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What a day, what tonight, what fortnight. Not just Great Britain's

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most successful games overseas but their best ever Olympic Games. For

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at least the last 100 years. 66 medals in total, one better than

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London, who wouldn't believe that. It has been exciting and dramatic.

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It has been medals. Speaking of which, I did not sign up for this

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Hazel, our last view of Rio. She got out at a good time. What we have in

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the 16, this is what is coming up... We will be over to the men's

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marathon. The last event and the track and field. What can the men

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do? Joe Joyce has a lot to live up to in

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the men's superheavyweight category. It was the medal that Anthony Joshua

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took four years ago. He is in the final. He is a big man. And he can

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move. And after 16 spectacular days, it all comes to an end tonight. We

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will look forward to what will be a fantastic closing ceremony in the

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Maracana this evening. That is all to come. We will be over to the live

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action later on. 66 medals Great Britain have so far. There are 65th

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was won on the track. Mo Farah came into this last night already with

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the 10,000 metres title. He had got three in total but could he do that

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only one man had done before? The Olympic double double.

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COMMENTATOR: Mo Farah going for the double double. Mo Farah trying to do

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something that so many great athletes dead. Haile Gebreselassie

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could not do it. You could go through all the great names the

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past. He has an opportunity here to hopefully take this fourth Gold

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Medal and the double again would be his. That is pretty quick, 2.37

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through the first kilometre. That is the quickest first kilometre in an

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Olympic 5000 metres. Is this a genuine attempt to take on Mo Farah

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ought to get rid of as many people as possible. These guys have run

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against Mo Farah and have seen him dominate the sport. By World

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Championship Gold Medal is. Three Olympic gold medals already. They

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have seen him do it on a fast last lap. I think this is clever and

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sensible on their behalf, we can beat him in a slow race, let us make

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it faster. Mo Farah now in the middle of the pack that is being

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tested for injuries. They are talking about who will go next and

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whether they will go. Seven laps to go in the 5000 metres. They even

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will be planned to stretch Mo Farah, stretch out and see if he has

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weaknesses, he is faster than the fastest, they will find out if he is

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stronger than the strongest. Great Britain with two men in the

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top seven. Ethiopia are leading but they are slowing, that was the

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slowest lap, the previous lap. I suspect this will be slows. This one

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looks to be slower than that. Mo Farah has said, you have opened up,

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that was your opening gambit. I have taken that, thank you very much, not

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good enough at this point. I am ready and waiting. I am right here,

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right here where I want to be. I am letting you know I am here. You slow

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down, I moved to the front. You speed up, I'm going with you. He is

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already one of the all-time greats as he runs on self and to the list

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of the very best we have ever seen. For my money, he is already there

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but he is determined, he hates losing and he wants to win again. He

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has ran thousands of miles in training. Now, he is into his last

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mile. Four laps to go in this Olympic final. One mile that could

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take him to further Olympic only. One mile that could take him to his

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fourth Olympic gold medal. He has decided he was to get hold of this

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race early, he does not want to let them control. The one that I thought

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was the big danger is still there. 1000 metres left in the 5000 metres

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final. That was the lowest kilometre. Mo Farah is leading.

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Danger everywhere he looks. He knows that everybody in the past has tried

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to out kick him but nobody has managed to get past them. None of

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these people are quicker than Mo Farah when he's at his best in the

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last 400 metres. Mo Farah is leading. He comes down the back

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straight. Three medals in the back. Will it be another one? Will it be

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the historic fourth medal? Mo Farah checking behind, to the side, looks

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up to the big screen. That was almost a fault. There goes Mo Farah

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at the bell. He has got company and is trying to hold them off. He is

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accelerating. He is in the driving seat, has he got the finish we have

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seen him produced over the years? Can he added to the three gold Medal

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is that he has got. Mo Farah knows that he just has to hold the curb.

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He has to hold the lead. They will attack again. He has got more

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together. He has got speed in those legs to spear. He is looking up at

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the screen. They are trying to catch. The USA are the big danger.

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He looks to his inside, checked there is no danger. Mo Farah is

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gone, he will get gold for Great Britain again. The double-double.

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Four Olympic titles and four Olympic gold medals. Incredible from Mo

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Farah. Congratulations, your fourth Gold Medal. You have created another

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piece of history. I cannot believe it. After the ten kilometres, I was

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tired. I stayed in my room. People bringing the food in the room and I

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was resting. I cannot believe I didn't. It is every athlete's dream.

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I cannot believe it. Is this the most satisfying one yet? The

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pressure of four years. It has been incredible. I want to go home now

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and see my beautiful kids. I want to hang my medals around their necks. I

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have that drive. It is something I am born with. It is just me. I hate

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losing. Refugee or something and have ambitions and you are willing

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to work hard, you can achieve your genes. -- refugee of something. --

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if you dream of something. I do not see my kids. For me, I was

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not going to miss anything. I wanted to do it for them. I will never

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catch up that time I missed. At the same time, if I can achieve

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something in my career, it is for them and that is what drives me. He

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is special. We're lucky to have fun. Mo Farah eagled the result of the

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Finland athlete 40 years ago. -- equalled. He said he was not sure

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how he recovered from the 10,000 metres. We do not care how you do it

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but we enjoyed it. Special mention to Andrew Butchart who got six

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place, professional best in his first Olympic Games. They got better

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for the Britain last night. The four by 400 metres relay, the member were

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disqualified in the competition, it was down to the women to see if they

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could end the Team GB track programme on a high.

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COMMENTATOR: Eilidh Doyle takes Great Britain away. She has the

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Ukrainian athlete to work off on the outside. Already running strongly.

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The Jamaicans and the United States, Stephanie and MacPherson for

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Jamaica. Being chased down by Stephanie and MacPherson. It is an

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elongated stagger so difficult to tell. It has been a good run so far

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by Eilidh Doyle. MacPherson going very quickly for Jamaica. The USA

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are the favourites. That is a very good leg. Canada feeding. Eilidh

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Doyle doing a great job. The USA, Jamaica, tight for third place. Nate

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Garner your has to have a good bend. -- Anyika Onuora. Good experience.

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She is in third place. They are quite a way behind the freezing two.

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She has to stay strong for the second 200. Anyika Onuora has went

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out very hard, she was upset not to make the final after getting the

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better of Christine Ohuruogu at the European Championships. Natasha

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Hastings out in front. It is the United States from Jamaica and then

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a big gap back to Anyika Onuora. She is leading to the handover. Emily

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Diamond is waiting. Emily Diamond now has her bit to do. Arthur

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Wheeler also running well. Emily Diamond just checking in behind

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those two. -- Australia. Anyika Onuora fell apart in the last 100

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metres. Emily Diamond has to be patient and give Christine Ohuruogu

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a chance. It is a scrap for the bronze medal. Christine Wolf be

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using all the. Emily is using -- is looking strong and is looking good.

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This is so important. Canada have got a 400 metre hurdler on the last

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leg. Italy are far too distant. This is brilliant from Emily Diamond. USA

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lead, Jamaica second and Great Britain in third. Christine Ohuruogu

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running for bronze. Far away in another land, the battle between the

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United States and Jamaica. Allyson Felix on the anchor leg for the

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United States. Jamaica had to have the lead to have any chance. It is a

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gap back to Christine Ohuruogu. She is being hunted down by the rest.

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She always finishes. They. She has got the Ukraine and Canada. The

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Ukrainian made the final of the individual event. For the title it

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is the United States coming home, Allyson Felix, the brilliant Allyson

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Felix going for gold. Jamaica with the silver. And behind them

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Christine Ohuruogu is holding on, holding on, holding on to take the

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bronze for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is the best

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they could have expected. The best they could have hoped for and they

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have achieved it in some style. Christine Ohuruogu did not panic.

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She has all that experience and she held on to earn the smiles and

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celebrations because the United States and Jamaica would always be a

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long weekly. We expected the United States to win it Jamaica had not

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been any possession leading going into the anchor leg. Allyson Felix

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was always going to win. At this point, already the United

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States and Jamaica are away, Great Britain are in a tussle with Poland,

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with Canada, and then this was where we got a little bit worried, Canada,

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Poland, Australia got past Anyika, but she hung on in there, and this

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is a great run from Emily Diamond. She did not hang around, she did not

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play anything tactical, a little-known, using her elbows,

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strong around the top bend, came into the home straight. -- little

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nudge. Christine will have got what she wanted, good luck, everybody,

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she has been such a great servant to British athletics as well. Former

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champion, and of course in the twilight of her career, we have

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heard her interview the other day, that was hinting that we might not

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see her here again. But they are all lining up to come past, no chance!

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Christine Ohuruogu strong, determined, fighting for her team,

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bringing the bat on home. Well done, all four. Everyone was very excited,

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the British fans about the number of medals won in London. This is number

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66 for Team GB, passing the total of London, how fitting that it is

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earned by Christine Ohuruogu, as Steve was saying, this is the last

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time we will see her in an Olympics games, and perhaps even in a major

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championships. That was a wonderful anchor leg by Christine Ohuruogu to

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take bronze, a long way behind the United States and Jamaica, but a

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medal to be celebrated. Well, congratulations to you all,

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fantastic performance, Eilidh, you always get the team off to a great

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start, but an added edge in the Olympics. We tried to treated like

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any other 4x4, the same plan of the last few years, and I wanted to get

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as good a start as possible, we knew it would be tough with America and

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Jamaica. I wanted to give them the best possible start, a good solid

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start, and Anyika took it on from there. You really attacked the first

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200, you manage to hang on down the home straight, tell me about that.

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Just about having an, I was starting to knock down the home straight, but

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I tried to keep my composure, and put it in a good position for Emily.

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I am ecstatic with being here as part of the 4x4 with these girls,

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Olympic medallists, can you believe it?! Me, running the 400,

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seriously?! Like I was thinking of going back to 4x100 metres, so I

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could not be more happy. Emily, tremendous third leg, great

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Olympics. Yeah, it has been the most amazing experience, I mean, us girls

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had a fantastic camp, and I want to thank the national lottery for

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helping us have all these facilities. Without the national

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Lottery, it would not be possible. We knew that the bronze medal was up

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for grabs, so proud of these girls who manage to do it. So much noise

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in the stadium, a great atmosphere, the 4x4 race going on behind you, we

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have to whisk you after the medal ceremony, but we could not miss the

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moment, Christine, you made history, only the second British athlete

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after Steve Backley to win a medal in three separate Olympics,

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congratulations. She is the boss! When we spoke the other day, you

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talked about... There was a great line about the midnight hour

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striking, a pumpkin line, Cinderella reference, this was another

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Cinderella moment for you. I have not quite changed into a pumpkin

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yet! It has been hard, but I think I want to start enjoying the last ten

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years or so of my sport, but it is nice to go home with a medal, I

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think we all worked really hard over the last couple of days, the last

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season. We knew we could medal here. Thanks to Anyika, Emily, Eilidh, we

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really had to work, come together as a team, because we knew there was a

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medal to take, but you do not get it until you get it. We had to stick

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in, stay focused, work together, keep our spirits up, because it was

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tough. We had to sit with all these brilliant runners, it was tough, we

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had to keep our energies up, keep our focus, get the job done. And I

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am so proud of them, we got the job done today.

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More than a good job, outstanding from the women there. Emily Diamond

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with an incredible split, and the first 4x4 medal since 99 92 for GB.

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Remember, the 4x100 metres team came away with a bronze. -- since 1992.

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The future is bright for the relay teams. Speaking of which, the

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future, of course, will be without Usain Bolt after these Olympic

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Games. He made it three here at Rio 2016, he completed the triple

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triple... They are not happy about it, people are distraught! But what

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is life going to be like after Bolt? It is gold again, history, history,

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history! Usain Bolt number one! What on earth are we going to do without

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him? The first time I heard about Bolt, he was still a teenager,

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already running fast times, I thought there was a very good chance

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that he could be one of the best. It wasn't until 2008 than I just

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thought, OK, this is something that we have never even seen before.

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Usain Bolt has blown them all away! All of a sudden, the whole world sat

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up, even people not watching athletics, who is Usain Bolt? Is

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waving, telling jokes, smiling. He changed the sport to make it more

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friendly, more approachable. Now it is like party time. Usain has become

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so popular, he has transcended track and field, he enjoys the spectacle,

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and it really captures people. They want to see him, they want to be

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him. The first time I was in the same race as Usain Bolt was the

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World Championships final in Moscow, such a presence, confidence and

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charisma, you want to try and emulate that. It is difficult to put

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into perspective what his impact has been, because the sport has done

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such a poor job of promoting itself, and such a poor job of policing

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itself, that Bolt has really stood apart. Good for him, because

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otherwise the sport probably would have dragged him down. We all owe

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him a massive debt of gratitude. Our sport has been going through perhaps

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its most difficult time. Without Bolt, the sport would have been in a

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much worse position. He could have walked away, definitely, he could

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have gone after London, he did not have to come to Glasgow, he

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certainly didn't need to come to the World Championships in Beijing.

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Usain Bolt, he has saved his title, he has saved his reputation, he may

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have even saved his sport! When he retires, there will be someone else.

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We'll he be right there for him to hand the baton off immediately?

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Probably not. There is lot of young talent coming through, but he is the

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greatest of all time, the things he have done in the sport are mind

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blowing. The sport has to think about what they do with him, they

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cannot just have them walk away into the sunset and never be seen again.

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The responsibility lies with Seb Coe and his team to find a role where

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the sport can benefit from the pleasure that Usain Bolt has given

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us all. The sport will survive, the sport will go on. It will just have

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to be really smart about how it sells the stars it has. In terms of

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titles, he will be replaced, but not the character. He is the Muhammad

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Ali of our sport, people love him for the way that he wins, and it

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makes more people watch, and that makes him the greatest.

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As Steve said, life will go on at the Usain Bolt, but we are seriously

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going to miss him. On the Olympic spectrum, because barring illness

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and injury, we will see him in London at the World Championships

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next year. Did you see that behind us? Some excitement going on down at

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Copacabana, it is Usain Bolt's birthday! Baby they were the

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birthday celebrations going up. Nice to see it is all kicking off despite

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the terrible weather, still lively and Copacabana. We are going to the

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men's marathon very shortly, but before that let's mark your card for

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tonight, because at 7:15 it could be a golden finish to Great Britain's

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Rio 2016. Joe Joyce goes in the superheavyweight category of the

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boxing, four years ago it was a memorable night for Anthony Joshua,

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Joe Joyce has a lot to live up to. Nicola Adams is the Olympic

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champion! He has just been crowned Olympic

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champion! Joe Joyce, Britain's outstanding

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super-heavyweight. So Joe Joyce in there in, the

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superheavyweight category, tonight, hopefully going for gold, 7:15 on

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BBC One, right here, it is going to be a long Sunday afternoon,

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hopefully you can stay with us on the last day of Rio 2016. So some

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live action, men's marathon time featuring Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya,

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two time London Marathon winner, you will remember that Jemima Sumgong

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won the women's marathon, so could we have a repeat for the Kenyans in

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Rio? That an go down to the Maracana and the Sambodromo, where it is

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kicking off. -- let's go down. Talking us through it, Steve Cram,

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Brendan Foster, Paula Radcliffe. Very different scenery to what we

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had for the women's race. STEVE: It is, Ore, and a lot of the

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runners will have been thinking, thank goodness, because the contrast

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could have been 30 degrees, sun overhead on a course which would not

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offer much shade. Great marathon in prospect, Galen Rupp ran in the

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10,000 metres earlier in the week, of course, against Mo Farah, now

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going in the marathon. Really intrigued to see how he could go

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here, what a night it was for the USA with his training partner

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winning the 1500 metres gold medal. And talking about gold medals, this

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man won one last year at the World Championships, a real surprise,

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Ghebreslassie of Eritrea coming through as the world champion. And

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then some familiar names from the London Marathon et cetera, Berhanu

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ran really well in Boston this year, actually, the same week as London,

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Stanley Biwott, a regular fixture in the London Marathon, it could be his

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day to day. Kenya, as ever, as we were saying, well represented. The

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prerace favourite, Eliud Kipchoge, cap on, looks like he is ready for a

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Sunday morning run, trying to become the Olympic champion. More about him

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once we get under way. There will be huge support, a huge cheer in the

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standards, but there is nobody to watch this this morning. Dos Santos,

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a big hero in Brazil, he will give them something to shout about in the

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early stages. Three British men, the two Hawkins brothers, more of them

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shortly, we will get them under way in the Sambodromo.

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Really good crowds out for the women's marathon, I wonder what it

:29:14.:29:18.

will be like this morning, you can see the weather, good for them, not

:29:19.:29:25.

good for spectating, sadly. It has pretty much been raining all night

:29:26.:29:29.

in Rio, expecting a lot of surface water. Here we go, the final event

:29:30.:29:40.

of the athletics programme in the 2016 Olympic Games gets under way,

:29:41.:29:45.

the men's marathon. 700 metres down this spectacular opening, and this

:29:46.:29:50.

is the scene which will greet them in just over two hours' time when

:29:51.:29:56.

they return to the finish, and in those two hours we're expecting an

:29:57.:30:01.

enthralling race. Four years ago, at bit like Eliud

:30:02.:30:15.

Kipchoge, we had a red-hot favourite. On the day, he got things

:30:16.:30:25.

wrong. And we had a surprise winner, Stephen Kiprotich, he is in the

:30:26.:30:28.

field and defending his title. What has happened to him over the past

:30:29.:30:35.

four years. -- lots has happened. Even in the marathon, Times can go

:30:36.:30:38.

out the window and anything can happen. There are not any

:30:39.:30:44.

pacemakers, it is not like the big-city marathons. Legacy what they

:30:45.:30:49.

have got in store. Good morning to Paula Radcliffe and Brendan Foster.

:30:50.:30:56.

It was a good night last night after the exploits of Mo Farah in the

:30:57.:30:59.

stadium. It has been fantastic athletics so far. As they leave the

:31:00.:31:09.

Sambodromo, the purpose-built stadium to host the samba schools

:31:10.:31:14.

parade and the annual Rio Carnival, fantastic spectacle of the

:31:15.:31:20.

world-famous Rio Carmichael. The term onto the main road now. They

:31:21.:31:29.

must've been delighted. Last week we had beautiful weather for spectator.

:31:30.:31:33.

Today, we have got beautiful weather for distance running. Perfect

:31:34.:31:39.

conditions and the athletes will not be concerned about the number of the

:31:40.:31:45.

crowds. They will not be disappointed if the helicopter

:31:46.:31:47.

pictures do not sure the wonderful scenery. It will be keen to settle

:31:48.:31:53.

down and get on with the running. This will be a fantastic race and

:31:54.:31:58.

some great athletes in it. Paula Radcliffe, I bet they were pleased

:31:59.:32:03.

this morning. They will definitely be pleased that the temperature is

:32:04.:32:14.

lowered. It is a big factor in the marathon. The biggest factor they

:32:15.:32:17.

will be worried about is the amount of water on the road, the shoes and

:32:18.:32:24.

socks get heavier. It can increase the likelihood of blisters in the

:32:25.:32:28.

second half and the closing stages of the race. Generally, they will

:32:29.:32:32.

happier. Lots of the athletes have chosen hats because of the direct

:32:33.:32:37.

sunlight but this time it is to keep the rain out of the rise and to be

:32:38.:32:42.

able to keep clear vision. -- out of their eyes. Just one word on the

:32:43.:32:50.

British athletes, it is a great opportunity for anybody to represent

:32:51.:33:01.

your country in the marathons. Three Scottish representatives. Andy

:33:02.:33:08.

Hawkins brothers. Both of them have had problems with injuries. Derek

:33:09.:33:18.

picked up a stress fracture. He has not been able to train. He has been

:33:19.:33:24.

crosstraining. And he has made the startling. Interesting to see how

:33:25.:33:31.

fast it gets. We're not expecting too much from Derek. I know he is

:33:32.:33:35.

desperate to try to finish this Olympic marathon.

:33:36.:33:46.

When your entire training and your dreams, and your thoughts about

:33:47.:33:51.

going to an Olympic Games and then picking up injuries at the wrong

:33:52.:33:57.

time. If it was any other event, you would not do it.

:33:58.:34:12.

It is the Olympic marathon and that especial. You will make efforts to

:34:13.:34:19.

get to the start line and to take the start. Even if you have got

:34:20.:34:24.

problems in the build-up because it is the Olympics and you have got

:34:25.:34:27.

that dream and hope that something can happen. Particularly for Derek,

:34:28.:34:32.

he has crossed trained extremely hard. He has maintained that

:34:33.:34:37.

cardiovascular fitness. He is fit but he does not have the training

:34:38.:34:41.

and the preparation for the impact that goes on. That gets really hard

:34:42.:34:46.

the closing stages of the marathon. Exponentially more so if it is a

:34:47.:34:50.

harder course on concrete. What could help them today, it is softer

:34:51.:34:58.

tarmac. When it is wet, it does help with the impact on the muscles and

:34:59.:35:02.

the legs. Derek will have to work his way through that. Tsegai Tewelde

:35:03.:35:08.

had the problem with his foot coming into the race. The biggest problem

:35:09.:35:11.

for him, the little bit of running he did, he forgot his racing shoes

:35:12.:35:23.

and he had to borrow -- borrow a pair from Charlie. His injury was

:35:24.:35:41.

plantar facet is. I had that. I used your technique of stretching my

:35:42.:35:46.

toes. It was OK. It is a foolish thing to door -- to do. If you had

:35:47.:35:53.

been injured like the two of them, in the Olympic Games, the laws of

:35:54.:35:58.

distance running say you should not run if you had the stress factor or

:35:59.:36:02.

if you have not been able to train. You might not ever have the chance

:36:03.:36:07.

again. We want to have that chance. You do want to try to finish. At the

:36:08.:36:12.

end of the day you could not keep an athlete away from it. Particularly

:36:13.:36:16.

so when it is your first Olympic Games. And when you have the chance

:36:17.:36:23.

like Derek, how often do you have the chance to run in an Olympic

:36:24.:36:26.

marathon with your brother and to be able to get out and be part of the

:36:27.:36:30.

same team together? The one thing I will say, it is a quick turnaround

:36:31.:36:35.

to go from a trial in April to come to an Olympic Games in August. That

:36:36.:36:40.

is not a lot of margin for picking up a small injury and being able to

:36:41.:36:44.

get back from that. I understand why because it is the London Marathon

:36:45.:36:48.

and it is our trial but it does not give you lots of time to turn it

:36:49.:36:51.

around and come back fully for the championship marathons. On a more

:36:52.:36:58.

positive note, we got the little bit of a site of Callum Hawkins, with

:36:59.:37:03.

his cap on back to front. What a great story for him. It seems to be

:37:04.:37:07.

a few years ago I was watching him win the school boy cross-country

:37:08.:37:12.

races. He has really done well and build-up to the marathon, great

:37:13.:37:16.

performance in London. And his brother, Callum, he is the one that

:37:17.:37:20.

is hoping to enjoy his Olympic experience more than his older

:37:21.:37:22.

brother and his team-mate Tsegai Tewelde. They make a sharp right

:37:23.:37:31.

turn and there are plenty of these terms on this main cause, not on the

:37:32.:37:35.

main part. If you watched the women's race, he will know this

:37:36.:37:39.

first five kilometres or soul goes through the older part of the city.

