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in second and Italy in third, with a chance for Great Britain's men's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
four to take the glory once again. Constantine Louloudis, enjoy the | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
moment as well, what a smile on his face. I don't expect that is going | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
to go for a while. Good job, the men's four, celebrate they might and | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
that happened just after Glover and stunning, Helen Glover and Heather | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Stanning, did it once again in the women's pair, retaining their | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Olympic gold from London 2012 and then did it over a second ahead of | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
New Zealand, two ahead of Denmark as well, so Great Britain with two gold | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
medals down at the Lagoa Stadium this afternoon. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
He landed the killer blow in the first 500 metres, it was almost done | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
then, wasn't it? It's not done until it's done, you have to get across | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
the line first. We knew it was important to get a good start. I was | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
a bit slow reacting compared to how I can do but four years. Heather was | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
amazing. We have to say a massive thank you to Robina, our coach. He | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
just put that together and that was him in four hours of hard work. He | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
has been really ill at some points and away for many years and he | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
deserves to be up here speaking to you guys. Just thanks to him. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Without Robin, we would be nobody. He is an incredible athlete. He was | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
a lightweight but he is an outstanding coach with what he has | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
done with these girls in the last two years has been absolutely | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
incredible. In the aftermath of that triumph, can you compare it to four | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
years ago? It means so much more. We have put a lot of pressure on | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
ourselves even though we tried to talk it down. I've been so emotional | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
this week and that is not likely. It means so much to us. London was home | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Games and there is nothing more special but this is defending the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
title. This is proving we're not just good ones but we can be good | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
everyday and it means so much. The pressure we put on ourselves is | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
pretty immense and every time I have spoken to you I have said there's no | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
pressure but inside .Mac we are dying. Can I take you back to the | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
heat that didn't go as well as you wanted? Where you as calm as you | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
seemed in the interviews? With a bit of hindsight we both felt it was a | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
bit lately and crosswind. It wasn't an excuse but if we totally believed | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
it was fair than I think we would have been quite stressed but in the | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
back of our minds it was, OK, it was only a had a bit of wind and we knew | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
than that. We have to go, but very quickly, you say about defending a | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
title, but what about defending defending a title? You never know. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
We have got our families here to say thank you. We have to get Helen | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
Marriage before we think about next year. I have to think about a | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
wedding. Congratulations, you have a wedding ceremony. I know that Helen | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
Glover 's fiancee is in Rio right now and he is probably down there at | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
the stadium and what an emotional time for the whole family. They've | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
retained their title but what about Twenty20? That can happen another | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
day. Now those guys are enjoying their moment and Olympic gold for | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
the second time. Congratulations to Helen and Heather. We can also bring | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
you news of the first medal of the Games for Ireland. It came in the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
lightweight men's double sculls for the brothers Gary O'Donovan and Paul | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
O'Donovan. The race was on in the end with France and Norway also | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
joining them on the podium but Gary and Paul are brothers in arms. | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
How excited are you? It is brilliant, we're Ireland's first | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Olympic rowing medallist ever and we are so proud to be had to represent | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Ireland living from the middle is unbelievable. What did you think at | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
200 out, did you think you might win it? Since last September we thought | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
we might win it and to come here we gave it everything we could. We came | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
here with a silver medal and we are delighted. As brothers as well, the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
band of Brothers and the bond of brothers, how proud are you to be | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
doing it with your mate? It is fantastic. He is a sound lad. We | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
have arguments at times but to be up there with him on the podium and our | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
parents are here as well watching and our family and friends, it's | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
fantastic. You had a great day, and you will have a wonderful night. | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Many congratulations from all of us. ORE: well played to Ireland, they | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
are on the board as far as the medal table is concerned. Have a look at | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Great Britain! Well up there in fourth place so far with 18 medals | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
in total and a perfect spread. Six bronze, six silver and those two at | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
the rowing today make it six of the best as well. Coming into today they | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
were ahead of the tally from 2012 but I can tell you that on day | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
74-macro years ago Great Britain won six medals. They are up to two so | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
far with two gold and there are plenty of opportunities to make it | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
even more later on today. It makes for a wonderful reading, doesn't it? | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Great Britain in fourth place. There could be more in the cycling because | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
after the men's sprint did their job last night we are looking forward to | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
seeing the team pursuit which will include Sir Bradley Wiggins and that | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
is this evening. Not to kill the mood too much, we will go from a | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
sport that Great Britain are very good at and win medals for funding, | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
rowing, to one they haven't won an Olympic medal in for 50 years. I am | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
talking about fencing. Despite some really good performances in the | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
individual competition, including getting through to the bronze medal | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
play-off, they haven't had such great success here so far. What | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
about the team events? We will go there right now and see how Richard | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
Kruse and his team-mates of James Andrew Davies and Laurence Halsted | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
will get on. Before we see them in action, here is your guide to | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
fencing. The aim of Olympic fencing is | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
simple, to a the sword without being hit in the process. When a weapon | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
makes contact with a fencers target area but it is recorded | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
electronically, using wireless technology, and the point is scored. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
There are three types of swords in fencing, epee, foil and sabre. The | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
epee is a heavy and thrusting sword with a triangular blade and hits are | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
only scored with the point of the blade but they can be to any part of | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
the body. Foyle is the lightest of the swords with a flexible, | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
rectangular blade. Points can only be scored with the tip of the blade | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
of land within the target area on the torso. The sabre is similar in | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
length and weight to foil but events can cut with the blade as well as | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
hit with the point. The target area for the sabre is from the waist to | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
the top of the head. In foil and sabre at the rules of right of way | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
strongly favour the fencer who attacks first, meaning both offences | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
attacked simultaneously the point goes to the competitor who makes the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
first move. In the individual knockout competition each bout can | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
last for 15 minutes but if a fencer makes a hit before the time expires | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
the bout finishes. In the team events there are three fencers per | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
team and each at competes against every fencer in the opposing team. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
The bout finishes after five hits or three minutes, whichever is sooner. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
The second bout finishes after a team makes ten hits or the bout | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
reaches ten minutes. So it continues - is cumulative so a match continues | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
when a team reaches 45 hits or after the ninth bout. | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
And you can see how the great British trio get on in the | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
quarterfinal of the men's quarterfinal foil right now over on | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
BBC One. They are taking on Russia and the chance to change the score, | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
having not won an Olympic medal for 50 years. Here on BBC Four we are | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
going back to the badminton. We teased it for you earlier in the | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
programme with Chris and Gabby Adcock waiting to change the record | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
for British badminton players. They are in group B and they are taking | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
on the Danish pair right now. They lost their opening match against the | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Chinese silver medallists from 2012 but right now they are against the | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Danish pair and leading by one set to love so we will go and join our | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
commentators for this one. Well, how will this badminton | :09:21. | :09:53. | |
bonanza unfold in the next nine days? Wall-to-wall action here from | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Pavilion for. There is some kind of distraction here but we are not sure | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
what. There is an expectation on the fourth seeds to emerge and seed -- | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
unscathed here. The fourth teams are the team in black from Denmark, but | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
they are really up against it with Chris and Gabby Babcock from Great | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
Britain -- Adcock from Great Britain playing some seriously good | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
badminton here. Both teams are so familiar with each other 's pattern | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
of play. They are executing those patterns of play and those strengths | :10:39. | :10:39. | |
as best they can. A lovely slice, and again. Reactive | :10:40. | :11:03. | |
brilliance. Fischer Nielsen was quick to close to the net there to | :11:04. | :11:17. | |
Christina 's delight. A tap of reassurance from Chris with the | :11:18. | :11:18. | |
racket. A tight tumbling shot there from | :11:19. | :11:42. | |
Christinna Pedersen. She is delighted with that. That is a | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
precision strike. So reducing the deficit once again. | :11:47. | :12:23. | |
Chris and Gabby Adcock here, a well played smash from Chris. Pedersen | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
was frustrated because she thought she had the measure of that one but | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
unable to counter it. It is all about getting runs of momentum. | :12:34. | :12:46. | |
Click server from Gabby. That is a really excellent cross that shot | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
from Chris Baird. Took all the speed and pace out and it was a deft | :12:51. | :13:02. | |
touch. So, the longest rally in this match has been 38 shots, that was in | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
the opening game. They have used 16 shuttles already. Hullabaloo on an | :13:12. | :13:23. | |
adjacent court. You can see how menacing he is upstairs, can't you? | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
Merciless smash. He is a lefty. So much pace. Of course, Chris is a | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
lefty as well. Can he returned the compliment? It is a 1-point game. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
There is a long way to go. Brilliant from Gabby Adcock. | :13:44. | :14:05. | |
Explosive first step onto that wonderful soft hands around the net. | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
Kept the racket up throughout. Look at her, so seeking that one. | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
Wonderful concentration. Deadlock on the scoreboard. Tension | :14:14. | :14:30. | |
palpable. Each point now greeted with a roar. | :14:31. | :14:54. | |
Each point so significant in the context of this group. This, for the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
British duo, is a must win match. Having lost their opener yesterday, | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
but they did console themselves by taking a game in that opening match. | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
That might count in the end. That is a good lead from Chris Adcock. Gabby | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
gave him the cry of, leave. Unlike a lot of husbands, he's not | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
entirely deaf! A quick towel down granted by the | :15:22. | :15:56. | |
umpire. Pretty hot and sticky here in Riocentro pavilion four. It's | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
been a crackling atmosphere throughout, it really has. There is | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
always three sessions in the badminton. Starting at different | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
