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ORE ODUBA: Super Sunday, sensational Sunday, use all of the superlatives

you want but the facts were that was Great Britain's most successful day

at an overseas Games ever. Incredible. And that excitement down

at the Olympic Stadium in the athletics was just the icing on the

cake but rarely has there been a great day in great British sport and

we were so lucky, it all happened right on our doorstep. Sprint

success for Jason Kenny in the velodrome and just on the other side

of the venue, double gold or Max Whitlock in the historic gold gold

for Justin Rose yesterday afternoon and emotional scenes in the Olympic

Tennis Centre as Andy Murray retain his Olympic gold medal. And

remember, Great Britain rocketed up the gold medal table. Right here,

Great Britain up to second in the medal table with 38 in total, just

above China by virtue of the Silvers. Great Britain absolutely on

fire and I have been told we are set for a scorcher here, it could be 34

degrees at least here in Rio, so... That worked better in rehearsal. We

have come prepared. Here is what is coming up on day ten at Rio 2016.

We will shortly be over to the canoe sprint for the opening day down at

the Lagoa Stadium. Six sprinters in action for Great Britain over the

course of the competition. Keri Ann Payne will take to the

water for Great Britain in a marathon swimming. Beijing 2008

silver-medallist, can she go for gold today?

The men's doubles players, Alice and Langridge, have been doing

excellently well for Great Britain. They are into the knockout -- Ellis.

Before Ireland's greatest ever amateur boxer, male or female, Katie

Taylor, takes to the ring. And then could it be golden honours

for Charlotte Dujardin in the individual dressage? We will head

down to Diadoro later on this afternoon.

So here is how day ten, we are in double figures, everybody, is

looking this afternoon on BBC Four. The canoe sprint kicks off the

coverage before a bit badminton. Keri Ann Payne in the marathon

swimming. Boxing with Katie Taylor and then the equestrian with

Charlotte Dujardin in action. I wonder what you are up to on BBC

One? What are they up to? Let's have a look. Well, after a successful

incredibly exciting afternoon down at the athletics, another day in the

Olympic Stadium and later, they will be into the velodrome for yet more

track cycling and hopefully a successful day for Great Britain's

Mark Cavendish in the omnium. But we are going to kick off our coverage

with canoe sprint. It is the opening day, 12 medals up for grabs and the

Great Britain sprinters will hopefully be taking some inspiration

from the rowers, who won five medals than in the Lagoa Stadium lake and

maybe even from their canoe slalom colleagues, who won two medals.

Great Britain has sent six members of the team. The aim is gold, just

like Ed Mckeever back in 2012. The men's 200m individual kayak,

heavy with hope for Ed Mckeever. They are away first time, into that

wall of noise and who gets out quickest? It is pouring down from

the stands, the noise. Ed Mckeever is out fast lane four. With the red

bow on his kayak powering on. Such great strength. He will try and reel

them in. Trying to get alongside him. Ed Mckeever holding on. They

come into the final 50m, Ed Mckeever still out in front. They are not

going to get there. Mckeever, as he comes up to the line, still holding

on. It is gold bike Mckeever for Great Britain and the quiet man lets

out a roar as he becomes Olympic champion in the men's K1 200m. I was

really just focused on the first two or three strokes and I just wanted

to nail those. Get out cleanly. And then hopefully the race sorted

itself out and it did. And the moment you crossed the line, what

did you feel, what did you think? Just relieved, so happy I could do

it in front of the home crowd. He now has the Olympic title and a gold

medal around his neck. Unfortunately for Ed Mckeever, his

Olympic journey started and ended in London 2012, albeit very

successfully. He didn't manage to qualify for Rio 2016 but in the

piece, you got an idea of the build up the man, absolutely huge. Canoe

sprinters come in all shapes and sizes, here is your guide.

Canoe sprint is a sport where athletes race canoes or kayaks on

calm water. It became an Olympic sport for men in Berlin in 1936,

while women's canoe sprint was added in London in 1948. The two boats in

canoe sprint are the kayak and the canoe. Women only compete in kayaks

and have four offence, while men have against in both, three canoe

and five kayak. In kayak races, the athlete is seated with a double

paddle, used to propel the boat forward from alternate sides and

have a foot rudder system to steer. In the canoe, at least have a single

bladed paddle and use a more upright position, kneeling on one knee, the

other leg forward, flat on the floor. This gives stability and

helps the competitor to power the boat forward. All races are over

200, 500 or 1000m. There are individual, pears and team events.

Races take place on a straight course and each boat lines up in one

of the lanes. The first bow or tip of the boat to finish as the winner.

The most successful canoe sprint Olympian of all time is Fischer

Germany. She won eight gold medals and is both the youngest and oldest

competitor to win the canoeing gold -- of Germany. She finished her

career in Athens in 2004 at the age of 42.

ORE ODUBA: A lot of people excited about the canoe sprint, opening up

proceedings this afternoon. Here is your timetable. Keep your eye out

for the British contingent of Lani Belcher and Angela Hannah in the

500m. Later, we will see Jess Walker taking to the water in the kayak

single 200m. I told you it is a scorching day, the sun is out and

glinting off the Lagoa Stadium lake and in there, in the mix of all the

beauty and the splendour, we find a Rishi Persad. A busy day?

Indeed. It is a beautiful day, as you say at the Lagoa Stadium. Superb

conditions for the canoe sprint events. We start off with some

British tribes, Lana Belcher and Hannah going in the double 500m.

Both of them will feel it is a bonus they have got here be, because of

the fact that the Romanians were banned from these Olympics because

of taking banned substances. It means Lana Belcher and Angela Hannah

crept into the Olympics. Also looking forward to Jess Walker

taking part in the women's kayak single over 200m, making her third

appearance at the Olympics. Did pretty well in London but now her

expectations are much higher. Only 25 years of age, pretty impressive

portfolio already and she did well at the European Championships. She

may have a chance of a medal. Her he'd start at around 145 the UK

time. Things have just started in the men's canoe single 1000m. Heat

one, Sebastien Brendel came home as expected. We are heading to the

second heat, spinning through it at the moment and Martin Fuksa is one

of the big hopes earbud the local hope, keer Ulster Santos, he is also

quite well touted and is currently in the lead -- Quiros Dos Santos. We

join Patrick Winterton and Helen Reeves.

HELEN REEVES: He Has Got A Busy Week Here, You Would Think He Would Be

Wanting To Not extend to much energy. What a beautiful setting for

the canoe racing. We are looking over the top of the paddlers, if you

go down those buildings to the other side, to the world-famous beach of

Copacabana, absolutely packed with people, particularly when the Beach

volleyball is under way. Hopefully a few of those fans making their way

towards the canoe sprint for this morning's action. Brazil leading by

a huge margin. You have to question the sense in going so hard. 200m to

go for Quiros Dos Santos and I can't see him being caught on this one.

Moving up into second place, Martin Fuksa, that is a lot more sensible.

He knows he is one of the favourites and will know all about trying to

recover in time for a semifinal. And it will be the semifinal when we

really see what form these paddlers R.N., because they have a whole day

to rest and recover before they come out for the final -- are in.

Well, just under the 100m mark to go and Quiros Dos Santos, is he tiring

or is he easing up? The stroke getting that little bit shorter.

Martin Fuksa looking comfortable in second and just on the far side of

Fuksa is struck a love from Russia, -- Sokolov. He finishes third. Italy

coming in in fourth it with Tacchini and Adrien Bart knows that cruising

across the line is enough to put him in the semifinals. He will be on the

outside and he has put in less effort than anyone else. This will

be really telling, it is quite difficult to spot, maybe, in these

early heats. It is not really giving you a good sign of form, it is just

showing you they are getting used to the water and there is nothing to be

gained by extending to -- expending too much energy in this heat

section. So two up the heats in their men's single 1000m done and

dusted. Sebastien Brendel, the reigning Olympic champion, won the

first heat and by most accounts will be the man to beat. The third heat

is due off in a couple of minutes and in this particular contest,

surrogate Anoshkin is the man that most people think will be one of the

leading contenders -- Anoshkin. He was on the podium at the World

Championships in Milan earlier in the season, so perhaps he will be

the one to follow the likes of Brendel into the next round. In the

heats, the winner goes through to the final, the rest go into the

semifinals and they have do battle it out for a spot again. A reminder

of the time is a bit later on with regards to the British hopes, Lana

Belcher and Angela Hanna in the double 500m, they go at 1:24pm and

Jess Walker, in the kayak single 200m, goes at 1:45pm UK time, so

those races still to come but we are heading to heat three of the men's

canoe single 1000m. We head back to Helen and Patrick.

We are waiting for the third and final heat of the men's C1. Ukraine

with Pavlo Altukhov. Say Guaita largely, who had a good European

Championships. Canadians represented by Mark Oldershaw. And Timor cried a

raft of cos it's done. -- Kazakhstan. He has a chance of going

through to the semis. They mentioned the winner goes through, that is the

case in a number of races in the canoe sprints, but in the C1 1000

the first five go through to the semifinals in just under an hour.

