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Tonight at 10.00pm - British athletes achieve their best Olympic | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
performance in over a century. They're lining up for the run of | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
the line. Who is going to get it? Chris Hoy. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Sir Chris Hoy becomes the first British competitor to win six gold | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
medals. Britain's most successful Olympian | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
says he's 99.9% certain these will be his last Games. There's been | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
some really difficult moments, and to get through them all and to | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
succeed here - oh, it's just one of the greatest feelings I have ever | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
had. His fellow cyclist Laura Trott wins | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
her second gold of 2012 - another boost to the medal tally. We are | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
seeing the first British Olympic triathlon champion. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
In the triathlon, a gold for Alistair Brownlee and a first for | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
Britain in this event. She has made history. She has made | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
history. And a first medal in dressage for | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
Team GB, ending years of German dominance. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Which means that Britain has | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
already beaten its medal target with five days to go. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
The other main stories tonight: Major changes are called for after | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
an inquiry into abuse of patients at a care home near Bristol. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Shares in Standard Chartered fall sharply after claims that it helped | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
Iran to break UN sanctions. And tributes to the pioneering | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
astronomer Sir Roger Lovell who's died. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
On BBC London, as thousands clamour to be part of the Games, ticket | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
sales soar for the Paralympics. A year on, what happened to the �70 | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
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million pledged by the mayor to Good evening from the Olympic Park | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
in east London where Sir Chris Hoy has made sporting history. He's the | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
first British athlete to win six Olympic gold medals. His success in | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
the Velodrome this evening crowned another triumphant day for Team GB | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
with four gold medals added, making 2012 the best performance since | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
1908. First tonight this report from our sports correspondent James | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Pearce. And breathe - we all knew the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
feeling. It was going to be hard for anyone watching this one to | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
remain composed. The race hadn't even started, and already Sir Chris | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
Hoy's mother was looking away. This was to be her son's final race as | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
an Olympian. Victory would bring him a record sixth gold medal, but | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
this competition is known for its unpredictability. One wrong move, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
and Hoy's chances would be over. As the pace quickened, mum was | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
watching all right now - well, most of the time anyway. Down below, it | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
was agonisingly close in the last lap as the riders vied for the lead. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Shoulder to shoulder now as they come up around the bend. Now | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
they're lining up. Who is going to get it? Chris Hoy gets the gold | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
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medal! Jubilation, celebration, relief. The scene of the Olympics | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
has so many firsts for Team GB, so many records, but of them all, the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
gold medal of Sir Chris Hoy will stand at the top. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
A guard of honour from the British coaches. This has been a team | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
effort, and waiting with a special hug, the man whose tally of five | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Olympic gold medals is overtaken. Steve is an inspiration. I used to | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
be a rower many years ago as a schoolboy. We looked up to Matthew, | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
to Steve, to all the rowers, and this is an honour to me. To me, | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
he'll always be the greatest, no matter how many medals anybody wins. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Whether Hoy is the greatest or just great, he's a six-times Olympic | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
gold medallist, and judging by his reaction, this one meant as much, | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
if not more, than any of the other five. It didn't all go Team GB's | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
way in the Velodrome. Victoria Pendleton's ambition to become | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Britain's most successful female Olympian was thwarted by the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Australian Anna Meares. I am overwhelmed with emotion. I mean, I | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
would have loved to have won. You know, my final race, but I'm just | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
kind of so glad it's all done. I can move on. The other British | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
victor was Laura Trott. She won a combination of six different events. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
She's only 20 years old and already has two Olympic gold medals to her | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
name. Sir Chris Hoy, watch out. She's got plenty of time to catch | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
you up. APPLAUSE | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Team GB's first gold of the day came in the men's triathlon when | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Alistair Brownlee won a gruelling race which included swimming, | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
cycling and a 10,000m run. His brother Jonny took bronze. Britain | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
had never won a medal in the sport before, and the big crowd of | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
spectators at Hyde Park made their feelings known, as Andy Swiss | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
reports. Hyde Park is always popular for | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
family outings, but it's not often they involve trying to win the | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Olympics. Meet Alistair Brownlee and little brother Jonny, hoping to | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