times in the day. They start at eight K and, until 2pm, then 3:30pm | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
until 6pm, then an evening session until 11pm. Medals -- medal | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
ceremonies will be between the 17th - 20 August. | :16:19. | :16:32. | |
172 athletes amongst five disciplines. Who will be other medal | :16:33. | :16:45. | |
podiums? At the sharp end. It's eight two point game and the | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
marginal underdogs in the ascendancy, just three world ranking | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
spots between them, this team is seventh ranked and the seeds are | :16:57. | :16:57. | |
fourth-ranked. I remember in Jakarta, the world | :16:58. | :17:29. | |
champs of last year, they had to pull out of the quarterfinals of the | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
mixed doubles, the Adcocks, it was really frustrating because Chris got | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Delhi belly, if you will, and they are very, very thorough. With all of | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
the preparations. They were even using hand wipes, every time they | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
were going in and out of doors, just to guard against anything like that, | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
I was told. They are so professional in their preparations, but he still | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
got sick and was unable to contest the quarterfinals, so they had to | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
withdraw. That was really frustrating. There was a sort of, it | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
was a dark day for British badminton, that one, I can recall | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
it, I was there on site and it was a sad state of affairs because they've | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
played so well to engineer a quarterfinal spot in the mixed | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
doubles in Jakarta. It was an historic venue and they were | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
completely deflated, understandably. So we are back on terms here, still | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
nothing between them now. The Danes recovering well. | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Desperately trying to get high up the net so they can pick these shots | :18:38. | :18:52. | |
up quickly. Take charge of the rallies, tight | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
net shots are good of course. Good flat hard drive from Chris | :18:59. | :19:17. | |
they're insured the point, so again it's a two point game and it's great | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
to see them smiling and enjoying themselves out there. I'm sure it | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
leads to better performance, when you are having fun in sport you are | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
free and it all comes together. Oh, well, despite the terrific | :19:27. | :19:53. | |
recovery from the Danes, the Britons managing to keep on the front foot | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
throughout and it's an emphatic smash put away by this man. | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
Joachim Fischer Nielsen was frustrated they couldn't turn that | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
around. It's a three point game in favour of the Reds at the moment in | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
this race to 21. They lost out yesterday did the Adcocks in a very | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
close contest against the Chinese, ranked one spot above them. That's | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
not contaminated their minds in this match, they have put that away, | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
flushed it away. Focusing well here. Well, you always take a risk when | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
you go for that flick serve against Joachim Fischer Nielsen but he | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
normally does close the net down quickly. He was very alert there. | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
But of course it's these stern tests that make you other teams stronger. | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
Now the question and everybody's... Who will get across the finish line | :21:06. | :21:17. | |
in this one. -- the question everybody is asking. Everyone is | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
trying to quantify where their team is at. A good leave and a roar of | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
delight of its build wide of the sideline. So they head to the | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
mid-game interval with a 3-point lead, they grabbed the bags and | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
change ends. Just snatching wide there, Fischer | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Nielsen of Denmark. You're doing great. It's all about | :21:39. | :22:25. | |
relaxation skills between points and trying to get to the third quarter | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
-- the front court, as often as they can. I think that's how I translated | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
that advice from the coach. There was a lot of noise in the | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
background. But it's a 3-point game in favour of the Reds. The Adcocks | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
looking good. Can they sustain? That is big from Christinna | :22:46. | :22:59. | |
Pedersen, she was wise to the flick serve from Gabby Adcock there. | :23:00. | :23:22. | |
He gave it his all, so easy just over press and finding the tape in | :23:23. | :23:32. | |
doing so. It's all about crossing that narrow Fort bridge, carry too | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
many thoughts with you and it becomes cumbersome. Focus down or | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
more two mantras and that's all you go with. | :23:46. | :24:01. | |
And again, a fresh shuttle required. They do take a battering. We are | :24:02. | :24:22. | |
onto the 17th now. It is so nip and tuck the whole way | :24:23. | :24:38. | |
here. Over the last two games both teams have only managed runs of two, | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
that's all, in terms of consecutive points won. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
Spills wide, Christinna Pedersen, and another roar of delight from the | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
British. So it's a 3-point gain. These two fully aware that it's | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
retrievable. You would imagine they would have to start to do it about | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
now. Brilliant from Chris Adcock! So | :25:09. | :25:30. | |
quick to pounce. They are just absolutely fully dialled in on this | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
one now. Gabby beside him quite knees bent with energy, so they can | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
pounce whichever way they need. It's a four point game. | :25:43. | :25:59. | |
Over pressing from Christinna Pedersen. | :26:00. | :26:11. | |
Now, is this an opportunity for a sneaky little flick serve? Or is he | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
going with something more regular? Joel Kindles and Fisher likes to | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
pounce on that short, low delivery -- Joachim Fischer Nielsen likes to | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
pounce. Well, it's a run of four consecutive points now. For the | :26:36. | :26:36. | |
Adcocks. An anxious look from Christinna | :26:37. | :26:50. | |
Pedersen to her strong left-handed partner. | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
Thunderous, he is ever dangerous, isn't he, but respectful at the same | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
time, which is nice to see. It's been a match played in great spirit | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
which is what the Olympic Games is all about. Bringing together | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
different races, cultures. Well, the Brits were 11-8 up at the | :27:09. | :27:39. | |
mid-game interval, but having come out from there haven't they | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
consolidated with effect? Still a long way to go in this one though. | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
But they really have put their front foot forward of late. | :27:50. | :28:01. | |
Well, the Danes have been too errant too often in this game. And the | :28:02. | :28:10. | |
fourth seeds under a lot of pressure now, because the Adcocks are just | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
three points away from the W. They were denied yesterday, having had | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
match point. They couldn't quite a lot crossed the line against the | :28:21. | :28:30. | |
Chinese duo, but Ma and Xu, now in a commanding position. | :28:31. | :28:47. | |
Good energy between these two. Great dynamics. As a positive. It's about | :28:48. | :28:59. | |
heading to the sun metaphorically speaking the whole time, not | :29:00. | :29:00. | |
allowing negatives into your mind. Well, the Danes got lucky there. | :29:01. | :29:14. | |
Now, is that enough to inspire them to haul this one back to level and | :29:15. | :29:15. | |
beyond? And alarmingly for British fans, | :29:16. | :30:15. | |
that is three points in the row for the black clad Games. Well, we knew | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
the fightback would always be on and it is always tougher to hit winners | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
when you are in front. The psychological dynamics kind of | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
reverse as you sense the finish line is so near. Of course, fresh in | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
their mind, the exploits yesterday of the Chinese, wriggling out of | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
jail. So, Chris sneezed and so the point | :30:40. | :31:02. | |
will be replayed indeed. The umpire would not accept that one. That was | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
interesting, I thought for a second they had lost the point. They | :31:07. | :31:19. | |
stopped the run of points for the Danes at three. Now, can they build | :31:20. | :31:28. | |
from here? Two points away. Two points away from the win, the Adcock | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
's, communication is priority number one, clarity. | :31:34. | :31:47. | |
They just managed to lift above Christina for the first left, but | :31:48. | :31:56. | |
the second one is just going to the tall menace who had his way. It is | :31:57. | :32:05. | |
still a 3-point game, but the Danes have been ever threatening. They | :32:06. | :32:14. | |
managed to twist the second game their way, 24-22. What can they | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
muster here? Brilliant. I cry out from Chris | :32:18. | :32:33. | |
Adcock, and it brings up four match points. | :32:34. | :33:18. | |
Well, they have still got room for manoeuvre. But before they come | :33:19. | :33:30. | |
tension riddled, they want to put this match to bed. Fourth seeds, | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
three points shy here. Three more match points for the Adcock 's. Look | :33:40. | :33:56. | |
at what it means to them. A momentous win in this daunting | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
group. Group three is so laden with four daunting teams. The Adcock 's | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
did they couldn't do yesterday. They missed out on match point yesterday | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
but they have come through today against the fourth seeds and the | :34:11. | :34:19. | |
highest ranked team in the group. Fischer Nielsen and Christinna | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
Pedersen failed in this encounter. You can see what this means to them. | :34:23. | :34:23. | |
Absolute delight! 21-17 in the decider, on their | :34:24. | :34:42. | |
second match point opportunity they put it to bed. Delight for the | :34:43. | :34:51. | |
Adcocks. The Danes denied. The fight goes on in this ever competitive | :34:52. | :34:59. | |
group B. ORE: well, you could see from Chris and Gabby just what it | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
meant to get their first win of this Olympic campaign on the board. It | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
was really a must win game because of the very competitive group, as | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
the competitor or -- commentator was safe. | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
Afterwards they caught up with us. That was an epic match to watch and | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
such an important one to win. Definitely, after coming back -- of | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
the back of a disappointing result yesterday we knew would be crucial | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
to pick ourselves up in the group stages under gives us a good chance | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
of still going through and as long as we keep playing like that we have | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
a great chance. How did you turn things around from yesterday? Was | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
just a case of moving on? It was really hard and obviously we have a | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
match point and it stuck with me for quite a while last night but I had | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
to snap out of it and we had just go and have an important match today. | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
When you get on court it is easy to just be in the moment. We know from | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
performances at the Commonwealth Games and other wins you are right | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
up there with the top in the world but to beat a pair like that really | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
sends out a message today. Definitely, they had the Olympic | :36:05. | :36:07. | |
bronze from last Olympics so we know we are up there on the day and it is | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
just too performs better on the day and luckily today was after we | :36:12. | :36:21. | |
played really well so now it is anyone's going to go through. Poland | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
are up next and it is an amazing atmosphere here. Definitely, it's | :36:25. | :36:26. | |
been a great atmosphere and we have a few home supporters here. We are | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
really enjoying it and that is key. We have enjoyed every minute on | :36:31. | :36:33. | |
court and hopefully we can continue doing that. Congratulations. Thank | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
you. Thank you. Get Inspired is BBC Sport's campaign | :36:39. | :36:48. | |
to help you get active. It is on the website and you can | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
find inspirational stories from people like you, | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
as well as hints, tips and 70 practical guides to help | :36:55. | :36:56. | |
you give something a go. There is an activity finder to help | :36:57. | :36:58. | |
you find something to try near you. You can ask questions | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
through the social media accounts and maybe you can inspire someone | :37:03. | :37:04. | |
else to give something a try. Get up, get inspired, | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
and get active. It is nice to finally be on the | :37:08. | :37:24. | |
drive. It has brightened up here on the Olympic Park and it is warm and | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
humid and nice. We have not moved far away from our position in the | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
shelter. This is TV towers, as we called it. A beautiful green | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
building. On the top there you can seek two burly chaps, from the Great | :37:40. | :37:44. | |
Britain rugby sevens team. Can you see us, guys? There you go! They | :37:45. | :37:52. | |
can't hear me, but well played. Sign language. Medal? Show us your medal! | :37:53. | :38:03. | |
Yes! There we go. It took some pretty bonkers sign language but I | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
think we got the message through. They are enjoying themselves, the | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
rugby sevens players. So many people have been down at the Deodoro and | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
lucky enough to get tickets to watch the rugby sevens competitions and | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
both men and women have had an absolute ball of time and it has | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
been one of the success stories of the Rio 2016 Olympics so far, not | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
least Great Britain. Last night they came away with a silver medal but | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
the team that came away with top honours, Fiji, their first-ever | :38:32. | :38:33. | |
medal at the Olympic Games, last night was quite the night. | :38:34. | :38:41. | |
