17/10/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

and this morning we're celebrating Rio 2016.

They have done it! They have done it!

This is utterly brilliant. Absolutely fantastic. It will be

Great Britain! And as you can see -

we're joined by 70 - In total we have 55 gold medals

here and 38 silver and bronzes - and that's just counting

the Rio ones. So let's introduce you to:

From the Team GB gold medal winning hockey team -

Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh. And most of the rest of the hockey

team are in our audience. ParalympicsGB's Kadeena Cox

who not only won a gold and bronze in athletics -

but also a gold in cycling in 2016. From the rowing team -

Helen Glover who won gold in Rio and then had her hen party

there several days later. Pete Reed who won a third gold

in Rio in the men's 8 - Joe won a gold in Rio

and Liam is Britain's most successful ever canoeist -

winning a gold and silver in Rio. Sticking with water ? four times

Paralympic swimming champion Double silver swimming

medallist Jazz Carlin. Jack Laugher who won Great Britain's

first Olympic diving gold medal in the men's synchronised

three metre springboard, and Daniel Goodfellow who won bronze

with Tom Daley on the diving board. Natasha Baker who won three

Equestrian golds in the Paralympics with her horse Cabral who sadly

couldn't make it here today. From Athletics, Asha Philip

who won Olympic bronze With us, from taekowndo,

Lutalo Muhammad - silver medallist whose gold medal was snatched

from him in the last second of his bout, and bronze

medallist Bianca Walkden. From the victorious cycling team -

Philip Hindes - double Olympic champion and double Olympic record

holder, and Dame Sarah Storey Britain's most decorated Paralympian

with 14 gold medals. Andy Lewis

who won gold in the first ever just two years after

he took up the sport. And finally - Britain's

record-breaker Nicola Adams. She made history as the first woman

to win a gold medal in boxing and then the first to

successfully defend it Plus we're joined

by around 100 Olympic Also with us - another 50

Olympians and Paralympians - and they're all here to share

with you their stories, anecdotes We're at a school sports

hall in Salford. Thank you very much to the Oasis

Academy for having us today. Later on today these athletes

will be taking their medals to Manchester for the official Rio

victory parade, but in the meantime they're with us

for the next two hours. If you've got a question for them -

do get in touch - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and if you text,

you will be charged But before all that - Ben Brown

with a summary of the days news. The battle has begun

for the city of Mosul, the last remaining stronghold

in Iraq of the militant group The assault is backed

by the US-led coalition. Mosul, Iraq's second largest city,

has been under IS control The UN says it's very concerned

about the safety of the city's one Ahmed Maher is just south east

of Mosul for us this morning. Yes, and we are here at one of these

sites. We are in a district south-east of Mosul. We are just 39

kilometres from the city centre itself, and here, the Kurdish

military forces known as the Peshmerga are leading the battle

from this site. We are just a few kilometres from one of the front

lines behind me. The main target on this site is to recapture nine

villages, just on the outskirts of the city from Mosul, and afterwards,

they will clean up the road for the Iraqi army, for ground troops and

backed by American, German and French advisers to march towards the

city centre step-by-step. 14 unaccompanied children

from the migrant camp in Calais are expected to arrive in Britain

today to be reunited They're being brought

here by the Home Office under a new fast-track registration

scheme before the camp, More than 100 children will be

brought here this week. The daughter of the US Olympic

sprinter, Tyson Gay, has been killed in a shootout

in the American state of Kentucky. Police believe 15 year

old Trinity Gay was caught in the crossfire during an exchange

of gunshots between two vehicles. A new system to speed

up the time it takes to compensate parents in England,

whose babies are injured because of failings in maternity

care, has been outlined. Ministers hope it will speed

up payments and reduce the cost to the NHS -

currently half a billion pounds a year - of settling legal disputes

after mistakes by maternity staff. That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 9.30. Good morning, Ben, thank you very

much indeed. Tennis now, British number one

Johanna Konta could yet feature in the end-of season

Tour Championship after Serena Williams pulled out of next

week's event through injury. Konta herself recently pulled out

of the Hong Kong Open with a muscle problem and looked set to miss out

on the end of season showpiece, only the eight best players

in the world take part. But Serena's withdrawal means one

of Konta, Carla Suarez Navarro and Svetlana Kuznetsova

will take her place. Andy Murray is also ending the year

on a high following his Olympic effort this summer and he could

finish it as World Number One. He's won his second tournament

in a row, which moves him closer He beat Spain's Roberto Bautista

Agut in straight sets to win the Shanghai Masters

for the third time. If he keeps the winning streak

going, he could overtake Obviously, quite a different team

this year with Ivan and Jamie, really since the French Open. I have

played the best three months of tennis of my career.

The death of the Munster coach Anthony Foley who's been described

Foley won 62 caps for Ireland and picked up the European Cup

as a player before turning to coaching.

He died at the team hotel in Paris, the night before Munster

were due to play Racing 92 - the match was postponed and flowers

England captain Alastair Cook will arrive back in Chittagong

this afternoon after flying home to attend the birth

The side are playing in a two-day warm up match at the moment,

the openers doing well without Cook - Ben Duckett made a half-century.

England begin their test series on Thursday.

And Mark Cavendish narrowly missed out on the World Road Race title

in Qatar, beaten by Slovakia's Peter Sagan.

Cavendish was one of the favourites but lost out on the sprint finish.

You can see the frustration on his face as he was

Sagan is the first man since 2007 to retain the rainbow jersey.

I just had nowhere to go for most of it. I managed to come back and

round. I came with so much speed, so much power, I am just disappointed

that I messed up tactically. And with more Olympians,

it's back to you Victoria. Good morning and welcome to Salford

where this morning we're In this school sports hall,

as you can see, are dozens and dozens of olympic and paralympic

gold medals and they're being worn by actual

Olympians and Paralympians. We've got virtually the entire gold

medal winning hockey team Plus rowers Helen Glover,

Pete Reed and Paul Bennett. And later on men's wheelchair

champion Gordon Reid. And after 10am, we'll

hear from Natasha Baker, Kadeena Cox, Philip Hindes,

Jack Laugher, Daniel Goodfellow, Asha Phillip, Bianca Walkden

and Lutalo Muhammad. Wow, welcome all of you!

APPLAUSE Do you know how much joy you brought

us in Rio? I think it is when the plane landed. We didn't really have

any idea. We felt quite far away from home almost and then we had

lots of amazing messages and public support and the plane touched down

and we felt so touched by the amount of people who had watched and cared

about our performance is as much as we had so it has been incredible to

come away from Rio. Are you sort of in a bubble? Yes, we are. All you

think about is training and winning medals. You don't really concentrate

on what is going on around you. For those of you who competed at London

2012, how different was that? It was really different because leading up

to London you could see the lead up, the support, the facilities being

built up and the crowd with a year to go and the celebrations. With Rio

there was quite a lot of bad press, especially for the Paralympics with

all the funding being cut, so we were really unsure what it was going

to be like. It is good when you are out there and then when you come

back you don't really know what is happening. As Helen said, it was

really exciting to touch down. How was it for you? It was a wonderful

experience. It is hard to compare but it was very different to London.

There was something about and away games. With there as a team. The

team were doing so well, second in the medals table and to have the

climax of the flight home as well, as Helen said, it helped with good

weather, beaches and palm trees. We could not complain too much! The

team really supported each other. Hockey girls are here. It was a

climax across to go later on to support them. A wonderful time for

all of us. What would you like to say to our Olympians and

Paralympians? Thank you! Let's introduce you to some of our

audience. Hello, good morning. I'm from Manchester. The Olympics

are more than sport. You're supporting modern day gladiators.

When you watch it, I think that's what we feel we're watching. You

guys are inspiring a hole new generation of young ladies. It

doesn't matter if we're watching Usain Bolt or Jade Jones kick

somebody in the face. You're inspiring girls whether it was

London 2012 or Rio, I've got young girls who are trying everything

whether it is taekwondo or boxing or going to the gym, so you guys are

creating a new generation of healthy women, sisters, mothers and wives

and that's because of the domino-effect that you guys started

in 2012 and I think it is just amazing to see normal civilians

wanting to try superhero things. I think how cool is that? That's the

most amazing description. Thank you guys for it. Ah, thank you.

