Part 2 Olympics 2012: 50 Greatest Moments

-Gabby!

-Hi, Greg. Are you excited?

-Yes. So excited.

I'm going to take you on a journey - the top 50 Olympic moments of London 2012, Part 2.

-Right.

-We're going from 20 down to 1.

What about 50 to 21?

Don't you remember we did that show? Stood right here.

OK. Here's a reminder.

# I love London! #

Moving on now, we're down to number 20,

and it's time to pay tribute to the women's coxless pair

who lifted a nation that found itself very much up the creek without a paddle or any gold medals.

-HE LAUGHS

-What is it now?

It's coxless!

It's Glover and Stanning.

Every morning we'd go in, right, in the early days,

because there was an enormous office that the BBC had.

All the presenters working ready for the day and researching what they were going to do,

and there was this thing about who's going to get the first gold medal? On whose watch will it be?

I remember saying to Gary Lineker, "That's it, mate, I'm off. We're definitely getting the first gold."

When it came to that Wednesday morning,

it was up to two very unsung heroes to actually break the duck.

COMMENTATOR: Great Britain into the record books

and such fabulously well done there!

It was just a phenomenal race, and I was sitting on the end of my bed.

I was only about a kilometre away from the finishing line

but we weren't down at the course, we were resting up, and I was sort of welling up.

I was so proud of them.

So great, really, that Helen and Heather got that first gold,

relatively unknowns, you know.

And I think that kind of set up the momentum for the fact that,

"You know what? There's going to be lots of other Olympians coming through

"that maybe we haven't heard of that actually maybe could achieve the most incredible things."

I'm absolutely shattered and ecstatic all at the same time and...

I want to collapse but I'm just so overjoyed and...

I just want to jump around at the same time today! Probably talking rubbish now as well!

They didn't just give the rowing team a boost, they gave the whole nation a boost.

Not just sport. I mean, everybody loved it.

And another chance for Sir Steve to give out the hugs.

Now, someone we all wanted to give a big hug to was Gemma Gibbons.

Gemma was ranked 42nd in the world at judo.

But she used the memory of her late mother to inspire her to Olympic glory.

She touched the hearts of millions, and that's why she's number 19.

It probably was, well...

the most emotional few moments out there.

She felt her mum was there and her mum was watching and... Oh!

It's kind of...

comes back now, how...

Erm...

How... You know, it's sort of bittersweet for her in a way,

that her mum wasn't there but she felt she was

and she just looked up...

The moment she looked skyward and said, "I love you, Mum..."

Honestly, it nearly broke my heart.

'My mum died eight years ago and...'

Probably it's been in the last couple of years that I've actually

started to talk about her and...

Ask any of my friends. It's not something that I just generally talk about.

But now I've had to talk about it quite a lot over the last couple of months.

How emotionally draining was that semi-final?

And then to prepare to come out for the final.

She was just such an inspirational person,

and to come away with that medal... Oh!

It was one of THE most moving moments of the Games.

'I think I did pretty good, and, yeah, that's what I was here to do.

'That was my job on the day to come away with an Olympic medal'

and I managed that. I wish I could've made it gold.

But maybe in Rio.

If she gets there, she'll have plenty of fans, no doubt,

but Rio will have one hell of an act to follow.

One of the most memorable aspects of the Games was the change in attitude of the Great British public.

We were positive and optimistic. We proved the doubters wrong.

No more was this evident than through the work of the volunteers.

The Games-makers brought smiles to people's faces

and made a nation proud.

And we also proudly salute the work of the armed forces and the police.

This feel-good factor was very... un-British, but we loved it.

Gabs, do you know what?

Out of all the sports we have seen today,

gymnastics is the one I want to take up.

That's great that it's captured your imagination.

It's not so much that, it's the fact that it would be nice

to have an actual reason to wear a leotard for a change.

Ugh, that is such a disgusting image.

You just get good support.

I'll be carrying it around in my head all day.

At number 18, it's my new favourite sport - gymnastics.

And it is our Louis.

The last six, seven years,

all the interviews I've done was about to this moment.

This was the one.

TANNOY: Representing Great Britain, Louis Smith.

I remember, I first met Louis when he had just got into his teens.

He came on to Blue Peter actually.

On Blue Peter, I'm pretty sure I had the hair plaits going back.

That was superbly executed, it really was. How often do you train?

I train six days a week at Huntingdon Gymnastics Club.

My voice didn't really sound right, it was quite squeaky.

To see what he has achieved in his career is just brilliant.

COMMENTATOR: The absolute expert on this apparatus.

Everyone kind of remembers the time when I cried at the Olympic Games.

COMMENTATOR: That's a champion's performance.

So, when I finally did my first routine

and I gave myself the opportunity to qualify for the final, it was

just kind of, everything just kind of came out of me.

All the pressure that I'd been pretending wasn't there,

all the expectation, you know, it just came rushing off

and I just felt a completely different human.

As soon as I landed, I knew, you know,

it had all the ingredients to win a gold medal.

CHEERING

Louis Smith, all I'll say on Louis Smith is he was robbed.

He is incredibly nice about it, very gracious.

I've met him a few times since

and he's very nice about the whole thing. He was literally robbed.

COMMENTATOR: It's a tie. It's 16.066.

Now, because the execution score was slightly lower than Berki's,

Berki will take gold.

You know, I've been competing against Krisztian Berki since 2006.

Sometimes he beats me, I beat him, he beats me.

And on that day, you know, he won.

From silver on the pommel horse for Louis,

to gold on a real horse for Charlotte.

Unbelievably, the Brits are good at dressage - who knew?

I've never really seen dressage before so

when I turned on my telly and I saw a bunch of dancing horses

and I checked to see whether it was the Olympics,

it was the Olympics, I carried on watching.

It was completely extraordinary.

It's one of those mysterious sports

that I think you get,

you know, lots of people wouldn't have chosen to watch

but because it was there, they're like, "Oh. Ohh. Oh!"

I think the genius was they didn't put dressage at the beginning.

