16/08/2016 Olympic Sportsday

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Hello and welcome to Olympic Sportsday -

I'm Reshmin Chowdhury - these are your headlines tonight.

Top of the leaderboard with two events to go -

Laura Trott has history in her sights in the women's omnium.

Nicola Adams is guaranteed at least a bronze, as she began the defence

And all in a day's work - Usain Bolt breezes

into the semi-finals of the men's 200 metres.

Jack Burnell is left fuming at the referees,

after finishing third, then fifth and then being disqualified

Not the title defence he was hoping for -

as Ilya Zakharov of Russia failed to qualify for the men's

three metres springboard final after this...

Day eleven of the Rio Olympics have already begun, with Great Britain

There's already a guaranteed gold in the sailing today,

we'll be live at Guarabara Bay shortly.

Nicola Adams began the defence of her Boxing crown by getting

And there was controversy galore in the boxing and the men's

But we start with events in the Velodrome, where the golden

couple of British cycling are looking to make history.

Laura Trott has her sights on becoming Britain's most decorated

female Olympian in the omnium, with a twelve point lead

While her fiancee Jason Kenny could go on a par with Britain's

most successful male of all time, as he bids to match Sir Chris Hoy's

The velodrome has been the home of British gold, four medals have

already been won and another three could come tonight. One of those

could find its way around the neck of Jason Kelly. The quiet man of

British Cycling has five gold medals safely stored away. The Karen offers

a chance for six, he sailed into the second tonight but will be there

without his team-mate Callum Skinner who finished last in his seat and

then despite winning his repechage, found himself relegated for this

move on his American rival. His games are over but for Laura Trott

her eyes are set on history, victory in the Omnium and she will become

the first British woman to have won four gold medals. And it is within

reach. In the four events Silva Laura Trott has finished second,

first, first and second. It is about as consistent as she could hope for.

Second quickest in the Time trial kept her place on top of the

leaderboard with the final two events to come this evening. Becky

James and Katie Marchand will be hoping to go for gold as well, James

had a colourful character from China in her wake of the world champion

though was swept aside. Marchand to was in devastating fashion, both

winning in straight rides as the UK once again looks forward to another

night of success in the velodrome. Sir Chris Hoy made history

at the London Olympics with his sixth Olympic gold medal,

and he believes Jason Kenny is in great shape to match

his impressive haul. Kenny begins the semi-finals

of the Keirin later and Hoy revealed He looks relaxed, there is always a

relief after the first round. Just one less ride on your legs before

the final. He rode very well from the front and I told him to get to

the front tonight and stay out of trouble. You tend to get stuck in

the pack without the confidence to go from the front and he certainly

has the form. In the Finn-class sailing,

Britain's Giles Scott has an unassailable lead and is already

guaranteed the Gold medal. He is taking to the water ahead

of tonight's final, which is due We can cross over to our reporter

Shirley Robertson, who is there Great hopes for Giles Scott

on another busy day It is a hectic day and Giles Scott

has just started. You can see them behind me, and as we say he has

already won a gold medal, he was so far ahead in all of the heat is that

almost this race is irrelevant. But he will not be thinking that, he

will want to win it and it is to be a celebratory lap of honour. And he

deserves it, he did not get selected for London and he could well have

won a gold medal there. Ben Ainslie won gold. This has been a long time

coming. It is going to be quite a race and quite emotional when he

finishes and realises that the gold medal is his. It will be quite

something else. Lots more going on here, Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark

are racing in the double handed. It is their final race before the medal

race and they're just getting to the part where they can guarantee

themselves a medal. So great hopes there. And also couple of other

medal races, the single-handed Nick Thompson and Alison Young for the

women and they both came into this event with great hopes but have

walked away empty-handed. So disappointment for Team GB there but

a lot to celebrate. Good to talk to you.

There's been plenty of action in the Olympic Stadium already,

mixed results for the Brits, but the star of the track,

Usain Bolt, was looking relaxed as ever.

Let's go straight to our sports correspondent, Chris McLaughlin

who's in the Olympic Park for us now.

The British interest in the morning on the track?

