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Welcome back to the evening action, your time, afternoon in Rio. We will | :00:48. | :01:00. | |
be showing you diving, the final of the women's ten-metre platform, | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
Tonia Couch in it for Britain. At 9pm, Jade Jones in the semifinal of | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
the tae kwon do, trying to win through to the gold medal about. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Here are the headlines on day 13. Alistair Brownlee led home his | :01:10. | :01:21. | |
brother Jonny for a British 1-2 in the triathlon, it makes Alistair the | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
first man to retain the title and the first brothers to win gold and | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
silver in the same event since 1960. After being frustrated by the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
weather yesterday, Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark were finally allowed to | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
celebrate their gold medal in sailing's 470 women's class. It was | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
confirmed in the medal raises, Team GB's 21st gold medal of these Games. | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
And there was a very exciting silver medal for Liam Heath and Jon | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Schofield in the Canoe Spring K2 200 metres, they got the nod on photo | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
finish to upgrade the bronze they won in London four years ago. And | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge earned Britain a first Olympic | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
badminton medal for 12 years by winning their bronze medal play-off | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
match in the men's doubles. So this is how we are planning | :02:19. | :02:19. | |
match in the men's doubles. So this is how we are planning to bring you | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
the action. We will be livening with the women's ten-metre platform | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
shortly, and I'm hoping from the example of Jack Laugher from | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
qualifying anywhere, you can get into the final and anything can | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
happen. Jade Jones was the youngest gold-medallist in London, she | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
defends her title next. We hope to be talking to guests include Joshua | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Buatsi, who took bronze medal in boxing and Marcus Ellis and Chris | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Langridge, who won bonds today in badminton. We'll be live at 9:40pm | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
for the last half or quarter three and four of the men's gold medal | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
match, Belgium against Argentina, and from 11:30pm onwards, 10:30pm | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
onwards, sorry, there will be an Olympic round-up of anything you may | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
have missed. But live action of course always takes precedence, and | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
high up in the stadium at the diving is Helen Skelton, almost on a level | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
with the ten-metre platform. Yes, but thankfully I don't have to | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
jump from this platform headfirst, upside down, which is exactly what | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Brin's Tonia Couch has just done. Due joiners for the finals of the | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
women's ten-metre individual platform and Tonia Couch has just | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
done her first dive. She will be very happy with it. This was the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
dive this morning that did not go so well in the semifinals, but she | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
managed to pull it off beautifully today. This morning, she went to | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
close to the edge but look at that, she will be very happy with that and | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
she racked up a good score, her coach was impressed, so it gets | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Tonia off to a good start. She picked up 64.5 points, so five | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
rounds of diving, the harder the dives, the more points the divers | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
will accumulate, and Tonia does have to be consistent if she wants to get | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
herself on the podium this evening. Well, Bob Ballard, Leon Taylor will | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
join you for the rest of round one. This is a huge dive to open up with | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
and she's absolutely nailed the finish. Wow, 8.5s across-the-board, | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
hello, 81 points. For those who have just joined us on BBC One, this is | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
the fourth dive of round one, Meaghan Benfeito, the first dive as | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
in the preliminaries. It did not go so well for her in the semifinal but | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
in the prelim, 81, and in the final, 81, and she is amongst those who | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
become testing for third place. Now to Minami Itahashi of Japan, the | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
inward three and a half, with took. -- tuck. I don't know how to | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
describe the power of this young Japanese, she's only four and she | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
looks as though she had springs on her feet. She does almost double | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
board level and has to come out of the dive with her toes pointing up | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
to the sky in order to make the control. Impressive stuff. She | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
doesn't quite get the clean rip entry that she will be looking for | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
but my word, it's good. It's very good at the moment, it puts her into | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
second place. The stakes have risen and been raised from today, earlier | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
on, when in different first two rounds -- there were indifferent | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
rounds from many of the divers. 7.6 for the 16-year-old from Japan, we | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
have seen one Canadian already, a good start from Meaghan Benfeito and | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
Roseline Filion can follow suit, inward to one half somersaults, | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
lowest degree of difficulty we will see in round one. A super-clean | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
entry, fractionally overrode freighted. -- over rotated. It | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
looked like she went after it a bit, she misses the diving board but just | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
can't quite stop the dive over rotating but because she disappeared | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
into the water, less, not enough splash to fill a teacup as we often | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
say. Look at those marks, even with the over rotation. It's the last | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
thing they see, it off influences what they give and 71.40 for the | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
Canadian, we have a class field here who are giving is class dives | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
earlier on. Ram two is where it went wobbly. That was due to the weather | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
conditions we had earlier on, the sun slightly askew on the board. It | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
gave you half light as you came down. Onto Pandelela Rinong, the | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
bronze-medallist from London four years ago. Forward three and a half. | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
Well, it's good and normally I'm more more more impressed by this | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
young lady's finishes. The finishing of the dive is so important. That's | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
where the lion's share of the marks are. Take off is spot on, her pike | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
shape is unbelievable, her forehead is in line with her ankles, I didn't | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
know that was anatomically possible! She has open hamstrings which allows | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
her to get deeper to that pike shape, not quite keeping the | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
splashdown. Enough for more than yes. Eight to come. Eight to come, | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
72 is more than respectable for Pandelela. 81.6 is the leading score | :07:53. | :08:05. | |
so far from Meaghan Benfeito. Kim, the older Kim, not the world | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
champion Kim, big Kim, with her forward three and a half. It's good | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
game from Kim. She had a bit of a shoddy rudimentary effort. She just | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
scraped into the semifinal in last position, in 18th, and then she | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
comes out all guns blazing and she was making a play for the front from | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
start number one in the semifinals. Here she is opening up her campaign, | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
marginally over rotated. So she won't be overtaking some of the | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
front runners. No, but she is in there with a 17, so we've had 73 72, | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
71, a 70 now. Tonia Couch, 64.5 was better than she did this morning. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
She is eighth of eight starters so far. Now some people reckon this is | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
going to be the bronze-medallist today, some people say she's diving | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
exceptionally well, consistently well. Who are these some people you | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
talk of mysteriously? Here is Melissa Wu, we know who she is. She | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
is Bob's bet for a medal and I will say, oh, there are just some people | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
who, I don't know if they are made up people whether they are real | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
people, you have to take that up with my co-commentator. Melissa Wu, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
fourth in London, fourth all day today, fourth in the prelims, fourth | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
in the semifinals, will it be better than forth today? She has to come | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
out of the jungle all guns blazing and see if that is good enough. To | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
put her up there in the front bench. It's OK, that's good, 73.5. It puts | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
her into third place. Are you saying I'm a fantasist? I'm talking about | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
people who know this sport inside out. You just referred to them as | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
some people! Name your sources! I will when we get closer to the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
winning line. The first of the two Chinese, Ren Qian. Yes, so just 15 | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
years old. Wasn't even born when the Sydney Olympic Games were on, and | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
here she is opening up her campaign with an exceptional dive. Just a tad | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
short of vertical. Other than that it is bang on. I think it's worth a | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
nine. There's hardly anything of her, when she stands up on the | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
platform next to the railings you can only just see her, she is that | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
lean. That helps when you get into the water. No splash equals good | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
marks, and there they are. Not quite as good as Meaghan Benfeito but not | :10:48. | :10:59. | |
too far shy. 81 point six -- 81.64 Meaghan Benfeito. First place | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
probably will go to a Chinese, we will see the second of them shortly. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
The most impressive of the rest has been Jessica Parratto of the USA, | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
and she will open like many others with a forward three and a half. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
There is talk that she at the Olympic trials was a similar | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
position. She qualified in top place and had a bit of a wobble in the | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
final. She has been exemplary, she being Jessica Parratto, all the way | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
through. I love her style of diving. She's 22 years old and she is my tip | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
for mixing it up in the bronze. But time will tell. That's the first | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
dive, bang on the money, and she will be right up there on Ren Qian's | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
shoulder, if not in front. So now you know Leon Taylor is not some | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
people because it's not him I was talking to. OK! Oh, I see, that's | :11:50. | :11:59. | |
very cryptic, Bob! We won't get -- I can get more obtuse than that. I'm | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
sure you can! We move onto the other Chinese, the one who would surely be | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
the favourite in the basis of what she did in the prelims, Best, semis, | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
Best, forward three and a half. Oh, she has opened up there with a | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
beautiful dive, following on Jessica's forward three and a half | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
in the pike position. Her entry is not quite as good, Si Yajie, so it | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
shouldn't get as many marks, because the height is incredible. The entry | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
isn't quite as clean as the American just before her, but 17 years old. | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
And Chinese. She has been the one to keep up with, hasn't she, through | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
prelims and semifinal. It would be a travesty if she can't hold form and | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
really go for this gold. There are your marks, exactly the same as we | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
saw for Jessica Parratto, 81, so there's nothing to choose between | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
