Episode 4 Blue Peter's Big Olympic Tour

Sunderland. Get ready for your Olympic countdown. Five, four,

three, two, one... Hello, welcome to Blue Peter's Big

Olympic Tour. This is your ultimate guide to the Olympics. We are

following the Olympic Torch around the UK. This week we are delighted

to be coming to you live from Hello!

Where have we been so far. We started in Wales, Belfast,

Dunbarton and now here we are on the opposite side of the coast in

the north east in Sunderland. The torch had a very early start

this morning. It was on the road at 6.25am. It is on its way here. In

two hours' time it is going to be here in Herrington Country Park.

This is the live footage now. It is two hours away.

If you are anywhere near that torch, do get out and see it, because it

is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Last week we showed a shot of Craig

and had a tweet from his mum. We hope you enjoyed it. We are going

to be at Herrington Country Park all day, it is a free event. All

the details are on the website. Here is what is still to come.

It is round four of our Olympic challenge, and we are in the vole

drom trying -- velodrome, where we are trying out track cycling. We

reveal the Horrible Histories Olympic song. You won't be able to

get it out of your head. We are joined by two special guests,

Joe McElderry and Matt Baker. Each week we send children out and about

to follow the torch relay. So it is time to go over to Jacob from BBC

News School Report who has been following the torch over the last

week. Welcome to Sunderland. I am one of

the people privileged to be holding the Olympic Torch today, but here

is a round up of where the torch has been since last Saturday.

The torch has travelled from Glasgow all around the Schett land

-- Shetland Islands before finishing up in Newcastle. It was

on Loch Ness and appeared on stage at the Loch Ness festival.

It travelled on a gondola and mountain bank. It is really

emotional. Crowds awaited the flame at Edinburgh castle. Last night it

moved on to Newcastle. Now to Sunderland. Me and my school

report crew are going to show you some of our area. Behind me is the

monument. It is one of the area's best loved landmarks. It features

on the crest of Sunderland FC, which is where we are heading next.

This is the Stadium of Light, home of Sunderland Football Club. I am a

big fan! Just outside the city, we are some

beaches. Hope you liked what you saw of Sunderland. I am off to find

the Olympic Torch. That monument that featured there,

is right here by the park. Jacob is here. It is a big day for you. You

are doing something special in a bit. Later on at 3.15, I am

carrying the Olympic Torch through Hexham. Well done. You have the

clothes on. Where is the torch?. You don't get the torch until you

start. All the best for today. APPLAUSE

What an exciting moment. Talk me through what you are looking

forward to? I am looking forward to when the Olympic Torch goes passed

Sunderland. High five to Michael. You have six Blue Peter badges. It

# Time to say goodbye. It is the fabulous Joe McElderry.

Welcome to the show. That was you doing opera, but you won the X

factor. You have doing all kinds of things. Jack of all trades. I have

a new album out on 17 September. It is like pop ballads. I have been

writing on it. I finished last Saturday. It is all ready to go.

should mention you are a good runner, because I met you at the

Great North Run. You ran that 13 miles much people many people gave

you credit for. I did it in one hour 39.

We have been talking about the excitement of the Olympics and the

home crowd. How do you cope with the nerves when you have loads of

people looking. It spurs you on more. The bigger the crowd, the

more adrenaline is pumping it through your body. You perform

better. Can I say something, we know today is a big day, but it is

your 21st birthday. It is, yes. Happy birthday Joe. We have a cake

for you as well. You didn't have to, thank you very much.

Congratulations Joe. It's time for us to get stuck into

our next Olympic guide. We bring you an insiders guide to an Olympic

event. Today it is the turn of Paralympian Sarah Storey.

I am Sarah Storey. Here is your Blue Peter guide to cycling.

Sarah is one of Great Britain's most successful athletes. She's won

an incredible 18 Paralympic medals, including seven golds. In 2012 Sir

Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Mark Cavendish will be hoping to

add to their medal collections. Cycling events will take place out

on the road in the brand new Purpose-built velodrome. There are

five track events in which they will compete.