:37:40.:37:49.

And then the joint a loop, it is a ten kilometre loop, it would've been

:37:50.:37:53.

spectacular scenery if it was not for the weather today. They do three

:37:54.:37:57.

collapse on the ten kilometre loop and then they come back into this

:37:58.:38:01.

built-up area which would have offered shade. It does not have to

:38:02.:38:06.

today because of the rain. It might clear a little bit but we're not

:38:07.:38:10.

expecting the cloud to clear. The rain might stop but we're not

:38:11.:38:15.

expecting the sun to come out. They come into this area for the last

:38:16.:38:20.

eight kilometres and it has lots of twists and turns and the latter

:38:21.:38:24.

stages. And then they go back up that Boulevard they have came down,

:38:25.:38:31.

back into the Sambodromo for the finish. Callum Hawkins has trained

:38:32.:38:39.

well, he has run well. He has qualified with an aggressive run in

:38:40.:38:42.

the London Marathon. He has been a good cross-country runner and came

:38:43.:38:47.

through the traditional route, he is now in the marathon and is prepared

:38:48.:38:51.

properly for the marathon with his brother and they are coached by the

:38:52.:38:56.

father. At the end of the day, delighted to see them here. If he

:38:57.:39:00.

stays where he has and then starts to work through, you can see him

:39:01.:39:04.

with the cap turned around the wrong way, he is at the back of the

:39:05.:39:12.

leading group. That is Derek Hawkins, his brother, on the

:39:13.:39:18.

left-hand side with the quite top. Running alongside that of group.

:39:19.:39:21.

There is a vast number of athletes. This look different than what we see

:39:22.:39:27.

in the big-city marathons? We talked about the track about distance

:39:28.:39:31.

runners being used to pacemakers on track events. When you come to the

:39:32.:39:37.

finals in the Olympics World Championship, they are not sure what

:39:38.:39:41.

tactics to use. It is the same in the marathon. That number of runners

:39:42.:39:45.

would not run like that because they would have a couple of pacemakers.

:39:46.:39:48.

This is the Olympic Games and this is what it is all about. Once again,

:39:49.:39:54.

Callum Hawkins at the back of that group, in a good position and

:39:55.:39:59.

running along strongly. Getting the first couple of miles out of the

:40:00.:40:08.

way. That is Eliud Kipchoge in the white cap, running the site is

:40:09.:40:13.

team-mate, Wesley Korir, the strongest nation in the world,

:40:14.:40:14.

Kenya. You can see that the wet has made

:40:15.:40:32.

the cornering difficult. That'll tell a story in the late stages when

:40:33.:40:37.

they finished the big loop and they have to twist through the difficult

:40:38.:40:42.

little avenues. That was revealing. I was listening on the way in, I was

:40:43.:40:50.

actually reading, some morning comments about what would happen.

:40:51.:40:54.

And people have noted in the women's race and what happened at the latter

:40:55.:40:58.

stages when it broke up. This has added another little element to what

:40:59.:41:04.

could happen in terms of the road surface. When they do come into

:41:05.:41:09.

those latter stages, they are off this road tarmac and onto the

:41:10.:41:13.

pedestrian areas that are brand-new. Lots of them are slick concrete.

:41:14.:41:17.

What I mean is smooth and with this water on top, you have to be very

:41:18.:41:25.

careful with your footing. When you are tired, at the end, it remains to

:41:26.:41:29.

be seen what happens. You have to be aware of that and I am sure the

:41:30.:41:35.

yard. We have seen lots of people falling on the track with spikes on

:41:36.:41:39.

during the week. They are drifting towards the outside because it is a

:41:40.:41:43.

tight corner. I do not want to see people falling in the later stages

:41:44.:41:48.

of the marathon. This is a real test of pure distance running. The first

:41:49.:41:57.

couple of miles were covered in nine point 48 and that is comfortable for

:41:58.:42:01.

these guys and that is why there is a

:42:02.:42:07.

We have got Galen Rupp tucked into the middle. What a night last night.

:42:08.:42:15.

His training partner Matt Centre fits with the gold medal. That would

:42:16.:42:21.

have given him a lift. Nothing wrong with your training partner doing

:42:22.:42:29.

well. Mo Farah. He knows Galen Rupp very well. That is Callum Hawkins

:42:30.:42:30.

again. The train together well. Galen Rupp

:42:31.:42:50.

is very serious and committed to his family. Centro likes to have fun. It

:42:51.:43:04.

is a big boost for that training group when you see, when you know

:43:05.:43:08.

coming into a championship, Galen Rupp full ball he comes in in good

:43:09.:43:12.

shape. We saw that in the 10,000 metres. He has done very little

:43:13.:43:22.

since then. He knows he is in good shape. And he sees his training

:43:23.:43:26.

partner when a gold medal in the 1500 metres. Then he sees another

:43:27.:43:30.

member offers training group when double gold. That has to put you in

:43:31.:43:37.

a good place. He wants to go out and join that group and get himself a

:43:38.:43:43.

medal today. He does not want to be the one that comes back to Oregon,

:43:44.:43:49.

on the Oregon project where the train together, under Alberto

:43:50.:43:53.

Salazar, he does not want to be the one that comes back without a medal.

:43:54.:43:58.

He has got a tall order. He has got some great athletes with him. That

:43:59.:44:03.

is Callum Hawkins again. He is in a great place, at the back of the

:44:04.:44:08.

leading group. Settling down and looking comfortable. Not getting

:44:09.:44:12.

involved. He is checking his timings and will be checking his position.

:44:13.:44:17.

It is great to see him there. He's looking good. Big group and

:44:18.:44:25.

naturally Tyton you can see better from that angle. It is almost a full

:44:26.:44:31.

switchback that gets them onto the big loop now. This is where all the

:44:32.:44:39.

water and food stations are. Unlike the woman who went diving in at the

:44:40.:44:42.

first water station, one or two grabbing some drinks, many deciding

:44:43.:44:48.

they do not need it at this stage this morning. This ten kilometre

:44:49.:44:56.

loop, around the Bay, expecting bigger crowds. This is what the

:44:57.:45:06.

women did not do. We fought they were going to go the other way. They

:45:07.:45:12.

crossed onto the other side. They will go the same way as the woman,

:45:13.:45:17.

they will gold round clockwise. We had initially been told that the map

:45:18.:45:21.

said they would go round and the clock says -- anticlockwise. It

:45:22.:45:25.

should not make much difference. I am just wondering if they were

:45:26.:45:36.

supposed to go the other way, because of the way the clock is

:45:37.:45:40.

facing. It is no good for the athletes, it was facing the wrong

:45:41.:45:45.

way. I am assuming it is double sided, like sticky tape. May be! Is

:45:46.:46:02.

well, as a group, they are setting a reasonable pace for the likes of

:46:03.:46:07.

Galen Rupp. Of course, this is new territory. That is the memorial to

:46:08.:46:11.

those who died in the Second World War. This park is a very popular

:46:12.:46:19.

area, normally, on a Sunday morning, runners and cyclists certainly lines

:46:20.:46:25.

of the route during the women's event. Not quite so many of them,

:46:26.:46:35.

there will be a few sore heads - Saturday night was the end of the

:46:36.:46:39.

track and field programme inside the stadium, these marathon runners

:46:40.:46:43.

bringing the whole thing to an end. A lot of people so liberating what

:46:44.:46:46.

they thought was the end of the athletics programme, reminding these

:46:47.:46:55.

guys that they have their chance. They will be presented with their

:46:56.:46:59.

medals in the closing ceremony in the Maracana, somebody is going to

:47:00.:47:05.

have three of them at a spectacular ceremony. And the spectators, Steve,

:47:06.:47:10.

talking about people involved in the Games celebrating, but the

:47:11.:47:14.

spectators would have been celebrating the Brazilian penalty

:47:15.:47:18.

victory, their man, Mr Brazil, Neymar, scoring at winning penalty.

:47:19.:47:24.

And the stadium went mad, and the athletics stadium went mad, they

:47:25.:47:30.

went mad everywhere. And you are just about to go mad, I have looked

:47:31.:47:34.

over your shoulder at the computer, I have just seen the football

:47:35.:47:38.

school, I am not going to mention it! Oh dear. I won't give it away.

:47:39.:47:46.

Never mind. This is interesting, actually, in terms of the pace,

:47:47.:47:52.

Paula, 15:31 is not that bad. Interesting thing about the Olympic

:47:53.:47:56.

marathon is, Stephen Kiprotich four years ago, he had not run anywhere

:47:57.:48:03.

near as fast as the likes of the others. The Olympic marathon, apart

:48:04.:48:08.

from Samuel Wanjiru, what he did in Beijing was unbelievable, when he

:48:09.:48:15.

went out in the heat and conditions there, ran the Olympic record, they

:48:16.:48:19.

are normally different races without pacemakers. So the personal best

:48:20.:48:24.

thing, even if it is Eliud Kipchoge, it is not irrelevant, of course you

:48:25.:48:30.

have got more of a buffer, but look at that big group, the range of

:48:31.:48:33.

personal bests in that group is huge, really, in terms of

:48:34.:48:37.

world-class marathon. But it does not mean that it does exclude...

:48:38.:48:41.

Lots of people in that group could think they have a chance on a day

:48:42.:48:45.

like today. Yeah, there are, but some need times we see championship

:48:46.:48:51.

marathons in tough conditions, and that levels the playing field a

:48:52.:48:55.

little bit in terms of people who can cope better with the

:48:56.:48:58.

competitions will be able to stay right up there, and it will be won

:48:59.:49:04.

in a slower time. This course, I think, actually, has the potential

:49:05.:49:07.

to be a very quick course, it is very flat, very few inclines in it,

:49:08.:49:12.

so I think there is potential. In the women's race, they did not run

:49:13.:49:22.

slowly, and it was extremely hot, tough conditions for them. If

:49:23.:49:24.

somebody wanted to go out and tackle this, they could mentally get their

:49:25.:49:27.

head around running hard from the start, without the help of the

:49:28.:49:31.

pacemakers, that is possible. Well, they went through the third mile,

:49:32.:49:37.

that five-day time has just dropped off a bit, it is because they were

:49:38.:49:44.

running more than five minutes, 5:12, if my maths are right, 5:12.

:49:45.:49:53.

If you did that the whole way... Just looking at that group there,

:49:54.:49:58.

Callum Hawkins, just at the back of that group, and as the rain

:49:59.:50:03.

continues to fall, it will keep the athletes' bodies cool. This could be

:50:04.:50:09.

for Callum Hawkins like a regular Sunday morning run in Scotland. So

:50:10.:50:13.

there is the group here, and just behind them, a few yards, with the

:50:14.:50:19.

white cap, turned the wrong way round, Britain's leading marathon

:50:20.:50:23.

runner, Callum Hawkins. He has got a good position, running freely,

:50:24.:50:26.

running comfortably. There is a bit of jostling going on at the front of

:50:27.:50:30.

the group, but they come through the unnecessary water shower! It was

:50:31.:50:36.

necessary in the women's race. Callum has gone under the shower to

:50:37.:50:41.

get more moisture on his body, he darted to the right-hand side,

:50:42.:50:44.

looking strong, looking good. But they are lined up across the road,

:50:45.:50:48.

and you can sense they are running a steady pace. Well, he is running

:50:49.:50:55.

alongside, behind Derek Hawkins further down the field, there is a

:50:56.:51:02.

Greek lawyer running today,, and he only realised he would be running

:51:03.:51:07.

three or four months ago when he went on a website in Greece and saw

:51:08.:51:10.

his name, he was wondering if he would run for Greece, and he

:51:11.:51:14.

thought, that is interesting, there is another Michael Kalomiris. This

:51:15.:51:20.

guy has run to: 29, a level kind of club runner, but what happened was

:51:21.:51:25.

he ran in the Rome marathon, one of the gold label events. It was a very

:51:26.:51:29.

hot day, a lot of the elite athletes dropped out, and he finished in the

:51:30.:51:33.

top ten, just kept going, and there is a rule that if you finish in the

:51:34.:51:37.

top ten of eight gold label event, you qualify to run in the Olympics

:51:38.:51:46.

if there is nobody else to go in your team. So the Greek team picked

:51:47.:51:50.

him, he had to ring them up and go, excuse me... Excuse me, I appear to

:51:51.:51:52.

have been selected for the Olympic Games! It is a great story, he is

:51:53.:51:57.

here, he is running, he went through the first five-day in 17:0 eight. A

:51:58.:52:06.

good minute or a half behind the leaders. But what a story. It is a

:52:07.:52:12.

great story, 155 runners at here, there is Callum Hawkins, and there

:52:13.:52:22.

is Tiwelde, and when he sees him alongside, the pair of them are out

:52:23.:52:30.

for a Sunday morning run in Glasgow. 155 athletes here representing 80

:52:31.:52:33.

countries, and when you get stories like the one you have just told us

:52:34.:52:40.

about the Greek athlete, it is fantastic, shocking, surprising. At

:52:41.:52:44.

least he is not in the leading group, but he is a good runner, good

:52:45.:52:52.

marathon time. I just love those sorts of stories, the chance to come

:52:53.:52:56.

and represent your country at the Olympic Games, and the marathon over

:52:57.:53:01.

the years has had lots of those stories. But yes, I hope he is

:53:02.:53:08.

enjoying his experience so far. So through the five-day point, as I

:53:09.:53:23.

said, Michael Kalomiris was 17: 08. Tiwelde and Hawkins, around 15:40,

:53:24.:53:28.

Derek Hawkins was 16:49, a minute or so behind his younger brother and

:53:29.:53:33.

his team-mate. Another nice story, someone who will be getting a lot of

:53:34.:53:37.

support today, at the back of the group, you could see the two

:53:38.:53:42.

Brazilian athletes running side by side, it is his farewell race, Dos

:53:43.:53:47.

Santos, his last ever marathon. And he gets to run it back home in

:53:48.:53:53.

Brazil. He won the New York City marathon, his wife ran a personal

:53:54.:53:57.

best in steeplechase, but he will be getting a lot of support today, a

:53:58.:54:00.

much loved figure in marathon running in Brazil, let's hope he can

:54:01.:54:07.

get a good run today. That is great, 39 years of age, fifth in London,

:54:08.:54:14.

which was a very good performance, and today he ran the test race when

:54:15.:54:18.

they had a trial in April for this marathon, just to check the course

:54:19.:54:23.

out, he ran 2010 in that, because he was injured, but he is back in

:54:24.:54:29.

amongst them today, and we have mentioned that there is a lack of

:54:30.:54:35.

spectating on the course, which means he will not get the amount of

:54:36.:54:40.

support he needs, but maybe they will turn up when they get around

:54:41.:54:48.

for the last time. What a way to say farewell, though, a great career,

:54:49.:54:51.

and a lot of runners in Brazil look up to him and learn from him. So the

:54:52.:55:00.

large group still there, Callum Hawkins right at the back, you can

:55:01.:55:05.

see, on his own wearing the cap just about. Only about five seconds down

:55:06.:55:11.

on this lead group. Great to see him there. So many in this group,

:55:12.:55:16.

though, it will whittle down slowly, but the pace they are running at the

:55:17.:55:22.

minute, many are able to stay at that pace through the first

:55:23.:55:32.

five-day. 2:11 was what Galen Rupp role Dominic Ryan in the trial back

:55:33.:55:35.

in February in Los Angeles, so he was able to take that box, get that

:55:36.:55:42.

one sorted, then, and run the track championships closer to the Games,

:55:43.:55:52.

of course. Sugarloaf Mountain. They have not got quite the nice view

:55:53.:55:56.

that the women had to motivate them around there, they can barely see

:55:57.:56:00.

Sugarloaf Mandan shrouded in the mist. But that race of Galen Rupp

:56:01.:56:05.

was very impressive, that 2:11 said him a long way down the list in

:56:06.:56:09.

terms of personal bests today, but it was the manner of the victory and

:56:10.:56:13.

the manner with which he stamped his authority on it, broke away from the

:56:14.:56:22.

opposition, who had an Olympic silver medal from 2004, was fourth

:56:23.:56:28.

in 2012, so the calibre, OK, he's getting older, towards the end of

:56:29.:56:31.

his career, but still a very experienced and very wise marathon

:56:32.:56:35.

runner. And the way that Galen Rupp moved away from him indicates that

:56:36.:56:40.

he can go a lot faster in a championship marathon, and

:56:41.:56:45.

definitely in a marathon. Well, they wind their way down to the bottom

:56:46.:56:54.

end of Flamenco Park towards the arena is here, so many people

:56:55.:56:59.

watching the marathon last time, the park is a great place to run, and it

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also houses the Carmen Miranda Museum, Bren. Yeah? The first day I

:57:14.:57:18.

was here, there was a lovely part of town where they run through,

:57:19.:57:22.

everything you would expect in Rio, where Carmen Miranda used to live.

:57:23.:57:28.

Is that a Sunday morning story? I just thought I would throw it in.

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Didn't she once appear on Morecambe and wise or something? I can't be

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back that far, Steve, partly because I cannot remember and partly because

:57:42.:57:45.

it is back that far! But that is the bay, the end of the course. The one

:57:46.:57:50.

time I went out for dinner, you said at last week, I will get it in

:57:51.:57:57.

before you, but it is a beautiful park, and the course designers, this

:57:58.:58:00.

part of because, this ten Kay Loup is really beautiful, really designed

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for running, but it is a recreational area,, and it is only

:58:07.:58:15.

the twisty path that has bothered us a little bit. They are still running

:58:16.:58:20.

well, and in the back of the group is Callum Hawkins of Great Britain.

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We cannot see the top of the mountain out of because of the

:58:24.:58:27.

clouds, but you sense it is lifting, it seems to be drying up a little

:58:28.:58:31.

bit. But there is a lot of surface water on the road, Callum Hawkins

:58:32.:58:38.

there, and there is a big, big group at the front, a lot of people there,

:58:39.:58:43.

a lot of them going to be peeling off one after the other. I noticed

:58:44.:58:49.

in the leading group all running together, three athletes from China

:58:50.:58:57.

on the right-hand side. You know, I think in the future, the Chinese

:58:58.:59:00.

will take to distance running, they have got a lot of big marathons all

:59:01.:59:04.

around China, and eventually I am sure they will become a force in

:59:05.:59:08.

marathon running. They are really keen to pursue it, really keen to

:59:09.:59:13.

get their athletes travelling and competing internationally. As I say

:59:14.:59:24.

that, they come to the front, the Chinese athletes, alongside the more

:59:25.:59:31.

internationally known athletes, Biwott and Kipchoge. And still the

:59:32.:59:35.

rain falls, conducive to distance running, the best marathon runner in

:59:36.:59:38.

the world at the moment, the number one ranked guy, he has won all but

:59:39.:59:46.

one of his marathons. Came through from the track, 5000 metres world

:59:47.:59:49.

champion, Eliud Kipchoge. It has been a long journey for him,

:59:50.:59:54.

collecting medals en route, and now he wants to win the big one, the

:59:55.:00:01.

marathon. Five miles, 25 minutes and nine seconds, so the pace, although

:00:02.:00:05.

it looks like it is lifting, because the group has broken up a little

:00:06.:00:11.

bit, the time is not really reflecting that. Still fairly

:00:12.:00:14.

comfortable for the vast majority of those in that lead group.

:00:15.:00:22.

As ever, football on the beach in Rio. As we said earlier, we were

:00:23.:00:31.

celebrating last night, they won the gold medal they really wanted. That

:00:32.:00:36.

was in football. A penalty shoot out against Germany. Till won. This tide

:00:37.:00:48.

turned -- tight Karen. Last year's world champion is appearing on the

:00:49.:00:51.

front of the leaderboard. There is a big group, a get spread out a bit,

:00:52.:00:57.

Calum Hawkins just went through the picture. The ten Kay time 31.08 just

:00:58.:01:13.

15 .31 and 15.37 for the five Kay sections. It will change and pick up

:01:14.:01:22.

at some point but I suspect we will be running at this kind of pace for

:01:23.:01:27.

a little while yet. There are two sports, one is a fast city race with

:01:28.:01:34.

pacemakers and running as fast as you possibly can and there is the

:01:35.:01:37.

competition in the championship and the techniques are different,

:01:38.:01:42.

sometimes some athletes are good enough to learn both ways but not

:01:43.:01:46.

always, you cannot rely on the fastest ones coming to be a

:01:47.:01:48.

championship runner but I noticed Rensselaer C went to the front,

:01:49.:01:55.

Galen Rupp responded and quickly came through the field. He looked

:01:56.:01:59.

anxious to get through the field and alongside Debra Selassie because he

:02:00.:02:06.

knows one of the athletes will be a danger and Galen Rupp running a race

:02:07.:02:09.

he isn't interested in Times today and you don't have to be because the

:02:10.:02:14.

time is irrelevant. The fastest times in marathon running have

:02:15.:02:17.

certainly not be in the Olympic Games. We said before apart from

:02:18.:02:32.

Madeira did in Beijing, went out and surprised everyone including us when

:02:33.:02:37.

we commentated at the time thinking he cannot keep this up and he did,

:02:38.:02:42.

it means the likes of gibberish Selassie when you have a proven

:02:43.:02:46.

track record of doing what he did last year and admitted the

:02:47.:02:48.

conditions were different in Beijing at the World Championships to what

:02:49.:02:54.

they faced this morning, that stands you in good stead and gives you the

:02:55.:02:58.

confidence that when there is an uplifting place or the peace shifts

:02:59.:03:02.

and moves you will be able to cope with that and Galen Rupp looking

:03:03.:03:09.

confident and comfortable. We saw him the other day, he was well

:03:10.:03:12.

covered from the 10,000 metres and looking forward to this race because

:03:13.:03:19.

this is new to him. This is still a new challenge and phase of his

:03:20.:03:24.

career and the, Paul was saying he seems to have the mental fortitude

:03:25.:03:29.

that you need from marathon running, almost able to switch off. It is an

:03:30.:03:34.

exciting phase of his career, he did as much as he can on the track and

:03:35.:03:38.

he has been relentless in the Olympic Games, the Kenyans realise

:03:39.:03:44.

he is a danger so and there is the Olympic champion in the yellow vest

:03:45.:03:49.

of Uganda getting ready to move close to the front. Galen Rupp looks

:03:50.:03:53.

like he's in a competitive race and trying to do what he does on the

:03:54.:03:58.

track, respond to various moves and on the website as Galen Rupp is the

:03:59.:04:01.

best runner in the world, not called Mo Farah. Certainly 5000 or 10,000,

:04:02.:04:11.

but there's one or two others chasing him all my few times as

:04:12.:04:18.

well. This is a big opportunity for him. Calum Hawkins going through,

:04:19.:04:23.

ten seconds behind some familiar faces from him in that group.

