:00:29. > :00:34.Good evening. Mr anything today? Don't worry. Here is what is coming
:00:34. > :00:38.up on the programme. Shooting, paddling, peddling. We have had a
:00:38. > :00:42.golden trouble for Team GB. There is an historic treble for Phelps as
:00:42. > :00:47.well on another record-breaking night in the pool. And just which
:00:47. > :00:53.way his gold? It is over there. The race for the top of the podium
:00:53. > :00:58.speeds up with 18 medal chances across the Games. Good evening. We
:00:58. > :01:01.are going to squeeze in as much as day six as we can over the next 45
:01:01. > :01:05.minutes. Olympic Sportsday is bursting with world records and
:01:05. > :01:12.gold medals and Great Britain have backed three of them. We have bide
:01:12. > :01:16.another one of Fleet Street's finest, the times' that you say it
:01:16. > :01:20.is with us and we have tended to talk about. The golden five minutes
:01:20. > :01:24.coming up but first, the world record 42.6 seconds on the first
:01:24. > :01:28.night in the Velodrome. That is how long it took for Great Britain's
:01:29. > :01:33.men in the sprint team to retain their Olympic title, with a certain
:01:33. > :01:38.Sir Chris Hoy matching Sir Steve Redgrave's record of five gold
:01:38. > :01:48.medals. As Alex SARS reports, cycling's early success in London
:01:48. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:52.could deliver change somewhere near Good evening. We start with the
:01:53. > :01:56.disturbing news that the red pillar box is under threat. Around the
:01:56. > :01:59.country the iconic postboxes are changing colour because of the
:01:59. > :02:09.Olympics and now the cycling has started it looks like the situation
:02:09. > :02:40.
:02:40. > :02:50.If this man has got anything to do with it, the answer to that would
:02:50. > :02:51.
:02:51. > :02:56.turn gold. From the first pedal of Philip Hindes, Great Britain had
:02:56. > :02:59.the advantage over France. Jason Kenny knows what it is like to be
:02:59. > :03:03.Olympic champion. He was part of the team that won four years ago
:03:03. > :03:09.and when he set up Hoy for the big finish, there was only going to be
:03:09. > :03:15.one result. COMMENTATOR: Lining up, the crowd are going mad. Gold medal
:03:15. > :03:25.for Great Britain. The new world record. 42.6. I don't believe what
:03:25. > :03:25.
:03:25. > :03:30.You can't overstate what this means to was in front of a home crowd.
:03:30. > :03:40.This is our chance, you will not get this again. Enjoy it. We
:03:40. > :03:44.
:03:44. > :03:52.enjoyed it and we gave it our all his team mate Hines admitted to
:03:52. > :03:59.I did it to get the restart. My first start was not the greatest. I
:03:59. > :04:01.thought, get a restart, just to get the safe card. The teenager later
:04:01. > :04:05.denied the claim and the authorities confirmed the result
:04:05. > :04:10.that was not in question. If only Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish
:04:10. > :04:15.could have started again. They came undone at the changeover. Pendleton
:04:15. > :04:19.jumping the gun and paying the ultimate price. Now and again
:04:19. > :04:23.rubbish things happen at this is one of those days. All I can do is
:04:23. > :04:27.keep my head down, because on tomorrow and the sprint competition
:04:27. > :04:32.the day after that. I will give it everything I have got. So, one
:04:32. > :04:37.medal missed but if the men's team pursuit form continues.
:04:37. > :04:43.COMMENTATOR: Look at this, a new world record. It will not be long
:04:43. > :04:49.before God Save the Queen is heard again the Velodrome, as it was
:04:49. > :04:54.Hoy's trio. The man is a medal machine, his appetite for gathering
:04:54. > :04:59.precious Olympic medal is nothing more than astounding and each one
:04:59. > :05:01.seems to me more than the last. Quite a night, a first night in the
:05:01. > :05:06.Jabella drone, Matthew. We will touch on the controversial restart
:05:06. > :05:09.in a moment. But Sir Chris Hoy, what an achievement for him? One of
:05:09. > :05:13.the great Olympians. An extraordinary story. A great
:05:13. > :05:16.athlete. When you consider that track cycling has such an
:05:16. > :05:21.extraordinary reputation for Team GB, that confers a certain amount
:05:21. > :05:24.of pressure and we had a slightly flat start as a nation and people
:05:24. > :05:28.looked to track cycling to start delivering and they have done that.
:05:28. > :05:32.Chris Hoy has shown he can deal with the pressure. He is somebody
:05:32. > :05:36.who has a relentless appetite for success. We saw that again today.
:05:36. > :05:40.He ought to be acknowledged as one of the great Olympians.
