:00:17. > :00:23.Tonight, the fire takes to the West Country water. It has travelled
:00:23. > :00:28.from LANs and, through Devon and Somerset, plaster -- past
:00:28. > :00:34.Glastonbury and Wales. 8000 people, all of them carrying the torch 300
:00:34. > :00:39.metres on a daily journey of 100 miles using 68 different forms of
:00:39. > :00:49.transport as it goes through 1021 different villages, towns and
:00:49. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:30.cities across the UK. Tonight, it The message of the Olympic torch
:01:30. > :01:34.his friendship, peace and unity and there is no doubt that the people
:01:34. > :01:41.of the West Country have united behind the concept of the Olympic
:01:41. > :01:47.flame. There are tens of thousands of people crowded round the docks.
:01:47. > :01:53.All vessels of Great and Small were out on the water. Be quick question
:01:53. > :02:03.is, where is that torch at the moment? Amy Williams is somewhere
:02:03. > :02:11.near its. I am down on the water. I can see the flame and the torch and
:02:11. > :02:21.the atmosphere is incredible. The flame has been passing from -- a
:02:21. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:31.three many places and has touched many hands tonight. It is fantastic.
:02:31. > :02:41.It is with a young Paralympic athlete training -- training with
:02:41. > :02:50.the sailing squad and she is incredible. She is 21. It is her
:02:50. > :02:54.birthday tomorrow. Let's see what kind of a woman she is. When you
:02:54. > :03:03.catch that bit of wind and you can feel the boat accelerating, there
:03:03. > :03:11.is a split second where I feel like I am flying. It does link to
:03:12. > :03:19.yourself. I feel at peace sometimes. I feel free and it is great. I
:03:19. > :03:28.sailed be 2.4 single-handed class. I have quite good STRENGTH and I
:03:29. > :03:33.used a joystick to steer the boat. There is lots of positions. I would
:03:33. > :03:37.love to be a gold medallist one day and would like to win the gold
:03:37. > :03:47.medal in the World Cup as well. Just a few things. The main thing
:03:47. > :03:48.
:03:48. > :03:58.is to progress. You have moments when you are going along and the
:03:58. > :04:02.sun comes out. You think life is just totally amazing and what I
:04:02. > :04:06.have been through, it is totally it worth it for this moment and if
:04:06. > :04:11.this split-second. A lot of people say it is like you are dancing with
:04:11. > :04:19.it and it is. You are moving with it, leaning up with it and moving
:04:19. > :04:25.as one. When I first started to carry the Olympic torch, I was in
:04:25. > :04:30.complete shock. I stopped talking for five minutes which was the
:04:30. > :04:37.longest time as ever. It was like a big wave suddenly hit and it was
:04:37. > :04:43.like, wow, oh, my word. The privilege was immense. Complete
:04:43. > :04:46.pride and being able to represent Bristol is a complete honour. I
:04:46. > :04:56.represent sailing and Paralympic sailing which is something that I
:04:56. > :04:58.
:04:58. > :05:08.feel very passionate about. What an inspirational lady. But we are
:05:08. > :05:11.surrounded by all these colourful boat's down here on the water. That
:05:11. > :05:21.torch has 8000 calls on it representing the 8000 people that
:05:21. > :05:22.
:05:22. > :05:27.are carrying it. It is representing unity, peace and friendship and I
:05:27. > :05:33.hope everyone here can get the sense of it with that flame.
:05:33. > :05:40.you see her? I have to say, you talk about friendship, unity and
:05:40. > :05:49.peace. It defies all rational thought that all these thousands of
:05:49. > :05:56.people have come to watch an inanimate object. It is hugely
:05:56. > :06:01.uplifting and life affirming to be here. We have live music at the
:06:01. > :06:06.moment. There have been local dances and singers on the stage.
:06:06. > :06:13.That is the essence of what this torch relay is about, it is about
:06:13. > :06:17.someone that you know who has been chosen to carry the torch. It is
:06:17. > :06:25.about them mixing with the great and the good of the music and
:06:26. > :06:28.sporting world. Didier Drogba or carries it in Wiltshire tomorrow.
:06:28. > :06:32.Our first guests appear, an Olympian, is somebody who will be
:06:32. > :06:42.carrying the torch and a few weeks' time and he is somebody who is at
:06:42. > :06:43.
:06:43. > :06:53.home on the water. There is a moment, before the race
:06:53. > :06:58.
:06:58. > :07:04.Metres, measured in the mind, every kick and turn it rehearsed. Each
:07:04. > :07:14.movement imagined across a narrow lane of see that stretches back
:07:14. > :07:36.
