Day 1: Full Round-Up Olympic Sportsday

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fortnight. This is the Olympics, Coming up on tonight's programme -

could Mark Cavendish and Team GB conquer the road race? We will be

in the pool with Hannah Miley. There were 12 gold medals in total

to be won today. We have the best of the action for you. Hello and

welcome to the programme. We will be here every single night at 10

past midnight, with a round-up of all the days Olympic business.

Joining me tonight, cycling silver- medallist from Sydney Rob Hayles

and the Chief Sports proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. -- chief

sports reporter. There were high hopes that Team GB would have at

least one gold medal by now. The safest bet seemed to be Mark

Cavendish, in the men's road race. He and Rob Hayles over their go

back a long way. I am world Mark Cavendish, world champion!

We have got a bit of an attack on here, you can always tell, with the

riders out of the saddle. This group at the moment have

established a slight advantage. There is a conversation going on

between the British team, trying to decide upon tactics. They have

opened up a gap of considerable size now. They are al in-form Mark

Cavendish. Are we going to see the start of some action? This is the

peloton, being led by Chris Froome, and they are trailing the leading

group by almost six minutes. Italy are having a crack at the front.

They are putting the rest under pressure. There's a real chase on

now. Great Britain are under real pressure to limit the leader of

that group which has gone on ahead. The whole thing has been condensed

now. It really is an impressive piece of work, to have just four

guys controlling the peloton. If they could pull this off, it will

be one of the most extraordinary things I have seen in sport. Great

Britain are looking down the end of the barrel now. We are on about 24

miles of racing left. That's less than an hour before we are a

crowning the Olympic gold-medallist in London.

CHRIS BOARDMAN: Wiggins on the front has got to work now, they

wanted to save their effort for the Sprint, but this group up the road

is just way too dangerous, they need to get on top of it as quickly

as possible. Alarm bells are ringing, and they are ringing

because this is very, very dangerous for Great Britain. They

are running out of distance here. They realise it, they could do with

some allies to come through and help with the workload. Mark

Cavendish's gold-medal chances are slipping away. Oh, there's a crash

there! They have gone into the barriers! Well, one of the big

favourites has gone out, Fabien Cancellara, one of the best bike

riders in the world, and that's really going to change the course

of the race. The gap is still 56 seconds. If that is the case, this

race is over - the winner will come from that group. A attacked

downhill! Nail-biting stuff. Bradley Wiggins worked incredibly

hard for his team, he is spent. Inside one kilometre to go, and

Uran Uran looks across to Vinokourov. An attack on the left

from Vinokourov! He caught him napping there! Coming up to the

line, Vinokourov is the Olympic champion! It is unbelievable.

Britain worked so hard all day, but it just slipped away in the closing

stages. Well, I know how bitterly disappointed you are, your team

could do no more for you, but at times it seemed as if the rest of

the world was up against Great Britain. Yes, we knew it was going

to be like that coming into it. But we said, we would just do our race

as we wanted to do it and see what happens. Like you said, it just

seems like most teams are happy not to win, as long as we do not win.

It is the story of our lives in cycling, to be honest, it shows

what a strong nation we are. We have got to take positive us from

that, take it as a compliment. It is bitterly disappointing, though.

We had 70 guys in our group at the finish, it does not make sense.

word on your teammates, they looked as though they had left it all out

on the road. Incredible, I could not be more proud of them. They are

absolutely spend. They have just ridden 250 kilometres. They have

done 60 kilometres an hour for the last hour. I am so proud of them.

Here on one million people watching, it must have been quite an

emotional weight. Obviously, we do not pick up on the numbers, we just

hear the noise. But obviously, it was tremendous the whole way round.

Everybody knew you were the best sprinter in the world. Are we

victims of the success of the British cycling team? Yes, that's

all you can put it down to. No-one wants to help us. The Australians,

they always just ride negatively. They just sat there. They did not

really want to sprint. That's how it goes, but it is disappointing.

