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The Olympics, the greatest show on earth. A sporting carnival of | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
athleticism and produce wes, Extravaganza of passion. Invented | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
by the ainshents and sent on mount Olympus, to offer the King of the | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
Gods. Now at last in its true spiritual home. Stratford, East | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
London. Join us as we tell the story of the glory that is the | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
Olympic Games. Tingeel down the spine. Even now it makes you go wow. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
The story of the greatest athletes on the earth. He was like a living, | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
breathing action man. And the odd crazy priest. The most compelling | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
events ever invented. And jumping over fences. The fitest human | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
beings in the world. It was just unreal. She was like a machine! | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
some slightly out of breath ones. Yes coming soon to a television | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
screen near you, the Olympics minutes, 50 most amazing moments, | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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welcome to our choice of the very - offer. Let's get under way, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Lieutenant Columbo on the TV Osmonds top of the charts and half | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
the male population look like geography teachers. It is 1972. In | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
muepnich it is the mens basketball final, against the USSR. It was | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
pride at stake and USA had never been beaten. It is like Germany and | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
England in football. Negotation Russia there was a war brewing, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Russia there was a war brewing, likes the most extreme rivalry. | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
COMMENTATOR: This could be the winning shot, such pressure on a | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
young man. COMMENTATOR: Three seconds left of play, and the | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
United States kept their record. The Yanks won another medal. Let's | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
all celebrate with a corn dog. COMMENTATOR: The most fantastic | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
ball finish in the Olympics. Hong on a second. You have officials | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
making the signal, three on their hands. That's because the USSR | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
signalled for a time out and it was given eventually. We talked to the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Refs, we like more time please, I will punch you in the head if you | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
don't give me more time. COMMENTATOR: The rev said three | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
seconds left to play. What can you do in three seconds. You knew... | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
Once they've reset the clock again. That the Russians were going to | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
score. COMMENTATOR: I do not believe it. The Soviet Union scored | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
and won! COMMENTATOR: Can you believe it is possible. Holy | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
Kremlin. To lose to the old enemy and in such a controversial fashion | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
it was major, major scandal. They would have beared it a little bit | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
more, if it was to any other country, but to the USSR no way. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
was the first time the USSR hadn't won the gold medal until basketball | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
was introduced to the Olympics in was introduced to the Olympics in | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
1976t shows every second counts. When you think of the countries | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
that have produced the Olympics fastest men, you think of America. | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
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And Jamaica. But mainly America. As the Games head today Moscow in | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
19 80 the world was in shock as the USSR along with 65 other nations | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
forced the athletes to boycott the limbs, because of the invasion in | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Afghanistan. It was a dark side. But at least it meant fast | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Americans weren't going to be there, and us Brits may have a chance of | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
winning something. 1980 Olympics were interesting, because the | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Americans boycotted it. And they're all traditionally very good for | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
sprint events. All the Americans and car a beans, none were there. | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
It was a great expectation. Scotsman, Alan Wells paleest | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
sprinter, was in with a chance. Before you may say no, he may | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
scrape fourth or fifth, and all of a sudden there was someone who can | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
get a medal We were introduced to his shy and retiring wife, Margot | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
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who was in the stands. It appears he is cheered on or married to, | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
mental. It was perfect, he won the gold. Wells had done it, scareed on | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
by wife Margot. COMMENTATOR: Alan Wells goes along with the all time | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
greats. It was the first time a Brit had won the 1 Park Si-Hun | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
metre final since 1924. Unbelieveable I got a gold medal, | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
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in an event I had less chance in. He is still an Olympic champion, | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
for a man from Scotland to win the final that's good going. It is his | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
name on the record books, but he's got it and he's done and deserves | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
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it. He was this incredible diver who won in 198. He was out-and-out | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
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one of the best divers in the world. Yes he was good as he gets. He lost | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
his head. He misjublged it, and banged his head on the board. | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
That's got to hurt. This kid's face says it all. Greg Louganis could | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
not survive, the Olympics was over! Not really. He doesn't do dying, he | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
does diving and incredibly, he and his sore head went to achieve | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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Olympic glory Could days later with stitches he wins the gold medal. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
How hard core is that. Is there any other athlete who | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
could come back so quickly from such an injury and win a gold medal. | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
He is ironman. If I stubed my toe there, I was never there again. | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
Greg Louganis and head and shoulders above the rest. 1984 | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Olympic Games, American style. of the free, home of the brave, and | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
in 1984 host of the greatest ceremony ever seen. A warm welcome | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
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from the citizens of California marked a huge scale of opening | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
ceremonies, there was dancing girls, a rocket man and dancing pianos. | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Rocket man had nothing to do with Olympics at all, it was something | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
amazingly cool. Just comes out of nowhere and plys around for a bit | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
and that's him done. He wasn't carrying a bat done or relay, he | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
was a rocket man on his own. What about a hand holding sing along | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
with this lady. # We can change things | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
# If we start giving # Why don't you # | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
They cut to Paris, French people holding hands. Wind mill in | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
Rotterdam, holding hands and there was us, in kilts, we might as well | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
as been eating leaks. If you thought the Opening Ceremony was | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
dramatic the Closing Ceremony was out of this world. The Closing | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
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Ceremony was a sci-fi spectacular. The love child of Frankenstein in a | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
stormtrooper had a message for the watching world. I have come a long | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
way, because I like what I've seen. It wouldn't surprise me if people | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
watched that and said, the aliens have landed. Hey, babe, you want to | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
come in here, you never guess what's turned up at the Closing | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
Ceremony. I salute you. The show that kept on giving. How do you top | :10:14. | :10:24. | |
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that all off, Lionel Richie. # All night long # | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
. Music Martians and monumental madness, how future games compete. | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
We have more coming up. When I'm not filming here, I use this place | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
as a retirement home for old Olympians, it takes a lot of upkeep | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
but you should think about it. retirement home for golden oldies. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Or silver or bronze. It is not about the winning, it is about the | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
taking part. Kelly, show me that bronze again you won in Athens. But | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
Dean, you didn't win that did you. When I sat on the start line for | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
the Olympics in '92, I was unemployment carpenter, married and | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
two kids, no money. Chris Boardman was Britain's great hope. In the | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
four case cycling race, he would need belief for gold. If there was | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
a gold medal for modesty, he was the man. I didn't believe me, | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
because that happens to other people, people you see on | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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television. In the final he was up It was an exhilarating moment for | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Britain. But Chris had his wheels firmly on the ground. A lot of | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
athlete manage to get excited, I used to get scared. | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
COMMENTATOR: Chris Boardman has Lehmann in his sights. He laughed | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
him en route to gold. He was unstoppable. | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
He doesn't just catch him, he overtakes him and on the line he is | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
ahead. Completely incondeefable. Chris Boardman is going to take the | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
gold medal to be the Olympic champion. To be last on a velodrome | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
is unheard of. And how much of a beast he was, and had the guts to | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
say, I'm not going to win this, I'm going to catch him up and overtake | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
him. One of the greatest performances I've ever seen... | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Chris Boardman is the Olympic champion, what a fantastic displace. | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
He remained the unflapable modesty. I was aware, but emotionally, not | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
the euphoria I was expecting. I'm always a glass half sort of person. | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
Chris Boardman cycling super hero, not that he would let it go to his | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
head. All American hero, sprint superstar but Olympic inspiration. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
In 1988 selves diagnosed with graves disease, a thyroid problem, | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
that can lead to strokes, and blindness. After receiving | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
radiation treatment, she was told she was lucky to survive. She could | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
have lost her feet, she came back, not only fighting the disease but | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
got herself back to Olympic level fitness. In 1929, 19 months after | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
