0:00:04 > 0:00:11.
0:00:15 > 0:00:20- Gabby!- Hi, Greg. Are you excited? - Yes. So excited. What for?
0:00:20 > 0:00:25- The show, dummy. The one we're going to present now.- What show is that?
0:00:25 > 0:00:27- You haven't got a clue, have you? - No idea.- OK.
0:00:27 > 0:00:33- We're doing a show on our incredible summer.- Oh! Sorry. I'm being stupid.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Diamond Jubilee. Queen on the throne, amazing celebration.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38No, no, no, Greg. The Olympics.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42I'm going to take you on a journey of the top 50 Olympic moments.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46We're going to count them down all the way to one from London 2012.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49- Cool.- It's going to be a journey. Come on.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Probably one of the best summers I've ever had in my life, man.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54We were so excited.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58What a lovely, overbearing, cuddly uncle Steve Redgrave is.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59There they go.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Who won? Let's look at the screen.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05They said, "Do you want to carry the flag?" I was like, "Why not?"
0:01:05 > 0:01:07The guy gets to hang out with Richard Branson
0:01:07 > 0:01:10and win a ton of gold medals. Do me a favour.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Bolt is a bad man.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15- He looks a bit like Zorro. - I watched it in my pyjamas.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18They could have stood on their head for two hours
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I probably would have been into it.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24- Clare balding came up with the Mobot.- I invented the Mobot!
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Although technically the Village People did.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30By week two, we were going, "What? You got a silver?
0:01:30 > 0:01:31"All right. Doesn't matter."
0:01:31 > 0:01:34It was a history-making moment in the Games.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36A year to be British, really, wasn't it?
0:01:36 > 0:01:38It was that one moment that I dreamed about for so long.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Just the best feeling ever.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46And for our first taste of Olympic heaven we're going right back
0:01:46 > 0:01:47to the beginning where it all began.
0:01:47 > 0:01:52- What? Ancient Greece?- No, Greg. The Opening Ceremony.- Phew.- Yep.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54It was a chance for the nation to project itself, be bold,
0:01:54 > 0:01:58and say, "Hello, world, here we are. We're British and we're proud."
0:01:58 > 0:02:01So what would artistic supremo Danny Boyle come up with?
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Oh...yeah.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Mmm. Mr Bean.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09- Nice sofa, by the way. - Cheers.- Understated. Gold.- Gold.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16It was one of the best moments of the Opening Ceremony for me, because
0:02:16 > 0:02:20as a kid, myself and my family used to watch Mr Bean religiously.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Seeing him appear in that Opening Ceremony was
0:02:25 > 0:02:28such a brilliant moment.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31MUSIC: "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis
0:02:35 > 0:02:38That was hilarious. I mean, he was... He's so clever.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42He's huge in America.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45It was something quite amazing.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54I didn't get to see much. It was nice, though.
0:02:56 > 0:03:01I'm a massive Mr Bean fan. That guy is so big abroad.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04For like the five minutes that he was on, like,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Boris Johnson wasn't the dopiest guy in the stadium.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13And you could see on Twitter people going, "This is all right!
0:03:13 > 0:03:15"Oh, this is actually quite good, like!"
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Of course it was going to be good!
0:03:17 > 0:03:20MUSIC: "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis
0:03:31 > 0:03:34LAUGHTER
0:03:40 > 0:03:42FART
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Once the applause for the opening ceremony had died down
0:03:45 > 0:03:48and competition started, the British public wanted medals.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Michael Jamieson's totally unexpected silver in the pool
0:03:52 > 0:03:54earns him a place at 49.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Some people we expect to win, or we hope
0:03:57 > 0:04:00and see them as being gold medallists at the Olympic Games.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02But then when someone can step up
0:04:02 > 0:04:05and be able to produce a performance where they go,
0:04:05 > 0:04:09"No, no, I'm really happy that I was able to achieve this result as well,
0:04:09 > 0:04:10"this was great."
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Michael Jamieson from Glasgow and Great Britain
0:04:13 > 0:04:16is coming back at the world champion in 5.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Honestly, I mean, it was such a good swim.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21And there was a moment or two
0:04:21 > 0:04:23when you thought he might actually win gold,
0:04:23 > 0:04:25and he just came back so strongly.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Jamieson in 4.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Gyurta in 5, it's going to be Gyurta, I think.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Gyurta wins the gold. It's a fantastic silver medal
0:04:32 > 0:04:33for Great Britain.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36I think he's a really impressive guy.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42- Impressive, huh?- Very. What type of swimming was that again?
0:04:42 > 0:04:45- Breaststroke. - HE SNIGGERS
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- Really?!- Well, you know.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50OK. Now we've established your level of humour,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52you're really going to enjoy this next clip.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55- What, is it boobs?- No. People falling over and stuff.- Oh! Even better!
0:04:55 > 0:04:56Bring it on.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Oh!
0:05:03 > 0:05:04She's going to be devastated.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06That's a bad one.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15Oh, gosh. Oh, that's come down, now we're hoping he's all right.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19And that's a ridiculous foul.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22Elbow to the throat, that's going to hurt anybody.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23He also got a knee middle stump.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Bad crash!
0:05:28 > 0:05:30If one rider goes down, they all come down.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Just like a bunch of skittles.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Oh, and that was a great shame.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49- No, that's gone horribly wrong. I hope she's all right.- Ouch!
0:05:49 > 0:05:53But at number 48 is another pole vaulter. This one went snap.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57I was there for the pole vaulter. That was an extraordinary thing.
0:05:57 > 0:06:02Borges of Cuba. We saw how well his woman teammate did.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Oh, my God!
0:06:03 > 0:06:07Oh, OK. I could absolutely kill myself on this.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09If you're designing a piece of sporting equipment,
0:06:09 > 0:06:12surely number one on the list is it has to be able
0:06:12 > 0:06:14to complete the sport without snapping in three places.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Oh, dear me.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19He's Cuban, you know. They don't travel first class.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Can you imagine the charges on a low-cost airline,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24how much that cost? He's looked after it all the way round.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27He's got round the carousel without breaking!
0:06:27 > 0:06:30And the first time he uses it...!
0:06:30 > 0:06:31Gee whizz.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Parents can be embarrassing at the best of times, but can you imagine
0:06:38 > 0:06:42being an Olympic athlete and having your mum present you with a medal?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Oh, Mum!
0:06:44 > 0:06:46I suppose one of the more surreal moments of the Olympics was
0:06:46 > 0:06:51our eventing team, who won silver, which included Zara Phillips,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55were presented with their medals by the Princess Royal,
0:06:55 > 0:06:57who obviously is Zara's mother.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00There aren't many people at an Olympic Games who are going to have
0:07:00 > 0:07:03their medal presented to them by their mother.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Yes, how good to see.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07I wouldn't mind getting a medal off my mum.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Getting it off my grandma would be weird.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12She's a very old-fashioned West Indian lady.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15"Take it, boy, take it, take it.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17"If you mess up, me taking it back."
0:07:17 > 0:07:20I love Zara. She is so down to earth,
0:07:20 > 0:07:24she's so funny. She works so hard.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26And God, she's good.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Zara Phillips has produced the goods.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30The only medal I think
0:07:30 > 0:07:33my mum would be able to award me is for lasagne.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34But I'll take that.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40She sounds like a glamour model, she won four golds,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42and her nickname is The Missile.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45If Michael Phelps was a woman, he'd be Missy Franklin.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47You know what I mean.
0:07:50 > 0:07:56Ever since I came out of the womb I have been like in love with water.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Everyone comes out of the womb ready to swim. You've just been in liquid.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01# Holla! #
0:08:01 > 0:08:03She is as mad as a box of frogs.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07She's six foot one, she is completely nuts,
0:08:07 > 0:08:09but she knows how to swim.
0:08:09 > 0:08:14The world record is 2 minutes 4.81, it was Kirsty Coventry's,
0:08:14 > 0:08:16now it's Missy Franklin's. Look at that.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Very impressive from a great young lady.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24I just don't know why the Americans can't go by their usual name.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Missy the Missile.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30OK, Greg. What two things do you think you would get
0:08:30 > 0:08:32if you won an Olympic gold in the javelin?
0:08:32 > 0:08:36The mother of all drugs tests, and probably a sore shoulder from that...
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Quite a force, isn't it?
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Terrible technique.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42After winning gold, Keshorn Walcott
0:08:42 > 0:08:45from Trinidad and Tobago got the most bizarre gifts.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49What did they give him?
0:08:49 > 0:08:52- A wife?- A million dollars?
0:08:52 > 0:08:54It's going to be something nuts. Out of the ordinary, innit?
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Two wives?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59It's already got an "and" in the name.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Did they just put his name in Trinidad and Tobago and Walcott?
0:09:03 > 0:09:04HE LAUGHS
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Harem? I don't know.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09The people in Britain, the gold medallists were getting postboxes.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10Sure it wasn't a wife?
0:09:10 > 0:09:14A lighthouse? That's brilliant. It's a lighthouse.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17That's fantastic. A lighthouse.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21I think that's pretty cool. I think we get a pat on the back.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Like if you're a man whose whole entire thing is to span
0:09:24 > 0:09:27great distances with one flick, stick him in a lighthouse?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Is it because it looks slightly like a javelin?
0:09:32 > 0:09:36An 80-year-old pensioner sent me £10 in the post for winning.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39He didn't leave his name or address
0:09:39 > 0:09:41so I haven't been able to reply back,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43but I'd just like to say thank you.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48OK, at number 44 we have an Olympic event
0:09:48 > 0:09:51I'm sure even you took an interest in.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53- Beach volleyball. Am I right? - You are right.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56I went down to Horse Guards Parade to have a look.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59- Really? Did you enjoy it? - I did. I mean, what's not to love?
0:09:59 > 0:10:02People in swimsuits in a massive sandpit
0:10:02 > 0:10:05in the Queen's back garden. It was amazing.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Did I see the beach volleyball?
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Come on, you're going to ask me, a straight man, that? Of course!
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Sexually very exciting.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Some of those guys - phew.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28There's nothing sexy about Horse Guards Parade.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32Horse Guards Parade is usually something that is the complete
0:10:32 > 0:10:34opposite end of sexy.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37The beach volleyball, the setting for that.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39I imagine if you were a tourist coming to London, you went,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42"Well, this couldn't be done any better."
0:10:43 > 0:10:47For me, it's surprising to sort of see this atmosphere,
0:10:47 > 0:10:49like totally crazed. I said, man, I fit right in here.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55And the players, I mean, to have a bum like that.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Please, Santa. That would be amazing.
0:10:57 > 0:11:02But the unarguable queens of the block, set and spike in 2012
0:11:02 > 0:11:03were these two.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06In at number 44 in our list it's Misty May-Treanor
0:11:06 > 0:11:08and her pregnant playing partner Kerri Walsh Jennings,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10who came out of retirement
0:11:10 > 0:11:13to win their third successive gold in the beach volleyball.
0:11:13 > 0:11:19I can't believe that Kerri Walsh Jennings was five weeks pregnant
0:11:19 > 0:11:22when she won gold at volleyball. When I was five weeks pregnant,
0:11:22 > 0:11:25I was eating Nutella out of a jar on the sofa.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33The 2012 Olympics had a sticky start.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Question - how do you wind up a team from North Korea?
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Answer - introduce them under the South Korean flag.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42That was brilliant. Of all the countries to muddle up,
0:11:42 > 0:11:47North Korea and South Korea couldn't be more of a tense relationship.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48The only possible worst thing
0:11:48 > 0:11:51could've been to muddle up England and Scotland.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53The great thing about the North Koreans
0:11:53 > 0:11:55is they've got a brilliant sense of humour.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57They're very upbeat, very light about stuff.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59They won't have minded that.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03Turning round and getting the flag wrong was a massive faux pas.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05And the fact that they came out an hour and a half late
0:12:05 > 0:12:09and played the game, we should be thankful they even did that at all.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11I did think they were going to start to test launch
0:12:11 > 0:12:16some of the players from the stands in a threatening sign.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18But it was South Korean fencer Shin A-Lam
0:12:18 > 0:12:21who provided one of the most controversial moments of the Games.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Her sit-in protest, which lasted over an hour
0:12:24 > 0:12:27after losing her semifinal, earned her a spot at number 43 on our list.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30She just missed out on a place in the final,
0:12:30 > 0:12:32and she didn't take it well.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35MUSIC: "So Ronery" from Team America
0:12:50 > 0:12:53When I watched it, I thought, she's being a bit mardy.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Then I realised, she's not.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00She's so disciplined, so focused, so angry at herself that she
0:13:00 > 0:13:03didn't get to the final, she's put herself on the naughty step.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06MUSIC: "So Ronery" from Team America
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Poor girl. Everybody else had gone home.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Gymnastics provided London 2012 with some of the most spectacular
0:13:27 > 0:13:31sporting moments, and it was Dutch high-bar specialist Epke Zonderland
0:13:31 > 0:13:33whose gold-medal winning routine
0:13:33 > 0:13:35blew the roof off the North Greenwich Arena.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Zonderland is on track. There is the rybalko, a little bit wild.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Now then. Another biggie coming up now. Half turn.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45He's got to go over the top again.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48He's caught that too and he's rescued the swing.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52He's putting all his money on the 7.9 difficulty.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55He cannot afford to move on that dismount.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58He's got to stand with glue on his feet.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Here it comes.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01And that's a cracker!
0:14:04 > 0:14:07He should be named Wonderland. It was just incredible.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09I was told, "He is magnificent,"
0:14:09 > 0:14:15but I never imagined that it would be as spectacular as it was.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18But it was the women's uneven bar competition
0:14:18 > 0:14:21that GB rested their hopes on a 27-year-old from Cheshire.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Step forward Britain's most decorated gymnast of all time
0:14:24 > 0:14:26with her last shot at Olympic glory.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29At number 42, it's the darling of British gymnastics,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Miss Elizabeth Kimberly Tweddle.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35It was so fantastic to see Beth Tweddle. I was so excited.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38I took my little girl to the North Greenwich Arena,
0:14:38 > 0:14:40and Beth was amazing.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Super full pirouette into the markelov, into the ginga,
0:14:43 > 0:14:45caught beautifully.
0:14:45 > 0:14:50The Olympic medal was the only thing missing from her
0:14:50 > 0:14:51sort of trophy cabinet.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54She was devastated finishing fourth in Beijing,
0:14:54 > 0:14:57where she was expected to get a medal.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59This was going to be her last chance, London 2012,
0:14:59 > 0:15:01to ever win an Olympic medal.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03You know, was this the year, could she do it?
0:15:03 > 0:15:06She hung on and on, and, and really, you know,
0:15:06 > 0:15:08if she got a medal in Beijing,
0:15:08 > 0:15:11she wouldn't be still doing gymnastics.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14So she hung on for that extra four years just to try
0:15:14 > 0:15:15and get her hands on that medal.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19Kicks strong. Lifts up, two twists.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Big step back. But she saved it.
0:15:22 > 0:15:23It was a big step.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27So as she is flying through the air people are just waiting
0:15:27 > 0:15:29with bated breath to see her land on two feet.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32And it looked like she was going to end up on her behind,
0:15:32 > 0:15:34but she rescued it.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Great Britain's Beth Tweddle has a bronze medal.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39That has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42I don't know why I said it, or where it came from,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44but it had a ring to it.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Sorry, Beth. I really am sorry.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50She was brilliant, and it was breathtaking.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52The competition was so, so high,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55and it was just so wonderful to see her finally get an Olympic medal.
0:15:55 > 0:16:01She put in a spectacular performance on the bars,
0:16:01 > 0:16:05and for her to finally get the one thing that was missing,
0:16:05 > 0:16:08an Olympic medal, was a great ending
0:16:08 > 0:16:11to a great athlete with an outstanding career.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17- Beth Tweddle. Is that her real name?- Of course it is. Why?
0:16:17 > 0:16:21I thought it was more like a move. Like the Tweddle.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- I'm pretty sure Tweddling is not a discipline.- You know what?
0:16:24 > 0:16:28- I'm learning a lot.- Good.- I'm really enjoying this Olympics malarkey.
0:16:28 > 0:16:34- I really like it. Can I introduce the next clip?- Don't mess it up.- Yeah?
0:16:34 > 0:16:38I won't. Right. Here are some really fast rooners. Runners.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Brilliant.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44US sprinters had their work cut out against a formidable Jamaican
0:16:44 > 0:16:48team, but American sprinter Allyson Felix bagged three golds,
0:16:48 > 0:16:52which is the most a female track athlete has won since 1988.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54But it was a Jamaican girl with far too many names
0:16:54 > 0:16:57who was crowned the fastest woman on the planet.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Amber 41 on our list is Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03It was too long, hearing a commentator...
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Surely he could just call her Prycey.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09But then we'd just think of Katie Price, that would be weird.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11I wonder if she's a fast runner?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16Jetta is away well but so is Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18And Ahoure is going well from the Ivory Coast.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Here comes Carmelita Jetta.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is going to retain her title.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25She's a great person.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28I've known her from high school age, I've seen her work,
0:17:28 > 0:17:31I've seen her progress through the years.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33So she's a very hard worker and she's dedicated
0:17:33 > 0:17:37and she's shown the world that she can dominate also.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40I think in Jamaica they must put something in the water
0:17:40 > 0:17:43where you drink it and become an Olympic champion.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49I was like, what is going on? Why is everyone Jamaican?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51They're all winning gold medals.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55But she's got power that is deceiving,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57and I don't think most people realise that.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59I mean, her start is very, very powerful.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02She's a great athlete to watch.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11To me, it's like he did it on purpose for comedy.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14- It's like a comedy fall. - There are certain moments
0:18:14 > 0:18:16that you just go, "That's going in a montage."
0:18:16 > 0:18:18And his name! He's called Feck.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21It's like, you know, you can imagine the headlines already, can't you?
0:18:21 > 0:18:24- Brilliant.- German Stefan Feck wants to get on with it.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Forward three-and-a-half.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Oh! Here you go. The first calamity.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Is he really a diver?
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Are we sure that he's an Olympic-level diver?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38That needs to be down a leisure centre in Liverpool, that does.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41That does not belong at the Olympic Games.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43He should have got out of the pool,
0:18:43 > 0:18:45looked at his scores and gone, "What?
0:18:45 > 0:18:49"No. I think you'll find I was trying to land on my back.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51"No-one else is doing it.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53"The problem with the diving world is you're too stuck in your ways
0:18:53 > 0:18:55"with this 'going straight in head first' thing.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57"Mix it up a bit. Come on!"
0:18:57 > 0:19:00The commentators can always tell whether it's really good
0:19:00 > 0:19:03or not quite good, but to us I think it always looks brilliant.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05But even I could say that that was really, really bad.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Stefan Feck well and truly fecked it up.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15So we've had a mime artist, Royals, Koreans,
0:19:15 > 0:19:17and even a lighthouse. What's next?