turn the world's biggest event into a sibling rivalry. Stage one, a | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
one-and-a-half-kilometre swim around the serpentine. Avoid the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
flailing limbs. Mission accomplished but at the first | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
changeover Marx take by Jonny - he'd got on his bike too early - a | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
15-second penalty. Both stayed in the leading pack as they peddled | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
around Buckingham Palace. Come the final run, it was just the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Brownlees and Spain's Javier Gomez, but Jonny still had to serve his | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
penalty. The 15 seconds must have felt like hours and by then, his | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
brother was out of sight. Just one lap to go now, and Alistair | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Brownlee is on course for gold - just two-and-a-half kilometres | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
stands between him and Olympic glory. | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
And in the end, it was literally a stroll - enough time to collect a | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
flag and saunter into sporting history. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Yet another gold for Britain - success, it seems, is getting | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
contagious. I have been watching all the sports | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
for the last ten days, and you know, just so excited to start. I woke up | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
this morning, and I wasn't even nervous. I was like a kid at | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Christmas again. I was so excited to get out and race, so yeah, it's | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
great to come out and race, and obviously I got the result I wanted. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Behind him Jonny took bronze, but the effort took its toll. He | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
collapsed after finishing, exhausted but ultimately | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
exhilarated. I am very, very proud of what Alastair has done, what we | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
have both done. It has been a Jo journey. We started doing this when | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
we were ten, and now we're in the Olympics. It's a remarkable | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
relationship, brothers yet rivals. They trained together in Yorkshire, | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
pushing each other to new heights. I think they both understand and | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
believe that neither of them would be where they are today if it | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
wasn't for the fact that they've got each other to support each | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
other, to train with and to be with each other, so I think they realise | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
that they're a team. So two medals, one surname - not a | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
bad day for the Brownlees, and what a snapshot for the family album. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Team GB's equestrians have achieved a notable victory by claiming their | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
first ever Olympic dressage medal. There were loud cheers at Greenwich | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Park for the second time in two days following the showjumping | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
triumph yesterday. The British competitors beat their nearest | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
rivals Germany, who'd dominated the sport since 1976, as our | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
correspondent Joe Wilson reports. The dancing hooves and perfect | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
poise of dressage. It is a discipline of great subtlety and | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
considerable mystery, even for those who come to watch. We know | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
nothing about dressage. We thought we'd come and see the horses. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
LAUGHTER Both of my boys didn't completely | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
understand it, and neither did I, but we're getting it I think. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
The technic alties may be hard to grasp, but there's one thing | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
everyone here understands - for the first time, really, there is now an | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
outstanding British dressage team in the Olympics. Carl Hester grew | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
up on Sark in the Channel Islands where it helps to learn to ride. | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
There are no cars. The judges marked him at over 80%. That's | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
excellent, and the crowd knew. Germany had utterly dominated the | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
sport of team dressage - seven consecutive golds before London. | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
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Christine Ohuruogu -- conspiracy to On Third and last to go for Great | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Britain, she knew a solid score would be good enough, but she rides | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
a wonder horse, and this was the best of the day. Laura | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Bechtolsheimer of Gloucestershire played a big part two. The three of | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
us have great horses when London decided to host the Olympics, and | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
here we are winning the dressage medal, and it's a gold. It's | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
unbelievable timing. There is still time for more, two more days of | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
equestrian. So at the end of day 11 - with | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
another five days of competition left - this is how the medal table | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
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Let's take a look at the day's other main stories. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
An official inquiry into abuse at a private care home near Bristol says | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
there should be fundamental changes in the way vulnerable adults are | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
looked after. 11 former staff members have admitted neglecting | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
and ill-treating patients at Winterborne View complex in Bristol. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
A Serious Case Review has criticised the care home's owners, | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Castlebeck, for putting profits before patient welfare. Our social | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
affairs correspondent Alison Holt reports. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
The corridors of Winterbourne View Hospital for people with learning | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
disabilities are now stripped bare. But it was here that hidden BBC | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Panorama camera filmed the most appalling abuse of vulnerable | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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patients. It cost authorities �3,500 a week to send a patient to | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
