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for ourselves and for badminton, which is massive for our sport and I | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
am so proud to which is massive for our sport and I | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
am so proud to be a part of it. As they said, that is such a huge | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
medal for the sport of badminton, which is crying out for more | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
attention and it is a huge medal for the duo themselves could, who, as | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
you heard, are ranked number 22 in the world. We will now go to boxing, | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
and there are only two Britons left standing in these Olympics, and one | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
of them is Nicola Adams. She was fighting in her flyweight semifinal | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
today and taking on Ren Cancan, the woman she beat in the final in 2012. | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
The 51 kilograms semifinal, who will go through to the gold-medal bout? | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
We are under way. Semifinal action in the women's 51 kilograms | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
flyweight division, between two rivals who know one another very | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
well indeed. The box are wearing red, the reigning Olympic champion, | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Nicola Adams, the British boxer. The Chinese boxer, wearing blue, | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
operating out of southpaw stance is Ren Cancan. So much history between | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
these two, they have met five times before and Nicola Adams is trailing | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
in that rivalry. 2-3 against the former three-time World Championship | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
world medallist. She took those titles in 2008, 2010 and 2012 and on | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
two of those occasions she reduced Nicola Adams to silver medal status | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
in the World Championships. Nicola Adams got it right on the grandest | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
stage of all at the Olympic Games. It is a good left hand from Ren | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Cancan. It is important for Adams to lead off with a right hand and hit | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
the target. If she misses the target with a right Angie Paul Flynn and | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
that is a bad position to be against a good southpaw like Ren Cancan. She | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
can't neglect her jab. She started the contest well with a couple of | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
good jabs and she has to measure that shot before she throws the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
right hand. That is what she has to do here. Nicola Adams is the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
reigning World Championship gold medallist and that right-hand wasn't | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
too far away and that second one got through. A nice left uppercut from | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Ren Cancan and using good footwork to get back to the space of the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
ring. Timing and accuracy are paramount here for Nicola Adams. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
What she is doing is sitting back and waiting for her which is not a | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
bad thing to do against a southpaw. Then she comes back with a right | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
hand. She needs to work more with the jab. | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
So, plenty of fainting and sabre rattling with those lead hands in | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
the closing ten seconds or so. A very good round of boxing from both | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
individuals and they both enjoyed success. Not a lot in it at all, is | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
there, in the first round. Another physical chess match here. Each | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
boxer doesn't want to make a mistake. Make a mistake at this | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
level and your opponent will punish you, they know that. That is a nice | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
attack from Ren Cancan but Nicola Adams gets through with the right | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
hand and it is a All judges have favoured Ren Cancan, | :03:24. | :03:41. | |
the reigning Olympic silver medallist, takes the opening lead. | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
So we're into the second round now. Women's scheduled for four 2 minutes | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
rounds. Nicola Adams comes out in an aggressive mood and pecking away | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
with that straight left hand but a good left that good through to the | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
body from Ren. Better start from Adams, we spoke about it earlier in | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
the first round. She just neglected it a little bit. She has to settle | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
that backhand with the lead hand first. The left hand has to go in | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
before the right. She can't afford to fall short. She's got to get her | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
feet into position. Ren effectively boxing on her left foot. Ritchie | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
drew the analogy of physical chess, because Nicola Adams used the sport | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
the same way - drawing on skills and tactics, how she regards it. Ring | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
intelligence, thought crucial rather than just naked blind aggression. | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
Getting a bit untidy. And as Ritchie has pointed out, a mistake at this | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
level is crucial. Could be counted just like that. Terrific left jab by | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Nicola Adams causing Ren to lose her stance momentarily. The most basic | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
of all shots in that jab. She fell short with her work then, the | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Chinese girl, and that's why Adams got through and again a simple | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
punch, you know, as your opponent comes into punching range, get your | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
timing and accuracy right, which she did there - Adams. Very well. Well | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
aware has been a good passage at the second roubtd. Adams is looking to | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
make a strong conclusion in the second round. Try to even things up | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
in her own mind and most crucially in the mind of the judges. Look at | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
that timing on that wonderful left jab from Adams. She comes with the | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
right hand which drives Ren back to the ropes. Nicola Adams has | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
concluded the second round in a stronger fashion. Very good round of | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
boxing and a wonderful response from Adams having conceded the opening | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
unanimously. Much better round. Dave saying that's a much better | :05:51. | :06:04. | |
round, but when you do catch it, don't run in. Absolutely, don't want | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
to too overcommit, you see. The time here was superb. Concentration was | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
excellent here and she finished the round strongly and that's always | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
good to impress those judges. So a better response, her time and | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
accuracy was there. Let's look at the scores. She should get there. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Across the board, so now it's even-Steven. | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
So two rounds completed, two rounds to go in the women's 51kg flyweight | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
semifinal. Ren Cancan the reigning Asian continental championship, | :06:42. | :06:42. | |
swepted the opening round unanimously. Nicola Adams responded | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
with a brilliant performance in round two to return the favour. Weir | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
all square. Across the board with two rounds to go. Good right jab to | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
the body from Ren. Adams responds with the same shot from the | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
left-hand. Very often you got to try to make the lead, Ren is sitting | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
back. Acting like you're going to punch her, waiting for Adams leads. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
When ad add leads she must hit the targets, like those shots there, | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
that's better from Adams. Terrific forward foray from Nicola Adams. And | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
after that brisk start, is Ren beginning to fade just a little bit? | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Her work doesn't appear of the same sharpness has in the opening round | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
although she did get a good right hand to the body there. Adams's | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
accuracy and timing is better, Ren is still making Adams trying to lead | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
off and she's hoping she's going to miss the target by sitting back. But | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Adams is getting her feet into position and hitting the target and | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
that's what's troubling Ren at this stage. Hitting target with the most | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
fundamental of all shots in boxing. Terrific left jab, Ren coming | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
through with a big south paw, Ren coming into this game with annire -- | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
an eye injury. A win at the quarterfinal stage over Canada's | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Mandy, heads came together and she suffered an eye injury beneath the | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
head guard. Good right hand from Ren. But Nicola Adams's use of the | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
jab in that third round was really impressive. It's the jab that's | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
winning this contest for Nicola Adams at the moment. It's important | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
to finish the round strong. You got to catch the judges' eyes. They are | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
close rounds. Adams is doing the better work, to me. But that last 10 | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
seconds can be crucial for impressing the judges. Let's look at | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
this. Adams with the nice right hand there, keeps our opponent on the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
back foot. A nice left hand went through there from Ren. Let's have a | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
look again. Adams across the board again - they're liking what they see | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
from Adams. Like I said, time and Accra iscy work -- time and accuracy | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
working well with that shot. So Nicola Adams after conceding the | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
open round, across-the-board has taken round two and three | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
unanimously to have a one-point lead on the score cards of all three | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
judges here. Ren Cancan aware of that and is now, shethe boxer in | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
blue, is looking to take the contest to Adams. Remember, this is | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
incredibly tight. Maybe word has made it down to the respective | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
corners as to the status of the score cards but still the boxers' | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
concentration will remain absolute. Ren may change her tactics now which | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
will suit her style of boxing. She's out and out counter punching on the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
back foot, she may force the fight to Adams and as long Nicola Adams | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
keeps that timing and accuracy going, she should be OK. Again, | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
plenty of fainting, plenty of twitching, that style paw left not | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
too far away from Ren but the poents trying to draw something that they | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
can counter. So much thought and concentration behind each and every | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
attack. Setting traps, trying to draw something from their opponent. | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
Left jab once again from Adams and a counter right hand making Ren miss. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Her hands are very low and Adams is stepping in with that right hand. | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
Last 30 seconds now. This is the crucial part of the round. It's | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
still fairly close up until now. A good burst from either boxer could | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
nick the round. So Adams has got to finish strong here, Ron. Both boxers | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
will have that in-built almost innate clock that lets them know how | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
deep they are into a round. And this is what Ren wants to be - that's not | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
the posture Ren wants to be in near the 10 second clapper. She scores | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
with a good long left. Adams gets back on to the front foot and drive | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Ren back towards rope. A little bit of an exchange on the final bell but | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Nicola Adams is now surely on the cusp of returning to the gold medal | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
bout. She took rounds two and three after conceding the opening round | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
and that is why she's all smiles over in that red corner as Dave | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
Alloway and Gary Hail remove it is gloves. She feels she's done enough | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
and returning through to the gold medal bout. Good boxing from right. | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
The last 10 seconds was crucial and she finished strong on the front | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
foot pushing her opponent back to the ropes. She's done enough here. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
She's through to the final in my opinion. Well done, Nicola Adams. | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
Nicola Adams already emulated the great Dick McTaggart. Trying to | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
emulate Henry Mallet who won two successive golds. Here is the | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
announcement. ANNOUNCER: The winner by unanimous | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
decision... In the red corner... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
.. ..Nicola Adams. The quest to defend her gold medal she won in | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
London four years ago is now one step closer to becoming reality. The | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
boxer of leads had defeated a woman with whom she shares such a long | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
history. It is now tied up three bouts and once again on the Olympic | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
stage, it is Nicola Adams who has prevailed. Courtesy of a unanimous | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
points decision - once again she returns to the limb ping gold medal | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
bout and given the form she demonstrated there, she's going to | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
be supremely confident that it will be she, the British boxer, who | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
occupies top spot on the podium. First part of the mission | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
accomplished - Nicola Adams is through to the final for the second | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
successive Olympic Games. Another gold medal fight on Saturday. Yes, | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
another fight. I'm excited. I can't wait. This is what I have been | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
training for for the last four years. I'm really to go. You | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
obviously fought somebody who you knew very well and beaten in London, | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
how much was that in your mind when you walked into the ring today? To | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
be honest, I wasn't thinking about it too much, four years is a lot of | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
time for a person to change style and technique and strengthen their | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
weaknesses. I started to take it for what it was and going there and | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
stick to the tactics. As you're talking you're throwing out that | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
jab. That jab was immense today, won you the fight, didn't it? Yes, it | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
did. I was using the jab, I got long arms and I just paid off. You were | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
so calm, at least apparently, anyway. Were you nervous? I'm | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
nervous in every competition, you need that nervous energy to give you | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
the adrenaline. So... I have a last question - how excited are you now | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
about what lies ahead? I'm really excited now. I like to say thank you | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
to everybody that's supporting back at home. I love you. | :14:15. | :14:27. | |
Well in Saturday's final - Adams faces France's Ourahmoune. The | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
34-year-old bronze medallist at this year's world championships plans to | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
retire after the Olympics. I wonder what kind of farewell it could be. | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
So could be a second gold medal for Nicola Adams. Let's talk to a man | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
who has plenty of gold medals, Michael Johnson in the Olympic | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Stadium ahead of Usain Bolt in the 200m. Gemili in the race as well. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Michael no Justin Gatlin. Is there a changer to Bolt at all in this case? | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
If so, what is it? There's really no danger. You know, there's no one | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
that can run with Bolt when he's healthy. Justin Gatlin has always | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
been considered the rival simply because - in the because of a real | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
going back and forth between the two, but simply because he's the | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
closest person - the person who can get closest to Bolt and cause any | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
sort of challenge. With him now being out of the race, I don't see | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
anyone who's able to run with Bolt. He's so relaxed. We're going to see | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
some shots of him now in the Olympic Stadium doing an Alli shuffle, just | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
enjoying himself. Do you know who's going to be the next big face of | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
athletes, do you think people sometimes people forget he wasn't | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
like this at the start. This has all come with the confidence of winning? | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Yeah, but you know - he really was this way at the beginning when he | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
first came on the scene, anyway, back in 2008 and if you remember | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
back in Beijing, you know, people said that he wasn't good for the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
sport and that he was too flashy and showy and arrogant and - but then, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
you know, people started to realise this is just who he is and he's most | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
comfortable in this situation. When you talk to Usain Bolt one-on-one, | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
doesn't matter if it's fans or media or anyone else, he's quite shy in | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
one-to-one close contact with people. But out on the track when | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
he's away from everyone else and - he feels very confident and | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
comfortable and he enjoys this. You know, I don't think - in terms of | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
the next great star of the sport, that doesn't mean they're going to | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
be a Usain Bolt. I don't think we're going to see another Usain Bolt - a | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
combination of being a really special and unique athlete who is | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
one of the best that's ever been, and with this sort of personality | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
and entertainment, you know, factor that he brings. I think he just did | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
a dab as well in the middle of that. He really does have all the moves. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Actually you think our attitudes to him have changed rather than him | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
changing? Exactly. And, yeah, our attitude to him has changed. I think | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
fans have started to realise over time that it is authentic, this is | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
who he is, it's not an act or arrogant. He has been consistently a | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
fantastic ambassador for the sport and he has shown out there when he's | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
on the track he really appreciates the fans and he wants to give this | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
to them - this entertainment and these great performances. So the | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
race is still over two hours away, it means 2:30 in the UK. If there | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
isn't a danger for him and it's all nearly a forgone conclusion, another | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
reason - or a reason to keep people up if there isn't that jeopardy | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
element is that this could be the last time we see him run a 200m. He | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
said he won't run it at the Worlds next year. Yeah, this will be | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
effectively the last time we see him in a 200m. It will be the last time | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
we see him in an individual event at an Olympic Games, and - but you know | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
the other thing is the reason to watch is because, you know, if it | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
was a forgone conclusion and he was awarded the medal because he's the | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
best, we wouldn't be having the race. So you still have to go out | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
there and produce the performance and finish line ahead of the other | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
guys and they won't lie down and let that happen. They're going to be | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
pushing him and anything can happen at the Olympic level. I have seen | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
huge overwhelming favourites go down and not produce on the day. That can | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
happen. The other thing is I think behind Bolt, it is going to be very | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
good race for the other medals assuming he is given the gold or | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
that he earns the gold. There's a silver and bronze up for grabs, I | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
think it's very close for those medals and it's a toss-up as to who | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
might actually take those. Good talk to you Michael. Thank you very much. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
The rest of this athletes team with Gabi Logan from around 12:30 year on | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
BBC One. Here are some of the events you can look forward to: The | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
decathlon reaching it conclusion, semifinals of the men's 1,500m. The | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
final of the women's javelin. And the women's 400 hurdles. Remember we | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
got Jade Jones at 2 o'clock. It's Jade Jones at the Taekwondo at 2 | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
o'clock. Usain Bolt and Adam Gemili and the rest in the men's 200 at | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
2:30. On to cycling now, of course, all | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
the attention has been on the velodrome over the past few days. | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
But today, the focus was on BMX and in particular it was on Liam | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Phillips. This is how his quarterfinal went. | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
Here we go. The first raise for Phillips from Great Britain. Away | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
they go, good start from Liam Phillips. Over the triples they go | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
into turn 1. Liam Phillips just forced out a little bit wide by | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Graph. Phillips has gone down. He's crashed on his first run. Three | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
riders taken out. And now the field immediately down to five here and | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
the rider from Canada is racing away from this one and he's been followed | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
all the way down the penultimate straight by the remnants of the | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
field but it's the easiest victory that he could have and the German | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
rider comes over the line in second place and then in third place, | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Jefferson Milano from Ecuador, and the South African rider fourth, but | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
a disastrous start to his Olympic campaign here for Britain's Liam | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Phillips and the worry has to be whether that Olympic campaign has | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
already come to an end. And it had come to an end. It was a | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
horrible crash for Phillips, the 2013 world champion was expected to | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
be one of the contenders here in Rio, but he suffered - it was | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
horrible to watch again. He suffered mild concussion. So Chris put a | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
tweet out that the conditions were not ideal today. There were strong | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
winds - in his words, "Less than perfect track." As you can see, a | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
wheel of a competitor's bike actually hit Liam after he had come | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
off and he was understandably led away with concussion although he has | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
tweeted later on this evening, "I'm OK. Thanks for all the messages." He | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
is there in his GB kit in a hospital bed. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
Now, tomorrow night from 9:30 on BBC One, we have the women's hockey | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
final. It is of course Team GB taking on the netherlands, we'll | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
have that game live and in full for you. Tonight it was the men's hockey | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
final. Two surprise finalists really hear in Belgium who were the sixth | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
seeds taking on Argentina who are the seventh seed, your commentators | :22:02. | :22:15. | |
were match Hilton and Simon Mason. Oh, they got it. What a start for | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
Belgium. Scored! He was in the right place at the right time, put his | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
stick in the way. The ball found the goal. Belgium won! -- Belgium one, | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
Argentina nil. Don't throw your stick away, you might need it again. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Argentina with the first penalty corner of the match. Draws back | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
inside. Oh, he has let it slip and the goal is awarded. He took the car | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
ner but it was pounced upon to be pushed past. Belgium 1, Argentina 1. | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
Into the circle again, high ball, Argentina have control. Argentina | :23:03. | :23:03. | |
have scored! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
Argentina 2, Belgium 1. The great men for umpiring, touched inside, | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
flicked across to Nash, Cortez brings it down. Ortiz just drives it | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
across. Belgium 1, Argentina 2. They're lined up. Might be something | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
more traditional here. Give it to Gonzalo. And he scores, that's what | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
he does - time and time again. He gets nowhere near it. Gonzalo gives | :23:43. | :23:55. | |
Argentina a 3-1 lead. Gunia releases it again. Oh, what a goal. What an | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
incredible piece of individual skill from him. Pick-up, looks up, tucks | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
it inside, takes it to the hair, doesn't have time for a long swing, | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
look at the foot rotation here, round, bang, past the player, what a | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
goal! He's scoring an astonishing goal that brings Belgium back into | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
the game. A bit of basketball, bit after cricket, bit of everything | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
there. Three minutes left in the gold medal match. The goalkeeper is | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
heading off. Belgium are bringing on an extra outfield player and taking | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
another player off. Will be without a goalkeeper for the last two | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
minutes and 56 seconds of the gold medal match. Argentina in | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
possession. No goalkeeper for Belgium remember! 30 seconds left on | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
the clock. ', there's a wide open goal here! And there it is! | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Sits down in the goal - 4-2. It was | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
Mazzilli who has the simplest of opportunities presented to him by | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
the lack of Belgium's goalkeeper. They tried to get it across, they | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
had to go lateral. The ball popped up, Mazzilli keeps bouncing. There's | :25:34. | :25:46. | |
a suggestion there,. Great celebrations for Carlos, the blue | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
and white-clad fans with their flags an banners. They're jumping for joy. | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
Argentina can celebrate last. They are the Olympic hockey champions | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
with a 4-2 victory over Belgium. There were plenty of Argentinians | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
celebrating across Rio with that win and just to reiterate, it was 9 | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
o'clock tomorrow. Netherlands against Great Britain, the women's | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
hockey final, that is 9 o'clock and we'll be m live on BBC One. | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
I thought I'd leave my big mistake until the end! | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
(LAUGHTER) You were doing so well. Going all so | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
well. You walked in and I fell apart. You had a good day. You were | :26:34. | :26:45. | |
with the Brownlees. I was sweating watching them doing the film today. | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
I lost half a stone, can you tell? I couldn't get into this suit when I | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
got here. Looking good. Thank you very much indeed. A good evening to | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
you, we got lots of great live sport for you. Track and field, and a bit | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
of wrestling and Taekwondo. This is what's coming up. | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
So we will be live to see if a Taekwondo player, Jade Jones, can | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
defend her 57 kilo title. She fights for gold at 2:00am against a tough | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
Spanish rival. Usain Bolt, meanwhile, wants to take | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
his tally to eight in tonight's 200m final. | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
Canada's Andre De Grasse might have something to say about that, | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
however. Adam Gemili is the great British | :27:38. | :27:47. | |
hope in that 200m showdown. The 400m hurdles final features | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
Britain Eilidh Doyle. As for the fellow Scot, Lindsay Sharp, she's in | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
800m action. She will line up in the same semifinal as the overwhelming | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
favourite for gold Caster Semenya. And Charlie Grice takes to the track | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
in the 1,500m semifinals. We have got a lot of sport for you tonight. | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
Right across the Olympic games this evening. This is available on BBC | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
Four right now. We got a bit of basketball for you and a lot of | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
smiling by the looks of it as well! It's the United States against | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
France and there's a man who seems to be tapping his head - not too | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
sure what's going on there. However, if you want some BBC Four action, US | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
against France, that's available for you. Don't forget great coverage for | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
you BBC Radio Live and the BBC sports app. So we cannot wait for | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
Taekwondo later on. Can Jade Jones retain her Olympic title? We shall | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
find out later. We got so much sport for you this evening, but we cannot | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
wait for the athletes. Let's join Gabi and the team at the Olympic | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
Stadium. Time - the measure of mankind. Our | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
master. Ruling over us. Precyst tent. -- persistent. Unrelenting. A | :29:17. | :29:28. | |
world record has gone. This man surely is... Waiting for no one. A | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
new world record for Usain Bolt. We can't control it. We can't turn it | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
back. Usain Bolt has false-started. Yet, we fight it. Will be all about | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
Michael Johnson at the front. Try to break it. Johnson storming away. | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
It's the past. The world record beckons and it's gone! 43.18. The | :29:51. | :30:00. | |
present... He takes it and Michael Johnson's record has gone. The | :30:01. | :30:01. | |
future... Time. Time is everything. Time certainly is a very big factor | :30:02. | :30:16. | |
in this sport and I hope you're going to have a very good time | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
tonight because we have a fantastic evening ahead of us. And I'm | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
delighted that Paula and Denise and Michael are alongside me to enjoy | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
it, and if you could pick one thing tonight looking forward to, Michael, | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
what is it going to be? I'm looking forward to the 200m race that's | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
going to happen behind Usain Bolt. (LAUGHTER) | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
I think there's going to be a battle for those other medals, and it's | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
going to be interesting. That's the problem with Bolt - if there's a | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
problem with him he takes attention away and sucks up all the air in the | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
room. But there are other guys there who want a medal. We'll look at your | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
analysis in a bit of time. Denise? I think for me the other great athlete | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
that will be finishing tonight is Ashton Eaton in the men's decathlon, | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
he's one of the unsung heros in the sport. We got a huge character like | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
Usain, but he's on for another Olympic medal and he's - gruelling | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
two days for these guys. They had no time to stop and breathe and take in | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
just how tired they really are. Had to keep going and going. It would be | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
nice to see him get decorated tonight Paula? There's all the | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
things we have talked about. The women's 400m hurdles final and I | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
think also women's 800m semifinals and men's 1,500m semifinals. I want | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
to see our guys and girls move through those tough semifinals. OK. | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
