Day 13 BBC One: 13.45-18.00

:00:49. > :00:55.Good afternoon. Day 13, you are just in time because we have a final to

:00:56. > :01:00.enjoy at Lagoa, in the Sprint canoeing, and British involvement,

:01:01. > :01:03.very strong, Liam Heath and Jon Schofield trying to upgrade the

:01:04. > :01:09.bronze they won in the fastest of the events here, in the 200 metres

:01:10. > :01:12.kayak double. This is an event that Usain Bolt covers on the track in

:01:13. > :01:23.less than 20 seconds. This is about 30 seconds of full throttle flash on

:01:24. > :01:31.the water. -- thrashing. COMMENTATOR: Thanks, we are waiting

:01:32. > :01:35.with bated breath. Great Britain with a real chance of taking medals.

:01:36. > :01:43.Liam Heath and Jon Schofield who took the bronze medal in London. It

:01:44. > :01:49.is very tight, seven crews could come away with the gold medal.

:01:50. > :01:52.Multiple world champions. We don't have the reigning Olympic champions,

:01:53. > :01:59.Russia are out and Belarus, who took silver in London, not here. Serbia

:02:00. > :02:07.in one, France in two, Great Britain in three and then Lithuania in four,

:02:08. > :02:11.Spain with Craviotto and Toro in five, they had an impressive win

:02:12. > :02:22.earlier this season. Hungary, alongside them. Totka and Molnar,

:02:23. > :02:27.the world champions. 22 and 30 years old, this is their first Olympics,

:02:28. > :02:30.can they cope with the pressure? Germany in seven, who have now gone

:02:31. > :02:44.ahead in the Camp Nou sprint medal table with two golds, getting the K2

:02:45. > :02:47.thousand metres -- canoe. And then Cochrane and Fournel of Canada, they

:02:48. > :02:50.are the dog causes, if they get a good start you don't know what could

:02:51. > :02:57.happen. The first few strokes are vital. -- the dark horses. Over the

:02:58. > :03:04.last 50, the crews can fall away, they can't maintain the stroke rate

:03:05. > :03:10.and speed. Yes, really crucial. Over the last 20 metres, the shift can

:03:11. > :03:17.really happen but the start is the most important part, they must get

:03:18. > :03:22.out well. So, Lithuania, Spain and Hungary are in the key lanes, 4-6

:03:23. > :03:29.and Great Britain is in three. Schofield and Heath had a fantastic

:03:30. > :03:33.semifinal. They didn't make a race for it in the Haines, not going for

:03:34. > :03:39.the automatic call the occasional spot but they looked very sharp in

:03:40. > :03:46.the semifinals -- the heats. Here we go, Olympic glory is just some 30

:03:47. > :03:53.seconds away. The Lithuanians are starting very strongly indeed. Heath

:03:54. > :03:56.and Schofield, left behind. Germany are trailing. Spain and Little

:03:57. > :04:03.rainier looking very good in the middle. Spain starting to come

:04:04. > :04:06.strong -- lit away near. Now they are striding to accelerate, Heath

:04:07. > :04:13.and Schofield are moving up, level second place. Still the Spaniards on

:04:14. > :04:16.the near side. Gold going to Spain. Very tight between Great Britain and

:04:17. > :04:24.Lithuania in the Silver Medal position. Photo finishes right the

:04:25. > :04:27.way through. The Spaniards, I said that they had an impressive victory

:04:28. > :04:35.in the World Cup, nowhere near as impressive as their Olympic final

:04:36. > :04:40.run they took the silver in the K2 500 four years ago and they've come

:04:41. > :04:44.to Rio and taken the K2 200. They looked fantastic, they looked

:04:45. > :04:49.fantastic yesterday. I was talking to people yesterday and their money

:04:50. > :04:53.was on Spain. Great Britain, they have a Silver Medal, one better than

:04:54. > :04:58.they did in London. They will be delighted. Fantastic performance.

:04:59. > :05:04.Slow start from Heath and Schofield, well below the performance we store

:05:05. > :05:10.the base might we saw in the semifinal, but they believed, when

:05:11. > :05:14.others might not have come through to improve their run from London.

:05:15. > :05:18.Heath and Schofield getting Britain's first medal of the Camp

:05:19. > :05:24.Nou sprint regatta in Rio. They have the Silver Medal -- the canoe.

:05:25. > :05:29.Craviotto and Toro deserving the gold medal. Heath and Schofield were

:05:30. > :05:33.like lightning in the closing stages. I've got to see it in slow

:05:34. > :05:38.motion, how they got ahead of Lithuania over the last five metres.

:05:39. > :05:44.Certainly at one point, Great Britain were coming up in silver

:05:45. > :05:47.position, but then they came back a bit and Lithuania came up. It was

:05:48. > :05:52.difficult to see where they were going to finish and the final line,

:05:53. > :05:57.I kept being distracted by the Germans because it is so bright.

:05:58. > :06:02.Maybe it is a distraction technique. They didn't feature in the medals.

:06:03. > :06:07.Fantastic silver, the Schofield and Heath. They got bronze four years

:06:08. > :06:11.ago in London in front of the home crowd. Not the smoothest of four

:06:12. > :06:16.years, not dominating but coming out here today, in the heats and

:06:17. > :06:22.semifinals they were in fantastic form. Heath and Schofield in lane

:06:23. > :06:27.three on the far side. You can see the front of their boat, I think

:06:28. > :06:31.they picked it up later, they started coming back into the race

:06:32. > :06:43.later in the state, the furthest black boat away. The finish and they

:06:44. > :06:47.lunched perfectly. 199 metres gone, they were still in the bronze medal

:06:48. > :06:54.position. Yeah that's timing for you, it's all about racing to the

:06:55. > :07:02.line. That's what they did. They got it, zero point three seconds,

:07:03. > :07:06.getting the Silver Medal. Look at that, you can see, they'll be so

:07:07. > :07:12.excited. What a brilliant way for Liam to start his Olympic campaign.

:07:13. > :07:16.He will go tomorrow in the K1 200 metres and we will look to see if he

:07:17. > :07:21.can go better again. That is fantastic and then he will have a

:07:22. > :07:24.full collection. They've done so well at World Championship, two

:07:25. > :07:29.silvers and a bronze from the World Championships. Now they have a

:07:30. > :07:35.bronze and a silver in the Olympics, rapidly becoming the most successful

:07:36. > :07:38.ever sprinters. Tim Brown is still the name that dominates in terms of

:07:39. > :07:42.all-time greats from Great Britain but now we have a medal from the

:07:43. > :07:46.sprint to add to the two from the slalom last week with Joe Clarke and

:07:47. > :07:51.in the CT with Florence and Hounslow, so is proving to be very

:07:52. > :08:00.good for the British paddlers and it isn't over yet. -- C2. We have an

:08:01. > :08:08.event tomorrow, Heath made even better than that and in the K2. And

:08:09. > :08:13.women's K4, they say that is where the effort has been put in and where

:08:14. > :08:20.they have the effort DeLaet -- have the something to prove. They will be

:08:21. > :08:24.trying to get amongst the field. One boat straight through to the final

:08:25. > :08:28.in the K4 qualification and I imagine that Britain will be saving

:08:29. > :08:38.their efforts for the semifinals. Not the fastest 200 metres, 32.075,

:08:39. > :08:46.only three hundredths of a second separating Great Britain and

:08:47. > :08:51.Lithuania. Canada, the outsiders, actually, not really making an

:08:52. > :08:54.impression. 1.69 behind. The Canadians can give themselves a pat

:08:55. > :08:57.on the back for making the final, that's something to talk about and

:08:58. > :09:03.now they can build over the next four years. But here are the two men

:09:04. > :09:07.who have claimed the Silver Medal, Liam Heath and Johnny Schofield. A

:09:08. > :09:18.good day for them and British paddling.

:09:19. > :09:27.Schofield came from Downriver racing originally. -- Jonny Schofield. Liam

:09:28. > :09:35.Heath, 2010 was when he first came back into the sport. Not so good

:09:36. > :09:38.over the longer distance. 200 metres was introduced into the limpet

:09:39. > :09:42.Games, a programme was set up and he was invited to join and now look

:09:43. > :09:49.where he is -- the Olympic Games. This event will move on. We had

:09:50. > :09:52.success in the K1 200 in London with Edward McKeever who couldn't qualify

:09:53. > :09:59.for the British boat in these Olympics, that's how tough the

:10:00. > :10:02.competition is. We've had three events, Brazil have got themselves

:10:03. > :10:07.back on the medal table but as far as we are concerned it is all about

:10:08. > :10:11.Liam Heath and Jonny Schofield. Schofield is a smart man, he did

:10:12. > :10:16.physiology and biomechanics, which I'm sure helped in terms of learning

:10:17. > :10:22.to get the boat moving at speeds in excess of 20 kilometres an hour. He

:10:23. > :10:30.is very thirsty and likes to take control of his programme. Waiting

:10:31. > :10:32.with the medallists. A great moment for British paddling.

:10:33. > :10:38.Congratulations to Heath and Schofield. Indeed, congratulations.

:10:39. > :10:46.Silver Medal, what was the feeling as you finished? Confusion. A little

:10:47. > :10:50.bit. Fast and furious, you go for it and you pop your head up at the end

:10:51. > :10:55.and everyone is there, and you are like, what happened? Waiting for the

:10:56. > :10:59.scoreboard. Did you have no idea? We could tell that the Spanish were

:11:00. > :11:02.ahead of us and our race was on the other side of the course compared to

:11:03. > :11:07.the others so I couldn't have guessed. Sitting in the back of the

:11:08. > :11:17.boat, a lot of people in front of me! It was a great lunge at the end.

:11:18. > :11:22.We gave it a bit of a lunge, you can see the finish line, you go for the

:11:23. > :11:28.blocks and hit it as hard as you can. Sometimes that can be the peak

:11:29. > :11:30.speed of the race. Coming into the Games, we heard you talking about

:11:31. > :11:36.the fact that you had unfinished business from London. You got

:11:37. > :11:45.bronze, but this silver, how satisfying is it? Unbelievable. So

:11:46. > :11:49.satisfying, this guy is on fire in the K1, training every day, I didn't

:11:50. > :11:55.want to let him down because I know he is the best guy out there. I

:11:56. > :11:59.basically sitting in front of the boat and he telling me what to do. I

:12:00. > :12:07.don't think really, I just go as hard as I can. It is a wonderful

:12:08. > :12:13.combination. How long can this combination go on for? Will you go

:12:14. > :12:19.for the next one? I'm not sure, I will take some time out, my wife

:12:20. > :12:23.might have a say as well. Yeah. You had unfinished business, Liam. We

:12:24. > :12:32.look forward to seeing you later in the week. Cheers. Fantastic because

:12:33. > :12:35.they were pipped on the line by the Belarussians in London four years

:12:36. > :12:40.ago which is why they stand together and have come back fighting, and

:12:41. > :12:44.they've got the Silver Medal, number 50 14 Great Britain so far. For

:12:45. > :12:55.those of you who like this kind of stuff, back in Athens, Ian Wynne, a

:12:56. > :13:10.bronze medal, and Doctor Tim Brabbats. We had Edward McKeever and

:13:11. > :13:16.then John -- Dhoni and Liam. That is great for Britain. Liam is going

:13:17. > :13:21.well in the K1 event, which McKeever won wonderfully four years ago. He

:13:22. > :13:26.is starting in that tomorrow. There you go. That was worth going to,

:13:27. > :13:30.wasn't it? Hoping that there may be more medal success down here, Fort

:13:31. > :13:33.Copacabana because it is the start of the men's triathlon and very

:13:34. > :13:39.strong chance is courtesy of the Brownlee brothers and Gordon Mensur,

:13:40. > :13:46.from Yorkshire. Ali Emerson and Jonathan Edwards have got their spot

:13:47. > :13:51.early with an hour to go. -- Annie. Jonathan, a quick question about

:13:52. > :13:56.Christian Taylor. He has retained the triple jump title but he has

:13:57. > :14:01.said, Jonathan Edwards, watch out with that world record. It is still

:14:02. > :14:06.yours. I was nervous because he did a big first round jump, 17 metres 86

:14:07. > :14:08.and then he was pushed by the American in second place and I

:14:09. > :14:13.thought, if they are going head-to-head, maybe it would go but

:14:14. > :14:19.I can hold on for longer. He is talented but he couldn't break the

:14:20. > :14:24.record. Triathlon now, and assess the possibilities, four years on

:14:25. > :14:27.from London. It has been an up-and-down kind of four years for

:14:28. > :14:33.both of the Brownlee brothers, especially Alistair but the good

:14:34. > :14:38.news is that they have arrived in very good shape. Amazing shape, what

:14:39. > :14:42.a fantastic bit of timing. A couple of difficult years, we know about

:14:43. > :14:47.Alistair's injury problems but they are done and dusted and he has had a

:14:48. > :14:51.couple of great races coming here. We are in a great position because

:14:52. > :14:56.they will bring the bikes around into the transition 100 yards away.

:14:57. > :15:00.We spoke to Johnny after he put his bike in transition and he seemed

:15:01. > :15:04.very relaxed -- Jonny. They love racing, when you love it it makes it

:15:05. > :15:10.easier. They will be nervous but they want to crack on with it.

:15:11. > :15:18.They are in good form, this course is one they like and will suit them.

:15:19. > :15:23.It has a tough swim which is what they need. They run into the waves,

:15:24. > :15:27.thankfully, the surf is down today, it could have been tricky. It could

:15:28. > :15:31.have been tricky, it's something the athletes are not used to so it's the

:15:32. > :15:38.same for everyone. The Brownlee is will suit this because it's very

:15:39. > :15:42.tough and very technical. Four years ago it was about the Brownlees

:15:43. > :15:46.versus Javier Gomez, who is not here, everyone is disappointed, but

:15:47. > :15:50.it's another Spaniard who will provide the opposition, Mario Mola.

:15:51. > :15:54.Mario Mola is the one to watch and if he's there at the end of the

:15:55. > :15:58.bike, with the Brownlee is, he will make it difficult. He's a phenomenal

:15:59. > :16:02.runner, his bike is improved, his swim has improved but I will be

:16:03. > :16:06.surprised if we see him at the end of the bike but anything can happen.

:16:07. > :16:10.That is going to be the story of this race, the Brownlee is will go

:16:11. > :16:15.out hard, they have Richard Varga from Slovakia, Gordon Benson, the

:16:16. > :16:19.third member of the team is a sort of demented --. Mustique, and they

:16:20. > :16:23.want to make the swim, make the bike hard, because this Mario Mola is in

:16:24. > :16:27.contention when they get to the run, watch out. He has run so well this

:16:28. > :16:32.year and the Brownlee is will find it tough to beat him. The swim is

:16:33. > :16:35.going to be on from the start. Richard Varga is a phenomenal

:16:36. > :16:39.swimmer, he trains with the Brownlee, and look at the French

:16:40. > :16:43.because they will hit the pace hard. They know the importance of getting

:16:44. > :16:48.away from Richard Murray and Mario Mola. People at home will want to

:16:49. > :16:50.know about the dynamic between Alistair and Jonny, they are

:16:51. > :16:56.brothers, they are friends, they are training partners, they are

:16:57. > :16:59.competitors. They are. I have run over the scenarios in my head if it

:17:00. > :17:02.comes down to a sprint finish. Physically they are both the same

:17:03. > :17:06.athlete, very similar. But I think mentally, Alistair has proven time

:17:07. > :17:10.and again that he has the edge of his brother. But they are much

:17:11. > :17:15.stronger together racing and the fact they are both here and both fit

:17:16. > :17:19.is good for everyone. This to me as almost a kind of bizarre thing,

:17:20. > :17:23.because for two thirds of this race, in the swim and the bike, they will

:17:24. > :17:27.work together and it's to their benefit to work together. Then it

:17:28. > :17:31.changes, the dynamic changes, once they get off their bikes and into

:17:32. > :17:35.the run. They do and then it's free for all, they need one another in

:17:36. > :17:40.the swim and on the bike, they don't need one another on the run. You

:17:41. > :17:43.would have to put your money on Alistair, but Jonathan is an

:17:44. > :17:48.incredible athlete and every bit as good as Alistair. He needs his time

:17:49. > :17:52.and to stay mentally strong. It's winter in Brazil. I wish we had

:17:53. > :17:57.winters like this in the UK, think back to the gold Coast at the

:17:58. > :18:00.beginning of the season, Jonny had heat exhaustion and Alistair

:18:01. > :18:03.struggled in the race, we have seen Alistair with problems before. How

:18:04. > :18:09.much of a factor will this be? It will be big and it will favour Mario

:18:10. > :18:13.Mola, he's a very light athlete, a Spaniard, used to training in the

:18:14. > :18:17.heat but I know the boys have been preparing well and doing heat

:18:18. > :18:21.training, so they are well prepared as well. We saw one of the

:18:22. > :18:25.triathletes come through, he had like an ice pack on him to try to

:18:26. > :18:29.keep his core temperature down. What can happen when you are out there?

:18:30. > :18:38.We have Alistair and Jonny warming up together, going head to head very

:18:39. > :18:41.shortly. But so relaxed, so much together at the moment? Yes,

:18:42. > :18:47.absolutely. As we have said, they definitely need one another, it's

:18:48. > :18:52.vital, even their coaches say the importance of them both being in the

:18:53. > :18:57.same race really affect the outcome. OK, thank you. Hazel, we are about

:18:58. > :19:01.an hour away from the race. Can Alistair Brownlee be the first to

:19:02. > :19:04.retain the title? Can Jonny go better than bronze last time? It

:19:05. > :19:12.will be fascinating. It will become you will see it shortly. We have 1.5

:19:13. > :19:16.K swim, 41.6 kilometres they tell me on the bike, and ten kilometre run

:19:17. > :19:20.at the end of it, and it gets under way about 3pm your time. We are

:19:21. > :19:24.going back to Lagoa now, there is great celebrations therefore

:19:25. > :19:31.Brazil's athlete after a bronze medal earlier on, there he is a and

:19:32. > :19:36.after his silver on Tuesday, he has another chance in the remaining

:19:37. > :19:41.event for him, rather upstaging the Ukrainian there. But it's a great

:19:42. > :19:45.celebration and there is more action to enjoy from Lagoa because Rachel

:19:46. > :19:51.Cawthorn of Great Britain didn't make it through to the final of the

:19:52. > :19:54.500 metres, that's coming up shortly with New Zealand's Lisa Carrington,

:19:55. > :20:00.but this is the B final. Let's see how she goes here.

:20:01. > :20:05.COMMENTATOR: Rachel Cawthorn going in lane two

:20:06. > :20:08.for Britain, the best she can do is ninth in Olympic results. She

:20:09. > :20:11.desperately needs a good one just to raise the spirits but she has some

:20:12. > :20:21.really tough competition, so many big names have made it through,

:20:22. > :20:33.Ewelina Wojnarowska is in lane one, Spela Ponomarenko Janic in four, the

:20:34. > :20:40.Slovakian in lane six, Teresa Portela of Portugal in seven and

:20:41. > :20:46.Karin Johansson, who is in a times they are under way. Keep your eyes

:20:47. > :20:50.on lane two, a good start from Rachel Cawthorn, even better from

:20:51. > :20:53.Teresa Portela, 500 metres is the distance. This is about a good

:20:54. > :20:56.sprint start to get yourself a position, settle into the rhythm for

:20:57. > :21:04.the midsection of the race, then it's all about who can hang on, who

:21:05. > :21:06.can maintain the speed of the closing stages. Ewelina Wojnarowska

:21:07. > :21:10.of Poland is going well, Rachel Cawthorn is almost a boat length

:21:11. > :21:14.behind. It's one of those races where you have your own paddle, you

:21:15. > :21:19.know where you can come through, but you have to stay in touch with the

:21:20. > :21:22.race, certainly when you come through 215 metres. The Polish

:21:23. > :21:28.competitor is looking strong, pushing through the legs. So much of

:21:29. > :21:32.this is about the stroke rate and Ewelina Wojnarowska is striking

:21:33. > :21:40.higher than Rachel Cawthorn, who is being left behind, second position

:21:41. > :21:44.at the moment looks as though it is Spela Ponomarenko Janic, they are

:21:45. > :21:48.through the halfway stage and still Ewelina Wojnarowska, the 29-year-old

:21:49. > :21:49.from Poland, fourth in the World Championships in 2015, a challenge

:21:50. > :22:11.now coming in from Serbia. The Russian is back in the B final,

:22:12. > :22:14.similar situation in the C1 200 metres, Elena Anyushina wanting to

:22:15. > :22:17.make a point here. She was only allowed to raise in the Olympics

:22:18. > :22:22.less than two weeks ago. Perhaps no surprise she made the B final, not

:22:23. > :22:29.the a final. The builder change in pace from Rachel Cawthorn as we see

:22:30. > :22:32.a sprint finish coming in -- still no change. Hartley has left the

:22:33. > :22:39.charge late, Elena Anyushina will go this one. -- will win this one.

:22:40. > :22:44.South Africa just behind, Spela Ponomarenko Janic gets second place

:22:45. > :22:47.for Slovenia. They have a photo finish for third, but again, another

:22:48. > :22:53.disappointing run from Rachel Cawthorn, and work to do in the

:22:54. > :22:56.British women's squad, particularly after the success we have just seen

:22:57. > :23:01.with the men. Yes, they have come here with the K for on the top of

:23:02. > :23:06.their mind, that is their focus, so we will see this but right behind

:23:07. > :23:10.them, does the it as getting out of the stage, both her and Jess Walker

:23:11. > :23:16.have competed so they have settled the nerves and let's hope they come

:23:17. > :23:19.out tomorrow in the k4, they have high hopes for it and let's hope

:23:20. > :23:23.this will settle them into their rhythm, they will feel like the

:23:24. > :23:27.Olympic Games, they can come out. Rachel will be desperate to get off,

:23:28. > :23:33.girlfriend to Jon Schofield, desperate to get off the water and

:23:34. > :23:38.give him a big hug -- hug and congratulations. There's the winner

:23:39. > :23:47.of the B final, Elena Anyushina, at 22 she has a long future ahead of

:23:48. > :23:53.her. She is to raise K2. A good start from Slovakia, but the star is

:23:54. > :23:57.important but not as important as the last 100 metres, where you have

:23:58. > :24:01.to maintain that stroke rate. I did think Rachel Cawthorn's stroke rate

:24:02. > :24:05.was right down even from the early stages of the race. It will be

:24:06. > :24:09.interesting to see what she says about that, she looked stronger in

:24:10. > :24:13.the semifinal yesterday. I don't know if there is tactics to it, but

:24:14. > :24:21.she did bullet off towards the end, she came back into the race and let

:24:22. > :24:25.it go maybe out of the start, lost quite a bit in the first 250 and had

:24:26. > :24:28.to work hard to pull back into the race but they will be out there

:24:29. > :24:38.tomorrow with three of their team-mates. There you see the

:24:39. > :24:41.results of the B final. Teresa Portela of Portugal, who started so

:24:42. > :24:46.well, in third position. That's the view that many thousands of tourists

:24:47. > :24:49.today will get of the regatta course and at 900 metres, the boats look

:24:50. > :24:55.smaller than matchsticks. Absolutely minute. They look as though they are

:24:56. > :24:59.going very, very slowly. I can assure you that around 20 kilometres

:25:00. > :25:06.an hour in the next race, the women's K-1 500-metre a final, and

:25:07. > :25:10.Rachel Cawthorn will just have to watch. She has cause to celebrate

:25:11. > :25:15.though. HAZEL IRVINE:

:25:16. > :25:20.Right now it's 16 hours ahead of Rio in New Zealand so by my calculations

:25:21. > :25:24.I reckon it is about to IM in their morning and you can absolutely

:25:25. > :25:28.guarantee there will be millions of people staying through the night,

:25:29. > :25:32.pushing through the night to save their paddler, Lisa Carrington, can

:25:33. > :25:38.basically achieve what Laura Trott did and become their greatest female

:25:39. > :25:44.Olympian ever. She is from the port of -- she's from a port, on the east

:25:45. > :25:48.side of the North Island, right next to a beautiful mountain and she

:25:49. > :25:53.retained her in London's 200-metre sprint title on Tuesday. Right now

:25:54. > :25:57.she could take over from Valerie Adams, the shot-putter, as the

:25:58. > :26:02.greatest female Olympian ever from New Zealand, with a third gold medal

:26:03. > :26:06.here and that would be choice, as they say down there. Today, she is

:26:07. > :26:11.just about to set out in this 500 metres final and Patrick and Helen

:26:12. > :26:15.are released the -- it's a really significant race for not just Lisa,

:26:16. > :26:21.but so many others in this race. Can you assess her chances in this one

:26:22. > :26:24.for us? Well, it is perhaps that it is the tightest race we will get

:26:25. > :26:28.today, it might be the tightest race of the whole regatta. There are

:26:29. > :26:33.three big names, Hazel, that stick out in this event. Of course Lisa

:26:34. > :26:38.Carrington of New Zealand, and out and out star, her speciality is the

:26:39. > :26:42.200 metres. We have also got Inna Osypenko-Radomska, who was many

:26:43. > :26:48.people's favourite to take the 500 but don't deny Danuta Kozak, who has

:26:49. > :26:51.not been well over the last three years, she did not look ill in the

:26:52. > :26:57.semifinals yesterday and she is of course the defending champion, so

:26:58. > :27:05.Inna Osypenko-Radomska, Danuta Kozak and Lisa Carrington, and Franziska

:27:06. > :27:10.Weber, Maryna Pautaran, so it's a tough one to call. Is going to be

:27:11. > :27:14.very tough. Carrington is mentally very strong, coming away with the

:27:15. > :27:17.Olympic gold in the 200 metres. It's about whether she can hold on,

:27:18. > :27:21.because we know she is quite quick and does come through towards the

:27:22. > :27:26.end but you have got an extremely tough competition. They are under

:27:27. > :27:32.starter's orders, China with juju in Le Mans, Lisa Carrington in laying

:27:33. > :27:38.two, having a slightly slow qualifying process, Emma Jorgensen

:27:39. > :27:43.in three, Franziska Weber in four, Hungary with Danuta Kozak in six and

:27:44. > :27:48.Inna Osypenko-Radomska, who will give her a major battle. Inna

:27:49. > :27:53.Osypenko-Radomska is usually so fast away. We have Dalma Ruzicic-Benedek

:27:54. > :27:57.in lane eight. Carrington has made a decent start. When she won the world

:27:58. > :28:03.title in this eventually led pretty much from the first 100 metres, all

:28:04. > :28:07.the way through. The high stroke rate to Inna Osypenko-Radomska, in

:28:08. > :28:14.the black boat, a really good start for Belarus who has got herself in a

:28:15. > :28:18.good position. She went off hard and fast, Danuta Kozak is working hard

:28:19. > :28:21.to get herself in the race. The Hungarians are concerned about how

:28:22. > :28:25.she is feeling, having had a stomach bug, but she's looking like she's

:28:26. > :28:34.pulling up on the race. We have Belarus, we have Danuta Kozak of

:28:35. > :28:37.Hungary, you can see the black hole of Inna Osypenko-Radomska and at the

:28:38. > :28:43.moment Lisa Carrington is fifth or sixth out of the eight paddlers, it

:28:44. > :28:47.at the top of the picture. It's the second half of the race where

:28:48. > :28:51.Carrington comes through. Hungary's Danuta Kozak has that slightly jerky

:28:52. > :28:57.style, a slightly longer pulling the Wolcott -- water, but the power she

:28:58. > :29:01.generates from her legs is so important. Coming strong now is

:29:02. > :29:08.Dalma Ruzicic-Benedek of Serbia, but she might have left the charge too

:29:09. > :29:11.late. 100 metres to go. It's Danuta Kozak, the defending champion in

:29:12. > :29:19.gold medal position. Surely Carrington can't come back from this

:29:20. > :29:24.one. On the far side, a charge from juju of China could get her into the

:29:25. > :29:27.medals. No doubt about the gold medal, we thought it would be the

:29:28. > :29:30.closest race, it has turned out to be the easiest win of the day,

:29:31. > :29:36.Carrington makes the charge but there are only 15 metres to go.