this private hospital, but today's report describes a place of | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
arbitrary violence, where restraint was commonplace. The 11 members of | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
staff who have admitted the ill- treatment and neglect of patients | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
are awaiting sentence. Wendy's daughter Kirsty was at | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Winterbourne View. She has been shocked by what happened there. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Horrified, absolutely horrified. You listen to what she'd said to me | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
over time, and it just made me think that each time that I'd | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
spoken to the manager and questioned things she'd said, I'd | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
always been given a logical answer,ed a then you start asking, | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
why didn't I take it further? Today's Serious Case Review is | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
damning. It shows that Winterbourne patients went to accident and | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
emergency 76 times in three years. The local council received 38 | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
safeguarding alerts, but little was done. The report concludes | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Castlebeck, the private company that owned the hospital, took | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
financial rewards without any apparent accountability. This left | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
vulnerable adults in the hands of poorly trained and poorly | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
supervised staff. Typically, with this kind of abuse, the full scale | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
of crimes are unknown. We often use the metaphor of a tip of an iceberg, | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
and that's very apt in relation to Winterbourne View. The councils and | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
health authorities who sent patients here are said to have had | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
an out-of-sight out-of-mind attitude. They say they'll learn. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
In statement, the owners of Castlebeck say they have made | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
changes to ensure there can't be another Winterbourne View. Terry | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Bryan is the nurse who blew the whistle on what was happening there. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
He now acts as an independent inspector, but says abuse remains | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
difficult to detect. People can hurt people if they want to. If | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
they want to they will because they'll do it behind closed doors. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Winterbourne View was closed down more than a year bus, for many it | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
leaves the question of how such a place which was large, locked and | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
cut off from the community could ever have been the right place for | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
people with learning disabilities? Charities and families are already | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
pressing for other such hospitals Shares in the British bank Standard | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Chartered have fallen sharply following accusations by US | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
regulators that it breached economic sanctions against Iran. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
The bank has strongly denied hiding details of tens of thousands of | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
transactions for Iranian organisations worth up to �160 | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
billion. If found guilty, Standard Chartered could lose its banking | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
licence in the United States. Our business correspondent, John Moylan, | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
has more details. Can a bank really stand for something? This is how | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Standard Chartered sells itself, a trusted bank with operations across | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
the world doing good. But tonight executives here at its | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
London headquarters will be reeling from accusations that it sceemd | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
with the Iranian Government, hiding up to 60,000 alleged transactions | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
which are said to have laundered up to $250 billion or �160 billion. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
But how could this happen? Say an Iranian company with a French bank | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
account wants to sell oil to a German firm, the oil is traded in | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
dollars. Such transactions can be scrutinised and rejected altogether | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
so it is alleged that Standard Chartered deliberately hid details | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
that would have revealed the Iranian link. If true, the | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
consequences could be could be huge? Material amounts of their | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
business is conducted in US currency and if it were to lose its | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
US banking licence, it is possible that Standard Chartered would not | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
be able to continue in that activity. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
Standard Chartered says it rejects the allegations. It believes 99.9% | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
of its Iranian transactions meet US regulations. What is more, it | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
seemed surprised by this because it says it launched its review into | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
its compliance with US sanctions two-and-a-half years ago and it | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
says it has been keeping the US authorities up-to-date with | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
progress. But back in 2006, a senior US | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
executive warned of very serious or catastrophic reputational damage to | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
the group. A London executive is said to have responded "you | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Americans, who are you to tell us the rest of the world that we are | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
not going to deal with Iranians?" Tonight the White House said that | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
the US Administration is in close contact with the New York | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
authorities. They have demanded that Standard Chartered explain its | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
And for more on the Standard Chartered allegations and the | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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implications, you can visit our Coming up on tonight's programme: | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
We take a closer look at the technology which helped deliver | :16:24. | :16:33. | |
In Syria, President Assad has appeared on state television a day | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
