Day 16 BBC One: 13.00-17.00

:01:25. > :01:49.What a day, what tonight, what fortnight. Not just Great Britain's

:01:50. > :01:55.most successful games overseas but their best ever Olympic Games. For

:01:56. > :02:00.at least the last 100 years. 66 medals in total, one better than

:02:01. > :02:06.London, who wouldn't believe that. It has been exciting and dramatic.

:02:07. > :02:11.It has been medals. Speaking of which, I did not sign up for this

:02:12. > :02:23.Hazel, our last view of Rio. She got out at a good time. What we have in

:02:24. > :02:26.the 16, this is what is coming up... We will be over to the men's

:02:27. > :02:29.marathon. The last event and the track and field. What can the men

:02:30. > :02:46.do? Joe Joyce has a lot to live up to in

:02:47. > :02:54.the men's superheavyweight category. It was the medal that Anthony Joshua

:02:55. > :03:05.took four years ago. He is in the final. He is a big man. And he can

:03:06. > :03:11.move. And after 16 spectacular days, it all comes to an end tonight. We

:03:12. > :03:17.will look forward to what will be a fantastic closing ceremony in the

:03:18. > :03:25.Maracana this evening. That is all to come. We will be over to the live

:03:26. > :03:30.action later on. 66 medals Great Britain have so far. There are 65th

:03:31. > :03:36.was won on the track. Mo Farah came into this last night already with

:03:37. > :03:40.the 10,000 metres title. He had got three in total but could he do that

:03:41. > :03:50.only one man had done before? The Olympic double double.

:03:51. > :03:59.COMMENTATOR: Mo Farah going for the double double. Mo Farah trying to do

:04:00. > :04:06.something that so many great athletes dead. Haile Gebreselassie

:04:07. > :04:14.could not do it. You could go through all the great names the

:04:15. > :04:18.past. He has an opportunity here to hopefully take this fourth Gold

:04:19. > :04:26.Medal and the double again would be his. That is pretty quick, 2.37

:04:27. > :04:32.through the first kilometre. That is the quickest first kilometre in an

:04:33. > :04:38.Olympic 5000 metres. Is this a genuine attempt to take on Mo Farah

:04:39. > :04:42.ought to get rid of as many people as possible. These guys have run

:04:43. > :04:46.against Mo Farah and have seen him dominate the sport. By World

:04:47. > :04:50.Championship Gold Medal is. Three Olympic gold medals already. They

:04:51. > :04:54.have seen him do it on a fast last lap. I think this is clever and

:04:55. > :05:00.sensible on their behalf, we can beat him in a slow race, let us make

:05:01. > :05:03.it faster. Mo Farah now in the middle of the pack that is being

:05:04. > :05:11.tested for injuries. They are talking about who will go next and

:05:12. > :05:14.whether they will go. Seven laps to go in the 5000 metres. They even

:05:15. > :05:19.will be planned to stretch Mo Farah, stretch out and see if he has

:05:20. > :05:20.weaknesses, he is faster than the fastest, they will find out if he is

:05:21. > :05:33.stronger than the strongest. Great Britain with two men in the

:05:34. > :05:37.top seven. Ethiopia are leading but they are slowing, that was the

:05:38. > :05:44.slowest lap, the previous lap. I suspect this will be slows. This one

:05:45. > :05:49.looks to be slower than that. Mo Farah has said, you have opened up,

:05:50. > :05:54.that was your opening gambit. I have taken that, thank you very much, not

:05:55. > :05:58.good enough at this point. I am ready and waiting. I am right here,

:05:59. > :06:03.right here where I want to be. I am letting you know I am here. You slow

:06:04. > :06:08.down, I moved to the front. You speed up, I'm going with you. He is

:06:09. > :06:13.already one of the all-time greats as he runs on self and to the list

:06:14. > :06:17.of the very best we have ever seen. For my money, he is already there

:06:18. > :06:22.but he is determined, he hates losing and he wants to win again. He

:06:23. > :06:28.has ran thousands of miles in training. Now, he is into his last

:06:29. > :06:32.mile. Four laps to go in this Olympic final. One mile that could

:06:33. > :06:38.take him to further Olympic only. One mile that could take him to his

:06:39. > :06:41.fourth Olympic gold medal. He has decided he was to get hold of this

:06:42. > :06:49.race early, he does not want to let them control. The one that I thought

:06:50. > :06:55.was the big danger is still there. 1000 metres left in the 5000 metres

:06:56. > :07:02.final. That was the lowest kilometre. Mo Farah is leading.

:07:03. > :07:06.Danger everywhere he looks. He knows that everybody in the past has tried

:07:07. > :07:09.to out kick him but nobody has managed to get past them. None of

:07:10. > :07:13.these people are quicker than Mo Farah when he's at his best in the

:07:14. > :07:21.last 400 metres. Mo Farah is leading. He comes down the back

:07:22. > :07:27.straight. Three medals in the back. Will it be another one? Will it be

:07:28. > :07:37.the historic fourth medal? Mo Farah checking behind, to the side, looks

:07:38. > :07:47.up to the big screen. That was almost a fault. There goes Mo Farah

:07:48. > :07:52.at the bell. He has got company and is trying to hold them off. He is

:07:53. > :07:56.accelerating. He is in the driving seat, has he got the finish we have

:07:57. > :08:06.seen him produced over the years? Can he added to the three gold Medal

:08:07. > :08:11.is that he has got. Mo Farah knows that he just has to hold the curb.

:08:12. > :08:17.He has to hold the lead. They will attack again. He has got more

:08:18. > :08:21.together. He has got speed in those legs to spear. He is looking up at

:08:22. > :08:28.the screen. They are trying to catch. The USA are the big danger.

:08:29. > :08:37.He looks to his inside, checked there is no danger. Mo Farah is

:08:38. > :08:47.gone, he will get gold for Great Britain again. The double-double.

:08:48. > :08:53.Four Olympic titles and four Olympic gold medals. Incredible from Mo

:08:54. > :08:56.Farah. Congratulations, your fourth Gold Medal. You have created another

:08:57. > :09:04.piece of history. I cannot believe it. After the ten kilometres, I was

:09:05. > :09:09.tired. I stayed in my room. People bringing the food in the room and I

:09:10. > :09:16.was resting. I cannot believe I didn't. It is every athlete's dream.

:09:17. > :09:25.I cannot believe it. Is this the most satisfying one yet? The

:09:26. > :09:29.pressure of four years. It has been incredible. I want to go home now

:09:30. > :09:40.and see my beautiful kids. I want to hang my medals around their necks. I

:09:41. > :09:48.have that drive. It is something I am born with. It is just me. I hate

:09:49. > :09:51.losing. Refugee or something and have ambitions and you are willing

:09:52. > :09:57.to work hard, you can achieve your genes. -- refugee of something. --

:09:58. > :10:10.if you dream of something. I do not see my kids. For me, I was

:10:11. > :10:17.not going to miss anything. I wanted to do it for them. I will never

:10:18. > :10:20.catch up that time I missed. At the same time, if I can achieve

:10:21. > :10:29.something in my career, it is for them and that is what drives me. He

:10:30. > :10:34.is special. We're lucky to have fun. Mo Farah eagled the result of the

:10:35. > :10:40.Finland athlete 40 years ago. -- equalled. He said he was not sure

:10:41. > :10:45.how he recovered from the 10,000 metres. We do not care how you do it

:10:46. > :10:49.but we enjoyed it. Special mention to Andrew Butchart who got six

:10:50. > :10:56.place, professional best in his first Olympic Games. They got better

:10:57. > :11:02.for the Britain last night. The four by 400 metres relay, the member were

:11:03. > :11:06.disqualified in the competition, it was down to the women to see if they

:11:07. > :11:14.could end the Team GB track programme on a high.

:11:15. > :11:20.COMMENTATOR: Eilidh Doyle takes Great Britain away. She has the

:11:21. > :11:25.Ukrainian athlete to work off on the outside. Already running strongly.

:11:26. > :11:31.The Jamaicans and the United States, Stephanie and MacPherson for

:11:32. > :11:40.Jamaica. Being chased down by Stephanie and MacPherson. It is an

:11:41. > :11:45.elongated stagger so difficult to tell. It has been a good run so far

:11:46. > :11:55.by Eilidh Doyle. MacPherson going very quickly for Jamaica. The USA

:11:56. > :12:04.are the favourites. That is a very good leg. Canada feeding. Eilidh

:12:05. > :12:15.Doyle doing a great job. The USA, Jamaica, tight for third place. Nate

:12:16. > :12:25.Garner your has to have a good bend. -- Anyika Onuora. Good experience.

:12:26. > :12:30.She is in third place. They are quite a way behind the freezing two.

:12:31. > :12:36.She has to stay strong for the second 200. Anyika Onuora has went

:12:37. > :12:39.out very hard, she was upset not to make the final after getting the

:12:40. > :12:47.better of Christine Ohuruogu at the European Championships. Natasha

:12:48. > :12:51.Hastings out in front. It is the United States from Jamaica and then

:12:52. > :12:58.a big gap back to Anyika Onuora. She is leading to the handover. Emily

:12:59. > :13:04.Diamond is waiting. Emily Diamond now has her bit to do. Arthur

:13:05. > :13:11.Wheeler also running well. Emily Diamond just checking in behind

:13:12. > :13:17.those two. -- Australia. Anyika Onuora fell apart in the last 100

:13:18. > :13:22.metres. Emily Diamond has to be patient and give Christine Ohuruogu

:13:23. > :13:27.a chance. It is a scrap for the bronze medal. Christine Wolf be

:13:28. > :13:36.using all the. Emily is using -- is looking strong and is looking good.

:13:37. > :13:41.This is so important. Canada have got a 400 metre hurdler on the last

:13:42. > :13:46.leg. Italy are far too distant. This is brilliant from Emily Diamond. USA

:13:47. > :13:52.lead, Jamaica second and Great Britain in third. Christine Ohuruogu

:13:53. > :13:57.running for bronze. Far away in another land, the battle between the

:13:58. > :14:00.United States and Jamaica. Allyson Felix on the anchor leg for the

:14:01. > :14:05.United States. Jamaica had to have the lead to have any chance. It is a

:14:06. > :14:11.gap back to Christine Ohuruogu. She is being hunted down by the rest.

:14:12. > :14:20.She always finishes. They. She has got the Ukraine and Canada. The

:14:21. > :14:27.Ukrainian made the final of the individual event. For the title it

:14:28. > :14:31.is the United States coming home, Allyson Felix, the brilliant Allyson

:14:32. > :14:36.Felix going for gold. Jamaica with the silver. And behind them

:14:37. > :14:39.Christine Ohuruogu is holding on, holding on, holding on to take the

:14:40. > :14:43.bronze for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is the best

:14:44. > :14:48.they could have expected. The best they could have hoped for and they

:14:49. > :14:53.have achieved it in some style. Christine Ohuruogu did not panic.

:14:54. > :14:56.She has all that experience and she held on to earn the smiles and

:14:57. > :15:01.celebrations because the United States and Jamaica would always be a

:15:02. > :15:05.long weekly. We expected the United States to win it Jamaica had not

:15:06. > :15:06.been any possession leading going into the anchor leg. Allyson Felix

:15:07. > :15:17.was always going to win. At this point, already the United

:15:18. > :15:22.States and Jamaica are away, Great Britain are in a tussle with Poland,

:15:23. > :15:28.with Canada, and then this was where we got a little bit worried, Canada,

:15:29. > :15:32.Poland, Australia got past Anyika, but she hung on in there, and this

:15:33. > :15:38.is a great run from Emily Diamond. She did not hang around, she did not

:15:39. > :15:43.play anything tactical, a little-known, using her elbows,

:15:44. > :15:50.strong around the top bend, came into the home straight. -- little

:15:51. > :15:56.nudge. Christine will have got what she wanted, good luck, everybody,

:15:57. > :16:02.she has been such a great servant to British athletics as well. Former

:16:03. > :16:05.champion, and of course in the twilight of her career, we have

:16:06. > :16:09.heard her interview the other day, that was hinting that we might not

:16:10. > :16:15.see her here again. But they are all lining up to come past, no chance!

:16:16. > :16:27.Christine Ohuruogu strong, determined, fighting for her team,

:16:28. > :16:33.bringing the bat on home. Well done, all four. Everyone was very excited,

:16:34. > :16:39.the British fans about the number of medals won in London. This is number

:16:40. > :16:43.66 for Team GB, passing the total of London, how fitting that it is

:16:44. > :16:47.earned by Christine Ohuruogu, as Steve was saying, this is the last

:16:48. > :16:51.time we will see her in an Olympics games, and perhaps even in a major

:16:52. > :16:56.championships. That was a wonderful anchor leg by Christine Ohuruogu to

:16:57. > :17:05.take bronze, a long way behind the United States and Jamaica, but a

:17:06. > :17:11.medal to be celebrated. Well, congratulations to you all,

:17:12. > :17:15.fantastic performance, Eilidh, you always get the team off to a great

:17:16. > :17:21.start, but an added edge in the Olympics. We tried to treated like

:17:22. > :17:24.any other 4x4, the same plan of the last few years, and I wanted to get

:17:25. > :17:29.as good a start as possible, we knew it would be tough with America and

:17:30. > :17:34.Jamaica. I wanted to give them the best possible start, a good solid

:17:35. > :17:42.start, and Anyika took it on from there. You really attacked the first

:17:43. > :17:44.200, you manage to hang on down the home straight, tell me about that.

:17:45. > :17:49.Just about having an, I was starting to knock down the home straight, but

:17:50. > :17:54.I tried to keep my composure, and put it in a good position for Emily.

:17:55. > :17:59.I am ecstatic with being here as part of the 4x4 with these girls,

:18:00. > :18:05.Olympic medallists, can you believe it?! Me, running the 400,

:18:06. > :18:10.seriously?! Like I was thinking of going back to 4x100 metres, so I

:18:11. > :18:16.could not be more happy. Emily, tremendous third leg, great

:18:17. > :18:21.Olympics. Yeah, it has been the most amazing experience, I mean, us girls

:18:22. > :18:25.had a fantastic camp, and I want to thank the national lottery for

:18:26. > :18:28.helping us have all these facilities. Without the national

:18:29. > :18:33.Lottery, it would not be possible. We knew that the bronze medal was up

:18:34. > :18:38.for grabs, so proud of these girls who manage to do it. So much noise

:18:39. > :18:43.in the stadium, a great atmosphere, the 4x4 race going on behind you, we

:18:44. > :18:48.have to whisk you after the medal ceremony, but we could not miss the

:18:49. > :18:52.moment, Christine, you made history, only the second British athlete

:18:53. > :18:57.after Steve Backley to win a medal in three separate Olympics,

:18:58. > :19:02.congratulations. She is the boss! When we spoke the other day, you

:19:03. > :19:07.talked about... There was a great line about the midnight hour

:19:08. > :19:11.striking, a pumpkin line, Cinderella reference, this was another

:19:12. > :19:17.Cinderella moment for you. I have not quite changed into a pumpkin

:19:18. > :19:24.yet! It has been hard, but I think I want to start enjoying the last ten

:19:25. > :19:29.years or so of my sport, but it is nice to go home with a medal, I

:19:30. > :19:42.think we all worked really hard over the last couple of days, the last

:19:43. > :19:46.season. We knew we could medal here. Thanks to Anyika, Emily, Eilidh, we

:19:47. > :19:51.really had to work, come together as a team, because we knew there was a

:19:52. > :19:56.medal to take, but you do not get it until you get it. We had to stick

:19:57. > :20:00.in, stay focused, work together, keep our spirits up, because it was

:20:01. > :20:05.tough. We had to sit with all these brilliant runners, it was tough, we

:20:06. > :20:16.had to keep our energies up, keep our focus, get the job done. And I

:20:17. > :20:17.am so proud of them, we got the job done today.

:20:18. > :20:26.More than a good job, outstanding from the women there. Emily Diamond

:20:27. > :20:30.with an incredible split, and the first 4x4 medal since 99 92 for GB.

:20:31. > :20:38.Remember, the 4x100 metres team came away with a bronze. -- since 1992.

:20:39. > :20:43.The future is bright for the relay teams. Speaking of which, the

:20:44. > :20:48.future, of course, will be without Usain Bolt after these Olympic

:20:49. > :20:56.Games. He made it three here at Rio 2016, he completed the triple

:20:57. > :21:05.triple... They are not happy about it, people are distraught! But what

:21:06. > :21:12.is life going to be like after Bolt? It is gold again, history, history,

:21:13. > :21:18.history! Usain Bolt number one! What on earth are we going to do without

:21:19. > :21:21.him? The first time I heard about Bolt, he was still a teenager,

:21:22. > :21:26.already running fast times, I thought there was a very good chance

:21:27. > :21:31.that he could be one of the best. It wasn't until 2008 than I just

:21:32. > :21:39.thought, OK, this is something that we have never even seen before.

:21:40. > :21:44.Usain Bolt has blown them all away! All of a sudden, the whole world sat

:21:45. > :21:49.up, even people not watching athletics, who is Usain Bolt? Is

:21:50. > :21:53.waving, telling jokes, smiling. He changed the sport to make it more

:21:54. > :21:59.friendly, more approachable. Now it is like party time. Usain has become

:22:00. > :22:04.so popular, he has transcended track and field, he enjoys the spectacle,

:22:05. > :22:10.and it really captures people. They want to see him, they want to be

:22:11. > :22:14.him. The first time I was in the same race as Usain Bolt was the

:22:15. > :22:18.World Championships final in Moscow, such a presence, confidence and

:22:19. > :22:22.charisma, you want to try and emulate that. It is difficult to put

:22:23. > :22:27.into perspective what his impact has been, because the sport has done

:22:28. > :22:31.such a poor job of promoting itself, and such a poor job of policing

:22:32. > :22:35.itself, that Bolt has really stood apart. Good for him, because

:22:36. > :22:43.otherwise the sport probably would have dragged him down. We all owe

:22:44. > :22:47.him a massive debt of gratitude. Our sport has been going through perhaps

:22:48. > :22:52.its most difficult time. Without Bolt, the sport would have been in a

:22:53. > :22:55.much worse position. He could have walked away, definitely, he could

:22:56. > :23:00.have gone after London, he did not have to come to Glasgow, he

:23:01. > :23:05.certainly didn't need to come to the World Championships in Beijing.

:23:06. > :23:12.Usain Bolt, he has saved his title, he has saved his reputation, he may

:23:13. > :23:22.have even saved his sport! When he retires, there will be someone else.

:23:23. > :23:26.We'll he be right there for him to hand the baton off immediately?

:23:27. > :23:30.Probably not. There is lot of young talent coming through, but he is the

:23:31. > :23:34.greatest of all time, the things he have done in the sport are mind

:23:35. > :23:37.blowing. The sport has to think about what they do with him, they

:23:38. > :23:42.cannot just have them walk away into the sunset and never be seen again.

:23:43. > :23:45.The responsibility lies with Seb Coe and his team to find a role where

:23:46. > :23:53.the sport can benefit from the pleasure that Usain Bolt has given

:23:54. > :23:56.us all. The sport will survive, the sport will go on. It will just have

:23:57. > :24:02.to be really smart about how it sells the stars it has. In terms of

:24:03. > :24:05.titles, he will be replaced, but not the character. He is the Muhammad

:24:06. > :24:09.Ali of our sport, people love him for the way that he wins, and it

:24:10. > :24:15.makes more people watch, and that makes him the greatest.

:24:16. > :24:19.As Steve said, life will go on at the Usain Bolt, but we are seriously

:24:20. > :24:22.going to miss him. On the Olympic spectrum, because barring illness

:24:23. > :24:27.and injury, we will see him in London at the World Championships

:24:28. > :24:31.next year. Did you see that behind us? Some excitement going on down at

:24:32. > :24:36.Copacabana, it is Usain Bolt's birthday! Baby they were the

:24:37. > :24:42.birthday celebrations going up. Nice to see it is all kicking off despite

:24:43. > :24:46.the terrible weather, still lively and Copacabana. We are going to the

:24:47. > :24:52.men's marathon very shortly, but before that let's mark your card for

:24:53. > :24:56.tonight, because at 7:15 it could be a golden finish to Great Britain's

:24:57. > :25:00.Rio 2016. Joe Joyce goes in the superheavyweight category of the

:25:01. > :25:01.boxing, four years ago it was a memorable night for Anthony Joshua,

:25:02. > :25:33.Joe Joyce has a lot to live up to. Nicola Adams is the Olympic

:25:34. > :25:56.champion! He has just been crowned Olympic

:25:57. > :25:59.champion! Joe Joyce, Britain's outstanding

:26:00. > :26:24.super-heavyweight. So Joe Joyce in there in, the

:26:25. > :26:30.superheavyweight category, tonight, hopefully going for gold, 7:15 on

:26:31. > :26:34.BBC One, right here, it is going to be a long Sunday afternoon,

:26:35. > :26:39.hopefully you can stay with us on the last day of Rio 2016. So some

:26:40. > :26:44.live action, men's marathon time featuring Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya,

:26:45. > :26:47.two time London Marathon winner, you will remember that Jemima Sumgong

:26:48. > :27:01.won the women's marathon, so could we have a repeat for the Kenyans in

:27:02. > :27:03.Rio? That an go down to the Maracana and the Sambodromo, where it is

:27:04. > :27:06.kicking off. -- let's go down. Talking us through it, Steve Cram,

:27:07. > :27:12.Brendan Foster, Paula Radcliffe. Very different scenery to what we

:27:13. > :27:21.had for the women's race. STEVE: It is, Ore, and a lot of the

:27:22. > :27:24.runners will have been thinking, thank goodness, because the contrast

:27:25. > :27:30.could have been 30 degrees, sun overhead on a course which would not

:27:31. > :27:34.offer much shade. Great marathon in prospect, Galen Rupp ran in the

:27:35. > :27:38.10,000 metres earlier in the week, of course, against Mo Farah, now

:27:39. > :27:43.going in the marathon. Really intrigued to see how he could go

:27:44. > :27:47.here, what a night it was for the USA with his training partner

:27:48. > :27:53.winning the 1500 metres gold medal. And talking about gold medals, this

:27:54. > :27:56.man won one last year at the World Championships, a real surprise,

:27:57. > :28:01.Ghebreslassie of Eritrea coming through as the world champion. And

:28:02. > :28:07.then some familiar names from the London Marathon et cetera, Berhanu

:28:08. > :28:12.ran really well in Boston this year, actually, the same week as London,

:28:13. > :28:24.Stanley Biwott, a regular fixture in the London Marathon, it could be his

:28:25. > :28:29.day to day. Kenya, as ever, as we were saying, well represented. The

:28:30. > :28:33.prerace favourite, Eliud Kipchoge, cap on, looks like he is ready for a

:28:34. > :28:38.Sunday morning run, trying to become the Olympic champion. More about him

:28:39. > :28:43.once we get under way. There will be huge support, a huge cheer in the

:28:44. > :28:50.standards, but there is nobody to watch this this morning. Dos Santos,

:28:51. > :28:56.a big hero in Brazil, he will give them something to shout about in the

:28:57. > :29:03.early stages. Three British men, the two Hawkins brothers, more of them

:29:04. > :29:13.shortly, we will get them under way in the Sambodromo.

