Day 8: Full Round-Up Olympic Sportsday

What a night, what a day, if you can't get enough the of the

Olympics, this would be right up your street. Some have gone crazy

and called it Super Saturday. You make your own mind up. An

unforgettable night in the Olympic Stadium, three incredible

performances and three gold medals. Two gold medals at sitting the

morning up perfectly at Eton Daunay. You can see why the Greg British

Your input is crucial. Our guest tonight is it from the Daily Mirror,

he sprinted into the studio. Where do we start? What about at this

stadium. Britain last one a medal in track and field here, 100 and

poured years ago. D was probably more pressure on Jessica Ennis and

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance

for their doubting, too. If you can make... Brisket on one turn, and

lose and start again, never breathe a word about your loss, if you can

fill the unforgiving minute with a 60 seconds worth, yours is the

Earth and everything that is in it. And which is more, you will be a

What they wanted was no IFS, no buts. Ennis was doing everything

she could to make sure that happened. A fabulous morning

session, but even her Achilles heel, the javelin, went well. She left --

led the rest of the field with just Deprived of Sheffield, the pride of

Great Britain. Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion. It is a perfect

day for Jessica Ennis. The best all-round athlete in the world. And

All this hard work, the disappointment of Beijing about

everyone has just supported me so much... Follow that, and how he did.

The rest Of the Field seemed to fear him, trying to obstruct him.

again! It is going to be a glorious, glorious when! It is gold! Oh, yes!

The crowd but so much behind me, it was getting louder and louder. I

have never experienced something like this, he doesn't come around

often, to have it on your doorstep, have people supporting you, it is

never going to get better than this. The greatest hour, and night, in

Oliver, we were privileged to be there tonight. You look at Jessica

Ennis, she didn't look worried, she almost enjoyed some of the events

and she produced her best when she needed to. Mo Farah cap of what was

almost a ludicrous night for British sport. Came you summarise

it? The best way to summarise it is the best day of sport I have ever

seen. Not just British Board, sport in general. It was taking place in

London. It was just an amazing, amazing day of sport. As a

postscript, I saw LeBron James take charge of a basketball game, and

that was marginal after all the stuff we saw in the stadium. I was

in the Velodrome to see the women's pursuit team absolutely smashed the

world record, almost catch the American team. That was astonishing

in itself a. By then that was before we even got into the stadium.

The way that Jessica Ennis finished was just the epitome of style. To

win that race, to motor down the home straight, and Mo Farah I found

almost unbelievable. I know it wasn't a world record, but just

unbelievable, the way he finished it off, I thought he was going to

get caught, he never did. British public have been amazed, we

have had hundreds of tweet. Michelle saying, Jessica or miss

out on Beijing, I have never seen a final like that in a 10,000 metres

race. It seemed that the plan was to inspire a generation, and it

looks like the Olympics have done that tonight. Gabby said to me

tonight, it is a year to the day that the London riots started, and

we feared for the city then, we feared the effect they would have.

It feels as though a lot of things have come full circle, there has

been a feeling in these games, I don't know how long it will last,

but of a healing process and everybody coming together. This is

the kind of night that does bring people together and inspire people.

We are not even mentioning Greg Rutherford yet, he went into the

long jump final, hoping to but years of injury behind him and

joined Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis in this stadium at the moment? Of

this would be the greatest night in British athletics history. Will

Claye is the only athlete who can deny him gold. That is a foul, and

Greg Rutherford is the Olympic champion. Not many people would

have put it down as a Libby champion at the start of this year,

perhaps not even at the start of this competition -- as a Olympic

It is the most amazing feeling in the world. Four years ago I had a

horrible time, I couldn't cope very well in the final, I knew I was in

great shape, I have got probably one of the best teams in the world,

my coach is incredible, my therapist is incredible, I get

support from the Rotary Club in a bed that I have the most amazing

parents you could ever have. A beautiful girlfriend, just

everything! Life generally is pretty beautiful right now? I am

not going to lie! I can't tell you how much everybody has worked for

me, this has been a long process, and to be honest, I thought I was

going to jump further, but I don't A couple more tweet. Jamie, I don't

think I have ever shouted so much as I did in the one how. Mark says,

his peers, sausage at sandwich, cup of tea, then more tears. Greg

Rutherford, that was probably the biggest surprise of the night. He

put in a great job, but we thought others would do better. Absolutely,

we all came into the stadium of for Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah, they

were the headliners. I went to see Michael Phelps, another postscript,

he one gold, I got into the stadium, and my colleague was saying, the

story is going on either there, where the long jump was. It is just

one of those enchanted night. Rutherford was amazing. The

marching out of his victory as well. -- the margin of his victory.

