Day 6 BBC One: 13.40-18.00

:00:09. > :00:20.That afternoon to BBC One viewers, we are watching the events on the

:00:21. > :00:23.lake, Britain lining up for the men's four semifinal as they attempt

:00:24. > :00:28.to win a fifth gold medal in a row in this event. For those of you who

:00:29. > :00:31.are watching this on BBC Two, we would now ask you to switch over for

:00:32. > :00:45.continued coverage. COMMENTATOR: They are coming under

:00:46. > :00:50.starter 's orders, France, Canada, Great Britain in lane three, this is

:00:51. > :00:56.the semifinal now, the last race out from the final, Great Britain in

:00:57. > :00:59.three, Germany, Netherlands, Belarus and Constantine Louloudis, for the

:01:00. > :01:03.penultimate time at this Olympic Regatta, takes the British drug,

:01:04. > :01:06.backed up by George Nash at three, and Mohamed Sbihi, one of the

:01:07. > :01:11.strongest guys in the field across all the boats, here at this Olympic

:01:12. > :01:17.Regatta and Alex Gregory, the sole surviving member of the Olympic

:01:18. > :01:21.champion boat four years ago. He is in the bow seat and the British

:01:22. > :01:27.taking the early lead. France in one, Canada in two, Great Britain

:01:28. > :01:30.three, Germany, four, Netherlands five and Belarus in six. Great

:01:31. > :01:34.Britain looking to push on. They were so impressive in the opening

:01:35. > :01:37.heat. They are going to look to make a big stand. You have been coached

:01:38. > :01:41.by Jurgen Brobbel, he's the guy driving this, and under his

:01:42. > :01:47.stewardship, we have gone for five gold medals, and although some

:01:48. > :01:51.coach, double, what does he say? Talk is through the first 500 metres

:01:52. > :01:55.from his perspective. Don't make the race faster than it needs to be. It

:01:56. > :01:58.might look like they have gone out like startled rabbits but the

:01:59. > :02:01.reality is, the Canadians and Germans were not very quick in their

:02:02. > :02:04.semifinals, they came through strongly in the second half of the

:02:05. > :02:09.race, don't go out too hard, don't go faster than it needs to be, they

:02:10. > :02:12.will hit 500 metres and hit a rhythm that is bullet-proof. What he wants

:02:13. > :02:20.is a little drop between your speed in the first 500 and the second 500.

:02:21. > :02:24.He wants that continuing, the rhythm of it being seamless and ultimately,

:02:25. > :02:30.one thing in the semifinal is to win it at all costs. One word, also, 500

:02:31. > :02:35.down, they are clear, they have gone, but they are going to move

:02:36. > :02:38.again, start to out, transition into the second 500 metres. This is the

:02:39. > :02:44.second semifinal of the men's heavy four. Constantine Louloudis, Mohamed

:02:45. > :02:48.Sbihi, George Nash and Alex Gregory doing what they do best, leading

:02:49. > :02:52.from the front. That is the history of most of the British crews but at

:02:53. > :02:57.the finals, in the Olympic Games, it is all about big statements, big

:02:58. > :03:01.benchmarks. Alex Gregory, coming down the boat, Mohamed Sbihi, George

:03:02. > :03:05.Nash at number three and Constantine Louloudis, huge lungs on him, the

:03:06. > :03:12.guy that drives them out, the bronze medallist four years ago in the

:03:13. > :03:16.eight. You can already see who the battle will be between for the gold

:03:17. > :03:19.medal, between Britain and Australia, actually, Great Britain

:03:20. > :03:23.and Great Britain, whether they perform a lot, and Australia will

:03:24. > :03:27.pick up the pieces if they don't. The Canadians are not the quickest

:03:28. > :03:31.in the first 1000 metres but that is a horizon job that the British are

:03:32. > :03:33.going to do and they could put some serious mileage into them if they

:03:34. > :03:38.wanted to. Right now, they will be nailing down the rhythm to the 1500

:03:39. > :03:42.and then they will put off the gas from there. But this is where they

:03:43. > :03:46.will win the final, from here to 1500 metres. James, tell us what it

:03:47. > :03:51.is like and about, going through 1000 metres, here. In the second

:03:52. > :03:57.semifinal of the men's heavy four, Great Britain are away and clear

:03:58. > :04:01.from the rest of the field, which is led by Canada. Look at the space

:04:02. > :04:04.there again. They have opened up a bit more and they have not had to

:04:05. > :04:07.push for it, they have turned the screw a bit. Canada over the

:04:08. > :04:10.Netherlands, in the boat, and when you were in the boat looking back,

:04:11. > :04:14.give us an insight into what it feels like looking back is to mock

:04:15. > :04:21.you open up, you know you have qualified. In the semifinal, you

:04:22. > :04:26.think," the next 250, raise the speed and then raise the speed from

:04:27. > :04:30.1250, down to 1500, and then shut it down and think about the final". You

:04:31. > :04:33.are not thinking about how much you are beating them by. You make sure

:04:34. > :04:38.you get clear of the race because as we can see, the race is developing,

:04:39. > :04:42.three boats going for two places. If you don't keep it strong in the

:04:43. > :04:48.third 500, no matter how easy it looks to you at halfway, you will

:04:49. > :04:51.find yourself in a race for the last 500 that you don't need to be in. A

:04:52. > :04:55.strong third 500, hurting yourself, will make the last 500 really easy.

:04:56. > :04:58.That is what you've got to think about, no matter how far Robbie

:04:59. > :05:02.Ward, people will come back. The Italians showed it in the last race,

:05:03. > :05:06.crews do it in a semifinal all the time, it will be close for the last

:05:07. > :05:10.spot and if it is, it is going to push you up if you are in the front.

:05:11. > :05:14.They will be nailing it for the next 30-40 seconds and then looking to do

:05:15. > :05:19.a Usain Bolt, just getting off the gas. Look at the legs in unison,

:05:20. > :05:25.bang, catch on, legs down, and they hang the body weight off the handle

:05:26. > :05:28.and that is what makes this four... Exactly and that is why they spent

:05:29. > :05:32.hours training because they are not all that they might, Mohamed Sbihi

:05:33. > :05:35.is six foot eight, Constantine Louloudis is six foot three. They

:05:36. > :05:39.are not all the same build and they have to drill how they move

:05:40. > :05:44.together. That is what you do so you don't have to think about those

:05:45. > :05:48.things when you are racing flat out. Great Britain convincingly, easily

:05:49. > :05:52.through the 1500 metres mark, here, over Canada on the rest of the world

:05:53. > :05:57.coming up behind them. They are making it look easy, but it is not

:05:58. > :06:01.by any measure easy. The power still coming down, they are not required

:06:02. > :06:05.to sprint. 350 from the line but they will still want to keep the

:06:06. > :06:09.gap, still want to close it out now. This is the statement they are

:06:10. > :06:14.making, particularly to Australia, who will watch this back and say,

:06:15. > :06:19."What do we have to do? What is required?" This is the strongest

:06:20. > :06:22.British four we have ever put out. I guarantee, the Australians will not

:06:23. > :06:27.be looking at the finish time, they will be looking at the first 500 and

:06:28. > :06:31.halfway times, possibly 1500 metres, no one cares about the last 500, it

:06:32. > :06:34.about winning it, what you do to get there is a relevant but you know,

:06:35. > :06:40.people have been on it to halfway so you look at those times. -- is

:06:41. > :06:44.irrelevant. The crowd are on their feet, enjoying every stroke. This is

:06:45. > :06:49.the feeling coming up towards the line, 100 metres out. We have Canada

:06:50. > :06:55.on the far side, who are being put under pressure by the Netherlands in

:06:56. > :06:59.lane five. But today, in the second semifinal, it is all about one boat,

:07:00. > :07:03.four men, Constantine Louloudis, George Nash, managed to league and

:07:04. > :07:07.Alex Gregory in the bow seat, going into an Olympic final for the second

:07:08. > :07:12.time in his career. They now just start to ease off, fighting for

:07:13. > :07:16.second place on the far side, is Canada going to come in second? The

:07:17. > :07:21.Netherlands make the third qualification spot in this men's

:07:22. > :07:26.heavyweight coxless four. Gary Herbert is on top for today --

:07:27. > :07:29..com today and so the men's four and so were these two from the women's

:07:30. > :07:35.pair, Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, well done today. That was

:07:36. > :07:40.like the old EU! Yeah, it all feels quite normal. It was a case of

:07:41. > :07:42.making sure we get through it. Every stage is really important to get

:07:43. > :07:46.through to the next one. Obviously the final is the most important.

:07:47. > :07:50.Doing what you need to do in the heat and the semifinal and make sure

:07:51. > :07:54.we are getting to the final in good condition. Everyone was inevitably

:07:55. > :07:57.pontificating of your race a couple of days ago when you narrowly won

:07:58. > :08:00.but it looked for a while as though you might get beaten for the first

:08:01. > :08:06.time. Wondering what had happened, was it you or the Danish pair? How

:08:07. > :08:09.did you rationalise it? We have seen the Danes produced some quick times

:08:10. > :08:14.over a kilometre this season and they were fourth in the world last

:08:15. > :08:18.year so you can't disregard them. We came away thinking about what we had

:08:19. > :08:22.done. It was all about us in our boat. It was not a disastrous race

:08:23. > :08:27.at all but it was an exceptional race from the Danes. You still won.

:08:28. > :08:31.Exactly, the most important thing was to do the job and win the race.

:08:32. > :08:34.It gave us confidence we can win from wherever we are in the field.

:08:35. > :08:39.It gave you confidence rather than sowing seeds of doubt? We always

:08:40. > :08:42.expect the best from the opposition anyway so if the people on the bank

:08:43. > :08:46.are surprised, you can assume we are not. We always assume the best of

:08:47. > :08:50.the people we have racing -- we are racing. We have seen the Danes have

:08:51. > :08:53.speed and they have improved and the same with the Americans and the

:08:54. > :08:57.Kiwis. There are so many people in our event to differ from heats to

:08:58. > :09:00.semifinals to finals so there's no way you can look at the two races we

:09:01. > :09:04.have done this week and assume anything. That is the way we are

:09:05. > :09:08.when we are racing. If they are up, we have spoken about that. It is not

:09:09. > :09:10.like it will never happen, we know it might and we know it might

:09:11. > :09:14.tomorrow and we know it could and we are really realistic about how good

:09:15. > :09:17.the opposition is and how good we have to be if we want to beat them.

:09:18. > :09:25.You were pretty good today. Congratulations. The final. From

:09:26. > :09:29.Helen and Heather to Hazel. And the girls final is tomorrow and

:09:30. > :09:33.so to the men's four but the first of the rowing finals is underway,

:09:34. > :09:38.about 20 minutes time, to 10pm and we will be back to catch all of the

:09:39. > :09:42.six finals live this afternoon. But you know, excitement levels are

:09:43. > :09:47.rising by the week and all over the Olympic city because Great Britain's

:09:48. > :09:48.medal count is rising as well. It was a quite wonderful Wednesday like

:09:49. > :10:11.no other. It is bronze for Chris Froome! You

:10:12. > :10:18.take the bronze! And Stephen Scott takes the bronze medal! Bronze medal

:10:19. > :10:30.for Conway and she fully deserved that. And it is Joe Clarke of Great

:10:31. > :10:41.Britain, the Olympic champion! It is gold for Jack and Chris!

:10:42. > :10:46.Great Britain and Northern Ireland, rising up the medal table into the

:10:47. > :10:50.top ten with 12 medals so far but you know, behind the numbers, isn't

:10:51. > :10:53.it a privilege to share in some career defining and life changing

:10:54. > :10:57.moments for these amazing athletes who have worked their socks off to

:10:58. > :11:00.be here and win those medals? Katherine Grainger, you may

:11:01. > :11:09.remember, gave us one of those moments four years ago. Yes, she was

:11:10. > :11:12.a late addition to the games but with new partner Vicky Thornley, she

:11:13. > :11:16.is full of renewed web about defending her double sculls title

:11:17. > :11:19.this afternoon and trying to win a fifth Olympic medal. -- renewed

:11:20. > :11:26.hope. Another double sculls final in the men's boat with Britain's pair

:11:27. > :11:30.and the Croatian brothers are hoping they won't be the favourites. It

:11:31. > :11:34.could be that Sinclair and Innis are rowing for silver with the awesome

:11:35. > :11:41.Kiwi duo unbeaten for seven years mind you, all good things come to an

:11:42. > :11:44.end. The first gold will be the men's quad sculls. Great Britain

:11:45. > :11:50.came through the repechage to reach this final. That is at 2:10pm. On

:11:51. > :11:55.the Whitewater much later today, after a brilliant surprise gold

:11:56. > :12:00.medal, their commie yesterday, it is Hounslow and Florence, fired up in

:12:01. > :12:03.the canoe doubles final. So there is another confirmation for you of the

:12:04. > :12:06.timetable. So much going on today but in the immediate thoughts, the

:12:07. > :12:12.priorities are going to the rowing at 2:10pm for the men's quad sculls,

:12:13. > :12:16.and the men's pair thereafter at 2:40pm and Katherine Grainger in the

:12:17. > :12:23.boat with Vicky Thornley at 3pm. Then it is the double sculls at

:12:24. > :12:27.3:20pm and much later at 4:20pm, it is Hounslow and Florence, trying to

:12:28. > :12:32.qualify for the double canoe final, the event in which they won silver

:12:33. > :12:36.last time. Yesterday was a pretty wintry day. It was windy and rainy

:12:37. > :12:40.and then at about lunchtime, it started raining medals for Great

:12:41. > :12:45.Britain. First for Chris Froome in the men's road race time trial and

:12:46. > :12:50.then about three hours later, well, and unheralded Britain, in his first

:12:51. > :12:56.Olympics, Joe Clarke was third from last to paddle in the men's kayak

:12:57. > :13:00.single. COMMENTATOR: Here is Joe Clarke. It

:13:01. > :13:07.would be sensational if he can crack the time of 88.7. His time in the

:13:08. > :13:14.semifinals, 90.6 seven. Under orders to hold back, we believe, the

:13:15. > :13:18.23-year-old from Stoke on Trent, Stafford and Stone Canoe club will

:13:19. > :13:22.be packed today. They will be watching his progress. He needs to

:13:23. > :13:27.be calm, settle into the rhythm early. Good upstream gate three,

:13:28. > :13:31.tight around the gate at four, wants to keep the boat tracking down

:13:32. > :13:36.stream. A nice, open style, wants to dive in at seven, tight and out.

:13:37. > :13:40.It's all about the mind. Quick directional strokes, keeping control

:13:41. > :13:46.and composure, weight and then bang the stroke in. This looks sharp and

:13:47. > :13:49.it is, sharper than sharp, 0.18 inside four Joe Clarke, a man who

:13:50. > :13:54.has only been on the British senior team for four years. Nailed 13, got

:13:55. > :14:00.the spin on the back of the tale. Now a roll. One selection for the

:14:01. > :14:04.Olympics back in October. He's had for months to prepare specifically

:14:05. > :14:09.for this one run. Breaks back into the flow, through 18, surely no

:14:10. > :14:14.mistakes? He's clean and getting faster and faster as the run goes on

:14:15. > :14:18.but you can throw away 0.4. Finding himself broadside on the big wave

:14:19. > :14:23.but he gets a route across, great power to keep himself online. Slight

:14:24. > :14:28.hold on the exit of 19 and now he's going to get the boat up and

:14:29. > :14:32.running. Can he get a nice spin at 22? A reverse and a tight pull out

:14:33. > :14:36.and it is looking good and fast. Two gates to go for Joe Clarke as he

:14:37. > :14:40.drives towards the line, up on the clock going through gate 22, the

:14:41. > :14:48.time of 88.7 could be beaten and it is! Sensational! 0.17! Joe Clarke

:14:49. > :14:52.has secured himself a medal at the Deodoro, and it's definitely going

:14:53. > :15:04.to be bronze unless he beats the two Mantecon. -- men to come.

:15:05. > :15:12.Diss the Czech Republic on his way. Trying to beat the time of 88.5

:15:13. > :15:16.three. The split has to be good all the way down. Their religion

:15:17. > :15:19.opportunity to make up if you are half a second down on the first

:15:20. > :15:24.aspect which will cut at just under 30 seconds. Not giving away anything

:15:25. > :15:30.from those first form aggregates. A big turn. Quick out into the flow.

:15:31. > :15:36.This was where Joe Clarke was good through eight, nine, ten. Watch the

:15:37. > :15:45.clock. He's inside. Lightning quick. 0.77 through the gate that gave

:15:46. > :15:51.David some problems. That could be so expensive. We've only got 0.49

:15:52. > :15:54.per second between silver and bronze, to have two microseconds

:15:55. > :15:59.added, you see how damaging that can be to your hopes and he knows it,

:16:00. > :16:05.he's pushing extra hard at the moment. Great execution at gate 17.

:16:06. > :16:14.In touch with a medal, but he will have two nail this bottom section.

:16:15. > :16:17.You have to bear in mind 0.54 behind having been given the two second

:16:18. > :16:26.penalty. He's still going great guns. I think Joe Clarke's time is

:16:27. > :16:32.under threat. One more to go. Held just a little bit on the gate 23,

:16:33. > :16:37.will it cost him a shot at gold? 88.5 three. He's outside. And that

:16:38. > :16:51.little mistake between 22 and 23 costing him the gold. So, here we

:16:52. > :16:55.go. The Slovakian went to 12th in the first run, indicating a good

:16:56. > :16:58.performance. He's only 19 years of age. Surely, surely the pressure

:16:59. > :17:06.could be too much. Joe Clarke sitting in gold medal position. You

:17:07. > :17:10.have his fingers crossed that it doesn't go brilliantly well for

:17:11. > :17:16.Grigar. Looking good at the moment. Sharp through those gates. He's

:17:17. > :17:21.going to be very quick. What was that, seven, eight? He threw his

:17:22. > :17:26.head inside, taking all the risks in the world to make sure... A punt on

:17:27. > :17:32.13. Gets just a bit too far into the wave, held for a fraction of a

:17:33. > :17:37.second. Fractions separating the top four 0.49 of a second between the

:17:38. > :17:43.top four, can't remember a time it's been that close. It's all about the

:17:44. > :17:48.spin he's going to do it well. 0.87 on the split. You can't give away

:17:49. > :17:52.anything. Slow on the hold. Held on the wave, could be costly. Wide on

:17:53. > :18:00.20. Looks like it'll be extremely tight. Watch the time on 22. He has

:18:01. > :18:05.to be well under 77 seconds. Here it comes as he goes back through the

:18:06. > :18:08.gate. 75, 76, it's going to be desperately close. Needs a perfect

:18:09. > :18:13.line into the finish, held on the stopper, that would be the move that

:18:14. > :18:19.cost... It cost Prskavec, it could cost Grigar as well. And its Joe

:18:20. > :18:26.Clarke of Great Britain. The 23-year-old. The Olympic champion

:18:27. > :18:30.for 2016! Helen, you were saying yesterday it would be fantastic if

:18:31. > :18:35.the youngest paddler in the British team work to medal. You didn't

:18:36. > :18:39.suggest the gold medal. It is so good for the future of British

:18:40. > :18:43.paddling. Absolutely, the men's kayak discipline is such a tight

:18:44. > :18:48.discipline. We've had some very good juniors and under 23. For him to

:18:49. > :18:49.come out today on the biggest platform in the world and performed

:18:50. > :19:07.that way is phenomenal. The winning time 88.5 three. 88

:19:08. > :19:09.seconds of pure concentration. Of power, of precision, of perfection.

:19:10. > :19:20.It was absolutely brilliant. What an achievement for Joe Clarke,

:19:21. > :19:24.the 24-year-old from Staffordshire who first got into the sport on a

:19:25. > :19:28.scout kayaking trip. Look at that, from those beginnings to Olympic

:19:29. > :19:31.champion, great stuff on social media after his training partner

:19:32. > :19:36.Fiona Pennie, who is going today in the semifinals of the K-1 in the

:19:37. > :19:41.women's event later... We will see her, to... She said, did this just

:19:42. > :19:45.happened to my training buddy? Phenomenal racing by Joe Clarke,

:19:46. > :19:50.smashed it to win gold. Joe Clarke said on Twitter, thank you for the

:19:51. > :19:55.congratulations. However, I'm ready to start my night shift in Worthing.

:19:56. > :20:03.Hashtag mistaken identity. The real Joe Clarke sat down in his kayak and

:20:04. > :20:08.won gold. From the Whitewater to the more disconcertingly green waters of

:20:09. > :20:12.the diving centre. In 100 years of Olympic diving Great Britain had won

:20:13. > :20:21.eight medals, but not a single gold. Would all of that change when these

:20:22. > :20:24.two sprung into action? COMMENTATOR: This is the moment for Jack and

:20:25. > :20:43.Chris. Laugher and MEars. It has to be as good as they've ever

:20:44. > :20:52.done because the Americans put loads of pressure on. Upper 80s needed,

:20:53. > :20:59.boys. Here they go. Yes! Come on! That is an Olympic medal for sure.

:21:00. > :21:04.At least the silver medal. Just the Chinese to follow. They have done it

:21:05. > :21:08.when it counts. The eyes of the world on them. They are looking at

:21:09. > :21:14.the scoreboard. This is just as I hoped it would be. Forward four and

:21:15. > :21:18.a half in a tuck position. Bang on Synchro. Chris Mears marginally over

:21:19. > :21:24.rotating. Both divers on with execution. Synchronisation bang on.

:21:25. > :21:30.This is 3.8 degrees difficulty. It'll be over 90 points. If it is,

:21:31. > :21:37.they are going to top the US. They do. Only just. 91.2 zero. Enough is

:21:38. > :21:47.enough, four points better than the US. They are an 454, the Chinese on

:21:48. > :21:56.360. Remember this man is going for his third consecutive three metre

:21:57. > :22:00.Synchro gold medal. This is the dive that stands between him doing that

:22:01. > :22:09.or getting a silver medal or maybe even bronze. 95 is the magic mark

:22:10. > :22:14.for China on this 4.5 somersaults. No, I don't think it's good enough!

:22:15. > :22:18.I don't think it's good enough. The Chinese may find themselves in the

:22:19. > :22:23.bronze medal position. Both divers short, short into the water. I don't

:22:24. > :22:30.know what to do, stand up, sit down, watch the replay. This could be gold

:22:31. > :22:33.for GB. Forward 4.5 from the Chinese, it needed to be over 95

:22:34. > :22:39.points from its going to get nowhere near that. I'm pretty sure it's

:22:40. > :22:46.gold. Gold for Team GB. Will China split them? Again, an agonising

:22:47. > :22:51.wait. The marks haven't come... Come on, put us out of our misery. It

:22:52. > :22:55.must be gold, surely it's gold. They are number one, looked at their

:22:56. > :23:00.faces, that tells you. Let's get the marks on the screen. They've done

:23:01. > :23:06.it, oh my word. It's not gold for China, not even silver for China,

:23:07. > :23:12.its bronze for China. That means it is gold. Pure gold for Jack and

:23:13. > :23:18.Chris. Laugher and Mears have done it. They came in with medal

:23:19. > :23:21.expectations. We knew, we thought they could get a medal. They have

:23:22. > :23:32.gone to the ultimate, the best ever. Jack, Chris, Britain's first-ever

:23:33. > :23:40.Olympic diving champions. What? LAUGHTER

:23:41. > :23:44.Pretty cool, yeah. We're confused as hell and so happy. We did a

:23:45. > :23:48.fantastic job today, two point of our EB, not even our best, and we've

:23:49. > :23:54.come away with a gold medal. We're so lucky. Happy. With the way it's

:23:55. > :23:58.gone. It's ridiculous, it is absolutely ridiculous. Talk us

:23:59. > :24:01.through the fifth dive commits one of the most difficult you can

:24:02. > :24:06.execute and you nailed it under pressure. Yeah, obviously, any dive

:24:07. > :24:12.under pressure is nerve wracking. That was I'd say our most

:24:13. > :24:17.high-pressure dive. I was a little bit over the end, I thought I'd post

:24:18. > :24:21.it forwards, managed to get a good finish on it. I got good individual

:24:22. > :24:25.scores. Synchro was off. We've scored more on it. It was enough to

:24:26. > :24:34.put us in a good place in the sixth round. You are housemates. I

:24:35. > :24:37.understand, I've heard, you've got space on your wall, a couple of

:24:38. > :24:42.blank frames, ready for some pictures. We do actually. Which

:24:43. > :24:47.picture will it be? I'll have to think about it, I would think,

:24:48. > :24:50.probably, one of the pictures from today. We've got a couple of frames

:24:51. > :24:56.empty on the water filled up, this will be one for the books. Do you

:24:57. > :25:01.feel you had a point to prove? Disappointed after the individual in

:25:02. > :25:05.London 2012 when you went out early? Of course, that's why I was so

:25:06. > :25:09.emotional, it's almost a reflection of how much hard work I've put in,

:25:10. > :25:14.how far I've come from almost nothing to everything. This is the

:25:15. > :25:21.big one. To do it today is a dream. Alongside my best friend. From

:25:22. > :25:24.London to now in format for years with an unbelievable amount of hard

:25:25. > :25:29.work and that backs, things I've had to give up, all that stuff, to get

:25:30. > :25:36.this, is beyond worth it. My absolute dream. It's crazy. Talk

:25:37. > :25:41.about tough journeys, 2009 you were on the brink of death, is it fair to

:25:42. > :25:46.say? 5% chance of survival after contracting horrible virus. That's

:25:47. > :25:50.right. To be honest, even after going through that horrible

:25:51. > :25:54.experience and making the Olympics in London, that was enough for me,

:25:55. > :26:00.it was something great. Then competed really well, came ninth

:26:01. > :26:02.individual, fifth in synchro, I was buzzing from that. We were in a

:26:03. > :26:07.different position coming into this game is, we knew we could get medals

:26:08. > :26:13.but didn't know we could... We kind of debt, but to actually have them

:26:14. > :26:19.is insane. It's incredible. Let's have a look at them. Gold medals.

:26:20. > :26:26.Congratulations, guys, congratulations. STUDIO: Pure, pure

:26:27. > :26:35.gold. What a story for the two of them. Would it get any better? A few

:26:36. > :26:38.miles away, Japan's excellence was coming under scrutiny and threat

:26:39. > :26:45.from amongst others great Britain's Max Whitlock.

:26:46. > :26:59.That was exciting stuff. We're going to start on the floor with Nile

:27:00. > :27:05.Wilson. Puts him in second at the moment. These gymnasts will be

:27:06. > :27:11.nervous and excited to be here. Easier to retain this title.

:27:12. > :27:16.Wonderfully performed. Things are looking good for Japan. Max Whitlock

:27:17. > :27:31.with his first of six pieces of apparatus. He goes into the lead!

