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the defending Olympics champion. This has gone to a deciding set | :00:19. | :00:33. | |
tie-break. I will ask you to turn to continue coverage of this match in | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Rio. Back to Simon Reid. | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
Andy Murray really tight. No mistakes, so far, in this | :00:46. | :01:13. | |
tie-breaker. Oh, what a shot. Andy Murray finding | :01:14. | :02:01. | |
it hard to accept and you can understand why. A miracle shot from | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
Johnson on the move. Murray hat to have won the point with that shot. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
That was a shot Roger Federer would have been proud of. Exquisite | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
control. He has brute force, but he has some ability also. | :02:23. | :02:37. | |
UMPIRE: Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, please. | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
Still a lot of people moving around. It has been a constant factor in | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
this match. No, it was never going to work, that | :02:47. | :03:00. | |
one. Johnson hitting the ball away, but | :03:01. | :03:15. | |
not too fiercely. He has already been warned for language. | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
In the first set when things were going so badly wrong. He lost the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
first set 6-0. It has just drifted out. | :03:26. | :04:09. | |
He will challenge. Of course he would. He has one left, now. The | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
extra one from the break-up. It looked as if it had just drifted | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
away. And here are four match points for | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Andy Murray to make it through to the semifinals. | :04:26. | :05:09. | |
What a match. It is like two different tournaments this has been | :05:10. | :05:35. | |
for Andy Murray. Easy as pie the first two rounds, but yesterday | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
against Fognini, it was like a Houdini act and he has done it again | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
against Steve Johnson. It was not the best of Andy Murray, but once | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
again, we saw the best of his fighting qualities and that is what | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
has seen him through. He has made it through to the semifinal and he is | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
one match away from another Olympic medal. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
And in that semifinal he will meet Gael Monfils or Kei Nishikori. If he | :06:04. | :06:18. | |
wins that he will be into a gold medal match to defend the one he won | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
in London. Andy Murray is a sensational fighter and this matters | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
to him. For all the talk when tennis came into the Olympics, that maybe | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
it would not be a priority for the leading players. It has become a big | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
deal for them. Rafa Nadal is here. Novak Djokovic went out in the first | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
round, he was in tears. Andy Murray said it was the highest honour to | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
carry the flag for Team GB in the opening ceremony. I will be chatting | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
to some of these later on. We have a wonderfully packed programme with a | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
glorious afternoon. It is time to bring on the dancing horses. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
The performing arts, Ellison -- elegance and grace to be admired and | :07:07. | :07:18. | |
judged. For this is beauty and competition. It is smoothness and | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
the finest attention to detail and the assessment of being marked. This | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
is precision and this is pressure. Charlotte Dujardin has iced cake in | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
style and Britain has another gold medal! The art of performance is to | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
conceal the nerves and the emotion and to reveal only the poetry of the | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
motion. Today you will see the Grand Prix | :07:42. | :07:54. | |
special, the second day of the team accommodation. These are the scenes | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
on Copacabana, not really a day for sunbathing. The sea is pretty wild, | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
but it has cleared considerably from this morning when there was a | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
massive rainstorm will stop if you are catching up on Olympics news, we | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
will tell you what has happened so far. These are the headlines so far | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
on day seven will stop Helen Glover and Heather Stanning continued their | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
unbeaten run with the race that mattered, a gold medal in the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
women's pair to defend their Olympic title in style. | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
The men's four were similarly powerful, Alex Gregory, | :08:39. | :08:51. | |
Mohammed and Nash and a lewdness. A terrific start to the heptathlon. | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson leads after setting a new British record | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
in the high jump. Jessica Ennis-Hill winning the 100 metres hurdles. She | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
is lying in third at the moment with two events to come tonight. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
Jo Pavey was 15th in the women's 10,000 metres but did not achieve a | :09:16. | :09:29. | |
season's best. The Ethiopian winning, smashing a record. And Andy | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Murray taken into a deciding set against Steve Johnson. He won it on | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
