16/08/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Tuesday, it's nine o'clock.

This is Victoria Derbyshire with you, welcome to the programme.

More medals for Team GB in the dressage, cycling and hammer.

Mark Cavendish scoops up the final point on offer, which makes sure

that he has the silver medal for Great Britain after all the effort

and all the Olympic heartache. Mark Cavendish has an Olympic medal.

What a wonderful throw! She is guaranteed the bronze medal. Only

two throws remain, they have already gone past her. 74.50 four.

We'll talk to Charlote Dujardin's mum about that amazing win.

And could Britain's cycling power couple of Jason Kenny

and Laura Trott take their joint tally of golds to ten?

Also on the programme - held hostage and tortured

by so-called Islamic State for 13 months before being released

We'll bring you an exclusive interview with the Danish photo

journalist who now says he feels sorry for his captors.

I would really love to have a talk with one of them at some point. Just

sit down when this is over with, have a talk and ask them why. Why

could they do such things? Watch Daniel Rye's first British

interview on the programme today. And a man is facing jail today

after threatening to kill a Labour MP the day before Jo Cox

was murdered in her constituency. We'll talk to that MP -

Ben Bradshaw - about death threats Welcome to the programme,

we're live until 11 this morning. A little later in the programme

we'll bring you the case of the mother jailed

for seven and a half years after forcing her children

to undergo unnecessary surgery so she could claim hundreds

of thousands of pounds in benefits. It has shocked parents

and medical professionals. How on earth was she able to calm

those doctors into performing surgery on her two who works

completely fine? We will talk about that at about 945.

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First, of course, the latest on the Olympics.

I feel like I say this every day, it has been another impressive 24 hours

for Team GB, Will Perry? Absolutely. We will start with Mark Cavendish in

the Omnium, I don't know if any of you stayed up to watch that. We

thought it would be a short race but it went on for ages. Mark Cavendish

has this silver medal, this Olympic medal which eluded him. He competed

in Beijing in 2008 and in London four years ago. Cavendish caused

that crash that we just saw. He Head the South Korean, then he Head

Elliot Daly ani, who won goals. The Omnium is 60 events, this is the

final. He desperately wanted a gold medal. Mark Cavendish is very much

from the School of silver, second being the first loser. There were no

celebrations, he said he was reasonably happy. He wanted the gold

medal around his neck. He celebrated with his family afterwards. The

inevitable questions came up with him, he pulled out of the Tour de

France this year to concentrate on the Olympics. Afterwards, Jill

Douglas as Tim if he had another shot in Tokyo in four years? -- Jill

Douglas asked him. I am tired, I can't do that Olympic cycle again.

But I don't know, I said that eight years ago. I say I will retire at

some point, but I know I told people get sick of me and tell me to go

back on my bike. So hard to make that decision, but to be asked that

as soon as you come off track, of course you feel knackered, so it is

tempting to say, I can't do that again, that he might fancy another

crack. Laura Trott in the gold medal position in the same event? She is a

little bit younger in terms of going through an Olympic cycle. That is

what Cavendish was thinking about, do I want to go through another four

years? Laura Trott on course to become the first British woman to

win four gold medals 48 hours after becoming the first British woman to

win three. She finished second in the scratch race in the Omnium, she

won the individual pursuit and easily won the square of the race.

She won three at the 60 beds to take the title in London in 2012. If

anything she looks much stronger this time. Her big rival is in third

position. A fourth gold medal is very much on the cards fall Laura

Trott. At the moment, Laura is level on those three Olympic golds with

Charlotte Dujardin after Charlotte took Team GB's gold medal tally to

16 with an impression of 24 hours for Team GB? It is a bit like Mark

Cavendish, it might not be as hectic and physical, but do you want to go

through another Olympic cycle? I don't know of anybody listen to the

commentary on Radio 5 live, the cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew

was almost in tears. Her horse, of Allegro, she has won three gold

medals and a silver medal with it. Charlotte Dujardin winning the gold.

The horse is owned by somebody who competed for Team GB. The big

question is whether she will go again in Tokyo. Because the horse's

owner said that if the horse could do it, he would prefer to just

retire because he has done his job. Charlotte Dujardin ecstatic, she

spoke to us afterwards. In London I had no expectation or pressure to go

there. Today I felt a huge amount of pressure and expectation. For me, it

could be one of the last rites arms Allegro. There is the talk of

retirement for him. -- one of the last ridess on the Allegro. It is a

really emotional time. Namibia Sophie Hitchon, 25 years of age,

only doing something no British person has done since Paris in 1924.

Winning a medal in the hammer. The first British woman to ever win a

medal in that discipline. She threw a new British record, 74.5 four.

This is her final attempt. She climbed from fifth to third on her

final attempt. A huge jump when you consider that she finished 12th at

London 2012. Her dad was on Radio 5 live this morning gobsmacked. He was

speaking to Nicky Campbell. He said he tried to watch it on BBC TV,

could not find the coverage, he watched it on the website, he

watched his daughter winning a bronze medal on the BBC sport

website. He said she is not your typical hammer thrower, she is a

little bit smaller, not as muscular as the others, she used to be a

ballet dancer, so quite a transition. It was just incredible.

To see the number three at the national record, I could not be

happier. My coach has stuck with me through the bad times and,

obviously, the good times. Thank you for everyone that helped me at home,

my mum, my family, the national lottery and all the players. We

could not do it without you. It has been an amazing day. And she only

took up the hammer because her athletics club needed points for

participating in local competitions, which is part of their brilliant

back story. Let's talk marriage proposals. Calm down, it is not your

lucky day! There have been quite a few, and we now have another one

involving a Team GB athlete? There have been three so far, Tom

Bosworth, that is the one you will be familiar with. You had him in the

studio before he went out to Rio. Tom is a race walker, this is a

picture of him on the beach at Copacabana. That is his partner, his

now fiancee, Harry. He put a caption on Twitter, he said, he said yes.

That is Tom on his knees. The first marriage proposal was a Brazilian

women's rugby sevens player and her girlfriend. And there was that pair

of Chinese divers, he went down on his knee on the three metre

springboard next to the green pool, a nice setting! Everybody loves a

good celebration, we just saw that in the weightlifting? If you are a

fan of David Brent or The Office, you might find this amusing. This is

a Kazakhstan weightlifter. 195 kilograms. Look at that. Very David

Brent. He has got moves and skills. More importantly, they be not more

importantly, less amusingly, we will have big chances today of more

goldss for Great Britain, Laura Trott is the main one. Halfway

through the Omnium and probably be odds-on favourite for another gold

medal. Laura Trott is going at five past nine tonight, UK time. Her

fiance, Jason Kenny, he has five golds so far. He could match Sir

Chris Hoy's total of six golds in the men's keirin, which is tonight

at 10:15pm UK time. The Kazakhstan dancing, we will definitely play

that again during the course of the programme, don't worry.

Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The number of patients in England waiting over 18 weeks for planned

surgery is up by almost 80%, according to new research.

The Patients' Association says delays are the longest they've been

since it began collecting data six years ago.

Here's our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper.

David Fearnley faced an agonising wait for a hip replacement,

and he worried about being away from his farm at a busy time.

He had to be referred to hospital twice.

David's op then happened a month ago, after he was offered

The pain was getting worse all the time.

You know, a couple of days when I could barely walk,

I were on one kind of painkillers and then went on to another kind.

NHS trusts in England were asked about their waiting times

Almost 80% responded to the Freedom of Information questions.

The average waiting times for five procedures,

including hip and knee ops, are now above 100 days,

and three quarters of trusts didn't inform patients if they missed

People contact us and tell us they have been on the waiting list

for several months, and they have had no communication

Now, these are people who are in pain and discomfort,

and their ability to perform their normal daily tasks

is inhibited because of the pain that they are in.

David is recovering well from his op.

The Government says the Patients Association's

figures are misleading, because nine out of ten patients

still wait less than the 18-week target for treatment,

and many more operations are being carried out overall.

The last Western hostage to be released alive by so-called Islamic

state says he feels sorry for Jihadi John and his other kidnappers.

Photographer Daniel Wright travelled to try to document the lives of

people affected by the civil War, and was seized by the terror group.

We will show you his first British interviewer just after 9:30am.

The police watchdog is investigating the death of the former footballer

Dalian Atkinson after he was shot with a taser by officers

The former Aston Villa striker, who was 48,

It's reported he was having dialysis treatment for kidney problems.

Fifteen people have been transferred from the Guantanamo Bay

detention centre in Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates.