If they had put dressage on the first two days,

I would have gone, "Well, this is, I'm not interested in this at all."

But they put it on when it really mattered how many golds we had

so I sat there happily watching horses dance for two hours,

punching the air. Genius.

I was in Nando's with my mates, having some lunch,

and then I'm eating some food and halfway through,

I dropped my cutlery and I went, "Oh, no!" And my mates are all like,

"Nathan, what's wrong? Is it the food? What's going on?"

And I went, "Oh, no. I forgot to Sky Plus the dressage."

When have you ever heard a young black guy say,

"I forgot to Sky Plus the dressage"?

COMMENTATOR: She's going for gold. Charlotte Dujardin for Great Britain.

Yes, the golden girl of the British team was Charlotte Dujardin,

dancing her way to gold in both the team and individual dressage events.

That's why it is enough to see her trot into 17th spot.

COMMENTATOR: She has got the gold!

Charlotte Dujardin has iced the cake in style!

It's unbelievable. I'm not even emotional about it.

COMMENTATOR: And Britain has got another gold. What a performance.

I don't know how we've done it but we've done it

and now got two Olympic gold medals so, unbelievable.

They always interview the rider and sometimes they go,

"Thanks for my achievement, I won gold and everything."

And I'm thinking, "Speak to the horse. Speak to the horse about it."

But the thing is, with the horses is

they're not as big-headed as the humans. Say to a horse,

"You've won gold, how do you feel?" The horse is like that...

Pffffft.

So our next entry comes courtesy of Britain's truly incredible

women's team pursuiters.

Oh, I remember this. They were brilliant, weren't they?

Honestly, I've not seen women pursued with such relentless

determination since my mate Dave's stag do.

Yes, very funny, Greg.

At 16th, three girls with three amazing stories.

It was my favourite gold medal of the entire Olympics,

without a shadow of a doubt.

The women's team pursuit inside that velodrome.

Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott.

Olympic gold medals are handed out in their hundreds every

four years but it's the stories that set them apart.

Laura Trott has a condition

when if she exerts herself too much physically, she throws up.

So, the whole way throughout the Olympics there was a steel bucket

at the finish line.

You've got Dani King who was told after glandular fever that she

would have trouble climbing the stairs without being

out of breath and then you've got Joana Rowsell who

had alopecia from a young age

and suffered from depression as a kid and didn't want to leave

her house and those three girls together, dominant on the track.

Dani, Jo and Laura make a great team.

They understand each other's strengths,

they get on so well, they've got a great work ethic as a group

and, to be honest, they were the tightest team at the Olympics.

Qualifying round, world record. Semi-final, world record.

COMMENTATOR: Great Britain win the Olympic title and the gold medal.

Final, world record, gold medal, thank you very much,

national anthem.

It was an ultimate display of dominance against the rest

of the world.

Velodrome cycling is obscure

and strange at the best of times in many, many ways.

Basically, they're all bikes going round a track

so they just work out different ways to do bikes going round a track.

So, they have, will we do it from a standing start?

Will we do in a group? Will we do it on your own?

Will we do with a motorbike in front of you with a man looking

really kind of, "What's happening here?"

The best parallel is if you play video games then

they're like the different online modes in Call Of Duty.

All these games essentially involve

running around shooting people in the head with fake guns, right?

But there is team deathmatch, and there's individual deathmatch

and there's capture the flag.

That is basically what the velodrome feels like.

The omnium, which has all the different capture the flag

permutations, there is one thing called elimination.

They go around in a big group and on every second lap a buzzer

goes off and the last person has to drop out and do

the glide of shame where they're like, "I am no longer in this."

But Laura Trott was the GB representative in this.

There was one particularly, the seventh or eighth last one,

where she was at the back and she saw...

This was one of the finest moments of the Olympics.

She saw a gap. There was no gap there.

But Trott saw a gap and she cut through and just wedged the bike.

I would like to see the woman park

because I would imagine that she rams a car into a tiny...

And then climbs out of the roof.

It is the most incredible piece of positioning.

She just found a gap in a moving field of cyclists,

just got her wheel in front, cleared for that one

and then went on and won that round.

Introduce an elimination round into every...

Into politics, into your family. Into everything.

You, child, are not eating your dinner enough - you're out.

Everything would benefit from an elimination round.

COMMENTATOR: Laura Trott's going to win the elimination round,

the third counted event in the omnium.

And, for Laura Trott, her amazing performance in the omnium

sealed her second gold of the Games.

It was just such a nice feeling and I don't want the feeling to go away.

The way the country, like, lifted us as well was just incredible.

I just want that feeling all the time.

Aged just 14 when he competed in Beijing, someone making a big splash

at the Olympics was this guy, who had done an awful lot of growing up.

Tom Daley's body was quite nice.

Standing on the end of the board in the Olympic Games is nerve-wracking.

But then standing on the end of the board in front of the home crowd in

London at the Olympic Games kind of just takes it up a whole new level.

COMMENTATOR: Now the opening dive for Tom Daley.

I took off, twisted towards the audience

and then all of a sudden there was all these flashes in my face

and if you get those flashes in your face,

your automatic reaction is to blink and if you blink during a dive,

you lose where you are and by that point I'd hit the water

and it had gone wrong so I approached the referee

and he looked back on the replay and thought it was unfair

so he gave me another shot.

To have the presence of mind that he had after that first dive to

come straight to the judge and say,

"Look, I'm sorry, there were flashlights going off.

"I need to retake that dive." I mean, that was amazing.

COMMENTATOR: The country is behind you.

COMMENTATOR: Ooh, yes! It's a good one! He can't do any more than that. The crowd are on their feet.

Tom Daley has done absolutely everything he can.

Loads of my family were there on the night. I had my friends, my family.

I think there was up to about 30 people that came along, so...

it was, yeah... It was a real special moment and I think

when athletes are able to share it with their families

it really does make it extra special.

COMMENTATOR: But Tom Daley...

..celebrates as only Tom Daley can! It's a bronze medal.