Tomorrow night 89 will line up in the stadium behind us in one of the

most eagerly anticipated finals in the history of the Olympics. Will

we see the best of Usain Bolt? Today at the world's fastest man

had to start in the heat like stadium of the fastest man in

It was a bad start, I stumbled. I am glad it happened now. Usage you

are 95% fit. Is that good enough to take gold? We will see. All the big

guns made it through. Yohan Blake, three British sprinters, a 9.88

from Ryan Bailey, Justin Gatlin looked good as well. The final will

be epic. It could raise the roof. It could. I thought Bolt looked, by

his own unbelievable standards, slightly vulnerable. We know he has

had injury but the performances of some of the other guys that you

just mentioned there, who also looked like they were easing off a

bit towards the end, it will be one hell of a race, and in Beijing it

was a procession for Bolt. I don't think it will be this time. People

are saying it is a fast track. Hopefully this will explain it. I

have a chunk of Beijing track and a chunk of London track. On the back

of the Beijing one, there are squares. On the back of the London

one, diamonds. The squares and will only move in one way but the

diamonds move in all directions, so therefore you can use the energy

more efficiently from your foot and go a little bit faster. There will

be more of that on BBC Breakfast tomorrow. Maybe that is why we can

see faster times. So much thought has gone into the design of a lot

of the venues, in the velodrome as well. The heat in there, a special

temperature has been requested. degrees. It is hot. -- 28 degrees.

Credit to the organisers, they deserve credit. Let's tidy up some

of the other news. Thirst to the final of the women's 100m, which

was one by Shelley-Ann Fraser. The Jamaican successfully defended her

title. Carmelita Jeter it took silver, with Campbell-Brown taking

bronze. Adia you better 10 failed to qualify it for the final --

Odepitan. She still has another race to come they have. There was a

shocker for Dai Greene in the semi- final this evening, eventually

trailing in fourth place. Luckily for him, he scraped in to the final

as one of the fastest losers. Significant improvement needed for

him on Monday night. Christine Ohuruogu looks to be returning to

her best at the right time. She set a new season's best and finished

her semi-final very strongly, coming in second behind Sanya

She remains on course to retain her title, which would be an incredible

feat. Oscar Pistorius made history today. The South African became the

first double amputee to compete in the Olympics. I watched him race

this morning. He received a huge roar and responded to it, and he

qualified for the semi-finals of the 400m. He described the

experience as mind-blowing. There is a debate about Oscar Pistorius.

Some say he devalues the Olympics but others, we have had lots of

tweets about this. An amputee, Adam, said watching him is the most

inspirational thing he has seen in the Olympics. Did you mean that it

I have heard that argument. I spoke to Oscar in Italy at his training

camp. His answer, of which I agree with 100%, is that he does not want

to be in a corner. Why should people put Paralympians into a box

and say, that is your box, stay there. It is incredibly patronising

to say you cannot do that and I think most of his Paralympian

colleagues feel, good luck to him. He makes the point that a lot of

Paralympians run in able-bodied meets in their countries. He is

just trying to be the best he can be. He just thinks of himself as a

400m runner. There are 40 interviews in the outside media

zone and Oscar stopped for all of them and smiled throughout. We are

nearly halfway through the show and we have not even mentioned the

rowing. Eton Dorney has produced some incredible scenes and what a

regatta it has been for Team GB. Four gold medals, two silver medals

and three macro bronze medals. Elation, success, joy and heartache.