0:19:17 > 0:19:20How about a massive inflatable octopus,
0:19:20 > 0:19:24a Python fired out of a cannon, and five mums dancing on top of cabs?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27It's the closing ceremony.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30It was an absolute knees-up, the closing ceremony.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32I got out of my seat and I was dancing.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I went to see the closing ceremony.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38I really enjoyed the closing ceremony.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40I thought, "I like this, it's all right."
0:19:40 > 0:19:43I was absolutely brilliant. We had such a fantastic time.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45We got to go to this incredible party
0:19:45 > 0:19:48just after the greatest Olympics that have ever been hosted.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50I was really pleased to be part of the ceremony
0:19:50 > 0:19:54and actually be in the arena, so I loved it.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57At number 39 in our list, taxi for Spice Girls.
0:19:57 > 0:20:02Closing ceremony, time is running out. Bring on the Spice Girls.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08I can leave the second most watched event in the Olympics was
0:20:08 > 0:20:11the Spice Girls in the closing ceremony.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Who do they think they are? That's an actual joke for you.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Without a doubt my favourite moment of the Olympics,
0:20:22 > 0:20:25seeing Mel B back in a catsuit. Boom!
0:20:25 > 0:20:28When we saw all the artists' impressions of how it was
0:20:28 > 0:20:31going to look, we were blown away. It was so exciting.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35There was a guy in front of me from Canada who literally turned
0:20:35 > 0:20:39round and said to me, "This is what the Games is all about.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43"I have waited for this moment just to see the Spice Girls."
0:20:46 > 0:20:50They brought something quite sexy back to the Olympics.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53I bet Victoria Pendleton was sitting somewhere going, "Oh, Spice Girls."
0:20:57 > 0:21:00I remember when I was a kid I used to have a crush on her.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Just the whole, the Union Jack dress,
0:21:03 > 0:21:06all the guys in the school were like, "Geri is fit."
0:21:06 > 0:21:11And then I saw her and I was like, "What was I thinking?"
0:21:11 > 0:21:12No offence, Geri.
0:21:12 > 0:21:13Damn.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16It was quite close to the Games, really, when we were approached.
0:21:16 > 0:21:21It was all a bit last-minute. But we were so excited.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23And had the most incredible time.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Whoever you were with, wherever you were,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29you were just walking about with people just shaking their hands
0:21:29 > 0:21:33and thinking, you know what, thank you very much, Olympians.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35And thank you, the Spice Girls.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Not even the Spice Girls like the Spice Girls any more.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42- Fair point.- Did you see them on top of those taxis? Embarrassing.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Well, look. Here's someone who is lucky enough
0:21:44 > 0:21:46to be too young to remember the Spice Girls.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50A 15-year-old who made one hell of a splash in the pool.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51Zig-a-zig... Eurgh!
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Teenager Ruta Meilutyte, from the same school as Tom Daley,
0:21:54 > 0:21:58won Lithuania's first ever Olympic gold in swimming.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01But it was a girl from China whose achievements raised a few eyebrows.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Number 38 on the list is a fantastic young swimmer
0:22:04 > 0:22:07who no-one had ever heard of.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09The girl, Ye Shiwen, who won,
0:22:09 > 0:22:11smashed the time, she was beating, like,
0:22:11 > 0:22:14men's times, in the medley and things like that.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17And it was brilliant because as soon as she won it everyone said,
0:22:17 > 0:22:20"Ah, well, it's drugs, isn't it? Obviously it's drugs.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23"Got to be drugs, hasn't it?" But she wasn't.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25You know what? She was just brilliant.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30I think the thing is, with 1.2 billion people in China,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33you are going to find someone as good as Michael Phelps
0:22:33 > 0:22:35at some point. Because they've got the numbers.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38If it was an athlete from Team GB who dropped the same
0:22:38 > 0:22:41amount of time, people wouldn't be quick to criticise.
0:22:41 > 0:22:46Ye Shiwen, the 16-year-old Chinese woman, utterly extraordinary.
0:22:46 > 0:22:51- Unbelievable.- And the suspicion of, over there, they may be doing that.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52And that wasn't fair.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55So wrong that the first thing we think is she's cheating.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Know what I mean? She's cheating. She wasn't. She was just brilliant.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Either that or she was like Inspector Gadget
0:23:00 > 0:23:04and she had motors on her feet. Maybe that's what they were doing.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06If you thought there were surprises in the pool,
0:23:06 > 0:23:08there were more to come at Eton Dorney.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Kat Copeland and Sophie Hosking gasped in sheer disbelief
0:23:11 > 0:23:13on crossing the line for gold in the lightweight double sculls.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15A great achievement.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19But at number 37 are couple of guys who have won the place not for
0:23:19 > 0:23:22winning gold but for nearly killing themselves trying to win a medal.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27- But Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter got off to a terrible start.- Oh, no!
0:23:27 > 0:23:30They've stopped! They've absolutely stopped. What's happened there?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32His seat broke. OK.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35We thought they would get a second shot, because it would be
0:23:35 > 0:23:38a brave judge who would say at the London Olympics that the British
0:23:38 > 0:23:41defending champions would not be allowed to defend their title.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45For the second time now in this Olympic final, Great Britain
0:23:45 > 0:23:46are away in lane number six.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48It was drama with a small D at the start
0:23:48 > 0:23:51but it was drama with a capital D at the end.
0:23:51 > 0:23:56And now, Denmark just sneaking ahead of Great Britain.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58The one last try.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01It is Denmark for the Olympic gold, it is Great Britain for the silver.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04You've got to hand it to them, credit their determination,
0:24:04 > 0:24:10their guts to give it their all, and certainly we saw it on TV
0:24:10 > 0:24:13and first-hand that they didn't have anything else to give.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16You get home at the end of the day and say you're tired.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Are you really tired? Could you not really do another hour or so?
0:24:19 > 0:24:22You can always give more. These guys couldn't give any more at all.
0:24:22 > 0:24:23They were spent.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28Totally, physically, mentally, emotionally, traumatically spent.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33- Sorry to everybody we've let down.- You've let nobody down.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36After the year that you guys have had, you've let nobody down at all.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40Emotions, emotions, goodness me.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Especially when you know these people, and know them pretty well.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46It's quite hot being here as well.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50I did cry. I cried a lot more once we'd handed to the next race.
0:24:53 > 0:24:58That did choke me. That did choke me, the tears from John.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02He comes across as sort of a hardened journalist in some ways,
0:25:02 > 0:25:07enjoys his sport, but to see that emotion when Zac
0:25:07 > 0:25:10and Mark finished and apologising to everybody,
0:25:10 > 0:25:17of what bad result they had, that being a silver medal.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20But I didn't expect John to have the same response as he did there,
0:25:20 > 0:25:22from that point of view.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Oh. I would love a cuddle from John Inverdale.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Along with your medal, I suppose, the other thing you also got
0:25:28 > 0:25:31was the complementary hug from Steve Redgrave.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34It was almost like everybody that came out of the boat,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36he just wanted to give them a hug.
0:25:36 > 0:25:41You know, because he's an expert, and obviously a great Olympian,
0:25:41 > 0:25:43but he's also their friend.
0:25:43 > 0:25:49# Hold me close, don't let me go, oh, no... #
0:25:49 > 0:25:52He was such a rock, Steve was. He was amazing at the rowing.
0:25:59 > 0:26:04I had to hug Dara, which I thought was quite unusual at the time.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06It wasn't quite what I was expecting.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07I said, "You hug everybody.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09"You spent the entire Olympics hugging people.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11"Where is my hug?"
0:26:11 > 0:26:15When I look back at the Games, of any time I was seen on TV, it was
0:26:15 > 0:26:19probably hugging somebody over some sort of great achievement.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22So it probably wasn't a bad role to have.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24So emotional, Zac and Mark.
0:26:24 > 0:26:30- Really, really moving. - Can I get a hug?- No.- Sure.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Believe it or not, I can actually remember the next guy.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37This is Robert Harting. He's number 36 and he was the biathlete...
0:26:37 > 0:26:42- No.- Yeah, yeah. Discus guy. - Yeah. Gold medal winning discus.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Then did the hurdles. But embarrassed himself, like, shouldn't have bothered.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48- That was his celebration! - What do you mean?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50That's like someone going, "I've just done the diving,
0:26:50 > 0:26:52"I'l polevault back up to the board." Why would you do that?
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Robert Harting, it's ironic that his name sounds almost English,
0:27:01 > 0:27:04because where I grew up, in Essex,
0:27:04 > 0:27:09his behaviour was just standard Southend, Westcliff behaviour.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11He's a beast.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16He went all over the hurdles, didn't he? His name is Harting.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19I remember it was obviously very difficult for the commentator
0:27:19 > 0:27:22at the time to say, "Harting, hurdling." Not an easy thing to say,
0:27:22 > 0:27:25and not an easy thing to do when you're his size, I imagine.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28He stripped off his top and started running a little bit of hurdles.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31You could see the hurdlers going, "No!" Cos he's a massive guy.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34He just showed us that big men can jump.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38It would be amusing if he just casually beat the Olympic hurdles record.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Like if I had just won a medal, I wouldn't be able to then
0:27:40 > 0:27:45compete another sport, unless the sport was hysterical crying.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46And collapsing and peeing my pants.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50Robert Harting, the Olympic discus champion.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52What a lad. Legend.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55From a hurdling hulk to a right bunch of shuttlecocks,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57it was double troubles at the badminton.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01Number 35 on our list sees some of the best badminton players
0:28:01 > 0:28:03in the world throwing their match in order to avoid
0:28:03 > 0:28:06playing the number one seeds in the knockout stages.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10The bizarre practice of people playing badminton and trying to lose
0:28:10 > 0:28:14so they didn't face the favourites in the next round. Brilliant.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18I don't know badminton, I must say, I'm not a big badminton follower.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21But I just thought that just tarnished the whole thing.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Not only what they did, but the way it was was handled.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27It was so obvious they weren't trying, as well.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29It was obvious. Hitting it into the net, doing rubbish serves
0:28:29 > 0:28:32and that sort of thing. It was a doubles game - one of them was at
0:28:32 > 0:28:36the vending machine in the leisure centre reception, getting a Twix.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39- BOOING - They're serving fault after fault.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Just hitting the ball straight in the net.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44The scandal led to 8 women, including the world champions,
0:28:44 > 0:28:48being disqualified for this very un-Olympic behaviour.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51Depressing. I mean, who wants to sit through something like that?
0:28:51 > 0:28:54- It is unacceptable. - Well said, Lord Coe.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Now, how's about this -
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Hamadou Djibo Issaka from Niger amazingly only took up rowing
0:29:03 > 0:29:04three months before the Olympics.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07He did all his training in a fishing boat.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09And despite coming last in the single sculls,
0:29:09 > 0:29:12almost two minutes slower than gold medallist Mahe Drysdale,
0:29:12 > 0:29:16Issaka the Otter, as he was called, got a thunderous reception.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19Now, only doing your chosen sport for three months may be taking it
0:29:19 > 0:29:21a bit far, but Briton Anthony Joshua
0:29:21 > 0:29:25was only boxing for four years before the Olympics and he did OK.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27In fact, he did very, very OK.
0:29:31 > 0:29:32I was bored out of my head.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34I was in London, no friends, no community,
0:29:34 > 0:29:36I'd left all that in Watford.
0:29:36 > 0:29:41My cousin, he was training, and he took me down the gym with him
0:29:41 > 0:29:43and I just sat in and watched him.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Half of the time I was on my BlackBerry, half the time
0:29:45 > 0:29:48I was watching him on the bags and he just told me to get involved.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51I said yeah, I'll get involved.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53He just strolled in and went, "I might box, I might not."
0:29:53 > 0:29:55And someone went, "Do you want to box, then?"
0:29:55 > 0:29:56He went, "Yeah, all right!" Crack! And won.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00When I was watching the fight with him and the Italian guy
0:30:00 > 0:30:04I was like, "If that was my husband or my boyfriend, I would be so scared."
0:30:05 > 0:30:09Good rally from Joshua, rousing reception from the crowd.
0:30:09 > 0:30:13It was pretty impressive and at times you thought that the Italian was coming, you know?
0:30:13 > 0:30:16And then he just... It was great. It was great.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19You have a million thoughts running through your head
0:30:19 > 0:30:21when you're competing, so I just said,
0:30:21 > 0:30:25"I'm going to walk out of the ring with my head held high,
0:30:25 > 0:30:27"my chest out and I'm going to do the nation proud."
0:30:27 > 0:30:30- COMMENTAOR:- And as the closing bell sounds,
0:30:30 > 0:30:33Anthony Joshua raises his hands immediately.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36- An Olympic superheavyweight champion in the blue corner... - CROWD ROARS
0:30:36 > 0:30:41..representing Great Britain, Anthony Joshua.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45You know, I wasn't number one pick for the Olympics
0:30:45 > 0:30:47so I had to fight my way to be number one pick
0:30:47 > 0:30:50in Great Britain then fight my way through the qualification
0:30:50 > 0:30:55then fight my way to an Olympic gold so it was like relief, man.
0:30:55 > 0:30:56It's been a tough journey.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02From punching people to kicking people, and it's another gold medal.
0:31:02 > 0:31:06Aged just eight, a Welsh girl was introduced to tae kwon do by her grandad.
0:31:06 > 0:31:0911 years later and she's winning gold at her home Olympics.
0:31:09 > 0:31:13On Twitter she says that she kicks people in the head for living and she loves it.
0:31:14 > 0:31:19At number 33 it's the inspirational teenager, Jade Jones.
0:31:19 > 0:31:23It was one of those sports that maybe people every week don't watch,
0:31:23 > 0:31:25but during the Olympics it was just special,
0:31:25 > 0:31:28it came to life and everyone wanted to learn the rules
0:31:28 > 0:31:30and how many points you get for this and that.
0:31:30 > 0:31:34Jade Jones is one of my massive superheroines now.
0:31:34 > 0:31:39She is as close to Street Fighter's Chun Li as we're ever going to get.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42She is amazing.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44I spent a lot of time in the velodrome
0:31:44 > 0:31:46and I watched a lot of gold medals in the velodrome
0:31:46 > 0:31:52but half of that amount of people inside the little room in the Excel Arena made double the noise.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55CROWD ROARS
0:31:55 > 0:31:57- COMMENTATOR:- You little beauty!
0:31:57 > 0:31:59As soon as she won, the helmet went up in the air,
0:31:59 > 0:32:01the hair came flowing down.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05She then did a lap of honour and then she got the Welsh flag in one hand,
0:32:05 > 0:32:09I'm pretty sure, a Union Jack in the other and round she went again
0:32:09 > 0:32:12and nobody was going home until she finished.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15- Jade Jones, Olympic champion. - There you go.
0:32:15 > 0:32:19Jade there proving that if you're good enough, you're old enough.
0:32:19 > 0:32:20Yeah, and on the same note, Greg,
0:32:20 > 0:32:23check out 71-year-old Hiroshi Hoketsu here
0:32:23 > 0:32:25proving if you're good enough, you're young enough.
0:32:25 > 0:32:30- Did you know, he first competed in the Games in 1964?- 1964?
0:32:30 > 0:32:33That's like...ancient Greece.
0:32:33 > 0:32:34Did you go to school?
0:32:34 > 0:32:37So, from our youngest gold medallist to our oldest
0:32:37 > 0:32:38in the shape of Nick Skelton,
0:32:38 > 0:32:43a member of Britain's first showjumping team to take gold in 60 years.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46Oh... Sorry, yeah. 60...
0:32:46 > 0:32:47Ancient. Yeah.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53I actually thought that they had lost their chance of winning gold
0:32:53 > 0:32:56and then the Dutch made couple of mistakes
0:32:56 > 0:32:58and it came down to a jump-off situation.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06My image of athletes at the Olympics is the lithe twentysomethings.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09You know, "We train hard and then we party hard."
0:33:09 > 0:33:10And then these people looked like
0:33:10 > 0:33:12they just walked from a Round Table meeting.
0:33:12 > 0:33:19- COMMENTATOR:- This could be the first gold for Great Britain since 1952.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22And Britain have got the gold!
0:33:22 > 0:33:25I was trying really hard to keep a grip because, you know,
0:33:25 > 0:33:28you try to cover these things professionally, but, of course,
0:33:28 > 0:33:31I know the riders really well and Nick Skelton in particular.
0:33:31 > 0:33:35He's 54 years old, he's been trying to win an Olympic medal since 1980.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38Nick Skelton, you have an Olympic gold medal.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41Took me 54 years.
0:33:41 > 0:33:42It's taken Great Britain 60.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45Yeah, I'm speechless. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
0:33:45 > 0:33:53I think it was the crowning glory of a career that has been sensational.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56People were tweeting me and e-mailing me afterwards saying,
0:33:56 > 0:33:59"Nick Skelton? I had posters of Nick Skelton when I was at school,"
0:33:59 > 0:34:01and these are women in their 50s. Yeah, you did,
0:34:01 > 0:34:06because he was your pin-up in 1980 and here we are in 2012
0:34:06 > 0:34:09and he's the star performer in the showjumping team that wins gold.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11It's pretty amazing, isn't it?
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Absolutely brilliant.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16Great for the country and great for our sport. Taken all these years.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26Unfortunately, for every high at the Olympics there's also a low.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29Euan Burton here getting knocked out of the judo in the very first round.
0:34:29 > 0:34:33Can you take any positives from this experience at all?
0:34:33 > 0:34:34No, none. None whatsoever.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36I feel like I've let myself down a bit,
0:34:36 > 0:34:39let my mum and dad and my brother down.
0:34:41 > 0:34:45I've been working for this for over a quarter of a century.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47I'm pretty sure you won't see me in Rio,
0:34:47 > 0:34:50so no, there's no positives to be taken from it.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53Poor Euan. There was arguably more pressure on Mark Cavendish
0:34:53 > 0:34:56who was carrying the dreams of a nation on day one of the Olympics.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59He was the favourite to win the men's road race
0:34:59 > 0:35:02and kick-start Team GB's gold rush.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05I left Eton Dorney, ran to get on a bus, to get a taxi
0:35:05 > 0:35:09to just somewhere beyond the route because I wanted to be there
0:35:09 > 0:35:12cos, you know, Cavendish was bound to win gold.
0:35:12 > 0:35:15This was the big start of the Olympic Games, you know?
0:35:15 > 0:35:18This was the guy who helped Bradley Wiggins to win the yellow jersey
0:35:18 > 0:35:21at the Tour de France, it was a man whose Olympic dream
0:35:21 > 0:35:25had been blown away four years earlier in Beijing. This was the moment.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27I can't remember how many miles from the finish I was but I wasn't
0:35:27 > 0:35:30that far from the finish, expecting to see Mark Cavendish go...
0:35:30 > 0:35:33And then everyone was saying, "He's not going to win. He's not going to win."