one and joint second at the moment. The first round done and dusted. | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
Four more to go. Some bigger tariff dives, 3.3s, 3.4s still to come. | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
That's how it looks after the first round. Canada in front as was the | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
case in the prelims. Jessica Parratto in second with Si Yajie and | :13:23. | :13:32. | |
Ren Qian in fourth. Where is Tonia? On the second page at the bottom, | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
but a considerable improvement on this morning's dive. She has made a | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
18 or 19 points. It's probably the weakest in the programme, her | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
forward? Yes, as I mentioned when she opened up with it, it's the dive | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
that's been causing her the most difficulty and she has got it out of | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
the way now. She's at the bottom of the pack and it's time to get her | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
comeback on. It's almost like putting your rucksack down. You feel | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
lighter, it's out of the way, you can get going. So many bits of | :14:02. | :14:18. | |
transport are unbelievable. # commentator's problems. No son in | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
the commentary box, I'm pleased to say. It's gone home, yes. | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
Paola Espinosa of Mexico. She will do the 3.4 later, but this is 3.3. | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
Three and a half somersaults. Somebody who can challenge, one of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
the most experienced divers in the field. Yes, super experienced. | :14:43. | :14:54. | |
Almost defying Isaac Newton, gravity doesn't seem to affect her, she | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
jumps through the roof, if there was one. Jumping up towards the sky, | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
turning into a bit of a banana when she enters the water, that will be | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
costly. If she could keep a bit more tension she could have pulled around | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
the dive. Banana woman. If you are playing diving bingo at home I think | :15:17. | :15:28. | |
you have just had your first caller. To get 24 spaces filled. Onto the | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
younger of the two Malaysians, in which friend a half somersaults, | :15:39. | :15:53. | |
Sabri. 3.2, for the Malaysians. She pops up into that, almost like | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
shaking the bottle of fizzy drink and opening the top, she explodes | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
off the diving board, she has no issues, making the dive very easily. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Look how easily she finishes, where they half, four and a half metres | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
drop. Not quite keeping the splash down, so eight is good, maybe. If | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
she stayed with it she would have got more than that. Always a big | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
smile from her and her coach as well as she goes round the deck. Now, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Tonia Couch. In the five dives, there has to be | :16:30. | :16:45. | |
one arm stand. I don't think we will see her kissing the platform, I | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
think those have gone, from the semifinal. Arms down, back, double | :16:50. | :17:01. | |
somersault, one and a half twists. It's a beautiful dive from Tonia | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
Couch, all the way into the water. In the preliminaries she buried it, | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
no splash at all. This time the aerial work was fantastic and she | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
doesn't quite get the entry. The rip entry is a splash less entry. She | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
has worked hard but she can't quite stop that dive from moving over | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
vertical and therefore her heels caused the splash to splash out. She | :17:28. | :17:46. | |
did 65.6 earlier. That is an improvement but not a considerable | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
one, sadly. Onto the early leader, Meaghan Benfeito. Ooh that's | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
tremendous, isn't it. A gave of tactics, the first dive was 3.2. | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
Putting a big score on the board and using the dive that the other | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
athletes decided to open with in the second round, 3.0, and she | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
absolutely drills it. Wow. I didn't see it coming, did you? No. 78. | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
Meaghan has been slightly off. She has been back to the village to have | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
her Scoobie Snacks, that's for sure. Gold and silver may go to China, we | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
are presuming that will happen. Predict rather than presume. Another | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
medal, which may belong to Meaghan Benfeito. It may belong to the mini | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
money are this is such a tricky dive. 3.0 | :18:58. | :19:12. | |
degrees of difficulty but I think it is actually more difficult than | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
that, he skips off the diving board, a trapdoor take-off. She is only | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
4-footed 11 so she has to come out of it really early and she doesn't | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
quite pull it off. Shorter vertical. She's enjoying herself. When the | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
dive has gone, it has gone. That's a shame for her. Not going to get the | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
response from the judges that she was looking for. That's probably | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
about right. 6.5s across-the-board. The scores of malt applied by the | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
degree of difficulty. We have seen one Canadian going difficulty, top | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
of the leaderboard two multiplied. This is the highest degree of | :19:59. | :20:22. | |
difficulty in her list. What a dive. They have brought their a game. They | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
are here in force and this is a huge dive. This will get over 80 points | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
and quite right too. Wow. Out of first gear and up into high speed. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
What a competition we are seeing. No indications of anything like this | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
earlier in the day and suddenly, they flicked a switch and off | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
they've gone. Rosalind Philly, the biggest mark we've seen in the | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
competition so far -- Rosalind Philly on -- Roseline Filion. | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
She has a bit of ground to make up here. Only 2.9, the degree of | :21:09. | :21:21. | |
difficulty. She has really flunked the end of the dive, hasn't she? | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Very graceful, aesthetically pleasing is a lovely way of | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
describing it, great shapes and very good technician but a huge error, | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
coming out of the dive a fortnight too early. This will be costly. That | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
could see the 23-year-old from Malaysia, the second of the | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
Malaysians in the final falling away from the hot pace that has been set | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
by some of the contenders in the contest. Bronze-medallist four years | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
ago. Chances of replicating that are looking slim with that 53.65. | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
Because everybody else is diving their proverbial socks or boots, | :22:03. | :22:14. | |
whatever foot wear. The older Kim of North Korea. She doesn't want to be | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
too close to the board, she was a bit close this morning. Safe | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
distance from the diving board. I will call it if it is too close. She | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
won't be penalised for that. Inward is so challenging, standing | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
backwards and you have two spin forward. She has haired, which gives | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
her the appearance of being closer than she is. -- she has hair. That | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
is good from him. Super slow motion. They like to do that inwards to show | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
how close. The judges don't get the replay. Safe dive from Jim. The | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
standard that everybody else has said, that is quite low -- from Kim. | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
That is 72. Into fourth place. Now, the arm stand from Melissa Wu. Arm | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
stand back double somersault. One of the half twists, 3.2. Even at this | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
stage, having to play catch up with the likes of Sabri and Meaghan | :23:29. | :23:40. | |
Benfeito. So far those people are OK with their prediction. Melissa Wu | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
coming out with a very good arm stand back double somersault, one | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
and a half twists. Doesn't get a strong push off the diving board, | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
not using her hands to get going, so it can throw out her control. | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Straight down, looks like washing powder underneath. She pulls the air | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
down. Rolling down into the abyss. It isn't the abyss any more because | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
the water is the correct colour. You need your washing machine looked at | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
if it is doing that! 72, Melissa Wu. Moving onto Ren Qian of China. Three | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
and a half with a track for the first of two Chinese we will see -- | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
a tuck. So classy all the way through. Top-notch diving from Ren | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
Qian, but that is a marginal wash, over the vertical as she goes in. | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
The rest of the dive was bang on the money. Safe distance from the diving | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
board, nines coming her way, but not attend because she would have needed | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
to be completely vertical. She is putting pressure on Jessica Parratto | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
coming up next and also Si Yajie. Just going ahead, it | :25:04. | :25:26. | |
is tied at the top. One person who wants to be there and hold onto what | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
she has got, second place, Jessica Parratto of the USA. Ooh she is an! | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
If any of her dives were going to go, it would have been this one -- | :25:43. | :25:56. | |
she is on. Wow. We have Canada against the USA for the bronze. Only | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
into the second round, long way to go. Just under 80 points. The marks | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
are astonishing. 84, 85. So many high marks. Jessica Dourado is in | :26:10. | :26:21. | |
second place, couple of points behind, Meaghan Benfeito is just | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
behind her and Roseline Filion is just behind her, almost like a conga | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
line. Beautiful take-off and aerial work, just a fraction over rotating. | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
Will she get nine like her team-mates or 8.5s? Depends how much | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
the judges penalised her for the marginal over rotation. Beautiful | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
diving, just a touch over, you can see. The judges don't get the slow | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
motion, they call it as I do. Nines. No emergency yet for Si Yajie, she | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
is very covered with at the top. I say comfortably. It isn't nailed on. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
You wouldn't want to call it because the gaps between the main | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
protagonists are very tight indeed. So, where are we? It is China one | :27:24. | :27:35. | |
and two the top five are separated by just ten points after the second | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
round. Sabri in sixth. We will have to see if Tonia has made up some | :27:42. | :27:51. | |
places. She has made up one so far. We've had some people asking why the | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
judges don't get to see at least one replay, do you have any thoughts on | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
whether they should and why it may affect the competition? It would be | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
a long and drawn-out process, the judges are very experienced, used to | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
judging the dive straightaway. Lie I don't agree with that proposal. -- | :28:12. | :28:20. | |
no I don't agree. We have seven judges, the two lowest and highest | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
are taken away. The judges need to be a bit more responsible for taking | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
away marks for divers who are dangerously close. That's my only | :28:30. | :28:37. | |
gripe. Beautifully summarised, I thought. Some people saying that we | :28:38. | :28:46. | |
see the replay is, why shouldn't they, but it would extend the | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
competition for another hour and in the preliminaries, we would be here | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
all day. The gymnastics judges don't get it. 3.4, the biggest dive we | :28:54. | :29:02. | |
will see today, Espinosa needs the points, she is in ninth place and | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
this one would push the forward. It is as well. -- push her. I'm so | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
pleased she has nailed it, fantastic effort. Reverse three and a half. | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
The only female on the planet who can do this dive and she has done it | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
here to a fine standard. This is huge. 80 points coming her way. Has | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
she done enough to stay with the pack? We'll wait and see. Still not | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
totally happy with it, but 81.6 is a good return. Her opening round dive | :29:42. | :29:49. | |
put her slightly off the pace, that's probably why she isn't | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
smiling. She has two more to do. Certainly has but she has over 200 | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
