Day 8 Olympics Tonight

Hello, good evening and welcome. Whatever you are doing, you don't

want to miss the next 80 minutes. They don't call it Super Saturday

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What we are seen right now is that The Olympic flame, burning brightly,

as another fabulous, fabulous day draws to a close. A look at the

scenes, as crowds leave the Olympic Stadium after what has been one of

the most historic night in British sport. We have a cracking line-up,

and on this super Saturday, suitably scintillating so first

She will be delighted with that! Mary Peters has beaten all of them

for the gold medal. Denise Lewis is the Olympic champion, she has got

I am delighted to welcome Denise Lewis and Dame Mary Peters. It is a

bit of a ladies' night, and I think you might guess why it two Of Our

Greatest multi- inventors are grinning. This is how we will take

Great Britain has ruled the regatta, it was another by normal day on the

water at Eton Daunay. - Margaret phenomenal day. Play two of the

heptathlon, and the chance of glory. Gebrselassie, Bekele, could Mo

Farah at his name to an incredible list of the 10,000 metres

champions? And there was one gold on offer in

We have also had an incredible long jump competition. Let's start with

a dramatic day at the rowing. Before today Great Britain had one

six medals on the water at Eton Daunay, we went in three of the

four finals, and yet again it was a day of high drama and a few tissues

go! Great Britain and get the gold medal! It is going to be a so

close! One last time! We are going to get it! It is Great Britain,

from Australia! Gold medal, what a perfect, perfect day. Here we go,

it is going to be great. We are now a wave finally, after all the talk

that has come out of the Aussie camp, we are in the final of the

men's coxless fours. Great Britain, the defending champions, coming out

of the starting blocks. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, and Great

Britain have four of them here. Now the confidence will start to build

here. Great Britain, Australia and the USA. Great Britain in lane six,

so varied and relaxed. This is starting to develop into the two

Boat race we did expected. -- we expected. This will be like a

heavyweight boxing match, like no other in international rowing. Here

comes the wall of sound. Great Britain, stretching out. This is

where it is going to matter. But this is going to the wire, and

Australia are still in this. The Australians are charging, but the

British will defend their Olympic title! We have done it! We have

done it in style! Great Britain, the Olympic champions once more,

and it was a magnificent effort It doesn't feel real. It doesn't

feel like we have one the Olympics. I am just very proud. I am so

relieved, the support was just incredible. It really lifted us,

stop us making mistakes in the last 500. I'm thrilled and proud of my

guys, proud of what we have done in the past few weeks, I couldn't be

happier. Building up has been a lot of expectation and pressure from

ourselves, we have wanted this so badly. The way we have gone about

training has been a very intense. To actually pull it off, we are in

disbelief, the last four years has been extremely difficult for all of

us in our own right. We saw how much support and enthusiasm there

is, it got louder and louder, right from the beginning of the race. The

crescendo from this crowd was deafening. You had everything in

your heart telling you could do it. As soon as he crossed that line, it

was just silence, because we had done it.

They have been celebrating at a post regatta dinner, they are back

now at their hotel. Alex Gregory and Tom James are waiting to speak

to us. Thank you for cutting your evening short. A huge

congratulations! This was an old- fashioned ding-dong with the

Aussies, they were talking of the tour, it ended up being a cracking

race. It certainly did. The Aussies always one to beat us, it is

between the Aussies and GBE in the last 24 years after the gold medal

in the coxless fours, they wanted to beat us on our home soil, and it

has been a pretty epic battle all season. They were essentially it

the favourites, I think we felt the pressure, but we pulled off a

really good race, and it is a great feeling to name it like we did. It

hasn't really sunk in, to be honest. You have joined the dole Ding Dang,

you were the only one in that boat he wasn't on the top rostrum. You

said earlier today, you felt like you owned the boat, because people

came and went, you were the one consistent one there. I have been

in the boat since 2009, so why had that benefit. I felt a bit of

pressure with these guys. For the last 500 metres of the race I was

afraid I wasn't going to catch cramp, I'm pretty relieved, to be

honest. You have all had various things go on, you had an irregular

heartbeat, you had to take a year off, put into context how typical

does build up has been over the last four years. It is not your

most typical Olympic build up, I imagine. But yes, there have been a

lot of dark moments, training or in your own outside of the squad has

been tougher. We have got a great support system, a great medical

background to get a quick prognosis, without that, I wouldn't have been

able to get back into any decent sort of performance. But yes, it

has been quite Astra Sport Olympiad. It is funny how these things work

out, all the times I it was on my own training, coming back from an

injury, you find out whether you really want it or not. The last

year or so has been absolutely magic. It is funny how things come

together, it has worked out fantastically. You were incredible

together, you are a real pride of the nation. It is the first time we

are going to have a blast of this! I'm going to ask if you could go

over to that Big Bang, Denise up. She is walking over to Big Ben. She

is moving our gold arrow up one place, to number nine. We are

already at the level we were at in Athens. Bats -- thank you so much,

guys. We really appreciate your The women's lightweight double

scull next, and Greece have dominated this for the last couple

of years, while Great Britain have a young and an experienced pair --

in experienced pair. They may be young, but they were not daunted,

they led strongly, they found a similar, strong rhythm, putting

a way! Greece are spent, it is Greg Bird and all the way. They are

making history. Surely they have got enough now to hold on here.