Let's put that all into context for you and show you how the evening is | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
shaping up. The roar you heard behind me there were for the men in | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
the men's shot put final being introduced to the crowd. At 12:45 is | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
those semifinals that Paula was talking about. Charlie Grice and | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
Chris O'Hare going in that. The women's javelin finals going from | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
1:10, and the women's 800m. And the decathlon comes to a dramatic - it | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
always is. They do look like the wounded warriors when they go around | :32:16. | :32:22. | |
the 1,500m. And the women's hurdles finals with Doyle in the line-up at | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
2:15. And then there's the small matter of Usain Bolt attempting to | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
win his eighth Olympic gold medal at 2:30. However, there is also a Jade | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
Jones going and her fight is - her gold medal fight is at 2 o'clock in | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
the morning. So we will be going over there and you will get that | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
live here on BBC One - have no fear. But, of course, that 200m is the one | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
for the evening, potentially the last time we will see Usain Bolt | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
running a 200m. Certainly an Olympic 200m. Through the ages there have | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
been some classic 200m races. Let's have a walk back in the archives. | :33:01. | :33:13. | |
# All this time... There they go, there's Bobby Smithers. Also going | :33:14. | :33:21. | |
well the lane two, Bobby from America going well and Bobby from | :33:22. | :33:23. | |
America. Demonstrating clearly to the world | :33:24. | :33:39. | |
there that he is the supreme sprinter. | :33:40. | :33:48. | |
Away they go. First time. He's passed him on the bend. Landed on | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
the inside, he's one of the magnificent men. He's trying to | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
close that gab. And he's hanging on! But the gap is closing. But Manaia | :34:02. | :34:11. | |
from Italy gets there. A beautiful start. They got away | :34:12. | :34:18. | |
have smoothly and look at him. Carl Lewis is away. Carl Lewis leading | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
and being chased by the Brazilian. Carl Lewis all the way. Third place | :34:25. | :34:31. | |
is Jefferson of America. And Lewis wins this. Baptists second. 19.81! | :34:32. | :34:44. | |
Away, look at the background. Usual Johnson is blistering away. Lane 6 | :34:45. | :34:51. | |
is Boulton and Fredericks but it's Johnson. And Johnson is going away! | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
Johnson by yards! Johnson wins his second gold. | :34:59. | :35:08. | |
They get away and left in the blocks of USA, and Malcolm is right there | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
as well. Bolden just in the lead as they come into the bend. And here | :35:15. | :35:24. | |
come Campbell. He's going to get there and Bolden probably third. | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
Silver medal for Campbell. Wow! Away they go, and Usain Bolt already | :35:28. | :35:41. | |
going past Zengai as if he wasn't there, blasting around that top end, | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
bolt belt bolt, Dick running into second place. Trying to hang on to | :35:46. | :35:53. | |
the tall Jamaican. What's the time? It's gold for Usain Bolt! World | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
record, I do not believe it! Absolutely brilliant. | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE It's a clean start, Bolt is out of | :36:02. | :36:12. | |
the start really well. Look at Bolt go! It's a three metres lead and | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
they're coming to the home straight. They're not going to catch him. Bolt | :36:19. | :36:26. | |
is going to do it again. Gold all the way! | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
We were saying to you just a bit earlier - I love the 200m. I think | :36:33. | :36:39. | |
more than the 100m because of the bend and because it's a bit longer | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
and you get to enjoy it a bit longer, but also it's got those gear | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
changes that make it a bit more - think a little bit more. You can sit | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
back and enjoy it a bit longer than you can than the 100m. We're sitting | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
here, you can. But you can enjoy the 200m. It's a beautiful event, like | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
you said coming around the bend, gives it a bit more visual interest | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
and it's - you know, how you actually transition from running | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
around the bend on to the straight, two completely different components | :37:10. | :37:15. | |
of the race in terms of bio mechanics. It's a beautiful race to | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
watch. Let's look at the racers, but also at Bolt as well. But we'll head | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
out to Steve because there's some news developing in the decathlon. | :37:26. | :37:35. | |
The penultimate event of the decathlon is the javelin, there's | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
Kevin Mayer of France is having the event of his life. This is the first | :37:40. | :37:49. | |
round throw, it was his best. Absolutely smashed it across the two | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
days. Five life-time bests coming into this javelin. Lifetime best is | :37:55. | :38:01. | |
66m, he's just shy of that. He's going to break the French record | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
quite comfortably. 1,500m, the only event to come. Kevin Mayer 65.0 4. | :38:07. | :38:18. | |
That was his best of the three. So Ashton Eaton absolutely superb | :38:19. | :38:21. | |
across the two days as well. It hasn't been the runaway victory that | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
many talks about but it's been convincing, his coach there, Harry, | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
behind. Javelin withdrawn. Round 3 was his best - big scream from the | :38:32. | :38:39. | |
reigning champion. Bang on 60m. It was measured at 59point 77. -- | :38:40. | :38:44. | |
59.77. And that would be enough just to keep him in the lead, but Mayer | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
closing down the gap, five metres difference - the Frenchman. Five | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
metres better than Eaton's best in that third round. | :38:57. | :39:04. | |
The man currently in third place overall is Damian Warner of Canada. | :39:05. | :39:13. | |
And his best was also in the third round. Took him the three throws to | :39:14. | :39:25. | |
get him over the 60m mark. 63.19. So it looks as though the medals are | :39:26. | :39:33. | |
maybe set after these three throws. Long couple of days and Warner may | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
have toll settle for a bronze. Just the 1,500m to decide where the | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
medals are going to be allocated. Warner then 63.19. | :39:45. | :39:52. | |
Once all the points were tallied, put in the system, there you can see | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
the total points after nine events. Ashton Eaton as anticipated out in | :39:58. | :40:04. | |
front but only a 44 point lead over Kevin Mayer and that equates to | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
about 6.5 seconds over 1,500m. Amade of Warner, just the -- ahead of | :40:10. | :40:17. | |
Warner, just the 1,500m left. Is there any danger that Ashton | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
Eaton might not retain this gold? I don't think so. I mean, if he has to | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
run for it, he really will and he's capable of doing that. Let's not | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
jinx him. Going to be very exciting. Going to be a rate, not a formality, | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
though. No, gone are the days when you see the likes of Dally Thompson | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
just about to cruise around. This will be a proper race, I can | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
guarantee it. That's just as well to cruise around because he didn't have | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
much of a 1,500m. I can say that, because he's not here. He'll be | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
Tweeting. Let's go back to the 200m and have a look at Bolt. I know you | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
got some analysis to look for us. For Bolt, this was interesting in | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
his semifinal, we didn't see the interaction with the crowd and the | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
jubilant nature that he normally displays, this was yesterday | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
morning. Bolt told us before he's not a morning person, but he's OK | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
around the bend and I expected him to come off a little bit more of a | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
lead here. A decent lead at this point, but not much over Andre De | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
Grasse there. And Adam Gemili, he opens it up a little bit and thinks, | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
he can relax. De Grasse actually pushed him to the finish line and | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
there was a bit of playing around and that sort of thing going on, but | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
this ended up actually impacting the final that we're going to see | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
tonight because De Grasse ends up in lane 4, Bolt ends up in lane 6 with | :41:40. | :41:46. | |
both of his main rivals being Andre De Grasse and LaShawn Merritt on the | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
inside of him. That was last night, wasn't it? That was yesterday | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
morning. I thought - sorry. Or last night? Sorry. They had 24 hours. | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
Yeah, they had 24 hours. But he just wasn't in a real best, you know, | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
mood yesterday and he said he felt a little tire and sluggish. So it | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
showed there. Let's see what he does tonight. He turned down the volume | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
on the razzmatazz. That was interesting to see and he commented | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
afterwards he felt a little tired, didn't feel the pop he normally | :42:17. | :42:19. | |
does. But based on what we saw earlier today on the warm-up track, | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
there's lot of pop going on today. Yeah, the girls might have seen | :42:24. | :42:31. | |
that. He was - Michael was chatting earlier with Mark Chapman and Usain | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
Bolt was doing the alley shuffle. Probably some sort of reggae getting | :42:38. | :42:40. | |
his body. Into the groove. You can tell us what you think, Denise when | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
you see the moves what he was listening to. But give it a couple | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
of seconds, you'll see the footwork, prelty good. Yeah, he's ready. He's | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
clearly ready. Fancy-feet! He's going to need it around those bend, | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
isn't he. Got some skills. Got some skills. | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
(LAUGHTER) He's just so shy! Let's... | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
(LAUGHTER) Let's move on to LaShawn Merritt | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
who, of course, got the bronze in the 400m, he was disappointed with | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
that, but he's let the world know he's here for this 200m. I don't | :43:12. | :43:14. | |
know how disappointed he actually was with the 400m. I think he | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
expected to get a medal. He wanted to win it, after, you know, a world | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
record was run, he probably wasn't as disappointed but I think he's | :43:23. | :43:25. | |
turned his attention to this event, the 200m. Go the fastest time in the | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
world this year still, and he ran very well here and using that 400m | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
strength that he has, he doesn't blaze around the turn like you might | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
see a Usain Bolt do, but he's able to run a really good solid race from | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
start to finish, using that strength, he's very powerful, and | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
very tough - very tough competitor. He believes in himself, he knows he | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
can run longer than anyone else in the race because of his 400m prow | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
ess, the 400m man, and this goes back to high school and college. He | :44:01. | :44:03. | |
actually ran the 200m in high school. So you know, he has that | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
experience and he will - he will see this as an opportunity to do | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
something special in the sport - winning a medal. We will talk more | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
about the 200m later. Look at the other contenders in the field, | :44:15. | :44:17. | |
including Adam Gemili and Alonso Edward. And Paula, there's Charlie | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
Grice out there for the first 1,500m semifinals. Lucky to be there in | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
many ways. Yes. He is definitely lucky to be there. Ingebrigtsen | :44:27. | :44:35. | |
deserved to be disqualified. He needs to run his best here today | :44:36. | :44:38. | |
because it is a tough semifinal. Well, he has another role of the | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
dice. Let's see if he can use it. Steve Cram and Brendan Foster are | :44:45. | :44:47. | |
your commentators for this one. This isn't going to be easy for | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
Charlie Grice or for Chris O'Hare. Two fiefls, first -- semifinals, | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
first five in each and two fastest losers. Charlie in this first one | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
and Philip Ingebrigtsen, the younger brother of Henrik Ingebrigtsen, in | :45:03. | :45:12. | |
fact, all although Henrik Ingebrigtsen is more well-known, his | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
brother is running past him. Charlie was fading badly and probably a bit | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
fortunate to have been advanced. The German was advanced as well. Got 13 | :45:22. | :45:31. | |
in both races, only 12. So let's look at the shot put, though, Steve. | :45:32. | :45:44. | |
Early lead, the competitor from Congo. The world leader of over 22m. | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
Big response from the American. World champion last year screams! | :45:51. | :45:57. | |
Around the Olympic Stadium, the big men are out and they want people to | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
know about it. Kovacs close to the 22m line there. It's 21.78, that | :46:03. | :46:17. | |
takes the lead. Let's quickly look at the start. The shot put final | :46:18. | :46:24. | |
going on, of course. Lots of names you'll recognise, Nick Willis, | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
Ingebrigtsen, getting back into good form f you like. Seurei is in here, | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
former Kenyan running for bar rain, could be a danger. Iguider, Olympic | :46:32. | :46:39. | |
medallist. And the champion from 2008 and the champion from 2012, | :46:40. | :46:47. | |
Makhloufi. Add people in there from Blankenship. But this is a tough | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
semi. There's arguing to be the 1,500m semifinals, we saw with the | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
women, the standard how high it is. Makhloufi won a silver medal in the | :46:56. | :47:03. | |
800m could well challenge. So Kiprop, though, looks a little | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
nervous. They will trust their pace at the end. All these guys can | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
sprint. That's why they're 4 in the semifinal including Charlie, he's | :47:15. | :47:17. | |
got to put what happened in the heats to the back of his mind. I'm | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
sure he has done. Ingebrigtsen, European champion back in Olympic | :47:25. | :47:35. | |
year 2012. Nick Willis, well, he sacheted his way. And Iguider can | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
finish quickly as well. And this man can be very dangerous in the rounds, | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
he doesn't have the - such quick times although he has run a new | :47:46. | :47:52. | |
national record this year of 3.33.36. But the Czech Republic | :47:53. | :47:59. | |
competitor can sprint as well. 1,500m semifinal. As ever, we'll see | :48:00. | :48:10. | |
them sprint off the line and then just curious as to see whether | :48:11. | :48:13. | |
anybody really wants to settle and make this a little bit quick. Kiprop | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
at the back. Ingebrigtsen at the back, didn't sprint off the line. | :48:18. | :48:24. | |
Little bit of a jog, if you think back to the women's 1,500m final, it | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
became on edge in the middle race. So many of these guys can sprint. | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
Grice learnt a lesson in the heats that everybody can sprint. So | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
sometimes - I don't think Charlie will want to go to the front, of | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
course he won't, but just has to be really aware, get himself in the | :48:42. | :48:44. | |
best position possible when they get in the last two laps. After watching | :48:45. | :48:49. | |
him the over day in the first round and that - I thought he was fading | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
in the later stages. I'm very nervous. This is a tough | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
qualification. You got two Olympic champions, you got two Olympic | :48:58. | :49:00. | |
medallists, two your Honour champions in this race. And there's | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
only five to go through in the first lap has been pretty pedestrian | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
there. 63 seconds, so they're now beginning to move along. You got to | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
do that. I think the faster race will suit Charlie Grice but there he | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
is settling down, at least they're going at a reasonable pace, that | :49:16. | :49:22. | |
means less problems, going to get less frubl bumping into one another. | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
And Kiprop out the back, probably the favourite. He is the favourite | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
but Makhloufi is in there, Willis, Iguider is there. They're all | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
medallist in the 1,500m in the Olympic Games. Four medallist in | :49:37. | :49:45. | |
this game alone. Kaazouzi steps to one side. Blankenship happy to glide | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
through. Two laps to go. Normally they start to speed up here because | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
they went fast they slowed again, this is now going to become as ever | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
a big sprint over the last 5 or 600m. Charlie is in a bad place | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
there. This is the lap he needs to get himself in a better place than | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
that. It's a test of nerves. It's a test of physical demand. Not yet, | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
though. It will be fast and fast and fast, and he's got to make his move. | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
So there they go. Down the back straight, Charlie Grice on the | :50:16. | :50:18. | |
inside. Surrounded by talent - surrounded by people who are faster | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
than him, surrounded by people who have run better 1,500m than him. | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
Right now he's in the middle. Not even in a good position there. Going | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
to have to do an awful amount of work. Needs a bit of a break to get | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
lucky here. He's in a bad spot there, but you can't panic now. Too | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
many bodies around, as Seurei is the first to break and then the gaps | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
will come. Charlie just dipped back inside there. Following Nick Willis | :50:44. | :50:46. | |
as they come around to take the bell. They come to the bell and here | :50:47. | :50:52. | |
comes Asbel Kiprop, former Olympic champion on the other outside. And | :50:53. | :50:56. | |
Makhloufi in the green vest. You can see them lining across three | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
abreast. Right in the middle there is Charlie Grice as they go through | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
three laps here. That was faster, and now they're really stretching. | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
And he is fit, he is strong. He's got a bit of a chance. Kiprop | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
gliding down the back straight, Blankenship moves, Charlie Grice | :51:14. | :51:16. | |
looking for some room on the inside and he gets it. Willis not out of | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
this yet. Top five only to go through. Can't be guaranteed a time | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
at this place. Makhloufi looking comfortable. Iguider looking good. | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
Charlie Grice is going to have to dig deep. Can't get past | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
Blankenship. A gap opens up for him. Kiprop is there. Charlie still | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
there. Got to hang in right to the line. Makhloufi, Willis, | :51:39. | :51:40. | |
Blankenship, Iguider, Charlie Grice fifth. Makes it! 3.39.74. Well done, | :51:41. | :51:50. | |
Charlie. He may have been fortunate to make it through. What he didn't | :51:51. | :51:55. | |
do is, as I said to the bell, is not panic. He realised it was in a not | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
good position, and when you're in that position, you cross your | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
fingers and you hope go things happen for him, plane Dan - he's | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
managed to sneak through, past your eye at 200 to go. If that had been | :52:08. | :52:11. | |
blocked off, he was finished. If Blankenship had not finished as | :52:12. | :52:14. | |
strongly in the home straight, then Charlie would have struggled as well | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
to recover from. He's now seen it. He's 4 in the Olympic final. Huge | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
relief and a huge achievement as we. Well done Charlie. A real | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
achievement by Charlie Grice. And John, being his coach, they must | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
have been nervous the other day. They had some doubts about him the | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
other day. But here he is. Into the Olympic final, got to be delighted | :52:35. | :52:37. | |
with that. He really has worked hard for this. His strength, is probably | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
better than his speed, but there he goes. As Steve was saying during | :52:44. | :52:46. | |
commentary, he never got himself in a great position. He's in amongst | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
the runners all around him, a push there which gave him a bit of a | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
chance, a bit of a fortunate move through on the inside and look how | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
far behind Kiprop is. As they stretch there now, as Kiprop, four | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
runners abreast at this point, down the back straight, Charlie Grice got | :53:06. | :53:08. | |
his first break. Blankenship on the bend, Kiprop on his shoulder and | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
there the Olympic champion, Makhloufi alongside him, so there's | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
no shortage of talent there. Certainly isn't, but there is a | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
determination in charmy Grice. Look at that one - very, very lucky there | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
to get a gap on the inside. He comes quickly there, Kiprop coasting, | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
Makhloufi coasting, here comes Willis on the outside and | :53:32. | :53:34. | |
Blankenship just leaning forward and Charlie Grice, he wasn't sure about | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
it, but he was fifth in that one, that was in the first five and the | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
two fastest losers. But on the inside, Charlie Grice seeing his | :53:47. | :53:49. | |
chance, he's got a chance. He's determined. That's what he's worked | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
for. That's why he's trained so hard - to get there. Makhloufi and | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
Kiprop, two Olympic champions ahead of him. Well done Charlie Grice and | :53:58. | :54:03. | |
he's downstairs there talking with Phil. | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
Thanks, Brendan. A big well done from Brendan and Steve. What a huge | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
achievement it is. And you must feel it like it yourself? To come fifth | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
place, when the pace was slow, I was kind of a bit nervous, but I knew my | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
speed was good and I ran awful on Tuesday, I don't know what happened. | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
I just told myself to stay patient and, yeah, glad I redeemed myself, | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
because Tuesday wasn't me. And you took the inside track. I think the | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
key there was not to panic. Yeah, it was. I mean, it was a definitely a | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
fight of a finish there, but I told myself to stay on the inside, and a | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
few times - people were cutting in and stuff so I was glad I stayed on | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
my feet. Obviously you were bumped and barged as you were trying to | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
finish the other day, and got back in after a protest, at that point, | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
did you think your Olympic Games might be over? Yeah, it wasn't | :54:56. | :54:59. | |
actually a protest. Apparently before they put the protest in, the | :55:00. | :55:02. | |
judge said I was in straightaway. So I was pretty fortunate on that | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
occasion. So just wanted to make sure proved myself today because | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
there's been a lot of people getting protesting and getting advanced. So | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
just glad that I was back to myself today and trusted my sprint. Olympic | :55:17. | :55:19. | |
finalist, can you take it in? Amazing. It's bloody close, but, | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
yeah, just thrilled. So, yeah, on to the final in two days. So rest up | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
and going to be a cracker. Well done, Charlie, we wish you well for | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
the final. Cheers, mate. So by 600th of a second, that's all. | :55:33. | :55:41. | |
There you see the results - top five only to go through and that 3.40.05, | :55:42. | :55:48. | |
a second semi to come. They would have seen that, they can go faster, | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
but they probably might not. Remains to be seen. | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
Looking forward to see what this man can do, Ryan Crouser, US champion, | :55:59. | :56:08. | |
he's 6ft 7 and he rotated the shot. Tall man. That's over 22m! Ryan | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
Crouser in the second round of the shot put, his team-mate - Kovacs - | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
in the lead at the moment with 21.78. That am certainly - well it's | :56:20. | :56:31. | |
beyond it. That's over the 22m line! Crouser - inexperience, no previous | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
form to talk of T 23 years of age. Just given everyone something to | :56:37. | :56:45. | |
talk about. 22.22m. Kiprop looked good in that first heat who was the | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
strong favourite. And they have another contender here, Kenya. | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
Should have had two in here, but Elijah Motonei Manangoi is out with | :56:55. | :57:03. | |
a hamstring problem. Bronze over 800 in the world champions, he's got | :57:04. | :57:23. | |
that kind of piece. Alongside him. There is Kwemoi. Just 20 and | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
astonishing talent. A junior world record holder with 3.28 spnt 21 when | :57:30. | :57:35. | |
he ran when he was 18. That was exactly the same mark as Mo Farah. | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
Ryan Gregson, the Australian champion, showed very good speed | :57:41. | :57:43. | |
down the home straight to qualify. And Matthew Centrowitz Jr world | :57:44. | :57:59. | |
indoor champion. Silver in the Worlds in Moscow. Fourth in the | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
Olympic time in London. But Chris O'Hare, he's called himself a bit of | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
a terrier, he'll be in the right position. Invariably he is. Does he | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
have the speed to leave here. Two fastest losers. We'll look for the | :58:15. | :58:25. | |
pace for this one. O'Hare five from the front there and immediately | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
taken out by the 23-year-old from Uganda. And in behind is Centrowitz | :58:30. | :58:38. | |
and the Spaniard as well, Bustos. Here, we talk about tactics in the | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
1500 and perhaps Grice doesn't get it right, but has great speed. Here | :58:44. | :58:46. | |
always seems to get the tactics right. I think you're right there. I | :58:47. | :58:57. | |
tell you what - it means seven of these athletes could go through, | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
everyone one of these athletes have run faster than 3.40, that's | :59:03. | :59:05. | |
immediately a little bit quicker than in the first round. That's | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
sensible, and good running. In the middle there, having an easy run | :59:10. | :59:13. | |
there, having a nice position, which seems to be less crowding there, as | :59:14. | :59:17. | |
they go faster, coming through there with 59.6. This is clearly faster. | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
This is a bigger advantage for this field. I think all seven of these | :59:23. | :59:26. | |
could come from the two faster losers and the five could come from | :59:27. | :59:35. | |
this eat. A big advantage as Kwemoi. And Manangoi has been ruled out with | :59:36. | :59:43. | |
a hamstring injury. You could get se von going through from this one. The | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
Canadian just steadying himself from the arm. They're slightly more | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
stretched out then they were in the first semifinal. That's right. | :59:53. | :59:55. | |
Running a good race here - Chris O'Hare. Just on the outside on the | :59:56. | :00:01. | |
shoulder of Centrowitz who I would be sure would be qualifying from | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
this one. There steady running, it's not hard running, pretty steady, | :00:06. | :00:08. | |
probably a little slower than Chris O'Hare. Now deciding wants to take a | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
bit closer. He's strong at the finish. He's going to put himself in | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
with a chance of being and producing that finish and this is a good run | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
from Chris O'Hare. Look for the pace here. And it's pretty much the same | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
as the first one. They have slowed it down a bit. Just inside that. So | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
perhaps might not be too fastest losers going through. And Centrowitz | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
just realises, and edges forward. The pace continues to list. Sixth | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
place at the moment with Chris O'Hare. Just easing his way on the | :00:42. | :00:55. | |
inside of the runner. He niece a good position looks as though | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
they're innu ins creasing their options of qualifying. Chris O'Hare | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
doing well and following Centrowitz. So as they hit the bell, it's | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
Suleman out the front. Just that little bit of extra distance to run. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
He just moved on that very quickly. A little bit pumped but I think he's | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
now perfectly poised. If he's got the sprint finish, we know he has, | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
he could qualify here. First five to go through automatically. They're | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
all bunched up again and so many in context. O'Hare tries to make his | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
move. This is where he likes to go from 250m out. Round the bend, | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
gritting his teeth and digging in and setting that job. Nobody shows | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
the effort more than O'Hare. Centrowitz looking comfortable. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Kwemoi looking comfortable. Greek Greg, the Australian, has a fast | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
finish. O'Hare goes at it again and doesn't have it in the legs. Suleman | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
is there and Kwemoi and Gregson and the second American just holding | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
off. It was Robbie Andrews for the fifth place. And O'Hare - O'Hare had | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
nothing down the home straight and it's painful to watch. A man who's | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
been to the finals of the World Championships didn't compete in | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
London, desperately wanted to get to the final of an Olympic games. But | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
despite giving everything, as he always does, and he puts himself in | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
the right positions but he just didn't have the speed in the legs. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
He didn't do anything wrong in that race. He was perfectly poised at | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
every point. He matched the pace, which really wasn't quick. The | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
winner does 3.39. But there, a sad figure of Chris O'Hare, one of this | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
large Scottish contingent presenting Great Britain here. He knows the | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Olympic final was a real potential for him and sadly, he's not going to | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
experience it. There they go, there's the bell. Suleman takes it | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
on. Centrowitz is following him in a good place all the time. Here, Chris | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
O'Hare is perfectly positioned. He's on the outside. He can see what he's | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
doing, the pace was strong enough at this point. And then just a little | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
bit in the back straight, a little bit of fading there from Chris | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
O'Hare and then an acceleration and I wonder if that's sudden | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
acceleration actually is what - why he paid the price in the home | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
straight. Centrowitz not a problem. And at that point, Chris O'Hare, you | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
might have bet on him an at this point, but no, into the point, and | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
then suddenly, it's gone and when it goes like that, the legs have gone, | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
the fatigue is setting in, that burst of speed I think he's paid the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
price for and Gregson of Australia coming through, but there is Sulema | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
in. A couple of other things to look out for - see Robbie Andrews there, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
he just about stepped on the rail on the inside of the track as he was | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
trying to come dune. Just watch him here on the inside. He's trying to | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
get around Gebremedhin. You just see his... | :04:07. | :04:21. | |
He has locked him in with 200 to go. Barely made it through. He might | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
make it through with the disqualification for Robbie Andrews. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
Another look at it. Chris O'Hare in the distance. Difficult to watch. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
His thoughts. Obviously you are disappointed not to have won the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Olympic final. What didn't work? I am not sure. Umm... I was in the | :04:46. | :04:55. | |
position. 200 to go. I thought find. And then I tried to turn it on in | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
the last 100 and it just wasn't there. It was disappointing because | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
I wanted to do so much better for my family and my team and everybody at | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
home who is watching and tuning in. And it was just really disappointing | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
for them as well as myself. I thought I was good enough but | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
obviously not. You were in a great position. Tactically you get it spot | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
on. Anything you would have done differently? No, I mean I think, I | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
can't, obviously, I will have to go back and watch the race. But at the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
moment I don't feel I have done anything wrong. I tried my best. You | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
know, I guess that is all I can do. But, you know, it was disappointing | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
when I have put all this work in and I thought I was good enough and I | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
am... I just wasn't. We appreciate you talking to us. Thank you. Chris | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
O'Hare, still a reasonably young man, 25, I am sure he will be back | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
to try again. And you can see the results there. And automatic | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
qualifier for Robbie Andrews. And the Spaniard failed and couldn't get | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
