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A good evening, Mr Bond. Good The Olympic flame burns brightly. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Date six has been one to remember, and it is not over yet. The live | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
sport goes on. Volleyball, Britain's men up in action on BBC | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Three. There is beach volleyball and basketball on the Web -- on the | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
red button and the website. I have a stellar line-up of guests here | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
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this evening. More superstars for COMMENTATOR: Johnson wins a second | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
gold and the world record has gone. COMMENTATOR: They are coming, they | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
are coming, they are there. They have beaten them and that is a | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
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brilliant achievement. Oh, come on. Play that point again. John McEnroe | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
and Michael Johnson, slowly forging an Olympic broadcasting partnership | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
to rival tour well and Dean, and proud owner of a bronze medal from | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
yesterday's rolling, Greg Searle is here. You are very welcome. How are | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
the 40-year-old bones feeling of yesterday? The 40-year-old bones | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
are standing up well. I have done it for the old guys out there. I am | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
feeling in decent shape today. have probably seen this a million | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
times. I have not seen the finish. I have not watched the whole race | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
yet. I was in pain at the end. Agony and ecstasy. We will talk | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
more about the race later. There is plenty of the feel-good factor | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
today. I want you to sit back and enjoy a show where we will | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
celebrate a great many of our medals today. Gemma Gibbons is | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
coming on a bit later on and we will celebrate a fantastic day in | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
the canoe slalom as well. We will start with that. The women's | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
gymnastics was brilliant as well and you will see that. We will | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
start with the Kalou -- the canoe slalom. David Florence had a | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
disappointing competition in the individual see one on Tuesday. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Could things improved to date on his home course? -- it was the C1. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
He teamed up with Richard Hounslow and Great Britain had Tim Baillie | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
and Etienne Stott taking part. The Slovakian twins, the Hochshorners, | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
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were going for a consecutive electric. I love the odds of having | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
two British pairs in the top six. No medals for Great Britain on this | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
wonderful course, but who knows what could happen this afternoon. | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
The last day of slalom canoeing, the last session, and it is Tim | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Baillie and Etienne Stott who getters under way. Their first | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
split in the semi-final was 26.63. We will get a good idea very soon | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
as to how this British pair are going. They are competing so well. | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
Over the last couple of years. Going very well indeed. The first | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
split will come up very soon. It was one of the fastest splits in | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
the semi-final in fact. 26.9, very much on a par with what they | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
achieved the first time. So, Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott, bronze | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
medallists of the European Championships a couple of years ago, | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
ranked 6th in the world, coming into the Olympic Games. They were | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
always going to challenge but this could be a medal run for Great | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
Britain. Just looking a bit slow there. Making it OK without | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
penalties. Helen Reeves joins me in the commentary box. This is an | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
encouraging run from Bale at Stott? It is looking solid. They need to | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
maintain their speed and composure. I tell you what, that is a much | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
faster split, the second split they have had as they spin away from 18. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
This is one of the trickiest parts of the course. Upstream they go | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
through the 19th. Helen Reeves is nodding her approval. This is | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
looking good for Great Britain. upstream gate to go, typed in. They | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
turned, back down, one gate to go. Great Britain are flying here. No | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
penalties whatsoever. Bale and Stott, 106.41, the fastest time we | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
have seen on this Olympic course so far in the sea to competition. -- | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
in the C2 competition. The Chinese are in second place for the time | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
being, but that will change. A reminder of the time, 106.41, set | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
by the British pair. They are outside that. This is all about | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
Great Britain hanging on in there. They have done it, Tim Baillie and | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Stott are still in the lead. 106.41 is the leading time. It is going to | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
be close! Bale and Stott have a silver medal, that means there is | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
only one pair that can prevent Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott from | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
winning the gold metal and guess what, they are British! This could | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
be real British history. David Florence, already a silver | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
medallist from four years ago in Beijing, in the C1 event and | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Richard Hounslow. They are chasing the time by their friends and | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
training partners, Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott, who currently lead | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
this see two final. Keeping it tight, they are leaning on gate | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
four. Setting up the ride from seven to eight. My goodness, they | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
are up over a second on the split but they will have to maintain this. | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
One of the most difficult parts of the course. Etienne Stott and Tim | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Baillie went brilliantly from this time for and they have lost time as | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
they came out of ten. This is where Tim Baillie and Stott won it, I | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
think. They set the fastest time so far. Florence and Hounslow are | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
untidy, they have lost time. Not enough perhaps to push them below | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
the Hochshorners at the moment. What sort of shape are the British | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
pair in? Florence and Hounslow have to keep it together. Working hard, | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
they took 16 and 17, tight to the split and they are. 0.88 on the | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
split. This would be an incredible performance. They have shown | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
immense promise all year. That was brilliant, coming up to the | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
upstream gate. Everybody in this chirrup -- everybody in the stadium | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
is cheering. Everybody in the commentary airier is screaming, for | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
Florence and Hounslow. Two to go, no fault, this could be gold and | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
silver for Great Britain. Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott lead, oh | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
my goodness, they have a silver medal! There are the Olympic | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
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champions. We don't just get one, That was a high octane event, a | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
brilliant finish. I am delighted to say that the guys, all four of them, | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
are in the building somewhere, on the way in. They will have a little | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
chat and we will get them in here in a few minutes. Did you see that | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
today? It is the first time I saw it, incredible. High adrenalin, | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
lots going on. How do you train for that? It looks like a very | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
expensive device. Do you go to the Grand Canyon and...? Most of the | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
guys live nearby. It is their home course. It has been built | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
especially for the Games and they have been practising as much as | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
they can, the home advantage. that the only one of the country? | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