:29:37. > :29:41.Danuta Kozak takes gold, the silver could go to Emma Jorgensen of

:29:42. > :29:47.Denmark, or Lisa Carrington of New Zealand. My goodness, Belarus also

:29:48. > :29:51.win with a shout for the silver I think Emma Jorgensen might have got

:29:52. > :30:03.it and it would be another nation on the podium, but what a performance

:30:04. > :30:07.from Danuta Kozak, 1:52.492, I know the conditions are slightly better

:30:08. > :30:12.than yesterday, and looking at the scoreboard, Danuta Kozak gets it,

:30:13. > :30:23.Emma Jorgensen gets the silver, Lisa Carrington settle for bronze, and

:30:24. > :30:30.Francisco Webber of Germany never got into it. Carrington, Helen, was

:30:31. > :30:34.what, one and a half lengths behind, with 150 to go and still she gets on

:30:35. > :30:40.the podium, I know it's not gold, but a remarkable recovery?

:30:41. > :30:45.I was surprised, they were coming up and edging their noses in front of

:30:46. > :30:52.each other. I thought that Zhou was going to

:30:53. > :30:57.come through. Carrington, you know what, she is really a superstar of

:30:58. > :31:02.this sport. The capacity to be that far back. I thought she was out of

:31:03. > :31:07.it. To come back and get a sober middle photo finish. Kozak, whatever

:31:08. > :31:17.you say about her, she is outstanding and we know that she

:31:18. > :31:23.will go again tomorrow in the K4. The Hungarian think they have got

:31:24. > :31:29.it. Well deserved, not a big enough expression really, she took some

:31:30. > :31:34.time to get into it but once she was intermittent use to aggression and

:31:35. > :31:38.power. She dominated. Look at the start, Kozak is in the boat with

:31:39. > :31:48.number six, the white T-shirt and it was a while before she got level

:31:49. > :31:52.with the Belarussian, she accelerated. A lot of movement in

:31:53. > :31:58.the boat, bouncing down the course. You can see the muscles, you can see

:31:59. > :32:05.Kozak's bill, that's where the power comes from and her legs are even

:32:06. > :32:12.stronger. -- build. I wonder it Carrington would have benefited from

:32:13. > :32:16.being in four or five, I don't think she could have touched Kozak but it

:32:17. > :32:20.is rare to see her starting in two. I wonder if that was a factor.

:32:21. > :32:27.Carrington missing out on the Silver Medal via a fraction. Actually, I

:32:28. > :32:31.don't think Jorgensen was aware that Carrington was so fast on the

:32:32. > :32:37.left-hand side. Jorgensen takes silver, another nation on the

:32:38. > :32:41.podium. We had a fantastic mixture. With Kozak taking gold, that is

:32:42. > :32:49.hungry's second gold of the Championships. They got the gold in

:32:50. > :32:54.the women's K2 500 metres, denying Germany by five hundredths of a

:32:55. > :32:59.second. We saw the most dominant display of the regatta so far. Look

:33:00. > :33:02.at the margins between them. That's the photo finish for second place

:33:03. > :33:07.and actually Jorgensen from Denmark was comfortably in Seoul but and

:33:08. > :33:15.Carrington just squeezing in. They have lengthened the boat for the

:33:16. > :33:20.photo. It wasn't quite as... Split as it showed. There you can see the

:33:21. > :33:25.times. Kozak is the gold-medallist for the K1 500. The two-time world

:33:26. > :33:31.champion is now a two-time Olympic champion. Lisa Carrington, who

:33:32. > :33:37.already has one gold, getting a bronze in the K1 500. Yeah Lisa

:33:38. > :33:42.Carrington, a few metres to far for her in that one. The bronze goes

:33:43. > :33:46.with the two goals she has won in London and here in Rio and I'm sure

:33:47. > :33:52.that there will be celebrations at home about that. When you talk about

:33:53. > :33:55.who is doing what in different nations, Kozak, that is her fourth

:33:56. > :34:01.gold medal because she won two in London. One more here and she goes

:34:02. > :34:06.in the kayak quad, and she would equal the record as the most leading

:34:07. > :34:10.woman in Hungarian history. As you can tell, it's not all about us at

:34:11. > :34:16.these Games! So much happening for other nations and fascinating to

:34:17. > :34:24.keep tabs on it. Now it is time to talk about taekwondo. And as the

:34:25. > :34:54.fellow said, isn't that a kick in the head?

:34:55. > :35:06.COMMENTATOR: The teenage kicking superstar from North Wales is the

:35:07. > :35:10.Olympic champion. That is Jade Jones and we'll be seeing her in about ten

:35:11. > :35:16.minutes time as she seeks to defend the title she won in London. But we

:35:17. > :35:24.are going to the medal podium, a Silver Medal for the boys, Schofield

:35:25. > :35:29.and Heath, after the Silver Medal, upgrading the medal that they won in

:35:30. > :35:33.London in a sprint finish on the line with the Belarussians. They

:35:34. > :35:38.were pipped at the post, but this time they have gone one step better.

:35:39. > :35:46.Let's enjoy the moment with them. COMMENTATOR: So, the crews from the

:35:47. > :35:51.K2 200 metres taking their place on the pontoon behind the podium. Nice

:35:52. > :35:54.to see some British fans turning up to see some success. Heath and

:35:55. > :36:07.Schofield, astonishing run from them. They couldn't do anything

:36:08. > :36:14.about taking the gold medal. This time they struck lucky. Jose

:36:15. > :36:19.Perurena, an Olympic paddler himself, presenting the medals. He

:36:20. > :36:31.was a member of the team at the back sicko Games -- the Mexico Games. He

:36:32. > :36:38.has had his role since 2011. Anders Gustafsson alongside him from

:36:39. > :36:52.Sweden, a member of the ICF, the International Canoe Federation. The

:36:53. > :36:57.brains medal, going to Lithuania. They made two successive finals at

:36:58. > :37:00.World Championship level, finishing in fifth and seventh, so there

:37:01. > :37:06.wasn't a feeling that they would be the ones taking a position on the

:37:07. > :37:18.podium. Both men taking four, nearly five years out to do their studies

:37:19. > :37:25.they've been back in action for the last five years. It has paid

:37:26. > :37:31.dividends. They have won themselves and Olympic bronze medal. It has to

:37:32. > :37:33.be said that they were a few hundreds of a second outside the

:37:34. > :37:52.bronze. The first British medal and the

:37:53. > :38:04.Canoe sprint regatta at the Lagoa. It is ace or the medal going to Liam

:38:05. > :38:10.Heath and Jonny Schofield. What a moment, what a moment. It is one

:38:11. > :38:13.thing to come to two successive Olympic Games and win a medal in the

:38:14. > :38:22.same event on both occasions but it is extra special to step it up a

:38:23. > :38:26.level. They didn't get gold, but silver will feel like gold to them.

:38:27. > :38:33.It certainly will, stepping up a level, it is so tight out there in

:38:34. > :38:40.the competition. They came out yesterday and showed fantastic form.

:38:41. > :38:46.The Spanish were superb and they were out in the lead slightly. A

:38:47. > :38:51.tight finish and Great Britain coming away with a Silver Medal.

:38:52. > :38:57.Liam Heath on the left of your picture will be racing in the K1 200

:38:58. > :39:00.metres. I hope he doesn't have too many press obligations because he

:39:01. > :39:11.must rest and get ready for the K1 heats tomorrow. The gold-medallists,

:39:12. > :39:22.Craviotto and Toro. They took silver in the K2 500 four years ago.

:39:23. > :39:26.Actually Craviotto proposed to his girlfriend shortly after winning a

:39:27. > :39:31.medal, I think in Leicester Square. He is now married with a kid and he

:39:32. > :39:36.has a gold medal to take home. What a moment for him, Craviotto and Toro

:39:37. > :39:46.looking supreme, particularly in the second hundred of the short last. 30

:39:47. > :39:59.seconds, that's all it takes. 45, 50 strokes maximum to win gold. And an

:40:00. > :40:01.emotional moment for both men. Ladies and gentlemen, the anthem of

:40:02. > :41:10.Spain. So, Spain taking their second gold

:41:11. > :41:16.of the Canoe sprint, having taken it in the K1 thousand, and Britain

:41:17. > :41:19.getting their first medal, Heath and Schofield taking silver, one better

:41:20. > :41:25.than they did in London four years ago. STUDIO: And counting Joe

:41:26. > :41:29.Clarke's Canoe slalom gold and the silver. In San Hounslow in the

:41:30. > :41:37.Whitewater, that is a third medal in the canoe so far. Liam will be in

:41:38. > :41:43.the boat on his own tomorrow at Lagoa in the single event, which was

:41:44. > :41:48.won last time by Ed McKeever. We'll be there to see that. Important

:41:49. > :41:53.moments in the Welsh town of Flint, which has really taken a huge

:41:54. > :41:57.interest in taekwondo over the last few years because their local girl,

:41:58. > :42:04.Jade Jones, they supported for a long time. They raised money to send

:42:05. > :42:11.her to the Youth Olympics six years ago and they were handsomely repaid

:42:12. > :42:14.with a golden postbox. Jade, the youngest member of the team in the

:42:15. > :42:29.home Games, striking gold. COMMENTATOR: You little beauty. The

:42:30. > :42:35.teenage kicking superstar from North Wales is the Olympic champion.

:42:36. > :42:47.That's it, she's the world champion. Is a lot of what you do today trying

:42:48. > :42:53.to programme your subconscious, so that when you are fighting, anything

:42:54. > :42:56.that happens, you can just react? Definitely, for the Olympics it is a

:42:57. > :43:02.new system that we haven't been used to. It is harder to score and going

:43:03. > :43:10.high on punches, you have to completely change our game. Right,

:43:11. > :43:15.ladies, I've watched you training, sparring, hitting each other,

:43:16. > :43:27.defending. I want to see how the dynamic changes by coming to your

:43:28. > :43:32.house. You have got a kettle, yeah? How is it, living together because

:43:33. > :43:37.you have come from a session. It is good that we are in different weight

:43:38. > :43:43.categories, if it was a house of 57, I would hate that because I wouldn't

:43:44. > :43:49.want to get too close to them. But we opposite ends of the weight so we

:43:50. > :43:56.can help each other. I need to check something, just you to hear? Just me

:43:57. > :44:05.and jade, yeah. My question is, why do you have two fridges? She is a

:44:06. > :44:10.heavyweight! LAUGHTER I can see you are definitely focused

:44:11. > :44:19.on Rio, plenty of food. Can I see where you chill out? So, Jade, four

:44:20. > :44:24.years ago, London 22 world, Olympic champion, did you expect it? --

:44:25. > :44:31.2012. The journey to the Olympics was fast, I went to the economy in

:44:32. > :44:35.2010, so two years ago and no one was expecting me to even go to the

:44:36. > :44:40.Olympics. It went so fast and literally six months ago I was

:44:41. > :44:45.picked and I gave everything I had in training. I believed I could win,

:44:46. > :44:53.I was going to win, but when I did it, I felt a bit lost, so much

:44:54. > :45:00.pressure and I felt so lost. You know, now I'm in a good place and

:45:01. > :45:05.I'm trying to do it again. Have you had to try and fall back in love

:45:06. > :45:11.with taekwondo? Definitely, there are times, you have a hard loss, you

:45:12. > :45:19.think, I don't want to do this any more, it is so hard, I'm not

:45:20. > :45:23.enjoying it, but I absolutely loved taekwondo and the kicking and I just

:45:24. > :45:31.wanted to win, I didn't even know why I wanted to win. Was it

:45:32. > :45:34.difficult, Jade winning gold, she is obviously your friend and you are

:45:35. > :45:44.pleased, but you couldn't compete? It wasn't nice at all, obviously we

:45:45. > :45:48.live together, we were there training and I broke my leg, Jade

:45:49. > :45:52.gets to go and win the Olympics, but I can't do nothing about that.

:45:53. > :45:58.Obviously she showed as it can happen, I can take it one way and

:45:59. > :46:02.hate her but I can take it the other way and look at what she has done,

:46:03. > :46:07.we can do the same thing. It feels even more special because let's do

:46:08. > :46:13.it together now, it's our chance to both get gold together.

:46:14. > :46:17.HAZEL IRVINE: Jade and her housemates, the

:46:18. > :46:22.heavyweight world champion, we have seen Bianca in action on Saturday

:46:23. > :46:26.but now is the moment of truth for Jade Jones, the defending champion,

:46:27. > :46:34.just about to get other way -- under way. Homer opponent is Naima Bakkal,

:46:35. > :46:39.a Moroccan. It could be the first of four fights on the way to a possible

:46:40. > :46:40.retention of her gold medal hearing radio, all over to you, guys.

:46:41. > :47:03.COMMENTATOR: We are about to see why her opponent

:47:04. > :47:10.in this opening bout, Naima Bakkal of Morocco, 25 years of age, really

:47:11. > :47:15.begins here. She had some World Championship experience, second

:47:16. > :47:21.round only last year. For her, Jade Jones, 19 when she won in London, 23

:47:22. > :47:29.now, and perhaps in the form of her life. Well, she is known as the

:47:30. > :47:39.headhunter, because she goes for the head shots. Defending champion, all

:47:40. > :47:43.the pressure is on her. Naima Bakkal from Morocco has the height

:47:44. > :47:53.advantage, by three centimetres, over Jade. Jade 1.6 five macro,

:47:54. > :48:01.Naima Bakkal is 170 centimetres, 5'7". Carioca Arena 3 has been

:48:02. > :48:07.waiting for this, the reappearance of Jade Jones at Olympic level, the

:48:08. > :48:11.last time she was here she was accepting a gold medal in London

:48:12. > :48:17.2012, now in Rio 2016 we begin with Jones from Great Britain in blue and

:48:18. > :48:23.Naima Bakkal of Morocco in ten. Ten tournament wins at -- out of the

:48:24. > :48:30.last 13 culminating in a first European title in May. Here she is,

:48:31. > :48:37.in Rio. A cracking first shot, or one attempts to score a point is all

:48:38. > :48:40.she needs, a push kick to the body. Her footwork is exceptional, just

:48:41. > :49:05.moving out of the way. Nicely blocking.

:49:06. > :49:15.As Jade went for the back kick, Naima Bakkal came in and made

:49:16. > :49:17.contacts. One apiece. Mixing it up, there's another push kick, but not

:49:18. > :49:32.making sufficient contacts. An attempt at the head, nicely

:49:33. > :49:44.blocked by Naima Bakkal. Not allowing Jade in.

:49:45. > :49:50.A pin-up girl all over Wales when she won in London and of course

:49:51. > :49:55.Tarah Welsh people all over the world at the moment watching this --

:49:56. > :49:59.there are Welsh people all over the world watching this with great

:50:00. > :50:04.expectations of Jade, that is the thing, she maybe would have been

:50:05. > :50:07.concerning herself. I know she hates losing and sometimes holds back when

:50:08. > :50:14.she should come forward and these sorts of situations. Maybe this will

:50:15. > :50:19.change that attitude. She has gone a point down now, 2-1 to Morocco.

:50:20. > :50:23.Naima Bakkal not being faced by the fact that Jade is an Olympic

:50:24. > :50:30.champion. There is the kick to the head, three points. Jade is up, 4-2.

:50:31. > :50:35.Here is the headhunter in action. Just needed an opportunity and she

:50:36. > :50:40.took it. Her kicks are so snappy, so fast. Naima Bakkal didn't even see

:50:41. > :50:44.that one coming. As we go to the break, she knows she trails 4-2.

:50:45. > :50:54.Jade Jones not in control, but with the advantage. How does she look?

:50:55. > :51:01.Shop. I have to remain impartial here, but great to see a fellow

:51:02. > :51:08.Welsh woman fighting at the highest levels -- she is looking sharp. A

:51:09. > :51:11.lovely block there, using the arm. Straight into a back kick, didn't

:51:12. > :51:26.make contact, that was also blocks. It was a bit low.

:51:27. > :51:33.Anxious times as a fighter, look at that, right around the chops, take

:51:34. > :51:40.that one. Thank you very much. I think Naima Bakkal 40 had finished

:51:41. > :51:44.book one more go, the head was there and Jade Jones took it. We resume

:51:45. > :51:46.now with the second round, Great Britain and Jade Jones in the lead,

:51:47. > :51:58.4-2. So fast, lightning quick with those

:51:59. > :52:06.feet. She gets a point, first kick to the body. She is aggressive but

:52:07. > :52:11.so many fighters are. The difference is the speed that she shows. By far

:52:12. > :52:17.the quickest we have seen, I am sure. Undergoing. And the power as

:52:18. > :52:25.well, this is real conviction with every kick. Naima Bakkal going a

:52:26. > :52:30.little low, not registering on the pads. The sensors on the feat Mertz

:52:31. > :52:36.contact the body armour of your opponent, there are sensors as well

:52:37. > :52:44.in the headgear. The replay can be used.

:52:45. > :52:51.Jade almost breaks with the turning kick to the body and then goes for

:52:52. > :52:55.the head. She is so strong in her call, she seems to be able to stay

:52:56. > :52:58.on one leg for longer and the opponents struggle, even though they

:52:59. > :53:10.know her record and how good she is and what she is capable of.

:53:11. > :53:18.Naima Bakkal has picked up another point, just picking them off, one at

:53:19. > :53:20.a time. The cleanest fight we have seen, no penalties awarded yet. A

:53:21. > :53:31.fraction low, maybe. Just getting the measure of each

:53:32. > :53:39.other, the footwork is exceptional. Another one for Jade, 7-4. These two

:53:40. > :53:43.are Devoto. 8-4, the margin is starting to climb but don't rule out

:53:44. > :53:49.Naima Bakkal, she is really in for this. Change stands now and you can

:53:50. > :53:54.hear the end of the second round, so the margin is now four. Jade Jones

:53:55. > :54:09.with the lead, with the coach I'm sure plenty to say.

:54:10. > :54:26.Your reaction to the second round? Nobody shots, it's just one point at

:54:27. > :54:30.a time, that's fine. -- body shots. Jade's opponents are going to be

:54:31. > :54:37.stunned by the speed these kicks are coming in.

:54:38. > :54:46.Attacking and counterattacking each other. One round to go.

:54:47. > :54:53.People ask me, how come I'm not confident when I have one so much,

:54:54. > :54:57.but it's the pressure she says, deep down I know I am the best in the

:54:58. > :55:02.world at my weight. Now is the time to prove it for Jade Jones, she

:55:03. > :55:06.leads 8-4 as we are into the third and final round defending the

:55:07. > :55:13.Olympic gold medal she won in London, four years ago, in 2012.

:55:14. > :55:23.Nice footwork from Jade, just moving backwards to avoid the kick and then

:55:24. > :55:29.coming back in. I think that was for a low kick.

:55:30. > :55:37.It's awarded against Jade. It won't faze her.

:55:38. > :55:46.She is poised on the back leg. You see Jade ready to attack. Naima

:55:47. > :55:54.Bakkal is defending well, blocking what is coming at her at the moment.

:55:55. > :56:05.You can hear Jade's coach Paul Green saying, come on, get back in there.

:56:06. > :56:08.You've got to work for this. She is being forced to work the whole way,

:56:09. > :56:16.that is for sure. Naima Bakkal is a dangerous opponent. The Union Jack

:56:17. > :56:21.there are joining the left leg. Ready to strike any minute, another

:56:22. > :56:26.point for Jones now extending the margin up to five. She goes up high,

:56:27. > :56:30.talk through that, brilliant. Talk us through it, not much to say,

:56:31. > :56:36.really. A lovely chop kick to the head, three points. Great speed

:56:37. > :56:41.again, she got up high, she brought it around to the right. It's a

:56:42. > :56:44.different way she is coming, Naima Bakkal, she was vulnerable, she

:56:45. > :56:47.nailed her and she really extends, she is really pushing now. It's

:56:48. > :56:53.likely to go all the way, so close to the end of the third round.

:56:54. > :56:54.Perhaps career-best form, this could be Jade Jones' best we are looking

:56:55. > :57:21.at. The back kick is coming in at speed,

:57:22. > :57:26.being able to get the head round. Commanding this fight, Jade Jones

:57:27. > :57:32.for Great Britain. She's going through.

:57:33. > :57:38.Safely through, we might even see the smile in a minute. 12-4, her

:57:39. > :57:41.opponent beaten badly on the scoreboard but make no mistake,

:57:42. > :57:47.Naima Bakkal from Morocco did not fight that in a bad way at all. It

:57:48. > :57:52.was just about how good that lady was, Jade Jones of Great Britain.

:57:53. > :57:57.The quality of the kicks, the speed and the power, combined with the

:57:58. > :58:04.accuracy, as she cruises through this first round. We will see her

:58:05. > :58:15.later today in the quarterfinals. The headhunter takes another school.

:58:16. > :58:23.-- skull. Let's see her in action. The push kick. There it is. Chop

:58:24. > :58:30.kick to the head, thank you very much, three points.

:58:31. > :58:39.Just seems able to pick out the head when it matters.

:58:40. > :58:42.HAZEL IRVINE: Well played to Jade Jones. I know

:58:43. > :58:47.there have been a few scoring changes with the electronic scoring

:58:48. > :58:53.system, some say it has toned the sport down a bit but I would not

:58:54. > :58:56.like to be on the receiving end of Jade Jones. She is through to the

:58:57. > :59:01.next round. She will fight one of the members of the refugee team, who

:59:02. > :59:06.came in second last in the Opening Ceremony a couple of weeks ago,

:59:07. > :59:12.Rosol Arne Marney, an Iranian refugee, she earned her place in Rio

:59:13. > :59:21.and she has sought political asylum from Iran and now lives and works in

:59:22. > :59:27.Belgium, 27 and is now a postwoman, Jade Jones' next opponent -- Kimi as

:59:28. > :59:33.I is unloading. It's time to talk triathlon. It's time to see a large

:59:34. > :59:39.part of the most successful triathlon family there has ever

:59:40. > :59:45.been. We are a pair. We both know we won't do well without each other.

:59:46. > :59:49.You heard the name Brownlee in junior school and thought he is a

:59:50. > :59:56.star. There are exceptional in their enjoyment of hard work. Were always

:59:57. > :00:00.the best, trying to win. They are ruthless competitors, top-class

:00:01. > :00:03.sport is ruthless. We do a lot together, I enjoyed. Almost every

:00:04. > :00:08.race we start, we are in it together.

:00:09. > :00:12.COMMENTATOR: Alistair Brownlee is the Olympic

:00:13. > :00:15.triathlon champion. Were not just talking about a couple of brothers

:00:16. > :00:17.from next door, we're talking about the best triathletes there have ever

:00:18. > :00:28.been in the history of the sport. Brothers in Arms and a lot of

:00:29. > :00:32.sibling rivalry, it remains to be seen if Jonny will finally get the

:00:33. > :00:36.better of his brother. A-lister is the defending champion. Time to go

:00:37. > :00:42.to Fort Copacabana, Jonathan Edwards and Annie Emerson, a three-time

:00:43. > :00:48.champion. In very good hands, Jonathan. I certainly am, we are

:00:49. > :00:53.very excited. The triathletes are just about ten metres away, getting

:00:54. > :00:57.ready for the swim. You know all about getting ready, what is going

:00:58. > :01:01.through their minds, what are the emotions for the biggest day of

:01:02. > :01:06.their lives? It is different all bound, some of the guys will be very

:01:07. > :01:11.nervous, some of them will be champing at the bit to get started,

:01:12. > :01:15.the key is to stay calm, but not too harm, you want your heart rate up

:01:16. > :01:22.and ready to go. Let's talk about the weather. I've had a chat with

:01:23. > :01:26.the British performance director, he is excited for both of their chances

:01:27. > :01:31.but he says it is a little bit too hot. They come from Yorkshire and

:01:32. > :01:35.they've had problems with the heat in the past. They've prepared well

:01:36. > :01:41.but you are right, it is really hot, not what the British team wanted.

