17/10/2016

:00:18. > :00:19.Hello, it's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:00:20. > :00:32.and this morning we're celebrating Rio 2016.

:00:33. > :00:47.They have done it! They have done it!

:00:48. > :00:52.This is utterly brilliant. Absolutely fantastic. It will be

:00:53. > :01:09.Great Britain! And as you can see -

:01:10. > :01:12.we're joined by 70 - In total we have 55 gold medals

:01:13. > :01:22.here and 38 silver and bronzes - and that's just counting

:01:23. > :01:31.the Rio ones. So let's introduce you to:

:01:32. > :01:38.From the Team GB gold medal winning hockey team -

:01:39. > :01:44.Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh. And most of the rest of the hockey

:01:45. > :01:57.team are in our audience. ParalympicsGB's Kadeena Cox

:01:58. > :01:59.who not only won a gold and bronze in athletics -

:02:00. > :02:11.but also a gold in cycling in 2016. From the rowing team -

:02:12. > :02:15.Helen Glover who won gold in Rio and then had her hen party

:02:16. > :02:20.there several days later. Pete Reed who won a third gold

:02:21. > :02:23.in Rio in the men's 8 - Joe won a gold in Rio

:02:24. > :02:33.and Liam is Britain's most successful ever canoeist -

:02:34. > :02:40.winning a gold and silver in Rio. Sticking with water ? four times

:02:41. > :02:43.Paralympic swimming champion Double silver swimming

:02:44. > :02:53.medallist Jazz Carlin. Jack Laugher who won Great Britain's

:02:54. > :02:57.first Olympic diving gold medal in the men's synchronised

:02:58. > :03:00.three metre springboard, and Daniel Goodfellow who won bronze

:03:01. > :03:09.with Tom Daley on the diving board. Natasha Baker who won three

:03:10. > :03:15.Equestrian golds in the Paralympics with her horse Cabral who sadly

:03:16. > :03:26.couldn't make it here today. From Athletics, Asha Philip

:03:27. > :03:29.who won Olympic bronze With us, from taekowndo,

:03:30. > :03:48.Lutalo Muhammad - silver medallist whose gold medal was snatched

:03:49. > :03:53.from him in the last second of his bout, and bronze

:03:54. > :04:07.medallist Bianca Walkden. From the victorious cycling team -

:04:08. > :04:11.Philip Hindes - double Olympic champion and double Olympic record

:04:12. > :04:17.holder, and Dame Sarah Storey Britain's most decorated Paralympian

:04:18. > :04:38.with 14 gold medals. Andy Lewis

:04:39. > :04:40.who won gold in the first ever just two years after

:04:41. > :04:45.he took up the sport. And finally - Britain's

:04:46. > :04:55.record-breaker Nicola Adams. She made history as the first woman

:04:56. > :04:58.to win a gold medal in boxing and then the first to

:04:59. > :05:01.successfully defend it Plus we're joined

:05:02. > :05:30.by around 100 Olympic Also with us - another 50

:05:31. > :05:37.Olympians and Paralympians - and they're all here to share

:05:38. > :05:42.with you their stories, anecdotes We're at a school sports

:05:43. > :05:51.hall in Salford. Thank you very much to the Oasis

:05:52. > :05:58.Academy for having us today. Later on today these athletes

:05:59. > :06:00.will be taking their medals to Manchester for the official Rio

:06:01. > :06:02.victory parade, but in the meantime they're with us

:06:03. > :06:05.for the next two hours. If you've got a question for them -

:06:06. > :06:09.do get in touch - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and if you text,

:06:10. > :06:11.you will be charged But before all that - Ben Brown

:06:12. > :06:16.with a summary of the days news. The battle has begun

:06:17. > :06:21.for the city of Mosul, the last remaining stronghold

:06:22. > :06:23.in Iraq of the militant group The assault is backed

:06:24. > :06:27.by the US-led coalition. Mosul, Iraq's second largest city,

:06:28. > :06:30.has been under IS control The UN says it's very concerned

:06:31. > :06:34.about the safety of the city's one Ahmed Maher is just south east

:06:35. > :06:54.of Mosul for us this morning. Yes, and we are here at one of these

:06:55. > :07:01.sites. We are in a district south-east of Mosul. We are just 39

:07:02. > :07:09.kilometres from the city centre itself, and here, the Kurdish

:07:10. > :07:14.military forces known as the Peshmerga are leading the battle

:07:15. > :07:18.from this site. We are just a few kilometres from one of the front

:07:19. > :07:28.lines behind me. The main target on this site is to recapture nine

:07:29. > :07:37.villages, just on the outskirts of the city from Mosul, and afterwards,

:07:38. > :07:41.they will clean up the road for the Iraqi army, for ground troops and

:07:42. > :07:47.backed by American, German and French advisers to march towards the

:07:48. > :07:50.city centre step-by-step. 14 unaccompanied children

:07:51. > :07:53.from the migrant camp in Calais are expected to arrive in Britain

:07:54. > :07:55.today to be reunited They're being brought

:07:56. > :07:58.here by the Home Office under a new fast-track registration

:07:59. > :08:00.scheme before the camp, More than 100 children will be

:08:01. > :08:10.brought here this week. The daughter of the US Olympic

:08:11. > :08:13.sprinter, Tyson Gay, has been killed in a shootout

:08:14. > :08:16.in the American state of Kentucky. Police believe 15 year

:08:17. > :08:19.old Trinity Gay was caught in the crossfire during an exchange

:08:20. > :08:23.of gunshots between two vehicles. A new system to speed

:08:24. > :08:30.up the time it takes to compensate parents in England,

:08:31. > :08:32.whose babies are injured because of failings in maternity

:08:33. > :08:36.care, has been outlined. Ministers hope it will speed

:08:37. > :08:38.up payments and reduce the cost to the NHS -

:08:39. > :08:41.currently half a billion pounds a year - of settling legal disputes

:08:42. > :08:47.after mistakes by maternity staff. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:08:48. > :08:50.News - more at 9.30. Good morning, Ben, thank you very

:08:51. > :08:59.much indeed. Tennis now, British number one

:09:00. > :09:01.Johanna Konta could yet feature in the end-of season

:09:02. > :09:03.Tour Championship after Serena Williams pulled out of next

:09:04. > :09:05.week's event through injury. Konta herself recently pulled out

:09:06. > :09:08.of the Hong Kong Open with a muscle problem and looked set to miss out

:09:09. > :09:11.on the end of season showpiece, only the eight best players

:09:12. > :09:14.in the world take part. But Serena's withdrawal means one

:09:15. > :09:16.of Konta, Carla Suarez Navarro and Svetlana Kuznetsova

:09:17. > :09:20.will take her place. Andy Murray is also ending the year

:09:21. > :09:23.on a high following his Olympic effort this summer and he could

:09:24. > :09:26.finish it as World Number One. He's won his second tournament

:09:27. > :09:29.in a row, which moves him closer He beat Spain's Roberto Bautista

:09:30. > :09:33.Agut in straight sets to win the Shanghai Masters

:09:34. > :09:35.for the third time. If he keeps the winning streak

:09:36. > :09:56.going, he could overtake Obviously, quite a different team

:09:57. > :10:02.this year with Ivan and Jamie, really since the French Open. I have

:10:03. > :10:04.played the best three months of tennis of my career.

:10:05. > :10:09.The death of the Munster coach Anthony Foley who's been described

:10:10. > :10:13.Foley won 62 caps for Ireland and picked up the European Cup

:10:14. > :10:16.as a player before turning to coaching.

:10:17. > :10:20.He died at the team hotel in Paris, the night before Munster

:10:21. > :10:23.were due to play Racing 92 - the match was postponed and flowers

:10:24. > :10:33.England captain Alastair Cook will arrive back in Chittagong

:10:34. > :10:35.this afternoon after flying home to attend the birth

:10:36. > :10:40.The side are playing in a two-day warm up match at the moment,

:10:41. > :10:43.the openers doing well without Cook - Ben Duckett made a half-century.

:10:44. > :10:49.England begin their test series on Thursday.

:10:50. > :10:52.And Mark Cavendish narrowly missed out on the World Road Race title

:10:53. > :10:55.in Qatar, beaten by Slovakia's Peter Sagan.

:10:56. > :10:58.Cavendish was one of the favourites but lost out on the sprint finish.

:10:59. > :11:02.You can see the frustration on his face as he was

:11:03. > :11:17.Sagan is the first man since 2007 to retain the rainbow jersey.

:11:18. > :11:26.I just had nowhere to go for most of it. I managed to come back and

:11:27. > :11:30.round. I came with so much speed, so much power, I am just disappointed

:11:31. > :11:32.that I messed up tactically. And with more Olympians,

:11:33. > :11:39.it's back to you Victoria. Good morning and welcome to Salford

:11:40. > :11:44.where this morning we're In this school sports hall,

:11:45. > :12:01.as you can see, are dozens and dozens of olympic and paralympic

:12:02. > :12:04.gold medals and they're being worn by actual

:12:05. > :12:07.Olympians and Paralympians. We've got virtually the entire gold

:12:08. > :12:09.medal winning hockey team Plus rowers Helen Glover,

:12:10. > :12:30.Pete Reed and Paul Bennett. And later on men's wheelchair

:12:31. > :12:44.champion Gordon Reid. And after 10am, we'll

:12:45. > :12:48.hear from Natasha Baker, Kadeena Cox, Philip Hindes,

:12:49. > :12:51.Jack Laugher, Daniel Goodfellow, Asha Phillip, Bianca Walkden

:12:52. > :13:04.and Lutalo Muhammad. Wow, welcome all of you!

:13:05. > :13:10.APPLAUSE Do you know how much joy you brought

:13:11. > :13:15.us in Rio? I think it is when the plane landed. We didn't really have

:13:16. > :13:19.any idea. We felt quite far away from home almost and then we had

:13:20. > :13:23.lots of amazing messages and public support and the plane touched down

:13:24. > :13:27.and we felt so touched by the amount of people who had watched and cared

:13:28. > :13:33.about our performance is as much as we had so it has been incredible to

:13:34. > :13:46.come away from Rio. Are you sort of in a bubble? Yes, we are. All you

:13:47. > :13:49.think about is training and winning medals. You don't really concentrate

:13:50. > :13:51.on what is going on around you. For those of you who competed at London

:13:52. > :13:54.2012, how different was that? It was really different because leading up

:13:55. > :13:57.to London you could see the lead up, the support, the facilities being

:13:58. > :14:03.built up and the crowd with a year to go and the celebrations. With Rio

:14:04. > :14:06.there was quite a lot of bad press, especially for the Paralympics with

:14:07. > :14:10.all the funding being cut, so we were really unsure what it was going

:14:11. > :14:13.to be like. It is good when you are out there and then when you come

:14:14. > :14:19.back you don't really know what is happening. As Helen said, it was

:14:20. > :14:24.really exciting to touch down. How was it for you? It was a wonderful

:14:25. > :14:28.experience. It is hard to compare but it was very different to London.

:14:29. > :14:40.There was something about and away games. With there as a team. The

:14:41. > :14:43.team were doing so well, second in the medals table and to have the

:14:44. > :14:45.climax of the flight home as well, as Helen said, it helped with good

:14:46. > :14:50.weather, beaches and palm trees. We could not complain too much! The

:14:51. > :14:57.team really supported each other. Hockey girls are here. It was a

:14:58. > :15:00.climax across to go later on to support them. A wonderful time for

:15:01. > :15:11.all of us. What would you like to say to our Olympians and

:15:12. > :15:12.Paralympians? Thank you! Let's introduce you to some of our

:15:13. > :15:26.audience. Hello, good morning. I'm from Manchester. The Olympics

:15:27. > :15:31.are more than sport. You're supporting modern day gladiators.

:15:32. > :15:38.When you watch it, I think that's what we feel we're watching. You

:15:39. > :15:43.guys are inspiring a hole new generation of young ladies. It

:15:44. > :15:48.doesn't matter if we're watching Usain Bolt or Jade Jones kick

:15:49. > :15:52.somebody in the face. You're inspiring girls whether it was

:15:53. > :15:56.London 2012 or Rio, I've got young girls who are trying everything

:15:57. > :16:02.whether it is taekwondo or boxing or going to the gym, so you guys are

:16:03. > :16:04.creating a new generation of healthy women, sisters, mothers and wives

:16:05. > :16:10.and that's because of the domino-effect that you guys started

:16:11. > :16:14.in 2012 and I think it is just amazing to see normal civilians

:16:15. > :16:19.wanting to try superhero things. I think how cool is that? That's the

:16:20. > :16:31.most amazing description. Thank you guys for it. Ah, thank you.