0:35:33 > 0:35:37To see Mark Cavendish come over the line where he did, he was distraught.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39It was probably the biggest shock of the Games, actually.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43And a shame that it came on the first day.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45But Cav's spirits were lifted when he joined Jake
0:35:45 > 0:35:47and the rest of the BBC team to commentate at the velodrome.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49To be honest with you,
0:35:49 > 0:35:52I just did it so I could go in the velodrome and watch the riders.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54I had tried hard for a whole couple of weeks
0:35:54 > 0:35:56to hold back my true feelings for Mark Cavendish
0:35:56 > 0:35:58and I just couldn't do it any longer.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01They had this camera roving around finding couples
0:36:01 > 0:36:03and they kept focusing on our commentary box
0:36:03 > 0:36:05and the crowd were going, "Kiss, kiss, kiss," so I thought,
0:36:05 > 0:36:08"What the hell, I'll plant a little kiss on Mark Cavendish's forehead."
0:36:08 > 0:36:11I thought that that was only being seen by the people
0:36:11 > 0:36:12in the velodrome on the big screen
0:36:12 > 0:36:15and as I lent in, out of the corner of my eye
0:36:15 > 0:36:18I could see the BBC One feed and I was like,
0:36:18 > 0:36:21"Ah. I've just kissed him live on BBC One,"
0:36:21 > 0:36:24and sat back thinking, "What did I do there?"
0:36:24 > 0:36:27I think he just liked my aftershave, actually, so...
0:36:27 > 0:36:29You've got to feel sorry for Cav,
0:36:29 > 0:36:32one of our greatest ever cyclists and still no Olympic medal -
0:36:32 > 0:36:34just a kiss from Jake Humphrey to show for his efforts.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37The country continued to hold its collective breath for a medal
0:36:37 > 0:36:41and day two delivered in typical British conditions.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44Here's Britain's Lizzie Armitstead
0:36:44 > 0:36:48going for gold in the women's road race. She's in at number 31.
0:36:48 > 0:36:49For anyone who's seen The One Show,
0:36:49 > 0:36:52they'll know that I've spent a bit of time
0:36:52 > 0:36:55pedalling through the most horrendous weather
0:36:55 > 0:36:57that Britain can throw at a cyclist
0:36:57 > 0:37:00and so I did feel for Lizzie Armitstead
0:37:00 > 0:37:02on that day of the road race.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05- COMMENTATOR:- Courage is the order of the day
0:37:05 > 0:37:07and these three are going back to the well
0:37:07 > 0:37:09to find more of that courage.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11I mean, that added to the drama. It really did.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14I thought the last half mile of that race was just fantastic.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16To see the way she rode for that last 50k
0:37:16 > 0:37:18with about three or four girls away
0:37:18 > 0:37:20and then to not quite get there at the end
0:37:20 > 0:37:23but still to come away with a silver medal in the road race,
0:37:23 > 0:37:26which is probably the hardest race to win in the Olympics.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29- COMMENTATOR:- Armitstead's trying to get up on the side of Voss.
0:37:29 > 0:37:32They're gritting their teeth, both riders looking for the line.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Where's the gold medal going to go?
0:37:34 > 0:37:37Voss takes gold and Armitstead takes silver.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40It was nice to watch that and see the results, you know?
0:37:40 > 0:37:44To see her get a medal. Yeah, it was nice.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46She was the first medallist, she'd relaxed us all
0:37:46 > 0:37:49and she was like, you know, "I'm king of the athletes in Britain,"
0:37:49 > 0:37:53for about 12 hours and then everybody forgot about her.
0:37:53 > 0:37:54It was tight.
0:37:57 > 0:38:01London 2012 will go down in history for being the Olympic Games
0:38:01 > 0:38:05that saw women from oppressed nations competing on the world stage.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar
0:38:08 > 0:38:11had female representation for the first time.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13They didn't do very well, but that didn't matter -
0:38:13 > 0:38:17that wasn't the point, as Sarah Attar from Saudi Arabia proved.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21There were so many fantastic women in the Olympics this year.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24It was very much the Olympics of Girl Power.
0:38:24 > 0:38:28To have a female contender from every single country competing
0:38:28 > 0:38:30involved was an amazing achievement.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33Previously the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee
0:38:33 > 0:38:35had banned female athletes from competing at the Games.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38Despite finishing more than half a minute slower
0:38:38 > 0:38:41than the nearest athlete, thousands of spectators
0:38:41 > 0:38:44stood and applauded Attar as she crossed the finish line.
0:38:44 > 0:38:48That is a step forward for women's athletics.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50As was talked about so much with this Games,
0:38:50 > 0:38:54it's the legacy, you know, and inspiring a generation
0:38:54 > 0:38:58and I absolutely think that has happened without a doubt.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01Well, a bit of history being made there.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03The first Saudi Arabian female athlete.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05I think it's had a huge impact.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09I think firstly it's made women from the UK
0:39:09 > 0:39:11realise how free we are here,
0:39:11 > 0:39:14but I think around the world it's made us realise
0:39:14 > 0:39:18that there are so many women who don't have that freedom
0:39:18 > 0:39:19and that that's not OK.
0:39:19 > 0:39:23Now, Greg. I bet you don't know what it took for Britain's Pete Wilson
0:39:23 > 0:39:25to win his gold medal in the shooting.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28- Right, I'm going to work it out. OK. Steady hands.- Yeah.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31- Absolute precision.- Yeah, OK.
0:39:31 > 0:39:35- Nerves of steel.- Yeah. - Oh! Ah-ah - earmuffs!
0:39:35 > 0:39:38- No, no, no.- It's loud, isn't it? - No, you're not going to get it.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41Is it an outrageously rich sheik from Dubai?
0:39:41 > 0:39:42Yes! How did you get that?
0:39:42 > 0:39:45Just a lucky guess, I suppose.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47I lost my funding in 2008.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50Ahmad was an Olympic gold medallist from 2004
0:39:50 > 0:39:53and so this guy is a legend. I just thought,
0:39:53 > 0:39:54"I might as well approach Ahmad."
0:39:54 > 0:39:56He was the one shooter who I really respected
0:39:56 > 0:39:59in the world of double trap and I thought, "What do I lose?"
0:39:59 > 0:40:02You know, "Hey, he's a Prince, but he's also an Olympic gold medallist
0:40:02 > 0:40:04"and if I ask, you never know - I might get."
0:40:04 > 0:40:07Not the normal story for an Olympian.
0:40:07 > 0:40:08Peter Wilson came from nowhere.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11Maybe within shooting they knew he had a chance,
0:40:11 > 0:40:13but it was quite an open tournament.
0:40:13 > 0:40:18Ten shots left for Wilson of Great Britain and a four-shot lead.
0:40:18 > 0:40:21Four targets over second place
0:40:21 > 0:40:24with ten targets left to go was incredible.
0:40:24 > 0:40:27I mean, as far as I was concerned that was it, you know?
0:40:27 > 0:40:28This was my moment.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33I put the gun in my shoulder. I wasn't even thinking straight.
0:40:33 > 0:40:35Called pull, bang, bang, miss, miss.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37- COMMENTATOR:- Oh, and he's missed them both.
0:40:37 > 0:40:40I couldn't believe that I was about to throw away this opportunity.
0:40:40 > 0:40:42And it's a terrifying feeling.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44Absolutely incredible.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48So his lead has been cut from four to two. It's been halved.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51You can either go on to miss more or you go on and hit the rest
0:40:51 > 0:40:55and I went on to peg two, peg three, peg four
0:40:55 > 0:40:56and I hit three pairs.
0:40:56 > 0:41:01Here you are, one pair to win gold in London 2012.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05Peter Wilson needs these targets to win gold for Great Britain.
0:41:05 > 0:41:11And he does it - Peter Wilson has done it! He has won gold!
0:41:11 > 0:41:13I had so hoped to turn, finger raised at the crowd,
0:41:13 > 0:41:15looking suave, looking cool,
0:41:15 > 0:41:17but, no, it wasn't to be and I went - bang, bang -
0:41:17 > 0:41:20dropped to my knees, cried like a baby and I'll never forget it
0:41:20 > 0:41:23and I'll probably never play it down for the rest of my life.
0:41:23 > 0:41:27He wins and he falls to his knees and his dad runs on.
0:41:27 > 0:41:28Dad!
0:41:28 > 0:41:31'I just couldn't believe I'd seen the old man come bounding through
0:41:31 > 0:41:35'and I was able to give him a hug and it was very, very special.'
0:41:41 > 0:41:44How do you follow in the footsteps of two knights of the realm,
0:41:44 > 0:41:47the Olympic icons Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent?
0:41:47 > 0:41:49Well, the men's coxless four had their work cut out.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51They may have started as favourites,
0:41:51 > 0:41:54but anything less than gold would have spelt failure.
0:41:54 > 0:41:56Remember - GB have won this blue riband event
0:41:56 > 0:41:57for the past three Olympics.
0:41:57 > 0:42:02That's pressure. At number 28, it's the awesome foursome oarsmen.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04The guys did fantastically well.
0:42:04 > 0:42:08- COMMENTATOR:- The British four are going to defend their Olympic title
0:42:08 > 0:42:10and they are doing it in such style.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12There wasn't any to-ing and fro-ing, we just inched and inched
0:42:12 > 0:42:15and inched and inched through the whole race.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17It was textbook stuff and that was actually the plan.
0:42:17 > 0:42:21We have done it! We have done it and we have done it in style!
0:42:21 > 0:42:24Great Britain, the Olympic champions!
0:42:24 > 0:42:27We only won by a little bit. If it had been less than perfect
0:42:27 > 0:42:30then we would be coming home with silver medals
0:42:30 > 0:42:33and nobody in the country wanted that from the British four.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36Commander of the loveboat Pete Reed earning his second
0:42:36 > 0:42:39consecutive gold medal at London then got down on one knee
0:42:39 > 0:42:41at the closing ceremony to propose to his girlfriend.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43She couldn't really say no, could she?
0:42:43 > 0:42:46Well, how long have we been together? That's a tough one.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49- He asked you, not me. - I think it's two and a half years.
0:42:49 > 0:42:54It couldn't have been any better, could it? It was a perfect time.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56Just absolutely thrilled.
0:42:56 > 0:42:58Keeping the flame alive for romantics everywhere.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01Speaking of which, let's go back to the Opening Ceremony
0:43:01 > 0:43:04and remind ourselves of how the Olympics sparked into life.
0:43:04 > 0:43:08Just saw David Beckham flying down the Thames on that speedboat.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10You know, your heart's racing, you're like,
0:43:10 > 0:43:13"Who's going to light the flame? Who's going to light this?"
0:43:13 > 0:43:17I think it should have been a guy in a high-vis jacket
0:43:17 > 0:43:20finishing off a cigarette and then flicking it into the thing.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22That would have been just perfect.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24Cos those guys got a hard time, didn't they?
0:43:24 > 0:43:27No-one thought they were going to finish the stadiums on time and they nailed it.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30Everyone thought it was going to be Sir Steve Redgrave
0:43:30 > 0:43:32or Daley Thompson and in the end they got seven young people,
0:43:32 > 0:43:35which I thought was lovely cos if you recall correctly
0:43:35 > 0:43:36the last summer we had
0:43:36 > 0:43:39where there was a bunch of young people running around London
0:43:39 > 0:43:42with fire in their hand, it wasn't exactly Olympic, was it?
0:43:42 > 0:43:46Technically they were going for gold, but it was Argos gold.
0:43:47 > 0:43:51How do you break that to Steve Redgrave, our greatest ever Olympian
0:43:51 > 0:43:53going, "So then, David gives the torch to you..."
0:43:53 > 0:43:54"Yeah, and I light the flame..."
0:43:54 > 0:43:57"No, no, no - you're just going to give it to a bunch of kids."
0:43:57 > 0:44:01You did just expect Steve Redgrave to run on in a flaming coat
0:44:01 > 0:44:02and roll over it until he was lit
0:44:02 > 0:44:04and then lay there going, "I lit the flame,"
0:44:04 > 0:44:07and hug everyone until they were on fire and then just turn into
0:44:07 > 0:44:11a fireball and spell his own name out in the sky that says, "Steve!"
0:44:11 > 0:44:12But it wasn't that.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16Instead, it was very moving, it was seven kids came on,
0:44:16 > 0:44:19young Olympians, the people of the future, igniting the flame,
0:44:19 > 0:44:21which represented the start of the Games,
0:44:21 > 0:44:24was people at the start of their sporting career.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27There wasn't a single person in the room where I was
0:44:27 > 0:44:29that didn't have a tear in the eye.
0:44:29 > 0:44:30Gabby, do you know what?
0:44:30 > 0:44:33I am absolutely loving this Olympics stuff.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36- That's good. Good. - So much. What's next?
0:44:36 > 0:44:39OK, well number 26 - I'm really excited about this one - it's gymnastics.
0:44:39 > 0:44:43Britain's men with the first team medal ever in the Olympic Games.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46Mm... What else have you got?
0:44:46 > 0:44:49Gymnastics is... It's just roly-poly isn't it?
0:44:49 > 0:44:51- Yeah, go on then, do one.- All right.
0:44:51 > 0:44:55I would, but my shoulder's giving me a bit of gyp since the javelin,
0:44:55 > 0:44:58- so I can't, really. - Built for it.- Yeah.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00Having never won a team gymnastics medal,
0:45:00 > 0:45:03expectations for our boys weren't that high -
0:45:03 > 0:45:07especially as they were up against the world's greatest nations.
0:45:07 > 0:45:11Still to this day that the team final medal for us...
0:45:13 > 0:45:16..is just the shocker. It's the one that doesn't really sink in.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19I've never witnessed an atmosphere like that.
0:45:20 > 0:45:25Double Arabian, just a pace, and that is just what was needed.
0:45:25 > 0:45:30There was this energy that kind of wrapped up each and every
0:45:30 > 0:45:33single one of the British gymnasts and, sort of,
0:45:33 > 0:45:37carried them off the floor as soon as they started their routines
0:45:37 > 0:45:39and it just encased them.
0:45:39 > 0:45:43This memory will never leave me, watching the men's gymnastics.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47It was like a heart-stopping moment.
0:45:47 > 0:45:53I don't think anyone expected to win a medal the first time in history,
0:45:53 > 0:45:55in 100 years, to win a medal.
0:45:55 > 0:46:01I cannot believe that the men's Great Britain gymnastic team
0:46:01 > 0:46:05beat America, Germany, Russia, Ukraine.
0:46:05 > 0:46:10All of the men's team did such an incredible job on their apparatus
0:46:10 > 0:46:13and we eventually got the bronze, but you know what?
0:46:13 > 0:46:16It was such an incredible job that they did and it was, I think,
0:46:16 > 0:46:19one of the most incredible moments of the whole Games.
0:46:21 > 0:46:25I mean, I was up on me chair, I was running around...
0:46:25 > 0:46:28It was just brilliant, it really was.
0:46:28 > 0:46:33We came third behind China and Japan. That is unbelievable.
0:46:33 > 0:46:34HE SOBS
0:46:34 > 0:46:37You know, these Olympics could get a bit overwhelming.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39I meant for the competitors.
0:46:40 > 0:46:43HE BLOWS HIS NOSE
0:46:43 > 0:46:45Take a look at this.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47Well, we've already seen John Inverdale losing it
0:46:47 > 0:46:49and there were more than just a few tears around the Games.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51What about this guy?
0:46:51 > 0:46:55This is Felix Sanchez who at the age of 35 became the oldest man
0:46:55 > 0:46:57to win Olympic gold at the 400m hurdles.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00Maybe that's why he's a bit weepy.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03From the king of blubs to the queen of sobs,
0:47:03 > 0:47:05it's our Vicky at number 25.
0:47:05 > 0:47:09Victoria Pendleton, what she brought to the Olympics
0:47:09 > 0:47:11was a sense of TOWIE, that kind of drama.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13I don't think anyone brought as much drama
0:47:13 > 0:47:15to the Olympics as Victoria Pendleton.
0:47:15 > 0:47:17There's always drama, there's always tears,
0:47:17 > 0:47:19there's always something to enjoy when Vicky's on the track.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22I mean, you did get a bit tired towards week two of people
0:47:22 > 0:47:24talking about the sacrifices they've had to make.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26I mean, what do you want? A bloody medal?
0:47:26 > 0:47:30As expected, there was drama for Queen Vic in the team sprint when
0:47:30 > 0:47:34the judges deemed her changeover with Jess Varnish to be illegal.
0:47:34 > 0:47:36She was disqualified. Cue more tears.
0:47:37 > 0:47:40Oh, sorry. I'm welling up.
0:47:40 > 0:47:42You know, Vicky can be quite fragile, you know,
0:47:42 > 0:47:46and this was her swansong and it was London, it was everything.
0:47:46 > 0:47:47It had been built up.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50I know I felt the pressure as I'm sure that
0:47:50 > 0:47:52most of my team-mates did too.
0:47:52 > 0:47:56There was one more chance for Vicky to end her career in style.
0:47:56 > 0:47:58Could she take gold in the keirin?
0:47:58 > 0:48:01You can imagine her in the backstage Olympic village going,
0:48:01 > 0:48:03"Oh, my God - do you think he fancies me?
0:48:03 > 0:48:06"Do you think I look good in this? I don't know what to do -
0:48:06 > 0:48:09"if I don't win a gold I'm just going to really, really just go.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11"OMG."
0:48:11 > 0:48:14As they are coming down the finishing straight now,
0:48:14 > 0:48:17they are on the line, oh, Victoria Pendleton takes the gold medal!
0:48:17 > 0:48:20She is the Olympic keirin champion!
0:48:20 > 0:48:23That was nice to see her get gold, you know, in the keirin.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26And I like the old teary-eyed celebrations.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28That went down very well with everyone.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30The heart symbol at the Games,
0:48:30 > 0:48:35it wasn't premeditated or anything like that, it was...
0:48:35 > 0:48:37I could see my family in the crowd,
0:48:37 > 0:48:40like, way above me in the stands and, you know, I did that and,
0:48:40 > 0:48:42you know, said, "Love you,"
0:48:42 > 0:48:45that they might recognise what I was trying to say.
0:48:45 > 0:48:49That looks more like a snail than a heart.
0:48:49 > 0:48:50She should've gone...
0:48:50 > 0:48:53Because your heart's slightly to one side and it beats funny like that.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56Or she should have just gone like that, "See you in a bit."
0:48:56 > 0:48:58That's a better symbol, isn't it?
0:49:02 > 0:49:04From the queen of hearts to a woman who captured
0:49:04 > 0:49:06the hearts of the nation.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09For one extraordinary night the Excel Arena turned green
0:49:09 > 0:49:13and Ireland returned its first and only gold of the Games.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15At 24 it's Katie Taylor.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18Katie Taylor, I point it out far too often -
0:49:18 > 0:49:20people must be tired of me saying it -
0:49:20 > 0:49:22is from the same town in Ireland that I'm from.
0:49:22 > 0:49:28She is absolutely sensational. Absolutely wonderful to watch.
0:49:28 > 0:49:31What a fighter Katie Taylor is, an Irish legend.
0:49:31 > 0:49:35Going back to my hometown is kind of funny now because it's like,
0:49:35 > 0:49:36"Welcome to Katie Town,"
0:49:36 > 0:49:39cos everywhere there's giant posters of Katie.
