Day 9 BBC Two: 22.00-23.25 Olympics

Welcome back to coverage of an extraordinary Sunday at the Olympic

Games here in Rio, where gold medals are flying in in gymnastics, in golf

and just in the last five minutes, in cycling, we Jason Kenny has won

the men's individual sprint in front of team-mate Callum Skinner. To let

you know what is happening in this next programme over the next half an

hour, we will be switching to BBC One at half past ten, and you will

get Match Of The Day 2 here on BBC Two. The tennis, Andy Murray versus

Juan Martin Del Potro is an BBC Four. Jessica Ennis-Hill is going to

be talking to Chris and myself here in a moment. We will have the

elimination race for Mark Cavendish, and the individual pursuit as well,

which is part of his Omnium. And later tonight, 2:25am for Usain Bolt

against the rest, Justin Gatlin and the rest. Sir Chris Hoy is alongside

me, celebrating the achievements of Jason Kenny, it is difficult to ask

you this, but I know you will try to answer it, where would you put him

in the pantheon of great British cyclists. I think we should wait

until he finishes his career, I think you could go to Tokyo and even

beyond Tokyo and continue to win. He could have nine or ten gold medals,

he could be the of the British team. In the last four years, he hasn't

won many world titles, but he has come to form at just the right time,

and if he can do that, who knows where it could stop? P could be the

greatest, this is his fifth gold medal, and he and Callum Skinner

have been talking to Jill Douglas. Callum Skinner gold and silver edge

first Olympic Games. I know you would love to have beaten your

team-mate here, but just how pleased and proud are you? Yes, the journey

is incredible, I got beaten by the world champion, I have a silver

medal. He had the legs and attack X, I did everything I could. You worked

so hard to get onto this team, to get that team sprint gold medal.

What did it mean to you to have made it here? Did you ever believe you

would be going home with two medals? No. Phil Hindes believed in us. It

has just been incredible. I think Jason with say that as well, so to

come away with anything is just a bonus. A repeat of Beijing, and then

this young man turned it around for years later, so we can expect big

things from you in four years' time. Jason, can you put into words what

it means to you to win your fifth Olympic gold medal? Yes, it's really

special. I just... I am just really grateful. Everyone seems to work

really hard for us, and we appreciate it. At the Olympics, we

have a team who just work so hard, and everyone is so focused on the

Olympic Games, so when we come here and win, it feels like the team

wins, particularly when we win the team events, that is why they are so

special to us, because we have everyone behind us pushing us on and

making the most out of training. You looked so composed coming into this,

both of you very relaxed. How have you handled the build-up? You were

sharing a room and now you are sharing a podium. We have raced a

lot in our careers against each other, and we will race a lot more,

I'm sure. It is just another race in one way. It's hard, because you have

so long between rides, last night we finished the semi-plu-mac, and we

had 24 hours before doing the final tonight, and my confidence has been

knocked a bit after that lost to Demetrius in the semis, but I woke

up from that and managed to take it into the final. Five gold medals,

equalling Sir Steve Redgrave and so Sir Bradley Wiggins, and Sir Chris

Hoy is predicting you will get to his record this week! I will give it

my best shot. We have day off now which will be much appreciated. A

day off tomorrow, better recovery, and hopefully we will come back

fighting and hopefully get something out of it. Thank you both very much

indeed. Thank you. Holding macro and many congratulations to both of

them. Gold and silver for Great Britain, and we are joined by

Jessica Ennis-Hill, heptathlon champion from London, silver

medallist last night. Have you been to the velodrome before? I've never,

so it is incredible to be here and feel the atmosphere were new

walk-in. We will chat to you about your event as well, when I asked if

you could swap out an event in the heptathlon and put in another one,

you said tennis! Tennis might be on the horizon. Let's remind every body

what happened in the two days of heptathlon competition.

And enthralling two days of competition before us. Johnson

Thompson just starting to come through now. The Olympic champion

ready to launch her defence. No mistakes so far, quick between the

barriers, and 12.84 is a very good start.

She has got it! The best she has jumped in recent years. And Thiam

has a new lifetime best of 1.90 eight. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, a

new British record. That's not good, and she knows it. Oh, the face tells

a story. And Thiam is putting together a brilliant first day.

Thiam coming back and finishing strongly. Katarina Johnson-Thompson

needs an outstanding 200 metres now. Jessica Ennis-Hill will take the

lead. That is a decent jump for Katarina Johnson-Thompson. That was

a chance to put daylight between her and the rest of the world, and that

will give Jessica Ennis-Hill something to think about. I don't

know where she goes from here, she puts so much pressure on her 800

metres, and she has produced something massive, it is a huge

effort! The final event of this Olympic heptathlon. Will this lady

become the Olympic champion? Can Jess Ennis hill put enough distance

between herself and Thiam? Stopwatches at the ready. The gap is

not big enough at the moment, it was about three and a half seconds.