:16:32. > :16:37.APPLAUSE Normal civilians doing superhero things. That's pretty

:16:38. > :16:42.astonishing. Hi. I was a volunteer in London and then just in Rio and I

:16:43. > :16:47.find it so difficult to explain the experience of picking one best. It

:16:48. > :16:51.is just impossible, but I went to Rio by myself, but when you get

:16:52. > :16:54.there, it doesn't feel like it because you bump into people and you

:16:55. > :16:58.sit with people you don't know. And the feeling when cheering you guys

:16:59. > :17:01.on, it is so difficult to explain and getting other countries,

:17:02. > :17:06.cheering for them and stuff. How everyone is united watching, it is

:17:07. > :17:11.just incredible. Thank you. Hello. I'm Barbara from Kent. And I want to

:17:12. > :17:18.thank you all for the most amazing games. I was in 2012 as well, but it

:17:19. > :17:25.is the generosity and the loyalty and everything that went with it,

:17:26. > :17:28.but also the frontiers that you broke down and allowed us to be with

:17:29. > :17:32.other people, to speak to other people. It was absolutely fantastic

:17:33. > :17:44.and thank you so much. Thank you.

:17:45. > :17:48.APPLAUSE Well, before we hear more from our athletes, let's just remind

:17:49. > :18:02.ourselves of the joy they brought us.

:18:03. > :18:45.# I think about all the little things that still remind me...

:18:46. > :18:55.Mo Farah is going to get gold for Great Britain again!

:18:56. > :18:57.# These days reflection's like a stranger

:18:58. > :18:59.# You are so much braver, braver than me...

:19:00. > :19:01.Will it be Britain, will it be Australia?

:19:02. > :19:35.# I think about all the little things that still remind me

:19:36. > :19:42.# When I'm living like there's nothing left to lose...

:19:43. > :19:46.Andy Murray is a double Olympic gold medallist.

:19:47. > :19:49.# When I turn my back on everything I knew

:19:50. > :19:52.# When I settle for the silence in the room

:19:53. > :20:54.# All my life you'll remind me. # things that still remind me

:20:55. > :21:13.Do you get goose bumps? Do you yourselves get goose bumps because

:21:14. > :21:16.we certainly do? Yeah, we were just saying we've not got enough tissues!

:21:17. > :21:20.We will need more tissues on this end. It brings it all backment you

:21:21. > :21:23.remember watching all the other people compete and bring medals and

:21:24. > :21:28.do their best. It gives you goose bumps. When you're in with a chance

:21:29. > :21:32.of a medal, how do you cope with the pressure of the expectations of say

:21:33. > :21:35.the nation back home, Sarah? Well, the thing that you're about to do,

:21:36. > :21:40.you practised so often in training so you have to keep yourself in that

:21:41. > :21:43.mindset, when I sit on the track, I have been through that process so

:21:44. > :21:46.many times in training I'm just trying to rehearse that again and do

:21:47. > :21:52.that. You block it out. It doesn't matter if you're in an empty room or

:21:53. > :21:56.a full stadium, your job is the same. It is another bike race. It is

:21:57. > :22:00.really hard thing to remember, but it is just another bike race. What

:22:01. > :22:04.about you Nicola when you've got the expectation and you're trying to

:22:05. > :22:09.defend your title as well? I just kind of take it in my stride. I

:22:10. > :22:13.don't think about the pressure. I just think about enjoying myself and

:22:14. > :22:16.having fun. Do you? Yeah. Yeah. You're weird!

:22:17. > :22:20.LAUGHTER I know. Everybody has got their own

:22:21. > :22:24.way of dealing with things. Me, I just like to enjoy it and have fun

:22:25. > :22:28.and just yeah, I don't think about the pressure, I just live in the

:22:29. > :22:31.moment and if I lose, it is just going to be to a better person, a

:22:32. > :22:36.person that was better than me on the day. Wow! A stoical lady. What

:22:37. > :22:46.about the pressure. Introduce yourself. Tell us about the

:22:47. > :22:51.pressure. Liam Heath. I had a good season in K 2 and K 1. It is all

:22:52. > :22:57.about repeating what you've been doing in training. And I was quietly

:22:58. > :23:02.confident sat on the start line because at the end of my race and

:23:03. > :23:04.being so strong. So as I said, everyone deals with pressure

:23:05. > :23:08.differently, but you just kind of get on with the job in hand. OK. As

:23:09. > :23:13.I mentioned ladies and gentlemen we've got pretty much the entire

:23:14. > :23:15.Team GB hockey squad here. Give them a round of applause.

:23:16. > :23:26.APPLAUSE Stand up. Stand up. Just so we can

:23:27. > :23:30.see you. APPLAUSE

:23:31. > :23:34.We just need to worship at your altar, ladies! John, or Nigel, where

:23:35. > :23:42.are you? You saw them. You were there. Hello. Yes, my name is John

:23:43. > :23:48.Walsh, a very, very distant cousin to our gold medal hockey winning

:23:49. > :23:51.captain, Kate. Really? No, that's a joke!

:23:52. > :23:57.LAUGHTER I wish I was. I thought I hadn't

:23:58. > :24:02.read my brief properly or something! I was there for the whole Olympics

:24:03. > :24:07.from opening to closing ceremony and the hockey final was one of my

:24:08. > :24:13.undoubted highlights and the highlight of many people I was with?

:24:14. > :24:18.Of your life? Of the Olympics. Of the Rio Olympics. No, what a

:24:19. > :24:21.fantastic occasion. I had only got a ticket that morning for the final. I

:24:22. > :24:26.wasn't really planning on being there, but the opportunity came up,

:24:27. > :24:30.got the ticket, went along, sat with a lot of my friends there and with a

:24:31. > :24:36.lot of Dutch fans which was quite interesting! What a great occasion.

:24:37. > :24:39.And yeah, to see a British team win a little bit against the odds,

:24:40. > :24:46.against a Dutch team which hadn't been beaten in the Olympics since

:24:47. > :24:51.2004, to beat them on a pel at shoot-out, a British team winning a

:24:52. > :24:56.penalty shoot-out. I'll repeat that. Penalty shoot-out.

:24:57. > :24:57.Let's watch that penalty shoot-out, starting with the Netherlands first

:24:58. > :25:03.penalty attempt. Here it is. Gets off her line,

:25:04. > :25:05.goes out to meet her. She's got hold of it,

:25:06. > :25:18.it's under Hinch's body. They run out of time,

:25:19. > :25:25.Hinch absolutely brilliant! Helen Richardson-Walsh,

:25:26. > :25:37.penalty stroke. Great Britain are off the mark

:25:38. > :25:56.in the penalty shootout! She is going all the way

:25:57. > :26:01.around Maddie Hinch, Hinch watching it

:26:02. > :26:15.every step of the way. Oh, she's hit the post,

:26:16. > :26:29.she's missed! Hollie Webb on her way to win

:26:30. > :26:33.gold for Great Britain. Great Britain have won

:26:34. > :26:51.the Olympic gold medal! The history makers,

:26:52. > :26:56.the hockey history makers! They will each leave

:26:57. > :26:58.Rio with a gold medal! Great Britain

:26:59. > :27:18.are the Olympic champions, Hly. Hello. Talk us through that

:27:19. > :27:22.winning penalty? Well, it is something we've practised many times

:27:23. > :27:27.before. So there is a group of ten of us they are in the group that

:27:28. > :27:30.practise them, but we're lucky, we've got a squad of 31 that train

:27:31. > :27:34.full-time and we have got some of the best keepers in the world so we

:27:35. > :27:40.get to practise against them day in and day out. For the penalty I knew

:27:41. > :27:42.what I was going to do, I planned that already by watching the video

:27:43. > :27:45.of the Dutch keeper in the semifinals against Germany. I knew

:27:46. > :27:49.what I was going to do. Really didn't feel nervous at the time.

:27:50. > :27:52.Like Sarah was saying earlier, in the moment, you've rehearsed it so

:27:53. > :27:55.many times before, that you knew what you were going to do, and it

:27:56. > :27:59.was just about executing that and trying to forget about the moment,

:28:00. > :28:04.trying to forget what it would mean if that went in. And just go through

:28:05. > :28:11.with it. Pass the mic back to Sophie. Maddie couldn't be here

:28:12. > :28:15.today. But Sophie, tell us about Maddie, I mean, I think she only

:28:16. > :28:21.joined the team a year before. Astonishing what she did. Maddie is

:28:22. > :28:26.amazing. She is one of the best keepers in the world and we knew

:28:27. > :28:30.when it went to penalty shoot outs we had a great chance because of

:28:31. > :28:36.Mads in goal. She loves those sort of moments and she was, yes, so

:28:37. > :28:41.agilement she does all her video work to know what the opposition are

:28:42. > :28:45.likely to do and she has a notebook which she looks through just before

:28:46. > :28:52.the shuffles. Yes, she was incredible. I loved it when she

:28:53. > :28:55.kicked the ball. It was superb! Holly, when you scored that winning

:28:56. > :29:00.penalty, and you looked round at your team, this was, I mean, it was

:29:01. > :29:08.so fast, wasn't it? What did you see on their faces? I think it is just a

:29:09. > :29:13.culmination of the past four years and the amount of hard work that

:29:14. > :29:18.every singing one of the 31 girls has done to get to that moment.

:29:19. > :29:24.Sorry. That's all right. Sorry. A load of hard work and by everyone

:29:25. > :29:38.and I just, I wished everyone was there. Sorry. No, don't apologise.

:29:39. > :29:44.APPLAUSE Kate, stop it! You're crying as well. Sorry, I'm terrible.

:29:45. > :29:48.There was an interview you gave not long after that victory and you

:29:49. > :29:51.said, you know, over the years there have been so many difficult times

:29:52. > :29:56.for this teamment what were you referring to? Well, we have been

:29:57. > :30:01.through so many. I think in 2004, we didn't qualify for the Athens

:30:02. > :30:04.Olympic Games which was unprecedented in GB women's hockey.

:30:05. > :30:08.Thanks to the National Lottery and the funding came in and getting the

:30:09. > :30:11.home Olympics meant we could train full-time and that was the turning

:30:12. > :30:16.point. We have had so many bumps in the road, 2014 as theening gland

:30:17. > :30:21.team we came 11th out of 12th, 18 months to turn that around and stand

:30:22. > :30:24.on top of the podium. It has been a huge team effort and the management

:30:25. > :30:28.and our support staff as well, just amazing.

:30:29. > :30:30.Brilliant. Helen, from your point of view, how was it? You scored the

:30:31. > :30:41.other penalty? I concur with what those guys said.

:30:42. > :30:47.When we were waiting to take the penalty shoot out, I could sense the

:30:48. > :30:53.nerves. The Dutch fans started booing me which was really unusual

:30:54. > :30:58.in hockey. It galvanised everything within me and that journey we have

:30:59. > :31:02.all been on and made me go right, this is going in! You could see my

:31:03. > :31:10.face afterwards looking at the Dutch and going, what have you got? David

:31:11. > :31:18.Smith is here. How are you? David won gold in the boccia. A number of

:31:19. > :31:26.years ago you nearly didn't get to training, tell me about that. We

:31:27. > :31:33.will just get you a microphone. I was on a trip out to Portugal and in

:31:34. > :31:36.my youth I was a little bit young and impetuous and I assumed we were

:31:37. > :31:41.going from one airport and we happened to be going from a

:31:42. > :31:46.different airport. In the mad chaos that followed I ended up leaving one

:31:47. > :31:53.of my bags at Birmingham Airport and created a minor bomb scare! In that

:31:54. > :31:57.bag was my trainers. When I went to Portugal in the training camp I

:31:58. > :32:02.ended up having to play boccia in brown shoes which was not a good

:32:03. > :32:07.look. Thankfully boccia is all about throwing so it did not affect my

:32:08. > :32:13.played too much. Did you have a nickname because of your

:32:14. > :32:20.foolishness? I am effectively known as smithy and some other ones.

:32:21. > :32:28.Smithy is a clean one. Pete, I'm told your nickname is the commander?

