Day 4 BBC One: 19.00-19.30 Olympics

Our city, Rio de Janeiro, is passionate, about life for sure, but

mostly about sport. And passion, well, it's a powerful feeling that

fuels you and drives you. Silva wins gold! It makes you strive for the

impossible. Will it be enough? They have done it. And carry on when it's

hopeless. Right here. Right now. It's infectious. You can feel it,

see it. Our city, filled with our passion for sport. It's always

there, calling out the best in us. Welcome to Rio he says and indeed

welcome to all of you watching at home, the fourth day of the Olympic

Games here and it is officially scorcio. Rafael is nine. Wave to us

with your big hands. Thank you very much. We've got fabulous action

coming up through this evening and let's have a look at the stories

we're hoping to tell. David Florence celebrated his

birthday yesterday but a medal would be the perfect present to himself.

He won silver in Beijing eight years ago, missed out on the final in

London. Now he gets his chance. But it's only one run.

In gymnastics, Great Britain's team of Claudia Fragapane, Becky and

Ellie Downie and Ruby Harrold have a battle for a medal. The USA led by

Simone Biles are hot favourites for the gold. After Tom Daley and Daniel

Goodfellow won bronze yesterday, it's the turn of Tonia Couch and

Lois Toulson, they're trying to become the first female British

divers to win an Olympic medal for 56 years. I'm afraid we are channel

hopping all over the place today. Here is the plan: Next, on BBC One,

we have canoe slal Olympic medal. It's a channel change at 7. 30pm. We

continue that on BBC Two. Gymnastics from 8pm. At 10pm we catch up with

the diving. Can you access up to 24 live streams

online and the BBC Sport app on BBC Four right now there's live coverage

of the sailing. On the red button depending on your provider, there's

are up to eight different things you can choose fr. -- from. Here in the

park, we are wondering around with our trolley. We need the umbrella to

keep us in the shade. It is really hot. Lots of people around. When

they see somebody with a medal hanging round their neck, they get

very excited. This is Britain's latest Olympic midlift. Welcome

Edward Ling. Many congratulations. Tell me about your shootout with the

Czech Republic. It was intense. It really was. First of all I had to do

a shoot-off to goad into the bronze medal match with the Egyptian. I

missed the third target, foreignly for me he missed also. --

fortunately for me he missed also that. Was my second chance. I took.

It it got me into the bronze medal match with David. Beijing Gold

Medallist at the Olympics. So I knew it was going to be a tough event.

Yeah, I managed to come through it. Really happy with that. How much

have you found that the experience of having been to two Olympics

before helps you in these tense situations? It really has been a

huge advantage to me. Probably when I went to Athens first of all, I

didn't realise how big and how the scale of the whole event that. Was a

great learning curve. I made London. Made a bad line on my last

qualification which didn't make me into the final. Yeah, I managed to

pull through strong in qualification here and get into the finals. Really

pleased with that. You had everybody at home hooked and they were

watching your medal ceremony, particularly your wife, and your

family at home on the farm as well. The moment when you get that medal

put round your neck, what is that like? Seriously, it means the world.

It's just four years of hard work, commitment and dedication, after

London. Just to get that is seriously the best feeling in the

world. Your wife is a pretty good shot as well. She is, yeah. She's

number, what, always in the top ranks in the GB. She's a real strong

contender. I'm hoping one day that we can come to an Olympics with

Abbey, my brother and myself all here. Your little brother, who's

only a teenager, he's really good. Yeah, he's 16. She's just won the

bronze medal at the European Championships. He beat me there! He

hasn't let me forget about, but this one trumps it now. Yeah, it's

amazing. This is what your wife tweeted in the moment of victory.