They just all picked me up and jumped in

but I don't see why it affected me because I was still wet anyway

but those lot were in clothes so I don't understand why they did it

but it was a real good moment for the whole team cos everyone was so happy about it.

Now, what 2012 countdown would be complete

without the first ever female boxing gold medallist in Olympic history?

Someone who not only had a knockout punch, but also a knockout smile.

A smile that truly captured the nation's heart.

No, that's just a bit creepy. Stop it. Introduce a clip.

At number 14 it's the better-than-me-at-smiling Nicola Adams.

My favourite Olympian, bar none, was Nicola Adams.

She's gorgeous.

Just a genuinely lovely kid from Leeds.

If Nicola Adams has taught me anything, it's that sometimes it is OK to hit a woman.

I'm joking, obviously!

# Half the population just waiting to see me fail

# Yeah, right, you're better off trying to freeze hell... #

It's exceptional that that was the first women's boxing at the Olympics

and I think it was done with such, erm... Such grace.

I mean, it was a really... It was a great sporting event.

# And I'll be in your corner... #

She marmalised her opponent!

Yeah, I just remember the bell going for the final round,

and going out thinking,

"All I have to do is stay focused, keep my hands up,"

and, you know, "I can get through and win."

It was a genuine astonishing performance. There was no doubt about it the whole way through.

COMMENTATOR: The winner and Olympic Champion

in the blue corner...

Nicola Adams!

She has got a great sense of humour

and to win the first ever women's boxing title, it was...

It was an amazing moment. And there's so many amazing moments in these Olympic Games

but Nicola Adams is definitely up there with one of my favourites.

Staying North now, from a Leeds lass to a pair of Leeds lads,

and surely the Brownlee brothers were nailed on for a couple of medals.

At number 13 it's the men's triathlon.

They like to keep it in t'family up North.

It was near-certain, just in terms of form,

that one of them, and probably Alistair, would win gold.

But there's so much that can go wrong in triathlon.

COMMENTATOR: Jonny arrives, swim hat comes off, Alistair's right behind him.

The brilliant Brownlee brothers are out in front.

That was a wonderful story

and, you know, the shot of him crossing the line with the flag over his shoulder,

holding that Union flag and the crowd was going wild.

That was the stand-out moment of the Games.

COMMENTATOR: Alistair Brownlee is the Olympic triathlon champion!

And there will be both of the brilliant Brownlee brothers

on the Olympic podium

as Jonathan comes home for bronze!

I always got the impression with Alistair that he genuinely enjoyed the pressure,

he enjoyed the attention, he enjoyed the race.

And obviously they both enjoyed the medal ceremony.

Medals in triathlon are like buses. We've been waiting all this time for them and two come along at once!

Mrs Brownlee must be the proudest woman in England.

She can go into any shop

and no matter what the other mums and people are talking about,

no matter what their kids have done, she can stand there and go, "Oh, did he?

"Yeah. Well, my sons finished first and third in an Olympic event, so...

"Sucks to be you, I guess."

-Gabby, you know that last clip reminded me of you?

-Why's that?

Because you are officially the second best triathlete in your household.

-What ARE you talking about?

-Oh, no, second best...

dancer in your household. You know, Strictly speaking? Uh?

Yeah, moving on.

At number 12 in the countdown is Britain's greatest ever female rower, Katherine Grainger.

He was on a journey, Scottish as well. Get your feet off.

For three Olympics I've seen her pick up a silver medal.

The first two, I think she was quite happy about picking up a silver medal

but in Beijing she was devastated.

The tears after failing to win the gold... You just felt for her.

Would she have the commitment and the belief to go on for another four years?

Well, you don't underestimate Katherine. She has that amazing will to win.

I definitely considered very seriously retiring after Beijing,

definitely.

Partly I thought, you know, with three Olympics, erm...

I thought that'd be the end of the run anyway.

Katherine and Anna have never been beaten in a double scull

since they've been in it for the last two-and-a-half years.

But there's always that little bit of doubt

of when it comes up to the Games, can they produce it?

It's utterly heart-pounding.

Oof! You know! This is it, this is it.

We get one chance, it's one take.

I just so wanted her to win gold.

And I sat on my own in the make-up room of the studio block...

..crying my eyes out, watching it on the telly.

COMMENTATOR: But, ladies and gentlemen, what we are seeing right now is that dreams do come true!

Well, the nation expected, Great Britain delivered!

Olympic champions!

I think the whole world was behind Katherine Grainger

when she won that gold.

Everybody knew how hard she had worked for that.

It's almost too much to try and comprehend. It's a lifetime, it's a career that goes behind it.

It was, in all honesty...

better than I could have ever hoped.

COMMENTATOR: At long, long last,

Katherine Grainger is the Olympic champion!

Can I talk to the Olympic champion, please?

Where? Where? She's finally here!

-(Yeah...)

-You did it. You did it.

-Yeah.

Worth the wait.

It took me four times. Some people get it right first time!

Magical day, magical moment

but she's rightly now got that gold medal round her neck.

One magical day at the Olympics was followed by another -

two more rowing golds and another in the velodrome -

but Super Saturday was when the Olympic Stadium burst into life.

Three golds in 45 amazing minutes.

That night, you know, with three gold medals to the British team,

was a phenomenal atmosphere.

It was one of those days, I think, that you will always say,

"I was there."

Gold medal after gold medal.

What I remember about that Super Saturday was that the Opening Ceremony,

Tory MP Aidan Burley labelled it "multi-cultural crap".

And then I remember watching Super Saturday,

seeing a Somali refugee, a mixed-race girl and a ginger guy win gold medals, thinking,

"So much for multi-cultural crap. This is brilliant!"

More from Jess and Mo later, but the gold that nobody predicted

on that Super Saturday was more than just a small step.

It was a giant leap for ginger mankind.

Number 11 is Greg Rutherford.

So I knew of Greg and I am an athletics fan and I still didn't expect him to win.

I don't think anybody... I don't think Greg... He would tell you he didn't expect to win.

No-one but no-one would have predicted Greg Rutherford winning that gold medal.