:29:14. > :29:18.Really good crowds out for the women's marathon, I wonder what it

:29:19. > :29:25.will be like this morning, you can see the weather, good for them, not

:29:26. > :29:29.good for spectating, sadly. It has pretty much been raining all night

:29:30. > :29:40.in Rio, expecting a lot of surface water. Here we go, the final event

:29:41. > :29:45.of the athletics programme in the 2016 Olympic Games gets under way,

:29:46. > :29:50.the men's marathon. 700 metres down this spectacular opening, and this

:29:51. > :29:56.is the scene which will greet them in just over two hours' time when

:29:57. > :30:01.they return to the finish, and in those two hours we're expecting an

:30:02. > :30:15.enthralling race. Four years ago, at bit like Eliud

:30:16. > :30:25.Kipchoge, we had a red-hot favourite. On the day, he got things

:30:26. > :30:28.wrong. And we had a surprise winner, Stephen Kiprotich, he is in the

:30:29. > :30:35.field and defending his title. What has happened to him over the past

:30:36. > :30:38.four years. -- lots has happened. Even in the marathon, Times can go

:30:39. > :30:44.out the window and anything can happen. There are not any

:30:45. > :30:49.pacemakers, it is not like the big-city marathons. Legacy what they

:30:50. > :30:56.have got in store. Good morning to Paula Radcliffe and Brendan Foster.

:30:57. > :30:59.It was a good night last night after the exploits of Mo Farah in the

:31:00. > :31:09.stadium. It has been fantastic athletics so far. As they leave the

:31:10. > :31:14.Sambodromo, the purpose-built stadium to host the samba schools

:31:15. > :31:20.parade and the annual Rio Carnival, fantastic spectacle of the

:31:21. > :31:29.world-famous Rio Carmichael. The term onto the main road now. They

:31:30. > :31:33.must've been delighted. Last week we had beautiful weather for spectator.

:31:34. > :31:39.Today, we have got beautiful weather for distance running. Perfect

:31:40. > :31:45.conditions and the athletes will not be concerned about the number of the

:31:46. > :31:47.crowds. They will not be disappointed if the helicopter

:31:48. > :31:53.pictures do not sure the wonderful scenery. It will be keen to settle

:31:54. > :31:58.down and get on with the running. This will be a fantastic race and

:31:59. > :32:03.some great athletes in it. Paula Radcliffe, I bet they were pleased

:32:04. > :32:14.this morning. They will definitely be pleased that the temperature is

:32:15. > :32:17.lowered. It is a big factor in the marathon. The biggest factor they

:32:18. > :32:24.will be worried about is the amount of water on the road, the shoes and

:32:25. > :32:28.socks get heavier. It can increase the likelihood of blisters in the

:32:29. > :32:32.second half and the closing stages of the race. Generally, they will

:32:33. > :32:37.happier. Lots of the athletes have chosen hats because of the direct

:32:38. > :32:42.sunlight but this time it is to keep the rain out of the rise and to be

:32:43. > :32:50.able to keep clear vision. -- out of their eyes. Just one word on the

:32:51. > :33:01.British athletes, it is a great opportunity for anybody to represent

:33:02. > :33:08.your country in the marathons. Three Scottish representatives. Andy

:33:09. > :33:18.Hawkins brothers. Both of them have had problems with injuries. Derek

:33:19. > :33:24.picked up a stress fracture. He has not been able to train. He has been

:33:25. > :33:31.crosstraining. And he has made the startling. Interesting to see how

:33:32. > :33:35.fast it gets. We're not expecting too much from Derek. I know he is

:33:36. > :33:46.desperate to try to finish this Olympic marathon.

:33:47. > :33:51.When your entire training and your dreams, and your thoughts about

:33:52. > :33:57.going to an Olympic Games and then picking up injuries at the wrong

:33:58. > :34:12.time. If it was any other event, you would not do it.

:34:13. > :34:19.It is the Olympic marathon and that especial. You will make efforts to

:34:20. > :34:24.get to the start line and to take the start. Even if you have got

:34:25. > :34:27.problems in the build-up because it is the Olympics and you have got

:34:28. > :34:32.that dream and hope that something can happen. Particularly for Derek,

:34:33. > :34:37.he has crossed trained extremely hard. He has maintained that

:34:38. > :34:41.cardiovascular fitness. He is fit but he does not have the training

:34:42. > :34:46.and the preparation for the impact that goes on. That gets really hard

:34:47. > :34:50.the closing stages of the marathon. Exponentially more so if it is a

:34:51. > :34:58.harder course on concrete. What could help them today, it is softer

:34:59. > :35:02.tarmac. When it is wet, it does help with the impact on the muscles and

:35:03. > :35:08.the legs. Derek will have to work his way through that. Tsegai Tewelde

:35:09. > :35:11.had the problem with his foot coming into the race. The biggest problem

:35:12. > :35:23.for him, the little bit of running he did, he forgot his racing shoes

:35:24. > :35:41.and he had to borrow -- borrow a pair from Charlie. His injury was

:35:42. > :35:46.plantar facet is. I had that. I used your technique of stretching my

:35:47. > :35:53.toes. It was OK. It is a foolish thing to door -- to do. If you had

:35:54. > :35:58.been injured like the two of them, in the Olympic Games, the laws of

:35:59. > :36:02.distance running say you should not run if you had the stress factor or

:36:03. > :36:07.if you have not been able to train. You might not ever have the chance

:36:08. > :36:12.again. We want to have that chance. You do want to try to finish. At the

:36:13. > :36:16.end of the day you could not keep an athlete away from it. Particularly

:36:17. > :36:23.so when it is your first Olympic Games. And when you have the chance

:36:24. > :36:26.like Derek, how often do you have the chance to run in an Olympic

:36:27. > :36:30.marathon with your brother and to be able to get out and be part of the

:36:31. > :36:35.same team together? The one thing I will say, it is a quick turnaround

:36:36. > :36:40.to go from a trial in April to come to an Olympic Games in August. That

:36:41. > :36:44.is not a lot of margin for picking up a small injury and being able to

:36:45. > :36:48.get back from that. I understand why because it is the London Marathon

:36:49. > :36:51.and it is our trial but it does not give you lots of time to turn it

:36:52. > :36:58.around and come back fully for the championship marathons. On a more

:36:59. > :37:03.positive note, we got the little bit of a site of Callum Hawkins, with

:37:04. > :37:07.his cap on back to front. What a great story for him. It seems to be

:37:08. > :37:12.a few years ago I was watching him win the school boy cross-country

:37:13. > :37:16.races. He has really done well and build-up to the marathon, great

:37:17. > :37:20.performance in London. And his brother, Callum, he is the one that

:37:21. > :37:22.is hoping to enjoy his Olympic experience more than his older

:37:23. > :37:31.brother and his team-mate Tsegai Tewelde. They make a sharp right

:37:32. > :37:35.turn and there are plenty of these terms on this main cause, not on the

:37:36. > :37:39.main part. If you watched the women's race, he will know this

:37:40. > :37:49.first five kilometres or soul goes through the older part of the city.

:37:50. > :37:53.And then the joint a loop, it is a ten kilometre loop, it would've been

:37:54. > :37:57.spectacular scenery if it was not for the weather today. They do three

:37:58. > :38:01.collapse on the ten kilometre loop and then they come back into this

:38:02. > :38:06.built-up area which would have offered shade. It does not have to

:38:07. > :38:10.today because of the rain. It might clear a little bit but we're not

:38:11. > :38:15.expecting the cloud to clear. The rain might stop but we're not

:38:16. > :38:20.expecting the sun to come out. They come into this area for the last

:38:21. > :38:24.eight kilometres and it has lots of twists and turns and the latter

:38:25. > :38:31.stages. And then they go back up that Boulevard they have came down,

:38:32. > :38:39.back into the Sambodromo for the finish. Callum Hawkins has trained

:38:40. > :38:42.well, he has run well. He has qualified with an aggressive run in

:38:43. > :38:47.the London Marathon. He has been a good cross-country runner and came

:38:48. > :38:51.through the traditional route, he is now in the marathon and is prepared

:38:52. > :38:56.properly for the marathon with his brother and they are coached by the

:38:57. > :39:00.father. At the end of the day, delighted to see them here. If he

:39:01. > :39:04.stays where he has and then starts to work through, you can see him

:39:05. > :39:12.with the cap turned around the wrong way, he is at the back of the

:39:13. > :39:18.leading group. That is Derek Hawkins, his brother, on the

:39:19. > :39:21.left-hand side with the quite top. Running alongside that of group.

:39:22. > :39:27.There is a vast number of athletes. This look different than what we see

:39:28. > :39:31.in the big-city marathons? We talked about the track about distance

:39:32. > :39:37.runners being used to pacemakers on track events. When you come to the

:39:38. > :39:41.finals in the Olympics World Championship, they are not sure what

:39:42. > :39:45.tactics to use. It is the same in the marathon. That number of runners

:39:46. > :39:48.would not run like that because they would have a couple of pacemakers.

:39:49. > :39:54.This is the Olympic Games and this is what it is all about. Once again,

:39:55. > :39:59.Callum Hawkins at the back of that group, in a good position and

:40:00. > :40:08.running along strongly. Getting the first couple of miles out of the

:40:09. > :40:13.way. That is Eliud Kipchoge in the white cap, running the site is

:40:14. > :40:14.team-mate, Wesley Korir, the strongest nation in the world,

:40:15. > :40:32.Kenya. You can see that the wet has made

:40:33. > :40:37.the cornering difficult. That'll tell a story in the late stages when

:40:38. > :40:42.they finished the big loop and they have to twist through the difficult

:40:43. > :40:50.little avenues. That was revealing. I was listening on the way in, I was

:40:51. > :40:54.actually reading, some morning comments about what would happen.

:40:55. > :40:58.And people have noted in the women's race and what happened at the latter

:40:59. > :41:04.stages when it broke up. This has added another little element to what

:41:05. > :41:09.could happen in terms of the road surface. When they do come into

:41:10. > :41:13.those latter stages, they are off this road tarmac and onto the

:41:14. > :41:17.pedestrian areas that are brand-new. Lots of them are slick concrete.

:41:18. > :41:25.What I mean is smooth and with this water on top, you have to be very

:41:26. > :41:29.careful with your footing. When you are tired, at the end, it remains to

:41:30. > :41:35.be seen what happens. You have to be aware of that and I am sure the

:41:36. > :41:39.yard. We have seen lots of people falling on the track with spikes on

:41:40. > :41:43.during the week. They are drifting towards the outside because it is a

:41:44. > :41:48.tight corner. I do not want to see people falling in the later stages

:41:49. > :41:57.of the marathon. This is a real test of pure distance running. The first

:41:58. > :42:01.couple of miles were covered in nine point 48 and that is comfortable for

:42:02. > :42:07.these guys and that is why there is a

:42:08. > :42:15.We have got Galen Rupp tucked into the middle. What a night last night.

:42:16. > :42:21.His training partner Matt Centre fits with the gold medal. That would

:42:22. > :42:29.have given him a lift. Nothing wrong with your training partner doing

:42:30. > :42:30.well. Mo Farah. He knows Galen Rupp very well. That is Callum Hawkins

:42:31. > :42:50.again. The train together well. Galen Rupp

:42:51. > :43:04.is very serious and committed to his family. Centro likes to have fun. It

:43:05. > :43:08.is a big boost for that training group when you see, when you know

:43:09. > :43:12.coming into a championship, Galen Rupp full ball he comes in in good

:43:13. > :43:22.shape. We saw that in the 10,000 metres. He has done very little

:43:23. > :43:26.since then. He knows he is in good shape. And he sees his training

:43:27. > :43:30.partner when a gold medal in the 1500 metres. Then he sees another

:43:31. > :43:37.member offers training group when double gold. That has to put you in

:43:38. > :43:43.a good place. He wants to go out and join that group and get himself a

:43:44. > :43:49.medal today. He does not want to be the one that comes back to Oregon,

:43:50. > :43:53.on the Oregon project where the train together, under Alberto

:43:54. > :43:58.Salazar, he does not want to be the one that comes back without a medal.

:43:59. > :44:03.He has got a tall order. He has got some great athletes with him. That

:44:04. > :44:08.is Callum Hawkins again. He is in a great place, at the back of the

:44:09. > :44:12.leading group. Settling down and looking comfortable. Not getting

:44:13. > :44:17.involved. He is checking his timings and will be checking his position.

:44:18. > :44:25.It is great to see him there. He's looking good. Big group and

:44:26. > :44:31.naturally Tyton you can see better from that angle. It is almost a full

:44:32. > :44:39.switchback that gets them onto the big loop now. This is where all the

:44:40. > :44:42.water and food stations are. Unlike the woman who went diving in at the

:44:43. > :44:48.first water station, one or two grabbing some drinks, many deciding

:44:49. > :44:56.they do not need it at this stage this morning. This ten kilometre

:44:57. > :45:06.loop, around the Bay, expecting bigger crowds. This is what the

:45:07. > :45:12.women did not do. We fought they were going to go the other way. They

:45:13. > :45:17.crossed onto the other side. They will go the same way as the woman,

:45:18. > :45:21.they will gold round clockwise. We had initially been told that the map

:45:22. > :45:25.said they would go round and the clock says -- anticlockwise. It

:45:26. > :45:36.should not make much difference. I am just wondering if they were

:45:37. > :45:40.supposed to go the other way, because of the way the clock is

:45:41. > :45:45.facing. It is no good for the athletes, it was facing the wrong

:45:46. > :46:02.way. I am assuming it is double sided, like sticky tape. May be! Is

:46:03. > :46:07.well, as a group, they are setting a reasonable pace for the likes of

:46:08. > :46:11.Galen Rupp. Of course, this is new territory. That is the memorial to

:46:12. > :46:19.those who died in the Second World War. This park is a very popular

:46:20. > :46:25.area, normally, on a Sunday morning, runners and cyclists certainly lines

:46:26. > :46:35.of the route during the women's event. Not quite so many of them,

:46:36. > :46:39.there will be a few sore heads - Saturday night was the end of the

:46:40. > :46:43.track and field programme inside the stadium, these marathon runners

:46:44. > :46:46.bringing the whole thing to an end. A lot of people so liberating what

:46:47. > :46:55.they thought was the end of the athletics programme, reminding these

:46:56. > :46:59.guys that they have their chance. They will be presented with their

:47:00. > :47:05.medals in the closing ceremony in the Maracana, somebody is going to

:47:06. > :47:10.have three of them at a spectacular ceremony. And the spectators, Steve,

:47:11. > :47:14.talking about people involved in the Games celebrating, but the

:47:15. > :47:18.spectators would have been celebrating the Brazilian penalty

:47:19. > :47:24.victory, their man, Mr Brazil, Neymar, scoring at winning penalty.

:47:25. > :47:30.And the stadium went mad, and the athletics stadium went mad, they

:47:31. > :47:34.went mad everywhere. And you are just about to go mad, I have looked

:47:35. > :47:38.over your shoulder at the computer, I have just seen the football

:47:39. > :47:46.school, I am not going to mention it! Oh dear. I won't give it away.

:47:47. > :47:52.Never mind. This is interesting, actually, in terms of the pace,

:47:53. > :47:56.Paula, 15:31 is not that bad. Interesting thing about the Olympic

:47:57. > :48:03.marathon is, Stephen Kiprotich four years ago, he had not run anywhere

:48:04. > :48:08.near as fast as the likes of the others. The Olympic marathon, apart

:48:09. > :48:15.from Samuel Wanjiru, what he did in Beijing was unbelievable, when he

:48:16. > :48:19.went out in the heat and conditions there, ran the Olympic record, they

:48:20. > :48:24.are normally different races without pacemakers. So the personal best

:48:25. > :48:30.thing, even if it is Eliud Kipchoge, it is not irrelevant, of course you

:48:31. > :48:33.have got more of a buffer, but look at that big group, the range of

:48:34. > :48:37.personal bests in that group is huge, really, in terms of

:48:38. > :48:41.world-class marathon. But it does not mean that it does exclude...

:48:42. > :48:45.Lots of people in that group could think they have a chance on a day

:48:46. > :48:51.like today. Yeah, there are, but some need times we see championship

:48:52. > :48:55.marathons in tough conditions, and that levels the playing field a

:48:56. > :48:58.little bit in terms of people who can cope better with the

:48:59. > :49:04.competitions will be able to stay right up there, and it will be won

:49:05. > :49:07.in a slower time. This course, I think, actually, has the potential

:49:08. > :49:12.to be a very quick course, it is very flat, very few inclines in it,

:49:13. > :49:22.so I think there is potential. In the women's race, they did not run

:49:23. > :49:24.slowly, and it was extremely hot, tough conditions for them. If

:49:25. > :49:27.somebody wanted to go out and tackle this, they could mentally get their

:49:28. > :49:31.head around running hard from the start, without the help of the

:49:32. > :49:37.pacemakers, that is possible. Well, they went through the third mile,

:49:38. > :49:44.that five-day time has just dropped off a bit, it is because they were

:49:45. > :49:53.running more than five minutes, 5:12, if my maths are right, 5:12.

:49:54. > :49:58.If you did that the whole way... Just looking at that group there,

:49:59. > :50:03.Callum Hawkins, just at the back of that group, and as the rain

:50:04. > :50:09.continues to fall, it will keep the athletes' bodies cool. This could be

:50:10. > :50:13.for Callum Hawkins like a regular Sunday morning run in Scotland. So

:50:14. > :50:19.there is the group here, and just behind them, a few yards, with the

:50:20. > :50:23.white cap, turned the wrong way round, Britain's leading marathon

:50:24. > :50:26.runner, Callum Hawkins. He has got a good position, running freely,

:50:27. > :50:30.running comfortably. There is a bit of jostling going on at the front of

:50:31. > :50:36.the group, but they come through the unnecessary water shower! It was

:50:37. > :50:41.necessary in the women's race. Callum has gone under the shower to

:50:42. > :50:44.get more moisture on his body, he darted to the right-hand side,

:50:45. > :50:48.looking strong, looking good. But they are lined up across the road,

:50:49. > :50:55.and you can sense they are running a steady pace. Well, he is running

:50:56. > :51:02.alongside, behind Derek Hawkins further down the field, there is a

:51:03. > :51:07.Greek lawyer running today,, and he only realised he would be running

:51:08. > :51:10.three or four months ago when he went on a website in Greece and saw

:51:11. > :51:14.his name, he was wondering if he would run for Greece, and he

:51:15. > :51:20.thought, that is interesting, there is another Michael Kalomiris. This

:51:21. > :51:25.guy has run to: 29, a level kind of club runner, but what happened was

:51:26. > :51:29.he ran in the Rome marathon, one of the gold label events. It was a very

:51:30. > :51:33.hot day, a lot of the elite athletes dropped out, and he finished in the

:51:34. > :51:37.top ten, just kept going, and there is a rule that if you finish in the

:51:38. > :51:46.top ten of eight gold label event, you qualify to run in the Olympics

:51:47. > :51:50.if there is nobody else to go in your team. So the Greek team picked

:51:51. > :51:52.him, he had to ring them up and go, excuse me... Excuse me, I appear to

:51:53. > :51:57.have been selected for the Olympic Games! It is a great story, he is

:51:58. > :52:06.here, he is running, he went through the first five-day in 17:0 eight. A

:52:07. > :52:12.good minute or a half behind the leaders. But what a story. It is a

:52:13. > :52:22.great story, 155 runners at here, there is Callum Hawkins, and there

:52:23. > :52:30.is Tiwelde, and when he sees him alongside, the pair of them are out

:52:31. > :52:33.for a Sunday morning run in Glasgow. 155 athletes here representing 80

:52:34. > :52:40.countries, and when you get stories like the one you have just told us

:52:41. > :52:44.about the Greek athlete, it is fantastic, shocking, surprising. At

:52:45. > :52:52.least he is not in the leading group, but he is a good runner, good

:52:53. > :52:56.marathon time. I just love those sorts of stories, the chance to come

:52:57. > :53:01.and represent your country at the Olympic Games, and the marathon over

:53:02. > :53:08.the years has had lots of those stories. But yes, I hope he is

:53:09. > :53:23.enjoying his experience so far. So through the five-day point, as I

:53:24. > :53:28.said, Michael Kalomiris was 17: 08. Tiwelde and Hawkins, around 15:40,

:53:29. > :53:33.Derek Hawkins was 16:49, a minute or so behind his younger brother and

:53:34. > :53:37.his team-mate. Another nice story, someone who will be getting a lot of

:53:38. > :53:42.support today, at the back of the group, you could see the two

:53:43. > :53:47.Brazilian athletes running side by side, it is his farewell race, Dos

:53:48. > :53:53.Santos, his last ever marathon. And he gets to run it back home in

:53:54. > :53:57.Brazil. He won the New York City marathon, his wife ran a personal

:53:58. > :54:00.best in steeplechase, but he will be getting a lot of support today, a

:54:01. > :54:07.much loved figure in marathon running in Brazil, let's hope he can

:54:08. > :54:14.get a good run today. That is great, 39 years of age, fifth in London,

:54:15. > :54:18.which was a very good performance, and today he ran the test race when

:54:19. > :54:23.they had a trial in April for this marathon, just to check the course

:54:24. > :54:29.out, he ran 2010 in that, because he was injured, but he is back in

:54:30. > :54:35.amongst them today, and we have mentioned that there is a lack of

:54:36. > :54:40.spectating on the course, which means he will not get the amount of

:54:41. > :54:48.support he needs, but maybe they will turn up when they get around

:54:49. > :54:51.for the last time. What a way to say farewell, though, a great career,

:54:52. > :55:00.and a lot of runners in Brazil look up to him and learn from him. So the

:55:01. > :55:05.large group still there, Callum Hawkins right at the back, you can

:55:06. > :55:11.see, on his own wearing the cap just about. Only about five seconds down

:55:12. > :55:16.on this lead group. Great to see him there. So many in this group,

:55:17. > :55:22.though, it will whittle down slowly, but the pace they are running at the

:55:23. > :55:32.minute, many are able to stay at that pace through the first

:55:33. > :55:35.five-day. 2:11 was what Galen Rupp role Dominic Ryan in the trial back

:55:36. > :55:42.in February in Los Angeles, so he was able to take that box, get that

:55:43. > :55:52.one sorted, then, and run the track championships closer to the Games,

:55:53. > :55:56.of course. Sugarloaf Mountain. They have not got quite the nice view

:55:57. > :56:00.that the women had to motivate them around there, they can barely see

:56:01. > :56:05.Sugarloaf Mandan shrouded in the mist. But that race of Galen Rupp

:56:06. > :56:09.was very impressive, that 2:11 said him a long way down the list in

:56:10. > :56:13.terms of personal bests today, but it was the manner of the victory and

:56:14. > :56:22.the manner with which he stamped his authority on it, broke away from the

:56:23. > :56:28.opposition, who had an Olympic silver medal from 2004, was fourth

:56:29. > :56:31.in 2012, so the calibre, OK, he's getting older, towards the end of

:56:32. > :56:35.his career, but still a very experienced and very wise marathon

:56:36. > :56:40.runner. And the way that Galen Rupp moved away from him indicates that

:56:41. > :56:45.he can go a lot faster in a championship marathon, and

:56:46. > :56:54.definitely in a marathon. Well, they wind their way down to the bottom

:56:55. > :56:59.end of Flamenco Park towards the arena is here, so many people

:57:00. > :57:13.watching the marathon last time, the park is a great place to run, and it

:57:14. > :57:18.also houses the Carmen Miranda Museum, Bren. Yeah? The first day I

:57:19. > :57:22.was here, there was a lovely part of town where they run through,

:57:23. > :57:28.everything you would expect in Rio, where Carmen Miranda used to live.

:57:29. > :57:34.Is that a Sunday morning story? I just thought I would throw it in.