now, so she is in the mix. As indeed is Sabri, more than her established | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
Malaysian colleague at this stage. Very consistent so far. 72, 70 five. | :30:10. | :30:18. | |
Here comes the arm stand, and a bit of wind as well. I'm not sure that | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
the wind is up enough to affect Sabri, who really went after the | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
dive. Holding a very firm balance but using a very well executed | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
donkey kick in order to get the dive moving. Great spin speed, just | :30:36. | :30:46. | |
exited the dive to -- too late. The first surfboard moment we've had. | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
She's loving it, 17 years old. Six, that's a shame. She got a great | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
start but she couldn't quite get the end. | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
Yes, she was in contention, but that will put her back at least a couple | :31:00. | :31:07. | |
of places, you would think, 59.40 four Nur Sabri. Let's turn our | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
attention to Tonia Couch. Not a great start, a much better second | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
round. Needs to get going to be in contention for anything other than a | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
minor place. Inward three and a half somersaults, worth 3.2, for Tania -- | :31:24. | :31:38. | |
Tonia. Oh! What a shame. Tonia has been having difficulty with this | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
dive. She really, really nailed this in the prelims. Just leaving that | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
short, not quite completing the dive. The judges will heavily | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
penalised her. That is a huge shame for Britain's Tonia Couch. Yes, I'm | :31:55. | :32:04. | |
afraid with 64, 67, now 52... She's out of it. You do the maths. It's | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
hard to swallow but she will be way off the pack. Medal not coming her | :32:10. | :32:19. | |
way today for Great Britain, she can't do a Jacques Blaauw and | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
recover that much from the semifinal. Onto Meaghan Benfeito, | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
the two Canadians have been rocking it so far, see if she can rock it | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
still further with a back three and a half. Oh, yes, she can, she blasts | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
off into the atmosphere! This is unbelievable stuff for Meaghan | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
Benfeito. My word! This is good enough to get out and do the Mobot | :32:44. | :32:55. | |
afterwards. Eights coming her way at least. Superb diving, three out of | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
three for the 27-year-old. Already won a bronze in the sink row last | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
week and now she is putting pressure on the rest of the field. Bronze in | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
the synchro four years ago as well and made the final. Only 11th in | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
London. She will be much further up the pack them that if she carries on | :33:14. | :33:23. | |
in that vein. 81, 78, now 79.20, 238 total marks, that will really lay | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
down a platform, little platform, for the rest. Minami Itahashi from | :33:28. | :33:36. | |
Japan, the youngster with her back three and a half somersaults with | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
tuck. Well, it's good. I think there's so much more potential. She | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
doesn't quite finish off the job. You can see here a big knee bent | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
doesn't quite straight on through the legs. She kind of dips into | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
this. She plays the waiting game, gets the exit of the dive right but | :33:56. | :34:03. | |
it is shonky on the finish, slightly out of alignment and therefore only | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
getting sevens. Yes. Yes, it's now the diving Mexican which will | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
probably be in the Oxford English dictionary before too long, the crew | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
three is the word we carried through from last year, getting a lot of use | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
here. The two Canadians have started in very impressive fashion, Roseline | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
Filion now, chooses to go with this dive that a lot go with in round | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
one, in round three. Forward three and a half. Well, like-for-like with | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
her synchro partner, different times of course. This is amazing diving. | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
Wow! Well, whatever they did, the | :34:50. | :34:59. | |
Canadians in between, whether they went back for a barbecue, or | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
whatever they have done, to refuel, to re-energise and come out all guns | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
blazing, this is Canada kicking it. Yes, that word you can't use, well, | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
you probably could, are we watershed? No, we are not there yet | :35:14. | :35:21. | |
so we won't use it. 76.54 Bosley Stiliyan, the code -- Canadian | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
coaches going berserk. Quite right too. They normally reacts quite | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
positively even if the dive isn't that good. It has sent them into | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
overdrive. It is Canada one and two at the moment which is probably why | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
they are so excited. She pretty much blew her chances of getting in the | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
top three in round two, here is her arms stand. Not the most | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
concentrated on stand we will see today, 3.2. Complicated enough | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
though. And well executed, just a little bit of splash. You could see | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
Pandelela right on the edge of the diving board, they can choose where | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
they want to dive. She was on the side. You can see quite close to the | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
left-hand side we look at it there, this is because of divers dive | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
synchro, so they choose the side of the board and stick to it. If you | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
are wondering why they are standing in different spots, that is why. | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
Yes, you may recall her being very impressive at the Commonwealth Games | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
in Edinburgh, the diving events were in Edinburgh, not Glasgow, two years | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
ago. Not quite as impressive today. She might be in that shake-up for | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
third place, but it's not going to be her. It could be one of the | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
Canadians, it could be the American. Kim did well to make the semifinal, | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
the final place she managed to grab by just a point. She's improved | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
greatly since then. Here's her arm stank. -- on stand. That's more | :36:58. | :37:06. | |
complicated. Him doing all the right things on the take-off and spin | :37:07. | :37:11. | |
speed, just exit the dive too late and cannot do anything about the | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
massive over rotation, causing a mini tsunami as she enters the | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
water. Seen here on the super slow motion, she puts her feet up too | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
high, opens up through her chest and over rotates. There is the wave. | :37:26. | :37:32. | |
Yes, emptying the pool. You will notice now it's azure blue. | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
Back to where it was, better than where it was, the first couple of | :37:40. | :37:45. | |
days was a bit cloudy, but you can see right through to the bottom. | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
It's an advantage for the divers in terms of their sporting of the | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
water. The water coming in from the side is to make the visibility | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
better. Melissa Wu. OK, tremendous from Melissa Wu. Well, she needs to | :38:02. | :38:11. | |
be on this kind of form. She maybe needs a little bit of luck, as well, | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
with others around her faltering which isn't happening yet, because | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
this is only 2.8 degrees of difficulty and she is absolutely | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
drilled this dive. She will get nines. It's an absolute corker. | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
Lupin electrical -- lucky leprechaun needed, pot of gold at the end of | :38:32. | :38:38. | |
the rainbow, still in the mix. A chat with the coach, there was a ten | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
in there, in case you didn't see it up briefly, it doesn't count towards | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
the total. One judge loved it enough to give it full marks. It will be a | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
nine, nine and another nine towards that score of 75.6. Second placed at | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
the moment. Here's Ren Qian of China, back three and a half, once | :39:01. | :39:08. | |
again, 3.3. Wow! I think we have seen our first ten. This is stunning | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
come from start to finish. Wow! The only thing she has got her boots on, | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
feet flat, so maybe it's a 9.5. Other than that, that is nigh on | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
perfect. Twinkle toes needs to point her toes, but that is the dive off | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
the meat so far. 90 points plus, yes. We've had loads of 80s and I've | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
had been enthusiastic and eulogising those, but we've gone through the 90 | :39:42. | :39:48. | |
barrier, 94.05, so she is now gone 18 point past Meaghan Benfeito and | :39:49. | :39:57. | |
23 ahead of Roseline Filion, but don't count your chickens yet | :39:58. | :40:00. | |
because this young lady is having a particularly good competition. 22 | :40:01. | :40:09. | |
years of age, a big improvement for Jessica Parratto, inward three and a | :40:10. | :40:13. | |
half with tuck for the American. Well, feeling the pressure, there | :40:14. | :40:19. | |
you go, that's obviously got to her. Wow. That's a huge wobble. This is | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
one of her better dives, maybe even one of her easier dives. And as soon | :40:25. | :40:32. | |
as the pressure comes on, it's like the hammer on the cracks, will they | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
appear? Well, my tip for a medal exiting out of the back door. 44.80. | :40:39. | :40:55. | |
It's my bit now! Soap Jessica Parratto 44.8, 4.5, 4.5 and five. | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
Know your place, Leon Taylor, please! Si Yajie of China, our | :41:01. | :41:08. | |
current leader, best in the preliminaries. Very impressive in | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
the semifinal. A huge lead over the rest. Can she opened up a chasm over | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
Ren Qian? Very unlikely. On stand back double somersault, one and a | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
half twists. Wow, like-for-like, this is outstanding, isn't it? What | :41:26. | :41:32. | |
a competition. This is first class. The two Chinese teenagers are a cut | :41:33. | :41:40. | |
above, even in this exceptional standard of contest. My word! This | :41:41. | :41:47. | |
is nines coming Si Yajie's way and she will be right up there next to | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
Ren Qian. Well, she's not leading. OK. Ren Qian has just edged in | :41:55. | :42:02. | |
front. Where's that coming from? Music is blaring out. We're into the | :42:03. | :42:09. | |
club! This is the music at France House, one of the... Or Holland | :42:10. | :42:18. | |
House, that's also a good one. Its China one and two, but a change in | :42:19. | :42:24. | |
place, it's gone seesaw, with Meaghan Benfeito in third, the two | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
Canadians separated by size, and Tonia Couch sadly where we suggested | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
she might be after that dive in round three, number 12 in the | :42:37. | :42:43. | |
pecking order of 12. Well, it's filled a little bit in the Maria | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
Lenk Aquatics Centre, a few more people in. Still a lot of people at | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
the synchro swimming, too many for my liking but there you go. It's a | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
good noise, loads of flags, Japanese flags, US, Malaysia and flags, quite | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
a few of those. The support their 42-macro goals, but there are long | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
way down the pack. -- they are supporting two goals. It looks like | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
China and can do it doing battle, maybe Fowler Espinosa just trying to | :43:17. | :43:19. | |
get in there somehow, she's not too far out of the way, just ten shy of | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
Roseline Filion, ten short of Meaghan Benfeito, she does have one | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
of the higher tariff programmes here. A great third-round dive. Can | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
she back it up? Inward three and a half somersault is come with tuck, | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
for the Mexican Paola Espinosa, the oldest competitor, the most | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
experienced competitor in this field. Well, she is making her | :43:51. | :44:01. | |
experience Count. That is superb. Just her trademark slight lower back | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
arch as she goes in, other than that it's an outstanding dive from Paola | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
Espinosa, opening up the fourth round as she opened up the third | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
round. This is hot stuff. Yes, she won't have given up a chance of a | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
top three finish either, and why should she with marks like that? | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
81.6 in round three and she replicates that in round four as | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
well and is the first of the hit the 300 mark, 305 so far. What a | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
competition we have, we certainly can't put any of the medals around | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
any of the next, as yet. It's way too tight. China one and two, but it | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
could be Canada one and two quite easily, the way this is progressing, | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
