:00:29. > :00:35.Welcome, fellow Olympic obsessives. We will shoehorn everything from
:00:35. > :00:43.day seven into the next 40 minutes. Every GP Challenge, the world's
:00:43. > :00:52.heaviest athlete, this is big, this is Olympic Sportsday. Another gold
:00:52. > :00:57.rush for Great Britain. Plenty to sing, dance and cry about today.
:00:57. > :01:03.The golden girl of delivers the business in style on day one of the
:01:03. > :01:08.heptathlon. And a ding-dong but not in ping-pong from Hong Kong.
:01:08. > :01:18.This is the show will we would like you to be as involved as possible.
:01:18. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:23.Send your comments and questions to Twitter. Any gold medal means a lot
:01:23. > :01:28.but some really stand out. The story of Katherine Grainger is
:01:28. > :01:35.incredible. Three times at three different Olympics, she has missed
:01:35. > :01:42.out on gold. She went in the final of there double sculls with Anna
:01:42. > :01:46.Watkins the today. -- of the women's double sculls.
:01:46. > :01:54.Rowing is amongst the most exhausting sporting endeavours and
:01:54. > :02:00.few have been to the brink more than Katherine Grainger. In Beijing,
:02:00. > :02:04.she was close, until that final stages. Another has silver for
:02:04. > :02:11.Great Britain! They finished with their bodies and self belief
:02:11. > :02:16.shattered. Yet she caught the Bucquet and
:02:16. > :02:21.determined that she would be next. Sat with Anna Watkins in the double
:02:21. > :02:26.sculls final, a gold medal almost within their grasp. This time,
:02:26. > :02:33.there was no letting go. They are unbeaten as a pair since they have
:02:33. > :02:36.been riding together. What we are seeing is that dreams do come true
:02:36. > :02:44.and Great Britain's Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins are going
:02:44. > :02:50.to win a gold medal in the women's double sculls! Their victory, at
:02:50. > :02:54.once intensely personal, was shed with everyone. This is the people's
:02:54. > :02:59.gold medal because so many people have been behind me and have wanted
:02:59. > :03:05.this for me as much as I have, and it makes it feel so much more
:03:05. > :03:10.special. After a struggle like that, this
:03:10. > :03:15.was the perfect soundtrack. That is the only time the national
:03:15. > :03:21.anthem was played at Eton Dorney today, but it wasn't the only
:03:21. > :03:27.success. George Nash and Will Satch got an unexpected bronze. Alan
:03:27. > :03:33.Campbell was caught by some to be a fading force. With 500m to go, he
:03:33. > :03:37.was outside the medals. He forced himself forward to bronze, defying
:03:37. > :03:42.everyone and everything, including his body. This is what Olympic
:03:42. > :03:52.rowing came do to you. In the velodrome, Great Britain were
:03:52. > :03:52.
:03:52. > :04:02.focused on a pursuit of gold. When Half a lap to go for the British
:04:02. > :04:03.
:04:03. > :04:08.team! The gold medal is Great Britain's! Look at the time! It is
:04:08. > :04:15.a new world record! And Great Britain have one the gold medal!
:04:15. > :04:18.Clancy, Steven Burke, Peter Kennaugh and Geraint Thomas, the
:04:18. > :04:24.latest Invincible entries into the ranks of British cycling
:04:24. > :04:34.superheroes. Now for wonder woman, Victoria Pendleton, back to conquer
:04:34. > :04:35.
:04:35. > :04:45.the keirin after disqualification yesterday. Victoria Pendleton has
:04:45. > :04:49.
:04:49. > :04:56.got the gold! Meares is rushed away! Victoria Pendleton is the
:04:56. > :05:01.Olympic keirin champion! I was just, like, Focus, Focus! It was so hard!