:07:36. > :07:42.four years. There is a moment and Five times he has risen to the
:07:42. > :07:50.Olympic challenge. Five times he has taken on the world. A leader
:07:50. > :07:56.within his nation, a standard bearer for a country. An
:07:56. > :08:01.inspiration for the 2012 generation. Mark Foster, is it loud up here all
:08:01. > :08:07.what? I saw pictures of your holding the Olympic flag in Beijing.
:08:07. > :08:12.If carrying the torch is something else, being the flag-bearer at an
:08:12. > :08:17.Olympic Games must have been almost beyond belief. If it was an honour
:08:17. > :08:25.and a humbling moments. The team got behind me to carry out the flag.
:08:25. > :08:28.The rest of the team were behind me and it was a huge honour. It
:08:28. > :08:32.enabled Chris Hoy and Rebecca Adlington to rest in their bed
:08:32. > :08:40.because it was heavy and they needed a big man to carry it. No,
:08:40. > :08:48.that is a joke. We have extraordinary scenes here and I'm
:08:48. > :08:52.sure people watching today, at the crowds here have been amazing.
:08:52. > :09:02.is one of the things but the torch relay. It has never been to the UK
:09:02. > :09:11.before where I have engaged with it. It is almost like a mini carnival.
:09:11. > :09:19.Everybody has been getting really involved with it. They hopefully
:09:19. > :09:25.feel part of the Olympic Games. Every time I hear music, I want to
:09:25. > :09:30.dance. Are you going to dance? I am about to be joined by a second
:09:30. > :09:33.great Olympian, a man that appeared in five Olympic Games. He is
:09:33. > :09:41.somebody that had to master five different sports to secure her
:09:41. > :09:51.place on the Olympic podium. Individual events, one after the
:09:51. > :09:52.
:09:52. > :10:00.other. Combined in one competition. Excellence required again and again.
:10:00. > :10:10.A contest that carries the athlete from one challenge to the next.
:10:10. > :10:11.
:10:11. > :10:21.Forces, many battles within a single day. Five sporting
:10:21. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:42.disciplines, one complete event. There Kate Allenby, Olympian,
:10:42. > :10:48.medallist, a prize seized their muscles were torn. A decade at the
:10:48. > :10:58.summit. A true competitor, an Olympic bronze medal gained through
:10:58. > :10:59.
:10:59. > :11:06.individual events that demand a complete athlete. Kate Allenby is
:11:06. > :11:10.here in her tracksuit and also, where is your special prop? Here is
:11:10. > :11:15.your own personal Olympic torch that you will not be selling on the
:11:15. > :11:21.eBay. You round today in Bath and the scenes there looked
:11:21. > :11:31.extraordinary. It was an incredible experience. I didn't think it would
:11:31. > :11:38.
:11:38. > :11:42.be like that. I came around the corner and saw so many people. It
:11:42. > :11:50.brings together friendship and unity and you really felt that.
:11:50. > :12:00.it this scale that you hadn't expected? It was way beyond what I
:12:00. > :12:03.
:12:03. > :12:13.thought. I saw friends, family, I totally welled up. It was amazing
:12:13. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:17.to see them supporting me and Marks the Olympics or rarely coming.
:12:17. > :12:25.Having the Olympic flame and there really brought everyone together
:12:25. > :12:32.and marked it starting for the start-up of the whole thing.
:12:32. > :12:36.Something that occurs to me today, especially at Plymouth when they
:12:36. > :12:40.had 50,000 people turn up, there is competition going on around the
:12:40. > :12:44.country, where people in the Midlands when the torch goes there
:12:44. > :12:51.and the north-west, they will be saying, hang on a minute, Bristol
:12:51. > :12:58.had so many people. We have to do more than that. People try to go
:12:58. > :13:03.began better. Today, they tried to break a world record in Bath for
:13:03. > :13:09.people making human Olympic rings. In Scotland, they will probably be
:13:09. > :13:17.doing that with 50,000 people. The beauty of it A's, people will not
:13:17. > :13:21.get bored of it. Everyone is coming out and wants to see it. It is
:13:21. > :13:25.about the flame and the people carrying yet. The great thing about
:13:25. > :13:30.the flame is it is so what uniting and it is much more than London's
:13:30. > :13:34.Games. What the Olympics have done is given some cities to form links
:13:34. > :13:44.with other countries around the world and that is precisely what
:13:44. > :13:50.
