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Tonight at Ten: Plans to reform the House of Lords abandoned as Nick

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Clegg accuses the Conservatives of breaking the coalition contract.

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Electing peers was a key goal for the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg

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blames Tory rebels and says his party will hit back.

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Clearly I cannot permit a situation where the Conservative rebels can

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pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while the

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Liberal Democrats MPs are bound to the entire agreement.

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We'll be asking how serious the latest rift is for the coalition.

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Also tonight: Syrian rebels plan another assault

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on Damascus. The moral boosted by today's deforeign exchange by the

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Prime Minister. Standard Charter becomes the latest

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British bank accused of money laundering. US officials say it

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schemed with Iran. COMMENTATOR: This could be the

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first gold for Britain... Gold for Team GB's equest reens. The first

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Olympic showjumping title for 60 years.

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COMMENTATOR: Kenny is ahead in the race. Kenny is the Olympic sprint

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champion. Another win in the Velodrome. This time the men's

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sprint continues the British domination of cycling.

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Ten years in the planning and a 100 million mile jurn journey, NASA's

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spacecraft lands on Mars. Space engineers celebrate a new era

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in planet exploration. On BBC clond: A year on from the

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riots, how the capital's been transformed by the Olympic feel-

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good factor. The owner of a dog that injured five policemen is

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found guilty of keeping a dangerous Good evening.

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We're The Liberal Democrats have

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abandoned their hopes of pushing through reform of the hordes. In

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common it said it exposed ill feeling within the coalition. Nick

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Clegg accusing the Tories of breaking the contract of the two

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parties. The Liberal Democrats saying that

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they could break plans. Those plan would favour the Conservative at

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the next election. Team GB may be outperforming expectations, but

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Team Coalition is in trouble. The Prime Minister and his deputy,

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watched the opening of the Olympics together, but today Nick Clegg

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announced that on planss for constitutional reform, the parties

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have split. The Conservative Party is not

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honouring the commitment to Lord reform. As a result, part of our

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contract has been broken. So, proposals for a historic reform

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of Parliament to stop members of the hordes being born or appointed

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and -- House of Lords being born or appointed and to make them elected

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have been dropped and the Lib Dem says that the Tories will pay a

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price. Clearly I cannot permit a situation

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where the Conservative rebels pick and choose the parts of the

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contract that they like while the Liberal Democrats MPs are bound to

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the entire agreement. This follows a massive Tory

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rebellion that forced ministers to abandon the timetable for reform.

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We have listened carefully to the debate so far... Nick Clegg looking

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glum, then, but insisted he would plough on. Today, though, he warned

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the Tories they will not get the parliamentary change that they want.

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A smaller House of Commons with fewer MPs, making it easier for

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them to win the next election. We have been unable to proceed on

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Lord's reform. There is opposition in Parliament and the opportunism

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of the Labour Party. It would not allow the time for the House of

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Lords Bill, but we have to use this moment to focus 110% on the economy.

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Which is what the country wants. Only last month, David Cameron and

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Nick Clegg appeared together to proclaim the coalition was still on

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track. There is, though, now the prospect of Lib Dem ministers

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voting against one of their own government's bills on changing

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parliamentary boundaries. The Conservatives have shown that

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they cannot deliver their side of the deal. Labour have not helped.

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We have tried. The Conservatives have failed us. That is, so, I'm

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afraid that we have to show that they can't get one of the things

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that they want. Strong words, but the opposite of

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what Nick Clegg would say when pressed on the issue by Tory MPs.

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There is no link. The Grand Chamber echos with the

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promises of parliamentary reform, which end up getting precisely know

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where. Nick Robinson is in Downing Street

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for us. This is not the first disagreement

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between the two parties, is this one different? It is serious,

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George. I have no doubt that people tonight are unlikely to be

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distracted from the Olympic party that there will not be elections

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for the House of Lords in 2015, or no change to the boundaries of

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parliamentary constituencies as well, and yet what happened today

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will have implications long beyond this week. Why? Because the Liberal

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Democrats are having to face up to the fact that they may be backing

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Government for the first time in decades, but they will not be able

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to deliver any constitutional change of significance whatsoever.

