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:00:10. > :00:14.The Olympic Games come on a grand scale, so vast only the biggest

:00:14. > :00:21.need apply. London! Olympic budgets are calculated by the billion, so

:00:21. > :00:29.too the television audience. This is sport subjected to huge

:00:29. > :00:33.pressures, to protest, global in size. Yet the massive is only a

:00:33. > :00:39.compilation of individuals each with a tale. This is the story of a

:00:39. > :00:43.small land and our part in the biggest show on earth. Wales at the

:00:43. > :00:47.Olympics. It's one of the oddities of the

:00:47. > :00:52.London Games that they start here at the Millennium Stadium in

:00:52. > :00:57.Cardiff on July 25. It's on obvious Welsh connect but it maibgdz the

:00:57. > :01:01.general point about the Olympics, the first action, women's football,

:01:01. > :01:06.Great Britain against New Zealand, then Cameroon against Brazil. Then

:01:06. > :01:09.men's football. Sport for all regardless of gender, colour or

:01:09. > :01:13.background. It wasn't always like. That the Olympics were designed for

:01:13. > :01:19.well to do white men from polite society, men from a castle in North

:01:19. > :01:26.Wales. A Welsh Gold Medallist amateur to his very core or nearly.

:01:26. > :01:29.And in this sport, Wales's greatest Olympian ever was not soure at all

:01:29. > :01:34.and he was from Cardiff docks. Two contrasting tales of winners and

:01:34. > :01:40.the Welshman who didn't win, didn't become part of this legend. The

:01:40. > :01:43.cruelty of the amateur code and how that code has evolved to keep a

:01:43. > :01:49.modern Welshman very much in contention for a Gold Medal. Tom

:01:49. > :01:56.James at the Games of today just like at the last Games. Gold Medal,

:01:57. > :02:01.Great Britain, wonderfully done! First, organising the sports of

:02:01. > :02:04.yesterday. In the 1850s a doctor in rural Shropshire, William Penny

:02:04. > :02:10.Brookes promoted sport for the good of all. His Wenlock Games are

:02:11. > :02:19.viewed fondly as a building block of the modern Olympics. There were

:02:19. > :02:28.spin-off Games in Wales. In 1865 in Llandudno. And a rival Goran ever

:02:28. > :02:32.governing body was created by the three As. Sports were given

:02:32. > :02:37.unifying sets of rules, edging them towards international

:02:37. > :02:42.multidisciplined competition. But as they advanced by the rule book,

:02:42. > :02:46.sport shrank in the sense of being open to all, a sort of

:02:46. > :02:51.protectionism had crept in. The spirit of fair play could be safe

:02:51. > :02:56.guarded only by a certain class. Sports club membership at the end

:02:56. > :03:02.of the 19th century was almost exclusively for people who could

:03:02. > :03:08.vote, in other words, people who had property. And people who were

:03:08. > :03:12.from other classes were very much frowned upon. Baron Pierre de

:03:12. > :03:18.Coubertin the founding father of the modern Olympics. The much

:03:18. > :03:22.travelled French nobleman drew on many sources for the Athens Games.

:03:22. > :03:27.But one sport in particular inspired him. De Coubertin had been

:03:27. > :03:31.to Wenlock and taken note of the Olympian Games. On the river bank

:03:31. > :03:36.he found sport set against the back drop of a genteel English garden

:03:36. > :03:41.party, exactly what he was looking forment during his fact-finding

:03:41. > :03:46.tour, De Coubertin came to watch the racing here at Henley-on-Thames.

:03:46. > :03:52.There's been a regatta here since 1839. We could still be in 1839. He

:03:52. > :03:58.was so impressed with the stewards who ran the regatta, he made them

:03:58. > :04:02.the model of the International Olympic Committee. There was a code

:04:02. > :04:06.of conduct here, amateurism was the way, sport through love, not money.

