0:00:02 > 0:00:04I can just remember looking to see all our fans in the corner,
0:00:04 > 0:00:06you know, they'd lost it by then, the Welsh.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10I was panicking inside and thinking, "I'm not even touching the pedals,
0:00:10 > 0:00:12"I don't know when to go."
0:00:12 > 0:00:14A lot of people dream of scoring goals at the Euros,
0:00:14 > 0:00:17but they don't dream of scoring ones like that.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19I fell asleep, I had a nap in between fights.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22I woke up thinking, "Oh, my God, this is the Olympics."
0:00:26 > 0:00:27One single summer.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29Steps up, hits it left footed.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Oh, he's scored!
0:00:31 > 0:00:34- SHOUTING - Bale for Wales!
0:00:36 > 0:00:38A time like no other.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The Welsh wonder strikes gold.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42Of heat this hot.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45R-R-R-Robson-Kanu.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Hell on fire.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Of making history.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Come on, Jazz, keep it going.
0:00:52 > 0:00:57The sweetest summer for Wales, the soaring summer of 2016.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12The Euros in France in June,
0:01:12 > 0:01:16and in August and September, here,
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Rio, for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25Jade Jones, taekwondo gold medallist at the age of 19
0:01:25 > 0:01:27in London 2012.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Teenage joy followed by doubts.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34I'd say straight after London I found it hard dealing with
0:01:34 > 0:01:38the pressure of being a champion and of what comes with it.
0:01:38 > 0:01:39Olympic champion.
0:01:39 > 0:01:40I remember coming back
0:01:40 > 0:01:43to the taekwondo gym and even the males wanted to beat me up
0:01:43 > 0:01:45just because I was Olympic champion.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50It was, like, such a lot of pressure at first.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54I remember going into every competition thinking,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57"Oh, I'm Olympic champion, you know, I can't lose,"
0:01:57 > 0:01:59or just having this big target on my back.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03The defending champion knew she was going to Rio.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Others had to go through qualifying.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Double world champion in 2013, Becky James had then injured
0:02:09 > 0:02:12her shoulder, her knee, had a cancer scare.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Now, at the London Olympic velodrome,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18she could ride her way to Rio.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22She's got nothing to prove. Just getting here was a big success.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25It was her last chance of making the Olympics.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28And it's Vogel who leads them with a lap to go.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Lee from Korea in second place.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Guo Shuang trying to go round the outside in the red.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Anna Meares in the middle of the track with the green helmet on.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39But still it's Kristina Vogel leading from the front,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41trying to stay at the front,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Becky James is coming through to get a medal!
0:02:44 > 0:02:47World bronze and going to the Olympics.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50With those two old travelling companions -
0:02:50 > 0:02:53delight and trepidation.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55The strangest, most amazing feeling.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57A little bit terrifying as well, you know,
0:02:57 > 0:03:00you've got all that pressure going to the Olympics,
0:03:00 > 0:03:03but I just couldn't wait, it's something I've always dreamed about.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07On a similar path, but with a different way of moving,
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Jazz Carlin, who'd missed out on the 2012 Games
0:03:11 > 0:03:15and was now racing against the clock to make it to Rio.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18This is going to be close. Come on, Jazz, keep it going.
0:03:18 > 0:03:2115 metres to go. Can she do it?
0:03:21 > 0:03:244.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04...
0:03:24 > 0:03:26- Yes!- She's done it.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Four years ago,
0:03:28 > 0:03:30I went through a pretty tough time missing out on London.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33It was something that obviously I'd been dreaming of
0:03:33 > 0:03:35since I was a young girl.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Being a spectator, it just didn't feel right for me.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40I just didn't know if I could get back into the sport,
0:03:40 > 0:03:42if I had that belief to keep going,
0:03:42 > 0:03:46if I had that drive for another four years to keep going.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49And to keep obviously competing against the best in the world,
0:03:49 > 0:03:51I just didn't have that confidence.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54This is four years of heartbreak.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56She's put so much pressure on herself
0:03:56 > 0:03:58to qualify for the Olympic Games.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Well done, Jazz Carlin.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03A four-year wait? Barely a moment.
0:04:03 > 0:04:08Wales's footballers had gone 58 without going to a major finals.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11But now they HAD qualified.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12The great adventure.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17For Swansea City's Neil Taylor, almost too great to contemplate.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Neil Taylor at Wrexham didn't know
0:04:19 > 0:04:21if he'd have another contract the next year
0:04:21 > 0:04:22or play the next game on a Saturday,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25so to think that too far ahead was unthinkable.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27I obviously played at the Olympics,
0:04:27 > 0:04:29which was massive for me, and I really enjoyed that,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31and then Premier League with Swansea,
0:04:31 > 0:04:33but then the Euros was that next step for us.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36The last major tournament?
0:04:36 > 0:04:39The World Cup in Sweden in 1958.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Now the 2016 Euros in France.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46And who else would be there?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Inglaterra.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Inglaterra. England.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54I can't say I was nervous, I was more intrigued.
0:04:54 > 0:04:55Second team...
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Will be playing England at some stage.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02I'd warned everybody - don't make an expression, be professional.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Wales.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06- Whoa!- Wales.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08But I found myself making a face, you know.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12There wasn't a team there that we needed to fear.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Total respect for them, of course.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16It was just - we're here.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18We've always wanted to be here,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21whoever comes out of the hat, come what may,
0:05:21 > 0:05:23and we'll go and meet the challenge.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27And so began the reality of being there.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Wales would be based in seaside Dinard in Brittany
0:05:31 > 0:05:33and were scheduled to play their pool games in Bordeaux,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Lens and Toulouse.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Reality,
0:05:37 > 0:05:42and the swirl, the whirl of the journey into the unknown.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45When I was a child watching the Euros, thinking how amazing
0:05:45 > 0:05:48it must be to play there and what it must be like and how good
0:05:48 > 0:05:51a footballer you must have to be to play at that sort of level,
0:05:51 > 0:05:53I'm not trying to say I'm a very good footballer,
0:05:53 > 0:05:56but what I'm trying to say is, it's that sort of, you know,
0:05:56 > 0:05:59aura round the Euros that makes you think that's the top level.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02That and the World Cup is the pinnacle of football.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06If getting their heads round all this wasn't demanding enough,
0:06:06 > 0:06:09for one player, there was the body too.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12I hadn't kicked a ball in competitive football
0:06:12 > 0:06:14before the first game of the qualifying campaign.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18It was a very tumultuous summer for me personally.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22I didn't have a club for two months, you know.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25It wasn't a totally alien experience.