No, no, there is a national centre near Nottingham. How have any other | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
countries been allowed to train? will have to ask the guys but they | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
move the market around so they never know where they will be. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Slovakian twins, who had won the last three Olympic Games, they said | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
they thought the course was easy ahead of the competition. Whether | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
that was an advantage to the British guys or not, we will ask | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
them later. I imagine a result like that, I want to, just spreads a | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
real optimism and belief amongst the rest of the athletes -- a 1-2. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
There is a different feeling after winning the first gold yesterday in | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
the rowing lake. That is coming through the whole team now. There | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
is a sense of belief that people can do it. I remember it in past | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Olympics, getting started, getting a foothold and everyone builds the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
enthusiasm. You say, I saw that guy in the village this morning, | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
getting kitted out, and he has won a gold medal. I can do it. Can I | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
congratulate break. He was telling us it was 20 years to the date that | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
he won... We will celebrate him in his entirety later. I was over | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
eager. Keep your powder dry. I am not going to give too much away, in | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
case you have been at work. What do you get when Farmer's son from | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
Dorset and a Sheikh from Dubai team up? We went -- Peter Molson went | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
into the men's double trap today. Here is the incredible story of his | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
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best chance of a shooting medal and there is the big British hope, | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
Peter Wilson. He starts this final three points clear of his nearest | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
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He has missed them both! Incredible. His lead has been cut from four, 2- | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
2. It has been hard. -- it has been cut in half. This is the main | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
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the final. He maintains the pressure on Wilson. Great Britain | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
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stand on the edge of a gold medal these targets to win gold for Great | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
Britain. And he does it! Peter Wilson has done it! He has one gold. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
He has won gold for Great Britain. He held his nerve brilliantly, | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Peter Wilson and the crowd here rise to salute this 25-year-old | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
Olympic gold in the men's double I thought I would allow myself to | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
look back at the board, I missed the pair. I came in with the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
leaders a possibility. What a feeling. I don't know what to say. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
You are an Olympic gold medallist. I am, it is really weird to say | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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that. How strange. Fantastic. An incredible gold. While that was | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
going on, a few minutes later, another gold was being one. It was | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
an incredible five minutes. Tim Baillie, Etienne Scott, David | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
Florence and Richard Hounslow are here with their gold and silver | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
medals. Thank you for coming in and sharing this with us. It was just | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
an incredible, you did not know what was going on in the shooting, | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
it did -- you did go first and have to hang on to your time. You said | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
that is normal, to have that experience? Sometimes it is in some | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
races. Often there is ten boats in the final and a normal world | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
championships, so sometimes if you are off first and you have to wait | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
for ten cruised to come through, so it is a long time. Meanwhile, you | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
were the ones who could spoil the park for your training partners. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
You knew their time, knowing what you had to do? Yes, it was tough. I | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
have never been in such a pressured situation, to go last in that final, | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
knowing it was a tough time to beat and it had been a fast final. I | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
think we were pretty pleased to get it together under that pressure and | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
put in a good run. Full credit to these guys for taking the gold, | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
absolutely. How much was home advantage a factor? You train on | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
that course, you know it. Does it make a big difference? Yes, in our | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
homes bought -- in our sport home advantage does make a difference. | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
It looks like it did, obviously. But I suppose so much on the day, | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
it is dynamic and so many variables you can't always tell. We are happy | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
the way it worked out. Hochshorners came with three gold | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
medals. When you looked at realistic targets, they had had a | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
good run in the World Cup, was called realistic for you? Without | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
at that -- without a doubt those guys were favourites. They triple | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Olympic champions. They are the world number one. They dominate | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
most times. Like Tim said, it is and on the day sport. We beat them | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
in Cardiff, we have beaten them before. You have to believe in | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
yourselves. They went down before us and we knew from the noise that | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
the crowd made that they had not beaten Tim Baillie and Etienne | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
Stott that Britain were guaranteed a gold medal and possibly gold and | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
silver and as to which way round it was was down to myself and David. | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
The atmosphere at Lee Valley was incredible. The sound that was | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
coming from the grandstand. The same thing at Eton Dorney, | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
propelling you want. It is amazing. The crowd noise at Dorney, on both | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
sides of has coming here in both ears. There is nothing that can get | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
in, you have to think straight. I don't know how it is for these guys, | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
it is a real head game for you, to keep your focus and get around the | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
course properly. How does it work, the relationships between you? Do | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
you have to think like one as you are driving the course? Yes, we | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
train a lot together to make sure we have the same reactions. The | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
what is changing. You run never in the same place twice. You have to | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
react together, by practising a lot. You think with one mind and | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
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navigate the boat as the unit, not Did you speak to these two guys to | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
tell them what to expect? We were in our place, we were held in the | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
finish line. If we had exactly the same plant, and unfortunately it | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
was not right, both of the crews would have bombed. We had an | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
independent approach. I did the course differently but it was good | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
for our country because we did not have all our eggs in the same | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
basket. You would have gone into this as the slightly higher ranked | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
team in the British context, your previous best was a bronze? Yes, it | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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was. This is a big jump up? There were rankings higher than ours. We | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
have been very consistent over the past eight years. No hard feelings? | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
We have been friends for years and if anyone was to beat us, we would | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
want it to be these guys. You did not qualify for the B one final -- | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
you did not qualify for the C1 final. We were trying to win medals | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
and last night we had to sit down with our coach, and almost start | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
afresh. Make sure we didn't let the disappointment affects today's | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
racing. Can you hear the noise outside? Do you want to give them a | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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wave. I think I would like a wave from you as well, Michael! The home | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