0:49:39 > 0:49:42It was really nice to see her do well cos
0:49:42 > 0:49:45she always has a massive fanbase from Ireland.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48In the room it was 80% Irish and myself and Ed Byrne were there
0:49:48 > 0:49:52and we said, "Look, let's not just do this in a kind of a bluffy way,
0:49:52 > 0:49:55"let's actually try to work this out."
0:49:55 > 0:49:59How you have a randomly allocated tickets system that leads to
0:49:59 > 0:50:05an 80% Irish intake on the day is one of the great miracles.
0:50:05 > 0:50:07Good to have you here. Thanks for coming along.
0:50:07 > 0:50:09The way boxing works, it's a flurry of punches
0:50:09 > 0:50:12and then you nervously wait and see what the judges think.
0:50:12 > 0:50:15Oh! Lovely!
0:50:15 > 0:50:18Then she went out, turned it around and went 7-5 up.
0:50:18 > 0:50:22Oh, she doesn't know that she's gone 7-5 up? The roof came off the place.
0:50:22 > 0:50:23An explosion.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28And at the final bell Katie Taylor receives
0:50:28 > 0:50:31a hug of congratulations from her coaching team.
0:50:34 > 0:50:36This could go either way.
0:50:36 > 0:50:38- ANNOUNCER:- Ladies and gentlemen.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40The winner by a score of ten points to eight
0:50:40 > 0:50:47and the Olympic champion in the red corner representing Ireland...
0:50:47 > 0:50:51- CROWD ROARS - ..Katie Taylor.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56And then my stomach, my massive stomach,
0:50:56 > 0:50:59suddenly appearing in shot so I was like, "Oh, Lord.
0:50:59 > 0:51:01"I really must do something about that."
0:51:01 > 0:51:04We don't get, in Ireland, lots of medals.
0:51:04 > 0:51:07To have actually been at one of those moments, oh, that's like...
0:51:07 > 0:51:09You hand that out as a business card. "Oh, yeah, hiya.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11"I was at the Katie Taylor fight."
0:51:11 > 0:51:13This is a dream come true for me.
0:51:13 > 0:51:15It's incredible. The best day of my life.
0:51:15 > 0:51:18One medal was enough. It was a beautiful event.
0:51:18 > 0:51:21- Would you say your parents are proud of you?- Hard to say, really.
0:51:21 > 0:51:24Yeah, sometimes is difficult for people to show their true emotions.
0:51:24 > 0:51:29- No, no. I was raised by wolves so it's literally hard to say.- Yeah.
0:51:29 > 0:51:31OK, well, coming up in this next clip is a human father who
0:51:31 > 0:51:35didn't have any trouble showing his emotions as he watched his son
0:51:35 > 0:51:38take gold in the aquatic centre. It's Chad le "Closs".
0:51:38 > 0:51:42- Le "Cloe", isn't it?- Yeah, like you'd know. Is it le "Cloe"?
0:51:45 > 0:51:49I was covering the swimming and in the 200 fly,
0:51:49 > 0:51:53a race that Michael Phelps hadn't been beaten in for, I don't know,
0:51:53 > 0:51:57six or seven years, he was beaten by a South African called Chad le Clos.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00Oh, my goodness me. Chad le Clos won the gold.
0:52:00 > 0:52:02And there was this guy on the balcony,
0:52:02 > 0:52:06this great big South African man going really,
0:52:06 > 0:52:08really nuts for Chad so I said to Mark,
0:52:08 > 0:52:10"Go and get him! Go and get him!"
0:52:10 > 0:52:13So I ran round and I said, "Do you think that Bert..."
0:52:13 > 0:52:15Or Chad's dad as he was known at the time, "..would talk to us?"
0:52:15 > 0:52:18He looked at Chad's dad, looked back at me and said,
0:52:18 > 0:52:21"He'll talk to you but I warn you - he swears an awful lot,"
0:52:21 > 0:52:24which in my mind, I went, "That's not my problem - it's Clare's problem."
0:52:24 > 0:52:27And I was saying on the talkback to the director and the editor,
0:52:27 > 0:52:31"You must stay with me because we are going to get Chad's dad,"
0:52:31 > 0:52:34and so we got him, found out his name was Bert.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36I started interviewing him
0:52:36 > 0:52:40and he just bubbled over with love and pride.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43- My word. What a performance! - Unbelievable!
0:52:43 > 0:52:47Unbelievable, unbelievable. I've never been so happy in my life.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50To happen tonight it's like I died and went to heaven.
0:52:50 > 0:52:54- And there is your boy down there. - It's unbelievable - look at him!
0:52:54 > 0:52:58And he's beautiful! Look at this! What a beautiful boy! Look...
0:52:58 > 0:53:01Oh, my God. Sorry, sorry.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04"He's beautiful. Don't look at me! Oh, no, don't look at me! Are we live?"
0:53:04 > 0:53:07Look at him! Look at him - he's crying like me!
0:53:07 > 0:53:10"He's a beautiful boy. He's a beautiful boy."
0:53:10 > 0:53:11Of course he is. Weird.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14I love you. Oh, my God. Every time I see myself I look at him.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16Just great and I thought,
0:53:16 > 0:53:18"Just keep holding the microphone in front of him.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20"Just keep holding the microphone - this is gold."
0:53:20 > 0:53:24Oh, unbelievable. Unbelievable. Thanks, Great Britain.
0:53:24 > 0:53:27He was just amazing. He actually reminds me a little bit of my dad
0:53:27 > 0:53:31because if my dad was actually there for the Olympic Games
0:53:31 > 0:53:33he would have definitely reacted along similar lines.
0:53:33 > 0:53:36- Thank you and congratulations.- Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
0:53:36 > 0:53:39This was a brilliant piece of television and he doesn't know it.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42I bumped into Bert two nights later and he goes,
0:53:42 > 0:53:45"Oh, my darling, come here, come here, give me a cuddle!
0:53:45 > 0:53:48"We are famous around the world! We are famous around the world!
0:53:48 > 0:53:51"We have gone viral!"
0:53:51 > 0:53:53Number 22 takes us back to the velodrome
0:53:53 > 0:53:56and if you're going to keep Chris Hoy at of the individual sprint
0:53:56 > 0:53:59for team GB then you'd better win gold. No pressure, Jason.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02I think what was wonderful about Jason Kenny was that
0:54:02 > 0:54:06he not only had to deal with the pressure of the crowd in the velodrome,
0:54:06 > 0:54:08not only did he have to deal with the pressure of the fact that
0:54:08 > 0:54:13four years ago Britain won gold, so anything less than gold was going to be a failure,
0:54:13 > 0:54:16but also to deal with the fact that everyone was there going,
0:54:16 > 0:54:19"Oh, THIS is the guy who I haven't actually heard of who they've decided
0:54:19 > 0:54:22"is better for this event than Chris Hoy."
0:54:22 > 0:54:24You imagine getting on a bike and you're all on your own
0:54:24 > 0:54:27and you have to deal with all of that?
0:54:27 > 0:54:28And, boy, did he deal with it.
0:54:28 > 0:54:32COMMENTATOR: Kenny's got the head of the race and Bauge will not take it!
0:54:32 > 0:54:35Kenny is the Olympic sprint champion!
0:54:35 > 0:54:39But it wasn't his exploits in the velodrome that got Jason Kenny splashed all over the papers
0:54:39 > 0:54:41but his not-so-secret romance
0:54:41 > 0:54:44with fellow golden Team GB member Laura Trott.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46There's one way to get outed, isn't there, as a couple?
0:54:46 > 0:54:49And that's the pair of you win two gold medals,
0:54:49 > 0:54:53go down the beach volleyball, sit a row behind David Beckham,
0:54:53 > 0:54:57have a few beers and then discreetly try to steal a kiss.
0:55:01 > 0:55:03Do you know what? The rules are out the window here.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06This is us hosting our Olympic Games and if you want to fall in love with a team-mate
0:55:06 > 0:55:09and watch the beach volleyball and have a little kiss,
0:55:09 > 0:55:13all that will happen is the nation will watch that and think, "Fantastic."
0:55:13 > 0:55:17At number 21, it's time to celebrate the exploits of Baillie and Stott.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20The unlikely lads turned out to be the best water-borne double-act
0:55:20 > 0:55:23since Pamela Anderson said yes to the Baywatch gig.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26Gold and silver in the canoe slalom for Baillie and Stott
0:55:26 > 0:55:28and Florence and Hounslow.
0:55:28 > 0:55:34That doesn't really sound like athletes, do they? They sound like really boring estate agents.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36CHEERING
0:55:36 > 0:55:39It's a staged sport anyway, the slalom canoeing.
0:55:39 > 0:55:43If you're going down a river through rocks and it's all fast, why would you go back again?
0:55:43 > 0:55:47Why do they do that bit? They go, "Oh, we just escaped those rocks there. And certain death!
0:55:47 > 0:55:49"I know! Let's go back!"
0:55:49 > 0:55:52So Baillie and Stott had qualified by the skin of their teeth.
0:55:52 > 0:55:57They were in 12th place and they go and do their thing, you know, go for it, no pressure on them.
0:55:57 > 0:56:00So clearly when they get out they're the first ones who've gone,
0:56:00 > 0:56:04they're in gold medal position. What's going to happen next?
0:56:04 > 0:56:07What happens next is 11, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two.
0:56:07 > 0:56:11None of them beat their time. They're in gold-medal position during the last run
0:56:11 > 0:56:13and it happens to be their mates.
0:56:13 > 0:56:15Their mates Florence and Hounslow are going to go.
0:56:15 > 0:56:17And you could see when they were watching it,
0:56:17 > 0:56:21there's a part of them that was getting their face ready like the Oscars.
0:56:21 > 0:56:25Cos it was almost like they were nominated but they were ready to go, "Oh, they're great."
0:56:25 > 0:56:28COMMENTATOR: This could be gold and silver for Great Britain!
0:56:28 > 0:56:32Tim Baillie and Stott lead. Can Florence and Hounslow win it?
0:56:32 > 0:56:36Oh, my goodness! They've got a silver medal!
0:56:36 > 0:56:40I thought, well done to them. You know, underdogs in the final and they did it. Congratulations.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46Moving on now, we're down to number 20,
0:56:46 > 0:56:49and it's time to pay tribute to the women's coxless pair
0:56:49 > 0:56:54who lifted a nation that found itself very much up the creek without a paddle or any gold medals.
0:56:54 > 0:56:56- HE LAUGHS - What is it now?
0:56:56 > 0:56:57It's coxless!
0:56:58 > 0:57:00It's Glover and Stanning.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02Every morning we'd go in, right, in the early days,
0:57:02 > 0:57:06because there was an enormous office that the BBC had.
0:57:06 > 0:57:10All the presenters working ready for the day and researching what they were going to do,
0:57:10 > 0:57:14and there was this thing about who's going to get the first gold medal? On whose watch will it be?
0:57:16 > 0:57:21I remember saying to Gary Lineker, "That's it, mate, I'm off. We're definitely getting the first gold."
0:57:21 > 0:57:23When it came to that Wednesday morning,
0:57:23 > 0:57:27it was up to two very unsung heroes to actually break the duck.
0:57:27 > 0:57:30COMMENTATOR: Great Britain into the record books
0:57:30 > 0:57:33and such fabulously well done there!
0:57:34 > 0:57:37It was just a phenomenal race, and I was sitting on the end of my bed.
0:57:37 > 0:57:40I was only about a kilometre away from the finishing line
0:57:40 > 0:57:44but we weren't down at the course, we were resting up, and I was sort of welling up.
0:57:44 > 0:57:46I was so proud of them.
0:57:46 > 0:57:50So great, really, that Helen and Heather got that first gold,
0:57:50 > 0:57:51relatively unknowns, you know.
0:57:51 > 0:57:54And I think that kind of set up the momentum for the fact that,
0:57:54 > 0:57:58"You know what? There's going to be lots of other Olympians coming through
0:57:58 > 0:58:02"that maybe we haven't heard of that actually maybe could achieve the most incredible things."
0:58:02 > 0:58:06I'm absolutely shattered and ecstatic all at the same time and...
0:58:06 > 0:58:08I want to collapse but I'm just so overjoyed and...
0:58:08 > 0:58:13I just want to jump around at the same time today! Probably talking rubbish now as well!
0:58:13 > 0:58:17They didn't just give the rowing team a boost, they gave the whole nation a boost.
0:58:17 > 0:58:19Not just sport. I mean, everybody loved it.
0:58:19 > 0:58:22And another chance for Sir Steve to give out the hugs.
0:58:22 > 0:58:26Now, someone we all wanted to give a big hug to was Gemma Gibbons.
0:58:26 > 0:58:29Gemma was ranked 42nd in the world at judo.
0:58:29 > 0:58:33But she used the memory of her late mother to inspire her to Olympic glory.
0:58:33 > 0:58:37She touched the hearts of millions, and that's why she's number 19.
0:58:39 > 0:58:41It probably was, well...
0:58:41 > 0:58:45the most emotional few moments out there.
0:58:48 > 0:58:53She felt her mum was there and her mum was watching and... Oh!
0:58:56 > 0:58:58It's kind of...
0:58:58 > 0:59:00comes back now, how...
0:59:01 > 0:59:03Erm...
0:59:03 > 0:59:06How... You know, it's sort of bittersweet for her in a way,
0:59:06 > 0:59:08that her mum wasn't there but she felt she was
0:59:08 > 0:59:10and she just looked up...
0:59:11 > 0:59:16The moment she looked skyward and said, "I love you, Mum..."
0:59:18 > 0:59:23Honestly, it nearly broke my heart. You know, to lose your mum...
0:59:23 > 0:59:26you know, as she did, in 2004,
0:59:26 > 0:59:31and to be that close...to being in the final
0:59:31 > 0:59:34and recognising that, it was really a poignant moment.
0:59:34 > 0:59:37'My mum died eight years ago and...'
0:59:38 > 0:59:40Probably it's been in the last couple of years that I've actually
0:59:40 > 0:59:43started to talk about her and...
0:59:43 > 0:59:47Ask any of my friends. It's not something that I just generally talk about.
0:59:47 > 0:59:51But now I've had to talk about it quite a lot over the last couple of months.
0:59:51 > 0:59:55How emotionally draining was that semi-final?
0:59:55 > 0:59:59And then to prepare to come out for the final.
0:59:59 > 1:00:03She was just such an inspirational person,
1:00:03 > 1:00:05and to come away with that medal... Oh!
1:00:05 > 1:00:08It was one of THE most moving moments of the Games.
1:00:08 > 1:00:13'I think I did pretty good, and, yeah, that's what I was here to do.
1:00:13 > 1:00:16'That was my job on the day to come away with an Olympic medal'
1:00:16 > 1:00:18and I managed that. I wish I could've made it gold.
1:00:18 > 1:00:20But maybe in Rio.
1:00:21 > 1:00:24If she gets there, she'll have plenty of fans, no doubt,
1:00:24 > 1:00:27but Rio will have one hell of an act to follow.
1:00:27 > 1:00:31One of the most memorable aspects of the Games was the change in attitude of the Great British public.
1:00:31 > 1:00:35We were positive and optimistic. We proved the doubters wrong.
1:00:35 > 1:00:38No more was this evident than through the work of the volunteers.
1:00:38 > 1:00:41The Games-makers brought smiles to people's faces
1:00:41 > 1:00:43and made a nation proud.
1:00:43 > 1:00:47And we also proudly salute the work of the armed forces and the police.
1:00:47 > 1:00:51This feel-good factor was very... un-British, but we loved it.
1:00:51 > 1:00:53Gabs, do you know what?
1:00:53 > 1:00:55Out of all the sports we have seen today,
1:00:55 > 1:00:56gymnastics is the one I want to take up.
1:00:56 > 1:00:59That's great that it's captured your imagination.
1:00:59 > 1:01:01It's not so much that, it's the fact that it would be nice
1:01:01 > 1:01:04to have an actual reason to wear a leotard for a change.
1:01:04 > 1:01:06Ugh, that is such a disgusting image.
1:01:06 > 1:01:08You just get good support.
1:01:08 > 1:01:10I'll be carrying it around in my head all day.
1:01:10 > 1:01:14At number 18, it's my new favourite sport - gymnastics.
1:01:14 > 1:01:15And it is our Louis.
1:01:25 > 1:01:27The last six, seven years,
1:01:27 > 1:01:30all the interviews I've done was about to this moment.
1:01:30 > 1:01:31This was the one.
1:01:31 > 1:01:34TANNOY: Representing Great Britain, Louis Smith.
1:01:34 > 1:01:39I remember, I first met Louis when he had just got into his teens.
1:01:39 > 1:01:41He came on to Blue Peter actually.
1:01:41 > 1:01:46On Blue Peter, I'm pretty sure I had the hair plaits going back.
1:01:46 > 1:01:50That was superbly executed, it really was. How often do you train?
1:01:50 > 1:01:53I train six days a week at Huntingdon Gymnastics Club.
1:01:53 > 1:01:57My voice didn't really sound right, it was quite squeaky.
1:01:57 > 1:02:02To see what he has achieved in his career is just brilliant.
1:02:02 > 1:02:04It's not just that, you know, he has also,
1:02:04 > 1:02:07he has opened the door for all the other young lads out there
1:02:07 > 1:02:11and he's made them realise what is possible.
1:02:11 > 1:02:15COMMENTATOR: The absolute expert on this apparatus.
1:02:15 > 1:02:19Everyone kind of remembers the time when I cried at the Olympic Games.
1:02:19 > 1:02:22COMMENTATOR: That's a champion's performance.
1:02:24 > 1:02:26So, when I finally did my first routine
1:02:26 > 1:02:30and I gave myself the opportunity to qualify for the final, it was
1:02:30 > 1:02:34just kind of, everything just kind of came out of me.
1:02:34 > 1:02:37All the pressure that I'd been pretending wasn't there,
1:02:37 > 1:02:40all the expectation, you know, it's just came rushing off
1:02:40 > 1:02:43and I just felt a completely different human.
1:02:51 > 1:02:54As soon as I landed, I knew, you know,
1:02:54 > 1:02:56it had all the ingredients to win a gold medal.
1:02:56 > 1:02:59CHEERING
1:02:59 > 1:03:02Louis Smith, all I'll say on Louis Smith is he was robbed.
1:03:02 > 1:03:04He is incredibly nice about it, very gracious.
1:03:04 > 1:03:06I've met him a few times since
1:03:06 > 1:03:09and he's very nice about the whole thing. He was literally robbed.
1:03:09 > 1:03:13COMMENTATOR: It's a tie. It's 16.066.
1:03:13 > 1:03:18Now, because the execution score was slightly lower than Berki's,
1:03:18 > 1:03:21Berki will take gold.
1:03:21 > 1:03:25You know, I've been competing against Krisztian Berki since 2006.
1:03:25 > 1:03:28Sometimes he beats me, I beat him, he beats me.
1:03:28 > 1:03:31And on that day, you know, he won.