a tie-break. Let's give you an idea of how things will pan out this | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
evening and what you can expect to see. Very soon we will head to the | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
dressage and stay until its conclusion. I will be talking to the | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
silver medal winning rugby sevens team shortly. We will talk to Philip | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Hindes, who last night was part of the men's sprint team who won gold | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
and we will give you Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner. And the team | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
pursuit, that team including Sir Bradley Wiggins and they will go for | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
gold a little later tonight. Before London 2012, Great Britain had never | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
won a medal in dressage. Get to a home games and Charlotte Dujardin | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
took the individual gold medal and was part of a gold medal winning | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
team, a turnaround for a sport that had not registered in terms of | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
public opinion. It has been an interesting start. We will pick it | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
up with Fiona Bigwood whose story is sensational. It was not that long | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
ago when she suffered a bad fall at a local event and it left her with | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
concussion and problems with her vision, which means she rides with | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
an eye patch. Two more to come after her. Commentary from Ian Stark and | :11:12. | :11:24. | |
Mike Tucker. Fasten down the hatches and get the seat belts on. The next | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
hour, hour and 20 minutes, will be pretty dramatic. The bronze medal, | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
that is far from certain at the moment. It is looking perhaps more | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
like the Netherlands creeping back to win the bronze. The United States | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
of America have two still to come and a lot will be on their | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
shoulders. And Britain trying to chase Germany. | :11:56. | :12:07. | |
But now, the lady from Great Britain, Fiona Bigwood, from | :12:08. | :12:19. | |
Horsham. Very much part of a great performance in the Europeans in | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Aachen. What about the Olympics in Rio? The second rider for Great | :12:23. | :12:37. | |
Britain on this medal day. Lovely transition. You saw the horse really | :12:38. | :12:52. | |
collecting. Starting on a good note. This horse has an amazing extended | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
trot. Great freedom of the shoulder. Started off 8.1 for the halt. A good | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
start. Really nice outline and balance. On | :13:05. | :13:21. | |
the short side. The collected trot. Lovely cadence in the half pass. | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
Nicely connected to the hands. Fiona is good with her hands there. She | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
has struggled at times with this horse and her connection from the | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
hands to the horse's mouth. She is sensitive, this horse. Fiona first | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
that a championship of the world in 2010 in Kentucky. More recently part | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
of the European success last year in Aachen. But now with Orthilia, | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
looking for a medal in the Olympics. Her first Olympics. That patch, any | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
of you who may not be altogether clear of the background of Fiona, | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
who had a really bad fall in 2014. Really gave her head a Big Bang. Had | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
bad double vision and was out of the saddle for many months. Tremendous | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
to come back. And still problems with the double vision and so | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
where's a patch accordingly. Certainly has not hampered her in | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
the last two seasons on this lovely horse. Great cadence in the last | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
half pass. The extended trot. She has to watch | :14:47. | :15:10. | |
to make sure she does not tuck in to much and become to light in her | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
contact. Very nice transition back. Fiona absolutely adores this mayor | :15:15. | :15:40. | |
mare. Known as Tillie in the stable. When you have a good one, there is | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
nothing better. She goes a little bit in there as if she is going into | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
battle. A lovely extended walk. If Britain wins gold here and retains | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
the Olympic title from 2012, all three of our riders, Fiona, Carl | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
Hester, Charlotte, they will have to surpass themselves. At the moment, | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Fiona Bigwood and Orthilia get ink an average of 78%. Behind Dorothee | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
Schneider. Mistake with the piaf. | :16:21. | :16:45. | |
And back into the piaf again and again another low mac. | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
That is really disappointing for her it looked like she lost confidence | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
there a little bit. 3.9 for the piaf. And a 6.6 for the | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
transition. This is starting to change things a little bit. | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
Yes, it suddenly drops back to an average of just under 73%. | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
