The Heroes of Super Saturday: Jess, Mo & Greg

This summer, the capital will host the greatest athletes

on the planet, as they compete to be crowned world champion.

London has been here before.

And is well versed in how to rise to the occasion.

Five years have passed since London 2012,

but the memory of those golden moments still shines brightly.

Never before had Britain been so successful at an Olympics.

Day after day of triumphs, almost blurring into one.

But above all others, one Saturday will come to be remembered.

Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion!

Britain was transfixed as the minutes ticked by.

Greg Rutherford is the Olympic champion.

As one dreamlike moment unfolded into another.

Mo Farah, for Great Britain!

It's gold!

Every Games needs a home medal at its Olympic Stadium to give it life.

A night to remember it by.

This was that defining moment.

The great triumphs of Jessica Ennis,

Greg Rutherford

and Mo Farah

made that Super Saturday the greatest night in British sport.

What a night to be British.

Since then, they've each faced challenges in their own, unique way.

Challenge I faced too as a world-class athlete.

Staying on top, defending your title, and family life.

In this programme, they'll reflect on their successes

and look to what the future holds,

as London prepares to welcome the best in the world once again.

Five years have passed since Super Saturday, and since then,

Jess, Mo and Greg have each followed their own, unique paths as athletes.

I'm keen to see how my experience in the sport compares to theirs.

Johnson, by yards!

During my own career, I competed in three Olympic Games

and five World Championships.

I dealt with the highs and lows

that come with striving to stay at the top.

Greg Rutherford, the long jump star of Super Saturday,

trains to be the best in the world by working with the coach

who led him to Olympic glory.

That means spending much of the year in Arizona.

And I'm keen to see how he and his family are getting on out here.

-Hey, how are you?

-Michael, how are you? Good to see you, are you well?

-Good, how are you?

-Not too bad, thank you.

-This is not London!

-No!

-This is a long way.

-Can you say hello?

-What's up? Milo!

-Say hello.

-What's going on?

-Hello.

-Susie's here.

-Pleasure. Good to meet you. Good to meet you.

-How's everything?

-Yeah, not too bad, actually.

We've been here a little while now, enjoying the sun.

-As you can tell, I'm very tanned.

-Yep, yep.

-Training going well?

-Yeah, not too bad.

One or two problems as you get older, that's part of it, I think.

Now my age starts with a three,

my body's decided that it's going to struggle a little bit with things.

But we're getting there, I think.

For me, when it got to a point where, as opposed to waking up

every morning going, "OK, how hard are we going to push it today?"

Waking up, hoping everything just days right and stays together.

-That was the turning point.

-Yeah, definitely.

-But you're not there yet.

-Well, I hope not, no.

I'm definitely getting those days when I wake up and think,

"How long is it going to take me to get out of bed this morning?"

Fortunately, I still love what I'm doing.

And it's obviously so much fun.

All right, pressure's on.

Pressure performer, pressure performer!

If we need Greg to miss, what we have to do is just say,

if he gets it in, then we're going to get married.

This is the game that we play...

This sounds like a part of this discussion

I shouldn't be involved with!

As a result of his incredible achievements on the track,

Mo Farah has become a global star.

The pursuit of this dominance means that his training also

takes on an international dimension.

We're in Font-Romeu, the Pyrenees 2000.

The GB training camps for the distance guys.

And one of the reason why we spend a lot of time here is

because of the elevation.

It's about almost 7,000 feet, which is not as high as some places I've

been around the world, but it's decent enough.

And you've got a good climate, good facilities.

This is really what distance people need in terms of high altitude.

It's no secret what we do.

Back in the day, it used to be the Kenyans

and the Ethiopians beating everyone.

And one of the reasons they were beating was they spent

so much time at high altitude,

so when they come back to sea level, things are a lot easier.

Most of the work is done on this track.

Back again!

As always.

This morning, I had a good track session here.

And it's perfect, it's what you need.

Distance running is difficult,

you have to be able to put the miles in if you want it.

I do average 120 miles a week.

I wouldn't do that through the year.

When I'm racing, then you come off a little bit.

There's no rest days for me, everyday's running.

I always want to do too much.

The coaches are always, like, stopping me,

making sure I'm not doing too much.

I just have to stay injury-free, stay focused.

Just enjoy it.

I think if I'm enjoying it, if I'm happy,

if I'm in a good mood, then it's all good.

For Jessica Ennis-Hill, the best place to be has always been at home.

Her journey since Super Saturday has been nothing short of eventful,

and I'm looking forward to hearing her perspective on that time,

now that she's decided to leave the track behind.

-So, this is Sheffield, your hometown?

-It is, yes.

Born here, studied here, did all my training here. So, yeah.

Never thought of leaving?

No. I mean, there was times when I was contemplating

where to go to uni,

but, for me, my set-up was here, my family were here.

