:00:11. > :00:15.Tonight at 10.00pm - British athletes achieve their best Olympic
:00:15. > :00:18.performance in over a century. They're lining up for the run of
:00:18. > :00:21.the line. Who is going to get it? Chris Hoy.
:00:21. > :00:23.Sir Chris Hoy becomes the first British competitor to win six gold
:00:23. > :00:32.medals. Britain's most successful Olympian
:00:32. > :00:36.says he's 99.9% certain these will be his last Games. There's been
:00:36. > :00:40.some really difficult moments, and to get through them all and to
:00:40. > :00:45.succeed here - oh, it's just one of the greatest feelings I have ever
:00:45. > :00:52.had. His fellow cyclist Laura Trott wins
:00:52. > :00:55.her second gold of 2012 - another boost to the medal tally. We are
:00:55. > :00:58.seeing the first British Olympic triathlon champion.
:00:58. > :01:04.In the triathlon, a gold for Alistair Brownlee and a first for
:01:04. > :01:06.Britain in this event. She has made history. She has made
:01:06. > :01:11.history. And a first medal in dressage for
:01:11. > :01:14.Team GB, ending years of German dominance.
:01:14. > :01:16.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Which means that Britain has
:01:16. > :01:19.already beaten its medal target with five days to go.
:01:19. > :01:22.The other main stories tonight: Major changes are called for after
:01:22. > :01:25.an inquiry into abuse of patients at a care home near Bristol.
:01:25. > :01:33.Shares in Standard Chartered fall sharply after claims that it helped
:01:33. > :01:39.Iran to break UN sanctions. And tributes to the pioneering
:01:39. > :01:44.astronomer Sir Roger Lovell who's died.
:01:44. > :01:48.On BBC London, as thousands clamour to be part of the Games, ticket
:01:48. > :01:58.sales soar for the Paralympics. A year on, what happened to the �70
:01:58. > :02:14.
:02:14. > :02:17.million pledged by the mayor to Good evening from the Olympic Park
:02:18. > :02:22.in east London where Sir Chris Hoy has made sporting history. He's the
:02:22. > :02:25.first British athlete to win six Olympic gold medals. His success in
:02:25. > :02:27.the Velodrome this evening crowned another triumphant day for Team GB
:02:27. > :02:35.with four gold medals added, making 2012 the best performance since
:02:35. > :02:38.1908. First tonight this report from our sports correspondent James
:02:38. > :02:42.Pearce. And breathe - we all knew the
:02:42. > :02:46.feeling. It was going to be hard for anyone watching this one to
:02:46. > :02:52.remain composed. The race hadn't even started, and already Sir Chris
:02:52. > :02:56.Hoy's mother was looking away. This was to be her son's final race as
:02:56. > :03:02.an Olympian. Victory would bring him a record sixth gold medal, but
:03:02. > :03:07.this competition is known for its unpredictability. One wrong move,
:03:07. > :03:12.and Hoy's chances would be over. As the pace quickened, mum was
:03:12. > :03:17.watching all right now - well, most of the time anyway. Down below, it
:03:17. > :03:20.was agonisingly close in the last lap as the riders vied for the lead.
:03:20. > :03:26.Shoulder to shoulder now as they come up around the bend. Now
:03:26. > :03:36.they're lining up. Who is going to get it? Chris Hoy gets the gold
:03:36. > :03:39.
:03:39. > :03:45.medal! Jubilation, celebration, relief. The scene of the Olympics
:03:45. > :03:48.has so many firsts for Team GB, so many records, but of them all, the
:03:48. > :03:51.gold medal of Sir Chris Hoy will stand at the top.
:03:51. > :03:56.A guard of honour from the British coaches. This has been a team
:03:56. > :04:01.effort, and waiting with a special hug, the man whose tally of five
:04:01. > :04:04.Olympic gold medals is overtaken. Steve is an inspiration. I used to
:04:04. > :04:10.be a rower many years ago as a schoolboy. We looked up to Matthew,
:04:10. > :04:15.to Steve, to all the rowers, and this is an honour to me. To me,
:04:15. > :04:20.he'll always be the greatest, no matter how many medals anybody wins.
