:00:55. > :01:03.Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Step right up, step right up.
:01:04. > :01:08.You won't believe your eyes, behind this curtain, it is something you
:01:09. > :01:20.will have never seen before. The most amazing show on earth. It is
:01:21. > :01:25.the most amazing show on Earth. Mark Cavendish has the silver medal.
:01:26. > :01:33.Charlotte Doody are Jane has done it. Yes, the most amazing show on
:01:34. > :01:37.Earth, step right up for day 11 in Rio. Has been great for Britain so
:01:38. > :01:42.far, but let's hear it for some of the other nations. Six Nations have
:01:43. > :01:51.claimed their very first Olympic gold in these games, so Fiji,
:01:52. > :01:55.Singapore, Puerto Rico, Vietnam and Bahrain, special games for them. And
:01:56. > :02:00.let's hear it for Brazil, because yesterday was their best day so far,
:02:01. > :02:06.with a goal, a silver and a bronze. The medals have been trickling in
:02:07. > :02:09.for Brazil, they had targeted a total of 34. They are currently at
:02:10. > :02:20.nine but there was lots to celebrate last night at the Olympic Stadium.
:02:21. > :02:25.The men's pole vault vinyl, an Olympic record, to beat the
:02:26. > :02:33.defending champion from France. So a lot of headlines, jump of gold that
:02:34. > :02:41.makes history. And they talk about the medals that came in throughout
:02:42. > :02:46.the day. Arthur Zanetti with a splendid silver on the rings. He
:02:47. > :02:50.said it definitely surpassed the gold he won in London four years
:02:51. > :02:58.ago, simply because of the feeling he got from the home crowd. It was a
:02:59. > :03:04.wonderful sporting arena last night. As if to dampen things here in
:03:05. > :03:08.Brazil, there is obviously, we are in the grip of the worst recession
:03:09. > :03:14.in this country since the 1930s. The top headline proposes that women's
:03:15. > :03:19.retirement age will have to go up from 60, to 62. Somebody will have
:03:20. > :03:25.to pay for these games down the track. That is the reality of life
:03:26. > :03:29.in Olympic sport. Brazil have great chances in team sports going
:03:30. > :03:47.forward. And the big man is back today... Usain Bolt, is back in the
:03:48. > :03:53.200 metres heats today. The defending triple jump champion,
:03:54. > :03:59.Christian Taylor, says watch out Johnathan Edwards. The American is
:04:00. > :04:03.after our Jonathan's record. But Nicola Adams won't settle for
:04:04. > :04:07.anything less. She was the first female boxer ever to win an Olympic
:04:08. > :04:15.gold medal, now she has one flyweight quarterfinal live. Don't
:04:16. > :04:21.stop them now, Marcus LSI Chris Langridge have made it to the men's
:04:22. > :04:27.doubles semifinal, bidding for Britain's badminton medal for 12
:04:28. > :04:32.years. We will wave them off in the men's marathon swimming shortly.
:04:33. > :04:38.Throughout the afternoon we will be visiting the Olympic Stadium for the
:04:39. > :04:44.early session of athletics. And then later on after the triple jump
:04:45. > :04:50.final, at 3:50 p.m., Usain Bolt setting out after another gold
:04:51. > :04:54.medal. Nicola Adams is had to wait 11 days for her chance in the ring
:04:55. > :04:58.and it is a Ukrainian fighter she will come up against first at three
:04:59. > :05:06.p.m.. It is the last day in the velodrome. Becky James, Jason Kenny,
:05:07. > :05:10.Callum Skinner and Laura Trott all have serious medal chances. And the
:05:11. > :05:14.gymnastics starting at six p.m.. If you are looking at the Olympics when
:05:15. > :05:16.you should be doing other things, you will want to know when to make
:05:17. > :05:56.your excuses. Laura and Jason could help to
:05:57. > :06:00.redefine the meaning of power couple because Laura is going for a fourth
:06:01. > :06:05.gold medal and Jason Kenney looking to = Chris Hoy's six gold. They
:06:06. > :06:13.could have ten goals between them tonight. You can see the centre
:06:14. > :06:17.spread now. Lapping it up in the Jason Kenney leisure Centre in
:06:18. > :06:22.Bolton, they will be watching that today. But lapping it up here by
:06:23. > :06:26.this beautiful Copacabana beach, we are about to go marathon swimming
:06:27. > :06:31.once again. We saw a controversial finish to the women's race
:06:32. > :06:35.yesterday, and we will see how this one goes. We had Jack Purnell,
:06:36. > :06:39.23-year-old first-time Olympian going for Great Britain and this is
:06:40. > :06:45.the man who has waited longer than anyone else in the British team for
:06:46. > :06:48.his chance because he was the first to qualify last year with a good
:06:49. > :06:57.place in the World Championships. He is keen, all right. Open water and
:06:58. > :07:04.pool swimming is our different sports. The race is ten kilometres,
:07:05. > :07:09.you finish in a row two hours. In terms of brutality and length, it is
:07:10. > :07:13.there. You then thrown into the mix, everyone is trying to climb on top
:07:14. > :07:18.you, hitting you, push you back, under the water, anything goes.
:07:19. > :07:24.Being kicked and punched, if the referee cannot see it, they get away
:07:25. > :07:28.with it. They could be hot, wavy and windy. We like to think the race
:07:29. > :07:33.organisers have made sure there is no sharks and deadly things. But
:07:34. > :07:40.jellyfish, they are fair game. It is one of the reasons I love it. You
:07:41. > :07:46.have said open water can be tough, but it is not all hard work, this is
:07:47. > :07:51.a nice place to come? Look at the backdrop to this beautiful race in
:07:52. > :07:54.Majorca. We do get to travel the world and see some beautiful places
:07:55. > :07:58.and it is an advantage. Can this help with Rio in mind, are the
:07:59. > :08:04.conditions similar to what you can expect? One element we are here, is
:08:05. > :08:09.the conditions. It is about performing on the day in Rio.