with Mexico in the mix as well. Nur Sabri, the highest place of the | :44:54. | :44:56. | |
Malaysian is at this stage, back three and a half somersault is with | :44:57. | :45:04. | |
tuck. Well, Nur Sabri starting, there is starting to appear for this | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
very, very young Malaysians will stop -- there are errors starting to | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
appear. She loves it out there in this arena, diving, loves her sport, | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
trains so hard, up to six or seven hours a day to perfect her art and | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
it just shows how easy it is for things to go slightly out of line. | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
It's not quite as easy as getting dogs to salivate, you have to train | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
and train and train, and even then it doesn't quite get it right. | :45:34. | :45:35. | |
Science references. We had a Sesame Street this morning | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
and now it is Pavlov's dog. Tonia Couch. Eighth place in | :45:42. | :45:57. | |
Beijing, she didn't get to do the individual event in 2012. Two and a | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
half somersaults, one and a half twists. That's really good from | :46:04. | :46:14. | |
Tonia. Great dive. But she has left herself too much to do here to | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
challenge. This will be good enough to get her off the bottom place in | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
the final. She has worked hard to be here and she will continue diving at | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
the best of her ability to get back some of those places but she is off | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
the pack. Normally when she is diving at her best, a lot of smiling | :46:36. | :46:43. | |
and waving. A bit of a grimace from Tonia but she will try to work her | :46:44. | :46:50. | |
way up to get alongside the likes of Kim to get off the 12th place, to | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
get into the top ten if she can. There may be some faltering to go, | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
we still have round four. Meaghan Benfeito's arm stand. She's had a | :47:03. | :47:10. | |
brilliant programme so far, 81, 78, 70 nine. Can she get into the 80s | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
with this? Arm stand back somersault, one and a half twists. | :47:17. | :47:26. | |
Wow. What a sensational... Effort. My word, I am shocked to see the | :47:27. | :47:36. | |
quality. A bit of helicopter feet as she took off, she got it together, | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
keeping her feet glued together. Short of vertical but still good | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
enough for eights. Benfeito is definitely in the bronze medal | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
position. She has come close to winning medals in big championships | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
before, fourth in Shanghai in the worlds in 2011 and forth in Rome in | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
2009. It would be agonisingly she came fourth, the way she is diving | :48:03. | :48:11. | |
today. She is their or thereabouts. Itahashi," Joe years' time -- in | :48:12. | :48:18. | |
watch a year's time she will be mustered. Other brands are | :48:19. | :48:27. | |
available. The rumour is that she does four and a half tucks. You can | :48:28. | :48:34. | |
see that she has a lot of time, cruising out of the dive. What an | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
exciting dive. Some are scrappy on the bottom but she has a lot of | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
time. Beautiful dive. Yes, not enough room to catch up at this | :48:47. | :48:56. | |
stage. A big smile, she loves it. She knows she can improve. She has | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
delighted us over the last couple of days. Here comes what I call the big | :49:02. | :49:09. | |
arm stand, it is three somersaults with it. Slightly higher degree of | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
difficulty than the other one. 3.3. We've seen the Canadians getting | :49:15. | :49:23. | |
everything right so far. If she gets 8.5s she is in the lead. | :49:24. | :49:32. | |
Ooh that is the first fault that we've seen from Filion. She'll be | :49:33. | :49:45. | |
annoyed with that. Good take-off, all the way through, she exited the | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
dive a bit too early, Masip splash there. | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
Falling away from the medal places -- massive bash. What a shame | :49:56. | :50:02. | |
because she was having a good old tussle with her partner for a | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
potential third place. That's going to knock her down the standings. She | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
was fourth after Round 3, probably going to lose a couple, maybe three | :50:12. | :50:19. | |
positions as the juggling continues. Tonia Couch is having her own battle | :50:20. | :50:26. | |
at the bottom with Pamg. I thought she might win a medal but it isn't | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
going to be for the three-time Olympian. Third in London. Making | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
the final once again, the inward three and a half of Pamg from | :50:36. | :50:43. | |
Malaysia. Yeah it is fair to middling by her standards. This dive | :50:44. | :50:52. | |
is pretty routine. She doesn't look sharp. She has some strapping on her | :50:53. | :50:59. | |
right ankle. When you are finishing that low to the water it is a bit of | :51:00. | :51:10. | |
a scramble. Here come the marks. Yes, 7.5 times two, with difficulty | :51:11. | :51:21. | |
giving her 73.6. That will move her a little bit clear of Tonia on a 15 | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
points ahead. Sabri is ten points ahead of Tonia at the moment. Now it | :51:27. | :51:34. | |
is on to Kim Un Hyang. What a finish, | :51:35. | :51:51. | |
amazing dive from big Jim as we affectionately calling from North | :51:52. | :51:58. | |
Korea. -- big Kim. Such solid entries. Great finish into the | :51:59. | :52:05. | |
water, my word, that is the cleanest entry we've seen. " | :52:06. | :52:19. | |
totally rad"? . The cool kids are going to know what I mean. You can | :52:20. | :52:32. | |
look it up. Thanks very much. 82.5, that was really big for Kim, lifting | :52:33. | :52:38. | |
her up to fourth place although she may not be there for very long | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
because here comes Melissa Wu for Australia. Will she be totally rad? | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
It doesn't sound right when I say it. She's on the money. Some people | :52:50. | :53:03. | |
very much right with their predictions. Melissa Wu, fourth | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
place in London, she is on the money all the way through. Sending a shock | :53:08. | :53:16. | |
wave around the pool side. Our colleagues at Channel seven have | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
something to shout about although everyone is in bed in Australia at | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
the moment. They may be raised from their slumber is with that, 81.6. | :53:26. | :53:31. | |
Three have gone over 300 thou. Benfeito, 315. Melissa Wu, 302. | :53:32. | :53:40. | |
Going to be interesting in the shake-up for the medals. Here is our | :53:41. | :53:49. | |
leader. Pretty much leading through the preliminaries and the semis, Si | :53:50. | :54:01. | |
Yajie. 15 years of age, has her name in front. Another one. Wow. Only 15 | :54:02. | :54:14. | |
years old, such a good line, she looks as straight as a lamp post on | :54:15. | :54:17. | |
the platform in the handstand and then exactly the same on the finish, | :54:18. | :54:25. | |
bolt upright, no deviation. Splash, that has to be ten from me. Not much | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
wrong with that, she had her toes pointed. Wow we are seeing a diving | :54:31. | :54:37. | |
masterclass from the 15-year-old Ren Qian. Sorry to laugh when I'm saying | :54:38. | :54:45. | |
that. Tom Daley was 15 years old. Tens don't count towards the total, | :54:46. | :54:52. | |
9.5s do. The winner of the World Series in Kazan in Windsor -- and in | :54:53. | :54:59. | |
Windsor. She knows how to win from the front and she is doing it in the | :55:00. | :55:08. | |
Olympic final. The arm stand treble, for Jessica Parratto. Because of the | :55:09. | :55:16. | |
error on the previous round, she isn't going to be medalling today. | :55:17. | :55:27. | |
Using that as a verb. Lie medal for Parratto. She's all over the place | :55:28. | :55:34. | |
now, that has really unsettled her, the error in the third round. The | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
fourth round is another unfortunate effort. She is diving in between the | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
Chinese pair of Ren Qian and Si Yajie. The pressure has got to her. | :55:47. | :55:53. | |
That is a botched dive, over rotation. That's a shame. Yeah, two | :55:54. | :56:03. | |
Paula dives -- bad dives by her standards. Great start, 81 and 79. | :56:04. | :56:14. | |
It is like somebody flipped the coin and suddenly her diving went into | :56:15. | :56:23. | |
reverse. Only one diver can overtake Ren Qian. It needs to be tens. It | :56:24. | :56:32. | |
isn't going to be ten, it is a top notch effort from Si Yajie who has | :56:33. | :56:35. | |
been outclassed by her 15-year-old counterpart. Si Yajie is only 17, a | :56:36. | :56:42. | |
battle of the teenagers, but at the moment, Ren Qian has the upper hand. | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
Wow. This is still a great dive, about 80 points. Fractionally short | :56:49. | :56:59. | |
of vertical. The gap is opening up a little bit now, isn't it? Yes, | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
considerable gap between the Chinese with that mark of 79.20. There has | :57:05. | :57:14. | |
been a swing between Ren Qian and Si Yajie. With one more round to go in | :57:15. | :57:15. | |
the women's ten-metre platform. STUDIO: Unfortunately Tonia Couch is | :57:16. | :57:41. | |
down in 12th place. The final dives Matt, -- the final dives will be on | :57:42. | :57:47. | |
the Red Button and we will bring them to you later. Jade Jones in the | :57:48. | :57:53. | |
taekwondo is shortly in action in the semifinal and if she wins she | :57:54. | :57:56. | |
will go through to the gold-medal bout. Jade Jones is the defending | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
champion, coming to London as a 19-year-old, very much under the | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
radar and came away with Britain's first ever gold medal in the sport. | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
COMMENTATOR: A defining moment. Jade Jones going for Britain's first ever | :58:12. | :58:25. | |
gold medal in this. She can be enormously pleased with her start to | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
this fight. Jones has doubled the lead, what a great second round that | :58:32. | :58:37. | |
was. Just two minutes between Jade Jones and you know what. Point by | :58:38. | :58:43. | |
point, the gold getting closer and closer. You little beauty! The | :58:44. | :58:50. | |
teenage kicking superstar from North Wales is the new champion. She'll | :58:51. | :58:58. | |
remember this for ever. With that she became Britain's youngest ever | :58:59. | :59:04. | |
gold-medallist in London 2012. She says it is different coming here, | :59:05. | :59:07. | |
everyone knows who she is, the defending champion. She's been | :59:08. | :59:12. | |
working hard. She lives and trains with Bianca Walkden in the heavier | :59:13. | :59:16. | |
category, but she has practised against her because she knows that | :59:17. | :59:19. | |
she will come up against opponents to taller than her. Massive crowds | :59:20. | :59:29. | |
here and many are going to Carioca one. They are quite noisy. Jade | :59:30. | :59:34. | |
Jones in action, this was not caught a final, winning it very | :59:35. | :59:40. | |
convincingly, in the end it was 7-2. Strong athlete, she is in the red. | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
Most of her expertise is to the head, she is known as the head | :59:47. | :59:49. | |
kicker, an affectionate name. In very good form. The semifinal could | :59:50. | :59:56. | |
be a very different prospect because she is up against Sweden's Nikita | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
Glasnovic. Jade was very focused after that. She gave a bit of a | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
smile, she acknowledged her fans but she's concentrating on one thing, | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
she once the gold medal. She started like wonder when she was eight, | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
introduced to it by her grandfather. If you are wondering whether you can | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
take it up, go to the Get Inspired section of our website because if | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
you type in your postcode you can find out if there is a club near | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
you. Get Inspired is BBC Sport's campaign to help you get active. It | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
is on the BBC sport website and you can find inspirational from stories | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
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inspire someone else to give something a try. Now we are handing | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
over to you. Get up, Get Inspired and get active. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
That is how you do it, go down, find the sport you want, taekwondo is | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
there, click on it and away you go. So Jade will be out shortly. First | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
of all, let's catch up on a few of the things that have happened. She | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
is walking out now. Earlier on there was a British one and two in the | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
men's triathlon, Alistair Brownlee leading home his brother Jonny. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Mills and Clark have been able to celebrate their medal in the women's | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
470 class. There was a silver in the canoe sprint. We have a sensational | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
bonds medal in badminton, it was unexpected, Marcus Ellis Anant Chris | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Langridge, I will talk to them later on the programme. Charley Hull, in | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
the Gulf, she is only two shots off the lead, joint third at the halfway | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
stage of the women's golf, there is Jade Jones making her way to the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
arena. She is trying to keep her mind very much on the job in hand. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
It's been a theme, we noticed it with the hockey players as well, not | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
getting overemotional, not celebrating too soon, they are | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
focused on trying to win gold medals, nothing else will do. | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
There's her opponent, Nikita Glasnovic, who has come through to | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
this stage relatively easily. It's a friendly affair until they start | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
fighting. The commentators for the taekwondo on John Cullen and Neal | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Adams. It's three rounds of two minutes and you will see the scores | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
