:00:09. > :00:17.IOC PRESIDENT, JACQUES ROGGE: Games of the 30th Olympiad in 2012
:00:17. > :00:20.COMMENTATOR: London have won it! Wonderful!
:00:20. > :00:24.That moment was one of the most satisfying things I've ever been
:00:24. > :00:30.involved in. What else would you want to be doing at the moment
:00:30. > :00:33.other than being part of the Nearly seven years have passed
:00:33. > :00:42.since the announcement was made that London would host the Olympic
:00:43. > :00:46.Seven years of planning and building. Transforming a part of
:00:46. > :00:54.Stratford in the East End into a theatre where sport will have its
:00:54. > :01:01.COMMENTATOR: A new world record is set! He destroys his old record.
:01:01. > :01:08.Five in a row! What a great Olympian. That was terrific. It's
:01:08. > :01:15.an enormous one. And the world All over the world, muscles are
:01:15. > :01:20.flexing for the perfection of speed This is the countdown to the
:01:20. > :01:24.defining moments of an athlete's life. If I dominate the Olympics,
:01:24. > :01:28.I'll be a legend. I'll be a living legend walking around. It's all
:01:28. > :01:31.about 2012 for me. Everything I'm doing now is for that moment.
:01:31. > :01:41.a great city, a great atmosphere. Welcome to London. So I'm excited
:01:41. > :01:48.We are all drawn here as the Games have been twice before. In 1908 and
:01:48. > :01:58.1948. But sport is different in 2012. It can be a cruel business.
:01:58. > :02:07.
:02:07. > :02:17.This is a great adventure full of My name is Michael Johnson. I've
:02:17. > :02:19.
:02:19. > :02:29.been around Olympic block a few COMMENTATOR: Here comes Johnson now.
:02:29. > :02:37.
:02:38. > :02:43.Olympic glory in my own country. I Good morning. Hey!
:02:43. > :02:47.'Here I am, an American in Olympic London.' Morning. 'To meet the
:02:47. > :02:52.people who have to deliver the Olympics'. This guy won gold medals,
:02:52. > :02:56.too. To meet the people showing London to the world. I'm here to
:02:56. > :03:02.catch the mood. SINGING: # Ain't no stopping us now
:03:02. > :03:05.People like to be involved with it even if it's just to carry a stick.
:03:05. > :03:08.They want to put up with the hassle of turning up to months of
:03:08. > :03:12.rehearsals. They do. We've just go to stop them waving at their
:03:12. > :03:21.grandma, you know. What's your name? Michael. What's your name?
:03:21. > :03:24.Michael Johnson. Very cool. Good to It's going well, but it's a bit
:03:24. > :03:27.like asking... If you'd asked that question of us a few years ago when
:03:27. > :03:32.we were competing at this stage, you'd say, "Yeah, it's going well
:03:32. > :03:36.but there is a hell of a lot to do. Got to keep in one piece, no
:03:36. > :03:45.injuries. You've got to get there sensibly so that's what we are in
:03:45. > :03:48.now. "I can't wait for this year. This year is now and I'm like, OK,
:03:48. > :03:53.let's do this. The further east you go in London the more the Olympics
:03:53. > :03:57.surround you. A classroom in Bethnal Green. Scarlett is a
:03:57. > :04:02.promising diver and, one day, who knows, will she be inspired by what
:04:02. > :04:05.she sees here in her home city? Will Usain Bolt do in London what
:04:05. > :04:11.he did in Beijing? Take the Olympics by storm and tear up the
:04:11. > :04:21.COMMENTATOR: He has blown them all away. Usain Bolt is the Olympic
:04:21. > :04:24.After that one moment, people are always stopping me to give me
:04:24. > :04:32.congratulations, wanting a picture, an autograph. It was the start of
:04:32. > :04:39.just something magnificent. Number He was in the 100 metres, 200 and
:04:39. > :04:43.the 4 by 100 relay. Three golds, three world records. Heck, he broke
:04:43. > :04:53.my 200 metres world record. And here he is at home in Jamaica
:04:53. > :04:55.
:04:55. > :05:00.I have ran three world records and everyone I felt is great. My
:05:00. > :05:03.coaches. Anybody who said I don't work hard, I'm going to fight them
:05:03. > :05:10.this season. Because when you work so hard and people say you don't
:05:10. > :05:13.train so hard, you're like, come and watch me training. The hours of
:05:13. > :05:23.hard labour to cut down the risk of error measured by a fraction of a
:05:23. > :05:25.
:05:25. > :05:31.second. Daegu, the last World COMMENTATOR: Oh, Usain Bolt has
:05:32. > :05:36.false started! I just wanted to run. I just wanted to go and I kind of
:05:36. > :05:40.lost focus. I was embarrassed. I kept saying I can't believe I just
:05:40. > :05:46.did that. I could not believe what has happened so I kept talking to
:05:46. > :05:50.myself. What did you just do? Why? The great balancing act. The
:05:50. > :05:58.rehearsals. The repetition here so that on stage the showman can
:05:58. > :06:01.COMMENTATOR: Usain Bolt, the greatest race, the greatest
:06:01. > :06:08.performance over 100 metres, you are likely to see.
:06:08. > :06:11.I'm not going to lie to myself. People looking for 19.4. 19.0 maybe.
:06:11. > :06:15.Also they want to see the personality, doing crazy stuff but
:06:15. > :06:24.they want also to see that time. If I dominate the Olympics, I'll be a
:06:24. > :06:34.legend. I'll be a living legend But imagine Usain Bolt jumping the
:06:34. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:41.Ever since August 2009, there has been zero-tolerance of a false
:06:41. > :06:45.If Usain Bolt false starts and he is out of the 100 metres of the
:06:45. > :06:47.final of the Olympic Games that you're the head of... I've got a
:06:47. > :06:51.lot of unhappy ticket holders. Absolutely. The only point I would
:06:51. > :06:55.make about that is that it's sport. You could also be sitting pitch-
:06:55. > :06:58.side in a World Cup and Messi gets sent off after ten minutes. The one
:06:58. > :07:01.false start, the yellow card against the field, at least put the
:07:01. > :07:05.entire group under caution. It would give us a little bit of
:07:05. > :07:14.security. But it was the athletes that didn't like it. It was the
:07:14. > :07:18.athletes that asked us to review it. Yeah, athletes and their opinions!