:04:20. > :04:25.Whether Hoy is the greatest or just great, he's a six-times Olympic
:04:25. > :04:29.gold medallist, and judging by his reaction, this one meant as much,
:04:29. > :04:33.if not more, than any of the other five. It didn't all go Team GB's
:04:33. > :04:37.way in the Velodrome. Victoria Pendleton's ambition to become
:04:37. > :04:40.Britain's most successful female Olympian was thwarted by the
:04:40. > :04:46.Australian Anna Meares. I am overwhelmed with emotion. I mean, I
:04:46. > :04:52.would have loved to have won. You know, my final race, but I'm just
:04:52. > :04:57.kind of so glad it's all done. I can move on. The other British
:04:57. > :05:01.victor was Laura Trott. She won a combination of six different events.
:05:01. > :05:04.She's only 20 years old and already has two Olympic gold medals to her
:05:04. > :05:11.name. Sir Chris Hoy, watch out. She's got plenty of time to catch
:05:11. > :05:14.you up. APPLAUSE
:05:14. > :05:16.Team GB's first gold of the day came in the men's triathlon when
:05:16. > :05:21.Alistair Brownlee won a gruelling race which included swimming,
:05:21. > :05:24.cycling and a 10,000m run. His brother Jonny took bronze. Britain
:05:24. > :05:27.had never won a medal in the sport before, and the big crowd of
:05:27. > :05:33.spectators at Hyde Park made their feelings known, as Andy Swiss
:05:33. > :05:37.reports. Hyde Park is always popular for
:05:37. > :05:40.family outings, but it's not often they involve trying to win the
:05:40. > :05:47.Olympics. Meet Alistair Brownlee and little brother Jonny, hoping to
:05:47. > :05:50.turn the world's biggest event into a sibling rivalry. Stage one, a
:05:50. > :05:53.one-and-a-half-kilometre swim around the serpentine. Avoid the
:05:53. > :05:58.flailing limbs. Mission accomplished but at the first
:05:58. > :06:01.changeover Marx take by Jonny - he'd got on his bike too early - a
:06:01. > :06:04.15-second penalty. Both stayed in the leading pack as they peddled
:06:04. > :06:08.around Buckingham Palace. Come the final run, it was just the
:06:08. > :06:13.Brownlees and Spain's Javier Gomez, but Jonny still had to serve his
:06:13. > :06:17.penalty. The 15 seconds must have felt like hours and by then, his
:06:17. > :06:21.brother was out of sight. Just one lap to go now, and Alistair
:06:21. > :06:24.Brownlee is on course for gold - just two-and-a-half kilometres
:06:24. > :06:29.stands between him and Olympic glory.
:06:29. > :06:33.And in the end, it was literally a stroll - enough time to collect a
:06:33. > :06:37.flag and saunter into sporting history.
:06:37. > :06:41.Yet another gold for Britain - success, it seems, is getting
:06:41. > :06:45.contagious. I have been watching all the sports
:06:45. > :06:49.for the last ten days, and you know, just so excited to start. I woke up
:06:49. > :06:52.this morning, and I wasn't even nervous. I was like a kid at
:06:52. > :06:57.Christmas again. I was so excited to get out and race, so yeah, it's
:06:57. > :07:01.great to come out and race, and obviously I got the result I wanted.
:07:01. > :07:05.Behind him Jonny took bronze, but the effort took its toll. He
:07:05. > :07:08.collapsed after finishing, exhausted but ultimately
:07:08. > :07:13.exhilarated. I am very, very proud of what Alastair has done, what we
:07:13. > :07:17.have both done. It has been a Jo journey. We started doing this when
:07:17. > :07:21.we were ten, and now we're in the Olympics. It's a remarkable
:07:21. > :07:24.relationship, brothers yet rivals. They trained together in Yorkshire,
:07:24. > :07:27.pushing each other to new heights. I think they both understand and
:07:27. > :07:30.believe that neither of them would be where they are today if it
:07:30. > :07:33.wasn't for the fact that they've got each other to support each
:07:33. > :07:39.other, to train with and to be with each other, so I think they realise
:07:39. > :07:46.that they're a team. So two medals, one surname - not a
:07:46. > :07:49.bad day for the Brownlees, and what a snapshot for the family album.
