23/07/2012 The One Show

Don't step in the Olympic lane! Thank you very much indeed. Hello,

friends. Welcome to the beginning of Olympic week here on The One

Show with Alex Jones. And my co- commentator, Chris Evans for the

week. Hi. Countdown clock, please. Come on. Not long to go now!

Perfect. It's the best clock in history. Very shortly the opening

ceremony will begin and Chris Hoy will lead Team GB out into the

Olympic stadium. Tonight's guests are in top physical condition, too.

They could be in the Olympics. Forget The Hairy Bikers for a

moment, it's The Hairy Dieters. Good evening. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING.

Very nice to have you back. It's lovely to be here. Looking trim.

are. Yeah, we have lost a bit. a road spot between us. Three stone

each. What happened? There's a lot of health professionals went, you

are really fat. So we went, we are not! We wanted to come off the

tablets. You have been making big fat gorgeous food for years. So are

you rebelling against yourself? were developing big fat gorgeous

bellies as well. We thought we would take time out, get back into

shape and maybe manage the former indulges we had. I was 19 stone and

Dave was 18. We kind of had to do it really. We started to shuffle.

You don't want to shuffle. Shuffle and limp. OK, well hopefully the

comfort food hasn't gone. No, not by any stretch. Do you like our

model of what we think the opening ceremony might look like at the

Olympics? It's brilliant. Classy. Which bits do you like. The sheep

and shepherd. I like the medical facilities, they seem efficient.

The river is blue. And you have a cow to make cheese. There is sa

tree. Which you can't have any more. We can now! A couple of things

missing, breakthrough stories today, we understand this is true, there's

going to be a giant Voldermort, he is going to start attacking things,

then 30 Mary Poppins will fly in and land. This is all true,

honestly. Also, we need to put Boris Johnson in because he has not

been there for a while. On his bike literally. We will add more as the

secrets unleashed. We have had permission from the Olympic

committee to do this. We have. special effects have taken ages!

The athletes are all in lockdown and we are going to find out

exactly what that is when we speak to twice gold medal winner James

Cracknell later on. There he is, ready to talk to us at Hyde Park.

First, despite the sceptics and rain the torch has been seen by

nine million people at least, Wye say, since it arrived in Cornwall

on this very show. It was a great night. The torch travelled by

vehicle some of the time, but another relay following exactly the

same route and organised by amateur athletes has run every single step

of the way. Anita joined them as they approached the finish. Well

done! By now, almost every corner of the

nation has been touched by the corporate glitz and celebrity

glamour of the official torch procession. Following quietly in

its wake there's been a more modest relay.

Taking almost exactly the same route as the Olympic relay, it set

off a full ten days behind, but caught up on the 1th July.

-- 18th July. It finishes just over there at the Olympic Park, but

that's where the similarities end because this is a very different

race. It's the brainchild of Kate. Hello,

Kate. Room for another one on the relay. Certainly is. I will join

you. What's the idea behind this, why do it? The idea was we saw the

torch travelling much of the way in a van or car. We wanted to really

unite and inspire a nation of runners and to get behind the

Olympics and to do the relay in a genuine way. Non-stop, around the

British Isles, 24 hours a day. We covered all four countries of the

United Kingdom, even been to Dublin and also been up the four major

peaks. How do you begin to organise something like this? A lot of the

organisation on the ground is done by runners themselves. They're

deciding at which point in a city or town they're going to meet and

they're in touch all the time on phones.

Actor Simon will be doing his leg, just as soon as the curtain falls

on his play. I am leg 637, it will be about ten miles, crosscountry

and on the road. All set. Let's get that baton. Any tips? Just keep

going! With over 2000 runners of all abilities taking part, most

participants really will face the loneliness of the long distance

runner. Well done. Cheers. Keep going.

The real relay has no intent of upstaging the official Olympic

torch relay. Instead, their plan is to raise money for underprivileged

children in the UK. That's the motivation for runners like Cheryl

who is running the ten miles from Shooters Hill to Bromley in Kent.

thought it was a great thing to be part of and I heard it might be

going into the Guinness Book of Records, so I have always wanted my

name in that book, maybe now is the time. It's getting late now. The

rain's coming in. It's not the best of conditions. Are you all right?

Yeah, good luck. See you later. I am handing the baton over to a

guy called Tom, I think, turns out that we are next door neighbours

and we have never met before. Nice to meet you! How are you doing?

Here you go. It's a glorious sunny Sunday and

after more than 7,000 miles, the final stretch is open for all to

join in. This is it, the last leg of the journey. They've a mile to

go before they get to the Olympic Park. I am going to join in. Let's

hope these pins keep up. Why are you doing this? Just it's a

great opportunity to be part of something so epic. I couldn't get

into the Olympic one. Are you warm in there. Very warm. This has been

around how many thousands of miles? Over 7,000. It's got a lot of DNA

from everyone's sweat on the handle, I think. Well done everybody.