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Nick Clegg wants his party to know he is responding as he puts it,

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tit-for-tat, in other words, we don't get what we want, the Tories

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will not get what they want. That means that the Conservatives have

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to face up to the fact that they will find it harder to win the next

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election. Unless they do a deal with the smaller parties, the

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nationalists or other parties in Northern Ireland, they will have to

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live with the current parliamentary boundaries that mean it takes many

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more thousands of voters to elect a Conservative MP than a Labour MP.

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In other words it is harder for them to secure a parliamentary

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majority all on their own. Despite all of that, and despite the feet-

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stamping, the signs are that at the top of the coalition they get on

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alright. Some compare this with a marriage, but the truth is, mum and

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dad are still getting on, it is, though, the children and the in-

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laws who are, frankly, growing sick of the sight of each other.

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Nick, thank you very much. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad has

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suffered a major political blow with the deforeign exchange of his

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rime to the opposition. Riad Hijab denounced the government as a

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terrorist regime. Today a bomb exploded at the headquarters of the

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Syria state television in Damascus. Foreign journalists have been

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restricted from reporting within the country, but our correspondent

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pall Wood and cameraman Fred Scott have been with rebel forces on the

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outskirts of the capital. They sent us this report.

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We are in Bashar al-Assad's back yard. His palace in Damascus is

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little more than three miles a. -- away. Yet here there are rebel

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fighters, not the government troops. The rebel cannot be said to hold

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this ground, they are here as long as the government forces are not,

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but still, the rebels are adamant that they will try again to push

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into the capital. For the time being, they wait.

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Someone's home is now their barracks.

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Fresh recruits arrive every day. So many that there is hardly room.

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Ali, who is 18, was sent business his parents to Jordan for safety.

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They think he is studying computer science.

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He joins in a cheeky song, addressed to the President's mother.

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He gave birth to a donkey, they chant. Such words would once have

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been a death sentence. There was small taste of the

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freedom that they are fighting for. But many don't know the first thing

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about weapons. Soon they will be thrown into a battle with what you

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see here. The last assault into Damascus ran

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out of bullets. This morning, Ali caught his family

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-- called his family to tell them he is back. His father did not take

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it well when he said he was here to help to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.

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I am ready to die for the cause. Did you tell your parents that?

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About I'm ready to die? I wouldn't tell them because our generation is

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more brave than my father's generation in the fighting the reel.

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-- Regime. The commander said that they

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learned lessons from the last chaotic assaults.

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France trance -- TRANSLATION: We reached the beating

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heart of Damascus. This time we will be better planned. We will

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take more territory, all of Damascus will move together.

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For so long, people have fled to Damascus for safety.

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Now they are running from it. The opposition says 2 million

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people have been displaced in this conflict.

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TRANSLATION: We were hysterical with fear.

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There was shelling and snipers. There were government militia

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roaming everywhere. Each time the regime uses greater

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violence, it strengthens the uprising. These are Sunni Muslims,

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like 80% of Syria. If the war becomes Sunnis against the regime,

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it will be over for Bashar al-Assad. Financial regulators in America

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have accused the British bank Standard Charter of hiding

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transactions worth �160 billion. A breach of sanctions against the

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country. They describe the bank as a rogue institution. Standard

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Charter is conducting a review into its operations.

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Live now to Washington. Steve, these are detailed allegations,

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what more can you tell us? George, they are detailed serious money-

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laundering allegations, expressed in strongly worded terms. It

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describes Standard Charter as a rogue institution, says it is

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motivated by greed and scheming with the government of Iran,

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showing contempt for the US banking regulations, specifically, the bank

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is accused of what is known as wire-stripping. Falsifying or

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deleting names and other details that link a wire transaction

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through New York with Iran or the Iranian government, the regulators

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say that there were 60,000 transfers in a ten-year period,

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totalling �160 billion. Money it says could be funded to help Iran's

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nuclear programme. What is the bank saying? They have

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said that they are conducting a review into the US sanctions

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compliance. That they are discussing the matter with the US

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regulators. There is to be a meeting later on this month. Cases

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like this tend to end in a settlement with a hefty fine. The

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worst case scenario is that its licence in New York would be

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revoked. It would be shut down. Thank you very much.