being marked as they make contact. It's relatively straightforward to | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
follow. But Jade Jones I suspect will be favourite coming into this, | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
I think she has met Glasnovic a few times and beaten her almost every | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
time they've met, but you will get more detail from John and Neal | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
COMMENTATOR: Three times two minute rounds, this | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
is the semifinals, a big win here and you can guess what will happen | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
after that. Gold and silver on the horizon. We're here at the Carioca | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
Arena number three, downtown Rio, a packed crowd, a big occasion. Six | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
minutes to decide it. Glasnovic comes forward, using that push kick. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
Jones responds, very aggressive. Push kick in response, absolutely, | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
came forward straightaway. Both of them absolutely coming forward. | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
Jones avoids Glasnovic's reach, tries to flick one out of her own | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
there. This is a battle for territory, looking for the space. A | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
punch attempts from Jones on the way through. No purchase on it though. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
The 21-year-old Nikita Glasnovic, slightly the tour of the two come | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
but the strength advantage you would fancy for Jones. She to flick one | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
upstairs. -- she tries to flick one upstairs. Three points for a head | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
kicks, one for a shot to the body. If you can spin you get extra | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
points. At the moment the referee separates them. There's been an | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
excellent opening first minute. Yes, they are feeling each other out, but | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
good defence from both as well as attack, which is a great thing to | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
see. They are both great athletes. The British contingent in the crowd | :04:31. | :04:50. | |
trying to cheer forward Jade Jones. The Welsh warrior going forward with | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
that push kick. It's all about optimal Estyn. Everyone's legs are | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
different lengths. Jade Jones is going for the head. She gets the | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
body, a simple push kick. Nikita Glasnovic with 20 seconds left, the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Swede, she will have to think about her tactics, sharp shock, or go for | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
it. A good shot from Jones getting closer to the head. Glasnovic in a | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
little bit of trouble. She will be glad to hear the buzz here. She | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
changed the with the turning kick, Jade Jones, but a great start for | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
her. We'll try to have a sneaky listen to | :05:37. | :05:50. | |
the coaches, but a stalemate, but Jade Jones finding that little bit | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
of accuracy. That's what it's all about, isn't it? This whole game is | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
about the accuracy and obviously it's about space as well, closing at | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
space, but closing that is based at the right time. -- closing that | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
space at the right time. Speaking of time, it's ticking away now. Both | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
fighters' last-minute bits of rest. The Welsh contingent in the crowd, | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
Paul Green, the coach. Himself an Olympian back in Athens. But this, | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
the Rio Olympic Games, Nikita Glasnovic of Sweden, one point down | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
against Jade Jones. The Swede trying to come forward, good defence from | :06:37. | :06:37. | |
Jones. That push kick so effective there | :06:38. | :06:49. | |
from Jade Jones. Tries again after the push kick with a bike leg -- | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
back leg turning kick. The Swede is resolute, hanging on their, it's a | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
1-point game. Change that, it's a two point game. It changes so | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
quickly. It's a crumb of comfort for Jones. Difficult for Glasnovic now, | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
she will take it here. Great combinations, Jade Jones. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
Tries with the back leg turning kick, well blocked by Glasnovic. The | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
Swede is two points down, Jade Jones is ever focused. Glasnovic did bring | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
a little gift across and it's a gift of a point there. Steals it under | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
the guard, tried to flick one of her own up the stairs. That's one of the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
biggest things, she is so focused. We have four points there. Excellent | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
response with the head shot there from Glasnovic. Jones had taken a | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
four point lead. The Swede flicked one up the stairs, found an open | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
door. Found the face of the Flint fighter. | :08:04. | :08:13. | |
I think she committed, but left herself open for that, didn't she? | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
But credit to the Swede on that one. Turns defence into attack, | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
Glasnovic. It was a 1-point game at the end of the first round. There is | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
a Kyong-go hanging against the Swede, the last ten seconds here, | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
the Flint fighter Jade Jones, Olympic champion back in London, a | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
final at stake here. She goes in at the end of the second round with a | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
1-point lead. Neal Adams, Olympian yourself, silver-medallist yourself, | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
you know what this feeling is like, trying to get into the final? Yes, | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
absolutely. It is one of the hardest things in the world. You know you | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
have everything resting on this now, and well, I don't know what her | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
coach is going to be saying to her but for me now, looking at this | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
last, we have seen so many that have been lost in this last two minutes. | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
So what does she do? She has to I think just keep focused, keep | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
focused, keep her head in the game. Keep her head in the game as well, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Glasnovic, she has been focused and resolute, the Swede. Very much | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
involved. And of course the 21-year-old from Malmo, she has | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
excellent pedigree coming into this. Nikita Glasnovic just one point down | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
against Jade Jones, the women's 57 kilograms semifinal here in Rio at | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
the Olympic Arena and it's an excellent little push kick from Jade | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
Jones, a good start. Glasnovic tried to get involved on the back foot | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
though, keep -- takes another push kick. Great Britain's Jones getting | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
a bit of dominance here. Yes, it's not just accurate as well, it's got | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
power, hasn't it, that front kick? It's fantastic stuff from Jones, she | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
scores again. There's a three come to the head, so she gets another | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
three points, Jade Jones. Look at this now! Really going to work. | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
She turns defence into attack, 9-3 to the good now. Jade Jones had a | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
little look at her corner to say looking for a potential head shot, | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
but the coach thinking better of it. Some change left in the third here. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
Nikita Glasnovic from Sweden, can she summon it up? We seen her | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
flexibility. Does she have the variety? Jade Jones, excellent | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
strength, standing on that front leg, keeping the Swede at bay, | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
excellent defence. That's what she's got to think about now, defence, | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
rather than going forward on. When she got scored on the head she was | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
going forwards. Going forwards is Glasnovic. Tries the back leg | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
turning kick, well defended by Jones, moving around, why wonderful | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
shot of the arena. High drama in downtown Rio. Gold medals at stake. | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
Just 41 seconds, can't afford to go outside the area. I think she's just | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
needs to stand her ground. Good defence, she has good defence, just | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
use it now for the last 30 seconds. It's a good punch from Glasnovic, | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
who looks absolutely exhausted. A spot in the Olympic final, Jade | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Jones defending resolutely. A formidable force, this fighter from | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
Cup Flint, landing to the body. It's all about timing, just using that | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
push kick just to keep her away, keep her at bay. | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
Nikita Glasnovic on the attack, trying to go forward. Jade Jones | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
spinning around, using her footwork. She will take a Kyong-go, it will be | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
a 5-point game now and Jones avoiding the head shot there. She | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
knows she has one foot in the Olympic final. She has one foot on | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
the edge of the ring. The crowd are up for this one. Takes the Kyong-go, | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
immaterial. The referee almost takes one in the head there from | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Glasnovic. Good defence from Jade Jones. Can she defend her title? She | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
has a chance. She's in the final and second consecutive Olympic final and | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
look at that, the British and the crowd go absolutely mad. They love | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
it. Great support out there and that was amazing. Jade Jones going for | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
her second Olympic title. CLARE BALDING: | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
Glasnovic Ann Jones embrace, Jade Jones will be hugely relieved at | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
that, she wanted the final, nothing else, all she has come for rid the | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
gold medal, defending her title at the moment in style and that gold | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
medal belt will be at 2am your time. To IM, they have to fight three | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
times in one day. It's 10pm Brazil time, to a British time, Glasnovic | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
looks exhausted, but Jones will celebrate for a short time, not for | :13:27. | :13:38. | |
long, and she will refocus for the final. We will find out who she | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
fights later in the programme. Back at the diving, Tonia Couch of Great | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
Britain was out of medal contentions. We will bring you the | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
conclusion of the diving, with the final dives of Ren Qian from China | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
after -- leading after four rounds. This is Melissa Wu from Australia, a | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
more gentle sport than taekwondo but just as accurate. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
COMMENTATOR: Fourth-place, maybe. Yes, she's | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
faltered, she needed perfect tens, she hasn't got it. You can see the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
Canadian celebration there. Melissa Wu narrowly missing out again, | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
fourth in the prelims, fourth in the semifinal, for four years ago and I | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
think this might be another place. Let's wait and see. Watching the | :14:19. | :14:28. | |
replay here. Oh! Agony, it really will be. She's worked so hard for | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
this. Going through the routine, just replaying the dive physically | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
and in their minds. That means... She will be fifth. She's finished | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
higher than Paola Espinosa. It will be fifth placed at best for Melissa | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
Wu. 368, Espinosa 377. She's in tears, because she's got a medal no | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
matter what happens now. Meaghan Benfeito has a medal. We would | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
expect the Chinese to go rocketing over 400 here but which one will get | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
the highest? Easily over 400. Is it the 15-year-old who will go first? | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Ren Qian. She has the lead. Phenomenal, my word. That is your | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
Olympic gold-medallist, without any doubt. Only 15 years old. You have | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
to be 14 to be allowed to compete in the Olympic Games and following on, | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
like many of her countrywomen before her, Ren Qian, at the tender age of | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
15, has annihilated this high-scoring world-class field. | :15:50. | :16:03. | |
Yeah, words fail me. 91.2. What a suggestion of scores. 94, 91, 91. | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
Astonishing. Look at that smile, what a butterfly, just coming out. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
