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Welcome back to our continued coverage. We are going to go | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
straight back to Greenwich Park, where Scott Brash is riding Hello | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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Sanctos in the individual performance he has put up. Superb | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
temperament, and he jumped a clear round when it really mattered for | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Great Britain. Could not have done a better job even if he had been | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
jumping in his beloved Scotland. Scott Brash, from Peebles, with | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
this lovely horse, Hello Sanctos, owned by Lord and Lady Harris. | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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Bought for him at the end of last year. This talented young man from | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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Scotland has his first individual trays. Scott has impressed | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
everybody with his cool, calm temperament. And he seems to love | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
the pressure of riding at a big championships. Brings out the best | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
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going to have had a good look. I think he is all right. Any mark | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
from the horse's ft on the plasticine will be four faults. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Scott will not know anything about that. He will be concentrating on | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
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the rest of the course. Here is the last. Absolutely brilliant! This | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
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for Britain, one officers learned, one for fans and one for Ireland | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
that was quite out of this world. It is unbelievable, the way Scott | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
keeps rising to the occasion her in every round. He has got better and | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
better. In the water, that was his one scary moment. Couldn't have | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
been closer. But he has impressed everyone with his riding. He is the | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
coolest guy in the whole place. What a round that was. The will | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
carry that clean sheet through till around two and two more grounds for | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
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That was a superb bid for a medal. Oh, my word. A word on Hello | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Sanctos as well, to squeeze in just over that plasticine. We can now go | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
back and have a word with Clare, who is with the king of composure. | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
No, she is not there. I have not got him yeah, but he will be on his | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
way any second, and I would grab him - gently! He is the youngest | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
member of the British team. It is his first Olympic Games, and he is | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
so cool. It is almost like things start happening in slow motion when | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
he comes into the arena, which is a sign of a top-class athlete. You | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
see it with swimmers, runners and tennis players. Everything starts | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
to happen slower than in real life. It is a great start for Scott Brash. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
He is super-confident. We interviewed him late at night and I | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
said, how will this change your life? And he said, I hope it will | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
improve my pulling power with the girls. He has had a huge response | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
to that so far. No sign of him yeah, but we have a fair few jumpers to | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
go. This guy, Ian Millar, is the oldest of the lot. This is his | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
tenth Olympic Games and he is 65. It is a new record, and he is | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
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did in his thirties. He is such a class jockey. He has a wonderful | :05:04. | :05:14. | |
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horse. What can he do in this first individual round? There will be a | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
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lot of people in Berkshire thrilled to see that horse on the course. | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
is a really influential stallion. He is the Saraf Nick Skelton's big | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
hope for later, Big Star. There are one or two sires that really do | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
have a massive influence on the spot. The same kind of athletic | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
ability as Big Star, but maybe not quite the same horse. Ian is riding | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
as well as ever. 65 years old, but look at that for quality and class | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
all the way round. We are running out of superlatives for all that | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
has gone on at Greenwich, but this man is a legend. He keeps himself | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
fit and is a wonderful example of what top-class riding can still do | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
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at 65. The one fence down means four faults. We are now into the | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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last quarter of the first of two rounds for the individual medals. | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
Thumbs up for captain Canada. He was in the silver-medal team in | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
Beijing for Canada four years ago. Now, the young Dutchman. He is 34 | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
and was the star man that helped the Netherlands to win a gold medal | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
in the worlds of 2006, and then again in the Europeans have, when | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
they beat Germany on their home ground on two great occasions. But | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
there were two occasions when sadly, this man did not deliver when it | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
mattered. What was in Madrid last year at the Europeans, when he had | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the very last fence down and almost had a gold medal at his fingertips. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
And again here, when he could have really put the Netherlands so much | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
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closer to Britain, but it was not to be. Gerco Schroder, with London. | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
This is another stallion which is so valuable for breeding if they | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
get to this kind of level. Gerco Schroder is not the tallest rider, | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
but he is very stylish, very effective. Watch him riding his | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