there to Robbie Andrews. More news to come for this one. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
APPLAUSE. The women's 400 metre hurdle final is coming up later on | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
this evening. The men had their go this morning. One of the finals of | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
the morning session. We shall take a look. Away safely this time. Thomas | :06:37. | :06:49. | |
will have Clement to chase. Just a metre or two down. The two Kenyans | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
going well. Thomas tried to stay in contact with the American. Chopping | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
down on to the hurdle. Thomas will finish quickly. Don't write him off. | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
It is Clement leading it. White is there. Thomas is a long way off. He | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
will come charging down. Clement is checking into the final hurdle. Here | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
comes the Kenyan! It will be close. Thomas not quite there. Clement the | :07:28. | :07:45. | |
gold. Turkey took the bronze. It was a wonderful race. Thomas, just | :07:46. | :08:00. | |
missing out by five hundredths of a second on what would have been a | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
wonderful medal. Another Irish record in stead. A Kenyan record | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
after the World Championships last year. And Olympic silver-medallist | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
now. But, what a return to the top of the podium, literally, for Kerron | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
Clement. He burst onto the scene as a youngster 10- 11 years ago. We | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
thought he would be brilliant then. He went to take on the hurdles. All | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
sorts of issues in his life and career which you have seen him come | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
back in fine form from. What a performance from him. And event | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
which we were worried about all year being maybe a little bit average, if | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
you like. It turned out to be a little bit of a classic in the end. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Puerto Rico with a false start and not able to contest it. Ireland just | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
missing out on a medal. But the USA is once more on top in the 400 metre | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
hurdles in the shape of Kerron Clement. AMERICAN ANTHEM PLAYS. | :09:00. | :10:14. | |
AMERICAN ANTHEM PLAYS. APPLAUSE. That is the first time | :10:15. | :10:26. | |
since Sydney, 2000, that all the medallists have run under 48 seconds | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
in the Olympic final. An excellent race. But what about Clement! . | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
Two-time world champion. The Olympic world champion in 400 metre hurdles. | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
Great from him. Ryan took the wind out of everyone's sales with that | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
world leading putt. 22 in the second round. Round three now. A big shout | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
again. It is enormous! It is over 22 metres at again for Crouser! And the | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
young man is putting together a series of his life. He is closing | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
in, possibly, on the Olympic record, 22, 40 seven. That was 1988. Ryan | :11:16. | :11:25. | |
Crouser, holding all the aces at the moment. What can Covax do was won is | :11:26. | :11:40. | |
the world leader until this. Shy of 22 metres. Covack is left wanting. | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
Is the bigger man, Ryan, the youngster... Neither of them have | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
been to the Olympics before. Both of them are thriving. An incredible | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
competition. A two-horse race as we wait for this distance to be | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
measured. Incredible. What a beast is Crouser! And his competitor is | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
not exactly a small man either. A powerful contest. Let us have a look | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
at Charlie Grice in the 450 metres. Talk us through his tactics. This is | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
a totally different Charlie Grice that turned up today than we saw | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
racing in the heats the other day. He looked very pale the other day. | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
Now he looks better. A lot of pushing and shoving. This heat wound | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
up really well. Charlie Grice did get lucky, as was pointed out, in | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
the, when we were watching it, he was lucky. He followed like a chip | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
through. Because I can ship was moving quickly he got away through. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
-- Blankenship. He didn't panic. He could sense in coming up. He was | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
lucky as Blankenship moved slightly wide. But Charlie Grice had the | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
reaction he did not have the get himself up into third at one point | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
and hold on for the qualifying position in fifth. At that point, he | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
would not have been certain that the fastest loser would come through. I | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
think the two fastest losers did come from that heat earlier on. He | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
had to keep running very hard. Right through that. Even he wasn't sure. | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
He was looking up at the rerun to make sure he got the fifth placed. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
The Olympic medal was already in his pocket. Blankenship, and Michael in | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
particular, believes that they should be taught not to open the | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
door and let other runners through. That was quite a big invitee from | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
Blankenship, wasn't it? It was. But with fatigue you veer out. He was | :14:15. | :14:23. | |
focusing on his race. And Robbie Andrews Schumacher disqualified in | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
the second semi-final for taking steps on the infield to get past. -- | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
who may get disqualified. That was a nice invite into fifth. Yesterday he | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
got through on appeal. This may be his championship. The 800 metres | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
coming up soon. The semifinals. With the sharp presenting Great Britain. | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
-- Lizzie Sharp. I think the first semi-final is the hardest and | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
neither are in that. On paper you will look at that and see it is a | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
tough one. But I think it is doable for Lindsay. She is in a much better | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
shape. She executes races better. She puts herself in a better | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
position. Looking to do that today, fingers crossed. I know you have to | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
join and drew in the comment to box. If anyone can get there in time it | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
will be used up -- Andrew. You have permission to leave. They are taking | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
position on the track. The first heat of the semifinals. The first | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
semi-final with Margaret and of course Wilson in there as well. I am | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
doing well on my pronunciation tonight, I tell you. And Dibaba. | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
There is a man who can pronounce these names better and his name is | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
Andrew Cotter. This is a tough semi-final. If there are two women | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
who could push Semenya in the semi-final, it is Wambui and | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
another. A note on the 1500 metres we saw with Robbie Andrews, the | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
American, that result has gone official for now. It might still | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
change. But even American colleagues thought he would be disqualified. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Perhaps more to come on that. Heading to the shotput. It years | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
Ryan Crouser in the fourth round. The top eight only to progress to | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
the second half of the competition. Round four. It is bang on that | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
pretty to me the line again. One of the best series of putts I have seen | :16:43. | :16:54. | |
ever. Ryan Crouser, we didn't know how he was going to handle the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
pressure. The champion ahead of Kovacs earlier this summer. Earlier | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
than that it has in all Kovacs. Here are the games, the big one, big | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
prizes on offer. No improvement for Ryan Crouser. The men's 200 metre | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
final is in about 1.5 hours. Usain Bolt is of course going in that one. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
But we are ready for the first semi-final of the women's 800 | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
metres. We mentioned the two great strengths of, umm, of Margaret and | :17:27. | :17:44. | |
Samba and Poland and Ukraine. There is you gunners. Took almost two | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
seconds of her personal best. -- Uganda. The 21-year-old. There is | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
Wilson, second in the US trials. Kate goes ahead of her. Wilson is | :18:01. | :18:14. | |
carrying American hopes. There is her. She took the title in March in | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Oregon which is where she is now based. Only beaten by Semenya this | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
year. The new 1500 metre champion, a slow race in Amsterdam last month, | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
it played into her hands. And the Ukraine. The 800 metre champion of | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Europe after winning in Amsterdam. A slight surprise. | :18:37. | :18:57. | |
The Italian, clean in March to run for her new country. The | :18:58. | :19:09. | |
20-year-old, last year junior champion. A great run, her personal | :19:10. | :19:18. | |
best, two-minute head got her to the semi-final. Wonderful conditions | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
inside the stadium. The first of the 800m semi-final or the women. Seu to | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
go through automatically passed to fastest losers. | :19:37. | :19:46. | |
A great power in the later stages, looking to see if it is brisk in the | :19:47. | :20:15. | |
early stages. Instead it. Good pace. Really, one of the favourites. It is | :20:16. | :20:41. | |
a tough, tough heat. Wambui perhaps just biding her time. Beginning to | :20:42. | :21:05. | |
make up time. Does Wilson have a response? The European champion | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
looking for a fast finish. Niyonsaba is leading them out. Wambui looking | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
around. The two come away. Wambui is going to take the victory. Niyonsaba | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
easing over the line. The two we highlighted other two that go | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
through automatically. Wambui with her great strength takes her win. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
Niyonsaba, looked around, let her have it. Wambui and Niyonsaba | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
through to the final. As easy as they like. Wilson in third place | :21:51. | :22:04. | |
held that position. Had a little bit of competition, Nataliya Pryshchepa | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
came through but she needed this to be a little bit quicker. Only two | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
fastest losers from the three semifinals and the others could go | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
quicker than that. She looked like she was easing and relaxing. The two | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
in front could but she needed to go as fast as she could stop Niyonsaba | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
has a lot more to give. She is pushing hard once her work is done, | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
a little look to Wambui, no one else in her periphery. Happy with second | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
place. Always aware of where the third-place athlete is. Wilson will | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
have to wait and see. Confirmation of that... Those times were not | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
quite quick enough. For women under two minutes but will that be quick | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
enough? I am not sure. Tom Walsh in the shotput. Round | :23:10. | :23:40. | |
five. World indoor champion from New Zealand. Well, he opened. ... The | :23:41. | :23:59. | |
second round in fact was his best. Trying to work out how close that is | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
to the 22 metre line full great slow motion replays. Ten centimetre board | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
in front of that, you cannot touch it, the top of it at least. He goes | :24:13. | :24:22. | |
into third place. Ryan Crouser, look at that series! The last round just | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
shy of 22 metres. We are in a round five. Oh, it is his best so far. | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
Ryan Crouser has unleashed a massive throw in this fifth round. He has | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
had three throws already that put him in the lead and he has just | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
extended it at might challenge the Olympic record. It is indeed! 22.5 | :24:53. | :25:06. | |
to. Five centimetres on the Olympic record. | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
Write down on the other end of the arena, the shop put. It is the | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
second semifinals of the aid 100 metres and the first of the two | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
British athletes,. Shelayna Oskan-Clarke. Lupu will finish fast. | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
Remember, last year at the World Championship she got quicker and | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
quicker. The 19-year-old Ethiopian, a good talent, Alemu and unknown | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
quantity. The Swiss has had some great indoor races. Talking of 1.57, | :26:02. | :26:15. | |
Melissa Bishop did that recently. Did that in a fast running fashion. | :26:16. | :26:25. | |
The former champion, Sum not in great shape... I say not in great | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
shape I have very high standards. A new personal best to make it into | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
the semi. And an athlete who is very dangerous in slower races, Jozwik. | :26:40. | :26:49. | |
What I am saying is, do not make it slow. | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
Melissa Bishop started a very, very quickly with real intent already. | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
They will probably go through the first 200 reasonably quick. Bishop | :27:07. | :27:23. | |
coming alongside Sum. Through 200 in about just under 28th. A little bit | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
quick in the first heat and it is an advantage to know what time you need | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
in order to have a chance of advancing as the fastest loser. | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
Shelayna Oskan-Clarke we know can do this, we know that she can run | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
quickly and she may be glad it was taken out at a pace. Bishop of the | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
danger here. A little bit quicker than the first heat, 57 point 55. | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
They are all there. One too I thought may have shied. Sum | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
controlling it with the youngster from Ethiopian, Alemu. Bishop | :28:10. | :28:17. | |
looking for a little bit of room. Alemu closer to the front than she | :28:18. | :28:28. | |
often is. Look at where Lupu is full of Shelayna Oskan-Clarke, Alemu at | :28:29. | :28:39. | |
the front. Oskan-Clarke coming again. Bishop of Canada coming fast. | :28:40. | :28:51. | |
The fast finishing pollen, Jozwik. He/she comes, a big finish from | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
Jozwik. Bishop second. A faster rate than the first so I think third and | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
fourth might have a chance, sadly Shelayna Oskan-Clarke came in fifth. | :29:07. | :29:21. | |
A season best for Jozwik. What happened around the top end must | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
have cost Shelayna Oskan-Clarke valuable time. Jozwik has come in | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
really established herself as someone moving through. You see the | :29:35. | :29:44. | |
stumble. That was the earlier blocking. As they come round with | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
200 metres to go, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke in that position. She | :29:48. | :29:54. | |
moved wide to go around Acra three and she lost the momentum and a | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
little bit of the fight because she struggled to come back. If she had | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
not lost that an that that momentum she could have pulled through. | :30:06. | :30:14. | |
Melissa Bishop has turned up the burden is a little bit. She knows | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
that she qualified with is about Shelayna Oskan-Clarke needed to keep | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
fighting because she lost out on the last few strides. That was linked | :30:23. | :30:48. | |
moving through. -- Lindt. Buchel in the fastest loser position. A huge | :30:49. | :30:59. | |
disappointment. Lindt ran her to personal best, doing what Shelayna | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
Oskan-Clarke did last time. Back to this great shotput final, Steve. The | :31:06. | :31:13. | |
only man who can stop Ryan Crouser, Joe Kovacs. He is currently in the | :31:14. | :31:21. | |
silver medal spot. He is a guarantee that because of this is the | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
penultimate throw of the competition. Now, if ever he had to | :31:25. | :31:35. | |
dig deep, this is the time. Crouser with one throw after this. Joe | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
Kovacs trying to get everything he can. Last chance. Big screen but, | :31:41. | :31:49. | |
no, it is below 22 metres. He will have to settle for silver and Ryan | :31:50. | :31:56. | |
Crouser is the Olympic champion. Well, he will have his last throw, | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
Crouser. Looks as though he may even go further. Randy Barnes holding the | :32:03. | :32:17. | |
world record, 1990. Crouser a new superstar of shop put is born. | :32:18. | :32:24. | |
Coached by Matt Wilson, the discus champion from 19 76. Asking for the | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
support of the crowd. Can he go further? 22.52, the Olympic record | :32:32. | :32:43. | |
in his last throw. What has he got now? His last throw. Well, it is not | :32:44. | :32:51. | |
quite his best. Another long throw that probably could have won the | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
competition. Probably five of his six throws could have won. At 26 in | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
years of age, his first major. Ryan Crouser. An Olympic record in around | :33:05. | :33:16. | |
five stop -- round five. After a slow start for the Americans, in | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
this track and field, it is getting better and better. Success in the | :33:21. | :33:27. | |
track and success in the shotput. And we will head back to the women's | :33:28. | :33:35. | |
aid 100 metres in the third semi-final.. | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
Sharp goes here. And we can just have a look at what Lynsey needs to | :33:43. | :33:50. | |
do. She's not in the top two. Shelayna Oskan-Clarkenot through. | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
Neither is the world champion Joanna Jozwik. And Melissa Bishop - | :33:57. | :34:06. | |
1.59.35. So the start list for the last of the semifinals in the | :34:07. | :34:12. | |
women's 800m and Caster Semenya goes here, Lynsey Sharp is in there. | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
Maryna Arzamasava of Belarus, just inside Lynsey Sharp there. Two go | :34:17. | :34:17. | |
through automatically. As Amela Terzic from Serbia. More | :34:18. | :34:42. | |
often a 1,500m runner. So Caster Semenya - 23 races this reason, I | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
was looking to see, but 22 wins from 23. She did lose a 400m race in | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
March in Pretoria, but apart from that - untouchable. Not just in 800. | :34:54. | :35:02. | |
She's a very good 400m runner as well, and a 1,500m runner as well. | :35:03. | :35:11. | |
Yarigo on the outside. Maybe struggling to deliver with very | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
best. And the Winny Chebet, the Kenyan. She also had some records. | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
Hasn't necessarily lived up to that enormous talent. There's Grace | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
graust Grace, winner of the trials. The best in the US, Grace went | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
through as one of the fastest losers. Caster Semenya such | :35:33. | :35:44. | |
attention upon her. We saw how she finished the Monaco Diamond League, | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
you understand why people are thinking she could get close | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
sometime soon. Lynsey Sharp believes she's in the shape of her life. | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
Certainly looking strong win the heats largely from the front. But | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
Maryna Arzamasava a considerable threat, a world champion after | :36:03. | :36:05. | |
taking that title in Beijing last year. Ready. Amela Terzic, a 1,500m | :36:06. | :36:17. | |
specialist, but showed that strength to finish very quickly in the first | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
round to take second place behind Lynsey Sharp. And Wang Chunyu in | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
Lane 1. The 21-year-old who went below 2 minutes for the first time | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
in her career. A very special moment for an 800m runner. So Lynsey Sharp | :36:33. | :36:40. | |
is realistic. She knows you almost have to take Caster Semenya out of | :36:41. | :36:45. | |
the equation and go to the places behind. Two automatic places but | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
perhaps one here for everyone else. And Lynsey Sharp almost up alongside | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
her after the gun waits, but not a concern for Semenya, she can win any | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
which way she pleases. Now does Lynsey Sharp run this? A third in | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
the semifinals. Looking for the place The third of the semifinals, | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
they know what time they're aiming for. Not likely we see Caster | :37:08. | :37:13. | |
Semenya go on the front and take the pace early on. I'm glad to see | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
Arzamasava move to the front. Quicker than the previous two heats. | :37:19. | :37:21. | |
That's good for Lynsey Sharp. That means she can react as she would do | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
in a Diamond League race pretty much and she's been racing well all year. | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
She can just keep a good position, be ready to react, at some point | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
Semenya will go and go hard. Probably won't be until the last | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
200m. I think Maryna Arzamasava, the world champion, has decided the | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
options to qualifying in this one and take it through in brisk pace. | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
Exactly the same time and that was quick enough, that second semifinal, | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
so Arzamasava ahead of Lynsey Sharp and Semenya, just bouncing along in | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
fifth place at the home. A good run from Yarigo, and Grace is there, and | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
Chebet beginning to drop off, so too Chunyu and Terzic. Do they have | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
something in the latter stages? Arzamasava, Lynsey Sharp looking | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
strong at the moment. Arzamasava just beginning to fatigue slightly. | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
Semenya is there and Grace beginning to make a move and perhaps Noelie | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
Yarigo has gone. Two automatic places. Arzamasava looking around | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
rather nervously. Lynsey Sharp is there. Semenya just appearing on her | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
shoulder. Kate Grace hanging in. Two places they all tend to go a bit | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
wide there. And Semenya eases her way around and Grace spots the door | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
open inside Arzamasava but does she have the speed? Lynsey Sharp | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
shutting her eyes and driving hard now for the second automatic | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
qualifying place. Semenya takes it. Sharp has qual qual -- qualification | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
and Grace looking for a time. But Lynsey Sharp, no concern, she does | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
look good. She's looking strong. She is through to the final. She's | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
looking good. What I like about Sharp this year is she doesn't panic | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
when she gets into the trouble in the closing stages of the races. She | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
did get in a bit of trouble there. She was a little bit lucky that the | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
gap opened up but also clever in the way she was patient and waited. She | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
didn't panic, waited for it to open up and when she did she struck and | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
struck fast to be able to come through and claim that spot. Let's | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
have a look at it again. Just looking at the times for Kate Grace. | :39:23. | :39:25. | |
Kate Grace is going to go through, Arzamasava is going to go through. | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
They all did their job to ensuring they'll be the two fastest losers in | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
this semifinal. That thanks for the pace to Arzamasava's pace. She had | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
four away already with 200m away. Yarigo slipping off the backend. All | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
they needed to do is keep running hard and they would qualify as | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
fastest losers but to have calculated that within the race, | :39:47. | :39:48. | |
Lynsey Sharp hadn't done that, and she wanted to qualify outright in | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
the first two. She waited patiently until a space opened up. You said | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
Arzamasava has moved slightly wide and Grace saw that, came through and | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
finished strong and ran far better than she did in the heat. She didn't | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
look good at all in the meets, but here she looked good and came | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
through. She seized that third place. And she came through to grab | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
that third place which could have been significant but Caster Semenya | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
very easy there. Just glance up on the screen, you can see the | :40:22. | :40:23. | |
difference. Lynsey Sharp is working hard. She is looking slightly up at | :40:24. | :40:28. | |
the screen to check, she's working hard right through to the line. | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
Caster Semenya cruising those last few metres there. Semenya is a | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
strong favour. Wambui is strong. But the chance of getting into the | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
final, you may never know what will happen. Lynsey Sharp is through. She | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
was a semifinalist in London four years ago. She is a finalist. Now | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
she goes through with Caster Semenya, Kate Grace and Maryna | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
Arzamasava also going through as the two fastest losers. And again, you | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
can see what it means, she knows she's into the final, which is on | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
Saturday and she's talking to Phil now. | :41:02. | :41:03. | |
Just said to Lynsey, that result makes good reading. Olympic | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
finalist. Must be a mixture of emotions right now, excitement, joy, | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
a bit of relief as well, I suppose. Yeah, I mean, I have just been so | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
looking forward to getting in that Q next to my name, specially after | :41:18. | :41:20. | |
last year, I wanted to get this right. I know I can complete well in | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
the final, but it's all getting there. I'm so happy doing that. What | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
did you go in with tactically and what kind of plan? I didn't go in as | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
I planned, I got into positions I didn't plan on. The main thing is to | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
stay patient and gaps opened. It all paid off. Now you mere in the final | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
-- you're in the final. We saw in the Diamond League time and time | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
again, you must fancy your chances. I live for the stuff. This is really | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
where it starts. I was expecting to make the finals. So now it's about | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
getting some rest and really competing with the top girls. Thanks | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
for talking to us and well done for reaching the final. Can I say just | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
hi to my granddaughter? Thank you. Ryan Crouser, a colossal throw, | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
celebrating a new Olympic record and a gold medal in the men's shot put | :42:17. | :42:28. | |
final. 28 years ago... That record 28-year-old, Ryan Crouser has | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
broken. Joe Kovacs settled frl silver, and Tomas Walsh taking | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
bronze. Another great field event final this | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
evening, the women's javelin, the South African. Twice Commonwealth | :42:44. | :42:51. | |
Games champion in the past, 33 years of age now, snaking down the runway. | :42:52. | :42:59. | |
Lined this up, I think. On 65m metres. She's pleased with that. | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
Lifetime best of 69. I don't know why you would do that - sideways. | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
And then the javelin pops off right. Maybe more to come. Making it more | :43:14. | :43:20. | |
efficient. Got her own style and technique. She's powerful. This | :43:21. | :43:30. | |
throw will take the lead. It's 64.92. | :43:31. | :43:53. | |
That final is about just under 20 minutes away. You'll see it here | :43:54. | :44:01. | |
live on BBC One. And next on the track, though, actually next on the | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
track is the decathlon 1,500m. When we do leave you, we'll see that on | :44:07. | :44:13. | |
the red button. But let's talking about the hurdles. Doyle has | :44:14. | :44:19. | |
undergone some real changes, she's married, moved her base as well and | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
it's clear they're in fruit, these changes. Doyle leads into the | :44:25. | :44:31. | |
straight. This is a fabulous performance from the Scot so far. I | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
don't think about me, I think about going out performing. It's nice | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
people are talking about me because obviously shows I'm running well and | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
doing OK, but I just try to think about trying to execute the right | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
race and with that comes fast times with that comes good positions. For | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
me it's focusing on performing and running a good race. We made changes | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
this year around that top bend, we felt the last couple of years I have | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
been good for the first 200, but it's that 2 and 3 that I lost | :45:03. | :45:05. | |
positions. I changed the pattern slightly because of that. If I get | :45:06. | :45:13. | |
that right, I can get that me up with the top girls this year. The | :45:14. | :45:20. | |
confidence is the big difference, you know. Going into it - I look | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
back on the way I felt in London, I feel a totally different athlete. To | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
me it was about making the team and going to the Olympics. But this is | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
about - I made the team but I want to go there and do something when | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
I'm there. I want to make sure I run well. I'm a totally different | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
athlete than I was four years ago, and confidence is high. It's been | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
really pleasing to see the progress in that four-year cycle, when you | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
can tangibly somebody improving in terms of getting into finals and | :45:53. | :45:55. | |
moving up and the time coming down. There's been a lot of hard work | :45:56. | :45:59. | |
that's gone on behind-the-scenes in terms of get a stride pattern right | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
and she's getting there, she's got the speed there, but the technical | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
part of her game is definitely improved. Yes, the technical part | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
has certainly improved, and also she's done both her and the coach, | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
is really meticulous plan how they're going to, first of all, | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
increase the speed and then of course, match that with good, good, | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
good tech Nike and -- teek neek and that's always -- technique and | :46:23. | :46:24. | |
that's going to make all the difference, earn specially in the | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
400m hurdles when you have that bit of fatigue. You got some clips for | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
us to look at. Slm. So let's see what we put up here. Here is Doyle | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
here. She was always worried about this stripe pattern. Always kind of | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
been pushing her to try to get the correct pattern. First of all, what | :46:44. | :46:46. | |
she said she was working on was that stripe pattern from one hurdle to | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
hurdle 5, that always had to be a 50 strides in between that. Now, I know | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
people may be thinking - why do you continue sprinting, why can't you | :46:56. | :46:58. | |
come on any foot and just jump? But it's really important to come off | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
the hurdles in the right position because when you are tired, you need | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
to drive. So here she's still on that 15 stride pattern, changes down | :47:08. | :47:11. | |
to that one there - that's her 16. She needs to take this again, the 16 | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
which will be a left leg, but remember in the heat, she messed it | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
up a little bit and because she didn't drive on to the barrows just | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
to chill, just to relax and try to save energy, then she was a bit out | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
of sorts. Here once again, we saw this all season, she throws in an | :47:29. | :47:31. | |
extra stride here, she gets on her good leg, so she can run off boldly | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
and strongly. It worked in this particular time, because it's a | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
heat, it's a qualifying round. But, of course, when the real deal | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
happens, which is now, she's in the final, she's in lane 1, she cannot | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
afford to run like that or make any tiny mistakes like this. Would you | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
say looking at the fields that's there and beside it is time that | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
Delilah has posted this season, that is quite an open final. No. No, OK. | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
Mohammad is clearly... Besides her, behind her. Now Hayne has come back. | :48:05. | :48:13. | |
Pretty much in the last few weeks. Ignore that what she ran, 54.3, is | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
the season's best, she's hiding behind that. So what she's got to do | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
is just run her normal race. She's in the 53s quite quickly. And fail | :48:25. | :48:27. | |
that, it's got to be Ashley. She's the one you got to watch out for, | :48:28. | :48:33. | |
she's got speed but I always cringe slightly when she takes over every | :48:34. | :48:37. | |
single hurdle. I only takes a clip when you have a bit of fatigue to | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
send you all over the place. So that is the big issue there. Doyle, she's | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
in lane one, she's going to see everybody, going to be very | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
difficult for her to put everything into play, but we know she's won | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
some of the big races in the Diamond League. She's capable of going under | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
43 seconds and if anybody of the big three there make a mistake, and | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
Doyle is in the right position going into that final barrier, she can | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
sneak a bronze. Big call. We have been calling it all year but she has | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
the potential to sneak that bronze medal. Is she at a disadvantage of | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
