:00:00. > :00:12.This summer, the greatest athletes on the planet will return to the
:00:13. > :00:14.scene of the 2012 Olympics as they compete to be crowned
:00:15. > :00:19.And is well versed on how to rise to the occasion.
:00:20. > :00:25.Five years have passed since London 2012.
:00:26. > :00:27.But the memory of those golden moments
:00:28. > :00:32.It was Britain's most successful Olympics
:00:33. > :00:37.Day after day of trial is almost blurring into one.
:00:38. > :00:45.Above all others, one Saturday would come to be remembered.
:00:46. > :00:49.Greg Rutherford won gold in the long jump
:00:50. > :00:53.and Mo Farah won 10,000 metres gold, all in the space of 44 minutes.
:00:54. > :00:56.Every games needs a home medal at its Olympic Stadium to give it
:00:57. > :01:12.made the Super Saturday the best night in British sport.
:01:13. > :01:14.Since then, they have all faced challenges in
:01:15. > :01:17.Challenges I've faced as a world-class athlete.
:01:18. > :01:19.Staying on top, defending your title, and family life.
:01:20. > :01:23.In this programme, they will reflect on
:01:24. > :01:25.their journeys since that unforgettable night in the
:01:26. > :01:29.And consider what the future holds as London prepares to
:01:30. > :01:39.Five years have passed since Super Saturday.
:01:40. > :01:44.Since then, Jess, Mo and Greg have all followed their own
:01:45. > :01:49.I am keen to see how my experiences in the sport compared to theirs.
:01:50. > :01:51.During my own career, I competed in three Olympic Games
:01:52. > :01:57.I dealt with the highs and lows that come with
:01:58. > :02:02.Greg Rutherford, the long jump star of
:02:03. > :02:07.Super Saturday, trains to be the best in the
:02:08. > :02:10.Super Saturday, trains to be the best in the world with the coach
:02:11. > :02:14.That means spending much of the year in Arizona.
:02:15. > :02:17.I am keen to see how he and his family are getting on out there.
:02:18. > :02:40.One of the best coaches in the world.
:02:41. > :02:45.It has been good. We spent quite a lot of time here.
:02:46. > :02:47.Last year, nearly six months leading into the
:02:48. > :02:52.I will keep going as long as I keep going.
:02:53. > :02:57.If he gets in, we are going to get married.
:02:58. > :03:00.This sounds like a part I should not be involved with.
:03:01. > :03:07.As a result of his incredible achievements on
:03:08. > :03:13.the track, Mo Farah has become a global star.
:03:14. > :03:15.The pursuit of this dominance means his training also
:03:16. > :03:32.One of the reasons we spend a lot of time here is because
:03:33. > :03:35.the elevation. Good facilities.
:03:36. > :03:40.This is what people need in terms of high altitude.
:03:41. > :03:42.Back in the days, the Kenyans and Ethiopians beating
:03:43. > :03:46.One of the reasons was because they spend so much time at
:03:47. > :03:49.When they come back to sea level, things are easier.
:03:50. > :03:54.Spending six months of the year away from my family, not being able to
:03:55. > :03:56.see my family, racing, training camps.
:03:57. > :03:59.It is difficult, but if you want to be a champion, stay on top,
:04:00. > :04:05.Eat, sleep, train - nothing more to it.
:04:06. > :04:08.For Jessica Ennis-Hill, the best place
:04:09. > :04:11.to be has always been at home in Sheffield
:04:12. > :04:19.Her journey since Super Saturday has been nothing short of eventful.
:04:20. > :04:21.This is Sheffield, your hometown? Yes.
:04:22. > :04:24.Born here, studied here, did all my training here.
:04:25. > :04:27.When you were a kid growing up here, did you ever think
:04:28. > :04:39.When I started athletics, learning about championships and the
:04:40. > :04:41.Olympics, I always had that dream of wanting to be there.
:04:42. > :04:47.I never imagined that I would have had the journey that
:04:48. > :04:51.Sat here in this position, chatting to you.
:04:52. > :04:54.With lots of gold medals and an Olympic gold
:04:55. > :05:04.Going into 2012, you became the face of the Games.
:05:05. > :05:07.Talk about how that affected you in the year leading up to
:05:08. > :05:12.The fact that it was in London, it brought a lot more
:05:13. > :05:19.I think for me the most important thing at
:05:20. > :05:22.that time was did not change anything - I stayed where I trained
:05:23. > :05:36.That kept me really grounded, really sane in what I was doing.
:05:37. > :05:39.I do think, gosh, that was a hell of a
:05:40. > :05:42.I thought, honestly, can this all come together
:05:43. > :05:45.Jess' quest for heptathlon gold began on Friday, 3rd
:05:46. > :05:54.It will conclude with the 800m final underneath the
:05:55. > :05:56.spotlight of the packed Olympic Stadium.