Less than 50 strokes remain in the final of the women's lightweight

double scull, they came together this year, and they have formed a

fabulous partnership. Hold on, girls, and it is yours! They are

not going to get caught. They are just flying along. This could be

Britain's third women's gold medal of this Olympics. This is history

in terms of rowing, fantastic. Catherine Copeland, 21 years of age.

Sophie Hosking, 26 years of age. But this partnership have only 25

strokes remaining and they will be the Olympic champions. Look at the

support on the far side! The whole of the place is going absolutely

mad. It will be a wall of sound here as they come into the last few

metres, they are still moving away. We are looking at history, moving

all the time, every stroke, look at her, her first ever senior race.

They are making us look absolutely easy. This is an incredible scull

for Britain. Still moving away. Greece, fighting back past China to

try and get into that silver medal position. So it safety Hocking --

Sophie Hosking and Kat Copeland, they are the Olympic champions, an

incredible, incredible scull! They have just been glorious here this

morning. A fabulous, fabulous result, a well deserved result.

They can hardly believe it. Sophie Hosking, Kat Copeland, complete and

utter joy now. You are an Olympic Are quite believe this is real,

that we just one! -- that we just won! You are going to be on a stamp

for the next 10 years following the It is her first year at senior

level. Look at her, she is just counting her blessings, it is

It is something we have been working for so long and there are

so many people we have to thank. Paul Reid, Hester for everything

she did to get us here. I can't believe it actually happened.

emotion! You were there, Mary. Absolutely. Wonderful experience. I

was a guest of the National Lottery, who made it possible for all of

these medals in the rowing. It is sensational and the girls were

wonderful. We can cross back to the Hotel. Katherine Grainger and Greg

Searle on there. Thank you for talking to us. Those two are at the

other end of the Olympic spectrum. They have got magnificent futures

ahead of them. And that is how you introduce us! I was thinking, why

would they get us two together! like the idea you have pulled us

away from a dinner, it is cheese and pineapple on a stick! I had you

eating lobster and drinking champagne! Rock-and-roll! They

could go on to be multi- gold medallists. It took me four times

to get it right and they did it first time, I don't know what I was

doing wrong all of this time. will not necessarily save it the

way you have. I got to do it early and I don't think I've realised how

special it was when I was 20. Now it feels all the Battle of the

mile-long Korea. Your long torturous Korea of highs and lows,

it makes it all the better when you win. -- career. Katherine Grainger,

you have shown them what is possible and they have a great

career ahead. They looked invincible! They did. We have been

on the same training camp as them for the last few months, and they

have really shown incredible speed and potential and it was all going

to come down to, could they produce the goods on the day, at their

first Olympics, when they had never felt this kind of attention and

expectation? We knew that this speed was there. It was if they

could turn it on, and they nailed it. They both utterly deserved it.

Sophie Hosking was lovely, she said she was inspired by the success of

the women's team for years, so it is nice to think that some of what

the older members of the team have done have brought on the younger

ones, who will be far more successful than us. And it is fair

to recognise what you have done as well, in terms of the way they look

to you and they get confidence from you leading the women's team and

the performance has been so special and to me, it is the difference

between how things were ten years ago when I left to how they are now,

to see the strength in the way the women have come up and have

actually done better in the men, and it did not used to be like that.

It is very special. We are lucky. We are in a very successful

environment, it is very supportive. We all get on. It is competitive

but it is a positive experience for all of us and that has helped the

women's team every step of the way. We understand the ladies are not at

the banquet, they have hit the town! That is the difference

between the oldies and the younger ones. You two have got your

slippers on! Dame Mary Peters will now go up to Big Ben and move the

Totalisator. It is time for this! If you will pass that on to the

girls, we will be delighted. Get back to your crisps! Thank you.

Next up, the men's lightweight double sculls, Mark Hunter and Zac

Purchase, reigning Olympic champions. Sickness meant they

finished down the field at earlier regattas. After 80 metres, the boat

stopped. Zac Purchase's seat broker. Under the rules, you are allowed to

restart if there is a mechanical failure, as long as cities before

100m, so after some good work with a screwdriver, they started again -

- as long as it is before 100m. We minute. Denmark are fighting back!