being in lane one? Yes, yes. It's not easy. No. It's been done before. | :49:16. | :49:22. | |
For numerous... What is the disadvantage, is it different | :49:23. | :49:24. | |
different with hurdles that makes lane one a disadvantage? All right. | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
OK. Very good question. Now, what happens with hurdles because they | :49:31. | :49:33. | |
they disappear over the track in a different wear, when she's in lane | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
one, she may end up three hurdles on the bend, when you're further out, | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
the hurdles are out on the straight, and that can I affect the stride | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
pattern, that's why it's a little bit more of a challenge for you. | :49:46. | :49:55. | |
Athletes do not tend to train in lane one. You never know where you | :49:56. | :50:07. | |
get it. But they hope for perfection. It feels like a good | :50:08. | :50:16. | |
time to take a trip down memory lane when Great Britain was pretty | :50:17. | :50:25. | |
dominant in these events. COMMENTATOR: Hemmings very solid. | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
The world champion on the outside. Approaching the halfway stage. Sadly | :50:31. | :50:58. | |
beginning to close. Under pressure. Three to go. | :50:59. | :51:08. | |
And she gets it right! She get the gold! Janine Vickers is sad. Outside | :51:09. | :51:23. | |
the Olympic record. She will not mind a little bit about that. I tell | :51:24. | :51:32. | |
you a secret, I was there and I was 19 years old and I had six tickets | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
for the dream team but it was not the man the women and I swapped them | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
for that because the guy who got the tickets thought he was getting the | :51:44. | :51:54. | |
American men's team. I thought the women were dream. If you are | :51:55. | :52:01. | |
watching, I am sorry. What a fantastic... Well, it was a | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
fantastic Olympic Games for Great Britain. The 100 metres and a | :52:07. | :52:14. | |
certain hurdler and he absolutely fell apart. LAUGHTER lets have a | :52:15. | :52:22. | |
listen to Shelayna Oskan-Clarke. Unfortunately she did not make it | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
through. You always give it your all. Did you get clipped? I got | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
tripped up over there and lost a bit of momentum, really marked... In the | :52:35. | :52:42. | |
end, it is my responsibility to get myself in that position. I probably | :52:43. | :52:45. | |
should have been a bit more patient because it was a little bit scrappy | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
but I tried my best. If I would have got ahead of that person would have | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
been fighting or a spot but I didn't. Frustration in that, I note. | :52:55. | :53:02. | |
But what about the things you've learnt at the World Championship and | :53:03. | :53:08. | |
another big step up being in the Olympics? Everyone has stepped up | :53:09. | :53:14. | |
their game. A descent to go away and train harder and come back and tried | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
to put myself in the best position when I am racing. I am in great | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
shape but it is tough when you are doing the rounds. Thank you and we | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
appreciate you stopping to talk to us. STUDIO: The women's javelin is | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
taking place tonight Steve, how is it going? We are into the third | :53:39. | :53:54. | |
round and now. This is the European champion Tatsian Khaladovich. She is | :53:55. | :54:08. | |
just behind Sunette Viljoen. Very similar to the throw of Sunette | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
Viljoen but no one really setting the world alight in this women's | :54:15. | :54:24. | |
final at the halfway stage. We are looking at 64 metres leading. That | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
throw 64 .60 four Tatsian Khaladovich so she goes into second | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
place behind Sunette Viljoen. Let's have a look back at Tatsian | :54:38. | :54:43. | |
Khaladovich, twice Olympic champion. She can make history here by taking | :54:44. | :54:50. | |
a third if she gets it right. That is her best so far. That was the | :54:51. | :54:59. | |
second round throw. As we stand at the end of round three, she is | :55:00. | :55:32. | |
enforced place. She needs more. Sara Kolak, round three. Oh, throws | :55:33. | :55:43. | |
around early 60 metres. Surprisingly. We have seen at least | :55:44. | :55:53. | |
throw beyond 70 metres. The world record holder over 72 metres. 63 on | :55:54. | :56:08. | |
the nose, the best so far. STUDIO: Usain Bolt out on the warmup track. | :56:09. | :56:17. | |
He will be in the stadium just before 10:30pm. He seemed to be | :56:18. | :56:23. | |
fairly reacts, it is fair to say that not LAUGHTER I digging the | :56:24. | :56:31. | |
skills. I wonder what he is listening to. He has such an | :56:32. | :56:41. | |
eclectic mix of music. And he dances in the same way to everything. It | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
could be the equivalent to a foxtrot. You know it. Just over 36 | :56:48. | :56:59. | |
minutes away. We also have Elidh Doyle in the 400 hurdles. What we go | :57:00. | :57:08. | |
to the tae kwon do to see if Jade Jones can defend her title. | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
Hopefully we will be back for the 400 hurdles. The athletics will | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
continue on the Red Button. You will not miss a thing. Right now, we hand | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
over to you to what hopefully will be another gold for Jade Jones. 23 | :57:28. | :57:40. | |
years old, North Wales, she is a massive star in Wales and she could | :57:41. | :57:47. | |
be a massive star Team GB and for the rest of the world if she can | :57:48. | :57:49. | |
defend her title. COMMENTATOR: Lovely knock, Jade | :57:50. | :58:03. | |
Jones is going through. Good defence from Jade Jones. An excellent win. | :58:04. | :58:11. | |
Jade Jones will make it into the semifinals. Can she defend her | :58:12. | :58:23. | |
title? She has a chance. She is in the final. | :58:24. | :58:26. | |
A nation is holding its breath. This is where she is fighting. So far no | :58:27. | :58:38. | |
problems in the defence of her title. She is the favourite but her | :58:39. | :58:47. | |
opponents is the number two seed. Nick, there should be one real tide | :58:48. | :58:54. | |
Comtesse? Yes there should be a really phenomenal. We wanted to see | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
the number one against the number two. They have such a rivalry. Jade | :59:01. | :59:09. | |
has the advantage, winning the two most recent battles. 14- fall the | :59:10. | :59:18. | |
last result. This is the one the crowd is waiting for. When you are | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
the reigning Olympic champion, that must count for so much? Absolutely. | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
There is a lot of pressure once you become the Olympic champion and that | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
is something Jade Jones has had to deal with. It was the first-ever | :59:35. | :59:40. | |
Olympic title in tae kwon do for Great Britain. It has taken a while | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
for her to adapt to be Olympic champion. The pressure where every | :59:47. | :59:52. | |
opponent raises her game to try and beat her and knock her rock her | :59:53. | :59:59. | |
pedestal. -- knock her off her pedestal. The World Championship | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
title would mean nothing if she could defend her Olympic gold medal. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
She is so down to earth, softly spoken but in these next couple of | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
minutes she turned into an unbelievable Welsh warrior. She will | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
not talk to the media, she will shut down into the little bubble she is | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
in. She is super focus. Yet, when she is relaxed, she is just a normal | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
young woman out as soon as she is out there on the night, she is super | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
focused and she wants to win every single time. And that is what you | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
will see. Eva Calvo Gomez is a formidable fighter as well? | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
Absolutely Manbij sorry, it is a very loud at the moment as other | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
medals are being contested. -- absolutely... Sorry. It took a long | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
time for her to try and overcome her style and Eva Calvo Gomez is a | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
taller fighter with longer legs which makes it difficult to score | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
against the scoring system has changed the past six months and I | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
think it favours Jade Jones. Shipping get closer to her opponent | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
and it is easier for her to school. Eva Calvo Gomez has not quite | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
adapted to that but it will be fascinating. Coming out in the final | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
is obviously very different fool 's the defeat she suffered, she will | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
remember, against Jade Jones. In front of this amazing crowd, I think | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
it is jade that can do it once again. Thank you very much indeed, | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Nick. Jade Jones taking on Eva Calvo Gomez, coming up shortly. If you | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
need a guide to tae kwon do this is only a Mackenzy. | :02:21. | :02:34. | |
fully-fledged Olympic sport in Sydney in 2000. Each contest has | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
three rounds of two minutes, and a competitor can win on points or if | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
their opponent is unable to continue. Points are awarded for | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
permitted, accurate and powerful blows to the opponent's head or | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
body. Attacks to the body made using a fist or foot, but an athlete can | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
only use their feet to strike the area above the collarbone. Punches | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
to the head and attacks to the spine are not allowed. The only techniques | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
permitted are kicks where the athlete uses the area of the foot | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
below the ankle and punches where the athlete uses the knuckle part of | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
a Kightly-clenched fist. Scoring differs depending where or how an | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
athlete has attacked. One point is awarded for a valid attack to the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
body protector but if the attack is a turning or reverse kick to the | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
body, it's worth three points. An athlete will receive three points | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
for a legal kick to the head. And if this is a turning kick, it achieve | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
it is maximum - four points. At the end of the three rounds, a | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
competitor with the most points wins the match, but in the event of a | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
tie, a golden point round is held, where the first competitor to score | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
a point wins. All you need to know about Taekwondo | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
as we head into the gold medal contest, let's go back to the | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
Carioca arena, Nick, there's a slight delay in the gold medal | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
contest. Yes, what happens obviously in Taekwondo is there can be some | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
contentious decisions so you get a lot of fighter are able to appeal | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
against a decision and the referees - the officials don't always able to | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
make the decision straightaway, that can take quite a while. Equally as | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
you can hear from the crowd here, sometimes not very easy for them to | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
hear what the appeal is is always for. A lot of different | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
nationalities involved in the appeals processes. Sometimes take a | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
bit of a transation. Basically why we get the delays. OK. And Jade is | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
up next. That's the end of that bout. We got Jade Jones coming up | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
shortly for you. If you just set up your alarm and woken up, Jade Jones | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
will be out very, very shortly for her gold medal contest. What about | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
the atmosphere there, Nick? Lots of fans there. Hopefully you can hear | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
me - it's absolutely incredible in here. We're wondering what it was | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
going to be like today because one of the Brazilian competitors who was | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
expected to do quite well got knocked out in the early round. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
That's why there's a big crowd today, maybe. They got behind every | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
single fighter who has stepped out on to the mat today. Absolutely | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
incredible. Thousands and thousands of kids actually today which is | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
brilliant to see. They're incredibly excited getting to see - staying up | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
late at night and getting to see the fantastic fighting action that we | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
have seen already. We have been seeing over the last half an hour or | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
so are the bronze medal bouts, that's all | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
Obviously they're getting very excited now. The music is picking up | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
and they're getting readir for the gold medal bout. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
And Nick, we all remember where we were, I certainly do anyway, when | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Jade Jones won the gold medal at London 2012. What about Britain's | :05:40. | :05:53. | |
support, they were in support for the Brownlees and others, have they | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
been to the Carioca. You can see a pocket of them in the back. A lot of | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Korean flags, they celebrate their athlete's success in the last of the | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
bronze medal marches but a great pocket of GB supporters and general | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Taekwondo fans who are here to support all the other athletes. Four | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
competitors over the next few days. It will be fantastic. Obviously | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Taekwondo got such a profile boost from Jade's success in London 2012 | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
and that bronze medal for Muhammad, they want to push that for wand and | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
show it's one of the few sports. Jade has done so much and it would | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
really help continue that sports growth if she can go and get success | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
again. Also they won another golden post box in Flint, I know that. One | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
final question on Jade - I remember talking to her after London 2012 and | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
shed said she doesn't want to become a flash in the pan. She wants to | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
continue. This would be such an amazing thing. Not just for | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Taekwondo, but for Jade herself to be a double Olympic champion. It | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
will be absolutely huge. Only two women who have done that before in | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
the history of Taekwondo, been able to defend an Olympic Taekwondo game. | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
That's just shows you how difficult it is. You know, once you become an | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
Olympic champion, everybody is looking at you, everybody is wanting | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
to take you down a notch and to be able to cope with that is so | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
incredibly difficult. She's been on this incredible journey over the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
last #230ur years where she has to learn new styles, techniques, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
tactics, and new ways of coping with that pressure. It's great to see, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
though, over the last 18 months she has learnt to adapt and handle of | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
that pressure. As you have seen through round after round today. She | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
knows how to conserve her energy. And perform when it really matters. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Hopefully she's saved it all for the very best. We can see she's coming | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
out now and this is the fight from the last four years that means the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
most. As soon as she finished in London 2012, she was already | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
thinking about trying to defend it and make history yet again in Rio, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
this is what it's all about. Nick, you have certainly whet our | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
appetite. Here we go, can Jade Jones make it Olympic gold number two? We | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
have everything crossed here in the studio in Copacabana. Let's join our | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
commentators - Neil Adams and John Collins. | :08:12. | :08:25. | |
Back for more this time - Jade Jones and this one promises to be a | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
classic. Absolutely. It can't wait for this one. It's going to be a | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
cracker, it really is. Defending her Olympic title, of course - Jade | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Jones of Great Britain. But like you say, Eva Calvo Gomez, who won that - | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
well, will want to say something about that. So it should be a great | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
match-up between these two. And great to see that such opposition | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
that, you know, all of a sudden Eva Calvo Gomez came up and took over | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
from Jones. But Jones is back. She's straight into the ring here. This | :09:04. | :09:15. | |
one - the gold medal contest. The highly experienced referee. It's | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
time to decide the destination of the Olympic gold. Eva Calvo Gomez in | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
red, the taller of the two. Great Britain's Jade Jones wants to keep | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
the right foot in front. Shifts off to the side. Atmosphere electric | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
here at the Carioca Arena - downtown Brazil. Who can find the uptown | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
quality to get the shot on the board. Steady start from both. The | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
range finder for Eva Calvo Gomez. Good push, kick power from the | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
Spanish fighter. Just trying to find her range at the moment - Jones. We | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
have seen it a lot with Jade Jones - just takes the time, fields the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
distance, gets the distance right and then starts to pick up the | :10:06. | :10:06. | |
points. Picking up the pace here. Jade | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
Jones, the fighter from Flint. She's trying to find a little space for | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
her feet. Not quite working out yet. Good cover there. So important to | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
defend. This one really ebbing and flowing back and forth. I think | :10:30. | :10:39. | |
she's going to make sure she keeps maintaining that distance and then | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
come in when it's the right moment. Jade Jones - but, of course Eva | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Calvo Gomez is going to try to use her range. Try to come in with a | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
hook kick there - Jones in blue. Gomez just leaning back. She finds | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the door. She sneaks in and taking the head shot and plants another! | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
6-0. That is amazing. What an amazing combination there. I think | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
we're going to see a protest here. The coach saying that he wants one | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
of the head kicks invalidated. He's going to have to ask for one of the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
kicks to be taken away. The contentious here is that the first | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
head shot from Jones was a clean kick. They go into the clinch, the | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
coach is saying that it was holding the Spanish fighter and the head | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
shot was over the shoulder. That's what the coach is saying. Let's go. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
Let's go indeed. Let's have a look and a little listen. The card has | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
been pocketed. Unsuccessfully video replay. The six points are in play. | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
The replay wasn't necessary. The coach got his instructions wrong. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
Card instantly pocketed and with 20 seconds to go, Jade Jones tries for | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
another head shot. She's starting to pick up the points here and just | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
eight seconds left of this first round. Excellent start for Jade | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Jones. She will go back to her corner. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
(SIREN SOUNDS) A little cushion, it won't be a | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
cushion she can rest on, but it will certainly help. | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
A little bit of coach and athlete consternation there, some confusion, | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
but Jones the six points. Jones absolutely superb with that. What a | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
combination that was. Two head shots and two lots of three points there. | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
So six points, but like you say, she knows that she can't just come and | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
expect to go two more rounds with just six points. She's going to try | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
to add to that, of course. (SIREN SOUNDS) | :13:18. | :13:30. | |
The British coach advising Jade Jones to use the cut kick. She cuts | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
a strong figure here against Eva Calvo Gomez. Six points to Jones. | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
There's that kick to the body. Jade Jones in blue, Eva Calvo Gomez in | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
red, but who's going to get back into this? The Spanish finds two | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
kicks. Four points behind new. Little bit of a comeback. A chip and | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
charge as Jones tries to charge upstairs as well. This, is real | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
tussle affair. That's incredible. But like you say - Gomez, same | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
technique, caught her with the same technique, but got to be careful as | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
she comes in because Jones can change it. Another point picked up | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
by Jones. Enormous tension and rivalry between | :14:14. | :14:28. | |
these two. Will it be repeat or will it be revenge? Jones hoping for her | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
second Olympic title. She won it at the home crowd in London, she's on | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the road, here in Rio. She's on the road with a five point gap look | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
scoring with that head shot, and again great defence from Gomez. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
She's still in this, and an excellent push point from the | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Spanish fighter. Yes, she's just got to keep her head, keep her composure | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
- Jade Jones. There's the head shot that puts Gomez back into this one. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
The Spanish fighter not giving up without a fight. And Gomez, in terms | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
of head-to-heads, she's 6-3 ahead in matches. She's 7-6 behind on the | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
scoreboard though. Jones trying one of her own. This is a classic. It is | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
absolute classic, and she's going to see what she scored with earlier, go | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
back to that because - look at that. Quick change of direction there. The | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
direction of the scores has changed quickly as well. Jones with that | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
great physicality, Eva Calvo Gomez, a very strong fighter in her own | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
right and she's put herself back in context here. This is Olympic | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Taekwondo at the very best. Both women reeling and rocking here. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Jones retreats. She was in the lead, and Eva Calvo Gomez has clawed it | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
back. The coaching instruction is quite | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
clear there - forget that round, give me your best two minutes but it | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
was the best two minutes from Gomez here. Yes, I think absolutely right | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
- it was fantastic for Gomez, Gomez absolutely came forward, didn't she? | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
And she was determined to pull that deficit back and she did. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
What a battle we have got here. It is, coming into this last round now, | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
it's anybody's match this. All depends now on who wants it most and | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
a little bit of change of tactics from either fighter. I think Eva | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
Calvo Gomez did change her tactics and that's why she got those points. | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
Big moments here in Brazil. The women's under 57kg gold medal | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
contest. Eva Calvo Gomez of Spain in red. Jade Jones, her opponent - you | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
can guess what colour she's in. But colour will they'll be carrying at | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
the end? This battle for gold or silver. Jones picks off a little | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
flick kick to the body. 8-6 now. Cancelled out by Gomez. Ebbing and | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
flowing here. 8-7, a one-point game. What a match! Wow! It is! It is a | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
fantastic match. Great stuff here. Eva Calvo Gomez absolutely taking | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
the fight to Jones. Jones has to fight back but it's an open match, | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
an open final and that's why it's so close. So much tension. Jones for a | :17:36. | :17:48. | |
head shot. She takes it an absolute picture-perfect shot there. Dropped | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
the drop kick over the shoulder and an electronic sensor... But there's | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
one more for Gomez. A five point match. Jones goes for the head | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
again, she scores. She's doing so well here - Gomez. She has to find a | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
way to... The Spanish fighter, this a real battle. It's fantastic stuff. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Gomez going for the big points, of course. And Jones just keeping her | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
composure. Under pressure, but the Olympic champion here defending her | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
Olympic title and - wow - is she doing that well! Look at the points | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
- 15-7. The time for Gomez to do something - has it gone? As we go | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
into the last 20 seconds. Jade Jones there asks for a replay card. They | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
do. Could it get more dramatic? Let's have a listen. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
There you go, the face kick is the request, how important this could | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
be? Yeah, I think so. For me, I saw the head go back, but good call. | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Let's look at it, Jones pushing forward with her first phase. Does | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
she get it to the face? She does not. The video replay unsuccessful. | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
The storeboard the same. 15 points. Gomez on the back foot. Can she do | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
it one more time? The Olympic champion! She strikes gold again! | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Double Olympic champion to the | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
delight of the British fans and the Brazilian crowd. She takes Paul | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
Green on to the mat. She said because of him, she found a love for | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
the sport again. Paul Green never one to take the applauds, but it was | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
his charge, the Welsh Wonder, the fighter from Flint, that produced a | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
tremendous response. Eva Calvo Gomez a superb silver, disappointed but | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
beaten by a clear margin. Yeah, by a clear mar u gin and she -- margin | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
and she kept her cool - Jade Jones. That was brilliant stuff. She racked | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
up the points but credit to Eva Calvo Gomez because she came back | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
into it, she never gave up, kept coming forward. Jade Jones in the | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
end, though, double Olympic champion. | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
This is just absolutely phenomenal - Jade Jones, one of the stars of | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
London 2012 has struck gold again. Double Olympic champion! There is | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Jade Jones - this is absolutely incredible. Right, we'll go back to | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
the Taekwondo very shortly. And hear from the Olympic champion after we | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
take you back to the track and field. Let's head back to the | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
Olympic Stadium. As you can see Eilidh Doyle is about to go in the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
women's 400m hurdles final. What a night we have here. | :21:07. | :21:21. | |
Doyle, Nugent, Muhammad, Peet, Spencer, Hejnova, Tracey, Russell in | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
the finals. Doyle stretching out. The lanes outside her to the first | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
bar jer, she looked strong with Nugent outside. We're looking for | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Dalilah Muhammad in lane 3. She's made up ground. Passing Petersen | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
sand Spencer. But it's Muhammad leading at the moment. Hejnova going | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
strongly. A couple of lanes outside, but Muhammad over that barrier in | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
front as the rain starts to come down heavier still in the Olympic | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Stadium. Muhammad four or five paces clear, Doyle can Doyle a lot of | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
ground to make up but everybody has a lot of ground to make up. Petersen | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
going well. Hejnova is there, Ashley Spencer trying to finish strongly | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
but Dalilah Muhammad for the gold medal! And how quick is it? She's | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
fading a little bit but she crossing the line - 53.14. Petersen the | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
silver and Ashley Spencer came through for the bronze. But just | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
about from the start, to the finish, Dalilah Muhammad, the favourite, is | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
the champion. Sarah Petersen, you can see what the silver medal meant | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
to her. Eilidh Doyle tried, but that was a high calibre field in front of | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
her, and Ashley Spencer has got the bronze. And we talked about those | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
who were coming in, with all their expectation and the pressure of | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
being the favourites, the clear favourite as Dalilah Muhammad was | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
here, and she delivered and embraced from Sarah Petersen to Eilidh Doyle, | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
two Europeans have competed so hard against each other, but Sarah | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Petersen takes the silver, that was a great run, a national record for | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
the Dane. Wonderful run, but from Dalilah Muhammad it was superior. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
Simply better than all the rest. Andrew, the field is obliterated. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Once he puts her mind to it - Muhammad - she's so strong. She's | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
technically, very effective and efficient. She just runs so freely, | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
doesn't she? She doesn't seem like she's worried about any stride | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
pattern. She's cool, calm and aggressive at the right moment. That | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
allows you to have that lovely loaning stride, that eases away from | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
the field. And just - ah, a magnificent way. Absolutely | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
brilliant to see that. The big conversation has to be Sarah | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Petersen, because she had a great year in the championships but I was | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
thinking whether she could live up to that when it comes to the real | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
deal - the Olympic Games. Doyle ran a decent race but didn't quite have | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
the pace of the others. She's run 54.61, how does she look here, | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
Colin? She taken challenge here of the stride pattern. It's one of | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
these things you need to get groved into earlier on in the season. | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
You're allowed to run a lot freezer in circumstances like this, in these | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
championships. Right now, the stride pattern she's worked on is | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
absolutely spot-on at this moment. So there's no worries, no criticism | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
you can give Doyle at this moment in time. It's just this race was | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
phenomenally fast, not just by one or two, or three people, but all the | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
way down to sixth, there was either season best, personal best or just | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
fast times. As you can see, Doyle did a grand job, she couldn't do | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
anymore under this particular circumstance. So all in all, to be | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
in the Olympic final for her is a great achievement. Perhaps maybe she | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
wanted a little bit more, but I can assure you, I applaud her. Yes, to | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
make an Olympic final is something very special, but Dalilah Muhammad, | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
look at her sol far ahead of the rest. The gold medallist, the US | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
again, took a while to get their first track title in Rio, and when | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
they come, they come over the hurdles, Rollins lead, Dalilah | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
Muhammad has taken gold in the women's 400m ahead of Sarah | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
Petersen, Ashley Spencer and Eilidh Doyle down in eighth place. | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Another gold medal then for the US. The American Dalilah Muhammad, the | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
fastest qualifier also ran the fastest time this year from the | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
Olympic Stadium back over to the Carioca. There you can see Great | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
Britain, another gold medal and we used to seeing this - we saw it at | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
London 2012, we're seeing it again, Jade Jones has won another gold | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
medal, she's a double Olympic champion. Absolutely magnificent | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
performance from Jade and she's just been talking to Nick Hope. | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
Jade, a massive congratulations, you defended your Olympic title, how do | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
you feel snmpket I can't explain, I didn't realise how much pressure, | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
like, I would feel coming into this. Like, even the first two matches, I | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
