Intro:

Host nation Russia celebrate their first ever skeleton Olympic gold medal, with Alexander Tretiakov winning the men's event, while Yelena Nikitina took bronze in the women's.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Willi Schneider, coach (On when he believed in the ability of the team he is coaching):
"From my perspective, in the short time since I began to work with this amazing team, there was no question and the order from the federation was to have good results here in this Olympics. Of course, it's a huge pressure on each athlete. And to your second question, when it was pretty clear that we would have a good, or the best, result was from my perspective right away. How professionally the athletes prepare. We know it's not a question that (Martin) Dukurs was the first, most dangerous competitor for Alexander but his full professional in this sport gave me a real, a safe feeling that he will win this race."