Brazil! There is no doubt about it rugby sevens has been the hit of | :38:42. | :38:49. | |
this Olympics so far. The Australian women have already won the Olympic | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
title and now the Team GB men are through to the final four. The | :38:53. | :39:01. | |
Deodoro Stadium is ready to rock. Dan Norton gets a boot on it. It has | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
eventually come to Kyle Brown, the opening try of this semifinal. Now | :39:08. | :39:19. | |
then, the speedster. He eases past. The first try for Great Britain. | :39:20. | :39:28. | |
Back on his feet. That went to ground. It is a steal by the | :39:29. | :39:40. | |
redshirts. Samuel Cross! He booted off the park. Great Britain are in | :39:41. | :39:51. | |
the Gold final. They will play Fiji. This is the family of the captain of | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
Great Britain, Tom Mitchell. It was unbelievable. He now has the chance | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
to win Olympic gold. I have nothing to say about other than I could not | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
imagine this happening when we flew here. | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
This is the final of the rugby sevens on the first time the sport | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
has been played in the Olympics and Great Britain are guaranteed a | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
medal. Will it be gold? This not certainly hope so. The captain of | :40:20. | :40:27. | |
Fiji scores the first try. It is going to be all over by | :40:28. | :40:41. | |
half-time. It is a mauling, this is ugly. Try for Dan Norton, Great | :40:42. | :40:50. | |
Britain are on the board. They have something the final! | :40:51. | :41:00. | |
Oh, it has gone forward. This could be... No! It is such a moment in the | :41:01. | :41:07. | |
history of Fiji the rugby team and Fiji the country because this is | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
their first ever medal at the Olympic Games, and it is gold. They | :41:13. | :41:20. | |
have thumped Great Britain by 43-7. What you think is happening back | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
home right now? Everyone will be celebrating a jumping up and down | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
and kissing each other and so passionate because this is what it's | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
all about. To witness the historic moment for the tiny island Fiji, | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
this is for all of the people in Fiji! The atmosphere has been | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
unbelievable all weekend. It is awesome to share our sport with the | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
world. For the followers of rugby sevens, this is what every | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
tournament is like so hopefully sevens will go through the roof now | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
and I am looking forward to the next one in Tokyo. ORE: it was an | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
incredible display of strength, speed and agility. I am talking | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
about the Fiji team! I have seen Kat Downes during the reporting that | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
with a hula and she is a bit of a whip it and she has some skills. | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
Rugby sevens made its Olympic debut here at the Rio 2016 Olympics and | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
also here in Rio for the first time in over 100 years is the golf. We | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
were talking about it this morning so we will bring you up-to-date with | :42:22. | :42:30. | |
the action far. Justin Rose has started day too well | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
with two birdies in the opening nine holes. This one coming at the six. | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
It moves into six under par and he is currently fourth on the | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
leaderboard. Belgian 's Thomas Pieters is doing even better with | :42:44. | :42:46. | |
three successive birdies on the front nine. He has just added | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
another at ten, to move to eight under par. He is in second place | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
just now. The open champion, Henrik Stenson, is also making a charge. He | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
has bagged three birdies, the Swede. He talks about not being quite the | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
superstar the Zlatan Ibrahimovic was but if he had bagged an Olympic gold | :43:09. | :43:11. | |
here that could change things. Marcus Fraser from Australia is the | :43:12. | :43:14. | |
man to catch, the overnight leader has improved his score with two | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
birdies today and he is now ten under. Meanwhile we had a hole in | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
one from Justin Rose yesterday. The shot of the day so far has been this | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
eagle at the third from double Masters champion Bubba Watson. How | :43:31. | :43:33. | |
about that? He hasn't had the greatest tournament so far but this | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
deserves a replay. Go one, Bubba Watson, what are you going to do | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
with this one? Spin it back. Beautifully done from Bubba Watson. | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
He is probably still on cloud nine after that shot. We will now go to | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
live coverage from the men's golf on day two. | :43:54. | :44:02. | |
The second shot up to here. That is a birdie. A little movement here. | :44:03. | :44:14. | |
Justin Rose has had a whole bunch of these parts about this length, | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
between 15 and 25 feet, or for birdie and he hasn't really made any | :44:20. | :44:26. | |
of them. There is another. On another day one or two of those are | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
going in and he is higher up that leaderboard. He has left himself | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
with quite a lot of work to do with birdie putts on this second day. | :44:36. | :44:52. | |
Read for birdie at 16. Solid. Patrick Reed, from the Ryder Cup, | :44:53. | :44:55. | |
finding a bit of form in the closing stages of the second round as well. | :44:56. | :45:01. | |
Patrick Reid is happy with his score. Rickie Fowler has made a | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
couple of good putts today that have stood him in better stead but he is | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
back to five over. It is just not happening for Rickie Fowler. Can he | :45:13. | :45:14. | |
slot this one? No, he can't. Seamus Power is four and, he's on | :45:15. | :45:27. | |
the golf course with four holes to play. Soren Kjeldsen is four and on | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
the golf course. Now Marcus Fraser come a tournament leader at 10-under | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
par. That's perfect. Just taking a look | :45:36. | :45:58. | |
over at the 11th hole. A very narrow fairway for much of the opening | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
part, then an wide area before a slum dog left up, not too much in | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
terms of bunkers, only one to concern with yourself with on the | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
approach shot. The green slopes a little bit back to front, but mostly | :46:14. | :46:16. | |
from right to left. After the birdie at 16, his tee shot | :46:17. | :46:54. | |
at 17. So a few players getting in close K, not playing too long, just | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
over 100 metres and Grillo doesn't disappoint either. Now Sergio | :47:00. | :47:12. | |
Garcia, 17th. He is level par for the tournament. Ten shots back from | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
the leader. Oh, fires in something very special. | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
APPLAUSE That's some impressive golf from all | :47:21. | :47:30. | |
three. He got the pin covered, the hole covered. Completely. Let's have | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
another look at this golf shot from Sergio Garcia. Grillo is on the left | :47:36. | :47:43. | |
of the pin, Reed on the right-hand Sergio Garcia says anything you can | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
do, I can do better. Bubba Watson at seven here. The longer par fours, | :47:49. | :47:59. | |
playing nearly 500 yards. He has launched another Bubba special. | :48:00. | :48:05. | |
That's big, a long way down. Martin Kaymer playing with Bubba | :48:06. | :48:24. | |
Watson and Anirban Lahiri. Back to level par, the German. | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
At one stage yesterday he was 5-under par. | :48:33. | :48:39. | |
That's off the beaten track. This is what got Kaymer in trouble | :48:40. | :48:49. | |
yesterday. Missing fairways. That was on 16. 16 gave him his biggest | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
nightmare. And then 18, on the left there. Here's Patrick Reed, first to | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
go, birdie putts for all of the grouping. | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
Sergio Garcia is tapped in, for his birdie. Patrick Reed to get into | :49:08. | :49:16. | |
green here, to get to 1-under par. Just being upset, something of the | :49:17. | :49:38. | |
gallery, it seems, but Patrick Reed has started the day 1-under par, | :49:39. | :49:46. | |
back to even par for the day. Comes off a birdie at 16. | :49:47. | :49:55. | |
Berates himself for that. Yes, it was another camera opportunity that | :49:56. | :50:08. | |
caused him to reset, pull away and reset. | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
Grillo, an online with birdie. -- with his birdie. Reed with par, | :50:15. | :50:31. | |
Grillo for Argentina to get back to two under. | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
No problems for the Argentine. APPLAUSE | :50:38. | :50:46. | |
Marcus Fraser really hasn't put a foot wrong. Only one bogey on the | :50:47. | :50:52. | |
card yesterday. Nothing going wrong today. Check and -- second shot to | :50:53. | :51:01. | |
11. 212 yards to the pin. For his second shot. | :51:02. | :51:11. | |
Oh, that's a great shot. Magnificent shot from Marcus Fraser. He's laying | :51:12. | :51:18. | |
down markers all over the golf course. How do you catch a guy who | :51:19. | :51:25. | |
is playing like this? This is what the other golfers are going to need | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
to try to consider. Because you can do nothing special to catch up to a | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
guy who was just putting in all the right areas. They'll work out a way. | :51:36. | :51:43. | |
There's a fair few in the field that have chased down some illustrious | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
and revered golfers. Did we hear three iron just Ben | :51:50. | :52:06. | |
Foster ends in? It seems so. -- just then, for Henrik Stenson. Longest of | :52:07. | :52:18. | |
the par threes, playing over 200 metres. 14th hole, Stenson. Middle | :52:19. | :52:25. | |
of the green. The same putt that Justin Rose had, the same putt. | :52:26. | :52:33. | |
Marcus Fraser is tantalisingly close with his birdie opportunity on 11. | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
This is Kaymer. Horrible stuff to get out of, but | :52:38. | :52:53. | |
he's done well. The gallery is growing. Wanting to see Martin | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
Kaymer, their draw cards. Of course, the weather aiding the visitors to | :52:58. | :53:06. | |
the golf course at the moment. Lingmerth, four under. | :53:07. | :53:16. | |
He has leaked it out right. Yes, bunker for Justin Rose. Just about | :53:17. | :53:52. | |
pin hi. So it's Marcus Fraser who continues to lead the men's | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
individual stroke play at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. | :53:59. | :54:21. | |
Now Bubba has done a few things today which suggests that he has the | :54:22. | :54:28. | |
bit between his teeth. He would like to get something going here. | :54:29. | :54:44. | |
Made the eagle on three, birdie on five. | :54:45. | :54:58. | |
Plenty of club again forced it's going to lead the way just a little. | :54:59. | :55:07. | |
I was so worried about the camera guy, every time you talk to him... | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
Well, it's been a bit of a problem today, everyone wants to get a | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
picture of the stars, so it's playing on his mind, Bubba. Let's | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
move onto David Lingmerth, this to get to 5-under par. Birdie on nine, | :55:22. | :55:27. | |
birdie chance for Lingmerth of Sweden, and he goes to 5-under par. | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
APPLAUSE Out in 32, what a start to his | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
second day, birdies on one, two and three, and a bogey on seven. Justin | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
Rose getting the ball out nicely on 15. That's a very good shot from the | :55:47. | :55:49. | |
Englishman. He had to dig deep to get this one | :55:50. | :55:56. | |
out. The ball was well down. -- Thorbjorn Olesen. A brilliant | :55:57. | :56:27. | |
shot. He has gone inside Garcia's ball. It's one of those where you | :56:28. | :56:34. | |
go, how did it miss the stick? Two over par. Just on the fringe 11, | :56:35. | :56:43. | |
it's looking good, and holds its line, so he pulled one back, he goes | :56:44. | :56:46. | |
to 1-over for the Championship. Katayama has a birdie putt here. He | :56:47. | :57:08. | |
can't find, that will be a double bogey for Katayama. | :57:09. | :57:17. | |
Marcus Fraser after that wonderful shot on 11 can get to 11-under par, | :57:18. | :57:27. | |
stretch his lead to four. Even by his lofty standards over the last | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
day and a half, that approach shot here on 11 was just outstanding. As | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
good as it has been for Marcus Fraser. | :57:39. | :57:45. | |
Probably a putt four feet. Maybe five. Birdie putt for the tournament | :57:46. | :57:55. | |
leader to stretch his lead, and he does that, so Marcus Fraser of | :57:56. | :58:01. | |
Australia at 11-under par leads by four. | :58:02. | :58:11. | |
So Henrik Stenson now at 14, clubbed it up to pin hi, but only the middle | :58:12. | :58:21. | |
of the green, a little left, flag on the far right. Stenson has a long | :58:22. | :58:30. | |
birdie chance. Left well short, Henrik Stenson. | :58:31. | :58:42. | |
Rose, for par. Justin Rose gives one back out of 15. Bubba Watson. Flag | :58:43. | :59:09. | |
out, confident. Just didn't hit it. Oh, Bubba | :59:10. | :59:31. | |
India's Anirban Lahiri on the seventh, could do with some fortune | :59:32. | :59:43. | |
coming his way. 2015 Asian Cup Tour Order of Merit winner, the highest | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
finish in a major Championship when he finished tied for fifth at the US | :59:48. | :59:53. | |
PGA last year, highest by an Indian player, that is. | :59:54. | :59:57. | |
Following in the footsteps of players before him, Anirban Lahiri. | :59:58. | :00:07. | |
A putt for birdie on seven. It doesn't move, it doesn't move at | :00:08. | :00:25. | |
all. He was in the international team in the Presidents cup in South | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Korea last season. Marcus Fraser of the tournament leader and on the | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
12th, 11 under par. And he's found the sand. The 12th | :00:33. | :00:56. | |
hole is 509 and 11 yards, 467 metres. It is another test and a | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
pretty long hole. There is a doglegs right and nothing much in the way of | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
sand to protect the green. Not much in the way of birdies here on 12 | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
either way. Henrik Stenson needs this to stay 7-under par on the | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
14th. That is amiss on the low side of the hole. I can't believe it's | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
missed. A bogey on 14th Henrik Stenson. On 17, Alex Dzeko for | :01:33. | :01:44. | |
birdie. He has made a couple of these, a good-looking role as well. | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
Unkind. -- Alex Cejka. All golf balls are unkind. That's not true. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
Seamus Power is having a wonderful day on the golf course. He is | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
indeed. He is 3-under par. It is a driveable par-4. Seamus Power makes | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
it an eagle at 16. Four birdies and an eagle on his 2nd round card, just | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
that bogey coming on 15. Yes, a splendid rant from Seamus Power. The | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
drop shot at 15, but what a way to get it back, with an eagle at 16. | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