0:06:25 > 0:06:30There was this lot, unfailingly there behind their team,
0:06:30 > 0:06:32whatever happened against England and Russia
0:06:32 > 0:06:35and first, Slovakia.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37All of a sudden it was real.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39In the dressing room before the game,
0:06:39 > 0:06:41it dawned on everyone that we're here now.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44In a couple of hours we'll be back in this dressing room
0:06:44 > 0:06:46and the first game is going to be done and dusted,
0:06:46 > 0:06:49so, you know, it's time to get to work.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57The Norwegian referee blows his whistle.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Slovakia get the game underway.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04We knew it was as big a game for Slovakia as it was for Wales,
0:07:04 > 0:07:06but we came out to a sea of red.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Our support completely overpowered theirs
0:07:09 > 0:07:12and in a strange way, it felt like we were going out into a home game.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15I'd probably say the first ten minutes of the game,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18we didn't do great, they started better than us.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Dispossessed him, and Hamsik has wriggled and ghosted through
0:07:21 > 0:07:23and he goes on, Hamsik, what a goal!
0:07:25 > 0:07:26Unbelievable!
0:07:26 > 0:07:29They had that chance that we cleared off the line from Ben
0:07:29 > 0:07:32and I think that turned the game a little bit for us.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35We thought, OK, that's a big moment in the game that's gone our way.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38But we had to get the win and obviously Gareth stepped up
0:07:38 > 0:07:39with one of his special moments.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41It's Gareth Bale.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Steps up, hits it left footed.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Oh, he's scored!
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Bale for Wales!
0:07:48 > 0:07:51The talisman has delivered.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55Just who else but the golden Galactico?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57The star, the start.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Meanwhile, job-seeker Hal...
0:07:59 > 0:08:02To just be on the bench at that time,
0:08:02 > 0:08:05I was pleased and buzzing, to be honest.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06A job.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08But could he do it?
0:08:08 > 0:08:12I played it down at the time, but I had actually snapped a tendon
0:08:12 > 0:08:16around my ankle about three weeks before the start of the tournament.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I was worried for Hal, he'd worked so hard.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21I know how much he was looking forward to the tournament,
0:08:21 > 0:08:23and it was a big doubt.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Ledley wants it square.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Bale is deep. But Ledley picks out Ramsey.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Ramsey towards Skrtel. Edge of the box...
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Robson-Kanu shoots,
0:08:31 > 0:08:36he's scuffed it, but it's the best scuff you will ever see!
0:08:37 > 0:08:41The roar and the noise levels were incredible.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45It's Wales 2, Slovakia 1.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48To come on and score a winner in what was our first game
0:08:48 > 0:08:50in a major tournament for however many years,
0:08:50 > 0:08:52it was a special feeling for myself.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56It made working hard to get there very much worthwhile.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59When you play international football and you go to another country,
0:08:59 > 0:09:03it can be lonely and you're in the lion's den.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06If you've got 3,000 or 4,000 travelling fans with you,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09it makes a huge difference. A hell of a difference.
0:09:09 > 0:09:14If you've got 25,000 fans in a stadium, and you're in France,
0:09:14 > 0:09:17I can't tell you how that changes the dynamics of everything.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19It's like playing in Cardiff.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22They're supporting us with such passion,
0:09:22 > 0:09:25you daren't let them down.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26And up they travelled
0:09:26 > 0:09:30to a stadium just a hop over the Channel from England -
0:09:30 > 0:09:31the next opponents.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34CHEERING AND SCREAMING
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Gareth, if I can quote a few quotes
0:09:36 > 0:09:38that are allegedly attributed to you.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41"England big themselves up - the passion, pride, patriotism."
0:09:41 > 0:09:45Did you say all that, did you quite mean it, and are you quite surprised
0:09:45 > 0:09:48the way that maybe some of the England camp have bitten?
0:09:48 > 0:09:50HE CHUCKLES
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Well, it's good that they bit but, no,
0:09:52 > 0:09:55I never said they didn't have passion or pride,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59I just feel, in my opinion, that we have more
0:09:59 > 0:10:03and I'm sure they have their opinion they have more also, so, yeah.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07We were pretty relaxed, to be honest, and you've got to remember,
0:10:07 > 0:10:09none of the pressure was on us for that game.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11When England play anybody, most of the pressure's on them
0:10:11 > 0:10:14because of the media around their squad and how they play,
0:10:14 > 0:10:17and I think the pressure was off us and obviously Gareth had done
0:10:17 > 0:10:20a couple of press conferences which got a few laughs from people
0:10:20 > 0:10:24and a few of the English staff got a bit wound up by it.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28We certainly don't have any doubts ourselves about our passion,
0:10:28 > 0:10:30our desire, our commitment,
0:10:30 > 0:10:32our wish to do well in the tournament,
0:10:32 > 0:10:35so if other people have another opinion,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38and think they're better at it, then that's fine by me.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40I think I know your answer to this one.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44- How many England players would get into this current Welsh team?- None.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46LAUGHTER
0:10:46 > 0:10:49I think that put an extra bit of spice into the game,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52it was everything the media wanted going into that game.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55The England game was hard because of the outside influence
0:10:55 > 0:10:58and what was being said, and the attraction of Wales v England.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03It's not about England, you know, it's not about this one game,
0:11:03 > 0:11:07we need to accumulate as many points as we need to progress,
0:11:07 > 0:11:08that's all that mattered.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11The manager's voice of reason.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12Slightly drowned.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15England v Wales as it always is -
0:11:15 > 0:11:17tense, intense.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21We've seen some amazing things from Gareth Bale in a Welsh shirt,
0:11:21 > 0:11:24but this would be something else if he got one in from here.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27As Bale steps up with a free kick, hits it, over the wall.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Oh! He's scored!