1:03:31 > 1:03:33From silver on the pommel horse for Louis,
1:03:33 > 1:03:36to gold on a real horse for Charlotte.
1:03:36 > 1:03:39Unbelievably, the Brits are good at dressage - who knew?
1:03:39 > 1:03:41I've never really seen dressage before so
1:03:41 > 1:03:45when I turned on my telly and I saw a bunch of dancing horses
1:03:45 > 1:03:48and I checked to see whether it was the Olympics,
1:03:48 > 1:03:50it was the Olympics, I carried on watching.
1:03:50 > 1:03:52It was completely extraordinary.
1:03:52 > 1:03:54It's one of those mysterious sports
1:03:54 > 1:03:56that I think you get,
1:03:56 > 1:03:59you know, lots of people wouldn't have chosen to watch
1:03:59 > 1:04:02but because it was there, they're like, "Oh. Ohh. Oh!"
1:04:06 > 1:04:09I think the genius was they didn't put dressage at the beginning.
1:04:09 > 1:04:12If they had put dressage on the first two days,
1:04:12 > 1:04:15I would have gone, "Well, this is, I'm not interested in this at all."
1:04:15 > 1:04:19But they put it on when it really mattered how many golds we had
1:04:19 > 1:04:23so I sat there happily watching horses dance for two hours,
1:04:23 > 1:04:26punching the air. Genius.
1:04:26 > 1:04:27I found myself, like,
1:04:27 > 1:04:30falling in love with Ulla. I don't even like animals
1:04:30 > 1:04:34but something about the Olympics dressage got me, man.
1:04:34 > 1:04:36No-one, really, did understand
1:04:36 > 1:04:39until this Olympic Games how difficult it is.
1:04:39 > 1:04:40I'm a... I horse ride.
1:04:40 > 1:04:43I know how difficult it is to even stop a horse and get it going
1:04:43 > 1:04:47let alone trying to get it to do all these things to music.
1:04:47 > 1:04:48I didn't look at it as a spectacle sport.
1:04:48 > 1:04:50I sat there and went, "Oh, this is funny."
1:04:50 > 1:04:53Like a YouTube video of a gorilla sleeping with a frog.
1:04:53 > 1:04:56If anyone is trying to train a dog to sit and stay,
1:04:56 > 1:05:00imagine trying to do that to a horse. It is incredibly difficult.
1:05:00 > 1:05:03I was in Nando's with my mates, having some lunch
1:05:03 > 1:05:06and then I'm eating some food and halfway through,
1:05:06 > 1:05:09I dropped my cutlery and I went, "Oh, no!" And my mates are all like,
1:05:09 > 1:05:12"Nathan, what's wrong? Is it the food? What's going on?"
1:05:12 > 1:05:17And I went, "Oh, no. I forgot to Sky Plus the dressage."
1:05:17 > 1:05:19When have you ever heard a young black guy say,
1:05:19 > 1:05:21"I forgot to Sky Plus the dressage"?
1:05:21 > 1:05:25COMMENTATOR: She's going for gold. Charlotte Dujardin for Great Britain.
1:05:25 > 1:05:29Yes, the golden girl of the British team was Charlotte Dujardin,
1:05:29 > 1:05:33dancing her way to gold in both the team and individual dressage events.
1:05:33 > 1:05:38That's why it is enough to see her trot into 17th spot.
1:05:38 > 1:05:39COMMENTATOR: She has got the gold!
1:05:39 > 1:05:44Charlotte Dujardin has iced the cake in style!
1:05:44 > 1:05:47It's unbelievable. I'm not even emotional about it.
1:05:47 > 1:05:52COMMENTATOR: And Britain has got another gold. What a performance.
1:05:52 > 1:05:54I don't know how we've done it but we've done it
1:05:54 > 1:05:57and now got two Olympic gold medals so, unbelievable.
1:05:57 > 1:06:00They always interview the rider and sometimes they go,
1:06:00 > 1:06:02"Thanks for my achievement, I won gold and everything."
1:06:02 > 1:06:05And I'm thinking, "Speak to the horse. Speak to the horse about it."
1:06:05 > 1:06:07But the thing is, with the horses is
1:06:07 > 1:06:09they're not as big-headed as the humans. Say to a horse,
1:06:09 > 1:06:12"You've won gold, how do you feel?" The horse is like that...
1:06:12 > 1:06:13Pffffft.
1:06:17 > 1:06:21So, our next entry comes courtesy of Britain's truly incredible
1:06:21 > 1:06:22women's team pursuiters.
1:06:22 > 1:06:25Oh, I remember this. They were brilliant, were they?
1:06:25 > 1:06:28Honestly, I've not seen women pursued with such relentless
1:06:28 > 1:06:30determination since my mate Dave's stag do.
1:06:32 > 1:06:33Yes, very funny, Greg.
1:06:33 > 1:06:36At 16th, three girls with three amazing stories.
1:06:36 > 1:06:40It was my favourite gold medal of the entire Olympics,
1:06:40 > 1:06:41without a shadow of a doubt.
1:06:41 > 1:06:43The women's team pursuit inside that velodrome.
1:06:43 > 1:06:46Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott.
1:06:46 > 1:06:49Olympic gold medals are handed out in their hundreds every
1:06:49 > 1:06:52four years but it's the stories that set them apart.
1:06:52 > 1:06:53Laura Trott has a condition
1:06:53 > 1:06:57when if she exerts herself too much physically, she throws up.
1:06:57 > 1:06:59So, the whole way throughout the Olympics there was a steel
1:06:59 > 1:07:01bucket at the finish line.
1:07:01 > 1:07:04You've got Dani King who was told after glandular fever that she
1:07:04 > 1:07:07would have trouble climbing the stairs without being
1:07:07 > 1:07:10out of breath and then you've got Joana Rowsell had
1:07:10 > 1:07:11alopecia from a young age
1:07:11 > 1:07:14and suffered from depression as a kid and didn't want to leave
1:07:14 > 1:07:18her house and those three girls together, dominant on the track.
1:07:18 > 1:07:21Dani, Jo and Laura make a great team.
1:07:21 > 1:07:23They understand each other's strengths,
1:07:23 > 1:07:27they get on so well, they've got a great work ethic as a group
1:07:27 > 1:07:31and, to be honest, they were the tightest team at the Olympics.
1:07:31 > 1:07:36Qualifying round, world record. Semi-final, world record.
1:07:36 > 1:07:41COMMENTATOR: Great Britain win the Olympic title and the gold medal.
1:07:41 > 1:07:45Final, world record, gold medal, thank you very much,
1:07:45 > 1:07:46national anthem.
1:07:46 > 1:07:50It was an ultimate display of dominance against the rest
1:07:50 > 1:07:52of the world.
1:07:52 > 1:07:55Velodrome cycling is obscure
1:07:55 > 1:07:57and strange at the best of times in many, many ways.
1:07:57 > 1:08:00Basically, they're all bikes going round a track
1:08:00 > 1:08:03so they just work out different ways to do bikes going round a track.
1:08:03 > 1:08:06So, they have, will we do it from a standing start?
1:08:06 > 1:08:09Will we do in a group? Will we do on your own?
1:08:09 > 1:08:11Will we do with a motorbike in front of you with a man looking
1:08:11 > 1:08:14really kind of, "What's happening here?"
1:08:14 > 1:08:17The best parallel is if you play video games then
1:08:17 > 1:08:20they're like the different online modes in Call Of Duty.
1:08:20 > 1:08:22All these games essentially involve
1:08:22 > 1:08:25running around shooting people in the head with fake guns, right?
1:08:25 > 1:08:28But there is team deathmatch, and there's individual deathmatch
1:08:28 > 1:08:29and there's capture the flag.
1:08:29 > 1:08:31That is basically what the velodrome feels like.
1:08:31 > 1:08:35The omnium, which has all the different capture the flag
1:08:35 > 1:08:38permutations, there is one thing called elimination.
1:08:38 > 1:08:42They go around in a big group and on every second lap a buzzer
1:08:42 > 1:08:44goes off and the last person has to drop out and do
1:08:44 > 1:08:47the glide of shame where they're like, "I am no longer in this."
1:08:47 > 1:08:50But Laura Trott was the GB representative in this.
1:08:50 > 1:08:53There was one particularly, the seventh or eighth last one,
1:08:53 > 1:08:56where she was at the back and she saw...
1:08:56 > 1:08:59This was one of the finest moments of the Olympics.
1:08:59 > 1:09:02She saw a gap. There was no gap there.
1:09:02 > 1:09:07But Trott saw a gap and she cut through and just wedged the bike.
1:09:07 > 1:09:09I would like to see the woman park
1:09:09 > 1:09:13because I would imagine that she rams a car into a tiny...
1:09:13 > 1:09:15And then climbs out of the roof.
1:09:15 > 1:09:17It is the most incredible piece of positioning.
1:09:17 > 1:09:20She just found a gap in a moving field of cyclists,
1:09:20 > 1:09:23just got her wheel in front, cleared for that one
1:09:23 > 1:09:25and then went on and won that round.
1:09:25 > 1:09:28Introduce an elimination round into every...
1:09:28 > 1:09:32Into politics, into your family. Into everything.
1:09:32 > 1:09:35You, child, are not eating your dinner enough - you're out.
1:09:35 > 1:09:38Everything would benefit from an elimination round.
1:09:38 > 1:09:41COMMENTATOR: Laura Trott's going to win the elimination round,
1:09:41 > 1:09:44the third counted event in the omnium.
1:09:44 > 1:09:47And, for Laura Trott, her amazing performance in the omnium
1:09:47 > 1:09:50sealed her second gold of the Games.
1:09:50 > 1:09:52It was just such a nice feeling and I don't want the feeling to go away.
1:09:52 > 1:09:57The way the country, like, lifted us as well was just incredible.
1:09:57 > 1:10:00I just want that feeling all the time.
1:10:00 > 1:10:04Aged just 14 when he competed in Beijing, someone making a big splash
1:10:04 > 1:10:08at the Olympics was this guy, who had done an awful lot of growing up.
1:10:10 > 1:10:13Tom Daley's body was quite nice.
1:10:17 > 1:10:21Standing on the end of the board in the Olympic Games is nerve-wracking.
1:10:21 > 1:10:25But then standing on the end of the board in front of the home crowd in
1:10:25 > 1:10:28London at the Olympic Games kind of just takes it up a whole new level.
1:10:28 > 1:10:31COMMENTATOR: Now the opening dive for Tom Daley.
1:10:31 > 1:10:34I took off, twisted towards the audience
1:10:34 > 1:10:36and then all of a sudden there was of these flashes in my face
1:10:36 > 1:10:39and if you get those flashes in your face,
1:10:39 > 1:10:42your automatic reaction is to blink and if you blink during a dive,
1:10:42 > 1:10:45you lose where you are and by that point I'd hit the water
1:10:45 > 1:10:48and it had gone wrong so I approached the referee
1:10:48 > 1:10:51and he looked back on the replay and thought it was unfair
1:10:51 > 1:10:53so he gave me another shot.
1:10:53 > 1:10:56To have the presence of mind that he had after that first dive to
1:10:56 > 1:10:58come straight to the judge and say,
1:10:58 > 1:11:01"Look, I'm sorry, there were flashlights going off.
1:11:01 > 1:11:04"I need to retake that dive." I mean, that was amazing.
1:11:04 > 1:11:07I think Tom Daley got the bronze,
1:11:07 > 1:11:10and how proud and how pleased he was at winning that bronze
1:11:10 > 1:11:14really captured more of the spirit for me than some of the big hitters.
1:11:14 > 1:11:16COMMENTATOR: The country is behind you.
1:11:18 > 1:11:23COMMENTATOR: Ooh, yes! It's a good one! He can't do any more than that. The crowd are on their feet.
1:11:23 > 1:11:27Tom Daley has done absolutely everything he can.
1:11:27 > 1:11:30Loads of my family were there on the night. I had my friends, my family.
1:11:30 > 1:11:34I think there was up to about 30 people that came along, so...
1:11:34 > 1:11:36it was, yeah... It was a real special moment and I think
1:11:36 > 1:11:39when athletes are able to share it with their families
1:11:39 > 1:11:41it really does make it extra special.
1:11:41 > 1:11:43COMMENTATOR: But Tom Daley...
1:11:44 > 1:11:49..celebrates as only Tom Daley can! It's a bronze medal.
1:11:49 > 1:11:51They just all picked me up and jumped in
1:11:51 > 1:11:54but I don't see why it affected me because I was still wet anyway
1:11:54 > 1:11:57but those lot were in clothes so I don't understand why they did it
1:11:57 > 1:12:01but it was a real good moment for the whole team cos everyone was so happy about it.
1:12:02 > 1:12:05Now, what 2012 countdown would be complete
1:12:05 > 1:12:09without the first ever female boxing gold medallist in Olympic history?
1:12:09 > 1:12:12Someone who not only had a knockout punch but also a knockout smile.
1:12:12 > 1:12:15A smile that truly captured the nation's heart.
1:12:16 > 1:12:19No, that's just a bit creepy. Stop it. Introduce a clip.
1:12:19 > 1:12:23At number 14 it's the better-than-me-at-smiling Nicola Adams.
1:12:27 > 1:12:30My favourite Olympian, bar none, was Nicola Adams.
1:12:31 > 1:12:34She's gorgeous.
1:12:34 > 1:12:37Just a genuinely lovely kid from Leeds.
1:12:37 > 1:12:42If Nicola Adams has taught me anything, it's that sometimes it is OK to hit a woman.
1:12:42 > 1:12:44I'm joking, obviously!
1:12:44 > 1:12:46# Half the population just waiting to see me fill,
1:12:46 > 1:12:49# Yeah, right, you're better off trying to freeze hell... #
1:12:49 > 1:12:53It's exceptional that that was the first women's boxing at the Olympics
1:12:53 > 1:12:56and I think it was done with such, erm... Such grace.
1:12:56 > 1:12:59I mean, it was a really... It was a great sporting event.
1:12:59 > 1:13:01# And I'll be in your corner... #
1:13:01 > 1:13:05The atmosphere and the spectacle was pretty incredible.
1:13:07 > 1:13:09I love that she's breaking the idea
1:13:09 > 1:13:12that to be a woman you have to be physically weak.
1:13:12 > 1:13:16You can be feminine and really physically strong,
1:13:16 > 1:13:18and I think she's an incredible role model.
1:13:18 > 1:13:20She marmalised her opponent!
1:13:20 > 1:13:24Yeah, I just remember the bell going for the final round,
1:13:24 > 1:13:25and going out thinking,
1:13:25 > 1:13:28"All I have to do is stay focused, keep my hands up,"
1:13:28 > 1:13:31and, you know, "I can get through and win."
1:13:34 > 1:13:38It was a genuine astonishing performance. There was no doubt about it the whole way through.
1:13:38 > 1:13:42COMMENTATOR: The winner and Olympic Champion
1:13:42 > 1:13:45in the blue corner...
1:13:45 > 1:13:48Nicola Adams!
1:13:48 > 1:13:50She has got a great sense of humour
1:13:50 > 1:13:54and to win the first ever women's boxing title, it was...
1:13:54 > 1:13:57It was an amazing moment. And there's so many amazing moments in these Olympic Games
1:13:57 > 1:14:00but Nicola Adams is definitely up there with one of my favourites.
1:14:00 > 1:14:03Staying North now, from a Leeds lass to a pair of Leeds lads,
1:14:03 > 1:14:07and surely the Brownlee brothers were nailed on for a couple of medals.
1:14:07 > 1:14:09At number 13 it's the men's triathlon.
1:14:09 > 1:14:11They like to keep it in t'family up North.
1:14:11 > 1:14:14It was near-certain, just in terms of form,
1:14:14 > 1:14:18that one of them, and probably Alistair, would win gold.
1:14:18 > 1:14:21But there's so much that can go wrong in triathlon.
1:14:21 > 1:14:25COMMENTATOR: Jonny arrives, swim hat comes off, Alistair's right behind him.
1:14:25 > 1:14:29I could never compete against my brother because he's the athletic one of the pair and he got...
1:14:29 > 1:14:32My brother got all the sporting abilities and I got none,
1:14:32 > 1:14:36so it's amazing that the Brownlees clearly got a very even 50-50 split.
1:14:36 > 1:14:40COMMENTATOR: The brilliant Brownlee brothers are out in front.
1:14:40 > 1:14:42That was a wonderful story
1:14:42 > 1:14:46and, you know, the shot of him crossing the line with the flag over his shoulder,
1:14:46 > 1:14:50holding that Union flag and the crowd was going wild.
1:14:50 > 1:14:52That was the stand-out moment of the Games.
1:14:52 > 1:14:56COMMENTATOR: Alistair Brownlee is the Olympic triathlon champion!
1:14:56 > 1:15:00And there will be both of the brilliant Brownlee brothers
1:15:00 > 1:15:03on the Olympic podium
1:15:03 > 1:15:07as Jonathan comes home for bronze!
1:15:07 > 1:15:12I always got the impression with Alistair that he genuinely enjoyed the pressure,
1:15:12 > 1:15:16he enjoyed the attention, he enjoyed the race.
1:15:16 > 1:15:19And obviously they both enjoyed the medal ceremony.
1:15:19 > 1:15:24Medals in triathlon are like buses. We've been waiting all this time for them and two come along at once!
1:15:24 > 1:15:27Mrs Brownlee must be the proudest woman in England.
1:15:27 > 1:15:28She can go into any shop
1:15:28 > 1:15:33and no matter what the other mums and people are talking about,
1:15:33 > 1:15:37no matter what their kids have done, she can stand there and go, "Oh, did he?
1:15:37 > 1:15:42"Yeah. Well, my sons finished first and third in an Olympic event, so...
1:15:42 > 1:15:44"Sucks to be you, I guess."
1:15:47 > 1:15:50- Gabby, you know that last clip reminded me of you?- Why's that?
1:15:50 > 1:15:54Because you are officially the second best triathlete in your household.
1:15:54 > 1:15:58- What ARE you talking about? - Oh, no, second best...
1:15:58 > 1:16:02dancer in your household. You know, Strictly speaking? Uh?
1:16:02 > 1:16:03Yeah, moving on.
1:16:03 > 1:16:08At number 12 in the countdown is Britain's greatest ever female rower, Katherine Grainger.
1:16:08 > 1:16:11He was on a journey, Scottish as well. Get your feet off.
1:16:13 > 1:16:17For three Olympics I've seen her pick up a silver medal.
1:16:17 > 1:16:20The first two, I think she was quite happy about picking up a silver medal
1:16:20 > 1:16:23but in Beijing she was devastated.
1:16:23 > 1:16:28The tears after failing to win the gold... You just felt for her.
1:16:28 > 1:16:33Would she have the commitment and the belief to go on for another four years?
1:16:33 > 1:16:37Well, you don't underestimate Katherine. She has that amazing will to win.
1:16:37 > 1:16:40I definitely considered very seriously retiring after Beijing,
1:16:40 > 1:16:41definitely.
