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'And let us not forget also, Chris Hoy, five gold and one silver, | 0:00:10 | 0:00:14 | |
'is poised here to become | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
'the greatest British Olympian of all time.' | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
Last day of competition, London 2012, one last race to go. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:31 | |
This was my chance. A dream ending. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:35 | |
Oh! The pressure is... | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
I mean, pressure only exists in your mind, | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
it's not something you can measure, you can't quantify it. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
You know, it's how you perceive it. So not going into it seeing myself | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
as someone with the weight of the world on his shoulder, | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
I was trying to go in thinking, "This is an amazing opportunity." | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
It's kind of silly when you think about it, | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
all those sleepless nights, | 0:00:53 | 0:00:54 | |
all about riding a bike in a circle, you know. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
By the time I got here to the verge of a sixth Olympic gold medal, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:10 | |
I'd been riding my bike round in circles for most of my life. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
The success I had never stopped surprising me, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
because I don't think I was simply born a champion. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
I don't think anyone is. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
I want to show you how champions are made... | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
..through endless hard work and determination, | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
by victory AND defeat, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
by brain as well as brawn... | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
..by great teams and amazing support. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
And if I can do it...anyone can. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
Because we all start off with a chance of winning gold. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
I might have retired from cycling last year, | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
but I wasn't ready for the pipe and slippers just yet. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
ENGINE ROARS TYRES SCREECH | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
This is my new passion. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
And my dream is to compete in the Les Mans 24-Hour Race | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
in a GT car like this. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
Six Olympic gold medals or not, I'm the novice here. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
And my mentor is a gifted young driver, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
22-year-old Jann Mardenborough. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
We can go in definitely harder. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
-By mid-corner we're sort of like... -Yeah. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
We need to go, we need to go | 0:02:57 | 0:02:58 | |
and then that pushes the front on even more. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
And by the time you're full throttle, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:02 | |
you've got still quite a lot of lock on. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
ENGINE REVS | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
TYRES SCREECH | 0:03:06 | 0:03:07 | |
I really don't know what sparked my competitive drive, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
I just know that whatever I do, I want to do it well. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
'Here comes Hoy. Hoy hits the line with one lap to go. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
'And the challenge is coming here from....' | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
Personally, I blame the parents. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
INDISTINCT COMMENTARY | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
His first bike was from a jumble sale, | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
painted it up and put stickers on it, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
made it look pretty cool. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
And it broke after a couple of weeks, | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
cos it wasn't designed for the punishment he was giving it. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
He then got a neighbour's bike, which to his shame was a girls' frame, | 0:03:56 | 0:04:01 | |
but he was too young to know the difference. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
HE LAUGHS That didn't last long either. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
So, eventually, we were forced into buying him a proper race bike. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
That was it, he was on his way to world domination. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
'And he's into third spot and he will qualify.' | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
Chris always liked to be doing something. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
Even as a wee boy, if it was raining outside he'd say, | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
"Oh, Mum, wish I could go out to the garden." | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
Or, "Can we go round the block? I just want to run, run and run." | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
And it could have been... Well, I kind of hoped it would be tennis | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
and then he'd make some real money, but he didn't do that. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
Whatever he did, he wanted to do it properly | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
and he would ask someone who knew, "Is that right?" | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
And they would say, "Yeah, it's good, but if you do this way..." | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
And he would do it and then be pleased. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
And not in a showy-offy way, | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
he just wanted to do the best that he could. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
I don't think I was a pushy parent. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
And I was conscious of some parents who were, I think, | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
living their dreams through their...their kids. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
There was one international race we went to | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
and the Italian kid's father | 0:05:18 | 0:05:19 | |
was actually boxing him around the ears as he came through the finish. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:24 | |
So he was obviously really disappointed | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
in his son's performance, but I tried not to do that. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:30 | |
I don't know if I recognised any potential, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
I just always thought it would be nice | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
if he could achieve as much as he could. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
When I was younger going to a BMX race, when I was, you know, | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
nine or ten years of age, if it was a race down in the south of England | 0:05:45 | 0:05:49 | |
my dad would come in from work on a Friday night, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
we'd have our dinner, Mum would make the sandwiches | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
and pack, you know, the picnic for the weekend. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
My dad would get the car packed, | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
we'd put the back seats down in the old Citroen diesel car | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
that had about 120,000-150,000 miles on the clock. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
And, you know, we'd have our meal, get the bags packed | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
and about 11 o'clock at night, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
we'd jump in the car and I would just basically go to sleep. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
I would lie down on this mattress in the back seat of the car, | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
duvet, pillow, my dad would drive and we'd go through the night, | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
arrive down wherever it was, | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
south coast of England early in the morning, | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
I would wake up nice and fresh. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Get to the track, nobody else would be on the track | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
at that time in the morning - I would do my practice then. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
My dad would then catch up with his sleep | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
and I'd race Saturday, race Sunday, jump back in the car | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
and drive all the way back up again. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
I had no idea at that time | 0:06:40 | 0:06:41 | |
just how much of a sacrifice it was for my parents to do that. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
And it wasn't because they thought | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
that I was going to become a champion cyclist | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
and they would get their reward, | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
you know, "This will be fantastic, he'll be Olympic Champion." | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
It was just, I think, to give me an opportunity | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
to try and pursue something that I absolutely loved. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
Loving a sport is what it's all about. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
But to become a champion, the sport's got to love you back. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
It's got to be right for your body shape and size. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