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horse with no bit in its mouth at And he has a time fault. Baptiste | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
two of them now on a time fault. The Portuguese rider, and now Gerco | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Schroder for the Netherlands. Incidentally, we have 12 with five | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
faults or under. And we have the best riders in the world to come. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Power, scope, ability, but that time fault, the way this is panning | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
out, they need to go clear. Brilliantly clean over the last | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
fence, but Cairness is needed now. I wonder why he was caught London. | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
I think I know. I think it is a bit of a giveaway. 11 left to jump. | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
There is bob Ellis. What a job he has done. His mate did all the | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
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designs of these wonderful fences. Now, one of my fancies for the | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
individuals. This is the very talented Swiss rider, Pius Schwizer. | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
This mare looks so fit and well. It is by one of the great stallions | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
that jumped for Switzerland. They have looked good here, without | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
producing the deal. Could it be now? Pius Schwizer is a great rider | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
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to watch. Likes to let his horses run forward and jump. She is a | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
light horse, very athletic. What you want from your horse is a | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
naturally athletic Kantor, so they can keep travelling forward without | :10:41. | :10:51. | |
going out if balance. Just to remind everybody, these fences are | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
up to 1.6 p high, and some of the mark two metres wide. -- they are | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
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is three with a time fault and four clear rounds so far. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
And one of those with clear rounds at no time faults is Great | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
He jumped really well today. He is settled and is getting better and | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
better. I saw you deliberately slowing down and walking out of the | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
arena gently. Were you thinking, don't get over-excited? The more | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
time they spend in that atmosphere, the better. But it feels relaxed in | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
their today. I am pleased. You seem relaxed. Fairly laid-back, but | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
there is a lot to go yet. We have another round. It is a lot of | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
jumping for the horses. So we just have to try our best and give the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
crowds something to cheer about. his it hard to treat this as just | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
another competition when you have already got a gold medal? That is | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
what you have got to do. You have got to beat the track. The horse | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
does not know what day it is. It does not know about the fantastic | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
atmosphere. You just have to ride the course accordingly, and ride | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
the lines the way you think you need to and do what is best for the | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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Arabian, Kamal Bahamdan. What a performance they put up. They won | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
the bronze medal. But they have only ever won three medals in the | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
Olympics. They put up a fantastic performance. Kamal Bahamdan is | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
clear so far. You have got to love this mayor. Always looking for the | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
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an effort over the water. She is so gutsy, the way she stretched over | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
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that. We have seen a few good clear rounds, with that one time fault. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Looks as though he will be close again. Time is coming into play | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
more than we expected. Third and it is another one with a time fault! | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
When it comes to the second round, those one time faults will be | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
crucial. But the team from Saudi Arabia for are really showing what | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
He is a man who has already set a record in this Olympics, Ian Millar. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
We think you will be all right? think I will get through to the | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
second round. But those four faults could be expensive at the podium. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
It is going to take a double clean round to get to the podium. | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
London doing all right? At a damn all right. I was thinking last | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
night, reviewing the whole thing in my mind, it is the essence of home | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
court advantage. The spirit of Great Britain and the enthusiasm | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
behind these athletes is spurring them to great heights, and each | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
success makes the other athletes better. It is an extraordinary | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
synergy going on between the athletes in this country. In terms | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
of facilities for you as a travelling Athlete, have you found | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
it all right? The facilities are beyond first class. They had a | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
difficult challenge building the park here. It is all portable. It | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
will all come down and return the part to its fantastic natural state. | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
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medal they have won in the equestrian games. They won an | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
individual bronze back in Sydney, he was meant to be at the Games. | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
They are certainly done the country proud. His source called Bayard van | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
de Villa There, compete in the first-round of the individual, on | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
four so far. Making such an impact on the world of show jumping, at | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
the Saudi Arabians. Ran into close to the combination, it has all of | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
ragged here. A look back at the last fence. He is inside the time. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
A strong suspicion that time it just spurred him on to go that | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
