13/08/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker who

has somehow managed to keep his voice after doing this sort of

commentary. It is a bronze medal. That has a nice ring to it. Yes,

Louis Smith delivered under pressure. It is 15.64 Max Whitlock.

That was first class. Your commentary was first class. Did you

enjoy it? I absolutely loved it and I am still riding high on the

success. Are you tired? Yes, but it is lovely to be back. We are

keeping the spirit of the game's. For two weeks of the Games Makers

have been doing a fantastic job welcoming the world to the Olympics.

And our guests tonight are Boris Johnson, Mo Farah and Nicola Adams.

Welcome! Amazing. Yes! This is like the Olympic Stadium again, coming

down that final straight. The plan was to play a bit of Spice Girls,

but we could not hear it. That was especially for you. You enjoyed

last night, didn't you? I did. I have not seen this. Oh, dear. It

has been drawn to my attention. The problem was there was no option. We

were sitting in the Politburo type seats and Tessa Jowell started to

Jie rate. I knew the pressure was mounting and finally I thought,

what can I dusted? Then The Spice Girls came along. You did a

tremendous job. It was an incredible celebration and you were

both there dancing away. Yes, definitely and Jessie J. Was she

the highlight? Yes. Have you slept? Not much, but I have had a bit of

time to relax with the family. was the party last night? It was

pretty good. What happened when all the cameras had gone? In the

closing ceremony we were there until 12 o'clock and then after we

walked to the village and had some food and Team GB gathered together.

And you had a burger? I had to treat myself. Boris, you handed the

flag over in front of 26 million people. Did you practise the

waving? I had attracted some criticism I thought unjustly after

Beijing. The Chinese authorities said I had to do my jacket up. I

did not do my jacket up. I got attacked for that in London as well,

so I decided to do it. When they gave you the flag, it was all

wrapped up in Beijing. Do you think it was a stitch-up? The thing was,

it was a wrench to get it back. it? Yes, it was and if you look

very carefully... You are a bit reluctant. Is he going to give it

away? Hold onto it for a little bit longer. We think it has landed in

Rio de Janeiro. The mayor of Rio was very excited. He went off

waving it through the crowd. nation is so proud of everything

that Team GB has done. We are going to say and very special thank you.

Lucy, tell everybody where you are. I am in Weymouth in Portland and we

are buzzing with excitement because Ai Weiwei has contributed so much

to the Olympics. This spectacular bay behind me has been the site for

some tremendous Olympic victories. Four silvers and that very hard

fought, hard won gold medal won by Ben Ainslie. Out of 65 medals, five

of them have been a from Weymouth and Portland in sailing. How do we

pay tribute to such magnificence tonight? We are going to come up

with something pretty spectacular. To help me I have Mark who is a

sand sculptor. How are you? Very well, a bit under pressure. Yes,

can we do something that matches the achievement in 20 minutes?

I hope so and we have a great team. Yes, we have a great team. They are

some of Britain's fine us all stock we have 50 Olympic ambassadors and

we are going to create something spectacular. Join us in about 20

minutes. Are you into sandcastles? You are

going to love this. If you have been inspired by the Olympics to

take up a new sport, we want to see prove. Send in your photographs to

the usual address. My son loves canoeing now. There has been an

enormous amount of highlights at it is hard to put everything into

perspective. But what is that one moment you will take away from

these Games? For me just being in the Stadium and 80,000 people

shouting out your name and that feeling. The Olympics don't often

come round and you have to wait for four years. After the

disappointment of Beijing and then to come back here. But the feeling,

I was there for the 5000 metres. There is no way to explain it.

cannot put it into words. I know the nation was captivated, but you

cannot get it across on television. It was the same for you in the

ring? Yes, definitely, the atmosphere in the arena was amazing

and to get that first ever gold medal in women's boxing, it can

never be repeated. It was an amazing time for me. But the

enormity of what you had achieved did not sink in straight away.

