Day 5 BBC Four: 19.00-22.00 Olympics

four years ago. The top two go through to this match. In third and

fourth, it's bronze medal. Real chance of a medal here for Team GB.

Let's join this one at the semifinal stage. Here is Richard Kruse.

COMMENTATOR: As you can see, it is a wet and windy day. The wind coming

from right to left as you look out across this venue. This is the man

who came through a shoot off to get that sixth place, Fehaid Aldeehani.

We are about to get underway in the double trap competition here in Rio.

This time, 30 target shot in 15 doubles in three sections of ten

targets. A good start from Tim Kneale. The first miss of the

competition from the man from Germany, Andreas Loew. 20 years of

age, James Willett, the world number one, he managed that in just two

years, amazing really. And there are five shooting positions. You can see

the green bunker in front. The clay target being pushed out at a fair

old lick, 80 kph. And they will get a selection of centre, left and

right. They will be keeping count in their head as to what they have

already had from each position. They are wrapped up against the weather.

The first really rainy day we have had here at the Olympics. It is of

course a winter here in Rio will stop will it. -- Willett looking

good. Scott keeps his perfect tally. Aldeehani, he is having a good

contest so far, the 49-year-old, the oldest in the competition. The only

man in his 20s is James Willett, everybody else is in their 30s.

Certainly a sport that takes awhile to get to peak of performance.

Andreas Loew, he has missed another one. There is the flag. Willett.

Works on the family sheep and grain farm, works part-time in an outdoor

recreation shop. But in a semifinal here at the Olympics. The man who

won bronze in Sydney, Kuwait's first medal in an Olympics in any

discipline. Also won bronze in the trap in London. That is the first

miss from Kneale, yes. The man who has the world record in

qualification, missing just two out of 150. Marco Innocenti, also with

seven out of eight. Not a disaster if you miss one, you just have to

reset. 30 target is altogether and this competition goes at a lick.

I believe no target was called. Steve Scott just having to reset

himself, the world number ten, he has been shooting since he was nine.

All leading to this and he is looking very good indeed.

Aldeehani, he was fourth last time in London will stop he would hate if

that happened to him again. He will be literally running for a medal

here. And I think he has missed another one, Kneale. He is just

having a bumpy ride, the silver medallist from the World

Championships last year. Less time than their trap compatriots to get

the two shots away, they still come out at the same rate of knots.

Andreas Loew after that early couple of Mrs is back in form. -- misses.

The rain is still falling the wind is not terrible, the E can pause the

competition if the rain gets too bad but they will have shot in worse --

the referee can pause. Three athletes have an unblemished record

including Steven Scott and James Willett and of course Fehaid

Aldeehani. All very experienced campaigners. Scott of course as

Sheikh Ahmad Maktoum as his coach, a member of the Dubai world family.

Tim Kneale is an all-round sportsman, has also represented the

Isle of Man at under 19 rugby level and also at cricket. Marco

Innocenti, still in with a chance, shooting well. This is the man to be

keeping an eye on. Yet to miss a target. Was that a double miss? It

is! That perfect record from Steven Scott is in tatters now will stop

that could be a really important moment. Not often you see a double

miss at this level. Kneale. He goes up into equal second at the

moment. Innocenti with a pair here can leapfrog them but I think he has

missed the second one and he has. This is a bit of a seesaw semifinal.

Loew missed two out of the first six but is back on it now. And if that's

the first miss from the Australian? It is and he is human after all --

is that. Just this man, competing under the Olympic banner, Fehaid

Aldeehani. But there you go, a first miss from him as well. You can see

the flags really stiff in the breeze, it is not easy. It will push

these clays around. Innocenti going well now. And so is

Loew. Good German representation in the stands, the man who qualified

first, world ranked number five, four behind this man. And another

miss from James Willett. And all of sudden he is looking a little less

invincible. Scott recovering from that double miss come he has hit two

doubles in a row now. Aldeehani shooting well. Recovering

from just a single missed so far. It is very tight indeed. Kneale, with

16 hits. Putting the pressure on everybody else, everybody else has

14. And Innocenti misses one. And there is another myth is welcome

straight down the middle, that seems to be foxing a few people and that

is a costly miss for Loew. Better from the Australian.

He took those very quickly. Steve Scott looking very comfortable on

that particular pair. Another miss from Aldeehani.

A chance for Kneale to close the gap. Oh dear. That first one, I'm

not sure what happened, there seemed to be a delay with getting the shot

away. He had a chance to join Aldeehani in first place. That has

gone by the wayside. Again, the one down the middle, Loew

is struggling with that one. And Willett misses another one. The man

who learned to shoot on the family farm at just 12 years of age, a

different story for Steve Scott. It is not going to plan for the Britain

but there is a four way tie at the moment for second place so all is

not lost for any of those athletes. Still Aldeehani one ahead with

Kneale, Innocenti, Willett and Scott all behind him. It is very tight. We

have five doubles left, ten more clays for each of these athletes.

Will it be another coaching triumph for Sheikh Ahmed? Coach Peter Wilson

of course, nobody quite knows what he tells his charges, he keeps his

cards close to his chest. A good start to this last section for

Aldeehani. Another miss from Kneale. Innocenti. He takes both of those

with ease. This time that second shot for Loew is bagged. He has had

an indifferent last few shots. I think he got a nibble of that second

one, Willett. He moves into second place. Still Aldeehani a shot to the

good and if he keeps going well, he is assured of a gold medal match.

And he is going well done 22 out of 24, excellent shooting. Back on it,

Tim Kneale. The man from the Isle of Man. He is actually residing in

Somerset where he works on a farm to raise some money for this sport

which can be very expensive. Better from Loew.

Willett in the mix still, he had that wobble in the second series.

Conditions are very dark here, you can see the lights shining brightly

in the stands. Not easy for these athletes. Excellent work from

Aldeehani. And Tim Kneale is keeping his calm under pressure after a

wobble of his own. A couple of times he has missed shots. Innocenti

leapfrogging into second. And a miss from Loew and he is struggling.

Willett. And he misses one. Well, the Australian, the world number

one, not really in the rhythm he would like. That is better from

Steve Scott as well will stop he is in equal second along with Innocenti

of Italy. And Aldeehani is shooting beautifully. You suspect Kneale is

in a scrap for a bronze medal shoot off match. He is up to 24.

Still with a chance of that bronze medal match, Loew. Willett is under

pressure here. He does well and take them early. Last issued is Steve

Scott and he misses one! Oh my. Equal third, he was in with a shout.

He has gone to be gold-medal match, that is the last for Aldeehani. He

missed just a couple and while he celebrates, everybody has to keep

calm and try to concentrate on what they have to do. Normally you should

stay at the shooting position. And wait for everybody else to finish

but certainly you can see what it meant to Aldeehani. At least a

silver medal for him. He has been pulled back to where he

should be, it is a little disrespectful to the other athletes.

They are still battling to get into the gold medal or bronze medal

matches. A yellow card understandably given to the queue 80

athlete who is competing under the Olympic flag. -- the athlete from Q

80. Leapfrogging into second place,

Marco Innocenti. That means he will be in the gold-medal match. Who will

be in the bronze medal shoot off? That is the question here. Andreas

Loew with a couple. James Willett does well as well. 26, now the

chance for Steven Scott to take the bronze medal. He does as well. -- in

the bronze medal match. Fehaid Aldeehani, slightly ill mannered

what he did, but he is in the gold-medal match. So is Marco

Innocenti. We have a 3-way shoot off, including two Brits, and an

Australian. Tim Kneale, Steven Scott of Great Britain, and Australian

James Willett. Steven Scott will be ruling his double miss earlier on in

that semifinal. We wait to see who will make it into the bronze medal

match. Here is confirmation... Fehaid Aldeehani and Marco Innocenti

into the gold-medal match. James Willett, Steven Scott and Tim Kneale

have their nerves jangling, they wait to see if they can make it into

the bronze medal match. Andreas Loew confirmed in sixth place. Having

trouble with those shots down the middle. You can see what it meant to

him, but really he needed to wait until everybody else had shot before

he showed that a motion. He got that yellow card from the referee --

e-mail should. The problem was, it slowed everything down and everybody

had to wait. -- emotion. Tears of joy, is a very emotional

guy, let it all out. I'm sure he will have it back under control. By

the time we get to the gold-medal match. This is the shoot off to get

to the bronze medal match. Remember, the first person who drops a shot,

and the others don't, we'll have to drop out and take fifth place.

-- will have to take. Putting pressure on everyone else,

Tim Kneale. Do you want to shoot first or last? People say last, if

possible. World number one James Willett.

Won here in April at the World Cup, third and fourth place since. That

is a Miss, Steven Scott just has two hippies two, and it will be an all

British bronze medal match. -- he has two hit these two. He hits

them both! Yes, is what he says. It is an

intense moment for Steven Scott, and the two British athletes embrace.

It is a long walk for James Willett of Australia, taking fifth place.

The man you would have thought would be doing good things here, the world

number one qualified well but it is not his day.

He settles for fifth place. DAN: A guaranteed bronze medal for

Team GB here, either Steven Scott or Tim Kneale.

Remember, this was actually where Peter Wilson one the gold-medal four

years ago in London 2012. Steven Scott has the same coach --

won. That Peter Wilson had four years

ago. Hopefully one of them will be able to sort themselves out. We will

stay with this on BBC Four for you. It may be that it disappears on to

BBC One. If that is the case, we will let you

know and bring you other live sport here on BBC Four.