Great Britain... They have got to find something! Denmark have found

something! The closing stages! Denmark are coming on! They will

get zero! Great Britain will just lose the championship medal to

Denmark! Denmark, sneaking ahead of Great Britain! Denmark get the

Olympic gold! Great Britain get the silver! And New Zealand get the

bronze. They kept us on the edge of our seats. But they just ran out of

Steve is helping Mark Hunter to his feet. Mark. There is probably

nothing in the world you want to do less than talk about that race.

What are your thoughts? We gave everything. We tried everything...

We wanted to win so badly. We are just... Sorry to everybody we have

let down. You have let nobody down. After the year that you guys have

had, you have let nobody down. Can you tell us what happened at the

start? We had a problem with the seat, it just came apart. It was

fixed, it did not have any bearing on the race. We had the best race

we could and the crowd have been absolutely amazing. We have really

enjoyed being a part of this amazing team... Just... I just wish

we had been a little bit quicker for everybody else... I will let

you go but thank you so much for all of the help you have given us

over the last few years, and you are silver medallists. I am sorry.

Sorry. Take care. Steve will take them down to the medal ceremony,

where they will receive their silver medals. Emotions...

Especially when you know these people pretty well. It is quite

hard being here as well... John Inverdale was challenging the

emotions of a nation. He is a local boy, Mark Hunter, from the East End.

State-school educated. He goes to schools and talks about how you can

get him. It is not always about public schools. He was a fantastic

champion and he did not let anybody down. He did not by any stretch of

the imagination. Post-race interviews like that are so painful.

Hopefully, when he reflects on the career that he has had and what it

takes to break through into the rowing fraternity, he will be very

proud of himself. And he is a gold medallist from Beijing. Let's speak

to a Sir Steve Redgrave. Good evening. An incredible regatta. If

you could just reflect on that race. I know Mark and Zack are tired but

I hope they realise the nation is incredibly proud and that they let

nobody down. They are very proud. They have had a great time at the

party tonight. I think it is starting to sink in. Starting off

with the youngsters, then going to Katherine Grainger, then me. We are

getting older! They have actually got my boat behind me! They are

making good use of it! What is going on?! You are the senior

statesman. We have seen how important you have been to the

younger athletes. They look up to you. It is time to celebrate what a

success this has been. If we look at how many medals Team GB have won

at the regatta, it has been an great rival, but no golds. What are

the magic ingredients that have Paul Thompson is the women, coach

and yoga is the men's coach and they are in tandem in some ways.

The women have actually done better than the men. It is the combination

of commit each year that everyone is willing to learn to go that

little bit better, of how to improve the team. One of the

elements that we have is the support staff, from the coaches,

from David Tanner at the top, down to the doctors and physiotherapists

and the team, and that is where a lot of the finances has gone in, to

make sure the athletes are in the best position, so when we push them

away from the landing stage, they will get their best possible result

and the best conditions to be able to do that, and that is what the

BOA have been planning to do as well, so the athletes can go and do

their business and enjoy it. The we have all enjoyed it. We have

enjoyed you as well. It has been a phenomenally successful element of

a brilliant week so far. It has been owned lot of fun, but this is

our best ever regatta -- it has been a lot of fun. Before the best

was a 1908 when we one eight medals, and we have beaten that -- when we

won eight medals. Maybe we can do even better in Rio. Let's see!

Thank you. We can see the younger generation taking the baton from

the older generation, a fantastic The men's 10,000m. Mo Farah looking

to add Olympic gold to his medal collection. The men's long jump

final. Greg Rutherford and Ian Tomlinson, launching for Britain.

The last Olympics went for this certain of Michael Phelps. And here

come the goals. In the velodrome, it was another night to savour --

here come the girls. It is always busy outside our

studio, we get the odd incredible guest opinion. But they had been

chanting "we want Jess", and we are hoping that we might get her! We

will see. If we can, rest assured, we will. They do not want to go

home. It has been too good. The first big night of the athletics

finals. All eyes on Mo and Jess. Jess shows all of her Sheffield

steel yesterday. So much expectation on the slender

shoulders of Jessica Ennis. And this is a tremendous run! Oh my

If anybody wants his Olympic title, they are going to have to produce

something remarkable! Come on, Jess. Can she finished in the same rich

vein of form? Jessica Ennis is flying. This is a good end to what

has been a pretty good first day for Jessica Ennis. She led by over

180 points, three events left today. Gold could be herds if she

continued that way. -- could be everything goes according to plan,

and she and Great Britain will come away with the gold medals.

wanted! Just what we wanted! Just what she wanted herself! 6.4. One

step closer to the gold medal for Jess Ennis! They belief is growing.

