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Good evening, welcome to Wales Today him at the Olympic Park. The | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
first medal for one of how old Welsh Olympians as Wrexham's Chris | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Bartley wins silver. It goes down to the last few | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
strokes in the men's and lightweight four. Have they missed | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
out on gold. After the race, complete exhaustion. Every last | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
effort to win a medal. I do not remember much of the last | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
500, to be honest! I knew we had got a medal, had I was pleased to | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
be on the podium. Back at his old school, a nervous | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
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Tonight's other headlines, a 15- year-old boy has died after falling | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
off rocks near Llangennith beach. He was fishing with his brother. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
One of a haul of illegal weapons seized that cos if -- Cardiff | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Airport. Passengers said many were bought as souvenirs. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
You are now going to be issued with a �75 fine. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
More enforcement officers on the street as a council crackdown on | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
littering and dog mess. It is disgusting if you leave it. | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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Welcome to Wales -- Wales Today at the Olympic Park. Day six of the | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Games, and Team GB are climbing up the medal table. One Welsh manager, | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
he has certainly paid his part today. -- one Welshman. It happened | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
on the water at Eton Dorney, about 40 miles west of us here. Wrexham's | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Chris Bartley won silver in the lightweight four. It was a | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
thrilling final, and they missed out on gold by just a quarter of a | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
second. It was a race that certainly pushed them to the very | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
limit. The moment Chris Bartley will never | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
forget. Years of training rewarded with an Olympic medal. Gold was the | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
aim, but after a brutal race, the Roma from Wrexham had to settle for | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
silver. It has not sunk in. I am happy, my | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
dad had a bulge flag up there. I do not really know what to say. We are | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
proud of ourselves, Prada outperformance, and the support has | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
been amazing. With world champions Australia and | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Olympic champions Denmark in the running, a close race was expected. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Britain struggled early on, but Chris and his team-mates fought | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
back. As the fishing line approached, any of the four boats | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
in front could have got gold. Just centimetres the difference between | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
them. More than 30,000 fans cheered them over the line. Elation for | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
South Africa, exhaustion for the British boat. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
What a moment for Chris Bartley. Relatively unknown before these | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
games, but now a hero of GB with a silver medal in front of a home | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
crowd. Chris had pushed his body to the | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
limit. He had to be held from the boat. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
I felt incredibly sick and had a banging headache! I gave it all I | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
had physically. It took me just a while to recover, and it has not | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
sunk in yet that I have got a medal at a home games. It is amazing, | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
really. And a present from the podium from | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
the pet -- for the parents. Because he was quite small, he was | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
asked by one of the coaches at the school, would you like to be a Cox? | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
And he said if he was going to be a Cox, he would not do with! | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
I have been to so many rivers in the middle of winter, added has | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
come to this. It is the icing on the cake, super. | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
And there was plenty of support back where he learned to row. This | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
is Chris and another famous former pupil, Tom James, 12 years ago at | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
school in Chester. He did really well, because you | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
wondered if they were going to do it, and they pulled it out of the | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
back. It was such a close race, such an exciting event to watch. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
It makes you think you can get there, because other people have | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
done it from where you are. No such celebrations for Victoria | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
Thornley in the women's 8. She had barely set foot in a boat for years | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
ago, but finished outside the medals. -- four ideas. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
He would not bet against Tom James getting a medal this weekend, after | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
he booked a place in Saturday's final. Britain finished ahead of | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
favourites Australia, but on set this will have no bearing on the | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
fight for gold in two days. -- but on said. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
I think the Australians are very smart. They will come back faster, | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
and we have got to make sure we are faster as well. It is tough racing, | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
it is close, it would not be easy. We cannot be complacent, there is a | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
tough job ahead of us and we have got to be relaxed about it, but | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
focused and confident. But today belongs to Chris Bartley, | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
the first Welsh athlete to win a medal at the 2012 Olympic Games. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
We were all left pretty breathless after the race, and watching the | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