:07:18. > :07:28.I think I know the headline from this interview. I can say it. Maybe
:07:28. > :07:30.
:07:30. > :07:34.The first medals of the Games will not be won in the stadium but out
:07:35. > :07:38.on the road. If you ask me what the Isle of Man was, I'd have to say
:07:38. > :07:48.it's where the crazy guy on a bicycle comes from.
:07:48. > :07:51.The 2011 BBC Sports Personality Of The last few years people have
:07:51. > :07:54.known about cycling and recognise me without a helmet on and glasses
:07:54. > :07:58.and whatever. To know people know you without your helmet, they kind
:07:58. > :08:03.of know what you do, rather than you're just that cyclist. That's a
:08:03. > :08:06.special feeling to witness, you know. It makes me happy. I can see
:08:06. > :08:11.the progress cycling is getting, how big it is getting in the
:08:11. > :08:14.country. But it hasn't always been an easy ride. Four years ago in
:08:14. > :08:22.Beijing, Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins rode as a team in the
:08:22. > :08:26.Madison. Cavendish was fresh. Wiggins, already the winner of gold
:08:26. > :08:29.medals in two pursuits, wasn't. COMMENTATOR: Fatigue in the legs of
:08:29. > :08:32.Bradley Wiggins. He's had a very heavy Olympics so far. Wiggins
:08:32. > :08:38.looking for Cavendish and it's a look of anxiety all over the face
:08:38. > :08:45.of Bradley Wiggins at the moment. Left on his own, Mark Cavendish was
:08:45. > :08:49.the only British track cyclist not to win a medal in Beijing. Furious,
:08:49. > :08:53.he left track racing and hit the road. Last year, he won five stages
:08:53. > :08:58.of the Tour de France and won the points classification. The first
:08:58. > :09:02.Briton ever to win the Green Jersey. And then he went to Copenhagen for
:09:02. > :09:06.the Road World Championship. COMMENTATOR: Mark Cavendish on the
:09:06. > :09:10.left of our screens is going to be the world champion. He is the world
:09:10. > :09:16.champion. Mark Cavendish has won the world title for Great Britain.
:09:16. > :09:23.And we have waited since 1965. Beijing was left far behind but the
:09:23. > :09:29.Olympic cycle turns. Might bad memories be stirred? To be honest,
:09:29. > :09:33.I'm completely over it. Sure I was upset. I was upset about it a long
:09:33. > :09:36.time after but if you look back at what you have or have not done,
:09:36. > :09:40.you're not going to progress. final caveat. The Olympic road race
:09:40. > :09:43.is on July 28th, only six days after the Tour de France ends. But
:09:43. > :09:48.this is still the face of the favourite for the first gold medal
:09:48. > :09:51.in London. Beyond a doubt, if you're at home, you're going to
:09:51. > :09:55.perform better. It's in your nature to do that. We're going to be
:09:55. > :09:59.favourites, we are expected to win. So all we can really do is fail. If
:09:59. > :10:04.we don't win, that will be a hard thing, so it's not necessarily that.
:10:04. > :10:14.It's more a joyous thing. If we win like we hope to do, we will get
:10:14. > :10:18.
:10:18. > :10:23.Great Britain off to a good start. Jessica Ennis is perhaps THE face
:10:23. > :10:27.of the Games. She won the heptathlon at the 2009 Berlin World
:10:27. > :10:33.Championships. But she has no Olympic experience, having missed
:10:34. > :10:37.Beijing through injury. I always think about how I was not part of
:10:37. > :10:40.that Olympics at all. And now, having come through it, I really
:10:41. > :10:44.appreciate the position I'm in and just enjoying it and want to make
:10:44. > :10:48.most of it. COMMENTATOR: She really means
:10:48. > :10:51.business. Come on, Jess, finish it off in style!
:10:51. > :10:54.Winning the gold medal in Berlin, that was one of those moments you
:10:54. > :11:01.dream about and it was just unbelievable for everything to go
:11:01. > :11:04.so perfectly. That's the moment I will never ever forget. At the next
:11:04. > :11:11.world championships in Deagu, South Korea, she slipped back a place.
:11:11. > :11:16.Finished second. With Deagu, I still feel really similar to how I
:11:16. > :11:19.felt immediately after and a few weeks after. It was a real
:11:19. > :11:23.disappointment because it was so close. I could have had that gold
:11:23. > :11:26.medal. So, for me, it was about putting it into perspective and not
:11:26. > :11:32.getting too down on myself. Realising that if that's my bad day
:11:32. > :11:36.and I can win a silver medal on the world stage, then that's a positive.
:11:36. > :11:40.It's all about 2012 for me. I want to walk into that stadium and
:11:40. > :11:50.perform. Everything I'm doing now is for that moment. Come on, girl,
:11:50. > :11:53.
:11:53. > :11:58.One more, one more, one more. So many different elements to get
:11:58. > :12:02.right, so much training to do. I want to be at my ultimate peak
:12:02. > :12:05.there and I want everything to come together there. At the World Indoor
:12:05. > :12:11.Championships in Istanbul last month, in the five discipline
:12:11. > :12:14.pentathlon, Jessica finished second again. And lost another world title.
:12:15. > :12:19.She's in a very personal business and must put herself first to hit
:12:19. > :12:29.her peak in London. But she also has this public responsibility. The
:12:29. > :12:30.
