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Good evening. You're just in time here on BBC Two to join us as we | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
reach the semifinal stages in the CANOE SLALOM. The single event in | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
the men's event. That is one run for glory for David | :00:31. | :00:59. | |
Florence. That is the course that he has to run. Let me hand you over to | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
the commentators. Haneda has had experience of world | :01:08. | :01:24. | |
and Olympic finals. He has a dynamic style, which is snappy. He tries to | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
use the water, trying to get the timing. I was talking to David | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Florence's Coach this morning, and he named this fella, because he is | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
performing well, and look, here's down slightly, but not too bad. That | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
is a good upstream gate. He is using the water. | :01:55. | :02:10. | |
Well negotiated in 17. It is tight to the wall, so you have to be | :02:11. | :02:22. | |
accurate. That is good enough. Is Haneda stays clean, he will go into | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
the final. He might go through with a big boost as well. He is only 1.5 | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
seconds outside the best time. He is holding back a little, capable of | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
pushing harder. He is about to seconds | :02:40. | :02:54. | |
down Vitezslav Gebas. Haneda has done the job very well. Japan will | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
feature in the last ten of the men's C1. He looked very smooth coming | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
into that upstream gate, 13. Really digging deep. He used the water | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
extremely well. They are in more control than they were in the heats. | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
But there are a lot less penalties, I don't know whether it is just | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
because they have settled down. Four more to go. Remember, only one vote | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
per nation. The rules have changed somewhat. In 2012 Great Britain got | :03:36. | :03:47. | |
the gold and silver in the C2 category. Gareth Mariette took the | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
silver medal in 2000. In 2008 David Florence to get. He is one of the | :03:55. | :04:06. | |
favourites today. Yes, here's the current world champion. He knows | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
what it feels like to be in this position, and he is desperate get on | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
the podium. Savsek of Slovenia. Very experienced. He is from a stunning | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
part of the world. The sport is huge in Slovenia, just as in Slovakia. He | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
always commits to the run. If he makes it through to the final, | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
expect to see fireworks. He's up there with the best. | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
As a paddler he can be very deceptive. He uses long, efficient | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
strokes. You see him setting himself up to get the best. | :04:53. | :05:10. | |
He went for the spend. Nathan Sharpe. He just held a little before | :05:11. | :05:28. | |
-- he just held a little before that. He's looking for a time of | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
around 85. He is well inside. Looking good. He has two silvers, | :05:33. | :05:44. | |
won bronze, but no gold medals to his name in major competitions. A | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
couple of mistakes. But he has not picked up any penalties. That has | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
lost top spot. He has done enough to show us that he is a medal | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
contender, if not a gold medal contender. Yes, he lost his way on | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
that last bit of the course. He likes to get ahead of the game, so | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
he sets himself up so he can drive through it. Keeps the momentum going | :06:11. | :06:24. | |
downstream. We want to see them as close to the green poll as they can. | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
Savsek is down. He joins those going through to the final. We still have | :06:35. | :06:48. | |
four men who are out. We know that Shu is not competing in the final. | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
But the man in the bubble is Borrows from a steel you, hoping that one of | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
the men will make mistakes, otherwise his Olympic hopes will | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
come to an end. David Florence was flown out by his father. Everything | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
you can do to increase your chances, he has had more practice on this | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
water than any other team, apart from the Brazilians. This is the | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
moment of truth. That did not look like the perfect line into the first | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
drop. All sorts of delays. But you have to make the mistake firmly, to | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
give yourself an opportunity to make up. He needs to get himself back | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
into his game plan. He is good at that. World Champion last year, and | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
he did not have the best run on the top section. Two seconds down. Still | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
good enough to go through. We saw a ferocious performance in heat one to | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
make sure he went through, but he is one of very few athletes at the | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