For the moment, we will stay with the men's double trap bronze medal

match between Tim Kneale and Steven Scott.

I will let you know exactly what will happen if you do want to follow

this. ANNOUNCER: Representing Great

Britain, Tim Kneale. And representing Great Britain, Steven

Scott! APPLAUSE This is the bronze medal match.

COMMENTATOR: A reminder, hitting the targets, 15 doubles, shot in five

sections of six targets. Three doubles in each section. Tim Kneale

gets off to a good start. It was a tricky second clay for Scott. But,

he was quick on both. Tim Kneale took up shooting early at 12, taking

up double trap at 18. He is looking very calm and assured here.

DAN: We have had a meeting, this is what will happen.

This is going to BBC One. If you want to continue to watch Tim Kneale

and Steven Scott going for bronze in the double trap, to BBC One now,

they are at exactly the same point in this bronze medal match.

You can pick it up without missing a beat.

We will come back later on, and show you the gold-medal match between

Fehaid Aldeehani, who is competing under the Olympic flag, and Marco

Innocenti of Italy. This is what is happening over the next few hours...

Joe Clarke is in the canoe slalom for Great Britain. That is coming up

after the judo. One of our brick slots tonight will be taken by the

men's individual all-around final, Nile Wilson and Max Whitlock of Team

GB -- big slots. But all eyes will be on the Japanese competitor, seen

as the overall best ever male gymnast, Kohei Uchimura. And we have

died in later with Team -- the diving later.

Sally Conway is coming up in the judo, rugby sevens is on later. We

saw Team GB earlier on the BBC, beating New Zealand 21-19. That

takes them into the quarterfinals, we will show you that live at nine

o'clock back home. And we have all 4/4-finals for you in total. If you

are into the rugby sevens, tonight is your night on BBC Four! Table

tennis, the women's singles final with amazing skills on offer, can

the Chinese continue to dominate at these games? That at 1:30am.

Just a reminder, if you want to see Tim Kneale and Steven Scott, go for

the bronze medal in the men's double trap, that's live on BBC One. He on

BBC Four, we will show you the judo, because Sally Conway, last year, she

showed she has medal potential here at the games where she won the grand

slam final for the first time, we will show you her quarterfinal match

earlier today against a Linda Bolder of Israel. This is the women's 70

can grant category, and the winner of this one gets into the semifinal,

let's see if Sally Conway can make it...? -- 70 kilograms.

COMMENTATOR: Sally Conway in white, Linda Bolder in blue. Four minutes

on the clock in this Rio 2016 and 70 kilos quarterfinal. These two know

each other, they have Forte times in the last eight years. -- four years.

Linda Bolder has 15. Sally Conway looks in exceptional form, two ippon

for her so far. The world champion as dramatic as you will see. Linda

Bolder knocked to the floor, can Conway

take advantage? Linda Bolder looked temporary stand there. -- stunned.

The referee orders the two to break. No score, one minute goal of this

quarterfinal. The golden score awaiting, if there is no score by

the end of those four minutes, the golden score can last as long as it

needs to until someone scores or has a penalty awarded against them.

Sally Conway, already the best performing British judo star here at

Rio 2016 so far. Linda Bolder getting advice from her

coach. She has been penalised. So, Conway has the narrowest of

advantages now. That penalty will be enough at the end of those two

minutes if Linda Bolder cannot score. You cannot be defensive in

judo, and Conway isn't either. A big attempt at a throw from Linda

Bolder. Conway in white can still ahead and

looking lively as she has done all day, looking focused.

Out of the second round in London 2012 already, there is an

improvement here. She feels she can be this opponent, and go further

after defeating the world champion in the second round. Bolder searches

for the grip around the back of Conway's neck. Still, no score other

than that penalty. Now, slamming down. It is a waza-ari for Sally

Conway. The clock ticks down in the top of your screen.

It is a ippon awarded for Sally Conway. Her third ippon in a row.

Delight is etched on her face, the 29-year-old. She came here with a

world ranking of number ten, she is punching well above that already,

into the final four. Sally Conway. At Rio 2016. ANNOUNCER: Sally

Conway! A hug for the coach, huge

celebration for Sally Conway, she has more work to do this afternoon

and into the evening, medals will be decided today. She looks on the form

of her life for Great Britain, Sally Conway into the final four.

Brilliant stuff and Sally Conway will be in action in about 45

minutes against Yuri Alvear of Colombia and you will be able to

watch that on BBC One or on the website or app. The BBC sport app is

a great place to go because often when you are watching, you are not

sure who is on where with the athletics coming next week, a lot of

sailing and rowing and cycling. If you want to know what races are at

certain times got on the app and the website there is a schedule for

everyday so you can your viewing. We love getting your messages here and

we will go to the gold-medal match in the men's double trap the moment

but Mark Winstanley says, forget Rio, it looks like Prestatyn! It is

a bit murky at the moment. Darren and his wife Louise, if you mention

us, my wife says she will what all night all the way until two o'clock.

There you go, I hope you like rugby sevens because we have got hours of

it! We are going to go back to the shooting now. But elsewhere on BBC

One at the moment we have the kayak final with Joe Clarke going for Team

GB. On the Red Button we have the basketball, Serbia taking on France.

And we are going to take you to the gold-medal match for Fehaid

Aldeehani, representing, competing under the Olympic flag. He will be

taking on Marco Innocenti of Italy. If you were not watching ABC one, it

was Steven Scott who won the bronze medal for Team GB -- watching on BBC

One. Will it be Italy or Fehaid Aldeehani? He got a yellow card in

the semifinal for over celebrating when he already knew he was into the

gold-medal match. Let's see who can take the gold. It is bit murky as

well with the wind and rain effecting things. Let's rejoin

Richard Drew. Fehaid Aldeehani has had his fair

share of dramas. In the Asian games in 2014 he got a silver, not a gold,

because a dragonfly landed on the barrel when he had already shouted

pool and he had to take the shot. As you can imagine, he with slightly

distracted -- when he had shouted pull. And an early miss for

Innocenti. He is looking very solid, isn't he?

The man from Kuwait, under the Olympic banner.

Still very overcast and breezy. I don't think the wind is strong

enough to make much of a difference to these two. 49 years of age and a

miss. He just missed two in the semifinal and that is his first one

here. Innocenti, 37 years of age. Another miss from Innocenti. 5-4

after the first three pairs. The oldest competitor with the man from

Paraguay, Paulo Reichardt who was 56 two days ago. This was his Olympic

Games debut and it just goes to show that sometimes age is not a barrier

to appearing in the Olympics. Still very tight. That miss from

other Harney certainly opened it up a bit for Innocenti -- from

Aldeehani. And another miss not so perfect now,

you can see the wind is still pretty strong. The same for both athletes,

I don't think it is gusting. You can see sometimes the used targets being

blown across the grass. As you can see from the officials behind, all

wrapped up, it is not the warmest and I'm sure that will affect this

man from the Middle East more than most. He got a nibble on that second

one. And a miss this time from the

Italian. It is still very close but Aldeehani, thanks to that late miss

from Innocenti, is just ahead with six out of 15 doubles taken.

A little bit of rain around. Good to have a cloth to wipe the glasses.

Some athletes do wear like enhancing shades. Some just clear glass. --

light enhancing. Nicely done by Aldeehani. Now the

Italian, Innocenti. My word. A double miss! What happened there?

Only he knows. He missed the first one and snatched at the second one

and you don't see that very often at this level.

That was at least one missed, yes, he got a nibble of the first one.

They are definitely being effected by the wind. They are experienced

enough, they are used to this. He took his time on that second one.

That is better from Innocenti. The Italian shooting community is

very strong. One of the manufacturers of the shotgun is that

these guys use are based in Italy. You can see the shot heading towards

the target. The wind whipping at the coat of

other Harney. And another miss! Three adrift now -- at the code of

Aldeehani. Whatever the reason, he is just not on it at the moment.

Look how quickly he took that. This is going to be an unassailable lead

very shortly if he carries on like this. He has missed three. Five

being missed by the Italian. There is a miss, perhaps a little

bit of hope for Innocenti. He has just got to keep mailing the

doubles that he has left, six doubles left -- nailing. Aldeehani,

the man from Kuwait, competing under the Olympic flag because the acuity

Olympic committee have been suspended by the IOC. If the six

shots away from Olympic glory? A third medal.

It will definitely be Aldeehani's but what colour? Innocenti trying to

keep the pressure up, there is still time for something to happen here.

Innocenti has certainly been off-colour. Edging closer. Innocenti

needs to hit both of these to stay in with a chance of gold. And he

does. One of these two shots fought Aldeehani and he will take the

gold-medal and you hope that he will hold on with the celebrations until

Innocenti has finished his shots. Both are taken and it is gold for

Fehaid Aldeehani. Excellent shooting. Innocenti still to shoot.

And then the celebrations can really begin. It is academic but it will be

on the records for ever. He takes those two. The Italian takes silver,

he will be disappointed with that because, for some reason, early in

the match his radar really wasn't working but there you go. His

previous two medals had been under the flag of Kuwait, this under the

Olympic flag but it is gold all the same for Fehaid Aldeehani. Silver

for Marco Innocenti. His day job is to do with shooting and armoury and

he will be disappointed at the moment. But I think on reflection he

will be delighted to have come away with a silver medal. This was the

moment that he clinched in some style the gold medal. Aldeehani

absolutely delighted, the man who took bronze in Sydney, also has a

bronze from London in the trap event. Excellent work indeed.

