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field. Kelly Hudson is umpiring this one. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
She will be joined by another Australian umpire. Under | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
quarterfinal is under way. And Laura Unsworth has been | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
outstanding throughout the tournament, now Kate | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Richardson-Walsh. Mel Clewlow is alongside, good evening. Good | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
evening, looking forward to this one massively, to be fair to Spain, they | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
have just played against Germany and Korea, they will not be a pushover, | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
they have changed the style they play, and we could be in for another | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
really interesting, cracking game of hockey. The ball has fallen kindly | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
for Sophie Bray, shooting opportunity, she has won a penalty | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
corner for Great Britain after less than 40 seconds of play. That is | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
just the start they wanted. Fantastic play by Sophie Bray, | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
getting the ball up in the air, just jingling it off the stick, sometimes | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
referred to as 3D skills, she has won a penalty corner within 40 | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
seconds of the start of the game. Early test for Maria Lopez between | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
the sticks for Spain and her defenders, Hannah Macleod will | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
inject. Crista Cullen is poised, and Jill Giselle Ansley is alongside. | :01:27. | :01:40. | |
Good effort and not a bad safe from Maria Lopez, it was heading for the | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
top corner. Sophie Bray right in the thick of the action in the first | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
minute of the match, Spain with a chance to get inside the British out | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
of the field for the first time. Hannah Macleod injects to the | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
nearest castle, Crista Cullen growing across, you could see Lopez | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
taking have a step to her right hand side, but Cullen could not put it | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
into that corner, big save from Lopez. Four periods of 15 minutes, | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
the new format, which has been very well received for these Olympics. In | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
past Games, in London, there were classification matches, no | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
quarterfinals, so this is better all round. Alex Danson back to Nicola | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
White, then back to Danson, top scorer for GB in the Games so far | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
with three. White has a couple as well, she takes the free here. This | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
is a decent start for Great Britain, Hollie Webb fires its down the right | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
side, Susannah Townsend looking for the ball. I think the pleasing thing | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
for Great Britain in this tournament, they have got six | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
different scorers on the scoresheet. Normally so much is reliant on Alex | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Danson or, at times, Crista Cullen or the penalty corner routines. To | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
have six coming into the quarterfinals on the scoresheet is | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
not only an opposition coach's nightmare, but confidence for those | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
players that they can score at this level. Slow burner here from Great | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
Britain, Ansley, solid pass to Laura Unsworth. She is still getting stuck | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
in against Maria Lopez. Lopez wins that battle, Spain on the right now | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
with Gloria Comerma. It has fallen nicely for Begona Garcia, but Kate | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
Richardson-Walsh was alert. A wide run for Alex Danson, she hit the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
right flank at pace. Lovely touch inside for Townsend, just loses out, | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
just a touch too much for Townsend. When Townsend picks up the ball, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
three Spanish players, she managed to turn Lola Riera nicely, but three | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
players on her. Townsend again, servicing, pushed behind, GB will | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
get a free hit. Webb. Pro-gun Spain won't mind defending at all, it's | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
what their game is built on. As we see them now, this is how they used | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
to play at pretty much every single international match, they are more | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
than comfortable being in a defensive position, the players know | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
their roles, and it is important that Great Britain can get the ball, | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
move on, get ahead and really use the speed and physicality that they | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
have developed over the last four years. Spain go Arial, the ball | :04:46. | :04:59. | |
bouncing. Nice passage, Begona Garcia heading forward now towards | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
the circle. And Gloria Comerma is down to restart for Spain. Lopez. | :05:06. | :05:18. | |
Way too much force on that attempted pass, the ball was airborne and | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
bounced towards the corner flag as well. GB won't mind that at all, | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
that is what Spain are going to resort to already, that is a | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
positive sign for Great Britain. Great Britain on the break again, | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
Sophie Bray is in the D, waiting for some service - it never came. | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
Townsend, lightning fast. Plays it back to Helen Richardson-Walsh. | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
Helen Richardson-Walsh, great stick work, and she is following up, but | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Great Britain lose possession. Helen Richardson-Walsh has had the bit | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
between their teeth, I would say, in the last two and a half games in | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
this competition, Soderbergh got to get the ball off and another person | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
who will be a positive influence on this game tonight. -- so difficult | :06:19. | :06:30. | |
to get the ball off. Spain in no rush to restart. Helen | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
Richardson-Walsh with a solid stick in the way. I think it is really | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
good to see Great Britain starting with such a high press, trying to | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
put the Spanish defenders under pressure as early as possible. | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
Nice pass, Spain with a chance to break, a little space on the left | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
flank here, only as far as Sam Quek. Nice first touch from Quek. Great | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Britain rampaging forward, Townsend turns and accelerates, beautiful | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
move from Susannah Townsend all the way to the baseline. Sam Quek is | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
forward now. Looking around. Decides to take it on herself, have another | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
go, Quek all the way to the edge of the circle, and then back out to the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
sideline. Georgie Twigg fires it forward. An attempted shot off a | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
Spanish vote, and it will be Great Britain's second penalty corner. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Absolutely brilliant from Sophie Bray, a bouncing ball coming away | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
from goal, adds to hit it on the upright into the ground, it bounces | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
up and do Lopez's but, second penalty corner for Britain, positive | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
start by the girls so far. Eight and a quarter minutes left in the first | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
period, Great Britain 0, Spain 0. This time Georgie Twigg will have | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the injection duties for Great Britain. Laura Unsworth poised to | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
potentially have a strike at this, or maybe Giselle Ansley. A change in | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
tactics for Great Britain, here is Ansley, Unsworth, just off the stick | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
and over, that was close. Sophie Bray's stick in a way, Spanish | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
possession, two penalty corners have come and gone so far for Great | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Britain. Fantastic delivery by Laura Unsworth, flat and that speed, and | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Sophie Bray unfortunately angles are stick too much and sends the ball | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
over the crossbar. GB absolutely camped out in the Spanish have at | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
the moment, and it has fallen kindly again. The break, support inside, | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
needs to be laid-back. -- fallen kindly again for Sophie Bray. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Desperate Spanish defence, another penalty corner, this will be number | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
three. Helen Richardson-Walsh just grabbing her way along the baseline, | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
just pinball in there, so many players. In the end, I think it | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
comes off Gutierrez for the third penalty corner, but that came from | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
GB winning the ball high up, Georgie Twigg pushing up from the screen | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
position, they robbed Spain just over their 25 yard Lane, and it has | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
been one-way traffic so far. Kate Richardson-Walsh and Giselle Ansley | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
in position to have a strike at this one. Ansley tries a flick, scores, | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
Great Britain are in friend! It came off Georgie Twigg's stick and over | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
for the goal. I do not think there is anybody here who can say Great | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Britain do not deserve the lead, fantastically well worked penalty | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
corner, it goes out to the far castle, and Giselle Ansley fires the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
ball, and it was either going to be Helen Richardson-Walsh, flying in, | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
getting a touch, but this is a team that shows its confidence, because | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
the injector as the stick flat on the floor, Richardson-Walsh misses | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
it, Georgie Twigg doesn't, fantastic. Her first goal of the | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Olympic tournament, and for an Olympic quarterfinal, this has been | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
remarkably one-sided in terms of possession, all Team GB in the first | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
seven and a half minutes. And they have got their reward, Great Britain | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
1, Spain 0. Nichola White takes it up towards the halfway line, held | :10:48. | :10:59. | |
up. Cullen, Quek, Lily Owsley on the field now, let's see what she can | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
bring to the game. She just left the ball behind and tried to take Gine | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
one. Owsley hounding the defenders, who | :11:10. | :11:23. | |
have lost their shape at the moment, just need a little bit of time and | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
space to regroup. Sam Quek loses out, Spain come down this right | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
flank with Magaz, but a nice day from Alex Danson, lasered off to | :11:39. | :11:50. | |
Lily Owsley. -- lays it off. Tumblr pushes it out of play. At the moment | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Spain cannot compete with the intensity that Great Britain are it | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
at. It took three, four, five Spanish players out of the game | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
there, and anyone who thinks that Great Britain cannot keep this up | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
for three quarters plus five minutes are in for a nice surprise tonight, | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
because these guys are fit tonight. Up for grabs, a place in the | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
semifinal to play New Zealand, who defeated Australia today. Quek on | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
the left for Great Britain, perfect pass, precise to Alex Danson, heads | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
infield to Georgie Twigg. White back to Danson. | :12:40. | :12:53. | |
Crista Cullen finds White in midfield | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
it has been left, and it almost fell for Townsend. Now Owsley, it has | :13:04. | :13:15. | |
fallen for Danson, who drilled that across, a Spanish stick was in the | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
way. Attempted nutmeg around Hollie Webb. I think, to be fair to Spain, | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
they were the lowest ranked team in the tournament, and to make the | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
quarterfinals is a massive plus for them and their hockey. Missed by Sam | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
Quek, Spain with Petchame all the way to the baseline. Owsley back | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
defending, Kate Richardson-Walsh has made a little run ahead of her, and | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
she is there. Then a bit of confusion between Richardson-Walsh | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
and Alex Danson. Also, when you speak to the Spanish | :13:57. | :14:08. | |
coach, Adrian Locke, he was very much targeting Tokyo 2020 with this | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
group of players, so to have this experience four years out, the | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Spanish goal is something that a lot of these girls will remember and be | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
able to build on with their programme over the next four years. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Spanish player down, in some distress, Georgina Oliva, she has | :14:26. | :14:37. | |
been struck. Adrian Locke watching on. I think it was a collision | :14:38. | :14:50. | |
between Oliva and possibly MacLeod. Sophie Bray is having to tidy things | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
up, Danson back defending, as Hollie Webb shadows the Spanish attack down | :15:00. | :15:00. | |
the right. You cannot help feeling that it's | :15:01. | :15:14. | |
bane I going to get back into this game to push for the semifinal | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
position, there will have to make the most of the opportunities they | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
get when they get the ball into the GB defending 25. -- if Spain are | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
going to. It is the best passage of play we | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
have seen from Spain so far, in the last three minutes of this first | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
quarter. Terrific movement from Bray. For me, I think Sophie Bray | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
made the wrong decision. The ball should have gone to Helen | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Richardson-Walsh, and then it could have gone back into Alex Danson, but | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
they decided to go the more direct route. | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
That is an easy finish for Helen Richardson-Walsh. Second goal. A | :16:20. | :16:33. | |
mistake by Spain has been well and truly punished by the British team. | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
The ball rolled from Danson to Sophie Bray, puts it on to her | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
favoured backhand. Helen Richardson-Walsh finds herself | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
between two Spanish defenders. Simple tap in for now Britain's | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
highest scorer of the tournament so far. It is an uphill struggle for | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
Spain and hopefully, Great Britain will continue to push on. Third goal | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
of the tournament for Helen Richardson-Walsh, to put her level | :17:10. | :17:09. | |
with Alex Danson. Two minutes left until the end of | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
the quarter. It is just the start Great Britain needed. Nicola White | :17:21. | :17:31. | |
has had a really good tournament as well. | :17:32. | :18:11. | |
Crista Cullen's pass was poor, but it was tidied up by Susannah | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Townsend. They have done well this evening to | :18:15. | :18:27. | |
play the simple ball into space for the players to run onto. My only | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
fear is that they are now going to start trying to dribble, or will | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
they send a message out to the teams left in this tournament? Spain have | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
one chance before the hooter to get on the scoresheet. But the defence | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
so far from Great Britain has been rock solid. | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
There is the hooter. Great Britain are in control, with goals from | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
Georgina Twigg and Helen Richardson-Walsh. | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
DAN WALKER: very impressive from Team GB. We shall be there shortly, | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
but on day ten of the games here in Rio, let's bring you the headlines. | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
There is another gold for Team GB today. It came from Charlotte | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Dujardin in the individual dressage, just like she did four years ago. | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
She and Valegro did the business, and there were a few tears. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Bronze in the hammer for Sophie Hitchon. Her last throw of the | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
competition, she broke her own British record and was delighted | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
with 74.54 metres. There was a gold in the men's vault for the North | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
Korean. And in the women's beam, Simone Biles didn't take the gold. | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
She was only good enough for bronze today after a little wobble. It was | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
won by the Netherlands. And Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge, who we | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
showed you BBC Four, have been the eighth seeded pair to reach the | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
doubles semifinals. Over on BBC Two at the moment, that man, Viviani, | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
has just won the omnium for Italy. He has taken the gold. Mark | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
Cavendish was in silver medal position and coming up soon is Laura | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Trott, going in the elimination race of the women's omnium. She is the | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
current Olympic gold medallist from London in four years ago. | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
Where are we going next? O'Connor straight back to the hockey. Back to | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
Mel and Matt. COMMENTATOR: Second-quarter under | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
way. You sense there will be a few more goals in this one. | :21:22. | :21:38. | |
Good to see the players starting with intensity. | :21:39. | :21:59. | |
Spain only got a late call to play in the Olympic hockey tournament | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
following South Africa's decision to not field a men's or women's team. | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
Spain got the lucky loser's entry. They were not really prepared for | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Olympic participation and have done exceptionally well to make it to the | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
quarterfinals. But at the moment, they are being rather found out. | :22:22. | :22:41. | |
At quarter time, Adrian Lock was trying to drum some enthusiasm into | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
his team. He was frustrated that some of them were just walking into | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
the huddle. He will be disappointed with that first quarter, but | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
sometimes you have to give credit to the opposition. As we have said many | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
times this evening, Great Britain have really come out of the blocks | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
