Episode 3 Blue Peter's Big Olympic Tour

Dumbarton. Get ready for your Olympic countdown. Five. Four.

Hello and welcome to Blue Peter's Big Olympic Tour. This is your

ultimate guide to the Olympics and we're following the Olympic Torch.

Every step of the way as it travels right around the UK. And we are

thrilled to be coming to you live this morning from Dumbarton!

Hello, hello, hello. We are in week three of power Blue Peter's Big

Olympic Tour. We started in South Wales and then went to Belfast and

today we are in a very sunny Dumbarton. Now the talk is going to

beat year in about 30 minutes. It's travelling from Glasgow all the way

to Inverness. We can see where it is right now. Now, it is somewhere

round about Clydebank. It has been passed over to the next person, so

some body is about to set off for their part of the journey. What a

moment. He looks really excited. If you recognise him, get out there

and have a look at the Olympic torch it because you might not have

a chance again. That's true and we will be catching up with it later

on. Let's speak to these children. They are excited about the Olympics.

What are you excited about? Football. I'm excited about the

world distance running. Do you do any of that yourself? Yes. Depends

on who is chasing you, I'd imagine. If we listen carefully, we can

possibly hear it? Maybe as it gets closer. Let's have a look at what

is to come on today's show. It's Round 3 of the Blue Peter Olympic

Challenge where the two of us and our celebrity friends try our luck

at the Triple Jump. We also have the next installment of our

Horrible Histories sketches. we're joined by our good friend and

Olympics fanatic, Newsround's Ore Oduba. He looks so good in a

sparkly jacket, doesn't he? doesn't? Now, each week we've been

sending a crack team of local children out and about following

the Olympic Torch Relay. So it is time to go over to Louise from BBC

News School Report to tell us what has been going on during the last

seven days. Hello. Welcome to Dumbarton it. Over the last week

the torch has travelled from Liverpool to the Isle of Man around

Northern Ireland and Dublin and ended up in Glasgow. Last Saturday

it came to the Isle of Man and was carried on the back of a motorbike.

In the next couple of days, it travelled to the top landmarks of

Northern Ireland including the Giants Causeway. On Wednesday, the

Olympic flame across the Irish border and made a historic trip to

Dublin where it was carried by Jedward. A on Thursday it ended up

in Glasgow to jubilant crowds. We are going to show you some of our

top spots. I'm here at a Dublin every nut there is a fantastic view.

-- Dublin arena. There is a fantastic view. I like to hang out

here, it's a cool thing to do, biking. And skating. Here Robert

the Bruce and William Wallace hid here in the Scottish war of

independence. Freedom! If you like what you see, come and visit.

hear it for Louise, everybody. CHEERING Thank you very much for

that. I love the freedom! Thank you very

Up now it's time for today's guest. He is the host of Match Of The Day

and CBeebies the's ultimate sports stars, it is Ore! Hello, Dumbarton,

how are you doing? They like you. You watch all kinds of sports. Talk

us through the Olympics. What are you looking forward to? I can't

wait. Look at my face. It's an excited face. It's going to be

incredible. We have seen the torch go through all the cities and towns,

but when the Olympics actually starts, it's going to be off the

chart. I'm looking forward to all the sports, but obviously everybody

is looking forward to the athletics, seeing it Usain Bolt striking again

in London. Personally, I'm looking forward to the hockey because I

used to be quite good. We know this because we have a sneaky picture of

you in your hockey outfit. There he is. Where is he? Is that really

you? The question you want to ask, why did they want to hide my face?

What was so horrible about it? you still play hockey? No, I'm a

really bad now. I used to play with a lot of the team to the players

now. But I'm not any good. That Team GB players or the a lot of

people will be excited mother track and field because there are some

big stars out there. One that person is Phillips Idowu, triple

jumping legend and here is the man himself with the Event Guide.