games who has only taken one of the possible two he runs. He has done it | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
with the most amount of preparation. Now he needs to get back across. He | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
wants to be as tight as he can. This man can work hard. He is the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
powerhouse with Richard Hounslow he gets across the way. That is a | :08:25. | :08:34. | |
beautiful section. He has got himself back. This will not be far | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
of the wheat. He is looking for a time of 97.932 content with the | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
leader. He needs to make sure he is inside 100 seconds. And that will | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
happen. He has one gate to go. He has ended up with a place in the | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
finals. He has a much better run in him than that, and he knows it. His | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
father George, and his family, all enjoying it. He worked hard for | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
that, and he is a man that most certainly can. He shows a real style | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
here. He will certainly be looking to make a smoother run in the final. | :09:18. | :09:31. | |
Born in Aberdeen, and he lives now in London to make sure he can train | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
in the Lee Valley facility. But the Scottish, over time, have produced | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
some good paddlers. Campbell Walsh is coaching the New Zealanders. We | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
have David Florence, Fiona Pennie, from Bridge of Allan, and over the | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
years they have produced tremendous paddlers. The training ground for | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
most of the Scots is currently. -- Grantley. We are now watching | :09:57. | :10:13. | |
Dennis Gargaud Chanut of France starting his first semifinal run. | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
From Marseille. A very smooth paddler. Again he has long strokes | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
that makes him look as though he is not going as fast. The French team | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
described him as an acrobat. His ability to move on the water and | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
negotiate his way around. He's looking smooth at the moment. He is | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
upon the split 0.11 up. He is in control. Keep an eye on the bottom | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
of the boat, you might be able to see their fins that he uses. They | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
are like thrusters on a surfboard, to hold the line of big canoe. But | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
50% of coaches do not think they work. So you can make up your own | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
mind. Gargaud Chanut really believes in them. He wants to drive right | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
across the waves, keeping the boat speed. Not as quick as we saw from | :11:24. | :11:33. | |
David Florence. We saw the extra move at 819 to make sure it was | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
clean. That is as quick as we have seen. The time is impressive. Just | :11:42. | :11:56. | |
outside the best. Perfect. He does not want to go last in the final. He | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
has taken a huge amount of pressure off himself by finishing second, | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
with only one man to go. He will be happy either way. A beautiful | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
display of slalom. Tucking under gate 13. He did not even need a | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
stroke. One driving stroke out. He uses the water with those long | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
paddle strokes. Still, waiting to see who was eliminated. Shu is out, | :12:28. | :12:39. | |
Ian Borrows of Australia is not out, but unless Tasiadis makes a mistake, | :12:40. | :12:52. | |
it could be the end for the Australian. He is sitting in tenth | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
place at the moment. We're waiting to see what Tasiadis does. He is | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
good at the big occasion. He is a silver medallist from London 2012. | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
The only finalists still here today. Fourth in the World Championships in | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
2013. Did not go his way last Steven Lee Valley, and he finished 20th. -- | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
last year at the Lee Valley. He has a quick stroke rate, compared to | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
what we have just seen. You can have a shorter stroke, the real | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
powerhouses like David Florence, and then contrasting you have Gargaud | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
Chanut, who uses the Longreach he has. He is just about up on the | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
gate, but eight and nine approving a problem. He's holding onto a slim | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
lead. It is not about winning, it is about getting clean, giving | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
confidence to cope with the course and finishing high enough to what | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
some of the runners in the final. That becomes less significant | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
because of their ability to see people in the final. Between the | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
semifinal and final, they will look at every paddler to compare them. | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
They will eliminate any way to stop in the middle section. A little | :14:20. | :14:31. | |