and played an exceptional quarter of hockey. Townsend was tripped. No | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
damage done. Wonderful stick and ball skills from | :23:11. | :23:46. | |
Sophie Bray. They have been a key feature of Britain's success so far. | :23:47. | :23:59. | |
Shona McCallin hit a Spanish stick during her follow-through. No real | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
power on it. Penalty corner for Great Britain, | :24:03. | :24:37. | |
penalty corner number four. It is given for a couple of stick tackles. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
Sophie Bray does well to ride the first one from La Paz, and then | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Gutierrez comes in with another one. -- from Lopez. | :24:48. | :24:57. | |
Combination of Sam Quek and Sophie Bray winning a penalty corner for | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
Great Britain. Giselle Ansley and Kate | :25:02. | :25:14. | |
Richardson-Walsh are poised to make the drag flick. It is saved. Great | :25:15. | :25:27. | |
Britain still very much in possession and pressing forward. | :25:28. | :25:40. | |
Great Britain are climbing all over this Spanish defence at the moment. | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
Here is the penalty corner again. Giselle Ansley uses the number one | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
runner, tries to block Lopez's view, but she just manages to get the | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
outside of her right pad to make the save from Giselle Ansley. | :26:04. | :26:42. | |
GB are finding themselves in some good positions, getting players onto | :26:43. | :26:56. | |
that baseline. It is good to see that the intentions are there. Their | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
passing skills have been brilliant tonight. | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
Gloria Comerma has set up a promising Spanish attack. | :27:12. | :27:26. | |
Argentina supporters are here for the last quarterfinal of the day, | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
which will be at 8.30, local time. Sticks everywhere, but it is Great | :27:33. | :28:15. | |
Britain's ball. Unfortunately, there were two players in the area as the | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
ball was going to land, which is widely umpire has blown it up. It | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
would have been a Great Britain ball, but it is deemed to be | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
dangerous. Goals from Georgina Twigg and Helen | :28:28. | :29:01. | |
Richardson-Walsh Labritz two sides at the moment. The reward would be a | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
semifinal against the Black sticks, New Zealand. But there is still a | :29:07. | :29:19. | |
long way to go, so we can't write the Spanish off yet. | :29:20. | :29:34. | |
Sophie Bray has had an outstanding match so far. | :29:35. | :29:55. | |
I think in any sport, if you play in the forward line, the most important | :29:56. | :30:04. | |
thing is goals. That is what gives you confidence. Sophie Bray didn't | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
score in the first couple of games, but since she has got on the board, | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
she has been outstanding. Same with Alex Danson and Lili Owsley. The | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
forwards are now scoring goals and you can see the confidence they have | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
got. Alex Danson has just arrived in the | :30:20. | :30:41. | |
circle, they have let it be taken up by Richardson-Walsh, so much skill | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
and confidence from Bray! Penalty corner for Great Britain, this is | :30:46. | :30:55. | |
their fifth. Now, the Spanish are contesting it, and they want to go | :30:56. | :30:57. | |
to the video referral. No? You want to know which stick it | :30:58. | :31:13. | |
came off? I think it came off red, they wanted off white. The ball came | :31:14. | :31:23. | |
off a GB stick. It came off Sophie Bray's stick? Hard to tell, I think, | :31:24. | :31:33. | |
in normal speed. It not take the video referee long to overturn that | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
decision. That decision is overturned, Spain got it right, they | :31:39. | :31:45. | |
keep their video referral option. Role, Bray is at it again, | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
extraordinarily skill, Alex Danson could not make contact. Sophie Bray, | :31:50. | :31:56. | |
in this mood, it is going to be long night for the Spanish defence, I | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
think. Laura Unsworth deep in the Spanish have, Kate Richardson-Walsh | :32:03. | :32:03. | |
up as well. Hollie Webb. Flicked in, blocked by Spain, Crista | :32:04. | :32:18. | |
Cullen write-up on the edge of the circle, controlling things here. -- | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
right up. Clattering about just in front of the goal, and Spain get | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
away with it. Not convinced on that decision, but I think Great Britain | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
made the right decision not to go to the referral, because it would have | :32:38. | :32:45. | |
been an interpretation thing. Giselle Ansley finds a Sophie Bray, | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
Townsend, Townsend in pursuit down the centre. This time, Great Britain | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
do get a penalty corner, and Spain are given a card. Christina Guinea | :32:58. | :33:07. | |
is sent packing for two minutes. So hard to defend when a player arrives | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
on the ball at speed, that is what Townsend did, she managed to get the | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
ball away from one player... I think the stick tackle was probably a | :33:19. | :33:22. | |
little bit further back than that, but all positive from Great Britain. | :33:23. | :33:31. | |
Crista Cullen is forward, Giselle Ansley is forward, Kate | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
Richardson-Walsh will inject the ball this time. Great Britain's | :33:34. | :33:41. | |
fifth penalty corner. It comes off a couple of British sticks, the | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
backhand attempt is a good one. Another opportunity, the ball | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
eventually falls behind the goal. So Spain, in their defending, decided | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
to run a low box, number one and number two just over the penalty | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
spot. They clearly think that GB's strengths are the tips and touches | :34:04. | :34:04. | |
in front of Lopez. Four minutes until half-time, Great | :34:05. | :34:14. | |
Britain 2, Spain 0. Crista Cullen, so much time, plenty | :34:15. | :34:32. | |
of options, finds Owsley, who in turn finds Bray, who was all over | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
the field tonight, slides and left to Susannah Townsend. Oh, what a run | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
from Owsley, fallen on her face in the circle, Spain can escape. Great | :34:43. | :34:51. | |
Britain possession once again. Sam Quek on the right. Bray sends it in, | :34:52. | :35:02. | |
Danson picks it up and lasered back, and what an easy finish for Lily | :35:03. | :35:12. | |
Owsley! Great Britain 3, Spain 0! These passage of play was started by | :35:13. | :35:19. | |
Hollie Webb stepping up, quick transfer ball, Sophie Bray with a | :35:20. | :35:29. | |
great touch, Alex Danson, Lily Owsley lays it into an open goal, | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
GBR first to everything, and everything they are touching goes | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
towards goal, and if it is not going into the back of the net, it is | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
forcing Lopez to make the save. It is a long road back for Spain now. | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
Lily Owsley's third goal of the games. Just over three minutes until | :35:48. | :35:58. | |
half-time. An outstanding performance from the entire British | :35:59. | :36:05. | |
team so far tonight. Spain outplayed in every department. Sam Quek back | :36:06. | :36:13. | |
defending. I think the concern for Spain will be the fact that both | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
Helen Richardson-Walsh and Lily Owsley have basically tapped the | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
ball in from two yards away, no Spanish defenders around them, and | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
the ball is going into that danger area. It is probably the movement of | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
those players rather than them being stood there and a defender not doing | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
their job, but for that to happen, it is about timing, knowing when the | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
pass is going to come for Owsley to step in front of the defender. Spain | :36:39. | :36:48. | |
with a rare excursion into the Great Britain circle. Danny Kerry on the | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
right with the red baseball cap, relatively relaxed tonight. | :36:53. | :37:00. | |
Owsley finds McCallin, all the way back to Kate Richardson-Walsh. | :37:01. | :37:18. | |
Owsley combines with Helen Richardson-Walsh on the right, Helen | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
Richardson-Walsh has made a chunk of ground, and that was almost a | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
wonderful turn and escape by Susannah Townsend, just held up. | :37:28. | :37:40. | |
Spain have under a minute and a half to get something from this first 30 | :37:41. | :37:50. | |
minutes of hockey. A bit of space here, Christina Guinea, her passes | :37:51. | :37:59. | |
behind, but Spain will maintain possession. Xantal Gine in towards | :38:00. | :38:14. | |
the circle. Comerma thinks about the best course of action now, inside | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
the final 60 seconds of the half, Spain rebuilds down the left. Lily | :38:20. | :38:40. | |
Owsley on the charge, Shona McCallin ahead of her, Owsley all the way, | :38:41. | :38:47. | |
cannot find McCallin, and with 15 seconds left on the clock, that | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
might be Great Britain's last opportunity of the half. An | :38:52. | :38:58. | |
outstanding half of hockey from the British team, three goals from | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
Georgie Twigg, Helen Richardson-Walsh and Lily Owsley, | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
and at the half-time hooter Great Britain have a comfortable lead. GB | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
3, Spain 0. DAN WALKER: We will continue to | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
watch this in the second half, very comfortable for Team GB in that | :39:17. | :39:19. | |
first half, down to pitch side to get some reaction with Katherine | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
Downes, who was with Simon Mason. Yes, standing right next to me, you | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
said, as we were watching the closing stages of the first-half, if | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
Great Britain could get a third, it would move the match out of Spain's | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
reach, Spain coming back from that? I cannot see it, they would have to | :39:37. | :39:44. | |
get a really early goal in the second half. When it is just two, a | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
defensive lapse from GB could give them some momentum, but they have | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
not shown they can score many goals against a world-class team like GB. | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
What do you say to Great Britain in a changing room now in a half-time | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
talk? You cannot let the pressure drop, led Spain getaway on the | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
break, what do you say to the girls? Pretty much what you say, it is all | :40:05. | :40:10. | |
about the speed, all about the teams speed, just maintaining the momentum | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
throughout the course of the next half, do not give Spain even a sniff | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
of an opportunity. We will be tuning in for the rest in a moment, thank | :40:19. | :40:24. | |
you, Dan. Lie buys yes, back for the second half shortly, but a little | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
treat for you, advice if you have been a regular viewer, you will know | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
that we have the magic of Maria a few nights ago. If this is the first | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
night you are watching, this happened to us 48 hours ago, and the | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
video has gone around the world. 11 million people have seen this, we | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
were about to hand to the weightlifting here on Copacabana, a | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
hen party came wandering down the beach, and the rest is history, here | :40:53. | :40:59. | |
we go. We promised you some weightlifting, | :41:00. | :41:08. | |
we're not sure how many of you are there, let's see what is going on, | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
it looks like a hen do, can we have a look? There we go! A Brazilian hen | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
party! They are clearly enjoying themselves. They seem to be all tied | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
together as well. Magnificent scenes, maybe that is how you do it | :41:26. | :41:32. | |
in Brazil. The bride! Here is the bride, can we see the bright? There | :41:33. | :41:34. | |
she is. Come on, then! Right, now, this | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
could be interesting... Allow! Hello, what is your name? My | :41:40. | :42:01. | |
name is Maria. You are from Brazil? Yes, I am from Belo Horizonte. You | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
are clearly having a very good night, all your friends are here, | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
when are you getting married? In one month, September 17. This lot coming | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
to the wedding? Yes! Maria! Maria! I love her! Maria! Are you going and | :42:24. | :42:31. | |
do have an excellent night? You are getting married here? You are | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
getting married on Copacabana? Yes, Copacabana beach! I want to say | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
something for my husband. Is he having a stag do, a party tonight? | :42:42. | :42:49. | |
He is at home. A message for your husband, can you keep it clean? A | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
message for your husband, I hope he is watching BBC Four! English if | :42:54. | :43:00. | |
that is OK. I love you so much, you are my love, love! What is his name? | :43:01. | :43:12. | |
Juno. You have to think about his name! He has a nickname. And Maria, | :43:13. | :43:21. | |
OK. This is magical, this is a special moment for us all. One last | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
thing, we have some live sport, people won't weightlifting, or do | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
you want Maria? Maria! Last thing to say. Last thing, my football team! | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
Come an! Luminese! And you're getting married | :43:41. | :43:59. | |
in one month? Have a beautiful wedding. Thank you very much. See | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
you later, enjoy the rest of your evening! Right... Thank you! We are | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
just going to wave goodbye! No, that is great, we are still | :44:10. | :44:26. | |
live! We are on the BBC. BBC?! BBC, yes! Maria! BBC! BBC! BBC! BBC! This | :44:27. | :44:47. | |
is lovely! BBC! BBC! BBC! This is lovely, thank you very much, | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
goodbye! We appreciate the support for the BBC as well, Maria. You are | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
getting married, no-one is going to call you, see you later! Your | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
husband is watching out over! Thank you, enjoy your evening, lovely to | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
see you! Well, that was a bit special, wasn't it? You don't get | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
that on BBC One, do you?! Goodbye, we love you all! BBC! | :45:13. | :45:21. | |
Since then, Maria has invited us to her wedding! | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
Her mum has also been in contact, thanking us for making her a star. | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
Millions have watched that around the world. She has recently joined | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
Twitter and has been on Facebook, and she has a lot of new friends in | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
many parts of the world. So thank you for that, Maria. Really | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
appreciate the invitation to your wedding. Leave it with me. I will | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
have to have a word with Mrs Walker. I will try my best! It was very nice | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
of you and it was a pleasure to have you on the BBC and all your very | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
rowdy friends. That is the first time I have seen that fell in the | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
background! He was enjoying himself. Wright, day ten of the Olympics. | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
Thank you for your texts and comments and tweets about that. | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
Let's bring you up-to-date with the headlines headlines on BBC Four. | :46:12. | :46:21. | |
Gold for Charlotte Dujardin in the individual dressage today. She and | :46:22. | :46:30. | |
Valegro did the business. In the last hour, there has been a | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
silver on the cycling track for Mark Cavendish of Great Britain in the | :46:35. | :46:46. | |
men's omnium. So a goal, a silver and bronze in the hammer for Sophie | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
Hitchon. Her last throw in the competition, she broke own British | :46:51. | :46:58. | |
record and a 74.54 was enough for a medal. Great news for Marcus Ellis | :46:59. | :47:07. | |
and Chris Langridge as well. The eighth seeded Japanese pair were | :47:08. | :47:11. | |
beaten by the Brits today, and they are into the badminton semifinals. | :47:12. | :47:21. | |
Right, we are going back to the hockey now for the second half. We | :47:22. | :47:25. | |
will not stay with it for the duration of the second half, because | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
that will be moving to BBC One in ten minutes' time. We will have more | :47:30. | :47:32. | |
live sport for you after that. I know lots of people are saying we | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
are making you switch channels, but hopefully you understand, because | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
BBC One will take you the end of this game and we will bring you some | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
more live sport on BBC Four. We will also have a nice wander around the | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
beach at some stage. We need the bin men to come out, because we like to | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
have that every night, and they are just setting up for the circuit | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
training. Look, the dumbbells are out, the kettle bells are there. As | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
yet, no sign of Antony Worrall Thompson, but if he turns up, we'll | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
try and bring you the Antony Worrall Thompson watch. Now back to the | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
second half of the hockey. And at some stage, we will let you know | :48:12. | :48:14. | |
when it switches to BBC One and we will go somewhere else. Here we go, | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
Team GB are three up against Spain. They qualified with five wins out of | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
five in their pool. Spain lost their first three matches and won their | :48:26. | :48:29. | |
last two to squeeze through. So far, Team GB are looking good going into | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
the second half of this match. Let's pick it up again with Mel and Matt. | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
COMMENTATOR: The second half is about to get under way, Great | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
Britain now attacking the gold to our right. Goals in the first half | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
from Georgina Twigg, Lily Owsley and Helen Richardson-Walsh to put Great | :48:50. | :48:55. | |
Britain in command of this quarterfinal. New Zealander weight | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
in the semis. Spain have a lot to do to get back in this match. | :49:00. | :49:22. | |
Sophie Bray was the outstanding player for Great Britain in the | :49:23. | :49:30. | |
first half, and she is at it again. Another lovely piece of stick skill | :49:31. | :49:31. | |
from her. Probably the first time and again | :49:32. | :49:51. | |
that Great Britain didn't know what they were going to do with the past, | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
and Crista Cullen ended up putting the ball on her foot. I am | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
interested to see how this team comes out in the second half. Spain | :49:59. | :50:08. | |
have not had an opportunity at goal. Our Britain going to play | :50:09. | :50:11. | |
differently? There is no doubt the New Zealand coaching staff are in | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
the crowd somewhere. Quite's attempted shot is saved -- | :50:15. | :50:33. | |
some quite's attempted shot. Good to see the left defender up in the | :50:34. | :50:39. | |
circle. Some quick flicks something at the goal and Lopez puts the ball | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
onto Sophie Bray's foot. Susannah Townsend is on a real burst | :50:46. | :51:04. | |
here. Sophie Bray has missed out this | :51:05. | :51:17. | |
time. A big collision between Kate | :51:18. | :51:34. | |
Richardson-Walsh and one of the Spanish players. She is down and a | :51:35. | :51:46. | |
little hurt, I think. Great strength by Kate Richardson-Walsh. You OK? | :51:47. | :51:59. | |
The two captains clashed on the field. Played against each other for | :52:00. | :52:00. | |
a long time. A bit of creativity potentially here | :52:01. | :52:17. | |
for Great Britain. Great Britain have known when they | :52:18. | :53:14. | |
need to play the ball forwards and when they need to keep possession | :53:15. | :53:15. | |
and move the ball around the back. Shona McCallin will sit it out for a | :53:16. | :53:40. | |