:01:42. > :01:44.Looking at the swim, it is a little bit too harm, we wanted more swell

:01:45. > :01:48.because the brothers are good swimmers. It doesn't work in their

:01:49. > :01:56.favour but they have raced in all conditions. We will talk about the

:01:57. > :01:59.course in a moment. Gold Coast, Joli had heat exhaustion and Alistair has

:02:00. > :02:04.struggled in the past as well -- Jonny. It is as they get ready,

:02:05. > :02:09.mentally it starts to play on their minds a little bit. I think they

:02:10. > :02:13.have it under control. Of course they would have preferred for it to

:02:14. > :02:17.be cooler, but looking at the Gold Coast, they had come from a very

:02:18. > :02:20.cool winter and they weren't totally prepared but they've done their

:02:21. > :02:27.preparation, a lot of heat training so they will be better prepared.

:02:28. > :02:31.Four years ago, gold for A-lister and bronze for Jonny. Interesting

:02:32. > :02:41.four years leading up to hear -- A-lister. -- Alistair Brownlee.

:02:42. > :02:44.A-lister getting the better of Dolly the last two times. It has been

:02:45. > :02:51.difficult, especially for Alistair Brownlee. We had his ankle operated

:02:52. > :02:57.on and nothing went right for him in the Gold Coast -- getting the better

:02:58. > :03:05.of Joli. It is too hot for them but we have two be positive that they

:03:06. > :03:10.are in good shape. -- for Jonny. This dynamic of the two brothers

:03:11. > :03:17.competing and training together, it is seen aiding for us to look at and

:03:18. > :03:21.wonder it works. It is incredible, there are no two other brothers like

:03:22. > :03:25.it, especially in a sport like triathlon when things can go wrong.

:03:26. > :03:30.When they are racing together they are stronger as a duet rather than

:03:31. > :03:34.going out on their own. It is almost like for two thirds of the race, the

:03:35. > :03:39.swim and the bike, they will work together and try and make it as

:03:40. > :03:43.tough as possible but when you get into the run, every man for its

:03:44. > :03:46.self. A free full, you are right, they will help each other on the

:03:47. > :03:53.swim and the bike but when it comes down to the run, they can't help so

:03:54. > :03:56.they must run their own ten K race. In terms of the opposition they are

:03:57. > :04:00.facing, they need to have a race plan that will give them the best

:04:01. > :04:06.possible chance. The race plan is an interesting one, Mario Mola is the

:04:07. > :04:14.toughest. He has dominated the running. We haven't seen the

:04:15. > :04:17.Brownlee brothers, certainly Alistair and Mario Mola going

:04:18. > :04:21.head-to-head, Marian Mohler is running out of this world and he is

:04:22. > :04:30.the one to watch. Let's hear from the Brownlees. I wanted to win the

:04:31. > :04:36.Yorkshire Championships as much when I was 12 just as much as the

:04:37. > :04:39.Olympics when I was in my 20s. COMMENTATOR: Alistair Brownlee is

:04:40. > :04:43.the Olympic champion and Jonathan coming home for bronze. The

:04:44. > :04:49.brilliant Brownlee brothers. I've had some great experiences when I

:04:50. > :04:55.thought that was fantastic, I got everything out of myself but the

:04:56. > :04:58.Olympics wasn't like that for me. A sprint finish between the brothers,

:04:59. > :05:04.it is going to be tight, but Jonathan is going to win. I've been

:05:05. > :05:09.asked a few times, my first reaction is that Rawal, I have one, and the

:05:10. > :05:19.second is that it was a bit weird -- I had won. -- well. I may not expect

:05:20. > :05:23.to beat Alistair, but I shouldn't think of it as completely crazy if I

:05:24. > :05:29.do. I would like to think I am still the better racer but I don't know if

:05:30. > :05:36.it has been proved or tested. You've got to tell yourself that. If I can

:05:37. > :05:40.be in the shape I was in in London I can be in a position to win any kind

:05:41. > :05:43.of triathlon and I would like to think I can be better than that.

:05:44. > :05:50.You've got to keep telling yourself and train towards it. A-lister says

:05:51. > :05:55.that he likes to think he's the best off racer and there was a time when

:05:56. > :05:59.we thought that Jonny was going to come through and be the number one.

:06:00. > :06:08.It hasn't happened. It hasn't, I have my views on that. If you

:06:09. > :06:15.measure them physiologically, I think that it would be very similar

:06:16. > :06:19.but I think that psychologically, Alistair has the edge which is where

:06:20. > :06:23.it is at. They are different characters, Joli is very

:06:24. > :06:31.happy-go-lucky, he's into different sports but there is the intensity to

:06:32. > :06:37.Alistair -- Jonny. You can see that Jonathan wobbles a bit more.

:06:38. > :06:42.Alistair has one thing in mind, to get to the finish line first. I

:06:43. > :06:45.spoke to Jonny after he finished second to Alistair in Stockholm and

:06:46. > :06:51.I said, what was it like, could he have done anything differently. What

:06:52. > :06:56.he said was interesting, he said if it was anybody else apart from

:06:57. > :07:00.Alistair he would have won it. I know, exactly, that last run-in

:07:01. > :07:06.Stockholm, I think Alistair had in his mind that it might be Rio, he

:07:07. > :07:11.might have been running with Mola. I think he was unbeatable that day.

:07:12. > :07:20.Tactics, we talked about the swimming, it isn't too rough, not

:07:21. > :07:24.too much current. They want to make the swim and the fight hard to try

:07:25. > :07:30.and distance them from Mario Mola, who is running is so strong.

:07:31. > :07:36.Unfortunately... The triathletes are getting ready to go for the swim.

:07:37. > :07:43.Vincent Luis from France, he was second here. This is the moment they

:07:44. > :07:48.have been working for for so long. For all of the importance of the

:07:49. > :07:53.World Triathlon Series this is completely different. Yes, you can

:07:54. > :07:58.feel it, the nervousness and the energy, you can touch it. I wonder

:07:59. > :08:03.what will be going through their minds. It is unusual to have the

:08:04. > :08:07.swim, running through sand, to the water. Normally they died in off a

:08:08. > :08:17.pontoon. Very different. The same for everyone but some are going to

:08:18. > :08:25.prefer it -- dive off. Good luck, Jonny, Alistair as well. Alistair is

:08:26. > :08:30.potentially the first man to ever retain an Olympic triathlon title,

:08:31. > :08:34.history is there for him. He is the man to watch, along with Mola and

:08:35. > :08:39.Jonny. Triathlon is a tricky game, a lot that can go wrong. I don't want

:08:40. > :08:44.to tempt fate, it isn't as simple as running around the track. You talk

:08:45. > :08:48.about the water and running into the sea, the very technical bike course,

:08:49. > :08:51.there is a lot to get through. Coming back to the psychology of

:08:52. > :08:56.Alistair, I don't think there is anybody who is going to be more

:08:57. > :09:00.focused on winning and possibly want to win more than anybody else. I

:09:01. > :09:03.think that's a fair comment, some of the other athletes may argue it but

:09:04. > :09:10.we have seen what he will put himself through to try and win. He

:09:11. > :09:15.doesn't always do it but when he's on form, he gets it right and he is

:09:16. > :09:19.unbeatable. The third member of the team, Gordon Benson is there to help

:09:20. > :09:22.them and give them support. Yes, he will play an important part, he must

:09:23. > :09:27.stay with them on the swim, which will be tough but if something goes

:09:28. > :09:30.wrong, if they have a puncture, Gordon is going to hopefully be

:09:31. > :09:38.there to help them, to be the team-mate. Tough course and swim and

:09:39. > :09:39.bike ride and then the run along the Copacabana. This is what the course

:09:40. > :09:52.looks like. The 2016 Olympic triathlon is set in

:09:53. > :09:56.a stunning location. Don't be fooled by the sandy beaches and palm trees

:09:57. > :10:03.because the athletes are going to be made to work extremely hard. The

:10:04. > :10:08.race starts here on Copacabana Beach with a sprint into the waves. It is

:10:09. > :10:11.an ocean swim of 1500 metres with a water temperature that is pretty

:10:12. > :10:20.mild and we aren't expected to see wet suits.

:10:21. > :10:27.The athletes exit transition one and moved south down this road towards a

:10:28. > :10:34.big fork separating Copacabana and Ipanema. They will cover 40

:10:35. > :10:39.kilometres on the bike but after 100 metres, they will reach the first

:10:40. > :10:41.tricky junction on the course, 180 degrees turn which will see the

:10:42. > :10:49.athletes heading back down Copacabana Beach. The athletes will

:10:50. > :10:53.turn off onto a road where the course starts to get really tough.

:10:54. > :10:58.Incredibly steep and intense and the athletes will have two negotiate it

:10:59. > :11:05.eight times during the cycling leg. Before they have a chance to

:11:06. > :11:11.recover, they are faced with a fast ascent, and this spot is a reminder

:11:12. > :11:14.of how tricky the course is. At last year's test event, Ryan Bailie

:11:15. > :11:23.overshot the corner and flew into the crowd. Thankfully he escaped

:11:24. > :11:28.unscathed. Having left their bikes in transition, the final event is a

:11:29. > :11:36.scenic ten kilometre run a made up of four laps over the Copacabana

:11:37. > :11:39.Beach. Normally this would be an idyllic location for a bit of

:11:40. > :11:44.jogging but their legs are going to feel like jelly after the bike and

:11:45. > :11:48.in warm weather this is going to be a real test of strength. Alistair

:11:49. > :11:53.Brownlee has called it a good course that promotes exciting racing but

:11:54. > :11:59.one thing is for sure, the gold medal winner will have certainly

:12:00. > :12:03.earned it. So, the athletes are being introduced to the crowd here,

:12:04. > :12:09.tremendous atmosphere. Ten metres away, the biggest threat to gold for

:12:10. > :12:14.the Brownlee Brothers, Mario Mola, who leads the world rankings and has

:12:15. > :12:18.a fantastic ten kilometre run. As we were discussing, the key to the race

:12:19. > :12:24.is how Alistair and Jonny can get away on the swim and on the bike

:12:25. > :12:27.course, they used to the Yorkshire hills, they will want support from

:12:28. > :12:35.the likes of Gordon Benson and perhaps Richard Murray from South

:12:36. > :12:38.Africa. It will be tough, belying the difficult conditions here,

:12:39. > :12:45.perhaps not ideal for the Brownlees, but it is really a stunning location

:12:46. > :12:51.for this Olympic triathlon, the most important race, every four years. In

:12:52. > :12:58.the most breathtaking of situations. Annie Anderson has gone up to

:12:59. > :13:02.commentary. She is width Sheldon. -- she is with Matt Chilton.

:13:03. > :13:06.COMMENTATOR: Triathlon was introduced to the live pigs in 2000

:13:07. > :13:15.and since then, no athlete has won twice although Samuel Whitfield came

:13:16. > :13:25.close, getting gold and silver. -- was introduced to the Olympics.

:13:26. > :13:30.Today's weather forecast, overcast with a chance of rain, which the

:13:31. > :13:36.team were hoping for, has failed to materialise. Hot and sunny with a

:13:37. > :13:43.gentle sea breeze. Alistair and his younger brother Jonny, the top two

:13:44. > :13:46.medallists in London, lining up alongside the pilot athlete, Gordon

:13:47. > :13:50.Benson who is going to help the brothers come home with medals. All

:13:51. > :13:59.three are primed and ready to win the race. 1500 metres in the salty

:14:00. > :14:12.water. A single lap. Often in the World Triathlon Series which starts

:14:13. > :14:16.in March they will swim two laps. But this is once out and back and

:14:17. > :14:21.then they will run up the blue carpet covering the sand into

:14:22. > :14:25.transition to pick up their bike. 40 kilometres of cycling will follow,

:14:26. > :14:29.consisting of eight laps of 4.8 kilometres each and each of those

:14:30. > :14:36.laps will contain that brutal climb to the West, up from Copacabana

:14:37. > :14:43.Beach and into the hills alongside the municipal park. It is the leafy

:14:44. > :14:48.area of this part of the City. After 40 kilometres in the hot weather on

:14:49. > :14:53.two wheels they will park their bikes in the transition area and put

:14:54. > :15:05.on their running shoes and go for a 10,000 metre run. It requires a

:15:06. > :15:07.little bit of Phelps, a bit of Kenny and quite a lot of Mo Farah to find

:15:08. > :15:18.the best triathletes in the world. That's Henry Goodman of South

:15:19. > :15:22.Africa, grew up in Durban, a big life-saving man, that's where he

:15:23. > :15:29.learned how to swim. The Portuguese will get a lot of support, there are

:15:30. > :15:31.no Brazilian men in the race, but Joe Pereira from Portugal is a man

:15:32. > :15:35.they will all be watching. Thomas Springer of Austria to his left,

:15:36. > :15:42.just back recently from three years out with a broken bone, but all eyes

:15:43. > :15:45.on the brothers at the moment. Alistair on the left, a big smile

:15:46. > :15:56.from the defending champion, wearing the orange swim cap, and also the

:15:57. > :16:00.number on his arm. Race number 54 Alistair, race number six for

:16:01. > :16:11.Jonathan. Gordon Benson has raced number four. A total of 55 men lined

:16:12. > :16:16.up on the beach. It's the most spectacular Olympic triathlon

:16:17. > :16:25.setting so far. They are being warned that we are just potentially

:16:26. > :16:29.15 seconds away from the start. Alistair looks confident, puffing

:16:30. > :16:35.out his chest. We will pan along the line, Fisher of Australia. The

:16:36. > :16:41.Polyanskiy brothers, racing for Russia, the Russian triathlon

:16:42. > :16:44.Federation allowed to compete. Gonzales of Mexico, there's Gordon

:16:45. > :16:48.Benson, the pilot athlete for the brothers this afternoon. He went in

:16:49. > :16:52.at tussle with Tom Bishop to be selected. His job is to stay with

:16:53. > :16:56.Alistair and Jonny on the swim, and if they need it, to help them on the

:16:57. > :17:01.bike, maybe to provide a slipstream for them on the bike and allow them

:17:02. > :17:05.to drafting behind. Alarza, Hernandez of Spain, he came in

:17:06. > :17:09.because Javier Gomez broke his arm training. Gomez was the

:17:10. > :17:13.silver-medallist four years ago. Here is the man that everybody will

:17:14. > :17:17.be watching aside from the brothers, Mario Mola. The 10,000 beta

:17:18. > :17:23.specialist. He will be happy to see that the forecast of cool and

:17:24. > :17:27.overcast didn't materialise. It's very much Rio weather, not Roundhay

:17:28. > :17:33.Park weather that the brothers were hoping for. And the 2016 Olympic

:17:34. > :17:36.men's triathlon here at Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro is about to get

:17:37. > :17:55.under way. Final countdown. Red flags raised. Now they are

:17:56. > :17:58.called forward, and they are away. What a spectacle. Extraordinary

:17:59. > :18:05.scenes from the helicopter, as the Brownlee brothers hit the waves and

:18:06. > :18:09.get to work. A butterfly from Alistair there. We will look out for

:18:10. > :18:16.the fastest swimmers for this first stage, which include the South

:18:17. > :18:22.African that we just saw, Henri Shoeman, but Richard Wagner who

:18:23. > :18:27.trains a lot with the Brownlees with -- in Leeds could be one to watch.

:18:28. > :18:30.Haec certainly could become a important for the Brownlee brothers

:18:31. > :18:34.and they do train together. The fact they are familiar with one another

:18:35. > :18:38.will help them on the swim. What has been interesting, Mola was at the

:18:39. > :18:41.other end of the beach, far, far away from the Brownlee brothers as

:18:42. > :18:46.we can see there is four distinct groups there with the Brownlee is on

:18:47. > :18:49.the left-hand side. Alistair not getting the best of starts, a bit

:18:50. > :18:53.slow going into the water. This is something the athletes are not used

:18:54. > :18:56.to doing in the World Triathlon Series, so I would have imagined

:18:57. > :19:00.they would have practised it very hard and it is the same for

:19:01. > :19:03.everyone, but it will probably be easier for some of the guys who have

:19:04. > :19:09.come down from Australia and places like that, that I used to doing

:19:10. > :19:14.beach starts. The Games has come under a bit of criticism for a lack

:19:15. > :19:18.of spectators at some of the venues but they have come out in force on

:19:19. > :19:22.this stunning morning in Copacabana, tens of thousands of spectators

:19:23. > :19:26.along the beach. It can cope with large numbers. They estimate 2

:19:27. > :19:31.million party here at Copacabana on New Year's Eve every year. We may

:19:32. > :19:35.not see such numbers out on the bike, but down at the beach where

:19:36. > :19:38.the transition area is located, they have come out in force to watch this

:19:39. > :19:42.spectacle unfold, three distinct groups as we look from a helicopter,

:19:43. > :19:47.the Brownlee group is on the left. The Mola group is just in front of

:19:48. > :19:53.that yellow kayak on the right of your screen. We will see how they

:19:54. > :19:59.come together at the various turns, which are located off the beach.

:20:00. > :20:02.Yes, the swim is a tough one. I think some of the guys out there,

:20:03. > :20:07.the stronger swimmers, would liked -- would have liked more of a swell.

:20:08. > :20:10.It's calmer than we have seen in previous days. It's different in the

:20:11. > :20:17.sense the athletes are used to the two lap format coming out of the

:20:18. > :20:21.water but here on the Copacabana the athletes are racing one lap, of 1500

:20:22. > :20:24.metres, so they will not see where other athletes are mid-race. I had a

:20:25. > :20:27.chance to chat with Brendan Purcell, the British team performance

:20:28. > :20:33.director earlier in the week, and he told us about their training camp,

:20:34. > :20:37.which was aside from the rest of the British athletes here, a couple of

:20:38. > :20:41.hours outside of Sao Paulo. They had found this Brazilian air force base.

:20:42. > :20:45.It was just my luck that it came their way, a friend of a friend of a

:20:46. > :20:48.friend knew about this place, they made enquiries, were able to get

:20:49. > :20:51.accommodation there, it had a good running track and a pool and they

:20:52. > :21:00.were able to acclimatise with the heat, get plenty of swimming,

:21:01. > :21:03.running and cycling done to keep themselves removed from the rest of

:21:04. > :21:07.the Olympics, although they washed -- watched obsessively on the TV,

:21:08. > :21:11.Alistair in particularly, he watched everything unfold. Jonny spent more

:21:12. > :21:14.time on his Xbox. But they have been glued to what is happening with the

:21:15. > :21:20.magnificent performance from the British team so far. Let's have

:21:21. > :21:23.another look at the start. Vincent Luis, extreme left, he has been

:21:24. > :21:30.largely absent from the World Triathlon Series this year, with

:21:31. > :21:36.some emotional problems, but he is back, he is focused on the Olympics.

:21:37. > :21:39.He could be one to watch. He was second in the Olympic test event

:21:40. > :21:44.last year which was won by Javier Gomez, who is not here, a broken

:21:45. > :21:47.arm. Luis was second in that race. It will be interesting to see how he

:21:48. > :21:51.does. Out of the World Triathlon Series, but in for the big one, the

:21:52. > :21:58.Olympics, and Richard Varga, who we mentioned as a potential front

:21:59. > :22:01.runner in the water is as usual leading them through and is that one

:22:02. > :22:04.of the Brownlees on his tail? It might be. Possibly the Russians, I

:22:05. > :22:09.think it's a Russian athlete coming through, three of them racing here

:22:10. > :22:12.in Rio. Expect to see them up at the front. Richard Varga leading the

:22:13. > :22:16.way, I'm hoping the Brownlee brothers are somewhere in the

:22:17. > :22:22.middle. I think Alistair had a tricky start. A wave came in just as

:22:23. > :22:24.the gun went and some of them caught it, some of them didn't. There's a

:22:25. > :22:30.scramble going on and someone has been docked and held under! This is

:22:31. > :22:34.an issue on the world triathlon series, sometimes safety can be

:22:35. > :22:40.ignored. I'm not sure if they have any authority to sanction any of the

:22:41. > :22:43.athletes, but there was some -- something really nasty going on at

:22:44. > :22:49.that first turn. Let's hope it didn't involve any of the British

:22:50. > :22:52.trio, the Brownlee brothers and Benson. Richard Varga was well

:22:53. > :23:05.removed from it, he's the Pathfinder on the swim. You hope you don't get

:23:06. > :23:09.caught up around those buoys. I would not call it unsportsmanlike

:23:10. > :23:12.behaviour because it is very difficult, but some guys are more

:23:13. > :23:17.brutal than others. Richard Varga trains with Alistair and Jonny, part

:23:18. > :23:23.of the Leeds centre of triathlon excellence full stop he has a

:23:24. > :23:28.cracking Yorkshire accent, Richard Varga, A comedy turned. He leads the

:23:29. > :23:31.Arrowhead which has now formed, the three groups have come together.

:23:32. > :23:36.They are approaching the next yellow buoys, where they will make not a

:23:37. > :23:43.sudden turn, one of them clips it with his left arm and then they head

:23:44. > :23:47.off to their left. So now they are heading north, in front of the beach

:23:48. > :23:52.at Copacabana which is in the background. A bit of a swell there,

:23:53. > :23:55.but nothing to note. The athletes are all sticking quite closely

:23:56. > :23:59.together at the moment. Certainly no significant breaks, we are only six

:24:00. > :24:05.minutes into the race. We will expect them to come out of the water

:24:06. > :24:10.at about 17.5 - 18 minutes. Last year we saw Javier Gomez, who won

:24:11. > :24:17.the race, in 18 minutes. He is not here today. It's slower because of

:24:18. > :24:20.the conditions, slightly tougher than swimming in a lake or a river

:24:21. > :24:27.style swim. Javier Gomez's winning time a year ago, one .48 .26, pretty

:24:28. > :24:31.quick when you take into consideration the tough climbs they

:24:32. > :24:36.have to deal with. The field is well spread now, up to 30 seconds between

:24:37. > :24:42.first and last, coming round that yellow turning buoy. The camera boat

:24:43. > :24:47.is nowhere near the athletes at this stage, hence we are able to pick out

:24:48. > :24:50.Richard Varga, but nobody else at the moment. Hopefully, when they

:24:51. > :24:55.emerge from the water in about ten minutes from now, we will get a full

:24:56. > :25:02.list of who is where and when after stage one. The 1500 metres swim will

:25:03. > :25:06.be followed by a 40 kilometre cycle, eight laps, eight big climbs, and

:25:07. > :25:13.it's the Slovakian Richard Varga, with Igor Polyanskiy, his brother

:25:14. > :25:17.Dmitriy in the race field at the moment, they are first and second at

:25:18. > :25:20.the moment, that is the only news we have from the front of the field.

:25:21. > :25:25.Hopefully more will follow. I might have expected to see more of a

:25:26. > :25:31.break. It's an interesting course because fighting is vital, it's 1500

:25:32. > :25:40.metres, not two laps, so you have to be looking where you are going, --

:25:41. > :25:48.sighting. It crosses back over itself, an interesting triangle,

:25:49. > :25:54.trickier than some of the other swims we see. Richard Varga, Igor

:25:55. > :26:01.Polyanskiy, and further back down the field, 46 is Alessandro Fabian

:26:02. > :26:07.of Italy. Richard Varga will often come out of the water first. He

:26:08. > :26:13.likes, even if he is overtaken, Varga likes to be the first man out

:26:14. > :26:19.of the water. He can ride with the rest of them for 40 Ks. When it

:26:20. > :26:23.comes to the 10,000-metre run to conclude this triathlon, Varga will

:26:24. > :26:27.usually go backwards and end up finishing if he is lucky in about

:26:28. > :26:32.15. A top ten would be a good result for Richard Varga today, as he makes

:26:33. > :26:37.the next turn after eight minutes and about 35 seconds, and the rest

:26:38. > :26:42.of them following. The field is well spread now. We will hopefully avoid

:26:43. > :26:46.any further ducking and diving at the turn, although one or two are

:26:47. > :26:50.getting closer, a little too close for comfort, at that next turn.

:26:51. > :26:56.That's the scene, looking back towards Copacabana with the loop --

:26:57. > :27:00.the lagoon behind and the endless high-rise apartment buildings, which

:27:01. > :27:06.lit is part of the city. When you see it from up that aerial view, it

:27:07. > :27:11.certainly looks a long way, but the athletes now well over half way into

:27:12. > :27:14.the swim. Richard Varga did race in London and finished 22nd there. I

:27:15. > :27:17.would not be surprised to see him going a bit better today. I think

:27:18. > :27:21.his training in Leeds with the Brownlee brothers has helped his run

:27:22. > :27:25.no end but at the moment certainly showing the rest of the field away

:27:26. > :27:29.on the swim. I am hopeful that one of the Brownlee brothers might be in

:27:30. > :27:34.third at the moment. I caught sight of something resembling, no, I think

:27:35. > :27:38.maybe force, maybe fourth and about six. I think that is Varga,

:27:39. > :27:43.Polyanskiy, Fabian, one of the brothers alongside one of the South

:27:44. > :27:48.Africans, we assume Henri Shoeman because he's a quick swim, than the

:27:49. > :27:53.other Brownlee between one of the Aussies and potentially one of the

:27:54. > :27:58.French, my judgment from the camera looking down from on high, but we

:27:59. > :28:03.will get a full list of their swimming achievements once they exit

:28:04. > :28:07.the water. The no sighting yet of the red and yellow of the Spaniards.

