Day 14 BBC Two: 13.00-13.45 Olympics

Time. Persistent, unrelenting, waiting for nobody. The past, the

present. The future. Time. Time is everything. Good afternoon. In Japan

they might call him something and then Bulgaria something else. We

know him as the lightning bolt and whatever language you use, he is

fast. Last night Usain Bolt struck for the eighth time in the Olympic

Games in the 200 metres. If he were to win the sprint relay, it would

complete that much vaunted treble treble. Then he would power it down

a little bit and rest on his Olympic laurels. There is no one else doing

that with three more games left to go in Rio. Liam Heath won silver

yesterday in the kayaking. Today he is on his own in the 200 metres

sprint. Mohammed became the first to win taekwondo medals in the

taekwondo in London. Can he do it again? There is the individual

show-jumping final. New Zealand take on Germany for the women's bronze

medal in the hockey. Pune is where we will end up over the next six

hours? We will end up all over the place. We did it yesterday to great

effect. There were medals all over this wonderful city. It is Great

Britain's first ever appearance in the women's hockey final. That is at

nine o'clock. There is a final round of jumping at 5:30pm this afternoon.

There is around before that to decide the best 20 to go into the

show-jumping. It could very much be Usain Bolt's final session in the

Olympics this evening. We have got the modern pentathlon. Great British

women have been winning medals in that. The women's football gold will

go to either Sweden or Germany this evening. But it is the women's

hockey final that we have been talking about and there is great

excitement in the British camp because it is the first time the

women have made it into the final. They have done it in style with

seven wins out of seven so far. It is a gold for Alex Danson. It is

pushed home and Great Britain at the moment are the top team in the

Olympic tournament. It is a goal for Great Britain. Annesley, right

click, she scores. Great Britain will go to the Olympic semifinal and

they will face New Zealand. Alex Danson gets the first goal of the

match. She has got it! Great Britain are in the Olympic final. Nine

o'clock tonight on BBC One and we will be with it all the way. In last

night's men's final at what a fantastic match it was. Argentina

eventually beat the Belgians in a six goal thriller. It was 4-2 to the

Argentinians and it was the first medal won by the men in the hockey.

They have always been in the shadow of the women's hockey team. But of

all the six gold medals this one was the pick of the bunch. It was the

best one we have ever seen. Does this remind you of Archie

Gemmill with a stick? 1978 appropriately in Argentina. That was

a fantastic goal. Congratulations to Argentina. We are going straight out

onto the water because it is time for more sprint canoeing. We enjoyed

it yesterday, there was a silver medal for Jon Schofield and Liam

Heath and Liam Heath is back again today with a medal chance, we hope,

in the kayak single. It is the shortest event, the 200 metres,

which was won by Ed McKeever in London four years ago. Liam Heath

beat him in qualification to get the spot for Great Britain. He goes in

the next heat. This is the second heat we are going to enjoy and we

shall go to Patrick Winterton and Helen Reeve. Good morning. It was a

great morning there yesterday, could we be in for some more of the same

today? Hazel, everyone is very excited about Liam Heath's

prospects. The word is he is flying. I do not think we will see anything

special from him today, it is all about getting through to tomorrow's

finals. He has got seven or eight minutes before he gets on to the

start. A few moments before we really see what sort of form he is

in. This is the second heat of this event, which was introduced in 2012.