unable to stand up. She was back on the starting line for the hundred | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
metres final. You think an athlete who almost | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
lost their feet would never come back to the sport. But she had a | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
fighting spirit in her, who could realistically win a medal. It was | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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amazing. She overcomes this incredible, | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
almost terminal illness, comes back to the Olympics and wins a gold | :14:24. | :14:33. | |
medal. It is a great moment in sport. Deeverdeeverdeever, a | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
champion and one of life's survivors. Next we have the story | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
of a man who wasn't satisfied with being the best at one discipline, | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
he want to be the best at ten. It is known as the toughest event of | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
them all the decathlon, ten disciplines, each of them more | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
demanding, challenging and harder than the one that came before. Yes, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
thank you Dean. This isn't about you. This is about the other fella, | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
the one with the moustache. COMMENTATOR: The crowd already | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
abroading the greatest all-round athlete in the world. At the 1980 | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
Games Daley Thompson stormed to gold in the decathlon. COMMENTATOR: | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Thompson the Olympic champion. An icon was born, inspiring our | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
children in facial hair habits. It was in LA four years later the man | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
with the tash, that made Hulk Hogan look like a schoolgirl cemented him | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
on the books. But could his performance match his personality | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
and allow him to win a second gold and become a legend? Yes! | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
He's rock n' roll. He was like a living, breathing action man. | :15:59. | :16:08. | |
Swiss army athleteings he could do everything, he's amazing. Daley | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
Thompson was a rock star, he was my hero, every boy in the '80s, loved | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
him. COMMENTATOR: World champion and twice Olympics champion. | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
There's no-one in the world who can match that record. He didn't making | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
history and giving the nation one of the greatest Olympic moments, | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
winning not only the second gold but smashing the world record. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
was a great performance, showcaseing the full strength and | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
agility. Dave could do nothing but make headlines. Whether it was on | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
the track or podium, whisling the National Anthem, rather than | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
singing it. He is doing complex harm any. That's his rebellious | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
side. There's no denying or anyone like Daley Thompson. He was the | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
best we had, and greatest Olympian ever. He is still rock n' roll, | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
I've been flat tyre events and he rocks up in a track suit, and | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
thinks what is he doing, but you know what, he is Daley Thompson, he | :17:21. | :17:31. | |
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The triple jump. One of the select Olympic sports that Britain chooses | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
to exsell at. Edwards left a marker in the sand when he took the gold | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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in Sydney in 2000, but in 20004, all eyes were on Phillips Idowu. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
He's the only guy he's taken to sport and I thought wow, who is | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
this player. But it didn't go to plan. COMMENTATOR: He has a red | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
flag. He is a great athlete who wins medals, on this day, awful. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
Everyone can freeze up just before that big moment, I'm sure there's | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
many men when the big moment is about to happen and he can't rise | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
to the challenge. We can forgive a single mistake, but two is taking | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
the Mickey. COMMENTATOR: Now he is in real trouble. He was training | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
for years, how are you getting this wrong, time after time. He had one | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
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more chance to get it right. COMMENTATOR: Phillips Idowu is out | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
of the Olympics. Having a complete mayor in front of the stadium, let | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
alone the rest of the world, it must be pretty difficult to take. | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
COMMENTATOR: Where do you go from here? Home. | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
It was more than a bad hair day in Athens, but four years later, he | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
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picked up a silver and maintained So just how will he fare in London | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
and how will he be styling his hair. When he get the juch and nails it, | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
he is unbeatable. 2012, he's going to get gold. Don't let us down big | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
guy. For all the glory of the Olympics, sometimes there are | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
athletes who do their best, but their best isn't good enough. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
can have bucket-loads of determination, but without talent | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
you're never going to climb on the medal podium. For those athletes, | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
they may as well have stayed at home. Do you mean Eddie the Eagle. | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
I mean Eric the eel. Here's ski jumper Eddie in his prime. We love | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
an underdog. People trying their best but never winning anything. | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
But in Sydney Aquatic Centre, we were introduced an underdog, who | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
blew Eddie the Eagle out of the water. | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
After his two competitors got disqualified for false starts, | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
extorl Guinea, swimmer found himself the sole swimmer. He only | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
learnt to swim eighth months before and never got his trunks left in an | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
Olympic size pool. Eric the Eel was a man, who, essentially could | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
barely swim. All was going OK, but then someone told him he had to go | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
back again. First length he gets through it, but on the way back the | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
guy's knack kered. He is racing no- one, and yet still he almost didn't | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
finish it. COMMENTATOR: This guy doesn't look like he's going to | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
make it. I was on the side and I thought I would have to go in and | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
get him. Slowly and surely the Aussies started getting behind him. | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
I'm not sure he will make it, this is the Olympics, he has 17,000 | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
people shouting for him. There's a bit at the end, saying please make | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
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it. Let not have the lifeguard in to save you. Jung-Il Byun wins the | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
stroke. He underdoggyed himself in the slowest time. I'm feeling good. | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
I am happy. The swimming pool facilities must be very poor. But | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
you think maybe if there isn't a pool, take advantage of the | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
hundreds of miles of coastline. the next few years, Eric was keen | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
to show the world the eel was the real deal but the Government | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
wouldn't grant him a visa to travel to Athens, four years later. What | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
do they know. It was one of those things that makes the Olympics | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
special. Roger Kingdom had a dream. Gabrielle had a dream and I have a | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
strange recurring dream involving lots of little rabbits. | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
But at the 1929 Olympics it was a Dream Team that stole the show, | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
with the USSR basketball db United States basketball team. They were a | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
team of superstars. These guys were the best players on the planet. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Magic Johnson, Charles Berkeley. Micheal Jordan. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
And you had at least another five, huge names in the States. That kind | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
of team if you assembleed it on a PlayStation, or XBox you would | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
think you were chaegt. For the first time stars from the NBA were | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
allowed to compete at the Olympics. Imagine bars clonea 14 played in | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
the Scottish League, that's how superior they were. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
COMMENTATOR: This is exhibition stuff, early on by the United | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
States. It was the sporting equivalent of Paris Hilton taking | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
on Stephen Hawking in a Mensa test and the results were inevitable. | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
COMMENTATOR: United States toying. They an my late everyone. It was | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
pretty much like the Harlem globe troters every game, they were | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
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It would be ever beat every team by an average of 40 points. It was | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
ridiculous how easy it was for them. It was men against boys stuff, even | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
though the boys from tall. Croatia was in the final, with America | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
scoring 117 en route to victory. Come on, you can't have five top | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
athletic black guys, against a team of five white gays in Croatia, in a | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
game which involves running high and juching. You know who is going | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
to win that. It is all over the result by no means a surprise. A | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
performance as expected. Magic Johnson and the USSR the Dream Team | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
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Yeah it is mad and insane, but you know what, that's what the Olympics | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
are, and that's what it takes to be a winner. The light came on and it | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
was obvious that he had hit me. Exhaugs, it looked like she downed | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
a bottle of vodka and detached from a hen party somewhere. American | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
swimmer, Spitz spits wasn't just a King of the pool he had the look. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
After all nothing says 70s, God like a Beatles hair cut and tash. | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
It is the combination of Magnum PI, porn star athlete. That's Spitz | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
spits. # Daddy cool # | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
That is the best moustache ever worn. You're talking hundreds of a | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
second, making the difference between first, second and third, so | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
you're not going to grow a moustache, which means you could | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
lose by 1 Park Si-Hunth of a second, or you can't breathe. Sports | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
technology and water friction study robed your Olympic swimmer of a | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
good Muzzy. Another world record for the superSwitzerland. | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
In 1972, Switzerland won all seven events he entered. Breaking a world | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
record in everyone. He is lightening, seven golds says it all. | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
He could have swam so much faster, if he put a cap on and shaved off | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