:32:29. > :32:33.I am a lieutenant in the Navy and I am very grateful to them. When I got

:32:34. > :32:37.the nickname Commander from my coach I thought I have got two promotions

:32:38. > :32:44.here which will be awkward when I go and see some of the guys. How does

:32:45. > :32:48.it work with the Navy in terms of the job and the training? I could

:32:49. > :32:54.not have asked for a better employer. I joined when I was 18,

:32:55. > :32:59.young lad, before I had started rowing, with honest intentions to do

:33:00. > :33:03.a days work! I love them dearly. I started rowing when I was at

:33:04. > :33:09.university. They sponsored me and then it took off. I got good quite

:33:10. > :33:13.quickly, I hope they don't mind me saying that! Beijing was not too far

:33:14. > :33:17.away which went well and then London which went well. The support is

:33:18. > :33:24.unbelievable. Thank you to all the sailors who look out for me. No

:33:25. > :33:32.worries. Where is David Florence? How are you, David? A few people

:33:33. > :33:40.will know this, not many, before Beijing, you applied to become... An

:33:41. > :33:47.astronaut. And you were serious? I was, yes. It was the European Space

:33:48. > :33:51.Agency which opened up applications probably for the first time ever and

:33:52. > :33:57.I thought, if you don't apply you will not get in and as it was I did

:33:58. > :34:01.not succeed in getting in anyway! How seriously did you take the

:34:02. > :34:05.application? As serious as you can when you are not a military test

:34:06. > :34:12.pilot or the other basic requirements I suppose. You started

:34:13. > :34:20.to learn Russian? I did. Do you recall any Russian right now? I can

:34:21. > :34:27.say just a little. Nicola, before you got funding, how did you make

:34:28. > :34:34.ends meet? I was doing extra work on Coronation Street and Emmerdale. We

:34:35. > :34:40.have a clip of you now! It is really, really short so do not

:34:41. > :34:52.blink. There is no sound either. Let's have a look.

:34:53. > :34:59.How much training went into that walk along the cobbles? A lot. I

:35:00. > :35:06.prepared for two weeks solid just for the walk! I used to enjoy it, it

:35:07. > :35:10.was really good fun. Walking or the acting? The acting. After 2012I

:35:11. > :35:18.could not really blend into the background any more. I want to talk

:35:19. > :35:21.about families briefly, how important they are, both in getting

:35:22. > :35:30.into your chosen sport in the first place and supporting you while you

:35:31. > :35:33.are there. What do you say? For me, you are visiting a lot of the

:35:34. > :35:38.country and when you're young you cannot drive so your parents have to

:35:39. > :35:41.be taxi drivers and they have to take you here, there and everywhere.

:35:42. > :35:46.When you are young you do not realise how much they have given to

:35:47. > :35:49.you and you're older you think you have to drive yourself and you

:35:50. > :35:53.cannot fall asleep and wake up in the destination you want to see you

:35:54. > :35:58.realise how much they sacrifice. For my parents and all the family who

:35:59. > :36:03.have supported me, I cannot thank them enough. What about you? I only

:36:04. > :36:07.started rowing when I went to university so I did not get free

:36:08. > :36:11.lifts but my parents have been there the whole time. I did not do rowing

:36:12. > :36:12.when I was younger but I did football, cricket and swimming and

:36:13. > :36:29.they were always there guiding me through. I

:36:30. > :36:32.think that is a really good part of becoming a sportsman. A lot of

:36:33. > :36:35.people say you should think about giving this up and get a normal job.

:36:36. > :36:38.How much do you hear that? Less in the last few years. I was a student

:36:39. > :36:40.and I annoyed all of my tutors with late work and falling asleep in

:36:41. > :36:43.lectures which does not go down particularly well. A lot of time

:36:44. > :36:45.people would say maybe you should think about stopping this silly

:36:46. > :36:51.rowing and do what you are here to do. It is nice to not prove them

:36:52. > :36:59.wrong but to say, I did it so thanks for the support you did give me. OK!

:37:00. > :37:04.We have a special lady in the audience. Would you like to stand

:37:05. > :37:13.up? Tell us who your daughter is, as if we cannot guess. This is Nicola,

:37:14. > :37:17.she happens to be your daughter. Tell us a story about her being a

:37:18. > :37:24.naughty little girl when she was growing up or maybe a teenager. Say

:37:25. > :37:32.it again, sorry. Tell us a story about Nicola being a bit cheeky or

:37:33. > :37:37.naughty with her sibling? Well... Her brother is just a little bit

:37:38. > :37:41.younger than Nicola and she has got hurt doctors honours degree and

:37:42. > :37:47.sometimes when they are having a little sibling rivalry, she will

:37:48. > :37:57.say, well, call me by my proper name, Doctor Nicola Adams MBE! How

:37:58. > :38:03.does that go down with your brother? It is always quite funny because he

:38:04. > :38:13.has got a bachelors degree and I always put the little dig in. I will

:38:14. > :38:17.raise you! She says, now I am a doctor I can tell you everything

:38:18. > :38:25.that is wrong and she says, mum, not that sort of Doctor! What about you,

:38:26. > :38:29.Sarah, in terms of family support? I would not be here without family

:38:30. > :38:34.support. You talk about the next four years and look at them to see

:38:35. > :38:39.if they approve. I started my first Games as a 14-year-old. I had not

:38:40. > :38:43.started my GCSEs at that point, without mum and dad taking me

:38:44. > :38:47.training, I had to shake them awake saying you have to take me to the

:38:48. > :38:52.swimming pool. Now they follow me around the world and help look after

:38:53. > :38:56.my little girl Louisa whose three. And there is my husband dealing with

:38:57. > :39:00.all the bike mechanics. I am good at putting the chain in the wrong place

:39:01. > :39:09.and he's cool, calm and collected and sorts it out so I can pedal

:39:10. > :39:15.away. Good. Amy, you were the youngest member of Team GB this time

:39:16. > :39:20.around and completed your GCSEs a month before Rio. How on earth did

:39:21. > :39:25.you fit the revision in with the 31 hours of training a week? It was

:39:26. > :39:32.pretty crazy. I had Olympic trials at the same time as my GCSE exams

:39:33. > :39:36.and trying to fit it all in, having to miss the European Championships

:39:37. > :39:40.to finish off my GCSEs was a big step. I didn't know if it was the

:39:41. > :39:45.right decision I had made and whether I should have taken my GCSEs

:39:46. > :39:50.out to Switzerland and still competed. It was a nervous wait to

:39:51. > :39:56.see if I had done the right thing but it paid off. Ellie, in terms of

:39:57. > :40:00.competing from a very young age, you have done it since you were 13

:40:01. > :40:04.goodness sake, which is extraordinary! When you hear someone

:40:05. > :40:09.like Amy saying that was tough, you know what it is like? Yes, it is

:40:10. > :40:13.really tough. It was nice coming back from Rio and not having to

:40:14. > :40:17.think about going to school. After Beijing I had to go to school

:40:18. > :40:23.straightaway and after London I had to go straight back to school. It is

:40:24. > :40:26.really tough to balance it out. When you are not in school for swimmers

:40:27. > :40:31.or any sports people, you do not have the chance to have a nap which

:40:32. > :40:36.I really like to have! It is hard to balance at all but you have to have

:40:37. > :40:42.a great support system around you. I am not a school student any more so

:40:43. > :40:49.I can enjoy my life! When you go back to school, do you feel

:40:50. > :40:54.deflated, do you think this is not exciting enough, what are your

:40:55. > :40:59.emotions? It is straight back to reality. For me, it is you are on

:41:00. > :41:04.such a high from the Paralympic Games and then you go back to being

:41:05. > :41:11.a normal student at school. It is quite hard. It is quite boring I

:41:12. > :41:17.would say. School is good but... School is good, to all these

:41:18. > :41:21.schoolchildren who are here! If you are just tuning in and wondering

:41:22. > :41:26.what on earth is going on, we are in a sports hall in Salford with around

:41:27. > :41:32.70 Olympians and Paralympians. In this room alone we have 55 gold

:41:33. > :41:35.medal winners and that is just counting their Rio golds. Sarah

:41:36. > :41:47.story here has 14 of them across seven games. And by the way... In

:41:48. > :41:51.case you were wondering, the reason we cannot show quite as much

:41:52. > :41:54.Paralympics that edge as we can the Olympics footage, it is because we

:41:55. > :42:01.do not have the rights to play that footage so we can only use photos.

:42:02. > :42:04.Since Rio we have had a cyber espionage group calling themselves

:42:05. > :42:10.Fancy Bears hacking into the world anti-doping fight and releasing the

:42:11. > :42:15.private medical data of dozens of Olympians including you, Helen

:42:16. > :42:19.Glover and Pete Reed. How did you react to that? It is always a shame

:42:20. > :42:24.when your private information gets released but I feel I have nothing

:42:25. > :42:27.to hide. You almost feel violated that your personal information is in

:42:28. > :42:34.the public domain, essentially for me, that was fine because I want to

:42:35. > :42:38.be totally transparent about everything I do in sport. It opens

:42:39. > :42:49.up some really important conversations about the way we run

:42:50. > :42:53.Wada which is the drugs agency and the way we do testing. We all want

:42:54. > :42:57.to compete on a level playing field and we do not want things to come

:42:58. > :43:00.out through other agencies. We want to be honest and above board as

:43:01. > :43:08.athletes and we do not want to compete against drug cheats. Where

:43:09. > :43:12.you cross, Pete? Yes, I was quite cross. I can only speak for myself

:43:13. > :43:17.but I am a clean athlete and I always will be. It is horrible to

:43:18. > :43:21.have your name associated with words like doping. It is really sick. It

:43:22. > :43:25.was not just asked two who were caught up in it. The first time I

:43:26. > :43:31.saw this I thought, this is not really a story. It is our medical

:43:32. > :43:36.records. Angry that Wada did not encrypt the data. If someone in the

:43:37. > :43:42.public had their personal doctor records shed, it is not nice. It is

:43:43. > :43:48.horrible to see names of such strong determined athletes with full

:43:49. > :43:52.integrity, to have their names associated in that way. I am not

:43:53. > :43:57.doing a good job of explaining this but you should have confidence in

:43:58. > :44:01.all of us. We are honest, hard-working, good, loyal, strong,

:44:02. > :44:05.kind people. The team is a fantastic team and I think the Olympics and

:44:06. > :44:09.Paralympics stands for something which is very special and the public

:44:10. > :44:21.should stay behind us. APPLAUSE

:44:22. > :44:30.Crista Cullen hello. And Alex Danson from the hockey squad, it happened

:44:31. > :44:36.to you as well, your data was stolen. How did you react? The same

:44:37. > :44:40.as what Helen and Pete said. The affiliation to those kind of things

:44:41. > :44:45.was really disappointing from our sport and also the other sports

:44:46. > :44:47.which were represented. As the governing body, we embraced the

:44:48. > :44:52.issue and we released a statement on the half of all the athletes and as

:44:53. > :44:57.they both said, we had nothing to hide. The information was all given.

:44:58. > :45:02.Dave Brailsford has been making the argument, he is the former boss of

:45:03. > :45:07.Team GB cycling, the main controversy was around Bradley

:45:08. > :45:11.Wiggins, but he has begun to make the argument that these therapeutic

:45:12. > :45:13.use exemption is, you should publish them and you should tell people if

:45:14. > :45:22.you have one. What do you think? We had a conversation the evening

:45:23. > :45:28.that ours came out. It is really important that anybody listening in,

:45:29. > :45:33.we are hard-working, honest athletes and TUEs are there for medical

:45:34. > :45:36.reasons and actually, we did publish ours because we put it out there in

:45:37. > :45:40.the open because they are things that were needed for us to perform

:45:41. > :45:44.and so that's really important and perhaps they can be open for

:45:45. > :45:52.everybody to see and that would be fine from every athletes point of

:45:53. > :45:57.view. Philip Hinds as a Team GB cyclist do you think it should be

:45:58. > :46:01.open and Fanny Bears would do their worst because you would have put the

:46:02. > :46:04.information out yourself? If you have got nothing to hide and if you

:46:05. > :46:09.have got a medical condition and if it gets to it and you have to

:46:10. > :46:13.release everything, you have to release it even though it is private

:46:14. > :46:17.information, but if it keeps the public happy I think just release it

:46:18. > :46:25.if you've got nothing to hide. Thank you.

:46:26. > :46:29.Dame Sarah Storey smashing Tanni Grey-Thompson's record. Have you

:46:30. > :46:34.actually put all 14 medals on? No, I'm a bit of a maniac medal mother

:46:35. > :46:39.in the sense that I don't want to damage them. Would it damage them?