If you're cut out to be a marathon runner, | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
then you're not going to be a great shot-putter. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
If you're built like a jockey, | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
you're probably not going to be a champion basketball player. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
But you've also got to be lucky enough to find the right sport. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
You can't become a champion at anything | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
unless you give it a go in the first place. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
SIREN | 0:07:35 | 0:07:36 | |
-Ahoy there! -How you doing? | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
How's it going? | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
Sir Steve Redgrave is quite simply a legend. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:45 | |
You coming in? | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
He's one of the world's most successful ever rowers. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
He's also passionate about getting people into boats. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
Even land animals like me. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
We don't want you falling in the canal. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
I'm trying not to fall in the canal. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
I did row a bit at school... but that wasn't yesterday. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
When were you last out in a pair? | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
Pair...a long time ago. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
Last time I was out in a pair was 20 years ago | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
-and it was probably on this very stretch of water. -OK. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
So have you still got the skill? | 0:08:17 | 0:08:18 | |
Or did you go to cycling because you didn't have the skill? | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
-You never lose class, do you, Steve? -STEVE LAUGHS | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
The form goes, but the class never goes. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:25 | |
Yeah, I'm not brilliant, to be fair, | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
-but let's give it a go, shall we? -Yeah. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
OK. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:30 | |
The boat Steve's picked for us is a high-performance racing pair. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
It might be fast, but what you gain in speed you sacrifice in stability. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
If we're going to go in, this will be the point. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
I'll do the shoes loosely, then. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
What weight is this boat designed for, do you think? | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
-They say it's 100 kilos. -Is it? -How much are you? | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
-About 92. -OK, so you're well under. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:01 | |
-I'm well over. -Well... | 0:09:01 | 0:09:02 | |
-Right, now the difficult bit. -OK. We ready? | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
-You got it? -Yeah, all mine. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
The sun's in my eyes as well, that's another excuse. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
OK, paddle. Ready, go. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
100m down the canal and we're still dry. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
It's not quite an Olympic gold, but I'll take it as a victory. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
It's slowly coming back. I think, if you had consistent up and down, | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
not sort of stopping all the time, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:52 | |
I think you'd probably... It would come back relatively quickly. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
-H's doing really well. -Take a little stroke. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
CHRIS LAUGHS | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
Rowing didn't turn out to be quite right for me, | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
but for Steve it was a perfect fit. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
So when did you actually start rowing? | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
-How old were you when you got into it? -I was 13, nearly 14. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
-Through school, was it? -And it was the Head of the English Department | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
at a small comprehensive school that I went to. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
And he asked me if I would like to try the sport of rowing. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:22 | |
And I thought going out on the river during school time, | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
that has got to be a no-brainer. And so that's how I started. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
Then after a couple of months he says, "Do you want to do a race?" | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
-And we thought, "Oh, that sounds fun. Going away at a weekend." -Yep. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
-And so we went and did Avon County School Regatta and we won it. -Right. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:39 | |
Was it because you were particularly tall compared to your classmates | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
-that he singled you out or was it something about you? -Yeah. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
He always said that he used to | 0:10:45 | 0:10:46 | |
look at the size of people's hands and feet | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
as they came into the school and if they had big hands and feet, | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
he would ask them to row. And that was his theory. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
There was 12 of us that rowed from our school | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
and out of those 12, three of us got through to the '88 Olympics, | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
and we all came fourth or better. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:03 | |
-Wow! -So that's not a bad selection policy. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
-Good talent ID from your school. -Very much so. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
It's amazing to think that without the eagle eyes of Steve's teacher, | 0:11:14 | 0:11:18 | |
his Olympic journey, one of the most amazing of all time, | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
may never have started. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
Steve was lucky. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
And once he found out that he was the right shape and size for rowing | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
there was no stopping him. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:33 | |
He went on to win gold medals at five Olympics, | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
an achievement that might never be bettered. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
But, surely, that can't all be down to big hands and big feet...can it? | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
If you have to pin it down to what you need most of, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
desire outweighs any skill level. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
If you don't have the love of doing it in the first place, | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
you're never going to put the effort in | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
to be able to compete at the highest level. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:04 | |
TRAIN WHISTLE | 0:12:04 | 0:12:05 | |
Desire to me means having the right mindset | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
and the hunger to push yourself further and further. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
It'll see you through the long days of training and the sheer hard work. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
And when I was growing up, no-one had more desire than Graham Obree. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
He became a huge inspiration to me and countless others. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
Graeme was an unemployed amateur cyclist from Ayrshire | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
who built his own bike, famously using bits of a washing machine, | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
and rode it in his own unique way | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
to win gold medals... and smash world records. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:50 | |
I would like to say thanks very much | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
to everybody who made all that noise on the way round. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
I actually thought it had started to thunder at one point. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
It might be the bike that most people remember, and no wonder. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:05 | |
This is the first time I've ever ridden one of Graeme's creations. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
Let's just say it'd take some getting used to. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
But it wasn't really the bike that inspired me, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
it was what Graeme did on it that stuck in my mind. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
Aye, you could be good if you stick in, son. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
BOTH LAUGH | 0:13:23 | 0:13:24 | |
-How's life? -Life's an amazing thing. -CHRIS LAUGHS | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
I watched that documentary that was made about you and Chris Boardman. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
And it starts at the very beginning with you in your back yard, | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
you're on this rusty old knackered static bike. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
Sweat's running off your nose and you're right on the limit. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
You can just see you're pushing yourself... | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
Actually, just beyond the limit. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
It's about reaching the envelope of your potential and stretching it. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
