Episode 16 British Olympic Dreams

business loans or mortgages. Time now for British Olympic Dreams.

The crowd are on their feet! What a start! Olympic champion! Bringing

Great Milton get the gold medal! -- Great Britain. What a performance!

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The Olympic champion! Absolutely Two of gold medals from Rebecca

Adlington! You are absolutely brilliant!

He has destroyed them in the home straight! Mo Farah does it again!

Jessica Ennis! She concerns the status as the very best.

Welcome to a special Golden edition of British Olympic dreams. The most

famous clock in the world is ticking down to the Games. Let the

final preparations begin. Today we bring you a choice

selection of Team GB's brightest hopes for success. First up the

sailor who launched the Torch Relay at Land's end in May. Already the

winner of three gold medals, Canon Ben Ainslie make it four in a row?

-- can. He is a fierce competitor on the

water. To beat him you have to be at your very best. If you are not

you do not have a shot. He is a fantastic athlete, probably going

to beat the best sailing at great there has ever been. I can

seriously say I know no-one I would put my money on more than Ben

Ainslie. Every time he does the business.

I think that his talent will be recognised for many generations.

is a very quiet guy, just gets on with his business. Doesn't really

worry about what is happening around him. I can see a lot of

money within him. It makes you feel very proud to

represent your country at the Olympics. That is where the special

aspects of the Olympic Games, that you are representing Great Britain

on the world stage and you feel that so much more at the Olympics.

The British team has done fantastically well. This is an

incredible opportunity for London 2012. When you talk about living at

the Olympic level, it is obviously a lot about hard work, what you are

willing to put into it. Most importantly it is about dealing

with the pressure of racing at the Olympic Games. It is only every

four years. You may or may not get another opportunity to be there. It

is a lot to deal with. You have to be have to handle that pressure

when it counts at the key moments. It is such a cliche to say that the

top performers raise their game when it matters. But no-one does

that like Ben. You never doubt. You never doubt on a last race that he

will come up with the goods. It is literally just channelling all of

that aggression and make it productive, working hard at being

more physical, being aggressive and tactical. I think that race against

rabbit in the Sydney Olympics was the most pressure I have felt in my

career. -- Robert. There was so much at stake in regard step our

personal battle which we had been having for four years. Robert one

in the 1996 Olympics. I got the silver. -- won the gold medals. If

I lost again in Sydney that would have been very hard to take. He is

the kind of guy that you can never count out of a race, even when he

is in a tough situation, he seems to break back. You can always be

sure that he will be behind you and try to pass you and doing his best

to be the winner in the end. I dreamed of going to the Olympics

maybe one day and maybe being successful. But I never dreamt that

I would get the opportunity to do it on home waters. We had all that

training can see when we were kids. It would be incredible. It is a

pretty special place. They have been training there for many years.

It is home away from home. There will be a lot of people going down

to see Ben Ainslie complete and be part of that moment. Hopefully he

can win another gold medal. It is a sport I have made my life. It is

what I enjoy doing. To be ever to race at the Olympics at the highest

level, that is what keeps me going and focused and determined to try

Jessica Ennis started 2011 a strong favourite for heptathlon Alan bit

of gold. But the subsequent loss of set indoor and outdoor totals shows

nothing is certain in sport. We joined her with her coach she

competed at the prestigious golf this meeting in Austria, a crucial

dress-rehearsal for the Olympics. In Austria in a small town, this

will be the one heptathlon that Jessica does before the Olympics.

Is the one chance to see what kind of shape she is sent. Everybody is

here except for my javelin coach. But it is great to have everyone

here. The physiotherapist. They know my body inside out.

Those socks are terrible. It is tense when you're coming to

debate. It is nice to bring a bit of humour a few days before the

event. Just about to start. They will

start the first event. She went well and she is happy. Card asked

for anything more than that. -- we cannot ask for.

We have to be happy with that. A little bit nervous about the jumps.

We have not done any jumping competitions before coming here. We

will see. I think it should be all She will not be happy with that in

the slightest. We'll just move on. A very solid shot board, her

season's best. -- shot put. If she can run quicker than 2321, heaven

You know the last five metres? You needed to lay in in! A I have a lot

more to do tomorrow. -- lean in. tension in this event. Don't try

too hard. But still put in an I am so glad I have not come away

Personal best. Nice that. If she runs to 14, she might break the

I am so pleased that I managed to get most of the events right and

scored a personal best and the British record. It is brilliant. It

is all about the Olympics now. I have done my first heptathlon of

the season. My next big one is the Olympics. It is very much here now.

I'm ready. Now to a hopeful who is used to a

bird's eye view. Tom Daley. He media spotlight has been fixed

on him since he made his debut in Beijing aged just 14, turning him

into a house on it. But what does he reckon about his rise to stardom

and chances of success in London? Who better to tell us and the young

We have known he is quite special. My first Olympic Games were in

Beijing in 2008. I was the youngest member of Team GB, only 14 years

old. It was an amazing experience. I can remember going there and

being completely taken back by how big the Olympics were. I remember

walking out the Opening Ceremony seeing all of these thousands of

people cheering and the audience and just the scale of the event was

incredible. My first competition was the Synchro competition. I

remember standing on the ward looking at the water and seeing the

Olympic rings and thinking, wow, I have actually become an Olympic.