I am a Phillips Idowu. You have made my day. There's only one more

thing I want to be awarded this year and I guess you can figure it

out. He is Great Britain's best triple jumper and his equally

famous for the colour of his hair as his fantastic sporting

achievements. I can't wait to compete up. Here is your Blue Peter

guide to Olympic triple jumping. It's an amazing sight. It looks

like you are flying. I like to think so. In Olympic competition,

all athletes who can jump a pre-set distance in the qualifying round go

through to the final. The two finalists then get three jumps. The

top eight get through more attempts with the longest single jump taking

the gold medal. The perfect a triple jump is very important. You

are degenerate speed as you approach the board. The next thing

is to be accurate on the board of. You want to make sure you step on

it without stepping over. You want to maintain as much speed as

possible. Then we have the step. You have the land as comfortably as

possible with as much control as possible so you can give it

When you land in that sandpit, you know whether it is a good jump or

not. You want the noise in the stadium. You want the crowd behind

you. I want them to be watching me when I am going, basically! Keep

them focused on you. It is big! Oh, yes! Triple jump is quite a tough

event on the body. You stretch your body quite a lot. One of my

conditioning exercises will be using a sledgehammer. And I beat up

a stack of tyres. That is a good exercise because it helps my back

strength. The key secret to my success, my coach. Secondly, the

hard work that I put in. And thirdly, I think nutrition. That is

where focus and dedication come in. As soon as I have finished

competing I will be eating burgers and drinking milkshakes! I think

people are expecting me to go with the Union Jack, but we will have to

I think he might go blonde. He has got to go for gold, hasn't he?

had a go at the triple-jump. It's a lot more difficult than Phillips

Idowu makes it look. If you let anywhere near Levengrove Park in a

Dumbarton, come and see us. We will be here all day. There's loads of

events you can have a go at. You could be a reporter like Ore. All

the details are on the Blue Peter website. Barney is out and about

finding out about the things you can have a go at. Yes, I am and, as

always, it involves gadgets. You will see the Blue Peter studio

stage at the back of the park. The top left-hand side, you will find

this tent, the Sports Report area, where you can be a sports presenter.

And you get used all the technology they use in the studio. This is

known as a green screen. It's a bit of technical wizardry and I have a

brilliant technician working with me today, David. The great thing

about this, you can operate all of this. Usually reporters get to go

to the actual event and report on it from there but we can't do that

because we are not there. So we have to use this so, David, put us

into the Olympic Stadium, please. There we go. As easy as that for

that we have to interview the legend which is Sir Chris Hoy. What

a man. Let's see what the fuss is COMMENTATOR: The world champion.

Great Britain takes gold. Japan takes bronze. What a moment in

history that was. David, we need to get to the Velodrome as quickly as

possible, please. Please welcome Sir Chris Hoy.

It is such a pleasure to have you here in the Velodrome. How much did

that race feel great? I started off a bit slow and then I picked up the

pace. And I just tried my best and I won. How does it feel to have the

gold medal? It's been amazing because I had been working on it

for years. It really is an amazing job you have. Can we talk about

your hair? You have gone with a Union Jack. Will that help you to

win the next race? I hope so. you want to come down to Levengrove

Park, you could be your very own sports reporter. The thank you very

much, Chris Hoy and Barney. Still to come on today's show.