the beard. COMMENTATOR: Wonder swimmer of Spitz spits. It was | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
amazing, seven golds and records, it was never going to be beaten. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
was, 36 years later, thanks to fellow American, with Michael Fred | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
Phelps. When a record is broken, you're not cool any more, you have | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
nothing you have nothing to say. can only judge it in the point in | :27:28. | :27:37. | |
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history. He was the best guy on seven events on that Games. Imagine, | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
the and the letism needed not just to race against the clock, but | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
hurdle fences at full pelt as well. It is not eegsy. Explosive power | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
and timing, it has to be one of the toughest Olympic events of all time. | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
You're about to show my silver medal... We're not, something | :28:01. | :28:11. | |
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better, something called horse OK it is actually called the modern | :28:11. | :28:20. | |
pentathlon, invented and based around the five skills a cavalry | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
officer would need. The events involved are pistol shooting, | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
fenceing, swimming, running, and last of all, naturally, showjumping. | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
It is all a bit horses, guns and swords, generally not many things | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
we can practice. We didn't do pentathlon at our school. It is a | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
tricky event but gets you have to when it comes to the equest treeian | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
discipline, as like the individual horse riders, they don't have their | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
own horse and have to ride a unfamiliar beast. You walk forward | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
and take the Ping-Pong ball, it has a number, all the horses are lined | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
up, they have numbers on them. is the ultimate lucky dip, but in | :29:06. | :29:16. | |
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2008, we saw how unlucky pairings We've got four other sports to | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
train for. We're not spending all that time on a horse. | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
Yeah that definitely seems to be the case. | :29:31. | :29:40. | |
I know what event I'm looking forward to at London 012. | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
Beijing Olympics, OK, was phenomenonal. | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
As we've seen the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics is the precurseor | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
to the greatest show on earth and it is crucial you do everything as | :29:52. | :29:58. | |
you can to make it as perfect. The Chinese went above and beyond the | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
call of duty. 15,000 performers, four billion TV viewers and cost of | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
$1 Park Si-Hun million. Nothing was left to chance, the world was star | :30:09. | :30:16. | |
struck, as this girl stole the planet's hearts. Wearing a red | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
dress and pig tails she charmed the audience with rendition of Ode To | :30:22. | :30:32. | |
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But it wasn't her voice we could hear. The kid they got to sing and | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
had the Voice Of An Angel didn't look like an angel, so this young | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
woman was asked to step in a recording booth and sing her | :30:42. | :30:51. | |
version of the song which was dubbed on to the I aming of a young | :30:51. | :30:58. | |
girl, which, to be honest looks similar, but she did have straight | :30:58. | :31:05. | |
teeth. Perhaps we used Brad Pitt in a bores Johnson wig to introduced | :31:06. | :31:15. | |
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Next thing you're saying is the fireworks was CGI'd. They looked | :31:19. | :31:28. | |
impressive. If it they done a few sly bits, good on them, I want it | :31:28. | :31:35. | |
on DVD. The Brits can take a leaf out of their books now CGI most of | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
Hackney, I live there, and it won't look good on camera. No pressure | :31:41. | :31:51. | |
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then. Who was that. Dean Macey, sufd from loads of injuries. | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
not surprised, driving like that. They never lose their competitive | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
spirit do they. Athletes will go to great lengths to earn their moment | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
of glory at the Games and none more so than David Neville who did his | :32:09. | :32:15. | |
best to secure a bronze in the 4 Park Si-Hun metres in Beijing. | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
diped really early which meant he was falling through the line. | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
must feel awful if you're the guy feeling really, that's how you will | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
beat me, there should be a note saying how I came third. In the day, | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
he has Olympic third medal, Superman dive or not, he got | :32:38. | :32:45. | |
through. All that matters he got the third and got bronze. Which | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
other bronze medalist do you remember. This guy is remembered | :32:49. | :32:59. | |
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for being a bronze medalist, It is 2004 and in the men's sprint | :33:04. | :33:11. | |
relay the US are red hot favourites. Whereas our boys were rank | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
outsiders. Team GB given no hope we're going to get our arses kicked, | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
we're the underdogs. We were making up the numbers. Americans were the | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
favourites of course they were. Everyone thought, oh it is a done | :33:23. | :33:29. | |
deal, United States will win it. Running the first leg was Jason | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
Gardener. Right then was the best changeover we'd ever had. Bang the | :33:34. | :33:41. | |
baton was gone. I can't tell you the relief for that baton out of my | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
hand. Next up Darren Campbell to Marlon Devonish. Half way through | :33:44. | :33:50. | |
the race, we think, we're still in it. Campbell to Devonish to Francis, | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
it was the perfect race, each pass being better than the other pass, | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
it was like a beautiful game of football. It came down to the | :34:00. | :34:03. | |
smallest of margins, of 1 Park Si- Hunth of a second. That's the | :34:03. | :34:13. | |
difference between winning and losing in the areinyas It was this | :34:13. | :34:19. | |
baton exchange between Americans the two that cost the favourites. | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
But Darren Campbell and the boys it must have been the most amazing | :34:24. | :34:34. | |
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moment of their lives. At lantarks the United States gym | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
nasstx team, came down to the final event an 18-year-old American. | :34:44. | :34:54. | |
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team events was very, very close, for the medal positions. Very | :34:55. | :35:02. | |
difficult to land. She goes down, she's injured, she's liching with | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
an ankle injury. Surely she couldn't take a last crucial | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
decisive juch. Everybody's counting on you, aren't they. You don't want | :35:11. | :35:21. | |
to let anyone down. It was as close Determined not to let her team- | :35:21. | :35:28. | |
mates down, she must have the strengthth to go again. | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
To stand up and go, I want the gold this much that I'm prepared to | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
maybe cause myself long-term injury, that's pretty incredible. That's | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
superhuman. That was her big finish. Yeah it is mad and insane, but you | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
know what, that's what the Olympics are, and that's what it takes to be | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
a winner. When she lands, she does a weird movement thing like a | :35:52. | :35:58. | |
toddler, shuffling along the carpet and I don't know if that's | :35:58. | :36:07. | |
celebration or terribly injured. Following her success she was | :36:07. | :36:13. | |
carried to the podium by her coach. Boy did they celebrate. Only way | :36:13. | :36:22. | |
you can ever be excused of doing the dance is you're pissed, you're | :36:22. | :36:29. | |
in Lanzarote and it is 3am. Magnificent Seven they're doing | :36:29. | :36:38. | |
impront tue versions of the Mararana. | :36:39. | :36:45. | |
So in 1988 and things are going rather well. Sthool then, this | :36:45. | :36:55. | |
:36:55. | :36:56. | ||
happened. American Park Si-Hun hundred and Roy Jones is fighting. | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
He pummeled him.El He beat him into the ground. | :37:01. | :37:07. | |
He demolished this guy. He kind of went, bring your face closer and | :37:07. | :37:12. | |
I'm hitting it. He absolutely hammered him from | :37:12. | :37:22. | |
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pillar to post for three rounds. You're thinking he's won, that's | :37:22. | :37:32. | |
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obvious. In the blue corner. | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
Everyone knew it, including the guy he fought against it. He looked | :37:50. | :37:59. | |
embarrassed. He must have said, whatever happens, he's the gold | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
medalist. Outrageous decision in my opinion.? The aftermath, all three | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
judges voting against Jones were suspended but Park was allowed to | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
keep the gold medal. Worse decision I've ever seen. That is a total | :38:16. | :38:26. | |
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farce. It is so hum bring to see ageing | :38:28. | :38:38. | |
Olympians, ending their lives so serenely. Not all Olympians had | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
glorious sporting years. Montreal Olympics in 1976 will be | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
remembered for many things, chaef among them Princess Anne becoming | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
the only royal competing for Britain when she swapped a tiara | :38:52. | :39:01. | |
for a hard hat and road one of her mum's horses. 1976 was famous for | :39:01. | :39:11. | |
:39:11. | :39:11. | ||
an extraordinary case of sabotage as Boris Onischenko took on Jim fox. | :39:11. | :39:20. | |
Fox told the referee, after Boris Onischenko had hilt him. A light | :39:20. | :39:27. | |
came on and it was obvious that he had hit me. Dis-Oniskhenko had-the- | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
it switched, every time he had an opponent he swapped the switch. | :39:32. | :39:41. | |
the sward if you depress the point how did it work. He had two wires | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
coming from the handle here, with a little switch, so, when he hit him, | :39:47. | :39:56. | |
oh yeah, the more times:. All you needed to do is thumb flat. | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
fact is there's no point in doing all these training, and I will he | :40:02. | :40:09. | |
be doing this, three hours he was winning points when he was in the | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
dressing room. It is like a James Bond villain would come up with, to | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
win the game against Bond, that he has a button in his sword. | :40:18. | :40:24. | |
Who would have thought the aim is to stab your opponent with a sword | :40:24. | :40:34. | |
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was so dastardly. Someone must have said, dishonest dis-Oniskhenko, I'm | :40:38. | :40:48. | |
:40:48. | :40:48. | ||
taking the day off. Fox and his team went to win gold. He came a | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
tax driver. If somebody cheats in the Olympic Games there's no real | :40:52. | :41:02. | |
point in having them at all. What's the furthest you've ever run? | :41:02. | :41:10. | |
metres. Can you imagine running for 26 miles? Would I have to jump | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
fences. No you wouldn't. But even without hurdles, the matter ton can | :41:14. | :41:24. | |
:41:24. | :41:26. | ||
A true test of stamina, grit and determination, the Marathon is one | :41:26. | :41:33. | |
of the most testing of disciplines, in 1984, women competed for the | :41:33. | :41:43. | |
:41:43. | :41:44. | ||
first time too. As it is such an old outdated mind set, males are | :41:44. | :41:51. | |
big and women do other things. one sumed it up, as Gabriela | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
Andersen-Schiess. I love the determination to finish, and if you | :41:54. | :42:00. | |
can get around a Marathon course, good for you, but, she looked like | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
she'd council a bottle of vodka on the way and was detached from a hen | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
party somewhere. It looked like she had an imaginary friend that was | :42:11. | :42:19. | |
trying to get her to leave. Let's comeen, let's go. She's like, no, | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
no, stop it. Joorks stop it Charlie, I will | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
finish it. Suffering from heat exhaugs, she took five minutes and | :42:31. | :42:37. | |
44 gruelling seconds to finish the last 44 metres of the race but | :42:37. | :42:45. | |
still beat four other runers. Everyone was trying to run in and | :42:45. | :42:55. | |
save her. Guys in white, going, no. No. But she makes it, and the crowd | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
