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Hello again. If you have just finished the working week and are | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
settling down to watch the final week of the Olympic Games you are | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
just in time, because we are enjoying the final round of the | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
individual show-jumping, the final event of the equestrian events. Nick | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
Skelton and Big Star, they go in a couple of riders time, they jumped a | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
clear round earlier in the day and it is all coming down to this final | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
round now. Ack to Mike and Andy. Yes, the tension is building. We are | :00:53. | :01:07. | |
notching up now. We are now seeing Matias Albarracin and Cannavaro. | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
Very good performance from them. The other will be an individual from | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Ukraine. If either of them jump clear they will take up the lead at | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
this stage of two Mac rounds for the individual medals. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Still clear at the moment, what to try to make sure he stays inside the | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
time. But it is not going to make a massive difference. 68 seconds. As | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
long as he only gets one time fault he will still go into the lead at | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
this stage. It is one for this round, one for the last round, he is | :01:57. | :02:06. | |
an two, he can say to his mates and family, I led the individuals at one | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
stage. Did not quite get going with his pace but the only interesting | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
thing, is one more rider to come, but on one time fault, and if that | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
rider goes clear, he will knock him down a place. But he has done all he | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
could do, made sure he jumped fences and is in the lead at this stage. | :02:28. | :02:41. | |
The tension is really building. The Argentinian team are delighted with | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
that. Trotting down now, the one individual rider from the Ukraine, | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
Rene Tebbel, road for Germany many times, and has not Britain in a | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
championship for well over 20 years. -- has not ridden. He swapped | :03:05. | :03:17. | |
allegiances and now represent Ukraine, and Zipper, 12 years old, | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
has got him through to this stage. On that one time fault. If you can | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
jump clear then momentarily at least, maybe longer, he is the new | :03:30. | :03:46. | |
leader of the show-jumping hair at Deodora. The breeze has dropped and | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
it is very hot. Well over 30, the heat is certainly having an effect. | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
And there will be a considerable amount of jumping they have had to | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
do to get to this final stage. The horses need to be fit and have | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
plenty of energy but this big stallion is full of running. He has | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
jumped clear round after clear round. The important thing for Rene | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
Tebbel, if he wants to take the lead, he must get inside the time. | :04:19. | :04:30. | |
68 seconds. If you goes over the time limit he is going to get one | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
penalty for every four seconds. At the moment, the Argentinian has | :04:36. | :04:47. | |
already finished on the one time fault. So, with the fence down it is | :04:48. | :05:00. | |
all academic now. Just to get the time. 0.11 of a second over. Add in | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
the one-time penalty from the previous round and he finishes and | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
six. As we watch the pictures of Rene | :05:17. | :05:37. | |
Tebbel and Zipper, sit tight, the next is the first of the clear | :05:38. | :05:49. | |
round, Britain's Nick Skelton. Well, you have got to look back to 1972, | :05:50. | :06:01. | |
Munich, when any -- Anne Moore last won an individual medal for Britain. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Can Nick Skelton do what he has always felt this horse is capable of | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
and win an individual medal at an Olympic Games? Big Star, Great | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
Britain, Nick Skelton. Just a little rattle but it stayed | :06:16. | :06:41. | |
up. A huge leap over number seven. Three | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
fences to go. Time is going to be quite tight. He | :06:49. | :07:05. | |
is close into the triple bar but he has jumped it. Just the last fence. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Must get inside the time of 68. He has done it. Yes, he is inside the | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
time. Only just inside the time, but he is. And Great Britain are still | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
on target for a medal to finish the equestrian. Nick Skelton, the first | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
of 13 clear, makes it a double. Absolutely riding for his life and | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Big Star showing the incredible class and quality we always knew he | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
had, we always knew he could do this, and Nick Skelton has waited | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