The release of the twelve Yemeni nationals and three Afghans

is the largest single transfer of detainees during

Sixty one people remain at the facility, which Mr Obama has

pledged to close, despite opposition from the Republicans.

Viruses could be more dangerous if people become

infected in the morning, new research indicates.

Scientists from Cambridge University found that viral levels in animals

were ten times higher, if they had been infected

in the early hours, rather than another time of day.

They also found that shift workers have a higher risk

of infection, because their body clocks are disrupted.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9:30am.

Back to you, Victoria. Thank you very much. Good morning.

12 years ago a gold, a silver and a bronze on one day

at an Olympic games for Team GB would have been quite something -

these days, though, it's just normal isn't it?

In the dressage - often described as ballet on horses -

Charlotte Dujardin became the second British woman to win three

Olympic golds by retaining her individual title.

I have been worrying about messing up her surname and now I'm messing

up her Christian name! COMMENTATOR: Looks amazing. 14 years

old now. Valegro. They have been the stars of the sport worldwide now.

Since London 2012. We have had some wonderful medals here and of course,

at these games, athletics or other titles, but this will be a pretty

unique thing. Charlotte has done enough. A big challenge, no doubt

about that whatsoever. London, I had no expectation, no pressure to go

out there. Today I felt a huge amount of pressure and expectation

and, for me, it could be one of the last rides of Valegro. There was

talk of retirement for him so for me to finish it in this way, yeah, it's

really an emotional time. Her feat is even more amazing

because before the London Olympics, Britain had never won a single medal

in the event. The 31-year-old helped Great Britain

secure two golds back in 2012 and her defence of the individual

title makes her Britain's joint most successful female Olympian

alongside Laura Trott. Charlotte has been described

as the greatest rider She cried partly because it's

the end of her working relationship with her horse Valegro after nine

years of competitions. By the way that horse -

who she describes as her best friend No one knows more about the emotions

behind Charlotte's success than her mother Jane,

who is with us from the family And her sister Emma Jane. We will

also talk to Debbie Thomas or change charlotte for four years and

transitioned into dressage and also an international dressage rider.

First of all, Jane, good morning to you. So, only the second British

woman to win three Olympic golds and she is your daughter. Absolutely.

It's just phenomenal. I can't believe she has achieved what she

has in such a short space of time. Emma Jane, talk through yesterday.

How was it for you and the family? The thing ever. So nerve wracking.

We were all sitting there, -- worst thing ever. I knew deep down she

would do it. There's no one who is more of a fighter than Charlotte. If

anybody was going to bring a medal, it would beat Charlotte. She has

always been a fighter from a child. Really competitive. She got into

horses because you love them. Wash your natural? Absolutely. Both my

girls, to be fair -- was she a natural? I did show jumping myself

but when I became a mother, I could never continue my hobby because with

the children, it was difficult to take them with me so being a

competitive minded mother, I decided to try and incorporate the children

within my hobby but thankfully, they loved it. So we did all the showing.

Emma Jane was older when Charlotte started but she used to have to

dress up and where the whole shenanigans when Emma Jane came out

of the arena, so she could get on and do her little bit but it was

hysterical. Just amazing. You had to beg borrow and steal to get the

money together for that first pony, didn't you? Yes, in the beginning,

unfortunately we lost our home and everything. My dad played a great

part supporting us to keep everything. He kept saying to me,

"Jane, this better things to put your money towards." But it was

something I had a passion for. It kept us together as a family. We

loved it. It was something we could all do regardless of what the

situation was. I suppose in hindsight I should have listened to

my dad in the early days because he made sense but it's what we loved.

It's how we fulfilled our dreams, really. Emma Jane, tellers about the

partnership relationship between Charlotte and Valegro. There's an

amazing bond between the two of them. You can just see, everything

they do together, they worshipped the ground they walk on between the

two of them. Blue Brie loves Charlotte. She walks around the

yard. He knows she is coming. Just together, the way they work,

complete harmony. Let me bring in Judy. You have been Charlotte coach

and employer. How did you celebrate? We had a great evening. All the

potential Charlottes, three girls working for me now, they came over

and we had Brazilian cocktails and Brazilian food set up, and we all

settle down to watch and we had a great evening. Why did you give

Charlotte her first job as an apprentice at your stables when she

was a teenager? Well, she came along for a lesson. Her great buddy at the

in Rio with her, Ian, was teaching her at the time and you was

interested in making the transition from showing to dressage. I was able

to have a vacancy and you could see she was a great rider. She needed to

change some things about her style, but even at that stage, she had a

little glint of termination and thirst for knowledge and the desire

to improve herself everyday and also the desire to improve the horses

everyday. She had a real goal and it was to be the best. Debbie Thomas,

you are Charlotte 's first trainer. Welcome. You have been watching your

riding since you was a toddler. What kind of advice did you use to give

her? When she was in the showing world, we always used to say that

when she started to go to the big shows like Wembley and Olympia, we

would just say it's just another arena and just another show, so it

would keep her calm. She was absolutely always keeping it

together. I wonder if she was thinking that yesterday? There been

a little bit of pressure. I think she was under a huge amount of

pressure yesterday. As she set herself when she went to London,

nobody had any expectations of her. This time, we all had expectations

but I didn't have any doubt in my mind she wasn't going to bring home

the gold medal for us. How do you train a horse to do what Valegro

did? Many years and a lot of hard work. Go on, Judy. She went from me

to Carl and he has been a huge influence on her career and he has

got to be the best trainer in the world. He a trainer all of our

dressage team and is a great rider himself and, with his backing, the

phenomenal horse Valegro and Valegro's owners, it gave Charlotte

an opportunity to get in there and go for gold and yesterday, watching

her ride around the arena, she was smiling and when I saw her smiling,

I thought, she is absolutely in the writer 's owner. She won't make a

single mistake and she got on and did the job and it was phenomenal to

watch. Jane and Emma Jane, it looks like you will be going to her

wedding very soon? She has been saying this since 2012, so I'm not

sure I'm going to buy my hat just yet. You will have seen that little

notice Dean put on his shirt, "Can we be married now?" It's a wonder he

is carried on waiting, let me tell you, he's desperate. With Charlotte,

horses always come first and if there's something not going on, Dean

has to take second place. Thank you very much. Thank you so much and

Emma Jane, well done, thank you for coming on the programme, everyone.

One of Britain's most successful cyclists, Mark Cavendish,

has finally achieved his ambition of winning a medal at the Olympics.

The man from the Isle of Man, who has already won four world

titles on the road and track, and 30 stages at the Tour De France,

took silver in the Omnium, which is cycling's answer

COMMENTATOR: Mark Cavendish get the final point on offer to make sure he

has the silver medal. For Great Britain. After all the effort and

all the Olympic heartache, Mark Cavendish has an Olympic medal. It

is a silver one and it is richly deserved. Honestly, I think

everyone, the lambs, -- labs, the Sprint, the team behind us, we've

got incredible riders in Great Britain. The nutritionist,

mechanics. The guy who developed the bikes and the suits, our data

analyst and everyone, incredible how it's worked. I've learned a whole

new thing for the last ten years and I know without those guys I would

not be on the podium today. During the race though Cavendish

was involved in a crash which not only brought down

Italy's Elia Viviani, who remarkably recovered to win

gold, but also injured South Korea's Park Sang-Hoon

who ended up being taken to hospital COMMENTATOR: Elia Viviani, the gold

medal rider at the moment has hit the deck. There was a collision

involving Mark Cavendish. He clipped him. I think it was Park Sang-Hoon

from South Korea. Let's have a look at it now. Well, Cavendish could get

a warning for that because he just swung down into him. The Korean did

not do anything wrong, I'm afraid and that could be a real problem for

Mark Cavendish. It's a big day for British

cycling's dream couple, Jason is on course to match

Sir Chris Hoy's all time British He has already matched Sir Steve

Redgrave and Sir Bradley Wiggins The 28-year-old will race his final

Olympic event starting this His fiance cyclist Laura Trott,

who is Britain's joint female most successful Olympian with three

gold medals, could be about to win her fourth

in the Omnium, a six-track event She won her earlier event yesterday

in spectacular style. Francis Gallacher has

known COMMENTATOR: Basically we got to know each other

swimming on a Saturday morning full is as parents do, use it in the

gallery and watch your kids swimming. It all started off.