Innocenti getting his congratulations and well deserved as

well, from his coach. And of course some of the competitors as well.

That takes the silver. Under the cloud and rain and the wind, not

very Brazilian, the weather. Confirmation of the gold-medal

match, it is silver for Marco Innocenti but the gold goes to

Fehaid Aldeehani. And thank you to Richard Drew for

the commentary. And if you are just joining us, Steven Scott of Team GB

got the bronze medal. Tim Kneale missed out because he was in that

bronze medal match alongside Steven Scott and he finished in fourth

place. And that is the same event at Peter Wilson won in 2012.

Disappointingly, Team GB currently lead the table here in Rio for

finishing in fourth place. Quite a few missing out on the major medals

at the moment. One question we have had, how do we get the job of the

guy who holds up the flags? I think it takes years of training! If you

dedicate yourself, maybe one day you could be that man holding up the

flags. We are talking about getting inspired, most people want to be

inspired to compete but maybe that is your future! It is day five of

the Olympic Games, welcome to Copacabana Beach. We are here on BBC

Four until 2am. It is high time we gave you a reminder of the

headlines. We just talked about it, Steven

Scott has taken bronze in the men's double trap, he pushed out Tim

Kneale, also of Great Britain. There was gold for fabulous Babin

Cancellara in the men's time trial earlier. -- Fabian Cancellara. Chris

Froome took the bronze, Geraint Thomas came in ninth. Amazing story

in the women's times Tara, Kristin Armstrong, the Olympic title on the

trot, 43 years old tomorrow. Emma Pooley missed out on the podium. --

women's time trial. We have shown you the murky weather here, and not

far away from us the rowing has been cancelled, the second day that has

happened so they have to catch up with things. Hopefully the weather

will get better tomorrow and they can catch up because they are

behind. And the tennis has also been delayed, we were hoping to show you

Andy Murray against Fabio Fognini in the third round and Johanna Konta

against Angelique Kerber but this is all weather dependent. It is not

really Rio weather at the moment. On BBC One at the moment, there

is... Can we give you the result of the men's kayak final? Good News! A

second gold of the games for Joe Clarke, producing the goods.

Hopefully you weren't looking forward to watching that later, but

now you know! Adam Peaty won gold a couple of days ago, and Joe Clarke

has just won the second gold of the games. We will show you that on BBC

four as well. That was good timing. On the Red Button at the moment,

men's basketball, Serbia are playing France. The dream team are in action

later on. They take on Australia. It is probably time we told you exactly

what's coming up on BBC Four in the next few hours... We will show you

Joe Clarke winning the gold in the men's kayak, now we've given the

game away! Two gold medals at the game so far, we will bring you date

with the medal table, hopefully Team GB will climb it quickly. Over the

next few hours on BBC Four... Very shortly, we will be off to the Rio

Olympic Arena for the gymnastics, it's the men's individual all-around

final. The hot favourite from Japan, but Nile Wilson and Max Whitlock are

hoping to be among the medals. Do you like your rugby sevens? BBC Four

is the place to be tonight, all four of the quarterfinals coming up,

including Great Britain's men. They beat New Zealand earlier, they are

in the last eight. Beach volleyball is coming up later on BBC Four, this

has been a big favourite for our coverage over the last few days,

including Kerri Walsh Jennings, going for her third Olympic gold.

She is part of a ridiculously successful team USA. Some table

tennis too, the Chinese are so dominant in this sport. When it gets

to the gold, and the Bronze and Silver medal matches, the quality is

just ridiculous to watch, looking forward to seeing that later on this

channel. Right now, we are going to go and watch some gymnastics. We saw

Simone Biles be amazing at these games already, we have the women's

all-around final coming up later, now we will concentrate on the men,

can Team GB grab a medal? It is time to go to the Rio Olympic Arena.

DELICATE PIANO MUSIC PLAYS. I hope you are ready for this, there are

some opportunities for Team GB to win medals, Nile Wilson and Max

Whitlock, we can cross to the Rio Olympics arena, Matt Baker with all

of the eyes on our boys and the greatest gymnast we've ever seen,

Kohei Uchimura in action too? Yes, everyone here taking their

seats ready for the men's all-around final. Basically, in the next two

hours, you will see the finest gymnast, the top 24 from

qualification, competing on every single piece of apparatus, one after

the next, without break. At the end of the competition, the gymnast with

the biggest score takes the title of the men's all-round Olympic final

here, Dan Keatings, you are a world silver medallist yourself, you know

what it is like to achieve greatness at this level and it is fair to say,

this is the ultimate title for a gymnast? Yes, to win the men's

all-rounder, you are the best gymnast in the world. The amount of

effort and have -- hard work it takes committee must

be strong across the apparatus, and if you have a moment of witness, you

won't get in. Consistency is key, can we reflect on the team final we

saw yesterday? Talking about consistency and all-round gymnasts,

Simone Biles blew us away -- weakness. We knew that she would

come here and compete at a high level indeed, but the level of

difficulty we are seeing from her, and the rest of the world, this

fault could make history? Yes, she'd be hardest but we've seen from a

female at the moment, she is doing it at near perfection. Heard tumbles

are similar to the powerful tumbles that the boys are doing, her third

is what most gymnasts do as their first. We have seen training videos

where she is doing it even more difficult. When she is competing,

she is almost competing a level below what she is capable of.

Absolutely, we have been surprised by the quality, it's fair to say, of

the rest of the world here. We are witnessing the hardest routines

ever. It is quite extraordinary, from a physical point of view. What

is happening here? It is the Olympic Games, it only happens every four

years. Everybody has really upped their game. We have been especially

impressed with the Russians, we saw them improve in the Europeans

earlier in the year. They have even further upped their game coming into

these games. Well, today all eyes will be on a certain gymnast who has

19 world medals, he has six Olympic medals and is regarded by many as

the greatest male gymnast ever. It's Kohei Uchimura. COMMENTATOR:

Kohei Uchimura, regarded as the finest gymnast on the planet.

Absolute style, beautiful. That was exciting stuff. Such style, such

liners. Lovely style, lovely control. FUNKY MUSIC

-- lightness. Hello! We are all very excited! You

are in short slightly there! So, brilliant. We were not expecting

that, to say the least! Many say that Kohei Uchimura could be beaten

this year, Dan. Are you one of those people? I think he could be. The

Ukrainian gymnast, he is on top form here, use being on top form all

year, Oleg Verniaiev, he beat him and qualifications. It will rattle

Kohei Uchimura and little. We have seen that under pressure he can

falter. He scored over 16 in qualification, the parallel bars are

his forte but he is a wonderful all-round gymnast. This is Oleg

Verniaiev in action. Talk us through, as a parallel bar

specialist, where he is so good? He has great balance on the bar work,

with the big skills on the top of the bar, and good at the dismount.

He is so clean, moving to the end of the bar, and that is one of the

highest I've ever seen. Oleg Verniaiev is in with a chance, as is

the Russian, the third highest qualifier, David Belyavskiy, we've

been impressed with the all-round silver medallist? Yes, over the

years he's always been there or thereabouts, but he has issues with

consistency. Every championships he gets towards the end, running and

running and then has a fall. In the Europeans, he upped his game.

Tonight, we will really see the fight between these top gymnasts.

And a quick word on the Chinese competitor, Deng Shudi, he boldly

said that in Rio, he would beat Kohei Uchimura. It may be a step too

far for him, but there is potential. We've been doing a lot of talk about

statistics, we have been wondering, really, there is the potential 14

gymnasts who can do incredible things here. Looking at the scores,

they always say there is the magical all-round score of 91. There are

seven gymnast who can go over that, and another sent

-- seven scoring just below. We worked out there are 14 who could

all be over 90, that is unheard-of communion that to be in the medals

normally. It will be an exciting competition. We have a full quarter,

because Nile Wilson qualified in fifth place. Max Whitlock had a fall

on the high bar, and he qualified down in 12. Let's have a look at

Nile here, his confidence is like summing I've never seen before. We

know he is confident but we are competing in the Olympics --

something. He won at the championships earlier this year, is

huge confidence boost for him. He got huge scores for the team and

himself on the high bar. He is a young lad, hungry and I think that

he will be a dark horse today. With him being one of the younger

gymnasts, do you think it will help him? He doesn't have a lot of

baggage, if you know what I mean, when it comes to competing in a

grand arena and the pressure that comes with it? He is new on the

scene committee does not have pressure or expectation other

gymnasts have. He is hungry for it, you can see him coming from the

juniors into the seniors, and he really wants that. We know that Max

Whitlock can achieve great -- greatness, in qualification, he

fell on the high bar is, this means that our two key pieces, one is the

high bar, can he put it right in the team final? Yes, he managed to make

sure he got on the bars. He warms up as the competition goes along. A

couple of errors in qualification that got everything right in the

team final, and he can get a bit cleaner in the final today and get

right up there. The gymnasts are coming out now, behind us. We have

seen the Japanese come out as well. There is Kohei Uchimura, just below

us. David Belyavskiy in the foreground, Deng Shudi, we mentioned

he is the man who said watch out, Kohei Uchimura, I am on my way! The

gymnast from the USA, some could luck, he is handy too? Yes, I think

that he could do well today, I think that he will turn up. -- Sam

Mikulak. The men had a slightly disappointing result for the USA but

I think he would do well today. There is the great man, Kohei

Uchimura, will he do that? He's been a bit tentative in Rio? He has, but

he has so much experience. He has won everything since the 2008

Olympic Games and he knows exactly how to perform under pressure as a

result. I would not be surprised if someone beats him today.