She was very, very excited suffice to say. She says, "Oh, wow, wow,

wow, Ed got the bronze medal. We are all so, so proud of you. Wre sick as

pigs. Love you dearly, darling." No pin untended -- pun intended I

guess! I found a teddybear with the shamrock on in my case. So I took

that to the range every day with me. Yeah, so I took a picture with the

medal and the teddy and sent it to her. She was quite pleased with

that. It was the lucky teddy! I know you're meant to be helping out on

the farm at home. You wanted to get back in time for harvest. What was

your dad telling you? I guessed that they were telling me little white

lies. Obviously I was asking how things were and how's everything

going back there. It was like, oh, yeah, the weather's not good, we

haven't been doing a lot. We're just watching the Olympics. I was getting

the feeling. But I knew they were trying to keep my mind focussed on

the job in hand. Yeah, just to, well, see now they've started it's

no surprise. Yeah, I'll be on the plane tomorrow to get back and help.

That's it for you, you don't enjoy the rest of the Games, straight back

to work? I will have the rest of the day off when I land to show

everybody the medal and just be there. Once I get back, it's just

going to be an amazing time for the family. Good luck to the rest of the

team, more medal chances to come. Yeah, we have Steve Scot and Tim

Neil competing tomorrow then Jen McIntosh and Elena and Amber Hill.

Best of luck to them. Hopefully we can get more shooting medals. A

great start for the shooting teams. There are British fans there wanting

a photo. I'll let you go and pose for pictures. Thank you very much to

our bronze medallist, Edward Ling. Let's look at the headlines so far

on day four: Katheine Grainger remains on course

to win a fifth Olympic medal. She and her partner Victoria Thornley

really improved. They've booked their spot in the double skulls

final earlier today. But the news wasn't as good for

British boxer Joe Cordina his challenge ended in the lightweight

last 16 losing on a split decision. I'm sorry to say for the first time

since 1996 in Atlanta, Great Britain have failed to win a team eventing

medal, finishing fifth. France took the gold, their first of the Rio

Olympics. In tennis, the defending Olympic

champion, Andy Murray is through to the third round of the men's

singles, beating Juan Monaco in straight sets.

Now news from Van Flueten. She tweeted from hospital. She has

cracked vertebrae and horrible concussion. She obviously will be

hoping to recover for competitions in the future. "Thanks for all the

messages, hard to deal with my disappointment, but also proud about

our performance." Her team-mate went on to win the race. And garant

Thomas, this is a -- Geraint Thomas, he had a horrible fall as well,

spots have become available in the time trial. So he's picked himself

up. He went on and finished that race. He's an amazing guy and he

will be lining up in the time trial along with Chris Froome and Emma

Pooley has come out of retirement because she thought this course will

suit her. You see that Great Britain's women failed to win a

bronze medal in the Rugby 7's yesterday. Great Britain's men

started their campaign in some style. They beat Kenya convincingly.

Dan Norton shows tremendous pace to open the scoring. They led 24-0 at

the interval. After the break, Dan Bibby dumbied through for his second

try. On this evidence, GB will be confident of causing a few upsets in

the tournament. The big names of Rugby 7's, fee joy, New Zealand,

Australia and you can add to that list Japan. They are creating a wave

or two. New Zealand against Japan. It is always one of the sights of

rugby to see the All Blacks in action. Oh, it's just gone wrong or

has it? No it hasn't. Indeed it's going to be a try. Brilliant by

Japan! They've taken the lead against New Zealand. New Zealand

don't quite look in their stride at the moment.

New Zealand are away. It is the long run in. It is the clean breakout and

it is the first score for them. That's not good at all for New

Zealand. He doesn't look in a good way there at all.

Oh, the power! Penalty to Japan. Quickly taken.

It's going to be a try. Japan are in the lead. He's nailed one of the

best kicks I've seen. Two against two. It's out. The whistle goes.