:04:06. > :04:11.Money was a recipe for cheating, professionalism was a dirty word

:04:11. > :04:15.and winning wasn't everything. It meant you could only go to the new

:04:15. > :04:21.Olympic Games if you could afford the time, if you didn't take sport

:04:21. > :04:24.too seriously. Tales are told of people going on their yachts, on

:04:24. > :04:27.their boats independently and turning up, sometimes not even

:04:27. > :04:34.knowing that there was a Games on and then deciding to sign up and

:04:34. > :04:39.have a go. Then perhaps even come ago way with medals. However scen

:04:39. > :04:42.tick, the Games grew in popularity. 12 years after Athens they came to

:04:42. > :04:47.London with one favourite sport going up the Thames, back to the

:04:47. > :04:52.source of Olympic inspiration, Henley. And it was here that one of

:04:52. > :04:57.Wales' first gold medals was won by a man raised in a castle in harden

:04:57. > :05:00.in Flintshire North Wales. Albert Gladstone was the son of a vicar

:05:00. > :05:07.who went to Eton and then Christ Church Oxford, grand enough. But

:05:07. > :05:12.the tale grows grander. Sir Albert Gladstone. Fifth barren et,

:05:12. > :05:17.grandson of William Gladstone, fourth time Prime Minister and one

:05:17. > :05:20.of the giants of the Victorian age. The castle is still in the

:05:20. > :05:24.Gladstone family. The four-time Prime Minister famously chopped

:05:24. > :05:29.down trees for exercise. The rest of the family headed for the river,

:05:29. > :05:35.including Sir Albert's nephew, Sir William. Do you think there's

:05:35. > :05:38.something about rowing which seized your family at the turn of the

:05:38. > :05:45.century? I don't know what it was. They were certainly quite a rowing

:05:45. > :05:52.dynasty. They went to a house at Eton where rowing was very popular.

:05:52. > :05:58.That's where the success of my uncle Albert and my father began.

:05:58. > :06:02.If fair play was everything, sport was still a serious business. De

:06:02. > :06:08.Coubertin had witnessed France's humiliation in the Franco Prussian

:06:08. > :06:13.war and saw sport for a vehicle for national self-improvement and

:06:13. > :06:17.international cooperation. Meaty stuff. The whole Olympic ideal was

:06:17. > :06:23.based on muscular Christianity. not quite sure you're being fair to

:06:23. > :06:31.say that. I mean, it wasn't an imperialistic kind of regime. I

:06:31. > :06:35.think it was part of the Victorian ideal of sportsmanship, the amateur

:06:35. > :06:42.spirit, never cheating or trying to bend the rules or anything like

:06:42. > :06:46.that. Never going in for a competition just to win a cup.

:06:46. > :06:50.Indeed the Leander crews never practised for more than three weeks.

:06:50. > :06:54.They were immensely fit men. They came together three weeks before

:06:54. > :06:59.the regatta, because it was thought thating in more than that would

:06:59. > :07:05.stink of professionalism. And at the pinkest and poshest of all

:07:05. > :07:09.rowing clubs that wouldn't do. Leander, Albert's club, and the

:07:09. > :07:13.Leander eight would be Britain's blue-riband crew at the Olympics.

:07:13. > :07:17.They were known as the old man's eight, there any affection ended.

:07:17. > :07:25.All that idealism was swamped by a good old fashioned grudge match

:07:25. > :07:30.with this lot, as the bad guys. Belgian crew came over in 1906 and

:07:30. > :07:34.1907. They described them as beer swilling, significant ar smoking

:07:34. > :07:39.Belgians with long hair. They won. They beat the cream of the best

:07:39. > :07:43.clubs in London and they didn't like it at all. The Olympics were

:07:43. > :07:46.going to come up in 1908. It was felt something must be done.

:07:46. > :07:50.mind set changed. They were determined that come the Olympics

:07:50. > :07:55.that they would get their revenge and they wouldn't allow the honour

:07:55. > :08:00.of England and Great Britain to sail down the river. So, for the

:08:00. > :08:06.first time ever, a British rowing crew got together early in the year,

:08:06. > :08:12.that means April, in fact, and trained right through the summer.