Chatting with Glenda for several weeks, she wanted to actually lose

weight and I suggested get her on a bike. We got the family on a bike

and the girls came, too. I was an active cyclist myself. Mountain

biking. My children were racing in the under tens. We took the family

away for a weekend to Hartington hall with friends and family and

just had fun on the weekend, we saw Laura on her bike and choose

competitive doing her swimming and was already doing a bit of

trampolining at Grundy Park sports centre, as well, at the time. I

suggested to bring the girls down to the track where I was a member and

they loved it from day one. It started from there. So you noticed

the competitive streak? From when she was riding a bike. But does not

mean you end up Olympic champion winning possibly four goals, does

it? No, with Laura, she's always been a fighter. She was born

prematurely. Do you think that was significant? I think it was part of

their guts and determination. No matter whether she was swimming,

riding a bike, trampolining in the early days, she was always

competitive. And I think that is the edge. With youngsters, it's all

about having that spark of determination. I think whether she

had been a swimmer, trampoline store cyclist, whatever sport she chose to

do in her career, I think she would have been successful. Do you think

she would get another gold today? Yes. Anything can still happen. But

yes, I think the elimination race yesterday, she rode it to

perfection. Just fantastic to see. I'm very proud of starting here on

the road, small cog in a big wheel. So you should be. Do you think Jason

Kenny can get another gold medal today? This is a really fascinating

one where there's six or eight riders and a man on open the front

keeps the pace down. For a few laps, and then he clears off and a belt

around, don't they? The performance he showing at the moment, he's

odds-on favourite to win. Hopefully, fingers crossed, they can get the

gold medal. Fantastic. What a household. They are due to get

married in September. However many gold medals they will have on the

mantelpiece, in their front room, I wonder if they are competitive

together? Or they talk about the weather when they go home? I haven't

met Jason, at all. I haven't seen Laura personally for a few years

now, because she is encapsulated in this bubble to protect everything

going on, but I think it's fantastic and I think they both bounce off

each other, to support and encourage and they look very happy together

and I think that's the thing which shines out from Laura. She's always

had fun doing what she does. I think if kids don't have fun, when they

compete, they will want to compete and their bubbly characters come

through. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming on the programme.

Let's talk about Sophie Hitchon, she won Bronson became the first British

hammer thrower to win an Olympic medal for decades. I can Chalobah

how many years, I will tell you in a minute. -- I can't remember how many

years. 76.75 a round number five.

Lets talk to Sophie's mum Wendy, who I think it's at home in Burnley. How

are you? Very well, thank you. Congratulations, how did you follow

your daughter's amazing achievement? Walking in and out of the house,

hanging washing out and generally hiding. So you did not follow it?

Well, get, we did, really, but behind the fingers. You obviously

get serious anxiety when she's about to compete? I don't know. You want

them to perform to the best of their abilities and it is always nerve

wracking when you can't see what is going on. Although we are watching

it on the telly, it is delayed. We tend to watch it a bit more on the

live results feed that you can follow, it brings up the results

afterwards. So you sort of have the delayed reaction. It is not so bad

when you are in the stadium, but not being there, you can't tell how she

is feeling and how things are going. Everybody is making a huge deal

about this journey from a ballet dancer as a young girl to hammer

thrower, Telus about that? She started at nursery, really, most

nursery schools they get them into activities at an early age. It was

ballet dancing. She did all sorts of things, trampolining and VAT. She

just stuck with dancing. She did tap dancing, modern dancing. And when

athletics became more prominent, she gave that up. To actually further

her career as a hammer thrower. The first Briton to win an Olympic

hammer medal since a man called Malcolm Noakes in 1924. 90 odd years

ago. Hammer for women has not been going that long. She is certainly

putting it on the map. I hope there are lots of young girls and young

boys coming through. I know we have quite a few down at Blackburn

Harriers that are clean and is doing really well. They had just won the

northerner, they will be going to the British Championships in a

couple of weeks. Looking good. Lovely to talk to you,

congratulations, thank you for coming on the programme. Cheers,

Wendy, the mother of Sophie Hitchon, who has won bronze for Team GB.

An exclusive interview with the Danish photo-journalist

who was held hostage and tortured by so-called Islamic State for 13

of a mother who was jailed for faking her children's illness

so she could claim hundreds of thousands of pounds in benefits..

All the Olympic news with Will Parry.

The sports headlines, Mark Cavendish achieved his ambition of winning an

Olympic medal by taking silver in the Omnium for Team GB. The Manxman

missed out on his medal in the previous two Games, he says it would

have been nice to finish the collection with gold, he says he

does not think he will be going for it in Tokyo, but you never know.

Defending champion Laura Trott the women's Anyon -- leads the women's

Anyon. She is three races away from claiming a fourth Olympic gold

medal, 48 hours after she became the first British woman to win three.

Charlotte Dujardin is the second British woman to win three Olympic

golds, retaining the individual dressage title in Rio on her horse

Valegro. And Sophie Hutcheon became the first British woman to win an

Olympic hammer medal by taking bronze, climbing from fifth to third

with a British record on her final throw.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

The police watchdog is investigating the death of the former footballer

Dalian Atkinson after he was shot with a taser by officers

The former Aston Villa striker, who was 48,

It's reported he was having dialysis treatment for kidney problems.

The number of patients in England waiting over 18 weeks for planned

surgery is up by almost 80%, according to new research.

The Patients' Association says delays are the longest they've been

since it began collecting data six years ago.

Here's our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper.

It also said that many people are having their operations cancelled at

short notice. Government describes the as misleading.

Rail fares have increased at double the speed of wages

in the last six years, research by trade unions suggests.

The new figures say fares are up 25% since 2010,

while the average weekly earnings have risen by 12%.

It comes on the day commuters will find out how much regulated

Viruses could be more dangerous if people become

infected in the morning, new research indicates.

Scientists from Cambridge University found that viral levels in animals

were ten times higher if they had been infected

in the early hours, rather than another time of day.

They also found that shift workers have a higher risk

of infection, because their body clocks are disrupted.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10am.

Thank you very much. News just in, inflation is up a tiny bit. The

Office of National Statistics says the rate of consumer price index

inflation rose to 0.6% in July from 0.5% in June. Inflation up a tiny,

tiny bit. The last Western hostage to be

released alive by Islamist terror group Isis has told this programme

in his first British interview that he feels sorry

for so-called Jihadi John In 2013, photographer Daniel Rye

travelled to Syria to try and document the lives of people

affected by the war, For 13 months he was held hostage,

along with British aid worker David Haines,

British taxi driver Alan Henning and US journalist James Foley -

three men who were executed by Isis. Subjected to brutal attacks

and forced to witness a bloody execution at the hands

of Jihadi John and the so-called Beatles, Rye has now written

a book of his ordeal - the most detailed account ever

from inside an Isis jail - and he spoke to us in this

exclusive interview. He explained why he decided

to travel to Syria. When I left for Syria, at that point

one fifth part of the Jordanian population was Syrian refugees.

There were so many people leaving Syria at that point. So my interest

was to go and find... Just across the border, find a family that had

not yet fled but were about to. I wanted to have a picture of a family

before they became refugees. I wanted a family while they were

still a Syrian family. And then, basically start the trip towards

wherever they were going, to have a picture where people could identify

with, basically. So that is what I was going for. When I left Syria

into the town, about four kilometres across the Turkish/ Syrian border.

And on your first day in Syria you were detained, and it was not long

before you were blindfolded, handcuffed and being taken away? No,

I think now it is about, how much is it, three years, three and half

years ago, three years ago I was taken. At that point, nobody really

knew who Isis was. They were not and anybody's radar as much. They were a

very small group starting to evolve a bit. What happened to me, I

believe, was to come in between these things. Had I went one month

earlier, nothing would probably have happened. Did I decide to go one

month later, certainly we could see that many French people have been

taken. Lots of people were taken in the beginning. That was when the

whole kidnap of all the Western journalists started. When you look

at Syria and big parts of Iraq today, Western journalists just

don't go there any more, especially not into ice is held territories.

