:00:08. > :00:17.business loans or mortgages. Time now for British Olympic Dreams.
:00:18. > :00:27.The crowd are on their feet! What a start! Olympic champion! Bringing
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:00:39. > :00:49.Great Milton get the gold medal! -- Great Britain. What a performance!
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:00:49. > :01:37.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 47 seconds
:01:37. > :01:43.The Olympic champion! Absolutely Two of gold medals from Rebecca
:01:43. > :01:50.Adlington! You are absolutely brilliant!
:01:50. > :01:58.He has destroyed them in the home straight! Mo Farah does it again!
:01:58. > :02:08.Jessica Ennis! She concerns the status as the very best.
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:02:11. > :02:15.Welcome to a special Golden edition of British Olympic dreams. The most
:02:15. > :02:20.famous clock in the world is ticking down to the Games. Let the
:02:20. > :02:24.final preparations begin. Today we bring you a choice
:02:24. > :02:29.selection of Team GB's brightest hopes for success. First up the
:02:29. > :02:38.sailor who launched the Torch Relay at Land's end in May. Already the
:02:38. > :02:45.winner of three gold medals, Canon Ben Ainslie make it four in a row?
:02:45. > :02:49.-- can. He is a fierce competitor on the
:02:49. > :02:55.water. To beat him you have to be at your very best. If you are not
:02:55. > :03:01.you do not have a shot. He is a fantastic athlete, probably going
:03:01. > :03:05.to beat the best sailing at great there has ever been. I can
:03:05. > :03:11.seriously say I know no-one I would put my money on more than Ben
:03:11. > :03:17.Ainslie. Every time he does the business.
:03:17. > :03:22.I think that his talent will be recognised for many generations.
:03:22. > :03:27.is a very quiet guy, just gets on with his business. Doesn't really
:03:27. > :03:33.worry about what is happening around him. I can see a lot of
:03:33. > :03:37.money within him. It makes you feel very proud to
:03:37. > :03:42.represent your country at the Olympics. That is where the special
:03:42. > :03:50.aspects of the Olympic Games, that you are representing Great Britain
:03:50. > :03:53.on the world stage and you feel that so much more at the Olympics.
:03:54. > :03:58.The British team has done fantastically well. This is an
:03:58. > :04:02.incredible opportunity for London 2012. When you talk about living at
:04:02. > :04:05.the Olympic level, it is obviously a lot about hard work, what you are
:04:05. > :04:11.willing to put into it. Most importantly it is about dealing
:04:11. > :04:17.with the pressure of racing at the Olympic Games. It is only every
:04:17. > :04:22.four years. You may or may not get another opportunity to be there. It
:04:22. > :04:28.is a lot to deal with. You have to be have to handle that pressure
:04:28. > :04:31.when it counts at the key moments. It is such a cliche to say that the
:04:31. > :04:37.top performers raise their game when it matters. But no-one does
:04:37. > :04:41.that like Ben. You never doubt. You never doubt on a last race that he
:04:41. > :04:44.will come up with the goods. It is literally just channelling all of
:04:44. > :04:50.that aggression and make it productive, working hard at being
:04:50. > :04:54.more physical, being aggressive and tactical. I think that race against
:04:54. > :05:00.rabbit in the Sydney Olympics was the most pressure I have felt in my
:05:00. > :05:05.career. -- Robert. There was so much at stake in regard step our
:05:05. > :05:11.personal battle which we had been having for four years. Robert one
:05:11. > :05:18.in the 1996 Olympics. I got the silver. -- won the gold medals. If
:05:18. > :05:22.I lost again in Sydney that would have been very hard to take. He is
:05:22. > :05:26.the kind of guy that you can never count out of a race, even when he
:05:26. > :05:31.is in a tough situation, he seems to break back. You can always be
:05:31. > :05:41.sure that he will be behind you and try to pass you and doing his best
:05:41. > :05:43.
:05:43. > :05:46.to be the winner in the end. I dreamed of going to the Olympics
:05:46. > :05:56.maybe one day and maybe being successful. But I never dreamt that
:05:56. > :06:04.I would get the opportunity to do it on home waters. We had all that
:06:04. > :06:07.training can see when we were kids. It would be incredible. It is a
:06:07. > :06:12.pretty special place. They have been training there for many years.