felt so pressure and intent. To pull it off and, you know, my coach ask a | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
psycho, so it's all down to him! You know, the Great Britain team trained | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
so hard, and even... Come on Paul. You're a big part of this | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
achievement tonight. Sum up what she's achieved. This wasn't a small | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
victory. She destroyed the field today. Yeah, she delivers under | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
pressure, I said it before, she's done it again, she's the most | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
successful British athlete in Taekwondo in history and probably | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
ever will be. And her achievement is fantastic, double Olympic champion. | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
She's done everything. Can I just say a huge thank you to the national | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
lottery for funding the taxpayers that fund Jade to do the sport, and | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
Gary Hall, legend of a boss, keeps the programme together. Absolutely | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
made all of this possible. And Jade, you know, from your perspective, I'm | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
sure you know, for those that don't know your journey over the last four | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
years, hasn't been easy, coping with all of the pressure, but you turned | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
it on when it mattered. I'm still young, only 23. You know to be | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
double Olympic champion already is crazy. And now - I just can't | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
believe it to be honest. You know, before the competition I have been | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
crying in the sessions. You can't see it happening because you know | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
you're so stressed and training all the time. But, you know, I did it | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
when it mattered. Very different atmosphere obviously to London 2012 | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
with the home crowd four years ago, but massive support for you still | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
tonight and that must have helped. Definitely, always helps me a lot. | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
My family and friends, they mean the world to me. So much support win or | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
lose, that does mean a lot. Everybody back home in Flint, I | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
think there's like so many people in the - whatever the pub is called! | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
It's amazing. So much support. Massive congratulations to you both. | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
Cheers, thank you, thank you. You know what's incredible? Jade | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
Jones is just 23 years old! Utterly remarkable stuff. There he is the | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
main man - Usain Bolt. You won't miss a beat live here because we'll | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
be crossing to the 200m final very shortly. Back to Gabi and the team, | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
but let's go to Nick where he's at the Carioca this evening. This is | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
just an amazing story of Jade Jones. It gets better and better, Nick. | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
Absolutely incredible. What a final that was. To come out and perform | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
like that under such pressure, not that she just, you know, has from | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
back home having been the Olympian champion last time and a lot of | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
people expecting her to defend the gold medal, but to actually do it | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
when there's all the pressure she puts on herself as well. It was | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
absolutely incredible. She is such a leader in this sport. She's embraced | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
that role. Gone out there yet again, performed when it real lit mattered | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
and continues to put her sport on the map. But also what was | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
interesting about the fight is that she didn't panic. It was still very | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
close in the second round, Nick? That was it. This was the first time | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
she had been challenged all day. She breezed through her three fights | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
before that, unlike Eva Calvo Gomez who scraped through her first round | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
and relied on the sudden death. It was going to be interesting how Jade | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
reacted when she was pushed against a very top competitor and yet again | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
she comes out and didn't panic. When it got close, when Eva Calvo Gomez | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
was drawing herself back into the game and on previous occasions we | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
spoke about the rivalry there's been and obviously the difficulties that | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
Jade's had, beating Eva Calvo Gomez in previous years, but she forgot | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
all of that, put it way behind her and delivered when it really | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
mattered. It was such a strong performance. For someone who is just | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
23, we expect hopefully may not just have just one, but maybe two Olympic | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
games in her. I was thinking about this today when I was looking at all | :30:04. | :30:13. | |
the British fans who turned up to watch Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
we know we have a great team spirit, I wonder if Jade saw the success | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
that Great Britain are having and thinking, "This is my night again." | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
Absolutely. It's a certainly when you're having a medal success in the | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
squad, even in individual sports, it creates that feel good vibe. | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
Everyone wants to go out to win for themselves and their sport, but also | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
for the whole Team GB. As we mentioned for the support there is | :30:41. | :30:43. | |
back home. There have been so many British fans around the Olympic Park | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
that we have been seeing over the last 13 days of competition, they | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
were certainly out in force tonight as she performed in front of them | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
yet again. Nick Hope, at the Carioca, thank you very much indeed. | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
So if you're just tuning in, you just missed a phenomenal fight - | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Jade Jones has won another gold medal for Great Britain. | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
Congratulations to you Jade Jones. Right, now it's all about this man | :31:05. | :31:06. | |
next. Usain Bolt, it's gold for Usain | :31:07. | :31:48. | |
Bolt. He's done it again. A new world record for Usain Bolt. | :31:49. | :31:55. | |
It is Bolt time in just a few minutes' time. He'll be out on the | :31:56. | :32:03. | |
track ready to run the 200m final. If he wins it, it will be his eighth | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
Olympic gold. He's on his way to a treble-treble. I was going to say | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
historic, unprecedented. I'm fairly sure to say never to be repeated if | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
he does it. I don't think any time soon anyone would do that. You never | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
know what another great athlete is going to come along and be able to | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
duplicate this sort of thing, but it won't be any time soon. This is the | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
second part in the three-part series of Bolt trying to duplicate this | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
feat for the third time winning the 100, 200 and four by 100 relay. I | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
don't see anyone standing in his way tonight, but again you have to run | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
the races and the guys aren't going to let him have it. We saw Andre De | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
Grasse run him to the tape. Maybe that was practice. "Maybe if I do | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
now, and feels like, I can do it in the final." He's on the inside and | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
Merritt as well. They're going to factor into the medals. De Grasse | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
perhaps 100 to 200. But he looked good last night. And Lemaitre | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
produced some form as well N the other race, if there another race | :33:09. | :33:16. | |
behind Bolt, it's hard to predict where the medals are going to go. | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
And there's also Adam Gemili. Alonso Edward has been running well from | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
Panama. Lemaitre is coming around at the right time running 20.01 this | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
year, ran down the semifinals. There were lot of sub-20 second times in | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
the semifinals, that is what is going to make this a fast race. | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
There's a lot of Jamaican support. It's as busy as we have seen it. | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
Certainly since last Saturday, Denise. It rained for about 20 | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
minutes, about 30 minutes or so ago. The air has got cooler, a bit of a | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
breeze. So might affect the time. Would it affect the race too much? I | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
don't think so. I think like Michael said, this is a forgone conclusion. | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
Bolt should and will win this. You know, we saw him looking relaxed. | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
This is part of his game strategy. This is such an important event for | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
him. He loves the 200m. He wants to dominate it, and he wants to | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
dominate it big. This could be the last time we ever see him run 200m. | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
It could be and he knows it. This is certainly the last time he's going | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
to be on this stage, the biggest stage of all in athletes - the | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
Olympic Games. And I'm sure he'll want to go out where a bang. He | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
really enjoys this. He'll want to soak up the moment and really | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
entertain the crowd. But, you know, I wonder - I know he's confident but | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
at the same time, he has not been as dominant as we have seen him before. | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
You got De Grasse, you got Merritt, you got Alonso Edward, all of these | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
guys have run very, very fast with De Grasse and Merritt both running | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
under 20 seconds, and easing up both of them in the semifinals. So, you | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
know, if Usain Bolt - obviously we know when he's at his best, no one | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
can get close to him, but if he's not - and we know he's not his best | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
this year, we saw that in the 100m - it could get a little bit | :35:13. | :35:15. | |
competitive. And that - you know, that would be entertaining to see. | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
You know, it's hard to predict at this point what sort of 200m shape | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
he's actually in. And Adam Gemili was disappointed with his semifinal. | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
He got through as one of the fastest losers and you were talking through | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
yesterday his race and his shoulders were bunched up and looked tight | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
around his chest. How much of a difference could it make to his time | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
if he can just get his body right in that final straight? In fact, he | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
wasn't good at his bend either? He was OK around the bend, what he made | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
the mistake is on the straight and that started as soon as he came off | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
the bend, so we're talking about a good 100m of running tight and so | :35:51. | :36:00. | |
each one of those strides is, you know, affecting you by millions -- | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
millimetres and Mill seconds, once you made that mistake it's | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
compounded and the effect can be massive. Then that works in the | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
opposite direction as well. When you're more fluid, you're not | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
slowing down as fast, everyone is slowing down at the end of that | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
race, it's a very long sprintd. It's who's slowing down the slowest. And | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
that's what you want to document you do that by maintaining your | :36:27. | :36:28. | |
relaxation, maintaining your form and technique and letting the race | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
come to you and just letting it do what it does instead of trying to | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
force it. And I believe he was trying to force it and he recognised | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
that. I was going to say the important thing - is immediately | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
after the race, Adam said he recognised where he went wrong. And | :36:44. | :36:47. | |
that is so important and so all he needs to do is stay relaxed. He's | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
got to run a great bend. Actually, if he runs his race, he could be in | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
contention. I think we're going to enjoy this. | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
Let's go down to our commentary team. | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
If this is to be the last of his major 200m, then hopefully he has | :37:06. | :37:15. | |
got something special in store for us. The full start list there - | :37:16. | :37:24. | |
Guliyev, Gemili, Edward, De Grasse, Merritt, Bolt, Lemaitre and Martina. | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
The 200m final. Martina on the outside. Little bit of a strapping | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
on his leg - the Dutchman. Well, the great gladiator into the | :37:34. | :37:45. | |
arena, I guess, for the last time. He's taken on all-comers over the | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
last eight years in major championships. Nobody's really got | :37:51. | :37:56. | |
that close, have they? But this is a good field, the point has been made. | :37:57. | :38:04. | |
Had the fast times in the semifinal. Martina has followed Bolt through to | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
2012 and 2016, well done for him to here as well. Lemaitre, | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
rediscovering some form of old. The Frenchman who took Europe by storm | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
in 2010 in the Olympic final. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :38:18. | :38:25. | |
One more spin around the bend! ANNOUNCER: Usain Bolt! | :38:26. | :38:35. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE The crowd respond to their hero. | :38:36. | :38:45. | |
LaShawn Merritt, at 200m, he's quicker than Carl Lewis. 12th on the | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
all-time list. He's looking for a medal at the very least. And this | :38:51. | :39:00. | |
massive talent from Canada - Andre De Grasse. Whenever the phrase the | :39:01. | :39:08. | |
bronze figure of Andre De Grasse is true, he's won three bronze medals | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
now, he says if he's going for the world record, I'm going with him! | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
That will be interesting to see. In 2009 when Bolt ran that 19.19 world | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
record in Berlin, this is the man who followed him home - Alonso | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
Edward. Seems a long time ago now. He's still only 26. Adam Gemili from | :39:25. | :39:36. | |
Blackheath and Bromley Club. 20.07 this year. If he could go under 20 | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
seconds, that would be a huge achievement here. Guliyev on the | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
inside running for Turkey. So every single man in this field has run | :39:48. | :39:49. | |
under 20 seconds. On your marks... So Bolt perhaps for | :39:50. | :40:06. | |
the very last time in a major championship goes into his blocks at | :40:07. | :40:13. | |
the start of the 200m. A journey which begun when he was just | :40:14. | :40:20. | |
15-years-of-age. What history is written, what more does he have for | :40:21. | :40:22. | |
us? Quiet, please, Mr Bolt is about to | :40:23. | :40:38. | |
start. He gets away well. Already away from Merritt. De Grasse is | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
going well around the bend as well. Gemili trying to get into the race | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
with Edward, but it's Usain Bolt on his own as he's been throughout his | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
career. Usain Bolt - running away from everybody. Running to what he | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
loved to be immortality as an athlete. It's a gold. His eighth | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
gold! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :41:02. | :41:12. | |
No world records this time. Even Usain Bolt couldn't deliver on a | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
rainy night in Rio, but I don't think any of us expected that. | :41:18. | :41:26. | |
Number one! Well, if that is it, if we never see him again in a 200m | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
final, it would be a real shame, but then what we need to do is reflect | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
on what this man has done. Gemili got fourth. Lemaitre cannot believe | :41:38. | :41:49. | |
it. He took the bronze medal in the same time as Gemili. I was so | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
wrapped up with Bolt and said Gemili was being pulled through by Alonso | :41:56. | :41:58. | |
Edward. He was almost there in the end. And I'm sure he would forgive | :41:59. | :42:08. | |
the crowd and everybody else for concentrating on that man there. | :42:09. | :42:11. | |
They're all looking up at the screen and can't believe the result. De | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
Grasse has expected the silver medal and Lemaitre, goodness me - outside | :42:17. | :42:24. | |
20 seconds as well. If this is it, what on earth are we going to do | :42:25. | :42:34. | |
without him? Colin... You know, Steve, my heart goes out to this | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
young man - Adam Gemili. To be fourth place with exactly the same | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
time as the bronze medallist - Christophe Lemaitre - which some | :42:47. | :42:49. | |
would expected to have beaten coming into this competition, is going to | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
be - oh, truly, truly a bitter, bitter pill for him to deal with. | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
Look at his head, he cannot believe it. No doubt the British team will | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
say - can we have a look at that photo please? They'll study it and | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
try to get a bronze medal if it's actually there. But you know, once | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
the result goes up nowadays, they're pretty accurate in what they do. So | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
Adam will be devastated, no doubt. But you know - he's still fourth in | :43:17. | :43:19. | |
the world. He's got to remember that and he's got a bright, bright future | :43:20. | :43:21. | |
ahead of him. OK, so Usain Bolt, he's taken a bow | :43:22. | :43:36. | |
and, well, family of supported him, of course, through all of that and | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
been there on so many occasions to see him, unbelievably. And what a | :43:42. | :43:50. | |
journey he's had us all on. Gemili was right into it up to the bend and | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
then it was a scrap for the medals after that. He wanted to get on | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
Christophe Lemaitre very quickly. I think that was probably upset | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
someone like LaShawn Merritt who wasn't expecting him to go out so | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
hard. And Andre De Grasse said he wanted to go with Usain and that is | :44:09. | :44:16. | |
exactly what he has done. To behold Usain through to that silver medal | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
position, he'll be pleased with that. Many of the athletes would be | :44:21. | :44:22. | |
disappointed with the time. They would hope that clock would have | :44:23. | :44:28. | |
stopped at something like 19.4, 19.5, which would have dragged | :44:29. | :44:31. | |
everybody down to a much quicker performance. Look at that, Colin! | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
From this side it almost would have said Martina. Lemaitre is a bit | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
taller than the other two, might have just got to also a tiny bit in | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
front. I was looking for closely at those lines, and it did look to me | :44:45. | :44:52. | |
that Christophe Lemaitre had just, just, just edged it. Michael, what | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
is your thoughts? Well, I expected a little bit faster, Colin, but the | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
race is what it is and Bolt immediately jumped out to the lead, | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
never relinquished it. We knew it was going to be a race for the | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
medals. I knew this was going to be an interesting race for the medals | :45:12. | :45:14. | |
behind bolt. There you see it, just very, very tight on the line. But De | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
Grasse followed Bolt, as he said he would. Ran a quality race for a | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
silver. But then extremely tight on the line there. I think that Gemili, | :45:23. | :45:29. | |
Lemaitre, Chura in, dy couldn't have done a better job, all timed it | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
perfectly and the results are what they are. LaShawn Merritt in the | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
Middle of the track, never was in it, didn't have the foot speed to | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
match the rest of the guys, and tried to come through with the 400m | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
strength in the end. But these guys are too fast. Coming over from the | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
100m and this was a quality race. You take Bolt out of it, that was | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
fantastic for him. 19.79. But tight on the line for all of the other | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
guys. It was a quality race just not being able to separate. You see | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
right there - Gemili - I mean Lemaitre is ahead. I think Churandy | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
is just a hair back from Gemili. Gemili timed his lean just right. I | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
don't think he could have done more to get that bronze. I think he | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
executed as well as he could. If you look at the time isn't as fast as | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
what he ran in the semifinal, but if you look at his race and his | :46:24. | :46:27. | |
position versus the other guys, there were guys in there who ran 19 | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
seconds in the semifinals, like Merritt. And he was able to finish | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
ahead of him. So around this bend, Bolt just establishes himself, | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
Lemaitre great job, just not trying to respond to Bolt, let him go and | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
then use the strength coming down the home stretch, which he does. | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
Look at that right there! I mean, seven guys all right there together. | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
Six guys trying to all get in there for those medals. That was quality | :46:55. | :46:57. | |
racing. I was a little disappointed in the time. I would have thought - | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
I expected Bolt to run maybe 19.6 or seven, I thought. He may not be in a | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
great a shape as we like for him or seen him in the past, but I expect | :47:10. | :47:12. | |
the guys like LaShawn Merritt and Andre De Grasse to go under 19 | :47:13. | :47:15. | |
seconds. Again maybe challenge Bolt a little bit. Lemaitre 20.01 in the | :47:16. | :47:23. | |
semifinals but none of them went under 20 other than Bolt. LaShawn | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
Merritt struggling there, but Bolt relieved, full of joy knowing he has | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
done it. He has completed at least in his individual events, he has | :47:32. | :47:38. | |
completed the triple. A fantastic performance by a fantastic and | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
amazing competitor. Adam Gemili is with me, track-side | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
now. Adam, we always say that's the coolest place to finish, in fourth. | :47:49. | :47:51. | |
I know it's full of emotion for you, but what a performance in an Olympic | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
final. Yeah, I'm just heartbroken. I put so much into that - into that | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
run, and I lost my form at the end. And I just took it so close. It's | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
heartbreaking. Gutted. Just absolutely gutted. It's a margin of | :48:11. | :48:18. | |
3,000ths of a second. Makes harsher in a way, but the way you ran your | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
race in the first Olympic time, can you begin to take some pride from | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
it? Yeah, I was on the inside, and I knew Bolt was going to go and I knew | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
a lot of people were going to go with him, my coach and I said, let | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
them go, be a bit more conservative, because yesterday I had a look at | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
the race, I hit the bend really hard, save a bit for when you come | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
into the straight and you start to go past people and I did. I just | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
lost my form in the end. But it's been a fantastic season for myself | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
and my team around me, my family, and my friends at home and my | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
girlfriend. I have had such amazing support from everyone in the UK and | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
around the world. I just - I want to say thank you very much to them. It | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
means a lot. I'm just gutted I couldn't do it. Bring home a medal | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
for GB. Yeah, it's... Colin Jackson said in commentary - | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
22-years-of-age, you're on the upward curve, there's so much more | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
to come from you in years to come. You love this arena. Yeah, this is | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
what - this is the fun bit of competing, at the championships. We | :49:26. | :49:28. | |
have a big year next year in London, and I just can't wait to go out | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
there and put this right because I'm really gutted. I'm so gutted. You | :49:33. | :49:38. | |
have no idea. To miss out on an Olympic medal, fourth place is | :49:39. | :49:41. | |
probably the worst place, it's so close and at the same time it's | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
heartbreaking. I got no words. Hopefully next year I can make it | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
right for the team, and like ill said - in my speech, we're not here | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
to feel lanes anymore. Four Europeans in that field and Team GB | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
and especially in the 200m, we got guys who can make the final and | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
push. We will continue to do so. So, yeah. Shame didn't work out tonight. | :50:04. | :50:11. | |
But I'll reconvene with my coach. As team captain, you have done your | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
team proud. Thank you so much. Well, you can see the frustration | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
there of Adam Gemili. And there the results. The reason why just missing | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
out on a medal there - Lemaitre delighted he was, wasn't he, to just | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
sneak that bronze. Andre De Grasse, well he's moved away from the bronze | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
medals at last. Got a silver medal. That is Usain Bolt's slowest | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
championship winning 200m, and, well, he knows as much as anybody | :50:43. | :50:47. | |
else that if that is the last one it was a great one. His eighth Olympic | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
gold medal, of course. And, just the four by 100m relay to come for the | :50:54. | :51:00. | |
triple-triple. What a mix of emotions tonight. | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
Usain Bolt, I imagine, number one emotion - relief. Relief and joy. | :51:07. | :51:09. | |
You know, this is what it's all about. I mean, as an athlete, he | :51:10. | :51:14. | |
loves running the relay, we all love running the relays, but at the end | :51:15. | :51:19. | |
of the day, your career is about what you do at the individual event. | :51:20. | :51:25. | |
He's done that. No matter what he has done from this point on, he's | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
done what no one else has done, and may never do ever again, at least | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
not in our lifetime. And so, yeah, I'm sure there's a tremendous amount | :51:35. | :51:37. | |
of relief from the injuries that he suffered earlier in the year, you | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
know, and it's been tough, his health has been something that he's | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
had to manage much better and pay much more attention to, you know, | :51:47. | :51:50. | |
and sort of put aside the motivation that, you know, sustained him for so | :51:51. | :51:55. | |
long which was, "I'm going to run faster and faster and faster" and | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
replace that with, "Now I need to cross the finish line ahead of | :52:00. | :52:02. | |
everybody else." He's done that. I feel a lightening bolt coming, no, | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
what he's doing now. He's kissing the track and he is going to give a | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
..a lightening bolt moment! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
He's out there doing his lightening bolt! We just missed that. He's | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
lapping up the adulation of the crowd as he always does. And he's so | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
good at that. It's just so natural, nothing forced about this. This is a | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
completely - there it is! And that was what the great cheer was for, | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
Denise. What the crowd is still doing - is chanting his name "Usain | :52:39. | :52:44. | |
Bolt, Usain Bolt." Just incredible what he brings to stadiums around | :52:45. | :52:47. | |
the world. Boy, are we going to miss him. Boy, are we going to miss him! | :52:48. | :52:54. | |
He's been a fantastic ambassador, great athlete, and is in the history | :52:55. | :52:58. | |
books. There'll be no one else like him. And just a word on Adam Gemili | :52:59. | :53:05. | |
as well, you know - 3,000th of a second is the difference. It's | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
literally nothing. And - but it's everything. It's everything. It's | :53:10. | :53:16. | |
huge. And he is so disappointed now. He hoped, he hoped and he hoped, and | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
he looked up and realised - no, not now. It physically crushed him. | :53:23. | :53:27. | |
Fifth in the world championships in 2013. He tore his hamstring last | :53:28. | :53:32. | |
year, couldn't compete in Beijing. He's very good on the big stage. So | :53:33. | :53:41. | |
close, big respect for you, and this huge respect for him, he is mixing | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
it and consistently so. I believe that he represents a new attitude of | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
British sprinters. I have been in this role for a very long time - | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
since 2004 - and I remember when British sprinters weren't as hungry | :53:57. | :54:00. | |
and weren't coming off after a disappointing race and saying, "You | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
know, I'm disappointed, I have should have done better", he was | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
very hard on himself, I thought. That was a tough ask, but you want | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
to see that disappointment. That's what - I know it's tough for him and | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
I feel for him, but at the same time, I also can appreciate that he | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
knows that I - I'm right there and I don't - I don't want to settle. I | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
don't want to settle. I want a medal. And he will take that into | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
next year and follow training. When he's had a year removed from his | :54:31. | :54:33. | |
injury, that will serve him well. That's why he's in this final, | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
getting in on time, but being able to get himself into this final is | :54:39. | :54:41. | |
because of his drive and determination and coming off the | :54:42. | :54:44. | |
track and being able to articulate what he needs to improve, that will | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
serve him well. I'd like to see that and I want to see him successful. He | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
also has to understand, though, as well time is running out. You know, | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
I mean, Phil said there - you're 22. But Andre De Grasse is 21. Time is | :54:59. | :55:03. | |
not quite running out but there are othering comes as well. There's | :55:04. | :55:05. | |
others coming. It's not going to be his stage. The thing is - is you | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
want to get this done in short order, because you feed off of that | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
momentum so the momentum needs to keep coming. I don't think he'll get | :55:14. | :55:21. | |
a copy of that picture. No, he should, that's the motivation. Like | :55:22. | :55:28. | |
KJT's... Yes, part of the disappointment is those | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
opportunities don't come around that often. I mean let's face it - that | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
200m race was not the quickest. We have seen so many quick ones in | :55:37. | :55:42. | |
times gone by, he knows that to finish fourth so agonisingly close | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
is a bitter pill to swallow. He's got to run sub-20 more consistently | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
to be really pushing those guys. Yes, I completely agree with you, | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
Denise. But the whole feel, though, kind of - you get the sense that | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
there was - that the atmosphere wasn't right for those sorts of | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
times because no one ran under 20 seconds. So I don't know that Adam | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
could run under 20s if Andre De Grasse didn't even run under 20 | :56:09. | :56:11. | |
seconds. Usain Bolt as you can see is with Phil joens. Let's -- Jones. | :56:12. | :56:19. | |
Let's hear what he has to say. Great man. Can you get your around what | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
you have achieved? No, no, definitely not. It's something that | :56:23. | :56:29. | |
you work so hard for short years. When this moment comes, you're happy | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
but also relieved to have done it because you really want it and so | :56:34. | :56:36. | |
much things could have gone wrong and the fact that I came here and | :56:37. | :56:39. | |
executed and everything worked out is a brilliant feeling. When you | :56:40. | :56:43. | |
crossed the line, there was a bit of frustration, was there? I was | :56:44. | :56:49. | |
unhappy with the time. My body would not respond to me. You know what I | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
mean? Just I'm getting older, not as young and fresh, but just one of | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
those things. I'm excited I got the gold medal and that's the key thing. | :56:59. | :57:01. | |
You deliver on the track. Tell me how you do it in spite of all the | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
media circus, everything that goes around Usain Bolt, the man, the | :57:06. | :57:08. | |
legend? I don't watch that. I focus on what I need to do because I know | :57:09. | :57:13. | |
if I don't do it, then there won't be any Usain Bolt. I know what I | :57:14. | :57:17. | |
have to do, I come out and get it done, that's my focus. It's your | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
last Olympics we know that. You said you won't compete in the Worlds next | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
year, are we going to see you over the 200 again. If I run - when I | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
come to championships, I'll only do the 100m, definitely feel like that | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
would be the last one for me. This is your last 200 at a major? I want | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
to say no, but my coach has a way of trying to convince me. Personally, I | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
think this is my last one. Usain, you have been ale great champion. | :57:45. | :57:46. | |
Always fantastic to talk to you, congratulations. I want to say to | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
Steve, I'm going to watch, hopefully you commentate on this one, I'm | :57:51. | :57:55. | |
looking forward to this one. (LAUGHTER) | :57:56. | :58:00. | |
Of course you commentated brilliantly! He does, he listens, | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