APPLAUSE Normal civilians doing superhero things. That's pretty

astonishing. Hi. I was a volunteer in London and then just in Rio and I

find it so difficult to explain the experience of picking one best. It

is just impossible, but I went to Rio by myself, but when you get

there, it doesn't feel like it because you bump into people and you

sit with people you don't know. And the feeling when cheering you guys

on, it is so difficult to explain and getting other countries,

cheering for them and stuff. How everyone is united watching, it is

just incredible. Thank you. Hello. I'm Barbara from Kent. And I want to

thank you all for the most amazing games. I was in 2012 as well, but it

is the generosity and the loyalty and everything that went with it,

but also the frontiers that you broke down and allowed us to be with

other people, to speak to other people. It was absolutely fantastic

and thank you so much. Thank you.

APPLAUSE Well, before we hear more from our athletes, let's just remind

ourselves of the joy they brought us.

# I think about all the little things that still remind me...

Mo Farah is going to get gold for Great Britain again!

# These days reflection's like a stranger

# You are so much braver, braver than me...

Will it be Britain, will it be Australia?

# I think about all the little things that still remind me

# When I'm living like there's nothing left to lose...

Andy Murray is a double Olympic gold medallist.

# When I turn my back on everything I knew

# When I settle for the silence in the room

# All my life you'll remind me. # things that still remind me

Do you get goose bumps? Do you yourselves get goose bumps because

we certainly do? Yeah, we were just saying we've not got enough tissues!

We will need more tissues on this end. It brings it all backment you

remember watching all the other people compete and bring medals and

do their best. It gives you goose bumps. When you're in with a chance

of a medal, how do you cope with the pressure of the expectations of say

the nation back home, Sarah? Well, the thing that you're about to do,

you practised so often in training so you have to keep yourself in that

mindset, when I sit on the track, I have been through that process so

many times in training I'm just trying to rehearse that again and do

that. You block it out. It doesn't matter if you're in an empty room or

a full stadium, your job is the same. It is another bike race. It is

really hard thing to remember, but it is just another bike race. What

about you Nicola when you've got the expectation and you're trying to

defend your title as well? I just kind of take it in my stride. I

don't think about the pressure. I just think about enjoying myself and

having fun. Do you? Yeah. Yeah. You're weird!

LAUGHTER I know. Everybody has got their own

way of dealing with things. Me, I just like to enjoy it and have fun

and just yeah, I don't think about the pressure, I just live in the

moment and if I lose, it is just going to be to a better person, a

person that was better than me on the day. Wow! A stoical lady. What

about the pressure. Introduce yourself. Tell us about the

pressure. Liam Heath. I had a good season in K 2 and K 1. It is all

about repeating what you've been doing in training. And I was quietly

confident sat on the start line because at the end of my race and

being so strong. So as I said, everyone deals with pressure

differently, but you just kind of get on with the job in hand. OK. As

I mentioned ladies and gentlemen we've got pretty much the entire

Team GB hockey squad here. Give them a round of applause.

APPLAUSE Stand up. Stand up. Just so we can

see you. APPLAUSE

We just need to worship at your altar, ladies! John, or Nigel, where

are you? You saw them. You were there. Hello. Yes, my name is John

Walsh, a very, very distant cousin to our gold medal hockey winning

captain, Kate. Really? No, that's a joke!

LAUGHTER I wish I was. I thought I hadn't

read my brief properly or something! I was there for the whole Olympics

from opening to closing ceremony and the hockey final was one of my

undoubted highlights and the highlight of many people I was with?

Of your life? Of the Olympics. Of the Rio Olympics. No, what a

fantastic occasion. I had only got a ticket that morning for the final. I

wasn't really planning on being there, but the opportunity came up,

got the ticket, went along, sat with a lot of my friends there and with a

lot of Dutch fans which was quite interesting! What a great occasion.

And yeah, to see a British team win a little bit against the odds,

against a Dutch team which hadn't been beaten in the Olympics since

2004, to beat them on a pel at shoot-out, a British team winning a

penalty shoot-out. I'll repeat that. Penalty shoot-out.

Let's watch that penalty shoot-out, starting with the Netherlands first

penalty attempt. Here it is. Gets off her line,

goes out to meet her. She's got hold of it,

it's under Hinch's body. They run out of time,

Hinch absolutely brilliant! Helen Richardson-Walsh,

penalty stroke. Great Britain are off the mark

in the penalty shootout! She is going all the way

around Maddie Hinch, Hinch watching it

every step of the way. Oh, she's hit the post,

she's missed! Hollie Webb on her way to win

gold for Great Britain. Great Britain have won

the Olympic gold medal! The history makers,

the hockey history makers! They will each leave

Rio with a gold medal! Great Britain

are the Olympic champions, Hly. Hello. Talk us through that

winning penalty? Well, it is something we've practised many times

before. So there is a group of ten of us they are in the group that

practise them, but we're lucky, we've got a squad of 31 that train

full-time and we have got some of the best keepers in the world so we

get to practise against them day in and day out. For the penalty I knew

what I was going to do, I planned that already by watching the video

of the Dutch keeper in the semifinals against Germany. I knew

what I was going to do. Really didn't feel nervous at the time.

Like Sarah was saying earlier, in the moment, you've rehearsed it so

many times before, that you knew what you were going to do, and it

was just about executing that and trying to forget about the moment,

trying to forget what it would mean if that went in. And just go through

with it. Pass the mic back to Sophie. Maddie couldn't be here

today. But Sophie, tell us about Maddie, I mean, I think she only

joined the team a year before. Astonishing what she did. Maddie is

amazing. She is one of the best keepers in the world and we knew

when it went to penalty shoot outs we had a great chance because of

Mads in goal. She loves those sort of moments and she was, yes, so

agilement she does all her video work to know what the opposition are

likely to do and she has a notebook which she looks through just before

the shuffles. Yes, she was incredible. I loved it when she

kicked the ball. It was superb! Holly, when you scored that winning

penalty, and you looked round at your team, this was, I mean, it was

so fast, wasn't it? What did you see on their faces? I think it is just a

culmination of the past four years and the amount of hard work that

every singing one of the 31 girls has done to get to that moment.

Sorry. That's all right. Sorry. A load of hard work and by everyone

and I just, I wished everyone was there. Sorry. No, don't apologise.

APPLAUSE Kate, stop it! You're crying as well. Sorry, I'm terrible.

There was an interview you gave not long after that victory and you

said, you know, over the years there have been so many difficult times

for this teamment what were you referring to? Well, we have been

through so many. I think in 2004, we didn't qualify for the Athens

Olympic Games which was unprecedented in GB women's hockey.

Thanks to the National Lottery and the funding came in and getting the

home Olympics meant we could train full-time and that was the turning

point. We have had so many bumps in the road, 2014 as theening gland

team we came 11th out of 12th, 18 months to turn that around and stand

on top of the podium. It has been a huge team effort and the management

and our support staff as well, just amazing.

Brilliant. Helen, from your point of view, how was it? You scored the

other penalty? I concur with what those guys said.

When we were waiting to take the penalty shoot out, I could sense the

nerves. The Dutch fans started booing me which was really unusual

in hockey. It galvanised everything within me and that journey we have

all been on and made me go right, this is going in! You could see my

face afterwards looking at the Dutch and going, what have you got? David

Smith is here. How are you? David won gold in the boccia. A number of

years ago you nearly didn't get to training, tell me about that. We

will just get you a microphone. I was on a trip out to Portugal and in

my youth I was a little bit young and impetuous and I assumed we were

going from one airport and we happened to be going from a

different airport. In the mad chaos that followed I ended up leaving one

of my bags at Birmingham Airport and created a minor bomb scare! In that

bag was my trainers. When I went to Portugal in the training camp I

ended up having to play boccia in brown shoes which was not a good

look. Thankfully boccia is all about throwing so it did not affect my

played too much. Did you have a nickname because of your

foolishness? I am effectively known as smithy and some other ones.

Smithy is a clean one. Pete, I'm told your nickname is the commander?

I am a lieutenant in the Navy and I am very grateful to them. When I got

the nickname Commander from my coach I thought I have got two promotions

here which will be awkward when I go and see some of the guys. How does

it work with the Navy in terms of the job and the training? I could

not have asked for a better employer. I joined when I was 18,

young lad, before I had started rowing, with honest intentions to do

a days work! I love them dearly. I started rowing when I was at

university. They sponsored me and then it took off. I got good quite

quickly, I hope they don't mind me saying that! Beijing was not too far

away which went well and then London which went well. The support is

unbelievable. Thank you to all the sailors who look out for me. No

worries. Where is David Florence? How are you, David? A few people

will know this, not many, before Beijing, you applied to become... An

astronaut. And you were serious? I was, yes. It was the European Space

Agency which opened up applications probably for the first time ever and

I thought, if you don't apply you will not get in and as it was I did

not succeed in getting in anyway! How seriously did you take the

application? As serious as you can when you are not a military test

pilot or the other basic requirements I suppose. You started

to learn Russian? I did. Do you recall any Russian right now? I can

say just a little. Nicola, before you got funding, how did you make

ends meet? I was doing extra work on Coronation Street and Emmerdale. We

have a clip of you now! It is really, really short so do not

blink. There is no sound either. Let's have a look.