0:11:30 > 0:11:32It's Bale!
0:11:32 > 0:11:35SCREAMING AND SHOUTING
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Not many players in the world can do that.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48The reaction of Wales.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51What would England's be?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Cahill couldn't get off the floor.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Vardy's there!
0:11:58 > 0:12:00England are level.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Daniel Sturridge.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Sturridge scores!
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Talk about passion. Talk about pride.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12This England team have it in bucket-loads.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17We didn't play very well, we'll be honest with ourselves,
0:12:17 > 0:12:20that's the worst game we played at the tournament, I think.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23To concede that late goal, get that late blow,
0:12:23 > 0:12:26especially against your rivals, that hit us for six in many ways.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31That England game took its toll a little bit,
0:12:31 > 0:12:33but then, on the flipside of the coin,
0:12:33 > 0:12:35it also made us super-determined for the next game.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37It's not the end of the world.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39We still have a great chance to qualify.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43We're not out of it, we're Wales, we beat Russia, we go through.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45We march on. Come on, Wales, come on!
0:12:49 > 0:12:51The final pool game against a country
0:12:51 > 0:12:54over 80 times the size of Wales,
0:12:54 > 0:12:57with more than 40 times as many people.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01It's just that all of Wales seemed to be here in Toulouse...
0:13:01 > 0:13:04for the Russians.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07There were still definite nerves before the game.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10We can go out of the tournament here or we can win the group.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13It really embraced the fact that we were going to attack the game,
0:13:13 > 0:13:15we were going to take it to them.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17It's fair to say, I think the first half hour of that game,
0:13:17 > 0:13:19we blew them away, really.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22It's not often in football in general, let alone in the Euros,
0:13:22 > 0:13:24or a crucial game like that,
0:13:24 > 0:13:26that you get to enjoy football match like we did.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29And that one will live with us for a long time, the boys, that game,
0:13:29 > 0:13:32where we passed the ball around, we enjoyed it
0:13:32 > 0:13:34and we really looked like a good team that night.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Brilliant ball for Ramsey.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Ramsey in on goal.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Ramsey scores for Wales!
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Aaron Ramsey.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48And the Arsenal midfielder has drawn first blood.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Wales, playing with freedom,
0:13:53 > 0:13:55looking for a flourish.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Everybody tempted, urged to press forward,
0:13:59 > 0:14:03including a player whose primary role was to stop goals.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06I thought, keeper's come out, they normally make themselves big,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09I'll slot it through his legs, that one didn't happen.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11So I thought, put your foot through it when it came back to me
0:14:11 > 0:14:12and it went in.
0:14:12 > 0:14:17The look on his face is priceless. I'm not sure he realises himself.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19He's in shock and he's running off,
0:14:19 > 0:14:21he didn't know how to celebrate, he didn't know where to run.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25It was brilliant, I remember giggling at the side, watching it.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27I just ran off and then thought,
0:14:27 > 0:14:29you just slide on your knees when you're a footballer,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32so I just gave it a slide and tried to find my family,
0:14:32 > 0:14:34blew a few kisses and I hope the kids enjoy that.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38They go on at me for not scoring, I try to explain I'm a defender,
0:14:38 > 0:14:39but they don't care at a young age.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44For the family record, it was Dad's first goal for Wales.
0:14:44 > 0:14:45But not the team's last.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Aaron Ramsey. Backing off him.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Ramsey weaving it through to Bale. He's onside.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56There's the man.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58And there's the man with the plan.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01Wales 3, Russia 0.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12It was just one of those nights where it all came together,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15and after that happened and we got through, we topped the group,
0:15:15 > 0:15:18we just felt like we could take on the world, you know.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22If you're a sportsman, you go through phases
0:15:22 > 0:15:24where you feel unbeatable.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26It doesn't matter what you do, you're going to win.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30And I think we were in that moment right then after that Russia game.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34Into the round of 16 went the team, the whole of Wales.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37A tricky game against a country
0:15:37 > 0:15:39slightly smaller than Wales.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43We were 90 minutes or one challenge away
0:15:43 > 0:15:46from being in a quarterfinal of a major tournament.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50The problem we've got is Northern Ireland are in the same boat as us.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Stay focused, stay calm, we'll get a chance.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Robson-Kanu.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Has to be strong.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58We get a chance, we need a bit of luck.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Let's make sure we work for it.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Bale with another wicked delivery
0:16:02 > 0:16:06and it's turned into his own net by the unfortunate Gareth McAuley.
0:16:06 > 0:16:11It is another Wales win, and on they go to the quarterfinals.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15I remember saying, make sure, when we score and we're on top,
0:16:15 > 0:16:17we are showing everybody what it means to us.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Don't be shy, don't be embarrassed.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22So we started doing that throughout the campaign, really.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27It's a compliment if you get asked to represent your country.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30It's an honour, you know, so you need to make the most of that.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34And when you win, there's no feeling like that, so why not show it?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Showing it, sharing the joy,
0:16:36 > 0:16:39nobody showed it or shared it quite like Joe Ledley.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46He's a Welsh hero, Joe, for his dancing.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50His lack of hip movements have made him a legend in Wales.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53And his beard and everything like that, so I think Joe is a great lad.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56CHEERING
0:17:07 > 0:17:09We're a really close group, we get on great,
0:17:09 > 0:17:12but we haven't been away with each other for this long.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Are we going to start doing each other's head in?