Following on from another eagle at 16 earlier. | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
This is Felipe Aguilar at the 10th hole. He is confident of a birdie. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
The land it up nicely. What we have seen today, is the early morning | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
rain, as nasty as it looked, has softened up the greens and make them | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
more receptive and the players have really gone for these pins and | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Henrik Stenson will be doing the same here. That is a blow for | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
Stenson. He has dropped back to 6-under par, level with Gregory | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
Bourdy who is in the clubhouse now. So, the 15th, Henrik Stenson. He is | :03:20. | :03:31. | |
going with a long iron here. That is fine. The middle of the | :03:32. | :03:48. | |
fairway for the Swede. The middle of the 10th green. This | :03:49. | :04:12. | |
is Danny Chia from Malaysia for birdie. Well done. Level par. Sergio | :04:13. | :04:24. | |
Garcia, in the front of the green here on 18. It was an eagle | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
yesterday to finishes day, and it was close again. That has run past | :04:30. | :04:40. | |
by about 7 or 8 feet. Opportunities coming and going for the Spaniard. 1 | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
of the hottest golfers on the course, back on the 17th tee, is | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
Ireland 's Seamus Power. He has just eagled the 16th, coming off a bogey | :04:58. | :04:58. | |
on 15. Padraig Harrington, his Irish fellow | :04:59. | :05:26. | |
countryman is 1-over for the day, 2 birdies and 3 bogeys. Danny Willett, | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
after two birdies to open his 2nd round has now got 3 bogeys on the | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
card and he is 1-over par, Danny Willett of Great Britain. But this | :05:38. | :05:49. | |
is Seamus Power. Well, not as close as some. By some distance. But he | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
has had a very good day on the golf course today. The man from | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Waterford. This is Lin Wen-tang from Chinese | :06:00. | :06:16. | |
take P -- Chinese Taipei. The 2009 Chinese open champion. That has had | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
a hop and a skip and it is not going to come back from there. Just go | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
back to 16, Justin Rose. It looks like 3-wood. | :06:37. | :06:54. | |
Two eagles we have had on 16. Seamus Power and the Portuguese golfer. | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
Gregory Bourdy is in the clubhouse with a 69. This is Henrik Stenson. | :07:06. | :07:21. | |
The wind really is negligible. Well, they are waiting for Thongchai | :07:22. | :07:54. | |
Jaidee to play his 3rd shot. A little bit of trouble for Thongchai | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Jaidee on 15. He is having a tough day at the office here and that | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
rolls back down the fairway. The number of holes on this golf course, | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
the greens have run-off areas, so now Henrik Stenson knows the club | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
and he is going to pull the trigger here on 15. | :08:17. | :08:28. | |
5 consecutive pars for Stenson, he would love to make more birdie runs | :08:29. | :08:39. | |
as he had at the start of the round. The 2nd of 15 -- the 2nd at 15, | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
Henrik Stenson. Oh, wonderful shot from the Swede. | :08:45. | :09:01. | |
He had some time to ponder the shot, but that was magnificent. The 12th | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
hole, this is Marcus Fraser. 245 yards to the pin, and he's nicely | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
out of there. There wasn't much by way of a lip. Did he get down? Yes, | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
but he's still short. Still work to do on 12. Rafael Cabrera-Bello is at | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
15 alongside is Henrik Stenson and this is his 2nd. Can he trouble off | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
the tee in trouble with the follow-up is his 2nd. Can he trouble | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
off the tee in trouble with the follow-up as well? | :09:45. | :09:59. | |
Oh, it just stayed. He placed out to the right. Now, 18. Patrick Reed for | :10:00. | :10:13. | |
birdie, to finish up. Oh, solidly done by Patrick Reed. It finishes | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
with a birdie at 18 and goes to two under par for the day and 1-under | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
par for the Championship, so a good finish from Patrick Reed. Fraser is | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
3rd to 12th. He has got to work. Not bad. It is about 10 feet, 9 or 10 | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
feet, for his part. That is going to be a tester. | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
He found the sand with his tee shot. Justin Rose at 16, his 2nd shot. | :10:47. | :11:00. | |
Par-4. Very close, just short of the green, and rolls it up into a very | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
good position to claim back a birdie. Here is go Bears, the | :11:07. | :11:20. | |
Argentine, Fabian Gomez, at 10, his 3rd. That will do. That will do. | :11:21. | :11:36. | |
Fabian Gomez, that was a special play. Using the contours there | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
brilliantly. Danny Willett, 2nd to the night. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Wonderful. Very nice. He began his 2nd round with birdies on 1 and 2 | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
but there has been 3 bogeys since. Seamus Power is a long way from the | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
hole here on 17 on this very short par-3. It has given that plenty. He | :12:05. | :12:17. | |
has just made an eagle on 16. Bubba Watson has a 6 footer here for his | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
part on the par-3 8th. To stay 1-under. Didn't like it. Not at all, | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
he was up out of that straightaway. So, shot gone therefore Bubba | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
Watson. His fellow American, Rickie Fowler, on 16, his 2nd. Still at | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
5-over for the tournament. Looking good. How about rolling in? No. But | :12:53. | :13:06. | |
that will be a birdie. Well, there is a chance here with only 1 bogey | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
on the card yesterday for Marcus Fraser. Here on 12, this is for par. | :13:10. | :13:23. | |
It has been absolutely solid. Showing a very calm disposition on | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
the golf course. He is 11-under, Thomas Pieters | :13:27. | :13:40. | |
Belgium is 7-under par and Gregory Bourdy, in the clubhouse at 6-under | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
with Henrik Stenson, out on the golf course. | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
Marcus Fraser, par putt on 12. Never there. Never online. So, that is a | :13:56. | :14:09. | |
shot dropped and he is back at 10-under par. He is still the leader | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
by 3. ORE: they never like dropping shots, golfers, but Marcus Fraser | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
still has a 3 shot lead at the top of the board. This coverage will | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
continue over on the website on the Red Button as well, as Britain 's | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
Justin Rose gets ready to take his shot on the green. There is more | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
Brits in action here in Baja, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, because | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Great Britain 's number 1 in the tennis is going, not quite that | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
stadium, he's actually on Court Number Two against Steve Johnson, | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
which is a little more to the left, as you look at it. Andy Murray | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
hasn't really been travelled so far in this tournament. Any 3 Games he | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
has only dropped 1 set so far and here he is a quarterfinal the | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
American Steve Johnson. A 5- 0 up in the 1st set. It is going Andy Murray | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
's way. The reigning champion is closing in on what would be a | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
fantastic 2nd Olympic title. A couple of matches to go, not least | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
set here in the quarterfinal against Steve Johnson. We will be joining | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
that in about half an hour's time. Murray might have wrapped it up by | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
then but that is there on BBC sport website and the Red Button as well | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
if you want to all the action for Andy Murray. | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
Shall we take a quick picture? Let's meet this guy. As quick as you can, | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
thank you. Oh! Locate, shall we show the current? No? OK, that's fine, | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
thank you very much. Communication breakdown. Let's go quickly while | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
he's not noticing! Thank you, made, take care, goodbye. From the tennis | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
and that rather awkward moment, we're seriously, live on BBC Four, | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
you wouldn't expect that, maybe you would, we're going to go to the | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
Aquatics Centre now because it's time to check in on the swimming, | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
more medals could be won at this evening for Great Britain and Helen, | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
you are going to feature one of Great Britain's loveliest members of | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
the team. They are all lovely, but Fran Halsall is a treat. Ewan-macro | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
she is a treat. I think you have had your awkward moment! Fran Halsall is | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
a lovely lady, hoping to become the fastest woman on the planet in the | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
pool and she goes in the heat this afternoon. Here is a bit more about | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
France. And London was a difficult | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
experience in the fact that I wanted to swim well, I put my heart, soul, | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
everything into swimming as fast as I could and on the day I didn't get | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
the result that I wanted, that I'd spent four years working for. Amat | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Hayter-macro oh dear me, 91 hundredths of a second. Had to make | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
a decision, what are you going to do about it, do you want to carry on | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
swimming? Yes. You have to get on with it and put it to the back of | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
your mind. You can't hold onto emotions like that for three years, | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
otherwise it will drive you insane. I have taken everything I from that | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
experience and put it to good use this time. What would an Olympic | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
medal mean to you? You have won worlds, European,, while honours? | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
For me it would put to bed what happened in London, it would be I | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
want to do it, I feel like I can do it, it would mean I was right, I can | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
do that. It's anyone's dream as an athlete and if they say it's not | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
they may be lying about it, I think! I'd love to stand on the podium, | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
that's what I race to do. I race to get medals want to win big | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
competitions. When you stand there in the line-up and there is eight of | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
you and any one of eight goals can make the final in Rio and could make | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
the final, it's the way it is, getting into the final, being | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
against those goals, I've done it before, I've beaten these goals | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
before, I know what I'm doing, it's me swimming my race and enjoying it. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Do you think this will be your last Games? No, I'm enjoying swimming! | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
The more you enjoy it, the more you want to do it. Olympic cycles are | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
four years long but from the last Olympics to this Olympics has gone | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
so quickly that doing another one doesn't seem like it that long a | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
time. I don't know if it's because I'm getting older that time seems | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
shorter now, or what, but Tokyo, I'll be 30. If I'm still enjoying | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
what I'm doing and I'm in a good place for sport and doing what I | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
love and a great environment I think I could do another four years. Fran | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
Halsall talking to Nick Hope there, Becky Adlington, four time Olympic | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
medallist and Mark Foster, five-time Olympian. It's easy to make the | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
comparison with London but Fran Halsall has had a good four years? | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Fran is happy and it's not very often you can say that about Fran, | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
not in a negative way but as in she's not enjoy the sport, that's | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
what I mean. She's not really, really loved it and wanted to be | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
there. She sought a little bit too much in the past three years -- she | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
has sought a bit too much, and in the past three years has thought why | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
not enjoy it and enjoy what I do and it has paid off. She was our only | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
medallist in 2013 at the World Championships. She is smiling, she | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
is happy, she is enjoying life, she has a new boyfriend, she is on top | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
of the world and it makes a difference. A happy swimmer is a | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
good swimmer, four front. Do you agree? Ukip the nail on the head, | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
she's in a happy place that home. If swimming is your only thing in life | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
you need a distraction, she has that now, James Gibson has been looking | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
after her for four years and she has the consistency there, done more | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
conditioning work and she seems to be flying. If she does her best time | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
she could win it but there will be, as she mentioned, six out of ten of | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
the top swimmers in this race and the one that won last night, it will | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
be tight. Hopefully she has the monkey off her back and she can let | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
it happen. I saw her at the Europeans in May and I thought she | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
looked in good form, she could do something in Rio, I thought? Mark | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Arthur spoken a lot about Swinburne -- sprinters just doing the 50 | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
metres, didn't do well in the 100 metres but has had a great 50. Fran | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
stepped away from it after London and said I wanted to enjoy the | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