Just having that great support network that you need

when you're training and competing at that level,

has been amazing for me.

When you were a kid growing up here,

-did you ever think that you would be Olympic champion?

-No!

No, I mean, when I started athletics and learning about championships

and the Olympics, I always had that dream of wanting to be there

and standing on the podium.

But I never, ever imagined that I would have had the journey

that I've had, sat here in this position, chatting to you.

You know, with lots of gold medals and an Olympic gold medal

to my name, is just, yeah, unbelievable, really.

Standing on top of the Olympic podium is every athlete's dream.

But the journey to that moment is far from easy.

I competed at a home games in Atlanta 1996,

and was the favourite to win my event.

A pressure that Jess too must have faced.

Going into 2012, you became the face of the Games.

Talk about how that affected you,

or if it affected you at all in the year leading up to the games?

I think the fact that it was in London, obviously,

it brought a lot more pressure and expectation.

I think, for me, the most important thing at that time

was that I didn't change anything.

I stayed where I trained for the past however many years.

I had the same coach, the same family support

and team that had worked round me.

And of course I felt pressure,

and I had moments where I'd go home upset because training hadn't

gone well, or I'd have doubts about whether I could do it.

But then, when I was at home, it was my family that were there to

say, "Look, just calm down a bit."

Put it into perspective.

But I do think, gosh, that was a hell of a lot of pressure.

Biggest cheer of all will be reserved for this lady.

I was going in as the face of the Olympics.

I just thought, honestly, can this all come together

and would I be able to do it?

What a start for the British star.

Jess' quest for heptathlon gold began on Friday 3rd August.

And it would conclude with the 800m final,

underneath the spotlights of a packed Olympic Stadium.

The staging was incredible.

The buzz, you know, all the fans, all the British flags.

As soon as you mention that moment of walking to that stadium,

I get goose bumps again.

It was packed, 75,000 people.

Just remember thinking,

"Oh, my God, this is like going to a football match."

You know, when you go to, like, an FA Cup Final.

It was just like nothing I'd ever experienced.

Knowing that everybody in there wanted you to do well,

and was excited about the prospect of you doing well.

They had no idea who I was when I walked in,

they just saw a British jersey.

He'll have never had a bigger cheer in his life.

I was looking at the guys who were in the final, and I knew that I'd

been beating them quite regularly, so I had a great opportunity.

But what I don't think I was massively prepared for was,

as I ran down the runway on that round one,

that's then when, all of a sudden, I noticed the crowd again.

And that was a problem,

because I then ended up running through on my first round.

There'll be some adjustments to be done, I think.

That morning, I was up about 5am, and the night before,

I just couldn't switch off.

Because although I was telling myself there's

so much more to do, I couldn't help thinking, "Ooh, but I'm so close!"

I just remember waiting and waiting and waiting.

And just the nerves building.

So much expectation on the slender shoulders of Jessica Ennis.

The way she controlled the pressures that she had, everybody had

already hung an Olympic gold medal around her neck before she done it.

And we know how much can go wrong in athletics.

She dealt with that pressure so incredibly well.

She's given us a magnificent seven events already.

And here goes Jess.

She is going to be the Olympic champion.

Everybody is on their feet.

Crossing the line was one of the most amazing moments of my career.

Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion!

She hasn't just won it, she's totally dominated.

I'm just so... Just shocked.

I'm just... Everyone who's supported me and...

Thank everyone here and my family and... I can't...

Just everyone that's supported me. I'm so happy.

When she crossed the line, arms aloft,

the feeling of pride I felt for her for winning was massive.

And then it switched back to myself and my thought process of,

I want to feel what she just felt.

I want to have the crowd going mad for me, because I've won.

Can he feed off this atmosphere?

And it's big!

What has he done?

8.31m!

That is going to take some beating.

Could this be the greatest night in British athletics history?

I went from the 3rd of August, nobody having any idea who I was,

my name or whatever else, to the 4th of August,

becoming Olympic champion on a night

which was truly spectacular in British sport.

To have an Olympics in your hometown, it's once-in-a-lifetime.

He's ready.

I'll never experience the pressure I had in London.

That was the most pressure ever, in my entire life.

An Olympic 10,000m final.

I'd normally start at the back, work my way through.

As I'm working my way through,

it's getting louder and louder and louder.

And I'm thinking, "Concentrate here, concentrate."

And when I went to the last lap, pfft...

The stadium was just going nuts.

-Mo Farah hits the front.

-BELL

A lap to go, the bell rings.

Is it tolling for a gold medal for Great Britain?

I had the best seat in the house, when I looked to watch Mo.

From standing underneath the Olympic flame.

He was cheering for me on the side of the track.

"Go, Mo, go, Mo!"

I remember him cheering for me, and it was amazing.