Horrible Histories team have a chariot race. Can Ore match Sir

Steve Redgrave and Nicky Byrne by hitting the bell in our Test of

Strength? And we'll be trying to emulate Phillips Idowu in Round 3

of Blue Peter's Big Olympic Challenge. Now it's time for our

weekly look at historic moments that have really shaped the Olympic

Games. Usain Bolt might be dominating the 100m right now. But

this week we are going all the way back to 1936 when one athlete

ruined the hopes of one of the The 1936 Olympic Games were held in

Berlin. At that times, three years before the Second World War, the

country was under the control of one of the most notorious people in

history. Adolf Hitler. He was the leader of the Nazi party and was

clear he wanted white athletes to do better in the Games but there

was one man who stood up to this. And shattered all of his Olympic

dreams, the American, Jesse Owens. He competed in four different

events that year and scooped the top prize for the 100 metres and

I am very glad to have one at the Olympic Games here in Berlin. A

beautiful place and a beautiful setting. I'm glad to come out on

top. Thank you. Up next was the long jump where he was up against a

German competitor, one of Hitler's favourite athletes but, but the

American won it, picking up yet another gold medal. He went home

with four gold medals from Berlin and in the process had a strong

friendship with his German rival and proudly stood with him on the

podium in front of Adolf Hitler. many stories, fantastic moment and

Colin he is trying to track down every British gold medallist and

you can hear his programme at 11am on Sunday morning for that tomorrow

he will be talking to Daley Thompson and the fabulous Rebekah

Addington. A little bit later on, we will be having a go at the

triple jump. Phillips Idowu made it look easy earlier in the show.

However it's not so easy. We are going back in time it to try out

another jumping event. It is the standing long jump and it happened

in the Olympics between 1919 12. If we talk about the record for

this before we go any further, it was set in the 1960s by a Norwegian

guy. He managed to jump three metres and 71 centimetres, which is

the distance from the start of the mat to the flag. There is no run-up,

it is a standing jump. We know that you are one big hunk of muscle, but

do we think that Ore can do this? What do you think? Bad. Is that bad

but you mean good? No. It means bad! Good. We have one bad and one

good, which is the perfect mixture for television. Please take your

position. Do it from line one because you are not going to get

that far. Come on, guys! Ore, Ore, Ore! Three, two, one. He is an

animal. You have jumped one metre and 90 centimetres. A round of

applause for Ore. We always said that he had great thigh muscles.

Who needs Chris Hoy!! Let's go back to Horrible Histories. They are

going back to Roman times with the closest thing they had to Formula

One. Enjoy the thrills and spills, but

chiefly the spills, of chariot This is the most brutal and deadly

race of all time. Please select your charioteer. You have made your

selection. The Jews it in colour. - - choose your colour. Red is good

but it does not show up your opponent's blood! Let the raised

commence! Do you have what it takes to survive seven laps? He doesn't!

Watch out for the falling charioteer. Watch out for the

flying horse dung. Avoid the broken chariots known as shipwrecks. And

if you crash, let go of the reins, but they are wrapped around your

waist so you cannot! You win! live to raise another day, unlike

my horse, who will be sacrificed to the gods. I shall miss you. I am

not crying. It is fast, it is furious, it is chariot racing.

away. I am not crying. I am not! do love Horrible Histories! We have

seen how far he can jump. Now it is time to test his strength. We are

training you to be an Olympic athlete. Can I be like Steve

Redgrave? Hopefully! Steve Redgrave and Nicky Byrne have both hit the

bell, so there is some pressure, but we think you can do it having

seen you jump. Now everybody is my friend! It is hammered time. Let's

count him down. Three, two, one! That was rubbish. You need to swing

it more. That was 60. That was my first effort, right? You are wrong

60 and we are all a little bit disappointed! What a shocker. But

we still like you. Let's move on. Earlier we spoke to you about the

torch being in Clydebank and it is now on its to wait to

Dunbartonshire. Look how fast it is going! -- on its way to Dumbarton.

That is Ore running! You want to sue the torch, so what are you

going to do? We are going to go quickly, so we are running! What

are you excited about at the Olympics? I am excited by the

gymnastics. Let's see who is on our leaderboard as we hand over to Dan

Walker. Welcome to the Blue Peter bigger Olympic Challenge. It is

where we invite our friends to take part in nine Olympic events. At the

end of it, one of them will stand on the podium with a Blue Peter

gold medal. Laura Wright, not just a big singer. Brendan Cole, taking

this as seriously as Strictly Come Dancing. Last week's winner, Adele.

Mr consistent, it Romeo. And not forgetting these two, Helen and

Barney. Wellcome, athletes. This is an event that requires pace,

precision and explosive power. It is the triple jump and it is our

third event. We need somebody that knows what they are talking about.