If you stretch it enough, a tiny, tiny bit enough times, | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
then you become a better...athlete. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
In my career, I always wanted to be the best-prepared. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
I wanted to turn up on race day | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
feeling as if there was nothing else I could have done, | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
that I'd given 100%. And a lot of that | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
came from watching you in the early days, | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
because I saw this commitment to the training. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
Here was somebody willing to push themselves to the limit | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
every single day. What was your story? | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
-Champions are made on Tuesday afternoon. -Exactly. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
-That's it. -Actually, I feel now from a distance | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
that actually... | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
being driven by the fear of regret... | 0:14:21 | 0:14:25 | |
Like, if you got beaten and you hadn't trained to your very best, | 0:14:25 | 0:14:30 | |
in your heart you know that, then the rest of your life... | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
You might have one chance at glory, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
and if you're not best prepared and you miss that by a fraction | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
and you hadn't... you know in your heart | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
you hadn't done your very, very, very, very best, | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
then you've got to live with that for your life. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
'So the scene is set ready for the final. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
'And it should be a very tight tussle indeed.' | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
So I remember watching the final of the pursuit in 1995, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
the World Championships, you're up against Collinelli. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:01 | |
Collinelli desperately wanted to win the World Championships. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
I needed to for my own self-worth. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:06 | |
Everything about me, without going into an entire documentary | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
about my psychological situation at that time, | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
but I actually needed to win that. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
'Who wants this crown the most? | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
'Oh, it's only 0.021 of a second now! It is desperately close!' | 0:15:16 | 0:15:20 | |
This was one of the most exciting races I've ever seen in my life, | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
because it was just a battle of wills between two people. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:27 | |
As you described it in your book, | 0:15:27 | 0:15:28 | |
about holding your hand in the flame. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
It was like the two of you were holding your hands in the flame | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
and whoever pulled away first lost the title. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
He was never going to win that. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
He was the chicken to the fox, | 0:15:37 | 0:15:38 | |
because I actually needed to win that. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
And that last lap it was... | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
"I'd rather die... | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
"I'm willing to die than get beaten by Collinelli." | 0:15:44 | 0:15:49 | |
Which sounds an eccentric thing to say, | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
it sounds an extreme mental illness thing to say. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
But if you were an astronaut and you're willing to | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
get into a rocket ship that could blow up in space, | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
it's perfectly respectable to say, | 0:15:59 | 0:16:00 | |
"I'm willing to accept I might die to go to the moon." | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
Why is it not acceptable to go, | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
"I'm actually willing to accept heart failure to beat that Italian"? | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
Why is one acceptable and one not? | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
Graeme inspired me to push myself beyond my limits. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:20 | |
It's not as scary as it might sound. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
You measure yourself to discover what they are | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
and then...you aim higher. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
How fast can you go? | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
How far can you go? | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
How much power can you produce? | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
Ultimately, what can your time be? | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
You enter a world of numbers... | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
as you become a competitor. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
And here are some of mine. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
I gave up BMX when I was 14. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
Was Scottish Junior Track Champion at 17. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
Went to my first Olympics and won a silver medal when I was 24. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
And in 2002, I won my first World Championship gold medal, age 26. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:07 | |
CHEERING | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
I won it by one-thousandth of a second, | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
the smallest possible margin in a bike race... | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
..or 15mm on a race track. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:19 | |
Today, my numbers are about | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
how many of these little lights I can turn out. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
It helps develop the peripheral vision vital for motor racing. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
My mentor is on hand to give me some feedback. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
So what's your best score on this, then? | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
-Best score's 114. -114. So I got 90. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:52 | |
-So it'll take me a few weeks to get to 100, I think. -I don't know. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:57 | |
Your second best score was 81 and that was two minutes ago, | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
-so maybe pretty soon you'll be up there! -Oh, well, we'll see. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
On a bike, I'm used to being one of the guys to beat, but not here. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:13 | |
In this simulator, I'm still trying to perfect cornering at 100mph. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:18 | |
It's quite a learning curve. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
TYRES SCREECH | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
So it's a little bit tail-happy, then? | 0:18:22 | 0:18:23 | |
BOTH LAUGH | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
With this car, the biggest limiting factor is the rear grip, | 0:18:25 | 0:18:29 | |
especially the entry to the corners and the exits. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
Of course there's nothing wrong with being bad at something. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
Even this bad. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
-Whoa! -CHRIS LAUGHS | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
What you do is work on your weaknesses. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
Too late. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
CHRIS SIGHS | 0:18:47 | 0:18:48 | |
-How's the lap times looking? -Best not to look at them yet. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
-Yeah. Good advice. -CHRIS LAUGHS | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
Failure in sport isn't something to fear - | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
it can even be the making of you. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
I learnt the biggest lessons of my career from losing races. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
In 2003 in Stuttgart, just a year after becoming World Champion, | 0:19:15 | 0:19:20 | |
I lost my title and came fourth. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
I'd allowed myself to get distracted right before the race. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
I was worrying about everything. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
I was thinking, "He went really fast there. That was a fast time. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
"I wonder what gear he was riding? | 0:19:37 | 0:19:38 | |
"Maybe I should go up or down a gear. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
"Maybe I should attack faster in the first lap and then try and get up." | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
You know, all these different ideas and things, crazy things | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
are going through your mind seconds before you're racing | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
and I allowed myself to be distracted from my game plan. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:53 | |
I'd gone in as a world champion in two events | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
and I came out with just one bronze medal. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
It was the worst World Championships I had through my whole career. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:02 | |
-MAN: -Come on! | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
So I got back to training... set myself new higher targets. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:13 | |
'Let us not forget also Chris Hoy...' | 0:20:14 | 0:20:17 | |
But I knew that it wasn't so much my opponent | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
that got the better of me... | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