And only the fastest person he finishes sixth will get a place in

the semi. So very different tactics. We looking forward to those races to

see how people play it. The leader will probably be allowed to go with

250 metres remaining. The start of the third heat of the men's C1. A

reminder of the line-up. We have Angel Kodinov of Bulgaria. Erasing

card Schnaase, Pavlo Altukhov. You see way they have to drive

through their hips. Different stroke to what we see in the kayak. They

are kneeling down and they are driving through the hip and that is

how they get the power. They have to connect the blade in the water,

shift it through the body and driving it. Tarnovschi with the

lead, at this stage. The wind conditions change from race to race,

but we are expecting some quick times, especially in the latter

stages. It is a much tighter heat. Everyone in the picture is likely to

go through. It is the Tunisian, who has been left behind in lane seven.

Mark Oldershaw, for Canada in lane five. He is in a nice position.

33-year-old from Ontario. Took the bronze medal in 2012. He has some

family pedigree. Moldova just leading. Mark Oldershaw, taking it

easy, I think. He is capable of a little bit faster than that. Mark

Oldershaw's wife is an international swimmer. His father, grandfather,

brother and two uncles, all international paddlers. It is in the

blood. We do see that a lot, when we looked at the profiles. Paddling or

canoeing, it does seem to be something in the family. Is that not

just about having a boat in the garden and water within driving

distance of the house? I think having it all accessible, is

absolutely key to it. Tarnovschi, we mentioned he was looking good at the

European Championships this year. He seems to be continuing that form, as

they come up to the 750 metre mark. 250 to go. They could be just under

the four-minute mark. Angel Kodinov, on the far side, struggling. It is

interesting, it is a complete body work-out. It is slightly

asymmetrical, I am sure back and hip problems because of that. You can

see the drive of the leg. When we see Sebastian Brendel in action

again, there is no better demonstration than from him. But the

power and the position of the blade as it goes into the water. Why waste

energy at this stage. He is one of the youngest competitors, just aged

19, Julia world champion. He has a lot of experience, but it is the

first time he has been to an Olympic Games. Quite a big stage for him.

Kochnev, just finishing second ahead of Mark Oldershaw of Canada in

third. Let's confirm, Tarnovschi, Kochnev going through. Winning time

is slower than we saw in the first heat.

A nice deep drive and a good run from Tarnovschi. Solid performance

from him, as we prepare for the 500 metres that features Lani Belcher

and Angela Hannah, the first of the Brits to go. As mentioned, bit of a

bonus they are here. They originally didn't make it to Rio, but because

the Romanians were banned from the Olympics because banned subjects,

they were in. Lani Belcher's parents competed in canoeing for Great

Britain and Australia. Angela Hannah is here at her second Olympics, she

was taking part in London in 2012 and finished fifth. But some good

competition against them. Perhaps the one to beat here will be the

Nita Kozak and Gabriella Szabo of Hungary.

They feature in the first heat. Lani Belcher and Angela Hannah have a

task on their hands to take on the likes of the Hungarians. Let's see

what happens, we keep our fingers crossed. Just waiting for the first

heat. Not the shortest distance involved, the 200 metres also raced.

That included in the London games for the first time. Massive success.

Never any question as to whether it would be included in Brazil as well.

The 500 is a difficult distance. If you go too hard, you are going to

burn out big style. So pace plays a very big role in this event. There

are the Canadians. The paddle in the front switch from

gymnastics to paddling. That is an interesting switch over.

This is a real test. They were pulled in with very little notice.

Not a brilliant start by the British boat and they have lost a couple of

metres. The first in this heat go through to the finals and the rest

go through to the semifinals. Will be interesting to see how they fight

it out. Hungary and Poland, the big paddling nations. At the stroke rate

is so much higher in this K2. It is all about timing. Going to be a real

push to see who can get the direct route to the final. Hungary, Poland,

Ukraine. Australia, Belarus, the leading five going through. Just the

winner goes through. We are seeing a major fight. They don't want to have

to do the semifinal. The British boat dropping a long way back. I

suspect this might be a taxable thing from Lani Belcher and Angela

Hannah. Why expend the energy. Another boat dropping out of the

running. It is such an interesting situation. If they burned their boat

here, what will they have less for the finals? The Hungarian crew look

like they have got it. What does that mean for the Polish? Gabriella

Szabo and Danuta Kozak for Hungary. They take their win ahead of Poland.

They will have to do something special to recover in time for the

semifinals. And the British boat with Lani Belcher and Angela Hannah,

coming in last. I think they decided that was the way they wanted it. But

Gabriella Szabo and Danuta Kozak, what a pair they are. They took the

silver medal in 2008. They are doing three events here. A lot of paddling

to do. Let's have a look at the start. Almost instantly, you can see

the British boat in lane three, three metres lost in the first 15.

That is not what you would expect in a final, but I think it was a

tactical move. This is where the battle was, Hungary and Poland.

Carolina Nadja and Peter McCulloch kick. They have 24 hours to recover

before the final. But the Polish pair have two recover within the

hour. Those are the results from the first heat. That was a hard-fought

battle. Hungary, once again getting the better of the opposition, as

they have done more often than not. Now, this is the line-up for the

second heat. Germany, Serbia, China, the boats to watch.

There are the Austrians. They go in lane two. Denmark in three. The

Germans, the outstanding crew in this heat. Expect to see some

fireworks in Lane four. Serbia with Nikolina Moldovan and Malika Styron

Vic. -- Milica Starovic. We saw the Swedish boat in London

last time and they finished tenth. Looking to see what their ambition

was in Rio, it just says to compete. While they have achieved that. They

know of final position is possible. It is tough, given the form we have

seen from them. They have been a bit up and down.

But we do expect them to be strong. We have six days of action, heats

today and finals tomorrow. It will be nice to see how many sports and

build a band and have two days of finals at the end. It enables the

paddle is to be able to compete easier. This schedule is tough if

you don't make it straight through to the semifinal. Do you think it is

done so that top athletes race and we don't have so many athletes?

I'm not really sure, it does mean all other top athletes can be in the

boats, and we do see that, the top athletes get medals and that is a

good thing. 30 seconds to go before the start of the second heat. That

was the Danish crew. Lane six, the Chinese. Watch the start, watch lane

four. The defending champions in the K2 500. Going a little early, the

starters, but everybody was ready and released, and actually, the

Serbians dropping back a tiny bit at the start. Sweden in the blue and

yellow in the near side. Kazakhstan next door to them. A fabulous start

from Germany, as we would have expected. Look at the class, the

cadence, the turnover. So fast. But the key part of the stroke is the

catch and even at this speed, it is clean. It certainly is, they are up

at stroke rate of around 117, 120 and they had to settle into it

because at the halfway mark, you want to see people in amongst the

race. We know it is different in a heap because only one goes through

to the semifinal. Germany in thing, that is a blast from the past, in

1982 they raised in pink and had a fantastic season. All of the German

boats are pink this year and it doesn't seem to have done them any

harm. A very comfortable lead, good off the start. Do they need to race

it for the finish? I'm not sure they do, I think they have done enough

already. A little bit of a challenge from Serbia, but they are not going

to catch Germany, who are widening it down as they come into the

finish. Look affluent visitors. Beautiful glowing display. And

certainly Poland and Hungary will have taken note of that performance.

Francesca waiver and Tina Dietze outstanding -- Francisco -- Weber.

What you make of that? It was a fantastic performance from the

Germans. Slightly slower in that heat where the Hungarian crew took

the win. What I find interesting is the other boats are really pushing,

China went had hard compared to the other boats and with everyone

through to the semifinal, I wonder what the strategies are. Here is the

replay and look how quick Germany got away. Those first couple of

strokes absolutely essential. It was clean, nicely into the rhythm and

that is an indication of a crew that has worked together for many, many

years. Multiple races, multiple successful races. Remember, the

defending champions in the K2 500. They took silver in the cave for in

2012 as well -- in the K4. They are doing K1, K2 and K4, they could

improve on their tally of medals. RISHI PERSAD: The big runs going

through, -- the big guns going through, the Germans looking good,

as did the Hungarian is in the first heat. We are looking ahead to the

women's kayak singles 200m. Four heats, the first one due at around

-- the one due at around 1:45pm features Jess. The first one has the

defending champion from New Zealand, four-time world champion and by most

accounts, she is the best in the business. Jess Walker goes in the

second heat, she has a tough opponent, wealthy -- well Chief

Wicks of Poland -- Walczykiewicz of Poland. The first heat is only a few

minutes away and that features the start of the women's kayak action,

Lisa Carrington. Let's rejoin Helen and Patrick.

Thank you, this is one of the highlights of the first day of

action of the canoe Sprint, Lisa Carrington, the outstanding staff.

We all talk about the stunning and Glover in rowing, well Lisa

Carrington is the equivalent -- Heather Stanning and Helen Glover.