It is one of our top jumping coaches! Can you tell them one

thing to give them this extra centimetres? A good step. Most

people do a very good hop and a little step. If you can just get

that leg out, you have got it. are all yours! It sounds so simple,

hop, step and jump, but not everybody finds it that easy.

ridiculous what is going on behind him. It is so hard. I have just

seen Helen Skelton doing little jumps. She has got a dock complex

which I think the coach is worried about. -- duck complex. Her legs of

flapping. There will be separate men and women's events. The rivalry

seems to be hotting up. I am not very good at this. Laura has got a

funny jump. Her hands are dead cute. I am really excited about triple

jump. I think it will be good. The other girls are doing really well

in training. The boys are finding out how much stress the body is put

under, none more so than Barney, who looks to have tweaked something.

That is so painful. This situation is fascinating. I find it quite

hard to run. Don't move my leg. This is the moment when Olympic

dreams can become a Olympic nightmares. I don't think he can do

too well in this. I know how much that hurts. That is the face of

pain. Is the baby coming out?! the out of the Olympics? He can do

some stretching. This is where our athletes will start the triple jump

journey. Then it is fast as they can down the runway. Down goes the

lead but, making sure they do not go over the line, otherwise they

get the red flag of doom. They want the white flag. Then you have to

hop, taking off and landing on the same thought. The second one is the

step, and the third one into the pit is the jump. The crowd goes

wild, a new world record. Just like in Olympic competition, everybody

is given three jobs, with their long as League One counting towards

the final result. -- longest legal one. Helen struggled. She managed

to do two with her feet over the line. This put pressure on her.

is looking tense. She would be. It is a strong run up and she is using

her arms, pumping away. It looks good, but is it? It is a white flag

and it counts at last! Adele was next up and she really struggled

with the technique. Three failures for her. And as for Laura, she was

proving very consistent. Two really good jumps to start with and this

is number three. She is in a really strong position. That looks like a

good run up. She is building momentum. That is a whopper! Around

eight metres. Is it better at than Helen's? I have the results here.

The good news is that you get one point for finishing third, Adele,

but you did not register a jump. With a jump of seven metres and 14

centimetres it is Helen Skelton. That means that Laura, you win the

women's competition. Eight metres 19 centimetres. Now it is the boys

turn. Brendan Cole is getting the crowd going behind him. That will

help. His run-up is good. He looks fierce. That is impressive. Good as

me, that was impressive and he knows it! -- Guy Disney. Brendan

recorded two more good chums but neither of them was quite as good.

Barney's first job was good but the second was not. He had one more

chance to improve. He will feel it now. Jumping despite injury. That

is not bad. That is good, well done. Romeo left it to the wire with two

failed jumps, leaving him one chance remaining. He has to get it

right. His eyes, do they show frustration or determination? Third

time lucky. That is not a bad effort and he gets the white flag.

It was risky. Yes, mm to spare. Brendan, you were way out there. 10

metres and 35 centimetres. That wins you top marks. Some tension

here because we had two jumps. Romeo, you finished in second place

with eight metres, 86 centimetres. Barney, injured, but eight metres

12 centimetres is very good. Well done, everybody.

I think it is fair to say that was not my finest sporting moment. I am

sorry that I laughed when you got injured! How has it affected the

leaderboard? Let's move on! At the moment Barney and Adele are not in

line for a medal. I have got six points. Laura and Renault have got

seven points. -- Romeo and. At the top of the table in gold medal

position is Brendan Cole with eight points. Why are you cheering for

him? He is not here and we are! It is early days and we have got lots

more events to go. It could still change. You never know. We are back

on Thursday at 5:45pm on the CBBC channel, when the Olympic torch

continues. We will be following the torch and we will be joined by pop

sensation Gemma Cowdrey. Olympic dreams continue. -- Joe

McElderry. I am laughing because I know how good it will be! And

Horrible Histories have got a catchy song for as they tweak that

you do not want to miss. -- for us next week. We will be in Sunderland.

You ran with the torch, so what was it like? It was amazing, a once-in-