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The Olympics, the greatest show on earth. A sporting carnival of

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athleticism and produce wes, Extravaganza of passion. Invented

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by the ainshents and sent on mount Olympus, to offer the King of the

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Gods. Now at last in its true spiritual home. Stratford, East

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London. Join us as we tell the story of the glory that is the

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Olympic Games. Tingeel down the spine. Even now it makes you go wow.

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The story of the greatest athletes on the earth. He was like a living,

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breathing action man. And the odd crazy priest. The most compelling

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events ever invented. And jumping over fences. The fitest human

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beings in the world. It was just unreal. She was like a machine!

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some slightly out of breath ones. Yes coming soon to a television

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screen near you, the Olympics minutes, 50 most amazing moments,

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welcome to our choice of the very - offer. Let's get under way,

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Lieutenant Columbo on the TV Osmonds top of the charts and half

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the male population look like geography teachers. It is 1972. In

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muepnich it is the mens basketball final, against the USSR. It was

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pride at stake and USA had never been beaten. It is like Germany and

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England in football. Negotation Russia there was a war brewing,

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Russia there was a war brewing, likes the most extreme rivalry.

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COMMENTATOR: This could be the winning shot, such pressure on a

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young man. COMMENTATOR: Three seconds left of play, and the

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United States kept their record. The Yanks won another medal. Let's

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all celebrate with a corn dog. COMMENTATOR: The most fantastic

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ball finish in the Olympics. Hong on a second. You have officials

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making the signal, three on their hands. That's because the USSR

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signalled for a time out and it was given eventually. We talked to the

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Refs, we like more time please, I will punch you in the head if you

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don't give me more time. COMMENTATOR: The rev said three

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seconds left to play. What can you do in three seconds. You knew...

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Once they've reset the clock again. That the Russians were going to

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score. COMMENTATOR: I do not believe it. The Soviet Union scored

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and won! COMMENTATOR: Can you believe it is possible. Holy

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Kremlin. To lose to the old enemy and in such a controversial fashion

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it was major, major scandal. They would have beared it a little bit

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more, if it was to any other country, but to the USSR no way.

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was the first time the USSR hadn't won the gold medal until basketball

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was introduced to the Olympics in was introduced to the Olympics in

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1976t shows every second counts. When you think of the countries

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that have produced the Olympics fastest men, you think of America.

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And Jamaica. But mainly America. As the Games head today Moscow in

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19 80 the world was in shock as the USSR along with 65 other nations

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forced the athletes to boycott the limbs, because of the invasion in

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Afghanistan. It was a dark side. But at least it meant fast

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Americans weren't going to be there, and us Brits may have a chance of

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winning something. 1980 Olympics were interesting, because the

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Americans boycotted it. And they're all traditionally very good for

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sprint events. All the Americans and car a beans, none were there.

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It was a great expectation. Scotsman, Alan Wells paleest

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sprinter, was in with a chance. Before you may say no, he may

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scrape fourth or fifth, and all of a sudden there was someone who can

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get a medal We were introduced to his shy and retiring wife, Margot

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who was in the stands. It appears he is cheered on or married to,

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mental. It was perfect, he won the gold. Wells had done it, scareed on

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by wife Margot. COMMENTATOR: Alan Wells goes along with the all time

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greats. It was the first time a Brit had won the 1 Park Si-Hun

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metre final since 1924. Unbelieveable I got a gold medal,

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in an event I had less chance in. He is still an Olympic champion,

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for a man from Scotland to win the final that's good going. It is his

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name on the record books, but he's got it and he's done and deserves

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it. He was this incredible diver who won in 198. He was out-and-out

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one of the best divers in the world. Yes he was good as he gets. He lost

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his head. He misjublged it, and banged his head on the board.

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That's got to hurt. This kid's face says it all. Greg Louganis could

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not survive, the Olympics was over! Not really. He doesn't do dying, he

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does diving and incredibly, he and his sore head went to achieve

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Olympic glory Could days later with stitches he wins the gold medal.

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How hard core is that. Is there any other athlete who

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could come back so quickly from such an injury and win a gold medal.

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He is ironman. If I stubed my toe there, I was never there again.

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Greg Louganis and head and shoulders above the rest. 1984

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Olympic Games, American style. of the free, home of the brave, and

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in 1984 host of the greatest ceremony ever seen. A warm welcome

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from the citizens of California marked a huge scale of opening

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ceremonies, there was dancing girls, a rocket man and dancing pianos.