Germany won the first heat in QuickTime. Yes, he was looking very

fast and conditions are good for them with a tail wind going straight

down the course. Spain, Hungary, Russia, France, the Czech Republic,

Korea and Cuba. The Spaniard in lane two always takes a cold shower

before a race. Six feet four and 98 kilos, he is the biggest man in the

heat. Good start from Cuba on the near side. A good start from Maxine

Beaumont of France. He is looking very comfortable at the moment. A

very explosive start. This is where it is difficult. Lane two is

starting to pull back, but it is Maxine Beaumont who has got the lead

at the moment. Ten metres to go and he secures that one. Once again,

lanes one, two, three and four produced the best times. The French

man will be happy with that. The times are quick. We will see some

real fireworks in the semifinal. They have only got an hour or so in

between the heat and the semifinals. Now it is about getting off the

water and getting the recovery in and going through the preparation

process they prefer for the final. It is a tight programme, everyone

commenting on it. It is a bit harder than those doing longer do

distances. When you build up lactic acid, how do you floss it out? They

have a strict process, they will have it nailed down. They do not

have the time to flush out the system. It is rare you see somebody

half a boat length ahead in a short race like this. Beaumont of France,

a brilliant start, and he stayed strong to the finish. Did he need to

do that? Not really because the top five were going through whatever. A

nice style. He settled into a good rhythm despite all the tape on his

shoulder. Shoulder injuries are more common than anything else with

paddlers. They have a few back problems as well, but the shoulders

take most of the punishment. They do have quite a lot of back problems

and sometimes they get stress fractures. I think he has borrowed

that tape of the German team. They are racing in pain. They have done

very well in the past in pink. Guess what? They are heading the medal

table. He was three tenths of a second clear. Rishi Persad is down

there. Much to enjoy there. It is semifinals there today and we will

not be seeing any medals, but it could be a grandstand finale

tomorrow. Absolutely, looking forward to tomorrow. Later on this

morning at 9:37am here, at one in Britain, it is the women. We are

looking forward to seeing what Liam can do because he and Jon Schofield

won the silver in the K two 200 metres yesterday, an improvement on

their bronze medal. After they won their bronze medal in London they

said they had unfinished business and they should have won in London

and they came here with at least silver on their minds. Yesterday

Liam seemed pretty excited and he said this was vindication of how

well his training was going and he was looking ahead to his heat today.

He goes in the third heat. I guess Liam will be looking to conserve as

much energy as he can. We heard from Patrick that the first five go

through to the semifinal and then the sixth best time from the rest of

the losers goes through as well. We are about to see Liam go in his

heat. He must be very well regarded because he had to beat the Olympic

champion, Ed McKeever, to get this spot. But he is pretty new to this

event, is he? Yes comic he is. He is much more accomplished in the 200

metres and given the way the old system worked, the closeness of the

event meant it would have been a struggle. But because of the

schedule here, it means he can compete in both events because there

is enough recovery time. He won the European Championship gold medal in

June in the event he is about to compete in now, which gives them a

big boost. He is quite new to it and only the results tell you whether

the training that you are doing is bearing up to scrutiny in the

toughest of conditions. Given the result in the European Championships

and the way he has performed so far suggests that it is all systems go

and he looks in a good place. To follow up on what you were saying,

he has only raised this distance in K-1 about four times and each time

he has been right in there amongst the medal. I am sure he is as

confident as his partner. Jon Schofield was saying he had been

blitzing it in training and he was trying to hang onto his coat-tails

yesterday. He said it rather modestly. Patrick and Helen, this is

a big moment in the career of Liam Heath. It certainly is, a real

opportunity for him to make a massive name for himself and there

is no doubt that the 200 metres has resurrected his career. Allen, he

was not far of giving up and they introduced the 200 and he realised

that is where his strength lie. Yes, when they got introduced into the

programme. There he is, looking very tall and confident. He has hardly

been off the podium since they got introduced into the programme, the

200 metres. The top five go through, it is not about winning. Although

you might want to make a statement before the semifinals. He has got a

silver medal and that may be crucial because it takes some pressure off

because he has got something from the games already. Yes, it takes a

bit of the pressure off, obviously they did some great things in that

boat as well. The K-1 200 metres. 34 seconds, that is all it is going to

take. Some 90 strokes from start to finish. It is a very good start from

Liam Heath. A tiny loss of balance after about ten strokes, but still

going well. If he does that, you will have a

gold, silver and bronze. It is going to be an exciting final. But we

still have the semifinals to go through. Heath is safely through and

will get a decent draw in the lane. Should conditions develop, lanes

one, two, three, for our pastor, they may put the favourites in those

lanes. Hopefully that won't happen, they will try to make it as fair as

they can. Great start from Liam, didn't come under too much threat.

He will be amongst the race and that will make the difference to The

Times. Fabulous/ rate from Liam Heath. Punched in his position

trying to get the power. He turns it over so fast. After the early loss

of balance, he turned it around and then had the race under control.