:12:30. > :12:33.It's a funny position to be in. A lot of people have already put the
:12:33. > :12:36.gold medal around my neck which is sometimes quite difficult. But I
:12:36. > :12:39.always train a lot here at the English Institute of Sport and
:12:40. > :12:42.there's loads of kids that come in and train, and they are all so
:12:42. > :12:46.excited and really inspired by the whole Olympics being at home.
:12:46. > :12:52.That's probably the most positive thing, that you can be a role model
:12:52. > :12:58.for young kids to enter the sport and create a legacy after 2012.
:12:58. > :13:04.There, the legacy word. To see what lies ahead we must go back.
:13:04. > :13:14.COMMENTATOR: Coe in second place. Ovett is third. Look at Sebastian
:13:14. > :13:20.
:13:20. > :13:27.Coe wins! The rest can do nothing Sebastian Coe. Twice Olympic
:13:27. > :13:31.champion over 1,500 metres. 32 years on, he's now Lord Coe. He's
:13:31. > :13:36.still running. Running the project to deliver the Games and leave a
:13:36. > :13:39.legacy. Newham, which is the borough we are now in, which is
:13:39. > :13:42.where the Olympic Park is being developed, is pretty much the
:13:42. > :13:47.poorest borough in the country. Seven tube stops from central
:13:47. > :13:51.London to here. And every one of those tube stops you lose a year's
:13:51. > :13:57.life-expectancy. Really? Yeah, so it was one of the most challenged
:13:57. > :14:07.communities in the country. The Park has been an extraordinary
:14:07. > :14:12.I mean, really, from left to right, Velodrome. Basketball arena is
:14:12. > :14:17.temporary. We have got that arena there which is a 6,500-7,000 multi-
:14:17. > :14:22.purpose venue. That will be handball. That is staying, and then
:14:22. > :14:26.if you move, this is Stratford International railway station. Game
:14:26. > :14:32.time, we will be able to move about 25,000 people in and out of the
:14:32. > :14:35.park in an hour. Immediately behind it is the Aquatic Centre. And
:14:35. > :14:41.that's both permanent and temporary. The permanent wave in the middle
:14:41. > :14:47.remains. The wings either side disappear after the Games, so you
:14:47. > :14:49.will be left just with the shape of the Aquatic Centre. And then, of
:14:49. > :14:52.course, the centrepiece, the Olympic Stadium. This will remain
:14:52. > :15:00.in public ownership and we have these arrangements with other
:15:00. > :15:03.sports and maybe entertainment which I feel is the core tenant. So
:15:04. > :15:08.that is the Park. It's compact. It's a much more challenging site
:15:08. > :15:12.to develop. But, at the end of the day, better for the fans and close
:15:12. > :15:18.proximity. The venues are all very close together. As time passes,
:15:18. > :15:25.this will become almost certainly home for about 30,000 people. I
:15:25. > :15:29.mean, they've really built a new I've learned in London that
:15:29. > :15:33.whatever has been done to the East End, what is being done there now,
:15:33. > :15:39.it's an area of the city which remains special. Certainly special
:15:39. > :15:47.to those who come from around here. Footballer David Beckham has been
:15:47. > :15:50.part of the London Olympics on the That moment was one of the most
:15:50. > :15:53.satisfying things I've ever been involved in.
:15:53. > :15:57.COMMENTATOR: The scenes here are just incredible!
:15:57. > :16:07.The relief that was in the bid team's eyes once our name came out,
:16:07. > :16:07.
:16:07. > :16:13.To see the transformation somewhere I was brought up as a kid, I'm
:16:13. > :16:21.proud of that. That needs to continue, you know. The Olympic
:16:21. > :16:31.legacy, the sport legacy needs to continue. The celebrity endorsement.
:16:31. > :16:31.
:16:31. > :16:36.And that word again, legacy. Maybe In Newham Boxing Club, the work is
:16:36. > :16:40.being put in to inspire youngsters to take up sport and stick with it.
:16:40. > :16:46.The ones being inspired and those inspiring. The Olympic movement's
:16:46. > :16:49.young leaders. We have to get media involved. Make sure we have a venue.
:16:49. > :16:53.I thought at the beginning I'm never going to be able to make a
:16:54. > :16:57.project but we've done well. everyone has such faith. Eight
:16:57. > :17:03.years ago, in Athens, Gail Emms won a silver medal in the mixed
:17:03. > :17:06.badminton doubles. The word legacy has been thrown about everywhere.
:17:06. > :17:10.I'm concerned about it because legacy means it's about something
:17:10. > :17:15.that's going to be sustainable for the future, constantly. It's not
:17:15. > :17:18.about two weeks of the Olympics and the Paralympics. It's about a long-
:17:18. > :17:22.lasting effect, so what's really important is trying to get that
:17:22. > :17:26.connection right. Yes, we will have the world's great sporting event.
:17:26. > :17:29.The likes of Usain Bolt will be on that track but how is someone who
:17:29. > :17:34.is 200, 300 miles away going to feel a connection? And that's what
:17:34. > :17:39.I really want to see happen. To me, please don't think I'm not aware
:17:39. > :17:43.that there's got to be cuts made. I'm totally aware this country is
:17:43. > :17:48.in serious debt. But I want a young person who dreams of being like
:17:48. > :17:52.Usain Bolt, to say, I can do that. There is all the facilities, all
:17:52. > :18:02.the groundwork, the set up, to be able to do that for that young
:18:02. > :18:03.
:18:03. > :18:06.person. And I just don't know if we In Newham, I think so many things
:18:06. > :18:12.have changed. There is a sense of pride the Olympics is coming to
:18:12. > :18:15.your area and has got more kids involved in sports. I have got a
:18:15. > :18:18.lot more confidence than I had before I started the programme.