he's a student of printing, he listens to what people say, he's | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
going to listen to what you say about this, Michael. He said he just | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
didn't feel right in the home straight, did you see that when you | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
watched the race the first time? The entire field just looked like - I | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
don't know if it was the rain or if it was the - you know, the time, I | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
don't know what it was, but it didn't look like a really fast race | :58:26. | :58:28. | |
to me by anyone, not just by Bolt but by anyone, and certainly both | :58:29. | :58:31. | |
both ran away from this field, you can see he's starting to get a | :58:32. | :58:34. | |
little fatigued there, I thought they were going to start coming back | :58:35. | :58:38. | |
to him, but they weren't able to respond. I was looking at Bolt and | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
saw that he's not looking as quick, he's not looking as sharp and crisp | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
as he normally does down the home stretch. He starts to fatigue out | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
about 20m from the finish line, in that race he started to fatigue | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
about 50-60m at the finish. I looked then at the rest of the field to see | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
if they were going to respond, and they weren't able to. Even looked | :59:00. | :59:05. | |
ranged in that race. His interviews are always great. Christophe | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
Lemaitre - that's the moment he realised the bronze medal was his, | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
and what an incredible rise back to form for him, because he hasn't | :59:15. | :59:17. | |
shown that for a couple of seasons, and there Adam Gemili, the moment he | :59:18. | :59:21. | |
found u out the bronze wasn't his. Just looking here again, you know, | :59:22. | :59:25. | |
Bolt got up very quick, so did De Grasse, Merritt in the middle. He | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
expected him to be in the mid but he didn't get out at all. At this point | :59:30. | :59:34. | |
you can see already that Bolt is starting to labour and right here as | :59:35. | :59:38. | |
well - I thought this was tough. He's kind of looking like - what's | :59:39. | :59:41. | |
going on here? The rest of the guys couldn't respond at all to what | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
looked like fatigue from Bolt. So I don't know if it got a little bit | :59:47. | :59:49. | |
cooler today. There was a rain shower before, and that could have | :59:50. | :59:52. | |
just thrown things off for the entire race. You see Bolt already | :59:53. | :59:58. | |
starting to grimace there, looking up at the screen which indicates he | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
has nothing left, I don't know what else I have, hopefully these guys | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
aren't coming. He's looking at the screen again, we have never seen him | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
looking at the screen that much to check his position and see how much | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
ground those guys might be making up on him but they weren't making up | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
any ground at all. But, you know, this was fantastic for Bolt. Again, | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
you know, amazing feeling for him, I'm sure, to know this is all over, | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
he has stamped his, you know, his place in history in the sport. He | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
transscends this sport. He transcends sports in many ways. He | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
has changed a lot of what sprinting is all about, what the sports | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
scientists say, what the coaches say and believe - and in the future, I | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
mean he is the model by which people will young future sprinters, people | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
will identify talent based on, you know, system of the things that we | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
have seen Usain Bolt do over the last eight years. Just the latest | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
instalment in his Olympic odyssey. Looking for a fine nine, but now | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
it's a great eight. They get away the first time but here comes Usain | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Bolt. Usain Bolt streaking away from the field. It's going to be gold for | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Jamaica, that is superb. It's a new world record! | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Away they go, and Usain Bolt already going past the guys as they weren't | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
there. Watch the time. It's gold for Usain Bolt and a new world record! I | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
do not believe it! Usain Bolt has it in his hands | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
safely and away that round top end. It's Jamaica, one chance for gold. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
What's the time? It's a new world record! Three gold medals, three | :01:47. | :01:47. | |
world records! It's a clean start. Bolt is out of | :01:48. | :02:15. | |
the blocks really well. He's already storming around the bend. Look at | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Bolt go. It's a 3-metre lead. He's going to do it again. Gold all the | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
way. You cannot argue. Here he goes. Bolt is away and gone. Jamaica with | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
the gold again. And it's a new world record. Smashes it to pieces. Gatlin | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
gets away. And Gatlin leading it at the moment but here comes Usain | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Bolt. Usain Bolt is going to take it. Usain Bolt gets it. What more | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
does he have for us? He gets away well. Already away from Merritt. De | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Grasse is going well as well. But Usain Bolt on his own as he's been | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
throughout his career. Usain Bolt running awe way from everybody. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
Running! Immortality as an athlete. 19.97.9. His eighth gold. So the | :03:08. | :03:20. | |
great eight looks something like that. What an incredible haul it is | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
and tomorrow night, it's the four x 100 metre relay, men and women and | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Usain Bolt will be relying on his team-mates to get the baton around | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
to him so that he can take it home and the times that were produced | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
today in the heats, it may well be a fight for the line? It could be a | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
fight. You know, the four x 100 relay, the Jamaicans aren't as | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
strong as they have been in the past. The Americans are very strong. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
There are some other teams that could have something there. The | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Japanese did very well today. They did do well. And it is always about | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
the exchanges but the Jamaican, I can't remember the last time that | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
the Jamaicans have actually dropped the baton. It doesn't happen for | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
them. A lot of pressure on the guys running with him to get the baton | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
there. If you were given the job of handing Usain Bolt the baton! I saw | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
them interviewed today and I actually think that they don't feel | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
the pressure. I don't. They want to win equally for themselves. Yes, the | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
it is great but they are running for pride and for their own destinies. I | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
love relay night so we have two cracking nights in store. But | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
earlier this evening, you saw Eilidh Doyle going in the 400 metres finals | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
here and besides Muhammad from the United States of America, it seemed | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
like it was an open race behind and it ended up being a quick race as | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
well because the heats in this weren't that strong, were they? They | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
weren't. She was in lane one. There was no real indication where the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
medals were going to be destined. Obviously Muhammad strong, she's | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
looked silky smooth throughout the rounds. Just beautiful technician. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
It was about her and the clock tonight. I think that Eilidh Doyle | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
had a tough ask from lane one, it was always going to be a challenge | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
for her. She didn't hurdle badly. She gave it everything but what | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
happened in this race is that everybody raised their game. And as | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
much as she was in... If she was in another lane but whether she had the | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
flat speed to go with four women going sub-54. It was an incredible | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
race. Most of the athletes here had run laster than Eilidh had run this | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
year so in all fairness to her, and getting into this final was an | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
achievement in itself. And I think that we always knew that Muhammad | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
and Petersen from Denmark were going to be strong as well as Ashley | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Spencer. Let's see her thoughts then after the race. She spoke to Phil. | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
Lane one, it was always going to be a tough ask but it seemed like you | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
ran the race you way you wanted? Yeah, I can't really fault any of | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
it, you know. It was smooth. I justice wasn't in there. And you | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
know, I don't as disappointed as I did last year in Beijing. I came off | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
the track last year in Beijing thinking that I could have done | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
more. I may have felt like I nailed the race but I was in this today. I | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
can't be too unhappy but obviously you always want more and you ran to | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
run a PB or something. It feels bitter sweet now. Going forward, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
what do you take out of an experience like tonight? I think | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
that I've got to look at it with my coach and analyse it and see where | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
we can make improvements. I think that my hurdling was really good | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
tonight so maybe just trying to work on the speed a little bit and get a | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
little bit quicker. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you very much. | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
First of all, a big congratulations because that was a wonderful | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
performance to crown you Olympic champion. It's one thing being the | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
favourite and another thing to deliver the way that you did. Tell | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
me how you did it? I kept believing in myself. My coach, he had | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
continued to motivate me. I was feeling really tired before the race | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
but any time that you're about to run that fast, I feel that way so I | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
was trusting myself and believing in my abilities and I was able to come | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
up with the win today. Had you ever even maybe dared to dream of what | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
might happen tonight if you won the gold medal? Definitely. I just kept | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
praying about it and praying about it. I'm just... You kind of get so | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
overwhelmed you want to stop thinking about it and let fate take | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
its place and play itself out. How does the reality compare to the | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
dream? Much, much better. I mean, when he said that I was the first | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
American to win the gold medal for the hurdles 400. Enjoy the | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
celebrations. Thank you so much. Well, some pretty snappy American | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
hurdling has helped to propel them. Well, they were already at the top | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
of the table but the gap has increased now. 25 medals on Jamaica | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
on seven. Kenya behind them and then really it's just a mixture of | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Croatia, China, South Africa, Ethiopia. Nobody else really within | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
reach of the top nations. Nobody is in reach of the United States of | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
America. This has been pretty good for you guys? And the team is led by | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
the women. It's been the women. The US women's team is extremely strong. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
If you look at all of the events, the women are bringing home most of | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
the medals. Well said, we can't argue with that, can we? Michael has | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
kind of admitted that we are the stronger sex! Who runs the world? | :08:50. | :09:01. | |
Who runs the world - girls! Jason Mohammed, I don't think that we can | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
say anything else. Can we? Thank you very much here. Nothing to | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
say here other than brilliant night yet again Gabby and the team. Usain | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Bolt, what a sportsman and as for athletics, what does athletics or | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
track and field, what does sport do when Usain Bolt decides to up the | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
spikes? An incredible performer. What an Olympic champion. We are now | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
going to talk about another Olympic champion. Jay Jones. If you've just | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
tuned in, maybe been on the late shift and coming in and turning on | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
the TV, Jay Jones is the double Olympic champion in tie quand owe. | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
She's beaten -- Taekwando. Rising her to use the cut kick here. | :09:44. | :10:01. | |
Six points there. And there is the stabbing cut kick to the body. | :10:02. | :10:17. | |
A little bit of a come back and a chip and a charge. A real to usled | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
affair. That is incredible but as you said, Calvo Gomez, caught up | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
with the same technique but has to be careful as she gets in because | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Jones can change it. Another point picked up by Jones. Enormous tension | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
and rivalry between these two. Will it be a repeat or will it be | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
revenge? Jones hoping for her second Olympic title. She won it with the | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
home crowd in London. She's on the road and she's here in Rio and she's | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
on the road with a 5-point gap. Almost scoring with that head shot | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
and again, great defence from Calvo Gomez. An excellent push point there | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
from the Spanish fighter. Yeah, she just has to keep her head and | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
composure, jade Jones. There is the head shot that puts Calvo Gomez back | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
into this one. The Spanish fighter not giving up without a fight and | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Calvo Gomez, she's 7-6 behind in the matches. Jones trying one of her own | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
and one thing is for sure, this is a classic. It is absolute classic and | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
I think she's going to have a look and see what she's scored with | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
earlier. And just go back to that. Look at that - quick change of | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
direction there. The direction of the scores has changed quickly as | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
well. Jones with the great physicality. This is Olympic | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
taekwondo at its very, very best. Both women reeling and rocking here | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
and Jones retreats. She was handily in the lead. Calvo Gomez has clawed | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
it back. The coaching instruction is quite | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
clear there. Forget that round. Give me your best two minutes, but it was | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
the best two minutes from Calvo Gomez here. Yeah, I think absolutely | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
right. It was fantastic for Gomez. Gomez absolutely came forward. | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
Didn't she? And she was determined to pull that deficit back and she | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
did. What a battle we've got here. It is. Coming into the last round | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
here, it's anybody's match, this. So it all depends now on who wants it | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
most and a little bit of a change of tactics from either fighter. I think | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
that Eva Calvo Gomez did change the tactics and that's why she got the | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
points. Big moments here in Brazil. The | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
women's under 57 kg gold medal contest. Eva Calvo Gomez of Spain in | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
red. Jade Jones, her opponent and you can guess what colour she's in. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
But what colour will they be carrying at the end. This the battle | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
for gold or silver and Jones picks off a little hoop kick to the body. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
8-6 now, cancelled out by Calvo Gomez. Ebbing and flowing here. 8-7. | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
Hanging against Jones. What a match. Wow, it is. It's a fantastic match. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Great stuff here. Calvo Gomez absolutely taking the fight to | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
Jones. Jones has to fire back. But it's an open match. It's an open | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
final and that's why it's so close. Zbler so much tension and | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
understandable impasse here. Jones goes for a head shot and she takes | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
it. An absolute picture perfect shot there. Dropped a drop kick over the | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
shoulder and electronic sensor in the head gear registered but one | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
there for Calvo Gomez. Jones goes for the head again and she scores | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
and she is doing so well here. Calvo Gomez reeling and rocking. She has | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
to find a way to compose. Tries the reverse turning kick, the Spanish | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
fighter. This, a real battle. It's fantastic stuff. Calvo Gomez going | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
for the big points, of course. And Jade Jones just keeping her | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
composure. Under pressure but the Olympic champion here, defending her | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
Olympic title and wow, is she doing it well? Look at those points there. | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
15.7. And the time there for Calvo Gomez to try to do something. Well, | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
has it gone? As we go into the last 20 seconds. Jade Jones there has a | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
look at Paul Green and asks for the video replay. They do and indeed, | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
they decide to replay it. Well, could it get any more dramatic? | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
Let's have a listen. There you go, the face kick is the | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
request. How important this could be. Yeah, I think so. For me, I saw | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
the head go back. But good call. Let's have a look at it. Jones | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
pushes forward with the first phase. And does she get it to the face? She | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
does not. The video replay unsuccessful and the score board the | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
same. 15 points to the good. Ten seconds left. Jones takes another. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Calvo Gomez on the back foot. Can she do it one more time? The Olympic | :15:44. | :15:53. | |
champion? The Welsh wonder strikes gold again. Double Olympic champion | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
to the delight of the British fans and the Brazilian crowd. She takes | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
Paul Green on to the mat. She said that because of him, she found a | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
love for the sport again. And Paul Green never won. To take the | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
plaudits but he takes the delight here. Double Olympic champion and it | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
was his charge, the Welsh wonder, the fighter from Flint who produces | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
a tremendous response. Calvo Gomez, a superb silver. Disappointed but | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
beaten by a clear margin. Yes, by a clear margin and she absolutely kept | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
her cool, didn't she? Jade Jones, that was brilliant stuff. And I | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
mean, she just racked up the points. But credit to Calvo Gomez because | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
she came back into it. She never gave up. She kept coming forward. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Jade Jones in the end, though, double Olympic champion. | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
A massive congratulations. You defended the Olympic crown. Can you | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
sum up how it feels tonight? It feels unbelievable. I can't really | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
explain. I didn't realise how much pressure I would feel coming into | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
this. Even the first few matches, I felt so pressured and tense and to | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
pull it off. You know, my coach is a psycho, so! It's all down to him. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
And you know, the gate Britain team trained so hard. And even there! | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Come on Paul, join in. You're a big part of the achievement tonight. Sum | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
up what she's achieved. That wasn't just a small victory. She destroyed | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
the field today? Yeah, she delivers under pressure. I've said it before. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
She's done it before. She's the most successful British athlete in | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
taekwondo in history and probably ever will be and the achievement is | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
fantastic. And double Olympic champion. She's done everything. Can | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
I just say a huge thank you to the National Lottery for funding the | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
taxpayers that funded Jade to do the sport and Gary Hall, legend of a | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
boss and keeps the GB tib tib team together. Keeps all of this possible | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
and Jade from your perspective. Injure journey in the last four | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
years hasn't been easy to cope with the pressure and become an Olympic | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
champion, but you turned it on. I'm still young. Only 23. To be double | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Olympic champion already is crazy. And I just can't believe it to be | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
honest. You know, before the competition, I have anticipate been | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
crying in the sessions and you know, you just can't see it happening | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
because you're so stressed and training all the time. But you know, | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
I did it when it moered mattered and I'm buzzing. Very different | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
atmosphere to London 2012 and the home crowd there, but massive | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
support for you tonight and that must have helped? Definitely, always | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
helps a lot. My family and friends mean the world to me. So much | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
support win or lose and that means a lot and everyone back home, I think | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
that there's so many people in whatever the pub is called, you | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
know, it's amazing, so much support. Massive congratulations to you both. | :18:56. | :18:56. | |
Chears, thank you. Jade Jones. Jade Jones, Olympic | :18:57. | :19:12. | |
champion 2016. What a wonderful feat. And she used those wonderful | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
feet to score perfect points. And a picture perfect finish for Jade | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Jones. Tremendous performer. And she won it in London. She's won it again | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
here. Double gold-medallist. Two times Olympic champion. Jade Jones | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
and she will now observe the national anthem of Great Britain. | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
VOICEOVER: Ladies and gentlemen, the national anthem of Great Britain. | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
How does that feel Jade Jones? Double Olympic champion. That is an | :19:59. | :20:44. | |
incredible story. It's been amazing story for Jade Jones. In a recent | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
newspaper interview, she said that she grew up in a council house and | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
used to have big scraps with the boys and used to beat them up. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Unbelievable. Fantastic. And shortly after being presented with the gold | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
medal, she spoke to our reporter. Well, Jade, congratulations again. | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
Fresh off the podium, you now have the second career Olympic gold | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
medal. Tell us how special it is? It's just surreal to be honest. I | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
still can't believe it. From London and be Olympic champion and to do it | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
again, I felt like I had so much pressure coming in. I didn't realise | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
how much it would be. And to do it again is just surreal. How different | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
was that pressure from four years ago because going in there as the | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
defending champion, everyone expects so much more from you? I didn't | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
actually realise how much pressure it would be. It was only until today | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
that I thought - woah, this is a lot of pressure and just like pressure | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
on myself because I know that I'm the best, but in taekwondo, it | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
doesn't always work like that. And I just wanted to win so much. And I've | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
trained so hard for four years. And you know, I just wanted to win and | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
to finally do that is just amazing. You've spoken so much about how your | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
life changed and your profile went through the roof after London 2012. | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Competing out there. You've had to change your style and adapt and went | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
from being the hunter, very much to the hundreded. Yeah, and I don't | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
think that people realise how hard it is. Mentally, physically. It's | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
draining. Training all the time. And my coach, Paul Green, he has his | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
training all the time and although we moan, that's what works. And I've | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
got him to thank for it and just all my family and friends. And all my | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
family that come here and everybody back home in Flint. And the support | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
has just been amazing. Again. And you know in Brazil and I've only got | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
ten family members but the whole stadium were cheering again and it's | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
just unbelievable. An absolutely incredible achievement. Hold up the | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
gold medal and everybody back home what it means? Thank you so much for | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
the support. It means the absolute world. Thank you. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
That is amazing and knowing Flint as I do, they will be dancing on the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
streets there, let me tell you that. They'll be having a few quiet cheeky | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
beers tonight and tomorrow after that. That is absolutely brilliant. | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
Jade Jones and her Twitter profile, she's got 55,000 followers the last | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
time that I looked and telephone says on her bio, "I kick people in | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
the head for a living and I love it" and she's a double Olympic campion. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Well done, and that is a remarkable story. Let's bring you up to date | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
with all of today's headlines. As if it was ever in doubt, Usain | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Bolt claims the eighth Olympic gold medal in victory in the 200 metres | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
in a race that he said afterwards could well be his last ever major | :23:29. | :23:37. | |
championship. 200 metre contest. Britain finished fourth, just | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
3,000ths of a second shy. Alastair BrownLee led home brother Johnny for | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
the triathlon and made him the first man to retain the title. The first | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
brothers to win Olympic gold and silver in the same event since 1960. | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
After being frustrated by the weather yesterday, Hannah Mills and | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
Saskia Clark finally able to celebrate. A thrilling silver medal | :24:09. | :24:20. | |
for Liam Heath and Schofield. They got it in a photo finish to upgrade | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
the bronze they won in London four years ago. And Marcus el I wills and | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
Chris Langrid earn the first Olympic badminton medal for 12 years for the | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
play off matches in the men's doubles. They were brilliant. | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
We would absolutely love it if you stay with us here on BBC One. Don't | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
go to bed yet because we have fantastic sport still to come. The | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
women's gold medal matches coming up next and then this is going to be | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
huge. You may be able to see just behind that graphic, at the end of | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Copacabana Beach is the wonderful arena for the beach volleyball. It | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
is the men's final - Italy v Brazil. That is it. See that thing flashing | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
at the end of Copacabana Beach. That is the beach volleyball venue. It is | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
ter of course. We're going to take you -- terrific. We're going to take | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
you now to the women's wrestling. Erica Elizabeth Vaby against | :25:23. | :25:32. | |
Kazakhstan and the 63 kilo clash. We start with the 53 kilo final. | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
Now we move to the gold medal match in the women's 53 kg wrestling and | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
this promises to be some match. The 13 time World Champion. Yoshida | :25:49. | :26:14. | |
has only been beaten twice in her career. And is unbeaten since 2012 | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
and even before 2012. That's the immense hurdle that has to be | :26:26. | :26:26. | |
overcome to win the gold medal. Almost willing to concede the point | :26:27. | :27:13. | |
there. She's now got the one point advantage. The point there. The | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
referee deemed Marulize wasn't active enough in that preceding two | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
minutes of wrestling. 15 seconds to go until the end of the first | :27:28. | :27:28. | |
period. Even a period of wrestling which we | :27:29. | :27:46. | |
can describe as cat and mouse, that was it. It's cagey at the moment. | :27:47. | :27:56. | |
Just the one point in it. Maroulis, after the violation and dropped the | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
point, she did start to go for it a little bit more in the last 15-20 | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
seconds or so. Whether that will lead to something channelling into | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
the next period or not we'll have to wait and see but wouldn't be | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
surprised to see Maroulis going there. Second period under way in | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
the gold medal match in the women's 53 kg class in the freestyle | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
wrestling. Yoshida of Japan in the red and Maroulis of the United | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
States in blue. Yoshida trying to become the sixth athlete in Olympic | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
history to win individual gold medal at four consecutive gold medals. Now | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
Maroulis is going to get the points down there. Great play and she's not | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
done with yet. She's going for a gut-wrench. To try to get two more | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
points. The referee says - let's go back to the centre, we're out of | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
play. Just something about the way that Maroulis came out at the start | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
there. She was aggressive, she went for it. Picked her opportunity and | :29:03. | :29:11. | |
took it. Very tidy wrestling. Now the Japanese wrestler needs to come | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
from a deficit. She's down 2-1. Still plenty of time left. Two | :29:16. | :29:24. | |
minutes and a fraction longer. Maroulis has defended superbly in | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
this competition so far but Yoshida has all of that experience. | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
Remember, she's not been defeated in four years of competition. Has only | :29:33. | :29:40. | |
been defeated twice in her career. She's a 13-time World Champion, | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
Yoshida, and has won three Olympic Games gold medals in a row. Maroulis | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
has got the advantage with just over 90 seconds to play. But it's the | :29:53. | :30:01. | |
slimmest of margins. Well, what this might come down to now is Maroulis | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
managing to get the right balance. Being able to be defensive enough | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
while still staying active. Not incurring any vailations. Yoshida, | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
she will bide her time for a bit longer. There will be absolutely no | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
panic from her. But at some point, she's going to have to flick the | :30:25. | :30:32. | |
switch, but it won't just be yet. Maroulis commanding the centre. | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
She's pushed her in. That's another point to the American. That was very | :30:39. | :30:50. | |
clever play Maroulis. And now it's 4-1. It's been upgraded a point. So | :30:51. | :30:57. | |
the lead really commanding now. That was really important because it | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
requires a much bigger score now from Yoshida. Moving into the final | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
45 seconds of the bout. So this is going to be interesting with 30 | :31:07. | :31:14. | |
seconds left she's got to go big. She's got to score a four pointer. | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
Yoshida pushing Maroulis out. Might get a point. Might get two. But she | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
needs more. She's got 28 seconds left to create | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
some history at the Olympic Games, Yoshida. And match her compat riate | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
from earlier in the wrestling programme. This could be her | :31:39. | :31:45. | |
opportunity. Maroulis is very strong, though. Ten seconds | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