Japan have beaten New Zealand 14-12. Not the first time that Japan have

caused a major shock. They did it in the World Cup against South Africa

as well. Later on Great Britain are up against Japan. You can see that

live on BBC Four at 9pm. We will be showing it to you at the conclusion

of the gymnastics. The big news is that Williams, who was taken off,

has done his Achilles and is out of the tournament. The biggest name in

Rugby 7's having switched from the 15 aside game is now out of the

tournament. Let's talk about canoe slalom, David Florence is the world

number one. He's the world champion. He's the European champion. He has

twice won Olympic Silver Medals. He dreamt of becoming an astronaut, he

lost out to a man called commander Tim Peake, who we know about! Here's

a bit more about him. COMMENTATOR: They've got a Silver

Medal. David Florence is out of this Olympic competition. This is Lee

Valley. Is it a place that has bitter sweet feelings for you? You

won silver here in London 2012. Then it didn't quite go as you would like

it. I don't associate this place with that. I'm used to coming here

every day. This is where I put in all the hard work conducive to my

great performances as well. Won the World Cup here, won the world

chipships here. -- championships here.

COMMENTATOR: The world champion again in 2015. If I'm to look back

at Olympics in London, I think, yeah there is a bit of disappointment in

the C 1. Kind of seems a long time ago and almost forgotten now

strangely. You're quite philosophical about it and I suppose

you have to be in a sport like this. Yeah, I think, it's a really big

advantage to be able to accept and realise that there are things that

you can't control. You can't guarantee to win a race or anything

like that. If you can accept that, you can work on the things in your

control that's far more likely to give you the best chance possible of

actually achieving what you want, yeah for me, of course, two gold

medals in Rio. I'm driven. If I get everything right, I know I'll put

myself in with a very good chance. You're a father since London and

you're going to be a father again. You're married. Lots of have

changed. Lots of athletes say becoming a parent changes them. Has

it done anything for you? It's one of these things, it's the most

ordinary thing to do in the world to have children, but when it's you, it

seems really exciting and it is a lot of fun. I love having a family

to go back to. I don't think it's changed how I go about competing in

my sport or what I'm trying to do in Rio. How would you compare yourself

four years on, older, hopefully wiser, going into Rio? I've had a

very good Olympic cycle. I had my best Olympic cycle yet. I've never

won the World Championships prior to the London Olympic Games. Now I've

won three World Championship titles in the last three years. I'm

enjoying the canoeing as much as ever. A lot of good runs in the last

few years. It's going to come down to really sticking it and making the

most of every opportunity to learn and being as ready as I possibly

can. What would it mean to get a Gold

Medal? It would be a really, really incredible achievement. Something

that I don't take lightly as to how difficult it is to achieve and even

if you are one of the best in the world for a number of years, so many

guys are in the sport who have been stand-out athletes, yeah, phenomenal

achievement. Yeah, it would be very proud.

It really does take incredible upper body strength, this board. We are

heading like now to the men's C1 final. This is the canoe slalom

Whitewater Stadium. We have commentary from Patrick Winston and

Helen Reeves. They go in reverse order, so David Florence will be

forced to go. COMMENTATOR: thanks, we are like

Deodoro, the canoe slalom venue. This is the first moment of truth

for the paddlers. Casey Eichfeld will be first on course having

finished tenth in the semifinal just one hour ago. Just over 60 minutes

to recover from their efforts in the first run. David Florence will be

going for. He made a mistake early, but Helen, you are fully confident

he can pull it together in the final run. I most certainly am. He made

mistakes but he was better in the semifinal. Let's see how Casey

Eichfeld gets on. From the United States, he is a man who paddles both

C1 and C2. The course is the same for both boats so he will gain

valuable experience from this run, whatever happens. 24 gates in all.

The green ones are downstream, the red ones are upstream. There is one

of the upstream once, it's tight. Seven, eight, nine is a problematic

sequence throughout. No one has penalties, but a few losing valuable

time. We thought 19 and 20 would be key gates, but from 20 down to 24,

that is right time can be gained. It certainly can. At that point your

arms are burning. It's really quite hard down the bottom section. You

have to work with the water and use everything you can find to make sure

you keep the boat travelling to board the finish. There is a two

second penalty which Eichfeld has just picked up on Gates 17. We

didn't see too many penalties on the first run. There is the spin and 19.