Farah into the home straight, just got 100m to go.

Has he got enough?

He's kicking again.

Mo Farah, is going for it!

It's going to be a glorious, glorious win!

Mo Farah for Great Britain!

It's gold!

You know, you dream of becoming Olympic champion,

but to do it, it's different.

And to do it in your hometown, in London, it was amazing.

I saw Rihanna come on the track. I got really emotional, lifted her up.

That moment was so beautiful, as a family.

Three gold medals for Great Britain! What a night!

That 45-minute window where we had Jess, Greg and then me.

It was just incredible.

To be part of a really iconic night of British athletics

that will be forever remembered was just so incredible.

Mo Farah's London Olympics didn't end on Super Saturday.

Immediately after becoming the 10,000m champion,

his attention turned to his pursuit of the 5,000m gold.

I wanted to come out and try and win the 5k.

At that point, I was just having recovered from the 10k,

rest up, just get ready, not get distracted.

And at one point, yeah,

I was getting a little bit distracted, but, you know.

Then I ran the heat three days later and I felt a bit tired.

I'm like, "Man, I'm moving around too much.

"I can't be doing what I'm doing, I need to just focus."

And that's what I did, I went back to the village,

just someone was bringing up my food for me, just go training.

And then come back and I'll stay in my room.

Well, settle down for what should be an enthralling 15 minutes or so.

I had nothing to lose. I didn't feel the pressure,

it was just a matter of seeing what I can do, can I make history?

What can I do?

Farah, holding the inside curve. That'll be a help.

The crowd are on their feet, they're trying to roar him home.

The arms have got to pump, the knees have got to come up high.

He's got to find something extra, he's got to kick hard.

Come on, Mo Farah!

Gerbemeskel is coming, but I think he's going to get there.

Farah is going to make it two gold medals for Great Britain. Beautiful!

The place erupts!

He's a double Olympic champion.

But there were more memorable moments to come for Mo and his family.

Just two weeks after the Olympics were over,

his wife Tania gave birth to twin girls.

Going into the race, my wife Tania was heavily pregnant with the twins.

Tania never told me this, but she spoke to my agent and said,

"Well, if the babies come, we can't tell Mo, because he's been waiting

"for this moment and we don't want to disturb him or cause a problem."

So what they agreed was, if the babies did come, they weren't going

to let me know, she was just going to take care of it.

You know, that's what my wife would do for me.

I'm just grateful to have a wonderful woman in my life.

Average, I'm spending six months of the year away from my family

and not being able to see my family in terms of racing, training camp.

Which is difficult, but if you want to be champion, if I want to

stay on top, that's what it takes to be able to compete with these guys.

-TANIA:

-We all make sacrifices, that's what you do in family.

If we're honest about it, he wouldn't be able to run

and do what he does without me taking care of things

and keeping strong and just keeping things running smoothly.

Generally, I do miss my family and my kids

and not being able to see my family sometimes hurts me.

But I know I'm doing it for them.

I know Rihanna, my oldest daughter, she's almost 12 now,

she understands what I need to do.

And the twins understand a bit more now. They're going to be five soon.

And my son, he doesn't what's going on. He's like, "Daddy, daddy?"

It's a shock for them, because I've been away so long,

you go to the house, and they don't know what to do.

They're like...

And then it takes them like two-three weeks to be able

to get comfortable with you.

And then you leave again. And that's hard.

A year on from Super Saturday, the 2013 World Championships would be

an opportunity for Mo to continue his global domination on the track.

Over the past 34 years, these championships have seen

some of the greatest moments in athletics history.

Oh, he really went for that one, that's huge!

Just like the Olympics, they're a stage every athlete dreams of

and values as a place to compete against the best in the world.

He's done it again!

A new world record for Usain Bolt!

Held every two years, they either lead into or follow an Olympics.

During my own career, I was always passionate about defending

my World Championship titles.

Michael Johnson, storming away to another gold medal.

The world record beckons, and it's gone!

If Mo could add the world 10,000m and 5,000m titles

to his Olympic golds, he could achieve an historic double-double.

In the build-up to Moscow, I had the greatest speed,

I was in great shape.

Probably one of the best shapes of my life, in 2013.

Looking back at my diary and thinking,

I did this key session, did that session,

and that's the time when I broke the 1,500m British record.

And Farah's going to run a superb fast time.

And Kiprop crosses in 28th,

and Mo Farah may well have just have broken my British record for 1,500m.

Neil, for a 5,000m runner to come

and run like that is absolutely unbelievable.

The fact that he's internationally competitive,

definitely, at everything from 1,500 to marathon,

that's a pretty unique spread of events.

All of the preparations behind them.

Ahead, 25 laps of the World Championship 10,000m.

I had the hunger and I had the drive,

and I still had the great memories from London 2012.