sticky on the exit. Looking for at a time of 83. This has been a | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
brilliant run from the German, Tasiadis. The Germans have not won | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
since back in 92. Not only is he clean, he has taken a | :14:45. | :14:56. | |
big chunk out of everyone else. Is that his one good run, or can he do | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
the same again? That is the big ask. He will find that others will pick | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
up the pace. We often see the fastest time comes in the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
semifinals, but I imagine there is time for a number of people. Matej | :15:13. | :15:22. | |
Benus lost some time, as did David Florence, but what Sideris Tasiadis | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
did well through the middle section, he rolled the boat, almost as if he | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
eliminated the stoppers. He got the direction of speed, tracking all the | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
time. He has five World Championship silver medals. They have all come in | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
the team event. In the semifinals here he has proved he can medal in | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
an individual as well, no doubt about it, that was silky smooth. It | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
looked easier than David Florence. We will see how he gets on later. He | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
will be the last to go in the final. His success means that Ian Borrows | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
knows he will not take part in the last stage of this race. He finished | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
11th, only the top ten go through. We will run down those who have been | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
successful. The Japanese looking very good. | :16:18. | :16:29. | |
David Florence in the middle of the bunch. Just under four seconds for | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
him. Relief for David Florence, he wiped | :16:36. | :16:50. | |
his brow at the end, but don't worry about the times, it is wiped clean, | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
there is no carrying over, it is one run, the fastest will count in the | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
final, which goes off at 7:10pm your time. David will start fourth in the | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
final, and have to put down a fast time and keep fingers crossed. We | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
have got a moment to reflect on the judo fortunes of Alice Slazenger, a | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
former world bronze medallist, she got through her opening bout in the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
six to three kilo category earlier today. Now she is up against a Dutch | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
opponent. At stake, a place in the quarterfinals. | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
Alice Schlesinger has been in consistent form for Great Britain. | :17:40. | :18:00. | |
Looking to attack early on. So much determination. Whenever Alice | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
Schlesinger takes to the mat, such a fierce focus. Anicka van Emden is | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
vastly experienced, a huge and umber of medals. | :18:19. | :18:42. | |
They have met five times in the past, Anicka van Emden has three | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
victories. Trying to get the grip. Anicka van Emden trying to wrap the | :18:47. | :19:12. | |
arm around the back, it is all about getting the purchase on your | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
opponent. Alice Schlesinger is excellent at winning by ippon, the | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
hefty blow, turning your opponent onto their backward force, that | :19:25. | :19:25. | |
immediately ends any judo contest. Trying the same thing again here. | :19:26. | :19:42. | |
Looking to turn around and get your leg between your opponent's legs and | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
flip them over. Alice Schlesinger wasted not that much time earlier | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
on. No British judoka has come further than this so far here. | :19:56. | :20:09. | |
Anicka van Emden, world bronze medal in 2013, the last time the World | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
Championships were held here. Not a medal Alice Schlesinger has ever | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
won. Tentative so exchanging blows on the feet. Alice Schlesinger | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
looking for the opportunity, which did not present itself. She goes | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
ahead. It is wiped back of the school. She | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
will be more worried about the penalty against her name now. If | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
that stays the same, Anicka van Emden would progress. Alice | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Schlesinger needs to do something about this. She works away at Anicka | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
van Emden. The last time they met, Anicka van | :21:08. | :21:22. | |
Emden was a tough customer, she was not susceptible to much of what | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Alice Schlesinger could offer in terms of footwork, and now Alice | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
Schlesinger could be in trouble. Just about avoid giving anything | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
away. This will do for Anicka van Emden, to waste a bit of time. She | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
is in command, Anicka van Emden, but narrowly. Any scoring for Alice | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Schlesinger would take her through instead. Looking to get the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
