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0:01:16 > 0:01:21fortnight. This is the Olympics, Coming up on tonight's programme -
0:01:22 > 0:01:26could Mark Cavendish and Team GB conquer the road race? We will be
0:01:26 > 0:01:32in the pool with Hannah Miley. There were 12 gold medals in total
0:01:32 > 0:01:37to be won today. We have the best of the action for you. Hello and
0:01:37 > 0:01:41welcome to the programme. We will be here every single night at 10
0:01:41 > 0:01:48past midnight, with a round-up of all the days Olympic business.
0:01:48 > 0:01:55Joining me tonight, cycling silver- medallist from Sydney Rob Hayles
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and the Chief Sports proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. -- chief
0:01:58 > 0:02:03sports reporter. There were high hopes that Team GB would have at
0:02:03 > 0:02:10least one gold medal by now. The safest bet seemed to be Mark
0:02:10 > 0:02:20Cavendish, in the men's road race. He and Rob Hayles over their go
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0:02:34 > 0:02:44back a long way. I am world Mark Cavendish, world champion!
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0:02:51 > 0:03:00We have got a bit of an attack on here, you can always tell, with the
0:03:00 > 0:03:04riders out of the saddle. This group at the moment have
0:03:04 > 0:03:09established a slight advantage. There is a conversation going on
0:03:10 > 0:03:16between the British team, trying to decide upon tactics. They have
0:03:16 > 0:03:20opened up a gap of considerable size now. They are al in-form Mark
0:03:20 > 0:03:25Cavendish. Are we going to see the start of some action? This is the
0:03:25 > 0:03:35peloton, being led by Chris Froome, and they are trailing the leading
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0:03:36 > 0:03:40group by almost six minutes. Italy are having a crack at the front.
0:03:40 > 0:03:46They are putting the rest under pressure. There's a real chase on
0:03:46 > 0:03:51now. Great Britain are under real pressure to limit the leader of
0:03:51 > 0:03:57that group which has gone on ahead. The whole thing has been condensed
0:03:57 > 0:04:02now. It really is an impressive piece of work, to have just four
0:04:02 > 0:04:05guys controlling the peloton. If they could pull this off, it will
0:04:05 > 0:04:14be one of the most extraordinary things I have seen in sport. Great
0:04:14 > 0:04:18Britain are looking down the end of the barrel now. We are on about 24
0:04:18 > 0:04:22miles of racing left. That's less than an hour before we are a
0:04:22 > 0:04:26crowning the Olympic gold-medallist in London.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31CHRIS BOARDMAN: Wiggins on the front has got to work now, they
0:04:31 > 0:04:34wanted to save their effort for the Sprint, but this group up the road
0:04:34 > 0:04:42is just way too dangerous, they need to get on top of it as quickly
0:04:42 > 0:04:45as possible. Alarm bells are ringing, and they are ringing
0:04:45 > 0:04:50because this is very, very dangerous for Great Britain. They
0:04:50 > 0:04:55are running out of distance here. They realise it, they could do with
0:04:55 > 0:05:00some allies to come through and help with the workload. Mark
0:05:00 > 0:05:05Cavendish's gold-medal chances are slipping away. Oh, there's a crash
0:05:05 > 0:05:12there! They have gone into the barriers! Well, one of the big
0:05:12 > 0:05:15favourites has gone out, Fabien Cancellara, one of the best bike
0:05:15 > 0:05:21riders in the world, and that's really going to change the course
0:05:21 > 0:05:30of the race. The gap is still 56 seconds. If that is the case, this
0:05:30 > 0:05:34race is over - the winner will come from that group. A attacked
0:05:34 > 0:05:41downhill! Nail-biting stuff. Bradley Wiggins worked incredibly
0:05:41 > 0:05:49hard for his team, he is spent. Inside one kilometre to go, and
0:05:49 > 0:05:54Uran Uran looks across to Vinokourov. An attack on the left
0:05:54 > 0:06:04from Vinokourov! He caught him napping there! Coming up to the
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0:06:05 > 0:06:09line, Vinokourov is the Olympic champion! It is unbelievable.
0:06:09 > 0:06:19Britain worked so hard all day, but it just slipped away in the closing
0:06:19 > 0:06:19
0:06:19 > 0:06:24stages. Well, I know how bitterly disappointed you are, your team
0:06:24 > 0:06:27could do no more for you, but at times it seemed as if the rest of
0:06:27 > 0:06:32the world was up against Great Britain. Yes, we knew it was going
0:06:32 > 0:06:37to be like that coming into it. But we said, we would just do our race
0:06:37 > 0:06:42as we wanted to do it and see what happens. Like you said, it just
0:06:42 > 0:06:46seems like most teams are happy not to win, as long as we do not win.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50It is the story of our lives in cycling, to be honest, it shows
0:06:50 > 0:06:58what a strong nation we are. We have got to take positive us from
0:06:58 > 0:07:07that, take it as a compliment. It is bitterly disappointing, though.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11We had 70 guys in our group at the finish, it does not make sense.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15word on your teammates, they looked as though they had left it all out
0:07:16 > 0:07:25on the road. Incredible, I could not be more proud of them. They are
0:07:25 > 0:07:34absolutely spend. They have just ridden 250 kilometres. They have
0:07:34 > 0:07:38done 60 kilometres an hour for the last hour. I am so proud of them.