So classy, all the way through. Beautiful diving, elegant, classy. | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
World beating. Annihilating the field. 15 years of age. She was | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
second in Kazan last year and the World Championships but the Olympic | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
champion in 2016 because she can't be caught. Not enough marks | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
available for anyone to overhaul her. Jessica Parratto was so close | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
but she faltered. Back two and a half somersaults, one and a half | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
twists. That is a glimpse of what she can do but two huge errors in | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
rounds three and four will see her having to come back another day to | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
fight again. She was blisteringly hot in the preliminaries and | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
especially the semifinal. Just diving out of the competition here. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
She'll be close to the bottom. Half of the field. Where will she end up, | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
ninth place, tenth? At the moment she is in ninth place but Si Yajie | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
is going to overhaul her. So it will be tenth place for the USA. These | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
and programme, both men's and women's, improving greatly -- decent | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
programme. We still have the Olympic championship in the men's. Diving | :17:41. | :17:52. | |
tomorrow in the preliminaries. It should be relatively straightforward | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
now offer Si Yajie -- for the silver. Si Yajie can't catch Ren | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
Qian. Sixes will do it, for silver, for the Chinese 1-2. Yeah, Chinese | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
1-2, as we expected. Ren Qian obviously isn't as good at | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
mathematics as us, you have won. Your team-mate, Si Yajie, diving | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
very well but she has been outclassed by her younger team-mate. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
This was absolutely wonderful. Commentating on this competition was | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
a real treat. The standard is through the roof. Both Chinese | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
diverse, way over 400, like smashing the ten seconds in the men's 100 | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
metres. 419 and not winning it. Wow. 81, 76, 89 and 76 the Si Yajie. On | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
any other occasion that would get you the gold, but not today because | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
your team-mate was some 20 points, get that, 20 points better than you. | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
That's astonishing for a 15-year-old. It shows that age is no | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
barrier in sport, certainly Chinese sport anyway. Unbelievable, wasn't | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
it? That was a diving Master Class. Her scores. 78, 84, 94, 91, 91. You | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
are kidding me? That is just bonkers. And she wasn't bleeding | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
after the first round. She was in third place, fourth place smack | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
-- wasn't leading. Meaghan Benfeito has an individual medal, third place | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
with 389. Relatively comfortable. Espinoza missing out again. Melissa | :19:58. | :20:15. | |
Wu again missing out. Fourth-place Quadra years ago. Tonia Couch, it | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
wasn't her day, to put it mildly, she wasn't on form. But she made the | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
final and that in itself is a great achievement. STUDIO: Celebrations | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
for China and you just wonder from the slow motion and how they don't | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
get their head. Stunning to watch. The headlights so far on Day 13. | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
Huge celebrations for Britain and the Brownlees, a 1-2 in the men's | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
triathlon, Alistair Brownlee leading home his brother Jonny to become the | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
first man to retain the Olympic title. They are the first brothers | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
to win the Olympic gold and silver in the same event since 1950. After | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
being frustrated by the weather yesterday, Hannah Mills and Saskia | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
Clark were able to celebrate after their gold in the sailing 470 class | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
was confirmed in the medal race. I love that running around the podium! | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Team GB's 21st gold medal. Liam Heath and Jon Scofield -- Jonny | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
Scofield. They said that they had unfinished business after being | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
edged out of second place in London watcher years ago. Jade Jones is one | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
win away from a successful defence of her Olympic taekwondo title -- | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
four years ago. She won her semifinal and she will be going for | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
gold at 2am. Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge only tamed up a couple of | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
years ago and today they owned bridge and a first Olympic badminton | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
medal in 12 years by winning their bronze play-off match in the men's | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
doubles. -- Chris Langridge. They are joining me now. Congratulations, | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
where are your medals, when do you get them? Tomorrow, the final has to | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
be played and then we get ours which we are looking forward to. Markers, | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
I said you teamed up a short time ago, how did you get together? It | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
was because of one of our colleagues switching to mixed, so it worked out | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
well for me because at the time I didn't actually have a partner. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Luckily I teamed up with Chris and one thing led to another and we are | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
standing here today. Chris, you have said that you have been on this | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
giant-killing run, you are not necessarily the best in the | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
competition but you try the hardest! Yeah, we are honest, normal guys, we | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
aren't going to make out that we are superstars. We are very good but we | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
are not necessarily the best on paper. Something we have done well | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
in this tournament, we have given more, we have wanted it more, the | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
hunger we have had. Speaking to carriages from the other teams and | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
they say that everyone is taking notice of us, which is nice to hear | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
because of the passion we have. This means so much for us because we are | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
so happy, so excited for tomorrow's medals. You provided drama to the | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
last because the bronze medal match went to a deciding game and match | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
point and you had about ten match points at this stage. This went to a | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
decision by Hawk-Eye. You could have let it pass because you had more | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
match points in hand, but you challenged. Yeah I did, as I struck | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
the server side -- the serve I said I was sure it was in. Why was sure | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
it was right. I was two feet wrong earlier, it is embarrassing when you | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
get it wrong. When it went in, it was pure relief and we were so | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
happy. You can see from your reaction what it means to you. Your | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
coaching staff and your team. How must you think people at home will | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
be celebrating? The amount of messages we've received, it has been | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
pretty well received. I think we are going to have celebrations when we | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
get home. I'm really gutted that my parents couldn't be here because I | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
know that they would be so proud. It is really sad that they couldn't be | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
here. What message would you like to send home because you probably | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
haven't had a chance to talk to them? We've had Simon a nice | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
messages, we've not had a chance to reply to them but I would like to | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
say a massive thank you, we read every message and we appreciate it. | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Some of the people have been texting us and saying they have been crying, | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
the amount of passion we've received, it makes it feel even more | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
special. I think it is a response to the passion with which you talk | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
about the game and how much you have thrown into your game. Chris, if you | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
could say to anybody watching, the joy of badminton and how they could | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
get involved, and who influenced your career? That's the thing, it is | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
key in any sport, I started because my schoolteacher at middle School, | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
when I was ten years old, she was the County coach. Me and my friends | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
started playing and that is the only reason I'm here today. It is massive | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
thanks to the school and Jackie Cunningham and her husband because | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
they started me on this track. It is something we want to get across, you | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
have to get involved. You may not be the best, because you are not the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
best now it does not mean you cannot be the best. As long as you enjoy | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
it, give it everything, give it a try. The Olympics is the place you | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
want to make it happen but it isn't the only global competition. What's | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
next? I'm going on my honeymoon because I haven't had that yet. When | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
were you married? New Year's Eve. Quite a long time ago. I have had | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
some nagging from my wife, but we are sorted and looking forward to | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
it. That is a nagging, I think that is respectable debate if you haven't | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
been on your honeymoon yet. You are right there! Sorry! We have a | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
holiday and then back to training. My first -- our first tournament | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
together, is it the Danish Open? It is in October, so we have a nice | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
break in September before we play again. Has this given you the | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
enthusiasm to get back on the training court and to be in Tokyo? I | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
might even do some training on my honeymoon! I don't know. It has | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
given us so much. I think it has made us realise how good we are. We | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
have come here, winning a bronze medal. It doesn't seem real. It's | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
like we are dreaming, it is a crazy feeling and it should give us the | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
motivation and positive attitude. There is hardly anybody we can't | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
beat so I'm looking forward to those tournaments. Inspirational stuff, | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
well done, enjoy your medal ceremony. Marcus Ellis and Chris | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
Langridge. The training centre in Milton Keynes, a lot of investment | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
has gone into badminton and it shows. What about boxing? We came | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
here with 12 boxers, some of them fell by the wayside but Joshua | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Buatsi made sure of a bronze medal. He lost his semifinal and did not | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
have a chance to fight for gold but he started well, two knockouts. He | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
was frustrated in the semifinal, some holding tactics but he has a | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
bronze medal to take home. Josh is with me now. I think your reaction | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
to that was a bit of disappointment, but what now? Very disappointed but | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
it has sunk in, slowly, that I have an Olympic medal. This is a dream | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
country. I didn't think it could happen, man, so I am grateful and | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
happy. I mentioned your knockouts early on, it is quite rare in | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
Olympic boxing. You don't have head guards. Quite rare. I'm happy that I | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
was able to display that I can punch at that level. People in Britain | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
know that I can do it but for it to happen at international level, I'm | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
glad that the world has a chance to see it. You have impressed some big | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
names, Floyd Mayweather I understand is a big fan of yours. Yeah I saw | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
him and I thought, everyone is sitting down but I must get a photo, | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