:13:50. > :13:56.SINGING. Children at night Roby primary school with a song composed
:13:56. > :14:01.for the Olympics to be sung at schools across the country. It is
:14:01. > :14:07.one of 10 in Nairobi paired with Bristol schools. Our aim is to
:14:07. > :14:14.create a global citizen and clear up stereotypes that exist between
:14:14. > :14:20.the African culture and the UK culture. They can understand that
:14:20. > :14:27.as much as our cultures differ, we are, at the end of the day, the
:14:27. > :14:33.same. This man was one of the greatest runners. He has set up a
:14:33. > :14:36.high altitude training centre and a school at his home town. He is the
:14:36. > :14:42.chairman of the Kenyan national Olympic committee and a driving
:14:42. > :14:52.force behind the Bristol/Kenyan partnership. We feel honoured to be
:14:52. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :15:00.able to go to Bristol and train our athletes. There is a development
:15:00. > :15:10.and the friendship between the two cities is important. At Ashton Park
:15:10. > :15:14.
:15:15. > :15:20.School, this group of people are getting ready for their sports day.
:15:20. > :15:24.They are all really excited about learning. It is completely
:15:24. > :15:29.different over there. Over here, there is a reaction -- negative
:15:29. > :15:33.reaction to scoreboard over there, they love it. As they prepare for
:15:33. > :15:38.the Olympics, the Kenyan athletes are coming to visit schools in the
:15:38. > :15:41.Bristol/Kenyan partnership, helping to cement relationships that they
:15:41. > :15:45.hope will continue long after the Games are over.
:15:45. > :15:49.That is the whole issue of legacy which has been the word of the
:15:49. > :15:59.Olympic Games over their last seven years and will continue for many
:15:59. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:09.We will have to wait 66 days until we find out. Someone who carried
:16:09. > :16:18.the flame earlier today is ironic Amy Williams who was out and about
:16:18. > :16:24.earlier today. -- is our very own. On a boat for you are, how was it
:16:25. > :16:33.like for you? For me, it was incredible. That feeling of pride,
:16:34. > :16:39.seeing all the streets lined. I felt incredible. She must be
:16:39. > :16:43.feeling the same, she is last person to carry the torch here. I
:16:44. > :16:48.am in the middle of bright colours, this little authority children on
:16:48. > :16:56.different vaults, sailing around, showing off to us all and all these
:16:56. > :17:01.crowds. They are the future of our British sailing team. They train
:17:01. > :17:07.here in the West, in Bristol. They are loving it. The crowds are just
:17:07. > :17:13.amazing. It is just electrifying down here. I just feel amazing. I
:17:13. > :17:20.am nervous and I think this whole show tonight, we can he wreck
:17:20. > :17:24.behind us on that stage behind, and it is just amazing for everyone.
:17:24. > :17:30.John, these children and everyone here is going to remember it for
:17:30. > :17:35.the rest of their lives. Absolutely. Rarely has this place looked so
:17:35. > :17:39.magnificent. You could be in the south of France. This place has
:17:39. > :17:47.been regenerated of last 20 years. Everybody getting the best vantage
:17:47. > :17:53.point they can do which is in preparation for that charge. The
:17:53. > :18:01.noise as well he is the thing that struck me. How was that for you end
:18:01. > :18:06.Bath? The streets were so full. The crowd were just so excited. For me,
:18:06. > :18:13.it was for the children, because it is about inspiring them. You doctor
:18:13. > :18:19.any Olympian and they talk about something whilst they were in
:18:19. > :18:24.primary school. It was watching Sebastien Coe winning in Moscow.
:18:24. > :18:29.Other children to watch someone, I hope we can inspire them to do.
:18:29. > :18:34.Welcome to our viewers on the BBC News Channel. The Olympic torch is
:18:34. > :18:38.currently out on the water just now and it will be brought to dry land
:18:38. > :18:42.in the next few minutes. If that is their first pictures you have seen
:18:42. > :18:47.in Bristol tonight, you can see the extraordinary way the people of the
:18:47. > :18:57.city have turned out tonight. We have thousands and thousands of
:18:57. > :19:08.