and collected. You would suggest that if she can nail a javelin

throw of around 45 metres, the chase for the Olympic title will be

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smiles for the Olympic champion elect, just won event to go. --

just one event to go. This could be taking any chances! This is

outstanding! Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion! For best all-

I am so shocked, I can't believe it. After the javelin I knew I was on

for a good score and a metal, but I couldn't believe it until I crossed

the finish line. All this hard work, the disappointment of Beijing, and

everyone just supporting me so much... Are you OK? Yeah, I'm just

shocked. Everyone has supported me, I just want to thank everyone here

and my family... Just everyone that has supported me, I am so happy. I

just had to give it everything at the end, I thought I will only have

one moment to do it in front of a home crowd, and I'm so pleased I

left everything on the track. I think I need to savour this moment,

recover and see how I feel tomorrow. It is a huge amount of pressure

coming into this, I just tried to stay focused, and the crowd helped

me. I can't believe it, I can't believe I have done it! A I am not

sure I've ever heard an Olympic stadium give a reception like they

gave Jessica Ennis denied. -- tonight. The nation, filled with

pride at this magnificent Well, the previous two generations

of multi-event athletes are here with me in the studio. Just the

most fantastic conference of talent. She had the upset Andy misery of

missing out in Beijing when we all felt she was on fire, and she

proved it by winning the World Championship. There were times, in

those dark hours, she wondered if the opportunity would come again,

and it came again in the most perfect setting. You just think,

what can be done in four years, she was so devastated with that injury,

she was just on the crest, just moving into the hearts and minds of

the British nation and then she was curtailed with their triple stress

factor. What she has done is really known her event, really Crafter

event and really understand where she can gain points. She is quick,

athletic, dynamic, but what is special about her is her mind. It

is her mind and how she absorbs information. You can see how she

dealt with the pressure going into these games, it has been so

pleasurable, such a proud moment, for us all to witness. It has just

been magical. As you said, in the stadium, when the national anthem

was played, and the whole of that stadium just erupted in song. You

just don't get moments like that too often in life, and you could

see how much it meant to her. started yesterday morning, the

first day of athletics here, she came out into a packed stadium, and

she ran a time in the 100 metres hurdles that would have got her a

gold medal, 12.54. How to deal with pressure! Aynho, at the crowd was

just wanting her, she was the poster girl of the Olympics, they

wanted her to do it. My fear was the pressure and expectation might

affect her. But she was so controlled, she did everything

right. Was the long jump the key moment today? She had a

disappointing first jump, and the second jump, you saw her there, the

smile on her face, it was like she knew that she was just with a

button the podium. She nailed this junk, this was the first round,

when she was slightly behind the board, we know she's carrying good

speed, but you still have to be accurate on the board. She had to

compose herself, you only get three attempts in the heptathlon, and she

made the last two account. In the 800, when all she had to do was get

round, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion, but she is a

classy, and she said in her interview, she wanted to give the

crowd something, she went for it. It was a Kelly Holmes moment,

crossing the line first. She showed her class, it was just amazing.

This is typical of Jessica. She could have easily sat back during

that race and just cruised to victory, but she wanted to more

from it. She wanted to entertain the crowd, she wanted that moment,

like the Dane said about the other day in the! She wanted to the

victory for the crowd, and look at how everyone reacted to it. To

deliver not only a jaw-dropping performance, to deliver your

personal best, to run the way she did to finish, it was world class.

She is so lovely as well. She is so adorable, so mild-mannered, and she

has been everywhere in the build-up to this, so it really was a massive

pressure to absorb. She now joins these two ladies in the multi-event

delirium! She will be delighted with that! The dazzling smile

appears! Denise Lewis is the Olympic champion. Mary Peters has

beaten off the rest for the gold medal! She has started! Denise

Lewis has just made history. pride of Great Britain! Jessica

Time for a blast of Spandau Ballet. As you were the last at Bath on a

gold medallist, would you like to go and move the table. --

heptathlon gold medallist. Thank you so much, Denise. Now for

another athlete who has the weight of expectation of a nation on his

shoulders. Mo Farah, the world 5000 metres champion was aiming to

become the first British athlete to win an Olympic gold in the 10,000

metres. He faces a tough ask, have really strong field including

Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, who has one this event in the last two

comfortable, nobody made a move, we joined the race with three laps to

go, with all the main contenders in touch, and the crowd going

the outside, ready to move -- is in a great place. Tariku Bekele is

doing nothing other than blocking the track. A word of encouragement

as they went past Chris Thomson, to his great friend and one-time rival,

Mo Farah. The crowd are already reaching a crescendo and there is

still just over two laps to go. Look at Farah, how easy does he

look? But they are all there. Farah, poised and ready to strike. Masai

is there, Kenenisa Bekele is in a terrible position at the moment, if

anyone is to go in this lap they may just get a bit of air between

themselves and Kenenisa Bekele. It is winding up, but this is not a

sprint yet, it hasn't started. We have been waiting and waiting for

this, when is it going to break? Who is going to go first? Are it

certainly hasn't started, too many of them in this group for comfort.