:06:12. > :06:15.It is home away from home. There will be a lot of people going down
:06:15. > :06:21.to see Ben Ainslie complete and be part of that moment. Hopefully he
:06:21. > :06:27.can win another gold medal. It is a sport I have made my life. It is
:06:27. > :06:31.what I enjoy doing. To be ever to race at the Olympics at the highest
:06:31. > :06:41.level, that is what keeps me going and focused and determined to try
:06:41. > :07:18.
:07:18. > :07:25.Jessica Ennis started 2011 a strong favourite for heptathlon Alan bit
:07:25. > :07:29.of gold. But the subsequent loss of set indoor and outdoor totals shows
:07:29. > :07:34.nothing is certain in sport. We joined her with her coach she
:07:34. > :07:41.competed at the prestigious golf this meeting in Austria, a crucial
:07:41. > :07:46.dress-rehearsal for the Olympics. In Austria in a small town, this
:07:46. > :07:52.will be the one heptathlon that Jessica does before the Olympics.
:07:52. > :07:57.Is the one chance to see what kind of shape she is sent. Everybody is
:07:57. > :08:07.here except for my javelin coach. But it is great to have everyone
:08:07. > :08:16.
:08:16. > :08:20.here. The physiotherapist. They know my body inside out.
:08:20. > :08:28.Those socks are terrible. It is tense when you're coming to
:08:28. > :08:35.debate. It is nice to bring a bit of humour a few days before the
:08:35. > :08:41.event. Just about to start. They will
:08:42. > :08:50.start the first event. She went well and she is happy. Card asked
:08:50. > :08:54.for anything more than that. -- we cannot ask for.
:08:54. > :08:58.We have to be happy with that. A little bit nervous about the jumps.
:08:58. > :09:08.We have not done any jumping competitions before coming here. We
:09:08. > :09:11.
:09:11. > :09:20.will see. I think it should be all She will not be happy with that in
:09:20. > :09:29.the slightest. We'll just move on. A very solid shot board, her
:09:29. > :09:39.season's best. -- shot put. If she can run quicker than 2321, heaven
:09:39. > :09:54.
:09:54. > :10:04.You know the last five metres? You needed to lay in in! A I have a lot
:10:04. > :10:10.
:10:10. > :10:20.more to do tomorrow. -- lean in. tension in this event. Don't try
:10:20. > :10:30.
:10:30. > :10:40.too hard. But still put in an I am so glad I have not come away
:10:40. > :10:58.
:10:58. > :11:08.Personal best. Nice that. If she runs to 14, she might break the
:11:08. > :11:14.
:11:14. > :11:19.I am so pleased that I managed to get most of the events right and
:11:19. > :11:24.scored a personal best and the British record. It is brilliant. It
:11:24. > :11:31.is all about the Olympics now. I have done my first heptathlon of
:11:31. > :11:38.the season. My next big one is the Olympics. It is very much here now.
:11:38. > :11:41.I'm ready. Now to a hopeful who is used to a
:11:41. > :11:46.bird's eye view. Tom Daley. He media spotlight has been fixed
:11:46. > :11:51.on him since he made his debut in Beijing aged just 14, turning him
:11:51. > :11:55.into a house on it. But what does he reckon about his rise to stardom
:11:55. > :12:05.and chances of success in London? Who better to tell us and the young
:12:05. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:17.We have known he is quite special. My first Olympic Games were in
:12:17. > :12:21.Beijing in 2008. I was the youngest member of Team GB, only 14 years
:12:21. > :12:26.old. It was an amazing experience. I can remember going there and
:12:26. > :12:30.being completely taken back by how big the Olympics were. I remember
:12:30. > :12:34.walking out the Opening Ceremony seeing all of these thousands of
:12:34. > :12:39.people cheering and the audience and just the scale of the event was
:12:39. > :12:42.incredible. My first competition was the Synchro competition. I
:12:42. > :12:48.remember standing on the ward looking at the water and seeing the
:12:48. > :12:52.Olympic rings and thinking, wow, I have actually become an Olympic.
:12:52. > :13:02.For me the individual competition went well. I came seventh. For 14
:13:02. > :13:06.
:13:06. > :13:10.euros, I consider that very good. Tom Daley. -- 14 years old. Going
:13:10. > :13:14.into 2009 it was the World Championships. I was 15. I came
:13:14. > :13:24.away with a gold medal, quite unexpected. That was my greatest
:13:24. > :13:30.