:05:40. > :05:44.certainly is. The medals tell their own story. Each one. One of his
:05:44. > :05:48.chances was taken away from him at this Games so that puts the
:05:48. > :05:52.pressure on him to deliver in the two chances he has got. It seems
:05:52. > :05:57.incredibly unjust, the one thing he excelled in was taken away by the
:05:57. > :06:01.governing bodies. The governing body not just in cycling but across
:06:01. > :06:05.sport tried to manipulate the rules so they try to ensure that one
:06:06. > :06:10.country does not dominate. It has happened for Britain in track
:06:10. > :06:14.cycling. But he has adapted. He focused his energies on a different
:06:14. > :06:18.event, mastered it and with two other magnificent athletes, let's
:06:18. > :06:23.not the forget the two people who put him in the chance to win gold,
:06:23. > :06:29.they put him in grand style. One of them, Philip Hindes, recently
:06:29. > :06:33.adopted by Great Britain, shall we say. You remind to the start of the
:06:33. > :06:37.team spent today and when he came off his bike, he got the restart,
:06:38. > :06:42.initially he said I did it on purpose to get to restart, just to
:06:42. > :06:45.have the fastest ride. It was planned, really. British cycling
:06:45. > :06:50.said something was lost in translation. At a later news
:06:50. > :06:54.conference he said, my back wheel slipped, I lost control and they
:06:54. > :06:58.could not handle the bike, a crashed. It would not be an Olympic
:06:58. > :07:02.Games without controversy. One of the joys of the Olympics is none of
:07:02. > :07:05.us are expert in all the different sports because there are so many of
:07:05. > :07:10.them and the Iraq arcane rules and cultures and traditions. When I
:07:10. > :07:14.listened to the interview it sounded dubious, he seemed to imply
:07:14. > :07:17.he had deliberately fallen off to get to restart, which from anyone
:07:17. > :07:21.looking from the outside would contravene the rules. If the boot
:07:21. > :07:24.was on the other foot and another nation had confessed that in an
:07:25. > :07:29.interview you would want an analysis, a probe, an investigation.
:07:29. > :07:34.I would love to hear more about this. What do people in cycling
:07:34. > :07:40.think about this? Is it acceptable? To me, looking from the outside, it
:07:40. > :07:44.seemed odd and jarring as well. it is something that may come out,
:07:44. > :07:48.what happened there. Take nothing away from what Sir Chris has
:07:48. > :07:51.achieved. Oh, no. There is something about a certain type of
:07:52. > :07:56.athlete, almost a defining pathology, where they want to keep
:07:56. > :08:01.going. The appetite is voracious. They have won a medal but that is
:08:01. > :08:07.not enough, they are not sated, they want to go further. That once
:08:07. > :08:12.late Psyche of Steve HOY, it is the same with Sir Chris Hoy and -- of
:08:12. > :08:19.Sir Steve Redgrave and they wanted have benign selfishness, to
:08:19. > :08:23.monopolise the medals. They are a medal machines. Let's get to the
:08:23. > :08:27.Aquatics Centre, another wonderful writers Michael Phelps set another
:08:28. > :08:31.standard in the pool. -- in the pool. The Baltimore bullet is going
:08:31. > :08:34.out with the big bang. He has another gold around his neck
:08:35. > :08:39.tonight. Jonathan Sutherland has more on that race and the rest of
:08:39. > :08:44.tonight's swimming. It was all about the jewel in the
:08:44. > :08:48.Pools. Americans are Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte tea in the final of
:08:48. > :08:52.the 200 metres individual medley, Phelps that in the start of Beijing,
:08:52. > :09:02.Ryan Lochte he was supposed to take his crown in London, but sport is
:09:02. > :09:03.
:09:03. > :09:09.Phelps seems report. He led from the start, first, the butterfly,
:09:09. > :09:14.his favoured strokes. Over the other three legs, Phelps remained
:09:14. > :09:18.in control. Ryan Lochte he could not catch him. A 16th Olympic gold,
:09:18. > :09:22.a 20th Olympic medal and another new Olympic milestone reached.
:09:22. > :09:32.Michael Phelps, the first man to win the same event three Olympics
:09:32. > :09:37.in a row. His is the sort of talent The President called me yesterday.
:09:37. > :09:41.It was cool. Somebody called and asked for me and said, hold for the
:09:41. > :09:44.President of the United States. I said, OK. He said, everyone is
:09:44. > :09:49.supporting me and everyone is rooting for me. That was very
:09:49. > :09:58.special. For Ryan Lochte tea, perhaps tiredness had played its
:09:58. > :10:06.part. Just half-an-hour before the final, he had been in the final of
:10:06. > :10:10.the backstroke. He picked up a bronze. Overall it was another good
:10:10. > :10:15.night's for the President's men and women. For the second evening in a
:10:15. > :10:19.row, Rebecca Soni broke the world record as she took gold in the 200
:10:19. > :10:24.metres best stroke. Elsewhere the Netherlands Ranomi Kromowidjojo
:10:24. > :10:28.took gold in the 100 metres freestyle. From ham stock -- Fran
:10:28. > :10:32.Halsall had let-up at the start but she ended up six. James Goddard
:10:33. > :10:37.took 7th in the 200-metre individual medley. With golds
:10:38. > :10:40.elsewhere, can Great Britain dredge one up from the Aquatics Centre?
:10:40. > :10:44.Earlier in the day Rebecca Adlington swept to victory in her
:10:44. > :10:50.800-metre freestyle heat. She will defend her Olympic crown tomorrow
:10:50. > :10:53.night. I am really pleased with that. They did not know what to
:10:53. > :10:58.expect after the 400 and the heat, so I am pleased. But tonight was
:10:58. > :11:00.all about the Americans. Ryan Lochte is big news in the States.