little bit quicker, and as a result the mistakes came, 12 in all, three | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
fences down for Ramzy Al Duhami. Britain will be here in five horses | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
time, Britain's Ben Maher, the 5th horse to come out of the horses | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
that are left. He is just having a bit of an argument coming into the | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
combination. Bit of a disagreement, got way to close to the first part. | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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Germany, what can you say? All expected them to be very much at | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
the sharp end of the medals, they haven't done it so far, but don't | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
disregard this man, the world's number-one ranked rider for many | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
weeks, over many years, Marcus Ehning, he is riding 15 euros | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
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payout -- stallion called Plot Blue. -- 15-year-old. He is very | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
experienced, the stallion. He hasn't looked at his best so far in | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
this tournament. He is one of the older horses here, 15. Marcus | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
Ehning, everybody's idea of perfect classical rider. How he can sit so | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
still in two such big fences is a complete mystery to me. Finished | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
4th, just outside the medals, in Sydney. I saw one of his sons here | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
in the earlier round, was on a gold medal team in Sydney, that is his | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
only Olympic medal to date. These riders will know they have got to | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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get inside the time, too many clears. He will be OK for time. | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
Just the last fence, he has jumped it. Marcus Ehning has shown us | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
exactly why he is regarded as one of the best. Brilliant round for | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
Marcus Ehning. And for Plot Blue. It is a clear round, at number five, | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
it is Ireland, France, Switzerland, Britain and now Germany, each with | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
a clear round. We have just witnessed perfect harmony between | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
horse and rider. These two, elegant, classic, stylish. Look how happy | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
and relaxed the horse is after the race, wonderful to watch. I have | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
heard one or two people say he could come good as we are beginning | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
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to get that feeling. There is the top 20 just coming up. And there is | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
the eight faults bringing us up to 18. I think it will be those five | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
faults at the moment that look like being the cut-off point. That will | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
disappoint a lot to have got two fences or more down. -- who have | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
got. Three more to jump before Ben Maher. Nick Skelton follows Ben | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
Maher. And here, if you are a betting person, here is a | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
combination that has had several faller was saying watch this one. | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
This one is Daniel Bluman with Sancha. She went to the World | :20:25. | :20:34. | |
Equestrian Games, quite young when she won there, two years ago. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Finished 109th but will finish a lot higher here in London, been | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
very impressive in jumping on the European circuit to warm up, but | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
their most impressive performance this year was a $50,000 first prize | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
in the Grand Prix in Wellington in March, and they ran away with it. | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
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What will they do here? Five clear down there, he put another one in. | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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But they have really impressed this a horse prepared to give you that | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
extra little bit of effort when it really counts. Censure, let's see | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
what she does, will she stretched over the water? Looking good. That | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
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up with a medal with four faults is changing, and Colombia is one of | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
those nations who are showing they mean business on the international | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
stage, lovely round. 4 faults, inside the time. Showjumping can be | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
a tough, cruel sport. You see how likely -- likely he touched that | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
with his front feet. One little tiny touch on the fence and that | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
was all it took. Classic foot- perfect, jumping down the | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
combination. That one fence will be one too many. We are taking 23 to | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
the second round, this individual day here at Greenwich Park -- 20. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
With the scores it could well be four faults, 5 balls, somewhere | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
around there by the time we are done, -- five faults. In comes the | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
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a Australian star, Edwina Tops- Alexander. They go so well together, | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
Edwina, she was 4th in the world back in 2006. She is a world-class | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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jockey, certainly a possible model for Australia. You say he is like a | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
little rubber ball, he is not much bigger than a pony. That was a | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
shame, you wouldn't expect him to make that sort of mistake. He is | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
getting on a bit now. Whether he is just slightly past his best, this | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
little horse. This was one of the horses and combinations everybody | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
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really did think could possibly win sure she doesn't get time fault. A | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
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she will be disappointed. That was insignificant compared to some of | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
the other offences on this course but down it went, it is four. The | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
Australians certainly not having an equestrian games to remember. | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
Edwina Tops-Alexander on four. uncharacteristic mistake Fort Itot | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