It was probably one of the best atmospheres for a championship

that I've ever seen across the board.

It was... It was really something...

I haven't experienced that before.

And as you set off down the runway,

it just got louder and louder and louder

and then till where you took off, it was just...

I've genuinely never experienced anything like it in any stadium in the world.

He was kind of like our own sort of little Del Boy.

He was all a little bit cocky and he had a bit of swagger. He was a bit of a geezer.

I just sort of thought, "Yeah, right, this is my time."

COMMENTATOR: So, Greg Rutherford, 8.21, leads at the moment.

Can he feed off this atmosphere? Quick, quick, quick! And it's big!

You've given up pretty much everything for this moment in your life

and all of a sudden, I've got every emotion

I've ever felt in my life hitting me like an absolute ton of bricks.

He so styled it out, didn't he, when he won it? So styled it out.

I just thought, "You know what? I don't care."

And I put my arms aloft the same as Jess did and then took in that...

That amazing roar of the crowd.

-Wow!

-You are Olympic Champion!

I don't think I'll ever get bored of hearing that, to be honest. That is...

Oh! The most amazing feeling in the world.

I have the most amazing parents that you could possibly have!

Oh, beautiful girlfriend! Just everything! Like...

-Oh! I've... It's...

-Life generally is pretty beautiful right now.

I've got a pretty good life, yeah, I'm not going to lie!

I mean, one of the weirdest moments, I think, we...

Me, Louis Smith and our manager Gav

got invited back to Matthew Freud's house

erm, for an evening, randomly.

It was sort of, Bono was there and Damien Lewis, Sacha Baron Cohen.

Jimmy Carr walks past.

It's like I'm just dropping names non-stop.

I think... I remember there was a ginger dude there,

but I thought he was working there, I didn't realise he was at the party.

Gabby, I can't...

I love the Olympics, the Olympics was bloody brilliant.

I knew you'd come round, you just can't fail to be blown away

by all this incredible, breathtaking Olympic action,

but now it's time for you to stand back in even more wonder.

-We've finally reached the top ten.

-Yeah, I'm so excited!

-Oh, my God, I've wee'd.

-Sort yourself out, I'll do this one.

Oh, God!

At number ten, it's the legendary 800m gold medal winner

and world record-breaking David Rudisha.

I've got some spare trousers if you want.

-STEVE CRAM:

-Let's see what he has in store for us here tonight.

David Rudisha's race, in terms of just pure performance,

that was the highlight of the Olympics for me.

Will they go as fast as Rudisha,

and will they be able to last it out?

The gun went and he took off, you know, like a sprint race.

David Rudisha, as ever, loves to be in the front,

a beautiful running action.

Rudisha in the front.

He has a way of running that he knows suits him.

He likes to be at the front, he likes to go out hard.

This one wasn't tactical at all, this was insane, he just took off.

And he's stretching it out there, a fast opening 300 metres.

And he got to the back straight, and you just saw him,

he's tall anyway, but you just saw him sort of lift and vroom!

And in commentary, you know, I could feel myself getting excited then.

COMMENTARY: And they're sucked into going with him

down the back straight, can they hang on?

They're all starting to fade. Look at this!

He's a joy to watch, because of the way that he attacks it

and goes out and runs the 800m just as a...

as a sprint almost.

That's really, really quick through 600.

It might as well have been run in a straight line,

because he just...

There was no element of, "I'm going to use the bend here

"and I'm going to sit here."

He just...foom, gone!

Striding away to become the Olympic champion! How quick will it be?

Watch the clock! That's the world record!

Unbelievable!

He had a slipstream so strong that the guy who was last,

Team GB's guy came last,

would have won the two previous Olympic finals in the 800m,

and he came last.

The greatest ever 800m race anyone...

..has ever run, that I've ever seen, obviously.

What a privilege to be here.

At number nine, it's another Olympic giant.

Big Ben Ainslie was competing in his fifth Games,

and with three golds and a silver already under his belt,

the Cornishman was serious about winning,

but things didn't get off to the best of starts.

I mean, for once, he wasn't having it all his own way,

and he was quite a long way behind.

He seemed to lose every race but yet still seemed to be in contention.

In Olympic sailing, it's not about winning every race of the regatta,

it's about remaining consistent throughout the competition.

Big Ben did exactly that, but during the eighth race

his competitors ganged up on him and he incurred a penalty as a result.

This angered the reigning Olympic champion.

# Does that make me crazy? #

I'm seriously, er... unhappy with that.

But you know, he made a big mistake, because I'm angry,

and he didn't want to make me angry.

Ben is such a competitor, when he came on and said,

"Look, that's motivation for me, they never should have done that,"

that was just brilliant.

He had the hump, didn't he? He had the hump one day.

Those guys better watch out.

Going into the final race, he was placed just two points

behind his main rival, Jonas Hogh-Christensen.

All we had to do was finish ahead of the Dane

to clinch a nail-biting gold

and become the most successful Olympic sailor of all time.

Ben Ainslie punches the air! Well done, Ben Ainslie!

You've had an extraordinary week.

Actually, that's my worst moment during the Olympics,

was interviewing Ben Ainslie, because it was down the line.

It was the night I was in the stadium watching the 100m and...

I only had a tiny little monitor that was on the edge of the camera,

and I couldn't hear one single word he said,

and that was...tricky.

I had to try and judge it when he stopped moving his mouth

and just hoping he hadn't said anything difficult.

And will you go on to Rio 2016?

I don't know. Will you still be doing Match Of The Day by then?

I saw him laughing, so I thought I'd laugh, but I had no idea what at.

You are the greatest Olympic sailor in history!

Yeah.

All right, Ben, calm down. Anyone for tennis?

Talk about a roller-coaster ride, you know.

At the end of Wimbledon, standing on Centre Court with him crying.

All right, I'm going to try this, and it's not going to be easy.

To come back, four weeks later,

after...the most disappointing match of his career,

to come out and play his greatest tennis ever,

beating the greatest tennis player of all time

on Wimbledon's Centre Court, I mean, it was just written in the stars.