:18:18. > :18:21.I've met loads of amazing people who have boosted my confidence and
:18:22. > :18:28.helped me get to this place. Also I know I can do something from
:18:28. > :18:31.scratch and make a project happen. It's going to be a buzz in the East
:18:32. > :18:34.End of London because lots of people will be able to see that
:18:34. > :18:38.amazingly Olympic Park. We need to recreate that buzz and atmosphere
:18:38. > :18:43.around the rest of the country because it's a great one. I know
:18:43. > :18:46.what it's like. It's amazing. Add not just for a few weeks after the
:18:47. > :18:50.Olympics. We need that six months later. We need that a year later.
:18:50. > :18:53.We need it two years later. Legacy is about keeping that buzz going
:18:53. > :18:56.and going and going, so lots of young people will remember the
:18:56. > :19:06.moment they were inspired by London 2012 and they're still going many
:19:06. > :19:06.
:19:06. > :19:12.On the last Friday in July, the London Olympics will be launched
:19:12. > :19:18.with the opening ceremony. Art goes into the ring with sport as it did
:19:18. > :19:22.on a giant scale at the last Olympics in Beijing. How to follow
:19:22. > :19:27.that is the work of film director Danny Boyle. From Slumdog
:19:27. > :19:31.Millionaire to what? The job of an opening ceremony is to welcome the
:19:31. > :19:41.athletes to the city. It's a kind of entertainment to say, feel
:19:41. > :19:45.
:19:45. > :19:48.welcome, feel warm, feel loved, all We are not Beijing. We are not any
:19:48. > :19:55.of the others. We are just a small island but that small islands has
:19:55. > :19:58.blossomed into something on a Within that three hours, an hour-
:19:58. > :20:01.and-a-half of that minimum is the march of the athletes. That's
:20:01. > :20:04.something you can't rehearse. It's extraordinary for a live event. The
:20:04. > :20:08.vast majority of it you can't rehearse a moment of it because you
:20:08. > :20:11.don't get them until the night. And they walk in and have all these
:20:11. > :20:14.techniques to try to keep them walking and make sure they don't
:20:14. > :20:19.stop for a camera because it's like someone slowing down on the M25,
:20:19. > :20:23.all the way back down the junctions. It leads to a traffic-jam and
:20:23. > :20:27.you've got to keep it going. There is a whole science to keep it
:20:27. > :20:30.moving but the spirit of their faces when they walk into a stadium
:20:30. > :20:35.and see the welcome which awaits them is really the essence of the
:20:35. > :20:39.opening ceremony and what it's meant to be about really. You've
:20:39. > :20:42.got to ignore everybody telling you it's going to be this, it's going
:20:42. > :20:46.to be that. It's going to be like Beijing. It's going to not be like
:20:46. > :20:49.Beijing. You've just go to try to grow something through the
:20:49. > :20:52.personalities of the people you choose to create the show and that
:20:53. > :20:57.way you will capture London. London will walk in that stadium if you do
:20:57. > :20:59.it honestly and organically. Rather than say London is this, it's a
:20:59. > :21:09.fiesta, it's this, it's multicultural. It's this, it that,
:21:09. > :21:10.
:21:10. > :21:13.it's Morris dancing, it's this, We've been talking a lot about
:21:13. > :21:19.dance because actually these guys have two huge dance sections of the
:21:19. > :21:23.show to do. But there are other sections of the show which are not
:21:23. > :21:28.to do with dance. They are to do with the movement of forces which
:21:28. > :21:32.again is about as much as I can tell you. They know what I'm
:21:32. > :21:35.talking about. Words are very important. Music, Shakespeare.
:21:35. > :21:37.You've got to have Shakespeare in there. If you don't have
:21:37. > :21:45.Shakespeare, everybody will go, "Where was Shakespeare?" So we're
:21:45. > :21:49.You get the nitty-gritty of organising it, the money and all
:21:49. > :21:52.this kind of stuff, and the logistics and it's like, oh. And
:21:52. > :21:56.suddenly there's this blossoming which is what people feel about the
:21:56. > :21:58.Olympics, regardless of who runs the Olympics. The Olympic spirit is
:21:58. > :22:02.about them recognising someone out there now, someone's training on
:22:02. > :22:08.their own probably. Struggling, training, getting through injury,
:22:08. > :22:18.to achieve this mark of we can do this. We can actually improve
:22:18. > :22:20.
:22:20. > :22:25.Training. Struggling. Improving. Out there somewhere. How about
:22:25. > :22:27.somewhere like the Rift Valley of Kenya? Nearly half a century ago, a
:22:27. > :22:34.middle and long-distance running revolution began in Africa led by
:22:34. > :22:37.the men of Kenya. Kenyan women are now catching up fast. This is
:22:37. > :22:47.Vivian Cheruiyot, double world champion in 2011 in the 5,000m and
:22:47. > :23:16.
:23:16. > :23:20.This is her home. A runner's Since 1968, Kenyan men have won 20
:23:20. > :23:30.Olympic gold medals. But the women's list of winners is
:23:30. > :23:48.
:23:48. > :23:54.Up here where the air is thin, you won't find only Kenyan runners.
:23:54. > :23:56.Where they work and how they do it are magnets for other runners.
:23:56. > :24:06.Among them, marathon world-record holder Paula Radcliffe and world
:24:06. > :24:09.