:27:32. > :27:36.How impressive, you can see how much he has matured. What a fight that

:27:37. > :27:47.was. Max Whitlock looks relaxed, to be enjoying himself. I was impressed

:27:48. > :27:53.with that. Kohei Uchimura is ahead of Max Whitlock by a hair 's

:27:54. > :28:03.breadth. One of the best folks I've seen him do for a while. Verniaiev,

:28:04. > :28:08.what a fight this is proving to be. Anything you can do, Uchimura, I can

:28:09. > :28:18.do. A vital vault for Kohei Uchimura. What a belter from

:28:19. > :28:23.Verniaiev! Max Whitlock has an all-round Olympic medal in his

:28:24. > :28:27.sight. Verniaiev on this fifth piece of apparatus of six. He needs every

:28:28. > :28:32.tenth. The routine itself was flawless. If Max Whitlock can manage

:28:33. > :28:38.to stay in the medals it'll be the first time Great Britain have had an

:28:39. > :28:45.all-around medal for 108 years. Yes! Well done, Max, what a performance.

:28:46. > :28:49.Uchimura on parallel bars. The former world parallel bars champion.

:28:50. > :28:53.This is going right down to the wire, it really is. He can do it, he

:28:54. > :28:58.can do this. All of the training coming down to this one piece of

:28:59. > :29:02.apparatus. What a performance from Max Whitlock. This has been a battle

:29:03. > :29:10.from the beginning. Into the big dismount. The perfect landing. He

:29:11. > :29:17.has done all he possibly can. The pressure is on now. Can he make a

:29:18. > :29:23.dismount, can he twist, can he land? It's not enough for gold. Kohei

:29:24. > :29:28.Uchimura still undefeated. Max Whitlock take the first medal in the

:29:29. > :29:33.all-round final for 108 years, what result for Great Britain. Target was

:29:34. > :29:37.to improve myself as an all-rounder and I feel complete in that target

:29:38. > :29:41.I'm so happy. It was tough. I made a slight error on floor, I could have

:29:42. > :29:47.been even closer. It feels absolutely amazing. A third bronze

:29:48. > :29:54.medal of his Olympic career and he still has the apparatus finals to

:29:55. > :29:57.come later. Now it's time to get back to John. The moment has come

:29:58. > :30:03.for the rowers with the first of the finals. It was uplifting seeing that

:30:04. > :30:07.resume of the medals. You would hope by this time tomorrow, round about

:30:08. > :30:11.this time, we might have another couple of golds to put on the tally.

:30:12. > :30:14.Helen Glover and Heather Stanning looked hugely impressive in the

:30:15. > :30:18.women's pairs semifinal earlier today. The men's four looking for a

:30:19. > :30:24.fifth consecutive gold medal in that discipline for Great Britain. We

:30:25. > :30:28.absolutely outstanding in their semifinal. -- they were outstanding.

:30:29. > :30:31.They must have put the frighteners on everyone else racing in that

:30:32. > :30:35.final tomorrow. Over the next 40 minutes we might add to our medal

:30:36. > :30:38.tally, what colour they will be we will find out over the next three

:30:39. > :30:43.quarters of an hour. Four finals coming up.

:30:44. > :30:48.Uchimura the men's squad right now and then the men's pair, and then

:30:49. > :30:54.the women's double sculls and then the men's double sculls and the

:30:55. > :31:00.first of those is coming up right now with James Cracknell and Gary

:31:01. > :31:06.Herbert. COMMENTATOR: For the very last time, six boats line-up here on

:31:07. > :31:11.the Lagoa Stadium for the Olympic final, the breeze picking up, it is

:31:12. > :31:17.bobbly down there, the water moving as you can see, so just another

:31:18. > :31:22.added ingredient is a cleaner start than is usual. Germany going in lane

:31:23. > :31:27.one, the Olympic champions, three returning from that boat, we have

:31:28. > :31:34.Poland in lane two, Australia sitting alongside, the world silver

:31:35. > :31:43.medallists sitting in there. Estonia will be in lane four.

:31:44. > :31:52.Bronze medallist from last year, Estonia. Kaspar Taimsoo in the

:31:53. > :31:58.stroke, are responsible for getting away clean and strong. Ukraine in

:31:59. > :32:04.five. Burst at the World Championships two years ago. Drawing

:32:05. > :32:09.on all the experience of that as we look out for the first time on the

:32:10. > :32:14.Olympics start, Great Britain, Beaumont, Townsend, Groom and

:32:15. > :32:19.Lambert. Sitting poised and ready and what a journey it has been for

:32:20. > :32:32.this group, for Great Britain's sculling group. Ukraine in five have

:32:33. > :32:40.the distinguished I'd love holding the world best time. Australia hold

:32:41. > :32:45.the Olympic best time. As of 2008. Here we go. Showtime. The Olympic

:32:46. > :32:47.final in the men's heavyweight quadruple sculls. They are coming

:32:48. > :32:58.under starter 's orders. We have a green light and the start

:32:59. > :33:01.of an Olympic final, the men's quadruple sculls, Great Britain

:33:02. > :33:05.slightly slow in the first two or three strokes out of there, jumping

:33:06. > :33:10.out of the start, top of the picture the defending Olympic champions

:33:11. > :33:14.Germany, Poland in two, Australia in three, Estonia in four, Ukraine in

:33:15. > :33:18.five and Great Britain in six and I won't mention the word substitute

:33:19. > :33:21.for the great British crew. We are looking at the Great Britain

:33:22. > :33:27.sculling group which is a strong and tight group and out of that group,

:33:28. > :33:30.we're looking at the quadruple sculls, Jack Beaumont, Sam Townsend,

:33:31. > :33:33.Angus Groom and Peter Lambert, who moved into the stroke seat. Now they

:33:34. > :33:36.need the race of their lives and if ever there was an understatement, it

:33:37. > :33:40.applies to the British crew. They have had a rocky season, here, and

:33:41. > :33:46.clawed their way, bought their way into this Olympic final, deservedly

:33:47. > :33:49.so but now whatever has gone before is irrelevant, they look to the

:33:50. > :33:54.future and every stroke they take now is a stroke that will get them,

:33:55. > :33:59.for the first time, onto an Olympic podium for a men's quadruple sculls.

:34:00. > :34:03.Such inspiration and motivation. You will not come across a tighter group

:34:04. > :34:08.of scholars than those four representing Great Britain right

:34:09. > :34:13.now. Same for the Germans, this is an absolute storming start by

:34:14. > :34:17.Germany, Germany won the Olympics and the World Championships last

:34:18. > :34:21.year, they had a shocking heat. They regrouped and here they are, leading

:34:22. > :34:25.the Olympic final and that takes a huge amount of team spirit and inner

:34:26. > :34:29.belief. The British crew are right in the mix at 500 metres and with

:34:30. > :34:33.Peter Lambert moving back to the stroke seat, traditionally, they

:34:34. > :34:36.have had a faster second half of the race with him on the stroke seat

:34:37. > :34:39.than the first half, and this is a perfect position for them to find

:34:40. > :34:48.themselves in at the moment. They have put themselves in this position

:34:49. > :34:51.and now they have to capitalise. Australia has been the form crew of

:34:52. > :34:56.the season, and they have come late in the race. 750 metres to go, so

:34:57. > :35:01.1250 gone, that is when they start to show their speed. In the heat,

:35:02. > :35:04.they were only ahead for about 30 seconds in the race and that is what

:35:05. > :35:07.is going to be expected of the final. The longer race is going to

:35:08. > :35:10.help them but expect them to come through the field and expect the

:35:11. > :35:14.British to be fast as well. Ukraine commune of a quite sure what you are

:35:15. > :35:18.going to get. Estonia have shown form although it has been up and

:35:19. > :35:22.down in the four years. You can't really call this. 800 metres, and

:35:23. > :35:27.absolutely sensational start for the British quadruple sculls, led by

:35:28. > :35:33.Peter Lambert, Angus Groom in the number three seed, Sam Townsend at

:35:34. > :35:36.two and Jack Beaumont up there in the bow and what a guy, only a

:35:37. > :35:39.couple of weeks ago, he thought he would be watching this on the

:35:40. > :35:43.sidelines but now he is making some calls and driving along as they

:35:44. > :35:47.start to stretch out, and Germany in lane one, the defending Olympic

:35:48. > :35:53.champions, three of the boat are returning from four years ago, the

:35:54. > :35:57.stroke man, Hans Gruhne, the new guy is leading them through halfway. We

:35:58. > :36:02.are at halfway, by one length, just shy, it is Germany on the far side

:36:03. > :36:06.and in fourth place at the moment, they were third at the 500, but they

:36:07. > :36:12.are forth at the halfway, and now we are going into the third 500 metres.

:36:13. > :36:17.Look at second, the Australians have come through from their start, they

:36:18. > :36:24.were forth at 500 and now they are in second. -- in fourth at 500. They

:36:25. > :36:27.will pressure the Germans. I was saying how close the British crew

:36:28. > :36:30.were but the Germans were in this position four years ago and won the

:36:31. > :36:34.World Championships last year and they are going to be very hard to

:36:35. > :36:37.overhaul but if one crew has shown their speed in the last half of the

:36:38. > :36:40.race, it is going to be Australia and they are being pushed hard by

:36:41. > :36:44.Ukraine and Poland are also challenging the British as well. The

:36:45. > :36:47.British will find out now and they have to live up to their billing as

:36:48. > :36:52.the best British squad we have ever had but also fast over the second

:36:53. > :36:56.half of the race. -- British quad. All of the crews will have done

:36:57. > :37:01.their first big, significant push so now all of the calls are to set

:37:02. > :37:04.themselves up for the final 500 metres. If you want something you

:37:05. > :37:07.have never had, Great Britain, you are going to have to do something

:37:08. > :37:12.you have never done. They will have to go to a place, where they face

:37:13. > :37:18.their Demons head on, particularly this crew, a little look right from

:37:19. > :37:22.Jack Beaumont, poised, where are we currently? In fourth place. They

:37:23. > :37:27.have been pushed hard by Poland in lane two. They are coming to the

:37:28. > :37:31.last 500. We are getting to the business part of the Olympic final,

:37:32. > :37:36.the British group just slipping back but they are holding on the fourth

:37:37. > :37:42.place. -- British crew. Into the last 500 and it is all or nothing.

:37:43. > :37:47.50 strokes out from a place on the Olympic podium. Britain have been

:37:48. > :37:50.overtaken by Poland, so they came through 505th, I think the

:37:51. > :37:54.Australians have left themselves too much to do to catch the Germans. The

:37:55. > :37:58.Germans have taken from the start. You can see them shouting, urging

:37:59. > :38:01.on, the last one minute and 20 seconds of their season. The

:38:02. > :38:08.Australians I have too much to do and think Britain have no chance of

:38:09. > :38:12.reeling in Estonia. Philipp Wende, in the bow of the quadruple sculls

:38:13. > :38:16.for Germany, the defending champions have stepped up and raised their

:38:17. > :38:20.game, 25 out from the line, only 25 strokes from Olympic glory, and

:38:21. > :38:26.Poland are coming back, Australia also. Estonia in this and Ukraine,

:38:27. > :38:30.the British crew in lane six, not a single person in the grandstand that

:38:31. > :38:37.is sitting down! Everybody is up, here. All nations, cheering. Look at

:38:38. > :38:40.that, Australia coming back at half a length inside there, closest to

:38:41. > :38:46.ask Estonia in the bronze medal position. This is where the Germans,

:38:47. > :38:51.you don't get this experience, this is not only. That is holding them

:38:52. > :38:54.here, the guts to lead the race but the experience. They have to dig

:38:55. > :38:59.deep when it matters and they have done it. Australia, one last time to

:39:00. > :39:03.the line but it's not going to be enough. Germany has successfully

:39:04. > :39:09.defended their Olympic title, four years on. It was too much for Great

:39:10. > :39:14.Britain, coming through in fifth place at the bottom of your picture.

:39:15. > :39:19.They were in amongst it at 500 metres but then in the 1000 metres,

:39:20. > :39:22.it was a step too much, a step too far for them and that is what it

:39:23. > :39:28.means to be Olympic champions and rightly so. Hans Gruhne beating his

:39:29. > :39:32.chest because he was the new boy on this but no longer the new boy, he

:39:33. > :39:38.is now the Olympic champion, the stroke man of the Olympic champions,

:39:39. > :39:43.the German quadruple sculls. Despair for Australia, how they came so, so

:39:44. > :39:49.close and that is what it is like to lose a gold medal. Estonia, there,

:39:50. > :39:53.getting the bronze medal and James, just too much in the end for the

:39:54. > :39:57.British quad. They put themselves in the right position at halfway. That

:39:58. > :40:01.is all they can do. What the Germans and the Australians did was take the

:40:02. > :40:05.race by the scruff of the neck. The Germans backed themselves right from

:40:06. > :40:08.the start, and Australia didn't. They were faster for three quarters

:40:09. > :40:13.of the race but they did not have the guts to really go for it from

:40:14. > :40:16.the start and back themselves. The Germans backed themselves and won

:40:17. > :40:20.it. The British backed themselves but did not quite have the boat

:40:21. > :40:28.speed. All of the World Cups and World Championships lead to this

:40:29. > :40:32.time, this moment for Philipp Wende, Lauritz Schoof, Karl Schulze and

:40:33. > :40:38.Hans Gruhne. Great Britain to the right of the picture, a little bit

:40:39. > :40:43.slow off the first 100 but they got into it, committed themselves in the

:40:44. > :40:46.first 500 metres but the experience of Germany and Australia, look at

:40:47. > :40:52.that, still three quarters of a length down, coming along into the

:40:53. > :40:57.last 250. But it was not going to be. Today is all about Germany in

:40:58. > :41:01.the men's quadruple sculls. Watching the crews sat behind the finish line

:41:02. > :41:05.out, no matter how much it hurt during the race, they are all OK now

:41:06. > :41:09.and that is why you have to have the guts to really dig deep, even though

:41:10. > :41:13.every fibre in your body is telling you to stop, you have to keep going.

:41:14. > :41:16.When you cross the finishing line, you have done the training and you

:41:17. > :41:20.will recover. You have to dig that little bit deeper, not just for

:41:21. > :41:23.yourself but for your crewmates. That is why the Germans won because

:41:24. > :41:32.they are prepared to do that right from the start and the Australians

:41:33. > :41:35.weren't. That left an absolutely massive impression because of the

:41:36. > :41:39.German crowd that are here. Well supported, the German quadruple

:41:40. > :41:44.sculls. There wasn't a single person that wasn't on their feet in the

:41:45. > :41:50.opening final. And the other crucial thing before we do the result is the

:41:51. > :41:53.heat does not mean anything at all. Germany are the Olympic champions,

:41:54. > :42:00.Australia and Estonia and a huge disappointment personally for the

:42:01. > :42:03.British quad, in fifth place. Disappointment for Great Britain but

:42:04. > :42:07.they got to the final, talking about separations, the Germans in the

:42:08. > :42:11.next-door pen to us was getting -- were getting very excited but not as

:42:12. > :42:14.excited as the bow man. I suppose the alternative is to dive into the

:42:15. > :42:19.water but that is probably not a good idea, here. Some great pictures

:42:20. > :42:22.of Germany's first gold medal here. We have a bit of a battle going on

:42:23. > :42:26.between ourselves and the Germans here about how many medals our

:42:27. > :42:29.respective teams are going to get. They are obviously one up at the

:42:30. > :42:33.moment but still three more finals to come today. Disappointment for

:42:34. > :42:38.the Great Britain court and also for the lightweight men's double sculls

:42:39. > :42:41.earlier, when they failed to make it through to the final, finishing

:42:42. > :42:45.fourth in their semifinal and they have been up a few moments ago to

:42:46. > :42:50.talk about that disappointment. Guys, hard lines. You must be

:42:51. > :42:56.feeling devastated really that you are not in the final this year.

:42:57. > :43:03.Yeah, we are. It is all a bit surreal. Quite hard to try to take

:43:04. > :43:06.in and not in a good way. We had a cracking warm up, raced the race we

:43:07. > :43:12.wanted to race, rode our way, rode our rhythm -- were rowing our way

:43:13. > :43:16.and our rhythm but we were beaten by three faster crews on the day. We

:43:17. > :43:21.did everything we could from Poznan until now. We were in good shape but

:43:22. > :43:25.these guys are just quicker than us today. Using the word surreal,

:43:26. > :43:28.there, does that mean that you had almost, and you could never assume

:43:29. > :43:32.anything in sport, obviously, but had you got it in your mind that you

:43:33. > :43:37.would be in the final? I mean, you can say yes we kind of thought we

:43:38. > :43:44.would be there but obviously, we are not there. We got beaten. We have

:43:45. > :43:48.had a very challenging season. As Richard said, we had a very good

:43:49. > :43:51.time from Poznan to now, we have really found some speed and got some

:43:52. > :43:57.time in the boat again and kind found ourselves a bit, after a rough

:43:58. > :44:01.start to the season, just, as we said, beaten on the day by three

:44:02. > :44:09.faster crews. Now we have to pull ourselves back together and race

:44:10. > :44:16.tomorrow and do ourselves proud. Do Team GB proud, sorry. Struggling a

:44:17. > :44:19.bit. I can imagine. One final question, if somebody rose faster

:44:20. > :44:22.than you do, in a sense, there's nothing you can do faster, if you

:44:23. > :44:27.feel you gave way you can give, then you can't give any more? -- rows

:44:28. > :44:31.faster. Yes, we were raced to a standstill at the end and we could

:44:32. > :44:36.not have given anything else. It is not like we got anything wrong. We

:44:37. > :44:43.were just beaten by faster crews on the day and all credit to the

:44:44. > :44:50.French, the Irish and the USA. They were just better than us today.

:44:51. > :44:53.Thank you for joining us. Richard Chambers being very sanguine

:44:54. > :44:57.and honest there after they failed to make it through to the a final

:44:58. > :45:02.and just looking, talking about people who win, the German crew who

:45:03. > :45:06.have just won behind us, I was expecting them, they are embracing

:45:07. > :45:09.their fans, I was expecting a massive, big hug from the four and

:45:10. > :45:14.our German colleagues on the left. Listen, that was a fantastic race

:45:15. > :45:19.from your guys, wasn't it? It was a perfect race on them, unbelievable.

:45:20. > :45:21.Were you expecting them to win? No, absolutely not! A medal would have

:45:22. > :45:31.been good but gold is crazy. Is he a real character? Just a

:45:32. > :45:38.moment, I need to do an interview, sorry. We'll let them hug and talk

:45:39. > :45:43.about what we hope is going to be a British medal in the next half hour.

:45:44. > :45:46.Katherine Grainger four years ago, if we're talking about great moment

:45:47. > :45:52.of celebration, it was fantastic at all those semifinals. Here's the

:45:53. > :45:59.hugging going on. Doesn't matter what nation you are, winning feels

:46:00. > :46:02.the same, doesn't it? Great pictures and great camaraderie. There is a

:46:03. > :46:06.huge amount of respect between all the various crews. You can see from

:46:07. > :46:10.the Australians, who were favourites to win the gold. Huge disappointment

:46:11. > :46:13.for them obviously but unbelievable amount of respect between all the

:46:14. > :46:18.competitors as the Estonian crew go through behind them. Back to

:46:19. > :46:22.Catherine who four years ago was one of the standard-bearers of Great

:46:23. > :46:26.Britain's gold haul after winning silver medals at so many previous

:46:27. > :46:32.Olympics. She finally got gold. For her the big decision was, would she

:46:33. > :46:36.carry on or decided was enough? She eventually decided after a couple of

:46:37. > :46:40.years working for us to get back in the boat and see if she could make

:46:41. > :46:46.another Olympic final. Of course, she's done just that.

:46:47. > :46:52.This is never the life I planned for myself. I didn't think I'd be a

:46:53. > :47:00.one-time Olympian, never mind five-time Olympian. I remember a lot

:47:01. > :47:04.about my first Olympics. The whole experience is just phenomenal, the

:47:05. > :47:07.racing itself is the most intense, the most electric and the most

:47:08. > :47:12.exciting racing you will ever get. At that point the women's team had

:47:13. > :47:16.never won an Olympic medal of any colour in any event, so to win

:47:17. > :47:19.silver was incredible. We knew we were making a little bit of history.

:47:20. > :47:23.Best performance by a British women's boat ever, great

:47:24. > :47:27.performance. You get something tangible for your efforts, something

:47:28. > :47:29.to take home for the rest of your life. It changed women's rowing from

:47:30. > :47:40.that point onwards. Athens was special. In comparison to

:47:41. > :47:44.my first games there was more expectation from ourselves, we knew

:47:45. > :47:49.if we got it absolutely right there was a chance. The spirited and

:47:50. > :47:53.heartening row from Great Britain. We gave it the best race we had on

:47:54. > :47:57.that day, I don't think it was the best we'd ever done. It wasn't as

:47:58. > :48:03.joyful as Sydney because I'd been there and got silver already, there

:48:04. > :48:07.was a chance it could go better stop Athens is one of my proudest medals,

:48:08. > :48:15.but it is tinged slightly with what might have been.

:48:16. > :48:22.Now it's cool, calm and collected from Katherine Grainger. Beijing

:48:23. > :48:27.summed up how much in Britain, sport has moved on in eight years. In

:48:28. > :48:32.Sydney in 2000 that silver medal was celebrated by everyone. Eight years

:48:33. > :48:36.on, that silver represented failure. Great Britain have never won gold at

:48:37. > :48:47.the Olympic Games, could this be the time? We lead the field for 1700

:48:48. > :48:50.metres, then in those dying stages, to be wrote through was

:48:51. > :48:55.heartbreaking. That's why there were four heartbroken women on the

:48:56. > :48:59.podium. The emotions absolutely flooding out here from the British

:49:00. > :49:04.quad. To walk away with a result you didn't go to achieve is, honestly,

:49:05. > :49:07.it took me months to come to terms with, I struggled. It affected me

:49:08. > :49:11.personally as much as professionally. I remember thinking,

:49:12. > :49:16.if I'm going to go again, I didn't want to be driven by that ghost of

:49:17. > :49:20.Beijing. Going forward to London it was never about proving something

:49:21. > :49:28.right, for me it was a whole different experience. I did sleep

:49:29. > :49:32.the night before. As soon as the alarm went off I knew instantly it

:49:33. > :49:36.was the Olympic final morning. A life could be defined in the next

:49:37. > :49:41.six and a half minutes. I knew where I wanted to be, I knew the race was

:49:42. > :49:45.going as I wanted it to go. I didn't connect it to the fact we were in

:49:46. > :49:52.the Olympic Games. Ladies and gentlemen what we are seeing right

:49:53. > :49:55.now is that dreams do come true. Olympic champions Katherine Grainger

:49:56. > :50:00.and Anna Watkins. Honestly it was a dream come true for me, pitch

:50:01. > :50:03.perfect. All those incredible highs and lows, those tears, all the

:50:04. > :50:07.fighting back, getting yourself up and dusting yourself down and going

:50:08. > :50:12.back again, every single agonising second was worth it for that moment.

:50:13. > :50:17.Most assumed that would be the end. If I was done with it, I would have

:50:18. > :50:19.been happy to walk away, I would have been. I just thought, I'm not,

:50:20. > :50:28.I'm not done. Katherine Grainger and Vicky

:50:29. > :50:30.Thornley's moment of truth is that four minutes past three your time.

:50:31. > :50:38.Let's pick up commentary of the women's quad.

:50:39. > :50:46.Poland had an excellent start in the first 500. They consolidated that in

:50:47. > :50:49.the second and is now lead by three quarters of a length over Germany

:50:50. > :50:53.who have moved into second place. Taking that on from the Netherlands.

:50:54. > :50:59.We're on board with Poland, who were first in the first World Cup

:51:00. > :51:04.regatta. They've been the most consistent crew through this 2016

:51:05. > :51:09.year of the Olympic Games. They are leading the Olympic final. They were

:51:10. > :51:13.so disappointed last year to come off the medal podium forth. The

:51:14. > :51:20.whole question in this third 500 metres is, as too much being done to

:51:21. > :51:25.early in this high-intensity race here. Germany in amongst it in lane

:51:26. > :51:31.four. The Germans will have to go now. The polls are matching their

:51:32. > :51:40.every move. They will have to go to catch. Is it going to happen? The

:51:41. > :51:45.polls inching it out, so the Germans have got to go now. More

:51:46. > :51:48.importantly, they have to be prepared to sacrifice silver to

:51:49. > :51:57.catch Poland, if they don't try and catch them, they could win silver,

:51:58. > :52:01.but not gold. They are making a move. They have to go now or it

:52:02. > :52:08.won't happy. A fight between the Netherlands on the coat-tails of the

:52:09. > :52:12.German crew... The Germans are definitely slipping the Dutch, not

:52:13. > :52:20.making enough ground on the polls. They have to go now, he prepared to

:52:21. > :52:28.risk silver to win gold. If they really want gold, they have too been

:52:29. > :52:41.prepared to chuck silver in the bin. The last 50 strokes will define

:52:42. > :52:45.their lives. Making noise, but no impression at the moment. Out front,

:52:46. > :52:51.coming back, the Germans, just stalking back against Poland. They

:52:52. > :52:58.were quick out of the starting blocks, Poland in the second lane.

:52:59. > :53:09.Germany. Thiele, Bar, Schmidla and Lier. Running out of water. In order

:53:10. > :53:15.to win this, they are going to storm back. The Dutch are gone. I think

:53:16. > :53:20.they are going to do it, I think the Germans are going to do it, I'm

:53:21. > :53:26.going to back the experience... The polls are going to blow. Germany,

:53:27. > :53:35.heads up, getting stronger. It's almost as if it is flying. They are

:53:36. > :53:43.two feet down from the polls. 125... They are level. They are now

:53:44. > :53:50.through. Through by one, too. The Dutch are going to get the polls as

:53:51. > :53:53.well. We are now inside 75 metres this Olympic final for the women's

:53:54. > :53:58.quadruple sculls and Germany now have done it, they've timed it to

:53:59. > :54:02.perfection. They've brought with them the Dutch. And Poland on the

:54:03. > :54:08.far side are going to hang on. That is it, sorry state of affairs for

:54:09. > :54:12.Poland, but joy for Germany again, they make it two in a row in the

:54:13. > :54:18.quadruple sculls. For the women and for the men. The Netherlands come

:54:19. > :54:24.through in silver medal position. They've done what they didn't do

:54:25. > :54:27.four years ago. They were silver medallist Ben. They are Olympic

:54:28. > :54:33.champions now. That is all that matters here. And celebrations

:54:34. > :54:41.around. Richly deserved from this German quadruple sculls. Thiele,

:54:42. > :54:45.Bar, Schmidla and Lier. They were impressive, stuck to their race

:54:46. > :54:53.plan. They started to grind it from a long way out. You've got to be

:54:54. > :54:57.prepared to chuck away silver to win gold, I said. I don't think they

:54:58. > :55:02.needed to, they had confidence in their plan and they knew they were

:55:03. > :55:06.going to empty their tanks. The polls would have had to front-load

:55:07. > :55:10.the race too much to be ahead. The polls were the quickest to 1800

:55:11. > :55:13.metres but they hand the medals out at 2000, they went from first to

:55:14. > :55:34.third in 200 metres. Two golds in a row from our

:55:35. > :55:39.colleagues from Germany next, who are looking decidedly smug Scott

:55:40. > :55:43.from TV NZ, I'm not going to mention the rugby by the way. Don't mention

:55:44. > :55:46.the rugby, we'll get to that later, it's all about rowing today. A

:55:47. > :55:52.massive chance for New Zealand in the next race with Hamish and Eric

:55:53. > :55:57.Murray. Looking for the 69th consecutive victory. It's

:55:58. > :56:04.extraordinary to win 68 races in a row, remarkable. How big are they in

:56:05. > :56:10.New Zealand? If they walked down the street with people know them?