0:17:14 > 0:17:18Are we going to be able to cope with the cabin fever going to set in?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21The key to everything we've done has been team spirit, full stop.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24We've always fought for each other, worked hard
0:17:24 > 0:17:27and we've always known that each other would turn up on the day
0:17:27 > 0:17:30when it was needed and produce, and I think that's been the key for us.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32The last eight. Belgium,
0:17:32 > 0:17:34slightly bigger than Wales.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Certainly higher in the world rankings.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40And in Lille, playing very close to home.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43We respect Belgium, a great team, great individual players.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46But I just felt, as a team, we were better.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50If we could just get it together on the night.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56I'm quite sure the Belgian public were a lot more confident
0:17:56 > 0:18:00than the Belgian players were in playing us, I'm pretty sure of that.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Here we go.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10We knew from the qualifying campaign that we were their bogey team.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12They don't like playing us, for whatever reason,
0:18:12 > 0:18:15they don't play to the best of their ability when they play us.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Carrasco. Big chance.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Big save.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Meunier, off the line.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Hazard, over the bar.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Brilliantly defended.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28But for how long?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31This was a new level of attacking menace.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Nainggolan with a little bit of room.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37And he took a shot and he scores magnificently.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42You get an early disappointment in a game like that
0:18:42 > 0:18:45and a lot of teams, I think, might have crumbled.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47We went 1-0 down, and that's when we played
0:18:47 > 0:18:49our best football at the tournament,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51given the level of players we were playing against as well.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55And now Aaron Ramsey, he's onside. Red shirts in the middle.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Oh, Courtois with a save to deny Neil Taylor.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01It's a game, anything can happen,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04and you just have to prepare yourself to the best of your ability
0:19:04 > 0:19:07and be ready for when that opportunity comes.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Ramsey's corner... Williams!
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Ashley Williams for Wales.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18The captain heads home the equaliser!
0:19:20 > 0:19:211-1.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23We got the goal.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Again, we were buoyed from it, we had a belief and we started
0:19:26 > 0:19:29to have a few chances here and there, we were opening them up
0:19:29 > 0:19:33a little bit, and going into the second half, it was anyone's game.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34Bale.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37A good run from Aaron Ramsey, well found.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Dinked in towards Robson-Kanu.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Taylor is available. What a turn!
0:19:42 > 0:19:43What a goal!
0:19:43 > 0:19:47What a goal from Hal Robson-Kanu!
0:19:47 > 0:19:51When you receive the ball in the box, you sort of want to try
0:19:51 > 0:19:54and make space for yourself, it was an opportunity for me to turn,
0:19:54 > 0:19:56and in the end it just worked perfectly and, you know,
0:19:56 > 0:20:00it was a feeling that I'll never forget for the rest of my life.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Robson-Kanu...
0:20:05 > 0:20:10R-R-R-Robson-Kanu...
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Robson-Kanu!
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Hell on fire.
0:20:14 > 0:20:18- COLEMAN:- It was the look on his face when he'd done it, the big smile.
0:20:18 > 0:20:23I can just remember looking to see all our fans in the corner.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26They'd lost it by then, the Welsh fans were just going crazy.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Because this was a new level of attacking menace.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31In towards Vokes...
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Vokes!
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Oh, my God!
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Ohh... Go and wake your kids up.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Something special is happening here tonight!
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Wow!
0:20:48 > 0:20:53Wales are going into the semifinals of the European Championship.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56Amazing, amazing stuff.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59- GARY LINEKER:- Wow, just wow.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01What an incredible performance from Wales,
0:21:01 > 0:21:05one of the greatest performances in the history of British football.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08I think that night was the first night of the year
0:21:08 > 0:21:10we'd probably seen tears from fans,
0:21:10 > 0:21:12and pure emotion and pride and everything.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14It was quite the same for the players, honestly, because without a
0:21:14 > 0:21:18doubt Belgium were the most talented squad of players at that Euros.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22Once again we'd beaten Belgium, which is no mean feat.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25We'd earned that win, we hadn't nicked it this time,
0:21:25 > 0:21:29like the Northern Ireland one, we were the better team in that game.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32The 58-year wait, well worth it.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Wales in the semifinals of the Euros.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Can someone please explain to me what is happening?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Semifinals.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50Ben Davies and Aaron Ramsey, both suspended,
0:21:50 > 0:21:53would miss the semi against Portugal in Lyon.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57On the other hand, the support for Wales only grew crazier.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Hello!
0:21:59 > 0:22:01HE SPEAKS WELSH
0:22:01 > 0:22:03It's going to be a fantastic night,
0:22:03 > 0:22:07Wales against Portugal for a place in the finals.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Children, the presenters have just said
0:22:10 > 0:22:11there's a bit of a game on today.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13CHILDREN CHEER
0:22:13 > 0:22:17I know the whole House will want to join me in wishing Wales luck
0:22:17 > 0:22:21ahead of the Euro 2016 semifinal this evening.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25Hey, Wales, get ready to party your Hasselhoff. Pob lwc, Cymru.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Go, Wales.
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Go, Wales!
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Together Stronger. Let's do this.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35- TAYLOR:- There's pressure because now you're thinking,
0:22:35 > 0:22:37"Can we win this tournament?
0:22:37 > 0:22:39"Is there a chance we can go all the way?"
0:22:39 > 0:22:42And no-one wants to say it, but you're all sort of thinking,
0:22:42 > 0:22:44"There's a chance here, you know.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46"We've got a chance now to maybe, you know,
0:22:46 > 0:22:49"do something that would be unbelievable."
0:22:49 > 0:22:54But when you talk about fate, it was probably fate for them to win it.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Rafa...
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Cristiano...
0:22:58 > 0:23:08Go-o-o-o-oal!
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Just seeing the leap from Ronaldo was unbelievable,
0:23:12 > 0:23:15I couldn't believe how high he'd got to head that ball.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Wales trail...