She took the Olympic title in London. And a 200 seems to be her

perfect distance. She is beatable at 500 but no one has got near to her

at 200. What is so special about that puts that one metre ahead of

everybody else? She has the whole bag. 200 is about getting a really

good start. You cannot afford to be behind at the start and then she is

able to build on it and keep that cadence very high, because

ultimately, you hit that top paddle stroke rate and they'd you have to

maintain it all the way to the finish. We know that Jess Walker,

for instance, has said in the past that sometimes she struggles on that

very last bit of the race, trying to keep the stroke rate very high, and

the girls that are at the top, like Lisa Carrington, she is able to

maintain that high stroke rate and the power through it. Lane six,

Olivera Moldova and from Serbia -- Mulder -- Moldovan. Torrie

Byeong-Hun An in lane eight. Lane eight is empty for this first heat

and we have four heats of the women's K1 200m. It is worth

pointing out that again, a bit like in the canoe single 1000m, places

1-6 are through to the semifinals and the rest are red. So to be

honest, it is very much a re-CD in situation. 200m doesn't have the

same endurance based that you have in the 1,000, so we would expect

this to be quicker racing because ultimately, they can go out there

and get the feel for the water and get quick start and make an indent,

because you can recover more quickly than 1000m.

Just to clear up a little bit of confusion, you may have seen on the

caption that the winner of the C one 1,000 went through to the final, we

believe that is not the case. We have done the double check and the

first five went through to the semifinal, no one has made it

through to the final. However, the winner of this heat will make it

through to the final. Lisa Carrington certainly won't want

anyone else to take that slot other than herself. She is only five foot

six but my goodness, she generates some power. The they go and

Carrington already looking very, very strong. It is that quick

turnover that she has got. Then she just settles into the rhythm.

Carrington already with a metre and a half over everyone else. Yes, she

is looking good, we can see that really high stroke rate, just over

130 strokes per minute. They are really dynamic, they have to keep it

high and this is where she is very good, she just keeps going and going

and you see the rest drop off slightly. Driving that pulling hand

very low indeed as she comes up to the line. Around 40 seconds is

normal and she looks to be smacked on 40 seconds. Carrington conceals a

final spot in the K1 200m, as expected Allsopp no real surprise.

The rest, well, they have to go through to the semis, they have to

do that all over again. Just waiting for confirmation. No doubt about the

winner, Carrington wins. Francisco layer second. Menatalla Karim in

third for Egyptair. Actually, pushed around to fourth. A slight photo

finish between Douchev-Janic and Menatalla Karim. I am not quite sure

what was going on there, but we have no doubt about the winning. --

winner. Lisa Carrington from New Zealand, from where a lot of the

slalom paddlers come from, I wonder if they do any paddling together.

Moved to Auckland for the ideal training conditions. A bit of a

splash on the couch, indicates she is pulling a little bit too early

before the blade is fully in the water, but it is a rare sight.

Getting great purchase on the water, they want to be sticking that blade

really deep in the water, shifting their body plastic and that is when

you get the real power and strength. So Lisa Carrington just taking her

time as we see confirmation. Once again, the captions, we believe, are

wrong. Carrington, we think, has gone through. All of the paddlers go

straight through to the semifinals, so 1-6 through to the semifinal. The

only paddler that we have lost... Menatalla Karim of Egypt. The

20-year-old only came for the K1 200m, so that is the end of her

Games. It always seems a shame, but she knew exactly what the score was

when she came here, got drawn in lane no-one, at least she can say

she has raced up against Lisa Carrington, the world number one.

Small consolation, but some. So, second heat chew off in a couple of

minutes' time, only seven minutes between the heats. Denmark, Canada,

Kazakhstan, Poland, Slovenia. Great Britain with Jess Walker, who took

silver medal in the Europeans and Anne Cairns of Samoa also in that

heat. We have three minutes to the start.

Three minutes. There is Henriette Hansen from Denmark, comes from just

north of Copenhagen, and nice canoe Sprint venue there. And her third

Olympic Games. Lane three, and Rhiannon Langloise of Canada,

23-year-old -- Langlois Canada. Kazakhstan with Klinova. And then

Poland, who have great hopes with Walczykiewicz. The 29-year-old and

were Lisa Carrington not around, she would have a pile of golds to her

name. Ponomarenko Janic of Slovenia. Great Britain, Jess Walker in lane

seven. What do you think Jess's chances are? Certainly should be

able to secure a place in the semifinal. She will most definitely

be securing a place in the semifinal and then something when quite badly

wrong for her. She is capable of getting into the final, certainly

the form she showed at the European Championships when she picked up the

silver medal. That is where she got it right. She has said she struggles

over the latter part of the 200m and that of the European Championships,

she managed to just really hold on and that shows what strength she has

got and how she has developed over the last four years. So she will be

very much looking at getting to that final. I mean, she has got Kaye for

as well and that is her main focus, -- K4. Today, first step is to get

to the semifinal and logistically, unless something went wrong, she

should be there. Just waiting -- Jess is a member at the club in

Teddington, paddles on the Thames day in, day out. I wonder what the

instructions are for this first heat, with six going through. It

might be a fight to finish second from last, just to make sure that

you conserve everything possible. Anne Cairns on the near side, then

Jess Walker in lane Seven. And 20 seconds or so to

settle the boat, the mind and just a quick reminder of the race plan. It

is only 200m, 40 seconds of effort. 50, 55 strokes. Maximum.

Under starter 's orders. Away they go. Jess Walker of Great Britain

looking for a place in the semifinals. Good start from Jess

Walker. Camera angle distorted the little, but she is away with the

leaders. Cracking start. She was looking start, as was the Polish.

Slipping back little bit. It is what we see sometimes from Jessica, as

she is starting. It could be part of the plan. They don't want to expend

all the energy. Lane five, looks like she will secure this one. Spela

Ponomarenko of Slovenia in second. Not as fluent as we saw from Lisa

Carrington. She has a different style. Lisa Carrington sits very

bright, very smooth. Interestingly, she has put in a slightly quicker

time than Lisa Carrington. It is an indication, because the distance is

short, they are not holding back. I am sure once you get into those

semifinals where the competition is tighter and they are trying to win

the final place, the Times could be quicker. The condition is meant to

be staying the same this morning. It will be a good indication of what we

have got to come. Walczykiewicz, had competition in the form of Spela

Ponomarenko all the way through. Lisa Carrington was out on her own.

It is going to build to a good climax. I have no doubt both of

those will end up in the final eventually. Having that competition

next to you definitely spurs you on. This is what we see when we get to

the finals and the competition gets tighter and tighter and they do work

of each other. In the 200 metres, it is not the tactics we see in the

1000 metres. Walczykiewicz, look where the blade goes in. On the left

side, she is relatively forward. On the right-hand side, the blade

almost going in vertically. It is slightly different to the canoes.

But it is getting the reach and the catch as far forward as you can and

getting the power to shift the body passed at the blade, rather than the

other way around. Speller Ponomarenko of Slavonia in second.

Jess Walker safely through to the semifinal.

Those semifinals start at about three o'clock UK time. Lani Belcher

and Angela Hannah go in the semifinals of the K2 semifinals at

around 2:45pm UK time. The Brits safely through. We will keep our

fingers crossed for a good showing. But Lisa Carrington, how good was

she? She is like Usain Bolt, but with a better start on the water.

Looking forward to seeing her in the final. That it from us for now, back

to the Olympic Park. Thanks, some great first morning is

down there. We are going to stick with the watery theme and even

though the swimming may be done, over here, there are two events to

come in the open water ten kilometre swim. Keri-Anne Payne for Great

Britain was a huge hope in 2012. She had one championship medals, a

silver medallist in Beijing. The gold medal was nailed on four hurt

in Hyde Park, but things didn't go to plan.

I always said it is about making the right decisions at the right time.

The top 25 swimmers in the world are here today. Good start, Keri-Anne

Payne of Great Britain has a clear tactic indeed. To get out to the

front and hold it, try and build the pace and the pressure and take the

raced to the rest. Probably working a bit too hard for how I would

normally like to see the pace of the race. I just had to try to get back

to position. I think the gold has got away from her, she is fighting

for bronze. The silver has gone to Anderson of the USA. Keri-Anne

Payne, just in fourth position. After 10,000 metres, nearly two

hours of swimming, it is so close. So close, but the results didn't get

much more disappointing and after so many hours, fourth place the

Keri-Anne Payne in London 2012. In 2008, the silver medal was as good

as it got before those two World Championship gold medals as well.

She arrives here in Rio hoping to change the record. It is happening

just off the coast down at Copacabana. Matthew Pinsent, she has

got another couple of hours of swimming to go. Big hopes for

Keri-Anne Payne? Absolutely. Swimming has had a superb

performance here in Rio. The two open water swim is, the men and the

women and Keri-Anne Payne has started her attempt to win an

Olympic medal herself. Her second Olympic medal at Copacabana. Has

been lots of talk up to the Rio Olympics about water quality, about

the conditions out on the water. We saw some of that in the rowing and

there has been some very rough water in the build-up to these events. But

calm today. Very calm for the Atlantic. About 45 minutes ago, the

ten kilometre open water swim started. Keri-Anne Payne is very

much in the mix for this title. In the only group of athletes at the

moment. So, I am hoping, you can see live pictures now and we can join

our commentators. About a third of the way into this

10,000 kilometre open water swimming for women just of Copacabana beach.