This is the lack, it is now about positioning yourself off for a move.

Mo Farah is in contention, Tariku Bekele is holding him off, Kenenisa

Bekele is not in a great place for there. He needs to position himself

better if he is going to defend his title. Now we have got a race are,

it is going to come down to a last lap sprint. This is Mo Farah's

first serious move, there has been a response from Bekele. Mo Farah

hits the front! 1 lap to go. Is the bell tolling for a gold medal for

Great Britain? Mo Farah, really trying to become the first Great

Britain to win the Olympic title at 10,000 metres. He has got a bit of

company including his training partner. He is ready magnificently

now. -- running magnificently. any to be keenly looking for room

on the inside, and a Farah is digging on -- Kenenisa Bekele. The

crowd are lifting him, Farah into the home straight, just 100 metres

to go, has he got enough? He is kicking again! He is going to do

it! It is a glorious, glorious win! medals for Great Britain. What a

took on the Africans, they showed Mo Farah, Olympic champion, on an

night of three gold medals for Great Britain, can you believe what

has happened? The crowd got so much behind me, it was getting louder

and louder, I have never experienced something like this. He

doesn't come around often, to have it right on your doorstep, to have

people shouting out your name, it is never going to get better than

this, this is the best moment of my life. It is just the hard work, 120

miles week in, week out. Would you put in is what you get out. I have

just had great support from the crowd and Barry French, he has been

monitoring every single thing, he has been away from his family, I

have been away from my family, I want to thank everyone who has

supported me from my childhood until now. Without all them people,

Britain has never one the 10,000 metres, there has been such a

stranglehold, with the Ethiopians and Kenyans, and for Mo to do what

he has done, he has vindicated the decision to go and live in Oregon,

it has been an immense achievement. It was probably the best thing he

could have done. Some of the best lessons are learned in the face of

defeat, and last year when he finished second, you can just

imagine how he has been studying his opponents, working out the

strategy of how he was going to win tonight. Wasn't it just poetic? I

am really happy for Alberto Salazar, who also coached the athlete who

finished second. It was a simple plan, they knew they could outstrip

everybody on the last lap, he never panicked. It is about confidence,

the more you can build on that, through the work you are doing,

having confidence in your training sessions and the people around you,

you can walk into arenas like this and no -- know what you have to do.

It is not heated to execute, but that mental toughness you have to

have if you want to win, they both have it, just a Gatt and Mo. It is

a lonely life, being a distance runner, lots of miles, lots of

restrictions in everything you do People don't realise the miles that

they have to run to be able to perform like that on the track.

They don't understand what it is like when it is raining and cold

and miserable, and you have to perform a day after day.

performance like that is used in the making. He has doubled up in

the 5,000m -- years in the making. This will give him so much

confidence. Is a double gold a real possibility? It really is. Mo is

capable of winning the 5,000m race. It will be tougher. More challenges,

more people to affect him, but as you said, confidence. Anything's

possible. We understand Mo is still inside, his medal ceremony it is

tomorrow, and Jess is also still going through doping, we would love

to have them both here tonight. 12, above Sydney. What are you

doing these days, Mary? You are in good shape. I walk four miles every

day, if I can, which takes an hour. I feel good. All of that training

has its rewards. The crowds are still outside. They are still

hopeful we will get some gold medallists for you this evening.

They are patiently waiting. High drama at the Olympic Stadium, and

there would be more. Tonight was the final of the men's long jump.

Britain had not won a medal in this since 1964. Chris Tomlinson and

Greg Rutherford lined up on the runway, going for gold. Get ready

This long jump competition is wide long jump competition comes alive

with Greg Rutherford in round two. Paul Dickenson is bouncing up and

down like a teenager next to me. really nailed that one on take-off.

He maintained his speed. Krakow! 8.21. -- what a cracker! Chris

big impression in the sand. It is over eight metres. Absolutely

perfect on the board. He just maybe miss the Tate got a little bit. He

didn't quite a time it right. -- he missed the take-off a little bit.

this atmosphere? It is big! -- cam Greg Rutherford ft office

atmosphere? Could this be the greatest night of British athletics

competition, that is going to take mistake. If this man hits it, he

running up, he just didn't have the pace and the rhythm. Another

athlete down. Will Claye is the only athlete now who can deny Greg

is the Olympic champion! Oh my goodness! Just remarkable! What a

moment! Not many people would have put Greg Rutherford down as an

Olympic champion at the beginning of this year, perhaps not even at

always going to happen, but it doesn't matter!

