Of Elise Christie in the short track speed skating, today team gb began its search for that elusive first medal of the games with both mens and womens curling teams in action. Both teams won medals in sochi four years ago and both have begun well here. But the most spectacular action today came with a quite brilliant performance in the halfpipe from american shaun white as adam wild reports. He needs 95. 25 and a run of his life. In sport they say reaching the very top is tough, staying there are even tougher. In snowboarding that is true in more ways than one. This is true in more ways than one. This is shaun white, arguably the greatest sport has ever seen, saving his brilliant best the last to dramatically win his third olympic title. Im really proud to come out on top today and i am thankful for those guys honestly, because they pushed me to the point where i can do this kind of run. History of another sort in doors. If north korean skaters on south korean ice was significant, this pairing was quite magnificent. Supported by 200 cheerleaders, they mollified with the pairs final in some style. With britains wait for a medal ongoing, attention turned to curling. They took silverfour years attention turned to curling. They took silver four years ago and although this is a new team they bring with them similar dreams. A sudden death win over switzerland in their opening match, but they will be in no doubt as to how tough this competition will be, beaten by canada as they were four years ago. Bronze medallists in saatchi, the woman came from gold and started as they plan to go on, dominating a tea m they plan to go on, dominating a team of olympic athletes of russia. Asa team of olympic athletes of russia. As a team what we do really well is managed when we know we can switch off and go and enjoy ourselves, get oui off and go and enjoy ourselves, get our nails done, and we know when we can put our competition heads on and get into business mode. Starting with the win, back in business mode, on day six against the united states. Some other stories making the headlines. Show me all copies here with me. One of the biggest stories of the game so far has been the weather. The womens slalom today cancelled for a second time, gusts of up to 45 melbourne hour. We rarely cancelled the slalom, but the one thing that doesnt make it equal for the competitors is the wind. The good even run the gondola. When the dates are wobbling and you are talking a fraction of a millimetre can end your olympic dream, it is important that they wait. Difficult decisions for the organisers to make. There are not many days left and they will have lots tomorrow when the weather looks good. It will be too huge days for alpine. When the weather looks good. It will be too huge days for alpinem be too huge days for alpine. If you want an example of how bad the weather has been. Look at our commentator robin cousins. They were braving the conditions. If you are imagining they arejust braving the conditions. If you are imagining they are just walking around, can you imagine performing at 70 miles an hour . The slope style ladies had to perform in this and they were launching themselves 20 metres in the air how difficult is it for a skier to think about these conditions . It is really tough. At the end of the day it is the olympics, somebody will win. They just have to trust the organisers and go for it. He wasnt affected by the weather today, that the third gold medalfor shaun the weather today, that the third gold medal for shaun white, the weather today, that the third gold medalfor shaun white, it is astounding. Amazing. He has been having a battle with scotty james, the australian, for the last year. Today he was pushed by the japanese rider. He should put it in his first run because he thought that was enough. The japanese rider overtook him so it all came down to the exciting last run. He did she reached tricks at the top. He is an icon. Fantastic silver medal for the japanese rider. I had shaun white managed to stay dominant . He has taken time out after the olympics last time. He had a bit of a disaster there, he was in fourth. He had unfinished business. He is the most incredibly talented rider. He is always progressing the sport. The sport needs him, and we are worried in case that is the end. He has a loyal legion of fans. Some of them pretty famous. David beckham said this. Shaun white has lived a bit of the celebrity life. He has been in a couple of movies. His passion is snowboarding. He is a great guy, he knows these people and they are taking the time to show that they are celebrating his win. Serena wiliams has such great pedigree on a tennis court, she said that she was so tennis court, she said that she was so happy. Michael phelps has won 23 medals at the summer games. Maybe because he has that gold now, the first to win three olympic gold medals, maybe he can hang it up. Who knows what he will do. Thank you for joining us. We will see what he decides to do next. If the weather rele nts we decides to do next. If the weather relents we will have another go at staging the womens giant slalom and the mens downhill tomorrow. Live coverage on bbc one. High tech suits worn by british skeleton riders are illegal. Lizzie yarnold and her team mate laura dees had been recording fast times in training wearing the new suits which are brought complaints from rival competitors. The International Federation today said they had checked