four years, a man who broke his neck before the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
It is his seventh Olympics but there are not many parts of his body that | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
are his own, he is a real bionic man! Let's hope that the bionic man | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
can win medals. Well, sit tight. It is on now. As we come to the next, | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
the Australian, coming in on a clean sheet so far, Edwina tops | :08:18. | :08:36. | |
-- Alexander no doubt about the quality and show-jumping, no doubt | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
about that. 14th in the world. Let's remind you, if we get | :08:45. | :09:08. | |
equality, if there are clear rounds, there will be a jump off against the | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
clock. This little athletic horse giving it | :09:11. | :09:35. | |
absolutely everything. Bursting with energy, not tiring at all. Is it | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
going to be our second double clear? She is a long way off. Did not like | :09:41. | :09:52. | |
that's tried going in and changed her mind, it is a bit of an optical | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
illusion, unfortunately, Edwina got it all wrong. Inside the time, | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
reasonably comfortable, but it is that triple bar, and it is full | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
penalties, it drops down. -- drops her down. Edwina just picked up a | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
stride a bit too early to that triple bar, it is a funny fence to | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
look at, unusual to have a triple into a double, and she had to change | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
her mind, there was absolutely no chance of jumping it, and it was a | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
great shame because Lintea Tequila was jumping out of her skin. Nick at | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
the moment is the only clear. Let's not get overexcited! Here is a man | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
who does not get overexcited, he is a cool cookie, the 43-year-old | :10:53. | :11:04. | |
Jeroen Dubbeldam, with Zenith, the reigning world and European | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
champion, a winner in Sydney in 2000, and this horse, produced | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
beautifully back in Britain, he will be very proud of this horse, | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
interestingly enough it is a horse that has been retained for the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Dutch, but will go on sale fairly shortly, and that will be very | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
interesting. Can this man do what Michael Yong did for eventing and | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
hold all three titles? To have any chance you must join Nick Skelton on | :11:36. | :11:36. | |
a clear round in this round. The last few championships, Zenith | :11:37. | :11:56. | |
has been by far the most successful championship horse. European | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Championships, World Championships, and here he is at the Olympics. | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
Where, it was one of those moments. Everyone holding their breath. But | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
no better man than Jeroen Dubbeldam, time and time again he comes good. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
We never really matters. -- when it really matters. Now the triple bar. | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
Immaculate. A little time check. 68 seconds. It will be close. And he | :12:36. | :12:48. | |
has gone over, big drama. He has got a time fault. He will be cursing | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
that. He looked to be cruising, but he is the man for judgment. And he | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
just got this one is slightly wrong. That is extraordinary, the man who | :13:02. | :13:13. | |
never makes mistakes, and Zenith was absolutely brilliant, so, there I | :13:14. | :13:25. | |
say it .my? -- dare I say it... ? Sit tight, there is a long way to | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
go! It looked to have clear round Britain all over it and I think the | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
expression on the face of Jeroen Dubbeldam will tell you his | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
disappointment. Confirmation of the 1-2- three at the moment. | :13:43. | :13:54. | |
Switzerland now. We have dynasty is in British show-jumping, non-more so | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
than the Whitakers, were here now is the Swedish dynasty, the Fuchs | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
family, Martin, son of Thomas, and his uncle Marcus, again and other | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
star, and this is a star very much in the ascendancy. A young rider, a | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
European champion, and on this lovely horse Clooney, already right | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
up the world rankings, and jumping at the very highest level. Looked to | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
be getting it right in a previous Grand Prix but did not go his way. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
But he has been very good here at the Olympics, his first. Clear in | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the first of the individual rounds. It is just so important, as we have | :14:41. | :15:03. | |
just seen with Jerome Dobbledaum, there is a lot of space in this | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
arena, they have got to get moving, and that is another one. Clear | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
rounds are very, very scarce. The other thing to think about is that | :15:12. | :15:23. | |