Let's have a look at what you said straight afterwards. It is like a

dream come true to me, you know? I wanted this all my life. To be in

that final and I have done it, and I am finally here and all the

Brilliant. We have to ask you, I think you described the two weeks

as a Himalayan range of exciting moments. Picks some out for us.

were watching Nicola and we were going crazy. In 2008, I saw

Christine Ohuruogu win the gold medal and everybody said she would

never have a chance and she came and she won the silver. That was

fantastic and a great moment. Laura Trott, she was amazing. She is so

small and slender and the fastest thing on wheels, unbelievable. The

noise there was incredible. It was like being one of those heavy-metal

fans who creeps into the base speaker and dies. It was incredible.

The thing that got everybody going was Mo Farah and Super Saturday.

got everybody going. We have got some questions from some little

fans. Congratulations, Merv. Well done,

mauve. World and, moat. What do you eat for breakfast to make you so

fast? There is the question. I make sure I have my porridge and a glass

of orange juice and some toast to eat use low energy. Porridge.

hope that answer the question. It was a sad moment to see the Olympic

flame go out last night, but imagine the feeling if that was the

flame going out on your entire sporting career. You said you were

in tears. I did cry. Iwan Thomas knows this feeling all too well.

The London Olympics came to an explosive conclusion last night

with competitors and spectators fired up through the closing

ceremony. But as the flames of success died down, many of the

athletes were celebrating some of the best medal scores in history

and considering their futures. Victoria Pendleton, Beth Tweddle

and Chris Hoy had said this was there last Olympics. After years of

dedication and sacrifice in order to realise that dream, where do our

retiree athletes go from here? How do they top this? Beth Tweddle has

been training since the age of seven putting in roughly 30 hours a

week. That is some dedication and it has got her a bronze medal.

is the one last dream I needed to complete. I knew this was my last

shot. I have done what I needed to do, I have done more than I ever

thought I would in the sport and it seems the perfect way to bow out.

Are you nervous the real world will not be keep the same excitement?

is going to be hard because I live at whether competition filling, but

I do not live for the training. I do not know what I am going to do.

There are a lot of opportunities, but I will not walk away from

athletics. What about work for Stimac what have you got lined up?

I do not know, I and 27 and I have never had a job at any to start

looking! When athletes come to the end of their careers, their lives

can change overnight. By stopping dead in their tracks it can feel

like a bereavement. I know because I have been there. In 2006 just two

weeks before the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne might courier came to

an end because of injury. I was in a really dark place battling

against depression. Luckily the retiree athletes today are not

alone and they do not have to go through what I did. There is help

available to retiring athletes. They advised Team GB and how to

move on. Since Beijing the Government has invested heavily in

performance lifestyle and we have got 19 advisers covering the sport.

They are dedicated advisers who offered a coaching and mentoring

service to help them develop their personal and professional skills

and help them through the difficult transitions, as well as preparing

them for life after sport. It is very much a unique service to each

athlete. According to the English Institute of Sport lots of

businesses from finance to marketing recognise the skills

athletes can bring to industry. Many end up working within sport,

like Lord Sebastian Coe. When our time came, Britain, we did it right.

Thank you. A former Olympic rower won bronze, but failed to reach the

podium in Beijing and she now runs coaching and leadership programmes.

She admits she really needed help after retiring. I knew I was done

and I had pushed myself so hard, but I was too scared to step away.

It was a relief when I finally made the decision to stop because I

needed to stop. Having someone by your side through that process

helped me. She was amazing and gave me some practical steps. I wrote my

last CDU when I was out of university and I had a big gap. My

biggest fear was interviews. She really helped me prepare and we did

mock interviews and it gave me confidence. I have loved the last

three years almost more than I loved my time as an athlete. Beth

Tweddle's Olympic success puts her in a great place for starting a new

career, although she will have to go back to basics. Are you offering

to help me write a CV? I haven't done one myself yet, maybe we can

help each other. Done. She is not the only athlete who will be

writing her CV. The end of London 20121 no doubt mark the end of

other outstanding careers. It is inevitable some Olympians will

struggle when they finally decide to take that last step down from

the winner's podium, but now this support is in place to keep their

Mo, please tell us you are not retiring after your success? No, no.