:05:02. > :05:07.I can't believe it. Thank you so much for everybody who has helped
:05:07. > :05:13.me to get here. It has been fantastic. There was very little in
:05:13. > :05:22.it, but there was everything in it. Pendleton's journey from despair to
:05:22. > :05:26.glory has taken just a day, Katherine Grainger. That whole
:05:26. > :05:31.thing today. I know she has a partner at there but it was very
:05:31. > :05:40.much about her. There were people into his this morning when she was
:05:40. > :05:44.in the race, with Steve Redgrave afterwards, in the middle ceremony,
:05:44. > :05:50.it captured everybody. It is interesting the psychology of
:05:50. > :05:54.silver, silver, silver. There would not be the sympathy levels if she
:05:54. > :05:58.had one three bronze medals, although you could argue that she
:05:58. > :06:04.would deserve more public sympathy, but that is the way we view medals,
:06:04. > :06:09.it is quite interesting. Everybody said that Katherine Grainger, the
:06:09. > :06:13.first medal is fantastic news, the second silver medal, it shows that
:06:13. > :06:17.she is consistent, and the third one is deeply disappointing and
:06:17. > :06:22.almost worse than just coming 5th. It has been staggeringly long
:06:22. > :06:29.journey. Steve Redgrave loves her and tells the nation to get behind
:06:29. > :06:34.her. What every he says, we do. Somebody on Twitter, at last
:06:34. > :06:39.Katherine Grainger gets what she has been working for her whole life.
:06:39. > :06:44.The bowler drome. Records tumbling, gold medals growing -- their
:06:44. > :06:50.velodrome. People say the noise is enough to get too emotional. It is
:06:50. > :06:53.a very interesting building. I was there at the test event. The
:06:53. > :06:58.cyclists testing it said the track is fast and they knew they would
:06:58. > :07:02.break records, and they also set the acoustics were amazing, and
:07:02. > :07:07.Chris Coyne would say, I didn't think I would ever say this but I
:07:07. > :07:11.found that extras but its energy from the crowd -- Chris Hoy. They
:07:11. > :07:15.were worried that the noise would not be as loud in the Olympics
:07:15. > :07:21.because there would be corporate people and people supporting other
:07:21. > :07:26.teams. I expected it to be slightly disappointed, compared to the test
:07:26. > :07:31.event, which was followed Team GB cycling fans, but today the people
:07:31. > :07:38.were much, much louder, which I find phenomenal. I am not surprised
:07:38. > :07:41.we are seeing our team put in that extra spurt and defying the lactic
:07:41. > :07:50.acid builds up, because it is an astonishing sound and it
:07:50. > :07:55.reverberates. They've Brailsford, a master when it comes to cycling --
:07:55. > :08:01.Dave. That has set us up nicely. Another thing has been the noise at
:08:01. > :08:04.various other venues. The velodrome comet Eton Dorney, but when Jessica
:08:04. > :08:09.Ennis stepped on to the track at the start of the heptathlon this
:08:09. > :08:14.morning, the Olympic Park erupted, and she responded with something
:08:14. > :08:19.special in the hurdles. Jessica Ennis has got the potential to set
:08:19. > :08:29.the stadium alight. This is one of her favourite events. The Olympic
:08:29. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:50.inside! This is a tremendous run by Jessica Ennis! Oh my goodness! The
:08:50. > :08:56.fastest time ever! A new British record! The rest of her competitors
:08:56. > :09:05.must be in despair seeing how far the British athlete has just run! -
:09:05. > :09:11.I am speechless. When I crossed the line, I had to check, I could not
:09:11. > :09:14.believe it was that time. I knew it was a fast track with good
:09:14. > :09:19.conditions and it would be a good race with Jessica Zelinka and
:09:19. > :09:26.Hyleas Fountain, but I could not believe it! The high jump was next.
:09:26. > :09:31.It got a bit nervy at 1.86. She thought she had cleared it but
:09:31. > :09:39.there are came off. Thankfully she was able to succeed at the third
:09:39. > :09:47.event. That clearance gave her a 25 point lead. Next up was the shot
:09:47. > :09:56.put, which did not quite go according to plan. It wasn't good
:09:56. > :10:02.enough for 10th place. -- it was only good enough for 10th place.
:10:02. > :10:07.She fell into second place. That left at 200m as the final event.
:10:07. > :10:17.Jessica Ennis knew a good time would lead her to gold medal
:10:17. > :10:46.
:10:46. > :10:55.position going into tomorrow's. -- it from Dafne Schippers of the
:10:55. > :11:03.line! It was fast! The crowd carried Jessica Ennis home! 22.83
:11:03. > :11:07.is a fabulous time in the I am so pleased to end the day with
:11:08. > :11:13.that. Knowing it was a fast track and running with Dafne Schippers,
:11:13. > :11:20.who is an amazing sprinter, I am made up to get a PB. Can you assess
:11:20. > :11:26.the day? I am still in shock about the hurdles. A bit up and down, the
:11:26. > :11:30.high jump was disappointing, the shot put, a bit disappointed. But
:11:30. > :11:34.two personal bests is brilliant. I will have to have a really strong
:11:34. > :11:39.day tomorrow and make sure everything is really solid. I am
:11:39. > :11:48.glad I have got today out of the way but there is a lot more work to
:11:48. > :11:52.be done tomorrow. That was after the first day of the heptathlon.