:05:57. > :06:03.The stadium was incredible, the bars, fans, British flags.
:06:04. > :06:06.Having an Olympics in your hometown is once in a lifetime.
:06:07. > :06:08.As soon as you walk into the stadium, you get goose
:06:09. > :06:12.It was just like nothing I had ever experienced.
:06:13. > :06:16.Everybody in there wanted you to do well.
:06:17. > :06:18.And was excited about the prospect of doing well.
:06:19. > :06:21.They had no idea who I was, they just saw a British jersey.
:06:22. > :06:23.That morning, I was about five o'clock.
:06:24. > :06:25.The night before, I could not switch off.
:06:26. > :06:27.I was telling myself there is so much more to do,
:06:28. > :06:32.I couldn't help thinking, I am so close.
:06:33. > :06:36.I remember waiting and nerves building.
:06:37. > :06:43.The way she controlled the pressure she
:06:44. > :06:45.had - everyone already hung a Olympic gold-medal
:06:46. > :06:49.We know how much can go wrong in athletics.
:06:50. > :06:51.She dealt with that pressure incredibly well.
:06:52. > :06:53.Crossing the line was one of the most amazing
:06:54. > :06:57.When she crossed the line, arms aloft, the feeling of pride and felt
:06:58. > :07:05.Then, it has switched to myself and my thought process of, I want to
:07:06. > :07:08.I want to have the crowd going mad for me.
:07:09. > :07:19.It ended up being the next jump was the longest
:07:20. > :07:22.I went from the 3rd of August, nobody having any
:07:23. > :07:25.idea who I was, to the 4th of August,
:07:26. > :07:26.becoming Olympic champion on
:07:27. > :07:38.a night which was truly spectacular for British sport.
:07:39. > :07:41.To be sandwiched between Jess and Mo is very special for me.
:07:42. > :07:43.Going into the race, I knew if I could go
:07:44. > :07:47.with one lap to go in the position I was, I should hopefully do well.
:07:48. > :07:49.I normally start at the back and work
:07:50. > :07:52.As I was working my way through, getting louder and louder.
:07:53. > :07:55.And I was thinking, concentrate, and the last lap, the
:07:56. > :08:01.Watching Mo Farah standing under the Olympic flame.
:08:02. > :08:04.He was cheering on the side of the track.
:08:05. > :08:15.I saw Rhianna coming on the track. I got emotional, lifted her.
:08:16. > :08:23.That moment was beautiful as a family.
:08:24. > :08:25.The 45 minutes with Jess, Greg and then me.
:08:26. > :08:31.After London, describe the change in your life.
:08:32. > :08:38.You have people wanting you to appear at this, talk
:08:39. > :08:52.If you look back to Super Saturday, Jess, Mo, all three
:08:53. > :08:58.Did you ever look at them or reach out to one
:08:59. > :09:03.gone for you because I am having a hard time with this?
:09:04. > :09:06.For me, probably because I always saw Jess
:09:07. > :09:11.I get on really well with both of them.
:09:12. > :09:23.Probably never quite them, if that make sense.
:09:24. > :09:26.They are two of the greatest in British history and I
:09:27. > :09:28.have never been able to put myself with them.
:09:29. > :09:30.The 2013 World Championships offered Greg the
:09:31. > :09:33.chance to prove that his London gold was more than just a one off.
:09:34. > :09:36.In Moscow, he went out of the competition in the early stages.
:09:37. > :09:43.I should not have gone to the World Championships.
:09:44. > :09:45.I had a ruptured hamstring, could not run fast.
:09:46. > :09:52.I hoped and believed I could do something.
:09:53. > :09:54.Possibly you had to prove people wrong.
:09:55. > :10:01.I ignored the fact that I was in no shape to do so.
:10:02. > :10:06.Mo Farah's London Olympics did not end
:10:07. > :10:13.Immediately after becoming the 10,000 champ, his
:10:14. > :10:18.attention turned to his pursuit of the 5000 metres gold.
:10:19. > :10:22.I wanted to come out and try to win the 5K.
:10:23. > :10:25.At that point, I was recovering from the 10K.
:10:26. > :10:26.Resting up, getting ready. Not get distracted.
:10:27. > :10:29.Then I ran the heat three days later and
:10:30. > :10:37.Moving too much. I can't be doing what I am doing.
:10:38. > :10:41.I need to focus was at it, I thought, oh, I did it again.
:10:42. > :10:48.A year on from Super Saturday, the 2013 World
:10:49. > :10:51.Championships would be a opportunity for Mo Farah to continue his global
:10:52. > :10:56.If he could add to the world 10,000 meter
:10:57. > :10:58.and 5000 metres title to his Olympic golds, it would be
:10:59. > :11:05.I had the hunger, the drive. Great memories from London 2012.