Definitely not? Definitely not. What is the plan now and how do you

keep that level that you are at? It's important to main tain this

level and keep competing but I like to see myself stepping up to a

marathon which is a long way, 26.2 is a long way so next year I'll

probably stick to the track and slowly go upwards but I'm looking

forward to come completing the Great North Run. It's trick ya that

and quite hilly, you know. Yes, looking forward to that and I'll

compete another one in a few years. What about you? You are 29 now. Are

you going to go for Rio? Yes, I am. It would be nice to be a double

Olympic champion. Good news isn't it?! You can do it, no doubt about

that. It's incredible. Boris, obviously your Olympiad as mayor

will be over? It will be. Transport for London, a world scoop has been

made official transport consultant for Rio. They thought we did such a

good job, so the Mayor of Rio said, so maybe I'll go and advise them

and give some announcements. LAUGHTER Going back to the training,

Nicola, how quickly are you going to get back into it? When is your

next fight and what's the story? have a month off training now and

we'll ease back into things and I'll probably end up boxing just

after Christmas. Mo, you awe cheefed your dreams,

two Olympic golds but how much did you have to step up your training

regime just before the Games -- achieved your dreams? I had to step

up big time because you want to make sure you peak and get it right.

I had a great medical team and my monitor and coach. It's important

that when you are training you don't overtrain because what

happens is that you can over train or under train so it's important to

balance it. It worked well. Week in week out, 100 plus miles, it's not

been easy. Does it feel like you thought it would when you had your

eyes set on the medals. Is the feeling that you have, is it what

you expected? Yes, as an athlete you dream of becoming an Olympic

champion but I never thought I would do it twice in the same Games,

for me it was just become an Olympic champion and that was it.

For me, it was an amazing feeling. I had disappointment at Beijing not

even making the final and four years leading up to it and slowly

building and getting better, increasing slowly, it's been hard

work. Hard graft. Porridge?! Yes. Nicola, such an historic medal

yours being the first woman ever. When you look at it, what do you

think? What do you think you have managed to achieve? You know, it's

still all sinking in and I can't believe how much I have achieved,

I've trained hard. We worked on tactics and to try and beat China

because she's beaten me twice in two World Championships so this was

it, I really wanted this gold this time. Nice to knock her down in the

second. Yes, did you see that?! went mad when we saw that. You had

your own little thing, didn't you? Yes, the victory move!

Brilliant! Every Olympic Games sees new sports, as we have been hearing,

London 2012 had the first women's boxing and Rio will see the first

kitesurfing competition. One sport that missed out in the latest bid

to become an Olympic event is surfing. That hasn't put off wave-

riding fans and Dan Snow's been to I amateurible at surfing but it's

exhilarating being out from getting battered by the elements. I think

surfing's been around since the 60s but the British have been obsessed

by it for 250 years. In 1779, the explorer Captain James

Cook was on his third voyage of discovery. He and his crew arrived

in the tropical paradise of high high where thier believed to be the

first westerners to witness board surfing -- Hawaii. They saw an

incredible scene and would have had naked what Wieians riding the shore

which most of the crew were afraid of. A lot of the sailors couldn't

even swim. Must have been mind- blowing for them. Wave. When Cook

was killed following a row about a stolen boat, it fell to one of his

officers to record details of what they'd seen. The Museum of British

surfing in North Devon has his first hand account. These are the

words that lieutenant James King wrote in 1779, saying that their

object is to place themselves on the summit of the largest surge, of

which they are driven along with amazing rapidity to the shore.

That's amazing, that's it isn't it? And the same pleasure that we have

today. The crew jumped overboard and had a go. So you are saying

they were the first non-hawaians to Suhr? Probably the first Westerners

to have a go. We were sufficient - surfing in the Victorian era. I'm

heading to salt and manned to retrace the steps of those early

surfers. These lack old school. What are these? These date from

just after the First World War and they were based on an ancient

Hawaiian design. Brits who were wealthy would travel abroad and

learn to surf. I think there was a real movement towards health and

activity between the two wars. The images from back in the day, you

will see dozens of people on the beach with belly boards like this,

men and women, and just having a really great time.