:46:40. > :46:45.That's why we're carefully placed separately because they do get

:46:46. > :46:49.damaged. I have a slightly OCD sense. I'm sensing this. There is a

:46:50. > :46:52.centimetre between them. OK, and that's very important to you, I can

:46:53. > :46:58.tell! When you achieve that, what emotions

:46:59. > :47:01.were you experiencing? The first emotions relief and huge excitement

:47:02. > :47:06.about that particular event, you don't really think about what you've

:47:07. > :47:11.done before, you just concentrate on that particular event. 12 laps of

:47:12. > :47:15.the track trying to go faster than you've gone before and when you're

:47:16. > :47:19.in the final you're trying to catch your opponent which I achieved. The

:47:20. > :47:24.gun didn't fire which normally signals the end of the race. I kept

:47:25. > :47:31.pedestrianaling because I hadn't heard the gun and then I heard the

:47:32. > :47:36.announcer say, "She has won." I was thinking, "Where is the gun?" No, it

:47:37. > :47:40.is just incredible to have that and to see your family, the British

:47:41. > :47:43.flags to go and celebrate with them and come back to track centre where

:47:44. > :47:48.the team is, it is the icing on the cake, but that excitement and relief

:47:49. > :47:54.as well because you're building up to it for so long. Before the Games

:47:55. > :47:56.there were claims that some athletes were misrepresenting their

:47:57. > :48:01.disabilities in order to improve their medal chances, do you do you

:48:02. > :48:05.respond to that? Classification is like an anti-doping thing. You have

:48:06. > :48:08.to make sure that you're sure the person in that classification room

:48:09. > :48:12.isn't trying to misrepresent themselves and it is difficult to

:48:13. > :48:15.pick up on that. There are no tests you need to have medical experts

:48:16. > :48:21.assessing the people in front of them. For me, it is easy. You can

:48:22. > :48:24.measure the length of my arm and see it is how many centimetres shorter

:48:25. > :48:28.than the other and I'm in that classification, but we have to have

:48:29. > :48:30.full respect for the classification system and have to be sure that it

:48:31. > :48:34.is working. You can't think about whether or not the person that

:48:35. > :48:38.you're racing isn't in there, but no, I think the classification

:48:39. > :48:41.system works very well and it is constantly being updated.

:48:42. > :48:44.Disabilities present themselves in different ways and people who are

:48:45. > :48:50.injured or have illness that is bring new disability in the

:48:51. > :48:56.situation so we have to have, we have to believe in that system and

:48:57. > :49:01.make sure it works and we come neat categories that are to our

:49:02. > :49:07.functional level. You won't find me competing against someone with no

:49:08. > :49:12.legs. It is categorized and objective and in many ways it is

:49:13. > :49:14.like having a boxing class where you're categorized on weight and

:49:15. > :49:17.within that group, there will be people who are a little bit heavier

:49:18. > :49:22.or lighter than the other person within their category and I guess it

:49:23. > :49:28.is the same in para sport. You have a range of disabilities within those

:49:29. > :49:32.groups. Pete, you won a gold medal at Beijing and London and the men's

:49:33. > :49:35.eight in Rio. Stupid question alert, how difficult is it switching from

:49:36. > :49:39.four to eight? That's straightforward. So we train in

:49:40. > :49:44.eights, fours and pairs through the year. That's not tricky. The tricky

:49:45. > :49:48.thing is then once you are in a larger group making sure that you've

:49:49. > :49:54.got a good team thing going, there are more people and more opinions,

:49:55. > :49:56.more opinions! LAUGHTER

:49:57. > :50:00.And getting the most out of everybody becomes a lot more

:50:01. > :50:03.difficult than when you're in for example a pair, that's more like a

:50:04. > :50:06.marriage, so it is two people all the time. But it is so much fun. I

:50:07. > :50:10.haven't got a favourite boat class. Lots of people ask, but I had a riot

:50:11. > :50:13.in the eight, it was a party from start to finish. Clearly, there is a

:50:14. > :50:19.hierarchy, there is the coach obviously, but then if you've got

:50:20. > :50:25.two golds under your belt, albeit in the fours, are you in charge? No.

:50:26. > :50:30.No. There is no hierarchy. It the commander? I will mention Andy

:50:31. > :50:34.Hodge. He is recognisable, long blond hair and can't be here today

:50:35. > :50:38.unfortunately, but the two of us won together in Beijing and London and

:50:39. > :50:42.now Rio, but we weren't figure heads of the boat or anything. It is a

:50:43. > :50:45.team. It was wonderful for us to do it again, I speak for Andy as well,

:50:46. > :50:48.the nicest thing was seeing the younger guys in the boat do it for

:50:49. > :50:55.the first time, I say younger, they are a bit younger, but people like

:50:56. > :51:00.Scott who is not here and Matt. It was just doing it as a team, it was

:51:01. > :51:04.fantastic. You can share those memories and we weren't in charge.

:51:05. > :51:11.No, it was a team effort. Paul, going straight in and getting gold,

:51:12. > :51:15.oh my goodness? Well, rowing in somes ways is talked about as the

:51:16. > :51:20.ultimate team sport. Tu abouts everything doing the same and people

:51:21. > :51:23.with different opinions and different abilities coming together.

:51:24. > :51:26.What was really good about our eight and our hole team was, there was a

:51:27. > :51:30.lot of dimp views and a lot of different ways of doing thing. Pete

:51:31. > :51:34.and Andy did a really, really good job coming in off the back of two

:51:35. > :51:37.gold med aland not just usurping everything and saying, "This is how

:51:38. > :51:40.we're doing it." Eights are different boats and being able to

:51:41. > :51:43.both have had success previously, but listen to new opinions and find

:51:44. > :51:47.new ways of doing things. I really commend them in the way they

:51:48. > :51:51.approached that. They did an exceptional jobment fors, as young

:51:52. > :51:55.guys coming in, it is nice to have someone saying, "Maybe you should

:51:56. > :51:59.think about these things." But at the same time saying, "I'm happy and

:52:00. > :52:04.open to the ideas." It is about finding ways of not conforming, but

:52:05. > :52:07.finding ways of expressing different opinions and finding something

:52:08. > :52:12.great. You asked whether I had a favourite boat class? Eight is my

:52:13. > :52:16.favour boat class, it is louder and you have to get on with other people

:52:17. > :52:22.and if you can't do that, you're scuppered. And it helps if you're

:52:23. > :52:36.tall. Stand up, please. Are we really doing that? You should see me

:52:37. > :52:42.on the way home! Nicola, come here. Just for comparison reasons!

:52:43. > :52:51.No, for comparison reasons. That's enough. That's enough! Helen, didn't

:52:52. > :52:56.you cheat your height once? Yeah, may have done. It does help to be

:52:57. > :52:59.tall to be a rower. If you're good enough, you're tall enough. When I

:53:00. > :53:03.started rowing, it was four years before London. I had never rowed

:53:04. > :53:06.before, I had always done lots of sports and I finished university and

:53:07. > :53:11.I applied for the scheme and when I got there, I mean I genuinely

:53:12. > :53:16.thought I was five foot 11 and I walked into the room and I thought,

:53:17. > :53:20.no, I'm five nine. So I may have stood on tiptoes that testing day,

:53:21. > :53:25.but I'm glad I did because it got me into Into rowing and four years

:53:26. > :53:29.later heather and I went to London. It was worth a tiny little cheat.

:53:30. > :53:37.Fair Nigel Farage. How are you? My name is Karen. I was a volunteer and

:53:38. > :53:42.Team GB superfan. I am five foot 11! I was really privileged. I saw all

:53:43. > :53:47.the rowing medals. I went down for three different days and it was just

:53:48. > :53:51.an honour and privilege to watch all of those medals. I know the lake had

:53:52. > :53:55.some challenges with the wind and the rain and I know some sessions

:53:56. > :54:01.were cancelled, but as a spectator on those days, the experience was

:54:02. > :54:08.just incredible. I was downright on the front and it was actually Helen,

:54:09. > :54:12.your gold the camera came back to us standing and cheering and I can't

:54:13. > :54:16.even explain. I think somebody else said, you can't explain the emotions

:54:17. > :54:22.and that's as a fan. That's not as a family member or any of that. So I

:54:23. > :54:26.also work in school sport and again just for yes the rowers, but the

:54:27. > :54:29.medallists if I can just say you are a massive inspiration to young

:54:30. > :54:33.people across the country and if I can just do a little shout out for

:54:34. > :54:39.those in north-east Derbyshire where I work in the schools partnership.

:54:40. > :54:43.You have done so. Liam... APPLAUSE

:54:44. > :54:50.Liam, as you know is Britain's most successful canoeist. You've got one

:54:51. > :54:54.of each of the medals. You gave up canoeing at uni and were tempted

:54:55. > :54:59.back? I studied at Loughborough University and I went with a

:55:00. > :55:04.scholarship to do sport and commute over to Nottingham, but in the final

:55:05. > :55:08.year university took over. It was quite a tough degree and I decided

:55:09. > :55:13.to focus on graduating with a degree and I stepped away from sport

:55:14. > :55:17.completely without really any thought of coming back into the

:55:18. > :55:22.sport especially not competing and then after a few years, after

:55:23. > :55:27.graduating I wasn't really moving anywhere and I decided to step back

:55:28. > :55:31.into the sport with the help of a chap called Paul at my home club, he

:55:32. > :55:35.gave me a programme because I was out of funding and out of that

:55:36. > :55:44.system. And with the help of moo parents and this programme that Paul

:55:45. > :55:48.gave me, got me back into the team where I partnered up with Johnny and

:55:49. > :55:56.it kind of went from there. It is quite a story, actually, isn't it Sn

:55:57. > :56:03.Goodness me that you can be out of it and thinking, "What can I do with

:56:04. > :56:08.my life?" Let's have another go. Out of the funding system makes you

:56:09. > :56:12.appreciate how much support the Lottery provides us as athletes. I

:56:13. > :56:16.came back and as soon as I received that support, it pushed me so much

:56:17. > :56:21.further down towards where I wanted to go. So I'm really fortunate and I

:56:22. > :56:30.want to say thanks to the Lottery for that backing. Joe, how are you?

:56:31. > :56:33.Good, yeah. Now, gold in the K1, you were seen as having an outside

:56:34. > :56:39.chance of a medal. Did you dream about winning gold? Did you have

:56:40. > :56:45.dreams about winning gold? I didn't probably have a dream, but it was

:56:46. > :56:50.kind of like a performance outcome and take stepping stones to make

:56:51. > :56:54.that when you're young, but that seems so far away. You have got to

:56:55. > :56:58.make the junior team first before you can win the Olympic medals. It

:56:59. > :57:04.really starts building and building and you once hope that you will make

:57:05. > :57:07.it to that point, and I've done it now. To have an actual dream,

:57:08. > :57:12.probably not because that kind of tempts fate a little bit. Do you

:57:13. > :57:17.think? Yeah. Helen and Kate, you two made history. There is so many

:57:18. > :57:21.history makers on this stage, it is fantastic by being the first

:57:22. > :57:25.same-sex couple to win gold together. How special was that? It

:57:26. > :57:30.was incredibly special. To do what we do every day is amazing. A lot of

:57:31. > :57:36.hard work, but amazing, but to be able to do it with your loved one is

:57:37. > :57:44.incredible. Incredibly special. Is there a decent amount of bounce in

:57:45. > :57:48.training you're the married couple of the squad? Everything is on the

:57:49. > :57:53.table. Everything is discussed. There are no secrets. But yeah,

:57:54. > :57:58.definitely if Helen dribbles past me, she is skilful. She dribbles

:57:59. > :58:02.past me which is quite often. It usually gets a bit of a laugh from

:58:03. > :58:07.the girls. Will Bayley is here. Will won gold in table tennis. Hello

:58:08. > :58:12.Will. Coops, what was that. A medal. A medal. Oh my gosh, is it damaged?

:58:13. > :58:30.Was it a medal? It is all right, is it? It is good.

:58:31. > :58:35.It is good. We will be fine. Will, hello. Where are you? Hi Will. Is

:58:36. > :58:43.that microphone working. Hello. Hello Will. You're very welcome.

:58:44. > :58:48.Will won gold in table tennis and was also on celebrity First Dates.

:58:49. > :59:03.Let's have a look. It is a long story. Tell us the story. Oh man. I

:59:04. > :59:10.was born with a condition that affects all four limbs in my body.

:59:11. > :59:16.No! You have done so much. That's so amazing. You just blew me away with

:59:17. > :59:34.what you're doing. Really? Yes! APPLAUSE

:59:35. > :59:36.It's on. It's on. Thanks for that. That's brilliant.

:59:37. > :59:41.LAUGHTER Don't worry about the table tennis

:59:42. > :59:48.or winning gold, just Celebrity First Dates. I want to know what

:59:49. > :59:50.happened next after that. Not a lot! LAUGHTER

:59:51. > :59:58.She wanted it, but I wasn't interested. Oh Will! Will!

:59:59. > :00:02.APPLAUSE There was an awful lot of love for

:00:03. > :00:06.you on social media as you probably gathered. But in terms of winning

:00:07. > :00:11.gold in the table tennis which is more important on your CV, talk us

:00:12. > :00:14.through it. Oh, it is incredible. Like all these guys, it is a

:00:15. > :00:19.privilege to be here and it was, I have been playing since I was seven

:00:20. > :00:25.years old. How old are you now? 28. I moved away from home when I was

:00:26. > :00:29.16. So yeah, it is, I thought, it was something I never thought I'd

:00:30. > :00:30.do. It was my third Games and I'm so relieved that I achieved my dream

:00:31. > :00:42.really. Is that the feeling, relief? Yes,

:00:43. > :00:47.really. I jumped on the table when I won. I was so happy. I thought I was

:00:48. > :00:53.running out of time so I was really happy. It has not really sunk in yet

:00:54. > :00:59.but I'm sure it will do. Thank you for coming along today. Ladies and

:01:00. > :01:06.gentlemen, we have much more to come. Now here is Carol.