:11:00. > :11:04.Five golds at the World Championships last year, on the
:11:04. > :11:07.cover of American Vogue and Time magazine. He was supposed to be the
:11:07. > :11:11.new Michael Phelps. The trouble is, the old Michael Phelps is still
:11:11. > :11:16.here. He certainly is. Not much more you
:11:16. > :11:20.can say about Michael Phelps, all those medals speak for themselves.
:11:20. > :11:23.Absolutely astonishing. It is incredible and it is an
:11:23. > :11:28.extraordinary tally of medals. He has more medals than anyone else in
:11:28. > :11:31.history. It begs the question, is he the greatest Olympian? If you
:11:31. > :11:35.just look at member of a look -- medals won, he is clearly out in
:11:35. > :11:39.front but I don't want it alienates women fans around the world. I
:11:39. > :11:45.think it is easier to win medals in swimming than it is in athletics. I
:11:45. > :11:49.think one has to temper one's view of whether he is the greatest
:11:49. > :11:54.because of that. He got eight in Beijing, which will probably never
:11:54. > :11:57.be bettered. He was going for seven here. The records do continue to
:11:57. > :12:02.tumble, when you look at the fact he was the first man to defend his
:12:02. > :12:06.title successfully twice. Three Games in a row he has been champion
:12:06. > :12:10.at that 200 metres individual. only thing I would say, in
:12:10. > :12:15.athletics you have to get from A to B as fast as possible. Been
:12:15. > :12:19.swimming go there are alternative ways, freestyle, breaststroke,
:12:19. > :12:22.Butterfly and so on. It makes it slightly easier. They are different
:12:22. > :12:28.technical demands all of them but I would say it is legitimate to have
:12:28. > :12:33.an opinion that there are greater Olympians than Phelps. This Phelps
:12:33. > :12:37.Ryan Lochte rivalry. Did it igniter this Games? One of the great things
:12:37. > :12:41.about it is the contrasting temperaments. Very different
:12:41. > :12:43.characters. Phelps trying to cement his reputation as the greatest
:12:43. > :12:47.Olympian and a lot of people within swimming would want to give him
:12:47. > :12:53.that accolade. Locked -- Ryan Lochte was fantastic in the event
:12:53. > :12:58.he won, such a charming smile, a laid-back attitude which is very
:12:58. > :13:02.alluring. I think Phelps is fantastic. We look forward to
:13:02. > :13:09.Rebecca Adlington, she looked comfortable today in the 800m. That
:13:09. > :13:12.is the one she Vantis -- France's. She goes in it tomorrow. It has not
:13:12. > :13:16.been the best of weeks for Britain's judo team but what a game
:13:16. > :13:20.for jump -- but what a day for Gemma Gibbons as she made it to the
:13:20. > :13:24.final. It is gruelling, what they go through to get themselves a shot
:13:24. > :13:30.at gold. With every fight on the same day, she would have first two
:13:30. > :13:34.to win -- to reach the quarter- final where she faced Marhinde
:13:34. > :13:39.Verkerk. She had previously beaten the Japanese No. Two seed. There
:13:40. > :13:49.were worrying signs when Gibbons fell to the mat clutching her hand,
:13:50. > :13:52.
:13:52. > :13:57.final, up against Audrey Tcheumeo. She forced to the fighting to a
:13:57. > :14:03.golden score. The next point wins it. The 25-year-old found move when
:14:03. > :14:07.it mattered most, the ippon, which sent her through to the final. The
:14:07. > :14:11.first guaranteed medal for 12 years. The enormity of what she had
:14:11. > :14:15.achieved overwhelmed her. She lost her mother recently and onto the
:14:15. > :14:19.final, it was there that the journey ended. Perhaps her
:14:19. > :14:26.Herculean efforts caught up with her as the American Kayla Harrison
:14:26. > :14:36.was too strong in the end. Two yukos were enough to give her gold.
:14:36. > :14:39.
:14:39. > :14:43.It doesn't seem real, but amazing. Where did you find the strength?
:14:43. > :14:47.The crowd were amazing, I don't think I could have done it without
:14:47. > :14:52.them. I wish I could have got the gold but it wasn't to be. We
:14:52. > :14:57.haven't had a medal until today but our guys are training so hard. We
:14:57. > :15:02.all deserve medals. They are lucky to have horrible draws the first
:15:02. > :15:06.time around. -- unlucky. The whole of the squad are training so hard
:15:06. > :15:10.and we deserve more than what we have got so far. Ben Ainslie had
:15:10. > :15:17.the day off yesterday but had much to think about after getting out
:15:17. > :15:24.sailed for the first six races in the Finn class by the Danish sailor.
:15:24. > :15:34.The Ben Ainslie's luck seemed to have changed when Christians and
:15:34. > :15:36.