For Sarah, cycling wasn't her first sport. Back in 1992 she won

Paralympic gold in the swimming pool when she was just 14. She even

came to the Blue Peter studios to show us her medals. I did four

Paralympic Games as a swimmer and then I started back in the swimming

pool but picked up ear infections. While I wasn't allowed to swim, I

was using a bike to stay fit. So I was asked by British cycling

whether I wanted to pursue it more as a career. I decide today change

sports at the end of 2005. It's been brilliant. We are in Majorca,

it means we can mix the rides up really well, a flatter ride in the

morning and hilly in the afternoon. I love training. I don't know why,

I just like going out on long bike rides. I love the whole thing. If I

am working on a climb, I will pretend I am race ago competitor.

Obviously I always win! Because I was born with my hand the

way it is, it is something I have never known any different. There

are some adaptations on my bike to help. When you have never known any

different it doesn't make your life any harder. Having a home games is

the sort of thing every athlete dreams of. What an amazing story.

Find out just how difficult that really is a bit later when we try

our hand at track cycling in the Blue Peter Olympic tour. Now it's

time to meet our second guest. He used to be a blue pretter presenter

-- Blue Peter presenter. It's Matt Baker. It's lovely to be home, this

is perfect. We used to be -- you used to be a gymnast. Gymnast what

type of preparation is involved for commentating. With gymnastics, you

haven't got an idea what they are going to cut to, so you have to

research every single gymnast on every piece of apparatus. There is

an enormous amount of preparation. You have sheets with all the names

and everything they have done. you glad to be broadcasting or is

there a bit of you that would like to be competing? It was my dream to

be at the Olympics, but when my gymnastics came to an end, it is

wonderful to be still part of the team. I still feel very much

connected to it. Back dem 1967, we are going to go back and look into

the past and see how the Olympics has changed. We are going to check

out a Romanian gymnast who changed the world. 19676, Canada held the

summer Olympic Games in Montreal. There were a few problems. The

builders who were working on getting the stadium ready went on

strike for over 100 days and it meant the stadium was never fully

finished. Regardless of that, its Games did start on time. And the

Queen was there to help get things under way, but she wasn't just

there on official business, but also to support her daughter Ann,

the Princess Royal, who was spetting in the -- competing in the

British eventing team. The stand out performance from the

1976 games came from a 14-year-old Romanian gymnast by the name of

Nadia Comeneci. It was her first Olympic Games and the world didn't

know what to expect from such a young girl.

Nadia performed perfect routines across the sport and scored an

amazing perfect ten, which had never been done before. It was so

unexpected, score board couldn't display it properly.

Nadia performed a remarkable seven perfect 10s and took home three

Gold Medals. Unbelievable at that age. Would she

still win gold now. It is interesting, because with that

performance with that routine the answer would be no, because

nowadays there are two different scores, difficulty and excuse, so

you need your perfect ten but you have to risk it now. It is such a

great spectator sport these days. Here is still what is to come on

today's show. We will be premiering the Horrible

Histories Olympic song. We will see which one of us will

record the fassest lap of the velodrome in our Celebrity Olympic

Challenge. It really is all about testing your

strength, testing character but now we are going to test how strong

people's arms are. Matt Baker and Joe McElderry, you are going to

face the biggest challenge yet. Steve Redgrave got right to the top.

Nicky Byrne got to the top. So guys it is open to you. Joe you are up

first. Three, two, one.

That was good, 80. Mr Baker, your turn.

BELL RINGS Joe, you are just under 80.