:08:12. > :08:16.The dastardly practice paid off. The romantic idea of gentlemanly

:08:17. > :08:20.amateurism was being stretched. There ways Gold Medal to celebrate

:08:20. > :08:25.for Leander, Great Britain, uncle Albert and Wales before a normal

:08:25. > :08:30.service of reserve was resumed. Olympics was the great moment.

:08:30. > :08:34.There's no doubt about that. But he was incredibly modest and so,

:08:34. > :08:38.anything you got out of him about his rowing success had to be

:08:39. > :08:43.squeezed out of him. Sir Albert with eight fellow rowers at Eton,

:08:43. > :08:46.all nine went off to serve in the First World War, only three

:08:46. > :08:50.returned alive. Albert Gladstone among them, having served with

:08:51. > :08:55.distinction with the Gurkhas. He went on to become a director of the

:08:55. > :09:00.Bank of England. Would anything, including the Olympics, ever be the

:09:00. > :09:06.same after First World War? When it came to the ever so slightly

:09:06. > :09:09.strange world of rowing, it appeared it wo. -- would. In the

:09:09. > :09:16.1920s another promising rower appeared Jumbo Edwards, known as

:09:16. > :09:19.Jumbo. His father was the Welsh speaking vicar of west cot Barton.

:09:19. > :09:24.Jumbo went to Westminster school and here like Albert Gladstone to

:09:24. > :09:30.Christ Church Oxford. They were, however, very different characters.

:09:30. > :09:35.Jumbo and this hallowed setting did not go together well. Jumbo soon

:09:35. > :09:40.had to leave Oxford. His son David tries to explain why. We've never

:09:40. > :09:45.been quite sure why he left. Certainly he didn't do very much

:09:45. > :09:52.work. I think maybe it was suggested to him that it was best

:09:52. > :09:57.if he went down until he decided to do a bit more. The second thing was

:09:57. > :10:01.his rowing. He won an Oxford blue in his first year but collapsed

:10:01. > :10:04.during the boat race of 1926. You could be forgiven for not working

:10:04. > :10:10.hard at Oxford, but not rowing hard? They were neck and neck at

:10:10. > :10:15.the time. Cambridge went on to win by a good distance. There was hell

:10:15. > :10:19.to pay. They called him a baby. They wouldn't have him back in the

:10:19. > :10:23.boat. He was villified. He actually went off to see the doctors and

:10:23. > :10:31.they checked him over and found he had a bit of a heart default and

:10:31. > :10:36.shouldn't really have been rowing. Jumbo sought solace, as you do with

:10:36. > :10:42.a dodgy ticker, in flying. Flying brought him back to Oxford.

:10:43. > :10:48.wanted to do more flying, so he found that if he got a degree, he

:10:48. > :10:54.could join the RAF on a university commission. So he decided he'd come

:10:54. > :10:58.back here again. Take two! The second time round he said he wasn't

:10:58. > :11:02.going to row, except he did, of course and was selected in the

:11:02. > :11:06.Coxless pair for the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. He won gold and on

:11:06. > :11:12.the same day, after one of the Coxless four fell ill, he stepped

:11:12. > :11:15.in and won a second gold. The lives of the sons of Welsh vicars were

:11:15. > :11:19.parallel again. Now, like Sir Albert Gladstone, Jumbo Edwards

:11:19. > :11:23.went off to war, as a pilot in Bomber Command in the Second World

:11:23. > :11:27.War. Being Jumbo he was soon in trouble. He had an incredible

:11:27. > :11:32.moment. He was flying a bomber, coming back from a raid. He ditched

:11:32. > :11:37.off the coast of Cornwall. The rest of the crew died. But his sport

:11:37. > :11:41.came to save his life, because in an inflatible dinghy he rowed

:11:41. > :11:46.through a minefield and got to safety and survived the whole

:11:46. > :11:50.incident. Quite some man. After the war Jumbo took up coaching and did

:11:50. > :11:54.it his way. He coached Oxford, Great Britain and he coached his

:11:54. > :11:58.sons for Wales at the Commonwealth Games. He always complained because

:11:58. > :12:06.I didn't like wearing socks in the boat and because he thought my hair

:12:06. > :12:12.was too long. How can you go fast if you have got hair that long?