Thiam is rallying, and Jess Ennis is doing everything she can coming down

the home straight. It will be very close to her best, and now the clock

is ticking, and Thiam is going to become the Olympic champion.

Diddy any Montero there from Brazil just crossing the line in the men's

omnium. It was the second pair of riders to go right in the individual

pursuit. The place has really come to life, you would think he was

racing for the gold medal, the noise in here. It could be a

once-in-a-lifetime experience in front of this crowd. He didn't lack

for support, Gideoni Monteiro was on the track at the same time as Leung

Chun Wing, but they are not strictly riding just against each other, they

will be ranked on time. Not just important to win, but the time you

post is what you will be given the points on. So they get 44 the

fastest ride, and 38 and so on downwards to 21st, and after that

will be awarded, they normally awarded one point each, but there

are not that many riders in this event.

Gideoni Monteiro finishing 18th in London this year the World

Championship, that was the performance that got them the riding

neolithic games, and he is the first Brazilian to race in track cycling

from Brazil in the Olympics in 24 years. He certainly gave us a good

show there. And this is Kazushige Kuboki from Japan, and in the green,

the Mexican rider, Ignatius Prado, who won the scratch race in London.

It is not his favourite event, but you have to do everything in the

omnium, you have to be more than a jack of all trades, you have to be a

very good pursuit. The Olympic record before this was 4.15, and

even though it is one of six events, the record for this is 4.19, so that

shows how good it is. It is a tough mixture of speed and injuring is.

You can be a tough competitor who wants the speed, or you can be any

endurance rider who has enough power to live with the sprinters, but

consistency across disciplines is what this is all about. Mark

Cavendish will be on a little later. We have three more pairings before

Mark Cavendish is on the track, and interestingly, when he races, he

will be on at the same time as the world champion, Fernando Gaviria.

So, Ignacio Prado, and Kazushige Kuboki from Japan are still racing,

and we can go back to Clare. Thank you, Simon. Apologies for the

sound issues there. I want to talk to Jessica Ennis-Hill about the shot

of the athletes at the end of heptathlon, that sums up your sport.

That is the special thing about the heptathlon, we have two days of

gruelling competition, we all appreciate how hard it is, and what

we put our bodies through physically and mentally, and to have that

moment at the end where we can all say we have got through this and

thank the crowd, and there were so many GB flags flying around the

stadium. Sorry about this. Now that you have had time to think about

this, how do you assess your own performance, and how proud are you

of what you have managed to do out here? This is my second Olympics,

and to come away with another medal, I left everything on the track, I

gave all I had over those two days, in the past couple of years have

been challenging in so many ways, and I am proud to have got to this

point and come away with another podium medal. I don't know how you

did it. I'm sure we have all in talking about the fact that you have

become a mother, I have become a dad myself in the last couple of years,

and I'm not an athlete now, just trying to deal with the lack of

sleep and the change in your life, I am so impressed that you have come

back to become world champion and win another Olympic medal, how has

that affected your life as an athlete? It has affected every part

of my life, and you have to make sure you rest and recover, and you

trained so hard, my whole schedule of training has had to change,

Reggie comes first before absolutely everything, and I make everything

fit around him, but with a great team and great family and support, I

have been able to get back on the world stage and achieve more medals

and more of my dreams. I guess the thing for you is that

you now have so much more in your life that you are not defined by

sport any more, you are not defined by being a athlete. Does that change

perspective in terms of, what decisions do I make next, how do I

live my knife now -- my life now? Yes, everybody gets to a stage where

you have to make that big decision as to whether you go on a little bit

longer or call today, and it will be a tough decision, but I'm so proud

of what I have achieved in my career, and it is tough, but like

you say, I am very content in life, I feel I have a great balance, and

it is for me to make that decision now, but a proud moment. And what

were your feelings coming to an away Olympics for the first time? Your

first Olympics were London 2012. For a home athlete it was second to

none, but what was it like coming to Rio?