The men's fall rode Shia their boats with their ghosts of great

British Olympian pasts -- the men's four share their boats. In Athens,

Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell gave their all once again. Then a

new era began with a gold medal in Beijing. History was on board the G

champions! We have done it! We have done it in style! Great Britain,

It is beyond words. It is epic, magic, emotional. The crowd is

phenomenal. I am so proud. history and expectation bearing

over Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland. Few thought them capable

of gold in the lightweight double sculls. They have only been a pair

for a few months but they won with ease. They are the Olympic

champions! Things have moved so fast, it took a while for it all to

catch up. I don't know...! We just won the Olympics! You will be on a

stand tomorrow! That is what I said! Overwhelming. A word used

frequently about events at Eton Dorney. The flag had been raised

four times at the regatta, more than at any Olympics in a century,

and there was a chance for another. Zac Purchase and Mark ready to

defend their title. Competition rules allowed for emergency delay

while win this seat came loose and a restart. Team GB led for three-

quarters of the race. The gold was Denmark just sneaking ahead of

Great Britain on the line! Denmark's for the Olympic gold,

Great Britain for the silver! Without good tonic of victory, this

sport can be unbearable. Few can know the demands of Olympic rowing.

Mark Hunter can lean on one who We gave it everything, we tried

everything, we wanted to win so badly. We are just... So rich to

everybody we have let down. have let nobody down. -- sorry to

everybody. The silver medal will hang heavy but a reminder that not

all Olympic heroes are created by victory.

What a day at Eton Dorney. Michael Sayers on Twitter, if we could

emulate as a country what the rowing authority and cycling

authority has done in terms of nurturing talent, surely we would

have similar success in other sport. They have been astonishingly

successful. Look at the cycling particularly, what Dave Brailsford

has achieved. The rowing is a similar success story. It has been

a production line as well. It has not just been a one-off. I mean,

that tweet you have got there, there are important issues involved.

I don't know the answer to this but, are there class issues involved? A

lot of money was behind this. A lot of public schoolboys... But a lot

of them are from outside public schools. Helen Glover came from a

programme that she saw in an advert in a newspaper that Steve Redgrave

had put him. We are so short of time, Oliver, but we have seen the

success and the celebrations and for so many rowers that have won

gold, we saw the heartbreak for Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase, and

even the silver medal wasn't good enough. That is what sport is all

about. In many ways, I thought that was the most moving story of the

day. They let nobody down. Those kinds of stories epitomise the

Olympic spirit. I know it is a cliche but they do. To me,

different people have different views of winning and losing. I do

not think they lost today. They gave their all, they did everything

they could and that is all anybody can ask. Talking about inspiring a

generation, they inspired me Still more British interest to come,

you would be forgiven for thinking you are missing out on some

These Olympics have been pretty hot so far, but they hate is called

Super Saturday. If you don't know why, you will after this. What a

start after the women triathletes. After the 10 km run, could you do

A identical time, Nicola Spirig taking the tape first - just.

Things aren't always that dramatic but they can be pant. They were at

the table tennis table for the small matter of South Korea versus

North Korea. Politically charged, just a little! South Korea defeated

North Korea to reach the final to stop no such luck for their fences,

though, China beating them. But then China are a machine that keeps

on producing the bullion. They want two badminton golds, the second of

which was in the women's doubles, the event might in controversy

after the disqualification of four au pairs earlier in the week, ended

Pretty impressive, but so was Jessica Rossi's achievement, a 20-

year-old Italian police woman whose family lived in a tent near Bologna

after damage caused by an earthquake, smashed the world

record in trap shooting her she hit 99 out of 100 clay targets. But if

there was a medal for lunges at -- that are bitty, captain Canada

would get cold! He is 65 years of age, he has been an Olympic

competitor for 40 years. He has now appeared in more Olympics than any

This man lifted nearly 66 stone. In the men's and 94 kilogram

weightlifting, he broke the clean and jerk world record, lifting 233

kilograms. That was special but not as special as what happened in the

Olympic Stadium today. Not Great Britain's success, but a super

Saturday performance from the man from the Marshall Islands, in the

second heat of the 100 metres, he came home last in 12.81 seconds.

Here he comes. Three seconds behind the quickest qualifier. He had

competed in his first track event We shall continue the round-up in

tennis. If you managed to win all four Grand Slams has an Olympic

gold, they call it and it Coria Slam, and she thrashed Maria

Sharapova today. It was a ludicrously one-sided match which

she one 6-1, 6-1. She has been the stand-out player, and she destroyed

Sharapova. The last person to achieve the Golden Slam was Steffi

Graf. She was in the stadium, watching today. I don't know, it is

so much... I never expected gold, I was so happy with my gold in the

doubles, a thought I have everything now, singles, doubles,

everything, I have it. Where do we go from here? You have won

everything. Now I can go to Disney World!