:56:11. > :56:13.Absolutely, in fact, minorities but that has a profile, it's been very

:56:14. > :56:20.successful over the past 10-12 years. Bond and Murray have been the

:56:21. > :56:24.most dominant sportsman of the last 6-7 years at least, twice named

:56:25. > :56:31.supreme winners of the New Zealand Halberg awards, the sportsperson of

:56:32. > :56:34.the year in New Zealand. They came into the Olympic Games as our best

:56:35. > :56:38.chance for a gold medal. What are they like as guys? To be that

:56:39. > :56:43.successful for that long they must be ridiculously single-minded? Very

:56:44. > :56:46.single-minded and different personalities. Hamish is a focused,

:56:47. > :56:51.single man, Eric is a lot more, shall we say, out there? Those

:56:52. > :56:55.differences work together. It's the thing that keeps them going. I

:56:56. > :57:00.better go, I have this interview to do. All the best. I apologise, I had

:57:01. > :57:05.you working for the opposition. He works for Sky News England. Bond and

:57:06. > :57:09.Murray famous to win the gold medal in the men's pair, looking for 69th

:57:10. > :57:14.consecutive victory. You kind of thing the other five are racing for

:57:15. > :57:20.silver. Amongst them, Sinclair and Innes from Great Britain. Our aim is

:57:21. > :57:25.really to challenge the Kiwis. It's tough to say you're going for gold

:57:26. > :57:34.against the undefeated crew since 2009. But I think we're definitely

:57:35. > :57:41.going to give it our best shot. If we were to go for gold and lose

:57:42. > :57:45.silver, so be it. On the off chance we have the best race of our lives,

:57:46. > :57:50.and we could beat them, it would be worth every second. Personally I

:57:51. > :57:54.would love to be able to measure myself against the best in the

:57:55. > :57:58.world. As a crew we're trying to edge beyond what we have already. In

:57:59. > :58:05.the hope it'll get us a little bit closer where we want to achieve in

:58:06. > :58:12.our name in the final. If that comes out with us, being closer, may be

:58:13. > :58:18.beating them, fantastic. If it comes away with us not getting a medal but

:58:19. > :58:22.we've done absolutely everything, having spent everything, I'll be

:58:23. > :58:30.just as content. We'll see that race coming up at 10:44pm. 2:44pm your

:58:31. > :58:35.time. Lets say about how these things work. The rowers come off the

:58:36. > :58:42.water, come on the pontoon. You can see the cruise going behind us. They

:58:43. > :58:46.come up to the podium, head to the medal podium, it is where we're

:58:47. > :58:48.going now. We're about to hear the German national anthem. Gary and

:58:49. > :58:53.James are watching the ceremony place.

:58:54. > :59:13.The stroke man. They were third at the World Championships last year.

:59:14. > :59:20.They add an Olympic bronze medal to their tally. At the end of the day

:59:21. > :59:29.they will be pleased with that. It was an Olympic final of the very

:59:30. > :59:33.highest order. The distance they came from the last World Cup regatta

:59:34. > :59:38.and they were ill and had to withdraw... Here they are, in front

:59:39. > :59:53.of the world, Olympic bronze medallists, Estonia.

:59:54. > :00:01.Rhodes the smiles tell it all and what a time for them, being given

:00:02. > :00:08.their medals by licking Australian rowing, Jimmy Tompkins. -- by the

:00:09. > :00:11.King of Australian. He is the three times Olympic champion, silver

:00:12. > :00:16.medallist and bronze medallist at the Olympic Games, a real top dive.

:00:17. > :00:20.It just shows you how much that means not -- top dive. You have

:00:21. > :00:24.raised against him and you know him as well. He will have been rooting

:00:25. > :00:31.for this quadruple sculls. Absolutely, he will have respect for

:00:32. > :00:35.them and be disappointed for them. When you raced the way Jimmy raced,

:00:36. > :00:39.the first thing he will say to them is, "Go a bit harder", because they

:00:40. > :00:42.had the boat speed under way there were coming back at the end,

:00:43. > :00:45.although they ran out of Lake, you know how long the race is so you

:00:46. > :00:53.would expect the world champions to back themselves. Some of the world

:00:54. > :00:56.champ injuries may not have been his best performance either, but at the

:00:57. > :01:01.Olympics, Jimmy always got the best performance out of his boat. That is

:01:02. > :01:04.the true master because the World Championships, yes, they are

:01:05. > :01:12.important but the Olympics is what you are judged on. But the

:01:13. > :01:16.Australians will learn from this experience. They won't want to be

:01:17. > :01:26.here next time, they will remember what it feels like to come second.

:01:27. > :01:30.Germany! Just those few words in any competitor's life and sporting

:01:31. > :01:38.career, that you want to hear said for you, Olympic champions. Philipp

:01:39. > :01:42.Wende, Lauritz Schoof and Karl Schulze added once before and they

:01:43. > :01:45.are getting it again, for years on, Germany successfully defend their

:01:46. > :01:53.Olympic title. You know what will make it feel more special? It is

:01:54. > :01:56.almost the true Olympic story because four days ago, they were put

:01:57. > :02:02.out into the heat in the repechage, they've had an extra race to anyone

:02:03. > :02:05.else on the podium and they've been tested mentally every step of the

:02:06. > :02:07.way and they've come out and answered it and not only that, they

:02:08. > :02:11.backed themselves more than any other crew of the start and through

:02:12. > :02:15.the first thousand metres which is why they are standing there now.

:02:16. > :02:20.They went through a dark time at the start of the week but they thought,

:02:21. > :02:25."Hang on, we shouldn't be in this race", but they have asked the --

:02:26. > :02:30.answered the questions asked of themselves and the rest of the

:02:31. > :02:33.field. It hurts to say that about Germany is Olympic champions, to be

:02:34. > :02:37.honest but that is the way they race. They earned it, every stroke.

:02:38. > :02:46.When I looked at them Mynott, I said three of the crew returned from 2012

:02:47. > :02:49.and one has "New" Richard Beale -- written beside him, Hans Gruhne but

:02:50. > :02:57.this time, they are all Olympic champions.

:02:58. > :03:55.For Germany, Olympic champions, the shock of the tournament, the

:03:56. > :04:02.regatta, in the shadow of Christ the Redeemer, Germany Olympic champions

:04:03. > :04:06.in the men's quadruple sculls. You are bang on, Gary, that is the

:04:07. > :04:11.first medal ceremony we have shown you at Lagoa Stadium and isn't that

:04:12. > :04:14.the picture, with the four crews turning towards their flags and with

:04:15. > :04:19.Christ the Redeemer in the background, just a stunning image

:04:20. > :04:24.that will forever be one of the shots of the Olympics in Rio in

:04:25. > :04:27.2016. While they celebrate obviously there are more cruise down at the

:04:28. > :04:30.start because the finals keep on coming on this Thursday morning in

:04:31. > :04:35.Brazil, Thursday afternoon at home and just thinking idly, having had a

:04:36. > :04:38.chat with our colleagues from Sky New Zealand about Hamish Bond and

:04:39. > :04:42.Eric Murray, who are the absolute near certainty to win gold medals

:04:43. > :04:44.out in whatever discipline, and I suppose you might conceivably put

:04:45. > :04:49.Usain Bolt in that category in the 200 metres, probably not the 100,

:04:50. > :04:53.though, and I suppose given Novak Djokovic's departure, maybe Andy

:04:54. > :04:57.Murray, he is a long odds-on favourite to win the men's singles

:04:58. > :05:03.tennis and he plays Fabio Fognini later this afternoon our time,

:05:04. > :05:08.tonight your time so it will be on the BBC. But happy Mac bond and

:05:09. > :05:11.Murray from New Zealand have to be the hottest of hot favourites of

:05:12. > :05:15.almost any single event at these Olympic Games, no matter what the

:05:16. > :05:21.discipline. 68 consecutive victories and this would be their 69th if they

:05:22. > :05:25.were two, almost inevitably, we think win the gold medal in the

:05:26. > :05:30.men's pair. But we saw what happened with the Chinese doubles gold

:05:31. > :05:33.earlier, when they literally just caught the minutest of crabs and

:05:34. > :05:39.ground to a halt. There are no certainties in sport. Devon Loch and

:05:40. > :05:43.everything! So for Sinclair and Stuart ins, this is a massive

:05:44. > :05:47.opportunity for the British pair -- Stewart Innes. Perhaps for gold,

:05:48. > :05:52.perhaps more realistically for silver but an intriguing race

:05:53. > :05:57.nonetheless. What a shot and what a commentary duo.

:05:58. > :06:04.COMMENTATOR: On that note, South Africa in lane one, Great Britain in

:06:05. > :06:09.lane two, Italy in three, Marianne Bond in four, Australia in five and

:06:10. > :06:15.France in six. Let's go through it. -- Murray and Bond. The Italian

:06:16. > :06:18.combination, young, just put together, mixture of young and old,

:06:19. > :06:22.last-minute busier. You saw Eric Murray and Hamish Bond from New

:06:23. > :06:26.Zealand, Spencer Turrin at Alexander Lloyd looking to spoil the party,

:06:27. > :06:31.well, to do that, you will have to go big style in the first 500, big

:06:32. > :06:34.again in the second, even bigger in the third and hope that New Zealand

:06:35. > :06:39.fallout in the last 500 because that is the only way. They are so

:06:40. > :06:45.supreme, Eric Murray and Terry bond. France in lane six. -- Hamish Bond.

:06:46. > :06:48.I said it before and I will say it again, for the very last time at

:06:49. > :06:54.this Regatta, in this event, they sit forward in the Olympic final of

:06:55. > :06:57.the men's coxless pair. Sit back and enjoy this because this is going to

:06:58. > :07:02.be supreme. On the top, South Africa off nice and quick, Great Britain,

:07:03. > :07:06.Sinclair and Innis, Stewart Innes made a breakthrough debut in the

:07:07. > :07:11.team last year, here he is at the Olympic final. Everything to go for

:07:12. > :07:14.common here. It is rough and they have to be clean. The water is

:07:15. > :07:18.building up, the wind is coming cross head from the right as we look

:07:19. > :07:24.at it so it is adding another ingredient into this. Italy in

:07:25. > :07:28.three, Murray and Bond from New Zealand in full, Spencer Turrin and

:07:29. > :07:31.Alexander Lloyd of Australian fries, Frances closes to us when we go

:07:32. > :07:34.around at the right of your picture now, Germain Chardin and Dorian

:07:35. > :07:39.Mortelette, Olympic silver medallists four years ago, such an

:07:40. > :07:44.up-and-down four years. Let's see what they can do. In the early

:07:45. > :07:48.stages, not to panic, James, because New Zealand take their time to get

:07:49. > :07:55.into it, 250 metres, they will just be looking to get into the race,

:07:56. > :07:58.clean but not worried. There are two givens in this, firstly that the

:07:59. > :08:04.Italians will go out ridiculously hard, secondly that New Zealand will

:08:05. > :08:07.go out steady for the first 100 metres and then their speed won't

:08:08. > :08:12.drop. They will keep it the same while everyone else's speed drops

:08:13. > :08:15.but the real unknown is the French. In their heat, they looked world

:08:16. > :08:21.beaters. In the semifinal, they looked like they were struggling to

:08:22. > :08:26.make the final. I actually had a text conversation with the New

:08:27. > :08:30.Zealand pair this morning about the conditions that the rowers are

:08:31. > :08:34.worried about the conditions. They said it does not really matter, it's

:08:35. > :08:40.2000 metres. That is how confident they are, it is about 2000 metres,

:08:41. > :08:45.not the first 500. That is as well for New Zealand to say because right

:08:46. > :08:51.now, they are third. The race leaders, South Africa from Italy and

:08:52. > :08:55.New Zealand. Watch the next 500 metres, as the water hopefully

:08:56. > :08:59.flattens out of it. You can see Sinclair and Innes, Alan Sinclair

:09:00. > :09:04.and Stewart Innes, 30 years old, Sinclair, 25, Innes, they were the

:09:05. > :09:08.tadpoles known in the last of the World Cup regatta is so they have

:09:09. > :09:12.formed. Settle is the wrong word. They have to make sure they step up

:09:13. > :09:16.into a very strong with them in their second 500. They have shown

:09:17. > :09:20.that, that is where they are stronger, I would say, in the

:09:21. > :09:24.mid-1009 some of the other crews in this race and the one thing about

:09:25. > :09:29.having such a dominant crew like New Zealand, gold is gone, let's be

:09:30. > :09:33.honest, unless there is a disaster. But five boats are within a shot of

:09:34. > :09:36.the silver medal. The French at the moment seem to be doing something

:09:37. > :09:40.incredibly stupid with their race plan but on a good day, they are in

:09:41. > :09:44.the mix for the silver. But every other boat has a chance of a silver,

:09:45. > :09:47.and that is going to make for a very exciting next four and a half

:09:48. > :09:51.minutes. At the moment, we can see the Italians giving way to New

:09:52. > :09:59.Zealand and by the time we reach halfway, 1250, New Zealand will be

:10:00. > :10:03.long gone. 750, Giovanni Abagnale and Marco Di Costanzo from Italy,

:10:04. > :10:06.Eric Murray and Hamish Bond from New Zealand, Spencer Turrin and

:10:07. > :10:09.Alexander Lloyd from Australia and Germain Chardin and Dorian

:10:10. > :10:13.Mortelette from France, that is the line-up for the Olympic final in the

:10:14. > :10:18.men's pair and in the second 500, they do what they have done so many

:10:19. > :10:22.times before, New Zealand's Murray and Bond, defending Olympic

:10:23. > :10:27.champions, hit the front. I said I enjoy the second hundred and marvel

:10:28. > :10:32.at the third 500 metres now is Great Britain are sitting in second place,

:10:33. > :10:36.well, second or third, in lane two butt out front, and they will now

:10:37. > :10:39.move and with such style, they will devour the course, here, in this

:10:40. > :10:46.third 500, the defending Olympic champions. Multi-world champions,

:10:47. > :10:51.from New Zealand, Eric Murray and Hamish Bond. Such awesome athletes.

:10:52. > :10:56.Let's ignore New Zealand now because they have gone, OK? A very

:10:57. > :11:00.impressive second 500, and an impressive second 500 by the

:11:01. > :11:03.British, they came from fourth place to just behind the Italians and now

:11:04. > :11:07.they are in a medal position. This is where the battle for the five

:11:08. > :11:12.crews for the silver and bronze medals, they swapped it, at the

:11:13. > :11:14.moment, the Italians are holding off the British, and South Africa I

:11:15. > :11:20.think are paying for their first 500. The crew nearest to the camera,

:11:21. > :11:23.the French have yet to come to the party but at the moment, the British

:11:24. > :11:27.are putting themselves, we are well within touch of the podium which is

:11:28. > :11:31.exactly what we are looking for. They have got the engine, they have

:11:32. > :11:35.been built up in the same way the four and the eight has, through long

:11:36. > :11:38.training, and I think they can overhaul the Italians. It is whether

:11:39. > :11:44.the French will come back from the middle of nowhere. I'm not sure they

:11:45. > :11:48.can. But we have to hope they don't. As we come towards the 1500 metres

:11:49. > :11:53.mark in the final of the men's coxless pair, outfront and leading,

:11:54. > :12:00.as we all thought they would, Murray and Bond, undefeated in this

:12:01. > :12:04.combination since 2009. But the medals are all for the silver now.

:12:05. > :12:08.That is absolutely magnificent, breathtaking from New Zealand, as

:12:09. > :12:14.they go into the last quarter of this final men's pair. The race now,

:12:15. > :12:19.just in second place, Sinclair and Innes, in the silver medal position.

:12:20. > :12:22.Silver is ours, now, if we go for it. The Italians can, they have to

:12:23. > :12:26.find something very special, having led for so much of the race apart

:12:27. > :12:32.from New Zealand. They have redlined white from start. South Africa had

:12:33. > :12:35.arrested the third 500 and slowly inching back but it is basically

:12:36. > :12:41.three crews for two medals and one of them British. Watch out, Britain,

:12:42. > :12:45.Lawrence Brittain and Shaun Keeling coming through for South Africa. At

:12:46. > :12:48.this stage in the race, the British crew, Alan Sinclair and Stewart

:12:49. > :12:54.Innes, have to be absolutely fearless. This is it, boys. Lay it

:12:55. > :12:58.down on the line. Put it all out there. This is for the silver medal.

:12:59. > :13:04.On the right, South Africa, on the left, Italy, Giovanni Abagnale and

:13:05. > :13:08.Marco Di Costanzo on the left. It could be silver for the British or

:13:09. > :13:11.fourth place, that is what we are facing. I think South Africa have

:13:12. > :13:15.got silver and we are battling with Italy for bronze. The Kiwis have

:13:16. > :13:18.gone. Ignore them, they are brilliant but ignore them. South

:13:19. > :13:25.Africa have got silver so and it is us against Italy, who is prepared to

:13:26. > :13:36.give it all right now. 125 out from the line and Great Britain have to

:13:37. > :13:38.dig deeper than they have ever done before. The Italians are absolutely

:13:39. > :13:40.redlining it. Come on, boys! The Italians have found some space and

:13:41. > :13:47.speed again. Up go the Italians, they are coming right back at South

:13:48. > :13:51.Africa. The New Zealand crowd applauding their boys, New Zealand

:13:52. > :13:58.making N'Jie Olympic gold medals -- it macro to -- making N'Jie Olympic

:13:59. > :14:01.gold medals in a row and Italy away from Great Britain and such

:14:02. > :14:05.disappointment. There was a moment where Great Britain were in silver,

:14:06. > :14:10.then they were bronze, and unfortunately, the Italians rode

:14:11. > :14:16.away from us. It is fourth place for Great Britain. -- rowed away. But

:14:17. > :14:19.New Zealand reigned supreme. They were absolutely awe-inspiring and

:14:20. > :14:29.look at that, look at the celebrations, but all in a days work

:14:30. > :14:33.for New Zealand. South Africa laid it on, taking in the air, and the

:14:34. > :14:39.lungs will be burning, James, and the Italians, we knew they would go

:14:40. > :14:44.out quick but the Italians, who were put together this year on the back

:14:45. > :14:47.of a lot of politics and a suspension for doping offences from

:14:48. > :14:50.another rower, they did not even know they were going to be in

:14:51. > :14:55.despair, and here they are with a bronze medal. They have shown what

:14:56. > :14:58.the Italian four showed in their semifinal, they are prepared to go

:14:59. > :15:01.out hard and back themselves. It looked like they had nothing in the

:15:02. > :15:05.tank but then they dug deep and found something else. They have been

:15:06. > :15:09.doing some seriously intense lactic training. They raised well and our

:15:10. > :15:12.British boys put themselves in the perfect position but did not quite

:15:13. > :15:20.have the speed in the last 200 metres. They have nothing to regret

:15:21. > :15:24.but Italy raced very fast and South Africa went out fast, had a rest and

:15:25. > :15:28.came home fast but the one thing I would correct you on is that the

:15:29. > :15:32.Kiwis, it is just another day and that day is earned by the thousand,

:15:33. > :15:36.1200 days they put in in between. They train incredibly hard. They are

:15:37. > :15:39.happy to pose their training times, predominantly because they frighten

:15:40. > :15:42.everyone else but they show the intensity of which they train and if

:15:43. > :15:45.you want to be as dominant as them, that is what you have to do.

:15:46. > :15:53.Eric Murray and Hamish Bond make it two in a row in the Olympic Games.

:15:54. > :15:54.There will be disappointment for Great Britain but they've got to

:15:55. > :16:05.keep their heads up. Fourth is the most agonising and

:16:06. > :16:11.disappointing position to finish in an Olympic regatta. Sinclair and

:16:12. > :16:15.Innes must be feeling devastated. We'll talk to them later.

:16:16. > :16:18.Disappointment earlier for the men's quad looking for a first ever medal

:16:19. > :16:20.for Great Britain in that event but came up just short. We spoke to them

:16:21. > :16:29.a few moments ago. Hard lines, how would you assess the

:16:30. > :16:33.race? Well, we haven't had the perfect run into this regatta. I

:16:34. > :16:37.shouldn't even be here. We went out with the intention to put our stamp

:16:38. > :16:42.on the race. You saw we were right up there in this early stage. I'm

:16:43. > :16:47.proud how everyone attacked it and how we dealt with the turbulent end

:16:48. > :16:50.to the season. We raced as hard as we could. Unfortunately didn't come

:16:51. > :16:58.away with what we wanted. But we gave everything. Jack said, we went

:16:59. > :17:01.out, with the intention to take the race on and put ourselves in the

:17:02. > :17:07.position to challenge for the medals. I think we did in the first

:17:08. > :17:13.500, it traditionally hasn't been a particular strength of this crew. We

:17:14. > :17:19.can be pretty happy with that. The lack of time together showed in the

:17:20. > :17:24.middle section. Yeah, very proud of all these guys about the run-up.

:17:25. > :17:30.Jack jumping in at the last minute. I was out on the boat for a week

:17:31. > :17:38.with a back injury. A week prior to this race. The change in race from

:17:39. > :17:45.yesterday to today, we held together and can be proud. Proud all round?

:17:46. > :17:51.Yeah. It's very hard at the moment, as it is in any sporting event. I

:17:52. > :17:58.think for myself probably the last one I'm doing. So these young guys

:17:59. > :18:02.can hopefully have another go and break their duck in the men's quad.

:18:03. > :18:06.In that sense I'd like to say massive thanks to these guys, to

:18:07. > :18:11.Graham, to Charles, the people I've rode with before, to Paul Stannard

:18:12. > :18:16.our coach. Right from the beginning. When I started in 2002. Lovely

:18:17. > :18:29.words. Another go for you do you think? I'll be back. We raced to our

:18:30. > :18:32.maximum capabilities today. You can't not be happy with that. Thanks

:18:33. > :18:39.for talking to us, guys, bad luck. Huge amount of disappointment for

:18:40. > :18:43.the men's quad. There are bond and Murray, the first of what will be a

:18:44. > :18:49.huge number of media requests over the next few minutes before the

:18:50. > :18:53.medal ceremony. After winning their 69th consecutive race and the gold

:18:54. > :18:56.medal in the men's pair. I don't know if we'll be able to have a

:18:57. > :19:04.chat. James Cracknell has popped down here. How awesome are these

:19:05. > :19:10.guys? They are incredible athletes, not only have they got physical

:19:11. > :19:13.strength, they've got... They are not very heavy. The combination of

:19:14. > :19:18.all these things in your corner means you get races where you are

:19:19. > :19:25.not beaten. Can we have a quick word with Hamish and Eric? Listen, you

:19:26. > :19:29.guys are... Extraordinary. It was pretty tricky out there, but you

:19:30. > :19:35.prepare for this sort of thing, you come here with knowing anything is

:19:36. > :19:38.possible. Even the we didn't enjoy the water out there and I'm pretty

:19:39. > :19:43.sure the other teams didn't enjoy it either, we were able to do it. I'm

:19:44. > :19:46.going to let you go, our colleagues from New Zealand a la you. We'll

:19:47. > :19:51.talk to you later, many congratulations. They are

:19:52. > :19:55.remarkable. Let's move on. We'll talk about the men's four because

:19:56. > :19:59.hopefully this time tomorrow we'll be talking to them in their capacity

:20:00. > :20:03.as Olympic gold medallists once again. They were hugely impressive

:20:04. > :20:04.in the semifinal earlier this morning and we chatted with them

:20:05. > :20:14.afterwards. Alex, you never want to be over

:20:15. > :20:18.hyperbolic, but that was awesome. It felt good, good to be out in the

:20:19. > :20:24.lead, and get that lead early. That's what we want in a semifinal,

:20:25. > :20:29.it's about doing the job, really. Tomorrow is the big day for us, all

:20:30. > :20:32.these people around us. Having finished the Olympics, winning

:20:33. > :20:37.medals, we just want that day to come. We did the job today. You put

:20:38. > :20:44.down a marker. At the halfway point where you thinking, what have you

:20:45. > :20:49.got? Yeah, it did feel good. We set out to go out more aggressively.

:20:50. > :20:55.It's been nervy, with yesterday having been cancelled. All that

:20:56. > :20:59.nervous energy was stored up. Very much I is on tomorrow for us,

:21:00. > :21:03.looking forward to the job at hand. How would you describe your mood,

:21:04. > :21:10.full of anticipation, trepidation, excitement? All those words you've

:21:11. > :21:13.used. It's a weird time, we've spent four years preparing and it comes

:21:14. > :21:17.down to a week and your race is put back because of the wind, anything

:21:18. > :21:22.could happen. It's about trying to stay as relaxed as possible. A lot

:21:23. > :21:25.can go wrong but you can also stay on the right side of it and it's

:21:26. > :21:29.what we're trying to do at the moment. A quick word about how

:21:30. > :21:34.you're feeling 24 hours from the big moment. Just saying to radio five

:21:35. > :21:41.live over there, there is zero honeymoon period, 24 hours till the

:21:42. > :21:48.big one, when medals are rewarded. The job is not done. No, it's good,

:21:49. > :21:51.we're in the final. Tomorrow it's all to play for. Really looking

:21:52. > :21:55.forward to it. Good luck, guys, go for it.

:21:56. > :22:02.Focused is the word. You can tell, Mo will not be an honeymoon for the

:22:03. > :22:06.next 24 hours, he's already thinking about the final, that's what they'll

:22:07. > :22:11.all be doing. They've had an hour to relax, then back onto it. It was a

:22:12. > :22:15.huge marker they put down, it wasn't like just winning the semifinal, it

:22:16. > :22:20.was obliterating the opposition. You have to do that in a semi, make your

:22:21. > :22:25.intentions clear. Semi after semi, third and fourth will be a battle,

:22:26. > :22:29.it brings the whole field close together. By clearing it out, you

:22:30. > :22:34.make it easier. They are horrible races, get them out of the way and

:22:35. > :22:39.secure the middle lane. For now, Katherine Grainger is at the start.

:22:40. > :22:44.You and I have had conversations on air, but many more off air, in bars,

:22:45. > :22:49.restaurants, at regattas for the last four years, about whether

:22:50. > :22:53.Katherine Grainger would carry her career, should she stop at the top

:22:54. > :22:55.of the mountain? We've been vacillating, saying she should stop

:22:56. > :22:59.them getting out of the right time is the right time to do it, but if

:23:00. > :23:04.you feel you can do it again, keep going. Now, the vindication is the

:23:05. > :23:08.fact she's in another Olympic final. In terms of whether she should or

:23:09. > :23:13.shouldn't stop, what I thought was the wrong decision was to stop the

:23:14. > :23:18.two years, to take time out. At her age, you'd think she's 40, Steve won

:23:19. > :23:26.is last gold medal aged 38. She is older than Steve once. To take two

:23:27. > :23:31.years out that 38, it's tricky to come back from, it's where I think

:23:32. > :23:34.she lost her top end. The semifinal showed its the best race since she's

:23:35. > :23:44.come back. The question for the final is, was it one of or is at the

:23:45. > :23:48.new level? They've timed run perfectly, the best race she will

:23:49. > :23:55.have since coming out of retirement. There is no Murray and Bond in this.