I've never seen anybody dismantle Roger Federer in that way.

He's got him! First blow in this Olympic final!

The one thing missing, you know, from Federer's CV

is a singles gold medal in the Olympic Games.

He wanted to win that so badly, and he was just smashed.

Every time Federer throws some heat down to Murray,

Murray just returns it, just again and again and again.

And I must say, I've been at Wimbledon many, many times,

35 years I've been going to Wimbledon as a player and as a commentator,

and that was really the first time

I saw a crowd really make a difference,

really so much behind Andy.

Because of the Olympics, they could unabashedly root for him.

They're - to me - too polite at Wimbledon.

CHEERING

It's a golden triumph for Andy Murray!

Unbelievable to see that much of a mismatch,

considering how Roger sort of had, in the big occasion,

taken it to Andy, so that was quite impressive, and it set the stage,

I think, for him going on to win the US Open, without a doubt.

It was just electric, absolutely electric.

I think that was the moment when Britain loved Andy Murray.

-Are you OK this time?

-Yeah, I feel much better so...

Definitely easier winning in the final than losing!

We were in station, and we had one of those moments

where they announced over the thing, "Andy Murray has won,"

and the whole station went, "Hurray!"

And you're going, "Wow, this is the feel-good thing."

What a phenomenal tennis player, in the greatest era of tennis ever,

and we've got a British player right in the mix.

We should be more proud almost of Andy than anybody else.

He's done it, he's absolutely done it,

and his confidence now just seems to be...

He's sort of like a different man.

It's incredible to have watched that over kind of five, six years,

him develop as a player, he's extraordinary.

I mean, the Scottish haven't celebrated that hard

since they discovered you could get drunk on hand sanitiser.

We take full credit

for Andy Murray doing well in the Olympics this year,

we being the team of Mock The Week.

Because we know that Andy Murray is a fan of Mock The Week,

and we're always inviting him to come along,

but he did so, like two days after the Wimbledon final.

A bit hello to Andy Murray, who's up there.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

"Andy Murray is here, so try to keep it light,

"because he's very... at the moment."

That's one for Andy Murray!

He hasn't lost since, and we take personal credit for that.

This week's winner is Andy Murray, ladies and gentlemen!

He has ruined jokes, though.

For years, we were making jokes about,

"When is a Brit going to win Wimbledon?"

Probably next year. It's probably going to be next year, then.

When he won the gold, it was like, "Well done, you're now British."

And then he lost the final in the doubles with Laura Robson,

it was like, "OK, you're back to being Scottish."

-What do you reckon?

-Mmm.

-Make me look older?

Yeah, you look at least 14.

Er...thanks.

OK, if you haven't already guessed, at number seven,

the first man to ever win the Tour de France, Olympic gold

and get hit by a van in the same year.

He's a national treasure, who without a doubt

is the greatest road cyclist this country has ever produced.

Wiggo, take a bow.

He's a very cool individual, Bradley Wiggins.

I think Bradley Wiggins is the coolest gold medallist ever.

Any guy who can pull off ginger sideburns has got to be cool, man.

It's a good job I didn't have a ponytail, innit?

Can you imagine that? It would have been like Germany in the 1980s.

All them people at Hampton Court with ponytails.

Well, I'm just hugely envious of Bradley Wiggins

that he can grow sideburns,

because all my life I've never shaved here.

And I know some people would say, "Well, you're lucky not to have to,"

but it would be nice to have had the choice.

And that's a bit weird, you know.

I mean, I'd had sideburns for years, you know.

It's a funny mix of an amazing athlete

but then this sort of rock-and-roll dude.

Imagine if like he was just about to go past the finish line

and his sideburns just suddenly peeled out and acted like flaps...

Maybe that's how he slows down, like the flaps on a plane's wing,

when it comes into landing - when he crosses the line,

flaps out, his burns go like that and he can brake safely.

It's Bradley Wiggins, the man that's just won the Tour de France.

If the Olympics isn't the pinnacle of your sport,

then I'm less fussed about your Olympic achievement.

You get...? I think Bradley Wiggins did an extraordinary thing,

winning those golds, but the Tour de France without drugs.

It's incredible, I didn't even know you could do that.

I didn't know that was an option.

There was never any doubt he was going to win it, actually, you know.

He even could have won it by more,

but he put so much effort into my road race, you know.

He was spent after the road race. He was... He was pretty phenomenal.

-WIGGINS:

-You could really sense the expectation.

The British people... made the Olympics, really.

I don't think we ever have or ever will see another road race cyclist

with the talent of Bradley Wiggins.

When he's on the bike, he is just...

Well, he's a machine, the legs are just pump, pump, pump, pump.

And it was so good that his moment came at the London Olympic Games.

I'll never forget it, you know, to think that was in Britain.

There was a sensational moment just after Bradley Wiggins won gold,

outside Hampton Court in the time-trial,

and I was on the radio, so I was just in the crowd watching it.

And when he won, he disappeared into Hampton Court.

The medal ceremony was too far away,

and people started piling over the barrier onto...

a bit like the Formula One, onto the starting grid and walking down.

Now, it was against all the health and safety,

it was against all the rules.

Instead of the stewards and the police stopping people,

they began to help people over.

To me, that's what it's all about, really,

because I was one of those people when I was a kid,

and I would have been there in London, looking over the barrier.

And it was just, you know, when everything comes together,

and then out came Bradley Wiggins into the masses.

And that was just a beautiful moment in time, you know.

I told the teacher at school

I wanted to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France

and I wanted to be Olympic champion.

She told me I was mad and that I needed to grow up

and start thinking about what I wanted to do with my life.

He makes you question every little part of what you wear,

how you look and how much of a man you actually are.

I think Bradley Wiggins should be King,

or Prime Minister at least.

Style and substance, and at the Opening Ceremony

Wiggo, along with the rest of us, was treated to another style icon,

but this one was on Her Majesty's Secret Service.

MUSIC: James Bond Theme

I thought that the James Bond Queen sketch for the Opening Ceremony

was the best bit of television in history, personally.