:01:07. > :01:11.If you are going to the Heroes Parade this afternoon in Manchester

:01:12. > :01:17.the forecast is for sunshine and showers. That is also the forecast

:01:18. > :01:22.for the rest of the UK. Some of us will miss the showers altogether. It

:01:23. > :01:26.is also breezy today. Most of the showers will be in the West and

:01:27. > :01:32.north-west. Here we will have the heaviest ones with the blunder.

:01:33. > :01:35.There will be some isolated showers. Temperatures up to 18 Celsius in

:01:36. > :01:39.London. Normally at this stage we would be looking at closer to 15.

:01:40. > :01:47.Showers will fade through the evening and then a cold front well

:01:48. > :01:51.come this way. We will have some cooler air. There could be some

:01:52. > :01:55.pockets of frost in sheltered western areas as we head through the

:01:56. > :01:58.latter part of the night. Then for tomorrow, the cold front continues

:01:59. > :02:02.with wet and windy weather pushing down into the south-east before

:02:03. > :02:08.clearing away. There will be further showery outbreaks of rain coming

:02:09. > :02:12.into Western and southern parts of Scotland and northern England. There

:02:13. > :02:19.will be some snow on the mountains of Scotland. Tomorrow will be a

:02:20. > :02:23.windy day, gusting to gale forced in northern Scotland and Northern

:02:24. > :02:29.Ireland. The temperatures will be lower than today, it will also feel

:02:30. > :02:42.much colder. That is something you will notice.

:02:43. > :02:44.Hello, it's Monday, it's 10 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:02:45. > :02:55.and this morning we're celebrating Rio 2016.

:02:56. > :03:08.They have done it! They have done it! Absolutely phenomenal.

:03:09. > :03:12.This is utterly brilliant, absolutely fantastic! It will be

:03:13. > :03:29.Great Britain! Throughout the programme we've

:03:30. > :03:32.been joined by 70 - 70 We have 55 gold medal

:03:33. > :03:35.winners here and 38 who've So far this morning

:03:36. > :03:50.we've heard? How important the role of family is.

:03:51. > :03:57.How disappointed some were when they had their medical data leaked by

:03:58. > :03:58.Fancy Bears and also how Nicola Adams speaks to her brother when

:03:59. > :04:02.they are having a row. Plenty more

:04:03. > :04:04.to come in the next hour - a question for any of our athletes

:04:05. > :04:09.you can get in touch The battle has begun

:04:10. > :04:27.for the city of Mosul, the last remaining stronghold

:04:28. > :04:47.in Iraq of the militant group Joint Iraqi forces have so far

:04:48. > :04:49.liberated nine villages. The assault is backed by the US led coalition.

:04:50. > :04:51.Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, has been under IS control

:04:52. > :04:56.The UN says it's very concerned about the safety of the city's one

:04:57. > :05:01.14 unaccompanied children from the migrant camp in Calais

:05:02. > :05:04.are expected to arrive in Britain today to be reunited

:05:05. > :05:07.They're being brought here by the Home Office

:05:08. > :05:09.under a new fast-track registration scheme before the camp,

:05:10. > :05:13.More than 100 children will be brought here this week.

:05:14. > :05:15.The daughter of the US Olympic sprinter, Tyson Gay,

:05:16. > :05:18.has been killed in a shootout in the American state of Kentucky.

:05:19. > :05:21.Police believe 15 year old Trinity Gay was caught

:05:22. > :05:26.in the crossfire during an exchange of gunshots between two vehicles.

:05:27. > :05:36.A new system to speed up the time it takes

:05:37. > :05:38.to compensate parents in England, whose babies are injured

:05:39. > :05:42.because of failings in maternity care, has been outlined.

:05:43. > :05:45.Ministers hope it will speed up payments and reduce

:05:46. > :05:47.the cost to the NHS - currently half a billion pounds

:05:48. > :05:50.a year - of settling legal disputes after mistakes by maternity staff.

:05:51. > :05:53.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

:05:54. > :05:59.Good morning, Ben, thank you very much indeed.

:06:00. > :06:01.Tennis now, British number one Johanna Konta could yet feature

:06:02. > :06:03.in the end-of season Tour Championship after

:06:04. > :06:06.Serena Williams pulled out of next week's event through injury.

:06:07. > :06:09.Konta herself recently pulled out of the Hong Kong Open with a muscle

:06:10. > :06:12.problem and looked set to miss out on the end of season showpiece,

:06:13. > :06:15.only the eight best players in the world take part.

:06:16. > :06:17.But Serena's withdrawal means one of Konta, Carla Suarez Navarro

:06:18. > :06:32.and Svetlana Kuznetsova will take her place.

:06:33. > :06:34.Nick Kyrigos has been suspended for eight weeks

:06:35. > :06:36.following his outburst at the Shanghai Masters.

:06:37. > :06:39.He failed to serve properly, argued with the umpire and then

:06:40. > :06:43.became involved in an angry exchange with a spectator.

:06:44. > :06:46.England captain Alastair Cook will arrive back in Chittagong

:06:47. > :06:48.this afternoon after flying home to attend the birth

:06:49. > :06:53.The side are playing in a two-day warm up match at the moment,

:06:54. > :06:56.the openers doing well without Cook - Ben Duckett made a half-century.

:06:57. > :07:00.England begin their test series on Thursday.

:07:01. > :07:03.And Mark Cavendish narrowly missed out on the World Road Race title

:07:04. > :07:07.in Qatar, beaten by Slovakia's Peter Sagan.

:07:08. > :07:11.Cavendish was one of the favourites but lost out on the sprint finish.

:07:12. > :07:13.You can see the frustration on his face as he was

:07:14. > :07:23.Sagan is the first man since 2007 to retain the rainbow jersey.

:07:24. > :07:25.I just had nowhere to go for most of it.

:07:26. > :07:36.I came with so much speed, so much power, I am just disappointed that

:07:37. > :07:50.It has not been a bad summer for him, has it? And now back to you,

:07:51. > :07:59.Victoria. Thank you, good morning. Welcome to Salford

:08:00. > :08:01.where this morning we're In this school sports hall -

:08:02. > :08:07.as you can see - are dozens and dozens of Olympic

:08:08. > :08:09.and Paralympic medal winners. Later today they'll be down the road

:08:10. > :08:12.in Manchester for the official but in the Olympics Team GB won

:08:13. > :08:20.a total of 67 medals - 27 of them gold - that's one more

:08:21. > :08:23.than China putting us second in the medal table

:08:24. > :08:28.behind the States. And in the Para GBs

:08:29. > :08:31.we also came second We all know the blood,

:08:32. > :08:41.sweat and tears that goes into every gold medal,

:08:42. > :08:45.and not just the golds, for every single

:08:46. > :08:55.competitor who takes part. EDDIE BUTLER:

:08:56. > :08:59.It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out

:09:00. > :09:03.how the strong man stumbles or whether the doer of deeds

:09:04. > :09:09.could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man

:09:10. > :09:25.who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust

:09:26. > :09:32.and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs,

:09:33. > :09:40.who comes short again and again. Because there is no effort

:09:41. > :09:45.without error and shortcoming. I'm so sorry for the people

:09:46. > :09:47.that stayed up late But who does actually

:09:48. > :09:55.strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms

:09:56. > :10:00.and great devotions. Possibly, yeah, yeah.

:10:01. > :10:06.Oh, I don't want to cry! Who spends himself

:10:07. > :10:08.in a worthy cause, who at the best knows, in the end,

:10:09. > :10:14.the triumph of high achievement. Who at the worst, if he fails,

:10:15. > :11:02.at least fails while daring greatly. Thank you to the great Eddie Butler

:11:03. > :11:10.who recorded that are specially for us today. Still with us this

:11:11. > :11:19.morning, 70 medal winning Olympians and Paralympians. Let's speak to

:11:20. > :11:24.Lutalo. You one medal in Rio and as everyone knows you were seconds away

:11:25. > :11:36.from winning a gold medal. Let's have a look.

:11:37. > :11:43.I am so distraught. I am so sorry to the people who stayed up late to

:11:44. > :11:51.watch and Cheney on. To let down in the last second. -- and cheer me on.

:11:52. > :12:00.I wonder if you have now... APPLAUSE

:12:01. > :12:09.If you have now rationalised what happened? Well, I thought I did

:12:10. > :12:13.until I saw that clip actually! Definitely with perspective I can

:12:14. > :12:18.look back on it now and I am very proud that I am an Olympic silver

:12:19. > :12:25.medallist. It is one of those moments. At the time it was

:12:26. > :12:31.devastating. It felt like my world had imploded. It is what it is, that

:12:32. > :12:35.is sport, so life goes on. I think we have somebody in the audience who

:12:36. > :12:42.would like to talk to you. Hello, my name is Jane. First of all I want to

:12:43. > :12:45.say you have absolutely nothing to feel bad about. We were all with you

:12:46. > :12:54.and we cried with you and we loved you even more because of what

:12:55. > :12:58.happened. I was watching from home and it was a devastating moment for

:12:59. > :13:03.everybody and we just felt for you so much, but I am sure you will live

:13:04. > :13:09.on and be iconic because of that moment, and whether you go on to win

:13:10. > :13:13.a medal in the future, or whether you are a silver medallist, you will

:13:14. > :13:17.always be the one that everyone talks about, that everyone refers to

:13:18. > :13:21.and when they say you have to work until the end, when we tell our

:13:22. > :13:25.children, when PE teachers across the country and coaches talk to

:13:26. > :13:31.their kids, they will say you have to keep on fighting until the very,

:13:32. > :13:36.very last minute. But you thought you had? That is the strange thing

:13:37. > :13:40.about it. I did not switch off or anything. I thought I had blocked it

:13:41. > :13:44.and I didn't think it had hit me so that made it even worse, to be

:13:45. > :13:48.brutally honest. I felt it on my arm and I looked round at the board

:13:49. > :13:53.expecting to see Olympic champion and I saw something else but that

:13:54. > :13:57.was the beginning of it all. But I really appreciate your words, thank

:13:58. > :14:02.you. Coming back and getting the reception I did get from the British

:14:03. > :14:09.public and what I continue to get is why I can't help but smile. It was a

:14:10. > :14:14.great moment. And if that was your first time watching taekwondo I

:14:15. > :14:18.guess it was a pretty good fight to watch. I am glad that we cried with

:14:19. > :14:27.you and now we can smile with you. Thank you very much! When that

:14:28. > :14:31.happens, that unpredictable less than a second moment happens to a

:14:32. > :14:38.team-mate, what is it that the rest of the team feel? We were watching

:14:39. > :14:42.it on TV because we were on the next day and we thought, he is going to

:14:43. > :14:47.do it, because Jade did it the day before and we can do it tomorrow and

:14:48. > :14:53.we looked back at the TV and he was running round and we were like, what

:14:54. > :14:57.has happened? We didn't even know what was going on because Lutalo

:14:58. > :15:02.didn't have a second left. Fair play, his opponent did pull off an

:15:03. > :15:07.amazing kick to change the game around but we thought Lutalo did it,

:15:08. > :15:11.he had it in the bag. But that is what taekwondo was like. It can

:15:12. > :15:15.change at the last second. You can be winning all the way and you lose

:15:16. > :15:21.at the end or you can be losing and then you win. I think that is what

:15:22. > :15:28.makes the sport even better. Does the team rally round? Does that

:15:29. > :15:32.happen? Yes, it does. There was a TV that we could watch which was

:15:33. > :15:39.outside our apartments and everyone did get to watch the sport. We had

:15:40. > :15:45.TVs in our rooms so we would congregate in our apartments to

:15:46. > :15:49.watch it. As you say, you have to process it to think what happened

:15:50. > :15:54.because I thought he was going to win the gold? Yes, we thought Lutalo

:15:55. > :15:59.had become Olympic champion. Then we looked back at the TV. One of our

:16:00. > :16:06.coaches in the room with us was cheering and we had to tell him. It

:16:07. > :16:10.was bad saying it has changed, he has got silver. Everyone felt for

:16:11. > :16:15.him so bad and that makes you think you have to switch on right to the

:16:16. > :16:16.end and we just did not know what to say to Lutalo when we saw him the

:16:17. > :16:26.next day. Darngs for you and Tom Daley, it was

:16:27. > :16:30.the opposite. It looked like you were out of medal contention during

:16:31. > :16:36.some of the dives and then it changed. Yeah, well, we were doing

:16:37. > :16:42.OK after our required round of dives which was our easy ones. Our easy

:16:43. > :16:43.ones! LAUGHTER

:16:44. > :16:47.Well, lower degree of difficulty ones and then we started to drop a

:16:48. > :16:52.bit. It came down to the last dive, we were starting out of eight

:16:53. > :16:55.following the Chinese. So that's always the hardest position to go

:16:56. > :16:59.into a competition. We knew it was going to come down to the last dive.