0:23:23 > 0:23:26And then they get quite a lucky goal straight after to put them two up.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28I think from that point on we didn't really look like
0:23:28 > 0:23:30we'd get a way back into the game.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32And congratulations to them.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36And I'm happy that we lost to the eventual winners as well.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38All over in Lyon.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43For Wales, well, this is only the end of one story.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45There's so much to be proud of.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47It's a shame we couldn't go any further but, you know,
0:23:47 > 0:23:49still a huge achievement.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51- COLEMAN:- No complaints.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53I don't think we could have asked for any more.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56It just wasn't to be. We got to the semifinal,
0:23:56 > 0:23:59and the feeling when the final whistle went, it was awful.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01I needed to go into the dressing room
0:24:01 > 0:24:03and have five minutes by myself.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06I can't tell you how gutted I felt, you know.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10You start thinking, "There's a lot of people here that's followed us,"
0:24:10 > 0:24:14so you go and say thank you to them, and they were brilliant.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16So, so proud of the team.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20So, so proud of the whole nation for how they conducted themselves,
0:24:20 > 0:24:23the travelling supporters were absolutely immense.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26But, yeah, we were just one hurdle short.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28And I'll never, ever...
0:24:28 > 0:24:30stop thinking "if only".
0:24:30 > 0:24:32I can't help it.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41The great adventure was over.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45The unknown had been faced, the challenge embraced.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48The whole experience shared and adored
0:24:48 > 0:24:51from start to semifinal finish.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59Just a few weeks later, there began another adventure.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Not across the Channel but on the other side of
0:25:02 > 0:25:06the Atlantic Ocean, the other side of the equator.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Rio de Janeiro, host city of the Olympic Games.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16Rio, with its soaring majesty.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Beautiful Rio.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22In a turbulent country, a chaotic city,
0:25:22 > 0:25:26charming but sometimes threatening Rio.
0:25:26 > 0:25:31It would exert unique strains on even the most hardened competitors,
0:25:31 > 0:25:33disturbing their routines.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40I don't know whether it's because I've been to Olympics before
0:25:40 > 0:25:41and I'm used to that pressure,
0:25:41 > 0:25:45but when I first got there it didn't really feel like an Olympics, so I
0:25:45 > 0:25:49remember on the day, like, I fell asleep, had a nap in between fights.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Obviously I normally have a nap but I woke up thinking,
0:25:51 > 0:25:54"Oh, my God," you know, "this is the Olympics,"
0:25:54 > 0:25:57and that's when it finally kicked in, like.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Just arriving in the village and being in the Team GB block and
0:26:00 > 0:26:05being with all these other athletes was just absolutely incredible.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07You see everyone else in Team GB kit, you know,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10you always make a connection whether you know them or not.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13You're walking round and you see Andy Murray training on the tennis
0:26:13 > 0:26:17courts or watching Mo Farah just walking out of the Team GB block.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20You're sort of surrounded by all these stars and I didn't
0:26:20 > 0:26:22really feel like I belonged there, it was like,
0:26:22 > 0:26:24wow, there's all these incredible athletes.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29One of these superstars stood directly in Jazz's way,
0:26:29 > 0:26:32or swam in a lane nearby.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36The mighty Katie Ledecky of the United States.
0:26:36 > 0:26:41A child prodigy in London and now 19 years old and in three individual
0:26:41 > 0:26:46freestyle events, including Jazz's 400m and 800m.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51She won the London 2012 Olympics at 15 years old,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54it's a very young age to win an Olympic gold medal,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57so obviously then everyone knew how she is a star
0:26:57 > 0:27:00but from then on she's posting times that people
0:27:00 > 0:27:03didn't believe a woman would have been possible to do.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08There were still medals to win, and if the presence of Ledecky
0:27:08 > 0:27:13was daunting, there was a factor that might prove more inspiring.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16No woman from Wales had won a medal
0:27:16 > 0:27:20of any colour in the swimming pool for over 80 years.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23But look at that,
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Jazz Carlin winning the first of the seeded heats.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30And that's put her in a great position for the final.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Normally I try and go back and rest and sleep but I was just absolutely
0:27:33 > 0:27:36wired, I was so excited to compete in the final, and obviously
0:27:36 > 0:27:40my coach was really happy with my swim, he said, "You looked great,"
0:27:40 > 0:27:42then obviously you never know, it's a completely different swim
0:27:42 > 0:27:46in the final, you can't control what everyone else is doing.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52I'd worked a lot with a sports psychologist leading up to Rio.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55He made me stand up and read this bit of paper,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58and it said, "Hi, everyone, I'm Jazz Carlin
0:27:58 > 0:28:01"and I'm going to Rio to try and win two Olympic medals."
0:28:01 > 0:28:05I was so scared, I was... I didn't want to do it.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08I was saying, "I don't want to do it, why are you making me do this?"
0:28:08 > 0:28:11But just doing that, standing up in front of everyone,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14made it feel a bit more real and made me think, yeah, I can do that.
0:28:14 > 0:28:15Take your marks.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17STARTING BLEEP
0:28:17 > 0:28:19So, about 80 metres to go
0:28:19 > 0:28:21in this final of the women's 400m freestyle.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23But great news for Great Britain,
0:28:23 > 0:28:26and Wales's Jazz Carlin in silver-medal position,
0:28:26 > 0:28:29and she's holding well, but charging is Leah Smith of the USA in three.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Yeah, we've got to keep an eye out for Leah Smith.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Smith finishes very strongly, has got a stronger best time,
0:28:34 > 0:28:36a two-second-better best time than Carlin.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Carlin has to dig in deep here.
0:28:39 > 0:28:40And Katie Ledecky of the USA
0:28:40 > 0:28:43is going to obliterate her world record.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45She's going to probably come 3.56.
