the quarterfinals while a three time world champion lindsey jacques about list of the usa crashed while leading her semifinal. in the men's super g. norway's kettle yams rude added gold to the bronze medal he won in the downhill event while american voted miller became the oldest alpine skier to reach an olympic podium the thirty six year old shared bronze with canada's young who debts after the pair finished behind american andrew why brecht though norway continue their dominance now winning the last four men's super g. they didn't pick events. and at the adler arena the dutch again swept the podium in speedskating after your being term or broke the olympic record to hold off the favorite irena roost in the women's fifteen hundred meters with bronze going to

a lot of fun break the one two three means the dutch have now won sixteen speed skating medals to set a new record for winning olympic gongs in one sport and a quick look at the medal table on a weather affected day tennessee's germany top with seven golds and twelve medals overall the netherlands who have we heard have dominated the speedskating are second with five goals in norway followed by switzerland and russia with four golds with the second best sixteen overall are fifth and that's all the news from the olympics but stay tuned for part two of the sports show where we'll have football tennis and boxing plus the best of the rest don't go away. interviewer.

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welcome back to the second half of the r.t.e. sports special and let's kick off with bundesliga football after buying munich extended their lead at the top to sixteen points with their thirteen straight league win for now at home to struggling freiburg despite some effective pressing from the visitors the host opened after nineteen minutes diego come ten toes crossed finding the head of dunn terry a quarter of an hour later it was to no shirt and chip cleary firing home vajra deflection he did with his second goal just before the break and with two minutes to go plateau bizarros precise finish made it for neil to buy and to stretch their unbeaten industry correct for two forty six games driver go one place above the bottom three. while second base by labor who isn't lost ground on the leaders after

losing to want to turn to fourth place shelter they are good at skills a fine individual effort that the visitors head off to twenty eight minutes then made right through the second half a fluke own goal from philippe santana gave the hosts a deserved equaliser however class young huntelaar soon headed in the winner to clinch a fourth straight victory for shelter been moved to within three points of second spot. while golden state third after a foreign else trashing a frankfurt emerick album mang struck twice within twenty minutes robert eleven ducks he added a second half penalty david onstott milosz no huge came off the bench to the fourth . while in england rock bottom following have signed to manager ronnie millen stan and replaced him with former by a munich coach felix mcgough becomes the first german to manage in the premier league will stay in one just for a few seventeen games in charge leaving the culture just four points from safety with twelve matches to go there remains under contract with the club sixty year old

my dancer signed an eighteen months deal he's won the bundesliga three times as a manager. most recently with berg in two thousand and nine but been out of work since two thousand and twelve. canadian m.l.s. team toronto have unveiled brazil goalkeeper julio says out resigned on loan from championship side queens park rangers the thirty four year old is out of favor out of loftus road but still a first choice keeper for the world cup hosts says are one five zero and titles with into milan as well as the champions league and croft world cup in two thousand and ten he joins former tottenham striker jermain defoe it to rondo coached by retired new zealand defender ryan nelsen. while staying with football and with the russian premier league still in its winter break the national team have launched then you awake it ahead of their first appearance at a world cup since two thousand and two micrograph jango has more. romancer of the first half strike made history last october as russia drew one one in azerbaijan to

reach the first world cup finals for twelve years and for the first away game in brazil against in-form belgium probably propellors men will wear this new kit unveiled by national sport players who've been undergoing warm weather training camps in the mediterranean while the new western style domestic season is in its winter break we're getting ready just like usual really we've already been called up for two training camps in spain which are always hard for the format change hasn't really affected me we still basically play in the same months as before but it's the final run in coming up and we go in well right now so it's doubly important alexandersson me of lokomotiv moscow are second in the russian premier league level on points with leaders in it in petersburg but with eleven matches to go the midfielder thinks it's not just luciano's qualities men who pose a threat to locals title challenge. i don't think only the need to be up there in the end i believe there are five teams which will be challenging us and the team that performs the best in this last stretch will ultimately win the title however

fellow midfielder alex amy ryan chilcote has more to mystic that the railway men can lift their first championship trophy in ten years. i can tell you right now where ready for battle we're currently top of the table and we're all braced for the campaign to raise you it was really tough to get where we are and it will be even harder to stay there but hopefully we'll be there when this season lands. the eighteen year old broke into local first team last april and has won four caps for russia's under twenty one's he was also on the original world cup shortlist before missing out on the final twenty three man squad but miranshah has high hopes for that capello era after the sixty seven year old italian agreed to remain as coach until after russia's own world cup in twenty eighteen. i've already been included on the senior team short list to be eighteen and on the at least must mean i've done something to get notice so of course i'll do everything i can to keep that interest up. you don't you will have several of the unities to impress this year as

the under twenty one's aim to qualify for euro two thousand and fifteen in the czech republic while the senior team makes the final preparations for brazil and the chance to wear the new wide strip so russia's national football team will be playing at home codes on the fifth of march when they take on armenia however they will be sporting the new away kids when they take on norway in the two final friendly games ahead of the world cup in brazil. r.t. moscow. now moving on to athletics and pole vault legend surrogate booker looked on as french olympic champion one though love binny broke the ukrainians twenty one year old world record in bocas i'm city of donetsk who walked onto the track to congratulate the twenty seven year old after he can't six point one six metres on his first attempt to go one centimeter higher than the record book to set indoors in february one thousand nine hundred three and two more than the ukrainians on door lock achieved in one thousand nine hundred four new heights set indoors or up

to accept it as well records in the pole vault and levy need was thrilled with this result. this morning we were going to. give it is a bit of a can do and what they did where's your was just evil you see you do not know what you think you know so you just repeat. tennis and remain in simona halep has claimed the biggest a title of her career by beating sixty eight angelica that in straight sets to win the count off total open in doha the twenty two year old broke the germans opening serve is going to love before going on to break four times while holding serve on route to a comprehensive sixty six three victory in just sixty six minutes. now let's change direction with some boxing after losing to reigning champions of the last october russia's top heavyweight alexander pivot ken is aiming to put his title hopes back on track after signing a deal with a new promoter rather trevanion reports. october the fifth.