Absolutely, Liz McColgan, you may remember her, the distance runner

who won silver previously, her daughter is through to the 5000

metres final full stop not expected, she returned from a broken ankle is

just in February. So a great run from her, fifth in her heat. And she

is through to the final on Sunday. And also, Charlie Grice is due to

the 1500 metres semis. You threw on appeal, it was not looking good for

him but he was sitting in tenth place and was clipped and fell and

he appealed and now finds himself in the semifinals. Also a good run

today from the Scott, Chris O'Hare. They're both through. And Ailish

McColgan through to the final of the 5000 metres.

Men's 200m heats - mixed results for the British men

but the star is looking good.

But mixed results for the British? Usain Bolt said he does not like

mornings and was glad to get that race out of the way! He jogged his

way to qualifying as we expected that he would. Adam Gemili is

through as well, second in his heat, 20 .20 for him. Justin Gatlin also

through. This was Adam Gemili qualifying. 20.20 as I said. He is

in esteemed company in the 200 metres, Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt

also breezing through today. But safely through four Adam Gemili.

In the field events - success for Holly Bradshaw and also

this morning there have been medals won?

That is right, holly Bradshaw in the pole vault, the British

record-holder. She had a disappointing 2012 in London. She

was six in that event and is determined to make up for four years

ago. And she is safely through and a decent chance of a medal for Holly

Bradshaw in the pole vault. And already some medals today in the

triple jump and discus. The American Christian Taylor, becoming the first

American to successfully defend his triple jump crown since 1904. And

his compatriot will play also won silver and in the discus, the German

Christoph parting, 68.37, enough for a gold medal for him. His brother

actually won the gold medal in the event in 2012. But it is Christoph

this time winning the bragging rights at this time around.

How has the trial of medal events in the morning

Well it did not go down well with Usain Bolt, he did not like the

mornings! But it seems to be going well, the organisers have admitted

there are problems with attendance at some of these venues and problems

with attendance at the Olympic Park certainly in the early stages of the

tournament. But certainly looks as though attendances have been

improving. As you would expect going into the finals and semifinals. But

I would think the organisers are probably quite pleased with this

trial of having these finals earlier on in the day. Plenty of action

coming up later, Tina Ash Smith also involved? Absolutely but first Lord

your goals this evening in the 1500 metres, the Scot broke the record of

Kelly Holmes last month at the Anniversary Games. She has a very

good chance of a medal, Laura your. -- Muir. And also Tina Ash Smith,

the 20 old, through to the 200 metres semis tonight. Very tough

opposition for her, up against the new 100 metre champion Elaine

Thompson. And definition of the Netherlands. It will always be tough

for her. -- Diana Schiffer of the Netherlands.

Nicola Adams will definitely add at least a bronze medal

The 33 year-old made a good start to her Olympic title defence

After receiving a bye in the first round, she was up

against Ukraine's Tetyana Kob in the quarter-finals.

The defending champion looked relaxed throughout and dominated

the score cards at the Rio Centro Pavilion.

So no surprise the judges went with Adams.

She's through to Thursday's semi-finals with a comprehensive

decision and caught up with John Inverdale shortly after.

You get a feel for the ring and what it is about and it was just nice to

get that out of the way. And I have sealed the middle. The one certainty

is you get better as the competition goes on. Definitely. I was not at my

best there but I'm sure to improve as the days go on. It is now the

second Tuesday, you have been here for a long time waiting while

everyone else has been performing and winning medals, has that been

frustrating? I have been so eager to get in the ring, I have been

watching the lads go up boxing and are wanted to just get in the ring

myself. It is nice to have the first one out of the way and sealed the

middle. I would just like to thank everyone at home for their support.

And a surprise defeat for Michael Conlon in his bantam

He wasn't happy with the decision - criticising the judges

I am unbelievably angry. I came here for an Olympic gold medal and feel I

have been cheated of that. I wanted to be a two times Olympic medallist,

Olympic champion, and today my dream has been shattered. I would advise

anyone not to compete because they probably are one of the most corrupt

companies in the world. People know they are corrupt company. The first

round, did you get information that you had lost it on the scorecard?