:19:08. > :19:15.people, literally tried to get the most vantage -- -- most critical
:19:16. > :19:21.vantage point. Mark, I mention the word legacy earlier. There are
:19:21. > :19:26.still some sceptics who wonder whether come October or so, the
:19:26. > :19:32.Olympics will be signed -- consigned to the Olympic books. IDC
:19:32. > :19:38.how this is changing people's beset them off sport? Army children are
:19:38. > :19:42.being in sport -- involved in sport. -- for me. Swimming pools,
:19:42. > :19:47.athletics centres, tennis courts, there have been lots of venues
:19:47. > :19:52.opening up which will give children a chance to be involved in sport. I
:19:52. > :19:58.go to lots a school and see a lot of obesity on the increase, this is
:19:58. > :20:03.making us more fun and that starts when you are younger. Duncan a
:20:03. > :20:08.student to my club when I was young and I wanted to be like him. That
:20:09. > :20:13.is what inspired me to get into the water. You are a teacher. One
:20:13. > :20:17.impact is thus appearing on the children you teach? The children
:20:17. > :20:22.are getting excited. I mention the Olympics every day and my head of
:20:22. > :20:27.department was, not again! Just watching the change in the children,
:20:27. > :20:31.when you see their faces, when you put something different in front of
:20:31. > :20:36.them, you see children who are not any it up teens, subtly changing
:20:36. > :20:46.and believing in themselves. This is all about the torture and it is
:20:46. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:51.very much a symbol of unity and joy. -- the Olympic torch.
:20:51. > :20:57.A fire handed down from ancient gods. The Sacred Flame Of Olympus,
:20:57. > :21:05.that burns with an man, woman and athlete. In each, sport and so that
:21:05. > :21:11.aches to achieve. A fire of passion, of desire. To drive on with each
:21:11. > :21:21.heartbeat. To reach further, fight harder, fly closer to Olympic
:21:21. > :21:23.
:21:23. > :21:29.heights. A flame that flickers with Paul, fuelled by dreams are made
:21:29. > :21:39.real. A light that shines on those who dare to give their all. In each
:21:39. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:48.movement of every muscle, in every second of every race. I heat that
:21:48. > :21:57.Sears moment on the memory. Sparkes genius, fuels courage, conquers all.
:21:57. > :22:06.A fire to forge legends in bronze, silver and gold. An infernal to
:22:06. > :22:12.consume those that stumble in its shadow. Through air. And water.
:22:12. > :22:22.Across earth, I guess -- against time. Have claimed that reshapes
:22:22. > :22:22.
:22:22. > :22:26.the athletes. And creates giants. Where mortals once stood.
:22:26. > :22:30.So many unforgettable Olympic images. These are pictures that
:22:30. > :22:37.people of Bristol will remember for a long time. The day that the
:22:37. > :22:42.Olympic flame came to this famous city and there it is. A member of
:22:42. > :22:49.our Paralympic sailing squad has been the last person to bring it to
:22:49. > :22:53.shore, and it is going to be on the stage very shortly. It is a moment
:22:53. > :22:57.of recognition and huge Pride Park are as well to have been chosen
:22:57. > :23:01.today. It is fair to say that every single person, the hundreds of them
:23:01. > :23:07.who have carried the torch so far since set land there that Land's
:23:07. > :23:13.End is again, it will be a day they talk about for ever-more. And that
:23:13. > :23:17.harsh -- and that Olympic torch, everyone who has carried it has had
:23:17. > :23:26.an opportunity to buy the Rhone torch. What I greater investment
:23:26. > :23:30.that has been. -- their own. Some people are selling them for good
:23:30. > :23:34.charity causes. This is a moment that everyone else will never
:23:34. > :23:42.forget. This seemed of Chariots of Fire plays out from the
:23:42. > :23:49.loudspeakers here on the stadium. On the waterfront here in Bristol.
:23:49. > :23:54.And it is ridiculously, emotional. It is incredibly emotional. We were
:23:54. > :23:59.going on to a bus down to where we were dropped off this afternoon, we
:23:59. > :24:04.came round the corner out of Bath University. I was sat down behind
:24:04. > :24:09.Jason Gardener. He turned down to me with a few rapidly is going,
:24:09. > :24:13.this is amazing. The most amazing thing about it is that bringing
:24:13. > :24:19.together of people. I was a keen to someone from the sailing club and
:24:19. > :24:23.he was saying all the clubs which would all be best mates and on the
:24:23. > :24:27.water together, he was saying they barely know each other. Through
:24:27. > :24:31.this, they have been out on the water together all the last few
:24:31. > :24:37.days and it has created an extraordinary bond for them all. It
:24:37. > :24:42.is doing the same for all the people here. Very much so. We will
:24:42. > :24:49.see that Paul Klee with the 70 days. It will bring the country together.
:24:49. > :24:56.-- we will hopefully see that. It is all about the sport. That is
:24:56. > :25:02.what the flame symbolises. There is a danger of getting very peace-
:25:02. > :25:06.loving -- peace, love and understanding about it. If you are
:25:06. > :25:16.watching this, maybe on the Internet or however, if you are not
:25:16. > :25:23.