First phase is complete, the second phase is the semifinals, if it goes

the way it did in this heat, he will be through to the final and then who

knows what will happen. We expect the top seven to be within half a

second tomorrow. Liam Heath, 34 point 327, to secure his place in

the semifinals. Fantastic stuff from Liam Heath. All the chat about Liam

Heath going through and how his good form has manifested itself here,

just confirmation of the qualifiers. Liam Heath in great shape. But the

locals here are absolutely over the moon about the performances of the

Santos, the Brazilian who has won the first Olympic canoeing medal for

Brazil. He has won the C1, 1000 metres and the C1, 200 metres, and

he is taking his place in the C2 1000 metres, which is the next event

here. He is alongside his partner and they have had great success. He

has let this place up with his personality. What are the chances of

him being able to do this again, winning another medal in three

events. It is exhausting, we have seen how difficult it is. You

probably need to ask him how much the last four days have taken out of

him. I am sure he wants a full set of medals. He was delighted with the

medals yesterday, but there was a bit in him that thought he could get

the gold. It is a big ass, if he gets another one, he will be a

megastar in Brazil. Helen, the effects of four days, solid racing,

and by the end of The Games he will have six consecutive races. Yes, he

very aggressive, knows what he wants. If he gets a third medal in

Rio, that will become the first canoe paddle to get three medals

across the disciplines at an Olympic Games. He has that in his mind to go

for. And the paddler from Hungary to do that and she'll be in action

later. She has a great runs and has been performing. Her second gold

medal of The Games so far. The best men's double pinning, Germany, the

likely one, they tend to dominate. They won Olympic gold those of two

notions expected to beat again? They will generally be the nations,

looking for the Ukraine boat, they could also be in the race. There are

the Ukrainians. Quiros Dos Santos looking for he

number three. We are missing mole bogey. -- Moldavia. They should have

been in lane number three. Sir guide to nosh he has been disqualified

having taken the bronze medal. Not through a doping offence here, but

Anna Mensah prior to The Games. All our information is telling us he has

been officially disqualified, which would put the Russian art into the

bronze medal position. He is also competing here in lane number six.

Russia now have two bronze medals from this regatta and they don't

have a boat in the C2, 1000. There is Peer roster Santos at the back of

the Brazilian -- Quiros Dos Santos. He was knocking the crowd yesterday

after his success. Brazil should be easy qualifiers. The way it works in

this, the first go through to the final. I think we will see the

Brazilians putting in every effort to win this. They do not want

another race. Russia on the near side. Already,

Brazil have made a mark. Starting well is one thing, you haven't lost

the race at that stage, it is the finish that is so crucial. Once the

lactose starts to poison the body, the legs, the arms all browsers.

They have to be able to maintain the strength. The way Dos Santos took on

the 1000 metre, he took it out from the front and then was overtaken in

the latter stages. They are slowing the pace slightly. They are working

at a higher/ rate than the Russians in lane number six. Be interesting

to see if they will hold on whether the other boats will pick them. They

are six or seven inches shorter than the Giants either side of them.

Slowly, bit by bit, washer and Ukraine are drawing back towards the

Brazilians who are easing up, I was thinking about saving something for

the last 500. Only one bulb goes on to the semifinals automatically, the

rest have to fight it out. The boots are saving themselves for

the semis. That includes Mozambique. The Australians on the near side,

the oldest group, a combined age of 84, the Australians. Here come

Ukraine. Interesting to see if they want to get on whether they want to

conserve their energy. They will be certain Dos Santos won't want to be

doing the semifinal after the competing he has been doing. Typing

Ukraine, who are sneaking up on them, have realised Brazil were not

let them have this one. And Dos Santos, at the back of the boat is

the man providing the power. Earl on the Souza Silver in front of him,

setting the pace. If he can make it three medals from three races, and

from what we have seen here, the Brazilians who did so well in the

World Championships are medal potential? They are looking in great

form, working very well together. Great skill getting your body is

working at the same time and getting the blade in the water. The

excitement of the competition over this week will help them. 3.32, the

winning time from the Brazilians. Let's get confirmation with the

times. Russia and Ukraine both silenced by the Brazilians who

started fast and finished fast. They will have 25 hours recovery instead

of 24 before the final. That time distance might not be significant,

but they don't have too race again today. And the semifinals are more

intense because there is so much at stake. It was a very good move from

the home nation and it increases their chances of getting into the

top three tomorrow. Definitely a change in spirit with the success

from the Brazilians last night in the Beach Volleyball Arena be had

success in the sailing as well. It is so good for the home nation and

suddenly, the Olympics was the thing on a television in the bars instead

of the football. It it was nice watching the triathlon and the

Brownlee Brothers getting their medal. Dos Santos is in fabulous

form. The confidence he has his reactions, the way he is behaving

postevent commonly is in control and has the confidence in his process

and very much looking to try and get in the medal positions tomorrow. So

the story rolls on. I think we will have a packed house tomorrow. The

word will spread that there could be some history make tomorrow in the

men's C2, 1000 metres. Just a little bit slower than maybe we were

expecting, but it is windy conditions and the balance is very

difficult. Patrick, talking about the way the

host nation is getting behind these games. It has taken a long time, but

the stagette is filling up and the medals are coming in. Yesterday,

they achieved joint top in terms of their history with five gold medals.

The best they have ever done was in Athens with five gold medals. The

Sprint canoeing features in a mixed because he is the only athlete from

Brazil to have won more than one medal at these games, so he is

already a national hero. He is reflected on the front pages today.