:04:24.:04:28.

Colsaerts from Canada has been on many of the same training camps that

:04:29.:04:37.

the British athletes that heard. Struggling a little bit now. Behind

:04:38.:04:46.

that group, with the food problem, looks like it is already beginning

:04:47.:04:56.

to tell a little, Derek Hawkins. A little further back as well, already

:04:57.:05:03.

two minutes behind his younger brother. He is still going. 33.36

:05:04.:05:12.

through ten kilometre is. Not to race he would have wanted but we

:05:13.:05:17.

said at the beginning getting his opportunity to do with the British

:05:18.:05:23.

vest at the Olympics. Quite a few colleagues went to visit one of the

:05:24.:05:29.

most spectacular sights in the world, Christ the Redeemer looking

:05:30.:05:33.

down on Rio, called -- clouds beginning to part a little. One of

:05:34.:05:40.

the new seven wonders of the world, they announced an menu and is an 81

:05:41.:05:46.

when you said Usain Bolt won his third Olympic gold medal in these

:05:47.:05:50.

games. Steve announced eight new wonder of the world, I think you sin

:05:51.:05:56.

was really happy when he did that. Well, I guess we will certainly miss

:05:57.:06:01.

him at the games, we hope to see him in London next year. Someone is

:06:02.:06:05.

getting a red card, what is that for? Not happy about something. He's

:06:06.:06:10.

signalling something to his team-mate. Was he asking for a

:06:11.:06:19.

number like? Maybe. I do know what he was doing because he didn't like

:06:20.:06:23.

anyone was impeding him, he didn't look annoyed about anything, more

:06:24.:06:27.

like he was having a laugh so maybe they were sharing a joke about the

:06:28.:06:31.

conditions but certainly looking very relaxed early on at this stage

:06:32.:06:38.

in the marathon and as Brendan said, when he moved to the front they did

:06:39.:06:42.

all react to that and move to cover that the one person who didn't is

:06:43.:06:48.

moving up around outside, the experienced catholicity who dropped

:06:49.:06:52.

back to make sure he got his bottle and still drank a lot because as

:06:53.:06:56.

much as it is raining, it is also very humid and are losing a lot of

:06:57.:07:01.

fluid, so it is important they continue to take on fluid as it is

:07:02.:07:08.

really hot. It is a strategy that the US athletes worked on strongly

:07:09.:07:13.

before the Athens marathon in the thousand four, very successful in

:07:14.:07:18.

getting the silver medal and Dean are in the women's race getting

:07:19.:07:21.

other bonds medal. They continue working well on that and Galen Rupp

:07:22.:07:26.

as well paying a lot of attention to working on runs in heat chambers and

:07:27.:07:32.

how much sweaty lofts and how much food needs to put back in to their

:07:33.:07:36.

drinking strategies will be top notch today. This will include he

:07:37.:07:44.

needs. Testing away. Debra Selassie, he is very animated. Seven miles, 35

:07:45.:07:55.

minutes .7. Very, but for the good guys. Kind of on the edge little for

:07:56.:08:01.

the likes of Calum Watkins but he is looking comfortable, about ten

:08:02.:08:05.

seconds back from this group. Once more, little push at the front.

:08:06.:08:09.

Keturah Orji this time keeping an eye. It is a little early to start

:08:10.:08:19.

shifting but they've ran so slow for the good guys that perhaps not

:08:20.:08:23.

surprising. It is all assessing who it is, how quick is it going and how

:08:24.:08:27.

much further than he keep going at that pace? Is the fine of Eritrea

:08:28.:08:33.

looking at his watch, and there is Wesley, the Kenyan committee

:08:34.:08:38.

honourable Wednesday could Jungwirth Korea is an MP. If you're picking

:08:39.:08:46.

the best three Kenyans from the other races you would be lower down

:08:47.:08:51.

the list and that but they say, we like to have an NPR scene, the

:08:52.:08:56.

London Marathon always have the thing about the fastest in the

:08:57.:09:04.

fastest MP the world. A bit of controversy about his selection, so

:09:05.:09:07.

many people to choose from you could argue. Certainly the druggie --

:09:08.:09:23.

Eliud Kipchoge, possibly the best marathon runner in the world at this

:09:24.:09:28.

point. If this was an open race you could qualify on time as well as on

:09:29.:09:31.

countries, they would be another 20 Kenyans in the leading group,

:09:32.:09:34.

wouldn't there? And a few Ethiopians. And I guess there is

:09:35.:09:46.

some argument that at the Olympic Games can you have enough of the

:09:47.:09:49.

best people here, inevitably some aren't. Just a little shoe

:09:50.:09:58.

correction going on. Retire my lace. Too tight shoe. Or he has a wrinkle

:09:59.:10:05.

in his sock from the water and once the sort that out. Just taking a

:10:06.:10:13.

long time over this. You would be better off sat down. He cannot keep

:10:14.:10:19.

running if it is something chafing on the bottom of his food. Probably

:10:20.:10:23.

regretting having tied his leases quite so tight -- laces. Looking at

:10:24.:10:30.

the triathletes yesterday, how quickly they take the cycling shoes

:10:31.:10:33.

off and put their running shoes on, he could have done with some lessons

:10:34.:10:38.

but he is limping now. That is his race over. He was quite well up

:10:39.:10:46.

earlier and ran in the European half Marathon Championships recently,

:10:47.:10:52.

former European champion, and he has stopped completely, that is his race

:10:53.:10:58.

done. Calum Hawkins, I can see, on the back of that leave the lemur

:10:59.:11:03.

please group right in the middle at the back and will be loving this. In

:11:04.:11:06.

the leading group at the Olympic marathon, it is slow, slow down a

:11:07.:11:15.

little more in the last mile. The gaps that were starting to appear

:11:16.:11:23.

have disappeared and cons top, it is great Calum Watkins is riding there

:11:24.:11:31.

in amongst it. He must be loving this. He deserves it, where you have

:11:32.:11:36.

trained hard, he made a trait that a great transit -- transition in his

:11:37.:11:41.

career up to the marathon and he will keep getting better. He's

:11:42.:11:47.

operating not far from what he has done before today but he certainly

:11:48.:11:51.

has the potential to get quicker than he already ran the marathon.

:11:52.:11:55.

And the confidence to be there, eighth in the London Marathon and

:11:56.:11:59.

the first non-African to finish in the London Marathon and the

:12:00.:12:02.

confidence he got from that and immediately back in April slated for

:12:03.:12:06.

the games, giving him a chance to build up because in the winter he

:12:07.:12:10.

wasn't sure he would make the team and he has made the team and has run

:12:11.:12:16.

2.11 and is in there and have the confidence from the London Marathon

:12:17.:12:19.

and it's great to see Calum Watkins, his brothers having a difficult

:12:20.:12:24.

time, 2.5 minutes or so down the road with the injury he brought this

:12:25.:12:29.

event, it looked like, Hawkins is the British hope and he looks at

:12:30.:12:36.

ease in this company come off the back he stayed away from the leaves

:12:37.:12:38.

and gradually move back towards them now in the middle of the group.

:12:39.:12:44.

Calum Hawkins, young man, 24 years old, on a journey like Steve said

:12:45.:12:50.

where the marathon will be his distance and I'm sure over the years

:12:51.:12:53.

you will get better. That environment is the British team are

:12:54.:13:00.

trying to construct the distance running squad and training camps

:13:01.:13:04.

overseas and training at altitude with the help of others is an

:13:05.:13:09.

initiative that is to be applauded and heard Christine say at the

:13:10.:13:16.

training camp had improved and it is great to see that and when you have

:13:17.:13:20.

more fire in your team and spend time with someone like him then you

:13:21.:13:25.

about us that rub off and I'm delighted to see Calum Hawkins this

:13:26.:13:30.

group. Calum and Derek haven't been away in the altitude training groups

:13:31.:13:36.

with the other members of the team and distance runners, the women

:13:37.:13:41.

were, Ally Dickson and Sonia Samos were up there, Callum and Derek

:13:42.:13:45.

stuck to their own preparations, they've work for them free London

:13:46.:13:50.

Marathon and to come here in great shape is what that has created as a

:13:51.:13:54.

team spirit and out on the course today manning the drinks stations

:13:55.:13:58.

are Sonia and Ali making sure the marathon boys get support. It is a

:13:59.:14:03.

long time to hang around. They had what ever else come out and compete

:14:04.:14:07.

and on the last day they get to compete in the rest of the team are

:14:08.:14:12.

probably all out partying and celebrating and last night they

:14:13.:14:15.

still had their Olympic come and they want to be able to go out and

:14:16.:14:21.

do it justice. It is great if gone out and are supporting the boys

:14:22.:14:24.

today. It's the best of times and the worst of times, you had watched

:14:25.:14:29.

everyone, you are right, but the best of times because it is the only

:14:30.:14:34.

event on the day, the men's marathon, the traditional end to the

:14:35.:14:38.

Olympic programme, all these countries represented in all of

:14:39.:14:40.

these great athletes and here and centre stage is the men's marathon

:14:41.:14:45.

of the Olympic Games, a lot of athletes still in with a chance and

:14:46.:14:51.

still running fairly steadily at a pace that lots of these athletes are

:14:52.:14:55.

comfortable with. Nobody has made a move yet, they've all smelt the

:14:56.:14:59.

front rather than be at the front, the Olympic champion from Uganda is

:15:00.:15:02.

in there. The Right Honourable Wesley Korir in

:15:03.:15:16.

the lead, I like saying that! Just behind him, the best marathon runner

:15:17.:15:22.

in the world, Eliud Kipchoge. But can he become Olympic champion

:15:23.:15:32.

today? That is the big question. One of the runners there just jumped

:15:33.:15:38.

on the grass, to slot in further up the field and I am not sure whether

:15:39.:15:41.

that technically counts as burning inside.

:15:42.:15:53.

Hawk eye right foot... It has been a long Olympics. Hawk eye Paula

:15:54.:15:58.

Radcliffe! Keeping an eye on proceedings.

:15:59.:16:01.

We were watching that 5000m relay not enthralled by Mo Farah. Brendan

:16:02.:16:08.

was talking and I turned to Andrew Cotter our co-commentator. And I

:16:09.:16:15.

jokingly when I saw one of them puts a foot round the top bend, five laps

:16:16.:16:23.

to go, lo and behold, he was disqualified.

:16:24.:16:28.

They have been incredibly strict. All of a sudden, round the corner,

:16:29.:16:33.

moving to the front, Ghebreslassie. Good to see Callum

:16:34.:16:50.

Hawkins at the back of that group. They have turned and run to their

:16:51.:16:59.

second. Condition is improving, the rain has stopped. Much better

:17:00.:17:03.

conditions than the wooden faced in terms of temperature and not having

:17:04.:17:09.

to worry about the sun overhead -- The women faced.

:17:10.:17:15.

These conditions are still not exactly the sort of things you would

:17:16.:17:22.

want to run a fast marathon. But not as tough as it was in

:17:23.:17:26.

Beijing last year. At the world Championships. So far,

:17:27.:17:33.

all of the main contenders very much to the fore. The defending champion

:17:34.:17:41.

is further back in the main group, not too far from Callum Hawkins who

:17:42.:17:47.

is running alongside him, further back, about 20th place.

:17:48.:18:02.

The pace around the 2.11 Mark. The five-minute mile mark. Can you

:18:03.:18:07.

remember those? I can remember those many years ago.

:18:08.:18:13.

As we move through the field here. And we get closer to that lead

:18:14.:18:22.

group. Just breaking up a little bit. A third of the American

:18:23.:18:29.

athletes there, feeling that a little bit. We will see Callum

:18:30.:18:38.

Hawkins, on the inside. Paula?

:18:39.:18:42.

Maintaining contact and running well. Not too much out too early.

:18:43.:18:51.

As we look at the leader. Kipchoge, looking back to see, don't go yet,

:18:52.:18:57.

calm down. Maybe he had been clipped, giving

:18:58.:19:00.

him a warning. As we got a view of Jared Ward, he

:19:01.:19:10.

wrote a thesis on balanced even splits in a marathon and the best

:19:11.:19:15.

way is to run even splits. He did exactly that in qualifying at the US

:19:16.:19:20.

trials. Not sure whether he will aim to do that today or aim to try and

:19:21.:19:24.

stay in contact for as long as possible which is probably the

:19:25.:19:28.

smarter way to run an Olympic Mountains, you are not trying to run

:19:29.:19:34.

the fastest time. Have you got any football news here

:19:35.:19:38.

this morning, Steve? No.

:19:39.:19:43.

You promised, you promised. I haven't said a word! How good is

:19:44.:19:50.

this? Callum Hawkins is leading the Olympic marathon, he is alongside

:19:51.:19:55.

Eliud Kipchoge. The best marathon runner in the world. The head of

:19:56.:19:59.

Galen Rupp. Yes, it is early stages and the pace

:20:00.:20:04.

is not fast but what a great thing to see.

:20:05.:20:07.

You know we have had, if we go back to John Brown and his exploits in

:20:08.:20:12.

the Olympics, I think John is here. John is here. He now works with New

:20:13.:20:16.

Zealand triathlon. Probably watching today, seeing what

:20:17.:20:26.

is happening in the marathon. Through ten miles in 50.18.

:20:27.:20:31.

Still maintaining this five-minute mile pace. Pretty steady since the

:20:32.:20:35.

second. They started a little quicker. Since then, running five

:20:36.:20:41.

minute miles. You should calm down, to be honest!

:20:42.:20:48.

He has found himself in the lead. He is running the sort of pace he

:20:49.:20:52.

has run before but you shouldn't be in the front doing it but alongside.

:20:53.:20:59.

He is an inexperienced running -- Marathon runner.

:21:00.:21:03.

Exciting to see Callum Hawkins leading the Olympic marathon, he can

:21:04.:21:06.

always say that. If he were to think about the second

:21:07.:21:11.

half of the race, he need to calm down, don't get excited.

:21:12.:21:14.

Running at the front is one thing but trying to lead and think about

:21:15.:21:18.

doing something, he has to be careful.

:21:19.:21:22.

An interesting move. Not the sort of move I think he should have taken.

:21:23.:21:27.

The pace really slowed down, you can see how the field has bunched up.

:21:28.:21:33.

Jared Ward is at the back but he was getting detached. It has definitely

:21:34.:21:39.

slowed, the field has bunched. Calum has taken the decision at the front

:21:40.:21:43.

at least you have a clear road ahead. Very little wind ahead today.

:21:44.:21:51.

I think he has maintained his pace which has taken him to the front.

:21:52.:22:00.

This is the first time he has ever been in the front of any of his

:22:01.:22:04.

marathons. If he is thinking, I am winning, that is a danger.

:22:05.:22:11.

I agree. You are both right in the sense he wants to be comfortable and

:22:12.:22:15.

he might feel with the pack that is a good thing. He certainly should

:22:16.:22:19.

not be thinking, I am here to break this group up.

:22:20.:22:25.

If the message gets related to his brother, Derek, four minutes back,

:22:26.:22:30.

by the way, your brother is leading, he would be surprised.

:22:31.:22:42.

He has gone through 50.20 two. I am told he is struggling a little,

:22:43.:22:48.

with his injury hampering his progress.

:22:49.:22:51.

Still grabbing water. That will be a factor. It is raining, wet,

:22:52.:22:56.

obviously. But still quite close, still quite

:22:57.:23:06.

warm. For marathon runners, those are the two other competitors, never

:23:07.:23:10.

mind the other people. Callum Hawkins of Great Britain in

:23:11.:23:15.

the front. The men's Olympic marathon.

:23:16.:23:19.

Galen Rupp discarding his drink. One or two have been discarding their

:23:20.:23:27.

hats, I saw his team-mate Keflezighi.

:23:28.:23:31.

Callum Hawkins must be revelling his Olympic experience at the moment.

:23:32.:23:38.

At the beginning of the year, he ran that cross in Edinburgh, Mo Farah

:23:39.:23:44.

was second, Callum Hawkins was fourth. Afterwards, he said, when I

:23:45.:23:49.

was running alongside Mo Farah, I was frightened. How good he is, so

:23:50.:23:56.

next time I will try to run with them, next to them and compete with

:23:57.:23:59.

them. I am not sure that is the

:24:00.:24:03.

translation you need to take from a cross-country attitude into a

:24:04.:24:08.

marathon. I hope he calms down. He is clearly running well.

:24:09.:24:12.

It is great to see for us. The last British athlete who won a medal in

:24:13.:24:18.

the Olympic Games was in 1984, my team-mate Charlie Spedding. And

:24:19.:24:23.

absolutely controlled marathon runner, he would run in a group like

:24:24.:24:28.

this and a quiet race. You would never see him feature.

:24:29.:24:32.

As they peeled away, eventually he would emerge. In Los Angeles in

:24:33.:24:38.

1984, Carlos Lopez won that race and Charlie Spedding came into the

:24:39.:24:42.

stadium neck and neck with John Tracy, and was out sprinted to take

:24:43.:24:48.

the bronze medal. That was our last success in terms of medals.

:24:49.:24:51.

I am not suggesting Callum Hawkins will be at that level but this is a

:24:52.:24:59.

great learning experience. You just hope he makes it a positive

:25:00.:25:01.

learning experience. The other argument is, if this becomes a slow

:25:02.:25:08.

run, everyone stays together and it becomes essentially a ten kilometre

:25:09.:25:12.

race, Callum Hawkins will not finish as highly as if he would if it were

:25:13.:25:17.

a quicker marathon from beginning to end. All he has tried to do is run

:25:18.:25:22.

the pace that feels comfortable for him. He is feeling good. To get it

:25:23.:25:27.

moving, to get this field strung out. He doesn't intend to lead the

:25:28.:25:32.

whole way but he is thinking if he gets the pace moving a little

:25:33.:25:35.

someone will come through and take the pace from there and it will

:25:36.:25:39.

start becoming a proper marathon run.

:25:40.:25:44.

He is not working hard. This is him making a huge commitment to be at

:25:45.:25:48.

the front of this field, he is running his pace.

:25:49.:25:52.

What a sight for young Callum Hawkins, the world's best marathon

:25:53.:25:59.

runner Kipchoge, the world champion Ghebreslassie behind him, Galen Rupp

:26:00.:26:06.

on his other side. He is relishing this company. They

:26:07.:26:10.

have the experience, Callum Hawkins tasting it for the first time. It

:26:11.:26:16.

did cross-country and Road Runner and with a career in the marathon.

:26:17.:26:21.

This is the Peruvian runner at the back of that group.

:26:22.:26:25.

It is getting exciting to get a British athlete in with the leading

:26:26.:26:28.

group. We are not even at the one-hour

:26:29.:26:32.

mark, the race hasn't started really.

:26:33.:26:35.

He is running well which is brilliant. He has prepared

:26:36.:26:41.

meticulously, training in heat chambers to acclimatise himself.

:26:42.:26:43.

Running in the Olympic Games, in the Rio where we thought it would be red

:26:44.:26:48.

hot conditions as last week. Still humid, Dos Santos of Brazil at

:26:49.:26:56.

the back of that group still in contention.

:26:57.:26:58.

Still Callum Hawkins of Great Britain leads.

:26:59.:27:02.

I am racking my brains here, I can't think I've seen a British male

:27:03.:27:07.

athletes league in an Olympic Games marathon since 1984 may be. -- Lead.

:27:08.:27:17.

He is still there. I did say male athlete there, didn't

:27:18.:27:21.

I? Yes. Someone who has worked their

:27:22.:27:29.

way through it Dos Santos, he was quite a way back going through 15

:27:30.:27:34.

kilometres. He has gradually worked his way onto that lead group, the

:27:35.:27:40.

first time he has figured. The 11th mile was the first one that

:27:41.:27:44.

has been under five minutes for a while. 4.55. Callum Hawkins has

:27:45.:27:55.

picked up the pace. A few have dropped off now. We're not halfway

:27:56.:28:00.

yet. It is great to see him there. I am sure there are a few screenshots

:28:01.:28:05.

being grabbed at home for when he gets home to say, you are leading

:28:06.:28:08.

the Olympic marathon. There was a great one when Brendan

:28:09.:28:12.

was talking with Galen Rupp, Kipchoge Yu on either side, two of

:28:13.:28:20.

the greatest distance runners. Callum Hawkins in the middle leading

:28:21.:28:25.

them. Someone running a quiet race is the defending champion, Stephen

:28:26.:28:31.

Kiprotich come he has kept well away from the lead. He is in that group.

:28:32.:28:35.

But we really haven't seen him at all.

:28:36.:28:42.

I was talking to his manager who says he does not think he has,

:28:43.:28:47.

Stephen Kiprotich in the yellow vest in the middle, doesn't think he is

:28:48.:28:55.

made for fast distance races he is world and Olympic champion, and he

:28:56.:29:00.

says he is not going to run in these fast madeleines anymore. He will be

:29:01.:29:04.

more concerned about championships. He could run the Commonwealth Games

:29:05.:29:09.

on the Gold Coast. And the World Championships in London next year.

:29:10.:29:13.

At the moment, we are still quite excited. Before the halfway point,

:29:14.:29:20.

seeing the young athlete from Paisley in Scotland, still a student

:29:21.:29:30.

at the University of West Scotland studying mechanical engineering.

:29:31.:29:39.

Callum Hawkins of Great Britain. These guys are clearing overhead.

:29:40.:29:43.

The clouds are beginning to disperse a little, the rain has stopped, and

:29:44.:29:51.

the temperature is rising. And that of course will be a factor. Derek

:29:52.:29:58.

Hawkins, excuse me, Callum Hawkins leading. Derek is his brother about

:29:59.:30:03.

five bit further back down the road. He might just get a chance to glance

:30:04.:30:13.

across. You can see down either side of the carriageway. I wonder whether

:30:14.:30:16.

he has had the chance to see his younger brother leading the Olympic

:30:17.:30:20.

marathon, as they make their way around the bay here.