purchase. The smallest possible score would be | :21:56. | :22:11. | |
getting Anicka van Emden down onto her side. Trying everything now. | :22:12. | :22:31. | |
Alice Schlesinger needs to find their way past the sturdy Anicka van | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
Emden defence. Time ticking away. Anicka van Emden in control. This | :22:35. | :22:53. | |
will be desperate for Alice Schlesinger, she needs to break out | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
of this. The referee will stop proceedings. Alice Schlesinger needs | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
to find something, desperation now. You hear the time run out. | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
By the narrowest of margins, one penalty. Anicka van Emden boughs to | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
her opponent and moves on to the last eight. Alice Schlesinger heads | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
out. No joy for Alice Schlesinger, she is | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
the fourth of the seven who have come here who have now gone out. | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
Next, Sally Conway, in the 70 kilo category. She is in action tomorrow. | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
It is a beta full evening, do you fancy going outside? We will do that | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
shortly. We will meet the man who is carrying a lot of Team GB's medal | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
hopes, Giles Scott, one of the most dominant sportsmen in any Olympic | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
discipline. He has rolled -- ruled the waves, the four-time world | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
champion, but he has waited a long time for his Olympic chance, he has | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
been in the shadow of Sir Ben Ainslie, who won the Finn class in | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
the last two Olympics. Giles Scott in a sentence? I am | :24:24. | :24:36. | |
pretty easy-going. You would not know I have a sportsmen. I do not | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
think you would think anything much of me, really! | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
It all began at my sailing club, I was five or six, my parents took me | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
and my brothers to the fore a beginner 's course, to keep us out | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
of trouble. I just wanted to get in a boat and make it go fast each way. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
It is the main's heavyweight class. To sail it, you need to be 90 to 105 | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
kilos. It is technically demanding. It is a fiddly boat, it is twofold, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
a physical battle and a technical battle. When you compete on your | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
own, there were still addictive lame -- there is nobody to blame or hide | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
behind, but there is more pressure that comes along with it. The crowds | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
are about to cheer, because Ben Ainslie wins his fourth Olympic | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
gold. He is the greatest sailing Olympian in the history of the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Olympics. The media will pick up on the fact that you are sailing in the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
same class as Ben Ainslie. You ploughing your own furrow or | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
following in his footsteps? There has been a huge changing of the | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
guard. I like to think I am following my own path, they just | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
happens that the man who has gone before is him. Not qualifying for | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
London, watching one of the racing going on, that was not the easiest | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
thing for me to do, but I am glad I stuck around and put myself through | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
it. Highlights have been winning major championships, winning Olympic | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
test event, World Championships, European Championships, beating | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
people like Ben Ainslie. If you ask anybody from my competitors, they | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
would be happy enough to say they want to come into the Olympics with | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
a string of results that I have had. I know what I want from it, that has | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
a gold medal. It is the one thing that I have wanted to achieve for a | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
very long time, I have worked hard to do that. I am confident in where | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
I am at. It will not be easy. A lot of people have said it is a sure | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
thing, which it isn't. It is an Olympic Games, it is giving one of | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
the hardest regattas you can do, and the thing is given. -- nothing. I am | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
more capable than anybody else of doing it, but it is not a given. | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
We should find out how he is doing, because the regatta started | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
yesterday, but this is the first appearance of the finn class, two | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
races today. Let's dip into the first of them, we joined them at | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
about the halfway mark. There is Giles Scott. He is in the | :27:42. | :27:50. | |
scrap at the back of the fleet at the moment. The breeze is not going | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