:11:06. > :11:08.For me, I didn't want people to think it was a fluke.
:11:09. > :11:21.When you win championships, it gives you a boost,
:11:22. > :11:22.confidence. Feel like you can do it.
:11:23. > :11:25.Which sometimes gets difficult because most people know what you
:11:26. > :11:34.I feel like I have been in this situation before.
:11:35. > :11:37.Going into Beijing, I was in great shape.
:11:38. > :11:42.It was just about thinking, dealing with it the same as Moscow.
:11:43. > :11:46.Going into the heat in the 5000 metres, I slightly twitched my
:11:47. > :12:01.I had to smoothly stride it up and come away
:12:02. > :12:08.This is where it all goes down, used to go down?
:12:09. > :12:11.This is where I would come every day, pretty much,
:12:12. > :12:20.So when Reggie comes he is like Mummy.
:12:21. > :12:30.I started when I was ten, a little older.
:12:31. > :12:33.These are some of the girls who train with Toni now.
:12:34. > :13:07.Toni Minichiello has worked as Jess' coach throughout his whole career.
:13:08. > :13:11.Guiding her progress from promising schoolkids sprinted to multi event
:13:12. > :13:19.Her first, Reggie, was born two years after Super Saturday.
:13:20. > :13:24.Having won gold in London and facing the prospect
:13:25. > :13:25.of becoming a parent for
:13:26. > :13:28.the first time, many would have decided to call it a day.
:13:29. > :13:30.Having a son, having to balance life more,
:13:31. > :13:37.I had all those emotions of not wanting to
:13:38. > :13:41.leave my son and going back into training and not being at the same
:13:42. > :13:46.I think in my mind I felt like I was going to step
:13:47. > :13:50.back in and it might take a few weeks to get back to where I was but
:13:51. > :13:54.Actually, when I got back into training, I was tired, upset.
:13:55. > :13:56.It was one of the most challenging things I
:13:57. > :14:01.But in my mind, you want to do it, you want to get back
:14:02. > :14:07.Why get back out there, you have a beautiful son?
:14:08. > :14:15.My huge motivator was Reggie because,
:14:16. > :14:19.you know, I wanted him to be a part of that last unique journey I had
:14:20. > :14:33.I want him to look back and see what I had achieved, and achieved it
:14:34. > :14:36.The Beijing World Championships took place one year
:14:37. > :14:38.after the birth of Jess' son, Reggie.
:14:39. > :14:41.No heptathlete had ever come back from childbirth to win a
:14:42. > :14:48.I knew I was in a much better position than a few
:14:49. > :14:52.months ago but still knew I was not where I was a couple of years ago.
:14:53. > :14:54.Her presence, the fact she made the decision and turned up,
:14:55. > :15:01.regardless of the shape she had been in,
:15:02. > :15:04.applies pressure to the other athletes because they are going,
:15:05. > :15:05.that is Jess. She has turned up.
:15:06. > :15:10.I just kept thinking, don't make any major mistakes.
:15:11. > :15:17.Let the other girls make mistakes around you.
:15:18. > :15:18.Just be solid, not amazing, spectacular,
:15:19. > :15:26.If I can keep doing that throughout the events, maybe I could
:15:27. > :15:30.be in with a chance of medalling and it became a gold medal.
:15:31. > :15:32.For it also come together and to win that
:15:33. > :15:37.was definitely one of my proudest moments.
:15:38. > :15:40.Injury has denied Greg Rutherford a chance of the 2013
:15:41. > :15:47.He recovered for the 2014 season and finished the year as
:15:48. > :15:56.Winning two majors made me realise, yeah, you can still do it.
:15:57. > :16:00.My focus became, let us gets a world title.
:16:01. > :16:03.I thought it was my competition to lose, even though there were
:16:04. > :16:11.I still believed on the day I would win it,
:16:12. > :16:17.and that I think is what got me through to do what I did.
:16:18. > :16:19.My motivation has always been winning.
:16:20. > :16:22.That stems from being a kid, often people told me
:16:23. > :16:32.My entire athletic career has basically
:16:33. > :16:34.been belligerently winning to prove everybody else that's doubted that
:16:35. > :16:42.At the Rio Olympics, Jess, Mo and Greg all once again compete
:16:43. > :16:46.together on the same night and
:16:47. > :16:49.Britain could not help but hope for another Super Saturday.
:16:50. > :16:52.But from experience, I know how hard it is to
:16:53. > :16:55.retain an Olympic title and perhaps toughest of all is being in perfect
:16:56. > :17:01.The unique challenges of the long jump
:17:02. > :17:09.meant that once again Greg was unlucky with injury.
:17:10. > :17:11.He got a really bad landing in some bad sand.