the four falters who jumped clear, then any of the previously clear | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
round to make faults in this round, they will all go level. As things | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
stand gold, silver, and bronze is already organised. That is already | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
in order. Nick Skelton on a clear. Jerome Dobbledaum, on one. The | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
Argentinian, on two. Clooney, meanwhile, a total of four overall | :15:48. | :15:59. | |
for the two rounds. One by one and they bite the dust. Exactly, that | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
was one of the horses that could definitely have jumped clear. Again, | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
he finds the first part of the combination. But the Swiss flags are | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
out. The Swiss flags are out for the | :16:15. | :16:26. | |
reigning champion. And on the final day of | :16:27. | :16:38. | |
London 2012 Steve Guerdat is a famous rider since he was 15. | :16:39. | :17:18. | |
Steve Guerdat is another rider who comes good when it matters in the | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
big moments. He's jumping out of his skin down | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
the combination. Steve looked worried Judy Downey | :17:33. | :17:49. | |
first inspection, the horse did not look great. The horses got better | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
and better. -- during the first inspection. That is where Nino Des | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Buissonnets is at his best. He dug deep. The time is good. I rounded | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
the corner. The Olympic gold medal is going to be a timer jumpoff for | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
sure. Switzerland joined Britain. Two clear rounds. It is game on. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
Steve Guerdat is not letting his title go to easily. He fought really | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
hard. He had to work very hard to jump the big double. Nino Des | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
Buissonnets, what a horse. He is 15 now. Look at the face of Steve. | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
Sheer determination. It was determined riding and the horse that | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
gives absolutely everything. That is what you want. We have got a | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
jumpoff. It will go to the wire. Confirmation of the situation. A two | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
clear rounds left to jump. This is a little grey horse you will | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
recognise, jumped around many British tracks. | :19:08. | :19:27. | |
This horse has got better and better. Team bronze down in the | :19:28. | :19:46. | |
dirt. Sergio Alvarez Moya has jumped this small grey horse to some big | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
results. If he stays clear then we have the three we jumpoff. It could | :19:52. | :19:52. | |
be more. At this stage in the competition, | :19:53. | :20:04. | |
towards the end of the week, it does not matter what preparation the | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
horses have had to get you. You need a horse that does not give up on you | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
and keep trying. This little horse, his ears pricked up, trying his | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
best. He's years old as well. -- 15 years old. Just the two clear rounds | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
at the moment. It is a long way around when you hit | :20:27. | :20:45. | |
an early fence, you know the chances of a medal have gone. Just finish | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
off your road and see where you get to in the final order. -- round. | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
Little Carlo has done well all week. He is tiring over the last few | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
jumps. He reaches for the last but gets a time fault. It is nine for | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
this round. Total of nine. That is where the four defaulters will claim | :21:13. | :21:13. | |
another place. Just one round to many for Carlo. | :21:14. | :21:26. | |
Some of the horses coming into this last round, finding it hard going. | :21:27. | :21:44. | |
The one Spanish goes out in the individual. One of two that have | :21:45. | :21:59. | |
come into this final day from Qatar. It is Al Thani. They have surpassed | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
themselves and their first Olympic Games. | :22:06. | :22:15. | |
He has done to MacWorld games. We have got experience and putting that | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
experience good effect. But we get the rider from Qatar | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
through to the jumpoff. Every time you come to a | :22:32. | :22:53. | |
championship, there are always one or two horses the and catch a ride. | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
This is one of them. He wants to jump at the horse -- everything is | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
clear. He tries so hard and makes the same shape over every fence. | :23:08. | :23:08. | |
Very intelligent horse. He has got it. He will be OK. It | :23:09. | :23:35. | |
might be close. Could not get any closer. He is indeed jumpoff for the | :23:36. | :23:48. | |
medals. The times are changing. The riders from Qatar are getting closer | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
and closer. They have been brilliant all week. Not just ordinary | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
horsepower, super horsepower. The first of the genre and a special | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
horse. All of these horses that can jump clear around here, they are out | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