Number 8 for the dressage. Now she can start to relax the mare. Ready | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
for the final canter work. It's an easy balance. | :17:31. | :17:46. | |
7.6 average for the first pass. 7 of 6 for the next. Some judges are | :17:47. | :18:04. | |
giving 8s. Some are giving 7.5s. One tiny mistake at the end of the | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
changes. That will be expensive. Slightly short on one hind leg. Then | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
another error. 5.2. It is another low mark, sadly. | :18:18. | :18:45. | |
7.2. Extended canter. Fiona must be careful to collect back nicely. | :18:46. | :19:02. | |
Making a clean change. Very nice. Coming into this first pirouette on | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
to the centre line. Nicely ridden out. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Really sitting there in the pirouette. 7.8. | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
Clean, one time changes. Moving on to the pirouette to the right. | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
Nicely controlled out. This mare has talent for sitting. Such a shame to | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
make the mistakes in the piaf. It is really one of her fortes. | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
Not too much, Fiona... Just worried she was going to override and lose | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
the balance. She did a great job, though, great job. You see how Fiona | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
is holding what we call the snafflerein. Two bits in the horse's | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
mouth. The curved one is below, slightly dangling. There is a more | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
severe bit of the two bits. So she is riding very tactifully with the | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
mild snaffle rein. I am really surprised with the piaf. Perhaps | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
caught herself in the mouth in the piaf. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
I think that this mare was worried she may have made a mistake coming | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
into the first piaf. Picked up down the last line. The marks got over | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
the 74% on the averages. Now, that very definitely puts the | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
ball back in the German's court, one feels. | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
Peter Storr and Mike Tucker describing that. And Fiona Bigwood's | :21:00. | :21:11. | |
score on Tillie was 74. .352%. Still to come, Charlotte Dujardin on the | :21:12. | :21:24. | |
remarkable Valegro. Great Britain behind Germany. Amber | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
Hill has gone out of the skeet shooting at the semi-final stage. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
But we are celebrating with the boys now. They won a silver medal in the | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
rugby sevens. Katherine Downes followed them every step of the way. | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
There is no doubt about it, rugby sevens has been the hit of the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Olympics so far. Australia's women have won the Olympic title. Now Team | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
GB's men are through to the final four. The Deodoro Stadium is ready | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
to rock. In goeses yell,s issying Afrika. Dan | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
Norton gets a boot on it. The try of the opening of the | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
semi-final. Now the speedsters. One on one, easy past Dylan Sage. | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
Great Britain's first try. Kolbe brings in to Sam. That went to | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
ground. It's a steal by the red shirts. Dan Bibby waits. Sam Cross. | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
Into Bibby. He hook it is off the park. Great Britain are in the gold | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
final. They will play Fiji. This is the family of the captain of | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Great Britain Tom Mitchell. It was unbelievable. Speechless, I | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
have no words. He is through with a chance to win | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
the Olympic gold. I know. I have nothing to say about | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
it, other than I could to the imagine this happening when we all | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
flew out here. So this is it the final of the rugby | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
sevens. The first time that the sport has been played at Olympics. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Great Britain are guaranteed a medal. Will it be gold? This lot | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
certainly hope so. And the captain of Fiji scores the | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
first try. And the off load... Vuvu. It will be | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
all over by half-time. It's a mauling. It is ugly! A try | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
for Dan Norton. Great Britain are on the board! They have something from | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
the final! Oh, it's gone forward. This could be... No! It is such a | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
moment in the history of Fiji, the rugby team and Fiji the country. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
This is their first ever medal at the Olympic Games. It is gold. They | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
have thumped Great Britain by 43-7. What do you think is happening at | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
home right now? Oh, everybody will be celebrating, jumping up and down | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
and kissing each other and so passionate as this is what it is all | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
about. To witness the historic moment for the tiny island of Fiji, | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