:23:56. > :23:57.It's wide open. The world champions got knocked out in their semifinal

:23:58. > :24:04.which shows the danger of semifinals. They don't give out

:24:05. > :24:07.medals for the semifinal, there may have come second in the semifinal,

:24:08. > :24:12.doesn't mean you will come second first in the final. They are right

:24:13. > :24:19.in the mix. The crew either side of them. They set themselves up

:24:20. > :24:24.perfectly for a final but every crew knows a medal is up for grabs. What

:24:25. > :24:27.are the tactics? You said repeatedly the last 500, people might be

:24:28. > :24:31.surprised you say it's almost the least important, even though it

:24:32. > :24:35.result in the finishing line, because you've got to be in

:24:36. > :24:39.contention at 1500 metres. What are Catherine and Vicky going to be

:24:40. > :24:43.doing in the four quartets of this race?

:24:44. > :24:54.Into soft here, what they need to do is put themselves in third place at

:24:55. > :25:00.least at halfway. There is no dominant crew here. Others will

:25:01. > :25:05.start to crack, feel the pressure. Because Katherine is still reigning

:25:06. > :25:09.champion, they will say she has the chance to break people. You can only

:25:10. > :25:14.bring them if you are ahead of them, you can't if you are behind. You

:25:15. > :25:19.have to put yourself in a position to hurt them. They have to back

:25:20. > :25:23.themselves. They will hold on for a medal. They will say, this is the

:25:24. > :25:30.last 30 strokes I will ever do in my life rowing. Maybe she will carry on

:25:31. > :25:33.till Tokyo at the age of 44. Does she have the aura, if you're in the

:25:34. > :25:40.boat and look across, do you see Katherine Grainger and think oh

:25:41. > :25:44.dear. Do you think it was gone? No, Gavin Grainger and Anna Watkins had

:25:45. > :25:49.that in London. The years leading up to that they didn't have that. Now

:25:50. > :25:54.people will be wary of them. They haven't got the aura, but they will

:25:55. > :25:58.be wary. Halfway, it'll come back if they are in a medal position. If the

:25:59. > :26:03.Olympic champion is leading halfway in the Olympic final, your thing,

:26:04. > :26:06.she's been here before. They need to hurt themselves early, race a

:26:07. > :26:11.painful race like the Italians have done repeatedly this morning. Race

:26:12. > :26:14.hard, but if it is an 1800 metre race, trust your body will hold on

:26:15. > :26:21.for the last 200. You heard the strings of the German national

:26:22. > :26:28.anthem in the background. -- strains. Again. What chances of a

:26:29. > :26:32.British medal, realistically? Realistically, slim chance. There's

:26:33. > :26:36.no dominant crew, the first thing they'll need to do is put themselves

:26:37. > :26:41.right in the mix halfway, it's what they need to do, then anything is up

:26:42. > :26:45.for grabs. Anyone in there can beat anyone else. On consistency you

:26:46. > :26:49.would say no, but their performance level from the heat to the semi, if

:26:50. > :26:52.they can do it again, who knows? We'll let you go to the commentary

:26:53. > :26:59.box and describe this intriguing race, because of all the back story.

:27:00. > :27:04.Of Katherine and Vicky. They've had an up-and-down year. Not considered

:27:05. > :27:07.good enough for selection initially, would they go into the women's

:27:08. > :27:12.eight? The women's eight saying, no, we're good enough without you. They

:27:13. > :27:16.find themselves here after all the toing and froing, coming and going,

:27:17. > :27:21.all the shenanigans. They find themselves in an Olympic final. You

:27:22. > :27:25.can see at the bottom of the reigning champions from 2012 in

:27:26. > :27:30.London. What a picture. What a venue. We said so many times, you

:27:31. > :27:36.can't overstate how fantastic it is beneath Sugarloaf Mountain. On a day

:27:37. > :27:43.like today it's really one, burning sunshine. Let's hope Katherine and

:27:44. > :27:51.Vicky are hot today. Let's go to Gary Herbert. COMMENTATOR: Onto the

:27:52. > :28:00.start now. We're looking at France. They will be going in lane number

:28:01. > :28:04.one. They sit poised, ready, in the short two year history of this

:28:05. > :28:09.combination, they had their best race in a semifinal. They need to go

:28:10. > :28:12.one better here. They were beaten on that occasion by Poland. Poland

:28:13. > :28:30.sitting in lane number three. The Greeks in fourth. The

:28:31. > :28:38.Lithuanians in five. Last but by no means least, Tomek and O'Leary from

:28:39. > :28:43.the United States of America. Everything that has gone before is

:28:44. > :28:52.now irrelevant for the British double skull.

:28:53. > :28:59.They are away now in the final of the women's heavyweight quadruple

:29:00. > :29:05.sculls. It really is difficult conditions in the first 100 metres.

:29:06. > :29:08.Francine one, Great Britain, Victoria Thornley and Katherine

:29:09. > :29:15.Grainger, in lane number two. Service France in one. With five,

:29:16. > :29:19.USA lane six. New Zealand's didn't qualify, the world champions are out

:29:20. > :29:23.of this. They didn't get through to the final, which has opened it up a

:29:24. > :29:28.little more for Thornley and Granger. Coming off the water after

:29:29. > :29:32.their semifinal, the British double skull said it was their best race

:29:33. > :29:36.they had ever had in the two years they'd had together. They need to go

:29:37. > :29:42.significantly better to go on the medal podium today. It was without a

:29:43. > :29:47.doubt Katherine 's best race under pressure since she's come out of

:29:48. > :29:50.retirement. They need to back it up. First and foremost they need to put

:29:51. > :29:58.themselves right in the mix at halfway because then the aura has

:29:59. > :30:01.gone. Of being an Olympic champion. It may have started to creep back

:30:02. > :30:05.after the semi. At halfway in the Olympic final if they put themselves

:30:06. > :30:10.in a good position people will think I'm behind the Olympic champion. The

:30:11. > :30:14.world champions are out. Katherine has a global title, it'll make

:30:15. > :30:18.people question themselves. They've gone about it in the right way.

:30:19. > :30:22.They'll have to raise a painful way, but that way their will recover a

:30:23. > :30:23.couple of minutes after the race. They have to put themselves in The

:30:24. > :30:34.Hurt Locker right now. Early stages coming toward the first

:30:35. > :30:39.time in marker. They are out quick. They are dealing with the

:30:40. > :30:44.conditions, which is good, and they lead now over Poland, just reversing

:30:45. > :30:52.that semifinal position, only a couple of days ago. 500 gone now.

:30:53. > :30:58.They had a better start. Great Britain in first place. Look at the

:30:59. > :31:03.Greeks, they won their semi and they are last, that is what can happen.

:31:04. > :31:08.In this field anyone can be out. The champions are gone and the Olympic

:31:09. > :31:11.champion is still in it. People will see the Olympic champion is back in

:31:12. > :31:16.form. The polls are moving a bit quicker now, as they did the semi

:31:17. > :31:21.but the Greeks are out of it. The Lithuanians ended up rolling

:31:22. > :31:30.Catherine and Vicky out in the heats. They will have been told to

:31:31. > :31:35.attack the first thousand and really get into it and from a personal

:31:36. > :31:41.point of view that will really establish their confidence here.

:31:42. > :31:47.Poland are going with them. The Polish team who led them

:31:48. > :31:52.significantly by this stage in the semifinal were at 750 metres. The

:31:53. > :31:57.polls were two seconds up on the Brits in the final and they are not

:31:58. > :32:01.up at all now. The Lithuanians were three quarters of a length down on

:32:02. > :32:04.the British in the heat and ended up beating them so they will have that

:32:05. > :32:07.memory in their banks and the British will have that memory as

:32:08. > :32:10.well and they will make sure nobody would browse through them. We have

:32:11. > :32:14.just gone through the ad hundred metre mark and Great Britain will

:32:15. > :32:20.have been told now, a big move and a big step. Look at the legs going

:32:21. > :32:23.down a bit quicker here. They are pushing on harder and they are being

:32:24. > :32:28.asked to commit to this race before they have got to the second half. It

:32:29. > :32:33.is about being dominant on every single stroke. Turn the screw again

:32:34. > :32:36.on Poland, and again and again. That is what they are doing. So far they

:32:37. > :32:44.are responding to everything they have been asked. Thornley and

:32:45. > :32:49.name-mac for Britain. -- Thornley and name-macro. They have eased out

:32:50. > :32:53.to half a length over Poland. If you had to plan A on your coaching

:32:54. > :32:58.board, this would be it. They have put themselves in the mix at

:32:59. > :33:02.halfway. The polls are being asked questions they were not being asked

:33:03. > :33:07.in the semifinal. The Lithuanians have to go further distance to road

:33:08. > :33:11.down than they did in the heat. They have cleared out everyone else for

:33:12. > :33:18.the bronze medal and these are battling over the medals the moment.

:33:19. > :33:21.Earlier in the season who would've said the British double sculls

:33:22. > :33:28.Thornley and Grainger would fight for a medal here. Now the two

:33:29. > :33:38.scholars of Poland and Great Britain are easing away nicely here and

:33:39. > :33:40.easing and putting on pressure. The Lithuanians were undefeated

:33:41. > :33:45.throughout 2016 and they are currently in the bronze medal

:33:46. > :33:49.position but the all-important overlap here, Poland are overlapping

:33:50. > :33:54.Great Britain significantly and Lithuania are significantly

:33:55. > :33:58.overlapping Poland. They are all moving at the same speed which is no

:33:59. > :34:02.good for Lithuania because they are a length down. The crucial battle is

:34:03. > :34:06.now between Great Britain and Poland. It is oscillating between

:34:07. > :34:11.which boat is moving the first test. At the moment the British have

:34:12. > :34:15.regained the initiative. They are definitely holding, if not moving

:34:16. > :34:21.away slightly from Poland but the polls have their focus down in the

:34:22. > :34:26.boat. They are not glancing at the British. The Brits are definitely

:34:27. > :34:32.moving out. The British are moving to a canvas out here. They committed

:34:33. > :34:38.at 800 and again at 1250 and they are moving very strongly. We are now

:34:39. > :34:41.coming towards the last quarter here in the Olympic final. They are

:34:42. > :34:47.turning this around and they are turning it in style. What a

:34:48. > :34:50.fantastic third 500 here for Thornley and Grainger. They are

:34:51. > :34:55.leading the team from Poland who led them in the semifinal here. This is

:34:56. > :35:00.a sensational performance, but still, job done. The moment is here

:35:01. > :35:05.and now. All the parts -- or the past and its glories and

:35:06. > :35:08.disappointments is irrelevant for Grainger and Thornley. Grainger is

:35:09. > :35:12.the defending Olympic champion and she is backed up by Vicky Thornley

:35:13. > :35:17.in the bow seat who this year is the best sculler that British rowing

:35:18. > :35:23.has. The polls are moving! It is not moving yet. This is the one area

:35:24. > :35:28.they are weaker. I really believe they can hold on but they Poles have

:35:29. > :35:33.their chance to win. They have shown the consistency in the last few

:35:34. > :35:38.years. They could move from nowhere and claimed gold and snatch it away

:35:39. > :35:43.from Katherine and Vicki. If you are just watching mental reserve here,

:35:44. > :35:50.to cruise going at it and exchanging punches here. It is by a foot at the

:35:51. > :35:55.moment. I think the Poles are going to get it. Poland are coming level,

:35:56. > :35:59.they are hanging on for dear life. Thornley and Grainger will need one

:36:00. > :36:03.last push, one last dig deep into the reserve here. They are going to

:36:04. > :36:06.a medal on this, that is assured, but for them it is all about the

:36:07. > :36:17.gold medal as Poland get their bowels ahead. This is it, this is

:36:18. > :36:22.where you have two dig deep. If you don't do it now, you will never have

:36:23. > :36:27.another chance! Heads up and legs down harder and harder again. They

:36:28. > :36:33.are hanging on. Poland are feeling the pain. They will be Olympic

:36:34. > :36:38.champion is here. Here come Poland. Poland get Olympic gold and Great

:36:39. > :36:44.Britain 's Thornley and Grainger get Olympic bronze medal. The head goes

:36:45. > :36:47.down from Katherine Grainger and the air are great pleasures in life and

:36:48. > :36:53.one of the great pleasures is doing what people say you cannot do. This

:36:54. > :36:58.is a silver medal today and it stands testament to the power of

:36:59. > :37:02.self belief and sheer hard work from Grainger and from Thornley from

:37:03. > :37:05.Great Britain here. They have come from nowhere this season and they

:37:06. > :37:13.are going away Olympic silver medallists. That is something to

:37:14. > :37:16.applaud. That was a tremendous race. At the start of the week, six weeks

:37:17. > :37:20.ago when they thought they were revelling in the eight or the

:37:21. > :37:25.double, they would have taken the silver medal, but to be in the gold

:37:26. > :37:30.medal position with less than one minute ago, silver will be hard to

:37:31. > :37:36.take right now. But for a spectator and come -- commentator point of

:37:37. > :37:40.view it was a gutsy race. They put themselves in exactly the right

:37:41. > :37:45.position and ask themselves the very tough questions. But vindicated

:37:46. > :37:49.taking two years off and coming back out of retirement. She was the

:37:50. > :37:53.darling of 2012 on the roving circuit, winning that gold medal at

:37:54. > :37:59.Eton Dorney, but here she is now again and if there is one person who

:38:00. > :38:03.backs themselves 100% it is Katherine Grainger. We salute Vicky

:38:04. > :38:07.Thornley, all the difficulties that she has gone through throughout this

:38:08. > :38:09.year, they got back into this double and they are going away Olympic

:38:10. > :38:23.silver medallists. That was a great points made in the

:38:24. > :38:27.commentary there, one of the great joys in sport and life is proving

:38:28. > :38:30.people wrong and so many people questioned the wisdom of Katherine

:38:31. > :38:34.Grainger coming back to roving after taking two years out that that is an

:38:35. > :38:39.indication on the grandest of scales and it might even have been grander

:38:40. > :38:46.but the margin you can see there is less than a second, but the Polish

:38:47. > :38:49.pair were just too strong in their last 150 metres or so. We will stay

:38:50. > :38:55.on these pictures because Katherine and Vicki will be coming in very

:38:56. > :39:00.shortly. We can see on our camera that they are still right at the

:39:01. > :39:04.furthest point of the course at the moment and all the other boats are

:39:05. > :39:15.heading in. It was quite interesting seeing the reaction of both of the

:39:16. > :39:19.athletes at the final moment because they were bashing the canvassing

:39:20. > :39:22.frustration almost that maybe they thought the gold medal was almost

:39:23. > :39:29.there and suddenly it was snatched away. Gary, this is a very

:39:30. > :39:34.interesting approach that both of them will take here because nobody

:39:35. > :39:38.expected them to do anything, but then suddenly they might have won a

:39:39. > :39:42.gold-medal. What you are seeing their John is the difference of

:39:43. > :39:46.taking two years out from Katherine. She needed to take time out from

:39:47. > :39:51.London but she left it to the last minute to come back in there and we

:39:52. > :39:55.will always say if, but, when, and if she had only come back one year

:39:56. > :39:58.earlier she could have been the Olympic champion today. They had a

:39:59. > :40:01.very torrid season up and down and there would have been nobody outside

:40:02. > :40:06.of that crew that would have backed them for a medal, and ourselves

:40:07. > :40:10.included, so hats off to that. In many ways, for all of her medals and

:40:11. > :40:16.all of her achievements, is this the finest hour of Katherine Grainger to

:40:17. > :40:21.have achieved she began? Absolutely, in my book, without a doubt. It is

:40:22. > :40:25.hard coming back because you set the benchmark so high and the

:40:26. > :40:29.expectation be on the team and the coaches and the public expectation

:40:30. > :40:33.is that she has to win, but for her it was more than that, it was

:40:34. > :40:37.showing that she could be competitive at her age. She lay down

:40:38. > :40:41.a challenge and she met it today. Whatever the headlines will read

:40:42. > :40:46.tomorrow, she is still the darling out there, and we have to say Vicky

:40:47. > :40:57.Thornley as well, full credit to her, given everything that has gone

:40:58. > :40:59.on here. Coming away with a silver medal for Vicky, that is brilliant,

:41:00. > :41:02.but for Katherine, it is indicated coming back. She would have been

:41:03. > :41:05.vindicated just coming forth, but there will always be cocktail talk

:41:06. > :41:10.around the bar in the evenings, if only, if only she had come back a

:41:11. > :41:14.year earlier she could have two in be gold medals but she has got one

:41:15. > :41:22.and one is OK! James, would you go along with that? Sorry, I don't have

:41:23. > :41:27.an earpiece. Gary said this was her finest hour to have achieved this

:41:28. > :41:31.from a start point. From the start of this week it was tremendous but

:41:32. > :41:35.right now their elation will be mixed with a bitter disappointment

:41:36. > :41:39.because within 200 metres the finish line they were winning it but in

:41:40. > :41:43.terms of having your best two performances in the last two races

:41:44. > :41:48.in the year since you come back, that is what a champion is about.

:41:49. > :41:54.They are down on the pontoon at the moment and they will be heading

:41:55. > :41:58.along the steps and there is the phalanx of cameraman who are taking

:41:59. > :42:04.pictures of Katherine and Vicky Thornley. I am sure that a few

:42:05. > :42:08.headlines will be of heartbreak for Grainger but really it should be

:42:09. > :42:12.elation, shouldn't it? Absolutely, they can go back to the Olympic

:42:13. > :42:15.Village and know they gave everything they could. They put

:42:16. > :42:21.themselves before the race and the perfect position to win and to crack

:42:22. > :42:24.people for a medal and the cracks started to appear as people saw the

:42:25. > :42:29.Olubi champion ahead of them but unfortunately the one crew that did

:42:30. > :42:33.not crack was the Poles. A few weeks ago I thought they would never speak

:42:34. > :42:39.to each other again but now they look quite happy. Vicky is walking

:42:40. > :42:45.towards us at the moment and if they come straight to us. Listen, many,

:42:46. > :42:48.many, many congratulations. Yes, it is one of those races that at the

:42:49. > :42:52.start of the regatta we would have taken up with both hands because we

:42:53. > :42:55.let most of the way, but there is a bit of a tinge of what might have

:42:56. > :42:59.been, but considering what we went through the last few years I am so

:43:00. > :43:04.proud of what we have done and it is a medal that not many people have

:43:05. > :43:09.had money on so I am pleased. How proud are you? I am so thankful to

:43:10. > :43:13.Katherine that she did such a good job in that race and it was really

:43:14. > :43:16.quite a big headwind and I am not sure what happened at the end, not

:43:17. > :43:23.sure if it got tight or whatever, I'm a bit lost of words if I'm

:43:24. > :43:27.honest, it was a bit of a whirlwind. 200 metres from the end, did you

:43:28. > :43:30.think you could win it? I don't think you ever think you can win it

:43:31. > :43:34.but we knew we were ahead and it was looking good and we have then came

:43:35. > :43:38.down so quickly and you are drawing on every bit of energy you can find

:43:39. > :43:42.and it wasn't quite enough in the end, but we put so much into making

:43:43. > :43:46.sure we were in that position, I don't think we could have done any

:43:47. > :43:59.more. Vicky, a few weeks ago he went even going to be in the team

:44:00. > :44:01.selected so this is a monumental achievement. Yes, the last few

:44:02. > :44:04.months has been really hard but in the last six weeks we'll be back in

:44:05. > :44:07.the double, every day has been enjoyable but it has been hard and

:44:08. > :44:10.we had to dig deep to find some big changes, and today they paid off. I

:44:11. > :44:15.am still, the last 100 metres or so, I mean, the silver medal is pretty

:44:16. > :44:18.nice. Gary said in the commentary he thought this was your final hour,

:44:19. > :44:22.given where you came from, taking two years out to almost start from

:44:23. > :44:25.scratch again to achieve this, do you think almost it might be? Might

:44:26. > :44:31.this almost in hindsight eclipse London? I don't think anything could

:44:32. > :44:35.eclipse London because of everything that surrounded it but I remember

:44:36. > :44:38.the start of this campaign, thinking that if I could come out with

:44:39. > :44:42.anything, a medal of any kind, it would be my greatest achievement

:44:43. > :44:45.because of where it started from. There were many dark days when I

:44:46. > :44:48.couldn't see how this could happen so to be standing here in the rear

:44:49. > :44:56.sunshine with a medal around our necks as made it all worthwhile.

:44:57. > :45:01.Tokyo? Mum and dad, I promise, I will never put you through that

:45:02. > :45:02.again. Silver medallist, Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley,

:45:03. > :45:10.congratulations. There's going to be a tinge of

:45:11. > :45:15.disappointment no matter the position you start from. I said at

:45:16. > :45:19.the start of the week they would take silver. Having been within a

:45:20. > :45:23.snatch of gold within 30 seconds of the line, you can't escape that

:45:24. > :45:27.disappointment. What they didn't say was how much they put into the first

:45:28. > :45:31.half, I said in commentary, if there was a manager's chalkboard, plan a

:45:32. > :45:36.would have been to be up there at halfway and they did exactly that.

:45:37. > :45:39.At some point you have to pay out of the bank for putting so much into

:45:40. > :45:44.the first half. Credit to them they almost got there and the polls had

:45:45. > :45:52.to find something they didn't in the semi. -- the Polish. When you are

:45:53. > :45:57.neck and neck, head in that situation, and you know it's coming

:45:58. > :46:01.down to millimetres, and if won Olympic gold medals in that kind of

:46:02. > :46:05.scenario, how conscious are you of what the other crew is doing? How

:46:06. > :46:12.much are you focusing on what you do? In my final race at the

:46:13. > :46:16.Olympics, it was neck and neck, photo finish. I had no idea whether

:46:17. > :46:22.we had won or lost. You are panicking. Same analogy. Your kid is

:46:23. > :46:26.trapped under a car and you find something, that's what you need, you

:46:27. > :46:30.forget rowing, it's natural emotion, you panic. That's what we had with

:46:31. > :46:35.200 metres to go, everything let out from you trust your body will get

:46:36. > :46:41.you through, nothing will happen. You can't take any more. Did you

:46:42. > :46:45.glance across? No, what can you do? It's not boxing, you can't let that

:46:46. > :46:49.the opposition, it's irrelevant. When you see people looking around

:46:50. > :46:54.when you commentate, you know they are in trouble. It's not going to

:46:55. > :46:58.slow them down, it will only affect you. Concentrate on what you're

:46:59. > :47:02.doing, feel it. In the final bit you are running on raw emotion. There

:47:03. > :47:08.are no spectators here, very quiet, it would have felt more internal

:47:09. > :47:13.than external will stop I was musing about peripheral vision. You know

:47:14. > :47:18.there is somebody there. If there is somebody not there any more, does it

:47:19. > :47:24.hit you like a smack in the face, do you think, where they've gone?

:47:25. > :47:27.Absolutely, if you are the first person to lose peripheral vision

:47:28. > :47:33.from in the men's eight, for example, they can be a third of a

:47:34. > :47:38.length up, but they've gone. They've gone from peripheral vision. It

:47:39. > :47:44.requires mental strength until you are a length down. A stroke man has

:47:45. > :47:51.to be confident when you can't see anyone else. It's nice having a crew

:47:52. > :47:57.next you going toe for toe. The first medal for Great Britain at the

:47:58. > :48:02.rowing. I'm touching wood, touching everything, it's not going to be the

:48:03. > :48:06.last. We've got Heather Stanning and Helen Glover tomorrow and the men's

:48:07. > :48:11.four, who were in impressive form earlier today. We look forward to

:48:12. > :48:17.their finals tomorrow. One more final today. British involvement.

:48:18. > :48:22.Given the roller-coaster nature of Granger and Thornley, who is to say

:48:23. > :48:27.water and Collins won't come up with the goods here? Let's go to Gary.

:48:28. > :48:33.Walton and Collins in lane number one. There is an outside

:48:34. > :48:40.possibility, let's keep our fingers crossed here, and believe. Great

:48:41. > :48:45.Britain in one. Norway. It's a stacked final. Look at the water,

:48:46. > :48:52.the wind, making the water more difficult. It'll all be about a

:48:53. > :48:56.clean first 100 metres, first 250. The brothers from Croatia. The

:48:57. > :49:09.favourites for this race, the world champions. Lithuania in lane four.

:49:10. > :49:20.Friends in lane number six. It'll be interesting. It's putting as much

:49:21. > :49:29.power and speed, keeping their hands moving cleanly, so we're not getting

:49:30. > :49:36.caught. That is Norway. The two time Olympic champion from Norway.

:49:37. > :49:53.Olympic Games number six for Olaf. Under starter 's orders.

:49:54. > :50:00.Against blustery conditions, difficult water here. They leave the

:50:01. > :50:03.start for the first time. The men's heavyweight double sculls. Looking

:50:04. > :50:08.at Walton and Collins at the top of the picture, looking to see how they

:50:09. > :50:13.got out at the start, the first five strokes. Conservative, but that's

:50:14. > :50:28.OK, get clean, nice and relaxed. Walton and Collins. In lane two.

:50:29. > :50:36.Tufte, champion in the singles skull, at 40 years of age. Croatia,

:50:37. > :50:40.the Sinkovic brothers, they've absolutely dominated this event

:50:41. > :50:49.since they first got into the double skull in 2014. This'll be a hard

:50:50. > :50:53.race for the British boys mentally. They had the race of the season,

:50:54. > :50:59.probably their career, to make the final. The elation that comes with.

