Day 10 BBC One: 13.45-18.00

:00:19. > :00:26.Good afternoon. We have got a very busy afternoon for you here on BBC

:00:27. > :00:31.One, on day ten of the Olympics here in Rio de Janeiro. We will be going

:00:32. > :00:36.out to the water where Keri-Anne Payne is in the ten key marathon

:00:37. > :00:40.swim. We will be catching up with her progress shortly. We will be

:00:41. > :00:43.going to be equestrian where Charlotte Dujardin is aiming to

:00:44. > :00:47.defend her individual dressage title. We will be going to the

:00:48. > :00:52.velodrome. And we have business at the Olympic Stadium in the women's

:00:53. > :00:57.200 metres heats. Gaby, I know you are watching this with interest. I

:00:58. > :01:05.saw Andrew Cotter's headgear. It is that innovative ability to create

:01:06. > :01:14.solutions out of not a lot. He has taken on board the lessons earlier.

:01:15. > :01:17.It reminded me of my favourite moment of the opening ceremony. The

:01:18. > :01:22.ability to recycle. That is what Andrew Cotter is doing but I cannot

:01:23. > :01:26.say it will catch on in the BBC sport department. Elaine Thompson is

:01:27. > :01:31.going up and she wants to recycle the form she showed in the 100

:01:32. > :01:43.metres. Is the sprint double on for her? She needs to summon that and I

:01:44. > :01:49.was impressed with Hazel. Elaine Thompson, this is an opportunity for

:01:50. > :01:53.her. Who has done a 100 metre and 200 metre double, and it has not

:01:54. > :01:58.been done as much as they think. Florence Griffith-Joyner did it back

:01:59. > :02:01.in 1988 and Marion Jones did the double but obviously the doping

:02:02. > :02:06.suspension and subsequent issues with her performances sort of

:02:07. > :02:11.Millgate that. But Elaine Thompson has a good opportunity here. With

:02:12. > :02:20.Allyson Felix not running the 200 metres, Daphne Scheepers, those two

:02:21. > :02:30.are the class of the field. -- Dafne Schippers. It is a little bit open

:02:31. > :02:35.and it is between those two at the top. It could be on. Let's go and

:02:36. > :02:49.join this heat with Andrew Cotter. I have got rid of it now. That is

:02:50. > :02:55.not me talking! It looks like Jeremy Corbyn. That doesn't. Everyone is

:02:56. > :02:59.improvising. The shade has just reached us. There is Elaine

:03:00. > :03:11.Thompson. Two Saturday's 100 metre finalists are in this heat. And two

:03:12. > :03:17.go through automatically. There they are in the shade. Very, very warm,

:03:18. > :03:32.getting into the mid-30s later today. The German champion goes in

:03:33. > :03:36.lane three. Below 23 seconds will only get you sixth fastest loser at

:03:37. > :03:42.the moment. Six go through as fastest losers as well as the two

:03:43. > :03:52.automatic qualifiers. Elaine Thompson in four.

:03:53. > :03:59.Marie-Josee Ta Lou in lane seven lead them in the home straight.

:04:00. > :04:10.Elaine Thompson making sure she is doing enough. Marie-Josee Ta Lou

:04:11. > :04:20.will take the victory. These times are pretty comfortable, pretty easy.

:04:21. > :04:25.Perhaps didn't need to run that quickly. Elaine Thompson had that

:04:26. > :04:30.attitude. Get out of the heat and move into the semifinals. It is

:04:31. > :04:35.important you qualify well because we saw Elaine getting her gold medal

:04:36. > :04:41.yesterday so no doubt it was late now celebrations in that sense --

:04:42. > :04:49.late-night celebrations. She can unwind those legs of hers and get

:04:50. > :05:05.back into the flow. But what a fantastic performance.

:05:06. > :05:13.You cannot change a running style too much in 200 metres. She took it

:05:14. > :05:25.relatively easy and saw where she was and made sure she did enough.

:05:26. > :05:27.The 100 metres champion is safely through to the finals of the 200

:05:28. > :05:48.metres. Thank you, Andrew. Was that clever

:05:49. > :05:53.heat running. She was not going to chase Ta Lou. At the same time I

:05:54. > :05:59.would have expected more from Elaine Thompson around the bend. And she

:06:00. > :06:09.wasn't. It made sense at that point not to push. I think the next round

:06:10. > :06:17.will gauge things better. Dina Asher-Smith is going in the next

:06:18. > :06:23.heat. Because she can sacrifice going for both sprints, and maybe it

:06:24. > :06:27.is sensible to let the younger athletes concentrate on one event,

:06:28. > :06:31.she will be putting all her eggs in one basket and you would expect her

:06:32. > :06:38.to come out quite quick and she will not want to risk not getting

:06:39. > :06:43.through. You would expect to go as quick as she can. Absolutely. These

:06:44. > :06:49.girls are moving this morning. There are some very quick times. We know

:06:50. > :06:59.that she can pick her game up. She runs very sensibly. She is an

:07:00. > :07:05.excellent race over the 200 metres. For someone so young, she shows

:07:06. > :07:12.great majority in this event. Steve Cram will be commentating on this.

:07:13. > :07:18.One of the things I Love is she got into athletics as a bribe. A friend

:07:19. > :07:22.wanted to go and she said to Dina I will buy you an ice cream if you

:07:23. > :07:27.come with me. I don't know where the friend is but that was a berry good

:07:28. > :07:31.one hand 50 spent. That is usually the only way we can get Andrew

:07:32. > :07:37.Cotter to come to the stadium by offering ice cream. Dina's mum

:07:38. > :07:44.popped into the commentary box earlier. We have seen so much great

:07:45. > :07:48.British support in the stands. A lot of them have travelled over. She is

:07:49. > :07:54.a bit nervous. We tried to calm her down. I did think she needs to be

:07:55. > :08:02.nervous because Dina is in such good form.

:08:03. > :08:22.Dina Asher-Smith is in lane seven. One of the big names was blessing

:08:23. > :08:27.Okagbare. She looks a little bit nervous. A nice smile as she was

:08:28. > :08:31.introduced. Blessing Okagbare was a little disappointing in the 100

:08:32. > :08:43.metres. Actually, more than a little. She has not been sprinting

:08:44. > :08:56.that well for me this year. Dina has some danger.

:08:57. > :09:05.Shawnee Miller is one of the favourites in the 400 metres. John

:09:06. > :09:07.Black has done a great job with Dina Asher-Smith and her entire journey

:09:08. > :09:27.on these Olympics. A very quick start from Dina

:09:28. > :09:36.Asher-Smith. Blessing Okagbare going well as well.

:09:37. > :09:51.Look at Dina Asher-Smith. Blessing Okagbare takes the victory. Dina

:09:52. > :09:55.Asher-Smith had a great start. Very relaxed. I thought she looked a

:09:56. > :10:00.little nervous on the start line, Colin. It is understandable but I am

:10:01. > :10:04.sure once she got round that bend, all of those nerves had disappeared

:10:05. > :10:11.because she knew she was a neighbourly interposition. If you

:10:12. > :10:14.hear the interview is beforehand, she was so pleased to be an

:10:15. > :10:18.Olympian. That is why she was anxious but also pleased to be here.

:10:19. > :10:25.She is running on the outside, she cannot see what is going on on the

:10:26. > :10:32.inside, so why take the risk? For me, it is a really good competent

:10:33. > :10:38.run by Dina. I think she can only get stronger as she did last year in

:10:39. > :10:43.Beijing. We were thinking, will she be tired but she improved every

:10:44. > :10:51.single round and I expect the same thing to come from Dina Asher-Smith.

:10:52. > :11:00.All in control. Fingers crossed she is enjoying this. That looked really

:11:01. > :11:08.accomplished performance. Tell me about it from your perspective? I am

:11:09. > :11:13.really happy. It is the first round, you do not know what you are running

:11:14. > :11:23.like. Happy to get an automatic spot. I am really excited for the

:11:24. > :11:31.semifinals. How nervous are you? I'm actually all right! I thought I

:11:32. > :11:36.would be far worse! I have run 200 metres since I was 15 or something

:11:37. > :11:42.so when it boils down to it, it is something I do day in, day out. You

:11:43. > :11:47.have done this in the past, you love this, what you do. I was so excited

:11:48. > :11:53.to get out here! And watching my friends do so well and make the

:11:54. > :11:57.final. Everything was making me itching to compete. Great to see you

:11:58. > :12:05.and we wish you well for the next round. Thank you!

:12:06. > :12:09.Yes, very well done indeed. She has to contain that excitement, channel

:12:10. > :12:14.those nerves and she is into the semifinal and that will be a lot to

:12:15. > :12:23.offer than this first round where she has acquitted herself

:12:24. > :12:34.brilliantly well. She has a chance of going through as a fastest loser.

:12:35. > :12:42.She really eased up there. A great start. Was that sensible for you

:12:43. > :12:50.that she did not exert herself too much? I would like to see more

:12:51. > :13:01.strategy here. I would like to see her go around the bend and open it

:13:02. > :13:05.up. She was coasting to much. Then she realises, I have coasted to

:13:06. > :13:10.much. Blessing Okagbare is on me, someone else might be there. You

:13:11. > :13:16.really do not want to do that in the early rounds in terms of conserving

:13:17. > :13:22.energy. It will not take that much out of her. It is a lesson to learn.

:13:23. > :13:28.You want to see some more relaxation here as well. Open up, breathe.

:13:29. > :13:35.Nice. Bounce. That is what you want to see. Just make sure you don't

:13:36. > :13:40.back off too soon. You don't want to play around with this. You want to

:13:41. > :13:45.go out there, go ahead and get it done. I think it was you, Denise.

:13:46. > :13:49.You have to put some insurance in there. Go and extended a little bit

:13:50. > :13:54.more so you don't have to come back. It takes a bit out of you. If this

:13:55. > :14:03.was a semifinal and she had to do that, it would be very tough. Once

:14:04. > :14:09.you start posting at speed then you have to come back and muster up the

:14:10. > :14:13.energy. You think she will be absolutely gun to tape. Absolutely.

:14:14. > :14:25.She will have to be. Picking up on Michael's point, training partners

:14:26. > :14:33.are really interesting. There is Blessing and Desiree Henry. I think

:14:34. > :14:38.she will be fine for the semis now. I am not sure I would wear a tartan

:14:39. > :14:44.shirt today, that is not the attire I would go for. It is about 30

:14:45. > :14:49.degrees out there. She will be doing a lot of Fanning, that lady. Let's

:14:50. > :14:54.get out of the race. It is the sixth heat. Andrew Cotter, no tartan

:14:55. > :15:09.shirts today? COMMENTATOR: No, tartan shirts are

:15:10. > :15:14.not to be worn! Two to go through automatically. This is the sixth of

:15:15. > :15:24.nine heats. A bit of noise, just being to stand up. Asked Papaioannou

:15:25. > :15:27.of Cyprus was out of the blocks quickly, maybe she was a bit

:15:28. > :15:39.unsettled by the noise. There is Deajah Stevens.

:15:40. > :15:51.A full line-up here. Yelyzaveta Bryzgina of Ukraine in lane one,

:15:52. > :15:56.Jamile Samuel of the Netherlands in lane three. Najima Parveen, the

:15:57. > :16:03.Pakistani champion over 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres and 400

:16:04. > :16:21.metres hurdles in lane three, Nercely Soto in four, Viktoriya

:16:22. > :16:24.Zyabkina in six. Nigina Sharipova of Kazakhstan Open lane eight.

:16:25. > :16:35.Away they go. Deajah Stevens out pretty sharply. Beyond her and

:16:36. > :16:40.trying to keep pace is Viktoriya Zyabkina of Afghanistan. Two to go

:16:41. > :16:45.through automatically and Stevens will surely take the win and a

:16:46. > :16:49.pretty sharp battle behind her but Nercely Soto of Venezuela is going

:16:50. > :16:56.to come through and take it, 22.40 six. -- 20 2.46.

:16:57. > :17:08.Moving on to Tamara's semifinals, you've got to bear in mind you got

:17:09. > :17:21.to be below 23 seconds. The last of the fastest qualifiers at the moment

:17:22. > :17:24.22.96. We will seek Deajah Stevens, the 21-year-old, but I think the US

:17:25. > :17:32.has found another great sprint talent here. She just strides away

:17:33. > :17:36.on that stride. It's not a sprinting technique where you see pure

:17:37. > :17:41.cadence, it's just a long, loping stride that just hold her down the

:17:42. > :17:51.track. Great time, 22.45, looks comfortable. Well, there were 48

:17:52. > :17:55.athletes starting this man treble -- men's triple jump qualification.

:17:56. > :18:01.Christian Taylor of America a massive favourite. The Olympic

:18:02. > :18:06.champion from 2012, the reigning world champion, the second best ever

:18:07. > :18:11.in this event. This was his first jump, making it look very easy to go

:18:12. > :18:19.beyond that automatic qualification of 16.95. The world indoor champion

:18:20. > :18:26.also went clear earlier on but Taylor joined him with that effort.

:18:27. > :18:33.The first attempt exactly what he would have hoped for and expected,

:18:34. > :18:35.17.20 four. On his way out of the stadium he very kindly stopped and

:18:36. > :18:42.spoke to Phil Jones. Christian, that is what you would

:18:43. > :18:46.call a good morning's work, I suppose? Through to the final and a

:18:47. > :18:50.tremendous performance. Absolutely. The wait has been the hardest part

:18:51. > :18:55.for me so to be able to relate this energy, as I said, the track is on

:18:56. > :19:00.fire and this could be my moment. Put a nice safe one out there, got

:19:01. > :19:04.over the qualifying standard, hopefully we can get two more

:19:05. > :19:08.Americans, but just so blessed and an honour to be here. Our own Greg

:19:09. > :19:17.Rutherford just squeaked into the final, showing how difficult

:19:18. > :19:21.qualifying can be. You don't want to set your sights on the final until

:19:22. > :19:26.you've negotiated that tricky part. Absolutely. Unless you're in the

:19:27. > :19:31.final, you can't defend it. Now the stars have aligned and I've kept my

:19:32. > :19:35.composure, I watched the long jump and I saw how they were running and

:19:36. > :19:39.I changed my approach a bit to be on the safe side and now I can relax

:19:40. > :19:47.and get a good night's sleep and be ready for tomorrow. The think maybe

:19:48. > :19:53.there is some magic in the air with a world record? Absolutely, I never

:19:54. > :19:57.thought I would witness a 400 world record go down but hopefully

:19:58. > :20:03.tomorrow the stars align! We wish you all the best. Thank you, thank

:20:04. > :20:14.you. Yes, watch out, Jonathan Edwards. The result of the last hit

:20:15. > :20:20.in the women's 200 metres, perhaps a little surprise before but here

:20:21. > :20:21.Deajah Stevens goes well and for Jamile Samuel, that time won't be

:20:22. > :20:33.quick enough to go through. Well, sometimes you take your shirt

:20:34. > :20:41.off and show what you've got, and sometimes maybe that's just a good

:20:42. > :20:44.way of keeping cool. In the shade thankfully on the far side, Jody

:20:45. > :20:50.Williams knows she's going to have to go some here. We've seen some

:20:51. > :20:56.very quick times already in qualification and if Jody doesn't

:20:57. > :21:02.finish in the top two, with two more heats to come, she certainly needs

:21:03. > :21:13.under 23 seconds, as far under as she can. This is Eleanor Nelson --

:21:14. > :21:21.Ella Nelson, who has had a very good year this year. Jodie Williams's

:21:22. > :21:36.best performance... She didn't turn up for the semifinal

:21:37. > :21:47.in the 100 metres so would have had to give a medical reason to be

:21:48. > :21:48.allowed into the 200 metres. Everywhere you look here, challenges

:21:49. > :22:03.for Jodie Williams. The crowd are excited about Rosa in

:22:04. > :22:10.lane two, the Brazilian. Jodie Williams has got to start well.

:22:11. > :22:17.Jodie Williams right in the mix, in the middle. Nelson, the Australian,

:22:18. > :22:21.looking good. Jodie Williams has got a battle on here. Lalova-Collio

:22:22. > :22:28.looks across and Jodie Williams third but that could be quick

:22:29. > :22:34.enough. 22.63 is the winning time. Anywhere around 22.89 would be good

:22:35. > :22:40.for Jodie. I think she's got a strong chance here. I think about

:22:41. > :22:46.22.7 we are waiting for it to come up. She ran a good race and put

:22:47. > :22:51.herself in with a good chance. One of her better races this year,

:22:52. > :22:56.definitely. If you're ever going to do -- choose to do the better race

:22:57. > :23:04.of the year, an Olympic heat is not a bad time to do it! You know,

:23:05. > :23:09.Steve, I think her time, which is 22.69, that should be enough for her

:23:10. > :23:13.to get through. It is a season's best, so definitely the best we've

:23:14. > :23:18.seen of Jodie but I still think plenty more for her to come. She

:23:19. > :23:22.needed to relax, she would have been hungry to get on the track and

:23:23. > :23:25.perform and she's seen some great sprinting already and she wants to

:23:26. > :23:32.be part of this. For Jodie it was really get to -- to get those

:23:33. > :23:35.cobwebs blown out and race it and that's exactly what she's done and

:23:36. > :23:44.she's been rewarded with her season's best, 22.69. A bit more to

:23:45. > :23:49.come from her. Go Jodie, you will be there. Let's just confirm where her

:23:50. > :23:55.position is in the overall summary, because after seven heats although

:23:56. > :24:00.she finished third that 22.69 confirmed as a season's West, good

:24:01. > :24:05.time to do it and it means she is fastest of the fastest losers with

:24:06. > :24:09.just two heats to come. Let's find out her thoughts on it.

:24:10. > :24:16.Jodie, well done, what a time to deliver a season's best! I know,

:24:17. > :24:19.I've been struggling all year, so I'm really happy with that. Should

:24:20. > :24:27.be more than good enough to get through, so looking forward to it.

:24:28. > :24:30.Tell me about the season, you could have been lost to the sport

:24:31. > :24:35.altogether? Kind of after Beijing last year and not making the team

:24:36. > :24:39.individually I was ready to start again. I moved to Phoenix and

:24:40. > :24:44.they've changed everything, my mentality is so much better. I'm

:24:45. > :24:49.just happy again really, I'm just actually enjoying track, so it's

:24:50. > :24:56.great. What was it like to be out there as an Olympic athlete wearing

:24:57. > :24:59.the GB vest! I'm finally an Olympian! I couldn't wait to cross

:25:00. > :25:04.that line and call myself an Olympian. I've wanted it definitely

:25:05. > :25:08.for the last four years after missing out on 2012. I'm so happy.

:25:09. > :25:09.Well done on that tremendous performance, wish you well for the

:25:10. > :25:17.next round. A junior athlete who was a world

:25:18. > :25:19.champion at the 100 and has struggled to make that transition up

:25:20. > :25:24.to the senior stage and gone through a tube injury problems and things

:25:25. > :25:28.haven't always worked out for her. What do due make of her performance

:25:29. > :25:33.today? I thought it was good. To come through and run a season's best

:25:34. > :25:40.that the right time should give her confidence going into the next

:25:41. > :25:44.round. I think Jodie has had so much attention on her and all these

:25:45. > :25:50.people around, they brought her to our place to have her assessed and

:25:51. > :25:55.now she's back and all of the different coaching and the changes,

:25:56. > :25:59.I think there was just far too much pressure and far too much attention.

:26:00. > :26:04.She said she's enjoying it now and she would definitely have enjoyed

:26:05. > :26:10.this race first time as an Olympian and delivering her season's best in

:26:11. > :26:15.the preliminaries. In some of the other heats, she may have won it. So

:26:16. > :26:19.that's a good performance, don't be full by the fact that she finished

:26:20. > :26:23.third. What will be interesting is to see when it heats up in the next

:26:24. > :26:30.round, is she able to put in another season's best. Why good to see her

:26:31. > :26:34.enjoying her athletics and we will discuss it when we find out who are

:26:35. > :26:39.the fastest qualifiers, but looking good for Jodie Williams at the

:26:40. > :26:48.moment. Andrew Cotter, take us through heat eight and heat has

:26:49. > :26:51.never been such an apt word! Very warm but very good conditions for

:26:52. > :27:06.sprinting. We've seen some good times. Nadeem Gonska goes in lane

:27:07. > :27:09.one. The woman to beat is the US champion, Tori Bowie. She took

:27:10. > :27:12.silver in the 100 Budgie said this is her best event and this is the

:27:13. > :27:18.one she really looks forward to. Once she gets going, she has

:27:19. > :27:26.tremendous lead and all the others, you think of Dafne Scippers as one

:27:27. > :27:30.of the strongest of the rest but they will all be very wary of what

:27:31. > :27:37.Tori Bowie can do in this event. 21.99 this season.

:27:38. > :27:52.Quickly away with no one outside her, she might not see anyone until

:27:53. > :27:58.the end of the race, although Murielle Ahoure is alongside her.