Last night there was the option of coming across the waves, but the

course setters were almost bullied into changing the course. Now there

is no option but to spin the gate in the C1s. Nine out of ten who

qualified for the final went clean. 86 on the clock, going through 22.

That is 3.5, four seconds slower than the first time. Casey Eichfeld

has four penalties, it would be gold or even an medal. 99.69, he is

delighted with that. But considerably slower than we saw from

the derris Tasiadis of Germany who had the fastest time in the

semifinals. -- from side errors Tasiadis. If you clip any polls on

this course or a date, as we see that, that's a two second penalty

added to your time. If you miss a gate, you get 50 seconds penalties

added to your time. Effectively, your race is over. The semifinals

were tighter than any race we've seen so far. All receipts we've seen

over the last two days, big splits between the first five. -- all of

the heat. That was not the case in the semifinals. Tasiadis was the

same with the quickest time. That may prove to be the fastest time of

the day. Eichfeld has been a long way outside. Jose Carvalho for

Portugal, the man on the starting gate now just gathering his

thoughts. You will no doubt have a game plan. He will know exactly

where he wants to attack, he will know the gates where he needs to be

safe. Let's see how he gets on. Second of those who qualified with a

time of 101.4. He was penalty free in the first run, he needs to be the

same again. Safely down the first drop which quartile David Florence

the first time around. It's all about getting tight in and out of

the upstream gates. The eight upstream gates are placed in the

slack water, a difference between the flow in the mainstream and the

eddy where it is nice and slack. You need a big stroke to term the canoe

effectively around the gates. He is on exactly the same schedule as he

was in the semifinal. A little bit sticky coming out of seven. That

caught some people out. A little bit of luck involved there because it is

a surging wave. Remember, I called picked up four penalty seconds on

the remainder of the course. Cavani oh with a careless mistake, just a

little bit too greedy there. He just has space to turn his pin. Another

two second penalty between 15 and 16. He couldn't get back office

blade. Tight into 17. He'd will just want to hold on, get the precise

line from 18 to 19. Jot down to 19. -- he drops down to 19 with four

penalties, Jose Carvalho will not be in with the Chancellor medal.

Generally paddlers were quicker in their second run. Here we are seeing

the effect of the Olympic final. We only have the one penalty, now we

have another four second penalty added. He will be some three or four

seconds slower than he was on the first run. That will be bitterly

disappointing. Jose Carvalho of Portugal, though celebrations for

him. Eichfeld with generous applause for his friend, such community this

paddling community. They really try and stay as tight to the polls is

possible to eliminate any extra travel across the river. He is

coming in, trying to sneak around the pole. Just ducking off it and

catching that bad edge. We had a chat with a number of people in

between the runs, just thing who's going to be in a meadow. The next

man down was on many people'slists, Matej Benus Slovakia. -- in with a

medal chance. -- Matej Benus of Slovakia. Benus is taking their

place, he is the number one in Slovakia. He can't be far off the

number one in the world. At six foot five he is a huge man to squeeze

into this small craft. He is from Bratislava, he will have support

like no other. He is tall and rangy, he lopes his way down the course.

He's very fast in a straight line but he needs to stay silky smooth as

well. One of the favourites for the gold medal here, Matej Benus. He

drives into gate number three. He's got one of the longest reaches and

gets his blade into position on this course like nobody else can. You

want to see the blade vertical in the water to make sure. There's that

tricky exit. Watch for the split. Eichfeld at this stage was going

great guns. 0.33 outside, nothing to worry about. Benus doesn't look like

he will pick up penalty seconds. He is safely around the gates that

caught the second man down, Jose Carvalho of Portugal. He picked up

four penalties also. 24 gates in all, six of those are street. Here

is the next, 17. Now he needs to stop thinking about the spin at 19.