:07:49. > :07:53.Team GB's equestrians have achieved a notable victory by claiming their
:07:53. > :07:55.first ever Olympic dressage medal. There were loud cheers at Greenwich
:07:55. > :07:59.Park for the second time in two days following the showjumping
:07:59. > :08:02.triumph yesterday. The British competitors beat their nearest
:08:02. > :08:12.rivals Germany, who'd dominated the sport since 1976, as our
:08:12. > :08:16.correspondent Joe Wilson reports. The dancing hooves and perfect
:08:16. > :08:19.poise of dressage. It is a discipline of great subtlety and
:08:19. > :08:24.considerable mystery, even for those who come to watch. We know
:08:24. > :08:27.nothing about dressage. We thought we'd come and see the horses.
:08:27. > :08:32.LAUGHTER Both of my boys didn't completely
:08:32. > :08:35.understand it, and neither did I, but we're getting it I think.
:08:35. > :08:40.The technic alties may be hard to grasp, but there's one thing
:08:40. > :08:45.everyone here understands - for the first time, really, there is now an
:08:45. > :08:49.outstanding British dressage team in the Olympics. Carl Hester grew
:08:49. > :08:55.up on Sark in the Channel Islands where it helps to learn to ride.
:08:55. > :09:01.There are no cars. The judges marked him at over 80%. That's
:09:01. > :09:09.excellent, and the crowd knew. Germany had utterly dominated the
:09:09. > :09:19.sport of team dressage - seven consecutive golds before London.
:09:19. > :09:19.
:09:19. > :09:23.Christine Ohuruogu -- conspiracy to On Third and last to go for Great
:09:23. > :09:31.Britain, she knew a solid score would be good enough, but she rides
:09:31. > :09:35.a wonder horse, and this was the best of the day. Laura
:09:35. > :09:40.Bechtolsheimer of Gloucestershire played a big part two. The three of
:09:40. > :09:46.us have great horses when London decided to host the Olympics, and
:09:46. > :09:51.here we are winning the dressage medal, and it's a gold. It's
:09:51. > :09:55.unbelievable timing. There is still time for more, two more days of
:09:55. > :09:59.equestrian. So at the end of day 11 - with
:09:59. > :10:09.another five days of competition left - this is how the medal table
:10:09. > :10:16.
:10:16. > :10:19.Let's take a look at the day's other main stories.
:10:19. > :10:22.An official inquiry into abuse at a private care home near Bristol says
:10:22. > :10:27.there should be fundamental changes in the way vulnerable adults are
:10:27. > :10:29.looked after. 11 former staff members have admitted neglecting
:10:29. > :10:32.and ill-treating patients at Winterborne View complex in Bristol.
:10:32. > :10:36.A Serious Case Review has criticised the care home's owners,
:10:36. > :10:42.Castlebeck, for putting profits before patient welfare. Our social
:10:42. > :10:46.affairs correspondent Alison Holt reports.
:10:46. > :10:53.The corridors of Winterbourne View Hospital for people with learning
:10:53. > :10:57.disabilities are now stripped bare. But it was here that hidden BBC
:10:57. > :11:07.Panorama camera filmed the most appalling abuse of vulnerable
:11:07. > :11:07.
:11:07. > :11:12.patients. It cost authorities �3,500 a week to send a patient to
:11:12. > :11:19.this private hospital, but today's report describes a place of
:11:19. > :11:21.arbitrary violence, where restraint was commonplace. The 11 members of
:11:21. > :11:27.staff who have admitted the ill- treatment and neglect of patients
:11:27. > :11:30.are awaiting sentence. Wendy's daughter Kirsty was at
:11:30. > :11:35.Winterbourne View. She has been shocked by what happened there.
