Episode 17

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:00:49. > :00:53.can to solve problems. Now we take The Olympic Games have come to an

:00:53. > :00:57.end. For some it brought the success they have been dreaming of

:00:57. > :01:02.a fall of their lives. Fathers it did not go quite according to plan.

:01:02. > :01:12.Every athlete love the chance to compete against the walls burst

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:01:21. > :01:31.here in London. -- world's best. Witness something you have never

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:01:34. > :01:44.seen before. The most amazing show on earth. It is the most amazing

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:01:51. > :02:01.show on earth. Won't you come and play? Sit back and relax, fasten

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:02:01. > :02:06.your seatbelts. It is going to be a bumpy ride. Today we will revisit a

:02:06. > :02:10.select group of our Olympic dreamers to see how they fared. We

:02:10. > :02:17.will start with a man determined to make victory. He set out onto the

:02:17. > :02:21.track for the 10,000 metres. Mo Farah. Some athletes are happy to

:02:21. > :02:26.be the best in Britain. Some would be delighted to be the best in

:02:26. > :02:30.Europe. For Mo Farah it was not enough. He knew to become the best

:02:30. > :02:34.in the world he would have to change his whole lifestyle. You do

:02:34. > :02:43.not become a double Olympic champion by doing exactly the same

:02:43. > :02:46.as everybody else. Were the first changes he made was to start to

:02:46. > :02:52.concentrate exclusively on the track after the disappointment of

:02:52. > :03:00.not making the final at the Beijing Olympics he came out in the winter

:03:00. > :03:05.of 2009 a different athlete. He was learning how to win. Mo Farah takes

:03:05. > :03:10.the gold for Great Britain for the first time. By the summer of 2010

:03:10. > :03:14.he had become the dominant force in European distance running. With

:03:15. > :03:18.that came a new level of confidence. There was one bit of the jigsaw

:03:18. > :03:24.still missing. Who would be the person who will help him repeat

:03:24. > :03:31.that success as a world level? The answer lay on the other side of the

:03:31. > :03:36.Atlantic Ocean. The man was a former American marathon champion

:03:36. > :03:41.and now recognised as one of the great distance coaches. A bold move

:03:41. > :03:45.for Mo Farah. It affected all of those around him. It was a high

:03:45. > :03:50.risk strategy, one that most athletes would not take at that

:03:50. > :03:56.stage of their careers. He had already been successful. Here he

:03:56. > :04:03.was, asking his family to move to another country. He was going to a

:04:03. > :04:08.coach he knew very little about. By the beginning of the 2011 season it

:04:08. > :04:12.was already evident that the move was successful. All that remained

:04:12. > :04:22.was for Mo Farah to get on the track at the place which was now

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:04:23. > :04:26.home to him in his first big 10,000 metres of the year. After becoming

:04:26. > :04:33.the world champion in 2011 the expectations for the London

:04:33. > :04:36.Olympics were higher. However, it would not all be plain sailing. One

:04:36. > :04:41.or two indifferent performances were followed by a group of

:04:41. > :04:46.different athletes coming out of Ethiopia and Kenya. It was an

:04:46. > :04:51.early-season performance from a Mo Farah. It was not even televised.

:04:51. > :04:55.It was two races in 20 minutes. I was confident that the 10,000

:04:55. > :04:59.metres was his best chance of winning a gold medal. I could not

:04:59. > :05:05.give you any predictions or guarantees. We all knew that it

:05:06. > :05:15.would come down to the last lap. Has he got enough? He is ticking

:05:15. > :05:22.again. It is going to be a glorious win. Mo Farah for Great Britain. It

:05:22. > :05:28.is gold. That was it. He was the Olympic champion. What about the

:05:28. > :05:32.5,000 metres? There were doubts. He looked tired in the heats. Many of

:05:32. > :05:38.his competitors we had fresh legs. They all knew what his tactics were

:05:38. > :05:42.going to be. As we sat down in the commentary box, once the first four

:05:42. > :05:48.laps went by all those doubts disappear. We all know what

:05:48. > :05:53.happened in the end. He has got to find something extra. Come on, Mo

:05:53. > :06:03.Farah. He is going to get there. He is going to make its two gold

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:06:06. > :06:16.medals for Great Britain. Beautiful. He is the double Olympic champion.