:24:09. > :24:12.I train with a lot of great athletes here. You know, a lot of
:24:12. > :24:17.champion, Olympic champion, world champion. To see them just eat,
:24:17. > :24:20.sleep and train and do nothing else, it opened my eyes for me. It showed
:24:20. > :24:26.sort of as an athlete, if I ever want to compete with these guys,
:24:26. > :24:31.what I must need to do. Mo was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. He left his
:24:31. > :24:34.war-torn country when he was eight and London became his home. Here he
:24:34. > :24:41.is, not at altitude, but thoroughly grounded with his family, daughter
:24:41. > :24:45.Rihanna and wife Tania. He showed the potential to be something
:24:45. > :24:50.special when he first started running. Obviously his PE teacher
:24:50. > :24:54.was the first to spot that when he was 12 years old or so. So I think
:24:54. > :25:01.he always had that natural ability. My dad is the best male distance
:25:01. > :25:04.runner this country has ever seen. You'd better believe it! Mo at the
:25:04. > :25:09.World Championships last year - silver in the 10,000 and then in
:25:10. > :25:15.the 5,000. Round and round and round in circles, and my legs were
:25:15. > :25:23.aching. I got pins and needles! COMMENTATOR: It's gold this time
:25:23. > :25:28.for Mo Farah! He was happy. I was like, "Yeah! Yeah! He won!" I
:25:28. > :25:31.pinched myself and I realised it wasn't a dream. She's always made
:25:31. > :25:35.no secret of the fact that she's proud to see him win but she takes
:25:35. > :25:41.it for granted a little bit now and I think she expects him to win
:25:41. > :25:44.every race he's in. He's worked hard every single year for the last
:25:44. > :25:47.eight years or so, but in the last four, five years in particular, is
:25:47. > :25:52.where he's knuckled down and said, "Right, something needs to happen
:25:52. > :25:55.here. If I want to win the World Championships or I want to win the
:25:55. > :26:01.Olympics, I need to train like an Olympic champion", and that's
:26:01. > :26:05.exactly what he's done. Suffering for your sport. In the long-
:26:05. > :26:08.distance game, there's no escaping the pain.
:26:08. > :26:11.COMMENTATOR: And Paula Radcliffe stopped on the roadside. That's
:26:11. > :26:16.enough. Her Olympic dream is over. What a sad sight. Six kilometres
:26:16. > :26:21.short of the distance she's made her own for the last few years.
:26:21. > :26:24.Paula is now 38. She's had bronchitis this year. She struggled
:26:24. > :26:30.in the Vienna half-marathon. But she carries on running, training,
:26:30. > :26:35.living away from her children. me, this has been the hardest thing
:26:35. > :26:39.that I've done in my running career. We talk a lot about athletes making
:26:39. > :26:43.sacrifices and things, but I know that this is the one year where I'm
:26:43. > :26:46.going to do that because I want to leave no stone unturned and make it
:26:46. > :26:50.count as much as possible to try and get it right for the Olympics,
:26:50. > :26:53.and it helps that she is now old enough to understand that and we
:26:53. > :26:58.can talk on Skype two or three times a day. I think without that,
:26:58. > :27:03.I wouldn't have been able to do it. Perhaps it's worth underlining why
:27:03. > :27:06.they put themselves through all of this. I think I've heard Mo say, "I
:27:06. > :27:11.would trade in every medal, every record I've ever broken, for an
:27:11. > :27:14.Olympic gold medal". Olympic is where it's at. And I've just got to
:27:14. > :27:18.keep doing what I'm doing, keep improving. I've got to be better
:27:18. > :27:22.than what I was last year. I am a big believer in perseverance and
:27:22. > :27:25.that if you kind of persevere on through your share of hard times
:27:25. > :27:29.then you get your share of good times, too. Hard to believe
:27:29. > :27:34.considering what I've gone through but I do think that if you work
:27:34. > :27:38.hard, then it does come around. London Marathon, world records. I
:27:38. > :27:41.couldn't have run any harder that day. And the same for the World
:27:41. > :27:46.Championships. The Olympic Games is the one that's missing, especially
:27:46. > :27:49.in the marathon. I mean, I think I did go and do my best and wasn't
:27:49. > :27:52.good enough on the track. But I think I should've been and could've
:27:53. > :28:02.been good enough on the marathon and I still have a chance to do
:28:03. > :28:14.
:28:14. > :28:24.Working hard in the Rift Valley of Kenya. Next stop, the Lower Lea
:28:24. > :28:32.
:28:32. > :28:35.Valley in London. 4,000 miles to go. Back on the banks of the River Lea,
:28:35. > :28:45.just before it joins the River Thames, Scarlett is keeping an eye
:28:45. > :28:47.
:28:47. > :28:49.on what's been growing up with her 100 days to go in London. 100 to go
:28:49. > :28:54.in Lausanne, Switzerland, the headquarters of the International
:28:54. > :28:59.Olympic Committee. The president of the IOC is Jacques Rogge, who
:28:59. > :29:02.sailed at three Olympics. He played rugby for Belgium. He's a surgeon
:29:02. > :29:08.and a student of Olympic history who knows why London is the first
:29:08. > :29:11.city to host the Games three times. You know sports, you love sport,
:29:11. > :29:17.and by the way, modern sport has been invented by you in the 19th
:29:17. > :29:22.century. So there is a huge knowledge which is very important
:29:22. > :29:25.that we not always have found in every Olympic Games. There is the
:29:25. > :29:30.multicultural factor of London. All these different cultures and
:29:30. > :29:36.nationalities living next to each other. And ultimately, it's the
:29:36. > :29:41.appeal of London as a city. Jacques Rogge has presided over every
:29:41. > :29:46.Olympic Games since Salt Lake City in 2002. London will be his last.
:29:46. > :29:49.What is his outgoing message? Games are, first of all, of course,
:29:49. > :29:54.a competition for athletes, but a competition based on much more than
:29:54. > :29:58.performance alone. It's a competition based on very strong
:29:58. > :30:05.values. Respect for each other, fair play, transparency and also
:30:05. > :30:08.the pursuit of excellence. We have worked very hard for the values of
:30:08. > :30:15.the Games. Fight against doping, fight against corruption, fight
:30:15. > :30:18.against illegal betting. When there is a problem you have to solve it.