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Rocket man had nothing to do with Olympics at all, it was something

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amazingly cool. Just comes out of nowhere and plys around for a bit

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and that's him done. He wasn't carrying a bat done or relay, he

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was a rocket man on his own. What about a hand holding sing along

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with this lady. # We can change things

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# If we start giving # Why don't you #

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They cut to Paris, French people holding hands. Wind mill in

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Rotterdam, holding hands and there was us, in kilts, we might as well

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as been eating leaks. If you thought the Opening Ceremony was

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dramatic the Closing Ceremony was out of this world. The Closing

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Ceremony was a sci-fi spectacular. The love child of Frankenstein in a

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stormtrooper had a message for the watching world. I have come a long

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way, because I like what I've seen. It wouldn't surprise me if people

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watched that and said, the aliens have landed. Hey, babe, you want to

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come in here, you never guess what's turned up at the Closing

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Ceremony. I salute you. The show that kept on giving. How do you top

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that all off, Lionel Richie. # All night long #

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. Music Martians and monumental madness, how future games compete.

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We have more coming up. When I'm not filming here, I use this place

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as a retirement home for old Olympians, it takes a lot of upkeep

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but you should think about it. retirement home for golden oldies.

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Or silver or bronze. It is not about the winning, it is about the

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taking part. Kelly, show me that bronze again you won in Athens. But

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Dean, you didn't win that did you. When I sat on the start line for

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the Olympics in '92, I was unemployment carpenter, married and

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two kids, no money. Chris Boardman was Britain's great hope. In the

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four case cycling race, he would need belief for gold. If there was

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a gold medal for modesty, he was the man. I didn't believe me,

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because that happens to other people, people you see on

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television. In the final he was up It was an exhilarating moment for

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Britain. But Chris had his wheels firmly on the ground. A lot of

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athlete manage to get excited, I used to get scared.

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COMMENTATOR: Chris Boardman has Lehmann in his sights. He laughed

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him en route to gold. He was unstoppable.

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He doesn't just catch him, he overtakes him and on the line he is

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ahead. Completely incondeefable. Chris Boardman is going to take the

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gold medal to be the Olympic champion. To be last on a velodrome

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is unheard of. And how much of a beast he was, and had the guts to

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say, I'm not going to win this, I'm going to catch him up and overtake

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him. One of the greatest performances I've ever seen...

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Chris Boardman is the Olympic champion, what a fantastic displace.

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He remained the unflapable modesty. I was aware, but emotionally, not

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the euphoria I was expecting. I'm always a glass half sort of person.

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Chris Boardman cycling super hero, not that he would let it go to his

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head. All American hero, sprint superstar but Olympic inspiration.

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In 1988 selves diagnosed with graves disease, a thyroid problem,

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that can lead to strokes, and blindness. After receiving

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radiation treatment, she was told she was lucky to survive. She could

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have lost her feet, she came back, not only fighting the disease but

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got herself back to Olympic level fitness. In 1929, 19 months after

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unable to stand up. She was back on the starting line for the hundred

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metres final. You think an athlete who almost

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lost their feet would never come back to the sport. But she had a

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fighting spirit in her, who could realistically win a medal. It was

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amazing. She overcomes this incredible,

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almost terminal illness, comes back to the Olympics and wins a gold

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medal. It is a great moment in sport. Deeverdeeverdeever, a

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champion and one of life's survivors. Next we have the story

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of a man who wasn't satisfied with being the best at one discipline,

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he want to be the best at ten. It is known as the toughest event of

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them all the decathlon, ten disciplines, each of them more

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demanding, challenging and harder than the one that came before. Yes,

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thank you Dean. This isn't about you. This is about the other fella,

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the one with the moustache. COMMENTATOR: The crowd already

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abroading the greatest all-round athlete in the world. At the 1980

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Games Daley Thompson stormed to gold in the decathlon. COMMENTATOR:

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Thompson the Olympic champion. An icon was born, inspiring our

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children in facial hair habits. It was in LA four years later the man

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with the tash, that made Hulk Hogan look like a schoolgirl cemented him

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on the books. But could his performance match his personality

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and allow him to win a second gold and become a legend? Yes!

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He's rock n' roll. He was like a living, breathing action man.

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Swiss army athleteings he could do everything, he's amazing. Daley

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Thompson was a rock star, he was my hero, every boy in the '80s, loved

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him. COMMENTATOR: World champion and twice Olympics champion.

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There's no-one in the world who can match that record. He didn't making

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history and giving the nation one of the greatest Olympic moments,

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winning not only the second gold but smashing the world record.