this is for the people of Fiji. The atmosphere is awesome. Great to | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
share the sport with the rest of the world. Obviously for the rugby | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
world, they know this is what it is like on every tournament. Hopefully | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
it goes forward now. Next one to Tokyo! And a massive deal for Fiji. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
They had a tropical cyclone in February, it killed 44 people. They | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
think that the Gold Medal will make a boost to benefit the economy to | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
the tune of about ?167 million. But you guys came here and many of the | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
people were expecting you to win a medalals. But did you necessarily | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
expect to do it? We had challenges. There were some doubters, and there | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
were challenges. But it's been an amazing journey. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
You only got together as a squad at the end of May? Yeah. We came | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
together later. Unable to compete on the world serious like many our | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
countries. So it was a day of everyone buying into it. Everyone | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
has done that, not just here but those at home who did not make the | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
final squad. So it is a testament to them. A lot of the work that they | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
put in it is part of this success as well. I have to have a chat with Dan | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
Bibby. Your try against Argentina will live long in the memory? Well, | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
that was great. But these boys did the work. To keep Argentina out. It | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
was something like 26 minutes without conceding a try. It was | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
awesome. We are watching it again, so you can take the glory for a sec | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
time. Doing a spin around. Bombarded by | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
the boys. You can see the pride in the boys. How hard we worked to get | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
the try. Are all of the boys did the hard work. That was just me get over | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
the line. Now, next is James Davies. What do they call you, nobody calls | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
you James Davies, just Cubby, why? I'm not sure, I think this was a | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
mistake in Vegas. A mistake? I call it is moment of | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
genius! But the journey has been incredible. Glad to be a part of it. | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
Just brilliant. I need to have a word with Phil Burgess, not only was | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
attack and flair and trying hugely important but your tackle on South | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
Africa ensured Great Britain would anybody a Gold Medal match? It was | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
something that we spoke about as a team. We wanted to be brave. Not to | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
go out and makes a many tackles as possible but a case of going out | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
there and making the ones that counted. If we missed a tackle it | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
did not matter as the squad was there behind you to get the next | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
one. So we were under pressure. I thought I'm going to go. I knew that | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
Bibby wants hind me. He would take it from there. We got unstuck and it | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
was good. And Marcus switched from the 15 a | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
side game. You are straight back to autumn international with Scotland | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
when you return? Hopefully. It has been great for me coming in. A | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
challenge. A different game. It is tougher and puts a lot of strain on | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
the skills. So it can only put us in a good place going back to 15s. | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
Would you fancy doing seven again? It's been great fun. Why not. | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
Well, a terrific place. A round of applause again for our silver medal | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
winning rugby sevens team. And in the diving we have been celebrating | :28:48. | :28:57. | |
golds thanks to Jack Laws and Chris Mears. | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
What is starting there now? Well, there was no diving until 2.00pm. As | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
you can see the pool is a very odd shade of colour. Answers on a | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
postcard. But there is diving this afternoon. The women's three-metre | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
prove limbs. So no answers to why the pool is | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
green is it still green? Yes. Answers on a postcard. But no | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
training this morning. Some teams were cross. But the ladies are about | :29:28. | :29:35. | |
to take to the boards. 29 of them. Rebecca Gallantree and Grace Reid. | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
The top eight make it through to the semi-final. | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
Thank you, Sam. Now, I am looking over there, I see David Florence and | :29:47. | :29:55. | |
Richard Hounslow, nabbed by 5 Live. Now we will reflect on rogue. As I | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