:17:00. > :17:03.I prepared myself a bit for that. But yeah, just really happy. It was

:17:04. > :17:07.an agonising wait, but really happy with the end result. The next day

:17:08. > :17:11.your mum was cross about the newspaper coverage. It seemed to

:17:12. > :17:18.ignore the fact that you were part of this two man team? I saw some of

:17:19. > :17:21.the press, but I wasn't too bothered, but my mum thought it was

:17:22. > :17:24.a mistake, but you know what the newspapers are like. To be up there

:17:25. > :17:29.with someone like Tom, he is the poster boy for our sport. Our sport

:17:30. > :17:32.wouldn't be where it is now if it wasn't for him, but just to be up

:17:33. > :17:38.there competing with him, someone I used to go and watch at competitions

:17:39. > :17:40.when I was younger, I did not imagine myself actually competing

:17:41. > :17:44.with him at an Olympic Games. Even to be up there, it was amazing and

:17:45. > :17:50.obviously, it is like any other team sport. We both worked so hard and

:17:51. > :17:56.yes, it is equal hard work for that medal. Jack, hello. Britain's first

:17:57. > :18:00.gold in the diving along with Chris in the three meter synchro and days

:18:01. > :18:03.later a silver in the men's individual springboard final. Which

:18:04. > :18:11.one do you want to talk us through? I guess start with the gold. Yeah,

:18:12. > :18:14.where not? Why not? Me and Chris have worked really, really hard this

:18:15. > :18:17.year. We were Commonwealth champions in 2014 and we were European

:18:18. > :18:21.champions this year as well, but we actually put in for the first people

:18:22. > :18:24.in history to ever put in the world's hardest dive in a synchro

:18:25. > :18:30.event and we have been doing it and trying it out this year and it has

:18:31. > :18:36.been going OK and it has been a bit hit and miss and the European

:18:37. > :18:40.Championships we nailed it and our main opposition were the Russians

:18:41. > :18:43.and the Chinese. They tried to copy it which worked in our favour

:18:44. > :18:46.because they messed up at the Olympics. It was our first ever

:18:47. > :18:51.world event that we won and the first one to do that in the Olympic

:18:52. > :18:57.Games is fantastic, but it is a lot of hard work and we were doing

:18:58. > :19:01.really well and it is just fantastic to actually come away with a gold

:19:02. > :19:04.medal especially with your best friend, we live together, we train

:19:05. > :19:10.together. It is a very special moment. Winning a gold, let's pick

:19:11. > :19:15.on gold, winning a gold, with your mate. So the hockey team, the hockey

:19:16. > :19:21.squad did, Philip you do it with Calum and Jason and whoever. Winning

:19:22. > :19:25.a gold with your mates? Most of us will never ever obviously experience

:19:26. > :19:29.that? Yeah, me and Chris both moved, I used to live an hour north and

:19:30. > :19:34.Chris used to train in Southampton and live in Reading so we both moved

:19:35. > :19:38.to Leeds to cement our partnership and to be able to do what we have

:19:39. > :19:42.achieved now. We have lived together for coming up to almost three years.

:19:43. > :19:46.We have been best mates for ages now and to be able to actually share

:19:47. > :19:50.that moment with someone when you're standing on the top of the podium,

:19:51. > :19:53.you have got a gold medal around your neck, and you've dreamed of

:19:54. > :19:57.something since you were a little boy and to hear the nam anthem play

:19:58. > :20:00.is a moment that so many people in this audience will actually be able

:20:01. > :20:03.to savour for the rest of their life. Halfs it like for you Philip

:20:04. > :20:09.winning gold with your friend? It was amazing. Two days before the

:20:10. > :20:13.race even started, we were playing computer games in the village. I

:20:14. > :20:17.looked across over to Jason and he was lying on the sofa one leg up and

:20:18. > :20:21.the laptop on his knees and was playing for six hours his computer

:20:22. > :20:28.games! I was thinking maybe he should take it a bit more seriously!

:20:29. > :20:31.We are really good friends. We share rooms together and go for coffee and

:20:32. > :20:35.food and it is just an amazing feeling winning with your mates.

:20:36. > :20:40.Jack, your dad was on our programme after you won your gold. Let's have

:20:41. > :20:44.a look. Please don't. You just turned out to be the most wonderful

:20:45. > :20:48.son and I just wish you every success in the future. I know you've

:20:49. > :20:52.got more in you. You've got another competition to come next week and I

:20:53. > :20:56.think you'll just nail that SWwell done.

:20:57. > :21:00.That was your dad with a completely straight face being interviewed on

:21:01. > :21:07.national television with a life sized cut out of you! Yeah. What

:21:08. > :21:11.the... I don't know! LAUGHTER

:21:12. > :21:14.It is from an Aldi store which opened in Ripon which is from up

:21:15. > :21:18.north. I don't know why he has got it. For some reason he was trying to

:21:19. > :21:25.get the dog to come in and get his nose into the shot. We would have

:21:26. > :21:30.liked that. No, dad stayed at home because I get very nervous when I

:21:31. > :21:34.compete. Seriously? So much so that it could put you off? He has been

:21:35. > :21:39.banned from coming to big competitions. Mum has always been

:21:40. > :21:43.there. Dad stayed at home and cooked dinner and he doesn't know how to

:21:44. > :21:46.handle and he gets therveous in himself and I find that can

:21:47. > :21:50.sometimes put me off and he does the stupid wrong dad things that I'm

:21:51. > :21:56.sure everyone has been through! But yeah, no, he stayed at home and he

:21:57. > :22:00.held the fort and after our event we had so many people come round to our

:22:01. > :22:05.house and I'm proud of what he did and he's proud of what I did. Is it

:22:06. > :22:10.true you met your girlfriend on Tinder, but you didn't tell her you

:22:11. > :22:16.were a diver? Yes. Why not? It is not like being a taxman or an estate

:22:17. > :22:23.agent or a journalist god for bid? It is a bit weird. Showing off or

:22:24. > :22:26.something, trying to pull someone on Tinder, playing your cards,

:22:27. > :22:36.whatever. No, I didn't really see any need to shout off about it. I

:22:37. > :22:39.wanted to meet someone more genuine and like me for being with me, than

:22:40. > :22:44.someone who is more in the limelight. Anyone else on Tinder?

:22:45. > :22:51.LAUGHTER Will be again soon. Who said that? I

:22:52. > :22:58.don't think she understood what I was doing for a year. Who didn't

:22:59. > :23:03.understand? My girlfriend. We met on Tinder. I didn't like to be come on,

:23:04. > :23:07.and I don't think she really understood what was going on for a

:23:08. > :23:10.year. I said, "I'm off to the World Championships." And she was like the

:23:11. > :23:16.World Championships in what? She didn't know you were a rower? She

:23:17. > :23:19.nudes I was a rower, but not internationally of the it was a

:23:20. > :23:22.strange one. Yeah, bye. When you revealed to her after a year, are

:23:23. > :23:31.you still together by the way? No, we are. She knows you've won a gold.

:23:32. > :23:34.She knows now. Don't worry I'm doing some TV stuff. When you revealed

:23:35. > :23:38.what you did for a living and it involved being away from home for

:23:39. > :23:43.periods of time, reaction? Again, coming back to family. It is really,

:23:44. > :23:47.really hard. As an athlete, you're used to sacrificing things and being

:23:48. > :23:50.away and giving stuff up and bringing someone else into that

:23:51. > :23:55.intimately is really difficult for them to go, we've gradually got to a

:23:56. > :23:59.point where we go, "We're going away for a month." Other people let's go

:24:00. > :24:03.to this wedding. No, I'm not going to see you for a month is harder. I

:24:04. > :24:06.think that's one thing that I really need to learn to be more like

:24:07. > :24:10.understanding of that dramatic change. It is really, really hard

:24:11. > :24:14.for people in general. But she does a really good job of putting up with

:24:15. > :24:19.some of the worst moments and these are probably one of the worst

:24:20. > :24:24.moments is going away for so long. Andy, hello. Where are you? Hi Andy

:24:25. > :24:28.how are you? Thank you very much for joining us today. Andy, triathlon at

:24:29. > :24:32.the Paralympics for the first time. That's right. You smashed it with a

:24:33. > :24:39.gold. You only took this up two years ago? Yeah, just over two years

:24:40. > :24:45.ago, yeah. For me, literally in school, I was a cross-country runner

:24:46. > :24:50.and then when I my accident, I lost my leg, decided that I wanted to do

:24:51. > :24:55.something in sport. Yeah, and sort of got into triathlon. I don't know

:24:56. > :24:58.how I got into it to be honest. Someone chucked me in a swimming

:24:59. > :25:03.pool and said you're going to have to learn to swim. At which point I

:25:04. > :25:07.nearly drowned and they got me out and said, "I need to touch you to

:25:08. > :25:10.swim." That was over two years ago. Explain how you compete because you

:25:11. > :25:16.have a blade as well as a prosthetic leg? Yeah, some people ask if, you

:25:17. > :25:20.know, I swim with a prosthetic. Obviously, I don't. It is quite

:25:21. > :25:23.heavy. But I get out of the swim, particularly if it is in the sea, it

:25:24. > :25:27.is quite difficult if you have to run up on to the beach with a blade.

:25:28. > :25:31.But I get out of the saession I get helped out and put my prosthetic on

:25:32. > :25:36.and get up into transition. I then have to swap leg again. So I put my

:25:37. > :25:42.bike leg on and I get out on the bike, I come back off the bike and I

:25:43. > :25:45.swap my leg again for the running blade and I get out on the run. It

:25:46. > :25:49.was tough and Rio was hot, it was humid and when you're doing three

:25:50. > :25:52.combined sports, one after another, with the transition, it was, yeah,

:25:53. > :26:00.it was tough, it was tough. Congratulations. Thank you very

:26:01. > :26:07.much. Amazing. APPLAUSE Kadeena, hello. How are

:26:08. > :26:13.you? Good thank you. How was Rio for you? Oh, it was amazing. I loved it.

:26:14. > :26:21.Go on, tell us all about your medals. I got a few medals. You did

:26:22. > :26:29.get a few medals. Let's have a look. You don't have the one centimetre

:26:30. > :26:33.between them all? I'm not quite as picky as Sarah. I should learn from

:26:34. > :26:37.her as mine are getting scratched. To get a gold on the bike and the

:26:38. > :26:39.track, you have to explain how that's even possible? I don't know,

:26:40. > :26:45.I just like going around in circles I guess! It is not so hard. I just

:26:46. > :26:49.couldn't choose between the two and decided I was going to do both and

:26:50. > :26:54.worked pretty hard and it paid off. Tell us a little bit about what's

:26:55. > :26:59.happened to you in the last few years and how extraordinary it is

:27:00. > :27:06.that you were even at Rio? So in May 2014 I was diagnosed with a stroke

:27:07. > :27:11.and just four months later I got my multiple sclerosis diagnosis. I was

:27:12. > :27:16.an athlete at that point, but I was bed-bunked and unable to walk or

:27:17. > :27:20.feed myself. I had to relearn how to do everything and I dihe decided

:27:21. > :27:22.that I was going to get back into running and I couldn't get running

:27:23. > :27:29.straightaway. I used to fall over and I got on the bike and I had good

:27:30. > :27:33.power and someone said, "Why don't you try cycling?" I was doing

:27:34. > :27:39.running and I was doing both and here I am. Astonishing. Where is

:27:40. > :27:51.Jonathan and Dan? Hi Dan, how are you? Hi Dan. How are you? At the

:27:52. > :27:57.Paralympics, you may tell me it is not true, the night out you had with

:27:58. > :28:04.the Channel 4 Last Leg lot? Oh god! It was interesting. Go on. Oh... We

:28:05. > :28:12.are all human. We're human. So we decided to go out and join the Last

:28:13. > :28:15.Leg crew atY Street in Rio and we struggled to find the place because

:28:16. > :28:21.Alex Brooker is not very good with texting! To tell us where we were

:28:22. > :28:25.going and yeah, we had to catch up and obviously I'm with two throwers

:28:26. > :28:30.and I'm a high jumper. Yeah, I can't remember three hours of the night!