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was a great performance, showcaseing the full strength and

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agility. Dave could do nothing but make headlines. Whether it was on

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the track or podium, whisling the National Anthem, rather than

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singing it. He is doing complex harm any. That's his rebellious

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side. There's no denying or anyone like Daley Thompson. He was the

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best we had, and greatest Olympian ever. He is still rock n' roll,

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I've been flat tyre events and he rocks up in a track suit, and

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thinks what is he doing, but you know what, he is Daley Thompson, he

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The triple jump. One of the select Olympic sports that Britain chooses

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to exsell at. Edwards left a marker in the sand when he took the gold

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in Sydney in 2000, but in 20004, all eyes were on Phillips Idowu.

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He's the only guy he's taken to sport and I thought wow, who is

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this player. But it didn't go to plan. COMMENTATOR: He has a red

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flag. He is a great athlete who wins medals, on this day, awful.

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Everyone can freeze up just before that big moment, I'm sure there's

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many men when the big moment is about to happen and he can't rise

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to the challenge. We can forgive a single mistake, but two is taking

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the Mickey. COMMENTATOR: Now he is in real trouble. He was training

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for years, how are you getting this wrong, time after time. He had one

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more chance to get it right. COMMENTATOR: Phillips Idowu is out

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of the Olympics. Having a complete mayor in front of the stadium, let

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alone the rest of the world, it must be pretty difficult to take.

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COMMENTATOR: Where do you go from here? Home.

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It was more than a bad hair day in Athens, but four years later, he

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picked up a silver and maintained So just how will he fare in London

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and how will he be styling his hair. When he get the juch and nails it,

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he is unbeatable. 2012, he's going to get gold. Don't let us down big

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guy. For all the glory of the Olympics, sometimes there are

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athletes who do their best, but their best isn't good enough.

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can have bucket-loads of determination, but without talent

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you're never going to climb on the medal podium. For those athletes,

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they may as well have stayed at home. Do you mean Eddie the Eagle.

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I mean Eric the eel. Here's ski jumper Eddie in his prime. We love

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an underdog. People trying their best but never winning anything.

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But in Sydney Aquatic Centre, we were introduced an underdog, who

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blew Eddie the Eagle out of the water.

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After his two competitors got disqualified for false starts,

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extorl Guinea, swimmer found himself the sole swimmer. He only

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learnt to swim eighth months before and never got his trunks left in an

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Olympic size pool. Eric the Eel was a man, who, essentially could

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barely swim. All was going OK, but then someone told him he had to go

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back again. First length he gets through it, but on the way back the

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guy's knack kered. He is racing no- one, and yet still he almost didn't

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finish it. COMMENTATOR: This guy doesn't look like he's going to

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make it. I was on the side and I thought I would have to go in and

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get him. Slowly and surely the Aussies started getting behind him.

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I'm not sure he will make it, this is the Olympics, he has 17,000

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people shouting for him. There's a bit at the end, saying please make

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it. Let not have the lifeguard in to save you. Jung-Il Byun wins the

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stroke. He underdoggyed himself in the slowest time. I'm feeling good.

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I am happy. The swimming pool facilities must be very poor. But

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you think maybe if there isn't a pool, take advantage of the

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hundreds of miles of coastline. the next few years, Eric was keen

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to show the world the eel was the real deal but the Government

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wouldn't grant him a visa to travel to Athens, four years later. What

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do they know. It was one of those things that makes the Olympics

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special. Roger Kingdom had a dream. Gabrielle had a dream and I have a

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strange recurring dream involving lots of little rabbits.

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But at the 1929 Olympics it was a Dream Team that stole the show,

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with the USSR basketball db United States basketball team. They were a

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team of superstars. These guys were the best players on the planet.

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Magic Johnson, Charles Berkeley. Micheal Jordan.

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And you had at least another five, huge names in the States. That kind

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of team if you assembleed it on a PlayStation, or XBox you would

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think you were chaegt. For the first time stars from the NBA were

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allowed to compete at the Olympics. Imagine bars clonea 14 played in

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the Scottish League, that's how superior they were.

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COMMENTATOR: This is exhibition stuff, early on by the United

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States. It was the sporting equivalent of Paris Hilton taking

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on Stephen Hawking in a Mensa test and the results were inevitable.