So, for me, it was like,

I don't want people to think this was just a fluke.

Let's see what I can do.

Mo Farah, digging deep.

He's got Jeilan right there.

And here's the last bit of acceleration.

And Mo Farah starts to go away.

It's still not won. Jeilan is still there, and Jeilan comes again.

But Farah's going to get there!

This as well domination for Farah, he is the world champion!

When you win championships and you win another championship,

it gives you a massive boost and massive confidence.

You feel like, you know, you could do it. Which sometimes is...

It gets difficult, because most people know what you do,

you've got a target on your back. But, for me, it gives me confidence.

I feel like I've been in this situation before.

I can take care of it.

Men's 5,000m final.

You've got an endurance engine, and you do all the boring stuff, and

you really create that platform that you then put the winning stuff on.

And the winning stuff is what he can do

over the last 600m, the last 400m.

He's running against very talented Ethiopians,

very talented Kenyans and others.

However, they're not paying the same attention to detail that

Mo Farah has done for the last six or seven years.

Have any of them got the ammunition?

Mo Farah, working hard!

He hasn't got this one yet, he's got a battle for this.

He's sprinting for gold, he's running for greatness!

Mo Farah is going to get there again!

Farah wins it!

Another incredible performance from Mo Farah.

For Greg Rutherford, that winning jump on Super Saturday was

the beginning of a whole new chapter.

After London, describe the change in your life.

Everything changed.

Now you've got people wanting you to appear at this thing

and talk about it. People wanting you on their TV show,

people want you to come and do all the other things.

People stopping me on the street.

I went from nobody to papers writing all different stories.

I remember I hugged...

I did a TV show, hugged some pop star from the UK,

and all of a sudden, I was the front page of a newspaper saying,

look who so-and-so's now dating.

And it was like... These things were completely alien to me.

So if you look back to Super Saturday.

Jess, Mo, you,

all three of you guys, fantastic performances.

Did you ever look at them or reach out to one of them and say,

"How's it going for you? Because I'm having a hard time with this."

No, and do you know what?

I think, for me, probably because I always saw Jess and Mo

as superstars, really, I probably...

No, I didn't.

I think for me, I see myself as different.

And still probably never quite them, if that makes sense.

They are two of the greatest ever in British history.

And I've never been able to put myself with those guys.

A year on from his victory in London,

the 2013 World Championships in Moscow offered Greg the chance to

prove that his London gold was more than just a one-off.

But despite his best efforts, he went out of that competition

in the early stages, failing to qualify for the final.

I made a very bad decision in 2013,

I should not have gone to the World Championships.

I had a ruptured hamstring, couldn't run fast,

couldn't really jump very far.

But I just hoped and believed that I could do something.

And possibly, yeah, to prove people wrong.

And I ignored the fact that I was in no shape to do so at all.

And I wish so much I never did it, really do.

Greg's 2013 season was undoubtedly a steep learning curve.

The following year,

he returned to the coach who'd led him to victory in London,

and ended the 2014 season as Commonwealth and European champion.

After winning two Majors, my focus changed to the fact that,

could I win a World Championships?

I've always believed it, but things go wrong in my career, generally.

That's what seems to happen.

Winning two Majors made me realise that, yeah, you can

still do it, and let's go.

My focus became, let's get a world title.

So this is where it all goes down?

-Or used to go down!

-Used to go down, yeah.

So this is where I'd come every day, pretty much.

Spent a lot of my life here.

-Who's that?

-Yeah, so when Reggie comes down, he's like, "Mummy!"

They have lots of sports days on, which is nice.

-Lots of kids about.

-Yep.

So, were you competing when you were their age?

-What were you doing?

-I was probably like this big.

-But, yeah, just started when I was ten, so a little bit older.

-Yeah.

So these are some of the girls that train with Toni now.

But again, the group's changed, and everyone's so young now.

So it's all different.

-Hello.

-Hey!

-How's it going?

-Have you brought your kit?

-No kit today.

-It's good to see you.

Michael!

I've missed you, I've really missed you.

-Of course. I didn't bring my kit either.

-Yeah...

-Hello!

How long did you guys work together?

-18 years.

-18 years.

-18 years.

-Do I have to call you Dame now?

-Yes, please.

-OK.

-Thank you.

-SHE LAUGHS

Toni Minichiello has worked as Jess' coach throughout her whole career.

Guiding her progress from promising schoolkid sprinter

to multi-event champion.

Did you suggest heptathlon?

You know what, we thought...

She wanted to be a sprinter, she hated throwing,

didn't like sand, didn't want to do those things.

-"I'll never be good at them!"

-Didn't like the 800.

It was definitely you that suggested heptathlon,

because I didn't really know what it was.

And then, slowly, you started introducing the events.

It was seven events over two days, and it's just hard,

that's such hard work.