it was my own lack of confidence. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
-Brilliant! -CHRIS PANTS | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
I decided to talk to one of the team's experts about it. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
Someone I'd never thought about visiting before... | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
..our very own psychiatrist. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
I think it's important to know | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
that when I met Chris he was never what people might think - | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
"He must be falling apart at the seams | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
"and they've got this psychiatrist to come in and put his head back," | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
that wasn't the case at all. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
You met a very balanced man who had a lot of insight, | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
but he was looking to see, "Is there any way I can use my mind | 0:21:04 | 0:21:07 | |
"to gain that little edge on performance?" | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
I tried to make it simple and accessible and said, | 0:21:10 | 0:21:12 | |
"Look, quite simply there are three systems in your head, like teams. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
"There's a human team which you're in control of, | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
"there's a chimp team, which is our innate genetics | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
"that gives us our drives and instincts and thinks for us, | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
"and then there's a computer system, which is a memory back-up | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
"which usually runs our life | 0:21:27 | 0:21:28 | |
"unless it gets interference from the chimp or human." | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
So I give that just as an entertaining model | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
to give people a feel for what they can do with their mind, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
and we've got common terms to work with. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
In Steve Peters' model, | 0:21:42 | 0:21:43 | |
the chimp represents the emotional part of the brain. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
It appears when we're under pressure. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
It can be helpful, | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
but it can also be unpredictable and even self-destructive. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
If it takes over, | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
it can make us doubt ourselves and sometimes even panic. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
What we need to do is find out why | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
and discover what we, the human, can do to stay in charge. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:11 | |
Steve calls this process of controlling your thoughts | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
and staying calm under pressure "caging your chimp". | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
Essentially, we trained to prepare for that moment | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
when these negative thoughts or anxieties or distractions | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
pop into your brain. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
'A full house.' | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
COMMENTARY CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY | 0:22:43 | 0:22:44 | |
STARTER GUN FIRES | 0:22:47 | 0:22:48 | |
CHEERING | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
The pressure in Athens was like | 0:22:53 | 0:22:54 | |
nothing else I experienced in my whole career. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
Even in London it was a different kind of pressure. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
In Athens...it's a feeling that... | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
It's almost like Deal Or No Deal - you've got these two boxes, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
one's a gold medal, in the other there's nothing. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
You know, when I get the train down to London, | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
it's the one I sit down and watch on a regular basis. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
And I always put the volume up a little bit, | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
so the people on the train can hear it as well, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
because I think it's one of the great sporting moments, you know. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
It was an incredibly hot, balmy night, very still. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
And Chris was last off | 0:23:26 | 0:23:27 | |
and he had everybody in world-ranking order going off before him. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:32 | |
STARTER GUN FIRES 'So Kelly...out of the gate' | 0:23:32 | 0:23:36 | |
Shane Kelly, one of the great kilo riders, | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
all of a sudden he comes out and he goes a 1:1 | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
and they're high-fiving in the pits | 0:23:40 | 0:23:42 | |
and the crowd's going nuts, you know. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
'Let me tell you that is the fastest time ever at sea level!' | 0:23:44 | 0:23:49 | |
Nimke steps up | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
and breaks the Olympic Record. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
And, you know, the Germans are going absolutely crazy. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
Thinking, "Jesus! this is... This is incredible!" | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
'He goes faster than Shane Kelly! | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
'They're getting quicker and quicker and quicker!' | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
And then the greatest of them all, Tournant, comes up. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
Bang! Does an 0. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
'Oh, I don't believe it! | 0:24:13 | 0:24:15 | |
'1:00.896! | 0:24:15 | 0:24:19 | |
'What an unbelievable time! | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
'The fastest ever time!' | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
And so Chris was there having to go up to the line in the Olympic Final | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
and break what had just been set as a new World Record, | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
which is a tall order. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
If shits were trumps, he's got a handful. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
He's going to try and do something that's never been done before. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
All the riders had finished, all the times were on the board, | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
I was last to go. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
The history is already written, | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
it's just whether or not | 0:24:51 | 0:24:52 | |
you're going to be on that scoreboard or not. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
It was really about not thinking about | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
the consequences of winning or losing, | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
all I was thinking about was this performance, | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
this perfect race that I'd visualised time and time again. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
And using the visualisation, it was blocking out these negative thoughts | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
or these anxious thoughts and... | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
all I wanted to do was to get on to the bike, on to the start line | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
and execute this race. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
STARTER GUN FIRES 'So the World Champion, Chris Hoy, | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
'comes out of the gate, and now ahead of him are four laps to prove | 0:25:19 | 0:25:23 | |
'that he can win the gold medal here in the Olympic Games. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
'Chris Hoy!' | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
Psychologically...the pressure that put him under was massive. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:37 | |
It was immense. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
0.141! They're going absolutely wild! | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
As I crossed the line at the end of the first lap | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
this massive roar went up and you don't hear individual voices | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
but you hear...you can sense a raise...a rise in the volume. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
And I remember thinking, "That's a good sign, I must be up." | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
But then I also had this fleeting thought, | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
"That roar might be for something else, just focus. Just go, go, go." | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
And that was the last thing I really thought about in that whole race, | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
it was just the feel, the flow, just the perfect ride. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
Chris Hoy's coming up to the line! What's he going to stop the clock at? | 0:26:19 | 0:26:23 | |
Oh! Chris Hoy is the Olympic Champion, | 0:26:23 | 0:26:27 | |
the Commonwealth Champion, | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
the World Champion! | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
He's completed the Grand Slam. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
Let me just repeat the time. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:34 | |
1:00.711! | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
It almost felt like it was... another visualisation, | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
it was so close to that perfect race I'd visualised. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
But I hadn't visualised what I would do after the finishing line | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
and I just rode round in total disbelief. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
And I remember looking at the scoreboard | 0:26:52 | 0:26:55 | |
and seeing my name and the number 1 and OR for Olympic Record | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