They will be kidnapped. -- Isis held territories. You document in your

book the horrific torture you were subjected to. Would you talk a

little about the kind of violence perpetrated against you? I think

when you think about what would happen when you get kidnapped by a

group like that, torture is the first thing that comes up in your

mind. So, yes, there was torture. What I think is very interesting was

that when I was witnessing this torture, the real torture, for me,

was only the first, like, two weeks or so. Then it basically stopped

again. But at that point it was like it was the most normal thing in the

world. What was going on, it seemed like everybody was totally cool with

what was happening, people were not even paying attention that the guy

was hanging down from the ceiling, it was just another day at the

office, basically. For them? For them. What was happening to you? One

of the reasons why I wrote this book was to tell people what happens in a

way so they can put all the things together. I don't like to talk about

how I was tortured. I don't like to talk about what I was feeling, what

I was... What I was thinking etc. And I think telling it in a book is

a good way for me to give the story its own life. People can read it and

have an understanding not only of the torture but of how we survived

as a big group, me and my friends who were detained together. There is

a particular time early on in your captivity where you were

effectively... Your arms were changed to a ceiling. And you got

through that. When they threaten to do it again, and to do it again and

said it would last for three days, you didn't think you could get

through that. And you actually manage with your feet, with your

toe, to pull a table towards you say you were able to stand on the table

so your body was not elongated and in such agony. And after

consideration you thought, you thought you wanted to take your own

life? Year. -- yes. At that point it felt like the only thing to do. I

was pretty sure I would never be able to come home alive after what

they had basically started doing with me. I was like... My family and

friends should not with me being executed in a video or whatever, so

I might as well, you know, do it myself. For me, that was the only

thing. And after that, they made sure that I could not do that again,

even though I wanted to for a long time. That was the only way out. And

I understand why it is a very... It is a very interesting subject. It is

very crazy to be that guy suddenly who decides to do things like that.

I have always been very happy about my life and happy about... I always

had a lot of friends, I did not go to Syria to escape anything. I went

to Syria to do this story and go back again. To my girlfriend, my

family, everybody. And suddenly standing there, thinking, OK, I am

not going to witness that any more, I am not going to see... I'm not

going to have kids, I'm not going to... All the things you dream about

as a kid that you will do when you grow up, that is not a part of your

life. That was the hardest part, definitely, about all of this. And

when I think it is important about it, this story, especially when you

read the media, they tend to really go into all the torture parts. In

terms of violence, some pretty horrific stuff, beatings on the

soles of your feet, kicking, general humiliation. People trying to break

you because they thought you were a spy, because you are taking

photographs. And at one point you were performing for them some

gymnastic moves because you had been an elite gymnasts as a younger man,

you were trying to prove you were a normal bloke, a photojournalist from

Denmark? Exactly, that's one of the things

that, for me, is interesting when stories like this surprise you. And,

for me, suddenly standing there in a cell, telling them I'm a gymnast and

they didn't believe me, I said, how can I prove to you I am a gymnast?

And standing there in handcuffs, trying to make... I've been watching

so much of the gymnastics in the Olympics, and doing gymnastics all

my life and suddenly I was standing there in front of these torturers

having to do a back tax, a backflip to prove and the best part about

this was the experience, the expression afterwards. These guys,

they didn't know what to say. They were, like, that's stupid. And then

they kept on with something else. Because they have been used to

torturing people, to do these kinds of things for such a long time, the

don't expect people to do a flip in the middle of the room. Just that

second, I remember very well, this expression on his face. He didn't

know what to say. Awesome. It still didn't convince them, though? They

say whatever they want to say. You didn't manage an escape attempt,

inspired, you say in the book, by a film featuring Christian Bale. What

did you do, how to do get out? I saw Rusty and bail was opening his

handcuffs with a male, a few weeks before I left for Syria, so it was

very clear in my head, this experience and suddenly, I watched

the movie I seem to be in a movie almost and I found a small nail.

It's very easy, actually. I managed to open these handcuffs behind my

back. Finally, I opened them and there was a whole in the wall that I

could walk out of and suddenly I was almost free. But they found you in

some fields and took you straight back to the man who had been

torturing you? Yes, at that point, I was in the middle of a depot, so no

matter where I was, which way I was running, I would go directly into

people who were not used to seeing people like me, but some people have

escaped prison but, at that point, I think that was three hours after I

tried to hang myself. I tried to escape. I was not thinking very

much. It was not like I have to run, I have to say because people say

there's a bigger chance of surviving if you stay. I just had to go. I was

just waiting for them to come back again. It also felt like the most

natural thing. Several weeks after that, you were moved to a basement

under the Children's Hospital in Aleppo where other Western hostages

were being held. And you find yourself in a cell in a very small

space with two Frenchmen where you have open wounds on your wrists from

your handcuffs, violent diarrhoea, and that scenario, if it wasn't

difficult enough already is much harder in a way when you have to

cope with that, sharing with two other hostages in that tiny space? I

think the reason why I can sit here now and be a completely normal

person is because I think the way my situation was, that the first three

weeks was the most heavily tortured, and I was not, in my wildest

imagination, thinking I would come out alive again. In the end you are

held in the same place as the US journalist James Foley. And John

Cantley, an aid worker, David Haynes, Alan Henning, the taxi

driver. You said in particular in the book James Foley lifted the mood

of you all. Why? I think he comes from a very strong family. As I said

before, I don't think that I was going to Syria... I didn't want to

escape from anything back home, so definitely, James comes from a very

strong family and has three brothers and one sister and two very lovely

parents. I've met them many times and I think the fact that he knows

himself, he was raised among other people taking care of them, as the

eldest one. Somehow, he managed to be very... Have some extra energy to

ask for extra food full whenever he got beaten, he was not crying,

listen to me, everything is bad. No, he was like, everything will be OK.

It's always everything will be OK. In this basement you all came across

the British guards, the men you described as the Beatles. We know

him as Jeff Hardy John, Ringo and George. -- Jihadi John. What were

they like? There was a big difference between the local members

of ices and the foreign fighters -- Isis. The locals were much more cool

and relaxed in a way. I don't know if it's different places on the

planet... Why do you say you feel sorry for them?

I would really love to have a talk with one of them at some point. Just

to sit down when this is over with, have a talk, and ask them why. Why

could you do such things? You can read his full story in his book.

And we'll be hearing more from Daniel Rye later

on about being released, how he came to terms with leaving

other hostages behind - people who became his friends -

and why he doesn't wish his captors dead.

That is in the next hour of the programme. Tomorrow we will be live

in Nottingham with audience of floating Labour voters for a Labour

leadership programme. Owen Smith, who wants to be leader and Jeremy

Corbyn, who wants to continue being leader of Labour will be there, too,

taking questions from an audience wherever you are around the country

so do join us from 9am tomorrow. The case of the mother jailed

for seven and a half years after forcing her children

to undergo unnecessary surgery so she could claim hundreds

of thousand pounds in benefits has shocked parents and

medical professionals. Our reporter Lesley Ashmall

can tell us more. Over ten years she abused her little

boy saying things like he had ufology problems, asthma, autism and

gastric problems. They were prescribed untold quantities of

medication, they even had invasive procedures to have feeding tubes

inserted into their stomachs, even though they could need perfectly

fine. She coached the little boy to behave as she perceived children

with autism would behave, so she never toilet trained them. He was

still in nappies because she thought children without condition had

problems with that. We have heard of parents abusing their children in

cases similar to this before. What is different is that this woman, who

we can't name to protect the children, could collect benefits. I

know, it's one of the largest overpayments to a single person

ever. She claims disability allowance, she also claimed she was

a single mother needing income support although she had a partner

who earned nearly ?40,000 a year and don't forget the cost to the NHS. We

are talking nearly ?150,000 worth of unnecessary drugs and treatment and

consultancy fees. Huge police investigation involving different

agencies. Questions are being asked as to why this did not come to light

earlier. A serious case review has been launched because a medical

professional raise the alarm, concerns, six years ago, but this

current investigation has taken three years, 140 witnesses called

altogether, and the man who led it says it's one of the most shocking

cases he's ever worked on. The investigation just grew and we were

astounded. I certainly remember the day when we decided to enter the

house and make the arrest. We saw the actual children, the youngest

one drinking out of a baby bottle in a nappy, it just was unique. Leslie,

thank you very much. He's a Consultant Paediatrician

and he's an expert in cases Good morning to you. People will

just want to know how this woman, this mum, could convert the medical

professionals and convince them effectively to carry out surgery on

her perfectly well children. It does sound completely bizarre. That

doctors could be taken in by this kind of thing. The trouble is,

doctors depend very much on the history they are given by the parent

of the child they are seeing. A lot of medical conditions depend almost

exclusively on the history you get from the parent and the children may

have very few if any physical signs in between consultants. You do test

before you carry out surgery, don't you? A lot of conditions don't have

simple tests. It's unusual the parent was alleging autism full we

encounter many people who think their children have autism that it's

difficult to prove or disprove. I'm talking about the surgery. The

little boy had a stomach shrunk by 20% after she convince them that

operation was necessary. In fact, the operation, it's the commonest

carried out in children. The parent was alleging their child can't eat

properly. Vomiting all the time and effort child is losing weight, the

doctors will feel compelled to do something about it. They may go

ahead as a feeding tube. Right. This woman was doing this for ten years.