How much training went into that walk along the cobbles? A lot. I

prepared for two weeks solid just for the walk! I used to enjoy it, it

was really good fun. Walking or the acting? The acting. After 2012I

could not really blend into the background any more. I want to talk

about families briefly, how important they are, both in getting

into your chosen sport in the first place and supporting you while you

are there. What do you say? For me, you are visiting a lot of the

country and when you're young you cannot drive so your parents have to

be taxi drivers and they have to take you here, there and everywhere.

When you are young you do not realise how much they have given to

you and you're older you think you have to drive yourself and you

cannot fall asleep and wake up in the destination you want to see you

realise how much they sacrifice. For my parents and all the family who

have supported me, I cannot thank them enough. What about you? I only

started rowing when I went to university so I did not get free

lifts but my parents have been there the whole time. I did not do rowing

when I was younger but I did football, cricket and swimming and

they were always there guiding me through. I

think that is a really good part of becoming a sportsman. A lot of

people say you should think about giving this up and get a normal job.

How much do you hear that? Less in the last few years. I was a student

and I annoyed all of my tutors with late work and falling asleep in

lectures which does not go down particularly well. A lot of time

people would say maybe you should think about stopping this silly

rowing and do what you are here to do. It is nice to not prove them

wrong but to say, I did it so thanks for the support you did give me. OK!

We have a special lady in the audience. Would you like to stand

up? Tell us who your daughter is, as if we cannot guess. This is Nicola,

she happens to be your daughter. Tell us a story about her being a

naughty little girl when she was growing up or maybe a teenager. Say

it again, sorry. Tell us a story about Nicola being a bit cheeky or

naughty with her sibling? Well... Her brother is just a little bit

younger than Nicola and she has got hurt doctors honours degree and

sometimes when they are having a little sibling rivalry, she will

say, well, call me by my proper name, Doctor Nicola Adams MBE! How

does that go down with your brother? It is always quite funny because he

has got a bachelors degree and I always put the little dig in. I will

raise you! She says, now I am a doctor I can tell you everything

that is wrong and she says, mum, not that sort of Doctor! What about you,

Sarah, in terms of family support? I would not be here without family

support. You talk about the next four years and look at them to see

if they approve. I started my first Games as a 14-year-old. I had not

started my GCSEs at that point, without mum and dad taking me

training, I had to shake them awake saying you have to take me to the

swimming pool. Now they follow me around the world and help look after

my little girl Louisa whose three. And there is my husband dealing with

all the bike mechanics. I am good at putting the chain in the wrong place

and he's cool, calm and collected and sorts it out so I can pedal

away. Good. Amy, you were the youngest member of Team GB this time

around and completed your GCSEs a month before Rio. How on earth did

you fit the revision in with the 31 hours of training a week? It was

pretty crazy. I had Olympic trials at the same time as my GCSE exams

and trying to fit it all in, having to miss the European Championships

to finish off my GCSEs was a big step. I didn't know if it was the

right decision I had made and whether I should have taken my GCSEs

out to Switzerland and still competed. It was a nervous wait to

see if I had done the right thing but it paid off. Ellie, in terms of

competing from a very young age, you have done it since you were 13

goodness sake, which is extraordinary! When you hear someone

like Amy saying that was tough, you know what it is like? Yes, it is

really tough. It was nice coming back from Rio and not having to

think about going to school. After Beijing I had to go to school

straightaway and after London I had to go straight back to school. It is

really tough to balance it out. When you are not in school for swimmers

or any sports people, you do not have the chance to have a nap which

I really like to have! It is hard to balance at all but you have to have

a great support system around you. I am not a school student any more so

I can enjoy my life! When you go back to school, do you feel

deflated, do you think this is not exciting enough, what are your

emotions? It is straight back to reality. For me, it is you are on

such a high from the Paralympic Games and then you go back to being

a normal student at school. It is quite hard. It is quite boring I

would say. School is good but... School is good, to all these

schoolchildren who are here! If you are just tuning in and wondering

what on earth is going on, we are in a sports hall in Salford with around

70 Olympians and Paralympians. In this room alone we have 55 gold

medal winners and that is just counting their Rio golds. Sarah

story here has 14 of them across seven games. And by the way... In

case you were wondering, the reason we cannot show quite as much

Paralympics that edge as we can the Olympics footage, it is because we

do not have the rights to play that footage so we can only use photos.

Since Rio we have had a cyber espionage group calling themselves

Fancy Bears hacking into the world anti-doping fight and releasing the

private medical data of dozens of Olympians including you, Helen

Glover and Pete Reed. How did you react to that? It is always a shame

when your private information gets released but I feel I have nothing

to hide. You almost feel violated that your personal information is in

the public domain, essentially for me, that was fine because I want to

be totally transparent about everything I do in sport. It opens

up some really important conversations about the way we run

Wada which is the drugs agency and the way we do testing. We all want

to compete on a level playing field and we do not want things to come

out through other agencies. We want to be honest and above board as

athletes and we do not want to compete against drug cheats. Where

you cross, Pete? Yes, I was quite cross. I can only speak for myself

but I am a clean athlete and I always will be. It is horrible to

have your name associated with words like doping. It is really sick. It

was not just asked two who were caught up in it. The first time I

saw this I thought, this is not really a story. It is our medical

records. Angry that Wada did not encrypt the data. If someone in the

public had their personal doctor records shed, it is not nice. It is

horrible to see names of such strong determined athletes with full

integrity, to have their names associated in that way. I am not

doing a good job of explaining this but you should have confidence in

all of us. We are honest, hard-working, good, loyal, strong,

kind people. The team is a fantastic team and I think the Olympics and

Paralympics stands for something which is very special and the public

should stay behind us. APPLAUSE

Crista Cullen hello. And Alex Danson from the hockey squad, it happened

to you as well, your data was stolen. How did you react? The same

as what Helen and Pete said. The affiliation to those kind of things

was really disappointing from our sport and also the other sports

which were represented. As the governing body, we embraced the

issue and we released a statement on the half of all the athletes and as

they both said, we had nothing to hide. The information was all given.

Dave Brailsford has been making the argument, he is the former boss of

Team GB cycling, the main controversy was around Bradley

Wiggins, but he has begun to make the argument that these therapeutic

use exemption is, you should publish them and you should tell people if

you have one. What do you think? We had a conversation the evening

that ours came out. It is really important that anybody listening in,

we are hard-working, honest athletes and TUEs are there for medical

reasons and actually, we did publish ours because we put it out there in

the open because they are things that were needed for us to perform

and so that's really important and perhaps they can be open for

everybody to see and that would be fine from every athletes point of

view. Philip Hinds as a Team GB cyclist do you think it should be

open and Fanny Bears would do their worst because you would have put the

information out yourself? If you have got nothing to hide and if you

have got a medical condition and if it gets to it and you have to

release everything, you have to release it even though it is private

information, but if it keeps the public happy I think just release it

if you've got nothing to hide. Thank you.

Dame Sarah Storey smashing Tanni Grey-Thompson's record. Have you

actually put all 14 medals on? No, I'm a bit of a maniac medal mother

in the sense that I don't want to damage them. Would it damage them?

That's why we're carefully placed separately because they do get

damaged. I have a slightly OCD sense. I'm sensing this. There is a

centimetre between them. OK, and that's very important to you, I can

tell! When you achieve that, what emotions

were you experiencing? The first emotions relief and huge excitement

about that particular event, you don't really think about what you've

done before, you just concentrate on that particular event. 12 laps of

the track trying to go faster than you've gone before and when you're

in the final you're trying to catch your opponent which I achieved. The

gun didn't fire which normally signals the end of the race. I kept

pedestrianaling because I hadn't heard the gun and then I heard the

announcer say, "She has won." I was thinking, "Where is the gun?" No, it

is just incredible to have that and to see your family, the British

flags to go and celebrate with them and come back to track centre where

the team is, it is the icing on the cake, but that excitement and relief

as well because you're building up to it for so long. Before the Games

there were claims that some athletes were misrepresenting their

disabilities in order to improve their medal chances, do you do you

respond to that? Classification is like an anti-doping thing. You have

to make sure that you're sure the person in that classification room

isn't trying to misrepresent themselves and it is difficult to

pick up on that. There are no tests you need to have medical experts

assessing the people in front of them. For me, it is easy. You can

measure the length of my arm and see it is how many centimetres shorter

than the other and I'm in that classification, but we have to have

full respect for the classification system and have to be sure that it

is working. You can't think about whether or not the person that

you're racing isn't in there, but no, I think the classification

system works very well and it is constantly being updated.