:27:59. > :28:00.Tori Bowie coming alongside Murielle Ahoure and she will take the

:28:01. > :28:17.victory, head of Murielle Ahoure, with Mujinga Kambundji in third. She

:28:18. > :28:21.made sure of the victory and go through in 22.47 but she can

:28:22. > :28:27.definitely go through quicker than that. It's a good time. It's a

:28:28. > :28:30.really good time for her especially the way that she stumbled out of the

:28:31. > :28:35.blocks. She didn't really drive out of the blocks. You couldn't really

:28:36. > :28:39.see it at full pace but from that angle you could see it, she didn't

:28:40. > :28:45.drive out of the blocks, she really staggered. Once she caught hold of

:28:46. > :28:50.Murielle Ahoure, you can see how easy and relaxed she is and better

:28:51. > :28:56.top end speed, so she can glide past her beautifully and get that time of

:28:57. > :29:01.22.47. There was a stumble just there on the second and third

:29:02. > :29:06.strides. Right at a time when it crucial, you don't want to waste any

:29:07. > :29:10.energy getting out of the blocks. But when you are as talented as she

:29:11. > :29:15.is, she can afford that, especially in the heats. She was obviously

:29:16. > :29:19.aware of Murielle Ahoure but she was also aware of Mujinga Kambundji.

:29:20. > :29:24.Once she went past the Swiss athlete, she was able to relax a bit

:29:25. > :29:27.more. We saw what she did in the hundred metres, we know she's

:29:28. > :29:32.capable here in the 200 metres and you can do that. She can relax and

:29:33. > :29:39.enjoy being out there. When you run an Olympic Games in great shape,

:29:40. > :29:42.it's the best way to be. Relaxed in the end from Tori Bowie, the

:29:43. > :29:51.favourite, perhaps, going through, with Murielle Ahoure and Mujinga

:29:52. > :29:52.Kambundji, that 22.78 will surely be quick enough for her to go through

:29:53. > :30:01.as well. Second in the hundred metres, Tori

:30:02. > :30:10.Bowie. Someone else who will get medals in both probably and that is

:30:11. > :30:13.what she will be looking at. She has run 21.99 this year. All season she

:30:14. > :30:19.has been able to maintain that speed. She has come into these

:30:20. > :30:24.championships with a single goal that she wants to take a gold medal

:30:25. > :30:30.here. She's been to World Championships, she's a great long

:30:31. > :30:33.jumper as well, a 6.90 plus jumper. I just think it's her time and I

:30:34. > :30:34.would love to be able to see her deliver on that talent. Michael

:30:35. > :30:46.committee did stumble a bit? Yes, but it was a good recovery. She

:30:47. > :30:51.overcame to get back into position that you also have to be very

:30:52. > :30:54.patient. As Colin said, with the sort of speed she has, she knows she

:30:55. > :30:59.can get back into this race, probably running a little bit harder

:31:00. > :31:06.than she would have wanted to but as Denise said, she is in amazing

:31:07. > :31:10.shape. There was the stumble. You have to over exaggerate the arm

:31:11. > :31:15.movement coming out of the blocks to overcome gravity to get yourself up

:31:16. > :31:19.into running position but you don't want to pop up too quick. What she

:31:20. > :31:26.is trying to do is strike the right balance and if you get it wrong, it

:31:27. > :31:30.can be devastating. She gave us a complete display of the sort of

:31:31. > :31:38.speed she has by blowing past the field. Certainly one to content the

:31:39. > :31:44.gold medal and that is her opportunity after the silver in the

:31:45. > :31:47.100 metres. She knows who she has against, Elaine Thompson and Daphne

:31:48. > :31:58.skippers who was probably the race favourite. -- Dafne Schippers. So

:31:59. > :32:01.much can happen. You can see the transition and a less experienced

:32:02. > :32:08.athlete may have panicked at that moment. She is in great shape and

:32:09. > :32:13.she has beaten Dafne Schippers this year. Those psychological advantages

:32:14. > :32:19.come into play. The final heat then of these 200 metres. It is looking

:32:20. > :32:31.good for Jodie Williams so let's see hopefully the whole field will not

:32:32. > :32:34.dip under 22.69, Steve Cram? Jodie Williams can rest assured she is

:32:35. > :32:40.through. Veronica Campbell Brown becomes the latest woman to attempt

:32:41. > :32:45.to win three consecutive gold medals. I have to say, she is

:32:46. > :32:50.probably the one here has the least chance of doing that. Tirunesh

:32:51. > :32:54.Dibaba began about me had Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Valerie Adams is the

:32:55. > :33:01.one everyone thought would manage it in the shot put. She was beaten by

:33:02. > :33:13.Michelle Carter. Campbell Brown sets off here in this 200 metres, the

:33:14. > :33:17.second in the 200 metres from Jamaica. Watch out from the world

:33:18. > :33:47.junior champion in lane three. The final heat. Semoy Hackett had

:33:48. > :33:58.one leg in the sunshine and one in the shade on the starting blocks.

:33:59. > :34:03.Safronova from Kazakhstan has gone hard. Veronica Campbell Brown is not

:34:04. > :34:11.in her own lane. She ran right across there. The one and two,

:34:12. > :34:18.Odiong and Semoy Hackett, they were confusing me completely. We had two

:34:19. > :34:22.athletes in one lane coming down. I have no idea what went on there from

:34:23. > :34:28.from the Campbell Brown. All over the place. Odiong the world junior

:34:29. > :34:34.champion ran very well. Let's watch this. What on earth was going on

:34:35. > :34:39.here? We have seen her do this before. The problem can be when you

:34:40. > :34:44.come from the shade and into the sunlight it slightly throws you and

:34:45. > :34:48.she thinks, where do I have to be an she throws herself completely over

:34:49. > :34:56.instead of going inside. Luckily for her, she did not impede anyone to

:34:57. > :35:04.start she has run the further. But her speed means she will definitely

:35:05. > :35:07.be out. For someone who is 34, and Olympic champion twice, you think

:35:08. > :35:17.she would be a little bit more disciplined. She will be frustrated,

:35:18. > :35:22.no doubt with that. She did not run a particularly good bend anyway. She

:35:23. > :35:29.should have got through here fairly comfortably. I think it is a good

:35:30. > :35:35.spot, Colin, coming out of the dark and into the bright light, but

:35:36. > :35:42.goodness me. Maybe we should get her explanation. She is with film now.

:35:43. > :35:46.Veronica, how tricky was there, you are coming from the shade into the

:35:47. > :35:54.light and you seemed to switch lanes? I don't know. I seem to be

:35:55. > :36:00.having a problem there. Last year I was a bit confused coming off the

:36:01. > :36:08.curve, and it seems it is a hurdle I have to get over. I really don't

:36:09. > :36:12.know what happened. I have never transition is funny in training. It

:36:13. > :36:23.is so weird. I really don't understand it. I didn't know if I

:36:24. > :36:29.advance or... Sadly, the tie means you are not one of the fastest

:36:30. > :36:36.losers so you will not be advancing. Excuse me? Norm tie means you cannot

:36:37. > :36:42.advance as a fastest loser -- your time means you cannot advance. It is

:36:43. > :36:47.what it is. I have had some excellent races over the years and I

:36:48. > :36:54.have had some setbacks. I have had highs and lows. I think I move on

:36:55. > :36:58.for the next one. Thank you for talking to us.

:36:59. > :37:02.Thank you. For such an experienced athlete, I did take the point that

:37:03. > :37:06.Colin said about coming into the bright light, but she said that

:37:07. > :37:12.happened last year. It is unbelievable. It obviously through

:37:13. > :37:19.her. She missed out by 100th of a second. So Veronica Campbell Brown

:37:20. > :37:23.is out. Odiong and Semoy Hackett going through. I don't think

:37:24. > :37:30.Campbell Brown impeded anybody but nonetheless, that is the end of her

:37:31. > :37:35.journey with individually. But you would not put her around the top

:37:36. > :37:40.bend in the relay, would you? Absolutely not. She is out,

:37:41. > :37:45.unfortunately. There were some pretty fast races in those rounds.

:37:46. > :37:57.The heats have completed, nine of them. Some of them were tougher than

:37:58. > :38:03.others. It is only the first round. Stevens was a revelation. Jodie

:38:04. > :38:06.Williams through as a fastest loser. Dina Asher-Smith looking comfortable

:38:07. > :38:14.as well. But the semifinals are much tougher. They will be on Wednesday.

:38:15. > :38:20.The rest of the names ask rolling through there.

:38:21. > :38:25.Veronica Campbell Brown, she has seven Olympic medals and in terms of

:38:26. > :38:37.muscle memory, you think that would be cemented by now? Explain!

:38:38. > :38:42.Discuss! I am at a loss. That makes absolutely no sense to me at all.

:38:43. > :38:49.She did this last year. As soon as I saw that I was thinking, didn't we

:38:50. > :38:54.see this last year? How does an athlete with that sort of

:38:55. > :38:59.experience, Olympic champion twice, and having done this last year, it

:39:00. > :39:04.boggles the mind. I would disagree with the point that she did not

:39:05. > :39:10.impede someone. If I am running and I see someone running in the lane in

:39:11. > :39:17.front of me, it will affect the way that I compete. This is amazing. I

:39:18. > :39:22.don't understand it. She did not know what was going on. We talk

:39:23. > :39:28.about the athletes having the opportunity to create the --

:39:29. > :39:33.complete the triple and Braun occur Campbell Brown was one of those, but

:39:34. > :39:39.I think in all honesty, it is probably time to move onto the next

:39:40. > :39:49.race of life. -- Veronica Campbell Brown was one of those. I do get it.

:39:50. > :39:54.And less Phil for having that awkward job of telling her she did

:39:55. > :40:01.not have the time. She did not seem to know where she was -- less than

:40:02. > :40:06.macro. Had she stayed in her lane she probably would have qualified

:40:07. > :40:11.because she has run more distance by drifting. Well done to Jodie

:40:12. > :40:15.Williams who is through as a fastest loser and well done to Dina

:40:16. > :40:20.Asher-Smith as well. On a morning like this which is 30 degrees, you

:40:21. > :40:26.really want to run 3000 metres. It is the men's stable chase heats

:40:27. > :40:32.coming up. But the Blessing I guess is that you get the water on the

:40:33. > :40:36.way. But now we are going back to Hazel who is by some glorious cold

:40:37. > :40:41.surface there on Copacabana. It looks very enticing.

:40:42. > :40:47.I must say, I am looking very enviously at those out on the beach

:40:48. > :40:52.at the moment. We are in here but maybe a cold beer by the beach would

:40:53. > :40:58.be nice or maybe an ice cream if the boss is listening! It would be

:40:59. > :41:04.reasonably cool in the women's ten key swimming and we have reports of

:41:05. > :41:09.Keri-Anne Payne. She was in sixth place. That race got underway about

:41:10. > :41:15.an hour and a quarter ago but she has drifted down to 15th place we

:41:16. > :41:21.understand. Aurelie Muller, the world champion from France, the

:41:22. > :41:25.leader in this one and they have got about 35 minutes to race. That is

:41:26. > :41:30.how it looks right now out in the bay. We will be heading to the

:41:31. > :41:36.velodrome shortly. Down at Lagoa, we will stay on the water, if not in it

:41:37. > :41:43.at this point, because we have swapped or is for paddles. It is the

:41:44. > :41:48.canoe sprinting. This event has been dogged by doping controversies in

:41:49. > :41:53.the last few months. The governing body has banned a large number of

:41:54. > :41:59.remaining and Belarussian competitors from taking part in Rio.

:42:00. > :42:05.That is because of claims of doping. All of that has been grist to the

:42:06. > :42:15.mill and has benefited a couple of British competitors, Laney Belcher

:42:16. > :42:20.and Hannah going in the K2 event. Ed McKeever won the gold in London

:42:21. > :42:25.2012. You have the 500 metres and the thousands and this is the middle

:42:26. > :42:35.distance event. Let's get into the first heat.

:42:36. > :42:49.Away they go. Not a brilliant start from the British boat. This is going

:42:50. > :42:54.to be interesting to see how they fight it out. Hungary and Poland are

:42:55. > :43:08.two of the big paddling nations. Hungary and Poland are really taking

:43:09. > :43:12.it out well at the moment. The stroke rate is much higher in the K2

:43:13. > :43:18.compared with what we saw in the singles discipline. It is all about

:43:19. > :43:26.timing. It will be a real push to see who can get the direct through

:43:27. > :43:31.to the final. Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Australia, Belarus, the

:43:32. > :43:36.leading five going through. Remember, just the winner goes

:43:37. > :43:42.through. We are seeing a major fight. They do not want to do the

:43:43. > :43:49.semifinal but the British boat dropping a long way back. I suspect

:43:50. > :43:57.this will be a technical thing, Belcher and hammer. Why expend any

:43:58. > :44:05.energy? These two, this is such an interesting situation. What will

:44:06. > :44:16.they have left for the finals? The Hungarian crew looked like they have

:44:17. > :44:21.got it. The Hungarian paddlers, two of the best we have ever seen, they

:44:22. > :44:28.take the wind. Now they will have to recover for the semifinals. The

:44:29. > :44:32.British boat coming in in last position. I think that is the way

:44:33. > :44:39.they decided they wanted it right from the outset.

:44:40. > :44:42.Helen Reeves and Patrick Winterton sounded like the commentators to me

:44:43. > :44:46.in that one. We are going to go straight to the velodrome now and it

:44:47. > :44:51.is a big day for Mr Mark Cavendish who is yet to add an Olympic medal

:44:52. > :44:57.to his burgeoning collection from other disciplines in other events

:44:58. > :45:01.across the world of cycling. This is day two in the Omnium competition.

:45:02. > :45:03.He is the only British competitor. Let's see how things went on day one

:45:04. > :45:21.for Mark. Four escaped the bunch and of that

:45:22. > :45:24.quartet, the Danish rider was the first to finish, taking maximum

:45:25. > :45:33.points. Cavendish finished in sixth place. In the individual pursuit,

:45:34. > :45:37.these events have been Cav's Achilles he Linda passed but he was

:45:38. > :45:42.nearly 11 seconds that he rode in the World Championships. The Dane

:45:43. > :45:43.looked the dominant force going into the third event, the elimination

:45:44. > :46:12.race. COMMENTATOR: Cavendish boxed in...

:46:13. > :46:17.That's a problem. The judges might have a problem with that. He

:46:18. > :46:20.overtook off the track and sure enough they have called him out.

:46:21. > :46:28.They have called Cavendish off the race for going off the track. He

:46:29. > :46:32.bangs his handlebars in frustration. He has missed an opportunity to gain

:46:33. > :46:37.more points on his rivals, there. That was a real shame, frustrating.

:46:38. > :46:46.Although he was boxed in and you can't do that, it's clear in the

:46:47. > :46:51.rules. Monteiro, I think the Brazilian is the latest rider out.

:46:52. > :46:56.Yes, Monteiro gets wild applause from the crowd, a decent effort to

:46:57. > :46:59.last this long in the 11 nation race.

:47:00. > :47:06.Disappointments for Cavendish but there are others that have been

:47:07. > :47:08.worse than him tonight. He will still be angry because he hasn't

:47:09. > :47:30.taken full advantage of the situation. I think Zakharov... At

:47:31. > :47:44.rational sprinting, a relentless every 32nd sprint and there is a

:47:45. > :47:48.snow let all, is there?. Down to four, three of the people we thought

:47:49. > :48:01.would be contenders overall are involved in this race right at the

:48:02. > :48:07.business end. Is out, it leaves us with three. The world champion, a

:48:08. > :48:14.former world champion and Viviani. Three classy riders, one more out.

:48:15. > :48:19.He makes a move down the inside, they all nodded off for a moment and

:48:20. > :48:29.Viviani took advantage and slid in on the inside. They are closing in

:48:30. > :48:45.quickly! Viviani is the second rider, trying to come over the top,

:48:46. > :48:51.but Gaviria goes. Fatigue is playing a part now but Gaviria will be

:48:52. > :48:54.fairly happy with that. Who will take the win now and the

:48:55. > :49:00.all-important points? BELL

:49:01. > :49:03.Viviani should be the better sprinter of the two, but it's all

:49:04. > :49:10.about who has got the legs left now and we are about to find out. Boudah

:49:11. > :49:23.of France, the 2014 world champion, or will it be Viviani? Viviani beats

:49:24. > :49:36.him to the line! He showed his class and wins the elimination race in the

:49:37. > :49:43.men's omnium. It means that Boudah is in the lead overall, Elia Viviani

:49:44. > :49:50.in second place and Mark Cavendish stays in third, but the biggest

:49:51. > :49:59.loser was Lasse Hansen. Jill and Chris down in the mix zone

:50:00. > :50:03.in the velodrome today. Their place overnight ford Mark Cavendish and

:50:04. > :50:08.how will date to play to his strengths? Good afternoon, by the

:50:09. > :50:15.way. Good afternoon. Good morning here at the velodrome. Beautiful

:50:16. > :50:18.crowd in here today to look at the elimination, Surrey, the omnium. We

:50:19. > :50:25.have the women's race coming up as well but we're going to take off in

:50:26. > :50:28.the kilometre. Not necessarily one of his strongest events in this

:50:29. > :50:31.omnium but he has worked really hard in these times events and looks

:50:32. > :50:36.really good in the individual pursuit. Traditionally it's been his

:50:37. > :50:45.weakest element in the omnium but he has been working very hard. His time

:50:46. > :50:54.in the individual event was world-class, let alone in an omnium.

:50:55. > :51:00.For the kilo, probably a short one or two and that will be close to the

:51:01. > :51:06.sharp end of things. The aim is for him to be coming into the points

:51:07. > :51:09.race within striking distance. It's all heavily weighted towards the

:51:10. > :51:14.final event and it is one of his strongest events. The kilometre is

:51:15. > :51:17.your event, you won your first Olympic medal in that therefore it

:51:18. > :51:22.was taken out of the Olympic programme and he probably hasn't

:51:23. > :51:25.been putting in a lot of specific training for the kilometre?

:51:26. > :51:32.Traditionally he hasn't barred from speaking to the coaches, he's been

:51:33. > :51:40.focusing on the pursuit and a flying lap with the kilometre in the

:51:41. > :51:47.middle, but it is a very tactic -- technical event, about lactic acid

:51:48. > :51:52.tolerance. You need a lot of torque to get the bike going in the big

:51:53. > :51:55.gear. He made a very small mistake in the elimination. Had he not done

:51:56. > :52:01.that I would have expected him to be up there in the last two or three.

:52:02. > :52:06.He is a racer, he loves the competition. He is rising to the

:52:07. > :52:12.occasion. We will get our first glimpse of Laura Trott in the omnium

:52:13. > :52:19.today. She starts her defence of her Olympic title, she will ride the

:52:20. > :52:23.scratch race. The scratch race is quite an unpredictable one in

:52:24. > :52:27.general but she is very canny and knows how to ride the event well.

:52:28. > :52:35.She looked in good form in the team pursuit. Anette Edmonson of

:52:36. > :52:39.Australia is also up there. But I think that Laura has a really good

:52:40. > :52:45.chance of winning her fourth Olympic medal. It's a level playing field,

:52:46. > :52:50.they are all coming into this with a bit of fatigue and time to get over

:52:51. > :52:55.that huge effort, she has had a couple of days to get over the huge

:52:56. > :52:58.effort it took to win the gold medal. But now she's coming here and

:52:59. > :53:04.the coaches are saying she's really fresh. She is and they train for

:53:05. > :53:08.this race and they will have a lot in their legs but they won't let it

:53:09. > :53:13.affect them. She's a big event rider, she rises to the occasion and

:53:14. > :53:16.she's been so consistent as well, probably the most consistent

:53:17. > :53:21.performer in the British team in the past few years, consistently winning

:53:22. > :53:26.events at World Championship and World Cup level and it's hard to

:53:27. > :53:30.look beyond Laura for the omnium. Talking about people who deliver on

:53:31. > :53:38.the big stage, no better than Mark Cavendish. This Olympic medal means

:53:39. > :53:42.an awful lot to him. If he can take any kind of Olympic medal home from

:53:43. > :53:47.here it will be a huge success for him. It will and coming into this it

:53:48. > :53:54.was all about and -- a medal of any colour. His mind will be turned

:53:55. > :54:03.towards, if I can get any medal, why can't it be a gold one. He will be

:54:04. > :54:06.doing everything he can. Still very much in striking distance. Let's see

:54:07. > :54:10.what he can do in the kilometre committee will be up on the track

:54:11. > :54:14.very quickly. We're looking at Glen O'Shea from Australia, the world

:54:15. > :54:18.champion four years ago and a member of that team now and he is on the

:54:19. > :54:25.track at the same time as the rider from New Zealand Dylan Kennett, for

:54:26. > :54:28.this one kilometre time trial. It's not just about the time, it's about

:54:29. > :54:34.the position that that time gives you within the field. Kennett moved

:54:35. > :54:40.up the leaderboard yesterday by having his place rectified from the

:54:41. > :54:43.scratch race. He's got his work cut out here. It took the officials a

:54:44. > :54:49.long time to sort that out but better late than never. Four laps of

:54:50. > :54:53.the track from the riders here. This is hit number six, Mark Cavendish in

:54:54. > :55:03.hit number eight of nine. Coming up in a few moments,... A few -- new

:55:04. > :55:07.fastest quarter time for Kennett of New Zealand. He will be buoyed by

:55:08. > :55:13.the results yesterday. O'Shea is strong in this, the track running a

:55:14. > :55:19.little bit slow today we think but he should, despite the slow start,

:55:20. > :55:26.be the better kilometre ride. Kennett is flying here. He was part

:55:27. > :55:33.of the New Zealand quartet in the team pursuit. Beaten for the bronze

:55:34. > :55:42.medal in the end. Enormous ride from him here, Street the head of O'Shea.