0:07:38 > 0:07:44Here on one million people watching, it must have been quite an
0:07:44 > 0:07:49emotional weight. Obviously, we do not pick up on the numbers, we just
0:07:49 > 0:07:58hear the noise. But obviously, it was tremendous the whole way round.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02Everybody knew you were the best sprinter in the world. Are we
0:08:02 > 0:08:07victims of the success of the British cycling team? Yes, that's
0:08:07 > 0:08:14all you can put it down to. No-one wants to help us. The Australians,
0:08:14 > 0:08:22they always just ride negatively. They just sat there. They did not
0:08:22 > 0:08:25really want to sprint. That's how it goes, but it is disappointing.
0:08:25 > 0:08:34We did everything. It is one of those things, we cannot make
0:08:34 > 0:08:44excuses. The guys were incredible, to see the guys, with the calibre
0:08:44 > 0:08:48they have got, riding like that, for me... We can see the fans
0:08:48 > 0:08:51streaming out of the Olympic Park behind us. Many people came to see
0:08:51 > 0:08:55Mark Cavendish today. It was interesting to hear some of the
0:08:55 > 0:09:00other cyclists as well speaking today, David Miller, saying that
0:09:00 > 0:09:05normally, Cavendish is angry after a race, but today, he is sad, he
0:09:06 > 0:09:09feels he has let the nation down. Yes, unfortunately, he was not able
0:09:09 > 0:09:15to get into that race-winning position to be able to let the guys
0:09:15 > 0:09:18down. That I can understand why he feels that way. But, yes, it is a
0:09:18 > 0:09:23crushing blow. Extremely disappointing for the guys. The
0:09:23 > 0:09:27work that they have put in. But ultimately, they went into the race
0:09:27 > 0:09:32knowing that it could have gone one way or the other. It was either of
0:09:32 > 0:09:40the victory or a massive defeat like this. To be in sight of the
0:09:40 > 0:09:48winners at the finish, and not be there for Mark to be able to
0:09:48 > 0:09:53unleash his sprint is pretty devastating. Basically it was
0:09:53 > 0:10:00impossible for five men to control the race for 250 kilometres.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Absolutely, on the Mall, you could feel the deflation, from 10 minutes
0:10:03 > 0:10:08before the riders arrived, and it was clear that they were not going
0:10:08 > 0:10:12to be able to bridge the gap. This guy has cars and everything, he has
0:10:12 > 0:10:17been absolutely at the top of his profession, world champion,
0:10:17 > 0:10:27multiple stage winner, but you can see what an a Olympic gold medal
0:10:27 > 0:10:27
0:10:27 > 0:10:34means. We have heard from the man who was bitterly disappointed today,
0:10:34 > 0:10:41and here's the reaction from the head of the team, Dave Brailsford.
0:10:41 > 0:10:46To be fair, up until the top of the final climb, we were looking good.
0:10:46 > 0:10:53I was happy. I thought the way the race had ended, the guys had stuck
0:10:53 > 0:10:57to the plan, done everything we had talk about. And it is about 55
0:10:57 > 0:11:04seconds over the top, you think, it is game on. But it was not to be.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09So, with hindsight, it is really disappointing that it did not come
0:11:09 > 0:11:13down to the sprint. When you have got five guys, or four guys, trying
0:11:13 > 0:11:16to control a race for 250 kilometres, when a lot of the teams
0:11:17 > 0:11:22know that you have got the best sprinter, it is not easy. But what
0:11:22 > 0:11:25I would say is that what they did do was very impressive. You could
0:11:25 > 0:11:32say you are victims of your own success, because everybody knows
0:11:32 > 0:11:36Mark is the fastest sprinter. whilst it is disappointing, we have
0:11:36 > 0:11:40got to dust ourselves done, look at whether we could have done anything
0:11:40 > 0:11:45differently, when that second move went on the final climb, maybe we
0:11:45 > 0:11:50could have gone with that. Our chance of winning this race was to
0:11:50 > 0:11:58try to get into a sprint with Mark. I'm not sure how else we could have
0:11:58 > 0:12:03won this race. If you want to win big, which is what we try to do,
0:12:03 > 0:12:08then you have got to be prepared to lose similarly in a big way. And
0:12:08 > 0:12:11when that does happen, you have got to take your hat off to the other
0:12:11 > 0:12:15riders and the other teams. But we will be back to try again. I have
0:12:15 > 0:12:20never seen a crowd like that, I have never seen so many Union Jacks.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25You just feel like you have let people down.