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Now, today's events at the Olympics, where Team GB added two more gold

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medals bringing the tal you to 18. That is just one short from the

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Beijing games. The first one came from the

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showjumping competition. The final came down to the wire.

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Britain's equestrian community had proved its worth in Greenwich Arena.

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Team silver in eventing. Today was about one discipline, jumping. The

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fences here have incorporated elements of British history, there

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is Charles Darwin. Evolving after the eventing competition. Higher,

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I'm 6ft tall, this is pretty close. Nick Skelton has seen all of the

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courses. He resumed his career after breaking his neck. Now aged

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54, he was trying to win the one thing that alluded him, the Olympic

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medal. It is a combined total of three

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riders that decide the team medals. Now for Ben Maher and Triple X.

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Then there was a cropper. Four faults and Nick Skelton could only

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watch. The Olympic debutante, Scott Brash,

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if he held his nerve, the gold was in reach.

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COMMENTATOR: And Britain are on the gold turn here, surely.

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Now to the Dutch and a horse called London. One fence down and another

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mistake and gold was Britain's. They made it. Both countries tied

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for a jump-off. The course shortened. Out came Nick

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Skelton again. A perfect round again. All of the countries' riders

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were involved in the jump-off, but the ditch were making errors. Now

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Britain's fourth team member, peter Charles who could seal it

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COMMENTATOR: Britain have a vold gold.

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It took me 54 years. It took Great Britain 60 years!

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Unbelievable. What a place to do it. Never seen

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people like this. Unbelievable. Britain's first team gold since the

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50s, with two men in their 50s. At The second gold came in the

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Velodrome as Jason Kenny proved why he'd been picked, ahead of Sir

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Chris Hoy, to compete in the men's sprint. It was Kenny's second gold

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of the Games and the fifth for Team GB's track cycling squad. And, as

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our sports correspondent, Dan Roan, reports there is the prospect of

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more tomorrow. He's cycled in the shadow of Sir Chris Hoy for years

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but this was the day Jason Kenny made a name for himself. The

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sprinter had been controversially preferred to his friend and mentor

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but now the younger man would show precisely why. He faced the best of

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three final against the intimidating figure of five-times

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world champion Gregory Bauge. The Frenchman led in the first race but

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on the final strait he was overwhelmed.

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Kenny takes it! The British rider gaining the advantage while topping

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an astonishing 70 kilometres an hour. That was the average speed of

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Jason Kenny in that first race. He is one up, win the next race and he

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wins gold. He had a point to prove. Last year he had become world

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champion after Bauge was stripped of the title. After the almost

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stationary game of cat and mouse that's a feature of the races came

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the explosion of velocity and volume. This time it was the

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British rider who took the initiative. Bauge desperately tried

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reel him in but Kenny ensured there would be no need for a decider.

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Kenny is the Olympic sprint champion! He wins gold. He had

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rewarded the selectors' faith and proved after Hoy there is hope.

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There's no way on earth earth Chris would ever give the last ride away,

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so I felt I should get up there and put it to bed really. I am really

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pleased we have come out the other side with a gold and done it

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justice. Kenny dug deep here for a victory that makes him the first

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member of Team GB to win two gold medals at these Games. With three

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of his team-mates hoping to emmate him here tomorrow he is unlikely to

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be the last. In the Gymnastics, Britain's Beth

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Tweddle finally added an Olympic medal to her collection with a

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bronze on the uneven bars. It was a fitting swansong for the three-time

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World Champion who was appearing in what's expected to be her last

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Olympics. Gold was won by Russia's Aliya Mustafina.

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Let's look at the medals table. China lead, the USA is close behind.