and it just didn't sink in that this was me, I was Olympic Champion. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:04 | |
It had taken me 12 years of graft | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
to reach my goal and become an Olympic Champion. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
But my next challenge was to try to stay on top. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
In life, the competition doesn't stand still, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
you've got to keep trying to improve. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
And it helps to keep an open mind, | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
to embrace new ideas, even if you're already a world-beater. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:35 | |
'Two gold medals in one Olympic Games! | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
'Rebecca Adlington, you are absolutely brilliant!' | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
Wow! This place is pretty old. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
I think this is the first time I've ever walked in a swimming pool. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
-Really? -I've never seen a pool without water in it. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
-Have you not? -No! -Feels more like a velodrome in here. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:01 | |
-SHE LAUGHS -Yeah. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
'This looks like it could be... And it is going to be the gold medallist! | 0:28:04 | 0:28:08 | |
'Oh, my goodness, it is!' | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
Becky Adlington swam to glory at the Beijing Olympics | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
where she won two gold medals, one by a furlong... | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
and the other by a fingertip. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:20 | |
I was very lucky that I had a really good finish | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
and the American girl didn't, so I was like "Thank God," | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
even though I don't think she saw it that way. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
But she just kind of came into the wall | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
and it was kind of like how I finished. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
I kind of brought my arm over and just touched the wall there, | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
so my fingertips kind of touched the wall | 0:28:38 | 0:28:41 | |
whereas Katy, the American girl, came in and she just bent her wrist, | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
she just kind of went like that before she put her hand on. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
And it was just kind of like | 0:28:47 | 0:28:48 | |
the smallest difference of me going like that, | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
but she just kind of bent her hand | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
-and lost her the race. -That was enough. -Yeah, it was just like... | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
I've heard swimmers can break their fingers. If you're going for that, | 0:28:55 | 0:28:58 | |
people have broken their fingers, haven't they? | 0:28:58 | 0:29:01 | |
-I don't care, I'd rather break my hand. -Exactly. Get a gold medal! | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
-Exactly. -It's worth it. -It's just the smallest difference. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:08 | |
It's unbelievable. Every time I watch it back, | 0:29:08 | 0:29:10 | |
I think, "How did that happen?" | 0:29:10 | 0:29:12 | |
-It was just good fingernails. -BOTH LAUGH | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
Margins of victory can be so small that every detail counts, | 0:29:20 | 0:29:24 | |
no matter how tiny. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:26 | |
So what tiny details did Becky focus on for the next Olympics? | 0:29:26 | 0:29:30 | |
We focused each season on the one thing that was my weakness. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:36 | |
So my turns were awful, like, | 0:29:36 | 0:29:38 | |
you could even do better turns than me, I promise you. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
My turns are awful so it was | 0:29:41 | 0:29:42 | |
constantly working on them sorts of things, | 0:29:42 | 0:29:45 | |
things that I kind of needed to improve on. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
Different stuff in the gym. Like one season, | 0:29:48 | 0:29:50 | |
I'd really work on kind of my power off the wall, | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
the next season would be kind of... just kind of rehab, | 0:29:53 | 0:29:56 | |
working on my shoulders or your core. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:58 | |
And try and do a bit more sprint emphasis, | 0:29:58 | 0:30:00 | |
try and do a bit more distance, you adapt things like that. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
I started working with a sports psychologist, | 0:30:03 | 0:30:06 | |
which for me I couldn't have survived the four years without. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:09 | |
I didn't kind of realise how important it was. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:12 | |
Things like nutrition as well, I educated myself on, | 0:30:12 | 0:30:15 | |
because I only really moved out of home when I was 19 as well, | 0:30:15 | 0:30:18 | |
so it wasn't till after Beijing that I didn't have my mum and dad | 0:30:18 | 0:30:22 | |
like looking after me and my mum cooking for me all the time. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:24 | |
So you just try and do all these tiny little things. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:27 | |
It's like, yeah, it might be this much there, | 0:30:27 | 0:30:31 | |
but actually put it all together makes a second or two difference. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:37 | |
And I did absolutely everything I could. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:40 | |
I gave it 100%. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:41 | |
My preparation, everything, even from the smallest things, | 0:30:41 | 0:30:44 | |
like I didn't have a drop of alcohol for a year, | 0:30:44 | 0:30:47 | |
not even a little glass of wine. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:48 | |
Something stupid, but I literally gave it 100%. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:52 | |
Becky did swim even faster at her second Olympics than at her first, | 0:30:58 | 0:31:03 | |
but she didn't get gold. She won two bronzes, | 0:31:03 | 0:31:06 | |
and today is still Britain's most successful ever swimmer. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:10 | |
In the British Cycling Team, | 0:31:17 | 0:31:19 | |
we called our tiny improvements "marginal gains". | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
And they weren't just about the obvious things. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
Recovery is a massive part of competition and of performance, | 0:31:26 | 0:31:30 | |
so we used to travel with our own pillows and mattresses. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
We had travel mattresses that were orthopaedic | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
that we would put on top of the base of the bed in the hotel, | 0:31:35 | 0:31:39 | |
so you knew that every night you'd be sleeping in your own bed - | 0:31:39 | 0:31:42 | |
consistent rest, consistent recovery. | 0:31:42 | 0:31:45 | |
You know, you can't quantify the difference that made, | 0:31:45 | 0:31:47 | |
but it was one little detail among many. | 0:31:47 | 0:31:49 | |
New ideas - we had these heated trousers | 0:31:50 | 0:31:53 | |
we wore over our cycling gear | 0:31:53 | 0:31:55 | |
at the end of our warm-up for the half an hour | 0:31:55 | 0:31:58 | |
between finishing a warm-up and starting the race | 0:31:58 | 0:32:00 | |
to keep the muscles themselves at the optimum temperature. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
Other teams were looking at us thinking, | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
"My God! What have these guys got?!" | 0:32:05 | 0:32:07 | |
You know, "We haven't got that!" | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
And even if you can just distract your opponents | 0:32:09 | 0:32:12 | |
right before you compete, even if it doesn't actually help you at all, | 0:32:12 | 0:32:15 | |
it might be making them question themselves. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:17 | |
-MAN: -Go with it! Go with it! Go with it! Go with it! | 0:32:17 | 0:32:21 | |
Out-psyching your opponent is just part of competition. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:26 | |
It's tactical. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:28 | |
Almost like a whip! Whip! | 0:32:28 | 0:32:30 | |
Every sport has its own tactics. | 0:32:32 | 0:32:34 | |
Even those that look like they might be about pure brawn. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:37 | |
And often it's the best tactician who becomes the champion. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:42 | |
You've got two guys almost on the same level and they're boxing, | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
oh, man, it's beautiful. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:48 | |
Like a chess game. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:50 | |
'Lennox Lewis in black. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:51 | |
'He has the reach and that presumably will be the tactic.' | 0:32:51 | 0:32:55 | |
Lennox Lewis is one of the greatest boxers in history. | 0:32:56 | 0:32:59 | |
He won everything including Olympic gold, | 0:32:59 | 0:33:02 | |
suffered only two defeats, | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
and retired as the last undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:09 | |
And he's not bad at chess either. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:12 | |
When I play chess it's like I zone in to the board | 0:33:12 | 0:33:16 | |
and it's like, "This is my world, this is the world that I live in." | 0:33:16 | 0:33:20 | |
And these are my men on this side and this is obviously my opponent. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:25 | |
And when I make a move it's always like...the first move. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:30 | |
-BOTH LAUGH -Just drop that in there. -That's the first move. -OK. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:34 | |
Now, I have to warn you, I was quite a mean chess player | 0:33:34 | 0:33:37 | |
when I was a kid. I used to play a little bit. The only trouble is, | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
I haven't played since I was about maybe ten years of age. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:42 | |
Oh, man, I'm going to feel bad if you beat me. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:45 | |