-- six of those are upstream. Now he needs to start thinking. He spins

early, too early. A nice catch, he gets a drive up into 20. Now to push

out and make sure he doesn't get too much water on the deck of the boat

because that slows it down. Deep strokes to drive it away. The time

is good, he's about one second upon the fastest time in the semifinals.

Are we looking at a time and 93? Not quite, but it's a fantastic run.

4.67 inside the time of Casey Eichfeld. Now we have a target time

and that is why we were promoting Benus as one of the favourites for

medals here. The significance of that, Helen, is you wouldn't really

want him to have gone so early in the final. But now he sends the

pressure from himself right the way back to the starting Paul at the top

of the course. Everyone else knows that if they want to win, they've

got to take some risks somewhere. Absolutely. All he has to do is sit

and wait. He really did get it to gather. He picked it up, he got the

run together nicely. He got the rhythm going and the boat running

smoothly. Then he built on it all the way through to the end. He's not

had Olympic experience in the C1 before. He has been denied time and

time again. He has had championship finals, but this was a great

demonstration. He was number 23 in the World Cup series in 2014. Here

is the man we've been waiting for, David Florence of Great Britain. A

silver medal in the C2 in 2012. A silver medal in the C1 in 2008. Can

he add to his collection and go one better? We will find out over the

next minute and a half. He needs a time of under 95.02. He is looking

for a time of around 22 seconds at gate number seven and then we'll

have an idea of how he will be the first split. He is working hard, as

he did in the first run. He hasn't made the mistake that he made

earlier on. Down to seven, watch the clock. Nice and tight, and he's on

22 seconds. That'll do for now. That's a big mistake, that will be

very costly. You see him paddling upstream. Not only has it cost in

time, he will have two composer game. 3.80 down the time, I'm not

sure he will be able to claw that back. That is a disappointing

mistake, and one so often leads to another. David Florence knows that

he will not take gold, silver or bronze in the C1. He will have to

wait to the C2 final. His partner, Richard Hounslow, will be hoping for

a better performance than this. This is so disappointing, the man who

took the World Championship title in Lee Valley last year. He has such a

good record in majors. But two huge mistakes on this course in Deodoro

have cost Florence the chance of a medal. The leading time of 95.02

will not be better. My goodness, what a disappointment will stop you

can see it, this is the last place he wants to be on this water at the

moment. He will be so disappointed with himself. But early mistake

where he had to paddle back to the gate. Ten seconds at least outside

the time where he had to challenge for a medal. It means that Matej

Benus of Slovakia will remain number one Finau. 13.98, the margin. --

will remain number one for now. His father look on. His father who flew

him out here to Rio was not expecting that. But maybe that

mistake on the first run, it just took his thoughts away from what he

needed to do in the final. This was the second mistake. But, to be

honest, the race had gone by this stage. It most certainly had. There

was no coming back from that. He was just unnerved. He got off to a

really good start, but we just couldn't keep it together. I'm quite

surprised, to be quite honest. How disappointing for David Florence

from Aberdeen. He has not managed to add to his Olympic medals, but he

does have another chance in the C2. After dejection for David Florence.

We leave you now on BBC One, but when we come on air on BBC Two we

will see the conclusion of that canoe slalom to see if Matej Benus

can hang on to take gold for Slovakia. We will also have the

women's team final from the gymnastics and we will be showing

you the diving later. The gymnastics will be on BBC One at 8pm. Next we

head to BBC Two for further coverage of the canoe slalom. Sadly, it looks

as if David Florence will not be challenging for a medal. Here Inbee

Park it is merely filling up. We've got swimming coming up much later

on. They had their heats this morning. Tonight, Chad le Clos will

be taking on Michael Phelps for the second Olympics in a row in the 200

metres butterfly. But for now from the ovary will lead you on BBC One.

Join us in just a moment on BBC Two.