gb returned with a record haul from sochi bring home. gb returned with a record haulfrom sochi four bring home. gb returned with a record haul from sochi four years ago. uk sport will reveal their medal target today, which will have a large impact on subsequent funding for these sports. dame katherine grainger says she is expecting the best games ever as far as the winter olympics and paralympics are concerned. we have seen huge changes and improvements over the last 15 yea rs, and improvements over the last 15 years, a massive investment from the national lottery and from the government, so it enables the team to become more professional, to have more athletes involved, to employ coaches, physiotherapists, all the experts who work in conjunction, and especially the winter games travel a lot more than the summer games, because they need to find more snow and ice than we have in britain. it requires a big investment to get success on that level. that is your sport for now, more after ten, 30. morning, welcome to the programme. toby young

yarnold is aiming to become the first british winter 0lympian to retain her title, with her success in sochi four years ago. she'll bejoined by laura deas, dom parsons and jerry rice to compete in south korea next month. that's all your sport for now. i'll have the latest at 10.30am. thank you. i want to get some more of your comments before i move on. we have been talking about women being too embarrassed about their bodies to go for a smear test. dawn tweeted to say, a smear test saved my life. please, have it done, quick, easy and a possible life—saver. bill says it affects families through wives, mothers, daughters etc. don't avoid it. anonymous, my ex—girlfriend of 27 yea rs anonymous, my ex—girlfriend of 27 years didn't know what a smear test was. better awareness is needed. finally, anne on facebook says she had a smear test and it showed an abnormality, which turned out to be cervical erosion. i was having bleeding after sex and was due a smear, so mentioned it to the nurse. they also found a cyst on my cervix. please go for your spears, ladies. —— smears. the former treasu

both sochi and astana will feed into the geneva process. it seems almost as though russia has had enough of it now. president putin says mission accomplished. but given his aims at the outset of stabilising the legitimate power in syria and creating the conditions of political compromise, there is no political compromise. well, i believe that now that the hostilities are mostly over, of course there will be pockets and flareups of military clashes, that is inevitable in any conflict of that dimension, but we can now think and actually proceed more actively along the path of a political solution. and the intensified campaign we are seeing in places like eastern goutha, is that a sort of final, effectively permission for president assad, the syrian regime, to do what they can, and there are suggestions that chlorine gas, chemical weapons have again been used, which, at the very least, russia must be complicit in. well, until i see evidence, hard evidence, of anything like that happening, iam not prepared to discuss it. you've seen the picture