couple of minutes. Spain are camped out on the edge of | :53:41. | :54:33. | |
the circle right now. Spain have their first penalty corner of the | :54:34. | :54:34. | |
game. But it is being referred. The | :54:35. | :54:56. | |
penalty corner was awarded, but it is heading up to the video umpire | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
now. Great Britain are saying it was too high on Crista Cullen. It has | :55:03. | :55:15. | |
actually hit the stick. From that angle, it looked like it hit Crista | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
Cullen's stick. It was a good referral by Great Britain. | :55:21. | :55:33. | |
No foot, no danger. So, the initial decision is overturned. There is no | :55:34. | :55:51. | |
penalty corner for Spain. Great Britain keep their video referral. | :55:52. | :56:15. | |
Maybe Maddie Hinch will be called in for the first time for a serious | :56:16. | :56:38. | |
role. DAN WALKER: now, we gave you the | :56:39. | :56:54. | |
warning on this one. We are going to leave the hockey at this point on | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
BBC Four, with Team GB looking good to make it through to the | :56:59. | :57:01. | |
semifinals, where they will play New Zealand. If you switch over right | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
now, the match continues on BBC One. Sorry to do that to do, but we are | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
going to stay here and show you a cracking badminton match in the | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
men's singles round of 16. Rajiv Ouseph is in the Olympics knockout | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
stages for the first time, taking on the seventh seed, Tommy Sugiarto of | :57:20. | :57:28. | |
Indonesia. The British number one, Ouseph, is seeded 13. They have met | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
each other five times but he has yet to beat the Indian nation. Let's | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
pick this up at the start of the match with Simon Reade and Paul | :57:37. | :57:38. | |
Hand. COMMENTATOR: At six foot three, he | :57:39. | :58:11. | |
has a really powerful smash, Rajiv. A silver medal bank of Indonesia | :58:12. | :58:12. | |
fans behind Tommy. Huge smashing from Sugiarto. Very | :58:13. | :58:56. | |
much so. He gets his feet well behind the ball and then launches up | :58:57. | :59:01. | |
and threw it effectively. A real powerhouse, Tommy Sugiarto. | :59:02. | :59:12. | |
See again, anything remotely misplaced, he is on to you like a | :59:13. | :59:20. | |
rash. He has a lot of elastic energy. | :59:21. | :59:40. | |
Again, you could see Ouseph making his way to his right. The net play | :59:41. | :59:52. | |
is always critical in men's singles. The trouble is, when you lift a way | :59:53. | :00:10. | |
to this man, he has been venomous overhead so far. | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
Really getting stuck in now. This is as difficult as you -- Ouseph might | :00:18. | :00:36. | |
have feared. Well played. He needs to counter. | :00:37. | :01:15. | |
Yeah, very difficult for all who served to work out which way he is | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
going with the smash. It is tricky to read, deceptive. Ouseph just | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
trying to push deep to the forehand to open up the court space, but | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Sugiarto is such a good athlete. This, the best rally of the match. | :01:32. | :02:12. | |
Once again, Sugiarto takes it. Yes, 21-shot rally, and you can see | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
already he has got ninjas speed, Tommy Sugiarto, and he backs it up | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
with very powerful smashes as well, so just a dangerous man, and you can | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
see how he has reached a career high of three in the world. Ouseph has | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
been as high as 11. He gave it so much variety in that last point, but | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
he came out the wrong end. Sugiarto is pushing Ouseph around | :02:35. | :03:04. | |
all corners of the court. Yes, he has got real position, taking the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
time and space away from Rajiv, and that is why he is flustered, he is | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
under time pressure a lot against Sugiarto. | :03:13. | :03:26. | |
Time and time again, that smashes -- smash is counting. It was close for | :03:27. | :03:40. | |
a while, 2-2 at one stage, but now 9-3 four -- for Sugiarto. | :03:41. | :04:10. | |
Yes, very well played, what a gruelling rally, though, for Ouseph, | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
but under pressure time after time. Showing a lot of character, Rajiv, | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
just to hang in, deal with those precision strikes from the | :04:27. | :04:27. | |
Indonesian very effectively. Well, he has challenged this call, | :04:28. | :04:55. | |
but one of the outstanding features of Sugiarto's game, on the evidence | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
what we have seen, is that he is so quick to retrieve some of those | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
clear Xander lifts from Ouseph, get back with explosive movement and | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
takes advantage more often than not. -- clears and lifts. So challenge | :05:10. | :05:23. | |
unsuccessful, then, the call stands. Huge Davis as for British badminton, | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
Langridge and Ellis making it through to the semifinals of the | :05:31. | :05:42. | |
men's doubles, beating Endo and Hayakawa in straight games, the | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
first semifinalist for Britain since 2004. That was Gail Emms and Nathan | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
Robertson. That match will be played tomorrow morning, so a bit of a | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
revival here for Ouseph. So the game getting a little bit more | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
competitive. A run of three points for Rajiv, which delights the | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
audience, I am sure. He is losing concentration at the moment, | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
Sugiarto. Haemorrhaging points very quickly. The lead is just one. | :06:22. | :06:59. | |
What a super rally from Ouseph, five points in a row, 9-9. It was a | :07:00. | :07:11. | |
terrific tight shot here that got the short lived away, and Ouseph | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
punished it. -- short lift. What a gruelling rally, but again it | :07:14. | :08:12. | |
is Ouseph who stays with it, defends well, at tax well, and he is in | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
front. -- attacks. Absolutely brilliant from Ouseph, a lung | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
buster, that one. Well, it seems inconceivable that | :08:24. | :08:38. | |
this would happen, seven points in a row for Rajiv Ouseph, who was being | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
comprehensively outplayed. Something ignited within him, he was | :08:41. | :09:01. | |
able to stay with the big shots, defend well, and then no longer | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
being dictated to. I think that coupled with a slight lapse in | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
concentration from Sugiarto, it had almost been too easy from the start, | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
and he went walkies with his mindset. Some kind of distraction, I | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
don't know, but real credit to Rajiv Ouseph for turning this opening game | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
around against this man who we has never won a single game against in | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
five showings. It would be a terrific day for British badminton | :09:33. | :09:33. | |
if you were able to wriggle away. Well, at last the run of points, | :09:34. | :10:18. | |
whatever it was, stands at eight. And he is playing as if he cannot | :10:19. | :10:57. | |
believe what is happening, Sugiarto. You have to credit Ouseph for his | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
concentration powers and ability to just, well, the stickability, | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
frankly. He is directing most of this traffic towards the forehand of | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
the Indonesian. Well, there, finally, the run of | :11:12. | :11:32. | |
points come to an end after nine successive points for the Brit. | :11:33. | :11:50. | |
And one of the standout features from the first half of the game, if | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
you like, is the fact that the Indonesian, Sugiarto, is power | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
smashing time and again, but not so now, he has been denied that. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Playing a lot of tight net shots, keeping the shuttle lower more | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
regularly. Again, Sugiarto is looking for the shuttle to come to | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
his forehand, totally nonplussed, and now it is a five-point lead for | :12:20. | :12:29. | |
Rajiv Ouseph. I remember at one stage Sugiarto led by six. It has | :12:30. | :12:39. | |
been quite a miraculous turnaround, hasn't it? But can you put this game | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
to bed? Well, it shows the lack of | :12:42. | :13:04. | |
concentration going on here. Just desperate to sort of callable any | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
way he can, he sort of over prisoners, snatchers at that one. -- | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
draw level. He looked so rhythmic earlier on, not any longer, he has | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
really been put out of his stride. And that one was way wide. Well, he | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
has decided to go with the aggressive legs as well, trying to | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
rush Ouseph by closing down the net quickly, but Ouseph has all the | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
answers. Writes and there is almost a | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
nonchalance and a lackadaisical feel to this man at the moment. Well, he | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
is mentally out of it, it seems. He was 9-3 down? Yeah, it might have | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
even been 9-2, possibly. Didn't he get out of danger well | :14:00. | :14:32. | |
there? That is how good he is, how dangerous he is, but we haven't seen | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
much of that since the early stages of the game. Ouseph still three | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
points away from his first ever win of a game against Sugiarto. | :14:43. | :15:00. | |
You can see, he wasn't that bothered! One seesaw Ouseph reach up | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
for the smash, he gave it away. -- once he saw. Two points from the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
opening game. So seven game points for Rajiv | :15:13. | :15:26. | |
Ouseph. That wasn't a great effort from | :15:27. | :15:54. | |
Tommy Sugiarto. We will expect more from him in the second game. But | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
credit to Ouseph, he turned it around. It was almost an implosion, | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
like Sugiarto was too cool for school. Very unusual. This is the | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
Olympic Games. I am sure he will want to put his best foot forward | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
now. He is a controversial character in Indonesia. His father won the | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
world title in 1983, and he himself has had differences of opinion with | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
the badminton Association in Indonesia. In the end, he withdrew | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
from the national squad in January of 2015, saying he wasn't getting | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
enough is no attention, and he was out for a year. But obviously, the | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
law of the Olympics made them kiss and make up and he was selected | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
again this February for the Asian Championships, got a quarterfinal | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
place and here he is in the Olympics. Yes, it is a strange draw. | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
He is a complex man. We saw it all in that opening game. Utter | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
brilliance for the first four minutes, and then nothing much else. | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
He has got to get his act together, otherwise this will be the winner of | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
Rajiv Ouseph's career. Couldn't agree more. Ouseph has shown real | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
discipline, focus on attitude and application. Julian Robertson will | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
have studied the video footage of Sugiarto. They will have done their | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
homework. Everything is going swimmingly for the man in red. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
Biggest occasion for him, runner-up in the European Championships in | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
Kazan a couple of years ago. And in the Olympics in London, he was out | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
in the group stages. Here, he is through his group and here's a game | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
away from the quarterfinal. So it will be Ouseph to begin. | :17:55. | :18:11. | |
You imagine that if this man can accelerate away with a decent start, | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
you might see Sugiarto getting disinterested again. But suddenly, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
his interest is piqued and he is off to a flyer. | :18:24. | :18:52. | |
No challenge. Must have been very close indeed. | :18:53. | :19:18. | |
There is a renewed physical and mental application now from | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
Sugiarto. The job for Ouseph is to stay with | :19:22. | :19:36. | |
him. We saw the mental fragility in the opening game. It may reappear. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
Unlikely, but you never know. Way wide. It has taken him 11 games | :19:42. | :20:01. | |
and five and a half matches to win his first game against Sugiarto, so | :20:02. | :20:02. | |
why not a second? There is no doubting his talent, but | :20:03. | :20:22. | |
the state of mind is a little wishy-washy and flaky at the moment. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Rajiv is desperately trying to stay in touch here and turn this second | :20:29. | :20:41. | |
game around. Sugiarto opening up a 3-point cushion. | :20:42. | :21:01. | |
This is the kind of form we saw in the opening game. There has to be a | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
precision from Ouseph, otherwise they get punished by this terrific | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
athlete. Fantastic athleticism from Sugiarto. | :21:10. | :21:37. | |
But it didn't amount to anything. Just when you thought he was back to | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
his bullying best, it was a great cross net shot, but he didn't back | :21:44. | :21:44. | |
it up. Great sleight of hand earlier on | :21:45. | :22:03. | |
with that crosscourt from Ouseph. And he is still within two, staying | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
in touch in the second game. He is such a great man to watch when he | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
plays those really high-level skill shots. He makes the difficult look | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
so easy, gliding around the court. There is a silky smoothness to the | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
performer in red. As indeed, there is with this man, but he is a little | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
patchy, in and out. A rather irritated expression from | :22:23. | :22:46. | |
Sugiarto. Just too quick. It is a bullying | :22:47. | :23:24. | |
body smash. Right at the pocket of Ouseph. | :23:25. | :23:57. | |
He is doing well to stay with him. Some gorgeous body fakes from the | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Indonesian. Some sleight of hand from both men. | :24:04. | :24:34. | |
Oh, how quick he was to close on that. What an athlete. Ouseph is | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
looking really composed. He has lost matches in the past that some feel | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
he should have won. But he is rhythmic and cool as you like here. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
And he is happy to extend the rallies. It has obviously been a | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
talking point, to try and almost bore Sugiarto. His concentration can | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
suddenly switch off. He has been very diligent in that regard, Rajiv. | :25:08. | :25:30. | |
Often, the coaches pick up on something that perhaps the players | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
can't, because they have been so embroiled with the point unfolding. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
The precision has come back to Sugiarto's game suddenly. Wonderful | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
smash across the shuttle. At the mid-game break, everything is | :25:47. | :26:18. | |
looking shipshape for Tommy Sugiarto. Can he keep it going? | :26:19. | :26:31. | |
He looks kind of world-weary at times, doesn't he? He has heard it | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
all before. You get the feeling he is very much his own man. Moments of | :26:40. | :26:51. | |
utter brilliance from Tommy Sugiarto in the early stages of the second | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
game. Has the bubble burst for Ouseph? Or | :26:54. | :27:17. | |
can he get back into this second game? He is working extremely hard | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
to try and do so, contain this man in white who is such a rich talent. | :27:23. | :27:44. | |
He sometimes wants to finish off the rallies a bit too early, the | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
Indonesian. What it in? I didn't hear a call, | :27:48. | :28:52. | |
but it is noisy. Interesting that Sugiarto was very content to rally, | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
not bothered about the length of the rally. And renewed physical | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
intensity to that approach as well. He has got the bit between his teeth | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
now, really engaged with this second game. It has become a pride thing | :29:06. | :29:18. | |
for him. A switch of the point of attack, and Sugiarto not able to go | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
with it. He is asking for the courts to be swept by the attendant. A few | :29:23. | :29:32. | |
drops of water. It gives him an opportunity to race for the towel | :29:33. | :29:33. | |
quickly. Well played. That was the look of | :29:34. | :30:04. | |
the points we saw in the opening half of the first game. Commanding | :30:05. | :30:12. | |
the points with those strong smashes. | :30:13. | :30:24. | |
Oh, gorgeous shot. Yes, beautiful slice, just calving down the | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
right-hand side. How did he get that out? Immaculate | :30:29. | :30:52. | |
defence, there was a lot of chilly on that smash too! Quite | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
extraordinary, how he extricated himself from that position, total | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
control, back five points in the lead. | :31:01. | :31:10. | |
Now it is all going the Indonesian's way. A terrific sense of calm about | :31:11. | :31:23. | |
Rajiv Ouseph, he never seems to panic, just a few words from the | :31:24. | :31:25. | |
coach behind him. Probing for the opening, but you | :31:26. | :31:44. | |
could see that Sugiarto read him like a book there. Yeah, terrific | :31:45. | :31:53. | |
perception skills and excellent athletic skills as well and close | :31:54. | :32:08. | |
that out. -- to pounce. That crosscourt works a treat, dived by | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
the net. It is Sugiarto by six points. | :32:15. | :32:46. | |
Yes. Being mopped up at the moment, Rajiv Ouseph. Sugiarto seems to have | :32:47. | :32:59. | |
an answer to everything he is producing. | :33:00. | :33:07. | |
The combination of rock-solid defence, terrific intensity, good | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
concentration as well, and power smashing, and he's just having his | :33:15. | :33:15. | |
way, Sugiarto. He has kept buoyant, still trying to | :33:16. | :33:37. | |
get the openings, pouncing when he gets them, but there have been very | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
few opportunities. Really good defence from Ouseph, but | :33:40. | :34:02. | |
once again Sugiarto too good. Darting around the court, | :34:03. | :34:11. | |
gazelle-like fashion. So it has been a masterful | :34:12. | :34:49. | |
exhibition from Sugiarto in the second game, here are eight game | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
points to level up. Missing the reverse slice, spilling | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
into the doubles tramline. Oh, the way it goes, two game points | :35:00. | :35:34. | |
saved, but he has still got a very healthy caution. -- cushion. | :35:35. | :35:46. | |
He finished the second game a very different contender than the one who | :35:47. | :36:01. | |
finished the first. And after 39 minutes, it is one game each. | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
Although British fans will not want to hear this, you feel like Tommy | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
Sugiarto has the match on his racket when he's into it. | :36:13. | :36:37. | |
FASCINATING ADVICE,, we were saying it was in Sugiarto's hands, but he | :36:38. | :37:07. | |
doesn't believe that, he thinks there are just one to alterations | :37:08. | :37:19. | |
that Ouseph can make change it. He is going to expect you to go, and | :37:20. | :37:31. | |
you are not going to go. OK? Right? A very positive spin, better than | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
the other way, that is for sure! They are trying to keep him afloat, | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
but obviously be danger is that the extraordinary talent that Sugiarto | :37:42. | :37:48. | |
showed in that second game, that should prevail. But you never know, | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
he went away in the first game. It will become a real physical and | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
mental encounter now for this man, who has got to extend the points and | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