Interestingly, with Nile in fifth place, he is in the top group, there

he is being introduced... At the Rio Olympic Arena, he is next to his

Chinese opponent, Deng Shudi. As far as the other group is concerned, Max

is beginning on the pommel horse. We know that Max likes to have things

in certain order. He is like that himself, there are great signs for

him. This is the order where they achieve greatness in the past? It

was. It is his favourite piece. It will get his nerves settled. If he

gets through, he can hopefully continue the rest of the competition

knowing he has it under his belt. He scores what he can, and it is a

great start to his bed. This is the lad all eyes will be on... He was

rested in the team final, Oleg Verniaiev. It was an interesting

tactic, from the Ukrainian team. He came out and did all six pieces, as

did Max, and as did Deng Shudi, so really Oleg Verniaiev is the

freshest of all of them. In the parallel bars, they wanted to

give him a feel for the Arena again but make sure he is well rested. And

give him the best chance today. This light is also worth keeping an eye

on as well. If he hates, anything can happen? Yes, Deng Shudi has a

huge start value. He can be inconsistent and we have not seen

him hit in the competition yet. But if he is clean today, he can go

far. The second of the two Brazilian gymnasts in this final. You will

probably struggle to hear our commentary as they are competing...

But Sam Mikulak fell in qualification on this piece of

apparatus he is starting on. Listen as we introduce Max

Whitlock... CHEERING Looking calm.

Aware of what is going on. He does not look too frightened, Beth? He

doesn't look too frightened? He's very much in his own, preparing for

that major first piece. He does not want to take too much on what is

going on around him. -- take in. I'd tell you what, let's have a little

piece, shall we, from Max Whitlock. This is the man behind the chalk.

Gymnastics is pretty much my life. I have done it since I was seven years

old. It has been an amazing journey. It has made me who I am today. In

2015, Max Whitlock won and historic world gold, a stunning feat. Before

that, a mystery illness had almost ended his year before it began. It

was a stressful time, the beginning of last year and I remember saying

to my parents at the beginning, I feel the fittest I have ever been.

Two weeks down the line, the English Championships came up, first year of

the competition and it was deteriorating rapidly. In a few

weeks, I couldn't even do a few skills and a combination. It came

back as glandular fever and it was a bit of a relief. It lasted three

months. It motivated me even more to get back in. That helped me push so

hard to produce the results I did at the end of the year. Max Whitlock is

the poll vault world champion -- pommel horse world champion. The

first time a British men's gymnast has won gold at the World

Championships. How many times a day are you here? Six days a week,

ranging between 5-7 hours training. This training centre is a great

atmosphere. And all the guys I train with. He has never been a superstar.

I was told once he would struggle to maintain it because his feet don't

point and stuff like that. His speech don't point? Yes. But because

he has feat that bend the other way, it helps him stick on his dismount.

It is very strange how it all works out. His forte is being over to

compete under pressure calmly without being affected by it. This

is your specialism. You have mastered this? This is my strongest

pace, definitely. It is the piece that a lot of my focus is on all the

time. I do double sessions on the pommel horse every day. That is a

beautiful routine. That was First Class. I was only 19

years old. Not expecting to produce any results. That was the first time

a British team got a medal in 100 years. For me to get an individual

bronze medal was unreal. I didn't feel any kind of under the radar, I

was so pleased with what he achieved that day. How does it feel to have

overtaken Louis Smith a bit? You are top dog now. It is still a very

close competition. We both have very high start scores. It is pushing us

both even more which is the best thing for our team. What is it like

going into an Olympic Games as reigning world champion? Some people

see it as more pressure but I see it as a result I've got in my bag. It

calms me knowing I've got that title behind me. The Olympics is the

pinnacle of everyone's career. It is the pinnacle of Max's career

and the pinnacle of Nile Wilson's career. 20 years old. Deng Shudi,

got the bronze in the all round a couple of years ago. Ryohei Kato, 22

years old now. That top group on floor, Max's group will be starting

on pommel horse. Max Whitlock from Great Britain just going through his

routine. The question is, which routine will he go for at this

stage? First piece, will he go all-out for difficulty? I don't

think he will. His easy routine is a seven point you start which is one

of the biggest in the world. I think you will do that and just to get him

settled. So he can potentially score at 16 with that. Also wrong setting

aside as is Christine Still. A very good evening. The interesting thing

is, because of qualification, because some of these gymnasts did

count a few falls, it is a bit sporadic with where everyone is

placed around the arena. We saw Manrique Larduet and if he hits with

the vault, it could be... Nile Wilson qualified with the fifth

highest place. Just going through his routine.

Making sure everything is right. All gymnasts have to work on every

single piece and the gymnast with the highest score on all six pieces

wins. Nile Wilson of Great Britain. What a great moment for him, working

with the great gymnasts of the world. Starting them off. Needs

every landing secure like that. Really clean roll-out. He is a very

stylish, controlled gymnast. He has a section of the routine

close to the floor. A beautifully held balance. A complete mixture of

explosive power and control. Here comes the power. Double twist. Front

twist. A little hop backwards. One more tumble to go. Big, strong round

off into a triple twist. Very clean. Very nice opening for Nile Wilson.

Great stuff him, nothing too costly. Not at all, just a few hops here and

there. He will be very happy with that start. Quite confident

performance for his first time at this apparatus. That will boost his

confidence for the rest of the pieces. The gymnasts have been here

for about three hours. There is a warm up gym at the back. Off the

vaults runway now. Very stylish. Handspring onto the platform,

straight front somersault with twist off. Not the most difficult but very

stylish. He ruptured his Achilles last year so just playing it safe

now. It wasn't as hard as some of the other vaults we will see today.

But he has hardly got any deductions there. He has gone for the

cleanliness of the vault. Just one and a half twist in that somersault.

We will see some people put two and a half. This is a key piece as far

as tactics are concerned. Yes, it is one of the times when you can go all

out and try to get the highest score but if you miss your feet or get

your vault slightly wrong, you can get zero and then that is your

competition over. To give you an idea of the scoring, these gymnasts

get extra marks for doing harder routines or vaults so keep your eye

on the difficulty score. That is added to the execution. Nile Wilson

is put into second at the moment. There are a lot of gymnastics to go.

Deng Shudi from China, 24 years old, bronze in the all-around at the

World Championships last year. He is a very explosive gymnast. Look at

that height. Just kept himself inside the floor area. And that was

a deep landing. All these gymnasts will be nervous

and excited to be here. Very nice. The full twist into the two and a

half. We are seeing huge difficulty. Double twisting, double back but he

scurried back there and had his chest right down on the landing.

One and three quarters somersault which you roll out. This is the big

final tumble. The triple twist, the halfback, it is difficult routine

and there were a couple of little errors. Sometimes, if you can push

it for the difficulty, you allow yourself a little bit of leeway with

the execution. If you think back to Nile Wilson's routine was 6.5 and

Deng Shudi posted a 6.9 so we will see if he is given out by the

difficulty judges. This is a three and a half twist into another punch

twist. You will get combination bonus. But there were a lot of deep

landings and steps and he will be deducted quite heavily. Going for

that style might not always be the best choice. That was quite a deep

landing and it meant the somersault wasn't quite high enough so the

judges deduct not just for the deep landing but for the lack of height.

We joined the pommel horse, this is the Russian champion. This is a 6.7

difficulty. He is in the pommel horse final. Good handstand.

Really nice circle, up into a business RE. Slight... Oh, he is

off. He lost his way, his body was in the right place, why did you not

continue? Looked like he wasn't sure whether to come back down and by the

time he had stopped and thought about it, he had lost all of his

momentum and just decided to come off. There he goes, trying again, he

has completed it this time. Such a shame because he is a really nice

pommel worker. Travelling backwards. Up into the

dismount. What a shame for the Russian champion. And he knows. What

could have been, the first piece of apparatus. I know you have to have

the next apparatus mentality but, such shame. It is tough, especially

when it is one of your best pieces. It is probably the only final he is

in so he would have wanted to impress the judges, to prove to them

here's a medal prospect. But he really just came to a standstill. I

think you are slightly off-balance and he had stopped just to see if he

could slow himself down and then decided he was completely in the

wrong position. So he just dropped off.

Nile Wilson is one of the top scorers so far. Deng Shudi with

14.966, just ahead of Nile Wilson. We have had a 15.066 on the vault.

They do generally consider the vaults to be a little bit easier to

score hire an ban on the floor. It is one of the highest scoring pieces

of apparatus. Usually when you start, you will be top of the

leaderboard. So far, Nile Wilson is looking strong. It is going to plan.

Over to the pommel horse now. Max Whitlock will be the last gymnast up

onto the pommel horse. It is a bit of an anxious wait. You can see his

coach two along there. The gymnasts are allowed a coach and a medical

person with them. 13.34 the Russian athlete. Game over for him, I'm

afraid. At this early stage. Marry us Georgiou from Cyprus. 18

years old, the youngest gymnast in this all-around final. Going for a

5.2 difficulty. He will concentrate on the execution. Round off, flipped

on, double twist. He looks like he is hobbling a little bit. He looked

hurt his foot. I noticed as he was running, he was gritting his teeth.