sport, I want to be a 50 metres freestyle swimmer, I will put all my | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
eggs in one basket and that's what she's enjoying and it's working for | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
her, doesn't try to stretch yourself too thin and really concentrates on | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
it, like Ben Proud has been doing. There has always been this pressure | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
she needs to do the 100 metres and it's like why, why not let be happy | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
and do what she does. She does it so well. That's people like me putting | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
the pressure on her. Sprinting has become so specific, Usain Bolt does | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
the 100 and 200, he wouldn't do the 200 and 400, they're completely | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
different energy systems. A 50 swimmer now specialises in the 50. | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
The Olympic champion and world champion and will probably win | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
tonight, he just does 50, he can do a good 100 but doesn't make the | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
final. He focuses on the 50. That's what she has done. We have talked | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
about how fast some of the girls are, we talked about the Campbell | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
sisters yesterday, we expected to see them both on the podium. We | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
jinxed them. Neither of them made it. It was the Williams sisters! | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
Keita Balde either come in and put it right from last night, or she | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
will come in and be flat and not produce that much -- Kate will | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
either come in. Lets join heat eight of the women's 50 metres which is | :22:13. | :22:13. | |
starting. Already we have seen 27, it may make | :22:14. | :22:36. | |
the semi. Is. -- that may make the summit. It has got quite serious, | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
the swimmers suddenly gone from 27s and 28s as their seeded time, | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
straight into the 25 lows. Quite a few 50-metre butterfly and freestyle | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
swimmers at the World Championships, they have the 50 butterfly | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle, here at the Olympics only | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
the 53. I'm not sure why. Is a breaststroke and I think it's | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
totally unfair will stop the freestyle is get the whole range. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
But as you say, a lot of the 50 fly specialists choosing to do this one | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
and ramp up and take the two events so they can do this wannabe limpet | :23:19. | :23:19. | |
games. Fran is very good at both. So heat eight of the women's 50 | :23:20. | :23:32. | |
metres freestyle. They are starting to get quicker. A good start from | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
the pole in -- from the Pole inlay number five. Going close to as is | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
Garcia, she's going really well, Vanessa Garcia, from Puerto Rico. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
She's going to take it in the outside lane, 24.9. Wow. If these | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
last three heats are a little bit slower, that's got an outside chance | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
of making this, I don't think it will, but certainly a 24 .9, with | :24:01. | :24:11. | |
nine, 11, that is four heats to go, that is quick. The Puerto Rican | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
national champion. You have the second string sink swimmers for the | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
European nations soap the French woman that came second is a second | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
string swimmer, her compatriot will be coming up in heat ten. The Poland | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
and Italians all have other swimmers in the latter heats. Japan is coming | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
later. The poetry can come a brilliant job from late eight, -- | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
from Puerto Rico. It has taken a while to get under 25, we thought it | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
might happen earlier. Look what it means to them, very | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
good indeed. Garcia winning heat eight, Henique second. They have to | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
be looking at about 24.7 or 24.6, something like that, and the | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
distance and coming up now, heat nine of 12. | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
Farida Osman was a World Championship finalist in the flight, | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
a semifinalist here in the 100. It's quite a common thing to do, the real | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
serious proper sprinters. Are you telling me that is what you did? You | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
are hoping my memory is good enough to remember that you were brilliant | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
at both? I wasn't that hopeful! It's getting worse as I get older! We | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
have Inge Dekker in lane seven, it's her birthday next week. Asking for | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
24.5 to make the semis, the top ten in the world this year coming into | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
the Olympics, tense was 24.47, so actually 24.47. I'm going to guess | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
about 7.5. -- 24.7 five. Quite a few in the last unseeded heats could do | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
it. The Dutch are not having the best meets here so far and Inge | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Dekker in lane seven, one lane from the right-hand side, having a decent | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
start. Possibly the best starting five, from Poland. At the moment it | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
is Inge Dekker in seven, she has been an Olympic champion in the | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
women's 4x100 relay a few times. Is she going to get 24.7? She is, 24.7 | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
seven. Is going to be interesting, it's going to be very, very close | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
indeed now. There is three big heats to go, the fastest 24 women in the | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
world in water are in the next three heats. Already looking at a 24.7. | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
The African record for the Egyptian in second, Farida Osman, so the | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
flight three sprint double working well for her. New African record, | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
very good. Farida Osman in four, you can't tell | :27:16. | :27:27. | |
too much from that. You can't tell much from that either. I think the | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
speed of these women slightly foxing the cameramen at the moment here at | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
the Olympic Games. There is Inge Dekker, she wins in 24.77. Now she's | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
going to have to wait to see if that is fast enough. So the last of the | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
unseeded heats won by Inge Dekker of the Netherlands, 24.7, a new African | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
record for Farida Osman in second. You might tell from the sound behind | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
as the Brazilian team have a swimmer in the next heat. She will be in | :27:58. | :28:08. | |
lane one. There she is, Graciele Herrmann. It's a good atmosphere. It | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
only feels like it is about one third to one half full, there are | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
15,500 seats here but I'd be slightly surprised if there is more | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
than 7000 or 8000 in here, but they know how to make a noise when there | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
is Brazilian is. Graciele Herrmann in lane one, in the green suit of | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
Brazil. Not quite sure why we don't have locks on the suits, like the | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
full suit made out of a flag -- we should have flags on the suits. Like | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
the full Union Jack for the women's swimming suit, they are all Blacks, | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
look at that. It's a good idea, a fine idea. The second fastest in the | :28:49. | :29:02. | |
world this year, 24.07, in lane four Kromowidjojo. They are going to have | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
to get on it, there's no hanging around for this heat because anybody | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
could make it in. It's a very fast heat, gold and silver from London | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
2012. Gold to Kromowidjojo in four and the Belarussian, the 30-year-old | :29:23. | :29:33. | |
six, Herasimenia. Canada are having a good meet as well. | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
The first of unseeded heats of the women's 50 metres freestyle, the | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
defending Olympic champion Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
first up and going well in four, as is USA and five. The blackout of the | :29:51. | :29:57. | |
Netherlands in four, looks like the American in five are coming through, | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
the silver-medallist London 2012 in six, so close, Herasimenia WinZip, | :30:04. | :30:18. | |
then Weitzeil. Really, really close. Some good swimming there, trying not | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
to show you are out of breath! That was a big effort. Great start in the | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
middle of your pool here, like, click, underwater, using a | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
brilliantly, just about 13 metres from Kromowidjojo. Managed to hang | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
in for third, it starts to be a bit of a bash at this point. Herasimenia | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
coming through at this point, not breathing, just breathing monster | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
the right there. Then held it. All the way to the end, to there. I | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
thought that Weitzeil got the touch there but she was touched out by 61 | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
hundredths of a second, the white hat of the USA. It was the | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Belarussian winner. So the first of unseeded heats, the fastest was | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
reasonably quick but it surprisingly fast, Herasimenia winning it, a tie | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
for third. What is going to happen here? | :31:10. | :31:22. | |
Finally Fran Halsall gets a swim and she has had to wait 37 days of | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
swimming. She was 5th in London. She should certainly make it through to | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
the semi, but what will happen here? Cate Campbell. Cate Campbell was | :31:34. | :31:42. | |
very disappointing last night. With the USA kit right behind her is | :31:43. | :31:51. | |
Simone Manuel, a gold medallist. Fran Halsall busy wants to feel the | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
water. She has tucked the band underneath her 2nd hat and all | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
swimmers have routines and ways they do things. Simone Manuel is just | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
jumping up and down behind the block and hasn't got onto the podium yet. | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
They are all facing towards, away from the start. It is interesting, | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
all except 1 or 2. Look at that, a bizarre way to face left or right. | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
This is an enormous quality field. The new Olympic champion in lane 3, | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
the 1st black woman to ever win a Gold Medal in the swimming pool. Her | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
2nd half of how a race -- race yesterday was very quick and | :32:34. | :32:35. | |
everyone was betting on Cate Campbell to win and she was 4. | :32:36. | :32:42. | |
Actually she wasn't even forth, she was 6. She was terrible. A good | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
start in 7. Jeanette Ottesen is probably got the best start, right | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
next to Fran Halsall. Fran Halsall has had a good 30 metres indeed and | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
starting to swim away. She is swimming away in line 5. This is a | :32:59. | :33:05. | |
very good indeed. An excellent job from Fran Halsall, 24.20 6. That is | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
enormously encouraging. She has had to wait so long for it. It is not | :33:12. | :33:20. | |
easy to do so. -- 24.2 6. Well done, Fran. That was a great swim. She | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
started to come away at the end and she has been working with James | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
Gibson, a sprint specialist coach and a former world champion himself, | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
up in Loughborough. They have been working on a 4-year plan that | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
concludes here. That was a brilliant showing in the heats. She talks | :33:38. | :33:44. | |
about needing perfection on every little bit and she did close to a | :33:45. | :33:51. | |
perfect race there. Her British record means she has dipped under 24 | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
before and the smiles at the end from her and Jeanette Ottesen. She | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
is a very confident swimmer and that will do her a wonderful world of | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
good. At this level for her to get in a win in the heats will really | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
boost her for this evening and Campbell was a very disappointing | :34:11. | :34:21. | |
3rd. That was the fastest semi. The final heat of the women's 50 metres | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
freestyle and Bronte Campbell, the world champion on this 50 metres | :34:27. | :34:33. | |
freestyle goes in lane 4. Sarah Sjostrom in 5. She has already won | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
gold in the women's 100 metres butterfly and the world record. | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
Silver and bronze on the 100 free. She had a stinker in London but it | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
is good to have her back. I love to watch the faces and see how they are | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
concentrating. It was interesting in the ready room yesterday before the | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
finals, we saw a shot of the corner room and Bronte Campbell and her | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
sister were larking around and having fun. I was thinking they | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
should concentrate. A bit more serious today. It has to be. It was | :35:08. | :35:18. | |
such a huge disappointment. Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace is fast, really | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
strong. A finalist at the London Olympic Games. | :35:22. | :35:30. | |
So, the final heat of the women's 50 metres freestyle with a world | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
champion in 4th, Australia in the yellow hat, is Bronte Campbell and | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
next to her, closer to us in the other yellow hat is Sarah Sjostrom, | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
the world record holder on the 50 metres butterfly. But going well in | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
7 is Dorothea Brandt of Germany. I think Pernille Blume is going to win | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
this, she gets the touch quite comfortably. That is very quick | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
indeed. That must be her lifetime best, I'm sure. She entered with | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
24.4 but went 24.2. A big surprise. Absolutely. She was betting that the | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