0:12:25 > 0:12:32If you would like to get involved on any topic tonight, you can. You
0:12:33 > 0:12:37can find me on Twitter. You can put a question to one of our guests as
0:12:37 > 0:12:41well. We have a quote from Mark Cavendish tonight - it seems that
0:12:42 > 0:12:45other teams are happy not to win as long as we do not win. Team Sky are
0:12:45 > 0:12:48pretty unpopular, like the Manchester City of the cycling
0:12:48 > 0:12:54world - do you think the world is against them but stayed quite
0:12:54 > 0:12:59possibly. They have set themselves a big task. They had a race plan.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04This template has worked before, they have proved it time and again,
0:13:04 > 0:13:09and that is probably half the trouble. But for the other guys,
0:13:09 > 0:13:14there were some who would have wanted it to come down to a sprint,
0:13:15 > 0:13:18so, for those teams not to pull in the finish, and had they done that,
0:13:18 > 0:13:22then that group would have come back together, the chances are that
0:13:22 > 0:13:27Mark Cavendish would have won. We will never know know. There were
0:13:27 > 0:13:33other medals up for grabs, and if you want to win the lottery, you
0:13:33 > 0:13:37have got to buy a ticket. Those teams did not buy that ticket. Also
0:13:37 > 0:13:41some quotes from Mark Cavendish's dad, saying, he may not compete in
0:13:41 > 0:13:46Rio because he does not fancy the course. But thinking positively,
0:13:46 > 0:13:50the women's road race is tomorrow, with some big chances, and we have
0:13:50 > 0:13:55got the velodrome, behind you, basically, and in a couple of days,
0:13:55 > 0:13:59first day of next week, six days of cycling in there will start. You
0:13:59 > 0:14:03would think there would have to be some good news from there.
0:14:03 > 0:14:12would think so. Summer we will get a repeat of the gold rush of
0:14:12 > 0:14:22Beijing, which was extraordinary. But Team Sky and Dave Brailsford
0:14:22 > 0:14:23
0:14:23 > 0:14:28have done amazing things for cycling in the last four years.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31There are an exceptional team, in any sport. They want to win big. He
0:14:31 > 0:14:38has taken the flipside of that today. I hope there is a bit of
0:14:38 > 0:14:43sense of deflation around, but I don't think this was ever a nailed
0:14:43 > 0:14:47on medal. This is an Olympic sport, you can choreograph anything you
0:14:47 > 0:14:56like, as we saw on Friday night, but once everyone else is competing
0:14:56 > 0:14:59with you, you cannot win them all. From the pressure of the Mall,
0:14:59 > 0:15:08let's take you to the Aquatics Centre, which was also very busy
0:15:08 > 0:15:14today. We have travelled the relatively short distance over to
0:15:14 > 0:15:23the pool. The roof is 160 metres long, by the way, of the Aquatics
0:15:23 > 0:15:27Centre. There were some concerns over some empty seats in the
0:15:28 > 0:15:31stadium today, but in terms of the action, after the disappointment of
0:15:31 > 0:15:36Cavendish and company, it was up to Hannah Miley to try to lift the
0:15:36 > 0:15:40spirits of the nation. She won her heat in the medley, in which she is
0:15:40 > 0:15:50the reigning world silver-medallist. But she was facing a tricky task in
0:15:50 > 0:15:53
0:15:53 > 0:15:58There was disappointment in the final. The quality of the
0:15:58 > 0:16:06opposition proved to a strong, particularly from 16-year-old
0:16:06 > 0:16:12Chinese were may Ye Shiwen. I gave it absolutely everything I
0:16:12 > 0:16:15had. This morning, it was a real bunfight just to try and get into
0:16:15 > 0:16:20the final. It was a question of who could recover quickest and get
0:16:20 > 0:16:24through her. I did not get a medal, but I could not have given it any
0:16:24 > 0:16:28more. That was everything I had. At the end of the day, I will be able
0:16:28 > 0:16:36to sit down and look over it as one place better than what I did in
0:16:36 > 0:16:40Beijing. Apologies to anyone who had higher expectations for me, but
0:16:40 > 0:16:47that was all I could give. Thank you to everyone for their support.