:28:08. > :28:10.They will be somewhere in the mix, Fernando Alarza, is strong, strong

:28:11. > :28:14.swimmer. Moeller interestingly was not known for his swim but over the

:28:15. > :28:19.last 12 months he has it certainly improved that swim -- Mario Mola. We

:28:20. > :28:25.have seen him improving in the swims. The Beach Volleyball Arena

:28:26. > :28:30.venue at the opposite end of Copacabana Beach, it's become a

:28:31. > :28:35.focal point for these Olympics, not the safest -- safest place to be

:28:36. > :28:38.between 6pm and 6am, but during the day endless not just the Olympic

:28:39. > :28:41.Beach Volleyball Arena but endless beach wallet or courts lined the

:28:42. > :28:49.sand. Beach football being played everywhere look. Very much the

:28:50. > :28:55.tourist centre of Rio de Janeiro. Richard Varga continues to lead them

:28:56. > :29:00.through. 11 minutes now, in what will be we expect about a one minute

:29:01. > :29:03.and 52nd full distance, full Olympic distance -- one minute and 52nd full

:29:04. > :29:07.distance, full Olympic distance -- 1.50 full Olympic distance triathlon

:29:08. > :29:14.today. We think Alistair Brownlee is in about fourth, Jonathan Brownlee

:29:15. > :29:17.in about six at this stage, although it could be that Gordon Benson has

:29:18. > :29:22.forced his way to the front. We knew it was the British colours, the

:29:23. > :29:26.British suit there, perhaps Gordon Benson is having the swim of his

:29:27. > :29:31.life and maybe he is up there, doubly determined to emerge from the

:29:32. > :29:35.waters of Copacabana onto the beach near the front of the field. The

:29:36. > :29:38.Gordon Benson did start right at the other end of the beach, but we saw

:29:39. > :29:43.the athletes all basically coming together into one big group. It

:29:44. > :29:46.would be great to see Gordon Benson up there, Brendan Purcell the

:29:47. > :29:49.performance director said he has worked incredibly hard on his swim

:29:50. > :29:53.and his bike and it's important he is appearing the swim because if he

:29:54. > :29:58.is to be of any use to the Brownlee brothers he needs to be up there in

:29:59. > :29:59.the front of the swim. Alessandro Fabian, the Italian holding third

:30:00. > :30:10.position at this stage. A huge part of the beach has been

:30:11. > :30:15.cut off to allow the race to proceed unhindered. When the swim is done,

:30:16. > :30:20.that part of the beat will be opened up and the fans can watch the bike

:30:21. > :30:25.and the run unfold from the comfort of the sand -- of the beach. Making

:30:26. > :30:32.their last turn towards home. Five minutes away from exiting the water

:30:33. > :30:40.and completing Stage 1 of the 2016 Olympic men's triathlon. Looking at

:30:41. > :30:47.the pictures, not really picking out any of the Spaniards. No big breaks.

:30:48. > :30:54.The athletes are very separated in the water. We can see that Varga is

:30:55. > :30:58.pushing the pace, when they are stretched out like that, you know

:30:59. > :31:06.that the race is on at the front. All eyes will be on the performance

:31:07. > :31:09.of Mola. We know about his running ability but he needs to be somewhere

:31:10. > :31:12.near the front of the field to give himself a serious chance of

:31:13. > :31:21.potentially going toe to toe with Alistair Brownlee over the 10,000

:31:22. > :31:27.metre conclusion to the triathlon. The only three people we are sure

:31:28. > :31:32.of, Varga, Polyanskiy and Fabian, the Slovakian, Russian and Italian.

:31:33. > :31:39.Just before Polyanskiy, perhaps finding it hard to stay on his feet.

:31:40. > :31:42.Richard Varga, I sense he has picked up the pace as they move into the

:31:43. > :31:50.last couple of hundred metres of the 1500 metres swim. I think we can

:31:51. > :31:54.safely say that is two British athletes at the front alongside

:31:55. > :31:57.Henri Schoeman. Richard Murray, the other South African athlete, not

:31:58. > :32:02.known for his swimming strength but he is very strong on the bike and he

:32:03. > :32:08.can be a danger. I would say that his Henri Schoeman alongside the

:32:09. > :32:12.Brownlee brothers. We think it is at least one of the Brownlee brothers,

:32:13. > :32:16.possibly Gordon Benson as well but all will be revealed as the first

:32:17. > :32:21.stage reaches its conclusion. Spectacular backdrop that Rio de

:32:22. > :32:25.Janeiro is providing, the first day of two for the triathlon, the

:32:26. > :32:31.women's race is on Saturday morning and the forecast is similar, hot and

:32:32. > :32:36.sunny. The British trio of Non Stanford, Helen Jenkins and Vicky

:32:37. > :32:40.Holland are spreading themselves around. Non Stanford has been with

:32:41. > :32:46.the British men at the Air Force Base. Vicky Holland has been in

:32:47. > :32:51.Leeds and Helen Jenkins has been in Portugal. Coming from three

:32:52. > :32:56.different directions. I think they will be at the Olympic village by

:32:57. > :32:59.now, at least at the British Olympic Association accommodation at

:33:00. > :33:02.Copacabana where the men have been staying, avoiding going into the

:33:03. > :33:10.village but post race they will be going there. The women's race starts

:33:11. > :33:16.at 11 on Saturday. Varga, as he usually does on the season long

:33:17. > :33:21.World Triathlon Series has dominated the swim, joined by a Polyanskiy and

:33:22. > :33:26.Fabian. One of the brothers is in fourth place, we assume the other

:33:27. > :33:30.isn't too far away. Confirmation that the two Brownlee brothers are

:33:31. > :33:34.in the top ten, Jonathan is in fourth and Alistair is in sixth

:33:35. > :33:37.place. The first part of this Olympic triathlon is going well for

:33:38. > :33:44.them but there is a lot still to come. Right on the finish line, I

:33:45. > :33:48.can see over my monitor and I can see the white line. Alistair

:33:49. > :33:52.Brownlee's bike is parked behind the finishing line on the other side of

:33:53. > :33:59.the barrier. We saw him going through a full transition rehearsal

:34:00. > :34:04.before he arrived at his bike, visualising it in his mind, what he

:34:05. > :34:08.was going to do on his arrival at the blue carpeted area that you can

:34:09. > :34:14.see from that shot, where the bikes are parked. The bikes are placed in

:34:15. > :34:19.their stand, the bike comets are held on by thin bits of cotton

:34:20. > :34:22.attached to the handlebars. The shoes are already attached to the

:34:23. > :34:27.puddles, there is no wet suit to remove today with the water

:34:28. > :34:32.temperature at 21 degrees. They must get rid of their swim caps and

:34:33. > :34:37.bubbles. Put them in the plastic boxes. The officials are quite tight

:34:38. > :34:40.on these rules and will be punishing anybody who doesn't put their

:34:41. > :34:46.equipment correctly in the box after the run and after the swim and after

:34:47. > :34:51.the cycling. The swim is almost done, Richard Varga has led from the

:34:52. > :34:56.start. He has set a cracking pace. As we expected, at around 17 minutes

:34:57. > :35:03.when they come, surfing through the final strokes of the swim with feet

:35:04. > :35:07.on the sand and then running up the stretch of Copacabana Beach before

:35:08. > :35:12.they find the blue carpet. Varga coming out of the water, Polyanskiy

:35:13. > :35:17.hot on his heels, swim cap and bubbles on. Fabian follows. Varga,

:35:18. > :35:23.Polyanskiy, the transponders are working now, then Fabian, then a gap

:35:24. > :35:35.of six seconds to Alistair, Jonny next alongside the other

:35:36. > :35:44.Polyanskiy, no sign of Gordon Benson yet. He will hope to be within 20

:35:45. > :35:50.seconds or so of the brothers. The first men into the transition have

:35:51. > :35:54.found their bikes and are moving onto the next stage, Alistair

:35:55. > :35:59.Brownlee getting his hat on, Jonny beating him out of the transition.

:36:00. > :36:05.Marriott Mola we have heard, 19 seconds off the pace. A string of

:36:06. > :36:11.triathletes heading out with their bikes. Moeller is just going past us

:36:12. > :36:25.in transition, he was sprinting out, desperate to hold on. Gordon Benson

:36:26. > :36:37.is through -- Mola. Early mechanical problem here, Dorian can't get his

:36:38. > :36:45.foot out of the pedal. He has lost 15, 20 seconds with a foot issue on

:36:46. > :36:51.his bike pedal. Gordon Brown as well... Sorry, Gordon Benson

:36:52. > :36:58.exiting, 52 seconds down. Marriott Mola will be in the front pack. --

:36:59. > :37:00.Mariel Mola. I don't know what happened in that transition back

:37:01. > :37:09.there and smack Richard Murray who is a really good

:37:10. > :37:14.runner and was highly fancied in the South African contingent, back with

:37:15. > :37:25.Gordon Benson, so he has a lot to do. The first lap of the bike, they

:37:26. > :37:31.will make the circuit eight times and there is a tough climb coming

:37:32. > :37:34.their way. This reminds me of Hyde Park and the outskirts, Buckingham

:37:35. > :37:41.Palace four years ago, a lot of eager sports fans watching today's

:37:42. > :37:45.multidiscipline race unfold. What is really vital over the first few

:37:46. > :37:51.calamitous on the bike, if they have any chance of getting a gap over

:37:52. > :37:56.Mario Mola, who looked a bit off the pace, they must work incredibly

:37:57. > :38:05.hard. Jonny Brownlee, great to see him leading the Olympic triathlon.

:38:06. > :38:09.The Brownlees are right up there. Now following the motorcycle with

:38:10. > :38:14.the camera behind. You can see that the guys are working hard to

:38:15. > :38:17.negotiate this first climb. Jonathan Brownlee is joined by his older

:38:18. > :38:22.brother, Alistair. This is their bread and butter, they ride the

:38:23. > :38:30.hills of West Yorkshire every day, they love a nice climb. The world

:38:31. > :38:32.triathlon series races, with steep bike sense and descends, suiting

:38:33. > :38:40.them publicly and they were delighted to see when the course was

:38:41. > :38:47.announced. Normally these courses are flat, they like it when it is

:38:48. > :38:52.going up and down. The descent is particularly worrying. It is fairly

:38:53. > :38:57.brutal, I had my heart in my mouth. But these guys will have practised

:38:58. > :39:02.it. Technically it is important that you are good so you can handle the

:39:03. > :39:15.descent well. Let's keep our fingers crossed for all of the athletes.

:39:16. > :39:19.Richard Varga is the fastest man. Henri Schoeman, not as quick as he

:39:20. > :39:36.would normally expect to be, in 15th place. Dorian Coninx had that

:39:37. > :39:40.problem in the transition. Richard Murray, a long way off, nearly a

:39:41. > :39:47.minute behind. He is a great runner but he has lost in -- left himself a

:39:48. > :39:59.lot to do. Mario Mola was about 30 seconds off the pace. Some of the

:40:00. > :40:05.athletes are struggling to hang on after that first climb. They will

:40:06. > :40:11.have to do it eight times. They don't come much more tough than this

:40:12. > :40:15.on the World Triathlon Series. Starting well for the Brownlee

:40:16. > :40:18.brothers, solid swimming, keeping close to Richard Varga, their

:40:19. > :40:24.training partner and now they are shoulder to shoulder, leading the

:40:25. > :40:31.triathlon with the Italian, Fabian, not far behind. We have a front

:40:32. > :40:35.group of about a dozen. A bit of an injection of pace at the front from

:40:36. > :40:42.Alistair. Now he barks instructions to Jonathan. A group of ten and the

:40:43. > :40:46.front and another one attempting to join them, a couple attempting to

:40:47. > :40:49.join them. Typically Alistair will be the boss in this situation,

:40:50. > :40:55.shouting instructions and being very vocal. Half the time his brother

:40:56. > :41:00.Jonathan wishes he would shut up but he won't, he will keep the vocal

:41:01. > :41:04.encouragement to Jonathan and the rest of the field. They know that

:41:05. > :41:09.they need to get away from the rest of them. They need to open a decent

:41:10. > :41:13.gap over the good runners who aren't in the front group. Therefore they

:41:14. > :41:16.will give themselves half a chance heading into the 10,000 metre run

:41:17. > :41:21.which will bring the race to a conclusion. It is so crucial in the

:41:22. > :41:26.early stages of the race that they work really hard and that's where

:41:27. > :41:29.the slight frustration may come from some athletes, especially the

:41:30. > :41:34.Brownlees, they've got to work hard because this is where most of the

:41:35. > :41:38.time can be gained. They are not going to cruise, they are going to

:41:39. > :41:42.work hard but on this course it is crucial to be in a tight, small and

:41:43. > :41:58.effective pack. Salvisberg taking it up for Switzerland. Looking back at

:41:59. > :42:06.the event in Leeds, Royle was in third position, his best finish in

:42:07. > :42:15.the Series. Official timings for Mario Mola, 19 seconds down. Another

:42:16. > :42:20.of the Spanish trio, 40 seconds back, Gordon Benson, 51 seconds

:42:21. > :42:21.back. What's interesting about the Olympics, some athletes will handle

:42:22. > :42:38.the pressure better. That is strange swimming by him. Maybe the nerves

:42:39. > :42:45.have got the better of him. The first lap of eight. Crossing the

:42:46. > :42:50.finishing line just in front of our commentary position. We will keep

:42:51. > :42:57.watching the time difference between the leading group of ten, including

:42:58. > :43:07.Salvisberg, on the right-hand side. 18 seconds ahead of the Polyanskiy

:43:08. > :43:11.group which also includes Kristian Blummenfelt, the Norwegian, a man to

:43:12. > :43:22.watch. Mario Mola is in that group. In fact he is further back, he is

:43:23. > :43:29.now 24 seconds behind. We can see the -- expect to see them lapping in

:43:30. > :43:39.about 20 minutes. Gomez had the fastest split here in 2015. Bearing

:43:40. > :43:42.in mind it is so tough and technical, it wasn't a bad time. I

:43:43. > :43:49.would expect a similar time here today. Every stage of the track is

:43:50. > :43:52.packed with spectators. They are leaning over their balconies from

:43:53. > :44:00.the high-rise apartment blocks, getting a good view of lap two of

:44:01. > :44:04.this race. The second stage of the Olympic triathlon, back to the

:44:05. > :44:08.streets of Copacabana and about to make the client for a second time

:44:09. > :44:15.with the Brownlee brothers forcing the pace at the front, Alistair's

:44:16. > :44:22.turn to take it up, Jonny is behind. Time to get to work. Up and away

:44:23. > :44:26.from Copacabana Beach. This is where the athletes really need to keep the

:44:27. > :44:33.pace up but slightly settle down. The first lap is very frantic but

:44:34. > :44:37.the athletes should be comfortable about where they are going and how

:44:38. > :44:48.to handle the corners. Having a look at Mario Mola, this must be the

:44:49. > :44:52.chase pack. Yes, about 15 with Mario Mola trying to encourage some pace

:44:53. > :44:55.from that group. They are going to have to move it up because the

:44:56. > :45:00.Brownlees are once again climbing and they might end up dropping one

:45:01. > :45:05.or two of this group if they keep it up like this. Into some welcome

:45:06. > :45:10.shade and then the bright and shine. The temperature at the start of the

:45:11. > :45:14.race was 28 degrees, rising all the time. Midwinter in Rio but we expect

:45:15. > :45:19.temperatures in the early 30s by the middle of the afternoon.

:45:20. > :45:26.It's difficult to appreciate just how tough the climb is. When I

:45:27. > :45:30.walked up it, I was out of breath. To imagine they have to tackle it

:45:31. > :45:34.eight times is amazing. That is the bend where Ryan Bailie lost it and

:45:35. > :45:38.rode into the clouds last year, they put questions are so hopefully if

:45:39. > :45:43.there are any crashes it will be a soft landing -- he rode into the

:45:44. > :45:46.crowds. Down they come, the second time of eight they will complete

:45:47. > :45:55.that up and down stage and now they are back on the flat, heading back

:45:56. > :45:57.towards transition. Jonathan Brownlee, the Olympic

:45:58. > :46:01.bronze-medallist, in 2012, in amongst unforgettable scenes when

:46:02. > :46:04.they swam in the waters of the Serpentine, hugely different to the

:46:05. > :46:13.conditions they have dealt with in the waterborne stage of this

:46:14. > :46:18.triathlon today. This is the chase group, that's the lead group, I beg

:46:19. > :46:22.your pardon, Vincent Luis has made his way to join the brothers at the

:46:23. > :46:29.front, Vincent Luis could be a man to watch. Second in the Olympic test

:46:30. > :46:34.event on this very course about a year ago. Vincent Luis has stayed

:46:35. > :46:38.away from the majority of the World Triathlon Series for 2016, choosing

:46:39. > :46:43.to focus his attention purely on today's race, and so far he has got

:46:44. > :46:47.his job done. He wasn't the quickest man in the water, but he has closed

:46:48. > :46:52.the gap and now rides with the Brownlee brothers. He's a bit of an

:46:53. > :46:55.unknown quantity this year. He came second last year, so of course we

:46:56. > :46:59.know he writes very well on this course, but this year as yet we

:47:00. > :47:02.haven't seen him race in the World Triathlon Series. He did take the

:47:03. > :47:07.gold medal what the Europeans were print championships a few weeks ago

:47:08. > :47:11.and while that is commendable I don't think you can compare it with

:47:12. > :47:14.the Olympic race. Over the Olympic distance we haven't seen him race

:47:15. > :47:18.this year, obviously going so well so far but it will be interesting to

:47:19. > :47:25.see how he fares over the ten kilometres. The pace is now taken up

:47:26. > :47:32.by Martin Van Riel from Belgium, number 15. Making his fair share of

:47:33. > :47:38.-- taking his fair share of the workload. But only the Brownlees

:47:39. > :47:41.have moved up to the front on the hill. On the flat, they are content

:47:42. > :47:48.to share it out but the Brownlees are forcing it when it is uphill.

:47:49. > :47:52.Lots of Kanute supporters in and around the transition area when I

:47:53. > :47:56.arrived at the race this morning, confident that he could do well. The

:47:57. > :48:01.best American chance for a medal comes on Saturday of course, with

:48:02. > :48:07.Gwen Jorgensen the dominant triathletes in the women's ranks and

:48:08. > :48:11.she will go in as favourite on Saturday at 11am, when the British

:48:12. > :48:14.trio of Holland, Stanford and Jenkins do battle with the Americans

:48:15. > :48:20.and the rest of the field. Alistair Brownlee's turn out the front. He is

:48:21. > :48:27.working hard in this blistering heat of midday in Rio de Janeiro. They

:48:28. > :48:31.are four or five deep in places the fans here. About the most well

:48:32. > :48:37.attended Olympic event I have seen so far, and that's very encouraging

:48:38. > :48:39.for the sport of triathlon. This is a great little pack here, all the

:48:40. > :48:42.athletes looked like they are prepared to work and every single

:48:43. > :48:46.one of them in their own right has worked well on the bike during some

:48:47. > :48:50.race in the World Triathlon Series. You mention Van Riel, he finished

:48:51. > :48:56.13th here last year, only 23 years of age but a really strong biker and

:48:57. > :49:01.want to look out for in the future. Approaching the end of the second

:49:02. > :49:05.lap of eight. Vincent Luis at the back, able to just freewheel for a

:49:06. > :49:10.moment as he reaches back to find some energy gel. Alistair Brownlee

:49:11. > :49:19.on the left, number five, Jonathan Brownlee tucked in behind him,

:49:20. > :49:22.number six. And now we are with Ben Kanute, this must be a camera

:49:23. > :49:26.mounted on the bike of one of his opponents. They are coming into the

:49:27. > :49:33.transition area. They will pass just in front of our commentary position

:49:34. > :49:38.right now. The leading group of ten. At the end of the previous lap they

:49:39. > :49:42.were 18 seconds clear of the second group. The clock has started running

:49:43. > :49:50.and that margin has now been extended. It's a great advantage

:49:51. > :49:56.that the first group of ten have opened up over the next group of

:49:57. > :50:01.around 12-15 -- a greater advantage. They are still not on their way. I

:50:02. > :50:06.can see them now to my left and they have lost a huge chunk of time. It

:50:07. > :50:10.will be a massive advantage at the end of the second lap as this first

:50:11. > :50:16.group of ten as the second group come through now. That is the Mario

:50:17. > :50:19.Mola group. I just saw Mola lean over to one of his opponents and

:50:20. > :50:25.bark some instructions and try and lift the pace of that group, because

:50:26. > :50:30.they are long way off at the moment. Yes, they certainly are. Mola in

:50:31. > :50:32.fairly decent company, no sighting of Richard Murray, his training

:50:33. > :50:38.partner, they both raised incredibly well so far this season. We have

:50:39. > :50:42.seen them coming through transition, Richard Murray there and Hernandez

:50:43. > :50:46.and Alava way back on the front of that third pack but way down on this

:50:47. > :50:49.group here, our front group, that is being led right now by Alistair

:50:50. > :50:56.Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee from Great Britain -- Fernando Alarza.

:50:57. > :51:05.They are about to climb for the third time. The pace is unrelenting

:51:06. > :51:14.so far. Dictated every step of the way by the brothers from Yorkshire.

:51:15. > :51:19.41 seconds is the time between the leaders and the chasers. 18 seconds

:51:20. > :51:23.at the end of the first lap. They have more than doubled their

:51:24. > :51:27.advantage. That is an extraordinary second lap from the Brownlee group.

:51:28. > :51:31.Well, it really is and the frustration Mola macro had -- the

:51:32. > :51:36.frustration Mola had is no one seemed to be prepared to work.

:51:37. > :51:41.Kristian Blummenfelt not showing the form he has shown previously when he

:51:42. > :51:44.has finished on the podium in the World Triathlon Series, as they make

:51:45. > :51:52.their way up the climb for the third time. They will be taking that laps

:51:53. > :51:59.off, negotiating more times, the laps cocking down as they go up for

:52:00. > :52:02.the third time. 34 minutes since the triathlon started, so far so good

:52:03. > :52:06.for the British plan with the Brownlees up near the front. The

:52:07. > :52:11.only slight blip from the British contingent is that Gordon Benson was

:52:12. > :52:14.unable to stay with the brothers for the swim. He would be hoping to

:52:15. > :52:19.begin this group and helping them share the workload at the front, but

:52:20. > :52:23.he is miles back at the moment as they negotiate this tricky descent.

:52:24. > :52:27.Gentle breaking from the Brownlee brothers at the front. Staying out

:52:28. > :52:30.of trouble. Thank goodness it is dry, I think they were hoping for a

:52:31. > :52:34.bit of rain and overcast conditions but as they come down on descent I

:52:35. > :52:43.think they will be relieved it is actually drive. So Mario Mola, news

:52:44. > :52:47.of him, he is potentially we thought the Brownlees' biggest rival today,

:52:48. > :52:53.lost 17 seconds during that second lap. Mola is having a torrid time on

:52:54. > :52:58.his bike this afternoon. He certainly is, going into this race

:52:59. > :53:03.we thought he has been so strong, he has really improved on his swing and

:53:04. > :53:07.his bike and I expected him, being a light athlete, to really enjoy this

:53:08. > :53:12.course but it seems to me that he is finding it harder. Mola descending

:53:13. > :53:17.quite cautiously down the hill, as he swings round on the right-hand

:53:18. > :53:22.bend. I said this afternoon, but it still this morning, in 11:36am in

:53:23. > :53:28.Rio, a relatively early start for this triathlon to avoid the worst of

:53:29. > :53:33.the midday sun. That was the theory, anyway, and to get in line with the

:53:34. > :53:39.European and American broadcast preferences as well. So far from the

:53:40. > :53:44.BBC point of view it couldn't be going better. With Alistair Brownlee

:53:45. > :53:49.and Jonathan Brownlee, the gold and bronze-medallists from 2012 in

:53:50. > :53:52.London, in the front group. Ben Kanute of the United States of

:53:53. > :53:58.America is right up there as well. Ben Kanute, the National US

:53:59. > :54:04.champion, finished a little bit down here last year, but a nice story for

:54:05. > :54:08.the is watching out there, he was the age group sprint champion in

:54:09. > :54:12.champion in 2008 in the 16-19 age group, so a nice story to see that

:54:13. > :54:18.an age-group athlete can come up and find himself in the Olympics eight

:54:19. > :54:23.years later. Ben Kanute, 23 years old, from Tucson, Arizona, so he

:54:24. > :54:31.won't mind the heat, not one little bit. A bit of chat between Kanute

:54:32. > :54:34.and Alistair Brownlee. I hope the brothers have their factor 50 on

:54:35. > :54:38.today as well, to try to protect themselves from the heat. I know

:54:39. > :54:42.that the training camp led by Brendan Purcell and the rest of the

:54:43. > :54:52.British team up at the Sao Paulo Air Force Base, every element was

:54:53. > :54:55.covered in terms of keeping the athletes clear of Ellie -- any

:54:56. > :55:02.illnesses. All the door handles were wiped every day, a lot of surfaces

:55:03. > :55:04.were wiped every day with antibacterial and anti-viral

:55:05. > :55:08.substances to keep them clear of any potential bugs that might get into

:55:09. > :55:11.the system. They took their own nutritionist with them who cooked

:55:12. > :55:15.for them every day, washing everything carefully, they took

:55:16. > :55:19.absolutely no chances because at the test event here last year, Alistair

:55:20. > :55:23.got sick, didn't he, coming out of the water, he wasn't himself and was

:55:24. > :55:27.unable to perform at his best. So at the training camp they decided that

:55:28. > :55:31.they would have a belt and bridges approach to keeping everybody

:55:32. > :55:39.healthy. We can see the athletes effectively through an off method

:55:40. > :55:42.where the athletes it's for a couple of seconds at the front and then the

:55:43. > :55:47.athlete comes through, savvy and having a hard time coming in front

:55:48. > :55:53.of Alistair, Alistair saying come and take your turn. -- Fabian Delph

:55:54. > :55:56.Fabienne In-Albon the front, Kanute coming through, Van Riel from

:55:57. > :56:03.Belgian coming through to take his turn. We are with the leaders, who

:56:04. > :56:07.are approaching the end of their third lap, at the end of their first

:56:08. > :56:12.lap they were 18 seconds in full. By lap two's completion it was 41.