I've got information afterwards. In the first round, I was so

comfortable, not even out of breath. I thought I had won it easily. I

fought him and his own game in the next round and the last round I

fought him too. But it is what it is, I have been robbed of my Olympic

dream. The amateur International Boxing Association has since denied

allegations made by Conlon in that interview.

Great Britain's Jack Burnell has also blasted the referees,

after being disqualified at the end of the men's open water swimming

The 23 year-old was well in the mix for a medal during a frantic finale.

He was initially in for a photo finish, after clocking the same time

But after much confusion, Burnell was then demoted to fifth,

before being disqualified altogether for a second caution

Ferry Weertman of Holland finished in an hour 52 minutes and 59.8

Speaking to Matthew Pinsent straight after the race,

Burnell reacted furiously at the decision.

It is supposed to be the grandest stage of all with everything

perfect, all this great scenery and stuff. And the one thing that ruins

it is referees. 600 and however many boats out there, not needed, and

every single person on the boat no idea what they're doing. Giving out

yellow cards for absolutely nothing and then disqualifying people about

two metres from the end when people are grabbing hold of legs and

everything. In the end apparently I was disqualified, about two metres

from the finish, the first yellow card I got was coming down the

straight back. I was second, behind the guy in front, there was no one

either side of me and he pulled out a yellow card. I could not

physically have touched anybody either side of me and I get a yellow

card. You explain that to me. The yellow card is meant to be for

unnecessary contact. There was no one around me. I shook my head at

the guy, Mike, what do you want me to do! Is meant to be the pinnacle

of our sport and you have referees out there who do not have a clue

what they're doing. And you were aware of the second? Not a clue,

apparently it was to three metres from the end, we were all coming in

in line, all the best guys on the water, you're always going to be

close. I felt a hand on the back of my leg which stopped me dead with

two metres to go and I took couple more strokes and the guy was still

on my foot. Words cannot describe, four years of brutal hard work to

get to this and ruined by a couple of judges that just want to pull out

a few cards. Britain's Marcus Ellis

and Chris Langridge have lost their badminton

men's doubles semi-final. They were beaten by the Chinese pair

Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan by 2 games Ellis and Langridge play in

the bronze medal match on Thursday. Four years ago they were gold

medallists, but this time around Great Britain's show jumping team

have failed to make the final. They finished 12th

overall with 13 faults. John Whitaker struggled,

with Ornellaia stuttering Team GB's Ben Maher

and Nick Skelton are into Friday's Jack Laugher has scraped

into the final of the 3m springboard, finishing in the last

qualifying spot in the semi-finals The 21-year-old won a brilliant gold

medal in the 3m synchro with Chris Mears to become Britain's

first ever Olympic diving champions. He also arrived in Rio

with ambitions of an individual medal but very nearly failed to make

the 12-man final after two Day eleven of the Rio Games has seen

the last of the canoe medals handed Sebastian Brendel of Germany

won his second consecutive gold in the men's 1,000-metres

canoe sprint. Hosts Brazil took silver,

while Moldova won the bronze Germany had to settle for silver

in the women's 500 metres Gabriella Szabo and Danuta Kozak

of Hungary took first place...but Meanwhile, it was a second straight

gold for New Zealand's Lisa Carrington in the women's 200

metres canoe sprint, with Poland and Azerbaijan

in the silver and And, it was Spaniard Marcus Walz

who came from behind to win The 21-year-old, who was

born in Oxford, saw off Well the organisers of the

Paralympic Games are under pressure. It has been a difficult last two

weeks since we found out that real had financial issues. We must now

try to find additional funding to plug the hole that they have got --

Rio. We want to start getting travel grants because some countries may

not even be able to afford to get to Rio.. I think the mayor of Rio has

given assurances that money will be made available. We met him yesterday

and he is a huge advocate of the Paralympic Games and what they can

do for his city. He is committed to 150 million in the Brazilian

currency. But we cannot access that funding because currently there is

an injunction prohibiting any further public funding going into

the organising committee unless they make their accounts public. What we

have urged the organising committee to do overnight is to make those

accounts public so we can start to benefit from that funding. As soon

as we get the money we can start to provide travel down -- grants to

countries to get to the games. We've heard stories about 50 countries

being affected. It could possibly be more? We are trying to limit it at

the moment, we have probably ten who are really in jeopardy at the moment

and we're working with them to try to make sure the grants get to them.