CHEERING. The real relay's one purpose is to

unite and inspire a nation of runners, I reckon that's a pretty

good start. Excellent. We have some of the real

relay runners here this evening. Give yourselves a round of

applause! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING. So well done. As they already

spontaneously did during the filming. Let me ask you this, you

are not anti- the Olympics? No, you love the Olympics. Yes! Have you

been near a real torch? Yes. have OK. Good for you. How excited

are you two about the games? Very excited, yeah. It's great. I am

going away. Are you? Yeah. We can watch it on the telly. There is a

nice excitement in the country. We should be proud of that. It is.

weekend, the sunshine, Bradley Wiggins winning last night. There's

been a sea change. Change of mood. Apparently there are sceptics still

around, though. We will be meeting one in a moment. No. We have

bicycles. How can you be anti, it's huge. You have been doing your own

mini Olympics, now The Hairy Dieters. You haven't turned your

back on the comfort food. How have you achieved this trim look. Food

is something we love, we went to Newcastle University and a

Professor day lore -- Taylor, we were nearly as fat as we were flesh,

as it were, and by just eating less, watching calories, drinking less,

doing more exercise, in three months we managed to lose three

stone each. It's an interesting experiment really. But we perfected

a lot of recipes that still taste like good food. That's the key, you

see, because that was a challenge for us. We didn't want to give up

good food, that's what we do and who we are. So the recipes we

developed had to be great food, but they just happened to be less

calories, so that was the kind of whole challenge for us. I think

it's made us better cooks. It has, we had to think more about the food.

Asian food is great because there are few calories in spices, like

our diet chicken jalfrezi is a joy. It's not from Thailand, like!

There's a serious side to it, you took Dave back to school and you

explained the reasons why you had a special relationship with food,

let's say, from an early age. Let's have a look at a clip. I must have

been about nine. A teacher came in and stopped the whole thing, and I

thought oh, dear me. Then he mentioned my name. Then they said...

They said Simon King mustn't eat anything that he is not brought in

himself. Because he is on a diet. He announced it to the school.

the whole school and dinner hall. Turned round and I just did that

and the whole school was looking at me. I just wanted to die. I just

wanted to die. I just thought, well, it's pointless because I felt

worthless. I never will forget it. Wow. Proper programme. It was a

proper programme. It was a cathartic journey. It's an

individual journey. All of us have relationships with food that

manifest in one way or the other. So, it was a very personal

programme. There's unprecedented access to our family lives in this

programme, because as I said, it's a real real personal journey.

you think you will keep the weight off? Is it a lifestyle more than a

change? I think so. Like so many middle-aged men are scale-phobics,

don't have scales. So it's something to keep an eye on,

especially doing what we do for a living. OK, you are down from 19

and you are down from 18. Congratulations. August 2nd, BBC2,

The Hairy Dieters. Now, a warning to any budding entrepreneurs

watching, don't even think about cashing in on the Games. Even be

careful if you plan to use certain words that have been trademarked,

like Games, summer, don't use 2012, don't use bronze, silver, don't use

gold. Don't use any of them, because you will be put in jail!

You won't be. The thing is, the Olympics Purple Police are watching

closely as Carrie Grant found out in Cardiff.

Roll up, roll up, get your Olympic ice-cream here!

The Olympic Games are in town. The first event is women's football in

Cardiff. So, that's got to be a chance to make some decent money,

right? Well, maybe not. The organisers have made sure there

are strict rules to stop people like me getting a slice of the

action. Put simply, if you run a business

and haven't sponsored the Olympics, you can't mention them in

advertising. If you do, you could be sued for damages. These rules

came in as a result of us getting the Olympics, so it's something

that the IOC make the Government do. The reason behind it is to protect

sponsors, so the big sponsors, the big brands making this Games happen,

the rules are there to protect their investment. What can and

can't I say? There's two lists that come with this legislation. List A

and list B. You can't use two words from list A together, and you can't

use one word from list A with one or more words from list B. I am not

allowed to use the year? combination with other words, gold,

silver, Games, London. London? I can't say London 2012? No. Olympic

sponsorship is nothing new. In the 1948 London Olympics there was

plenty of Coca-Cola branding. They've been sponsors since 1928

and also one of the 55 companies putting money in this time.