gives her an amazing ovation. deserved it, she may not have won | :43:01. | :43:11. | |
:43:11. | :43:12. | ||
gold but she won our heart and a well deserved lie down. Britain is | :43:12. | :43:19. | |
rubbish at most things, so if someone is good at what they do, we | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
love them. In 192 it was Linford Christie, when he wanted to win the | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
100 metre sprint. It is always the biggest event. It is the one | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
everyone wants to watch and if you're an athlete it is the one you | :43:35. | :43:43. | |
want to win. After rein wining his first race at 26, he had taken | :43:43. | :43:53. | |
silver behind Carl Lewis, but now at 32, Kristy stormed to victory in | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
9.96 seconds. It was just this air of confidence about him, that you | :43:57. | :44:03. | |
knew there was going to have to a superhuman effort for him being | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
first past the line. No-one else had it on that day. | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
COMMENTATOR: Kristy comes storming through, it is Linford Christie. | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
remember, he came through the line and the arms were up, the British | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
flag and the Union Jack. COMMENTATOR: The greatest prize in | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
sport. That was the big win, the fact we had the fastest man in the | :44:29. | :44:39. | |
:44:39. | :44:42. | ||
world living in our country. Still to come: Madge stesty. - Majesty. | :44:42. | :44:47. | |
No-one thought a woman could run 100 metres. Madness, the look on | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
his face, it is just like. misery. | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
She's stopping, this makes this an almost impossible situation for | :44:57. | :45:06. | |
Paula Radcliffe. She really couldn't do it. Cuba is famous for | :45:06. | :45:16. | |
:45:16. | :45:19. | ||
many things, some popular some not. In the 2008 games it was Taiwan doe, | :45:19. | :45:25. | |
that made the headlines Angel Matos made the headlines. Angel Matos a | :45:25. | :45:30. | |
hero of mine, took the law, when the referee of the match ruled | :45:30. | :45:36. | |
against him. He thought, I could just kind of, accept his decision, | :45:36. | :45:42. | |
or, I could use my gifts and kick him in the head. He chose that | :45:42. | :45:52. | |
:45:52. | :45:54. | ||
option. It wasn't the right thing to do. It wasn't going to get him | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
any more poins but fair place, you're kicking the guy against you, | :45:59. | :46:06. | |
a guy is having a G kick him, if if anyone disagrees, kick them. Matos | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
was furious about the rev disqualifying him and the reaction | :46:11. | :46:21. | |
:46:21. | :46:29. | ||
At the 1988 games in Seoul, a good athlete became a great athlete, as | :46:29. | :46:39. | |
:46:39. | :46:44. | ||
Jo Jo Jo made - Flo-Jo made her But it wasn't just her newly | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
manicureed nails that had changed. She came back looking bigger, | :46:47. | :46:57. | |
:46:57. | :46:58. | ||
better, faster and harder. Times she ran were offer the planet. | :46:58. | :47:04. | |
200 helped her team win the relay. She's running times which a good | :47:04. | :47:10. | |
male athlete will run. That's what I try to be practice, try to make | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
it look relaxed. No-one thought a woman could run the 100 metre at | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
the time she did, but she did. smashed the records into little | :47:21. | :47:29. | |
pieces. COMMENTATOR: Greatest women sprinter in all time. She became | :47:29. | :47:37. | |
plagued of rumours with testosterone. They kept talking | :47:37. | :47:45. | |
about bizarrely mousse scar she was. You could go in the mens race. | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
was immensely talented athlete. It is a shame she could have done it | :47:52. | :47:59. | |
clean, she could have made crazy times. She never failed a drugs | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
test, but died of heart complications ten years later. | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
There will be always abquestion mark, but the thing is she's one of | :48:09. | :48:19. | |
:48:19. | :48:21. | ||
the greatest Olympians ever. Greco- Roman wrestling. It is, Aleksandr | :48:21. | :48:30. | |
Karelin was looking to win a fourth gold. The only thing scareier than | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
Aleksandr Karelin is Aleksandr Karelin after you accidentally | :48:33. | :48:39. | |
pinched his bottom. The only man who stood between the Russian and | :48:39. | :48:43. | |
another Olympics triumph was Jason Gardener. Karelin had been | :48:43. | :48:49. | |
undefeated for 13 years, and Gardener was competing in the first | :48:49. | :48:56. | |
Olympics. People love the underdog, and we | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
were looking at the American. I'm thinking he's going to get murdered. | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
Nobody gave him a crack. COMMENTATOR: Karelin the Superman | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
COMMENTATOR: Karelin the Superman from Russia. | :49:13. | :49:20. | |
. COMMENTATOR: One point was given to Gardener. He never won anything | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
before. We thought the Russian guy was going to use him as a toothpick. | :49:25. | :49:34. | |
COMMENTATOR: He leads by one point to nil. Shock horror, Karelin get | :49:34. | :49:43. | |
beaten by a man called Rulon - that's a deoat rant, right. | :49:43. | :49:49. | |
Gardener produced a sensation. He won by a point, fending off Karelin | :49:49. | :49:54. | |
in the last 30 seconds. The King was dead. | :49:54. | :50:04. | |
:50:04. | :50:05. | ||
Long live the King. The Olympics is renowned for showing the greatest | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
athletes of all time but in Athens we were introduced to someone else | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
entirely. Meet the strange and dangerous, horror. Previously he | :50:15. | :50:21. | |
turned up in Silverstone and ran in front of the cars. I think, he | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
thought, well, fast cars, maybe I should go in front of a runer and | :50:26. | :50:32. | |
small and Brazilian. That's what he did, he wasn't going to miss the | :50:32. | :50:38. | |
biggest stage, as he chose to ruin the hopes of winning gold in the | :50:38. | :50:45. | |
Marathon as he led after 22 miles COMMENTATOR: My goodness me, that's | :50:45. | :50:52. | |
an absolute disgrace. The look on his face, he is just like... Not | :50:52. | :50:57. | |
only is the most important day of my life, I've been accosted by some | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
prat. It was all for a worthy cause. I went to Athens to draw the | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
attention of all mankind to the nearness of the second coming of | :51:09. | :51:16. | |
Christ. Thanks for the heads up. is a Marathon, he ran so far, he's | :51:16. | :51:24. | |
trained so much. And then one motheron can screw it up. Amazingly, | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
he recovered his exposure to finish third. But robing him of the gold | :51:28. | :51:34. | |
has clearly been on his conscience and he decided how he can repay the | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
Brazilian for causing him heartache. I would like to go to Brazil and | :51:39. | :51:45. | |
his tribe and village. I'm not sure you will be welcome, | :51:45. | :51:54. | |
and steer clear of London 2012 while you're at it. The Beijing | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
games were watched by over a billion-and-a-half of people. | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
Olympic teams strived to ensure they fitted into the ancient | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
customs and traditions. But the Spanish basketball team seemed to | :52:07. | :52:15. | |
miss that memo. Spanish basketball team posed for a photo, they did a | :52:15. | :52:25. | |
:52:25. | :52:29. | ||
parody, of an oriental expression. It is racist. What a way to treat | :52:29. | :52:35. | |
the hosts. Maybe they thought it would endear them. Anything I could | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
think is maybe they thought it wasn't offensive. | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
It was offensive, very offensive, but hold on, it is not their fault, | :52:45. | :52:51. | |
they were told to do it by sponsors. They blamed it on the sponsors, who | :52:51. | :52:55. | |
was sponsoring them, Bernard manning. There must be at least one | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
person, who said, is that not racist. No it is just OK, it is a | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
laugh. A whole nation, not only that, but a nation that has | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
absolutely billions of people. team went to win the silver medal | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
but history will remember them for this snap more than anything else. | :53:20. | :53:30. | |
:53:30. | :53:31. | ||
relay, the Americans are the biggest fish in the pond. There's | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
only been a few times they haven't won the four by 100 metres relay. | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
It was their property, it was the sprient relay. At Sydney they were | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
up against the Aussies and the cowboy of swimming, AGary Hall Jr, | :53:48. | :53:55. | |
decided to raise the temperature, when asked to about the host | :53:55. | :54:01. | |
chances, he said they would rubbish the Americans with a guitar. | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
should have said I'm going to mess you up with a pile of laundry. | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
it comes. It was like a public spat between large sal monies and tune | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
yas, and with the big race approaching, all eyes and hopes | :54:15. | :54:22. | |
were on the Aussies, to see if they could upset the yanks. It was cat- | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
and-mouse all the way through, nobody could call it COMMENTATOR: | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
America second with fastest swimmer going in now, surely the Americans | :54:30. | :54:36. | |
will win. By the third relay Yankees were looking good, leaving | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
a final length show-down, between Gary big mouth and Ian Thorpedo | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
Thorpe. I thought this is game over. I can't believe. Ian Thorpedo | :54:46. | :54:50. | |
Thorpe pulled the swim of his life out. COMMENTATOR: Thorpe is coming | :54:50. | :54:56. | |
back, I can't believe he is going to do this, he's done t Australia, | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
crowd were going mental. COMMENTATOR: I cannot believe he's | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
done that. The goose Butchs, tingeels down the spine, that's the | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
best feeling I've ever had. It is a new world record. They stuffed the | :55:10. | :55:16. | |
Americans, this is outstanding. When the Aussies, won, they did | :55:16. | :55:23. | |
this fantastic thing, played the geetars, and made them eat their | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
words. It was brilliant. Contrast between the American team and the | :55:28. | :55:35. | |
for lorn faces and the Aussies on the blocks, it was fantastic. | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
know AGary Hall Jr is getting this thought his life, hey Gary, what's | :55:39. | :55:49. | |
:55:49. | :55:59. | ||
up Gary, how is it going. Gary, What are you doing. I'm singing Tom | :55:59. | :56:05. | |
Jones, I'm trying to make you feel at home. Listen, nobody imitates my | :56:05. | :56:15. | |
:56:15. | :56:28. | ||
mate Tom, nobody. You enjoyed it, athletes must draw on superhuman | :56:28. | :56:34. | |
feeling of nerves and calm. But doesn't always work out like that. | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
Trying to outpunch his opponent he decided to use his brain and the | :56:39. | :56:46. | |
rest of his face to earn victory. There's the head, he is untidy. | :56:46. | :56:53. | |
of the rules is you can't head butt, you're going to lose points. | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
COMMENTATOR: There again, up and down he goes. When it comes to the | :56:58. | :57:08. | |
:57:08. | :57:09. | ||
judge's decision, : As soon as they lift his hand all hell breaks lose. | :57:09. | :57:13. | |
There's all sorts of trouble in the ring. This is most unprecedented | :57:13. | :57:19. | |
from the normally calm and sane Koreans. He looks like a mix | :57:19. | :57:25. | |
between Wild West fighter and maerbl arts fighter. It is fabulous | :57:25. | :57:32. | |
entertainment, completely disgraceful. At one point I thought | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
it was a world beginness attempt, to see how many Koreans you can fit | :57:37. | :57:44. | |
in a box. By the end, there was 11. I never saw anything like this in | :57:44. | :57:54. | |
any amateur contest whatsoever. Not content with starting a riot, he | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
wanted to get his point across with a sit in protest. Looks like a lie | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
in though. Let's look at this, you head butt your opponent you lose | :58:02. | :58:07. | |
the fight and you think the best thing to do is stage your own sit | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
in protest. Which was hilarious, because you have the most | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
aggressive sport, boxing and you've chosen the most peaceful protest, | :58:16. | :58:21. | |
to have a sit in. The thing is how they handle it, they turn the | :58:21. | :58:31. | |
:58:31. | :58:39. | ||
lights off and go och and leave him. the corner and he looked like a sad | :58:39. | :58:45. | |
clown. He did at least break one record, staging the longest sit-in | :58:45. | :58:52. | |
in Olympic boxing history, before disappearing into the night. | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
Of course, behind almost everyone who takes part in an Olympic event | :58:56. | :59:04. | |
there is a story of dedication and hard work. Yes, I ever told you how | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