of the ordinary. Look at that for effort over the last defence. Very | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
happy jockey, quite rightly so. I like the way the riders point to the | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
horse and see it is all down to them. That is the jumpoff situation. | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
If you have got a deal then you go again against the clock. We have got | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
two from Germany, one from France and one from America. One from | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Sweden. And do not discount Canada, the last to go. Christian Ahlman has | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
had four Olympics but he has not had the best of fortune in those | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
Olympics. He would dearly like to put it right. Christian Ahlman with | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
Taloubet. Since 2009 when he went on to the world stage, there are not | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
too many majors that he has not won. Germany only got the bronze medal | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
for the team event. Are they going to put that right this afternoon? | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
Christian Ahlman and Taloubet. When you see, only the bronze, the | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
Germans -- some nations would be pleased with that. It felt like a | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
disappointment for the Germans because they were so good. Christian | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Ahlman is a class act and this is a capable horse. Taloubet is 16 years | :25:44. | :25:56. | |
of age and is a strong stallion. Can he keep operating Agnes hit? -- can | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
he keep operating in this heat? The way he took that event, it was | :26:05. | :26:05. | |
brilliant. Nobody is clear until the jump the | :26:06. | :26:27. | |
stubble. -- jump this double. That is a big danger out of the way for | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
the Nick Skelton. Just the three going through to the jump off at the | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
moment. Get inside the time but it is one down, total of four for the | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
two grounds for Christian Ahlman and Taloubet. The Germans are still with | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
one rider to come. He has jumped into the double, slightly forward. | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
That is the way it is built. The triple bar is so unusual to the 190 | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
wide triple bar. But vertical is 160. Maximum height. Very hard to | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
jump that double on a horse that is tiding a little bit. I bet Bob Ellis | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
and his mates at home will be looking at some of the tricks to try | :27:17. | :27:25. | |
to divide the world stars. That is what we have here. Daniel Deusser | :27:26. | :27:39. | |
from Germany, first Olympic Games and one World Cup final. He rides in | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
Belgium. He is riding the 11-year-old First Class. Germany's | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
last chance to try to join the queue for the medals. And looking down the | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
line, you wonder how many are going to be in that queue? We have got | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
three and I think we could get at least the Matt Moore. -- three more. | :28:04. | :28:13. | |
For this round I thought we would get 5-6 into the final jumpoff. It | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
might be three at the moment. This couple have every chance of doing | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
so. It is a powerful horse but he made the mistake. Another big, heavy | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
horse tiring in the heat. Nick Skelton in that jumpoff for | :28:28. | :28:42. | |
Britain. I think one of the things you need | :28:43. | :29:00. | |
to remember about the championship is it as a test of fitness and | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
stamina, not just a one off Grand Prix. These horses have had to jump | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
quite a few rounds to keep up the level and then they come out and | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
perform today over a massive course. Some of these five and some are six | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
for the jumpoff for bronze medal. The total is four for the two | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
grounds for Germany's Daniel Deusser and First Class. And still just | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
three are clear. Two big German dangers for medals, | :29:31. | :29:47. | |
one after the other, making one mistake. Just getting down to the | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
final few riders. It is the nitty-gritty. France, America Sweden | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
and Canada. Roger Yves Bost? Is 50 years old and | :29:59. | :30:18. | |
one of the most popular show-jumpers. He is still in with | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
the chance of becoming an Olympic champion. He is on Sydney Une | :30:23. | :30:32. | |
Prince. It is a French bred horse. This man has worked 200%. He got | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
France the team gold medal and now, can he do the same again to get | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
himself an individual medal? One thing you can be sure of, it | :30:40. | :30:52. | |
will not be for a lack of trying. He put absolutely everything into it, | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
this man. This horse is really a fighter. He is in trouble. He is in | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