Olympic long jump champion, Greg Rutherford! I don't think he can

quite believe it. Have I don't think any of us can quite believe

I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care.

The first long jump champion for a sense Lynn Davies in 1964. -- for

us thinks. Exactly. I am glad I can emulate somebody like that. What a

night for British athletics. Three gold medals out of a possible three.

It is incredible. I cannot thank everybody at home enough. The crowd

were absolutely incredible. I got to see my parents in the crowd. I

don't think it has sunk in properly. This is what I have dreamt of my

entire life. I knew I was given to be a sportsman, and when I picked

athletics, I knew I was going to want to be Olympic champion, and I

get to do it in London! I might wake up in a minute! When you were

coming in, you said you were going to do it. You have done it.

Congratulations. The nation shares your joy. Thank you so much to

everybody at home and everybody on Twitter. Go and celebrate! I will!

That was one of my favourite interviews of the day. Olympic long

jump champion from 1964, the aforementioned limb Davies, has

joined us. What a night! -- Liam Davies. I predicted a medal, but

perhaps not the gold. Greg Rutherford was the leading jumper

going into the competition, so we knew if he got it right, he could

win the gold, and what an honour and a pleasure for me, 48 years

later, to be sitting in that stadium and to see another Brit to

win the long jump. It is the shortest gold medal for 40 years,

the distance, but it doesn't matter. You have to be the best on the day.

Once every four years, you have to seize the opportunity and this was

his opportunity. The leading dissidents was his. The main danger

man was Mitchell Watt. He had done 8.54. He looked to be the favourite

at, and this was his opportunity. This was his jump. How much to be

crowd help? Every time he stood on the runway, there was an enormous

response from the crowd, and T Muster been aware of that. Luckily,

he channelled that -- and he must have been aware of that. I have

known him for the last seven years. He struggled with injuries, he

struggled in Beijing, but to come back and be Olympic champion in

front of your home crowd, I can't think of anything better. We know

it Jess is popular, but Greg is as popular as Jess a month the British

athletes. We call him Mr Breakable, because of all these injuries, but

we have always been aware of his talents and we knew he could do

this today. The fact he has had such a good protagonist in Chris

Tomlinson over the years driving him forwards... Yes. It is always

great in your own country to have somebody pushing you. If I can pick

up on Sir Steve Redgrave earlier saying what has made the difference

is the support staff, and I cannot speak too highly of UK sport for

the funding, the doctors, the support staff, the physiotherapists,

the coaches. It is a team effort and he is the finished product, but

you are only as good as your preparation. It is about the team

as well. Feeding off of it. It is between the athletes in a healthy

environment where they all expect to deliver maximum performance. I

guess we were all a bit fragmented before. We were not sharing

information. But now we have got these groups of athletes training

together. Charles Van Commenee has put that into place. Yes, and I

think it has been effective. John Inverdale was teasing Greg Abbott

training camps saying he wanted to replace these images -- great at

the training camp. As beautiful and fantastic as these images are, we

needed to move on from black and white images of gold medals in the

long jumper! Look at that handsome young fellow! I thought they would

have been worn out by now, the film! It is always great to win a

gold medal in an Olympic Games, albeit in Tokyo! You can see I was

quite excited. 8.07. To stand on that rostrum in Tokyo was a great

thrill. It is the realisation of a dream to win the Olympic gold. But

to do it in front of your crowd tonight. Woods escaped me in trying

to capture what that atmosphere was like -- Words escape me. One gold

medal in Beijing, three tonight. The most ever by a Great Britain

team is four in track and field, so only one more... It is all about

belief and confidence and these three guys have shown they are

Olympic champions, and now the rest of the team can walk into the

stadium knowing that they can compete well. It is time for gold.

# Gold #. Never have Spandau Ballet been

aired so much on a Saturday night Takes us up to 13 gold medals so

far. Thank you so, so much. It is great to see you. I am sure you

were delighted to be there. We used day longer? Indeed. Fantastic. --

will you stay a bit longer? Lots more to come before bedtime. It is

the final night in the swimming pool. Will it be a golden end for

the Michael Phelps Olympic era? We are celebrating those who don't

always make the headlines in our underdog of the day. And more from

the track as the fastest women in the world join the party.

What time is it? We are coming up to midnight and they are still

outside. Still hope for, as we are, that we might get a couple of our

gold medallists. Denise is giving them a wave and getting them into a

frenzy! They are still in doping. It is a long process if you are a

gold medal-winner. Team GB! Team GB! Team GB! Team GB! Fantastic!