Disabilities present themselves in different ways and people who are

injured or have illness that is bring new disability in the

situation so we have to have, we have to believe in that system and

make sure it works and we come neat categories that are to our

functional level. You won't find me competing against someone with no

legs. It is categorized and objective and in many ways it is

like having a boxing class where you're categorized on weight and

within that group, there will be people who are a little bit heavier

or lighter than the other person within their category and I guess it

is the same in para sport. You have a range of disabilities within those

groups. Pete, you won a gold medal at Beijing and London and the men's

eight in Rio. Stupid question alert, how difficult is it switching from

four to eight? That's straightforward. So we train in

eights, fours and pairs through the year. That's not tricky. The tricky

thing is then once you are in a larger group making sure that you've

got a good team thing going, there are more people and more opinions,

more opinions! LAUGHTER

And getting the most out of everybody becomes a lot more

difficult than when you're in for example a pair, that's more like a

marriage, so it is two people all the time. But it is so much fun. I

haven't got a favourite boat class. Lots of people ask, but I had a riot

in the eight, it was a party from start to finish. Clearly, there is a

hierarchy, there is the coach obviously, but then if you've got

two golds under your belt, albeit in the fours, are you in charge? No.

No. There is no hierarchy. It the commander? I will mention Andy

Hodge. He is recognisable, long blond hair and can't be here today

unfortunately, but the two of us won together in Beijing and London and

now Rio, but we weren't figure heads of the boat or anything. It is a

team. It was wonderful for us to do it again, I speak for Andy as well,

the nicest thing was seeing the younger guys in the boat do it for

the first time, I say younger, they are a bit younger, but people like

Scott who is not here and Matt. It was just doing it as a team, it was

fantastic. You can share those memories and we weren't in charge.

No, it was a team effort. Paul, going straight in and getting gold,

oh my goodness? Well, rowing in somes ways is talked about as the

ultimate team sport. Tu abouts everything doing the same and people

with different opinions and different abilities coming together.

What was really good about our eight and our hole team was, there was a

lot of dimp views and a lot of different ways of doing thing. Pete

and Andy did a really, really good job coming in off the back of two

gold med aland not just usurping everything and saying, "This is how

we're doing it." Eights are different boats and being able to

both have had success previously, but listen to new opinions and find

new ways of doing things. I really commend them in the way they

approached that. They did an exceptional jobment fors, as young

guys coming in, it is nice to have someone saying, "Maybe you should

think about these things." But at the same time saying, "I'm happy and

open to the ideas." It is about finding ways of not conforming, but

finding ways of expressing different opinions and finding something

great. You asked whether I had a favourite boat class? Eight is my

favour boat class, it is louder and you have to get on with other people

and if you can't do that, you're scuppered. And it helps if you're

tall. Stand up, please. Are we really doing that? You should see me

on the way home! Nicola, come here. Just for comparison reasons!

No, for comparison reasons. That's enough. That's enough! Helen, didn't

you cheat your height once? Yeah, may have done. It does help to be

tall to be a rower. If you're good enough, you're tall enough. When I

started rowing, it was four years before London. I had never rowed

before, I had always done lots of sports and I finished university and

I applied for the scheme and when I got there, I mean I genuinely

thought I was five foot 11 and I walked into the room and I thought,

no, I'm five nine. So I may have stood on tiptoes that testing day,

but I'm glad I did because it got me into Into rowing and four years

later heather and I went to London. It was worth a tiny little cheat.

Fair Nigel Farage. How are you? My name is Karen. I was a volunteer and

Team GB superfan. I am five foot 11! I was really privileged. I saw all

the rowing medals. I went down for three different days and it was just

an honour and privilege to watch all of those medals. I know the lake had

some challenges with the wind and the rain and I know some sessions

were cancelled, but as a spectator on those days, the experience was

just incredible. I was downright on the front and it was actually Helen,

your gold the camera came back to us standing and cheering and I can't

even explain. I think somebody else said, you can't explain the emotions

and that's as a fan. That's not as a family member or any of that. So I

also work in school sport and again just for yes the rowers, but the

medallists if I can just say you are a massive inspiration to young

people across the country and if I can just do a little shout out for

those in north-east Derbyshire where I work in the schools partnership.

You have done so. Liam... APPLAUSE

Liam, as you know is Britain's most successful canoeist. You've got one

of each of the medals. You gave up canoeing at uni and were tempted

back? I studied at Loughborough University and I went with a

scholarship to do sport and commute over to Nottingham, but in the final

year university took over. It was quite a tough degree and I decided

to focus on graduating with a degree and I stepped away from sport

completely without really any thought of coming back into the

sport especially not competing and then after a few years, after

graduating I wasn't really moving anywhere and I decided to step back

into the sport with the help of a chap called Paul at my home club, he

gave me a programme because I was out of funding and out of that

system. And with the help of moo parents and this programme that Paul

gave me, got me back into the team where I partnered up with Johnny and

it kind of went from there. It is quite a story, actually, isn't it Sn

Goodness me that you can be out of it and thinking, "What can I do with

my life?" Let's have another go. Out of the funding system makes you

appreciate how much support the Lottery provides us as athletes. I

came back and as soon as I received that support, it pushed me so much

further down towards where I wanted to go. So I'm really fortunate and I

want to say thanks to the Lottery for that backing. Joe, how are you?

Good, yeah. Now, gold in the K1, you were seen as having an outside

chance of a medal. Did you dream about winning gold? Did you have

dreams about winning gold? I didn't probably have a dream, but it was

kind of like a performance outcome and take stepping stones to make

that when you're young, but that seems so far away. You have got to

make the junior team first before you can win the Olympic medals. It

really starts building and building and you once hope that you will make

it to that point, and I've done it now. To have an actual dream,

probably not because that kind of tempts fate a little bit. Do you

think? Yeah. Helen and Kate, you two made history. There is so many

history makers on this stage, it is fantastic by being the first

same-sex couple to win gold together. How special was that? It

was incredibly special. To do what we do every day is amazing. A lot of

hard work, but amazing, but to be able to do it with your loved one is

incredible. Incredibly special. Is there a decent amount of bounce in

training you're the married couple of the squad? Everything is on the

table. Everything is discussed. There are no secrets. But yeah,

definitely if Helen dribbles past me, she is skilful. She dribbles

past me which is quite often. It usually gets a bit of a laugh from

the girls. Will Bayley is here. Will won gold in table tennis. Hello

Will. Coops, what was that. A medal. A medal. Oh my gosh, is it damaged?

Was it a medal? It is all right, is it? It is good.

It is good. We will be fine. Will, hello. Where are you? Hi Will. Is

that microphone working. Hello. Hello Will. You're very welcome.

Will won gold in table tennis and was also on celebrity First Dates.

Let's have a look. It is a long story. Tell us the story. Oh man. I

was born with a condition that affects all four limbs in my body.

No! You have done so much. That's so amazing. You just blew me away with

what you're doing. Really? Yes! APPLAUSE

It's on. It's on. Thanks for that. That's brilliant.

LAUGHTER Don't worry about the table tennis

or winning gold, just Celebrity First Dates. I want to know what

happened next after that. Not a lot! LAUGHTER

She wanted it, but I wasn't interested. Oh Will! Will!

APPLAUSE There was an awful lot of love for

you on social media as you probably gathered. But in terms of winning

gold in the table tennis which is more important on your CV, talk us

through it. Oh, it is incredible. Like all these guys, it is a

privilege to be here and it was, I have been playing since I was seven

years old. How old are you now? 28. I moved away from home when I was

16. So yeah, it is, I thought, it was something I never thought I'd

do. It was my third Games and I'm so relieved that I achieved my dream

really. Is that the feeling, relief? Yes,

really. I jumped on the table when I won. I was so happy. I thought I was

running out of time so I was really happy. It has not really sunk in yet

but I'm sure it will do. Thank you for coming along today. Ladies and

gentlemen, we have much more to come. Now here is Carol.