:13:30. > :13:37.I went in there completely not expecting to win a medal. It's I
:13:37. > :13:47.went in there and just tried my best. I rumbled some of the Chinese
:13:47. > :13:51.
:13:51. > :13:58.competitors and came away with the Going into 2010, I went to be, was
:13:58. > :14:02.games. It was an amazing event. -- going to the Commonwealth Games. I
:14:02. > :14:09.did not expect to come away with two medals. That was a great
:14:09. > :14:16.achievement. In 2011, I had four new diets. It increased my degree
:14:16. > :14:22.of difficulty. I ended up coming fifth at the watch and the chips,
:14:22. > :14:32.but that was expected because of the four at New dives that I had. -
:14:32. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:39.- the World Championships. It is about time that we got some
:14:39. > :14:43.good news in our family. It has been a very tough few years, losing
:14:43. > :14:50.family members and things like that. For me it will be great, and for my
:14:50. > :14:57.family, to be had -- to be able to have a good Olympic Games. 2012,
:14:57. > :15:01.the Olympics are just around the corner. I have become world series
:15:01. > :15:05.champion individually and also in the synchronised competition. So
:15:05. > :15:15.for me, I cannot wait to go to the Olympic Games in London, compete in
:15:15. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:20.front of a home crowd, and I cannot wait to get there and compete.
:15:20. > :15:29.You can find out much more about his campaign for Olympic gold in
:15:29. > :15:34.Tom Brady, diving for Britain, on BBC One, Monday 21st July.
:15:34. > :15:39.This time four years ago, a 19- year-old swam her way into Olympic
:15:39. > :15:43.history by winning two gold medals and setting a new world record.
:15:43. > :15:49.Success has brought the weight of expectation for Rebecca Adlington,
:15:50. > :15:56.but she has found some unusual ways of dealing with it.
:15:56. > :16:04.You are quite a fan of the jigsaw. I love them. Do you fancy this one,
:16:04. > :16:10.in 50 minutes? 100 pieces. Your time starts now.
:16:10. > :16:15.competitiveness is going to come out in me. Where did it come from?
:16:15. > :16:21.It is something that I loved going over. For me, you do not get angry,
:16:21. > :16:28.or stressed, you are always going to solve it, it is not a problem
:16:28. > :16:34.like a maths equation. Putting together and I love London one. You
:16:34. > :16:38.qualified for London 2012. I feel pretty good. It was strange because
:16:38. > :16:48.so many people were coming up to me and saying, of course you are going
:16:48. > :16:52.to qualifiers. It was one of those things that is never a guarantee.
:16:52. > :16:57.She is still using her feet, Rebecca Allington. I kind of a new,
:16:57. > :17:03.but I was on target, towards the end of the race, and I was sick
:17:03. > :17:09.thinking, yes, yes this is kind of it. -- it was such an emotional
:17:09. > :17:17.time. Especially with Joe qualifying as well, I have got so
:17:17. > :17:22.many amazing memories. Could we get two medals? It looked like it could
:17:22. > :17:29.be Rebecca Adlington, the gold- medallist. Great Britain, gold and
:17:29. > :17:34.bronze, Adlington and Jackson. It must have been incredible to share
:17:34. > :17:40.the podium with someone you know so well. It is incredible, we were
:17:40. > :17:45.thinking, has this just happens? We were shocked. It was amazing to
:17:45. > :17:50.have two British girls up there. Especially one that I am so close
:17:50. > :17:58.to. I would cherish those memories forever. No-one can take those
:17:58. > :18:05.medals off me. People ask me where I keep them but I do not know. I
:18:05. > :18:09.think they are at my parents' house. For me, my parents come to every
:18:09. > :18:13.need that I have been too. They have been all over the world,
:18:13. > :18:18.supporting me. It is so nice to share with them because they have
:18:18. > :18:28.been behind me the whole way. I always feel that they are not just
:18:28. > :18:33.
:18:33. > :18:39.my bagels, they belong to them as well. -- my medals. If I offered
:18:39. > :18:47.you a gold in the 400 metres, and a silver in the 800 metres, would you
:18:47. > :18:57.take it? I do not know. I would probably say no. I want to do my
:18:57. > :18:57.
:18:57. > :19:06.best. 800 is the bent that I love a lot more. -- is the event. You won
:19:06. > :19:11.two got in Beijing. It is obviously going to be two in London. I cannot
:19:11. > :19:16.say that. That is what makes it exciting. It is going to be
:19:16. > :19:22.extremely tough but I want to improve. Whether I come away with
:19:22. > :19:28.gold, silver, bronze, as long as I have done my best, I would be happy.