:57:35. > :57:41.Didn't she once appear on Morecambe and wise or something? I can't be

:57:42. > :57:45.back that far, Steve, partly because I cannot remember and partly because

:57:46. > :57:50.it is back that far! But that is the bay, the end of the course. The one

:57:51. > :57:57.time I went out for dinner, you said at last week, I will get it in

:57:58. > :58:00.before you, but it is a beautiful park, and the course designers, this

:58:01. > :58:06.part of because, this ten Kay Loup is really beautiful, really designed

:58:07. > :58:15.for running, but it is a recreational area,, and it is only

:58:16. > :58:20.the twisty path that has bothered us a little bit. They are still running

:58:21. > :58:23.well, and in the back of the group is Callum Hawkins of Great Britain.

:58:24. > :58:27.We cannot see the top of the mountain out of because of the

:58:28. > :58:31.clouds, but you sense it is lifting, it seems to be drying up a little

:58:32. > :58:38.bit. But there is a lot of surface water on the road, Callum Hawkins

:58:39. > :58:43.there, and there is a big, big group at the front, a lot of people there,

:58:44. > :58:49.a lot of them going to be peeling off one after the other. I noticed

:58:50. > :58:57.in the leading group all running together, three athletes from China

:58:58. > :59:00.on the right-hand side. You know, I think in the future, the Chinese

:59:01. > :59:04.will take to distance running, they have got a lot of big marathons all

:59:05. > :59:08.around China, and eventually I am sure they will become a force in

:59:09. > :59:13.marathon running. They are really keen to pursue it, really keen to

:59:14. > :59:24.get their athletes travelling and competing internationally. As I say

:59:25. > :59:31.that, they come to the front, the Chinese athletes, alongside the more

:59:32. > :59:35.internationally known athletes, Biwott and Kipchoge. And still the

:59:36. > :59:38.rain falls, conducive to distance running, the best marathon runner in

:59:39. > :59:46.the world at the moment, the number one ranked guy, he has won all but

:59:47. > :59:49.one of his marathons. Came through from the track, 5000 metres world

:59:50. > :59:54.champion, Eliud Kipchoge. It has been a long journey for him,

:59:55. > :00:01.collecting medals en route, and now he wants to win the big one, the

:00:02. > :00:05.marathon. Five miles, 25 minutes and nine seconds, so the pace, although

:00:06. > :00:11.it looks like it is lifting, because the group has broken up a little

:00:12. > :00:14.bit, the time is not really reflecting that. Still fairly

:00:15. > :00:22.comfortable for the vast majority of those in that lead group.

:00:23. > :00:31.As ever, football on the beach in Rio. As we said earlier, we were

:00:32. > :00:36.celebrating last night, they won the gold medal they really wanted. That

:00:37. > :00:48.was in football. A penalty shoot out against Germany. Till won. This tide

:00:49. > :00:51.turned -- tight Karen. Last year's world champion is appearing on the

:00:52. > :00:57.front of the leaderboard. There is a big group, a get spread out a bit,

:00:58. > :01:13.Calum Hawkins just went through the picture. The ten Kay time 31.08 just

:01:14. > :01:22.15 .31 and 15.37 for the five Kay sections. It will change and pick up

:01:23. > :01:27.at some point but I suspect we will be running at this kind of pace for

:01:28. > :01:34.a little while yet. There are two sports, one is a fast city race with

:01:35. > :01:37.pacemakers and running as fast as you possibly can and there is the

:01:38. > :01:42.competition in the championship and the techniques are different,

:01:43. > :01:46.sometimes some athletes are good enough to learn both ways but not

:01:47. > :01:48.always, you cannot rely on the fastest ones coming to be a

:01:49. > :01:55.championship runner but I noticed Rensselaer C went to the front,

:01:56. > :01:59.Galen Rupp responded and quickly came through the field. He looked

:02:00. > :02:06.anxious to get through the field and alongside Debra Selassie because he

:02:07. > :02:09.knows one of the athletes will be a danger and Galen Rupp running a race

:02:10. > :02:14.he isn't interested in Times today and you don't have to be because the

:02:15. > :02:17.time is irrelevant. The fastest times in marathon running have

:02:18. > :02:32.certainly not be in the Olympic Games. We said before apart from

:02:33. > :02:37.Madeira did in Beijing, went out and surprised everyone including us when

:02:38. > :02:42.we commentated at the time thinking he cannot keep this up and he did,

:02:43. > :02:46.it means the likes of gibberish Selassie when you have a proven

:02:47. > :02:48.track record of doing what he did last year and admitted the

:02:49. > :02:54.conditions were different in Beijing at the World Championships to what

:02:55. > :02:58.they faced this morning, that stands you in good stead and gives you the

:02:59. > :03:02.confidence that when there is an uplifting place or the peace shifts

:03:03. > :03:09.and moves you will be able to cope with that and Galen Rupp looking

:03:10. > :03:12.confident and comfortable. We saw him the other day, he was well

:03:13. > :03:19.covered from the 10,000 metres and looking forward to this race because

:03:20. > :03:24.this is new to him. This is still a new challenge and phase of his

:03:25. > :03:29.career and the, Paul was saying he seems to have the mental fortitude

:03:30. > :03:34.that you need from marathon running, almost able to switch off. It is an

:03:35. > :03:38.exciting phase of his career, he did as much as he can on the track and

:03:39. > :03:44.he has been relentless in the Olympic Games, the Kenyans realise

:03:45. > :03:49.he is a danger so and there is the Olympic champion in the yellow vest

:03:50. > :03:53.of Uganda getting ready to move close to the front. Galen Rupp looks

:03:54. > :03:58.like he's in a competitive race and trying to do what he does on the

:03:59. > :04:01.track, respond to various moves and on the website as Galen Rupp is the

:04:02. > :04:11.best runner in the world, not called Mo Farah. Certainly 5000 or 10,000,

:04:12. > :04:18.but there's one or two others chasing him all my few times as

:04:19. > :04:23.well. This is a big opportunity for him. Calum Hawkins going through,

:04:24. > :04:28.ten seconds behind some familiar faces from him in that group.

:04:29. > :04:37.Colsaerts from Canada has been on many of the same training camps that

:04:38. > :04:46.the British athletes that heard. Struggling a little bit now. Behind

:04:47. > :04:56.that group, with the food problem, looks like it is already beginning

:04:57. > :05:03.to tell a little, Derek Hawkins. A little further back as well, already

:05:04. > :05:12.two minutes behind his younger brother. He is still going. 33.36

:05:13. > :05:17.through ten kilometre is. Not to race he would have wanted but we

:05:18. > :05:23.said at the beginning getting his opportunity to do with the British

:05:24. > :05:29.vest at the Olympics. Quite a few colleagues went to visit one of the

:05:30. > :05:33.most spectacular sights in the world, Christ the Redeemer looking

:05:34. > :05:40.down on Rio, called -- clouds beginning to part a little. One of

:05:41. > :05:46.the new seven wonders of the world, they announced an menu and is an 81

:05:47. > :05:50.when you said Usain Bolt won his third Olympic gold medal in these

:05:51. > :05:56.games. Steve announced eight new wonder of the world, I think you sin

:05:57. > :06:01.was really happy when he did that. Well, I guess we will certainly miss

:06:02. > :06:05.him at the games, we hope to see him in London next year. Someone is

:06:06. > :06:10.getting a red card, what is that for? Not happy about something. He's

:06:11. > :06:19.signalling something to his team-mate. Was he asking for a

:06:20. > :06:23.number like? Maybe. I do know what he was doing because he didn't like

:06:24. > :06:27.anyone was impeding him, he didn't look annoyed about anything, more

:06:28. > :06:31.like he was having a laugh so maybe they were sharing a joke about the

:06:32. > :06:38.conditions but certainly looking very relaxed early on at this stage

:06:39. > :06:42.in the marathon and as Brendan said, when he moved to the front they did

:06:43. > :06:48.all react to that and move to cover that the one person who didn't is

:06:49. > :06:52.moving up around outside, the experienced catholicity who dropped

:06:53. > :06:56.back to make sure he got his bottle and still drank a lot because as

:06:57. > :07:01.much as it is raining, it is also very humid and are losing a lot of

:07:02. > :07:08.fluid, so it is important they continue to take on fluid as it is

:07:09. > :07:13.really hot. It is a strategy that the US athletes worked on strongly

:07:14. > :07:18.before the Athens marathon in the thousand four, very successful in

:07:19. > :07:21.getting the silver medal and Dean are in the women's race getting

:07:22. > :07:26.other bonds medal. They continue working well on that and Galen Rupp

:07:27. > :07:32.as well paying a lot of attention to working on runs in heat chambers and

:07:33. > :07:36.how much sweaty lofts and how much food needs to put back in to their

:07:37. > :07:44.drinking strategies will be top notch today. This will include he

:07:45. > :07:55.needs. Testing away. Debra Selassie, he is very animated. Seven miles, 35

:07:56. > :08:01.minutes .7. Very, but for the good guys. Kind of on the edge little for

:08:02. > :08:05.the likes of Calum Watkins but he is looking comfortable, about ten

:08:06. > :08:09.seconds back from this group. Once more, little push at the front.

:08:10. > :08:19.Keturah Orji this time keeping an eye. It is a little early to start

:08:20. > :08:23.shifting but they've ran so slow for the good guys that perhaps not

:08:24. > :08:27.surprising. It is all assessing who it is, how quick is it going and how

:08:28. > :08:33.much further than he keep going at that pace? Is the fine of Eritrea

:08:34. > :08:38.looking at his watch, and there is Wesley, the Kenyan committee

:08:39. > :08:46.honourable Wednesday could Jungwirth Korea is an MP. If you're picking

:08:47. > :08:51.the best three Kenyans from the other races you would be lower down

:08:52. > :08:56.the list and that but they say, we like to have an NPR scene, the

:08:57. > :09:04.London Marathon always have the thing about the fastest in the

:09:05. > :09:07.fastest MP the world. A bit of controversy about his selection, so

:09:08. > :09:23.many people to choose from you could argue. Certainly the druggie --

:09:24. > :09:28.Eliud Kipchoge, possibly the best marathon runner in the world at this

:09:29. > :09:31.point. If this was an open race you could qualify on time as well as on

:09:32. > :09:34.countries, they would be another 20 Kenyans in the leading group,

:09:35. > :09:46.wouldn't there? And a few Ethiopians. And I guess there is

:09:47. > :09:49.some argument that at the Olympic Games can you have enough of the

:09:50. > :09:58.best people here, inevitably some aren't. Just a little shoe

:09:59. > :10:05.correction going on. Retire my lace. Too tight shoe. Or he has a wrinkle

:10:06. > :10:13.in his sock from the water and once the sort that out. Just taking a

:10:14. > :10:19.long time over this. You would be better off sat down. He cannot keep

:10:20. > :10:23.running if it is something chafing on the bottom of his food. Probably

:10:24. > :10:30.regretting having tied his leases quite so tight -- laces. Looking at

:10:31. > :10:33.the triathletes yesterday, how quickly they take the cycling shoes

:10:34. > :10:38.off and put their running shoes on, he could have done with some lessons

:10:39. > :10:46.but he is limping now. That is his race over. He was quite well up

:10:47. > :10:52.earlier and ran in the European half Marathon Championships recently,

:10:53. > :10:58.former European champion, and he has stopped completely, that is his race

:10:59. > :11:03.done. Calum Hawkins, I can see, on the back of that leave the lemur

:11:04. > :11:06.please group right in the middle at the back and will be loving this. In

:11:07. > :11:15.the leading group at the Olympic marathon, it is slow, slow down a

:11:16. > :11:23.little more in the last mile. The gaps that were starting to appear

:11:24. > :11:31.have disappeared and cons top, it is great Calum Watkins is riding there

:11:32. > :11:36.in amongst it. He must be loving this. He deserves it, where you have

:11:37. > :11:41.trained hard, he made a trait that a great transit -- transition in his

:11:42. > :11:47.career up to the marathon and he will keep getting better. He's

:11:48. > :11:51.operating not far from what he has done before today but he certainly

:11:52. > :11:55.has the potential to get quicker than he already ran the marathon.

:11:56. > :11:59.And the confidence to be there, eighth in the London Marathon and

:12:00. > :12:02.the first non-African to finish in the London Marathon and the

:12:03. > :12:06.confidence he got from that and immediately back in April slated for

:12:07. > :12:10.the games, giving him a chance to build up because in the winter he

:12:11. > :12:16.wasn't sure he would make the team and he has made the team and has run

:12:17. > :12:19.2.11 and is in there and have the confidence from the London Marathon

:12:20. > :12:24.and it's great to see Calum Watkins, his brothers having a difficult

:12:25. > :12:29.time, 2.5 minutes or so down the road with the injury he brought this

:12:30. > :12:36.event, it looked like, Hawkins is the British hope and he looks at

:12:37. > :12:38.ease in this company come off the back he stayed away from the leaves

:12:39. > :12:44.and gradually move back towards them now in the middle of the group.

:12:45. > :12:50.Calum Hawkins, young man, 24 years old, on a journey like Steve said

:12:51. > :12:53.where the marathon will be his distance and I'm sure over the years

:12:54. > :13:00.you will get better. That environment is the British team are

:13:01. > :13:04.trying to construct the distance running squad and training camps

:13:05. > :13:09.overseas and training at altitude with the help of others is an

:13:10. > :13:16.initiative that is to be applauded and heard Christine say at the

:13:17. > :13:20.training camp had improved and it is great to see that and when you have

:13:21. > :13:25.more fire in your team and spend time with someone like him then you

:13:26. > :13:30.about us that rub off and I'm delighted to see Calum Hawkins this

:13:31. > :13:36.group. Calum and Derek haven't been away in the altitude training groups

:13:37. > :13:41.with the other members of the team and distance runners, the women

:13:42. > :13:45.were, Ally Dickson and Sonia Samos were up there, Callum and Derek

:13:46. > :13:50.stuck to their own preparations, they've work for them free London

:13:51. > :13:54.Marathon and to come here in great shape is what that has created as a

:13:55. > :13:58.team spirit and out on the course today manning the drinks stations

:13:59. > :14:03.are Sonia and Ali making sure the marathon boys get support. It is a

:14:04. > :14:07.long time to hang around. They had what ever else come out and compete

:14:08. > :14:12.and on the last day they get to compete in the rest of the team are

:14:13. > :14:15.probably all out partying and celebrating and last night they

:14:16. > :14:21.still had their Olympic come and they want to be able to go out and

:14:22. > :14:24.do it justice. It is great if gone out and are supporting the boys

:14:25. > :14:29.today. It's the best of times and the worst of times, you had watched

:14:30. > :14:34.everyone, you are right, but the best of times because it is the only

:14:35. > :14:38.event on the day, the men's marathon, the traditional end to the

:14:39. > :14:40.Olympic programme, all these countries represented in all of

:14:41. > :14:45.these great athletes and here and centre stage is the men's marathon

:14:46. > :14:51.of the Olympic Games, a lot of athletes still in with a chance and

:14:52. > :14:55.still running fairly steadily at a pace that lots of these athletes are

:14:56. > :14:59.comfortable with. Nobody has made a move yet, they've all smelt the

:15:00. > :15:02.front rather than be at the front, the Olympic champion from Uganda is

:15:03. > :15:16.in there. The Right Honourable Wesley Korir in

:15:17. > :15:22.the lead, I like saying that! Just behind him, the best marathon runner

:15:23. > :15:32.in the world, Eliud Kipchoge. But can he become Olympic champion

:15:33. > :15:38.today? That is the big question. One of the runners there just jumped

:15:39. > :15:41.on the grass, to slot in further up the field and I am not sure whether

:15:42. > :15:53.that technically counts as burning inside.

:15:54. > :15:58.Hawk eye right foot... It has been a long Olympics. Hawk eye Paula

:15:59. > :16:01.Radcliffe! Keeping an eye on proceedings.

:16:02. > :16:08.We were watching that 5000m relay not enthralled by Mo Farah. Brendan

:16:09. > :16:15.was talking and I turned to Andrew Cotter our co-commentator. And I

:16:16. > :16:23.jokingly when I saw one of them puts a foot round the top bend, five laps

:16:24. > :16:28.to go, lo and behold, he was disqualified.

:16:29. > :16:33.They have been incredibly strict. All of a sudden, round the corner,

:16:34. > :16:50.moving to the front, Ghebreslassie. Good to see Callum

:16:51. > :16:59.Hawkins at the back of that group. They have turned and run to their

:17:00. > :17:03.second. Condition is improving, the rain has stopped. Much better

:17:04. > :17:09.conditions than the wooden faced in terms of temperature and not having

:17:10. > :17:15.to worry about the sun overhead -- The women faced.

:17:16. > :17:22.These conditions are still not exactly the sort of things you would

:17:23. > :17:26.want to run a fast marathon. But not as tough as it was in

:17:27. > :17:33.Beijing last year. At the world Championships. So far,

:17:34. > :17:41.all of the main contenders very much to the fore. The defending champion

:17:42. > :17:47.is further back in the main group, not too far from Callum Hawkins who

:17:48. > :18:02.is running alongside him, further back, about 20th place.

:18:03. > :18:07.The pace around the 2.11 Mark. The five-minute mile mark. Can you

:18:08. > :18:13.remember those? I can remember those many years ago.

:18:14. > :18:22.As we move through the field here. And we get closer to that lead

:18:23. > :18:29.group. Just breaking up a little bit. A third of the American

:18:30. > :18:38.athletes there, feeling that a little bit. We will see Callum

:18:39. > :18:42.Hawkins, on the inside. Paula?

:18:43. > :18:51.Maintaining contact and running well. Not too much out too early.

:18:52. > :18:57.As we look at the leader. Kipchoge, looking back to see, don't go yet,

:18:58. > :19:00.calm down. Maybe he had been clipped, giving

:19:01. > :19:10.him a warning. As we got a view of Jared Ward, he

:19:11. > :19:15.wrote a thesis on balanced even splits in a marathon and the best

:19:16. > :19:20.way is to run even splits. He did exactly that in qualifying at the US

:19:21. > :19:24.trials. Not sure whether he will aim to do that today or aim to try and

:19:25. > :19:28.stay in contact for as long as possible which is probably the

:19:29. > :19:34.smarter way to run an Olympic Mountains, you are not trying to run

:19:35. > :19:38.the fastest time. Have you got any football news here

:19:39. > :19:43.this morning, Steve? No.

:19:44. > :19:50.You promised, you promised. I haven't said a word! How good is

:19:51. > :19:55.this? Callum Hawkins is leading the Olympic marathon, he is alongside

:19:56. > :19:59.Eliud Kipchoge. The best marathon runner in the world. The head of

:20:00. > :20:04.Galen Rupp. Yes, it is early stages and the pace

:20:05. > :20:07.is not fast but what a great thing to see.

:20:08. > :20:12.You know we have had, if we go back to John Brown and his exploits in

:20:13. > :20:16.the Olympics, I think John is here. John is here. He now works with New

:20:17. > :20:26.Zealand triathlon. Probably watching today, seeing what

:20:27. > :20:31.is happening in the marathon. Through ten miles in 50.18.

:20:32. > :20:35.Still maintaining this five-minute mile pace. Pretty steady since the

:20:36. > :20:41.second. They started a little quicker. Since then, running five

:20:42. > :20:48.minute miles. You should calm down, to be honest!

:20:49. > :20:52.He has found himself in the lead. He is running the sort of pace he

:20:53. > :20:59.has run before but you shouldn't be in the front doing it but alongside.

:21:00. > :21:03.He is an inexperienced running -- Marathon runner.

:21:04. > :21:06.Exciting to see Callum Hawkins leading the Olympic marathon, he can

:21:07. > :21:11.always say that. If he were to think about the second

:21:12. > :21:14.half of the race, he need to calm down, don't get excited.

:21:15. > :21:18.Running at the front is one thing but trying to lead and think about

:21:19. > :21:22.doing something, he has to be careful.

:21:23. > :21:27.An interesting move. Not the sort of move I think he should have taken.

:21:28. > :21:33.The pace really slowed down, you can see how the field has bunched up.

:21:34. > :21:39.Jared Ward is at the back but he was getting detached. It has definitely

:21:40. > :21:43.slowed, the field has bunched. Calum has taken the decision at the front

:21:44. > :21:51.at least you have a clear road ahead. Very little wind ahead today.

:21:52. > :22:00.I think he has maintained his pace which has taken him to the front.

:22:01. > :22:04.This is the first time he has ever been in the front of any of his

:22:05. > :22:11.marathons. If he is thinking, I am winning, that is a danger.

:22:12. > :22:15.I agree. You are both right in the sense he wants to be comfortable and

:22:16. > :22:19.he might feel with the pack that is a good thing. He certainly should

:22:20. > :22:25.not be thinking, I am here to break this group up.

:22:26. > :22:30.If the message gets related to his brother, Derek, four minutes back,

:22:31. > :22:42.by the way, your brother is leading, he would be surprised.

:22:43. > :22:48.He has gone through 50.20 two. I am told he is struggling a little,

:22:49. > :22:51.with his injury hampering his progress.

:22:52. > :22:56.Still grabbing water. That will be a factor. It is raining, wet,

:22:57. > :23:06.obviously. But still quite close, still quite

:23:07. > :23:10.warm. For marathon runners, those are the two other competitors, never

:23:11. > :23:15.mind the other people. Callum Hawkins of Great Britain in

:23:16. > :23:19.the front. The men's Olympic marathon.

:23:20. > :23:27.Galen Rupp discarding his drink. One or two have been discarding their

:23:28. > :23:31.hats, I saw his team-mate Keflezighi.

:23:32. > :23:38.Callum Hawkins must be revelling his Olympic experience at the moment.

:23:39. > :23:44.At the beginning of the year, he ran that cross in Edinburgh, Mo Farah

:23:45. > :23:49.was second, Callum Hawkins was fourth. Afterwards, he said, when I

:23:50. > :23:56.was running alongside Mo Farah, I was frightened. How good he is, so

:23:57. > :23:59.next time I will try to run with them, next to them and compete with

:24:00. > :24:03.them. I am not sure that is the

:24:04. > :24:08.translation you need to take from a cross-country attitude into a

:24:09. > :24:12.marathon. I hope he calms down. He is clearly running well.

:24:13. > :24:18.It is great to see for us. The last British athlete who won a medal in

:24:19. > :24:23.the Olympic Games was in 1984, my team-mate Charlie Spedding. And

:24:24. > :24:28.absolutely controlled marathon runner, he would run in a group like

:24:29. > :24:32.this and a quiet race. You would never see him feature.

:24:33. > :24:38.As they peeled away, eventually he would emerge. In Los Angeles in

:24:39. > :24:42.1984, Carlos Lopez won that race and Charlie Spedding came into the

:24:43. > :24:48.stadium neck and neck with John Tracy, and was out sprinted to take

:24:49. > :24:51.the bronze medal. That was our last success in terms of medals.

:24:52. > :24:59.I am not suggesting Callum Hawkins will be at that level but this is a

:25:00. > :25:01.great learning experience. You just hope he makes it a positive

:25:02. > :25:08.learning experience. The other argument is, if this becomes a slow

:25:09. > :25:12.run, everyone stays together and it becomes essentially a ten kilometre

:25:13. > :25:17.race, Callum Hawkins will not finish as highly as if he would if it were

:25:18. > :25:22.a quicker marathon from beginning to end. All he has tried to do is run

:25:23. > :25:27.the pace that feels comfortable for him. He is feeling good. To get it

:25:28. > :25:32.moving, to get this field strung out. He doesn't intend to lead the

:25:33. > :25:35.whole way but he is thinking if he gets the pace moving a little

:25:36. > :25:39.someone will come through and take the pace from there and it will

:25:40. > :25:44.start becoming a proper marathon run.