:08:10. > :08:13.Anything we can emulate as to what will be there, is perfect. This kind
:08:14. > :08:20.of scenery and the weather is key for that. Open water only came into
:08:21. > :08:25.the Olympics in 2008 and GB have achieved great things, how did that
:08:26. > :08:30.inspire you down this route? We had great success with David Davis,
:08:31. > :08:35.Keri-Anne Payne, medals galore in the event. For me, it was something
:08:36. > :08:43.I looked up to and wanted to emulate and achieve. I have been working
:08:44. > :08:48.with open water now for 15 years and watched David Davis win the Olympic
:08:49. > :08:53.medal. Whenever Jack has got on the podium, it has been because he has
:08:54. > :08:57.slumped tactically great races. He wants to win and has set his mind
:08:58. > :09:03.set on winning. He has a very, very good chance. All I am there to do is
:09:04. > :09:08.perform and win an Olympic gold medal. It is my only goal, dream and
:09:09. > :09:12.aspiration. Any obstacle in the way, in terms of the venue not being
:09:13. > :09:17.right, the water not being right, has no relevance in what I want to
:09:18. > :09:21.achieve. Everyone is in the same boat and it is a case of who can
:09:22. > :09:28.swim for its fastest. My hope that is me. You could win a gold medal?
:09:29. > :09:38.Without a doubt, the pressure is what I feed off, no second chances.
:09:39. > :09:43.I cannot wait to get out there. Jack hits the water very shortly, but
:09:44. > :09:47.Matt Pinsent was there yesterday by the beach to see the women's race.
:09:48. > :09:54.There was a controversial conclusion to that. What has been the fallout
:09:55. > :10:01.from that women's race? Was a controversial last seconds between
:10:02. > :10:07.silver and gold. It was the Italian, who was originally positioned in
:10:08. > :10:14.third place. Aurelie Muller from France touched second, but it was a
:10:15. > :10:19.clear that the French woman had pushed the Italian back. I am
:10:20. > :10:23.reading the quote now from the Italian. We were side by side and
:10:24. > :10:28.when we came close to the finish line, she went over me and pushed me
:10:29. > :10:32.down with her arm on my shoulder so I wasn't able to touch the Finnish
:10:33. > :10:39.board. The French athlete was taken away and no press conference for
:10:40. > :10:48.her. It is rough and tumble, but not so much with the calm conditions. I
:10:49. > :10:55.just wonder to what extent these conditions will benefit summers like
:10:56. > :10:59.Jack? It is much calmer. We are hearing from Jack in his piece, how
:11:00. > :11:09.they are prepared for a range of conditions. I think it will favour,
:11:10. > :11:12.just as it did yesterday, it will favour the athletes who have got an
:11:13. > :11:18.indoor pool pedigree as well as crossing over into the open water
:11:19. > :11:24.event. You are right to pick out the defending champion, Oussama Mellouli
:11:25. > :11:28.from Tunisia. Jack's pedigree, he has come on a tonne in the last
:11:29. > :11:35.while and has a good number of World Cup finishes to his credit, how do
:11:36. > :11:39.you think he will 30 day? Listen, I have stood here and talk to you over
:11:40. > :11:43.the last ten days and tried to predict medals and I have had egg on
:11:44. > :11:49.my face, more often than I can count. He has a fantastic attitude,
:11:50. > :11:53.talking very positively that this is the day, nothing will get in his
:11:54. > :11:57.way, no conditions, no scenario he is not prepared for mentally. We
:11:58. > :12:02.have just seen him introduced to the crowd. He is looking focused, he
:12:03. > :12:10.looks in great shape, as they all do. I am going to sit on the fence
:12:11. > :12:15.and say, he is in the mix, let's keep our fingers crossed. This
:12:16. > :12:20.event, probably more than many others, it is a lottery Alberta,
:12:21. > :12:25.there is some bumping and barging. A very long way to go, and it is a
:12:26. > :12:33.journey that will test everyone in this field today. Lovely to see you,
:12:34. > :12:42.we will chat to you at the end. They sell this job yesterday to the
:12:43. > :12:49.commentators yesterday, as two hours by the sea and Coca put down a
:12:50. > :12:51.beach. But they spent it in a Portakabin with their back to the
:12:52. > :12:58.sea. But they have come back.
:12:59. > :13:04.COMMENTATOR: We did, but there is the start line of this 10,000
:13:05. > :13:19.metres. Take just under two hours and the current, not an awful lot.
:13:20. > :13:28.Hardly any surf height. Just the general swell. The starter trying to
:13:29. > :13:34.get them to bunch up. Some of them choosing to sit at the back, only 25
:13:35. > :13:41.swimmers, some of the world's best. You expect them to be wanting to be
:13:42. > :13:46.getting. For the first time, they all stay together pretty much on the
:13:47. > :13:51.first lap. Yesterday, the starter raised his red flag and then he kept
:13:52. > :14:00.his red flag waved. And they kept going. Here they go. He has taken
:14:01. > :14:03.the red flag out. The start of the men's 10,000 metres open water
:14:04. > :14:09.Olympic title up for grabs in about an hour and 50. The defending
:14:10. > :14:17.Olympic champion, Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia is in there. There is
:14:18. > :14:24.about ten of white hats and ten black hats and three Red hats. I am
:14:25. > :14:30.looking out for the red one, Andy is looking for black and white. The
:14:31. > :14:35.Australian at the bottom was a bit of a glory swim at the beginning. He
:14:36. > :14:42.will not keep this pace up. It is interesting to see him haring off,
:14:43. > :14:48.Jarrett to it. I think this is a shot for his friends and family. A
:14:49. > :14:53.field I would imagine, would come back to him. He is swimming through
:14:54. > :15:00.the waves. Going straight out from the beach to start with. So the
:15:01. > :15:08.first leg, if you will, is 385 metres. He is working very hard.
