【鹿鹿逛索契】直播连线 Live Coverage

1. Good morning, it's morning over there isn't it? so tell us what happened in Sochi yesterday? Sunday was the busiest day in the medals hunt at the Sochi Winter Games. Eight gold medals were given out in the sport of biathlon, speed skating, ski jumping, snowboard slopestyle, ski jumping, Luge, figure skating team event, and cross-country skiathlon. After day two, Norway is now ranked first on the medal standings with 2 golds, 1 silver and 3 bronze, that’s 6 medals in total. It’s followed by the Netherlands, with 2 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze. In the third place is the United States, holding 2 golds and 2 bronzes. The host nation Russia is sitting at 4th place together with Canada with 1 gold, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. 2. Now the game has enter it's third day, what big changes have you noticed? What’s new in this Winter Games? There are some changes in this Winter Games. For example, For the first time in 30 years, we've got events taking place before the opening ceremony, as twelve medal events have been added to the program since the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The introduction of those events lead to a busier schedule and the necessity to spread things out so athletes can rest and courses can be clear for other disciplines. The 12 new events included snowboard slopestyle, which saw team USA pocketing the first gold medal of the Sochi Games. Also, one of the 12 new medal events is figure skating's team event, which saw Russia grabbing its first gold medal. ***************************** Today is also the first day of curling games, Chinese men's team is facing Denmark in the first round, and the game has just started half an hour ago. and the Chinese women's team will play against team Canada later this afternoon.