If you are going to the Heroes Parade this afternoon in Manchester

the forecast is for sunshine and showers. That is also the forecast

for the rest of the UK. Some of us will miss the showers altogether. It

is also breezy today. Most of the showers will be in the West and

north-west. Here we will have the heaviest ones with the blunder.

There will be some isolated showers. Temperatures up to 18 Celsius in

London. Normally at this stage we would be looking at closer to 15.

Showers will fade through the evening and then a cold front well

come this way. We will have some cooler air. There could be some

pockets of frost in sheltered western areas as we head through the

latter part of the night. Then for tomorrow, the cold front continues

with wet and windy weather pushing down into the south-east before

clearing away. There will be further showery outbreaks of rain coming

into Western and southern parts of Scotland and northern England. There

will be some snow on the mountains of Scotland. Tomorrow will be a

windy day, gusting to gale forced in northern Scotland and Northern

Ireland. The temperatures will be lower than today, it will also feel

much colder. That is something you will notice.

Hello, it's Monday, it's 10 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

and this morning we're celebrating Rio 2016.

They have done it! They have done it! Absolutely phenomenal.

This is utterly brilliant, absolutely fantastic! It will be

Great Britain! Throughout the programme we've

been joined by 70 - 70 We have 55 gold medal

winners here and 38 who've So far this morning

we've heard? How important the role of family is.

How disappointed some were when they had their medical data leaked by

Fancy Bears and also how Nicola Adams speaks to her brother when

they are having a row. Plenty more

to come in the next hour - a question for any of our athletes

you can get in touch The battle has begun

for the city of Mosul, the last remaining stronghold

in Iraq of the militant group Joint Iraqi forces have so far

liberated nine villages. The assault is backed by the US led coalition.

Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, has been under IS control

The UN says it's very concerned about the safety of the city's one

14 unaccompanied children from the migrant camp in Calais

are expected to arrive in Britain today to be reunited

They're being brought here by the Home Office

under a new fast-track registration scheme before the camp,

More than 100 children will be brought here this week.

The daughter of the US Olympic sprinter, Tyson Gay,

has been killed in a shootout in the American state of Kentucky.

Police believe 15 year old Trinity Gay was caught

in the crossfire during an exchange of gunshots between two vehicles.

A new system to speed up the time it takes

to compensate parents in England, whose babies are injured

because of failings in maternity care, has been outlined.

Ministers hope it will speed up payments and reduce

the cost to the NHS - currently half a billion pounds

a year - of settling legal disputes after mistakes by maternity staff.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

Good morning, Ben, thank you very much indeed.

Tennis now, British number one Johanna Konta could yet feature

in the end-of season Tour Championship after

Serena Williams pulled out of next week's event through injury.

Konta herself recently pulled out of the Hong Kong Open with a muscle

problem and looked set to miss out on the end of season showpiece,

only the eight best players in the world take part.

But Serena's withdrawal means one of Konta, Carla Suarez Navarro

and Svetlana Kuznetsova will take her place.

Nick Kyrigos has been suspended for eight weeks

following his outburst at the Shanghai Masters.

He failed to serve properly, argued with the umpire and then

became involved in an angry exchange with a spectator.

England captain Alastair Cook will arrive back in Chittagong

this afternoon after flying home to attend the birth

The side are playing in a two-day warm up match at the moment,

the openers doing well without Cook - Ben Duckett made a half-century.

England begin their test series on Thursday.

And Mark Cavendish narrowly missed out on the World Road Race title

in Qatar, beaten by Slovakia's Peter Sagan.

Cavendish was one of the favourites but lost out on the sprint finish.

You can see the frustration on his face as he was

Sagan is the first man since 2007 to retain the rainbow jersey.

I just had nowhere to go for most of it.

I came with so much speed, so much power, I am just disappointed that

It has not been a bad summer for him, has it? And now back to you,

Victoria. Thank you, good morning. Welcome to Salford

where this morning we're In this school sports hall -

as you can see - are dozens and dozens of Olympic

and Paralympic medal winners. Later today they'll be down the road

in Manchester for the official but in the Olympics Team GB won

a total of 67 medals - 27 of them gold - that's one more

than China putting us second in the medal table

behind the States. And in the Para GBs

we also came second We all know the blood,

sweat and tears that goes into every gold medal,

and not just the golds, for every single

competitor who takes part. EDDIE BUTLER:

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out

how the strong man stumbles or whether the doer of deeds

could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man

who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust

and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs,

who comes short again and again. Because there is no effort

without error and shortcoming. I'm so sorry for the people

that stayed up late But who does actually

strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms

and great devotions. Possibly, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I don't want to cry! Who spends himself

in a worthy cause, who at the best knows, in the end,

the triumph of high achievement. Who at the worst, if he fails,

at least fails while daring greatly. Thank you to the great Eddie Butler

who recorded that are specially for us today. Still with us this

morning, 70 medal winning Olympians and Paralympians. Let's speak to

Lutalo. You one medal in Rio and as everyone knows you were seconds away

from winning a gold medal. Let's have a look.

I am so distraught. I am so sorry to the people who stayed up late to

watch and Cheney on. To let down in the last second. -- and cheer me on.

I wonder if you have now... APPLAUSE

If you have now rationalised what happened? Well, I thought I did

until I saw that clip actually! Definitely with perspective I can

look back on it now and I am very proud that I am an Olympic silver

medallist. It is one of those moments. At the time it was

devastating. It felt like my world had imploded. It is what it is, that

is sport, so life goes on. I think we have somebody in the audience who

would like to talk to you. Hello, my name is Jane. First of all I want to

say you have absolutely nothing to feel bad about. We were all with you

and we cried with you and we loved you even more because of what

happened. I was watching from home and it was a devastating moment for

everybody and we just felt for you so much, but I am sure you will live

on and be iconic because of that moment, and whether you go on to win

a medal in the future, or whether you are a silver medallist, you will

always be the one that everyone talks about, that everyone refers to

and when they say you have to work until the end, when we tell our

children, when PE teachers across the country and coaches talk to

their kids, they will say you have to keep on fighting until the very,

very last minute. But you thought you had? That is the strange thing

about it. I did not switch off or anything. I thought I had blocked it

and I didn't think it had hit me so that made it even worse, to be

brutally honest. I felt it on my arm and I looked round at the board

expecting to see Olympic champion and I saw something else but that

was the beginning of it all. But I really appreciate your words, thank

you. Coming back and getting the reception I did get from the British

public and what I continue to get is why I can't help but smile. It was a

great moment. And if that was your first time watching taekwondo I

guess it was a pretty good fight to watch. I am glad that we cried with

you and now we can smile with you. Thank you very much! When that

happens, that unpredictable less than a second moment happens to a

team-mate, what is it that the rest of the team feel? We were watching

it on TV because we were on the next day and we thought, he is going to

do it, because Jade did it the day before and we can do it tomorrow and

we looked back at the TV and he was running round and we were like, what

has happened? We didn't even know what was going on because Lutalo

didn't have a second left. Fair play, his opponent did pull off an

amazing kick to change the game around but we thought Lutalo did it,

he had it in the bag. But that is what taekwondo was like. It can

change at the last second. You can be winning all the way and you lose

at the end or you can be losing and then you win. I think that is what

makes the sport even better. Does the team rally round? Does that

happen? Yes, it does. There was a TV that we could watch which was

outside our apartments and everyone did get to watch the sport. We had

TVs in our rooms so we would congregate in our apartments to

watch it. As you say, you have to process it to think what happened

because I thought he was going to win the gold? Yes, we thought Lutalo

had become Olympic champion. Then we looked back at the TV. One of our

coaches in the room with us was cheering and we had to tell him. It

was bad saying it has changed, he has got silver. Everyone felt for

him so bad and that makes you think you have to switch on right to the

end and we just did not know what to say to Lutalo when we saw him the

next day. Darngs for you and Tom Daley, it was

the opposite. It looked like you were out of medal contention during

some of the dives and then it changed. Yeah, well, we were doing

OK after our required round of dives which was our easy ones. Our easy

ones! LAUGHTER

Well, lower degree of difficulty ones and then we started to drop a

bit. It came down to the last dive, we were starting out of eight

following the Chinese. So that's always the hardest position to go

into a competition. We knew it was going to come down to the last dive.