Mayweather is the greatest athlete that I've met. I got a photo and he | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
said he had heard about me, two spectacular knockouts, that's a good | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
thing and to hear that from my idol, that was amazing. We are looking at | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
the second knockout here. Do you know when you landed that it will | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
do? That's the first one and the second one was against the world | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
number six, so that's what made people think that this kid is | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
special. I'm grateful that I could display that at this stage. The | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
interesting thing with the change of rules is that you can turn | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
professional and fight in the Olympics. What are your options? | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
Really to have a break. I haven't looked beyond this point. This was | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
the final stop for me. Why have to have a break and see what I'm doing | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
next. I was asking Marcus and Chris how they started playing badminton, | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
what about you? My best friend, Shane Sobers, who is in Brazil with | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
me. We tried it on, we were sparring, he manoeuvred everyone and | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
I thought, you know what, give me six weeks and I'm going to learn it. | :29:50. | :30:00. | |
Getting the chance for him to admit that I came back and beat him up! | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
Shane has bought me along with my training. And also the national | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
lottery, without them I wouldn't be a full-time athlete and wouldn't be | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
able to live and breathe boxing, How much support are you able to | :30:12. | :30:21. | |
give to the other boxers? Did you watch Nicola Adams? I went to watch | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
it, I was rooting for her. We have Joe Johnson in the semifinals as | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
well. I've done my part, I have my medal and I can support the rest. | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
Who has impressed you the most? Impressed me the most, I won't be | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
funny but I've been impressed with what I did myself but I have to say | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
every athlete, we've done well to get to the Olympic Games, to perform | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
at the highest level, so everyone has been good, everyone has been | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
fantastic but I'm grateful that I was able to display and perform the | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
way I have been over the last four fights. The British team have been | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
exceeding expectations. Do you think there is a key to it? Do you think | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
there's greater belief? Did you come out here thinking anything is | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
possible? The training we have put -- been put through, it's time to | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
give credit to the GB boxing team, the staff, the coaches, everyone | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
because they've qualified 12 out of 13 boxers, which not a lot of | :31:17. | :31:18. | |
nations have done and it's a good thing and it shows the programme | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
they have gotten everything they are doing in Sheffield is correct. We | :31:22. | :31:29. | |
wish you well, Josh Buatsi, bronze-medallist. Earlier on we saw | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
Jade Jones win her semifinal in tae kwon do. She could be the next | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
British old medal later tonight. It will be at 2am. This is the second | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
semifinal to decide her opponent, Eva Calvo Gomez from Spain, against | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
Hedaya Wahba Nwaba from Egypt. Hedaya Wahba as a defensive style, | :31:47. | :32:08. | |
very cool under pressure. She is very cool, calm and assesses the | :32:09. | :32:15. | |
whole situation commerce tries to pick off the points. It's a slow and | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
steady start from both fighters. In any fight you want to control the | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
tempo. One of the great things Wahba does it strikes her opponent at into | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
her style of fight, slows it down, takes the sting out of it and when | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
you're not ready, she picks your pocket with the big shots. Yes, I | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
was trying to work that one out, actually. You've hit the nail on the | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
head there. Wahba slowing everything down and if I was Eva Calvo Gomez's | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
coach, I'd be saying get in there, take the fight to her because that's | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
exactly what she's doing, she is slowing it down. Exactly, I think | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
Eva Calvo Gomez is an aggressive fighter, does have a lot of but | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
Wahba is just happy to subdue things. She has silenced the crowd, | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
she has slowed Eva Calvo Gomez down. Sometimes the only way through is to | :33:12. | :33:17. | |
get them rattled a little bit. I think that the tactic here. It would | :33:18. | :33:25. | |
be mine, anyway. Tactics are so crucial here on this one has been a | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
tactical battle. Simple and deadly stalemate but of course the reason | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
for that, you see the gap between them, you see the defence is | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
resolute, you see the reason for that, decades of training, years of | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
effort, you don't want to make a mistake. The Olympic Games final, a | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
big prize as we get into the dying embers of this first round here in | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
the semifinal. We've seen the importance of the collective | :33:52. | :33:54. | |
ambitions, but they could not be separated on the scoreboard. yes, | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
Eva Calvo Gomez trying to find a way through there, she was trying | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
changing her stance, right foot forward, left foot forward, trying | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
to change the position. It was interesting. In any fight, if you | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
have an opening period at 0-0, you find out a lot about your opponent | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
in that time. Yes, she was closed there as well, almost onto the head, | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
almost made connection. So just needs to find the range and she will | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
have it. But she has to be careful, because coming forwards of course, | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
she find herself counter-attacked by Wahba. | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
Critical times here at Carioca Arena 3. Olympic taekwondo is the fair on | :34:38. | :34:49. | |
show. Eva Calvo Gomez, can she makes a big step? As we take the steps up | :34:50. | :34:56. | |
here, the under 57 kilograms semifinal, Spain against Egypt. | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
Hedaya Wahba in red, with the black trousers. Eva Calvo Gomez in blue, | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
with the Spanish flag running down the side of the white taekwondo | :35:08. | :35:15. | |
uniform. That uniform is completed by body armour and had gone, and | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
they have socks on my feet that have sensors in them and they hit with | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
power and impact and it schools automatically. No sign of that just | :35:26. | :35:33. | |
yet. -- was Gore will change automatically. We were saying | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
earlier it will be a 12 point gap that will finish it and also a | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
knockout, as well. I think there's limited chances of seeing either, | :35:45. | :35:47. | |
but they are potential opportunities. On the other side I | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
was about to say actually, one point will win it, won't it, and one point | :35:54. | :35:58. | |
sometimes is what you have got to go for. Totally right, the voice of | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
experience there, you know what it's about to win a fight. You just have | :36:03. | :36:06. | |
to find the right answer at the right time and crucially the style | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
of Hedaya Wahba, doesn't expend a lot of energy which means she can | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
stay focused and it takes a lot of nerves and confidence to just stand | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
there, the Olympic final, the world is watching. And so is Wahba. yes, | :36:19. | :36:27. | |
she's just waiting, isn't she? It looks to me as if she's just looking | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
for that top click to the head. She's got good range, so she can do | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
it. -- a top click. Can Eva Calvo Gomez avoid that? 20 seconds left in | :36:41. | :36:50. | |
the second round here. The gap between the two cannot be bridged. | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
Any chance of a little shot underneath? | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
There is your answer, 0-0, at the end of the second round here. It | :37:00. | :37:09. | |
will be interesting, won't it, to see how this third round will | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
unfold, because now we have watched every third round and everything, | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
things have happened in that third round, so it will be interesting to | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
see now who takes the chances and where the points come from. | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
Absolutely. It's been very little margin between them, there wasn't | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
much between that had shot either. No, there wasn't, they are both | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
going for it, big points for the head shot and just a little bit out | :37:38. | :37:39. | |
of range. The knowledgeable crowd, they | :37:40. | :37:54. | |
understand the importance of this one. | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
Hedaya Wahba, she is in red, going against Eva Calvo Gomez, this is the | :38:01. | :38:12. | |
third and potentially final-round. The Olympic Games final at stake. | :38:13. | :38:17. | |
The final that contains Great Britain's Jade Jones. Who will it be | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
joining her, Wahba will Eva Calvo Gomez? Better faking their from Eva | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
Calvo Gomez, trying to draw out her opponent. | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
That was good defence there, stopped that drop kick coming down. -- chop | :38:37. | :38:48. | |
kick coming down. Good defence with their hands. Good defence with the | :38:49. | :38:50. | |
hands, excellent covering. It would be interesting to know if | :38:51. | :39:05. | |
Jade Jones is watching this. With interest. I'm sure there will be | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
somebody in the GB coaching staff watching for her, she will be | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
resting up, getting ready. Who will be getting ready to face her? A | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
minute left in the third here. This is anybody's match, it just depends | :39:18. | :39:23. | |
who initiates, who takes the chance. Eva Calvo Gomez on the front foot, | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
trying to put some pressure, not Kyong-go on the board, they haven't | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
really got close to going for it here as you do get the feeling that | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
one kick could decide it. Like you are saying, it means they are both | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
going forward, they are just doing enough, just, and just enough | :39:44. | :39:49. | |
sometimes can leave you open. 26 seconds left. This has been a | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
difficult battle for both fighters. 20 seconds now. Who can find a | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
winning shot? Hedaya Wahba, the Egyptian in red, Eva Calvo Gomez, | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
the slightly taller of the two, can she find the tiny margin that will | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
take her into the Olympic Games final? Five seconds to decide. It's | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
going to be a sudden-death golden point round. Whoever scores first | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
will be the winner. Let's see if we can hear the coach in the corner. | :40:22. | :40:40. | |
Control of the distance is so important. The coach advising. | :40:41. | :40:50. | |
SPEAKS SPANISH. Watch for the head shots as well, she will go up high | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
as well, so if you were an athlete here, you've been in an Olympic | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
finals, do you stick, do you twist? Do you go for it, do you stay? It's | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
a difficult one, I was in a world final where I wish I'd gone more for | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
it and so it really is difficult. Do you wait for the mistake, or do you | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
go for it? I think they've got to go forward. Going for a spot in the | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
Olympic Games final, Eva Calvo Gomez against Hedaya Wahba, Egypt against | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
Spain, the first point wins. Almost scoring from Wahba, well covered by | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
Eva Calvo Gomez. Everything at stake here. Almost back kick leg, straight | :41:34. | :41:45. | |
firing into the body armour. Wahba is going for it, taking the fight to | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
Eva Calvo Gomez. Hedaya Wahba hopping forward on the front leg, | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
almost shot to the face there. For Calvo Gomez, into the open stands, | :41:58. | :42:05. | |
tries the hook kick into the body. That -- open stands. It looks like | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
Wahba is being the aggressor but she has to watch the counterattack. The | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
body shot attempt, has to watch the counterattack. A turning kick, | :42:17. | :42:19. | |
almost over committing but crucially, if they do not score, | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
whoever hits the body armour the most and registers, they will take | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