much hard work and dedication I put in? Yes, several times. But there | :59:09. | :59:14. | |
are some who do not deserve to be there and who have no right to | :59:14. | :59:20. | |
share a stage with some of the world's greatest athletes. Do you | :59:20. | :59:25. | |
mean...No, Much worse than that. Of all the Olympic events, the | :59:25. | :59:32. | |
steemple chase is one of the more unusual. It's a 3,000 metre race | :59:32. | :59:42. | |
:59:42. | :59:43. | ||
but they have four hurdles and one water jump. It's like the grand | :59:43. | :59:50. | |
Grad National. It's OK, to watch, but it's full of crazy guys. | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
this man decided to mount a late challenge. He was dressed in full | :59:55. | :00:00. | |
gear and he just looked like he'd just got out of bed in full gear | :00:00. | :00:05. | |
and he came on to the track. COMMENTATOR: There's a crazy guy | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
there. I hope someone gets hold of him. They're primed for terrorist | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
attacks and chemical warfare and they can't stop one loony breaking | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
out of the crowd. Everyone was going, "Oh, terrible, a protester | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
on the track - oh, he can hurdle !" He only had two weeks of training, | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
one week going round ASDA and the other week running away from his | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
carer in the mental home. No-one knows if they ever caught him. | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
When it comes to Greco-wrestling, the Yanks love it. And one man they | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
love to see wriggling around without much on is Kurt Angle. | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
watched him when I was young doing body slams and stuff. What kind of | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
a name is Kurt Angle? High, I'm Tom ice Secretary of State lease, and | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
I'm Sine and this is my brother Cosine. But Kurt shocked the world | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
by beating the Iranian Abbas Jadidi. There was the American God up | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
against the mean, evil Iranian! Where is the moustache? But what | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
really made Kurt Angle's victory so amazing is that ze it with a broken | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
neck. Yes, you heard me. An actual broken neck. I was surprised he had | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
a neck. You'd have to hit him with a bus to break it. Kurt fractured | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
his neck prior to the Games but still competed. No doctor was going | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
to stop him from grappling with some tough Persian ass. Imagine | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
what he's going to say to his kid if he stubs your toe? Hey, you | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
stubed your toe? I won a gold medal after breaking my neck! | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Colin, what's all this I keep hearing about the Olympic ideal. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
What does it mean? That you have to win at all costs even if you gouge | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
out your opponent's eyes? No, it's about the importance of take part. | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
So it's not about winning? Winning doesn't matter? No. That's lucky. | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
Paula Radcliffe, the fastest woman marathon runner of all time, with a | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
clutch of world records, and three- times winner of the London Marathon, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
twice of New York and winner of the Chicago Marathon. She is the best | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
and she is out. Paula was the golden girl of British athletics, | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
without a doubt. It is quite rare that a British athlete is the best | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
ever at their thing. She arrived is Athens with all hopes pinned on her. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
Going into Athens she was going to be the girl to bring back the | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
golden medal, but people put it round her head too early. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Inexparticularlycally she ran the race looking more like Daniel | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Radcliffe than Paula. Four miles before the end she realised she | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
wasn't going to win it, so rather than carry on, she just stopped. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
think she should have crag dragged herself over the line, because it | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
was the Olympics. But when she started crying, you just thought, | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
"Poor woman, she couldn't do it." feel I've let everyone down. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
haven't let anybody down at all. Five days later, Paula had the | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
chance of redemption in the 10,000 metres. Paula is a fighter and if | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
anyone could come out of that it would be Paula. The 10,000 metres, | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
for Paula, that's a sprint. This is what legends are made of. Come on, | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Paula. Hang on, she is at the back. COMMENTATOR: Oh, she is stopping. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
She has stepped off the track. Radcliffe tried her best for | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Britain, but it didn't go to plan. It has been the lowest of the low | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
and totally crushed me emotionally. I know she wasn't in shape to do it | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
and physically and medically probably shouldn't have competed. I | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
would have liked to have thought I would have had the balls she had | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
and gone through with it. But she's a woman and doesn't have balls. But | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
she is back for 2012 and we're backing her to give us a great and | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
not heart breaking Olympic run. History will remember her as one of | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
the best British distant runners of all time. | :05:24. | :05:34. | |
:05:34. | :05:35. | ||
Still to come: Love... If for some reason that led us to get together, | :05:35. | :05:44. | |
I would do it a million more times. Heart break...COMMENTATOR: Oh, it's | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
:05:54. | :05:55. | ||
broken. And despair. COMMENTATOR: Oh, and Decker is down. I think she | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
:06:05. | :06:06. | ||
heard something lost in translation -- Mary - deck her The Sydney | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
Olympics went down as a roaring success. It was the best by far. | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
Everyone says they were the best so far. But for some reason the Vault | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
gymnasts couldn't rise to the occasion. There was a wipeout on | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
that vault. I was competing and I just couldn't figure out what was | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
wrong. No-one could put their finger on it. | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
Running up and...oh, no, what's going on, I don't understand. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
someone thought to measure the Vaulting horse and discovered it | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
was set 5cm lower than the standard 125, upsetting years of meticulous | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
training. I reckon it was just the guy with the overalls and the | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
spanner who set it wrong. It was like an aggressive version | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
of You've Been Framed. They didn't get gold but they got �250 from | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Harry Hill. Those poor gymnasts, some of those falls looked | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
revaulting. Sorry! Spritsspritssprits' record of | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
:07:39. | :07:47. | ||
seven golds might just have been topped by Michael Phelps. Everyone | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
knew that in Beijing Mark was going for eight. So many people didn't | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
think he could do all eight. Thanks to the feet the size of | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
:08:11. | :08:11. | ||
Alaska he can swim faster than an electric eel. He has long arms and | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
massive feet to get them through the water. He's built for swimming. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
But could the merman live up to the hype? | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
The first final. Is he ready? COMMENTATOR: A stunning swim! | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
COMMENTATOR: He's got the gold. Michael Phelps is still on for | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
eight. That is unbelievable. Every time he won a medal, it was, right, | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
he's got his first then his second. COMMENTATOR: Number three is in the | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
bag, it's just whether he wins the world record. People were counting | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
down his medals. COMMENTATOR: golds. Four races, four world | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
records. There was no-one going to beat him. COMMENTATOR: The USA are | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
going to take the gold in the 4X4 relay. He was just lightning. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
COMMENTATOR: On, Michael Phelps, he's got it. Another world record. | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
Six golds and six world records in six days. Oh, he's got it! | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
It was the smallest margin of victory in our sport. COMMENTATOR: | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
I cannot believe he's just done that. Not only must he have been | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
knackered, but ....COMMENTATOR: That is it, eight straight gold | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
medals, Michael Phelps is the greatest. Absolutely brilliant. | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
If I could pick a gold medal to win, my country's first-ever gold medal, | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
it would definitely be in football. And in 2000 in Sydney that was the | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
dream of little old Cameroon. After qualifying as runners up in their | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
group, they drew Brazil in the quarter-finals. Everyone thought | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
they would get thumped. But they didn't. They beat them and despite | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
having two players sent off! To beat Brazil with nine men is | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
impressive, 11 is good, but with nine! If anything, it's arrogant. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
In the final they faced Spain. The game was a cracker. We didn't give | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
them a hope against Spain because Spain has talent cueing down the | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
block. They were 1-0 down after two minutes. Then 2-0 down. | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
COMMENTATOR: And it's taken. half time it seemed Cameroon would | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
have to settle for second, but it seems the African had other ideas. | :11:08. | :11:16. | |
COMMENTATOR: It's an own goal. It went all the way to spot kicks, | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
:11:26. | :11:33. | ||
where Cameroon became Germany... And Spain became England. | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
COMMENTATOR: Cameroon have never known celebrations like it. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
The great thing about the Olympics is that on the day, if you have | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
luck going your way and everything goes right, you win. And that was a | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
huge, huge thing for football in Africa. | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
Now, some people say that true love is inspired by cupid's arrow. But | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
what a lot of folk don't realise is that a rifle can do the job as well. | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
GUNSHOT I just got rid of that bloke who was hang around at the | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
back. The skier? Yes, he's been a right nuisance. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
Meet Matthew Emmons. In 2004, he was regarded as a fastest, bestest | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
shooter in the West and in the Athens games the gold medal was his | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
if he could nail his last shot. Unbelievably, he hit someone else's | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
target. How could he miss his target?! All he had to do was hit | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
his target and he'd win. It's like a footballer kicking it in the | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
wrong goal. But he was approached later that night by Czech shooter, | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
Katerina who offered him consolation. He was drowning his | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
sorrows in a bar and he found love. That's preying on the vulnerable. | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
He's feeling low, move in and marry him! They are already thinking of | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