I prepared myself a bit for that. But yeah, just really happy. It was

an agonising wait, but really happy with the end result. The next day

your mum was cross about the newspaper coverage. It seemed to

ignore the fact that you were part of this two man team? I saw some of

the press, but I wasn't too bothered, but my mum thought it was

a mistake, but you know what the newspapers are like. To be up there

with someone like Tom, he is the poster boy for our sport. Our sport

wouldn't be where it is now if it wasn't for him, but just to be up

there competing with him, someone I used to go and watch at competitions

when I was younger, I did not imagine myself actually competing

with him at an Olympic Games. Even to be up there, it was amazing and

obviously, it is like any other team sport. We both worked so hard and

yes, it is equal hard work for that medal. Jack, hello. Britain's first

gold in the diving along with Chris in the three meter synchro and days

later a silver in the men's individual springboard final. Which

one do you want to talk us through? I guess start with the gold. Yeah,

where not? Why not? Me and Chris have worked really, really hard this

year. We were Commonwealth champions in 2014 and we were European

champions this year as well, but we actually put in for the first people

in history to ever put in the world's hardest dive in a synchro

event and we have been doing it and trying it out this year and it has

been going OK and it has been a bit hit and miss and the European

Championships we nailed it and our main opposition were the Russians

and the Chinese. They tried to copy it which worked in our favour

because they messed up at the Olympics. It was our first ever

world event that we won and the first one to do that in the Olympic

Games is fantastic, but it is a lot of hard work and we were doing

really well and it is just fantastic to actually come away with a gold

medal especially with your best friend, we live together, we train

together. It is a very special moment. Winning a gold, let's pick

on gold, winning a gold, with your mate. So the hockey team, the hockey

squad did, Philip you do it with Calum and Jason and whoever. Winning

a gold with your mates? Most of us will never ever obviously experience

that? Yeah, me and Chris both moved, I used to live an hour north and

Chris used to train in Southampton and live in Reading so we both moved

to Leeds to cement our partnership and to be able to do what we have

achieved now. We have lived together for coming up to almost three years.

We have been best mates for ages now and to be able to actually share

that moment with someone when you're standing on the top of the podium,

you have got a gold medal around your neck, and you've dreamed of

something since you were a little boy and to hear the nam anthem play

is a moment that so many people in this audience will actually be able

to savour for the rest of their life. Halfs it like for you Philip

winning gold with your friend? It was amazing. Two days before the

race even started, we were playing computer games in the village. I

looked across over to Jason and he was lying on the sofa one leg up and

the laptop on his knees and was playing for six hours his computer

games! I was thinking maybe he should take it a bit more seriously!

We are really good friends. We share rooms together and go for coffee and

food and it is just an amazing feeling winning with your mates.

Jack, your dad was on our programme after you won your gold. Let's have

a look. Please don't. You just turned out to be the most wonderful

son and I just wish you every success in the future. I know you've

got more in you. You've got another competition to come next week and I

think you'll just nail that SWwell done.

That was your dad with a completely straight face being interviewed on

national television with a life sized cut out of you! Yeah. What

the... I don't know! LAUGHTER

It is from an Aldi store which opened in Ripon which is from up

north. I don't know why he has got it. For some reason he was trying to

get the dog to come in and get his nose into the shot. We would have

liked that. No, dad stayed at home because I get very nervous when I

compete. Seriously? So much so that it could put you off? He has been

banned from coming to big competitions. Mum has always been

there. Dad stayed at home and cooked dinner and he doesn't know how to

handle and he gets therveous in himself and I find that can

sometimes put me off and he does the stupid wrong dad things that I'm

sure everyone has been through! But yeah, no, he stayed at home and he

held the fort and after our event we had so many people come round to our

house and I'm proud of what he did and he's proud of what I did. Is it

true you met your girlfriend on Tinder, but you didn't tell her you

were a diver? Yes. Why not? It is not like being a taxman or an estate

agent or a journalist god for bid? It is a bit weird. Showing off or

something, trying to pull someone on Tinder, playing your cards,

whatever. No, I didn't really see any need to shout off about it. I

wanted to meet someone more genuine and like me for being with me, than

someone who is more in the limelight. Anyone else on Tinder?

LAUGHTER Will be again soon. Who said that? I

don't think she understood what I was doing for a year. Who didn't

understand? My girlfriend. We met on Tinder. I didn't like to be come on,

and I don't think she really understood what was going on for a

year. I said, "I'm off to the World Championships." And she was like the

World Championships in what? She didn't know you were a rower? She

nudes I was a rower, but not internationally of the it was a

strange one. Yeah, bye. When you revealed to her after a year, are

you still together by the way? No, we are. She knows you've won a gold.

She knows now. Don't worry I'm doing some TV stuff. When you revealed

what you did for a living and it involved being away from home for

periods of time, reaction? Again, coming back to family. It is really,

really hard. As an athlete, you're used to sacrificing things and being

away and giving stuff up and bringing someone else into that

intimately is really difficult for them to go, we've gradually got to a

point where we go, "We're going away for a month." Other people let's go

to this wedding. No, I'm not going to see you for a month is harder. I

think that's one thing that I really need to learn to be more like

understanding of that dramatic change. It is really, really hard

for people in general. But she does a really good job of putting up with

some of the worst moments and these are probably one of the worst

moments is going away for so long. Andy, hello. Where are you? Hi Andy

how are you? Thank you very much for joining us today. Andy, triathlon at

the Paralympics for the first time. That's right. You smashed it with a

gold. You only took this up two years ago? Yeah, just over two years

ago, yeah. For me, literally in school, I was a cross-country runner

and then when I my accident, I lost my leg, decided that I wanted to do

something in sport. Yeah, and sort of got into triathlon. I don't know

how I got into it to be honest. Someone chucked me in a swimming

pool and said you're going to have to learn to swim. At which point I

nearly drowned and they got me out and said, "I need to touch you to

swim." That was over two years ago. Explain how you compete because you

have a blade as well as a prosthetic leg? Yeah, some people ask if, you

know, I swim with a prosthetic. Obviously, I don't. It is quite

heavy. But I get out of the swim, particularly if it is in the sea, it

is quite difficult if you have to run up on to the beach with a blade.

But I get out of the saession I get helped out and put my prosthetic on

and get up into transition. I then have to swap leg again. So I put my

bike leg on and I get out on the bike, I come back off the bike and I

swap my leg again for the running blade and I get out on the run. It

was tough and Rio was hot, it was humid and when you're doing three

combined sports, one after another, with the transition, it was, yeah,

it was tough, it was tough. Congratulations. Thank you very

much. Amazing. APPLAUSE Kadeena, hello. How are

you? Good thank you. How was Rio for you? Oh, it was amazing. I loved it.

Go on, tell us all about your medals. I got a few medals. You did

get a few medals. Let's have a look. You don't have the one centimetre

between them all? I'm not quite as picky as Sarah. I should learn from

her as mine are getting scratched. To get a gold on the bike and the

track, you have to explain how that's even possible? I don't know,

I just like going around in circles I guess! It is not so hard. I just

couldn't choose between the two and decided I was going to do both and

worked pretty hard and it paid off. Tell us a little bit about what's

happened to you in the last few years and how extraordinary it is

that you were even at Rio? So in May 2014 I was diagnosed with a stroke

and just four months later I got my multiple sclerosis diagnosis. I was

an athlete at that point, but I was bed-bunked and unable to walk or

feed myself. I had to relearn how to do everything and I dihe decided

that I was going to get back into running and I couldn't get running

straightaway. I used to fall over and I got on the bike and I had good

power and someone said, "Why don't you try cycling?" I was doing

running and I was doing both and here I am. Astonishing. Where is

Jonathan and Dan? Hi Dan, how are you? Hi Dan. How are you? At the

Paralympics, you may tell me it is not true, the night out you had with

the Channel 4 Last Leg lot? Oh god! It was interesting. Go on. Oh... We

are all human. We're human. So we decided to go out and join the Last

Leg crew atY Street in Rio and we struggled to find the place because

Alex Brooker is not very good with texting! To tell us where we were

going and yeah, we had to catch up and obviously I'm with two throwers

and I'm a high jumper. Yeah, I can't remember three hours of the night!

Really? Yeah. Wow. How was it for you? Like Jonathan said, we trained

so hard throughout the year. There is bound to be a little bit of

celebrating afterwards. At the start of the night he said, "It is

brilliant. You watch me boys, I'll be with you all night." Obviously,

there was blood, sweat and tears out in Rio. OK, Jonathan, we will see

how long it lasts. About an hour later we found him on a kerb outside

the bar, but that was Channel 4's point. They started to fund the

drinks flowing and tequila shots that big and I don't want Tequila

anymore. It is one of those nights? Yes. When you say you blanked out

and you were on a kerb. Yes, I had a good relationship with the floor for

a few hours! I felt good the next day because I got rid of everything.