-It was brilliant.

-The Bond thing was awesome.

The Queen, that was just brilliant.

Mr Bond, Your Majesty.

That anticipation of... "Is it the Queen?"

Another lookalike, there's the corgis, there they go.

It won't be her, it won't be her, you know, but I wonder who it is.

Ahem.

It... No, it can't be the Queen.

Good evening, Mr Bond.

We were like, "Oh, this is fantastic!"

Good evening, Your Majesty.

When James Bond appeared with the Queen, the room went wild.

Pizza flying everywhere, beer being spilled.

It was a euphoric moment.

We couldn't really believe it was happening.

To do the walk through and all that, it was just amazing.

How they kept that a secret I'll never know.

She should have been nominated for a BAFTA for her performance.

I thought she was amazing, what she did.

She was such a good sport,

to actually go out and do that kind of stuff.

A lot of the other stuff, you know, it was quirky,

and I was sitting there watching it and thinking,

"You know, I don't know if the rest of..."

I had to ask, I asked Sue Barker, I was like, "What's that?"

Gobsmacked that we were seeing this incredible...

kind of almost a love letter to the UK.

It was so full of in-jokes.

It was brilliant, it couldn't have been better.

The Opening Ceremony, it was extraordinary to pull that off,

because after the Chinese basically had a three-hour advert for slavery,

which was pretty unbeatable, people just thought

he was on a hiding to nothing, he could never do it.

Then he just pulled this thing out of the bag that was just

kind of warm-hearted and wonderful, and it just had everything.

Most opening ceremonies are quite formal, quite serious,

but we had a bit of British humour in it, and it was a great success.

MUSIC: James Bond Theme

I was amazed - I actually did not believe that was going to happen.

I was like, "What?"

And then we were thinking, "Are they doubles? What's going on?"

I thought then the Queen was actually skydiving!

To see James Bond do a scene with the Queen, it's amazing.

I thought I was going to ejaculate a Union Jack - a Union Jack-ulate.

I'll be honest, my only criticism, and it's only a small thing was,

I didn't think the Bond girl was that hot.

At number five, we have the man who,

after picking up his sixth Olympic gold on the track,

is now officially the most successful British Olympian

of all time, overtaking Sir Steve Redgrave in the process.

And therefore he will presumably become

the official hugger in four years' time.

-It's the one and only Sir Chris Hoy.

-Hoy-Hoy!

Hoy.

Anyone who knows Chris, he's just an absolute gentleman, you know.

He's the humblest, most down-to-earth man you'll meet, you know.

Well, Sir Chris has been phenomenally successful,

and I think he's a real ambassador for his sport

and for British sport.

He's a great role model for anyone that wants to get into sport

and wants to see how to win.

The longer you spend in sport,

the longer you realise that the people that win are the people...

It's not the lucky ones, you know - it's the ones who go out and get it.

I think Chris is the biggest example of that,

someone that will just keep working.

# And I would walk 500 more.... #

He's annoying, Chris Hoy, isn't he? I mean, he's a good-looking chap,

he's got thighs the size of most of our waists,

but was it really ever in doubt that Sir Chris Hoy, the knight,

would let people down in that really cool helmet

in the velodrome that looks like a Pringle?

The Olympic Games, you know, the biggest event

of all the GB team's lives, careers, and for me personally, you know,

I won the team sprint gold medal with my team-mates Phil and Jason.

And I won the keirin to cap off the end of my Olympic career,

so it was a fantastic year for me,

and one that really couldn't have gone any better.

The crowd are going absolutely mad, gold medal for Great Britain!

A new world record!

Chris Hoy must have been the only man who was guaranteed a gold.

"Oh, what, you won a gold? Yeah, I've got like six of those."

Chris has become, erm...

a good friend, and of course I wanted to be there.

I don't remember much from that whole kind of manic period

straight after the event, just finished, just come off the track,

and you're doing interview after interview,

but I just remember this one moment when Jill Douglas said to me,

"Oh, we've got someone rather special here to congratulate you."

'And then the massive hulking figure of Sir Steve Redgrave pops up.

'He'd been tucked down behind her.'

Ha-ha, Steve!

I spent most of my time hugging people around the Games,

not really doing very much speaking,

but no, it was a very special moment.

An amazing experience, to have him there to congratulate me.

You know, I was a massive fan of his when he was rowing, competing.

I was a rower when I was at school.

As I hugged him, I did say a few words to him.

I said, "Is that it? Definitely retiring now?

"You're not going to another Olympics?"

He says, "Yeah, no, never again."

So I said, "I'm going to make my comeback, then."

From the most successful British Olympian of all time

to quite simply the most successful Olympian ever.

At the beginning of the Games, he'd said,

"I'm trying not to get over-emotional about this,

"because essentially I've done it all,

"it's now about how many toppings I want on my sundae."

The greatest swimmer in history.

He's got 14 Olympic gold medals.

Michael Phelps is something else.

To win that amount of gold medals for a nation would be pretty good,

let alone an individual!

I thought, coming into this Olympics, he was the greatest Olympian ever.

It's probably one of the most anticipated races

in Olympic history in the swimming pool.

The guy turns up, everyone's talking trash about him anyway,

saying Ryan Lochte is far better and he's the new breed.

And on the first day that's how it looked.

Is he going to get a medal? It doesn't look like it.

Ryan Lochte wins the 400 medley.

And look at that, Michael Phelps is fourth!

He came fourth on the 400 medley,

the event in which he was a world record holder,

and you just thought, "This is going to be car-crash."

Oh, my goodness me, Chad Le Clos won the gold!

Somehow, some way, I think he sort of dug deeper,

maybe than he ever had.

What a superhero.

The gold in the men's 4x200m freestyle goes to the USA,

and Michael Phelps becomes the greatest Olympian in history

with 19 medals.

When he came back and he won the 100 fly,

and it was an amazing race again,

and I just thought, "Good on you, actually."

It's Chad that's going to get it.

No, Phelps has got, I think. Yes, he has.