0:28:45 > 0:28:50Look at this, the Worlds champion becomes the Olympic champion.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53The silver to Jazz Carlin, wonderful silver medal for Great Britain.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56What a brilliant swim, and a massive lifetime best.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Well done, Jazz.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Silver Olympic medal on the 400 freestyle. Brilliant.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06It was Wales's first medal of the Games.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09And now she wanted more.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12Standing on the podium and seeing everyone
0:29:12 > 0:29:15and seeing the British flag, and I remember thinking,
0:29:15 > 0:29:17I just want to experience that feeling again.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Rio, so different from London.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27But the medals started to roll in,
0:29:27 > 0:29:32for the Team GB pot but towards a special Wales tally, too.
0:29:32 > 0:29:37James "Cubby Boi" Davies and Sam Cross in rugby sevens.
0:29:39 > 0:29:43Silver for Victoria Thornley in the double sculls.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47Gold for Hannah Mills in the 470 sailing.
0:29:47 > 0:29:52And Jazz chasing Ledecky again, looking for more.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54And brilliant news for Great Britain,
0:29:54 > 0:29:56a second silver medal for Jazz Carlin.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00Yeah, it was kind of like, "Oh, wow, that happened again!"
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Two silvers. Jazz Carlin, well done.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09To come away with two silvers behind a champion like Katie Ledecky
0:30:09 > 0:30:12is, erm...is OK, I'll take it!
0:30:13 > 0:30:17The Olympic velodrome, the medal factory for Team GB.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21Gold for Owain Doull and Elinor Barker
0:30:21 > 0:30:24in their respective team sprints.
0:30:24 > 0:30:27And at their first Olympics.
0:30:31 > 0:30:36And here, after four years of such highs and lows, Becky James.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39I was terrified to be racing.
0:30:39 > 0:30:41It must have been six o'clock in the morning,
0:30:41 > 0:30:44I had a bowl of porridge in bed and I remember just shaking
0:30:44 > 0:30:47and my stomach was doing flips, I was absolutely terrified.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50But I was really excited to race as well, I think, because I knew
0:30:50 > 0:30:52how well I was going. I was just sort of ready to get out there
0:30:52 > 0:30:54and I just wanted to get the first race done,
0:30:54 > 0:30:56just to know how I was going.
0:30:57 > 0:31:01Pretty well, it seemed, cruising through the heats in the keirin.
0:31:03 > 0:31:05And then watching others.
0:31:06 > 0:31:10The women's team pursuit up just before my final, and I think it
0:31:10 > 0:31:14gave me that extra motivation, just watching them win that gold medal.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18Becky's turn now, back at last.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20The final of the keirin.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24Follow that derny.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27STARTING GUN FIRES
0:31:27 > 0:31:32All my coach said to me before the race is, "Be patient, don't panic."
0:31:32 > 0:31:35Whenever I'm racing I don't notice anything else bar my coach
0:31:35 > 0:31:38and what's going on in the race, and he was just going,
0:31:38 > 0:31:40"Just wait, just wait."
0:31:40 > 0:31:44One of the advantages of being third back is that you can start
0:31:44 > 0:31:47your acceleration earlier, and so as the bike drops off you're
0:31:47 > 0:31:52already moving forward, so swings and roundabouts in this one.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54I could feel it was just getting faster and faster straightaway,
0:31:54 > 0:31:56as soon as the motorbike pulled off.
0:31:56 > 0:31:57And the race is on now.
0:31:57 > 0:31:59Voinova from Vogel, from Meares,
0:31:59 > 0:32:02Ligtlee round the outside, Basova in the middle,
0:32:02 > 0:32:06right at the back is Becky James in the dark skinsuit.
0:32:06 > 0:32:07I was panicking inside,
0:32:07 > 0:32:09I was thinking, when can I go, when can I go?
0:32:09 > 0:32:13With less than two laps to go, Becky James with plenty to do.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15It came into the bell lap and I was still at the back,
0:32:15 > 0:32:19and I just had this surge and I was thinking, I've got to do something,
0:32:19 > 0:32:22and I had all this frustration and I just went round the outside.
0:32:22 > 0:32:26Becky James is still at the back. Now she tries to make inroads.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Becky James goes around the outside.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31I was thinking, I can do this, I can do this!
0:32:31 > 0:32:34Down the finishing straight and up towards the line!
0:32:34 > 0:32:39There is a medal here for Becky James and I think it's silver.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Second place confirmed.
0:32:43 > 0:32:47But it wasn't so much the finishing order as the being here.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50I never imagined going back to my cycling,
0:32:50 > 0:32:52because I spent four-and-a-half months not actually on my bike
0:32:52 > 0:32:56and I was just having pain every time I tried to get back onto it.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59And then I'd been going through ups and downs as well at this time,
0:32:59 > 0:33:02when I had my abnormal cervical smears.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05Weekends, I'd go back to my parents' and I'd just cry
0:33:05 > 0:33:07and just say, "I can't do this any more."
0:33:07 > 0:33:09But to be able to celebrate with them, you know,
0:33:09 > 0:33:11was a really special moment.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14They were the ones that kept me going through all those times,
0:33:14 > 0:33:17and I think that's what made it so special, that they'd seen me
0:33:17 > 0:33:20going through that and then they'd seen me on the form of my life.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22There might be more hugs.
0:33:22 > 0:33:26On her way to the final of the individual sprint,
0:33:26 > 0:33:30Becky set a new Olympic record, setting up a grand finale.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33The sprint is on, 200 metres to go.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38There's a big gap to close, Becky James is starting to close it.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40Vogel's trying to hold her off.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42Round the banking, into the finishing straight.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44Has Becky James got the speed to do it?!
0:33:44 > 0:33:46- Oh, it was so close, so close. - Ooh...
