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Listed below are comments made by Ollie W - BBC Sport between Saturday, 7th November 2009 and Tuesday, 1st December 2009 (3 Hours Ago) .

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• Winter Olympians back in action 3:07pm on 01 Dec 2009 Bumpscoach - thanks to the wonders of Twitter Ellie says: "I've met all of the Olympic criteria (+100 FIS pts) - just need to hold my position within the World Top 30 before Jan '10." So there you go, she's in a very strong position to reach Vancouver. I'm sure there will be more about Ellie soon.
• British skaters give Kerrs for optimism 2:30pm on 01 Dec 2009 Full plans for our Winters coverage will be announced shortly. Bear in mind the time difference, so plenty of the events will happen in the early hours British time.
  
  While that does mean you may need your eyes propped open on matchsticks, it also means the terrestrial TV schedule is relatively clear at the time many events are happening. Skeleton, ice dance and curling are all examples I can think of where this might apply. By contrast, a lot of the skiing takes place in morning sessions in Vancouver, usefully placed for evening viewing in the UK. But as I say, more details will follow soon.
  
  Lilly_Lane - the Kerrs and the ice dance will be a story we follow closely in Vancouver so I'd expect our TV coverage to echo that. As I wrote in the blog, they are one of GB's "top medal chances" - which is not the same as being a "realistic chance". What that means is, they have more chance of winning a medal than most other British competitors going out to the Winters. It doesn't mean they are nailed on for one, as you point out.
  
  Penny and Nick, the Notts couple you mention, were very happy, friendly people, even though I spoke to them in the nerve-wracking 24 hours before the final performance that sealed their Vancouver place, and I hope they do well at the Games.
• British skaters give Kerrs for optimism 00:25am on 01 Dec 2009 Boilerbill - a good point. I wonder what people like John and Sinead Kerr make of celeb-packed ice dancing competitions when they struggle for media coverage for three-and-a-half years till the Olympics rolls around.
  
  FranMerida - I wrote this blog then disappeared off to do some more filming before it was published but, if it's the same pic I initially added (the one replaced by the video?) I don't see what was so wrong! I thought it was a cracking pic. I can only think you may have to wash your mind out with soap. Honestly.
  
  Rafa - That's rodeo out, then. You'll find plenty of people who don't accept darts, snooker, chess, and countless others as sports. My personal bugbear is poker... how that ends up being broadcast live on sports channels, I'll never know. Fun to play, but I can't think of a worse television spectacle.
  
  As for the comment about make-up and mock-cowboy outfits, I realise you're being slightly facetious to make your point but those aspects are the icing on the cake. The meat of the routine (mixing metaphors horribly there... the cake now has meat in it) is the "dancing" itself, which is more accurately described as highly complex synchronised skating. It's physically demanding, a tough mental challenge, requires dozens of hours of training each week, and one wrong move can badly break your bones, let alone lose you a tournament. Counts as a sport for me.
• Winter Olympians back in action 11:07pm on 29 Nov 2009 Patience, m'boy! (Or girl.) All shall be revealed, but it's not within my power to do so just yet. Won't be long, though.
• Eagle and Drake soar off to Canada 3:28pm on 20 Nov 2009 Hi Chris - we don't have confirmed broadcast times yet but as soon as we do, I'll let you know, and they'll be available via our website.
  
  The ice hockey schedule on the Vancouver 2010 website is here, with the women's final at 2330 GMT on Thursday, 25 February and the men's final at 2015 GMT on Sunday, 28 February. The men's final, in particular, is at a useful time for UK-based viewers.
  
  I'd like to think both those games, and a selection of others, will be available at least via red button and online if not on live terrestrial television. But no promises until the full BBC schedule is revealed as there are plenty of considerations and other sports vying for airtime.
• Skeleton key to Winter Olympic medals 10:01pm on 12 Nov 2009 thewaughtwins - I semi-agree with you. Britain may not be the only team but it's still an unusual position to be in, having so many athletes in the top 20 despite the near-total absence of home facilities. The fact they are doing "just fine" is deserving of attention in those circumstances.
  