1:16:41 > 1:16:44Partly I thought, you know, with three Olympics, erm...
1:16:44 > 1:16:47I thought that'd be the end of the run anyway.
1:16:47 > 1:16:50I think if you had to ask most people within sport,
1:16:50 > 1:16:55you know, the sporting fraternity, who would they like to see win a gold medal,
1:16:55 > 1:16:58Kath Grainger's name would come up time and time again.
1:16:58 > 1:17:02Katherine and Anna have never been beaten in a double scull
1:17:02 > 1:17:05since they've been in it for the last two-and-a-half years.
1:17:05 > 1:17:08But there's always that little bit of doubt
1:17:08 > 1:17:11of when it comes up to the Games, can they produce it?
1:17:11 > 1:17:14It's utterly heart-pounding.
1:17:14 > 1:17:17Oof! You know! This is it, this is it.
1:17:17 > 1:17:19We get one chance, it's one take.
1:17:19 > 1:17:22I just so wanted her to win gold.
1:17:22 > 1:17:27And I sat on my own in the make-up room of the studio block...
1:17:28 > 1:17:32..crying my eyes out, watching it on the telly.
1:17:32 > 1:17:38COMMENTATOR: But, ladies and gentlemen, what we are seeing right now is that dreams do come true!
1:17:38 > 1:17:41Well, the nation expected, Great Britain delivered!
1:17:41 > 1:17:43Olympic champions!
1:17:43 > 1:17:46I think the whole world was behind Katherine Grainger
1:17:46 > 1:17:48when she won that gold.
1:17:48 > 1:17:53Everybody knew how hard she had worked for that.
1:17:53 > 1:17:57It's almost too much to try and comprehend. It's a lifetime, it's a career that goes behind it.
1:17:57 > 1:18:00It was, in all honesty...
1:18:00 > 1:18:02better than I could have ever hoped.
1:18:02 > 1:18:04COMMENTATOR: At long, long last,
1:18:04 > 1:18:07Katherine Grainger is the Olympic champion!
1:18:07 > 1:18:10Can I talk to the Olympic champion, please?
1:18:10 > 1:18:12Where? Where? She's finally here!
1:18:12 > 1:18:15- (Yeah...)- You did it. You did it. - Yeah.
1:18:15 > 1:18:17Worth the wait.
1:18:17 > 1:18:20It took me four times. Some people get it right first time!
1:18:20 > 1:18:23Magical day, magical moment
1:18:23 > 1:18:26but she's rightly now got that gold medal round her neck.
1:18:26 > 1:18:29One magical day at the Olympics was followed by another -
1:18:29 > 1:18:32two more rowing golds and another in the velodrome
1:18:32 > 1:18:36but Super Saturday was when the Olympic Stadium burst into life.
1:18:36 > 1:18:40Three golds in 45 amazing minutes.
1:18:40 > 1:18:43That night, you know, with three gold medals to the British team,
1:18:43 > 1:18:45was a phenomenal atmosphere.
1:18:45 > 1:18:49It was one of those days, I think, that you will always say,
1:18:49 > 1:18:50"I was there."
1:18:50 > 1:18:53Yeah, that Super Saturday was amazing.
1:18:53 > 1:18:56I think that was as proud as you can feel.
1:18:56 > 1:18:58Gold medal after gold medal.
1:18:58 > 1:19:02What I remember about that Super Saturday was that the Opening Ceremony,
1:19:02 > 1:19:06Tory MP Aidan Burley labelled it "multi-cultural crap".
1:19:06 > 1:19:08And then I remember watching Super Saturday,
1:19:08 > 1:19:12seeing a Somali refugee, a mixed-race girl and a ginger guy win gold medals, thinking,
1:19:12 > 1:19:15"So much for multi-cultural crap. This is brilliant!"
1:19:15 > 1:19:18More from Jess and Mo later, but the gold that nobody predicted
1:19:18 > 1:19:21on that Super Saturday was more than just a small step.
1:19:21 > 1:19:24It was a giant leap for ginger mankind.
1:19:24 > 1:19:26Number 11 is Greg Rutherford.
1:19:26 > 1:19:30So I knew of Greg and I am an athletics fan and I still didn't expect him to win.
1:19:30 > 1:19:34I don't think anybody... I don't think Greg... He would tell you he didn't expect to win.
1:19:34 > 1:19:38No-one but no-one would have predicted Greg Rutherford winning that gold medal.
1:19:39 > 1:19:43It was probably one of the best atmospheres for a championship
1:19:43 > 1:19:45that I've ever seen across the board.
1:19:45 > 1:19:48It was... It was really something...
1:19:48 > 1:19:50I haven't experienced that before.
1:19:50 > 1:19:52And as you set off down the runway,
1:19:52 > 1:19:54it just got louder and louder and louder
1:19:54 > 1:19:56and then till where you took off, it was just...
1:19:56 > 1:20:00I've genuinely never experienced anything like it in any stadium in the world.
1:20:00 > 1:20:03He was kind of like our own sort of little Del Boy.
1:20:03 > 1:20:06He was all a little bit cocky and he had a bit of swagger. He was a bit of a geezer.
1:20:06 > 1:20:10I just sort of thought, "Yeah, right, this is my time."
1:20:10 > 1:20:13COMMENTATOR: So, Greg Rutherford, 8.21, leads at the moment.
1:20:13 > 1:20:18Can he feed off this atmosphere? Quick, quick, quick! And it's big!
1:20:18 > 1:20:21You've given up pretty much everything for this moment in your life
1:20:21 > 1:20:24and all of a sudden, I've got every emotion
1:20:24 > 1:20:28I've ever felt in my life hitting me like an absolute ton of bricks.
1:20:28 > 1:20:32He so styled it out, didn't he, when he won it? So styled it out.
1:20:32 > 1:20:34I just thought, "You know what? I don't care."
1:20:34 > 1:20:39And I put my arms aloft the same as Jess did and then took in that...
1:20:39 > 1:20:41That amazing roar of the crowd.
1:20:44 > 1:20:47- Wow!- You are Olympic Champion!
1:20:47 > 1:20:51I don't think I'll ever get bored of hearing that, to be honest. That is...
1:20:51 > 1:20:54Oh! The most amazing feeling in the world.
1:20:54 > 1:20:57I have the most amazing parents that you could possibly have!
1:20:57 > 1:21:01Oh, beautiful girlfriend! Just everything! Like...
1:21:01 > 1:21:04- Oh! I've... It's...- Life generally is pretty beautiful right now.
1:21:04 > 1:21:06I've got a pretty good life, yeah, I'm not going to lie!
1:21:06 > 1:21:09I mean, one of the weirdest moments, I think, we...
1:21:09 > 1:21:12Me, Louis Smith and our manager Gav
1:21:12 > 1:21:15got invited back to Matthew Freud's house
1:21:15 > 1:21:17erm, for an evening, randomly.
1:21:17 > 1:21:20It was sort of, Bono was there and Damien Lewis, Sacha Baron Cohen.
1:21:20 > 1:21:21Jimmy Carr walks past.
1:21:21 > 1:21:23It's like I'm just dropping names non-stop.
1:21:23 > 1:21:26I think... I remember there was a ginger dude there,
1:21:26 > 1:21:30but I thought he was working there, I didn't realise he was at the party.
1:21:30 > 1:21:33You just sort of stand there, going, "What the hell is going on?
1:21:33 > 1:21:37"This is the most bizarre scenario I've ever seen in my life."
1:21:37 > 1:21:38Gabby, I can't...
1:21:38 > 1:21:42I love the Olympics, the Olympics was bloody brilliant.
1:21:42 > 1:21:45I knew you'd come round, you just can't fail to be blown away
1:21:45 > 1:21:47by all this incredible, breathtaking Olympic action,
1:21:47 > 1:21:51but now it's time for you to stand back in even more wonder.
1:21:51 > 1:21:55- We've finally reached the top ten. - Yeah, I'm so excited!
1:21:55 > 1:21:57- Oh, my God, I've weed. - Sort yourself out, I'll do this one.
1:21:57 > 1:21:59Oh, God!
1:21:59 > 1:22:02At number ten, it's the legendary 800m gold medal winner
1:22:02 > 1:22:05and world record-breaking David Rudisha.
1:22:05 > 1:22:07I've got some spare trousers if you want.
1:22:11 > 1:22:14- STEVE CRAM: - Let's see what he has in store for us here tonight.
1:22:14 > 1:22:17David Rudisha's race, in terms of just pure performance,
1:22:17 > 1:22:19that was the highlight of the Olympics for me.
1:22:19 > 1:22:21Will they go as fast as Rudisha,
1:22:21 > 1:22:23and will they be able to last it out?
1:22:24 > 1:22:28The gun went and he took off, you know, like a sprint race.
1:22:29 > 1:22:32David Rudisha, as ever, loves to be in the front,
1:22:32 > 1:22:34a beautiful running action.
1:22:34 > 1:22:36Rudisha in the front.
1:22:37 > 1:22:40He has a way of running that he knows suits him.
1:22:40 > 1:22:42He likes to be at the front, he likes to go out hard.
1:22:42 > 1:22:46This one wasn't tactical at all, this was insane, he just took off.
1:22:46 > 1:22:50And he's stretching it out there, a fast opening 300 metres.
1:22:50 > 1:22:53And he got to the back straight, and you just saw him,
1:22:53 > 1:22:57he's tall anyway, but you just saw him sort of lift and vroom!
1:22:57 > 1:23:02And in commentary, you know, I could feel myself getting excited then.
1:23:02 > 1:23:05COMMENTARY: And they're sucked into going with him
1:23:05 > 1:23:07down the back straight, can they hang on?
1:23:07 > 1:23:09They're all starting to fade. Look at this!
1:23:09 > 1:23:12He's a joy to watch, because of the way that he attacks it
1:23:12 > 1:23:15and goes out and runs the 800m just as a...
1:23:15 > 1:23:17as a sprint almost.
1:23:17 > 1:23:20That's really, really quick through 600.
1:23:20 > 1:23:23It might as well have been run in a straight line,
1:23:23 > 1:23:24because he just...
1:23:24 > 1:23:27There was no element of, "I'm going to use the bend here
1:23:27 > 1:23:28"and I'm going to sit here."
1:23:28 > 1:23:30He just...foom, gone!
1:23:30 > 1:23:35Striding away to become the Olympic champion! How quick will it be?
1:23:35 > 1:23:38Watch the clock! That's the world record!
1:23:41 > 1:23:42Unbelievable!
1:23:45 > 1:23:48There's a thing in physics about how mass can twist space.
1:23:48 > 1:23:50He kind of just dragged space with him,
1:23:50 > 1:23:55and with it all of the rest of the field were just accelerated along.
1:23:55 > 1:23:58The fact that he had a slipstream so strong that the guy who was last,
1:23:58 > 1:24:00Team GB's guy came last,
1:24:00 > 1:24:04would have won the two previous Olympic finals in the 800m,
1:24:04 > 1:24:06and he came last.
1:24:06 > 1:24:11The greatest ever 800m race anyone...
1:24:13 > 1:24:17..has ever run, that I've ever seen, obviously.
1:24:17 > 1:24:18What a privilege to be here.
1:24:22 > 1:24:24At number nine, it's another Olympic giant,
1:24:24 > 1:24:26big Ben Ainslie was competing in his fifth Games,
1:24:26 > 1:24:29and with three golds and a silver already under his belt,
1:24:29 > 1:24:31the Cornishman was serious about winning,
1:24:31 > 1:24:34but things didn't get off to the best of starts.
1:24:34 > 1:24:37I mean, for once, he wasn't having it all his own way,
1:24:37 > 1:24:39and he was quite a long way behind.
1:24:39 > 1:24:42He seemed to lose every race but yet still seemed to be in contention.
1:24:42 > 1:24:46In Olympic sailing, it's not about winning every race of the regatta,
1:24:46 > 1:24:49it's about remaining consistent throughout the competition.
1:24:49 > 1:24:52Big Ben did exactly that, but during the eighth race
1:24:52 > 1:24:56his competitors ganged up on him and he incurred a penalty as a result.
1:24:56 > 1:24:59This angered the reigning Olympic champion.
1:24:59 > 1:25:03# Does that make me crazy? #
1:25:03 > 1:25:07I'm seriously, er... unhappy with that.
1:25:07 > 1:25:09But you know, he made a big mistake, because I'm angry,
1:25:09 > 1:25:11and he didn't want to make me angry.
1:25:11 > 1:25:15Ben is such a competitor, when he came on and said,
1:25:15 > 1:25:19"Look, that's motivation for me, they never should have done that,"
1:25:19 > 1:25:20that was just brilliant.
1:25:20 > 1:25:23He had the hump, didn't he? He had the hump one day.
1:25:23 > 1:25:24Those guys better watch out.
1:25:24 > 1:25:27Going into the final race, he was placed just two points
1:25:27 > 1:25:30behind his main rival, Jonas Hogh-Christensen.
1:25:30 > 1:25:32All we had to do was finish ahead of the Dane
1:25:32 > 1:25:34to clinch a nail-biting gold
1:25:34 > 1:25:38and become the most successful Olympic sailor of all time.
1:25:38 > 1:25:42Ben Ainslie punches the air! Well done, Ben Ainslie!
1:25:42 > 1:25:44You've had an extraordinary week.
1:25:44 > 1:25:47Actually, that's my worst moment during the Olympics,
1:25:47 > 1:25:50was interviewing Ben Ainslie, because it was down the line.
1:25:50 > 1:25:54It was the night I was in the stadium watching the 100m and...
1:25:54 > 1:25:57I only had a tiny little monitor that was on the edge of the camera,
1:25:57 > 1:26:00and I couldn't hear one single word he said,
1:26:00 > 1:26:02and that was...tricky.
1:26:02 > 1:26:04I had to try and judge it when he stopped moving his mouth
1:26:04 > 1:26:06and just hoping he hadn't said anything difficult.
1:26:06 > 1:26:10And will you go on to Rio 2016?
1:26:10 > 1:26:14I don't know. Will you still be doing Match Of The Day by then?
1:26:14 > 1:26:17I saw him laughing, so I thought I'd laugh, but I had no idea what at.
1:26:17 > 1:26:20You are the greatest Olympic sailor in history!
1:26:21 > 1:26:22Yeah.
1:26:22 > 1:26:25All right, Ben, calm down. Anyone for tennis?
1:26:27 > 1:26:29Talk about a roller-coaster ride, you know.
1:26:29 > 1:26:34At the end of Wimbledon, standing on Centre Court with him crying.
1:26:34 > 1:26:37All right, I'm going to try this, and it's not going to be easy.
1:26:39 > 1:26:41To come back, four weeks later,
1:26:41 > 1:26:45after...the most disappointing match of his career,
1:26:45 > 1:26:48to come out and play his greatest tennis ever,
1:26:48 > 1:26:52beating the greatest tennis player of all time
1:26:52 > 1:26:56on Wimbledon's Centre Court, I mean, it was just written in the stars.
1:26:56 > 1:27:00I've never seen anybody dismantle Roger Federer in that way.
1:27:00 > 1:27:03He's got him! First blow in this Olympic final!
1:27:03 > 1:27:06The one thing missing, you know, from Federer's CV
1:27:06 > 1:27:08is a singles gold medal in the Olympic Games.
1:27:08 > 1:27:12He wanted to win that so badly, and he was just smashed.
1:27:14 > 1:27:18Every time Federer throws some heat down to Murray,
1:27:18 > 1:27:23Murray just returns it, just again and again and again.
1:27:23 > 1:27:25And I must say, I've been at Wimbledon many, many times,
1:27:25 > 1:27:2835 years I've been going to Wimbledon as a player and as a commentator,
1:27:28 > 1:27:30and that was really the first time
1:27:30 > 1:27:34I saw a crowd really make a difference,
1:27:34 > 1:27:37really so much behind Andy.
1:27:37 > 1:27:39Because of the Olympics, they could unabashedly root for him.
1:27:39 > 1:27:42They're to me too polite at Wimbledon.
1:27:44 > 1:27:45CHEERING
1:27:45 > 1:27:50It's a golden triumph for Andy Murray!
1:27:50 > 1:27:52Unbelievable to see that much of a mismatch,
1:27:52 > 1:27:56considering how Roger sort of had, in the big occasion,
1:27:56 > 1:28:00taken it to Andy, so that was quite impressive, and it set the stage,
1:28:00 > 1:28:03I think, for him going on to win the US Open, without a doubt.
1:28:03 > 1:28:06It was just electric, absolutely electric.
1:28:06 > 1:28:10I think that was the moment when Britain loved Andy Murray.
1:28:10 > 1:28:14- Are you OK this time? - Yeah, I feel much better so...
1:28:14 > 1:28:17Definitely easier winning in the final than losing!
1:28:17 > 1:28:20We were in station, and we had one of those moments
1:28:20 > 1:28:22where they announced over the thing, "Andy Murray has won,"
1:28:22 > 1:28:24and the whole station went, "Hurray!"
1:28:24 > 1:28:27And you're going, "Wow, this is the feel-good thing."
1:28:27 > 1:28:31What a phenomenal tennis player, in the greatest era of tennis ever,
1:28:31 > 1:28:34and we've got a British player right in the mix.
1:28:34 > 1:28:37We should be more proud almost of Andy than anybody else.
1:28:37 > 1:28:38He's done it, he's absolutely done it,
1:28:38 > 1:28:40and his confidence now just seems to be...
1:28:40 > 1:28:42He's sort of like a different man.
1:28:42 > 1:28:46It's incredible to have watched that over kind of five, six years,
1:28:46 > 1:28:49him develop as a player, he's extraordinary.
1:28:49 > 1:28:51I mean, the Scottish haven't celebrated that hard
1:28:51 > 1:28:54since they discovered you could get drunk on hand sanitiser.
1:28:56 > 1:28:57We take full credit
1:28:57 > 1:29:00for Andy Murray doing well in the Olympics this year,
1:29:00 > 1:29:01we being the team of Mock The Week.
1:29:01 > 1:29:04Because we know that Andy Murray is a fan of Mock The Week,
1:29:04 > 1:29:06and we're always inviting him to come along,
1:29:06 > 1:29:09but he did so, like two days after the Wimbledon final.
1:29:09 > 1:29:12A bit hello to Andy Murray, who's up there.
1:29:12 > 1:29:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:29:15 > 1:29:17"Andy Murray is here, so try to keep it light,
1:29:17 > 1:29:19"because he's very... at the moment."
1:29:19 > 1:29:22That's one for Andy Murray!
1:29:22 > 1:29:26He hasn't lost since, and we take personal credit for that.
1:29:26 > 1:29:29This week's winner is Andy Murray, ladies and gentlemen!
1:29:30 > 1:29:31He has ruined jokes, though.
1:29:31 > 1:29:34For years, we were making jokes about,
1:29:34 > 1:29:36"When is a Brit going to win Wimbledon?"
1:29:36 > 1:29:38Probably next year. It's probably going to be next year, then.
1:29:38 > 1:29:42When he won the gold, it was like, "Well done, you're now British."