big trouble. You could see he was not quite getting the distance. | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
Another one bites the dust. I getting even more excited now. I | :31:14. | :31:28. | |
guess I am beginning to join you. Three to go. In some respects we | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
have seen spectacular jumping, one feels it be just nice if there is a | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
jump of of three and everyone gets a medal, but I don't think it will end | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
that way. Arlt goes Roger Yves Bost, he gets a time fault as well. Five | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
it is in that second round. He boughs out, but an Olympic team gold | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
medal in his second Olympics, his first back in 1996, that would be a | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
good week's work for Roger Yves Bost and France. He has had a two rivet | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
week, got his team gold, there he is, giving everything, but not quite | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
able to stretch out of the combination. | :32:15. | :32:24. | |
The crowd have fallen quite silent. We moved to what is undoubtedly the | :32:25. | :32:39. | |
climax of some superb jumping. It is the American, Ken Farrington. Hair | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
is the position, the three who will jump of John -- jump off for the | :32:46. | :33:03. | |
medals. America's Kent Farrington, a winner all around the world in some | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
of the very biggest arenas, he was in the team that finished with a | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
bronze medal in the World Championships, it is his first | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
Olympic Games, but he has a great temperament, and Voyeur is a very | :33:16. | :33:23. | |
tough Dutch bred horse. Looking to jump clear for the medals, with the | :33:24. | :33:34. | |
three who are through so far. The one thing about him, if he does get | :33:35. | :33:46. | |
into the John -- jump off, he is one of the fastest in the world and the | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
three who are already clear, they will not want to see this man join | :33:51. | :34:02. | |
them. He gave that a big rattle coming out of the combination, close | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
to the vertical. It is not the prettiest round at the moment but | :34:08. | :34:08. | |
still clear. He appeared to be in all sorts of | :34:09. | :34:23. | |
trouble. This is a very erratic round. But he is clear. Galloping to | :34:24. | :34:31. | |
the last fence. He does touch it but it is clear. Quite comfortably | :34:32. | :34:41. | |
inside the time. There are four jumping off for the medals. Britain, | :34:42. | :34:51. | |
Switzerland, Qatar, and the USA. That was a white knuckle ride for | :34:52. | :34:59. | |
Kent Farrington, quite erratic, picked his horse but, Voyeur, you | :35:00. | :35:07. | |
really fights for him, so now we have the scenario of a jump off, and | :35:08. | :35:18. | |
one of them will not get a medal. That is tough. Two riders to go, | :35:19. | :35:30. | |
Sweden and Canada. It is Sweden's Peder Fredricson, on All In. He was | :35:31. | :35:45. | |
with Mark told for a while, a great basis for his show-jumping, but now | :35:46. | :35:52. | |
he is at the top of his game, Swedish show-jumping has been very | :35:53. | :35:54. | |
consistent throughout these show-jumping competition is -- Mark | :35:55. | :36:02. | |
Todd. Clear in the first round. This could just be the dark horse. This | :36:03. | :36:11. | |
All In, only ten, has not put a foot wrong throughout every round, | :36:12. | :36:23. | |
immaculately ridden so far by Peder Fredricson and on that combination | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
you can see why. An incredibly effective jumper who does all the | :36:28. | :36:38. | |
right things at all the right times. It is going to be tight for time. He | :36:39. | :36:45. | |
is a naturally quick rider, super careful coming out of the double. | :36:46. | :36:48. | |
Definitely will not have any time faults. Sweden joined the party. | :36:49. | :36:59. | |
Clear over the two rounds. Five to jump off for the medals. One more to | :37:00. | :37:11. | |
jump. Peder Fredricson, showing again immaculate temperament for the | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
big occasion. He has not missed any strides, perfect rhythm and balance, | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
always get around quickly around the arena, he is not one of the biggest | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
names but he has certainly impressed this week. Plenty of jumping for joy | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
in Scandinavia. and in terms of his competitive | :37:31. | :38:00. | |
riding there are not many better. Quite brilliant, and he has a | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
partnership with his fine lady that is again measuring up to that, can | :38:05. | :38:16. | |
he join them and make it a six way jump off for the medals? Eric loves | :38:17. | :38:26. | |
these big open spaces. He just keeps travelling, sees his stride a long | :38:27. | :38:37. | |
way out. Fine Lady, really operating for him there. Another rider who, if | :38:38. | :38:49. | |
he gets in the jump off, he is an absolute flying machine against the | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
clock. Galloping into the double and a lot of pace, it worked, heart in | :38:55. | :39:02. | |
the mouth stuff that was. He nearly came around ten seconds inside the | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
time. He judges the last, and it is six. You will have no fingernails | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
left at home. We have not got then here anyway. Nick Skelton is part of | :39:14. | :39:20. | |
the John off. If you thought he is going to win the medal which she | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
deserved in London then he will have to put his neck on the line. Eric | :39:25. | :39:32. | |
