05/09/2012 The National Lottery: Wednesday Night Draws

It's 5th September and we're ready for the mid-week draws with your

host OJ Borg. Thank you Mr Dedicoat. Good evening and welcome. Tonight

we're all set to bring you two live draws. First Thunderball, with a

top prize of half a million pounds and then Lotto, with a jackpot of

over �2 million. Plus we'll be talking to Paralympic GB cycling

tandem sprinters Anthony Kappes and Craig Maclean, fresh from their

gold medal success. Very exciting. It's an action-

packed show, so let's get the ball rolling with Thunderball. Julie

please start the machines. Excalibur and set of all seven were

chosen earlier. Independent adjudicator is Richard Plumb and

Draw Master is Julie Morrissey. Those of you who like big numbers

will be delighted to hear that there were over 289,000 winning

tickets on this game on Saturday. Are you on course to win �500,000?

I hope so. Good luck.$$NEWLINE The Paralympic Games are in full swing

Here are the numbers in ascending Earlier today I popped down to the

Park to meet two gold medal heroes, Anthony Kappes and Craig MacLean,

who won gold in the tandem race on Sunday.

Talk me through the final race in Novello drone, what was it like?

was a lot of fun. -- Velodrome. Tactically it was good. When we

went, we really went. Was there much pressure? You talk about it

being a home games with the crowd behind you, but there is pressure?

It is pressure because it is our own games, and are able-bodied

counterparts have done so well. But you cannot think like that.

have you got to this point it away you are wearing a fantastic Gold

medal around your neck? It is the National Lottery funding. We have

to train full-time to win medals like this. If it wasn't for the

lottery funding we wouldn't be able to do that. Can you go on holiday,

is it back to training? A few weeks off. We have spent all year

preparing for this. So, a few weeks off and starts getting back on to

the bike and get the fitness back. Now, your partner, because

obviously you swap around a lot between the people who pilot the by,

what was it like racing person who piloted your bike before? It is

funny. On video enjoy beating him? There is off the track and on the

track. On the track, you don't think of friendships. Was it good

for you to beat him? A I don't think about who he is on the back

of the bike. It certainly doesn't make me hold back. The talking

about the competition, it is fierce and people have been surprised.

Because we have not seen anything with Disability Sport realistically

in the media since Beijing. Will it change? The awareness of disability

sport is unprecedented now. We were not expecting this level of support.

If some of that filters through for the long term, then that is good.

Thanks for talking to me. I'm sure they will still be smiling

about those gold medals for a long while yet. Time to see if we can't

put a smile on your face too now with Lotto. Release those big money

balls. Tonight's jackpot is an We are using answer lot and set of

balls five. Saturday's jackpot prize was won by five ticket

holders that each took home over �968,000. In addition, there were

over 386,000 tickets that won a prize so many congratulations to

each and every one of you. Julie, are we ready? Before we start

tonight's draw, here's a quick good luck message from Anthony and Craig.

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 52 seconds

Thanks for your support, good luck. That's all from us tonight. Thanks

to Anthony and Craig for chatting to us earlier. I'm back here on

Friday for Euro Millions from 11:35pm. Jenni is here on Saturday

during Secret Fortune for the weekend draws from 8:20pm and