not be scared to just hang in and work so hard and give this fellow a | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
little bit of time to switch off. With his net game, he has got to get | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
to the shuttle a little bit earlier. He was giving his opponent time to | :38:14. | :38:20. | |
pounce. So Sugiarto begins this deciding game. An emphatic start to | :38:21. | :38:29. | |
game number three, as there was at the end of game number two. | :38:30. | :38:41. | |
It is fascinating how the coaches were saying that, those Rusev really | :38:42. | :38:52. | |
feel it is in his hands? Or does he feel a little bit in all of this | :38:53. | :39:00. | |
kind of shotmaking? -- Ouseph. Sugiarto really has the facility to | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
rush Rajiv Ouseph at times. A massive rally, but it goes the | :39:03. | :39:49. | |
same way as the first two. Suddenly, you sensed Sugiarto is | :39:50. | :40:24. | |
really engaged and into this. It is almost as if what went on in the | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
first game, whatever happens, if I lose this game in a rush, I will | :40:29. | :40:34. | |
win. It looks like he might be right. Still early stages. Well | :40:35. | :40:37. | |
played. There is some quickness, some power | :40:38. | :40:46. | |
there. Well, he had it, he had Sugiarto | :40:47. | :41:09. | |
scrambling in the front court, the gap was there. | :41:10. | :41:39. | |
Yes, really good. A lot of the skies, didn't know which way he was | :41:40. | :41:47. | |
going, and despite that marathon rally, what was it, 49 strokes? | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
Still smooth is Ouseph, still dangerous. | :41:55. | :42:04. | |
And keeping it tight. He is doing well, injecting a lot of pace into | :42:05. | :42:14. | |
the smashers, Ouseph, and that is where Sugiarto was scoring so richly | :42:15. | :42:22. | |
at the start of the match himself. Oh! Another string gone. Fortunate | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
that he did not have to play another shot. The players will all be | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
carrying between eight and 12 rackets in their bag anyway, so | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
plenty left. There is an army of string is, of course, behind the | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
scenes in an event of this stature. -- stringers. Yes, careless. Ouseph | :42:46. | :43:01. | |
just a point away. Yes. Fabulous shot. Yeah, | :43:02. | :43:20. | |
anti-ratchet up the explosiveness and the movement, aggressive legs, | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
get behind the shuttle well. -- and he ratchets up. | :43:25. | :43:37. | |
He has lied and agile, but he is as strong as an ox, Ouseph. -- he is | :43:38. | :44:00. | |
lithe. He's doing very, very well to stay with Sugiarto at this stage. | :44:01. | :44:42. | |
They both look so silky smooth, but it is Ouseph of Great Britain who | :44:43. | :44:50. | |
was making his move at the moment. Delightful shot there, just so tight | :44:51. | :44:51. | |
to the net. Just out. Ouseph is reading him very | :44:52. | :45:22. | |
well at the moment. Yes, he has got the patterns of play down to 80, he | :45:23. | :45:29. | |
is a millisecond ahead now, Ouseph, and that is all important at this | :45:30. | :45:30. | |
highest level. This is a very sudden change around. | :45:31. | :45:57. | |
Of course, they are playing for the last quarterfinal berth, these two. | :45:58. | :46:07. | |
Yes, on an adjoining court, the number four seed from Denmark played | :46:08. | :46:15. | |
against the Irish competitor. A fine performance from the big Dane, | :46:16. | :46:22. | |
21-16, 20 1-12. The winner will play axel some on Wednesday. | :46:23. | :46:38. | |
You just don't know which way he is going to go. No, he is so deceptive | :46:39. | :46:50. | |
and so powerful. He is a man of extraordinary talent. | :46:51. | :47:09. | |
Beautifully controlled. Using his aggressive legs to take the shuttle | :47:10. | :47:19. | |
as high as he can. Asks permission to towel down, and | :47:20. | :47:31. | |
gets it. Fantastic skill from both guys. But | :47:32. | :48:15. | |
again, the smash proves the difference. When he gets the | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
opportunity to smash, he is winning the point. Yes, he has a lot of | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
precision of directional control, with a lot of speed as well, | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
Sugiarto. Very dangerous overhead. The time pressure is starting to | :48:29. | :49:01. | |
increase on this man now. He is being rushed more often than not. | :49:02. | :49:34. | |
Tommy Sugiarto driving the point now, taking ownership of this. When | :49:35. | :49:41. | |
you watch the difference in physicality, you see Rajiv just a | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
bit slower than Sugiarto, who is motoring along and really putting in | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
the hard yards with a bit more foot speed. And it is giving him the | :49:51. | :49:58. | |
initiative to take the lead. A wonderful slow-mo shot, showing | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
exactly how tight he hits it at the net. So they change around. Can | :50:03. | :50:11. | |
Ouseph call him back? We have seen the aberrations from | :50:12. | :50:23. | |
Sugiarto. It is going to need some for it to turn. But Ouseph is doing | :50:24. | :50:30. | |
everything he can. Absolutely. He is giving his utmost. He is | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
lion-hearted, we know that. This is a tough man not just to stay with, | :50:35. | :50:36. | |
but to contain. Both the men have been playing | :50:37. | :50:56. | |
top-class international badminton for a decade now. But this is heady | :50:57. | :51:07. | |
heights for both of them, even for Sugiarto, who has been as high as | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
three in the world. He was a bronze medallist in the World Championships | :51:12. | :51:14. | |
a couple of years ago. This is a huge match for him. Has he got what | :51:15. | :51:25. | |
it takes to finish it? The opportunity was there for Ouseph. | :51:26. | :51:47. | |
Well played. Looked as if he was off balance, but beautiful control to | :51:48. | :51:54. | |
bring it down. Very much so. Considering he has been under so | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
much physical pressure of late, that was wonderful from Ouseph. | :51:59. | :52:28. | |
Just missed. He is going to challenge. Looked very close to the | :52:29. | :52:40. | |
line. He hit the off smash really well, but I am going with slightly | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
out here. Very close either way, that's for sure. A key point in this | :52:46. | :53:02. | |
deciding game. Out it was. First challenge of the match. Or maybe | :53:03. | :53:14. | |
second, actually. He is allowed another. Two in each game. Missing | :53:15. | :53:27. | |
his chances, I'm afraid, Ouseph. It is a shame. He struck it | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
beautifully, but just a half centimetre higher, and he would have | :53:32. | :53:33. | |
found his mark. Really taking the initiative, the | :53:34. | :54:00. | |
Brit. Still just two points adrift. He was taking the law into his own | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
hands there. There was a lot of pop on that last smash. Brilliantly | :54:05. | :54:05. | |
played from Ouseph. Now it is getting tight. The coaches | :54:06. | :54:30. | |
were saying to Ouseph, keep it close and he may go. | :54:31. | :55:02. | |
Brilliant, got onto that smash and powered it away. He is on top at the | :55:03. | :55:12. | |
moment. He has missed a couple of shots, but he is doing mighty well. | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
There is no longer the domination that Sugiarto had in the second game | :55:18. | :55:25. | |
and for much of the first. There is a real chance for Ouseph here if he | :55:26. | :55:26. | |
can keep this going. Terrific back-to-back smash put | :55:27. | :55:42. | |
aways. That will boy his confidence. Sugiarto is not the force he was. | :55:43. | :55:54. | |
Can he refind the mastery? On the line. It looks as if there is a | :55:55. | :56:10. | |
challenge here. I think that is OK. Worth a challenge, though. In this | :56:11. | :56:18. | |
critical period in the match, you can understand why he's going for | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
it. He has such a relaxed demeanour, Rajiv Ouseph. So calm. But he is | :56:23. | :56:33. | |
going to need to bring his best right now to come out of the right | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
side of this. We have seen a couple of wonderful smash put aways. Taking | :56:39. | :56:47. | |
a long time to get this review up. It is frustrating for the players, | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
as they lose rhythm. Frustrating for the crowd. Just got the line, wow. A | :56:53. | :57:05. | |
little bit lucky. But the coaches are right. It is on | :57:06. | :57:37. | |
his racket now. It didn't seem as if it was going to be that way. Playing | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
brilliantly now. Look how tight that was. It seemed as if that was going | :57:43. | :57:52. | |
to rest on the top of the net. Nice idea, just caught it a little | :57:53. | :58:10. | |
late. Credit to Sugiarto. That was a brilliantly played point. | :58:11. | :58:45. | |
Comfortably wide. And the brilliance of Sugiarto is not holding sway any | :58:46. | :58:55. | |
more. He has tried his utmost to rush Ouseph into error, but of | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
course, he is being denied. Rajiv has played some really solid | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
badminton, and he is yielding nothing cheap. Sugiarto looks a | :59:04. | :59:12. | |
little uneasy at the moment. Ouseph, as ever, seems totally calm. | :59:13. | :59:25. | |
It's in. Another challenge, and another important one. Challenges | :59:26. | :59:38. | |
coming thick and fast now. Well, thick. Maybe not fast. It is tough | :59:39. | :59:43. | |
to conclude whether that hit the edge or not. Very close. Brave to | :59:44. | :59:50. | |
put your neck on the line. You're right, well done. | :59:51. | :00:12. | |
Ouseph is edging tantalisingly close to the quarterfinals. Just needs a | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
cool head now, and it looks like he's got it. | :00:20. | :00:38. | |
Brilliant, we've been looking for that power on the smash for quite a | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
while, and it does come in timely fashion at the back end of this | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
game. Yes, right in at the right hip, he is two points away from the | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
quarterfinal of the Olympic Games. Again, it is Ouseph who is taking | :00:55. | :01:30. | |
the initiative, and here are five match points for the number 13 seed | :01:31. | :01:31. | |
from Great Britain. Well, didn't he strike it well? Such | :01:32. | :01:51. | |
a positive smash. It was only a couple of inches out! Still time, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
still four match points. Yes! What a way to finish it! Rajiv | :01:56. | :02:39. | |
Ouseph from Hounslow makes it through to the quarterfinal of the | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
Olympics. It has been a magical day for British badminton. Chris | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Langridge and Marcus Ellis through to the semifinals in the men's | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
doubles, and now this fella, Rajiv Ouseph, who most people think has | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
underperformed in his career. He hasn't today. It is a heady win for | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
him, zero from five going into this one, but what a turnaround, so | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
strong mentally and physically, just spiked up a little bit more power on | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
that smash in timely fashion at the back end of that deciding game. | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
Superb for British badminton. What a performance from Rajiv Ouseph, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
brilliant stuff, let's show you the draw for the men's singles | :03:31. | :03:31. | |
quarterfinals. If you want to know more about Mr | :03:32. | :03:47. | |
Axelsen, he is the current European champion. Let's find out what he | :03:48. | :03:59. | |
thought of it. Rajiv, I know you are disappointed to go out in the group | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
stages in London, how pleased you with your performance? I am | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
ecstatic, to be honest, I didn't expect to win that game, I knew I | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
was playing well, training well, just started working really hard, | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
and it has really paid off. Have you changed a thing in the preparation | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
to this Olympics that would have been different for London? I'm not | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
sure, I think I just learned from my experience, it was high pressure, | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
being a home Games, but being four years old has really helped me, and | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
I have used that experience positively, I think, and long may it | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
continue! Not an easy matchup next, the fourth seed, but at this point | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
there are not going to be any easy matches. No, exactly, and he is a | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
great player, he has been playing well. I be demonstrably long time | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
ago, he is a quality player, I will give it my best. -- I beat him a | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
long time ago. I know you have said on social media how pleased you are | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
with the support, how much has it helped you? Even the Indonesian | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
fans, the cheering really spurs you and, great atmosphere and here, it | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
is like a party atmosphere, hopefully it continues to the next | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
round. And what will you do before then? Chill out, I think the boys | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
have got their what the final, I will support them, just prepare for | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
the next game. A great win by Marcus and Chris, how much did that inspire | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
you? Exactly, it is tough being two runs behind them, everyone thinks I | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
am in the same round! They really spurred me on today, hopefully we | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
can do that to each other. Congratulations, get some rest, see | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
you soon. Just a reminder that the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
quarterfinal is Wednesday. We are dripping here, the water has finally | :05:57. | :06:08. | |
broken through! Wednesday at 2:30. We will get Ore and a headlock... | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Hasn't stopped? Make sure that he shows you a bit of that on Wednesday | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
on BBC Four. All of it, not a bit of it, the whole thing! Loads of you | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
are getting in contact on social media, he is over that site now, | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
telling us that you spotted Antony Worrall Thompson circuit training. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
He is trying to throw us off the scent by wearing a different top to | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
normal. His usual green number, he has gone for a great number today. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
The sad news is, we try to have a chat with him, his name is Rafael, | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
or he claims it is! And he doesn't speak a word of English. Which is | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
really disappointing. He is off again, and the rain is really | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
pelting down at Copacabana. Look at that, magnificent movement from | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Rafael on Copacabana Beach. I promised you we would try to have a | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
word, but he is avoiding us, enjoying his training. We will bring | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
you a bin man update later, I know a lot of you are interested in the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
nightly Bindra. The big news is they came early, but don't panic! -- Ben | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
Trott. I was going to promise live be in action, but we recorded it | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
earlier, we will show you with later! | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
But let's catch up with the hockey, can I borrow that issue? Sorry, it | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
is everywhere. We were showing you earlier on Team GB were taking an | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
Spain, it was 3-0 up before we let the game go over to BBC One at that | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
time, they were playing their quarterfinals, so for a place in the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
quarterfinals, taking on the Spanish side, so this is the rest of the | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
action from that second half. A fantastic goal by Oliva, the | :07:57. | :08:19. | |
number 23! Great Britain 3, Spain 1. She is the danger player, normally | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
she plays the free player, like Laura Unsworth, but she beats Maddie | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Hinch on any opposed, she will be disappointed with that, no doubt | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
about it. Possible lifeline for Spain, definitely disappointing from | :08:35. | :08:35. | |
the GB perspective. Brilliant stuff from Team GB, six | :08:36. | :08:48. | |
matches played so far at the Rio Olympics, they won all five in the | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
pool stage, and now they have won the quarterfinal. This is what | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
happens going forward. They will take on New Zealand in the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
semifinals. In the other quarterfinals, Germany beat the USA, | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
New Zealand saw off Australia, and one more quarterfinal later on, we | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
will show you that live in about 20 minutes, Netherlands taking on | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Argentina, and the Netherlands are the current Olympic champions. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Reaction to that Team GB win, Katherine Downes spoke to the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
captain and Sophie Bray. Sophie Bray and Kate Richardson-Walsh, you must | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
be very chuffed, 3-1, through to the semifinal. Relieved, Spain have had | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
a brilliant tournament, we have played them I don't know how many | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
times in the last year! We knew each other's game, it was just about who | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
could capitalise. The old cliche, a game of two halves, you put them out | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
of it in the first half, but you let them back in in the second. We like | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
to give Danny Ings part-time in the stands! They are a good side, and | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
they are... I am really proud of how the girls, how resilient we are, we | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
stuck to the task and saw the game out. Sophie, your first Olympics, | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
you had a belter of a match, you must be really enjoying it. Yeah, it | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
is fantastic, to get to the semifinals, I can't wait to get out. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
Best of luck, back to New Zealand, you beat New Zealand for the bronze | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
medal in London, that emotional bronze medal, and it is back with | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
them, in the semifinals. What do think that is going to be like? It | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
will be a tough game, any semifinal will be tough, so we know what New | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
Zealand have, they are a fantastic counterattacking side, we just need | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
to insert our game and dominate them from start to finish. It will be a | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
great game. Potentially more at stake this time, can you feel the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
pressure ramping up? I don't think we'd feel pressure or expectation, | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
we believe, just one game at a time, we are so focused we don't get too | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
far ahead of ourselves. Thank you. And, best of luck. | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
So on they go to take on New Zealand in the semifinals, that other | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
quarterfinal is coming up next. I know it has just gone past midnight, | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
it is 11 minutes past eight in Rio, and earlier today we were showing | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
you some of the best action from the preliminaries of the springboard | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
involving Jack Laugher, who won gold in the sink Rose springboard with | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Chris Meares, that seems like an awful long time ago now! And also | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Freddie Woodward was involved, here are their best dives. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Now onto Freddie Woodward of the city of Sheffield and Great Britain, | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
inward two and a half somersaults with pike, opening dive for Freddie. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Fantastic dive from Freddie, really nice. Tom Owens at home, the City | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
Sheffield, they will be glued to the TV, Freddie is doing a great job in | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
training, let's hope he can continue. This opening dive is | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