undefeated contender alexander povetkin in front of his home crowd loses the belt there his life divides him in the ukraine and king of the modern heavyweight boxing . that day one story of the big russian up and comer came to now and. only to give birth to another the return of the challenger shortly after the crucial defeat of that stated he was still on a mission would have won me on to more people so yes there were a lot of clinches but klitschko beat me tied to glee it's my own fault i couldn't avoid them to get inside i lost the battle but i'll win the war. why don't we let ourselves for months own the thirty four year old russian was back in the spotlight rejuvenated and a deal with a new russian boxing promotion in hand and years and years can start to get pretty

good we've already worked out a plan to fulfill that can style nation plus a few strategic ways to achieve that goal and after his next bout will choose to foster all the longer one. set of. as soon as the klitschko bit was over i was ready to get back in the ring i never stop wanting it just needed some time to physically recover all this time i've been in the gym running during training to keep myself in shape. according to his new three year deal the vatican will have to fight c. year the next one to be held in moscow this may while the name of his next opponent will be revealed within two weeks. be able more meal which. i feel like a need for five days before another title shot that are many worthy fighters out there but i need all those fights to become even tougher and once again become a legitimate contender back in october last year was far more than just about

a title bout that few thousands if not millions of hopeful hearts will be broken and one big sense of pride and required is inside the washing machine. if you want . a rematch with klitschko is the top priority with i doubt titles have never given me that kind of drive he's the man to beat the toughest one that's what motivates me. the burning no party must go. on the basketball now and in the yearly top sixteen says go went join top of group best with a seventy four points to seventy one victory in an intense battle the turkish side gala tosser i hope sense of ons are shown early on for the hosts in again that remain titans of the third quarter then put together a thirteen point run to go sixty seven fifty eight ahead and they let into the dying seconds when col hines blocked mensah bouncers three point shots and that cost each top score to twenty four points as the army men join realm of bridge and

like every television in a three way group lead with five and one records. andreae and she had their share of first base a group that bought the holding on to beat. seventy eight points to seventy four in krasnodar the home side trails going into the final quarter then rallied with ten an ounce of points and tied the match at seventy four apiece however the host magic ran out israel scored the game's final boss gets so he'll really get started told the los blancos is sixteen points and six rebounds finishing victory with a lie up well seconds before the final buzzer committees and now three years rate. eleven american n.b.a. four time most valuable player le bron james entertained his fellow players on the media with a display of dunks after team practice in phoenix the rent a nine year old proved he can sink a basket with no help while his teammates enjoyed the show and made a couple of videos. while in the n.b.a. james crowned wanted his best games of the season in dramatic fashion as defending champions miami snatched a thrilling one hundred eleven to one hundred ten point victory over golden state

in oakland graduate pulled out of the starting line up late on with a sore foot from the game was tied into the final buzzer stephen curry was the warriors' top scorer with twenty nine with fourteen seconds left his shot extra point had by two however with less than a second to go james saved his best until last year three pointer to finish the night on thirty six and give the visitors victory even golden state line in the last playoff spot. and in last weekend's sixty third n.b.a. all-star game in new orleans the east rallied to beat the west one hundred sixty three points to one hundred fifty five that monegan le bron james open proceedings for the picking off a pass to racing for the first posted about blake griffin replied with a dunk of his own in the west went on to lead eighty nine seventy six a tough time early in the fourth quarter john wall flew in to train the east deficit to a point korea being added a reverse lay up and carmelo anthony set an all star record by scoring eight three

pointers as the east claimed their first all strong. a victory in for on earth thing was voted the game's most valuable player after scoring thirty one points and fourteen assists. and finally defensive lineman michael sam could become the n.f.l. first openly gay player and the first in all four of north america's top sports after publicly revealing his famous sexuality last week the twenty four year old completed his college career at the university of missouri in december and expected to be drafted by an n.f.l. franchise in may. and that's all the sport more in four hours for now. that's obviously one of the russian also for the continuation of nature they want to sell the american hard tech weaponry across submarines missiles all the rest of it to a new country's new new markets expanding markets because most of these countries

are close allies previously on certain equipment. nato is rationale is still a much more politico and city cheek than certainly economic toboggan between europeans who wants to go with the united states remain committed to their security and the united states who want to see european state we know that we are like you just i could jump in and ask you could if i could jump in and ask you i mean they want washington because they want the american taxpayer to pay for it because the united states pays the vast majority of the bill for nato so this is free riding that's what they want do you no no no they don't want they're not the security of this is really an evolution is this they want someone else in times of austerity particularly now with the american taxpayer picking up the american defense industries would be more than happy to do it.

fly a transit route to the new. york best way to the heart of moscow. gershon go do that you're sick to me his face was brad shortness of breath a burning sensation in the chest high blood pressure these symptoms are because of a soon to happen heart attack u.s. prison officials say they'll now help russian convicts constantine get shanker with a move coming only to moscow way dead. mother nature spoils the show on day ten of the winter olympics with means to stop the postponed g. just like fall. out as the russian hokies corporate has to take on norway in belfast playoff game talk to the mind of a lead the red machine to olympic silver back in the ninety's. and. also the sour home to name a terrorist threats.