24/07/2012 Newsround


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Exactly three days and four hours to the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

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The countdown is on. I'm Hayley. He's Ricky, and over the next ten

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minutes Newsround's all about London 2012. Anyone for water polo?

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The events you might not know much about. And why win one gold when

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you can win five? We speak to Olympic legend, Sir Steve Redgrave.

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First though, lots of juicy Olympic nuggets to get through. Athletes

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from across the world are continuing to arrive in London.

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With all the equipment he needs. Bikes and canoes are being brought

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in as excitement builds for Friday. Here's the British swimming team

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having just flown to London, where Team GB have their official welcome

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tonight. But will the triple jumper Phillips Idowu, one of Britain's

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top medal hopes, be joining them? He's pulled out of the training

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camp in Portugal with a hip injury. Now, Olympic bosses want to see his

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medical records. The top man at the British Olympic Association says

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the British team for London 2012 is the best ever. Lord Moynihan said

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performance is at a level never seen before, and the team is the

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best prepared in Olympic history. So can they beat the fourth place

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in the medal table, which is what they got in Beijing? And who's

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going to get those shiny medals? Everyone knows all about the likes

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of Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington and Tom Daley. But there's an

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incredible 35 teenagers in Team GB's Olympic squad this summer,

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each desperate to become a star on the world's biggest stage. It's in

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the Olympic Stadium, just over there, that some of the Games'

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biggest fireworks will be set off. The men's 100m final is the

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showpiece event and Britain has a young star hoping to blast past

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Bolt. Just eight months ago, Adam Gemili was playing football for

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non-league side Thurrock. Now, he's the fastest junior sprinter in the

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world and has Usain in his sights. Next stop the pool. Team GB go into

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the Games with one of the best-ever British Olympic swimming teams. The

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women's team is one to watch for medal hopes. Aimme Willmott has a

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point to prove after missing out on last year's World Championships

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because the trials clashed with her school exams. She'll have a tough

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task to medal this summer, but she's got all the skills to pull

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off a shock. Andy Murray's hopefully wiped those Wimbledon

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tears away by now. The Scot stands a real chance of gold, especially

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since Rafael Nadal pulled out through injury. But perhaps it's

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time to turn Murray Mount in to Robson's Ridge. Laura won her first

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title when she was just 14 years old. She says she's missed out on a

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few party's in order to cram in some extra training sessions, so

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lets hope it pays off. So the stage is set, the athletes are all here

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and Team GB seem set to take the Games by storm. And with so many

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young stars in the squad, there should be plenty more medals to

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come in the future too. So, in just a few days, the eyes of the world

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will be on the Olympic Park in East London. Billions of pounds have

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been spent on making it look great. But what was it like before? Leah

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grew up there and this is her guide to the neighbourhood. Most people's

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idea of the area where I was brought up was this. Pack your bags,

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sling your hook and go. But one of the best places to get a real sense

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of East London is here, Whitechapel market and even though the park is

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just four miles down the round, it's the East London I've always

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known. This is a place bursting with a colourful mix of people,

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food and culture. It's noisy, crowded and sometimes messy, but

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with influences from all over the world from Bangladesh to Somalia,

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it's a place like no other. My grandparents settled here in the

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1950s and whilst it was very different then, it was just as

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vibrant. They came to work here and settled in the borough of Tower

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Hamlets. Today, the rez departments are some of the poorest in the --

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residents are some of the poorest in the city. One of the hopes is

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that the Games will bring jobs and money, helping to turn around local

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fortunes and some people are excited at getting the chance to

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show off their communities, like these school kids who were picked

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to perform at the closing ceremony. Vs the Games here and getting the

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teenagers -- having the Games here and getting the teenagers to

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perform means we are not all stereotypes. No-one gets the

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opportunity, so it means a lot. biggest sporting event on the

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planet kicks off in a matter of days right here. For many, it's a

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life-changing moment. For me, it's a chance to show off my

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neighbourhood to the rest of the world. Thanks, Leah. Well, we all

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know abut the running, the swimming and the cycling. But there are some

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events at London 2012 you probably won't be so familiar with. So bring

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on the Newsround guide to odd Olympic sports. First up is a

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seriously sporty mis-match. The modern pentathlon. It involves

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fencing, swimming and horse riding. Then, three rounds of target

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shooting and running are chucked in at the end. The event used to be

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held over four or five days, but now the athletes tackle all that in

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just one day. Next up, canoe slalom and this is no easy paddle

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downstream. Competitors have to negotiate a slalom course down

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white water rapids. An amazing 13,000 litres of water follows down

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the course every second. And if water sports are your thing, then

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check out this - water polo - teams race to the middle of the pool for

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the ball and have only 30 seconds to score. To make it even harder

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players aren't allowed to touch the bottom - that means they could be

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swimming for up to three miles every match. But if you're looking

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for a more unusual Olympic spor,t head back to the history books. Tug

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of war used to be one of the highlights. At the London Games in

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1908 it caused a massive row when one team was disqualified for

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wearing extra heavy steel boots to help them win. Luckily, or sadly,

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tug of war was ditched as an Olympic sport shortly after that.

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Let's go back to Leah in East London now. As we heard, billions

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have been spent on everything from putting in whole new railway lines

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to building huge stadiums. But what happens to all this stuff, and the

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people who live there, once it's all over? It's taken seven years

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for East London to be ready to host the biggest sporting event in the

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world. It's cost the UK billions of pounds and some of that cash has

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been spent sprucing up the surrounding neighbourhood and

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preparing to host the Games. This was the high road in Leighton just

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around the corner from the Olympics last year. This part of London has

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had a serious lick of paint, but when everyone leaves, what's next

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for the area that hosted the world? Wherever in the world the Games

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arrive, there's always lots of change in store. The people in

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charge of the 2004 Games in Greece pumped in billions to get things

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right, but as I saw in November last year, many of the venues lie

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unused now. Have the organisers of the London Games learnt the lessons

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of the past? There's a lot of things that are going to happen

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about the stadium itself. I'm confident that that is going to get

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a good new owner that will make the best use, and also one that is

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really committed to community use. Another reason why so much money

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has been spent bringing the Games here, was to inspire a new

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generation of sports lovers, but there are no guarantees this will

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happen. The billions of pounds spent has already changed lives for

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the good and now everyone will be watching to see what this means for

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the rest of East London for decades to come. Just time to end the show

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with a man who's been in five Olympic Games and won a gold medal

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at every single one. We bring you Sir Steve Redgrave. I'm Sir Steve

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Redgrave and competed in five different Games from 1984 in LA to

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2000 in Sydney. It's always very difficult to pick out one moment,

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but I think the first moment you win your first Olympic gold medal

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you have a dream to become a champion and that first one is that

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dream becoming reality. COMMENTATOR: They've crossed the

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line and there is gold for Great Britain. We were back in the main

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village at 1pm because we raced so early. And you think, "I'm the

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champion." It because you have put everything on to that moment in

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time and not thought about what is happening after, even though you

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are hugely excited, there is still a real world out there and you are

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thinking, what will I do next? But, I kept most of the time saying,

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"Let's try to do it again." I did that five times over. How did I do

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at the Olympics? I didn't do too bad. COMMENTATOR: Five for this man,

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38 years old. What a British hero. Six medals and five of them gold,

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