When Toni suggested heptathlon, you didn't know what it was.

I'm assuming you explained it.

What was your initial thought?

I thought, "How hard can it be? Let's give it a go."

-Toni said there's an 800 at the end?

-Yeah!

And they're, like, back-to-back.

And then, obviously, I tried the event and, yeah,

it took a long time for me to love it, because I think you enjoy

things that you're good at and that you're successful with.

And I wasn't successful at most of the events,

and I couldn't throw particularly well.

And I struggled with the 800.

And I couldn't see how it was all going to come together.

I'm kind of the person that will stick with something anyway

and want to see it through.

And there's almost that feeling of, I don't want to quit it.

I don't want to be a quitter with it. And, obviously, Toni saw...

You know, from that early age,

he saw that I had potential within the event.

And I suppose I just had to trust him and know that, eventually,

it would come right a few years down the line.

Jess is expecting her second child.

Her first, Reggie, was born two years after Super Saturday.

Having won gold in London and facing the prospect of becoming

a parent for the first time, many would have decided to call it a day.

When I was pregnant with Reggie, I always had in my mind that

I wanted to come back.

I definitely wanted to come back.

I didn't believe you, you know that? I didn't believe you one bit!

I don't think a lot of people... I don't think you believed me.

I think there was that feeling, even amongst the team,

and we were all really close, everyone was like,

"OK, if that's what you say you're doing, we'll see," sort of thing.

But I just knew that I wanted to do it. I knew it was going to be hard.

As any first-time parent, you do not have an idea of what

life is going to be like once your first child comes along.

And it was a huge shock for me.

You know, all the changes, positively and negatively.

That's why we didn't believe you.

We were like, "Wait until she finds out."

Yeah, and I can understand that.

But I still had that drive

and I still felt that I had a little bit left to achieve in the sport.

Having a son and now having to balance life a little bit more,

how did that change your life?

I think, in my mind, I just felt that

I was going to step back in and it might take me a few weeks to

get back to where I was, but I was still going to be the same athlete.

And actually, when I got back into training and I went to do

hill runs with the group, I was at the back of the group.

I was struggling to make reps. I was tired, I was upset.

It was just one of the most challenging things I've ever done.

But then there was that niggling thought at the back of my mind

that said, "You want to do it,

"you want to get back to full, elite competition."

Why? I mean, why would you want to get back out there at this point?

You've got a beautiful son, you're Olympic champion.

My huge motivator was Reggie,

because, you know, I wanted him to just be a part of that last,

unique journey that I'd been on for all those years.

That not many people get to experience,

and I want him to look back and see what I'd achieved,

and that I'd achieved it with him.

And, again, it was just a massive challenge.

I love a challenge, and coming back, after having him,

was the biggest challenge I could ever set myself.

The 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing

took place just one year after the birth of Jess' son Reggie.

No heptathlete had ever come back from childbirth to win

a World Championships title.

I knew I was in a better position than I was a few months ago,

but I still knew that I wasn't where I was a couple of years ago.

Her presence, the fact that she made the decision and she turned up

and was just there - regardless of the shape she'd have been in -

applies pressure to the other athletes, because they're going,

"That's Jess, Olympic champion, and she's turned up."

That's a big jump.

6.43, it's a season's best for Jess Ennis-Hill.

I just kept thinking, just don't make any major mistakes

and let the other girls make mistakes around you.

Just keep doing these solid performances that aren't anything

amazing or spectacular, but they're just solid.

And if I can keep doing that throughout all the events,

then maybe I could be in with a chance of medalling,

and then it became a gold medal.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is back on top of the world!

Storybook athletics.

Definitely one of my proudest moments.

Because, I mean, only myself and my family

and people that are closest to me saw how emotionally stressful

it was to get back into training.

Very tired and missing my son.

And for it all to come together and win, it was just really unexpected.

As reigning Olympic and world champion, Beijing offered Mo

another opportunity to continue his winning streak.

But he had endured a turbulent summer.

Preparations disrupted by doping accusations

aimed at his coach, Alberto Salazar.

I spoke to Alberto last night, and I said to him,

"Alberto, what's going on?"

I said to him, "I need some answers."

He goes, "Mo, I can prove this to you.

"These are just allegations, I'll show you some evidence."

I'm really angry at this situation.

It's not fair, it's not right.

I haven't done anything,

but my name's getting dragged through the mud.

I'm a clean athlete, I'm against drugs, 100%.

And I believe that anyone caught with drugs

should be banned for life.

10,000m final.

Mo Farah, away he goes.

Going into a championships,

you want to be able to know that you're in the best shape you can be.

And, you know, if they throw something at you, you can cover it.

Mo Farah, on the track, is a smart guy.

He controls races.

500m to go.

Mo Farah moves to the front for the first time.