But budding surfers were determined to stand on their boards. In 1920,

Prince Edward, who became King Edward VIII learned to surf in

Hawaii. This is the earliest known photo of Britons standing or surf

boards. This remarkable 1929 footage captures some of those

pioneers of surfing. Some of Britain's earliest surf

boards weren't quite what we are used to today. In fact, they are a

little bit, how shall I put it, that cab b. Thanks, ladies. --

macabre. Which bright spark had the idea of using a coffin lid? People

learned to surf in South Africa with the pioneers back then and

they came here, saw the waves and wanted to surf. They won't to the

local church, had a hat with the undertaker there and came away with

a coffin lid. These extraordinary photographs have only recently been

uncovered by the family of the surfers, proof they would go to any

lengths. Modern surfing cull huh in Britain

was born in the late 1950s and early 60s. The Beach Boys were in

the charts. The movie Endless Summer was in the cinema. Wet suits

and light boards made the sport accessible and we have been smitten

ever since. Before we leave, there's something I'm "dying" to

Quite surprised how handy he was on that coffin lid. You are being very

kind. A few more sessions and he'd certainly be standing up. We are

joined by some more Games makers and we are going to give them a

massive round of applause for everything they've done. Brilliant,

brilliant. Can you tell us exactly what you

were doing because you had learn sod many languages during the

course of the two weeks? I was part of the 1,000-strong last milers, so

basically we got everybody into the Olympic Park, so from the transport

hubs. I'm a secondary school language teacher from Birmingham so

I teach French, German and Spanish and basically over the course of

the two weeks I had the Lithuanians coming to me and saying, that's how

you say "go Lithuania". How do you say that? (she speaks in

Lithuanian) APPLAUSE

Hold that up? This is a clean finger!

Swrest interesting that all the volunteers, you drew lots to find

out where you were going to be that day. How did you feel that day when

you were drawn the 200 metre final? Couldn't believe my luck, normally

I'm not as lucky. You have something there. Tell us a story

behind this? I was lucky enough to get Usain Bolt's lane and he came

up to me and started to sort out his blocks and that. As he came

back when he started to take his kit off, the hat was the last thing

to take off so I said to him "I like your hat" and he went to me

"you can have it" and that's how it happened.

APPLAUSE Lovely. Marie, you met Usain Bolt

as well didn't you in a different capacity. What was your role?

an athlete steward, we had to came them from the first call to the

final call so I took him out for the heat for the 100 metres so he

chatted to me and I took him to the heat one. When it came to the semi-

final I wasn't taking him out and he came up to me and said "what

happened, have you abandoned me or something" so he clearly remembered

APPLAUSE You will have to try and get items

of clothing off these guys while they're here.

Boris's tie indeed. We'll head back to Weymouth where Lucy has this

lovely surprise. Welcome back to Weymouth and

Portland. We are about to do the big reveal with our tribute to Team

GB. Our ambassadors and volunteers here have been working their little

socks off with their rakes over the past quarter of an hour, 0 minutes.

It's going to be amazing. Just as they put the finishing touches, let

me have a quick word with Sophie Ainsworth, a big medal prospect for

Rio, the next Olympics. Hello, how are you? Fantastic, really inspired

after the home Games. You really are aren't you? You have been a

training parter in to one of the pairs that won a silver for sailing

on Friday. What's that been like? Incredible. Hannah Mills and Saskia

Clark won a medal, it's been fantastic to watch them develop and

work hard over the last year and for the rest of the British team to

do so well as well with their medals. How much do you want your

own from Rio? Immensely. Yes, I can feel it, I can feel how much you

want it. Thank you so much. Let's have a chat to some of the

ambassadors here. What was your favourite moment of the Olympics?

It's bull been brilliant. Possibly the reaction of the female boxer

Nicola Adams. Give her a wave. she there?! Yes. When she got the

first women's gold. What about you Sir? Mo Farah. Double Olympic gold

in endurance sport and the fantastic victory dance at the end.

Give him a wave. Hi, Mo... What about you? All the medals we won in

cycling, especially Bradley Wiggins a week after winning the Tour de

France, amazing gold and so modest with it. Yes. It's time for our

Congratulations Team GB. What do you reckon? Awesome. Good

isn't it?! Earlier, we asked for your pictures and if the Games have

inspired you to go out and do some sports. We've had loads in. This is

a cracker, "think my mother reliving her youth ." yes! Go,

girl! Follow that, come on?! I can't

follow that. This is really sweet. Daisy and Harvey took up canoeing

today and they are in Peterborough which is lovely.

What about this one, 61-year-old - the grandmas are out there - talk

about inspiring a generation. Here we are, this is Jennifer look from

Leeds. Got a bit of competition there!