:17:12. > :17:21.Lost hearing. Vertigo.
:17:22. > :17:26.Against the clock, making progress, but we ran out of time.
:17:27. > :17:32.I had this moment where we were saying, what are you going to do?
:17:33. > :17:40.Probably about two thirds of the way through
:17:41. > :17:44.All of a sudden felt the sharp pain in my groin again.
:17:45. > :17:46.In that moment, I realised my opportunity of winning
:17:47. > :17:50.Just because I was in a position I had
:17:51. > :17:59.I had to muster every ounce of energy and is pretty much begged my
:18:00. > :18:07.I managed to somehow pull out eight .29 in round six I don't want to
:18:08. > :18:09.make any excuses for finishing third.
:18:10. > :18:21.the guys who beat me were better than me on the day. Jess and her
:18:22. > :18:26.team hoped she could continue to build on her unexpected World
:18:27. > :18:29.Championship gold. But with seven events to competing, defending her
:18:30. > :18:35.Olympic title would depend on training as effectively as possible.
:18:36. > :18:41.That year was so up and down. I kept picking up Achilles injuries to stop
:18:42. > :18:49.my left Achilles, problems with that. Weeks off training. And the
:18:50. > :18:52.other Achilles would stud herding. Despite her various setbacks, she
:18:53. > :18:58.found form just in time to travel to Rio. The challenge ahead of her was
:18:59. > :19:04.significant. No British woman had ever retained an Olympic track and
:19:05. > :19:08.field title. After 2015, I knew the year after the Olympic year everyone
:19:09. > :19:14.raises the game. I was getting older, having injuries. There were
:19:15. > :19:25.young athletes coming through and performing well. You look at her
:19:26. > :19:31.rivals, accumulating points. Jess last points in the shot and the long
:19:32. > :19:38.jump. Knew it would be difficult. She ran her heart out. The smallest
:19:39. > :19:45.winning margin in modern heptathlon history, 35 or 36. People asked if I
:19:46. > :19:50.was disappointed, but there was just a feeling, I have got here through
:19:51. > :19:54.the year I have had and the challenges I have had. I knew that I
:19:55. > :19:59.had done what I set out to achieve in my career and I was happy,
:20:00. > :20:07.content. I was going to walk away and feel disappointed -- not going
:20:08. > :20:15.to walk away, thinking I wished I had pushed on longer. Their careers
:20:16. > :20:24.remind us that it is no small thing to do this. It's demand everything
:20:25. > :20:30.you have to give. Mo Farah's ambition in the Rio would be to
:20:31. > :20:33.defend an Olympic double in gruelling long-distance events,
:20:34. > :20:42.which had only been achieved by one athlete in history. I felt tired.
:20:43. > :20:50.But four years of solid training, so no setbacks where I was missing one
:20:51. > :20:55.or two months. All pretty good. Mo Farah became the first ever British
:20:56. > :20:59.track and field athlete to win three Olympic gold medals. His attention
:21:00. > :21:04.now turns to the 5000 metres. I don't think he thought anything
:21:05. > :21:06.different than, I will win the 10,000 pounds then the 5000. Only
:21:07. > :21:20.ever one result. Five years after Super Saturday, the
:21:21. > :21:25.greatest night of British athletics, the best athletes in the world will
:21:26. > :21:29.return to London. I had a very major competition, as an athlete you want
:21:30. > :21:33.to feel prepared, ready to compete. With just a few weeks to go before
:21:34. > :21:38.the championships start, Greg is faced with one of the toughest
:21:39. > :21:47.decisions of his career. I have not had a season with these kind of
:21:48. > :21:53.injuries since 2007. I tore two ligament in my left ankle. At that
:21:54. > :21:58.point, I realised my World Championships where over. For Jess,
:21:59. > :22:03.a new challenge. Being a spectator. It will be completely different from
:22:04. > :22:09.you. Not only not there as an athlete performing, there as a
:22:10. > :22:12.heavily pregnant spectator. My life could not be more different. I am
:22:13. > :22:17.really looking forward to it. No post I come. London is where it
:22:18. > :22:23.happened, where my life change. When my children were born. I need to do
:22:24. > :22:27.London. I wanted more than any other year and I am excited to be able to
:22:28. > :22:35.complete one must them and hang my spikes up afterwards. The journeys
:22:36. > :22:38.that Jess, Mo Farah and Greg have been on since that unforgettable
:22:39. > :22:44.night in London tell the truth about what it takes to be the best in the
:22:45. > :22:47.world. This London, London 2017, will offer another opportunity for
:22:48. > :22:51.us to appreciate the world's greatest athletes and, in the
:22:52. > :23:00.knowledge that the journey to get there is never straightforward.
:23:01. > :23:03.London, here we come. For more on London 2017, go to the BBC website.