One medical professional was suspicious and did write to various

other medical professionals and only got one reply. The mum was able to

continue treating their children and abusing them in this way. Yes,

unfortunately, that is very much the way these things go. Very often

people have concerns that they are not able to persuade other people of

their concerns or get somebody to take the case on and have a careful

look at it. Are you alarmed by that? I'm afraid I've seen many things

over the years and I have ceased to be alarmed by things. You're not

alarmed that colleagues would not take another colleague concerns

seriously? I think we need to do better. It sounds like they were

deficiencies in this case but there is a believability angle here.

Often, when you go to other people and say I think this parent to beat

fabricating their child illness, they think you are mad, but the

child has a real medical conditions and you are not clever enough to

work it out. Right, so that's what some medical professionals think of

their colleagues? I wouldn't say it about the medical colleagues. There

is a believability, one colleague may be concerned and the other may

say, are you sure you haven't ruled out a certain medical condition?

Should we do other tests and ask for a second opinion? I think it's

wrong. I've argued for years we need to express our concerns and most of

all, avoid harming children until we have ruled out the possibility of

child abuse. What sort of physical and psychological damage could this

do to these children, do you think? Obviously, I can't, it on an

individual case, but we know from research done years ago the outcome

of the children after this is very poor. Probably one quarter carried

on having limiting symptoms after they've been protected from the

abuse. Some of the children end up dead or even severely disabled.

Goodness. Thank you very much for talking to us. Doctor Paul Davies, a

consultant paediatrician. That's mother has just been jailed for

seven and a half years. It's coming up to ten o'clock. The latest

Olympic news and the rest of the day 's news before that, the weather.

Thank you. I'm going to let you enjoy more of this.

normal bloke, a photojournalist from Denmark?

Just a little more cloud towards the eastern side of the British Isles,

coming in from the North Sea. As the heat of the day pours through, we

will bubble up with the more cloud. Essentially, a glorious, fine day. A

bit breezy across some western areas and the Channel coast. Watch out for

the UV strength, quite powerful. Across the West Midlands, 28, the

Highlands and the Moray coast, 25. More cloud bringing rain into

Northern Ireland and eventually floating into the south-west of

England and Wales. Elsewhere, another fine, warm day, with perhaps

the highest of the temperatures towards the eastern side of the

British Isles. Hello, it's Tuesday,

I'm Victoria Derbyshire, More medals for Team GB

in the dressage, cycling and hammer. Mark Cavendish scoops up the final

point on offer, which makes sure that he has the silver medal for

Great Britain. After all the effort and after all the Olympic heartache,

Mark Cavendish has an Olympic medal. What a wonderful throw! She is

guaranteed the bronze medal. We will bring you up to date with all of the

action. Plus which gold medal takes the most hard work, dedication and

training to achieve? Our group of experts across sports including

track and field, cycling, rowing and gymnastics will all tell us why

their sport requires the hardest work ball! -- hardest work of all!

Held captured and tortured by the group calling

itself Islamic State - in the second part of our exclusive

interview former hostage Daniel Rye tells us about his ordeal.

When you think about what will happen when you get kidnapped by a

group like that, torture is the first thing that comes up in your

mind. So, yes, there was torture. We will bring you the rest of his

interview after 10:30am. And a man is facing jail today

after threatening to kill a Labour MP the day before Jo Cox was shot

and killed in her constituency. We'll talk to that MP -

Ben Bradshaw - about death threats Great Britain's Mark Cavendish

achieved his ambition of winning an Olympic medal by taking silver

in the omnium. The Manxman missed out on a medal

in his previous two Games. He won four world titles and one

Commonwealth in his career previously.

He admitted it would have been nice to finish the collection

with a gold and says, "I don't think I'll be going

I can't do that cycling thing again, the Olympics.

I don't know, I said that eight years ago.

I said I would retire at some point but when I get home people will get

sick of me and tell me to get back on my bike, so...

Laura Trott could go one better in the women's omnium.

She leads at the halfway stage of the event.

The 24-year-old is now just three races away from claiming a fourth

Olympic gold medal, 48 hours after she became the first

Trott finished second in the scratch race,

won the individual pursuit and then easily won the elimination race.

Charlotte Dujardin joined Laura Trott on three Olympic gold medals

by retaining her individual dressage title in Rio. The 31-year-old won

gold on her horse Valegro. She was ahead of two Germans, who took

silver and bronze respectively. Charlotte Dujardin amp won team

dressage gold four years ago in London.

London, I had no expectation or pressure. Today I felt a huge amount

of pressure and expectation. For me, it could be one of the last rites on

Valegro. There is the talk of retirement for him. So for me to

finish in this way, it is really emotional.

Diego Costa's late strike gave Antonio Conte a dramatic winning

start as Chelsea manager with his side taking three points

in their season-opener against West Ham with a 2-1 victory.

With 89 minutes on the clock, the Spain striker picked up

Michy Batchuiyi's header and found the net from 20 yards to spark wild

Eden Hazard had put Chelsea in front from the spot before James Collins

To start a new season with a victory, it is very important. The

last season was very bad. When you have a bad season it remains in the

mind of the players. A very sloppy goal. To be at 1-1

until the second goal, we were at least controlling the game. Make no

mistake, you are big disappointed when you concede a late goal. But

they were better than us tonight. A winning start for Chelsea in the

Premier League, I will have the headlines at 10:30am.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

The UK's inflation rate, as measured by Consumer Prices Index,

rose to 0.6% in July, official figures show.

That compares with a rate of 0.5% in June.

Let's go live now to the BBC Business Centre and speak

to our correspondent Jamie Robertson.

Jamie, tell us what this means? The inflation rate is a little bit of a

surprise. We thought it would pretty much stayed the same. Two figures

you have to look at, the consumer price inflation and retail price

inflation. It is the RPI, the second one, on which things like train

fares are set. That has jumped up in June, the yearly figure was 1.6%, it

has gone up to 1.9%. That is a figure on which increases in 2017,

lots of train prices, not all, but about half of them, particularly

commuter fares, will be based. The consumer price inflation figure,

0.6%, up a bit from 0.5%. What is interesting is that people thought

it would take a little bit longer for the fall in the pound to bring

in these inflationary pressures which are beginning to show

themselves sooner than people thought. We thought that the slump

in the pound which would make imports more expensive would feed

through more gradually into the economy, but at the moment they seem

to be coming through really quite quickly. Thank you very much, Jamie.

The last Western hostage to be released alive by the self-styled

Islamic State group says he feels sorry for so-called Jihadi John

Photographer Daniel Rye travelled to Syria in 2013 to try and document

the lives of people affected by the civil war when he was seized

We'll show you the second part of his exclusive interview with this

The police watchdog is investigating the death of the former footballer

Dalian Atkinson after he was shot with a taser by officers

The former Aston Villa striker, who was 48,

It's reported he was having dialysis treatment for kidney problems.

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has called for extreme

vetting of immigrants to the United States.

In a speech in Ohio, he outlined his plans

to combat Islamic extremism, including a new screening test

He said applicants would be tested to determine if they share

His rival Hillary Clinton called the plan a cynical ploy.

15 people have been transferred from the Guantanamo Bay

detention centre in Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates.

The release of the 12 Yemeni nationals and three Afghans

is the largest single transfer of detainees during

61 people remain at the facility, which Mr Obama has

pledged to close, despite opposition from the Republicans.

Viruses could be more dangerous if people become

infected in the morning, new research indicates.

Scientists from Cambridge University found that viral levels in animals

were ten times higher if they had been infected

in the early hours, rather than another time of day.

They also found that shift workers have a higher risk

of infection, because their body clocks are disrupted.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10:30am.

The Olympic gold medal - it's what every single

athlete in Rio is desperate to get their hands on.

Team GB athletes have got 16 of them so far.

But are some gold medals more valuable than others?

Do some athletes have to train and sacrifice far more than others?

How do you compare, for example, four hours on the tennis court

to win a gold with ten seconds on the running track

This morning we're going to try and examine the training programme

which goes into winning some of the most high profile medals

in athletics, cycling, rowing, swimming, tennis and golf.

But first here's an idea of just how much winning gold means

I work hard and spend a lot of time away from my family and everything.

You know, that one moment could be gone, it is not in your control. I

just had to believe in myself, get through it. I wanted to do it for my

kids. COMMENTATOR: Oceans of clear blue water between Adam Peaty and

the rest of the world. Utterly brilliant, fantastic. Adam Peaty

takes Olympic gold for Great Britain by an absolute street.