Something wasn't quite right. 15 scored.

Now we join the current champion, Kohei Uchimura, looking to retain

his title. And that is a good start doing so.

Superhigh tumbles. A little hop on landing. But he really elevates from

the floor so well. Wonderful height, wonderful pace to the routine. You

see the tension in the shoulders. That was wonderfully performed. It's

a really fast-moving routing. He doesn't need lots of time in the

corners, building himself up. He kicked himself out of the tuck

before he rolled. The final triple twist. It was worth the pause.

Things are looking good for Kohei Uchimura. He is the current Olympic

silver medallist on floor, and that is why, his competition off to an

absolute storm. I thought his first two tumbles, he had some small hops

on the landings. Marios Georgiou is way down the field. He started off

quite nervy, actually. But halfway through the routine, he went back to

the old Kohei Uchimura. The message is clear.

Look at the style through the air, Chris. He has got this new ethos. In

London, he wasn't in a happy place because it was all about winning

medals. Now he seems to have a new way of doing his gymnastics, and

it's all about grace and perfection. That is his challenge to himself.

When you're so long undefeated, he burst onto the scene as a youngster

in Beijing and took the silver medal. Since then, all the major

championships and Olympic titles, he has won. So you have to issue

yourself a new challenge, and his challenge is to get as near to the

perfect ten. He was a bit of a way off here. This lad is Uchimura's

toughest competition, Oleg Verniaiev. He has been rested for

the team final, so he is as fresh as he could be. The first of six pieces

of apparatus. The question is, how can Verniaiev take the pressure?

Nicely so far. He qualified top. That is a lot on your shoulders.

Super. Just a bit of a pike down on that landing. Real concentration on

his face. Very good variety of forwards and backwards twisting. We

have seen him over the years promise so much and often falter, but he has

had a heavy competitive programme in the last two years, done loads of

Grand Prix, trying to settle himself for competition. And that is the way

you'd do it. Uchimura says, you have to be at your best to beat me, and

when I have says, let's go. That was a super start, Dan. It was, and it

was one of Verniaiev's lower scoring pieces of apparatus. Now he can

carry on with the rest of his competition. Now we go to the pommel

horse, Max Whitlock with the first of his six pieces of apparatus in

the men's all-round final. World champion on this piece of apparatus.

How hard will he go? Great start with the scissor to handstand.

He has done the hard part of his routine now, just to needs to keep

his concentration to finish off. Append the dismount. That is really

good. He's through! What a fantastic start to the competition for Max

Whitlock. It's great when you start on your good piece, as long as you

do it well. And he showed a real masterclass there. Wonderful style

and high difficulty, Dan. Yeah, that will be a seven point to start. He

had to do extra turn on his dismount because he went to come off and was

not quite in the right balance, so he turned again. That is not a

deduction. In fact, do you get more for more terms? No, the maximum

dismount would get the same points. And of course, when Dan says the

maximum is an E, each of the moves are given a value, A being a .1, B

being two and so on. So you want to finish with at least an E. The

special requirement is actually a D. Verniaiev is down at the moment in

fifth. Here is Uchimura's compatriot, Ryohei Kato. Each

country is allowed two gymnasts. He is the last gymnast to go on floor.

He has made quite a few floor finals in the past at international level.

A lot of these gymnasts performing these three and a half twists.

We have seen two very good twisting series. Ooh, a setback there. The

judges will take .3 off for that. He made sure of that one.

Super kick out. Final triple twist and another very good landing. A

really good set of floor routines today, opening this competition.

Well, the top six gymnasts in this first group a role without too many

major deductions. Look at that for a score for Max Whitlock. He goes into

the lead. Damn, it is a long way around six pieces of apparatus. That

is a great start, though. He starts on his strongest and finishes on his

second strongest piece, which is floor, so he will be happy with that

start and hopefully, it would give him the confidence. Other gymnasts

around the arena include Larduet. He scored 15.1 three. Are you ski

scored 15 on floor and Sam Mikulak scored 14.6 on pommel. He will be

pleased to have got that out of the way. Sun yes, he fell in

qualification so on his first piece of apparatus, he will be happy. With

deductions, Ryohei Kato will be pleased with that score. You have to

head for an average of over 15 to get that magical score of 91. So

that is the first of six pieces over with. Max will now move over to

rings and then vault, which is a key piece for him.

All eyes on Uchimura. How will he handled this pressure? Can he retain

that Olympic title? You can see the difficulty score to Eddy Yusof's

right side. Very good, double somersault, double pike. Well

controlled. That puts him into fifth place in his rotation. If Manrique

Larduet nails his fault, the next piece for him, he could make it onto

the podium -- if he nails his vault. He has had a problem with vault

since he has been here. He made a really big mistake in the

qualifications. He nearly got a zero, so it will be interesting to

see what he does. He is controlling the rings really well. These

strength moves linked together are what give you extra marks. Yes, and

he is a really strong gymnast. Nice control of the top of the swing.

Thank you very much, he says. I'm going to concentrate on vault, and

he will need to. Another chance to see Max Whitlock.

That was the Busnari, one of the highest valued elements on the

pommel horse. It was a key part of his routine. And Nile Wilson, who

started off this men's all-around Olympic final on floor. He was very

steady. It's not easy being the first gymnast up, and I feel for

Nile. 20 years of age, and he's working alongside Uchimura, who has

to be an absolute idol. He will remember this. But he is such a

competitor, Nile. He seems to thrive in this environment. Somehow, he

just absorbs the atmosphere. To be here in Rio, for him, this is an

added bonus. Every competition I have seen him in, he is gaining

confidence, and he seems to be getting better every time. That is

very much the case. You coach gymnasts and they can look as good

as each other in the actual training, and then you get to the

actual competition and won rises and the other shrinks with the nerves.

It is part of the skill of being a competitor, and is probably the one

bit a coach cannot teach. It is in their make-up. But let's not speak

too soon, Nile has a long way to go! But from what we have seen, he

thrives on it. Uchimura seems to be trying to enjoy the occasion. I

suspect he is still thrilled with the team medal. That is what he came

for. It is lovely to retain a title, but the team title was missing from

his glittering medal collection. Deng Shudi made that bold statement

that he was going to beat Uchimura here in Rio. Probably wants to

forget that now! We shouldn't be saying it on his behalf. Damn, you

can choose how wide to have the pommel horse, can't you? Yes, you

can move the handles in or out. I used to do a lot of work with the

handles to fit my hands in the middle. If you do a lot of work on

the pommel horse, you usually have them closer. It is the hardest to do

hand movements in the middle? Most elements are a grade up when you do

it in the middle. Deng Shudi, and in very important

pommel horse rooting for him. Slight stutter there. Will be quite

heavily deducted. Settling into his routine now. He has managed to get

through it. His coach says, that will do. It

wasn't the highest difficulty, it is certainly a 6.3. As a world

all-around bronze-medallist, he knows that consistency is the key.

Sometimes don't risk the difficulty, stick with the execution on the

risky pieces. That's right. He almost came unstuck on a couple of

pieces. This is the big story here. Absolutely vital, this vault.

Manrique Larduet. He has been practising vaults that much in

training. He has not. He still put up a six star there so he is

obviously really going for it so hopefully, he can make this count.

Let's find out. Yes, plants well. He fell but it was a huge amount better

than the qualification one. Straight front with two and a half twists. He

got so much height off the top of the vault and I think that landing

was just down to not having done enough. You could see with his

coach, everybody, such a team effort, so much work has gone into

being here in this team final. They risked everything there.

When... His qualification, he did a terrible vault and almost got a zero

and he hasn't had a chance to be back out on this podium since then.

They only had the 32nd warm up we saw so I think it was a pretty good

effort. This is his second piece. European silver-medallist in the

all-round competition. Key has been looking superb.

Picking up into the circles, there is the 360 on one arm. Onto the one

handle, making sure he counts all his special requirements. Skype legs

split there. Just managed to get back into his rhythm. -- slight leg

split. Travelling along the horse. Finish it off. Up into the dismount,

finishes off quite nicely. A bit of a sigh of relief there. There were a

couple of points in that routine when it looked like he was about to

come off, I think you fought quite hard to stay on so he will have been

happy to stay without falling off. It is a story of what could have

been. I wonder why he wasn't training it. I think you must've had

a slight injury he was protecting it before this final and trying not to

injure it any more. We watched podium training quite carefully. He

definitely didn't vault in podium training. I do think this gymnast

has lovely style on pommel horse. He zips around. He just picked it up to

perfection as far as timing is concerned. We watched euros and we

were very impressed with him there. He has had such a turbulent career,

sometimes it has worked for him and sometimes it hasn't. He seems quite

content within his gymnastics right now and he's happy with his

difficulty level. The school board is clear and

Uchimura will be introduced to the crowd. This is his third piece of

apparatus. All gymnasts have to do all six pieces here. Looked slightly

off on the handstand there. Looks like he settled back down into

his routine. Goes down to the end. He does the side support circles so

he tries not to get the deduction for skewing. Forwards and backwards.

It is not the hardest of routines but he is making sure he just gets

from start to finish. He is playing safe. You could see everything just

a little bit shorter but playing safe in difficulty and going well

with execution. Definitely. I think that is what he is aiming for today.

If he falls, he is going to get beaten. Pommel is such an easy piece

to fall off on and I think you just wanted to get from start to finish.