just went round at jump off speed in this round so we are in for | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
fireworks now. It really is going to be a quick one. | :39:37. | :39:45. | |
Everybody has been talking about a fitting finale. That is what Canada | :39:46. | :39:55. | |
think it is. Tiffany Foster is in there, one of the stable riders who | :39:56. | :40:04. | |
goes out with Eric. A six horse and rider final jump off. And here they | :40:05. | :40:13. | |
are... Take a pause, and extra breath, | :40:14. | :40:24. | |
because you are going to need all of it for this jump off for the gold, | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
silver, and bronze. Very exciting. Ten minutes to wait | :40:30. | :40:39. | |
for that, six going into three, something has got to give, and Nick | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
Skelton, appearing in a record seventh games, what a fitting climax | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
this would lead to a career that started for two years ago. He has | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
been a wonderful team player, part of the team gold in London but in | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
terms of individual success the best he has got to show on his own as a | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
bronze medal in the World Championships 20 years ago. So many | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
people at home want him to get an Olympic medal on his own, on Big | :41:07. | :41:13. | |
Star so we go back in ten minutes for that. Earlier and we saw Ben | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
Maher, 17 penalties, it was not his day, let's get his thoughts. | :41:21. | :41:26. | |
It is the end of a long, tough week of competition, was it just starting | :41:27. | :41:36. | |
to get to Tic Tac? I think so. He is a bit short of competition. To come | :41:37. | :41:45. | |
out twice in one day and this heat, it probably took its toll on him. I | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
gave him quite a bit of work to do in the early two round, but it has | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
been a good enough week for him. We came for the team primarily, I have | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
learnt of bit about him, and I am sure he will be good after a rest. | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
How much have you learned this week and how much potential is there, | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
going forward? It will be a lot better if I start again in two | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
months' time after a break. I learnt everything about him this week, it | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
is just a shame it came a little early for me. I am pretty happy with | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
the progression. He is not an old horse, so we have time, and a short | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
break now before hopefully doing bigger things towards the end of the | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
year, and next Jeff. We are back to see Nick Skelton in a few moments | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
once they have reset the course. But we have time to catch up on what has | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
gone on in the first day of competition in the modern | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
pentathlon. There was a ranking row yesterday with the female athletes | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
in fencing to see who is ranked top to bottom. And they go into the | :42:55. | :42:57. | |
bonus fencing round now, having already been in the 200 metres | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
freestyle swimming. Now they compete in the fencing. The worst of the | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
graded fencers starts, and basically you stay there and fight allcomers, | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
a sort of,, and have a go if you are sharp enough, if you'll pardon pun. | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
The top ranked fencer, the longer you stay on, the more points you get | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
towards your score. Samantha Murray, she took silver four years ago in | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
the modern pentathlon, in fact the 65th and last medal won by the | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
British athletes in their home games, she went well in the swim and | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
has been fencing for fully five Alps now. Let's see how long she can keep | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
it going. -- five bouts. Tamara Vega was the final athlete to | :43:44. | :43:59. | |
complete her competition at 2012. We remember a fantastic afternoon at | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
Greenwich so much. Samantha Murray became the final British medallist | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
of the home games. Unfortunately Tamara Vega did not have a great | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
ride in London, finishing equal 25th in the fencing with 15 victories. | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
Samantha Murray has taken that one as well. This is turning into a very | :44:22. | :44:28. | |
satisfactory fencing ranking round. But bearing in mind of the points | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
that she could have got yesterday counted so much more than the points | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
she is getting today, I am sure she will be asking herself, and her | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
fencing coach will be saying, it would have been nice to see this | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
yesterday. At the end of the day these are the lower ranked athletes | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
fencing. When you are of her calibre, she really should be doing | :44:51. | :44:53. | |