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:06:27. > :06:32.The double Olympic champion. I said I want to win at London. It will

:06:32. > :06:40.never happen to me again. To 7 that podium with everybody watching me

:06:40. > :06:48.is amazing. A teenage superstar from North Wales is the Olympic

:06:48. > :06:53.champion. It is obviously about hard-working and were too willing

:06:53. > :06:57.to put into wood. Most importantly it is about being under pressure at

:06:57. > :07:07.the Olympic Games. The greatest sailing Olympian in the history of

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:07:12. > :07:19.the Games. I pushed myself so hard. If I get on that platform I will be

:07:19. > :07:26.enjoying it. I will have the biggest smile in the world. Come on,

:07:26. > :07:30.Natasha. Yes. Well done. An excellent lift. She came here

:07:30. > :07:36.determined. She did not want to bomb out of this competition. She

:07:36. > :07:40.will be delighted with that. In a game is packed with them to stick

:07:40. > :07:45.plumbers, women's boxing stood out as it made its debut. Also making

:07:45. > :07:54.her debut was Nicola Adams. Already a world silver-medallist, could she

:07:54. > :08:01.go one step further? I knew I was up against it. I was confident in

:08:01. > :08:07.myself, I thought, this is my dream and my time. The bell rang and do

:08:07. > :08:12.without. I did the business. Nicola Adams is the Olympic champion. She

:08:12. > :08:17.has guaranteed herself in the Olympic sporting history as the

:08:17. > :08:24.greatest Olympic female boxer. think that I have finally done that

:08:24. > :08:31.on one of the biggest stages in the world and got that gold medal, it

:08:31. > :08:36.is like a fairy trail -- fairy-tale ending for me. Such a golden moment.

:08:36. > :08:42.It has gone a bit mental with the media? It has. I have been talking

:08:42. > :08:47.to the media since I won. I cannot believe how much support from the

:08:47. > :08:52.nation I have had. Talk to me about the build-up to the fight. Coming

:08:52. > :08:59.out with the crowd and that this fear I was sucking it up. It was a

:08:59. > :09:05.lump this might once-in-a-lifetime experience. We know this? I was. It

:09:05. > :09:15.gives you that extra bit of sharpness. I was thinking to myself,

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:09:29. > :09:32.I have to win this fight. She had You look like you enjoyed it. You

:09:33. > :09:38.certainly enjoyed the knock-down. did not even realise she was going

:09:38. > :09:48.to go down. I was not expecting it. As she this she did, I was like,

:09:48. > :09:53.yes. It was an exciting moment. beautiful shot. She's down to the

:09:53. > :09:57.canvas. A legitimate knock-down. The count will be issued.

:09:57. > :10:02.mentioned the crowd. Did you realise he was in the crowd? There

:10:02. > :10:09.were a few famous faces. Everybody said that David Cameron was there,

:10:09. > :10:17.Kate Middleton and Chris Evans. There were so many people there to

:10:17. > :10:23.support the boxing. It is great. It lifted the profile of women's

:10:23. > :10:27.boxing. He has had such a big turnout. It turnout. Itng. The motto

:10:27. > :10:32.for the Games is to inspire a generation. Are those that fluffy

:10:32. > :10:40.words or do words or dohese games can inspire a generation?

:10:40. > :10:47.Definitely it can. I have had have been -- I have inspired them

:10:47. > :10:57.to start sport old boxing. It is a nice feeling that I have inspired

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:10:58. > :11:04.someone to do a sport that I love doing. What is going to be your

:11:04. > :11:08.motivation? What will drive you from here.A from here.Athe

:11:08. > :11:13.European championships next year. I want to defend the title. Westerly

:11:13. > :11:20.to get that gold in the world. Usain Bolt said he became a legend

:11:20. > :11:26.at London 20 top. I guess you RN of a legend. You are the first women's

:11:26. > :11:36.Olympic gold-medallist. No-one can take that away from you. It sounds

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:11:39. > :11:46.great. Back in 2000 date, Lewis- Smith made -- back in 2008 history

:11:46. > :11:53.was made. He needed to help his team-mates in their medal drought.