remaining and it's looking doubtful. Maroulis just nine seconds away from | :31:52. | :31:58. | |
an amazing win. The American has got it! For the first time in over four | :31:59. | :32:14. | |
years, Yoshida is beaten. And Maroulis of the United States has | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
created a big upset here on the mat. An unbelievable win against one of | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
the greatest wrestlers of all time. And she's done it on the big est | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
stage. A gold medal match at the Olympic Games. Maroulis, the | :32:33. | :32:39. | |
24-year-old from Colorado Springs is the Olympic champion. And the legend | :32:40. | :32:51. | |
of Yoshida. She falls one agonising time short on four consecutive gold | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
medals at four Olympics. The winner - Maroulis of the United States. She | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
wins the gold medal. Yoshida of Japan has to settle for the silver | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
medal. You'd have to say on reflection that | :33:06. | :33:16. | |
Maroulis was in control of that gold medal match. Much as we have to | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
admit, I guess the majority of the fans here and worldwide perhaps | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
would have loved to have seen Yoshida create a bit of history. | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
Maroulis was a deserved winner. It has to be one of the most | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
sensational examples of match management and of handling the | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
occasion that you could ever hope to see on a wrestling mat. Time for the | :33:41. | :33:59. | |
gold medal bout in the 63 kg weight class as Mamashuk takes on Kaway of | :34:00. | :34:03. | |
Japan. She is the world number three. She | :34:04. | :34:19. | |
is the world number four. They will go for the number one place on the | :34:20. | :34:27. | |
podium. The gold medal bout. 63 kg. Mamashuk | :34:28. | :34:38. | |
in the red and Kawai in the blue. Who will take the opportunities and | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
secure the key points, the key take downs? | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
And this was the event dominated by Icho until the change of weights and | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
the number of events post London 2012. So this is a big, big one for | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
Risako Kawai and she's wasting no time here going attacking. Attacking | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
right from the start. Picking up the two points very early on there. And | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
she might go even further here. She's going for the turn and trying | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
to get more. Mamashuk goes for the protection zone. Just the two to | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
start. Well, you think that Mamashuk is a very good defensive wrestler. | :35:22. | :35:29. | |
We've seen that through her earlier matches but going up against Kawai | :35:30. | :35:38. | |
is a different story entirely. She's just a bundle of energy. Not afraid | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
at that attack and make an early commitment and that got her the two | :35:44. | :35:46. | |
points. Maybe unsettling her opponent. Still a lot of wrestling | :35:47. | :35:53. | |
to do in this one. Just inside the first minute and a half there. | :35:54. | :36:07. | |
Good looking and a fast pace here. A lot of footwork. A lot of | :36:08. | :36:16. | |
opportunities and a lot of missed opportunities not a lot of | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
opportunities for a big score. And this is the big difference for | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
Mamashuk from the earlier fights. She's been dictating the speed of | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
the bouts. She's the one that's been controlling but now she's on the | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
back foot. She's having her opponent dictate to her the pace. This is | :36:34. | :36:36. | |
more of what queve' seen from Mamashuk, the slow and griping style | :36:37. | :36:44. | |
of wrestling. This may be what she's got to do, is just slow things down. | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
Goes for the leg there but Kawai quickly on it. Now, can Kawai turn | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
this around into an attacking position by getting the rotation | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
around. Mamashuk looks to defend. No - back up into standing. | :37:02. | :37:09. | |
So far, as we approach the halfway point. Just a couple of points on | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
the early take-down from Risako Kawai. Now the single leg attempt | :37:17. | :37:28. | |
from Mamashuk. She's got a strategy there. The second time she's gone | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
for it and the second time that Kawai has got the block in there. | :37:33. | :37:35. | |
Tried to turn it into a position of control. End of the period. Well, | :37:36. | :37:43. | |
Mamashuk did well to come back into that period. It was just a ferocious | :37:44. | :37:51. | |
start from Kawai there. Mamashuk will have the knowledge that she can | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
defend but she's going to have to attack if she wants the gold medal | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
at some point during this next three minutes. It's where we get the | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
interesting dilemma. The psychology for the Belarussian. She's got to | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
attack but knowing that that will leave her open to counterattack and | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
counterattack is one of the most important things in freestyle. And | :38:15. | :38:25. | |
there's an opportunity, quick rotation around for Mamashuk. Stop | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
Kawai getting behind her and getting twot points. Yeah, the skills were | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
tested to the fullest extent there, Mamashuk. Unless she's like that all | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
the time and Kawai will get around and score, holding on really tightly | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
to the legs there to stop Kawai moving around and picking up the | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
2-point control. She's defending well. Really well. But this is going | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
to become exhausting after a while. Yes, stamina is going to come into | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
play. Still two minutes to go. Doesn't sound like it's a long | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
period of time but in wrestling terms, it's a long, long way to go | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
yet. And there it is there. This is the one that's going to score too. | :39:13. | :39:20. | |
But the single leg and looking for further here as she tries to turn, | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
Mamashuk is in difficulty now. This is where Kawai is proving relentless | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
but the referee interseeds. So four now is the advantage moving into the | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
last minute and a half and that's where it's looking difficult. Kawai | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
so quick. And going in there. Still a little bit more speed is one of | :39:45. | :39:50. | |
the major reasons she's in front heading into this last 90 seconds. | :39:51. | :39:58. | |
It's the natural movement with Kawai that's so impressive. She gets | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
around the back so far and she establishes a 90 degree movement so | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
quickly and now going again for the leg. Mamashuk is trying to defend | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
it. Trying to defend it. Now, this is one where they've both got to be | :40:12. | :40:19. | |
incred careful here. Yes, Mamashuk could easily turn this into an | :40:20. | :40:26. | |
attacking if she can turn her opponent over. That's what she's | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
trying to do and as a result, Kawai is now defending, defending really, | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
really hard here. Nothing doing there. Got to a stalemate. Now we're | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
going to go back up to standing but that was a window of opportunity | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
there potentially as we move into the last 40 seconds. Goes for the | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
single leg. Kawai defending. Just backed away from that very nicely | :40:52. | :40:59. | |
and just shut it down. Time is the enemy now for Mamashuk. Kawai that | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
time didn't need to try to move around and establish the score. She | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
just seemed to be happy to hold on there. Just a push away and now | :41:10. | :41:19. | |
another two points. It's the six and that with ten seconds to go has got | :41:20. | :41:28. | |
to be enough for Risako Kawai. Time elapses and she just holds Mamashuk | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
down there on the mat. Pretty soon she'll be holding a gold medal in | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
her hands. The 21-year-old from Japan has secured another gold medal | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
for Japan here in women's freestyle wrestling. Well, she controlled that | :41:47. | :42:01. | |
one throughout. Yeah, she sure did. That explosive start set the | :42:02. | :42:09. | |
standards. Oh! Well, we have seen him lifted up on the shoulders | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
there. We've not seen him thrown down there! That's a bit harsh on | :42:13. | :42:24. | |
the coach there. No, that's better! That's more where he's used to being | :42:25. | :42:37. | |
in there. Well, not only is she an outstanding wrestler but a great | :42:38. | :42:39. | |
sense of humour as well. I'm glad that he was the victim of the falls | :42:40. | :42:50. | |
and not you or I! Well, that leaves just the one match to come and it is | :42:51. | :42:56. | |
for the gold medal in the women's 75 kg class here at Rio 2016. | :42:57. | :43:17. | |
Here they come. The 27-year-old from Calgary. Commonwealth Games | :43:18. | :43:32. | |
gold-medallist from gloss go. The world number two. -- Glasgow. | :43:33. | :43:42. | |
Two extremely well matched competitors. Massive risks will have | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
to be taken in order to secure the gold medal here. Just a question of | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
who can execute the risks most successfully and who is willing to | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
be the most attacking here. The last thing that you want in a gold medal | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
contest is to lose something by a violation. Manyurova has been so | :44:03. | :44:18. | |
close to winning big competitions. She's been a long campaigner in the | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
sport of women's freestyle wrestling. She too will not want to | :44:23. | :44:37. | |
give up the opportunity easily. Coming up to the 90 second mark in | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
this first period of two. And there goes Manyurova. Now Wiebe has turned | :44:42. | :44:47. | |
it around. And she's just in the field of play. She's got two points. | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
This is a big moment in this gold medal match. Wiebe desperately | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
trying to keep her opponent in the wrestling area. And that is some | :44:58. | :45:04. | |
escape by Kazakhstan's Manyurova. Well, for a moment, that looked like | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
it was going to be the end of the contest. So quickly. Beautifully | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
done there by Wiebe. Fantastic wrestling. But equally, very, very | :45:13. | :45:20. | |
resilient defensive work for the wrestler from Kazakhstan. | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
One minute left in the first period. The Canadian up by 2-0 at the | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
moment. Let's just remember, you can be | :45:32. | :45:46. | |
warned and penalised for pacifity. They need it stay active otherwise. | :45:47. | :45:54. | |
Could be conceding penalty points. That's something that Manyurova does | :45:55. | :46:01. | |
not want to do now. Wiebe pretty much looking for the attack to the | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
feet. And the legs. Almost getting caught there with the leg take down. | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
But just laying down a marker there, Wiebe. She wasn't far away from | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
getting it. She's very quick and strong defensively. Here she goes, | :46:18. | :46:25. | |
Manyurova trying to attack the midsection again. Look at the | :46:26. | :46:35. | |
strength of Wiebe. She's asking some serious questions here of Manyurova | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
end of the first period here. It's 2-0 to Erica Wiebe of Canada. Into | :46:41. | :46:48. | |
the second period now. Manyurova has really got to attack hard. Her | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
attitude has been excellent so far as we start the second period but | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
Wiebe has just been a little bit too strong for her. So far, stamina is | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
going to come into play here as well. | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
There's the two-point take down. That is the perfect start to the | :47:09. | :47:15. | |
second period for the Canadian. Now she wants to capitalise on this | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
position but she's not going to get the opportunity. We're in a | :47:20. | :47:26. | |
stalemate situation. That's beautiful. Just so well timed. Wiebe | :47:27. | :47:33. | |
has been visualising this moment for four years and she actually did go | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
to London as a training partner for another Canadian. She managed to | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
sneak out on to the mat when no-one else was there and sneak out there | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
and visualise what is going to happen to her in the future at an | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
Olympic Games and here we are four years later and she's just two | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
minutes away from realising that dream. Manyurova, though, remember, | :47:59. | :48:09. | |
has been so close to winning gold m major championships before. She's 38 | :48:10. | :48:20. | |
years of age. Wiebe still doing a very good defensive job here. | :48:21. | :48:31. | |
Wiebe looking to it. Needs to score one more time to give herself a bit | :48:32. | :48:52. | |
of breathing space. Just has to be careful, though, because her | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
opponent is very experienced and could easily do what Wiebe did to | :48:57. | :49:04. | |
her in that first period. Wiebe just continuing to work away. Shut down | :49:05. | :49:11. | |
any attack. Any threat that her opponent may go for. Just went for | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
the legs there and Manyurova there. But Wiebe backing away and down to | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
the legs there. Just batting that one off there really skilfully. | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
Manyurova, her stamina is coming under question. The attack must be | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
running there and she's certainly looking fatigued as we enter the | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
last 20 seconds. Wiebe has another 2-point take down. She's moments | :49:40. | :49:50. | |
away now, Erica Wiebe. Just 14 seconds away from gold Canada. Erica | :49:51. | :49:58. | |
Wiebe on the cusp here of winning Canada's gold medal here in the | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
women's freestyle wrestling. It is gold to Canada. Erica Wiebe, the | :50:05. | :50:14. | |
27-year-old world number two Commonwealth Games gold-medallist | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
from two years ago in Glasgow has gone to the top of the world in | :50:18. | :50:33. | |
2016. Too strong for her opponent, Guzel Manyurova of Kazakhstan. She | :50:34. | :50:39. | |
can walk down the steps. She's tried her best. Just simply outclassed by | :50:40. | :50:48. | |
a better wrestler on the day. Erica Wiebe wins Canada's second gold in | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
women's freestyle wrestling. To go with Carol Hun who won one back in | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
2008 in the 48 kg class. But it's all about Wiebe right now. | :51:02. | :51:05. | |
Another very entertaining night in the wrestling. We've seen some | :51:06. | :51:08. | |
wonderful celebrations in the wrestling. That is the scene at the | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
beach volleyball arena. The Copacabana stadium. Slightly drizzly | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
out there tonight which is rather unfortunate, but it is the men's | :51:18. | :51:20. | |
gold medal match that we will be bringing you live between Italy | :51:21. | :51:27. | |
against Brazil. It is live at 12:00. That is 4:00 your time, of course. | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
Before we go any further, let's bring you right up to date with this | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
swimming story which is developing over the last 24 hours. No doubt | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
you'll have read about it in the newspapers and probably heard about | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
it on television and radio involving four Olympic swimmers from the US | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
team, most notably Ryan Lochte. In the past half an hour, the US | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
Olympic Committee have issued a statement. It is quite long so I'll | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
just pick out the various interesting bits of it. But | :51:55. | :52:01. | |
basically, what the US OC CEO Scott Blackman has said in the last half | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
an hour. "Two US swimmers have given statements to local authorities | :52:07. | :52:09. | |
today on that incident that occurred first on Sunday. The passports have | :52:10. | :52:13. | |
been released and they have just departed Rio. After providing a | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
statement earlier in the weeks", you will remember James Fagan was caught | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
up in this. "He provided a revised statement this evening with the hope | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
of securing the release of his passport as soon as possible." So | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
the statement goes on to say, "This is what happened, they describe the | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
events as follows." Four athletes "left France house early in the | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
morning on August 14 in a taxi heading to the Olympic village. They | :52:44. | :52:46. | |
stopped at a gas station to use the rest room. One of the athletes | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
committed an act of vandalism which obviously wasn't reported the first | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
time." Basically, an argument ensued then between the athletes and two | :52:57. | :53:00. | |
armed gas station security staff who displayed the weapons. This is all | :53:01. | :53:04. | |
in the statement there. Ordered the athletes from the vehicle and | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
demanded that they provide a monetary payment. Once the security | :53:08. | :53:10. | |
officials received money from the athlete, they were allowed to leave. | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
This is the key part and this is what will be reported on television | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
and radio and newspapers. "The behaviour of athletes from the US | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
team is not acceptable. It does not represent the values of Team USA or | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
the conduct of the vast majority of the members. We will further review | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
the matter and any potential consequences for the athletes when | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
we return to the United States. On behalf of the US Olympic Committee," | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
says the statement, "We apologise to our wonderful hosts in Rio. Also to | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
the people of Brazil for this distracting ordeal in the midst of | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
what should rightly be a celebration of excellence." "With three days | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
remaining in the Olympic Games, the primary focus is supporting the | :53:54. | :53:57. | |
athletes who are still competing in the Olympic Games and celebrating | :53:58. | :54:00. | |
the achievements of those who have finished." Let's have a look at some | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
of the newspapers and how they're reporting this story. This is the | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
New York Post and this is a really interesting headline. That is Ryan | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
Lochte "the Ugly American". Look at the top left of that. That is a | :54:14. | :54:17. | |
popular newspaper in the United States. "Liar, liar, speedo on | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
fire". Let's also show you. And obviously some of the newspapers | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
will not be running the statement that we've just had in. But | :54:24. | :54:30. | |
obviously later editions will. "The Lochte mess monster". "Swimmers | :54:31. | :54:37. | |
trashed gas station potty." "Rio cops seek indictment for Ryan pal, | :54:38. | :54:43. | |
lies". There you are, you're completely up to date with the | :54:44. | :54:46. | |
Lochte and US swimming team story. Now let's go to the sport and we'll | :54:47. | :54:52. | |
show you what happened in the women's ten metre platform final. | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
Britain represented by Tonia Couch and lots of Chinese interest here. | :54:57. | :55:03. | |
Tonia Couch diving her best. This would be a good start if she can get | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
this with a forward three and a half. | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
You can see this dive, it's interesting that she's deciding to | :55:14. | :55:15. | |
start with it. It isn't her best dive. She would have upgraded to | :55:16. | :55:22. | |
eight and 8.5s but sadly goes away with 7.5s and 7s. Work to do. The | :55:23. | :55:32. | |
Canadians are in town. There's lots of support for Benifeito. Well, she | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
has saved the best for the final. This is a game of tactics. Meghan | :55:38. | :55:45. | |
opting to open with one of her most complicated dives. Wow, 8.5s | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
across-the-board. Hello 81 points. First of twot Chinese. For Ren Chen. | :55:51. | :55:59. | |
Yes, so just 15 years old. And here she is opening up her campaign with | :56:00. | :56:06. | |
an exceptional dive. Not quite as good as Meghan Benifeito but not too | :56:07. | :56:07. | |
far shy. 78. Yes. Indeed. Oh, she has opened up there with a | :56:08. | :56:20. | |
beautiful dive following on Jessica's forward 3.5 in the pipe | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
The entry there isn't quite as good. There are the marks and there is | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
nothing to chose between one and joint second at the moment. That's | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
how it looks after the first round. So Canada in front. Now, Tonia | :56:39. | :56:45. | |
Couch, arm stand back double somersault. One and a half twists. | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
Oh, it's a beautiful dive from Tonia Couch. This is what we referred to | :56:51. | :56:56. | |
as a splashless entry as she's in fantastic shape. 67.20. Tonia Couch | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
did 65.6 earlier so both of her opening dives are better than they | :57:04. | :57:10. | |
were this morning. Now to move on to Ren Qian of China in with the tuck | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
for the first of the two Chinese we'll see. Super clean again. So | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
classy all the way through. Lines coming her way. No tens. Woah, 85 | :57:21. | :57:30. | |
now and 84.8. So she's certainly got the highest score. Well exactly the | :57:31. | :57:38. | |
same as Ren. Beautiful take-off. Beautiful aerial work. Just a | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
fraction over rotating. 9s. Nine, nine, nine. No emergency yet for Si | :57:44. | :57:51. | |
Yajie. She's comfortably at the top. Where are we and who is there? So it | :57:52. | :57:59. | |
is China 1-2 but the top five separated by ten points after rounds | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
two. Now let's turn our attention to Tonia Couch. Oh. What a shame. She's | :58:05. | :58:12. | |
been having a bit of difficulty with this dive. Yeah, afraid with 64 and | :58:13. | :58:20. | |
67 and now 52. She's going to be way off the pack now. Second placed at | :58:21. | :58:28. | |
the moment. Here's Ren for China. Back three and a half. Once again, | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
3.3. Wow, I think we've seen our first ten. Twinkle toes needs to | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
point her toes but that is the dive of the meet so far. 90 points plus. | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
Yes. Yes, we've had loads of 80s and I've been looking at those and | :58:47. | :58:50. | |
getting very enthusiastic but we've gone through the 90 barrier into the | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
94 region, 94.05. Si of China. Arm stand back | :58:56. | :59:04. | |
somersault and one and a half twists. | :59:05. | :59:07. | |
Wow, like for like. This is outstanding. What a competition this | :59:08. | :59:16. | |
is. First class and the two Chinese teenagers are the cut above. This is | :59:17. | :59:26. | |
9s coming Si's way and she will be right up there next to Qian. It's a | :59:27. | :59:32. | |
change in place with Ren going first. On to Tonia Couch. Back two | :59:33. | :59:38. | |
and a half somersaults and one and a half twists. That's really good from | :59:39. | :59:43. | |
Tonia. It's a great, great dive. But she has left herself too much to do | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
here to challenge. This will be good enough to get herself off the bottom | :59:49. | :59:53. | |
spot in this final. Yeah, normally when she's diving at her very best, | :59:54. | :59:58. | |
her pinnacle, loads of smiles and loads of waves. A bit more of a grim | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
as there from Tonia. And here is our leader. Oh! Another one. Wow. Ren, | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
only 15 years old. Absolutely no deviation from upright. Splashless. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
There's got to be a ten for me. We're seeing a diving masterclass | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
out here from the 15-year-old Ren. Sorry to laugh when I say that. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Well, Tom Daley was World Champion at 15, of course. OK only one diver | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
can overtake Ren. But it needs to be 10s, though. Well, it's not going to | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
be 10s. It's a top notch effort from Si who has been outclassed and at | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
the moment, Ren has the upper hand. Gap opening up a little bit now, | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
isn't it? Yeah, there is a considerable gap between the two | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Chinese with the mark of 79.20. The 12-point swing. Not gone quite as we | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
would have wanted or the coach would have wanted for Tonia Couch but this | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
is her favourite dive. Reverse two and a half for Tonia Couch to | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
finish. Yes, it's a magnificent finish for | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Tonia. Low degree of difficulty at 2.8. She does this dive so well. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Sadly not on the A game this evening. She would have been further | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
up the pack but she is Olympic finalist and she's been in the top | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
ten at every World Championships since 2009 and she's had a fantastic | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
career to date. Well done Tonia. Give us a wave. So, is it the | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
15-year-old who is going to go first? Ren Qain. She has the lead. | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
Oh, it's phenomenal. My word. That is your Olympic gold-medallist | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
without a shadow of a doubt. She's only 15 years old. 91 points and | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
what a succession of scores. I need to read them to you. 78, 84, 94, 91, | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
91. So, so classy. All the way through. Well, it should be | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
relatively straight forward now for the silver. For Si. She cannot catch | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
Ren. Sixes will do it. Sixes for silver for a Chinese 1-2. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Yes. Chinese 1-2 as we suspected. You've won it, Ren. You're 15 and | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
Olympic champion. Your team-mate here in action has dived so, so well | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
and just been outdived by her younger team-mate. Absolutely | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
amazing display by a 15-year-old and indeed by a 17-year-old as well. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Both from China. And Tonia Couch, well it wasn't her day. | :02:51. | :03:03. | |
Very entertaining day, once again, in the pool. Let's show you what's | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
been happening in the track and field, because there's been another | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
gold medal, the main headline is in the Decathalon. The reining champion | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
and world record holder is in front. Cruising home, showing his class, | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
once again. The ultimate athlete at the track and field. An amazing | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
event. We have great memories of the declath long, watching Daley Thomas. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
He's emulated Thompson by winning back-to-back Olympic titles. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Congratulations that man! OK. Time for us to focus on the beach | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
volleyball. This is where it is happening. It is at the end of | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Copacabana Beach, at the end of the iconic beach right here. It is going | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
to be a fantastic final. It has to be Italy against Brazil. Look at it! | :04:00. | :04:11. | |
There is lots of radmatass. Whatever happens, they will be having one | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
heck of a party! CHEERING | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
What an atmosphere! Listen to this! CHEERING | :04:26. | :04:40. | |
Wow! Yes! Oh! We will have some of this! They have set the bar high to | :04:41. | :04:52. | |
start this men's gold medal match! Fantastic dig. What a get by Bruno! | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
Right when you think the set is over and it is trouble and the math moth | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
is going to -- mamott will take care of business, Nicolai cobras it to | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
the back corner. Good reactions from Bruno. Cross-court. Kept it up! Wow! | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
They are going for another challenge. They are going to argue | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
that that ball that brun know cut -- Bruno cut short was down, that it | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
hit the sand. Paolo... A challenge... .. ..Nicolai creates | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
that play and then Lupo gets just under it. Hard to tell from that | :05:44. | :05:53. | |
camera angle. It is. That cut shot was dirty! | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
The challenge coming in here, but they won't allow the challenge to | :06:00. | :06:15. | |
the last one. Correct. They are restricted on their challenges. If | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
it is a judgment call, like a handset, for example, or a ball | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
down, ball-up, those are judgment calls by the referees that they are | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
not allowed to challenge. That one, the ball in-bull out, you can | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
challenge ball touch and net fault. Those are all allowed. But, say, a | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
double contact on a set, those are not. The rain is really falling here | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
now on Copacabana. It is a shame, because it's been such a fantastic | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
competition. It isn't seeming to dampen the crowd's enthusiasm, | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
although if this set continues the way it is going, that will dampen | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the crowds' use that. Not what we were expecting to be viewing for a | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
beach volleyball final in Brazil on Copacabana Beach. We will play beach | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
volleyball at night, in the rain. It adds to the drama. Time out Brazil. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
What a start by these two! They couldn't - if you had said to them, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
"Give us your dream start", it might have been 6-0 or 5-0, but 5-1, you | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
take your hand off for... Serving and blocking going hand in hand. | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Nicolai is doing both of that. He's created two overpasses, and he's | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
gotten a clean ace. I wouldn't take too much shelter under the flag. I | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
won't keep you dry for long. He may as well just embrace it. There is no | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
shelter. Yeah! Go ahead and surrender - that guy has got it - | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
dance it off! CHEERING | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
The time-out usually employed to try and take the heat out of your | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
opponent's game. Well, the service fault from Paola Nicolai is the | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
result of the first point. Daniele Lupo gets them both. The | :08:22. | :08:45. | |
thing with an avms like this from the Italian perspective, is they | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
will either get swamped or lift them to such levels that Brazil will have | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
a real job on their hands. APPLAUSE | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
Some people thrive on the road, some people thrive at home. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
It would be interesting to see how they interact with the crowd. In | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
previous matches, he's been geeing them up, getting them involved. We | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
haven't seen any of that. He might do... Oh! There we go! He is off! | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
The albatross! Flapping his arms. (LAUGHTER) | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Right! Did Daniele Lupo get a facial? No, off the shoulder. Lupo | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
get a facial? No, off the shoulder. He's getting them involved again! | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
CHEERING Well, that is the result of the | :09:36. | :09:51. | |
first block. They went higher and harder with the second set, or | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
higher with the second set, hardware the second spike -- harder with the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
second spite. Great cover by Nicolai out of that block, but his arm just | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
got a little bit long. He has to keep it tight and compact. | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
He fancies these blocks. They are setting it nice and close to the | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
net. It is going to him a chance. These balls are starting to get wet, | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
so balls that you can get a real sticky good touch on are going to | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
get a little bit slippery. . Good dig! Nicolai can't keep it | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
alive! Having a discussion with the | :10:37. | :11:15. | |
referee. So smart! Such calm play by the Italians. Let me get my second | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
opportunity here and let the big guy place it. | :11:23. | :11:34. | |
Oh! Lupo! That first dig was outrageous! Going way to his | :11:35. | :11:46. | |
left-hand side. Somehow he gets the right hand to it! Lupo seems to are | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
the right tension in his - in his muscles, I guess, is what I'm trying | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
to say, just enough loose and fluidity to it, and off tension to | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
where he's getting balls up and he's being aggressive. Alison! Gets his | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
first block of the match and the crowd enjoyed that one! | :12:15. | :12:15. | |
CHEERING Here they go! Making his presence | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
known. It was just a matter of time until you get that first one under | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
your belt. Revving them up. Monster block! And they all get involved. | :12:29. | :12:44. | |
Yep! Reaching behind him! CHEERING | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
He rolls it into the corner. Brazil have come from 1-5 down to 9-7 - 9-8 | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
up, sorry. Bruno's angles are incredible! Not only is he a | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
wonderful defender, but his transition attack, he's got to be a | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
1.5-2m off the net. Sometimes you come into the gold | :13:14. | :13:33. | |
matches and we have discussed it before we came on air. We get all | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
excited about it. Sometimes the match never really lives up to that | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
expectation. We have had a fantastic start here! Just the fact that Italy | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
went out to a 5-1 lead just sets it up. You are right. Every match takes | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
on a life of its own. It is a riddle that needs to be solved, it is a | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
matter of who was the wherewithal and the presence of mind to solve | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
that riddle within the 21 points. You have to do that twice. | :14:00. | :14:11. | |
As much as you can prepare your side of the net, you never know what's | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
going to show up on the other side. Looking at those super slow-mos - | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
yep! Again. You go too close to the net, that man invariably gets up and | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
gets his hands on the ball. Here they go again! That's the monster | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
block salute! CHEERING | :14:33. | :14:48. | |