:25:45. > :25:48.He is not working hard. This is him making a huge commitment to be at

:25:49. > :25:52.the front of this field, he is running his pace.

:25:53. > :25:59.What a sight for young Callum Hawkins, the world's best marathon

:26:00. > :26:06.runner Kipchoge, the world champion Ghebreslassie behind him, Galen Rupp

:26:07. > :26:10.on his other side. He is relishing this company. They

:26:11. > :26:16.have the experience, Callum Hawkins tasting it for the first time. It

:26:17. > :26:21.did cross-country and Road Runner and with a career in the marathon.

:26:22. > :26:25.This is the Peruvian runner at the back of that group.

:26:26. > :26:28.It is getting exciting to get a British athlete in with the leading

:26:29. > :26:32.group. We are not even at the one-hour

:26:33. > :26:35.mark, the race hasn't started really.

:26:36. > :26:41.He is running well which is brilliant. He has prepared

:26:42. > :26:43.meticulously, training in heat chambers to acclimatise himself.

:26:44. > :26:48.Running in the Olympic Games, in the Rio where we thought it would be red

:26:49. > :26:56.hot conditions as last week. Still humid, Dos Santos of Brazil at

:26:57. > :26:58.the back of that group still in contention.

:26:59. > :27:02.Still Callum Hawkins of Great Britain leads.

:27:03. > :27:07.I am racking my brains here, I can't think I've seen a British male

:27:08. > :27:17.athletes league in an Olympic Games marathon since 1984 may be. -- Lead.

:27:18. > :27:21.He is still there. I did say male athlete there, didn't

:27:22. > :27:29.I? Yes. Someone who has worked their

:27:30. > :27:34.way through it Dos Santos, he was quite a way back going through 15

:27:35. > :27:40.kilometres. He has gradually worked his way onto that lead group, the

:27:41. > :27:44.first time he has figured. The 11th mile was the first one that

:27:45. > :27:55.has been under five minutes for a while. 4.55. Callum Hawkins has

:27:56. > :28:00.picked up the pace. A few have dropped off now. We're not halfway

:28:01. > :28:05.yet. It is great to see him there. I am sure there are a few screenshots

:28:06. > :28:08.being grabbed at home for when he gets home to say, you are leading

:28:09. > :28:12.the Olympic marathon. There was a great one when Brendan

:28:13. > :28:20.was talking with Galen Rupp, Kipchoge Yu on either side, two of

:28:21. > :28:25.the greatest distance runners. Callum Hawkins in the middle leading

:28:26. > :28:31.them. Someone running a quiet race is the defending champion, Stephen

:28:32. > :28:35.Kiprotich come he has kept well away from the lead. He is in that group.

:28:36. > :28:42.But we really haven't seen him at all.

:28:43. > :28:47.I was talking to his manager who says he does not think he has,

:28:48. > :28:55.Stephen Kiprotich in the yellow vest in the middle, doesn't think he is

:28:56. > :29:00.made for fast distance races he is world and Olympic champion, and he

:29:01. > :29:04.says he is not going to run in these fast madeleines anymore. He will be

:29:05. > :29:09.more concerned about championships. He could run the Commonwealth Games

:29:10. > :29:13.on the Gold Coast. And the World Championships in London next year.

:29:14. > :29:20.At the moment, we are still quite excited. Before the halfway point,

:29:21. > :29:30.seeing the young athlete from Paisley in Scotland, still a student

:29:31. > :29:39.at the University of West Scotland studying mechanical engineering.

:29:40. > :29:43.Callum Hawkins of Great Britain. These guys are clearing overhead.

:29:44. > :29:51.The clouds are beginning to disperse a little, the rain has stopped, and

:29:52. > :29:58.the temperature is rising. And that of course will be a factor. Derek

:29:59. > :30:03.Hawkins, excuse me, Callum Hawkins leading. Derek is his brother about

:30:04. > :30:13.five bit further back down the road. He might just get a chance to glance

:30:14. > :30:16.across. You can see down either side of the carriageway. I wonder whether

:30:17. > :30:20.he has had the chance to see his younger brother leading the Olympic

:30:21. > :30:28.marathon, as they make their way around the bay here.

:30:29. > :30:31.Can you imagine, Derek Hawkins is struggling four minutes behind the

:30:32. > :30:35.leading group. You are right, he could look across and see his

:30:36. > :30:40.brother leading in the Olympic Games marathon. Derek is the older one,

:30:41. > :30:55.who has nurtured his brother along. Imagine what his reaction would be.

:30:56. > :31:05.Already an medallist, running next to the world champion. They're

:31:06. > :31:10.saying it's getting warmer and the humidity is approaching 90%, that is

:31:11. > :31:16.the factor, it is the combination of temperature rising because of the

:31:17. > :31:19.weather and humidity Stoch to go up and the humidity is something that

:31:20. > :31:24.for marathon runners is always a danger and if you don't pace this

:31:25. > :31:29.right, any marathon you have to pace right but in these conditions you

:31:30. > :31:32.have to be careful and they will be aware of that. There is a fear that

:31:33. > :31:37.you have when you're out there, you know the air is heavy? Definitely,

:31:38. > :31:43.they will be aware of it and that is why I say the likes of given will

:31:44. > :31:48.have taken huge effort to make sure they take on enough fluid. -- Galen

:31:49. > :31:52.Rupp. Used to lose a lot with the humidity and the Kenyan athlete and

:31:53. > :31:55.Ethiopians, they don't like running in humidity because they aren't used

:31:56. > :32:03.to it because on the high plateaus of Africa it is very dry. And they

:32:04. > :32:08.don't get used to being able to cope with this kind of humidity. That is

:32:09. > :32:14.why it is important for the athletes but pairing from Athens in humid

:32:15. > :32:19.conditions they come down from a -- altitude in good enough time to

:32:20. > :32:23.allow their bodies to cope with the humidity and being able to take on

:32:24. > :32:27.enough fluid and for their bodies to absorb enough moisture to bond with

:32:28. > :32:31.during the race and it really drains you and makes you feel very heavy

:32:32. > :32:37.legs in the closing stages because you are losing so much through the

:32:38. > :32:46.race. Approaching halfway. The five kilometre section was ten seconds

:32:47. > :32:49.quicker than the one before, from a 15.45 to 15.30 four. Jack Hawkins

:32:50. > :32:59.was leading anti-Brooke has broken up little with the weather starting

:33:00. > :33:03.to impact. We aren't even halfway. Derek Coggins, like we said, great

:33:04. > :33:09.screenshot for him for his album. He is now just behind the leading group

:33:10. > :33:20.and the big guys have joined the lead.

:33:21. > :33:26.Galen Rupp just behind them and Calum Hawkins, the younger brother

:33:27. > :33:32.of Derek, who is having a difficult time here today, we haven't seen the

:33:33. > :33:37.other British athlete, rapid ending Scotland when he runs cross-country,

:33:38. > :33:46.there is the group and the numbers are beginning to whittle down. Dos

:33:47. > :33:49.Santos, number 2144, famous Brazilian athlete, twice winner of

:33:50. > :33:57.the New York Marathon, he was grabbing his drink, and therefore

:33:58. > :34:02.the first time, the Olympic champion, Stephen Kiprotich moving

:34:03. > :34:06.towards the lead in the yellow vest of Uganda and we spoke about him

:34:07. > :34:13.running a quiet race earlier, he has now broken his silence and has

:34:14. > :34:19.joined the leader in the yellow vest, the Gannon athlete, training

:34:20. > :34:24.partner at times with the jewellery, who is squeezing through and passing

:34:25. > :34:28.his drink the Wesley Korir. Watch the rest of the field react because

:34:29. > :34:31.it is common coming into a drinks station that the field will string

:34:32. > :34:36.out, they want to find their bottles but at the other side of the likes

:34:37. > :34:39.of seats Stephen Kiprotich at the front and the guys will react to

:34:40. > :34:46.that cause they are serious contenders at the front of this

:34:47. > :34:55.race. But then has come to the fore as well. Running for Turkey. It was

:34:56. > :35:02.a significant move, even 20 kilometre whiskey was still four

:35:03. > :35:05.seconds off the lead and as Paula said, an important feed station

:35:06. > :35:09.approaching, makes his move and get himself in the front pack for the

:35:10. > :35:15.first time, Cocks being discarded, water bottle discarded. Galen Rupp

:35:16. > :35:19.hanging onto his, drinking gradually and making sure he gets as much

:35:20. > :35:25.substance as he can come he knows how important that will be. 'S plans

:35:26. > :35:33.still have his bottle as well. Galen Rupp will do it by the science, the

:35:34. > :35:37.preparation situation in Oregon as Calum Hawkins just drifts off the

:35:38. > :35:43.back of that group, hopefully to settle down and start thinking about

:35:44. > :35:50.running his own race. Flirted with the lead for a while and I'm

:35:51. > :35:53.interested to see if he has lost a few seconds because the big boys,

:35:54. > :35:59.they are all there, old athletes whose names were featured in the

:36:00. > :36:05.prediction competitions and the form guides are in the leading group. And

:36:06. > :36:10.the right honourable Wesley Korir, the Kenyan athlete and NPN Kenya is

:36:11. > :36:17.a real campaigner against drugs in Kenya, so I'm sure he is an athlete

:36:18. > :36:21.that has important in the sport and will become increasingly so in Kenya

:36:22. > :36:27.because there has been a problem, there have been issues about

:36:28. > :36:30.conforming with the drug testing regime and there is the welding of

:36:31. > :36:37.Great Britain, sadly the injury cot up with him, sat on the roadside,

:36:38. > :36:41.what a sad sight to see for the athlete who came from Eritrea, so in

:36:42. > :36:50.Glasgow in 2008 and now his race is over. Calum Hawkins is still in the

:36:51. > :36:54.leading group, Calum Hawkins's brother. The other athlete Richard

:36:55. > :37:00.in Great Britain today sat on the roadside know longer able to

:37:01. > :37:07.compete. It is sad. -- representing Great Britain. Yes, the problem is a

:37:08. > :37:11.painful injury and you get your point where you just keep running on

:37:12. > :37:15.it, anyone who has had that entry will know what it feels like. Sad

:37:16. > :37:23.for him. Who just stepped off the side? Meb Kefiezighi. That is really

:37:24. > :37:35.disappointing for him. Is that injury? He has a lot of tape on his

:37:36. > :37:39.cars, maybe years coming carrying a small injury, I had not heard that.

:37:40. > :37:45.He started running again, maybe he clamped up a little and not sure. It

:37:46. > :37:50.is a bit early to start cramping but it will be a factor for others it

:37:51. > :37:53.on, I am sure. That group still contains Great Britain's Calum

:37:54. > :37:57.Hawkins on the outside as we approach the back of that group you

:37:58. > :38:07.can see, still wearing his cap on backwards in the White vest,

:38:08. > :38:11.enjoying whose Olympic experience if you can enjoy running any Marathon.

:38:12. > :38:14.He is running inside his personal best, went through halfway just

:38:15. > :38:19.inside 66 minutes and has not broken 2.12 minutes, so he is capable of

:38:20. > :38:23.that but whether or not in the Olympic marathon in these conditions

:38:24. > :38:29.he will be able to do that is another matter. So far, still in

:38:30. > :38:34.with this elite group. It is a big group, stretched more now as the big

:38:35. > :38:45.names get closer to the front. The Eritreans and Kenyans, Ethiopia are

:38:46. > :38:49.in there. And Galen Rupp of USA. Did you see the new way of supplying

:38:50. > :38:53.drinks? They were throwing them over the head of athletes for others to

:38:54. > :38:58.catch. We were saying we were disappointed with the wage being

:38:59. > :39:02.organised from the drinks station point of view last weekend, I don't

:39:03. > :39:05.think I've seen that before. Here is your drink, I will throw it at you.

:39:06. > :39:08.Because there are so many in that group, the point we raised in the

:39:09. > :39:11.women's marathon is it would have been possible for them to either put

:39:12. > :39:15.strings station in the middle-of-the-road so the athletes

:39:16. > :39:18.can run down either side and know which side they need to go to pick

:39:19. > :39:21.up their bottles, or to use both sides of the road because that

:39:22. > :39:26.Thaynes it's out of it, you are not losing anything in terms of running

:39:27. > :39:31.further because they are in straight lines at that point. It makes it

:39:32. > :39:37.easier to get to the table and find your bottle and pick it up. That is

:39:38. > :39:45.peculiar of Bahrain. My old coach would have gone mad for not tying

:39:46. > :39:49.his laces properly. It is one of the first things you learn. In wet

:39:50. > :39:55.weather, to be fair, it stars and do the later is more easily and

:39:56. > :40:00.sometimes... Why do your laces in wet weather, because I've run many

:40:01. > :40:03.races and Sawyers Brendan, occasionally have rains in the least

:40:04. > :40:08.of England and I cannot remember my list is coming loose because it was

:40:09. > :40:12.wet. If you've not tired or not and it's made of more recent synthetic

:40:13. > :40:20.materials, you probably had all the material. That was our work. In

:40:21. > :40:24.running slowly in my recent running shoes my laces still don't get done.

:40:25. > :40:32.But the key was there in running slowly. Stop there. This is getting

:40:33. > :40:41.nasty. He's not even tied them properly again. Whatever they are

:40:42. > :40:45.making laces of these days, poll is obvious to the expert. He hasn't had

:40:46. > :40:49.a double knot because the other danger is the issue becomes loose as

:40:50. > :40:52.he becomes the case becomes and on but he's in danger of losing his

:40:53. > :41:00.chip and if he does that I'm not sure if it is valid, you're probably

:41:01. > :41:07.still OK fit is not your fault. They're all wearing, many will know,

:41:08. > :41:20.everyone has a chip which is why we getting the splits. This case

:41:21. > :41:25.continues -- lace gate continues. Calum Hawkins, noticed while we were

:41:26. > :41:29.chatting, at the back of the group and he deliberately moved out again,

:41:30. > :41:34.Brendan, to come around the outside and get back to the front. Almost as

:41:35. > :41:37.though when the pace slows the years, I will not let you slow it,

:41:38. > :41:42.coming back to the front again and I'm in great shape in the Olympic

:41:43. > :41:46.marathon, I don't want to doddle. It's so early to do that. If you

:41:47. > :41:51.feel great at 20 miles, even then you have to be careful. But he is

:41:52. > :41:56.having an incredible race in terms of his position, and maybe a bit of

:41:57. > :41:59.patience as well would be a good thing. The only two marathons he ran

:42:00. > :42:04.there have been pacemakers and his Oblak doesn't obviously set of

:42:05. > :42:06.different in those marathons but when he runs cross-country and on

:42:07. > :42:11.the roads, that is the position he takes, you like thing with the

:42:12. > :42:14.leaders, I said earlier when he is running the cross-country in

:42:15. > :42:17.Edinburgh he was disappointed with his own performance but was

:42:18. > :42:22.frightened to take on more Fara so I think the confidence has increased

:42:23. > :42:28.and the running at the pace, but it looks like they are, that is the

:42:29. > :42:30.pace he has run before, he is running at the front but this is a

:42:31. > :42:37.fantastic learning experience for the 24-year-old, there is one of the

:42:38. > :42:45.favourites, Galen Rupp, Wesley Korir of Kenya next to him. Ghebreslassia

:42:46. > :42:50.the world champion from Eritrea just there. Eliud Kipchoge it on that

:42:51. > :42:56.side and the Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich. All of the talent

:42:57. > :43:06.is at the front and Calum Hawkins is amongst it. What might be the

:43:07. > :43:15.reasoning for him drifting back it is slowed again, the previous two

:43:16. > :43:22.miles were run at 1013, so they went - about five three and then a 5.10.

:43:23. > :43:25.He is obviously thinking, I'm in great shape, he's run around two

:43:26. > :43:31.hours 11 for the marathon, coming in better shape perhaps ready to run

:43:32. > :43:37.the race of his life and he doesn't want to spend time at a pace he

:43:38. > :43:42.feels he is better than, it is just these conditions are so different in

:43:43. > :43:47.making that point, we are making the same point, it is great to see him

:43:48. > :43:57.there, fabulous, but it is a bit of a Button, the experience around him

:43:58. > :44:01.is something he should take note of. Most importantly I think for him is

:44:02. > :44:06.to come out of his race with a positive experience and thinking,

:44:07. > :44:10.OK, I'm now at a level where I can compete about what go back in four

:44:11. > :44:14.years and back next year in London in the World Athletics Championships

:44:15. > :44:19.and be competitive. He is learning a lot and is probably learning a bit

:44:20. > :44:27.about controlling himself and his pace but there is so many athletes

:44:28. > :44:33.around him who run fast times that group will slowly whittled down and

:44:34. > :44:37.there will be less in that leading group of food to live here we have a

:44:38. > :44:41.British athlete leading in the men's marathon in the Olympic Games passed

:44:42. > :44:44.the halfway point, checking his watch, looking studiously to see

:44:45. > :44:55.exactly what it is that is happening.

:44:56. > :44:59.And right behind him is Galen Rupp. He would get a shock if he looked

:45:00. > :45:09.around. All of the big names still there,

:45:10. > :45:13.the Americans will be disappointed that Keflezighi not able to be in

:45:14. > :45:19.that group. He is still making his way back,

:45:20. > :45:24.Steve, in that third group, behind the main group. He hasn't completely

:45:25. > :45:30.stopped. Whether he was able to stretch out and resume running.

:45:31. > :45:34.We saw Jared Ward, the other American, earlier on, almost come to

:45:35. > :45:43.a stop for what ever reason, he is back.

:45:44. > :45:49.Is the Len. And, the first one of the bigger names here. Certainly in

:45:50. > :45:53.terms of people who have got big personal-best times, if asked

:45:54. > :45:58.marathon runner. Almost holding his side there. Maybe a stem stitch, I

:45:59. > :46:05.don't know. These guys get those problems.

:46:06. > :46:09.Brendan? He has only run two madeleines and has won them both. He

:46:10. > :46:15.was a real favourite coming into this. As I was speaking with Haile

:46:16. > :46:17.Gebrselassie the other day, he said he is disappointed with the

:46:18. > :46:23.Ethiopian selectors come he doesn't think they have picked the best

:46:24. > :46:28.three from Ethiopia. He said it was the same in 2012.

:46:29. > :46:37.We are looking at the loose shoelace being featured by the director!

:46:38. > :46:42.There is the other Ethiopian. Berhanu, winner of the Boston

:46:43. > :46:48.Marathon. Still Callum Hawkins leading in the men's marathon.

:46:49. > :46:52.Could he possibly stay there? There have been one or two shocks in

:46:53. > :46:59.these Olympic Games. Callum is fighting his own story

:47:00. > :47:05.here. Leading the Olympic marathon as they approach 25 kilometres -- Is

:47:06. > :47:10.writing his own story. Normally people start to gather,

:47:11. > :47:18.think about the last six miles. Another lap of this 10km loop before

:47:19. > :47:24.they head to the city centre, the old part of the city at the top end

:47:25. > :47:30.of Rio De Janeiro. Copacabana Beach down the other direction.

:47:31. > :47:39.What a great site to see. Here they turn, next time when they reach this

:47:40. > :47:42.point they will carry straight on. They will be into the last seven or

:47:43. > :47:50.eight kilometres. For now, another lap. Berhanu for

:47:51. > :47:53.the first time moves to the front. The Ethiopians always felt he was

:47:54. > :48:00.their best option here of a gold medal. The other names will pull

:48:01. > :48:26.through. Plenty there, plenty obviously still

:48:27. > :48:31.in with a chance. They are spread across the road a little bit now.

:48:32. > :48:44.Callum Hawkins running alongside Kipchoge. Just having another drink.

:48:45. > :48:50.There is Abera, his race is over, looking disconsolate.

:48:51. > :48:56.Not feeling too well. It looks like he has had some kind

:48:57. > :48:58.of stomach issue, feeling sick. That is his race completely over

:48:59. > :49:14.now. The Ethiopian challenge rests now

:49:15. > :49:20.with their Ha Na. At the moment, you wouldn't in Fenners expect to be up

:49:21. > :49:26.there challenging again. He did exceptionally well to get full

:49:27. > :49:29.position in 2012. Thinking about Haile Gebrselassie

:49:30. > :49:33.saying he has no faith in the Ethiopian selectors anymore, they

:49:34. > :49:38.don't pick the best three. They failed to finish, all three

:49:39. > :49:45.Ethiopians, in 2012. Now we have two still running. The

:49:46. > :49:52.great Ethiopian distance running nation, they are getting athletes to

:49:53. > :50:03.run fast madeleines, their best are at home in Ethiopian getting ready

:50:04. > :50:08.for burning, and New York. And Chicago. Here we have three

:50:09. > :50:14.Ethiopians, three failed to finish in London. Now down to two. It is a

:50:15. > :50:18.shame when the best runners aren't able to represent their country.

:50:19. > :50:26.There are the other two Brazilian athletes. Da Silva and Paula. Down

:50:27. > :50:30.the road is the more famous of the Brazilian team members, Dos Santos.

:50:31. > :50:42.Further back, running his final race at the age of 39. His final

:50:43. > :50:53.marathon. Still in that group I am delighted to say Callum Hawkins has

:50:54. > :50:56.settled down in the group. He has taken his hat.

:50:57. > :51:04.He is harder to spot because he has taken off his hat.

:51:05. > :51:12.These conditions are obviously going to have an effect. You miss it a

:51:13. > :51:18.around 90%. Keflezighi trying to get himself back towards that lead

:51:19. > :51:26.group. The 5000 kilometres, the previous was a bit quicker, up to 25

:51:27. > :51:29.kilometres, it dropped to 15.45 again, which is why Callum was at

:51:30. > :51:35.the front once more. And he continues to enjoy his Olympic

:51:36. > :51:40.marathon. In a way in which he could never have dreams of. That big lead

:51:41. > :51:49.group, plenty of men in there. All the big names. Abera one of the

:51:50. > :51:57.first to become a casualty. There are about, going down, certainly

:51:58. > :52:03.about 30 athletes within a few seconds still off the lead.

:52:04. > :52:10.Brendan, at this point, he is having a great race, in terms of a finish,

:52:11. > :52:18.if he finished in the top 20 in the Olympic marathon in his first one...

:52:19. > :52:20.There, sadly, it has to be cramped, Paula, if he keeps stopping like

:52:21. > :52:26.that. I think so. Each time, he clearly

:52:27. > :52:32.does not want to give this up and to drop out of this race. Each time his

:52:33. > :52:37.body insists he stops, his mind gets him started again. He desperately

:52:38. > :52:43.wants to be in the race but I'm not sure whether he can continue.

:52:44. > :52:47.An extension to the shoelace story. These modernisers as Paula has

:52:48. > :52:51.described them, at this pace, they become unravelled, McCutcheon modern

:52:52. > :53:18.shoelaces. -- Modern shoelaces. Using a double knot.

:53:19. > :53:26.Some athletes taking advantage of those misting stations. There was a

:53:27. > :53:31.lot of wind out there. It seems to be drifting higher up across the

:53:32. > :53:46.road and not onto the athletes. More important is to take water. And keep

:53:47. > :53:52.yourself externally call. -- cool. And important to drink it. Talking

:53:53. > :53:58.to Galen Rupp, he said he has practised getting 500 millilitres

:53:59. > :54:03.down at each drinks station, that was his strategy if it was going to

:54:04. > :54:11.be hot. He will have adapted that. He will be paying attention to make

:54:12. > :54:16.sure he gets enough fluid in. That is the reason they have the holes

:54:17. > :54:26.punched in the vest, to keep themselves cooler in hot weather.