Get this routine done and dusted out of the way. Yes, he knows there are

other people in the field that if he opens the door at all, can take the

opportunity away from him, he always works very well within himself. You

never get the impression he is working with the most difficulty he

can do. But it is always easier to chase them be chased and he is

definitely being chased today. Relief for Gucci Mourot. Four pieces

to go from here. -- Uchimura. He will finish on the high bar. He

hasn't been without his problems on the high bar.

Just below the 15. Such a bleak score on the floor though so it will

even its way out. Oleg Verniaiev makes his way up to the pommel

horse. He is in the pommel final as well. He is doing a seven difficulty

is the question is, will he go all out for difficulty or will he pull

it back a little bit? Let's find out. This is the apparatus where you

can really claw some marks back. Qualified for the final and he

usually scores quite well. Started off well.

He manages to say safe. Looked like he was off balance a little bit

then. But he got it back. Triple Russian into the middle. Again

looking slightly off-balance but he managed to fight it.

Really nice one handled work. He moves across the halls. He has done

the hard part of his routine. He is fighting, he is battling through the

whole way of this routine. He has finished. This could still be a big

score but not quite as big as qualification. What a fight that

was, goodness me. How impressive. You can see how much he has matured

from when we have seen him over the years when he would have just caved

in. He fought every inch of the way. A few times he could have come off

but he managed to fight and gripped that little bit harder to make sure

he stayed on. It was super to see. Her satellite gymnast. His touch is

so easy. He was miles off-balance then. -- he is such a light gymnast.

Even though off-balance, he didn't really lose style. Kept those legs

locked together. You were impressed, Dan? Yes, impressed he managed to

stay on. There were a few times he could have come off and it would

have been so easy to come off. Verniaiev yes fighting for every

tenth. That is big. That is really big. He will be going head-to-head

against Gucci Mourot through the competition. -- Uchimura. Looks like

there is the tenth in it at the moment. Max Whitlock was in the lead

after the first piece of apparatus and he is about to go on the rings.

Just waiting for Sam's score to come in.

As soon as Sam's score is in, I believe we will see Max Whitlock.

Current leader after the first piece. At the moment, Kohei Uchimura

is in the lead and Verniaiev in second place. Belyavskiy in third.

The school board is clear behind Max Whitlock and he is ready to go. This

is one of the pieces of apparatus that Max has had to work very hard

at in his last couple of years. To make himself truly competitive in

this top level. Good strength elements to start. Lovely control at

the top of the handstand. These are the bits he does with good control.

Tell us about these somersaulting moves. They are the hardest to make

most consistent, especially the double back somersault, to come out

of it. Hold the handstand without the rings swinging too much because

you can get deductions for the rings swinging. It is really quite hard

but he has perfected it well. His form is really quite nice on this

piece of apparatus now. That is one of his weaker events but he has hit

that really well. He has been working quite hard over the last

couple of years to bring that up. Max Whitlock looking relaxed and

enjoying himself. I was impressed with that because as you said, Dan,

he controls the top. This is one of the strength elements. That is a

requirement to have a strength element and he performs it so well.

He will hardly get any deductions for it. A little deduction for the

step back on landing. It would be the hugest difficulty, he is not

really guy. -- it won't be the hugest difficulty, he is not really

bulky guy. Backward scissor to handstand,

picking up into his routine. Onto the one handle.

There is the Russian, down to the end. Good lad.

He needs to make sure he stays on and gets from start to finish.

Forwards and backwards. He is at the end now. Up into the dismount and

there we go. Again, another fight. Nile Wilson did everything he could

to stay on and stay in contention. Well done. Yes, well done. That was

a fighting performance. Interestingly, Great Britain didn't

use Nile Wilson on the pommel horse in his team competition so it is

obvious in one of his weaker pieces. Max Whitlock will take that score

every day of the week. That is a really good score for him on the

rings. He will be happy with 14.5 plus.

So he's working hard. You can see good hand placement there. That was

one of the areas where he could easily have gone wrong. The

important thing is that he has not fallen. There were a few deductions

from the judges, but not a whole mark, which can be crucial. And also

psychologically dancing to your -- are damaging to your all-round

chances. He posted a 6.1 difficulty in qualification. Good work. Yeah,

not a bad score for one of his weaker events. It will be rings next

for this top group. And the vault, which is where Max Whitlock will be

heading. There is a lot of jeopardy over Max Whitlock's vault. Yeah, in

qualifications, he fell on it. He has been working hard in the gym of

them last few days. If he can land it, it will be a huge score to

propel him towards the top of the leaderboard. It is game on if he can

get that landing on vault. Stay with us, because it will be happening

very shortly. Just waiting for the parallel bars score

to come in. Eddy Yusof will be the next gymnast to go. There are two

Swiss gymnasts in the top 24. The coast is clear for Eddy Yusof.

Qualified with a score of 13.3, so he didn't have a happy time, but

looking to put everything right. Swiss gymnasts are known for their

work on the parallel bars. He has put the ghost to rest. All

the gymnastics is finished in the arena,

so there will be a march round and onto the halfway stage.

Well, it's with six pieces of apparatus. They really can mix and

match and change the standings tremendously. Different people have

real different strengths, don't they, Dan? Yeah. Max, for example,

started on one of his strong events, so he went to the top of the

leaderboard, and then it evens itself out as people do their

favourite apparatus. It is unusual for specialists to also make the

all-around. None of the real big rings workers work all-round. With

pommel being your specialism, you are much more likely to be an

all-rounder as well. Yeah, if you are a real specialist on rings, you

tend to be quite bulky, and that affects your swing on the pommel

horse. So it can make the all-rounder hard. That's right. I

think probably, when you work in that top group, with everybody

working so excellently, you go one of two ways. You either sink a bit

into yourself, or you're lifted by them, and Nile looks to me like his

lifted by them. Definitely. I think he's enjoying being in that company

and it will be great experience for him, going around with the top

people in the world. Max no doubt will have been through this

competition in his mind time after time, hoping for the perfect

performance and starting on pommel horse to give him that boost and

then moving over to rings. We have said there is a bit of jeopardy with

this vault. If it comes off, it will be something else. This man, Kohei

Uchimura, is desperate to retain that all-round title. It is going to

be very close. I always think Max is a little bit more insular. He

probably wouldn't be bothered whether Uchimura will be in his

group or someone else. He is very much involved with his own self.

Yeah, he doesn't take much notice of what is going on around him. He

concentrates on what he had to do next. These are the replays for Eddy

Yusof. Was that held long enough? There will be a slight deduction for

the legs split. That is no doubt why there is a bit of a delay for the

judges. That score puts him in fifth place. That completes the round.

Please proceed to the next apparatus. We will have confirmation

of how things stand in just a moment. It's going to be very close.

Marcel Nguyen for Germany, superb gymnast on this piece of apparatus,

Olympic silver medallist in London. He is really good on this apparatus.

He performed his own move in qualification, but he has started

off playing safe to make sure he gets a good score. He makes such

light work of the parallel bars. Slight mistake there.

Almost perfect landing. That looked so uncharacteristic of him when you

saw that little splay in execution. Yeah, his under bar work is usually

his best. He must have slipped slightly. Cat over Japan has started

well -- write you hate Catto. -- Kato.

Breaking into flares. Crowd pleaser! That was a nice routine. The coach

doesn't look too impressed with that. I liked it! This gymnast got a

silver in the all-around three years ago.

Yes, his best apparatus is the parallel bars, where he should rise

up the leaderboard. He has got his weaker ones out of the way. He did

ever so well to struggle through that. Yeah, he took a 0.3 hits

rather than the whole mark, which keeps him in the competition and

keeps his confidence high as well. That is how you build the

difficulty, getting up onto the one handle, adding in those extra twists

and turns and working up and down. Yes, there are special requirements

and you have to hit them all. Uchimura was slightly off on that

handstand. That was one of the only main deductions in his routine. It

will be interesting to see whether or not he gets more or less relaxed

as the competition goes on. He has been on top of the world now for

seven years. He has won everything. Yeah, and he's usually so far ahead,

but he will be nervous looking at the scoreboard. There are two

gymnasts very close to him. He is zero point 60 ahead, nothing. From

fifth all the way down to 18th place, they have scored 29. So it is

really tightly packed. David Bally esky is slightly off the pace in six

-- David Belyavskiy. Strength and swing are the

requirements for the rings. How long do you have to hold the strength

elements for, Dan? A minimum of two seconds to make sure it gets

counted. Quite a lot of gymnasts were counted three in their head

because while you are holding the strength elements, you tend to count

a bit quicker! And here are the nice swinging elements. Feet a bit low? A

tiny bit, yes. But he managed to stop the rings from swinging to

avoid deductions. Ooh! Very deep on landing. That will

be costly. He went for the difficulty on the dismount, and it

has not paid off today. That will be a five tenths deduction for the

dismount and that big step. It is a bit of hit and hope. As far as the

medals are concerned, you have to go all out and keep your fingers

crossed that it comes off. Some days it does, and some days it doesn't.

He is one of the gymnasts in that area where if he just goes steady,

he probably can't penetrate, he has got to go for it, would you say

that, Dan? Yeah, he really wants to push for the medals, and to do that,

he had to lift his game a bit. That was what he tried to do. Over to the

vault, then. Sun Sasaki vaulted fantastically in

qualification, and he has again. Absolutely massive. It is named

after a gymnast we will see in the vault final, drag Pella skew. It is

the extra half turn on the end. You will see a lot of gymnasts adding in

extra moves to build the difficulty. Belyavskiy did not get a bad score.