his way. The racecourse turned into a drag race, and unfortunate first | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
leg has left him fighting. It is a test of character. It is one thing | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
winning World Championships, but this is the Olympic Games, this is | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
his first appearance, you have the weight of the nation on your | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
shoulders, he has not had any breaks yet so far. He is capable of turning | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
this around and getting into the top ten. It is a test of character, it | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
could not be more difficult conditions. He has one lap to go. | :28:25. | :28:34. | |
The finns are bearing down on the leeward mark. Argentina, Turkey and | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
Estonia are trying to get the best positions of. Argentina jibed off in | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
the latter stages, it looks like it worked out very well. A nasty job | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
coming into the bottom of the course. Nasty boat wash affecting | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
the racing, but Argentina have sailed... Is that an overlap? I | :28:54. | :29:00. | |
think it is clear. Argentina round in first place. It is going the way | :29:01. | :29:09. | |
of the Argentinian. Estonia slightly wide of the mark, Turkey take the | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
inside round. Slovenia round in fourth place, Greece on the inside | :29:17. | :29:18. | |
of the Croatian. Norway getting some clear water, | :29:19. | :29:32. | |
picking the best line around. France also follow suit. Going for the | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
early attack. He dug himself out a little bit | :29:37. | :29:50. | |
earlier than Giles. He is doing a good job here of turning what was | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
looking at very poor result early on and took a counter. | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
Denmark trying to get into the inside of Sweden. Brazil, no Giles | :30:04. | :30:14. | |
Scott of Great Britain. We are in the closing stages at the moment. | :30:15. | :30:25. | |
Giles Scott is running out of time. Finland, then Italy and New Zealand, | :30:26. | :30:37. | |
altogether. I thought is Julia was going to have a collision between | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
Australia and Italy. I think the Australian is just managed to avoid. | :30:43. | :30:53. | |
Canada a definite collision, as far as I could tell. Turkey at the | :30:54. | :31:03. | |
bottom of the picture. Working harder. Estonia and Argentina have | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
held on and they are now sailing up the right-hand side. We saw the | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
leaders coming in from the left hand side. A little bit of a split | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
decision. At what you do not generally doing a | :31:18. | :31:42. | |
good position is to separate to the other side of the cause. He was | :31:43. | :31:52. | |
perhaps waiting a shift to go on. It has stabilised in the right | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
direction, with Argentina still leading Estonia. Argentina, for now, | :32:00. | :32:14. | |
letting the Estonian go. Clearly both Bolt swung back right-hand | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
side. From that camera angle it looks like the boats are closer than | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
they are. Turkey has separated by a long way to the left. This could be | :32:21. | :32:35. | |
interesting here. Turkey, 18th and the London 2012 Olympics, but doing | :32:36. | :32:53. | |
well here. Perfect inside the boat with Cinar from Turkey. You almost | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
have to get down on those knees when you do this. Especially since one of | :33:00. | :33:07. | |
the sailors is 8-foot tall. Nice demonstration. Cinar from Turkey, | :33:08. | :33:19. | |
the furthest boat to the left. -- one. | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
-- Kaynar. If you're not confident about what the breeze will do at the | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
venue, do not split from your rivals to fire. Turkey is sailing further | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
and further to the left-hand side, while the rest of them out on the | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
right. Sometimes you get forced to do that. You get right shift, and | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
you do not like what you see, so you go to starboard unthinkable | :33:48. | :33:49. | |
comeback. Then you get more separated and before you do it it | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
will be too late -- before you know it it will be too late to come back. | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
Argentina, the right of way boat that Slovenia have two avoid. | :34:02. | :34:08. | |
Argentina are waving them on. So Slovenia takes the lead. Argentina | :34:09. | :34:20. | |
happy to give the reader way. It is great | :34:21. | :34:20. | |
to see him doing that. If he had tacked it, it would have forced the | :34:21. | :34:38. | |
others to do that. He said, you know, Carry On in front of me, so he | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
could get clear air in the direction he wanted to go. Slovenia, Estonia | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
and Croatia, with Argentina and Turkey in the front pack. Giles | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
Scott from Great Britain is working hard in the middle of the field. He | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
has some nice space around them, and we will see how well the hard work | :34:58. | :35:06. | |
pays off. Turkey is now crossing Slovenia. The Turkish borders | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
working hard coming in from the left hand side. He got bounced further | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
out to the left, and now Turkey, Kaynar, takes the lead here in Rio. | :35:15. | :35:24. | |
