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It all started with a word. London. Just six little letters that meant

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so much, and allowed the dream to take shape. After seven years and

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�9 billion, 10,000 athletes from 200 countries will compete at more

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than 30 venues, the chance to take Over the next fought back, we have

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action for you from 304 events across 36 sports. -- over the next

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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established a slight advantage. There is a conversation going on

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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crowning the Olympic gold-medallist in London.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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downhill! Nail-biting stuff. Bradley Wiggins worked incredibly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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crushing blow. Extremely disappointing for the guys. The

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

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

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

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

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unleash his sprint is pretty devastating. Basically it was

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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You just feel like you have let people down.

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

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

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

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

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pretty unpopular, like the Manchester City of the cycling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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today. We have travelled the relatively short distance over to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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There was disappointment in the final. The quality of the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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great to see that the sport is moving on.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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solid medal chances? Absolutely. Becky Adlington starts tomorrow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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when there has been disappointment and expected medals have not come

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

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difficult, especially when your team mates around you are winning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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in the squad. Away from the British challenge,

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

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

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although defending champion Phelps only just made it into the final

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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today, but Great Britain were determined to show their strength

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

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

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

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pommel horse epitomised their efforts. He scored an impressive

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

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

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was good enough to put Great Britain through to their first

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

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

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

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the competition. Here are some other faces who

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enjoyed their one. Anthony Ogogo successfully negotiated his way

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

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convincing win over Junior Castillo of the Dominican Republic. Ogogo

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

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

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Ukraine will be waiting for him in the last 16.

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

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

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

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

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considering that she shattered a thigh bone last year and missed

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four months of the qualifying campaign.

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

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

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

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

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

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They are promising that there is more to come.

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

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

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

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

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

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start. They are on course for a medal.

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

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

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

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

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singles events. Everyone loves a bit of slow-motion

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table tennis. On the lawns of Wimbledon, Elena

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

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She beat the Hungarian and afterwards said she may retire

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after the Olympics. So some impressive performances. We

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Although comical, apparently it did hurt quite a bit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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her division. Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier cannot afford

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

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the badminton. They went into the competition as genuine medal

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contenders, after losing in the final of the World Championships

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

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individual foil faced early Illuminations. -- eliminations. At

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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focus on Cavendish, following on from the Opening Ceremony last

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

0:37:380:37:48
0:37:480:37:52

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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0:38:380:38:38

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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