:11:53. > :11:56.Just to talk about Jess Ennis, Allison. Michael Johnson said
:11:56. > :12:01.before the morning session that it is difficult to respond to such a
:12:01. > :12:05.huge crowd in there but her personality is perfect for getting
:12:05. > :12:11.the best out of herself on an occasion like this, and we saw that
:12:11. > :12:16.today. She is like that whether she is doing PR duty, training, a
:12:16. > :12:23.photo-shoot, an advertisement. She is smiley and can't, and that is
:12:23. > :12:28.not manufactured. -- smiley and calm. You cannot train personality.
:12:29. > :12:34.You have either got some can't miss or you haven't. She smiles when she
:12:34. > :12:42.doesn't do so well! But she knows something better will come. I did
:12:42. > :12:46.train with her once. D D beat her?! I pulled out of a race and said, I
:12:46. > :12:52.am not going to win so why bother? She said, you should just enjoy the
:12:52. > :12:59.run. I thought, that is coming from an Olympian! She has that laid-back
:12:59. > :13:05.personality. Had time in the hotels would have one four out of the last
:13:05. > :13:14.five finals in the individual event, which is ridiculous -- at times in
:13:14. > :13:19.the hurdles would have won. Is it harder for her being much smaller
:13:19. > :13:24.than the powerful women? Instinctively you would think so
:13:24. > :13:32.but when you train with her, it is all about technique. What she does
:13:32. > :13:37.very well is make her size seemed an advantage. She does not look out
:13:37. > :13:45.of place in any events. Javelin, it is all in the armpits. It is how
:13:45. > :13:51.you use your core fitness and attitude. She has got that.
:13:51. > :13:56.fascinating training in sight. Thank you. Katarina Johnson-
:13:56. > :14:01.Thompson was 20th and Louise Hazel is in 34th place. Plenty at of
:14:01. > :14:05.coverage on the BBC of that tomorrow. Let's continue to Hoover
:14:05. > :14:10.up the action and go to the Aquatics Centre. Tonight Rebecca
:14:10. > :14:15.Adlington was going for Great Britain's first gold medal in the
:14:15. > :14:20.swimming pool. Michael Phelps was on track for the 17th gold medal of
:14:20. > :14:25.his ludicrous Korea. The name of the game's "to inspire
:14:25. > :14:33.a generation. You would think Great Britain would need at least one
:14:33. > :14:39.gold medal. The country's greatest hope? This young woman. But behind
:14:39. > :14:43.the mask, could Rebecca Adlington cope with such expectation? She had
:14:43. > :14:49.more than that to contend with, thanks to 15-year-old American
:14:49. > :14:56.Katie Ledecky, the youngest member of the US swimming team. She led
:14:56. > :15:01.from fast to -- start to finish. The Briton to bronze and with the
:15:01. > :15:06.pressure involved, that would do her nicely -- took bronze fox dock
:15:06. > :15:11.the pressure, the expectation, everything caught up on me. I gave
:15:11. > :15:16.it my all. I am sorry I did not got the goal that everybody expected
:15:16. > :15:22.but I am so proud. I hate it when people say that silver and bronze
:15:22. > :15:27.is losing because you have not done my sport. There are few better at
:15:27. > :15:33.the sport and 17-year-old Missy Franklin. She one her third gold of
:15:33. > :15:37.the Games in 200m backstroke and a new world record. Clearly doing her
:15:37. > :15:44.country proud, as Michael Fox has done on countless occasions. A
:15:44. > :15:49.third consecutive Olympic 100-metre butterfly gold, at 21st Olympic
:15:49. > :15:55.medal -- Michael Phelps. He is retiring after these Games. You can
:15:55. > :16:00.almost hear a collective sigh of relief from his rivals, and his mum.