after his Prime Minister defected to the opposition and was seen | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
greeting an envoy from Iran. The president restated his aim of | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
purging the country of terrorists. As the fighting in the biggest | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
Syrian cities continues there is increasing evidence that foreign | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
fighters are involved. Our special correspondent, Allan Little, has | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
been looking at claims that an extremist Islamist group with links | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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As the Syrian struggle intensifies the bat toll remove the Assad | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
regime is pulling in volunteer fighters from across the Arab world. | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
And from well beyond. Mohammed is a 22-year-old | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
engineering student from London. His parents fled Syria 30 years ago. | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
This summer, he went back with a camera to try to document what he | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
sees as the struggle for a free and democratic Syria. | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
I joined this brigade and I was going to work as a reporter for | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
them, you know, just taking videos of their attacks and you know, due | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
to this, they had to train me to use a gun. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Mohammed says he went to Syria because he wanted to play his part | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
in freeing his country, but the chaos unleashed by the uprising has | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
drawn in foreign Jihadists, Islamic extremists, some believed to be | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
affiliated to Al-Qaeda. The Foreign Office forged links with the | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
opposition and has given its support to overthrow the Assad | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
regime. There are some British Muslims radicalised who are in sir | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
yarx fighting -- Syria fighting for a a different cause. A British | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
photographer and a Dutch colleague were kidnapped and held for a week. | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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They said some of their captors spokes English with Midlands | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
accents. They were part of a group of | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
radicals. The numbers are small, ten or twelve British Muslims at | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
most so far, but it is a dangerous development. | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
Yes, from a security prospective, of course, because they are, we | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
presume they are British citizens. What's their plan? What's going to | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
happen after they obtain the skills? Guerrilla warfare, other | :19:10. | :19:18. | |
war fairs? -- warfares. Islamic extreme extremism is | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
finding a home and now evidence of Sir Bernard Lovell the | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
distinguished scientist who pioneered radio astronomy in | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Britain has died at the age of 98. Sir Bernard founded the Jodrell | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Bank Observatory in Cheshire and served as its director for 30 years. | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
The telescope which came into operation in 1957 still plays a key | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
role in the study of stars as our science editor, David Shukman, | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
reports. An extraordinary machine to reveal the most distant reaches | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
of the cosmos. The telescope at Jodrell Bank revolutionised as tron | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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me. It was the brainchild of of Sir Bernard Lovell. They are an account | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
of signals which have been travelling through space for 8,000 | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
million years. The Lovell telescope was in at the dawn of the space age. | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
Watching over British airspace and exploring Deep Space. | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
The telescope attracted royalty. This was a device of national | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
importance. It survived longer than expected. | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
It is astonishing that in spite of the new developments and all the | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
new instruments that the Jodrell Bank telescope has an important use. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Today Bernard Lovell was remembered at Jodrell Bank. A book of | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
condolence was opened and there were plenty of them. | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Bernard Lovell was one of the great visionries of British science. The | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
telescope which he built was ambitious at that time and it is | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
doing great science over 50 years later. | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
The telescope is a popular attraction. Bernard Lovell always | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
wanted the public to share his science. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
Radio astronomy didn't exist before Sir Bernard was involved. It was a | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
whole new science looking at the invisible sky. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Interviewed by Sir Patrick Poor, he was modest. | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
I thought 20 years we knew all we knew about the structure of the | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
universe and now we know almost nothing. | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
Few can be as majestic as this telescope which was the creation of | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
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Tributes to Sir Bernard Lovell who The outspoken and influential art | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
critic Robert Hughes has died after a long illness. He was 74. Why get | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
excited by bits of paint on canvass. The Australian critic presented a | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
landmark BBC series on art, The Shock of the New which was seen by | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
more than 25 million viewers in the 80s. He also wrote a best-selling | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
book, the Fatal Shore about Britain's track cyclists confirmed | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
their domination of the Olympic velodrome with two more golds today | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
bringing their total to seven at London 2012. Their nearest rivals | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
were left trailing leading to more interest in some quarters in the | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