movie titles for it. Stupid Cupid. At Beijing four years later now | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
with his wife cheering him on, it was redemption Michael wanted, not | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
love. All he had to do was score an easy shot. COMMENTATOR: He only has | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
to hit the target to win the gold medal. Ready...aim...COMMENTATOR: | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
Oh, no. I don't believe it. And I think | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
he's surely blown it. I think the second time it happened he was just | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
feeling cocky because he was thinking, "This is never going to | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
happen. I can close my eyes and turn my head and isle' never do | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
what I did last time. COMMENTATOR: There is no rhyme or reason for him | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
to repeat what he did four years ago, but incredibly he has. But he | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
made up for it in love. Win or lose I know she is always going to be | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
behind me. If what happened in Athens led us to get together I | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
would do it a million more times. I wouldn't change a thing. He is | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
definitely the best shooter out there. There is going to be a | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
reason why this happened, I am adjust curious why it happened. | :14:37. | :14:46. | |
gold medal for me, that's the truth. It's 1984 and American, Evander | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Holyfield is favourite to win the gold medal in the boxing | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
competition. He was a shoo-in for gold. | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
:15:03. | :15:03. | ||
He was knocking people out. He's an amazing fighter and a real | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
success story for America. However, in the semi-finals it all goes pear | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
shaped against a Kiwi. Barry versus Evander Holyfield wasn't just | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
shocking, it was confusing. COMMENTATOR: Just as the referee | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
stayed" stop" this man threw another punch. Barry was caught by | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
a left hook that was deemed illegal. COMMENTATOR: I have a feeling he is | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
going to disqualify the American for hitting Barry after the command | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
to stop. Holyfield gets disqualified, but the rules are | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
because the feller was knocked out he can't box for 28 days, so he's | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
out. There was no final. That's right. Holyfield couldn't go to the | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
final due to disqualification, and nor could Barry because he was | :16:00. | :16:09. | |
knocked out. So Barry goes down as a bronze medallist, and comes up as | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
a gold medallist, and the silver medallist goes to another guy. | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
should have gone to Holyfield. the guy on the podium pulled | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
Holyfield up on to it. It was a proud moment in the true spirit of | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
the Olympics. Now, it is time to see a true British legend. He may | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
never have won a gold medal but the whole nation can agree his | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
contribution to the cause has been outstanding. It is hard to | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
overestimate his importance. It's my silver medal from Seoul, is it? | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
:16:58. | :16:59. | ||
No. We're talk being Boris Johnson. Just as the Chinese closed the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Beijing Games with style, panache and theatre, it was time for the | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
world to get a first glimpse of what we would have to offer four | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
years later in London. The world held its breath. # Always Look On | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
The Bright Side Of Life #. When a bus went out to Beijing, there was | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
something slightly crap about that, it has to be said. I think they | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
should have been more realistic, and made the bus turn up late due | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
to unattended luggage found on it. We don't want you to think it's | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
going to an slick event. Get a bus in and Boris and mess it up. That's | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
fine. They were introduced to Boris Johnson and they weren't just | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
pointing at him because he was blond. He looked like he'd been | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
picked out at random from the crowd to wave the flag. Go on, dad. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
COMMENTATOR: Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, receives the flag and | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
waves it enthusiastically. forget fireworks, we have E level | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
students inadequate dancers and what more do you need to up the | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
Olympics ante, non-other than the musical dream team of Leona Lewis | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
and Led Zepplin. The Chinese had never heard of Led Zepplin before | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
and Leona Lewis, who they wanted to turn glue. And arrive David Beckham, | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
doing his bit for British skinheads. All he had to do was put the goal | :18:48. | :18:57. | |
into an enormous goal....he missed. Inevitably, he bottled it. We said, | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
"Listen, we've got a bit of history and we're idiots and we don't take | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
ourselves as seriously as all that. So I think you'll find there will | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
be a similarly Carry On spirit to the Olympics and I don't think | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
anyone will mind. 2000 and Beijing, our track cycling | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
team was phenomenal. 13 went, 12 won medals. How amazing is that? | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
I don't think we'll ever see the likes of the performance at Beijing | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
again. We had more medals than most countries in one small cycling team. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
All our big guns were on song. There was this feller. COMMENTATOR: | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
The Olympic Champion was chist Hoy. This girl. COMMENTATOR: Rebecca | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Romero is the Olympic Champion. this buy? COMMENTATOR: Bradley | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
Wiggins is the goad gold medallist. It was a truly incredible | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
achievement. Despite all the glory, there was one man left feeling a | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
little empty-handed. Everyone did so well, but a lot talk about the | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
one man who didn't come home with a medal. Unlucky 13. Our best cyclist, | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
Mark Cavendish. Sucks. # I am the one and only #. He was | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
the fastest man on two wheels, but that was proved wrong. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
It's like being in a science class with Bill Gates and everyone | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
getting an A, not him. In the lead- up to the Games Cavendish became | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
the first Brit to win four stages of the Tour de France. Everyone | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
knew that he hated the fact that he was the only cyclist without a | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
medal. What could suck more than being on the plane back from | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
Beijing without a medal and you're eating a crappy tuna sandwich when | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
everyone's looking at their medals. The disappointment of Beijing is | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
what has probably driven Mark Cavendish on to what he has | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
achieved. The guy is undoubtedly talented but it probably spurred | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
him on. He is having the last laugh now because he is the fastest man | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
:21:49. | :21:49. | ||
in the world in road racing. can he grab gold? In London? | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
Colin, you've run a lot of races, what shoes do you wear? Running | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
spurs, of course. Would you ever run with bear feet? Nobody would do | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
that? Maybe a South African with a British passport running the 3,000 | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
metres? It's 19 84ra at the LA Olympics all | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
eyes were on Britain's adopted medal prospects, Zola Budd, the | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
shoeless wonder. I don't think there was a character as cool as | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
Zola. She didn't need trainers, she was that good. It looked like all | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
the adults were competing against a child who had part of her kit. | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
was at the height of South Africa's apartheid and brought to Britain by | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
a newspaper, Zola Budd was a controversial figure. But she found | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
a place in history when she stood toe-to-toe about an American and | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
was the only one left standing. They clashed in a tangle and Mary | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Decker fell down. COMMENTATOR: of the favourites is now flat out | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
on the end field. Zola Budd was in front and Decker was behind and she | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
ran into the back of her. If you're driving a car and you pile into the | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
car in front, it's your fault and that's the same in athletics. | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
:23:37. | :23:39. | ||
think she misheard her instructions, "Mary - deck her." COMMENTATOR: | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
Mary Decker is being escorted from the track. But she finished seventh. | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
Daley Thompson proved in 1908 and 1984 that he was the man by winning | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
gold in the decathlon in both Olympics. But all good things come | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
to an end. So, the world looked to Daley once more to defend his title | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
at the Seoul games. He was looking to get an unprecedented third gold. | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
Daley would not have started it if he didn't think he could do it. | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
COMMENTATOR: Oh, it's broken. do you break one? They're designed | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
-- I think the number one thing is not to break. It was a disaster, | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Daley injured himself on the process, meaning he missed out on | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
the medal places. He came fourth. There's nothing wrong with that. | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
Dean, as well you know. He would have got three Olympic golds in a | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
row, and he got injured and didn't retain his title. He'd be heart | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
broken. Devastated. Apart from ice hockey, Canada were unknown in the | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Olympics. This was their one guy, Ben Johnson. Their one chance at a | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
gold medal. And it came in the 100 metres final which was shaping up | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
to be the greatest race in history. In the red corner, there was Ben | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
Johnson in the blue corner was our Linford and in the other red corner | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
was Carl Lewis. Someone was looking intense. He looked odd. The mad, | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
bulging eyes and he was huge! eyes looked like the baddie in Who | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
Framed Roger Rabbit, when they just came out of his face. He looked as | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
if he could win all the Olympic events twice in one day! | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
COMMENTATOR: Ben Johnson got a brilliant start and he's away and | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
clear. And Lewis is not going to catch him. Johnson wins it, Lewis | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
second and Christie third. In the blink of an eye it was observer | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
with Johnson crowned Olympic Champion, not just breaking the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
world record but smashing it. COMMENTATOR: There is no question, | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