the suits and confirmed their legality. History was made out on the ice today as the unified Korean Hockey Team finally scored their first Korean Hockey Team finally scored theirfirst goal of the Korean Hockey Team finally scored their first goal of the games. It came at the third attempt. Randi heesoo griffin scored the goal againstjapan, heesoo griffin scored the goal against japan, sending the crowd wild. This was a far better performance from them, only losing 41 performance from them, only losing 4 1 in the end. They do go out. Elise christie has been working with the backroom staff today to bounce back from her disappointment in missing out on a medal in the 500 metres short track speed skating today. She has been on twitter today. She has been receiving a lot of love, hundreds of messages of support through social media. Sam quek, the hockey Gold Medalist said this. Good to see that sporting insight from sam ouek. One approach the mid site in south korea, she said this. She is receiving a lot of support. We will see a cheap and come back at the weekend. They will stay with the controversial 500 metres short track final, the canadian who was promoted toa final, the canadian who was promoted to a medal has received online threats and abuse from angry home fa ns threats and abuse from angry home fans from the country protesting her disqualification, the disqualification, the disqualification of their skater. She was forced to block a social media account after those threats. Not a great story today coming out of south korea. Love was in the air out on the ice for the american married couple, sealing their pairs short routine with a kiss. After encouraging results and performances last night for tottenham and Manchester City in the Champions League, tonight liverpool take centre stage. Theyre in portugal to take on porto and managerjurgen klopp has been urging caution in looking too far ahead. He wants to emulate the method adopted by rafa benitezs 2005 Champions League winning side. I dont think that the 2005 side thought about this before the last 16, the round of the last 16. If they did it would really surprise me. I could ask rafa, but im pretty sure they didnt, so it makes no sense. If we get to the final we can say we will try to win it for sure, but it is such a long way, i hate to talk about the round after the actual round. Only because i am a polite person i answer the question and im in public. Usually, if somebody asked me about the next round, i leave the room immediately thatll be an intriguing contest. Stephen, plenty to look forward to. An interesting tie forjurgen klopp. He has two legs, team that scores plenty of goals but will he seek to defend . I dont think it is in his make up. They go into every game wanting to win and i think the portal record at home is very strong. If they come away with a score draw they would be very happy going back to home field, knowing they are Strong Enough to win the game there. How important good Mohamed Salah the, notjust him but the entire front for . He is the man to watch tonight. He is on everyones lips at the moment. They are linking him with everyone at the moment, which is a credit to him. It is how portable handle him tonight. If they dont handle him, they have other players to deal with as well. The loss of philippe coutinho, they might miss that killer party can provide tonight. Thank you so much for joining provide tonight. Thank you so much forjoining us. Well see if your Jurgen Klopps side can perform well out important. Commentary on that porto and liverpool round of 16 tie is on five live tonight, the programme starts at 6. 30pm. Its a big night for reigning champions real madrid and their coach zinedine zidane. Theyve been struggling in la liga all season and now face a big test against Paris Saint Germain neymar and all. The first leg is in the bernebeu this evening. Its the Champions League tonight and Europa League tomorrow with celtic and arsenal the only british sides remaining. The scottish champions are up against russians zenit St Petersburg and, despite dominating domestic football in scotland, Brendan Rodgers says his side have more realistic expectations in europe. We know where we stand in relation to some of the, in terms of superpowers and the finances at this level. But we want to be competitive. It is a great club, celtic, it is a huge club. The support base that we have is amazing and that really helps us in these games, but of course we want to go and perform well and we always respect that it is a very difficult challenge for us what we are up against, but we always aim to go in and be as competitive as we possibly can be. And be as competitive as we possibly can be. Arsenal might need to win the Europa League if they are to play in the Champions League next season the winners, remember, are guaranteed a spot in next seasons competition and Arsene Wengers side are currently eight points off a top four spot in the premier league. They are in sweden to play ostersunds, one of the more remarkable sides left in europe. Patrick gearery has been to meet their english manager and discovered a club that likes to do things differently. The first thing you will notice about ostersunds is it is absolutely freezing. There is snow everywhere. One of the places where there isnt an oversight on the pitch. It is an artificial surface and it has to be in sweden because of the weather. The temperatures here will be regularly