0:33:46 > 0:33:50There was nothing in it between the pair of them.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53Kristina Vogel takes it, and Becky James wins
0:33:53 > 0:33:55a second silver medal here in Rio.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03A second silver for herself,
0:34:03 > 0:34:07and the medal that took the total won by Welsh competitors
0:34:07 > 0:34:09past the previous best.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15Rio.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17Difficult Rio, wonderful Rio.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21And still offering more.
0:34:21 > 0:34:26No individual Welsh competitor had ever won back-to-back golds.
0:34:26 > 0:34:33Step forward Jade Jones, 57 kilos of high-kicking defending champion.
0:34:33 > 0:34:37I always, like, try and stay, like, 100% focused until I've fought.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40Straight after London I found it hard, like, dealing with
0:34:40 > 0:34:44the pressure, you know, of being a champion and of what comes with it.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46It wasn't till my coach, Paul Green, said, you know,
0:34:46 > 0:34:49"Your Olympic gold is never going away," so I can't keep
0:34:49 > 0:34:52carrying that to every competition and putting pressure on me.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56It's like, that's never going away, so anything else is a bonus.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59And then I thought, at the end of the day, it's the Olympic Games,
0:34:59 > 0:35:01I've got one chance and I've just got to go for it
0:35:01 > 0:35:04and give it absolutely everything I've got, you know,
0:35:04 > 0:35:07put my heart and everything on the mat and there's nothing more
0:35:07 > 0:35:10I can do, you know, so that's how I went into it.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13That was the start.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15The finish lay four fights away.
0:35:15 > 0:35:20Bakkal not being fazed by the fact that Jade is the Olympic champion.
0:35:20 > 0:35:21So fast!
0:35:21 > 0:35:24Lightning quick with those feet.
0:35:24 > 0:35:27This is by far the quickest we've seen, I'm sure.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31There's the Headhunter in action.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34That's what's hard sometimes, the expectation on me to just, like,
0:35:34 > 0:35:38beat everyone up is really high, and then that makes me a bit nervous.
0:35:38 > 0:35:43And she manages to stay calm there and find that three-point head shot.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47Two fights according to plan, but then, in the third...
0:35:48 > 0:35:51I just felt a bit too tense and me little brother texted me
0:35:51 > 0:35:53and was just like, "Relax, Jade."
0:35:53 > 0:35:56You know, he must have been able to see that I was nervous
0:35:56 > 0:35:58and I knew if I didn't relax then, you know,
0:35:58 > 0:36:00I could go out and I could lose.
0:36:02 > 0:36:05Fantastic stuff from Jones.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08She scores again, look at that, there's a three to the head.
0:36:08 > 0:36:14And Jones, she knows that she's got one foot in the Olympic final.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16Can she defend her title?
0:36:16 > 0:36:19She has a chance.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21When I, you know, got through to the final,
0:36:21 > 0:36:24just like a weight had been lifted.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28A lot of pressure did go off me, for about, like, five minutes,
0:36:28 > 0:36:30and then I thought, no, I came here for the gold, and then,
0:36:30 > 0:36:34like, the pressure started, like, building up again!
0:36:34 > 0:36:37I've got my shot now at becoming double Olympic champion,
0:36:37 > 0:36:39and that's the first time I'd really, you know, fully
0:36:39 > 0:36:43thought about it on that day, that, "Oh, my God, I could do it twice."
0:36:43 > 0:36:46And then I was just ready for the final, I was like,
0:36:46 > 0:36:49"Right, let's do this, this is what I'm here for."
0:36:50 > 0:36:52Gomez just leaning back...
0:36:52 > 0:36:56There's a kick up the stairs, and she finds the door is open.
0:36:56 > 0:37:01She sneaks in, takes the head shot and plants another. 6-0.
0:37:01 > 0:37:05The first round I went up about six points, like, in about 20 seconds,
0:37:05 > 0:37:08I thought, "Oh, my God, didn't expect it to go like this!"
0:37:08 > 0:37:10I was kind of shocked, to be honest, I thought, "Oh, my God."
0:37:10 > 0:37:12And then in the second round I must have, like,
0:37:12 > 0:37:14come off the pressure a bit.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17Yeah, she's just got to keep her head, keep her composure,
0:37:17 > 0:37:19Jade Jones.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22She came flying at me and it went back to 7-6.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Well, there is the head shot that puts Calvo Gomez back into this one.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29I just remember thinking, you know, like, Paul my coach will kill me,
0:37:29 > 0:37:31so going back to him after the second round
0:37:31 > 0:37:33and he was like, "Have you give up?"
0:37:33 > 0:37:35and, like, screaming in my face, and he was saying...
0:37:35 > 0:37:38We've got two minutes, give me your best two minutes. Right?
0:37:38 > 0:37:40And I literally did give it the best two minutes of me life,
0:37:40 > 0:37:42and just attacked her, really.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45Ten seconds left. Jones takes another.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47Calvo Gomez on the back foot.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Can she do it one more time, the Olympic champion?
0:37:50 > 0:37:55The Welsh wonder strikes gold again. Double Olympic champion.
0:37:55 > 0:38:00To do it once is good but to do it twice is just, you know,
0:38:00 > 0:38:02unbelievable, and that's all I wanted to do,
0:38:02 > 0:38:06I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder, I wanted to stamp my mark.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14Rio. Happy Rio. GB Rio.
0:38:14 > 0:38:20A record 67 medals won, second in the medal table, ahead of China.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24Wales's contribution - ten medals.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26Three more than in London.
0:38:28 > 0:38:32And in this mood, the Olympics morphed into the Paralympics.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40Aled Sion Davies, discus gold medallist in London,
0:38:40 > 0:38:42now in the shot.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45Double rotation, he releases that shot.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49Aled Davies is the Paralympic gold medallist.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52Hollie Arnold, her third Paras, first medal.
0:38:52 > 0:38:5543 metres and one centimetre.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57The world record is smashed.
0:38:57 > 0:39:01A single sculler, almost a novice.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04But it is a gold for Rachel Morris,
0:39:04 > 0:39:08who turned to the sport just two years ago.