0:16:47 > 0:16:54It means such a lot. My performance was solid. It could have been a lot
0:16:54 > 0:16:58worse. I know I said before that you would give it 110%, we know you
0:16:58 > 0:17:06tried it. What are you expecting for the 200? If I make it through
0:17:06 > 0:17:11to the final, it would be great. But the standard is so high now. It
0:17:11 > 0:17:17would just be a bunfight. I would love to get into the final. We will
0:17:17 > 0:17:21see how it goes. You have these 16- year-olds, and you can't predict
0:17:21 > 0:17:26what they will do. But it is great to see the younger generation
0:17:26 > 0:17:31coming through. They learn from us, and 80 just a lot of things. The
0:17:31 > 0:17:35next generation of swimmers are a lot faster and stronger and it is
0:17:35 > 0:17:39great to see that the sport is moving on.
0:17:39 > 0:17:43She is a great interviewee. There were two other medal chances for
0:17:43 > 0:17:48Great Britain in the pool tonight. The women's 4 x 100 freestyle relay
0:17:48 > 0:17:53team made it into the final, but were never really in contention as
0:17:53 > 0:17:57Australia took gold, ahead of the Netherlands, with USA taking bronze.
0:17:57 > 0:18:02Great Britain came home 5th. And David Carry went off in the
0:18:02 > 0:18:05final of the men's 400m freestyle. The 30-year-old is the oldest
0:18:05 > 0:18:10member of the swim team and said making the final was a dream come
0:18:10 > 0:18:20true. He eventually finished seventh, well behind China's Sun
0:18:20 > 0:18:22
0:18:22 > 0:18:27Yang, who took gold and produced the celebratory holler of the day.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32There it is. A great day for China in the pool. From a British
0:18:32 > 0:18:38swimming perspective, the best is yet to come in terms of those real
0:18:38 > 0:18:43solid medal chances? Absolutely. Becky Adlington starts tomorrow.
0:18:43 > 0:18:48She is probably not clear favourite for that event. Her best event
0:18:48 > 0:18:51comes later. But it is a clear prospect for medal chances. There
0:18:51 > 0:18:56are few nail bomb favourites in this British team. And the
0:18:56 > 0:19:00opposition is so strong. As you mentioned, there were two Chinese
0:19:00 > 0:19:07gold medallists today. That is significant. We saw China topped
0:19:07 > 0:19:12the medal table last time. But they won mainly in the core sports, the
0:19:12 > 0:19:18fighting sports like table tennis. This is a move into the almost
0:19:18 > 0:19:23middle-class, European/North American sports, swimming. It is a
0:19:23 > 0:19:28big moment for China. We all have to watch our backs. Her road, take
0:19:28 > 0:19:31us inside the team mentality within a large Olympic site. In the past,
0:19:32 > 0:19:37when there has been disappointment and expected medals have not come
0:19:37 > 0:19:42through, how do you recover within that particular team? It can be
0:19:42 > 0:19:48difficult, especially when your team mates around you are winning
0:19:48 > 0:19:51bronzes, and silvers and in cycling, normally golds. With the cycling,
0:19:51 > 0:19:55on the trackside, they train together and live together and that
0:19:55 > 0:20:00is part of the reason why they are so successful, because they all
0:20:00 > 0:20:04help each other. The camaraderie is fantastic amongst the sprinters and
0:20:04 > 0:20:08the endurance side. You will probably get a lot of that with the
0:20:08 > 0:20:12swimmers as well, although they train in their different areas and
0:20:12 > 0:20:18then come together as a squad, as opposed to the cycling, who pretty
0:20:18 > 0:20:22much travel together and train together. But the way it is managed
0:20:22 > 0:20:26is important. The camaraderie amongst the riders will help, but
0:20:26 > 0:20:34it can be difficult. It is just knowing the individual characters
0:20:34 > 0:20:37in the squad. Away from the British challenge,
0:20:37 > 0:20:42there was an American duel in the pool and the final of the men's
0:20:42 > 0:20:46400m individual medley. It was Michael Phelps against Ryan Lochte,
0:20:46 > 0:20:51although defending champion Phelps only just made it into the final
0:20:51 > 0:20:55after a surprisingly slow time in winning his heat. Lochte eased up,
0:20:55 > 0:21:00reserving precious power for the big one. He was just too good for
0:21:00 > 0:21:04Phelps, and everyone else. He got stronger as we reached the final
0:21:04 > 0:21:09stages as Phelps faded and could only finish fourth in the end.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Brilliant in Beijing, but Phelps was well off the pace this time.
0:21:12 > 0:21:20His fellow American took the gold ahead of Thiago Pereira of Brazil
0:21:20 > 0:21:24and Japan's Kosuke Hagino. The four years are a long time. So I put the
0:21:24 > 0:21:29work in. I know it is my time, and I am ready. Is at the start of a
0:21:29 > 0:21:34serious quest? It was the Michael show four years ago. Is it going to
0:21:34 > 0:21:39be the Ryan show? I sure hope so. I am just going out there and having
0:21:39 > 0:21:45fun and doing what I do best and racing. Did you like our crowd?