It is a product of seven years of work. More importantly, I did it for

my country, it means so much to me. The overriding emotion for me is

relief, relief that this day is over, this week, this build-up, this

four years leading up to it. It is literally four years, 350 Daisy

Dick, building up to this moment, that six minutes, then it is over.

COMMENTATOR: He has taken a breath, he knows he just needs to land this

tumble. Fabulous landing, what a

performance. Hours and hours, years and years in the gym, you get about

one minute to show what you have been working on. To do it today, I

don't know what to say, I am so happy. COMMENTATOR: It will

certainly be Great Britain, Britain and a world record time! The awesome

foursome have done it. Gold for Britain once more.

The last 12 months, we've pretty much done everything together,

training camps at altitude, early starts, late finishes up the track

before Christmas Day, and all for this, you know.

Band -- BAND PLAYS GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

OK, so let's try and work out how hard athletes have to work

to get their hands on one of those precious golds.

going to break it down now into some of the key sports and key figures

The fastest man in the world won his gold medal in the 100 metres

But how hard does he have to work to get

He trains for 3 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Each day's programme includes a 90 minute gym session which is designed

towards developing explosiveness to maintain his top speed

Well you may remember his Beijing olympic golds were fuelled

These days he consumes around 5000 calories

Compare that then to Mo Farah Mo Farah runs around 120

A typical day can consist of a 10 mile morning run and a 6 mile

Plus mid-week interval training up hills so he can fine

On top of that he has one hour conditioning sessions several

Mo Farah also spends several months away from home and his family each

year, as he trains at high altitude camps out of the country.

A more modest 2,500 to 3,500 a day - which even allows room for the odd

Sticking with the track - what about Jess Ennis-Hill?

She famously came back to win the world championships

a year after giving birth to her son Reggie -

She began training again three months after he was born and now

trains twice a day - once in the morning and once

in the evening in a gym in her garage once her son has

Training for a heptathlon involves practising for seven track and field

events and honing technique for each discipline.

Away from the track - the most decorated Olympian

of all time Michael Phelps is usually in the pool by 6:30 am

where he swims for an average 6 hours - that's around 8 miles a day.

And he consumes a whopping 12,000 calories - that's over quadruple

Over the space of one five year period he trained every single day -

without taking a single day off - no Christmas, holiday

He did this because he worked out he would gain an extra 54 days worth

the amazing American gymnast Simone Biles She trains up to 50

hours a week - with gruelling sessions 6 days a week.

Her coach says she's never worked with an athlete more committed

Simone's routines are so difficult that she could even

She is said to treat herself with a peperoni pizza

He's the first male tennis player to ever win back

To be the best, he trains for over six hours a day,

on court, in the gym - even doing a bit of pilates too.

His training programme can be so intense that he will work out

on the step machine to the point of virtual collapse

to make sure he's got the stamina for an epic match.

This can include a whopping 50 pieces of sushi after a match.

Let's quickly look at some other sports

starting with rowers and Helen Glover.

Rowers are famed for seriously

Team GB's Helen Glover says she trains up to 3 times a day

mixing it up between being out on the water and lifting

That's double what the NHS recommend for an average woman.

to win three Olympic gold medals - and she could add another before

the end of Rio - so what does that take?

Six hours training a day both in the gym and out

cycling on the road - and a high carb and protein diet.

After 112 years, golf is again an Olympic sport and Team GB's

He says there's no way you can succeed at golf

He regularly trains hard at the gym lifting weights

Let's talk now to a group of people who are going to try and persuade us

With us here, Paul Mill, a cycling trainer.

And professor Amuelle Maracora, an endurance expert.

Why are you going to pitch cycling is the hardest gold to get? I think

a lot of it would be, from my perspective would be the endurance

and the weather and the climate you have to train in a lot of the time.

Especially in the UK, we have to go through variable climates and stuff

like that and also in the clip we saw there with Brad talking about

altitude camps and stuff, having to train from environment to

environment, change things, I would say cycling is very much up there at

the top. There are similarities. You would say rowing would equal that.

Definitely, there is a solidarity amongst the swimmers, cyclists and

rowers, it's brutal and tough and is a huge volume, so there's basically

three sessions a day. Two hours in the water, then maybe two hours on

the rowing machine and then two hours in the gym lifting weights in

the afternoon. That's basically everyday. There is no bank holidays,

no Christmas, which probably goes across all sports. We're outdoors

and all-weathers and you are using all the muscles in your body. It's

endurance. When you need speed and power, so you have to cover all the

volume side of things or that base level of endurance and the ability

to sprint so you can move them get out of the start fast and hopefully

get those medals at the end. Steve, golf? We need a lot of endurance but

golf is very technical. It requires a greater range of disciplines. They

need to be athletes now at the top of their game. The game has got

longer, the players have got stronger, they propel the ball

tremendous distances. In the men's game, over 300 yards. There's no

room now to think you can get away on your talent. You have got to

train hard. Golf requires great coordination. It's a very technical

sport. Not only do you need to propel the ball, it's about having a

feeling and attach, and that takes an immense time to develop. A lot of

training hours. One of the biggest things about golf, because the ball

starts and stops stationery, we can measure everything about it, so we

have to find you the golfer. Some golfers will need conditioning

programmes so need more help with their coaching and some may need

more help with their long game so it depends on the player. Certainly,

the young players in England are very committed. Golf has not been an

Olympic game for so long now, but for us to add to the tally is pretty

good. The 200 metres sprinter, winning gold at the Commonwealth

Games in Delhi. In terms of sprinting, on the track, how does it

compare when you talk about the training to the rowing and the

cycling? I think there's problems, longer running at the beginning of

the season. A lot of speed, power, skill, coordination, required to run

at the highest level. If you look at the likes of Usain Bolt, Justin

Gatlin, those guys get out of the blocks very, very fast, and it's a

skill they have two practice time and time and time again. They work

with some of the best to improve their performances. What is a

biometrics? It measures how fast you are running. They will do that on a

regular basis. Like everyone here, you have to find thousands of the

second but the training will go through your energy system. It is

tough. For myself, I would run 300 metres in training and that, for me,

was three times my distance. The 100 metres. Everyone here, if you add

that up, people will run three times the distance, quite a lot in

comparison. It doesn't sound like a lot but if you were... It's only 300

metres, come on, blimey! Talk to us about endurance events including

long-distance and swimming. I agree with my colleagues for the

endurance, it's the hardest sport in term of training. I have scientific

evidence for that. There was overtraining syndrome where people

get chronic fatigue. It can ruin their careers and it's prevalent in

newer sports. It seems that the amount of training, and I study

mental fatigue, and the mental effort training requires can induce

this state that you see in other sports. I do know if any body watch

the documentary about Mo Farah and he was overtraining and his coach

was saying, you need to stop now and he wanted to carry on mentioning

Michael Phelps. Although it may be negative not to train that hard, not

doing it and feeling you give an advantage to your competitors might

have a psychological effect. It reduces your confidence that you

will do better than them so we need to weigh the physiological effects

on training where the psychological ones. You agree? Yes, it was a great

insight, the Mo Farah documentary, because it showed that he was a

person who was overtraining and he had the stuff around him to tell him

that. As athletes, sometimes you might think you're not doing as much

as you should be doing. In fact, you are full to be good almost get a

little bit obsessed and think I need to do more and more and sometimes,

that's not the case because you are at risk of injury, illnesses. And

that's something you don't want to miss, the Olympic Games. Thankfully,

he done really well a few days ago. He showed that all our hard work is

doing is paying off. With the whole of the Olympics itself, whenever

anyone gets gold, the first thing they do is thank their team and

their support because without that, they wouldn't be winning gold

medals, without a doubt. You do need coaches who will slow you down and

take a back-seat and make you slow down on the training regime. If you

don't, you're not going to achieve gold. I think that is across all

sports now, the support behind it, it's massive. You also need to

quantify the psychological effort and I think this is what is coming

out now, although we started off saying how many hours a day do you

do, there's no end to the psychological preparation? After

those sessions, you might have specific video techniques or tactic

sessions but you're also in your mind thinking, did I do that session

well enough and how can I do the best one better and where can I get

an edge? Where can I do something in a smarter way? The psychological

training never stops and it's what food you eat, how well you sleep,

recover, that is 24 seven. And that really came out when you saw Alex

Gregory, the men's roller saying, it's four years, he was... His

motion was relief winning the gold, not euphoria celebration, that will

come, of course, and he knows what it feels like, but absolute relief

about that for years was not wasted in that six minutes. That is

pressure. Then there is oppression if you don't succeed, as well some

of these guys may go through two Olympic cycles, eight years, and may

have the opportunity to go for another one. How'd you build up for

another four years, when you don't achieve, that's difficult? That's

where psychologists play their part. Learning from previous mistakes that

you've done past also. Also, it's not just about the training on the

track and the swimming pool, on the boat, but the whole amount of

psychological stress, self-control and athlete has, in terms of diet,

if you put weight on, to control yourself, this is very tiring.