He knows that,

"If I do what I have to do, they'll all fall into place.

"They'll do what I think they're going to do,

"and what they think they're going to do, and I'll win."

Farah looking both left and right, he sees danger.

The Kenyans are both there.

He's striking for home now.

They've thrown everything on him, they've gone hard, they've gone

very hard, but it's not hard enough, because they're not good enough.

They're not fast enough. Mo Farah is the world champion again.

During the heat in the 5,000m, I slightly twitched my hamstring,

I nearly went down. So my hamstring was a bit sore.

And I could feel it in the final.

I had to just smoothly stride it out.

And look at Ndiku, he goes,

"No, I know you want to be at the front, I'm not letting you."

So this has got to be different from Mo Farah.

One effort by Mo Farah to try and get into the lead,

it wasn't enough.

He's now got to gather himself.

He is being tested a little here.

Has he got the legs, has he got the strength?

Can he take Farah on?

The gold medal, surely between these two.

Ndiku, the tall Kenyan.

Mo Farah striking for gold again!

He takes one look, they've got nothing for him!

Mo Farah, streaking away!

Gold again!

Just has too much. He is just too good.

Injury had denied Greg Rutherford any chance

at the 2013 World Championships.

But he arrived in Beijing in good shape as the reigning

Olympic, Commonwealth and European champion.

I went in very similar to how I went into the Olympics in 2012.

I thought it was my competition to lose, even though

there were some exceptional jumpers there.

These were guys who were jumping bigger than me,

but I still believed, on the day, I would win it.

He's out in front, here at the World Championships.

8.29 is his lead. He's looking to extend it...

Oh, that's big!

That's a huge jump!

8.41.

Come on!

Rutherford completes his Grand Slam.

Olympic, European, Commonwealth and now world champion.

I'm hoping 8.41 is acceptable for people this time.

I think, last time, I wasn't jumping far enough for people.

But I'm pretty sure that's actually a stadium record here, so I'll take that.

That's not too bad. Maybe I'm not too bad a long jumper.

My motivation has always been winning.

And that stems from being a kid.

I think, often, everyone always told me it would never be me,

I was never going to be the good athlete, the good sportsperson,

somebody else would do it.

And I was always determined to prove people wrong.

My entire athletic career has basically been me

belligerently winning to prove everybody else that doubted

that I do have the ability to do it.

What is it about Greg that sets him apart as a jumper from anyone else?

It's his speed.

He's the fastest long jumper going right now, probably.

He's the only one in the world right now

that's hit 11.6m/s on the runway.

Once you hit the board, he's probably not the best or most

efficient in the air, but his run up is really, really good.

As a competitor, he just seems to be able to thrive under pressure,

like few athletes can. Where does that come from?

I think you'll know better than most, right?

The best athletes are the ones that really perform when it really counts, right?

So Greg, on the lower competitions, where it's really not that important,

he doesn't really bring himself up,

and he doesn't really perform as well as he does.

But that arousal level that's there within a World Championships

or an Olympic Games, that's what really brings Greg to the fore.

I just think that he requires this higher level of pressure to

actually dig in to what's really available to him.

Ah, no, you're hiding!

Aw!

Do I not get a cuddle?

From where I sit, I kind of look at the old Greg, new Greg.

-I see a little bit of a difference.

-Right.

Has it changed him from what you've seen?

I think fatherhood has maybe taught him to let go if he's not

having a great time training, or if things aren't going right.

Fatherhood for him is so much more important than a career.

So I think it helps him unwind and see the bigger picture.

But he's no different to how I expected him to be.

I thought he'd throw himself headfirst into it,

and he certainly has.

You're being silly, aren't you? You're being silly.

The next opportunity for Jess, Mo and Greg to compete

against the best in the world would be the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Jess and her team hoped that she could continue to build on her

unexpected World Championship gold.

But with seven events to compete in, defending her Olympic

title would depend on being able to train as effectively as possible.

That year was just so up-and-down.

I just keep picking up Achilles injuries all the time.

So I'd have my left Achilles, problems with that,

where it'd be weeks off training.

And then the other Achilles would start hurting,

and it was just back and forth.

I mean, I remember making a phone call,

and it was after the second injury, when I rang up Neil Black,

who's performance director, and went, "Can Jess go to the Olympics

"without having done and heptathlon this year?"

And he just went quiet on the other end of the phone.

He was like, "Erm... I just need to check."

"OK, speak to you later."

Despite her various setbacks,

Jess found form just in time to travel to Rio.

The challenge ahead of her was significant.

No British woman had ever retained an Olympic track and field title.

I obviously wanted to do well and I put pressure on myself.

But, at the same time, anything that year was a huge bonus.

And having won the World Championships the year before,

unexpectedly, everything was just a massive bonus after that.