:16:00. > :16:06.I am just happy to be able to defend my title. It is a good way
:16:06. > :16:12.to finish my last individual's whim ever. To be able to win it, it is
:16:12. > :16:19.pretty special -- individual's whim ever. As one superstar goes,
:16:19. > :16:24.another arrives. Florent Manaudou is that person. In the first events
:16:24. > :16:29.senior final, he shocked everyone with the 50m freestyle gold. Four
:16:29. > :16:34.gold medals for France in a swimming pool. For Great Britain, a
:16:34. > :16:41.week of disappointment. One silver and two bronze medals. Has there
:16:41. > :16:45.been enough home-grown talent on She was very honest after that
:16:45. > :16:49.bronze medal tonight. As a nation we probably expected her to win
:16:49. > :16:53.gold, I think she expected to win gold. She spoke about the fact that
:16:53. > :16:57.maybe she got a bit of pressure in the build up. Do you think we have
:16:57. > :17:03.been expecting too much for my hour swimmers, or have their editors
:17:03. > :17:12.down in terms of the number of medals? -- and let us down?
:17:12. > :17:15.wouldn't go that far. I think the difficulty is, in charge of Team GB
:17:15. > :17:22.swimmers can what you cannot control is what is happening
:17:22. > :17:28.elsewhere. You can only take the swimmers you have got, they do all
:17:28. > :17:31.sorts of scientific tests on scientific streamlining, sports
:17:31. > :17:37.psychologists, diet, you work with what you have got. There is nothing
:17:37. > :17:42.you can do about young kids coming through in other nations. But is
:17:42. > :17:51.the point that Becky made afterwards, and one tweet says, it
:17:51. > :17:58.is such a short shelf-life that especially when such a 15-year-old
:17:58. > :18:04.and 16-year-olds are coming through. It is reckless, it seems to be you
:18:04. > :18:08.have to be 16 in the year of the game's to squeeze in. I know what
:18:08. > :18:15.Rebecca means. She probably feels that Brunt is something people are
:18:15. > :18:19.going to be -- people may be embarrassed to look at her, to
:18:19. > :18:24.defend your title, to spend four years, she could have retired and
:18:24. > :18:29.said, I will quit when I'm ahead, but because it was the London Games
:18:29. > :18:33.she sort of had to. I think it deserves a lot of respect. In terms
:18:33. > :18:41.of recycling in swimming, it makes the achievement of Michael Dobbs
:18:41. > :18:45.even more ludicrous. He has now won 17 gold medals and 21 medals in
:18:45. > :18:51.total. He has not been as dominant as in Beijing but he still an
:18:51. > :18:55.incredible force. He is astonishing. He is superhuman. I think there
:18:55. > :19:03.will be a lot of swimmers in the world will be glad to hear he is
:19:03. > :19:06.retiring! Well, there will be another guaranteed medal arriving
:19:06. > :19:11.for Team GB on Sunday, because Andy Murray is through to the final of
:19:11. > :19:16.the men's singles, which means at least a silver. Just like last not
:19:16. > :19:21.come he will be up against Roger Federer. Let's enjoy his victory
:19:21. > :19:27.over Novak Djokovic. He won in straight sets to show the Wimbledon
:19:27. > :19:31.final defeat hasn't affected him too badly. He said he wanted to
:19:31. > :19:37.make up for being knocked out in the first round of Beijing, and he
:19:37. > :19:44.has more than managed that. He had a lot of chances in the second set,
:19:44. > :19:49.I managed to hang in, it was amazing, I wanted to try and win a
:19:49. > :19:54.medal for the team, for the country, and lastly for myself. I am so
:19:54. > :19:59.happy, I would love to try and get gold now. The other semi-final was
:19:59. > :20:06.an epic encounter between Khedira and Del Potro. At one set all in
:20:06. > :20:11.the match, it went to a decider. Federer eventually went --
:20:11. > :20:17.eventually won 19-17, making it the longest men's single match in the
:20:17. > :20:24.open era. The women's final will be between Serena Williams and Maria
:20:24. > :20:27.Sharapova, playing her first Olympics. British judo looked to
:20:27. > :20:37.have hit a low point inner-London until Gibbons yesterday, when she
:20:37. > :20:39.
:20:39. > :20:45.thrilled us all with a silver. Today, Karina Bryant took a bronze.
:20:45. > :20:50.Bryant, at her 4th and probably final games, beat her opponent from
:20:50. > :20:56.the Ukraine and claimed a podium spot as well. Emotional scenes all
:20:56. > :21:02.round. Everybody was in tears. emotional, just trying to keep my
:21:02. > :21:05.head together, really. It is my 4th games, I just wanted to go out
:21:06. > :21:11.there and do myself justice, I feel like I have done that today. This
:21:11. > :21:14.to me feels like a gold medal. it definitely the last? I don't
:21:14. > :21:21.know, I quite enjoyed it today, so who knows!