:12:12. > :12:22.When I was looking at some photos recently, I came across a picture

:12:22. > :12:22.

:12:22. > :12:32.of the 1932 Olympic four and Jumbo is in what appears to be either

:12:32. > :12:34.

:12:34. > :12:39.Oxford or Christ Church kit without From the first half of the 21st

:12:39. > :12:44.century to the war heroes, public school, Oxford and the military,

:12:44. > :12:49.the classes that safeguarded the spirit of sport. Or where they?

:12:49. > :12:54.Until Sir Steve Redgrave one at five consecutive Olympics,

:12:54. > :12:59.Britain's most successful was a water polo player, summer, Paolo

:12:59. > :13:06.Randelovic, born to working-class immigrant parents here. In the

:13:06. > :13:11.Docklands of Cardiff. What is interesting about his background

:13:11. > :13:15.days it is reflective of Cardiff at the turn of the 20th century, this

:13:15. > :13:20.cultural melting-pot and people from all over the world coming to

:13:20. > :13:25.Cardiff, Croatian father, Irish mother. These people, off the back

:13:25. > :13:31.from working on the docks and it was a very similar environment.

:13:31. > :13:35.Most people would know who Jim Driscoll is these days and not so

:13:35. > :13:38.many, Paolo Randelovic. Thanks to an 1878 amendment to the 1846 Baths

:13:38. > :13:47.and Washhouses Act, local authorities were now encouraged to

:13:47. > :13:54.build public swimming pools. It might have saved our greatest

:13:54. > :13:59.Olympian's life. I started swimming and I was quite a young boy, at the

:13:59. > :14:04.age of five, but I could nuts when because I try to swim in the card

:14:04. > :14:09.of canals before the corporation plans were built and I was fairly

:14:09. > :14:14.drowned twice and my mother said, they have built the bath houses,

:14:14. > :14:19.but the child in and he learnt to swim. A government was encouraging

:14:19. > :14:26.employers to create leisure opportunities for their staff and

:14:26. > :14:29.you find a lot of swimming-pools being built around the South Wales

:14:30. > :14:39.valleys at that time. Paulo became the youngest ever player in the

:14:40. > :14:40.

:14:40. > :14:44.Wales water polo team. He won the first-ever Olympic gold in the

:14:44. > :14:48.water pool and two years later, the second, the freestyle in the

:14:48. > :14:57.swimming and then he was poached by Weston-super-Mare, whose town

:14:57. > :15:02.council wanted to put the resort on the sporting map.. Paulo was set up

:15:02. > :15:08.in the swimming pool and set up with a pub to run. Why did they

:15:08. > :15:11.have the greatest swimming and water polo talent in the country?

:15:11. > :15:17.Was a local authority may be seen the chance to promote the seafront

:15:17. > :15:21.and appeared by having a good team? My theory was that he was head

:15:21. > :15:25.hunted. Their rugby players being brought into the town and football

:15:25. > :15:29.players and water polo players, anything weather was a team sport

:15:29. > :15:32.that could raise the name of the town. This was straining against

:15:32. > :15:37.the amateurism so dear to the Olympics and Paulo was also testing

:15:37. > :15:42.any notion of fair play. Paolo tested any notion of fair play.

:15:42. > :15:48.They used to get bigger attendances for the water polo matches and he

:15:48. > :15:58.was a blood sport. He went to see some of the violence as much as the

:15:58. > :15:59.

:15:59. > :16:09.goals and he was never shy. reputation spread far and wide so

:16:09. > :16:12.