:15:36. > :15:44.capsized. He was not scuppered. Ben Ainslie got his first win. It got
:15:44. > :15:52.prettily -- prickly but Ben Ainslie claimed that he had been gang up --
:15:52. > :15:59.the other sailors ganged up on him. He said for you -- a few choice
:15:59. > :16:05.things. Him and the Danish guy, they teamed up on me. I am
:16:05. > :16:10.seriously unhappy with that. I made a big mistake because I am angry,
:16:10. > :16:15.and he didn't want to make me angry. -- he made a big mistake. Did you
:16:15. > :16:22.take the term to be on the safe side? I had no choice because if
:16:22. > :16:28.there is a protest, two against one, you are going to lose. It is really
:16:29. > :16:32.bad, it has happened to me in the Olympics before. I am older and
:16:32. > :16:39.wiser enough to know not to fall for it, but those guys better watch
:16:39. > :16:44.out. A bit was a good day for the British crews on the water. Stevie
:16:44. > :16:48.Morrison and Ben Rhodes have had a frustrating time in the 49er class
:16:48. > :16:54.but won both of their races took lie in silver position after eight
:16:54. > :16:58.races. Britain are currently top of the fleet in the men 70, they
:16:58. > :17:04.finished second and first today. Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson got
:17:04. > :17:08.the same results as they lead the Star class. It is going pretty well
:17:08. > :17:12.for the sailors in Weymouth. I love the idea of Ben Ainslie, don't make
:17:12. > :17:16.me angry. I have a vision of the Hulk bursting out of his wet suit
:17:16. > :17:21.and going for the Dane. That is what struck me when he said those
:17:21. > :17:27.words. He is so mild mannered. When you interview him, he is charming
:17:27. > :17:30.and courteous. He seems to be naturally in control of his own
:17:30. > :17:35.emotions. Then he gets out there and it is not the first time I have
:17:35. > :17:42.seen him angry. A few months ago, I think a camera crew got too close
:17:42. > :17:47.and he went crazy. And then there were his choice words. To me, the
:17:47. > :17:51.question is, does he perform better angry? There are two categories of
:17:51. > :17:55.people who thrive on anger and they want to be emotional, the one to
:17:55. > :17:59.have enmity between them and their rivals. -- they want to have. There
:17:59. > :18:03.are other people who want to be calm and composed. I suspect that
:18:03. > :18:08.Ben Ainslie knows that he is better be angry. I don't know the ins and
:18:08. > :18:12.outs. The morality of what happened. But I think that frame of mind
:18:12. > :18:16.suits Ben Ainslie. He seems to be taking it as a personal slight,
:18:16. > :18:21.that somebody is taking him on in his own backyard. That will run and
:18:21. > :18:25.run. He is running out of time in the Finn class. Time for more
:18:25. > :18:28.British gold. Rowing, cycling, first in the port yesterday.
:18:28. > :18:33.Canoeing and shooting came together at a party at the top of the podium
:18:33. > :18:37.today. These boards are worlds apart and it is 20 miles across
:18:37. > :18:44.London from the Whitewater Center to Woolwich. Today's gold Rush came
:18:44. > :18:48.in the space of five minutes. The canoeists celebrated first but by
:18:48. > :18:52.we start with the man With the Golden Gun. If Peter Wilson had
:18:52. > :18:58.never fallen off his snowboard as a teenager, this day would almost
:18:58. > :19:03.certainly never have happened. Peter Wilson needs these targets to
:19:03. > :19:09.win gold for Great Britain. physiotherapist suggested shooting
:19:09. > :19:19.would be a good way to strengthen his badly damaged shoulder. Give
:19:19. > :19:26.
:19:26. > :19:29.That Wilson always had gold in his sights. Given coming in as world
:19:29. > :19:35.record-holder, the number two in the world, that hides the story of
:19:35. > :19:38.his funding being cut, working in a pub, his parents bailing him out,
:19:38. > :19:43.before the UK Sport realised it might just be worth investing in
:19:43. > :19:47.this manner overall -- after all. The locals at the pub where he used
:19:47. > :19:51.to pull the pints in Dorchester will be raising a pint tonight.
:19:51. > :19:59.What a feeling, what a rush. Olympic gold medallists. It is
:19:59. > :20:06.weird to say that, how strange. Dad! Well done! From the double
:20:06. > :20:09.trap to Great Britain's double medal in the C2. First in the
:20:09. > :20:13.Whitewater, Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie. They knew that Britain --
:20:13. > :20:21.they had put in a competitive time but with nine players to follow,
:20:21. > :20:28.they could only keep pedals cross that it was good enough. -- pedals
:20:28. > :20:36.crossed. The main threat was from the Slovakian Hochschorner crypt --
:20:36. > :20:46.twins, named Peter and Pavel. They hit a gate, flyaway Peter, flyaway
:20:46. > :20:57.
:20:57. > :21:04.POW war. By the time that there -- It was a clean run and down to the
:21:04. > :21:10.final push for the line. Chris grippy gold and silver. Oh, my
:21:10. > :21:17.goodness -- this could be gold and silver. A Baillie and stop's long
:21:17. > :21:23.wait was over. They were the champions but before celebrating
:21:23. > :21:33.per the first cold, very much a good dunking. -- celebrating the
:21:33. > :21:34.