That is a very, very good start, and suddenly there is the smile.

And the tension just leaves a little bit.

Did you expect that the competition

would be a little bit stiffer in 2016?

Yeah, after 2015, I knew that the year after, it's an Olympic year

and everybody raises their game.

And I was getting a little bit older and having injuries and niggles.

But the rest of the world, there was young athletes coming through

and performing really well.

That is a really impressive jump.

If you look at Nafi Thiam, she was having good performances.

The 1.98 in the high jump, she'd done really well in the hurdles.

She was accumulating points.

But, for Jess, she'd lost points in the shot,

she'd lost points in the long jump.

Ah, the face tells a story.

Going into the 800m, we knew it was going to be incredibly difficult.

I needed to beat Thiam by nine seconds.

It was always going to be a really tough challenge.

All credit to the girl, she ran her heart out.

Jess Ennis is doing everything she can.

She can only win this last event,

and then there will be an anxious wait, looking back to Thiam.

Jess Ennis, coming down the home straight,

and now the clock is ticking, and Thiam is going to become

the Olympic champion by a couple of seconds.

It's the smallest winning margin, really,

in modern heptathlon history.

So, Nafi Thiam is the Olympic champion.

Jess Ennis-Hill, the silver medal this time.

You know, a few people said, "Did you feel disappointed?"

Particularly in interviews after.

"Oh, sorry you didn't get the gold, are you disappointed?"

And there was no feeling of being disappointed at all.

It was just a feeling of, "I've got here through the year

"that I've had and the challenges that I've had."

I just knew that I had done what I had set out to achieve in my career,

and that I was happy, that I was content.

That I wasn't going to walk away and feel disappointed or think,

"I wish I'd pushed on a little bit longer.

From experience, I know how hard it is to retain an Olympic title.

And perhaps toughest of all is being in perfect condition

when it really counts.

The unique challenges of the long jump meant that once again,

Greg was unlucky with injury.

I'm defending Olympic champion,

so a lot of people are looking at me to win this medal still.

And then my body decided 2016 was the year of illness and injury.

As an athlete flies through the air and they go in to land,

there's a lot of forces when you hit the sand.

And if you watch the head and whatnot,

they actually go through a whiplash-type movement.

And he caught a really bad landing in some bad sand,

the pit hadn't been managed real well.

And it was an extreme whiplash injury.

He lost hearing, he had vertigo,

couldn't get out of bed for days on end.

And then that triggered other reactions in the spine.

And we were just against the clock.

We were making progress, but we just ran out of time.

Obviously, I decided to go.

Things didn't pan out at all in the final for me.

It just seemed to be everything went wrong.

I was probably about two thirds of the way through my warm up,

did one of my drills, and all of a sudden

just felt the sharp pain again in my groin.

Probably in that moment,

I realised my opportunity of winning was diminishing very, very quickly.

Ooh, I don't like the look of that.

That's a jump that won't improve his position.

He's in fourth place.

I wasn't in a medal position.

I was in a position I hadn't experienced in a very long time,

and I had to muster every ounce of energy

and pretty much beg my body to let me have one more jump.

Ooh, it's bang on it!

Oh, he's done it! Has he'd done it?

Oh, it's a white flag!

Oh, my word, what is it?

It's 8.29.

It does take him into the medals.

I don't make any excuses for finishing third at all.

The guys who beat me were better than me on the day,

and that's a fact of life.

I just wish so much I could've gone into that 100% fit.

Without any of the problems that I'd had going into it.

So I could have done myself justice,

because I feel it was a missed opportunity for me.

I really think Rio was maybe one of his greatest meets ever,

for what he was battling and had to overcome.

So to walk out of Rio with a bronze medal was disappointing for him

and a lot of his fans, but it was a tremendous accomplishment,

based on how he entered that meet.

Jess and Greg's stories in Rio are a reminder that the

defence of an Olympic title is no small feat.

Each relentless four-year cycle presents new challenges

and demands everything you have to give.

-STEVE CRAM:

-In a sport like athletics,

you normally get a short period where you dominate.

But Mo treats every season - or he has for the last few years -

"This is my one chance to win!"

You know, and if you can keep that hunger, which he has done,

then you get the results he does.

There's no-one can pace me, so what's the best way?

Get somebody on a bike.

I've done altogether over 10 miles, with just this session alone.

Did a three-mile warm-up, that's 13.

And then I'll do another three cooldown, that's 16,

and then run again tonight.

The thing that comes across most in spending time with him,

he loves this stuff.

This is what he does.

This is what he wants to do.

And I think if there was a message for anybody to learn,

if you can learn it, it's, yes, you've got to train hard,

yes, you've got to be competitive, you've got to be serious,

professional and a whole bag of other things.

But you've also got to have fun.

Mo's ambition in Rio would be to defend an Olympic

double in two gruelling, long-distance events.