:16:12. > :16:17.we would have been a marked man. Very hard summer, physical man, he

:16:17. > :16:19.taught them to play dirty. That is a well-known fact. And as the

:16:20. > :16:26.landlord of the Imperial Hotel, Paulo's approach was the same. Take

:16:26. > :16:32.no nonsense. There are stories of how he used to rule with an iron

:16:32. > :16:36.rod, especially when the ferry used to come into the old peer and of

:16:36. > :16:40.course the Imperial was one of first stops. It is alleged that

:16:40. > :16:44.when they came in to cause trouble, he would shut the doors and what

:16:44. > :16:47.sort them out single-handedly. Paulo went on to win a water polo

:16:47. > :16:50.gold at the 1912 Stockholm Games and by scoring the winning goal in

:16:50. > :16:56.the dying seconds against host nation Belgium, another in Antwerp

:16:56. > :17:03.in 1920 Four golds in total. It could have been more had it not

:17:03. > :17:10.been for the First World War. He competed in Paris in 1924 and

:17:10. > :17:16.Amsterdam when he was 42 in 1928. A career worth boasting about.

:17:16. > :17:21.not pulling my Trombert because you have to say what you can do. --

:17:21. > :17:26.blowing my trumpet. I am and the only world in the day, the only

:17:26. > :17:33.human being in the world that ever represented in six Olympic Games.

:17:33. > :17:38.That stands up to all of the world, and it is proved that I had six

:17:38. > :17:42.Olympics. That is a world record and there is another record, I am

:17:42. > :17:45.the only man in the world in the sprint and the long distance to

:17:45. > :17:55.have the championship that also stands. Nobody has ever won the

:17:55. > :18:01.

:18:01. > :18:06.sprint and the long distance. I did that for Wales. He was a great

:18:06. > :18:14.swimmer who was sunk. He is now forgotten among at polo players of

:18:14. > :18:19.a certain generation. From 1960 onwards. They could not even tell

:18:19. > :18:24.you who he is. And yet again, I have friends in Greece who know all

:18:24. > :18:27.about him and collect his photographs. And here he is again,

:18:27. > :18:30.on a postage stamp in Guyana. completely forgotten, after all.

:18:30. > :18:34.Perhaps our greatness Olympian was allowed to slide from memory

:18:34. > :18:37.because he challenged the sporting system of his time. Privilege was a

:18:37. > :18:40.gateway to the Olympics for Albert Gladstone and Jumbo Edwards. Not

:18:40. > :18:50.for Paulo Radmilovic. If he wasn't openly professional, he wasn't

:18:50. > :18:50.

:18:50. > :18:54.strictly amateur either. Amateurism was one of the great pillars of the

:18:54. > :18:58.Olympics and could be flexible. Paolo Rudman image, talent-spotted

:18:58. > :19:03.and Cardiff and set up for life through water polo and on the other

:19:03. > :19:07.said the Bristol Channel. Amateurism could be a rigid Keller.

:19:07. > :19:11.Will betide anybody in athletics he broke the code, which brings us to

:19:11. > :19:16.the Wash and denied a place in one of the great epic stories of the

:19:16. > :19:20.Olympics. The runner who did not make it into Chariots of Fire.

:19:20. > :19:24.Cecil Redvers Griffiths. CR Griffiths, born in England, but

:19:24. > :19:28.from an early age raised in Neath. Four years before the famous Paris

:19:28. > :19:38.Games of 1924, he ran at the Antwerp Games in the 4 x 400 metres

:19:38. > :19:39.

:19:39. > :19:46.relay and won gold. A medal in safe keeping with his granddaughter.