:51:00. > :51:02.You have to switch it off and focus on the final because the Sinkovic

:51:03. > :51:07.brothers are the dominant group. Every one of these crews has a

:51:08. > :51:12.chance for the medal. They have to switch back onto it, in an outside

:51:13. > :51:16.lane. Tufte you know will be consistent and tough through the

:51:17. > :51:17.middle of the race. As soon as they are on the back foot against them,

:51:18. > :51:30.they could feel isolated. France in lane number six on your

:51:31. > :51:37.left hand side. Let's see who is making the first line. Croatia over

:51:38. > :51:40.Lithuania. Great Britain in lane number one going through in sixth

:51:41. > :51:46.position, really struggling now with conditions out there in lane number

:51:47. > :51:53.one. In the middle of the lake. I also think they are struggling with

:51:54. > :51:56.the experience it takes to calm down after a semi, reset, and wind

:51:57. > :52:00.yourself up for final. With everybody saying well done, you

:52:01. > :52:07.almost think it's over, it takes an experienced group, to not listen to

:52:08. > :52:10.people. Against the likes of the Sinkovic brothers, in a battle with

:52:11. > :52:16.the Lithuanians, who were quicker than them to halfway in the semis. A

:52:17. > :52:24.battle for gold and silver, everybody else level in a scrap for

:52:25. > :52:32.bronze. The Lithuanians hard at it here. 750. A lot of pressure... We

:52:33. > :52:36.looked at the semifinal, the Croatians were under a significant

:52:37. > :52:43.amount of pressure in the semifinal. Here they are. Putting pressure on

:52:44. > :52:47.them again. The Lithuanians... There has been a late crew change with the

:52:48. > :52:51.singles skull coming into the Lithuanian double. You learn about

:52:52. > :53:01.yourself and how to race in a single. He won't be faced by raising

:53:02. > :53:05.the Sinkovic brothers, the Sinkovic brothers show they are not as

:53:06. > :53:09.dominant as the Kiwi pair, but it'll take a huge performance to get on

:53:10. > :53:16.terms with them, let alone beat them. Beyond the Norwegians to the

:53:17. > :53:23.left is Great Britain. Not looking at all good at the moment for the

:53:24. > :53:29.British crew. They go into the third 500 metres. Lithuania moving quicker

:53:30. > :53:33.than Croatia. This is where it's interesting. Because of the gap

:53:34. > :53:38.between silver and bronze, Lithuania can really risk everything to win

:53:39. > :53:46.and not lose silver because there is that a big gap. If third was on

:53:47. > :53:52.their heels, would they risk it? The Sinkovic brothers, everyone in

:53:53. > :53:57.Croatia think they are going for gold. Anything less is failure, it

:53:58. > :53:59.creates a different kind of pressure, the pressure the

:54:00. > :54:03.Lithuanians will capitalise on. Their boat is moving faster and they

:54:04. > :54:07.looked more relaxed because the longer they stay in this possession

:54:08. > :54:11.the more pressure is on Croatia, and the more tense Croatia right going

:54:12. > :54:17.to get. Lithuania going through the 12.50 mark.

:54:18. > :54:25.Not only leading the Sinkovic brothers, but starting to skull

:54:26. > :54:35.away. Look at the relaxation at this point in the race. His shoulders...

:54:36. > :54:40.Stunning. That is impressive to be leading the double world champions,

:54:41. > :54:44.world record holders, by a third of length at this point in the big

:54:45. > :54:55.final, its amends. This will take a great deal of resolve from Sinkovic

:54:56. > :55:00.to come back. Every stroke they will chip away and the Lithuanians

:55:01. > :55:03.resilience will get built. 1500 metres, it the last quarter, the

:55:04. > :55:09.final of the men's heavyweight double sculls. In lane number one.

:55:10. > :55:13.Just a step too far for Walton and Collins from Great Britain, but

:55:14. > :55:18.outfront Lithuania now starting to dominate again, really thinking

:55:19. > :55:24.about composure. We're into the business end. The Sinkovic brothers

:55:25. > :55:31.that dominated the heavyweight double sculls over the last couple

:55:32. > :55:37.of years. As they come back through? They've come back through! They've

:55:38. > :55:40.only ever lost once, a World Cup regatta. Their heads have come back

:55:41. > :55:45.up again now from the Sinkovic brothers. They've looked left as

:55:46. > :55:50.Griskonis and Ritter, said, you've had your moment under the light,

:55:51. > :55:56.it's now time for us to step on and move out. That is what Sinkovic

:55:57. > :56:02.brothers are doing. Very impressive. It's fine to win... They've been

:56:03. > :56:06.asked questions and they've come back and answered. They are

:56:07. > :56:12.answering it in spades. This is where the Lithuanians will have to

:56:13. > :56:19.hold off Tufte's charge. Tufte reports on his -- is on his sixth

:56:20. > :56:24.Olympic Games. If they get overlap they will start to challenge

:56:25. > :56:30.Lithuania. Outfront they've done it in such style, came under pressure

:56:31. > :56:35.for 100, 200 metres, for a glimpse Griskonis and Ritter from Lithuania

:56:36. > :56:40.led the Olympic champions. But they've turned it around now.

:56:41. > :56:44.Sinkovic brothers are ending this campaign as Olympic champions. Watch

:56:45. > :56:53.the arms go up. They've won here. In style. Bronze medal position for

:56:54. > :56:57.Olaf Tufte at 40 years of age. Olympic Games Beerens number six.

:56:58. > :57:06.You'll get his bronze medal. Great Britain moving up. Johnny Walton and

:57:07. > :57:10.John Collins in fifth position. They moved up, Great Britain, but they

:57:11. > :57:16.were well out of it. It really was a step too far. What's impressive is,

:57:17. > :57:19.you very rarely see the Sinkovic punch the air. They were asked

:57:20. > :57:24.questions that hadn't been expected to be asked in that final. They

:57:25. > :57:33.answered. That is a real sweet way to win the medal rather than gold BA

:57:34. > :57:36.expected. They had to dig deep during that. With the asking tough

:57:37. > :57:45.questions, deserved their silver medal. They won that gold, Lithuania

:57:46. > :57:54.didn't lose it. There it is, the brothers in arms, brothers in

:57:55. > :57:59.victory. Sinkovic brothers. Again, textbook stuff. They've come under

:58:00. > :58:05.pressure. Don't lose your head. Keep the form, keep the length, keep the

:58:06. > :58:12.belief. They have so much experience between them. When it all goes

:58:13. > :58:19.black, they can rely on experience, they can rely on the fact this is a

:58:20. > :58:22.very close team here. Yet again we've seen brothers coming through

:58:23. > :58:27.winning gold medals here at the Olympic Games. It's one thing being

:58:28. > :58:34.world champion, quite another being an Olympic champion.

:58:35. > :58:48.Stunning stuff, stunning stuff. For Walton and Collins, a bit too far.

:58:49. > :58:52.Their semifinal... Their semifinal was great. It's not too far in terms

:58:53. > :58:57.of their speed. The experience will have paid dividends for them. They

:58:58. > :59:02.have such a quick turnaround between the semi on the final, having to

:59:03. > :59:06.come down with everyone saying, you raced so well. They did so well in

:59:07. > :59:12.the semifinals, qualified for the final with a very good row. Come

:59:13. > :59:18.down, and back up again for the final is difficult. That as much as

:59:19. > :59:20.anything else shows they were at the wrong end of the final rather than

:59:21. > :59:28.third or fourth. They'll learn hugely from that. Croatia, Lithuania

:59:29. > :59:30.and Norway gold, silver and bronze. Johnny Walton and John Collins of

:59:31. > :59:40.Great Britain in fifth place. Imagine what their parents must be

:59:41. > :59:46.feeling, and their family, here is an embrace that shows how proud

:59:47. > :59:49.everyone in British rowing is with Vicky Thornley and Katherine

:59:50. > :59:53.Grainger with the silver medal. The man hugging there is Paul Thompson,

:59:54. > :00:02.the head of the lightweights and the women's crew. O to the chase here.

:00:03. > :00:06.-- let us cut to the chase here. A week ago did you know they had any

:00:07. > :00:10.chance? We knew there were going as well as they had ever gone and we

:00:11. > :00:14.knew they had to get it absolutely right and that was an amazing race

:00:15. > :00:17.out there and them at the top of their game. They had the belief and

:00:18. > :00:21.confidence to be able to deliver that bar where they would finish up

:00:22. > :00:25.we were not certain. You had obviously gone through a game plan,

:00:26. > :00:30.which was to go out hard and put a doubt in every other crew 's mind.

:00:31. > :00:36.They executed the game plan perfectly, didn't they? Absolutely,

:00:37. > :00:39.and the strategy was to build confidence in their mind and to

:00:40. > :00:44.really take on that second 500 which they did down to a tee. It is just a

:00:45. > :00:49.pity that the Polish team got over them at the end there. 750 metres

:00:50. > :00:53.from the end, it was nip and tuck, did you just want them to keep

:00:54. > :00:59.going? I was screaming at the screen to keep moving and loosen up. It was

:01:00. > :01:04.an amazing race and what amazing characters. It has not been the

:01:05. > :01:08.easiest of summers for them, five medals for Katherine Grainger and

:01:09. > :01:12.big moments take big personalities and that is what she and Vicky

:01:13. > :01:16.delivered today. We know how dedicated they both are, and

:01:17. > :01:20.determined. I remember going to the announcement of the team and you

:01:21. > :01:23.were there and Vicky and Katherine 's names were not on the team sheet

:01:24. > :01:27.and because at that stage they were not rowing well enough to be

:01:28. > :01:31.automatically included at the side. How have they managed in three

:01:32. > :01:35.months to go from not quite zero to hero, but not far short of that. I

:01:36. > :01:41.recall they were sitting next to each other on that day. They wanted

:01:42. > :01:44.to maximise their medal chances and we gave them the opportunity in the

:01:45. > :01:48.eight and we didn't have time to come back to the double but that

:01:49. > :01:51.morning we had a meeting before we went down and the three of us

:01:52. > :01:57.committed to making the double work and it is great when a comes off.

:01:58. > :02:01.Well, this was the plan, to get them onto a podium, and you manage to

:02:02. > :02:05.achieve it. Garry Herbert said in commentary that he thought this was

:02:06. > :02:09.Katherine Grainger 's finest hour, given the fact she took two years

:02:10. > :02:13.out of the sport and then came back and started from scratch again to be

:02:14. > :02:18.on Olympic podium. Would you go along with that? I always say as

:02:19. > :02:25.long as you have out it takes you to come back and never a truer word

:02:26. > :02:29.spoken. Bang on the two years. Congratulations to Vicky Thornley

:02:30. > :02:32.and Katherine Grainger. We won't be hearing God Save The Queen but they

:02:33. > :02:42.will be on a podium and how many people really expected to see that.

:02:43. > :02:56.This is just the introductions for those presenting the medals.

:02:57. > :03:17.That is the IOC member for Serbia. Lithuania! A great day for

:03:18. > :03:20.Lithuania. On the podium here. They were fifth last year at the World

:03:21. > :03:27.Championships. They moved on well through the year. Look at that. That

:03:28. > :03:32.is what it means, it means a lot to be a bronze medallist at the Olympic

:03:33. > :03:47.Games. The joy flows, and rightly so.

:03:48. > :03:58.Milda Valciukaite and Donata Vistartaite.

:03:59. > :04:09.If ever there was a silver medal presentation to stand and salute to,

:04:10. > :04:13.it is this one. They hold hands. What a team, through this regatta,

:04:14. > :04:17.Vicky Thornley and Katherine Grainger, the most decorated female

:04:18. > :04:20.Olympian of all time. They stared down the valley of despair at some

:04:21. > :04:32.point this year and they have emerged here at the Lagoa Stadium,

:04:33. > :04:35.and Vicky Thornley, we salute you too. A wonderful silver medal and

:04:36. > :04:41.they dared to lead at one point here but all of that is now history. What

:04:42. > :04:47.is different watching this is that they did not lose goals, they won

:04:48. > :04:51.silver. They put themselves in a hurtful position by going out that

:04:52. > :04:54.hard and in all credit to them, in the interview after the race, they

:04:55. > :04:59.didn't say how much they were suffering in the last 500 metres. It

:05:00. > :05:10.was a very special way to race. A stunning moment to see the pair of

:05:11. > :05:14.them hugging there. And Poland, well, they laid it down in the

:05:15. > :05:36.semifinal, they stepped up in the Olympic final.

:05:37. > :05:44.Beyond words. Magdalena Fularczyk and Natalia Madaj from Poland,

:05:45. > :05:50.Olympic champions. One better than last year, and from a timing point

:05:51. > :05:57.of view, that is what you want to do. James, they showed a real

:05:58. > :06:01.reserve there, didn't I, the Polish. Yes, they dominated the British in

:06:02. > :06:08.the semifinal and they had to find themselves toe to toe with them.

:06:09. > :06:13.They knew the chips were coming home and they answered it and they

:06:14. > :06:15.probably did the best 200 metres in their four years and they needed it,

:06:16. > :07:32.so they are deserving champions. Who, but three people, would have

:07:33. > :07:38.thought that the British flag would have flown over the Lagoa Stadium

:07:39. > :07:42.for the presentation of the women's doubles scums -- double sculls. Well

:07:43. > :07:48.done to Paul Thompson, Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley.

:07:49. > :07:54.A silver medal there and that was almost a fairy tale finish. It

:07:55. > :07:58.wasn't to be for the men's double sculls, who came in fifth and John

:07:59. > :08:01.Collins and Jonathan Walton popped up to our position a few moments

:08:02. > :08:03.ago. It is or was hard to answer a

:08:04. > :08:07.question when you've had an experience that you have just had

:08:08. > :08:15.because there was a medal there and then there wasn't, what frame of

:08:16. > :08:17.mind is that put you in? We knew that there were slightly worse

:08:18. > :08:22.conditions than they would be friendly to us and we set out to try

:08:23. > :08:27.and do something different in the heat and I think we did that but I

:08:28. > :08:32.think we did the best we could really. I am quite proud of what we

:08:33. > :08:38.did there. John, you look, and obviously are, exhausted. Yeah, we

:08:39. > :08:43.battled and battled there. At the end of the day we came fifth at the

:08:44. > :08:46.Olympics and we would have liked a medal but it is still a good result,

:08:47. > :08:54.I think, we can both be very proud of what we have done. It's only the

:08:55. > :09:01.start really, this is the first Olympics and we are looking forward

:09:02. > :09:06.to doing more so, yes, a little bit disappointed but I think we can hold

:09:07. > :09:10.our heads up pretty high. Given the fact of how the first race of this

:09:11. > :09:13.regatta went and the fact that you made it to the final and you were

:09:14. > :09:19.competitive for half the race, that is a huge feather in your cup, isn't

:09:20. > :09:22.it? Absolutely. And I think with the nature of that race I think it is

:09:23. > :09:25.fair to say that we got beaten by four crews that were better than us,

:09:26. > :09:39.and I can take that. Had we not done

:09:40. > :09:42.everything that we could have possibly done I would have been very

:09:43. > :09:45.disappointed but don't think that was the case, I think we did

:09:46. > :09:47.everything we could do and we got beaten by better people and hats off

:09:48. > :09:50.to them because they deserved to beat us. Well done. Bad luck, but we

:09:51. > :09:52.will see you in Tokyo. Yes, definitely. Thank you. Those guys

:09:53. > :09:55.are definitely going to Tokyo or at least aspiring to go to Tokyo but

:09:56. > :09:59.Katherine Grainger said unequivocally that she would not be

:10:00. > :10:03.doing another four years but she finished on a massive high gear with

:10:04. > :10:06.a silver medal in the women's double sculls alongside Vicky Thornley and

:10:07. > :10:11.this time tomorrow, at around round up our coverage we will hopefully be

:10:12. > :10:15.talking about more British medals, particularly from Helen Glover and

:10:16. > :10:21.Heather Stanning and the men's four who were superior today in their

:10:22. > :10:28.heat. We will finish now with an interview that we did a few minutes

:10:29. > :10:32.ago. No matter what discipline it might be, if there are brothers

:10:33. > :10:38.involved, and they are Olympic champions together, it makes for a

:10:39. > :10:42.pretty emotional cocktail. Many congratulations, how fantastic

:10:43. > :10:47.to win the Olympic gold, and with your brother. Yes, it is special to

:10:48. > :10:54.win a gold with your brother. Yes. We are together from the beginning

:10:55. > :10:58.of our lives and it is an incredible feeling, especially when we did

:10:59. > :11:05.three years without loss, it is a special feeling. I your family here?

:11:06. > :11:16.My wife is here and our two brothers and our parents can't afford the

:11:17. > :11:20.expensive trip to Brazil so they are watching us and praying, it is

:11:21. > :11:25.beautiful. How pride will your parents be? Incredible proud. You

:11:26. > :11:30.can't wait to speak with them and hear them and share our thoughts and

:11:31. > :11:36.everything. They were of course from the beginning supporting us the most

:11:37. > :11:42.and they are most responsible for that medal. It is not surprising

:11:43. > :11:51.that you cry, it is fantastic. It is beautiful tears! Beautiful tears,

:11:52. > :11:56.indeed. The tears are silver tinged for Katherine Grainger and Vicky

:11:57. > :12:00.Thornley today. A little! On what we have seen, it means that Katherine

:12:01. > :12:10.Grainger is the most decorated Olympic athlete in Olympic history

:12:11. > :12:14.of the female fraternity because that is four medals since Sydney,

:12:15. > :12:23.which means she overtakes Becky Adlington Aggar two gold and two

:12:24. > :12:26.bronze, but she has got five medals. Congratulations to everyone involved

:12:27. > :12:32.and we are hoping for more success tomorrow at the Lagoa Stadium with

:12:33. > :12:35.more golden chances. We were celebrating the judo bronze for

:12:36. > :12:39.Sally Conway last night, a breakthrough on the judo mat for

:12:40. > :12:44.British competitors and the last two are in action today and we will see

:12:45. > :12:49.Ben Thatcher from Wokingham, and he is taking on a Georgian who is one

:12:50. > :12:54.of the rising stars of the sport. He is only 20 years old and he is the

:12:55. > :13:01.two-time world junior champion and making his way into the senior

:13:02. > :13:13.ranks, and I will let the commentary team give us is the tricky

:13:14. > :13:18.pronunciation of this name. Ben Fletcher did brilliantly to qualify

:13:19. > :13:29.for this and I know Bracknell judo club will be watching him and he did

:13:30. > :13:38.great to qualify for this but the other opponent is a revelation. His

:13:39. > :13:45.coach wanted him to concentrate on Twenty20 and he has beaten all the

:13:46. > :13:50.covers, everyone in the category, so he is the man on form. Ben Fletcher

:13:51. > :13:58.is going to make it very difficult for him. He has got great pick-ups

:13:59. > :14:04.has Beka Gviniashvili and Ben Fletcher will know that, he has done

:14:05. > :14:08.his homework backing Beka Gviniashvili up. He is making it

:14:09. > :14:17.very difficult. He can't get his grip, can he? Beka Gviniashvili gets

:14:18. > :14:28.it using two hands to break grip off. Fletcher just has to keep his

:14:29. > :14:36.cool. We have seen big surprises in this Olympic Games. Great champions

:14:37. > :14:39.going out. They are not fighting as well as they should, I think mainly

:14:40. > :14:46.because of the pressures of the Olympic Games and what it means.

:14:47. > :14:52.Gviniashvili is certainly a young champion but he is a world champion

:14:53. > :14:56.and a two-time junior world champion in 2015 and 2013 in the 90 kilograms

:14:57. > :15:00.division so you would think by the time he has finished he will have a

:15:01. > :15:02.cupboard full of medals. Is he good enough to get an Olympic medal? He

:15:03. > :15:13.is being put to the test. He really is making him earn

:15:14. > :15:18.everything. Fletcher doing well. Gviniashvili getting a bit

:15:19. > :15:23.frustrated. That's one of the best things he could possibly do here,

:15:24. > :15:29.Ben Fletcher, be as awkward as he possibly can. Every time he feels

:15:30. > :15:32.danger he's got to attack. Zenit Gviniashvili, sometimes, when he's

:15:33. > :15:37.behind, or when he's in trouble, starts to panic a little bit. But,

:15:38. > :15:44.and I have to say this, he's always dangerous. Huge through, massive

:15:45. > :15:52.thrower. When it happens it happens. He's not finding the balance here,

:15:53. > :15:57.Ben Fletcher doing a great job. Ben Fletcher has to take the fight a

:15:58. > :16:02.little bit too Gviniashvili. He's behind an attack but the scoreboard

:16:03. > :16:09.doesn't say that. Need to get scores on the board. Fletcher comes

:16:10. > :16:14.forwards. A big arm over the back. So typical of the Georgians. They

:16:15. > :16:23.like to get that right arm, left arm, over the back. Directly into

:16:24. > :16:27.the holds down. And Gviniashvili is holding. He'll be squeezing with all

:16:28. > :16:34.his might. Ben Fletcher struggles underneath. That's big arm over the

:16:35. > :16:42.top, you can see the determination on Gviniashvili's face. The seconds

:16:43. > :16:55.ticked. You can see on your scoreboard. As the seconds ticked,

:16:56. > :16:59.it went through. He only needed 15 seconds in that holds down to get

:17:00. > :17:04.the win. Amazing stuff there from Gviniashvili.

:17:05. > :17:12.Yes, he was very highly rated, a really tough fight for Ben but he

:17:13. > :17:17.goes no further. To the last of the seven. Natalie Powell goes in the 78

:17:18. > :17:26.kilo class, the class in which Jimmy Gibbons Karzai I'm -- Gemma Gibbons

:17:27. > :17:30.won silver medal in this class and look to the heavens impacts. She

:17:31. > :17:34.tried to qualify but was beaten by Natalie in the Commonwealth Games

:17:35. > :17:43.final and in subsequent contests thereafter. She got the nod to be

:17:44. > :17:53.here. Natalie is the only one of the British to be in the top eight, she

:17:54. > :18:02.came here as the best medal hope. She's against a representative from

:18:03. > :18:10.Gabon. COMMENTATOR: The only seeded Judoka of Team GB. This woman

:18:11. > :18:17.switched from her residence in Canada to Gabon. Great Britain in

:18:18. > :18:25.white, Gabon in blue. You can see the energy they will bring from the

:18:26. > :18:33.beginning. Natalie Powell had great form. Had to get past Gemma Gibbons

:18:34. > :18:41.for qualification. She came in here seeded. Here she is now in the first

:18:42. > :18:56.round of the Olympic Games. High expectations. Can she get through?

:18:57. > :19:02.Left-handed fighter. She's got good technique from this position. She'll

:19:03. > :19:14.have to get out of there because that left-handed stance where she

:19:15. > :19:26.was her way across... Sometimes to the back, sometimes to the front. A

:19:27. > :19:34.second penalty. She is protecting her lapel to stop Natalie Powell

:19:35. > :19:40.gripping it. This is going to be it. Change of direction. Powell attacks

:19:41. > :19:50.with different technique to take her backwards. She became the first

:19:51. > :19:55.Welsh ethnic to win a Commonwealth Games judo title in 20 14th. The

:19:56. > :20:04.first female Welsh athlete in Olympic judo. She beat Gemma Gibbons

:20:05. > :20:11.in the final of the Commonwealth Games tournament. Was it a tough

:20:12. > :20:19.call for the selectors to choose power ahead of Gibbons? It was a

:20:20. > :20:26.really tough call. It meant Powell had to beat... Beautiful stuff there

:20:27. > :20:33.from Powell. She goes through to the next round. Brilliant stuff. It will

:20:34. > :20:36.have been a tough call for the selectors, not so tough for Natalie

:20:37. > :20:45.Powell, well done, she powered away at the end. After Mazouz's wonderful

:20:46. > :20:50.finish. The mind may be drifting towards what's coming up. She'll

:20:51. > :20:54.enjoy this one. So she should. Some conjecture as to whether she should

:20:55. > :21:00.have been here. Only one athlete per nation. For Team GB, their only

:21:01. > :21:07.seeded Judoka shows why she's here, and how good she is. STUDIO: Great

:21:08. > :21:15.start for Welsh woman Natalie Powell, she is through and will face

:21:16. > :21:21.a French opponent. Gemma Gibbons beat her to secure silver four years

:21:22. > :21:24.ago. If you are getting deja vu, so are we. We'll see that quarterfinal

:21:25. > :21:33.in a while once we've been to the samba drome. It neither me from

:21:34. > :21:37.Kidderminster. She beat an Indonesian and Japanese opponent to

:21:38. > :21:46.get into the last 16 of the women's archery in the singles contest.

:21:47. > :21:51.She's now against one of the home favourites, Mazouz of Brazil. This

:21:52. > :21:58.is head-to-head, the best of five sets, three arrows per arch in each

:21:59. > :22:06.set. Here we go. A place in the quarterfinals up for grabs here. The

:22:07. > :22:58.lower ranked art show will go first. A wait for Folkard. Dos Santos

:22:59. > :23:02.really quick with her release. They're going to have a look at

:23:03. > :23:14.that, see if that has to be upgraded to ten. The pressure on Folkard in

:23:15. > :23:18.this opening set. Nine. So even if it's not ten, dos Santos has an

:23:19. > :23:27.opportunity to win this first set with a ten.

:23:28. > :23:42.It's loose, it's seven. 25 or 26 stop Folkard now has the opportunity

:23:43. > :23:47.to win the first set with ten stop it is a ten. Naomi Folkard comes

:23:48. > :23:57.from behind in the opening set to win it 27-25 or 26, depending on

:23:58. > :24:07.that second arrow for dos Santos. She will need to just have the

:24:08. > :24:11.target judge check. Brazilian fans trying to get behind their arch.

:24:12. > :24:25.Sturridge -- archer. Each team has a

:24:26. > :24:29.representative at the target end of the range along with the target

:24:30. > :24:36.judge. To agree with the target judge's call. Ten required and ten

:24:37. > :24:44.got by Folkard. It's not upgraded, it's nine. Take the first set 27-25.

:24:45. > :25:24.Leaves two set points to zero. A puff of the cheeks for Naomi

:25:25. > :25:30.Folkard. We saw that from her in the first two rounds. Eight, low from

:25:31. > :25:35.dos Santos. Dos Santos has to try and I out these errant arrows. Needs

:25:36. > :25:39.to be consistently in the gold to apply some pressure to Folkard. An

:25:40. > :25:48.opportunity here for the British Art. Nine. She'll have an arrow to

:25:49. > :25:55.win the second set. Whatever dos Santos scores here. But will she

:25:56. > :26:00.need perfection? She will need perfection because dos Santos scores

:26:01. > :26:05.her first ten of the match. Folkard, nine we'll tie it, ten will win it.

:26:06. > :26:09.She required ten to win the first set, she got that. Ten to win the

:26:10. > :26:18.second. She doesn't get it, it's nine. The second is that is tied in

:26:19. > :26:29.27. It'll be three - one set points to Naomi for card of Great Britain.

:26:30. > :26:40.-- Naomi Folkard. Dos Santos has performed here in the Rio Carnival

:26:41. > :26:46.with her samba school. The Arena host of the annual Rio Carnival. A

:26:47. > :26:51.different performance for dos Santos. Day six of this archery

:26:52. > :27:09.competition. Confirmation it is tied in 27. A

:27:10. > :27:22.third set. Dos Santos will continue to shoot first on target one.

:27:23. > :28:05.Oh dear, now, a real chance here for Folkard. A gold score would really

:28:06. > :28:13.put her in control. It's not, it's an eight. She still has the set in

:28:14. > :28:20.her own hands. Dos Santos under some pressure here. Which suggests she

:28:21. > :28:29.requires ten. She gave it a little fist pump as soon as she released.

:28:30. > :28:34.Folkard, as she's had in every set, has a chance to win with the final

:28:35. > :28:41.arrow. She took the opportunity in the set one. She can't take the

:28:42. > :28:58.opportunity in the set three. It is tied in 25. 4-2 set points. Dos

:28:59. > :29:01.Santos stays alive in this one. Folkard has had opportunities to win

:29:02. > :29:28.this match by now. Timely ten from dos Santos.

:29:29. > :29:34.Consistent from Folkard. Just 110 in the match so far for the British

:29:35. > :29:41.archer. Two for dos Santos. Confirmation, 25-25. We move on to

:29:42. > :29:45.set four. Dos Santos must get something from this fourth set

:29:46. > :29:52.otherwise she's out, she continues to shoot first on target number one.