0:39:08 > 0:39:10An archery silver for Jodie Grinham.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15Phil Pratt, basketball bronze.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19Sabrina Fortune, bronze in the shot put.
0:39:20 > 0:39:25More medals, another surge towards a record haul.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Uplifting Rio.
0:39:27 > 0:39:33This place was casting its spell, as was the whole summer of '16.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36Rio was pretty amazing, to be fair.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38I watched Jade Jones's final and, erm,
0:39:38 > 0:39:40seen the emotion come out of her.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42I watched the football back in the summer,
0:39:42 > 0:39:45it was a great experience watching how free they played,
0:39:45 > 0:39:48and I put that into my psychology, you know,
0:39:48 > 0:39:51I spoke to my psychologist about it, you know, "That's what I want to
0:39:51 > 0:39:56"be like, I want to go out there and play like the footballers did."
0:39:57 > 0:40:00Rob Davies, sports mad.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03Rugby the particular love of his life.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07At the age of 21, playing hooker for Brecon,
0:40:07 > 0:40:11he suffered a serious spinal injury.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13He would never walk again.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20It is the spirit of the undaunted.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24Still sports mad, he discovered this.
0:40:24 > 0:40:27When I was in hospital, the Welsh guys invited me down to train,
0:40:27 > 0:40:29so I was going down there I think twice a week probably,
0:40:29 > 0:40:31getting a taxi down from the hospital,
0:40:31 > 0:40:34and the nurses weren't too happy because I didn't tell them
0:40:34 > 0:40:37where I was going a lot and just went down to the taxi,
0:40:37 > 0:40:38and they were looking for me,
0:40:38 > 0:40:41but I wanted to go and practise table tennis, that's what I did.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43I haven't stopped since.
0:40:43 > 0:40:48Over the course of a decade he went from beginner to world number one,
0:40:48 > 0:40:52but without winning a medal at the Paralympics in London.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55He hadn't made it through the preliminary rounds.
0:40:56 > 0:41:01Now he was in the final - against a Korean player he knew well.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05Joo Young Dae, ranked at number five in the world,
0:41:05 > 0:41:08playing in his first Paralympics.
0:41:08 > 0:41:12I'd played him twice before, never beat him.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18And this time Davies was ready for the long, fast serve.
0:41:29 > 0:41:33Oh, what a point. The early part of that rally was amazing.
0:41:37 > 0:41:43It's the fourth game, Rob Davies now one game away from the gold medal.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46He leads by two games to one, best of five.
0:41:46 > 0:41:47It's hard to explain, erm,
0:41:47 > 0:41:51everything I'd worked for not only the last four years
0:41:51 > 0:41:54but the last eight years, probably since my accident,
0:41:54 > 0:41:57everything's been leading towards that moment.
0:42:03 > 0:42:05He's done it!
0:42:05 > 0:42:07What a performance!
0:42:07 > 0:42:11Just look how much that means to Rob Davies.
0:42:11 > 0:42:15He's been working incredibly hard for four years
0:42:15 > 0:42:18and it all comes down to this moment.
0:42:18 > 0:42:22It all came out then almost, you know, so much emotion,
0:42:22 > 0:42:25through having my injury, through how I used to train
0:42:25 > 0:42:27before my injury, you know, playing rugby, erm,
0:42:27 > 0:42:29used to put everything into my sport,
0:42:29 > 0:42:31and looking back on all that,
0:42:31 > 0:42:35what's made me the person I am now, today, and I think without
0:42:35 > 0:42:38all them experiences, without all that past,
0:42:38 > 0:42:42I think I wouldn't have been able to do what I did on that final,
0:42:42 > 0:42:46and, yeah, it all came out then, after I realised I'd won.
0:42:51 > 0:42:55The Games were over, life could return to what roughly passes
0:42:55 > 0:42:58for normal beneath these peaks.
0:42:58 > 0:43:02Normal. No such thing in Rio.
0:43:02 > 0:43:07And no such thing for Wales, in the soaring summer of '16.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10MUSIC: Livin' Thing by Electric Light Orchestra
0:43:12 > 0:43:15# Sailing away on the crest of a wave
0:43:15 > 0:43:18# It's like magic... #
0:43:18 > 0:43:20To play a part in all the Welsh athletes,
0:43:20 > 0:43:23and I think it sort of made it feel very real in the parades after,
0:43:23 > 0:43:26sort of meeting everyone that I hadn't met in Rio.
0:43:26 > 0:43:30It was just incredible, and I think everyone had done so well.
0:43:30 > 0:43:31I'm really proud to be Welsh.
0:43:31 > 0:43:35Like, every time I win I always try and grab that Welsh flag as well,
0:43:35 > 0:43:37just to run round with it.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40It's amazing to become the first-ever, you know,
0:43:40 > 0:43:42back-to-back Olympic champion.
0:43:42 > 0:43:46# ..Baby, it's a livin' thing... #
0:43:48 > 0:43:49To see my kids there,
0:43:49 > 0:43:51to know as they get older they'll realise what their dad's been
0:43:51 > 0:43:55able to do and achieve, was the best thing for me, I think.
0:43:55 > 0:43:59Definitely the pinnacle of our careers for the Welsh players.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02I thought there'd be a lot of people waiting in Cardiff,
0:44:02 > 0:44:05I didn't expect that. None of us did.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08I never, ever imagined we'd ever be in that position,
0:44:08 > 0:44:11where we'd made the country that proud of us.
0:44:11 > 0:44:16# ..Oh, rolling and riding and slipping and sliding
0:44:16 > 0:44:18# It's magic
0:44:19 > 0:44:22# And you
0:44:22 > 0:44:27# And your sweet desire
0:44:27 > 0:44:30# You took me
0:44:30 > 0:44:35# Oh, higher and higher, baby
0:44:35 > 0:44:37# It's a livin' thing... #