Good. Good. I'm pleased to hear that, thank you. Thank you. Let me

bring in Jaz. How are you? Good, thank you. You became Team GB's

first double medallist at the Games. In the 800 meters beaten by we know,

by the athlete who broke the world record. What is it like facing her?

It is tough. She won London when she was 15 of the that's unheard of in

swimming, but when you know you're competing against someone that's got

the world records in quite a few events and is swimming out of her

life really. So I knew I had to put on the best performance and to be

the best of the rest and to come away with two silver medals was

pretty special in itself. There is a little boy in the audience who would

like a chat with you. Hello, hi, is it Ben? Yeah. Hi Ben, bring the

microphone closer to your mouth. How are you? Good. Thank you for coming

along today. What did you want to say? I wanted to ask what the moment

embarrassing moment at the Olympics was?

That is a tough question! The most embarrassing? I am not sure really.

We have already heard from Jonathan and Dan. Does anyone else want to

share for Ben's delight? No one had an embarrassing moment? No one is

going to say it! They are not for TV. A clean version? Everyone here

has worked so hard all their lives and we went out to have a good time.

We have worked so hard throughout the year, I did drink from January

until the end of the competition so it is time to let your hair down.

When alcohol is involved people do some silly things and save some

funny things as well. You need to share. He does not need to share.

The boat? I cannot tell that! It is Dan's first Olympics. We were given

a phone and it was waterproof. We were living on the 11th floor and we

had a balcony which overlooked the swimming pool and Daniel said if I

get an Olympic medal I will throw my phone off this balcony into the

swimming pool and one o'clock in the morning he did that and it was an

amazing moment to watch it. But why was that the thing you wanted to do

if you got a medal? Of all the things. When I said it, I was not

really thinking and I said it probably won't happen. It worked the

next morning and I gave it to my brother. He uses it now. Ben pretend

you have heard nothing of this competition. It proves it is a

brilliant phone. It is waterproof and survived the drop. That is

enough plugging of the phone! Ben, was there something else you wanted?

Something to do with a medal? Can I hold an Olympic medal, please? Come

on then, of course you can. Tell us what it feels like? It is

very, very heavy. I can confirm it is heavy. You swimming fan. Is that

something you would like to pursue when you grow up? Yes. URA fan of

Jazz and who else would you like to emulate? Ellie Simmonds and Ellie

Robertson. Any tips and advice? Keep going. Sport is never easy but you

have your highs and your nose. If you have given your best that is all

you can do. If you keep working hard and you have that dream, don't stop

until you try and achieve it. And believe in yourself as well. Belief

is a big thing. And just have fun. Really have fun. Thank you, Ben, up

well done. Here in Salford we have talked about

winning, losing, love, celebrity first dates and now I want to talk

about friendship. You share a flat with Jade Jones. What is that like?

She said she could not make it and she does apologise. It is really

good. We go through so much together, we train every day, we

push each other to achieve our goals and dreams. I was there just before

she got into the final. I said, you have made an Olympic final. I could

not be happier for anyone else. I was so determined that she would get

that gold medal. She came out and I just missed out on getting into the

final. Jade doesn't cry for anyone. She came up and she was crying and

she said, I don't cry for no one. And I said you are not even crying!

But we have a good friendship and we have lived together for seven years

now. Before Rio didn't you nail her by accident? I kicked her in the

face and she was bleeding. The media were there and she said, she kicked

me in the face and I carried on. Then she ran at me and she had blood

on her face and I was like, calm down! Was that in training or just

in the flat for fun? In the flat! No, I am joking. That was in

training. It is like that every day. We do try and kill each other in

training. Heard Twitter profile says I kick people in the head for a

living and I love it. She does! Hello, members of the audience, you

have got some questions. I would like to ask, are the gold medal is

actually made of gold? Does anyone know?! I got bronze. Go one, Pete. I

wish I could say yes but I know they are made of silver with gold plate.

They would be worth ?30,000 each if they were made of solid gold which

is too much. They are heavy but they are solid silver with gold plate.

Anyone else in the audience? Hello, do introduce yourself. Hello.

Everyone has received such respect and I delay should since you have

come back and rightly so, particularly for the disabled

athletes, as they disabled person myself, I wonder what it is like to

be described as a superhero or egg superhuman, that term is used a lot.

It is a bit of Ajax to position when you are growing up to be described

as a superhuman. Natasha? It is a bit surreal. I just feel that I am

little old Natasha who rides a horse. Being called a superhuman is

strange. Given that we have a disability, we are the same as

everyone else. We go out there to do our best. Everyone has things they

struggle with and things they find easier. We just love what we do and

are good at it. What do you think of it, what is your own view? I have

differing feelings about it because I think it can be slightly

misleading in some ways and there can be an implication that it is an

easy thing to do. Obviously, there are challenges for all athletes and

having a disability creates more challenges in some ways but at the

same time, I think it is fantastic seeing people who are disabled being

treated and given the same respect as able-bodied athletes and I would

just like to say I think, the word in spy ring is used a lot and

particularly when it comes to looking at a new generation of

athletes. I am 38 and I have been inspired to join a sport recently

because of seeing other athletes with disabilities achieve so highly

so that is great, thank you. Something that happened to me two

days ago, I use a wheelchair daily, I get problems with my stump from

training. People don't see that side. So when they talk about being

superhuman and everything else, I went into a petrol station and a

lady said to me, I have just seen a picture of you in a wheelchair, I

would never imagine you to use a wheelchair. I said quite? I am

disabled and I don't wear my leg all the time but now and again you see

me with my lead on but when I am training or at home it is for

recovery. -- my leg on. There is the other side we have to deal with as

well. And that is what inspires me with the other athletes. It is not

necessarily something we can switch on and off. It is something we have

to learn how to deal with and manage it differently. Hello. My name is

James. This is a question for Philip. There is any regulation

about how you do your changeovers at the beginning. I am a man one

myself, a lot slower than yourself, but how do you see the changing over

the next four years? I am not sure because I only saw the new

regulations last week. They keep changing from every Olympic cycle. I

think the Times will be faster but I think we should leave it for two

Olympic cycles because all the changes, you need to adapt to the

changeovers again. You will see disqualifications again. It ruins

the competition if you have to adapt all the time to new changeover rules

and other regulations. Natasha, two Olympic golds in London, three in

Riyadh, four in Tokyo? I can only win three! Have you made a decision?

I am definitely going to Tokyo. I have retired my horse from Rio so I

am horse shopping at the moment. Hopefully I can find my dancing

partner. How will you know when you have found a replacement? There

cannot be a replacement for Cabral but how will you know? It sounds a

bit corny but it is a bit like meeting your other half. There is a

spark and a connection. When I ride them I know I can get on with them.

Most of the horses I try have never been written by a Paralympic rider

before. My legs are useless when I am on a horse so they have to adapt

quickly to my voice and the use of my seat. I have to see how quickly

they can adapt and how quickly that will develop into something special.

If you have made your mind up about Tokyo, it doesn't matter what the

decision is, just put your hand up. So of those with their hand up, you

are going to Tokyo as well are you as games makers? Seriously? Some of

you have done London, Rio and you are doing Tokyo. Fantastic

commitment. Those with your hands up, who is a Yes for Tokyo? That is

most of you. Dan, URA Yes, why? I'm still young. You have just reminded

me I turn 20 in two days so hopefully I have at least one or two

more Olympics left in me and hopefully I can do the single as

well as the sink row. Lutalo? Yes, I have got to win it now! I did want

to chill out but thanks to being an idiot at the end, I have four more

years of this stuff! No, I like to think I am still young. I will be in

my physical peak next time round for my sport so I am really excited to

see what I can do in four years. Going back to 2012, we remember

there was controversy about your place in the team, whether it was

you or Aaron Cook. He happens to be your other half. All sweetness and

light now? Yes it is fine. There has never been anything between me and

Lutalo. It is politics in sport. It happens in every sport. You don't

always see it. It came out in the limelight and it was a massive story

for London. Obviously, it is never finished but things have moved on

and all you can do is move on. Who has made the decision not to do

Tokyo? Go for it, Kate. Just little old me? I am too old, Frankie! No,

it is time. I knew before Rio, well, we have both been playing in the

team for 17 years and it is time for the new generation to come through.