:28:31. > :28:36.Really? Yeah. Wow. How was it for you? Like Jonathan said, we trained

:28:37. > :28:39.so hard throughout the year. There is bound to be a little bit of

:28:40. > :28:44.celebrating afterwards. At the start of the night he said, "It is

:28:45. > :28:51.brilliant. You watch me boys, I'll be with you all night." Obviously,

:28:52. > :28:57.there was blood, sweat and tears out in Rio. OK, Jonathan, we will see

:28:58. > :29:01.how long it lasts. About an hour later we found him on a kerb outside

:29:02. > :29:05.the bar, but that was Channel 4's point. They started to fund the

:29:06. > :29:09.drinks flowing and tequila shots that big and I don't want Tequila

:29:10. > :29:15.anymore. It is one of those nights? Yes. When you say you blanked out

:29:16. > :29:20.and you were on a kerb. Yes, I had a good relationship with the floor for

:29:21. > :29:25.a few hours! I felt good the next day because I got rid of everything.

:29:26. > :29:31.Good. Good. I'm pleased to hear that, thank you. Thank you. Let me

:29:32. > :29:38.bring in Jaz. How are you? Good, thank you. You became Team GB's

:29:39. > :29:46.first double medallist at the Games. In the 800 meters beaten by we know,

:29:47. > :29:50.by the athlete who broke the world record. What is it like facing her?

:29:51. > :29:55.It is tough. She won London when she was 15 of the that's unheard of in

:29:56. > :29:58.swimming, but when you know you're competing against someone that's got

:29:59. > :30:02.the world records in quite a few events and is swimming out of her

:30:03. > :30:06.life really. So I knew I had to put on the best performance and to be

:30:07. > :30:09.the best of the rest and to come away with two silver medals was

:30:10. > :30:13.pretty special in itself. There is a little boy in the audience who would

:30:14. > :30:18.like a chat with you. Hello, hi, is it Ben? Yeah. Hi Ben, bring the

:30:19. > :30:22.microphone closer to your mouth. How are you? Good. Thank you for coming

:30:23. > :30:27.along today. What did you want to say? I wanted to ask what the moment

:30:28. > :30:34.embarrassing moment at the Olympics was?

:30:35. > :30:45.That is a tough question! The most embarrassing? I am not sure really.

:30:46. > :30:52.We have already heard from Jonathan and Dan. Does anyone else want to

:30:53. > :31:02.share for Ben's delight? No one had an embarrassing moment? No one is

:31:03. > :31:09.going to say it! They are not for TV. A clean version? Everyone here

:31:10. > :31:14.has worked so hard all their lives and we went out to have a good time.

:31:15. > :31:18.We have worked so hard throughout the year, I did drink from January

:31:19. > :31:22.until the end of the competition so it is time to let your hair down.

:31:23. > :31:30.When alcohol is involved people do some silly things and save some

:31:31. > :31:46.funny things as well. You need to share. He does not need to share.

:31:47. > :31:50.The boat? I cannot tell that! It is Dan's first Olympics. We were given

:31:51. > :31:53.a phone and it was waterproof. We were living on the 11th floor and we

:31:54. > :32:00.had a balcony which overlooked the swimming pool and Daniel said if I

:32:01. > :32:03.get an Olympic medal I will throw my phone off this balcony into the

:32:04. > :32:08.swimming pool and one o'clock in the morning he did that and it was an

:32:09. > :32:13.amazing moment to watch it. But why was that the thing you wanted to do

:32:14. > :32:19.if you got a medal? Of all the things. When I said it, I was not

:32:20. > :32:22.really thinking and I said it probably won't happen. It worked the

:32:23. > :32:30.next morning and I gave it to my brother. He uses it now. Ben pretend

:32:31. > :32:36.you have heard nothing of this competition. It proves it is a

:32:37. > :32:42.brilliant phone. It is waterproof and survived the drop. That is

:32:43. > :32:47.enough plugging of the phone! Ben, was there something else you wanted?

:32:48. > :32:52.Something to do with a medal? Can I hold an Olympic medal, please? Come

:32:53. > :33:39.on then, of course you can. Tell us what it feels like? It is

:33:40. > :33:44.very, very heavy. I can confirm it is heavy. You swimming fan. Is that

:33:45. > :33:53.something you would like to pursue when you grow up? Yes. URA fan of

:33:54. > :34:00.Jazz and who else would you like to emulate? Ellie Simmonds and Ellie

:34:01. > :34:04.Robertson. Any tips and advice? Keep going. Sport is never easy but you

:34:05. > :34:11.have your highs and your nose. If you have given your best that is all

:34:12. > :34:17.you can do. If you keep working hard and you have that dream, don't stop

:34:18. > :34:22.until you try and achieve it. And believe in yourself as well. Belief

:34:23. > :34:25.is a big thing. And just have fun. Really have fun. Thank you, Ben, up

:34:26. > :35:03.well done. Here in Salford we have talked about

:35:04. > :35:08.winning, losing, love, celebrity first dates and now I want to talk

:35:09. > :35:19.about friendship. You share a flat with Jade Jones. What is that like?

:35:20. > :35:25.She said she could not make it and she does apologise. It is really

:35:26. > :35:29.good. We go through so much together, we train every day, we

:35:30. > :35:37.push each other to achieve our goals and dreams. I was there just before

:35:38. > :35:44.she got into the final. I said, you have made an Olympic final. I could

:35:45. > :35:49.not be happier for anyone else. I was so determined that she would get

:35:50. > :35:55.that gold medal. She came out and I just missed out on getting into the

:35:56. > :36:00.final. Jade doesn't cry for anyone. She came up and she was crying and

:36:01. > :36:05.she said, I don't cry for no one. And I said you are not even crying!

:36:06. > :36:12.But we have a good friendship and we have lived together for seven years

:36:13. > :36:17.now. Before Rio didn't you nail her by accident? I kicked her in the

:36:18. > :36:21.face and she was bleeding. The media were there and she said, she kicked

:36:22. > :36:26.me in the face and I carried on. Then she ran at me and she had blood

:36:27. > :36:34.on her face and I was like, calm down! Was that in training or just

:36:35. > :36:39.in the flat for fun? In the flat! No, I am joking. That was in

:36:40. > :36:45.training. It is like that every day. We do try and kill each other in

:36:46. > :36:52.training. Heard Twitter profile says I kick people in the head for a

:36:53. > :36:59.living and I love it. She does! Hello, members of the audience, you

:37:00. > :37:06.have got some questions. I would like to ask, are the gold medal is

:37:07. > :37:18.actually made of gold? Does anyone know?! I got bronze. Go one, Pete. I

:37:19. > :37:24.wish I could say yes but I know they are made of silver with gold plate.

:37:25. > :37:31.They would be worth ?30,000 each if they were made of solid gold which

:37:32. > :37:40.is too much. They are heavy but they are solid silver with gold plate.

:37:41. > :37:46.Anyone else in the audience? Hello, do introduce yourself. Hello.

:37:47. > :37:50.Everyone has received such respect and I delay should since you have

:37:51. > :37:55.come back and rightly so, particularly for the disabled

:37:56. > :38:01.athletes, as they disabled person myself, I wonder what it is like to

:38:02. > :38:07.be described as a superhero or egg superhuman, that term is used a lot.

:38:08. > :38:16.It is a bit of Ajax to position when you are growing up to be described

:38:17. > :38:20.as a superhuman. Natasha? It is a bit surreal. I just feel that I am

:38:21. > :38:24.little old Natasha who rides a horse. Being called a superhuman is

:38:25. > :38:28.strange. Given that we have a disability, we are the same as

:38:29. > :38:32.everyone else. We go out there to do our best. Everyone has things they

:38:33. > :38:38.struggle with and things they find easier. We just love what we do and

:38:39. > :38:44.are good at it. What do you think of it, what is your own view? I have

:38:45. > :38:48.differing feelings about it because I think it can be slightly

:38:49. > :38:53.misleading in some ways and there can be an implication that it is an

:38:54. > :38:58.easy thing to do. Obviously, there are challenges for all athletes and

:38:59. > :39:03.having a disability creates more challenges in some ways but at the

:39:04. > :39:07.same time, I think it is fantastic seeing people who are disabled being

:39:08. > :39:12.treated and given the same respect as able-bodied athletes and I would

:39:13. > :39:16.just like to say I think, the word in spy ring is used a lot and

:39:17. > :39:21.particularly when it comes to looking at a new generation of

:39:22. > :39:25.athletes. I am 38 and I have been inspired to join a sport recently

:39:26. > :39:30.because of seeing other athletes with disabilities achieve so highly

:39:31. > :39:35.so that is great, thank you. Something that happened to me two

:39:36. > :39:41.days ago, I use a wheelchair daily, I get problems with my stump from

:39:42. > :39:45.training. People don't see that side. So when they talk about being

:39:46. > :39:50.superhuman and everything else, I went into a petrol station and a

:39:51. > :39:54.lady said to me, I have just seen a picture of you in a wheelchair, I

:39:55. > :39:58.would never imagine you to use a wheelchair. I said quite? I am

:39:59. > :40:03.disabled and I don't wear my leg all the time but now and again you see

:40:04. > :40:14.me with my lead on but when I am training or at home it is for

:40:15. > :40:17.recovery. -- my leg on. There is the other side we have to deal with as

:40:18. > :40:20.well. And that is what inspires me with the other athletes. It is not

:40:21. > :40:25.necessarily something we can switch on and off. It is something we have

:40:26. > :40:34.to learn how to deal with and manage it differently. Hello. My name is

:40:35. > :40:38.James. This is a question for Philip. There is any regulation

:40:39. > :40:43.about how you do your changeovers at the beginning. I am a man one

:40:44. > :40:50.myself, a lot slower than yourself, but how do you see the changing over

:40:51. > :40:55.the next four years? I am not sure because I only saw the new

:40:56. > :41:01.regulations last week. They keep changing from every Olympic cycle. I

:41:02. > :41:09.think the Times will be faster but I think we should leave it for two

:41:10. > :41:13.Olympic cycles because all the changes, you need to adapt to the

:41:14. > :41:19.changeovers again. You will see disqualifications again. It ruins

:41:20. > :41:25.the competition if you have to adapt all the time to new changeover rules

:41:26. > :41:32.and other regulations. Natasha, two Olympic golds in London, three in

:41:33. > :41:41.Riyadh, four in Tokyo? I can only win three! Have you made a decision?

:41:42. > :41:47.I am definitely going to Tokyo. I have retired my horse from Rio so I

:41:48. > :41:53.am horse shopping at the moment. Hopefully I can find my dancing

:41:54. > :41:58.partner. How will you know when you have found a replacement? There

:41:59. > :42:03.cannot be a replacement for Cabral but how will you know? It sounds a

:42:04. > :42:08.bit corny but it is a bit like meeting your other half. There is a

:42:09. > :42:15.spark and a connection. When I ride them I know I can get on with them.

:42:16. > :42:19.Most of the horses I try have never been written by a Paralympic rider

:42:20. > :42:23.before. My legs are useless when I am on a horse so they have to adapt

:42:24. > :42:29.quickly to my voice and the use of my seat. I have to see how quickly

:42:30. > :42:35.they can adapt and how quickly that will develop into something special.

:42:36. > :42:43.If you have made your mind up about Tokyo, it doesn't matter what the

:42:44. > :42:51.decision is, just put your hand up. So of those with their hand up, you

:42:52. > :42:55.are going to Tokyo as well are you as games makers? Seriously? Some of

:42:56. > :43:02.you have done London, Rio and you are doing Tokyo. Fantastic

:43:03. > :43:10.commitment. Those with your hands up, who is a Yes for Tokyo? That is

:43:11. > :43:18.most of you. Dan, URA Yes, why? I'm still young. You have just reminded

:43:19. > :43:22.me I turn 20 in two days so hopefully I have at least one or two

:43:23. > :43:34.more Olympics left in me and hopefully I can do the single as

:43:35. > :43:43.well as the sink row. Lutalo? Yes, I have got to win it now! I did want

:43:44. > :43:50.to chill out but thanks to being an idiot at the end, I have four more

:43:51. > :43:55.years of this stuff! No, I like to think I am still young. I will be in

:43:56. > :44:02.my physical peak next time round for my sport so I am really excited to

:44:03. > :44:06.see what I can do in four years. Going back to 2012, we remember

:44:07. > :44:13.there was controversy about your place in the team, whether it was

:44:14. > :44:22.you or Aaron Cook. He happens to be your other half. All sweetness and

:44:23. > :44:28.light now? Yes it is fine. There has never been anything between me and

:44:29. > :44:32.Lutalo. It is politics in sport. It happens in every sport. You don't

:44:33. > :44:37.always see it. It came out in the limelight and it was a massive story

:44:38. > :44:43.for London. Obviously, it is never finished but things have moved on

:44:44. > :44:51.and all you can do is move on. Who has made the decision not to do

:44:52. > :44:59.Tokyo? Go for it, Kate. Just little old me? I am too old, Frankie! No,

:45:00. > :45:03.it is time. I knew before Rio, well, we have both been playing in the

:45:04. > :45:10.team for 17 years and it is time for the new generation to come through.

