Winter Olympics: Today at the Games - Season 2 / Year 2018
Season 2 / Year 2018
Pyeongchang 2018
Episodes
Opening Ceremony Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of the Opening Ceremony of the XXIII Winter Olympics from Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Day 1 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of day one of the 2018 Winter Olympics from Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The first two medals of the games were awarded in women's cross-country skiing and men's short track speed skating with Marit Bjoergen and Victor An both bidding to win an incredible seventh Olympic gold medal.
Day 2 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of the day's action from day two of the 2018 Winter Olympics from Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The big-name action begins early at Pyeongchang 2018 with day two witnessing the men's downhill - one of the blue riband events of any Games. Austria's Matthias Mayer bids to defend his crown from Sochi 2014. Britain's Jamie Nicholls is in action, looking to improve on his impressive sixth-place finish in the snowboard slopestyle from Sochi alongside his GB teammate and fellow medal hope Billy Morgan. Team GB has another medal hope in cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave - he races in the skiathlon final, one of seven gold-medal events in the day's packed schedule.
Day 3 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of the day's action from day three of the 2018 Winter Olympics from South Korea.
Mikaela Shiffrin is the biggest name in action with the women's giant slalom potentially one of a number of gold medals the American skiing sensation could claim in Pyeongchang.
Team GB hopes on day three rest with X Games medallist Katie Ormerod in the women's snowboard slopestyle final. Ormerod has been widely tipped in the Pyeongchang build-up to emulate compatriot Jenny Jones's bronze medal-winning heroics in Sochi 2014.
Day 4 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of the day's action from day four of the 2018 Winter Olympics from Pyeongchang, South Korea. Great Britain's Elise Christie is the standout home hope on day four with the three-time short track speed skating world champion going for gold in the women's 500m. American snowboarding teenage sensation Chloe Kim starts among the favourites in the women's halfpipe - an event the 17-year-old has dominated for much of the last Olympic cycle. Compatriot Shaun White begins his bid for a third snowboard halfpipe gold medal, while the men's alpine combined skiing gold medallist is also crowned - one of eight gold medals awarded on day four.
Day 5 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of the day's action from day five of the 2018 Winter Olympics from Pyeongchang, South Korea. The Americans top the bill in day five's schedule in Pyeongchang with Shaun White and Mikaela Shiffrin attempting to claim yet more Games gold. White bids for his third halfpipe gold medal having finished an agonising fourth in Sochi. Shiffrin meanwhile is looking to defend the slalom title she won in Sochi aged just 18.
Day 6 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of the day's action at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Gold medals up for grabs include the men's alpine skiing super-G, the pairs' figure skating and the thrilling men's snowboard cross. Meanwhile, Great Britain's men's and women's curling teams are both in action in the round-robin stages.
Day 7 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights from the day's action at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where Britain's Andrew Musgrave is looking to make history in the 15km cross-country. Gold medals are also decided in the women's aerials and the men's skeleton, in which hosts South Korea are hoping for gold for their man Yun Sungbin. Meanwhile, Lizzy Yarnold begins her campaign to retain her Olympic skeleton title.
Day 8 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Today was the busiest day of the lot with nine golds up for grabs, and Team GB were hoping for another ‘Super Saturday', with defending Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold and triple world champion short track skater Elise Christie both going for medals.
Also targeting a place on the podium were British freestyle skiers Katie Summerhayes and Izzy Atkin.
Day 9 Highlights
Clare Balding introduces highlights from day nine of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Today's big events included the men's freestyle skiing slopestyle, in which Britain's James Woods harboured medal hopes.
Other gold medals decided included the men's giant slalom, featuring the great Marcel Hirscher.
Day 10 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of today's action from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The two-man bobsleigh medals were decided while the men's ski jumping teams were battling it out to see who would be kings of the large hill.
There was also a gold medal at stake in the 500m speed skating. And there will be a chance to see what happened in the qualifying for the women's big air snowboard, which is making its Olympic debut, and which featured Britain's Katie Ormerod.
Day 11 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of today's action at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
With medals up for grabs in the biathlon, ski halfpipe, ice dance, Nordic combined and short track speed skating, plus potentially crucial round-robin games for Great Britain's male and female curlers.
Day 12 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of today's action at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
Today saw the conclusion of the women's bobsleigh featuring British duo Mica McNeill and Mica Moore, plus the women's downhill skiing – considered the ‘blue riband' event of the Games.
Medals were also at stake in speed skating, cross-country skiing and the always-dramatic ski cross.
Day 13 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of today's action at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
Great Britain's Elise Christie began the Games as the favourite for the short tracking speed skating 1000m title - an event in which she is the reigning world champion.
Fellow Brit Dave Ryding is also a potential medallist in the men's slalom, although Austrian star Marcel Hirscher is the leading contender.
Today also saw the gold medal match in the women's ice hockey, plus the semi-finals of the men's curling.
Day 14 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of today's action at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, featuring action from the women's curling semi-finals.
Today also saw the conclusion of the women's figure skating, while Great Britain's Katie Ormerod began these Games as a medal hopeful in the women's snowboarding big air.
Medals were also up for grabs in the women's alpine combined skiing and women's ski cross, plus the men's 1000m speedskating and men's biathlon relay.
Day 15 Highlights
Clare Balding presents highlights of today's action at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, including coverage of the men's gold medal curling game and women's bronze medal match.
Today was also a decisive day of snowboard competition, featuring the finals of the men's big air and men's and women's parallel giant slalom.
Closing Ceremony Highlights
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