Mentally. You need to take that into account as an athlete. I've just

published recently some work which found a lead road cyclists, not only

have better muscle resistance to fatigue and stronger hearts etc, but

also more resistant at brain level. How does that work? We don't know

why, it's properly a mix of genetics and training. You train your brain.

We don't know exactly but there was a clear difference. The lower level

athletes get mental fatigue and their performance suffered when we

ask them to do a taxing cognitive task but the elite athletes didn't

full service not just about the muscle but are very much about how

well you are up here and how fatigue resistant you are in your brain.

When you stop and retire, give it all up, do you lose all those

skills? Training your brain? You do. You try to transfer it into other

things but you inheritance we have that desire to do it a little bit

better. -- inherently. Could I do it better? Now I'm a mother, that are

very difficult thing because I can always do things a lot better. It's

part of your mindset how you look at things. That's a great skill to work

in the world which is why it retired athlete are fantastic resources

because if you can get that discipline, that focus, ability to

work with others translated, there's no end to what they can achieve in

other fields should they choose to. I certainly agree the golfers get to

the top and have a great advantage in our sport that there's not a

retirement age people can go on and be competitive, and major winners go

into their 30s so it's not unusual, Tom Watson, less than a decade

nearly won a major at 59 on the seniors tour. And they can now help

children into the game through coaching. We are very lucky in that

respect. It's a game for life, perhaps, than some of the other

sports. I would like to say, mental strength everybody talks about that

edge, athletes, elite ones, it's true, however a lot of it is

probably genetic. There was a thing on you tube about children trying to

resist eating marshmallows. With kids? Three years old. Forget! There

was a lot of outcomes later on in life, the ones who resisted, did

better. People think genetics is about muscle and height, whatever,

but it's also about the brain. Your ability to control yourself. Don't

give up. It's very much, largely genetic. This has come from Ipswich

fencing, I wonder what they are going to say? Fencing required

speed, whilst trying to use precision timing and strategy. This

e-mail from Gareth, sailors can only get one medal per Olympic Games and

have two sailors many as 13 races over a period of a week or more

sometimes, and it requires high intellectual ability whilst pushing

your body to the limits. John on Facebook said, do some athletes

train harder than others? Possibly. Because they have to have a natural

ability than others also. There's a whole new area we could go into

there. For another day, perhaps. So, there's no point me asking for a

conclusion but I'm going to ask you for a conclusion. Is there a sport

here, whether it is sprinting, golf, rowing, cycling, endurance events,

which requires more training, more dedication, more commitment?

It is the type of training. Different sports have different

amounts. There are lots of psychological traits going on that

we can all familiarise with, it all depends on the nature of the sport

and the discipline required to be successful. It is hard to measure.

If I was to try to do golf, I would find it extremely hard. Maybe if you

were to try sprinting, you might find that odd. I think that is true!

I love rowing, I love being on a boat, love being on a river. I could

not translate that to something else because it was a bit less training.

There is a 24-hour commitment for all these sports, there are

differences but it is a huge life commitment to be the best in the

world at what you want to do. That is a nice conclusion, I will take

that. Thank you all! We have mentioned

boxing when it comes to how hard athletes work and train. Nicola

Adams' work ethic is never in question. She hopes to become the

first female boxer ever to win gold in the sport. Women's boxing made

its debut at London 2012. We went to train with her and get some tips on

how to box. This is my signature move.

I'm really excited, it is a chance for me to hopefully become a double

Olympic champion. It has never been done before, I would love to add

that piece of history to my belt. In boxing defence, you can slip, you

can roll, hand offences, step away. How do you feel that you are an

inspiration to women doing boxing now? It was a weird feeling at

first, but I think it is nice. When I was growing up, there was not any

female Olympic champions for me to look up to. Nicola Adams puts boxing

gloves on me. It has taken some time for women's sport to progress, but I

am glad that everybody is starting to see it and publicise it more.

Look down. Start again. I was quite lucky, my coach did not mind me

being a female and boxing in the gym. With some of the other girls,

they got turned away from gins and they said no, women are not allowed

to box. But you kept going, you did not give up? Yes. My coaches were

always really good. They said there is no male or female here, only

boxers. You can hit harder than that!

No pressure. This time around, I will be a lot more confident. I feel

a more rounded athlete. I have done in one Olympics already, I know what

it is like, I know what to expect. Nicola takes to the ring today,

follow her progress on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, the sports website,

Radio 5 live. You know the drill. Yesterday we bought

you news of a marriage Race walker Tom Bosworth,

whose story we've been following since he came out on this

programme last year, popped the big question

to his partner, Harry. Charlotte Dujardin got yet another

proposal from her boyfriend. You will have seen him on the telly,

can we get married now? He is sick of waiting.

Elsewhere on social media, lots of love for this guy

That was Kiribati weightlifter David Katoatau.

And here is how the Kazakhstan he weightlifters celebrated.

COMMENTATOR: A world record, the roof is coming off the plays,

deservedly so. What a performance! And just how good are these

two at diving? Do you see what's a man has done?

Dived into a cup! -- what someone has done. That is how good the

Chinese are at diving! Let's have a look at another

dive featuring no water. Have a look at Shaunae Miller's

amazing dive across the finishing Look at this picture

which really captures it. And this is Michael Johnson's

response. And here's one person's

take on her dive. When there's one piece of pizza left

family dinner. The second part of exclusive

interview with the man held captive by Isis -

former captive Daniel Rye tells us he never imagined

he could come out alive. Here's some sport

now with Will Perry. Great Britain's Mark Cavendish

achieved his ambition of winning an Olympic medal by taking silver

in the omnium. The Manxman missed out on the podium

in his previous two Games. Having won four world titles and one

commonwealth he admitted it would have been nice to finish

the collection with a gold and says, "I don't think I'll be

going for Tokyo but you never know." Defending champion Laura Trott leads

the women's omnium at the halfway Trott's now three races away

from claiming a fourth Olympic gold the first British

woman to win three. Charlotte Dujardin is now

level with Trott, picking up her thirrd Olympic gold

by retaining her individual She won aboard her 14-year-old horse

Valegro. And Sophie Hitchon became the first

British woman to win an Olympic hammer medal by taking bronze,

throwing a new British record on her final attempt to climb

from fifth to third. They are the headlines,

I'll have an Olympic round up for you on the BBC

News Channel at 11am. Earlier in the programme we heard

the first part of an exclusive interview with Daniel Rye,

a Danish photographer who was kidnapped and held hostage

by Isis for 13 months. He was captured along with other

hostages including US journalist James Foley,

British taxi driver Alan Henning and aid worker David Haines,

all of whom were murdered by IS. At his lowest point in captivity,

Daniel Rye tried to take his own life rather than face weeks,

months or potentially years more torture at the hands

of so-called Jihadi John, Mr Rye tells us today that

despite the vicious cruelty he endured, he feels sorry

for Jihadi John, whose real name was Mohammed Emwazi -

brought up in London and reportedly He said he'd want to sit down

with his kidnappers and ask why they treated him

with such brutality. Daniel Rye's family eventually his

family raised enough money - over ?1 million -

to secure his release. -- Daniel Rye 's family eventually

raised enough money to secure his release.

In the second part of his first British interview, Mr Rye explained

how he came to terms with what had happened after he was freed.