:21:34. > :21:37.first gold. It could have been a complete disaster but it is a dream.
:21:37. > :21:44.I was really happy that we would be in the top six, then I thought if
:21:44. > :21:49.we could finish 4th it would be Caulker. To win, it is mad -- I
:21:49. > :21:55.thought if we could finish 4th it would be cool. Sometimes you have
:21:55. > :22:00.the quirk of the timetable when everything is coming together. It
:22:00. > :22:05.was an amazing five minutes. Let's start at the kennelling. They have
:22:05. > :22:08.got that basilic -- that brilliant facility, the White Water Centre at
:22:08. > :22:12.Lee Valley and now they have the gold medals to stick up on the wall.
:22:12. > :22:17.How inspiring is that? Unique the bricks and mortar and the
:22:17. > :22:21.inspiration behind it, and they have had that -- you need the
:22:21. > :22:26.bricks-and-mortar. What an extraordinary sport, you are struck
:22:26. > :22:33.by the chaotic unpredictability. The maelstrom of water, two people
:22:33. > :22:36.trying to get in sync, use the same minds to go through this type
:22:36. > :22:40.potent -- openings while trying to make sense of the swirling
:22:40. > :22:44.unpredictability. -- these tight openings. They were generous to say
:22:44. > :22:48.that perhaps they benefited from home advantage, they had tremendous
:22:48. > :22:53.familiarity with the canoe slalom facility and they thought it helped
:22:53. > :22:56.them to win. Nevertheless, you still have to deliver. The fact
:22:56. > :23:02.that both British crews did that was a tremendous tribute to them
:23:02. > :23:07.all. When these sports have great success, like the double trap, and
:23:07. > :23:12.we week back as we read into the back story, I love this story of
:23:12. > :23:20.Peter Watson. He is trained by Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum, the 2004
:23:20. > :23:25.champion -- the story of Peter Wilson. A childhood accident
:23:25. > :23:30.changed his sporting path. There is physios said that shooting will
:23:30. > :23:38.help sort out your shoulder. After he won he went and greeted his coat
:23:38. > :23:48.and there was an emotional moment. But Baghdad greeted his coach. --
:23:48. > :23:50.
:23:50. > :23:54.The sports have diverse and contrasting physiological demands
:23:54. > :24:01.on the athlete. Fought shooting, you have to stay calm and you have
:24:01. > :24:04.to aim, -- for shooting. He had to hit one of the two for the last
:24:04. > :24:08.distance and he nailed it, and you are right to say it will inspire
:24:08. > :24:13.people. There is a sense in which these things catalyse other people
:24:13. > :24:16.to take up the sport. There is a question of whether that can be
:24:16. > :24:20.continued and sustained, rather than the Wimbledon of it, people
:24:20. > :24:26.playing tennis for a couple of weeks and then falling away -- the
:24:26. > :24:30.Wimbledon effect. We have had a sport for everybody today. The
:24:30. > :24:35.tennis competition is shaping up nicely. The women's semi-finals
:24:36. > :24:38.tomorrow see Serena Williams take on Victoria Azarenka. Maria
:24:38. > :24:46.Sharapova goes up against her compatriot, Carolyn co. Andy Murray
:24:46. > :24:52.is another step closer to glory after a commanding performance
:24:52. > :25:00.against Almagro. Andy Murray cruised to a win on Court number
:25:00. > :25:06.one. He next up, Novak Djokovic for Andy Murray. The other semi-final
:25:06. > :25:12.sees Roger Federer take on a Juan Martin del Potro. It was good, I
:25:12. > :25:19.served well, that help. Nicholas struggled a bit in the second set.
:25:19. > :25:23.He was not getting as much power behind the surf. It was easier for
:25:24. > :25:28.me to return from my side of the court -- as much power behind the
:25:28. > :25:34.serve. He teamed up with Laura Robson in the mixed doubles, the
:25:34. > :25:40.pair came through a tight first round match. If with the match
:25:40. > :25:44.level at one set all, it went to a tie-break decider, which the
:25:44. > :25:54.British duo won 10-seven and a plate Leyton Hewitt and Sam Stosur
:25:54. > :26:02.
:26:02. > :26:09.in the quarter-finals. -- they play Half be lightweight fours won their
:26:09. > :26:19.heat and semi-final as they look to topple Denmark -- the lightweight
:26:19. > :26:21.
:26:21. > :26:27.wire. 50 strokes remain, Denmark, Australia and Great Britain. The
:26:27. > :26:33.Danes have led this from the first stroke. We get into the danger zone
:26:33. > :26:42.and Great Britain, led by Chris Bartoli, brings his men right up on
:26:42. > :26:46.to the boil. Here comes the lightweight four and they will be
:26:47. > :26:53.met by a roar from the crowd. Africa is coming up, it is a tough
:26:53. > :26:59.event. They have did turn it up, they have a big ask, can they make
:26:59. > :27:04.it? -- they have to turn it up. Surely they are looking the
:27:04. > :27:09.stronger. One last kick, one big push and the crowd are on their
:27:09. > :27:13.feet on the far side. 20 strokes to Olympic history. They are into
:27:14. > :27:22.second place, a quarter of a length on the Danes, they are moving.