spot-on, vertical entry, hardly any splash. Freddie Woodward. | :12:23. | :12:44. | |
Poll, tremendous dive from Jack! Yes, nine!, please, judges! This is | :12:45. | :12:56. | |
bang on all the way through, unaffected by his first two dives. | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
This is an absolute monster. Close to 90 points on this dive, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
excellent, the dive of the competition so far. Really good, | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
Jack Laugher, getting into the groove now. 88.4, and he has got | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
bigger dives to come in terms of tariff. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
Jack Laugher will do better tomorrow, we hope, 439 is all right, | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
but he needs to do better than that tomorrow. Those are the top ten | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
qualifiers, remember those points do not carry through. Agonising week, | :13:41. | :13:50. | |
19th place, missing out by less than two points, Freddie Woodward of | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Great Britain. That will be 18 up to Zakharov. Plimmer so Jack Laugher | :13:55. | :14:03. | |
has made it through, the semifinal and final takes place tomorrow. The | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
final is at 10pm your time, so if you like to see more diving, we will | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
try to bring you that tomorrow. I promised you an update on the bin | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
men, we usually like to take it live, but they turned up earlier. | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
But we captured it for you, here it is! Some pre-recorded Copacabana | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
binmen, and we found out their names as well, giving as a wave. That is | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Pedro and Alejandro and Raphael and Donatello. Halfway towards the | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Lovely lads, they come every night, always | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
friendly, always doing a great job. And what they do not know is that | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
they have become an important part of our coverage here on BBC Four, so | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
there you go, the Rio Copacabinmen. cool head now, and it looks like | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
he's got it. We have all manner of drips in our | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
BBC Four kiosk! This is the first significant rainfall we have had and | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
in all honesty, the roof is not holding up well. But we are | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
surviving and we will get on with it because we are plenty more live | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
sport to bring you. I reminded you about up three metre springboard | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
final and semifinal. The at ten p.m., your time. Just to bring you | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
up to date, we will bring you the fourth quarter final of the women's | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
final shortly, the Netherlands versus Argentina, in 15 minutes' | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
time. As we bring you up towards that, if you missed some of the | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
action we saw yesterday on day nine of the Olympic Games, at one point | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
in the afternoon there was a gold medal for Team GB every 42 minutes, | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
which is staggering. And we were second in the medal table for a long | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
time, behind the mighty USA and the of China. Andy Murray, the reigning | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
champion from four years ago in London and the current champion, | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
managed to do the business again in an epic final against Juan Martin | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
del Potro of Argentina. COMMENTATOR: So here we go, best of | :16:20. | :16:31. | |
five. 10,000 seater capacity, three quarters. There are a lot here, who | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
have come here to watch Del Potro lose, it has to be said. Death by a | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
thousand cuts, isn't it? The rhythm has gone from Murray. It is for- | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
four. It is all a bit of a fight at the moment. He won what could have | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
been a dangerous game. How quickly a match can change. And there is the | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
set. 7-5. How brave was that of Murray? A huge pass, and Del Potro | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
is back in this. Blow after blow, raining down on them. It is crushing | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
power. Oh, yes, great skill. He has to take the second set, surely. So | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
good. A huge shot from this huge man. Solid start to this third set | :17:30. | :17:42. | |
from Murray. A rocket! No danger to the server so far in set number | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
three. He has got what he wanted. Murray gets the break. Too much for | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
some. Three set points for Andy Murray. Brilliant, Andy Murray is | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
they set away from his second Olympic gold medal. -- a set away. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Difficult to fathom, but it happened. Got the early break in the | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
fourth set. Gorgeous, a mouthwatering shops to break back | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
from Andy Murray. -- a mouthwatering shot. Del Potro gets three | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
successive breaks. The torture is increasing on Del Potro. Murray | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
moves in front and is fourth set for the third time. And out of nowhere, | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
Del Potro breaks once more. What I lie Hart hears. -- when I am hard he | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
is. I'll! Unreal. This is macho tennis. There is the break back. He | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
is a game away from the gold medal. After four hours exactly, it is the | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
gold medal point. Andy Murray is a double Olympic gold medallist. You | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
have to feel for Del Potro. Could a man have given any more? It has been | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
a fantastic evening. What an effort from Andy Murray that | :19:14. | :19:14. | |
was. He has now returned to the UK, but | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
again, double Olympic champion, the first man to win Olympic | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
back-to-back tennis medals. Thank you for your texts and tweets. They | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
have been flooding in ever since we showed you the bin man update. We | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
have another one here which I wanted to read you. Alice says, hello, Dan, | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
fancy popping round for a cheeky barbecue tomorrow night? Durham is | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
quite close to Scarborough. We are not in Scarborough! People have also | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
suggested Weston-Super-Mare and Whitby! And Grimsby. This is | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
Copacabana. Can we show the big shot which are occasionally Copacabana? I | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
know this doesn't prove it, but there it is. You can see it's | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
reining. We are just at the bottom of that shot on the beautiful | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Copacabana Beach, which curves right the way round. We have another one | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
from Camilla, who says, you are really taking this not missing a | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
moment business to the extreme. Come on, Camilla, the real hashtag was | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
Copacabinmen, you can get that right! Samantha says, I am still | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
waiting for Antony Worrall Thompson to turn up. What do you mean? Where | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
is he? He has gone! He's gone. You have got to be watching all the | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
time. When he is here, we will show him to you, but he was here two | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
minutes ago. You missed him. He has a restaurant business to run! John | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
says, brilliant viewing from day one. From being used Antony Worrall | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
Thompson, # Copacabanter. Thank you for that. John says, how have I only | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
now discovered late-night BBC Four Olympics? Again, where have you | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
been? We have been here since day one and we will continue to show you | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
all the action. We have had some brilliant action. Let me show you | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
this from the build-up to the hockey last night. This was probably one of | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
the most dramatic finishes to any Olympics we have seen so far. We are | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
doing the quarterfinals of the women's hockey tonight. Last night, | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
it was the men's quarterfinals. We join it with two minutes left on the | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
clock, and New Zealand lead Germany... He is back! Before we do | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
that, Worrall Thompson is back. Just there. Raphael, hello! There he is. | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
We've got him. Before the end of the Olympic 's, we are getting him on. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Where were we? Hockey. I got distracted by an Antony Worrall | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Thompson lookalike. New Zealand were leading Germany 2-1, with two | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
minutes left on the clock. COMMENTATOR: New Zealand have got | :22:00. | :22:15. | |
the ball right in the German third. Nick Wilson is going to take it. New | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
Zealand took too long and they are going to get a yellow card! For | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
taking too long. Two of them! One has got a yellow. So Wilson goes | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
off. Just the one card. A yellow for Nick Wilson. So New Zealand play the | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
last minute of the half with ten players. The drama personified. Nine | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
outfield players for New Zealand, in 11 outfield players for Germany. But | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
the ball just wriggles away. So he will not come back on. He is for the | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
entire minute and 15 that is left. This is pressure now. They have been | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
withstanding pressure for the majority of the match, New Zealand. | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
It was almost a danger ball there, but they have taken it quickly. He | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
is saying corner, the other umpire is saying corner. Let's have a look. | :23:26. | :23:45. | |
Lifted into the player. So, New Zealand have used their video | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
referral. Here is a look at it again. It is lifted from the New | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
Zealand stick. It is definitely a penalty corner. It comes from the | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
New Zealand stick onto the body of the New Zealand. Waiting for the | :24:07. | :24:19. | |
decision from Andy Mayor. There is no clear reason to change the | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
decision. That is a penalty corner. If Germany have a penalty corner. To | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
try and get themselves back into the match, to try and keep themselves in | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. This could be the last chance for | :24:36. | :24:53. | |
Germany. Into the back of the net! Germany have saved themselves from | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
2-0 down was that it is two goals from their captain. It sends the | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
German fans into overdrive. New Zealand 40 seconds away from | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
claiming a historic victory. The chance is still there, but it is | :25:12. | :25:19. | |
going to be a lot harder. Do or die, and they are through. The ball goes | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
as quick as lightning. This is what Germany can do. Look at the relief | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
on the faces of the players. They have kept their Rio dream alive. The | :25:35. | :25:47. | |
match gets back under way. Both goals came from penalty corners. | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
Moritz Furste saved his team. No extra time. Stricter penalties. -- | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
straight to penalties. Now Germany are breaking out here. Only eight | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
seconds to go, surely that is not enough time for them to get forward. | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Drilled in! With a second that the half left, Germany are in the | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
semifinals in unbelievably dramatic fashion! | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
DAN WALKER: that is truly incredible, isn't it? Well worth | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
watching again. New Zealand in control. Just 40 seconds left on the | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
clock, and they were still 2-1 up. The Germans equalised and then, with | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
one second left on the match clock, they make it 3-2. Germany go on into | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
the semifinals. Germany will take on Argentina in that semifinal at four | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
o'clock tomorrow, your time in the UK. We will try and bring you a bit | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
of that. You can see that the Kiwis were not happy. Devastated. You must | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
be broken when you think, we are into the semifinals, we have a good | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
chance of a medal. We have a great side. 40 seconds left, we can't | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
lose, and they concede two goals in those 40 seconds. The Germans go | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
through. The other semifinal in the men's draw sees Belgium take on the | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Netherlands at nine p.m.. Talking of the Netherlands, that is where we | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
take you now for the fourth women's quarterfinal. I told you it was a | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
bad night in Rio. You can see how all for the weather is. It is windy | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
and raining. These are testing conditions for these hockey stars. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
We have the Netherlands, who are the reigning Olympic champions, taking | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
on Argentina. After the anthems on a Seth Bennett and Aaron Murphy will | :27:51. | :27:51. | |
talk you through this one. COMMENTATOR: Spine tingling stuff. | :27:52. | :28:29. | |
The emotion, and how they belt out the anthem. But will this finally be | :28:30. | :28:38. | |
the year for Argentina? So close before, but yet to ever get their | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
hands on an Olympic gold medal. They may feel that this could be the gold | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
medal game and should be the gold medal game. For them, it could prove | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
to be just that. A huge hurdle to get over in the Netherlands, a side | :28:54. | :29:00. | |
blessed with so much talent, a side that can take the game away from you | :29:01. | :29:09. | |
in any area. But for Argentina, it will be about their front three. | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
That will be the thing that Alison Hammond will have been most | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
concerned about. Well, they won the gold real bad, but to be a champion, | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
you have do not the champion. The Netherlands have two medals from | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
Beijing and London. This is a formidable side. Coach Gabriel | :29:30. | :29:43. | |
Minadeo played in the Seoul Olympics. The official is very | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
experienced. She will be joined by the Belgian umpire. That is an | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
umpire who has been fast tracked through. She has all the credentials | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
to go to the top level. She has had a very good tournament so far. Still | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
a good player, but here doing something different. Huge game, the | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
Netherlands against Argentina. Carla Rebecchi gets the game under | :30:11. | :30:23. | |
way, terrific atmosphere here in Deodoro at the Olympic hockey | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
stadium, the worst conditions of the tournament so far, driving rain, | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
gusty wind as well. These two teams have battled so many times in so | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
many big games, and it will be a case of wondering who will adjust | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
fastest. Van Male will put this one in, well controlled by Habif, | :30:47. | :30:54. | |
eventually deflected out of the way. Jonker was lurking. And Argentina | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
will get a chance to play out. When you talk about the conditions, | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
blustery, wet, cooler than we have experienced that Deodoro Hockey | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
Centre, and will substitutions and the use of the bench be something | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
that will be a factor? Argentina have used hardly any subs, but the | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
Netherlands have used 300 through five games, so the head coach is not | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
afraid to use bench early and often. 40th meeting between these two, | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
Argentina have won 11, 12 draws, 16 for the Netherlands. That was | :31:34. | :31:34. | |
dangerously high. They are wrapped up to try to save | :31:35. | :31:46. | |
themselves from the elements, but they are not going to be quiet, | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
those Argentina fans, some of them making the 36 hour car ride from | :31:52. | :31:53. | |
Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro. Free hit to the Netherlands. In the | :31:54. | :32:15. | |
midfield area. An opportunity to try to turn with the ball, the | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
challenges penalised, taken very quickly indeed. We are eventually | :32:19. | :32:31. | |
going to see a green card here. The protests are absolutely dismissed by | :32:32. | :32:39. | |
Habif. She will survey two minute suspension and the Netherlands will | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
get their first opportunity to really attack in this game. The rain | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
is absolutely pouring down here. You made a good point earlier, may be | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
about Argentina not liking their round-robin play, as we look at | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
Habif on the penalty chair, but sometimes it is better to have a | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
weak games in the pool stages as opposed to when you come up against | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
the Netherlands in a knockout game. Interesting to see if they can use | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
some of that to knock off the defending two time champions. It is | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
raining sideways right now! The playing surface for the moment is | :33:17. | :33:23. | |
OK, no big dramas right now. The ball is brought forward by the | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
Netherlands. They will try to bring this past the 23 metres line. | :33:30. | :33:40. | |
The Netherlands considering making more changes here, as they do attack | :33:41. | :33:49. | |
the circle, this is good play, neatly sent in and deflected over | :33:50. | :33:58. | |
the top by Jonker. The coach rotating her troops already. It is | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
that use of the substitutes bench that could be a factor, it is | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
getting cool, it is very windy, left-to-right, so that is a factor | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
for Argentina as this rain goes sideways, not dampening the spirits | :34:15. | :34:15. | |
of the crowd at all. So skilful, she is isolated, | :34:16. | :34:39. | |
Granatto, she battles away, eventually comes off Joe Ford. | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
Incredible player, so good with the ball and the stick. Two goals | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
already for her, and you see the running ability on the ball, | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
attacking the Dutch defence. She will be swept up, but given away | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
now, a real chance, what an opportunity, first goal of this game | :35:01. | :35:09. | |
goes the way of the Netherlands! And the Netherlands have the lead here | :35:10. | :35:16. | |