World Championships last year and she didn't even race at the | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
Europeans in May so a great surprise, I would suggest, for most | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
of the field here. Bronte Campbell, where did she come in the end? She | :36:19. | :36:28. | |
did well, 2445, I think she was 2nd. Sarah Sjostrom here on the top left | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
of her shot is quite flattered not really rotating and grabbing that | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
extra legs on each arm stroke. I'm surprised with that. It suggests she | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
could swim better, or at least differently on that reach out more. | :36:42. | :36:47. | |
A really nice smile there from Pernille Blume in lane 6. | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
So, the result of the final heat of the women's 50 metres freestyle has | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
Pernille Blume winning it and then Bronte Campbell and Sarah Sjostrom | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
and I think they will make it through. 24.7 is tight but they may | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
just make it. Let us look at the qualifiers. Fran Halsall is 2nd | :37:10. | :37:15. | |
fastest into the semifinals this evening, that is very good indeed | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
from her. Pernille Blume is the surprise fastest qualifier but the | :37:21. | :37:23. | |
big guns are in there with both of the Campbell sisters. | :37:24. | :37:33. | |
Fran, that looked incredible. It has been a long wait and great week to | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
watch. It is day 1 for me, Sharon! I came in a bit later than everyone | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
else so I have only been here for me, Sharon! I came in a bit later | :37:44. | :37:46. | |
than everyone else so I have only been here four days and I haven't | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
had the chance to get stale in the environment or get too excited or | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
happy with how I started. It was my best time this year and I have got | :37:54. | :38:00. | |
relaxed and I will give it more relax -- aggression tonight but I'm | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
happy with that. It is a good start. We were chatting about how much | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
happier you seem in yourself and the opportunity to just concentrate on | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
the 50th made it more fun for you. Yes, I had great preparation this | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
year. I'm standing behind the blocks knowing that I have done everything | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
I can this season. I have been on top of everything injury wise and | :38:21. | :38:22. | |
illness wise and had the best running I could have. It is head | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
Games now because it's the Olympics and if you think about the | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
environment and what it is and get caught up with that it is hard to | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
take. I have raced all these girls before and in this environment | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
before so it should be 2nd nature to me now. You are a serious old hand | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
in the nicest possible way! Cate Campbell, people were expecting to | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
do well last night and it didn't happen so this is the Olympics and a | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
level playing field. Some surprise swims. We didn't expect the Canadian | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
to go so quick. It is, but I know that things like that will happen. | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
You just can't expect -- let it faze you. The virtual meet before the | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
Olympics is just ridiculous, I don't look at anything into that. I need | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
to pick in the summer so whatever happens in season is in season and | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
it is what it is and you don't win medals there. I'm happy with how I'm | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
going and last night was a very interesting race but I do my | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
processes and make sure I'm doing it right and when it comes to tomorrow | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
night I will get my hand on the war 1st. We will see you tonight 1st but | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
I don't think it will be a problem based on that. | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
Well done. It is interesting because we have been talking all week about | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
how the younger members of the team like Chloe Tutton will be buzzing | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
off the team environment at Fran has taken a different approach. How | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
common is that? It is so hard when you are not tapering as well as | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
everyone else because you are a week after everyone else. Adam Peaty 's | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
race was so long ago now and you do get caught up. These are her best | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
mates and people don't appreciate how much emotion it takes out of you | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
just cheering and getting worked up and being disappointed and going on | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
high and you go through all these emotions as a team-mate and as a | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
family member and it is so exhausting so for Fran to take | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
yourself out of that state holding camp with all the other athletes who | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
are still in the same place where she is and I think she made a great | :40:16. | :40:32. | |
decision to that, not just because she swam well but because it is a | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
better environment for Brown. I am really excited for her. It is a good | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
call, historically we would always coming together and I was 1 of those | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
on the last day so I would have to wait while they were doing their bit | :40:43. | :40:45. | |
timepieces. She is 1 of these people who can overthink things but to come | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
in now coaches were decided to do what works for Fran and not just | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
being part of the team. She is part of the team but an individual on | :40:52. | :40:53. | |
that team. There is plenty going on if you want to join us for the | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
swimming later on. We will show you what we can enjoy. Stay up late with | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
us and we have the backstroke final and the men's 100 meter butterfly | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
final and the women's 800, featuring Jazz Carlin at 20 past and Britain's | :41:07. | :41:15. | |
Ben Proud at 245 AM. I know it is very late or early, however you want | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
to look at it but we have been enjoying your hash tags and telling | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
us what you are doing to stay awake. When you listen to have excited Andy | :41:24. | :41:26. | |
Jameson gets, and there's nothing wrong with that, there is no way you | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
are sleeping. Andy, what will it be like in here this evening when we | :41:32. | :41:34. | |
see Michael Phelps? You have commentated on his Gold Medal is, | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
all 22 of them. Does that mean you are presented top Trumps? I don't | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
know. I think I'm the luckiest presenter in the world because the | :41:45. | :41:47. | |
guy is absolutely phenomenal and what we saw last night on the 200 | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
medley, you just feel history unfolding as you watch it. Your | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
drawl -- that your jaw drops and you have to try and come up with words | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
to say that it is the 26th Olympic medal that he has got a 22 of them | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
are gold and he is extraordinary. He went into the semifinal of the | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
hundred metres butterfly thought for a 2nd he wouldn't make it. He was | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
way down on the turn but it the class because he can put it out of | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
his mind and do more than enough, he is brilliant. Did you guys have a | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
thesaurus up there because I think you must run out of words to | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
describe Michael Phelps? We have 1 online now. We had to find 1 for | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
tonight. The medley relay is not open, he has the hundred fly tonight | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
and the medley relay tomorrow so he could have the best Olympics is had. | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
His 1st Olympics since Sydney, which was 15 but when he came through into | :42:43. | :42:47. | |
2004 he had 1 of his best Olympics ever and it is his last 4 and he was | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
written off after 2014. After he won the 200 medley was the 1st swimmer | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
to win the same event with 4 gold-medal Singh consecutive | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
Olympics. Iggy does same tonight, at some time, in a funny way, I'm quite | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
looking forward to him stopping because I don't know what else to | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
say about the guy. I think the other swimmers are really looking forward | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
to him stopping! Michael Phelps is going for his 23rd gold this evening | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
by Jazz Carlin is going for her 2nd medal of the meat. Here is a bit | :43:27. | :43:33. | |
more about Jazz Carlin. I'm going there to be on the podium. | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
I am doing everything I can. Jazz Carlin looks great, she's starting | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
to swim away. All these years of training and the hours of the early | :43:45. | :43:52. | |
morning, it is for Rio. I'm going to give it absolutely everything and if | :43:53. | :43:55. | |
that is good enough to be on the podium it will be an incredible | :43:56. | :44:02. | |
feeling. Silver to Jazz Carlin! A wonderful Silver Medal for Great | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
Britain. In 2011I found out I had glandular fever and I was so close | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
to hanging my goggles and costume up but I think that is what sport is | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
like, it tests you and it is about how you overcome the lows to | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
appreciate all the highs and have all the good times throughout sport. | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
Jazz Carlin for Great Britain, Olympic silver, now she is a truly | :44:25. | :44:28. | |
world-class swimmer and the greatest. Sometimes I do take myself | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
too seriously. I can be really hard on myself and that is natural | :44:33. | :44:35. | |
athlete but I think to just appreciate everything, especially | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
this year which has been in the Olympic year, I've been quite | :44:41. | :44:43. | |
stressed and I have put a lot of pressure on myself really. I think | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
it's because I wanted it is so much for so long and once I realised it | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
is just swimming and just sport and something I love to do and since I | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
was a young girl I used to love being in the pool of racing and | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
having fun, so I think I've tried to capture that feeling again and have | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
the enjoyment back into my training. I'm going to make sure I do | :45:04. | :45:06. | |
everything and have no regrets and once I'm on those blocks were given | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
110% in all that I've done I have no regrets and I can walk away from the | :45:12. | :45:14. | |
pool knowing I gave everything in there. | :45:15. | :45:19. | |
I feel a bit sorry for Jazz Carlin and she would get more attention and | :45:20. | :45:26. | |
possibly a gold medal if it wasn't for Katie Ledecky. Katie Ledecky is | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
very special, isn't she? She's like Michael Phelps, they are in the same | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
bracket, with what she has done over the last four years, but the great | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
thing for Jazz Carlin is to stick to her own race plan,, she is at Katie | :45:42. | :45:49. | |
Ledecky's foetal the time of day can be demoralising but Jazz doesn't | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
think like that. You have to let Katie go off, she has the gold and | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
the fighters who will get this silver and bronze on the other | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
medals and Jazz has done that on the 400 this week and I always say 800 | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
is Jazz event, she is so much better at the 400 this year, but the 800, | :46:07. | :46:13. | |
she has been an 8.15, she nearly got the British record, so she will | :46:14. | :46:16. | |
possibly break that tonight and I would love to see her do that, | :46:17. | :46:20. | |
especially to rival Katie as well, Katie is so far ahead it would be | :46:21. | :46:24. | |
nice to see the rest of the world catch up with Katie. She has kind of | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
gone and everyone else has stayed behind with what we've been doing | :46:29. | :46:31. | |
for the past ten years. The rest of the world hasn't moved with her and | :46:32. | :46:40. | |
the rest of the girls now need to move that on. Sharon, let's hear | :46:41. | :46:43. | |
from you, you are quite close, there she is going in the 400 earlier this | :46:44. | :46:53. | |
week. What do you make of her form? Jazz's? It's been as good as I have | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
seen, hopefully she can do a personal best, she got a bronze | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
medal at the worlds and hopefully she will get the silver tonight. | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
Sharon, you watch Jazz very closely because you have a strong Bond with | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
her out of the pool. What do you make of her form this week? I do, | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
when she moved from Swansea to Bass, they couldn't rent anything for less | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
than six months and they moved my flat above the garage and were | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
tenants but of mine for a while. She is a compulsive person, a lot of | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
people are in the 8001500 metre environment, think of Paula | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
Radcliffe, almost over trains. Sometimes Jazz can be guilty of | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
that, she is hard on herself. I remember talking to Dave and Dave | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
seeing Tomic make maybe just try to build the confidence and calm her | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
down, tell her she doesn't have to be so tough on herself and that | :47:48. | :47:50. | |
stuff. She spent a lot of coffee mornings with me in the kitchen and | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
I was extremely pleased for her the other day. The confidence she will | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
have got from the 400, she will take into the 800. She already has a | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
medal and everything is a bonus. She believes the 800 is the best event | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
and I know she would like to go for Becky's record. When I spoke to her | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
after her heat, she seemed confident she was swimming within herself. I'm | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
looking forward to it. We are looking forward to it, set your | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