1:29:42 > 1:29:46And then he lost the final in the doubles with Laura Robson,
1:29:46 > 1:29:48it was like, "OK, you're back to being Scottish."
1:29:52 > 1:29:55- What do you reckon?- Mmm. - Make me look older?
1:29:55 > 1:29:57Yeah, you look at least 14.
1:29:57 > 1:29:59Er...thanks.
1:29:59 > 1:30:02OK, if you haven't already guessed, at number seven,
1:30:02 > 1:30:05the first man to ever win the Tour de France, Olympic gold
1:30:05 > 1:30:07and get hit by a van in the same year.
1:30:07 > 1:30:09He's a national treasure, who without a doubt
1:30:09 > 1:30:12is the greatest road cyclist this country has ever produced.
1:30:12 > 1:30:14Wiggo, take a bow.
1:30:16 > 1:30:19He's a very cool individual, Bradley Wiggins.
1:30:19 > 1:30:24I think Bradley Wiggins is the coolest gold medallist ever.
1:30:24 > 1:30:27Any guy who can pull off ginger sideburns has got to be cool, man.
1:30:27 > 1:30:29It's a good job I didn't have a ponytail, innit?
1:30:29 > 1:30:32Can you imagine that? It would have been like Germany in the 1980s.
1:30:32 > 1:30:35All them people at Hampton Court with ponytails.
1:30:35 > 1:30:37Well, I'm just hugely envious of Bradley Wiggins
1:30:37 > 1:30:39that he can grow sideburns,
1:30:39 > 1:30:42because all my life I've never shaved here.
1:30:42 > 1:30:46And I know some people would say, "Well, you're lucky not to have to,"
1:30:46 > 1:30:49but it would be nice to have had the choice.
1:30:49 > 1:30:50And that's a bit weird, you know.
1:30:50 > 1:30:53I mean, I'd had sideburns for years, you know.
1:30:53 > 1:30:55It's a funny mix of an amazing athlete
1:30:55 > 1:30:57but then this sort of rock-and-roll dude.
1:30:57 > 1:30:59Imagine if like he was just about to go past the finish line
1:30:59 > 1:31:03and his sideburns just suddenly peeled out and acted like flaps...
1:31:03 > 1:31:06Maybe that's how he slows down, like the flaps on a plane's wing,
1:31:06 > 1:31:09when it comes into landing when he crosses the line,
1:31:09 > 1:31:12flaps out, his burns go like that and he can brake safely.
1:31:12 > 1:31:16It's Bradley Wiggins, the man that's just won the Tour de France.
1:31:16 > 1:31:18If the Olympics isn't the pinnacle of your sport,
1:31:18 > 1:31:21then I'm less fussed about your Olympic achievement.
1:31:21 > 1:31:25You get...? I think Bradley Wiggins did an extraordinary thing,
1:31:25 > 1:31:30winning those golds, but the Tour de France without drugs.
1:31:30 > 1:31:32It's incredible, I didn't even know you could do that.
1:31:32 > 1:31:34I didn't know that was an option.
1:31:37 > 1:31:40There was never any doubt he was going to win it, actually, you know.
1:31:40 > 1:31:42He even could have won it by more,
1:31:42 > 1:31:45but he put so much effort into my road race, you know.
1:31:45 > 1:31:49He was spent after the road race. He was... He was pretty phenomenal.
1:31:49 > 1:31:51- WIGGINS:- You could really sense the expectation.
1:31:51 > 1:31:54The British people... made the Olympics, really.
1:31:56 > 1:32:00I don't think we ever have or ever will see another road race cyclist
1:32:00 > 1:32:02with the talent of Bradley Wiggins.
1:32:02 > 1:32:05When he's on the bike, he is just...
1:32:05 > 1:32:09Well, he's a machine, the legs are just pump, pump, pump, pump.
1:32:09 > 1:32:13And it was so good that his moment came at the London Olympic Games.
1:32:13 > 1:32:16I'll never forget it, you know, to think that was in Britain.
1:32:16 > 1:32:20There was a sensational moment just after Bradley Wiggins won gold,
1:32:20 > 1:32:22outside Hampton Court in the time-trial,
1:32:22 > 1:32:26and I was on the radio, so I was just in the crowd watching it.
1:32:26 > 1:32:29And when he won, he disappeared into Hampton Court.
1:32:29 > 1:32:31The medal ceremony was too far away,
1:32:31 > 1:32:34and people started piling over the barrier onto...
1:32:34 > 1:32:37a bit like the Formula One, onto the starting grid and walking down.
1:32:37 > 1:32:39Now, it was against all the health and safety,
1:32:39 > 1:32:40it was against all the rules.
1:32:40 > 1:32:45Instead of the stewards and the police stopping people,
1:32:45 > 1:32:47they began to help people over.
1:32:47 > 1:32:49To me, that's what it's all about, really,
1:32:49 > 1:32:51because I was one of those people when I was a kid,
1:32:51 > 1:32:55and I would have been there in London, looking over the barrier.
1:32:55 > 1:32:58And it was just, you know, when everything comes together,
1:32:58 > 1:33:01and then out came Bradley Wiggins into the masses.
1:33:01 > 1:33:04And that was just a beautiful moment in time, you know.
1:33:04 > 1:33:06I told the teacher at school
1:33:06 > 1:33:08I wanted to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France
1:33:08 > 1:33:10and I wanted to be Olympic champion.
1:33:10 > 1:33:12She told me I was mad and that I needed to grow up
1:33:12 > 1:33:15and start thinking about what I wanted to do with my life.
1:33:16 > 1:33:19He makes you question every little part of what you wear,
1:33:19 > 1:33:23how you look and how much of a man you actually are.
1:33:23 > 1:33:25I think Bradley Wiggins should be King,
1:33:25 > 1:33:27or Prime Minister at least.
1:33:27 > 1:33:30Style and substance, and at the Opening Ceremony
1:33:30 > 1:33:34Wiggo, along with the rest of us, was treated to another style icon,
1:33:34 > 1:33:37but this one was on Her Majesty's Secret Service.
1:33:39 > 1:33:42MUSIC: James Bond Theme
1:33:42 > 1:33:45I thought that the James Bond Queen sketch for the Opening Ceremony
1:33:45 > 1:33:49was the best bit of television in history, personally.
1:33:49 > 1:33:52- It was brilliant. - The Bond thing was awesome.
1:33:52 > 1:33:53The Queen, that was just brilliant.
1:33:56 > 1:33:57Mr Bond, Your Majesty.
1:33:58 > 1:34:02That anticipation of... "Is it the Queen?"
1:34:02 > 1:34:05Another lookalike, there's the corgis, there they go.
1:34:05 > 1:34:08It won't be her, it won't be her, you know, but I wonder who it is.
1:34:09 > 1:34:10Ahem.
1:34:10 > 1:34:12It... No, it can't be the Queen.
1:34:15 > 1:34:17Good evening, Mr Bond.
1:34:17 > 1:34:20We were like, "Oh, this is fantastic!"
1:34:20 > 1:34:22Good evening, Your Majesty.
1:34:22 > 1:34:27When James Bond appeared with the Queen, the room went wild.
1:34:27 > 1:34:30Pizza flying everywhere, beer being spilled.
1:34:30 > 1:34:32It was a euphoric moment.
1:34:32 > 1:34:35We couldn't really believe it was happening.
1:34:35 > 1:34:38To do the walk through and all that, it was just amazing.
1:34:38 > 1:34:41How they kept that a secret I'll never know.
1:34:41 > 1:34:45She should have been nominated for a BAFTA for her performance.
1:34:45 > 1:34:47I thought she was amazing, what she did.
1:34:47 > 1:34:49She was such a good sport,
1:34:49 > 1:34:51to actually go out and do that kind of stuff.
1:34:51 > 1:34:54A lot of the other stuff, you know, it was quirky,
1:34:54 > 1:34:59and I was sitting there watching it and thinking,
1:34:59 > 1:35:02"You know, I don't know if the rest of it..."
1:35:02 > 1:35:05I had to ask, I asked Sue Barker, I was like, "What's that?"
1:35:05 > 1:35:09Gobsmacked that we were seeing this incredible...
1:35:09 > 1:35:12kind of almost a love letter to the UK.
1:35:12 > 1:35:13It was so full of injokes.
1:35:13 > 1:35:16It was brilliant, it couldn't have been better.
1:35:16 > 1:35:18The Opening Ceremony, it was extraordinary to pull that off,
1:35:18 > 1:35:23because after the Chinese basically had a three-hour advert for slavery,
1:35:23 > 1:35:25which was pretty unbeatable, people just thought
1:35:25 > 1:35:28he was on a hiding to nothing, he could never do it.
1:35:28 > 1:35:30Then he just pulled this thing out of the bag that was just
1:35:30 > 1:35:34kind of warm-hearted and wonderful, and it just had everything.
1:35:34 > 1:35:38Most opening ceremonies are quite formal, quite serious,
1:35:38 > 1:35:42but we had a bit of British humour in it, and it was a great success.
1:35:43 > 1:35:45MUSIC: James Bond Theme
1:35:47 > 1:35:51I was amazed I actually did not believe that was going to happen.
1:35:51 > 1:35:53I was like, "What?"
1:35:53 > 1:35:55And then we were thinking, "Are they doubles? What's going on?"
1:35:55 > 1:35:59I thought then the Queen was actually skydiving!
1:35:59 > 1:36:04To see James Bond do a scene with the Queen, it's amazing.
1:36:04 > 1:36:09I thought I was going to ejaculate a Union Jack a Union Jack-ulate.
1:36:09 > 1:36:12I'll be honest, my only criticism, and it's only a small thing was,
1:36:12 > 1:36:15I didn't think the Bond girl was that hot.
1:36:15 > 1:36:17At number five, we have the man who,
1:36:17 > 1:36:19after picking up his sixth Olympic gold on the track,
1:36:19 > 1:36:22is now officially the most successful British Olympian
1:36:22 > 1:36:25of all time, overtaking Sir Steve Redgrave in the process.
1:36:25 > 1:36:28And therefore he will presumably become
1:36:28 > 1:36:30the official hugger in four years' time.
1:36:30 > 1:36:34- It's the one and only Sir Chris Hoy. - Hoy-Hoy!
1:36:34 > 1:36:35Hoy.
1:36:40 > 1:36:44Anyone who knows Chris, he's just an absolute gentleman, you know.
1:36:44 > 1:36:49He's the humblest, most down-to-earth man you'll meet, you know.
1:36:49 > 1:36:52Well, Sir Chris has been phenomenally successful,
1:36:52 > 1:36:54and I think he's a real ambassador for his sport
1:36:54 > 1:36:56and for British sport.
1:36:57 > 1:37:00He's a great role model for anyone that wants to get into sport
1:37:00 > 1:37:02and wants to see how to win.
1:37:02 > 1:37:05The longer you spend in sport,
1:37:05 > 1:37:08the longer you realise that the people that win are the people...
1:37:08 > 1:37:11It's not the lucky ones, you know it's the ones who go out and get it.
1:37:11 > 1:37:13I think Chris is the biggest example of that,
1:37:13 > 1:37:15someone that will just keep working.
1:37:15 > 1:37:18# And I would walk 500 more.... #
1:37:18 > 1:37:22He's annoying, Chris Hoy, isn't he? I mean, he's a good-looking chap,
1:37:22 > 1:37:26he's got thighs the size of most of our waists,
1:37:26 > 1:37:30but was it really ever in doubt that Sir Chris Hoy, the knight,
1:37:30 > 1:37:33would let people down in that really cool helmet
1:37:33 > 1:37:36in the velodrome that looks like a Pringle?
1:37:36 > 1:37:38The Olympic Games, you know, the biggest event
1:37:38 > 1:37:43of all the GB team's lives, careers, and for me personally, you know,
1:37:43 > 1:37:46I won the team sprint gold medal with my team-mates Phil and Jason.
1:37:46 > 1:37:51And I won the keirin to cap off the end of my Olympic career,
1:37:51 > 1:37:53so it was a fantastic year for me,
1:37:53 > 1:37:55and one that really couldn't have gone any better.
1:37:55 > 1:38:00The crowd are going absolutely mad, gold medal for Great Britain!
1:38:00 > 1:38:02A new world record!
1:38:02 > 1:38:05Chris Hoy must have been the only man who was guaranteed a gold.
1:38:05 > 1:38:08"Oh, what, you won a gold? Yeah, I've got like six of those."
1:38:10 > 1:38:13Chris has become, erm...
1:38:13 > 1:38:16a good friend, and of course I wanted to be there.
1:38:16 > 1:38:19I don't remember much from that whole kind of manic period
1:38:19 > 1:38:22straight after the event, just finished, just come off the track,
1:38:22 > 1:38:24and you're doing interview after interview,
1:38:24 > 1:38:27but I just remember this one moment when Jill Douglas said to me,
1:38:27 > 1:38:31"Oh, we've got someone rather special here to congratulate you."
1:38:31 > 1:38:35'And then the massive hulking figure of Sir Steve Redgrave pops up.
1:38:35 > 1:38:37'He'd been tucked down behind her.'
1:38:37 > 1:38:38Ha-ha, Steve!
1:38:39 > 1:38:42I spent most of my time hugging people around the Games,
1:38:42 > 1:38:44not really doing very much speaking,
1:38:44 > 1:38:47but no, it was a very special moment.
1:38:48 > 1:38:51An amazing experience, to have him there to congratulate me.
1:38:51 > 1:38:55You know, I was a massive fan of his when he was rowing, competing.
1:38:55 > 1:38:56I was a rower when I was at school.
1:38:56 > 1:38:58As I hugged him, I did say a few words to him.
1:38:58 > 1:39:00I said, "Is that it? Definitely retiring now?
1:39:00 > 1:39:02"You're not going to another Olympics?"
1:39:02 > 1:39:04He says, "Yeah, no, never again."
1:39:04 > 1:39:07So I said, "I'm going to make my comeback, then."
1:39:07 > 1:39:10From the most successful British Olympian of all time
1:39:10 > 1:39:14to quite simply the most successful Olympian ever.
1:39:14 > 1:39:16At the beginning of the Games, he'd said,
1:39:16 > 1:39:18"I'm trying not to get over-emotional about this,
1:39:18 > 1:39:20"because essentially I've done it all,
1:39:20 > 1:39:22"it's now about how many toppings I want on my sundae."
1:39:22 > 1:39:24The greatest swimmer in history.
1:39:24 > 1:39:27He's got 14 Olympic gold medals.
1:39:27 > 1:39:29Michael Phelps is something else.
1:39:29 > 1:39:32To win that amount of gold medals for a nation would be pretty good,
1:39:32 > 1:39:34let alone an individual!
1:39:34 > 1:39:38I thought, coming into this Olympics, he was the greatest Olympian ever.
1:39:38 > 1:39:40It's probably one of the most anticipated races
1:39:40 > 1:39:42in Olympic history in the swimming pool.
1:39:42 > 1:39:45The guy turns up, everyone's talking trash about him anyway,
1:39:45 > 1:39:48saying Ryan Lochte is far better and he's the new breed.
1:39:48 > 1:39:50And on the first day that's how it looked.
1:39:50 > 1:39:53Is he going to get a medal? It doesn't look like it.
1:39:53 > 1:39:56Ryan Lochte wins the 400 medley.
1:39:56 > 1:39:59And look at that, Michael Phelps is fourth!
1:39:59 > 1:40:01He came fourth on the 400 medley,
1:40:01 > 1:40:04the event in which he was a world record holder,
1:40:04 > 1:40:07and you just thought, "This is going to be car-crash."
1:40:07 > 1:40:11Oh, my goodness me, Chad Le Clos won the gold!
1:40:11 > 1:40:14Somehow, some way, I think he sort of dug deeper,
1:40:14 > 1:40:16maybe than he ever had.
1:40:16 > 1:40:17What a superhero.
1:40:17 > 1:40:21The gold in the men's 4x200m freestyle goes to the USA,
1:40:21 > 1:40:24and Michael Phelps becomes the greatest Olympian in history
1:40:24 > 1:40:26with 19 medals.
1:40:28 > 1:40:31When he came back and he won the 100 fly,
1:40:31 > 1:40:33and it was an amazing race again,
1:40:33 > 1:40:35and I just thought, "Good on you, actually."
1:40:35 > 1:40:37It's Chad that's going to get it.
1:40:37 > 1:40:39No, Phelps has got, I think. Yes, he has.
1:40:39 > 1:40:43Michael Phelps has won, and the gold medal goes to Michael Phelps.
1:40:43 > 1:40:46Kids put their parents through all sorts of grief, don't they?
1:40:46 > 1:40:49Undoubtedly, Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time,
1:40:49 > 1:40:51if you look at the stats and the amount of medals he's got.
1:40:51 > 1:40:53It isn't that easy.
1:40:53 > 1:40:55He made it look easy, but it isn't easy.
1:40:57 > 1:41:00That's gold to the USA, that is the end of Michael Phelps,
1:41:00 > 1:41:03and where does he finish? He finishes right on top.
1:41:03 > 1:41:07His 18th Olympic gold medal.
1:41:07 > 1:41:1018 Olympic gold medals?
1:41:10 > 1:41:13You're not really leaving anyone for anyone else at that point, are you?
1:41:13 > 1:41:17More medals than anybody else has ever won in the Olympic Games.
1:41:17 > 1:41:19Talk about going out on a high note,
1:41:19 > 1:41:22he went out on a high note, no doubt about it.
1:41:22 > 1:41:25Utterly brilliant.
1:41:25 > 1:41:28There's definitely the argument that he's the greatest Olympian ever.
1:41:28 > 1:41:33He is extraordinary and you know you're in the presence of greatness.
1:41:33 > 1:41:35I dreamt of being the greatest.
1:41:35 > 1:41:38Looking back at my career, I've done everything I wanted.
1:41:43 > 1:41:47OK, we're down to the top three greatest Olympic moments of 2012.
1:41:47 > 1:41:49- Now it gets serious. - Can you be serious, then?
1:41:49 > 1:41:53- Because this whole show you've been messing around.- Yeah, all right.
1:41:53 > 1:41:55And at number three we have the face of the Games,
1:41:55 > 1:41:58the girl who, with the weight of the entire nation on her shoulders,
1:41:58 > 1:42:00delivered the performance of a lifetime
1:42:00 > 1:42:02and melted our hearts in the process.
1:42:02 > 1:42:04Hang on. Seeing as she is my girlfriend,
1:42:04 > 1:42:07I think I should introduce this next bit.
1:42:07 > 1:42:10But she's not your girlfriend, Greg, is she?
1:42:10 > 1:42:13Well, she is, she is to me, up here, in here and down...
1:42:13 > 1:42:14It's Jessica Ennis.
1:42:22 > 1:42:24I always thought Jess was going to handle the pressure well.
1:42:24 > 1:42:27It's not guaranteed, if you're the face of the Games,
1:42:27 > 1:42:29that you're going to succeed.
1:42:29 > 1:42:31Jess Ennis has got seven chances to get it right
1:42:31 > 1:42:33but seven chances to get it wrong.