:15:09. > :15:17.They turned sharp left. They turned to our rights, their sharp left. It
:15:18. > :15:22.is going to be a good turnaround. They go about 775 metres along the
:15:23. > :15:29.beach, out in the sea. Then they turn left again and go 325 back to
:15:30. > :15:33.the beach. There is a long straight with a kink in it after about 700
:15:34. > :15:40.metres where they go to the finishing lap.
:15:41. > :15:52.He is a swimming pool swimmer as well. He was 18 in London in the
:15:53. > :15:56.1500 metres. This is 10,000. This is interesting, maybe he is trying to
:15:57. > :16:01.get away from the field, but they do not close up quickly in open water
:16:02. > :16:08.swimming. After five or ten minutes they will settle into a pace. I
:16:09. > :16:14.imagine he will try and hold the pace, maybe he is confident he can
:16:15. > :16:18.hold the stronger pace. Maybe after doing a Sprint he feels he can hold
:16:19. > :16:26.the pace. But I would imagine a group would work together. They said
:16:27. > :16:32.it was 0.03 of a swell, but that looks like more than three metres,
:16:33. > :16:36.swimming into the oncoming waves. I am slightly surprised how hard he is
:16:37. > :16:44.working only two and a half minutes in. He is working extremely hard.
:16:45. > :16:50.Absolutely and the waves are coming off the edge of the fort. You cannot
:16:51. > :16:55.see it here. You can see them going over now, blowing the swimmers. As
:16:56. > :17:02.they turn around the buoy, those waves will take them along the
:17:03. > :17:11.perpendicular parallel to the beach. The leader after three minutes.
:17:12. > :17:15.Andy? It is the Australian. I am slightly surprised, that is an
:17:16. > :17:19.understatement. I am not sure that is the best thing. There is that
:17:20. > :17:23.promontory and the tides come whipping around there and the
:17:24. > :17:29.alignment is so important. They have a flotilla of boats around them to
:17:30. > :17:38.our left. And also the life-saving canoeists. It sweeps them all the
:17:39. > :17:47.way around into an anti clockwise circle into the beach and then along
:17:48. > :17:49.the beach. We have been talking to the swimmers and the British
:17:50. > :17:54.swimmers have been talking to the British sailing team. The sailing
:17:55. > :18:00.team have been matching and watching the tides and the winds and the
:18:01. > :18:05.conditions and they will be able to find good information to help them,
:18:06. > :18:12.they share information. He will be going on his left of the buoy.
:18:13. > :18:19.Because he is not in a big bunch, it is easier to get around. When it is
:18:20. > :18:29.a group it gets a bit hectic. Sometimes some of them swim into it!
:18:30. > :18:38.Look at that, a bit of bashing there. A bit of barging going on in
:18:39. > :18:47.the centre. Jack Burnell is one of the two read hats who got round. The
:18:48. > :18:53.Australian is setting a pace that is quite outstanding actually. Well, he
:18:54. > :18:58.has gone and the rest of the field will have to work quite hard to
:18:59. > :19:02.catch him up. It will be a raise of attrition and whether he can hold
:19:03. > :19:10.on. But he has made a definite and decisive move. I guess the question
:19:11. > :19:16.is whether it is brilliant or suicide? This is not a short
:19:17. > :19:22.distance. Most people's local swimming pools are 25 metres long,
:19:23. > :19:26.so it is about 400 lengths of your local swimming pool. I wish him
:19:27. > :19:35.well, he has gone off like a shot, but that is awfully early. I thought
:19:36. > :19:42.it was only yesterday in the women's race that one of them started
:19:43. > :19:52.sprinting after 160 lengths! He started straight from the beach.
:19:53. > :19:58.Oussama Mellouli is leading that trailing group. Well, he came
:19:59. > :20:10.seventh in the qualifiers in Portugal this year. The chasing
:20:11. > :20:19.group now, I imagine they cannot see him. When you look up and you look
:20:20. > :20:25.for the buoys, they look like pinpricks. One small hat, the
:20:26. > :20:30.distance he is away now, will not be easy to see. I guess they will work
:20:31. > :20:39.together on the pace and hope that that pays will eat away at the lead.
:20:40. > :20:49.When you are in a swimming pool you watch the swimmers in a swimming
:20:50. > :20:56.pool and you can crop the time. We watch them every 100 metres. If the
:20:57. > :21:00.pack behind him can eat away maybe half a second to 100 metres, they
:21:01. > :21:07.will catch him. That is the principle anyway. Sounds good to me.
:21:08. > :21:11.We heard the referee blowing his whistle. They have a yellow card and
:21:12. > :21:17.a red card system for minor and major misdemeanours. You do not see
:21:18. > :21:25.too often people being kicked out of the race, but you can go straight
:21:26. > :21:31.red basically for pulling somebody's leg and swimming over the top of
:21:32. > :21:36.them and drowning them. You can hear it again. The guy in the boat is
:21:37. > :21:45.saying separate. If he is not happy coming he can get his yellow card
:21:46. > :21:50.out. He is trying to get them spread out, but it is difficult to do that.