My whole lead up in these games was completely different. I do not think

I will feel that pressure and expectation I did in 2012. It has

been a nice build-up, less stressful. I had a great holding

camp in Barcelona with Reggie and Andy. I felt relaxed coming in. I

wanted to give it absolutely everything. When you did stand on

that medals podium, were you taking everything in, just thinking, this

might be the last time and if it is, I want to remember every single bit

of it? I do not have my medal yet, I will get it this evening. Yes. This

evening. I will definitely be standing on the podium and taking

every little bit, the whole journey I have had, the past three or four

years, I will probably get a bit teary, it has been an emotional few

days, it has been really special. We have to have a word for Nafissatou

Thiam. For her to achieve what she did, she is 21 and she is Olympic

champion and she is an amazing athlete and there is a much more to

come. She was nursing an elbow injury and still managed to throw

the javelin a mile. Are you rushing home to see Reggie and Andy are will

you stay here and take in more events? And going to see as much as

I can this evening and tomorrow. Every time I look on Twitter or

social media, we have won and other medal, another gold medal, the team

is doing amazing and spirits are so high. I am looking forward to is

seen as much as I can but then I am heading home and I cannot wait to

get home and see Reggie. Quarter past ten tonight. Quarter past ten

tonight, quarter past two year time, many congratulations for everything

you have achieved. You will be able to watch Usain Bolt in 100 metres.

Let us go and see whether Andy Murray can take the first set

against one Martin Del Potro. There is this that. It has gone this

way and that, Andy Murray is up 4-1. Andy Murray made a number of errors

and was looking second-hand and second-best. In the end, he has

clawed it back, wonderful backhand down the line does the job. It was a

scorcher. He threaded the needle, several people in the crowd rose to

their feet in appreciation of the Murray brilliance. It has been

sparse in the back end of this first set. A sparkling start, he has put

the lid on it and he will be delighted. He has snatched the

opener 7-5. He was making some strange unforced errors and he

looked in real difficulty. Again, he has fought his way through. Not

exactly a crisis, but it was a serious problem.

He has taken the first set in an hour and a quarter, 7-5.

When we switch back to BBC One, we will be joining it live and watching

it to the conclusion. Here in the Velodrome we have seen Jason Kenny

win the fifth gold medal of his career. Curtly Ambrose, the

individual pursuit section of the tampon. First he is Chris Boardman

to explain how imported aerodynamics are in cycling. Aerodynamics has

historically been important. It is hard to stay focused on something

you cannot see or feel. You cannot until you come to a place like this.

What kind of changes will affect performance and by how much? Up

until the 1980s, the emphasis was on weight saving and with the arrival

of carbon fibre, there was the opportunity to reduce mass to

ridiculous levels. When the para nearing few realised it was more

important, superlight performance, slipped into the wind sections. The

bike equates to 20%, so it was when attention was turned away from the

machine that things got really interesting. Turbulence in choosing

holes in a standard helmet while good for cooling created a lot of

resistance and they were filled in and smoothed over fuel. Figure

handing 1-piece garment were now standard even for a long road races.