A feat only accomplished by one other athlete in history -

the legendary Lasse Viren.

Going to Rio, I probably felt a little bit more tired, fatigued,

but at the same time, I'd had four years of training, solid training.

So that was good, I didn't have any setbacks where I was missing

a month here, two months here, it was all pretty good.

It's looking good for Mo so far.

Oh, Mo's fallen! He's quickly up.

Just got a little clip there.

It was shock at that point, when I fell.

I felt like my race was over, I was done.

But I had to pick up and be strong and think,

"Look, I didn't work hard for nothing."

And try and save as much energy as I can and not panic.

The incident, in itself, there was no reason

for him not to be able to come back from that physically.

Other athletes, or other people, might have then spent part of that

race worrying about the fact, "I've just fallen, what does that mean?

"Do I feel OK?" Whereas with Mo,

he just slots straight back into his, "I'm winning this."

Tanui going hard, going as fast as he can.

Mo Farah, having to work hard.

Tanui's giving it everything, but here comes Mo Farah!

Mo Farah moves out, and he opens those legs of his,

and he's sprinting away!

They succumb to the inevitable.

Bow to his superiority,

Mo Farah wins the gold!

With that win in the 10,000m, Mo Farah became the first ever

British track and field athlete to win three Olympic gold medals.

His attention now turned to the 5,000m.

I don't think it was that difficult for him to come back for the 5,000m.

I really don't.

I don't think he thought anything different than,

"I'll win 10,000 and then I'll come back and I'll win the 5,000."

There was only ever going to be one result.

He knew that and the others knew that.

They're trying to catch him,

and Farah looks up to his inside, checks there's no danger there.

Mo Farah is going to get gold for Great Britain again!

The double-double.

I can't believe it, it hasn't sunk in yet!

-NEIL BLACK:

-He's done something for both himself

and for British athletics that's kind of monumental.

To come back, year after year,

to have done the double-double,

you can't really measure it.

If you dream of something and you have ambitions

and you're willing to work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

As London prepares to welcome

the best in the world for the 2017 World Athletics Championships,

Greg is faced with one of the toughest decisions of his career.

I'm not where I need to be.

I've not had a season this dogged with injury probably for 10 years.

2007 was the last time it was this bad.

Early on, I ended up herniating a disc in my back.

After that, probably the big one,

I ended up tearing two ligaments in my left ankle.

At that point, I realised, I think, that my World Championships,

my World Championship bid was over.

I now have two children.

My second son was born not long ago now, he's very little.

-Hello!

-Hello!

For me, far more important than jumping, and what will always

be more important than jumping, is how good a dad I can be.

And actually, do you know what,

I now get a summer where I can hang out with my kids the whole time.

I'm fascinated to see how it goes, who jumps what distances

and who wins the medals.

But there while always be this part of me watching it,

knowing that if I were there and fit,

that one of those medals could very easily have been one of mine.

So it's going to be...

It's going to be difficult to watch.

For Jess, at these World Championships,

there's an entirely new challenge - being a spectator.

So how are you finding retirement?

In all honesty, I'm just loving every minute of it.

It's just nice to not have that constant worry about training and

whether you're ahead of where you need to be, whether you're behind.

Whether you're in good shape or bad shape.

It's just, yeah, nice to have some freedom.

So, World Championships this summer in London,

you'll have an opportunity to be there, you looking forward to it?

How do you think you're going to feel?

It's going to be completely different for me,

but I'm really looking forward to it.

It'll be nice to just enjoy the sport from a different perspective.

I know how the athletes are feeling and the adrenaline and the nerves,

and it'll be nice to sit there

knowing I don't have to go through all those events

and finish with an 800, and just enjoy watching.

After the years of training and competing around the world,

Mo will return to London,

the city where his love affair with running began.

There's no place like home, London's where it's at.

This is where it happened, where my life has changed.

Where my kids were born.

I need to go and do London, win it.

I want it probably more than any other year.

I'm excited to be able to compete one last time

and hang my spikes up after.

Looking back to Super Saturday,

that unforgettable night in the Olympic Stadium...

..Jess, Mo and Greg were each propelled

into a new stage of their lives.

Three gold medals for Great Britain!

What a night!

The journeys they have been on since then tell the truth

about what it takes to become the best in the world.

Storybook athletics.

I've been impressed by their determination and resilience.

The hard graft and the sacrifices that each of them has made

are the reason we get to witness the extraordinary

moments of competition unfold before us.

Five years ago, the Olympic Stadium provided a setting

for one of the most inspirational nights in British sporting history.

My words cannot do justice to how I feel.

Over the next two weeks,

my hope is that the very same stadium will once again

become an arena where we can feel inspired

in the knowledge that the journey to get there is never straightforward.

London, here we come.