this, so it does not surprise me she is working her way through the list | :44:54. | :45:07. | |
at the moment. Serapinaite, former junior world silver medallist. | :45:08. | :45:19. | |
Serapinaite, got a bronze at the world finals this year and a silver | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
medallist at the Junior World Championships in 2013. Currently | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
ranked ninth in the world, lying in 20 First Place. -- 21st. Samantha | :45:32. | :45:45. | |
again get it. The fist pump, and the crowd... We are very well-stocked | :45:46. | :45:52. | |
for the dish supporters here in Rio -- British supporters. In the | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
sunshine, it is great. This is what we did not see from Murray | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
yesterday, this confidence. It is a flesh attack, flesh is French for | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
are, so you create your leading arm into an and follow through with your | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
body in very quick attack. We were not seeing this from her yesterday | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
at all, the confidence has come back today, and she has set out | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
determined to make amends for yesterday. Seven wins in a row in | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
this very first fencing bonus round. Anastasio Spas of the Ukraine is her | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
next opponent. And again, she is on a roll for | :46:36. | :47:08. | |
fleche attacks. Anastasiya Spas, she had not qualified for any of the | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
World Cup finals. Well below the calibre of Sam as an athlete. She | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
disengaged her blade and took that it on. This is balancing again of | :47:18. | :47:25. | |
what you would expect, it's Sam Murray should not be in this | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
position starting this fencing and 31st position, she should have been | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
hired up the order. This is important for her and this is a back | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
point she has won in the bonus round. Every second is important. | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
The hits that she lost yesterday were far more costly than she could | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
actually claw back today from each of these victories. Kim from South | :47:49. | :47:56. | |
Korea is the next opponent, she is 19 and at first Olympic Games. | :47:57. | :48:04. | |
Kim is ranked 13th in the world. She is currently lying in 20th place. | :48:05. | :48:24. | |
488 points. I was just about to say, unfortunately Kim got that fit over | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
Sam Murray. I was going to say that after watching Sam fencing, she was | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
becoming predictable in terms of what she was doing attack wise. I | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
think Kim was ready for that attack. It was accurate. Good result for | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
Sam, that will give her some confidence. | :48:46. | :48:48. | |
HAZEL IRVINE: Samantha Murray was ranked 31 in the fencing going in | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
and she won eight Mac boats. She has moved into ninth place overall. It | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
is early days in that the fencing. In the bonus round. There's still | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
lots to do today before the medals are handed out. They have got the | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
show-jumping at 7:30pm in the evening UK time and many combined of | :49:10. | :49:13. | |
running and shooting event at 10pm that will decide everything. Great | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
stuff from Sam Murray. Keep things did not do so well and lost opening | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
bout. We will keep you up-to-date on both of those athlete when we get | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
that information. We are close to the jump of any individual | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
show-jumping. The last of the equestrian events here in Rio. There | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
is a real chance of a medal for 58 child Nick Skelton. Lee McKenzie, he | :49:38. | :49:44. | |
said that Big Staff have been rusty in the team event but is coming | :49:45. | :49:47. | |
good. We are seeing the evidence now. This is everything Nick has | :49:48. | :49:54. | |
been talking about. He was frustrated not to have the chance to | :49:55. | :50:03. | |
show off Big Star. He took time and patience with this horse getting it | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
right after 2012. It had two years off with injury but Nick took the | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
time to bring him back in for these Olympics specifically. He was | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
disappointed not to get an individual medal in London and it | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
would be fantastic if he could write about wrong today. He will be the | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
first of the six competitors so he will set the pace. We're watching | :50:25. | :50:30. | |
him walk into the arena in his seventh Olympic Games, on the horse | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
that he won team gold four years ago. Big Star, can Nick Skelton get | :50:34. | :50:40. | |
an individual medal after all these years? It will be a final and | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
fitting last hurrah for them. COMMENTATOR: What more drama have we | :50:47. | :50:56. | |
got ahead? The partner of Nick Skelton one team gold in Hong Kong. | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