:55:43. > :55:49.That is amazingly fast! That is absolutely incredible. That is only

:55:50. > :55:54.just outside Chris Hoy's Olympic record! It is about two is -- two

:55:55. > :55:59.tenths of a second behind that Olympic record from Chris Hoy in asp

:56:00. > :56:05.ends in 2004, the last time this was a stand allowed -- stand-alone event

:56:06. > :56:11.in these Olympic Games. Now as part of a big event, Kennett has come

:56:12. > :56:15.very close to breaking that record! We saw it in the injury and events

:56:16. > :56:20.yesterday when we saw Times posted faster than Sir Bradley Wiggins when

:56:21. > :56:25.he won the Olympic pursuit as a stand-alone discipline. I did not

:56:26. > :56:31.expect to see the injury and is riders here in the middle of an

:56:32. > :56:42.omnium event, so that is incredible by Kennett. Next on the track is

:56:43. > :56:48.Fernando Gavaria from Colombia. I don't think he's shown quite the

:56:49. > :56:52.same level of form so find this condition, and Lasse Hansen, who

:56:53. > :56:58.started like a house on fire in the first two races and then suddenly

:56:59. > :57:03.chucked it all away by being the first man eliminated in that race

:57:04. > :57:07.last night. He gave away 40 points, which was absolutely terrible for

:57:08. > :57:11.his chances. One of the favourites, if not the favourite. That result

:57:12. > :57:16.last night in event number three has put him all the way down from first

:57:17. > :57:23.into fifth place. He needs to turn that into fuel now. He's a solid

:57:24. > :57:27.rider in this event, 1.24 at the Worlds, and he will have to go a

:57:28. > :57:33.novel at first that -- faster if you want to win this event. -- have to

:57:34. > :57:38.go an awful lot faster. It's a very tough event that can leave you in

:57:39. > :57:48.bits at the end of it. Gavaria was second, only hundredths behind him.

:57:49. > :57:52.It should be an evenly matched race. Hansen smarting from yesterday, you

:57:53. > :58:00.can see it in his expression. Such a tight balance between speed and

:58:01. > :58:12.injury and is, this. -- and endurance. The first lap is the most

:58:13. > :58:17.difficult for them, on par with the Worlds over that opening lap. Hansen

:58:18. > :58:21.trying to put himself back into medal contention with a strong ride

:58:22. > :58:26.here as they take the bell with just 250 metres to go. The third and

:58:27. > :58:31.fastest time for Gavaria, fourth quickest for Hansen. Whatever it is

:58:32. > :58:36.they have left they are laying it down there on the track now. Gavaria

:58:37. > :58:42.not going to be second this time. They stay third and fourth fastest

:58:43. > :58:48.so far, with four riders still to go out on the track. That time of Dylan

:58:49. > :58:56.Kennett is quite remarkable, isn't it? If you've just joined our

:58:57. > :59:04.coverage, earlier on, one of the riders wasn't able to start this

:59:05. > :59:15.morning, the Belgian suffering from stomach problems overnight, Jasper

:59:16. > :59:21.De Buyst. We think about food poisoning has put paid to his

:59:22. > :59:36.Olympic omnium challenge. He's really got to tidy up from his place

:59:37. > :59:38.at the worldy -- at the Worlds. He needs a personal best and the

:59:39. > :59:48.rumours are that's what he's been doing in training. Roger Kluge,

:59:49. > :59:51.silver-medallist at the World Championship in London earlier this

:59:52. > :59:56.year. Mark Cavendish was out running at the individual pursuit yesterday.

:59:57. > :00:05.Cavendish not a specialist in this event, not too keen on it. Down in

:00:06. > :00:08.11th in London. This is a different Mark Cavendish, ten seconds passed

:00:09. > :00:12.in the pursuit than his World Championships time, even two

:00:13. > :00:18.kilometres per hour better than he was at the start of this year. A lot

:00:19. > :00:26.of support for Cavendish inside the velodrome here in Rio. Second is to

:00:27. > :00:29.go for heat eight, event four, in the men's omnium. Four laps of the

:00:30. > :00:39.track. And away they go! Very good

:00:40. > :00:46.technique. I'm sure they will have been working on this. Only 20.4 for

:00:47. > :00:54.the first lap. Look at him gritting his teeth. Cavendish settling down

:00:55. > :01:01.on the saddle now, getting on top of the gear, getting into his rhythm,

:01:02. > :01:05.20.2 the time for that opening lap. Cavendish will be winding it up now.

:01:06. > :01:07.Looking to improve on his performance in this event in the

:01:08. > :01:23.World Championship. This is where it really counts. It

:01:24. > :01:30.is where the endurance from the Tour de France will start to pay

:01:31. > :01:36.dividends. Can he keep it going? Halfway round his last lap. Around

:01:37. > :01:43.the banking for the last time. He comes into the finishing straight

:01:44. > :01:48.now. Mark Cavendish, fifth fastest. He has got to be pleased with that.

:01:49. > :01:53.It is an enormous improvement over his performance at the World

:01:54. > :02:07.Championships. That is all you can ask for, a very quick rise. -- ride.

:02:08. > :02:15.It puts him in first place at the moment. But we still have the top

:02:16. > :02:16.two in the standings to go. That is not the correct reflection of where

:02:17. > :02:43.things will be at the end. Cavendish much improved in the timed

:02:44. > :02:44.events here. He hasn't just been specifically preparing for this

:02:45. > :03:06.either. Elia Viviani races for Team Sky. He

:03:07. > :03:13.is a team-mate of Chris Froome. And Thomas Boudat from France. He is

:03:14. > :03:18.just 22 years of age. We saw Boudat on the roads of Yorkshire earlier

:03:19. > :03:24.this year. He finished fourth on the tour of Yorkshire. It is all about

:03:25. > :03:32.the track today. Tenacious in the elimination race. This is where Mark

:03:33. > :03:36.Cavendish might steal some more points over his rivals. Viviani in

:03:37. > :03:51.the white jersey. These two were sprinting it out at

:03:52. > :04:02.the end of the elimination race last night. We are with Viviani now.

:04:03. > :04:07.Seventh and eighth place respectively. Six now for Viviani.

:04:08. > :04:13.He is moving forwards. Boudat is moving backwards. It would be good

:04:14. > :04:24.news for Cavendish if you stayed there. Viviani is going well.

:04:25. > :04:32.Viviani third quickest. Boudat not really gaining ground. Just one

:04:33. > :04:36.place better than he was. Neither of them are stylish but they are

:04:37. > :04:43.putting the power down. A really good ride. Boudat improved a little

:04:44. > :04:49.bit towards the end. 11th quickest. That means an officially that

:04:50. > :04:55.Viviani was the leader on 140 points. Boudat France is second. And

:04:56. > :05:01.down in third Mark Cavendish. Cavendish stays in third place but

:05:02. > :05:04.he is very much in contention here with the defending champion who

:05:05. > :05:15.threw away all those points last night in the elimination race up to

:05:16. > :05:26.four. A very good opening ride this morning. Let's go down to Chris and

:05:27. > :05:30.Jill. Yes, still in third place but a very solid kilo from Mark

:05:31. > :05:40.Cavendish. How happy will he be with that? He was shaking his head. To

:05:41. > :05:46.stay in striking distance of the leaders now, I think he 14 points

:05:47. > :05:51.behind Viviani, he is where he needs to be. With a good performance in

:05:52. > :05:55.the flying lap, that is where he wanted it. This is exactly what he

:05:56. > :05:59.needs. The flying lap coming up later on, the fifth event of the

:06:00. > :06:03.Omnium and then the six event which is the points race where the medals

:06:04. > :06:10.will be decided, it will be absolutely fascinating, isn't it? It

:06:11. > :06:14.is a tactical battle. Hanson is battling his way back up thereafter

:06:15. > :06:20.the elimination race. There are probably five or six guys who could

:06:21. > :06:29.win this. Here he is! I was beginning you up at! How was that?

:06:30. > :06:40.It was horrible. He would catch me in four laps. Where will you go in

:06:41. > :06:49.the flying lap? Wreath-macro 12.7. I will try and break 13. You will be

:06:50. > :06:56.up there. You were looking great. That pursuit was amazing. With chalk

:06:57. > :07:06.on the hands, you are a proper specialist now. I love it. What did

:07:07. > :07:16.you think of the kiwi? He is like a big non-ginger Ed Clancy! He is good

:07:17. > :07:24.at that sort of stuff. Everyone was in the scratch. People think he is a

:07:25. > :07:29.jack of all trades. It is not a habitat along, it is modern

:07:30. > :07:33.pentathlon style, except six events. You do your first five and then a

:07:34. > :07:41.handicap. You will know once you get to the points race what you will

:07:42. > :07:46.have to do. I know anyway. It is difficult. It is how Viviani goes.

:07:47. > :07:50.He is not an attacking rider. He rides very defensively. He likes to

:07:51. > :07:52.put himself first and follow everything. The worst thing that

:07:53. > :07:59.could happen was him being first. He will follow me. He will follow

:08:00. > :08:03.second and third place. You have to remember that 20 points is the

:08:04. > :08:11.difference between, it is tenth position in one event but it is only

:08:12. > :08:18.one lap in the points. If he gets a lap back, if he is down, people will

:08:19. > :08:26.let him go. It is all down two points. You will be all right! You

:08:27. > :08:31.look fitter than most riders here! I will let you go and get ready for

:08:32. > :08:37.the flying lap, thank you very much. He thinks you look fit, Chris! It is

:08:38. > :08:42.great to see him in good form. He looks relaxed. He is right, it is

:08:43. > :08:48.all about the points race at the end. Let's go back to Hazel. Thank

:08:49. > :08:52.you. I think that was the interview of the Games. Thank you, guys. We

:08:53. > :08:57.will be back to the Bella dreamed to see Laura Trott just before three

:08:58. > :09:02.o'clock your time. I am in a nether world between British time and

:09:03. > :09:12.Brazilian time but it is still morning here -- we will be back to

:09:13. > :09:18.the velodrome. We have been following the fortunes of the open

:09:19. > :09:22.water swimmers. We have been following the fortunes of the 26

:09:23. > :09:30.women in the water. Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain is amongst them.

:09:31. > :09:35.What is the story, Andy and Adrian? So, with about 12 minutes or so to

:09:36. > :09:54.go in this open water 10,000 metre swim, just off Copacabana beach,

:09:55. > :10:03.news is that Sharon Van Rouwendaal the Netherlands has made a lead.

:10:04. > :10:18.With the Sprint, Keri-Anne Payne is not in it. You have the Brazilian

:10:19. > :10:28.and the Italian stop and you have the Chinese swimmer and are Lee

:10:29. > :10:41.Miller. Van Rouwendaal, I cannot imagine she will lose this. You have

:10:42. > :10:56.the Italian now in shot with the Black cap, that is Bruni. And I

:10:57. > :11:09.think it is Okimoto being chased by the Chinese swimmer Xin Xin. Aurelie

:11:10. > :11:24.Muller is a brilliant sprinter. There is a big red boy that you can

:11:25. > :11:30.see and they will go, you can just see the, they will do a sprinter.

:11:31. > :11:46.Van Rouwendaal has done it really well. She started really pushing the

:11:47. > :11:55.pace. Absolutely. A brilliant swim by. In fact, Keri-Anne Payne is in

:11:56. > :12:02.sixth or seventh place. She has not been able to get onto the feet of

:12:03. > :12:08.this pack which broke away. We will finish out of the medals, I am

:12:09. > :12:13.pretty sure about that. There is a boat with a line that she needs to

:12:14. > :12:20.take. I am surprised they don't get out of the way. Get out of the way!

:12:21. > :12:26.Goodness me. She did not swim particularly well in the pool but I

:12:27. > :12:33.am sure now... She is going off to the right. The boat at the top of

:12:34. > :12:38.the picture is the line for the finish. This lady Van Rouwendaal is

:12:39. > :12:42.being taken off to the beach. The finishing final will be way left of

:12:43. > :12:47.where she is. The question is whether she has enough of a gap to

:12:48. > :12:53.make up for what has been a loop. She will swim an arc to the finish.

:12:54. > :12:58.That boat is not helpful. She's off to the right. She has gone a good

:12:59. > :13:03.ten metres to the right. That boat needs to get out of her way because

:13:04. > :13:11.they are blocking what she will see now, the red boy to the right. The

:13:12. > :13:19.finishing pack, the Brazilian could be in a medal. Keri-Anne Payne is in

:13:20. > :13:30.that chasing pack. She's fourth or fifth in that chasing pack. Still

:13:31. > :13:34.she is a little bit wide. I would like Van Rouwendaal to come in a

:13:35. > :13:39.little bit. That chasing pack are quick sprinters. It is getting

:13:40. > :13:43.choppy now. I don't think Van Rouwendaal will let this one go now.

:13:44. > :13:49.She was a silver-medallist at the World Championships last year, and

:13:50. > :13:54.she has about what, maybe 150 metres to go? Absolutely. As she comes

:13:55. > :14:01.around the boats and sites it properly, you can see that is the

:14:02. > :14:06.lapping arch. Van Rouwendaal having a great swim towards the end. She

:14:07. > :14:12.will come from the far right and the chasing pack. There are three

:14:13. > :14:16.chasing for two medals. There are some Dutch fans on the beach. They

:14:17. > :14:24.will be looking forward to this because that will be a gold medal

:14:25. > :14:28.for Sharon Van Rouwendaal. She has maybe got 120 metres to go. Sharon

:14:29. > :14:33.Van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands will be Olympic champion on this

:14:34. > :14:38.10,000 metre open water swim. She has picked up the pack. It was

:14:39. > :14:48.relatively pedestrian to halfway and look at this. She will have knocked

:14:49. > :14:52.about ten minutes of the second lap. We can see some of the swell taking

:14:53. > :14:58.swimmers along the beach which might have helped. Van Rouwendaal now

:14:59. > :15:06.coming to the finish. What a great swim. The 22-year-old from the

:15:07. > :15:10.Netherlands, Sharon Van Rouwendaal is going to be Olympic champion on

:15:11. > :15:15.the women's women's 10,000 metre open water. She has two touch that

:15:16. > :15:21.panel and she has. She is Olympic medallist. And look at this scrap

:15:22. > :15:28.for second, third and fourth. The Brazilian Okimoto was in there and

:15:29. > :15:36.also the Italian, Bruni. Goodness me!

:15:37. > :15:49.It was Muller who got in! That's interesting, she nearly got squeezed

:15:50. > :16:00.out by the blue buoy. There is van Rouwendaal, obviously overjoyed.

:16:01. > :16:11.Here is Keri-Anne Payne finishing now. A good swim for her. She was

:16:12. > :16:21.second in Beijing, fourth in London in 2012 and now she is eight I think

:16:22. > :16:24.you said? Difficult to see. But that silver and bronze is so close.

:16:25. > :16:35.Sharon van Rouwendaal is Olympic champion in the women's open water

:16:36. > :16:37.here at the Copacabana in Rio. The silver-medallist only just ahead of

:16:38. > :16:46.the bronze-medallist. Congratulations to the Dutch woman,

:16:47. > :16:48.who swam in the 400 and 800 here without success but 10k is her

:16:49. > :16:58.distance. We're going straight back to the Velodrome, as Laura Trott

:16:59. > :17:06.start the defence of her tidal in the omnium and first it is the

:17:07. > :17:15.scratch race. I laughed Cav's -- I loved Cav's description of this

:17:16. > :17:19.omnium, not so much a ebbed and flowed but a modern pentathlon, five

:17:20. > :17:25.very different events! Laura Trott is the defending champion here in

:17:26. > :17:28.the women's omnium, going for a fourth Olympic medal in total. As

:17:29. > :17:35.you would expect, a very impressive field. And it Edmondson was the

:17:36. > :17:42.world champion last year. Kirsten Field won the Ride London Classique

:17:43. > :17:47.a couple of weeks ago. Sarah Hammer from the United States and other

:17:48. > :17:50.rider to keep an ion. She was world champion twice in the last Olympic

:17:51. > :17:55.cycle and she was the leading rider for the USA in that team pursuit

:17:56. > :17:59.final and really pushed the British quartet to that world record time,

:18:00. > :18:05.which was required in order to take the gold medal. She pushed her own

:18:06. > :18:11.team, Sarah Hammer, doing one that terms like everyone else but kept

:18:12. > :18:17.injecting pace. She will be' looking to go well. Leading off this race as

:18:18. > :18:28.they get under way, a neutralised start, they are all together.

:18:29. > :18:45.Already on the front, from the Netherlands, world champion on the

:18:46. > :18:50.track four years ago, Kerstin Wilde. The favourites near the back at the

:18:51. > :18:54.moment, nobody wants to open it up. -- Kirsten Wild. Different to the

:18:55. > :18:59.points race because there are no prizes for anything other than that

:19:00. > :19:04.last time over the line. If you're trying to pick out Laura Trott,

:19:05. > :19:09.she's just behind the rider from Australia at the moment, hopefully

:19:10. > :19:16.we will see a shot of the peloton. She is in the white skin suit with

:19:17. > :19:27.white helmet and white gloves. The German riding at the front, Anna

:19:28. > :19:33.Knauer the bike camp is on the front of Gonzalez from Venezuela. A good

:19:34. > :19:37.range of countries here in the women's omnium, all four corners of

:19:38. > :19:40.the world fairly represented. And it Edmondson will fancy her chances of

:19:41. > :19:45.being on the podium at the end of the two days of competition. She was

:19:46. > :19:49.the only rider from the women's team pursuit squad from Australia not to

:19:50. > :19:53.hit the deck in that training accident shortly before their

:19:54. > :19:59.competition which ruined their chances. Sarah Hammer just keeping

:20:00. > :20:04.an eye on the opposition, they are all just rolling through, the best

:20:05. > :20:08.way to keep a good position at the front committee just keep tapping

:20:09. > :20:12.through. In these early stages they are happy to roll all the way to the

:20:13. > :20:17.back when they've done their turn, and later on they will start to drop

:20:18. > :20:25.in in 8-10th position. If you're not a cycling follower per se, it is a

:20:26. > :20:33.straightforward race, no elimination, just the first to cover

:20:34. > :20:40.the -- to get over the line. They will get 40 points for first place,

:20:41. > :20:44.38 points for second place etc. Just bumped out of the way by the larger

:20:45. > :20:48.figure of Kirsten Wild from the Netherlands. These cameras really

:20:49. > :20:52.give you a sense of what going on, what it's like to ride on this

:20:53. > :20:59.track, about 45 kilometres per hour at the moment. While it's going

:21:00. > :21:02.around the bottom at a reasonable pace, it's very difficult for anyone

:21:03. > :21:07.to attack, they have to go the long way round. All the riders know that,

:21:08. > :21:13.so they are happy to do very short terms and keep peeling off. Laura

:21:14. > :21:20.Trott following the wheel of Sarah Hammer. 31 laps to go. Still no real

:21:21. > :21:28.acceleration off the front. The first sighting of the drinks and

:21:29. > :21:39.from Denmark, a very exciting talent, 22 years of age. A former

:21:40. > :21:46.road race champion, Amalie Dideriksen. Already the favourites

:21:47. > :21:51.starting to watch each other. Given that she is a marked rider, Laura

:21:52. > :21:55.Trott, her consistency of performance in this event is all the

:21:56. > :22:00.more remarkable, isn't it, Chris? It certainly is. Tactically she is

:22:01. > :22:05.excellent but also bike craft is incredible. She managed to make gaps

:22:06. > :22:10.in the field and it's almost like magic when we watch her in the in a

:22:11. > :22:16.nation race, isn't it? Laura won this title four years ago in London

:22:17. > :22:20.and she was the world champion four years ago and she won the title

:22:21. > :22:37.again this year. Twice the world champion in the women's omnium. The

:22:38. > :22:42.Belgian rider at the front, Jolien D'Hoore, also a champion but a few

:22:43. > :22:46.years ago now. This is the first time there have been opportunities

:22:47. > :22:51.for someone... Not everyone here can sprint and not everyone will want it

:22:52. > :22:55.to come down to that final dash for the line, so we will see some

:22:56. > :23:04.attacking and sure enough, the first bit of pace being injected. The site

:23:05. > :23:09.is from Chinese Taipei very near the front. Sarah Hammer, five times

:23:10. > :23:13.world individual pursuit champion and clearly in very good form coming

:23:14. > :23:18.in, given by the way she went in the team pursuit of yellow and she can

:23:19. > :23:25.sprint as well. Certainly worth noting. Not afraid of a bit of

:23:26. > :23:28.bumping and shoving. She will be gutted after losing out in the world

:23:29. > :23:34.team pursuit because the Americans are the world champions, just edged

:23:35. > :23:38.out by Great Britain. The British quartet smashed the world record to

:23:39. > :23:42.win that gold medal but Sarah Hammer still looking for her first Olympic

:23:43. > :23:48.title. Three silver medals to her name so far, as Kirsten Wild from

:23:49. > :23:52.the Netherlands takes the peloton around. All still happy to keep

:23:53. > :23:58.rolling through and doing their share of the work with just 23 laps

:23:59. > :24:03.remaining. KG so far in the opening event in this women's omnium. All

:24:04. > :24:12.together on the track. Laura Trott halfway back in the field. Riders in

:24:13. > :24:19.turn hit the front and peel off, allowing the next rider through.