They have been going for nearly 15 minutes. Not too much in terms of

breakaways so far. Earlier it was the defending Olympic champion, even

rest of battle it out. Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain has

stayed in the pack, James tactics from certainly from 2012 and also

from 2008 where she tried to stay out in front and try and stay out of

the Meli. But she is quite comfortable in the middle. Macro it

is comfortable but Keri-Anne, she is swimming well. Coming up to the turn

for the second lap where I would expect some of the swimmers to try

and increase the pace and push it along the bed. It is not surprising

we have Risztov in front. But Keri-Anne is well within herself

there. Keri-Anne Payne second in the extra qualification. The first time

going through to the World Championships last year. The next 15

were added from the qualification meet in Portugal. Keri-Anne was

second in that. Look at this great shot. The tide is coming at them. As

they come round this turn, they will be facing into the currents, which

will be had on to them. It is a little bit sharper than we thought

it would do. They have been working with the sailing team to assess the

currents. They thought it would come a bit wider out. It is going in a

bit of a loop. If you do an anti clockwise circle around your TV set

when they show the high shot with the fort and the beach in there as

well, the tide is coming and the current is coming around the end. It

is going all the way along and back underneath itself. It sounds good,.

It is a good day for open water swimming. We are seeing something

like the pool swimmers, it is a proper open water race. I love them

when they do them off the beach in the sea. Would be great if there

weren't so many boats around. They are there doing their jobs,

whistling at them, telling them to go here and there. There is the

studio, bottom of your picture. Next time we see the high shot, we will

try to describe to you the currents. There is the helicopter. Probably

300 metres away. The tourists sitting on the beach. It doesn't

look like it but they are going at a rate of knots. It is amazing. Looks

like it is almost pedestrian pace but they are very fast. I was

talking to David Kerry, British Commonwealth champion and Scottish

Commonwealth champion in the 400 medley and 400 freestyle. He says he

is still in pretty good shape, but he cannot keep up all the way

through in a long training session. Keri-Anne, mixing her training up.

See used to do a lot of metres, now she has mixed in some sprint work,

some Friday mornings, she does a really long one, the 10,000 metre

training session and then in the afternoon she does a warm up and

then sprinting. Then she gets out! In terms of physiologically

training, aerobic threshold, what she's trying to do with a bit of an

aerobic work, is making sure she is moving the point where some of the

pain sets in. So towards the end of this swim, she should be in better

shape. If it is a sprint, it will suit her. She went through the 200

metres freestyle relatively recently, one of the fastest in the

field. The world champion from Frantz, REL Muller, is fast. They

are through the lapping gate, if you like and they will be around the

hour mark. We are over two hours for this race. There is no world record

for the ten K race because it can be done in so many different

conditions. I am thinking it will be something like two hours. The tide,

making its mark. The tourists on the beach, people down here, just

getting some sunshine on a Monday morning. Some of the crowds and the

people have come down to spot their national champion. Their

representatives. The Brazilians have a very good chance of meddling here.

In the pool they put in quite a few finalists, but non-really got

particularly close. They tried to challenge the great

Michael Phelps. But unfortunately in the final sprint, it didn't quite

happen for them. About 55 minutes, just under the hour, coming up to

the halfway mark in this marathon swim the women. Great Britain's

Keri-Anne Payne, in the centre of the pack, well-placed.

She is doing everything she can at this point, but it gets all the more

gruelling as the race progresses. Keri-Anne Payne in the mix for the

medals, but can she come away with a place on the podium? If you want to

see out this marathon swim, head over to the Red Button, the BBC

Sport app and the website as well. As you can see people enjoying

themselves on Copacabana beach and why wouldn't they.

Less sunny is the Rio Centro pavilions. We are talking about

badminton row. We have been talking about Chris and Gabby Adcock, being

the main medal hope, but Marcus Ellis and his band have moved into

the quarterfinals. The best result so far came in their second match of

their group. They are up against the world number three seeds, Kim and

Kim of Korea. Stunning result as they won that 2-1. Look what it

meant to the British pair. A sensational result to notch their

first win of the Olympic Games. It meant they went into their group

needing to secure another win to enter the knockouts. And they did

just that. They had a very tough start against the Danish pair,

silver-medallists from 2012, but they came back with a sensational

and Kim aren't the win over Cwalina and Waqar secured their win in the

last eight. This is what the quarterfinal line-up looks like.

Taking on Endo and Hayakawa. The winner of this one would possibly

take on the Chinese fare in the quarterfinal, the world number one

seeds. -- Chinese pair. They are ready to take to court in the Rio

Centro pavilion. Talking through this will be Simon and Paul.

Gentlemen, they wanted to get to the quarterfinals, but they have a

really good chance of going even further.

They have, they are probably second favourites going into this, because

obviously the Japanese pair have got tremendous pedigree. Both of them in

their first Olympics but they were number two in the world a couple of

years ago, runners-up in the all England, which is like the Wimbledon

of badminton, so they have terrific pedigree and they too have been in

very good form. They beat the two-time world champions and are in

terrific neck. ORE ODUBA: And the win over the

Koreans, how big boost will that have been, and when it gets into a

plug Fest in this match? It was huge, because they are the

number three seeds, a world class player. But interestingly, Chris and

markers had beaten them three times at three, and will probably fancy

chances and will be a little bit disappointed that the Koreans have

just lost to China and they are the number four seeds, the reigning

Olympic champions, they are just through. Still, great hopes.

ORE ODUBA: All right, gentlemen, we will leave it to you, as Marcus

Ellis and the Langridge try to make it through to the last four at Rio

16. There is Chris Langridge, 31 years

of age, from Milton Keynes, born in Epsom. Runner-up in the mixed

doubles in a Grand Prix event in London 2013, three medals in the

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. And alongside him, Marcus Ellis. 26

years of age, from Huddersfield. And here, the Japanese pairing,

iHiroyuki Endo, 29 years of age, from Tokyo and alongside him,

Kenichi Hayaka. Bronze medals in the World Championships in Jakarta last

year and runner-up in the super series event in the all England

earlier this year. So, Paul, the Japanese favourites. Very much so.

They have been as high as second in the world as recently as June 20 14.

Hayakawa particularly alert, a good frontcourt player. A good team all

around. Confirmation of their terrific win, it was a difficult

group. Both of them have come out of difficult group. They beat Indonesia

2-1. They lost a match to India, but so too did Langridge and Ellis but

importantly, they won the Korean match. So ready to go. For those of

you who don't know, back to the best of three Games, first to 21. Every

point scores. Langridge and Ellis ranked 22 in the world. Endo and

Hayakawa ranked eight. And just to give you a snapshot,

Ellis and Langridge made the quarterfinals this year of the all

England open but the team they are playing against have twice been

running runners-up in that event. -- have twice been runners-up in that

event. So, they have done so well to get

this far. Quarterfinals of the Olympic Games. Can they go one

further? Marcus Ellis, Chris Langridge take on the Japanese.

Ellis quickly in. Very quickly. They showed they could mix it with the

best at the World Championships last year in Jakarta, made the

quarterfinals them. International teams were very alerted to their

form. A little miscommunication between

Langridge and Ellis there. But their communication is normally

spot on. Well, they always have a very tidy

defence, the Japanese duo. Hayakawa there, being a good frontcourt

player, he likes to get to the front and boss the point. So the British

team will be up against it, they will have do hit some thunderous

smashes to earn points. Marcus Ellis, marginally more powerful from

the back court in that regard. They like to send Langridge forward, he

forays well in the frontcourt. But they to win well together, these men

in red. Inside the top 20 earlier in the year after winning the Austrian

open, as high as 19 in the rankings. They teamed up only a couple of

years ago but already twice English national champions. It is a

partnership that has gelled early. Lovely soft shot. Well you normally

find Langridge captaining the side, so to speak. He is the elder of the

two Brits and you often hear him shouting to markers, "Come on."

Marcus is usually bullying the point from the back court and Chris

prefers to be tied to the net. Great defending from the Japanese

but, in the end, not good enough. They were on the front foot for a

long time. It is tough to put the shuttle away against the Japanese.

Immaculate in defence. That is all about trying to get the

shuttle high at the net and get it down into your opponents' caught

quickly. -- court. He read the play really well, Marcus

Ellis, he pounced on that one, but it just clicked the tape on the way

through. The stare from Hayakawa. Some mind Games going on there.

Keeping the pressure on. A lot of flat, hard drives from the Japanese,

just trying to keep in the ascendancy in the point. Both teams

are reticent to lift the shuttle and give the other is a smashing

opportunity. -- the others. That is good defence from the two

Brits, but not enough. A 2-point cushion for the Japanese, who come

from 2-1 down. Just checking it afflict the net. --

flick. Struck above the waist, I think that is what it was. Point

awarded to the Brits. Well, already, you get a good

insight as to how quickly this match tempo is unfolding and the British

pairing having to be at the real peak of their powers against these

two, who are ever alert. Dialled in from the off.

The Brits probing for an opening. Terrific smash there. You can see

how both teams are trying to get the one up, one back formation, that is

the aggressive stance in badminton. Ellis just powering through with

that steep angle he created on the smash, getting the shuttle down

furiously. Both teams in and out of defence and attack on a regular

basis over several points. Long, tough rallies.