Let's go to the velodrome. Day three, with Britain looking to

continue their gold rush. A problem for the British team!

Great Britain are the fastest of the qualifiers! Gold medal for

Great Britain! And new world record! I don't believe what I am

The gold medal is Great Britain's! Pendleton has ignited the burners.

Meares is washed away! Victoria Pendleton gets the gold medal! Two

nights, three goals. Not bad. Tonight it was the women's team

pursuit and the white, red and blue and to one of Rosewell broke the

world record in qualifying -- Joe when the Roselle. They beat Canada

to reach the final, where they took 3,000 metres team pursuit. Sarah

Hammer leads the US team. They have a good formula. They are two

seconds behind the British three. Already they have lost nearly 0.7

of the second. An incredible start Sarah Hammer could get to the front

and assert her power, and it could it breaks of formation. I think it

is what she is already doing. They have spread the work, not evenly,

but proportionally to strength throughout the team. The United

States are holding the British team. The opening kilometre, Britain in a

one. A weight. Not as quick as their world record. But they have

the US 0.78 behind. They are being called on the same schedule as in

the previous round. But they are going to be clever, they are going

to stretch themselves to stop --. They really are moving, they are

swinging up to allow their teenage to go through. This is a phenomenal

ride by Great Britain. They don't need to do anything clever here,

they need to be clever, Laura Trott did it shorter turns on this

occasion. They are spreading get more evenly between them. They can

almost see the tail end of the American team, they are flying.

There are the 2000 metres mark. What a fantastic sensation this

must be, in London, in front of the home crowd, they can see the

opposition in front of them, they are so close now to getting the

gold medal. That last split was very close to their world record

pace. They can see the Americans, they are now pursuing them. This is

the ideal way to tidy up a team pursuit. I reckon they could set

another world record here! They are absolutely flying, Great Britain,

and the crowd are getting behind them! They are coming up to the

line. That means the final 250 metres. Great Britain are the world

champions and they are now going to become the Olympic champions! They

are on fire at! Take a look at their finishing time. Great Britain

one the Olympic title, and the gold medal, and another world record! So

that means Great Britain in the last six events, they have posted

six world records. Dani King, Laura Trott and John Russell are the

Olympic champions -- has joined a Rasel. If they get any faster, they

will be parachute to slow down. They can't keep breaking these

You said it was like a family? it is, they are like sisters, I

can't believe we have done it, it is amazing. You talked about

getting up to speed, you experienced this will -- wall of

noise, it was even better. It was, I could tell we were winning by the

noise of the crowd. It really spurred us on in the last kilometre.

Six world records in the last six competitive rides! Brie amazing! I

don't did we expected it. I think we expected it in one of the rounds

but not in everyone, we can't The Velodrome was literally rocking

today, that was incredible. Just an amazing effort. Good to see that

Stella McCartney has an embarrassing dad as well! The

sports science, the technology that they used within British cycling,

what Dave Brailsford has done to move that to the cutting edge, to

take it from Beijing where they were so successful and move it on,

there is only one gold they didn't win, that was a disqualification.

It is a real benchmark for other sports. I think all of our sport a

taking advantage of sports science in this day and age, luckily we

have a very qualified psychologists, people who can analyse on film and

so on. Interesting talking to Greg, that he and his courage look at

film analysis of Carl Lewis, they noticed that in the take-off, he

feared slightly to the right and then took off this side, and they

used that to great effect. Coaches are looking at the best analysis

and taking it on board and applying it to sport. It is no longer just a

theory, it is applied science. the expectations just grows,

especially in cycling. Bradley Wiggins, then the time trial, then

the Velodrome. Cycling is one of those sports that is relatively

easy to get into, you get a bike and away you go! I did it, not to

that level, of course, but in terms of making a start, everyone wants

that first bike, but why not Channel than now? We don't know the

potential of any young person who may want to have the desire to be

the Olympic champion. All sports have something to learn from their

structure and how they have galvanised and feed off each other,

which is inspirational. It is interesting how some medallists

have found their sport, Peter Wilson the Chuter was a cricketer,

he got an injury, and he found shooting. Lydiard Medstead --

Lizzie Armitstead was found in the playground. How did you find it?