We did everything. It is one of those things, we cannot make

excuses. The guys were incredible, to see the guys, with the calibre

they have got, riding like that, for me... We can see the fans

streaming out of the Olympic Park behind us. Many people came to see

Mark Cavendish today. It was interesting to hear some of the

other cyclists as well speaking today, David Miller, saying that

normally, Cavendish is angry after a race, but today, he is sad, he

feels he has let the nation down. Yes, unfortunately, he was not able

to get into that race-winning position to be able to let the guys

down. That I can understand why he feels that way. But, yes, it is a

crushing blow. Extremely disappointing for the guys. The

work that they have put in. But ultimately, they went into the race

knowing that it could have gone one way or the other. It was either of

the victory or a massive defeat like this. To be in sight of the

winners at the finish, and not be there for Mark to be able to

unleash his sprint is pretty devastating. Basically it was

impossible for five men to control the race for 250 kilometres.

Absolutely, on the Mall, you could feel the deflation, from 10 minutes

before the riders arrived, and it was clear that they were not going

to be able to bridge the gap. This guy has cars and everything, he has

been absolutely at the top of his profession, world champion,

multiple stage winner, but you can see what an a Olympic gold medal

means. We have heard from the man who was bitterly disappointed today,

and here's the reaction from the head of the team, Dave Brailsford.

To be fair, up until the top of the final climb, we were looking good.

I was happy. I thought the way the race had ended, the guys had stuck

to the plan, done everything we had talk about. And it is about 55

seconds over the top, you think, it is game on. But it was not to be.

So, with hindsight, it is really disappointing that it did not come

down to the sprint. When you have got five guys, or four guys, trying

to control a race for 250 kilometres, when a lot of the teams

know that you have got the best sprinter, it is not easy. But what

I would say is that what they did do was very impressive. You could

say you are victims of your own success, because everybody knows

Mark is the fastest sprinter. whilst it is disappointing, we have

got to dust ourselves done, look at whether we could have done anything

differently, when that second move went on the final climb, maybe we

could have gone with that. Our chance of winning this race was to

try to get into a sprint with Mark. I'm not sure how else we could have

won this race. If you want to win big, which is what we try to do,

then you have got to be prepared to lose similarly in a big way. And

when that does happen, you have got to take your hat off to the other

riders and the other teams. But we will be back to try again. I have

never seen a crowd like that, I have never seen so many Union Jacks.

You just feel like you have let people down.

If you would like to get involved on any topic tonight, you can. You

can find me on Twitter. You can put a question to one of our guests as

well. We have a quote from Mark Cavendish tonight - it seems that

other teams are happy not to win as long as we do not win. Team Sky are

pretty unpopular, like the Manchester City of the cycling

world - do you think the world is against them but stayed quite

possibly. They have set themselves a big task. They had a race plan.

This template has worked before, they have proved it time and again,

and that is probably half the trouble. But for the other guys,

there were some who would have wanted it to come down to a sprint,

so, for those teams not to pull in the finish, and had they done that,

then that group would have come back together, the chances are that

Mark Cavendish would have won. We will never know know. There were

other medals up for grabs, and if you want to win the lottery, you

have got to buy a ticket. Those teams did not buy that ticket. Also

some quotes from Mark Cavendish's dad, saying, he may not compete in

Rio because he does not fancy the course. But thinking positively,

the women's road race is tomorrow, with some big chances, and we have

got the velodrome, behind you, basically, and in a couple of days,

first day of next week, six days of cycling in there will start. You

would think there would have to be some good news from there.

would think so. Summer we will get a repeat of the gold rush of

Beijing, which was extraordinary. But Team Sky and Dave Brailsford

have done amazing things for cycling in the last four years.