action was five-times Olympic gold medallist says Steve Redgrave. He | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
had tipped the crew for gold, and afterwards, we caught up with him. | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
-- Sir Steve Redgrave. They were favourites, so they will | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
be disappointed. But they have got the silver medal, and that is a | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
fantastic result. It could have been gold, silver or bronze. Any | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
one of those boats could have won. They should be very proud of a | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
silver medal, it is a fantastic result. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
If they had gone off a little bit quicker or pushed a little bit | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
harder, although I do not think they could have, I think they put | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
everything they had been to it. Chris was struggling after the race. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
You know what he has gone through. Talk about the pain you go through | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
after the race. It is 12 years since I was racing | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
properly, and you block it out. It must be like women with childbirth | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
in some ways, it never seems that bad, but then you come back into | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
that situation, and you think, that was not very nice! Your legs of | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
form of lactic acid. As soon as you cross the line, they give up on you. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Your heart is pounding, your lungs are burning. It is really a very | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
unpleasant time. A word about Tom James. He finished | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
ahead of Australia to reach the final. Are they favourites now? | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
I would not put them as favourites now. They are level with Australia. | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
I thought that would be a decisive moment, whoever won that race would | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
put themselves as favourites and probably go on to win. But it is | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
very cagey in some ways. They almost raced opposite race plans to | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
what they normally do, so what we have learnt today is nothing. We | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
have to wait till Saturday. Chris's from Wrexham, but the | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
school he went to in Chester, they were gathered screaming buried out | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
before him today. Matthew Richards is there for us tonight. How has | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
the silver medal gone down? Up I am sure you saw the pictures. | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
It is a damp evening here at -- in Chester, they were cheering on | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
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Chris Bartley earlier today. That is Tom James's but behind us. It | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
was pretty exciting, wasn't it? It was amazing. The kids loved it, | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
the coaches love did, everyone loved it. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
Running is a big part of your school. How important is it to have | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
those guys to look up to? It is brilliant. We have had nine | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
people going to juniors and a lot of people representing their | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
country. We probably have 20 students in international | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
competition, at 15 of those are brothers. Today we had a session | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
for our new rulers, unprecedented numbers. We are hoping to get them | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
all back next term with their medals. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
You have got four members of Team GB who went to the school, have | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
achieved? Do you see applications going up? | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
It would be greater they do! It must be so inspirational to have | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
them, everybody in Chester now knows their names and know that | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
they buy into our school, they learnt on this river in Chester and | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
we are so proud of them. The excitement has not finished, we | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
have Tom James competing on Saturday, and potentially more | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
excitement at the school. Plenty of excitement on the water | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
in the running today, and let me tell you, it has been thrilling in | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
the red -- the velodrome tonight. The track cycling has got under way, | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
and Geraint Thomas has made an incredible start to his games. In | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
the last hour, his team pursuit quartet broke the world record in | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
qualifying, justified their position as favourites for gold. He | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
is going for back-to- back gold medals after winning in the same | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
event in Beijing. The final, just say you know, he is about this time | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
tomorrow night. One more bit of news for you tonight. A man has | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
been arrested after an abusive message was sent to Tom Daley. It | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
was sent on Twitter, added follows the suspension of footballer Daniel | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Thomas by Port Talbot Town FC. The man arrested have been interviewed | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
by South Wales Police and arrested on bail. We will be speaking to a | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
former Olympian, you then Thomas, a little later, and getting his views | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
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on the track and field, which The a 15-year-old boy has died | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
after falling off rocks Nick Llangennith on the Gower last night. | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
-- near Llangennith. They were airlifted to Morriston Hospital in | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Swansea, where the younger of the two brothers was pronounced dead. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Caroline Evans is in Llangennith for us. | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
A beautiful evening down here, people enjoying the water tonight, | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
a very different picture from last night. Then, the wind was much | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
stronger, the waves much higher. Fishing rods were out again today | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