:56:13. > :56:16.Coming to the end of lap three, Alistair doing a lot of work, they

:56:17. > :56:20.are on the blue carpet which means the clock. And we will get a check

:56:21. > :56:25.on the time difference between this group of ten and the Mario Mola

:56:26. > :56:35.group, which is large in number but so far ineffective in progress. 20

:56:36. > :56:38.seconds already and it could be out towards a minute, who knows, and if

:56:39. > :56:43.it's a minute I don't think there is any way that Mola can win it. Well,

:56:44. > :56:47.he can't. We've seen him do amazing things from behind times but I think

:56:48. > :56:52.against the Brownlee brothers he will have a very, very tough time

:56:53. > :56:55.and indeed if he is over a minute behind and Aaron Royle who we saw in

:56:56. > :57:04.the picture from Australia, a very strong athlete and run as well, so

:57:05. > :57:08.he would be able -- he wouldn't be able to catch him. Mola will find it

:57:09. > :57:10.difficult to get on the podium. I can see them coming, the chase

:57:11. > :57:13.group, but they are probably another ten or 12 seconds from crossing the

:57:14. > :57:17.finishing line, which means it will be well over a minute. It has gone

:57:18. > :57:24.from 18 seconds at the end of lap one, 40 seconds at the end of lap

:57:25. > :57:32.two, and the clock. Now, at the end of lap three, 63 seconds, a minute

:57:33. > :57:36.and three, to the chase group. A huge margin. In favour of the

:57:37. > :57:40.Brownlee brothers. And the rest of their lead group. Within that group,

:57:41. > :57:46.they do have Vincent Luis, we know that Vincent Luis is a fine runner,

:57:47. > :57:54.and he could give the Brownlees a run for their money over -- over

:57:55. > :57:57.10,000 metres. He is the unknown quantity, having been absent from

:57:58. > :58:01.the World Triathlon Series this summer. Very difficult to know

:58:02. > :58:05.unless you have been on the training camp or spoken to the courage to

:58:06. > :58:11.know what Luis has been and how he is staring over ten kilometres. It

:58:12. > :58:14.is was known he has done well over the sprint distance previously and

:58:15. > :58:17.he was second here last year, so he ran well over ten K but I think the

:58:18. > :58:21.Brownlee brothers will be interesting to see what he has in

:58:22. > :58:27.his legs at the end of his bike and how he will fare, having not seen

:58:28. > :58:32.him race this year. Mario Mola is going backwards very quickly. He

:58:33. > :58:37.lost another 23 seconds during that last bike lap. As they climb for the

:58:38. > :58:42.fourth time. That's where you get a good picture of just out of this

:58:43. > :58:47.climb is. I'm not sure of the gradient, but it's like trying to

:58:48. > :58:50.climb a brick, it is short but it's very intense. It flattens out a

:58:51. > :58:55.little here, then there's another rise before they make the top and

:58:56. > :59:04.the fast descent back towards the beach.

:59:05. > :59:10.Well, at this stage, the medals have to come from this group of ten and

:59:11. > :59:13.you would suspect that the three men on the podium, if they avoid any

:59:14. > :59:17.accidents and don't blow up in the heat on the run, will be the

:59:18. > :59:22.Brownlee brothers and Vincent Luis. That would be an early prediction,

:59:23. > :59:26.and it is still very early. Yes, let's not tempt fate! We have four

:59:27. > :59:29.laps to go yet but certainly at the moment all these athletes need to do

:59:30. > :59:34.in this front pack now is right strong and ride safe. They will be

:59:35. > :59:38.getting some time references from the coaches out on the course.

:59:39. > :59:43.Whether they will get a chance to hear at this speed. Our second and

:59:44. > :59:46.third pack have joined together, impossible to work effectively in a

:59:47. > :59:51.pack like this, on a course like this. And under climb like this,

:59:52. > :59:58.Maloy on the right. The Chinese are slight, then the Russian group, one

:59:59. > :00:02.of the Polyanskiy just ahead of him, Toth from Hungary, this is the tail

:00:03. > :00:08.end of the chase group which is spread out almost from the bottom of

:00:09. > :00:11.the climb to the top. Henri Shoeman is in the group as well and Richard

:00:12. > :00:16.Murray is, in fact Henri Shoeman is with the leaders. Richard Murray

:00:17. > :00:26.isn't the chase group and Gordon Benson, we have spotted Benson, he's

:00:27. > :00:29.in the chase group. They are a minute and three seconds behind the

:00:30. > :00:54.Brownlee group. At the moment this Olympic Games is

:00:55. > :01:01.not going the way of Mario Mola and Richard Murray. Riding alongside the

:01:02. > :01:08.lead group. The lead time, 63 seconds. Huge margin for the

:01:09. > :01:19.Alistair Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee group. Kanute is on the end

:01:20. > :01:23.from Arizona. Taking some water on, important, you can see Alistair

:01:24. > :01:27.throwing it over his head, it is important to keep cool. They must

:01:28. > :01:33.think about the ten kilometre run coming up after this fairly brutal

:01:34. > :01:38.bike course. Taking an gel and water is important. They will have some

:01:39. > :01:42.kind of isotonic gel to make sure they are as fresh as they can be

:01:43. > :01:48.going to the run. Getting towards halfway on the bike. Look at the

:01:49. > :01:53.crowds, this is fantastic. So many out with the flags of the competing

:01:54. > :01:58.nations held by the watchers here this afternoon. They are getting

:01:59. > :02:09.towards halfway on the bikes. 20 kilometres down and 20 to go. The

:02:10. > :02:12.opposite end of coca back on a beach at -- Copacabana Beach and Sugarloaf

:02:13. > :02:18.Mountain in the background. You can see the cable car climbing up

:02:19. > :02:29.Sugarloaf Mountain with the trams passing midway. Huge support for

:02:30. > :02:33.this group of ten. They've been working together as a pack since

:02:34. > :02:41.they came out of the water. Vincent Luis of France is at the front,

:02:42. > :02:51.school and South Africa, the Brownlees, while Mac of Australia.

:02:52. > :02:54.-- Royle. Fabian from Italy hanging onto the back I think he's having a

:02:55. > :03:04.tough time but he is still hanging onto the front group. Varga was the

:03:05. > :03:10.first man out of the water, he could be on course for an Olympic top ten.

:03:11. > :03:14.Pitting halfway, Lap four of eight. The first group of ten cross in

:03:15. > :03:19.front of our commentary position in transition. The first time we'd seen

:03:20. > :03:24.the athletes at the top of the pack able to have a break. They must keep

:03:25. > :03:28.the pace and the pressure on. Important that the second group

:03:29. > :03:31.don't make any inroads. We'll have to break a bit longer to see what

:03:32. > :03:38.the gap is between the front pack and the chasing pack. Last time it

:03:39. > :03:45.was a minute and three seconds, has the chase group managed to get

:03:46. > :03:53.anything back over lap four as number five on faults? Alistair

:03:54. > :03:56.looks around to see who is nearby Savas Burke is taking his

:03:57. > :04:06.opportunity -- Savas Burke. Alan Royal. Good chances in the

:04:07. > :04:15.women's competition as well -- Royle. Outside bet for the podium

:04:16. > :04:27.place today, Royle. Still ticking along. One minute 13 officially as

:04:28. > :04:32.they use the timing gun which is just ahead of the finishing line so

:04:33. > :04:40.it has gone up another ten seconds. Over a minute at the end of the

:04:41. > :04:47.third lap, now it is one minute and 13 seconds at the halfway point. The

:04:48. > :04:51.Brownlees and the rest of this group of ten have got the job done in the

:04:52. > :05:00.early stages. What a cycle stage they've had. Yeah, the gap did not

:05:01. > :05:04.grow as much in the second lap, I think because Murray is in that

:05:05. > :05:09.group. The important thing is that it is still riding away from the

:05:10. > :05:14.second pack. Ten seconds more with four laps to go is pretty

:05:15. > :05:21.significant. So the Brownlees deciding to ease up slightly with

:05:22. > :05:26.their workload. One of them is, anyway, I think it Alistair on the

:05:27. > :05:30.right, with Jonny at the front. You can just about tell them apart from

:05:31. > :05:36.their riding style, they look similar otherwise. They are forcing

:05:37. > :05:41.the pace one more time on the climb for the fifth time. Three more laps

:05:42. > :05:48.after this one as they reach the summit. The first little summit.

:05:49. > :05:55.There is a five second flat and then it rises once more, to the very top

:05:56. > :05:59.in this leafy suburb of Copacabana. Then they can ease off for the

:06:00. > :06:03.descent. Alistair Brownlee, Jonathan Brownlee, first and second. Taking

:06:04. > :06:08.no chances on their way down the hill. Interesting to see, the

:06:09. > :06:13.Brownlee brothers have been leading down the hill every time, the other

:06:14. > :06:16.athletes sensing that they are the guys who are strong technically and

:06:17. > :06:21.they understand how do come down then well and quickly the Brownlee

:06:22. > :06:27.brothers have been leading the descents. Salvisberg tapped in the

:06:28. > :06:30.back in the red, Switzerland, a bit of a breakthrough race and the

:06:31. > :06:34.European Championships, winning a bronze medal, young athlete coming

:06:35. > :06:42.through and he's having the race of his life here in Rio. So the first

:06:43. > :06:46.four laps covered by Jonathan Brownlee, 26 minutes and 55 seconds.

:06:47. > :06:54.Looking at a similar time to last year in the test event. Perhaps a

:06:55. > :06:58.bit faster because Jackie Gomez went through in 28.34, just over one

:06:59. > :07:03.minute faster, these guys are racing. That is to be expected, that

:07:04. > :07:09.was a test event and this is the Olympic race so they are going to be

:07:10. > :07:18.pushing the pace and giving 100%. The shoes are lined up ready for the

:07:19. > :07:24.run. The tongues loosened. They have a fast tying system, Velcro straps.

:07:25. > :07:36.Glancing behind, Jonathan, to see who's behind him. It is Kanute right

:07:37. > :07:40.now. If we look from our commentary position across from where the bikes

:07:41. > :07:44.were parked we can see a line of coaches. Brendan Percella, the

:07:45. > :07:50.performance director of the Great Britain team is there, along with

:07:51. > :07:56.the Australian coaches, the Swiss and the Americans. They are giving

:07:57. > :08:00.details to their athletes as they pass in front of transition at the

:08:01. > :08:09.end of each lap. Getting towards the end of the fifth lap now. The other

:08:10. > :08:12.coach was Jamie Turner, the coach of Jorgensen and also the coach of

:08:13. > :08:17.Royle in this race and he'll be excited to see how his athlete is

:08:18. > :08:21.progressing. Third place in Leeds and was a former world under 23

:08:22. > :08:27.champion, soap Royle is perhaps the third best athlete and most

:08:28. > :08:35.successful behind the Brownlee brothers. The 26-year-old from New

:08:36. > :08:40.South Wales, Australia. Passionate cyclist and swimmer as a kid.

:08:41. > :08:43.Australians like swimming of course and his parents said that he must

:08:44. > :08:48.choose between the two, they couldn't keep funding and helping

:08:49. > :08:56.him with both and he said he couldn't give up so he took up

:08:57. > :09:01.another one, the third discipline. The best of the current crop of

:09:02. > :09:06.Australians. I think that the athletes on the flat section of the

:09:07. > :09:10.course are taking the opportunity to spin their legs at a little bit and

:09:11. > :09:14.get a bit of a rest as we saw Varga looking around and Brownlee had to

:09:15. > :09:19.swerve and miss his wheel. Now Alistair is looking around. He is

:09:20. > :09:26.the boss and he is giving the marching orders. Towards the end of

:09:27. > :09:33.lap five, no room for complacency. We just saw the near miss. If the

:09:34. > :09:37.bike is damaged, there is little chance of getting back in the race.

:09:38. > :09:42.Although it is a huge lead that they have opened up over the pack, they

:09:43. > :09:47.must maintain full concentration. Still three and a bit laps left

:09:48. > :09:54.before they hang up their bikes and begin the 10,000 metre run. Hugely

:09:55. > :10:05.frustrating for Murray because he's doing all the work. Mola is on his

:10:06. > :10:09.shoulder and you can see them coming over the blue carpet. The end of lap

:10:10. > :10:14.five, the first group of ten, cruising past us. A real

:10:15. > :10:19.depreciation in pace, that was notable compared to the previous

:10:20. > :10:26.laps. We will see if as a result in the lead up of speed in the front

:10:27. > :10:30.group, whether the Mola pack have made a difference. Last time we

:10:31. > :10:35.checked the timing they were a minute and 13 seconds off, that was

:10:36. > :10:44.at the end of lap four. So the front group are now beginning their sixth

:10:45. > :10:48.lap with Van Riel at the back and one of the Brownlee brothers at the

:10:49. > :10:53.front. Meanwhile, no sign of the next group who are way down the

:10:54. > :10:56.road. From my commentary position towards the end of the blue carpet

:10:57. > :11:02.and down towards the beach volleyball venue, still no sign of

:11:03. > :11:09.any serious move up towards a medal position from the Mario Mola group.

:11:10. > :11:14.They are in sight now. But the time is already one minute and seven

:11:15. > :11:19.seconds. Look at the pace that these guys at the front are able to adopt,

:11:20. > :11:25.having taken so much out of the rest of the field during the first half

:11:26. > :11:30.of the cycling. It is a minute and 15 seconds now. No real change

:11:31. > :11:38.between the end of lap four and lap five. A couple of seconds. Richard

:11:39. > :11:41.Murray was in the front of that pack. He was shaking his head,

:11:42. > :11:49.clearly disappointed with the way his swim went and with the way the

:11:50. > :11:54.bike has unfolded for him so the. Richard Murray of course was

:11:55. > :11:57.involved in a sprint finish in the winner of the Series race in

:11:58. > :12:02.hamburger but he had to take a penalty he wasn't expecting, he lost

:12:03. > :12:08.his temper and lost his finishing result and prize money and was

:12:09. > :12:12.discredited for a while. Yeah that was a shocking day for Richard

:12:13. > :12:17.Murray and I think a few people felt sorry for him. Very unsportsmanlike

:12:18. > :12:22.behaviour and things not getting better for him. He has worked hard

:12:23. > :12:27.to bring himself into the race. No one else in the group is really

:12:28. > :12:33.working with him. Now we are back with the front pack, Jonathan and

:12:34. > :12:40.Alistair Brownlee, Vincent Luis from France. Four athletes in the front

:12:41. > :12:45.group have been to the Olympics previously, Alistair and Jonathan

:12:46. > :12:47.finishing first and third and Vincent Luis finishing 12th in

:12:48. > :12:57.London and Richard Varga, 20 seconds. 220 Second Place. -- he was

:12:58. > :13:07.in 20 Second Place. The other athlete to win an Olympic race,

:13:08. > :13:12.Riederer, 35 years of age, racing here in Rio, his fourth Olympics.

:13:13. > :13:23.Third in Athens, when he won a bronze medal. 20 Third Place in

:13:24. > :13:32.Beijing, and a better in Lasse Viren better result in London, finishing

:13:33. > :13:35.in eighth place. The sixth climb of eight -- better result in London.

:13:36. > :13:42.Alistair seems to be coping well with the heat of midday. It is three

:13:43. > :13:46.minutes before 12 in Rio. Sydney 2000 was the first Olympic

:13:47. > :13:56.triathlon, Simon Whitfield took gold and Hamish Carter of New Zealand in

:13:57. > :14:00.Athens 2004. We had that sprint finish in Beijing, an event that

:14:01. > :14:04.Alistair Brownlee took part in as a youngster. He had an individual

:14:05. > :14:11.break on the bike which he paid for eventually. And he bounced back to

:14:12. > :14:17.win in London four years ago. Four Olympic triathlons and four

:14:18. > :14:26.difference champions. -- different. Average speed of the men in the lead

:14:27. > :14:32.group for the first four laps, 42.8 kilometres per hour. That's pretty

:14:33. > :14:38.impressive and I think most cyclists would say so as well. Road cyclists,

:14:39. > :14:42.that is. This is a tough and technical tight course with that

:14:43. > :14:46.nasty climb and descent. So averaging those kinds of speeds, the

:14:47. > :14:58.athletes are doing incredibly well. Approaching the end of the sixth lap

:14:59. > :15:06.now, two to come. The gap was one minute and 15 seconds to the Mario

:15:07. > :15:11.Mola group. We have seen very little of them, they are so far removed

:15:12. > :15:16.from the lead group. Alistair Brownlee is deep in thought. He is

:15:17. > :15:22.considering every step of this race, seeing who is where, who is working

:15:23. > :15:27.hard, who is doing less work, sizing up his opposition for the final

:15:28. > :15:33.stage. Which is a four lap run on the flat. They don't go up the hill

:15:34. > :15:38.on the run, they stay on the flat, just alongside the beach on the

:15:39. > :15:44.Avenida Atlantica, in front of the transition where the spectators are

:15:45. > :15:47.six or seven deep in places, how many art out watching this triathlon

:15:48. > :15:53.unfold this afternoon. It seems reminiscent of Hyde Park. Fantastic

:15:54. > :15:57.to see. You only had to go for a little stroll to see the number of

:15:58. > :16:00.Brazilians out there, running along the Copacabana Beach. There's a love

:16:01. > :16:04.and passion for sport, so to have this opportunity to hold the

:16:05. > :16:07.triathlon here, you couldn't get a better place in Rio, you really

:16:08. > :16:11.couldn't. All credit to the Brazilians for coming to support

:16:12. > :16:20.this because there are no Brazilians in the race. There is one athlete,

:16:21. > :16:26.actually, I think that is Diogo Sclebin. Diogo Sclebin from Brazil,

:16:27. > :16:31.no sign of him at this stage. Joe Pereira, the Portuguese athlete, is

:16:32. > :16:36.popular in these parts but he has yet to show his hand. The Brazilian

:16:37. > :16:42.athlete, 44th last year and he was an age group world champion in 2003,

:16:43. > :16:46.he certainly hasn't made the front pack today. Richard Varga is in the

:16:47. > :16:51.front pack, we will follow him with the bike come mounted on the rear

:16:52. > :16:55.wheel of one of his fellow competitors here. His work was done

:16:56. > :17:01.in the first stage of this race, forcing the pace in the water. That

:17:02. > :17:07.is where they will complete the cycle in a couple of laps from now.

:17:08. > :17:10.They are now finishing the six lap of eight. Ben Kanute leads them

:17:11. > :17:16.through. The time starts ticking towards the second group. It's the

:17:17. > :17:21.Mario Mola, Richard Murray contingent, who are way off back

:17:22. > :17:26.down the road. A minute and 15 seconds, last time we checked them

:17:27. > :17:29.through at the end of lap five. As a result of these guys knowing that

:17:30. > :17:36.there are advantages so great they have had the luxury of just easing

:17:37. > :17:40.off on the pace slightly, before the race reaches its conclusion as

:17:41. > :17:47.before they hang up their bikes ready for the final stage. Well,

:17:48. > :17:51.Henri Shoeman on the back of the pack, I wonder what's going through

:17:52. > :17:54.his mind right now. He's having an absolutely phenomenal race. He

:17:55. > :17:58.hasn't made the podium on the World Triathlon Series as yet. But Henri

:17:59. > :18:02.Shoeman really having a fantastic Olympics here right now. The only

:18:03. > :18:05.guys he really has to worry about on this run would be the Brownlee

:18:06. > :18:09.brothers, obviously Royle and Vincent Luis, who we have mentioned.

:18:10. > :18:15.We're not sure what his 10,000-metre fitness, where it is at the moment,

:18:16. > :18:18.certainly, but Schuman is one of the athletes on the front pack that I

:18:19. > :18:24.would say is going to be in with a shout of a medal. Australia has the

:18:25. > :18:31.most Olympic medals in the history of the Olympic sport, five from the

:18:32. > :18:36.men's, a gold, two Silver, two bronze, 48 nations represented at

:18:37. > :18:40.the Rio games. The latest time check between the leaders on the chasers,

:18:41. > :18:43.one minute and 18 seconds, so another three seconds taken out of

:18:44. > :18:49.the Mario Mola and Richard Murray group by the Brownlee group. So all

:18:50. > :18:53.these athletes have to do now in this front pack is negotiate these

:18:54. > :18:56.two last laps. They need to keep the pressure on slightly but just relax

:18:57. > :19:02.and really focus on taking the corners, taking the defence well.

:19:03. > :19:06.Their hard work is really been done now. One minute 20 seconds will be

:19:07. > :19:13.very hard from anyone in that second pack, including to chase back,

:19:14. > :19:21.certainly -- including Mola to chase back. Triathlon races, as they

:19:22. > :19:26.reached their conclusion for the men, traditionally quite close. The

:19:27. > :19:31.closest finish, six seconds, in Beijing 2008. The largest winning

:19:32. > :19:38.margin, only 13 seconds, Whitfield when he won over the German in

:19:39. > :19:42.Sydney. It was pretty tight between the three medallists in London three

:19:43. > :19:46.years ago, Alistair came home beating Gomez, Jonathan had to take

:19:47. > :19:50.the 15 seconds stop-go penalty remember, for failing to get off his

:19:51. > :19:55.bike before the dismount line. We never saw a replay of it but we had

:19:56. > :20:00.to obviously believe it. The jury had seen it again and they penalised

:20:01. > :20:06.Jonathan with a 15 second stop go. He still managed to hold on and take

:20:07. > :20:12.the bronze behind his brother and Javier Gomez. Now they come down the

:20:13. > :20:16.hill for the penultimate time. Lap seven, deep in lap seven here. Once

:20:17. > :20:19.they cross the start finishing line they will have one more circuit from

:20:20. > :20:26.two wheels before setting their sights on the 10,000-metre run, to

:20:27. > :20:32.round things off. It was the Swiss athlete Salvisberg who led them down

:20:33. > :20:37.the hill, known for their riding skills. Vincent Luis comes through

:20:38. > :20:40.and Salvisberg drops back, this group has worked very effectively

:20:41. > :20:44.together for the most of the race. We have seen it take the foot off

:20:45. > :20:47.the gas in front of our commentary box here, but they have really

:20:48. > :20:51.worked together, come together as a team and it's showing now in the

:20:52. > :20:52.time difference between the front pack and the second pack, which is

:20:53. > :21:09.about one minute and 20 seconds. The leaders with a huge margin over

:21:10. > :21:14.the chase pack. Everything so far is falling into place for Alistair and

:21:15. > :21:18.Jonathan Brownlee, as they had off in the hunt for more Olympic

:21:19. > :21:21.success, Alistair hoping to become the most successful Olympic

:21:22. > :21:26.triathlete of all time. The only other triathletes to have two

:21:27. > :21:31.Olympic medals to the name is Simon Whitfield, who won in the first-ever

:21:32. > :21:38.Olympics in Sydney, and went on to get a silver medal behind the German

:21:39. > :21:42.in Beijing. The support the triathletes have enjoyed throughout

:21:43. > :21:46.this race has been immense from the thousands of visitors from all over

:21:47. > :21:51.the world and from the Brazilian sports fans themselves, who have

:21:52. > :21:56.come out on this Thursday morning. The chase group is now one minute

:21:57. > :22:02.and 20 off the pace. Surely there is no way back. Mario Mola is not going

:22:03. > :22:05.to win a medal today unless he has a miracle run over ten K over the

:22:06. > :22:09.streets of Copacabana. Yes, you are right. If he didn't have Aaron Royle

:22:10. > :22:15.and perhaps Henri Shoeman in that front pack you might stand a chance.

:22:16. > :22:18.Certainly he has run down a handful of the athletes in the front pack

:22:19. > :22:20.who are not known as runners but Mario Mola will find it very

:22:21. > :22:25.difficult to get on the podium here today. Lets not forget Vincent Luis,

:22:26. > :22:35.who is also potentially contending to give the Brownlees and Royle run

:22:36. > :22:38.for their money. It's easy to forget about him because we haven't seen

:22:39. > :22:42.him on the world circuit this year but of course he is a phenomenal

:22:43. > :22:45.athlete, finishing second here last year, a winner in the World

:22:46. > :22:49.Triathlon Series and a very strong athlete. I'm intrigued to see what

:22:50. > :22:55.he has in his legs for the 10,000 metres. We can see a crash now.

:22:56. > :23:09.Three riders down. This was way back down the field. Is that Benson? Is

:23:10. > :23:12.that Gordon Benson who has come Benson has had a prank and seems to

:23:13. > :23:16.have done some damage to his bike. He is staring rather worryingly at

:23:17. > :23:20.his rear wheel. We hope he is OK, he is standing on his speed. Three

:23:21. > :23:25.riders, including Yorke of Canada, are running to the station hoping to

:23:26. > :23:34.get their bike fixed. We will get a replay. The leading ten cruise along

:23:35. > :23:37.the seafront here in Copacabana with the Brownlee brothers still forcing

:23:38. > :23:44.the pace. Jonathan taking his turn at the front at the moment. It will

:23:45. > :23:47.be interesting to see how that crash happened, I don't know whether we

:23:48. > :23:51.will get any other pictures. There are a couple of other athletes on

:23:52. > :23:55.the floor, we can't give you their names. That's what happens when you

:23:56. > :24:01.ride in a big pack on a course like this, it will happen. It's

:24:02. > :24:04.inevitable, when you have a pack of 30 athletes nap -- riding around the

:24:05. > :24:12.narrow streets. Here they come, to take the bell. The end of lap seven

:24:13. > :24:16.of eight. The Olympic bell sounds for the first ten across the start

:24:17. > :24:22.finishing line come up with one more lap to go and the clock begins

:24:23. > :24:26.ticking. At the end of lap six, it was one minute and 18 seconds, the

:24:27. > :24:34.gap to the chase group. It may well have grown even further. And now

:24:35. > :24:41.they set up for their final time. Their final climb, up and away to

:24:42. > :24:48.the west of Copacabana Beach, up into the suburbs behind the marina

:24:49. > :24:54.area, then they make their turn at the top and descend one more time.

:24:55. > :25:00.The chase group is far removed from medal contention now. There is no

:25:01. > :25:10.real pace and urgency about this group. 31, from Denmark, it's not

:25:11. > :25:12.dirty one, it's -- it's not dirty its 34 from Denmark, Andreas

:25:13. > :25:19.Schilling is leading the chase group. Looks as though it has been

:25:20. > :25:24.well broken up by the crash, we were looking at a large chase group. The

:25:25. > :25:28.chase group have just taken the bell. We didn't get a time, I have

:25:29. > :25:32.it on the big screen, it is one minute and 15 again, so no real

:25:33. > :25:37.change. It's drifted out from one minute and 18, that has been the

:25:38. > :25:42.greatest margin. They have found about three seconds, more because of

:25:43. > :25:45.the reduction in pace in the group led by Vincent Luis at the moment.

:25:46. > :25:50.Mola has been removed from the chase group. In fact it was Vicente

:25:51. > :25:55.Hernandez who when pastors. That group was split as a result of the

:25:56. > :26:00.crash but what is happening behind really has little relevance to what

:26:01. > :26:06.is going on amongst this group. The three Olympic medals will with a 90%

:26:07. > :26:10.certainty come from this front group of ten. There they look of steely

:26:11. > :26:13.determination on the face of Jonathan Brownlee, the younger of

:26:14. > :26:24.the two brothers, who begins the climb for the final time.