crowd is pretty special. They can see my bald spot from there! | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
were delighted last night that we could get Big Ben going, this is | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
new to the show. Now we have a couple of gold medals. | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
If you would like to go up to Big Ben and move the arrow up two | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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Let's not cheat! Thank you so much for coming in, I know you must be | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
massively in demand, have you had time to see your families yet? | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
little bit, we kissed them on the cheek a couple of times and then on | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
to the next one! Where now? We go where we are told, where the press | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
wants us! You are in demand, you'll be all over the place tomorrow! | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
Thank you for coming in. The medals kept coming today and next up it is | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
judoka or Gemma Gibbons. She was born a few miles from the ExCeL | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
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renown on her home turf, she rose medal in Romania, she is up against | :19:29. | :19:37. | |
a handy Portuguese. -- a World Cup silver medal. Oh, she has done it! | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
She snatches the East -- Portuguese -- she snapped at the Portuguese to | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
the floor with an ippon and she has bought the ExCeL Centre to life. | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
All she has ever wanted to be was an Olympian, she never dreamt she | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
would market debut with an ippon against one of the better players | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
in the world. The mountain has just got a little bit steeper. The | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
Mongolian mountain might be a tougher one, we will see. | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
twitches it back and she has got it! She gets the score, she is in | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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the lead. Oh, she has done it! She has only gone and booked her place | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
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in the semi-final. She is nearly mother was her inspiration, she | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
died eight years ago, maybe somewhere she is watching her | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
daughter fight at the London Olympics. He oh, yes! She has done | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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bridge has been crossed in glorious fashion. Gemma Gibbons will win a | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
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Kayla Harrison and the Londoner, point. Gemma has to get and the | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
pawn and then she has a split- second to attack. -- has to get an | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
ippon. This is it. Gemma Gibbons has got to do something now. It is | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
not going to be gold. That will go to the USA. For the first time in | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
the history of their women's judo It hasn't sunk in, it feels a bit | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
like a dream, but amazing at the same time. I am delighted to say, | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
Gemma Gibbons is here. You provided the most dramatic, emotional story | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
of the day, it was spectacular. You have wanted to be an Olympians | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
since you were a kid, did you ever dream this far ahead? It has always | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
been my dream to be Olympic champion from when I was eight | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
years old. Then it wasn't really it very realistic. It has always been | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
my dream, I can't believe I have achieved that dream today. Her you | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
wake up in the morning and you see the day panning out, how do you | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
take it? One fight at a time? Your coach has been there, Kate Howey, | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
she had been to a final. She gave me all the advice she could and I | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
think that really help. For me today, I took it one fight at a | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
time and that really helped. I wasn't overwhelmed with needing to | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
win the next three fights. I took each one individually and that | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
seemed to really work. atmosphere looked spectacular. How | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
much could you feed off that? think I fed off it loads! A lot of | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
the matches were tight, close matches and the crowd were amazing, | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
getting behind me, they really spurred me on and it made a real | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
difference today. That semi-final, that ippon in golden time, it was | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
so dramatic. Yes, it was amazing. It meant I was in the final, a | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
guaranteed medal. I wanted to go for gold, I went for gold, | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
unfortunately it wasn't to be. The semi-final was amazing. The moment | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
when the fight was over and you looked up and you said, I love you | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
mum, I think everyone wanted to put their arms around you and give you | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
the biggest hug. It was so emotional. So raw. The story, you | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
have not had your mum in your life for so many years, is she a son -- | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
constant source of inspiration? she died eight years ago and she | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
was my biggest supporter. She took me everywhere, she took me to | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
training, she came to every competition. I just want to say | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
thank you, but I don't get the opportunity to do that. It was nice | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
to be able to say that. The image of you bent over at the end, the | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
exhaustion, it is incredible. These bouts, they seem so short but the | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
exertion, and seeing the birth lying on the floor at various | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
points, it comes through the screen how exhausting, and you have to get | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
yourself back up again. It is pretty tough, two pretty heavy | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
women going to blow for blow to get each other on your back, it is | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
pretty exhausting. The outfits seem awfully warm. He and cumbersome. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Tell us about why you wear that outfit. It is just the traditional | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
outfit. I think it means you can get the sleeve, you can get the | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
lapel on the collar, to use those as levers to do the throes. | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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don't you tie up your belt? She will be able to hold you. If it | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
comes undone and you are seen to be trying it without the referee | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
saying, you can get a penalty. You do not touch it unless you are told | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
to do so by the referee. Is there a different strategy based on the | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
opponent or do you have the same preparation, mind SEP-? It is very | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
different. -- mindset. You might have a left-hander, right hander, | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
somebody who is fast, somebody who is slow or heavy. Depending on what | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
:26:12. | :26:19. | ||
I noticed your opponent was American. She was very quick? | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
is a world champion from two years ago and I was not able to get | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
pastor, but maybe next time. There is not much time between the semi- | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
final. At the beginning of the day there is quite a lot of time | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
because there are lot of competitors in. But as the day goes | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
on, the rest time gets shorter. was one of the images of the day. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
You are one of the heroines of this Olympics, thank you so much for | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
sharing the story, and your medal with us. Lots to talk about and to | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
hear about, here is what is still The Velodrome sprang into life | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
tonight, but there is no such thing as an easy ride in this sport. | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Grace, power, elegance and a steely determination, but who wanted it | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
out -- wanted it most in the overall women's gymnastics? And we | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
walk bring you the latest Olympian to be celebrated in our underdog of | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
the day -- we will bring you the latest. | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Quite a bit still going on, basketball, volleyball and beach | :27:25. | :27:34. | |
volleyball continuing. You can The architecturally magnificent | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Velodrome came to life today. Track cycling was pretty good for us four | :27:39. | :27:49. | |