:11:35. > :11:39.Horrified, absolutely horrified. You listen to what she'd said to me
:11:39. > :11:43.over time, and it just made me think that each time that I'd
:11:43. > :11:45.spoken to the manager and questioned things she'd said, I'd
:11:45. > :11:49.always been given a logical answer,ed a then you start asking,
:11:49. > :11:54.why didn't I take it further? Today's Serious Case Review is
:11:54. > :11:59.damning. It shows that Winterbourne patients went to accident and
:11:59. > :12:02.emergency 76 times in three years. The local council received 38
:12:02. > :12:06.safeguarding alerts, but little was done. The report concludes
:12:06. > :12:10.Castlebeck, the private company that owned the hospital, took
:12:10. > :12:14.financial rewards without any apparent accountability. This left
:12:14. > :12:19.vulnerable adults in the hands of poorly trained and poorly
:12:19. > :12:24.supervised staff. Typically, with this kind of abuse, the full scale
:12:24. > :12:29.of crimes are unknown. We often use the metaphor of a tip of an iceberg,
:12:29. > :12:34.and that's very apt in relation to Winterbourne View. The councils and
:12:34. > :12:38.health authorities who sent patients here are said to have had
:12:38. > :12:41.an out-of-sight out-of-mind attitude. They say they'll learn.
:12:41. > :12:45.In statement, the owners of Castlebeck say they have made
:12:45. > :12:49.changes to ensure there can't be another Winterbourne View. Terry
:12:49. > :12:53.Bryan is the nurse who blew the whistle on what was happening there.
:12:53. > :12:58.He now acts as an independent inspector, but says abuse remains
:12:58. > :13:02.difficult to detect. People can hurt people if they want to. If
:13:02. > :13:05.they want to they will because they'll do it behind closed doors.
:13:05. > :13:09.Winterbourne View was closed down more than a year bus, for many it
:13:09. > :13:13.leaves the question of how such a place which was large, locked and
:13:13. > :13:16.cut off from the community could ever have been the right place for
:13:16. > :13:23.people with learning disabilities? Charities and families are already
:13:23. > :13:25.pressing for other such hospitals Shares in the British bank Standard
:13:25. > :13:28.Chartered have fallen sharply following accusations by US
:13:28. > :13:31.regulators that it breached economic sanctions against Iran.
:13:31. > :13:33.The bank has strongly denied hiding details of tens of thousands of
:13:33. > :13:39.transactions for Iranian organisations worth up to �160
:13:39. > :13:44.billion. If found guilty, Standard Chartered could lose its banking
:13:44. > :13:53.licence in the United States. Our business correspondent, John Moylan,
:13:53. > :13:57.has more details. Can a bank really stand for something? This is how
:13:57. > :14:04.Standard Chartered sells itself, a trusted bank with operations across
:14:04. > :14:09.the world doing good. But tonight executives here at its
:14:09. > :14:14.London headquarters will be reeling from accusations that it sceemd
:14:14. > :14:22.with the Iranian Government, hiding up to 60,000 alleged transactions
:14:22. > :14:27.which are said to have laundered up to $250 billion or �160 billion.
:14:27. > :14:35.But how could this happen? Say an Iranian company with a French bank
:14:35. > :14:39.account wants to sell oil to a German firm, the oil is traded in
:14:39. > :14:44.dollars. Such transactions can be scrutinised and rejected altogether
:14:44. > :14:51.so it is alleged that Standard Chartered deliberately hid details
:14:51. > :14:56.that would have revealed the Iranian link. If true, the
:14:56. > :14:59.consequences could be could be huge? Material amounts of their
:14:59. > :15:03.business is conducted in US currency and if it were to lose its
:15:03. > :15:06.US banking licence, it is possible that Standard Chartered would not
:15:06. > :15:11.be able to continue in that activity.