:29:53. > :30:01.She doesn't like that. That's why, it's the three. There have been

:30:02. > :30:07.opportunities for Folkard every set. None bigger than this one here. She

:30:08. > :30:18.sensed down her loosest arrow of the match so far. -- she sends down.

:30:19. > :30:29.Dos Santos needs ten here. An aide. If Naomi Folkard can get a goal

:30:30. > :30:36.score, she will have one foot in the quarterfinals. The wind picks up

:30:37. > :30:42.again. Ten. So, 17 plays 11. Dos Santos can score no more than 21,

:30:43. > :30:48.which will mean a five or more is enough for Naomi Folkard. That is if

:30:49. > :30:51.this is a ten. It is not, it is nine, so the target gets even bigger

:30:52. > :31:01.for Naomi Folkard and she requires just four. She is smiling, she knows

:31:02. > :31:07.she is through to the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games for the very

:31:08. > :31:13.first time. Patrick Huston, the male representative for Great Britain is

:31:14. > :31:17.the first to stand and applaud. Naomi Folkard, at the fourth

:31:18. > :31:22.attempt, is through to the quarterfinals at the Olympic Games.

:31:23. > :31:28.She has taken the fourth set 25-20 to win the match six set points to

:31:29. > :31:30.two. A brilliant effort from Naomi

:31:31. > :31:34.Folkard in her fourth Games and the first time into the quarterfinal

:31:35. > :31:38.where she will play the number two seed from South Korea who already

:31:39. > :31:42.has a gold medal in her back pocket after winning the team event. The

:31:43. > :31:48.South Koreans are so strong in this event. That contest will be at

:31:49. > :31:54.7:40pm this evening. I bring you news from the golf course and for

:31:55. > :31:58.the first time in 112 years I can bring you news from an Olympic golf

:31:59. > :32:05.course and it is good news for Justin Rose. He is one of two major

:32:06. > :32:11.champions in the men's team. Katrina Matthew in the women's is a major

:32:12. > :32:17.champion as well. In she goes! That was the par-3/4. How is that for a

:32:18. > :32:24.start for Justin, playing in the penultimate pairing in the 60

:32:25. > :32:33.Manfield. That is a great start. He is still very early in his round.

:32:34. > :32:38.Marcus Fraser of Australia is in the lead at the moment at six under par,

:32:39. > :32:42.in the absence of some of the great players from Australia such as Jason

:32:43. > :32:47.Day and Adam Scott who have decided not to come. Marcus Fraser has the

:32:48. > :32:53.bit between his teeth. Danny Willett is at two under and Sergio Garcia of

:32:54. > :32:56.Spain is one under and Stenson from Sweden is level and Padraig

:32:57. > :33:03.Harrington is one under 317. That is how it looks. Where are we going

:33:04. > :33:08.now? Let us go back to the judo. We saw Natalie Powell getting through

:33:09. > :33:20.and I promised you quite a fight against the Frenchwoman so let us

:33:21. > :33:24.see how she gets on now. Natalie Powell is pumped. She is ready to

:33:25. > :33:30.go. She was picked in this team ahead of the London silver medallist

:33:31. > :33:34.Gemma Gibbons. She wants to show everyone why that is the case. Great

:33:35. > :33:40.Britain are in blue and France are in white.

:33:41. > :33:44.Yes, this is an interesting one because it was Gemma Gibbons who

:33:45. > :33:49.beat Tcheumeo in the semifinal of that and now she will have something

:33:50. > :33:56.to say and want to prove something here. Gemma Gibbons threw her in the

:33:57. > :34:02.latter part of the contest to go through to that final. Tcheumeo has

:34:03. > :34:10.brilliance, but she can come unstuck if it doesn't go away. Natalie

:34:11. > :34:14.Powell got a taker. She put her under pressure. She will get

:34:15. > :34:20.penalised for that. Dropping on her hands and knees, that was so

:34:21. > :34:27.blatant. She just needs to keep strong stance. She is left-handed

:34:28. > :34:33.and she can cause Tcheumeo all sorts of problems here, throwing her over

:34:34. > :34:39.and trying to get those hips across. She will have to be first on. At the

:34:40. > :34:48.moment it is Tcheumeo. Tcheumeo again almost scores. She is obsessed

:34:49. > :34:53.with the Olympics and she is the first Welsh lady to compete in the

:34:54. > :34:57.judo here. She has racked up a sports Welsh records the her

:34:58. > :35:05.achievements to date, including a Commonwealth Games title and up

:35:06. > :35:07.against the already Olympic bronze medallist back in London when

:35:08. > :35:18.Natalie Powell was watching very closely. Some things fallen on the

:35:19. > :35:22.floor and it goes back in the hair of the French lady. She was a junior

:35:23. > :35:26.coming through when I was in charge of the Welsh team so I did a lot of

:35:27. > :35:33.work with Natalie when she was younger but she is now working very

:35:34. > :35:38.closely with Darren Warner who was one of my ex-students and look at

:35:39. > :35:47.what has happened to her, it is absolutely amazing. She is doing

:35:48. > :35:49.incredible things for Great Britain. Now Tcheumeo coming on to her and

:35:50. > :36:01.putting her under pressure with the foot sweeps. Natalie Powell will

:36:02. > :36:06.have to start to be first in. Tcheumeo started a little bit slowly

:36:07. > :36:14.in the first round. Powell comes forward, she means business.

:36:15. > :36:18.Throwing the bomb, that left handover. Tcheumeo knows that she

:36:19. > :36:28.has tried to pin it. She will try to catch on the move. Tcheumeo almost

:36:29. > :36:31.gets caught. Now what will happen. She goes into the attack on the

:36:32. > :36:36.grounds needs to get that led out. Not renowned for her handwork,

:36:37. > :36:46.Tcheumeo. She doesn't really want to know damn. She is not confident and

:36:47. > :36:50.she not comfortable. Up she comes, Natalie Powell 's defensive move was

:36:51. > :36:55.good but she left herself vulnerable. Tcheumeo was unable to

:36:56. > :36:59.capitalise. The coach has plenty to say. She has hurt herself. There is

:37:00. > :37:02.blood coming from her mouth. I thought she was doubled over with

:37:03. > :37:07.some kind of soft tissue injury but she has had some contact to the face

:37:08. > :37:12.and some blood now from the mouth so she must leave and get all the way

:37:13. > :37:20.off because the doctor is not allowed onto the mat. The doctor

:37:21. > :37:25.will hopefully patch things up. Let's see how this unfolds because I

:37:26. > :37:29.think what were happen now is that Audrey Tcheumeo will feel that she

:37:30. > :37:33.has to open up now and it will be interesting because she won't like

:37:34. > :37:39.fighting with that up and she will know that with that on, well, with

:37:40. > :37:44.the Ofcom and more blood, she has a chance of this contest going to

:37:45. > :37:50.Powell so she will have to be very careful what she does. You can't go

:37:51. > :37:54.quick enough with the new look French lady, Audrey Tcheumeo, the

:37:55. > :37:57.number two in the world against Natalie Powell. A place in the

:37:58. > :38:05.Olympic semifinal is at stake for these two. She keeps running away,

:38:06. > :38:08.the same technique there. That legs started to come across Paolo she is

:38:09. > :38:13.the one that is attacking. Powell hasn't attacked much of the moment.

:38:14. > :38:23.She has got to try and beat her to the grips. It is definitely Tcheumeo

:38:24. > :38:27.that is winning the grip fight. It is Natalie Powell who is trying to

:38:28. > :38:33.come across. The same technique that she scored in the first round but it

:38:34. > :38:39.is not quite happening. Tcheumeo comes forwards. Just over one

:38:40. > :38:42.minutes ago and if she can get through this minute that means she

:38:43. > :38:46.can get somebody to have a look at it and to dress it up properly, that

:38:47. > :38:55.injury, whatever has happened. Something to do a mouth. She can

:38:56. > :39:00.come back find that she just needs to get back through. That is her

:39:01. > :39:19.task at hand. She has got hold of Natalie Powell. No scores just a

:39:20. > :39:24.pseudo- penalty there. The minute is coming for the French lady and is

:39:25. > :39:39.Natalie Powell of Great Britain. It is 2-2. Again she is dominating the

:39:40. > :39:46.Brit, Tcheumeo. She is getting a big left handover, around the back or

:39:47. > :39:49.over the top. Tcheumeo is doing everything right from a tactical

:39:50. > :39:54.point of view and doing it really right. We have seen her fall apart

:39:55. > :39:58.tactically on occasions, but not this time. She is doing what she

:39:59. > :40:03.should be doing, and she is attacking at the right time and she

:40:04. > :40:12.is not stepping out of the area. She has been bang on the area. She has

:40:13. > :40:16.made juvenile mistakes because of her lack of experience and the fact

:40:17. > :40:19.that she started judo late but there is no excuse for stepping outside

:40:20. > :40:26.the area. But she is doing well here. Ten seconds to go. Ten

:40:27. > :40:30.seconds. Natalie Powell comes forward and Tcheumeo just offends.

:40:31. > :40:36.One quick look at the clock here and it is going to be all over. Tcheumeo

:40:37. > :40:41.just needs to stand her ground now and that was a very good tactical

:40:42. > :40:46.win for her. She is going to go through to the semifinal. Natalie

:40:47. > :40:54.Powell doesn't get thrown, it is just two penalties. Tcheumeo doesn't

:40:55. > :40:58.like that round. It hurt. Obviously from a psychological point of view I

:40:59. > :41:02.thought it might make a difference but it hasn't done, she's did well

:41:03. > :41:05.and stood her ground and Natalie Powell was still coming forwards but

:41:06. > :41:09.Natalie Powell have to go down and fight in the final rapid charge

:41:10. > :41:18.match to see if she will be fighting for bronze. A very dramatic looking

:41:19. > :41:23.bandage in the end and Natalie will now have to go into the repechage if

:41:24. > :41:29.she is to have a chance of the bronze medal. I am sure that Natalie

:41:30. > :41:36.will feel disappointed but she still has a chance for a medal.

:41:37. > :41:39.We will now talk dressage. In the equestrian centre, I am hoping it is

:41:40. > :41:46.a lot quieter there than it has been in the last couple of days. Yes,

:41:47. > :41:52.T-shirts back on and some lotion back on the so today has been a

:41:53. > :41:56.fantastic day so far. Tell us about the Great Britain dressage team.

:41:57. > :42:02.Charlotte Dujardin is the defending individual champion and Great

:42:03. > :42:09.Britain are in third place overnight, and how has that been

:42:10. > :42:14.received by the team? The team started the day really buoyant

:42:15. > :42:17.because it was the first Olympic Games for Spencer Wilton and Fiona

:42:18. > :42:21.Bigwood and there will be a big cheer in just a moment because the

:42:22. > :42:26.world number one from Germany is coming into the arena. But today

:42:27. > :42:31.Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin are flying the British flag and they

:42:32. > :42:36.go later today. Carl Hester has been in the arena already. Can't 's

:42:37. > :42:41.courses the biggest dressage horse here but in his own words he has the

:42:42. > :42:46.heart of a mouse. We know how spooky he is because last year in the

:42:47. > :42:48.European Championships away to drop sunglasses on the horse reared up

:42:49. > :42:51.and got such a fight -- fried it fell over and squashed Carl and we

:42:52. > :42:57.had a real incident in the arena today when the wind has been

:42:58. > :43:01.swirling and flower plots were blowing and you could see that nip

:43:02. > :43:08.Tuck, or Barney, as his stable name is, he got such fried. Carl composed

:43:09. > :43:11.him I got back into a lovely rhythm which he managed to do, but the

:43:12. > :43:18.scores picked up the card was gutted after that. How debilitating will

:43:19. > :43:21.that be in terms of the overall score? Is an escape Olympic Games

:43:22. > :43:25.and he has seen it all and done it all but was he upset with what had

:43:26. > :43:29.happened this morning? Yes, when you are involved with horses you know

:43:30. > :43:35.there is always the possibility of that. It is his fifth Olympic Games

:43:36. > :43:40.and he is still a higher score than the Spencer Wilton so his score will

:43:41. > :43:44.count in the Grand Prix tomorrow. We are expecting a really good score

:43:45. > :43:51.from Charlotte Dujardin but this is a horse that Carl decided he wanted

:43:52. > :43:58.to sell quite a long time ago and he put it on a trailer and then he

:43:59. > :44:03.realised he had sold the wrong horse. The fact he has managed to

:44:04. > :44:07.get this horse to the Olympic Games is a testament to his great work. He

:44:08. > :44:13.is very close to the horse but to get it here is a big call already.

:44:14. > :44:17.We will hope that Nip Tuck calms down a little bit. We will look

:44:18. > :44:21.forward to seeing Charlotte Dujardin a little bit later in the evening.

:44:22. > :44:24.We will bring you news of that. Today is bringing back strong

:44:25. > :44:28.memories for me and everyone else in the morning and afternoon team

:44:29. > :44:32.because it was on this day 64-macro years ago that Gemma Gibbons won a

:44:33. > :44:37.silver and then Peter Wilson one A trap double gold and immediately

:44:38. > :44:41.after that, by the best of the lot, arguably, the Gold and the silver at

:44:42. > :44:49.the Lee Valley White Water Centre knowing, what a day that was. The

:44:50. > :44:53.atmosphere at Lea Valley is absolutely electric. No medals so

:44:54. > :44:59.far for Great Britain here on this wonderful course, but who knows what

:45:00. > :45:03.can happen this afternoon. It is Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott who get

:45:04. > :45:08.off under way. They were always going to challenge, but it could be

:45:09. > :45:15.a medal run for Great Britain. Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott are

:45:16. > :45:20.through the finish line. Here we go. This could be real British history

:45:21. > :45:24.here. David Florence and Richard Hounslow. They have certainly lost a

:45:25. > :45:28.little bit of time there. They have two keep it together. This would be

:45:29. > :45:33.an incredible performance, they have shown immense promise all year.

:45:34. > :45:38.Everybody in the Stadium is cheering for David Florence and Richard

:45:39. > :45:40.Hounslow. This could be gold and silver for Great Britain! Oh, my

:45:41. > :45:52.goodness. They have got silver medal! You don't just get one, we

:45:53. > :45:53.get two medals. A gold and silver for our latest Olympic champions,

:45:54. > :46:03.Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott. And getting goose bumps seeing it

:46:04. > :46:09.again, I hope you are too, fantastic afternoon. The irrepressible FTN

:46:10. > :46:21.stopped but injury prevented that. Tim Bailey has now retired. --

:46:22. > :46:25.Etienne Stott. Matthew Pinsent is that the canoe slalom, I guess the

:46:26. > :46:33.mood has been lightened considerably after Joe Clarke's brilliant gold

:46:34. > :46:37.last night. Absolutely right, the GB canoeing setup deserve plaudits for

:46:38. > :46:40.the achievement of Joe Clarke yesterday, the youngest member of

:46:41. > :46:50.the condemning fraternity here in Rio. To come away with gold has

:46:51. > :47:02.given everyone hope. We're hoping for more. Fiona Pennie will be going

:47:03. > :47:08.in the semifinals. In what respect is the experience of the British

:47:09. > :47:12.pair going to be a key factor here? They are hugely experienced. If this

:47:13. > :47:15.sport needs anything, its calmness under pressure. We saw that from Joe

:47:16. > :47:20.Clarke. Because you sit at the top of the run and have to compress

:47:21. > :47:24.years and years of training into the next 80-90 seconds. It is an

:47:25. > :47:28.exacting course, not the most powerful white-water course we've

:47:29. > :47:38.ever seen. Lee Valley was more volume of water, more power, bigger

:47:39. > :47:42.drops. Here more technical. -- Lea Valley. Experience and technique is

:47:43. > :47:45.going to be vital for Hounslow and Florence this afternoon. Very much

:47:46. > :47:51.looking forward to it. It's just one run to book your passage to the

:47:52. > :47:55.final. Rowing hat on, please. Katherine Grainger's fifth medal has

:47:56. > :47:59.come in five consecutive games. How would you rate, how would you

:48:00. > :48:04.measure that achievement, particularly after the two years

:48:05. > :48:08.she's taken out? Miraculous, frankly, not only the two years she

:48:09. > :48:12.had away from the sport, also the season Thornley and Granger had was

:48:13. > :48:16.chaotic at times. They almost walked away from the partnership. They try

:48:17. > :48:22.to get into the women's eight at one point. -- Thornley and Grainger. To

:48:23. > :48:28.come back on the wing and a prayer and win a medal of any colour...

:48:29. > :48:32.That silver medal was fantastic. Wasn't a huge amount of attention on

:48:33. > :48:36.rowing at the media centre, I was jumping up and down and people were

:48:37. > :48:40.looking at me, saying, are you Polish? I was saying, no, I was

:48:41. > :48:45.cheering for the silver medal. You've earned the right to cheer for

:48:46. > :48:49.whatever you like, Matt. Enjoy this, we will, I'm sure. It's one run, but

:48:50. > :48:53.I hope we'll book the place for the British pair in the semifinal. Let's

:48:54. > :49:00.get to this incredible white-water course and hand you over to Patrick

:49:01. > :49:15.Florence and Hounslow have taken silver in London. They are very much

:49:16. > :49:22.looking forward to trying to go one place better. David Florence did

:49:23. > :49:32.manage in the single. Now he has company, it's all about teamwork.

:49:33. > :49:41.COMMENTATOR: A warm welcome to Diadora. It is hotter, it is

:49:42. > :49:47.brighter, but also windier. -- to Deodoro. Let's look at the start

:49:48. > :49:50.list for the men's seed two. The first semifinal to run. Fiona Pennie

:49:51. > :50:03.will be going in the women's later on this afternoon. 11 boats in the

:50:04. > :50:06.C2, 12 going through to the final. A very different psychology. Helen

:50:07. > :50:14.Reeves can tell us about that later. David Florence and Richard Hounslow

:50:15. > :50:20.going off number nine. Then we've got these cousins and 11, one of the

:50:21. > :50:27.class acts. The Czechs have a fabulous record in this. France now

:50:28. > :50:32.topping the Olympic medal table in terms of canoe slalom, they will

:50:33. > :50:35.want to extend their gap head of the Slovakians who are also fantastic.

:50:36. > :50:40.It's going to be a cracking end to this semifinal. Helen, the

:50:41. > :50:45.conditions, anything we ought to take note of? It's the same course

:50:46. > :50:53.as yesterday. The wind conditions, they'll be taking note and seeing

:50:54. > :51:03.what effect it has. They will have to play relatively safe and make

:51:04. > :51:07.sure they take up avoiding any possible penalties. These men will

:51:08. > :51:11.set the target time. In a semifinal where only one team is going to be

:51:12. > :51:15.eliminated, not bad to go early on because the danger of being

:51:16. > :51:19.complacent is so much less. They have two set a decent time. They

:51:20. > :51:23.also know they would do well to complete the course without any

:51:24. > :51:29.penalties at all. 24 seconds into that upstream gaped at seven, two

:51:30. > :51:33.slower than we saw in the men's C1. Getting stuck on the exit of gate

:51:34. > :51:39.seven. You could see the polls moving. The wind having an effect,

:51:40. > :51:43.they really have to make it through to the semifinal. These boats going

:51:44. > :51:46.to be looking to take safe lines, make sure they don't make any

:51:47. > :51:51.unnecessary mistakes that could result in a penalty. Whoever gets

:51:52. > :51:56.that 50 will be out of the finals. These two scraping through the heat,

:51:57. > :52:01.going first, indicating they had the slowest overall time. Ninth in the

:52:02. > :52:05.first heat, ninth in the second. Other pairings improved their

:52:06. > :52:10.position. We come towards 18, the drop off to the right. 19. It'll

:52:11. > :52:13.involve a spin. It's about getting the timing right, reversing one man

:52:14. > :52:17.through the gate is difficult, getting both through is tricky

:52:18. > :52:24.indeed. But the Polish pair have done well at this stage. They are

:52:25. > :52:27.renowned for going out all guns blazing at the top. They looked like

:52:28. > :52:31.they were holding back a little bit, which we'll probably see throughout

:52:32. > :52:36.the semifinal as I mentioned. Waiting for the target at 822. We

:52:37. > :52:50.want to see people really turning on the spot and then accelerating. --

:52:51. > :52:57.for the target at 822. -- gate 22. 110.1 seven. Will that be good

:52:58. > :53:04.enough? No penalties incurred. -- 110.17. That could be the crucial

:53:05. > :53:08.factor. We would expect to see a time a lot faster than that,

:53:09. > :53:13.normally the C2 men go down 10% slower than the kayak men. That

:53:14. > :53:16.winning time of Joe Clarke yesterday was 88.5 three. We are looking for

:53:17. > :53:37.somebody around the late 90s. Tim Baillie will have to wait and

:53:38. > :53:42.see. They were in London. Florence and Hounslow took silver four years

:53:43. > :53:45.ago. The Frenchman missed out on the medals by just a fraction of a

:53:46. > :53:55.second. The second crew down, the Americans. David McEwan and his

:53:56. > :54:03.partner. His late father took the bronze medal in 1972, the first time

:54:04. > :54:07.canoe slalom was involved. Tim were making history because he's the

:54:08. > :54:17.first person to represent the USA at the Olympics in both C1 and C2. It's

:54:18. > :54:21.very useful to know how the water reacts. You see how tight these

:54:22. > :54:32.eddies are. You will want to redeem himself. He had a split in around

:54:33. > :54:38.three gates. -- we'll have a split in three gates. 1.82 outside, not a

:54:39. > :54:41.promising start from the Americans. They just look a little bit

:54:42. > :54:47.tentative. If we've learned one thing from this finals and

:54:48. > :54:54.semifinals course, you need to flow. You need to be relaxed. You need to

:54:55. > :55:04.show with. You can see them rolling off the downstream to update 15. --

:55:05. > :55:08.to gate 15. Very tight the blue bollard on the left-hand side of the

:55:09. > :55:16.screen. They have to get the route from 19 to 20 perfect. This is it.

:55:17. > :55:22.The spin before 19. They leave it a little late but no harm done. A

:55:23. > :55:30.fraction too low. Four strokes to get back up through the gate. It

:55:31. > :55:36.looks as though the time of 110.17 is going to stand from the polls. A

:55:37. > :55:47.tricky cause. Lots of treatments. -- it is going to stand from the Poles.

:55:48. > :55:53.It's the same course design as the C1 men's but it's a very different

:55:54. > :56:01.challenge. C2 producing similar times to the women's K-1, which

:56:02. > :56:09.comes later today. The Poles know they are safely through to the

:56:10. > :56:13.final, that has simple it is, no difficult calculations. Anyone who

:56:14. > :56:18.picks up multiple penalties could be slower than that time. Conditions

:56:19. > :56:21.out there are challenging, as we watch the boats going down the cause

:56:22. > :56:26.to me can see a lot of them moving. They will have to be really hot on

:56:27. > :56:30.spotting the Poles, making sure they are in the middle of them, not

:56:31. > :56:36.cutting the lines too much. Joe Clarke was given instructions to go

:56:37. > :56:42.85% in his semifinal. What will Florence and Hounslow's inflections

:56:43. > :56:44.be? He said, make sure you are inside the gate, don't risk

:56:45. > :56:53.anything. You have to practice the moves. It's the same course as the

:56:54. > :57:01.finals. Just don't take any risks. We've got the Werros coming next,

:57:02. > :57:06.the Skantar coming last. Knowing each other certainly pays off in

:57:07. > :57:12.this game. The start looks OK. Looking for a time of sub 24 going

:57:13. > :57:16.through gate seven. A two second penalty on gate number three, same

:57:17. > :57:27.as the Americans coming down before them. It's much trickier. Good

:57:28. > :57:37.serve. At least two and a half seconds of the Polish time. 1.954

:57:38. > :57:40.Werro and Werro. That penalty proving expensive. Now they have to

:57:41. > :57:44.stay clean all the way down, that goes without saying. But it's easier

:57:45. > :57:53.said than done. Particularly when you know your number one aim is just

:57:54. > :57:58.to stay clean. A stop between 15 and 16. This is a wide angle. Getting it

:57:59. > :58:07.on my sleeve. Typed in. Interesting to see if we see any pants off the

:58:08. > :58:13.wall in these upstream gates. -- any punts off the wall. Still inside the

:58:14. > :58:18.Americans' time, it's all they need to do to qualify for the finals.

:58:19. > :58:25.Wasn't the quickest route across. Sharper through the upstream gate of

:58:26. > :58:32.20 than we saw from Casey Eichfeld and Devin Mcewan of the USA. Watch

:58:33. > :58:37.the time on 22. The first man through in 99. Not quite on that

:58:38. > :58:47.pace. They have four seconds of penalty. A heavy hit at the stop at

:58:48. > :58:52.gate 23. They are after... That'll be good enough, they've managed it.

:58:53. > :58:56.5.23, safely through to the final, lots of work to do. There will be

:58:57. > :59:00.stiff words from the coach. They will need the approach, the

:59:01. > :59:04.psychology, right for their final run. The Americans have made it,

:59:05. > :59:14.they'll be in the top ten, they will compete in an hour for the Olympic

:59:15. > :59:17.gold in the C2 discipline. The two second penalty at 14 being added to

:59:18. > :59:21.the one at gate three while you're up on the cause. It's quite

:59:22. > :59:25.straightforward cause, not a lot of big moves in it. It'll be very

:59:26. > :59:30.interesting progressing to the final to see the Tight Lines they pick. At

:59:31. > :59:33.the moment the racing isn't that tight. They'll have to really find

:59:34. > :59:40.them speed and time and cut those lines further. The American 7-1 the

:59:41. > :59:48.title since 1992, any chance they can do it today? It would be

:59:49. > :00:01.unlikely, but we'll see. From Switzerland to Russia. Kuznetsov and

:00:02. > :00:07.double. They took the ones medal 2008 behind it Czechoslovakia score

:00:08. > :00:13.Slovakia and the Czech Republic. This looks a little bit more dynamic

:00:14. > :00:16.already. -- behind Slovakia and Czech Republic. They looked a little

:00:17. > :00:23.bit more on the button, really. This is where they will come down tight.

:00:24. > :00:25.That's a two second penalty added. Gate seven was just the wind, I

:00:26. > :00:38.think. Seven, eight, nine, ten. A difficult

:00:39. > :00:45.combination, and so much time won and lost in the men's K-1 yesterday.