Hammer blow. From the back court, giving it one heck of a wallop. Two

points again, the lead. Langridge with the finish and they

are back level. It is hard to get the point away against the Japanese

defence. They are very quick. Had to be very dynamic and animated,

hunting the shuttle down. A lot of flat hard drives in men's

doubles. Trying to punch through the other team quickly, taking their

time and space away. Both teams desperate to get on the front foot.

No supremacy. Again, Endo with that dynamic leap

from the back. He is pretty powerful from the back, Endo. Furious with

those Smashers. They tend to smash into the right pocket of his

opponents, jamming them up, unable to release the racquet head. It is a

vicious exchange. The umpire's discretion. Wiping away

some sweat and it gives the players a chance to get a towel quickly. It

is warm here, going up to 34. Not a lot cooler inside this pavilion at

Rio Centro, about a mile away from the main Olympic Park. Huge,

cavernous place it is. Hayakawa with the power. Thunderous

pace on the flat, hard drives. Got the short lived, as a consequence.

-- lift. Great defence. Fantastic shot from

Endo, between the legs. So quick, all four men piled in. Such rat tat

pace. There it is, the hot dog. But it really did happen. It was the

point for the Brits. Still only a point behind. And now, back level.

The lead has never been more than two. You often hear the cry of

Marcus, from Chris Langridge. So entertaining.

Spreading the court beautifully, Chris Langridge. Just opened up the

men in blue. Wonderful finish from Ellis. Show you how quick this sport

is, the longest rally is 39 shots. In 31 seconds, under a second point.

Sorry, a shot. He is terrific with these boys. He

waits for eye contact before he talks commonly is a clear

communicator. He was saying they need to be aggressive on the returns

from Endo's serve. Very much a calming, positive influence. Seemed

a very happy with what they have achieved so far. And they are in

front. It was too inviting in the end. It

is so hard, as opponents of these men in blue as they are coming at

you, it is just a blur. They are closing down your time and space.

The guys in red trying to get and I is left over their head, but unable

to do so. Chris has got a back brace on under

his shirt. Always plays in that. He shouted Marcus, but it was too

late. They have a terrific, clear communication and an intuition about

where each other is on the court most of the time. It just collapsed

there. Change of direction, but the power

of Endo at the back, holding sway. He was a bit greedy with the cross

here, Langridge. He was trying to spread their court a little bit, but

not quite clearing the tape. And these men know, as soon as they get

on the front foot, the response will probably be quite central through

the court. As a consequence, close at the net down quickly.

Quite a deft touch from Ellis, but it didn't work. The Japanese, two

points to the good. Each player is making decisions quickly out here in

terms of space, where to hit two, what wait, what speed. It is being

aware of where their opponents are in their vision.

They are back within one. Has been an extremely tight opening game.

Getting points on serve, that's been tricky. Ten of their 13 points have

come receiving. Just so tough for the British pair

to get the shuttle down. The Japanese taking it so high, so

often. Just hammering through as a consequence.

The Japanese just can't get away. Langridge and Ellis, just nagging at

them the whole time. Nibbling, staying in touch.

It is just getting the service point that's proved difficult so far.

Too good. Endo at the back bullying with the first smash that set the

point up beautifully for Endo -- Hayakawa. Blistering pace, this man.

The dinner. -- good enough. For a fraction of a second they thought it

would go long. How can they get this elusive service point?

Fantastic defence from Endo and Hayakawa. Unbelievable reactions. It

was an outrageous point all round. The language on the floor, they are

almost on their side of the net. Of his knees, he spilled over the back

line. Incredible. A rally of 46 strokes in 36 seconds. Full of

quality. And no wonder they are allowed a

towel down and they sip or two. Endo and Hayakawa, 2.in front. -- 2.in

front. That is a big point. Again, more

often than not we have seen the blistering pace from the Endo smash

that at least set up the point. Both teams transitioning well from

defence to attack. This is the biggest league so far, it stretches

to three. Just three points away now, the Japanese, from this opening

game. Can the Brits have a late rally

here? That helps. Absolutely, Hayakawa

normally so quick to pounce and he has been a nightmare on the return,

but missing that. Well played. Two successive points

on serve, which has been so allusive, and they are level now at

18. Terrific work from Ellis, causing confusion and spreading the

play nicely. It seems when the boys can play wide on the court then it

seems very effective when they go centrally, not so. -- and when they

go centrally, not so. How about this? Three successive

points and they lead 19-18. Two points away from the opening game.

Yes! Wonderful from Ellis. And two game points for the Brits. Terrific

point, Ellis doing so well just to put that point to bed. Spreading the

court nicely, both of them. They had both of the Japanese on the

floor. Tantalisingly close, now, to going a game ahead. Once more, the

court being swept. But having got just 3.on serve for the majority of

this game, suddenly they have scored four more and it has put them in

pole position here. It could be a sort of film script finish to this

game, four in a row for the men in red.

It is out. So it is all on the line here. Can they finish it off on this

received? Does Ellis take the risk and pounds forward to what he might

anticipate will be the low, fast serve? Or will Endo flick over the

top? We have not seen that at all this match.

How about that? Langridge with the punchy finish and they have taken

the opening game, 21-19. A miraculous turnaround, no less.

Playing some magnificent badminton at the back end of that game and

that was timely from Langridge and Ellis. They had been in front for so

much, Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayaka, but the world number eights,

who have been number two in the world, really up against it now.

ORE ODUBA: Perfect start for Great Britain's Ellis and Langridge. We

are going to stay with the badminton on BBC Four. On BBC One, they are

into the velodrome and in the track cycling for Great Britain, Katy

Marchant and Ciaran silver-medallist from Rio Becky James -- keirin. And

later, the full schedule of athletics from the Maracana. For us,

first blood to Great Britain in the badminton and we will go back to the

quarterfinal, Ellis and Langridge against the Japanese pair, only one

game away from a place in the last four.

The last time Britain won an Olympic medal in badminton was in Athens

2004, Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson picked up a silver in the mixed

doubles. These two, Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis, two matches away.

If they win this, through to the semifinal to take on the reigning

Olympic champions. And then if they lose that, I am not saying they

will, far from it the way they are playing, there will be a bronze

medal match. It is just fabulous to watch, a lion hearted effort from

these men in red. They are just so strong-willed. They were trailing

throughout that opening game and at the back end of it, just ignited and

played some brilliant badminton. So effective when they do manage to

just spread the court a little because the Japanese are so dialled

in when it is coming down through the middle. They looked through the

vast majority of that opening game that the Japanese would come out on

top, but it wasn't to be. It will be a dagger in their hearts, really.

Let's see how we go in game number two. It will be Langridge to begin.

Got it done in the end. Again, terrific defence, they do defend so

spectacularly, Endo and Hayakawa, but Langridge persistent.

In the background there, the two Russians who won in the All-England

tournament earlier in the year. Surprise winners of that one, nobody

saw that coming. So sweat pouring off these four. It

is a roasting hot day outside. This 10,000 seater pavilion, really warm

inside. Well, there is a real turnaround,

now. It is almost like they have found their rhythm against the

Japanese. They are up to that tempo now.

Fully alerted to their patterns of play.

Well, it seems as if they are looking a little forlorn at the

moment, having dropped that opening game, which they seemed almost

nailed on to win. Yeah, there is an error of despondency about the blue

team. I am sure they will be back. Can the Brits keep striking?

Error after error now from Endo and Hayakawa.

Four successive points. Of course, they finished off the first game in

style as well. Well, they have got a long way to

come back now, but their's a start. Psychologically, that was really

good from the Japanese, just trying to kick-start their campaign. It had

suddenly just been a little muffled by these two. This is Endo and

Hayakawa's first Olympics, despite the fact they have achieved so much

before. Oh, yes. Again, terrific

communication and once more, it is Ellis who fires it down. Brilliant

play. Absolutely brilliant. On the front foot throughout and didn't let

up. So a four point game. How good are

they at frontrunning? Yet. They have got to keep it going.

There is only one pair in it at the moment. The Brits are racing away

with this. Muscling their way through here nicely and spreading

the play, which is great, just keeping the Japanese guessing. They

can get no rhythm against this British pair right now. They are in

a rich vein of form. The Japanese patiently weathering

the storm. They knew their window of opportunity would arrive.

Now it is the Japanese struggling on serve. They haven't one point in

this second game on serve. The coaches must be delighted by the

work of their men. It is a match of such magnitude for

these two. They have been in the quarterfinals of the World

Championships before, but no further. So a huge moment here. Can

be somehow wriggle across the finish line, the right side?

Langridge, quick to get across. Was he to quit?

It is the power of Ellis bringing it home. The power of those Smashers,

changing directions. Still, that 4-point cushion.

It is a game of milliseconds and millimetres. So little between

victory and defeat. The margins are so minimal.

Out, it was. The Japanese just cannot make in Rose 's -- inroads.

It is the reverse of the first game when the British were playing catch

up. But Endo and Hayakawa, up against it. But you feel they are

keeping an menacing presence in this game. Of course, highly decorated,

having been ranked two in the world. They are for ever dangerous.