0:21:45 > 0:21:49They were shouting for you. yeah. I liked that a lot.
0:21:49 > 0:21:55We know Michael Phelps was one of the outstanding stars of Beijing.
0:21:55 > 0:22:00He was untouchable. Do you think a bit of that magic has left him, or
0:22:00 > 0:22:05will he does take a bit of time to get going? We never thought we
0:22:05 > 0:22:08would hear the words Michael Phelps, 4th, in the Olympic Games. By the
0:22:09 > 0:22:13end of the Beijing Olympic Games, he had gone into the history books
0:22:13 > 0:22:19and it was almost routine, the way he did it. It was an awesome
0:22:19 > 0:22:26performance from Lochte today, the way he powered away. The final
0:22:26 > 0:22:30freestyle leg was astonishing. He had lost 17 times in a row to
0:22:30 > 0:22:35Phelps. You wonder if he has got his eye on a similar winning streak,
0:22:35 > 0:22:41the other way round. Does it almost help in any sport to have an arch
0:22:41 > 0:22:45rival, somebody you know you can go against in the pool? Or anywhere.
0:22:45 > 0:22:50Again, it is the way it is managed and the individual characters going
0:22:50 > 0:22:54up against each other. On the cycling side, with the sprinters,
0:22:54 > 0:22:58we have got Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy, who have been battling
0:22:58 > 0:23:05it out for the individual sprint position and the keirin position at
0:23:05 > 0:23:10the Olympics. Those guys share a room together. So to have people
0:23:10 > 0:23:15that could that you train with all the time really helps. The French
0:23:15 > 0:23:18habit. They are so strong in the sprint events, and they all trained
0:23:19 > 0:23:22together. So rather than being a way and doing your own thing and
0:23:22 > 0:23:26then coming to the competition and meeting the best, if you can train
0:23:26 > 0:23:32with the best all the time, as long as it doesn't crack you and you are
0:23:32 > 0:23:39constantly being beaten, for someone like Phelps, he has a bit
0:23:39 > 0:23:44of work to do. There is psychology as well. I understand they are
0:23:44 > 0:23:48sharing a six bed apartment -- a six room apartment, but Phelps is
0:23:48 > 0:23:53the only one with his own room. You wonder if he has closed the door
0:23:53 > 0:23:56and put up a do Not disturb sign. Gymnastics time. No medals on offer
0:23:56 > 0:24:00today, but Great Britain were determined to show their strength
0:24:01 > 0:24:05in qualifying for the men's team final, and they did it in style.
0:24:05 > 0:24:10Louis Smith, Daniel Purvis, Kristian Thomas, Max Whitlock and
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Sam Oldham were in business this morning. Smith's performance on the
0:24:14 > 0:24:20pommel horse epitomised their efforts. He scored an impressive
0:24:20 > 0:24:2315.8 for his routine, which helped Team GB finish above reigning
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Olympic champions China in the day's first qualifying group. That
0:24:26 > 0:24:30was good enough to put Great Britain through to their first
0:24:30 > 0:24:35Olympic men's gymnastics team final in 88 years. The talent in this
0:24:35 > 0:24:39team is unbelievable. We don't say where we want to come, we just do
0:24:39 > 0:24:46our best. We have a special group of boys here, and we could upset
0:24:46 > 0:24:49the competition. Here are some other faces who
0:24:49 > 0:24:53enjoyed their one. Anthony Ogogo successfully negotiated his way
0:24:53 > 0:24:57through his opening fight in the men's middleweight division. A
0:24:57 > 0:25:02convincing win over Junior Castillo of the Dominican Republic. Ogogo
0:25:02 > 0:25:08dominated the final two rams to run out a comfortable winner by 13-6.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12But it does get tougher. On Thursday morning, Ievgen Khytrov of
0:25:12 > 0:25:16Ukraine will be waiting for him in the last 16.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Bath it was the presence of Prince Charles and the audience that
0:25:19 > 0:25:25spurred on Susan Egelstaff to victory in the women's badminton
0:25:25 > 0:25:30singles. Making her Olympic debut, the 29-year-old easily beat the
0:25:30 > 0:25:33world No. 89 of Slovenia. A particularly impressive performance,
0:25:33 > 0:25:36considering that she shattered a thigh bone last year and missed
0:25:36 > 0:25:40four months of the qualifying campaign.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44Plenty of hearty cries from Eton Dorney this morning as the row has
0:25:44 > 0:25:47started well on the first day of competition. The highlight was
0:25:47 > 0:25:52provided by gold-medal favourites Helen Glover and Heather Stanning,
0:25:52 > 0:25:56who set a new Olympic record of six minutes and 57.29 seconds in
0:25:56 > 0:26:01winning their heat of the women's pair to qualify for the finals.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04They are promising that there is more to come.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08Most of the British competitors will like a bit of that a home
0:26:08 > 0:26:12crowd roar, but not Mary King, who asked those in Greenwich to keep
0:26:12 > 0:26:18the noise down today so as not to speak her horse, Imperial Cavalier,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21who is easily unsettled. The harsh worked, as horse and rider put in a
0:26:21 > 0:26:24masterful display to get Great Britain's eventers off to a good
0:26:24 > 0:26:30start. They are on course for a medal.