:21:21. > :21:25.She might be back! It feels like it has been one of the busiest days of
:21:25. > :21:29.the games are so far. Unless you are watching all 24 of the live
:21:29. > :21:37.strings, you might have missed something. Thankfully, that is why
:21:37. > :21:43.Track and field joined the party, and the first gold went to a
:21:43. > :21:49.bearded giant from Poland. Majewski became the first man ever to retain
:21:49. > :21:54.the shot-put title. To a moment that a teenager and a country have
:21:54. > :22:04.been waiting a long time for. The first ever Qatari women to compete
:22:04. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:17.at the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, at the beginning, a tragic
:22:17. > :22:17.
:22:17. > :22:22.This was the opposite, Farah from Somalia, almost going backwards, to
:22:22. > :22:30.be fair, her shoelaces were undone. Some very strange goings-on in the
:22:30. > :22:37.steeplechase. Kemboi deliberately started slowly. And when the Kenyan
:22:37. > :22:42.did get to the front... He headed straight for the canteen. He is in
:22:42. > :22:48.a hurry, it must be lunchtime! It is, actually. Ever wonder why they
:22:48. > :22:54.have a net in the hammer? Wonder no longer, it is to protect you from
:22:54. > :23:02.the likes of this man when he has an off day. As one sport gets
:23:02. > :23:08.underway and other finishers, and in style. Teddy Riner of France are
:23:08. > :23:14.cemented his place as one of the grades in his sport. He won it out
:23:14. > :23:20.right. It was much closer in the women's heavyweight competition.
:23:20. > :23:25.What is of Cuba won the decision, and created it history. The first
:23:25. > :23:32.judo player who hasn't represented either tie at -- China or Japan he
:23:33. > :23:40.can call herself the Olympic champion. This man is the heaviest
:23:40. > :23:50.man at the Olympics, he weighs in at 34 stone. This poll only had to
:23:50. > :23:57.live to 33 stone to get his gold. The weightlifter from Kazakhstan
:23:57. > :24:03.secured the women's gold. Right on cue, Schlangen and as our young lie
:24:03. > :24:09.delivered in the mixed badminton. That was clearly -- closely
:24:09. > :24:17.followed by Dong Dong, so good at trampolining, they named him twice.
:24:17. > :24:23.China's neighbours are doing rather well in the medal table as well.
:24:23. > :24:27.And here come the rest of the Korean team! They secured the men's
:24:27. > :24:37.team sabre a gold, while archery, in all its glory, has never looked
:24:37. > :24:41.
:24:41. > :24:47.so good. Who says you need all the latest equipment to win gold?
:24:47. > :24:51.Circuit Martin of was using a 13- year-old rival. The old faithful
:24:51. > :25:01.served him well, getting gold and a new world record in the 50 metre
:25:01. > :25:02.
:25:02. > :25:12.rifle prone. In comparison, this Cuban looked positively Roebuck Cup.
:25:12. > :25:16.Not sure that a celebration is all I have to mention the 34 Stony judo
:25:17. > :25:21.man, he is six stone heavier than the entire Chinese penal gymnastics
:25:21. > :25:26.team! It is one of my favourite things about the gymnastics, there
:25:26. > :25:31.is something for every shape and size. One of the questions we have
:25:31. > :25:37.had in for you is, how much interest is there in a paper like
:25:37. > :25:43.yours in stories outside? Guisset is the London Games, there
:25:43. > :25:48.is more of a bias towards Team GB - - because it is at the London Games.
:25:48. > :25:52.I think that is understandable. When Britain are doing well, it is
:25:53. > :25:56.very hard to get in other nationalities. When Britain are not,
:25:56. > :26:03.then we are more likely to celebrate the great athletes from
:26:03. > :26:08.other nations. It is biased, but I spend all my career trying to look
:26:08. > :26:16.neutral, but we are allowed come at these Games, we are looking at each
:26:16. > :26:20.other and we are starting to clap and cheer. Have you wept yet?