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# Keep rolling, rolling, rolling. # Keeps rolling, rolling, rolling. | :28:01. | :28:11. | |
:28:11. | :28:14. | ||
# Keep rolling, rolling, rolling. Team GB won 13 medals including | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
seven gold medals in the Beijing Velodrome, so good that global | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
dominance continue on home soil? First up, the men's team sprint, | :28:25. | :28:35. | |
:28:35. | :28:37. | ||
this one the first of two possible men's teams Breage, Germany in the | :28:37. | :28:47. | |
:28:47. | :28:51. | ||
home straight -- and the men team's They have slipped out at the back. | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
My goodness. A problem with the steering. I am not sure what has | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
happened. Dear, oh dear. STUDIO: After the drama, Philip | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
Hindes got back on the bike and along with Chris Foy and Kenny they | :29:06. | :29:13. | |
posted the fastest time -- along with Hoy and Kenny. They would face | :29:13. | :29:23. | |
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France again, who they beat four it is going to be a thriller, a way | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
we go. This is the final of the men's team sprint. Philip Hindes | :29:32. | :29:42. | |
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leads off. Her look at Bauge, and France are behind already and | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
Hindes is rising to the challenge. Great Britain are leading. Now it | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
is Jason Kenny. He is storming around the track, on the second lap. | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
France are on the back foot. Coming up to the final take over, it is | :29:59. | :30:07. | |
going to be Hindes. Here comes Chris Hoy, down to the final turn. | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
Coming up to the line, the crowd are going mad! Gold medal for Great | :30:11. | :30:18. | |
Britain, a new world record! 42.6, I don't believe what I have seen. | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
They are going quicker and quicker, and Great Britain have won the gold | :30:23. | :30:30. | |
for the team sprint, Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy, and that | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
is the 5th gold medal won in the Olympics by Sir Chris Hoy, it to | :30:34. | :30:44. | |
:30:44. | :30:49. | ||
cause the record held by Sir Steve It is that loud, the applause, you | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
can't hear the announcement. The Olympic champions are the team of | :30:53. | :31:00. | |
Great Britain. Young Philip Hindes, one of -- what an occasion for him. | :31:00. | :31:08. | |
19 years of age. He is an Olympic Jason Kenny gets his second Olympic | :31:08. | :31:14. | |
medal, he won in Beijing. Sir Chris Hoy gets his 5th Olympic gold medal. | :31:14. | :31:24. | |
:31:24. | :31:25. | ||
His ferocious appetite for winning Well, massive congratulations. What | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
an amazing moment here in at the Velodrome. Philip, your first | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
Olympics. You have been on this British team for a couple of years. | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
What a time to smash your personal best. It is unbelievable. I can't | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
believe I am Olympic champion. It is a dream come true. Especially | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
after what happened in qualifying, the first ride. I just did it to | :31:46. | :31:52. | |
get the restart. My first start was not the greatest. I thought, get a | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
restart, play the Save card. were trying to pull a fast one | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
there? Yes, I was trying to get the fast time and get everything | :32:00. | :32:06. | |
perfect. Double Olympic champion. know, it is frightening. This one | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
was unbelievable. I cannot believe how we have gone today. Philip has | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
gone out of the blocks like a rocket. We have been swinging all | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
over the back of him, trying to keep up. It was unbelievable. He | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
found half a second in the space of the year and delivered as perfectly. | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
Sir Chris Hoy, I am not sure what they will do you now, your 5th gold | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
medal, the most successful British Olympian. There was emotion on the | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
podium? I dug deeper than I have before. I knew the importance. I | :32:37. | :32:42. | |
did not want to let the boys down. It is immense pride to do it here, | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
in the UK, in front of this crowd who have been phenomenal. They have | :32:48. | :32:55. | |
been amazing. It is often over-used, the they agent, isn't it? But he is | :32:55. | :33:00. | |
a legend of his sport. -- the legend. He is immense. He is | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
amazing. They got rid of his event, his original event in the Olympics. | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
It no longer exists. He had to go to a new event. He has thrived on | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
that. He is an incredible athlete. He is always talking about training | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
and looking for ways to improve and that is what makes him so great. | :33:20. | :33:26. | |
is perennially cheerful as well. It is not the only way to achieve | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
greatness in a sport! Are we looking at you?! That talk about | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
controversy. Philip Hindes? When he said he fell... He is a Gemmell -- | :33:39. | :33:48. | |
German national, maybe it was lost a restart if there is a mechanical | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
problem with the bike. It did look like he had never ridden a bike in | :33:53. | :34:00. | |
his life before. If it is in the rules, I guess it is what you do. | :34:00. | :34:08. | |
It does look funny, throwing They got the start they needed in | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
the end. Chris Hoy has had to adapt himself, come back fresh after | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
winning gold in Beijing. A lot of people would think three gold, I | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
have my knighthood, I have another gold as well from the previous | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
Olympics, I will take it easy. that is why you do not use the | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
legend easily. It is special to come back and now, to win his 5th. | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
With the pressure of carrying the flag in the opening ceremony, | :34:33. | :34:43. | |
:34:43. | :34:45. | ||
everyone expected him to perform Wiggins was the most successfully | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
decorated Olympian but Chris Hoy is moving up on him. He could go level | :34:49. | :34:59. | |
:34:59. | :34:59. | ||
with him. It is interesting, the It it's more than a nominal job? | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
For me, it is a special thing. In 19 added to, Steve Redgrave carried | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
the flag and to me, as a rower, I wanted to step out behind him -- in | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
19 they did you. He studied the tunnel, we chanted his name. Having | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
that pressure on one person, leading the team. Not just the | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
cycling team, the whole team. was a moment I realised I was not | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
just part of a rowing team, I was part of the Great Britain team. You | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
are not part of the Great Britain Olympic team, it is the nation. He | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
would have felt that at the opening ceremony. And yet come out and | :35:39. | :35:46. | |
perform. Did you do it? I never carried it, no. Sorry I asked! | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
have almost been in the Royal Box, once, at Wimbledon. Are we doing | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
bragging? I will lose this came, you know that. It is time for more | :35:56. | :36:02. | |
Tony Hadley. # Gold #. | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
Who wants to do the honours? Take it up one more notch. That takes us | :36:08. | :36:18. | |
:36:18. | :36:18. | ||
up to five, one less from the You have slightly moved it above | :36:18. | :36:25. | |
five, made it at five 1/2 or five 3/4. I know you are always looking | :36:25. | :36:30. | |
for the extra inch. There? There it goes. You know your way around the | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
gold medal. OK, a little earlier in the evening Victoria Pendleton and | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
Jessica Varnish went to the women's team sprint, the first time the | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
event has been raced at an Olympics. They got off to a fantastic start | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
in qualifying, posting the second fastest time behind China, who set | :36:49. | :36:55. | |
a new world record. Victoria and does Cadman raced in the next round, | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
trying to get in the final. They were racing alongside Ukraine. I | :37:01. | :37:11. | |
will at the commentators describe Jessica Varnish and Victoria | :37:11. | :37:21. | |
:37:21. | :37:25. | ||
to replicate the right they did in the first round. A quick start, | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
come on, Jess Varnish is on fire. She is going to release Victoria | :37:30. | :37:40. | |
:37:40. | :37:41. | ||
Pendleton. They are beating Ukraine. Lookout Pendleton, storming around | :37:41. | :37:43. | |
the track. This is Victoria Pendleton back to her imperious | :37:43. | :37:51. | |
best. 32.567 for Great Britain, only a small amount slower than | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
they ride slower in the first round. It does show that Great Britain are | :37:55. | :38:01. | |
backing it up. It is looking very much like it could be China versus | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
Great Britain in the fight for gold. What is happening here? They are | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
looking at the window of change, Chris? I was watching the British | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
pair and the changeover. Victoria Pendleton was coming through very | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
fast. They are not allowed to overtake before the first rider has | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