We have a fantastic squad of young players, we have a whole lot more

coming through and I will be in my rocking chair watching them smashing

it again. Helen, will you carry on? I don't think so. I have not really

started the programme. I am finding it hard to say the words that I am

going to retire. I think because I have been doing it literally my

whole life, since having left school and to say those words, that's it,

100%. But having won the gold doesn't make it a bit easier. I'm

sure. Jessica Ennis-Hill announced her retirement last week. The

question, when is the right time to bow out. Let's have a listen to

Jessica. And here goes Jessica. Oh my

goodness. Wow.

The pride of Sheffield. The pride of Great Britain. Jessica Ennis is the

Olympic champion. Everybody is on their feet.

Well, it is a decent jump. No mistake so far. 12.84. A little

clench of the fist there. Oh, she has got it!

Jessica Ennis Hill, four years ago and had to settle for silver

yesterday, but didn't she give it everything?

I wonder if it is possible to sum-up what kind of a role model she is to

somebody like you? She is amazing and especially to have a child and

come back and win the World Championships. I was upset that she

did retire. I didn't think she was going to do it yet, because we have

the London World Championships next year. She has two Olympic medals and

seven world medals and she is a phenomenal athlete, a mother and a

great friend. Hats off to her really. Yeah, an astonishing career.

Various people mentioned the fact because of the Olympics and the

Paralympics and the success of Team GB and Paralympics GB it is a real

encouragement to girls in sport and there is an issue in this country

with girls taking up sport particularly when they reach teenage

years. London 2012, I said to then myself five-year-old, six-year-old,

who is the athlete you want to be? He said Jessica Ennis and he's a

little boy and he meant it. That was delightful, but in terms of a role

model for women, what would you say? Well, I remember obviously watching

Jessica miss out on Beijing with injury, I think, it was and

obviously she cam back and won London. It was a huge inspiration

knowing she managed to turn it around and come back. There is so

many role models in sport and for women, it is incredible. Hopefully

we can inspire the next generation of athletes coming through that they

can sort of achieve their dream. Nicola, whether you like it or not,

you're a role model. Oh, you're doing the Rubix cube. Have you

managed it? Not quite. Still work in progress. How much responsibility do

you feel when people say you are now a role model? That's not what you

were seeking, it is a product of your success? When I went to win a

gold in 2012, I was thinking I just want to win a gold medal and being a

role model came with it, but yeah, it is something I've taken to quite

well. I love going to schools and boxing clubs and inspiring the next

generation and teaching the kids. What would you say about Jessica

Ennis-Hill's career? She has had an amazing career. We train at the same

place in Sheffield. I have seen how she worked really hard essentially

coming back after having the baby and I have seen her day in and day

out at the gym working hard and it is nice to be able to see heroin a

medal at Rio as well. Yeah, she deserves everything. She really

does. We have got a little boy over here who wants to talk to you. I

have a question for Nicola Adams. If you win a gold medal in the boxing,

are you guaranteed to get a pro contract?

LAUGHTER It depends. It depends. Some people

do, some people don't. I guess, it just depends whether you want to

stay amateur or turn professional really. And what do you want to do

Nicola? I'm not sure yet. I'm undecided. What do you have to weigh

up? I know it is a different decision when to retire, but this is

a really crucial decision, isn't it? I guess it's new challenges. I could

become a world professional boxing champion just like my hero, Muhammad

Ali and follow in his footsteps or I could create history again by

becoming triple Olympic champion in boxing. We've never had one male or

female. There is a lot to... Do both. Do both. It is not

Some more questions over here. My name is Mark. Rio was my fourth

Olympics. I go a lot with my friends. We go because we love the

sport and we love the Olympics, but we're thrilled to see British

winners. Do you notice the British fans when you compete overseas?

Yes, that's a yes. Go on, Bianca and Lutalo. As I was coming out into the

ring, I could see them and I was pointing at them of the it is

fantastic seeing the British fans, they come out, you see the British

flags everywhere. Yeah, you do notice them and it is a real boost

for me at least. Definitely. Quite a few of us stayed in one

hotel and we were very proud walking down to breakfast when we heard

about the British success, we had the other countries supporters

looking at us with awe. We had some reflective glory. Super. Briony,

where are you? How are you? Briony Paige made history, but how many

times have I said that today? Made history by becoming the first

British woman to win a trampolining medal by winning silver. Did you

have a trampoline in your garden when you were growing up? We used to

live in America, and we had one in the States, but when we moved, we

didn't have one. You didn't? I joined a gym then and I just loved

training and being on the trampoline. We didn't want one in

the back garden so that I didn't pick up bad habits. We wanted to be

coached properly and be trained like that. Congratulations. Hello sir,

good morning. My name is Steve. I was a volunteer in Rio, both the

Olympics and Paralympics, but I was lucky enough to see Sarah and

Kadeena win their gold medals and they are very good at other sports

and I wondered what other sports all the people on the platform would

like to take up in the next Olympics?

Oh right, OK. So you're switching disciplines for people on the stage.

Thanks to all the volunteers. In London there was a huge thank you

and a huge appreciation for the volunteers, but for us, when we go

away to Rio, and we walk in and we see a friendly face it makes it a

home from home and it is a real advantage coming off the back of

London with all that support and I know you work so hard and you are so

passionate and you know these people, these faces that we see out

in Rio really do make a difference for us and we know that you've put

in a lot of hard work. But to answer your question, I think it is a great

chance to try something new. I would like to go back to the sports I used

to do when I was little like ten us and hockey and all the things that

you might hurt yourself with, a bit of rock climbing and things, you

can't do those when you're full-time training. It is a good chance to do

what you like for a few months and do a bit of general fitness outside

your sport. What about concentrating on your marriage Held? Yeah,

concentrating on holding down a good marriage. I got married a few weeks

ago. Congratulations. How is it going so far? It is great. If

marriage is just honeymoons and parties, then that's great! That's

all we've had so far. Perfect. Shall we play the clip of your

husband-to-be after you won gold? I think we should. Here is Steve

Backshall after his wife to be won gold. The amount of work they put

in, the amount of effort, all the hours getting up, winter mornings

when it is freezing cold, when it is still dark and going out and

thrashing out every stroke was what today was all about. Coming here and

defending the title. They have just been unbelievable.

Ah, a sweetheart! APPLAUSE

He was, I mean, he was going through it not in the way that you were, but

he was clearly going through it emotionally? In his defence, if you

turned the camera on any of our loved ones, you will see the tears

and the emotion. They have seen the dark days. The people who watch our

Olympic final, they watch the highlight and they don't see the

days you have come home broken and battered and fighting. To be honest,

he was probably relieved that I won because I won't be moody for the

next few months. It is a relief. He knows how much it means and there is

nothing like watching and being able to do nothing, at least, you know,

when you talk about dealing with pressure and dealing with nerves,

but we can deal with the situation. Watching a loved one and crossing

your fingers and that being the most you can do is really tough. Which is

why your dad steers. Hello. I'm from Salford University. At Rio, who was

the messiest room mate you shared with? Jade. Jade. She is not here.

That's why I'm saying it! How bad was she? She's probably watching!

She has her days. Sometimes I walk in and think we've been burgled. It

is that bad! LAUGHTER

Anyone else? I will go for a guy called Tom Ransley who was in the

eight with us. He is the one with the beard and he looks scruffy. I

roomed with him once. He arrived with a hold-all and unzipped it and

emptied on the floor and a juggling ball and din know, three wet towels

and books from university, he looked at the bag and decided it looked

full enough for a training camp and brought it with him and that was it.

When he emptied it out on the floor, that was unpacked. We have talked

about me being in the Navy, I drew a line down the middle of the room,

you have that side and I have this side, and that's Tom! Hi. I'm

Frankie and I worked at the velodrome. We were lucky enough to

get closing ceremony tickets. When we saw your light up shoes, we loved

that, but you were far away from where we were sat and we couldn't

tell, when they were in the air, were you waving? Had you taken them

off or were you doing hand stands? Yeah, we thought it was a great idea

and we turned them on and started waving them and when you looked at

them, the hole thing is blacked out except for the GB section. We were

chuffed with ourselves because we stood out!

I was doing a hand stand! APPLAUSE Ladies and gentlemen, you

have got the victory parade later on today, you've got London tomorrow.

Can I thank you so much for giving up so much of your time today? You

have been up really early and some of you are not feeling topnotch, but

you have been stars today. So thank you very, very much. Ladies and

gentlemen, give them and yourselves a massive round of applause.

APPLAUSE Enjoy the victory parade.