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Great Britain are in third place. And we will have more on London

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2012 later in the programme, including the world's fastest man,

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Usain Bolt, picks up his gold for last night's 100 metres victory.

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It has taken nine months to travel more than 100 million miles and

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today, after that epic journey, the most high-tech robotic space craft

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NASA has ever designed, landed safely on Mars. NASA engineers say

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it's the start of a new era in planetary exploration. Our science

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editor, David Shukman, reports on a two-year mission to find out if

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Mars was once capable of supporting life. The approach to Mars at

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13,000mph. This animation shows how the lappeding took place -- landing

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took place. At the right moment the spacecraft fired up rockets, and

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then lowered the Rover down towards the surface, something never tried

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before a billion dollars of machine dangling bay thread.

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The computer graphics look like science fiction. In fact, this

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really happened. At. At mission control in

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California the engineers had been dreading the tension of this moment.

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Until two magic words - touchdown confirmed. Touchdown confirmed.

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The place erupted. The relief intense, eight years of work had

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gone into this project. The reputation of the American space

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agency was at stake. Time for a grand statement. Today, right now,

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the wheels of Curiousity have begun to blaze the trail for human

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footprints on Mars. The most sophisticated Rover ever built is

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now on the surface of the Red Planet.

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It's a spectacular view... In the first pictures to reach earth the

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Rover cast a shadow on the martian dust. Mars has been the graveyard

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for many spacecraft. Today, one made it. This mission is to hunt

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for evidence about whether life was ever possible on Mars. Gale crater

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was picked for the landing zone because the mountain has layers of

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rock providing a long record of geological history. At the bottom

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are sediments, a possible location for past life. Next up, clays, you

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only get them after long immersion in water.

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Then, at the top, salts, usually found when rock dries out. Any of

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these layers could hold the chemical building blocks needed for

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anything that might have lived here. The Rover will sample the rocks and

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analyse what's inside them and the results are eagerly awaited by

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scientists around the world. really need to be able to touch the

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rocks, in a sense the Rover is touching those rocks for us,

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sending back high imagery, higher than you can obtain from satellites

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that we can look at individual sand grains. Last year I watched the

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Rover being built in a room in California. Pain-staking work

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that's paid off. And now the most intriguing question about Mars can

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be tackled - was this landscape always this barren?

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The Pentagon has revealed that the man suspected of opening fire at a

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Sikh temple in Wisconsin, killing six people, was a former US soldier.

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Wade Michael Page, who was shot dead by police in the incident, had

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been a specialist in psychological operations. Sources said he'd been

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dismissed from the army more than a decade ago. His motive isn't yet

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clear but police have described the attack as an act of domestic

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terrorism. Senior Chinese leaders are reported to be gathering in a

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seaside resort east of Beijing - the traditional venue for closed-

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door political summits. It's expected they will decide the

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direction the country will take when a new group of leaders takes

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over later this year. Our Correspondent, John Sudworth, joins

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us from Beijing. This country does have quite a few challenges ahead

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in the next few years. It does. On the surface, at least, the politics

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of China look as certain and staidfast as they have done but

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despite booming along for a decade or more this economy is starting to

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flag, only slightly, but enough to worry a leadership trying to keep a

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lid on social unrest and dealing with its biggest political crisis

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in a generation, with the family of one of its most high profile and

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senior politicians brought down over a murder scandal. Now the

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political transition that's due to take place later this year is a

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difficult process. It's a once in a decade handover of power. This

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meeting at this resort has over the years gained this reputation for

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behind closed doors deal-making. It doesn't happen every year but the

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fact it's happening now is almost certainly connected to the

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political transition. This is a country of more than a billion

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people, there are around 80 million Communist Party members, and yet

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the few elderly leaders meeting will have the task of deciding who

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is going to govern China for the next five years and beyond.