Andy Murray is enjoying his Olympics. He and Laura Robinson --

lips and reached the semi-finals, it was a pretty dramatic victory,

they one the match at 10-8 in the tie-break. They then had to play

the German duo, Christopher Kas and Sabine Lisicki. It went to a tie-

break, and once again, the British pair came through. The gold medal

match is on Sunday against Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka of

Belarus. That is just after Andy Murray plays Roger Federer in his

singles final. It was the last night of the swimming. Can you

believe we have had a week of competition and Michael Farah ended

the week with another gold! He was part of the relay team, it means he

can now retire from the sport with 18 Olympic golds to his name, and

22 overall. He is the most decorated Olympian of all time.

dreamt of being the greatest. Bob and I have worked together to

become that, and we have been able to do everything we ever wanted to

do. I am looking back at my career, I know I'm hanging by see it up,

retiring, and looking back, saying I have done everything I ever

wanted. I couldn't be happier. I have said this many times, having

my mum and family here is the best feeling in the world.

There was a disappointing end for Team GB, Fran Halsall came 5th, and

there medley relay team came last. I just want to say that the support

we have had this week has been unbelievable, and the crowd have

been unbelievable, and I'm a bit disappointed I haven't been

unbelievable this week. That's not I think things are sent to try out,

and we are British, and we come back stronger, that is what we are

going to do. I think we need to finish the show

with a bit of a week later! Time to go to the Velodrome, the medals

keep rolling in. Those fortunate enough to have a ticket continued

Great Britain win the Olympic title and the gold medal. And another

world record! And so the great British domination of the Velodrome

continues. The Women's pursuit team the latest one to take gold. Over

12 laps up the trio of Laura Trott, Dani King and Jo Rowsell

systematically destroyed their American opposition and took half a

You don't know what is going to happen, you have to keep pushing

till the finish. I believed in us from the start, I knew we could do

it, it is just getting it done. We did the world record in the process,

that is a bonus. Incredibly they have now recorded world records in

each of their last six competitive races, but these are sporting stars

collide down to earth. Can you believe it! I mean, look at us! I

It was a slightly disappointing for Ed Clancy in the omnium. He fell

behind in the points race and the elimination race, that is where the

last rider to cross the line drops out every two laps, but it remains

tight, and Ed Clancy his fourth overall with three more disciplines

tomorrow. Overall, the news is good at the Velodrome. Four out of five

medals there have been one by Team -- have been won.

We have spoken about the cyclists are a lot over the last few days.

Seb Coe it said tonight that traditional British reserve has

crumbled as strangers exchange Olympic news. Volunteers, high-

flying travellers, when normally you get an angry stare if you brush

their umbrella. Is this just for two weeks or will there be lasting

legacy? I don't know. I hope there will be lasting success and legacy

and there has been quite a lot of talk about that this evening on

social networking sites. Will we forget about this magic, as we have

done in the past, when the football starts again? Every four years it

will come back. Things are changing in cycling. It is as light cliche

again, but our cyclists have become sport's new rock and roll -- a

slight cliche. Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish, huge personalities

and they are not going to go away. Pardew the Tour de France and what

has happened here, cycling is big - - partly. That has had a big impact

Great Britain is in third place. We had 19 gold medals in Beijing,

remember. 14 at the moment. An impressive medal table to look at.

One tweet I wanted to share, my favourite of the day. Thomas has

said: I cuddled a very smelly man on the Tube tonight, I couldn't

help myself. A eyesore that quote from Sapcote earlier and everybody

has felt that feeling -- I saw that quotation from Seb Coe. It is like

the national character has changed and let's hope it lasts because it

rubs off on you and it makes everybody feel better. It is high

time we rounded off some of the other Team GB action. Boxing.

Safely through to the quarter- finals of the light welterweight.

The world number one in the red saw off the Indian, who was very

unhappy with the points decision. The women's hockey team were

boosted by the return of Kate Walsh today, although she was forced to

wear a protective mask after fracturing her jaw, but even her

presence could not stop Team GB slipping to a defeat against China.

They only needed a point to make sure of reaching the semi-finals.

On Sunday they will face the Olympic champions, the Dutch, and

they need a result. The dream is over for the handball team. They

had a pretty torrid time. Despite a decent first half, they were beaten

by the African champions, Tunisia. They are playing the reigning

silver medallists, Iceland, on Monday in their remaining Games.