It is a nice race, but it is loose. He is doing his own thing, and | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
sometimes you have to do that. He is not worrying too much about | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
strategy. He's just keeping the boat moving fast and hope that works out | :35:35. | :35:35. | |
for him at the top. Argentina is coming back in. Turkey | :35:36. | :35:49. | |
is crossing ahead, still in the lead. But it is close. Slovenia are | :35:50. | :35:57. | |
just behind the Turkish boat. We are getting into the final stages of | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
this upwind leg. Argentina, with a little shift to the left-hand side, | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
Argentina cross ahead of Turkey. So the lead is changing all the time. | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
Some short, quick shifts still to be had at the top the course. The fact | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
that the boats are attacking so often, it just shows that they are | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
having to work with at the wall time. It is just very unstable | :36:23. | :36:29. | |
beneath what is very high land. Argentina tacking levered to Turkey. | :36:30. | :36:39. | |
Still wanting the left-hand side. They are quite well to the right of | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
the course, so although he is protecting the left, he is | :36:44. | :36:47. | |
protecting the long tacks. Right now there is a lot more sailing to be | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
done. Better to lead the fleet back than to box yourself into the | :36:52. | :36:59. | |
right-hand side and a corner. I met him for the first time during | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
measurement. He was excited about his first Olympic Games, but he had | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
lost a lot of weight. He dropped a lot of weight for this Olympics, | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
hoping it would be late winter. It is looking like a smart decision | :37:13. | :37:13. | |
today. The strategy is changing, and it is | :37:14. | :37:34. | |
now all about picking the best approach to the mark. It is a very | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
light breeze. Even though they control boats and the jury is do not | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
move very fast on the water, even a small wave now can really affect | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
them, as the wind is light. Argentina sailing over the top of | :37:50. | :37:56. | |
Slovenia. Estonia lost a lot of ground. Turkey still on the left. | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
Look a much harder he is having to hike to keep the boat flat. | :38:03. | :38:13. | |
Argentina and now tacked to ground the top of the course. | :38:14. | :38:27. | |
Turkey is close behind Argentina, followed by Slovenia in third. There | :38:28. | :38:38. | |
is a pack coming up. Just having to time that perfectly to avoid the | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
back. Estonia trying to get round the mark, forcing Brazil. Very close | :38:45. | :38:51. | |
to rule infringement. Estonia judged it just right, right on the limit. | :38:52. | :39:07. | |
USA, Norway, Hungary, still waiting to see where Giles Scott of Great | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
Britain is going to round this windward mark. I think he is all | :39:12. | :39:18. | |
right. I think he was in reasonable shape. I am not sure whether he will | :39:19. | :39:29. | |
lay the mark, though. Giles is just tucking in behind the Swede. That | :39:30. | :39:44. | |
looked like a collision. Yes, between Denmark and the Netherlands. | :39:45. | :40:05. | |
By my calculation, one more run to go before we get the short dogleg to | :40:06. | :40:15. | |
the finish. Not a lot of time. Giles has to work hard to squeeze every | :40:16. | :40:24. | |
last drop out of this. In winds of under ten knots like this, you're | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
not allowed to rock and pump to artificially make more wind and make | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
the boat go faster. So there is a tremendous temptation to do that, | :40:34. | :40:36. | |
but the umpires will be looking for it. You can be penalised, which can | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
hang over you for the rest of the regatta. Important that frustration | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
does not get the better of him, and he needs to make sure that he does | :40:47. | :40:48. | |
not fall foul of the umpires. Argentina are happy to sail into the | :40:49. | :41:18. | |
middle of this run. Locked into a battle at the moment with Turkey. | :41:19. | :41:32. | |
That is Kaynar, who had the lead, but now he is working hard against | :41:33. | :41:46. | |
the Argentinian sailor. There are still some gains and losses to be | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
made. The American has gone from 20 Second Place up to eighth on that | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
last beat. If you get the right side of these and find they better | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
patches of wind, there are plenty of chances to catch up. Facundo -- | :42:02. | :42:19. | |
Kaynar. You can see the Judy with their eyes fixed on the front pack. | :42:20. | :42:30. | |
-- jury. They are not allowed to pump the boat when the breeze is | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
light. Now, Facundo Olezza of Argentina, 21 years of age. It | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
really is very close between Argentina and Turkey. The | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
Argentinian is trying to protect the left-hand side so that he will be at | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
the turn. He's making sure he positions himself to the left. That | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
does not mean that someone further rate will not be far enough to get | :42:59. | :43:06. | |
all the way around them. Turkey. We are around two thirds of the way | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