:24:20. > :24:24.Trott happy to stay with Edmondson all the time, she may have

:24:25. > :24:27.identified her as a rider on form to watch, she certainly has a pedigree

:24:28. > :24:35.in this competition. Laura leading the way. Just rolling through. You

:24:36. > :24:38.see those very narrow handlebars she has on this bike and those are one

:24:39. > :24:45.of the things that helps her get through those smaller gaps. Looking

:24:46. > :24:49.down on the field, choosing where to slot back in, she's gone all the way

:24:50. > :24:54.to the back on this one. Nobody putting in a real burst of

:24:55. > :24:59.acceleration. The first person to accelerate generally loses out, so

:25:00. > :25:04.if someone is going to sacrifice themselves, the next attacker may

:25:05. > :25:11.have a chance of succeeding. Sarah Hammer peels off, as does the Cuban

:25:12. > :25:18.rider coming through on the inside. Already we are back with Lauren

:25:19. > :25:23.Ellis of New Zealand and now Annette Edmondson of Australia, a goal, a

:25:24. > :25:29.silver and two bronze medals in the World Championship. She finally won

:25:30. > :25:31.the title last year. We are approaching a really interesting

:25:32. > :25:36.point in the race now because if you want to get a move away, now is

:25:37. > :25:42.where you've got to go. And that's exactly what's happening here, with

:25:43. > :25:50.the athlete from Belarus having a go here and with her is Gonzalez of

:25:51. > :26:00.Venezuela. With ten laps to go they start to think about the sprint so

:26:01. > :26:07.right now is the time to attack. Was She the world champion in the points

:26:08. > :26:11.race in 2011. Gonzalez with a lot of experience as well. Those two have

:26:12. > :26:15.got about a quarter of a lap on the rest of the field. The pace is

:26:16. > :26:20.lifting behind, they sensed the danger and no one is letting this

:26:21. > :26:23.go. Everyone happy to do a bit of chasing. I don't think they're going

:26:24. > :26:29.to make it but this could be the catalyst seeing this as successful

:26:30. > :26:38.move. This has really sparked into life now, Sharakova at the front.

:26:39. > :26:41.Almost the length of the back straight the difference between the

:26:42. > :26:46.two at the front and the chasing pack. Once they come to ten laps,

:26:47. > :26:50.that's the critical point where they change over because you've only got

:26:51. > :26:54.one effort, you have to choose is it sprint or break away? That is when

:26:55. > :26:58.we see their hesitation and they are rapidly approaching that point now.

:26:59. > :27:11.Stick or twist, and Laura Trott at the front of the main field. Then

:27:12. > :27:18.Sarah Hammer from the United States and the gap staying pretty much the

:27:19. > :27:23.same but Sharakova looks stronger than Gonzalez, who cannot stay on

:27:24. > :27:27.her wheel. Sharakova with 12 laps to go has actually opened up her lead a

:27:28. > :27:30.little here. They've just got to that point we've been talking about

:27:31. > :27:34.and now behind they are starting to think if I start chasing, I'm not

:27:35. > :27:38.going to be good for the sprint. They've managed to get themselves to

:27:39. > :27:42.the safe zone and they've got about four or five laps to make this

:27:43. > :27:46.stick, otherwise they will be caught up in the sprint. It's looking very

:27:47. > :27:50.good at the moment. It's looking very good for Sharakova, it looks as

:27:51. > :27:55.if she'd find it particularly well. Once they really start to wind it up

:27:56. > :27:58.for the sprint in the main field, that gap will close, but Sharakova

:27:59. > :28:02.just has too hope she's far enough in front. It's half a lap and I

:28:03. > :28:06.don't know how much she's got left, but there is still a fair chunk of

:28:07. > :28:11.racing to go but less than three minutes remaining. An awful long way

:28:12. > :28:14.for a rider in an event like this but they are starting to look at

:28:15. > :28:22.each other behind and they've almost given up on this one. They've swept

:28:23. > :28:26.up Gonzalez, she's now back in the main field and just the one rider at

:28:27. > :28:30.the front, there she is, the crowd are loving this, great stuff from

:28:31. > :28:35.Sharakova in this opening event. We're going to see two races here,

:28:36. > :28:41.one for the win and perhaps they dash to see who gets that second

:28:42. > :28:45.placed. A big crash! A sizeable percentage of the field down but

:28:46. > :28:48.Laura Trott is OK. She was towards the back of the field and she is

:28:49. > :29:00.still in this race. We have Alison Beveridge down on the ground and

:29:01. > :29:03.Anna Knauer is also down. Sharakova about to make the junction. She is

:29:04. > :29:11.tantalisingly close to making the main field. They've got to get back

:29:12. > :29:16.into this race quickly because once it gets to the last kilometre,

:29:17. > :29:20.you're not allowed to re-enter. Laura Trott trying to stay out of

:29:21. > :29:25.trouble at the front, for laps to go in this opening race as Lauren Ellis

:29:26. > :29:29.goes around the outside. The Cuban in third place and there are the two

:29:30. > :29:33.riders who fell, thankfully OK and back in the action here on the

:29:34. > :29:38.track. Laura Trott nicely placed, second position but she looks

:29:39. > :29:42.comfortable. Hannah is coming down the outside and they have to be

:29:43. > :29:49.careful not to get boxed in. Moving up onto the shoulder of Kirsten

:29:50. > :29:53.Wild, going around the outside. Laura Trott holding her own there

:29:54. > :29:58.and just pushing to the front with two laps to go, she's going to take

:29:59. > :30:00.it on. Two laps to go and the sprint is almost on between these riders

:30:01. > :30:55.now, Laura Trott, Lauren Sharakova was the winner of that

:30:56. > :31:00.spread but overall it was Laura Trott. Sarah Hammer showed fantastic

:31:01. > :31:06.form but got herself caught up in some traffic. By the time she got to

:31:07. > :31:11.the front, the Sprint had started. Brilliant start for Laura Trott.

:31:12. > :31:18.Fairplay to Sharakova, timing her move. Laura Trott off to a very

:31:19. > :31:22.strong start for the defence of her Olympic title. Hazel Irvine macro

:31:23. > :31:38.great start for her. Normally, it is about heat in the

:31:39. > :31:45.morning session of athletics, but it is very refreshing to have finals as

:31:46. > :31:48.well. This is one of them, the women's 3000 metres steeplechase.

:31:49. > :31:56.Steve Cram and Paula Radcliffe, over to you.

:31:57. > :32:12.May be all of the talk was a little bit tremor chore. -- a bit

:32:13. > :32:17.premature. Welcome to everyone on BBC One. This semifinal was billed

:32:18. > :32:24.as being one where we could have another world record. We had Wade

:32:25. > :32:33.van Niekerk in the 400 metres last night. They have started a bit

:32:34. > :32:42.slowly here, Paula. It is slow through this first lap. Hull it is

:32:43. > :32:48.very slow. That may cost them with a little bit of a stumble there. I

:32:49. > :32:58.think we all expected her to run hard. We have the world record last

:32:59. > :33:02.night with the women -- we had the world record last night and with the

:33:03. > :33:38.women's 10,000 metres. It is the women's hammer final here

:33:39. > :33:45.in the stadium. She has let rip here. It is enormous. It is a world

:33:46. > :34:01.record. That is way beyond 80 metres. Highly anticipated.

:34:02. > :34:11.I heard a rumour that she had nine boiled eggs for breakfast. That is

:34:12. > :34:20.what it does for you. Absolute perfection. Wonderful technique.

:34:21. > :34:26.Powerful, boys, river. She has thrown the hammer further than

:34:27. > :34:33.anyone in in the history of this bought at the Olympic Games. A new

:34:34. > :34:39.world record. Let's look back at what happened in the second round.

:34:40. > :34:44.Sophie Hitchon, she had a foul. She hit the right-hand post in the first

:34:45. > :34:51.round. But she really got onto this throw in the second round. It is a

:34:52. > :34:57.big season's best for Sophie. And a celebration for her coach. He loved

:34:58. > :35:06.it. She has got herself in amongst it. That throw of Sophie Hitchon,

:35:07. > :35:14.73.29, a big season's best. She is in bronze medal position at the

:35:15. > :35:26.halfway stage. She produced a big throw. And three throws remaining.

:35:27. > :35:33.There is confirmation of a third-place.

:35:34. > :35:37.Well, a world record already set this morning in the hammer and all

:35:38. > :35:46.of a sudden, this people trace final has come alive. There was talk of a

:35:47. > :35:56.world record attempt in the steeplechase. A very slow first lap

:35:57. > :36:12.but now it has picked up. The world record is eight .58,

:36:13. > :36:23.Jebet is on it. She took off so fast and she nearly caught the defending

:36:24. > :36:29.champion napping and she is right back there in sixth place now,

:36:30. > :36:35.Habiba Ghribi. She has struggled. She has tried to get back towards

:36:36. > :36:48.the line but she has not been able to do that. Jebet is making it look

:36:49. > :36:51.very easy. When she takes these barriers, sometimes she comes off

:36:52. > :37:08.balance. She is looking about the big screen.

:37:09. > :37:19.Next time they come round will be the 2000 metre mark. A long way

:37:20. > :37:26.round. A lot of them have been caught out. It is the two Kenyans at

:37:27. > :37:42.the moment with Emma Cockburn trying to run them down. She might have a

:37:43. > :37:48.chance. She might have a chance. The last kilometre was ahead of

:37:49. > :37:56.world-record place. Incredible running here from Ruth Jebet. She

:37:57. > :38:02.has done this all season long and certainly, the tent with which she

:38:03. > :38:08.is attacking this shows she is capable of it. She has always been

:38:09. > :38:12.worried about her finish and she does not hurdle as well as some of

:38:13. > :38:19.the others but she has the ability and confidence. She is running so

:38:20. > :38:24.strongly here and we could be heading for something very special.

:38:25. > :38:31.She has a big lead and it is all about her and the clock. The

:38:32. > :38:35.technique is not great. I think the women can get away with it more than

:38:36. > :38:41.the men because the barrier is lower than in the men's steeplechase. She

:38:42. > :38:46.knows if she loses time and starters coming into it, but that is better

:38:47. > :38:50.than when I saw her run-in America earlier this year. She seems to have

:38:51. > :38:55.improved a little bit. She will have gained confidence from seeing how

:38:56. > :39:00.big the gap is behind her but she will know she is on track for a

:39:01. > :39:08.world record. Bahrain have not won a gold medal in women's athletics on

:39:09. > :39:13.the track. Just watch this from Jebet now. She is running very

:39:14. > :39:25.strong, she has a huge lead. Emma Coburn in the bronze medal position.

:39:26. > :39:38.She has got to run a 72 and the water jump as well. She has got to

:39:39. > :39:43.go here. Little bit less of 400 metres to go because of the inside

:39:44. > :39:50.water jump. She is capable of doing this. She takes the water jump the

:39:51. > :39:56.best. If she can get through this 200-metre mark and maintain her form

:39:57. > :40:03.over the last couple of barriers, she can do this. She has 200 metres

:40:04. > :40:08.to go. She needs to run 33 or 34 seconds. She has to find something a

:40:09. > :40:13.little bit extra. She has to carry momentum through the water jump. She

:40:14. > :40:18.has one more barrier to take. She is going to win the gold medal for

:40:19. > :40:24.Bahrain. The question is, can she break the world record? She stutters

:40:25. > :40:29.into it. She has a great chance here. She is almost jogging. She is

:40:30. > :40:34.looking at the clock, she is not bothered about the world record, it

:40:35. > :40:40.will slip by. It is the gold medal for Bahrain! She runs under nine

:40:41. > :40:46.minutes. I cannot understand that! A brilliant performance from Emma

:40:47. > :40:55.Coburn to take the bronze behind Beatrice Chepkoech. It is as if

:40:56. > :41:00.Jebet said I have come to win the gold medal. She sauntered off the

:41:01. > :41:05.last barrier, enjoyed the moment, and joy winning the gold medal and

:41:06. > :41:11.becoming Olympic champion. She was not bothered about the world record.

:41:12. > :41:16.She had no clue she was on track the world record and she was just

:41:17. > :41:20.enjoying it, she almost started her victory lap lap earlier. She had

:41:21. > :41:23.over ten seconds to get off the barrier and break the world record

:41:24. > :41:27.and she just dropped in. She will regret that when she looks back and

:41:28. > :41:32.sees the replays but that was an amazing run from Emma Coburn as

:41:33. > :41:39.well. She was challenging for the silver medal. She just could not

:41:40. > :41:46.quite get there in the straight. A look at Jebet now coming down these

:41:47. > :41:51.great. She did stutter. She's looking up at the screen and she is

:41:52. > :41:56.looking to see the she has won ended she has enough time to ease off and

:41:57. > :42:02.celebrate taking that Olympic gold back to Bahrain. Now she will think

:42:03. > :42:08.I did run quite fast. She did not give the clock a single look. I

:42:09. > :42:13.don't think she knew. We were told she would go out at hard record

:42:14. > :42:18.pace. Maybe she just thought I will one hard which is what she did. She

:42:19. > :42:23.is just checking where everybody is, I will enjoy my moment, not one

:42:24. > :42:29.glance to a clock. She missed it by less than a second. She will break

:42:30. > :42:40.it. She definitely will break it. A gold medal for Bahrain. A brilliant

:42:41. > :42:46.run from Ruth Jebet. And what about Emma Coburn? A great bronze medal

:42:47. > :42:55.for the American. A great bronze medal and an American record.

:42:56. > :43:03.Emma Coburn just could not quite get the silver medal but is rewarded

:43:04. > :43:11.with a three second personal best and another American record.

:43:12. > :43:22.Ruth, congratulations on a wonderful gold medal. Give me your reaction

:43:23. > :43:26.first of all? The race was fine. It is my first Olympics but I manage

:43:27. > :43:34.it. I was ahead and winning it and I win. I congratulate myself!

:43:35. > :43:42.Congratulations! Did you realise you were so close to the world record? I

:43:43. > :43:46.miss it twice. We saw as you came over the last barrier that if you

:43:47. > :43:57.had sprinted for the line you would have had the world record. I was

:43:58. > :44:02.considering the medal. Today it was a medal. It is an amazing

:44:03. > :44:09.performance, congratulations. I am sure the world record will come.

:44:10. > :44:17.Thank you, thank you. I am convinced that world record

:44:18. > :44:23.will come. The time has come down. It is a national record. And almost

:44:24. > :44:32.a world record. The most important thing is it is the gold medal for

:44:33. > :44:45.Bahrain. Jepkemoi got the silver. And Emma Coburn gets the bronze.

:44:46. > :44:56.She is in fifth place so far. That is beyond 70 metres. It looks as if

:44:57. > :45:03.it has gone beyond Heathrow throw of Sophie Hitchon. I have to share that

:45:04. > :45:09.she is a previously convicted drug cheat. It leaves a bit of a bad

:45:10. > :45:18.taste in your mouth. Sophie Hitchon looking on can respond to that.

:45:19. > :45:27.Just beyond that line for the Moldovan, 28 years of age, national

:45:28. > :45:32.record-holder. We are in round four and 73.50 does go into third place.

:45:33. > :45:39.Sophie Hitchon, then. She will need to find a little bit more if she

:45:40. > :45:46.can. Down the left centre, is it? Just in the sector. She didn't quite

:45:47. > :45:52.get that right and it was close to her best, so, like I say, that's

:45:53. > :45:58.something she can take heart from. She knows she didn't quite get onto

:45:59. > :46:01.that. Just slightly off-balance. It's all about getting the low point

:46:02. > :46:14.in the right position, that is where the throwers get their power from.

:46:15. > :46:24.Pushed down from that throw. Sophie in the same place as she was last

:46:25. > :46:32.year, as Weise the Zhang of China. -- as we see Zhang of China. A

:46:33. > :46:38.massive world record, 82.29 surely no one can do anything about that,

:46:39. > :46:47.even Zhang, the next best in the world, her throat just shy of 75.

:46:48. > :46:55.World silver-medallist last year. Bronze-medallist in 2013 also. So,

:46:56. > :47:10.Zhang, good at picking up the minor medals. I don't suppose you have

:47:11. > :47:17.much choice when you have the likes of Anita Wlodarczyk throwing world

:47:18. > :47:25.records. Well, where do you go from a world record. 82.20 nine, two

:47:26. > :47:34.throws over 20 metres. Six metres in the lead. -- Anita Wlodarczyk.

:47:35. > :47:40.That's pretty impressive. A commanding performance, a brilliant

:47:41. > :47:45.effort. Can she improve on it? Oh! Just clipped the right-hand side.

:47:46. > :47:54.It's another massive throw. Red flag, foul, two throws remaining.

:47:55. > :47:59.Sophie, fairly fair skinned Sophie, she will do everything she can to

:48:00. > :48:03.stay out of the heat, 34 degrees. The sun pretty high in the sky now

:48:04. > :48:09.and Sophie is in third place after round four.

:48:10. > :48:16.COMMENTATOR: Sophie Hitchon, the ballet dancer from Burnley, that's

:48:17. > :48:21.how she started out. She just missed out on a medal last time and how

:48:22. > :48:28.cruel it would be if she missed out again. She would probably have to

:48:29. > :48:32.throw another British record to maybe snatch that bronze medal, but

:48:33. > :48:37.what an incredible competition. Great athletics for everyone to

:48:38. > :48:45.witness. She's going to have to dig deep, big heart, and she has got

:48:46. > :48:53.that. It's 35 degrees out there, so for Jebet to miss out on that world

:48:54. > :48:59.record by about a second, it is boiling, that is an extraordinary

:49:00. > :49:04.race to witness. The first lap she didn't appear to know this was a

:49:05. > :49:13.final and then she starts upping the pace and missed out on a world

:49:14. > :49:17.record by one second LEXI was like, I've got something to do here, and

:49:18. > :49:20.she just picked it up. I don't think she knew she was on full world

:49:21. > :49:27.record pace at the end because she could have easily broken it. She is

:49:28. > :49:33.19, she's got plenty of time! OK, it's the one lap hurdles now, 400

:49:34. > :49:36.metre hurdles heats for men about to get under way, so let's join the

:49:37. > :49:40.first one and your commentator is Andrew Cotter.

:49:41. > :49:47.COMMENTATOR: Thank you. Very warm in here, very still. A sunny day in

:49:48. > :49:53.Millport, quite a niche comment for you there. One absentee from the

:49:54. > :50:06.men's 400 metre hurdles is the quickest in the world this year, who

:50:07. > :50:13.fell victim to the very harsh US trials, Johnny Dutch. Clement did

:50:14. > :50:17.make it come he has the inside lane, although the inside lane here is

:50:18. > :50:21.lane two, not quite as snug as it might otherwise be. There is the

:50:22. > :50:34.full line-up for this first six heats.

:50:35. > :50:57.Some very good one lap hurdlers. There is Geoffrey Gibson, won the

:50:58. > :51:10.Pan title last year. -- Jeffrey Gibson. Kerron Clement. He was

:51:11. > :51:15.behind Angelo Taylor in Beijing. Without Johnny Dutch, he is the

:51:16. > :51:21.quickest in the world this year. Johnny Dutch has retired, 27, and

:51:22. > :51:29.gone into film-making. He just said he couldn't make it financially in

:51:30. > :51:33.athletics. Compared with other sports and the financial rewards

:51:34. > :51:41.that are, it's not necessarily that way in athletics. The Brazilian

:51:42. > :51:42.champion is in lane three, Marcio Teles, there will be a good deal of

:51:43. > :52:02.noise for him. Matsushita on the outside as well.

:52:03. > :52:05.They are all quick but surely if Clement avoids any pitfalls over the

:52:06. > :52:10.barriers he will have plenty enough to go through here as one of the

:52:11. > :52:14.three automatic qualifiers. Jeffrey Gibson is in also some trouble

:52:15. > :52:18.already. He's made a dreadful, dreadful start. Unless he produces

:52:19. > :52:29.something miraculous, he's not going to go through here. Matsushita of

:52:30. > :52:37.Japan in lane four. Three to go through automatically and it will be

:52:38. > :52:43.these three, surely, unless the Nigerian, Ukaoma, can go through.

:52:44. > :52:48.Jeffrey Gibson see that he can still go through as one of the top three.

:52:49. > :52:55.Clement in third, but it was an untidy race certainly from Jeffrey

:52:56. > :52:59.Gibson and Kerron Clement as well. It went horribly wrong over the

:53:00. > :53:07.first couple of barriers for Gibson, so he is out, and Kerron Clement

:53:08. > :53:10.makes it but looking for a slightly tidier stride pattern. Which is

:53:11. > :53:16.always what you're looking for in hurdles. Already by this stage,

:53:17. > :53:21.Jeffrey Gibson is gone. Yes, the 400 metre hurdles, it's vital to have a

:53:22. > :53:24.good, fluent stride pattern. It's unfortunate for these guys because

:53:25. > :53:29.there's no real respite for them. You're trying to get that stride

:53:30. > :53:33.pattern in but you tend to have to work all the time until you come off

:53:34. > :53:40.the final barrier and that's the only stage you can slow down. A

:53:41. > :53:47.fantastic performance from the month Nigerian, Ukaoma. He set a national

:53:48. > :53:53.record there and he cruised through, didn't he? We are seeing some very

:53:54. > :54:04.quick times, national records. We've seen some world records.

:54:05. > :54:20.They are the qualifiers. Back to this compelling women's hammer

:54:21. > :54:26.final. Betty Heidler, The German team captain winds it up in round

:54:27. > :54:31.five. A strange reaction there but that is a better throw for the

:54:32. > :54:36.German. World champion in 2007 by just two centimetres, and it's going

:54:37. > :54:42.to come down to centimetres here for the bronze medal. That looked as

:54:43. > :54:49.though it may have gone beyond the throw and may now go down into fifth

:54:50. > :54:59.as a result of his -- this throw. You can see the need for balance.