:25:23. > :25:27.watching it on the news channel on BBC One, you will realise they Shia
:25:27. > :25:31.scale of celebration that this whole occasion engenders. He will
:25:31. > :25:39.hope to replicate that wherever you may be in the country. He will halt
:25:39. > :25:47.the weather will be the same wherever you will be. -- their Shia
:25:47. > :25:54.scale of it. Here comes to the cauldron. A tumultuous reception
:25:54. > :26:02.here at the harbourside. Great scenes out on the water as well.
:26:02. > :26:09.And cheers all round. Also, I out on the water itself where dozens of
:26:09. > :26:13.people are out then carry accent in use, witnessing the cauldron being
:26:13. > :26:20.let. Thank you everyone for coming out. It would not be the same
:26:20. > :26:27.without you. She is telling the thousands out there what an
:26:27. > :26:34.extraordinary event has been for her. What about this far and that
:26:34. > :26:39.was here? Thanks to you guys, you made it. A big thank-you to you for
:26:39. > :26:46.being involved in this. Ladies and gentlemen, another Olympic gold-
:26:46. > :26:50.medallist, Lee's Malcolm Amy Williams. Thank you, hello Bristol.
:26:50. > :26:56.I have been down on the water following her on the water all this
:26:56. > :27:01.time. I can now finally speak to you. I have been able to see a face
:27:01. > :27:06.all that time, smiling. How much does this mean to you? It means the
:27:06. > :27:14.world. Just to be nominated was a huge privilege. To be able to carry
:27:14. > :27:19.the torch which is once RNLI time - - once-in-a-lifetime thing, into my
:27:19. > :27:23.home city, it is amazing. I can see you are emotional. You have a
:27:23. > :27:29.bigger role in London as well. Your audience for the future, can you
:27:29. > :27:37.tell us about that as well? I am in the sailing squad for the
:27:37. > :27:42.Paralympic Games. We're to wish you all the very best of luck and we
:27:42. > :27:47.wish you a very happy birthday as well. So this is the biggest party
:27:47. > :27:54.ever. So a big round of applause for her.
:27:54. > :27:58.John, the cauldron is now let. Fantastic. Thank you and well done.
:27:58. > :28:06.That is an unfair to get double image for all our family who are
:28:06. > :28:11.here. It has been a clever idea. -- an unforgettable image.
:28:11. > :28:17.People in Carlisle, Cornwall, saying it is London done -- London
:28:17. > :28:22.2012, what this has done is create a sense of inclusive at a
:28:22. > :28:27.throughout the whole country. Everyone has the chance to come
:28:27. > :28:31.along. There are thousands of people around the harbour. People
:28:31. > :28:36.have come out in hundreds of thousands to come out and watch. It
:28:36. > :28:44.does give them that opportunity. This is the Olympic flame. One
:28:44. > :28:54.thing we have not done, can I hope your torch? There is you're Olympic
:28:54. > :28:56.
:28:56. > :29:05.medal from said Dave. Has that been polished a --? Every time you look
:29:05. > :29:10.at that, when usual schoolchildren, did they say, if she can do it, I
:29:10. > :29:16.can do it too? I look at this and the stores that I got today as
:29:16. > :29:22.something for sharing. -- and his Olympic torch. When I take get
:29:22. > :29:26.round to the schools, I let them hold it, let them put it on. It
:29:26. > :29:31.goes back to finding something to inspire you when you are primary
:29:31. > :29:36.school. When you go to a school, if you can give it to one child who
:29:36. > :29:46.says, I can do that, then you have done your job. You are after Essex
:29:46. > :29:47.
:29:47. > :29:54.to tap -- carry the torch there. Will I am spent his time there.
:29:54. > :29:59.Will.I.am took an eternity to do his 300 metres. Did you run it?
:29:59. > :30:04.did run out. I had a bit of a high kick. When I saw all my students in
:30:04. > :30:12.Bath, I did another little jump and a Jake for them. I saw my mother
:30:12. > :30:19.and father, I gave them a kiss. I was just amazing angry over so many
:30:19. > :30:26.people turning out. You can do it in an elongated, tracksuit. --
:30:26. > :30:31.elongated version of a tracksuit. am getting -- looking forward to
:30:31. > :30:35.getting a tracksuit. The long-term thing is the long-term legacy of
:30:35. > :30:42.the games and that is getting children involved in sport. I went
:30:42. > :30:46.to five Olympic Games and never won a medal. I won world championships
:30:46. > :30:53.and European championships. What people do not see is what goes in
:30:53. > :31:02.to making that happen. Thank you for sharing this with you. 467
:31:02. > :31:06.miles gone. 7533 to goal. College Green, 559 tomorrow morning is