-Right. -Ah-ha. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:47 | |
Now, I'm going to struggle to really think | 0:33:47 | 0:33:49 | |
and ask you questions and play chess well, | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
so if I lose it's only because of that, it's not because... | 0:33:51 | 0:33:54 | |
Well, if we're playing by time, | 0:33:54 | 0:33:55 | |
then you've got to touch your clock after you move. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:57 | |
-Sorry, what do I do, hit this? -Yeah. -Yeah. -All right. | 0:33:57 | 0:34:00 | |
-In chess, I attack. -OK. -I don't attack if you're good. -OK. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:05 | |
BOTH LAUGH | 0:34:05 | 0:34:06 | |
Thanks. OK. That's how we're playing it. Right, OK. Erm... | 0:34:06 | 0:34:11 | |
-I'll just do that. -Wow! You're cautious. | 0:34:11 | 0:34:14 | |
I like cautious people, you know what I mean? | 0:34:14 | 0:34:16 | |
Well, I'm sitting in front of an undisputed | 0:34:16 | 0:34:18 | |
heavyweight champion of the world who knows a bit about chess, | 0:34:18 | 0:34:22 | |
I'm not going to go on the front foot, am I? | 0:34:22 | 0:34:24 | |
Well, you know, | 0:34:24 | 0:34:26 | |
-I have to bring out my horses on you. -OK. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
-Sorry, did I...? -No, you didn't. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:32 | |
You didn't get into chess until you were already... | 0:34:32 | 0:34:34 | |
You'd established yourself as a boxer? | 0:34:34 | 0:34:36 | |
Yeah, when I started going to training camp | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
and it's long hours and you have nothing to do. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
You can't party and it's really just a group of fellas around, | 0:34:42 | 0:34:45 | |
so you have to keep yourself occupied | 0:34:45 | 0:34:47 | |
and chess was one of the things that I loved to do | 0:34:47 | 0:34:50 | |
because it kept me focused. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:51 | |
And...it was like, you know, | 0:34:51 | 0:34:53 | |
you're thinking in the ring, you're thinking on the board. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
And you were known for your approach to the game | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
in terms of thinking about your opponent. | 0:34:59 | 0:35:02 | |
-Yeah. -Analysing your opponent, | 0:35:02 | 0:35:03 | |
it wasn't just all about the brawn and attacking all the time. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:06 | |
Yeah, I mean, you know, everybody's strong | 0:35:06 | 0:35:10 | |
and everybody wants to knock everybody out. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:12 | |
But, you know, sometimes it doesn't really go that way, | 0:35:12 | 0:35:15 | |
so you have to have an alternate plan. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
And there's different ways to wage war on different people. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
You just have to analyse 'em | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
and say, "OK, this person can't take body shots, | 0:35:23 | 0:35:25 | |
"so, you know, I'm going to work my punches and end up on the body. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:29 | |
"Beat up his body and then his hands are falling | 0:35:29 | 0:35:31 | |
"and then his chin would be open, then I'll have him." | 0:35:31 | 0:35:34 | |
So I'm breaking him down from head to toe, | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
that's part of my strategy sometimes in different fights. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:41 | |
OK. Right, well, I'm going to try and focus on this for a second here. | 0:35:41 | 0:35:44 | |
You brought your knight out. I think I might... | 0:35:44 | 0:35:48 | |
CHRIS SIGHS | 0:35:48 | 0:35:50 | |
..just move that forward there, which is possibly a stupid move. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:57 | |
-All right. -OK. -So when I take this now... -Yep. | 0:35:57 | 0:36:00 | |
And you take that, I'm going to take your queen. | 0:36:00 | 0:36:03 | |
-Ah, you see. You see. -LENNOX LAUGHS | 0:36:06 | 0:36:09 | |
You know, you can tell a lot of about somebody that plays chess. | 0:36:10 | 0:36:13 | |
-Really? -Yeah. -Like what? | 0:36:13 | 0:36:16 | |
-How they play. -You can tell about the person, I see, right. -Yeah. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:19 | |
-CHRIS LAUGHS -So what can you tell about me? | 0:36:21 | 0:36:24 | |
Erm... | 0:36:24 | 0:36:27 | |
court's still out. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:29 | |
BOTH LAUGH | 0:36:29 | 0:36:32 | |
Did you ever feel that you came to a fight, | 0:36:32 | 0:36:34 | |
you weren't maybe exactly where you wanted to be physically, | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
but you knew that tactically you had the beating of the guy, | 0:36:37 | 0:36:39 | |
or that you were going to bluff your way through it? | 0:36:39 | 0:36:42 | |
-I mean, obviously, you can't completely bluff it. -Yeah. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:44 | |
It's interesting that you say that, because look at Muhammad Ali - | 0:36:44 | 0:36:48 | |
he developed the rope-a-dope because he was getting old | 0:36:48 | 0:36:51 | |
and didn't want to move around, dance around as much. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:53 | |
And he decided to take punches and watch what the guy was doing | 0:36:53 | 0:36:57 | |
and then at the precise moment take...take the person out. | 0:36:57 | 0:37:00 | |
My adjusting is probably, you know, doing a little more holding, | 0:37:00 | 0:37:06 | |
being more closer to the man, so, you know, | 0:37:06 | 0:37:09 | |
I don't have to use that much energy | 0:37:09 | 0:37:11 | |
and allowing him to use up his energy more. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:14 | |
So you become like a wise fox in the sport. | 0:37:14 | 0:37:17 | |
Right. | 0:37:17 | 0:37:19 | |
-CHRIS PUNCHES HIS CLOCK -There we go. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:22 | |
You're smiling. I don't know if... That's probably not a good thing. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:25 | |
It is, because I'm going to win. | 0:37:25 | 0:37:27 | |
Yeah, I mean not good for me. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:28 | |
LENNOX LAUGHS | 0:37:28 | 0:37:30 | |
Oh, here we go. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
Check. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:34 | |
CHRIS LAUGHS | 0:37:40 | 0:37:41 | |
Yeah, the end is coming close, I reckon. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:45 | |
It's not looking good. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:46 | |
Check. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:48 | |
I'm not a good loser, by the way. | 0:37:50 | 0:37:52 | |
LENNOX LAUGHS | 0:37:52 | 0:37:54 | |
-That's...That's it. -That's it. It's all over. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:57 | |
-Thank you. -Thanks for the game. -Yeah. -Well done. | 0:37:57 | 0:38:01 | |
-And I'll tell you what kind of player you are. -Yep. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
-Still learning. -BOTH LAUGH | 0:38:05 | 0:38:07 | |
-Thanks, mate. -All right. Thanks. -Pleasure. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:09 | |
It's never too late to learn the tactics of your sport, | 0:38:17 | 0:38:20 | |
as I found out when I approached my third Olympics. | 0:38:20 | 0:38:25 | |
I hadn't really needed tactics for the 1km Time Trial, | 0:38:27 | 0:38:31 | |
but the event was removed from the 2008 games. | 0:38:31 | 0:38:35 | |
So I had to adapt. | 0:38:36 | 0:38:38 | |
I became what's known as a match sprinter. | 0:38:38 | 0:38:41 | |
First person across the line wins, | 0:38:42 | 0:38:45 | |
but you don't just go hell for leather from the start - | 0:38:45 | 0:38:48 | |
it's as much about outsmarting your opponent as outsprinting them. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:52 | |
I had to become...aware of my... What was happening around me. | 0:38:55 | 0:38:58 | |
I wasn't just having a one-dimensional | 0:38:58 | 0:39:00 | |
race against the clock, there was a rival, | 0:39:00 | 0:39:02 | |
there was a competitor on the track with me. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:04 | |
I had to react to them, I had to make decisions | 0:39:04 | 0:39:06 | |
based on where they were and what their strategy was in the race. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:10 | |
If you let someone else make the first move, | 0:39:11 | 0:39:13 | |
then you're on the back foot. | 0:39:13 | 0:39:15 | |
So I just tried to use my strengths, | 0:39:15 | 0:39:17 | |
which at that time was just my pace, my speed. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:20 | |
You know, I was very fast compared to most of the guys there. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:24 | |
'Off the banking and into the finishing straight now. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:27 | |
'Can Kenny hold off Hoy? Oh, he's got it! | 0:39:27 | 0:39:30 | |
'He cruises to the line and punches the air with delight. | 0:39:30 | 0:39:34 | |
'Gold medal number four! | 0:39:34 | 0:39:36 | |
'Chris Hoy is the Olympic gold medallist, | 0:39:36 | 0:39:40 | |
'the Olympic Sprint Champion! | 0:39:40 | 0:39:42 | |
'He's won three here and in three different races. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:45 | |
'This man is unstoppable!' | 0:39:45 | 0:39:49 | |
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2008 is... | 0:39:55 | 0:39:59 | |
Chris Hoy. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:00 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:40:00 | 0:40:02 | |
We all cope with failure, failures are easy. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:20 | |
You know, we just get down there, down the stairs into the gym, | 0:40:20 | 0:40:23 | |
back up here, on the track, and we train. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:26 | |
Anyone can deal with failure. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:27 | |
Success is a totally different animal, | 0:40:27 | 0:40:30 | |
and I don't think unless you're in their shoes, or in their camp, | 0:40:30 | 0:40:33 | |
that you can understand what they're going through. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:36 | |
Well, thank you very much for that long applause, | 0:40:40 | 0:40:42 | |
it's given me a bit of time to think of something to say. | 0:40:42 | 0:40:45 | |
Cos I really wasn't expecting this, this is just such a shock. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:50 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:40:50 | 0:40:51 | |
'The whole period after Beijing came as quite a shock for me.' | 0:40:54 | 0:40:59 | |
Nice to meet you. What's your name? | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
-Oliver. -Nice to meet you, Oliver. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:03 | |
-What's your name? -Owen. -Owen. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:05 | |
-O-W-E-N? -Yeah. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:07 | |
'Today I'm more used to it, | 0:41:07 | 0:41:09 | |
