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Hello. For tonight's programme, we are at sports city in Manchester | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
where the we learn what it takes to become an Olympic champion. | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
Tonight, back on British soil, the man who spent 8 years in the | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
Bangkok Hilton. I think he has done it long enough. He has done 8 years. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
The search for illegal immigrants, we follow the north-west Border | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Agency as they carry out raids across the region. When we arrived, | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
we found one person and we suspect they are illegal. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
We reveal the power behind our Olympic hopefuls. The parent is | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
trusting you to look after their children and develop them | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
physically and mentally into a per have way beyond gymnastics. -- into | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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We have got an exclusive on Inside Out tonight. A young man from | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
buried he was sentenced to life in a Thai jail is back in Britain. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Michael Connell, 19 when he was caught smuggling drugs, has already | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
served a 8 years at the Bang Kwang Prison. Now his father speaking | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
exclusively to us has said that Michael has had enough and should | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
be freed. It is the world's most notorious | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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For the past 8 years, Bang Kwang Prison, better known as the Bangkok | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
Hilton, has been home to Michael Connell. There are 24 in the room | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
which is really hard. Everyone is all over the floor. I was surprised | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
that he did not get more illnesses. He just had one bout of pneumonia. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
It could have killed him, but it did not. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Michael, who has learning difficulties, was arrested when he | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
arrived at Bangkok airport in November 2003. 3,400 Ecstasy | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
tablets were found hidden in tubs of cream in his luggage. Speaking | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
in a BBC documentary the following year, he describes what happened. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
went to collect my back and for some reason, it was already off the | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
rails because someone had picked it up, walked through customs. Then | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
someone asked if they could search my back and brought it to the X-ray | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
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machine, opened it, put their hand and and pulled them out. When I got | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
arrested, they had a big sign up in the customs office which scared me | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
a lot. I just sat there looking at it and just praying that I did not | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
get the death penalty. To my family, I love you all. Don't | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
worry about me, be more worried about yourself. Back home, his | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
father Derek had no idea he had even travelled to Thailand. I was | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
working as a taxi driver and became on the radio that a local man, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Michael Connell, has been arrested in Thailand. That was the first I | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
had heard of it. We did not get any phone calls from the government to | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
advisers or anything like that. Not a nice way to hear of what your son | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
has been up to. When they found a neat, I knew what was going to | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
happen to me. Anywhere in the world if you get caught importing drugs, | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
you go to prison, so I knew I would be put in prison as soon as they | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
found them. Shortly after his arrest, Inside | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Out a company that Derek to see Michael and find out what happened. | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
It was his first trip to the Far East. I get stressed out going into | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
town, so I'm stressed now. It was an even bigger shock when we | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
visited Michael in prison. Very noisy. Heat is sat in a long | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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corridor with glass walls. You realise that your son is coming | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
when you hear the clanking of the change -- the trains. Each step, | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the canker of the chains is horrible. Michael actually climbed | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
up and showed us his legs. They are not little, they are big, heavy | :05:06. | :05:15. | |
duty. They are very heavy. It is not a pretty sight by any stretch | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
of the imagination. During the visit Michael refused to | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
tell Derek who else was involved, but he confessed he knew he had the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
drugs and was smuggling them into diet -- into Thailand to pay off | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
debts. He borrowed �350 off me and his mother. I had been led to | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
believe it was to pay council tax and rent. He told me today but that | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
is what he owed some body. He paid that many of because he said he | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
doesn't like being in debt. I said, why did you do this then? He said, | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
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It looks like he has done it to repay his debts to me and his | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
mother. Obviously, it is stupid because we would have written the | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
debts of gladly. Inside Out obtained Michael's | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
education records which back-up Derek's claim -- claims that | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
Michael has learning difficulties and is easily led. We asked Michael | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
how much he was getting and he said that he did not know. He said that | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
they would give him some money, which shows his gullibility of. To | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
risk your freedom and your life for somebody that has not confirmed the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
amount, they said it you take them over and once we have got them, we | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
will sort you out, Michael. They had not even come up with a figure. | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
He is not a bad lad. He is a fall, he is definitely a fall, but he is | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
not a criminal. Because Michael pleaded guilty, he avoided the | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
death sentence and was given 99 years, reduced on appeal to 30 | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
years. Financial restraints mean Derek has only visited him three | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
times, the last was for Michael's 21st birthday six years ago. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
coped a lot better than I thought he would. He never once complained | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
ever, never blamed anyone else but himself. He said he had done | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
something stupid, wished he had not done it, but he had. He had to deal | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