preparation and methods used by Team GB to bring home the medals. | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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Our sport correspondent, Tim Franks, Rarely has Britain mined such good. | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
It is part down to raw talent and part the home crowd. But it is | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
because it has been The Crucible for some of the most advanced | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
experiments in sports science. So much so the man on the left of your | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
picture, here seen losing to Britain's Jason Kenny, asked | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
whether there wasn't something shifty going on. The question for | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
the mastermind of British cycling. For some reason they were convinced | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
we were using some kind of futuristic wheel. When they asked | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
we did say the trick of our wheels is that they are round. Really | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
round, not just nearly round, but really round! They took that on | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
board. That was nice! It is a little more complicated | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
than that. Here a look behind the curtain at project. Two of Team | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
GB's analysts, ear pieces in, laptops out, pouring over every | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
thousandth of a second in an effort to give Britain an edge. | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
It is all in the pursuit of marginal gains. Helmets are made to | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
measure from 3D laser head scans and lined with an aluminium | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
honeycomb. Wind tunnels are used to study drag. The aim is for the | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
rider to punch through the air with the minimum of resistance. Bikes | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
are hand-made to measure. They are so so light, you can lift with them | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
with with two fingers. The man who pioneered the use of | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
extraordinary looking gear was Chris Boardman. He took gold and he | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
is advising the British team. Any clues? The better the questions | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
that are asked, the shorter the answers. Nobody gives away really | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
important data. The coaches won't give you a training programme and | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
tell you how that is and I'm not going to tell you too much about | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
the equipment. The British team concocted a | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
winning mix of athletes, coaches and equipment. The rest of the | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
world will catch up, so the task for the next Olympics - simply to | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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There was more success for Team GB in Weymouth. Nick Dempsey took | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
silver in the windsurfing. He finished behind Holland's Dorian | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
Van Rijsselberge. Dempsey was so the sea to greet fans and his son | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
who had been promised a silver medal. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
Amid the celebrations for Team GB's record performances, there was one | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
major disappointment today when Phillips Idowu failed to qualify | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
for the final of the triple jump. There was, however, a bronze medal | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
tonight for Britain's Robbie He had come to be known as the | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
invisible man of British athletics, but no sooner had Phillips Idowu | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
appeared at these Games, he was gone again. Speculation over his | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
fitness and whereabouts had lent intrigue to the triple jump | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
competition, but today there was no mystery. Phillips Idowu wasn't | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
himself. Phillips Idowu, a last chance to | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
make it through to the final. The Beijing silver medallist fell | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
short of the qualifying mark required and Phillips Idowu was out. | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
That That wasn't me out there. I competed for 12 years and I can't | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
remember a time when I performed that badly. | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
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But that wasn't the end of British interest. This evening, Robbie | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Grabaz competed in the high jump. In the end, he couldn't manage | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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higher, but all wasn't lost. As this failure handed the Briton | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
bronze and Team GB could celebrate because that had taken Britain's | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
tally to 48 medals, better than Beijing. | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
I got a medal. If someone said, "You are going to get a bronze | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
medal" I would have bitten their hand off, I'm so happy. | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
There were plenty of emotion in the women's hurdles. The favourite | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
carried the expectations of a nation. | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
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Time for a word with James Pearce. James, you do wonder now that the | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
medal target is met and there is five days to go, where we could be | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
come next Sunday? It is difficult not to get swept along with the | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
tide of optimism. If you look at medal chances for Team GB, there | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
are a lot of them. Boxing, we haven't got to the finals round. A | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
number of British boxers in with a chance of a gold medal. We have Tom | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
Daley to go in the individual diving. We have Mo Farah in the | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
5,000 meters and both the men's and women's hockey teams are through | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
for Team GB into the semi-finals after the Beijing Olympics and Team | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
GB did so well and got the 19 golds, there were senior figures in | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
British sport, we were worried, but are delighted with how well the | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
team performed. They were worried because it was an unrealistic | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
target for Team GB to match in London. Well, for them to have | :28:42. | :28:47. |