16 I did my first pentathlon, I knew I was never going to be really

good at one of those five events, so I combined it and became Olympic

champion. Just like that! It took me a long time. But I didn't have

any technology, Mike coach are used to write my schedules out on the

back of a brown envelope. Blazing a trail for the generations that have

come, and the legacy which is so important here. Hopefully tonight,

kids watching Greg Rutherford can think, I can have a go at that! It

is time for a bit more of Spandau Ballet. I wanted to this one. -- I

want to do this one. U three get all the fun. It is time to take it

up to 14! I felt began a powerful there. I'm the only person that has

done that Hoovers and got an Olympic gold medal. -- hasn't got

an Olympic gold medal. I don't think there is a sport, I think it

is too late, may be archery, if I could get into that. The eyesight

is not so good any more. Not that archery is easy, but it is not as

important in terms of cardiovascular! You could be a good

at rhythmic gymnast. The men were also in action today, the omnium

started, after the first day, Ed Clancy is in 4th, with the finals

tomorrow. Jason Kenny is also well placed. Let's get more of today's

Serena Williams storms to her first singles Olympic gold medal, she

beat a Maria Sharapova and did a crowd-pleasing shimmy as well.

There was one hitch, as the star- spangled Banner played, but the

flag didn't know the words. Andy Murray has made his second final,

in the mixed doubles, with the Laura Robson, they overcame Germany.

They will face Victoria Azarenka and Max many tomorrow. In football,

GB have been knocked out by South Korea, the scores were 1-1 after

extra time, but the inevitable happened in penalties. Sturridge

missed his kick and South Korea scored. World champion Helen

Jenkins finished 5th in the women's triathlon in a sensational finish.

Switzerland's Nicola Spirig one a gold medal. In boxing, Tom Stalker

was in action, he boxed clever He made it through, so let round-up

the final action in the swimming- pool, it was a significant night,

the last night we will see the incredible Michael Phelps. If you

had lines from the aquatic centre. -- a few headlines. Kromowidjojo

one of the gold medal. The men to 1500 metres freestyle was one by

Yang of China. -- was a won by Yang The USA's medley quartet, all gold

medallists already come a set a world record to take gold. And

fittingly, Michael Phelps walked out for the very last time to swim

as part of the American a re-rating. He swam the butterfly leg, the

third leg. In a friend Adrian was on the 4th lake. -- Nathan Adrian

fast. Adrian really controlled in this at first 35. He is swaying

from side to side. I think the world record is going to go. The

world record is held by Team USA. It is not, but it is gold to Team

USA, silver to Japan, and runs to Australia. 4th place for Great

Britain. That is the end of a Michael Phelps. He finishes right

Emotional scenes as he picked up what will be his final Olympic

medal, his 18th. He has quite literally been the iconic swimmer

of a generation. Three Olympic Games, and rightly, it was an

emotional experience tonight. He 22 medals, which is the best?

don't know. I think tonight is just... It is the craziest night of

this Olympic sculler brush-off. -- of this I Olympics, for sure.

started all those years ago, did you ever dreamed this? I dreamt of

being the greatest. We worked together to become that, me and Bob,

we have done everything we ever wanted to do. Looking back at my

career, I know I am hanging my suit up, retiring, and looking back and

saying, I have done everything I wanted. I couldn't be happier. I

have said this many time, having my mum and family here is the best

feeling. Has London matched up to your expectations? It has been an

honour to watch your Olympic swims. Every Olympics has got better and

better. This city has been great, the people have been a great, the

village is awesome, the food is better. I am happy. We are having

fun and I couldn't ask for a better It is very difficult to imagine

anybody is ever going to be their dominant in any sport again.

thinker had Ian Thorpe saying that you leave your legacy, but in the

back of your mind, someone is going to get there. Maybe not in our

The speed demons were on the track today in the women's 100m. Shirli-

Ann price and combine their cheetah were running him -- Keri-Anne

Baptista, Carmelita Jeter. Or eight athletes have run under 11 seconds

Campbell-Brown gets another bronze! Fraser price retains her title!

Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, blasting it! Defending her title brilliantly.

It is that time of the day where we get a mention to those who put the

effort in but do not always get the today. The 20km or walk. He is from

Guatemala and he finished in second place, delivering Guatemala their

first ever Olympic medal. A fabulous silver. They will be

dancing on the streets of Guatemala We will now go through to the other

studio. While we are doing this, I will show you the medal table and

you will be delighted to see that Great Britain now have 14 gold

medals, a total only surpassed twice, in Beijing and in London

This is where the real money end of it starts. Denise, could you put

that silver medal for Mark and Zack there, please? We will do these in

chronological order. Let's do the men's four. Peter Reed, Tom, Alex

Gregory... The and would you do the ladies? Kat Copeland. Gold! Sophie

Hosking it! The lightweight women's pairs. Denise, would you do Dani

King, who was part of the sprint team? We have Joanna Rowsell and

Laura Trott. Would you put Jessica Ennis on to the medals? It seems

only appropriate that you do Greg Rutherford. Well done, Greg,

congratulations. The wonderful Mo Farah. APPLAUSE. When we got this

port, I thought they would never get filled. This is amazing. It has

been wonderful sharing this incredibly special day with legends