the win, whoever has been the most aggressive. That will be decided by | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
not the judges, but the computer scoring system. So how often have | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
the sensor Sox hit the body armour? The nearest of margins here. Eva | :42:39. | :42:41. | |
Calvo Gomez, the win for Spain! Well, Jones into the final here | :42:42. | :43:02. | |
along with Eva Calvo Gomez, and what a prospect that will be. Wow, talk | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
about leaving it to the last minute. That really was, wasn't it, the last | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
seconds, and I feel for this lady here, Wahba gave it everything, she | :43:12. | :43:18. | |
really did. It was just who hit the target and I said that Wahba was | :43:19. | :43:21. | |
coming forwards and that was always the danger, wasn't it, Eva Calvo | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
Gomez hit the target. Absolutely did, they could not be separated | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
over the course of the six minutes. It took a further minute and a half | :43:31. | :43:40. | |
into the golden point round. That golden score puts her into the gold | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
medal final. CLARE BALDING: | :43:47. | :43:49. | |
So Eva Calvo Gomez will be the opponent for Jade Jones at 2am. As | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
for Jade, this is how she won her semifinal. It was a slightly nervous | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
opening round. But she showed all her class. That's her in red and her | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
experience, to move clear of any threat posed by Nikita Glasnovic. | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
She is nicknamed the head hunter. She won convincingly. To move into | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
the final. Afterwards, Nick Hope spoke to her coach, Paul Green. | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
So far so good but I'm sure you want to push on from there? Yes, Jade has | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
only come for one thing and that's the gold medal. She is prepared well | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
for four years for this. The planning has been meticulous. The | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
intensity of training has been meticulous. She's looking good to go | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
and win. Tell me just how different her mindset is going into these | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
Games compared to four years ago? She has had all this attention on | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
her, everybody raises their game against her? Yes, four years ago she | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
wasn't the one to beat. The Chinese were, the Chinese Taipei, now she is | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
the one to beat, so it's harder going to Games, everyone is looking | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
for strategies to beat her but we've done the homework on all the | :45:01. | :45:03. | |
players, we have known them inside out, we've been mimicking them in | :45:04. | :45:09. | |
all the 57 category and she's ready and prepared. She does take the | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
pressure, but she always rising on -- rises on the occasion and I'm | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
sure she will this afternoon. What will you tell her ahead of the | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
final? I will tell her we're here for the gold medal, simple as that, | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
but to stay on plan and the plan, she has a plan on open and closed | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
stance, she has been working meticulously. We know the girls she | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
is fighting, either Spain or Egypt, we know their strengths, we have to | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
defuse their game and play to our strengths and that is what we will | :45:40. | :45:42. | |
do. The best of luck. That fight will be at 2am. Earlier | :45:43. | :45:51. | |
we showed you the final of the women's ten metres platform diving, | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
the gold and silver went to China with sensational, almost perfect | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
diving. Leon Taylor and Bob Ballard were lost in admiration. For Great | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
Britain's representative, Tonia Couch, a rather disappointing 12th | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
place. Some average diving, some good diving, how would you describe | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
it? The last two days have not really been the best diving for me. | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
I feel a bit gutted. A little bit flat, I gave everything to the | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
synchronised and did well but I didn't come in the individual this | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
time but I made the final, which was my goal. You know, can't take that | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
away. There's a lot we can't take away, you've been at the top of your | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
game for a lot of years but the Chinese girls put on a masterclass | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
and did not leave any room for error. I didn't even watch them, | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
they do it all the time, getting ten all the time, that's what we expect. | :46:51. | :47:02. | |
I focus on myself. I'm always ready for my dive. Talk about the team | :47:03. | :47:05. | |
performance, you're one of the most senior members, you have been the | :47:06. | :47:12. | |
chief cheerleader. Our team has been fantastic. Such a great Bond, one | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
happy family and everyone has been diving so well. Everyone is finished | :47:17. | :47:22. | |
and here to support us, it has been amazing and everyone at home has | :47:23. | :47:24. | |
been fantastic, supporting me so much, so thank you. Thanks, well | :47:25. | :47:31. | |
done. It wasn't to be for Tonia but you could hear how much the support | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
matters. I know that Great Britain's women, who will be in the hockey | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
final this time tomorrow, have appreciated the good luck messages | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
they are getting so we will be nervously watching to see if they | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
can win a gold medal. This is the men's gold-medal match, Belgium into | :47:49. | :47:51. | |
their first final, getting past the Netherlands. Up against Argentina | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
who upset the defending champions, Germany. Argentina leading 3-1. It | :47:59. | :48:07. | |
is the third quarter. COMMENTATOR: Four goals in the first half, very | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
busy, especially for Argentina. The first to strike, Belgium, and then | :48:14. | :48:27. | |
Argentina got one back. The penalty corner specialist then stepped up to | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
get his 11th goal of the Games. Belgium, one, Argentina, free. | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
Inside the first minute of the second half. -- three. Two 15 minute | :48:38. | :48:46. | |
periods to decide who will be the Olympic champion. Neither Belgium | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
nor Argentina have ever won Olympic gold. Your assessment of how things | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
have unfolded? For the neutral it has been exceptional, two teams who | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
are unwilling to sit back, playing to their strengths, delivering time | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
and time again. How the players continue with this physicality, | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
seven Games in 11 days and they are still performing at 100% physically. | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
But as the fatigue creeps in, when do the teams start to make bad | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
decisions and when does the Argentine defence get fractured? | :49:21. | :49:26. | |
Argentina lost two players because of injury and had to bring in two | :49:27. | :49:33. | |
provisional players. They might play just one game and get a gold medal, | :49:34. | :49:42. | |
that's how it works. Germany already with the bronze, having defeated the | :49:43. | :49:45. | |
Netherlands following that penalty shoot out earlier. It's all about | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
the gold now. Argentina with one hand on it, the way the scoreline is | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
and in no rush, but now they make a move. Taken forward by Belgium, | :49:56. | :50:06. | |
attacking the gold to the left. Picked up by Thomas Briels, always | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
exciting to watch. Getting to the edge of the circle. | :50:13. | :50:26. | |
19 years old, Denayer. All the way back to Denayer. He's being given so | :50:27. | :50:39. | |
much time because the Argentine defence is sitting so deep, they are | :50:40. | :50:46. | |
ten yards away. Chance for Belgium. And they get the penalty corner. One | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
of the Argentina players took a fab from a hockey stick in the belly | :50:52. | :51:00. | |
after the attempted shot and there is a team referral. Suggesting that | :51:01. | :51:14. | |
the strike from van Aubel is a fireball. That is a great call if | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
that is the case. At first sight it looked high. Must take into account | :51:21. | :51:31. | |
the fact that the players bend down. No penalty corner after all. Fals | :51:32. | :51:38. | |
hope for Belgium. They go back to their half --. Full stop drilled in | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
hard towards Lopez. From close range he stepped into the tackle. Van | :51:45. | :51:51. | |
Aubel cleverly taking it away from the counterpart to get to the circle | :51:52. | :51:57. | |
and get the shot away. So the video referral that Argentina called was | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
kept which means that they keep their referral option. Aerial ball | :52:03. | :52:10. | |
to the centre of the field, to Ortiz, who is on the scoresheet this | :52:11. | :52:11. | |
evening. Belgium now happy to create the same | :52:12. | :52:29. | |
kind of deep defence that the Argentinians are. They are front | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
marking in the circle rather than back marking. Right on the baseline. | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
Argentina continuing to press forward. | :52:40. | :52:47. | |
For people wondering what Thomas Briels was doing, he fell for the | :52:48. | :52:57. | |
dummy, he was in Croce meaning he couldn't make the tackle. He had to | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
get his body out the way otherwise a penalty corner would have been | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
given. Argentina thrusting forward again. Wild strike, not a bad | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
situation for Callioni, thought he had made contact. A bit of a swing | :53:16. | :53:22. | |
and a mess as -- a mess as the Belgian player got in the way. The | :53:23. | :53:27. | |
danger hasn't received it yet. These crash balls that Argentina like, | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
they thrive on them, players like Callioni like getting on the turf, | :53:32. | :53:37. | |
looking for the tip ins. Break for Belgium. They have it in midfield. | :53:38. | :53:47. | |
Tom Boon, he could turn the game for Belgium if he gets another Guidetti | :53:48. | :53:57. | |
from the penalty corner later. Going back to Luypaert, who is handy with | :53:58. | :54:05. | |
the flick. That was too high for Dohmen to control. The awareness of | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
these players, when the ball goes to a player they must know their next | :54:09. | :54:15. | |
pass. When that went to Luypaert he already knew that had gone down the | :54:16. | :54:23. | |
flank. Argentina have a man down clutching his nose. I think a | :54:24. | :54:36. | |
shoulder went through Rossi. Lukas Rosol is back to his feet. It was | :54:37. | :54:47. | |
his hip, a base to the cheekbone as Truyens stepped in. Belgium with the | :54:48. | :54:56. | |
long korma. Dohmen, all the way back to Van Doran. -- long corner. Taking | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
his opportunity to thread the ball through, hoping to find a team-mate | :55:03. | :55:08. | |
with a chance to put pressure on the Vivaldi, between the sticks for | :55:09. | :55:09. | |
Argentina tonight. Penalty corner awarded for Belgium. | :55:10. | :55:27. | |
Argentina, once again protesting. Are they going upstairs? They are. | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
With the same question I think, lifted ball. | :55:34. | :55:41. | |
Checking to see if the ball is dangerous or not. It isn't pure | :55:42. | :55:52. | |
height, it is about danger. It is a raised ball, but outside the circle. | :55:53. | :56:03. | |
On the edge of the circle. The attackers. It won't be a penalty | :56:04. | :56:10. | |
corner. So it has been lifted by Argentina into the circle. Therefore | :56:11. | :56:18. | |
Belgium are being given a free hit. Does that mean, I'm not sure, does | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
that mean that they keep the referral? I didn't hear that. Mayer, | :56:23. | :56:31. | |
nor did I, so we are in the dark. -- no. I assume that Argentina still | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
have the option but Belgium are continuing to press here. The | :56:36. | :56:48. | |
service is meant for Cosyns but Argentina got a stick in before. | :56:49. | :56:59. | |
Nice pass from Boccard. Hoping to get a return but Argentina break. | :57:00. | :57:02. | |
The Belgian players dropping. Belgium on their way down the right | :57:03. | :57:18. | |
again. It might be too strong. It is, it's behind. Moments ago we saw | :57:19. | :57:27. | |
the coach getting animated on the bench. For me, his vocals will be | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
crucial to the discipline of Argentina. If he gets loud and | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
animated, his players will, and then they get a little bit out of | :57:37. | :57:42. | |
control. We've seen it over the years for Argentina. Discipline is | :57:43. | :57:45. | |
crucial for them to keep the 11 players on the pitch. Striding | :57:46. | :57:52. | |
purposefully downfield, laying it off beautifully. Argentina taking it | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
out of the circle, trying to find a way back in. Taken beautifully, but | :57:56. | :58:01. | |
Boccard with a beautiful tackle. This match will be switching to BBC | :58:02. | :58:24. | |
Two very shortly, you need to go to BBC Two to follow the men's Olympic | :58:25. | :58:32. | |
final through to its conclusion. Belgium continuing to pick up, to | :58:33. | :58:40. | |
try and be creative and inventive and get something out of this third | :58:41. | :58:41. | |
quarter. The referee blowing his whistle, we | :58:42. | :58:59. | |
can't hear it over the crowd. The ball was played through the legs of | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
the Belgian defence. In doing so, creating the obstruction. | :59:04. | :59:13. | |
STUDIO: Passions running high in the gold-medal match between Argentina | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
and Belgium, neither of whom had ever taken the Olympic title in | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
men's hockey. Welcome to viewers on BBC Two, we are leaving you now on | :59:25. | :59:27. | |
BBC One, where this time | :59:28. | :59:29. |