:26:25. > :26:34.Simon Whitfield once returned from a 77 seconds deficit after the cycle

:26:35. > :26:39.in Sydney to make the podium. Mario Mola has a similar job to do if he

:26:40. > :26:41.is to do it today. But of course Whitfield wasn't up against runners

:26:42. > :26:49.of the calibre of the Brownlee brothers, in St Louis and Aaron

:26:50. > :26:55.Royle. So unlikely that Mola, even with his dynamic running qualities,

:26:56. > :27:03.can close the gap. He may take 30 or 40 or even 50 seconds out of the

:27:04. > :27:17.lead of the Brownlees, but it's unlikely that Mowlam will feature in

:27:18. > :27:21.amongst the medals today. But we are ready to be proved wrong -- it's

:27:22. > :27:27.unlikely Mola will feature in amongst the medals today. The

:27:28. > :27:34.athletes in the front pack will have tired legs.

:27:35. > :27:44.The boys for my liking as jobs right back onto it. Alert to the danger,

:27:45. > :27:48.the Brownlees working as a team, they have come together to close the

:27:49. > :28:02.gap to Vincent Luis. They won't let him get too far in front. They have

:28:03. > :28:04.already closed the gap. Luis has let his intentions be known. He wants to

:28:05. > :28:11.race against the Brownlees Faure medal here in the early afternoon,

:28:12. > :28:17.the midday sun of Rio de Janeiro. They are on the final lap now. They

:28:18. > :28:23.are holding the time, not pulling back any time, but they are holding

:28:24. > :28:26.the time and if the front group can carry on working as effectively as

:28:27. > :28:30.they have done, we will see the minute or so gap going out onto the

:28:31. > :28:31.ten K run and this race at the moment really playing into the

:28:32. > :28:44.Brownlee brothers' hands. Gordon Benson is out of the race. We

:28:45. > :28:50.saw him post crash, staring woefully down at his wheel. He has had to

:28:51. > :28:57.abandon. Yorke from Canada, who we saw running off, has managed to get

:28:58. > :29:05.his bike fixed and he has taken the bell. He's bravely continuing on.

:29:06. > :29:08.But meanwhile the front group of 10 are beginning to cast their minds

:29:09. > :29:16.forward to the arrival in transition and the switch from the end of the

:29:17. > :29:21.40 K cycle, to the start of the ten Kate run. So if you haven't watched

:29:22. > :29:25.triathlon before see their preparations unfold. The guys will

:29:26. > :29:30.reach down, and do issues which remain attached to the pedals, so

:29:31. > :29:36.they can lift their feet out of the shoes -- undo their shoes. They will

:29:37. > :29:40.aim to reduce speed very slightly. You can see on the left one of the

:29:41. > :29:44.Brownlee brothers just reaching down and doing that exact thing. They

:29:45. > :29:48.will aim to reduce the speed slightly as they hit this mount line

:29:49. > :29:55.but not to move lose any momentum. -- they hit the dismount line. It's

:29:56. > :29:58.a smooth movement to get their legs over the saddle, down to the

:29:59. > :30:03.relatively soft surface that the blue carpet provides and trot

:30:04. > :30:08.towards that position in transition and park up their bikes. We saw

:30:09. > :30:13.Alistair rehearse it earlier, he got it right for the change from swim to

:30:14. > :30:20.cycle will stop his already rehearsed it and will hope to get it

:30:21. > :30:23.right for the change from cycle to run. You can see both the brothers

:30:24. > :30:26.and the rest of their rivals here, have their feet resting on top of

:30:27. > :30:31.the pedals. The noise levels have not receded at all. Every time this

:30:32. > :30:36.front group comes past there's a great crescendo, a symphony of sound

:30:37. > :30:42.from the triathlon supporters here at Copacabana. Now the ride rider

:30:43. > :30:48.who has edged towards the front of the field, there are 20 of union

:30:49. > :30:52.flags to give them encouragement, and the defending Olympic champion,

:30:53. > :30:54.Alistair Brownlee, the old of the two brothers, settles down at the

:30:55. > :30:59.front of the field and will hope to get this right. They call it the

:31:00. > :31:04.fourth discipline of triathlon, the in and out of transition.

:31:05. > :31:12.It is less complicated this time, without the wet suit. The dismount

:31:13. > :31:15.line is approaching. Jonathan will be keen to get it right and avoid

:31:16. > :31:21.further punishment which he incurred four years ago. Looking around,

:31:22. > :31:27.avoiding any contact, collisions can occur but with a group of ten, quite

:31:28. > :31:30.small, it is unlikely. Salvisberg is in. The Brownlees arrived. They will

:31:31. > :31:36.have to get their recruitment in that box. The helmet goes in the

:31:37. > :31:42.box. Jonny is the first to move, joined by Vincent Luis. Salvisberg

:31:43. > :31:46.is just ahead of them. Alistair Brownlee is right there as well.

:31:47. > :31:52.Vincent Luis has gone for the white headband in an attempt to keep

:31:53. > :31:59.score. Vargas had a good transition, leaving quickly. A group of four,

:32:00. > :32:05.five actually has formed. No, it's four, Vincent Luis, the brothers and

:32:06. > :32:12.Baga. -- Vargas. They all take a sponge and a shower as they begin

:32:13. > :32:18.their first lap of four, 10,000 metres now between the triathletes

:32:19. > :32:22.and the medals. It is the Brownlee brothers and Vincent Luis who have

:32:23. > :32:27.already got away from the rest of the field. Vincent Luis has a best

:32:28. > :32:36.10,000 metre time of 29 minutes and 53 seconds. That compares to Royle

:32:37. > :32:44.of 30 minutes and 11, Fabian, 30 minutes 37 seconds. France has never

:32:45. > :32:52.had an Olympic medal in the triathlon. Laurent Vidal, who sadly

:32:53. > :32:58.passed away last year following some cardiac problems, came close,

:32:59. > :33:04.finishing fourth. I think David Howes finished in fifth stop that

:33:05. > :33:11.was in London. Mario Mola has arrived and departed transition. The

:33:12. > :33:17.gap still around the one minute 20 mark. So, lap one is underway and it

:33:18. > :33:22.is the men we expected to be involved. Jonathan Brownlee, Vincent

:33:23. > :33:26.Luis, Alistair Brownlee, who, at this stage, look to be the main

:33:27. > :33:32.medal contenders. Henri Schoeman isn't able to stay with them.

:33:33. > :33:37.Alistair Brownlee is waving, I don't know if he's waving to the

:33:38. > :33:41.motorcyclists. He is waving for water, he wanted the water station

:33:42. > :33:46.volunteers to come closer, they were too far away from the track.

:33:47. > :33:50.Alistair, not backward in coming forward, giving instructions, come

:33:51. > :33:54.on, get closer and he was able to reach out and grab the water bottle,

:33:55. > :34:01.doubly. Interesting to see how the Brownlees are taking on the run. We

:34:02. > :34:07.are used to seeing Alistair Brownlee flying out of transition but at the

:34:08. > :34:11.moment, Conservative and to mind mind -- to my mind, very sensible.

:34:12. > :34:17.It is very hot and when you have over a minute to your main rival,

:34:18. > :34:25.Mario Mola, you can afford to warm yourself into the run. Looking at

:34:26. > :34:32.Alistair against Vincent Luis in the head-to-head, Alistair has won 21

:34:33. > :34:39.times and Vincent Luis, just once. Alistair has had 21 victories in the

:34:40. > :34:41.Series and Vincent Luis, just one. Although the athlete is very strong

:34:42. > :34:47.and comfortable on this course, coming second here last year,

:34:48. > :34:50.Alistair Brownlee must have the upper hand. Jonathan Brownlee

:34:51. > :34:57.leading them through. Vincent Luis is on his shoulder and then Alistair

:34:58. > :35:04.and the gap to Henri Schoeman. 'S Koeman is a very good swimmer,

:35:05. > :35:12.keeping it together on the bike. Van Riel of Belgium is next. Royle is

:35:13. > :35:15.drifting a bit further back. He'll have to work hard to be in

:35:16. > :35:22.contention for the medals this afternoon. Look at the crowds here.

:35:23. > :35:26.That surprises me, Royle, it goes to show how tough the bike is and how

:35:27. > :35:31.much it has taken out of his legs. So the first lap is underway, they

:35:32. > :35:37.will run four laps of 2.5 kilometres each. They will be relieved they

:35:38. > :35:41.don't have too make the climb now having done it eight times on their

:35:42. > :35:46.bikes. It is flat for the remainder of the race. Alistair needs more

:35:47. > :35:51.fluid, he has two bottles, a double shower and he gives himself a good

:35:52. > :35:56.drench in the cold water that has been offered. The other two have

:35:57. > :36:00.avoided taking water bottles, so Alistair looked to be suffering with

:36:01. > :36:03.the seat more than the other two but that may be good work from him,

:36:04. > :36:10.keeping himself as cool as possible. I didn't notice... Jonny tried to

:36:11. > :36:15.grab one and he missed and Alistair isn't going to share and I don't

:36:16. > :36:20.blame him. Brownlee edging past Vincent Luis now. The brothers have

:36:21. > :36:25.got a gap of a couple of metres over Vincent Luis now. Let's see if

:36:26. > :36:30.that's decisive. A little kick from Alistair after his trip to the water

:36:31. > :36:37.station. He felt reinvigorated. Recharged and able to move up a

:36:38. > :36:42.gear. And the moment, Vincent Luis, he looks unable to respond. Let's

:36:43. > :36:47.see if he is able to dig in and find another gear and close the gap but

:36:48. > :36:52.the brothers have opened up here. What's interesting about Alistair,

:36:53. > :36:57.he is racing very intelligently. We've seen him in previous races

:36:58. > :37:01.perhaps not racing as intelligently as he can, we know he's incredibly

:37:02. > :37:05.intelligent but when he gets the bit between his teeth, he can be a

:37:06. > :37:10.danger to himself. This time he has thought about it more carefully and

:37:11. > :37:14.he is resting slightly out of transition, getting the water on

:37:15. > :37:18.board and calling down. Now he has pushed away from Vincent Luis.

:37:19. > :37:22.Vincent Luis trying to go with the early pace but he is struggling now.

:37:23. > :37:28.He has Schoeman about 20 metres away on his shoulder. Vincent Luis has

:37:29. > :37:33.been in hiding for the season, we haven't had any form died from him

:37:34. > :37:36.at all. Haven't seen him and we were worried that he may pose a serious

:37:37. > :37:50.threat to the Brownlees but that looks less and less likely -- form

:37:51. > :37:56.guide. The Brownlees, we've seen it so many times in races in the World

:37:57. > :38:02.Triathlon Series and we are witnessing it again here this

:38:03. > :38:10.afternoon. More water being offered. Time for a shower. Not drinking,

:38:11. > :38:18.just showering. Looking at Vincent Luis, he is perhaps, what I would

:38:19. > :38:23.say he is king, race sharpness. My opinion it is important to race. It

:38:24. > :38:27.is important to have gone out and done the hard, hard yards in a race

:38:28. > :38:32.situation because every athlete will say that you get that much more out

:38:33. > :38:35.of yourself in a race compared Mac you do in training and Vincent Luis

:38:36. > :38:40.hasn't had that opportunity because he hasn't raced in various races. --

:38:41. > :38:44.than you do. He had personal problems and injury problems. He

:38:45. > :38:48.came back in the Championships and won that but he has yet to race

:38:49. > :38:55.properly over the 10,000 metres in 2016. The end of lap one, shoulder

:38:56. > :39:00.to shoulder, the reigning Olympic champion and the bronze-medallist

:39:01. > :39:04.from four years ago, about to finish the first lap of four as they pass

:39:05. > :39:11.us in front of our commentary position. And then on their second

:39:12. > :39:15.loop of the seafront. Henri Schoeman is closing the gap on Vincent Luis,

:39:16. > :39:20.now it is a couple of metres and then there is another break before

:39:21. > :39:25.Van Riel of Belgium and Royle is still five six seconds away from

:39:26. > :39:33.passing in front of our commentary position. What a story that would be

:39:34. > :39:37.for Henri Schoeman. He is an incredible athlete but he has yet to

:39:38. > :39:44.be on the podium in the Series. Upfront so often in the Series.

:39:45. > :39:48.Trained by his father, lovely story, his best result has been a victory

:39:49. > :39:52.in the World Cup but this is his first Olympics. He wouldn't have a

:39:53. > :39:56.great race in the test event, finishing in 30 Fifth Place but at

:39:57. > :40:00.the moment he is on the shoulder of the Frenchman and working himself

:40:01. > :40:07.into a podium position. Alistair has injected further pace into the race.

:40:08. > :40:13.We've seen this from the brothers in Leeds, in their home City, back in

:40:14. > :40:21.the Series race, Alistair was able to break Jonny early on. They've had

:40:22. > :40:25.very similar pre-Olympic preparations up at the Brazilian Air

:40:26. > :40:30.Force Base, the same kind of training routines. Mario Mola has

:40:31. > :40:36.just come past us in front of our commentary position. He is miles off

:40:37. > :40:42.the pace. Richard Murray was with him as well. And Henri Schoeman has

:40:43. > :40:48.gone past Vincent Luis to take out like third position. The South

:40:49. > :40:54.African holds the bronze medal position. Schoeman is looking

:40:55. > :41:00.incredibly strong, like his running stride, very relaxed, leaning

:41:01. > :41:05.forward and he's having the race of his life. Disappointing for Vincent.

:41:06. > :41:08.Early stages but when you drop back it goes to show that you are

:41:09. > :41:13.hurting, as the Brownlee brothers move over and take some water on

:41:14. > :41:21.board. Drink this time for Alistair, the rest goes over his head. Lap

:41:22. > :41:24.2-over his head, they have completed about three and a half kilometres

:41:25. > :41:34.now of this 10,000 metre run. The Brownlees at this stage will do

:41:35. > :41:41.battle for the goal. -- the gold medal. In the head-to-head, Alistair

:41:42. > :41:44.has won 16 times and Jonathan just seven so you would have to put your

:41:45. > :41:50.money on Alistair Burt Jonathan has said he is in the shape of his life.

:41:51. > :41:53.Why can't help feeling that Alistair has the psychological advantage,

:41:54. > :41:57.already Olympic champion and of the two of them he is mentally stronger

:41:58. > :42:01.than his brother and when you get to the last five kilometres, after what

:42:02. > :42:05.they have done, mental strength plays a phenomenal part in your

:42:06. > :42:11.race. Still nothing to choose between them. Alistair may have

:42:12. > :42:17.another kick to try and get clear of his younger brother. Alistair, 28

:42:18. > :42:24.years old, Jonny, two years younger, 26. They been competing with each

:42:25. > :42:31.other for their whole lives. As juniors in their chosen sports, as

:42:32. > :42:36.adults in their professional sport. Nothing to choose between them in

:42:37. > :42:43.this 2016 Olympic triathlon. Wide open, still. It looks like one of

:42:44. > :42:50.the Brownlees will claim the title, but which will it be? Incredible

:42:51. > :42:55.position to be in with a round about six kilometres to go now in the mens

:42:56. > :43:03.rea is, to be so far out in front that you can almost afford to take

:43:04. > :43:10.it out of 50 and Kruse -- the men's race. The key thing is not to

:43:11. > :43:14.overheat. We have seen them do it previously. These are the best

:43:15. > :43:19.performances we've seen from the Brownlee brothers. It looks

:43:20. > :43:27.increasingly likely that Great Britain will win their 20th gold

:43:28. > :43:31.medal of the Rio Games. 19 so far. Gold is surely coming from one of

:43:32. > :43:35.the Brownlee brothers later this afternoon. They are the joint

:43:36. > :43:43.leaders in the Olympic triathlon of 2016. The London Olympic goal

:43:44. > :43:46.medallist leading the London bronze-medallist. They have a

:43:47. > :43:56.significant lead over the next best, Henri Schoeman, who is about to make

:43:57. > :44:03.the out and back turn. Yeah they are going to be cheered on by the

:44:04. > :44:07.crowds, a lot of Union Jack flags. They have a phenomenal following.

:44:08. > :44:11.I've spoken to some fans who have travelled all the way over just to

:44:12. > :44:14.follow the Brownlee brothers and what a wonderful story this is going

:44:15. > :44:18.to be because barring a disaster we are going to see the Brownlee

:44:19. > :44:27.brothers at the top of the podium again in 2016, having been on the

:44:28. > :44:34.podium together, Alistair, gold, Jonathan, bronze, in London.

:44:35. > :44:38.Copacabana Beach in the background, a lot of people out playing,

:44:39. > :44:42.ignoring them, but the majority of the people here have their eyes

:44:43. > :44:47.firmly focused on the Olympic triathlon which is unfolding before

:44:48. > :44:50.them. Henri Schoeman is focused on getting an Olympic medal. He has

:44:51. > :44:54.been running brilliantly, great swimmer, almost near the front.

:44:55. > :45:01.Broke his collarbone in a couple of years ago it set him back a bit but

:45:02. > :45:06.in terms of consistency he has been rock-solid for the last four, five

:45:07. > :45:11.season in the Series. He holds the bronze medal at the moment. The way

:45:12. > :45:16.things stand, gold and silver for the Brownlee brothers.

:45:17. > :45:25.Jonny keeping himself cool. Will it be his turn 2016? Will he have

:45:26. > :45:33.Brownlee bragging rights after this race concludes? Alistair Brownlee

:45:34. > :45:37.now just allowing his brother to do one little bit of work. They are

:45:38. > :45:40.runners that like to sit on the front, who feel much more

:45:41. > :45:44.comfortable there, but you do get a little bit of respite when managed

:45:45. > :45:47.to sit on the heels. There's not a lot of wind here so they won't need

:45:48. > :45:50.to be protected from that, but Alistair Brownlee letting his

:45:51. > :45:56.younger brother Jonathan set the pace. More water taken on. Plenty of

:45:57. > :46:09.water stations up and down the track here. Jonny heads towards the left.

:46:10. > :46:13.They are in lap two, five down, five to run almost here. The blue carpet

:46:14. > :46:19.approaching. They will officially reach halfway shortly.

:46:20. > :46:27.Watched and cheered every step of the way, on both sides of the road.

:46:28. > :46:30.Grandstands on there right now. Many of their family and friends will be

:46:31. > :46:35.seated there, having made the trip to the southern hemisphere to watch

:46:36. > :46:40.this race this afternoon. The second lap about to be completed and they

:46:41. > :46:48.may well lap one or two on their way through. Here they come now.

:46:49. > :46:52.Springer of Austria going through in front of as Betty Rubble be lapped

:46:53. > :46:59.shortly, as honest and Jonathan Brownlee complete their second lap

:47:00. > :47:00.-- in front of others, but he will be lapped shortly. 5000 metres left

:47:01. > :47:13.to run. Vincent Luis now 21 seconds back.

:47:14. > :47:19.Henri Shoeman has just gone past the start finish line in third, 13

:47:20. > :47:23.seconds behind the brothers. Vincent Luis down in four. Van Riel of

:47:24. > :47:34.Belgium currently fifth. He has just pastors. -- past us. Another

:47:35. > :47:39.follows. Henri Shoeman is certainly holding his own out there, he has

:47:40. > :47:45.only lost 13 seconds to the Brownlee brothers in the first five

:47:46. > :47:50.kilometres. This run 49 seconds down. All the talk from the South

:47:51. > :47:54.African contingent prior to the race was about Richard Murray. Henri

:47:55. > :47:58.Shoeman would finish top ten, but Richard Murray was a serious threat

:47:59. > :48:01.for a medal but he didn't turn it on on the swim and never got a chance,

:48:02. > :48:06.never got a drag through on the bike. He was hoping for support. He

:48:07. > :48:13.and Mola were hoping to come together and claw their way back up

:48:14. > :48:16.the field. Mario Mola is still a minute and 18 seconds off the pace.

:48:17. > :48:24.He has just passed in front of our commentary position at halfway in

:48:25. > :48:27.the run, Mola 78 seconds down. Well, a really disappointing day for Mario

:48:28. > :48:32.Mola. You can't help but feel for him just a little bit will stop he

:48:33. > :48:37.has dominated so much of this season and some of last season, and to find

:48:38. > :48:41.himself that far down, it really is disappointing. When I woke up this

:48:42. > :48:45.morning and saw the hot weather, the calm sea, I did slightly worry for

:48:46. > :48:48.the Brownlee brothers but I needn't have worried because these guys at

:48:49. > :48:52.the moment are just dominating this race.

:48:53. > :49:04.Six times these two have finished first and second in Word triathlon

:49:05. > :49:10.series races. Over the full Olympic distance they've raced on 17

:49:11. > :49:15.occasions. Alistair has won 13 of those. But Jonathan looks full of

:49:16. > :49:21.running here. He looks comfortable. Alistair beginning to grimace and

:49:22. > :49:25.Gernon, as he does. It's never a truce. Alistair has moved away, he

:49:26. > :49:31.has moved away from his younger brother. He made a decisive move

:49:32. > :49:34.after that last water station. Henri Shoeman back in third is safe there

:49:35. > :49:40.at the moment but we need to have another look whether that was a

:49:41. > :49:43.decisive kick from the defending champion over his younger brother.

:49:44. > :49:48.It looked like he opened up a few metres and it has grown. Alistair

:49:49. > :49:56.has moved ahead of Jonathan and the gap is now ten or 12 metres. It's

:49:57. > :49:59.about 3.5 seconds. Jonny Brownlee really needs to try and stick a

:50:00. > :50:04.little bit with his older brothers because he had Henri Shoeman not

:50:05. > :50:06.that far down the field. Alistair Brownlee has gone pretty early for

:50:07. > :50:12.my liking but it suggests he's feeling good. This is a fast-paced

:50:13. > :50:16.here in Rio today. Last year they clocked an overall time, we will see

:50:17. > :50:22.a lot faster here today and we will see him coming in at about 1.43, so

:50:23. > :50:28.just over ten minutes or so of racing to go for Alistair. Alistair

:50:29. > :50:33.may have gone early but he did so in Leeds, very different conditions in

:50:34. > :50:37.mid-June in Yorkshire. Similar crowds, it has to be said, but it

:50:38. > :50:42.was a much cooler afternoon. He went clear off Jonny quite early on the

:50:43. > :50:49.run. He has done so again here. So far, Jonny has been unable to

:50:50. > :50:53.respond. Alistair Brownlee is on his way potentially to become the first

:50:54. > :50:57.man ever to win two Olympic triathlon gold. Jonathan Brownlee

:50:58. > :51:02.may well improve from the bronze he won four years ago, to take the

:51:03. > :51:07.silver in 2016. That's the view he has down the road, it's a familiar

:51:08. > :51:10.view, all too familiar view, for Jonathan Brownlee, as he sees his

:51:11. > :51:15.older brother move clear. Alistair has just taken another bottle of

:51:16. > :51:19.water. It must be frustrating for the younger brother because he is in

:51:20. > :51:24.his own write a phenomenally successful athlete. He has won many

:51:25. > :51:28.World Triathlon Series races, but he has to be asking himself, what have

:51:29. > :51:30.I got to do to beat my big brother? It doesn't look like it will happen

:51:31. > :51:41.here today. Don't forget that Alistair had

:51:42. > :51:46.reconstructive surgery on his ankle late last year. It was touch and go

:51:47. > :51:51.for a while whether he would be even fit to compete in the Rio Olympic

:51:52. > :51:56.Games. Not only is he fit, he's storming a way to victory, if he

:51:57. > :52:02.keeps it together. Then the gold medal and Great Britain's 20th gold

:52:03. > :52:08.medal of the Games is coming back to Alistair Brownlee. He will be the

:52:09. > :52:13.first man to successfully defend the Olympic title. No triathlete has

:52:14. > :52:18.ever done that in the past. The noise level is rising all around the

:52:19. > :52:26.Olympic triathlon venue at Copacabana. Yes, looking very

:52:27. > :52:30.relaxed from the waist down which is good to see. You can't really

:52:31. > :52:34.noticed the fatigue in his legs on that bike ride, the cadences still

:52:35. > :52:40.high, the upper body nice and relaxed. His face though shows a

:52:41. > :52:44.world of pay that -- pain that he's going through but he knows he is

:52:45. > :52:49.running into that gold medal. What are deities for British triathlon.

:52:50. > :52:55.Gold and silver looks likely. The brothers are on their way to putting

:52:56. > :52:59.Yorkshire some way up the medal table, as they did four years ago,

:53:00. > :53:04.with all the other great performances from the athletes from

:53:05. > :53:10.Yorkshire. The classic Copacabana theme, look at it, what a picture

:53:11. > :53:16.that is, the palm trees, the Bluewater. Alistair Brownlee looks

:53:17. > :53:19.relaxed at the start and has taken aback by just how chilled he was on

:53:20. > :53:25.the sand, smiling and joking with some of his fellow competitors. He

:53:26. > :53:29.got down in the water, set one of the fastest times in the swim,

:53:30. > :53:32.staying close to his friend and training partner Richard Varga and

:53:33. > :53:37.to his brother of course, then he took it on, on the bike, seeing

:53:38. > :53:41.Richard Marianne Mario Mola were not going to be contenders on two

:53:42. > :53:46.wheels, Alistair and Jonny moved to the front and on that crucial climb

:53:47. > :53:53.that they've negotiated away to our West eight times they set an

:53:54. > :53:58.explosive pace, stretching the lead lap after lap. When they got to the

:53:59. > :54:02.top of the hill they kept out of trouble on a steep descent, brakes

:54:03. > :54:07.on, taking it easy and further stretched their lead on the flats in

:54:08. > :54:12.front of these high-rise Goldings down on the seafront in Copacabana.