:45:11. > :45:13.We have a fantastic squad of young players, we have a whole lot more

:45:14. > :45:18.coming through and I will be in my rocking chair watching them smashing

:45:19. > :45:23.it again. Helen, will you carry on? I don't think so. I have not really

:45:24. > :45:28.started the programme. I am finding it hard to say the words that I am

:45:29. > :45:33.going to retire. I think because I have been doing it literally my

:45:34. > :45:38.whole life, since having left school and to say those words, that's it,

:45:39. > :45:44.100%. But having won the gold doesn't make it a bit easier. I'm

:45:45. > :45:49.sure. Jessica Ennis-Hill announced her retirement last week. The

:45:50. > :45:51.question, when is the right time to bow out. Let's have a listen to

:45:52. > :46:07.Jessica. And here goes Jessica. Oh my

:46:08. > :46:14.goodness. Wow.

:46:15. > :46:22.The pride of Sheffield. The pride of Great Britain. Jessica Ennis is the

:46:23. > :46:34.Olympic champion. Everybody is on their feet.

:46:35. > :46:42.Well, it is a decent jump. No mistake so far. 12.84. A little

:46:43. > :46:47.clench of the fist there. Oh, she has got it!

:46:48. > :46:50.Jessica Ennis Hill, four years ago and had to settle for silver

:46:51. > :46:59.yesterday, but didn't she give it everything?

:47:00. > :47:03.I wonder if it is possible to sum-up what kind of a role model she is to

:47:04. > :47:06.somebody like you? She is amazing and especially to have a child and

:47:07. > :47:11.come back and win the World Championships. I was upset that she

:47:12. > :47:14.did retire. I didn't think she was going to do it yet, because we have

:47:15. > :47:19.the London World Championships next year. She has two Olympic medals and

:47:20. > :47:23.seven world medals and she is a phenomenal athlete, a mother and a

:47:24. > :47:29.great friend. Hats off to her really. Yeah, an astonishing career.

:47:30. > :47:34.Various people mentioned the fact because of the Olympics and the

:47:35. > :47:38.Paralympics and the success of Team GB and Paralympics GB it is a real

:47:39. > :47:42.encouragement to girls in sport and there is an issue in this country

:47:43. > :47:48.with girls taking up sport particularly when they reach teenage

:47:49. > :47:52.years. London 2012, I said to then myself five-year-old, six-year-old,

:47:53. > :47:57.who is the athlete you want to be? He said Jessica Ennis and he's a

:47:58. > :48:02.little boy and he meant it. That was delightful, but in terms of a role

:48:03. > :48:06.model for women, what would you say? Well, I remember obviously watching

:48:07. > :48:12.Jessica miss out on Beijing with injury, I think, it was and

:48:13. > :48:17.obviously she cam back and won London. It was a huge inspiration

:48:18. > :48:21.knowing she managed to turn it around and come back. There is so

:48:22. > :48:24.many role models in sport and for women, it is incredible. Hopefully

:48:25. > :48:28.we can inspire the next generation of athletes coming through that they

:48:29. > :48:36.can sort of achieve their dream. Nicola, whether you like it or not,

:48:37. > :48:40.you're a role model. Oh, you're doing the Rubix cube. Have you

:48:41. > :48:45.managed it? Not quite. Still work in progress. How much responsibility do

:48:46. > :48:50.you feel when people say you are now a role model? That's not what you

:48:51. > :48:56.were seeking, it is a product of your success? When I went to win a

:48:57. > :49:00.gold in 2012, I was thinking I just want to win a gold medal and being a

:49:01. > :49:05.role model came with it, but yeah, it is something I've taken to quite

:49:06. > :49:09.well. I love going to schools and boxing clubs and inspiring the next

:49:10. > :49:16.generation and teaching the kids. What would you say about Jessica

:49:17. > :49:23.Ennis-Hill's career? She has had an amazing career. We train at the same

:49:24. > :49:27.place in Sheffield. I have seen how she worked really hard essentially

:49:28. > :49:30.coming back after having the baby and I have seen her day in and day

:49:31. > :49:34.out at the gym working hard and it is nice to be able to see heroin a

:49:35. > :49:39.medal at Rio as well. Yeah, she deserves everything. She really

:49:40. > :49:46.does. We have got a little boy over here who wants to talk to you. I

:49:47. > :49:50.have a question for Nicola Adams. If you win a gold medal in the boxing,

:49:51. > :49:53.are you guaranteed to get a pro contract?

:49:54. > :49:59.LAUGHTER It depends. It depends. Some people

:50:00. > :50:02.do, some people don't. I guess, it just depends whether you want to

:50:03. > :50:06.stay amateur or turn professional really. And what do you want to do

:50:07. > :50:11.Nicola? I'm not sure yet. I'm undecided. What do you have to weigh

:50:12. > :50:17.up? I know it is a different decision when to retire, but this is

:50:18. > :50:23.a really crucial decision, isn't it? I guess it's new challenges. I could

:50:24. > :50:29.become a world professional boxing champion just like my hero, Muhammad

:50:30. > :50:34.Ali and follow in his footsteps or I could create history again by

:50:35. > :50:44.becoming triple Olympic champion in boxing. We've never had one male or

:50:45. > :50:48.female. There is a lot to... Do both. Do both. It is not

:50:49. > :50:56.Some more questions over here. My name is Mark. Rio was my fourth

:50:57. > :51:01.Olympics. I go a lot with my friends. We go because we love the

:51:02. > :51:04.sport and we love the Olympics, but we're thrilled to see British

:51:05. > :51:15.winners. Do you notice the British fans when you compete overseas?

:51:16. > :51:21.Yes, that's a yes. Go on, Bianca and Lutalo. As I was coming out into the

:51:22. > :51:24.ring, I could see them and I was pointing at them of the it is

:51:25. > :51:27.fantastic seeing the British fans, they come out, you see the British

:51:28. > :51:33.flags everywhere. Yeah, you do notice them and it is a real boost

:51:34. > :51:38.for me at least. Definitely. Quite a few of us stayed in one

:51:39. > :51:43.hotel and we were very proud walking down to breakfast when we heard

:51:44. > :51:47.about the British success, we had the other countries supporters

:51:48. > :51:54.looking at us with awe. We had some reflective glory. Super. Briony,

:51:55. > :51:58.where are you? How are you? Briony Paige made history, but how many

:51:59. > :52:06.times have I said that today? Made history by becoming the first

:52:07. > :52:10.British woman to win a trampolining medal by winning silver. Did you

:52:11. > :52:14.have a trampoline in your garden when you were growing up? We used to

:52:15. > :52:19.live in America, and we had one in the States, but when we moved, we

:52:20. > :52:24.didn't have one. You didn't? I joined a gym then and I just loved

:52:25. > :52:28.training and being on the trampoline. We didn't want one in

:52:29. > :52:33.the back garden so that I didn't pick up bad habits. We wanted to be

:52:34. > :52:38.coached properly and be trained like that. Congratulations. Hello sir,

:52:39. > :52:45.good morning. My name is Steve. I was a volunteer in Rio, both the

:52:46. > :52:49.Olympics and Paralympics, but I was lucky enough to see Sarah and

:52:50. > :52:53.Kadeena win their gold medals and they are very good at other sports

:52:54. > :52:57.and I wondered what other sports all the people on the platform would

:52:58. > :53:01.like to take up in the next Olympics?

:53:02. > :53:06.Oh right, OK. So you're switching disciplines for people on the stage.

:53:07. > :53:10.Thanks to all the volunteers. In London there was a huge thank you

:53:11. > :53:14.and a huge appreciation for the volunteers, but for us, when we go

:53:15. > :53:17.away to Rio, and we walk in and we see a friendly face it makes it a

:53:18. > :53:20.home from home and it is a real advantage coming off the back of

:53:21. > :53:23.London with all that support and I know you work so hard and you are so

:53:24. > :53:27.passionate and you know these people, these faces that we see out

:53:28. > :53:30.in Rio really do make a difference for us and we know that you've put

:53:31. > :53:38.in a lot of hard work. But to answer your question, I think it is a great

:53:39. > :53:42.chance to try something new. I would like to go back to the sports I used

:53:43. > :53:45.to do when I was little like ten us and hockey and all the things that

:53:46. > :53:48.you might hurt yourself with, a bit of rock climbing and things, you

:53:49. > :53:51.can't do those when you're full-time training. It is a good chance to do

:53:52. > :53:55.what you like for a few months and do a bit of general fitness outside

:53:56. > :53:59.your sport. What about concentrating on your marriage Held? Yeah,

:54:00. > :54:02.concentrating on holding down a good marriage. I got married a few weeks

:54:03. > :54:06.ago. Congratulations. How is it going so far? It is great. If

:54:07. > :54:11.marriage is just honeymoons and parties, then that's great! That's

:54:12. > :54:15.all we've had so far. Perfect. Shall we play the clip of your

:54:16. > :54:18.husband-to-be after you won gold? I think we should. Here is Steve

:54:19. > :54:22.Backshall after his wife to be won gold. The amount of work they put

:54:23. > :54:25.in, the amount of effort, all the hours getting up, winter mornings

:54:26. > :54:30.when it is freezing cold, when it is still dark and going out and

:54:31. > :54:34.thrashing out every stroke was what today was all about. Coming here and

:54:35. > :54:47.defending the title. They have just been unbelievable.

:54:48. > :54:50.Ah, a sweetheart! APPLAUSE

:54:51. > :54:56.He was, I mean, he was going through it not in the way that you were, but

:54:57. > :55:00.he was clearly going through it emotionally? In his defence, if you

:55:01. > :55:04.turned the camera on any of our loved ones, you will see the tears

:55:05. > :55:08.and the emotion. They have seen the dark days. The people who watch our

:55:09. > :55:13.Olympic final, they watch the highlight and they don't see the

:55:14. > :55:18.days you have come home broken and battered and fighting. To be honest,

:55:19. > :55:21.he was probably relieved that I won because I won't be moody for the

:55:22. > :55:26.next few months. It is a relief. He knows how much it means and there is

:55:27. > :55:32.nothing like watching and being able to do nothing, at least, you know,

:55:33. > :55:36.when you talk about dealing with pressure and dealing with nerves,

:55:37. > :55:42.but we can deal with the situation. Watching a loved one and crossing

:55:43. > :55:48.your fingers and that being the most you can do is really tough. Which is

:55:49. > :55:53.why your dad steers. Hello. I'm from Salford University. At Rio, who was

:55:54. > :56:01.the messiest room mate you shared with? Jade. Jade. She is not here.

:56:02. > :56:09.That's why I'm saying it! How bad was she? She's probably watching!

:56:10. > :56:14.She has her days. Sometimes I walk in and think we've been burgled. It

:56:15. > :56:22.is that bad! LAUGHTER

:56:23. > :56:26.Anyone else? I will go for a guy called Tom Ransley who was in the

:56:27. > :56:30.eight with us. He is the one with the beard and he looks scruffy. I

:56:31. > :56:36.roomed with him once. He arrived with a hold-all and unzipped it and

:56:37. > :56:41.emptied on the floor and a juggling ball and din know, three wet towels

:56:42. > :56:45.and books from university, he looked at the bag and decided it looked

:56:46. > :56:49.full enough for a training camp and brought it with him and that was it.

:56:50. > :56:52.When he emptied it out on the floor, that was unpacked. We have talked

:56:53. > :56:57.about me being in the Navy, I drew a line down the middle of the room,

:56:58. > :57:03.you have that side and I have this side, and that's Tom! Hi. I'm

:57:04. > :57:09.Frankie and I worked at the velodrome. We were lucky enough to

:57:10. > :57:12.get closing ceremony tickets. When we saw your light up shoes, we loved

:57:13. > :57:15.that, but you were far away from where we were sat and we couldn't

:57:16. > :57:21.tell, when they were in the air, were you waving? Had you taken them

:57:22. > :57:25.off or were you doing hand stands? Yeah, we thought it was a great idea

:57:26. > :57:29.and we turned them on and started waving them and when you looked at

:57:30. > :57:32.them, the hole thing is blacked out except for the GB section. We were

:57:33. > :57:42.chuffed with ourselves because we stood out!

:57:43. > :57:47.I was doing a hand stand! APPLAUSE Ladies and gentlemen, you

:57:48. > :57:50.have got the victory parade later on today, you've got London tomorrow.

:57:51. > :57:53.Can I thank you so much for giving up so much of your time today? You

:57:54. > :57:58.have been up really early and some of you are not feeling topnotch, but

:57:59. > :58:02.you have been stars today. So thank you very, very much. Ladies and

:58:03. > :58:13.gentlemen, give them and yourselves a massive round of applause.

:58:14. > :58:21.APPLAUSE Enjoy the victory parade.