:30:18. > :30:23.This is probably something I've learned in my earlier profession as
:30:23. > :30:27.a surgeon. If you have something, you have to operate. You can't let
:30:27. > :30:32.it rot. You have to operate, and that's what I'm doing in the
:30:32. > :30:38.Olympic movement. That's the word from the doctor at the top. What
:30:38. > :30:41.about down at ground level in London? The drugs have obviously
:30:41. > :30:46.been a huge problem in our sport and it's been a problem in the
:30:46. > :30:49.Olympics. What are you guys doing that's going to be different?
:30:49. > :30:52.You're going to come to London and you're going to cheat, then think
:30:52. > :30:56.really hard about it because the technology, as you know, is better
:30:57. > :30:59.than it's ever been. I think the overall argument for me, in a way,
:31:00. > :31:04.has moved on from just simply, how much technology can you keep
:31:04. > :31:07.throwing at it? In historical terms you had to have a modicum of
:31:07. > :31:10.sympathy for people that were caught up in systems where they had
:31:10. > :31:14.little or no alternative but I just don't think there's any ambiguity
:31:14. > :31:19.about it now. I don't think anybody is genuinely sitting there thinking,
:31:20. > :31:25."I don't really understand whether this is right or wrong". Right...
:31:25. > :31:29.The issues are there - drugs, security, transport, legacy. But
:31:29. > :31:34.how might London be remembered for all the right reasons? New stars
:31:34. > :31:38.will be born, and you can't name them, you can't tell so and so. But
:31:38. > :31:41.they will emerge at the moment of the Games. Like Phelps emerged at
:31:41. > :31:47.the Games, like Bolt emerged at the Games. There will be other Bolts,
:31:47. > :31:55.other Phelps. And where would the Belgian Olympic sailor of 1968, '72
:31:55. > :31:58.and '76 like to be? If I could have one event, I think I would go to
:31:58. > :32:01.Weymouth and watch the race in the thin class with Ben Ainslie trying
:32:01. > :32:11.to win a fourth consecutive gold and becoming the best ever sailor
:32:11. > :32:17.
:32:17. > :32:21.This was my sport. And there you having a young champion like Ben
:32:21. > :32:24.Ainslie, who's really a phenomenon. Very intelligent, clever guy.
:32:24. > :32:28.COMMENTATOR: Gold medal for Britain's Ben Ainslie as he lets
:32:28. > :32:34.the boom slide across his head. His gold here, the most impressive of
:32:34. > :32:38.them all. He's won one silver and three gold.
:32:38. > :32:41.If he wins the fourth gold, I think that would be a great moment of
:32:42. > :32:44.sport. When you're sailing under the pressure that you get in an
:32:44. > :32:48.Olympic Games and you've got pretty difficult conditions where you can
:32:48. > :32:51.gain and lose a lot in the flick of an eyelid, then the pressure's
:32:51. > :32:57.going to be that much more intense. Hopefully, that might play into
:32:57. > :33:01.guys like myself who've done a few Olympics. What I used to do on the
:33:01. > :33:06.track was simple. The gun went and I ran as fast as I could. Out here,
:33:06. > :33:09.on water, it's more subtle. It's one of those sports, you know, 60%
:33:09. > :33:14.of the time you're obviously racing other guys but you're in your own
:33:14. > :33:17.space and you're focusing on sailing the boat as fast as you can.
:33:17. > :33:21.The rest of the time, the boats come together at a mark rounding or
:33:21. > :33:30.the start or whatever, busy part of the race, and all hell breaks loose
:33:30. > :33:32.and people are shouting at each I think when things aren't going
:33:32. > :33:35.right and you're struggling maybe for motivation, those are the
:33:35. > :33:38.moments when you think about your competitors and the good guys, and
:33:38. > :33:42.you think, well, I'm pretty sure right now so-and-so is working out
:33:42. > :33:52.in the gym or out sailing or whatever it is, and am I really
:33:52. > :33:57.going to let those guys get a jump? So stop moping and get out there
:33:57. > :34:02.and put some effort into it, yeah. The lone sailor. It's all about
:34:02. > :34:05.balance. You know, the external pressures from the media and what
:34:05. > :34:11.have you, those things are always there and I'm sure they'll be
:34:11. > :34:15.bigger for home athletes in London. From my own perspective, it's the
:34:15. > :34:24.internal expectations which are the big ones. You know, your own
:34:24. > :34:31.Back in the city, not everything has been changed beyond recognition
:34:31. > :34:41.by the Olympic Games. London life goes on as it always has. But the
:34:41. > :34:43.
:34:43. > :34:47.multi-billion-pound project is It is a long way from here. These
:34:47. > :34:53.are the street markets of Kabul, Afghanistan. And this is the story
:34:53. > :34:57.of a young competitor in the sport of Taekwondo. I'm Rohullah Nikpai,
:34:58. > :35:07.I am from Afghanistan and I live in Kabul. I won bronze medal in
:35:08. > :35:09.
:35:09. > :35:14.Olympics 2008. I hope to get gold Beijing four years ago. The young
:35:14. > :35:17.Nikpai wins his bronze medal in the Taekwondo 58-kilo category. But
:35:17. > :35:23.here's the context. It was Afghanistan's first Olympic
:35:23. > :35:27.medal...ever. And won by someone who had to flee war in his homeland,
:35:27. > :35:37.who started in his sport at the age of ten at the Afghan Refugee
:35:37. > :35:58.
:35:58. > :36:04.Taekwondo Club in Iran. He won his He returned to a hero's welcome in
:36:04. > :36:07.Kabul. But there is a stark reality to sport in Afghanistan. There are
:36:07. > :36:11.no billion-dollar training facilities here. Preparing to
:36:11. > :36:21.compete against the best in the world is a struggle. Living here is
:36:21. > :36:38.