in the Olympic quarterfinals. A shade under four and a half minutes | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
in, and the Netherlands find the net. Argentina have a chance to | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
corral that loose ball, and Jonker capitalises, gets it to Welten, and | :35:28. | :35:35. | |
Welten forces it through Succi. The second goal of the tournament for | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
Welten gives the two time defending champions their opening tally that | :35:41. | :35:48. | |
they so desperately wanted. And in these conditions, that is a point, I | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
mean, as the game goes on in these conditions, it is going to be harder | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
to see the ball, the pitch will get more waterlogged, passes will be | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
slower, so that early goal is essential for the Netherlands the | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
four conditions perhaps get even worse. Yeah, water beginning to pool | :36:06. | :36:17. | |
around the pitch. -- before the conditions perhaps get even worse. | :36:18. | :36:29. | |
Well, in the last six meetings between these two size, the team | :36:30. | :36:37. | |
scoring first has won in five of them, so the Netherlands may take | :36:38. | :36:46. | |
that. Van As lays the ball off, now the Netherlands will try to work | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
this one around, they have time and space, no big pressure from | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
Argentina right now. Paumen sends it forward, collected neatly in the | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
midfield. There is Dirkse van den Heuvel, now Van As, great turn. | :37:03. | :37:12. | |
Again, pushed forward with that, another decision which goes against | :37:13. | :37:21. | |
Argentina. Naomi Van As will leave this one this time, though, and Van | :37:22. | :37:28. | |
Geffen will move the ball forward. It is intercepted. Merino doing | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
really well, options head of her. Then she is muscled off the ball, a | :37:35. | :37:42. | |
shove in the back, penalised. Keetels was the aggressor. It is off | :37:43. | :37:55. | |
the foot there of Bos. Now Merino sends it in low, it takes a big | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
deflection, surely. Well, Argentina, it must have just been stick at the | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
last second. We can have a look here at some aggressive play as Argentina | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
look for the equaliser, you can see how wet it is, the Sabata coming off | :38:12. | :38:19. | |
the pitch. But talk about big-game players, Welten has two Olympic gold | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
medals in trophy cabinet, the former world Player of the Year in 2015, | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
known as a big-game player, and a big-game goal from Welten to give | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
the Netherlands a 1-0 lead in the driving wind and rain in Deodoro. | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
Dirkse van den Heuvel, nice play by Van As, she takes possession back | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
again. Very tall player, smooth across the surface. Elegant | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
distribution as well. Intercepted. Good read of the play | :38:53. | :39:12. | |
there by Habif. Nice spin from Merino, but the ball just holding up | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
and then rolling away from her as she was turning. And it allows the | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
Netherlands to come back in, and they can break with a bit more speed | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
here, into the circle they go, good chance, the Argentine was in the | :39:26. | :39:33. | |
way, Barrionuevo nearly put it into her own net. The driving cross | :39:34. | :39:43. | |
required the defensive presence Barrionuevo to keep that out of | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
harm's way for Argentina. It catches her foot, as she drives hard towards | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
the line. Nine minutes gone, Netherlands | :39:51. | :40:05. | |
Lemoine, Argentina 0. Welten's second goal of Rio 2016, a highlight | :40:06. | :40:16. | |
reel goal, exactly what you would expect in this appearance. Look at | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
the steps of the players as they try to sprint, losing their wedding, | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
water spattering off page 1 at Deodoro Hockey Centre, and this is | :40:29. | :40:31. | |
without a doubt the toughest conditions on either side of the | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
men's or women's draw thus far in Rio. V did well to get that. The | :40:37. | :40:43. | |
Netherlands able to force this one away. -- Albertarrio. And now they | :40:44. | :40:51. | |
will build from the halfway line, just two victories through the group | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
stage for Argentina, and they came in with such high expectations. This | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
being a South American Olympics, they felt this would be the one | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
where, all of a sudden, they would be able to get that first ever | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
medal. It won't be easy, the Netherlands conceded just one goal | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
in the pool stage, and when you are giving up just one goal in five | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
games, you are a tough team to play, a confident group. Another big point | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
for Argentina against the Netherlands is that the Netherlands | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
have had 14 penalty corners against and they have yet to concede a | :41:25. | :41:32. | |
penalty corner goal. When I say first medal, I mean first gold | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
medal, just to clarify. They have been in the final before, they have | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
got so close but never taken home the big one. Silver in London | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
against this Netherlands team, they have a bit of history, so this is a | :41:43. | :41:49. | |
classic quarterfinal. Ball stolen from Rebecchi, Van Male bringing the | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
ball away one-handed, trying to use her range, takes it out of play, who | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
wing span just a little too wide for the playing surface on this | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
occasion. Julia Gomes restarts. Given it back by Barrionuevo, Julia | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
Gomes builds this one. The passes easily cut out ahead of | :42:09. | :42:29. | |
Albertarrio. Aguirre busy in midfield, finds Barrionuevo, two on | :42:30. | :42:38. | |
one. Given a penalty corner, spotted by the South African umpire. Well, | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
is it a penalty corner, that is the question, she pointed as if it was? | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
I think she is having the conversation, she wanted to be a | :42:53. | :42:59. | |
free hit, but magnificent skills by Albertarrio. Well, for the moment, | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
it looked like Argentina would have a way back into the game, but with | :43:05. | :43:07. | |
three minutes remaining in this first quarter, it is the dad should | :43:08. | :43:17. | |
try to clear away. You can see the difficulty for Albertarrio, it is | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
slippery, it is wet, there are similar skills that you might be | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
able to employ on a clear day, but you might have to keep it simple | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
here. It will make it difficult for defenders as well, trying to get | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
them moving from side to side. Van As plays it forward, the defensive | :43:41. | :43:52. | |
cover is strong but illegal. Van As will try to put this one into the | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
circle, it is sent away, Argentina will get the free hit. | :43:57. | :44:07. | |
Aerial ball, pretty dangerous stuff, and easy turnover of possession, the | :44:08. | :44:15. | |
Netherlands take it quickly. A bit of defensive play by Habif, getting | :44:16. | :44:23. | |
the stick right in a way of the ball before it crashed into her legs. | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
Some essential defensive play, you do not want to go down 2-0 if you | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
are Argentina, especially in these conditions. The Netherlands know | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
that, they are working hard, trying to find an insurance mark-up. Long | :44:37. | :44:48. | |
corner. -- Marco. The Netherlands want to take this, they will get | :44:49. | :44:54. | |
another opportunity now. It is worked wide by the soggy stick of | :44:55. | :45:05. | |
Paumen and out of play. That goal by Welten, especially at that time of | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
the game, was huge, especially as the rain starts to come straight | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
down with no sign of letting up. Her second goal, crucial for the | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
Netherlands. And now they come through again, real danger for | :45:19. | :45:19. | |
Argentina. They are saying they used the wrong | :45:20. | :45:33. | |
side of the stick. This is going to be challenged. Holland looking for | :45:34. | :45:47. | |
the penalty corner. Lisa Roach, the Australian video umpire. It is off | :45:48. | :45:55. | |
the stick right there. It has got to come off the flat side of the stick. | :45:56. | :46:03. | |
This is what is being protested by Van Male. Looks like they will keep | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
the referral. It is the first penalty corner of this contest and | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
it will be to the Netherlands. The fourth referral for the Netherlands | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
in this tournament, and they have got three of them right. They only | :46:17. | :46:20. | |
do it when they have do. It is the veteran leadership of the likes of | :46:21. | :46:32. | |
Paumen. She is a huge threat, standing and waiting. She is an FIH | :46:33. | :46:40. | |
Player of the Year as well from 2011 and 2012, two gold medals around her | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
neck from previous Olympics, a vast wealth of experience for the | :46:46. | :46:46. | |
captain. Another penalty corner. Are they | :46:47. | :47:05. | |
going to lose a defender from the line here? 23 did leave the line | :47:06. | :47:18. | |
early. If you are a Usain Bolt fan, in terms of sprinting, that is a | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
false start and she will not contest this second penalty corner for the | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
Netherlands. So much space for Paumen. She's the best the business. | :47:28. | :47:41. | |
Paumen steps into this one, good save. It goes. | :47:42. | :47:53. | |
With wet pitch, the ball can take all sorts of dives. But the | :47:54. | :48:08. | |
goalie is showing some pedigree write-down. What a frenetic first 15 | :48:09. | :48:18. | |
minutes of this one. DAN WALKER: we shall be back at the | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
hockey shortly. You saw how bad the weather is here. Let me show you | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
Copacabana. These two gentlemen have just stopped by, Emmanuelle and | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
Leonardo. Hi, guys! Emmanuelle has the rain cover on, Leonardo not | :48:32. | :48:41. | |
quite. Enjoy the rest of your night. Two of the binmen earlier were | :48:42. | :48:48. | |
called Donatello and Raphael. We are near the Teenage Mutant Ninja | :48:49. | :48:51. | |
Turtles! We need to find a Michelangelo in Rio, and we are in | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
Rio. Stop sending us tweets about the fact that we are in Britain and | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
just pretending we are in Rio. We are BBC Four, serious broadcasters, | :49:00. | :49:03. | |
and we are here to bring you the headlines from day ten of the | :49:04. | :49:11. | |
Olympic Games. Gold for Charlotte Dujardin in the | :49:12. | :49:14. | |
individual dressage today. She and Valegro, one of the most famous | :49:15. | :49:17. | |
horses in the world, did the business and it meant so much. | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
Silver for Mark Cavendish in the men's omnium tonight. Laura Trott | :49:26. | :49:28. | |
still going strong in the women's version. But Cavendish get his | :49:29. | :49:36. | |
Olympic medal with a silver. Sophie Hitchon picked up a bronze in | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
the hammer. It was Hammer time for Sophie. Her last throw in the | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
competition, broke her own British record. 74.54 metres to win bronze. | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
And today it has been in the badminton. Marcus Ellis and Chris | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
Langridge have been the -- beaten the eighth seeded Japanese pair to | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
reach the semifinals of the badminton men's doubles. And Rajiv | :50:00. | :50:02. | |
Ouseph managed to get into the last eight as well of the singles with a | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
brilliant performance that we brought you live on BBC Four. Over | :50:08. | :50:14. | |
on BBC One right now, in terrible conditions, they need one of | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
Emanuel's rain macs! That is live athletics. We also have table tennis | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
for you on the website and the Red Button. But we are going to continue | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
with the hockey. Back to the Netherlands against Argentina, and | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
back to our commentary team of Seth and Aaron. | :50:33. | :50:40. | |
COMMENTATOR: Came off her knee. That will be an Argentina ball. It has | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
been all Netherlands in the final third. We have not seen much of | :50:46. | :50:48. | |
Argentina, just the one little chance. Here is Rebecchi. | :50:49. | :51:00. | |
That will be a long corner. It is a bit better from Argentina. Yeah, | :51:01. | :51:08. | |
they are not sitting back and letting the Netherlands have their | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
way. They are trying to counter attack. That is important. In the | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
first 15 minutes, they did not have much possession. | :51:17. | :51:36. | |
Anywhere will do for the Netherlands as they send it down the field. Van | :51:37. | :51:49. | |
Male chased her down a lost cause. An interesting moment for Succi. She | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
realised she couldn't get her footing on that wet pitch. Big | :51:53. | :52:00. | |
deflection. The rain definitely had an effect. | :52:01. | :52:22. | |
Let's have a look. You saw Succi in that earlier sequence, trying to | :52:23. | :52:25. | |
shepherd the ball away from harm's way, and nearly fell over. Both | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
goalies will have to think about whether they want to Roman Josi Joe | :52:32. | :52:37. | |
Schmidt 's. With that 1-0 scoreline, a trip or loss of footing could be | :52:38. | :52:49. | |
terrible. When we talk about 3-D skills or the third dimension, it is | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
when they get the ball in the air. There are now allowed to utilise | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
that, one of the recent changes by the FIH. That allows the creative | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
players to work in a completely different way. I saw Marino trying | :53:03. | :53:12. | |
to exploit that earlier -- Delfina Merino. | :53:13. | :53:41. | |
Massive collision. Time is going to be stopped here for the moment. All | :53:42. | :53:54. | |
sorts going on. Both players appeared to be OK. | :53:55. | :54:12. | |
Argentina will have to go backwards again. That was spotted by the | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
umpire. The Netherlands may try and | :54:17. | :54:34. | |
capitalise. Argentina get the get out of jail | :54:35. | :54:53. | |
free card. The Argentina head coach's heart will be in his throat | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
with goalkeeper Succi going for a wander. He still up and started | :54:59. | :55:01. | |
yelling. I think the message was, stay put. But she tumbled again. | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
Look at the pressure from the Netherlands. It is giving Argentina | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
no way out. Habif turned in every direction and each one was a blind | :55:14. | :55:24. | |
alley. This is an opportunity... It goes over the top. | :55:25. | :55:38. | |
Look at the skill from Succi, turning the flat side of the stick | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
over. She looked like she had the angle, but it is about three feet | :55:45. | :55:57. | |
over the bar. Argentina come forward again. They finally have the penalty | :55:58. | :56:06. | |
corner they want. Good linkup play from the two substitutes. The foot | :56:07. | :56:20. | |
is off the right tone. Easy call for the Belgian umpire. First penalty | :56:21. | :56:27. | |
corner for Argentina. Barrionuevo will be the danger. She will sit | :56:28. | :56:40. | |
happily at the top. Habif will inject. | :56:41. | :56:55. | |
There could be a Break the other way, but intercepted. As the whistle | :56:56. | :57:04. | |
is blown, there is somebody down. And seemingly in an awful lot of | :57:05. | :57:15. | |
pain. It might well become boy -- it might be Maria Campoy. Let's see | :57:16. | :57:23. | |
this again. Did she get hit by the first shot? She might have. She's | :57:24. | :57:38. | |
trying to get up and walk it off. She doesn't have many nights when | :57:39. | :57:46. | |
she isn't busy. One of her biggest skills is when the chances come, she | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
remains switched on. As a goalie, you have to be ready. You don't see | :57:53. | :58:07. | |
this too often, a bit of sportsmanship. It is the Olympics, | :58:08. | :58:15. | |
after all. Marvellous stuff between two teams that don't necessarily | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
like each other after the last Olympic final. It will be another | :58:20. | :58:30. | |
penalty corner. It is going to be another penalty corner. Van as may | :58:31. | :58:40. | |
be in some trouble. You see the stick on stick. Intentionally | :58:41. | :58:46. | |
breaking up the play. She knew she was never going to get the ball. It | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
wasn't accidental in the eyes of the umpires. Second penalty corner. | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
Didn't come off as smooth as they would have liked. | :58:56. | :59:08. | |
Overall, I think she wouldn't mind 20%. It is not a terrible return. | :59:09. | :59:31. | |
Naomi van as is impeded. A thankless job as that first | :59:32. | :59:43. | |
runner. The Netherlands, having been on the | :59:44. | :00:09. | |
back foot for the last couple of minutes, are trying to create | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
something here. Argentina are just starting to find their mojo. It was | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
missing, may be dampened by the rain in that first | :00:20. | :00:33. | |
quarter. The surprise of the early goal. The Netherlands are much more | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
active in the first 15 minutes. For Argentina, they have started to run | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
at the Dutch defence, which is a good sign for their head coach. | :00:45. | :00:54. | |
The ball slows, but not enough to give Albertario a chance to scamper | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
after it. The pace has held exceedingly well in trying | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
conditions. Magnificently. One thing, both the men's and women's | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
team say how good the pitches have played. What a break this is. | :01:13. | :01:24. | |
Stepping across, a penalty corner. Habif, a player down injured. It is | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Kitty van Male, she may have got one in the face. She reached to her | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
mouth, you can see there. We will look at this. She is challenged by | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
Habif. Off the stick of Habif, you can see the two coming up into the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
face. She appears to be OK, she will take solace in the fact they have a | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
penalty corner out of that play. Caia van Maasakker and Bos. Naomi | :01:57. | :02:09. | |
van As will inject. Bos, deflects wide, that was really close. A | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
couple of the players thought that was going to lob in there. We saw | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
the deflection. It is let fly by Bos, it deflected in front and here | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
you see, they endured player, Kitty van Male, she is unhappy, she wanted | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
a goal out of that, she took a stick to the mouth for that. The ball is | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
down. Good play. This is a real opportunity. A second goal for the | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Netherlands! Tampon again. Her second goal -- | :02:50. | :03:16. | |
Succi. Taking an defenders, look at that move. She had no answer, it was | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
touched in front. Magnificent strike, watch the hand eye | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
coordination. It will be a goal for the Netherlands. They will | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
celebrate. It is 2-0 off the magnificent play by Leurink. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Definitely her a goal for now, her second one. She got flat-footed on | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
that wet turf. Talk about perfection, | :03:54. | :04:05. | |
Joyce Sombroek has only given up two goals. That will be the big thing. | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
They have to find a way to get their attacking players into the game. | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
Albertario is a little bit short, but Merino will take possession | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
again, the short pass forces Argentina to scramble, they are | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