:27:22. > :27:27.Danes are responding, down two two boats. South Africa in lane five.
:27:27. > :27:33.Click is going to the wire. looks like Denmark Bath moved up
:27:33. > :27:38.again. -- it is going to the wire. It looks like Denmark have moved up
:27:38. > :27:43.again. One last push, here come the British, the crowd want to pursue
:27:43. > :27:47.up over the line, they are not going to do it. We are going to
:27:47. > :27:57.have to wait for confirmation. Great Britain get the silver,
:27:57. > :27:57.
:27:57. > :28:02.Denmark get the bronze. It is jubilation in the South African but,
:28:02. > :28:10.it will be disappointment for the silver medal -- jubilation in the
:28:10. > :28:14.That was an incredible finish, what was going through your mind? A good
:28:14. > :28:18.question, I don't remember much. It was so painful but the noise and
:28:18. > :28:23.support of the crowd carried us across the line. Without that, we
:28:23. > :28:28.would have got the bronze. It was enough to take the silver. Over the
:28:28. > :28:32.moon, I don't really remember that much. Tough conditions, was it fair
:28:32. > :28:38.that you were in the middle? It was easier for the guys in the other
:28:38. > :28:41.lanes? They might have been a bit of difference -- there might have
:28:41. > :28:46.been a bit of difference but this is an outdoor sport, you have got
:28:46. > :28:51.to go with the elements. All credit to our competitors, the Australians,
:28:51. > :28:55.the South Africans who won the gold, Denmark who won the bronze, the
:28:56. > :29:01.Swiss and the Dutch, they are outstanding outlook -- Alf --
:29:01. > :29:05.outstanding athlete and any one of those could have won. It is an
:29:05. > :29:10.outdoor sport, we have to roll with it in terms of the conditions.
:29:10. > :29:14.silver medallists in your family, quite a day. It was good, we had a
:29:14. > :29:21.great race, we fought really hard to get into contention in the
:29:21. > :29:30.medals. He we are delighted, delighted to be representing
:29:30. > :29:34.After you have a chance to sit down and reflect on that final, will you
:29:34. > :29:39.be thinking about what might have been, or do you put it out of your
:29:39. > :29:43.mind? We aim to win. We got a silver medal. It is a home silver
:29:43. > :29:47.medal at the London Olympics in front of 30,000 British fans. Come
:29:47. > :29:51.on, you have to be happy with that. We will with the punches, we did
:29:51. > :29:56.everything we could. We could not have done any more. It is where we
:29:56. > :30:00.were. I colleague Andy Swiss asking the questions. They were being more
:30:00. > :30:04.diplomatic than a few other quotes but have come out of Eton Dorney.
:30:04. > :30:08.He Chambers said that FISA, rowing's governing body, should be
:30:08. > :30:14.ashamed that they were put in lane three, when the conditions, the
:30:14. > :30:19.cross wins over the first 1000m, clearly Faye it -- favoured other
:30:19. > :30:24.lanes. FISA had it within their remit to change lanes. Afterwards
:30:24. > :30:28.the FISA general-secretary said they had considered changing the
:30:28. > :30:31.lane order and he conceded that conditions were not perfectly fair.
:30:31. > :30:35.Perhaps they should have changed the lanes. The margin of victory
:30:35. > :30:39.was so minor. You can understand why a particular lane would be
:30:39. > :30:42.either advantageous or disadvantageous, but presumably if
:30:42. > :30:45.they had changed lanes done another nation would have had to have gone
:30:45. > :30:49.into the lane they would have dedicated and it would have been
:30:50. > :30:54.disadvantageous for them. Was it the fact they have qualified and a
:30:54. > :30:58.faster time? Exactly. To me, that makes perfectly sensible stop if
:30:58. > :31:01.you qualify fast, you should not be given a fixed lane, you should be
:31:01. > :31:06.given an advantageous lane because it gives you a bigger incentive to
:31:06. > :31:12.qualify fast or stop the logic of the argument is undeniable.
:31:12. > :31:15.Controversy again. We love it, don't we? It is all about medals
:31:15. > :31:20.and great British chances so let's was around the venues and catch up
:31:20. > :31:26.with Team GB's progress. We start at basketball, where they gave
:31:26. > :31:30.Spain, the second best team in the world, an almighty scare. Three
:31:30. > :31:34.points from NBA superstar Luol Deng pulled them to within a point of
:31:34. > :31:40.the Spaniards but they were out of time. Three Games gone. They are
:31:40. > :31:48.yet to win. Spain are yet to lose. But it was close. The USA set an
:31:48. > :31:51.Olympic points record, beating the Nigerians 156-73. It is three
:31:51. > :31:57.defeats out of three for the men's Hempel team. It is one of those
:31:57. > :32:02.teams are only granted a place because of their home nation status.
:32:02. > :32:12.They trailed 16-11 at half-time to Argentina, but went down in the end
:32:12. > :32:15.
:32:15. > :32:22.heroics, James Austin was not having a good time. He lost his
:32:22. > :32:27.contest against a Japanese judoka. Britain's female friends has made
:32:27. > :32:32.it to the quarter-finals. There are only nine teams in a tournament.