But also the sailing gold won by the Brazilian women. It was in the 49

class and it was an unbelievable race. Martino is the daughter of

Brazil's joint best athlete of all time. He is a sailor himself. This

is great joy, as you can imagine. The only paper to get in the Beach

Volleyball Arena or from Alison and Bruno last night, because it was

very late, midnight start. They have it. Interestingly in the Sao Paulo

paper, they were saying the girls' victory in the sailing was achieved

because of the flag. They sought the Brazilian flag change direction,

this is what they clocked, apparently. They realised there had

been a very significant change in the wind direction and immediately

adjusted their course and flew over the line to take the dramatic gold.

They are saying because of that flag, they got the gold medal. But

this has been a massive story in Brazil. Light, big fat lie. The

American Olympic committee admits the error of the athletes and has

apologised to Rio and Brazil. Ryan Lotty and his three swimming mates

who went out and their behaviour was not befitting, says the American

Olympic committee of the standards they'd like of their athletes. Of

course now it is a criminal investigation.

after about ten strokes, but still going well.

But more or less they are full of joy about the coming good of their

athletes. When it comes to team jumping it is not great for Great

Britain's athletes in the equestrian events. Having won that amazing gold

medal four years ago, they did not make it through to qualify to be

able to defend the title, but we have got Ben Maher her and Nick

Skelton who have got through to the individual finals today. Lee

McKenzie is that the equestrian centre. I read an interesting report

from Ben who said that he and Nick feel they have to redeem themselves

today. Is that the feeling you are getting? When I spoke to them, they

were his exact words. There is a real sense that starting from

scratch that something is available for both of these riders. On the

team jumping day Germany and Canada ended up in a jump off. Although it

was a quick 42nd round, it was frenetic, so hopefully those riders

might be a little bit more tired and it opens up again for Nick who got

so close in London on Big Star on the individual medals. Tina Cook has

been working with us and you have walked around the course. It is easy

to say it looks big, but it really does. As an event rider that looks

absolutely massive. The horses have to be so brave as well as careful. I

did not appreciate it before. 160 on the front rails and there is another

water tray in there that Nick Skelton will not be happy about it,

but it has got lines around it. It is honoured tight turn, so it looks

a bit more like a viaduct, so I think the horse might look at it and

go up in the aerobic, I am hoping. He said it got him out and it caught

out Don Whitaker and he said the whole point of show-jumping should

not be subjective, if it falls, it falls, but maybe he would say that.

It was a close margin and there were some horses that were clearly

dropping and they deserved to be Spanish. But with Nick he was

incredibly unlucky when it caught the horse's hoops. We know Ben Maher

Howard starts from scratch, but the opportunity is there. With Nick and

Big Star he has been off with injury, but he has rested and with

every round they have got better and better and they are looking back to

their best. I know it has been frustrating for you to be working

alongside us as opposed to competing, but overall in terms of

British equestrian, how would you sum up the Olympic Games? I think we

have been unlucky. I would say that, but we came here with strong

chances. Germany looked very strong in all the disciplines. The event

riders went well and we were unlucky in the cross country. Dressage came

to the fore not quite as what they wanted, but our opportunity today is

to get back on track. The Germans have been so strong in all

disciplines, but they might go home a bit disappointed because the

French have stood out. They have been amazing, they are on fire. They

came over to Britain and really tested their riders and it showed.

They came in here and they were very positive, as were the jumpers. We

have got Nick Skelton and Big Star and it was in the London 2012 team.

It just missed out, but Nick says as the competition has progressed, the

horse has got even better. Ben Maher higher will be riding Tic Tac. We

will have everything on the Red Button for you. Plenty of chances

and availability of that and we might be going to it live as well.

We are dotting around today. We have got a quartet of women in action in

four. This is another dynamic event. How do we assess the British

chances? Fifth in London, what kind of improvement could they hope to

make? Hopefully they will do better than they did in London. But so far

they have not quite come up to scratch. In fairness they are being

compared to the men who have dazzled, Liam Heath and Jon

Schofield. But we have a bit more expectations with this event and

with the other women's events we have seen so far.

Angela Hanna was the other member of the four and she is out and Rebeka

Simon has come in. This is an event that has been dominated by Germany

and Hungary. She was born in Hungary and is competing for the UK. Simon

was also short listed for a BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year

a couple of years ago, so she has got a bit of a pedigree to help this

four and push on and do even better than they did in London.

Great Britain are in lane six. I had a chat with Louisa's dad who turned

up, and her brother as well. He is in the Navy, I don't know whether he

got his boat diverted to Copacabana! He turned up and it was a surprise.