:30:21.:30:28.

Can you imagine, Derek Hawkins is struggling four minutes behind the

:30:29.:30:31.

leading group. You are right, he could look across and see his

:30:32.:30:35.

brother leading in the Olympic Games marathon. Derek is the older one,

:30:36.:30:40.

who has nurtured his brother along. Imagine what his reaction would be.

:30:41.:30:55.

Already an medallist, running next to the world champion. They're

:30:56.:31:05.

saying it's getting warmer and the humidity is approaching 90%, that is

:31:06.:31:10.

the factor, it is the combination of temperature rising because of the

:31:11.:31:16.

weather and humidity Stoch to go up and the humidity is something that

:31:17.:31:19.

for marathon runners is always a danger and if you don't pace this

:31:20.:31:24.

right, any marathon you have to pace right but in these conditions you

:31:25.:31:29.

have to be careful and they will be aware of that. There is a fear that

:31:30.:31:32.

you have when you're out there, you know the air is heavy? Definitely,

:31:33.:31:37.

they will be aware of it and that is why I say the likes of given will

:31:38.:31:43.

have taken huge effort to make sure they take on enough fluid. -- Galen

:31:44.:31:48.

Rupp. Used to lose a lot with the humidity and the Kenyan athlete and

:31:49.:31:52.

Ethiopians, they don't like running in humidity because they aren't used

:31:53.:31:55.

to it because on the high plateaus of Africa it is very dry. And they

:31:56.:32:03.

don't get used to being able to cope with this kind of humidity. That is

:32:04.:32:08.

why it is important for the athletes but pairing from Athens in humid

:32:09.:32:14.

conditions they come down from a -- altitude in good enough time to

:32:15.:32:19.

allow their bodies to cope with the humidity and being able to take on

:32:20.:32:23.

enough fluid and for their bodies to absorb enough moisture to bond with

:32:24.:32:27.

during the race and it really drains you and makes you feel very heavy

:32:28.:32:31.

legs in the closing stages because you are losing so much through the

:32:32.:32:37.

race. Approaching halfway. The five kilometre section was ten seconds

:32:38.:32:46.

quicker than the one before, from a 15.45 to 15.30 four. Jack Hawkins

:32:47.:32:49.

was leading anti-Brooke has broken up little with the weather starting

:32:50.:32:59.

to impact. We aren't even halfway. Derek Coggins, like we said, great

:33:00.:33:03.

screenshot for him for his album. He is now just behind the leading group

:33:04.:33:09.

and the big guys have joined the lead.

:33:10.:33:20.

Galen Rupp just behind them and Calum Hawkins, the younger brother

:33:21.:33:26.

of Derek, who is having a difficult time here today, we haven't seen the

:33:27.:33:32.

other British athlete, rapid ending Scotland when he runs cross-country,

:33:33.:33:37.

there is the group and the numbers are beginning to whittle down. Dos

:33:38.:33:46.

Santos, number 2144, famous Brazilian athlete, twice winner of

:33:47.:33:49.

the New York Marathon, he was grabbing his drink, and therefore

:33:50.:33:57.

the first time, the Olympic champion, Stephen Kiprotich moving

:33:58.:34:02.

towards the lead in the yellow vest of Uganda and we spoke about him

:34:03.:34:06.

running a quiet race earlier, he has now broken his silence and has

:34:07.:34:13.

joined the leader in the yellow vest, the Gannon athlete, training

:34:14.:34:19.

partner at times with the jewellery, who is squeezing through and passing

:34:20.:34:24.

his drink the Wesley Korir. Watch the rest of the field react because

:34:25.:34:28.

it is common coming into a drinks station that the field will string

:34:29.:34:31.

out, they want to find their bottles but at the other side of the likes

:34:32.:34:36.

of seats Stephen Kiprotich at the front and the guys will react to

:34:37.:34:39.

that cause they are serious contenders at the front of this

:34:40.:34:46.

race. But then has come to the fore as well. Running for Turkey. It was

:34:47.:34:55.

a significant move, even 20 kilometre whiskey was still four

:34:56.:35:02.

seconds off the lead and as Paula said, an important feed station

:35:03.:35:05.

approaching, makes his move and get himself in the front pack for the

:35:06.:35:09.

first time, Cocks being discarded, water bottle discarded. Galen Rupp

:35:10.:35:15.

hanging onto his, drinking gradually and making sure he gets as much

:35:16.:35:19.

substance as he can come he knows how important that will be. 'S plans

:35:20.:35:25.

still have his bottle as well. Galen Rupp will do it by the science, the

:35:26.:35:33.

preparation situation in Oregon as Calum Hawkins just drifts off the

:35:34.:35:37.

back of that group, hopefully to settle down and start thinking about

:35:38.:35:43.

running his own race. Flirted with the lead for a while and I'm

:35:44.:35:50.

interested to see if he has lost a few seconds because the big boys,

:35:51.:35:53.

they are all there, old athletes whose names were featured in the

:35:54.:35:59.

prediction competitions and the form guides are in the leading group. And

:36:00.:36:05.

the right honourable Wesley Korir, the Kenyan athlete and NPN Kenya is

:36:06.:36:10.

a real campaigner against drugs in Kenya, so I'm sure he is an athlete

:36:11.:36:17.

that has important in the sport and will become increasingly so in Kenya

:36:18.:36:21.

because there has been a problem, there have been issues about

:36:22.:36:27.

conforming with the drug testing regime and there is the welding of

:36:28.:36:30.

Great Britain, sadly the injury cot up with him, sat on the roadside,

:36:31.:36:37.

what a sad sight to see for the athlete who came from Eritrea, so in

:36:38.:36:41.

Glasgow in 2008 and now his race is over. Calum Hawkins is still in the

:36:42.:36:50.

leading group, Calum Hawkins's brother. The other athlete Richard

:36:51.:36:54.

in Great Britain today sat on the roadside know longer able to

:36:55.:37:00.

compete. It is sad. -- representing Great Britain. Yes, the problem is a

:37:01.:37:07.

painful injury and you get your point where you just keep running on

:37:08.:37:11.

it, anyone who has had that entry will know what it feels like. Sad

:37:12.:37:15.

for him. Who just stepped off the side? Meb Kefiezighi. That is really

:37:16.:37:23.

disappointing for him. Is that injury? He has a lot of tape on his

:37:24.:37:35.

cars, maybe years coming carrying a small injury, I had not heard that.

:37:36.:37:39.

He started running again, maybe he clamped up a little and not sure. It

:37:40.:37:45.

is a bit early to start cramping but it will be a factor for others it

:37:46.:37:50.

on, I am sure. That group still contains Great Britain's Calum

:37:51.:37:53.

Hawkins on the outside as we approach the back of that group you

:37:54.:37:57.

can see, still wearing his cap on backwards in the White vest,

:37:58.:38:07.

enjoying whose Olympic experience if you can enjoy running any Marathon.

:38:08.:38:11.

He is running inside his personal best, went through halfway just

:38:12.:38:14.

inside 66 minutes and has not broken 2.12 minutes, so he is capable of

:38:15.:38:19.

that but whether or not in the Olympic marathon in these conditions

:38:20.:38:23.

he will be able to do that is another matter. So far, still in

:38:24.:38:29.

with this elite group. It is a big group, stretched more now as the big

:38:30.:38:34.

names get closer to the front. The Eritreans and Kenyans, Ethiopia are

:38:35.:38:45.

in there. And Galen Rupp of USA. Did you see the new way of supplying

:38:46.:38:49.

drinks? They were throwing them over the head of athletes for others to

:38:50.:38:53.

catch. We were saying we were disappointed with the wage being

:38:54.:38:58.

organised from the drinks station point of view last weekend, I don't

:38:59.:39:02.

think I've seen that before. Here is your drink, I will throw it at you.

:39:03.:39:05.

Because there are so many in that group, the point we raised in the

:39:06.:39:08.

women's marathon is it would have been possible for them to either put

:39:09.:39:11.

strings station in the middle-of-the-road so the athletes

:39:12.:39:15.

can run down either side and know which side they need to go to pick

:39:16.:39:18.

up their bottles, or to use both sides of the road because that

:39:19.:39:21.

Thaynes it's out of it, you are not losing anything in terms of running

:39:22.:39:26.

further because they are in straight lines at that point. It makes it

:39:27.:39:31.

easier to get to the table and find your bottle and pick it up. That is

:39:32.:39:37.

peculiar of Bahrain. My old coach would have gone mad for not tying

:39:38.:39:45.

his laces properly. It is one of the first things you learn. In wet

:39:46.:39:49.

weather, to be fair, it stars and do the later is more easily and

:39:50.:39:55.

sometimes... Why do your laces in wet weather, because I've run many

:39:56.:40:00.

races and Sawyers Brendan, occasionally have rains in the least

:40:01.:40:03.

of England and I cannot remember my list is coming loose because it was

:40:04.:40:08.

wet. If you've not tired or not and it's made of more recent synthetic

:40:09.:40:12.

materials, you probably had all the material. That was our work. In

:40:13.:40:20.

running slowly in my recent running shoes my laces still don't get done.

:40:21.:40:24.

But the key was there in running slowly. Stop there. This is getting

:40:25.:40:32.

nasty. He's not even tied them properly again. Whatever they are

:40:33.:40:41.

making laces of these days, poll is obvious to the expert. He hasn't had

:40:42.:40:45.

a double knot because the other danger is the issue becomes loose as

:40:46.:40:49.

he becomes the case becomes and on but he's in danger of losing his

:40:50.:40:52.

chip and if he does that I'm not sure if it is valid, you're probably

:40:53.:41:00.

still OK fit is not your fault. They're all wearing, many will know,

:41:01.:41:07.

everyone has a chip which is why we getting the splits. This case

:41:08.:41:20.

continues -- lace gate continues. Calum Hawkins, noticed while we were

:41:21.:41:25.

chatting, at the back of the group and he deliberately moved out again,

:41:26.:41:29.

Brendan, to come around the outside and get back to the front. Almost as

:41:30.:41:34.

though when the pace slows the years, I will not let you slow it,

:41:35.:41:37.

coming back to the front again and I'm in great shape in the Olympic

:41:38.:41:42.

marathon, I don't want to doddle. It's so early to do that. If you

:41:43.:41:46.

feel great at 20 miles, even then you have to be careful. But he is

:41:47.:41:51.

having an incredible race in terms of his position, and maybe a bit of

:41:52.:41:56.

patience as well would be a good thing. The only two marathons he ran

:41:57.:41:59.

there have been pacemakers and his Oblak doesn't obviously set of

:42:00.:42:04.

different in those marathons but when he runs cross-country and on

:42:05.:42:06.

the roads, that is the position he takes, you like thing with the

:42:07.:42:11.

leaders, I said earlier when he is running the cross-country in

:42:12.:42:14.

Edinburgh he was disappointed with his own performance but was

:42:15.:42:17.

frightened to take on more Fara so I think the confidence has increased

:42:18.:42:22.

and the running at the pace, but it looks like they are, that is the

:42:23.:42:28.

pace he has run before, he is running at the front but this is a

:42:29.:42:30.

fantastic learning experience for the 24-year-old, there is one of the

:42:31.:42:37.

favourites, Galen Rupp, Wesley Korir of Kenya next to him. Ghebreslassia

:42:38.:42:45.

the world champion from Eritrea just there. Eliud Kipchoge it on that

:42:46.:42:50.

side and the Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich. All of the talent

:42:51.:42:56.

is at the front and Calum Hawkins is amongst it. What might be the

:42:57.:43:06.

reasoning for him drifting back it is slowed again, the previous two

:43:07.:43:15.

miles were run at 1013, so they went - about five three and then a 5.10.

:43:16.:43:22.

He is obviously thinking, I'm in great shape, he's run around two

:43:23.:43:25.

hours 11 for the marathon, coming in better shape perhaps ready to run

:43:26.:43:31.

the race of his life and he doesn't want to spend time at a pace he

:43:32.:43:37.

feels he is better than, it is just these conditions are so different in

:43:38.:43:42.

making that point, we are making the same point, it is great to see him

:43:43.:43:47.

there, fabulous, but it is a bit of a Button, the experience around him

:43:48.:43:57.

is something he should take note of. Most importantly I think for him is

:43:58.:44:01.

to come out of his race with a positive experience and thinking,

:44:02.:44:06.

OK, I'm now at a level where I can compete about what go back in four

:44:07.:44:10.

years and back next year in London in the World Athletics Championships

:44:11.:44:14.

and be competitive. He is learning a lot and is probably learning a bit

:44:15.:44:19.

about controlling himself and his pace but there is so many athletes

:44:20.:44:27.

around him who run fast times that group will slowly whittled down and

:44:28.:44:33.

there will be less in that leading group of food to live here we have a

:44:34.:44:37.

British athlete leading in the men's marathon in the Olympic Games passed

:44:38.:44:41.

the halfway point, checking his watch, looking studiously to see

:44:42.:44:44.

exactly what it is that is happening.

:44:45.:44:55.

And right behind him is Galen Rupp. He would get a shock if he looked

:44:56.:44:59.

around. All of the big names still there,

:45:00.:45:09.

the Americans will be disappointed that Keflezighi not able to be in

:45:10.:45:13.

that group. He is still making his way back,

:45:14.:45:19.

Steve, in that third group, behind the main group. He hasn't completely

:45:20.:45:24.

stopped. Whether he was able to stretch out and resume running.

:45:25.:45:30.

We saw Jared Ward, the other American, earlier on, almost come to

:45:31.:45:34.

a stop for what ever reason, he is back.

:45:35.:45:43.

Is the Len. And, the first one of the bigger names here. Certainly in

:45:44.:45:49.

terms of people who have got big personal-best times, if asked

:45:50.:45:53.

marathon runner. Almost holding his side there. Maybe a stem stitch, I

:45:54.:45:58.

don't know. These guys get those problems.

:45:59.:46:05.

Brendan? He has only run two madeleines and has won them both. He

:46:06.:46:09.

was a real favourite coming into this. As I was speaking with Haile

:46:10.:46:15.

Gebrselassie the other day, he said he is disappointed with the

:46:16.:46:17.

Ethiopian selectors come he doesn't think they have picked the best

:46:18.:46:23.

three from Ethiopia. He said it was the same in 2012.

:46:24.:46:28.

We are looking at the loose shoelace being featured by the director!

:46:29.:46:37.

There is the other Ethiopian. Berhanu, winner of the Boston

:46:38.:46:42.

Marathon. Still Callum Hawkins leading in the men's marathon.

:46:43.:46:48.

Could he possibly stay there? There have been one or two shocks in

:46:49.:46:52.

these Olympic Games. Callum is fighting his own story

:46:53.:46:59.

here. Leading the Olympic marathon as they approach 25 kilometres -- Is

:47:00.:47:05.

writing his own story. Normally people start to gather,

:47:06.:47:10.

think about the last six miles. Another lap of this 10km loop before

:47:11.:47:18.

they head to the city centre, the old part of the city at the top end

:47:19.:47:24.

of Rio De Janeiro. Copacabana Beach down the other direction.

:47:25.:47:30.

What a great site to see. Here they turn, next time when they reach this

:47:31.:47:39.

point they will carry straight on. They will be into the last seven or

:47:40.:47:42.

eight kilometres. For now, another lap. Berhanu for

:47:43.:47:50.

the first time moves to the front. The Ethiopians always felt he was

:47:51.:47:53.

their best option here of a gold medal. The other names will pull

:47:54.:48:00.

through. Plenty there, plenty obviously still

:48:01.:48:26.

in with a chance. They are spread across the road a little bit now.

:48:27.:48:31.

Callum Hawkins running alongside Kipchoge. Just having another drink.

:48:32.:48:44.

There is Abera, his race is over, looking disconsolate.

:48:45.:48:50.

Not feeling too well. It looks like he has had some kind

:48:51.:48:56.

of stomach issue, feeling sick. That is his race completely over

:48:57.:48:58.

now. The Ethiopian challenge rests now

:48:59.:49:14.

with their Ha Na. At the moment, you wouldn't in Fenners expect to be up

:49:15.:49:20.

there challenging again. He did exceptionally well to get full

:49:21.:49:26.

position in 2012. Thinking about Haile Gebrselassie

:49:27.:49:29.

saying he has no faith in the Ethiopian selectors anymore, they

:49:30.:49:33.

don't pick the best three. They failed to finish, all three

:49:34.:49:38.

Ethiopians, in 2012. Now we have two still running. The

:49:39.:49:45.

great Ethiopian distance running nation, they are getting athletes to

:49:46.:49:52.

run fast madeleines, their best are at home in Ethiopian getting ready

:49:53.:50:03.

for burning, and New York. And Chicago. Here we have three

:50:04.:50:08.

Ethiopians, three failed to finish in London. Now down to two. It is a

:50:09.:50:14.

shame when the best runners aren't able to represent their country.

:50:15.:50:18.

There are the other two Brazilian athletes. Da Silva and Paula. Down

:50:19.:50:26.

the road is the more famous of the Brazilian team members, Dos Santos.

:50:27.:50:30.

Further back, running his final race at the age of 39. His final

:50:31.:50:42.

marathon. Still in that group I am delighted to say Callum Hawkins has

:50:43.:50:53.

settled down in the group. He has taken his hat.

:50:54.:50:56.

He is harder to spot because he has taken off his hat.

:50:57.:51:04.

These conditions are obviously going to have an effect. You miss it a

:51:05.:51:12.

around 90%. Keflezighi trying to get himself back towards that lead

:51:13.:51:18.

group. The 5000 kilometres, the previous was a bit quicker, up to 25

:51:19.:51:26.

kilometres, it dropped to 15.45 again, which is why Callum was at

:51:27.:51:29.

the front once more. And he continues to enjoy his Olympic

:51:30.:51:35.

marathon. In a way in which he could never have dreams of. That big lead

:51:36.:51:40.

group, plenty of men in there. All the big names. Abera one of the

:51:41.:51:49.

first to become a casualty. There are about, going down, certainly

:51:50.:51:57.

about 30 athletes within a few seconds still off the lead.

:51:58.:52:03.

Brendan, at this point, he is having a great race, in terms of a finish,

:52:04.:52:10.

if he finished in the top 20 in the Olympic marathon in his first one...

:52:11.:52:18.

There, sadly, it has to be cramped, Paula, if he keeps stopping like

:52:19.:52:20.

that. I think so. Each time, he clearly

:52:21.:52:26.

does not want to give this up and to drop out of this race. Each time his

:52:27.:52:32.

body insists he stops, his mind gets him started again. He desperately

:52:33.:52:37.

wants to be in the race but I'm not sure whether he can continue.

:52:38.:52:43.

An extension to the shoelace story. These modernisers as Paula has

:52:44.:52:47.

described them, at this pace, they become unravelled, McCutcheon modern

:52:48.:52:51.

shoelaces. -- Modern shoelaces. Using a double knot.

:52:52.:53:18.

Some athletes taking advantage of those misting stations. There was a

:53:19.:53:26.

lot of wind out there. It seems to be drifting higher up across the

:53:27.:53:31.

road and not onto the athletes. More important is to take water. And keep

:53:32.:53:46.

yourself externally call. -- cool. And important to drink it. Talking

:53:47.:53:52.

to Galen Rupp, he said he has practised getting 500 millilitres

:53:53.:53:58.

down at each drinks station, that was his strategy if it was going to

:53:59.:54:03.

be hot. He will have adapted that. He will be paying attention to make

:54:04.:54:11.

sure he gets enough fluid in. That is the reason they have the holes

:54:12.:54:16.

punched in the vest, to keep themselves cooler in hot weather.

:54:17.:54:26.

For the first time, the strongman of the marathon, Eliud Kipchoge hits

:54:27.:54:35.

the front. Head down. Alongside him, not surprisingly, Galen Rupp, who

:54:36.:54:39.

had looked at times in this race as though he has been jogging. And

:54:40.:54:42.

right beside Galen Rupp is the world champion, that is Ghebreslassie of

:54:43.:55:00.

Eritrea. That yellow vest of Mutai. As Eliud Kipchoge hits the front,

:55:01.:55:04.

the rest of them decide, I have got to latch onto him. He is the

:55:05.:55:13.

number-1 distance runner in the world. Callum Hawkins just drifting

:55:14.:55:19.

off that group as they serious. Still plenty of running. There is

:55:20.:55:26.

Callum Hawkins. Still running strongly. Losing those few yards. As

:55:27.:55:32.

the big guns gathered towards the front. Kipchoge, Rupp, Biwott will

:55:33.:55:37.

be dangerous as well. There is Hawkins.

:55:38.:55:42.

Still running a great race but it will get tough and he will have to

:55:43.:55:51.

stick to his task really well. He is amongst very good company there. Two

:55:52.:55:55.

Canadians coming through. All starting to drop off. Bekele has

:55:56.:56:06.

given up with his lace! Bekele stopping. One or two other names to

:56:07.:56:12.

pick out in that group. You can see Ozbilen. Running for Turkey, a

:56:13.:56:19.

former Kenyan. Right on the inside is Abraham, Tadesse Abraham, running

:56:20.:56:29.

for Switzerland. In the recent European championship, the half

:56:30.:56:37.

marathon, and are certainly capable of living with this sort of pace

:56:38.:56:44.

which isn't that quick. Just running alongside Galen Rupp. Black cap on,

:56:45.:56:52.

white best of Switzerland. Kipchoge and Biwott, these are Murtagh note

:56:53.:56:57.

each other so well, bracing much harder than this in terms of times

:56:58.:57:02.

in the big city marathons, look how fast they were in London this year

:57:03.:57:07.

through the 30 K. Approaching much more slow on this occasion.

:57:08.:57:15.

Bat group just starting to whittle down. Callum Hawkins just has a look

:57:16.:57:21.

to see who he has for company in the second group. I think he has the

:57:22.:57:26.

defending champion with him that there. -- back there. Mutai is

:57:27.:57:38.

there. The defending champion, when this surge happened, not able to go.

:57:39.:57:51.

Their Ha Korir, and interesting developments at this stage -- Wesley

:57:52.:57:56.

Korir. Finally, this race starting to have an effect. Kiprop Uganda but

:57:57.:58:00.

his more famous team-mate, the defending champion, is behind him,

:58:01.:58:09.

alongside Callum Hawkins. It looks to me right now that the

:58:10.:58:14.

champion is very unlikely to defend his title today. He was world

:58:15.:58:21.

champion. He was Olympic champion. But he is not running as well today

:58:22.:58:26.

as he was on those occasions. As we look overhead, I think he is in that

:58:27.:58:31.

group, the second group, with Callum Hawkins. It looks as if Stephen

:58:32.:58:37.