:21:51. > :21:56.If you are swimming in the middle, how do you spread out? If they have
:21:57. > :22:08.got a line and they are holding, as long as they do not get a yellow
:22:09. > :22:13.card... Very interesting, Andy. The interesting thing to me, going back
:22:14. > :22:18.to the yellow card is that right at the figures yesterday in the women's
:22:19. > :22:23.race they were going into the final finishing final and it got narrower
:22:24. > :22:28.and narrower and the French lady was caught going along as it got more
:22:29. > :22:36.narrow and had to swim into the Italian lady and to finish they had
:22:37. > :22:39.to stick their hand up onto the time pad just above the arch you go
:22:40. > :22:46.through to finish on to complete the race. She actually grabbed her and
:22:47. > :22:52.she had her arm around one neck and it went around the neck of the
:22:53. > :23:00.Italian and she sang her and used her to go. It was almost like water
:23:01. > :23:08.polo, it was very impressive. It was absolutely not allowed. She finished
:23:09. > :23:13.second and got disqualified. Imagine doing ten kilometres and getting
:23:14. > :23:21.disqualified at the end. We spotted this yesterday. They are called
:23:22. > :23:28.citing buoys, but they are not in line, so they are not helpful. You
:23:29. > :23:33.can see the chasing pack. The two boat either side they were
:23:34. > :23:38.effectively working as guiding the swimmers and they were funnelling
:23:39. > :23:50.them towards the point they should have been swimming. But Poort is on
:23:51. > :24:00.his own and he is having to cite himself more. The main pack are
:24:01. > :24:07.being funnelled. You would swim where the boat was taking you. He is
:24:08. > :24:13.over to our left, over to the right of where the main field are. Because
:24:14. > :24:21.we cannot see the yellow turning buoy, we have no idea which of them
:24:22. > :24:26.is online. They are swimming a couple of thousand metres off the
:24:27. > :24:30.beach at the moment. The referee is getting agitated again with the
:24:31. > :24:38.pack. The pack is just starting to stretch out a little bit. The
:24:39. > :24:49.Australian, Poort, has gone off at quite a shot. He is still building a
:24:50. > :24:53.lead. Come on. As a swimming pool swimmer and somebody who is
:24:54. > :24:58.relishing calmer conditions, and as an Australian he will have done some
:24:59. > :25:06.surf life-saving in his time, I don't know. I do wonder whether he
:25:07. > :25:14.can hold it. 1500 metres in the pool, Jordan Wilimovsky came fourth
:25:15. > :25:27.in 14.40 five. Just about below a minute. So it is about a minute for
:25:28. > :25:35.every 100 metres. So he is setting a pace that is just over that. Is that
:25:36. > :25:41.Oussama Mellouli chasing him? That is the current Olympic champion. He
:25:42. > :25:56.is number nine. The scoring system has been telling as it is Oussama
:25:57. > :26:02.Mellouli. It is. With the Black Hat. He is chasing. He has decided quite
:26:03. > :26:06.clearly he is not happy with this 55-65 metre lead. It must be at
:26:07. > :26:14.least the length of a 50 metre swimming pool after just about 20
:26:15. > :26:21.minutes. When you think about it, what a great thing to do mentally if
:26:22. > :26:26.you can hold the pace. He has taken a big lead and the field has got to
:26:27. > :26:30.work and catch him up. That is certainly true, but some of the
:26:31. > :26:38.swimmers he is swimming against, unfortunately we missed them going
:26:39. > :26:45.around the turning buoy. That is halfway around the course. There is
:26:46. > :26:52.a big water factory in the harbour, we cannot see that. Now they swim
:26:53. > :26:59.325 metres straight into the beach. Can you see Jack? There are two red
:27:00. > :27:16.caps and the first one I think is Jack. Behind him we also have the
:27:17. > :27:22.Chinese athlete who is 16. The first Red Hat is Jack Burnell, so that is
:27:23. > :27:28.good news. He is in the trailing pack, but towards the front of it.
:27:29. > :27:32.Some of the coaches were saying that if you catch the wave is right here,
:27:33. > :27:38.you can surf a little on them. They are not big. They are coming in anti
:27:39. > :27:43.clockwise of the promontory and there is a little moment where you
:27:44. > :27:50.can get a bit of swell that helps you come back towards the beach. The
:27:51. > :27:57.Australians will be very used to that. They are going straight into
:27:58. > :28:02.the short at the moment. This is a different situation from the women's
:28:03. > :28:06.race yesterday, for those of you die-hards who are watching both of
:28:07. > :28:12.them. The women's race was wrapped up pretty much from 6000 metres.
:28:13. > :28:17.What has happened now from the very beginning they are stringing out.
:28:18. > :28:23.You have got Poort, the Australian, taking the lead from the beginning,
:28:24. > :28:28.and you have got the field headed by the defending Olympic champion
:28:29. > :28:33.Oussama Mellouli, who has decided to push the pace. He is taking control
:28:34. > :28:43.over what he can get hold of. The others will have to chase him. Poort
:28:44. > :28:49.is breathing to his left and his right. An interesting way he is
:28:50. > :28:53.doing it. Just having a little look, a very efficient way of looking. He
:28:54. > :28:59.does not stop and lift his head up, just part of his stroke he lifts his
:29:00. > :29:05.head as he presses down. He presses down with one arm and uses that to
:29:06. > :29:09.lift his head a little bit. Look at the alignment. It is very different.
:29:10. > :29:15.On the right-hand side is Poort leading by about 60 metres from
:29:16. > :29:21.Oussama Mellouli. It is something like that. He is way off to the
:29:22. > :29:27.site. You can see the swell coming at him. There is Oussama Mellouli
:29:28. > :29:35.heading the field. We have also got a white cap. Which one is that?