I remember the celebrations that night when they celebrated that Gold | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
Medal. It would be a big celebration that this man can pull it off. It is | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
a tough task but not to be taken for granted. There are some good horses | :51:12. | :51:14. | |
and riders. Three are going to be unlucky. Big Star, now 13 years old, | :51:15. | :51:23. | |
with Nick Skelton having won so many of the major titles around the | :51:24. | :51:29. | |
world. This is the title, has hazel Irvine just said, that he wants more | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
than any. Interestingly enough, the fact he is first goal might an | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
advantage. He has never been somebody to take it slowly. He has | :51:42. | :51:48. | |
to make a target for the rest which makes them under pressure. It has | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
always suited Nick Skelton to go first in Nations cups. He likes to | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
get out, do his round and try to put the pressure. He has to for it. This | :51:59. | :52:08. | |
is for gold, Nick Skelton and going for Great Britain, in the jumpoff | :52:09. | :52:18. | |
against the clock. From the second fence, back to this vertical. Inside | :52:19. | :52:27. | |
turn. And now the double. Triple bar going in. Brilliantly over that and | :52:28. | :52:41. | |
now the big one. Over in 28.8. Has to go back to this vertical. One | :52:42. | :52:50. | |
fence left ago. Gallop to the last. Is it enough? 42.82. That is a great | :52:51. | :53:01. | |
start. The rest will have to go for it. Absolutely the perfect technical | :53:02. | :53:09. | |
round. Nick Skelton could not have done more. He has taken all the | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
chances and put the pressure on. He has had a clear run. There he has, | :53:14. | :53:22. | |
down to the last fence and now the pressure is on the other riders. He | :53:23. | :53:33. | |
has got a proud son, one of the top National Hunt trainers and his other | :53:34. | :53:34. | |
son is a good National Hunt trainer. The man trying to retain the title | :53:35. | :53:51. | |
that he won in London in great style. | :53:52. | :54:10. | |
Steve Guerdat and Ninos Des Buissonets are trying to get a | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
back-to-back individual gold medal. The first fence has gone. Steve | :54:17. | :54:28. | |
Guerdat has to put that behind him. He can still think about winning a | :54:29. | :54:35. | |
medal if he just gets home clear. One rider that is not going to beat | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
Nick Skelton. Interesting to look at the time. Nick Skelton did look | :54:40. | :54:41. | |
quick around here. Steve Guerdat just going a little | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
bit wider. 43.08. That was lower than Nick | :54:48. | :55:07. | |
Skelton. He did not hang about. He jumped it on the angle and three. | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
Once the first fence went down, you could sense that the concentration | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
went for a second or two. Ninos Des Buissonets is a very quick course. | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
He is just a fraction slower than Nick Skelton. 58 child Nick Skelton | :55:23. | :55:29. | |
is currently leading with two gone out of the six to jump for the | :55:30. | :55:36. | |
medals in Rio will stop the final individual | :55:37. | :55:49. | |
He is an absolute mile of the second fence but he has cleared that. He | :55:50. | :56:16. | |
has gone on a terrific very tight angle onto the vertical. He landed | :56:17. | :56:27. | |
on the corner. This horse has been jumping brilliantly all week. He | :56:28. | :56:37. | |
needs to be heard in 28.8. He has hit a fence. It has really put the | :56:38. | :56:47. | |
pressure on these other riders. That has gone as well. It is two down. | :56:48. | :56:57. | |
Sheikh Ali Al Thani, the Qatar team riding, riding as an individual. He | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
will not get a medal but he will deserve the applause he is getting. | :57:02. | :57:08. | |
He gave it absolutely everything, Sheikh Ali Al Thani. He tried his | :57:09. | :57:13. | |
best. He went for that. Did not quite happen for him. It shows you | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
know that with Nick Skelton going first, with that fast, clear round, | :57:21. | :57:23. | |
these riders are under pressure to beat it. The next three are the real | :57:24. | :57:34. | |
dangers. Kent Farrington to go first then Derick Petersen. America, | :57:35. | :57:36. | |
Sweden and Canada for the medals. This probably is the biggest danger. | :57:37. | :57:59. | |
They are all dangerous at the stage. This man is so dangerous against the | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
clock, he lost to gallop and he is fearless, he will not hold back. | :58:04. | :58:16. | |
That time to remind you that leads at the moment, 42.82. It has to be | :58:17. | :58:25. | |
cleared to beat Nick Skelton. HAZEL IRVINE: you are watching a | :58:26. | :58:41. | |
jumpoff for the medals in the individual show-jumping in Rio. Nick | :58:42. | :58:45. | |
Skelton is one of six competitors, he's the only man clear so far. This | :58:46. | :58:50. | |
is the fourth competitor, Kent Farrington of the United States. The | :58:51. | :58:56. | |
coverage continues on BBC One. For those of you watching on BBC Two, up | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
the likely I would ask you to reach for the remote control and join us | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
on the other site for the continuation of this jumpoff. | :59:05. | :59:15. | |
Kent Farrington had the first fence down and he is flying. It will not | :59:16. | :59:21. | |
beat Nick Skelton because he hit the foot fist. -- had to be first fence. | :59:22. | :59:27. | |
No doubt about it, we have got one medal. | :59:28. | :59:33. | |
in a brand-new BBC Two quiz show, Debatable, | :59:34. | :59:39. | |
where a team of celebrities put their debating skills to the test | :59:40. | :59:43. |