mentioned in the headlines, a sensational success in the women's | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
pair, Helen Glover and Heather Stanning and they did not let anyone | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
down. We can show you that in a moment... Indeed, there we go. As we | :30:13. | :30:23. | |
hit 1500m, the last 50 strokes in the women's pair and Glover and | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
Stanning have dominated from the first stroke. Gone out. Hit it hard | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
to 500. Dominated in the middle of the 1,000 metres. Now they can look | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
back and allow a little creeping in. I hope that they are enjoying it | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
from here in. Still a job to be done. That is the delays, the high | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
class that they set themselves. The one thing that the New | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
Zealanders have paid for with doubling up is the blasting from the | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
start. Their legs will be tired. They have done many standing starts. | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
With the rhythm they are a quick pair. But a little sprint taken them | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
from the blocks and now challenging the USA and Denmark for the silver | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
medal and the bronze medal. We are watching and hell yawned Heather are | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
absolutely awe inspiring. Be inspired by the journey over the | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
last Olympiad. Undefeated in the combination coming to 250 out. And | :31:21. | :31:32. | |
the combination that dared to take them out, Rasmussen and they are | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
still ahead. There is the battle for the silver | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
medal, bringing them back slightly. But they are not going to catch the | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
British. 100 out, the heads are still held | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
high. They believe themselves to the line. Denmark coming hard. New | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
Zealand are coming hard. But they are going to run out of water. So | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
they should. They were made to pay for it in the opening 1,000 metres. | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
Fearless! Without equal! They are history makers. Great Britain's | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
Glover and Stanning defend their Olympic title and they have done it | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
in such style! It's carnival time here at the Lagoa for Great Britain. | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
Their arms go up in the air. They have shown the world that they are | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
the very, very best in this event. History makers here again. James we | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
have to stand and salute them. A 39th win in a row for the | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
invincible, unbreakable pair of Helen Glover and Heather Stanning. | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
Such a strong advert for working hard. Staying strong mentally and a | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
partnership. That is Great Britain's fifth Gold | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
Medal. We have since taken the total to sixth. And these guys taking a | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
silver in the canoe slalom. Richard Hounslow and David Florence. | :32:53. | :33:11. | |
What do you think of the Olympics this year? It has been great. | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
Such great support. It has been really nice for us to see people | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
supporting us. And to get up tonight podium. | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
Richard have you had a chance to watch your race back and analyse it? | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
I have not at all to be honest. I flicked through the BBC website. I | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
did not watch it though, I wanted to let things settle. | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
This is a chance to see the end of it. | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
Apparently we were up at this point. Similar to London which was tough. | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
But it was a great performance. Everything pretty much went to plan. | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
Always little bits here and there that come and go. But we were happy | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
with the performance there. It was great when we crossed the | :34:02. | :34:11. | |
line to get into the medal position. But the Slovak guys from really | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
great. Put on a great run. So close and tight margins again. | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
So far for Team GB, this has been the Olympics of the water. Why is it | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
that we are so successful with watersports? Probably depends on the | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
sport. We are lucky to have had a fantastic training venue off the | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
back of London 2012. That made a difference to our sport. In our | :34:36. | :34:38. | |
sport there is a tradition of it in Britain. It is something that both | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
of us got into through our parents. It has been a big sport in Britain | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
for a long time, I guess. You have done a terrific job of | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
persuading others. Many thanks. Let's see what medal we can win in | :34:50. | :35:00. | |
the dressage. Now we have the team captain, Carl Hester, who coaches | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
the rest of the team. How can he perform on this huge horse, Nip | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