at the spot where the teenager was swept out to sea. Along with his | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
21-year-old brother, who jumped in after him. | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
I actually saw just the helicopter coming down, and the coastguard was | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
here. Hearing the noise coming along here, I thought someone had | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
jumped, which is very unpleasant. Two friends who were also fishing | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
here ran up the cliff to raise the alarm. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
This is a popular place with holidaymakers. It is surrounded by | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
holiday parks, but like all coastal areas, there are treacherous bogs, | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
and local people say they would not have the vision on those rocks last | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
night in those conditions. -- they would not have been fishing. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
The emergency response was swift, but too late to save the life of | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
the teenager. It was very rough. The wind had | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
picked up in the afternoon, and the swell was about three or four | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
metres. He was distressed, knowing that his younger brother was out | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
there, but he was conscious enough to give us the information, had we | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
continued our search. Unfortunately, we were not able to get there in | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
time. This is a popular holiday spot. The | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
family of the teenager are said to have been staying at one of the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
campsite which dot the coastline. But they may not have known the | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
area when enough to recognise the potential dangers. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Not many people go fishing there. The people who come from another | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
country and have not been here before, they sometimes do. It is | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
very sad. A tragic and anxious time for the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
family involved, and a tough time for the rescuers. They are all | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
volunteers, and some new recruits. I have been speaking with someone | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
who knows this area very well this evening, had he told me that they - | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
- they used to to be a warning sign of where the incident happened. He | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
said that when that signage had to be replaced because of age, a new | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
sign was put up in a different part of the beach, in his view, the | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
wrong part of the beach. That is something I will be looking into. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
A swimmer has died after getting into difficulties in the sea at | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
Aberystwyth this morning. The alarm was raised after he was spotted by | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
a member of the public who was staying in a hotel overlooking the | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
seafront. It has been said that he was a rabbi from north London. A | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
lot of Jewish families holiday in Aberystwyth each summer. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Ferries and planes were missed and a trial had to be adjourned for the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
day. Now business leaders say steps must be taken to ensure there is no | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
repeat of yesterday's traffic chaos in north-west Wales. The A55 was | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
closed for 12 hours after a lorry overturned. The Welsh government | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
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Gridlock. Chaos. Shambles. What they are saying about the A5 | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
yesterday. An overturned lorry. A spill of diesel, and 12 hours of | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
traffic misery. The problem is road transport in North Wales is a | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
hostage to geography. There is the sea to the north, mountains to the | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
south. If the coast road gets blocked, it is a very long way | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
around. With the A55 closed, the diversion took travellers on the A5 | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
through bottlenecks and then north up the A470, where there were long | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
delays. It wasn't until 8.15pm that the road re-opened. These are some | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
of the comments sent to BBC Wales: , "I missed my flight. Ridiculous" | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
David said the incident had been handled in a shambolic way." | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
business leaders are unhappy too. They want a contingency plan. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
drool believe there needs to be some sort of dialogue with | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
transport operators, the Highways Agency, just to try and get some | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
sort of protocol where these things are speeded up What I think this | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
accidents does is focus our minds on what should be a long-term | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
strategy for transport in North Wales. Because the A55 is our main | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
arterial route. This afternoon there were fresh tailbacks as work | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
continued to fix the damage done yesterday. We asked the police, | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Traffic Wales and the Welsh Government to explain what happened. | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
None would give us an interview. Eventually in a statement we were | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
told there would be an investigation. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Still to come on Wales Today: Clearing up your dog's mess - if | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
you don't, you face a �75 fine. We're out with the officers | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
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Knuckle-dusters, flick knives, Samurai swords and snakeskin | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
slippers - just some of the illegal items found at Cardiff Airport. All | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
confiscated from passengers' suitcases. Many said they'd bought | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
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them as souvenirs, not realising they were against the law here. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
There were no problems with passengers or their luggage on this | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