:32:32. > :32:36.They met the formidable Italians. They suffered a heavy defeat. It is
:32:36. > :32:42.like playing Barcelona and there are three of them, not one, said
:32:42. > :32:45.team member and a Bentley. She, Sophie Troiano and Bentley finished
:32:46. > :32:51.in eight. Rebecca Tunney and Hannah Whelan went in the gymnastics all-
:32:51. > :32:56.round final. 15-year-old Rebecca Tunney finished in 15th place.
:32:56. > :33:01.There were tears for Hannah Whelan, when she was awarded zero points on
:33:01. > :33:07.the vault for landing on her knees. She ended in last place but had
:33:07. > :33:11.hoped for a top ten finish. Team GB are favourites in the dressage.
:33:11. > :33:17.They struggled. Laura Bechtolsheimer said she was baffled
:33:17. > :33:21.by her worst school in years. She sought they have been some kind of
:33:21. > :33:25.mistake. The competition continues tomorrow. The women's hockey team
:33:25. > :33:30.were coping well with -- without the captain, Kate Walsh, as she
:33:30. > :33:40.recovers from a broken jaw. They beat Belgium three-Neill this
:33:40. > :33:42.
:33:42. > :33:45.We have seen the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the royal family
:33:45. > :33:49.doing the rounds to give British athletes support but look closely
:33:49. > :33:55.at the crowds and it is a Who's Who of international leaders. We
:33:55. > :33:58.spotted one at the ExCel Centre. The world's best rarely fail to
:33:58. > :34:06.disappoint, do they? You would not want to disappoint him, not if you
:34:06. > :34:10.are Russian anyway. Luckily, President Putin was delighted.
:34:10. > :34:16.There was gold in the other 100 kilometre -- and not under 100 kg
:34:16. > :34:21.judo. The glory is Russian and the boss is on his feet. How to
:34:21. > :34:26.celebrate such an emphatic victory? Well, the bumps, a pat on the back
:34:26. > :34:30.and Kiss of course. No kissing, more cuddling at the home of
:34:30. > :34:35.cricket and the home of Korean archery as well, it seems. They won
:34:35. > :34:40.their second gold thanks to the top seed. She edged a sudden death
:34:40. > :34:45.shoot off with a Mexican. It was relatively reserved at Lord's. At
:34:45. > :34:51.the ExCel arena and the men's table tennis it was anything but. First
:34:51. > :34:56.colour a German got a bit too excited too soon. COMMENTATOR: He
:34:56. > :35:00.had clenched his fist triumphantly. He thought this was in the net.
:35:00. > :35:08.lost that particular point but persistence pays off and he won the
:35:08. > :35:18.bronze, but what about gold? In an all Chinese affair, the opponent
:35:18. > :35:23.
:35:24. > :35:28.Pretty athletic showing but not a patch on the gymnasts and
:35:28. > :35:32.particularly Gabriela Douglas from America. Only four ft 11, yet she
:35:32. > :35:36.hit the heights in London jumping and climbing above all others to
:35:36. > :35:41.win the all-around title. Gymnastics' biggest prize. A golden
:35:42. > :35:47.smile to match her gold medal. Plenty of smiles from Italy's women
:35:47. > :35:51.fencers. They secured their second gold for their country of fencing
:35:51. > :35:57.and for this 38-year-old, a six Olympic title of her career. Jump
:35:57. > :36:01.and shout she should. COMMENTATOR: Italy have won the gold medal in
:36:01. > :36:05.the women's team foil and that is what it means to them. Russia lost
:36:05. > :36:09.the fencing final but on the day their president was in town, the
:36:09. > :36:13.Russian basketball team produced something that bit special. They
:36:13. > :36:17.trailed by ten points to Brazil, but with six seconds left it was
:36:18. > :36:27.down to two. Time-out called, one last chance, four seconds left, you
:36:28. > :36:34.
:36:34. > :36:39.guessed it. The drama, they really medal table looks tonight. A battle
:36:39. > :36:48.for supremacy between China and the United States. The Korean -- the
:36:48. > :36:56.South Korean Archers have helped Six down, still tend to go, a long
:36:56. > :36:59.way to go. It is a marathon, isn't it? It is, it has been a feast. The
:36:59. > :37:04.way that the British public has reacted, I am not entirely
:37:04. > :37:08.surprised. There is a genuine sense of enthusiasm, Patriot ISM, all
:37:08. > :37:12.these emotions coming out. Sport has a visceral connection with
:37:12. > :37:17.people, not just now but it was true in the ancient Olympics, in
:37:17. > :37:20.ancient Greece. 1,200 years of the ancient Olympic Games without a
:37:20. > :37:24.single interruption, everyone was in to it from the lower classes to
:37:24. > :37:28.the intellectuals to the philosophers. This has been a
:37:29. > :37:32.celebration of sport and it has been magnificent. We have seen the
:37:32. > :37:35.magnificent rowers and cyclists going strong, we wish them well
:37:35. > :37:41.over the next few days in the Velodrome. But tomorrow, the
:37:41. > :37:45.athletics. Does the Olympics start properly with athletics? It is
:37:45. > :37:48.unfair to say it starts properly but the implication, that the
:37:48. > :37:52.centrepiece of Sport is the athletics. Within that you would
:37:52. > :37:57.say the centrepiece event is the 100m. I think everybody is looking
:37:57. > :38:01.forward to seeing what happens. The atmosphere in the mid- -- in the
:38:01. > :38:07.Olympic Stadium, the athletics stadium, is unique. When the 100m
:38:07. > :38:14.happens, the good sense of emotional intensity is unrivalled
:38:14. > :38:17.in an East belting spectacle. -- in any sporting spectacle. There it is,
:38:17. > :38:20.changing colour. Hopefully they have cleared out Danny Boyle's
:38:20. > :38:24.spectacular and have a decent track, which will will see tomorrow
:38:24. > :38:28.morning with heats. Now, a round of British stories starting with
:38:28. > :38:38.boxing. A massive win for Anthony Ogogo, who defeated the Ukrainian
:38:38. > :38:41.