:29:36. > :29:46.Fourth in the chasing group, it looked like it was Jack. So Oussama
:29:47. > :29:53.Mellouli is chasing. Maldonado and the Russian as well. That is a
:29:54. > :29:58.surprise. But still way out in front, I cannot believe he can keep
:29:59. > :30:02.this up for a very long. It is still really the settling in phase,
:30:03. > :30:03.getting used to the salt water and everything that comes with it.
:30:04. > :30:15.Absolutely. Getting used to the fish, nibbling
:30:16. > :30:20.at your feet. It wasn't the fish I was thinking about, but there you
:30:21. > :30:27.go. Coming to the next turn and Poort has gone round there. It is a
:30:28. > :30:41.beautiful setting for an open water. In 2008 and 2012 were in lakes. The
:30:42. > :30:51.2006 were in the Bay of periods in Greece. In that Olympics, they took
:30:52. > :30:57.them out on a boat, in this raging sea and basically be Olympic event
:30:58. > :31:02.was, first to the shore. It is funny now, we can love, but not sure how
:31:03. > :31:07.strong swimmers there were at the time. 12 foot high waves and they
:31:08. > :31:16.had to swim to the shore. Slightly different Olympic event, but it
:31:17. > :31:22.wasn't the very first,, it is one of the very few Olympic sports that has
:31:23. > :31:30.been in every Olympics. Oussama Mellouli is heading up the chase,
:31:31. > :31:37.but Poort is increasing that lead, must be up to 100 metres. I think it
:31:38. > :31:43.must be. He might lose his hat during this race, it is already
:31:44. > :31:49.coming. He has just under an hour and a half. I cannot imagine Poort
:31:50. > :31:54.is going to keep his hat on. It might cool him down. Sometimes they
:31:55. > :31:58.trap the heat in. The swimmer veering off to the left of the pack
:31:59. > :32:07.has lined up again and going through the green ring. Is it Playschool?
:32:08. > :32:16.Through the round window. Poort has lost his hat. Through the round,
:32:17. > :32:22.green window. Poort is heading towards the beach, heading towards
:32:23. > :32:28.us. Going to be a good ten minutes before he completes the first lap.
:32:29. > :32:37.He is a very brave man, has gone out very fast. His lead is increasing.
:32:38. > :32:43.He still looks strong. There is the marker, the red one. There is at
:32:44. > :32:54.least the leader-macro decent distance between the turning one. 25
:32:55. > :32:59.metres in towards the beach. The way you qualify for this Olympic Games,
:33:00. > :33:04.top ten from the World Championships last year get a place in the Olympic
:33:05. > :33:09.Games. Then they have a qualifier for the next 15. If he qualified at
:33:10. > :33:19.the World Championships, you don't go to the qualification because you
:33:20. > :33:27.are already in. Then the next 15, went to the qualification meet in
:33:28. > :33:32.Portugal. Poort was seventh in the qualification meet. It is quite
:33:33. > :33:36.outstanding, but having said that, Oussama Mellouli had to go through
:33:37. > :33:40.the qualification meet, wasn't strong enough at the World
:33:41. > :33:46.Championships. He had a poor 2015, so he had to go and do the
:33:47. > :33:51.qualification and he was fifth and Poort was seventh. Jack Purnell is
:33:52. > :34:01.doing well, he is about six down. That is a brilliant shot. This is
:34:02. > :34:06.Copacabana beach in front of you. It is beautiful. We did a bit of a
:34:07. > :34:11.recce the other day to make sure we knew what was going on. Make sure
:34:12. > :34:16.everything was in order. Yes, it was, the sand was in order, the
:34:17. > :34:22.volleyball. We didn't take part in. There are very talented volleyball
:34:23. > :34:29.players in this country, playing with their heads, feet, shoulders.
:34:30. > :34:36.It was like football volleyball, two on each side. What they were doing
:34:37. > :34:42.was genius. That, instead of... I have got to keep the leader-macro be
:34:43. > :34:49.careful what I say about some of these sports, but they were amazing
:34:50. > :34:55.athletes. If darts made it into the Olympics, I would pick that instead
:34:56. > :34:59.of darts. Poort, heading to the beach. In the pack, they are all
:35:00. > :35:04.spread out. Imagine what is going through their minds. People who
:35:05. > :35:10.would know somebody has gone ahead. Thinking has the gold medal gone, I
:35:11. > :35:14.want the gold medal, or I will settle for a different medal. They
:35:15. > :35:20.have got to stick to their own pace. Then they have to see if that pace
:35:21. > :35:26.will catch on because he slows down. The chasing pack is clearly split in
:35:27. > :35:32.two. On the third of the four quarters of this rather beautiful
:35:33. > :35:42.course, 2500 metres round. And as we have seen, Poort of Australia went
:35:43. > :35:47.off like a shot, has about 100 metre lead from this chasing pack. An
:35:48. > :35:58.awful long way to go here at Copacabana. Decent start.
:35:59. > :36:10.I am the type of person that if you tell me I can't, you better believe
:36:11. > :36:15.it I will. It has never mattered to me I am a female doing and male
:36:16. > :36:21.dominated sport. Rules are meant to be broken. I have been through hard
:36:22. > :36:27.times, struggles. It is not how you go down, it is how you get back up.
:36:28. > :36:30.The doubts are there, it is how you deal with them that matters. Being
:36:31. > :36:37.the first and making history, meant absolutely everything to me. Nicola
:36:38. > :36:42.Adams has just made history. On top of the podium with a gold medal, was
:36:43. > :36:47.a dream come true. I like the fact opponents are all coming for me.
:36:48. > :36:54.Nicola Adams is the world champion. They want to be the next champion,
:36:55. > :36:58.that is what motivates me. They don't say, she is good for a girl,
:36:59. > :37:04.they just say yes, she is a good boxer. It is all I have ever wanted.