:15:11. > :15:16.Standard Chartered says it rejects the allegations. It believes 99.9%
:15:16. > :15:20.of its Iranian transactions meet US regulations. What is more, it
:15:20. > :15:23.seemed surprised by this because it says it launched its review into
:15:23. > :15:26.its compliance with US sanctions two-and-a-half years ago and it
:15:26. > :15:31.says it has been keeping the US authorities up-to-date with
:15:31. > :15:36.progress. But back in 2006, a senior US
:15:36. > :15:41.executive warned of very serious or catastrophic reputational damage to
:15:41. > :15:45.the group. A London executive is said to have responded "you
:15:45. > :15:54.Americans, who are you to tell us the rest of the world that we are
:15:54. > :15:57.not going to deal with Iranians?" Tonight the White House said that
:15:57. > :16:01.the US Administration is in close contact with the New York
:16:01. > :16:09.authorities. They have demanded that Standard Chartered explain its
:16:09. > :16:19.And for more on the Standard Chartered allegations and the
:16:19. > :16:21.
:16:21. > :16:24.implications, you can visit our Coming up on tonight's programme:
:16:24. > :16:33.We take a closer look at the technology which helped deliver
:16:33. > :16:36.In Syria, President Assad has appeared on state television a day
:16:36. > :16:44.after his Prime Minister defected to the opposition and was seen
:16:44. > :16:48.greeting an envoy from Iran. The president restated his aim of
:16:48. > :16:50.purging the country of terrorists. As the fighting in the biggest
:16:50. > :16:52.Syrian cities continues there is increasing evidence that foreign
:16:52. > :16:55.fighters are involved. Our special correspondent, Allan Little, has
:16:55. > :17:05.been looking at claims that an extremist Islamist group with links
:17:05. > :17:08.
:17:08. > :17:12.As the Syrian struggle intensifies the bat toll remove the Assad
:17:12. > :17:18.regime is pulling in volunteer fighters from across the Arab world.
:17:18. > :17:22.And from well beyond. Mohammed is a 22-year-old
:17:22. > :17:27.engineering student from London. His parents fled Syria 30 years ago.
:17:27. > :17:33.This summer, he went back with a camera to try to document what he
:17:33. > :17:39.sees as the struggle for a free and democratic Syria.
:17:39. > :17:46.I joined this brigade and I was going to work as a reporter for
:17:46. > :17:51.them, you know, just taking videos of their attacks and you know, due
:17:51. > :17:54.to this, they had to train me to use a gun.
:17:54. > :17:59.Mohammed says he went to Syria because he wanted to play his part
:17:59. > :18:05.in freeing his country, but the chaos unleashed by the uprising has
:18:05. > :18:09.drawn in foreign Jihadists, Islamic extremists, some believed to be
:18:09. > :18:14.affiliated to Al-Qaeda. The Foreign Office forged links with the
:18:14. > :18:20.opposition and has given its support to overthrow the Assad
:18:20. > :18:26.regime. There are some British Muslims radicalised who are in sir
:18:26. > :18:30.yarx fighting -- Syria fighting for a a different cause. A British
:18:30. > :18:40.photographer and a Dutch colleague were kidnapped and held for a week.
:18:40. > :18:41.
:18:41. > :18:44.They said some of their captors spokes English with Midlands
:18:44. > :18:49.accents. They were part of a group of
:18:49. > :18:52.radicals. The numbers are small, ten or twelve British Muslims at
:18:52. > :18:59.most so far, but it is a dangerous development.
:18:59. > :19:01.Yes, from a security prospective, of course, because they are, we
:19:01. > :19:10.presume they are British citizens. What's their plan? What's going to
:19:10. > :19:18.happen after they obtain the skills? Guerrilla warfare, other
:19:18. > :19:26.war fairs? -- warfares. Islamic extreme extremism is
:19:26. > :19:28.finding a home and now evidence of Sir Bernard Lovell the
:19:28. > :19:31.distinguished scientist who pioneered radio astronomy in
:19:31. > :19:35.Britain has died at the age of 98. Sir Bernard founded the Jodrell
:19:35. > :19:38.Bank Observatory in Cheshire and served as its director for 30 years.
:19:38. > :19:41.The telescope which came into operation in 1957 still plays a key
:19:41. > :19:50.role in the study of stars as our science editor, David Shukman,
:19:50. > :19:58.reports. An extraordinary machine to reveal the most distant reaches
:19:58. > :20:08.of the cosmos. The telescope at Jodrell Bank revolutionised as tron
:20:08. > :20:10.