0:26:30 > 0:26:36In tennis, there was a nice game of Mr and Mrs, as first Joanna Parker
0:26:36 > 0:26:41made it through to the first round of singles, thrashing the Brazilian.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46Then her boyfriend, Paul Drinkhall, posted through his match against
0:26:46 > 0:26:50the Kuwaiti players. They are Team GB's only representatives in the
0:26:50 > 0:26:53singles events. Everyone loves a bit of slow-motion
0:26:53 > 0:26:57table tennis. On the lawns of Wimbledon, Elena
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Baltacha made it through to the second round of the ladies' singles.
0:27:01 > 0:27:06She beat the Hungarian and afterwards said she may retire
0:27:06 > 0:27:11after the Olympics. So some impressive performances. We
0:27:11 > 0:27:15would get on to the bad GB stuff later, but let's start with the
0:27:15 > 0:27:19good stuff. We have always had that bedrock of the sports Britain does
0:27:19 > 0:27:24well in, but gymnastics has come out of the blue. There is real
0:27:24 > 0:27:29strength there now. It is great that I have started off the first
0:27:29 > 0:27:34day with such a great performance. But will help them build momentum
0:27:34 > 0:27:38through these games. We have seen that with the eventers as well. We
0:27:38 > 0:27:44are expecting big things with the rowers. To start the first day with
0:27:44 > 0:27:54an Olympic record is great. Now it is time for you to get involved.
0:27:54 > 0:28:01
0:28:01 > 0:28:06This is the daily dip. We want you to send in a video of
0:28:06 > 0:28:09yourself dipping for an imaginary line. The more random, the better.
0:28:09 > 0:28:15Send it into @mrdanwalker and we will play the best ones. Here is
0:28:15 > 0:28:24what we are looking for. Here is my lanky attempt. It takes awkwardness
0:28:24 > 0:28:29to new levels. That was a more elaborate effort from Peter George.
0:28:29 > 0:28:34We would rather you kept them a bit safer than this. He did not have
0:28:34 > 0:28:42sufficient cranial protection. Toilet paper on so much as us. This
0:28:42 > 0:28:49one has a bit more conventional. He tried to show boat across the line.
0:28:49 > 0:28:53Although comical, apparently it did hurt quite a bit.
0:28:53 > 0:28:59He does stay down for quite a while if you watch the full video.
0:28:59 > 0:29:05Send yours in. Maybe you could pop won through on Twitter. I am sure
0:29:05 > 0:29:09you enjoy that sort of thing. Enough of the buffoonery. Let's get
0:29:09 > 0:29:15back to the action. Great Britain's women's football team were hoping
0:29:15 > 0:29:18to make it two wins out of two in their campaign so forth. Cameroon
0:29:18 > 0:29:28were standing in their way in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium this
0:29:28 > 0:29:39
0:29:39 > 0:29:46in that challenge. And a yellow card. It means that she will not be
0:29:46 > 0:29:55able to play in the final game, which might be Cameron's final game.
0:29:55 > 0:30:05And Casey Stoner puts it in! Great Britain lead. Free kick conceded,
0:30:05 > 0:30:22
0:30:22 > 0:30:32in at the back. And Gil Scott makes it two. Great Britain well and
0:30:32 > 0:30:43
0:30:43 > 0:30:53out Kelly Smith. Kelly Smith has taken up a great position there. It
0:30:53 > 0:30:57
0:30:57 > 0:31:07was a great save in the end. Good try from the Cameroon forward.
0:31:07 > 0:31:31
0:31:31 > 0:31:35that was not too far away. That is into the centre. Goal! And Great
0:31:35 > 0:31:45Britain have sealed the victory, and their place in the quarter-
0:31:45 > 0:31:46
0:31:46 > 0:31:50finals, through Houghton. Let's have a look at how that affect the
0:31:50 > 0:31:57table. Both Great Britain and Brazil are through to the quarter-
0:31:57 > 0:32:02finals, with two victories from two Games. Brazil beat New Zealand 1-0.