around, and there is not much time left. Shirley Robertson is on the | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
water. Are there any real passing opportunities? It is tough to watch, | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
not really. There is the odd puff of wind. You see them all looking | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
behind, trying to be in the pressure as much as they can. It is flat | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
water, and you cannot even get a little pump on. It is very flat. | :43:31. | :43:40. | |
Desperately feel for Giles, not many options left. As she says, not a lot | :43:41. | :43:57. | |
of options left. One of the secrets to doing well in a regatta is that | :43:58. | :44:05. | |
you have to turn your 16th places on 2/12. Or you have to concentrate on | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
one or to boats in front of you, and if you can pass one or to on every | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
leg, you're in a good position. These are difficult positions. This | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
is not a disaster. He is not the only favourite having a difficult | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
time. The Australian was well back. One of the favourites, Joss Junior, | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
the only person to actually beat Giles, he was 19th at the last | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
windward mark. The boats at the front are not the most fancied | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
sailors, which does not mean they are not incredibly capable. But over | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
ten races, can they sustain it? It is early days, but let's hope he can | :44:46. | :44:46. | |
pick off a Couple. The leaders are just | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
approaching the bottom gate. Argentina working very hard. Facundo | :44:52. | :45:07. | |
Olezza of Argentina, he has been working hard to hold the inside | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
rounding the last turning mark. Turkey and Slovenia close to the | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
Argentinian. I would not be surprised to see some last-minute | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
moves, but as you say, these are all good positions. They might in fact | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
just agree, let's keep the battle for the next few races, let's hold | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
these positions. Argentina getting very close to the final jibe. Turkey | :45:33. | :45:40. | |
ready to pounce if there is a gap. Argentina jibed to go around the | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
last turning mark, Turkey in second, Slovenia in third. Incredibly close | :45:46. | :45:53. | |
for the final dogleg. He is a younger man but he has a wise head | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
on his shoulders, protecting the inside. A straight shot to reach the | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
finishing line, a fantastic race, thrilled for him. Argentina leading | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
the pack on the short dogleg to the finish line. 15 seconds away from | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
the boats crossing the finish line, you can see it on the screen. | :46:13. | :46:23. | |
Argentina Holdings to Windward, Turkey going below, Argentina trying | :46:24. | :46:30. | |
to cover. Slovenia also taking the low road. Argentina crossed the | :46:31. | :46:41. | |
finish line. Facundo Olezza, 21 years of age, the youngest | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
competitor in the class Tom wins the first race. Estonia crossed the | :46:48. | :46:54. | |
finish line in fourth or fifth place. They were leading the race at | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
one point. A slight disappointment to slip back. The United States, | :46:59. | :47:07. | |
Norway, Hungary, and then the bronze medallist from London crosses the | :47:08. | :47:20. | |
line, Jonathan Lobert. Italy. Greece coming into the line. Then, Denmark. | :47:21. | :47:31. | |
Jonas Hogh-Christensen, silver medallist from Denmark. Giles Scott | :47:32. | :47:40. | |
concludes the first race of the men's heavyweight, a tough race, | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
putting him back in the pack, in 17th place. | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
A nervous debut on his part. 17th in the first race, but no panic. There | :47:49. | :47:57. | |
are ten races in the class, and you can scratch one of them, so if that | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
is his worst, he gets to scratch it, and it is the sailor with the best | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
combined results in the entire regatta who wins. He is doing better | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
in his second race, there are two races for the finn class today, the | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
last we heard he was in third place. You can follow it live via the BBC | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
Sport app and website. It is all going on. We are going to talk | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
tennis, Joanna can't and Jamie Murray the first choice pairing for | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
the mixed doubles. It starts tomorrow. Andy Murray and Heather | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
Watson have been named as alternate for Great Britain, they are now at | :48:40. | :48:47. | |
18 on the list, is to put -- is to couple struck out, they get a spot | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
as well. Joanna contact is a busy lady, she is in the middle of a | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
singles match against Svetlana Kuznetsova. The name might be | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
familiar to you, because she is a former US open champion from Russia. | :49:04. | :49:09. | |
As we speak, Johanna Konta is serving to stay in the first set. | :49:10. | :49:15. | |
Brilliant, wonderful forehand angle. She got a lot of brush. Got the ball | :49:16. | :50:03. | |