:54:27. > :54:35.For the first time, the strongman of the marathon, Eliud Kipchoge hits

:54:36. > :54:39.the front. Head down. Alongside him, not surprisingly, Galen Rupp, who

:54:40. > :54:42.had looked at times in this race as though he has been jogging. And

:54:43. > :55:00.right beside Galen Rupp is the world champion, that is Ghebreslassie of

:55:01. > :55:04.Eritrea. That yellow vest of Mutai. As Eliud Kipchoge hits the front,

:55:05. > :55:13.the rest of them decide, I have got to latch onto him. He is the

:55:14. > :55:19.number-1 distance runner in the world. Callum Hawkins just drifting

:55:20. > :55:26.off that group as they serious. Still plenty of running. There is

:55:27. > :55:32.Callum Hawkins. Still running strongly. Losing those few yards. As

:55:33. > :55:37.the big guns gathered towards the front. Kipchoge, Rupp, Biwott will

:55:38. > :55:42.be dangerous as well. There is Hawkins.

:55:43. > :55:51.Still running a great race but it will get tough and he will have to

:55:52. > :55:55.stick to his task really well. He is amongst very good company there. Two

:55:56. > :56:06.Canadians coming through. All starting to drop off. Bekele has

:56:07. > :56:12.given up with his lace! Bekele stopping. One or two other names to

:56:13. > :56:19.pick out in that group. You can see Ozbilen. Running for Turkey, a

:56:20. > :56:29.former Kenyan. Right on the inside is Abraham, Tadesse Abraham, running

:56:30. > :56:37.for Switzerland. In the recent European championship, the half

:56:38. > :56:44.marathon, and are certainly capable of living with this sort of pace

:56:45. > :56:52.which isn't that quick. Just running alongside Galen Rupp. Black cap on,

:56:53. > :56:57.white best of Switzerland. Kipchoge and Biwott, these are Murtagh note

:56:58. > :57:02.each other so well, bracing much harder than this in terms of times

:57:03. > :57:07.in the big city marathons, look how fast they were in London this year

:57:08. > :57:15.through the 30 K. Approaching much more slow on this occasion.

:57:16. > :57:21.Bat group just starting to whittle down. Callum Hawkins just has a look

:57:22. > :57:26.to see who he has for company in the second group. I think he has the

:57:27. > :57:38.defending champion with him that there. -- back there. Mutai is

:57:39. > :57:51.there. The defending champion, when this surge happened, not able to go.

:57:52. > :57:56.Their Ha Korir, and interesting developments at this stage -- Wesley

:57:57. > :58:00.Korir. Finally, this race starting to have an effect. Kiprop Uganda but

:58:01. > :58:09.his more famous team-mate, the defending champion, is behind him,

:58:10. > :58:14.alongside Callum Hawkins. It looks to me right now that the

:58:15. > :58:21.champion is very unlikely to defend his title today. He was world

:58:22. > :58:26.champion. He was Olympic champion. But he is not running as well today

:58:27. > :58:31.as he was on those occasions. As we look overhead, I think he is in that

:58:32. > :58:37.group, the second group, with Callum Hawkins. It looks as if Stephen

:58:38. > :58:45.Kiprotich, will he try to get away from Callum Hawkins and close that

:58:46. > :58:49.gap? It is not insurmountable. But his title is moving away from him

:58:50. > :58:55.very slowly, he will have to do something quickly, you don't leave a

:58:56. > :59:00.group of this amount of talent much further down the road.

:59:01. > :59:05.I definitely agree, Kiprotich is not capable of -- at the moment of

:59:06. > :59:09.keeping with that group. Callum Hawkins needs to keep running his

:59:10. > :59:15.own race. People will start to drop off the front. You can see Jared

:59:16. > :59:23.Ward, the US athlete, dropping backwards. As they come back, Callum

:59:24. > :59:30.can move through. He needs to work hard.

:59:31. > :59:38.11 men in that lead group. Others trying to hang on including Ward.

:59:39. > :59:44.That mile between 16 and 17 was one of the quicker ones. Dropping below

:59:45. > :59:46.five minutes. Still operating, as we see the world champion struggling,

:59:47. > :00:04.still only running 2.11 pace. The real test begins. The opiate of

:00:05. > :00:11.the Ethiopians are there and three Kenyans still in. The two faster

:00:12. > :00:36.men, Wesley Korir there also. Abraham from Switzerland. Just

:00:37. > :00:41.starting to peel Ofcom you can feel the pressure building and this will

:00:42. > :00:44.whittled down. Galen Rupp still comfortable in that group, still

:00:45. > :01:02.running a great race. Calum Hawkins, eight or nine seconds

:01:03. > :01:07.behind the lead group. As Paul said, plenty for him to still for.

:01:08. > :01:11.Something happened earlier on press it about what would be a good

:01:12. > :01:17.performance for Calum Hawkins in terms of a position here. I think

:01:18. > :01:21.top 20 for Calum Hawkins would be exceptional but just now he is

:01:22. > :01:29.better than that. If he can hang onto this position and this 15th

:01:30. > :01:33.sort of position he will have done remarkably well. Looking at the

:01:34. > :01:36.world champion, his attempt to become world and Olympic champion

:01:37. > :01:40.looks like it is going out of the window. In that group they are not

:01:41. > :01:44.all coming back, the winner for my money is on the front group, there

:01:45. > :01:53.is no way I believe anyone will, really quickly from behind.

:01:54. > :02:02.Wesley Korir of Kenya just slowing at the back of the group and

:02:03. > :02:07.settling in. He has a gap to make up but he will not do that because he's

:02:08. > :02:12.the King at his watch and slowing and we look in the group and there

:02:13. > :02:19.are less numbers. There were 11, there is now about eight.

:02:20. > :02:24.An athlete from Kenya who transferred to Azerbaijan, there is

:02:25. > :02:32.the world champion working hard to try and close this gap, can he do

:02:33. > :02:37.enough to get their? That is his team-mate. Sorry. Yes, he is further

:02:38. > :02:45.back on his team-mates dropping off as well and suddenly instead of 11

:02:46. > :02:50.we now have it in that group. Galen Rupp still hanging on. Abraham

:02:51. > :02:54.looked under pressure at the back of that group. I'm pretty sure Wesley

:02:55. > :03:02.Korir looks like he's starting to struggle a little. Did you see how

:03:03. > :03:06.they came around that corner? You can see they are struggling to get

:03:07. > :03:09.around the tight corners. There is Calum Hawkins, still running well

:03:10. > :03:13.but I'm worried about him in the later stages now because it is still

:03:14. > :03:20.wet, drying out a little but sometimes that makes it worse. The

:03:21. > :03:25.speeds that Kalinic around the corner, he was coping with that

:03:26. > :03:30.well, it depends a little on the soles of the shoes, some shoes will

:03:31. > :03:34.slip more easily but the part of the course I'm worried about is where

:03:35. > :03:38.they run out around the museum on the way home when they've come off

:03:39. > :03:44.this loop because that will be really slippery. They have to be

:03:45. > :03:47.careful on the tight corners and it is good to see Calum Hawkins moving

:03:48. > :03:51.through, leaving that group and working his way through and each

:03:52. > :03:56.person he picks off that will help him mentally. He is running really

:03:57. > :04:01.strong, he is passing people and passed the world champion or about

:04:02. > :04:10.to pass him and the pace has picked up. You can see 1:33.1 five. 1503,

:04:11. > :04:15.by far the quickest ever in so far. By a long way. From the previous

:04:16. > :04:23.five Kay they've picked up about 40 seconds. That is a significant rise

:04:24. > :04:28.in pace for the guys who can run 2.3 and 2.4 and 2.5 even, that isn't a

:04:29. > :04:32.big pressure but the interesting thing for me is how comfortably

:04:33. > :04:37.Galen Rupp has coped with that. Yes he has the 10,000 metre pace and he

:04:38. > :04:42.must think I don't mind this because the cap is discarded for the first

:04:43. > :04:47.time, no, put it back on again. He was handed a dry cat, through of the

:04:48. > :04:50.wet one. He did that before and I wonder if he put something under the

:04:51. > :04:54.cap on his head, but he has discarded the heavier cap because it

:04:55. > :05:01.has absorbed the water and put on a dry one. If he wins a medal and it

:05:02. > :05:06.comes down to the heaviness of a wet cat versus a dry cap and he feels

:05:07. > :05:13.that gave him an edge then hats off to him. I'm learning lots of

:05:14. > :05:18.technical things about leases and caps and getting the right drinks.

:05:19. > :05:25.It is science now. If there's anyone to leave that it is certainly the

:05:26. > :05:30.Oregon Project Galen Rupp. Alberto Salazar, winner of the 1500 metres,

:05:31. > :05:35.Centrowitz and a great more far-off. We've not refer to that much today

:05:36. > :05:38.but wasn't it a great evening we saw Mohammed Farah with his fourth

:05:39. > :05:47.Olympic gold medal? Wonder if he's watching today because he has an

:05:48. > :05:51.idea of them, but Galen Rupp taking his drink steadily, not getting too

:05:52. > :05:57.far behind, just holding position and we are now down seven runners

:05:58. > :06:02.and the gold medal Silver and Bronze medal will be between these.

:06:03. > :06:05.Interesting about the cap, it is typical Alberto Salazar, he will

:06:06. > :06:10.look at everything and have looked at the statistics of how you lose

:06:11. > :06:13.the most out of it through your head and think, once there is a wet and

:06:14. > :06:16.heavy cap on your head you reduce the image of heat you can loose

:06:17. > :06:25.carpet of dry cap on and that helps to do that. -- loose, put a dry cap.

:06:26. > :06:30.The 19th mile was run in 4.40 three. That is fast running. It would be

:06:31. > :06:35.faster flat-out fast race but when you've not been running that pace,

:06:36. > :06:39.big lift, some are struggling a little. Galen Rupp what we are

:06:40. > :06:46.speaking about those marginal gains him was maybe thinking about, Doris

:06:47. > :06:51.Day with this pace or wait and see what happens? Do they maintain this?

:06:52. > :07:03.He is back on it and it will be the time the first to struggle here.

:07:04. > :07:08.There has been paying, face etched with the pain of the effort required

:07:09. > :07:13.for this pace. He is beginning to falter as well. He has done pretty

:07:14. > :07:16.well to be in this, pace has not been that good and you would expect

:07:17. > :07:23.to see that McStay with it. He is going now. We have the two very good

:07:24. > :07:29.Ethiopians with Kichenok, the world number one marathon runner. -- with

:07:30. > :07:34.Eliud Kipchoge. Galen Rupp mixing it with them on his first championship

:07:35. > :07:41.marathon, setting out on what looks like a new chapter in his career.

:07:42. > :07:45.Wesley Korir starting to really struggle, Calum Hawkins still going

:07:46. > :07:49.well for Great Britain, heading towards a top 15 place just now, can

:07:50. > :08:01.he pick off some more? Who knows. No wait and see. Top four looking to

:08:02. > :08:04.try and break its coverage -- Eliud Kipchoge discusses tap, Galen Rupp's

:08:05. > :08:09.offers would build and at the end of this lap you're into the latter

:08:10. > :08:13.stages and if he realises that one of the big contenders from he's

:08:14. > :08:19.looking around to see who is there, his confidence has got to be rising.

:08:20. > :08:23.It has to be. And now down to four, he's looking over his shoulder, he

:08:24. > :08:28.has the winner of the Boston Marathon and the winner of the

:08:29. > :08:35.London Marathon, the winner of the Tokyo Marathon, and he saw won the

:08:36. > :08:40.trials in the USA in his debut marathon, there is the other Kenyan

:08:41. > :08:47.athlete, he is in trouble. They're down to three big-time city Marathon

:08:48. > :08:52.winners. And Galen Rupp, his first serious international marathon, the

:08:53. > :08:58.one you knew he would getting ready for, silver medallist in the Olympic

:08:59. > :09:01.Games in London in the 10,000 metres behind Mo Farah. Realising he cannot

:09:02. > :09:06.beat more fire on the track, he has been training with him come he has

:09:07. > :09:10.seen him in action and seen him winning of the medals, he decided

:09:11. > :09:17.that one isn't for me, I will not win that one, will he be the next

:09:18. > :09:20.American after Frank Short in 1972, could there be an American champion

:09:21. > :09:24.in the marathon? What a boost for American distance running and

:09:25. > :09:28.worldwide distance running when people realise you can take on these

:09:29. > :09:31.Africans from Ethiopia and Kenya, the athletes born in attitude and

:09:32. > :09:39.raised at altitude and training hard together in groups. You can take

:09:40. > :09:42.them on and is Galen Rupp rock now running himself into the medal

:09:43. > :09:51.position? Three of them beginning to edge away, the strongman, Eliud

:09:52. > :09:54.Kipchoge, he has an amazing record in the marathon and he runs them

:09:55. > :09:59.like this, head down and working hard and he felt in London he could

:10:00. > :10:02.have broken the world record in the marathon, so today isn't a world

:10:03. > :10:07.record effort, it is an Olympic title effort, he has Bronze medal in

:10:08. > :10:15.the Olympics and a silver medal in the Olympics, is he on his way?

:10:16. > :10:22.Eliud Kipchoge to a medal in the Olympic Games? Two great track

:10:23. > :10:27.runners at the front, Galen Rupp continues to look strong and

:10:28. > :10:34.comfortable as he shadows Eliud Kipchoge and if you extend at the

:10:35. > :10:38.American discussion, Clayton Murphy won a medal in 800 metres by Jenny

:10:39. > :10:44.Simpson the 1500 metres for women, they performed really well, you're

:10:45. > :10:52.right everywhere, the Lee Mossop medal in the 5000 metres, admittedly

:10:53. > :10:57.former Kenyan runner. Stephen chased all we are excited about our

:10:58. > :10:59.programme, we've made a massive impact, but they have people

:11:00. > :11:05.everywhere winning medals and it just shows picking up Brendan's

:11:06. > :11:09.point, you don't have to hand the medals to the African nations in the

:11:10. > :11:14.distance events, you can be competitive in the USA the smack and

:11:15. > :11:17.the USA are showing us that across all of the events. The other factor

:11:18. > :11:20.in this is if you look at the personal bests coming into the race,

:11:21. > :11:26.Galen Rupp is way behind the likes of Eliud Kipchoge it and he made a

:11:27. > :11:30.big decision to move to the roads I think given the fact he knows he is

:11:31. > :11:34.more efficient on the road and he would be a better racer there. He

:11:35. > :11:38.knows he cannot compete with more Farah on the track but I think he's

:11:39. > :11:42.a better marathon runner than more Farah will ever be and he has known

:11:43. > :11:47.that and moved up, made the decision to run the US trials then it could

:11:48. > :11:51.have got a lot of money to make his debut in one of the big major city

:11:52. > :11:55.marathons but he wanted to focus on the Olympic marathon and made his

:11:56. > :11:58.debut there and concentrated on being able to cope with this style

:11:59. > :12:03.of racing. He will have trained and prepared to cope with the fast

:12:04. > :12:07.surges that will come in the closing stages and he knows what he needs to

:12:08. > :12:13.do is hang on to those coat-tails of Eliud Kipchoge at him is to whittle

:12:14. > :12:19.this Ray Teret he is working hard, as is Galen Rupp and the man behind

:12:20. > :12:22.him, obviously it is the closing stages of the marathon but this is a

:12:23. > :12:31.serious move Eliud Kipchoge is making. 33 and one third just behind

:12:32. > :12:34.them, 42 to 1.1 kilometres of the resistance, there's still some

:12:35. > :12:42.running to be done, look at the eyes of Eliud Kipchoge, the determination

:12:43. > :12:45.in his face as he settles down and he will try and grind it out all the

:12:46. > :12:50.way. He will get faster and faster and looking at his record, he runs

:12:51. > :12:55.to marathons a year since he started in 2013 and one in hamburger,

:12:56. > :13:02.finished second in Berlin in his first year, two hours five and two

:13:03. > :13:06.hours for. 2014 he did the same, winning in Rotterdam and Chicago.

:13:07. > :13:11.Last year, 2015, he won in London and Berlin, two hours four minutes,

:13:12. > :13:15.and this year his first marathon with victory in London and a

:13:16. > :13:21.personal best time of two hours three, this is his second marathon

:13:22. > :13:25.of the year, will this be like most of his others, like the other seven

:13:26. > :13:31.marathons he has won, he has won six and finished second once. He could

:13:32. > :13:36.become one of the greatest if he ones the wins this today and isn't

:13:37. > :13:41.the Limato is in with a strong chance today or will it be the

:13:42. > :13:45.American? Since 1972 they have not won the marathon, that was an

:13:46. > :13:55.amazing marathon with Frank shorter in Munich. Or will the Ethiopian

:13:56. > :14:00.challenger in third,. America, Ethiopia and Kenya and what you said

:14:01. > :14:05.earlier about the strength and depth of the Americans, I always feel that

:14:06. > :14:09.if the British athletes should be able to be competitive with the

:14:10. > :14:14.Americans, we understand that in numbers there are of distance

:14:15. > :14:17.runners in Kenya, but we could match the Americans and that is another

:14:18. > :14:22.target for the Great Britain development squad and injuring

:14:23. > :14:28.scores to try and take on the Americans and get some of the

:14:29. > :14:31.events, Steeplechase, 1500 metres. Get young athletes coming through

:14:32. > :14:36.that the Americans seem to have been developing this programme for

:14:37. > :14:42.several years. And it will pay huge dividends. Hawkins still going for

:14:43. > :14:55.Great Britain through 30 kilometres. He has been fighting injury

:14:56. > :15:04.problems. Keeping going. His younger brother Callum Hawkins, haven't seen

:15:05. > :15:09.him for a little while. He had been running strong, heading for a top 15

:15:10. > :15:13.position. At the front, though, the roads are

:15:14. > :15:19.drying out, as the temperature continues to rise, rising

:15:20. > :15:27.metaphorically in the race here. Defeat will be sore. Legs starting

:15:28. > :15:32.to ache. This is the part of the marathon we have seen so many times

:15:33. > :15:37.where the decisive moves are made will stop but there is still a long

:15:38. > :15:41.way to go. Not much in terms of distance. Although there is still,

:15:42. > :15:50.when they come off this group, they still have about seven kilometres of

:15:51. > :15:58.running to do. So much can happen. It is where the drama happens. It is

:15:59. > :16:05.interesting we have these three away, there is nothing to suggest

:16:06. > :16:13.anyone else can content. With that rocking motion and looking behind,

:16:14. > :16:19.is that a sign of weakness from Rupp. I have a medal, I have to keep

:16:20. > :16:24.going. Or is he checking the danger. Is he thinking, I am feeling good,

:16:25. > :16:30.running with Eliud Kipchoge, no danger behind. I have two try and

:16:31. > :16:34.see whether I can grasp not only any medal could it be the gold medal for

:16:35. > :16:38.the USA? I think he was just checking. He

:16:39. > :16:45.could sense Eliud Kipchoge had taken a little rake from the pace. And he

:16:46. > :16:50.wanted to check behind to make sure in sitting in he wasn't allowing

:16:51. > :17:00.someone else to get back into contention. He has a lock support on

:17:01. > :17:04.the course. A lot of people on bikes giving him information.

:17:05. > :17:12.The issue about this part of the course, those on the water stations,

:17:13. > :17:20.they will now lose this lap. It is easy on the loop to communicate, now

:17:21. > :17:30.they are leaving. Galen Rupp, just dropping off by three metres.

:17:31. > :17:35.Kipchoge, big pressure on. That was by far the quickest section of this

:17:36. > :17:43.route. All of a sudden, the gap appears. This will be tough for

:17:44. > :17:49.Galen Rupp. The cap has gone. He has got to make sure he sticks to his

:17:50. > :17:55.task. Were he to win a medal, it would be phenomenal. It will be hard

:17:56. > :18:02.now. I said the cap has gone, that is great organisation, another dry

:18:03. > :18:08.cap for him. This will be a lonely runs him towards a medal possibly.

:18:09. > :18:15.It will be hard. He checked behind, a big gap. Who is charging from

:18:16. > :18:22.behind, coming through from the group? It is not -- it did not look

:18:23. > :18:39.as if they're Arda or Biwott could do anything. I think I can still see

:18:40. > :18:43.Derek Hawkins. -- Berhanu or Biwott. Kipchoge having a discussion at the

:18:44. > :18:51.front. Callum Hawkins is coming through, 12th place. Only nine

:18:52. > :19:00.seconds from a top-10 place. Running strong, very strong indeed. Biwott,

:19:01. > :19:06.now. There is one threat for Galen Rupp that has disappeared, Biwott

:19:07. > :19:12.with problems. All of a sudden, Kipchoge, opening up the gap.

:19:13. > :19:16.He said, you are not following me in my slipstream, either get alongside

:19:17. > :19:22.me or accelerate. He was pointing and telling him what to do. Now the

:19:23. > :19:30.strongman of the marathon strikes out. With an incredible record in

:19:31. > :19:35.the marathon. Six victories in seven runnings in his marathon career. The

:19:36. > :19:42.man who started on the track, world champion at the age of 18. 14.25

:19:43. > :19:50.that 5,000 metres split. No wonder Galen Rupp is struggling. No wonder

:19:51. > :20:02.the easy and -- Ethiopian runners are struggling. Elliott Kipchoge

:20:03. > :20:10.saying, running alongside me or there is no team here, you are

:20:11. > :20:16.Ethiopian, I am Kenyan. A strong controversy occasionally but also a

:20:17. > :20:22.strong, respectful rivalry. Eliud Kipchoge, is he on the way to a gold

:20:23. > :20:29.medal in the Olympic Games? A relaxing smile almost from Eliud

:20:30. > :20:35.Kipchoge. 36 kilometres, six kilometres to go. Over three miles.

:20:36. > :20:45.To put that 14.25 in context, that is inside 2.2 marathon running pace.

:20:46. > :20:58.An injection of pace in that three-mile section. At that part of

:20:59. > :21:03.the marathon, in these conditions, no wonder Galen Rupp could hang in.

:21:04. > :21:09.He did for a while. Phenomenal running from Kipchoge. That gap is

:21:10. > :21:16.significant. Galen Rupp still running strong for a bronze medal

:21:17. > :21:19.for the USA. But will these positions change? Can anyone come

:21:20. > :21:27.through from behind as they wind their way through, they come into

:21:28. > :21:31.the famous square. Galen Rupp is struggling now. There

:21:32. > :21:40.are threats coming from behind. The other Ethiopian, looking OK there.

:21:41. > :21:47.That is their Ha Na. His team-mate Erik Lesser. Let us look at

:21:48. > :21:51.Kipchoge, the man who has come through from the track, who has got

:21:52. > :22:01.better over the years, who has found his event. Has he gone too early?

:22:02. > :22:06.Ten seconds, is that enough for victory? Still a lot of running to

:22:07. > :22:15.do. This part of the course is awful, look at Galen Rupp.

:22:16. > :22:21.He is now really paying the price for trying to go with that move. He

:22:22. > :22:26.ran very bravely and tried to do with it. Kipchoge is a master and

:22:27. > :22:33.picked the pace up, a phenomenal pace that has done a lot of damage.

:22:34. > :22:37.The smile of satisfaction is it was his first serious move and it has

:22:38. > :22:43.succeeded in blowing apart this field. Now he can move away and

:22:44. > :22:49.won't get beaten, he is on the way to victory. The danger is for Galen

:22:50. > :22:54.Rupp, there is a jewel threat approaching behind him. He needs to

:22:55. > :22:59.be focused ahead and maintain form. He is struggling.