:26:20. > :26:25.You do get those athletes can we get the badminton, the protests at
:26:25. > :26:29.the fencing, but because there is so much success for Team GB, it is
:26:29. > :26:36.hard to fidgeting on television or in the papers. We won't leave it
:26:36. > :26:41.out but it won't get priority. Let's round-up the rest of the
:26:41. > :26:47.day's action in the athletics. The women's 10,000 metres, the
:26:47. > :26:52.defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba are retained that such -- title,
:26:52. > :26:58.putting plenty of distance between her and her rivals. She is now the
:26:58. > :27:03.proud owner of three Olympic gold medals. Jo Pavey came in 8th and
:27:03. > :27:07.Julia Bleasdale 8th. We can round- up some of the other British
:27:07. > :27:12.business. Dai Greene looked comfortable as easily qualified for
:27:12. > :27:16.the semi-finals of the 400 metres hurdles. He said the 4th fastest
:27:16. > :27:22.time of the heat with the world number one of Puerto Rico the
:27:22. > :27:30.quickest. He admitted afterwards that he struggles to get motivated
:27:30. > :27:34.for these heat. So he just made sure that he won! Christine
:27:34. > :27:38.Ohuruogu is the only defending Olympic champion for Britain on the
:27:38. > :27:43.track, and she got her defence of to a decent start by coming second
:27:43. > :27:49.in her heat to qualify for the semis. Lee McConnell also made it
:27:49. > :27:54.through. Yamile Aldama, who has previously competed for both Sudan
:27:54. > :27:59.and her native Cuba, has reached the final of the women's triple
:27:59. > :28:03.jump for Team GB. Her first leap was more than enough. She revealed
:28:03. > :28:08.afterwards that her 71-year-old mum has left Cuba for the first time
:28:08. > :28:12.ever to come and watch her at the Olympics. Alex Smith will compete
:28:12. > :28:21.in the men's hammer title, he thought he was said for an early
:28:21. > :28:28.exit but his throw of 74.721 metres to come through to the final. It
:28:28. > :28:33.wasn't a good night for the denial sprinters,. Abi Oyepitan failed to
:28:33. > :28:40.struggle from the first round of the women's 100 metres heats. She
:28:40. > :28:46.was 5th in her heat. On Laura was also deaf to her. They are both
:28:46. > :28:52.behind the gold medal hope for who qualified quickest. Greg Rutherford
:28:52. > :28:58.and Kris Commons and qualified for the long jump final in 4th and 5th
:28:58. > :29:04.-- and Chris Tomlinson. Greg Rutherford is comfortable about the
:29:04. > :29:08.final because he was miles behind the board. Ross Murray and Andy
:29:08. > :29:18.Baddeley are through to the next round of the 800 metres. -- the
:29:18. > :29:18.
:29:18. > :29:22.More Chehibi stuff to come a bit later, but yesterday, Ben Ainslie
:29:22. > :29:30.said his rivals have made him angry and that he would make them pay
:29:30. > :29:35.today. He did. Christensen stretched his lead, but a bold
:29:35. > :29:39.manoeuvre soar into the half that gap going to the medal race. A bit
:29:39. > :29:43.of tactics, he slowed right down, the Dane has failed to deal with
:29:43. > :29:48.the move and ended up being overtaken by the Dutchman who end
:29:48. > :29:58.up finishing second behind Ben Ainslie. As long as he finishes
:29:58. > :29:59.
:29:59. > :30:04.above the Dane in the final race, A little bit frustrated that it has
:30:04. > :30:09.taken me to the final race to find my Turbo! But it was important to
:30:09. > :30:16.get it back and now it is a good position to be in and it will be a
:30:16. > :30:20.fascinating race on Sunday. All to play for. Iain Percy and Andrew
:30:20. > :30:25.Simpson are assured of the podium finish in the Star class. They are
:30:25. > :30:31.eight points ahead of their nearest rivals going into Sunday. Luke
:30:31. > :30:35.Patience and Stuart Little also maintain their lead in the name's
:30:35. > :30:44.fleet. The moral of the savings story is do not mess with Ben
:30:44. > :30:48.Ainslie! We will start now with Larry Godfrey in the archery. He is
:30:48. > :30:57.calling for a change of format in the competition after he was
:30:57. > :31:03.knocked out in the last 16 after a one arrow shoot-out. Mohammed won
:31:04. > :31:08.it with a 10. Godfrey said, it is so hard to finish on one arrow. He
:31:08. > :31:18.was not a happy man. Great Britain are top of the team standings in
:31:18. > :31:23.the dressage. 83.7%, a new Olympic record on her horse Allegro. Not
:31:23. > :31:28.bad for Charlotte, who 20 months ago had never performed in a Grand
:31:28. > :31:36.Prix test. Freddie Evans, in the red vest, is through to the
:31:36. > :31:42.lightweight quarter-finals after his win against the Lithuanian
:31:42. > :31:47.today. And Andrew Selby, in the blue, is through to them last eight
:31:47. > :31:54.of the flyweights. A tight race against the man from Kazakhstan,
:31:54. > :31:59.but Selby, silver medallist, kept his composure and sealed victory.