du Chateau. So it used to seeing it jump clear round after clear round. | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
Quite a big mistake there. Didn't see that one coming. Five left to | :25:34. | :25:43. | |
go in round one. If we have any equalities we go to a jump-off. A | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
jump-off for any one of the medals. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia now and | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
it is HRH Prince Abdullah Al Saud, writing this Twelve-year-old course, | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
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it Davos. -- riding this Twelve- year-old horse. They haven't got a | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
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clear round so far. The Saudi Arabian rider having one time fault. | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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Very short distance. Another one to have that fence. We haven't seen | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
that come down too often. Same fence that Itot du Chateau had, | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
faults all round the course. Sometimes way you expect them. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
left to do, two for Great Britain, bent may next, Nick Skelton to | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
follow. -- Ben Maher. Tension starting to mount with an amazing | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
round from Scott Brash, it just set the whole crowd going crazy when he | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
jumped. Two British riders, one after the other, just about to come | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
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up. It is pretty tense here at Over the time. HRH Prince Abdullah | :27:42. | :27:52. | |
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Al Saud ends up with a round that will probably send him out of the | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
individual rounds. He has done so much for the sport of show jumping | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
and he can certainly be very proud of his grandson here, already with | :28:06. | :28:14. | |
that bronze medal in the back, and no doubt Kamal Bahamdan will go to | :28:15. | :28:24. | |
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the second round for said the Arabia. Here is Ben Maher. With | :28:29. | :28:39. | |
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their home-bred Tripple X. He played such a part in that team | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
medal, as they all did. Peter Charles has not made it through to | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
the individual. They can only have three riders permission. Peter | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
Charles missed out on that. We have already got one Clear, could we | :28:54. | :29:04. | |
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water. It is coming up. He got away with that a raffle. Come on! -- | :29:43. | :29:53. | |
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rattle. I think the judges only have been a precaution we look. -- | :29:56. | :30:04. | |
having a precautionary look. British crowd holding their breath, | :30:04. | :30:13. | |
just got a bit forward there. He is all right for time. One down. | :30:13. | :30:20. | |
should see him in the second round. Sadly that will put him back, | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
probably reducing his chances of an individual medal, Ben Maher who was | :30:26. | :30:35. | |
a great Pony Rider and then went to beat a great student in Russia and | :30:35. | :30:45. | |
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has done a great job for Great of them. And now the man who really | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
guided Britain to that team gold medal. It is 54-year-old Nick | :30:58. | :31:06. | |
Skelton on the nine-year-old Big Star. Can he be Britain's second | :31:06. | :31:16. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :31:16. | :32:12. | |
clear round? We have three left to in this arena at the moment. The | :32:12. | :32:19. | |
one that matters is the one on board, Nick Skelton. Well up on the | :32:19. | :32:29. | |
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clock. He has done it! He has not hit a fence and. Listen to the | :32:35. | :32:42. | |
crowd! Great Britain have two of the six clear rounds at the moment. | :32:42. | :32:50. | |
It is game on for another gold here at Greenwich. Two Morton left to | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
jump in round one, and then we go again. Well done, Nick Skelton. So, | :32:55. | :33:01. | |
so focused. A immaculate riding. With the best horse in the world at | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
the moment. If there is any justice, Nick was jump clear in the next | :33:06. | :33:12. | |
round and win the gold medal. at the reaction from the squad | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
behind. This man so nearly won a medal in Athens eight years ago, | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
just going wrong in the very last round. Ever since then, he has been | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
looking to have a chance to put that right, and it looks at the | :33:27. | :33:37. | |
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moment as if he could still do just Netherlands on many -- his father | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
represented the Netherlands on many occasions. This is a very good at | :34:05. | :34:15. | |
stallion. One of the most highly rated, second to last to go. Been | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
clear all the way through. Picks a price to have an early fence. And | :34:19. | :34:26. | |
another one. It is all over. He says he is not happy with his horse. | :34:26. | :34:32. | |
Two fences down. Takes a look around, and he knows that with two | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
offences down, he will not go through. So he retires. What | :34:37. | :34:45. | |
disappointment. So near, yet so far for the Dutchman. The that has been | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
the story of their championships of recent years. When they got the | :34:49. | :34:58. | |
silver medal, the team, the way it is looking for Britain with the two | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
clears, they have done their job so far. These pictures remind me of | :35:03. | :35:13. | |
the Madrid Europeans last year. His father had a fall in the very last | :35:13. | :35:23. | |
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round in the Europeans, and it was very sad. His son goes out in a | :35:23. | :35:30. | |
similar way. But the Dutch have one more to come. There is his father. | :35:30. | :35:36. | |
Always a serious-looking face, but a lovely man behind that smile, or | :35:36. | :35:44. | |
nearly a smile. Now we come to the last and in individual all-round A. | :35:44. | :35:52. | |
But we have individual run B to come. The drama is not done yet. | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
Here is a combination that are many people's idea of the challenger to | :35:57. | :36:06. | |
Nick Skelton. The rider is 42 years old, with this lovely Dutch-bred | :36:06. | :36:16. | |
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horse. He came seventh in the Olympics four years ago on another | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
horse that he had ridden on a number of occasions at the majors. | :36:22. | :36:30. | |
He was in the World Equestrian Games team, but finished 40th | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
individually. But they are a much more world-class combination now. | :36:35. | :36:45. | |
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Last to go in the first round of the Olympic individual show jumping. | :36:46. | :36:53. | |
He chose to keep going down on the five strides. Lovely, big, athletic, | :36:53. | :37:01. | |
powerful jumper. There is a rumour that this may have lost a shoe. | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