:54:13. > :54:16.For the first lap it was the Brownlee brothers and Vincent Luis,

:54:17. > :54:20.Luis was dropped, then it was Jonny and Alistair together for a while

:54:21. > :54:24.and then Alistair moved clear and he's about to complete his third lap

:54:25. > :54:32.with a comfortable margin over his younger brother. The next time he

:54:33. > :54:36.comes passed here he will head off to his right and take the little

:54:37. > :54:40.elbow in the course and passed the finishing line, which is directly in

:54:41. > :54:45.front of our commentary position. He's all on his own now. Alistair

:54:46. > :54:51.Brownlee takes the bell. His advantage over his younger brother

:54:52. > :54:53.is now 15 seconds. Alistair Brownlee is one lap away from writing a

:54:54. > :55:05.little bit of Olympic history. So Jonny has come through, 15

:55:06. > :55:11.seconds down. We are keeping our eyes peeled for Henri Shoeman, who

:55:12. > :55:17.has lapped one or two himself. He is getting towards the end of his third

:55:18. > :55:20.lap. Schoeman is 38 seconds back, that's the difference between

:55:21. > :55:25.Alistair Brownlee in gold medal position, Henri Shoeman in bronze

:55:26. > :55:30.medal position. Further down the road, Vincent Luis is still clinging

:55:31. > :55:36.on to fourth place, but he is 58 seconds off.

:55:37. > :55:43.South Africa have never won won Olympic triathlon medal. The

:55:44. > :55:48.previous best, 70, that was Richard Murray four years ago. Henri Shoeman

:55:49. > :55:53.looks to give South African triathlon something to celebrate

:55:54. > :56:01.here this afternoon. They are coming through in cribs and grabs now.

:56:02. > :56:05.Richard Murray has run himself back into sixth place with Joe Pereira

:56:06. > :56:11.from Portugal, they have run themselves back into sixth and

:56:12. > :56:14.seventh place respectively with the Australian just behind. Mola now

:56:15. > :56:18.going through the front of our screens here, looking a little bit

:56:19. > :56:23.forlorn down in ninth place, one minute and 31 seconds down on

:56:24. > :56:25.Alistair Brownlee. I had to say at 1.I worried for Jonathan Brownlee

:56:26. > :56:29.because watching him on our screens here he looked like he was suffering

:56:30. > :56:33.but when they came through we were able to see and it wasn't the fact

:56:34. > :56:37.he was suffering, it's just that Alistair has turned up the pace so

:56:38. > :56:40.much it makes Jonathan look like he's running slowly when actually he

:56:41. > :56:45.is running incredibly well and is still holding a good gap in third

:56:46. > :56:49.place. Jonathan Brownlee is going to go one better here in Rio to what he

:56:50. > :56:54.did in London because he finished behind Gomez, the Spaniard, in

:56:55. > :57:02.London for a bronze medal. He ran himself into a paramedic's hospital

:57:03. > :57:05.trolley in London 2012, Jonathan Brownlee, we had to wait about an

:57:06. > :57:07.hour post race for the medal ceremony to take place because

:57:08. > :57:13.Jonathan had given it so much, having to take the 15 seconds

:57:14. > :57:16.stop-go penalty and run his way back into a Bronze medal position that

:57:17. > :57:25.the merit -- the medics were worried about his state of health and

:57:26. > :57:29.eventually he recovered and took his place on the podium. Back with our

:57:30. > :57:33.leader now. The 28-year-old from Great Britain, Alistair Brownlee

:57:34. > :57:39.cruising the streets of Copacabana, on his way to his second Olympic

:57:40. > :57:44.crown. What we are seeing here is pretty special, because the pace he

:57:45. > :57:49.has put on for this entire coming up to now, one hour and 40 minutes on

:57:50. > :57:53.the clock, has been nothing far off absolutely outstanding. He has about

:57:54. > :57:58.one kilometre to go and should be running at about 30 minutes ten K

:57:59. > :58:02.Pace, so that's three minutes to go before we will see Alistair Brownlee

:58:03. > :58:14.crowned again as the Olympic champion. He is gritting his teeth,

:58:15. > :58:18.he is working hard, he is gurning. Brownlee laps another one, one of

:58:19. > :58:22.the Argentinian athletes has been lapped. Richard Murray, we are

:58:23. > :58:27.hearing, has clawed his way back up into sixth position, took a huge

:58:28. > :58:33.chunk of time out of Mario Mola on that third lap of the run. Back with

:58:34. > :58:41.our leader now. Alistair Brownlee. In his final lap. His brother back

:58:42. > :58:45.down the road. Yes, don't be confused by the athletes behind

:58:46. > :58:51.Alistair. Those are lapped athletes now. As Alistair strides along, the

:58:52. > :58:57.crowds here have come out in force which has been absolutely phenomenal

:58:58. > :59:03.to see. The times at the end of the last lap, Brownlee 1:36.32,

:59:04. > :59:09.Jonathan, 15 seconds behind, Henri Shoeman 38 seconds off the pace,

:59:10. > :59:12.riding with Schoeman now who is on his way to potentially South

:59:13. > :59:17.Africa's first triathlon Olympic medal. He has his eyes set on

:59:18. > :59:25.bronze. Alistair reaching the term. He will see his younger brother.

:59:26. > :59:30.They will get a visual on each other across the little causeway that,

:59:31. > :59:33.separated by the green barriers. He has looked across now, had a glance

:59:34. > :59:39.towards his brother. He knows that Jonny is safe for the silver. He now

:59:40. > :59:43.has to get his job done and run through, complete this race, and

:59:44. > :59:48.take his gold medal. Great Britain on the cusp of their 20th Olympic

:59:49. > :59:55.gold at Rio, to move further clear of China in the medal table. Lovely

:59:56. > :00:00.divvy Alistair glancing over and having a look at his brother,

:00:01. > :00:03.because whilst he is focused on the gold medal he will also have a

:00:04. > :00:07.thought for his brother and want to know the next person behind him over

:00:08. > :00:12.the finish line at his his brother. 20 seconds the difference between

:00:13. > :00:20.Alistair and Jonathan. Jonathan well clear of third place, that's Henri

:00:21. > :00:27.Shoeman of South Africa. 20 seconds between the brothers now. Into the

:00:28. > :00:28.final stages of this Olympic triathlon in Rio. Viewed from the

:00:29. > :00:41.helicopter camera once more. The noise level is rising all the

:00:42. > :00:48.time. The crowd beginning to appreciate the great champion on his

:00:49. > :00:51.way to defend the title he won in London four years ago. He's getting

:00:52. > :00:59.further ahead of his younger brother. Now 25 seconds between

:01:00. > :01:04.Alistair and Jonathan. He can sense the finishing line. He can see the

:01:05. > :01:09.white tents and the blue carpet will come into view very soon and the

:01:10. > :01:13.conclusion of this epic performance from Alistair Brownlee. A glance

:01:14. > :01:17.over his shoulder. The Union Flag is being offered, he's not ready to

:01:18. > :01:22.take one yet. He won't do so I think until he gets those at home, close

:01:23. > :01:27.to the carpet. There is water being offered. He avoids taking another

:01:28. > :01:32.bottle. He feels he has got the job done. He doesn't need any more

:01:33. > :01:34.refreshment. Alistair Brownlee is cruising through the final stages of

:01:35. > :01:45.this Olympic triathlon. Absolutely stunning race. And, I

:01:46. > :01:53.have to say, a perfect race, perhaps do story of the Olympics so far. He

:01:54. > :01:58.can start to enjoy it now. He has the flag. Similar to Hyde Park, and

:01:59. > :02:01.I am happy to say tens of thousands are out today to witness this superb

:02:02. > :02:09.performance. We had our suspicions about Alistair Brownlee over the

:02:10. > :02:14.last six or seven years but now he has comprehensively confirmed that

:02:15. > :02:21.he is the finest triathlete we have ever seen. Time to enjoy the moment,

:02:22. > :02:28.this run up the blue carpet. Once again it is a lap of honour for

:02:29. > :02:32.Alistair Brownlee. Thumbs up to his connections on either side. He has

:02:33. > :02:37.the time to find his family and friends watching and ease down and

:02:38. > :02:44.enjoy the final few metres of this race. He can finish at a walk, such

:02:45. > :02:53.is his margin of victory. He is strolling home. It would be a

:02:54. > :03:02.glorious golden double for Alistair Brownlee. The Olympic triathlon

:03:03. > :03:07.champion for the second time. And Jonny finishes just a handful of

:03:08. > :03:16.seconds behind to take the silver. It is a 1-2. Gold and silver for the

:03:17. > :03:23.brothers. Fantastic scenes at Copacabana. Now they watch and wait

:03:24. > :03:33.as Schoemann finishes in third to win South Africa's first ever

:03:34. > :03:37.triathlon medal. Henri Schoemann, thoroughly enjoying the moment,

:03:38. > :03:45.cannot quite believe what he has achieved, Schoemann home for the

:03:46. > :03:47.bronze. Jonathan congratulates him, they know each other well, racing

:03:48. > :04:10.week in, week out. Joao Jose Pereira, finishing in

:04:11. > :04:16.fourth place for Portugal, and Luis, look like he might be in the medals

:04:17. > :04:21.for a while, has to settle for seven. Confirmation of a glorious

:04:22. > :04:26.gold medal for Alistair Brownlee. Forget about his time, he could have

:04:27. > :04:35.finished much quicker. Silver for his brother, Jonny, improving on the

:04:36. > :04:44.bronze he won in London. And Schoemann, fabulous swing, also on

:04:45. > :04:57.the bike, and takes the bronze medal in the Olympic triathlon. Ryan

:04:58. > :05:03.Bailie, coming home for Australia, no medals for the Australians, they

:05:04. > :05:11.will hope for better when the women's race kits under way. And

:05:12. > :05:16.Richard Varga, so quick in the water, stayed with the front group

:05:17. > :05:26.of ten on the bike, I hoped he might just snatch a top ten, it is a

:05:27. > :05:37.living, still a fine result. -- 11th. Alessandro Fabia, he is coming

:05:38. > :05:45.home now. What a day in the heat of Copacabana on the outskirts of Rio.

:05:46. > :05:48.Alistair Brownlee makes history as the first man ever to successfully

:05:49. > :05:52.defend the Olympic triathlon title. Great Britain's 20th Gold medal goes

:05:53. > :06:04.to Alistair Brownlee. Unbelievable, it went exactly to

:06:05. > :06:13.plan, yet the tension was unbearable. Amazing. To execute the

:06:14. > :06:17.best race of your life in his second Olympics, it is nothing far off

:06:18. > :06:21.absolutely amazing. We were all a bit worried looking at the

:06:22. > :06:30.conditions. Yes, the seat. It is really hot. -- heat. It was the

:06:31. > :06:42.early stages on the bike that really counted. There is one very well --

:06:43. > :06:49.they swam, and then drove the bike really hard. The way they executed

:06:50. > :06:53.it, they made the dissent look easy, it goes to show that their

:06:54. > :07:00.preparation really worked. And the incredible pictures, going along

:07:01. > :07:04.Copacabana, with sunbathers and beach for all the background, and

:07:05. > :07:09.two Yorkshire brothers fighting it out for Olympic gold. Jonathan

:07:10. > :07:15.Brownlee went one better but is still not able to equal his brother.

:07:16. > :07:22.Alistair is so mentally strong. He just took it up another notch. There

:07:23. > :07:29.were points on the bike, and also on the run, when Jonny looked the more

:07:30. > :07:35.comfortable of the two, but the ability of Alistair, and all the

:07:36. > :07:40.best endurance athletes have it, to hurt himself. You have got to have

:07:41. > :07:46.it all you will not win races. He does not think about the pain. If

:07:47. > :07:51.you think about the pain that is when it goes wrong. You have the

:07:52. > :07:54.historical perspective of being involved in the sport for so long,

:07:55. > :08:02.is he the greatest triathlete of all time? He is the greatest all-round

:08:03. > :08:07.triathlete of all time, we can safely say, after this performance.

:08:08. > :08:11.And from adversity also, a huge amount of injuries, surgery only

:08:12. > :08:16.months ago, so a performance like that is unprecedented. He has had to

:08:17. > :08:23.manage his body for those four years. He has always been treading

:08:24. > :08:33.that fine line to make sure he came here in great shape. Absolutely. And

:08:34. > :08:39.they execute... I think that British triathlon will be incredibly happy

:08:40. > :08:41.with what they have seen here today. There is Brendan Purcell,

:08:42. > :08:47.performance director of British triathlon, I think he will come and

:08:48. > :08:53.chat with us. But they have managed those guys very well, indeed, the

:08:54. > :09:01.whole team. You look at what goes on in leaps with Malcolm brown, it is

:09:02. > :09:07.something very special. -- up in Leeds. Brendan, congratulations,

:09:08. > :09:13.describe your emotions. Relief, for the boys, the training they have

:09:14. > :09:18.done, I am in awe of those guys. And a great result for the supporting.

:09:19. > :09:22.We have guys who put in big work to help them. It is all the boys

:09:23. > :09:28.performance, but they have support, and it is great they put it together

:09:29. > :09:34.today. Talk about executing a plan to perfection. They got the right

:09:35. > :09:39.line on the swim, it was a brilliant swim, and then worked the bike. It

:09:40. > :09:44.was going to be hard for anybody on the run, those guys are exceptional.

:09:45. > :09:55.How worried were you this morning about the heat? We have done a fair

:09:56. > :10:02.bit of prep with the guys. They did not always enjoy it, sitting in

:10:03. > :10:10.saunas, but they were ready to go. Our Olympic champion is just here.

:10:11. > :10:17.Double Olympic champion. Alistair, some of your emotions. Every day of

:10:18. > :10:24.this year has been so hard. I have woken up in pain every day. It was

:10:25. > :10:31.so hard. The swim was not that quick and we knew the first two lapse on

:10:32. > :10:34.the bike would be crucial. The training has been, commit, commit,

:10:35. > :10:40.commit, on those first couple of laps. As soon as there was a good

:10:41. > :10:46.gap I thought, we're going to get two medals. Did you know, at that

:10:47. > :10:53.stage, which way the medals would go? I was confident of first and

:10:54. > :11:00.second but did not know entirely. I just had the edge on Jonny for the

:11:01. > :11:03.last couple of races but he has killed me in training every day. I

:11:04. > :11:12.have been going through hell this year. Seriously, he is better than

:11:13. > :11:20.you in training on the Tenko runs? -- ten kilometres. He has had the

:11:21. > :11:26.edge, to be honest. So I was not quite sure. I knew I would have to

:11:27. > :11:34.go through hell today and I did. Do you think you have a mental edge

:11:35. > :11:38.over Jonny? I am not a massive fan of the mental thing, you can only go

:11:39. > :11:42.as hard as you can go, but I just have a slightly more endurance race

:11:43. > :11:50.engine. We both worked so hard on the bike. The race was won on the

:11:51. > :11:56.first couple of laps on the bike. We weren't really hard. It was not a

:11:57. > :12:03.really quick run like in London, but it finished it off, you know? Just

:12:04. > :12:09.one last question. Coming down the finish line you were walking, what

:12:10. > :12:16.was going through your mind? I was just delighted. I had the gap on

:12:17. > :12:19.Jonny and was thinking, this is good, but you just focus. Think

:12:20. > :12:25.about your technique, keep whooshing, pushing. Near the end, I

:12:26. > :12:32.thought, I have one. I was so happy. I knew the gap was big. In London

:12:33. > :12:37.the gap was six, seven seconds, I thought, I have got to keep going.

:12:38. > :12:41.This time I knew I had the chance to enjoy it. It will probably never

:12:42. > :12:49.happen again so you have to enjoy it. You never know, Tokyo. Go and

:12:50. > :12:56.get your medals. Another medal ceremony at the Olympic Games. But

:12:57. > :13:00.that is so interesting. Jonny, smashing him in training. Yet when

:13:01. > :13:06.it comes to the race, when it matters... Interesting what he said,

:13:07. > :13:10.that he does not believe in the mental edge. I think that is part of

:13:11. > :13:16.being able to suffer a little bit more. He did mention the engine,

:13:17. > :13:22.perhaps it is a bit bigger, but Jonny played a huge part in helping

:13:23. > :13:26.him win that gold medal. It is interesting, because it is his

:13:27. > :13:32.training that drove on Alistair to produce that performance. As he

:13:33. > :13:37.said, he smashed him every day in training. What we said earlier about

:13:38. > :13:41.them being in the same race together, it is so important, I have

:13:42. > :13:46.no doubt that if one was in the race and the other was not it would not

:13:47. > :13:51.be the same outcome. Brendan Purcell said it was a great victory, for

:13:52. > :14:00.Alistair, and also Jonny in second place. But that it is also about the

:14:01. > :14:11.support team. Richard, Richard? Richard Varga trains with the

:14:12. > :14:18.Brownlees. How happy were you with that? I struggled a little on the

:14:19. > :14:26.run but I'm super happy the boys did it again. And this time Jonny has a

:14:27. > :14:29.silver, I am very happy for them. You are a big part of their support

:14:30. > :14:34.team and did a great job on the swim for them. Can you tell us about

:14:35. > :14:42.Alistair, he said that he has always been beaten by Jonny in training,

:14:43. > :14:48.but then he does this in the race? He improves always and it pays off.

:14:49. > :14:51.On the important daisy is always the best, a real champion. You can maybe

:14:52. > :15:00.beat him in training but in a race he is the best. Would you say he is

:15:01. > :15:08.the best triathlete ever? Yes. How can you beat that? Who is a two-time

:15:09. > :15:15.Olympic champion? And he improved, he has the most titles, World

:15:16. > :15:20.Championships, so, yes, for sure. What goes through your mind when you

:15:21. > :15:30.are swimming? Do you think about the Brownlees, where they might be, if

:15:31. > :15:36.you are able to help them? If it is close to me and I don't have to wait

:15:37. > :15:42.for them. But I am pretty sure we're going to go for it, if it is like

:15:43. > :15:46.today, with ten people in the race. That is always good for me. So if

:15:47. > :15:50.they are doing well, I am doing well, and if I am doing well, it is

:15:51. > :15:56.good for them. So we help each other. Thank you for your service to

:15:57. > :16:03.the British nation, even though you are from Slovakia. It is my

:16:04. > :16:06.pleasure, to help the best, it helps myself also, so I am just happy to

:16:07. > :16:10.have such a great relationship and friendship. I really happy for them.

:16:11. > :16:37.Thank you for speaking to us. Upsetting scenes with his Pol Pot

:16:38. > :16:42.competition, but nice to see him here supporting Mario Mola. He faded

:16:43. > :16:45.in the ten K. He did. I was worried when they went out on the run, but I

:16:46. > :16:48.questioned if he could go the full distance, and that was answered. We

:16:49. > :16:51.have Mario Mola down there. We talked about him, he did not make

:16:52. > :16:54.the bike break. The bike was too hard for him. He would have worked

:16:55. > :16:59.hard in the swim. He does not go into the swim like the others do, he

:17:00. > :17:03.has to work hard. He has had some great swings this year, but that is

:17:04. > :17:09.his Achilles heel, and he could not go the pace, because he was only a

:17:10. > :17:14.fraction off. Thanks for coming to speak to us. Many commiserations,

:17:15. > :17:20.describe your feelings. It was a tough race. The think we could not

:17:21. > :17:27.expect before. The guys in front did a great job, they know it other very

:17:28. > :17:35.well, they well together. We do our best. I was not so bad after the

:17:36. > :17:44.swim, but we missed some energy that made the gap bigger. At the end,

:17:45. > :17:50.everybody gets ready as much as they can, and the Brownlees were amazing.

:17:51. > :17:53.12 seconds behind them in the swimming, what was the key moment

:17:54. > :17:59.when you did not make the break at the start of the bike ride? Even

:18:00. > :18:05.though the distance was not so big, there were a few guys in between. At

:18:06. > :18:10.some point it broke, and then there is no one else in front. You have

:18:11. > :18:19.rich the top of the hill destroyed, very tired, you try to get some

:18:20. > :18:27.breath. 12 seconds sounds like a little bit, but a big gap. It is

:18:28. > :18:33.hard to close that with guys like Alistair and Jonny. They did a great

:18:34. > :18:37.job. I say congratulations, I will chide to be back stronger in four

:18:38. > :18:42.years. You must have been disappointed that your team-mate did

:18:43. > :18:49.not make the front pack, because the race could have been different. It

:18:50. > :18:53.was unfortunate for us that at the beginning of the bike we were a

:18:54. > :18:59.small group. We did not find the power to close the gap. Those 20

:19:00. > :19:05.seconds at the beginning end up being 43 by the time the guys behind

:19:06. > :19:10.court is. Then it was a bit too much. We kept working when the

:19:11. > :19:17.distance was just over a minute. Different interest in the group. It

:19:18. > :19:24.was hard to make it work smoothly. That isn't in the guys in front

:19:25. > :19:28.have, they make the most of it. You say, they did a good job,

:19:29. > :19:34.congratulations. Some days things go one way, others the other, and we

:19:35. > :19:38.can't complain. You have an amazing mindset, hugely disappointed, it is

:19:39. > :19:44.a great testament to the kind of guide you are, occurs this is four

:19:45. > :19:52.years to wait until Tokyo, and you have such a lovely reaction. It was

:19:53. > :19:57.only two hours after four years of journey, I have been enjoying the

:19:58. > :20:03.process, you cannot only focus on today, it has been a lot of work and

:20:04. > :20:07.enjoyment behind this, I have had the opportunity to work with an

:20:08. > :20:15.amazing group, I have made so many amazing friends. I was happy for the

:20:16. > :20:19.race. You want to be at your best, I thought it was fair for me to think

:20:20. > :20:24.I had to fight for the medals, but the race goes like this, and what

:20:25. > :20:29.can you do? You keep working. You have not been the strongest. You are

:20:30. > :20:35.a great example, and I am in trouble with our mixed zone people. Nice to

:20:36. > :20:41.see you. Does he get the vote for the nicest guy? Our producer Sarah

:20:42. > :20:46.is a big triathlon fan, she said he is the nicest man in the world, and

:20:47. > :20:53.there is the proof. What a guy. You hope he comes back in 2020 and do

:20:54. > :21:01.something. We have not seen much of you, that was a valiant attempt.

:21:02. > :21:13.Since last year I was working for the medal. Second is first of the

:21:14. > :21:19.last, but I tried all the raced to be up front on the swim. I worked so

:21:20. > :21:27.hard after the E.ON, but the run was not that good, it was not my day. I

:21:28. > :21:35.made a choice to not race much at the beginning of the year. Maybe it

:21:36. > :21:41.was not a good tactic. Nobody knows. Maybe four more years, or maybe not,

:21:42. > :21:45.I have to call down a bit. Maybe think about it tomorrow morning.

:21:46. > :21:52.Just a word about Alistair and Jonny? They are amazing. We are

:21:53. > :22:06.really lucky to get them in the race. They are unbelievable. How you

:22:07. > :22:12.can beat them, that is the way you train, how can I be stronger than

:22:13. > :22:19.them? I think I can, or I would not be there. But maybe in the next

:22:20. > :22:23.Olympics, I don't know. Alistair is the first one to be the double

:22:24. > :22:29.Olympic champion, he is the man, he was the man today. A valiant effort,

:22:30. > :22:35.congratulations. We are waiting for the medal ceremony shortly. The

:22:36. > :22:39.union flag for the first and second places, and a surprise South African

:22:40. > :22:49.in third place. It is not a total surprise. I have watched him race,

:22:50. > :22:54.he is often up there. Slightly down today, but he normally leads the

:22:55. > :22:58.swim. He always stays on the bike and works hard and he is never far

:22:59. > :23:04.off on the run. Today was his day. I was not totally surprised. Trained

:23:05. > :23:07.by his father, suffered injuries in his career, and a bronze medal at

:23:08. > :23:13.the Olympics, a phenomenal day for Schoeman. We were talking about

:23:14. > :23:18.British triathlon and the support systems and Brandon Purcell

:23:19. > :23:22.mentioned that. This was a victory for Alistair and Jonny in second,

:23:23. > :23:29.but also the guys in the back room. They play such a vital part.

:23:30. > :23:32.Somebody like Alistair and Jonny, they are self driven, but at this

:23:33. > :23:37.level do you need support, nutrition, the person who is the

:23:38. > :23:42.expert in heat, position, all of those things coming together have a

:23:43. > :23:46.huge part. There is a guy from athletics who are used to know,

:23:47. > :23:53.Malcolm Brown, he is a running coach and a mental. He is the calmest guy

:23:54. > :23:57.out there. Nobody knows more than he does about running and triathlon. He

:23:58. > :24:03.came from an athletics background. He has been hugely instrumental in

:24:04. > :24:08.the performances of all of the athlete from Leeds. We have not

:24:09. > :24:12.talked so much about Jonny, hopefully he will come through after

:24:13. > :24:18.the ceremony. He loves his brother, but he might hate him sometimes as

:24:19. > :24:26.well. He looks very relaxed. Alistair, you can see the redness in

:24:27. > :24:31.his face, but Jonny, perhaps there is more in the tank. I am not saying

:24:32. > :24:38.he is giving it away, but Alistair looks like he is giving 100% and

:24:39. > :24:43.Jonny 99. It was 1-2 in Stockholm, they buried said they knew what the

:24:44. > :24:48.other was thinking. They are always talking on the bike, especially

:24:49. > :24:54.Alistair. No words exchanged on the run. They both know what they are

:24:55. > :24:59.thinking. They are like twins. They innately understand one another.

:25:00. > :25:05.They don't live together, but they spend so much time together. It is

:25:06. > :25:09.pretty normal. I am an identical twin, so I know! When you spend that

:25:10. > :25:16.much time with someone, you get to know what they are thinking. We have

:25:17. > :25:20.the same birthdays. May the tenth! Part of the mental game they play on

:25:21. > :25:24.the run, having had all those training sessions together, and

:25:25. > :25:29.Jonny knowing he has been killing Alistair in training, and Alistair

:25:30. > :25:37.knows that Jonny is in great shape, how they process that. It can stand

:25:38. > :25:43.the same thing. Jonny trains harder. What mental strength from Alistair.

:25:44. > :25:46.He said it does not play a part. It is hard to disagree with the Olympic

:25:47. > :25:52.champion, but the fact he is able to dig that deep is down to mental

:25:53. > :25:57.strength. Is it about wanting it a bit more? You cannot say that Jonny

:25:58. > :26:03.does not want a. Medal. Is he happy to play second fiddle? I don't know.