For me the individual competition went well. I came seventh. For 14

euros, I consider that very good. Tom Daley. -- 14 years old. Going

into 2009 it was the World Championships. I was 15. I came

away with a gold medal, quite unexpected. That was my greatest

I went in there completely not expecting to win a medal. It's I

went in there and just tried my best. I rumbled some of the Chinese

competitors and came away with the Going into 2010, I went to be, was

games. It was an amazing event. -- going to the Commonwealth Games. I

did not expect to come away with two medals. That was a great

achievement. In 2011, I had four new diets. It increased my degree

of difficulty. I ended up coming fifth at the watch and the chips,

but that was expected because of the four at New dives that I had. -

- the World Championships. It is about time that we got some

good news in our family. It has been a very tough few years, losing

family members and things like that. For me it will be great, and for my

family, to be had -- to be able to have a good Olympic Games. 2012,

the Olympics are just around the corner. I have become world series

champion individually and also in the synchronised competition. So

for me, I cannot wait to go to the Olympic Games in London, compete in

front of a home crowd, and I cannot wait to get there and compete.

You can find out much more about his campaign for Olympic gold in

Tom Brady, diving for Britain, on BBC One, Monday 21st July.

This time four years ago, a 19- year-old swam her way into Olympic

history by winning two gold medals and setting a new world record.

Success has brought the weight of expectation for Rebecca Adlington,

but she has found some unusual ways of dealing with it.

You are quite a fan of the jigsaw. I love them. Do you fancy this one,

in 50 minutes? 100 pieces. Your time starts now.

competitiveness is going to come out in me. Where did it come from?

It is something that I loved going over. For me, you do not get angry,

or stressed, you are always going to solve it, it is not a problem

like a maths equation. Putting together and I love London one. You

qualified for London 2012. I feel pretty good. It was strange because

so many people were coming up to me and saying, of course you are going

to qualifiers. It was one of those things that is never a guarantee.

She is still using her feet, Rebecca Allington. I kind of a new,

but I was on target, towards the end of the race, and I was sick

thinking, yes, yes this is kind of it. -- it was such an emotional

time. Especially with Joe qualifying as well, I have got so

many amazing memories. Could we get two medals? It looked like it could

be Rebecca Adlington, the gold- medallist. Great Britain, gold and

bronze, Adlington and Jackson. It must have been incredible to share

the podium with someone you know so well. It is incredible, we were

thinking, has this just happens? We were shocked. It was amazing to

have two British girls up there. Especially one that I am so close

to. I would cherish those memories forever. No-one can take those

medals off me. People ask me where I keep them but I do not know. I

think they are at my parents' house. For me, my parents come to every

need that I have been too. They have been all over the world,

supporting me. It is so nice to share with them because they have

been behind me the whole way. I always feel that they are not just

my bagels, they belong to them as well. -- my medals. If I offered

you a gold in the 400 metres, and a silver in the 800 metres, would you

take it? I do not know. I would probably say no. I want to do my

best. 800 is the bent that I love a lot more. -- is the event. You won

two got in Beijing. It is obviously going to be two in London. I cannot

say that. That is what makes it exciting. It is going to be

extremely tough but I want to improve. Whether I come away with

gold, silver, bronze, as long as I have done my best, I would be happy.

How long was that? That was completed in less than 40 minutes.

But you did half. It was a joint effort.

On the 1st August, if all goes according to plan, Greg Searle will

line up in a growing final, begin to win Olympic gold at the age of

40. It will be 20 years to the day since he famously joined his

brother to take on one of the greatest running parings of all

time. They met up to talk us through that epic encounter in

Barcelona. We always knew that we could get to

the final and we believed that we could be -- we could win. It all

came together on that morning. They were not looking at us. It was like

David and Goliath. Literally. The night before the race, sitting down,

having a very earnest conversation, saying, we are good enough to win

this thing. If we come in any position except for first that

counts as losing. Do you remember thinking at the time, about now,

this is the Olympic final, maybe we are going to win a gold medal?

went away. I'm sitting here thinking, we planned this. We

planned this for the halfway mark, they are doing it straight away.

Not only did they go out to a land of clear water, they carried on

going. A left behind is not too bad. Now I'm thinking, right, Olympic

final, it is my job to make sure that we raise the race of our lives.

Does it schlocky when you looked at it now? I remember a day or two

later, and I could not believe it was our race. There is going to be

some fireworks to get back on terms. One month and a half. They are

going for a change of gear. This is where Gary did he is the thing. I

cannot remember many of the words that he actually said. But I

remember this unshakeable belief in his voice. We had only practised at

once or twice. What can they do here? They are making the effort

and closing the gap. We came into silver-medal position and I thought

wow, we are going to win the silver. I remember throwing their Ford away

and saying no, we are here to win. We have got 15 strokes to get to

the Italians. They are coming and coming again. They are going to go

through them. I think they can do it. I was looking at their bow man.

We were coming up, coming up, and they just kind of start running --

rowing. That is a great achievement. A fantastic race, what an amazing

upset. That is how you are meant to celebrate. You cannot describe it.

When you are on a medal podium, and you have the ultimate accolade,

there is nothing better, being at the Olympic Games, of representing

your country, winning, the flag are going up, the national anthem, it

does not get any better than that. It was she guts and courage. When I

look at what rate has done, my complete and utter emotion is

jealousy. Why didn't you bring me up and say, why didn't we do this

together? I like winning an Olympic gold medal, I like to do that, but

do I want to do all the training and be away from my family? I want

to be 22 again, winning a gold medal in Barcelona, I enjoyed it a

lot. Would I do it now? As a whole career, I am already proud of my

time. Darling into the Olympic Games, it is the same mentality as

it always was. -- going into. I would only be happy if I win.

Everything else will feel like losing.

That's it. The Games are almost upon us. So much has happened since

we started following Britain's Olympic hopefuls at the end of 2010.

For many, the dream of pique -- becoming a London an Olympian is