Kiprotich, will he try to get away from Callum Hawkins and close that

:58:38.:58:45.

gap? It is not insurmountable. But his title is moving away from him

:58:46.:58:49.

very slowly, he will have to do something quickly, you don't leave a

:58:50.:58:55.

group of this amount of talent much further down the road.

:58:56.:59:00.

I definitely agree, Kiprotich is not capable of -- at the moment of

:59:01.:59:05.

keeping with that group. Callum Hawkins needs to keep running his

:59:06.:59:09.

own race. People will start to drop off the front. You can see Jared

:59:10.:59:15.

Ward, the US athlete, dropping backwards. As they come back, Callum

:59:16.:59:23.

can move through. He needs to work hard.

:59:24.:59:30.

11 men in that lead group. Others trying to hang on including Ward.

:59:31.:59:38.

That mile between 16 and 17 was one of the quicker ones. Dropping below

:59:39.:59:44.

five minutes. Still operating, as we see the world champion struggling,

:59:45.:59:46.

still only running 2.11 pace. The real test begins. The opiate of

:59:47.:00:04.

the Ethiopians are there and three Kenyans still in. The two faster

:00:05.:00:11.

men, Wesley Korir there also. Abraham from Switzerland. Just

:00:12.:00:36.

starting to peel Ofcom you can feel the pressure building and this will

:00:37.:00:41.

whittled down. Galen Rupp still comfortable in that group, still

:00:42.:00:44.

running a great race. Calum Hawkins, eight or nine seconds

:00:45.:01:02.

behind the lead group. As Paul said, plenty for him to still for.

:01:03.:01:07.

Something happened earlier on press it about what would be a good

:01:08.:01:11.

performance for Calum Hawkins in terms of a position here. I think

:01:12.:01:17.

top 20 for Calum Hawkins would be exceptional but just now he is

:01:18.:01:21.

better than that. If he can hang onto this position and this 15th

:01:22.:01:29.

sort of position he will have done remarkably well. Looking at the

:01:30.:01:33.

world champion, his attempt to become world and Olympic champion

:01:34.:01:36.

looks like it is going out of the window. In that group they are not

:01:37.:01:40.

all coming back, the winner for my money is on the front group, there

:01:41.:01:44.

is no way I believe anyone will, really quickly from behind.

:01:45.:01:53.

Wesley Korir of Kenya just slowing at the back of the group and

:01:54.:02:02.

settling in. He has a gap to make up but he will not do that because he's

:02:03.:02:07.

the King at his watch and slowing and we look in the group and there

:02:08.:02:12.

are less numbers. There were 11, there is now about eight.

:02:13.:02:19.

An athlete from Kenya who transferred to Azerbaijan, there is

:02:20.:02:24.

the world champion working hard to try and close this gap, can he do

:02:25.:02:32.

enough to get their? That is his team-mate. Sorry. Yes, he is further

:02:33.:02:37.

back on his team-mates dropping off as well and suddenly instead of 11

:02:38.:02:45.

we now have it in that group. Galen Rupp still hanging on. Abraham

:02:46.:02:50.

looked under pressure at the back of that group. I'm pretty sure Wesley

:02:51.:02:54.

Korir looks like he's starting to struggle a little. Did you see how

:02:55.:03:02.

they came around that corner? You can see they are struggling to get

:03:03.:03:06.

around the tight corners. There is Calum Hawkins, still running well

:03:07.:03:09.

but I'm worried about him in the later stages now because it is still

:03:10.:03:13.

wet, drying out a little but sometimes that makes it worse. The

:03:14.:03:20.

speeds that Kalinic around the corner, he was coping with that

:03:21.:03:25.

well, it depends a little on the soles of the shoes, some shoes will

:03:26.:03:30.

slip more easily but the part of the course I'm worried about is where

:03:31.:03:34.

they run out around the museum on the way home when they've come off

:03:35.:03:38.

this loop because that will be really slippery. They have to be

:03:39.:03:44.

careful on the tight corners and it is good to see Calum Hawkins moving

:03:45.:03:47.

through, leaving that group and working his way through and each

:03:48.:03:51.

person he picks off that will help him mentally. He is running really

:03:52.:03:56.

strong, he is passing people and passed the world champion or about

:03:57.:04:01.

to pass him and the pace has picked up. You can see 1:33.1 five. 1503,

:04:02.:04:10.

by far the quickest ever in so far. By a long way. From the previous

:04:11.:04:15.

five Kay they've picked up about 40 seconds. That is a significant rise

:04:16.:04:23.

in pace for the guys who can run 2.3 and 2.4 and 2.5 even, that isn't a

:04:24.:04:28.

big pressure but the interesting thing for me is how comfortably

:04:29.:04:32.

Galen Rupp has coped with that. Yes he has the 10,000 metre pace and he

:04:33.:04:37.

must think I don't mind this because the cap is discarded for the first

:04:38.:04:42.

time, no, put it back on again. He was handed a dry cat, through of the

:04:43.:04:47.

wet one. He did that before and I wonder if he put something under the

:04:48.:04:50.

cap on his head, but he has discarded the heavier cap because it

:04:51.:04:54.

has absorbed the water and put on a dry one. If he wins a medal and it

:04:55.:05:01.

comes down to the heaviness of a wet cat versus a dry cap and he feels

:05:02.:05:06.

that gave him an edge then hats off to him. I'm learning lots of

:05:07.:05:13.

technical things about leases and caps and getting the right drinks.

:05:14.:05:18.

It is science now. If there's anyone to leave that it is certainly the

:05:19.:05:25.

Oregon Project Galen Rupp. Alberto Salazar, winner of the 1500 metres,

:05:26.:05:30.

Centrowitz and a great more far-off. We've not refer to that much today

:05:31.:05:35.

but wasn't it a great evening we saw Mohammed Farah with his fourth

:05:36.:05:38.

Olympic gold medal? Wonder if he's watching today because he has an

:05:39.:05:47.

idea of them, but Galen Rupp taking his drink steadily, not getting too

:05:48.:05:51.

far behind, just holding position and we are now down seven runners

:05:52.:05:57.

and the gold medal Silver and Bronze medal will be between these.

:05:58.:06:02.

Interesting about the cap, it is typical Alberto Salazar, he will

:06:03.:06:05.

look at everything and have looked at the statistics of how you lose

:06:06.:06:10.

the most out of it through your head and think, once there is a wet and

:06:11.:06:13.

heavy cap on your head you reduce the image of heat you can loose

:06:14.:06:16.

carpet of dry cap on and that helps to do that. -- loose, put a dry cap.

:06:17.:06:25.

The 19th mile was run in 4.40 three. That is fast running. It would be

:06:26.:06:30.

faster flat-out fast race but when you've not been running that pace,

:06:31.:06:35.

big lift, some are struggling a little. Galen Rupp what we are

:06:36.:06:39.

speaking about those marginal gains him was maybe thinking about, Doris

:06:40.:06:46.

Day with this pace or wait and see what happens? Do they maintain this?

:06:47.:06:51.

He is back on it and it will be the time the first to struggle here.

:06:52.:07:03.

There has been paying, face etched with the pain of the effort required

:07:04.:07:08.

for this pace. He is beginning to falter as well. He has done pretty

:07:09.:07:13.

well to be in this, pace has not been that good and you would expect

:07:14.:07:16.

to see that McStay with it. He is going now. We have the two very good

:07:17.:07:23.

Ethiopians with Kichenok, the world number one marathon runner. -- with

:07:24.:07:29.

Eliud Kipchoge. Galen Rupp mixing it with them on his first championship

:07:30.:07:34.

marathon, setting out on what looks like a new chapter in his career.

:07:35.:07:41.

Wesley Korir starting to really struggle, Calum Hawkins still going

:07:42.:07:45.

well for Great Britain, heading towards a top 15 place just now, can

:07:46.:07:49.

he pick off some more? Who knows. No wait and see. Top four looking to

:07:50.:08:01.

try and break its coverage -- Eliud Kipchoge discusses tap, Galen Rupp's

:08:02.:08:04.

offers would build and at the end of this lap you're into the latter

:08:05.:08:09.

stages and if he realises that one of the big contenders from he's

:08:10.:08:13.

looking around to see who is there, his confidence has got to be rising.

:08:14.:08:19.

It has to be. And now down to four, he's looking over his shoulder, he

:08:20.:08:23.

has the winner of the Boston Marathon and the winner of the

:08:24.:08:28.

London Marathon, the winner of the Tokyo Marathon, and he saw won the

:08:29.:08:35.

trials in the USA in his debut marathon, there is the other Kenyan

:08:36.:08:40.

athlete, he is in trouble. They're down to three big-time city Marathon

:08:41.:08:47.

winners. And Galen Rupp, his first serious international marathon, the

:08:48.:08:52.

one you knew he would getting ready for, silver medallist in the Olympic

:08:53.:08:58.

Games in London in the 10,000 metres behind Mo Farah. Realising he cannot

:08:59.:09:01.

beat more fire on the track, he has been training with him come he has

:09:02.:09:06.

seen him in action and seen him winning of the medals, he decided

:09:07.:09:10.

that one isn't for me, I will not win that one, will he be the next

:09:11.:09:17.

American after Frank Short in 1972, could there be an American champion

:09:18.:09:20.

in the marathon? What a boost for American distance running and

:09:21.:09:24.

worldwide distance running when people realise you can take on these

:09:25.:09:28.

Africans from Ethiopia and Kenya, the athletes born in attitude and

:09:29.:09:31.

raised at altitude and training hard together in groups. You can take

:09:32.:09:39.

them on and is Galen Rupp rock now running himself into the medal

:09:40.:09:42.

position? Three of them beginning to edge away, the strongman, Eliud

:09:43.:09:51.

Kipchoge, he has an amazing record in the marathon and he runs them

:09:52.:09:54.

like this, head down and working hard and he felt in London he could

:09:55.:09:59.

have broken the world record in the marathon, so today isn't a world

:10:00.:10:02.

record effort, it is an Olympic title effort, he has Bronze medal in

:10:03.:10:07.

the Olympics and a silver medal in the Olympics, is he on his way?

:10:08.:10:15.

Eliud Kipchoge to a medal in the Olympic Games? Two great track

:10:16.:10:22.

runners at the front, Galen Rupp continues to look strong and

:10:23.:10:27.

comfortable as he shadows Eliud Kipchoge and if you extend at the

:10:28.:10:34.

American discussion, Clayton Murphy won a medal in 800 metres by Jenny

:10:35.:10:38.

Simpson the 1500 metres for women, they performed really well, you're

:10:39.:10:44.

right everywhere, the Lee Mossop medal in the 5000 metres, admittedly

:10:45.:10:52.

former Kenyan runner. Stephen chased all we are excited about our

:10:53.:10:57.

programme, we've made a massive impact, but they have people

:10:58.:10:59.

everywhere winning medals and it just shows picking up Brendan's

:11:00.:11:05.

point, you don't have to hand the medals to the African nations in the

:11:06.:11:09.

distance events, you can be competitive in the USA the smack and

:11:10.:11:14.

the USA are showing us that across all of the events. The other factor

:11:15.:11:17.

in this is if you look at the personal bests coming into the race,

:11:18.:11:20.

Galen Rupp is way behind the likes of Eliud Kipchoge it and he made a

:11:21.:11:26.

big decision to move to the roads I think given the fact he knows he is

:11:27.:11:30.

more efficient on the road and he would be a better racer there. He

:11:31.:11:34.

knows he cannot compete with more Farah on the track but I think he's

:11:35.:11:38.

a better marathon runner than more Farah will ever be and he has known

:11:39.:11:42.

that and moved up, made the decision to run the US trials then it could

:11:43.:11:47.

have got a lot of money to make his debut in one of the big major city

:11:48.:11:51.

marathons but he wanted to focus on the Olympic marathon and made his

:11:52.:11:55.

debut there and concentrated on being able to cope with this style

:11:56.:11:58.

of racing. He will have trained and prepared to cope with the fast

:11:59.:12:03.

surges that will come in the closing stages and he knows what he needs to

:12:04.:12:07.

do is hang on to those coat-tails of Eliud Kipchoge at him is to whittle

:12:08.:12:13.

this Ray Teret he is working hard, as is Galen Rupp and the man behind

:12:14.:12:19.

him, obviously it is the closing stages of the marathon but this is a

:12:20.:12:22.

serious move Eliud Kipchoge is making. 33 and one third just behind

:12:23.:12:31.

them, 42 to 1.1 kilometres of the resistance, there's still some

:12:32.:12:34.

running to be done, look at the eyes of Eliud Kipchoge, the determination

:12:35.:12:42.

in his face as he settles down and he will try and grind it out all the

:12:43.:12:45.

way. He will get faster and faster and looking at his record, he runs

:12:46.:12:50.

to marathons a year since he started in 2013 and one in hamburger,

:12:51.:12:55.

finished second in Berlin in his first year, two hours five and two

:12:56.:13:02.

hours for. 2014 he did the same, winning in Rotterdam and Chicago.

:13:03.:13:06.

Last year, 2015, he won in London and Berlin, two hours four minutes,

:13:07.:13:11.

and this year his first marathon with victory in London and a

:13:12.:13:15.

personal best time of two hours three, this is his second marathon

:13:16.:13:21.

of the year, will this be like most of his others, like the other seven

:13:22.:13:25.

marathons he has won, he has won six and finished second once. He could

:13:26.:13:31.

become one of the greatest if he ones the wins this today and isn't

:13:32.:13:36.

the Limato is in with a strong chance today or will it be the

:13:37.:13:41.

American? Since 1972 they have not won the marathon, that was an

:13:42.:13:45.

amazing marathon with Frank shorter in Munich. Or will the Ethiopian

:13:46.:13:55.

challenger in third,. America, Ethiopia and Kenya and what you said

:13:56.:14:00.

earlier about the strength and depth of the Americans, I always feel that

:14:01.:14:05.

if the British athletes should be able to be competitive with the

:14:06.:14:09.

Americans, we understand that in numbers there are of distance

:14:10.:14:14.

runners in Kenya, but we could match the Americans and that is another

:14:15.:14:17.

target for the Great Britain development squad and injuring

:14:18.:14:22.

scores to try and take on the Americans and get some of the

:14:23.:14:28.

events, Steeplechase, 1500 metres. Get young athletes coming through

:14:29.:14:31.

that the Americans seem to have been developing this programme for

:14:32.:14:36.

several years. And it will pay huge dividends. Hawkins still going for

:14:37.:14:42.

Great Britain through 30 kilometres. He has been fighting injury

:14:43.:14:55.

problems. Keeping going. His younger brother Callum Hawkins, haven't seen

:14:56.:15:04.

him for a little while. He had been running strong, heading for a top 15

:15:05.:15:09.

position. At the front, though, the roads are

:15:10.:15:13.

drying out, as the temperature continues to rise, rising

:15:14.:15:19.

metaphorically in the race here. Defeat will be sore. Legs starting

:15:20.:15:27.

to ache. This is the part of the marathon we have seen so many times

:15:28.:15:32.

where the decisive moves are made will stop but there is still a long

:15:33.:15:37.

way to go. Not much in terms of distance. Although there is still,

:15:38.:15:41.

when they come off this group, they still have about seven kilometres of

:15:42.:15:50.

running to do. So much can happen. It is where the drama happens. It is

:15:51.:15:58.

interesting we have these three away, there is nothing to suggest

:15:59.:16:05.

anyone else can content. With that rocking motion and looking behind,

:16:06.:16:13.

is that a sign of weakness from Rupp. I have a medal, I have to keep

:16:14.:16:19.

going. Or is he checking the danger. Is he thinking, I am feeling good,

:16:20.:16:24.

running with Eliud Kipchoge, no danger behind. I have two try and

:16:25.:16:30.

see whether I can grasp not only any medal could it be the gold medal for

:16:31.:16:34.

the USA? I think he was just checking. He

:16:35.:16:38.

could sense Eliud Kipchoge had taken a little rake from the pace. And he

:16:39.:16:45.

wanted to check behind to make sure in sitting in he wasn't allowing

:16:46.:16:50.

someone else to get back into contention. He has a lock support on

:16:51.:17:00.

the course. A lot of people on bikes giving him information.

:17:01.:17:04.

The issue about this part of the course, those on the water stations,

:17:05.:17:12.

they will now lose this lap. It is easy on the loop to communicate, now

:17:13.:17:20.

they are leaving. Galen Rupp, just dropping off by three metres.

:17:21.:17:30.

Kipchoge, big pressure on. That was by far the quickest section of this

:17:31.:17:35.

route. All of a sudden, the gap appears. This will be tough for

:17:36.:17:43.

Galen Rupp. The cap has gone. He has got to make sure he sticks to his

:17:44.:17:49.

task. Were he to win a medal, it would be phenomenal. It will be hard

:17:50.:17:55.

now. I said the cap has gone, that is great organisation, another dry

:17:56.:18:02.

cap for him. This will be a lonely runs him towards a medal possibly.

:18:03.:18:08.

It will be hard. He checked behind, a big gap. Who is charging from

:18:09.:18:15.

behind, coming through from the group? It is not -- it did not look

:18:16.:18:22.

as if they're Arda or Biwott could do anything. I think I can still see

:18:23.:18:39.

Derek Hawkins. -- Berhanu or Biwott. Kipchoge having a discussion at the

:18:40.:18:43.

front. Callum Hawkins is coming through, 12th place. Only nine

:18:44.:18:51.

seconds from a top-10 place. Running strong, very strong indeed. Biwott,

:18:52.:19:00.

now. There is one threat for Galen Rupp that has disappeared, Biwott

:19:01.:19:06.

with problems. All of a sudden, Kipchoge, opening up the gap.

:19:07.:19:12.

He said, you are not following me in my slipstream, either get alongside

:19:13.:19:16.

me or accelerate. He was pointing and telling him what to do. Now the

:19:17.:19:22.

strongman of the marathon strikes out. With an incredible record in

:19:23.:19:30.

the marathon. Six victories in seven runnings in his marathon career. The

:19:31.:19:35.

man who started on the track, world champion at the age of 18. 14.25

:19:36.:19:42.

that 5,000 metres split. No wonder Galen Rupp is struggling. No wonder

:19:43.:19:50.

the easy and -- Ethiopian runners are struggling. Elliott Kipchoge

:19:51.:20:02.

saying, running alongside me or there is no team here, you are

:20:03.:20:10.

Ethiopian, I am Kenyan. A strong controversy occasionally but also a

:20:11.:20:16.

strong, respectful rivalry. Eliud Kipchoge, is he on the way to a gold

:20:17.:20:22.

medal in the Olympic Games? A relaxing smile almost from Eliud

:20:23.:20:29.

Kipchoge. 36 kilometres, six kilometres to go. Over three miles.

:20:30.:20:35.

To put that 14.25 in context, that is inside 2.2 marathon running pace.

:20:36.:20:45.

An injection of pace in that three-mile section. At that part of

:20:46.:20:58.

the marathon, in these conditions, no wonder Galen Rupp could hang in.

:20:59.:21:03.

He did for a while. Phenomenal running from Kipchoge. That gap is

:21:04.:21:09.

significant. Galen Rupp still running strong for a bronze medal

:21:10.:21:16.

for the USA. But will these positions change? Can anyone come

:21:17.:21:19.

through from behind as they wind their way through, they come into

:21:20.:21:27.

the famous square. Galen Rupp is struggling now. There

:21:28.:21:31.

are threats coming from behind. The other Ethiopian, looking OK there.

:21:32.:21:40.

That is their Ha Na. His team-mate Erik Lesser. Let us look at

:21:41.:21:47.

Kipchoge, the man who has come through from the track, who has got

:21:48.:21:51.

better over the years, who has found his event. Has he gone too early?

:21:52.:22:01.

Ten seconds, is that enough for victory? Still a lot of running to

:22:02.:22:06.

do. This part of the course is awful, look at Galen Rupp.

:22:07.:22:15.

He is now really paying the price for trying to go with that move. He

:22:16.:22:21.

ran very bravely and tried to do with it. Kipchoge is a master and

:22:22.:22:26.

picked the pace up, a phenomenal pace that has done a lot of damage.

:22:27.:22:33.

The smile of satisfaction is it was his first serious move and it has

:22:34.:22:37.

succeeded in blowing apart this field. Now he can move away and

:22:38.:22:43.

won't get beaten, he is on the way to victory. The danger is for Galen

:22:44.:22:49.

Rupp, there is a jewel threat approaching behind him. He needs to

:22:50.:22:54.

be focused ahead and maintain form. He is struggling.

:22:55.:22:59.

You know when you are that tired, you take those tight corners, trying

:23:00.:23:04.

to accelerate again, it is so hard to do. As we look down. It is

:23:05.:23:11.

sparsely populated today, it is normally filled with crowds, it is

:23:12.:23:17.

where the Olympic flame is. That amount was grass at the beginning of

:23:18.:23:21.

the games, so many have stood on it, it has turned to mud. Eliud Kipchoge

:23:22.:23:32.

enjoying the big crowds that have gathered on the side of the route,

:23:33.:23:37.

they will get a couple of good use. They will see him again when he

:23:38.:23:42.

comes back behind the Candelaria Church. Forging on. We had a 32nd

:23:43.:23:59.

gap to those chasing. The last kilometres will be so tough for the

:24:00.:24:11.

American. Faltering a little bit. He had to

:24:12.:24:23.

think, keep focused. In third place, Galen Rupp, slowing,

:24:24.:24:35.

working, but hanging on. As you said, finding those corners

:24:36.:24:42.

difficult. But as you also said, 14.25 for the 5,000 metres has

:24:43.:24:45.

loaned the race apart. It is a fierce pace. No one could live with

:24:46.:24:52.

Kipchoge. That is the world champion on his way back, coming through

:24:53.:25:00.

strongly. Ghebreslassie. He has worked his way through.

:25:01.:25:07.

Slowing straight past the chasing two. Berhanu tried to do with him.

:25:08.:25:13.

But he looks better, fresher than edit Kipchoge. He won't catch him

:25:14.:25:17.

but he could work himself back into a medal.

:25:18.:25:20.

I wonder if he knows what position he is in. He was so far back he may

:25:21.:25:27.

not know what is ahead of him. Other teams are good at giving

:25:28.:25:33.

information. He is in fourth and he is charging, chasing Galen Rupp.

:25:34.:25:38.

Galen Rupp will have a very painful last five kilometres of this

:25:39.:25:43.

marathon. Look at that gap, Steve.