:11:53. > :12:01.Doing it for the team right now. On his pommel horse routine. That is

:12:01. > :12:11.fantastic. What a performance. Great Britain has one gymnastic

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:12:11. > :12:16.gold. In with a chance of a bronze medal. That is just what we needed.

:12:16. > :12:26.Bronze in the men's team final. was the first Olympic medal won by

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:12:27. > :12:31.a British men's gymnastic team in a achievement of the Games. The men's

:12:31. > :12:37.individual events were ahead. They set out to take home a third

:12:37. > :12:41.Olympic medal. This could shake up to be the biggest day in Lewes's

:12:41. > :12:47.life. He will be feeling the nerves. That is your boy we're talking

:12:47. > :12:53.about. He could make history today. How you feeling? Very good. In a

:12:53. > :12:59.little while I will be very nervous when I see him in their and it is

:12:59. > :13:04.clearly his turn. Does he realise what a massive Davis's? He could

:13:04. > :13:08.make history. Yes. I think he does know. I do not think he will be

:13:09. > :13:18.thinking about it. He would just go out there and do what he has

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:13:19. > :13:24.trained to do. Their ages, the inevitable role of a crowd

:13:24. > :13:31.desperate to see another man of. Bronze in Beijing, could he do

:13:31. > :13:41.better today? Hears of us. He will work out whatever else does and how

:13:41. > :13:51.difficult he will make his routine. Just swing like there is nobody

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:13:52. > :14:00.watching. The first handstand. There is the second. Keep your head.

:14:00. > :14:06.Keep the swing. Keep the focus. He is up, beautifully controlled. A

:14:06. > :14:14.little flourish to come off. Goodness me. He did not let anybody

:14:14. > :14:21.down there. It is a tired. Because the executions door was slightly

:14:21. > :14:25.lower, but like it was going to be beaten by anybody he is that a man.

:14:25. > :14:31.He would go down as were the greatest ever. The fact that I came

:14:31. > :14:36.second to him is great. The whole nation thing so too. One week after

:14:36. > :14:41.the Olympics he received a hero's welcome at his gym. This has always

:14:41. > :14:47.been the big one for any British athlete, to perform at these Games.

:14:47. > :14:51.It is massive. I knew that I would be filling it. My routine in the

:14:51. > :14:58.finals I have never been more scared of my life. It was a nerve-

:14:58. > :15:08.racking moment. To be standing here now with it all finished and two

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:15:11. > :15:21.Time To hear from another this made. Zoe Smith was 18 when she came to

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:15:27. > :15:36.our attention. Did she realise her ambitions? There are over 200 days

:15:36. > :15:44.to the opening ceremony. I still have the qualifying of to do even

:15:44. > :15:54.though I am pretty confident. aspires to get a place in the

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:16:00. > :16:10.Zealous mayor, the 18-year-old. -- Zoe Smith. She did not have to

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:16:13. > :16:19.Listen to that from the crowd. She will be delighted. It is the

:16:19. > :16:29.biggest moment of her life. She has done this in training. From what

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:16:35. > :16:44.her coach has told us, she's just Just one kilo too far. It was very

:16:44. > :16:54.close. She will be very disappointed with that. Can she

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:17:04. > :17:12.produce the British record in her It is overhead! It is 3! It is a

:17:12. > :17:22.British record of four Zoe Smith! The 18-year-old from London.

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:17:22. > :17:30.I competed as an Olympian in my home town. I am overwhelmed.

:17:30. > :17:37.On my way to BBC studios to do an interview. I had been mobbed for

:17:37. > :17:42.photos which has been quite interesting. It is a bit different.

