04/08/2012 BBC Weekend News


04/08/2012

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Good afternoon, it has been another triumph for morning for Team GB's

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Rovers, who have won the two wore gold medals, the men's four

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defeated Australia, and Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking won the

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women's lightweight double sculls. The men's team were beaten, they

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The supremacy in this sport has been built on the men's coxless

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four. It was one of the most closely fought events. It turned

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into a two boat race. Australia tried to respond but the leaders

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dug into their reserves of energy well and was soon to get better.

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Attention turned to the lightweights. Sophie Hoskins and

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Kat Copeland up a new combination but it did not show. They overtook

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Greece and eventually won in style. This is the first Olympic gold

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medal in this category. I cannot believe it is real, that we just

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won. I do not know. We'd just won the Olympics. Mark Hunter and Zac

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Purchase's efforts got off to an unusual start. After some emergency

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repairs the race was started. They compose themselves and built the

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lead. Denmark fought back and took gold by the finest of margins.

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Their campaign ended in disappointment. Their hosts can

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still reflect on a regatta for of Team GB is third in the overall

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The USA is top with 21 gold medals and China is in second place with

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20. On the athletics track, James Pearce is at trackside for us now.

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Not too bad in long jump but jack leant and another discipline to

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come as well. -- Chapel End. Let's have a look at the best long jump

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lead. Two more events to there. -- go. In the past few minutes we have

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seen perhaps the biggest name of all at the Olympics - Usain Bolt

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lining up for the 100 metres. It was not the spectacular performance

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but it is only the first round. He won his heat and that is all he had

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to do. The final is tomorrow. A bit of history created this morning.

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Oscar Pistorius became the first Paralympic athlete to become an

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Olympic athlete. He did really well as well in the first round of the

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poor hundred metres. He is safely through to the semi-finals. -- 400

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metres. Not such good news in a triathlon with Helen Jenkins

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In other news: There has been more heavy shelling and gunfire in

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Syria's capital, Damascas, with reports that rebel fighters have

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been largely driven out of the city. It follows a resolution from the

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United Nations General Assembly condemning the Government's use of

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heavy weapons. Richard Galpin reports from the Syrian border.

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Along the border with Syria, the Turkish military is taking up

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defensive positions. More hardware arriving this week as the situation

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gets increasingly chaotic inside Syria. The Turkish government fears

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a power vacuum on the Syrian side of this border. It also fears a

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huge influx of refugees from the fighting in the biggest city in

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Syria - Aleppo. It is 50 miles from here. Up to 600 people are already

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crossing the border into Turkey every day. Despite this, the United

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Nations is still in disarray. Yesterday's resolution of the

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General Assembly criticised the use of a heavy weapons in Syria. It has

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been condemned by Russia, which continues to support President

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Assad. TRANSLATION: Today's resolution is

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harmful. It undermines political settlement. We believe it is

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unacceptable and an attempt to turn back the mandate of the special

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envoy. With fighting also raging in the capital, Damascus, the chances

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of the two sides reaching a peaceful settlement seemed almost

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non-existent. Instead, the rebels have spread their uprising across

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all major cities, tying down government troops in a series of

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Detectives have said that the oil executive, Carole Waugh, whose body

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was found in a garage in South London, had suffered a single stab

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wound. Carole Waugh was last seen alive in April. Her body was found

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