:37:05. > :37:07.She is a great boxer and one of the best loved sports stars in our
:37:08. > :37:13.country and Nicola Adams, the smile is never far from her face. At three
:37:14. > :37:17.o'clock she will be in the ring at the start of her defence of her
:37:18. > :37:22.title she won four years ago. She is up against a Ukrainian opponent.
:37:23. > :37:26.After Katie Taylor, Ireland's great hope yesterday going out in her
:37:27. > :37:33.first bout. She will be taking nothing for granted. But we have a
:37:34. > :37:37.date with Gaby at the athletics. A little bit drier for you today, that
:37:38. > :37:44.was a monsoon last night? I don't know where you wear when it came
:37:45. > :37:48.down. Good morning. It took us by surprise, had been such a glorious
:37:49. > :37:54.morning, 35 degrees in the infield, and then this deluge, which forced
:37:55. > :37:59.everybody to go indoors. The officials, the start of the heats
:38:00. > :38:02.for the 110 metre hurdles, the pole vault competition going on and it
:38:03. > :38:07.shifted the whole schedule back about 45 minutes. We got out about
:38:08. > :38:11.midnight. These athletes are competing so late, but last night it
:38:12. > :38:16.was quite extraordinary. Denise Lewis and Michael Johnson beside me,
:38:17. > :38:21.we were treated to the most pole vault final. We couldn't have
:38:22. > :38:27.scripted a better head to head, Michael Jackson with Diego De Silva
:38:28. > :38:34.of Brazil about to win their first gold medal. It was like a movie. It
:38:35. > :38:38.was a fantastic competition, everything about it was amazing, the
:38:39. > :38:45.hometown hero that nobody expected to win gold. It was an outside
:38:46. > :38:49.chance for a medal. On top of that you have this fantastic competition,
:38:50. > :38:53.similar to what we saw in the long jump, trading the lead back and
:38:54. > :38:59.forth. An amazing competition. The crowd really got into it. They
:39:00. > :39:03.needed this, they hadn't won any medals in athletics to this point
:39:04. > :39:08.and it was always going to be tough for them. They may not get any more,
:39:09. > :39:12.but that solidified this was a good thing for the country and I think
:39:13. > :39:18.the public really got behind that. They will have that as a lasting
:39:19. > :39:23.memory. He will be a hero for ever. Only their second gold in these
:39:24. > :39:27.games, people were booing, chanting football chants, it felt like they
:39:28. > :39:31.had got this athletics think now, and they will come in and hopefully
:39:32. > :39:36.we will see the crowds in the evenings inspired by that? I hope
:39:37. > :39:40.so, the ones that have been here have been very vocal and fantastic.
:39:41. > :39:46.It is what the sport needs, it was great energy in here and they got
:39:47. > :39:51.behind their man. We are starting on the track and heading straight down
:39:52. > :39:56.for the women's 5,000m needs. Laura Whittle of Great Britain, the
:39:57. > :40:02.31-year-old going in this first heat against the likes of Yasmin Khan,
:40:03. > :40:06.the European champion over five and 10,000 metres. Let's go down to
:40:07. > :40:12.Andrew Cotter and Paula Radcliffe who we'll call this one for us.
:40:13. > :40:17.COMMENTATOR: Not quite as warm as yesterday, but 28 degrees and Laura
:40:18. > :40:23.Whittle, when she came out, had bags of ice cubes and was mopping herself
:40:24. > :40:27.down with them. A few other athletes were wondering what was going on,
:40:28. > :40:43.but from the fair Isles, where it is cooler. Shelby Houlihan behind Molly
:40:44. > :40:57.Huddle. She goes in the second heat. Helen on Sando of beery.
:40:58. > :41:16.Yasmin Chan, she had a personal best, and the former Kenyan. Now
:41:17. > :41:26.Yasmin Can. There is a Mercy Cherono. Some of the names to look
:41:27. > :41:35.out for. Everyone just a bit excited over the 5,000m. Getting off to a
:41:36. > :41:38.flyer. How often do you see false starts in the 5,000m? Not often, I
:41:39. > :41:44.wonder if they will disqualify someone. Technically, we don't even
:41:45. > :41:55.have reaction time is coming up in the 5,000m. We don't have reaction
:41:56. > :42:01.is! This is very true. It might just have been a technical fault. Just
:42:02. > :42:07.while we are waiting, let's show you the start list for this one, give
:42:08. > :42:16.you the names of the runners and riders.