It could be as many as one in three countries not able to get to the

games. Those most likely affected will be the smaller nations with 12

athletes, Africa, some countries in Asia and some in the Americas. We

want all 165 countries to get to the games because that is what the

athletes deserve. They had been training for four years for this

event and it is only right that to win gold they beat the best

Paralympic athletes from around the world. How does this impact on the

IPC operation? Massively, we have been planning for this for seven

years and effectively we have had to shred those plans and come up with

new plans 22 days away from the games. We are having to be flexible,

we do not want, one thing we always said is no matter what happens, we

want to protect the experience for the athletes but unfortunately no

extra funding, we may have to make cuts to the athlete experience. That

could be things like reducing the frequency of buses, changing the

food available in the athletes village, it is not ideal 22 days

away from the Paralympic Games. Away from the Olympics for a moment

- the former president of FIFA, Joao Havelange has died

at the age of one hundred. The Brazilian led the organisation

for almost a quarter of a century and is widely credited

with transforming football But Havelange's era at the head

of world football's governing body was marred by allegations

of corruption in recent years. Our sports reporter

David Ornstein has more. When the massively expanded the

games giving many more countries the chance to shine on the world stage.

He also introduced new tournaments such as the women's World Cup but

then came corruption allegations and he resigned as honorary president in

2013 following a panorama investigation into those in

attendance accusing him of taking millions of dollars of bribes from a

Swiss marketing firm over the awarding of marketing contracts for

major tournaments. He was also a member of the International Olympic

Committee between 1963 and 2011, resigning from that on the grounds

of ill-health which also meant that he avoided investigation over the

same allegations. As a sportsman he swam for Brazil at the 1936

Olympics, he competed for their water polo team at the 1952 games

and was their Chef de Mission at the 1956 Olympics. He helped Rio win the

right to stage the Olympics that we see before us today and even the

stadium where the athletics is taking place is named after him. So

the legacy lives on. Pep Guardiola insists he has no

issues with Yaya Toure, despite not including the Ivorian

in the squad for tonight's Champions League play-off away

at Steuea Bucharest. Toure was also left out of last

weekend's Premier League victory over Sunderland,

alongside keeper Joe Hart. But speaking ahead of the match

in Romania, the Spaniard says I was not sure if he was going to

play, their training well in Manchester because we're travelling

with young guys who maybe we'll stay out of the selection, I do not know.

After selection at prefer to be the young guys. Well British gymnasts

are facing a busy evening. Amy Tinkler in action. And the parallel

bars event has just finished. The Ukrainian has taken the gold medal

there. He edged ahead of the American competitor with Russia

finishing third. We go to some live pictures of the women's tour final

mile. The Chinese gymnast out at the moment. We're waiting a 16-year-old

Amy Tinkler, the only Brit left in this final. Not expected necessary

to win a medal but after the success of Max Whitlock in the men's draw

final the other day you could never bet against anyone at these Olympic

Games. Who knows. As we can cross also over to be sailing, Giles Scott

is competing in the Finn class final. He is guaranteed a gold medal

of course. He has an unassailable lead. And he hopes to add to the

medal haul for Great Britain making it 41 in total. Just approaching the

finishing line there. Live pictures from Rio. A fist pump of victory!

And that is John Scott crossing the line. -- Giles Clark. The 17th

gold-medal so far. He went into this with a huge lead and he will take

the gold medal. We're still waiting for him to reach that final, almost

their! He has just done it. Jake Lilley, the world number five,

coming in in tenth place. Wonderful victory there and another gold medal

for Great Britain of course. And this wasn't quite

how Ilya Zakharov was The Russian failed to qualify

for the men's three metres springboard final after finishing

last after this.... There'll be more sport here on BBC

News throughout the evening.