:36:39. > :36:42.We spend a lot of time weighing up the value of the Olympic Games. Can
:36:42. > :36:47.they ever be worth all the expense? Can the oath about honouring a
:36:47. > :36:57.spirit of fair competition ever be taken seriously? In Kabul, they
:36:57. > :37:11.
:37:11. > :37:16.seem more certain about the value $$YELLOWS From kites over Kabul to
:37:16. > :37:23.skimming over the waters of home. From a Taekwondo bronze to silver
:37:23. > :37:27.medals. Three of them for Katherine Grainger. But no gold, yet.
:37:27. > :37:31.feels like there is unfinished business. I feel there is... But I
:37:31. > :37:34.see it as a very positive thing. I love the fact that I have something
:37:34. > :37:37.I haven't got yet and Beijing had been a massive sort of personal
:37:37. > :37:40.disappointment. We'd been triple world champions in the years
:37:40. > :37:48.leading up to that point, so anything but gold would've been a
:37:48. > :37:51.COMMENTATOR: And the Chinese have unleashed an incredible amount of
:37:51. > :37:55.speed! This is China for the gold medal! It will be another time,
:37:55. > :37:57.another silver for Great Britain. China, gold. It will be utter,
:37:57. > :38:05.utter disappointment for Great Britain and also for Katherine
:38:05. > :38:11.Grainger. Katherine... You know, silver and silver and silver?
:38:11. > :38:15.the bridesmaid. After all these near-misses as part of a crew, it
:38:15. > :38:22.was time to go it alone. So at the World Championships in Poznan,
:38:22. > :38:26.Poland three years ago, here she is as a single sculler. For the first
:38:26. > :38:30.time in years it wasn't about winning. It wasn't about, "I'm
:38:30. > :38:35.going to go out there to try and win". It was about just almost
:38:35. > :38:39.recapturing what I loved about rowing. And I don't think I or
:38:39. > :38:42.anyone expected that I'd be able to medal in that event.
:38:42. > :38:47.COMMENTATOR: It is a fabulous result here from Katherine Grainger.
:38:47. > :38:50.It's a silver medal. But today, Katherine Grainger has made history.
:38:50. > :38:54.I was over the moon. I got so many comments. People going, "Oh, now
:38:54. > :38:57.you're happy with silver!", you know, after Beijing. And it was
:38:57. > :39:03.something I'm incredibly proud of on the back of an incredibly
:39:03. > :39:07.difficult previous year. And I just sort of did it and thought, "Yeah,
:39:08. > :39:11.I'm back". And back in a team paired with Anna Watkins in the
:39:11. > :39:17.double sculls. They clicked, winning the World Championships in
:39:17. > :39:22.New Zealand in 2010 and the next year's in Slovenia. There is a bit
:39:22. > :39:25.of an X factor. There's a little bit of a "why does it just work so
:39:25. > :39:28.well?" You know, when there's two people in a boat it's a very
:39:28. > :39:32.intense partnership, and then you go through huge highs and lows
:39:32. > :39:34.together. But when it works, when you get it right, when you have
:39:34. > :39:39.that affinity, it is something that's incredibly special and very
:39:39. > :39:44.powerful between us. And does the bridesmaid now dare to dream of
:39:44. > :39:48.what may be in London? I dream of an Olympic gold medal and it's
:39:48. > :39:52.something I would dearly love. It's a huge motivator. But a very
:39:52. > :39:56.positive one. I don't live in fear of... "What if it doesn't happen?"
:39:56. > :40:00.It doesn't mean it'll be less scary to do. It will be, you know... When
:40:00. > :40:10.the big moment comes, it'll be terrifying. It will be the biggest
:40:10. > :40:15.
:40:15. > :40:18.Scarlett at the age of nine, training for one day in the future.
:40:18. > :40:26.At that same age, someone else was thinking of competing at the
:40:26. > :40:29.Olympic Games. I think I was nine when I drew this. It's me doing a
:40:29. > :40:38.handstand in the Olympics in London 2012.
:40:38. > :40:42.COMMENTATOR: Tom Daley. 14 years of age... It's good! It's very good.
:40:42. > :40:48.Tom Daley didn't have to wait for London. This was him in Beijing,
:40:48. > :40:52.getting his head around the Olympic experience at the age of 14. When
:40:52. > :40:55.you're stood on the end of the diving board, you look down and you
:40:55. > :40:59.see on the bottom of the pool the Olympic rings, saying "Beijing
:40:59. > :41:01.2008", and you're like, "Wow, now this is real", kind of thing.
:41:01. > :41:08.Tumbling down from the ten-metre platform, you're on your own up
:41:09. > :41:14.there. A teenager needs back-up. The family. Tom, come and give me a
:41:14. > :41:21.cuddle, please. Come on, please! Tom! In May last year, Tom's father,
:41:21. > :41:24.Robert, died of a brain tumour at the age of 40. My parents have
:41:24. > :41:27.always been so supportive of everything that I've done and my
:41:27. > :41:30.dad used to take me to training every day, watched every training
:41:30. > :41:33.session, and also things like my mum helped towards teaching me to
:41:33. > :41:38.drive as well cos now I've passed my driving test I can drive to
:41:38. > :41:41.training, and that's made things a lot easier. They were never in any
:41:41. > :41:46.way pushy and it was me pushing them to say, "Right, come on Mum,
:41:46. > :41:48.come on, Dad, I need to get to training". Cos I'm a bit of a
:41:48. > :41:52.perfectionist and I think any Olympic athlete that wants to
:41:52. > :41:56.strive to win gold, I think you have to be a bit of a perfectionist.
:41:57. > :42:04.# I'm sexy and I know it! # In 2009, Tom became world champion
:42:04. > :42:08.on the ten-metre platform. Since then, he's trying to stay... Normal.