:55:00. > :55:06.73.71, it is enough to go into third place. Fractions separating

:55:07. > :55:18.positions three, four and five. Sophie, then, 73.29 in the second

:55:19. > :55:22.round. Very quick. She needs to be. She's not quite as strong as many of

:55:23. > :55:31.the other throwers but she's very good technically. Slightly down

:55:32. > :55:39.around 72 metres, is it? Her best putting her in fifth place. In third

:55:40. > :55:45.place, 73.70 one. Half a metre down on what she needs, to get back into

:55:46. > :55:49.bronze medal position, with one throw remaining. No improvement in

:55:50. > :56:00.round five Sophie Hitchon. Here is the event leader. 82.29, a world

:56:01. > :56:08.record in round three, has she done even more, maybe? Look at that! What

:56:09. > :56:13.a series, the best ever. She has broken her own world record here in

:56:14. > :56:19.the Olympic final. She has got one hand on the gold here in Rio,

:56:20. > :56:29.silver-medallist four years ago behind the Russian, one of the

:56:30. > :56:36.athletes who have been subsequently banned. But not confirm that Anita

:56:37. > :56:40.Wlodarczyk will take the gold from 2012, so this may be a second gold

:56:41. > :56:45.medal eventually, but almost assured here in Rio, another throw beyond

:56:46. > :56:51.her previous world record, and a series that is the best in history.

:56:52. > :56:58.Well, a brilliant hammer competition going on there, into the final

:56:59. > :57:03.round. Can Sophie Hitchon sneak a medal there? You can see the new

:57:04. > :57:19.European champion, there will be a huge cheer for Suguimati of Brazil

:57:20. > :57:30.in lane one. The top three to advance, Alejandro Pozuelo as well.

:57:31. > :57:34.There is her -- Hussein. There is Suguimati, the former South American

:57:35. > :57:43.champion. Brazilian mother, Japanese father. Getting a great reception

:57:44. > :57:50.here from the locals. A decent crowd here this morning, certainly not

:57:51. > :58:02.full by any standards but a decent crowd, which is good to see. A great

:58:03. > :58:06.morning's athletics. So, Capella, running for Turkey, in lane five. A

:58:07. > :58:27.new Turkish national record. The former Cuban.

:58:28. > :58:41.Hussein got away very quickly, in lane two. Already up on the, Ross

:58:42. > :58:46.Islands athlete. Copello, in lane five leading it at the moment.

:58:47. > :58:59.Hussein just falters off that hurdle down the back straight. Copello

:59:00. > :59:06.going well and on the outside, Jagor from Estonia. Just the top three in

:59:07. > :59:10.this and it is the Brazilian, Sugimati, coming into contention on

:59:11. > :59:13.the inside. Copello taking it a bit easy the last and then Callejon dry

:59:14. > :59:20.will get back on, who will get third? It's tight on the line. He

:59:21. > :59:26.may have just taken it on the far side, Jagor of Estonia finished

:59:27. > :59:31.strongly again. Hussein was nowhere, bad performance from him, all over

:59:32. > :59:38.the shop. Copello, no problems for him. We will try to clear up who got

:59:39. > :59:41.third. Copello looked pretty comfortable. Yes, I watched him at

:59:42. > :59:46.the European Championships when he won that title and he was very

:59:47. > :59:50.smooth there. I think he was just cruising down the back straight. He

:59:51. > :59:55.made 13 strides and looked very relaxed. You may have heard a big

:59:56. > :59:59.cheer go up and Brazil are happy because they got the third place in

:00:00. > :00:04.that heat. Can Sophie Hitchon get a third place in this hammer? You can

:00:05. > :00:10.throw your hat over the distances in positions three, four and five.

:00:11. > :00:13.Unfortunately for Sophie, she is in the fifth place, but within reach of

:00:14. > :00:26.a medal here. She's keen to get into the cage.

:00:27. > :00:35.There is a bit of a hold-up here. No improvement for Betty Heidler in

:00:36. > :00:48.this final round. She is in the bronze medal position, the German,

:00:49. > :00:54.32-year-old. In fourth place, Sophie Hitchon, 11th four years ago, that

:00:55. > :00:58.is the best ever a female hammer thrower has done at an Olympic

:00:59. > :01:06.Games. She is already set to make history here. She winds it up. Last

:01:07. > :01:17.role of the dice for Sophie Hitchon. Is it big enough? It is! Sophie

:01:18. > :01:26.Hitchon has saved her best for last! What an effort. That is close to 75

:01:27. > :01:34.metres. It is a new lifetime best in 74.54. In the last round, a British

:01:35. > :01:38.record for the 25-year-old. What a wonderful throw. She is guaranteed

:01:39. > :01:58.the bronze medal. Her coach can hardly believe it.

:01:59. > :02:03.Here is he reaction to that distance. Absolutely brilliant! For

:02:04. > :02:11.a year ago in the World Championships. She has gone one

:02:12. > :02:16.better. What an effort as well. It is the last round of the

:02:17. > :02:22.competition. There is the reaction from her coach. We have seen a world

:02:23. > :02:29.record and a medal for a Brit, the first time ever in Britain has taken

:02:30. > :02:39.a medal in the winning's hammer. And it is Britain's Sophie Hitchon who

:02:40. > :02:42.has done it in style. A competitive effort. She makes it all the more

:02:43. > :02:47.impressive with a new national record. She is already celebrating.

:02:48. > :02:54.The competition isn't over yet. But she is guaranteed a bronze.

:02:55. > :03:02.Brilliant stuff for Sophie. I say it is not over, the medals have been

:03:03. > :03:09.placed and we are 100% certain it is Anita Wlodarczyk now. We can say she

:03:10. > :03:17.is the Olympic gold-medallist. She had a world record on her third

:03:18. > :03:19.attempt. Can she go even further? Bank on 80. Made that look really

:03:20. > :03:33.easy. Incredible stuff. Anita easy. Incredible stuff. Anita

:03:34. > :03:38.Wlodarczyk, well, she has absolutely cemented her legacy. The greatest

:03:39. > :03:46.ever female hammer thrower without a shadow of the doubt. A world record

:03:47. > :03:52.in Alan Olympic final. -- in an Olympic final. That is the stuff

:03:53. > :04:00.dreams are made of. Sophie Hitchon, she cannot believe it. An emotional

:04:01. > :04:03.moment. Throwing in Britain has seen medals in the past, mainly in the

:04:04. > :04:10.javelin with Tessa Sanderson and Fatima Whitbread but never in

:04:11. > :04:21.hammer. But she has now because Sophie Hitchon has done just that.

:04:22. > :04:32.And Olympic bronze medal. Steve, this is an incredible moment, look

:04:33. > :04:36.at the smile on her face. She has so much potential, to come into the

:04:37. > :04:50.arena on a morning like this, Anita Wlodarczyk throws the world record,

:04:51. > :04:57.save the best sea -- save the best till last. Classy. Look at her

:04:58. > :05:08.coach, what it means to him. Fifth place going into that and hours and

:05:09. > :05:13.hours and hours. Steve, just a word for someone I know who will be

:05:14. > :05:18.watching this, Paul Dickenson who has sat in this commentary box for

:05:19. > :05:23.years and would have loved to have watched Sophie Hitchon here live.

:05:24. > :05:30.I'm sure he will be watching, best wishes to you, Paul. What a moment

:05:31. > :05:46.for British hammer throwing. Look at this. There is the result.

:05:47. > :05:52.Zhang of China takes silver as she did in the World Championships. And

:05:53. > :06:02.for Sophie Hitchon, a new British record.

:06:03. > :06:08.Onto heat three of the men's 400 metre hurdles. Six seats in this

:06:09. > :06:17.first round. Three automatic qualifiers go through. Here we will

:06:18. > :06:26.be looking at Javier Culson. The young talent from Norway goes in

:06:27. > :06:29.lane two. There is Javier Culson. He got bronze in London behind Sanchez

:06:30. > :06:57.and Michael Tinsley. Culson ran very well when he was in

:06:58. > :07:04.the Olympic Stadium last month for the Anniversary Games. Moving along

:07:05. > :07:11.well at the moment. Karsten Warholm, the 20-year-old Norwegian is going

:07:12. > :07:20.very quickly as well. He was a very talented junior decathlon athlete.

:07:21. > :07:26.The rhythm is there, the same stride pattern and this is a very strong

:07:27. > :07:30.run from Karsten Warholm. Three to go through automatically. Cool from

:07:31. > :07:39.beginning to pick up the pace a little bit. A battle between Cato

:07:40. > :07:45.and Magi. I think Cato might have got third place. A good race. We

:07:46. > :07:53.have talked about his talent, Karsten Warholm, and he really is.

:07:54. > :07:57.Another chunk has come off the Norwegian record. What a wonderful

:07:58. > :08:02.run from Karsten Warholm. Javier Culson looking up at the screen

:08:03. > :08:10.quizzically. That was a wonderful run from the young Norwegian. A

:08:11. > :08:17.brilliant run. He certainly has found his best. This is an event

:08:18. > :08:22.that he will grow into. He will learn how to keep his energy system

:08:23. > :08:26.working far more efficiently when he is working through this stride

:08:27. > :08:31.pattern. Because he is quite new to it it will take time to etch it in.

:08:32. > :08:36.Perhaps two or three years before he is in that group. If he is producing

:08:37. > :08:41.these type of performances already, 48, 49, at the Olympic Games, he

:08:42. > :08:53.will get under the 48 seconds mark very soon. Absolutely.

:08:54. > :09:02.Sophie Hitchon, bronze medal in the women's hammer, a national record

:09:03. > :09:08.for her. She had been in third, she got down to fifth and that is the

:09:09. > :09:13.mark of a true champ, when you absolutely produce your very best at

:09:14. > :09:17.the end there, Denise, to salvage a bronze which she last year missed

:09:18. > :09:22.out on in Beijing. I think she would have felt devastated to come so

:09:23. > :09:27.close again. I absolutely remember the interview she gave to Phil Jones

:09:28. > :09:30.having finished fourth. She was so disappointed, even though it was a

:09:31. > :09:39.great achievement then. Imagine taking that through the winter,

:09:40. > :09:42.through the season. She has been grafting, trying to iron out the

:09:43. > :09:44.chinks in the armour to make sure she was ready for this competition.

:09:45. > :09:53.It is simply fantastic what she has managed to achieve here. Aid its

:09:54. > :09:59.similar to the long jump. The nuances, it was a few centimetres,

:10:00. > :10:04.at a few centimetres, a bit like Greg pulling out that last throw,

:10:05. > :10:11.that is what we love to see, Michael. It is. With all due respect

:10:12. > :10:15.to Usain Bolt, you want to see competition between the athletes,

:10:16. > :10:19.athletes responding to great competitions. Wlodarczyk goes out,

:10:20. > :10:23.breaks the world record, Sophie Hitchon does what she needs to do to

:10:24. > :10:27.get back into the competition and the medal position. Lots of movement

:10:28. > :10:31.back and forth. It is really entertaining for fans to see that as

:10:32. > :10:37.opposed the exhibition. I think that is what sport should be about, it is

:10:38. > :10:41.what athletics be about. When you have eight athletes in a final and

:10:42. > :10:46.you don't know which one will win, anyone's race to win or anyone's

:10:47. > :10:52.competition to take. It is fantastic. And the absolute contrast

:10:53. > :10:58.of her coach with the implacable face of Tenormin in Jell-o was

:10:59. > :11:08.brilliant to see as well. -- Tony miniature low. It is brilliant. It

:11:09. > :11:13.is just about that relationship. They have worked so hard. The

:11:14. > :11:19.coaches feel it as well. It is as much his bronze medal as it is

:11:20. > :11:25.Sophie's. It is a great relationship. We love the big stars

:11:26. > :11:33.of the sport. I love it when someone surprises us and delivers on the big

:11:34. > :11:37.occasion. It is wonderful. Steve Backley, British women have not won

:11:38. > :11:41.a medal for throwing since Tessa Sanderson and Fatima Whitbread, and

:11:42. > :11:46.for Sophie with a background in ballet netball, it is wonderful to

:11:47. > :11:55.find that. How do people find hammer? And she went round the

:11:56. > :12:00.houses, you could say by trying different sports and a ballet

:12:01. > :12:04.dancer. She is not that strong. She is nowhere near as strong as the

:12:05. > :12:08.other competitors and I want to stress that. She has to squeeze

:12:09. > :12:13.every ounce out of what she has got physically to do what she has done

:12:14. > :12:17.today. I think that almost makes the medal even more sweet to do it in

:12:18. > :12:24.the last round as well to show that competitive instinct. She is the

:12:25. > :12:32.all-round ultimate thrower in many ways. We have seen a world record

:12:33. > :12:39.out to 80 metres, but Sophie, really impressive. It takes time to build

:12:40. > :12:42.in hammer. I want to stress that a little bit in commentary but it does

:12:43. > :12:50.take time to build in what she has done today. Great stuff for Sophie

:12:51. > :12:59.Hitchon. Yes, brilliant moments for her and

:13:00. > :13:05.for the British team. I wonder if Sebastian Rodger has had a chance to

:13:06. > :13:19.look at that. He has a tough heat here. He is in lane five. Rodger had

:13:20. > :13:24.to have a bunch of attempts after winning the trials, to get the

:13:25. > :13:29.qualifying time. He managed to do it at the 11th hour and he needs to go

:13:30. > :13:36.well here. The top three will go through. There are fastest loser

:13:37. > :13:41.spots. He started well. I think, one of the questions is about how good

:13:42. > :14:17.Gordon is. Nozawa has gone out crazily fast.

:14:18. > :14:30.How on earth did he steal such a march?

:14:31. > :14:50.Sebastian Rodger will be a little bit disappointed with that, I think.

:14:51. > :14:58.I love your response to the Japanese hurtling off there. He really was on

:14:59. > :15:03.a storming pace. I was watching Sebastien. How his technique was

:15:04. > :15:07.going and how he was gelling everything together. I love the way

:15:08. > :15:15.how he is running off his training leg. This is a field. When some

:15:16. > :15:22.people her to laugh, it upsets your rhythm a little bit because you are

:15:23. > :15:30.not sure where you are. His time there is not a bad time at all.

:15:31. > :15:37.People can sometimes make a mess of this event as we seen on many

:15:38. > :15:43.occasions. I can't say that all of them ran under 50 seconds but he

:15:44. > :15:50.finished strongly enough and he fought for his position, which is

:15:51. > :15:52.really good. He has run 49.6 four. Sorry, 45.64, so at the moment he is

:15:53. > :16:07.a fastest loser. Well, Sophie has been celebrating

:16:08. > :16:12.around the stadium here, the smile hasn't left her face after that

:16:13. > :16:17.wonderful performance for a bronze medal in the last round of the

:16:18. > :16:23.women's hammer. She can't believe it, can she? She's now with Phil

:16:24. > :16:30.Jones to tell us all about it. Well, what a performance it was from

:16:31. > :16:33.Sophie. To pull it out in the last round, the performance of a

:16:34. > :16:37.champion! I said before, training has been going really well, the

:16:38. > :16:42.distance wasn't really expected but to get a bronze medal, I'm just

:16:43. > :16:45.absolutely over the moon. You set the tone really early on with a big

:16:46. > :16:50.fire and got in the medal positions early, were you thinking this could

:16:51. > :16:53.be your day? You never know in hammer, the girls are throwing

:16:54. > :16:57.really well and they can always produce their best in the last

:16:58. > :17:02.round, so I didn't expect that third place would hold at all, I knew I

:17:03. > :17:06.wanted to go further. Just try and execute my technique. I missed it on

:17:07. > :17:10.a view but I thought it was going to go if I kept it going. You dropped

:17:11. > :17:15.to fifth place in the last round, what are you thinking going into the

:17:16. > :17:18.last one? I'm just thinking this is it, last chance, do what I've done

:17:19. > :17:23.in training again and again and again and just execute and I did it!

:17:24. > :17:30.I can't believe it. When the distance went up on the board, what

:17:31. > :17:36.was your reaction? Just, like, I had to, like, double take a bit! It was

:17:37. > :17:43.just incredible! To see the number three and a national record, I

:17:44. > :17:47.couldn't be happier. My coach, Tor, has stuck with me through the bad

:17:48. > :17:51.times and the good times and thank you to everyone for helping me and

:17:52. > :17:54.everyone at home, my mum, my family, the National Lottery and all the

:17:55. > :17:58.players, we couldn't do it without you and I can't believe it, it's

:17:59. > :18:03.been a busy day. An amazing day for you and also an amazing day for

:18:04. > :18:06.women's throwing, we've won medals in javelin before but never in

:18:07. > :18:12.Olympic history anything like this, so a big step forward. You've

:18:13. > :18:15.probably inspired a lot of people! I definitely hope so. I don't even

:18:16. > :18:20.think about it when I step in the circle, I just try and do what I can

:18:21. > :18:24.do best. But hopefully if I can inspire a view people to take up

:18:25. > :18:28.hammer, it will be brilliant. I know your coach was as animated as you, I

:18:29. > :18:36.think you can see his reaction down here, just have a look! He is the

:18:37. > :18:40.best ever! He's like the best coach ever, I could never do this without

:18:41. > :18:46.him. He has stuck by me through times when I was ready to just not

:18:47. > :18:52.do it any more and we both knew that I had it in me and for him to be

:18:53. > :18:56.there, it's just amazing and I'm glad I can do it for him as well as

:18:57. > :19:00.me at this point tabular I know it's emotional for you, celebrate with

:19:01. > :19:03.all the team tonight, well done! I will do, thank you very much. I love

:19:04. > :19:12.you mum and dad! Well, that is a bronze that feels

:19:13. > :19:17.like gold, as it should. An outstanding achievement from Sophie

:19:18. > :19:22.Hitchon. Ron Sophie Hitchon we moved to a heat involving Jack Green in

:19:23. > :19:28.the 400 metres hurdles, the penultimate heat here. Not an easy

:19:29. > :19:51.heat with Annsert Whyte, the American, and Nicholas Bett as well.

:19:52. > :19:54.He struggled with injury and had a dreadful time with depression as

:19:55. > :20:02.well, which he has been quite open about, but back running very well.

:20:03. > :20:09.He is one of the three in this heat who will go through if he delivers.

:20:10. > :20:19.Well, A false start in a 400 hurdles.

:20:20. > :20:28.Trigger-happy, there. Not the sound of the normal false start recall but

:20:29. > :20:37.we haven't had too many false starts in this Championships. I didn't see

:20:38. > :20:42.anyone obviously, but just looking at reaction times, they are all over

:20:43. > :20:51.the 0.1, so it might just be a faulty start. The pricing gun,

:20:52. > :21:00.there. Much milling around and discussing. My fault, it just went

:21:01. > :21:05.off in my hand... I think everyone is going to be OK here. The line-up

:21:06. > :21:15.again, Annsert Whyte, Michael Bultheel of Belgian, Kurt Couto in

:21:16. > :21:21.lane three. Where is he off to here? Just watch yourself, Robinson!

:21:22. > :21:32.Oskari Moro, Lindsay Hanekom, Jack Green goes in seven and Nicholas

:21:33. > :21:39.Bett on the outside in seven. The official is displaying a green card.

:21:40. > :21:46.Explaining multiple gunshots from the start. There is Nicholas Bett,

:21:47. > :21:49.he has downplayed his recent mediocre form, Nicholas Bett, and

:21:50. > :21:55.said that he will do wonders in Rio. He has two, he's only run 49.31 this

:21:56. > :22:01.season. The 19-year-old who became Olympic champion, -- world champion,

:22:02. > :22:10.extraordinary achievement. Annsert Whyte defended his title last month.

:22:11. > :22:14.Away very, very quickly, Jack Green, although Nicholas Bett outside him

:22:15. > :22:18.moving very smoothly as well and Jack Green is now going backwards

:22:19. > :22:22.already, it seems, with Lindsay Hanekom of South Africa moving very

:22:23. > :22:28.quickly. Jack Green with ground already to make up. Annsert Whyte

:22:29. > :22:32.going well in lane one. Jack Green with much to do here. Three to go

:22:33. > :22:40.through automatically come a fastest loser places up for grabs. 49.72

:22:41. > :22:45.will get you through. Jack Green some way down the field at the

:22:46. > :22:53.moment. Nicholas Bett going strongly anti-American, Byron Robinson,

:22:54. > :22:59.coming through. Jack Green now, Jack Green finishing like a train to get

:23:00. > :23:03.third place! So he does qualify automatically. He came from the

:23:04. > :23:10.other side of to get that. He was helped a little bit by real stumbles

:23:11. > :23:13.for Lindsay Hanekom and Nicholas Bett, the Kenyan in lane eight, had

:23:14. > :23:20.a shocker a couple of barriers from home. Green was finishing very

:23:21. > :23:26.quickly anyway. It was a good competent piece of hurdling by Jack.

