veteran skater you getting push and go and a teenage prodigy half his age on top of that russia's astley scored so far and bronze and other disciplines are to his pole scott has more from saatchi. force gold came in the figure skating team event they sort of challenges from canada and the united states to take top spot and they were helped along the way by a foolish display from one of russia's most famous sporting sons if gagne pushed blowing the competition away in the men's free program a magnificent display when you consider in recent years he's been plagued by injury and has undergone surgery twelve times meanwhile a new star has been born a fifteen year old beauty impressed in the ladies free on short programs with peerless performances i mean the procession has become the youngest ever winner of the winter olympics gold medals in the figure skating she is six days younger than the previous record holder american tara lipinski elsewhere on day two there were three other medal successes for russia forty two year old veteran lucia. competing in a record breaking seven i'm following a

are sensation number two is in a region by astley. are born he became the most decorated winter olympian of all time a great performance for his sixth and this will be his last winter games and of course the top stop go to team russia the overall performance of the hosts national team making a victorious comeback from the vancouver games topping the charts table with thirteen gold medals thirty three overall the sochi games have been tough and tiring for need metal hungry athletes and also an emotional roller coaster ride for the facts artie's martin andrews has more about the lucky ones who made it to sochi to support their national teams. stand out from the crowd wigs schemes flags as passionate diehard fans will do anything to support that chosen country this month's olympics is also interesting to read characters from russia and around the world the brighter the better patriotically standard for their sporting heroes to some it's taken lots of preparation. as soon as it was announced that the two thousand and fourteen winter olymp