who is the fastest man in the world. # You're simply the best. # He'd | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
beaten the American dream, Karl Lewis. He creamed him. All the boys | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
got smashed by this little bullet of a man. He could have afforded to | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
do a rollover at the en. Very quickly the scene went from one of | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
celebration to "hang on a minute, what actually happened here?" | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
seemed too good to be true and it was. Two days later, John somebody | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
was banned for having a banned substance in his blood. He was not | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
just on one drug, but all the drugs. Johnson's face said it all. In | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
recent years he still denies any wrongdoing, claiming his drink was | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
spiked. Go that happens when you get your drink spiked, I want it on | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
a regular basis. Win a gold medal in 9.9 seconds, yes, than you. | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
Whatever happened, he claimed to be prouder of his gold medal than | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
anything, as no-one could take it away from him. But, yes, they can. | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
I would have pawned it off. He must have known he was going to get | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
caught. He had been unforgettable. Yes, he cheat, but his legs still | :27:43. | :27:51. | |
ran that quickly and it was unheard of. What were you taking? Red Bull? | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
Still to come: A duelling twosome. COMMENTATOR: Ovett is watching him | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
all the way. It's a bit like Starsky and Hutch you had to love | :28:02. | :28:10. | |
one or the other. A bunch of fives. COMMENTATOR: Mission accomplished. | :28:10. | :28:19. | |
And a perfect ten. COMMENTATOR: she's got. It is incredible. | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
It's Barcelona, 110 metre hurdle final. Right. Eight men ready to go. | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
The gun goes, bang. All of us explode out of the blocks and take | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
the first hurdle. Keep going, second and third hurdle, which | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
seems like an eternity and as I'm getting close to the line and ready | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
to dip..Where Did you come? Seventh? What about the other race? | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
Oh, I picked up the silver medal there. | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
Yes, that's right. My Welsh friend Colin Ray Jackson has his own | :28:54. | :29:02. | |
Olympic story to tell and what a story it is. In 1988, Jacko lined | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
up as an inexperienced youngster up against the best opponents on | :29:09. | :29:15. | |
mother Earth, including Roger Kingdom. COMMENTATOR: Kingdom wins | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
it and Jackson second. A silver medal in the Olympics and | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
only beaten by a Power Ranger. Incredible. But four years later in | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
Barcelona he was red-hot favourite to win and he was talking the talk. | :29:34. | :29:41. | |
To know that you are the best 110 metre hurdler in the Games will be | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
a wonderful feeling. You'll definitely win more respect | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
straightaway when they say, "Colin Jackson Olympic Champion." But he | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
looked rusty in the semi-final, seeming to forget that the idea is | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
to jump over the hurdles rather than hit them. COMMENTATOR: Jackson | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
is coming through clean, Jackson second. But if you're going to make | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
a mistake in the Olympic Games, better to do it in the semi than | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
the final, right? Surely Colin, in lane three would be on his best | :30:16. | :30:23. | |
when it mattered most? COMMENTATOR: Colin is struggling. Maybe not. | :30:23. | :30:30. | |
COMMENTATOR: McCoy is the Olympic Champion and Jackson run right out | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
of it. Colin Jackson, when it really came to it, hadn't got it. | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
Colin's dream of gold medal glory was never realised as he finished | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
seventh and McCoy triumphing instead. But he will still go down | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
in history as a sill very medallist and surely the greatest ever thing, | :30:52. | :31:01. | |
next to Tom Jones to come out of Wales? | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
It's 1996 and the big news -- Chris Evans has blighted our screens with | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
TFI Friday. Horrendous. Thankfully, there was one man to lift our | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
spirits during this dark, dark time. Michael Johnson. At this time, | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
Michael Johnson was the best. was a runner I would hope to be | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
something like Michael Johnson. As a human being I wish I was more | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
like him. He wasn't your shy and retiring type. He put himself at a | :31:33. | :31:41. | |
disadvantage because he was wearing, like, Mr T's jewellery. | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
wasblinged up and wearing gold shoes. If you're wearing gold shoes | :31:46. | :31:55. | |
you know you're going to win. you're Michael backson I think you | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
can wear clown shoes. He won in that weird running style. Everyone | :32:00. | :32:06. | |
was criticising his technique because he runs like a chicken. But | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
they don't realise it's 300 pounds of jewellery. His upper body does | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
not move. Nothing moves apart from his arms and legs. Arrogant, just | :32:18. | :32:24. | |
taking it, taking it, taking it. COMMENTATOR: Absolutely bolt | :32:24. | :32:31. | |
upright. He ran completely wrong and still won! COMMENTATOR: John | :32:31. | :32:37. | |
son, wins. First up, in the 400 metres. COMMENTATOR: He ran the | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
perfect race. Then he kicked them ought in the 200 metres. The man | :32:41. | :32:49. | |
was on fire! I couldn't believe what I was | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
seeing. I was literally...I couldn't believe it. | :32:53. | :33:00. | |
COMMENTATOR: Johnson is going away by yards. You couldn't quite | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
believe that somebody could run that fast. He was a bit of a God of | :33:04. | :33:12. | |
the track. He may have run in his own unique style, but his00 metres | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
smashed its way into the record books. | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
The bond between father and son is unbreakable, unless you are this | :33:20. | :33:26. | |
guy and at the 1992 Olympic Games we saw a prime example of a dad and | :33:26. | :33:34. | |
the fruit of his loins working together.Er reckon redman had | :33:34. | :33:42. | |
suffered an injurey-ravaged sfpblt but hopes were high. He starts off | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
amazingly well. You're going to smash this one. He pulls his ham | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
string. COMMENTATOR: And redman has broken down. | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
He said, "I heard this pop and I thought it was something in the | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
crowd" and suddenly he realised it was his own leg. COMMENTATOR: | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
hopping his way to complete. It may not be wise. Are you going to pull | :34:05. | :34:11. | |
out of the race? No. The stretchers are there, walk off. But he refuses | :34:11. | :34:21. | |
to give up. He wasn't running, he was hopping towards the finish. | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
Somehow his dad gets through security, which is worrying in | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
itself. Gets on to the track and goes up to him ander reckon leans | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
on him. COMMENTATOR: He's been battling | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
through and he can't hold it. He knows he would have had a chance. | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
The applause builds up. This is a real human moment. Father and son | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
complete the race together. An iconic moment and a beautiful story. | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
You just wanted to scream but the fact that he didn't let that beat | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
him. Yes, he didn't win the race, but he was still a winner. It is an | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
amazing moment in Olympic history that sums up the spirit. It's not | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
about winning, but about his determination. And then he was | :35:09. | :35:15. | |
disqualified for being helped by his old man. COMMENTATOR: He's won | :35:15. | :35:21. | |
nothing but admiration. I don't think he or his old man gave a toss | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
for being disqualified. The fact is, they did what they did and everyone | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
stood up and applauded him despite the result. He may not have won a | :35:32. | :35:41. | |
medal, but he is a true Olympic hero nonetheless. | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
It's 2004 and in Athens Kelly Holmes is desperate for Olympic | :35:46. | :35:52. | |
glory but no-one gave her a hope. She was 34. So many people would | :35:52. | :36:00. | |
have retired before then. Injurey- wise she'd been through the mill so | :36:00. | :36:09. | |
many times. Fractures. Gland lr fever, torn muscles. Nobody had any | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
idea that this 34-year-old woman could come back and get on the | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
medal podium. First up was the 800 metres and proving to be quite the | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
Brit, she was miles off the pace. COMMENTATOR: Kelly Holmes, dead | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
last. You can imagine at that moment that you could completely | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
lose the plot and change everything and I didn't. I just stayed there. | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
COMMENTATOR: Kelly Holmes and Maria Mutola are doing the right thing | :36:38. | :36:46. | |
and sitting off the pace. But she suddenly came up to it. As I came | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
round the bend I was trying to overtake Mutola. She barged me and | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
that probably was a moment that made me win the gold. COMMENTATOR: | :36:57. | :37:02. | |
Kelly Holmes, fighting for the gold medal I just remember saying to | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
myself "relax" and as I did it, I took that crucial step. | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
COMMENTATOR: Can she get there. One more yard, come on Kelly Holmes. | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
It's gold! # You're unbelievable #. When she crossed the line she | :37:18. | :37:25. | |
didn't know if she had won or not. She checked the board and Steve | :37:25. | :37:32. | |
Cramm is saying, "You've won it" as if she could hear him. That face is | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
bun of the greatest reactions to an Olympic gold medal, purely because | :37:37. | :37:43. | |
of the out and out surprise. Next up for Kelly was the 1500. | :37:43. | :37:51. | |
This time she was the favourite, but only two women had ever done | :37:51. | :37:56. | |
the 800/1500 double before. Could she join them? This was my dream | :37:56. | :38:02. | |
since the age of 15 to be Olympic Champion. COMMENTATOR: Kelly Holmes | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
moves to the back of the field. She now needs to dig in there. Can she | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
be as controlled as the 800 metres. It looks so easy. The way she came | :38:14. | :38:21. | |
through it was unreal. She was like a machine. And then she was on the | :38:21. | :38:28. | |
home straight. COMMENTATOR: Kelly looks around to see the danger. | :38:28. | :38:34. | |
remember thinking in my head "God!." COMMENTATOR: Kelly Holmes | :38:34. | :38:40. | |
for Great Britain wins the 1500 metre title. You are the double | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
Olympic Champion. I don't think she could believe it, everyone watching | :38:45. | :38:54. | |
couldn't believe it. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. | :38:54. | :39:00. | |
Throughout the years of the Olympics the chances of a gymnast | :39:00. | :39:09. | |
ever scoring a prefect ten is about as likely as Jed wood not saying | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
anything stupid. But a certain 14- year-old Romanian achieved the | :39:13. | :39:22. | |
impossible. How can you be perfect? Surely | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
there's always got to an little glitch in there that's not | :39:26. | :39:32. | |
impeccable? She's an absolute legend. She was | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
this young girl that came into this woman's sport and completely | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
transformed the whole world of gymnastics. | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
She just captivated the audience. She wasn't just a gymnast, she | :39:47. | :39:53. | |
would go out and it was a show. This young girl goes out there and | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
just blows everyone away, getting the first perfect tens in | :39:57. | :40:03. | |
gymnastics. COMMENTATOR: Ten she's got. It is | :40:03. | :40:13. | |
quite incredible. She made history. She was a perfect ten. The size of | :40:13. | :40:23. | |