Without the ability to measure resistance, positional choices were

driven by instinct, so some power production to presidents and once

they arrived here and riders could measure the benefits of talking up,

their choices became more informed. With this extra bit of information,

bigger way up the pros as well as the payoff of being comfortable

might wait -- might well be worth the price. As the saying goes,

knowledge is power, it is not surprising that the individuals in

teams that have invested in understanding this invisible foe or

the ones coming out in front. In my opinion, there is plenty more to be

discovered. And Great Britain do seem to be at the forefront of the

race as it were to be technologically further forward than

anybody else. In this omnium we see the men riding lots of different

disciplines, we have already seen a bunch race, will Mark Cavendish be

on a different bike for this? Very much so. Any of the time -- time

trial events, they will ride on the bikes with the extended handlebars,

it fits them in a lower more aerodynamic position, they do not

have to poll on the handlebars or get out of the saddle as much as

they do in a bunch race. It is about efficiency, they will have the Long

tail helmet on, it is horses for courses. One thing that I noticed in

swimming and with swimming they shave everything and they move

through the water and they shave everything and they have got caps

and aerodynamic goggles, they do not look to shave everything and I know

some of them is covered, but you would think that facial hair or even

hair underneath would be better gone? Facial hair, if you look at

where that part of your body would hit the air, it can actually in

theory, it would be a trip, something that will cause

turbulence, before it hits another object and in some ways to try and

manipulate the air before it hits a bigger object, not that I am saying

they would grow a beard to be more aerodynamic, but if you look at the

position of your chin would be versus your chest, there is no

difference unless you had a ridiculous big bushy beard. There

was a guy in the Australian team who had a big beard and that was

ridiculous, that was clearly slowing him down. But he liked it. What did

you think during your career was the biggest game-changer? Biggest

game-changer, it was the technology, not so much in terms of the bikes or

the clothing, but the analysis and performance, it was looking into

measuring torque, power, analysing everything, the speed, been able to

see what was working was not, because you look at the stopwatch

and you can see that it was faster but you do not know why. You can

look into detail and what is happening with the performance of

the athlete and the one thing I would say, equipment is important,

but it is not the be all and end all. The athlete is the most

important thing and that is what they focus their energy on, trying

to improve the output of the athletes and the kit is the cherry

on the cake, it is all about the athlete. Who for you is the best

athlete in cycling? Jason Kenny. I think he is... I do not like to use

the term natural talent, because it can insinuate that you just get out

of bed and go fast, he has put a lot of hard work again. He has changed

physically since Beijing when he was very slender. The way the event has

changed, they are using bigger gears which requires more power, he has

focused on his strength conditioning programme which pushes the bigger

gears. It is the way he adapts to training, the way he picks up on

things, his ability to deal with pressure when it counts, nothing

phases them. Even the interview, he has won a fifth Olympic gold medal,

how do you feel, all right. He is amazing. He is the kind of guy you

want on the team when you're going into battle at the Olympics and you

want to know your team-mates will deal with the pressure, he is the

man to be next to you, not always the one you want to be facing when

you're trying to win, as Callum Skinner realise, but a phenomenal

athlete, massively underrated, he has a bright future ahead of him.

The range of skills that is enormous. From those printers, that

explosive speed, to Bradley Wiggins at the other end and Mark Cavendish,

somewhere in between because he can do endurance and he has won lots, he

wins the sprint at the end of the Tour de France. A road sprinter

versus track sprinters situation, because he gets called a sprinter,

people assume that he is the fastest sprint cyclist in the world, the

fastest in the world there is Jason Kenny, Mark Cavendish can write for

six hours, so cup all that fatigue and then produced a phenomenal

sprint and beat any of the other endurance athletes but in a

head-to-head sprint against Jason Kenny, he would be about ten length

behind him. To do what Mark Cavendish does, as printers, we

could never do that, never make it to the finishing line of a six-hour

race to try and sprint against them, because we would be have an hour

behind. He has an unbelievable number of stage wins in the Tour de

France. He first competed at the Olympics in Beijing, it did not go

to plan, because by them Bradley Wiggins was shot, it was meant to be

his race to win, the road race in London, that did not off, so this

was his last chance for a medal? The thing that is tough that those three

events, there is a huge amount of variables involved versus the team

pursuit, which is very controllable. You go into an event knowing you

will be there or thereabouts for a medal in a team pursuit but in a

omnium, a road race, a Madison there are no guarantees. Whilst he was

very capable and was the favourite for the road race, it did not play

out well, there were other factors involved with teams and various

things. It is tough, it is not that he has not deserved to win a medal,

but it shows you how hard it is, there are no guarantees just because

Team GB are dominating, there is nothing to say that Mark Cavendish

will win. If he wins any medal, it will be massive, even a bronze medal

will be a huge achievement. How is he under pressure? His record shows

that he can deal with pressure at all levels. He is a very emotional

person, very passionate, he cares immensely about the end result. That

might be the only thing that could work against them if things start to

go a little bit wrong, whether or not he can maintain focus and stay

calm. He is so experience, his strongest events are the bunch races

and because this has a greater weight than the omnium, the sixth

and final event will be good for him. His weakest event would be the

pursuit and the kilometre time trial, his flying lap, he has

improved that massively, he is not a sprinter but for a omnium rider he

is very fast, he got 12.90 in training, a personal best and they

can do close to that or faster he will be at the sharp end of things.

Just having a look, he is not for a while yet. Can I ask, the shape of

this and the design of it, when was the first Velodrome, rather than

athletics, where they run around on a flat track, why have this shape to

it? The reason is so that you can go flat out through the corners without

slowing down. If you had a flat corner and you pedalled around,

you're inside pedal with hit the track and you would fall off. It is

for maintaining speed and I think it is a beautiful thing to look at, it

is one of the most spectacular arenas to watch a sporting event in.

We will have more from here at the Velodrome and a gold medal ceremony

to come as we celebrate the success of Jason Kenny in his individual

sprint, today has been so far for Great Britain, Justin Rose, safe to

say is absolutely thrilled with having won the gold medal in the

Gulf. A prolonged play-off against Henrik Stenson, the two them had

drawn clear, Matt Kuchar came through to give them something to

think about, but a birdie at the 18th for Justin Rose secured victory

and the first British golf champion. Max Whitlock, much more difficult to

achieve became the first ever reddish Olympic champion, having won

not just one but two gold medals on the floor and on the pommel horse.

Just to reemphasise, much of the day two will happen on BBC Two very

shortly, because we are switching to BBC One and we will have more

coverage of this extraordinary day at the Rio Olympics and we will be

joining the tennis, Andy Murray took the first set against Juan Martin

Del Potro. We will bring you the best of it on BBC One and we will

see you there. Usain Bolt is getting away from the

field. He has done it again. And new world record. He is going to win the

gold medal. He has done it again.