More and more spectators being drawn to this court. Because they sense

and upset. The lead is back to five. What a rally! Unreal defends from

Endo and Hayakawa. They get their reward. As smile from Hayakawa, he

knew it was a pivotal time in this game. The longest rally of the

match. It was the longest rally of the match, 73 shots. In under a

minute. Ellis, in so quickly. He has been a

real powerhouse from the back. This is always what we see with these

two. Chris is very tidy with the tight net shots. Then Ellis comes in

and it is the contrast in the way they play, is the reason they gelled

so well. They have terrific communication as well. You can see

Langridge just shouting out, come on Marcus. It is terrific. They are in

a tough group, which they did so well to get out of, Langridge and

Alice. -- Ellis. Here they are up against the number two in the world.

And they are front runners and holding on, really well. A 5-point

cushion at the mid-game break. Really strong showing in that group.

They have achieved so much in the two years together, have these two.

The back support tightened up. This would be out of all recognition if

they could get through to the semifinal at the Olympic Games.

Again, miraculous defence, but Ellis will not be denied. He is taking

over this match. Absolutely, bullying his way through, every

point is so gripping. I am transfixed, I cannot take my eyes

off the screen. It is such a compelling watch.

Not that time. He can't make it every time, it just seems as if he

can. Lovely blend of soft handed touch around the forecourt and then

bullying, menacing presence from the back court of Marcus Ellis.

Been a little careless on serve. There is a disturbing sense of calm

focus in the Japanese camp, but they have missed by just increments,

every now and then. So quick, Langridge to see the open

court. Just tucks it in beautifully. The cross net shot was sublime. Look

how quick he was ?2. Wonderful finish. -- ?2. Once again, the lead

stretches to six. They are very nearly there.

Good try from behind his back. It has been breathtaking badminton at

its best. I think this last one was a bit of a shank from the net. Yes,

Chris couldn't quite get a read on it. Had a at that one. -- had a

double take. They have spent more time on the

grandest of stages. Twice All-England open finalist, super

series events, of course. Used to turning matches like this around.

Hope Spring again for the Japanese. From six points, it's down to four.

So wasteful. It was a clever idea, the execution, not. Just spilling

over the back line. Just when they had started to get

things going. That happens. In. Super rally. Great defence from

both Marcus Ellis and Langridge. They do not want to turn up the air

conditioning until that -- unless it craves too much adrift in the hall.

Still the lead narrows. It has been halved now.

That just missed. Another superhuman effort. It was on the racket of

Ellis. He had to change the direction. He had such great results

with that but it just went wide of the doubles line. It is down to two

now. Utterly focused these two.

Deep-seated belief. They had a great. . They did seem all at sea.

In the last couple of minutes, they look a different proposition. It is

going to be mighty tough for Langridge and it was to hold on. It

is the key point right now. It is all Endo Hammock Allah. --

Hayakawa. The lead has evaporated so quickly. They need to take the time

and somehow regroup. It is two men on a mission in blue. How can they

stop the momentum that are so firmly with the Japanese now?

Great choice and a great execution from language. It was a top draw

shot from Chris Langridge. Wonderful hands.

What it does for the Japanese when you play soft shots like that, they

do not know where to base themselves, deep in the court or

shot in the court. They have been bullied by the Ellis smash. And the

soft skills have been combining so well. It is a great turnaround. Can

they run with something here and put together some points back.

Yes! Super finish. The bulk of the work from Ellis but Chris Langridge

with the finish. It was pummelling down on the right hip of Hayakawa.

And Chris Langridge with the finish and the lead is back to two.

They have put a stop to the momentum.

They manage to get Chris Langridge away from the net. There was a

raucous cry from the Japanese on the penultimate point. The sharp end of

the game, they are acquitted themselves very well. Endo with the

big finish. They continue to waste points and

that may turn out to be crucial. We have seen a couple of service faults

from the Japanese team. Another monster rally. Chris

Langridge again with the punishment. It was a blistering point from both

teams, wasn't it? Incredible, spreading the court well, both of

them. Ellis setting up well and Chris Langridge sticking the knife

in. Two points away. Can they hold their nerve and keep

that kind of form going? One at a time, gestures Chris

Langridge. What a mess by Endo. Expensive.

Three points for the semifinal of the Olympic Games for Marcus Ellis

and Chris Langridge. It is out. The Brits are through.

They look so confident at the end. What a result. What a result for

British badminton. Such an emotive moment, wasn't it? A breathtaking

performance from the world ranked 22nd couple. Boasting the eighth

best team in the world. They came through the worst possible group

including the number three seeds. He got it done. And here in the

quarterfinal, having been outplayed earlier came back to win the first

game. To be honest, there was patches in the second game when they

looked in a class of the loan. The Japanese came back but just when it

looked very difficult, Ellis and Chris Langridge stepped up to the

plate and an astonishing performance from them, they should be absolutely

delighted. Playing so well, the touch around the net from Chris

Langridge, barking out instructions to the borough for Marcus Ellis, he

was like lightning covering the back court. It was idyllic teamwork. In

the semifinal they will play the couple from China, the number for

Maxine Su have had a marathon effort today against Kim and Kim, who of

course, Chris Langridge and Ellis beat in the group stage. 24-22 it

was in the third game. Having beaten the Japanese, they will not be too

daunting. They have a chance under playing well. I agree. The Chinese

pair have been wrestling. The British boys have beaten the Korean

team three times before. It bodes well. An incredible win. Didn't they

deserve it? Working tirelessly throughout. Let us go courtside.

Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis are with our reporter. Once you got to

the quarterfinals, you said you had to pinch yourself in amazement. When

he won the final point, you grind your knees, what was your reaction

today Hoylake I honestly cannot believe it. Five days ago, when the

competition started, we had such hard matches and to come out on top

today, my God. I am really lost for words. It is beyond what we could

have expected. Chris, where does this rank in terms of your career

highlights? Definitely the best. It is unbelievable. Without sounding

too cheesy, you put in hard work, you craft away, we're not the most

gifted or quickest, we work hard and work well together, we float

together as a team. It shows that went to my people put their mind to

something... I am not the best player but I work hard and I have

achieved something. This is insane, the semifinals of the Olympics. The

way we are playing, there is no reason we cannot push the other guys

and I am up for a medal. You are honest about not being the best but

it is a fantastic performance. You have another top seed in the

semifinals but you have already beaten them. You played them in the

group stages already. It is going to be tough. Every time we play a top

five top six in the world payer, we know we have to be at best to

compete a little-known win. That was one of those matches today. I do not

know what they are ranked in the world, top eight Mac, the committee

and do it on their stage, it is so overwhelming. And Great Britain have

not won an Olympic badminton medal since 2004, can you put it right? We

will give everything. We will give more than everything and leave

everything on the court. Thank you to the support we have had from

everyone, family and friends back home and supporters back home. It is

a massive thank you to everyone. All the best for the semifinal.

What an incredible match, two games to zero, who would have thought

that? Not even those boys before today. But Great Britain does not

wait for a badminton medal for 12 years could be coming to an end of

next few days, we will see. Congratulations to Ellis and

Langridge who have nothing to lose, all of the expectation is gone.

Someone in a very different situation from Ireland as Katie

Taylor, who comes to this games having been a five-time world

champion and she can barely walk down the street in Ireland without

fans coming over to see her. She was in 22 of the first woman to win the

flyweight Olympic boxing gold-medal and is looking to retain title here

as well. Things have not gone away in 2016. She went for years without

losing a single fight and in the last few months she has lost twice.

Once by Estelle Mosley of France and the World Championships in the

semifinals and in the Olympic qualification back in April. She is

here and looking to retain her title and the Irish bands will be enforced

at the Riocentro pavilions and is taking on mural Potkonen of Finland

and no doubt Katie Taylor will want to get off to a fantastic start.

McIntosh and Woodall, take us through this.

We are underway with the women's 60 kilograms lightwood quarterfinal

here at Rio 2016 and this contest is a matchup between reigning World

Championship bronze medallist, the boxer wearing red is the reigning

Olympic Games champion from London 2012, Katie Taylor. A fast start

scoring wide arcing punches between the arms of Miro Potkonen. An

impressive winner over the Brazilian Shefa earlier. -- she fought

earlier. She's making a brisk start. We waited a long time for this

contest, Katie Taylor. She looks on good form, fast hands and good word

meant -- good movement. Potkonen a very direct, coming forward. Looks

lower than Taylor in the hands speak Taylor opting to stay on the

outside, she is a hard Poland to nail down with the shot which is on

the move. A smack opponent -- opponent. These boxers have met

twice before. Katie Taylor until now has won both their previous

encounters. Will she be able to get repeat victory here to progress to

the Olympic medal podium once again. She comes into this console used to

winning. -- this, so used to winning the top 18 gold medals in

Championships, cracking left hand can win that combination from Katie

Taylor, having lost her previous two tournaments she had bronze medals,

so she has not stood on top spot on a medal podium where she was so used

to being but she's made a brisk start to her second Olympic Games,

cracking right-hand lead once again from Taylor.

Good opening round of boxing in the lightweight division despite the

lengthy wait to get a second Olympic campaign underway. Katie Taylor

finding a rhythm and range pretty quickly. Very good.