:00:46. > :00:49.If you've only just tuned in to the crew slalom, quick reminder Great

:00:50. > :00:52.Britain taking the gold with Joe Clarke, a second penalty for the

:00:53. > :01:01.Russians and suddenly they look in trouble having started well. 17 is

:01:02. > :01:07.the next of the upstream gates on river right. 19, another upstream

:01:08. > :01:11.gates, and this is the section that gets your energy and makes the last

:01:12. > :01:17.few gates are very difficult. 1.19 despite the fact they have four

:01:18. > :01:23.penalties, they are moving well and they can stay clean from here,

:01:24. > :01:28.qualification should be a formality. Another two second penalty. It will

:01:29. > :01:37.be tough. Gauge 20 just 67 next second penalty time. -- gauge 20,

:01:38. > :01:42.just six seconds of penalty. I had the previous set of 99 seconds going

:01:43. > :01:58.through gauge 22, so it will be tight. Russia outside despite

:01:59. > :02:03.picking up penalty seconds. They are the fastest crew down, may be said

:02:04. > :02:07.we can make up for the penalties. Some of the penalties were careless,

:02:08. > :02:12.the one we just solve and get six, but they looked sharper and got some

:02:13. > :02:16.of the upstream gates really well. Gate 13 they were tight, which we

:02:17. > :02:22.saw yesterday in the K-1 men. The ones that were picking out the time

:02:23. > :02:26.were nailing the tight upstream gates, 13 and 17. That is where lots

:02:27. > :02:32.of the time will go and they just seem to be sharper. Expects to hear

:02:33. > :02:40.something from the crowd. Not a bad turnout but the stadium probably

:02:41. > :02:49.only 35% capacity. Charles Correa are and Anderson Oliveira. Hoping to

:02:50. > :02:52.take Brazil to the last. Certainly from the heat they looks fantastic,

:02:53. > :02:58.fourth in the second heat, fantastic run from them. No doubt they would

:02:59. > :03:03.have been excited by the performances yesterday. Da Silva

:03:04. > :03:08.made it to the final of the men's K-1, did not medal but certainly did

:03:09. > :03:15.himself proud. Tight at gate three. One of the lightest cruise on the

:03:16. > :03:21.circuit, both of them quite small. The Guy in front only 58 kilos. I

:03:22. > :03:27.guess not quite such an advantage in a big boat like this, the way --

:03:28. > :03:31.that weighs more than the K-1. They love the exit on the wave, can get

:03:32. > :03:36.direct line, the going further back off, but that is to stop them having

:03:37. > :03:43.to turn and they are only pointing the 0.16 down on the split, the

:03:44. > :03:49.keeping momentum, docking of the poll. Nike 's upstream data 13, can

:03:50. > :03:54.they nail 17? This will be the key. They've been friends since they were

:03:55. > :04:01.very young, they teamed up in terms of CO2 back and -- canoe slalom back

:04:02. > :04:06.in 2012, which is very little compared to many other crews in the

:04:07. > :04:10.semifinal but they are showing good communication. Mine is 1.58, the

:04:11. > :04:17.light is green, it is looking good for Brazil just now. The first pair

:04:18. > :04:26.down lead the way, but that leaves could be beaten, the time said, 110,

:04:27. > :04:31.seven -- one .10 point 17. What they don't want is 50. They got another

:04:32. > :04:37.two, for penalty seconds added, 98 through the gate and another

:04:38. > :04:42.penalty, surely. It is all falling apart to make it very tense for the

:04:43. > :04:50.crowd. How frustrating, and such a good run at the top. Now they have

:04:51. > :04:57.to push that time. 1.16 the time thereafter. 6.32 outside. I'm afraid

:04:58. > :05:07.that puts them down in fifth. Having been 1.5 seconds up at gate 19,

:05:08. > :05:11.suddenly the fifth out of five. Remember, all in one crew goes out

:05:12. > :05:16.in the semifinals. They were so good in the top section, nailed gate 13

:05:17. > :05:20.and it started on for in the bottom. Two second penalty picked up here

:05:21. > :05:24.and further down the course they picked up, that was the last of the

:05:25. > :05:28.touches and they picked up one earlier on as well. How frustrating

:05:29. > :05:33.for them, they looked so good but they will take a lot from this. They

:05:34. > :05:42.will take more from the final. It is still a possibility, but the time of

:05:43. > :05:51.one point 16, -- 1:16.49, we expect the faster -- weak specs to see

:05:52. > :05:56.faster later. Slovenia now, the world champions from 2014. The one

:05:57. > :06:02.that title, the European silver medallists from 2016 and they took

:06:03. > :06:04.fourth place in the World Championships. A really good record

:06:05. > :06:09.in the major championships. They have quite distinctive style, look

:06:10. > :06:15.cool in the front. Two second penalty. Lugar has a great reach and

:06:16. > :06:18.gets the bread into positions we don't see from many. They will have

:06:19. > :06:25.to keep this tidy, with ready seen to many penalties. -- we've already

:06:26. > :06:35.seen too many. The wind picking up as they continue their run. It could

:06:36. > :06:38.be a factor law down. Through that, nation of eight, nine, ten. Only one

:06:39. > :06:46.second outside despite picking up a two second penalty. They remain

:06:47. > :06:48.clean from here, I will be surprised more than anything else. There is

:06:49. > :06:53.lots of movement on the polls, they got unlucky with the conditions, but

:06:54. > :06:57.they have so much experience, they will have trained in these

:06:58. > :07:02.conditions many times. Nice through the middle section. Using a water

:07:03. > :07:08.well, tight here, pushing off the wall, now it is about the spin. This

:07:09. > :07:14.is the team that won the pre-Olympic event, still less than one second

:07:15. > :07:18.behind the race leaders, the first crew down still leading the way with

:07:19. > :07:29.a time of 1.10. Look at the time going through gate 22. They need

:07:30. > :07:35.about 96 seconds. Here they go. They are on course to challenge the

:07:36. > :07:42.leaders. It will be tight. 1:10.17. Still the leading time with Russia

:07:43. > :07:48.in second. It doesn't matter where they finished, it is just a question

:07:49. > :07:55.of not being last. Four penalties. About one second outside the Polish

:07:56. > :08:00.time that will do nicely. They remain among the favourites to take

:08:01. > :08:05.medals and possibly the gold medal. How much will they learn from this

:08:06. > :08:09.first run? There is that careless to second penalty at gate three, this

:08:10. > :08:12.causes a real challenge for the C two I think it is because it is

:08:13. > :08:16.extremely tight, not to the upstream gates are closed to the bank and

:08:17. > :08:17.these canoes are significantly longer than the kayaks and the canoe

:08:18. > :08:37.singles. Dramatic pictures. I think the

:08:38. > :08:42.Slovenians can relax, delighted with Peter Carizza's efforts yesterday

:08:43. > :08:48.getting in for the older generation with two youngsters on the podium.

:08:49. > :08:52.Joe Clarke taking the gold, both 23 years old. Now Germany, we go from

:08:53. > :08:57.the 2014 world champions to the current world champions. And John

:08:58. > :09:02.and Benzie and. They are very powerful.

:09:03. > :09:12.The quite an unconventional crew. Normally the Guy in the back does

:09:13. > :09:17.more of the steering and keeps the control of the board but it is the

:09:18. > :09:26.opposite way around in this boat. It is a successful combination. Johan

:09:27. > :09:34.Benzie and raced in the 2008 Olympics in the canoe one category.

:09:35. > :09:42.They made a fantastic combination. Look at the time. 2.26 the first

:09:43. > :09:47.margin. That is fantastic from them. They are not holding back, really

:09:48. > :09:52.digging hard. Both on the left-hand side trying to use the water, bomb

:09:53. > :09:57.little bit on the wave, saw a big turn. Now is that drive across the

:09:58. > :10:07.upstream 17. Can they get in tight? Lower than they would have chosen.

:10:08. > :10:11.61 seconds through 17. Three seconds inside. Two key factors, they are

:10:12. > :10:16.working hard and secondly they stayed clean and in these conditions

:10:17. > :10:22.a lot harder than yesterday. The K-1 semifinal there was only two of the

:10:23. > :10:26.qualifiers picking up penalties. A lovely sofa across the way from 19

:10:27. > :10:32.to 20. Now it is about the quick turn and Spain on 22, can they do

:10:33. > :10:41.it? This is fantastic. At least four seconds ahead of our leaders. The

:10:42. > :10:47.last day of action in the canoe slalom, we have this semifinal and

:10:48. > :10:51.the canoe to -- in the sea to the complete and the women's K-1

:10:52. > :10:56.semifinal. No doubt of the last 50 metres bid and on and Benzie and

:10:57. > :10:59.know they've done enough and probably didn't want face too far

:11:00. > :11:02.ahead of the rest of the field in case thinks them because so far in

:11:03. > :11:07.the finals we've had, the winner of the semifinal not only have they not

:11:08. > :11:10.one, but they've not finish on the podium. Both of them down in fifth

:11:11. > :11:15.and six. It seems to be the way quite often, they don't replicate

:11:16. > :11:20.the same running time and we see, I think we'll see a lot will pick up

:11:21. > :11:24.between the semifinals and finals. That was a good, solid run, they

:11:25. > :11:29.didn't give away too much. Just spotted the spin, they have a lovely

:11:30. > :11:33.sofa across the way from 19 to 20. Joe Clarke in his interview

:11:34. > :11:36.yesterday was asked by journalists where he thought he had won it and

:11:37. > :11:41.he said somewhere between the start and finish. Which was very

:11:42. > :11:47.entertaining but did not tell us what, where do you think it went in?

:11:48. > :11:50.He just took factors all the way down the course, there wasn't one

:11:51. > :11:54.particular point. He was right between the start and finish. 1920?

:11:55. > :12:08.He was good there. Or the two men who came after him a lot at 1920?

:12:09. > :12:15.Casper and sin-bin from the Czech Republic -- Kaspar and Sindler. They

:12:16. > :12:18.have two silvers and two bronzes in the Olympic history. They thought

:12:19. > :12:23.they would get a call yesterday but did not turn out that way. Indicate

:12:24. > :12:34.seven and across this changeable way. Not quite as quick and exit as

:12:35. > :12:40.we sometimes see. I thought they were half a second or so down on the

:12:41. > :12:44.Germans but certainly getting a good route through eight, nine, ten.

:12:45. > :12:51.Watch out for the time. 61 seconds will put them in a decent position.

:12:52. > :12:54.A different style, very smooth and really cutting the line between 15

:12:55. > :13:00.and 16, they find themselves wise tufted duck under the poll. -- so

:13:01. > :13:07.have to duck. Difficult for them as that is a tight Eddie. Have extended

:13:08. > :13:13.their lead to 0.9 of a second. Safe qualifiers just now. That is what it

:13:14. > :13:20.is about. Down at the bottom they are watching the big screen in the

:13:21. > :13:26.finished pool. Heavy hit on the exit as they serve across the gate 21.

:13:27. > :13:32.The quickest out of this bottom section. The last of the upstream

:13:33. > :13:36.once but starting to lose face in March -- faith in my timing but

:13:37. > :13:39.still inside the best time. The two second penalty could prove expensive

:13:40. > :13:44.and they clatter the last date as well. Four penalties seconds added,

:13:45. > :13:48.it does not matter in terms of the qualifying position. It has done

:13:49. > :13:54.them a favour because it put them in just behind and on and Benzie on.

:13:55. > :13:58.They going to second place, four seconds added and still only 0.1

:13:59. > :14:02.six. That was a fabulously quick run and they will hope for more of the

:14:03. > :14:06.same in the final but without the penalties. That is more of a running

:14:07. > :14:12.time we would expect to see. One of four with a four second penalty has

:14:13. > :14:17.put them down into one await, but that was -- 108. They had a

:14:18. > :14:20.different style to what we saw earlier but they are smooth and

:14:21. > :14:25.controlled. We seen that in the canoe singles category, those that

:14:26. > :14:31.were quite long reaching and using the water, just timing the strokes

:14:32. > :14:36.that came out on top. Next ago, Great Britain's David Florence and

:14:37. > :14:40.Richard Hounslow, the best of the crews here that competed in London

:14:41. > :14:48.2012. They, of course, took the silver medal behind Bailey and

:14:49. > :14:53.stopped. Even at that time this was the number one British crew. There

:14:54. > :14:57.was mixed emotions. It is fair to say at the end of that one. It has

:14:58. > :15:02.done them no harm, they won the World Championship since then in

:15:03. > :15:06.2013. David Florence desperate to make up for his disappointment in a

:15:07. > :15:07.sea one event where he finished in tenth, exactly where he was in

:15:08. > :15:17.London. 'S lovely start, this run is very

:15:18. > :15:22.tight around gate three, they executed it nicely. See if they can

:15:23. > :15:31.pick up sometime. Beautifully done. Can they get a good exit? Now, turn

:15:32. > :15:39.around the nose and use the wave. Nicely so far, half a second outside

:15:40. > :15:52.the time of Anton and Benzien. Don't forget about gate 11. He knew that

:15:53. > :15:56.he was in trouble in the C1 and it never came together but this is

:15:57. > :16:01.better from Florence and Hounslow. This is only about the semifinal,

:16:02. > :16:07.it's about getting into the top ten and surely that's going to happen.

:16:08. > :16:14.Two penalty seconds added. The boat speed is good from Florence and

:16:15. > :16:18.Hounslow. Sticky on 19, they need to keep their composure, they have big

:16:19. > :16:25.good around the upstream gates. Smooth is what we need. Now we need

:16:26. > :16:32.the quick spin, the upstream gate. 22. The fastest time is 91, they go

:16:33. > :16:35.through in 93 so unless they do something sensational over the last

:16:36. > :16:41.two gates, they go into the qualifying spot. Unlikely to take

:16:42. > :16:51.the lead away from Anton and Benzien. That will do nicely. 1.67

:16:52. > :16:57.outside the best and that puts them into third position. Perfect. The

:16:58. > :17:01.person qualifying third in both semifinals so far has gone on to

:17:02. > :17:08.take gold. But let's not dwell on that because we have two boats to

:17:09. > :17:18.come down and they are classy, Klauss and Peche from France and

:17:19. > :17:22.then the Skantars from Slovakia. They have been in the background but

:17:23. > :17:28.they are superb and now they have their opportunity to shine. A little

:17:29. > :17:34.bit of relief, perhaps, to the British crew. Most definitely. Mark,

:17:35. > :17:40.their coach, talking to them. Quick analysis after their run. They have

:17:41. > :17:54.just over one hour before they compete in the final. So, Klauss and

:17:55. > :17:57.then ferry, both 28. -- and Peche. They used cross-country skiing to

:17:58. > :18:05.keep up their fitness levels in the winter months. Paddling all the way.

:18:06. > :18:10.Pretty much, not a lot of skiing going on. They've been together for

:18:11. > :18:14.15 years, they have a great connection, they look very smooth,

:18:15. > :18:18.attacking the line and this is what we expect to see from them, and

:18:19. > :18:27.attacking run. Quick turn on gate seven. Lovely line-out, not getting

:18:28. > :18:35.caught up. Very smooth through nine. That's good work on ten. The margin,

:18:36. > :18:43.0.2 eight. No need to get too excited about the red and green

:18:44. > :18:47.lights. They are comfortably in the six second margin of the leader.

:18:48. > :18:53.Will they have that margin when we get to the split? We will see. Some

:18:54. > :18:59.of the crews going around in about 60 seconds. Klauss and Peche, pretty

:19:00. > :19:05.much on it, this is good. Really showing how they work together quite

:19:06. > :19:11.well. Looking very smooth, not giving away very much. Maybe slight

:19:12. > :19:14.timing there, but going over the wave, looking for the clear exit,

:19:15. > :19:20.not taking the hit on the other side. Now working through the

:19:21. > :19:28.lightest part of the Whitewater. It is bubbling and boiling. Certainly

:19:29. > :19:33.potential dangers lurking on 22. This match is the best at the

:19:34. > :19:37.moment, it may be a top three place unless they ease up on the final

:19:38. > :19:43.gate. That was careless. It isn't going to cost them qualifying. It

:19:44. > :19:54.puts them 2.26 behind and that puts them into fifth position, just

:19:55. > :19:58.behind the polls, so it is Anton and Benzien first, Kaspar and Sindler

:19:59. > :20:04.second and Florence and Hounslow have third-place at the moment. Four

:20:05. > :20:09.seconds of penalties, interesting. Very tactical decision towards the

:20:10. > :20:14.end? Not so sure. They picked up a penalty on 22. A lot of penalties

:20:15. > :20:19.out here today. The weather conditions playing quite a big part,

:20:20. > :20:23.it is very windy and they must be as tight as possible to the polls

:20:24. > :20:30.because as we saw yesterday, it is extremely tight. Slovakia, the only

:20:31. > :20:41.crew left. It is the Skantar cousins. Another pair have dominated

:20:42. > :20:49.C2 for a long time but these two then got Olympic selection. Excited

:20:50. > :20:54.for the Skantars, what a tough situation. Having always been behind

:20:55. > :21:05.their compatriots, and then having their own, such a pedigree of

:21:06. > :21:09.panelling in Slovakia. -- paddling. Getting their first Olympic

:21:10. > :21:14.opportunity in 2016. Showing some good form this year, bronze in the

:21:15. > :21:20.World Championships in 2014, gold in the Europeans in 2015. Hoping to add

:21:21. > :21:29.to their collection here today. Time of 24 on gate seven, not the

:21:30. > :21:37.fastest. A little bit sticky by eight. How is the split? Having to

:21:38. > :21:42.work very hard, we sought that is where a lot of time can be eaten up,

:21:43. > :21:47.having to get the boats from left-to-right and then right-to-left

:21:48. > :21:54.again. Another downstream section, can they use the wave nicely? Going

:21:55. > :22:01.through 16. They want to be down at 17 within 65. Well, it's looking a

:22:02. > :22:09.little bit tight. One more penalty will certainly cause a few problems.

:22:10. > :22:18.At the moment, the Brazilians, Oliveira and Correa. If these two

:22:19. > :22:24.make a mistake, but surely they have enough experience to know how to

:22:25. > :22:29.complete this course. They looked solid in heat two to get their place

:22:30. > :22:36.in the semifinals. Taking it slowly through 22. You wonder about the

:22:37. > :22:44.sense of urgency. Eight seconds, they need to be within eight seconds

:22:45. > :22:49.of the leaders. It should be OK. It is, they did OK in the bottom

:22:50. > :22:52.section. But there will have been a funeral is, that shows how

:22:53. > :22:55.experienced they are because we saw the Brazilians, they were great

:22:56. > :23:00.until they got a penalty and then it started to go wrong -- a feud nerves

:23:01. > :23:08.that smacked a few nerves. At times they have made it look

:23:09. > :23:13.easy, working well together, very good connection and you can see that

:23:14. > :23:17.they weren't getting worried, they didn't have to push themselves too

:23:18. > :23:21.hard, they picked up penalties but they knew their class, they knew

:23:22. > :23:31.their strengths, they had to keep it together and they did very well. So

:23:32. > :23:40.the Brazilian pair of Oliveira and a who go out. Anton and Benzien are on

:23:41. > :23:44.top of the leaderboard -- and Correa. Kaspar and Sindler have

:23:45. > :23:49.taken second place and Florence and Hounslow, third in the semifinal. Is

:23:50. > :23:58.it going to hold true for the third day in succession? Can they claim

:23:59. > :24:02.gold and add to what Joe Clarke won yesterday and if we have a close

:24:03. > :24:06.discipline, this is it. Absolutely, I imagine that they will look at the

:24:07. > :24:13.video. A lot of the crews have time to be eaten up. There you can see

:24:14. > :24:19.the leaderboard, the top ten going through to the semifinals which take

:24:20. > :24:22.place in one hour. Before that we have the qualifying semifinal for

:24:23. > :24:29.the women's K1 and Fiona Pennie is going for Great Britain. We will see

:24:30. > :24:34.that, but as Patrick and Helen said, the third to last place in the final

:24:35. > :24:37.has proved very good for Great Britain so far, Joe Clarke going

:24:38. > :24:41.from that position and securing gold.

:24:42. > :24:45.If you don't know, Joe Clarke is the man who started out in the sport

:24:46. > :24:51.after going on a scout trip during his summer holidays. How might you

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:25:33. > :25:38.active. Crossing the line and having my family there, knowing that I had

:25:39. > :25:41.put it all together, it had all gone right. Pure excitement, shock, an

:25:42. > :25:54.amazing feeling. Super Saturday! That

:25:55. > :25:59.once-in-a-lifetime 45 minute spell where Great Britain's golden trio

:26:00. > :26:03.claimed their Olympic titles. It couldn't happen again, yes it could!

:26:04. > :26:10.On Saturday, Rutherford, Farah and Jess are returning to defend the

:26:11. > :26:14.titles they won so brilliantly four years ago. Athletics starting over

:26:15. > :26:19.the next couple of days but before we go back to the canoe slalom, a

:26:20. > :26:23.little bit of table tennis because China have swept all of the medals

:26:24. > :26:27.in terms of the gold, anyway, over the last two Games and their

:26:28. > :26:35.domination continued in the women's singles in the table tennis. They

:26:36. > :26:41.had two competitors so they were guaranteed the gold, but it isn't so

:26:42. > :26:44.clear in the men's. We have the first of them, featuring the world

:26:45. > :26:52.champion, Ma Long, against the top seed, who happens to be from Japan.

:26:53. > :26:57.Stand-by for a match. COMMENTATOR: Number one ranked in the world, Ma

:26:58. > :27:01.Long. The International table tennis Federation star of the year of 2015

:27:02. > :27:03.and he is on the cusp of at least guaranteeing himself a Silver Medal

:27:04. > :27:17.with victory in this match. Strong work from Mizutani, coming

:27:18. > :27:22.out with beforehand and goes long with the open face shot. That's

:27:23. > :27:56.better for Mizutani, more confident. He's got himself another point. This

:27:57. > :28:18.is an encouraging change of direction in the fifth game.

:28:19. > :28:29.Mizutani coming hot and heavy with the forehand smash. 7-7 again. This

:28:30. > :28:49.now could very well be a match that continues.

:28:50. > :28:58.Oh, that's going to be tough. It will change things just as quickly

:28:59. > :29:04.the other way. Just catching the wrong part of the racket. The long

:29:05. > :29:19.clap. A little bit surprised perhaps that

:29:20. > :29:30.the umpire allows that clapping to continue. It seems intentional. Like

:29:31. > :29:34.the slow handclap, bit patronising. Here we are, and allowed to carry

:29:35. > :29:46.on. Seems to have been an issue with the equipment of Mizutani. I think

:29:47. > :29:52.he's happy with it. Making sure that they are where they need to be.

:29:53. > :30:03.Critical juncture in this match. Equipment change.

:30:04. > :30:20.Ma will receive. This needs to be a point, for Mizutani, to keep things

:30:21. > :30:30.going. He's been able to do it. Might be a little surprised. This

:30:31. > :30:36.point into the body and can't extend it long enough and now the crowd is

:30:37. > :31:04.really getting involved and trying to get in behind Mizutani.

:31:05. > :31:22.The contact with the table. 8-8 in the fifth game. It is the lead

:31:23. > :31:36.from Mizutani. He is two points away from where he desperately would love

:31:37. > :31:42.to be. A player continuing in this match in Game six with at least two

:31:43. > :31:52.games in his pocket. He will have to receive serve from Ma.

:31:53. > :32:02.There is the point he needed to find. It is back to level again at

:32:03. > :32:12.nine. Again, just the real balanced position you have to take the shape

:32:13. > :32:16.of the ball and get it down. Long again from the Chinese coach

:32:17. > :32:50.clapping. Mizutani is on the cusp. He is an

:32:51. > :32:58.game point. You have got to win by two in table tennis in this is his

:32:59. > :33:02.opportunity. To take the match deeper than it looked like it would

:33:03. > :33:04.go in the earlier stages. Now, suddenly things could go on a few

:33:05. > :33:28.different ways. Just as quick as you think, there is

:33:29. > :33:33.more table tennis to come. It will be Ma, he believes he wants to

:33:34. > :33:44.shorten it. And limit this match just five games.

:33:45. > :33:51.You got to believe the clapping from the court is encouragement, trying

:33:52. > :33:53.to outlast the fans who are excited about seeing more table tennis

:33:54. > :34:04.between these two world-class athletes. Level at ten.

:34:05. > :34:16.You would not have bet on that. It is now, gink on the advanced from

:34:17. > :34:25.Mizutani. That was a clean miss from Ma and you never know if it is the

:34:26. > :34:29.eye taken off. Regardless, he came up short. This is game point again

:34:30. > :34:55.for Japan. He has done it. We will go to a

:34:56. > :35:02.sixth game. How about this gentleman? You Mizutani was against

:35:03. > :35:09.the ropes and as much as you would compare it to a boxing bout he was

:35:10. > :35:12.getting beaten up badly my Ma Long and he holds him and stays the

:35:13. > :35:19.opportunity to see a few more rounds in this particular fight and this

:35:20. > :35:23.was the final points to give him a chance to get to at least the sixth

:35:24. > :35:29.game and push onto this men's singles semifinal. The last two sets

:35:30. > :35:35.belonging to Mizutani, 11-7 and 12-10. It has been a match of two

:35:36. > :35:41.tails so far. You can see it's after the first game from Mahlondo when he

:35:42. > :35:45.conceded and it was the force that had first game given to Mizutani, he

:35:46. > :35:50.went for the long walk inside the arena as if someone had happened and

:35:51. > :35:54.was potentially about to change. I really think that was more of a

:35:55. > :35:59.story he needed to make of that, at that point he did not need to panic

:36:00. > :36:03.as much, he was in total control and gave up one game and maybe could

:36:04. > :36:09.come back and tidy up in the fifth, that is not to be. Mizutani is so

:36:10. > :36:15.real. These are the points taken when you see them on serve and

:36:16. > :36:26.reception in the fifth game. It was the points one, quite clearly, look

:36:27. > :36:29.at him here now. 5.1 on serve -- five points have been won on serve.

:36:30. > :36:37.The most consecutive points in that match was four. A different rhythm

:36:38. > :36:48.going on here. And it really is now a question over Marvel, is this his

:36:49. > :36:52.match to claim any more. -- Amat long -- Ma Long. Mizutani will

:36:53. > :37:03.serve. Serve. He has obstructed off, just

:37:04. > :37:12.as he would like, you will get the benefit of the service game.

:37:13. > :37:16.Some missed during going on just now from Ma. On the forehand, that is

:37:17. > :37:53.his strength. A battle, and it will be lost when

:37:54. > :38:28.he takes it down the -- and it will belong to Ma.

:38:29. > :38:40.The point of the best of the match without a doubt. What a moment of

:38:41. > :38:44.table tennis. There was five or six times when I thought it was over and

:38:45. > :38:53.both these athletes kept it alive. Special stuff, and it's just shakes

:38:54. > :39:10.wide of the line and Ma has regained some of his mojo.

:39:11. > :39:18.Mizutani, are much more intense look about him now than we had seen in

:39:19. > :39:26.the early stages. There he comes back with one point just as valuable

:39:27. > :39:39.and maybe not as well earned as the one we just saw a moment ago.

:39:40. > :39:52.He has gone strong down the neo- line, -- close line, that has proven

:39:53. > :39:58.effective. That forehand is the real key part of his game and it had

:39:59. > :40:04.faded away a little with a few shots that drop short. He had to go in

:40:05. > :40:22.search to recover it, it looks like he has.

:40:23. > :40:40.He is right down in the crouching position. Making those returns is

:40:41. > :40:47.Mizutani. Almost hiding off the end of the table. He does an incredible

:40:48. > :40:53.job to get those back. He will never be in a position he needs to be from

:40:54. > :40:57.the try and win a point. Just keeping the point I live and

:40:58. > :41:04.focusing on your opponent making a mistake.