:17:42. > :17:50.I competed at 12:30pm today. It has been a long day. But a successful

:17:50. > :17:55.one. First Olympic Games done and dusted. Britain has a star of the

:17:55. > :18:00.future. Today was the beginning. Was it everything he thought it

:18:00. > :18:07.would be? Everything and more. It was nothing like I have experienced

:18:07. > :18:17.before. I watched it in my room on TV. It must turn sounded like I was

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:18:18. > :18:24.in a delivery suite. It was a bit surreal. You do not really think

:18:25. > :18:33.about being on live TV. Hopefully my mum and dad were watching. That

:18:33. > :18:37.would have been nice. I do think I could win a medal. I think I could

:18:37. > :18:47.make some big gains in the next four years. I hope for a medal by

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:18:58. > :19:02.I would not say I did not believe I would get to 2012. To be 18 and win

:19:02. > :19:12.my first world title, it was then when I started to think 2012 is not

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:19:22. > :19:29.Peter Wilson it needs these tigers to win gold for Great Britain. And

:19:29. > :19:35.he does it! He has done it! The third gold of the Games for the

:19:35. > :19:45.host nation! How often have the allowed yourself

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:19:45. > :19:53.to visualise this? Is the first time I pictured myself. Anthony

:19:53. > :19:58.Joshua is the Olympic super- During British Olympic dreams, we

:19:58. > :20:03.highlighted the stories of many of our or rolling hopefuls. All of

:20:03. > :20:07.whom were to claim medals at the Games. There was one story be held

:20:07. > :20:17.onto now. She is the perfect example of an Olympian who never

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:20:30. > :20:35.lost sight of her dream. I did not The biggest risk was dealing with

:20:35. > :20:41.the expectation on the morning of The race. After silver medals in

:20:41. > :20:47.Sydney, Athens and Beijing, surely there was time for a London God.

:20:48. > :20:53.She has been the poster girl for a decade or so. Everyone wants her to

:20:53. > :20:59.win today. This could be the moment for the British came. If you could

:20:59. > :21:06.pick one boat through is going to win, we will pick this one. There

:21:06. > :21:11.is always a quiet moment at the start line. We feel the hard

:21:11. > :21:19.pounding. Both of us mac would do everything we can to do justice of

:21:19. > :21:29.what we had been building for three years. We looked into our eyes and

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:21:30. > :21:34.smiled. This is for us. For the fourth and final time, in her long

:21:34. > :21:39.and establish career, she leaves her start line in an Olympic final.

:21:40. > :21:46.A Life to be defined by the next 6.5 minutes. It started how I

:21:46. > :21:54.wanted it to start. Already through the first quarter, listen to the

:21:54. > :22:00.crowd. They had eased out. They are two-thirds of a length over

:22:00. > :22:07.Australia. If anything, if we were to be taken by surprise, it would

:22:07. > :22:15.have been only. That did not happen. We had a greater ability to control

:22:15. > :22:25.the race from the front. They have clear water now! This is

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:22:26. > :22:33.phenomenal! Let's do this! Let's finish the story! A share in coup

:22:33. > :22:43.have 25 stretch remaining. -- Australia's prove. Dreams do come

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:22:52. > :23:00.true! We will win a gold medal! Olympic champion as! A fabulous

:23:00. > :23:08.result for growth Britain. At long last, she is the Olympic champion.

:23:08. > :23:14.The crowd are going mad. It was overwhelming joy. Sheer pleasure.

:23:14. > :23:24.It feels extraordinary. It was not an emotion I could expect. I do not

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:23:27. > :23:32.have the words for it. They do not come along very often. I did not

:23:32. > :23:42.feel emotional. Not Can I talk to the Olympic champion

:23:42. > :23:44.

:23:44. > :23:49.please? Where? Where? She is finally here. Worth the wait. After

:23:49. > :23:59.so many people had been behind me and subordinates. They wanted this

:23:59. > :24:06.for me as much as I did. Everyone who has helped me... My family, my

:24:06. > :24:15.friends. Every single person has been a part of this. It feels so

:24:15. > :24:25.much more special. Kenny sum up what it means? -- cannot you.

:24:25. > :24:27.

:24:27. > :24:34.deserves this. But mostly pride. That result, in front of those

:24:34. > :24:42.crowds. The home nation were so excited. I do not know how you can

:24:42. > :24:47.beat this. For us, the story of the 2012 Olympics ended here. We so

:24:47. > :24:52.dreams realised and shouted as well -- London welcomed the world.

:24:52. > :24:56.the curtain falls for the dead it Olympiad, dreams of gold in Rio are