CHEERING Boxed well on the outside, Taylor,

in and out with the feeds, there is the right hand as she finishes. She

finds that room and space on the inside, short and mid-range but that

is a lovely shot and goes back on the outside, Taylor. She is very

skilful, but I think the speed of her feet are as important as the

hands. Good movement. Let's look at the scores. Only two judges go for

Taylor and the third goes for Potkonen, surprised, thought that

was good for Taylor. We move into the second round of this contest

scheduled for four two-minute rounds. Mira Potkonen ranked number

11 in the world. Looking to get her first victory over Katie Taylor. The

first range is 2-1. Potkonen clearly doing survey to impress the judges,

her right hand was probably the best bunch of the contest -- best punch.

Cracking right from Potkonen. Showing us what she should be doing

at the strata of this round as Taylor lands her shots, then she

seems to go back and tries to regain her composure and sent again.

Potkonen is getting after Taylor, not allowing the time for her to

regroup, it is good work from the girl in blue. She is starting to

catch Taylor going away from her. Potkonen is there to five years old,

really targeting the right hand. Cracking shot again from Katie

Taylor. Now she is trying to find partial success but runs into

another right cross. Terrific start to the second round. The right-hand

proving to be particularly effective. There it is once more,

repeated success with the right cross, without being set up by a

jab. Left hook on the break was naughty

from Potkonen. Katie Taylor is adept at boxing in so many ways on the

back foot as she demonstrated in the first round in the trenches at short

and mid-range. She Targett and accurate right hand of her own,

Taylor. Movement key for Taylor. She needs to move, Potkonen should

listen to her corner and they would have said get on the front foot. As

she moves away that's where you must make the attack. Fantastic boxing,

what a response from Miro Potkonen, she took a Shearer inroads in

right-hander really great punch in the two minutes of that round. A

very calm corner indeed. Finland. Potkonen had some success at the

start of this round especially. Good right hand from both boxers, just

landing. The movement from Katie Taylor is excellent on the outside,

but she has just been caught occasionally moving away. Let's

look. Potkonen across-the-board, they obviously prefer the front foot

for -- front foot boxing. The halfway stage is tied up 90 each --

19 each. Judge B has an two point mike of advantage in favour of the

Finnish boxer. Round three. Straight to the second

of this contest, it is intriguingly poised cost the boxer wearing blue

took the second round unanimously. The right-hander was particularly

effective and juicy Katie Taylor Pauling -- use it Katie Taylor

holding a form and trying to drive Potkonen back because she was the

front foot aggressor in the second round every good evidence for her.

Cracking right-hand in response from Taylor but there it is again from

Miro Potkonen. From Taylor her movement is good but they obviously

prefer this style from Potkonen on the front foot. You must hit the

target but Miro Potkonen is doing that with the right hand, so Katie

Taylor has two quick and upper hand and move the feet and occasionally

push Potkonen back, that is important. The way they are scoring

this one. Cracking left-hand from Taylor but as Potkonen stepped back

into punching range. A good shot from the boxer in blue. She comes

forward again and, as ever, Katie Taylor with her loyal and

enthusiastic and supporters making their presence felt at the boxing

arena in Riocentro pavilion six. The final right-hand she attended before

falling into the Clint just wide of the mark. Potkonen taking her foot

off the gas a little. Better from Taylor, meeting her head on. It is

important in these grounds that you push your opponent back, show the

judges you can box going forward as well as on the back foot. Cracking

right-hand from Potkonen but Taylor countered immediately with a good

left-hand of her own, held the boxer in read up on her tiptoes, skirting

around the perimeter now tempting and fitting in front of one another

who can land the eye-catching quality shot before the bell.

Potkonen on the front foot, the bell sounds to conclude the third round

and after two round scored it was one it for Jurjus ANC and a 2-point

margin of advantage for Potkonen in the chart -- in Judge B. The

national team coach in the corner. Peter Gill was brought -- are called

for so long but taking a break from coaching duties. I thought this was

a better run for Taylor, Potkonen occasionally took our foot off the

gas, allowing Taylor to hold her ground and meet her head on. But it

all depends what the judges preferred. I thought the better

quality work came from the Irish girl.

There you go, too- one for Taylor,. Potkonen leading by 1.4 judges BNC

and Taylor for one point bye Judge A. Into the fourth and final round,

this contest in the balance, cracking start by Taylor with a two

shot elbow, Potkonen, as ever, on the front foot and trying to take it

to her opponent with a forward advance. Taylor standing her ground

and engaging in a firefight with Potkonen. Before retreating beyond

punching distance. This could be anyone's. Who will push the other

one back? Taylor starting to rally but Potkonen Comey has been good

tactics from the Finn on the front foot. Targeting the right hand,

there it is again, she is having some success, the girl in blue. What

can Taylor do in the last round? Potkonen coming forward and just

falling short with her attended two shot elbow, Taylor in with a good

burst of punches, one in reply from Potkonen. Concentration is absolute

from both boxers. Trailer trying to get on the front foot with a final

attempt at left hook with the cracking right-hand but the letter

appeared a little long from Taylor. -- left hook. Thinking about it

attack, is so crucial to land eye-catching work, good right hand

from Potkonen, attended response just wide. -- attempted. Miro

Potkonen holding your feet and occasionally waiting too long. You

expect her to go forward but that is encouraging Katie Taylor to get on

the front foot. And put her opponent back. The final 30 seconds, Taylor

with a good shot, right on top of the Olympic logo, who will go

through to the Olympic podium? That is the price that await the

victorious boxer in this quarterfinal bout. The ten second

clap about to sound, who can make a grandstand finish? Good elbow from

Taylor, left hook from Potkonen around the corner. What around

boxing. Very keenly contested, remember the contest was in the

balance, two judges at the three scored rounds hatted 20 -- added one

point in favour of this boxer, judge A one point in favour of Katie

Taylor. Who produced the quality? This one could go either way.

Because of the scoring going into the final round this could go to

plan -- and back because it was a close round indeed. Taylor I thought

just edged the last round and did a little bit better quality work than

her opponent. Potkonen felt the pace and eased off the gas slightly.

There is nothing in it, it is either way. I think Taylor might have just

done enough in that last round and it could go to count back. Handbag

is what occurs when the scores are level, so the judges have to express

an opinion as to who they feel is the better boxer. We know that in

current pack it is nerve jangling for fans of both Katie Taylor and

meal Potkonen -- and Miro Potkonen. The scores are taking a wild tackle

it, often meaning the cutback is a possibility that will be visible if

we see a dot next the respective scores of judges a, B and C. Let's

keep the official announcement as to who goes through to the podium in

the women's 60 kilograms lightweight division. Keenly contested between

Katie Taylor and Miro Potkonen. Ladies and gentlemen, the winner by

split decision... In the blue corner, Miro Potkonen! Katie Taylor,

the reigning Olympic champion, has been limited at the quarterfinal

stage of the women's 60 kilograms lightweight for it to reopen to 16.

-- here in a Rio 2016. It has been fought on a split decision in favour

of Miro Potkonen, she is ecstatic. She goes home with championship and

were at least an Olympic bronze but having beaten the world number one

and tournament number one seed she will have ambitions of getting to

the gold-medal bout, look at the dot, cutback for Judge B in favour

of Potkonen. Katie Taylor dethroned before the medal stages in a Rio

2016. a massive thank you to everyone. All

the best for the semifinal. I have listened to the interview you

gave to the broadcasting from Ireland. They can see in your face

how down you are after that. Yes, very disappointed. What a privilege

and honour it is to be here to represent my country on the bigger

stage of all. I gave it to my best shot. I am so humbled by the support

players over the last year. That is life. When you talk about the

support, that you had heard in the stadium, it has been amazing. Half

the crowd had been from Ireland. I am humbled. There are Irish lads all

around the place. It is a darting feeling right now. I have to keep my

head up and keep going. Have to -- the one question about the fate, it

was tight, did you think you had one? It is very hard to say quite

after the fight. I felt I had the fight one but when you add in the

middle, it is a lot different, looking from the outside. I have

boxed many times before and she is tough, I should be beating those

goals. It is very disappointing. The Irish colleagues have said that you

all the Irish public nothing. Katie Taylor was desolate after that and

it has been disappointing for the Irish and adultery similar medal in

the rolling. And Anneliese Murphy going in the sailing today. They had

high hopes of medals here in the boxing arena. That was their main

hope for medal. We talk to the victors and to the fact is Katie

Taylor went on television and Ireland when she was 15 and said

that her lifetime ambition was to be an Olympian. She carried the Irish

flag and she won a gold medal four years on. That is a microcosm of the

ups and downs of being an international sports person. STUDIO:

Really disappointing day for the Irish. They have came and their

droves. The fans have been fantastic. She should be back.

Five-time champion of the world, you do not become that for nothing. We

are going to the Deodoro to check in on the question is. The British team

won a silver medal in the dressage. This is the individual event. Lee

McKenzie, always wonderful to see you. What are we looking forward to?

We are looking forward to Charlotte Jacques Dang. Coming into the arena

is Charles Hester. This is the biggest horse and the competition.

