04/08/2012 BBC Weekend News


04/08/2012

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Good afternoon. It's been a tremendous day for Team GB, now

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stabbedding -- standing third in the medals table. Rowing saw

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dramatic vict rids with Britain defending the title in the men's

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four and the women's Lightweight Double Sculls took gold again. Then

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the Men's Lightweight Double Sculls team took silver. Andy Swiss

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reports from Eton Dorney. British rowing has seen some golden days,

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but never has it shone as brightly as this.

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It began with their flagship boat, the men's four. Stroke by stroke

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they edged clor, Australia clung on desperately. But a roar of noise

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brought them home. For Andrew Triggs-Hodge, Tom James, Pete Redd

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and Alex Gregory it wasn't just gold, but perfection. It took four

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years, training every day, pulling out everything we had for that. It

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was without question our finest piece. What an incredible few days

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this has been for Britain's rowers. This is already their best Olympics

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for more than a century and the medals keep on coming.

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Just moments later, Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking, they'd

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only been together a few months, surely this was too soon. On the

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grandest stage of all, they road the race of their lives.

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COMMENTATOR: An incredible skull. second gold in just 20 minutes. It

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was almost too good to be true. can't believe this is real that we

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just won. Yeah I don't know. We just won the Olympics. Now for the

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hat-trick, Olympic champions Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, the race

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had to be stopped when Purchase's seat broke. Second time round they

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led almost the entire way, but agonisingly they welcome back

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pipped by Denmark. Rarely has silver been so little consolation.

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We gave everything. We tried everything. We wanted to win so

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badly. We're just... Sorry to everybody we've let down. You've

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let nobody down. But it was a day when the tears were largely of joy.

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The final total of nine medals, the best ever for Britain's rowers, a

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glorious end to an unforgettable week.

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On the athletics track, Jessica Ennis is poised to the take the

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gold in the heptathlon. James Pearce is at the trackside. Seb Coe

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has said on many occasions he's not concerned about total GB medals, he

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wants big British moments. If Jessica Ennis can win tonight,

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there won't be many bigger moments than this.

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Long before this cauldron was lit, British athletics lovers had been

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waiting for Saturday, August 4 the day Jessica Ennis could strike gold.

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They were focusing on her. She was focusing on the long jump.

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COMMENTATOR: A little stutter. first jump was cautious. She had

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taken off before she reached the board. There was plenty of room for

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improvement and she needed to find. -- to find it.

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It was only three centimetres short of her personal best. Now the

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javelin. That event has cost her in the past.

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COMMENTATOR: And the crowd have responded. No today, it was the

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best throw of her career. Today has been a brilliant day. I was anxious

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coming in to today having such a good day yesterday, not knowing if

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the long jump and events was going to go the way I wanted it to. But

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made up to have done those two today. Ennis' road to Olympic glory

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has just 800 metres remaining, the distance she has to run this

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evening. All eyes will be on Jessica Ennis

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tonight. She's not the only hope for British gold. No the doors are

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about to open for the evening session. It will be absolutely full

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when Mo Farah runs in the 10,000 metres and don't rule out Chris Tom

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Lynnson in the long jump. This morning we saw perhaps the biggest

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name of them all of these Games, Usain Bolt. His first appearance,

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the first round of the 100m. He made it look very easy. He wasn't

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very quick by his standards, 10.09 seconds is very slow for him. He

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did more than enough to qualify for tomorrow, the final of the 100m is

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tomorrow night. He'll be one of the favourites for. That and also Oscar

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Pistorius has made history today becoming the first amputee sprinter

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to compete at an Olympics. He qualified for the next round of the

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400 m. But a good day so far for Jessica Ennis, so much more to look

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forward to this evening. James thank you.

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As we've heard even before the action tonight, Team GB has moved

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up third in the overall table with ten Gold Medals. The US is at the

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top and China in second place. Now the other main news. Rebels in the

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Syrian city of Aleppo say they're coming under heavy fire as

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government forces try to break through their positions. Fierce

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fighting is reported in the capital. This report from Richard Galpin on

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the Syrian border. A Syrian fighter jet apparently in action over

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Aleppo today. This is unverified amateur video. There's no doubt the

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battle for this crucial city is now intensifying, with helicopters also

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being used frequently by government forces. Many civilians are still

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trying to get out whenever they can. They fear an all-out assault bit

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army and Air Force following the arrival of reinforcements. But more

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rebel fighters are also preparing to join the battle, knowing it

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could be a tipping point in the conflict. Also today, heavy

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fighting in several districts of the capital, Damascus. The rebels

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here, as in Aleppo, holding out much longer than expected. Just

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outside the city, UN observers have been inspecting what's alleged to

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be a mass grave. Around 35 people killed by government troops earlier

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this week, according to opposition activists. But the government

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denies this. Watching is all the UN can do in Syria. Even though it's

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now estimated this fighting has been killing up to a thousand

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people a week, the UN Security Council can still not agree how to

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end the blood shed. Detectives have said Carole Waugh,

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whose body was found in a garage in south London, suffered a single

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stab wound. She was last seen alive in April. Her body was found in a

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