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Good afternoon. It's been a tremendous day for Team GB, now | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
stabbedding -- standing third in the medals table. Rowing saw | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
dramatic vict rids with Britain defending the title in the men's | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
four and the women's Lightweight Double Sculls took gold again. Then | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
the Men's Lightweight Double Sculls team took silver. Andy Swiss | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
reports from Eton Dorney. British rowing has seen some golden days, | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
but never has it shone as brightly as this. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
It began with their flagship boat, the men's four. Stroke by stroke | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
they edged clor, Australia clung on desperately. But a roar of noise | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
brought them home. For Andrew Triggs-Hodge, Tom James, Pete Redd | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
and Alex Gregory it wasn't just gold, but perfection. It took four | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
years, training every day, pulling out everything we had for that. It | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
was without question our finest piece. What an incredible few days | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
this has been for Britain's rowers. This is already their best Olympics | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
for more than a century and the medals keep on coming. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
Just moments later, Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking, they'd | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
only been together a few months, surely this was too soon. On the | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
grandest stage of all, they road the race of their lives. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
COMMENTATOR: An incredible skull. second gold in just 20 minutes. It | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
was almost too good to be true. can't believe this is real that we | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
just won. Yeah I don't know. We just won the Olympics. Now for the | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
hat-trick, Olympic champions Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, the race | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
had to be stopped when Purchase's seat broke. Second time round they | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
led almost the entire way, but agonisingly they welcome back | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
pipped by Denmark. Rarely has silver been so little consolation. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
We gave everything. We tried everything. We wanted to win so | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
badly. We're just... Sorry to everybody we've let down. You've | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
let nobody down. But it was a day when the tears were largely of joy. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
The final total of nine medals, the best ever for Britain's rowers, a | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
glorious end to an unforgettable week. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
On the athletics track, Jessica Ennis is poised to the take the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
gold in the heptathlon. James Pearce is at the trackside. Seb Coe | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
has said on many occasions he's not concerned about total GB medals, he | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
wants big British moments. If Jessica Ennis can win tonight, | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
there won't be many bigger moments than this. | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Long before this cauldron was lit, British athletics lovers had been | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
waiting for Saturday, August 4 the day Jessica Ennis could strike gold. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
They were focusing on her. She was focusing on the long jump. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
COMMENTATOR: A little stutter. first jump was cautious. She had | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
taken off before she reached the board. There was plenty of room for | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
improvement and she needed to find. -- to find it. | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
It was only three centimetres short of her personal best. Now the | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
javelin. That event has cost her in the past. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
COMMENTATOR: And the crowd have responded. No today, it was the | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
best throw of her career. Today has been a brilliant day. I was anxious | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
coming in to today having such a good day yesterday, not knowing if | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
the long jump and events was going to go the way I wanted it to. But | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
made up to have done those two today. Ennis' road to Olympic glory | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
has just 800 metres remaining, the distance she has to run this | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
evening. All eyes will be on Jessica Ennis | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
tonight. She's not the only hope for British gold. No the doors are | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
about to open for the evening session. It will be absolutely full | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
when Mo Farah runs in the 10,000 metres and don't rule out Chris Tom | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Lynnson in the long jump. This morning we saw perhaps the biggest | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
name of them all of these Games, Usain Bolt. His first appearance, | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
the first round of the 100m. He made it look very easy. He wasn't | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
very quick by his standards, 10.09 seconds is very slow for him. He | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
did more than enough to qualify for tomorrow, the final of the 100m is | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
tomorrow night. He'll be one of the favourites for. That and also Oscar | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
Pistorius has made history today becoming the first amputee sprinter | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
to compete at an Olympics. He qualified for the next round of the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
400 m. But a good day so far for Jessica Ennis, so much more to look | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
forward to this evening. James thank you. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
As we've heard even before the action tonight, Team GB has moved | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
up third in the overall table with ten Gold Medals. The US is at the | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
top and China in second place. Now the other main news. Rebels in the | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Syrian city of Aleppo say they're coming under heavy fire as | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
government forces try to break through their positions. Fierce | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
fighting is reported in the capital. This report from Richard Galpin on | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
the Syrian border. A Syrian fighter jet apparently in action over | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
Aleppo today. This is unverified amateur video. There's no doubt the | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
battle for this crucial city is now intensifying, with helicopters also | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
being used frequently by government forces. Many civilians are still | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
trying to get out whenever they can. They fear an all-out assault bit | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
army and Air Force following the arrival of reinforcements. But more | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
rebel fighters are also preparing to join the battle, knowing it | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
could be a tipping point in the conflict. Also today, heavy | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
fighting in several districts of the capital, Damascus. The rebels | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
here, as in Aleppo, holding out much longer than expected. Just | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
outside the city, UN observers have been inspecting what's alleged to | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
be a mass grave. Around 35 people killed by government troops earlier | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
this week, according to opposition activists. But the government | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
denies this. Watching is all the UN can do in Syria. Even though it's | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
now estimated this fighting has been killing up to a thousand | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
people a week, the UN Security Council can still not agree how to | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
end the blood shed. Detectives have said Carole Waugh, | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
whose body was found in a garage in south London, suffered a single | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
stab wound. She was last seen alive in April. Her body was found in a | :07:54. | :07:59. |