off-kilter and not making the plays they would normally expect to. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Leurink seems to have gotten under their skin. Magnificent, speed and | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
precision on the ball by Leurink has them trailing by two. Too easy for | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
the Netherlands to take that away. Those scamper in after that one | :04:52. | :05:05. | |
again. -- goes scampering. Once again, the Netherlands will build | :05:06. | :05:22. | |
this one. Paumen. Nice interception from Gomes Fantasia. In the | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
midfield, the opportunity for Argentina to build this one. | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
Albertario tries to hold it, it does not go the way of Argentina and once | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
again, there are work, just not clean. Given the ball right back on | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
the sideline, the past does not work out and that is not what you would | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
expect from Argentina, especially at times, in their group, they looked | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
sublime, they are giving the ball back to the Netherlands too easy. | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
Nice in there. Just asking that little bit too much and it goes out | :06:09. | :06:21. | |
of play. The rain has eased somewhat in the last three minutes but | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
conditions remain a bit tricky for those players out there as Rebecchi | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
sneaks down the line. Obstruction is given. And that is a green card | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
given to 29-macro, she will sit suspended for the next couple of | :06:44. | :06:57. | |
minutes -- Eva de Goede?. They have the chance to break with more speedy | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
game. Uncompromising challenge by Gomez. The Netherlands are toying | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
right now. They are toying with Argentina. Trying to break to the | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
middle, great skill, this could be a big opportunity for the Netherlands. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Having an amazing first half, taken away from her eventually. Welten | :07:22. | :07:35. | |
Windsor back again. Eva de Goede will have two minutes on that | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
penalty chair. Her second goal in the first quarter started things off | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
and she could add to that total weather chances like that, running | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
at the Argentinian defence. The Dutch are up for this, a place in | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
the Olympic semi-finals, this is what they would say is their food | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
and drink, the kind of place where they have made their names, made | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
their living, made their country very proud at the last two Olympic | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Games. Can they do this for a third time? And to do that now, they would | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
have to go through the whole tournament undefeated. Not | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
impossible by any stretch of the imagination. She is getting a little | :08:25. | :08:34. | |
bit of game time, she has found it difficult to get up to speed. | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Especially with Welten pressuring her and pushing forward. Also so | :08:41. | :08:53. | |
time and space taken away by Welten. Strong running with the ball, zipped | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
outdoor play. Ellen Hoog was chasing after it. Look at the marvellous | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
dribbling skill of Ellen Hoog. Albertario is a very good player. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
Made to look flat-footed there. Netherlands, the winner of this | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
gaming gets Germany and it will be interesting to see what Germany | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
thinks of this start so far. Exactly what the Netherlands would have | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
wanted. Argentina battle for the ball. The whistle blows for | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
half-time and his side trail by two goals and the Netherlands have come | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
out and played an exceptional game of hockey. We shall be back for the | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
second half of that game. The Netherlands are leading Argentina | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
2-0. The weather, as you can see, absolutely horrendous. It has been | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
so bad that over on BBC One where there is meant to be BBC coverage of | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
the athletics, they are making their way back onto the track, we think. | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
It has been postponed, the weather is so bad. I am gripping onto my | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
notes for dear life on Copacabana beach because it is rather grim down | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
here as well. The rain we were showing you at the hockey has come | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
to us as well. It is not backing up our argument that we are in Rio and | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
not elsewhere. Thank you to those of you who continue to start those | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
rumours that we are actually in Whitby, Anthony says, best play was | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
finding the only Brazilian woman in Whitby and getting her to stage a | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
hen party. Matthew Pinsent is not helping, he says did you get those | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
crisps care of Mavis is a B in Whitby? Know. Thank you for that. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Karen says, I drifted off to sleep and I missed the bin men, where were | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
you? We might show you it later. Look at these guys, still going for | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
it. That is proper Yorkshiremen their! Late night in Whitby and they | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
are still rocking it in the beach -- on the beach! Will you please stop | :11:24. | :11:35. | |
trying, the hash tags we have got going, are Copacabanter... He | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
sprinted off earlier like Eric Liddell. Copacabanter is the | :11:41. | :11:55. | |
hashtag. Also Copacabinmen. Stop trying to get Copacabognor trending! | :11:56. | :12:09. | |
There were five gold medals on Sunday. Today, just one gold medal | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
but a special one for Charlotte Dujardin van. This is her story of | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
today on the Allegro. -- Valegro. Britain had never won dressage medal | :12:18. | :12:40. | |
going into London 2012 but Charlotte Dujardin and her team-mates made | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
history. She has done it. Charlotte Dujardin has iced the cake in style | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
and Britain has got another gold medal! Charlotte became Britain's | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
first Olympic champion in the individual dressage and won a second | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
gold medal as part of the team event. Two equestrian gold medals in | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
two days. Four years later, Spencer Wilton, Fiona Bigwood, Carl Hester | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
and Charlotte Dujardin won team silver. All eyes have been on | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Charlotte to take the gold medal and retain her Olympic title in the | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
individual event. Three British competitors were in the running, | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
first up was Fiona Bigwood and they finished in 17th place, Carl Hester | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
and briefly led the competition but went on to finish seventh. Up next, | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro. The great Valegro. Charlotte Dujardin, | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
the reigning Olympic champions. Can they repeat their London triumph? | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Charlotte Dujardin, the great Valegro. Remind you that this is | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
another Tom Hunt composition, specially designed for a Rio. He | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
really has endeavoured to put the Carnival spirit in this music for | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
the freestyle test for Charlotte. Here is the real test now, we are | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
on. Looking steadily. Extended on the centre line, and | :14:22. | :14:36. | |
straight into pirouette. They have been unbeaten in their | :14:37. | :17:03. | |
last 17 outings. Are they going to make it 18 outings? | :17:04. | :17:45. | |
It's a brand-new floor plan, remember. Prepared for this | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
competition, prepared to try and retain that Olympic title. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Coming towards the end. And at the moment, pretty incident free, dare I | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
say? You're braver than me, I wasn't | :18:07. | :18:25. | |
going to make any prediction, and like that this time. Again, that | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
incredible extended trot. It looks magnificent, that correct. | :18:32. | :18:49. | |
-- pirouette. APPLAUSE | :18:50. | :19:10. | |
14 years old now, Valegro, they have been the stars of the sport | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
worldwide now, since London 2012. Now, hold your breath. Hold your | :19:18. | :19:30. | |
breath. 93.928! I had a tear in my eye in London when it all happened, | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
and I've got another one now. I don't think there has been better | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
dressage at an Olympic Games ever. Everywhere you are, stand up for | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
this girl, Charlotte Dujardin with the great Valegro has done it. | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
Lee McKenzie with the words there, and yet another Olympic gold | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
Charlotte Dujardin, for herself and Team GB as well. We return to the | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
hockey, it looks like the weather has cleared up a little bit. Still | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
persistent rain here in Rio should did Junior wrote. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
COMMENTATOR: The attack right now. The ball goes into the circle, it is | :20:17. | :20:31. | |
a free hit right outside the line. Marino will take. She thought that | :20:32. | :20:41. | |
was inside the circle. Then felt it was a stick challenge. Stopped | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
playing, frustrations of visible on the Argentinian layers' faces. | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
Frustrations the tour. You have to stay on the ball down inside that 23 | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
metre attacking area, and not have words with the umpire. You shouldn't | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
talk to the umpire this early in the game or any stage in the game unless | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
you are the captain, and right there, frustration for the | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
Argentinians. To refer tackle, gives the opportunity for Argentina, but | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
they struggle to muscle the ball through the soggy outfield. But | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
Argentina have a free hit, which they will take. Cavaliere, great | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
skill. It is an opportunity to work this | :21:36. | :21:58. | |
into the circle. Going into this game, Argentina had the best part of | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
40 more penetrations into the circle, and that is all down to | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
their style of play, the way they run with the ball. They want to have | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
the ball on their stick more, and get their captain involved more. | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
Working hard again, this is good play again, a penalty corner, and | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Merino got a stick in the air. There are asking, do they want to? | :22:26. | :22:41. | |
She took every possible moment there to get clarification. She waited for | :22:42. | :22:53. | |
the umpire to say, do you want this, as if she was saying, you are not | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
going to get referral here. The first penalty corner, and it goes | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
wide, they go straight to Rebecchi, who has had a slightly disappointing | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
tournament so far in front of goal. 148 on penalty corners, now 149, and | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
Rebecchi a very experienced player for Argentina. She has two goals in | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
the tournament, looking for three. Habif, looking for Barrionuevo. | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
Still the ball is there, and it is taken into the circle, but it comes | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
off the leg of Merino, and the Netherlands get themselves a free | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
hit. A couple of different looks on the third and fourth penalty | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
corners. Barrionuevo swept aside. And some Joyce Sombroek, confidence | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
is huge. Van Geffen, she is challenged | :24:06. | :24:24. | |
quickly, ball out of play. The Netherlands, all of a sudden they | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
are playing at a different tempo. They are 2-0 up, they can afford to | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
do it. When they talk to the umpire, do they challenge? 30 seconds is | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
killed right there, which could be crucial in the fourth quarter. | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
The Netherlands will continue to push forward again. The pass was | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
short, didn't quite reach her, and the reason it didn't quite reach is | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
because it was stopped it legally. And now the Netherlands will go | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
again. It is a good challenge, and this time, Argentina will get the | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
chance to clear their lines. Alison Allen, she should be very happy with | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
what her side have done so far. They have looked like gold medal winners, | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
they have looked like a team who want to get through to the semifinal | :25:28. | :25:37. | |
against Germany. Right now, Allen is trying to get further ahead to keep | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
that dream alive. Here is Rebecchi, finally some space for her to work | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
in. Rebecchi on the angle, couldn't quite find Granatto, and she does | :25:51. | :26:03. | |
quite well, finds time and space right there, in behind, and for | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
sure, just drifting right, just get the stick in on the right touch, and | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
she can't get a touch. The Netherlands attack again. This | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
is good, great running. off the foot of Rebecchi, and Welten | :26:24. | :26:48. | |
plays it again, and the decision was that this is deliberate. That is all | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
Welten. They are frustrating team Argentina. Look at the hands right | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
here, flat side of the stick, and that is intentional, and it will be | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
the third penalty corner, the right call made on the field. And the | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
Netherlands looking for a fifth penalty corner goal of Rio 2016. | :27:13. | :27:24. | |
Paumen to lead the Dutch. Paumen once scored a hat-trick against | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
Argentina. Right now would settle for scoring this one, and they do | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
get it! Kelly Jonker, right in front. She has been deadly from that | :27:40. | :27:48. | |
range. And now surely they are building a lead that will see them | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
into the middle rounds. 3-0 to the Netherlands. Fourth goal of the | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
Olympic Games the Jonker, and you can see Belen Succi, the hit is off | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
the foot right there, and it just sits so tantalisingly for Jonker. | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
And that was a penalty corner that didn't go to plan. Rather than the | :28:19. | :28:27. | |
drag flick, you saw the drive hit that shows the thinking of Paumen. | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
But the wet pitch stays with it, doesn't panic, gets the ball back | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
and creates a scoring chance. That is the experience, and the clinical | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
play from the Netherlands, which is why they are the better team in this | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
match right now, and why they are on course for a semifinal meeting with | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
Germany. I think of Argentina now, if it is 2-0 going into the fourth | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
quarter, you would feel like there is still a chance, but at 3-0, you | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
have to start thinking about extreme measures, maybe pulling the goalie | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
match earlier than you would have thought for a kicking back, exposing | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
yourself the other way the counterattacks, something the | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
Netherlands are so good at, so this is not a comfortable position for | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
the Head Coach and his Argentinian charges. The Netherlands warned | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
there about knocking the ball away. You might see a few cards being | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
dished out here as this game wears on. The Netherlands so smart in how | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
they will want to kill this game off, and they will use every trick | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
in the book, they will push those rules, and they will see how far the | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
umpires are willing to bend. At 3-0, you could do that, at 1-0, you | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
potentially can't. The ball is centre forward, ruled it came off a | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
stick. Strong challenge in there. But Argentina have it back again, | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
but there is an orange forest that is putting an awful lot of treasure | :30:00. | :30:07. | |
on. Albert REO, the pressure is brilliant from the Netherlands. | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
Seven orange jerseys over the halfway line for the Netherlands, | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
stifling any sort of break-out or counterattack by Argentina. | :30:16. | :30:30. | |
Stop start move. Slowly but surely going forward, off to the races? | :30:31. | :30:47. | |
Great challenge. For Argentina, then Rebecchi shows some strength in | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
midfield. The ball runs off her stick. Von der Heyde, inch perfect, | :30:52. | :31:03. | |
to get that wide. Tries to nip around the back. This is going to be | :31:04. | :31:14. | |
a card here. A yellow card I think. Indeed. It will be a yellow card. | :31:15. | :31:28. | |
Now she will be off for five minutes. This suspension will mean | :31:29. | :31:36. | |
that at least 45 minutes, the Netherlands are down. Add great of | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
running. She has had a wonderful game, Welten, both defensively and | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
going forward. Albertario, careless with the ball. Giving the ball back | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
to easily, Argentina and a green card to de Goede. They can go back | :31:55. | :32:25. | |
to Celtic miss away. Sanchez. Puts this in with some speed. Penalty | :32:26. | :32:34. | |
corner. Granatto was lurking, came off a Dutch body. Fifth chance on a | :32:35. | :32:44. | |
penalty corner now for Argentina. Argentina five 427 in the | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
tournament, looking for some success here. You would think that Noel | :32:48. | :33:06. | |
Barrionuevo would be called. Sachsenring. She will inject. Noel | :33:07. | :33:22. | |
Barrionuevo. It is deflected home. Huge moment in this game for | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
Argentina. They have cut the deficit. And it is Habif. Noel | :33:26. | :33:37. | |
Barrionuevo and look at the stake laid flat side up from Habif. Noel | :33:38. | :33:44. | |
Barrionuevo with a drag flick, magnificent staff from 85 macro and | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
it is a penalty corner goal for Argentina to get them back in the | :33:49. | :33:56. | |
game. Her third goal of Rio 2016. Is that the start of the comeback, I | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
wonder. It gives the fans something to cheer about. That five-minute | :34:03. | :34:13. | |
suspension continues. Albertario. She is called back and that will be | :34:14. | :34:23. | |
a free head to Argentina. It will be taken eventually. Gets it back. | :34:24. | :34:38. | |
Spread to the left side. Naomi van As will leave this one. 3-1, 349 | :34:39. | :34:54. | |
remaining in the third quarter. Habif, a second penalty corner goal. | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