:42:17. > :42:25.Ready to go again. Laura Whittle, on the outside. Nobody disqualified. I
:42:26. > :42:33.am almost likely disappointed, it would have been a rare honour for
:42:34. > :42:37.somebody in the 5,000m. Japanese athletes like to front run. The way
:42:38. > :42:43.they train, this leave the marathon is a huge thing in Japan but the
:42:44. > :42:48.long-distance races, they don't have huge changes of pace. It is a bit of
:42:49. > :42:52.mentality and armour thing with the Japanese, they want to come here and
:42:53. > :42:59.run as fast as they are capable of doing. If that is good to advance to
:43:00. > :43:06.the final, it is. They don't want to jog around and have a poor last lap
:43:07. > :43:11.and not do themselves justice. She has gone out fast, Uehara, it is a
:43:12. > :43:17.decent lead. Some of the other contenders, two contenders, Shelby
:43:18. > :43:32.Houlihan who finished behind Molly Huddle. The other one to look out
:43:33. > :43:43.for is Yasmine Cannon and Obiri. -- Can. It is tough, the Japanese
:43:44. > :43:47.athlete, Uehara, is giving them a fighting chance of going through
:43:48. > :43:55.with those fastest losers. It is not a crazy pace she is running. She is
:43:56. > :44:00.aiming the just outside 1.45, so it is not stunningly fast. They are
:44:01. > :44:07.capable of going with that and sitting back, but they are sitting
:44:08. > :44:20.in the group. The Dutch athlete, Susan Cook June. She did not set a
:44:21. > :44:23.personal best. What would you expect and what would you think Laura
:44:24. > :44:30.Whittle would be hoping for in terms of pace and has she got a kick if it
:44:31. > :44:34.maintains a slowish pace? Laura isn't a slouch over the closing lap,
:44:35. > :44:41.but she wouldn't be able to compete with the likes of Susan Kuijken and
:44:42. > :44:45.Obiri. She will be happy the pace has gone out reasonably fast. The
:44:46. > :44:53.pack is waking up and they are not moving along too slowly. 2.35 coming
:44:54. > :45:01.up to 800 metres, so it isn't really quick. The Japanese athletes, almost
:45:02. > :45:05.80 metres ahead now. She is giving herself a really good chance of
:45:06. > :45:06.being able to run even paced and maintaining it through the 5,000m
:45:07. > :45:25.and advanced to the final. A clear tactic from Uehara. But that
:45:26. > :45:31.is a big lead. In her personal best is 15.30, she is going through it
:45:32. > :45:35.pretty much bang on there. It is warm in the arena, but there is a
:45:36. > :45:41.breeze here today and we saw yesterday how quickly that weather
:45:42. > :45:46.could change. It was humid and stormy and Chile by the evening.
:45:47. > :45:51.Even in the warm up to this raise clouds have been coming across,
:45:52. > :45:56.although I do not think it is terrible conditions for this race.
:45:57. > :46:04.She is not incapable of running a personal best here. Laura Whittle is
:46:05. > :46:12.sitting there just about at the front alongside the two Americans,
:46:13. > :46:15.Shelby Houlihan and Kim Conley. But Uehara is running a quick pace at
:46:16. > :46:21.the moment and from the shade into the sunshine. There is a big
:46:22. > :46:28.contrast because it is much cooler in the shade. But Uehara continues
:46:29. > :46:33.to run along at this decent pace. It is 30 seconds quicker than her
:46:34. > :46:39.personal best. It is a decent pace for her. Laura Whittle has now gone
:46:40. > :46:43.to the front of that pack and is working hard, but she may as well be
:46:44. > :46:58.in a different race because she is getting no advantage out of the fact
:46:59. > :47:03.that Uehara is so far ahead. She has decided to quit her head down and
:47:04. > :47:08.closed that pays. The gap is beginning to close just a little bit
:47:09. > :47:13.on Uehara. She has the American athletes for company, but Laura
:47:14. > :47:19.Whittle is doing the right thing here. The pace continues to lift
:47:20. > :47:25.from the chasing pack. Five to go through automatically. Uehara is a
:47:26. > :47:32.long way in front, but I think she will be chased down. The gap is
:47:33. > :47:49.already down to 50 or 60 metres from almost 8200 at one point. Dashed
:47:50. > :47:54.almost 80 to 100. There will be some girls in there who will not be able
:47:55. > :48:01.to stay with this pace, so if Laura could whittle this down, that could
:48:02. > :48:09.do her some favours. The really high quality athletes are coming past
:48:10. > :48:15.now. Uehara is being chased down and the gap continues to close. For
:48:16. > :48:20.Laura Whittle, she had a calf injury which ended her hopes of competing
:48:21. > :48:25.at London and she missed last year's World Championships by a couple of
:48:26. > :48:30.seconds. So it is a great opportunity for her here, but she
:48:31. > :48:35.has been swallowed up by the pack. Again it is still eat tied and close
:48:36. > :48:40.in there and they are all bunched together. They continue to eat into
:48:41. > :48:44.the lead of Uehara. Yasemin Can has gone to the front of the chasing
:48:45. > :48:49.pack and Laura will be happy with that, she can settle back into the
:48:50. > :48:53.pack and maybe gather herself a little bit. She had a very good
:48:54. > :49:01.battle with Eilish McColgan in Stanford earlier this year when she
:49:02. > :49:06.ran a personal best of 15.08. Eilish McColgan is very quick and Laura was
:49:07. > :49:11.able to stay close to her, so she does have a chance if it comes down
:49:12. > :49:21.to the last lap, but not with the likes of Helen Obiri. The gap is
:49:22. > :49:31.holding at about 50 metres. Uehara continues her lonely run. But the
:49:32. > :49:34.gap is inching a little bit closer and Laura Whittle is right in the
:49:35. > :49:46.main body of the Kirk, the chasing peloton. Uehara did slow that Darren
:49:47. > :49:51.to 3.08 per kilometre, which is giving her a bit of a chance to set
:49:52. > :49:57.up and it has not negated that gap too much and she has the advantage
:49:58. > :50:07.of lapping the first lap runner and that will give her something to aim
:50:08. > :50:17.for. So Uehara moves on, another lap just about complete and the gap is
:50:18. > :50:21.still about 60 metres or so. There is the chasing pack and Yasemin Can
:50:22. > :50:28.at the front of it and Helen Obiri and Mercy Jarreau known. Alongside
:50:29. > :50:35.as well is O Connell, the Canadian athlete. Laura Whittle is still in
:50:36. > :50:42.there, her head is still bobbing a little bit. That group is stretching
:50:43. > :50:50.out a little bit. But it is not quite as bunched as it was. Little
:50:51. > :50:53.gaps are starting to open up a bit. There was confusion as they passed
:50:54. > :50:58.the lap runner and there was an official on the track trying to tell
:50:59. > :51:02.the runner to move into lanes two or three, but it was probably better
:51:03. > :51:08.that she stayed on the rail because if she had moved out it could have
:51:09. > :51:14.been dangerous. You can see Yasemin Can is sticking her hand out and
:51:15. > :51:25.O'Connell is going a bit wider. So Helena Beery and Mercy Cherono are
:51:26. > :51:33.still involved. Susan Kuijken is in the orange vest of the Netherlands.