:40:23. | :40:23. | ||
a tadpole and the bendiness of a slinky and the charm of a smug cat. | :40:23. | :40:31. | |
It was not one, but one after another and another. It was just a | :40:31. | :40:36. | |
shame there wasn't a proper score board built that could show four | :40:36. | :40:43. | |
dij its to go above 9.99. A maker who made those clocks got in touch | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
with the manufacturer and said, "What if you're not going to be | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
able to show this?" and they said, "We'll cross that bridge when we | :40:53. | :41:00. | |
come to it, because, let's face it, we never will." The come tater had | :41:00. | :41:10. | |
:41:10. | :41:11. | ||
to keep explaining that she hadn't got 1.0, she had actually got ten. | :41:11. | :41:17. | |
Even now it still makes you go...she was just a natural star. | :41:18. | :41:25. | |
COMMENTATOR: An extraordinarily composed young lady of 14. | :41:25. | :41:32. | |
Hey, look at this, it goes all the way to twelve. Yes, it's a clock, | :41:32. | :41:42. | |
:41:42. | :41:42. | ||
Colin. A clock. We're back down under for the 2000 | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
Olympic Games, where it was all about one woman. Come on, Cathy, | :41:48. | :41:58. | |
:41:58. | :42:00. | ||
you can do it? At only one of 11 Aboriginals in 628 Australian | :42:00. | :42:09. | |
athletes, Cathy Freeman was looked upon to take the nation out of its | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
place. It seemed ridiculous to say the whole hopes of a nation were on | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
this one woman, but it was. She did everything. She lit the flame and | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
done the lot. But lighting the flame was just the start, the world | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
excepted her to run away with the 400 metre golds, but could she take | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
the pressure? Yes, she could, especially as she was dressed as a | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
superhero. I do think, if I knew that the whole world was watching | :42:41. | :42:48. | |
me, I might have chosen a different outfit. She looked so cute with the | :42:48. | :42:55. | |
hood on and a whole-bodysuit. think she wore it to get into her | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
own little bubble and forget the world and she wanted to run as fast | :42:59. | :43:05. | |
as she could from A to B and that's what she did. COMMENTATOR: Cathy | :43:05. | :43:11. | |
has the world at her feet and the nation's soul on her back. It's | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
under way. The crowd roaring Freeman on and the response is | :43:16. | :43:23. | |
there. On the near side it's Freeman. The nation expected and | :43:23. | :43:30. | |
she has not disappointed. There were 112,000 people in that stadium. | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
There was so much noise it was sickening. She handled it and with | :43:35. | :43:41. | |
grace. If you watch that video back and you don't have a lump in your | :43:41. | :43:47. | |
throat there is something wrong with you, I think. There was a | :43:47. | :43:55. | |
great moment when she had the Australian flag and the native flag | :43:55. | :44:01. | |
in her hand. And that's all we needed all along, was someone to | :44:01. | :44:09. | |
run really fast. Hats off to Cathy Freeman, legends. | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
Now, this next bit is something that everybody remembers. Yes, it's | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
a real classic. Something that sticks in your mind for ever. | :44:19. | :44:28. | |
:44:29. | :44:29. | ||
the viewers what it is. course...what is it? | :44:29. | :44:39. | |
:44:39. | :44:42. | ||
Man U versus Man City. MacVersus PC. Jolie verse ious Aniston. But in | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
the 1970s what really divided the nation was middle-distance running. | :44:49. | :44:56. | |
There was a huge rivalry between Seb Coe and Steve Ovett. It was | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
like Starsky and Hutch you had to love one or the other and you were | :45:00. | :45:06. | |
either in the Coe camp or the Ovett camp. They didn't look like they | :45:06. | :45:13. | |
could be friends. One looked like Chas and Dave and the other looked | :45:13. | :45:20. | |
like, well, a Tory MP. Seb Coe, very clean-cut, Cambridge | :45:20. | :45:29. | |
University student, the model on and off the track. Ovett was a bit | :45:29. | :45:35. | |
more rock'n'roll and edgy. I remember him winning a race and 30 | :45:35. | :45:41. | |
metres to go, he was waving to the crowd. I was an Ovett man. He | :45:41. | :45:48. | |
looked like if he wasn't running he would be sweeping for the Council. | :45:48. | :45:55. | |
Families were split. Not quite, but you get the picture. In the 800 | :45:55. | :46:04. | |
metre final in Moscow, Coe was a certainty to win, nothing could go | :46:04. | :46:09. | |
wrong. They were both very good athletes and they were going to | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
double up. Coe was clear favourite for the 800 metres and everyone | :46:13. | :46:19. | |
thought he would win it. COMMENTATOR: Coe can't get through | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
and Ovett is coming through. Coe gets the silver. And Ovett looks up | :46:24. | :46:30. | |
in triumph. It was, like, a massive talking | :46:30. | :46:38. | |
point, the fact that we knew he was good, but that's Coe's event. How | :46:38. | :46:44. | |
dare he. I suppose I must have clocked up more Cardinal sins of | :46:44. | :46:50. | |
middle distance running than I have in a lifetime. It was like day was | :46:50. | :46:56. | |
night and night was day, the fabric of what we knew had been shifted. | :46:56. | :47:03. | |
Next, the 1500 metess, Ovett's favourite race. Could he do the | :47:03. | :47:08. | |
double? COMMENTATOR: Could this be Ovett's defeat? Ovett is in trouble | :47:08. | :47:18. | |
and Coe wins it. In a result that shocked the world, Coe struck back. | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
It just shows you the mental strength of Coe that he had got | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
over the disappointment of not winning his major event and won the | :47:27. | :47:33. | |
15. How much could the British public take? They'd swapped over. | :47:33. | :47:39. | |
They both came home with an Olympic gold medal, but in the wrong event. | :47:39. | :47:47. | |
People are talking about who should light the flame in London 2012. | :47:47. | :47:52. | |
People are saying it should be a race between those two and whoever | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
gets there first. I think that's a brilliant idea. Usain Bolt has | :47:57. | :48:03. | |
saved my sport. And after Beijing 2008 there wasn't a person on the | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
planet who didn't know who he was. He became a megastar in Beijing. | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
The sooper human freak of nature. The Jamaican was the biggest thing | :48:14. | :48:21. | |
to hit athletics in years, and not just because of his massive six | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
foot five inch frame. He was a bolt out of the blue. All of this before | :48:25. | :48:31. | |
the start. It is brilliant. I don't know what the celebration is. He | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
says it's a lightning bolt. But I fail to see how. As he lined up for | :48:37. | :48:41. | |
the 100 metre final, the world asked if he could live up to the | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
hype. I was in the Bird's Nest Stadium and it is the event and | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
it's over so quickly. You don't fully take it in, even if you're | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
there. COMMENTATOR: They get away first time and Usain Bolt streaking | :48:57. | :49:03. | |
away. It's gold for Jamaica. That is superb, it's a new world record! | :49:03. | :49:09. | |
He has blown them all away. It was clear that Usain Bolt wasn't just | :49:09. | :49:18. | |
the real deal he was the nuts. knew he'd just run the fastest of | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
any human being. He was so fast that he could slow down and just | :49:24. | :49:31. | |
look at the other guys! You're out. Some in the audience were not | :49:31. | :49:39. | |
amused. Everyone got so het up about that. Why? That wasn't | :49:39. | :49:49. | |
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disrespectful, that was him pumping his chest saying, I'm so high. | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
Imagine what his rivals thought when they watched the race back and | :49:55. | :50:00. | |
saw his shoelaces were not done up! I don't believe that. Maybe he | :50:00. | :50:08. | |
would have been 9.3 if he'd done his laces up properly. Next in the | :50:08. | :50:14. | |
200 metres he was hoping to collect an astonishing double. Could he do | :50:14. | :50:20. | |
is it? COMMENTATOR: Usain Bolt already going past the others. | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
set that stage alight. COMMENTATOR: Blasting round the top bend, he's | :50:25. | :50:31. | |
in second place. What's the time? It's gold for Usain bolt blt and a | :50:31. | :50:38. | |
new world record. I do not believe it. Brilliant! 19.30. Into a head | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
wind. Oh, just the fastest man on this planet and whatever happens | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
from now on he'll always be remembered for that. He'll probably | :50:49. | :50:57. | |
be the fastest man I'll ever see, ever. Bolt is already celebrating | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
the Olympics which he is going to rein. He ran so fast that he went | :51:02. | :51:11. | |
into the future and saw himself with it. I am number one! | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
Britain has much to be ashamed of. Take this weirdo for instance. But | :51:16. | :51:23. | |
in Sydney 2000 a whole nation stood proudly and saluted a home-grown | :51:23. | :51:33. | |
:51:33. | :51:34. | ||
hero. Sir Steven Redgrave is not your arcy typial sports star? | :51:34. | :51:40. | |
Redgrave looks like the kind of guy you buy your bacon from. Rowing is | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
an elitist sport. Every year we have Oxford versus Cambridge, never | :51:46. | :51:52. | |
Luton Poly. But for most of us,er is Steve is a hero in spite of all | :51:52. | :51:59. | |
of this, thanks to five golds in five different Olympics. To win | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
five gold medals, back-to-back with different teams in different | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
eventss. It's unbelievable. I think he is the greatest sporting person | :52:09. | :52:16. | |
this country has ever had. The fact that he is such an amazing and | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
charming man is testament to his character. It would turn me into an | :52:21. | :52:27. | |
absolute prick if I'd won all the medals. During his career he had an | :52:27. | :52:35. | |
operation to remove his appendix and was diagnosed with diabetes. | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
It's amazing that somebody could push themselves to that extreme for | :52:40. | :52:46. | |
that long. I'd be very, very surprised if he's not lighting the | :52:46. | :52:52. | |
torch in July. But he could have changed all that. If anyone sees me | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
go near a boat, you have my permission to shoot me. And there | :52:57. | :53:02. | |
he is, four years later back in the boat winning another gold. Five | :53:02. | :53:11. | |
Olympic gold medals, it's absolutely unbelievable. | :53:11. | :53:19. | |
And so we've finally arrived. to cross the line and find out who | :53:19. | :53:26. | |
our winner is. Let's now find out who is going to stand on top of our | :53:26. | :53:33. | |
met forcal podium. Who is it? winner, the person who has got to | :53:33. | :53:40. | |
number one. This is our amazing Olympic moment of all time. | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
And I will beat any man in the world and I want everyone man in | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
the world to know it. I am the greatest. We've seen lots of | :53:51. | :53:58. | |
sporting moments but the ones that stay in the memory are the ones | :53:58. | :54:05. | |
that transcend sport. From Jessie Owens, and the Black Power salute | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
to Cathy Freeman. Muhammed Ali is the greatest sportsman of all time. | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
It all started when he won Olympic gold in 1960. A medal he later | :54:16. | :54:23. | |
claims to have thrown into the Ohio River in protest in America against | :54:23. | :54:30. | |
racism. He also protested against the Vietnam War and inspired Martin | :54:30. | :54:39. | |
Luther King. So, he was the perfect choice to light the Olympic flame | :54:39. | :54:45. | |
in Atlanta, the spiritual home of the civil rights movement. A | :54:45. | :54:52. | |
sporting giant starting the world's greatest sporting event. Muhammed | :54:52. | :54:57. | |
Ali lighting the flame is the best moment of any opening ceremony | :54:57. | :55:07. | |
:55:07. | :55:07. | ||
there has ever been. He's such an iconic sports person. He's just a | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
one-off. The greatest sportsman ever having the opportunity to be | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
recognised. It was a beautiful moment. I've never known a stadium | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
of 80,000 people hold their breath. COMMENTATOR: What a moment. One of | :55:19. | :55:26. | |
the great figures in sport. # Come on, come on, come on #. | :55:26. | :55:32. | |
There's no other like him in any sport. COMMENTATOR: The sacred | :55:32. | :55:39. | |
Olympic Flame burning brightly over the American city of Atlanta. | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
he is with the eyes of the world on him lighting the flame with | :55:46. | :55:53. | |
Parkinson's and he just did it. is a legend and I think it's only | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
right he carried the torch. that's it. Those are our amazing | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
Olympic moments. But there's always one thing you know about the | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
Olympics. Yes, next time there will always be more. More glory, more | :56:07. | :56:15. | |
spectacle, more records, more tears. And more medals for Team GB. Could | :56:15. | :56:21. | |
we unearth another Linford. Or a silver medal at the hurdles. Or a | :56:21. | :56:28. |