completed the lap. Well, they're having a strong discussion in the | :38:24. | :38:28. | |
centre there. Dave Brailsford not looking particularly happy there. | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
It means that Great Britain are relegated, when they were clearly | :38:33. | :38:42. | |
in for a ride for the gold and Well, Victoria, one minute, elation, | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
the next, despair. What happened? We did not changeover in the right | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
loan on the track. It is really hard when you are going that speed. | :38:51. | :38:57. | |
-- the right place on the track. I was focusing on Jessica's wheel. If | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
she moves up slightly, I go. That is what happened. We have never had | :39:01. | :39:04. | |
any legal change before so we have not been too concerned about it but | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
it is one of those things that happens. It is not Jessica's fault, | :39:09. | :39:14. | |
it is not my fault, we are both partly to blame really. We were a | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
bit too overwhelmed and excited and a bit too eager. We should have | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
kept a lid on it a bit more, I think. So great disappointment for | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
Victoria and Jessica and it was the Chinese pair who stormed to victory, | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
beating the Germans. But in a day of high drama at the Velodrome, | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
China were relegated for a takeover offence, handing the gold to | :39:39. | :39:45. | |
Germany in return will stop Germany, who by rights could have expected a | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
bronze with two teams above them, Great Britain and China, going | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
quicker earlier and the day, they'd get a gold medal. Desperately | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
disappointing for Jessica Varnish. This is her Olympics over. Victoria | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
has a couple more opportunities, so that is disappointing. He reminds | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
me of the whole relay exchange in athletics. You know where that zone | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
is and it is difficult to make sure you stay in it. Like Victoria was | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
saying, they have not have the problem before so they were not | :40:14. | :40:19. | |
concerned about it. She talked about being overwhelmed and excited | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
at that is one of the things you don't hear about the home advantage | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
to stop we have the home crowd, so exciting, all the cheering, but you | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
have to stay focused on exactly what you are supposed to be doing | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
and executing. That is one of the dangers. Greg said adrenalin. | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
interesting, looking at judo, then the crowd, you feel like you are | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
going to war and you have the adrenalin and power you need added | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
is explosive. This has to be controlled aggression. Peter Wilson, | :40:50. | :40:53. | |
we did not get a lot of time to talk about him, but that is the | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
sport, shooting, you can't have any excess adrenalin or energy coming | :40:57. | :41:03. | |
out. That is what makes the Olympics so amazing to me. I am | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
turning every which way and everywhere you go you see people | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
that have to deal with totally different circumstances and it | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
seems like, OK, when they are cycling they should have erred on | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
the side of safety but when you are so pumped up and you're talking | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
about a split second time it is really hard to do that, it seems. | :41:23. | :41:29. | |
It seems like a harsh way to lose. Victoria was in the immediate | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
aftermath of what happened but later she said that she was so | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
quick and Dave Brailsford wasn't earlier and he said she was immense, | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
her time was incredible. It bodes well for her individual event but | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
it is not the day that they would have planned and I imagine | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
ritualised for a long, long time. It is so tough. It comes down to | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
that event once every four years. It is a long way to wait for Jess | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
Varnish. Yesterday at dawn it was an emotional day has Britain's | :42:00. | :42:06. | |
women won an historic gold and this man won a medal after winning a | :42:06. | :42:16. | |
:42:16. | :42:17. | ||
gold in Barcelona in 1992 -- at now. We are under way with the | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
men's Olympic final, seven minutes away from history. We have had the | :42:22. | :42:31. | |
Glover and Helen Stannage. -- we have Helen Glover and Heather | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
Stanning. It is simply stunning. This is the Olympic final and there | :42:36. | :42:45. | |
is nothing in it. It is a bronze medal today. Helen Glover and | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
Heather Stanning, we stand up and salute you, for the British rowing | :42:49. | :42:58. | |
That was an amazing day. You have had 24 hours to assimilate that. | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
The immediate aftermath when you got out of the boat looked like | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
disappointment. Do you feel some joy in your bronze now? I feel | :43:06. | :43:12. | |
immense pride in picking up a medal at my home Olympics. And at 40 | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
years old? And at 40 years old. It is a fantastic feeling. I know the | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
feeling of coming 4th, because I came 4th at the Olympic Games in | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
Sydney and this is wildly different to that feeling, the feeling now | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
that I was able to look my wife in the eye and tell her it had been a | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
good use of three years, there was on end product. That is a good | :43:32. | :43:39. | |
feeling to have. Was it a few beers too many, a bet on a wager, I could | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
get back in the Olympics? Or was it considered? There was some of that | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
involved because it is an emotional thing, to commit yourself. It has | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
to be an emotional drive as well as a logical decision. If you were | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
rational, you would not do it. It is 20 years to the day today that I | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
won my gold medal and when London was bidding for the Games I looked | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
at the paperwork and I thought, they will be gold medals given out | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
20 years to the day. I was 20 when I won it, I could be a 40-year-old | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
doing it. A very romantic man. That has great bromance to it. Your | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
brother, Johnny, was with you in the boat. Did he try to talk you | :44:19. | :44:25. | |
out of it? He was fantastically supportive. I am the younger | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
brother. He took up the sport first. He was successful before me. It was | :44:30. | :44:36. | |
perfect Wendy could do it together. I think now, as a parent, there is | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
nothing better than seeing both of them succeed together. My parents | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
saw both of us on the Olympic podium together and nothing is more | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
perfect than that. Now I have carried on. I am sure it is tough | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
but he has been brilliant, supportive. Your kids get to | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
appreciate it as well. You were a young man, in the prime of his life, | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
20 years ago, out and about, enjoying it, you could go out and | :45:00. | :45:04. | |
train the next day. It is different now. Has this been an enjoyable way | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
of doing it? I am a smart athlete now, I look after myself better, I | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
have trained better, in a professional system, but I hope I | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
still have passion. It is that combination of passion that you | :45:16. | :45:23. | |
feel in a man, like I have sitting to my right, but to have that | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
passion and professionalism as well and I have brought them together. | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
Is there every time, Michael, when you think I wish I had smelt the | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
coffee a bit more and taken stuff in because I am wiser now and no | :45:35. | :45:45. | |
:45:45. | :45:46. | ||
I was extremely fortunate that I was able to do all the things and I | :45:46. | :45:52. | |
was able to join it -- enjoy it. My son was born at my last Olympics, I | :45:52. | :46:02. | |
:46:02. | :46:03. | ||
only ran in one race. I have never had that regret. You said 20, I had | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
some pretty good day's tennis at 20, but I feel like I'm in the prime of | :46:08. | :46:18. | |
:46:18. | :46:21. | ||
my life now. I feel good now. I This is an unbelievable 40, but 60 | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
might be a little tough! The brain of a 40-year-old and the body of a | :46:26. | :46:33. | |
20-year-old, that is what you really want! It was a day of two | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
medal races at Eton and Britain had a great chance of gold in the | :46:38. | :46:48. | |
:46:48. | :47:06. | ||
a green light, we are way first time in the final of the Olympic | :47:06. | :47:10. | |
Games 2012 men's lightweight coxless fours. The Netherlands in 1, | :47:10. | :47:19. | |
Switzerland in two, Great Britain driving out in lane three. As | :47:19. | :47:28. | |
expected, Denmark have flown like a rocket in the first 150. What do | :47:28. | :47:34. | |