:41:05. > :41:29.This is feeling a little different in this sixth game. It feels like it

:41:30. > :41:34.is the mile long show again. Ma Long. This has to be a point

:41:35. > :41:40.realistically if you are Mizutani. He is a front runner, Ma, if you

:41:41. > :41:56.give him too much room he will leave you for just. -- for dust. You've

:41:57. > :41:58.just seen a seventh point for Ma. Mizutani just seems to have lost the

:41:59. > :42:08.edge of his game. You need exhale sometimes, the

:42:09. > :42:28.tension is rife. Short coughing the short, great

:42:29. > :42:32.backhand. He will take it. Is the celebration a little late? The

:42:33. > :42:57.damage has been done. Still four points trailing in this sixth game.

:42:58. > :43:08.That is a point he can ill afford the gift to the opponent. It is

:43:09. > :43:13.ultimately what happened there. Mile long -- Ma within touching distance

:43:14. > :43:19.of the end of this particular game and ultimately the match. Not a lot

:43:20. > :43:27.of time to walk around and think about it.

:43:28. > :43:39.And again, it is just too far away from the table, it will be one point

:43:40. > :43:43.four. Mile long in this six-game has changed this considerably. It looks

:43:44. > :43:50.almost like Mizutani is feeling resigned. He knows that will not get

:43:51. > :44:04.it done. But he has enjoyed strong service.

:44:05. > :44:16.That is another one in. Look at that open area shot. Ma just takes again

:44:17. > :44:21.what is available to him. Too much, the player and the racket all in one

:44:22. > :44:26.area of the backcourt. This now match point.

:44:27. > :44:49.Couldn't keep the pointer live. You can see the nod from his coach. He

:44:50. > :45:00.says, this is yours, take it on your serve. That ball is spinning every

:45:01. > :45:07.way on that table right now. That has worked out for Mizutani. But so

:45:08. > :45:19.difficult to close it out. It's the finishing that's the hardest part of

:45:20. > :45:23.any real challenge. Closing out an opponent who wants a gold medal,

:45:24. > :45:39.leading to a third match point required.

:45:40. > :45:56.Oh, he'll do it. He had to do it in six Games, Ma Long. The world number

:45:57. > :46:01.one. The gold medal hopeful at these 2016 Games, Ma Long, doing exactly

:46:02. > :46:07.what his plan was, coming to the semifinals, taking out in the Dhani

:46:08. > :46:13.and he will be the first man to wait in the final competition -- Jun

:46:14. > :46:20.Mizutani. Handshakes, everyone acknowledging that was a very well

:46:21. > :46:24.fought match, deeper than expected. Ma Long is through to the final

:46:25. > :46:33.which will be at 1:30am your time and he will play the fellow Chinese

:46:34. > :46:37.player, Zhang Jike. Let me give you some news from the tennis because

:46:38. > :46:39.Rafael Nadal, the man who carried brain's flag into the opening

:46:40. > :46:48.ceremony is through to the quarterfinals. 7-6, 6-3 over deal

:46:49. > :46:59.Seaman of France. -- over Gilles Simon. This is a long match point.

:47:00. > :47:03.He worked for it, didn't he? He has a lot of work to do this evening

:47:04. > :47:09.because he has the men's doubles and a mixed doubles at today. Well

:47:10. > :47:13.played, Rafa. Good to see him here because he wasn't able to compete in

:47:14. > :47:21.2012 and he was very upset about it. Andy Murray is on court next,

:47:22. > :47:25.playing Fabio Fognini of Italy, which is on the BBC Sport app and

:47:26. > :47:32.website, along with so many other sports. But life on the ocean wave,

:47:33. > :47:38.it is Shirley McIntosh, our two time gold medallist who is reporting from

:47:39. > :47:43.the water. It looks all right today, a nice bit of breeze for you. Give

:47:44. > :47:50.us an update on what is proving to be a very eventful regatta? It was

:47:51. > :47:59.always going to be eventful, it is a tricky venue. Lots of action today

:48:00. > :48:07.on the ocean. Giles Scott is leading the men's heavyweight, the finn

:48:08. > :48:13.class. It is all good on the Atlantic Ocean. Inside we have the

:48:14. > :48:16.men's and the women's RX, the windsurfing class and we are

:48:17. > :48:21.leading, with Nick Dempsey. He's getting near the end, so he's

:48:22. > :48:24.looking to consolidate on the gold medal. We are about five minutes

:48:25. > :48:37.away from the start, you can see that on the Red Button. We also have

:48:38. > :48:48.the mixed class, brand-new, Nacra 17. Nicola souls is steering and she

:48:49. > :48:57.has a crew. They will swap over. Very young, it is new. They showed

:48:58. > :49:06.such flair and if they have another good day today, they could do some

:49:07. > :49:10.great stuff. It is interesting, the multi-hulls are coming back and the

:49:11. > :49:17.Tornado was an open event, the women could take part but it was so heavy,

:49:18. > :49:22.it wasn't popular, how important is this event and how will it broaden

:49:23. > :49:25.the appeal? You must watch the pictures, it looks really

:49:26. > :49:32.spectacular, it is fast, like a miniature America's Cup. The wind

:49:33. > :49:38.can lift it out of the water and it has been an interesting dynamic, the

:49:39. > :49:42.men and the women, the man is at the helm and the woman is doing the

:49:43. > :49:49.crowing. The most physical job, crowing, they do all the work --

:49:50. > :49:53.crewing. Interesting to see who comes out on top. Not easy,

:49:54. > :49:57.spectacular to watch. Looking forward to it. How many hours are

:49:58. > :50:02.you bobbing around on a daily basis? My cameraman isn't very happy with

:50:03. > :50:10.your bobbing around comment. Sorry, Tim! He's a steady shot. We are out

:50:11. > :50:14.all day on the water and I am very privileged, I'm on the touch line of

:50:15. > :50:18.all the action. And we love speaking to you out there. Thank you, Tim,

:50:19. > :50:23.you're doing a marvellous job! I'll tell you who's doing a marvellous

:50:24. > :50:28.job as well, Fiona Pennie in the singles, into the semifinal and

:50:29. > :50:32.she's trying to attempt to follow her team-mate, Joe Clarke with that

:50:33. > :50:38.gold medal in the men's kayak single last night. She was stunned and very

:50:39. > :50:43.pleased for him and I'm sure she's been thoroughly inspired by his

:50:44. > :50:47.efforts. She is going one run again to try to get into the final which

:50:48. > :50:53.will be staged very shortly. Let's just follow her attempts here. She's

:50:54. > :51:00.an Olympian from Beijing but she didn't make it into 2012 and she has

:51:01. > :51:04.really stored up eight years of frustration for this attempt. She'll

:51:05. > :51:16.be going later. Let's go back to Patrick and Helen now. COMMENTATOR:

:51:17. > :51:21.The first to go, five down already. Whoever is in the lead after this

:51:22. > :51:29.one will safely go through to the finals, with five being knocked out.

:51:30. > :51:33.Natalia Pacierpnik took a pause in 2013 to start a family and then she

:51:34. > :51:39.returned in 2014. As she had time to get in shape for the Olympics? She

:51:40. > :51:43.has been in good form so far, the question is, probably, but she had

:51:44. > :51:48.the time outcome is she in the same frame of mind she was in previous

:51:49. > :51:53.times? Who knows, but she is down on the split. She went flying into gate

:51:54. > :52:03.seven, she didn't seem to be on track but she's working hard now.

:52:04. > :52:11.17, not showing the same class as Chourraut certainly did. There you

:52:12. > :52:16.can see the time of Corinna Kuhnle, it looks like the 52nd penalty has

:52:17. > :52:21.been taken away, so reprieve for the Austrian. Huge news for that team

:52:22. > :52:28.because she is their best chance of taking a medal here in the canoe

:52:29. > :52:34.slalom. Pacierpnik wants to go into second place but I can't see her

:52:35. > :52:40.matching the time of Kuhnle. Pfeiffer is in third, three massive

:52:41. > :52:44.names in women's K1. Jessica Fox of Australia, the daughter of Richard

:52:45. > :52:49.Fox, a former champion of Great Britain, going at the back end of

:52:50. > :52:52.the start sheet. Outside the best and Pacierpnik is going to have a

:52:53. > :53:03.long wait to see if she's done enough. She has gone into fourth

:53:04. > :53:08.place, ahead of Us and Li Lu of China. You have to keep focused

:53:09. > :53:17.rights to the end. We are seeing some quite careless touches, you

:53:18. > :53:21.have two keep the bows down. That's where we saw the penalty occurred on

:53:22. > :53:37.gate 20, just hitting the outside pole.

:53:38. > :53:46.Well, what an interesting situation we have now. Kuhnle is back on top

:53:47. > :53:50.having been last. That is her protest, you are allowed one each

:53:51. > :53:54.during the Games but if it is successful, you hold onto another

:53:55. > :53:59.protest, so if there is a protest in the final she will have another one.

:54:00. > :54:06.It is all good for her. Now dropping into the first sequence of gates, as

:54:07. > :54:13.the Nee of the United States. -- Ashley. Finishing a disappointing

:54:14. > :54:18.43rd in the World Championships. She will be at least 28 places better

:54:19. > :54:24.here and if she has a fast run, and that looks like our she's going,

:54:25. > :54:28.anything around 24 is good. She has the time but two seconds added,

:54:29. > :54:32.which may be crucial at the end of the semifinals. She didn't quite get

:54:33. > :54:42.the run-off on gate eight. She has a two second penalty. Sheila Charb in

:54:43. > :54:51.the heat, really good, very light paddling, using the boat -- she

:54:52. > :54:54.looked sharp. You can see that is where Li Lu was held up but whenever

:54:55. > :55:01.you have to display your strength, that means that some of your energy

:55:02. > :55:08.is sapped. Now look for the split. She has two penalties and she has

:55:09. > :55:13.lost a lot of time. 7.43, so another paddler who has started well, looked

:55:14. > :55:18.confident, but has started to unravel. She needs to hold it, she

:55:19. > :55:25.needs to stay mentally strong as well as physically. Very difficult

:55:26. > :55:30.between 19 and 20, a heavy bit of water. Very laid-back in the

:55:31. > :55:39.upstream. Two second penalty on gate 21, just catching it. She was

:55:40. > :55:42.injured in 2008 so she didn't make it to Beijing and didn't qualify for

:55:43. > :55:47.London, just missed out on qualification. She moved to Hawaii,

:55:48. > :55:51.she gave up the sport but she missed it too much so she got into training

:55:52. > :55:56.for these Games, but is the story going to end here? Outside the best

:55:57. > :56:02.time, she is in seventh place after seven. It doesn't look good for Nee

:56:03. > :56:15.of the United States. Good news for the Americans, there their C2 is

:56:16. > :56:21.safely through. She just caught that pole. See how close these athletes

:56:22. > :56:27.have to get to the polls and when it's windy, as we described it, it

:56:28. > :56:33.is very difficult for them to get the fine line -- poles. You can see

:56:34. > :56:42.the top five, Khunle with that penalty taken away, very impressive.

:56:43. > :56:52.And I dare say that her coach will be celebrating early. Khunle is

:56:53. > :57:00.going through to the final. Marta Kharitonova. From Saint Petersburg

:57:01. > :57:08.in Russia. Another of the paddlers over the age of 30. Well, that's a

:57:09. > :57:12.disappointing gate. It has proven problematic, number three, over the

:57:13. > :57:18.last 20 minutes, what's going on? Absolutely, a lot of penalties. The

:57:19. > :57:23.water is a bit inconsistent and the paddlers are trying to come in

:57:24. > :57:27.tight. Nicely into number seven, has that pulled back any time? That will

:57:28. > :57:34.do nicely. That margin will see her into the top three. Clattering gate

:57:35. > :57:41.12, didn't quite get the push. Another penalty. If she goes into

:57:42. > :57:50.the top six, she is safely through to the final. Kharitonova of Russia.

:57:51. > :57:59.The Russians haven't had a huge amount of success at this venue.

:58:00. > :58:05.Losing more time, 5.16 down. She must really get the drive. Slipping

:58:06. > :58:10.backwards, how many strokes? This isn't fast at all, she'll have to

:58:11. > :58:16.keep up pace over the last bit, try and keep a clean line between 20 and

:58:17. > :58:22.21. The penalty coming up as you can see. That would end the chances of

:58:23. > :58:28.the Russian paddler, down through 22. All hope is not gone because

:58:29. > :58:32.there will be a protest from the Russian team. They'll have a close

:58:33. > :58:37.look. Hopefully we will see it as she completes her run but it does

:58:38. > :58:47.not look good for Kharitonova. Sensational from Khunle but she had

:58:48. > :58:51.a penalty taken away. That would still put her outside the qualifying

:58:52. > :58:57.positions, even if that 50 is taken away. They will have given her the

:58:58. > :59:02.penalty on gate 12, deliberate misplacement, where she hit the pole

:59:03. > :59:13.with her paddle and I don't think she'll be coming back from that one.

:59:14. > :59:23.So, as we look down the list, still waiting for absolute confirmation.

:59:24. > :59:31.When we get to the last five, we'll know. Fiona Pennie is going number

:59:32. > :59:35.13. Kragelj, number nine. We have just over ten minutes to wait before

:59:36. > :59:41.Fiona Pennie of Great Britain tries to repeat the feat of Joe Clarke

:59:42. > :59:49.from yesterday. It is a huge ask, but certainly Fiona Pennie could be

:59:50. > :59:55.up to it. Here we go with Kragelj from Slovenia, one of Six Nations to

:59:56. > :00:05.have muddled so far at the Deodoro. -- medalled. I suspect for the

:00:06. > :00:08.celebration yesterday, the winners spoke to Kragelj. Definitely, they

:00:09. > :00:17.share knowledge -- the winner spoke to. He was fantastic in the team.

:00:18. > :00:23.Yesterday we saw Fiona and David supporting Joe. I'm sure she was

:00:24. > :00:29.here too. That was nasty on the exit of gate seven. A tricky wave, it

:00:30. > :00:33.changes. 0.87 is nothing to worry about, it isn't about getting the

:00:34. > :00:36.green light, it's being within a few seconds of the fastest time so far

:00:37. > :00:41.because that would put her through. She had three brothers, they were

:00:42. > :00:47.all into paddling, so huge advantage in her early years.

:00:48. > :00:56.A trundle between 15 and 16, not the fastest line that is safe at the

:00:57. > :01:03.moment. She has only made two finals in the last 2.5 years, will she turn

:01:04. > :01:06.that around here? 4.01 down the margin, still good enough to put

:01:07. > :01:12.into third and through to the final, you would think. Across the wave,

:01:13. > :01:27.nice spin at gate 19. As a quick exit. Two second penalty on gate 21.

:01:28. > :01:31.Around 22 in 94. That is some six seconds plus outside the best times

:01:32. > :01:38.we've seen so far. She could lose more time in the closing stages.

:01:39. > :01:46.Looks to have fatigue somewhat on the bottom section. The margin is

:01:47. > :01:51.6.83, putting her into third place. And with nine down already, she is

:01:52. > :01:54.safe. I don't think she will have impressed herself much with that

:01:55. > :01:59.performance. No, there is the two second penalty at gate 20, we saw it

:02:00. > :02:04.earlier, she swung across the wave and the nose of the board popped up

:02:05. > :02:13.and just touched the poll. You must keep it in good control.

:02:14. > :02:20.You have to remember these finals are completely clean slate, the

:02:21. > :02:23.athletes will be ranked on their semifinal result, but then it will

:02:24. > :02:33.be a clean run, they will just start again. From Slovenia we go to

:02:34. > :02:38.Slovakia. Jacquard -- dad a cat of. Lives in Bratislava, does lots of

:02:39. > :02:47.paddling. World champion ten years ago. Jana Dukatova. She is now 33

:02:48. > :02:52.and claimed sixth at the Olympics in London. She can allocate one and I

:02:53. > :02:58.see one, probably ready handy in the two as well, she is in the K-1 today

:02:59. > :03:03.because that is the only discipline the women have the Olympics. It will

:03:04. > :03:07.be different in Twenty20. Yes, we can guarantee Jessica Fox will be

:03:08. > :03:16.there I'm sure in both categories. The good over -- Jana Dukatova is

:03:17. > :03:18.famous for her floaty style, she has long leans, she doesn't look like

:03:19. > :03:25.she's working that hard, very deceptive style. 24 through seven,

:03:26. > :03:29.which is a second or so down on the best but it is this crucial

:03:30. > :03:34.sequence, eight, nine, ten, the Tipuric -- determine the split. She

:03:35. > :03:38.just outside, just what you want, looks like a mature performance but

:03:39. > :03:43.we said that many times and then things have started going wrong. She

:03:44. > :03:49.clatters gate 13 as I say that. The left hand picking up a two second

:03:50. > :03:52.penalty. She concentrated on the nose of the board as she came in and

:03:53. > :04:01.wasn't aware where the other perks were -- areas where perhaps. Gate 17

:04:02. > :04:07.as well, she's really looking for placement, quite down the split.

:04:08. > :04:13.4.93, just needs to keep this tidy. Good spin on 19 but you need to put

:04:14. > :04:18.across the wave. Nice around inside ball at 20, so many have slipped out

:04:19. > :04:22.wide. You could call this economic, it seems to save something for the

:04:23. > :04:29.final. She must get there first, gate 22 might say how good it is. 92

:04:30. > :04:35.is the fastest round in well under 90 seconds. She will not challenge

:04:36. > :04:38.the leaders, but it doesn't matter if she goes into the top five she's

:04:39. > :04:45.safely through to the final and that's all she can ask. 5.05 is the

:04:46. > :04:50.margin property her into third position. Perfect.

:04:51. > :04:56.Will she paddle the same way in the final? Yes, that is her style. She

:04:57. > :05:01.never looks like she's trying hard. I'm sure there was time in that.

:05:02. > :05:05.Gate 13, she just caught it with her top blade, she was really looking

:05:06. > :05:09.for the line on the way and make sure the bow of her bold duct

:05:10. > :05:14.underneath but was not as aware where her blade was. She has a

:05:15. > :05:19.floaty style and looks for placement of late, she can put time in that.

:05:20. > :05:21.If you think you will expect to see her ramp up the speed it isn't the

:05:22. > :05:36.way she paddles. Another champion. The current world

:05:37. > :05:41.champion. Katerina Kudejova from the Czech Republic, she took Fox's K-1

:05:42. > :05:52.title away last year. Fox won the K-1 and see one in 2014. She was 2.5

:05:53. > :05:57.seconds clear of everyone in the World Championships last year. She

:05:58. > :06:01.would love to produce a stunning run but she wants to produce it in the

:06:02. > :06:06.final, not the semifinal. Just needs to be safe, if she can stay in seven

:06:07. > :06:10.seconds of the current leader, then that would be good enough for

:06:11. > :06:14.qualifying. Watch the first split just after Gates ten. An indication

:06:15. > :06:21.is always gate seven about 24 seconds. She is thereabouts. Just

:06:22. > :06:24.getting into the course, little bit shaky at the start, not quite the

:06:25. > :06:30.style we are used to seeing, the Bowers sweep through nine and ten,

:06:31. > :06:34.on the split by a fraction. Needs to keep the lines tracking the boat

:06:35. > :06:38.nice, can she get it upstream gate on 13? Very nice, quickly into the

:06:39. > :06:45.flow, so many get held on the exit on 13. This could be good at 17, the

:06:46. > :06:50.next of the upstream is. 19 is upstream as well. Just over the

:06:51. > :06:53.minutes to 17 will do nicely. Might even beat it, couple of strokes to

:06:54. > :06:59.get back up through the gates, but still around 60 or 61 seconds.

:07:00. > :07:05.Slightly down the split now. Maybe that happened at 17, quick exit but

:07:06. > :07:09.not quick in those looking for the served as they around inside, not

:07:10. > :07:14.bad. One stroke up and out onto the way. Trying to get along well

:07:15. > :07:21.crossed so she isn't in the meet of the stopper, ducks the head to get

:07:22. > :07:26.under gate 21. And up through 22, 89 seconds on the clock. A little

:07:27. > :07:32.slower than we saw from Corinna Kuhnle but this again, a really

:07:33. > :07:39.solid qualifying round, something save for the final, I feel. One of

:07:40. > :07:43.3.70 eight. 2.24 of the best, she goes into third position. Just what

:07:44. > :08:00.she would have wanted. Pfeiffer needs to beta-1 more

:08:01. > :08:05.athlete before she can be sure going through. Luuka Jones, the owner

:08:06. > :08:12.Pennie, Jess Fox, Stefanie Horn of the last four the goal in the

:08:13. > :08:17.women's semifinal. Luuka Jones perhaps the most outstanding

:08:18. > :08:22.performance of the heat? She was fantastic, very consistent. Came out

:08:23. > :08:26.in the first run and really nailed it, probably the thing is we know

:08:27. > :08:30.she is a good paddler but we weren't in -- expecting to to have the speed

:08:31. > :08:35.she had and in the second run she came out and had a two second

:08:36. > :08:39.penalty but still looks good. When you consider the Rivers New Zealand

:08:40. > :08:45.have, maybe surprisingly not had more top-level paddlers over the

:08:46. > :08:49.years. The McLaren falls I know she's been up there, Luuka Jones

:08:50. > :08:55.will not think of that just out, she is thinking purely of this rundown

:08:56. > :08:59.Deodoro, 242 metres to negotiate. 24 gates, six of them upstream and can

:09:00. > :09:03.she repeat what she did in the heats? It was very impressive,

:09:04. > :09:08.Campbell Walsh, her coach, from Bridge of Allan in Scotland. Former

:09:09. > :09:14.medallist himself, took the silver medal in Athens, he will certainly

:09:15. > :09:17.have inflicted his style on Luuka Jones. She is looking sharp around

:09:18. > :09:21.the gates just now, nice and tight at gate three, will not give away

:09:22. > :09:26.anything come needs to stay on top of the water and not take any heavy

:09:27. > :09:29.hits. But bad at seven, will she get the smooth exit? Stick it on the

:09:30. > :09:35.nose, needs to get the bow around. Well recovered full stop it was a

:09:36. > :09:39.bit tight. She's up on the split 0.6 zero. Looking good, needs to stay on

:09:40. > :09:43.top of the water and pick the lines into the streams. Nicely into 13,

:09:44. > :09:48.get a quick spin but held a little coming out. One or two, Lu Li

:09:49. > :09:54.suffered that as well. Maybe cannot get a slightly lower line-out. The

:09:55. > :10:01.extension not be a problem. 17, time to be gained and lost on the entry.

:10:02. > :10:06.It looked like hard work but she did it pretty well. Just has to pick

:10:07. > :10:11.that spot on the spin, she is down one seconds but that is OK, just

:10:12. > :10:14.needs to keep in the flow and get back across the white water. We want

:10:15. > :10:19.them around the inside ball, nicely done by Luuka Jones. That was good,

:10:20. > :10:24.the entry into 19 is difficult watch the line, produced them? There is

:10:25. > :10:30.the first touch, keep your out for the penalty, it is to just now.

:10:31. > :10:36.Luuka Jones survives that scare through 22 and instead of being sub

:10:37. > :10:40.90 she is 93, 90 four. Now needs to be within seven seconds of the

:10:41. > :10:43.leader. I think it is still good news for Luuka Jones but she has

:10:44. > :10:49.made it much tighter and tense than it needed to be. It looked so good

:10:50. > :10:54.up to 19 and 6.51 is the margin. Puts her in the fifth, she is

:10:55. > :11:03.through and has made it. You can see the relief on her face. Campbell

:11:04. > :11:07.Walsh. He will be delighted. He is staying until the end. The women's

:11:08. > :11:14.K-1 is the last event on the programme here at Deodoro in just

:11:15. > :11:23.over an hour. New Zealand have a representative. What went wrong,

:11:24. > :11:28.gate 21. When she took across back across the flow from gate 20 she got

:11:29. > :11:32.a bit too heavy on her tail, so it's caught the edge, which lifted the

:11:33. > :11:38.nose and hit the ball and wasted a lot of time because she ended up on

:11:39. > :11:46.the slack water on the right. Coming next, Great Britain's Fiona Pennie.

:11:47. > :11:52.Looking to repeat what Joe Clarke did 24 hours ago. Joe Clarke winning

:11:53. > :11:56.Great Britain's only second gold in canoe slalom at the Olympic Games.

:11:57. > :12:00.This is the eighth time in Islam has been part of the games. She drops in

:12:01. > :12:06.almost took the same line as David Florence in his heat in the four --

:12:07. > :12:10.in the C1. Not the perfect start, now she starts to fight it as

:12:11. > :12:15.opposed to flowing down. It was quick around it three, just needs to

:12:16. > :12:20.find her feel of the water, get into her race line. Calming slightly she

:12:21. > :12:28.puts the vote on can she get exit? A bit sticky. Needs to get the valve

:12:29. > :12:34.round. Watch the split after ten. Goodness, she has turned it up after

:12:35. > :12:37.the start. Looks to be good at the moment. Having used a lot of energy

:12:38. > :12:43.at the top you wonder how she will content with the big water at the

:12:44. > :12:47.bottom. Stick out of 13, something all of the athletes will be looking

:12:48. > :12:51.for the final, trying to find the perfect line. 16 no problem, throws

:12:52. > :12:57.the way back and drives to 17. This has to be tight in and forced out,

:12:58. > :13:01.it is. She is storming the run, I think she will be just on the split

:13:02. > :13:07.up 0.1 five. Can she nailed the spin, looking for it and needs to

:13:08. > :13:11.push across the holding of the nature she doesn't get a two second

:13:12. > :13:15.penalty. Inside ball and slightly whiter, now is control. We have to

:13:16. > :13:19.feel if she can avoid a 50 between here and bottom she will be going

:13:20. > :13:28.safely through to the top ten, looking for a time of about ten

:13:29. > :13:32.eight. -- about 100 metres she could go into the lead with just two

:13:33. > :13:35.paddlers are still to come. There is still problems on the bottom

:13:36. > :13:40.section, you must be careful, Pennie has nailed it. 11.54 is the leading

:13:41. > :13:46.time, she goes into second place. Just where she wants to be. Corinna

:13:47. > :13:53.Kuhnle had the 52nd penalty taken away and still leads with a time of

:13:54. > :13:58.101.50. Pennie is there. Joe Clarke cheering them on in the crowd,

:13:59. > :14:01.brilliant display, she nailed the streams, nine and ten, where she got

:14:02. > :14:06.the time on the top split. It was superb and this spin is spotting it,

:14:07. > :14:10.you can see her looking, it was sharp, she will look to get across

:14:11. > :14:15.that fraction quicker, tricky here, all of the momentum going backwards,

:14:16. > :14:19.you must be able to drive up. She did not have the space because she

:14:20. > :14:23.was between the gates to drive. It is a tricky spin, getting the line

:14:24. > :14:28.perfect. That could be where the final is won and lost later today.

:14:29. > :14:29.Fiona Pennie will play her part in that final, she lies in second

:14:30. > :14:45.place. Lulu is now out and Ashley Lane of

:14:46. > :14:50.America is out. -- Lee-Lo. Ranks one, Jessica Fox, best in the world,

:14:51. > :14:54.the best C1 paddler by a country mile but she has improved the K-1

:14:55. > :14:56.over the last couple of seasons and has won world titles in this

:14:57. > :15:04.discipline. Just watch this. It could be perfection. Her line just