As we saw last year, he has the heart of a mouse. The horse is Nip

Tuck. The dancing horses captured the imagination in London. This

routine is one that he debuted in Olympia in December. We saw that on

the BBC. He is the first rider in 280%. We had Fiona Bigwood, she has

not gone a freestyle dressage to music. She had a couple of costly

errors. She was delighted to her debut Olympic use periods. She got

76% today. She was not too far away even though she was disappointed

with her score. It is a different story with Carl Hester whose

previous best was at Olympia on this horse just before the turn of the

year. He got 83.75%. He will be looking to do that or get better.

Keaghan Jacobs into the arena. What a splendid looking hospices. They

have been warming up in the air-conditioned arena, such are the

height temperatures. -- horse. This is a key ride for this man.

Part of the gold medal team in London four years are gone. He wrote

Utopia then. Finished out of the medals. We won gold with Charlotte

and bronze with Laura Tomlinson. Carl Hester trains the other three

members of Britain's team as well as riding the horse. He is such an

important mentor. He will do well to finish in the Silver Medal position

behind a very good German team. We have three members of the German

team to come in the freestyle as well as Charlotte herself. This

horse is owned jointly by Carl Hester and Jane Delamere. It is a

horse that was almost lucky. This is a horse worthy of its position

Frankston is training by Carl Hester. Did he force themselves on

the edge of an Olympic medal? Great Britain's Carl Hester and Nip Tuck

in the freestyle to music. For the individual medals.

This is a testicle technical difficulty. -- this is a test full

of technical difficulty. What an entrance. The web and

counter pirouette all in this first centre line.

The music of Tom Hunter. He put this piece together absolutely to the

beat of these movements. It soothes the movement of the horse. He is

being very correct. We do not get any straighter than

that. Carl knows the limitations of this horse. He is riding the horse

to its absolute best. It is so far is really good test. Very difficult

move from canter to passage. As we can see, that often be quite

sharp. He is relaxed in the arena today.

Such a master craftsman and technician, Carl. It owes so much to

his dedication. That was not a requirement but it

shows the degree of collection and ability of this horse. Carl, you can

see from his action, is fiddled with that and so are the British squad.

Could it get into the lead? I think it might. We will wait with

everything crossed. This man has not only lead the world into a new type

of dressage, a new lighter and delightful world of dressage, but he

has led Great Britain, not single-handed but almost, to the top

of the world. The sport owes him so much. I have to say, I do not know

what the marks will be. Technically, that was the best performance we

have seen so far. There was never a mistake. Regular, giving us

everything. What we have come to expect of Carl. We need Nip Tuck to

play the game as well. What a wonderful move to find this month --

this young man and bring him back home to his home in Gloucester

shire, developers skills. He has gone on developing his young skills

of training to really is in the world now.

He trains Charlotte. That in itself would be a great for him. An

individual medal for Carl would be well deserved. We are pretty close

to getting the score. I would love to hear what they are

saying. Really good, did I hear? He did say that. Excellent. It Carl is

happy then we are all happy. The British team have worked so well

together. Maestro was the riding master at the Household Cavalry from

many years and it's been a great asset for him. There it is, he is

thrilled with that. Not quite the personal-best from London, but a

very good mark. Karl will be delighted with that. A percentage or

so underrated personal-best but we've seen how this horse has

reacted here in the heat and the enormous atmosphere we have. It

might not look busy but we have a very vocal crowd. Karl will be

delighted with that next on his agenda is speaking to me and then he

has to go and help warm up Charlotte Dujardin, who is bidding to retain

her individual Olympic gold, let's find out more about her. What a

performance. She certainly has lived after all the expectations. This is

not a dream. Britain will rule the world in team dressage and have the

Olympic champion. This is blueberry, that is his nickname, Valegro is his

proper name. They are a partnership that Britain has never seen before.

I sat and watched so many riders four-year is thinking I wish I could

get that, I really wish I could get there and suddenly I was there and

doing it and winning and I'm like, I'm living my dream! When you have

that relationship and that feeling that you know your horse has given

you everything, it was a really emotional feeling. He is a very

special horse. Given you've played such an enormous role in training

people and riding yourself at top level for Great Britain, what would

you say makes a great dressage rider? If you describe dressage it

is a perfect marriage between a and rider. So, to have that perfect

marriage you have to have pretty much like a normal marriage where

you have a sensitivity, feeling for the movement and how the wars moves,

good dressage riders have the patience and ability to bring out

the best in the horse, it probably takes for five years to train one to

Grand Prix, which is quite a long time. If Karl says you're not doing

that right or working hard enough, do it again, do you give him a

little? No, I like being told it's not good. I want to make everything

is perfect as I can get it. Karl on the other hand gives me lip. He is

skewed -- he is called excuse .com so if I ever say anything there is

always an excuse for an answer as to why it is not done properly full as

soon as he gets in the arena he is such a professional at test riding.

I don't have the knowledge he has so I still look upon him to give me

that security as knowledge and confidence to berate assured it is

OK. This might be reassured. What is it about of Allegro that makes him

the best in the world? He just enjoys work, I would say. -- of

Allegro. -- Valegro. He isn't lazy, years of very active person. I'm

imagining that if he was an equine tender, fit, strong, athlete,

bright, funny, Independent. He is the perfect man, I think. Will you

feel nervous this time around about Rio? I have to go there to enjoy it

and at the end of the day it is an Olympic Games but it is just another

show, another arena, doing the same thing. Nothing different, nothing

changes other than the fact I'm in a Rio. It will be very different for

you, certainly because of the expectations now on her shoulders

and have been ever since London every year. You've delivered the

goods but it hasn't been as easy to generate the fun all the way through

because it means so much more now to you, me, the entire team and the

entirety of British dressage. This will be his last year doing this, I

feel like we've achieved so much together and he is my best friend,

and it will be quite sad for me going to Rio annoying that will

probably be one of the last line -- last times I can beat him. My life

will be very boring after you retire.

It is always lovely to hear Charlotte speaking about of Allegro

and she says he is the perfect man, it is a combination that doesn't

just happen overnight, these writers have been working with the waters to

get them to this level for years and it's not like they can have fun and

pop over fences and jump, but the amount of effort going into those of

you can see over my shoulder is is Beatriz Ferrer-Salat from Spain

doing her test, again, hugely experienced rider that we get to the

Olympia every year. I will speak to Carl Hester in a moment, who is

understandably delighted with that performance. We know that Nip Tuck

has his limitations, he spooks and gets frightened, couple of years ago

at the World Equestrian Games he tipped over on top of Carlisle after

a waiter dropped tray of glasses. Karl has worked so hard to get this

horse that he bought for ?1000 and decided he didn't want commie loaded

was onto a trailer and realised he loves the wrong horse so he ended up

stuck with Barney as he is known at home. How well that has worked for

him to get him here to Rio has been an enormous success. Huge

congratulations. I was quite emotional watching that, I don't

know how you feel? Really emotional, for once I got him on my side and I

had that same little funny corner when I was trying to get my

transition and he felt what dressage should feel like, like he was going

on his own and really liked in my hand like a feather, beautiful to

write. He is a horse that get his confidence as he goes along, day one

I'm battling with the Pokemon and spooks and saying I don't want to go

that way or on my own and today it was a look at me, and full of

presents and he felt great, I'm delighted for everyone because we

never presumed he would be an individual medal horse but to get in

the top ten, which I hope Lee now will be, I hope for a top ten

placing of years but 5% on Friday's score, Saturday's score, so I cannot

be more happy. You got to dash off and help Charlotte will not, how are

she had Allegro? -- she and Valegro? Are doing great, we are all

congratulating each other and come in and let's hope she can the

mistakes, they are just a little bit rusty because of the lack of

competition but the horse is on great form, he is very fit and

strong and it is very hot today as you will know, in the 90s, not great

in the heat, but we were warming up in the indoor school where it is

nice and cool and bring him out for the last ten minutes and hope the

heat doesn't drain him too much, he is on sparkling form. So Ayew and

Barney, congratulations, you should be delighted. We will bring

Charlotte later and she is and 4:40pm British time and we will see

you back here. Thank you, things looking really good, we'll be back

to see more horse and rider payers and perfect harmony later here on

BBC Four. For that, we have to reflect on what an incredible day we

had yesterday, five Olympic gold-medal is for Great Britain,

their best ever result in overseas games ever. I'm sure you will

reflect and have your favourite moments but arguably the performance

of the day came from Matt Whitlock in the gymnastics. He arrived in the

Park couple of days ago as the 100 and, just over 100 years of Great

Britain waited for an all-round medallist, he won the bronze in that

one but yesterday he had a day he and Protestant mastics and never

forget. -- and the British gymnastics.

Great Britain's Max Whitlock, the first of two finals for him today.

Olympic floor final. A steely look in his eyes, lips with great control

into the two twisting somersaults. This is important. 3.5 and

beautifully performed. Now he can settle into his paved -- favourite

Palmer work. Yes, this is almost like break dancing, there is the

airfare, which everyone remembers him for, there was a couple of other

gymnasts that now do it but that is by far the best in the world. He

made sure he held the hand stands there is no deductions.

-- so there is no. Big 2.5 twisting somersaults backwards into a 1.5

twist. There is the 1.5 twist in a role at