:25:44.:25:49.

Kipchoge is moving away. Those gaps, I have to be careful because of the

:25:50.:25:54.

turns, I would like to wait and see when they come round this section,

:25:55.:25:59.

this spectacular new feature on the waterfront in Rio de Janeiro. The

:26:00.:26:06.

dramatic sky, a dramatic race in the men's marathon.

:26:07.:26:11.

Lilesa of Ethiopian, a good 15 seconds behind the leader. Then,

:26:12.:26:18.

Galen Rupp hanging on for third, the bronze medal.

:26:19.:26:21.

Coming under threat from the world champion. A spectacular view. This

:26:22.:26:27.

beautiful building. It was only completed this year. A little bit

:26:28.:26:34.

controversial. Massive cost. But it does look stunning. There is Galen

:26:35.:26:42.

Rupp. Again, I keep saying this, Paula has made a good point, as

:26:43.:26:47.

tired as you are, Lilesa might be starting to struggle as well.

:26:48.:26:54.

Ghebreslassie, if he knows it, when they come around here, and turn down

:26:55.:26:58.

the other side, Ghebreslassie will get a view of who is still in this

:26:59.:27:03.

race, who is ahead, who can he catch, who can he chase?

:27:04.:27:09.

A brilliant view of Eliud Kipchoge, the leader of the marathon. Is that

:27:10.:27:14.

a winning lead? We are waiting for the Erik Lesser, there he goes. Well

:27:15.:27:29.

that gap change at all? -- Lilesa. The exciting race is happening

:27:30.:27:34.

behind Galen Rupp. He is tired, looking across, seeing how far the

:27:35.:27:37.

leaders are. Behind is a bigger threat.

:27:38.:27:52.

Just a couple of miles from the finish as they pass the museum.

:27:53.:27:59.

Eliud Kipchoge, the strongman of the marathon. The man whose record is

:28:00.:28:04.

second to none. Seven marathons, he has won six. Is his eighth going to

:28:05.:28:10.

be the glorious victory in the Olympic Games?

:28:11.:28:15.

Eliud Kipchoge still looking really strong. His cadence hasn't really

:28:16.:28:19.

changed as he picked up the pace. But Galen Rupp, his form looks

:28:20.:28:25.

totally different to five kilometres away. It becomes a mental battle for

:28:26.:28:34.

Galen Rupp. And Lilesa in seconds, to do whatever they can to keep

:28:35.:28:40.

their minds focused on the here and now, one foot in front of the other,

:28:41.:28:45.

quick as you can. I was wincing when Galen Rupp came around the corner.

:28:46.:28:49.

He couldn't control very well where he was moving, he was in danger of

:28:50.:28:54.

tripping over the small collards on the external corner.

:28:55.:29:06.

-- bollards. Galen Rupp needs to look ahead,

:29:07.:29:12.

Paula is right. This guy is not far behind, maybe 15 seconds. That is

:29:13.:29:19.

easily possible given Ghebreslassie is moving fast. It may be Galen Rupp

:29:20.:29:29.

has two concentrate on not being caught. He may have enough time to

:29:30.:29:39.

catch him. When they come through this section, big crowds, they will

:29:40.:29:44.

make a right-hand turn eventually into the last 1.5 miles. The last

:29:45.:29:56.

two kilometres, up the long avenue. And they will turn left into the

:29:57.:30:02.

Sambodromo, that is another 700 metres of running where you see the

:30:03.:30:05.

finish line. Could be yet see the medals change hands?

:30:06.:30:13.

This is tricky, you'll be able to see the people in front of him when

:30:14.:30:18.

he goes down here. If at this bit on when they measured the route

:30:19.:30:22.

accurately, to add an extra couple of hundred metres to go down this

:30:23.:30:28.

little side arm and turnaround, straight back and look at Eliud

:30:29.:30:34.

Kipchoge, how slowly he goes around the corner and polished writing it

:30:35.:30:36.

is because you cannot control your muscles in the same way when you're

:30:37.:30:41.

fresh. He has got incredibly hard and he now sees there is a lesser,

:30:42.:30:47.

Galen Rupp and a letter will be able to eyeball each other in this

:30:48.:30:51.

section but more importantly, two of them, I think, will be able to see

:30:52.:30:57.

the charge in Taber Selassie -- in Ghebreslassia lets see how a lesser

:30:58.:31:00.

gets around the corner, this is brutal. Galen Rupp is closing. Will

:31:01.:31:08.

he fear the American or will he fear the Eritrean more? Look at him now.

:31:09.:31:14.

Let's see how he does. Slowing to the corner, the first thing he will

:31:15.:31:16.

do is look at the what is coming down other side and fortunately for

:31:17.:31:20.

Galen Rupp, there is no one coming down the other side, looking at

:31:21.:31:27.

Eliud Kipchoge, eyes firmly set on the road ahead, seven marathons run

:31:28.:31:33.

already, six victories, only one defeat at the marathon. The winner

:31:34.:31:37.

in London this year when he nearly broke the world record in the

:31:38.:31:40.

marathon and his career in the Olympic Games he was third in the

:31:41.:31:45.

thousand four, second in the Tasnim they come he was not selected in

:31:46.:31:52.

2012 as we looked. It is his third effort in the Olympic Games to go

:31:53.:31:57.

from bronze to silver the gold and will he settle for silver here? Will

:31:58.:32:02.

he be able to hang on to silver? The last five kilometres, look at that,

:32:03.:32:08.

another 14.44 and Galen Rupp is sticking to his task he is

:32:09.:32:11.

distressed and working harder than ever, running out of energy and

:32:12.:32:16.

rules, but that is the important thing. He is well on his way, two

:32:17.:32:22.

hours and two minutes at the 40 kilometre point, 22 seconds to the

:32:23.:32:27.

second place, and there is the man who might threaten the medal

:32:28.:32:33.

rostrum, the world champion. But he doesn't look like he's running

:32:34.:32:37.

faster than the others. He was for a while, ran a very quick five Kay and

:32:38.:32:44.

now 36 seconds behind the Jody come in second place, he has broken these

:32:45.:32:48.

runners and broken the field apart and has broken their resolve and he

:32:49.:32:52.

has broken their marathon capabilities at the end with this

:32:53.:32:58.

incredibly quick section. Galen Rupp, 12 seconds behind Lilesa. That

:32:59.:33:10.

is about 70 or 80 metres but Galen Rupp is hanging on to a medal at the

:33:11.:33:17.

moment. Ghebreslassia will wait for the time to go through the 40 Kay

:33:18.:33:23.

checkpoint. They're all child the tired. Galen Rupp is right on the

:33:24.:33:28.

edge, hanging on and Ghebreslassia has himself thought to be tired and

:33:29.:33:34.

as the clock ticks, every second the clock ticks is helping Galen Rupp.

:33:35.:33:38.

It will be at least one minute and I think Rupp just needs to stay on his

:33:39.:33:45.

feet and I mean just keep running. Paula making the good points, one

:33:46.:33:48.

foot in front of the other, focus on this man ahead of you come here is

:33:49.:33:52.

Galen Rupp, moving better now. The knees are obviously in the cadence

:33:53.:33:59.

we normally see with him isn't there. Ghebreslassia is now one

:34:00.:34:05.

minute behind Galen Rupp, he only has one mile and a quarter, little

:34:06.:34:10.

bit more, the cash that up. That is a lot. Even he cannot do that unless

:34:11.:34:14.

Galen Rupp falls apart. Galen Rupp is digging really deep. You can see

:34:15.:34:22.

him down the road, interestingly Ghebreslassia we've seen. But look

:34:23.:34:28.

at the choke -- Eliud Kipchoge, he became the world champion at the age

:34:29.:34:32.

of 18 in Paris. Here is Galen Rupp and is the gap closing? Galen Rupp

:34:33.:34:38.

is coming back renewed. News down the course, Calum Hawkins is in

:34:39.:34:41.

seventh place and is charging through the field, an incredible run

:34:42.:34:47.

from Callum Hawkins, he has passed Abraham and Jared Ward and he has

:34:48.:34:52.

retired in his sights, only six seconds behind him, and this is an

:34:53.:34:57.

incredible run from Callum Hawkins, we'll see him in the face straight

:34:58.:35:01.

but for the moment, obviously the coverage is concentrating on the

:35:02.:35:06.

gold medal race on Eliud Kipchoge, heading towards this title, one

:35:07.:35:14.

which of course Kenya Dereli cherishes, Kenya terraces, Ethiopia

:35:15.:35:19.

won it since 2000, not their day-to-day. Lilesa will try and hang

:35:20.:35:24.

on to those of a medal but Galen Rupp is closing in on him. And I

:35:25.:35:29.

think Ghebreslassia will have to give up unless something dramatic

:35:30.:35:34.

happens to those in front of him. Not to Eliud Kipchoge though, strong

:35:35.:35:37.

and ripped the heart out of this race. This man is totally in

:35:38.:35:41.

control, yes, he is tired and he should be because he's worked really

:35:42.:35:45.

hard but the biggest sign of strain seems to be trying to blink the

:35:46.:35:49.

sweat out of his eyes so he can still see where he is going. These

:35:50.:35:52.

are the ones that are operating on a knife edge just now, every look

:35:53.:35:57.

Lilesa throws overshot the check on the gap gives a little bit to Galen

:35:58.:36:01.

Rupp if he can see that because he is closing his eyes and trying to

:36:02.:36:06.

summon every ounce of energy, he has really used everything he has in his

:36:07.:36:10.

body now and is calling on every last reserve. He is about to see the

:36:11.:36:16.

41 kilometre mark is this man has passed it and running brilliantly.

:36:17.:36:22.

25th mile for Eliud Kipchoge was five minutes to come he is hurting

:36:23.:36:26.

but how much of the others hurt in? I wonder how slowly it ready fifth

:36:27.:36:29.

mile was. They are all hurting because of what he did in the 40 20

:36:30.:36:35.

55 Kay. He has been working a long time. 2003 became world champion at

:36:36.:36:43.

5000 metres, breaching the greats. He has waited since 2004 when he was

:36:44.:36:48.

third in the Olympic 5000 metres, then second in the Olympic 5000

:36:49.:36:52.

metres and when he wasn't selected for London in 2012 he decided no

:36:53.:36:57.

longer as he finds instructions to tell him where to go. 700 metres

:36:58.:37:02.

remaining four Eliud Kipchoge and many people are saying if he wins

:37:03.:37:06.

this race he would put himself amongst the all-time marathon

:37:07.:37:09.

greats, on his way to become the second Kenyan to win this title,

:37:10.:37:15.

Sammy one Djourou won it instead as an data and sadly died a few years

:37:16.:37:19.

later in 2011 but this man has worked and trained an awful long

:37:20.:37:22.

time for this victory and here are the other two. The race still on for

:37:23.:37:28.

the silver and bronze, it will be those two, they will not be caught

:37:29.:37:32.

now. And nobody is catching Eliud Kipchoge. Completely destroyed the

:37:33.:37:38.

field with about 15 kilometres to go. Run quicker than anyone possibly

:37:39.:37:44.

could have done and it is rewarded with the Olympic title. It will be

:37:45.:37:48.

called for Kenya, the familiar sprint of Eliud Kipchoge that he

:37:49.:37:52.

used on the track to such great effect, he is now putting it to his

:37:53.:37:56.

marathon finish, he is enjoying these last 100 metres or so, look at

:37:57.:38:01.

the smile on his face. The work was my best marathon runner, they don't

:38:02.:38:04.

always win the Olympic title, but this time he has. Eliud Kipchoge of

:38:05.:38:12.

Kenya ran a brilliant race and he is enjoying this, taking all of the

:38:13.:38:16.

adulation from the crowd. Eliud Kipchoge is the Olympic champion.

:38:17.:38:23.

Superb from him, that hurt but he made the others hurt even more.

:38:24.:38:29.

Fantastic. We've seen him do it in London and now he's done it in the

:38:30.:38:34.

Olympics, Lilesa will hang on for the silver medal for Ethiopia. And

:38:35.:38:39.

Galen Rupp is still trying his best now gives up the chase for the and

:38:40.:38:46.

looks behind as Lilesa celebrates, a very good silver medal for him and

:38:47.:38:50.

for his country for Ethiopia. Galen Rupp took one little check behind,

:38:51.:38:57.

what a race, what a performance. He's the only one of these that ran

:38:58.:39:00.

in the 10,000 metres, let's not forget that. He ran the 10,000 metre

:39:01.:39:05.

final against Moore Farah at the beginning of the week and ends his

:39:06.:39:11.

week with a superb run in the marathon. Cannot quite catch Lilesa,

:39:12.:39:17.

he gets the silver medal, so Lilesa very tired, these guys, they are

:39:18.:39:24.

almost jogging after what first attracted to them. They tried to go

:39:25.:39:27.

with it and it got them a medal by going with it, but now they just

:39:28.:39:34.

about get across the line. Look how tired Galen Rupp is. Goodness me,

:39:35.:39:40.

this will be big news in the USA. A bronze medal for Galen Rupp.

:39:41.:39:48.

Brilliant run from him. A bronze medal and a big personal best come

:39:49.:39:52.

he has taken a minute or so of his personal best and has given

:39:53.:39:56.

absolutely everything out there. He could not give any more. Those of

:39:57.:40:04.

the world champion from Beijing last year rallied late and then some

:40:05.:40:07.

tired athletes coming in, but Callum Hawkins will vanish in the top ten,

:40:08.:40:14.

what a run from him. This is fourth, fifth, sixth seventh, eighth and

:40:15.:40:17.

ninth. Abraham has gone past him again but Callum Hawkins has run the

:40:18.:40:25.

race of his life, like Galen Rupp, sitting up on his marathon career

:40:26.:40:28.

that surely is full of great prospects for him. Ghebreslassia

:40:29.:40:37.

world champion from last year will take fourth. As Galen Rupp

:40:38.:40:44.

celebrates his bronze. But Callum Hawkins we will see him across the

:40:45.:40:47.

line as he had the line, top finish, nobody could believe that. In the

:40:48.:40:56.

Tanzania to finish fifth and we will have to leave it after Callum

:40:57.:40:59.

Hawkins, but the word on him as he approaches the line. Fantastic

:41:00.:41:04.

performance by Callum Hawkins, he looks as if he is in about eight,

:41:05.:41:07.

this is the start of the journey. There is water, the USA, finishing

:41:08.:41:14.

and Gillies of Canada on the way through. And Callum Hawkins not far

:41:15.:41:18.

from a personal best, fantastic performance by the young Briton, 24

:41:19.:41:22.

years old, the man from Phil Barton in Scotland, hats off to him, what a

:41:23.:41:28.

glorious performance. Ninth position and he can be very proud of that. He

:41:29.:41:33.

has a lot of his career left ahead of him as well. He will be back and

:41:34.:41:37.

finish higher than that. Well done Callum Hawkins. They will be so many

:41:38.:41:44.

people proud of him but they will be so many people in all of Eliud

:41:45.:41:51.

Kipchoge, the Olympic champion in a way that is the most brutal way to

:41:52.:41:57.

do it, pace wasn't that quick early on, Callum Hawkins led for many

:41:58.:42:01.

parts of this marathon, what a memory that will be for him, but

:42:02.:42:05.

didn't he stick to this task well when it broke up and Eliud Kipchoge

:42:06.:42:11.

through in the incredibly fast five kilometres. That was where the gold

:42:12.:42:19.

medal was won and were Lilesa and Galen Rupp were able to pull away

:42:20.:42:24.

for the Cal Malkin did brilliantly well to finish and the top ten in

:42:25.:42:28.

the Olympic marathon. There is the champion, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya.

:42:29.:42:36.

Fantastic race by Callum Hawkins. I'm sure he will want to get one of

:42:37.:42:39.

those pictures of him reading the Olympic marathon race. Fantastic

:42:40.:42:44.

performance from him but Eliud Kipchoge becomes the Olympic

:42:45.:42:48.

champion. As incredible as the marathon race was, I have to come

:42:49.:42:53.

clean because I was distracted. A few moments ago here in BBC ones did

:42:54.:42:57.

you I was joined by a very special man.

:42:58.:43:08.

Mo Farah going for the double-double. Moore Farah tried to

:43:09.:43:15.

do something so many Brits could not do. Give Selassie couldn't do it.

:43:16.:43:25.

You could go through all of the great names in the past and he has

:43:26.:43:33.

opportunity to hopefully take this fourth gold medal and the double

:43:34.:43:39.

again would be his. That is pretty quick, 2.372 first kilometre, I have

:43:40.:43:44.

to say that would be the quickest ever first kilometre in an Olympic

:43:45.:43:51.

5000. Is this a genuine attempt to take on more viral or an attempt to

:43:52.:43:55.

get rid of as many people as possible as Mack seven laps to go in

:43:56.:43:58.

the men's 5000 metres, so far the Ethiopian plan to stretch Mo Farah

:43:59.:44:04.

and see if he has any weaknesses because he is faster than the

:44:05.:44:07.

fastest and they will find out if he is stronger than the strongest.

:44:08.:44:14.

Great Britain with two men in the top seven. Ethiopia leading-edge but

:44:15.:44:22.

slowing. That was the slowest lap, the previous one. They come around

:44:23.:44:26.

this time I suspect this will be even slower with 63.9 the previous

:44:27.:44:30.

lap, this looks to anything slower than that. Mo Farah has gone, OK,

:44:31.:44:35.

that was your opening gambit, I've taken that one, thank you, I'm ready

:44:36.:44:41.

and waiting. I'm right here. Right where I want to be, and letting you

:44:42.:44:45.

know I'm here. You slow down and I moved to the front. Speed up and I'm

:44:46.:44:47.

going with you. He comes down the back straight,

:44:48.:44:59.

three medals in the bag, is it to be another one, a historic fourth?

:45:00.:45:06.

Mo Farah checking behind and to the side, looking up to the big screen.

:45:07.:45:16.

There is almost a fall. Just a little push and a shove.

:45:17.:45:23.

There goes Mo Farah at the bell. He has company, trying to hold them

:45:24.:45:28.

off, accelerating, sprinting, in the driving seat. Has he got the finish

:45:29.:45:33.

we have seen him produce? Can he add to the three gold medals he has got?

:45:34.:45:40.

Chelimo pushes in. Mo Farah knows he has two hold, hold

:45:41.:45:49.

the lead here. They were attacked again but Mo Farah has more to give.

:45:50.:45:54.

He has speed in those legs to spare, looking up at the screen. They are

:45:55.:46:00.

trying to catch him. Cho Lima looks the big danger.

:46:01.:46:05.

Mo Farah looks to his inside, checks there is no danger. Chelimo is

:46:06.:46:09.

trying but will not get him. Mo Farah is away. Mo Farah is going

:46:10.:46:16.

to get gold for Great Britain again! The double double. Four Olympic

:46:17.:46:23.

titles, four Olympic gold medals. Incredible.

:46:24.:46:28.

It is so good to see you. I am sure it was a late night.

:46:29.:46:36.

Very late. I didn't get back until 2am. By the time I had done

:46:37.:46:41.

anti-doping, everything else. You are looking very well. A big

:46:42.:46:48.

smile on your face. Last night, so special. You have had a few. Where

:46:49.:46:54.

does it rank having completed that double double on special nights?

:46:55.:47:02.

There are no words to describe to be Olympic champion, to do it after

:47:03.:47:08.

London, to have four years. Last night was amazing, amazing, I can't

:47:09.:47:13.

believe I have managed to pull it off.

:47:14.:47:15.

Everyone is so proud. You have been doing your nation so proud for so

:47:16.:47:18.

long. BRENDAN FOSTER: For last night was

:47:19.:47:23.

already calling you Britain's greatest athlete. Put it into your

:47:24.:47:31.

own words, where does this frank? It is every athlete's dream to be

:47:32.:47:38.

Olympic champion, but to do it four Times is amazing.

:47:39.:47:41.

Watching Haile Gebrselassie, the Sydney Olympics, thinking one day I

:47:42.:47:46.

want to be Olympic champion. Then, to do it. There are no words to

:47:47.:47:52.

describe it. To do it in London and have another Buffon years and to do

:47:53.:48:00.

it in Rio, it has been amazing. -- four years. All my medals I have

:48:01.:48:05.

dedicated to my kids. One to pop round each of their

:48:06.:48:09.

heads. I did what I can for my kids.

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That is all I can do as a parent. We will talk about your sacrifices. Let

:48:18.:48:21.

us talk about the race. I know you haven't seen it. How did it play in

:48:22.:48:27.

your eyes? For me, I have been in three

:48:28.:48:31.

Olympics, this Olympics, I just wanted to take it as another race

:48:32.:48:35.

and enjoy it mostly but take control. I was so much faster than

:48:36.:48:41.

everyone else. Tactically, getting it right.

:48:42.:48:45.

Coming around the final bend, can you fill them breathing on you? Can

:48:46.:48:53.

you feel the breath? You can. They are digging in and

:48:54.:48:59.

trying to beat me. Coming up to the bell, I just knew I wouldn't let go

:49:00.:49:06.

my position. Coming up the home straight here. Keeping my form,

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staying strong. Do what I do in training, that was the most

:49:13.:49:15.

important thing. What about that kick, where does it

:49:16.:49:20.

come from? How hard have you had to work to get it? It is incredible the

:49:21.:49:26.

energy you have after doing 5000 and 10,000.

:49:27.:49:32.

I work hard at what I do, away from my family, making sacrifices. I try

:49:33.:49:39.

to work on my speed, endurance, and tactically, looking at what other

:49:40.:49:43.

guys are good at and come up with the best way you can win in the

:49:44.:49:46.

race. You are thinking about the athletes?

:49:47.:49:53.

Paula Radcliffe had said you have this intimidating factor, the rest

:49:54.:49:59.

of the world doesn't feel like they can beat you. Do you feel you are on

:50:00.:50:03.

this other level which gives you confidence?

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You need confidence, as an athlete, no matter who you are. In any sport,

:50:10.:50:15.

you have to believe in yourself. But at the same time respect the others.

:50:16.:50:22.

And deal with it the best you can. But I have more experience than

:50:23.:50:25.

anyone else in the world. I have been there. I was sixth,

:50:26.:50:32.

seventh in the world, won the World Championships, the Olympics. Having

:50:33.:50:35.

all that helps me be in the best form I can.

:50:36.:50:39.

You have all this experience. You always know winning one medal will

:50:40.:50:45.

be hard. Tell us about falling in the 10,000m. For all of us watching

:50:46.:50:49.

at home, heart in mouth, what about you when you hit the deck?

:50:50.:50:54.