They have to take advantage of penalty corners. Habif expertly | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
deflecting the track flick for Noel Barrionuevo. Another goal here would | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
make this very interesting, this place would absolutely erupt. You | :35:09. | :35:16. | |
hear the Argentinian fans, they are bouncing. The stand on the far side | :35:17. | :35:27. | |
would be rocking and creaking. Granatto gives it to Merino. It goes | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
out to play but there was a chart on the sticks and it will be a free | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
head that Merino can take. The challenge then. Van Maasakker. They | :35:38. | :35:52. | |
go backwards again. Gomez centre with a bit more pace this time. He | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
is not happy, you wonder that ball taking care of a bit better. He does | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
not want to give the ball back so easily to the Netherlands, they gave | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
the ball back to the Netherlands to easily in the driving wind and rain. | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
In the second half, more aggressive runs and he does not want to give | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
the ball back. They have a bit of momentum. Another card here. Yellow | :36:19. | :36:28. | |
card to Naomi van As. Netherlands disciplines. This is a great chance | :36:29. | :36:39. | |
now for Argentina, two players on the penalty bench, Naomi van As with | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
a yellow card joining de Goede. Habif. Going to work the right-hand | :36:47. | :37:01. | |
side, swept in. Bit of conversation here. Between the two, pushing in | :37:02. | :37:10. | |
the back. A yellow card shown for pushing in the back. This is | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
troubling stuff now. There is the push. Conversation here between the | :37:15. | :37:31. | |
two umpires. With de Goede and Naomi van As already on the penalty chair, | :37:32. | :37:42. | |
another yellow card. The Netherlands can clear away. It is busy down | :37:43. | :37:51. | |
there. 11-8, three straight yellow cards and an advantage for | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
Argentina. This is the advantage. They need a quick goal here and if | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
they can make it happen, they have to use the space wisely. Now | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
Granatto tried to play at. Did not quite manage it. Really good play, | :38:09. | :38:21. | |
van Maasakker, brilliant defending. Trying to find the stick of Sanchez, | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
she flooded with this three player advantage, you have to make the | :38:27. | :38:33. | |
past. She is a touch player as well. One minute to go, 3-1, the | :38:34. | :38:40. | |
Netherlands lead. The numerical advantage is with Argentina. A more | :38:41. | :38:47. | |
good play a game by the Netherlands. Comes away with that, under great | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
pressure. That will be a Netherlands ball that they will clear away. And | :38:52. | :39:01. | |
this time, an infraction against the Netherlands, Argentina can move it | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
quickly. 32 seconds remaining, Tibet inside the circle, goes behind. That | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
will be straight off and Argentine steak and of the Netherlands get | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
this ball moving, ten seconds to go, I would be very surprised -- stick. | :39:18. | :39:28. | |
11 seconds to go. Takes it out of the air. That will do it. The | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
Netherlands survive, they get one player back. The third goal could | :39:33. | :39:43. | |
prove to be decisive in this, the Netherlands are leading Argentina | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
after three quarters of this game, 15 minutes to go. We will be back | :39:48. | :39:56. | |
for the final period of the hockey. We will see a benevolence can hold | :39:57. | :40:03. | |
on. As you saw there, the weather is not brilliant -- the Netherlands. | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
The rain was holding things up at the athletics and they had to | :40:09. | :40:10. | |
abandon the session but they are back out and that is on BBC One. | :40:11. | :40:23. | |
Here, it is time for our headlines. Charlotte Dujardin wins the gold in | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
the individual dressage, she and Valegro did the business. There was | :40:28. | :40:37. | |
a silver and a first Olympic medal for Mark Cavendish who could have | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
been better, but he had a problem in the elimination race. Today, in the | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
points race he came home with the silver medal. Also a bronze medal | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
for Sophie Hitchon, her last throw of the competition and she broke her | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
own British record. Nearly 75 metres was enough to guarantee her the | :41:00. | :41:07. | |
bronze medal. And it has been a fantastic day in the badminton, | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis have beat the Japanese pair and they | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
are into the doubles semi-finals. And Rajeev is through to the last | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
eight of the men's singles after a quite staggering performance. Over | :41:24. | :41:34. | |
on BBC One and the athletic Stadium, they are in the midst of the | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
Jamaican National Anthem for perhaps the most recognisable face of these | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
games, one of the most recognisable faces in sport, Usain Bolt, who | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
picked up the 100 metre title yesterday, potentially still two | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
further goals to come for him, he is the favourite in the relay and the | :41:53. | :41:58. | |
200m. We will cover those over the next few nights. Here on BBC Four, | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
we will be with you until two o'clock and we will go back for the | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
final period of the hockey. Here are our commentators once again. | :42:08. | :42:29. | |
Habif. Get it wide. It is wide to Aguirre. Stopping and checking. Noel | :42:30. | :42:45. | |
Barrionuevo. Spreading wide. That is deflected out in front. Netherlands | :42:46. | :42:53. | |
ball they will whack it down the field of play. They are happy to see | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
the ball far away. These two will know they will not be too much | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
longer in serving suspensions. Very rare that you see three yellow cards | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
so quickly, all in succession. The Dutch are defending brilliantly. You | :43:14. | :43:21. | |
have to give them real credit here. They are facing potentially the most | :43:22. | :43:28. | |
dangerous attacking side in world hockey and so far, they have given | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
absolutely nothing. Now it finally goes into the circle, a chance for | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
Merino. Danger could still be there though. Barrionuevo. Into the | :43:40. | :43:49. | |
circle, pace, it is hacked over the top. That will be a Netherlands wall | :43:50. | :43:57. | |
and an easy out. It is a team that is so dangerous, even with three | :43:58. | :44:01. | |
players on the penalty chair, the Netherlands looked in control, they | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
defended well. Argentina and their head coach will look back at this | :44:08. | :44:17. | |
potentially as a lost opportunity. Another pass, intercepted and put | :44:18. | :44:32. | |
all the way down. Van As is back and there is only one sitting on the | :44:33. | :44:33. | |
chair. Interesting that the Argentinian | :44:34. | :44:52. | |
goalkeeper has come outside and scored, perhaps getting words from | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
the coach as to whether or not they will think about a kicking back but | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
she has wandered up a few times to talk and we have heard the | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
communication from the bench. A strong challenge. It is a free hit | :45:06. | :45:12. | |
to Argentina, really good work, spinning this way and that way. Now | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
Argentina again. Time ticking down on their Rio | :45:16. | :45:22. | |
experience. Argentina will get the chance again. | :45:23. | :45:38. | |
Can they move it quickly enough? That would probably be the criticism | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
of their performance, they haven't moved the ball quickly. Adjudged not | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
to have come off a foot. And Paumen taking every second, so | :45:48. | :46:03. | |
experienced. You can't blame her, that is just good game management by | :46:04. | :46:04. | |
the captain. Argentina with the Rebecchi. Pam and | :46:05. | :46:19. | |
brilliant, clears away. If you are going to win three gold medals in a | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
row, Yoo Won-chul captain to lead from the front, and right now, the | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
most important player on the pitch is Paumen. -- you want your captain | :46:31. | :46:37. | |
to lead from the front. Here it goes again, it is kicked | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
away by Joyce Sombroek. Argentina look aggressive here, and | :46:43. | :47:08. | |
a chance goes begging. Quick play from Habif, her second book denied. | :47:09. | :47:18. | |
Argentina again. Under ten minutes now for the Dutch to hang on for | :47:19. | :47:30. | |
what would be a really good victory. Habif goes on her own, but will now | :47:31. | :47:36. | |
get some help. Spread wide, just about held in at the line. Pushed | :47:37. | :47:51. | |
away by Naomi van As, and then they try to sprint away. Once again, the | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
Netherlands warned by the umpires, get a move on. I have enjoyed this | :47:56. | :48:04. | |
game. It has been a really fascinating affair between two | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
sides, Argentina couldn't handle the Netherlands in that first half. In | :48:09. | :48:15. | |
the second, aided by some in discipline, they have caused more of | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
a headache. It has been that start to the game that will be remembered | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
for sure by Welten, it was driving rain and they took advantage of the | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
pitch conditions to try to bury Argentina early. This could be a | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
chance, though, but it is swept clear. Good defending from will mean | :48:37. | :48:53. | |
Bos. A clenched fist from Merino. Look at that, trying to rally the | :48:54. | :49:08. | |
troops. Get them going. Under eight minutes, they are trying to do the | :49:09. | :49:15. | |
same thing. Full credit to the supporters, it was a nasty night to | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
start, but they have stuck with it, willing Argentina back into this | :49:19. | :49:28. | |
contest. Barrionuevo and Rebecchi at the top. It is Rebecchi, and score! | :49:29. | :49:37. | |
Merino tips home, the difference is one, and now we have a Grand Slam | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
finish here in the Olympic water finals. The Netherlands led | :49:41. | :49:48. | |
comfortably, but Argentina, byte by byte, I'm now back in it, and need | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
just one to maybe take this to a shoot out. Rebecchi with the drag | :49:54. | :50:03. | |
flick, and it is Merino's second goal of the Olympics, and what does | :50:04. | :50:09. | |
it mean to team Argentina? Look at the intensity. She was the one as | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
they got the penalty corner who was pumping her fists, and now they will | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
get the help from the stands as well. The Netherlands may be | :50:18. | :50:23. | |
rocking. It needs someone to grab the game by the scruff of the neck, | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
and Merino states with serious intention that Argentina are back, | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
and plenty of time left on the clock, seven and a half minutes to | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
go. The Netherlands maybe we'll answer this after a period of | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
sustained pressure by finding it in themselves. They get themselves a | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
free hit right now. Wanting to take it very quickly indeed. And now, | :50:52. | :51:06. | |
they are back to 11 players. What a seven minutes we are in for. Which | :51:07. | :51:13. | |
way will it go? Are the Dutch good enough to hang on? Are the | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
Argentinians good enough to score another goal? The importance of that | :51:19. | :51:25. | |
Merino goal, you can't look past it, because at 3-1, you are thinking, do | :51:26. | :51:30. | |
you pull the goalie, what extreme measures do you take? But at 3-2 you | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
are in the game, and all the momentum seems to be with Argentina. | :51:36. | :51:47. | |
And one chance is all you need. Agustina Albertario wanted the | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
penalty corner, she begs and pleads, and now would be the time. There is | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
a chance Rebecchi, they don't it fast enough, this is danger. Great | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
defending again, goodness gracious me. It was incredible there the | :52:05. | :52:19. | |
reaction from Bos. The time wasting measures from the Netherlands nearly | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
cost them. Now Rebecchi, and Paumen steps over. Rebecchi tenacious. | :52:27. | :52:39. | |
Pushed in, but off the feet of De Fina Marino. Barrionuevo watching | :52:40. | :52:53. | |
from the bench for the moment. They have gone for a more mobile | :52:54. | :52:54. | |
backline. Asking Habif, Gomez. We can see this | :52:55. | :53:17. | |
again. This is something the Netherlands did all throughout the | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
first half, attacking, taking big hit at the net, trying to make | :53:22. | :53:27. | |
offensive plays. Another opportunity, and this time it is | :53:28. | :53:42. | |
Jonker. Just caught von der Heyde, I don't think she is bleeding. The | :53:43. | :53:50. | |
result of this is a penalty corner. Oh, that stings, the ball coming up | :53:51. | :53:53. | |
into your face very quickly like that. You can see the Welt on her | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
forehead. She is lucky that isn't worse. That will be like a cartoon | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
bumper. The goose egg on the forehead. Another penalty corner for | :54:08. | :54:16. | |
the Netherlands. She is going to try, and what they save from Belen | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
Succi! Netherlands with a chance to win it there, Belen Succi. | :54:23. | :54:33. | |
Magnificent goal-tending. Battling the whole time, fighting for every | :54:34. | :54:40. | |
inch of that 12 by seven net. A game saver there. Van den Heuvel had the | :54:41. | :54:49. | |
best chance. Could that be the moment we talk about at the end of | :54:50. | :54:53. | |
this game? It has been absolutely crucial. | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
Now we see the change. The shirt comes on, Belen Succi goes off, and | :54:59. | :55:09. | |
Vonda Hyder with the goose egg on her head will be the kicking back. | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
You have just taken a ball to the forehead, and now you will be the | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
kicking back! Belen Succi will leave, this was always a chance that | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
Argentina would have to take the goalie out, and now it is a reality | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
as they fight for their lives. I wonder if she has ever watched In | :55:30. | :55:32. | |
The Line Of Fire. Paumen trying to make sure that | :55:33. | :55:46. | |
every possible angle is covered defensively. Argentina may choose to | :55:47. | :55:55. | |
go along, the Netherlands are putting pressure on. It is a goal! | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
And that will do it. Netherlands could be on their way. This will go | :56:02. | :56:08. | |
upstairs to the TV. Netherlands will celebrate, but Argentina, as we see | :56:09. | :56:17. | |
this one again, was this outside the circle, I wonder? To me at that | :56:18. | :56:23. | |
angle, it looks like it is, as Gomez tries to get it out, and there | :56:24. | :56:33. | |
outside the circle, but it is up to Lisa Roach, the Australian video | :56:34. | :56:34. | |
umpire. So, the ruling was that it was | :56:35. | :56:47. | |
outside the circle, just. Crucially, Argentina keep their referral, which | :56:48. | :56:49. | |
may come into play in this final three minutes. | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
Bos gets in the way. Vonda Hadar signalling that she is the one who | :56:57. | :57:15. | |
uses her feet in the circle. Now they will try to use their skills to | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
get in, that is a dangerous highball, and it brings the | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
Netherlands free hit with two minutes to go. To give Argentina | :57:24. | :57:30. | |
credit, they have battled for every inch of the pitch here in the third | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
and fourth quarters, and at one point it didn't look good at all, | :57:35. | :57:40. | |
they were trailing 3-1, and that goal by Dell Fina Marino, it has set | :57:41. | :57:50. | |
up a magnificent finish. Barrionuevo has just come the field | :57:51. | :57:53. | |
of play. They need their power players out there, and she is | :57:54. | :57:56. | |
exactly that, as the Netherlands have done a great job here. Green | :57:57. | :58:06. | |
card for Habif. She carried on playing, she had recognised there | :58:07. | :58:09. | |
had been a whistle. She isn't exactly trying to waste time, with | :58:10. | :58:16. | |
her side trailing 3-2. Per second green card, and a bad moment, she | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
has been magnificent for Argentina. She won't play again in this one. | :58:21. | :58:26. | |
Argentina battling. How good is that? In the end, the instruction is | :58:27. | :58:34. | |
given and Argentina wants to get this going quickly. Agustina | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
Albertario will try to use her speed. There is van den Heuvel with | :58:41. | :58:48. | |
her every step of the way. It takes a deflection up in the air. | :58:49. | :58:56. | |
Free hit Argentina. There will be a chance here. One minute to go. Will | :58:57. | :59:06. | |
Argentina be good enough to take it, though? Another free hit. Taken | :59:07. | :59:16. | |
quickly again. They are going to have to go around the top. Loads in | :59:17. | :59:22. | |
there. They are thinking about putting it in early, it will work | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
its way into the circle, an opportunity to sweep away, and | :59:28. | :59:33. | |
Vanden wave all goes down the field of play. The last 30 seconds of this | :59:34. | :59:38. | |
game, Argentina on the verge of bowing out. | :59:39. | :59:44. | |
Barrionuevo, have they got enough? It came off a stick, it has been | :59:45. | :59:53. | |
ruled, free hit. And that should pretty much do it. Long clearance | :59:54. | :00:01. | |
here. And it is going to be the defending champions who are going to | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
go and play in the semifinals. It is the end of the road for Argentina, | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
and just look at the reactions. The reactions of the Dutch players. | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
STUDIO: So, the Netherlands go through, confirmation of those | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
semifinals, Netherlands taking on Germany and Team GB will face New | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Zealand. We are reaching the end of our time here on BBC Four, thank you | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
for your company this evening. Over on BBC One right now, athletics | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
continues for the next few hours, so you can keep watching that alongside | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
things like the men's 800 metres with David Rudisha and the women's | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
400 metres with Allyson Felix will be in that. But away from Team GB | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
today, as we always do, these are the stories you may have missed. | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
This is our Rio Trio. In bronze, it is Quine of North Korea, who managed | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
to do the business on the men's vault today in the gymnastics, he | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
took the gold, brilliant performance on the vault. A pretty special time | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
on the podium, as well, where he saluted his national anthem in | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
Peckham. -- saluted. Lopez of Cuba, the Greco-Roman wrestler, celebrated | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
with his coach like this. His third Olympic gold, he is in the 20 stone | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
category, 130 kilos, he is a significant human, and he knows how | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
to celebrate. And gold can only go to this fellow, David kept our cow | :01:47. | :02:02. | |
of Kira, he finished sixth in the weightlifting but entertained the | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
crowd with every single lift, a few Michael Jackson moves, and even when | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
he dropped one, would he leave without the dance? He will not | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
disappoint. We like the way you move. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
That is just about it from us on BBC Four tonight. Our image of the day | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
is Sophie Hitchon, who left it very late in the hammer today, the last | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
throw for her in the competition, a British record, and it was worthy of | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
a bronze medal. That is how we say goodbye to night on BBC Four, with a | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
bit of hammer time. See tomorrow. | :02:40. | :02:42. |