:19:28. > :19:35.How long was that? That was completed in less than 40 minutes.
:19:35. > :19:39.But you did half. It was a joint effort.
:19:39. > :19:44.On the 1st August, if all goes according to plan, Greg Searle will
:19:44. > :19:49.line up in a growing final, begin to win Olympic gold at the age of
:19:49. > :19:53.40. It will be 20 years to the day since he famously joined his
:19:53. > :19:58.brother to take on one of the greatest running parings of all
:19:58. > :20:03.time. They met up to talk us through that epic encounter in
:20:04. > :20:10.Barcelona. We always knew that we could get to
:20:10. > :20:18.the final and we believed that we could be -- we could win. It all
:20:18. > :20:24.came together on that morning. They were not looking at us. It was like
:20:24. > :20:28.David and Goliath. Literally. The night before the race, sitting down,
:20:28. > :20:32.having a very earnest conversation, saying, we are good enough to win
:20:32. > :20:39.this thing. If we come in any position except for first that
:20:39. > :20:49.counts as losing. Do you remember thinking at the time, about now,
:20:49. > :20:53.this is the Olympic final, maybe we are going to win a gold medal?
:20:53. > :20:57.went away. I'm sitting here thinking, we planned this. We
:20:57. > :21:02.planned this for the halfway mark, they are doing it straight away.
:21:02. > :21:12.Not only did they go out to a land of clear water, they carried on
:21:12. > :21:18.
:21:18. > :21:23.going. A left behind is not too bad. Now I'm thinking, right, Olympic
:21:23. > :21:29.final, it is my job to make sure that we raise the race of our lives.
:21:29. > :21:39.Does it schlocky when you looked at it now? I remember a day or two
:21:39. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:48.later, and I could not believe it was our race. There is going to be
:21:48. > :21:54.some fireworks to get back on terms. One month and a half. They are
:21:54. > :21:59.going for a change of gear. This is where Gary did he is the thing. I
:21:59. > :22:04.cannot remember many of the words that he actually said. But I
:22:04. > :22:11.remember this unshakeable belief in his voice. We had only practised at
:22:11. > :22:16.once or twice. What can they do here? They are making the effort
:22:16. > :22:22.and closing the gap. We came into silver-medal position and I thought
:22:22. > :22:32.wow, we are going to win the silver. I remember throwing their Ford away
:22:32. > :22:32.
:22:32. > :22:37.and saying no, we are here to win. We have got 15 strokes to get to
:22:37. > :22:43.the Italians. They are coming and coming again. They are going to go
:22:43. > :22:49.through them. I think they can do it. I was looking at their bow man.
:22:49. > :22:59.We were coming up, coming up, and they just kind of start running --
:22:59. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:09.rowing. That is a great achievement. A fantastic race, what an amazing
:23:09. > :23:14.upset. That is how you are meant to celebrate. You cannot describe it.
:23:14. > :23:18.When you are on a medal podium, and you have the ultimate accolade,
:23:18. > :23:23.there is nothing better, being at the Olympic Games, of representing
:23:23. > :23:33.your country, winning, the flag are going up, the national anthem, it
:23:33. > :23:41.
:23:41. > :23:45.does not get any better than that. It was she guts and courage. When I
:23:45. > :23:50.look at what rate has done, my complete and utter emotion is
:23:50. > :23:56.jealousy. Why didn't you bring me up and say, why didn't we do this
:23:57. > :24:01.together? I like winning an Olympic gold medal, I like to do that, but
:24:01. > :24:06.do I want to do all the training and be away from my family? I want
:24:06. > :24:13.to be 22 again, winning a gold medal in Barcelona, I enjoyed it a
:24:13. > :24:19.lot. Would I do it now? As a whole career, I am already proud of my
:24:19. > :24:25.time. Darling into the Olympic Games, it is the same mentality as
:24:25. > :24:29.it always was. -- going into. I would only be happy if I win.
:24:29. > :24:35.Everything else will feel like losing.
:24:35. > :24:39.That's it. The Games are almost upon us. So much has happened since
:24:39. > :24:44.we started following Britain's Olympic hopefuls at the end of 2010.
:24:44. > :24:51.For many, the dream of pique -- becoming a London an Olympian is