:20:10. > :20:13.me. It was the brainchild of of Sir Bernard Lovell. They are an account
:20:13. > :20:20.of signals which have been travelling through space for 8,000
:20:20. > :20:28.million years. The Lovell telescope was in at the dawn of the space age.
:20:28. > :20:33.Watching over British airspace and exploring Deep Space.
:20:33. > :20:39.The telescope attracted royalty. This was a device of national
:20:39. > :20:45.importance. It survived longer than expected.
:20:45. > :20:52.It is astonishing that in spite of the new developments and all the
:20:52. > :20:57.new instruments that the Jodrell Bank telescope has an important use.
:20:57. > :21:00.Today Bernard Lovell was remembered at Jodrell Bank. A book of
:21:00. > :21:05.condolence was opened and there were plenty of them.
:21:05. > :21:09.Bernard Lovell was one of the great visionries of British science. The
:21:09. > :21:11.telescope which he built was ambitious at that time and it is
:21:11. > :21:15.doing great science over 50 years later.
:21:15. > :21:21.The telescope is a popular attraction. Bernard Lovell always
:21:21. > :21:26.wanted the public to share his science.
:21:26. > :21:31.Radio astronomy didn't exist before Sir Bernard was involved. It was a
:21:31. > :21:36.whole new science looking at the invisible sky.
:21:36. > :21:40.Interviewed by Sir Patrick Poor, he was modest.
:21:40. > :21:44.I thought 20 years we knew all we knew about the structure of the
:21:44. > :21:49.universe and now we know almost nothing.
:21:49. > :21:59.Few can be as majestic as this telescope which was the creation of
:21:59. > :22:03.
:22:03. > :22:11.Tributes to Sir Bernard Lovell who The outspoken and influential art
:22:11. > :22:18.critic Robert Hughes has died after a long illness. He was 74. Why get
:22:18. > :22:22.excited by bits of paint on canvass. The Australian critic presented a
:22:22. > :22:25.landmark BBC series on art, The Shock of the New which was seen by
:22:25. > :22:33.more than 25 million viewers in the 80s. He also wrote a best-selling
:22:33. > :22:35.book, the Fatal Shore about Britain's track cyclists confirmed
:22:35. > :22:39.their domination of the Olympic velodrome with two more golds today
:22:39. > :22:42.bringing their total to seven at London 2012. Their nearest rivals
:22:42. > :22:46.were left trailing leading to more interest in some quarters in the
:22:46. > :22:56.preparation and methods used by Team GB to bring home the medals.
:22:56. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:06.Our sport correspondent, Tim Franks, Rarely has Britain mined such good.
:23:06. > :23:10.It is part down to raw talent and part the home crowd. But it is
:23:10. > :23:16.because it has been The Crucible for some of the most advanced
:23:16. > :23:21.experiments in sports science. So much so the man on the left of your
:23:21. > :23:24.picture, here seen losing to Britain's Jason Kenny, asked
:23:24. > :23:28.whether there wasn't something shifty going on. The question for
:23:28. > :23:33.the mastermind of British cycling. For some reason they were convinced
:23:33. > :23:37.we were using some kind of futuristic wheel. When they asked
:23:37. > :23:41.we did say the trick of our wheels is that they are round. Really
:23:41. > :23:47.round, not just nearly round, but really round! They took that on
:23:47. > :23:51.board. That was nice! It is a little more complicated
:23:51. > :23:55.than that. Here a look behind the curtain at project. Two of Team
:23:55. > :24:00.GB's analysts, ear pieces in, laptops out, pouring over every
:24:00. > :24:05.thousandth of a second in an effort to give Britain an edge.