All in all, the 2012 sponsors have contributed �700 million to help

stage the Games. This is a trading standards officer,

but during the Games he will be putting on his purple jacket and

helping LOCOG, the organisers, check that no one is breaching

rules. For companies trading close to the venues, the regulations are

even more stringent when the events are on. They mean they won't be

able to hand out leaflets, put up posters, or do any kind of extra

advertising unless they have special permission. I am outside of

the stadium, can I have have this? No, there is the stadium. This is

the designated event zone. If you are inside that, and you are

advertising, you need the specific permission of the Organising

Committee to carry on doing it. what about if I am just a spectator

wearing a branded t-shirt? Can I wear my t-shirt if I go into watch?

Yes. I haven't any problem with that. The only time that it will be

an issue is if there were a lot of you all wearing the same t-shirt

and it's obviously a employ of -- If you are a spectator, you can

take in snacks, whatever the branding. There are restrictions on

liquid, though, as that is a security issue. In a build-up to

the events, on Wednesday night, Hanley is doing the rounds of the

businesses to let them know the rules.

We are not looking to clamp down on people supporting the Olympics...

In Cardiff, there is a zone that covers half of the city centre,

Handly has his work cut out. He soon has found a cafe owner which

looks like there are plans to break the rules.

We are having a plan for an event... We have to be careful. You put in

the rings, the words Olympic, you can't do that

We want to profit from everything that is going on. The rugby will be

fantastic for us, the Olympics, to take advantage of it is what we are

here for. To profit year as much as the next guy. So not being able to

do that kind of stick as little bit, but... We don't want to get in

trouble. Next stop, the Cardiff Market. An

area that falls within the event zone. Some here are disappointed

that they cannot cash in with Olympic posters or branded goods.

Everyone is trying to make out and get by. So any help from a national

celebration occurring, then, you know, yeah. Tourists who come here,

they would love to come into the market and buy products and take

back all of those memories. One area free of sponsors

advertising is the Stadium itself. In common with all of the Olympic

venues, the Millennium Stadium will not have corporate branding so that

all eyes are on the pitch. Here in Cardiff, they are undoubtedly proud

to be hosting the first of the Olympic events. With or without my

ice creams. Nice ring there is! Thanks, Carrie. Now, LOCOG told us

they are protecting the rights of the sponsors and don't want to

dampen the excitement about the Games.

Olympic-sceptics have been out in force, but surely their woe betide

must be ebbing now? But not according to Lucy Siegle, though.

The voice of sanity. Bar hum bag, but, Iwan Thomas is

not having any of it? Not at all. You as an Olympian, let the battle

commence. The Olympic-sceptics first?

This Olympics is in danger of being overtaken by celebrity. We had

first which will. I. Am. Look at that, Paloma Faith. We need

razzamatazz to bring it to the masses. Kids who may not like sport,

but love the music. They see the cool people doing, so think that

the Olympics must be cool. The opening ceremony, �27 million,

but Team GB are not getting on stage until 11.30pm in the night.

Save the best to the last. The athletes who are not competing in

the first few days are up later, but once again the public are

getting to see the British stars and getting behind it. Cheer up!

Hang on! Hang on, Iwan Thomas. I hope that they can get there. Look

at this, the Olympic Lane, adding two hours of delays. I confess that

the traffic will be bad, but Transport for London have a scheme.

Go to the website. Plan your journeys. Here is an idea, instead

of sitting on the tube with a glum face, talk to people.

Get behind it all. Plan the journey. Make that journey part of the Games.

Just pretend it is the Northern line, everyone is friendly! Can I

say something, there are too many problems, it is like Carry On

Olympics. An Australian Saylor, his sails have been lost in transit.

went to a competition, a pole- vaulter got there, they had cut his

poles in half. How about being positive. How about the thousands

of athletes that have turned up, the weather is nice, everything has

arrived. Do you know what? If there was a Gold Medal for mooning, you

would win it. Who are you with, Dave? The swiplg.

And Victoria Pendleton. Si, how about you? I'm with the

Olympics, I want to see somebody winning.

Now, to, what are we going to do? We are continuing with the Burn.

James Cracknell is in one of the Olympic venues, Hyde Park, good

evening James. Evening there, how are you doing?

What is going on or what will be going on where you are at this very

moment? At the moment, there are the peddeloes and the swans. This

is the Serpentine in Hyde Park where the swimming leg of the

triathlon will be and the open water swimming. So where Kerri-Anne

Payne and the Brown brothers will be swimming.

We have heard that the athletes are in lock down. Can you explain what

lock down means? As an athlete you will be in a training camp, you are

aware of what time you wake up, what you eat, what you wear, but

you go to the ath leets' village, there is a massive arcade room,

free arcade games, lots of things to waste your time. Eating as much

as you like, probably not a good thing to do before racing.