:19:46. > :19:51.This is the Cecil griffons living museum. It is wonderful to say that

:19:51. > :19:57.my grandfather was part of the gold medal-winning team and he came

:19:57. > :20:05.first and this is the original 1920 grand medal. You will see all the

:20:05. > :20:09.other competitors him. If you want to read that... It is a wonderful

:20:09. > :20:11.list of people. Guy Butler, Robert Lindsay and two Welsh names. CR

:20:11. > :20:15.Griffiths and John Ainsworth Davies from Aberystwyth, who would leave

:20:15. > :20:20.athletics to concentrate on his career in medicine. CR did not stop

:20:20. > :20:24.running. He was barely 20 at the Antwerp Games and now he grew

:20:24. > :20:29.stronger and faster. In all, he would win ten titles in official

:20:29. > :20:33.Welsh Championships. But there was also an unofficial side to racing,

:20:33. > :20:37.races open to all, and for the winner a cash prize. At the Paris

:20:37. > :20:41.Games of 1924 it was to be a theme among the British that to have a

:20:41. > :20:47.coach was unsporting. Professional. What would they think if they

:20:47. > :20:52.discovered one of their own had once taken money? Antwerp is out of

:20:52. > :20:57.the way, we enter the second chapter, which is for all the wrong

:20:57. > :21:01.reasons still a stunning story. What happened? He was going to the

:21:01. > :21:06.1924 Olympics and was on the way with all those fantastic races and

:21:06. > :21:12.the Olympics came and he did not get there, he was on the boat and

:21:12. > :21:18.had his blazer and everything ready. And then it was deemed that in his

:21:18. > :21:25.youth, somewhere along the line, he had been paid professionally. He

:21:25. > :21:32.was banned from the 1924 Olympics. What excites a poignant is that he

:21:32. > :21:36.missed the Games, and it was legendary? Chariots of fire.

:21:36. > :21:45.Oscar winning film celebrated Harold Abrahams, winner of the 100

:21:45. > :21:49.metres. And Scotsman Eric Goodall, who won the 400 because. Which --

:21:49. > :21:57.would Cecil gryphons have been part of this, his favourite distance?

:21:57. > :22:03.One form, he surely would have. won the British have file and an 25

:22:03. > :22:10.he won the have file. In 1924, he was at his peak, his times would

:22:10. > :22:15.indicate he would have won a medal. Amateurism said that Harold

:22:15. > :22:19.Abrahams was devised by the aristocracy in 1860 is to exclude

:22:19. > :22:25.undesirables from competitions they were organising. There was no place

:22:25. > :22:34.in this world for a railway worker from Neath. Such a shame. He has

:22:34. > :22:40.come under the river, he really has. We are trying to get that rectified.

:22:40. > :22:43.They eventually, the Olympics would change and open the doors.

:22:43. > :22:46.Amateurism is now seen as a quaint relic of the past, unimaginable for

:22:46. > :22:50.today's elite competitors. It is sometimes hard to see any

:22:50. > :22:54.connection between Olympians past and present. Except they still do

:22:54. > :22:59.the same thing. Rowers still row, going fast backwards as they've

:22:59. > :23:07.always done. It's just that for Welshman Tom James, the notion of

:23:07. > :23:11.not training too hard has been thrown overboard. This is what you

:23:11. > :23:14.go through to earn a place in the men's four for London 2012. But as

:23:14. > :23:17.part of this space-age preparation, they still come to the Edwardian

:23:17. > :23:26.tea party on the banks of the Thames at Henley and come down the

:23:26. > :23:31.course once rowed by Sir Albert Gladstone. The rowing life, has it

:23:31. > :23:38.changed at all? The people who did this 150 years ago, where they

:23:39. > :23:42.still do that again? I would hope that they would see rolling in

:23:42. > :23:48.pretty much the same light, it is the same sport. They race in the

:23:48. > :23:56.same way, there is a mechanical animals -- mechanical element and

:23:56. > :23:59.things have moved on. They did not have carbon fibre. Obviously, the

:23:59. > :24:04.difference between amateur and professional is one thing that

:24:04. > :24:10.would have changed. There was something of the Corinthian spirit,

:24:10. > :24:19.winning was not that important I'm going pot hunting was frowned upon?