0:32:03 > 0:32:07We can hear now from hope Powell. Every game we go out, we try to win.
0:32:07 > 0:32:12It will be a real honour for these girls to play at Wembley. I'm sure
0:32:12 > 0:32:17it will be a fantastic game. Brazil are a fantastic side. It will be a
0:32:17 > 0:32:22good contest. It will give us a barometer of how far we have come.
0:32:22 > 0:32:26How important was it to top the group to avoid playing one of the
0:32:26 > 0:32:32top nations in the world? I have not thought about it, but we would
0:32:32 > 0:32:36like to top the group, to make our route a bit easier. Women's
0:32:36 > 0:32:40football is gathering a bit of momentum, with Team GB going a long
0:32:40 > 0:32:46while, and another good crowd today - this could be a good tournament
0:32:46 > 0:32:50for the team? Yes, a huge amounts of controversy around the football,
0:32:50 > 0:33:00obviously. Hopefully they will get a full house at Wembley for the
0:33:00 > 0:33:00
0:33:00 > 0:33:04game against Brazil. Are you a Fan are of football in the Olympics?
0:33:04 > 0:33:09think it is a bit of a strange one. It is strange, the fact that they
0:33:09 > 0:33:17compete all over the country, and there is no focal point in London.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21It is a bit of a bizarre one for me. If you go to Games, it is very
0:33:21 > 0:33:27family-oriented, and it has worked, so far, without it distracting from
0:33:27 > 0:33:30the other sports. Earlier, we looked at the highlights of the day
0:33:30 > 0:33:35for Team GB, and there were not many of them. Now, it is time to
0:33:35 > 0:33:39look at the low points. Britain's tennis players, apart from Elena
0:33:39 > 0:33:44Baltacha, struggled today. The Murray brothers lost in the first
0:33:44 > 0:33:49round of the men's doubles. Out with them went Colin Fleming and
0:33:49 > 0:33:55was hatchings. Laura Robson and Heather Watson also went out in the
0:33:55 > 0:33:59women's doubles. Not a great day on the court. There were hopes for
0:34:00 > 0:34:04Ashley McKenzie in the judo, but he made an early exit, even though he
0:34:04 > 0:34:07was up against a tough opponent in Hiroaki Hiraoka, runner-up in last
0:34:07 > 0:34:15year's World Championships. Kelly Edwards was also eliminated from
0:34:15 > 0:34:19her division. Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier cannot afford
0:34:19 > 0:34:22another defeat after losing their first match in the mixed doubles in
0:34:22 > 0:34:26the badminton. They went into the competition as genuine medal
0:34:26 > 0:34:34contenders, after losing in the final of the World Championships
0:34:34 > 0:34:44last year. Fencing, and the three British girls in the women's
0:34:44 > 0:34:48
0:34:48 > 0:34:52individual foil faced early Illuminations. -- eliminations. At
0:34:52 > 0:34:56Great Britain's women basketball team were beaten in their first
0:34:56 > 0:35:00match by Australia. It was always going to be tough, against a team
0:35:00 > 0:35:03which has reached the final in the last three Olympics. Britain
0:35:03 > 0:35:10matched their opponents in the second half, but it was too late,
0:35:10 > 0:35:15and in the end, the Aussies went on to win quite convincingly. It has
0:35:15 > 0:35:21not been the greatest day for Team GB so far, but we have mentioned
0:35:21 > 0:35:31that there is better stuff to come - what would you say would be any
0:35:31 > 0:35:31
0:35:31 > 0:35:36nailed on gold medals? You would hope Rebecca Adlington, and I think
0:35:36 > 0:35:41Mo Farah has got a chance of doubling up. People who know a
0:35:41 > 0:35:45great deal more about distance running than me, such as Seb Coe,
0:35:45 > 0:35:49thought the 5,000 was his best chance. But if we're still waiting
0:35:49 > 0:35:54for the first day of the athletics, when Mo Farah runs in the 10,000,
0:35:54 > 0:35:57then we should start worrying. But there has been a huge amounts to
0:35:57 > 0:36:03focus on Cavendish, following on from the Opening Ceremony last
0:36:03 > 0:36:08night. Everyone hoped it would fall into place, but it is too early to
0:36:08 > 0:36:14panic, even for the British media, within less than 24 hours. Will
0:36:14 > 0:36:18there be a big medal haul from the cycling team, do you think?