There are an exceptional team, in any sport. They want to win big. He

has taken the flipside of that today. I hope there is a bit of

sense of deflation around, but I don't think this was ever a nailed

on medal. This is an Olympic sport, you can choreograph anything you

like, as we saw on Friday night, but once everyone else is competing

with you, you cannot win them all. From the pressure of the Mall,

let's take you to the Aquatics Centre, which was also very busy

today. We have travelled the relatively short distance over to

the pool. The roof is 160 metres long, by the way, of the Aquatics

Centre. There were some concerns over some empty seats in the

stadium today, but in terms of the action, after the disappointment of

Cavendish and company, it was up to Hannah Miley to try to lift the

spirits of the nation. She won her heat in the medley, in which she is

the reigning world silver-medallist. But she was facing a tricky task in

There was disappointment in the final. The quality of the

opposition proved to a strong, particularly from 16-year-old

Chinese were may Ye Shiwen. I gave it absolutely everything I

had. This morning, it was a real bunfight just to try and get into

the final. It was a question of who could recover quickest and get

through her. I did not get a medal, but I could not have given it any

more. That was everything I had. At the end of the day, I will be able

to sit down and look over it as one place better than what I did in

Beijing. Apologies to anyone who had higher expectations for me, but

that was all I could give. Thank you to everyone for their support.

It means such a lot. My performance was solid. It could have been a lot

worse. I know I said before that you would give it 110%, we know you

tried it. What are you expecting for the 200? If I make it through

to the final, it would be great. But the standard is so high now. It

would just be a bunfight. I would love to get into the final. We will

see how it goes. You have these 16- year-olds, and you can't predict

what they will do. But it is great to see the younger generation

coming through. They learn from us, and 80 just a lot of things. The

next generation of swimmers are a lot faster and stronger and it is

great to see that the sport is moving on.

She is a great interviewee. There were two other medal chances for

Great Britain in the pool tonight. The women's 4 x 100 freestyle relay

team made it into the final, but were never really in contention as

Australia took gold, ahead of the Netherlands, with USA taking bronze.

Great Britain came home 5th. And David Carry went off in the

final of the men's 400m freestyle. The 30-year-old is the oldest

member of the swim team and said making the final was a dream come

true. He eventually finished seventh, well behind China's Sun

Yang, who took gold and produced the celebratory holler of the day.

There it is. A great day for China in the pool. From a British

swimming perspective, the best is yet to come in terms of those real

solid medal chances? Absolutely. Becky Adlington starts tomorrow.

She is probably not clear favourite for that event. Her best event

comes later. But it is a clear prospect for medal chances. There

are few nail bomb favourites in this British team. And the

opposition is so strong. As you mentioned, there were two Chinese

gold medallists today. That is significant. We saw China topped

the medal table last time. But they won mainly in the core sports, the

fighting sports like table tennis. This is a move into the almost

middle-class, European/North American sports, swimming. It is a

big moment for China. We all have to watch our backs. Her road, take

us inside the team mentality within a large Olympic site. In the past,

when there has been disappointment and expected medals have not come

through, how do you recover within that particular team? It can be

difficult, especially when your team mates around you are winning

bronzes, and silvers and in cycling, normally golds. With the cycling,

on the trackside, they train together and live together and that

is part of the reason why they are so successful, because they all

help each other. The camaraderie is fantastic amongst the sprinters and

the endurance side. You will probably get a lot of that with the

swimmers as well, although they train in their different areas and

then come together as a squad, as opposed to the cycling, who pretty

much travel together and train together. But the way it is managed

is important. The camaraderie amongst the riders will help, but

it can be difficult. It is just knowing the individual characters

in the squad. Away from the British challenge,

there was an American duel in the pool and the final of the men's

400m individual medley. It was Michael Phelps against Ryan Lochte,

although defending champion Phelps only just made it into the final

after a surprisingly slow time in winning his heat. Lochte eased up,

reserving precious power for the big one. He was just too good for

Phelps, and everyone else. He got stronger as we reached the final

stages as Phelps faded and could only finish fourth in the end.

Brilliant in Beijing, but Phelps was well off the pace this time.