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Thank you. A man has been charged with a

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public order offence after a bottle was thrown onto the track at the

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start of the men's Olympic 100 metres final last night. Ashley

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Gill-Webb, from Leeds, was arrested at the Olympic Stadium and appeared

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at Stratford Magistrates' Court this afternoon. He denied the

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charge. More now on the Olympic action and,

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as we've heard, Team GB have won 18 gold medals so far, almost matching

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their total for the Beijing Games, and there are six days of

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competition left. So, can the gold rush continue? Or should they start

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looking over their shoulders at rivals further down the medal table.

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Our sports editor, David Bond, has this assessment. For British sport

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it was a weekend which will live long in the memory. Gold after gold.

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Suddenly all that talk of Team GB finishing 4th in the table looks

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cautious. Oh, my goodness, remarkable! This man did his bit

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for the medal haul on Sunday winning his 4th Olympic title. He

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says third place is within reach. There's still a long way to go and

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we have had amazing performances, whether we can stay there for the

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final week I certainly hope so, and you know, it's a huge credit to

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everybody involved that we have done so well this far and let's

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hope we can keep that going. Team GB have plenty of gold medal

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chances left, including Jonathan and Allister Brownlee tomorrow and

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Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton and Mo Farah going for a second

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gold in the 5,000 metres. But the head of the British Olympic

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Association says the country shouldn't get carried away too soon.

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We are absolutely delivering a great performance from the athletes.

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Can we get - maintain 4th, get to third? It's too early actually.

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It's too Earl throeu make that call. -- Earl throeu make that call.

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has been a magical week for British sport and these fans will be hoping

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the gold rush can continue. But with six days of full competition

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still to go, Team GB have a lot of work to do if they're to exceed

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expectations and finish third in the medal table. Most of Britain's

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main rivals for 4th place have had a mixed Games. France have had a

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good start, with eight golds. Russia had five, but always finish

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strongly. Germany have just five gold medals.

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Australia were also expected to be strong contenders, but as with

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Shane Perkins tonight in the cycling, they now seem to be

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relieved to take bronze. He says home advantage has been key.

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Statistically a home country brings home more medals when they've a

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home Olympics, so obviously that's helping them. But you can't look

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past the fact that the work that GB have done for the sport which is

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fantastic. It's setting a level, a benchmark for everyone to chase.

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Whether it's the fans or the money, something's going very right for

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Britain's athletes here. Keep it up, and they'll achieve their highest

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finish in almost a century. There were high hopes for more

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British success in the stadium this evening when Dai Greene lined up

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for the final of the 400 metre hurdles. But it was to end in

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disappointment when the World Champion, and captain of Team GB,

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narrowly missed out on a medal. Our Olympics correspondent James Pearce

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reports. Dai Green, Captain of a athletics

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squad, European champion, Commonwealth champion, world

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champion. One race away from becoming Olympic champion.

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Green gets a good start. The crowd are... He only scraped into the

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final after finishing 4th in the semifinal. He needed to find some

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extra pace, but with a home crowd as vocal as ever, that was always

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possible. Increasingly unlikely though as he approached the closing

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stages. The leaders had got away. He had come here for gold, but

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found himself facing a contest for the minor places.

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Sanchez takes the gold! We have seen many British

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celebrations over the past ten days, here was the other side of the coin,

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the moments when it begins to sink in that it's all gone wrong. It's

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gone gone quiet inside the stadium now, Dai Green sits there as a man

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who came with high expectations but has to leave without a medal.

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gave it everything I had tonight. But just a bit too tired at the end

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there. And narrowly missed out really. If he had felt like crying,

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the winner did. Uncontrolably. Sanchez from the Dominican Republic

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had won this title eight years ago. Here he was ago, 34 years old, back

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on top of the rostrum. You wouldn't have expected tears from Usain Bolt

:27:42.:27:45.

during his medal ceremony and you didn't get any. As laidback as ever

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as he collected gold from last night's 100 metres. It's been quite

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a night for the Caribbean. Imagine the celebrations in Grenada this

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evening. Population 110,000, had never had an Olympic medallist of

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any colour. James is going to take gold! His nation's first ever gold.

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Thanks to this teenager they now have a golden one.

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