alarm if you want to see how Jazz Carlin gets on. She mentioned the | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
British record there. We always pull your leg about Ben Proud and the | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
British record. What is it like if someone takes your British's -- your | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
British record? Is it bittersweet? Oh, it's amazing, when I see Katie | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
Ledecky break the record it's amazing to see the sport moving on. | :48:39. | :48:47. | |
The British record? For today I can live it out. It's one of those | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
things, as sports fans, we are such big lovers of swimming, we want the | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
sport move on and progress and the facts people are pushing boundaries | :48:57. | :48:59. | |
and getting quicker, I'm pleased for the profile it gives the sport. | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
Tonight the men 's 50 three, the fastest man on the planet in the | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
pool will be crowned. Which way do you see this going, what Ben's | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
chances? If you look at the past form, Mama do was the one who looked | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
incredibly strong, he seems to always deliver at the right time, | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
21.3 last night, Ben is on 21.5, and between second and this is not .8 of | :49:25. | :49:32. | |
the second which is not an awful lot. On a 50 freestyle, it's the | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
person who gets everything right and we saw it last night with Cate | :49:38. | :49:41. | |
Campbell in the 100 freestyle, she is not .2 slower than other people | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
and you can't give that sort of time away so as long as he gets off the | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
lot well and his start is phenomenal, we will see something | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
special tonight, hopefully. Stay up for Ben and Jazz, you have meant | :49:57. | :50:03. | |
Lord Ben and you might have two men talked Ore Oduba because he is going | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
to be on Strictly. You should get yourself in here because the | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
atmosphere when Michael Phelps, was versus audition? A bit more hip | :50:12. | :50:20. | |
action I think, Ore We have a lot of work to do. Clearly! While I've been | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
practising some of the done thing there's been a lot of excitement | :50:27. | :50:28. | |
about one of the broadcasters here at the Olympic Park, not me, one of | :50:29. | :50:35. | |
the main sport TV Brazilian broadcasters has attracted a lot of | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
attention right there. He has even had to... Can you see him? He is | :50:40. | :50:47. | |
over there. Let's go and chase the crowd. We actually had a big BBC | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
training course before this about working in crowds. I think I might | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
be breaking a bit of the rules. In there, in all the hubbub, I haven't | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
got his name but he seems very popular indeed. This is some of the | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
excitement that we get on the Olympic Park. We don't have it too | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
often, actually. Sometimes it's nice to show it, well played, Alan, you | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
got right in the middle of that. Let's go past the crowd because, | :51:13. | :51:19. | |
more self is the park, no problem, no problem, we will go through the | :51:20. | :51:22. | |
park because we are talking tennis next. That is the main Olympic | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
Tennis Centre over there, we have shown you were before. It's the | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
British number one, the team G Flag bearer who is taking to the court | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
right now, three matches, three victories so far, he is in the | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
quarterfinals against America's Steve Johnson, a win he will be in | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
the semis and looking on course to retain his Olympic gold medal, | :51:45. | :51:47. | |
playing either Kei Nishikori Gael Monfils. He has one more sett to | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
winning this match if he is to progress to the next four. He won | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
the first set by 6-0 pretty convincingly so let's see if Andy | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
Murray can wrap this one up in the second that. Do that thing where you | :52:01. | :52:03. | |
push into the court, into number one court. | :52:04. | :52:24. | |
COMMENTATOR: I wonder if Johnson is going to | :52:25. | :52:27. | |
attack a little more. The trouble is that Murray was | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
giving him very little to attack. APPLAUSE | :52:34. | :52:56. | |
Better for second play from the American. | :52:57. | :53:22. | |
Johnson is showing is a little bit more now. | :53:23. | :53:24. | |
APPLAUSE Giving himself a real G up. | :53:25. | :53:38. | |
Difficult second shot for Murray there. Johnson making the move | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
forward. Now ahead on the Murray serve for the first time. | :53:44. | :54:43. | |
Well played will. He had to win that point twice, I thought halfway | :54:44. | :54:57. | |
through the rally a shot to his background could have been out, but | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
he didn't hang around. He has two break points and he has deserved | :55:02. | :55:02. | |
them. CHEERING | :55:03. | :55:45. | |
Well, are there echoes of yesterday? Credit to Johnson. He has had a very | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
difficult time, but he has put it behind him. Much more enterprise | :55:52. | :55:58. | |
about him in that game. A good mixture of forcing play and in the | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
longest rally he defended well as well. | :56:04. | :56:34. | |
Sorry about the language, if you picked that up. | :56:35. | :56:51. | |
Yes, there is a danger of course after the first set you can be | :56:52. | :57:09. | |
lulled into a false selves of security. Even Andy Murray hasn't | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
had too many sets as easy as that and now it is all change. The first | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
ace for Johnson in the match. Got a lot on the club. You wouldn't | :57:21. | :57:48. | |
believe this was a guy who won the first set 6-0 just five minutes ago. | :57:49. | :57:56. | |
CHEERING The good thing for Marie is that if | :57:57. | :58:06. | |
it is going to be like it was yesterday, he did manage to | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
extricate himself from the position -- Murray. It looked horrible at 3-0 | :58:11. | :58:17. | |
in the first set, it's not to say he will lose the second set. And with | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
all due respect to Johnson, at his best he's not as good as Fognini | :58:23. | :58:31. | |
Fognini's best. -- he's not as good as Fognini, at Fognini's best. | :58:32. | :58:48. | |
He must have just drawn it long. It looked close. Johnson not having a | :58:49. | :59:05. | |
lot of luck with challenges. APPLAUSE | :59:06. | :59:47. | |
Johnson was rooted to the sport, he didn't have a clue where Murray was | :59:48. | :59:56. | |
going. -- rooted to the spot. It looked more or less the same setup | :59:57. | :59:59. | |
as the previous shot. See how different they were. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
You could hear it burgle off. A pity, because it would have been an | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
ace -- you could hear the siren, off. -- goal off. | :00:27. | :00:43. | |
Only 136 kilometres, but Harold to its mark. -- it went to its mark. | :00:44. | :01:06. | |
APPLAUSE. So, it looks like he has calmed down a little. Johnson now | :01:07. | :01:24. | |
leading 2-1. Johnson -- Murray in his third | :01:25. | :01:39. | |
Olympics, had a bad experience at the first time he went to the games, | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
he lost in the first round in a sheen. He admitted he was not | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
properly prepared -- Beijing. It was different four years ago, a pivotal | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
tournament, not just winning the Olympic gold medal, beating Novak | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Djokovic and Rafael Nadal -- Roger Federer. That was the launch pad for | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
fantastic things to come, the US Open in 2012 and then winning | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Wimbledon following year and then again, just a month or so ago. | :02:18. | :02:47. | |
APPLAUSE. Murray 21 down -- Michael Tu- one. That member he wrote | :02:48. | :03:08. | |
Johnson in the second set -- 2-1. -- but remember, he broke Johnson. | :03:09. | :03:46. | |
Certainly Murray is threatening the game. -- threatening again. | :03:47. | :04:02. | |
UMPIRE: Server, please stand still. -- serve. -- Sir. Tennis is not | :04:03. | :04:23. | |
really in their psyche, some of them do not really know what to do. | :04:24. | :04:45. | |
Well done. He waited until Murray had made his move. | :04:46. | :05:40. | |
Well played. Just thought for a moment that he might go for too | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
much. Keeping it going, prodigious defence. Good work to get around | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
this, then it in the corner. -- pin. A shot that along to the first set, | :05:55. | :06:28. | |
really, from Johnson. -- that belonged. | :06:29. | :06:56. | |
The aces are starting to flow, three now, all in this set. | :06:57. | :07:26. | |
What is going on? Andy is getting it by the people coming in -- distract | :07:27. | :07:42. | |
did. That spectator was in his byline. He is asking him to do | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
something about it. -- byline. He has already had more than one | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
request for people to sit down. It is mainly the stewards allowing | :07:56. | :08:07. | |
people in. Got to forget it. It is probably not going to stop. | :08:08. | :08:21. | |
Johnson wants to try and keep some pressure on Murray. He is really | :08:22. | :09:24. | |
struggling. Distractions and here's irritated with himself for getting | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
into this situation on the second set -- he is irritated with himself. | :09:28. | :09:46. | |
Such a good shot from Andy Murray. It was a really ace and return from | :09:47. | :10:01. | |
the American. -- it was a really decent return. Johnson did not | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
really have a prayer on that move forward. It would have been close, | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
but he will not challenge. What would he get if he did challenge? | :10:20. | :10:32. | |
Johnson holes, it is 3-2. There is a dramatic turnaround in the women's | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
semifinal. Give it over has come roaring back. -- Kvitova. | :10:40. | :11:02. | |
Murray had to draw on all his experience to get it done in his | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
last match and he needs to use his experience now to work out that the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
distractions are not going to finish. Just get on with the job in | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
hand that Johnson did so well after the end of the first set. Turning | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
into a fine day now, torrential rain this morning which was why the match | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
was put back I around half an hour full is stop one break in the second | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
set divides them -- which was why the match was put back by around | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
half an hour. It seemed to rather collapse is on | :11:47. | :12:12. | |
that. -- Clark 's on that. That is wonderful. It looked for all | :12:13. | :13:14. | |
the world like it was going out. Johnson certainly thought so. Did | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
not move a muscle towards it. Still distracted by the movement in | :13:21. | :13:47. | |
the crowd, going for the towel again. Super play, how quickly he | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
was in possession and now he has the chance to turn it around. Bit of | :13:57. | :14:08. | |
juddering probably caused the pain in Johnson's arm. He was really | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
hurting there. Awkward shot and here is an awkward moment, break back | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
point for Murray. Plenty of sides then, but Murray | :14:18. | :15:03. | |
would normally back himself to make that. | :15:04. | :15:32. | |
After the first set, things in Murray's mind seemed to be | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
conspiring against him. 4.4 for- two for the American. A point for 4-2 | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
for the American. Maybe he is still struggling with | :15:55. | :16:07. | |
that elbow. Neither player has had much luck | :16:08. | :16:49. | |
with challenges, particularly Johnson. | :16:50. | :17:20. | |
Well, Steve Johnson may only have been to the last 16 of a grand slam | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
once before, but he is proving a frustration for Andy Murray. He went | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
on to win the second set 6-4 and level the match. If you want to see | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
how Andy Murray does on a number one court then BBC One is the place to | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
go to see if Andy Murray can make his way into the semifinals of the | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
men's singles tennis. We are hoping to another -- hopping to another | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
racquet sport. Badminton. Great Britain have another pair in the | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
men's doubles. How can Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge do in their | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
group C clash? They are taking on the Korean third seeds after having | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
lost in the first match against the 2012 runners-up of Denmark. They are | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
taking on the two Kims. They have hopes of reaching the quarterfinals. | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
Let's see how the British pair get on against Kim and Kim. | :18:26. | :19:27. | |
Sparkling start from Ellis and language. They will be delighted | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
with this. It has been down to if you forced errors from the Koreans. | :19:35. | :19:47. | |
Both five foot ten tall, Kim Sa-rang is just a year older than Kim | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
Gi-jung. He resides in Seoul himself. | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
They are almost sort of gung ho in the way they play. Very dynamic and | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
fearless. Ranked third in the world. They won the Malaysians opened this | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
year. Also runners-up in the Thailand Masters. They won the China | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
open at the end of 2015 and the Korean Masters as well, so a great | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
year. Round 16 of the World Championships in Jakarta last year, | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
where this team went around further. They beat them in that tournament. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
Today, these two men in red from Great Britain will be looking to | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
repeat that feat. But it is not an easy task. | :21:02. | :21:11. | |
Anxious start from the Koreans. Possibly hampered by that previous | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
head-to-head loss. It is a 4-point game, this one. Lots | :21:17. | :22:09. | |
of head scratching going on between the Koreans at the moment, yet to | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
settle. They want to be pushing the panic button quite yet. -- they will | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
not be pushing the panic button quite yet. | :22:23. | :22:47. | |
Thunderous from Langridge. Ever alert. Played such a good match last | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
night and it was a shame they had to lose out to the experience of the | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
lefty righty combination of Bolan Mortensen. | :23:05. | :23:18. | |
The Koreans yet to concede a game. They won their opener against the | :23:19. | :23:29. | |
Polish pair. Straight games, 21-14 and 21-15. Just over half an hour | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