:38:41. > :38:45.world champion, Ievgen Khytrov. The Ukrainian hit back in the second,
:38:45. > :38:50.landing big shots. The Briton had a standing eight count. Both fighters
:38:51. > :38:54.were all guns -- guns blazing in the third. They were locked at 18-
:38:54. > :39:00.80 and even the countback and totals on the judges' scorecards
:39:00. > :39:05.could not separate them. The judges had to pick a winner and picked
:39:05. > :39:09.Ogogo. An appeal by the Ukrainians was rejected. But so good for Josh
:39:09. > :39:19.Taylor, the first British boxer to be eliminated after losing to the
:39:19. > :39:23.
:39:23. > :39:27.experience -- experienced it borrowed. -- experienced Italian.
:39:27. > :39:33.The British beach volleyball has are out. Lizzie Neave could not
:39:33. > :39:38.repeat their heroics off the boys in the British kayak. She struggled
:39:38. > :39:43.and finished 12th, not good enough for the final for her. You might be
:39:43. > :39:48.surprised to know that Britain has four Olympic what a title -- water
:39:48. > :39:56.polo titles to its name, the last one in 1920. There could be a
:39:57. > :40:04.weight. Men were thrashed by the USA. GB were treading water in that
:40:04. > :40:14.sport at the moment. GB men were no match for Italy's volleyball has at
:40:14. > :40:15.
:40:15. > :40:19.Earls Court tonight, going down 3-0. The next opportunity is on Saturday
:40:19. > :40:29.against Poland. They are unlikely to make the back pages any time
:40:29. > :40:46.
:40:46. > :40:56.It was raining medals. That is the best day we have had so far. Let's
:40:56. > :41:04.
:41:04. > :41:09.They are easy to write, these? was inevitable that Chris Hoy would
:41:09. > :41:14.dominate the front pages. It is nice to see some of the images and
:41:14. > :41:21.the team mates. They were so crucial in delivering him to the
:41:21. > :41:26.line in a strong position to take That has been story of track
:41:26. > :41:30.cycling, it is a team effort. Not just the relay, the support
:41:30. > :41:33.scientists, the physiologists, the performance director, they seem to
:41:33. > :41:39.coalesce in a way that creates a winning formula. There has been an
:41:39. > :41:43.extraordinary momentum. We see that in the rowing, strength and depth.
:41:43. > :41:47.That is the social dynamic created by Sir Steve Redgrave. Everyone
:41:47. > :41:51.wants to be associated with a team that loses success. Great Britain
:41:51. > :41:56.have had a purple patch. There will be lean spells where we will be
:41:56. > :42:00.saying, don't panic if we seem to be falling short of the 48 medals
:42:00. > :42:03.that would lead in Beijing. I think the interaction between our medal
:42:03. > :42:06.success in the public is more significant than the medal success
:42:06. > :42:10.in the athletes. I think the athletes are often quite
:42:10. > :42:14.individualistic, in a sense that Jessica Ennis will be looking to
:42:14. > :42:19.win and whether or not other people are many, I don't think it will
:42:19. > :42:23.affect her preparations. She has to be focused on herself. However, if
:42:23. > :42:30.the nation is seeing athletes do well, that does have a big effect
:42:30. > :42:35.on the national mood. A few side, thank you for your time. That was
:42:35. > :42:39.day six for you, that is about it for a Olympic Sportsday. Olympic
:42:39. > :42:43.Breakfast will be with you at 6am. Push your red button or go to the
:42:43. > :42:53.website to catch up on every sport at the Games. Dan Walker is back
:42:53. > :42:53.
:42:53. > :43:03.tomorrow. That is it, 22 golds # Today, this could be the greatest
:43:03. > :43:08.
:43:08. > :43:18.# Before it all ends, before we run # Stay close to me. Stay close to
:43:18. > :43:29.
:43:29. > :43:39.# Watched the world come alive # And the world comes alive, and
:43:39. > :43:42.
:43:42. > :43:48.# And the world comes alive, and the world comes alive tonight.
:43:48. > :43:52.and Hayter Michael Phelps has won his 20th Olympic medal --