:42:08. > :42:13.I'm still at school doing A-levels. I still enjoy going on Facebook and
:42:13. > :42:16.Twitter. I'm a mad fan of that. And, yeah, I see my friends on the
:42:16. > :42:20.weekend just like any other 17- year-old would.
:42:20. > :42:22.This is how I roll, come on ladies! It's time to go. We're heading to
:42:22. > :42:26.the bar... And I don't bother looking at any
:42:26. > :42:29.other media. I don't want the opinions of people from the media.
:42:29. > :42:32.I've just got to make sure I'm concentrating and focusing on my
:42:32. > :42:38.performance because for me, that's the most important thing, is that I
:42:38. > :42:46.train hard and I compete well. Olympic dream... I guess we've all
:42:46. > :42:51.had it. Not like this one. strangest dream I've had about 2012
:42:51. > :42:55.would be, I win the Olympic Games. And all of a sudden, I just see
:42:55. > :42:59.this shark come out from the bottom of the pool and it's waiting for me
:42:59. > :43:03.to land in it, and I'm thinking, is that a shark there or am I thinking
:43:03. > :43:13.it? And so I had to take off and I was spinning around, and all of a
:43:13. > :43:15.
:43:15. > :43:19.sudden I landed in the shark's Then I was obviously died at the
:43:20. > :43:22.time because I got eaten by the shark and then... Yeah, I can
:43:22. > :43:28.remember the dream, like having news channels saying "Olympic diver
:43:28. > :43:34.dies by shark attack in chlorine pool". Yeah, but that's very
:43:34. > :43:39.strange. I don't know what my imagination was doing then. I'm not
:43:39. > :43:42.sure there's an answer to that. To explain the strange ways of men and
:43:42. > :43:49.women and water, perhaps we should ask the greatest Olympic swimmer of
:43:49. > :43:54.them all, Michael Phelps. doesn't matter about world records
:43:54. > :43:57.or the gold medals or any of that. It's just all about being able to
:43:57. > :44:00.put your mind to something and actually going for it and never
:44:00. > :44:03.giving up. Michael is from Baltimore, Maryland. He followed
:44:03. > :44:07.his two older sisters into the swimming pool and soon overtook
:44:07. > :44:11.them. I knew that Michael was something special the first I saw
:44:11. > :44:15.him swim in a swimming heat. He was ten years old. "OK, Michael should
:44:15. > :44:19.be doing this in 2000 and this in 2004 and this in 2008, and 2012 is
:44:19. > :44:26.going to be the best Olympics ever". "I'm like, "Wait, Bob, Michael's 11
:44:26. > :44:33.years old and he's a kid. When he was 15, he swam at the Sydney
:44:33. > :44:38.Olympic Games and won nothing. But at the next Games in Athens, he won
:44:38. > :44:46.six golds and two bronze medals. And in Beijing, eight straight
:44:46. > :44:50.goals. --golds. COMMENTATOR What a supreme athlete!
:44:50. > :44:54.I cannot believe he's just done that! The guy is invincible!
:44:54. > :45:00.Michael Phelps is the greatest! Absolutely brilliant! And then he
:45:00. > :45:06.stopped. He took stock. He enjoyed life on dry land. Michael, it's
:45:06. > :45:12.your first trip to London! He did the rounds, he partied hard and
:45:12. > :45:18.then he plunged back into the pool. But can he ever be as good as he
:45:18. > :45:22.was in Beijing? You know, I know that there are some things I need
:45:22. > :45:25.to do to get back into shape and really just not being satisfied
:45:25. > :45:35.with some of the swims that I have had over the last couple of years,
:45:35. > :45:39.Michael Phelps back in the water. He'll be 27 years old at the 2012
:45:39. > :45:45.Olympics, his fourth Games. That makes him the old man of the sea,
:45:45. > :45:49.stroking his way into the sunset. This is the last little chapter for
:45:49. > :45:57.me as an athlete and I'm just hoping it goes the way that I want
:45:57. > :46:01.and I'm trying to work as hard as I I've found myself looking back here,
:46:01. > :46:06.reminded of what the Olympic Games were for me. But I think that's all
:46:06. > :46:11.part of the experience. Memories. Or looking forward like Scarlett to
:46:11. > :46:18.what will be. And all around us, the city as it is, living the
:46:18. > :46:21.Olympic present, counting down, 100 days to go. So I'm sure it's a
:46:21. > :46:28.tremendous amount of pressure and excitement as well. Which one's
:46:28. > :46:33.dominating right now? There's probably a bit of both. And I'd say
:46:33. > :46:36.it's the best job in the world. If you got a Games in your own
:46:36. > :46:39.backyard, what else would you want to be doing at the moment other
:46:39. > :46:49.than being part of a team delivering it? Right. Thank you,
:46:49. > :46:56.
:46:56. > :47:04.It's a great city, a great atmosphere. London's going to be a
:47:04. > :47:08.You know, it could pour down, which would change every single thing in
:47:08. > :47:13.the show right there and then, just like that! It'll flog them because
:47:13. > :47:16.it does do sometimes. And it's Britain and it would be a way in
:47:16. > :47:26.which the gods of Britain would say, "This is the real Britain. It rains,
:47:26. > :47:27.
:47:27. > :47:31.As soon as you get that first gold medal, you're a champion. You know
:47:32. > :47:41.what you need to do to be a champion. I was in my head, "Can I
:47:41. > :47:44.The stadium looks fantastic. It's just a real honour that we're able
:47:44. > :47:54.to create something like that in our home country. It's going to be
:47:54. > :47:58.
:47:58. > :48:02.Way in front... We were very glad to come out on top. Thank you.
:48:02. > :48:06.look at the champions, we know what they had to do to get to that stage.
:48:06. > :48:16.We admire them, we respect them, and in a way, we appropriate them a
:48:16. > :48:24.
:48:24. > :48:34.You want to be able to look back at the end of your career and go, you
:48:34. > :48:42.