with it. I am sleeping next to a guy who has | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
not washed his bed for two months. I have told them to do with, but he | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
does not do it. I'm sure he will get mice in his bed. Michael also | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
found himself as somewhat of a tourist attraction. A visit to the | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Bangkok Hilton is part of the backpacker itinerary. Michael | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
settled into the routine at present -- prison life and got a job in a | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
hospital. Early on, he could not speak to them very well, but he has | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
developed over the years. He used to sit up all night with a | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
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terminally ill prisoners dying of Dr Manhop eventually gave him a job | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
in the pharmacy. Michael is in prison for smuggling drugs into | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
Thailand and he is working mean in a pharmacy in the Bangkok Hilton! I | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
still find that amusing. They must have trusted him to give him that | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
job in the first place. Following amnesties from the King of Thailand | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
and a reduction for good behaviour, Michael's sentence was reduced to | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
20 years. He could have asked to transfer to a British prison four | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
years ago, but chose to return to Thailand in the hope of getting a | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
king's pardon. Last year, he had had enough of the can Thailand and | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
he was flown back to the UK and put in a category B prison just before | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Christmas. Due to a change in the law, he now has to serve half of | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
the rest of his sentence rather than half of his original sentence | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
before he is eligible for parole. Now, he faces even longer in prison. | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
He is back in England, he has done 8 years, his sentences 20 years and | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
he has 12 years to do. Prior to his arrest, you could apply for parole | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
once he had served half of your sentence. Michael could have | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
applied for parole after he had served 10 years, but in 2008 they | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
changed the law so that he had to serve half of the remainder of his | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
sentence in prison before he could apply. Where he hoped to apply for | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
parole in two years, he cannot apply for six years now. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
addition, if Michael had not appealed against his original | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
sentence and had come back to the UK, the British government would | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
now have to set a tariff for the rest of his sentence and Derek | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
believes he would be freed immediately. He is writing to | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
people who he thinks may be able to help Michael's course. I am not | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
beat smartest bloke so if anyone can give me any advice, it would be | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
gratefully accepted. Hopefully they can try and get his sentence | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
reduced, or get him paroled in a couple of years. Having Michael | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
back home is the first step towards regaining his son's freedom. He | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
thinks he has suffered enough. Michael committed a crime, he | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
admitted he committed a crime, he has never denied it and has always | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
put his hands up. He said he was a stupid and wishes he had never done | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
it. He has done 8 years in one of the worst prisons in the world. I | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
think the Americans say it is the equivalent of two years in one of | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
their presence. Michael has done long enough, I think, and I will do | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
whatever I can to get his sentence reduced, or even squashed if I can. | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
I want to get him out. Coming up: Meet the unsung heroes | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
helping our Olympians prepare for the Games. We have our tickets and | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
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we will be there cheering them on. The UK Border Agency has been under | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
investigation last week following claims its staff were told to relax | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
identity checks on non- EU nationals. The head of the | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
organisation resigned over the controversy. Here, board agency | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
offices are targeting immigration crime by raiding restaurants and | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
takeaways. 50 Border Agency officials and | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
police officers made a cash and carry warehouse outside Liverpool | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
city centre. They are looking for suspected Eagle employees. It takes | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
the Border Agency seconds to seal the area and they begin the process | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
of working out who is the food. They suspect around 20 people have | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
been working hit illegally so one of the first tasks to contain the | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
people here behind me, interview them and assess the situation. It | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
is an operation they have been planning since July. It is all | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
based on intelligence. Staff who are entitled to work in the UK are | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
moved to another part of the building. If the Border Agency find | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
any illegal workers, the company faces a fine of �10,000. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
The Border Agency suspect there are 20 or more people working here | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
illegally. Is this news to you? Hopefully they will not even find | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
one person here. Are you confident you have done the correct checks? | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
When we hire someone, we get the passports from them and we look at | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
the passports, what kind of Beazer's they have. We sent out to | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
head office to verify it. -- these were. Once head office says OK, | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
then we hire them. How do you feel about this raid on your store? | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
need to do their job. They are here to find someone. If they find | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
someone, then that is good because they should catch these people. But | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
as far as I know, there will not be any. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
The manager says he thinks he has done adequate checks. Is that | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
something you encountered regularly? Yes, and I do have a | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
colleague who is going through the employee at records. -- employee | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
records. If any are found to be working illegally, a fine will be | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
issued against the manager. So long as he done -- has done the right | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
checks, they have permission to work with the UK companies, he can | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