Good leave. Technical time-out. First one of the match. Technical | :14:49. | :15:03. | |
time-outs, when the total points get to 21, and it's the closest it can | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
be, a 1-point lead for Alison and Bruno. This young man, his uncle, | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
the most decorated - or one of the most decorated - Brazilian athletes | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
in Olympic history. Yeah. He competed at five Olympic Games in | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
basketball, never got further than the quarterfinals, though. But his | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
nephew is going to win a medal. Oscar Schmidt, the uncle, | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
unofficially basketball's leading point scorer. Want to hazard a guess | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
how many he scored for internationally? It is a hell of a | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
lot. Yeah? 49,737! LAUGHTER | :15:49. | :16:00. | |
Goodness! I would like to know Bruno's dig stats in that capacity. | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
Yeah. He is some way short of 50,000, I would imagine! But bear in | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
mind, one dig is worth one! True. Good point. | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
LAUGHTER He wants more noise! | :16:20. | :16:34. | |
CHEERING O'! Wow! What a rally! Brilliant | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
rally! CHEERING | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
Another play become out of the block by Lupo, tries to just touch it, | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
play it back, give him another chance. But Bruno... On one! I tell | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
you what - it is a good job there is no roof on the stadium - I don't | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
mean it because I like seeing people getting wet - but otherwise everyone | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
would have hearing problems tomorrow! | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
LAUGHTER Sitting too close to the speakers! | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
The noise in here is absolutely incredible! | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
That rain is steady. Yeah. It isn't going anywhere, I don't think. It | :17:22. | :17:42. | |
isn't due to, nay. Good choppy cross body. Lupo opened up his shoulders | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
to the line. Kind of a bit of a decoy and then chopped across | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
cross-body. Caught his hat to boot. BOOING | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
If his hat falls into the net, is that a net violation? No. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
CHEERING Everyone is at it! Double block by | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Nicolai! It isn't enough. CHEERING | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
You give that guy too many chances, he's going to find a way to find the | :18:17. | :18:29. | |
sand. Great ball control, great net play. And then wonderful placement | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
on about a 60% swing. All that effort by Nicolai comes to nothing. | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
But it just adds to the drama of the occasion. This time, he gets his | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
reward. It does. Certain things like how many times you jump - of course, | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
this is a gold medal match. All those type of things leave the mind. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
You leave it all out there, no question. But the energy that you | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
are exerting per play could have effect later on. That's Nicolai. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Nicolai, for all his defensive efforts, had only got one successful | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
block in the match. They are a triumph crowd to please, the stats | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
people! Lovely! A cross-court spike. It has to be for point for it to | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
count as a block. It is, especially the way Beth of these team -- Beth | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
of these teams are covering. I think that's what's so impressive. | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
Second ball goes over. The one thing that they don't have to contend with | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
here tonight are the -- that the women had to contend with last night | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
is the wind. The wind at least isn't strong and that makes for a fairer | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
game, if you like, more consistent flight to the ball. | :19:59. | :19:59. | |
CHEERING . Absolutely. The women were dealing | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
with some howling winds, and the side that Alison and Bruno are on | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
now has been pretty consistently "the bad side". That is all | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
perspective, but it's... The harder side. The more difficult, yes, yes, | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
yes. You want to embrace each side. Good side, good side is what we tell | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
ourselves! He is there again! CHEERING | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
As much as they had to embrace the wind and make it their friend, same | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
thing tonight - they have got to embrace the rain and make it their | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
friend, get real comfortable with it. | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
The pendulum starts to sway again towards Italy. We saw Brazil under | :20:44. | :21:09. | |
the pump early. They came from 1-5 town to lead. Then Italy having to | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
make up a three-point deficit. Well, they have it back to one. Oh! A | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
souvenir! They have it back to all square, although it will be one if | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Brazil's side out, but that is the - that is an error. Nicolai is on | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
his... He is drinking in the air, isn't he? | :21:39. | :21:38. | |
LAUGHTER Wow! That's been hit and it stays | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
hit. Just scorched. More of that, please! | :21:44. | :22:01. | |
LAUGHTER 18-18. After a ball like that, to | :22:02. | :22:27. | |
harness that adrenaline and go back and serve a float serve - from that | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
guy's size is like shooting a free throw after laying down a monster | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
dunk. Missed that. Italy lead. By one. He is getting into the game. A | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
big point, this. CHEERING | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
. Wow! Big points from now to the end of the first set. We are going | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
to get points from here on in. Still advantage with Italy. Oh! | :23:01. | :23:23. | |
Heaven's above - she has that one wrong. Huh! He has got that one very | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
wrong. Not too dissimilar to the one hit earlier. What goes around comes | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
around. First set point, Brazil. They have to be going for each | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
other's high hands. They are both playing at such a high level. | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
Time-out called. Make them think about it, just a little bit longer. | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
More than that. They just want them to think about it. Nothing said | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
between the Italian pair. It's even. I mean, not just within the score, | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
and we have been going point for point, but they know each other | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
extremely well. They are running down balls, they are all in the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
right place. They are challenging each other in very similar ways. | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
That's the ninth time these two have met each other. Al sob and brown -- | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Alison and Bruno leave the series 5-3. But the last Lupo-Nicolai win | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
was five matches ago. In fact, they have won three of the first four, | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
Lupo and Nicolai. They have lost the last four. | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
CHEERING Set point number 1 is all they need! | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
Brazil! They are halfway to the gold medal! | :24:51. | :24:51. | |
CHEERING They have taken the first set 21-19. | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
There is a challenge coming. This must be for a net violation. This | :24:59. | :25:10. | |
would put a dampener on the crowd's enthuse am -- enthusiasm. Some boos. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Well, you would. Didn't see anything - no it's the ball into the net. | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
CHEERING Good discipline by Alison! Can't | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
blame them for trying. But they are halfway to the gold medal. Opening | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
set go Brazil's way - 21-19. This is a belter of a match! | :25:37. | :26:16. | |
Here are the first set stats. Well, it is a desperately, desperately | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
close affair. What jumped out at me was that Bruno has six digs. He's | :26:28. | :26:37. | |
definitely leading that category. CROWD SINGING) Brazil get this | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
second set underway. A good dig from Bruno and good reaction on the | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
second ball from Ali. But they can't win the point. Lupo remembered what | :26:48. | :26:56. | |
scored for him earlier in set number 1 and goes back to it. Stays with | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
it, stays aggressive, even though Bruno sent that first one back. | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
CHEERING Now Nicolai getting in on the act. | :27:06. | :27:31. | |
With his third successful block. These guys are so physical. | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
But they have got the touch! Gosh! They may have... That makes me | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
cringe every time a ball that close goes up, because these guys are | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
going so fast. Lupo coming in, Nicolai... Doesn't have eyes in the | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
back of his head. He has just to go on instinct there. What great | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
placement by Alison! Geez! I think they were going for | :28:03. | :28:16. | |
the net challenge anyway. You got to do knit the middle of the rally. But | :28:17. | :28:25. | |
thank God that Nicolai was there. Because Ali was not slowing down. He | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
was absolutely swinging away. Danielo Lupo not endearing himself. | :28:31. | :29:07. | |
Lupo stopped the play, as the players are instructed, during the | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
play. If there is something that is happening during the live ball, you | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
got to request it. If you feel that it happened, you request the | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
challenge. So, Lupo went to request the challenge, so he... He stopped | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
playing. But the play continued. They didn't blow the whistle, which | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
I is why Alison swung away, Nicolai finished the play, so he felt there | :29:33. | :29:41. | |
was a net violation there. So, as the play's continuing, Lupo called | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
for the challenge. CHEERING | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
That's disappointing. That is... That is disappointing. They won the | :29:48. | :29:55. | |
point. The referees... Like you say, though, if he challenges, he has to | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
challenge at that moment. Correct. But they have to - they have to | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
whistle. See, their whistle timing is completely disrupted now. They | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
didn't whistle to stop the play. The ball was down out of the block. | :30:14. | :30:15. | |
Sonofagun! CHEERING | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
. Gosh! You do not want to see something like that influence the | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
gold medal match. They call a time-out. | :30:28. | :30:34. | |
They didn't see the touch. They didn't blow their whistle in time. | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
It was only Lupo that stopped his play. The play continued. Alison, | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
Bruno, Nicolai, everybody was still on the play. There was no whistle. | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
The point was scored. Then they wanted to ask about the video | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
challenge. Terrible timing in WHISTLES | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
. And then they dis-- whistles. Then they disrupted the next play. Even | :30:59. | :31:07. | |
though the timing was wrong, the right point - the point when the | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
right way - because there wasn't a net violation. Correct. He stopped, | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
so the ball would have come down. It Lupo stopped. Yeah. But Nicolai got | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
the block. The point went to the Italians. But they awarded it to the | :31:21. | :31:28. | |
Brazilians. No, but my point being is if they stopped play as they | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
should have done, when he... Correct. That's come before the | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
block has been made. If they stop it there, then Brazil win the point | :31:37. | :31:38. | |
anyway. Correct. Yes. BOOING | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
. Even if they whistled at the right time, it would still have been 2-2. | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
CHEERING Because Italy wouldn't have won the | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
point because they would have stopped the point before Alison had | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
gone through with the spike. Yes. But that's the confusion between the | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
officiating. He didn't know why Lupo was stopping the play. Yes. The | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
challengers knew. CHEERING | :32:07. | :32:12. | |
Anyway. Back to the action! That one does count. Well, that can fire them | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
up. I have to say, Nicolai is getting | :32:18. | :32:32. | |
his hands to a lot of ball. He really is. Doing a great job | :32:33. | :32:42. | |
patrolling that net. Assault, Alison is having to go harder and find more | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
angles. That one is wayward. Lupo and Nicolai have gone up a gear | :32:46. | :32:58. | |
from their semifinal the other night. Can Semenov and | :32:59. | :33:11. | |
Krasilnikov... Good placement by Lupo on that ball. My partiality | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
will always air with that of the players! | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
LAUGHTER They have responded very well. | :33:22. | :33:37. | |
Again! Nicolai gets his hand to the ball. Alison plunging forward. Oh! | :33:38. | :33:54. | |
Brilliant from Lupo! Chance now for Italy! Oh! Oh! What a point! | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
CHEERING Rally of the match! It goes the way | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
of Brazil! CHEERING | :34:05. | :34:14. | |
How many digs in that rally? That was just fun to take in! All the way | :34:15. | :34:22. | |
around. Such an incredible point. A sapping | :34:23. | :34:38. | |
point. In heavy sand. We saw a lot of that little knuckle poke from | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
Lupo in the semifinal. We haven't seen too much of it in this match | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
just yet. There is a fine example. There is more of a cut shot. But | :34:47. | :34:55. | |
taking all the pace off it. He plays with the different tensions in his | :34:56. | :34:55. | |
hand. Wow! . Alison shaking his head. | :34:56. | :35:15. | |
Everyone's gasping for air here. Such an intensity in this match. I'm | :35:16. | :35:22. | |
curious if Alison is getting the set that he wants. Bruno, an incredible | :35:23. | :35:31. | |
centre. No question. Can probably deliver whatever that is. Well... | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
Unless he was just swinging blind. Their last three matches - they have | :35:36. | :35:48. | |
lost two -- last two matches have gone to three sets for Alison and | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
Bruno. As has Lupo and Nicolai's. CHEERING | :35:56. | :36:03. | |
Right now, Nicolai seems to be the one delivering the blocking beating. | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
But he and Alison are just within one. Nicolai has five. Alison has | :36:08. | :36:17. | |
four. 8-5, Italy lead. BOOING | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
Oh! LAUGHTER | :36:23. | :36:34. | |
Stuck it! Oh! I pity the ball. I think he's frustrated after the | :36:35. | :36:43. | |
previous one went so awry. Bruno Schmidt is always good energy. No | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
matter if it's the pressure is on, he is a competitor in all the right | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
ways. Just such mad respect for that dude. | :36:55. | :37:07. | |
CHEERING He's incredible! I love that they | :37:08. | :37:23. | |
call him The Mayiation because -- The Magician because right when you | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
think he is going to do one thing he pulls a rabbit out of the hat and | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
does something else. He is an ankle breaker. Such a long look at... At | :37:32. | :37:40. | |
Lupo he tax before he makes -- takes before he makes his decision. | :37:41. | :37:51. | |
A quick jump and swing from Lupo. That's what's been getting him the | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
majority of his points. BOOING | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
. Touched. That is the high hands that Nicolai and Alison have been | :38:06. | :38:12. | |
going back and forth. They have been looking for those high hands. Alison | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
finally gets them. Squeezing it through. That is gutsy! | :38:17. | :38:33. | |
Some energy about the Italian pair right now, isn't there? A spring in | :38:34. | :38:43. | |
the step. They are not fazed one bit. | :38:44. | :38:44. | |
BOOING .. By this situation. | :38:45. | :38:58. | |
Blow for blow. It is kind of both of the teams' MO, just exchange, | :38:59. | :39:08. | |
exchange, and... Final point for the technical time-out. | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
(CHEERING) Brazil go in on a high with an | :39:12. | :39:18. | |
Alison block, block number 4, for the Mammoth! They quickly closed | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
that gap. It is like they have an extra fifth | :39:22. | :39:29. | |
gear. No celebration from Alison. Just a spin on his heels and off he | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
goes to the bench. He's focused in on this match. He spent, what, a | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
couple of points in the first set getting the crowd involved. Now, | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
it's about him and his partner getting over the line and winning | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
the second set. They don't want the lottery of a third set. You got that | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
block. He picked up his briefcase and went to the office. | :39:53. | :40:02. | |
That's the view from out at sea. This is the state of the gold medal | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
match. It is very, very close. Wow! He is there again! | :40:07. | :40:32. | |
CHEERING He's there again! We are all level | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
at 11-11. Lupo gets them back in front. Just | :40:38. | :41:12. | |
climbed the tree! Got him one. Real smooth little cutback. | :41:13. | :41:13. | |
BOOING Great angle that shot of the spike | :41:14. | :41:35. | |
cross-court. Lupo just slices and dices. Little | :41:36. | :42:01. | |
miscommunication on the Brazilian side. Bruno was expecting an angle. | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
Block from Alison. It is a slug fest! It really is. He | :42:06. | :42:32. | |
just hammers that deep angle. Just beats it into the ground. Oh! What a | :42:33. | :42:34. | |
get! Oh. Unlucky. Bruno just doesn't get balls up he | :42:35. | :42:47. | |
puts such a spin on it, he has such incredible ball control that he... | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
His timing almost spun that back into control for Alison to set. | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
There is so much more than him just flying around digging balls in the | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
air. He digs them to a spot. CHEERING | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
Nothing Lupo can do about that in the back corner, as it comes off the | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
block of Nicolai. There has to be an adjustment by the Italians soon, | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
though, because that's... Unless he was trying to go line. Oh! Wasn't | :43:20. | :43:29. | |
far away, was he? WHISTLE BLOWS) Perhaps a show and | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
take from nickly -- Nicolai. But Alison scored the last three in the | :43:36. | :43:37. | |
same spot. Finds the mark and they are in | :43:38. | :43:48. | |
front! They are in front for the first time in the second set! | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
CHEERING What a spike that is! What a time to | :43:52. | :44:07. | |
come up with the point on your own serve! Again, he gets that | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
jump-search going! CHEERING | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
. That pushback that Lupo is looking for isn't quite there. I don't know | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
if that set is too tight for him. But it looks like he's | :44:25. | :44:27. | |
predetermining it and that's what's getting him in trouble, rather than | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
let it be a bail-out. CHEERING | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
Lupo is taking his time. He has to be careful. He might pick up a | :44:40. | :44:49. | |
warning. Well, that is a good serving session from Bruno. Because | :44:50. | :44:58. | |
they are in front now from 1 pn-ssh -- 13 sn 14 to 14-16. Alison seems | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
to have the bit between his teeth. CHEERING | :45:05. | :45:31. | |
Man alive! Listen to the crowd! CHEERING | :45:32. | :45:41. | |
It is electric on Copacabana Beach! It is coming up to 1:40am, 145am. | :45:42. | :45:55. | |
They are going absolutely potty! His conversion rate is out of this | :45:56. | :46:04. | |
world! Look at those digs! 14-5! CHEERING | :46:05. | :46:11. | |
It's silly! It is silly sometimes the plays that those guys come up | :46:12. | :46:18. | |
with. Unbelievable! CHEERING | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
Because Lupo drops that cut shot that's... Got him to the finals. | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
CHEERING Well, some teams... Wow! .. Buckle | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
under home expectation and home pressure. But when the chips have | :46:36. | :46:41. | |
been done in this second set, Alison and Bruno have responded and | :46:42. | :46:44. | |
responded magnificently well! CHEERING | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
Still work to do. First to 21. CHEERING | :46:49. | :47:03. | |
Alison and Bruno... They have called a time-out as Alison makes the | :47:04. | :47:11. | |
block. Block number 7 for Alison. We are one point away from bedlam! I | :47:12. | :47:18. | |
don't think words does any justice to those two. It went Italy's way. | :47:19. | :47:21. | |
It's gone Italy's way, excuse me. Looking very relaxed. | :47:22. | :47:44. | |
BOOING Despite the situation. Cameras out. | :47:45. | :47:51. | |
CHEERING They you shouldn't get too far ahead | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
of themselves because this Italian side can easily turn this 2-point | :47:57. | :47:58. | |
gap around. CHEERING | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
But that red flag does now signal the fact that we have three match | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
points to Brazil, and now we are one point away from bedlam! | :48:11. | :48:17. | |
CHEERING It is alive! It is... Two touches? | :48:18. | :48:26. | |
And that is that! Wow! The gold medal goes to Brazil! | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE -- they can't challenge it. All | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
over. Into the crowd he goes! Heroes, legends, icons! That is what | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
these guys just became! CHEERING | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
Brazil win their first gold medal in beach volleyball in the men's | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
competition since Ricciardo and e Manuel in 2004. This is what they | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
want and what they came for! Danielo Lupo is arguing the toss, but it's | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
not going to change the decision of the first referee! | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
CHEERING Alison and Bruno have delivered gold | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
for Brazil on Copacabana Beach in the men's beach volleyball! They | :49:13. | :49:19. | |
have defeated a spirited Italian side in straight sets, 21-19, 21-17. | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
CHEERING That is the last point. A double | :49:25. | :49:27. | |
touch is the call. VOICEOVER: Olympic champion Rio | :49:28. | :49:44. | |
lines to party and there will be a massive party tonight, even in the | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
rain, because Brazil now have won their fifth gold medal of Rio 2016. | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
That equals their record pest performance at an Olympics. Look at | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
that! That is what it means, especially after the disappointment | :49:59. | :50:01. | |
of the women crashing out last night in the gold medal match. Tears of a | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
different kind tonight. Three goals Brazil won at London 2012. They have | :50:07. | :50:19. | |
won five gold medals right now. The current world championship is Smith | :50:20. | :50:22. | |
# -- Schmidt and Ceruti. That is what it means to win the gold medal | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
in your home country on the Copacabana. Climbing! He is doing a | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
Pat Cash! Climbing up to see the relatives! National heroes. Front | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
page of the Brazilian papers tomorrow morning, without doubt. | :50:37. | :50:40. | |
They are going to be on the front page of every Brazilian newspaper, | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
every Brazilian television network will be including that story. Cherif | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
They have won their medal. All happening behind us. So funny, isn't | :50:52. | :50:57. | |
it? I bet when they dreamt of winning the gold medal in the beach | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
volleyball think never thought they would be doing it in the rain. Many | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
congratulations to Brazil. There will be a massive party in Rio! | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
Bringing you boxing action, because this was the only gold medal awarded | :51:10. | :51:13. | |
in the boxing competition today. We will show you what happened in the | :51:14. | :51:21. | |
light heavyweight bout. Cuba is taking on... The commentary comes | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
from Richie and Ron McIntosh. CHEERING | :51:26. | :51:42. | |
The legs getting tangled there between the southpaw and orthodox | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
boxer. Forced to take up an unemail position. Thankfully, no injury | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
sustained. CHEERING | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
I Cruz is an expect at long range boxing. Brings his opponent on to | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
the punches. Back foot counterpunch. But he can mix it up as well. | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
Occasionally, that is where he comes undone buzz he doesn't keep those | :52:06. | :52:13. | |
hands up at all. Comfortable on the ropes even. Difficult to hand a shot | :52:14. | :52:21. | |
on him. Terrific movement demonstrated by Cruz. In the closing | :52:22. | :52:29. | |
20 seconds, his opponent was reduced to chasing shadows, such was the | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
wonderful fleet-footed evasive manoeuvres demonstrated by this man. | :52:34. | :52:41. | |
It will all come down to what the Junes prefer. But he is coming | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
forward, missing the target there. Trying to get his punches off, but | :52:46. | :52:53. | |
la Cruz found the space. While working on that back foot. In and | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
out with that right hand. His opponent walks on to that shot | :52:59. | :53:04. | |
there. La Cruz appeared to do the better work. Let look at the scores. | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
The Cuban gets it. He is in control. VOICEOVER: Round 2. Into the second | :53:10. | :53:28. | |
round of a contest of men who have been pretty much the best light | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
heavy wait boxers in the world in Olympic boxes for the last five | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
years. But neither of them have an make gold medal to show for it. The | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
man if red that three world championship gold medals in what | :53:43. | :53:45. | |
will perhaps be the upset of the 2012 boxing tournament, bar none. He | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
was eliminated at the quarterfinal stage. # by -- stage by Brazil. The | :53:50. | :53:58. | |
pace is suiting La Cruz down to the ground. If you remember, his | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
opponent in the semifinal against Great Britain, he demonstrated the | :54:03. | :54:05. | |
lovely skills on the back foot, because he is a back-foot | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
counterpuncher himself. Here he has to change his tactics, has to go on | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
the front foot. Can he do it? This is an Olympic final. You have to be | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
able to do both styles, remember. He is being forced into a way of boxing | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
that he isn't used to because he normally sets back. La Cruz hasn't | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
come away with any Olympic model. His opponent came away a silver. He | :54:32. | :54:41. | |
was declared a loser on count-back 15-15 after many rounds. The | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
count-back went against him. Nothing in it. He still doesn't have an | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
Olympic gold to show for it. Remember, he is yet to have his hand | :54:54. | :55:08. | |
raised in this particular rivalry. Psychologically, especially for la | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
Cruz, he isn't boxing at the right tempo. It is too slow. He has to do | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
something different. It is as if he's hypnotised by the man. That is | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
what la Cruz does. He seems to slow down the pace, no matter what | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
opponent. He has the ability to slow it down and box to his tempo. Has is | :55:25. | :55:34. | |
what he is a very talent and successful boxer. Good right hand | :55:35. | :55:43. | |
from la Cruz. His opponent is on the front foot, stalking his man. La | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
Cruz demonstrating the ability to navigate the boxing ring and avoid | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
the punches coming his way. Almost as though he is blessed with ESP, | :55:52. | :55:54. | |
the manner in which he can see the punches coming, lay back at the | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
waist, adjust his feet, and make the man miss by a matter of millimetres | :56:00. | :56:08. | |
sometimes. A good right hand to the body from la Cruz. Who can produce | :56:09. | :56:16. | |
quality in the closing 10 seconds? La Cruz pulls the trigger first. | :56:17. | :56:23. | |
What a Counteres left hand! Will Cruz at his best. While the punch is | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
still coming back after falling short, he finds himself clipped on | :56:28. | :56:29. | |
the chin with a cheeky little shot. His feet will be too slow. He is | :56:30. | :56:45. | |
following his popt rather than cutting the ring space off. You are | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
in against a maestro of a mover in la Cruz. Talented hands, low indeed. | :56:51. | :57:02. | |
Gets caught with the shot. Better, just a bit short towards the end the | :57:03. | :57:06. | |
skills of will Cruz were exceptional. Let's look at the | :57:07. | :57:18. | |
scores. Nyazymbetov has to produce a knock-out shot. Difficult. | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
Into the third and final round. The second ranked boxer in the world is | :57:25. | :57:31. | |
trailing by two pints for judges A, B and C in this contest between two | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
of the most scuffle operators in the world at 81 kilograms. With the | :57:38. | :57:44. | |
previous three encounters, it's the man if red who dictated the terms | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
and the tempo on which this bout is being contested. | :57:50. | :58:18. | |
The cheer of winning first's Kazakhstan first medal of any colour | :58:19. | :58:24. | |
when he took the gold 20 years ago. He came away as the trophy winner. | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
Niyazymbetov has his name into the boobs by getting that silver four | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
years ago, but he was so desperate for make goal. At this tempo it | :58:37. | :58:41. | |
doesn't look at though it will happen as we approach the mid-point | :58:42. | :58:45. | |
of the third and final round. He needs a knock-out now. Lovely skills | :58:46. | :58:49. | |
again from la Cruz. There hasn't been a tempo change from | :58:50. | :58:53. | |
Niyazymbetov. Still waiting far too long. | :58:54. | :58:55. | |
CHEERING He isn't used to boxing on the front | :58:56. | :59:01. | |
foot, the man if blue. He is normally a back-foot counterpuncher | :59:02. | :59:03. | |
himself. Lose thank first round meant he had to change something | :59:04. | :59:08. | |
around. He hasn't done it, kept the same tempo, which suited la Cruz. | :59:09. | :59:13. | |
Let's face it, Ronald - the Cuban - this has been their bogey division, | :59:14. | :59:17. | |
the light heavyweights. No-one's ever won an make gold in this | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
division from Cuba. La Cruz is cruising to victory here! It will be | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
a special victory for him he will be the first Cuban to win gold in this | :59:28. | :59:30. | |
division if he can get through the last 50 seconds or so. Not just for | :59:31. | :59:36. | |
him, but for the entire Caribbean island and more importantly or just | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
as significantly it will complete Cuban success in every weight | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
division. They have won Olympic gold in every other weight class, except | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
light heavyweight. They haven't had a medal in this division since 1980. | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
CHEERING But that drought is coming to an | :59:56. | :00:04. | |
end. In these closing seconds, la Cruz is about to join the ranks of | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
his compatriots by being crowned as an Olympic champion. Up on his toes | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
as the 10-second clapper sounds. Enjoying his work. Treating us to | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
the grace he used to such effect to dominate the world championships. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Now on the Olympic stage, the man is producing some salsa on the canvas | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
of boxing ring in acknowledgement of a majestic display that see him | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
crowned as Olympic light heavyweight champion, Cuba's first ever light | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
heavyweights champion in the Olympic programme. He was once again almost | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
impossible to attack cleanly. Tremendous prrms from La Cruz. You | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
have to admire. There were a few boos at the end. The man is so | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
skilful. To box like this, you have to have exceptional reactions. That | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
is what he's got. Reflexes and recollections have to be second to | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
none. La Cruz, a wonderful boxer. He's had a tremendous performance | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
there. Tremendous tournament. VOICEOVER: Ladies and gentlemen, the | :01:11. | :01:34. | |
winner by unanimous decision and the Olympic champion... In the red | :01:35. | :01:51. | |
corner... La Cruz! (CHEERING) | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
La Cruz is the Olympic champion! The golden grin beaming from ear-to-ear! | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
The three-time championship gold medallist completes his collection. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Time for us to look at the medal table. The United States lead the | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
way. They brought up their century tonight. Great Britain continue to | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
lead the chase, three gold medals today. That takes them to 22. GB | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
have 56 medals, nine shy of their London 2012 haul of 65. Beach | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
volleyball Victoria I have for Brazil was their fifth gold for the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
hosts, equalling their best ever gold medal tally from Athens in | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
2004. So, earlier we wondered what will happen if Usain Bolt and when | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
he decides to hang up the spikes. Lots of you have been getting in | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
touch via Twitter. Thank you very much. One says, "Make him an | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
ambassador and use that star quality to inspire the next generation of | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
sprinters find another star." Alan says, "Continue - holds the memory | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
of a great and hope that one day an existing talented youngster will | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
fill the personality void." And this is from John who says, "We said the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
same thing when Michael Johnson retired. We will soon move on. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
That's how it is." Thank you very much for your tweets and thank you | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
for watching. I know it is very, very late. We are grateful. It's | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
been another amazing day here at the Rio Olympics. Another gold medal for | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
Jade Jones and at more the main bolt Usain Bolt. From all of us here, bye | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
for now. | :03:39. | :03:41. |