:23:00. > :23:04.You know when you are that tired, you take those tight corners, trying

:23:05. > :23:11.to accelerate again, it is so hard to do. As we look down. It is

:23:12. > :23:17.sparsely populated today, it is normally filled with crowds, it is

:23:18. > :23:21.where the Olympic flame is. That amount was grass at the beginning of

:23:22. > :23:32.the games, so many have stood on it, it has turned to mud. Eliud Kipchoge

:23:33. > :23:37.enjoying the big crowds that have gathered on the side of the route,

:23:38. > :23:42.they will get a couple of good use. They will see him again when he

:23:43. > :23:59.comes back behind the Candelaria Church. Forging on. We had a 32nd

:24:00. > :24:11.gap to those chasing. The last kilometres will be so tough for the

:24:12. > :24:23.American. Faltering a little bit. He had to

:24:24. > :24:35.think, keep focused. In third place, Galen Rupp, slowing,

:24:36. > :24:42.working, but hanging on. As you said, finding those corners

:24:43. > :24:45.difficult. But as you also said, 14.25 for the 5,000 metres has

:24:46. > :24:52.loaned the race apart. It is a fierce pace. No one could live with

:24:53. > :25:00.Kipchoge. That is the world champion on his way back, coming through

:25:01. > :25:07.strongly. Ghebreslassie. He has worked his way through.

:25:08. > :25:13.Slowing straight past the chasing two. Berhanu tried to do with him.

:25:14. > :25:17.But he looks better, fresher than edit Kipchoge. He won't catch him

:25:18. > :25:20.but he could work himself back into a medal.

:25:21. > :25:27.I wonder if he knows what position he is in. He was so far back he may

:25:28. > :25:33.not know what is ahead of him. Other teams are good at giving

:25:34. > :25:38.information. He is in fourth and he is charging, chasing Galen Rupp.

:25:39. > :25:43.Galen Rupp will have a very painful last five kilometres of this

:25:44. > :25:49.marathon. Look at that gap, Steve.

:25:50. > :25:54.Kipchoge is moving away. Those gaps, I have to be careful because of the

:25:55. > :25:59.turns, I would like to wait and see when they come round this section,

:26:00. > :26:06.this spectacular new feature on the waterfront in Rio de Janeiro. The

:26:07. > :26:11.dramatic sky, a dramatic race in the men's marathon.

:26:12. > :26:18.Lilesa of Ethiopian, a good 15 seconds behind the leader. Then,

:26:19. > :26:21.Galen Rupp hanging on for third, the bronze medal.

:26:22. > :26:27.Coming under threat from the world champion. A spectacular view. This

:26:28. > :26:34.beautiful building. It was only completed this year. A little bit

:26:35. > :26:42.controversial. Massive cost. But it does look stunning. There is Galen

:26:43. > :26:47.Rupp. Again, I keep saying this, Paula has made a good point, as

:26:48. > :26:54.tired as you are, Lilesa might be starting to struggle as well.

:26:55. > :26:58.Ghebreslassie, if he knows it, when they come around here, and turn down

:26:59. > :27:03.the other side, Ghebreslassie will get a view of who is still in this

:27:04. > :27:09.race, who is ahead, who can he catch, who can he chase?

:27:10. > :27:14.A brilliant view of Eliud Kipchoge, the leader of the marathon. Is that

:27:15. > :27:29.a winning lead? We are waiting for the Erik Lesser, there he goes. Well

:27:30. > :27:34.that gap change at all? -- Lilesa. The exciting race is happening

:27:35. > :27:37.behind Galen Rupp. He is tired, looking across, seeing how far the

:27:38. > :27:52.leaders are. Behind is a bigger threat.

:27:53. > :27:59.Just a couple of miles from the finish as they pass the museum.

:28:00. > :28:04.Eliud Kipchoge, the strongman of the marathon. The man whose record is

:28:05. > :28:10.second to none. Seven marathons, he has won six. Is his eighth going to

:28:11. > :28:15.be the glorious victory in the Olympic Games?

:28:16. > :28:19.Eliud Kipchoge still looking really strong. His cadence hasn't really

:28:20. > :28:25.changed as he picked up the pace. But Galen Rupp, his form looks

:28:26. > :28:34.totally different to five kilometres away. It becomes a mental battle for

:28:35. > :28:40.Galen Rupp. And Lilesa in seconds, to do whatever they can to keep

:28:41. > :28:45.their minds focused on the here and now, one foot in front of the other,

:28:46. > :28:49.quick as you can. I was wincing when Galen Rupp came around the corner.

:28:50. > :28:54.He couldn't control very well where he was moving, he was in danger of

:28:55. > :29:06.tripping over the small collards on the external corner.

:29:07. > :29:12.-- bollards. Galen Rupp needs to look ahead,

:29:13. > :29:19.Paula is right. This guy is not far behind, maybe 15 seconds. That is

:29:20. > :29:29.easily possible given Ghebreslassie is moving fast. It may be Galen Rupp

:29:30. > :29:39.has two concentrate on not being caught. He may have enough time to

:29:40. > :29:44.catch him. When they come through this section, big crowds, they will

:29:45. > :29:56.make a right-hand turn eventually into the last 1.5 miles. The last

:29:57. > :30:02.two kilometres, up the long avenue. And they will turn left into the

:30:03. > :30:05.Sambodromo, that is another 700 metres of running where you see the

:30:06. > :30:13.finish line. Could be yet see the medals change hands?

:30:14. > :30:18.This is tricky, you'll be able to see the people in front of him when

:30:19. > :30:22.he goes down here. If at this bit on when they measured the route

:30:23. > :30:28.accurately, to add an extra couple of hundred metres to go down this

:30:29. > :30:34.little side arm and turnaround, straight back and look at Eliud

:30:35. > :30:36.Kipchoge, how slowly he goes around the corner and polished writing it

:30:37. > :30:41.is because you cannot control your muscles in the same way when you're

:30:42. > :30:47.fresh. He has got incredibly hard and he now sees there is a lesser,

:30:48. > :30:51.Galen Rupp and a letter will be able to eyeball each other in this

:30:52. > :30:57.section but more importantly, two of them, I think, will be able to see

:30:58. > :31:00.the charge in Taber Selassie -- in Ghebreslassia lets see how a lesser

:31:01. > :31:08.gets around the corner, this is brutal. Galen Rupp is closing. Will

:31:09. > :31:14.he fear the American or will he fear the Eritrean more? Look at him now.

:31:15. > :31:16.Let's see how he does. Slowing to the corner, the first thing he will

:31:17. > :31:20.do is look at the what is coming down other side and fortunately for

:31:21. > :31:27.Galen Rupp, there is no one coming down the other side, looking at

:31:28. > :31:33.Eliud Kipchoge, eyes firmly set on the road ahead, seven marathons run

:31:34. > :31:37.already, six victories, only one defeat at the marathon. The winner

:31:38. > :31:40.in London this year when he nearly broke the world record in the

:31:41. > :31:45.marathon and his career in the Olympic Games he was third in the

:31:46. > :31:52.thousand four, second in the Tasnim they come he was not selected in

:31:53. > :31:57.2012 as we looked. It is his third effort in the Olympic Games to go

:31:58. > :32:02.from bronze to silver the gold and will he settle for silver here? Will

:32:03. > :32:08.he be able to hang on to silver? The last five kilometres, look at that,

:32:09. > :32:11.another 14.44 and Galen Rupp is sticking to his task he is

:32:12. > :32:16.distressed and working harder than ever, running out of energy and

:32:17. > :32:22.rules, but that is the important thing. He is well on his way, two

:32:23. > :32:27.hours and two minutes at the 40 kilometre point, 22 seconds to the

:32:28. > :32:33.second place, and there is the man who might threaten the medal

:32:34. > :32:37.rostrum, the world champion. But he doesn't look like he's running

:32:38. > :32:44.faster than the others. He was for a while, ran a very quick five Kay and

:32:45. > :32:48.now 36 seconds behind the Jody come in second place, he has broken these

:32:49. > :32:52.runners and broken the field apart and has broken their resolve and he

:32:53. > :32:58.has broken their marathon capabilities at the end with this

:32:59. > :33:10.incredibly quick section. Galen Rupp, 12 seconds behind Lilesa. That

:33:11. > :33:17.is about 70 or 80 metres but Galen Rupp is hanging on to a medal at the

:33:18. > :33:23.moment. Ghebreslassia will wait for the time to go through the 40 Kay

:33:24. > :33:28.checkpoint. They're all child the tired. Galen Rupp is right on the

:33:29. > :33:34.edge, hanging on and Ghebreslassia has himself thought to be tired and

:33:35. > :33:38.as the clock ticks, every second the clock ticks is helping Galen Rupp.

:33:39. > :33:45.It will be at least one minute and I think Rupp just needs to stay on his

:33:46. > :33:48.feet and I mean just keep running. Paula making the good points, one

:33:49. > :33:52.foot in front of the other, focus on this man ahead of you come here is

:33:53. > :33:59.Galen Rupp, moving better now. The knees are obviously in the cadence

:34:00. > :34:05.we normally see with him isn't there. Ghebreslassia is now one

:34:06. > :34:10.minute behind Galen Rupp, he only has one mile and a quarter, little

:34:11. > :34:14.bit more, the cash that up. That is a lot. Even he cannot do that unless

:34:15. > :34:22.Galen Rupp falls apart. Galen Rupp is digging really deep. You can see

:34:23. > :34:28.him down the road, interestingly Ghebreslassia we've seen. But look

:34:29. > :34:32.at the choke -- Eliud Kipchoge, he became the world champion at the age

:34:33. > :34:38.of 18 in Paris. Here is Galen Rupp and is the gap closing? Galen Rupp

:34:39. > :34:41.is coming back renewed. News down the course, Calum Hawkins is in

:34:42. > :34:47.seventh place and is charging through the field, an incredible run

:34:48. > :34:52.from Callum Hawkins, he has passed Abraham and Jared Ward and he has

:34:53. > :34:57.retired in his sights, only six seconds behind him, and this is an

:34:58. > :35:01.incredible run from Callum Hawkins, we'll see him in the face straight

:35:02. > :35:06.but for the moment, obviously the coverage is concentrating on the

:35:07. > :35:14.gold medal race on Eliud Kipchoge, heading towards this title, one

:35:15. > :35:19.which of course Kenya Dereli cherishes, Kenya terraces, Ethiopia

:35:20. > :35:24.won it since 2000, not their day-to-day. Lilesa will try and hang

:35:25. > :35:29.on to those of a medal but Galen Rupp is closing in on him. And I

:35:30. > :35:34.think Ghebreslassia will have to give up unless something dramatic

:35:35. > :35:37.happens to those in front of him. Not to Eliud Kipchoge though, strong

:35:38. > :35:41.and ripped the heart out of this race. This man is totally in

:35:42. > :35:45.control, yes, he is tired and he should be because he's worked really

:35:46. > :35:49.hard but the biggest sign of strain seems to be trying to blink the

:35:50. > :35:52.sweat out of his eyes so he can still see where he is going. These

:35:53. > :35:57.are the ones that are operating on a knife edge just now, every look

:35:58. > :36:01.Lilesa throws overshot the check on the gap gives a little bit to Galen

:36:02. > :36:06.Rupp if he can see that because he is closing his eyes and trying to

:36:07. > :36:10.summon every ounce of energy, he has really used everything he has in his

:36:11. > :36:16.body now and is calling on every last reserve. He is about to see the

:36:17. > :36:22.41 kilometre mark is this man has passed it and running brilliantly.

:36:23. > :36:26.25th mile for Eliud Kipchoge was five minutes to come he is hurting

:36:27. > :36:29.but how much of the others hurt in? I wonder how slowly it ready fifth

:36:30. > :36:35.mile was. They are all hurting because of what he did in the 40 20

:36:36. > :36:43.55 Kay. He has been working a long time. 2003 became world champion at

:36:44. > :36:48.5000 metres, breaching the greats. He has waited since 2004 when he was

:36:49. > :36:52.third in the Olympic 5000 metres, then second in the Olympic 5000

:36:53. > :36:57.metres and when he wasn't selected for London in 2012 he decided no

:36:58. > :37:02.longer as he finds instructions to tell him where to go. 700 metres

:37:03. > :37:06.remaining four Eliud Kipchoge and many people are saying if he wins

:37:07. > :37:09.this race he would put himself amongst the all-time marathon

:37:10. > :37:15.greats, on his way to become the second Kenyan to win this title,

:37:16. > :37:19.Sammy one Djourou won it instead as an data and sadly died a few years

:37:20. > :37:22.later in 2011 but this man has worked and trained an awful long

:37:23. > :37:28.time for this victory and here are the other two. The race still on for

:37:29. > :37:32.the silver and bronze, it will be those two, they will not be caught

:37:33. > :37:38.now. And nobody is catching Eliud Kipchoge. Completely destroyed the

:37:39. > :37:44.field with about 15 kilometres to go. Run quicker than anyone possibly

:37:45. > :37:48.could have done and it is rewarded with the Olympic title. It will be

:37:49. > :37:52.called for Kenya, the familiar sprint of Eliud Kipchoge that he

:37:53. > :37:56.used on the track to such great effect, he is now putting it to his

:37:57. > :38:01.marathon finish, he is enjoying these last 100 metres or so, look at

:38:02. > :38:04.the smile on his face. The work was my best marathon runner, they don't

:38:05. > :38:12.always win the Olympic title, but this time he has. Eliud Kipchoge of

:38:13. > :38:16.Kenya ran a brilliant race and he is enjoying this, taking all of the

:38:17. > :38:23.adulation from the crowd. Eliud Kipchoge is the Olympic champion.

:38:24. > :38:29.Superb from him, that hurt but he made the others hurt even more.

:38:30. > :38:34.Fantastic. We've seen him do it in London and now he's done it in the

:38:35. > :38:39.Olympics, Lilesa will hang on for the silver medal for Ethiopia. And

:38:40. > :38:46.Galen Rupp is still trying his best now gives up the chase for the and

:38:47. > :38:50.looks behind as Lilesa celebrates, a very good silver medal for him and

:38:51. > :38:57.for his country for Ethiopia. Galen Rupp took one little check behind,

:38:58. > :39:00.what a race, what a performance. He's the only one of these that ran

:39:01. > :39:05.in the 10,000 metres, let's not forget that. He ran the 10,000 metre

:39:06. > :39:11.final against Moore Farah at the beginning of the week and ends his

:39:12. > :39:17.week with a superb run in the marathon. Cannot quite catch Lilesa,

:39:18. > :39:24.he gets the silver medal, so Lilesa very tired, these guys, they are

:39:25. > :39:27.almost jogging after what first attracted to them. They tried to go

:39:28. > :39:34.with it and it got them a medal by going with it, but now they just

:39:35. > :39:40.about get across the line. Look how tired Galen Rupp is. Goodness me,

:39:41. > :39:48.this will be big news in the USA. A bronze medal for Galen Rupp.

:39:49. > :39:52.Brilliant run from him. A bronze medal and a big personal best come

:39:53. > :39:56.he has taken a minute or so of his personal best and has given

:39:57. > :40:04.absolutely everything out there. He could not give any more. Those of

:40:05. > :40:07.the world champion from Beijing last year rallied late and then some

:40:08. > :40:14.tired athletes coming in, but Callum Hawkins will vanish in the top ten,

:40:15. > :40:17.what a run from him. This is fourth, fifth, sixth seventh, eighth and

:40:18. > :40:25.ninth. Abraham has gone past him again but Callum Hawkins has run the

:40:26. > :40:28.race of his life, like Galen Rupp, sitting up on his marathon career

:40:29. > :40:37.that surely is full of great prospects for him. Ghebreslassia

:40:38. > :40:44.world champion from last year will take fourth. As Galen Rupp

:40:45. > :40:47.celebrates his bronze. But Callum Hawkins we will see him across the

:40:48. > :40:56.line as he had the line, top finish, nobody could believe that. In the

:40:57. > :40:59.Tanzania to finish fifth and we will have to leave it after Callum

:41:00. > :41:04.Hawkins, but the word on him as he approaches the line. Fantastic

:41:05. > :41:07.performance by Callum Hawkins, he looks as if he is in about eight,

:41:08. > :41:14.this is the start of the journey. There is water, the USA, finishing

:41:15. > :41:18.and Gillies of Canada on the way through. And Callum Hawkins not far

:41:19. > :41:22.from a personal best, fantastic performance by the young Briton, 24

:41:23. > :41:28.years old, the man from Phil Barton in Scotland, hats off to him, what a

:41:29. > :41:33.glorious performance. Ninth position and he can be very proud of that. He

:41:34. > :41:37.has a lot of his career left ahead of him as well. He will be back and

:41:38. > :41:44.finish higher than that. Well done Callum Hawkins. They will be so many

:41:45. > :41:51.people proud of him but they will be so many people in all of Eliud

:41:52. > :41:57.Kipchoge, the Olympic champion in a way that is the most brutal way to

:41:58. > :42:01.do it, pace wasn't that quick early on, Callum Hawkins led for many

:42:02. > :42:05.parts of this marathon, what a memory that will be for him, but

:42:06. > :42:11.didn't he stick to this task well when it broke up and Eliud Kipchoge

:42:12. > :42:19.through in the incredibly fast five kilometres. That was where the gold

:42:20. > :42:24.medal was won and were Lilesa and Galen Rupp were able to pull away

:42:25. > :42:28.for the Cal Malkin did brilliantly well to finish and the top ten in

:42:29. > :42:36.the Olympic marathon. There is the champion, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya.

:42:37. > :42:39.Fantastic race by Callum Hawkins. I'm sure he will want to get one of

:42:40. > :42:44.those pictures of him reading the Olympic marathon race. Fantastic

:42:45. > :42:48.performance from him but Eliud Kipchoge becomes the Olympic

:42:49. > :42:53.champion. As incredible as the marathon race was, I have to come

:42:54. > :42:57.clean because I was distracted. A few moments ago here in BBC ones did

:42:58. > :43:08.you I was joined by a very special man.

:43:09. > :43:15.Mo Farah going for the double-double. Moore Farah tried to

:43:16. > :43:25.do something so many Brits could not do. Give Selassie couldn't do it.

:43:26. > :43:33.You could go through all of the great names in the past and he has

:43:34. > :43:39.opportunity to hopefully take this fourth gold medal and the double

:43:40. > :43:44.again would be his. That is pretty quick, 2.372 first kilometre, I have

:43:45. > :43:51.to say that would be the quickest ever first kilometre in an Olympic

:43:52. > :43:55.5000. Is this a genuine attempt to take on more viral or an attempt to

:43:56. > :43:58.get rid of as many people as possible as Mack seven laps to go in

:43:59. > :44:04.the men's 5000 metres, so far the Ethiopian plan to stretch Mo Farah

:44:05. > :44:07.and see if he has any weaknesses because he is faster than the

:44:08. > :44:14.fastest and they will find out if he is stronger than the strongest.

:44:15. > :44:22.Great Britain with two men in the top seven. Ethiopia leading-edge but

:44:23. > :44:26.slowing. That was the slowest lap, the previous one. They come around

:44:27. > :44:30.this time I suspect this will be even slower with 63.9 the previous

:44:31. > :44:35.lap, this looks to anything slower than that. Mo Farah has gone, OK,

:44:36. > :44:41.that was your opening gambit, I've taken that one, thank you, I'm ready

:44:42. > :44:45.and waiting. I'm right here. Right where I want to be, and letting you

:44:46. > :44:47.know I'm here. You slow down and I moved to the front. Speed up and I'm

:44:48. > :44:59.going with you. He comes down the back straight,

:45:00. > :45:06.three medals in the bag, is it to be another one, a historic fourth?

:45:07. > :45:16.Mo Farah checking behind and to the side, looking up to the big screen.

:45:17. > :45:23.There is almost a fall. Just a little push and a shove.

:45:24. > :45:28.There goes Mo Farah at the bell. He has company, trying to hold them

:45:29. > :45:33.off, accelerating, sprinting, in the driving seat. Has he got the finish

:45:34. > :45:40.we have seen him produce? Can he add to the three gold medals he has got?

:45:41. > :45:49.Chelimo pushes in. Mo Farah knows he has two hold, hold

:45:50. > :45:54.the lead here. They were attacked again but Mo Farah has more to give.

:45:55. > :46:00.He has speed in those legs to spare, looking up at the screen. They are

:46:01. > :46:05.trying to catch him. Cho Lima looks the big danger.

:46:06. > :46:09.Mo Farah looks to his inside, checks there is no danger. Chelimo is

:46:10. > :46:16.trying but will not get him. Mo Farah is away. Mo Farah is going

:46:17. > :46:23.to get gold for Great Britain again! The double double. Four Olympic

:46:24. > :46:28.titles, four Olympic gold medals. Incredible.

:46:29. > :46:36.It is so good to see you. I am sure it was a late night.

:46:37. > :46:41.Very late. I didn't get back until 2am. By the time I had done

:46:42. > :46:48.anti-doping, everything else. You are looking very well. A big

:46:49. > :46:54.smile on your face. Last night, so special. You have had a few. Where

:46:55. > :47:02.does it rank having completed that double double on special nights?

:47:03. > :47:08.There are no words to describe to be Olympic champion, to do it after

:47:09. > :47:13.London, to have four years. Last night was amazing, amazing, I can't

:47:14. > :47:15.believe I have managed to pull it off.

:47:16. > :47:18.Everyone is so proud. You have been doing your nation so proud for so

:47:19. > :47:23.long. BRENDAN FOSTER: For last night was

:47:24. > :47:31.already calling you Britain's greatest athlete. Put it into your

:47:32. > :47:38.own words, where does this frank? It is every athlete's dream to be

:47:39. > :47:41.Olympic champion, but to do it four Times is amazing.

:47:42. > :47:46.Watching Haile Gebrselassie, the Sydney Olympics, thinking one day I

:47:47. > :47:52.want to be Olympic champion. Then, to do it. There are no words to

:47:53. > :48:00.describe it. To do it in London and have another Buffon years and to do

:48:01. > :48:05.it in Rio, it has been amazing. -- four years. All my medals I have

:48:06. > :48:09.dedicated to my kids. One to pop round each of their

:48:10. > :48:17.heads. I did what I can for my kids.

:48:18. > :48:21.That is all I can do as a parent. We will talk about your sacrifices. Let

:48:22. > :48:27.us talk about the race. I know you haven't seen it. How did it play in

:48:28. > :48:31.your eyes? For me, I have been in three

:48:32. > :48:35.Olympics, this Olympics, I just wanted to take it as another race

:48:36. > :48:41.and enjoy it mostly but take control. I was so much faster than

:48:42. > :48:45.everyone else. Tactically, getting it right.

:48:46. > :48:53.Coming around the final bend, can you fill them breathing on you? Can

:48:54. > :48:59.you feel the breath? You can. They are digging in and

:49:00. > :49:06.trying to beat me. Coming up to the bell, I just knew I wouldn't let go

:49:07. > :49:12.my position. Coming up the home straight here. Keeping my form,

:49:13. > :49:15.staying strong. Do what I do in training, that was the most

:49:16. > :49:20.important thing. What about that kick, where does it

:49:21. > :49:26.come from? How hard have you had to work to get it? It is incredible the

:49:27. > :49:32.energy you have after doing 5000 and 10,000.

:49:33. > :49:39.I work hard at what I do, away from my family, making sacrifices. I try

:49:40. > :49:43.to work on my speed, endurance, and tactically, looking at what other

:49:44. > :49:46.guys are good at and come up with the best way you can win in the

:49:47. > :49:53.race. You are thinking about the athletes?

:49:54. > :49:59.Paula Radcliffe had said you have this intimidating factor, the rest

:50:00. > :50:03.of the world doesn't feel like they can beat you. Do you feel you are on

:50:04. > :50:09.this other level which gives you confidence?