flight from Majorca at Cardiff airport this lunchtime. But over | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
the past six months officers doing customs checks have confiscated | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
dozens of weapons found on suitcases on inbound flights. They | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
are all illegal in the UK. These are three knuckle-dusters, which | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
were taken from a 71-year-old man, who had come in from Larnaca on | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Cyprus. When asked what he was going to do with these offensive | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
weapons, he intended to weld them together and use them in his garden. | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
He had three knuckle dusters and this extendable baton. If you step | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
to your left I will show you how it operates. We didn't get a rational | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
explanation as to why he want this. He said they were for gardening | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
purposes. It is unbelievable that people think they can get away with | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
bringing these weapons back. Security is so strict these days at | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
airports. They probably didn't know, but they might have known. They | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
shouldn't be bringing them in. iguana handbag is one of a number | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
of illegal items confiscated because it is made from an | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
endangered species. Others include snakeskin slippers and Chinese | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
medicines containing powdered tiger organs. The summer holidays under | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
way the message from the Border Force is simple: don't buy anything | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
illegal on holiday. Will it be confiscated and you could face | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
pruefplgts -- prosecution. | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
The organiser of a literary festival with a �10,000 prize in | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Carmarthenshire has said he'll have to consider holding it elsewhere | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
next year, after a dismal turnout. The Kidwelly Festival was held at | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Ffos Las race course last weekend, and billed as the first in the UK | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
to celebrate the e-book and self- publishing, but it had to be | :18:38. | :18:47. | |
cancelled when fewer than 100 people turned up. My argument is | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
this, that we had to start somewhere. We were the first one in | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
the UK and the first book award of �10,000 in the world, so if nothing | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
else we've been very brave. If nothing else, at least we've been | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
brave and given it a good shot. And we'll give it another shot and it | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
will be bigger next time. Rhondda Cynon Taff Council is | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
doubling the number of enforcement officers it employs to tackle | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
litter and dog fouling. In the past year they've sent warning letters | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
to nearly 3,000 people. They're also handing out special pouches | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
for people to put their cigarette butts in, rather than throwing them | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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on the pavement and being fined �75. Pounding the beat in Pontypridd | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
Andrew Denis and Christingle are law enforcement officers with a | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
difference. Basically, it is an offence, a litter offence... They | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
were the litter police. Although they have no powers of arrest they | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
can issue �75 fixed penalties. Mostly cigarettes, so where we can | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
we advise people. We give these out to the public for them to place | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
cigarettes in rather than throw them on the floor. You can put them | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
in, seal it, press it and put it out. But to be safe I would clip it | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
before putt it in,? More than 2,800 people have been sent warning | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
letters for dropping litter in the last year. Of those 523 are find. | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
Have committed a littering offence for through a cigarette, so we are | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
issuing a �5 fine. We work with schools, residents, community | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
groups and hopefully we'll see a steady improvement. But another | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
focus of this new campaign is dog fouling, and owners who don't clean | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
up after their pets are being targeted. With children playing on | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
the same fields where dogs are being exercised fouling is also a | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
health issue. For Emma Edwards and her Yorkshire Terrier Pickles a | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
walk in the park is a daily ritual, but Emma ensures they leave nothing | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
behind. It is disgusting if you just leave it. It can cause | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
diseases and shoe pick it up. It only take two minutes. Rhondda | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
Cynon Taff Council is confident the system of enforcement officers | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
changing people's attitudes and behaviour. Though it is clear some | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
animal owners may need to carry bigger clean-up bags than others. | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
That's all from me. Let's head back to the Olympic Park, where Claire | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
has news of another Welshman starting his bid for Olympic glory. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Thank you Lucy. Track and field begins tomorrow. For many it's the | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
highlight of the Olympics here, all happening in the Olympic Park just | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
behind me. Two Welshmen are involved tomorrow, Dai, Greene, a | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
world champion, starts his bid for Olympic glory, alongside fellow | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
Welshman Rhys Williams in the 400 metres hurledles. I will keep | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
talking, but basically today I caught up with a former Olympian, | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Iwan Thomas, to find out his thoughts on how our hurdlers may | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
fare tomorrow. Rhys Williams and Dai Greene in action tomorrow. It | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