Will that make a difference? It happened at the second fence, we | :37:06. | :37:13. | |
believe. Sometimes if they lose a shoe, it is not a major problem. If | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
there are no grass, it would make a bigger difference, because they | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
would need the studs to get the grips. So long as his foot isn't | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
sore, you can see he is carrying on happily. We have said it several | :37:25. | :37:35. | |
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times. This going is amazing. All the disciplines have been on it. | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
The planners can be thrilled with the hard work that has gone on. | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
have just had the confirmation that one of the big Dutch challengers is | :37:49. | :37:55. | |
going out. I wonder whether that should did make a difference. Just | :37:55. | :38:01. | |
inside the time. They finish on four faults at the end of the first | :38:01. | :38:08. | |
round. That will be a disappointment. There is the issue. | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
Well spotted, Clare. That may have unsettled the horse. He jumped | :38:13. | :38:23. | |
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brilliantly until the middle of the combination. Big drama again. It | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
was the same fence that Emma had down. Really difficult to jump at | :38:30. | :38:40. | |
one point 58. This means Britain will be the only country to have | :38:40. | :38:47. | |
two through to the next round on a clear round. I think you can bet | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
that the Olympic individual gold medal for show jumping will come | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
from one of those six. Could it be He hopes so, and give him credit | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
for that horse losing the issue. He does not miss anything. Top us | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
through what it is like to ride a horse of the quality of may macro? | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
It makes my job easier. So long as I get within the vicinity of the | :39:15. | :39:22. | |
fence, he does the rest. A lot of people are struggling out there. I | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
was holding on. He got there too soon, but he is jumping great. | :39:27. | :39:34. | |
Whatever he does, I will not be displeased. He is brilliant. He is | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
the outstanding horse of this competition so far. This afternoon, | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
you will come into this arena last. What do you want to see in the | :39:42. | :39:48. | |
course built by bob Ellis for this afternoon? For me, one thing I | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
never got to the bottom with this horse, I have never been in a | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
ground anywhere where I have thought I had to give him a kick | :39:55. | :40:03. | |
because it was lacking, scope-wise. The bigger it is, the better it is. | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
I don't think he would build anything he can't jump. The must | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
feel like a kid again, getting to ride him. That is what is keeping | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
me going. You are suffering a bit with a cold. I have had that very | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
few days. Not to worry. This will get it out of the way. Do you feel | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
you have things to put right after what happened in Athens where you | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
thought you had a medal in the bag and your horse made mistakes? | :40:29. | :40:35. | |
is the thing. Eight years ago, I was in the same position, last ago. | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
And we blew it, so I don't want to do that again. What do you do | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
different? I don't know. When riding at this level, you cannot | :40:46. | :40:53. | |
miss a beat. Six inches off, you can have a jump down. There is so | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
much precision. People do not understand that it is very | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
technical. When you have a horse on your side like he is, he is doing | :41:02. | :41:08. | |
everything to help me. He is giving it 110%, and if I give it 110, we | :41:08. | :41:14. | |
should be OK. Good luck this afternoon. I hope we get to talk to | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
you again in this position. Congratulations to Nick Skelton. We | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
will go back to Clare for more information about the second round. | :41:22. | :41:28. | |
The penalties are carried over. The top 20 go into this last round. | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
Obviously, the course is well- suited for our British riders, with | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
two of the six clear rounds in there, but how different will this | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
second course be? It will be slightly shorter. Not by much, only | :41:43. | :41:50. | |
about 20 metres. That equates to about four seconds. They have 10 | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
obstacles, 13 jumping efforts. It can be bigger. There is a double- | :41:56. | :42:01. | |
decker bus that will be in this one, for more of the London hotspots. We | :42:01. | :42:09. | |
have seen big bend our there. -- we have seen big bend. They are trying | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
to reflect the British countryside and British iconic buildings. I can | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
see the double-decker bus been prepared. Particularly with Big | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
Star and Hello Sanctos, Scott Brash's horse, they are growing | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
with every round. They are very fit horses, and fitness really comes | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
into it, because they have been jumping for a few days now. With | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
the jump-off for the team, they have been doing more than the other | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
horses, but they are fit enough. is interesting to see how calm and | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
relaxed both Scott and Nick are, because a lot can be transferred to | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
the horse. And in that arena, there are so many people screaming. The | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
horses will know what is going on and they may know what is at stake, | :42:54. | :43:00. | |
though that might make you laugh. think the rider being confident | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
really does help. I am really impressed with how cool Scott Brash | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
has been. He is trying to treat it like any other competition. And it | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
knows he has a wrong to put right, and I believe he will. It starts at | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
3 o'clock. A quick word on the horses. Is there a stable area at | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
the back where they can relax and have a sponge down before the | :43:21. | :43:31. | |
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The horses will have a sponge down and cool down. The cloud coming | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
over is a real help. It is very hot here when the sun is blazing down. | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
The spectators will get something to eat and drink as well and will | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
come back to their seats, are raring to go. The horses will have | :43:46. | :43:53. |