A terrible thing to do, I never do it. There is a huge debate about

who is going to light the cauldron, not the torch. Should it be Steven

Redgrave, your pal? Daley Thompson, or should it be Bradley Wiggins

after winning the Tour de France? think that Brad should psyche it

will into the stadium and hand it to Steve. It should be an athlete

or an ex-athlete, it should be Steve, but I think Steve should

give it to the first person born after Jacques Rogge opened up the

envelope to say that London had won the hosting. The legacy of the

Games is about getting kids into the sport, so a 7-year-old kid,

lighting the flame... I like that theory, it is new, but it is good.

Right, in a few minutes' time, we are holding our own Tour de One

Show with Bradley Wiggins with the Hairy Bikers becoming the Hairy

Posh Bikers. Now, Michael Moseley is with us

with the dangers of dehydration and the dangers of it, and drinking too

much water too. No matter how hard the athletes

train, there is something that could ruin their chances. It is

water, or rather a lack of it. Dehydration has a big impact on

performance. To see why that it -- is, and what the athletes can do

about it, I'm going to experience dehydration.

The doctor here is a dietician in Coventry University. He is going to

measure how dehydration affects my fiscal and mental performance. To

get me sweating, the temperature here is 35 Celsius.

Ricardo wants me to lose 2% of my body weight by sweating. A 2% loss

has been found to seriously affect performance.

After an hour on the tread mell. I am starting to feel the effects of

dehydration. So what is happening inside of me? When you sweat, the

water is lost from the blood. So blood gets thicker and cannot carry

as much oxygen and nutrients around the body.

It is moving towards the heart and towards thirsty.

You are starting to the hit the 2%. After 90 minutes, I am almost 3%

dehydrated. You sweated two litres of water

from your body. I am going off now.

I am shattered. It is not just my body that is affected.

Before exercising, I did a cognitive test. Ricardo timed how

quickly I could say the colours, rather than read the words on the

page. Blue, green, orange... Now I'm

dehydrated, I have another go. This is yellow, no, that was pink,

green... It takes me ten seconds longer.

It was definitely harder. So how can you prevent dehydration

happening? You can imagine after something like that, you would want

to drink as much water as possible, but drinking too much water can be

as dangerous as drinking too little. Taking on too much water can dilute

the blood to the point that water seeps into the lung s -- lungs or

the brain. In the last few years five runners

have died from this, but there is a safer way to rehydrate properly.

You have to get fluid into the blood and keep it there. To do that,

you need some of this. Salt.

So why does salt keep water in your blood? I've got a demonstration

here for you. Now, these two tubes, represent

blood vessels. The difference is that this one contains the salt,

this one is just pure water and some dye.

The solution in the tank represents the salty bodily fluids that

surround our blood vessels. Water moves towards higher salt

concentration. It is called osmosis. The pure water is drawn from the

vessel, into the salty solution in the tank. Whereas the saltwater

vessel stays full. That's because it is the same salt concentration

as the fluid in the tank. This is how salt stops the blood

thickening and helps to prevent dehydration.

Which is why sports drinks contain salts, also known as electro lights,

but Lewis James believes that there is something better than sports

drinks. There is interesting research,

Michael, that is showing that skimmed milk can enhance

rehydration after exercise. How? It has slightly more salt or

sodium than the drinks. The protein in the milk delays the emptying

from the stomach, that may lead to a better retention of the fluid.

So, skimmed milk maybe the best way to rehydrate after exercising.

Staying fully hydrated will be a priority for all Olympic hopefuls

this summer. Thank you, Michael. Sorted again.

Time now for the Tour de One Show, featuring Si and Dave. Bradley

Wiggins has anglosized the Tour de France as the first ever Brit to

win it, but in the crowd are a few remaining francophiles that you two

must convert to the British way of life. Take off them the French try

colours and replace it with the Union Jack. Take their baguettes

and replace it with this lovely loaf. Take off their berets and

give them a bowler hat instead. Are you ready 3, 2, 1! Here they

have come to blows already. Is that a penalty? It could be.

Si has taken aim. Dave has a slight weight advantage! Coming in at just

15 stone! Si at 16.5 stone. It is the baguette now. The baguette on

the inside. Dave gets an inside lane there. Si trailing. Remember,

both of these guys are finally tuned, semi--owned athletes.

-- semi-honed athletes. It is Dave, is he going to win the Tour de One

Show? I think he is going to win the Tour de One Show! What can we

say about that? You have won the medal and you get to tell us about

your tour. I felt the spirit of Bradley then.

We are oing tour, 858 nights, September the 30th. All over the

country, thank you! -- we are going on tour.

Is the purpose of that to get fat again? No! We have tangos, it is