0:36:18 > 0:36:23certainly hope so. We should be disappointed with the result, but
0:36:23 > 0:36:27not the performance, of the team today. I think the track squad, and
0:36:27 > 0:36:32hopefully the women tomorrow in the road rash, with Nicole Cooke, will
0:36:32 > 0:36:42do well. -- the road-raced. We are going to get some medals in the
0:36:42 > 0:36:46
0:36:46 > 0:36:51cycling, for sure. Let's had to the beach now, and not a million miles
0:36:51 > 0:36:56away from the Mole, we find Horse Guards Parade, right on the Prime
0:36:56 > 0:37:00Minister's doorstep. I popped down there this morning to see the
0:37:00 > 0:37:10thousands of tons of sand which has been shipped in. It will all
0:37:10 > 0:37:33
0:37:33 > 0:37:38for it, but I am looking for the DJ. Now, that guy chooses all the music,
0:37:38 > 0:37:48to get everybody is enthusiastic at home. Whatever happens out there,
0:37:48 > 0:37:52
0:37:52 > 0:37:55this guy has got a piece of music to react to the action. Can you
0:37:55 > 0:38:02imagine this between the heats of the 100 metres? I don't think. This
0:38:02 > 0:38:07is amazing. Beach volleyball has a big history of being entertaining.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11Obviously, we want to show that it is not just about beautiful girls,
0:38:11 > 0:38:17we want to show that the dancers are as athletic as the athletes.
0:38:17 > 0:38:24They all look great, but a dance amazingly as well. And guess what,
0:38:24 > 0:38:28that's Team GB! The atmosphere in the crowd is just amazing. They are
0:38:28 > 0:38:38loving it, they are getting behind the music, the dancing and the
0:38:38 > 0:38:38
0:38:38 > 0:38:48fanfares. It works a treat. The Canadians to serve. The set
0:38:48 > 0:38:56from Grotowski. Just looped over the top, and that their first point
0:38:56 > 0:39:01in Olympic history. We have got a point, and the crowd goes wild!
0:39:01 > 0:39:10Grotowski sets it up and thinks it over the top. Great deflection from
0:39:10 > 0:39:14Grotowski! Binstock sets it up, Reader unleashes, but Garcia-
0:39:14 > 0:39:24Thompson is there. Fantastic work from the British team. It comes
0:39:24 > 0:39:26
0:39:26 > 0:39:35back to the Canadians. Great work by Grotowski. A bit of bad luck
0:39:35 > 0:39:45there, but they are doing all right. We're having a bit of a technical
0:39:45 > 0:39:56
0:39:56 > 0:40:01jump serve. Reader gets under it. And he finds space! The Canadians
0:40:01 > 0:40:06have won against Great Britain. There is a sense of disappointment,
0:40:06 > 0:40:11but the atmosphere is incredible. Tell us, how does it feel?
0:40:11 > 0:40:15atmosphere has been fantastic, you can really feel it. It is one of
0:40:15 > 0:40:19the best moments in my sporting career, for sure. I would just like
0:40:19 > 0:40:24to say thank you to everybody. Everybody has been cheering us. It
0:40:24 > 0:40:31is amazing. They were right behind us. Just to be on court, to hear
0:40:31 > 0:40:35them cheering, the whole crowd was getting into it. We wanted to win
0:40:35 > 0:40:43that match for us, and for everybody, but we have two more.
0:40:43 > 0:40:49There is a lot of work to do. There is a lot of work to do.
0:40:49 > 0:40:56can do it. Absolutely. That was Colin Jackson, who enjoyed
0:40:56 > 0:41:05his day at the beach volleyball. I think he did not need much
0:41:05 > 0:41:09persuading to do that. I would like to introduce you to someone who
0:41:09 > 0:41:13hopefully we will be seeing a lot over the next few weeks. - and the
0:41:13 > 0:41:15father of the modern Olympics, and also the founder of the
0:41:15 > 0:41:21International Olympics Committee. We're hoping to bring him out
0:41:21 > 0:41:28whenever there is a gold medal, to put it round his neck. Are you a
0:41:28 > 0:41:33big Fan of him? Absolutely, he is the reason we are all here.
0:41:33 > 0:41:40Daily Mail tomorrow's is that Paula Radcliffe is out of the Olympics -
0:41:40 > 0:41:45what do you think about that? a big disappointment, and one of
0:41:45 > 0:41:49the icons in British sport. If it is true, and she is going to miss
0:41:49 > 0:41:52out on her home Olympics, it is a big blow. I would have loved to
0:41:52 > 0:42:00have seen her run in London, although I would say her chances
0:42:00 > 0:42:04were slim. It is a great shame. Gentlemen, thank you very much. We
0:42:04 > 0:42:09hope to have you one again during the course of the Olympics. That's
0:42:09 > 0:42:14it for the first Olympic Sportsday. Olly Foster will be here tomorrow.
0:42:14 > 0:42:19A big thank you to these two. Breakfast is back from 6am tomorrow
0:42:19 > 0:42:24morning. 14 more gold medals up for grabs tomorrow. You can watch the