:31:59. > :32:04.British interest in the table tennis is over after both men and
:32:04. > :32:08.women's teams were knocked out today. They were always likely to
:32:08. > :32:17.struggle against a strong North Korean side and we duly beaten
:32:17. > :32:21.today. The men lost to Portugal. They were unable to upset the odds,
:32:21. > :32:26.despite putting in some decent performances. All three are setting
:32:26. > :32:32.their sights on Rio. We wish them well. In the past week we have been
:32:32. > :32:42.expecting great things of Hope Powell's Team GB. Tonight they went
:32:42. > :32:47.
:32:47. > :32:57.into the first knockout match trying to keep this back but they
:32:57. > :33:11.
:33:11. > :33:17.goal it was! That is obviously a corner-kick they have practised a
:33:17. > :33:27.lot in training. What a great connection she got to that. There
:33:27. > :33:36.
:33:36. > :33:46.is not a lot that Karen Bardsley had plenty of time to get down to
:33:46. > :33:51.
:33:51. > :33:58.Canada's second goal of the game! Her third goal of the Olympic
:33:58. > :34:04.Games! Canada have put themselves in a really strong position to take
:34:04. > :34:09.away the British dream. It was great technique. It wasn't quite in
:34:09. > :34:19.the corner. I don't know if Karen Bardsley could have got to that.
:34:19. > :34:31.
:34:31. > :34:40.Not a good start at all. They have ground in anger! It happened so
:34:40. > :34:48.quickly, but she definitely touched Aluko's feet. Casey Stoney... Did
:34:48. > :34:56.not quite make contact! Macleod somehow falls on the ball. Rachel
:34:56. > :35:02.Yankey with the free kick. Karen Carney met it full-on up when she
:35:02. > :35:09.tried to dedicate Li Keith Hackett. And that is it. -- delicate leek
:35:09. > :35:13.kick it. The final whistle has gone. You have to say, well done, Canada.
:35:13. > :35:17.Praise for their performance. They did the job in the first half. It
:35:17. > :35:27.means that there will not be a medal for Great Britain in the
:35:27. > :35:28.
:35:28. > :35:32.Huge disappointment. Canada will now play the USA in the semi-final.
:35:32. > :35:39.The Americans, looking for a third straight Olympic title, saw off New
:35:39. > :35:43.Zealand. Japan managed to get the better of Brazil. France are there
:35:43. > :35:49.as well. It could have been an amazing day for British women.
:35:49. > :35:55.Rebecca Adlington one a bronze, the GB women have gone out, but plenty
:35:55. > :36:01.of medals -- Rebecca Adlington won Abrams. It has been an amazing
:36:01. > :36:07.Olympics for British women. A lot of the papers tomorrow we have a
:36:07. > :36:17.quote from Victoria Pendleton saying, this is all about girl
:36:17. > :36:17.
:36:18. > :36:21.power, it is the goal's Games. It is. -- a girl's Games. She said she
:36:22. > :36:25.took inspiration from other women at the Games and how they have
:36:25. > :36:29.succeeded in the last few days. I think it is beautiful the fact that
:36:29. > :36:34.women are feeding off for other women because that is the problem
:36:34. > :36:38.with sport generally, when it comes to women. There are not enough
:36:38. > :36:46.role-models and women around women who do things. As a woman who likes
:36:46. > :36:50.sport, you are often on your own. It is incremental, isn't it. The
:36:51. > :36:57.people who are now watching Victoria Pendleton, women, they now
:36:57. > :37:01.see that cycling is sexy, she is a beautiful women. So many women
:37:01. > :37:08.don't ride a bike because they think people will laugh at them and
:37:08. > :37:14.it looks stupid. There is this thing about body image. All of the
:37:14. > :37:20.scenes from the water... The women are fresh, healthy and beautiful.