is a mouth watering prospect isn't? I can't wait to watch. I'm a | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
spectator for once, and a happy one. Both of them have had great years. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
Rhys has become European champion. Dai is of course a European, | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Commonwealth and current world champion. His big rival is unbeaten, | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
but Dai is rung faster than he's run before. He's a personal best | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
before. Although he isn't ranked number one in the world, he has a | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
good mentality. Both of the boys will be itching to go. And so are | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
other Olympians, Brett Morse, Christian Malcolm. Christian is | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
towards the end of his career. Still a fantastic athlete and a | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
great chance to progress through the 200 metres. He made the final | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
in Beijing. He is up against Bolt, Blake and the great American, so it | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
will be tough to get a medal. If Brett was to make the final that's | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
an awesome achievement. Warburton protested, put in an appeal. That | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
was overturned. He tweeted me the other day saying he is raring to go. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
It's a funny time for the athletes. They will have seen the other | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
sports start, the cyclists and the swimmers, they'll be thinking, | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
"Come on, when sit our turn?" And their time is now. The atmosphere | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
has been building all week. What is it like waiting in the wings | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
getting ready for your competition to start. It is about keeping your | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
mind and focus. All the athletes are as physically fit as they can | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
be. It is all about telling themselves you've done all the hard | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
work and maintaining that excitement. Don't gate excited | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
before. You need to keep the nerves in. They will have watched Bradley | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
wiggins storming to a medal, and the rowers. It is like I can relate | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
to those guys, if they can do it, I can do it. Der heartache the rowing | :24:00. | :24:10. | |
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It is nice and calm here this evening. Good conditions for the | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
rowers. There are a few rowers on the water this evening. Who knows? | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Maybe in four years' time one of the guys here will be taking part | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
in the Olympics and winding a medal for us down in Brazil, in Rio de | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
Janeiro., in 2016. Chris Bartley on top form today. Getting his silver | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
medal, but the weather isn't on top form, unfortunately. We've had a | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
few showers, light winds. That's the story for the next few days. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
Sunny intervals, rain and heavy showers. This evening scattered | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
showers in place. Sunny for some of us. Overnight most of the country | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
is dry, bar one or two showers in the south and west. Lowest | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
temperatures tonight 10 Celsius in Llangollen and 14 in Narberth. | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Tomorrow, low pressure is near Ireland. That means unstable air, | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
towering clouds, rain, heavy showers and gusty winds as well. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
Tomorrow some dry weather, some sunshine, but again a few showers | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
around, heavy in place. Rain will reach Pembrokeshire mid morning. | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
This will spread east in the afternoon, heavy in places. Top | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
temperatures 16-20 Celsius, 16-68 Fahrenheit, with a south- | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
southwesterly breeze that. Wind quite brisk and gusty on the south | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Pembrokeshire coast. If you are heading to the Millennium Stadium | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
tomorrow afternoon for the women's football, Japan versus Brazil, I | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
wouldn't rule out a shower. The pollen count is low. Tomorrow | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
evening and overnight there'll be rain and showers affecting most of | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
the country. That could be heavy. For example in parts of Powys and | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
Conwy. For the weekend, very hit Conwy. For the weekend, very hit | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
and miss. Some sunshine but more heavy showers, torrential downpours | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
in places. A risk of hail, thunder and gusty wind. Some places could | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
get a real soaking over the weekend. The Met Office has issued a yellow | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
warning for heavy rain on Saturday. Next week - a bit mixed, sunshine | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
and shower, but there is the prospect of fine and warmer weather | :26:28. | :26:36. | |
for a time. That would be good news for the Eisteddfod. Lots of | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
excitement and drama at the Olympics today. Back to Clare today | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
in London. Thank you. News coming in that | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
Chris Hoy has just won his fifth Olympic gold med A today is one day | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
one Welshman will never forget. At Eton Dorney today in the rowing, | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
Wrexham's Chris Bartley won silver in the lightweight four. Missing | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
gold by just a quarter of a second. It was a nail-biting finish and one | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
that pushed them to the limit. I didn't really feel that much | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
I didn't really feel that much emotion afterwards. I felt sick and | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
had a bang headache. I had pretty much given it all I had physically. | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
It took me a while to recover. It hasn't sunk in that I have got a | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
medal at a home Games. I'm starting to feel myself now. Chris started | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
rowing at the age of 14 and today at the age of 28 he's a silver | :27:34. | :27:36. |