up and down very quickly. Elevating herself off the floor. Good dynamic | :50:04. | :50:14. | |
athleticism. Can she hold on? That is the play that I really like on | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
this slow, with the hard-core. Get your opponent outside the double | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
strand and open up the angle for yourself. If you serve to the | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
middle, your return is in the middle of the court, and it is hard to get | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
the ball through the court and get on the front foot as a consequence. | :50:34. | :50:41. | |
That is a really decent service hold for Joanna contact, she will be | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
delighted. The first hold in this much for her. She is asking the | :50:46. | :50:55. | |
question of the Russian eighth seed. Just looking across to her camp to | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
pick up any signals. Some things never go out of fashion. | :51:01. | :51:21. | |
Brilliant from Kuznetsova. Again, it the wider serve that served her | :51:22. | :51:33. | |
well. Look how early she backs it up, with the kick in the leg action | :51:34. | :51:44. | |
on the high double hander. Will she serve wide here as well? She has a | :51:45. | :51:46. | |
good kick serve. A similar pattern of play. But not | :51:47. | :52:03. | |
the same reward. Johanna Konta with a terrific height background's high | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
backhand return, well above her shoulders. Can she take this return | :52:11. | :52:12. | |
game further? Just waiting in her peripheral | :52:13. | :52:28. | |
vision for her to commit one way or the other. | :52:29. | :53:18. | |
That forehand ballooned out by quite a long way. It might make her | :53:19. | :53:25. | |
slightly anxious. There have been multiple breaks of serve in this | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
set. Is Johanna Konta looking at another ambush on the Russian? If | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
ever I thought there was a challenge on, I thought it would be right | :53:40. | :53:40. | |
there, but not so. It is an unusual combination, a | :53:41. | :54:07. | |
slow, abrasive court and a fastball. It is easy to overcook it. David | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
Fera ousted recently on this court. Set point for Kuznetsova. | :54:13. | :54:38. | |
She has foundered. The backhand down the line has been missing of late, | :54:39. | :54:47. | |
but was gorgeously struck. Perfect weight and direction, look at how | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
she sets up for this one. Any time you redirect the ball, you have to | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
have a great position around the ball, and look how disciplined she | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
was with her legs. Her back leg almost touching the court. | :55:03. | :55:24. | |
It has been a strange set this one, yo-yoing about all over the place, | :55:25. | :55:32. | |
but after 37 minutes, the eighth seed has a second set point. | :55:33. | :56:12. | |
It is a bruising rally, she is delighted with the outcome. She | :56:13. | :56:19. | |
takes the opening set 6-3, after just 38 minutes. | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
That continues live now, you can watch it via the BBC Sport website | :56:24. | :56:33. | |
and app. That is live now. Our day is just about done. Let me remind | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
you of some of the key moments from today so far. Joe Cortina's hopes of | :56:38. | :56:48. | |
an Olympic medal or over after he narrowly lost in the last 16, he is | :56:49. | :56:55. | |
the fourth British boxer to exit. Great Britain's men made a good | :56:56. | :56:58. | |
start to their rugby sevens campaign, easing to a 31-7 victory | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
over Kenya. Their next match is at 9pm tonight your time. They will | :57:05. | :57:11. | |
face Japan, who had a stunning 14-12 victory over New Zealand, their | :57:12. | :57:14. | |
first ever sevens victory over the all Blacks. Katherine Grainger | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
remains on course for her fifth Olympic medal after she reached the | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
final of the women's doubles, one of six British boats to secure places | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
in finals so far. New Zealand's and the Aussies are out. The reigning | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
singles champion Andy Murray marches on in the men's after he brushed | :57:36. | :57:41. | |
aside Argentina's Monaco to reach round three. That is about it from | :57:42. | :57:51. | |
me. It has been a really exciting few hours here, by the beach. So | :57:52. | :57:56. | |
much to come over the next few hours. It is only halfway through | :57:57. | :58:04. | |
our Olympic day. On the list of must see things, in about 20 minutes, | :58:05. | :58:10. | |
half-hour or so, David Florence goes for possibly another medal, the | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
already has two, and you never know, he might be on the top step, it is | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
the final run of the men's Canoe slalom. The women's ten metre | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
advancing crow, after the British boys who bronze tonight -- last | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
night. The women's team gymnastics from 8pm your time, that could be | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
scintillating, with Simone Biles, one of the stars of the Olympics | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
from America. This will be our first chance to see her, going for one of | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
five gold medals. Then, the swimming finals, Siobhan-Marie O'Connor the | :58:47. | :58:49. | |
fastest qualifier in the 200 metres individual medley, and Great Britain | :58:50. | :58:55. | |
the fastest in the freestyle relay. It could get very tasty tonight. | :58:56. | :58:58. | |
From us by the beach, goodbye, catchy tomorrow. | :58:59. | :59:02. |