:37:20. > :37:27.You won't see happier women anywhere. That is fantastic. Make
:37:27. > :37:33.young girls think, sport is cool. I want to do that. It is not just for
:37:33. > :37:38.blokes. You don't have to be competitive and ugly, you can be
:37:38. > :37:43.competitive and beautiful. Seb Coe will be happy to hear you say that.
:37:43. > :37:48.That is part of his legacy aims. The women's handball team sadly
:37:48. > :37:54.failed to make the last eight after a fourth successive defeat. They
:37:54. > :37:59.were up against a team they had beaten at last year's test event.
:37:59. > :38:09.Angola got an early lead and never it gave it up. It was a spirited
:38:09. > :38:10.
:38:10. > :38:15.Karina Bryant was going well in her event, but Chris was cursing the
:38:15. > :38:22.draw after being paired against a three-time world medallist from
:38:22. > :38:29.Russia. He put up a good fight and only lost to a sudden death score.
:38:29. > :38:34.Hannah Starling scraped through to the semi-final of the women's three
:38:34. > :38:40.metres springboard. She is the youngest driver in the competition,
:38:40. > :38:46.at 17. -- youngest diver. They will need to improve because only the
:38:46. > :38:53.top 12 go through from tomorrow. The men's hockey team trounced
:38:53. > :38:55.Pakistan today. Ashley Jackson scored twice but it was his
:38:55. > :39:00.contribution in the build-up to Clarke's goal that got the crowd on
:39:00. > :39:07.its feet. A good recovery from Team GB after their disappointing draw
:39:07. > :39:11.on Wednesday to South Africa. The women's volleyball team had a
:39:11. > :39:16.disappointing a loss to the Dominican Republic, who were at the
:39:16. > :39:23.bottom of the swimming-pool. Darwin would have put them there are
:39:23. > :39:30.through to the quarter-finals, but instead they are forced to win the
:39:30. > :39:33.next Games as well. The water polo team were beaten by
:39:33. > :39:38.Italy this evening and end bottom of Group B. Bizarrely, they still
:39:38. > :39:43.go through to the quarter-finals. We have not worked that out yet.
:39:43. > :39:49.They play Spain, the winners of Group A. We have saved the best
:39:49. > :39:54.until last. It was drama at the Basketball Arena tonight. The Women
:39:54. > :40:03.of Great Britain and France had to go to extra time, 77 points apiece.
:40:03. > :40:08.Team GB had a free shot with 10 seconds left. They missed it, it
:40:08. > :40:13.would have won the game. France got three points and that left Britain
:40:13. > :40:19.with no time to respond. After losing like that, you know it is
:40:19. > :40:25.still one of the most agonising ways to use any sort of sport. --
:40:25. > :40:35.to lose. The USA have overtaken China today. Great Britain are up
:40:35. > :41:14.
:41:14. > :41:19.return, and hopefully we will have You mention that it would all be
:41:19. > :41:25.about the women, it has been about the women. A great day for British
:41:25. > :41:32.women. Andrew, 14, says he loves the Olympics. What should he start
:41:32. > :41:38.writing about? Start writing about something you love. Any sport you
:41:38. > :41:43.laugh. Do you get to decide which event you go to? -- any sport you
:41:43. > :41:49.love. I get told at 5:00pm the day before. It is like Christmas every
:41:50. > :41:55.day. Clare says, my dad said he couldn't bear the Olympics but he
:41:55. > :41:59.cried four times today. He wants to know, it is this normal? It is very
:41:59. > :42:05.normal. I would be worried if somebody managed to watch the
:42:05. > :42:11.Olympics and not well up. Some people don't know how to cry!
:42:11. > :42:17.final question. 19 gold medals in Beijing. Do you think Team GB will
:42:18. > :42:22.better that? Better it, I would put money on it. Thank you. Alison,
:42:22. > :42:26.thank you for your time and thank you for watching and joining in. We
:42:26. > :42:32.have officially had a week of Olympic competition. Drama,
:42:32. > :42:38.excitement, courage, tears, anger, frustration, skill and achievement.
:42:39. > :42:48.And we are not even halfway through. It is great, isn't it. From all of
:42:49. > :42:49.
:42:49. > :43:40.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 51 seconds
:43:40. > :43:45.# So don't give up, don't look down Baby, you were born to be a star #
:43:45. > :43:51.Great Britain delivered! Olympic champions! Katherine Grainger and