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COMMENTATOR: United States toying. They an my late everyone. It was

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pretty much like the Harlem globe troters every game, they were

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It would be ever beat every team by an average of 40 points. It was

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ridiculous how easy it was for them. It was men against boys stuff, even

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though the boys from tall. Croatia was in the final, with America

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scoring 117 en route to victory. Come on, you can't have five top

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athletic black guys, against a team of five white gays in Croatia, in a

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game which involves running high and juching. You know who is going

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to win that. It is all over the result by no means a surprise. A

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performance as expected. Magic Johnson and the USSR the Dream Team

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Yeah it is mad and insane, but you know what, that's what the Olympics

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are, and that's what it takes to be a winner. The light came on and it

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was obvious that he had hit me. Exhaugs, it looked like she downed

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a bottle of vodka and detached from a hen party somewhere. American

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swimmer, Spitz spits wasn't just a King of the pool he had the look.

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After all nothing says 70s, God like a Beatles hair cut and tash.

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It is the combination of Magnum PI, porn star athlete. That's Spitz

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spits. # Daddy cool #

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That is the best moustache ever worn. You're talking hundreds of a

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second, making the difference between first, second and third, so

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you're not going to grow a moustache, which means you could

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lose by 1 Park Si-Hunth of a second, or you can't breathe. Sports

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technology and water friction study robed your Olympic swimmer of a

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good Muzzy. Another world record for the superSwitzerland.

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In 1972, Switzerland won all seven events he entered. Breaking a world

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record in everyone. He is lightening, seven golds says it all.

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He could have swam so much faster, if he put a cap on and shaved off

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the beard. COMMENTATOR: Wonder swimmer of Spitz spits. It was

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amazing, seven golds and records, it was never going to be beaten.

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was, 36 years later, thanks to fellow American, with Michael Fred

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Phelps. When a record is broken, you're not cool any more, you have

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nothing you have nothing to say. can only judge it in the point in

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history. He was the best guy on seven events on that Games. Imagine,

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the and the letism needed not just to race against the clock, but

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hurdle fences at full pelt as well. It is not eegsy. Explosive power

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and timing, it has to be one of the toughest Olympic events of all time.

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You're about to show my silver medal... We're not, something

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better, something called horse OK it is actually called the modern

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pentathlon, invented and based around the five skills a cavalry

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officer would need. The events involved are pistol shooting,

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fenceing, swimming, running, and last of all, naturally, showjumping.

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It is all a bit horses, guns and swords, generally not many things

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we can practice. We didn't do pentathlon at our school. It is a

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tricky event but gets you have to when it comes to the equest treeian

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discipline, as like the individual horse riders, they don't have their

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own horse and have to ride a unfamiliar beast. You walk forward

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and take the Ping-Pong ball, it has a number, all the horses are lined

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up, they have numbers on them. is the ultimate lucky dip, but in

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2008, we saw how unlucky pairings We've got four other sports to

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train for. We're not spending all that time on a horse.

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Yeah that definitely seems to be the case.

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I know what event I'm looking forward to at London 012.

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Beijing Olympics, OK, was phenomenonal.

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As we've seen the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics is the precurseor

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to the greatest show on earth and it is crucial you do everything as

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you can to make it as perfect. The Chinese went above and beyond the

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call of duty. 15,000 performers, four billion TV viewers and cost of

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$1 Park Si-Hun million. Nothing was left to chance, the world was star

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struck, as this girl stole the planet's hearts. Wearing a red

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dress and pig tails she charmed the audience with rendition of Ode To

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But it wasn't her voice we could hear. The kid they got to sing and

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had the Voice Of An Angel didn't look like an angel, so this young

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woman was asked to step in a recording booth and sing her

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version of the song which was dubbed on to the I aming of a young

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girl, which, to be honest looks similar, but she did have straight

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teeth. Perhaps we used Brad Pitt in a bores Johnson wig to introduced

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Next thing you're saying is the fireworks was CGI'd. They looked

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impressive. If it they done a few sly bits, good on them, I want it

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on DVD. The Brits can take a leaf out of their books now CGI most of

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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.

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not surprised, driving like that. They never lose their competitive

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spirit do they. Athletes will go to great lengths to earn their moment

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of glory at the Games and none more so than David Neville who did his

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best to secure a bronze in the 4 Park Si-Hun metres in Beijing.

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diped really early which meant he was falling through the line.