Uchimura has not got the highest difficulty on the rings. So he needs

to be faultless here, needs to give nothing away in execution. Really

nice. All his strength positions are almost perfect. Instead of going all

out trying to pack in full of difficult strength moves, he has

gone for, not easy, but easier and trying to be as perfect as he can.

That looked pretty perfect to me. Tight legs on all these somersaults.

Does well to swing to the top of the handstand. And when we say no

deductions, that is what we mean. It will be Max Whitlock's revolt

against the rings of Kohei Uchimura. -- Max Whitlock's vault.

If you want to watch the Rugby Sevens, you can see it on the Red

Button. That is Fiji versus New Zealand. That is live for you now.

We will stay here. This is the men's all-around final. Marcel Nguyen on

the high bar. Swinging beautifully. One of the older gymnast in the

competition. A bit of a veteran. That was a lovely back somersault

over the bar. We will probably see it with a twist now and we do. In a

straight position as well. Really nicely performed. Back into the

centre of the bar. Very impressive long swing on one arm. Difficult

pirouetting combinations. You can see how he times the timing of the

swing. Now he accelerates, lifts, two twists, super landing. That was

good work from Marcel Nguyen. He has had some Olympic tattoos damn. --

done. Will Max Whitlock go for the triple whipped twist or will he

stick with the double twist? I think he will go for the triple, the

greater question is whether he will land it. Come on, Max. So important

to get the big block. Wrap the twist in, beautifully performed. A tiny

bit off-line but that was one of the best faults I have seen him do for a

while. -- best vaults. That is him now, he is going for it. He is in

contention. As is this man. Oleg Verniaiev. This is a fight between

Kohei Uchimura of Japan, Great Britain's Max Whitlock and the

Ukrainian gymnast, Oleg Verniaiev if you add all the difficulty scores

up, this gymnast has the most difficult routines. I think he is

even a Hull ahead of Kohei Uchimura. It is who goes clean. Lovely

multiple somersaults into the crucifix. Super shape. Really nice.

Slight wobble in the handstand there but he corrected it straightaway.

You have to swing backward to can stand, and forward to handstand.

Those are two of the requirements. Need a big discount. Anything Kohei

Uchimura can do, I can, to! Dismounts don't come much better

than that. Max Whitlock will be feeling a lot better after that

vault. Over the magical 15. He needed to score 15 or over. He was

always going to score 15 plus. This will be very close and you can see

the execution from Oleg Verniaiev. The style. He won't give much away

execution, that is for sure. He opens up his hands there, just to

show he hasn't got a false grip, so they cannot take any tenths of

deduction. Up into the dismount and look at this for a landing. Clicks

the heels together and says, thank you very much, let's have the score.

15.3 for the rings, we have just heard in the arena. He is 45.8 66.

Halfway round. What is Kohei Uchimura's answer to this? We move

onto parallel bars. Lin Chaopan, one of the gymnast with

the one of the highest difficulties when you count them all up. He

scored a 15.233 in qualification. You will post a six difficulty, we

think. There it is on the scoreboard to his right hand side. The judges

are ready, is. You can see the markings, it is so vital to get the

pacing absolutely right when you hit that springboard. He focuses and

goes. The judges don't judge this run but as soon as he hits the

board, they do. Triple twist, a pace to the side. Big vaulting. The men

really are using this platform fantastically. It is a launch pad.

They are making sure they hit the front of it. It really springs them

right up into the sky. It then makes it easier to fit twists and

somersaults in and then spot the landing. The kit hasn't really moved

on that much over the years but vault is one piece where it has. It

used to be a long, thin horse and the wooden box but these days, it is

all about safety. Even know what we are seeing is quite extraordinary as

far as difficulty levels are concerned. This vault is fabulous,

almost like a springboard. You get different styles off this platform

but this platform is a lovely, whippy one and if they hit it right,

they can launch up. Gymnast need over 15 if they want a

score the highest scores. It is all about consistency as things average

out. Chris Brooks. Nice to start. He's quite a powerful gymnast.

Moving towards the end of the bars. Back into the middle. Just off on

that handstand there. Does dismount. Steady routine. Double front favour

by quite a few gymnast this year in this competition. It is graded one

tenth higher than the double pike and a lot of gymnasts are starting

to put a half turn on the end of it. It was a good piece for the

Americans, parallel bars. They all have quite high difficulties and

they don't lose much. That was a little error. He bounces legs

against his arms. Kicked out to spot the landing.

We have just heard that Manrique Larduet, the gymnast, we were

questioning his vault, he has decided to leave the arena. I don't

know if you started an parallel bars or not but he has decided he has

left. They said due to injury and we were questioning as to whether that

was why he hadn't vaulted more. LAUGHTER

Someone is certainly happy. That is quite a major thing for Larduet to

leave because he was the silver-medallist at the World

Championships so that opens the competition up a little bit. I think

it was all or nothing for him and he didn't make his vault. If he had

landed it, I think you would have stayed in the competition but with a

fall he probably won't medal. Sorry we're not bringing you more

gymnastics but we are focusing in on the Brazilian gymnast, two of which

are in this final. Great to have two Brazilians in this final, there is

one, Mariano. It really adds to the atmosphere. Two teams, Brazilians,

the men and the women and the roof was coming off every time their

gymnasts were competing. This is now very, very close. Just looking at

this, we have a screen here that suggests what is going on.

Verniaiev, Kohei Uchimura and Max Whitlock all very close indeed.

45.741 four Max Whitlock and 45.3994 Kohei Uchimura. Not used to seeing

Kohei Uchimura in third half round. No, but we have to remember, he

hasn't done vault yet. Parallel bars and high bars as well, his big

scoring pieces. You can see the pressure etched on the faces of the

gymnasts while they are waiting to move around. One or two performers

left. One of the gymnast who has been waiting and waiting is Great

Britain's Nile Wilson and that is because right you hope Cato has just

come in, it has taken over five minutes. They must have been

discussing whether one of the elements wasn't quite there. Great

Britain's Nile Wilson. He has one of the hardest rings routine in this

group. A 6.4 difficulty, which is massive for a 20-year-old. Nile

Wilson is from Leeds gymnastics. Always been hugely impressive

through the junior ranks. Has he got the strength now? He has been

working hard over the past couple of years on his strength in the gym. He

really thought this was a PC could gain some marks on. Right now at

this Olympic Games, you seems to have done that and he is a really

good competitor on the rings. That was very well done. Two double

somersaults, another impressive strength element. He has had a long

way, it is not easy but shows great control. Up into the handstand. And

again, such discipline with the rings. And the landing and the

dismount. Didn't seem to bother him, the wait. He is through, three

pieces for Nile Wilson and things going well for him in this meant's

all-around Olympic final. A really good piece for Nile Wilson, he would

have gained confidence after managed to battle after staying on the horse

and he comes into one of his stronger events next so he can

really show off to the crowd with the strength positions. You can see

in the crucifix, hardly any deductions from the judges because

of his wrist position. Wonderful style through the air.

CHUCKLES He is getting a name for himself

with his release at the end of his dismount. He is a real crowd

pleaser. He shows if he is happy with his routine. There, her

showing, yeah. That puts him up into 12th, 14.9 33. Nile Wilson is

climbing. We really have a bit of a backlog here on the rings.

We have a bit of a backlog. Deng Shudi will be the last of the

gymnasts to go. The ability to hold your body weight

is so important here. The upper body strength is enormous. He almost

dipped below. Yes, to make sure you don't get heavily deducted, you have

to come level in the crucifix, and it looked like he tried too hard and

came in a bit low. But he bounced back well. Swinging a bit on the

rings. IMac, and taking the somersaulting actions straight into

the dismount. He didn't quite release at the right moment. No, it

was a nice combination and he looked like he opened up to try and find

the floor, but wasn't fully rotated. Shudi was going out for all-out

difficulty, but not going to plan for him.

He just spits his legs a little bit -- splits his legs.

He has fulfilled his requirements, got his difficulty, goes for the big

dismount. He is doing everything he can. He must have had a few falls in

qualification, because he is in the last group and seems to be

performing well here. He had a 6.2 difficulty scoring qualification and

if he did the same routine again, he didn't need to give too much away.

No, he didn't. He has hit that routine quite nicely. It didn't look

like the most difficult routines, but he got through it with not much

to take off. The forces that go through the legs as you land from

that height are quite amazing. Yeah, they are. This is going to be very

close at the top. Still a few more gymnasts to go.

That will be on high bar. We are just waiting for Eddy Yusof's score.

Then it will be Andreas Bretschneider, the 27-year-old.