'but becoming a household name wasn't something I'd prepared for.' | 0:41:09 | 0:41:13 | |
I don't think we ever dreamt that I was going to get to the stage | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
I'm at now, not just the success and the medals | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
but the number of people interested in cycling... | 0:41:20 | 0:41:23 | |
'Sporting success can bring its own pressures. | 0:41:23 | 0:41:26 | |
'It brings distractions by the bucketload. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
'It also brings expectation.' | 0:41:28 | 0:41:31 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:41:31 | 0:41:33 | |
COMMENTATOR: It's a golden triumph for Andy Murray. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:37 | |
He finished off like the champion that he is. | 0:41:39 | 0:41:42 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:41:42 | 0:41:44 | |
-How are you doing? -Good to see you. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:47 | |
Hello, how you doing? | 0:41:47 | 0:41:48 | |
'Andy Murray probably knows that | 0:41:48 | 0:41:50 | |
'better than any sporting champion in Britain.' | 0:41:50 | 0:41:53 | |
Excellent, thank you, Andy. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:55 | |
'From a very early age, he single-handedly | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
'carried Britain's hopes on his shoulders in his sport.' | 0:41:58 | 0:42:01 | |
'And still does.' | 0:42:03 | 0:42:05 | |
What's it been like growing up in such a high profile sport | 0:42:08 | 0:42:11 | |
and, obviously, a high profile event like Wimbledon | 0:42:11 | 0:42:13 | |
when there's been no British winner for so many years? | 0:42:13 | 0:42:16 | |
You know, you had to deal with that from age 18, 19, | 0:42:16 | 0:42:18 | |
the whole way through your career. How did you deal with that? | 0:42:18 | 0:42:22 | |
Yeah, I...I found it difficult for, for a few years | 0:42:22 | 0:42:26 | |
because that first year, when I played Wimbledon, | 0:42:26 | 0:42:28 | |
I was ranked like 350 in the world | 0:42:28 | 0:42:31 | |
and I'd been playing in front of like ten people, | 0:42:31 | 0:42:34 | |
before that, you know, | 0:42:34 | 0:42:35 | |
when I was playing matches there was no-one there, | 0:42:35 | 0:42:37 | |
and then I was, all of a sudden, | 0:42:37 | 0:42:39 | |
playing on the Centre Court at Wimbledon with 15,000 people | 0:42:39 | 0:42:42 | |
and there was photographers... I was 18 at the time | 0:42:42 | 0:42:45 | |
and there was photographers following me, | 0:42:45 | 0:42:47 | |
you know, back to my house, | 0:42:47 | 0:42:48 | |
and camera crews waiting outside to see me going into Wimbledon | 0:42:48 | 0:42:52 | |
and everything, and it was all very new. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
When people started talking about, you know, my personality | 0:42:55 | 0:42:59 | |
and, you know, what I was like as, as a person, | 0:42:59 | 0:43:03 | |
I started to find that very difficult and became, you know, | 0:43:03 | 0:43:06 | |
quite defensive and I went into my shell a little bit. | 0:43:06 | 0:43:10 | |
That didn't, that didn't really help me, | 0:43:10 | 0:43:13 | |
but I've always found on the court it's what I know, | 0:43:13 | 0:43:16 | |
so it doesn't matter how many people are watching - | 0:43:16 | 0:43:18 | |
when I get on a tennis court I normally feel quite comfortable. | 0:43:18 | 0:43:21 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:43:21 | 0:43:23 | |
And what was it that kept pushing you on? | 0:43:26 | 0:43:29 | |
Yeah, I actually, one of the things I always liked from a young age | 0:43:29 | 0:43:32 | |
was proving people wrong. | 0:43:32 | 0:43:34 | |
I always quite liked it when someone said, | 0:43:35 | 0:43:39 | |
"He's not very good," or, "He can't do that." | 0:43:39 | 0:43:41 | |
After the first couple of times, | 0:43:46 | 0:43:48 | |
the press maybe starting to say "Is it ever going to happen?" | 0:43:48 | 0:43:50 | |
Did you ever feel that maybe this, it wasn't going to happen, | 0:43:50 | 0:43:53 | |
you weren't going to win your first Slam, | 0:43:53 | 0:43:55 | |
you weren't going to become Wimbledon Champion? | 0:43:55 | 0:43:57 | |
Yeah, it was something that actually when I came to terms with, | 0:43:57 | 0:44:01 | |
it actually helped me a lot because it almost became an obsession | 0:44:01 | 0:44:05 | |
that I was, I was so desperate to do it. | 0:44:05 | 0:44:08 | |
I was working so hard and maybe wanted to do it too much, | 0:44:08 | 0:44:11 | |
and it was after I lost in the Wimbledon final in 2012, you know, | 0:44:11 | 0:44:18 | |
I was very upset afterwards | 0:44:18 | 0:44:19 | |
and, you know, I remember sort of thinking and saying to myself, like, | 0:44:19 | 0:44:22 | |
"Maybe it's just not meant to be." | 0:44:22 | 0:44:23 | |
How did it feel when it started to get to the stage | 0:44:25 | 0:44:27 | |
that the expectation was getting higher and higher, every year? | 0:44:27 | 0:44:31 | |
How do you manage to block it out | 0:44:31 | 0:44:33 | |
and focus on what you're trying to do? | 0:44:33 | 0:44:35 | |
Yeah, it's, it's hard, I mean experience helps with that, | 0:44:35 | 0:44:38 | |
when you go through those experiences of playing, you know, | 0:44:38 | 0:44:41 | |
semifinals or finals of Wimbledon, that, that helps. | 0:44:41 | 0:44:44 | |
You know, there was times where the closer you would get to the match | 0:44:44 | 0:44:48 | |
the less I wanted to go on the court. | 0:44:48 | 0:44:50 | |
You know, it wasn't something I was looking forward to. | 0:44:50 | 0:44:52 | |
I was getting more and more nervous the closer the match came | 0:44:52 | 0:44:56 | |
and when I started working with Ivan Lendl he helped me a lot with | 0:44:56 | 0:45:00 | |
those matches and how to approach them and, you know, I was playing | 0:45:00 | 0:45:04 | |
a lot like I had something to lose, but when I started working with him | 0:45:04 | 0:45:07 | |
I was really, you know, going after the matches and playing to win | 0:45:07 | 0:45:11 | |
and winning or losing the matches on my terms, | 0:45:11 | 0:45:14 | |
and that made a big difference, | 0:45:14 | 0:45:15 | |
going into matches with a different mentality. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
COMMENTATOR: Game, set and match, Murray. | 0:45:21 | 0:45:23 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:45:23 | 0:45:25 | |
-COMMENTATOR: -The waiting is over | 0:45:25 | 0:45:27 | |
and you simply cannot give more. | 0:45:27 | 0:45:29 | |
'Andy became the first British man to win Wimbledon in 77 years. | 0:45:37 | 0:45:42 | |
'He wrote his name into the history books. | 0:45:44 | 0:45:48 | |
'And which athlete wouldn't want that?' | 0:45:48 | 0:45:50 | |
'As I approached the London Olympics, | 0:45:53 | 0:45:55 | |
'expectation was everywhere.' | 0:45:55 | 0:45:57 | |
'But I wasn't even sure of making the team.' | 0:45:59 | 0:46:03 | |
We had this new kid on the block who threatened | 0:46:10 | 0:46:13 | |
the supremacy of Sir Chris, which was Jason, Jason Kenny. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:18 | |
All of a sudden, you know, you've got a pretty big squad | 0:46:18 | 0:46:20 | |
and Sir Chris not looking real good, and I actually got to a point | 0:46:20 | 0:46:23 | |
where I thought, "You know what? He's not going to make this." | 0:46:23 | 0:46:27 | |
Our job is to look at the data, look at the numbers, | 0:46:29 | 0:46:33 | |
as objectively as possible | 0:46:33 | 0:46:36 | |
and choose which rider is going to get the most success | 0:46:36 | 0:46:39 | |
for the, the British team. | 0:46:39 | 0:46:40 | |
Our business is about looking forward | 0:46:42 | 0:46:44 | |
and looking at who's going to win the next event, | 0:46:44 | 0:46:47 | |
not who's won the past one. | 0:46:47 | 0:46:49 | |
That didn't mean that that was going to be the end of Sir Chris, | 0:46:49 | 0:46:53 | |
but all of a sudden, you start to question his desire. | 0:46:53 | 0:46:56 | |
So I went out to the side of the track | 0:46:56 | 0:46:59 | |
and I said, "Now listen, trust me on this, you don't need this. | 0:46:59 | 0:47:02 | |
"You've got enough money for the rest of your life, | 0:47:02 | 0:47:05 | |
"you can go and open supermarkets, go to talks, make bikes, | 0:47:05 | 0:47:07 | |
"do whatever you want for the rest of your life. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:10 | |
"But when you cross the black line, you've got to want it." | 0:47:10 | 0:47:12 | |
I said, "Right, we need to change things, we need to stop Twitter. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:17 | |
"We need to disengage with all social media, you need to stop that | 0:47:17 | 0:47:21 | |
"because it, basically, it's governing your life, | 0:47:21 | 0:47:24 | |
"you're getting to bed late, you're not going to bed on time." | 0:47:24 | 0:47:27 | |
So we looked at, you know, his sleep pattern, you know, we give him | 0:47:27 | 0:47:30 | |
a right bollocking, you know, "You need to get into bed earlier." | 0:47:30 | 0:47:33 | |
His lifestyle wasn't befitting that of one | 0:47:33 | 0:47:36 | |
that won three medals in Beijing | 0:47:36 | 0:47:38 | |
and I felt we were going to come up short. | 0:47:38 | 0:47:40 | |
So, then, it was kick-arse time. | 0:47:40 | 0:47:44 | |
Five, four, three, | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
two, one, go. | 0:47:47 | 0:47:49 | |
Come on, Chris. | 0:47:49 | 0:47:51 | |
'With just one rider allowed per nation, | 0:47:51 | 0:47:53 | |
'the selection process was intense. | 0:47:53 | 0:47:55 | |
'The only way to prove I was still good enough | 0:47:55 | 0:47:58 | |
'was to make the numbers, and hit my race targets.' | 0:47:58 | 0:48:02 | |
Three, two, one, go! | 0:48:02 | 0:48:04 | |
Up, up, up. Go, Chris. | 0:48:04 | 0:48:06 | |
'Coming back to this lab brings back a lot of memories, | 0:48:06 | 0:48:09 | |
'and this was just one of the tests we use to monitor our progress.' | 0:48:09 | 0:48:13 | |
Five, four, three, two, one. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:17 | |
Go up. Come on, Chris. | 0:48:17 | 0:48:19 | |
This is always the bit you look forward to, or you dread. | 0:48:32 | 0:48:35 | |
What's the numbers, what's the numbers? | 0:48:35 | 0:48:37 | |
400 or 500, has to be the target, surely. | 0:48:38 | 0:48:41 | |
-Oh, you're in the 500, easy. -Yeah? | 0:48:41 | 0:48:43 | |
-Your all-time PB was 696... -Mm-hm. | 0:48:43 | 0:48:47 | |
So you've got 586. | 0:48:47 | 0:48:49 | |
606. | 0:48:50 | 0:48:52 | |
Yes, there we go. | 0:48:52 | 0:48:53 | |
529. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:55 | |
It's all about the 606. | 0:48:55 | 0:48:57 | |
And 603. | 0:48:57 | 0:48:58 | |
60...ah, well, it was right leg, er, left leg. | 0:48:58 | 0:49:00 | |
-Left leg, yeah, take that. -600s in there, | 0:49:00 | 0:49:03 | |
Lovely when it hits 600 the first time, and it was a big deal. | 0:49:03 | 0:49:06 | |
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Yeah. | 0:49:06 | 0:49:08 | |
I'm making a comeback. | 0:49:08 | 0:49:09 | |
Anything more than one rev, though, you might be in... | 0:49:09 | 0:49:12 | |
-Yeah, the first two revs... -If you get off the start line all right. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:15 | |