you do in the British boat? You churn them out, 100, out, and the | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
next 10 strokes, keeping it long and keeping it relaxed. The British | :47:38. | :47:44. | |
crew are looking good. We get to the last timing market. Looking | :47:44. | :47:51. | |
very fast, very calm and relaxed. They are relying that they have the | :47:51. | :47:57. | |
speed at the end. 500 metres remaining in the final, this is | :47:57. | :48:04. | |
going to the wire. 50 strokes remain. Denmark, Australia and | :48:04. | :48:14. | |
:48:14. | :48:16. | ||
Great Britain. This is getting into the danger zone. Great Britain are | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
right up on to the boil, here come the British lightweight fours and | :48:20. | :48:27. | |
they will be met by a roar from the British crowd. South Africa are | :48:27. | :48:34. | |
coming up, this is tough. They have now got to turn it up, they have a | :48:34. | :48:42. | |
big ask here. Can they make it? British crew, 25 strokes remaining, | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
surely they are now looking their stronger. One big push, the crowd | :48:47. | :48:54. | |
got on their feet on the far side. They are just into second place, | :48:54. | :48:59. | |
they have a quarter of a length on the Danes, they are moving. | :48:59. | :49:04. | |
Danes are responding. South Africa in lane five. It is 10 strokes to | :49:04. | :49:10. | |
the wire, it is going to the wire. It looks like Denmark have moved | :49:10. | :49:15. | |
out again. Here comes South Africa, sticking her head of the Danes, one | :49:15. | :49:21. | |
last push, here come the British, the crowd want to lift you over the | :49:21. | :49:26. | |
line. South Africa are Olympic champions. Great Britain get the | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
silver. Denmark get bronze. It was a valiant effort to from the | :49:32. | :49:41. | |
British four, a worthy silver medal. They gave absolutely everything for | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
themselves, the team and Great themselves, the team and Great | :49:46. | :49:54. | |
Britain. That was brutal. Really brutal. We wanted to win. A silver | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
isn't fantastic but it is a medal at the Olympics. You have seen the | :49:58. | :50:05. | |
event, you can't walk into it and expect to get anything. To get a | :50:05. | :50:11. | |
silver was impressive from where we came from. What a team they have | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
been, the custom return, they salute the crowd, an emotional | :50:16. | :50:22. | |
moment -- customary turn. We dug our heels in and we fought really | :50:22. | :50:29. | |
hard. We did everything we could. These things happen. | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
Did they get the tactics right? think they did. I feel really sorry | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
for those guys. They have laid it on the line, they can look | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
themselves in the mirror and say they did everything that they | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
possibly could. The conditions were tough, they had a poor lane draw, | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
they were on the outside lane in windier conditions than the guys on | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
the near side. Not to take anything away from South Africa, fantastic | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
for them to win a gold medal. British crew can be proud of | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
themselves. They should be. Are you grateful that you don't have to | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
diet to 11 stone? They are exactly the same size, it comes to | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
technique and toughness. Our guys won on that. An incredible race, so | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
tight and thrilling to watch. Incredible to watch. Great to see | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
the reaction of South Africa. They did not know they had won. Once | :51:20. | :51:27. | |
they found out, the guy at the back, his face was classic. Good stuff. | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
Greg Searle was a bronze medallist here, 20 years after gold, you are | :51:31. | :51:41. | |
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just a baby compared to our Here is a wonderful man who has | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
already created a record in his own right. It is the Japanese rider. At | :51:47. | :51:54. | |
71, he is the oldest competitor. He has ridden for Japan in Tokyo in | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
1964. STUDIO: He competed on his horse | :51:59. | :52:06. | |
Was by in the dressage. He was a respectable 17th finishing ahead of | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
people quite literally half his age. What were you saying about not | :52:11. | :52:19. | |
going on for another 20 years? take that back! Great Britain's | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
Carl Hester finished top. Laura was disappointed with first call, | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
saying it was her lowest in a few years. -- disappointed with her | :52:30. | :52:37. | |
score. Nothing is decided until next week. 5th incredible stuff | :52:37. | :52:42. | |
from the 71-year-old Japanese man. Britain are underdogs when it comes | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
to basketball and they almost pulled off a sensational win | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
against Spain, the current European against Spain, the current European | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
champions who are full of NBA stars. They lost by just one point and the | :52:51. | :53:01. | |
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atmosphere was incredible. In the Someone has got to teach them to | :53:03. | :53:13. | |
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foul! It is going on throughout the That is the scene at the Olympic | :53:16. | :53:21. | |
Park right now. Over at the Aquatics Centre on Saturday, but | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
Brian Oktay caused a minor sensation by dethroning the King -- | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
Ryan Lochte caused a minor Ryan Lochte caused a minor | :53:31. | :53:41. | |
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is going to try to dethrone the King of the pool, Ryan Lochte. A | :53:42. | :53:50. | |
nice clean start. Look at this, who would have thought it? It doesn't | :53:50. | :53:59. | |
look like he is going to get a Tonight it was part two in the 200 | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
individual medley, but Ryan had the small matter of his 200 metres | :54:03. | :54:09. | |
backstroke title to defend before that. Like so many swimmers, he | :54:09. | :54:19. | |
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could not win back-to-back titles and he ended up third. Gold went to | :54:20. | :54:27. | |
his countryman, Clary. 20 minutes after that, the mighty Ryan Lochte | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
was getting back into the pool again. He qualified fastest and was | :54:32. | :54:40. | |
looking to deliver the medley Phelps, aiming to win this event | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
for a record-breaking third time, went in lane three. For Britain, | :54:44. | :54:49. | |
James Goddard was there in lane one. Andrew Jameson and Adrian Moorhouse | :54:49. | :54:59. | |
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described the action in a ram men's 200 metres individual medley, | :55:03. | :55:09. | |
a good start from Phelps. Tactics are going to be interesting. Phelps | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
has the fastest fly but after that it is interesting. Lochte has the | :55:13. | :55:21. | |
best backstroke. Goddard is doing quite well. He has a blue cap, the | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
Brits have been wearing red caps, I think it is because he is a | :55:27. | :55:33. | |
Manchester City fan. Lochte needs to make a move. A lot of analysis | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
of their switching in the media. Lochte looking to make a move, but | :55:38. | :55:45. | |
he is not. Phelps is right on world record and very determined. Big, | :55:45. | :55:55. | |
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backstroke leg massively hard. Phelps was first to turn, second | :56:01. | :56:07. | |
was Parreira of Brazil. If Lochte is going to get this, he has got to | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
go now and make a really big move. Goddard is right at the top, in | :56:12. | :56:18. | |
about 4th or 5th. The rest of the field is coming back at Phelps, but | :56:18. | :56:25. | |
look at Phelps go. I can't see him link -- losing theirs. Phelps is | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
really determined -- I can't see him losing this. I wonder if Lochte | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
has enough energy, enough commitment to make this. Surely he | :56:33. | :56:39. | |
will go for the gold. Phelps has to hang on. Lochte looks like he's | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
coming back. Phelps is right on what record, this is an awesome | :56:43. | :56:49. | |
final. Michael Phelps might get this. Lochte is coming back but I | :56:49. | :56:55. | |
think it is going to be Phelps. It is Lochte's world record and it is | :56:55. | :57:05. | |
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still, but it is gold to Phelps. Three in a row. We spent a long | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
time talking about it but Michael Phelps has just won his 20th | :57:10. | :57:18. | |
Olympic medal. Finally he has won an individual gold medal here. The | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
relief after he won the 19 and became the greatest Olympian was | :57:21. | :57:26. | |
massive and finally he has won an individual one, and three titles in | :57:26. | :57:33. | |
He wanted to achieve a number of things, I know you have not, but it | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
-- not set them, but you achieved the triple. Yes, that is cool. I | :57:39. | :57:49. | |
knew Ryan would be tough. It is a hard double coming of the 200 back. | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
I am really pleased, it is a gold medal. The someone special Revenue, | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
yesterday? Yes, or the President called me. -- someone special rang | :58:01. | :58:08. | |
you. Somebody called and asked for me, they said it was the President | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
of the United States, I said oh, OK. You would be so gutted if you got | :58:13. | :58:19. | |
to your phone and it was a mystical! It would be kind of cool | :58:19. | :58:29. | |
:58:29. | :58:30. | ||
because you can keep playing it -- This man has proven his has -- his | :58:30. | :58:36. | |
supremacy, if he ever needed too. feel for Ryan Lochte. At the | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
beginning of the Games, he beat Phelps and it looks like it would | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