appeal any finance is issued today. The Border Agency intelligence | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
information does not stand up to scrutiny. Two people are arrested, | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
one of them a customer. Both have been placed on immigration bail. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
The company Bestway later complained the raid had been heavy | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
handed. Raids like this are organised by | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
this man who leads the newly established criminal and financial | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
investigations team. From a secret location on the outskirts of | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
Manchester, these officers gather evidence against crime gangs of. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
The team investigate organised criminal networks who are actively | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
involved in immigration crime. We look to disrupt and dismantle these | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
groups. The team that sift through intelligence and try to unravel the | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
evidence. They work with other department -- departments like | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
council services and revenues and customs. They liken it to peeling | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
back the layers of an onion to find out what is going on. A minor | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
offence can lead to the destruction of a much bigger organised crime. | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
This man, Chi Lain Chen, is a Chinese national who was living in | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
the UK illegally. At the same time, he was running a successful | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
business empire worth an estimated �2 million. His work centred on | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
three Chinese restaurants across the Lake District, but he was | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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One of the restaurants is trading legitimately, but when Mr Chen was | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
in charge, a number of people were working illegally. Here at this | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
restaurant, which used to be known as the Royal Tea Garden, | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
investigators discovered two bedrooms which had been set aside | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
for workers to living. Raids also took place at the Rice Bowl in | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Kendal, at this one in Keswick, officers and a bedroom divided down | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
the middle by a line of wardrobes and families on either side. This | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
undercover officer, whose identity we have agreed to protect, is the | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
man who brought Chen to justice and a prison sentence of two years. | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Because of his own status as a failed asylum-seeker, he had no | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
entitlement to work in the UK. Engaged in all these businesses, | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
operating restaurants. We know from other cases that we have had | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
incidences of restaurant owners being able to call upon almost a | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
sort of illegal pool of migrants that might be operating in London, | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
there would be an informal network to: that resource. Despite China's | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
economic growth, poverty is still persistent. Especially in rural | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
areas. Those desperate enough to enter the UK illegally often | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
contact smuggling gangs run by Chinese criminals known as | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Snakeheads. Quite a long and arduous route for these people to | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
get here added normally involves long periods of walking, long | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
periods of transit by road and eventually cutting across Europe, | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
concealed in lorries, which is quite dangerous. This woman was | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
smuggled into Manchester by Snakeheads and had been working | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
here illegally for six years. She agreed to tell us her story through | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
an interpreter. We have obscured her identity. TRANSLATION: In China, | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
it is very difficult. My family do not have a lot of money. I have | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
heard that people go to another country to make money so that is | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
where I came to the UK. Life in China is very difficult for me. | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Salaries are less than �100 per month. If I come to the UK, at | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
least I can work and get some money, and life could get better. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
borrowed �20,000 from friends to pay the Snakeheads, then began a | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
one-way journey, flying around Europe. TRANSLATION:, I had to pay | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
them all the money at once. Otherwise they would lock me in a | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
room. This is an illegal working operation, restaurants all under | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
the same ownership. Tonight, the Border Agency will be carrying at | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
five raids on site in Greater Manchester. We will look to see | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
that premises. Officers have found more than 50 illegal workers | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
employed in one particular restaurant in Rusholme, Manchester. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Inside, the 35 staff have been stopped from working and wit to be | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
interviewed by officers. Even for the ones who have arrived to be | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
employed in the UK, it is a nerve- racking and intimidating time. | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Documents will be checked against Home Office records and workers can | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
be fingerprinted if necessary. they arrived at the property, we | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
find one person hiding in the cupboards are we suspect that | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
person may be illegal, we're doing checks. One other guy who gave a | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
false name, we have fingerprinted him. That deception suggests he | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
could be illegal. Foreign players, this is just the start of a process. | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
The border agencies can target money any company has made, | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
employing illegal immigrants. For Chi Chen, jail is only the | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
beginning. He benefited to �2.2 million, whatever remains of that | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
benefit will -- we will be seeking to take everything off him. | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
years ago, the eyes of the sporting world were on the Commonwealth | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Games here in Manchester. This year, the Spotlight is on the Olympics, | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
and athletes from all over the North West are training hard to | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
make it to the Games. Without the help of those behind the scenes, | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
none of them would have a chance of making the greatest show on earth. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
We have been speaking to parents, coaches and scientists who are | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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helping to create the region's That is the brilliance when from | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
James Goddard. Beth Tweddle has shown us what she is capable of. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