His fellow American took the gold ahead of Thiago Pereira of Brazil

and Japan's Kosuke Hagino. The four years are a long time. So I put the

work in. I know it is my time, and I am ready. Is at the start of a

serious quest? It was the Michael show four years ago. Is it going to

be the Ryan show? I sure hope so. I am just going out there and having

fun and doing what I do best and racing. Did you like our crowd?

They were shouting for you. yeah. I liked that a lot.

We know Michael Phelps was one of the outstanding stars of Beijing.

He was untouchable. Do you think a bit of that magic has left him, or

will he does take a bit of time to get going? We never thought we

would hear the words Michael Phelps, 4th, in the Olympic Games. By the

end of the Beijing Olympic Games, he had gone into the history books

and it was almost routine, the way he did it. It was an awesome

performance from Lochte today, the way he powered away. The final

freestyle leg was astonishing. He had lost 17 times in a row to

Phelps. You wonder if he has got his eye on a similar winning streak,

the other way round. Does it almost help in any sport to have an arch

rival, somebody you know you can go against in the pool? Or anywhere.

Again, it is the way it is managed and the individual characters going

up against each other. On the cycling side, with the sprinters,

we have got Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy, who have been battling

it out for the individual sprint position and the keirin position at

the Olympics. Those guys share a room together. So to have people

that could that you train with all the time really helps. The French

habit. They are so strong in the sprint events, and they all trained

together. So rather than being a way and doing your own thing and

then coming to the competition and meeting the best, if you can train

with the best all the time, as long as it doesn't crack you and you are

constantly being beaten, for someone like Phelps, he has a bit

of work to do. There is psychology as well. I understand they are

sharing a six bed apartment -- a six room apartment, but Phelps is

the only one with his own room. You wonder if he has closed the door

and put up a do Not disturb sign. Gymnastics time. No medals on offer

today, but Great Britain were determined to show their strength

in qualifying for the men's team final, and they did it in style.

Louis Smith, Daniel Purvis, Kristian Thomas, Max Whitlock and

Sam Oldham were in business this morning. Smith's performance on the

pommel horse epitomised their efforts. He scored an impressive

15.8 for his routine, which helped Team GB finish above reigning

Olympic champions China in the day's first qualifying group. That

was good enough to put Great Britain through to their first

Olympic men's gymnastics team final in 88 years. The talent in this

team is unbelievable. We don't say where we want to come, we just do

our best. We have a special group of boys here, and we could upset

the competition. Here are some other faces who

enjoyed their one. Anthony Ogogo successfully negotiated his way

through his opening fight in the men's middleweight division. A

convincing win over Junior Castillo of the Dominican Republic. Ogogo

dominated the final two rams to run out a comfortable winner by 13-6.

But it does get tougher. On Thursday morning, Ievgen Khytrov of

Ukraine will be waiting for him in the last 16.

Bath it was the presence of Prince Charles and the audience that

spurred on Susan Egelstaff to victory in the women's badminton

singles. Making her Olympic debut, the 29-year-old easily beat the

world No. 89 of Slovenia. A particularly impressive performance,

considering that she shattered a thigh bone last year and missed

four months of the qualifying campaign.

Plenty of hearty cries from Eton Dorney this morning as the row has

started well on the first day of competition. The highlight was

provided by gold-medal favourites Helen Glover and Heather Stanning,

who set a new Olympic record of six minutes and 57.29 seconds in

winning their heat of the women's pair to qualify for the finals.

They are promising that there is more to come.

Most of the British competitors will like a bit of that a home

crowd roar, but not Mary King, who asked those in Greenwich to keep

the noise down today so as not to speak her horse, Imperial Cavalier,

who is easily unsettled. The harsh worked, as horse and rider put in a

masterful display to get Great Britain's eventers off to a good

start. They are on course for a medal.

In tennis, there was a nice game of Mr and Mrs, as first Joanna Parker

made it through to the first round of singles, thrashing the Brazilian.

Then her boyfriend, Paul Drinkhall, posted through his match against

the Kuwaiti players. They are Team GB's only representatives in the

singles events. Everyone loves a bit of slow-motion

table tennis. On the lawns of Wimbledon, Elena

Baltacha made it through to the second round of the ladies' singles.