Bretschneider has got a move that he has admitted to be the first person

to do it, which is therefore named after him. But he has to catch it

and hang on the bar to get credit for it. This is his third try, so we

would all love to see him hang on this time round. Well, the world is

watching. Ooh, double twist in the straight

position, but he didn't get both hands on. Such a challenge. That was

his move that he had submitted. It was his third attempt at trying it

and he missed again, so we he will have to wait until the next World

Championship to try and get it in the code of points. You can see how

far he was off with his second hand. Just didn't bring it out and over

the bar. Of course, now he has to carry on with a Mark deduction. --

A1 Mark deduction. Another super dismount. That was a

shame. We were hoping he would make it. Of course, and it's a sobering

thought that every gymnast has to go on high bar. The leading group will

be over there very shortly. Max Whitlock will be over there in two

rotations, and Uchimura and the Nyah. Oh, dear! He had actually

finished the two twists. And the same thing in the tuck

position. He risked everything, but unfortunately, it wasn't to be. You

have to try your best, of course, at the Olympic Games. That is his

team-mate, Nguyen. He was the 2012 silver

medallist in the all-around. I think he has taken a break from training

in this four-year cycle. What a shame, but good effort. There is the

leader, Oleg Verniaiev. In silver medal position at the moment, Max

Whitlock of Great Britain, and Kohei Uchimura for Japan,

uncharacteristically, is in third. A chance to see Ryohei Kato's rings

routine. Dan, maybe you can tell us why it took so long to mark this

routine. But into the inverted crucifix.

Might he have not helped that long enough? I think it was OK. It would

have been very harsh not to credit it. There was nothing much wrong

with that routine. Maybe they were talking about not crediting the

front somersault, but that would have been really harsh.

This lad has a very high difficulty level on this piece of apparatus.

This is his strongest piece, Dan. Yes, he does a dismount of the end

of the bars which no one else in the world does, so it is exciting to

watch. Oh, he landed with his chest quite

down, so he will be deducted, still impressive. Just a joy to watch this

level of gymnastics. This level of difficulty is unprecedented, Dan.

Let's bring everybody up-to-date. And Nile Wilson is in 14th. Again,

let's have a look at his triple twisting vault. You can see his

coach at the bottom of the screen, screaming with joy! He has got so

much more height there than before. And with Scott's reaction, you can

see as soon as he lifted off the vault, you could see it was going to

be a good vault. Each time he has performed it out here, it has got

better. It has. Max is a bit like that. He warms up into the

competition. Now, this gymnast has left the arena now after this vault.

He hasn't got injured on the vault. It was an injury he already had.

That was a risk he was willing to take, to try and get in the medals.

It hasn't come off. He will not medal now, so here's going to

protect himself. Great shame. Much has been expected of him in these

championships. He is only a young gymnast, the first gymnast from

Cuba. This is a vital vault for Kohei Uchimura. Lovely precision.

Absolutely huge, and done to perfection. Yeah, that was really

quite nice. He is putting the pressure on the Nyah, so it will be

interesting to see if Verniaiev can do his fault.

The chest being low, they might debate, but it is so clean. -- they

might deduct. DAN WALKER: and coverage of the

gymnastics continues right now on BBC One. If you want to continue

watching that, switch over right now. We are now going to concentrate

on rugby sevens here on BBC Four. It's coming up to 9.30 back in the

UK. Let me let you know what has happened in the last hour. It has

been an amazing medal rush for Team GB. Gold for Joe Clarke in the men's

K-1, the kayak. We had a gold for Jacques Delors and Chris Mears in

the three metre men's synchronous springboard final, the first ever

Olympic diving gold for Team GB. Bronze medal for Sally Conway in the

judo, and earlier we saw that bronze for Steven Scott in the men's double

trap as well. All the medals are coming in in the last few hours. We

have got Team GB coming up later in the rugby sevens, against Argentina.

We will show you the first quarterfinal, which was Fiji against

New Zealand as well a bit later. Let's join our commentary team for

the second quarterfinal in the men's rugby sevens. This has been one of

the highlights of the game so far. It is Japan against France. We can

join Sir Clive Woodward and Eddie Butler.

COMMENTATOR: This is the quarterfinal, which pitches two

runners-up against each other. France against Japan. Japan were in

Great Britain's group. Japan came second to Great Britain in that

group. They have both known defeat. They have both known the relief of

getting this far. France upset Australia and Japan at New Zealand

in their opening game. It is raining here at the Deodoro Stadium. And all

the silky skills we have seen are not entirely compromised, but they

are challenged by what has turned into a very slippery surface, a very

greasy ball. Japan thoroughly deserved to be in

this semifinal. Elusive runners out wide.

Simple speed over 60 or 70 metres and France also have the roomy

Vakatawa. They are technically so good. Japan's technique at the

breakdown so good. They kicked the ball down field here. Lomano Lemeki

will aim for set piece in the French half. So they will set up a set

piece camp. France don't look too uncomfortable without the ball.

Defending well but over two minutes, they haven't tasted the ball. France

have defended very well. Lote Tuqiri. And Kuwazuru also in the

line-out. Just two of them. Kuwazuru not straight, France will have a

chance. They can take that offer the defensive operation well performed.

Frederic Pomarel, their coach. Japan will be fuming about line-out. They

played so well in two and a half minutes. A not straight line out,

give the ball to France. The French number four, Terry Bouhraoua, the

captain, keeping a very close eye on this, he is amazing. He came into

rugby because he had anger management issues. Virimi Vakatawa.

Fijians Frenchman. Let the ball go, got back up again, perfectly

allowed. Jonathan Laugel. Now, Damien Cler, he brought something to

the French team when he stepped into the starting line-up this morning.

This is good work by Jeremy Aicardi. France have got a penalty. Vakatawa

dropped a Japanese defender but also dropped the ball. Working backwards.

Dall'igna. Damien Cler scores the first try for France. He has a big

-- here's a big, powerful forward. Bringing some real power to this

French Sevens side team. A really good start from France because they

defended very strongly. You can see the power of these big French

forwards. These conversions are really important. Terry Bouhraoua, a

very good hit rate so far. Six convergence of the game so far.

Damien Cler had some wonderful slipped past his one-handed, that

was a thunderous finish. Excellent kick by Terry Bouhraoua. Just watch

the height that Terry Bouhraoua put Sunnis to give them a chance to get

the ball. I think they will try to win this back. It is coming the way

of Laugel. A player in front. A free kick. To Japan. A French chaser in

front of Bourahoua. Those are the mistakes you cannot make in seven

aside rugby. This is knockout, trying to get through to the Olympic

semifinal. Just kick it off and keep it in play. That will test his anger

management! LAUGHTER Absolutely! Here we go. Japan

through Hikosaka. Change of direction by Hikosaka.

Lemeki comes back. They lose possession. They are in the French

22, France quite happy to take the scrummage. They won't be so happy to

see Jeremy Aicardi on the floor. You doesn't look in a good way. It was a

great tackle. It has launched the ball and we see Damien Cler go

through for the first French try here. Japan will be ready... Looks

like they are going to make a change. He is not in a good way. You

might have done a forearm in the tackle.

Celebration, Damien Cler. Back live. We see Steeve Barry coming on. Barry

has played in all three France's games for France so he will be used

to the pace. This is really unfortunate for Aicardi and it looks

like a wrist or a forearm. Seven aside is a very physical game.

Players really put their bodies on the line for their team. 22-metre

line, one minute to go. Terry Bouhraoua to feed the scrummage. Out

clean enough. Long boot down the field, but it was taken back into

the 22, straight out. Advantage Japan. A basic error for France.

Just keep the ball long and keep it in play. The kick was a good option,

there was a good chase on, but it just gives the ball back to Japan.

Winning this line-out would be absolutely crucial to them. 22

seconds to go. It is a pretty full line-out.

Q is our -- Kuwazuru won the line-out. Lemeki. Now, slight

hesitation. Until Goya sends it wide. Hano. Goto. Get a good pass

back to Goya. Hano. Hikosaka. Kuwazuru. Hano.

Lote Tuqiri. They have lost the ball again. Break-out by France. Vakatawa

in open space. He has set up the ruck instead. Laugel playing

scrum-half now. Terry Bouhraoua does enough for the moment. Let's get to

the interval with the lead. France lead Japan in the second

quarterfinal 7-0. A really good quarterfinal here. Japan against

France. Terry Bouhraoua taking the option to put the ball off the

field. I think France could still have attacked there. They are seven

points up. I was impressed with the defence of the French team. Japan

technically one of the best teams, they got a lot of possession but

France did very well. Japan won't panic. They have been many

situations before. They took the scalp of the Kiwis yesterday. The

quarterfinals. One game away. Just two points to Team GB, Japan lost.

This is the finish by big Damien Cler. Change of the hands, the ball

into the outside hand. France is doing the switchback. The coach

Pomarel. Just two minutes in the interval. In the quarterfinals, we

still have seven minutes each way, and in the semifinal tomorrow. The

final is ten minutes each way. There is rain on the lens. It started to

rain at lunchtime here. These kick-offs at 5pm. We have had a

couple of hours of... It is not rain and wind, it is just sort of

vertical drizzle. France are a very talented team but two key players,

Vakatawa and Terry Bouhraoua, two stars of this team. Japan have been

an absolute credit to the Olympic Games in Rugby Sevens. No doubt

every single one of the team has arrived fully prepared for this. The

rain is coming down even heavier. The wind does pick up. The flags

billowing in the breeze. France back into their own 22. It crosses in

front of Steve Parez said Japan in with a real chance. It is taken by

Lote Tuqiri and the try is awarded. Japan on the board. With a

successful conversion, they will be level. Tuqiri, he knew exactly what

he was doing. They can't stop to Kiraly. Cousin of Lote Tuqiri,

well-known in Australia. Bringing real footballing presence and skills

to this Japanese team. Just before half-time, France had the ball, kick

it out immediately. Japan with a miskick. This is when everything was

going right for Japan. The try by Lote Tuqiri. The conversion by