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Exactly three days and four hours to the Olympics Opening Ceremony. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
The countdown is on. I'm Hayley. He's Ricky, and over the next ten | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
minutes Newsround's all about London 2012. Anyone for water polo? | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
The events you might not know much about. And why win one gold when | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
you can win five? We speak to Olympic legend, Sir Steve Redgrave. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
First though, lots of juicy Olympic nuggets to get through. Athletes | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
from across the world are continuing to arrive in London. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
With all the equipment he needs. Bikes and canoes are being brought | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
in as excitement builds for Friday. Here's the British swimming team | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
having just flown to London, where Team GB have their official welcome | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
tonight. But will the triple jumper Phillips Idowu, one of Britain's | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
top medal hopes, be joining them? He's pulled out of the training | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
camp in Portugal with a hip injury. Now, Olympic bosses want to see his | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
medical records. The top man at the British Olympic Association says | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
the British team for London 2012 is the best ever. Lord Moynihan said | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
performance is at a level never seen before, and the team is the | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
best prepared in Olympic history. So can they beat the fourth place | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
in the medal table, which is what they got in Beijing? And who's | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
going to get those shiny medals? Everyone knows all about the likes | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
of Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington and Tom Daley. But there's an | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
incredible 35 teenagers in Team GB's Olympic squad this summer, | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
each desperate to become a star on the world's biggest stage. It's in | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
the Olympic Stadium, just over there, that some of the Games' | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
biggest fireworks will be set off. The men's 100m final is the | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
showpiece event and Britain has a young star hoping to blast past | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Bolt. Just eight months ago, Adam Gemili was playing football for | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
non-league side Thurrock. Now, he's the fastest junior sprinter in the | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
world and has Usain in his sights. Next stop the pool. Team GB go into | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
the Games with one of the best-ever British Olympic swimming teams. The | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
women's team is one to watch for medal hopes. Aimme Willmott has a | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
point to prove after missing out on last year's World Championships | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
because the trials clashed with her school exams. She'll have a tough | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
task to medal this summer, but she's got all the skills to pull | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
off a shock. Andy Murray's hopefully wiped those Wimbledon | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
tears away by now. The Scot stands a real chance of gold, especially | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
since Rafael Nadal pulled out through injury. But perhaps it's | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
time to turn Murray Mount in to Robson's Ridge. Laura won her first | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
title when she was just 14 years old. She says she's missed out on a | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
few party's in order to cram in some extra training sessions, so | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
lets hope it pays off. So the stage is set, the athletes are all here | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
and Team GB seem set to take the Games by storm. And with so many | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
young stars in the squad, there should be plenty more medals to | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
come in the future too. So, in just a few days, the eyes of the world | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
will be on the Olympic Park in East London. Billions of pounds have | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
been spent on making it look great. But what was it like before? Leah | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
grew up there and this is her guide to the neighbourhood. Most people's | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
idea of the area where I was brought up was this. Pack your bags, | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
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sling your hook and go. But one of the best places to get a real sense | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
of East London is here, Whitechapel market and even though the park is | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
just four miles down the round, it's the East London I've always | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
known. This is a place bursting with a colourful mix of people, | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
food and culture. It's noisy, crowded and sometimes messy, but | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
with influences from all over the world from Bangladesh to Somalia, | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
it's a place like no other. My grandparents settled here in the | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
1950s and whilst it was very different then, it was just as | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
vibrant. They came to work here and settled in the borough of Tower | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
Hamlets. Today, the rez departments are some of the poorest in the -- | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
residents are some of the poorest in the city. One of the hopes is | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
that the Games will bring jobs and money, helping to turn around local | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
fortunes and some people are excited at getting the chance to | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
show off their communities, like these school kids who were picked | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
to perform at the closing ceremony. Vs the Games here and getting the | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
teenagers -- having the Games here and getting the teenagers to | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
perform means we are not all stereotypes. No-one gets the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
opportunity, so it means a lot. biggest sporting event on the | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
planet kicks off in a matter of days right here. For many, it's a | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
life-changing moment. For me, it's a chance to show off my | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
neighbourhood to the rest of the world. Thanks, Leah. Well, we all | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
know abut the running, the swimming and the cycling. But there are some | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
events at London 2012 you probably won't be so familiar with. So bring | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
on the Newsround guide to odd Olympic sports. First up is a | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
seriously sporty mis-match. The modern pentathlon. It involves | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
fencing, swimming and horse riding. Then, three rounds of target | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
shooting and running are chucked in at the end. The event used to be | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
held over four or five days, but now the athletes tackle all that in | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
just one day. Next up, canoe slalom and this is no easy paddle | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
downstream. Competitors have to negotiate a slalom course down | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
white water rapids. An amazing 13,000 litres of water follows down | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
the course every second. And if water sports are your thing, then | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
check out this - water polo - teams race to the middle of the pool for | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the ball and have only 30 seconds to score. To make it even harder | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
players aren't allowed to touch the bottom - that means they could be | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
swimming for up to three miles every match. But if you're looking | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
for a more unusual Olympic spor,t head back to the history books. Tug | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
of war used to be one of the highlights. At the London Games in | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
1908 it caused a massive row when one team was disqualified for | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
wearing extra heavy steel boots to help them win. Luckily, or sadly, | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
tug of war was ditched as an Olympic sport shortly after that. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Let's go back to Leah in East London now. As we heard, billions | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
have been spent on everything from putting in whole new railway lines | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
to building huge stadiums. But what happens to all this stuff, and the | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
people who live there, once it's all over? It's taken seven years | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
for East London to be ready to host the biggest sporting event in the | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
world. It's cost the UK billions of pounds and some of that cash has | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
been spent sprucing up the surrounding neighbourhood and | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
preparing to host the Games. This was the high road in Leighton just | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
around the corner from the Olympics last year. This part of London has | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
had a serious lick of paint, but when everyone leaves, what's next | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
for the area that hosted the world? Wherever in the world the Games | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
arrive, there's always lots of change in store. The people in | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
charge of the 2004 Games in Greece pumped in billions to get things | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
right, but as I saw in November last year, many of the venues lie | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
unused now. Have the organisers of the London Games learnt the lessons | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
of the past? There's a lot of things that are going to happen | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
about the stadium itself. I'm confident that that is going to get | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
a good new owner that will make the best use, and also one that is | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
really committed to community use. Another reason why so much money | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
has been spent bringing the Games here, was to inspire a new | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
generation of sports lovers, but there are no guarantees this will | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
happen. The billions of pounds spent has already changed lives for | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
the good and now everyone will be watching to see what this means for | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
the rest of East London for decades to come. Just time to end the show | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
with a man who's been in five Olympic Games and won a gold medal | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
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at every single one. We bring you Sir Steve Redgrave. I'm Sir Steve | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Redgrave and competed in five different Games from 1984 in LA to | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
2000 in Sydney. It's always very difficult to pick out one moment, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
but I think the first moment you win your first Olympic gold medal | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
you have a dream to become a champion and that first one is that | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
dream becoming reality. COMMENTATOR: They've crossed the | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
line and there is gold for Great Britain. We were back in the main | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
village at 1pm because we raced so early. And you think, "I'm the | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
champion." It because you have put everything on to that moment in | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
time and not thought about what is happening after, even though you | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
are hugely excited, there is still a real world out there and you are | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
thinking, what will I do next? But, I kept most of the time saying, | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
"Let's try to do it again." I did that five times over. How did I do | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
at the Olympics? I didn't do too bad. COMMENTATOR: Five for this man, | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
38 years old. What a British hero. Six medals and five of them gold, | :09:42. | :09:48. |