Michael Phelps has won, and the gold medal goes to Michael Phelps.

Kids put their parents through all sorts of grief, don't they?

Undoubtedly, Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time,

if you look at the stats and the amount of medals he's got.

It isn't that easy.

He made it look easy, but it isn't easy.

That's gold to the USA, that is the end of Michael Phelps,

and where does he finish? He finishes right on top.

His 18th Olympic gold medal.

18 Olympic gold medals?

You're not really leaving any for anyone else at that point, are you?

More medals than anybody else has ever won in the Olympic Games.

Talk about going out on a high note,

he went out on a high note, no doubt about it.

Utterly brilliant.

There's definitely the argument that he's the greatest Olympian ever.

He is extraordinary and you know you're in the presence of greatness.

I dreamt of being the greatest.

Looking back at my career, I've done everything I wanted.

OK, we're down to the top three greatest Olympic moments of 2012.

-Now it gets serious.

-Can you be serious, then?

-Because this whole show you've been messing around.

-Yeah, all right.

And at number three we have the face of the Games,

the girl who, with the weight of the entire nation on her shoulders,

delivered the performance of a lifetime

and melted our hearts in the process.

Hang on. Seeing as she is my girlfriend,

I think I should introduce this next bit.

But she's not your girlfriend, Greg, is she?

Well, she is, she is to me, up here, in here and down...

It's Jessica Ennis.

I always thought Jess was going to handle the pressure well.

It's not guaranteed, if you're the face of the Games,

that you're going to succeed.

Jess Ennis has got seven chances to get it right

but seven chances to get it wrong.

You know, this girl was the face of the Games.

The face of the Games, and when she stepped on the track,

it was just deafening.

CROWD ROAR

At that point, I think I was really nervous for her.

The hurdles, it's full of jeopardy, you know,

she only has to clip a barrier and that's her Olympic dream over.

But she didn't do that.

She tore up the track.

And this is a tremendous run by Jessica Ennis!

Oh, my goodness! Wow!

12.54, the fastest hurdles I've ever seen by a heptathlete.

And she came out and just absolutely nailed it.

You can't hang a gold medal around her neck at that point,

but you kind of go, "Wow."

Who doesn't love Jessica Ennis?

Show me one person who doesn't love Jessica Ennis!

I thought, "There is way too much pressure on her, you know."

You couldn't move without seeing a poster or a picture of her

everywhere you went.

And I was under the impression the pressure might be too much,

but the fact that she delivered,

the fact that she is as hot as she is,

and the fact that you could griddle a steak on her stomach

is both an achievement and a brilliant sight to see.

I kind of look at the Olympians like I look at life,

and I look at Jess Ennis,

and I think, "Never, not in a million years."

And I look at the boxers and think, "Maybe!"

For me, Jess Ennis is...

She's such an incredible role model for young girls.

She just handles herself with such dignity and such grace,

and she did an incredible job this year,

and if my little girl grows up wanting to be the next Jess Ennis,

then I'll be very happy.

I don't know how she's coped so well with everything,

so it's like the pressure of being in the Olympics,

on top of it, she's a role model, not just because of race,

but because she's also a female.

You know, she ticks so many boxes that...it's impressive.

She actually performed fantastically at the Games,

and I think that she really does deserve everything she gets,

because, you know, there was a lot of pressure on her.

Deep down, I knew, I think the world knew

that after the javelin, she had done enough.

The 800m for Jess Ennis, short of tripping up,

she basically knew what she had to do.

She could have run four or five seconds slower in that 800.

No chance!

She went out there to run a personal best in the 800, then to win it.

It was as though...

..that gold medal depended on her winning that,

she still delivered a performance in that last 200m

where she was unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.

It was one of my favourite moments of the Games.

And here goes Jess!

She is going to be the Olympic champion.

Everybody is on their feet.

The pride of Sheffield, the pride of Great Britain.

Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion!

When she crossed the line and her face just lit the stadium up,

I don't think there was a dry eye in the house.

A perfect two days

for the Olympic heptathlon champion, Jessica Ennis.

And so we come to the second greatest Olympic moment,

and how could we complete this countdown

without the most recognisable athlete on the planet

and the fastest man in history?

A man who, coming into the Games, had his doubters,

who he duly swept aside along with his opponents,

successfully defending the 4x100 relay and his 200 and 100m titles

to cement himself as a true Olympic legend.

OK, Greg, what are you doing?

Er...lightning...Bolt.

You look more like Robin Hood.

-With wind.

-Er, right.

At number two, it is the great Usain Bolt.

# Don't you know I'm loco? #

The champion becomes a legend!

He feels like a bit of a...

a bit of a rebel and like one of the guys, you know.

He's... He's just really, really entertaining.

He's just like a lightning bolt of cool.

He's the star. He's the big hitter, he's the main event.

He IS the show.

You take Bolt out of athletics

and you've got a massive void at the moment.

I accomplished what I came to London to do,

so for me I'm very proud of myself.

-STEVE CRAM:

-The moment of truth

has finally arrived.

The 100m Olympic final.

Bolt not very quickly out of the blocks,

Powell was the quickest,

but Bolt is getting into his stride alongside Gatlin,

and here comes Usain Bolt!

He's pulling away! He's going to win the gold!

9.64!

I think Bolt was fantastic.

That was the best 100m final of all time, really.

He still comes out on top.

It's a fine event, but my God, it's short.

I got 100m tickets because I spend an entire weekend

with my wife's family, ignoring them while I refreshed the page

over and over and over, literally just sitting there doing that,

and eventually went, "I got tickets to the 100m final,"

because eventually two random tickets popped up.

But the damn thing is done so fast.

He's box office, he's good fun,

and he does what most men would like to do

and celebrate with...Swedish women.

# Every day I'm shufflin'... #

I have to highly recommend the Swedish handball team.

I mean, he could do worse!

Bolt is a bad man.

# Shufflin', shufflin'... #

Silence descends.

The 200m final.

What, I suppose, struck me most was the incredible silence.