:51:34. > :51:39.Lucy Oliver is in there, and the gap certainly has close, down to 40
:51:40. > :51:50.metres. She goes through once again in the last kilometre and her pace
:51:51. > :51:55.is dropping, Uehara. Shelby Houlihan finish second behind Molly Huddle.
:51:56. > :52:04.Molly Huddle will go in the next heat along with a Eilish McColgan.
:52:05. > :52:09.Stephanie Twell is the third British athlete represented here. It is not
:52:10. > :52:13.long before Uehara is eaten up by the pack. Now there is a fracture in
:52:14. > :52:19.that group and Susan Kuijken notices. The main contenders are
:52:20. > :52:25.there in that first pack and Susan Kuijken has to bridge that. She was
:52:26. > :52:30.sitting at the back of the pack and conserving energy and then she
:52:31. > :52:38.noticed that group. The five automatic qualifiers were starting
:52:39. > :52:43.to get away and she has locked onto the back of that pack. Laura Whittle
:52:44. > :52:56.was blocked for a moment and now she has to try and dig in. That is going
:52:57. > :53:02.to be a very hard group to try and get onto. That is a pack of six
:53:03. > :53:08.about to reel in and pass Uehara now. A little bit of a gap back to
:53:09. > :53:12.Marilyn Hills who is running a little bit on her own and she has to
:53:13. > :53:17.maintain contact with the back of that breakaway group and have a
:53:18. > :53:20.chance as the fastest loser. It is a good run so far by Susan Kuijken.
:53:21. > :53:28.You cannot overstate how difficult it is to bridge a gap when a move
:53:29. > :53:34.starts. She knows what she has to do to try and hang on. Five go through
:53:35. > :53:38.automatically and the five fastest losers. In terms of the fastest
:53:39. > :53:44.losers, what do we think of this group? The pays was good to begin
:53:45. > :53:48.with, but the second heat have a huge advantage because they can go
:53:49. > :53:54.out and aim to be just and the time of the first fastest loser and they
:53:55. > :53:57.will or advance. But that is easier said than done. They need to have
:53:58. > :54:02.got that information and they need to be able to work together when
:54:03. > :54:09.they come out. Uehara has rallied again. It is impressive from her
:54:10. > :54:18.because she is not that quick. She is young, she did run 15.20 last
:54:19. > :54:28.season, but she is in lofty company year. She is alongside the two
:54:29. > :54:33.American athletes and it is beginning to stretch out even more
:54:34. > :54:38.now as the pays less. Laura Whittle has moved up in the pack of four
:54:39. > :54:44.that she was running in and she has slotted in behind Kim Connolly and
:54:45. > :54:48.Shelby Houlihan. So they could work together and run as fast as they
:54:49. > :54:53.can. She has to finish this as fast as she can and keep running right
:54:54. > :55:02.through that line. Susan Kuijken has to find something to move behind the
:55:03. > :55:07.Ethiopian. Out in front is Yasemin Can and Helen Obiri and Mercy
:55:08. > :55:14.Cherono. They are moving at a quicker pace. Laura has not lost too
:55:15. > :55:19.much ground. The one thing you have to try and do is run as fast as you
:55:20. > :55:26.can, but you are inside the top ten you still have an outside chance of
:55:27. > :55:30.making it through to the final. Uehara knows she cannot compete with
:55:31. > :55:37.the likes of Susan Kuijken on her shoulder. Madeline Hills can also
:55:38. > :55:43.close fast and Uehara is trying to keep that pays moving. She has
:55:44. > :55:46.looked up at the screen and she realises she is not going to finish
:55:47. > :56:01.in the first five, but she has given her a self a chance of being one of
:56:02. > :56:07.the first five fastest losers. It is a good run by Madeline Hills
:56:08. > :56:14.considering the steeplechase she has just run. She was straight back out
:56:15. > :56:20.here less than 24 hours later and she is moving up and giving herself
:56:21. > :56:30.a very good line of sight and position to defend from. Wider group
:56:31. > :56:35.fractured so much was that it was 2.58 by the chasing group. But Laura
:56:36. > :56:50.Whittle is moving ahead of Kim Connolly.
:56:51. > :57:00.Susan Kuijken is hanging on in there and it is very impressive from the
:57:01. > :57:04.Australian, Madeline Hills. A move is being made by the American
:57:05. > :57:13.athlete trying to get back. Only five go through automatically. Susan
:57:14. > :57:19.Kuijken makes her move. Six athletes here and five go through
:57:20. > :57:28.automatically. The one who misses out maybe Madeline Hills because
:57:29. > :57:35.Shelby Houlihan has found something. Madeline Hills has to dig in. Across
:57:36. > :57:45.the line they welcome and those are the qualifiers. We are heading for a
:57:46. > :57:49.channel change. We are enjoying the morning session of athletics in Rio
:57:50. > :57:54.with the promise of the men's triple jump final to come and the
:57:55. > :57:59.appearance of Usain Bolt in the 200 metres. We continue this coverage on
:58:00. > :58:01.BBC One. If you are watching us on BBC Two, you know the drill by now,
:58:02. > :58:02.turn in a brand-new BBC Two quiz show,
:58:03. > :58:08.Debatable, where a team of celebrities put
:58:09. > :58:12.their debating skills to the test to try to win their contestants
:58:13. > :58:14.pots of cash. Will they help,
:58:15. > :58:18.or will they hinder?