Their initial aim is to make the finals. They have got two races per

day, so they cannot afford to make any false starts. They are very much

focused on this K four event. They are up against tough competition,

the crew from Belarus and the crew from Poland, so it will be

interesting to see you what tactics they adapt. Simon was a brilliant

junior. New Zealand are next to them. New Zealand are on a high

after their gold-medal came from Louisa Carrington. Argentina were

18th in the World Championships. If they make it through to the a final,

that will be a massive success. As they would say, Argentina has the

best fans in the Olympics so far! It is fast and furious, just over the

three market expected. Great Britain is in lane six. Great

Britain once again getting a dreadful start. The initial start

was OK, but they seem to have lost ground already. The Belarussians got

out very fast. New Zealand have benefited from the extra funding

that have come from Carrington's success.

It is Belarus, New Zealand, Poland, the leading teams in the early

stages. Now New Zealand are starting to turn it on. But they are still

training, Belarus have the advantage. Great Britain are down in

five or six at the moment. You can relax, everyone is going through to

the semi, unless you win, and you go through to the final. It looks like

that honour goes to Belarus who are starting to find their rhythm

indeed. New Zealand have decided they are not going to get through,

Destro great has gone down and they will not give it their all because

they want to have something for the semifinals. A sensible tactic. Maybe

they could have won it, but the risk was too high. You do not want to be

pumping any muscles in the body with lactic acid at this stage when you

have only got 56 minutes before you race again in the semifinals. Let's

hope Great Britain were playing it tactically. I am not sure they are.

Just unable to stay with the pace over the first 250 and then

struggling from thereon in. They generally come back over their

second 250, but if you want to be in touch, you cannot give away too

much. They will be thinking about what they have done and they will be

analysing and their coach will be looking at the stats and addressing

what they might to do. But you don't want to change tactics too much

because they will have practised it. The start wasn't too bad, they got

out OK, but they lost a lot of ground over the first 100 metres.

This is what they are after, beautiful symmetry, the power coming

from the back two. The timing and the precision coming from those in

front. New Zealand are looking good, Belarus looking even better. Jess

Walker is from Teddington and paddles for the Royal Canoe club.

Allanbridge club has produced a few champions in its days and I am sure

those houses will be packed watching the action today. Fingers crossed

that the British four can raise their levels in the semifinals in an

hour's time. One more heat to go and we will be back to the semifinals.

Any other positives we can draw from that first heat, Helen? The best

thing about getting out there is that that is race. It is very

different to the K-1. Jess said she was here for the K four and that is

what they are here for. Hopefully they will have settled and next we

will see a different crew. That is the first heat completed, one more

heat to go. Then it will be straight on the semifinals. HAZEL: We will be

back at about ten o'clock for the semifinals to see whether they can

get through to the final. I do not know if you stayed up until half

past two last night to see Jade Jones her Olympic title. An amazing

performance, she never looked troubled through the whole

competition, and became the 14th returning London hero to

successfully defend her title out of the 20 who competed. Nicola Adams

goes tomorrow. In taekwondo, we had the first British man in the sport

to claim an Olympic medal in London four years ago.

Going into your first Olympic Games in your hometown, you want it to be

smooth sailing and compete and enjoy it, but I was under an enormous

amount of pressure. He was selected over Aaron Cook. How did that

political situation tenner? How difficult was that? There was a lot

of stuff on social media and I shut it down. The newspapers and TV were

not particularly positive about me. So, it was not nice to go in under

that kind of pressure. We never had a relationship before London and I

cannot say we have one now. It is the biggest rivalry in our sport, so

I relish it. Anything could happen in Rio? We are on opposite sides of

the draw, so we would meet in the final if we were to meet and that is

incredibly exciting. I am going to do my job and he will do his. I

remember very clearly being on the podium in London in 2012 with the

gold medallist in front of me and I thought, I am going to have to wait

four more years to get another opportunity. I am only going to Rio

to win and I believe I will be successful. He is up at about

quarter to two, but he did mention that controversy ahead of the London

Olympic Games when he was selected instead of Aaron Cook, the world

number one. Since then Aaron Cook has gone on to accept citizenship

from Moldova and he now fights for Moldova and was invited to do so.

Intriguingly they have been basically drawn to meet in the final

today in this men's 80 K class. There is a lot of work before any

confrontation between them, but I am sure it would be quite a fight where

it to happen. We will be seeing the very first fight and he is up

against an Australian. That is in his first round. Like Jade Jones,

four fights is what you need to win in the competition to take gold. We

are moving over onto BBC One for the rest of the afternoon and we will

see you on the other side. You're coming across as, frankly,

ridiculous. I'm flabbergasted by that.

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