Shh...

You can literally hear a pin drop. It was amazing.

It's a clean start, Bolt is out of the blocks really well,

he's already storming round that bend.

They were just like...pff!

And they're massive, and they're huge,

it's unbelievable to watch it in the flesh.

You watch it on TV and think, "Give a little clap, that was good,"

then you go and make some toast.

This... This, you kind of get sucked into it.

Bolt is going to do it again! Gold all the way!

You know, Bolt, what an athlete. Unbelievable presence.

Well, the relay...the relay was just...

We were very confident.

It wasn't a matter of fact if we were going to win,

as long as we got the stick around - it was so fast, we were going to go.

Bolt's going to have it in the lead, and you know what that means!

Here he goes, Bolt is away and gone!

Jamaica are the gold medallists again!

Along with Ali and the defining figures of sport,

Bolt is right up there, right up there, just extraordinary.

# Hola! Me llamo Mimi

# I love London! #

So we've had 49 amazing, jaw-dropping,

tear-inducing moments, and now we're down to the final one.

It's time to celebrate the exploits of someone

who'd already gone down in British sporting history

by winning the country's first ever long-distance gold

with a truly phenomenal 10,000m run on that sensational Super Saturday.

I think the real importance about sport,

what makes sport great is when you really care about who wins.

Distance running generally is so competitive.

It's so difficult to be dominant.

-STEVE CRAM:

-So, the 10,000m final underway.

Mo Farah was just...just phenomenal.

And those final two laps... it was just...

I don't think I saw the last lap, I was crying so much.

Farah is kicking hard!

The crowd are lifting him! They're cheering him on!

Farah into the home straight, just 100m to go! Has he got enough?

He's kicking again! Mo Farah is going for it!

It's going to be a glorious, glorious win!

Mo Farah for Great Britain! It's gold!

He was more surprised than anyone that he won.

His face when he crossed the finish line was almost like,

"I can't believe...

"Have I done this? Is this me? Is this really happening?"

I think that he was confused that it all happened the way it did,

and for somebody to be that humble who is that talented is awesome.

I just... I've never experienced something like this, it's just...

It doesn't come round often, and to have it right on your doorstep,

and the amount of people supporting you, shouting out your name is...

It's never going to get better, this is the best moment of my life.

Well, his wife Tania is expecting twins shortly!

In all of this excitement, hang on, Tania, hang on!

Get on the track, go on, go on the track!

When his wife and daughter came on to the field, I just thought

that was a real nice moment, to celebrate it with his family.

STEVE CRAM LAUGHS

Great scenes! Lovely, lovely scenes.

He's a great man, and now with his wife on the track,

what a glorious moment.

Oh... What a picture!

What a night.

That meant so much to me, seeing my daughter just like really emotional.

She was just coming up running to me, and I was just like, "Wow..."

# It's fun to stay at the YMCA... #

My ears get in the way.

# It's fun to stay at the YMCA. #

Ka-tish!

Let's be honest, the Mobot is a rubbish celebration,

but I think the fact that it is so rubbish

and that he is as good as he is is what makes it pretty cool.

You know, I liked that Usain Bolt also paid tribute as well!

Who told him that that was a cool thing to do?

Who convinced him that was an appropriate movement

to do at the Olympics? It's the most embarrassing.

Clare Balding came up with the Mobot.

A few months before the Olympics, I was on a show with Mo,

and we were talking about what would be his celebration,

we'd invent a kind of... a gesture for him

to rival the Usain Bolt thing.

And I suggested the M from YMCA, the M for Mo.

And then it got christened the Mobot by James Corden.

And Mo did it!

Was she trying to sabotage him?

Was it like, "Oh, yeah, do this, it'll be hilarious!"

When you got food in your mouth, in the restaurant,

someone says, "Do the Mobot,"

or you're pushing the kids and someone says, "The Mobot."

I don't mind when people do it,

but sometimes you're just like, "Oh, no..."

So I invented the Mobot, although technically Village People did.

HE IMITATES ROBOT

Huh? Robot!

It's the Mobot.

Mo-bot.

Well, that just looks silly.

You look like Peter Crouch.

So with the 10,000m gold already in the bag,

a week later he repeated the feat

with a simply breathtaking 5,000m performance.

Our number one greatest Olympic moment...

Take a bow, Mo Farah.

Here we go! Here we go!

The men's 5,000m final.

How do you beat Mo Farah?

They're queuing up around him,

it's going to be a fearsome last lap but Mo is going to go for it.

And Steve Cram's commentary was... I could listen to that...

Every time I listen to it now, I still cry.

The crowd are on their feet, they're trying to roar him home!

The big kick has started. Iguider looks dangerous to me in third,

but Mo Farah, gritting his teeth now.

The arms have got to pump, the knees have got to come up high!

He's got to find something extra, he's got to kick hard!

Come on, Mo Farah!

Gebremeskel is coming, but I think he's going to get there!

Farah is going to make it two gold medals for Great Britain!

Beautiful!

The place erupts!

He's the double Olympic champion!

It's weird, like, seeing that.

I can't believe how people got excited,

and so many people's been saying that,

but that's probably the best bit of it, you know.

The manner in which he won it,

and the way he just was not going to be beaten, oh!

Never forget it.

Well, he had us off our feet,

everybody around us standing and cheering, 80,000 people,

and I'm pretty sure millions and millions in their front rooms

shouting him home.

One of the greatest distance runners the world has ever seen

is now the double Olympic champion.

So that's it, the 50 greatest Olympic moments.

It was amazing, I don't want it to end.

I just want to say thank you for introducing me to the Olympic dream.

-Oh, I knew there was an Olympic fan dying to get out.

-There is.

-Can we hug it out now?

-OK, go on, then.

Yes!

OK. Bye.

Mmm...

OK, that's enough.

That's inappro... inappropriate, inappropriate.

# All the people

# So many people

# And they all go hand in hand

# Hand in hand through their

# Parklife

# All the people

# So many people

# And they all go hand in hand

# Hand in hand through their

# Parklife. #

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