:23:27. > :23:31.He didn't care he knew what he was capable of and kept within it. I was

:23:32. > :23:35.hoping he went under 45 seconds -- 49 seconds because that would be a

:23:36. > :23:41.real signifier that he has returned and yes, he has done that. I was

:23:42. > :23:45.watching Bett the whole way, he's the Kenyan, the world champion. He

:23:46. > :23:51.started the race atrociously. The middle part was pretty slick. It was

:23:52. > :23:55.nice, competent hurdling. In the home straight he goes all over the

:23:56. > :24:01.place. He is closest to the camera. He's already stumbling into that

:24:02. > :24:07.barrier. It is not focusing on what he needs to do. He's not citing the

:24:08. > :24:14.barrier and hit walks straight into it! Never going to recover from

:24:15. > :24:20.that. In contrast, Jack Green keeps his head and holds his way through

:24:21. > :24:24.to automatic qualifying. He is through and talking to Phil. Well

:24:25. > :24:30.done. You've taken your place in the semifinals. Tell me about your

:24:31. > :24:34.performance. It was coming together but it's a little too slow at the

:24:35. > :24:38.moment in terms of the actual execution. I need to commit a bit

:24:39. > :24:42.more and hopefully be up there at 300 instead of last as usual. You

:24:43. > :24:48.never know, seasons best, second time ever. You had this kind of

:24:49. > :24:51.experience four years ago in London and got through to the semifinals.

:24:52. > :24:55.What have you learned from that experience that you can bring into

:24:56. > :25:03.this one? Try and enjoy it. Approach it like a journey. It's hard to make

:25:04. > :25:07.an Olympics let alone a semifinal or a final. You suffered a lot from

:25:08. > :25:12.depression and may have been lost from the sport altogether. Can you

:25:13. > :25:17.put that into perspective? That's the thing, I have a lot of gratitude

:25:18. > :25:21.now. I really appreciate this journey. I didn't last time, just

:25:22. > :25:26.seeing it as another step up the ladder, thinking I could win this

:25:27. > :25:29.and that. It's a hard sport mentally and physically. I really appreciate

:25:30. > :25:35.that. You feel like you're in a good place as well. I'm not on medication

:25:36. > :25:41.because I can't run on it and yet I'm doing all right and I've made a

:25:42. > :25:44.lot of steps forward in terms of my mental health and psychology and

:25:45. > :25:49.things are in a great place. Great to hear, Jack. Thanks very much,

:25:50. > :25:54.thank you. Always a strong finisher as well, Jack Green. To change your

:25:55. > :25:59.stride pattern fairly recently, that is a big thing. It augurs well, if

:26:00. > :26:10.he can improve on that going out he has the strength to finish. Safely

:26:11. > :26:15.through to the semifinals. There we are, three automatic qualifiers,

:26:16. > :26:23.Annsert Whyte, Jack Green and Byron Robinson. We will tidy up where that

:26:24. > :26:27.leaves Seb Rodger. It leaves him teetering on the brink, the sixth

:26:28. > :26:34.fastest of the fastest losers and only six of them go through. Michael

:26:35. > :26:42.-- Michael Tinsley will be going in lane one. LJ van Zyl will be going

:26:43. > :26:50.in the outside, lane eight. They are the two big names, if you like. The

:26:51. > :26:53.top three will qualify by rights. There is Michael Tinsley. It should

:26:54. > :26:57.be no problem for him even though he is Leam lane one. Hasn't been the

:26:58. > :27:04.best of years for him but he is third in the American Championships.

:27:05. > :27:14.A wide-open event, the 400 hurdles. We just saw Nicholas Bett running

:27:15. > :27:21.very badly but his brother is in this, different name, Larentowicz in

:27:22. > :27:26.lane four. He was disqualified in the Kenyan trials as well. The

:27:27. > :27:28.indiscipline of the Kenyan 400-metre hurdlers, they are talented but

:27:29. > :27:37.you're never quite sure what you're going to get, as we saw with Bett in

:27:38. > :27:47.that previous hit. -- previous heat. There he is. Tinsley in lane one, LJ

:27:48. > :27:58.van Zyl and the others will be scrapping, you would think. Seb

:27:59. > :28:02.Rodger will be watching this. LJ van Zyl has started quickly, as

:28:03. > :28:09.expected. Tinsley going well right in the middle there. Aaron courage

:28:10. > :28:15.rocking and rolling a bit. Patryk Dobek has a lot of work to do. Aaron

:28:16. > :28:23.courage going very well. The Kenyan. LJ van Zyl checking into that hurdle

:28:24. > :28:27.than coming into the home straight. LJ van Zyl leaving it and Tinsley

:28:28. > :28:32.looks like he's really rocking and rolling, he has a lot of problems

:28:33. > :28:42.here on the inside. Aaron courage will win this. Silva will get the

:28:43. > :28:46.third spot. He does. We're not going to call this because we're going to

:28:47. > :28:51.wait for the result, wait for the photo finish. The time we are

:28:52. > :28:54.looking for, we will come back to Tinsley in a second because we're

:28:55. > :28:59.going to concentrate on fourth place here and see exactly, try to work

:29:00. > :29:06.out and watch for the result to see whether or not Seb Rodger will make

:29:07. > :29:10.it through and I'm sad to say he hasn't come he's going to be out by

:29:11. > :29:14.a couple of tenths of a second. A shame that he didn't quite sneak in

:29:15. > :29:18.there because I'm sure that another race would have made a big

:29:19. > :29:23.difference to him. But this is a brutal sport and it is what it is.

:29:24. > :29:28.This event itself, as you mentioned, Steve, it is so open. Even right now

:29:29. > :29:31.after seeing these qualifying rounds, I still couldn't call a

:29:32. > :29:36.clear favourite for this event. That's great because when you're

:29:37. > :29:44.watching it means it's going to be a competitive race for us all. LJ van

:29:45. > :29:49.Zyl, loads of experience. Been in so many major championships before. It

:29:50. > :29:58.is that favoured out wide lane, isn't it? Lane eight. The fastest

:29:59. > :30:08.lane for quarter-mile is. -- quarter-mile runners. He's just

:30:09. > :30:16.realising, he stayed to watch that heat there. The sooner that went up,

:30:17. > :30:22.he knew that sadly he has missed by one place. Seven fastest loser, what

:30:23. > :30:25.a shame. He worked so hard to get here but at least he made it, at

:30:26. > :30:27.least he managed to get the qualifying time and represent Great

:30:28. > :30:45.Britain here in Rio. So it is hard luck therefore Seb

:30:46. > :30:51.Rodger. This puts it into context for me, all the training, the months

:30:52. > :30:56.of hard work and qualifying and somebody has to just miss out and it

:30:57. > :31:01.is him, but it is tough, isn't it? It is. As Paula said the other day,

:31:02. > :31:08.everyone trained hard, every athlete, if you are at these games,

:31:09. > :31:12.you train hard. Sometimes it is just missing out on the qualification for

:31:13. > :31:20.next round that you think about and it sticks with you. If used in the

:31:21. > :31:24.right way, it becomes the motivation, the mixture of finalist

:31:25. > :31:29.and next time, gold-medallist and next time. Hopefully, someone will

:31:30. > :31:37.save that and send that to Seb Rodger so he can use it with your

:31:38. > :31:41.voice! Let's talk about someone who had a dramatic rise to prominence,

:31:42. > :31:48.Nicholas bet. He has had no placings around the Diamond League. That was

:31:49. > :31:57.a really extraordinary error that we saw in his heat. It was bizarre. He

:31:58. > :32:01.was doing OK. He is now in it. He is in second position and then what

:32:02. > :32:05.happens here is he was not expecting the hurdle to come up and he was

:32:06. > :32:10.looking through it and not really focused. Or he thought he had come

:32:11. > :32:14.over the last hurdle and was going for the finishing line. You see

:32:15. > :32:19.athletes when they hit the hurdle with the League Two Lee McGregor

:32:20. > :32:28.lead leg but I have never seen that where he didn't even get the leg up.

:32:29. > :32:33.He almost did a kung fu kick. He did not kick it down, he almost ran

:32:34. > :32:38.through it as if he did not realise it was there. He was already

:32:39. > :32:44.stuttering into the hurdle so it was not as if he was in a natural stride

:32:45. > :32:49.pattern, he just miss timed it very badly and very surprise in for a

:32:50. > :32:53.world champion. That event is so critical, rhythm and getting the

:32:54. > :32:58.timing right. We will see later on Eilidh Doyle start her challenge.

:32:59. > :33:03.She has been producing some of the quickest times in the world this

:33:04. > :33:07.year over the one lap hurdles. We are just looking down there now to

:33:08. > :33:11.see if there is anything else going on the track but not at the moment.

:33:12. > :33:17.We have had a very good morning here. Sophie Hitchon's bronze medal

:33:18. > :33:23.has certainly lifted us all. Absolutely. It is properly one of

:33:24. > :33:29.the most outstanding things I have seen and I hope a lot of people have

:33:30. > :33:35.been inspired by that. And up to 20 5am you will see her medal

:33:36. > :33:40.presentation. You will want to be there, I know you well. Hazel, back

:33:41. > :33:46.to you. I think we will have 40 winks.

:33:47. > :33:56.Thank you. I think the whole of Burnley will be there to see the

:33:57. > :34:00.medal ceremony. There has been controversy this morning in the

:34:01. > :34:06.marathon swimming. You were probably watching it with us earlier. There

:34:07. > :34:14.was a bit of a dogfight at the end. This was for second place. France's

:34:15. > :34:24.Aurelie Muller in the white hat has been disqualified. She has had her

:34:25. > :34:33.medal taken away for grappling Bruni from Italy. It means Keri-Anne Payne

:34:34. > :34:41.goes up to seventh in the overall rankings. Those are the medallists

:34:42. > :34:47.there. For Keri-Anne Payne, a silver medal in Beijing, London Forth and

:34:48. > :34:51.Rio seventh. Here she is. It is really hard over a two-hour race to

:34:52. > :34:57.stand and give yourself five minutes to compose yourself but it was not

:34:58. > :35:01.my kind of conditions today. The top girls, the French girl, Bruni, they

:35:02. > :35:07.are really good flat swimmers and the World Championships were like a

:35:08. > :35:12.flat swim. For the last two days it has been very wavy and then today

:35:13. > :35:15.there are nowhere is. Those girls are world-class. That is what the

:35:16. > :35:22.Olympics are about, raising the best in the world. Today it was not my

:35:23. > :35:31.race. I missed the break at one point. That was quite a definitive

:35:32. > :35:41.moment. Were you aware of it? I was not aware of it. Once those girls

:35:42. > :35:46.go, they are off. The buoys work carnage. It was a nightmare. Coming

:35:47. > :35:51.out of that, that is when the Dutch girl made her move. Going around

:35:52. > :35:56.that buoy, she thought, I will go for it. To be involved in that race

:35:57. > :36:00.as a 28-year-old athlete, having done my third Olympics now, I

:36:01. > :36:04.honestly could not be happier. I stuck to my race plan, did

:36:05. > :36:12.everything I could and I missed that race. Your third Olympics, a huge

:36:13. > :36:18.achievement, a little bird tells me you told your coach that when they

:36:19. > :36:24.said it was four days to go, you said no, it is four days and four

:36:25. > :36:31.years? Based thought I said four years. There is a running joke.

:36:32. > :36:37.Everyone is looking out for me saying anything past four days. I am

:36:38. > :36:41.not ruling anything out but my 10K career is probably that, I put

:36:42. > :36:45.everything into that race and everything into the last four years.

:36:46. > :36:50.I have a business to run as well when I get back home. I am looking

:36:51. > :36:55.forward to spending time out of the water. I will not do what the rowers

:36:56. > :37:00.say and say, if you ever see me in this sea again! I will never be

:37:01. > :37:03.hanging up my goggles. In the eight years since Beijing, we have got

:37:04. > :37:09.close to half a million people in the UK doing this and to be a small

:37:10. > :37:13.part of that, to be a part of the reason why people come out and watch

:37:14. > :37:20.these kind of races, that makes me really happy. The run-up to these

:37:21. > :37:25.games was water quality, Zika, the whole works, so for an open water

:37:26. > :37:35.swim, that is a combination of problems, was that ever in your

:37:36. > :37:37.mind? Never. There has been a great team constantly giving us update on

:37:38. > :37:44.the care and the water quality. We did not swim in the water beforehand

:37:45. > :37:49.because that was the advice. It does not matter where we are, what we are

:37:50. > :37:55.doing, we can adapt. But for me, Rio has put on a fantastic Olympics. And

:37:56. > :37:59.the coolest part was swimming down the back straight, looking down the

:38:00. > :38:06.back straight and seeing Christ the Redeemer with his hands stretched

:38:07. > :38:09.out. How cool was that? Well done. Your timeline has gone crazy with

:38:10. > :38:13.all sorts of wonderful adjectives. You will enjoy reading that later

:38:14. > :38:18.on. Thank you! What a fantastic

:38:19. > :38:27.ambassador for open water swimming. Keri-Anne Payne fourth. Second in

:38:28. > :38:34.Beijing. She has got a silver medal. She was seventh here in Rio. In

:38:35. > :38:37.dressage, you were probably witness to the silver medal by Great

:38:38. > :38:45.Britain's team on Friday and they are trying now in effect to defend

:38:46. > :38:49.the individual title courtesy of Charlotte Dujardin. It is the Grand

:38:50. > :38:56.Prix freestyle. That is the dancing horses to music today. The slate is

:38:57. > :39:00.wiped clean, the top eight riders and horses will go through to the

:39:01. > :39:04.last round to decide the individual medals. Charlotte is the defending

:39:05. > :39:10.champion and trying to do eight Laura Trott and win a third Olympic

:39:11. > :39:13.gold today. What a performance! She has

:39:14. > :39:20.certainly lived up to all the expectations. This is not a dream.

:39:21. > :39:25.Britain rule the world in team dressage and I the Olympic

:39:26. > :39:37.champions. So this is Blueberry, that is his

:39:38. > :39:41.nickname. Valegro is his name. I had sat and watched so many riders for

:39:42. > :39:46.years thinking, I wish I could get there and all of a sudden I was

:39:47. > :39:51.doing it. And not just doing it, but winning will stop I thought, I am

:39:52. > :39:56.living my dream. When you know your horse has given you everything, it

:39:57. > :40:05.was a really emotional feeling. He is a very, very special horse. Cole,

:40:06. > :40:11.giving you have played a huge role in training people, what would you

:40:12. > :40:18.say makes a great dressage rider? If you describe dressage is a perfect

:40:19. > :40:21.marriage between horse and rider, so to have that perfect marriage, you

:40:22. > :40:24.have got to have pretty much like a normal marriage where you have got

:40:25. > :40:29.to have sensitivity, you have got to her feeling for the movements and

:40:30. > :40:34.how the horse moves, a good dressage rider has that patients and ability

:40:35. > :40:45.to bring out the best in a horse. It probably takes 45 years to train for

:40:46. > :40:48.the Prix. If Carl says you are not doing that right, do you give him

:40:49. > :40:51.lip back? No. I like being told it is not good. I like to make

:40:52. > :40:58.everything as perfect as I can get it. Carl is the one who gives me

:40:59. > :41:01.lip. He is called excuse .com! If I ever say anything, there is always

:41:02. > :41:07.an excuse, always an answer about white is not done properly. As soon

:41:08. > :41:13.as he gets in that arena, he is such a pro. I do not have the knowledge

:41:14. > :41:18.that he has so I need him to give me the knowledge and security and

:41:19. > :41:27.confidence to be reassured that it is OK. What is it about Valegro that

:41:28. > :41:30.makes him the best in the world? He just enjoys the work, I would say.

:41:31. > :41:38.That is what is so special about him. He has that mentality to work.

:41:39. > :41:45.He is not a lazy person, he is an active person. I am just imagining

:41:46. > :41:51.his profile if there was an equine version of Tinder! He would be

:41:52. > :41:57.bright, strong, funny, Independent. He is the perfect man, I think! Will

:41:58. > :42:02.you feel nervous this time round? I know I have to go there to enjoy it.

:42:03. > :42:06.At the end of the day, it is an Olympic Games but it is another

:42:07. > :42:12.show, another arena, doing the same thing. Nothing changes, apart from

:42:13. > :42:16.the fact I am in Rio. Rio will be very different for you, certainly

:42:17. > :42:21.because of the expectations which have been on her shoulders. You have

:42:22. > :42:25.delivered the goods but it has not been as easy to generate the fun all

:42:26. > :42:29.the way through it, because it means so much more now to you, me, the

:42:30. > :42:37.whole team, the whole of British dressage. This will be his last year

:42:38. > :42:42.doing this. I feel that we have achieved so much together, and he is

:42:43. > :42:47.my best friend and it will be quite sad for me going to Rio knowing that

:42:48. > :42:56.this will probably be one of the last times I will compete him. My

:42:57. > :43:01.life will be very boring afterwards. Blueberry as he is known, and that

:43:02. > :43:04.is Valegro. We will see him with Charlotte in about ten minutes time.

:43:05. > :43:08.We are building up to the final group in the freestyle. Lee McKenzie

:43:09. > :43:14.is at the equestrian centre right now. Good afternoon. Reaction to

:43:15. > :43:20.Friday's events and chances you feel for Charlotte, because there was a

:43:21. > :43:23.slight error in her performance on Friday, and I wonder how much she

:43:24. > :43:27.will be dwelling on that? There certainly was. In the last year or

:43:28. > :43:32.so we have seen a couple of errors but we are not picking at straws.

:43:33. > :43:38.This horse, the partnership is the best in the world. European

:43:39. > :43:43.champion, world champion, she owns every record there is in dressage. I

:43:44. > :43:47.spoke to Carl Hester afterwards. He was delighted with his own

:43:48. > :43:50.performance but then he had to scurry off because he trains

:43:51. > :43:56.Charlotte Dujardin so he is with her now. It is so hot here. It is in the

:43:57. > :44:00.90s at the moment so the horses have been warming up indoors in an

:44:01. > :44:04.air-conditioned unit. The danger is there that you almost overwork. They

:44:05. > :44:07.come out in the heat, get the horse adjusted and then they will come

:44:08. > :44:15.into this arena that you see behind me. Carl was hopeful. The horses

:44:16. > :44:19.will be relaxed. You can see it is not packed out behind but we have

:44:20. > :44:22.had really vocal crowds here and they can cheer and shout out

:44:23. > :44:26.probably at the wrong times in dressage terms, but they are really

:44:27. > :44:31.enjoying this experience and that can get the horses a little bit

:44:32. > :44:38.heightened as well. We have seen Fiona Bigwood and Carl Hester have

:44:39. > :44:42.in action. Just remind us about this final group. They are the riders who

:44:43. > :44:50.have finished top in the team events. At the moment, Carl Hester

:44:51. > :44:55.leads. This is no mean feat because this is a horse who has been really

:44:56. > :45:04.tricky to get to this stage. It was not quite his personal best which he

:45:05. > :45:11.had at Olympia. OK, stay cool though. I'm sure Charlotte will stay

:45:12. > :45:16.cool, calm and collected. Michael Tucker is the man who will guide us

:45:17. > :45:17.through the climax of this individual dressage event. Good

:45:18. > :45:27.afternoon, Michael. Good afternoon, Hazel. We will have

:45:28. > :45:32.some excitement in the next hour or so. There will be excitement because

:45:33. > :45:41.pardon the expression, the Germans are coming. They are all very, very

:45:42. > :45:52.talented. Probably none more so than the first we will see.

:45:53. > :46:02.That is Kristina Broring-Sprehe. She was very young when she rode in

:46:03. > :46:07.London. She was just 0.25% behind Charlotte and Valegro in Aachen last

:46:08. > :46:12.year in the Europeans. This is the first of the challenge of the team

:46:13. > :46:17.which won gold medal in the dressage and we think it will be some battle

:46:18. > :46:28.with some great dressage in the next period.

:46:29. > :46:48.They have been performing right up to that position in the build-up

:46:49. > :46:53.here will start. The very talented Katharina on Desperados. Combination

:46:54. > :47:00.that chased very closely behind Charlotte in Germany last year. The

:47:01. > :54:33.next in will be Charlotte Dujardin. The trainer has really put this team

:54:34. > :54:54.absolutely spot on for the competitions here. They've got

:54:55. > :54:58.married after London. Always an agonising wait before those marks

:54:59. > :55:04.come up. It's agonising for us, I don't know what it's like for the

:55:05. > :55:11.competitors! Here it comes... Oh! It's a massive one, it's a massive

:55:12. > :55:18.one! 87.1 42. Oh! It flies into the lead. A ray of hope is that

:55:19. > :55:23.Charlotte Dujardin... And here is the remaining Olympic champion...

:55:24. > :55:31.She has done 90% before and she's going to have to be on song before

:55:32. > :55:42.to beat that. So it is Germany first, Britain's second and then

:55:43. > :55:53.Sweden third at the moment. I have to say I was a bit surprised at

:55:54. > :55:59.getting between 85 and 90%. The 90% in artistic impression was where the

:56:00. > :56:08.marks were. Come on, Charlotte. We are all riding with you. The great

:56:09. > :56:18.Valegro. Charlotte Dujardin, the reigning Olympic champion. Can they

:56:19. > :56:20.repeat their London triumph? Charlotte Dujardin, the great

:56:21. > :56:43.Valegro. Remind you that this is another

:56:44. > :56:47.composition especially designed for Rio. He really has endeavoured to

:56:48. > :56:54.put the carnival spirit into this music of Charlotte's. Here is the

:56:55. > :00:38.real test, now. They have been unbeaten in their

:00:39. > :01:20.last 17 outings. Are they going to make it 18 outings?