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must feel awful if you're the guy feeling really, that's how you will

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beat me, there should be a note saying how I came third. In the day,

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he has Olympic third medal, Superman dive or not, he got

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through. All that matters he got the third and got bronze. Which

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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

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relay the US are red hot favourites. Whereas our boys were rank

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outsiders. Team GB given no hope we're going to get our arses kicked,

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we're the underdogs. We were making up the numbers. Americans were the

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favourites of course they were. Everyone thought, oh it is a done

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deal, United States will win it. Running the first leg was Jason

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Gardener. Right then was the best changeover we'd ever had. Bang the

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baton was gone. I can't tell you the relief for that baton out of my

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hand. Next up Darren Campbell to Marlon Devonish. Half way through

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the race, we think, we're still in it. Campbell to Devonish to Francis,

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it was the perfect race, each pass being better than the other pass,

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it was like a beautiful game of football. It came down to the

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smallest of margins, of 1 Park Si- Hunth of a second. That's the

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difference between winning and losing in the areinyas It was this

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baton exchange between Americans the two that cost the favourites.

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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

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difficult to land. She goes down, she's injured, she's liching with

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an ankle injury. Surely she couldn't take a last crucial

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decisive juch. Everybody's counting on you, aren't they. You don't want

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to let anyone down. It was as close Determined not to let her team-

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mates down, she must have the strengthth to go again.

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To stand up and go, I want the gold this much that I'm prepared to

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maybe cause myself long-term injury, that's pretty incredible. That's

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superhuman. That was her big finish. Yeah it is mad and insane, but you

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know what, that's what the Olympics are, and that's what it takes to be

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a winner. When she lands, she does a weird movement thing like a

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toddler, shuffling along the carpet and I don't know if that's

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celebration or terribly injured. Following her success she was

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carried to the podium by her coach. Boy did they celebrate. Only way

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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.

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So in 1988 and things are going rather well. Sthool then, this

:36:45.:36:55.
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happened. American Park Si-Hun hundred and Roy Jones is fighting.

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He pummeled him.El He beat him into the ground.

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He demolished this guy. He kind of went, bring your face closer and

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I'm hitting it. He absolutely hammered him from

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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.

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Everyone knew it, including the guy he fought against it. He looked

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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

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judges voting against Jones were suspended but Park was allowed to

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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

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Olympians, ending their lives so serenely. Not all Olympians had

:38:38.:38:43.

glorious sporting years. Montreal Olympics in 1976 will be

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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.
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an extraordinary case of sabotage as Boris Onischenko took on Jim fox.

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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.

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the sward if you depress the point how did it work. He had two wires

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coming from the handle here, with a little switch, so, when he hit him,

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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.
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taking the day off. Fox and his team went to win gold. He came a

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tax driver. If somebody cheats in the Olympic Games there's no real

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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.
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A true test of stamina, grit and determination, the Marathon is one

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of the most testing of disciplines, in 1984, women competed for the

:41:33.:41:43.
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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

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can get around a Marathon course, good for you, but, she looked like

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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

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finish it. Suffering from heat exhaugs, she took five minutes and

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44 gruelling seconds to finish the last 44 metres of the race but

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still beat four other runers. Everyone was trying to run in and

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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

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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

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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.

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COMMENTATOR: Kristy comes storming through, it is Linford Christie.

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remember, he came through the line and the arms were up, the British

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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

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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.
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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

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was furious about the rev disqualifying him and the reaction

:46:11.:46:21.
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At the 1988 games in Seoul, a good athlete became a great athlete, as

:46:29.:46:39.
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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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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a name is Kurt Angle? High, I'm Tom ice Secretary of State lease, and

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I'm Sine and this is my brother Cosine. But Kurt shocked the world

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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

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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

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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

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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

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anyone could come out of that it would be Paula. The 10,000 metres,

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for Paula, that's a sprint. This is what legends are made of. Come on,

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Paula. Hang on, she is at the back. COMMENTATOR: Oh, she is stopping.

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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Olympics went down as a roaring success. It was the best by far.

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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

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was set 5cm lower than the standard 125, upsetting years of meticulous

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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?

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The first final. Is he ready? COMMENTATOR: A stunning swim!

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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,

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he's got his first then his second. COMMENTATOR: Number three is in the

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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

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records. There was no-one going to beat him. COMMENTATOR: The USA are

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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:

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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

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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.

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COMMENTATOR: Cameroon have never known celebrations like it.

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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

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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:

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Oh, no. I don't believe it. And I think

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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.

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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

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to jump over the hurdles rather than hit them. COMMENTATOR: Jackson

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is coming through clean, Jackson second. But if you're going to make

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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

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amazingly well. You're going to smash this one. He pulls his ham

:33:47.:33:52.

string. COMMENTATOR: And redman has broken down.

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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:

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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

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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

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quite incredible. She made history. She was a perfect ten. The size of

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: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.

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Even now it still makes you go...she was just a natural star.

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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

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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

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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.
:49:49.:49:49.

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.

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