:50:10. > :50:15.You need confidence, as an athlete, no matter who you are. In any sport,

:50:16. > :50:22.you have to believe in yourself. But at the same time respect the others.

:50:23. > :50:25.And deal with it the best you can. But I have more experience than

:50:26. > :50:32.anyone else in the world. I have been there. I was sixth,

:50:33. > :50:35.seventh in the world, won the World Championships, the Olympics. Having

:50:36. > :50:39.all that helps me be in the best form I can.

:50:40. > :50:45.You have all this experience. You always know winning one medal will

:50:46. > :50:49.be hard. Tell us about falling in the 10,000m. For all of us watching

:50:50. > :50:54.at home, heart in mouth, what about you when you hit the deck?

:50:55. > :51:04.It took a lot out of me. I thought my race was done. I thought at that

:51:05. > :51:08.point I was gone. It's something -- it is something I have trained for,

:51:09. > :51:12.and in one moment it was gone. But I had to be strong and dig in deep and

:51:13. > :51:22.come through and worked my way through the field. And be strong.

:51:23. > :51:25.That is one thing in my mind. Not least because you have to get

:51:26. > :51:31.back up but you have feet coming over you and through you.

:51:32. > :51:42.It took a lot out of me. I had to rest up and think, I need to relax,

:51:43. > :51:47.get ready for the fight against. How hard is it to get your rhythm

:51:48. > :51:54.back? When you have been knocked down, to get back into that case?

:51:55. > :52:00.It is pretty difficult to get going again to get your rhythm back.

:52:01. > :52:07.Once I had fallen over, in a moment you are confused, where am I? Is my

:52:08. > :52:12.race over? What do I need to do? You are all over the place. You need to

:52:13. > :52:16.be strong and think, I still have a long way. I want to do it, this is

:52:17. > :52:25.what I trained for, this is the moment. And get in the rhythm again.

:52:26. > :52:28.Four Olympic adults, nine in total if you include the World

:52:29. > :52:34.Championships, you have a collection.

:52:35. > :52:37.That puts you above the legendary Bekele.

:52:38. > :52:42.I know history is a big part of what you want to achieve. What does that

:52:43. > :52:46.mean to you being out there on this new level?

:52:47. > :52:52.It means a lot. I enjoy what I do and I want to be able to do my

:52:53. > :52:57.nation proud, my country pad, make the people proud.

:52:58. > :53:02.I owe it to people in London. -- proud. Having the people in London

:53:03. > :53:09.2012, that is what drives me every day.

:53:10. > :53:21.You can't beat that. Phil Jones said to you afterwards, rise, Sir Mo.

:53:22. > :53:27.I have to leave it to the public, enjoy my sport and enjoy what I am

:53:28. > :53:36.good at. I am good at winning. Let the rest take care of itself.

:53:37. > :53:39.A lot of the public enjoying you. Getting a selfie. Doing the Mobot

:53:40. > :53:47.with everybody at home. In all seriousness, when you have

:53:48. > :53:51.the people there are Great Britain backing you, history, all these

:53:52. > :53:56.records, the answer may determine how much more running you do, who do

:53:57. > :54:01.you do it for? I do it for my country, my kids, my

:54:02. > :54:11.loved ones, that is why I go out every day. What drives someone? Why

:54:12. > :54:18.do 20 miles in the road, on the grass? How'd you get there, why do

:54:19. > :54:23.you do it? You do it because you want to be able to get that memory

:54:24. > :54:27.back again, being on the podium, hearing the national anthem.

:54:28. > :54:35.You have done it so many times. Still standing on that podium, still

:54:36. > :54:42.a special moment? Still a special moment, I do it for

:54:43. > :54:44.my country, and I know my career is short, I have to make the most of

:54:45. > :54:53.it. What next? How many more medals?

:54:54. > :55:01.2017 World Championships. After that, we will see. Go onto the roads

:55:02. > :55:04.and see what I can do in America. You definitely deserve a break.

:55:05. > :55:11.Thank you so much for all of the memories and the special nights.

:55:12. > :55:15.Have you enjoyed your experience? I have really enjoyed it, I can't

:55:16. > :55:22.complain, I have got two of these. Thanks you.

:55:23. > :55:27.What a special guy. As he left, he said he will be competing in the

:55:28. > :55:31.Great North Run. All of you in the north-east, get out, Mo Farah will

:55:32. > :55:41.be hitting the up there. One of the highlights at these Great

:55:42. > :55:47.Britain's greatest Games. Show us how you have been inspired,

:55:48. > :55:51.get involved on the website and tell us how you have been enjoying these

:55:52. > :55:54.Olympics. We have one afternoon and one

:55:55. > :55:58.evening left to go. It will be sad to say goodbye. As we

:55:59. > :56:03.reflect on last night, not just a great night for Great Britain, but

:56:04. > :56:08.also for the home nation. Football as you will note is quite a big deal

:56:09. > :56:12.in Brazil. And in the Olympic Games bid is the one they wanted with but

:56:13. > :56:17.neither the women and older men coming into 2016 had managed to do

:56:18. > :56:24.it. Brazil were up against Germany in the men's final, where they had

:56:25. > :56:26.lost in the World Cup two years ago. Could they write that record here in

:56:27. > :56:35.Rio? Try telling those inside the

:56:36. > :56:39.Maracana this isn't the World Cup final? The two most successful

:56:40. > :56:44.footballing nations on earth meeting once -- in one of the most iconic

:56:45. > :56:48.stadium is hoping to produce something neither has done before by

:56:49. > :56:53.securing an Olympic gold medal. Alongside me, Kevin Kilbane, if

:56:54. > :57:01.there is one side you feel can master the occasion, it is the

:57:02. > :57:07.German side. So much experience. Although Brazil

:57:08. > :57:11.can cause Germany a lot of problems this evening.

:57:12. > :57:21.A decent effort against the frame of the goal by Brandt who almost did

:57:22. > :57:34.silence the Maracana. Neymar. The referee waiting to see

:57:35. > :57:41.if Brazil had an advantage. The ball was getting away from

:57:42. > :57:49.Neymar. A clear foul from inter. -- Ginter.

:57:50. > :57:54.It is onside! At the back of the net, right on cue, the darling of

:57:55. > :58:00.Brazil provides the opening goal. And you can probably hear that the

:58:01. > :58:02.roof on the Maracana is starting to reverberate.

:58:03. > :58:10.What a goal. Truly outstanding from Neymar. Horne

:58:11. > :58:15.Ingold can't get anywhere near it, the power and precision. He couldn't

:58:16. > :58:23.strike it any better. What a superb goal. Tell me this is in the World

:58:24. > :58:31.Cup final! -- this isn't.

:58:32. > :58:44.That is a foul right on the edge of the area, Gabriel Jesus.

:58:45. > :58:54.He was very high, Gabriel Jesus. Against the frame of the goal again!

:58:55. > :58:58.Well, Sven swooped, flicked it goal bound, couldn't score.

:58:59. > :59:18.Flicked into a good area, so unlucky to see it hit the crossbar.

:59:19. > :59:26.There is the equaliser Germany have threatened for so long, the captain

:59:27. > :59:30.of Germany cancels out the goal of the captain of Brazil and they

:59:31. > :59:35.silence the Maracana. As soon as Sven picks up the ball,

:59:36. > :59:40.moving from right back, and the presence of mind to pull it back in

:59:41. > :59:51.front of the Brazil defence. A quality finish. Superb finish from

:59:52. > :59:57.Mayer. Neymar goes for goal. A couple of

:59:58. > :00:04.feet beyond. Setting himself brilliantly, Neymar.

:00:05. > :00:15.I think he covered it. We are to have extra time. Good interception

:00:16. > :00:22.ante-post is excellent as well. Neymar looking to join in. There

:00:23. > :00:29.were two or three German defenders in the way. They made the block.

:00:30. > :00:33.They've been caught out a few times, Germany. Talk about Brazil being

:00:34. > :00:39.vulnerable to the counterattack, that Canada's Jeremy sending bodies

:00:40. > :00:40.forward to early, could you one have picked out Neymar what he checked

:00:41. > :00:54.inside. Miss controlled by Douglas Santos.

:00:55. > :00:59.Germany, forward with Peterson. Bryant on the far side is the

:01:00. > :01:05.intended target, that would have been magnificent. Heartbreaker for

:01:06. > :01:09.Brazil but I warned the -- a moment of genuine quality. The Olympic

:01:10. > :01:14.Games is almost at its conclusion and before it dies, a penalty shoot

:01:15. > :01:22.out will decide if the host nation will win the gold medal in the

:01:23. > :01:28.stadium. Part of the Germany squad that beat Brazil 7-1, he takes the

:01:29. > :01:36.first one and puts it in the corner of the net. First blood to Germany.

:01:37. > :01:47.Renato Augusto, 28 years old, has the responsibility of levelling up.

:01:48. > :01:51.Which he does. I'm so pleased for him because he has been the

:01:52. > :02:00.outstanding player for Brazil throughout the tournament. Now there

:02:01. > :02:07.are boos. And it is underneath his body. We've written got plenty on

:02:08. > :02:16.it. Several thousand dollars he saved it.

:02:17. > :02:27.Steps up to try and bring Brazil level. And he does it.

:02:28. > :02:52.Julian Brandt. It is a brilliant penalty. Absolutely faultless. Does

:02:53. > :02:57.he have the nerve? He does. The question is when Neymar has decided

:02:58. > :03:02.to take a penalty. In the meanwhile, the centre half of Hoffenheim. 20

:03:03. > :03:06.years old. Thumps into the corner of the net. As if it was just a game

:03:07. > :03:15.against his family in the back garden.

:03:16. > :03:25.A little hesitation in the run-up. But it makes no difference. Put it

:03:26. > :03:33.in the corner and we are also aware. One way or the other, Neymar's

:03:34. > :03:39.penalty will be significant. Males Peterson, he scored six times in the

:03:40. > :03:46.tournament. His penalty saved! It is all set for Neymar! The darling of

:03:47. > :03:50.Brazil, the player who went off in tears in the quarterfinal because he

:03:51. > :03:57.could not take part in the semifinal. The stage is set, surely

:03:58. > :04:01.it could be his moment. Now then, Neymar, can you provide the gold

:04:02. > :04:04.medal for your country? Redemption awaits for the side that could not

:04:05. > :04:16.win their own Fifa World Cup two years ago. Neymar scores! 200

:04:17. > :04:26.million Brazilians scream with delight. The golden boy has provided

:04:27. > :04:31.the moment that his country craved, knocked out by Germany in a game

:04:32. > :04:36.that no one will ever forget, but two years on in their old Olympic

:04:37. > :04:42.Games the one gold medal they wanted more than any other, and Neymar

:04:43. > :04:46.tucks the penalty that Metcher is -- matters into the corner of the net,

:04:47. > :04:54.you could not have written it. Five penalties scored by Brazil and they

:04:55. > :04:58.have one gold medal match. Neymar in bits and the fairy tale has come

:04:59. > :05:07.true. Brazil will win the gold medal. And emotional win it is fair

:05:08. > :05:15.to say. All once Neymar to have the final will it do so winning kick in

:05:16. > :05:20.that first ever Olympic gold medal. It was an incredible night and I

:05:21. > :05:25.arrived in Copacabana yesterday and it is fitter person -- say Brazil

:05:26. > :05:28.erupted. Everyone here surrounded themselves, it was a moment to

:05:29. > :05:31.behold and a pleasure to be here, you could not help but feel

:05:32. > :05:36.emotional even though it had nothing to do with us. Join Tupe thousand

:05:37. > :05:41.Brazilians are enjoying a single moment. It was spectacular.

:05:42. > :05:48.Successful games for Brazil, Great Britain not doing badly but the

:05:49. > :05:50.action continues here and a 16 -- on the day 16. We will go to the

:05:51. > :05:54.gymnastics arena because the rhythmic gymnastics is still to be

:05:55. > :05:59.sorted, Russia have won every single gold medal available since Atlanta

:06:00. > :06:04.2000, what can they do in the group all-round final this afternoon?

:06:05. > :06:17.Letterhead inside for rotation one. As Mack letterhead inside. Starting

:06:18. > :06:23.closely together and working away. Sometimes they will mirror each

:06:24. > :06:36.other and do exactly the same movements. Other times they will

:06:37. > :06:41.contrast each other. So impressive. Swap the apparatus, which the with

:06:42. > :06:52.huge difficulty underneath. And really, the most beautiful

:06:53. > :07:43.spectacle. The show all sorts of different

:07:44. > :07:56.patterns, but the risk is in the throes, catches, the transfers.

:07:57. > :08:29.It all has to look completely seamless.

:08:30. > :08:44.And, of course, original. What an opening performance to this rhythmic

:08:45. > :08:49.group Championships. And there has been such support for the Spanish

:08:50. > :08:51.rhythmic gymnasts all weekend in the Olympic Arena, they've had an

:08:52. > :08:55.astounding reception to their opening routine and you could see

:08:56. > :09:01.they are exceptionally pleased to get after that start, they believe

:09:02. > :09:06.this is their shot at gold. This is an experienced team, for these

:09:07. > :09:09.gymnasts were in London 2012 when they finished fourth. Since then

:09:10. > :09:13.they've made it onto the world podium, they got up the bronze last

:09:14. > :09:21.year and with Russia looking vulnerable in qualifying, Spain

:09:22. > :09:26.think today could be the day. 17.8 is the score for Spain, 8.9

:09:27. > :09:34.difficulty. They have their game faces on. Time

:09:35. > :09:59.for performance. There you see the ribbons instantly

:10:00. > :10:09.distributed to different parts of the floor.

:10:10. > :10:19.But that was almost immediately a drop, that will be a deduction.

:10:20. > :10:46.Absolutely essential they keep their composure now.

:10:47. > :11:00.And the music and movement have the match, so we have the change of

:11:01. > :11:15.speed. It is so essential the throw is made

:11:16. > :12:23.correctly. They are quite different dynamic and

:12:24. > :12:28.shape. Beautiful originality. Classy performance, but there was an error.

:12:29. > :12:31.And that makes things interesting because this was not where the

:12:32. > :12:35.Russian team struggled in qualifying. They were top by 0.5

:12:36. > :12:39.after this apparatus in qualifying, which was pretty much the difference

:12:40. > :12:42.between them and second placed Bulgaria and last year's worlds,

:12:43. > :12:47.enough to get you a meddlesome if they lose that advantage depending

:12:48. > :12:50.on how the judges look at this, that could really open up this final when

:12:51. > :12:57.we moved to the second and final rotation. It was an 18.283 in

:12:58. > :13:03.qualifying, easily the best score of any of the teams, the only team to

:13:04. > :13:06.make it into eight teams at this point, I suspect the Russian team

:13:07. > :13:15.will feel delighted if they were to get away with a score in the 18th

:13:16. > :13:16.again. It is unlikely. You can see execution score is down at the

:13:17. > :13:23.expressions on some of the team. Their entire focus will just be on

:13:24. > :14:06.their own performance. The work with the ribbon is so

:14:07. > :14:12.interesting and incredibly difficult. But the spectacle on the

:14:13. > :14:34.floor is really impressive. Expressing the music well

:14:35. > :15:02.entertained those beats. -- and hitting.

:15:03. > :16:04.Well, constant motion. They looked delighted.

:16:05. > :16:10.It is going to be interesting to see how Bulgaria come out of that

:16:11. > :16:15.because they were not far off the pace at all in the first round of

:16:16. > :16:18.qualifying, only just behind Spain and Belarus, a little way behind

:16:19. > :16:24.Russia. But we have seen Russia make big mistakes.

:16:25. > :16:28.Their issue in Rio in qualifying has been with the clubs, the second of

:16:29. > :16:40.the routines, not with this. There you go. 17.7. That puts them

:16:41. > :16:46.into second place. And just 0.1 behind Spain, head of Russia, as we

:16:47. > :16:58.go into the second half of this final.

:16:59. > :17:04.This is wide open. Less than 0.3 separating four teams.

:17:05. > :17:11.A mesmerising performance from the girls. One of the Russian team is

:17:12. > :17:16.able to compete here in Rio, you will remember in the build-up to

:17:17. > :17:23.this Games was shadowed with issues. Security, and doping. A few days

:17:24. > :17:29.ago, Hazel caught up with someone in a good place to talk about how 2016

:17:30. > :17:38.has gone. The doping agency president, Sir Craig Reedie.

:17:39. > :17:43.Sir Craig Reedie, I wonder if I can gauge your impressions of these

:17:44. > :17:49.Games? In many ways it has been magnificent

:17:50. > :17:55.mainly because the sport has been sensational. A couple of glitches

:17:56. > :17:59.around, but a lot of pluses. Maybe I am biased because I have a British

:18:00. > :18:03.accent, you only have to look at the medal table to understand this is

:18:04. > :18:06.pretty good. You are an IOC member and a

:18:07. > :18:10.president of Wada, some have questioned whether that is a

:18:11. > :18:16.conflict of interest in the build-up to the Games with such confusion

:18:17. > :18:20.about the findings of Wardle through the McLaren report and who could

:18:21. > :18:25.compete for Russia. How have you squared that circle?

:18:26. > :18:31.I am conceding there is a conflict of interest. Across the seniority in

:18:32. > :18:38.sport there are conflicts right, left and centre. In the run-up to

:18:39. > :18:44.the Games, the IOC hat went off and the wider hat went on. The problem

:18:45. > :18:48.with the McLaren report was when the revelations became apparent on the

:18:49. > :18:54.12th of May in the New York Times. To my way of thinking, that had to

:18:55. > :18:59.be brought into the public domain at the earliest moment. We knew it

:19:00. > :19:04.would cause problems. We suffered criticism. My conscience is clear.

:19:05. > :19:09.It would have been impossible not to do that, you couldn't have run these

:19:10. > :19:15.Games without that allegation being public and dealt with by the IOC. A

:19:16. > :19:19.complicated solution international federations involved, the decision

:19:20. > :19:22.was taken and we have to live with it.

:19:23. > :19:27.Sir Philip Craven from the Paralympic movement was decisive, no

:19:28. > :19:30.Russians will compete. Many felt no Russians should be in the Olympic

:19:31. > :19:36.Games. We suggested from the wider point of

:19:37. > :19:41.view we should decline entries from Russia which the IOC has the power

:19:42. > :19:46.to do. We do not have the right to decide who takes part in sports

:19:47. > :19:51.conditions. If that hadn't been done, the IOC could have reduced

:19:52. > :19:58.their own exceptions. That would have been tidier.

:19:59. > :20:04.COMMENTATOR: Not the greatest reception for the world champion.

:20:05. > :20:09.STUDIO: We have seen athletes calling out others as cheats.

:20:10. > :20:14.An interesting move. How did you view it and did it undermine what we

:20:15. > :20:21.were seeing from the Olympic Games? I hope it did not undermine. It was

:20:22. > :20:25.slightly unusual. If athletes want to make statements, they have to be

:20:26. > :20:30.careful what they say. If they have evidence of abuse of

:20:31. > :20:35.the rules, so be it. If you are going to investigate, you

:20:36. > :20:40.need to have evidence. Frequently the best evidence comes from our

:20:41. > :20:44.athletes. How much more is still to be

:20:45. > :20:50.unearthed how much more reassignment is of medals in the past are there

:20:51. > :20:55.likely to be as your investigations continue?

:20:56. > :20:58.It is worrying, I am told 98 likely positive tests from Beijing and

:20:59. > :21:03.London, as the technology of testing improves.

:21:04. > :21:08.I hope that message goes very firmly to the athlete who take part here.

:21:09. > :21:13.These samples will be retained for up to ten years. If technology

:21:14. > :21:17.inevitably gets better, if you cheat now, the chances are you will be

:21:18. > :21:22.caught. A major deterrents. Why can't the

:21:23. > :21:27.IOC say if you have served a suspension from drugs you won't be

:21:28. > :21:33.able to compete in the Games, why is it so hard?

:21:34. > :21:37.They tried that a few years ago, the Osaka role, it followed the rule the

:21:38. > :21:44.British Olympic Association had which effectively applied a lifetime

:21:45. > :21:48.ban. It is double jeopardy, you cannot

:21:49. > :21:53.sanction somebody twice for the same offence.

:21:54. > :22:00.It is conceivable I think, as the debate develops, if that is what

:22:01. > :22:04.more people want to happen, who knows what might develop.

:22:05. > :22:10.Are you more confident that what we have been watching is real, more

:22:11. > :22:14.real than what we have seen in previous Games?

:22:15. > :22:18.Yes, the number of reported offences to date is small. Let us hope that

:22:19. > :22:26.is all we have to go through and if the testing technique gets better,

:22:27. > :22:33.that risk producers. The combination of rate sport,

:22:34. > :22:38.enjoyment, athletes speaking out, better research, let us hope all of

:22:39. > :22:44.that will have people believe clean sport is what it is all about.

:22:45. > :22:49.That is what we hope. Sir Craig Reedie talking to Hazel Irvine.

:22:50. > :22:55.A fantastic Games. The success as far as the doping and how things

:22:56. > :23:00.have improved, we will only find out in the years to come.

:23:01. > :23:04.But it has been a good Games. Things get better for Great Britain.

:23:05. > :23:06.Today, it has been confirmed they will finish second in the medal

:23:07. > :23:17.table. Above China, for the first time

:23:18. > :23:22.since 1984. 27 gold medals. 66 in total. We can still have some more.

:23:23. > :23:26.Joe Joyce is in the boxing this evening, already guaranteed a

:23:27. > :23:30.silver. Great Britain going great guns.

:23:31. > :23:40.Let us reflect a little. Michael Johnson spoke about someone who, 80

:23:41. > :23:43.years ago at these games macro, achieved something on the track that

:23:44. > :23:56.was matched by his achievements of it as well. -- off it.

:23:57. > :24:01.The grandson of a slave, the son of a sharecropper. James Cleveland

:24:02. > :24:05.Owens was born into poverty. A chartered stricken by ill health, he

:24:06. > :24:12.spent his early years working in the cotton fields of Alabama. His family

:24:13. > :24:19.moved north to the great migration, fleeing the prejudice of the South.

:24:20. > :24:24.His father started work at the local steel mill which gave Jesse Owens

:24:25. > :24:27.the chance of a good education. It was at junior high his athletic

:24:28. > :24:38.currents were first discovered by his track coach. His speed gained

:24:39. > :24:41.him a place at Ohio State University but there was no scholarship for

:24:42. > :24:48.black students no matter how fast you were. Owens was made captain of

:24:49. > :24:50.the track and field team and had to live off campus, shall separately

:24:51. > :24:58.and eat away from his white team-mates.

:24:59. > :25:02.-- shower. In 1935, the world took notice at the championship at the

:25:03. > :25:05.University of Michigan, where he said three world records and

:25:06. > :25:09.equalled a fourth all in the space of 45 minutes.

:25:10. > :25:20.The following summer, he was representing his nation.

:25:21. > :25:25.Berlin 1936. The stage was set for Hitler's Nazi

:25:26. > :25:30.Games. The stage was also set for Jesse

:25:31. > :25:39.Owens who was in the form of his life.

:25:40. > :25:49.COMMENTATOR: Owens -- Owens is ahead.

:25:50. > :25:55.Metcalfe comes up but Owens wins. I am very glad to have won the 100

:25:56. > :25:59.metres and the Olympic Games in Berlin. The condition was grand. I

:26:00. > :26:09.am very glad to come out on top. Thank you. The next day he struggled

:26:10. > :26:13.in the long jump. It was only when his German

:26:14. > :26:27.competitor suggested he moved his start position that Owens improved.