:26:04. > :26:11.And we wait another four years? Perhaps not. Alistair said maybe

:26:12. > :26:15.not, but Jonny is younger. Maybe we will never see them go head-to-head

:26:16. > :26:22.at an Olympics again. Alistair said this is probably the last time. He

:26:23. > :26:26.is not that old. 28. It is not so much the age with him, and the toll

:26:27. > :26:32.on his body. It has got to be pretty hard. You cannot keep smashing

:26:33. > :26:37.yourself in training like that. The guy that about themselves so well, I

:26:38. > :26:41.wonder if he will turn his hand to the longer distance races, because

:26:42. > :26:45.he has two got medals, does he want to put himself through another four

:26:46. > :26:49.years, or does he turn his hand to something different? Somebody who is

:26:50. > :26:55.not here, Gomez, the five-time world champion, he split the brothers in

:26:56. > :26:59.London four years ago. He will be watching this and delighted for

:27:00. > :27:03.Alistair and Jonny, but one of the greatest of all time, and not a

:27:04. > :27:10.chance to try and content for the title. Five times world champion.

:27:11. > :27:15.Looking at Paula Radcliffe, who did so much but never one an Olympic

:27:16. > :27:20.gold medal, or a medal, he has won a silver medal, but the five-time

:27:21. > :27:24.world champion and he is not an Olympic champion, that will hurt a

:27:25. > :27:31.bit. I wonder if people think of on towards Tokyo. Vincent will be four

:27:32. > :27:35.years better, as will Jonny, and maybe Alistair will not be there. We

:27:36. > :27:40.are unlikely to see Gomez in Tokyo, I would be surprised, he is in his

:27:41. > :27:44.early 30s, it would be tough to put his body through it. While we wait

:27:45. > :27:49.for the ceremony, let's turn our thoughts to the women, the same

:27:50. > :27:53.course. I am hearing the weather conditions are not going to be as

:27:54. > :27:57.good. We talked about the difficulty for the men coming out, the wind

:27:58. > :28:03.will be coming straight in. That will be tough for the women. Really

:28:04. > :28:08.tough. We might have liked it the other way around, although it was

:28:09. > :28:13.not needed today. I do not want to see any rain on the bike course. It

:28:14. > :28:17.is difficult to call the women's race, the men's was a bit easier. I

:28:18. > :28:22.would not say it is wide open, because there is a phenomenal

:28:23. > :28:25.athlete there who has dominated. Will she tried to hang onto the

:28:26. > :28:33.wheels of the fee going up the climb, or the 2012 gold medallist,

:28:34. > :28:39.if she is there after the swim? It will be a tough race. But looking at

:28:40. > :28:47.our girls, all land fantastic athletes, they all have a chance to

:28:48. > :28:51.be on the podium. Helen Jenkins got selection for the Olympics. She has

:28:52. > :28:58.not look quite so strong in the most recent races, and Jonny started well

:28:59. > :29:06.and has faded a bit as well. We cannot count Cape Town because it

:29:07. > :29:13.was a sprint distance. Non's swim has been disappointing.

:29:14. > :29:19.Interestingly, so has Helen's. Those girls are winners, they are both

:29:20. > :29:24.world champions, Helen in 2008, 2011, Non in 2013. We know they are

:29:25. > :29:30.capable of winning. The full something will be the swim. We talk

:29:31. > :29:36.about Vicky Holland, she seems to be the third member, the team has's she

:29:37. > :29:42.has one World Series races, what to expect from her? You are right, she

:29:43. > :29:49.is sitting quietly in third place, which does not seem fair, because

:29:50. > :29:53.she is phenomenal. All round, great swimmer, cyclist, technically very

:29:54. > :29:58.good, and when she does a good run, she can be the best in the world.

:29:59. > :30:04.Now it is time for the victory ceremony we are all going to savour.

:30:05. > :30:10.We had to wait a while for years ago occurs Jonny received medical

:30:11. > :30:15.treatment after his bronze medal winning performance. People seem to

:30:16. > :30:21.buy the paramedics again today. He is fine. The brothers are proudly

:30:22. > :30:32.striding out wearing their red, white and blue GB tracksuit,

:30:33. > :30:34.alongside Schoeman, the first African to win an Olympic triathlon

:30:35. > :30:54.medal. She will present the medals. She is

:30:55. > :31:15.the head of the international triathlon union.

:31:16. > :31:20.She is involved in the formalities as well. What a backdrop for this

:31:21. > :31:41.medal ceremony, with Sugarloaf mountain behind.

:31:42. > :31:49.Bronze medallist, representing South Africa...

:31:50. > :32:04.Henri Schoemann. Henri Schoemann, the first South African triathlon

:32:05. > :32:09.Olympic medallist. The first African to win an Olympic medal in this

:32:10. > :32:16.sport, and only the 11th man to ever win a triathlon Olympic medal. What

:32:17. > :32:24.a race from Henri Schoemann, it all came together today for him.

:32:25. > :32:33.Henri Schoemann, accepting his Olympic bronze medal.

:32:34. > :32:49.Silver medallist, representing Great Britain... Jonathan Brownlee.

:32:50. > :32:58.Jonathan Brownlee is the Olympic silver medallist. He took Raunds

:32:59. > :33:00.four years ago. -- bronze. Silver in the Rio 2016, after another

:33:01. > :33:37.magnificent performance. Gold medallist and Olympic champion,

:33:38. > :33:47.representing Great Britain... Alistair Brownlee. Outstanding, once

:33:48. > :33:54.again, Alistair Brownlee, as he was four years ago. Great Britain's 20th

:33:55. > :34:03.gold medal, Alistair Brownlee's second, history made. The first

:34:04. > :34:04.athlete to win the Olympic triathlon on two occasions, and he did so in

:34:05. > :34:21.style. And all those preparations, the time

:34:22. > :34:30.in San Moritz, the time in the track and the pool, it has paid dividends.

:34:31. > :34:50.Brownlee, Olympic champion, for the second time.

:34:51. > :35:18.What a setting, what a race. Alistair Brownlee is the Olympic

:35:19. > :35:31.triathlon Champion once again. So, and Olympic battle, a Yorkshire

:35:32. > :35:38.battle, and a family battle. Just the last word on Alistair Brownlee

:35:39. > :35:44.and that performance. It is a bit boring, but utterly amazing. Hazel,

:35:45. > :35:49.you must have enjoyed that back in the studio.

:35:50. > :35:56.I think we are all honorary Yorkshire men and women now.

:35:57. > :36:03.Alistair, the elder, once again, the greatest triathlete in history, the

:36:04. > :36:11.first to ever win two gold medals, and Jonny, the younger, he upgrades

:36:12. > :36:16.from Raunds to silver. Alistair is the 13th of the 19 returning

:36:17. > :36:20.champions from London who have competed so far to actually retain

:36:21. > :36:26.their titles. 13 of 19 have done it so far and we still have Jade Jones

:36:27. > :36:33.in tae kwon do and Nicola Adams in the boxing later on. Medals have

:36:34. > :36:40.been flying in on this 13th day. The Heath and John Schofield took silver

:36:41. > :36:48.in the canoe slalom this morning, and Liam has an excellent chance in

:36:49. > :36:53.the singles. Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge in the badminton, we have

:36:54. > :36:58.waited for this moment, Great Britain have one two medals today,

:36:59. > :37:03.both in mixed doubles sports since the introduction to the Olympics in

:37:04. > :37:08.1992, they were bidding for the first ever in the men's doubles.

:37:09. > :37:18.They were up against the Chinese pair of Chai and Hong, 1-1, first to

:37:19. > :37:43.21 in the third, as we take it. That work to get Chris Langridge to

:37:44. > :37:50.the net, and he really is devastating in the front court area.

:37:51. > :37:55.Marcus Ellis is so good with his variation from the back. That, in my

:37:56. > :38:02.opinion, is their favoured formation. But there is no panic, no

:38:03. > :38:22.worry, even if they get pulled out favoured formation.

:38:23. > :38:37.These tall Chinese players having to get download to those disguised drop

:38:38. > :39:14.shots. Desperately difficult. -- having to get down low.

:39:15. > :39:24.All credit to the British players. Because normally I think how

:39:25. > :39:30.wonderful the attacking play is of this Chinese pair, but they have not

:39:31. > :39:34.really been allowed to attack. And when they have hit the shuttle in a

:39:35. > :39:36.downward direction the defensive play both British players has been

:39:37. > :40:21.equal to it. There is lots and lots of shots

:40:22. > :40:28.being played into the body of either Chai, as it was on that occasion, or

:40:29. > :40:32.Hong. It is desperately difficult, if you are a tall athlete, how do

:40:33. > :40:40.you get your body out of the way to then give yourself the freedom to

:40:41. > :40:42.play the defensive shot? And that was nervous looking, to me, from

:40:43. > :41:39.Chai. A good rally. The Chinese pair, to

:41:40. > :41:48.me, looked to be running out of ideas as to how to break down the

:41:49. > :41:55.defence of the British combination. What a start to this deciding game.

:41:56. > :42:27.If you are a British fan you will be delighted.

:42:28. > :42:37.I wonder if the Chinese pair have been guilty of thinking, right, now

:42:38. > :42:41.we have won the second game... They have just relaxed a little and not

:42:42. > :42:44.kept their intensity. That being said, the British pair have not

:42:45. > :42:55.really put a foot wrong in this deciding game. Not so far.

:42:56. > :43:01.That is well played by the Chinese pair. More the sort of rally we are

:43:02. > :43:40.used to seeing from them. The return of serve just guided in a

:43:41. > :43:44.downward direction. He has taken it from well below net height which

:43:45. > :43:48.means he has got to hit in an upward direction, but he does not want to

:43:49. > :43:50.list it, so he is blocking back to the net, but Langridge is there,

:43:51. > :44:19.ready and waiting. Well, I said that the British pair,

:44:20. > :44:24.their defensive play had been equal to dealing with the attack from the

:44:25. > :44:29.Chinese combination, and that rally just proves my point. Absolutely

:44:30. > :45:11.magnificent. He has gone to the net at exactly

:45:12. > :45:19.the right moment once again. Chris Langridge. And he makes it count.

:45:20. > :45:22.His partner defends, he moves forward, and that is a wonderful

:45:23. > :46:02.combination. What can the Chinese pair do in

:46:03. > :46:19.response? They have not found the answer so far.

:46:20. > :47:03.The service wide of the centre line. That is a gift. It means that the

:47:04. > :47:11.British pair have an 8-point advantage of they change ends in

:47:12. > :47:16.this deciding game. Who would have thought before the tournament got

:47:17. > :47:33.under way here that we would be in this situation? The deciding game.

:47:34. > :47:44.The whole body language of the Chinese players of concern if you

:47:45. > :48:03.are a Chinese fun. What a contrast to the British players.

:48:04. > :48:13.They are just ten points away from a first-ever medal in the men's

:48:14. > :48:24.doubles discipline for British badminton.

:48:25. > :48:38.Two medals for British mixed doubles in the past. A good flick serve.

:48:39. > :48:40.They look from Hong Wei to the surface judge, but there was no

:48:41. > :49:08.call. Very rarely does a trick shot like

:49:09. > :49:42.that work. Both of the British players are

:49:43. > :49:48.playing better than I have ever seen them play before. That is

:49:49. > :50:12.magnificent Crouch defence from Marcus Ellis.

:50:13. > :50:20.Just an indication there from Chris Langridge, got to keep it calm. We

:50:21. > :50:24.have got ourselves in this sort of lead, we have to play the way we

:50:25. > :50:27.have played to build this lead to stop as far as the Chinese are

:50:28. > :50:29.concerned, they have to focus on getting on the attack. Not able to

:50:30. > :50:55.do it at the moment. Phenomenal. They deserve the point,

:50:56. > :50:56.they deserve the Valley, because they are taking the game to their

:50:57. > :51:29.opponents. Initiating the attack. The hope of air, a deep breath from

:51:30. > :52:30.Chai Biao. That is a good serve. A good return

:52:31. > :52:42.as well. It has gone long. Another point

:52:43. > :53:37.nearer the dream becoming reality. He has been superb at the front of

:53:38. > :53:41.the court, Chris Langridge. Just enough pace on it to tempt Chai Biao

:53:42. > :54:15.into trying to intercept it. If you are a Chinese fun, you will

:54:16. > :54:20.be recognising that is, unless the Chinese pair have a little one of

:54:21. > :54:24.points now, and start closing the gap, but some psychological pressure

:54:25. > :54:25.on the British pair, their chances of them coming through this are

:54:26. > :55:03.slim. That has helped their cause. The body language of Chai Biao after

:55:04. > :55:38.that. It tells its own story. All of a sudden, the enormity of

:55:39. > :55:43.what could be achieved has perhaps hit the British pair. Suddenly

:55:44. > :56:16.looking nervous and tentative. That will help settle the nerves.

:56:17. > :56:51.Three points away from a bronze medal at the Olympic Games.

:56:52. > :57:28.That is an unbelievable smash. Ten opportunities to secure the bronze

:57:29. > :58:06.medal. There is a challenge. It was called

:58:07. > :58:14.out. The British pair have challenged. They are asking for the

:58:15. > :58:20.instant review. If the line call is overturned, the bronze medal goes to

:58:21. > :58:33.the British pair of Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis. It is in! A bronze

:58:34. > :58:49.medal for the British pair. A first ever medal in men's doubles. Marcus

:58:50. > :58:57.Ellis overcome with emotion. They were quite simply superb today.

:58:58. > :59:03.Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis. A pair currently ranked outside the

:59:04. > :59:06.top 20 in the world have beaten a pair that has been as high as number

:59:07. > :59:16.three in the world ranking. I can't believe it. I don't believe

:59:17. > :59:21.it has happened yet. When we saw the review on the final point, I can't

:59:22. > :59:33.describe my feelings. I am lost for words. Give us some words, Chris. It

:59:34. > :59:42.is mental. I can't say anything, because it is the most incredible

:59:43. > :59:50.feeling. We have worked so hard. I can't say anything. Sorry! I am so

:59:51. > :59:54.happy. It is a brilliant bronze medal and a fantastic victory over

:59:55. > :00:00.badminton tightens China. They were ranked five, you are ranked 22. You

:00:01. > :00:05.have already beaten the third seeds, they can rip up those rankings now.

:00:06. > :00:11.At Olympics Yukon Territory straightaway, it not many top seeds

:00:12. > :00:16.will win. Coming here, after performing how we did in the first

:00:17. > :00:20.match, the new we could compete with everybody. We had a tough semifinal,

:00:21. > :00:26.they were better than us. We have never played them today before, we

:00:27. > :00:29.knew we had a chance if we played well, and we are so happy we have

:00:30. > :00:35.done it for ourselves and for badminton. It is massive for our

:00:36. > :00:42.sport, I am so proud that we can be part of it. How worried where you in

:00:43. > :00:46.the last few points? It was tight. You built up a big lead in the

:00:47. > :00:54.deciding game, did you start to feel the nerves's definitely. We had such

:00:55. > :01:00.a big lead. In a weird way, it is worse, because you are thinking

:01:01. > :01:05.about each point. At 14-7, I thought, we are going to win this!

:01:06. > :01:11.Then I got more nervous, but Marcus was calm, which helped. It is great

:01:12. > :01:15.for badminton. We have to compete with the other sports. I have said

:01:16. > :01:19.it before, not enough people play badminton, so hopefully people will

:01:20. > :01:21.be watching this today, there is no reason why they cannot do what we

:01:22. > :01:35.did. You might have a point, because I do

:01:36. > :01:38.if you follow social media but it has been ablaze with people saying,

:01:39. > :01:45.actually this is my new favourite sport. It is fantastic. When you see

:01:46. > :01:50.it at the top level it is an amazing sport, a beautiful sport. People are

:01:51. > :01:53.realising that, you know, and watching is doing it, I hope we

:01:54. > :02:02.inspire people to start laying because it is an amazing sport. How

:02:03. > :02:09.will you celebrate, guys? We should not say so because we are

:02:10. > :02:18.professional Olympic Raunds -- bronze medallist badminton players!

:02:19. > :02:24.They have absolutely thrilled us all week. I am sure you have followed

:02:25. > :02:27.our progress all week. Having defeated the third, fifth, and

:02:28. > :02:33.eighth seeds, they are our first ever men's double badminton

:02:34. > :02:40.medallist. And great news, because the champagne that has been on his

:02:41. > :02:45.in the women's 470, they have waited 40 hours to get their gold medal,

:02:46. > :02:47.and Shirley Robertson, you have finally caught up with them, and

:02:48. > :02:59.they are finally going to get it. 48 hours they have waited, but

:03:00. > :03:05.finally we can say, they are 2016 Olympic champions! I can't believe

:03:06. > :03:10.it has actually happened, it is the best feeling ever.

:03:11. > :03:13.They crossed the line and broke all the rules and sailed up the beach to

:03:14. > :03:20.their loved ones. What was the moment like? There were so many

:03:21. > :03:27.Brazilian people, try to find my mum and my boyfriend... Then we found

:03:28. > :03:31.them, it was amazing. Four years ago it was agonising watching you lose

:03:32. > :03:39.the gold and walk away with silver. This moment, does it mean you have

:03:40. > :03:42.forgotten all about London? Right now, absolutely, yes. We are so

:03:43. > :03:49.proud to have come back and worked so hard to get the gold, it is all

:03:50. > :03:52.we ever dreamt of, we are so proud. Happy, and we thank everybody back

:03:53. > :03:58.at home for their support, everybody has been absolutely amazing. A word

:03:59. > :04:03.from the two of you about your partnership. So close in so many

:04:04. > :04:10.ways, but to finally get the chance, in about one hour, to stand on the

:04:11. > :04:14.top step...? It will be awesome. When I first sailed with Hannah I

:04:15. > :04:21.knew it could be something special. I knew she was special. We have had

:04:22. > :04:27.ups and downs through everything but been there for each other. It will

:04:28. > :04:37.be so great, I hope she can sing. I can sing! And your coach, Joe

:04:38. > :04:41.Glenfield, there throughout. An absolute legend. It has been such a

:04:42. > :04:46.long event and he has not let us slip once. He is the best coach

:04:47. > :04:52.ever, we have lost him, but we will find him again. Rock solid all week,

:04:53. > :04:57.nobody deserves it more. Enjoy it, girls.

:04:58. > :05:06.Without question, the most extravagant celebration yet, great

:05:07. > :05:12.to share that moment with them on the boat. Officially 21 gold medals

:05:13. > :05:19.for Great Britain. We saw the 20th early on. It came from Alistair

:05:20. > :05:27.Brownlee, with his little brother, Jonny, getting the silver, upgrading

:05:28. > :05:28.from his London bronze. Jonathan Edwards has managed to get both of

:05:29. > :05:39.them. Jonny, want to come to you first,

:05:40. > :05:44.because we have already spoken to Big Brother. You have gone one

:05:45. > :05:49.better than the last time. I used to being beaten now by Alistair in the

:05:50. > :05:55.Olympics! But it is a dream to get gold and silver. We had a clear

:05:56. > :06:02.plan, to go hard on the swim, and make a gap on the first couple of

:06:03. > :06:07.laps on the bike. It was a hot day, I knew we had to control it. When

:06:08. > :06:12.Alistair pushed on I thought, if I gave now I might risk a medal. To

:06:13. > :06:18.get gold and silver, I am incredibly proud. I don't want to get

:06:19. > :06:22.emotional, I like to think I am a toff Yorkshireman, but I was

:06:23. > :06:26.emotional at the end. Alistair said that you are doing better in

:06:27. > :06:36.training, so was it a surprise and he got away from you? I didn't say

:06:37. > :06:39.better, I said it was close! I think had been a sprint I could have

:06:40. > :06:49.beaten him but training is different to a full on race. Alistair had that

:06:50. > :07:02.0.5% better than me today. It was more than that! What would you

:07:03. > :07:11.estimate it is? 0.6, 0.7? He will get older and slower! Maybe he

:07:12. > :07:19.won't, I don't know. Compare the emotions between this and London. It

:07:20. > :07:25.is very different. London had so much expectation, it was almost a

:07:26. > :07:33.dead cert. It was almost relief, the main emotion. Today I felt I had

:07:34. > :07:38.really been up against it. Training so hard all year, finished so many

:07:39. > :07:46.sessions, just trying to keep up with Jonny, racing three or four

:07:47. > :07:54.times a week, hardly able to sleep, then getting up out of bed and doing

:07:55. > :08:01.it all over again. Here we go! Does he always complain? I am just saying

:08:02. > :08:13.a commission Mark it is supposed to be hard, isn't it? I'm just so

:08:14. > :08:18.happy. Happy and really satisfied. I know that British triathlon have

:08:19. > :08:22.supported you all the way. They have been amazing to us. It is the side

:08:23. > :08:30.people don't see. In camp in San Moritz for the last few weeks,

:08:31. > :08:34.everyone out there, our physio team, the coaches, they spent a long time

:08:35. > :08:39.away from their families, up a mountain, doing everything they

:08:40. > :08:45.possibly can to make us... And spending a long time in the sauna

:08:46. > :08:50.with us. To get used to the heat. All the little things they do for

:08:51. > :08:53.us. Absolutely incredible. They are the guys who will now have to go

:08:54. > :09:00.back tonight and get ready for the girls race, whereas we can enjoy it.

:09:01. > :09:09.2020, you will give him a chance to take back the title? I have said,

:09:10. > :09:15.noncommittally, that if I win again I might help him to win himself in

:09:16. > :09:20.2020. But I will go away and see how the body is. I want to do long

:09:21. > :09:24.distance triathlon at some point, but the Olympics is what you do it

:09:25. > :09:30.all for, what I have dreams about since watching my first Olympics, in

:09:31. > :09:35.Atlanta. It is hard to say I will never do another one, definitely.

:09:36. > :09:47.Record this interview, because he said he might assist you in 2020. He

:09:48. > :09:50.said he might, Mike! He will get three weeks away from that Olympics

:09:51. > :10:00.and he will decide he wants to beat me. Congratulations.

:10:01. > :10:03.The Brownlee Brothers going fantastically well down by the beach

:10:04. > :10:13.and soon it is the turn of one of Yorkshire's favourite daughters.

:10:14. > :10:22.I am the type of person, if you tell me I can't, you better believe I

:10:23. > :10:29.will. For me it has never mattered being a girl in a mill dominated

:10:30. > :10:34.sport. Rules are meant to be broken. I have been through hard times.

:10:35. > :10:39.Struggles. It is not how you go down, it is how you get back up.

:10:40. > :10:45.Yes, there are doubts, but it is how you deal with them that matters.

:10:46. > :10:54.Being the first, making history, it meant absolutely everything to me.

:10:55. > :10:58.Nicola Adams has just made history! A gold medal was a dream come true.

:10:59. > :11:06.I like the fact that opponents are all comment for me. Nicola Adams,

:11:07. > :11:11.world champion. They want to be world champion. That is what

:11:12. > :11:15.motivates me. They don't say, yeah, she is good for April. They just see

:11:16. > :11:21.me as a champion. That is all I ever wanted. This is in some respects a

:11:22. > :11:26.deja vu Olympics but it is not getting old at all. An important

:11:27. > :11:29.note for Nicola Adams in the semifinals of the flyweight division

:11:30. > :11:35.where she ruled four years ago. John Inverdale is there. Lots of

:11:36. > :11:42.anticipation and excitement, and a familiar opponent for her tonight.

:11:43. > :11:46.A very interesting piece you just ran, with Nicola admitting there are

:11:47. > :11:50.doubts, but it is a question of dealing with them. We have actually

:11:51. > :11:58.bumped into her on both occasions, a couple of days ago and again today,

:11:59. > :12:02.she is outwardly so calm and without nerves, but of course, what is going

:12:03. > :12:06.on inside is the interesting. And she will need to be a bit better

:12:07. > :12:12.than she was a couple of days ago, by common consent it was scrappy and

:12:13. > :12:17.she just scraped through. She will be better to reach and other Olympic

:12:18. > :12:20.final. And talking about returning Olympians, what she is trying to do

:12:21. > :12:28.is what a gentleman called Harry Malley did in 1920, and work, and

:12:29. > :12:38.1924, Paris, winning back-to-back Olympic titles. -- Antwerp. He

:12:39. > :12:47.trained at a boxing club in Hackney which are no longer exists but is

:12:48. > :12:50.within the confines of the new Olympic Park, which brings us back

:12:51. > :12:57.around to Nicola and her victory four years ago.

:12:58. > :13:04.Very few have got close. Picnic Taggart in the 1950s got closest,

:13:05. > :13:08.with gold then bronze. But in terms of how people generally feel about

:13:09. > :13:11.her chances, you talk about outward confidence, but is there any doubt

:13:12. > :13:18.from her team, anything you hear in the background?

:13:19. > :13:24.The inevitable passage of time, four years later, are you still as good a

:13:25. > :13:34.fighter? But she is so resolute in her determination. She is outwardly

:13:35. > :13:39.so cheerful. A very demeanour to -- diminutive figure, but so confident.

:13:40. > :13:46.By and large the consensus is she should come through this, but it

:13:47. > :13:53.will be very tight. You will see that when we moved, very shortly,

:13:54. > :13:59.over two BBC Two. Quite a number of happy headlines to bring you, and

:14:00. > :14:04.one or two interesting ones also. Great Britain have claimed a

:14:05. > :14:08.fantastic 1-2 in the men's triathlon after Alistair Brownlee retained his

:14:09. > :14:14.title to become the first triathlete to win two Olympic crowns, Jonny

:14:15. > :14:21.turned his London bronze into silver. Keith Schofield upgraded

:14:22. > :14:28.their bronze medal to silver also with second place in the men's kayak

:14:29. > :14:33.double sprint. -- Heath and Scofield. And Marcus Ellis and Chris

:14:34. > :14:41.language when the first such Men's Doubles badminton medal -- British.

:14:42. > :14:52.Jade Jones eases through her opening tae kwon do bout into the

:14:53. > :14:56.quarterfinal. And Tonia Couch is in the woman's ten metres platform

:14:57. > :15:02.final. There she is, you will see her a little later. We will see you

:15:03. > :15:08.on BBC Two in a matter of moments, hopefully the momentum continues.

:15:09. > :15:13.See you soon.