be his Olympics. By it is not really the case. It is easy to be a | :58:46. | :58:51. | |
back-seat driver, but first of all, the scheduling, I don't get. Why | :58:51. | :58:57. | |
would you have a race like the 200 backstroker, and 20 minutes later, | :58:57. | :59:04. | |
have to raise the medley? That is how you become the malty medallist, | :59:04. | :59:12. | |
you have do -- it is your choice to swim in those races. The thing is | :59:12. | :59:18. | |
to beat folds, that is what it is all about. He had already won that, | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
save himself -- the thing is to beat Phelps. You have to make your | :59:24. | :59:28. | |
decision, what do you want to do in terms of your career, and if it is | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
to beat Phelps, you pull out of the other one. Your chances of winning | :59:32. | :59:37. | |
those races that close together, I would think are not very good. | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
every sport, there are periods where somebody has this dominance | :59:40. | :59:45. | |
and he has had that. He has this gold medal, this is his last | :59:45. | :59:49. | |
Olympics, that there might not be another of his kind for two or | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
three Olympic Games, we should treasure what he has done for the | :59:52. | :59:58. | |
sport. It has been incredible. It is not easy to stay on top and come | :59:59. | :00:02. | |
back after an Olympics and won another gold medal. The only man | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
ever to win three back-to-back. That speaks to his greatness as a | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
swimmer. Not to mention his determination. It has been a bit of | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
a struggle. Especially after Beijing, now back to where he | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
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belongs, that was pretty impressive Let's have a look at the all-time | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
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With 16 gold, he is head and shoulders above the rest its. -- | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
above the rest. He will never be caught. Never say never. That is | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
impressive, no doubt about it. red two for more finals to look at | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
in the pool. Rebecca Soni beat Suzuki of Japan and Ilya -- and | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Lilia Efimova of Russia in a world record time. The hundred metres | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
freestyle was won by Ranomi Kromowidjojo, of the Netherlands, | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Aliaksandra Herasimenia was second. Yi Tang was third. Britain's fan | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
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Hansel finished in 6th place -- fan Now it is time to catch up with... | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
After a rest day Ben Ainslie and the rest of the sailors were back | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
:01:49. | :01:53. | ||
on the water. Rob Walker has the the best race of all. An incredible | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
comeback. Frustrating for Ainslie. Six races, Ainslie beaten in every | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
single one. Race seven and finally Ben Ainslie had his chance. Into | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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the lead, he forced to Great Dane to attack. Ainslie is out to beat | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
the Danish sailor for the first time at these Olympic Games. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Ainslie stands up, someone has capsized. Busied the Danish? Yes, | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
it is! -- is it the Danish? Yes, it is. Ben Ainslie seized his | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
opportunity and beat the Dane for the first time in the regatta. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
there it is, Ben Ainslie has beaten the Danish. Come on, come on. | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
the Dane is a fierce competitor and in the second race of the day, | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
Ainslie was forced to change -- to chase him once again. Ben Ainslie | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
has rounded the mark chasing the Danish sailors. There was an | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
exchange between Ainslie and another sailor. All I can imagine, | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
the sale is saying to Ainslie, you hit the mark. Explain about the | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
altercation, the conversation, from the Dutch sailor. Was he saying you | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
had hit the market you did not Him and the Danish guide teamed up | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
on me. I am seriously unhappy with that. He did not want to make me | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
angry, I am angry. From where I was sailing, it looked like he hit the | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
mark. If he did not, he should not have done his penalty turn. I had | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
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no choice, if it is two against one, over his rival in one day. With | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
three races left, there is nothing in it. The battle has reached new | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
intensity. Beware, Great Dane, Ainsley's in animal is awakened. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
is really bad. I am a pig with that. It has happened a lot in the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Olympics. I am older and wiser enough not to fall for it but those | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
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What a competitor. He is a great competitor, so determined. He has | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
two more races and then the medal race. He could have gone into first | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
place. He is relentless. He knows that water. He rides the waves well, | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
in those conditions I would back him. I love the way he talks. You | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
don't want to make me angry! They had better watch out. That kind of | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
stuff. He has confident. He could almost be American! Is that a | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
compliment? It was, backhanded compliment. I kind of felt that, | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
writer on my head. I was going to ask about the winning mentality. | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Check the overall medal count. winning mentality seems to be | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
prevailing now we have got going with the golds. Funding lottery, | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
lottery funding coming UK Sport funding, that all helps, but have | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
you noticed in the 20 years expectation increasing within | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
British athletes, that we can do it, we are the best? The lottery | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
funding has been fantastic. I was there in 1996. We won one gold | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
medal for Great Britain to stop now we are hoping to get into the teens, | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
who knows. It has changed so much. The mindset? The mindset, the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
belief, the expectation. We saw girls like the two rollers from | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
yesterday, they have been brought through from a talent programme to | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
win Olympic medals. We can expect that. We will catch up with them. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
The women's gymnastics competition is a blue ribband event. Who will | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
etch their name in history? Have a Arena for the individual all-round | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
final. My best bet would be Gabrielle Douglas. Super height, | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
:06:26. | :06:27. | ||
Super flight. The pressure is on Viktoria Komova. I am afraid that | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
is not what gets you a gold medal. 15.466, she is third. Such a clean | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
perform on this apparatus. Lovely flight, look at that in the back | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
transfer. This is going beautifully. For Viktoria Komova. A great | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
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above the bar. A really good retrieval stopped Viktoria Komova | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
is looking on. She has gone into the lead. 15.733, ahead of the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Viktoria Komova. Viktoria Komova was second in the already | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
championships. Can she go one better? That was a touch. So far, | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
so very good. That was super from Viktoria Komova. Viktoria Komova, | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
15.441. A big test, when you are out in front. Rock steady so far. | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
Composure is the for this performance. -- composure is how I | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
would describe this performance. That was tremendous. Gabrielle | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Douglas has to go into the lead after that. She just seemed to be | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
glued to the beam. Gabrielle Douglas is leading, going into this | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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final rotation. It all boils down Full twisting double back, Super | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
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difficulty. I will be surprised that smile is not gold. 15.033, it | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
is going to be interesting. Usher still has to do it. An extremely | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
:08:54. | :08:54. | ||
tall over -- an extremely tall order. Now that was controlled. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
What a joy to see her fight for a medal like this. That was the | :09:00. | :09:10. | |
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disappointment for Viktoria Komova. She has got herself a silver, but | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