  Realistically, the countries who do have tracks should dominate the sport to the total exclusion of others. But you're right to point out that they are not alone in battling those odds.
  
  
• Winter Olympians back in action 9:10pm on 09 Nov 2009 Hi Mike - I'm not sure where you got the news that a couple of Brits qualified. My knowledge of the short track qualification system isn't the greatest (it's explained here but not easily digested while sat in front of FlashForward on a Monday night), but to my knowledge, it's points from the World Cup events last week and this week that would get the Brits through.
  
  There were some good performances in Montreal last week, but I believe they still need to go to Marquette from Thursday 12 November onwards and do well to earn places in Vancouver. The British governing body's website, which I am pretty sure would be shouting it from the rooftops had anyone definitely qualified, reports on the good performances but gives the impression there is work still to be done.
  
  If members of Team GB do reach the short track in Vancouver then I'd expect us to air it, and you'll certainly get coverage online if not on TV. But we don't have a full schedule just yet. Again, I'll do my best in Vancouver to get to the short track and, if Brits are there, report on their progress.
• Winter Olympians back in action 4:29pm on 09 Nov 2009 Jordan D - it's not for me to pre-empt any official announcement of our TV or radio coverage but Jonny Bramley, our executive producer, gave a very brief summary in a blog comment late last year.
  
  My concern is more with the online side of things and that will be broadly similar to the way we covered the Beijing Games: online video, comprehensive live text commentaries, and reports/blogs. I'm aiming to get around as many sports as I can, and cover plenty of different nations alongside the GB team where possible.
• Winter Olympians back in action 11:26am on 09 Nov 2009 Davedug - the biathlon winter season doesn't kick off for a few more weeks (the first World Cup event is early December) but once they're back in action I'll be keeping tabs, and we may well speak to British competitors on one of 5 live's special programmes looking ahead to Vancouver.
  
  There's quite an interesting "day in the life" with British Biathlon's Adele Walker here though.
  
  Same applies to cross-country - the World Cup starts on 21 November and I'll be back with a similar blog mentioning any results. Musgrave and Young are GB's World Cup team.
• Winter Olympians back in action 09:37am on 07 Nov 2009 I'm really looking forward to the ice hockey, it should be one of the highlights of the Games.
  
  Men's ice hockey at the Olympics is usually a pretty open affair. The world rankings place Russia and Canada as the top two teams with only a very thin margin separating them - and the Canadian team will be mortified if they don't win gold at the country's national sport on home ice. I'm going to make myself a complete hostage to fortune and add that the US team doesn't overly excite me. Sweden are defending champions but I fancy Sidney Crosby's Canada against Alex Ovechkin's Russia in the final.
  
  Russia isn't the same force in the women's game, and I think a lot of people would go for a US-Canada final. Again, the Canadians with home support will take some stopping.
  
  There are no British teams at the 2010 Winters. Britain's men are 25th in the 2009 world rankings, whereas you had to be in the top nine after 2008 to automatically qualify. So the GB team went into a qualifying tournament instead, but went out in the first stage.
  
  It's fair to say the British team are still some way off getting to a Winter Olympics, but I'm hopeful it'll happen one day - and if it does it may well be the women who get there first.
  
  The GB women are ranked 20th at the moment and in the women's game, only the top six reach the Games automatically. Again, the British team were sent into Olympic qualifers, but they finished second to Norway in the first group stage, which knocked them out. (You needed to win your group in two separate stages to reach the Games - it's not easy.)
  
  The difference with the women is I think they've got a clearer path to breaking into the top tier of the sport. It'll still be very difficult, but even if I can't envisage a British ice hockey medal in my lifetime, I can see us scraping into an Olympic tournament at least. I wrote a piece on the women's team a while back - it's a bit old now, but may give you some idea of how things stand.

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