played. It was an emphatic performance. Langridge and Ellis are | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
a different opposition altogether. A beautiful slice from Marcus Ellis. | :23:38. | :23:55. | |
He is delighted with that. Tight to the net as it dropped, laden with | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
spin. Two points away from the opening game and it is a really | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
strong start. Look at the disparity in the scoreline here, seven points | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
adrift, the Koreans, the senior seeds. The only seats in the group. | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Group C, very strong. -- seeds. Born in Epsom, resides in Milton | :24:15. | :24:36. | |
Keynes. Well, Kim Sa-rang is normally very | :24:37. | :25:09. | |
good with the forecourt touch. Some wonderful tight net shops. But | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
today, the radar is off the moment. Seven points to take themselves to | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
the mid-game interval with a very strong footing for the British team. | :25:24. | :26:09. | |
Britain's on the attack. Denied fair, superb reflexes from Kim | :26:10. | :26:25. | |
Gi-jung. -- denied there. Very alert. A flick of the wrist | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
manufactured something brilliant. Chris Langridge holding a finger up, | :26:30. | :27:01. | |
he wants a challenge. It was very close. Just wide, I would say. We | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
are going upstairs for the electronic review. What does it | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
conclude? Always takes a little while. The suspense is overwhelming. | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
China won all five golds on offer in the Olympics of London 2012. That | :27:27. | :27:39. | |
was well wide here. One of the fastest and most demanding physical | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
sports on the Olympic programme. Lunging, thrusting, darting in | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
pursuit of the shuttlecock. Sometimes faster than a Formula 1 | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
car. Requires supreme athleticism and lightning fast reactions. | :27:56. | :28:05. | |
I think in his mind, in his line of vision, he saw the Koreans closing | :28:06. | :28:14. | |
the net down pretty quickly, so Marcus Ellis just playing a bit too | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
tight to the net with that tight net shops. Reducing the deficit now, the | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
Koreans. A different feel about it. The national coach coming on and | :28:26. | :29:40. | |
insisting it is all about variety, changing the attack lines and if you | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
are going to go big, go wide with it. They are in the driving seat of | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
this opening game, the British pair. Leading 11-7. | :29:52. | :30:18. | |
The lead is being nibbled at somewhat by the parent who have had | :30:19. | :30:27. | |
a decent run of consecutive points. -- by the pair. A 3-point game. | :30:28. | :30:51. | |
The momentum has shifted now. The British players were in complete | :30:52. | :30:59. | |
control prior to the mid-game interval but now the lead is | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
dissipating slowly and it is a two point game. | :31:05. | :31:26. | |
They can ill afford service faults like that. So, can Kim Sa-rang com | :31:27. | :31:42. | |
copped some magic here? -- come up with some magic here. That was a | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
heavy smash and Kim Gi-jung... Both teams playing with good with, | :31:50. | :32:30. | |
disposing of the movement nicely. In the end, it is Kim Gi-jung and Kim | :32:31. | :32:38. | |
Sa-rang coming out on top, they seem to have the momentum, that little | :32:39. | :32:45. | |
bit more alert. They seem to be on top of the situation but not quite | :32:46. | :32:48. | |
the scoreline yet, trailing another point, they are 11-12 now. | :32:49. | :33:09. | |
That is gorgeous, this slice from Marcus Ellis was brilliant. | :33:10. | :33:32. | |
Both teams have manufactured consecutive points runs of three, | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
but only one of them each. Fast, furious doubles, that is what | :33:39. | :33:57. | |
it is all about. Flat hard blocks and drives to get on the attack | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
first, either team, neither want to give away the lift opportunity | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
because all of them are adept at smashing with pace. | :34:10. | :34:35. | |
Thunderous finish in the end from the Koreans, although for the | :34:36. | :34:42. | |
British duo, Chris Langridge was down for a while, because he thought | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
the point was over. He was skidding for a while and came to a halt and | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
realised the point was going on and managed to resume, but to no avail | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
in the end. A brilliant point to watch. | :34:59. | :35:13. | |
Nothing between them now in this opener, they are mopping up the | :35:14. | :35:26. | |
sweat from the floor. These men are desperate to sustain the momentum | :35:27. | :35:27. | |
that they have developed of late. You would imagine, for these guys, | :35:28. | :35:40. | |
having lost their match last night to the pair from Denmark, this | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
opening game against the decorated third seeds is a critical one. | :35:47. | :35:58. | |
There is more of an upbeat feel to Kim Gi-jung and Kim Sa-rang now. | :35:59. | :36:31. | |
Well played, power play from Kim Sa-rang down that final smash. They | :36:32. | :36:41. | |
are on the front foot a lot more often now, the men in black and | :36:42. | :36:52. | |
pink. If keeping with their seeding status, three out here in this | :36:53. | :37:02. | |
tournament. The umpire suggesting, come on guys, get on with it. | :37:03. | :37:11. | |
They have responded magnificently by rattling off multiple points of | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
late, the Koreans. Desperately keen to close that down | :37:16. | :37:34. | |
and he gets the lucky net cord. It is a game in favour of the Koreans, | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
who would have thought that? So tough to get the Koreans to play | :37:39. | :38:08. | |
back cans, they are so adept at running around and clobbering | :38:09. | :38:10. | |
forehand smashes -- backhand. Chris Langridge is the elder player | :38:11. | :38:28. | |
on the team. Five years older than Marcus Ellis. Barking out the | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
orders. Men's Doubles at its best. Great | :38:33. | :39:12. | |
point from both teams. So keenly contested. The intensity here is the | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
lights out. A thunderous finish from Kim Sa-rang who came to the party | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
little late, he had a very slow start -- slow start. Now he is | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
coming alongside and what a spectacle this is. | :39:29. | :39:48. | |
You can see why they suggested varying up the attacks, because the | :39:49. | :39:59. | |
Koreans with lightning intensity are very quick. It is about changing | :40:00. | :40:11. | |
that up. Changing the line of the attack positionally. | :40:12. | :40:22. | |
A telling return from Kim Sa-rang, very quick to redirect. It is a one | :40:23. | :40:29. | |
point game. Frontcourt player, Kim Sa-rang, look | :40:30. | :41:06. | |
at him, he is so tough to get past. His reflexes are so good. He has | :41:07. | :41:17. | |
controlled the frontcourt really well, Kim Sa-rang. | :41:18. | :41:32. | |
They have changed their game style quite dramatically for the first | :41:33. | :41:39. | |
quarter of this game, if you will. Playing faster and better, the | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
Koreans, they are a tough proposition, in contrast from the | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
very start. It is a 3-point game and more importantly, Kim Gi-jung with | :41:52. | :41:52. | |
the serve. It is a slow and deliberate walk | :41:53. | :42:20. | |
over to the service judge for another shuttle. One in which they | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
have really lost their way but they have not done an awful lot wrong, | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
they had just been flat beaten in this opening game by the third seeds | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
who have really turned it on after the mid-game interval like nothing | :42:35. | :42:36. | |
else. Not done yet, this opener, they will | :42:37. | :42:51. | |
be fighting with all their might to turn it around. | :42:52. | :43:15. | |
That is cruel, Lady luck favouring the Koreans, but you have to be fair | :43:16. | :43:25. | |
to them, they worked extremely hard to turn that game around. In the | :43:26. | :43:40. | |
end, they got the last laugh. 21-17. First blood to the Korean pair, we | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
will be back in a moment for the rest of it. No, let us stick with | :43:45. | :43:52. | |
it. Up they went, the Koreans in the first set and we will join it in the | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
second, with Great Britain leading and serving by 16 points to 15. As | :43:58. | :44:07. | |
they showed us in the opening game, they can't soon swept the -- flick | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
the switch back on. Ever dangerous. Even that one went the way of the | :44:12. | :44:34. | |
British duo, to their delight. Take that shot, tumbling on the wrong | :44:35. | :44:36. | |
side for Kim Sa-rang. A rough passage of play for these | :44:37. | :44:48. | |
two them, trailing two points in the second game. This game can change in | :44:49. | :44:56. | |
a heartbeat, we have seen it so often. | :44:57. | :45:30. | |
How often you see in matches like these were the smallest of margins | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
as the largest of consequences. Terrific point, spreading the play | :45:36. | :46:06. | |
well. Very alert. Turning defence into attack immaculately. It is a | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
two point lead for Ellis and Langridge now. | :46:12. | :46:28. | |
He's braced and poised with energy. Nervous, ritualistic twitches. | :46:29. | :46:38. | |
Just got behind him a little vert, Kim Sa-rang ever so quick around the | :46:39. | :46:45. | |
net. We have seen that on multiple occasions. Have they got more in the | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
tank as we had towards the climax of this second game? | :46:52. | :47:06. | |
Getting the shuttlecock down and your opponents down, all about the | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
aggression in the front court. Putting some scoreboard pressure on | :47:12. | :47:35. | |
the Koreans. Taking their time. Making it compound in these guys' | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
mind. Still two points adrift in the second game. Can Ellis and Langridge | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
consolidate? It's a one point game. We know what | :47:47. | :47:55. | |
these two are capable of. Super return from Marcus Ellis that | :47:56. | :48:50. | |
really set the point up beautifully, and now they have engineered a | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
couple of game point opportunities, Ellis and Langridge, to detain the | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
third seeds and take this match to a deciding game. | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
They need a win here, the British, two seriously contest this tough | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
group C. One game point saved with some | :49:13. | :49:29. | |
courageous play from the Kims. Insistent. Kim Gi-jung hammering his | :49:30. | :50:17. | |
way through. It is a 2-point game locked in at 20 points apiece. So | :50:18. | :50:26. | |
close. A couple of game point opportunities at 20-18. Beg your | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
pardon, 19-17. Again, age of the return from Marcus | :50:31. | :50:56. | |
Ellis, who is quick to pounce, and Langridge sticking the knife in | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
there. Another game point opportunity for Ellis and Langridge | :51:01. | :51:01. | |
here. Don't they play the big points ever | :51:02. | :51:47. | |
so well, the Koreans? Quite a skill they have. Cometh the hour,, the | :51:48. | :51:55. | |
Koreans. They really have competed incredibly well, as, of course, have | :51:56. | :51:57. | |
the British. It is quite something, their | :51:58. | :52:16. | |
resilience, these two. Sorry, I shouldn't have gone for a drink | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
then, I was just being a little cheeky. 21-21. Two Clear points to | :52:20. | :52:27. | |
decide it. Marcus Ellis bullies his way through | :52:28. | :52:44. | |
that point to give him the fourth game point opportunity. The Koreans | :52:45. | :52:52. | |
looking a little bit baffled. Lucky there, Langridge. Stumbled, did Kim | :52:53. | :52:59. | |
Sa-rang. He's OK. Brilliance again from Kim Gi-jung. | :53:00. | :53:38. | |
My goodness. They are just like Houdini in their escapology here. | :53:39. | :53:40. | |
Quite incredible. Oh, he's powered his way through | :53:41. | :54:21. | |
down the line again. Brilliance from Marcus Ellis there, who was the real | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
workhorse in that rally. Langridge barking out instruction. Look at | :54:26. | :54:32. | |
that finish, so brave, just piercing the inside of the line. He's been a | :54:33. | :54:38. | |
real powerhouse, has Marcus Ellis. Oh, too quick from Kim Sa-rang. I | :54:39. | :55:15. | |
thought their Chris Langridge had played a brilliant shot, but this | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
man is just so lightning fast around the net. Five Gamer points have come | :55:22. | :55:33. | |
and gone. -- Gamer points. They have been denied. | :55:34. | :56:03. | |
The Koreans playing catch up throughout the back end of this one. | :56:04. | :56:19. | |
They have done so commendably, showing real character. | :56:20. | :56:26. | |
It was in. Bit of a contrast in body language. Game points number six, | :56:27. | :56:36. | |
then. It is on the server Marcus Ellis now. Can he do something quite | :56:37. | :56:38. | |
special here? A roar of delight from Marcus Ellis. | :56:39. | :57:11. | |
Hop, skip and a jump back to his bike and he is round that net in a | :57:12. | :57:20. | |
flash. Just to keep you up-to-date, we are | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
picking up here at Copacabana and coverage of this badminton classic | :57:26. | :57:28. | |
continues now over on the Red Button. We will leave it there. You | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
can watch live on the Red Button because we have women's shooting | :57:32. | :57:40. | |
with Amber Hill here on Busi four. If you are enjoying the badminton, | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
go to the Red Button and you can continue to watch Ellis and | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
Langridge over there right now. Welcome to Copacabana beach on day | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
seven of the real games. The sun is back. Not much rain around. Huge | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
waves. We will have a good wander around the beach later. Another | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
packed coverage of Olympic coverage on BBC Four and we have all this | :58:05. | :58:07. | |
coming up for you in the next few hours. We shall be at the swimming | :58:08. | :58:15. | |
to see if Adam Peaty, back in the pool, as he aims to get the men's | :58:16. | :58:21. | |
4x100 medley relay team into the final. They are in the semis today. | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
James Guy also in the four. We will also be live at the hockey as Great | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
Britain's men know they have to win and they have to win big. They take | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
on Spain, knowing they could go out tonight. Andy Murray is involved in | :58:35. | :58:41. | |
a bit of a titanic struggle in the singles. He will play with Heather | :58:42. | :58:45. | |
Watson in the mixed doubles later. If you switch over to BBC One now, | :58:46. | :58:50. | |
he is in a tie-break in the quarterfinal to see if he can make | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
it through to the semifinals. A bit of a treat for you. Big Ted in | :58:56. | :59:01. | |
action. The most successful judoka of all time. He carried the French | :59:02. | :59:07. | |
flag at the opening ceremony and he is in action in the men's 100 | :59:08. | :59:12. | |
kilograms finals. Here is our Copacabana signpost to tell you | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
exactly what will happen over the next few hours. | :59:16. | :59:37. | |
A crunch match in the hockey for Great Britain. Also depends what | :59:38. | :59:43. | |
happens with New Zealand's game against Belgium. | :59:44. | :59:52. | |
If Team GB gets to the final in the track cycling, Bradley Wiggins will | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
be going for an eighth medal. Let's go to the women's skeet. All | :59:57. | :00:06. | |
eyes on Amber | :00:07. | :00:07. |