there is your Olympic champion. In her first year of senior | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
:09:35. | :09:39. | ||
competition. Viktoria Komova in Agony and ecstasy of the Olympics, | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
right there for you. Rebecca Tunney finished in 13th place, the | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
youngest member of the Great Britain squad. Hannah Whelan had us | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
disappointing competition. She did not land on her vault, so she got | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
no-score and finished 24th. From the grace and elegance of | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
gymnastics to the physicality of boxing, it is time to catch up with | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
our magnificent seven. They are the men who are fighting in London 2012 | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
and they are all still standing at this stage. Fighting first today | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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DeGale. He won a gold at the Youth Olympics eight years ago and silver | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. Today, he Finn it -- he faced | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
Ievgen Khytrov from the Ukraine. Anthony made an impressive start, | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
:10:42. | :10:43. | ||
5-3. Ievgen Khytrov won the second, in the third round, it is tight, | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
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tense and Richi Woodall and Jim are hoping to get it to you. I do | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
not want to spoil the result and tell you what happens. We have got | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
it, here you go. I build up the suspense for you. Richie Woodhall | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
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Anthony Ogogo at camp he withstand what is going to be the most torrid | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
three minutes of his boxing career? As the Beast from the Ukraine comes | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
barrelling forward. He is a point up and if he can keep that | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
differential, what an upset this would be. Yes, he has to keep his | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
opponent off balance with the odd single jab now and again, to | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
counter attack, to try to put him He has been first with the punch-up | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
will stop how is his stamina going to last? He has had a minute's | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
break. A good right hand from Ogogo. If he keeps this up, he could nick | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
it. A little stabbing right hand. He has to do two or three shots and | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
then move. Lovely. The judges could not have missed that one. Ogogo is | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
still bouncing. Ievgen Khytrov is chasing him, catching him. Two and | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
:12:30. | :12:30. | ||
three shops, -- shots, bring him on. A little switch, covers up well. | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
Ievgen Khytrov will be getting a bit frustrated. The gumshield has | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
come out. That will give Ogogo a few seconds' rest. He needs it, to | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
be honest. I did not see any punch that would have dislodged that. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Maybe he got rid of it himself to buy a bit of time. Would you blame | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
him? I think not. A pulsating contest, one of the best contests | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
we have seen so far. Ievgen Khytrov gets him again, Ogogo must run. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Ievgen Khytrov will not let him off the hook. He has to start working | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
harder, two or three shots. There is a bit of trouble. Just keep the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
head up from the referee took Ogogo. One minute to go. Come on, don't | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
let this slip. Get off those ropes, Anthony Ogogo. He is getting caught, | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
tiring. This machine from the Ukraine is coming storming forward. | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Keep him at bay. Long range, keep him at bay and then move. Beat him | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
to the shot, counter attack him. What a racket, what a performance | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
from Ogogo. Target the right hand over the top. He has a slow left | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
will stop what a sensation this would be if he can hang on and win | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
it. It is so close. Very close, it could be the most important 30 | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
seconds of Anthony Ogogo's career. He has to work, come on. He needs | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
to score a couple more shot. That is better from Ogogo. There was not | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
much in it but it did land. Ievgen Khytrov is coming forward. He has a | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
punch, he has got to punch of stock good footwork by Ogogo, he got | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
himself caught on the turn. last 15 seconds. A good left hook | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
as that... Ogogo is tiring. Ievgen Khytrov is coming forward. The | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
world champion might have done enough but there is not very much | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
in this and what a task for the five judges. What a performance | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
from Ogogo. They have punched themselves to a standstill. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Whatever happens, he has raised to his status in world amateur boxing | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
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We go to come back, where we are level again at 52-52. He has got it, | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
Ogogo! He has beat the world number one! It was 18-18, they went to | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
come back, the total scores went to 52-52. -- they went to count back. | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
Then the fight judges asked to press a red or a blue button and | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
they have come out in favour of a Ogogo. What an upset. That is the | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
upset of this tournament so far. He did that for his mother. His mother | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
was poorly coming into this tournament, but was for his dear | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
mum. He has beaten the world champion. Anthony Ogogo, I am proud | :15:48. | :15:57. | |
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He will now face a German in the final. He said the best part of his | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
day was giving his mum a hug and he loves so very much. Joshua Taylor | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
was also in action. He was going against the Valentino of Italy in | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
his second round fight. The Italian proved sadly too strong, beating | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
Josh in a tough encounter. It was too close to call until the third | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
round but Josh took several blows and it means he is the first of our | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
magnificent seven to be knocked out. Plenty of medals to put on our | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
medal sport. Let's get through there, I will show you the table as | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
we go. China are leading the way, we go. China are leading the way, | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Great Britain are doing a lot of catching up. The USA are way ahead | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
on 18, it has been a big day for you. Great Britain are moving right | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
up the table. Will be up there I am sure in the next couple of days, if | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
we keep having a wonderful days like today. Shall we do the silver | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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medals first? The can you save one gold medal for me? You can do the | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
one. Greg Searle, it seems only appropriate that you do the rowers. | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
Peter, Richard, Chris, Rob. Then we have got the canoeists. Michael, | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
the silver canoeists. Then we have the silver canoeists. Then we have | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
got Peter Wilson, the shooting. He had a fantastic day. And then the | :17:38. | :17:47. | |
gold and canoeists. Etienne and Tim. I would love to do one shot at a | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
gold, even touch a guy's face! There we go, there is Philip. Jason | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
Kenny is yours. And Sir Chris Hoy, long may he reigned. Look, this has | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
filled up a bit since the last time. Look at that. We have had a great | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
few days. I wouldn't like to see the USA boards, they would be | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
vulgar, way too big! Great to have you here. Just brilliant. An | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
inspiration to all 40-year-old, I think. That is it, the end of | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
basics, it has been a pretty good day for Great Britain and day seven | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
or being a Prunty more silver and gold -- the end of basics and day | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
seven will bring plenty more silvers and gold, I am sure. See | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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Here come the British, Great The tears that earlier Gemma | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
Gibbons will win a medal. -- the tears that tell you. They are the | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Olympic champions and we get two medals. We have got silver but we | :19:18. | :19:23. |