Tuck, who was spooky, he Spooks had any thing that might move, so | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
important he stays calm. Let's pick it up. | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
Mike Tucker. You could not have joined us at a more dramatic time. | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
This is Nip Tuck and Carl Hester, number three riders for Great | :35:28. | :35:34. | |
Britain. Just under 70% good marks as we get the average for each | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
movement, against the current leaders, 85.5, the Germans currently | :35:41. | :35:48. | |
looking very strong to take the gold medal away that Britain won in | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
London. Carl Hester was an important part of that gold medal. With this | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
young course Nip Tuck, putting it a good performance. But not quite good | :35:58. | :36:04. | |
enough, one feels, Peter. So far, he has been very well-behaved. That is | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
always good point. Carl Hester really bounces back. I can see he is | :36:11. | :36:20. | |
riding determinedly and positively, in a nice way. He is just a little | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
bit more aware, right, you cannot spook here. A little bit more | :36:26. | :36:34. | |
pushing from behind perhaps. Super in front. Look how much on the spot | :36:35. | :36:45. | |
he is. Could be sitting a little bit more. The judges will take into | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
account how much he is remaining in place. Carl is a master at keeping | :36:51. | :37:00. | |
everything looking so easy. A little bit anticipating in the transition | :37:01. | :37:09. | |
to canter. You can see Carl making adjustments, saying come on, we have | :37:10. | :37:21. | |
a long way to go yet. Corrections with the rein to say, stay with me. | :37:22. | :37:28. | |
Look at the likeness of Carl's hands. Clearly positioned. A nice, | :37:29. | :37:37. | |
fine change. All of these little bits Carl earns a lot of marks. | :37:38. | :37:45. | |
Creeping up, creeping up to 76.5. Looking a little bit, spooking at | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
the camera. He gets nervous of cameras. Two time changes. They have | :37:51. | :38:02. | |
built up a wonderful partnership over the years. The horse really | :38:03. | :38:14. | |
trusts Carl. 8.1 for the flying changes. | :38:15. | :38:26. | |
OK. Jumping from one flying change to the other every stride in the | :38:27. | :38:39. | |
canter. Very nicely executed. 8.3 average, the mark. Positive riding | :38:40. | :38:49. | |
from Carl in the extended. Watching as he comes back to the flying | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
change. There is a camera also in that corner. Very nicely executed. | :38:54. | :39:08. | |
The canter pirouette to the left. He has to run a line of changes. | :39:09. | :39:18. | |
Completely straight. That judge will probably not be able to see anything | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
but the horse coming straight at him which is really nice. Britain | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
chasing Germany. At the moment it is an uphill struggle. Carl is doing a | :39:29. | :39:36. | |
great job. Unfortunately he just had a mistake in the last pirouette. 4.3 | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
average, that was expensive. It will be, very much in light of the team | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
behind us. The Netherlands are moving up. The Americans were in the | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
bronze medal position. It looks as if it will go Netherlands's way. | :39:53. | :40:00. | |
Looking to try to get up the ladder to a gold medal but we do not want | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
to drop back to bronze. It is the silver we are really after, is what | :40:07. | :40:15. | |
it boils down to. The home run now. It will be disappointing for Carl. | :40:16. | :40:23. | |
It is expensive. Needs to keep him straight in the piaffe. Very nicely | :40:24. | :40:31. | |
on the spot. Really nice rhythm in the final into a nice square Holt. | :40:32. | :40:40. | |
And so Carl Hester, the inspiration behind the team. He trains three of | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
the team, as well as himself. And there was Spencer Wilton | :40:47. | :40:53. | |
congratulating the back-up team. But now, what will the school be? | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
-- score. They have marked Carl quite high up | :40:59. | :41:15. | |
with the riders position, 8.9. Nobody gets good marks at the end | :41:16. | :41:18. | |
because he makes a good job. Always has such a light contact. It | :41:19. | :41:33. | |
is a shame about this. I think it was the spooking of the camera. It | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
is a shame. Well, outcomes Carl Hester. 76.4. It does not get us | :41:40. | :41:49. | |
closer to the Germans but it keeps us a little more ahead of the | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
bronze-medallists. We can head over to Deodoro to put | :41:55. | :42:08. | |
that in context before we see the next rider. Lee McKenzie is there. | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
Where do you think the challenge might be coming for Silva, can | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
Britain hang on? I think so stop we have such highly regarded Charlotte | :42:20. | :42:27. | |
Dujardin coming up. Carl, a slight mistake in the last pirouette but in | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
comparison to yesterday, when the horse was spooky, this was greatly | :42:32. | :42:39. | |
improved. Next in the arena, the final rider from the USA, Laura | :42:40. | :42:41. | |
Graves. He is Mike Tucker. She is a very talented writer and | :42:42. | :43:01. | |
this combination of horse and rider is very nice to watch. Hopefully we | :43:02. | :43:13. | |
will see the highlight, her half passes can look beautiful. A little | :43:14. | :43:21. | |
bit perhaps tight in the neck today. These riders I think are feeling the | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
pressure today. Very active. Lots of use of all his | :43:26. | :43:47. | |
joints. Very clear and a nice transition into the extended. At the | :43:48. | :43:55. | |
moment she has instructions from Debbie McDonald to go for it. She | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