When I was released, I came back to my family. That is not the things

that you want to speak about, the first... I don't want to sit down

and tell my mum Halai try to kill myself and stuff like this, she

didn't want to sit down and tell how she was crying behind a container

where she was working. So the person who wrote the book, having them

sitting down and doing very much in-depth interviews with both me and

then my family, put it together in a book that both of us could read. I

have written things in my book that I did not know anything about it all

-- I have read things in that book. And my mum wrote to me and she said,

I did not know it was that bad. As, she always thinks the best scenario

for her son, of course. -- as a mum. So far is to know each other's story

was very important for me. They had to raise the money, because the

Danish government, like the American and British governments, will not

pay ransom is all hostages. Before I left for Syria I had kidnapping

insurance which was supposed to help me in case of some of the small

groups, but suddenly I was taken by Isis and the insurance did not last

at all. A bigger power had to help me. You had to give answers to three

what are described as proof of life questions so that your family would

know you were still alive and it was worth raising this money. And

through the help of a man called Arthur in the book, they are

effectively having an e-mail conversation with your kidnappers,

with Isis, in order to negotiate the money, the drop points and where you

will be transported to? When you realised you were going to be

released, and I think it was, in fact, so-called Jihadi John who

said, OK, Daniel, you are going home, what did you think? Right

away, I was very excited. Like, the first thing I was thinking was

finally me. It is a very selfish way of thinking, but I have seen... We

were 19 guys in the same room, most of us, at that point I had seen ten

of my fellow cell-mates going home. So I was like, finally me. And then

I stood up, because we always had to face the wall when they came in and

spoke to us, and when they left, I stood up, turned around and looked

at my friends. The three British guys and three American guys. And

then I completely lost all the excitement inside myself. I felt so

bad. I felt so ashamed about the feeling I just had. Because, you

know, we had this thing that we wanted to leave together. We had

this idea that when we're going to be released, we are going to the

hotel and we are eating everything from the buffets and having long

showers and we just imagines how we would experience this release

together. And then suddenly that was not the plan. From the book, it

sounds like it was clear to you when you were still in captivity that the

British men, the American, they were being treated differently from other

nationalities. They were never asked to record a ransom video, they were

never asked proof of life questions. Know. So we could see there was a

picture starting to appear. That was difficult. That was when you kind of

start to face the reality a bit. When Orange Guantanamo Bay style

jumpsuits were brought to you all, what did you think at all? It was an

awkward situation. I really had to go to the toilet at that point, I

remember, so I was not thinking but much. First afterwards we started to

talk about it. But you obviously did not know it was a precursor to you

being taken to watch one of your friends to be executed? We didn't

watch one of our friends being executed. That was a guy we did not

know, he just came in from the street, basically. That guy, we did

not know. Seeing that man's execution, I remember my feeling was

very strange, I felt very relaxed afterwards. I was like, OK, if that

is the way it is going to be, it seems like a quiet way, you know? A

bullet through the head, it is all over with. You know? At least you

had a very clear vision of how it will end. That kind of made me calm

down a bit. In a strange way. What do you think it was that kept

you going through the 13 months? My friends. It was the fact we were

people together for the even though sometimes we hated each other more

than anything because we were in a small room, it kept us sane, the

thing which helped us. I tried to take my own life after two weeks in

captivity. If I had been together whether a person, that person might

have said to me, don't do that. We will get through this. So the fact

that every time something bad happened, we could tell each other,

come on, we will get through this. When there was something a bit more

exciting happened, we could laugh together, enjoy this moment together

if we had a bit extra food. Definitely, definitely it was the

fact that we were held together. That kept me sane, kept all of us

sane. And sometimes, I know it sounds laboured, but sometimes I

miss... Because there was nothing, at some point there was nothing that

disturbed us. There was nobody sitting on an iPhone, talking, we

could have a conversation for four or five hours, straight, without

anybody interrupting, just about one very boring subject. If we were

there, we were speaking very clearly to each other. And being so, I don't

know the words, so intense, sometimes, that was a strong

feeling. I remember. Something like this. A little bit from back then.

Reports suggest that Jihadi John was killed by a drone strike last year.

When you heard that news, what did you think? First of all, I was

not... I did not react very much to it because, first of all, we heard

of terrorists reportedly being dead three or four times, so we cannot

check if he is dead. It is in Isis' interests to tell us he is dead, so

maybe he is dead or maybe he is not dead, maybe just sitting in one

place laughing because we all think he is dead but my point is, I am not

happy about anybody's being killed, even him, I don't think it's fair. I

don't think it's justice. I know it is a war, but throwing bombs from

drones down to people, you can't check if they hit a school, or

Jihadi John, and that puts them back to the point, if they caught him,

and put him into a fair trial, I would have loved to have come and

bear witness. I would loved to have been part of what I believe is a

fair system. So the fact of just celebrating a person being blown

into pieces, I don't really think that is how I raised and how I

believe the world should be. Can I ask you how, if it's possible, how

you rationalise the fact that people that became your friends lost their

lives after you afraid, people like James Foley? Alan Henning. David

Haynes. The first thing you say is why them? And, yeah... That was how

it ended. I cannot do anything about that. So I tried to think about how

it would have been for myself and I know how it is to see a place where

you would rather be dead than alive. Daniel Rye.

You can read Daniel's full story in his book,

Thank you to those who got in touch about what Daniel Rye has said this

morning. Ishmael says, he is amazing. The most amazing interview

I never listen to on your programme. I pray for him and wish them well.

Ian, I admire Daniel Rye for forgiving his Isis captors. This

from Chantelle, I'm so moved by this man's experience whilst being held

hostage by Isis. Jan says, watching Daniel Rye on your programme, a

sympathetic interview, amazing interviewee. What an amazing story.

I'm so glad he was freed to tell the world what was going on. You can

watch the full interview again on our programme page.

A 37-year-old man is facing jail today after admitting threatening

to kill a Labour MP the day before Jo Cox was murdered

Geoffrey Farquharson left a message of venom on Exeter MP

The two minute call, which included homophobic comments,

ended with the words, "I will kill you, you expletive."

Good morning. Hello, Victoria. Tell us more about this phone call to

your office. It was the culmination of several months of abuse and

aggression in the form of e-mails and calls and visits to my

constituency office. From this gentleman, who appeared to believe

that he was the victim of anti-white racism and I repeatedly asked him

for evidence of that and he had complaints against the police and I

asked for evidence of that and he never provided any evidence but his

behaviour became more and more angry and aggressive and it finally

culminated in this death threat the day before Jo was killed. It

included homophobic abuse, as well? Yes, homophobic abuse, pretty

graphic homophobic abuse but also racist and Islam are phobic abuse

not directed at me obviously, but directed more generally at society

as he saw it. He did I think introducing self on the call and

give his full address as well. Yes, we knew who he was because he'd been

in touch with my office and had been, you know, dealing with my

staff in my constituency office on a fairly regular basis. Yes, he wasn't

somebody who tried to hide his identity or appear from nowhere.

Nevertheless, we had to take the call seriously. We were advised as

MPs to report death threats like that. I have to say, the police

dealt with it extremely quickly and very effectively. I would like to

thank Devon and Cornwall police for the way they handled this case. This

man Geoffrey Farquharson had a YouTube channel when he published a

video of a separate phone call he'd made to your office in April before

he was arrested. Here's a clip of comments

he made in that video, People phoning the police

on you because you're telling They are out to choke

stuff out of us. They're allowed to abuse us,

physically attack us and we're the ones getting

arrested and subjugated. There is something very wrong

going on here and I am I can tell you that we're

heading towards civil war. I'm trying to stop this but I can

tell you it's heading that way. If you love your country like I do

then you would be doing something Because if you're just moaning

online then you're a coward. You've

got to start doing action now. It doesn't mean going to marches

and beating people up, you don't have to do that,

you can go on marches and do it You can write letters to the MP,

you can make appointments to see the MP, and keep

going on and on and on and on. I don't think you necessarily had

that before. What did you think? No, that was pretty mild in comparison

to some of the stuff we received. I don't know anything about his

politics. I haven't sat through the court case and maybe more details

will come out but I saw a picture of him wearing a vote leave T-shirt at

the time he issued a death threat to me. We'll have to wait and see what

the judge decide on what comes out when the sentencing happens. I think

psychiatric reports have been asked for. Our death threats to MPs

actually the new normal, part of your regular working life? Well,

I've had them before. I was animal welfare minister mummy took through

the hunting ban and that was a pretty rough period. There were

statistics out recently which showed a big increase in threats and death

threats in particular to members of parliament in the last few years and

I certainly I think many of us hoped Joe Oxman was killing would lead to

a deeper reflection of the culture we have in a moment -- Jo Cox's. I'm

afraid this has become socially acceptable. It's got worse full

subeditor on the dreadful abuse Angela Eagle suffered when she

challenged Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership, I think, if

anything, it's got worse, not better since Jo's death. I hope when that

case comes to court, we can have a deeper reflection as a country as to

how we build a kinder and more civilised political discourse. Some

of the abuse Angela Eagle received that you mentioned where from Labour

supporters, who didn't particularly supported her challenging Jeremy

Corbyn. I don't know whether they were Labour supporters. Most MPs

have had this kind of abuse in their time. There seems to be a particular