The same story for the volleyball team, who lost their fourth

successive game today. Not a disgrace, because they were beaten

by the favourites, Poland. A tough match for Team GB but they still

ended up losing in straight sets. The final game is on Monday against

Argentina. Four defeats out of four so the men's British water polo

team. The latest defeat at the hands of Hungary. Team GB cannot

now advanced to the knockout stage, you will not be surprised to hear.

It was a mixed day for the British divers in the women's three-metre

springboard. Both failed to qualify for the final. The 17-year-old

Hannah Starling narrowly missed out on a top 12 place. Rebecca

Gallantree had a day to forget. She was well adrift and eventually

finished in last place. Huge disappointment yesterday for the

women's football team last night as Great Britain lost to Canada in the

quarter-finals in Coventry. Stuart Pearce's men still had the chance

in the Olympics! South Korea are in the lead! Why untouched, bang. --

They had been outplayed so far in this half. That has got to be a

It was a very similar penalty to the first one. It wasn't

this quarter-final at the Penalty heartache. South Korea go

on to the semi-finals, where they play Brazil. Mexico will play Japan

for a place in the final after they beat Senegal. Japan beat Egypt.

It tells you everything about today. The home team going out of a

football tournament on penalties is the eighth story of the day. Lots

of tweets today saying, have the football has learned a bit from the

way the Olympians have conducted themselves about their general

conduct and dealing with pressure? I am not sure. There is the subtext

that the footballers have let us down, whether cyclists have

excelled. That is what people are so you. But the suggestion is that

it is a question of character. I don't think it is. Why do we

criticise the footballers and say that Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase

are heroes for coming second? There is a subtext that somehow the

footballers did not try as much and it will not hurt them as much to

lose. I think it probably hurt them just as much. They are not second-

class citizens in these Olympics. There are issues with the

disconnect between the British public and football at the moment.

Probably coming from wages and maybe some off-field behaviour. As

you know as well as I do, they are not all bad and a lot of them a

decent fellows who are incredibly committed and devoted to their

sport in the same way that a lot of Olympians are. There is that

disconnect between the superstar footballers and the general public

at the moment, yes. Some of the other news from Team GB today.

Britain's best bouncer, Kat Driscoll, Mr up from the

trampolining finals. She needed a top eight finish -- missed out of

the trampolining finals. But it was still the best finish for Britain

in the history of trampolining at the Olympics. It has not been a

great day for British sailors. Paul Goodison is out of medal contention.

He has been struggling with a bad back. He has finished in 6th place

overall. Ashley Young is also out of contention. Team GB made a solid

start in the first qualifying round of the individual show jumping. Ben

Maher and Nick Skelton both made it through to the next set. Scott

Brash also qualified. The only downside was the elimination of

former European champion, Peter Charles. How is this for pushing

through the pain barrier? Peter Kirkbride tour his bicep during

this failed attempt to lift during this match. You would think, gamers

are. But he was not going to let that beat him -- game over. He then

went on to lift 190 kilos in the clean and jerk, setting a new

personal best. Heroic effort, but not quite enough for the British

man to make the final. The men's basketball team are out of the

Olympics. They let slip a 15 point lead to lose to Australia. They

have one game left but can no longer qualify from the knockout

Let's finish with a look at It is all about the same stuff, no

football, all about the Olympics. Will we ever see a day of

achievement like this in any sport? Or Prix will have to go some.

say never, but today has been an amazing day. We have all been at

fantastic events before, Champions' League finals, Ryder Cups, but for

a day of British Board across the spectrum it is going to be very

hard to beat today. Can you or Oliver have a word with Seb Coe,

can at London have the Olympics every decade? We a him a decade --

of debt. He has a vision for these Olympics come a has seen it through.

And so far, it is paying off spectacularly. It has been an

amazing thing to be involved with. It feels like the final might and

there is still a week to go! There could be far more a tale to tell.

There will be, but there is an awful lot to come. I am almost

dreading the end of it, it has been so great, you are starting to feel,

it is going to be such a let-down when it is over, because like Seb

Coe book was saying cover everything around it seems to have

changed. You need a hug from Sharron Davies! What a night it has

been. Thank you for all watching. I will be back tomorrow night. How do

you sum up things? Let's be thankful for our athletes, cyclists,

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all of our Olympians for giving us champions, a magnificent at that! -

- effort! An incredible, incredible scull. They go into the record