is, currently 81.5 against the current leader on 83, 83.20 five. | :44:02. | :44:10. | |
The current leader is that score from Dorothee Schneider, Showtime. | :44:11. | :44:19. | |
They have set the pattern for the Germans this afternoon, putting in | :44:20. | :44:25. | |
brilliant performances. They are in determined mood. The Americans need | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
a top mark here for the Americans to cling on to the bronze medal. And it | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
will be clinging on because it is very close. She is doing a good job | :44:37. | :44:50. | |
so far. Extensive ground covering. Extensive Trots. This horse looks | :44:51. | :44:58. | |
like it has a really good heart, always trying for her. If they can | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
drop Alison Brock, their first score, otherwise getting a better | :45:04. | :45:12. | |
score them 73.2. Looking to have a score currently over that, then they | :45:13. | :45:23. | |
have a chance. She has to keep her cool, not make a mistake and keep | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
the level of performance up here and then the Americans will have to | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
really fall back to cling onto that bronze medal. I wonder whether he is | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
a little overcome by the atmosphere. She had to be very careful. I think | :45:40. | :45:46. | |
he is quite hot today. He is a sensitive horse and really tries for | :45:47. | :45:52. | |
her. Here we have the piaffe, which I spoke about before, how he makes a | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
lot of active steps. It does not always give you the impression he is | :45:58. | :46:04. | |
sitting. I like it because it is willing. Not classical enough to get | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
really high marks. He had 7.6 average for that, and somebody gave | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
him an eight. He stays fairly on the spot and he stays really winning. I | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
think that is one of my more important things. The horse must be | :46:23. | :46:27. | |
willing and it must be a harmonious picture. | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
Good marks. 8.1. This horse can sometimes appear short in the neck | :46:34. | :46:45. | |
which makes the judge is perhaps not quite give him the highest marks for | :46:46. | :46:57. | |
some of his movements. That was a nice flying change and a very clear | :46:58. | :47:05. | |
changeover. From the half pass right to the left. Good balance and good | :47:06. | :47:16. | |
positioning from Laura. She is another one who has really lovely | :47:17. | :47:17. | |
position. Like Kasey Perry-Glass. Really clear | :47:18. | :47:31. | |
and nice flying changes and lovely ground cover. | :47:32. | :47:43. | |
Laura Graves has dropped back below the 80%, 79.5. She does not want to | :47:44. | :48:01. | |
drop back any more. It is that close. She is doing a good job. | :48:02. | :48:09. | |
Somebody has given nines for one-time changes. Positively riding. | :48:10. | :48:18. | |
A lovely expressive flying change back and extended canter with an | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
average score of eight. April wet. Remember some of the top horses have | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
made mistakes in these and sushi needs to rider carefully for -- and | :48:31. | :48:42. | |
so she needs to ride carefully. She is moving on up there now. 8.4 | :48:43. | :48:53. | |
average. A slight loss of control at the end of the pirouette. I think | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
the reason these horses are making a mistake there particularly is the | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
camera is close to the arena and they are almost shying a little bit | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
away from that. They know it is very close. The cool temperament is what | :49:10. | :49:17. | |
is required at this stage of the test from Laura Graves. She has done | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
it well so far, down the final line. Really nice, energetic, active, | :49:25. | :49:32. | |
expressive. And again, on the spot. Nice rhythm. He tries so hard. He | :49:33. | :49:43. | |
really does. And again, nice, willing. Looks like he is just | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
starting the test and not finishing. I should not have said that! Laura | :49:48. | :49:54. | |
Graves completes it for the Americans. We will get the final | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
score. Certainly he has done his best. Now, hold your breath time for | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
the Americans. Those last marks coming through. Will she get to 80%? | :50:07. | :50:13. | |
Just below it at the moment. If she does, I think there is a chance that | :50:14. | :50:17. | |
the Americans will sneak the bronze medal from the Dutch. | :50:18. | :50:33. | |
You have done a terrific job of persuading others. Many thanks. | :50:34. | :50:36. | |
Certainly some very good dressage. Look at the one-time changes. So | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
expressive. Ground covering. This horse was really on form. | :50:44. | :50:50. | |
Well which hadden and well performed by Verdades. No doubt. Now the | :50:51. | :50:59. | |
marks. What have the judges given? They have given 86.30pm 4%. Is that | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
good enough? We think it is. We think America will win the bronze. | :51:06. | :51:13. | |
It certainly looks good enough for the United States of America taking | :51:14. | :51:23. | |
bronze. But the next rider in the ring is Isabell Werth. She is a lady | :51:24. | :51:34. | |
with many medals to her name. Yes, Isabell Werth. This is her | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
fifth Olympic Games. Winning a team gold every time she has ridden. It | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
looks highly likely she will do the same. | :51:45. | :51:47. | |
She has already won two individual golds and two silver medal verse. | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
She has her real test face. I know her. I know her determined test | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
face. I have seen it for many years. She's on to it now. | :51:59. | :52:05. | |