She beat the Hungarian and afterwards said she may retire

after the Olympics. So some impressive performances. We

would get on to the bad GB stuff later, but let's start with the

good stuff. We have always had that bedrock of the sports Britain does

well in, but gymnastics has come out of the blue. There is real

strength there now. It is great that I have started off the first

day with such a great performance. But will help them build momentum

through these games. We have seen that with the eventers as well. We

are expecting big things with the rowers. To start the first day with

an Olympic record is great. Now it is time for you to get involved.

This is the daily dip. We want you to send in a video of

yourself dipping for an imaginary line. The more random, the better.

Send it into @mrdanwalker and we will play the best ones. Here is

what we are looking for. Here is my lanky attempt. It takes awkwardness

to new levels. That was a more elaborate effort from Peter George.

We would rather you kept them a bit safer than this. He did not have

sufficient cranial protection. Toilet paper on so much as us. This

one has a bit more conventional. He tried to show boat across the line.

Although comical, apparently it did hurt quite a bit.

He does stay down for quite a while if you watch the full video.

Send yours in. Maybe you could pop won through on Twitter. I am sure

you enjoy that sort of thing. Enough of the buffoonery. Let's get

back to the action. Great Britain's women's football team were hoping

to make it two wins out of two in their campaign so forth. Cameroon

were standing in their way in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium this

in that challenge. And a yellow card. It means that she will not be

able to play in the final game, which might be Cameron's final game.

And Casey Stoner puts it in! Great Britain lead. Free kick conceded,

in at the back. And Gil Scott makes it two. Great Britain well and

out Kelly Smith. Kelly Smith has taken up a great position there. It

was a great save in the end. Good try from the Cameroon forward.

that was not too far away. That is into the centre. Goal! And Great

Britain have sealed the victory, and their place in the quarter-

finals, through Houghton. Let's have a look at how that affect the

table. Both Great Britain and Brazil are through to the quarter-

finals, with two victories from two Games. Brazil beat New Zealand 1-0.

We can hear now from hope Powell. Every game we go out, we try to win.

It will be a real honour for these girls to play at Wembley. I'm sure

it will be a fantastic game. Brazil are a fantastic side. It will be a

good contest. It will give us a barometer of how far we have come.

How important was it to top the group to avoid playing one of the

top nations in the world? I have not thought about it, but we would

like to top the group, to make our route a bit easier. Women's

football is gathering a bit of momentum, with Team GB going a long

while, and another good crowd today - this could be a good tournament

for the team? Yes, a huge amounts of controversy around the football,

obviously. Hopefully they will get a full house at Wembley for the

game against Brazil. Are you a Fan are of football in the Olympics?

think it is a bit of a strange one. It is strange, the fact that they

compete all over the country, and there is no focal point in London.

It is a bit of a bizarre one for me. If you go to Games, it is very

family-oriented, and it has worked, so far, without it distracting from

the other sports. Earlier, we looked at the highlights of the day

for Team GB, and there were not many of them. Now, it is time to

look at the low points. Britain's tennis players, apart from Elena

Baltacha, struggled today. The Murray brothers lost in the first

round of the men's doubles. Out with them went Colin Fleming and

was hatchings. Laura Robson and Heather Watson also went out in the

women's doubles. Not a great day on the court. There were hopes for

Ashley McKenzie in the judo, but he made an early exit, even though he

was up against a tough opponent in Hiroaki Hiraoka, runner-up in last

year's World Championships. Kelly Edwards was also eliminated from

her division. Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier cannot afford