It took a lot out of me. I thought my race was done. I thought at that

:50:55.:51:04.

point I was gone. It's something -- it is something I have trained for,

:51:05.:51:08.

and in one moment it was gone. But I had to be strong and dig in deep and

:51:09.:51:12.

come through and worked my way through the field. And be strong.

:51:13.:51:22.

That is one thing in my mind. Not least because you have to get

:51:23.:51:25.

back up but you have feet coming over you and through you.

:51:26.:51:31.

It took a lot out of me. I had to rest up and think, I need to relax,

:51:32.:51:42.

get ready for the fight against. How hard is it to get your rhythm

:51:43.:51:47.

back? When you have been knocked down, to get back into that case?

:51:48.:51:54.

It is pretty difficult to get going again to get your rhythm back.

:51:55.:52:00.

Once I had fallen over, in a moment you are confused, where am I? Is my

:52:01.:52:07.

race over? What do I need to do? You are all over the place. You need to

:52:08.:52:12.

be strong and think, I still have a long way. I want to do it, this is

:52:13.:52:16.

what I trained for, this is the moment. And get in the rhythm again.

:52:17.:52:25.

Four Olympic adults, nine in total if you include the World

:52:26.:52:28.

Championships, you have a collection.

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That puts you above the legendary Bekele.

:52:35.:52:37.

I know history is a big part of what you want to achieve. What does that

:52:38.:52:42.

mean to you being out there on this new level?

:52:43.:52:46.

It means a lot. I enjoy what I do and I want to be able to do my

:52:47.:52:52.

nation proud, my country pad, make the people proud.

:52:53.:52:57.

I owe it to people in London. -- proud. Having the people in London

:52:58.:53:02.

2012, that is what drives me every day.

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You can't beat that. Phil Jones said to you afterwards, rise, Sir Mo.

:53:10.:53:21.

I have to leave it to the public, enjoy my sport and enjoy what I am

:53:22.:53:27.

good at. I am good at winning. Let the rest take care of itself.

:53:28.:53:36.

A lot of the public enjoying you. Getting a selfie. Doing the Mobot

:53:37.:53:39.

with everybody at home. In all seriousness, when you have

:53:40.:53:47.

the people there are Great Britain backing you, history, all these

:53:48.:53:51.

records, the answer may determine how much more running you do, who do

:53:52.:53:56.

you do it for? I do it for my country, my kids, my

:53:57.:54:01.

loved ones, that is why I go out every day. What drives someone? Why

:54:02.:54:11.

do 20 miles in the road, on the grass? How'd you get there, why do

:54:12.:54:18.

you do it? You do it because you want to be able to get that memory

:54:19.:54:23.

back again, being on the podium, hearing the national anthem.

:54:24.:54:27.

You have done it so many times. Still standing on that podium, still

:54:28.:54:35.

a special moment? Still a special moment, I do it for

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my country, and I know my career is short, I have to make the most of

:54:43.:54:44.

it. What next? How many more medals?

:54:45.:54:53.

2017 World Championships. After that, we will see. Go onto the roads

:54:54.:55:01.

and see what I can do in America. You definitely deserve a break.

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Thank you so much for all of the memories and the special nights.

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Have you enjoyed your experience? I have really enjoyed it, I can't

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complain, I have got two of these. Thanks you.

:55:16.:55:22.

What a special guy. As he left, he said he will be competing in the

:55:23.:55:27.

Great North Run. All of you in the north-east, get out, Mo Farah will

:55:28.:55:31.

be hitting the up there. One of the highlights at these Great

:55:32.:55:41.

Britain's greatest Games. Show us how you have been inspired,

:55:42.:55:47.

get involved on the website and tell us how you have been enjoying these

:55:48.:55:51.

Olympics. We have one afternoon and one

:55:52.:55:54.

evening left to go. It will be sad to say goodbye. As we

:55:55.:55:58.

reflect on last night, not just a great night for Great Britain, but

:55:59.:56:03.

also for the home nation. Football as you will note is quite a big deal

:56:04.:56:08.

in Brazil. And in the Olympic Games bid is the one they wanted with but

:56:09.:56:12.

neither the women and older men coming into 2016 had managed to do

:56:13.:56:17.

it. Brazil were up against Germany in the men's final, where they had

:56:18.:56:24.

lost in the World Cup two years ago. Could they write that record here in

:56:25.:56:26.

Rio? Try telling those inside the

:56:27.:56:35.

Maracana this isn't the World Cup final? The two most successful

:56:36.:56:39.

footballing nations on earth meeting once -- in one of the most iconic

:56:40.:56:44.

stadium is hoping to produce something neither has done before by

:56:45.:56:48.

securing an Olympic gold medal. Alongside me, Kevin Kilbane, if

:56:49.:56:53.

there is one side you feel can master the occasion, it is the

:56:54.:57:01.

German side. So much experience. Although Brazil

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can cause Germany a lot of problems this evening.

:57:08.:57:11.

A decent effort against the frame of the goal by Brandt who almost did

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silence the Maracana. Neymar. The referee waiting to see

:57:22.:57:34.

if Brazil had an advantage. The ball was getting away from

:57:35.:57:41.

Neymar. A clear foul from inter. -- Ginter.

:57:42.:57:49.

It is onside! At the back of the net, right on cue, the darling of

:57:50.:57:54.

Brazil provides the opening goal. And you can probably hear that the

:57:55.:58:00.

roof on the Maracana is starting to reverberate.

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What a goal. Truly outstanding from Neymar. Horne

:58:03.:58:10.

Ingold can't get anywhere near it, the power and precision. He couldn't

:58:11.:58:15.

strike it any better. What a superb goal. Tell me this is in the World

:58:16.:58:23.

Cup final! -- this isn't.

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That is a foul right on the edge of the area, Gabriel Jesus.

:58:32.:58:44.

He was very high, Gabriel Jesus. Against the frame of the goal again!

:58:45.:58:54.

Well, Sven swooped, flicked it goal bound, couldn't score.

:58:55.:58:58.

Flicked into a good area, so unlucky to see it hit the crossbar.

:58:59.:59:18.

There is the equaliser Germany have threatened for so long, the captain

:59:19.:59:26.

of Germany cancels out the goal of the captain of Brazil and they

:59:27.:59:30.

silence the Maracana. As soon as Sven picks up the ball,

:59:31.:59:35.

moving from right back, and the presence of mind to pull it back in

:59:36.:59:40.

front of the Brazil defence. A quality finish. Superb finish from

:59:41.:59:51.

Mayer. Neymar goes for goal. A couple of

:59:52.:59:57.

feet beyond. Setting himself brilliantly, Neymar.

:59:58.:00:04.

I think he covered it. We are to have extra time. Good interception

:00:05.:00:15.

ante-post is excellent as well. Neymar looking to join in. There

:00:16.:00:22.

were two or three German defenders in the way. They made the block.

:00:23.:00:29.

They've been caught out a few times, Germany. Talk about Brazil being

:00:30.:00:33.

vulnerable to the counterattack, that Canada's Jeremy sending bodies

:00:34.:00:39.

forward to early, could you one have picked out Neymar what he checked

:00:40.:00:40.

inside. Miss controlled by Douglas Santos.

:00:41.:00:54.

Germany, forward with Peterson. Bryant on the far side is the

:00:55.:00:59.

intended target, that would have been magnificent. Heartbreaker for

:01:00.:01:05.

Brazil but I warned the -- a moment of genuine quality. The Olympic

:01:06.:01:09.

Games is almost at its conclusion and before it dies, a penalty shoot

:01:10.:01:14.

out will decide if the host nation will win the gold medal in the

:01:15.:01:22.

stadium. Part of the Germany squad that beat Brazil 7-1, he takes the

:01:23.:01:28.

first one and puts it in the corner of the net. First blood to Germany.

:01:29.:01:36.

Renato Augusto, 28 years old, has the responsibility of levelling up.

:01:37.:01:47.

Which he does. I'm so pleased for him because he has been the

:01:48.:01:51.

outstanding player for Brazil throughout the tournament. Now there

:01:52.:02:00.

are boos. And it is underneath his body. We've written got plenty on

:02:01.:02:07.

it. Several thousand dollars he saved it.

:02:08.:02:16.

Steps up to try and bring Brazil level. And he does it.

:02:17.:02:27.

Julian Brandt. It is a brilliant penalty. Absolutely faultless. Does

:02:28.:02:52.

he have the nerve? He does. The question is when Neymar has decided

:02:53.:02:57.

to take a penalty. In the meanwhile, the centre half of Hoffenheim. 20

:02:58.:03:02.

years old. Thumps into the corner of the net. As if it was just a game

:03:03.:03:06.

against his family in the back garden.

:03:07.:03:15.

A little hesitation in the run-up. But it makes no difference. Put it

:03:16.:03:25.

in the corner and we are also aware. One way or the other, Neymar's

:03:26.:03:33.

penalty will be significant. Males Peterson, he scored six times in the

:03:34.:03:39.

tournament. His penalty saved! It is all set for Neymar! The darling of

:03:40.:03:46.

Brazil, the player who went off in tears in the quarterfinal because he

:03:47.:03:50.

could not take part in the semifinal. The stage is set, surely

:03:51.:03:57.

it could be his moment. Now then, Neymar, can you provide the gold

:03:58.:04:01.

medal for your country? Redemption awaits for the side that could not

:04:02.:04:04.

win their own Fifa World Cup two years ago. Neymar scores! 200

:04:05.:04:16.

million Brazilians scream with delight. The golden boy has provided

:04:17.:04:26.

the moment that his country craved, knocked out by Germany in a game

:04:27.:04:31.

that no one will ever forget, but two years on in their old Olympic

:04:32.:04:36.

Games the one gold medal they wanted more than any other, and Neymar

:04:37.:04:42.

tucks the penalty that Metcher is -- matters into the corner of the net,

:04:43.:04:46.

you could not have written it. Five penalties scored by Brazil and they

:04:47.:04:54.

have one gold medal match. Neymar in bits and the fairy tale has come

:04:55.:04:58.

true. Brazil will win the gold medal. And emotional win it is fair

:04:59.:05:07.

to say. All once Neymar to have the final will it do so winning kick in

:05:08.:05:15.

that first ever Olympic gold medal. It was an incredible night and I

:05:16.:05:20.

arrived in Copacabana yesterday and it is fitter person -- say Brazil

:05:21.:05:25.

erupted. Everyone here surrounded themselves, it was a moment to

:05:26.:05:28.

behold and a pleasure to be here, you could not help but feel

:05:29.:05:31.

emotional even though it had nothing to do with us. Join Tupe thousand

:05:32.:05:36.

Brazilians are enjoying a single moment. It was spectacular.

:05:37.:05:41.

Successful games for Brazil, Great Britain not doing badly but the

:05:42.:05:48.

action continues here and a 16 -- on the day 16. We will go to the

:05:49.:05:50.

gymnastics arena because the rhythmic gymnastics is still to be

:05:51.:05:54.

sorted, Russia have won every single gold medal available since Atlanta

:05:55.:05:59.

2000, what can they do in the group all-round final this afternoon?

:06:00.:06:04.

Letterhead inside for rotation one. As Mack letterhead inside. Starting

:06:05.:06:17.

closely together and working away. Sometimes they will mirror each

:06:18.:06:23.

other and do exactly the same movements. Other times they will

:06:24.:06:36.

contrast each other. So impressive. Swap the apparatus, which the with

:06:37.:06:41.

huge difficulty underneath. And really, the most beautiful

:06:42.:06:52.

spectacle. The show all sorts of different

:06:53.:07:43.

patterns, but the risk is in the throes, catches, the transfers.

:07:44.:07:56.

It all has to look completely seamless.

:07:57.:08:29.

And, of course, original. What an opening performance to this rhythmic

:08:30.:08:44.

group Championships. And there has been such support for the Spanish

:08:45.:08:49.

rhythmic gymnasts all weekend in the Olympic Arena, they've had an

:08:50.:08:51.

astounding reception to their opening routine and you could see

:08:52.:08:55.

they are exceptionally pleased to get after that start, they believe

:08:56.:09:01.

this is their shot at gold. This is an experienced team, for these

:09:02.:09:06.

gymnasts were in London 2012 when they finished fourth. Since then

:09:07.:09:09.

they've made it onto the world podium, they got up the bronze last

:09:10.:09:13.

year and with Russia looking vulnerable in qualifying, Spain

:09:14.:09:21.

think today could be the day. 17.8 is the score for Spain, 8.9

:09:22.:09:26.

difficulty. They have their game faces on. Time

:09:27.:09:34.

for performance. There you see the ribbons instantly

:09:35.:09:59.

distributed to different parts of the floor.

:10:00.:10:09.

But that was almost immediately a drop, that will be a deduction.

:10:10.:10:19.

Absolutely essential they keep their composure now.

:10:20.:10:46.

And the music and movement have the match, so we have the change of

:10:47.:11:00.

speed. It is so essential the throw is made

:11:01.:11:15.

correctly. They are quite different dynamic and

:11:16.:12:23.

shape. Beautiful originality. Classy performance, but there was an error.

:12:24.:12:28.

And that makes things interesting because this was not where the

:12:29.:12:31.

Russian team struggled in qualifying. They were top by 0.5

:12:32.:12:35.

after this apparatus in qualifying, which was pretty much the difference

:12:36.:12:39.

between them and second placed Bulgaria and last year's worlds,

:12:40.:12:42.

enough to get you a meddlesome if they lose that advantage depending

:12:43.:12:47.

on how the judges look at this, that could really open up this final when

:12:48.:12:50.

we moved to the second and final rotation. It was an 18.283 in

:12:51.:12:57.

qualifying, easily the best score of any of the teams, the only team to

:12:58.:13:03.

make it into eight teams at this point, I suspect the Russian team

:13:04.:13:06.

will feel delighted if they were to get away with a score in the 18th

:13:07.:13:15.

again. It is unlikely. You can see execution score is down at the

:13:16.:13:16.

expressions on some of the team. Their entire focus will just be on

:13:17.:13:23.

their own performance. The work with the ribbon is so

:13:24.:14:06.

interesting and incredibly difficult. But the spectacle on the

:14:07.:14:12.

floor is really impressive. Expressing the music well

:14:13.:14:34.

entertained those beats. -- and hitting.

:14:35.:15:02.

Well, constant motion. They looked delighted.

:15:03.:16:04.

It is going to be interesting to see how Bulgaria come out of that

:16:05.:16:10.

because they were not far off the pace at all in the first round of

:16:11.:16:15.

qualifying, only just behind Spain and Belarus, a little way behind

:16:16.:16:18.

Russia. But we have seen Russia make big mistakes.

:16:19.:16:24.

Their issue in Rio in qualifying has been with the clubs, the second of

:16:25.:16:28.

the routines, not with this. There you go. 17.7. That puts them

:16:29.:16:40.

into second place. And just 0.1 behind Spain, head of Russia, as we

:16:41.:16:46.

go into the second half of this final.

:16:47.:16:58.

This is wide open. Less than 0.3 separating four teams.

:16:59.:17:04.

A mesmerising performance from the girls. One of the Russian team is

:17:05.:17:11.

able to compete here in Rio, you will remember in the build-up to

:17:12.:17:16.

this Games was shadowed with issues. Security, and doping. A few days

:17:17.:17:23.

ago, Hazel caught up with someone in a good place to talk about how 2016

:17:24.:17:29.

has gone. The doping agency president, Sir Craig Reedie.

:17:30.:17:38.

Sir Craig Reedie, I wonder if I can gauge your impressions of these

:17:39.:17:43.

Games? In many ways it has been magnificent

:17:44.:17:49.

mainly because the sport has been sensational. A couple of glitches

:17:50.:17:55.

around, but a lot of pluses. Maybe I am biased because I have a British

:17:56.:17:59.

accent, you only have to look at the medal table to understand this is

:18:00.:18:03.

pretty good. You are an IOC member and a

:18:04.:18:06.

president of Wada, some have questioned whether that is a

:18:07.:18:10.

conflict of interest in the build-up to the Games with such confusion

:18:11.:18:16.

about the findings of Wardle through the McLaren report and who could

:18:17.:18:20.

compete for Russia. How have you squared that circle?

:18:21.:18:25.

I am conceding there is a conflict of interest. Across the seniority in

:18:26.:18:31.

sport there are conflicts right, left and centre. In the run-up to

:18:32.:18:38.

the Games, the IOC hat went off and the wider hat went on. The problem

:18:39.:18:44.

with the McLaren report was when the revelations became apparent on the

:18:45.:18:48.

12th of May in the New York Times. To my way of thinking, that had to

:18:49.:18:54.

be brought into the public domain at the earliest moment. We knew it

:18:55.:18:59.

would cause problems. We suffered criticism. My conscience is clear.

:19:00.:19:04.

It would have been impossible not to do that, you couldn't have run these

:19:05.:19:09.

Games without that allegation being public and dealt with by the IOC. A

:19:10.:19:15.

complicated solution international federations involved, the decision

:19:16.:19:19.

was taken and we have to live with it.

:19:20.:19:22.

Sir Philip Craven from the Paralympic movement was decisive, no

:19:23.:19:27.

Russians will compete. Many felt no Russians should be in the Olympic

:19:28.:19:30.

Games. We suggested from the wider point of

:19:31.:19:36.

view we should decline entries from Russia which the IOC has the power

:19:37.:19:41.

to do. We do not have the right to decide who takes part in sports

:19:42.:19:46.

conditions. If that hadn't been done, the IOC could have reduced

:19:47.:19:51.

their own exceptions. That would have been tidier.

:19:52.:19:58.

COMMENTATOR: Not the greatest reception for the world champion.

:19:59.:20:04.

STUDIO: We have seen athletes calling out others as cheats.

:20:05.:20:09.

An interesting move. How did you view it and did it undermine what we

:20:10.:20:14.

were seeing from the Olympic Games? I hope it did not undermine. It was

:20:15.:20:21.

slightly unusual. If athletes want to make statements, they have to be

:20:22.:20:25.

careful what they say. If they have evidence of abuse of

:20:26.:20:30.

the rules, so be it. If you are going to investigate, you

:20:31.:20:35.

need to have evidence. Frequently the best evidence comes from our

:20:36.:20:40.

athletes. How much more is still to be

:20:41.:20:44.

unearthed how much more reassignment is of medals in the past are there

:20:45.:20:50.

likely to be as your investigations continue?

:20:51.:20:55.

It is worrying, I am told 98 likely positive tests from Beijing and

:20:56.:20:58.

London, as the technology of testing improves.

:20:59.:21:03.

I hope that message goes very firmly to the athlete who take part here.

:21:04.:21:08.

These samples will be retained for up to ten years. If technology

:21:09.:21:13.

inevitably gets better, if you cheat now, the chances are you will be

:21:14.:21:17.

caught. A major deterrents. Why can't the

:21:18.:21:22.

IOC say if you have served a suspension from drugs you won't be

:21:23.:21:27.

able to compete in the Games, why is it so hard?

:21:28.:21:33.

They tried that a few years ago, the Osaka role, it followed the rule the

:21:34.:21:37.

British Olympic Association had which effectively applied a lifetime

:21:38.:21:44.

ban. It is double jeopardy, you cannot

:21:45.:21:48.

sanction somebody twice for the same offence.

:21:49.:21:53.

It is conceivable I think, as the debate develops, if that is what

:21:54.:22:00.

more people want to happen, who knows what might develop.

:22:01.:22:04.

Are you more confident that what we have been watching is real, more

:22:05.:22:10.

real than what we have seen in previous Games?

:22:11.:22:14.

Yes, the number of reported offences to date is small. Let us hope that

:22:15.:22:18.

is all we have to go through and if the testing technique gets better,

:22:19.:22:26.

that risk producers. The combination of rate sport,

:22:27.:22:33.

enjoyment, athletes speaking out, better research, let us hope all of

:22:34.:22:38.

that will have people believe clean sport is what it is all about.

:22:39.:22:44.

That is what we hope. Sir Craig Reedie talking to Hazel Irvine.

:22:45.:22:49.

A fantastic Games. The success as far as the doping and how things

:22:50.:22:55.

have improved, we will only find out in the years to come.

:22:56.:23:00.

But it has been a good Games. Things get better for Great Britain.

:23:01.:23:04.

Today, it has been confirmed they will finish second in the medal

:23:05.:23:06.

table. Above China, for the first time

:23:07.:23:17.

since 1984. 27 gold medals. 66 in total. We can still have some more.

:23:18.:23:22.

Joe Joyce is in the boxing this evening, already guaranteed a

:23:23.:23:26.

silver. Great Britain going great guns.

:23:27.:23:30.

Let us reflect a little. Michael Johnson spoke about someone who, 80

:23:31.:23:40.

years ago at these games macro, achieved something on the track that

:23:41.:23:43.

was matched by his achievements of it as well. -- off it.

:23:44.:23:56.

The grandson of a slave, the son of a sharecropper. James Cleveland

:23:57.:24:01.

Owens was born into poverty. A chartered stricken by ill health, he

:24:02.:24:05.

spent his early years working in the cotton fields of Alabama. His family

:24:06.:24:12.

moved north to the great migration, fleeing the prejudice of the South.

:24:13.:24:19.

His father started work at the local steel mill which gave Jesse Owens

:24:20.:24:24.

the chance of a good education. It was at junior high his athletic

:24:25.:24:27.

currents were first discovered by his track coach. His speed gained

:24:28.:24:38.

him a place at Ohio State University but there was no scholarship for

:24:39.:24:41.

black students no matter how fast you were. Owens was made captain of

:24:42.:24:48.

the track and field team and had to live off campus, shall separately

:24:49.:24:50.

and eat away from his white team-mates.

:24:51.:24:58.

-- shower. In 1935, the world took notice at the championship at the

:24:59.:25:02.

University of Michigan, where he said three world records and

:25:03.:25:05.

equalled a fourth all in the space of 45 minutes.

:25:06.:25:09.

The following summer, he was representing his nation.

:25:10.:25:20.

Berlin 1936. The stage was set for Hitler's Nazi

:25:21.:25:25.

Games. The stage was also set for Jesse

:25:26.:25:30.

Owens who was in the form of his life.

:25:31.:25:39.

COMMENTATOR: Owens -- Owens is ahead.

:25:40.:25:49.

Metcalfe comes up but Owens wins. I am very glad to have won the 100

:25:50.:25:55.

metres and the Olympic Games in Berlin. The condition was grand. I

:25:56.:25:59.

am very glad to come out on top. Thank you. The next day he struggled

:26:00.:26:09.

in the long jump. It was only when his German

:26:10.:26:13.

competitor suggested he moved his start position that Owens improved.