:24:19. > :24:25.He won what you could. Presumably you don't feel that today? Well, I

:24:25. > :24:30.think deep down, underneath what you do, when you come to racing,

:24:30. > :24:36.winning is what you try to do. That is the goal. But you have to be

:24:36. > :24:41.realistic. We are competing and you don't know the outcome. And there

:24:41. > :24:45.are so many reasons for doing this. I don't want to upset by

:24:45. > :24:54.experiences of the Games. reason, as good as any, is to

:24:54. > :24:59.defend his Olympic title. 5:30pm on the afternoon. This is a date that

:24:59. > :25:04.will forever be etched on the soles and the lives of the screw. Great

:25:04. > :25:06.Britain, and the number four. -- this crew. The graft goes on,

:25:06. > :25:16.repetitively, repeatedly. And if this seems dull, the real thing is

:25:16. > :25:26.not. Steve Williams, starting to move on... He pulls hard. Sir Steve

:25:26. > :25:32.Redgrave. As he did eight years ago. Were ever you are, scream and shout.

:25:32. > :25:38.We have to urge the British crew on words... The British are coming!

:25:38. > :25:44.The British are coming! Australia hanging on. Great Britain are

:25:44. > :25:52.eating into this. Eating it up, stroked by a stroke. The British

:25:52. > :25:59.look good! We're going to get it! Gold! Great Britain! Absolutely

:25:59. > :26:04.amazing! Expectation was high and the execution. Magnificent. What a

:26:04. > :26:07.perfect day for the British coxless four. The defence of that Olympic

:26:07. > :26:13.title will be staged at Eton, privileged home water. And some

:26:13. > :26:16.guiding principles from the old days. To not take it so seriously,

:26:16. > :26:20.to get caught up in the moment, too excited about the event, that is

:26:20. > :26:26.when you get overwhelmed and you do not think straight, you don't think

:26:26. > :26:31.in that competitive way, you don't focus on beating the opposition. It

:26:31. > :26:37.was a confident race. Those elements have been overwhelmed.

:26:37. > :26:42.They don't fit that mentality. If anything, I have learnt that I have

:26:42. > :26:46.to enjoy London, enjoyed the experience but take it as it comes.

:26:46. > :26:52.Of course there will be a lot of expectation but there is enough

:26:52. > :26:56.pressure on myself from the country. That is a good thing. Nerves and

:26:57. > :27:01.pressure are good if you learn to use it right. Use it your best

:27:01. > :27:10.advantage. Thank you very much. This is one posh Welchman to

:27:10. > :27:16.another! All these men, from the same pod. Brilliant row worse, and

:27:16. > :27:20.posh. Some high-rolling has cut that link going. Does it matter?

:27:20. > :27:26.Not if we're winning gold medals. The Auld sound the same when

:27:26. > :27:32.sharing. Wales will be represented and will be cheering at London 2012.

:27:32. > :27:38.Whatever the background, honours, riders and women going from lifting

:27:38. > :27:41.Benz to raising the Olympic bar, which brings us to next week...

:27:41. > :27:44.What and who forced the Olympics to change. How women rode straight

:27:44. > :27:51.over the men who opposed their participation in the Games and kept

:27:51. > :27:54.on riding. And running, even when they shouldn't. A in those days,

:27:54. > :27:58.the foreman ran more than 400 metres, she was likely to drop down

:27:58. > :28:05.dead. And the rise of the Paralympians. Out of the shadows

:28:05. > :28:08.and into the record books as the greatest. No-one had a clue what

:28:08. > :28:12.the Paralympics meant, there was no media coverage, it was hard to get

:28:12. > :28:18.into the club and most people's attitude towards disabled people

:28:18. > :28:24.doing sport was, what? And protest at the Games. Politics at the Games.

:28:24. > :28:28.And how Welsh stars were there when terror came to the Games. Half a

:28:28. > :28:33.dozen Palestinian terrorists have climbed over the fence. Dressed in

:28:33. > :28:39.tracksuits, carrying bags with machine guns. There we were,