1:42:35 > 1:42:37You know, this girl was the face of the Games.
1:42:38 > 1:42:42The face of the Games, and when she stepped on the track,
1:42:42 > 1:42:43it was just deafening.
1:42:43 > 1:42:46CROWD ROAR
1:42:46 > 1:42:49At that point, I think I was really nervous for her.
1:42:49 > 1:42:52The hurdles, it's full of jeopardy, you know,
1:42:52 > 1:42:55she only has to clip a barrier and that's her Olympic dream over.
1:42:58 > 1:43:00But she didn't do that.
1:43:00 > 1:43:02She tore up the track.
1:43:02 > 1:43:05And this is a tremendous run by Jessica Ennis!
1:43:05 > 1:43:08Oh, my goodness! Wow!
1:43:08 > 1:43:1412.54, the fastest hurdles I've ever seen by a heptathlete.
1:43:14 > 1:43:16And she came out and just absolutely nailed it.
1:43:16 > 1:43:19You can't hang a gold medal around her neck at that point,
1:43:19 > 1:43:20but you kind of go, "Wow."
1:43:22 > 1:43:24Who doesn't love Jessica Ennis?
1:43:24 > 1:43:27Show me one person who doesn't love Jessica Ennis!
1:43:27 > 1:43:30I thought, "There is way too much pressure on her, you know."
1:43:30 > 1:43:33You couldn't move without seeing a poster or a picture of her
1:43:33 > 1:43:34everywhere you went.
1:43:34 > 1:43:37And I was under the impression the pressure might be too much,
1:43:37 > 1:43:38but the fact that she delivered,
1:43:38 > 1:43:40the fact that she is as hot as she is,
1:43:40 > 1:43:44and the fact that you could griddle a steak on her stomach
1:43:44 > 1:43:48is both an achievement and a brilliant sight to see.
1:43:48 > 1:43:52I kind of look at the Olympians like I look at life,
1:43:52 > 1:43:53and I look at Jess Ennis,
1:43:53 > 1:43:56and I think, "Never, not in a million years."
1:43:56 > 1:43:58And I look at the boxers and think, "Maybe!"
1:43:58 > 1:44:02For me, Jess Ennis is...
1:44:02 > 1:44:05She's such an incredible role model for young girls.
1:44:05 > 1:44:09She just handles herself with such dignity and such grace,
1:44:09 > 1:44:12and she did an incredible job this year,
1:44:12 > 1:44:15and if my little girl grows up wanting to be the next Jess Ennis,
1:44:15 > 1:44:17then I'll be very happy.
1:44:17 > 1:44:20I don't know how she's coped so well with everything,
1:44:20 > 1:44:23so it's like the pressure of being in the Olympics,
1:44:23 > 1:44:26on top of it, she's a role model, not just because of race,
1:44:26 > 1:44:29but because she's also a female.
1:44:29 > 1:44:33You know, she ticks so many boxes that...it's impressive.
1:44:33 > 1:44:37She actually performed fantastically at the Games,
1:44:37 > 1:44:42and I think that she really does deserve everything she gets,
1:44:42 > 1:44:44because, you know, there was a lot of pressure on her.
1:44:46 > 1:44:49Deep down, I knew, I think the world knew
1:44:49 > 1:44:52that after the javelin, she had done enough.
1:44:52 > 1:44:55The 800m for Jess Ennis, short of tripping up,
1:44:55 > 1:44:56she basically knew what she had to do.
1:44:56 > 1:44:59She could have run four or five seconds slower in that 800.
1:45:00 > 1:45:01No chance!
1:45:01 > 1:45:06She went out there to run a personal best in the 800, then to win it.
1:45:06 > 1:45:07It was as though...
1:45:08 > 1:45:11..that gold medal depended on her winning that,
1:45:11 > 1:45:13she still delivered a performance in that last 200m
1:45:13 > 1:45:16where she was unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.
1:45:16 > 1:45:18It was one of my favourite moments of the Games.
1:45:18 > 1:45:19And here goes Jess!
1:45:21 > 1:45:25She is going to be the Olympic champion.
1:45:25 > 1:45:27Everybody is on their feet.
1:45:27 > 1:45:31The pride of Sheffield, the pride of Great Britain.
1:45:31 > 1:45:34Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion!
1:45:37 > 1:45:41When she crossed the line and her face just lit the stadium up,
1:45:41 > 1:45:44I don't think there was a dry eye in the house.
1:45:47 > 1:45:49A perfect two days
1:45:49 > 1:45:52for the Olympic heptathlon champion, Jessica Ennis.
1:45:57 > 1:45:59And so we come to the second greatest Olympic moment,
1:45:59 > 1:46:01and how could we complete this countdown
1:46:01 > 1:46:04without the most recognisable athlete on the planet
1:46:04 > 1:46:06and the fastest man in history?
1:46:06 > 1:46:08A man who, coming into the Games, had his doubters,
1:46:08 > 1:46:12who he duly swept aside along with his opponents,
1:46:12 > 1:46:16successfully defending the 4x100 relay and his 200 and 100m titles
1:46:16 > 1:46:20to cement himself as a true Olympic legend.
1:46:20 > 1:46:23OK, Greg, what are you doing?
1:46:23 > 1:46:25Er...lightning...Bolt.
1:46:25 > 1:46:27You look more like Robin Hood.
1:46:27 > 1:46:29- With wind.- Er, right.
1:46:29 > 1:46:33At number two, it is the great Usain Bolt.
1:46:33 > 1:46:35# Don't you know I'm loco? #
1:46:39 > 1:46:42The champion becomes a legend!
1:46:45 > 1:46:46He feels like a bit of a...
1:46:46 > 1:46:49a bit of a rebel and like one of the guys, you know.
1:46:49 > 1:46:53He's... He's just really, really entertaining.
1:46:53 > 1:46:55He's just like a lightning bolt of cool.
1:46:55 > 1:46:58He's the star. He's the big hitter, he's the main event.
1:46:58 > 1:47:00He IS the show.
1:47:00 > 1:47:01You take Bolt out of athletics
1:47:01 > 1:47:04and you've got a massive void at the moment.
1:47:06 > 1:47:08I accomplished what I came to London to do,
1:47:08 > 1:47:10so for me I'm very proud of myself.
1:47:13 > 1:47:15- STEVE CRAM:- The moment of truth
1:47:15 > 1:47:17has finally arrived.
1:47:17 > 1:47:19The 100m Olympic final.
1:47:20 > 1:47:22Bolt not very quickly out of the blocks,
1:47:22 > 1:47:23Powell was the quickest,
1:47:23 > 1:47:26but Bolt is getting into his stride alongside Gatlin,
1:47:26 > 1:47:27and here comes Usain Bolt!
1:47:27 > 1:47:30He's pulling away! He's going to win the gold!
1:47:30 > 1:47:319.64!
1:47:36 > 1:47:37I think Bolt was fantastic.
1:47:37 > 1:47:42That was the best 100m final of all time, really.
1:47:42 > 1:47:43He still comes out on top.
1:47:45 > 1:47:48It's a fine event, but my God, it's short.
1:47:48 > 1:47:51I got 100m tickets because I spend an entire weekend
1:47:51 > 1:47:56with my wife's family, ignoring them while I refreshed the page
1:47:56 > 1:48:00over and over and over, literally just sitting there doing that,
1:48:00 > 1:48:03and eventually went, "I got tickets to the 100m final,"
1:48:03 > 1:48:05because eventually two random tickets popped up.
1:48:05 > 1:48:07But the damn thing is done so fast.
1:48:07 > 1:48:10He's box office, he's good fun,
1:48:10 > 1:48:13and he does what most men would like to do
1:48:13 > 1:48:15and celebrate with...Swedish women.
1:48:15 > 1:48:17# Every day I'm shufflin'... #
1:48:17 > 1:48:20I have to highly recommend the Swedish handball team.
1:48:20 > 1:48:23I mean, he could do worse!
1:48:23 > 1:48:25Bolt is a bad man.
1:48:26 > 1:48:29# Shufflin', shufflin'... #
1:48:29 > 1:48:31Silence descends.
1:48:31 > 1:48:32The 200m final.
1:48:32 > 1:48:36What, I suppose, struck me most was the incredible silence.
1:48:36 > 1:48:39Shh...
1:48:39 > 1:48:41You can literally hear a pin drop. It was amazing.
1:48:43 > 1:48:46It's a clean start, Bolt is out of the blocks really well,
1:48:46 > 1:48:48he's already storming round that bend.
1:48:50 > 1:48:51They were just like...pff!
1:48:51 > 1:48:54And they're massive, and they're huge,
1:48:54 > 1:48:56it's unbelievable to watch it in the flesh.
1:48:56 > 1:48:59You watch it on TV and think, "Give a little clap, that was good,"
1:48:59 > 1:49:00then you go and make some toast.
1:49:00 > 1:49:03This... This, you kind of get sucked into it.
1:49:03 > 1:49:07Bolt is going to do it again! Gold all the way!
1:49:07 > 1:49:10You know, Bolt, what an athlete. Unbelievable presence.
1:49:10 > 1:49:12Well, the relay...the relay was just...
1:49:12 > 1:49:14We were very confident.
1:49:14 > 1:49:16It wasn't a matter of fact if we were going to win,
1:49:16 > 1:49:19as long as we got the stick around it was so fast, we were going to go.
1:49:19 > 1:49:23Bolt's going to have it in the lead, and you know what that means!
1:49:23 > 1:49:26Here he goes, Bolt is away and gone!
1:49:26 > 1:49:28Jamaica are the gold medallists again!
1:49:28 > 1:49:31Along with Ali and the defining figures of sport,
1:49:31 > 1:49:34Bolt is right up there, right up there, just extraordinary.
1:49:39 > 1:49:41# Hola! Me llamo Mimi
1:49:43 > 1:49:45# I love London! #
1:49:45 > 1:49:48So we've had 49 amazing, jaw-dropping,
1:49:48 > 1:49:52tear-inducing moments, and now we're down to the final one.
1:49:52 > 1:49:55It's time to celebrate the exploits of someone
1:49:55 > 1:49:57who'd already gone down in British sporting history
1:49:57 > 1:50:00by winning the country's first ever long-distance gold
1:50:00 > 1:50:06with a truly phenomenal 10,000m run on that sensational Super Saturday.
1:50:06 > 1:50:08I think the real importance about sport,
1:50:08 > 1:50:10what makes sport great is when you really care about who wins.
1:50:16 > 1:50:20Distance running generally is so competitive.
1:50:20 > 1:50:22It's so difficult to be dominant.
1:50:24 > 1:50:29- STEVE CRAM: - So, the 10,000m final underway.
1:50:29 > 1:50:31Mo Farah was just...just phenomenal.
1:50:36 > 1:50:41And those final two laps... it was just...
1:50:41 > 1:50:44I don't think I saw the last lap, I was crying so much.
1:50:46 > 1:50:48Farah is kicking hard!
1:50:48 > 1:50:51The crowd are lifting him! They're cheering him on!
1:50:52 > 1:50:56Farah into the home straight, just 100m to go! Has he got enough?
1:50:56 > 1:51:00He's kicking again! Mo Farah is going for it!
1:51:00 > 1:51:02It's going to be a glorious, glorious win!
1:51:03 > 1:51:08Mo Farah for Great Britain! It's gold!
1:51:08 > 1:51:11He was more surprised than anyone that he won.
1:51:11 > 1:51:13His face when he crossed the finish line was almost like,
1:51:13 > 1:51:14"I can't believe...
1:51:14 > 1:51:18"Have I done this? Is this me? Is this really happening?"
1:51:18 > 1:51:22I think that he was confused that it all happened the way it did,
1:51:22 > 1:51:26and for somebody to be that humble who is that talented is awesome.
1:51:26 > 1:51:29I just... I've never experienced something like this, it's just...
1:51:29 > 1:51:32It doesn't come round often, and to have it right on your doorstep,
1:51:32 > 1:51:35and the amount of people supporting you, shouting out your name is...
1:51:35 > 1:51:38It's never going to get better, this is the best moment of my life.
1:51:40 > 1:51:43Well, his wife Tania is expecting twins shortly!
1:51:44 > 1:51:48In all of this excitement, hang on, Tania, hang on!
1:51:48 > 1:51:51Get on the track, go on, go on the track!
1:51:51 > 1:51:56When his wife and daughter came on to the field, I just thought
1:51:56 > 1:51:58that was a real nice moment, to celebrate it with his family.
1:52:04 > 1:52:05STEVE CRAM LAUGHS
1:52:05 > 1:52:08Great scenes! Lovely, lovely scenes.
1:52:10 > 1:52:13He's a great man, and now with his wife on the track,
1:52:13 > 1:52:14what a glorious moment.
1:52:15 > 1:52:18Oh... What a picture!
1:52:18 > 1:52:20What a night.
1:52:20 > 1:52:24That meant so much to me, seeing my daughter just like really emotional.
1:52:24 > 1:52:28She was just coming up running to me, and I was just like, "Wow..."
1:52:36 > 1:52:39# It's fun to stay at the YMCA... #
1:52:39 > 1:52:40My ears get in the way.
1:52:40 > 1:52:42# It's fun to stay at the YMCA. #
1:52:42 > 1:52:44Ka-tish!
1:52:45 > 1:52:49Let's be honest, the Mobot is a rubbish celebration,
1:52:49 > 1:52:51but I think the fact that it is so rubbish
1:52:51 > 1:52:54and that he is as good as he is is what makes it pretty cool.
1:52:54 > 1:52:58You know, I liked that Usain Bolt also paid tribute as well!
1:53:00 > 1:53:03Who told him that that was a cool thing to do?
1:53:03 > 1:53:05Who convinced him that was an appropriate movement
1:53:05 > 1:53:08to do at the Olympics? It's the most embarrassing.
1:53:08 > 1:53:10Clare Balding came up with the Mobot.
1:53:10 > 1:53:13A few months before the Olympics, I was on a show with Mo,
1:53:13 > 1:53:16and we were talking about what would be his celebration,
1:53:16 > 1:53:19we'd invent a kind of... a gesture for him
1:53:19 > 1:53:22to rival the Usain Bolt thing.
1:53:22 > 1:53:27And I suggested the M from YMCA, the M for Mo.
1:53:27 > 1:53:30And then it got christened the Mobot by James Corden.
1:53:30 > 1:53:31And Mo did it!
1:53:31 > 1:53:33Was she trying to sabotage him?
1:53:33 > 1:53:36Was it like, "Oh, yeah, do this, it'll be hilarious!"
1:53:38 > 1:53:40When you got food in your mouth, in the restaurant,
1:53:40 > 1:53:41someone says, "Do the Mobot,"
1:53:41 > 1:53:45or you're pushing the kids and someone says, "The Mobot."
1:53:45 > 1:53:47I don't mind when people do it,
1:53:47 > 1:53:49but sometimes you're just like, "Oh, no..."
1:53:49 > 1:53:53So I invented the Mobot, although technically Village People did.
1:53:53 > 1:53:57HE IMITATES ROBOT
1:53:57 > 1:53:59Huh? Robot!
1:53:59 > 1:54:00It's the Mobot.
1:54:00 > 1:54:02Mo-bot.
1:54:02 > 1:54:03Well, that just looks silly.
1:54:03 > 1:54:05You look like Peter Crouch.
1:54:05 > 1:54:08So with the 10,000m gold already in the bag,
1:54:08 > 1:54:09a week later he repeated the feat
1:54:09 > 1:54:13with a simply breathtaking 5000m performance.
1:54:13 > 1:54:16Our number one greatest Olympic moment...
1:54:16 > 1:54:18Take a bow, Mo Farah.
1:54:25 > 1:54:28Here we go! Here we go!
1:54:28 > 1:54:30The men's 5000m final.
1:54:31 > 1:54:33How do you beat Mo Farah?
1:54:36 > 1:54:38They're queuing up around him,
1:54:38 > 1:54:41it's going to be a fearsome last lap but Mo is going to go for it.
1:54:41 > 1:54:46And Steve Cram's commentary was... I could listen to that...
1:54:46 > 1:54:48Every time I listen to it now, I still cry.
1:54:48 > 1:54:52The crowd are on their feet, they're trying to roar him home!
1:54:52 > 1:54:53The big kick has started.
1:54:53 > 1:54:55Iguider looks dangerous to me in third,
1:54:55 > 1:54:58but Mo Farah, gritting his teeth now.
1:54:58 > 1:55:02The arms have got to pump, the knees have got to come up high!
1:55:02 > 1:55:05He's got to find something extra, he's got to kick hard!
1:55:05 > 1:55:07Come on, Mo Farah!
1:55:07 > 1:55:10Gebremeskel is coming, but I think he's going to get there!
1:55:10 > 1:55:14Farah is going to make it two gold medals for Great Britain!
1:55:14 > 1:55:15Beautiful!
1:55:17 > 1:55:19The place erupts!
1:55:19 > 1:55:22He's the double Olympic champion!
1:55:22 > 1:55:25It's weird, like, seeing that.
1:55:25 > 1:55:27I can't believe how people got excited,
1:55:27 > 1:55:29and so many people's been saying that,
1:55:29 > 1:55:32but that's probably the best bit of it, you know.
1:55:32 > 1:55:34The manner in which he won it,
1:55:34 > 1:55:38and the way he just was not going to be beaten, oh!
1:55:38 > 1:55:40Never forget it.
1:55:40 > 1:55:42Well, he had us off our feet,
1:55:42 > 1:55:45everybody around us standing and cheering, 80,000 people,
1:55:45 > 1:55:49and I'm pretty sure millions and millions in their front rooms
1:55:49 > 1:55:51shouting him home.
1:55:51 > 1:55:55One of the greatest distance runners the world has ever seen
1:55:55 > 1:55:57is now the double Olympic champion.
1:55:59 > 1:56:02So that's it, the 50 greatest Olympic moments.
1:56:02 > 1:56:04It was amazing, I don't want it to end.
1:56:04 > 1:56:08I just want to say thank you for introducing me to the Olympic dream.
1:56:08 > 1:56:12- Oh, I knew there was an Olympic fan dying to get out.- There is.
1:56:12 > 1:56:15- Can we hug it out now? - OK, go on, then.
1:56:15 > 1:56:16Yes!
1:56:16 > 1:56:18OK. Bye.
1:56:18 > 1:56:19Mmm...
1:56:19 > 1:56:21OK, that's enough.
1:56:21 > 1:56:25That's inappro... inappropriate, inappropriate.
1:56:25 > 1:56:28# All the people
1:56:28 > 1:56:31# So many people
1:56:31 > 1:56:35# And they all go hand in hand
1:56:35 > 1:56:38# Hand in hand through their
1:56:38 > 1:56:40# Parklife
1:56:42 > 1:56:46# All the people
1:56:46 > 1:56:49# So many people
1:56:49 > 1:56:52# And they all go hand in hand
1:56:52 > 1:56:55# Hand in hand through their
1:56:55 > 1:56:57# Parklife. #
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