:26:28. > :26:32.COMMENTATOR: A new world record. They remained friends until his

:26:33. > :26:39.German competitor was -- apprentice was killed in the world war.

:26:40. > :26:46.Owens went on to win the 200 metres and 4x100 metres Relate all in the

:26:47. > :26:50.space of just six days. I haven't seen my wife and three

:26:51. > :26:54.months and I am glad to be back home to see her.

:26:55. > :26:58.On his return to the states there was a ticker tape parade through New

:26:59. > :27:04.York and a reception at the Waldorf Astoria in his honour.

:27:05. > :27:08.When he and his wife tried to enter the hotel, they were told not to use

:27:09. > :27:12.the front door because of the colour of their skin.

:27:13. > :27:14.There was no telegram from the president.

:27:15. > :27:20.No invitation to the White House. Franklin diva is about failed to

:27:21. > :27:25.acknowledge his achievement. In 1976, Owens was awarded the

:27:26. > :27:29.presidential medal of Freedom by Gerald Ford.

:27:30. > :27:33.He died four years later of cancer. Owens was a man who carried himself

:27:34. > :27:37.with dignity and grace. When I look back on his difficult

:27:38. > :27:43.childhood, what he overcame, what he achieved, and stood for, I feel a

:27:44. > :27:48.sense of pride. Jesse Owens is a hero and an

:27:49. > :27:57.inspiration. An inspiration indeed.

:27:58. > :28:01.If anyone was in any doubt about the effect the Olympic Games can have,

:28:02. > :28:07.surely not now. 80 years ago. Back to the present

:28:08. > :28:13.day. We have some more action from Rio 20. We will go mountain biking

:28:14. > :28:22.now. Just under five kilometres, this course. We will see Absalon

:28:23. > :28:25.here. Grant Ferguson is an under 23 was championship bronze medallist.

:28:26. > :29:21.What can he do on the rear tracks? I am very excited, there has been so

:29:22. > :29:26.much about this showdown. It has been such a friendly rivalry but is

:29:27. > :29:35.so competitive. It comes down to this one moment. So much talk about

:29:36. > :29:40.whether there will be other contenders or just these two?

:29:41. > :29:52.The they go, 49 men in the Olympic cross-country race. This is a race

:29:53. > :29:58.for the first corner. Fontana will take them into the first corner. A

:29:59. > :30:11.short loop around this start area. Then the lap proper begins, seven

:30:12. > :30:19.laps of this circuit. 1150 metres of climbing. A lot of hard racing.

:30:20. > :30:26.Conditions today, we had a lot of rain and it is thankfully not

:30:27. > :30:29.raining now. It will make conditions tricky, none of these writers have

:30:30. > :30:34.written the court in these conditions, it was perfectly

:30:35. > :30:39.positioned in October in 2015 in the test event. Did you see the face of

:30:40. > :30:41.the Italian out-of-the-box? Trying to intimidate competition by looking

:30:42. > :30:46.into the eyes of the competition and sprinting off the line, he means

:30:47. > :30:53.business. Looking around very alert, that was a face of aggression start

:30:54. > :30:56.line. Very testing conditions already in his starting lap, the

:30:57. > :31:00.surfaces are different to what they've been preparing on. It will

:31:01. > :31:07.be churned up all round the course, and a really problematic start. That

:31:08. > :31:13.has put him under pressure to catch up. The climbing starts as it is

:31:14. > :31:19.believed the start loop as they come off this bent, they head out the

:31:20. > :31:29.climb, a long but not too steep switchback climb and leading them up

:31:30. > :31:32.just now will be Marco van, -- Fontana and a writer doesn't want to

:31:33. > :31:39.get caught too far back. The two lines. The Brazilian champion is

:31:40. > :31:42.behind Fontana, the scramble for the lines into the first quarter is

:31:43. > :31:50.underway in this men's cross-country race. Fontana sneaks in front of

:31:51. > :31:53.shorter, who won the test event in one year ago. The man in third place

:31:54. > :32:00.is none other than the road world champion, Peter Ciganda, opting to

:32:01. > :32:04.ride the mountain bike in preference to the road race here, believing it

:32:05. > :32:08.to be too tough for him. Write in here at the sharp end, started at

:32:09. > :32:11.the back of the field. He made a big effort to get the front early and

:32:12. > :32:16.wants to make a mark on this race, so many people said how will it be

:32:17. > :32:19.possible for him to Popp back in mountain bikes? So much success on

:32:20. > :32:23.the road but he believes in himself, you can tell by the confidence in

:32:24. > :32:27.his social media presence that he isn't just here to make up numbers,

:32:28. > :32:36.he really believes he can be in medal contention in the mountain

:32:37. > :32:41.bike event. This is a sad sight, really sad, hopefully he can get his

:32:42. > :32:48.mechanical sorted out as he walks through the start finish area. This

:32:49. > :33:08.is the race as Fontana and cigar and -- -- Schurter. There are plenty of

:33:09. > :33:12.rocks, it is course. Schurter going out hard, he wants to be near the

:33:13. > :33:16.front of the race and out of trouble from the start. He has taken the

:33:17. > :33:21.lead, those having an aggressive start. Schurter is an absolute

:33:22. > :33:30.master, we've seen him dominate over the last year in the World Cup

:33:31. > :33:35.series. Julian Epsilon has only beaten him once in a World Cup races

:33:36. > :33:38.this year, sure to pick up the double with the pondering one of the

:33:39. > :33:44.World Cup round and finished in fourth. This is a White turn, a real

:33:45. > :33:48.signature of course designer and builder Nick Florez, the South

:33:49. > :33:53.African. We seen these before, goes down a little bit hard and slow so

:33:54. > :33:59.the rest of the field, behind him. As attack from Schurter on the first

:34:00. > :34:02.little climb. Ciganda will get left behind that of you can see the

:34:03. > :34:05.advantages of him going out hard because there was some hold-ups so

:34:06. > :34:10.if you are not in the top few you've already been held up and he knows

:34:11. > :34:13.that he has been looking over his shoulder and around the aware, but

:34:14. > :34:21.look at this. This is the issues they are having. There is a beeline

:34:22. > :34:26.and riders are going around that but Schurter already out of the saddle

:34:27. > :34:27.and pushing as hard as he can out of the tunnel. Behind me the Israeli is

:34:28. > :34:45.right up there as well. They will come back around the back

:34:46. > :34:50.end of this lap, great start for Israel's Jaime, the Israeli on the

:34:51. > :34:54.third row and his right inside the top five. Really applying the

:34:55. > :34:59.pressure in front, now we see Ciganda coming into troubles with

:35:00. > :35:04.the technical area. Really slippery on this slope, they are doing well

:35:05. > :35:08.to write it out. Again, that is the first indication we seen of the

:35:09. > :35:15.slippery conditions that could prevail and they could get worse as

:35:16. > :35:22.the race progresses. Fontana decides or are not here is a better option.

:35:23. > :35:28.Showing great skills. Beautiful writing from the Israeli. Currently

:35:29. > :35:33.in fifth. Schurter knows that Epson has a habit of letting him go early

:35:34. > :35:36.and go out hard but with the conditions and such a diverse pellet

:35:37. > :35:41.on there so many levels here that you would not want to get caught

:35:42. > :35:44.behind that. Schurter is taking every advantage of getting out early

:35:45. > :35:48.and in front and putting people under pressure. Schurter then

:35:49. > :35:57.Fontana then Ciganda. Then the French rider. Not Julian Absalom. He

:35:58. > :36:04.is further back. Through the creatures for the first time. We

:36:05. > :36:07.will always reference the Schurter Julian Draxler showdown but there

:36:08. > :36:11.are still many other people in this race. Schurter knows how long he can

:36:12. > :36:23.go at this pace for com he's going out aggressive at the start.

:36:24. > :36:31.Paretsky here -- Viktor Kreutz key -- Victor Koretzky. An Olympic Games

:36:32. > :36:39.is a once off. It isn't like any World Cup it is a smaller field, he

:36:40. > :36:47.has just kept it together. The rocky descent. Fontana looks comfortable,

:36:48. > :36:49.the Italian in second. He does a lot of circle crossed so will love these

:36:50. > :36:54.muddy conditions, dumbing of the bike and running to close the gap

:36:55. > :36:59.and jump back on will not faze him because he does it so often in cycle

:37:00. > :37:03.cross, just seems to keep it as he struggles with the technical aspects

:37:04. > :37:08.of the mountain biking, not having lived on his mountain bikes like

:37:09. > :37:13.some of these writers. There is a question, he has incredible bike

:37:14. > :37:18.skills, we know that, great handling skills, but the intensity of race

:37:19. > :37:20.and the rhythm of a race, hard acceleration is and the backing of

:37:21. > :37:26.the cornering and rocks, they come relentlessly at the riders here, he

:37:27. > :37:32.is keeping yourself right in perfect position in the third wheel behind

:37:33. > :37:39.Marco Fontana and Schurter. Brilliant start. The last man on the

:37:40. > :37:49.score line, Ciganda. Here is in fourth. Fortunate to get into the

:37:50. > :37:52.race, there will be for a Wild card but qualified 15th of the final

:37:53. > :37:57.rankings, they got one place in the 50 rider field. It was a

:37:58. > :38:08.reallocation of places between Kwon, Hungary and Russia at the back-end

:38:09. > :38:11.that got Sagan into this. He did a checkup rate in April but even as

:38:12. > :38:16.the fourth behind someone who is raising here and building -- Belgian

:38:17. > :38:22.champion. That has really be his only exposure to this type of racing

:38:23. > :38:28.since 2009, when he was fourth at the other 23 World Championships.

:38:29. > :38:32.Since then the late Murray will be remembered on this day. Brilliant

:38:33. > :38:37.young South African, finished fifth in London in the Olympic Games but

:38:38. > :38:42.tragically lost his life in the January of the following year.

:38:43. > :38:47.Motoring accident when he was not over and killed. He will be remember

:38:48. > :38:57.by these writers and those around the world. Meanwhile, front it is

:38:58. > :39:03.Fontana at the front. Victor Koretzky looks good, only 21, he had

:39:04. > :39:08.to go up to the elites because once in mountain bikes you cannot go

:39:09. > :39:14.back, so he is now in the elites at the age of 21, not in the other 23

:39:15. > :39:17.category, normal and 23 World Championships to try and win because

:39:18. > :39:22.he is now the lead is doing very well in this race. You can see is

:39:23. > :39:24.under pressure on the climbs, but did really well to start and get

:39:25. > :39:31.into this position early in the race. Fontana is the man on the

:39:32. > :39:40.front, made the aggressive start on the Harthill. Schurter riding the

:39:41. > :39:47.soft tail, he had four options he has a heart the back half soft tail

:39:48. > :39:57.and hard and went for the soft tail. He was so can -- here is Sagan on

:39:58. > :40:06.the fourth suspension. He was Julian Absalom. -- here is a little off the

:40:07. > :40:10.pace and he will have to dig deep at the test event in October last year

:40:11. > :40:16.he finished fourth after a fall on the second lap. That really fired

:40:17. > :40:26.all these bullets to move up to fourth. The first climb of the

:40:27. > :40:31.flagman to an ascent. The mountain. One kilometre long, not particularly

:40:32. > :40:36.steep. It will take its toll as we move deeper into the race.

:40:37. > :40:45.Victor Koretzky 21-year-old also are a hard tail. One of the younger

:40:46. > :40:49.riders, he is known for fatiguing midway through the race, just not

:40:50. > :40:53.getting used to the endurance and length of intensity for that long,

:40:54. > :40:58.interesting to see how long he can stay with these guys. Fontana riding

:40:59. > :41:01.on the front and Schurter in second. The Frenchman at 21 years old,

:41:02. > :41:09.Victor Koretzky, doing well, came out hard, can he stay there? A first

:41:10. > :41:16.look at Rio rocks. Natural rocks that were exposed in the excavation

:41:17. > :41:21.here and Fontana and Schurter flying over the gap to have no problem.

:41:22. > :41:29.They are flying just now. What average speeds to be expected a?

:41:30. > :41:38.They've been training around 26, 27? The expectation is, the Scots team

:41:39. > :41:41.who Schurter right for expecting the Gobert 28 kilometres per hour in

:41:42. > :41:46.good conditions, these are bit heavier but somewhere around about

:41:47. > :41:53.26 or 27 would be in the ballpark. Good recovery from the defending

:41:54. > :42:00.champion, cohabiting is making his way up to fourth place. If currently

:42:01. > :42:09.dislike fifth currently. Over the flip-flops. Another man-made section

:42:10. > :42:17.of this course. Popular culture, the flip-flops. Through the ravine, over

:42:18. > :42:21.the bridge and into the tech is on for the second time. Ciganda looks

:42:22. > :42:24.very focused, came out of the gun pretty hard, he knew he wanted to

:42:25. > :42:29.get back on the start line through to the front. -- Sagan. Even though

:42:30. > :42:35.it has been raining it is very muddy and humid and sticky and the riders

:42:36. > :42:39.are taking on the fluids early. Schurter looking around to see who

:42:40. > :42:44.is with him and he has a gathering of some high-quality riders but what

:42:45. > :42:49.he will be doing is having a look to see where Julian Absalom is, he

:42:50. > :42:59.isn't in this group, Victor Koretzky, Sagan, they Popp over and

:43:00. > :43:04.down through the rocks again. Super impressive to see high me from

:43:05. > :43:13.Israel. His best World Cup result this year came recently. A few weeks

:43:14. > :43:17.ago in Canada. 34th from his best result. Maybe a reduced field due to

:43:18. > :43:20.being so close to the Olympic Games but certainly having the ride of his

:43:21. > :43:25.life. Some thing happened here to be the site can -- Sagan, to the

:43:26. > :43:29.pressure of the pedals, once the move to the back of the group, keep

:43:30. > :43:34.looking down, has a mechanical error? There might be concerns for

:43:35. > :43:38.Sagan and the problem is he has a long way to go. He has a flat front

:43:39. > :43:41.tyre by the looks of things. Could be due to the Telica section we saw

:43:42. > :43:47.him go down quite hard, not fault, but just rough on the rocks. That

:43:48. > :43:56.will cost him, what will he do? He is struggling to this section. Front

:43:57. > :43:59.tyre puncture force again delete -- for Sagan. That will be a challenge

:44:00. > :44:05.for him to he must decide how to deal with this, he has a way to go

:44:06. > :44:10.to get to the tech zone, still up between sharks and over the rock

:44:11. > :44:14.turnaround, it is a long haul. Paul Hari moves the front. That would

:44:15. > :44:19.have been a wonderful story if Sagan could stay with them but we see he's

:44:20. > :44:28.been passed by another few riders are trying to manage the front tyre

:44:29. > :44:32.puncture. Darren goes one of the Canadian riders, that was mainly due

:44:33. > :44:41.to the Russian rider pooling in front of him. And dragging across

:44:42. > :44:48.the line, the Canadian going straight into him at the tech zone.

:44:49. > :44:51.Drama at the front end of the race. Harvey the defending champion on the

:44:52. > :44:56.front of a little over his shoulder to see who is following. Absalom not

:44:57. > :45:02.far behind, this group will come together soon.

:45:03. > :45:12.The quality of the field is extremely high.

:45:13. > :45:23.The next wave come through led by Fluckiger.

:45:24. > :45:30.The two French men Marotte and crucially Absalon.

:45:31. > :45:35.This is the front end. And Kulhavy after a slow start is looking

:45:36. > :45:38.aggressive, second in the World Championships.

:45:39. > :45:43.A tight line taken by Fontana, there is a different mind.

:45:44. > :45:48.It looks like both French men are coming back, they had a troubled

:45:49. > :45:53.Olympic Games on two wheels. They have all three being on the

:45:54. > :45:59.podium in the World Cup series this year.

:46:00. > :46:06.Apologies to Braidot. It is the other Italian in this field. Braidot

:46:07. > :46:23.finished sixth on the World Cup circuit.

:46:24. > :46:27.Also in that group is the Colombian. And he also has a front wheel flat,

:46:28. > :46:33.he has dropped off the pace. They will nurse their bikes through

:46:34. > :46:37.to the Texas open. That was the Italian Fontana who

:46:38. > :46:41.went hard at the start. Now we see his team-mates in the

:46:42. > :47:04.front leading group and the chasing group behind.

:47:05. > :47:15.Fontana and Sagan. Down they go. 40 degrees.

:47:16. > :47:20.Beautifully handled by these highly skilled bikers.

:47:21. > :47:27.Lovely to see. Cink the other Czech rider.

:47:28. > :47:32.Head-to-head up this dual track. Kulhavy really attacking the rock

:47:33. > :47:36.garden. So experienced. It looks like

:47:37. > :47:46.Schurter wants the lead. He has tried to pass a couple of times.

:47:47. > :47:53.That is where he feels comfortable. Really looking strong is Kulhavy.

:47:54. > :47:59.Great support for the riders out in Rio on a rainy morning. They love

:48:00. > :48:12.their mountain biking. Absalon goes past. He said he will be calling it

:48:13. > :48:17.a day at this level at the end of the year but he wants one more

:48:18. > :48:25.Olympic gold medal. The riders are desperate to get some

:48:26. > :48:32.fluids on board. All very concerned about getting

:48:33. > :48:40.some fluids early on in the race. Absalon jumping off straight away as

:48:41. > :48:47.he runs up behind Fluckiger. Getting more cut up here. This is

:48:48. > :48:52.where Kulhavy has taken a knock, further back, along with the

:48:53. > :49:00.Spaniard. That is Marotte the Frenchman.

:49:01. > :49:10.Here comes Absalon. Using the dual suspension. The Brazilian pushes up.

:49:11. > :49:19.Sometimes these riders feel you can move as fast by pushing the bike up

:49:20. > :49:24.there. Braidot, the Italian, ahead of

:49:25. > :49:29.Schurter. Kulhavy, and the Spaniard.

:49:30. > :49:34.He made some comments before the race. This is Sagan getting his

:49:35. > :49:39.wheel changed. He has some work to do now.

:49:40. > :49:46.This is a true test for one of the finest bicycle riders anywhere in

:49:47. > :49:52.the world. Three stage wins on the tour De France, green jersey this

:49:53. > :49:56.year. Finding out how tough it can be when

:49:57. > :50:01.you get a flat. It is a different game to road

:50:02. > :50:05.racing, there is no car, you can't just put your hand up.

:50:06. > :50:10.He has to work particularly hard to get back in contact with these guys

:50:11. > :50:14.at the front. Braidot is biding beautifully at the

:50:15. > :50:24.sharp end. Ahead of Schurter and Koretsky. It is so dependent on

:50:25. > :50:28.where you get your start. He was in the second row and has taken full

:50:29. > :50:33.advantage to put himself right up at the front of the race. A quick

:50:34. > :50:37.glance over his shoulder. Fairly consistent at the World Cup

:50:38. > :50:52.sessions. He goes down hard. Terrible crash.

:50:53. > :50:57.Maybe a lapse of concentration. Van Houts, back for his third Olympic

:50:58. > :50:58.Games. Schurter now, driving the pace on

:50:59. > :51:21.the front. This is where Schurter may want to

:51:22. > :51:24.try to attack this long climb. A writer like Schurter knows he can

:51:25. > :51:29.maintain his pace, it is a safe place.

:51:30. > :51:39.We can see with Sagan how it can fall apart. You need to find the

:51:40. > :51:43.right place to pass. We also saw Absalon, out of London, that must

:51:44. > :51:46.have been devastating. How quickly things can change.

:51:47. > :52:03.One flat already. There is another flat, this is for

:52:04. > :52:10.Koretsky, a rear flat. We have heard about punctures on the week leading

:52:11. > :52:12.in to the race through these rock gardens. They are coming back to

:52:13. > :52:34.haunt the riders here. In London, it came down to the last

:52:35. > :52:44.500 metres and outsprinted by Kulhavy.

:52:45. > :52:50.He doesn't want to be taken to the line by Kulhavy who is a powerhouse,

:52:51. > :52:56.and amazing bike rider. Kulhavy has won the world rather than title. He

:52:57. > :53:06.has endurance and power. Arguably the most powerful rider on a short

:53:07. > :53:11.sprint in this whole field. Marotte, one of three French men.

:53:12. > :53:23.Lipsky at the sharp end with a puncture. Marotte tried to keep the

:53:24. > :53:28.French flag flying. -- Koretzky. Sitting on his wheel is Fluckiger,

:53:29. > :53:33.the 20 13th World Championship bronze medallist.

:53:34. > :53:38.The Spaniard is having a great race, chasing down the wheel of Schurter.

:53:39. > :53:43.He came in saying he has his feet on the ground, very aware a medal in

:53:44. > :53:47.Rio would be very difficult for him. In a great position, on the good

:53:48. > :53:52.form. Playing it down before the start saying a medal...

:53:53. > :53:57.And another puncture. This is the Frenchman.

:53:58. > :54:01.Koretzky has two nurse that all the way round, not much they can do

:54:02. > :54:08.about it except get it around to the tech zone safely and securely.

:54:09. > :54:16.At the top, taking its toll already. The second time up to the flag.

:54:17. > :54:20.For the new viewers to mountain biking, the rules in regard to

:54:21. > :54:25.technical assistance, these riders can stop and fix their own puncture

:54:26. > :54:29.or make it all the way around. They can't go backwards or cut the

:54:30. > :54:34.course, they have to stay on all the way round to the technical

:54:35. > :54:39.assistance zone. It can be cruel. As Koretzky found.

:54:40. > :54:41.Not long after the Texan he had a puncture and he had to go all the

:54:42. > :55:03.way back. -- tech zone. Anyone who wants the gold medal in

:55:04. > :55:08.Rio will have to deal with this highly motivated man, he has won

:55:09. > :55:17.world cups but his whole year has been geared towards the Olympic

:55:18. > :55:21.title in Rio. Over the flip-flops beautifully. The

:55:22. > :55:22.leader of the race, Schurter, looks comfortable after an aggressive fast

:55:23. > :55:38.start. Looking over his shoulder, Schurter.

:55:39. > :55:45.He is a man who has pioneered riding the 27.5 inch bite at this level.

:55:46. > :55:50.Eventually this year in the World Cup, he brought out the 29th with

:55:51. > :55:57.the specific aim of riding on it in progression for this event. He and

:55:58. > :56:05.his team decided this is a race for the 29ers.

:56:06. > :56:08.These riders don't have any radio communication. Staff around the

:56:09. > :56:13.course will give information about their competitors. Schurter will

:56:14. > :56:17.want to know where Absalon is. Will he be getting that information from

:56:18. > :56:22.his staff or using those points he sat out in training way he can look

:56:23. > :56:28.over and get good vision of his competitors. A few places good for

:56:29. > :56:33.spectators, they can run from point to point to the athletes pass. And

:56:34. > :56:39.important for the athletes to know where they can turn their head to

:56:40. > :56:45.see their competitors. STUDIO: Will leave mountain biking.

:56:46. > :56:50.If you want to follow it, head over to the Red Button.

:56:51. > :56:56.And on the BBC website. Time for us to close up on BBC One. We have

:56:57. > :57:02.moved away from our position, our studio.

:57:03. > :57:11.The clouds have lifted and I have my first taste of Copacabana Beach.

:57:12. > :57:17.This sound is famous. Join us on BBC Two in a moment. I may need to take

:57:18. > :57:22.my sandals off. The coat will even come off as well.

:57:23. > :57:25.Join us on BBC Two with gymnastics, Joe Joyce, we have got plenty.

:57:26. > :58:49.I love the beach! I hope you told them

:58:50. > :58:52.where to stick it.