proud of that! It's time to celebrate, the

Olympics is about getting everyone together. You are in for a

treatment now, it is Horrible # 776 BC Olympics was begun

# Hour gamesman truce was called in war but wrestling was so violent

that bouts could end in tears # Make sense when I tell you we

competed nude # Flame

# It's going to burn forever # Flame

# I went from Rome to Greece so I could play them at their Games

# In 677 ADI won Olympic gold # Crashed my racing chariot but

still awarded gold # My Olympics, my rules

# I won every medal that was up for grabs

# The crowd loved it, they had to or I would have had them stabbed

# Flame # Think I was bad in 393

# Christian Rome had them banned. # It's over

it's over # Shame

# Wait, I am a fame our French historian

# In 1896 we launched the games in Greece

# We built a stadium so we could start to play

# Games of the modern Olympics which we still have today

# Flame # I'm on my personal glory but no-

one remembers my name # So here to finish our story, a

man who has gold-plated fame # I am Jesse Owens I am fastest

man's in 1936 # What you should know about the

fact I was victorious is it made Hitler mad, it made him furious

Hash I won in four owe vents he had to back peddle

# His evil theory destroyed with every medal

# Flame, it's going to burn forever # Olympics are never in doubt

# Flame Another song we are going to be

singing all week. We are lucky enough to be joined by

two of the guys from the Horrible Histories gang. We will be doing

Horrible Histories live and in the show you will be able to do the

song live as well. Anybody who is in the area and wants to come down

and join us, please do. Does everybody get a toga as well?

sure we can find a spare one. don't need a ticket, it is a free

event, Herrington Country Park and you can sing Flame.

Seeing the guys dressed in these, it must have been difficult to

compete dressed like that. We found it tough enough wearing what we

were wearing. Let's go over and find out what is

happening in the Blue Peter Olympic Challenge.

This is where Helen and Barney invite four celebrity friends to

compete in nine events. At the end, we will have our own special podium.

Only one person can go home with the very special Blue Peter Gold

Medal. Time to get on their bikes. Here

How are you all feeling? Delighted to be here. This is going to be

intense. This is track cycling. Another technical event. We have

somebody here who is going to help you through, coach Nicola Anderson.

The bikes you are going to use have a fixed gear and no breaks, so you

can't stop pedalling. You have to master the track, also. Nicola is

your master today. You will be pleased to hear we have Lucy, a

junior world champion, to show you how it is done.

This time trial challenge will see our women, then the men, ride one

lap of the velodrome on their own. The fastest lap wins. The quickest

way around is to follow the black line.

The athletes soon find out that riding at a sharp angle is

different to a normal road. feels slippy. I have no brakes, no

safety net. When you go into the corner, your instinct is to turn in

but you have to keep going straight and then you will turn with the

shape of the velodrome. Adele is refusing to lead. It is not just

adeal who is struggling. I wanted to remind Romeo of his song 21

Seconds To Go! You've got 21 seconds to go. If I

make it in 21 seconds that would be a miracle.

Does everybody feel they know what they are doing? Yes.

Helen, you came out first, take to the track please.

Helen has had a chance to build up That black line is is the quickest

That's the time to beat. Adele now, she looked wobbly in

practise. I think the smile is one of relief!

It's all down to singing sensation Laura.

This is a good run! For me, my favourite event so far,

once you have got over the fear of going round the corner, it was

really good fun to go as fast as you can. You have completed the

challenge. Down to the men now. He's building up a good time and

speed. That's just over our target time of

A chance for Barney. Slightly slower over the line after

Look at Brendan's start, you can tell this is a man on a mission.

You can see the concentration. He's taken first place, Romeo in

silver and Barney third. It was all about pace. I pushed it

hard. I am happy with the time lap I did. It was a very exciting thing

to do. I know you are desperate to have another go, but it is becoming

familiar familiar the three points go to Laura and Brendan.

I have to say, that felt so much faster than it looks on the TV.

Myself, Helen and Adele aren't in any medal-winning position. We are

We are supposed to be sporting. bronze position Romeo has nine

points. Silver Laura with ten and Brendan is in gold position with 11

points. It's still is early days, things

could change. Mr Baker, you were laughing a lot during that film.

Brendan. The intensity there, but I know Brendan through Strictly, but

can you put your money on him in the long haul? I wouldn't if I were

you. We know what happens. Joe would you fancy giving that a go.

would love to do the diving. Diving is still to come and that is a good

one, because people do get turt, there is a mini tantrum!

We are back on the CBBC channel at 5.45. Then 9.00 on Saturday

mornings Blue Peter's Big Olympic Tour continues.

We are going to be in Burnley. Make sure you are watching. Still

to come on next week's show: We will be joined by star of BBC

drama Waterloo Road Lucien Laviscount.

And you can see the next round of our Olympic challenge. We have

glowing jackets and we will be doing something scary on a BMX.

We look at how the medals are being made.

Myself, Barney and Joe will be stick around here all day, so if