:24:05. > :24:11.It is all in the pursuit of marginal gains. Helmets are made to
:24:11. > :24:15.measure from 3D laser head scans and lined with an aluminium
:24:15. > :24:20.honeycomb. Wind tunnels are used to study drag. The aim is for the
:24:20. > :24:26.rider to punch through the air with the minimum of resistance. Bikes
:24:26. > :24:30.are hand-made to measure. They are so so light, you can lift with them
:24:30. > :24:36.with with two fingers. The man who pioneered the use of
:24:36. > :24:39.extraordinary looking gear was Chris Boardman. He took gold and he
:24:39. > :24:44.is advising the British team. Any clues? The better the questions
:24:44. > :24:47.that are asked, the shorter the answers. Nobody gives away really
:24:47. > :24:51.important data. The coaches won't give you a training programme and
:24:51. > :24:54.tell you how that is and I'm not going to tell you too much about
:24:54. > :24:59.the equipment. The British team concocted a
:24:59. > :25:03.winning mix of athletes, coaches and equipment. The rest of the
:25:03. > :25:13.world will catch up, so the task for the next Olympics - simply to
:25:13. > :25:14.
:25:14. > :25:17.There was more success for Team GB in Weymouth. Nick Dempsey took
:25:17. > :25:25.silver in the windsurfing. He finished behind Holland's Dorian
:25:25. > :25:29.Van Rijsselberge. Dempsey was so the sea to greet fans and his son
:25:29. > :25:32.who had been promised a silver medal.
:25:32. > :25:34.Amid the celebrations for Team GB's record performances, there was one
:25:34. > :25:37.major disappointment today when Phillips Idowu failed to qualify
:25:37. > :25:44.for the final of the triple jump. There was, however, a bronze medal
:25:44. > :25:47.tonight for Britain's Robbie He had come to be known as the
:25:47. > :25:51.invisible man of British athletics, but no sooner had Phillips Idowu
:25:51. > :25:54.appeared at these Games, he was gone again. Speculation over his
:25:54. > :25:57.fitness and whereabouts had lent intrigue to the triple jump
:25:57. > :26:01.competition, but today there was no mystery. Phillips Idowu wasn't
:26:01. > :26:06.himself. Phillips Idowu, a last chance to
:26:06. > :26:08.make it through to the final. The Beijing silver medallist fell
:26:08. > :26:13.short of the qualifying mark required and Phillips Idowu was out.
:26:13. > :26:17.That That wasn't me out there. I competed for 12 years and I can't
:26:17. > :26:27.remember a time when I performed that badly.
:26:27. > :26:38.
:26:38. > :26:42.But that wasn't the end of British interest. This evening, Robbie
:26:42. > :26:52.Grabaz competed in the high jump. In the end, he couldn't manage
:26:52. > :26:52.
:26:52. > :26:55.higher, but all wasn't lost. As this failure handed the Briton
:26:55. > :26:57.bronze and Team GB could celebrate because that had taken Britain's
:26:58. > :27:04.tally to 48 medals, better than Beijing.
:27:05. > :27:11.I got a medal. If someone said, "You are going to get a bronze
:27:11. > :27:18.medal" I would have bitten their hand off, I'm so happy.
:27:18. > :27:28.There were plenty of emotion in the women's hurdles. The favourite
:27:28. > :27:38.carried the expectations of a nation.
:27:38. > :27:51.
:27:51. > :27:55.Time for a word with James Pearce. James, you do wonder now that the
:27:55. > :28:00.medal target is met and there is five days to go, where we could be
:28:00. > :28:04.come next Sunday? It is difficult not to get swept along with the
:28:04. > :28:09.tide of optimism. If you look at medal chances for Team GB, there
:28:09. > :28:13.are a lot of them. Boxing, we haven't got to the finals round. A
:28:13. > :28:17.number of British boxers in with a chance of a gold medal. We have Tom
:28:17. > :28:22.Daley to go in the individual diving. We have Mo Farah in the
:28:22. > :28:27.5,000 meters and both the men's and women's hockey teams are through
:28:27. > :28:31.for Team GB into the semi-finals after the Beijing Olympics and Team
:28:31. > :28:35.GB did so well and got the 19 golds, there were senior figures in
:28:35. > :28:39.British sport, we were worried, but are delighted with how well the
:28:39. > :28:42.team performed. They were worried because it was an unrealistic
:28:42. > :28:47.target for Team GB to match in London. Well, for them to have