:01:21. > :01:28.It's a brand-new floor plan, remember. Prepared for this

:01:29. > :01:33.competition, prepared to try and retain that Olympic title.

:01:34. > :01:41.Coming towards the end. And at the moment, pretty incident free, dare I

:01:42. > :02:02.say. You are braver than me, Mike, I

:02:03. > :02:07.wasn't going to make any prediction or comment like that this time.

:02:08. > :02:34.Again, that incredible extended trot.

:02:35. > :02:45.Looks magnificent. CHEERING

:02:46. > :02:51.. 14 years old now, Valegro. They have been the stars of the sport

:02:52. > :02:57.worldwide now since London 2012. Are they going to stay there? We have

:02:58. > :03:02.had some wonderful retained medals here, of course, at these games,

:03:03. > :03:07.whether it is athletics or other titles, but this would be pretty

:03:08. > :03:12.unique, if Charlotte has done enough. She has certainly put a big

:03:13. > :03:19.challenge down to retain it, no doubt about that whatsoever. Look at

:03:20. > :03:38.some of those movements again. Remember, there is a massive 87.142%

:03:39. > :03:43.to beat. That is of Kristina Broring-Sprehe and Desperados. She

:03:44. > :03:50.has got the world record. Is it enough? That world record, 94.13. I

:03:51. > :03:58.am not sure we are going to get that. 94.3, to be exact. But eight

:03:59. > :04:04.90 would really put the cat among the pigeons for the two remaining

:04:05. > :04:09.German riders to come, I think. Is it that good, Ian? Well, it was

:04:10. > :04:13.incident free, it was consistent. He looked magnificent out there.

:04:14. > :04:21.Valegro and Charlotte gave of their best. -- off. And Charlotte's

:04:22. > :04:30.expression at the end, she looked very happy. Their preparation was at

:04:31. > :04:35.Hartpury, down in Gloucestershire, about a month before this date with

:04:36. > :04:43.destiny. Great evening and it certainly worked to the liking of

:04:44. > :04:49.Carl Hester, Charlotte's mentor. And a little tear, there, I think. Now,

:04:50. > :04:57.hold your breath. Hold your breath. We are not far away from knowing

:04:58. > :05:05.where we are. One thing is for certain... Away they go, away from

:05:06. > :05:07.the stewards. They are all cleared. Still we wait for those marks.

:05:08. > :05:13.CHEERING . Macro

:05:14. > :05:23.you will see it in a moment! Now they have got to go. Can they ever

:05:24. > :05:30.take that away attack I had a tear in London when it happened and I

:05:31. > :05:32.have another one in my eye now. Charlotte's expression at the end

:05:33. > :05:38.told me she thought it was a brilliant test and look at that,

:05:39. > :05:46.93.928. Surely no one can take that away from her? Well, now the German

:05:47. > :05:50.riders are going to have to come up with something pretty, pretty

:05:51. > :05:53.special. Here is the first of them, both of them more than capable, let

:05:54. > :06:01.me tell you. Dorothee Schneider, the first to come, with Showtime. She

:06:02. > :06:08.rode in London in that silver medal team. She, on that occasion, not

:06:09. > :06:17.only to the special. Didn't get through to the individual. She has

:06:18. > :06:22.exceeded 80%, she has never exceeded 90% but these German riders and

:06:23. > :06:32.horses are very, very good. Let's not underestimate them, but they are

:06:33. > :06:36.going to have to go. Taking on the challenge for them by the reigning

:06:37. > :06:42.Olympic champion, Britain's Charlotte Dujardin and, it is

:06:43. > :06:48.Dorothee Schneider for Germany. Showtime. And it sure has to be

:06:49. > :06:55.showtime if she is going to get ahead of that. Charlotte's artistic

:06:56. > :06:58.impression, 97 plus percent. That is incredible.

:06:59. > :07:08.MUSIC. I think we can just abandon the rest

:07:09. > :07:14.of the day, I am happy now. You mean once we put the microphones down?

:07:15. > :07:21.Yes, it is very complex grid unfair. It is called discipline. -- it is

:07:22. > :07:32.very unfair. Very good extended trot from Showtime there. In Aachen, this

:07:33. > :07:37.combination got some very good scores. Showered with tens, I can

:07:38. > :07:46.say, in Aachen. Dressage, again, this is very strong movement. Yes,

:07:47. > :07:54.he lost the rhythm behind a couple of times there. Just little mistakes

:07:55. > :08:02.like that creeping in. Tracks your average down. -- it drags. Very

:08:03. > :08:25.impressive. It is another loss of balance their

:08:26. > :08:51.coming out. A brilliant song by Queen playing.

:08:52. > :09:12.The words "What are we living for?" Well, for today.

:09:13. > :09:26.Big steps in the extended walk. Of course, the riders, with a little

:09:27. > :09:31.bit of help from their team, decide on the movements in the test

:09:32. > :09:36.themselves and they are the ones that want to highlight the

:09:37. > :09:44.horse's... Oops, another mistake there, coming out of the pirouette.

:09:45. > :09:50.A change behind. The riders want to highlight the best movements for the

:09:51. > :09:51.horses and then they tend to do the minimum of the movements that are

:09:52. > :10:06.not quite so special for them. That is a couple of mistakes now for

:10:07. > :10:10.Showtime. At this level, this combination are relatively new. They

:10:11. > :10:15.have only been at this level for this year, so when you put the

:10:16. > :10:20.pressure on, this is when perhaps the odd mistake comes. Change behind

:10:21. > :10:31.coming back from the extended cantor before the pirouette. You can

:10:32. > :10:36.compare this to jump off. If you get someone in the jump off that doesn't

:10:37. > :10:42.post time early on, it puts pressure on the rest of the competitors, and

:10:43. > :10:46.that is exactly what Charlotte has done by hitting that 93.928. It has

:10:47. > :10:52.just put the pressure on the other riders to give it that bit more and

:10:53. > :10:54.that, again, is where mistakes come. Well, everyone of them has to do a

:10:55. > :11:36.personal best to Charlotte. This horse in an extended trot is

:11:37. > :11:49.exceptional. He is only a ten-year-old. So one feels he is

:11:50. > :11:53.really put to the test here. He is so brilliant with his hind leg

:11:54. > :12:03.movement. Just struggling to maintain the momentum.

:12:04. > :12:16.I must say, still coming back down to earth. Yes, more mistakes there.

:12:17. > :12:25.Some brilliant, brilliant work, but a few mistakes creeping in there.

:12:26. > :12:28.But this is a horse we are going to see in four years' time, I would

:12:29. > :12:35.think. APPLAUSE.

:12:36. > :12:44.Dorothee Schneider with Showtime, the ten-year-old. Dorothee Schneider

:12:45. > :12:48.has been in the elite league of German dressage for a while now and

:12:49. > :12:58.I think she's going to be, with this horse, them up -- there for up while

:12:59. > :13:03.more. Still to come, we still have Lopez of Spain. That is on the

:13:04. > :13:09.gorgeous chestnut Lorenzo. Laura Graves, the talented American rider

:13:10. > :13:12.will be the second last but the real danger from Charlotte is going to

:13:13. > :13:31.come from the very experienced Isabel Worth. She is on Weihegold.

:13:32. > :13:38.-- Isabell Werth. She has other individual medals including gold.

:13:39. > :13:49.Charlotte Dujardin leading on 93.928. Kristina Broring-Sprehe

:13:50. > :13:52.second. And let's not forget Carl Hester, in third at the moment.

:13:53. > :14:01.Whether he will hang onto it, it will be interesting.

:14:02. > :14:08.Whether there were more mistakes that kept those marks down, that

:14:09. > :14:14.will be the factor, I think in the mark that is about to come for

:14:15. > :14:25.Germany and Dorothy Schneider. It is hot out there. As a child, she did a

:14:26. > :14:38.lot of balding, a lot of gymnastics -- a lot of vaulting. So the balance

:14:39. > :14:43.passed on now to the world of dressage. Carl Hester in third

:14:44. > :15:01.place, 82.553. Three gone, three to go in this

:15:02. > :15:08.final session before the medals. And, yes, Carl Hester's Mark is, I'm

:15:09. > :15:17.afraid, passed by Dorothee Schneider. Only just. 82.9 46. So

:15:18. > :15:24.Carl Hester moves out of the medals into fourth place, as he did in

:15:25. > :15:29.London but he will take so much, as he richly deserves, and out of that

:15:30. > :15:33.fabulous score from Charlotte. Don't want to presume anything, because we

:15:34. > :15:38.have still got three very good ones to come. Button on of them have been

:15:39. > :15:44.in the 90% ever before -- but non-them.

:15:45. > :16:01.The Spain, it is Lopez and Lorenzo. A combination that has really jumped

:16:02. > :16:08.onto the world stage. A man who has worked with a very good dressage

:16:09. > :16:15.stud in Denmark. This man has really caught the eye this year and has

:16:16. > :16:26.been regarded as a good ride and he now has a horse to really match -- a

:16:27. > :16:35.good rider. Spain's Severo Jesus Jurado Lopez. Another ten-year-old,

:16:36. > :16:45.there are so many, which is pretty young for a horse at this stage, to

:16:46. > :16:47.be in the Olympics. They had an 83% in arc and that was their personal

:16:48. > :17:15.best. Like Showtime this is a horse we

:17:16. > :17:19.will be seen in four years' time at the next Olympics, a little more

:17:20. > :17:42.mature and more established, an exciting prospect.

:17:43. > :17:55.Very active horse. The Spanish are such Shomen, they really know how to

:17:56. > :18:28.put their performance on the line and catch the eye. So good at it.

:18:29. > :18:47.Just gets a little tight in the neck at times.

:18:48. > :18:58.This music is called Now Or Never. I think we will see this combination a

:18:59. > :20:31.lot more. Very expressive in everything he

:20:32. > :20:36.does, this horse. I think of all the up and coming combinations that we

:20:37. > :20:48.see yet, this is the one that sticks in my mind as one that will be with

:20:49. > :20:56.us for a good few years. Also, the young German horse, Cosmo, the only

:20:57. > :20:59.nine-year-old in the competition, as the fourth member of the German

:21:00. > :21:01.team, was allowed in the freestyle. Only the top members of each team

:21:02. > :21:23.were allowed. Germany could have had four in here

:21:24. > :21:25.so very easily. In this final. But that is not the rules, it is three

:21:26. > :22:26.per team. A very difficult manoeuvre there,

:22:27. > :22:32.counter pirouette. Very exciting. A bit of Bon Jovi and the crowd is

:22:33. > :22:38.clapping this horse, they are really getting into it. I've never heard

:22:39. > :22:40.that in the dressage world before! APPLAUSE

:22:41. > :22:47.CHEERING Tremendous performance, just how

:22:48. > :22:57.good is it. Will he get ahead of Desperados?

:22:58. > :23:02.We will definitely speak to you again and the competition is still

:23:03. > :23:09.going on behind, have you done enough to retain your gold? I don't

:23:10. > :23:15.know, I have just had the best ride, I have gone out there and the

:23:16. > :23:19.Allegra has given me at the newly everything. I felt so emotional

:23:20. > :23:24.doing the last bit. We have all come out there and had a cry, because it

:23:25. > :23:28.is the most amazing feeling. You go out there and try your heart out and

:23:29. > :23:32.the outcome is I have done my best known matter what. Valegro could not

:23:33. > :23:38.have done any more and I am so proud of him. What do you do now? Do you

:23:39. > :23:46.watch these tests? I am happy to just watch and give Valegro some

:23:47. > :23:50.more sugars and treats and apples. I am so happy. I feel a little bit

:23:51. > :23:55.overwhelmed with what has happened. Just really emotional. It has been

:23:56. > :24:01.fabulous so far, we will speak to you in a few minutes.

:24:02. > :24:07.Let me tell you, Charlotte, there is a nation right with you on the edge

:24:08. > :24:12.of their seats for your fantastic performance. It really was for both

:24:13. > :24:16.Valegro and yourself, out of this world. We are not done yet because

:24:17. > :24:22.we still have Laura Graves and Isabelle Bennett. She is the real

:24:23. > :24:28.danger if there is to be won but this man has pulled out all the

:24:29. > :24:33.stops. Not that experienced but he didn't do much wrong. He didn't, it

:24:34. > :24:45.was a really good test and dramatic music. The crowd don't like it. That

:24:46. > :24:50.score is not to the crowd's liking and I have to admit, it is not as

:24:51. > :25:00.high as I thought. I honestly thought he might get closer to

:25:01. > :25:11.Kristina Broring-Sprehe, and Desperados, but not to be, he goes

:25:12. > :25:19.into third place. Charlotte's mark now has been slightly adjusted to

:25:20. > :25:32.93.857. That has gone the shade higher. It can keep going, we don't

:25:33. > :25:47.mind. But now, let's concentrate on the American, Laura Graves. She

:25:48. > :25:58.finished fourth in the freestyle in Normandy for the Americans. She is

:25:59. > :26:04.capable of a big one. Debbie McDonald, her trainer, is certainly

:26:05. > :26:08.one who has won individual medals herself. A particularly wonderful

:26:09. > :26:15.experience in the world equestrian games in her raft. This will be

:26:16. > :26:17.another joy to watch and the winner here is dressage because we are

:26:18. > :26:32.seeing something that is very special. Very much so, and the crowd

:26:33. > :26:45.have put their money worth in. Laura Graves with Verdades. The star of

:26:46. > :26:49.the team here in Rio, finished fifth individually in the Grand Prix

:26:50. > :27:08.special, just behind Desperados and Kristina Broring-Sprehe.

:27:09. > :27:16.The crowds were booing for Lorenzo and they wanted better marks. He is

:27:17. > :27:19.in third place. He is a horse of the future. Quite a lot of tail swishing

:27:20. > :27:34.and perhaps resistance. Very impressive horse of the future.

:27:35. > :27:42.A good start to his test, Verdades, correct. He has got some River Nith.

:27:43. > :28:35.-- some rhythm there. There is a dressage board down

:28:36. > :29:39.there, I didn't notice whether the horse kicked it.

:29:40. > :29:49.Very good changes there. Across the diagonal. That can be very

:29:50. > :31:14.demanding. Laura Graves is giving this

:31:15. > :31:23.everything. Certainly is. Laura was a hair stylist when Verdades was

:31:24. > :31:25.young, but when he started to become very special, she became a

:31:26. > :31:42.professional at this game. The canter stride in the extended

:31:43. > :32:33.trot. Very good recovery. CHEERING

:32:34. > :32:41.82.8% has been her best performance to date. Could it be a personal best

:32:42. > :32:46.to get her in touch of an individual medal? Already got the team gold for

:32:47. > :32:54.the Americans and it was her very good performance, she finished in

:32:55. > :33:00.fifth place individually in the Grand Prix special. She actually was

:33:01. > :33:04.fifth or fourth in the world games I was telling you about in 2014. That

:33:05. > :33:13.was an outstanding performance and this has been another. Yes, another

:33:14. > :33:30.a very impressive test. -- another very impressive test. I love these

:33:31. > :33:31.two times. You can see again... No loss of rhythm at all, great

:33:32. > :34:08.balance. Not too far away now from hearing

:34:09. > :34:15.the marks for the American. 29 years old.

:34:16. > :34:28.Yes, she goes into the medals. She goes into the medals at this stage

:34:29. > :34:35.with warm to come with that score of 85.196. And again, the crowd are

:34:36. > :34:41.unhappy about that. They really like the Spanish rider, who currently

:34:42. > :34:45.goes down into fourth place and now Carl Hester into fifth for Great

:34:46. > :34:51.Britain. But still leading the world would want to go is Charlotte

:34:52. > :34:59.Dujardin, the reigning Olympic champion, with one to go. Aged she

:35:00. > :35:03.going to stay there? It certainly surprises me that the crowd are

:35:04. > :35:07.quite so vocal when they don't agree with the judges. And quite right

:35:08. > :35:17.too, if they think they know better, then they might as well say. This

:35:18. > :35:23.lady is one of the best in the last 30 years, Isabell Werth, five

:35:24. > :35:29.Olympic Games, five team gold medals and individual medals to go with it.

:35:30. > :35:35.The thing here is the horse she rides, Weihegold, is a pretty new

:35:36. > :35:41.partnership which has gone sensationally into the record books

:35:42. > :35:45.with their scores, but even for Isabell Werth, this is a mountain to

:35:46. > :35:50.climb to get ahead of Charlotte, but if there is one who could do it,

:35:51. > :35:54.this may be one. She is such a competitor.

:35:55. > :36:00.BELL. She had a two horses that went by

:36:01. > :36:09.the wayside before she took to this and this was a young horse, he is

:36:10. > :36:14.only ten, a bit like Dorothee Schneider's horse Showtime. But

:36:15. > :36:17.don't underestimate the rider here. MUSIC.

:36:18. > :36:28.That rider is Isabell Werth and Weihegold for Germany, the very last

:36:29. > :36:35.rider in this individual dressage Olympic Games. Her task will be to

:36:36. > :36:46.try and beat Britain's Charlotte The deja Dan and Valegro, -- Charlotte

:36:47. > :36:59.Dujardin. 93.928, it is not a world record, but it is a mighty big score

:37:00. > :37:02.to catch. Slightly ahead in the world games are Charlotte and

:37:03. > :37:09.Valegro and someone said to me that Charlotte wouldn't like that and

:37:10. > :37:12.would come out fighting. Whatever happens here, Charlotte and Valegro

:37:13. > :37:19.have been exceptional. Good beginning to this test. What was

:37:20. > :37:25.interesting was Isabell Werth, as she was going around the outside of

:37:26. > :37:34.the arena, the reigns in one hand and patting the horse all over.

:37:35. > :37:49.Keeping him relaxed, keeping him sweet. -- the reins.

:37:50. > :38:13.Occasional double beat with the hind legs.

:38:14. > :38:19.This horse is interesting, he looked a little bit sketchy to me in the

:38:20. > :38:24.Grand Prix test and he came out absolutely flying in the Grand Prix

:38:25. > :38:41.special. Looking rather impressive today. Her best score to date on the

:38:42. > :38:45.freestyle has been 86.95%. This horse as a ten-year-old, it is a big

:38:46. > :40:13.jump up to 93 plus, nearly 94. He got a little bit keen on that

:40:14. > :40:40.extended canter, but beautifully back, ready for the pirouette.

:40:41. > :41:27.Better balance in that extended canter.

:41:28. > :41:44.Just seeing that double beat with the left hind leg a couple of times

:41:45. > :42:19.there. Just a few little mistakes crept in

:42:20. > :42:25.throughout the test, but some very impressive work.

:42:26. > :42:28.CHEERING Certainly is.

:42:29. > :42:35.A very good test, considering this horse is only a ten-year-old. Not

:42:36. > :42:37.only five team gold medals, two individual gold medals, two

:42:38. > :42:44.individual silver medals, this lady is one of the world greats. I really

:42:45. > :42:48.don't think she is going to catch Charlotte Dujardin, I think I am

:42:49. > :42:54.going to put my neck on the line, we have got another gold coming, I

:42:55. > :43:03.think. I have to say I agree with you, Mike. We might both be wrong!

:43:04. > :43:14.We could be. Great Britain first at the moment. Germany second and that,

:43:15. > :43:17.currently, is Kristina Broring-Sprehe and Laura Graves

:43:18. > :43:27.then. The marks to come for Germany's Isabell Werth. We saw the

:43:28. > :43:35.Kiwi good after the Grand Prix special -- Dickie and he said they

:43:36. > :43:38.didn't like being second, but it was a good performance given the

:43:39. > :43:42.strength of the German team but don't worry, there will be a team

:43:43. > :43:46.talk and the British riders will come out flying for the individual

:43:47. > :43:52.and they have done just that. They have all been brilliant today,

:43:53. > :43:59.actually. Some great marks, some great tests. They have all risen to

:44:00. > :44:08.the challenge. That is the best part. And the best part of all is

:44:09. > :44:15.the gold medal, what Charlotte's gold medal in London did for the

:44:16. > :44:21.world of dressage. That is the team trainer giving Isabell Werth a hug.

:44:22. > :44:27.The good that bad gold medal in London did for dressage, a much

:44:28. > :44:33.bigger depth of riders coming through. And here it is. It is a

:44:34. > :44:37.good score, a very good score for Isabel work. It is not going to get

:44:38. > :44:49.ahead of Charlotte, we have got gold, but Isabell Werth takes silver

:44:50. > :44:57.on 89 point -- on 89.071. In bronze medal position will be Kristina

:44:58. > :45:03.Broring-Sprehe on Desperado and with Laura Graves just missing out.