This little shores a lovely, willing mare. | :52:06. | :52:15. | |
Not many mares in the sport but when they are great, they are very good. | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
Not the most expressive of the horses we have seen today. But lots | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
of things to like and of course very, very well ridden by Isabell. | :52:29. | :52:35. | |
I dread to think how many greeks she has ridden in her life. | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
Countless, countless... Look at the activity in the hind | :52:39. | :52:57. | |
legs. Very, very nice. Extended trot. Isabell thoughtfully riding | :52:58. | :53:06. | |
that. She increased and it is the way to do it. So many riders | :53:07. | :53:13. | |
overpush and get the problem where the horse breaks into a canter. Good | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
marks. Good marks for the transitions. | :53:18. | :53:25. | |
Good marks for the pressage. Clear transition into a collected trot and | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
into the half pass. That's a very, very nice half pass. Beautiful | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
positioning. Light, elegant and on her feet. | :53:36. | :53:41. | |
When you think that this time a years ago she had Don Johnson and | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
Bellarosa, both of them incurring problems so she had to turn to the | :53:49. | :53:56. | |
young horse, Weihgold. And only started at this level last December. | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
But this lady is some jockey. She is very, very experienced. | :54:02. | :54:11. | |
She's another rider that will really rise to the bait of it. As soon as | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
there is a challenge she is there challenging. | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
Very nice. Very active. Good use of the hocks, the hind legs. | :54:23. | :54:32. | |
And at the moment they are on an 83. .010 current average score against | :54:33. | :54:41. | |
the leader, Dorothee Schneider on 86. They are all performing to their | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
personal best, the Germans. That is going to win them the Gold Medal. | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
A nice extended walk. Good ground cover and relaxation. | :54:54. | :55:02. | |
Into the collected walk. And the horse is light and obedient. | :55:03. | :55:10. | |
Responsive from Isabell into the piaf. | :55:11. | :55:12. | |
Really nice to see that. No struggling. The horse was ready and | :55:13. | :55:19. | |
waiting. But still waiting for the aides. I have to say I really like | :55:20. | :55:28. | |
this mare's heart. Isabell keeping her relaxed. That | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
snorting where she is blowing her nose, that is a little bit of | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
frustration. She wants to get on with the job. A little bit of | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
attention. Nothing too serious but just there, telling the rider, I | :55:41. | :55:48. | |
have to be very tactful with my aides. Obedient. Easy transition | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
into canter, she made that look easy. 8.8. | :55:55. | :56:07. | |
Such a cool customer, Isabell. Very nice positioning in the half | :56:08. | :56:10. | |
pass. At the start of this Grand Prix | :56:11. | :56:16. | |
special day, Germany had four of the top seven riders. They can only take | :56:17. | :56:23. | |
three through to the freestyle and music, the individual championship | :56:24. | :56:25. | |
on Monday. The individual Olympic title. | :56:26. | :56:29. | |
I think it will be the young 21-year-old that will miss out. | :56:30. | :56:38. | |
Sonke Rothenberger. They have all gone so well. | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
Moving on to the two-time flying changes. | :56:44. | :56:53. | |
It could be a little bit straighter. It is obviously aides from Isabell. | :56:54. | :56:59. | |
OK, so when we she's doing the flying changes, you can see her legs | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
really moving quite a lot as she is asking not so much in the one-time | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
change but the two-time changes. There is a lot of organising with | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
the contact in her upper body there. So she's not going to be penalised | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
for that. Obviously the smaller, quieter aides are better. | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
It is just that overall picture, isn't it? It is. | :57:25. | :57:35. | |
Again, we are wanting to see riders riding with quiet Aides. Like they | :57:36. | :57:44. | |
are almost whispering to the horse what they want them to do. You don't | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
want to see shouting aides, where they are shouting at the horse. A | :57:51. | :58:00. | |
really nice pirouette. Clear. One-time flying changes. 8.5 | :58:01. | :58:09. | |
for that first pirouette. 8.3 for the one-time changes. | :58:10. | :58:17. | |
Again, very, very controlled on the way out. She was very clever with | :58:18. | :58:28. | |
the last pirouette. The extended trot lacks pushing from | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
behind hind and carrying. That would be the weakest, of | :58:34. | :58:37. | |
anything in the test but still very nice. | :58:38. | :58:50. | |
Now to the final pressage. Loose, elastic and active behind. | :58:51. | :58:56. | |
Into a nice transition. Into the piaf. | :58:57. | :59:02. | |
Really on the spot. As she comes up to the final line, | :59:03. | :59:10. | |
she has currently gone ahead of the score with the leader Dorothee | :59:11. | :59:19. | |
Schneider. This is going to be a very good day for Germany. Has it | :59:20. | :59:29. | |
nailed the gold? They have really perform sod very well in the last | :59:30. | :59:33. | |
session. As you can see, the fans they think | :59:34. | :59:37. | |
they've got gold. They could be right. | :59:38. | :59:43. | |
I think it is really interesting. She really rises to the occasion. | :59:44. | :59:50. | |
Why she is such a top rider. So, one to go. That is Charlotte | :59:51. | :00:00. | |
dejarredin. The brilliant Isabell Werth of | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
Germany, looking like she has done enough to win it back for Germany. | :00:05. | :00:09. |