another defeat after losing their first match in the mixed doubles in

the badminton. They went into the competition as genuine medal

contenders, after losing in the final of the World Championships

last year. Fencing, and the three British girls in the women's

individual foil faced early Illuminations. -- eliminations. At

Great Britain's women basketball team were beaten in their first

match by Australia. It was always going to be tough, against a team

which has reached the final in the last three Olympics. Britain

matched their opponents in the second half, but it was too late,

and in the end, the Aussies went on to win quite convincingly. It has

not been the greatest day for Team GB so far, but we have mentioned

that there is better stuff to come - what would you say would be any

nailed on gold medals? You would hope Rebecca Adlington, and I think

Mo Farah has got a chance of doubling up. People who know a

great deal more about distance running than me, such as Seb Coe,

thought the 5,000 was his best chance. But if we're still waiting

for the first day of the athletics, when Mo Farah runs in the 10,000,

then we should start worrying. But there has been a huge amounts to

focus on Cavendish, following on from the Opening Ceremony last

night. Everyone hoped it would fall into place, but it is too early to

panic, even for the British media, within less than 24 hours. Will

there be a big medal haul from the cycling team, do you think?

certainly hope so. We should be disappointed with the result, but

not the performance, of the team today. I think the track squad, and

hopefully the women tomorrow in the road rash, with Nicole Cooke, will

do well. -- the road-raced. We are going to get some medals in the

cycling, for sure. Let's had to the beach now, and not a million miles

away from the Mole, we find Horse Guards Parade, right on the Prime

Minister's doorstep. I popped down there this morning to see the

thousands of tons of sand which has been shipped in. It will all

for it, but I am looking for the DJ. Now, that guy chooses all the music,

to get everybody is enthusiastic at home. Whatever happens out there,

this guy has got a piece of music to react to the action. Can you

imagine this between the heats of the 100 metres? I don't think. This

is amazing. Beach volleyball has a big history of being entertaining.

Obviously, we want to show that it is not just about beautiful girls,

we want to show that the dancers are as athletic as the athletes.

They all look great, but a dance amazingly as well. And guess what,

that's Team GB! The atmosphere in the crowd is just amazing. They are

loving it, they are getting behind the music, the dancing and the

fanfares. It works a treat. The Canadians to serve. The set

from Grotowski. Just looped over the top, and that their first point

in Olympic history. We have got a point, and the crowd goes wild!

Grotowski sets it up and thinks it over the top. Great deflection from

Grotowski! Binstock sets it up, Reader unleashes, but Garcia-

Thompson is there. Fantastic work from the British team. It comes

back to the Canadians. Great work by Grotowski. A bit of bad luck

there, but they are doing all right. We're having a bit of a technical

jump serve. Reader gets under it. And he finds space! The Canadians

have won against Great Britain. There is a sense of disappointment,

but the atmosphere is incredible. Tell us, how does it feel?

atmosphere has been fantastic, you can really feel it. It is one of

the best moments in my sporting career, for sure. I would just like

to say thank you to everybody. Everybody has been cheering us. It

is amazing. They were right behind us. Just to be on court, to hear

them cheering, the whole crowd was getting into it. We wanted to win

that match for us, and for everybody, but we have two more.

There is a lot of work to do. There is a lot of work to do.

can do it. Absolutely. That was Colin Jackson, who enjoyed

his day at the beach volleyball. I think he did not need much

persuading to do that. I would like to introduce you to someone who

hopefully we will be seeing a lot over the next few weeks. - and the

father of the modern Olympics, and also the founder of the

International Olympics Committee. We're hoping to bring him out

whenever there is a gold medal, to put it round his neck. Are you a

big Fan of him? Absolutely, he is the reason we are all here.

Daily Mail tomorrow's is that Paula Radcliffe is out of the Olympics -

what do you think about that? a big disappointment, and one of

the icons in British sport. If it is true, and she is going to miss

out on her home Olympics, it is a big blow. I would have loved to

have seen her run in London, although I would say her chances

were slim. It is a great shame. Gentlemen, thank you very much. We

hope to have you one again during the course of the Olympics. That's

it for the first Olympic Sportsday. Olly Foster will be here tomorrow.

A big thank you to these two. Breakfast is back from 6am tomorrow

morning. 14 more gold medals up for grabs tomorrow. You can watch the