:45:04. > :45:08.Britain have got another gold! Yes, don't punch me too hard! That is

:45:09. > :45:14.brilliant, fantastic and what a partnership they have been, Valegro

:45:15. > :45:18.and Charlotte Dujardin. One wonders, will he go on? I hope he does,

:45:19. > :45:24.because we love watching him. Very interesting, Charlotte probably

:45:25. > :45:29.jumped at the news, but she was saying that this would be her

:45:30. > :45:33.last... I wonder, because he is very much back to his best pal stop at

:45:34. > :45:42.Aachen, at the Europeans, last year, they were wondering was was -- he

:45:43. > :45:47.showing his age. I don't see personally, we have seen horses

:45:48. > :45:48.older than 14 moving on. Whether it is another Olympics, that is a

:45:49. > :45:58.different matter. It is always difficult to know when

:45:59. > :46:04.to stop. He looked fantastic, he did look 14, more like a 12-year-old. He

:46:05. > :46:09.was in great form but it is always that little bit of worry, how brave

:46:10. > :46:15.do we get? Do we keep going or do we let him retire on a high? There you

:46:16. > :46:19.are, Carl Hester will be with Charlotte making that decision but

:46:20. > :46:24.the news is golden news. Charlotte has retained her Olympic title with

:46:25. > :46:34.a great Valegro. The silver medal goes to Isabelle Ben... And the

:46:35. > :46:38.bronze also for Germany with Desperados and Kristina

:46:39. > :46:43.Broring-Sprehe. Carl Hester finishes in seventh place. Fiona Bigwood with

:46:44. > :46:45.Orthilia, she finished in 17th. It really has been a golden day for

:46:46. > :46:56.British dressage. It certainly has, wonderful

:46:57. > :47:00.performances from both Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro. She cuts a

:47:01. > :47:03.real size of history for herself because that is her third gold medal

:47:04. > :47:09.but she is the first British woman ever to retain an individual title

:47:10. > :47:15.the history of the Olympic Games. She will have that forever. Laura

:47:16. > :47:18.Trott is trying to do that as well, she already has three gold medals

:47:19. > :47:23.and she will be at the velodrome later as she tries to retain her on

:47:24. > :47:26.the title. I know we can no speak to the defending and indeed the

:47:27. > :47:35.successful defending champion, Charlotte,. She has just jumped into

:47:36. > :47:40.speak to the other big broadcaster but what an incredible day. We

:47:41. > :47:45.cannot overstate what Charlotte and Valegro have done for dressage. The

:47:46. > :47:51.stands have been full with other riders from different disciplines of

:47:52. > :47:55.equestrian who just wanted to see them compete. They have come here to

:47:56. > :48:00.write about her in the national papers. She has done so much for

:48:01. > :48:06.dressage. We can see Carl Hester who has put so much into this team and

:48:07. > :48:12.that is lovely to see. Isabelle have eight Olympic medals to her name. It

:48:13. > :48:25.was pretty flattered at the end. But she was better than anyone else.

:48:26. > :48:32.I know you are emotional, can you sum up what this means to you? I am

:48:33. > :48:40.a little bit speechless for once in my life. It means the world to me,

:48:41. > :48:43.the come out here and finish off in individual gold-medallist again,

:48:44. > :48:47.trying to repeat what I had in London. London, I had no

:48:48. > :48:53.expectations or pressure, today I felt a huge amount of pressure and

:48:54. > :49:00.expectation and it could be one of the last rides I have. There is talk

:49:01. > :49:05.of retirement for him so for me to finish in this way, it is really

:49:06. > :49:08.emotional and I am so happy and I just really want to thank everybody

:49:09. > :49:13.behind-the-scenes that has made this possible and everyone at home.

:49:14. > :49:18.Friends and family. I wish my mum and dad were here. They are back at

:49:19. > :49:23.home supporting me but I just want to thank everyone, I've had so many

:49:24. > :49:27.messages, it has been amazing. Before you go and collect another

:49:28. > :49:32.gold medal, tell us about this bond you have, this might be your last

:49:33. > :49:38.competition with Valegro. This is more than just picking up a tennis

:49:39. > :49:41.racket or set of golf clubs, it is a living, breathing animal and it is

:49:42. > :49:46.an incredible partnership you have and he has his own personality. I

:49:47. > :49:52.have been riding him since he was five years old, he is now 14. He is

:49:53. > :49:56.literally unbeatable. He has won everything there is to win. I want

:49:57. > :50:00.everyone to remember him as the most amazing horse that he is. I don't

:50:01. > :50:04.want to keep going until there is nothing left. I could be greedy but

:50:05. > :50:09.I don't want to be. He still loves his job. I just want everyone to

:50:10. > :50:13.remember him at the top. He couldn't have done it without you, you must

:50:14. > :50:20.go and get your medal now. Congratulations. STUDIO: Fantastic

:50:21. > :50:28.effort from Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro. He will certainly deserve a

:50:29. > :50:34.few apples and treats after that. It is a fascinating sport and things

:50:35. > :50:38.you thought you would never say on television, I really thought the

:50:39. > :50:44.Spanish performer's dressage test Bon Jovi should have done better but

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:51:22. > :51:28.try. We are now passing the baton to you.

:51:29. > :51:34.Charlotte has trained alongside Carl Hester in his yard and they have

:51:35. > :51:39.been a fantastic partnership and pear and together, in the

:51:40. > :51:45.individual, he has done very well. In the team event, a silver in Rio

:51:46. > :51:50.to go with his gold alongside Charlotte in 2012. I know Carl will

:51:51. > :51:55.be thrilled with his protege today. He is absolutely delighted but of

:51:56. > :51:59.course, you part own Valegro, tell us what Charlotte and Valegro have

:52:00. > :52:04.achieved, put it in turns the people who don't maybe watch dressage all

:52:05. > :52:09.the time. Consistency since London, it is not just what happens here,

:52:10. > :52:15.what we saw today, which was beautiful riding. A fantastic

:52:16. > :52:18.partnership. This horse has been competing at this level for six

:52:19. > :52:24.years and he is an absolute superstar. He loves this job, he

:52:25. > :52:28.tries his hardest. He has been Olympic champion, European champion,

:52:29. > :52:31.world champion, and now he is an Olympic champion again and he has

:52:32. > :52:36.also been a World Cup champion which is our winter series of shows. He

:52:37. > :52:40.shows there is no other like him, he has a brain like a human. You press

:52:41. > :52:44.the button, I know Charlotte probably won't agree with me but

:52:45. > :52:49.usually like you press his buttons and he gets on with his job and he

:52:50. > :52:52.makes everything look so smooth and easy and I think that is what

:52:53. > :52:56.dressage should look like. The horse doing it on his own. You will never

:52:57. > :53:02.know how amazing... Charlotte is amazing as well. The way she sits on

:53:03. > :53:05.the horse and the way she can communicate with the horse is to

:53:06. > :53:12.make it look like that wonderful partnership we saw today. You have a

:53:13. > :53:16.huge say in the future of Valegro, will we see them competing together

:53:17. > :53:22.again? I don't have a huge say! I would imagine... We have said we

:53:23. > :53:26.will go home and talk about it. He is not a very old horse in terms of

:53:27. > :53:35.what he did do with the future, he could do more. However, I have never

:53:36. > :53:41.cried watching the dressage and I suppose a lot of people haven't but

:53:42. > :53:47.I cried today, the horse has done so much for the world of dressage and

:53:48. > :53:51.British dressage. If she feels she has achieved all she can, I would be

:53:52. > :53:57.more than happy to say to her, let's let him go out in the field and

:53:58. > :54:01.enjoy the rest of his days out. That horse loves eating just as much as

:54:02. > :54:08.their Saks he loves grass and eating. I think if you got wind this

:54:09. > :54:13.might be his last test, he would be happy as well. You were dancing on

:54:14. > :54:24.the spot when watching Charlotte, riding every single step. In terms

:54:25. > :54:30.of your own performance, you must be delighted. That was even more of a

:54:31. > :54:35.surprise than Charlotte. Myself and Nip Tuck have a great friendship. I

:54:36. > :54:41.was cross with him on the second day, they got the white flag up. But

:54:42. > :54:43.today, best of mates again. He is unbelievable because his head is

:54:44. > :54:49.like Valegro, he wants to do the best you can and win a gold medal.

:54:50. > :54:55.His body doesn't always allow him. When a horse does his absolute best

:54:56. > :54:59.view, how can you be disappointed? I wanted a top ten place and I thought

:55:00. > :55:04.that was pushing it. We are going to go home really happy. Tell us what

:55:05. > :55:15.you saw on the big screen when Charlotte was riding out with a sign

:55:16. > :55:20.that her partner put a sign up? I think doing it that way was very

:55:21. > :55:26.clever because if he had ended face-to-face, knowing Charlotte, it

:55:27. > :55:32.will probably be no, the come first! Dean is not a horse person. Anyone

:55:33. > :55:37.who works with them, they will know how much time they take up. There

:55:38. > :55:41.were times when Dean wanted to take Charlotte and maybe go for a weekend

:55:42. > :55:47.in the countryside and a drink down at the pub and Charlotte is, no, the

:55:48. > :55:51.horses come first. I'm so glad he came out here and saw this because

:55:52. > :55:56.usually, he is at home looking after the dogs, watching it, so it is

:55:57. > :56:00.great he is here. I think that is great fun they put that on the

:56:01. > :56:06.screen. I hope we haven't pressurise them too much! Let's join our

:56:07. > :56:17.commentators again, Ian Stark and Mike Tabqa. -- Mike Tucker.

:56:18. > :56:27.We are seeing the medallists' clips on their performances. I don't think

:56:28. > :56:37.there has been better dressage at an Olympic Games ever or more

:56:38. > :56:41.competitive battle for the medals. Isabell Werth has had some highs and

:56:42. > :56:49.lows. She spent a little time out of the sport doing some negative tests

:56:50. > :56:57.for the horses. But she put that behind and has come back right to

:56:58. > :57:00.her very, very best. I was reflecting yesterday, my first

:57:01. > :57:06.experience at Grand Prix dressage, the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

:57:07. > :57:12.The standard of the riding and quality of the horses has just

:57:13. > :57:16.changed out of whole recognition. There is that little British corner,

:57:17. > :57:20.they have enjoyed every single moment. As the horses make their way

:57:21. > :57:35.down. And there are the presenters, or

:57:36. > :57:39.indeed present, in this case. -- presenter.

:57:40. > :57:55.This has to be a moment that one dreams about. And there are not too

:57:56. > :58:08.many who can dream about Olympic gold medals. But this lady can in a

:58:09. > :58:14.very, very big way. A person who first really found Charlotte was

:58:15. > :58:20.Jimmy Hardi, centre on a way to Carl Hester and we know the rest of the

:58:21. > :58:22.story. And here she is, about to step up the her second Olympic gold

:58:23. > :59:08.medal. Syed Shahid Ali going to present the

:59:09. > :59:32.award with Maria, one of Sweden's stars. -- Maria Gretzer.

:59:33. > :59:46.So, it is to the bronze-medallist first. Kristina Broring-Sprehe with

:59:47. > :59:53.her lovely horse Desperados. She steps forward, she has built on her

:59:54. > :59:59.London success, remember, she was eight there and she takes the bronze

:00:00. > :00:07.here. She will reflect that she was only 0.25% of mark behind Charlotte

:00:08. > :00:13.in the Europeans last year. We all thought it would be a much closer

:00:14. > :00:19.competition this year. It is now Maria Gretzer stepping forward the

:00:20. > :00:28.presents the gift from the Brazilian Olympic authority.

:00:29. > :00:42.German advance on the far side of the ring. But now the silver, I've

:00:43. > :00:47.third individual silver -- a third individual silver for Isabell Werth.

:00:48. > :00:52.What a competitor. APPLAUSE.

:00:53. > :00:55.And this is probably as good a performance as some of her gold

:00:56. > :01:01.medals. This ten-year-old, she hadn't even ridden when the year

:01:02. > :01:07.turned into the Olympic year but here she is now winning Olympic

:01:08. > :01:13.silver with bad very good score of 89.071%.

:01:14. > :01:23.CHEERING Nice of Isabell to turn and salute

:01:24. > :01:30.the German supporters. They have had a good games. But now to the gold

:01:31. > :01:35.medal. Everyone, where you are, stand up for this girl. She has done

:01:36. > :01:39.someone which wouldn't have been thought possible 20 years ago but

:01:40. > :01:48.she and Carl Hester and others have turned that around, since we started

:01:49. > :01:52.winning medals in 2008 and on and here we are with our second Olympic

:01:53. > :02:02.gold. We had never won Olympic gold in dressage until 2012. We were two

:02:03. > :02:05.of them. It is only one this year but it is one and Charlotte

:02:06. > :02:18.Dujardin, with the great Valegro, has done it. Her skills are just

:02:19. > :02:23.unreal. She is such a horse person and that partnership with Valegro,

:02:24. > :02:27.well, there has got to be a book there somewhere, hasn't there? So

:02:28. > :02:41.wherever you are, let's stand up and salute Olympic gold medal, Charlotte

:02:42. > :02:51.Pooja done and Valegro and -- Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro for

:02:52. > :03:09.Great Britain. GREAT BRITAIN NATIONAL ANTHEM

:03:10. > :03:17.CHEERING Well, now you really can pull those

:03:18. > :03:26.corks out, get it out of the fridge, it is shampoo is time for Britain's

:03:27. > :03:30.gold medallist in the dressage -- champagne time.

:03:31. > :03:32.Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro have done it.

:03:33. > :03:37.HAZEL IRVINE: Congratulations to Charlotte and all of the dressage

:03:38. > :03:41.team, they won 18 silver on Friday and Charlotte has followed it up

:03:42. > :03:44.with the successful defence of their individual title that she won in

:03:45. > :03:49.such style in Greenwich in London four years ago and in so doing, that

:03:50. > :03:55.this three gold medals. Our lovely slice of history. We know the

:03:56. > :04:02.acrylic she has won this -- we know she has won this gold but we don't

:04:03. > :04:04.know if she has has said yes to her partner's the's proposal, ridden

:04:05. > :04:11.underneath the scoreboard. We don't know if she has seen it. Absolutely

:04:12. > :04:16.stunning stuff in the equestrian. So yet another gold medal in the

:04:17. > :04:20.equestrian events for Great Britain, but in gymnastics, gold medals are a

:04:21. > :04:24.bit like buses. You wait 120 years for one and two come along in two

:04:25. > :04:43.hours. Great Britain's Max Whitlock, the

:04:44. > :04:48.first of two finals for him, going for a medal. The Olympic floor

:04:49. > :04:57.final. Steely look in his eyes. Lists with great control, into the

:04:58. > :05:00.two twisting somersaults. This is important, three and a half, front

:05:01. > :05:05.half, beautifully performed. Beautifully performed. Now he can

:05:06. > :05:11.settle into his favourite pommel work. This is almost like break

:05:12. > :05:18.dancing, this is the heir to Blair, whichever one remembers his routine

:05:19. > :05:27.for. A couple of others do it now, but he is by far the best in the

:05:28. > :05:32.world -- his air flair. Holding hands than to make sure there are no

:05:33. > :05:38.deductions. Big two and a half twisting somersaults backwards, into

:05:39. > :05:44.a one twist. -- and one and a half twist. There is the one one half

:05:45. > :05:51.twisting roll-out tumble. He has taken a breath, he knows he just

:05:52. > :05:55.needs to land this tumble. Good twisting, fabulous landing. What a

:05:56. > :05:59.performance from Max Whitlock. Beautiful, he floated his way

:06:00. > :06:04.through that routine, it was incredibly neat. That was the best

:06:05. > :06:08.floor retain I have seen him do this Olympic Games. The landings were

:06:09. > :06:17.unbelievable, hardly any deductions. So will Max go ahead? It is a huge

:06:18. > :06:23.score of 15 points 633. That, then, at the moment, is the benchmark.

:06:24. > :06:31.Well, it is time for the twisting Prince, Kenzo Shirai. A slight

:06:32. > :06:38.stumble on landing. The two-time world champion has faltered. Max

:06:39. > :06:47.Whitlock guaranteed silver. Well, now the highest qualifier. That was

:06:48. > :06:56.a deep landing. He is out. Out the floor. I honestly think now that Max

:06:57. > :07:03.is going to win. Nice triple twist to finish but the damage had been

:07:04. > :07:04.done. What an amazing floor final. So Great Britain's Max Whitlock is

:07:05. > :07:21.the floor Olympic champion! Great Britain's Louis Smith. This,

:07:22. > :07:27.then, to become pommel Olympic champion.

:07:28. > :07:41.Straight up into the handstand from the scissor. And again. Well start.

:07:42. > :07:56.-- well composed start. Really nice combination, this. He has gone for

:07:57. > :08:07.his lower start value. Can he finish it off? Just the dismount left now.

:08:08. > :08:20.There we go. Good lad. Well done. Louis is through his routine without

:08:21. > :08:26.major deduction. That is going to be the score to beat. Will it be four

:08:27. > :08:30.Olympic medals for Louis Smith and the question is, what colour will

:08:31. > :08:35.that fourth Olympic medal be? Recently crowned floor Olympic

:08:36. > :08:39.champion, his chance now on pommel horse.

:08:40. > :08:53.Great start there from Max. A single Russian on one handle.

:08:54. > :09:15.Now up. He has done well there. Moving forwards and backwards.

:09:16. > :09:26.Can he get it up? Yes he can. Max Whitlock has done everything he can,

:09:27. > :09:38.it is now down to the judges. And Max Whitlock has gone ahead of Louis

:09:39. > :09:42.Smith with a score of 15.966. Max Whitlock is now a double Olympic

:09:43. > :09:46.champion. It is just remarkable what we are witnessing here. It is a

:09:47. > :09:52.special age within British gymnastics, this. And there is your

:09:53. > :09:56.man of the moment. IPod emotional, I wasn't watching any routines. They

:09:57. > :10:00.just hit me, literally just hit me, when I realised what I had done. --

:10:01. > :10:06.I got emotional. I knew I had one job to do and it was to get back

:10:07. > :10:10.into the gym and do it and it has pulled -- paid off massively. And we

:10:11. > :10:14.are still grinning at the watching those events last night and I am

:10:15. > :10:19.sure you watch them too in absolute awe of Britain's gymnast. Matt Baker

:10:20. > :10:24.is in the gymnastics venue right now. When you look at Max's success,

:10:25. > :10:29.absolutely superb, but I did feel for Louis Smith and it did make me

:10:30. > :10:32.think that in 2008, this was the man who won the first British gymnastics

:10:33. > :10:39.medal on the pommel in 80 years and he has been so consistent over the

:10:40. > :10:42.last three Olympic Games. How much do we owe to him in this amazing

:10:43. > :10:45.process we have seen? It is so important to have those gymnasts

:10:46. > :10:51.that can go out there and compete in the very -- with the very best in

:10:52. > :10:54.the world and medal, I have one of those sat alongside me, bad title.

:10:55. > :11:00.You need those gymnasts who can make a difference in the world -- Beth

:11:01. > :11:05.Weddle. All of the other gymnasts look up to them and want to be

:11:06. > :11:10.effectively like you, Beth. It was you and Lewis that kind of started

:11:11. > :11:14.all of this long time ago, and then you have the likes of Dan who is sat

:11:15. > :11:19.alongside me, looking up to the likes of you, Beth and obviously it

:11:20. > :11:23.is important to be able to get a medal at this standard. As a

:11:24. > :11:27.gymnast, I don't think you understand the impact you have. You

:11:28. > :11:31.are please to do it yourself and the support network and your coaches and

:11:32. > :11:35.everyone involved, but to actually see the result of that, when Louis

:11:36. > :11:41.won his medal in Beijing, I remember looking at his medal and thinking, I

:11:42. > :11:45.so wish I had one of them and it spurred me on to go into London and

:11:46. > :11:49.on the back of London, we had so much success that the younger

:11:50. > :11:53.gymnasts were thinking they wanted to go out there and they are now

:11:54. > :11:59.here. I hope there is a real effect back home after this. Just winding

:12:00. > :12:04.the clock back to 2006, when you became world champion, what effect

:12:05. > :12:10.did that have on you? It gave me believe. You know, suddenly, we were

:12:11. > :12:13.getting GB gymnasts being world champions, we have never had that

:12:14. > :12:16.before and all of a sudden, I thought, I could maybe do that, get

:12:17. > :12:20.my head down in the gym and train even harder and believe I could

:12:21. > :12:25.eventually start getting world medals and I think that happened

:12:26. > :12:30.across the board and that is why me and Louis came through and now all

:12:31. > :12:35.of these gymnasts, there are 15 guys in the top squad who could have got

:12:36. > :12:38.a medal. Ten and a half million people were watching the pommel

:12:39. > :12:42.horse final on BBC television last night and what an inspiration. You

:12:43. > :12:46.get those flashes of inspiration when you watch the Olympics,

:12:47. > :12:50.happening across all sports, but I am sure lots of little hopefuls will

:12:51. > :12:53.have been watching that thinking, I want to be there, and it is so

:12:54. > :12:59.important, that grassroots level of gymnastics. Now I have stepped away

:13:00. > :13:02.from the competitive side, I really want children back home watching

:13:03. > :13:08.this to think, I want to get involved. Those who are also

:13:09. > :13:12.involved already thinking, I can do what Max has done. A lot of people

:13:13. > :13:16.will be inspired by the men's rings, join us at six o'clock for the first

:13:17. > :13:21.one there. And I think the whole Brazil will come to a grinding halt

:13:22. > :13:26.because Lord of the Rings Arthur Zanetti, he is the defending

:13:27. > :13:32.champion. Brazil have only one Nile gold medal, they have targeted 30

:13:33. > :13:36.odd in total and are at seven, said they are desperate for the medals to

:13:37. > :13:41.start flowing in. I can imagine the whole nation will be behind Zanetti

:13:42. > :13:44.at six o'clock. You will be able to see that if you switch over now

:13:45. > :13:48.because BBC Two is where we are heading for continued coverage of

:13:49. > :13:52.day ten here in Rio on a day that has already been gold and once

:13:53. > :13:57.again, Charlotte Dujardin has done it one more time, a third gold medal

:13:58. > :13:59.for her. So much to celebrate and we will see you in a few seconds on the

:14:00. > :14:03.other side. Goodbye for now.