below freezing and it is so regularly below freezing and it is so unlikely that a small place in the middle of sweden could challenge the likes of arsenal in europe. They have gone right up there with the divisions in sweden thanks largely to an englishman, graham potter, their manager. It is important for us their manager. It is important for us to make this environment is positive for us as we can. It is a wonderful opportunity for the people in ostersunds to see such a big club with such talented players and an incredible manager come to ostersunds. We want to enjoy it and not worry too much about the things we cant do anything about. This is the dressing room that arsenal will be using. It is not quite as big or as luxurious as the ones they will be used to in the premier league and some of the european ground they have played out. Further down the corridor is the home dressing room and that is where potter has worked his magic. He has taken players from all over europe and forged them into this cohesive unit, partly down to success on this cohesive unit, partly down to success on the pitch, partly through some unusual success on the pitch, partly through sottie unusual means. Success on the pitch, partly through some unusual means. They perform swa n la ke some unusual means. They perform swan lake in front of the local community, for example. This is a clu b community, for example. This is a club that prides itself on doing things differently, and back comes right from the top and their chairman. Right now right from the top and their chairman. Right now i went through the locker room which i do every session, chatting, hugging, smiling. That is the environment we have built in the club. We want to build people who understand, there is care, people who understand, there is ca re, love people who understand, there is care, love and who wins in them. Ostersunds is certainly a place apart. To give you an idea how cold it is, where i am standing and this all its pants behind me, when they started derek Europa League from this was a late. They had beaten galatasaray, Hertha Berlin and drawn against bill bowl. One thing that unites this entire ostersunds success unites this entire ostersunds success story, and that is the idea that they fear nobody. The venues for the revamped domestic twenty20 competition have been announced with durhams home, the riverside, the only test match venue not to be chosen. The tournament will include eight venues including the sse swalec in cardiff and the aegeas bowl in southampton, but Chester Le Street is the biggest name to be left out. It will only host one one Day International in 2020. British cyclist chris froome has defended his decision to return to racing for the First Time Since his adverse drugs test. The four time Tour De France champion began his 2018 season at the ruta del sol in spain today, despite an ongoing doping tribunal prompted by the test at last years vuelta a espana. Froome insists he has a right to continue competing. I know i have done nothing wrong, thatis i know i have done nothing wrong, that is my starting point, i know i have done nothing wrong. There is a piocess have done nothing wrong. There is a process in place for me to demonstrate that an obviously that is what i intend to do. This is a process that a lot of athletes have gone through, a lot of other riders have gone through as well and i dont see why i should have different treatment to them. They were all racing in the meantime until they got to the end of their processes. There is a process there that allows me to demonstrate that there has been no wrongdoing and that is obviously what i intend to do, and we are in the middle of that process now and i am not able to speak about that publicly. Would you be prepared to risk that euio would you be prepared to risk that euro and the tour with this hanging ovei euro and the tour with this hanging over you . Leftover doesnt go that far. Iam over you . Leftover doesnt go that far. I am still allowed to race now and, yeah, i dont see why not. I am still allowed to race now and, yeah, i dont see why not. The iii time Paralympic Champion dame sarah storey is back in the Great Britain team for the world para cycling championships in rio next month. Dame sarah missed the whole of last season after giving birth to her second child last october, but has been named in a 22 strong squad. Thats all from sportsday. Well have more throughout the evening. More now on the political crisis in south africa. President jacob zuma says efforts by the governing anc to oust him from power are unfair. The party has threatened mr zuma with a parliamentary motion of no confidence tomorrow. Lets get more from our correspondent Pumza Fihlani whos in pretoria. Thank you for being with us. How much longer can he cling to power . It certainly seems like he is prepared to go all the way. We are waiting for a statement from the president. Our sources were telling us president. Our sources were telling us it was meant to be around seven oclock local time here in south africa. That means we are already ovei an africa. That means we are already over an hour africa. That means we are already ovei an hour away africa. That means we are already over an hour away from that deadline, passed that deadline. It is not clear whether this address will include a resignation by the president. The amc has decided to go ahead with the motion of no confidence in parliament tomorrow