talent and determination, they stand on the brink of Olympic | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
success. -- brute talent. The those cyclists, gymnasts and swimmers, | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
they would not be in the position they are without people behind the | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
scenes. We will meet some of them to find out how champions or | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
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All athletes are inspired first of all at home, so I have come to be a | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
mother who knows a thing or two about inspiring her children. All | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
three of them play sport for their country. Sue is blind, her husband | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Anthony is partially sighted. Both enjoyed successful sporting careers. | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
Their three children, Mark, Roy and Llodra are also blind, with | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
condition called retinopathy. But Sue is determined that would never | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
be a barrier. We have always encouraged them to take every | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
advantage of whatever comes along, don't let anyone tell you, you | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
can't do that, because you can't see. Mark has played football and | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
cricket for England. His other boy has done the same. Dr Lord de la | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
Warr has a medal within -- winning para-cyclist. -- daughter Lora. | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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Quite a trophy cabinet. I will show you. On the top, they are mine. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
Underneath, the next shelf, is some of mind and some of Anthony's. On | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
the bottom shelf, they are all white's and Lora APPLAUSE. | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
. That means you have the most. Overall, Roy and Lora have many | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
more than we do! They have finally overtaken you. They have always | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
supported us, and taken us two events and cheered us on and | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
encourage us to train. Both Lora in cycling and Roy in football have a | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
good chance of competing at the Paralympics. They cannot be many | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
families in this country who could have two children at the Games this | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
summer. It will be really exciting, I will have to make -- lead my | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
nails grow long so I have something to bite! It will be very nerve- | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
racking. But very exciting. We have got our tickets, so we will be | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
there, cheering them on. Extra loud! We are going with little bits | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
of circuits. After the parent, the next most important person is the | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
coach. Keep your legs together. a sport like gymnastics, where boys | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
and girls start at the age of five or six, that role is even more | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
important. They can be like a second payment -- parent, or an | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
older sister. There still has to be that line, where they know that | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
what I say go. -- goes. You have to be there, whether its problems in | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
school, boyfriend problems, whatever. You are just there and if | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
you know they are down, you have to take time to see why they are down. | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
If they are down in normal life, the training will suffer. Amanda | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
started coaching 20 years ago when the club have little track record | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
of success. Now it is likely to supply the bulk of the women's | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
Olympic team. It is like a little factory, Judith what had the babies, | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
Tina would have the middle section and I would have the older ones. It | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
worked from there, we just worked as a team together, but the kids to | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
a high-level, pushed them further. She has helped the likes of Beth | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Tweddle to world titles, drawing on her own experiences in Olympic | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
gymnastics. I know what fears, or what strengths I had as a gymnast. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Even if it was just wanting support, lots of support, or physical or | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
mental, I would either withdraw from gymnasts I have got to make | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
them stronger, to compete better than I ever did. She knows what it | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
takes to be at the top. She worked with generations before us. She | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
took me through to European and world medal level. We all trust or | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
complete the without gymnastics. -- trust her completely. The parent is | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
interesting you for four hours on one session, 20 hours a week, they | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
are due to literally look after their child and hopefully, develop | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
them but just physically but mentally into a good path way | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
beyond gymnastics. Some of the region pop - my son of the region's | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
top medal hopes will be in the pool and the swimmers will benefit from | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
a host of staff dedicated to every aspect of their well-being, as well | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
as specialist scientists whose job it is to find tiny elements of | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
performance which could in the end proved the difference between | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
silver and gold. All the way. And hold. The scientists like Ben, that | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
means picking up tiny snippets of his information through Platt and | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
lung tests. -- blood and lung test. And using underwater cameras. Have | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
you ever fallen in? Not yet. will happen one day. I fell in on | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
purpose once. Some days I might be filming constantly for two hours. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
Some, it might be two minutes. Some sessions, it might be in debt | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
feedback with coaches. Analysing, looking at angles. Benn has been | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
working but eight of them with West's best swimmers for two years. | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Part of his job is to make comparisons between them and the | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
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world's best. It is a challenge to video everyone. British women, in | :27:50. | :28:00. | |
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terms of what we see it competition, it is great. -- British swimming. | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
No one is in this game for anything other than personal motivation. | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
They are motivated bunch of people and that energy flows, even on a | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
bad day. Whether they are a coat, parent or member of the backroom | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
staff, we will be sure to deliver every possible emotion as they | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
build up to the greatest sporting event of all their lives. | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
That's all from me, but if you missed any of tonight's programme, | :28:27. | :28:33. |