'I think the last four years of my career were, without doubt, | 0:49:19 | 0:49:22 | |
'the toughest because physically, whether you like it or not, | 0:49:22 | 0:49:25 | |
'you are starting this slight decline. | 0:49:25 | 0:49:27 | |
'You're doing everything you possibly can to fight it.' | 0:49:27 | 0:49:30 | |
You become smarter with how you race and you become much more aware | 0:49:30 | 0:49:34 | |
of recovery and just everything you're doing to keep yourself | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
healthy and fit and ready, but it's, you know, compared to | 0:49:37 | 0:49:40 | |
when you're 21, 22, the recovery part is much, much harder. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:44 | |
And, you know, they were tough times, | 0:49:44 | 0:49:46 | |
the four years between Beijing and London, it wasn't easy. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:49 | |
I don't think I've ever really got over London, | 0:49:54 | 0:49:57 | |
and I don't think I've ever really come to terms with what happened, | 0:49:57 | 0:50:00 | |
because I think I personally was so stressed by the whole thing | 0:50:00 | 0:50:04 | |
that by the time we got there I just really wanted it to be over. | 0:50:04 | 0:50:07 | |
He desperately, desperately wanted to do it and I felt that pressure | 0:50:10 | 0:50:14 | |
because I felt that I knew he could do it, | 0:50:14 | 0:50:17 | |
and when you know somebody wants something so much | 0:50:17 | 0:50:20 | |
and that it's possible, subject to a few variables, | 0:50:20 | 0:50:24 | |
that's where the pressure came in to try and help him avoid injuries, | 0:50:24 | 0:50:31 | |
from getting sick, from getting unwell, | 0:50:31 | 0:50:34 | |
to help him even make the team, and to make all of that come true. | 0:50:34 | 0:50:38 | |
To see him come home having put so much effort into the, | 0:50:40 | 0:50:44 | |
the training sessions that would leave him | 0:50:44 | 0:50:46 | |
just absolutely physically exhausted and fatigued and in pain... | 0:50:46 | 0:50:51 | |
He told me that he'd been doing some training session | 0:50:53 | 0:50:56 | |
and had worked so hard and had pushed himself to such a limit | 0:50:56 | 0:51:00 | |
that he thought his heart was going to burst. | 0:51:00 | 0:51:03 | |
You know, that's difficult for a wife to hear. | 0:51:03 | 0:51:06 | |
Three months before the Games I would drive to work in tears | 0:51:06 | 0:51:09 | |
and I would drive home from work in tears | 0:51:09 | 0:51:12 | |
and then I would compose myself and go inside the house | 0:51:12 | 0:51:15 | |
and that was purely, I think, looking back, that was how I let off steam | 0:51:15 | 0:51:19 | |
and coped with the, with the stress of it so that I would never, | 0:51:19 | 0:51:23 | |
I would never let that on to Chris that I was feeling it as well. | 0:51:23 | 0:51:27 | |
I never told him that. | 0:51:27 | 0:51:28 | |
Cyclists are famous for not spending any time on their feet | 0:51:32 | 0:51:36 | |
if they don't have to, and that's kind of how I try to help him. | 0:51:36 | 0:51:40 | |
I would do anything that I thought might save his legs, | 0:51:40 | 0:51:44 | |
even for that one second, if it's all about marginal gains | 0:51:44 | 0:51:48 | |
then I began to think, "OK, I'm going to help him at home with that." | 0:51:48 | 0:51:52 | |
So he didn't have to think about food preparation, cooking, cleaning, | 0:51:52 | 0:51:56 | |
bills, paperwork, anything in the house. | 0:51:56 | 0:51:59 | |
Basically he could just come home, nurse his aches and pains, | 0:51:59 | 0:52:03 | |
but wouldn't be using any extra energy to do all - | 0:52:03 | 0:52:07 | |
all of those other things that I could help him with. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:10 | |
Thanks to Sarra and the rest of the support around me, | 0:52:24 | 0:52:28 | |
I hit my targets for two out of the three events, | 0:52:28 | 0:52:32 | |
and made the team for London. | 0:52:32 | 0:52:34 | |
The home games, | 0:52:35 | 0:52:37 | |
and for me at 36, | 0:52:37 | 0:52:39 | |
my final Olympics. | 0:52:39 | 0:52:41 | |
COMMENTARY: '..gold medal for Great Britain! | 0:52:46 | 0:52:48 | |
'A new world record. | 0:52:48 | 0:52:50 | |
'I don't believe what I'm seeing here.' | 0:52:50 | 0:52:53 | |
CHEERING | 0:52:53 | 0:52:55 | |
In the first event, the team sprint, we won gold. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:59 | |
It was my fifth, | 0:52:59 | 0:53:01 | |
equal to Sir Steve Redgrave. | 0:53:01 | 0:53:03 | |
And then I had one more race to go. | 0:53:08 | 0:53:11 | |
The chance to achieve something that no other British athlete | 0:53:13 | 0:53:16 | |
had ever done before. | 0:53:16 | 0:53:17 | |
A sixth Olympic gold. | 0:53:19 | 0:53:21 | |
STARTING GUN | 0:53:21 | 0:53:23 | |
COMMENTARY: '..the greatest British Olympian of all time.' | 0:53:23 | 0:53:26 | |
What I'd tried to do was focus on the process, | 0:53:27 | 0:53:29 | |
and that's what Steve Peters always talks about - | 0:53:29 | 0:53:32 | |
focus on the process, not the outcome. | 0:53:32 | 0:53:34 | |
You know, deal with the things that you have control over, | 0:53:34 | 0:53:37 | |
and don't worry about your rivals | 0:53:37 | 0:53:39 | |
or worry about anything else. Just do what you can | 0:53:39 | 0:53:41 | |
to be the best you can be and if you win, you win. | 0:53:41 | 0:53:43 | |
If you don't, you shake the other guy's hand. | 0:53:43 | 0:53:45 | |
COMMENTARY: 'Right, away we go. It's eight laps of the track. | 0:53:48 | 0:53:50 | |
'Now then, can Sir Chris Hoy, Braveheart himself, | 0:53:50 | 0:53:53 | |
'seal this gold medal?' | 0:53:53 | 0:53:55 | |
The beauty of the event, really, is that it's very unpredictable. | 0:53:56 | 0:53:59 | |
That's why the crowd love it - because anybody can win. | 0:53:59 | 0:54:02 | |
Six guys on the track, | 0:54:02 | 0:54:03 | |
and they're paced up to speed by the motorbike. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:05 | |
With two and a half laps to go, the bike peels off | 0:54:05 | 0:54:07 | |
and that's the start of the race. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:10 | |
'Chris Hoy coming up on the outside | 0:54:10 | 0:54:12 | |
'and the crowd is going to get behind the riders.' | 0:54:12 | 0:54:15 | |
CROWD ROARS | 0:54:15 | 0:54:16 | |
Really, all I was thinking about was the strategy | 0:54:16 | 0:54:18 | |
and the strategy was to get to the front, | 0:54:18 | 0:54:20 | |
to stay out of trouble, | 0:54:20 | 0:54:21 | |
but the effort required to get to the front, | 0:54:21 | 0:54:23 | |
it means that if you put in too much early on | 0:54:23 | 0:54:25 | |
then you could fade at the end, so I had to put a big old surge in. | 0:54:25 | 0:54:29 | |
'Two laps to go and Sir Chris Hoy has already ignited the burners.' | 0:54:29 | 0:54:33 | |
I pretty much had my head down | 0:54:37 | 0:54:39 | |
and when your head's down, you never want to look round | 0:54:39 | 0:54:42 | |
over your shoulder, because if you do that, | 0:54:42 | 0:54:44 | |
it kind of breaks your position, your aerodynamic position, | 0:54:44 | 0:54:46 | |
so I was looking down between my legs and you can see | 0:54:46 | 0:54:49 | |
if there's any wheels coming up on either side. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:51 | |
'Hoy hits the line with one lap to go | 0:54:51 | 0:54:53 | |
'and the challenge is coming here from Levy of Germany.' | 0:54:53 | 0:54:56 | |
He was actually about half a wheel ahead | 0:54:58 | 0:55:00 | |
and he had a clear half bike length, | 0:55:00 | 0:55:02 | |
which, if it became a full bike length, | 0:55:02 | 0:55:04 | |
he would then be able to close down and get in front of me | 0:55:04 | 0:55:07 | |
and my race would have been over, | 0:55:07 | 0:55:09 | |
so I knew that no matter what happened, | 0:55:09 | 0:55:11 | |
I had to make sure that back wheel | 0:55:11 | 0:55:12 | |
didn't get in front of my front wheel. | 0:55:12 | 0:55:14 | |
It's all those thousands of hours of brutal training, | 0:55:17 | 0:55:19 | |
the highs, the lows - I'm not going to let it count for nothing, | 0:55:19 | 0:55:23 | |
I have to make it stick here. | 0:55:23 | 0:55:25 | |
'Shoulder to shoulder. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:26 | |
'Shoulder to shoulder now as they come off the crown of the bend.' | 0:55:26 | 0:55:30 | |
As it goes from Levy being, you know, | 0:55:30 | 0:55:32 | |
almost a bike length ahead, | 0:55:32 | 0:55:34 | |
to just this acceleration, | 0:55:34 | 0:55:36 | |
this just drive that I seemed to get | 0:55:36 | 0:55:39 | |
and I just went like that, level, | 0:55:39 | 0:55:41 | |
and as soon as I was level, I had the inside line, | 0:55:41 | 0:55:43 | |
I knew that I had it | 0:55:43 | 0:55:44 | |
and I came through the inside here, | 0:55:44 | 0:55:46 | |
and it was almost like a, you know, from there to there. | 0:55:46 | 0:55:50 | |
'And now they're lining up for the lunge to the line. | 0:55:50 | 0:55:52 | |
'Who's going to get it?' | 0:55:52 | 0:55:53 | |
Lunge for the line to be sure. | 0:55:53 | 0:55:56 | |
Yeah. What a noise. | 0:55:56 | 0:55:57 | |
'Chris Hoy gets the gold medal | 0:55:57 | 0:56:01 | |
'here in the keirin! That's his sixth gold medal. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:04 | |
'He becomes the greatest achiever ever, | 0:56:04 | 0:56:07 | |
'the greatest British Olympian. | 0:56:07 | 0:56:09 | |
'His tally - six golds and one silver. | 0:56:09 | 0:56:13 | |
'Sir Chris Hoy is the Olympic champion for the keirin.' | 0:56:13 | 0:56:19 | |
CROWD ROAR | 0:56:19 | 0:56:21 | |
It is weird being back here, because I thought I might come back in | 0:56:29 | 0:56:32 | |
and get all the kind of emotions and the goose bumps and everything. | 0:56:32 | 0:56:35 | |
It just feels like an empty velodrome. | 0:56:35 | 0:56:37 | |
Quite a sort of eerie, empty, | 0:56:38 | 0:56:41 | |
almost a sort of, like, you know... | 0:56:41 | 0:56:43 | |
You can see the ghosts of the events that have taken place before. | 0:56:43 | 0:56:46 | |
Yeah, you come in here and you realise it's gone, | 0:56:46 | 0:56:49 | |
that was it, it was that moment in time, | 0:56:49 | 0:56:51 | |
that little snapshot, and as long as you can make the most | 0:56:51 | 0:56:53 | |
of these opportunities in your life... | 0:56:53 | 0:56:55 | |
I think that's what I've tried to do in my career - | 0:56:55 | 0:56:57 | |
recognise when it was time to step up and be counted, | 0:56:57 | 0:57:02 | |
stand up and be counted, | 0:57:02 | 0:57:03 | |
and if you can do that under pressure, | 0:57:03 | 0:57:05 | |
then it's a hell of a feeling. | 0:57:05 | 0:57:06 | |
CROWD CHEER | 0:57:07 | 0:57:10 | |
So, there it is. | 0:57:20 | 0:57:22 | |
Sometimes I can't quite believe myself that it happened. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:28 | |
But this didn't just happen. | 0:57:31 | 0:57:33 | |
We made it happen. | 0:57:33 | 0:57:35 | |
The team, | 0:57:37 | 0:57:39 | |
the family, | 0:57:39 | 0:57:41 | |
through sacrifice and support, | 0:57:41 | 0:57:44 | |
hard work, and a million tiny improvements. | 0:57:44 | 0:57:47 | |
Don't get me wrong, the medals are great, | 0:57:50 | 0:57:54 | |
but I know that we did our very, very, very best. | 0:57:54 | 0:57:58 | |
And that's really what it's all about. | 0:58:02 | 0:58:04 |