:26:14.:26:27.

COMMENTATOR: A new world record. They remained friends until his

:26:28.:26:32.

German competitor was -- apprentice was killed in the world war.

:26:33.:26:39.

Owens went on to win the 200 metres and 4x100 metres Relate all in the

:26:40.:26:46.

space of just six days. I haven't seen my wife and three

:26:47.:26:50.

months and I am glad to be back home to see her.

:26:51.:26:54.

On his return to the states there was a ticker tape parade through New

:26:55.:26:58.

York and a reception at the Waldorf Astoria in his honour.

:26:59.:27:04.

When he and his wife tried to enter the hotel, they were told not to use

:27:05.:27:08.

the front door because of the colour of their skin.

:27:09.:27:12.

There was no telegram from the president.

:27:13.:27:14.

No invitation to the White House. Franklin diva is about failed to

:27:15.:27:20.

acknowledge his achievement. In 1976, Owens was awarded the

:27:21.:27:25.

presidential medal of Freedom by Gerald Ford.

:27:26.:27:29.

He died four years later of cancer. Owens was a man who carried himself

:27:30.:27:33.

with dignity and grace. When I look back on his difficult

:27:34.:27:37.

childhood, what he overcame, what he achieved, and stood for, I feel a

:27:38.:27:43.

sense of pride. Jesse Owens is a hero and an

:27:44.:27:48.

inspiration. An inspiration indeed.

:27:49.:27:57.

If anyone was in any doubt about the effect the Olympic Games can have,

:27:58.:28:01.

surely not now. 80 years ago. Back to the present

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day. We have some more action from Rio 20. We will go mountain biking

:28:08.:28:13.

now. Just under five kilometres, this course. We will see Absalon

:28:14.:28:22.

here. Grant Ferguson is an under 23 was championship bronze medallist.

:28:23.:28:25.

What can he do on the rear tracks? I am very excited, there has been so

:28:26.:29:21.

much about this showdown. It has been such a friendly rivalry but is

:29:22.:29:26.

so competitive. It comes down to this one moment. So much talk about

:29:27.:29:35.

whether there will be other contenders or just these two?

:29:36.:29:40.

The they go, 49 men in the Olympic cross-country race. This is a race

:29:41.:29:52.

for the first corner. Fontana will take them into the first corner. A

:29:53.:29:58.

short loop around this start area. Then the lap proper begins, seven

:29:59.:30:11.

laps of this circuit. 1150 metres of climbing. A lot of hard racing.

:30:12.:30:19.

Conditions today, we had a lot of rain and it is thankfully not

:30:20.:30:26.

raining now. It will make conditions tricky, none of these writers have

:30:27.:30:29.

written the court in these conditions, it was perfectly

:30:30.:30:34.

positioned in October in 2015 in the test event. Did you see the face of

:30:35.:30:39.

the Italian out-of-the-box? Trying to intimidate competition by looking

:30:40.:30:41.

into the eyes of the competition and sprinting off the line, he means

:30:42.:30:46.

business. Looking around very alert, that was a face of aggression start

:30:47.:30:53.

line. Very testing conditions already in his starting lap, the

:30:54.:30:56.

surfaces are different to what they've been preparing on. It will

:30:57.:31:00.

be churned up all round the course, and a really problematic start. That

:31:01.:31:07.

has put him under pressure to catch up. The climbing starts as it is

:31:08.:31:13.

believed the start loop as they come off this bent, they head out the

:31:14.:31:19.

climb, a long but not too steep switchback climb and leading them up

:31:20.:31:29.

just now will be Marco van, -- Fontana and a writer doesn't want to

:31:30.:31:32.

get caught too far back. The two lines. The Brazilian champion is

:31:33.:31:39.

behind Fontana, the scramble for the lines into the first quarter is

:31:40.:31:42.

underway in this men's cross-country race. Fontana sneaks in front of

:31:43.:31:50.

shorter, who won the test event in one year ago. The man in third place

:31:51.:31:53.

is none other than the road world champion, Peter Ciganda, opting to

:31:54.:32:00.

ride the mountain bike in preference to the road race here, believing it

:32:01.:32:04.

to be too tough for him. Write in here at the sharp end, started at

:32:05.:32:08.

the back of the field. He made a big effort to get the front early and

:32:09.:32:11.

wants to make a mark on this race, so many people said how will it be

:32:12.:32:16.

possible for him to Popp back in mountain bikes? So much success on

:32:17.:32:19.

the road but he believes in himself, you can tell by the confidence in

:32:20.:32:23.

his social media presence that he isn't just here to make up numbers,

:32:24.:32:27.

he really believes he can be in medal contention in the mountain

:32:28.:32:36.

bike event. This is a sad sight, really sad, hopefully he can get his

:32:37.:32:41.

mechanical sorted out as he walks through the start finish area. This

:32:42.:32:48.

is the race as Fontana and cigar and -- -- Schurter. There are plenty of

:32:49.:33:08.

rocks, it is course. Schurter going out hard, he wants to be near the

:33:09.:33:12.

front of the race and out of trouble from the start. He has taken the

:33:13.:33:16.

lead, those having an aggressive start. Schurter is an absolute

:33:17.:33:21.

master, we've seen him dominate over the last year in the World Cup

:33:22.:33:30.

series. Julian Epsilon has only beaten him once in a World Cup races

:33:31.:33:35.

this year, sure to pick up the double with the pondering one of the

:33:36.:33:38.

World Cup round and finished in fourth. This is a White turn, a real

:33:39.:33:44.

signature of course designer and builder Nick Florez, the South

:33:45.:33:48.

African. We seen these before, goes down a little bit hard and slow so

:33:49.:33:53.

the rest of the field, behind him. As attack from Schurter on the first

:33:54.:33:59.

little climb. Ciganda will get left behind that of you can see the

:34:00.:34:02.

advantages of him going out hard because there was some hold-ups so

:34:03.:34:05.

if you are not in the top few you've already been held up and he knows

:34:06.:34:10.

that he has been looking over his shoulder and around the aware, but

:34:11.:34:13.

look at this. This is the issues they are having. There is a beeline

:34:14.:34:21.

and riders are going around that but Schurter already out of the saddle

:34:22.:34:26.

and pushing as hard as he can out of the tunnel. Behind me the Israeli is

:34:27.:34:27.

right up there as well. They will come back around the back

:34:28.:34:45.

end of this lap, great start for Israel's Jaime, the Israeli on the

:34:46.:34:50.

third row and his right inside the top five. Really applying the

:34:51.:34:54.

pressure in front, now we see Ciganda coming into troubles with

:34:55.:34:59.

the technical area. Really slippery on this slope, they are doing well

:35:00.:35:04.

to write it out. Again, that is the first indication we seen of the

:35:05.:35:08.

slippery conditions that could prevail and they could get worse as

:35:09.:35:15.

the race progresses. Fontana decides or are not here is a better option.

:35:16.:35:22.

Showing great skills. Beautiful writing from the Israeli. Currently

:35:23.:35:28.

in fifth. Schurter knows that Epson has a habit of letting him go early

:35:29.:35:33.

and go out hard but with the conditions and such a diverse pellet

:35:34.:35:36.

on there so many levels here that you would not want to get caught

:35:37.:35:41.

behind that. Schurter is taking every advantage of getting out early

:35:42.:35:44.

and in front and putting people under pressure. Schurter then

:35:45.:35:48.

Fontana then Ciganda. Then the French rider. Not Julian Absalom. He

:35:49.:35:57.

is further back. Through the creatures for the first time. We

:35:58.:36:04.

will always reference the Schurter Julian Draxler showdown but there

:36:05.:36:07.

are still many other people in this race. Schurter knows how long he can

:36:08.:36:11.

go at this pace for com he's going out aggressive at the start.

:36:12.:36:23.

Paretsky here -- Viktor Kreutz key -- Victor Koretzky. An Olympic Games

:36:24.:36:31.

is a once off. It isn't like any World Cup it is a smaller field, he

:36:32.:36:39.

has just kept it together. The rocky descent. Fontana looks comfortable,

:36:40.:36:47.

the Italian in second. He does a lot of circle crossed so will love these

:36:48.:36:49.

muddy conditions, dumbing of the bike and running to close the gap

:36:50.:36:54.

and jump back on will not faze him because he does it so often in cycle

:36:55.:36:59.

cross, just seems to keep it as he struggles with the technical aspects

:37:00.:37:03.

of the mountain biking, not having lived on his mountain bikes like

:37:04.:37:08.

some of these writers. There is a question, he has incredible bike

:37:09.:37:13.

skills, we know that, great handling skills, but the intensity of race

:37:14.:37:18.

and the rhythm of a race, hard acceleration is and the backing of

:37:19.:37:20.

the cornering and rocks, they come relentlessly at the riders here, he

:37:21.:37:26.

is keeping yourself right in perfect position in the third wheel behind

:37:27.:37:32.

Marco Fontana and Schurter. Brilliant start. The last man on the

:37:33.:37:39.

score line, Ciganda. Here is in fourth. Fortunate to get into the

:37:40.:37:49.

race, there will be for a Wild card but qualified 15th of the final

:37:50.:37:52.

rankings, they got one place in the 50 rider field. It was a

:37:53.:37:57.

reallocation of places between Kwon, Hungary and Russia at the back-end

:37:58.:38:08.

that got Sagan into this. He did a checkup rate in April but even as

:38:09.:38:11.

the fourth behind someone who is raising here and building -- Belgian

:38:12.:38:16.

champion. That has really be his only exposure to this type of racing

:38:17.:38:22.

since 2009, when he was fourth at the other 23 World Championships.

:38:23.:38:28.

Since then the late Murray will be remembered on this day. Brilliant

:38:29.:38:32.

young South African, finished fifth in London in the Olympic Games but

:38:33.:38:37.

tragically lost his life in the January of the following year.

:38:38.:38:42.

Motoring accident when he was not over and killed. He will be remember

:38:43.:38:47.

by these writers and those around the world. Meanwhile, front it is

:38:48.:38:57.

Fontana at the front. Victor Koretzky looks good, only 21, he had

:38:58.:39:03.

to go up to the elites because once in mountain bikes you cannot go

:39:04.:39:08.

back, so he is now in the elites at the age of 21, not in the other 23

:39:09.:39:14.

category, normal and 23 World Championships to try and win because

:39:15.:39:17.

he is now the lead is doing very well in this race. You can see is

:39:18.:39:22.

under pressure on the climbs, but did really well to start and get

:39:23.:39:24.

into this position early in the race. Fontana is the man on the

:39:25.:39:31.

front, made the aggressive start on the Harthill. Schurter riding the

:39:32.:39:40.

soft tail, he had four options he has a heart the back half soft tail

:39:41.:39:47.

and hard and went for the soft tail. He was so can -- here is Sagan on

:39:48.:39:57.

the fourth suspension. He was Julian Absalom. -- here is a little off the

:39:58.:40:06.

pace and he will have to dig deep at the test event in October last year

:40:07.:40:10.

he finished fourth after a fall on the second lap. That really fired

:40:11.:40:16.

all these bullets to move up to fourth. The first climb of the

:40:17.:40:26.

flagman to an ascent. The mountain. One kilometre long, not particularly

:40:27.:40:31.

steep. It will take its toll as we move deeper into the race.

:40:32.:40:36.

Victor Koretzky 21-year-old also are a hard tail. One of the younger

:40:37.:40:45.

riders, he is known for fatiguing midway through the race, just not

:40:46.:40:49.

getting used to the endurance and length of intensity for that long,

:40:50.:40:53.

interesting to see how long he can stay with these guys. Fontana riding

:40:54.:40:58.

on the front and Schurter in second. The Frenchman at 21 years old,

:40:59.:41:01.

Victor Koretzky, doing well, came out hard, can he stay there? A first

:41:02.:41:09.

look at Rio rocks. Natural rocks that were exposed in the excavation

:41:10.:41:16.

here and Fontana and Schurter flying over the gap to have no problem.

:41:17.:41:21.

They are flying just now. What average speeds to be expected a?

:41:22.:41:29.

They've been training around 26, 27? The expectation is, the Scots team

:41:30.:41:38.

who Schurter right for expecting the Gobert 28 kilometres per hour in

:41:39.:41:41.

good conditions, these are bit heavier but somewhere around about

:41:42.:41:46.

26 or 27 would be in the ballpark. Good recovery from the defending

:41:47.:41:53.

champion, cohabiting is making his way up to fourth place. If currently

:41:54.:42:00.

dislike fifth currently. Over the flip-flops. Another man-made section

:42:01.:42:09.

of this course. Popular culture, the flip-flops. Through the ravine, over

:42:10.:42:17.

the bridge and into the tech is on for the second time. Ciganda looks

:42:18.:42:21.

very focused, came out of the gun pretty hard, he knew he wanted to

:42:22.:42:24.

get back on the start line through to the front. -- Sagan. Even though

:42:25.:42:29.

it has been raining it is very muddy and humid and sticky and the riders

:42:30.:42:35.

are taking on the fluids early. Schurter looking around to see who

:42:36.:42:39.

is with him and he has a gathering of some high-quality riders but what

:42:40.:42:44.

he will be doing is having a look to see where Julian Absalom is, he

:42:45.:42:49.

isn't in this group, Victor Koretzky, Sagan, they Popp over and

:42:50.:42:59.

down through the rocks again. Super impressive to see high me from

:43:00.:43:04.

Israel. His best World Cup result this year came recently. A few weeks

:43:05.:43:13.

ago in Canada. 34th from his best result. Maybe a reduced field due to

:43:14.:43:17.

being so close to the Olympic Games but certainly having the ride of his

:43:18.:43:20.

life. Some thing happened here to be the site can -- Sagan, to the

:43:21.:43:25.

pressure of the pedals, once the move to the back of the group, keep

:43:26.:43:29.

looking down, has a mechanical error? There might be concerns for

:43:30.:43:34.

Sagan and the problem is he has a long way to go. He has a flat front

:43:35.:43:38.

tyre by the looks of things. Could be due to the Telica section we saw

:43:39.:43:41.

him go down quite hard, not fault, but just rough on the rocks. That

:43:42.:43:47.

will cost him, what will he do? He is struggling to this section. Front

:43:48.:43:56.

tyre puncture force again delete -- for Sagan. That will be a challenge

:43:57.:43:59.

for him to he must decide how to deal with this, he has a way to go

:44:00.:44:05.

to get to the tech zone, still up between sharks and over the rock

:44:06.:44:10.

turnaround, it is a long haul. Paul Hari moves the front. That would

:44:11.:44:14.

have been a wonderful story if Sagan could stay with them but we see he's

:44:15.:44:19.

been passed by another few riders are trying to manage the front tyre

:44:20.:44:28.

puncture. Darren goes one of the Canadian riders, that was mainly due

:44:29.:44:32.

to the Russian rider pooling in front of him. And dragging across

:44:33.:44:41.

the line, the Canadian going straight into him at the tech zone.

:44:42.:44:48.

Drama at the front end of the race. Harvey the defending champion on the

:44:49.:44:51.

front of a little over his shoulder to see who is following. Absalom not

:44:52.:44:56.

far behind, this group will come together soon.

:44:57.:45:02.

The quality of the field is extremely high.

:45:03.:45:12.

The next wave come through led by Fluckiger.

:45:13.:45:23.

The two French men Marotte and crucially Absalon.

:45:24.:45:30.

This is the front end. And Kulhavy after a slow start is looking

:45:31.:45:35.

aggressive, second in the World Championships.

:45:36.:45:38.

A tight line taken by Fontana, there is a different mind.

:45:39.:45:43.

It looks like both French men are coming back, they had a troubled

:45:44.:45:48.

Olympic Games on two wheels. They have all three being on the

:45:49.:45:53.

podium in the World Cup series this year.

:45:54.:45:59.

Apologies to Braidot. It is the other Italian in this field. Braidot

:46:00.:46:06.

finished sixth on the World Cup circuit.

:46:07.:46:23.

Also in that group is the Colombian. And he also has a front wheel flat,

:46:24.:46:27.

he has dropped off the pace. They will nurse their bikes through

:46:28.:46:33.

to the Texas open. That was the Italian Fontana who

:46:34.:46:37.

went hard at the start. Now we see his team-mates in the

:46:38.:46:41.

front leading group and the chasing group behind.

:46:42.:47:04.

Fontana and Sagan. Down they go. 40 degrees.

:47:05.:47:15.

Beautifully handled by these highly skilled bikers.

:47:16.:47:20.

Lovely to see. Cink the other Czech rider.

:47:21.:47:27.

Head-to-head up this dual track. Kulhavy really attacking the rock

:47:28.:47:32.

garden. So experienced. It looks like

:47:33.:47:36.

Schurter wants the lead. He has tried to pass a couple of times.

:47:37.:47:46.

That is where he feels comfortable. Really looking strong is Kulhavy.

:47:47.:47:53.

Great support for the riders out in Rio on a rainy morning. They love

:47:54.:47:59.

their mountain biking. Absalon goes past. He said he will be calling it

:48:00.:48:12.

a day at this level at the end of the year but he wants one more

:48:13.:48:17.

Olympic gold medal. The riders are desperate to get some

:48:18.:48:25.

fluids on board. All very concerned about getting

:48:26.:48:32.

some fluids early on in the race. Absalon jumping off straight away as

:48:33.:48:40.

he runs up behind Fluckiger. Getting more cut up here. This is

:48:41.:48:47.

where Kulhavy has taken a knock, further back, along with the

:48:48.:48:52.

Spaniard. That is Marotte the Frenchman.

:48:53.:49:00.

Here comes Absalon. Using the dual suspension. The Brazilian pushes up.

:49:01.:49:10.

Sometimes these riders feel you can move as fast by pushing the bike up

:49:11.:49:19.

there. Braidot, the Italian, ahead of

:49:20.:49:24.

Schurter. Kulhavy, and the Spaniard.

:49:25.:49:29.

He made some comments before the race. This is Sagan getting his

:49:30.:49:34.

wheel changed. He has some work to do now.

:49:35.:49:39.

This is a true test for one of the finest bicycle riders anywhere in

:49:40.:49:46.

the world. Three stage wins on the tour De France, green jersey this

:49:47.:49:52.

year. Finding out how tough it can be when

:49:53.:49:56.

you get a flat. It is a different game to road

:49:57.:50:01.

racing, there is no car, you can't just put your hand up.

:50:02.:50:05.

He has to work particularly hard to get back in contact with these guys

:50:06.:50:10.

at the front. Braidot is biding beautifully at the

:50:11.:50:14.

sharp end. Ahead of Schurter and Koretsky. It is so dependent on

:50:15.:50:24.

where you get your start. He was in the second row and has taken full

:50:25.:50:28.

advantage to put himself right up at the front of the race. A quick

:50:29.:50:33.

glance over his shoulder. Fairly consistent at the World Cup

:50:34.:50:37.

sessions. He goes down hard. Terrible crash.

:50:38.:50:52.

Maybe a lapse of concentration. Van Houts, back for his third Olympic

:50:53.:50:57.

Games. Schurter now, driving the pace on

:50:58.:50:58.

the front. This is where Schurter may want to

:50:59.:51:21.

try to attack this long climb. A writer like Schurter knows he can

:51:22.:51:24.

maintain his pace, it is a safe place.

:51:25.:51:29.

We can see with Sagan how it can fall apart. You need to find the

:51:30.:51:39.

right place to pass. We also saw Absalon, out of London, that must

:51:40.:51:43.

have been devastating. How quickly things can change.

:51:44.:51:46.

One flat already. There is another flat, this is for

:51:47.:52:03.

Koretsky, a rear flat. We have heard about punctures on the week leading

:52:04.:52:10.

in to the race through these rock gardens. They are coming back to

:52:11.:52:12.

haunt the riders here. In London, it came down to the last

:52:13.:52:34.

500 metres and outsprinted by Kulhavy.

:52:35.:52:44.

He doesn't want to be taken to the line by Kulhavy who is a powerhouse,

:52:45.:52:50.

and amazing bike rider. Kulhavy has won the world rather than title. He

:52:51.:52:56.

has endurance and power. Arguably the most powerful rider on a short

:52:57.:53:06.

sprint in this whole field. Marotte, one of three French men.

:53:07.:53:11.

Lipsky at the sharp end with a puncture. Marotte tried to keep the

:53:12.:53:23.

French flag flying. -- Koretzky. Sitting on his wheel is Fluckiger,

:53:24.:53:28.

the 20 13th World Championship bronze medallist.

:53:29.:53:33.

The Spaniard is having a great race, chasing down the wheel of Schurter.

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He came in saying he has his feet on the ground, very aware a medal in

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Rio would be very difficult for him. In a great position, on the good

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form. Playing it down before the start saying a medal...

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And another puncture. This is the Frenchman.

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Koretzky has two nurse that all the way round, not much they can do

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about it except get it around to the tech zone safely and securely.

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At the top, taking its toll already. The second time up to the flag.

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For the new viewers to mountain biking, the rules in regard to

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technical assistance, these riders can stop and fix their own puncture

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or make it all the way around. They can't go backwards or cut the

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course, they have to stay on all the way round to the technical

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assistance zone. It can be cruel. As Koretzky found.

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Not long after the Texan he had a puncture and he had to go all the

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way back. -- tech zone. Anyone who wants the gold medal in

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Rio will have to deal with this highly motivated man, he has won

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world cups but his whole year has been geared towards the Olympic

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title in Rio. Over the flip-flops beautifully. The

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leader of the race, Schurter, looks comfortable after an aggressive fast

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start. Looking over his shoulder, Schurter.

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He is a man who has pioneered riding the 27.5 inch bite at this level.

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Eventually this year in the World Cup, he brought out the 29th with

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the specific aim of riding on it in progression for this event. He and

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his team decided this is a race for the 29ers.

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These riders don't have any radio communication. Staff around the

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course will give information about their competitors. Schurter will

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want to know where Absalon is. Will he be getting that information from

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his staff or using those points he sat out in training way he can look

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over and get good vision of his competitors. A few places good for

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spectators, they can run from point to point to the athletes pass. And

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important for the athletes to know where they can turn their head to

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see their competitors. STUDIO: Will leave mountain biking.

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And on the BBC website. Time for us to close up on BBC One. We have

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moved away from our position, our studio.

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The clouds have lifted and I have my first taste of Copacabana Beach.

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This sound is famous. Join us on BBC Two in a moment. I may need to take

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my sandals off. The coat will even come off as well.

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Join us on BBC Two with gymnastics, Joe Joyce, we have got plenty.

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I love the beach! I hope you told them

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where to stick it.

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